# Chapter 840: Heartless Raging Flame
"Begin." Huangji Wuyu said lowly, then lightly added a few words: "Hold nothing back."
Huangji Wuyu struck first. His long sleeve gently swept forward, and a majestic aura capable of shaking heaven and earth pressed down from the sky, instantly offsetting the flame spiritual pressure from Xiao Yaohou. Several hundred feet of space, centered around Xiao Yaohou, rapidly compressed.
This Sacred Emperor of the Huangji Sacred Domain, the foremost among the Four Sacred Masters whose status in Tian Xuan Continent was like that of a god, had not fought with all his strength for countless years.
But facing Xiao Yaohou's first strike, he held absolutely nothing back.
This was purely spatial interference using immensely powerful profound force—the highest level of spatial force that Tian Xuan Continent could touch. Within the current Tian Xuan Continent, only Huangji Wuyu could distort space to this degree with his own pure profound force. The completely warped space was enough to tear apart even a mid-level or low-level Emperor Lord directly into fragments.
The sudden contraction and swaying of space was as astonishing as surging waves, but Xiao Yaohou's figure at the very center showed not a trace of distortion. The bone-piercing cold killing intent passed through the layers of undulating space, still firmly locking onto the three Sacred Masters, without the slightest weakening.
*Boom!!*
Xiao Yaohou struck out with a palm, unleashing a "Solar Explosion" within the twisted space. A blinding golden light flashed between heaven and earth for an instant. In that moment, the contracting space suddenly stopped, then violently expanded. Following a sharp sound that pierced the extreme, a hundred feet of space directly exploded, countless spatial fragments flying toward Huangji Wuyu like steel needles... Behind the spatial fragments came Golden Crow flames like falling meteors.
The spatial suppression was torn apart in an instant. Huangji Wuyu was not overly surprised. He muttered, "Truly formidable," as a white light flashed in his hand. A gray-white wide ruler appeared in his hand, initially about five feet long, but in an instant it swelled to a full zhang in length... This wide ruler was called the "Hunyuan Heaven Ruler," ranked first among the ten supreme Overlord weapons of Tian Xuan Continent. It was also the supreme sacred object of the Huangji Sacred Domain, said to be a divine artifact gifted to the Huangji Sacred Domain by the heavens. Seemingly ordinary and unremarkable, it contained divine power that could split mountains and rend the sky.
Seeing that Huangji Wuyu had actually revealed the Hunyuan Heaven Ruler, Qu Fengyi and Ye Moxie, who had been about to attack, both slowed their movements. Instead of advancing, they even retreated a few steps.
Huangji Wuyu's expression was as calm as water. The Hunyuan Heaven Ruler swung forward in a seemingly effortless manner, intending to annihilate the golden flames... In an instant, a terrifying aura descended. This aura was thick, ancient, and carried an indescribably immense pressure. As the ruler moved, the flying spatial fragments hadn't even approached before their trajectories were greatly distorted, then they completely disappeared.
Even the speed of the Golden Crow flames suddenly decreased, and then they collided with the Hunyuan Heaven Ruler in a not-so-violent impact.
Huangji Wuyu gently twisted his wrist, about to completely shatter the golden flames. But at that moment, his face, which had been as light as a gentle breeze, suddenly changed slightly.
"Hmm?"
The golden flames touched the Hunyuan Heaven Ruler but did not explode. Instead, they coiled up like spirit serpents, instantly turning the ruler into a blazing implement. Surprised in his heart, Huangji Wuyu was not flustered. A profound force as thick as a mountain suddenly erupted, surging onto the Hunyuan Heaven Ruler... Immediately, the golden flames weakened, but in the next instant they surged up even more fiercely, instead rapidly diminishing the power on the Hunyuan Heaven Ruler. The golden flames behind, amid Huangji Wuyu's shock, suddenly rushed forward and slammed into his protective profound force.
*Boom!!*
A dull roar sounded. The golden flames containing the divine power of the Golden Crow finally exploded. At that very moment, Huangji Wuyu finally understood why Qu Fengyi had been so discomfited when facing those golden flames. As the fire approached in his pupils, what enveloped him was a flame spiritual pressure he had never experienced before. Under this flame spiritual pressure, he felt his heart and soul instantly spasm, giving birth to a moment of fear. And the accompanying heat was so terrifying that even before it drew close, it made him feel as if he were in a purgatory.
"Huangtian Yuan Ding!!"
In his shock, Huangji Wuyu made the most correct response at the first moment. He pushed the Hunyuan Heaven Ruler away from his hand, rapidly gathered his entire profound force, and condensed a vortex-shaped profound formation around his body. The Golden Crow flames exploded on him, and the image of a gray cauldron flashed for an instant, repelling all the flames.
