Chapter Summaries

After leaving Shrek, Tang San reunited with his long-absent father, Tang Hao, who ordered him to leave the academy and train with him. Tang San followed Tang Hao into the wilderness, where his father began questioning him about his cultivation and the techniques Xiao Xian had taught him.

• Flender approved Dai Mubai and Oscar's departures, and Tang San decided to return home as well.
• After the Shrek group celebrated in Spirit City, Dai Mubai went back to the Star Luo Empire while Tang San and Oscar traveled toward Balak and Fasnu Province.
• Tang Hao appeared at Tang San and Oscar's camp, and Tang San tearfully recognized his father after eight years apart.
• Tang Hao told Tang San to leave Shrek and follow him, and Tang San agreed after leaving Oscar weapons and a letter to take back.
• While traveling with Tang Hao, Tang San reassured him that he did not resent being left behind, and Tang Hao embraced him.
• Tang Hao asked Tang San about Purple Jade Body and Chaotic Cloak, and Tang San explained that Xiao Xian had taught him the cultivation skill and other self-created techniques.

Tang Hao encouraged Tang San to master the Chaotic Cloak Hammer while bringing him to visit Xiao Wu and discussing his changes. Back at Shrek, Xiao Xian received Oscar’s news, considered the City of Slaughter and god inheritances, and prepared to absorb Shi Nian’s sixty-thousand-year Illusionary Wisdom Skull.

• Tang Hao told Tang San that mastering the Chaotic Cloak Hammer would let him break Xie Yue’s Full Moon with one strike, then continued traveling with him and asked about Xiao Wu and their sworn brotherhood with Xiao Xian.
• Oscar returned to Shrek after delivering Tang San’s supplements to Nuoding Academy’s dean and Old Jack, and Xiao Xian read the letter he brought.
• Xiao Xian considered how Tang San might enter the City of Slaughter and reflected on the Asura God’s inheritance and the possibility of gaining its favor.
• Xiao Xian examined Shi Nian’s Illusionary Wisdom Skull, which he had been unable to absorb amid attacks on Shrek that killed several Soul Emperors and two Soul Saints.
• Xiao Xian planned to absorb the skull to strengthen his Spiritual Power and help control Xiao Jue’s possible Martial Soul Avatar, and Flender approved the plan.

Xiao Xian and Xiao Jue absorbed the sixty-thousand-year Spirit Condensing Wisdom Skull, gaining powerful Spiritual Power and an unexpected ability to act together. After three days, they awoke and blasted the cabin wall with blue light, while a voice spoke in Xiao Xian’s mind.

• Flender, Liu Er Long, and Master joined Xiao Xian, Ma Hongjun, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong at the cabin as they prepared to absorb their spirit bones.
• Flender gave Ning Rongrong Shi Nian’s Illusionary Wisdom Skull, while Ma Hongjun and Zhu Zhuqing took the other two spirit bones.
• Xiao Xian began absorbing the Spirit Condensing Wisdom Skull as Xiao Jue contained its Dragon Might and became enveloped in blue light.
• The skull’s energy expanded Xiao Xian’s Spiritual Power, while Xiao Jue’s phantom body overlapped with him as the skull merged with them both.
• After three days, Xiao Xian and Xiao Jue opened their eyes and fired dark blue rays that pulverized the cabin wall.
• A crisp voice spoke in Xiao Xian’s mind, startling him as the blue light in his eyes vanished.

After absorbing the Spirit Condensing Wisdom Skull, Xiao Xian gained powerful spiritual abilities and a strange form of Martial Soul Possession that also enhanced Xiao Jue. He raised his Soul Power to level fifty-seven and sought admission to Moonlight Pavilion to prepare himself for the City of Slaughter, leaving Madam Yue considering Xue Qinghe’s request to enroll him midyear.

