I, the Lord of the Fifth Throne, am the source of all things!

What are you doing?

What exactly is going on here?

This story begins with the fleeting images that Duanmu Lian recalled in a split second when she was struck by divine power.

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As a mentor-type woman, allow me to offer some advice: your talents require even greater spirit and inner strength to be unearthed, so... go wrestle with death! Get infinitely close to death, resist death at close range!

In the instant that Shenwei tore him apart, Duanmu Lian felt the overwhelming power of the opponent, and at the same time recalled what Shajinlong had told him.

Go wrestle with death, get infinitely close to death, and then resist death at close range.

That's the situation now.

The enemy is very strong, extremely strong!

Having honed his lightning magic to the point of breaking through the distortion of cause and effect, Duanmu Lian couldn't help but admire her opponent.

He had only used the Thor's Battle Technique, and hadn't even fully transformed into a dragon yet. How could he possibly have the power to defeat his opponent?

In an instant, Duanmu Lian's thought process accelerated a thousand times, even ten thousand times.

He didn't give up; he wouldn't admit defeat so easily. He needed to think hard amidst the intense threat of death that Kamui brought him.

Think, think quickly, how can I break through the limits in this instant?

In that life-or-death moment, did he break through the ninth level of the Nine Deaths Evil Technique, the Avici Hell?

It is possible, but not enough, far from enough to defeat an enemy like Kamui.

Once the opponent fully transforms into a dragon, it will become even stronger than it is now!

(To merge with the Demon Sword... I may not be a genius, but if he can do it, I should be able to too.)

(But... the dark-attribute demonic sword clashes somewhat with the power within me...)

The power of the Dark Erosion Extinction Fang is darkness, which is somewhat incompatible with the power possessed by Duanmu Lian herself.

Kamui had completely fused with the Demon Sword, while he merely wore the Demon Sword as armor, a far cry from the original.

(Where there is light, there is darkness; even if the sun were to go out, it would become the ultimate darkness in the universe.)

Duanmu Lian broke free from her original monotonous way of thinking and tried her best to think.

As he pondered how to completely transform the darkness into a part of his own power.

His intense longing for the concept of 'darkness' caused images to automatically surface in his memory.

In a daze, he saw Duanmu Lian carrying a staff on his shoulder and wearing a robe, holding the hand of a blonde girl beside him and scolding her about something.

[There are so many methods available, yet you choose to develop dark magic through self-harm. Now no one is hunting you down anymore. Is it really worth risking your life?]

[Stop right! You're the one who said that if you're not ruthless, you can't stand firm. Didn't you also have near-death experiences when you were training?]

"...Yiv, protesting against me this way is going too far."

[Hmph, you were the one who ignored my concern and went your own way. My dark magic is almost complete. When that happens, you can hide behind me, trembling, and I'll protect you!]

Seeing the two people in front of her, even when they were arguing, still revealing a hint of concern in their words, Duanmu Lian felt a sense of melancholy and nostalgia.

This 'feeling' doesn't belong to him right now.

In this video, he saw another Duanmu Lian and the story of a vampire girl.

In order to protect each other, the two pursued together the power that could safeguard each other.

The arguments between them stemmed from their recklessness in gaining power and their injuries, which made them both somewhat unable to tolerate each other, thus leading to conflict.

In this memory, Duanmu Lian saw a vampire girl named Evangeline who developed dark magic in order to gain greater power and help him.

However, harmonizing dark magic is very difficult, after all, the human body is not that strong.

If she fails, Evangeline's body will burst open from the middle!

Every time Duanmu Lian saw it, she would have a huge argument with the other party.

Similarly, when Duanmu Lian tries dangerous things, she does them in a similar way, which leads to Yiwen Jielin seeing her and getting very angry.

Both of them possessed near-immortal physical attributes, which allowed them to dare to use themselves as experimental subjects.

Aside from Duanmu Lian, no one knows how many times Evangeline was injured and nearly died in her efforts to develop dark magic.

All of this is for survival, for my own survival, and also for helping the people I love.

So she succeeded, successfully developing an astonishing dark magic.

And that dark magic—

"I... I remember now..."

In the depths of darkness within her mind, Duanmu Lian murmured in a daze.

He suddenly grabbed the Dark Erosion Fang, causing it to begin devouring him entirely.

Since we cannot merge smoothly, let's devour him and sink him into darkness.

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Reality, an amorphous darkness, has transformed into the deepest hell.

The divine power unleashed countless dense lightning sword energies, but when they struck the deep darkness, they all vanished without a trace, as if they had sunk into the sea.

The terrifying darkness writhed, transforming into evil spirits, skeletons, and mountains of knives and seas of fire... a truly horrifying scene, a painting of hell.

