Two Divine Beasts Fall into Their Hands

After getting up, I went to check out the illustrations and poems that forum user Yun Zhi Volcano had made for this book, wasting a bit of time = =. They were very good, and I'm extremely grateful. I especially liked several of the poems and planned to revise them a little for use as their poetic titles. Friend Yun Zhi Volcano, you don't mind, do you?

Shi Xuan and Meng Nishang pressed forward step by step, drawing ever closer to the cave-like passage where the Myriad Ancient Time Tree stood. As expected, the two Candle Dragons grew increasingly frenzied. Within this environment familiar to them, they appeared and vanished like ghosts—visible before one's eyes one moment, suddenly behind the next. Flame of Time, Blazing Summer, Cold Winter, and other innate divine abilities came crashing down like a tidal wave, yet Shi Xuan swept them away one by one with Five-Colored Divine Light. Together with the Myriad Worlds Freezing Divine Light Meng Nishang unleashed through the Yuan Gui Xuan Bing Mirror and her other immortal arts, the two of them fended them off with effortless ease.

Under their mad assault, the two Candle Dragons' flaws gradually emerged. Moreover, the closer they came to the Myriad Ancient Time Tree, the fewer of those less violent Time Vortices there were, and the less room the two beasts had to dart, turn, and evade. Several times, Shi Xuan and Meng Nishang nearly gravely wounded or killed them.

Though their spiritual intelligence had yet to awaken, the two Candle Dragons could still sense the changes in their predicament. Their several brushes with danger in particular sent a surging sense of peril rising within them, and they could not help entertaining thoughts of retreat. Yet they were unwilling to abandon the Myriad Ancient Time