# Chapter 846: The Demon Sword, Eternal Night Without Light
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom...
Golden flames devoured all darkness. Pillars of fire shot into the sky, violently distorting even the heavens. The sharp cries of the Golden Crow filled the sky and earth, faintly mixed with Xuanyuan Wentian's agonized screams.
Feng Xue'er was high in the air, protecting everyone while closely monitoring the situation behind them. Her previously tense expression relaxed, and she cried out joyfully: "Little Demon Empress sister won... She's beaten Xuanyuan Wentian so badly he can't even fight back!"
Feng Xue'er's words poured the warmest balm into everyone's frightened hearts. They slowed their pace, looking southward. The southern sky was blinding with golden light, with almost no black radiance visible. Even the oppressive dark aura in the air had noticeably weakened several times over.
"Wonderful... wonderful!" Murong Qianxue hugged Yun Che tightly, shouting excitedly.
"Hahaha," Tianxia Diyi let out a huge sigh of relief, then burst into laughter. "I told you so. Little Demon Empress is someone who inherited divine power. How could anyone in this world be a match for her?"
"Phew!" Tianxia Diqi patted her chest, then patted her clearly protruding belly, and said with a smile, "Little baby, don't be afraid. Everything's fine now. Little Demon Empress has already knocked the bad guy down hard."
"Xuanyuan Wentian is even more terrifying than Ming Wang, and even more despicable." Xiao Yun furrowed his brows, puzzled. "Little Demon Empress is completely enraged. She'll definitely burn Xuanyuan Wentian to ashes. But... he admitted that this is Fen Juechen's body, and his aura is very similar to Fen Juechen's... What's going on?"
"This is indeed beyond understanding," Tianxia Diyi said thoughtfully. With the crisis resolved, their fleeing pace had slowed considerably, and their attention shifted to other incomprehensible matters. "However, I have heard of a very terrifying 'soul-seizing' technique in legends. It allows one's soul to invade another's body, becoming the new master and erasing the original consciousness. What we just saw was Fen Juechen's body but Xuanyuan Wentian's consciousness... If we must explain it, this terrifying 'soul-seizing' might be the answer."
"Meaning... Fen Juechen has... completely disappeared?" Xiao Yun's eyes widened.
"The physical shell remains, but the soul has been erased—equivalent to disappearance," Tianxia Diyi said quietly, stealing a glance at Xiao Lingxi...
Sure enough, he saw Xiao Lingxi biting her lip, her eyes slightly reddening, but she stubbornly made no sound.
The roar of flames continued. Each blast sent a pillar of fire piercing the sky. Tianxia Diyi glanced sideways and sneered, "Little Demon Empress seems completely enraged this time. Even if Xuanyuan Wentian had ten lives, he should be burned to nothing but bone ash... Dying like this is far too merciful for him."
"..." Feng Xue'er's smile slowly faded at this moment. She looked southward and murmured doubtfully, "Strange... Why is Xuanyuan Wentian's aura still there... and moreover..."
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom...
Little Demon Empress blasted hundreds of Infernal Red Lotuses in succession, turning the frozen land below into a sea of hellfire more terrifying than any volcano on the Tian Xuan Continent.
If this continued, the entire Ice Extreme Snow Domain would cease to exist. Little Demon Empress was about to stop, but at that moment, her slender brows suddenly knitted together.
The dark aura that had been buried in the sea of fire, nearly burned out of existence, suddenly began to surge...
BOOM!!!
As if an erupting volcano had been overturned, the fire lotuses Little Demon Empress had blasted downward, along with the sea of fire melting the earth, were violently blasted apart by a suddenly expanding mass of black light. This black light was as deep and dense as a primordial black hole in the chaos space. As it slowly expanded, all the Golden Crow flames were forcefully pushed away. Within the vast sea of divine fire, not a single flame could penetrate it.
At the center of the black light was a black human silhouette. His clothes were tattered, his hair and eyebrows almost completely scorched, half his face burned black—hideous as a demon. His body was a mess of red and black. But his aura and outline could still be discerned: it was unmistakably Xuanyuan Wentian.
Little Demon Empress's pupils, cold as spring water, contracted slightly.
In his hand, he held a broad pitch-black sword. On the hilt, a pair of sinister eyes had opened. As Xuanyuan Wentian reappeared, his aura, which had been almost completely suppressed by the flames, recovered at a terrifying speed, then directly surpassed his previous peak state, surging to nearly twice his prior level.
The black radiance surrounding his body was so resilient it seemed to have created an independent small world. The golden flames, filled with Golden Crow divine might and Little Demon Empress's boundless fury, were completely repelled or even devoured upon approaching.
Little Demon Empress: "..."
