Chapter Summaries

Lu Leng and Hu Liena entered Slaughter City and went straight to the Hell Slaughter Arena, where Lu Leng killed a veteran fighter to pay their entrance fee. After watching a match, they registered separately to avoid being paired against each other.

• The Black-Veiled Woman welcomed Lu Leng and Hu Liena into Slaughter City and gave them tokens numbered 8888 and 8889.
• Lu Leng rejected the Black-Veiled Woman's offer to guide them and led Hu Liena through the inner city to the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Lu Leng killed a burly man who had won ten consecutive arena matches, providing the blood for their entrance fee.
• Lu Leng and Hu Liena watched a fight and learned that arena matches were chaotic battles of one against nine, fought to the death.
• Lu Leng and Hu Liena registered separately so they would not be matched against each other.

Lu Leng and Hu Liena spent a year earning sixty-three consecutive victories in Slaughter City, while resisting its poisonous and violent atmosphere. The King of Slaughter learned they were disciples of the Spirit Hall Pope, and Tang San arrived at the city’s gates holding a silver hammer.

• Lu Leng defeated nine opponents in eight seconds, then Hu Liena won her own match in under half a minute.
• Lu Leng and Hu Liena settled in and learned that Slaughter City’s poison and bloodthirsty atmosphere could erode their minds; Lu Leng found that his Thunder God Domain worsened the effect.
• Over the next year, Lu Leng advanced to Soul Power level sixty-seven, Hu Liena reached level sixty-four, and both earned sixty-three consecutive arena victories.
• The Black-Veiled Woman told the King of Slaughter about their victories and reported that Spirit Hall had identified them as personal disciples of its Pope; the King rejected her suggestion to stop them.
• Two days later, a Death Knight let a blue-haired man carrying a silver hammer enter Slaughter City, handing him token 9528.
• Lu Leng used his Soul Power to help Hu Liena suppress the violent influence of Slaughter City’s atmosphere.

Lu Leng and Hu Liena waited in Slaughter City for Tang San, intending to intercept and kill him. After Tang San arrived and won his first Hell Slaughter Arena battle, Lu Leng and Hu Liena cornered him in an alley.

• Lu Leng used his Heart of Nature to cleanse Hu Liena's Slaughter Aura after her Hell Slaughter Arena battles.
• Lu Leng spotted Tang San entering Slaughter City and told Hu Liena he had arrived.
• Tang San sensed Lu Leng watching him and grew wary, then asked the Black-Veiled Woman to take him to the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Lu Leng told Hu Liena they would intercept and kill Tang San the next day without making a plan.
• Tang San won his first Hell Slaughter Arena battle, then found Lu Leng blocking the alley ahead and Hu Liena behind him.

Lu Leng confronted Tang San in Slaughter City, where Tang San unleashed a barrage of Hidden Weapons against him. Lu Leng survived Tang San’s King Yama’s Invitation and counterattacked with the Spirit Destruction Arrow.

• Lu Leng confirmed that he had been waiting for Tang San, and Tang San declared them enemies before attacking with steel needles.
• Lu Leng deflected or blocked Tang San’s Hidden Weapons while Hu Liena attacked from behind Tang San but could not reach him.
• Tang San’s King Yama’s Invitation struck Lu Leng’s Zhan Luo Blade and sent him crashing into a wall, but the weapon shattered without defeating him.
• Lu Leng forced the fragments from his body, recognized the Hidden Weapon as King Yama’s Invitation, and fired his Spirit Destruction Arrow at Tang San.

Lu Leng’s attack on Tang San was interrupted when the King of Slaughter appeared and forbade Lu Leng from trying to kill Tang San within Slaughter City. After Lu Leng and Hu Liena left, Tang San realized his father had been protecting him in secret.

• Tang San was stunned that Lu Leng had survived King Yama’s Invitation and remained unharmed by its poison.
• The King of Slaughter shattered Lu Leng’s Spirit Destruction Arrow and appeared between Lu Leng and Tang San.
• The King of Slaughter ordered Lu Leng to leave and barred him from trying to kill Tang San in Slaughter City.
• Lu Leng questioned the King of Slaughter’s authority, but the King declared that his rules were the rules.
• Lu Leng left with Hu Liena, and the King of Slaughter told Tang San that he had a good father before vanishing.
• Tang San realized Tang Hao had been secretly protecting him and clenched his fists in gratitude and self-reproach.