• Xiao Xian recovered from fusing the Wisdom Skull, explained its Purple Divine Light skill to Master, Flender, and Liu Er Long, and tested its destructive power.
• Xiao Xian discovered that the Wisdom Skull could merge with Xiao Jue’s and create a pale-blue scaled form that reduced Purple Divine Light’s cost while increasing its power.
• Xiao Jue spoke more clearly and defeated Xiao Xian when they tested their self-created soul skills.
• Xiao Xian returned from Sunset Forest with his Soul Power at level fifty-seven, then asked Xue Qinghe to arrange his admission to Moonlight Pavilion before he entered the City of Slaughter.
• Madam Yue received Xue Qinghe’s letter requesting a place for Xiao Xian, despite Moonlight Pavilion’s strict admissions and the school year already being underway.

After three months at Moonlight Pavilion, Xiao Xian left before the graduation ceremony, and Madam Yue learned from his letter that he had used the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and was connected to Tang San. Having developed a peaceful Mental Power Field through his time with Madam Yue, Xiao Xian returned to Shrek Academy, prepared to travel north, and arrived at a remote town with a shabby tavern.

• Madam Yue investigated Xiao Xian and discovered that he was a fifteen-year-old imperial count and Soul King before he arrived at Moonlight Pavilion.
• Over three months, Xiao Xian mastered music and etiquette and developed a calming influence on the other students, while Madam Yue softened toward him and tried to learn how he knew the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.
• Xiao Xian left Moonlight Pavilion before its graduation ceremony, and Madam Yue read his letter connecting the technique to Junior Brother Tang San, prompting her to think of Brother Hao.
• Xiao Xian returned to Shrek Academy with a peaceful Mental Power Field, then received Flender's permission to travel and gave Xiao Wu supplies of Sunlight Spores and Water Skins.
• Following Xue Qinghe's map, Xiao Xian traveled north for nearly ten days, reached a small, cold town, and found a shabby tavern.

Xiao Xian entered the City of Slaughter and learned that escape was possible only by winning the Hell Slaughter Arena and surviving the Hell Road. After defeating Terror Knight Scott, he asked his guide to take him to the arena.

• Xiao Xian found the tavern’s hidden entrance and let ten eager guests descend into the passage before following them underground.
• Xiao Xian reached the City of Slaughter, where Terror Knight Scott demanded that he prove his qualification to enter.
• Xiao Xian swiftly passed Scott, took his token, and left Scott and his warhorse wedged in the passage.
• The Black-veiled Girl guided Xiao Xian into the city and explained that only a Hell Slaughter Arena championship and passage through the Hell Road could earn someone freedom.
• Xiao Xian asked the Black-veiled Girl to take him to the Hell Slaughter Arena.

Xiao Xian entered the City of Slaughter with the Black-veiled Girl and toured its Outer and Inner Cities before reaching the Hell Slaughter Arena. Despite her warnings about the arena’s deadly rules, he chose to enter, and the chapter ended as two companions stabbed the third man on their way there.

• Xiao Xian asked the Black-veiled Girl to take him to the Hell Slaughter Arena despite her warning that few contestants survived.
• The Black-veiled Girl explained the Outer City’s Bloody Mary requirement and led Xiao Xian through its grim streets and poor living conditions.
• The Black-veiled Girl brought Xiao Xian into the chaotic Inner City and warned him to stay within five meters of her for safety.
• Xiao Xian reached the Hell Slaughter Arena, heard its rules, and asked whether he could enter.
• Two people walking with a third drew daggers and stabbed him in the back.

Xiao Xian entered the Hell Slaughter Arena in the City of Slaughter, where he used subtle force to make two brothers kill each other before joining the matches himself. After five days and more than three hundred kills, he continued to conceal his strength and wipe out anyone who attacked him.

