Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yun warned Hu Liena that unpurified yellow springs dew was corrupting her mind and offered to teach her cultivation arts to help her survive without it. Hu Liena fainted after he transferred the techniques and meridian knowledge, and Xiao Yun left her to rest after stabilizing her consciousness.

• Xiao Yun explained that yellow springs dew could erode Hu Liena's mind and eventually turn her into a puppet under the King of Slaughter's control.
• Hu Liena admitted she feared she could not survive her Hell Slaughter Arena matches without the dew, and Xiao Yun offered to purify it for her.
• Xiao Yun set two conditions and chose four cultivation arts suited to Hu Liena's demon fox martial soul: the Spirit Fox Moonlight Art, Ever-Changing Divine Steps, Dragon Subduing Palm, and Plum Blossom Hand.
• Xiao Yun transferred the arts and knowledge of the body's meridians into Hu Liena, but the information overwhelmed her and she fainted.
• Xiao Yun carried Hu Liena to bed and used spiritual power to steady her consciousness, then told Ling'er that Hu Liena needed sleep to recover.

Hu Liena began cultivating the Spirit Fox Moonlight Art, but the dormant life essence in her body nearly ruptured her dantian until Xiao Yun intervened. After scolding her for rushing a breakthrough, Xiao Yun learned about her progress in the City of Slaughter and planned to purify the yellow springs dew before she pursued more arena victories.

• Hu Liena sensed qi sense while practicing the Spirit Fox Moonlight Art and tried to open her dantian by directing Xiao Yun's dormant life essence into it.
• The surging life essence threatened to rupture Hu Liena's dantian, so Xiao Yun used his true qi to restrain it and stabilize her.
• Xiao Yun reprimanded Hu Liena for rushing her cultivation, and she apologized and promised not to chase quick gains again.
• Hu Liena told Xiao Yun she had spent over a year in the City of Slaughter, won thirty-five Hell Slaughter Arena matches, and earned the title Bewitching Demon Fox.
• Hu Liena explained that her opponents had become stronger and the yellow springs dew had worsened her condition, so Xiao Yun promised to purify it while she recovered.

Xiao Yun registered for the Great Soul Arena after revealing that he had already won ten matches in the small Soul Dueling Arena. He entered his first Great Soul Arena match and faced nine veteran fighters as Hu Liena watched from the stands.

• Hu Liena explained the arena rules and warned Xiao Yun about newcomers being targeted in the small Soul Dueling Arena.
• Xiao Yun told Hu Liena he had already won ten consecutive small-arena matches, so she led him to the Great Soul Arena.
• Xiao Yun registered for the Great Soul Arena and received a badge requiring him to fight within seven days; his first match was scheduled almost immediately.
• Hu Liena went to the stands while Xiao Yun waited in the competitors' hall.
• A Slaughter Guard summoned Xiao Yun, who entered the arena and saw nine veteran fighters waiting around him.

Xiao Yun won his first Hell Slaughter Arena match by defeating nine attackers and making their deaths appear accidental. After dinner, he asked Hu Liena how he could enter matches more often so he could leave the City of Slaughter within six months.

• Nine contestants targeted Xiao Yun, but he evaded their attacks, struck them down, and used concealed arena traps to kill them.
• The referee declared Xiao Yun the winner and awarded him two bottles of yellow springs dew; Hu Liena confirmed she had seen through his strength.
• Xiao Yun and Hu Liena returned home, where Ling'er served dinner and Hu Liena ate with them.
• Hu Liena started to leave, but Xiao Yun asked her to join him in the study to discuss the arena.
• Xiao Yun asked whether he could enter more matches, explaining that he hoped to leave the City of Slaughter within six months, and Hu Liena warned that fighting every two days would be unsustainable.

Xiao Yun decided to enter a twenty-day Special Challenge in the Hell Slaughter Arena, and Hu Liena registered him before his first consecutive match the next day. News of the challenge spread through the City of Slaughter, where most people expected Xiao Huohuo to fail quickly.

• Xiao Yun dismissed Hu Liena’s warnings about the dangers of consecutive matches and insisted that no one in the arena could kill him.
• Xiao Yun gave Hu Liena a wooden sword containing his Sword Qi to use if she encountered danger, and she left with his token.
• Xiao Yun planned to fight once each day for twenty days so he could temper his cultivation and leave the City of Slaughter within six months.
• Hu Liena registered Xiao Huohuo for a twenty-match Special Challenge starting at noon the next day, and the Slaughter Guard issued her a voucher.
• The registration guards discussed Xiao Huohuo’s challenge, and rumors spread as arena-goers predicted he would not last long.

Xiao Yun entered his second Hell Slaughter Arena match and defeated the other contestants by turning their attacks against them and killing an ambusher. He won two bottles of Yellow Springs Dew and left the arena, while Hu Liena and Ling'er watched.

• Xiao Yun appeared in the Main Soul Dueling Arena as the crowd gathered to see the fighter called Xiao Huohuo.
• Xiao Yun redirected the attacks of two opponents so they fought each other, then turned three approaching survivors into a chaotic five-man melee.
• An opponent hiding behind Xiao Yun attacked with a dagger, but Xiao Yun caught and snapped the blade, then killed the attacker with the broken tip.
• Xiao Yun finished the melee's wounded survivor with one punch, and the referee declared him the winner of his second match.
• Xiao Yun collected two bottles of Yellow Springs Dew and glanced once at Hu Liena before leaving the arena.

