Chapter Summaries

Tang San learned that leaving Slaughter City required winning the Hell Slaughter Arena championship and surviving Hell Road, while the Black-veiled Girl described a Slaughter God who had earned the title in one day by defeating the King of Slaughter. Lin Du brought Hu Liena into the city, secured her special treatment, and left her to face its dangers alone.

• The Black-veiled Girl warned Tang San that Slaughter City was nearly impossible to leave, explaining that he would need to win the arena championship and pass Hell Road to become a Slaughter God.
• The Black-veiled Girl revealed that a Slaughter God had once earned the title in one day by defeating the King of Slaughter, a level-ninety-nine Limit Douluo.
• Lin Du and Hu Liena entered Slaughter City, where Hu Liena killed two servers who tried to attack her.
• Terror Knight Scott respectfully escorted Lin Du to the King of Slaughter after recognizing him as the Slaughter God who had defeated the King.
• Lin Du arranged for Hu Liena to move into the inner city and receive superior lodging, then told her to trust only herself before leaving.

Tang San learned from the Black-veiled Girl how Slaughter City divided its outer and inner city, and how Spirit Hall supplied the underground prison with its captives. After she warned him that challenging her would have been fatal, she led him to the wall separating the outer city from the inner city.

• The Black-veiled Girl explained that outer-city residents could survive by donating Bloody Mary, while only Hell Slaughter Arena survivors could live in the inner city.
• Tang San asked whether Spirit Hall knew about Slaughter City, and the Black-veiled Girl said Spirit Hall sent fugitives there to make them consume one another.
• Tang San suppressed his anger after the Black-veiled Girl mocked him, and she warned that he would have died if he had attacked her.
• Tang San observed the starving residents and food queues as the Black-veiled Girl explained that only powerful evildoers could enjoy the inner city's pleasures.
• The Black-veiled Girl led Tang San to a wall marking the entrance to Slaughter City's inner city.

Tang San entered Slaughter City’s inner city with the Black-veiled Girl and witnessed its brutal, lawless life. He encountered Hu Liena, then learned how the Hell Slaughter Arena worked and demanded a Bloody Mary from a man entering it.

• The Black-veiled Girl warned Tang San to stay close to her in the inner city, but he entered with her despite her advice to wait.
• Tang San saw the inner city’s violence and depravity and felt his Killing Intent surge.
• Tang San recognized Hu Liena as she emerged from a crowd holding a bloodied dagger, but she ignored him.
• The Black-veiled Girl explained that Hell Slaughter Arena matches involved ten contestants and only one survivor, while one hundred matches earned a championship.
• Tang San approached a man carrying a Bloody Mary and demanded the drink so he could enter the arena as a spectator.

Tang San entered the Slaughter City, fought off a bald man who tried to attack him, and registered for the next Hell Slaughter Arena match. He discovered that the Black-veiled Girl treated Hu Liena with far more respect than she showed him.

• The bald man attacked Tang San, but Tang San redirected his saber, seized the Bloody Mary, and later killed him with the thrown weapon.
• Tang San entered the Hell Slaughter Arena and asked the Black-veiled Girl to register him for the next match.
• Tang San registered under identity token 9528 and learned that ten contestants had to gather before a match began.
• The Black-veiled Girl arrived to register Hu Liena and explained that Hu Liena received special care because the King of Slaughter had personally designated her for it.
• Tang San watched the Black-veiled Girl respectfully explain things to Hu Liena, despite having refused to help him with his registration.

Over the course of a year in Slaughter City, Tang San became one of the Hell Slaughter Arena’s most feared contestants, winning sixty-seven matches while refining his combat skills. He faced nine opponents at once in his latest match and launched a volley of hidden weapons, leaving three survivors charging at him.

• Tang San killed more than a hundred people in his first three days in Slaughter City and learned to fear ambushes after matches.
• Tang San reached nine victories after a month, while the arena paired contestants according to their records.
• Over the next year, Tang San won sixty-seven matches, killed more than a thousand people, and survived a siege by over a hundred attackers; Hu Liena reached seventy-two victories.
• Tang San entered a match with nine opponents, who surrounded him and attacked together.
• Tang San killed six opponents with quick movements and hidden weapons, leaving two Spirit Emperors and one Spirit Sage charging him with corpses as shields.
• Tang San spun and sent nine curved throwing knives toward the three remaining opponents.