• Xiao Xian asked a bald man for his Bloody Mary, then used shifting forces to make the bald man and his brother stab each other to death.
• Xiao Xian entered the arena, registered for a match, and watched its fighters slaughter one another.
• Xiao Xian fought his first match, killed all nine opponents, and immediately asked the Black-veiled Girl to register him for another.
• Over five days, Xiao Xian fought five matches and killed more than three hundred people while pretending to struggle through each bout.
• After his fourth match in one day, dozens of spectators attacked Xiao Xian, but he carefully killed every one of them.

A month after entering the City of Slaughter, Xiao Xian had earned ten consecutive victories and gained the fearsome title of Asura. Hu Liena arrived in the city to prove herself against him, and the chapter ended with her confronting Xiao Xian after emerging from a bloody fight.

• After spectators attacked Xiao Xian following his matches, he killed them and frightened others away, but the arena’s matchmaking rules slowed his progress.
• Hu Liena asked Bibi Dong to let her enter Death Canyon without a protector so she could keep up with Xiao Xian, and Bibi Dong gave her a spirit bone and urged her to survive.
• A month later, Xiao Xian detected poison in a restaurant steak, killed the chef and his accomplice, and returned to seek another arena match.
• Xiao Xian’s victories and the killing of more than a hundred attackers made him infamous as the Asura and Little God of Slaughter.
• Hu Liena fought her way through the City of Slaughter and emerged before Xiao Xian, who greeted her.

One year after meeting Hu Liena in the City of Slaughter, Xiao Xian had become the Hell Slaughter Arena’s feared Asura while Hu Liena relied on his presence to keep her killing intent under control. Xiao Xian entered the arena for another match and faced nine terrified opponents who surrounded him.

• Hu Liena returned to her stone house, remembered how Xiao Xian had saved and helped her, and reflected on his strength, restraint, and calming presence.
• Over the following year, Xiao Xian won seventy-three matches and became feared across the City of Slaughter, while Hu Liena surpassed thirty victories and moved near his house so his presence could steady her.
• Hu Liena fell in love with Xiao Xian, though he rarely spoke to her, and she was pleased that she alone was allowed to live within five hundred meters of him.
• Xiao Xian arrived to register for another arena match, causing the queue to scatter and the nine men in the rest area to fear for their lives.
• Xiao Xian gently urged the nine men into the arena, where they surrounded him.

Xiao Xian won another Hell Slaughter Arena match, killing nine opponents and the Soul Emperor who tried to hide behind a corpse. The King of Slaughter watched his progress and warned that Xiao Xian was nearing a loss of control, while Xiao Jue absorbed nearly all the killing intent Xiao Xian had suppressed.

• Xiao Xian killed his opponents in the arena with swift attacks and poisoned hidden needles while Hu Liena watched, increasingly entranced by him.
• The final Soul Emperor used a spectator’s corpse as a shield, but Xiao Xian controlled the dead and killed him with a black needle.
• Xiao Xian searched the ten bodies for Soul Bones but found none; he recalled that his earlier Soul Bone victories had caused the arena spectators to attack him and left the arena without matches for a month.
• The King of Slaughter discussed Asura with a female subordinate, decided to wait until he had won ninety matches, and said he could sense Xiao Xian nearing a loss of control.
• Back in his stone room, Xiao Xian released Xiao Jue, whose restrained killing intent turned the ceiling blood-red as he devoured nearly all of Xiao Xian’s killing intent.

Tang San completed Tang Hao’s brutal training, reached Soul King, and awakened the Blue Silver Emperor, but he panicked when his fifth Soul Skill turned out to be an attack instead of the purely supportive ability Xiao Xian had planned for him.

• Tang San mastered the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and broke through to level fifty after more than a year of training beneath the waterfall.
• Tang Hao tested Tang San’s self-created skills, then used his killing intent to show him how real combat differed from competition.
• Tang Hao took Tang San to obtain his fifth Soul Ring and cultivate killing intent.
• Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass awakened as the Blue Silver Emperor, and he became a Soul King with five rings, including a black fifth ring.
• Tang San told Tang Hao his fifth Soul Skill was Blue Silver Overlord Spear, a single-target attack, and lamented that it contradicted Xiao Xian’s plan for his Blue Silver Grass to remain purely Support System.

