Chapter Summaries

Over one year in the City of Slaughter, Xiao Tianyang became known as the Death Messenger and Blade Demon while building a seventy-four-match winning streak. As Tang San and Hu Liena warned him about the formidable opponent scheduled for his next match, Xiao Tianyang asked why they had chosen to help him.

• Xiao Tianyang gained fame in the City of Slaughter, earned the title Death Messenger, and killed attackers who ambushed him.
• Xiao Tianyang noticed that life in the City of Slaughter was affecting Tang San's emotions, and Tang San and Hu Liena continued to clash without resolving their fights.
• Xiao Tianyang's victories reached seventy-four, while Tang San and Hu Liena reached seventy-two and seventy-one wins respectively.
• Tang San and Hu Liena confronted Xiao Tianyang before his match and warned him that his opponent was a level-eighty-nine close-combat specialist who wielded short blades.
• Xiao Tianyang asked Tang San and Hu Liena why they were helping him.

Xiao Tianyang left Hu Liena puzzled after rescuing her from hidden attackers, while the King of Slaughter considered how to deal with Rakshasa. The chapter left Xiao Tianyang identified as the King of Slaughter’s greatest threat in the City of Slaughter.

• Tang San warned Xiao Tianyang not to make him collect his corpse, then left with Hu Liena.
• Hu Liena introduced herself as Spirit Hall’s Holy Maiden and suggested Spirit Hall could support Divine Might, but Xiao Tianyang seized her and challenged her.
• Xiao Tianyang incapacitated Hu Liena, killed the Soul Masters hiding nearby, and left her wondering why he had helped her.
• The King of Slaughter learned that Rakshasa had refused his invitation and killed the messenger, then warned his subordinate not to target the Asura King or the Hell Messenger.
• The King of Slaughter decided to wait for Rakshasa’s next trial and regarded him as the City of Slaughter’s greatest threat.

Xiao Tianyang won a Hell Slaughter Arena match by using a mysterious Soul Bone to drag a hidden assassin from the darkness and kill him. As rumors about the Soul Bone drew attackers after him, Xiao Tianyang unleashed Dark Devour on the group.

• Xiao Tianyang fought off the other contestants, killing eight with a single slash before sensing that one opponent remained hidden.
• Xiao Tianyang dodged the assassin’s repeated sneak attacks, then used black smoke to pull him from the darkness and stabbed him with the Tang Saber.
• A black mire swallowed the assassin’s corpse, and the King of Slaughter discussed Xiao Tianyang’s mysterious ability with the old man.
• Xiao Tianyang left the arena and was confronted by a group of people trying to seize his Soul Bone.
• Xiao Tianyang spread black smoke beneath his feet and used Dark Devour against the attackers.

Xiao Tianyang used Dark Release to swallow the crowd that attacked him, then returned their corpses in a state of terror, alarming the City of Slaughter. The King of Slaughter resolved to eliminate Xiao Tianyang but held back because the rules constrained him, while the matches grew more dangerous for Xiao Tianyang, Tang San, and Hu Liena.

• Xiao Tianyang released a black mire that dragged nearly a thousand attackers beneath the stone floor, while Hu Liena and Tang San kept their distance.
• Xiao Tianyang used Dark Release to return the attackers' uninjured corpses, whose terrified faces suggested they had suffered mental torture.
• The King of Slaughter decided Xiao Tianyang was a threat and crushed his throne's armrests in anger.
• An old man suggested arranging a fight between Xiao Tianyang, the Asura King, and the Hell Messenger, but the King of Slaughter struck him down and rejected the plan.
• The King of Slaughter refrained from acting because the god's rules restricted him, and after Xiao Tianyang's eightieth match, he, Tang San, and Hu Liena faced increasingly large groups of opponents.

Xiao Tianyang rescued Hu Liena from Soul Masters who tried to attack her while she was overwhelmed by the City of Slaughter’s killing intent. Hu Liena woke in his room unharmed, while Xiao Tianyang considered his mysterious mission to conquer or submit to the City of Slaughter.

• Xiao Tianyang noticed that the City of Slaughter’s killing intent had affected Tang San and Hu Liena, leaving Hu Liena unable to defend herself.
• When Soul Masters moved to assault Hu Liena, Xiao Tianyang killed them with Dark Release and carried her away after knocking her unconscious.
• Hu Liena woke in Xiao Tianyang’s room, checked that her clothes were intact, and thanked him for saving her.
• Xiao Tianyang told Hu Liena to change the bloodstained sheets, bathe, and return to bed, then privately reflected on his attraction to her.
• Xiao Tianyang reviewed the side quest to conquer the City of Slaughter or submit to it and wondered how to complete it.