In the deepest part of this profound darkness, a cold and deep voice suddenly rang out, echoing throughout the heavens and the earth.

"Art of Armament: Hellfire Forges Me!"

As this sound rang out, the entire Dark Hell erupted in chaos.

The aura that caused the heavens and earth to lose their color, the space to tremble violently, and even cracked open, swept out like a raging torrent.

At this moment, under Shenwei's solemn gaze, the Dark Hell that had swallowed Duanmu Lian suddenly began to contract.

Pure white flames burned even in the darkness.

That was the eternally inextinguishable white flame of the fourth stage of the Ten Yang Sacred Flame. If no one controlled it, its destructive power would burn the entire universe to ashes!

At this moment, the terrifying white flames that Duanmu Lian had been unable to control were swallowed by darkness.

The flames, when combined with darkness, turned a dark reddish-black color, much like the spiritual pressure of Ichigo Kurosaki after he became a Hollow in Bleach.

The image of the hellfire sea, in that instant, condensed into the shape of a human.

Duanmu Lian, whose appearance had changed drastically, also reappeared in Shenwei's sight.

At this moment, his physical appearance has also undergone tremendous changes.

Enveloped in black and red flames, he resembled an indescribable and terrifying demon god.

His skin turned pitch black, and his muscles shone with a dark luster like hard armor, with streaks of scarlet, shimmering patterns on his body.

His hair was also flashing with a strong, dazzling black-red light, his eyes were crimson, and the whites of his eyes were pitch black.

Even in the gaps between their mouths, one could vaguely see the glint of blood.

"Sizzle, sizzle..."

Duanmu Lian's figure slowly floated into the sky and stopped a hundred meters away from Shenwei.

At this moment, his appearance had changed drastically, and streaks of violently jumping red lightning appeared around him.

This is not the release of electric current, but rather the energy surrounding the body is so concentrated and violent that it affects the surrounding space, causing gas molecules to discharge.

The eerie and ominous black and red flames on his body released astonishing heat, sweeping in all directions like a raging torrent.

The surrounding space immediately began to twist and crack, and the surrounding scenery rapidly 'decayed' before Kamui's incredulous gaze.

Stones turned into yellow earth, ice and snow turned into nothingness, and all kinds of life living in the far north began to age at a visible speed, eventually turning into piles of bones!

This terrifying flame...it didn't just burn through space! It burned through time itself!!!

"Get into position and unleash the speed you're so proud of."

With a cold voice, Duanmu Lian, who seemed like a demon god who had walked out of hell, stared at Shenwei in front of her with her sharp and deep blood-red eyes.

The moment his murderous intent exploded, the whole world seemed to let out a mournful wail. This aura was like thousands of evil spirits running out of hell, revealing their ferocity, wickedness, madness, and ferocity!

I want a refund!

Before you can understand the astonishing change in Duanmu Lian's attack style, you must retreat quickly!

This was Shenwei's idea, but his thinking speed and physical speed were no match for Duanmu Lian's killing move at this moment.

"boom----!"

With just a simple raising of his hand and a tearing motion, the explosive claw force formed by black and red flames burned away the entire attack, shattering the space.

Because the process of burning the attack time is like the Crimson King jumping through time.

Therefore, Shenwei didn't see how Duanmu Lian attacked at all, because the time from the start of the attack to hitting the enemy was completely burned away.

This ferocious and terrifying claw strike was so powerful that even the incredibly fast Kamui couldn't dodge it, and the space around him and the opponent were shattered.

And the entire far north, under Duanmu Lian's gentle touch, collapsed like dominoes, with the icy mountain range vanishing into nothingness as if erased by an eraser.

Dark magic, Soldier's Armor - Hellfire Forges Me.

The move that Duanmu Lian used with Dark Erosion Extinction Fang.

The function of this dark magic is to condense the magic that should have been released into a form, then store it in the body, and finally release it through liberation.

For example, if you cast lightning magic, and then use this magic to absorb and fix it, you can add a layer of lightning armor to your body, and you will also have the speed and destructive power of lightning.

Duanmu Lian used the Dark Erosion Fang, which already contained dark magic, to unleash the spell weapon, Hellfire Refinement.

It was the ten yang holy fires within him that devoured his entire being, taking control of and fixing them, which formed the conceptual armor he now possesses.

This approach is extremely risky; Duanmu Lian, who was just swallowed, is in a state of remodeling and could be completely devoured if she is not careful.

However, as a blessing in disguise, after surviving a near-death experience, he even broke through the ninth level of the Nine Deaths Evil Technique, the Avici Hell.

At this moment, just as a black hole forms after the sun goes out, the Dark Erosion Extinction Fang has now become a complete part of Duanmu Lian.