*Bam!!*
Huangji Wuyu sucked with his hand, and the Hunyuan Heaven Ruler returned to his grasp. He had no wounds on his body, but his face was slightly dark, completely losing its earlier calm.
"Are you alright?" Ye Moxie asked in a low voice.
"I'm fine. Her profound flame is not right. That is definitely no ordinary profound flame. Stop caring about maintaining the Sacred Master image—attack together!" The space behind Huangji Wuyu suddenly exploded, and his body vanished instantly, reappearing behind Xiao Yaohou. The Hunyuan Heaven Ruler smashed toward her back.
Xiao Yaohou turned. Her slender right arm was instantly wrapped in flames, and she struck toward Huangji Wuyu.
*Clang! Boom!!*
The Hunyuan Heaven Ruler shook violently, then instantly bent into the shape of a full moon. Huangji Wuyu's expression changed again. He rarely revealed his Hunyuan Heaven Ruler because there were few people in the world worthy of making him use it. But this young woman before him not only caught his Hunyuan Heaven Ruler barehanded, but also sent energy back to him that made the blood and qi throughout his body surge violently.
Her profound flame was not only bizarre—her profound force was actually even thicker than his by far!!
The power on the Hunyuan Heaven Ruler was completely unloaded in an instant, but Xiao Yaohou's flames did not dissipate. Instead, they split into nine streams, striking toward Huangji Wuyu like nine spirit serpents, forcing him to retreat in a fluster.
Just as Xiao Yaohou was about to advance, a white light suddenly struck from diagonally above, like surging ocean tides, causing her body to sway. On the other side, a sound like thunder shook the earth. Qu Fengyi and Ye Moxie unleashed their profound force at full power. Ye Moxie was shrouded in sun and moon radiance, his heaven-shaking aura making space itself tremble. Every part of Qu Fengyi's body was bursting with lightning radiance, the space behind her completely illuminated in purple.
Sun and moon rays, along with world-destroying lightning, were like divine punishment descending from the heavens. The combined all-out attack of the two Sacred Masters filled dozens of li of surrounding space with an indescribably vast aura. Everything was as if crushed by mountains.
A cold light flickered in Xiao Yaohou's eyes. Her lithe figure shot up into the sky, carrying a trail of flames as she rose. A massive sea of fire erupted from the air, spreading out, enveloping both Qu Fengyi and Ye Moxie.
*Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!...*
The roar of exploding power rang out like dense thunder. Each roar threatened to split the sky. The power of the two Sacred Masters erupted wildly, and within less than ten breaths of attacking, they had already raised their profound aura to its limit. Every instant, the power they released could trigger landslides and tsunamis.
In Tian Xuan Continent, the Four Sacred Masters were the top existences. No one was more powerful than them, and no one could withstand the combined attack of two Sacred Masters.
But today, they encountered such a person.
Under the combined force of these two Sacred Masters, the flames before them still covered the sky, rapidly devouring their lightning and profound radiance, preventing a single trace of power from the two Sacred Masters from touching Xiao Yaohou's body.
Qu Fengyi and Ye Moxie were both extremely shocked in their hearts. They could not imagine who this colorful-robed girl was, and even found it hard to believe that such a person actually existed in the world. The two of them, both Sacred Masters, were attacking simultaneously at full power, yet they could only barely suppress her. And that terrifying golden flame emitted an incomprehensible heat, constantly scorching both their bodies and souls.
Huangji Wuyu did not immediately advance. His brows were furrowed, his gaze fixed firmly on the petite figure within the flames. Behind him, a black profound shadow slowly emerged.
"Xuanji Infinite Domain!!"
*Bam—*
Incredibly vast power spread out before him. A gray domain rapidly extended outward, enveloping more space into a gray world.
Seeing the gray domain that Huangji Wuyu had opened, Qu Fengyi and Ye Moxie both had a flash in their eyes. Their postures shifted, and like lightning, they simultaneously closed in to the front of Xiao Yaohou. Sun and Moon profound arts and thunder power instantly converged into a massive aura, like an independent world, striking toward Xiao Yaohou.
As fellow Sacred Masters, the most top-tier figures of Tian Xuan Continent, they also understood each other's power the best. Thus, the convergence of their two forces was nearly flawless.
The sea of fire before Xiao Yaohou was immediately pushed apart. The massive aura sent Xiao Yaohou flying like a wisp of cotton, moving several li backward, directly landing within Huangji Wuyu's gray domain.
Instantly, the flames on Xiao Yaohou extinguished more than half. Her aura of power plummeted rapidly. Her entire body seemed adhered by something invisible, making it difficult to move.
"Hahahaha!" Ye Moxie laughed heartily. "Good! Forced into Brother Huangji's Xuanji Infinite Domain, she's already like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. I could take her down alone!"
"Stop talking nonsense and act now... I can't hold this for long!" Huangji Wuyu said in a deep voice.