After two years in the City of Slaughter, Xiao Tianyang reached his ninety-ninth victory and prepared for his final match, while Tang San’s killing intent threatened to consume him. The King of Slaughter watched Tang San’s decline and questioned why Hu Liena had endured by staying near Xiao Tianyang.

• Xiao Tianyang reflected on his two years in the City of Slaughter and looked forward to winning one more match so he could enter Hell Road.
• Xiao Tianyang recalled how he had helped Hu Liena suppress her killing intent while allowing Tang San to face his own violent episodes.
• Before Xiao Tianyang’s final match, Hu Liena warned that killing intent had consumed most of Tang San’s consciousness and would turn him into a demon if it continued.
• Hu Liena explained that she stayed close to Xiao Tianyang because she felt comfortable beside him, even though she and Tang San were enemies in the City of Slaughter.
• The King of Slaughter and the Black-clothed Girl watched Tang San and discussed how Xiao Tianyang and Hu Liena had resisted the City of Slaughter’s influence.

Xiao Tianyang broke Tang San free from his madness with a punch, then joined Tang San and Hu Liena after they had each earned one hundred victories in the Hell Slaughter Arena. The King of Slaughter presented them with the choice of becoming retainers of the City of Slaughter or attempting the deadly Hell Road.

• The King of Slaughter and his attendants watched as Xiao Tianyang approached the maddened Tang San, unsure whether he meant to kill or save him.
• Xiao Tianyang used Dark Water to pull Tang San toward him and struck him with a punch that cleared the killing intent from his mind.
• Hu Liena realized Tang San had recovered, while the King of Slaughter speculated that Xiao Tianyang was still hiding his true strength.
• Tang San brushed off the injury, repelled Soul Masters who tried to attack him, and entered the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Xiao Tianyang, Hu Liena, and Tang San gathered in the arena as the King of Slaughter congratulated them on reaching one hundred victories and offered them two paths.

Xiao Tianyang, Tang San, and Hu Liena chose to enter Hell Road, but the King of Slaughter broke the rules and attacked them. Xiao Tianyang wounded him and teleported the group into Hell Road, where he faced the journey ahead with a severe shoulder injury.

• Xiao Tianyang, Tang San, and Hu Liena rejected the King of Slaughter's offer and chose to enter Hell Road.
• The King of Slaughter used the blood around the arena to attack Xiao Tianyang with two enormous crimson swords.
• Xiao Tianyang met the attack with One Slash, then used the platform's Teleportation Array to send himself, Tang San, and Hu Liena into Hell Road while cutting the King of Slaughter.
• The King of Slaughter saw Xiao Tianyang's shattered mask and blade mark on his abdomen and feared Xiao Tianyang's retaliation.
• Xiao Tianyang arrived in Hell Road with a penetrating shoulder wound and a badly injured right hand, but remained conscious.

After surviving the teleportation into Hell Road, Xiao Tianyang treated his wounds while Hu Liena and Tang San agreed to cooperate. The three prepared to travel together through the narrow passage, where completing the trial would grant Divine Slaughter's Domain.

• Xiao Tianyang found that the bloody aura was invading his wounds, so Hu Liena bandaged him while he explained that the attack had been allowed during the Teleportation Array's activation.
• Hu Liena explained that they had entered Hell Road and proposed that she, Xiao Tianyang, and Tang San cooperate rather than fight.
• Hu Liena revealed that she was level sixty-five, and Tang San introduced himself as Tang Yin, a level-fifty-five Clear Sky Hammer user.
• Hu Liena told them that passing through the narrow path would grant them Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Tang San volunteered to go first and tied himself to the rope Hu Liena had brought, preparing for the three of them to advance together.

Xiao Tianyang, Tang San, and Hu Liena descended toward the Blood Pool through the City of Slaughter as dangerous Soul Power and hallucinations intensified. Xiao Tianyang warned them to ignore their senses as they continued onward.

• Xiao Tianyang noticed the heat and mind-affecting Soul Power growing stronger as the group headed downhill toward the Blood Pool.
• Xiao Tianyang cut down a wave of bats, and he explained that the creatures had been changed by their environment.
• Tang San used sharp pebbles and concealed weapon techniques to knock down the bats while the three advanced.
• Xiao Tianyang warned Tang San and Hu Liena that the bats' inaudible sounds were affecting their bodies and causing hallucinations.
• Xiao Tianyang told Tang San and Hu Liena to seal off their senses and ignore anything they sensed approaching.

