divine power fused with the power of dead silence. Though death seemed easier to fuse with, first, he still hadn't seen death clearly. What he understood was dead silence. Death was a state, and the only beings who could currently control that state with certainty were the Life Master and the Death Lord.
Although the beings whose power he had fused with before had all cultivated the power of death, the highest level they had reached was dead silence. They had yet to attain death itself.
He could smell the scent of death and hear its heartbeat, but those were states of death brought about by external forces, not the universe's most natural state of death.
Second, if he fused death into the Black Flame first, then fusing in life force afterward would be even harder, because life and death were opposites.
So the best choice was to fuse in life force first.
Although his divine power had fused with dead silence rather than death, when Lu Yin fused life force into the Black Flame, it still triggered a backlash. The opposition between life and death erupted in a violent clash, injuring him and drawing Azure Lotus Supreme and the others.
Lu Yin explained what had happened, then continued trying to fuse them.
At first, the life force kept diminishing. The more it diminished, the more likely it seemed to be to fuse.
This was different from his attempt to fuse consciousness into the Black Flame, where he couldn't see any hope of success. Though fusing life force caused a backlash, the presence of fluctuations meant success was possible.
He kept grinding down the life force, just as he had when fusing divine power and dead silence.
Decades later, something frustrating happened to Lu Yin. Once the life force had