"You... you actually..." Xuanyuan Wentian's face was terrifying and hideous as he spoke, white hot steam spraying from his mouth. "Made this Venerable One... so utterly miserable..."
"Miserable" was an understatement. Trapped in Little Demon Empress's sea of fire, enduring hundreds of Infernal Red Lotuses, he had nearly died because he couldn't summon the Heavenly Sin Divine Sword in time.
"This Venerable One must admit... I completely misjudged your strength... You forced me... to reveal the Demon Sword..." Hiss... Even with a demonic body, there was still pain. The torture of having nearly half his body scorched by Golden Crow flames was unbearable even for Xuanyuan Wentian.
Without the Demon Sword, he and Little Demon Empress had been fighting purely with their own strength, neither relying on artifacts or external forces. And he had ended up losing in utter humiliation.
That is to say, relying purely on his own power, he was no match for Little Demon Empress!
And if he hadn't desperately unleashed the power of the Heavenly Sin Divine Sword at the critical moment, he might have been burned to ashes by her Golden Crow flames.
For Xuanyuan Wentian, who had finally obtained the power and body of a demon god, considered himself invincible under heaven, and even arrogantly called himself "Heavenly Venerable," this was undoubtedly a massive blow and humiliation.
Little Demon Empress's icy eyes began to gather increasing gloom, her slender brows tightly furrowed. Earlier, Xuanyuan Wentian had indeed possessed a powerful and bizarre aura that oppressed her—but only slightly.
Now, however, though Xuanyuan Wentian was covered in burns and looked utterly miserable, holding that pitch-black demon sword, he made her feel completely suffocated for the first time. An extremely gloomy, oppressive aura silently spread through heaven and earth, as if a terrible apocalyptic storm was brewing.
"Although using the Demon Sword to kill you is a disgrace to this Venerable One, and will slow the awakening of my demon blood... a foe like this... how could I forgive him!!"
Xuanyuan Wentian's roar was terrifying as the howl of a demon. At that very moment, the world before Little Demon Empress's eyes suddenly turned pitch black.
This terrible change wasn't gradual. In an instant, the golden-red sea of fire in her vision was completely submerged by darkness, thick as ink. Before she could react at all, she could no longer see a shred of light.
Several hundred li away, Feng Xue'er and the others also saw their world abruptly darken, as if night had suddenly fallen. Though not completely dark, they could only dimly make out faces inches away.
This sudden darkness swallowed their vision, extinguished their newly born joy, and dragged them into a deeper abyss of fear.
"What... what's happening?!"
"Could it be... Xuanyuan Wentian..."
"We must leave quickly!" Xiao Yun shielded Xiao Lie tightly and shouted.
"Don't move recklessly!" Feng Xue'er cried urgently. She spread her arms, unleashing all her power without reservation, forming a massive barrier of flames enveloping everyone. "This terrifying power has been able to reach us from the start, and it will only become more dreadful. Continuing to flee is not only useless but will cause more accidents. Everyone stay within this barrier. I'll do my best to protect everyone."
Though Feng Xue'er's power was far inferior to Xuanyuan Wentian's, with several hundred li of distance, the barrier formed by her Phoenix power at the eighth level of the Sovereign Xuan Realm couldn't be broken from that far away.
The world around them was pitch black, and it wasn't merely darkness. Little Demon Empress felt as if she had fallen into a black swamp—the world had become incredibly viscous, and even moving a finger was extraordinarily difficult. At the same time, countless streams of cold, oppressive, sinister aura assailed her from all directions, piercing her very soul.
If Yun Che had been awake, he would have immediately recognized this: it was the dark domain Fen Juechen had forcibly unleashed at all costs after being defeated by him—Eternal Night Without Light!
"Little Demon Empress... in the darkness... disappear... forever!!" From the depths of the dark world came Xuanyuan Wentian's voice like a demon's wail, followed by pained, maniacal laughter: "Hahahahaha..."
Little Demon Empress raised her hand but couldn't see her own palm. Her spiritual sense extended to its limit but couldn't touch the edge of this dark world, as if it were infinite. At the same time, the range of her perception shrank drastically with each breath. The dark world grew increasingly viscous. The aura of death multiplied exponentially. Gradually, she began to feel slightly drowsy, even a hint of despair as if being sucked into an endless black hole.
Moreover, she could no longer sense Xuanyuan Wentian's presence. He must be hiding somewhere within this dark world, ready to strike a fatal blow at any moment.
CLANG!!
The Golden Crow mark on Little Demon Empress's brow blazed. But within this dark world, the supposed resplendent flame of the mark was unusually dim. Her eyes opened wide, Golden Crow flame power surging forth with full force, spreading a golden flame domain.
She had been devoured by this dark domain. To escape, she would have to use her flame domain to counter-devour it!