Ye Moxie sneered. His figure flickered, and a sword light flashed in his hand, stabbing directly at Xiao Yaohou's glabella. Qu Fengyi also attacked at the same time, a lightning bolt containing terrifying power blasting straight toward Xiao Yaohou's crown.
Feng Xue'er, who had fled far away with Yun Che but had not yet left, saw this scene and her beautiful face drained of color. She glanced at Yun Che. After a moment of hesitation, she finally chose to set him down. Phoenix flames rose on her body as she charged forward: "I'll help you!!"
But at that very moment, the mark between Xiao Yaohou's brows suddenly blazed up. In an instant, it was as if a volcano had erupted on her body. The flames that had just extinguished more than half burned wildly, and her aura of power sharply rose... Her eyes, which had been filled with cold indifference, now also ignited with two points of reddish-golden flame.
"Th-this is!!?"
This sudden change stunned all three Sacred Masters. They simultaneously felt the surrounding space suddenly tighten. A terrifying, indescribable aura pressed down heavily on their bodies.
*Bam!!*
Huangji Wuyu's immensely powerful Xuanji Infinite Domain shattered like a fragile eggshell. Huangji Wuyu didn't even have time to react to why the domain had shattered before he was shaken by the tremendous backlash. His body trembled, his face turned pale, and he violently spat out a mouthful of thick blood.
"Wh-what's happening?" Huangji Wuyu muttered in panic. He raised his head, and his pupils suddenly contracted sharply... He saw behind Xiao Yaohou, a solid golden shadow had appeared.
"Golden... Crow!?" Huangji Wuyu exclaimed in shock. Then, as if something suddenly dawned on him, he growled, "You... you are Xiao Yaohou!?"
He had personally seen the Golden Crow Flame Shadow before, so he recognized it at a glance. However, the Golden Crow Flame Shadow he had seen was crimson, while the one on Xiao Yaohou was actually golden!
Only those of the Illusion Demon Royal Clan in the Illusion Demon Realm could manifest the Golden Crow Flame Shadow. And currently, the only person with Illusion Demon royal blood remaining was Xiao Yaohou!!
Xiao Yaohou did not respond. Her arm, burning with Golden Crow flames, raised and gently pushed toward Huangji Wuyu's direction.
A fire lotus exploded before Huangji Wuyu. His body was extremely robust; earlier, he could even withstand Xiao Yaohou's flames. But with this golden fire lotus explosion, his protective profound force shattered in an instant. He retreated dozens of steps, the blood and qi throughout his body in complete turmoil. Before he could recover from his shock, a golden shadow flickered before his eyes. The colorful-robed maiden, bathed in golden flames, stood before him. Her eyes, as if frozen over with her emotions, caused his consciousness to blank for an instant.
A small hand pressed against his chest.
*Boom!!!*
The golden flames exploded. Huangji Wuyu's protective profound force collapsed again. The Hunyuan Heaven Ruler flew from his hand. His entire body, like a falling meteorite, heavily crashed into the ground below, smashing a human-shaped pit dozens of zhang deep into the hard earth.
"Brother Huangji!!"
Ye Moxie could not believe his eyes, but his movements showed no hesitation. His sword, condensed with his limit power, changed attack directions in rapid succession, stabbing straight toward her left side of the neck.
Xiao Yaohou slowly raised her arm. A streak of golden flame swelled to several feet, turning into a golden flame sword, slashing horizontally toward the diving Ye Moxie above.
When Xiao Yaohou had left the Jinwu Thunder Flame Valley, she had only comprehended the Golden Crow World-Incinerating Record to the third realm. Now, she had reached the fifth realm. Because the golden flame sword she unleashed was precisely the "Golden Annihilation" of the Golden Crow World-Incinerating Record's fifth realm!
In other words, the current Xiao Yaohou was vastly more powerful than when she left the Jinwu Thunder Flame Valley and returned to reign over the Demon Emperor City!
The flame sword, with an extremely unusual flame trajectory, cut out flatly. The motion seemed exceptionally slow, but it precisely met Ye Moxie's sword, swift as a hurricane... With a light sound, Ye Moxie's sword silently melted and broke. The vast profound force condensed on the sword scattered to both sides like cut water currents.
Ye Moxie's pupils dilated more than ten times over, because he clearly smelled the scent of death. His vision was completely filled with the life-snatching golden light. The instinct to survive made him exhaust all his power to twist his body to the side and back...
The golden light sliced into his right shoulder. A moment's pause, then it passed straight through.
A scream tore through the air and split the earth. Ye Moxie flew out like a gyroscope. He clutched his right shoulder, now devoid of an arm, writhing in pain and shrieking. His eyeballs were bulging to their maximum, and his fully dilated pupils seemed unable to contract. He was the invincible Sacred Master... he could not accept, could not believe that all this was real.