Chapter Summaries

Lin Xia explained that Spirit Hall allowed Slaughter City to remain because it served as a prison for dangerous criminals, while the group witnessed the brutal conditions of the outer city. He led them past a corpse and its scavengers, leaving them to continue deeper into Slaughter City.

• The Black-Veiled Girl explained that outer-city residents could survive by contributing Bloody Mary, while only Hell Slaughter Arena survivors could enter the lawless inner city.
• Ning Rongrong questioned why Spirit Hall had not destroyed Slaughter City, and Lin Xia argued that it benefited Spirit Hall as a prison for criminals and outlaws.
• A group of starving residents fought over a dying person, and the Black-Veiled Girl explained that deaths during Bloody Mary contributions were not considered rule violations.
• Lin Xia walked straight through the crowd with Tyranitar, whose intimidating aura made the residents part to let the group pass.
• Dugu Yan called Slaughter City a hell for the weak as Lin Xia led the others onward.

Lin Xia and the others entered the Inner City and learned the rules of the Hell Slaughter Arena, where only one of ten contestants survived and a hundred consecutive wins earned the championship. Lin Xia led the group inside, where they witnessed a brutal slaughter and saw the victors tear apart the dead fighter.

• The Black-Veiled Girl led Lin Xia and the others through the Inner City to the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• The Black-Veiled Girl explained that each match began with ten contestants, only one could leave alive, and a hundred consecutive wins made a champion.
• Lin Xia entered the arena with Identity Token 8888 despite the Black-Veiled Girl's warning and passed the Bloody Mary collectors at the gate.
• Lin Xia and the others watched nine fighters kill a bloodied man as the crowd cheered.
• The victors tore apart and devoured the dead man while Lin Xia calmly surveyed the arena.

Lin Xia entered the Hell Slaughter Arena and survived his first battle, killing all nine opponents before returning to his stone hut. Over the next three days, he won another match and fought off repeated ambushes with help from Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and the others, while the attacks against him grew more dangerous.

• Lin Xia signed up for a match and entered the Hell Slaughter Arena while Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, Meng Yiran, and Dugu Yan waited outside.
• When the battle began, nine opponents targeted Lin Xia, but he killed them one by one and emerged as the only survivor.
• Lin Xia faced a group of would-be attackers outside the arena, whose leader Scarface backed off after Lin Xia met his gaze.
• Lin Xia returned to his stone hut, treated his wounds, and circulated his Soul Power to recover.
• Over the next three days, Lin Xia won a second match and killed more than a hundred fallen ones, including ambushers who attacked him after battles.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and the others guarded Lin Xia’s hut and drove off some attackers while he recovered.

After a year of fighting in the Hell Slaughter Arena, Lin Xia had earned seventy victories and the nickname Sandstorm Monarch. He entered another brutal match against nine opponents, overwhelming them with lethal precision.

• Lin Xia learned that the arena matched him against opponents with fewer than five fewer matches, then entered his tenth battle.
• Over the following year, Lin Xia reached seventy victories, while Meng Yiran, Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and Zhu Zhuqing earned fifty-one, fifty-two, fifty-seven, and fifty-nine wins.
• After Lin Xia survived an ambush by more than a hundred Fallen Ones, Slaughter City named him the Sandstorm Monarch.
• Lin Xia entered the arena with nine opponents, including three Soul Saints and four Soul Emperors.
• When the referee started the match, Lin Xia killed one attacker, broke another's wrist, and drove into the remaining opponents.