Lu Leng reached his hundredth victory in Slaughter City, joining Hu Liena as a champion eligible to take the Road to Hell. The King of Slaughter offered them a way to avoid the trial, but Lu Leng refused and chose to proceed by their own strength.

• After the King of Slaughter intervened to protect Tang San, Lu Leng concluded that he and Hu Liena should earn a hundred victories and leave through the Road to Hell, but slowed their pace to manage their accumulated Slaughter Aura.
• Nine months later, Lu Leng won his hundredth match by killing nine powerful Fallen Ones in the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• The King of Slaughter appeared and summoned Hu Liena, whose unstable killing intent eased when Lu Leng used the Heart of Nature to help her.
• The King of Slaughter offered Lu Leng and Hu Liena God of Slaughter titles and positions as Guest Elders so they could avoid the Road to Hell.
• Lu Leng thanked the King of Slaughter but refused, insisting that he and Hu Liena would take the trial and earn their titles through their own strength.

Lu Leng and Hu Liena chose to brave the Road to Hell together, and King of Slaughter opened the path by driving the spectators to slaughter themselves. After arriving on the first platform, Lu Leng helped Hu Liena regain control of her killing intent, but she warned him that the Road’s blood aura could make her lose control again.

• Lu Leng and Hu Liena refused King of Slaughter’s offer and insisted on taking the Road to Hell together.
• King of Slaughter opened the Road to Hell, and the fallen spectators in the arena tore themselves apart under his crimson aura.
• Lu Leng and Hu Liena were transported to a circular platform, which Lu Leng recognized as the likely starting point of Tang San’s route.
• Hu Liena woke with blood-red eyes and an uncontrollable surge of killing intent, so Lu Leng used the Heart of Nature to restore her clarity.
• Hu Liena warned Lu Leng that the Road’s dense blood aura could cause her to lose control, and Lu Leng urged her to hold on to herself.

Lu Leng and Hu Liena entered the Road to Hell, with Lu Leng guiding them while Hu Liena tried to keep her unstable Slaughter Aura under control. When a swarm of blood-colored bats attacked, Lu Leng took to the air and prepared to fight them with his blade and transformed arm.

• Lu Leng warned Hu Liena not to fight if danger appeared, and she agreed to focus on controlling her Slaughter Aura.
• Lu Leng tied Hu Liena to himself with a rope and led her along the narrow Road to Hell, using his Eye of Delusion-Breaking and Spiritual Power to watch for threats.
• Lu Leng sensed a swarm of blood-colored bats ahead and told Hu Liena to prepare.
• Lu Leng flew into the swarm with his Thunderclap Wings and used lightning to kill several bats, but the attack proved ineffective against their vast numbers.
• Lu Leng ruled out his spiritual attack and Thunder God Domain, then charged the Zhan Luo Blade with lightning and transformed his right arm for the fight.

Lu Leng used Dragon Transformation and his lightning blade to destroy hundreds of blood-colored bats before confronting the Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bat King. After trapping it and injuring it while it split into smaller bats, he enlisted Hu Liena to help finish the fight.

• Lu Leng activated Dragon Transformation and rapidly cut down hundreds of blood-colored bats with the Zhan Luo Blade.
• The Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bat King roared, and Lu Leng followed the fleeing bats to find it.
• Lu Leng trapped the Bat King with Dragon's Confinement and attacked its three heads.
• The Bat King split into hundreds of small bats, but Lu Leng killed and injured many before they escaped and fused back together.
• Hu Liena offered to help, and Lu Leng assigned her the Bat King's leftmost head while he took the other two.

Lu Leng and Hu Liena killed the Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bat King, but Hu Liena’s condition worsened under the trial’s influence. She refused Lu Leng’s offer to knock her out and continued down the rising, overheated path.

• Lu Leng and Hu Liena coordinated their attacks to sever all three of the Dark Golden Dreadclaw Bat King’s heads and kill it.
• Lu Leng used the Heart of Nature to ease Hu Liena’s discomfort, then suggested he knock her unconscious if she could not endure the final trial.
• Hu Liena refused to let Lu Leng knock her out, worrying that he might face danger while she was unconscious.
• Lu Leng tied the rope back on and led Hu Liena onward, and after about half an hour she stopped to drink water and cool herself as the path grew hotter.

