[Battle Through the Heavens] My Years as a Heavenly Flame

Ever since he began cultivating, strange things have often happened to Yao Zhuo. For instance, "advanced, unidentified cultivation techniques that suddenly appear in his mind," "powerful combat skills he somehow masters in no time," "a peculiar constitution that occasionally lets him skip levels while cultivating," and "incredible self-healing abilities."

All these skills appeared out of nowhere, with no traceable source. Yet Yao Zhuo found them strangely familiar and felt completely at ease using them.

While other people struggled to find advanced combat skills and all kinds of medicinal herbs and pills, Yao Zhuo relied on these free skills to lie flat in peace, never once worrying about cultivation resources.

It wasn't until his heart was pierced, yet he didn't die, that Yao Zhuo suddenly realized:

"No wonder I have so many cheats. It turns out I'm a Heavenly Flame."

An ancient Heavenly Flame, reborn from death.

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Dongfang Zhuo had a happy family. Though she was adopted, her parents loved her just as much, and her older brother cared for her.

But it all fell apart when her father was gravely injured by villains and died, her brother was wrongfully accused and driven from the clan, and her mother died heartbroken and disconsolate.

Grief and hatred filled her heart. Dongfang Zhuo secretly swore that when she returned to the Yao Clan, everyone who had harmed her family would pay in blood.

[Dongfang Zhuo (original female lead) x Yao Chen]

The first time I read Battle Through the Heavens, I thought Venerable Yao was such a well-rounded character, and I really liked him. Then I saw his character design in the first episode of the Battle Through the Heavens: Origin anime, and... I went completely wild!

But this is such a niche ship that nobody was writing for it, so I had to do it myself!

P.S.:

1. The focus is still on the female lead's characterization and growth. The romance is restrained and slow to dawn on the characters. It will only appear in passing at first, then take center stage in the middle and later parts.

2. This is a long, serious story, mostly original content, intended to fill in the gaps in the original without changing the direction of its key plot events.

I'm very sorry for the long hiatus. I've built up a large backlog of chapters this time and worked out the outline, so I will definitely finish the story.

My next project will be another story of mine, A Survival Guide to the Eighteenth Century, but I'll be extensively revising it starting from Chapter Two. Here's the new synopsis:

Qiu Yiwen had planned to enjoy a lovely trip to Spain during her break after the college entrance exams. She never expected a three-hundred-year-old bullfighting poster to send her back to Spain in the early eighteenth century.

Qiu Yiwen was close to tears. She had transmigrated alone, with nothing, and knew how to do nothing.

She had no choice but to struggle her way up from the bottom, starting as a cleaning nun, making a living wherever she could. Years later, carried along by the turbulent currents of the Age of Exploration, she finally crossed the vast ocean and returned to the homeland she had dreamed of for so long.

But the land was the same, while everything else had changed.

She had returned, yet she could never again return to the hometown in her memories.

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But if she couldn't go back, she would put down roots in this foreign land, build a life, and live out a fulfilling life of her own.

But when Qiu Yiwen opened the poster that had changed half her life once again... she fell into deep thought:

Why does her husband look exactly like the young bullfighter who died before his time in the poster?

Theme: Finding yourself