Xiao Yun won twenty consecutive Hell Slaughter Arena matches while Hu Liena trained, improved her abilities, and won three matches of her own. As the Slaughter Guard prepared to scrutinize Xiao Yun, he confirmed that he still intended to leave within six months, though he planned to rest before challenging the arena again.

• Xiao Yun won twenty consecutive arena matches, disguising his strength so spectators nicknamed him Lucky Huohuo.
• Hu Liena practiced the Spirit Fox Moonlight Art and Xiao Yun's techniques while drinking purified Yellow Springs Dew, improving her strength without suffering mental erosion.
• Hu Liena won three arena matches, raising her record from thirty-five victories to thirty-eight and spreading her title, Enchanting Demon Fox.
• Hu Liena warned Xiao Yun that the Slaughter Guard would scrutinize him after his twenty consecutive victories.
• Xiao Yun told Hu Liena he would rest for half a month before resuming his challenges and confirmed that he meant to leave within six months.

Xiao Yun explained to Hu Liena that her one-tailed demon fox could evolve into a Nine-tailed Celestial Fox by mastering additional powers. He told her that becoming a Three-tailed Spirit Fox required charm, illusions, and Foxfire, but Hu Liena admitted she only had charm-related and close-combat abilities.

• Xiao Yun rested at home after twenty days of fighting while Ling'er tended the spirit grass in the courtyard.
• Hu Liena visited Xiao Yun and asked whether beast martial souls, especially top-tier ones, could evolve.
• Xiao Yun explained that demon foxes advanced from one tail to three, six, and nine tails as they mastered additional powers.
• Xiao Yun formed an ice-crystal Nine-tailed Celestial Fox and described the abilities represented by its tails.
• Hu Liena asked how to evolve her martial soul, and Xiao Yun said she first needed to master charm, illusions, and Foxfire.
• Hu Liena admitted that her spirit skills focused on charm and close combat, and that she knew neither illusions nor Foxfire.

Xiao Yun told Hu Liena that evolving her demon fox martial soul into a Nine-tailed Celestial Fox required abandoning Spirit Hall’s cultivation path and choosing new powers for her spirit rings. After struggling with the decision, Hu Liena chose to pursue the evolution, and Xiao Yun revealed he could create spirit rings for her, though only up to ten thousand years and one per week.

• Xiao Yun explained that Hu Liena should develop new power systems instead of using spirit rings to strengthen her charm, and urged her to consider discarding her existing rings.
• Hu Liena spent the afternoon weighing Xiao Yun’s proposed path against the teachings of Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall.
• Hu Liena told Xiao Yun she had decided to evolve her martial soul into a Nine-tailed Celestial Fox.
• Xiao Yun warned that discarding spirit rings would harm Hu Liena and leave her unable to acquire replacements in the City of Slaughter, prompting her to accuse him of toying with her.
• Xiao Yun showed Hu Liena a spirit ring he had created and revealed that he could make rings up to ten thousand years old, one per week.

Hu Liena chose to discard all five of her spirit rings so Xiao Yun could help her develop her martial soul. After he removed them and forced her escaping soul power back into her body, she gained innate full soul power, while both she and Xiao Yun collapsed from the ordeal.

• Hu Liena returned after arranging a month away from the Hell Slaughter Arena and told Xiao Yun she was placing her hopes in him.
• Xiao Yun set up a barrier that blocked the City of Slaughter's suppression, and Hu Liena summoned her demon fox martial soul.
• Xiao Yun forcibly removed Hu Liena's five spirit rings and stored them in the Martial Soul World Bead.
• Xiao Yun used immortal qi to force Hu Liena's escaping soul power back into her body and distribute it through her flesh, bones, sinews, and meridians.
• Hu Liena's innate soul power rose from rank eight to rank ten, and she fainted as her martial soul became a fox cub.
• Xiao Yun collapsed beside Hu Liena and fell asleep from exhaustion.

Xiao Yun helped Hu Liena absorb a twenty-thousand-year spirit ring in a protected room. The ring strengthened her demon fox martial soul, and she emerged with a second tail beginning to grow.

• Hu Liena teased Xiao Yun awake, and he tickled her until she begged him to stop.
• Xiao Yun and Hu Liena ate breakfast with Ling'er, who then stayed behind to watch the house.
• Xiao Yun raised a spirit ring to twenty thousand years and guided it over Hu Liena's juvenile demon fox martial soul.
• Hu Liena endured four hours of pressure as she absorbed the ring, while Xiao Yun guarded her.
• The ring merged into the fox, a second tail began to grow, and Hu Liena sensed her martial soul's improved quality and faster soul power circulation.

Hu Liena absorbed her first spirit ring, raised her soul power to level eighteen, and gained the Foxfire skill. After an interrupted kiss with Xiao Yun, she brought him to her Training Ground to test her new transformation and combat abilities.

• Hu Liena reached level eighteen after absorbing her first spirit ring and discovered that Foxfire could burn targets and drain soul power.
• Hu Liena kissed Xiao Yun, but Ling'er interrupted them by calling them to lunch.
• After lunch, Hu Liena asked Xiao Yun to help her test her two-tailed Demon Fox transformation and Foxfire at her Training Ground.
• Xiao Yun promised to spend the next day shopping with Ling'er, then followed Hu Liena over the wall into her courtyard.
• Hu Liena showed Xiao Yun her carefully equipped Training Ground and asked him to put up a barrier.