Thus, on the night Dai Weisi achieved his seventieth victory, a rumor began circulating through the City of Slaughter:
"Peerless Sword Demon" was not a criminal from the Douluo Continent, nor was he someone with nowhere else to turn. His purpose in entering the City of Slaughter was simple—
To kill.
It was said that "Peerless Sword Demon's" martial soul was the Seven Kill Sword, and that he needed slaughter to nurture the killing intent within himself.
Those burdened with especially grave sins and thick killing intent were the finest "food" for the Seven Kill Sword's cultivation.
The reason "Peerless Sword Demon" had come to the City of Slaughter was to use the sinful blood of the entire city to feed his Seven Kill Sword, intending to evolve that top-tier martial soul into a god-tier martial soul—the Seven Kill Demon Sword.
Once the Seven Kill Sword truly evolved into the Seven Kill Demon Sword, no one in the entire City of Slaughter would survive.
It was said that this had greatly angered the King of Slaughter.
Although the rules of the City of Slaughter, set by the gods, prevented the King of Slaughter from personally acting against "Peerless Sword Demon," he had said in private:
Anyone who killed "Peerless Sword Demon" would not need a hundred victories to become an honored guest of the King of Slaughter.
That meant that from then on, they could rise in one leap to become true upper-class citizens in this chaotic territory. Treasures and beauties would be theirs for the taking. They would no longer need to fear ambushes or poison, nor would they have to participate in the Hell Slaughter Arena.
Why did those powerful figures who had achieved fifty or sixty victories in the Hell Slaughter Arena struggle so desperately for a