Tang San regretted taking a Ten-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Grass Soul Ring after realizing it had turned his Blue Silver Emperor toward an Assault System path instead of the support path his Senior Brother had planned. Meanwhile, in the City of Slaughter, Xiao Xian used his harp to calm Xiao Jue’s killing intent, and Hu Liena listened in rapture, wondering if he played for her.

• Tang San explained to Tang Hao that his fifth Soul Ring had changed his Blue Silver Emperor’s traits and ruined his hoped-for support path.
• Tang Hao told Tang San to ask his Senior Brother how to remedy the change, while Tang San privately doubted anything could be done.
• Tang San and Tang Hao traveled north in silence for half a month and reached a small town.
• In the City of Slaughter, Xiao Xian played his harp and used his tranquil Mental Power Field to calm Xiao Jue’s growing killing intent.
• Hu Liena listened from the neighboring stone house, became enraptured by Xiao Xian’s music, and wondered whether he was playing for her.

Tang San entered the City of Slaughter, defeated Terror Knight Scott, and heard Xiao Xian’s voice calling him to the small stone house. As Tang San approached, he found Hu Liena waiting outside Xiao Xian’s door with a sword.

• Hu Liena hesitated outside Xiao Xian’s stone house, while Xiao Xian sensed her with his Spiritual Power and chose not to intervene.
• Tang San arrived at the City of Slaughter and defeated the injured Terror Knight Scott with his Clear Sky Hammer after discovering that soul skills could not be used there.
• The Black-veiled Girl led Tang San into the Inner City, where he discarded a Bloody Mary after Xiao Xian spoke to him through Spiritual Power.
• Tang San learned from the Black-veiled Girl that Xiao Xian’s street was forbidden, then headed there after confirming Xiao Xian’s description.
• Hu Liena drew a short sword when she sensed approaching footsteps, and Tang San stopped in shock upon recognizing her outside Xiao Xian’s door.

Tang San reunited with Xiao Xian in the City of Slaughter and revealed that his fifth Soul Skill, the Blue Silver Overlord Spear, had disrupted his plans to become a Food System Spirit Master. Xiao Xian could not find an immediate solution, but promised to investigate after they left and urged Tang San not to rush into using his second spirit.

• Tang San confronted Hu Liena outside Xiao Xian's stone house, but Xiao Xian called him inside before either attacked.
• Tang San recognized Xiao Xian as his Senior Brother and explained that the Blue Silver King had given him the offensive Blue Silver Overlord Spear as his fifth Soul Skill.
• Xiao Xian examined Tang San's Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul and worried that its emperor-class, offensive nature would make it difficult to keep following the Food System path.
• Xiao Xian warned that switching to Support System skills or adding Soul Rings to Tang San's Clear Sky Hammer could cause serious problems.
• Tang San said he still had another spirit, and Xiao Xian urged him to wait while they sought a solution after leaving the City of Slaughter.

Xiao Xian explained how Tang San might strengthen his body to safely add spirit rings to his second martial soul, while Tang Hao and the King of Slaughter plotted around the new killing gods. Xiao Xian revealed the Hell Road’s Divine Slaughter’s Domain and blocked Tang San’s Blue Silver Domain with a golden glow.

• Xiao Xian warned Tang San that adding spirit rings to his second martial soul could overwhelm his body and suggested spirit bones might help him endure the strain.
• Tang Hao overheard their discussion, brooded over the missing Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and left with killing intent toward the City of Slaughter’s inhabitants.
• The King of Slaughter learned another killing god had appeared and ordered the match schedule controlled so Asura and the newcomer could be sent into the Hell Road separately.
• Tang San told Xiao Xian that his father had sent him to the City of Slaughter to gain experience and killing intent.
• Xiao Xian explained that surviving the Hell Road trial could grant Divine Slaughter’s Domain, then pointed out Tang San might use it alongside his Blue Silver Domain.
• Tang San released his Blue Silver Domain toward Xiao Xian, but a faint golden glow around Xiao Xian blocked it.