Tang San, Hu Liena, and Xiao Tianyang fought their way through increasingly dangerous creatures and blood-colored Soul Power in the passage. Xiao Tianyang killed a three-headed bat in one strike, but the pair eventually reached a section where the path was cut off, exhausted and under mounting pressure.

• Tang San activated his Blue Silver Domain to resist the blood-colored Soul Power, and Hu Liena realized he possessed Twin Martial Souls.
• Hu Liena used her charm ability to disrupt the bats as Tang San and Xiao Tianyang fought through their swarms.
• Tang San sensed a powerful creature ahead, and Xiao Tianyang killed the three-headed bat with a single slash before it could threaten the path.
• The trio continued past increasingly dangerous creatures, whose deaths made the blood-colored Soul Power denser and further drained Tang San and Hu Liena.
• The passage ahead was cut off, leaving the exhausted trio facing a new obstacle.

Tang San, Hu Liena, and Xiao Tianyang advanced along Hell Road as the Blood-colored Soul Power weakened Tang San and Hu Liena. When three powerful Crimson Fire Teng Snakes blocked their way, Xiao Tianyang restrained the one in the middle and Tang San and Hu Liena prepared to attack the others.

• Xiao Tianyang threw Tang San and Hu Liena across a collapsing stretch of path, then leaped across it himself.
• Tang San and Hu Liena fought successive waves of monsters while Xiao Tianyang intervened only when he chose to.
• As they neared the Blood Pool, the Blood-colored Soul Power wore down Tang San and Hu Liena, leaving Tang San with less than half his Soul Power.
• Three Crimson Fire Teng Snakes appeared ahead: two over Forty Thousand Years old and one sixty thousand years old.
• Xiao Tianyang claimed the middle snake and used an invisible aura to freeze it, while Tang San rushed another with hidden weapons and Hu Liena revealed three foxlike tails from her External Soul Bone.

Xiao Tianyang rescued Tang San and Hu Liena from the Crimson Fire Teng Snakes and carried the exhausted Hu Liena toward the Blood Pool. When Tang San sensed another hidden attacker, a Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent lunged at Xiao Tianyang.

• The Crimson Fire Teng Snake counterattacked, but Xiao Tianyang killed it with Funeral Song and drove off Hu Liena’s wounded target.
• Xiao Tianyang told Tang San and Hu Liena to continue, but Hu Liena soon collapsed from exhaustion and the Blood Pool’s pressure.
• Xiao Tianyang carried Hu Liena on his back and urged Tang San to keep moving without guilt.
• Tang San sensed something concealed beneath the path, and a Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent attacked Xiao Tianyang.
• Xiao Tianyang knocked the serpent away with a stomp, while Tang San recognized it and Xiao Tianyang asked whether Tang San could fight it with his remaining Soul Power.

Xiao Tianyang, Tang San, and Hu Liena reached the final battle on Hell Road, where a powerful dragon emerged from the Blood Pool. Xiao Tianyang chose to fight after receiving a quest that promised him a Character Bond Card.

• Tang San defeated the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent with his Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and collected its Inner Core.
• Hu Liena explained that the strongest attackers had appeared in every even-numbered wave, and Xiao Tianyang told Tang San to stay behind him if another battle came.
• The three reached the Blood Pool, where a dragon with Spirit Pressure exceeding that of a Ninety Thousand Year Spirit Beast emerged as the tenth wave.
• Xiao Tianyang tied Hu Liena to his back, ordered Tang San aside, and drew his blade to face the dragon.
• Xiao Tianyang received the side quest Guardian, which promised a random Character Bond Card for killing the creature blocking their path.

Xiao Tianyang fought a Sub-Dragon above the Blood Pool while carrying Hu Liena, using his speed and precise attacks to wound it despite its tough scales. The battle shook the Abominations Hell Road as Xiao Tianyang spotted an opening in the Sub-Dragon’s defense.

• Xiao Tianyang explained to Hu Liena that a Sub-Dragon was like a large lizard and described what he considered a True Dragon.
• Xiao Tianyang dodged the Sub-Dragon’s blood-colored beam and severed one of its wings with a saber strike.
• Hu Liena realized Xiao Tianyang’s combat ability rivaled that of an ordinary Super Douluo and that she and Bibi Dong had underestimated him.
• Xiao Tianyang’s saber attack split the Blood Pool, but the Sub-Dragon’s horns shattered the strike and it attacked him with a claw.
• Xiao Tianyang and the Sub-Dragon exchanged powerful blows that shook the Hell Road, and Xiao Tianyang found an opening in its defenses.

