"No!"
Dao Lord Guangfa cried out in extreme terror.
The spacetime domain that Candle Dragon had frozen shattered with a thunderous crash.
Time resumed flowing along its original course.
The Merit Spirit Fire that had been suppressed upon Dao Lord Guangfa surged back.
Indeed, having reached the extreme, it rebounded all the more fiercely.
In an instant, it became a raging inferno.
It seemed intent on burning away all the heavens.
Dao Lord Guangfa, who had been so full of himself only a moment ago, was instantly burned away completely.
Only the Four Symbols Bottle, flickering with Innate Undying Spirit Light, remained dimly suspended in the void.
And the tributary of the River of Time that belonged to him also collapsed with a deafening crash at the moment Dao Lord Guangfa died.
Zhou Yuan swept his sleeve, calmly collecting the Four Symbols Bottle Dao Lord Guangfa had left behind into it.
Then he smiled faintly at Candle Dragon.
"Now that Fellow Daoist Guangfa has confessed his guilt and taken his own life."
"Fellow Daoist Candle Dragon need not remain here to clean house."
"You may return to the East Sea yourself."
"As for this poor Daoist, I shall not see you off."
Zhou Yuan's sleeves fluttered in the wind.
With a few casual words, he erased Dao Lord Guangfa's death.
The calm composure on Candle Dragon's face finally vanished.
He did not even mention Dao Lord Guangfa, who had just died. Instead, he stared solemnly at Zhou Yuan.
"Who exactly are you, Fellow Daoist?"
Candle Dragon had lived for far too long—far too ancient an age.
He had attained the Dao in the primordial beginning.
He was one of the Innate Divine Beings who had attained the Dao when heaven and earth first opened.
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