The problem was that, to these cultivators, his Eternal Flame was so painful, so agonizing, that they would rather choose death than live through the full power of the Eternal Flame burning them.
Fortunately for them, this was Wei Chen's marriage ceremony, and having agonizing howls as a chorus in the background was not exactly a pleasant choice of musical accompaniment.
So the agonizing screams quickly stopped when the Lord of Death snapped his fingers. The green flames immediately extinguished as if they had never been there and had never burned anyone.
Strangely enough, after the green flames disappeared, the man's skin was only flushed red from the pain, with no visible burns on his body. But as for his mind, only he knew what remained intact after that soul-searing pain that had agonized him and overwhelmed his entire sense of pain.
