Restore his cultivation!
A sharp light flashed in the Flame Dragon Ancestor's eyes, then quickly died away.
When the dragon clans of the three seas had joined forces to stab the Shanhe Daoist Sect in the back, the Flame Dragon Ancestor and the Scarlet Dragon Ancestor had fought Daoist Lord Yueheng of the Tianhe Dao Sect together, while the Azure Dragon Great Sage of the East Sea and the Star Dragon Great Sage of the West Sea had been stopped by Daoist Lord Dejing of Penglai.
At the time, the Tianhe Dao Sect had faced enemies within and without. Daoist Lord Kaiyuan was trapped on the Tianyuan World battlefield, while Daoist Lord Yueheng and Daoist Lord Xuanjian had to contend with the increasingly restless South Sea Dragon Clan as well as challenges from Jinchan Temple and Tianlong Temple in the west.
It was in that battle that Daoist Lord Yueheng, fighting two opponents alone, had shown the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds the vast, despair-inducing chasm between Dao-Holding Pure Yang and Dao-Entering Pure Yang.
The Scarlet Dragon had died, his soul scattered to the winds. The Flame Dragon had been gravely wounded and fled into the void.
Three thousand years had passed, yet the Flame Dragon Ancestor's wounds had not healed. Instead, they had grown worse as the Xuanmen Great Calamity ended, the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect won a sweeping victory, and Daoist Lord Kaiyuan, the Tianhe Dao Sect's current leader, ascended to the realm of Dao-Ruling True Yang!
Since Daoist Lord Kaiyuan's ascent, the Tianhe Dao Sect's fortunes had grown stronger by the day. The Flame Dragon Ancestor's wounds had begun to stabilize, but as the sect's fortunes flourished, the overwhelming tide of Xuanmen's fortunes bore down on him. Far from healing, his wounds had rotted through completely.
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