Lu Leng and Hu Liena rested in Slaughter City’s oppressive red mist, where Hu Liena secretly gave him a delayed aphrodisiac disguised as calming water. They continued onward and encountered the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, preparing to fight it.

• Lu Leng turned away from Hu Liena as her soaked clothes and the surrounding Slaughter Aura stirred his desire.
• Hu Liena recalled Ye Lingling’s advice and decided to use the opportunity to win Lu Leng over.
• Hu Liena gave Lu Leng water containing a delayed aphrodisiac, claiming it would calm him, and he drank it without suspicion.
• Lu Leng and Hu Liena continued along the path and spotted the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent in the red mist.
• Lu Leng drew the Zhan Luo Blade and told Hu Liena to target the serpent’s mushroom-like back bulges.

Lu Leng and Hu Liena defeated the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent and continued along the perilous path above the blood abyss. As the heat and killing intent overwhelmed Hu Liena, Lu Leng's Heart of Nature could only suppress her turmoil temporarily.

• Lu Leng attacked the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent from the air, severed its tail, and used Darkness Lock to capture its golden-red inner core.
• Hu Liena dispelled the serpent's crimson beam with her Nine Tails, then struck it down with her tail while Lu Leng cut open its abdomen and killed it.
• Lu Leng told Hu Liena that the path ahead held no greater danger, and she secretly prepared an active aphrodisiac to pair with the passive medicine he had taken.
• Lu Leng and Hu Liena continued toward the blood abyss as the heat and Slaughter Aura intensified, forcing Hu Liena to spend her Soul Power resisting them.
• Hu Liena reached the limit of her endurance, and Lu Leng used the Heart of Nature to suppress her surging killing intent, but its power was restricted and offered little relief.

Lu Leng and Hu Liena were overcome by a force that intensified their desire as they hurried along the Road to Hell, and Hu Liena kissed him before he realized he had been drugged. Afterward, Lu Leng suspected Hu Liena had given him the drug but wondered what had driven her to act so boldly; Hu Liena then woke and realized what had happened.

• Lu Leng carried the distressed Hu Liena toward the abyss, and the heat and blood mist grew stronger as they advanced.
• Hu Liena stopped resisting the influence and pulled Lu Leng into a kiss after both of them lost control of their bodies.
• Lu Leng realized he had been drugged again as the two lay inside a circle of nine tails on the Road to Hell.
• Lu Leng woke first, suspected Hu Liena had drugged him, and questioned what had prompted her to do it.
• Hu Liena woke, met Lu Leng's eyes, and realized what had happened.

After waking from their intimacy near the exit of Slaughter City, Hu Liena worried that Lu Leng would not accept responsibility for her. Lu Leng finally promised to take responsibility, and Hu Liena tearfully threw herself into his arms.

• Hu Liena hid behind her nine tails and asked Lu Leng what had happened, while he said he did not know but was certain that something had.
• Hu Liena tried to learn Lu Leng's intentions, but mistook his comment about the exit as a veiled response about their relationship.
• Lu Leng agreed to leave Slaughter City, and Hu Liena grew angry at his calm, seemingly indifferent reaction.
• Lu Leng told Hu Liena that he would take responsibility for her.
• Hu Liena spread her tails, embraced Lu Leng, and clung to him while crying.

Lu Leng and Hu Liena returned to Spirit Hall after escaping Slaughter City with Divine Slaughter's Domain, and Bibi Dong offered to help them refine their killing intent. After Hu Liena left, Bibi Dong told Lu Leng that his plan from the Soul Master Tournament had begun to take effect and asked whether he had spread rumors about the Clear Sky Sect.

• Lu Leng and Hu Liena returned to Spirit Hall after a month away, having obtained Divine Slaughter's Domain in Slaughter City.
• Bibi Dong asked about their Soul Power levels and explained that they needed to refine the killing intent still eroding their wills.
• Hu Liena told Bibi Dong that the Heart of Nature could help Lu Leng refine his killing intent, so he did not need her special cultivation method.
• Bibi Dong sent Hu Liena away and told Lu Leng that the piece he planted during the Soul Master Tournament had begun to take effect.
• Bibi Dong asked Lu Leng whether he had also spread the rumors about the Clear Sky Sect.