Xiao Tianyang killed the dragon on Hell Road, captured its Soul Ring in an Energy Storage Orb, and left with Tang San. After completing his quests, he awakened and strengthened the World Domain, a new domain Soul Skill of his Scythe of Judgment.

• Xiao Tianyang used the Beast's Fang to strike off the dragon's head and stored its Soul Ring in an Energy Storage Orb.
• Tang San promised to keep Xiao Tianyang's actions secret, and Xiao Tianyang poured poison into the Blood Pool before they left Hell Road.
• Xiao Tianyang received his quest rewards, including a hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone and a Character Bond Card, after he and Tang San crossed the barrier.
• Xiao Tianyang felt two opposing forces in his domain and learned that he had awakened the World Domain Soul Skill of his Scythe of Judgment.
• Xiao Tianyang examined his system status and complained to himself about its crude description.

Xiao Tianyang emerged from the City of Slaughter and prevented Bibi Dong and Tang Hao from fighting by displaying his overwhelming domain and Divine Might Guard. Reunited with Saber, he left for home with his heart exhausted but relieved to be free of the slaughter.

• Xiao Tianyang awoke outside the City of Slaughter and met Tang San and Hu Liena, who had also obtained the Slaughter Domain.
• Bibi Dong arrived with Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to confront Tang Hao, who had come to retrieve Tang San.
• Xiao Tianyang shattered Bibi Dong and Tang Hao's domains, then warned them that he had killed over a hundred thousand people and did not want more bloodshed.
• The girl on the white horse ordered the Divine Might Guard into formation, and they summoned a towering blood-red giant that made Bibi Dong reconsider fighting.
• Hu Liena told Bibi Dong that Mr. Rakshasa had saved her twice, so Bibi Dong left with her while Tang Hao took Tang San away.
• Saber welcomed Xiao Tianyang back and comforted him, and he rode home with her and the Divine Might Guard.

Bibi Dong discussed Xiao Tianyang’s character and Spirit Hall’s prospects for cooperation with Hu Liena, who admitted she had fallen for him. Hu Liena was chosen to visit Divine Might, while Qian Renxue overheard their conversation and reacted with jealousy.

• Bibi Dong asked Hu Liena what she thought of Xiao Tianyang, and Hu Liena described him as principled and willing to help those who showed him no hostility.
• Bibi Dong reconsidered Xiao Tianyang’s past actions and concluded that Spirit Hall had no direct conflict of interest with Divine Might, so cooperation might be possible.
• Hu Liena said Xiao Tianyang could not be recruited, and Bibi Dong decided to send someone to explore cooperation with him.
• Hu Liena asked to go, and Bibi Dong realized she had fallen for Xiao Tianyang and warned her about Yun as a rival.
• Bibi Dong arranged for Hu Liena to visit Divine Might, and Qian Renxue revealed she had overheard them and called Xiao Tianyang a womanizer.

Xiao Tianyang learned that Bibi Dong had sent Hu Liena to lead Spirit Hall’s delegation to Divine Might, then used the time before their arrival to sort through his rewards. He gained new attendants and Martial Souls, and ended the chapter preparing to examine a crystal skull.

• Saber told Xiao Tianyang that Hu Liena would lead a Spirit Hall delegation arriving around noon the next day.
• Saber handled Divine Might’s affairs while Xiao Tianyang reviewed his accumulated rewards.
• Xiao Tianyang used a Character Bond Card and gained Madam Mingzhu and Tide Siren of the Azure Sea as attendants.
• The final settlement of the [Flames of Revenge] mission granted Xiao Tianyang several rewards, including new Martial Souls that merged into his Emperor Flame.
• Xiao Tianyang took out a transparent crystal box containing a crystal-clear skull.

Xiao Tianyang fused the Ice Crystal Jade Dragon Diamond Skull and later learned that Saber had rejected Spirit Hall’s proposal to establish a branch in Divine Might. The chapter ended with Xiao Tianyang and Saber holding firm against Spirit Hall’s ambitions.

• Xiao Tianyang fused the Ice Crystal Jade Dragon Diamond Skull, gaining the abilities Barrier and Rewind after two days and one night of cultivation.
• Xiao Tianyang prepared a feast, and Saber joined him for the meal before helping him clear the dishes.
• Xiao Tianyang asked Saber whether Spirit Hall had objected to his absence, and she explained that she had told them he was in seclusion.
• Saber told Xiao Tianyang that Bibi Dong had proposed three cooperative arrangements, but she had agreed to consider them rather than accept them.
• Saber revealed that she had refused Spirit Hall’s proposal to establish a branch in Divine Might and declared that anyone who targeted it would become their enemy.