"This must have been when Burning Flame Valley began enslaving the nine dragon thunder gang fire..."
Watching as chains gradually imprisoned its core and the nine dragon thunder gang fire was reduced to a slave, Xiao Fan turned his gaze to the old man who had confined it.
The man was probably the founding ancestor of Burning Flame Valley. As time passed, however, he gradually disappeared from the nine dragon thunder gang fire's memories, replaced by successive valley masters who used the valley's special cultivation method to "borrow" its power again and again. From then on, the nine dragon thunder gang fire became Burning Flame Valley's private property.
"Roooar!"
As though unwilling to submit to the whims of fate, the nine dragon thunder gang fire felt its fury blaze ever fiercer. Yet, faced with the restraining runes outside, its consciousness could never escape this cage. It could only roar its defiance within that prison, again and again.
Finally, after an unknown stretch of time, the nine dragon thunder gang fire detected a trace of an aura that made it tremble. Even through the seal, it seemed able to sense the terror of that presence's superior standing, and almost instinctively shuddered and froze.
It was precisely during that fleeting moment of stillness that the consciousness the nine dragon thunder gang fire had accumulated over countless years managed to release a mournful cry from its very soul.
By then, Xiao Fan understood that he had been able to experience the nine dragon thunder gang fire's life because the terrifying chaos flame had directly suppressed it, creating a trace of resonance.
Yet through that same resonance, Xiao Fan seemed to have become the nine dragon thunder gang fire across those endless years. The familiarity he now felt toward it was simply beyond words.