Lu Leng warned Bibi Dong that Tang San’s hidden weapons could make attacking the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect costly, and explained how his rumors were meant to drive a lasting wedge between Tang San and Ning Fengzhi. Bibi Dong recognized the real purpose of his plan and reconsidered the risks of the Spirit Hall’s operation.

• Bibi Dong asked Lu Leng for his thoughts on destroying the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and he cautioned that unexpected factors could make the attack costly.
• Lu Leng identified Tang San’s hidden weapons as the main danger and demonstrated a Zhuge Crossbow for Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong saw the weapon’s power and accepted that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would be difficult to destroy without heavy losses.
• Lu Leng explained that his rumors about Ning Fengzhi framing Xiao Wu were designed to damage Ning Fengzhi’s relationship with Tang San and disrupt their cooperation.

Lu Leng warned Bibi Dong about the risks of the Spirit Hunt Operation and proposed ways to reduce them, earning authority to handle the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Bibi Dong then suggested that he marry Hu Liena, but Lu Leng rejected the idea by revealing his existing promise to marry Qian Renxue.

• Bibi Dong told Lu Leng about the Spirit Hunt Operation and asked for his plans.
• Lu Leng proposed developing a powerful weapon like Tang San's Hidden Weapons and weakening the alliance among the Upper Three Sects through public opinion.
• Bibi Dong assigned Lu Leng to handle the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as he saw fit.
• Bibi Dong suggested that Lu Leng marry Hu Liena after the Spirit Hunt Operation.
• Lu Leng told Bibi Dong that the Great Priest had made him promise to marry Qian Renxue.

Lu Leng rejected Bibi Dong’s attempt to control his marriage to Qian Renxue, deepening her doubts and fears about his growing power. A day later, he arrived in Gengxin City with Su Zhiyan to undermine Tang San’s future resources by taking over the blacksmithing industry.

• Bibi Dong angrily opposed Lu Leng’s agreement to marry Qian Renxue, but could not explain why she objected when he challenged her.
• Lu Leng left the Pope’s Palace, and Bibi Dong wondered why Qian Daoliu had arranged the marriage before fearing Lu Leng might become too powerful to control.
• Bibi Dong’s fear that Lu Leng might turn against her stirred her killing intent.
• Lu Leng brought Su Zhiyan to Gengxin City, intending to monopolize blacksmithing and deprive Tang San’s Tang Sect of materials and support.
• Lu Leng went to the local Spirit Main Hall to learn about the city and was welcomed by Bishop Miles.

Lu Leng arrived in Gengxin City and used a public meal at the hotel to learn about the Blacksmith Association and its disciple Silong. He left Miles separated from his table as he listened to Silong discuss the association and Lou Gao.

• Miles welcomed Lu Leng and offered him a banquet, but Lu Leng chose to eat at Gengxin City Grand Hotel beside the Blacksmith Association.
• At the hotel, Lu Leng refused a private room and sat in the main hall, where Miles's Spirit Hall group drew hostile looks from the patrons.
• Lu Leng ordered Miles and the others to sit elsewhere, and Miles obeyed despite feeling humiliated.
• Lu Leng overheard a man ask Silong why Miles feared him, and Silong guessed that Lu Leng was a powerful helper sent to subdue the Blacksmith Association.
• Silong said he did not want to disturb Lou Gao, who was absorbed in research, and trusted that his teacher would protect the association.

Lu Leng arranged to capture Silong so he could pressure him into helping Spirit Hall recruit the Blacksmith Association. He threatened Silong with the apparent capture of his child Huer and began using his soul bone skill to influence him.

• After hearing Silong dismiss concerns about Spirit Hall, Lu Leng returned to the Spirit Main Hall and sent Miles to follow him.
• A few days later, Lu Leng and his allies ambushed Silong in Gengxin City, knocked him unconscious, and took him to a nearby house.
• Silong recognized Lu Leng and refused to betray his teacher, but he panicked when Lu Leng showed him a small golden hammer and mentioned Huer.
• Lu Leng used Huer's apparent presence behind a folding screen to make Silong stop resisting, then enveloped him in Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Lu Leng began using his skull soul bone skill, Evil Thought Power, on Silong.