The heart of the flame demon

"HUO JING!!!" she shouted as she broke down in tears, she couldn't bear the fact that someone has out her daughter in danger and she couldn't do anything about it, the fact that as the sect leader her husband can only succumb to the damn rules of the sect in order to ensure peace, "do you think I would have let her go there if it wasn't for her sake" he said and turned to the door.

"you all should leave" he said to the disciples that were standing outside the chamber

"what do you mean" she asked as she was still trying to disperse the anger that had built up in her heart.

"she almost exposed herself, using the flame of torture on another person was one thing but if the elders find out that she had half the heart of the flame demon, she would be in danger" the sect leader said as he took his hand off her wrist, she looked at him in confusion and finally asked "how would they find out, no one knows except for you and me".

"she changed in the sect hall, although she didn't change with the full power, all the disciples and the elders saw her, I had to finish off this case before they bring up the topic of her change or else I wouldn't be able to protect her when they find out", shocked by what the sect leader had just said, she lost her balance but thankfully he quickly prevented her from falling by holding her shoulder.

"What did you just say" she asked in a weak tone

"that was why I had to agree with the elders request, no matter how important the peace of the sect is do you think I will forsake my daughter for the sect" he asked, he fixed his eyes on her face which had an accusing look, she looked at him with condemnation in her eyes.

"you did it once so why wont you be able to do it again, you sacrificed my five-year-old daughter and separated her from her sister just because you `wanted to stop the war" she said as she glared at his face. Despair, distrust and condemnation was written all over her face, he looked into her eyes and realized how much hate she had been hiding in her heart, even after he agreed to give their daughter to the flame sect his wife still cared for him and loved him, she had never shown any bitterness or hatred towards him but now he could see all of this in her eyes, all the words that she had never said was clearly written there, he knew that Huo ying was the only rope that was tying her down and now that is in danger she has lost all her reason to keep calm, he removed his hands from her hand seeing how she felt.

"I did it for her sake too, we are the only ones who understand why she is like that, if we didn't give her to them and they investigated further, the world would turn against her even her own people. Her power is something that is enough to case commotion in the world not to talk of just the tang empire" he said as he looked into her eyes once again with a dejected look.

She laughed hysterically and said " You keep saying that it was for their own good but it is just because of you were afraid at that time that was why you let her go if her sister wasn't taken away from her the half heart of the flame demon in Huo ying wouldn't have been activated, why do you think she suddenly feels the urge to kill whoever is against her sister".

" so was I supposed to let Huo Lan who had the complete heart of the flame demon use her powers then, should I let everyone look at her in fear even her own people" he said as he gave her a quizzical look, she realized that her husband was right, she would rather let them take her daughter and return her after few years than to let her become the enemy of the world. She covers her face with both of her palms and breaks into tears, she couldn't help but admit that her husband was right.

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Hundreds of years ago, the flame demon was very powerful and respected throughout the world, he had his own clan and they were also powerful. The flame demon was known for being very kind towards every being even the spirit beast were under is rule but everything came to an end when the person he trusted most betrayed him. The royal family of the Tang empire back then were subjected to the flame demon rule and the crown prince was the person the flame demon trusted most. The emperor didn't want the royal family to be under the flame god so he cooperated with his son whom the flame demon trusted the most and made a plan to overthrow the flame demon, at first the crown prince was reluctant to betray the flame demon who had been friends with him for years but he was tempted by greed and finally agreed.

While he was drinking with the flame demon in the flame palace, he poisoned the flame demon, the flame demon was immune to every poison there was in the world except one and that was the mind destroying pill. This pill could only be found in the royal palace so the flame demon was not wary of the pill since he trusted the crown prince. The mind destroying pill was used to destroy the mind of whoever took it, after a month the person will become blood thirsty and will kill anyone, he comes in sight with and the only way to remove the effect of the pill is to kill the person you love the most.

A month after that night, the flame demon became abnormal, he killed everyone who appeared in front of him and he lost the ability to recognize people, the only thing he knew was that he had to kill or else he would feel a terrible and splitting pain in his head, throughout that month over five hundred people had died in his hands, he ordered the clan guards to bring in innocent people for him to kill everyday and then he drank their blood. His wife Shiyun who has tried to control him but was almost killed by him knew that something must have gone wrong, even though he was called a demon he was like an angel to her and everyone else. She was a friend to both the crown prince and the flame demon before they married and both of them were in love with her but she chooses the flame demon over the crown prince, this was also one of the reasons why the crown prince decided to betray the flame demon. They already had a daughter who was fifteen years old, Shiyun investigated what the cause of the change in the flame demon was and she found out that it had been caused by the mind destroying pill, she could not bring herself to believe herself to believe that the crown prince was behind it but the crown prince gave her a reason too with hi disappearance after the flame demon change.

As months passed by many nations were affected by the flame demon slaughter day by day and many towns have already been wiped out by him but they couldn't do anything against him, the emperor knew that the only way to overthrow the flame demon was to make him turn against the whole world, no matter how powerful a person is if the whole world is against him then he will surely be overthrown, he united all the empires and small nations that were present at that time and they decided to fight against the flame demon.

A year after the continuous slaughter, all the empires gathered their armies to campaign against the terrorism of the flame demon, they gathered at the flame palace and slaughtered everyone belonging to his clan remaining only him and his family. As they gathered inside the palace and began to attack him he killed hundreds of them in pairs, Shiyun came to the seen and saw the emperor of the Tang empire and the crown prince standing in front of the armies, she knew that there was nothing she could do about it but she still had to fight for her husband, she stood in front of him and stopped him from killing them, he conjured dark flames in his hand and pulled her using his powers to his front, he held her neck fiercely as she struggled to free herself from him, a drop of her tears dropped on his hand as he held her up. He suddenly started to feel a splitting pain in his head, he realized that he was hurting the one he loved but he couldn't control himself, he tried hard to endure the pain and free himself from whatever was controlling him and then he succeeded, he quickly brought her down and removed his hand from her neck. As soon as he let her go, he spat out blood and fell on his knee, she held him in her arms and cried, she looked at the army standing in front of them.

"Crown prince, the flame demon trusted you so much but you fed him the mind destroying pill" She shouted, the flame demon who was weak at that time heard what she had said and turned to look at the crown prince with a look that didn't want to believe that the person he trusted most would do that to him. As he was still thinking of what his wife had said, he suddenly heard a loud groan and turned to look at what had happened, he saw his wife kneeling in front of him with his sword in her stomach and the most shocking thing was that the sword was in his hand, he realised that she had used his hand to kill her so that he will be free from the mind destroying pill.

At the sight of his wife on the ground he regained his power and single handedly wiped out half of the army that was standing in front of him, his daughter suddenly arrived at the scene but was shot dead by the arrow from the crown prince, he didn't see any meaning in living so he killed himself along with many others. After the battle ended, the crown prince walked up to the dead body of the flame demon wanting to dig out his heart which was the source of his power but the heart pf the flame demon was no longer in his chest, that was how the flame god disappeared from the world.

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The sect leader hugged his wife who already felt helpless knowing that there was nothing she could do to save her child now and that was how the night ended for them.