Xiao Xian showed Tang San that he could now use the Dragon Might Domain independently and warned him to hide his identity in the City of Slaughter. He gave Tang San two leg spirit bones and explained how to survive the Hell Slaughter Arena, then asked what name Tang San would use.

• Xiao Xian independently released his Dragon Might Domain, suppressing Tang San’s Blue Silver Domain, and advised him to use another name because he could not use his usual soul skills in the City of Slaughter.
• Tang San suggested killing Hu Liena, but Xiao Xian warned that Bibi Dong’s disciple could use soul skills and move freely in the City of Slaughter.
• Xiao Xian told Tang San that he had absorbed the skull bone, while Zhuqing, Fatty, and Rong Rong had received other spirit bones and become Soul Ancestors.
• Xiao Xian gave Tang San a black left leg bone and a white right leg bone, but Tang San initially tried to refuse them before Xiao Xian put them in his Storage Spirit Tool.
• Xiao Xian explained the dangers and survival precautions of the Hell Slaughter Arena, then asked Tang San to choose a new name.

Tang San began training in the City of Slaughter while Xiao Xian warned him to rely on himself. After Hu Liena watched Xiao Xian and followed him to his house, she asked to come in, and he let her enter.

• Tang San joked about changing his surname to Xiao, unaware that Tang Hao had overheard him in the shadows.
• Xiao Xian took Tang San to the Hell Slaughter Arena, where Tang San won his match by smashing ten opponents to pieces while Xiao Xian watched.
• Xiao Xian told Tang San to find his own place to live and train independently, so Tang San chose a nearby stone house.
• Hu Liena hesitated before knocking on Xiao Xian's door and asking if she could come in.
• Xiao Xian stepped aside to let Hu Liena enter, leaving Tang San staring in disbelief.

Xiao Xian rejected Hu Liena’s offer to join Spirit Hall and spent six months helping her and Tang San endure the City of Slaughter. After Tang San and Hu Liena amassed many victories, Xiao Xian announced that he was leaving to enter Hell Road without waiting for them.

• Hu Liena urged Xiao Xian to join Spirit Hall, offering to vouch for him and saying he could become its Holy Son, but Xiao Xian refused.
• Tang San overheard Hu Liena reveal that Bibi Dong might personally target Xiao Xian, then suggested that Xiao Xian join Spirit Hall for protection; Xiao Xian dismissed the idea.
• Over the next six months, Xiao Xian played the harp to calm the killing intent in Tang San and Hu Liena and deterred attacks in the arena.
• Tang San reached fifty-five victories and earned the title Asura Emissary, while Hu Liena reached eighty-eight victories.
• Xiao Xian told Tang San and Hu Liena that he was leaving to enter Hell Road, despite Hu Liena asking him to wait until she had completed her remaining matches.

Xiao Xian completed one hundred victories in the Hell Slaughter Arena and insisted on taking the Hell Road trial instead of accepting the King of Slaughter’s offer. After the blood-soaked path opened, he entered it and encountered a swarm of Blood Red Bats.

• Xiao Xian won his hundredth match, but received no third soul bone.
• The King of Slaughter offered Xiao Xian freedom to leave the City of Slaughter and the title of God of Slaughter, but Xiao Xian chose the Hell Road trial.
• The King of Slaughter released evil red mist that drove the spectators to tear themselves apart, and their blood formed a bat-shaped pattern that opened the path.
• Xiao Xian arrived on a small platform above a Blood Pool and stepped onto the narrow Hell Road.
• After walking four hundred steps, Xiao Xian heard a buzz and spotted at least a thousand Blood Red Bats ahead.