The weakened Sea Heart Flame seed entered Xiao Yan's body and immediately locked onto that extraordinary heart, charging straight at the Green Lotus Core Flame seed.
Xiao Yan steadied his mind as surging green flames erupted from his heart, swiftly forming an inescapable net around the Sea Heart Flame.
Having mapped out the Sea Heart Flame's movements in advance, Xiao Yan quickly bound it and began the most direct confrontation.
Xiao Yan had no idea whether its previous owner, Han Feng, had left behind any Soul Imprints, residual souls, or anything of the sort within it, so he simply controlled the Green Lotus Core Flame and poured it into the Sea Heart Flame.
As the Green Lotus Core Flame flooded into it, the Sea Heart Flame seemed to sense that something was wrong. Yet, trapped by the overwhelming green flames with nowhere to flee, it could only endure.
After an unknown amount of time, Xiao Yan felt that he had established a faint connection with the Sea Heart Flame through the Green Lotus Core Flame as a bridge.
With a thought, he guided the Sea Heart Flame, wrapped in the Green Lotus Core Flame, into the meridians he had chosen and circulated it along the Flame Mantra's route.
Naturally, the Sea Heart Flame never stopped fighting the Green Lotus Core Flame. Explosions at the boundary between blue and green never ceased.
Fortunately, Xiao Yan's meridians had long grown accustomed to such circumstances after enduring the Green Lotus Core Flame's ravages for so long.
Whenever an explosion occurred, the meridians allowed the terrifying shockwave to force the Green Lotus Core Flame out, sending it through the channels between his meridians and skin before Xiao Yan drew it back into his body.
With this back-and-forth, the explosions' damage to Xiao Yan's body