Tang San won his sixty-eighth match in Slaughter City, while the King of Slaughter discussed his progress and feared Lin Du’s power. Nearly two years later, Tang San stood one match short of a hundred victories, but the Killing Intent he had accumulated was wearing down his body.

• Tang San killed his opponents with Phoenix Leading Nine Chicks, crushed their skulls, and retrieved his hidden weapons after the match.
• Hu Liena watched Tang San fight and trusted that the hidden weapon Lin Du had given her surpassed his techniques.
• The King of Slaughter rejected a proposal to manipulate Tang San and Hu Liena into fighting, warning that Lin Du could destroy Slaughter City if he discovered a scheme.
• The King of Slaughter recalled Lin Du’s strength and swallowed blood from a Blood Pool.
• Nearly two years after arriving in Slaughter City, Tang San reached one match short of a hundred victories and struggled against the Killing Intent invading his body.

Tang San and Hu Liena struggled to suppress the Killing Intent accumulated in Slaughter City, while Hu Liena relied on her feelings for Lin Du and the sword he had given her to regain control. Tang San completed his hundredth match and drew the attention of the King of Slaughter, leaving him wondering whether even Lin Du could be defeated.

• Tang San realized that the Killing Intent from his many kills was steadily affecting his mind, and he used his Mysterious Heaven Skill to suppress it.
• Hu Liena used pain and her attachment to Lin Du’s sword as an anchor to control her Killing Intent, then prepared for her hundredth match.
• Three days later, Tang San killed his final opponent with the Clear Sky Hammer and completed one hundred matches in the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• The King of Slaughter descended and forced Tang San’s released Killing Intent back into his body with his voice.
• Tang San wondered whether Lin Du, who had easily defeated the King of Slaughter, could truly be defeated.

After winning one hundred matches, Tang San rejected the King of Slaughter’s offer of a title and chose to take the Hell Road to obtain Divine Slaughter's Domain. The King of Slaughter began opening the path by turning the arena’s fallen into sacrifices, while Tang San struggled to suppress his rising Killing Intent.

• The King of Slaughter praised Tang San’s hundred victories and offered him the title of Slaughter God, freedom to leave Slaughter City, and an honored advisor’s position.
• An ethereal voice warned Tang San not to accept and told him he had to take the Hell Road to obtain Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Tang San rejected the offer and insisted on undergoing the Hell Road trial, despite the King of Slaughter warning him of its danger.
• The King of Slaughter released an evil red aura across the arena, driving the fallen spectators mad and causing them to kill themselves as sacrifices.
• Tang San watched the mass slaughter and felt his own Killing Intent growing harder to control.

Tang San was sent onto Hell Road after the King of Slaughter sacrificed the arena’s victims, and he discovered the path crossed an abyss filled with blood. He prepared himself on the starting platform before venturing onward.

• The King of Slaughter declared the victims’ deaths an honor, and their blood formed a bat-shaped pattern that engulfed Tang San.
• Tang San’s Killing Intent and Soul Power protected him as the blood-red force transported him to Hell Road.
• Tang San awoke on a small platform above a bottomless abyss and saw that it contained a vast Blood Pool.
• Tang San suspected the Blood Pool powered Slaughter City’s domain and resented Spirit Hall for keeping the place intact.
• Tang San decided not to enter the Blood Pool, then sat down to restore himself before attempting Hell Road.

Tang San advanced down the sloping Hell Road and fought off a swarm of Blood-red bats with his Hidden Weapons. The bats then revealed a gigantic dark-gold bat blocking the path ahead.

• Tang San noticed the Hell Road descended toward the Blood Pool and prepared to meet approaching creatures.
• A swarm of over a thousand Blood-red bats surrounded Tang San and attacked him.
• Tang San anchored himself with the Flying Sky Divine Claw and used the Clear Sky Hammer and Hidden Weapons to repel the bats.
• The Blood Bats circled Tang San and obscured his view as he continued down the increasingly hot path.
• A giant dark-gold bat spread its wings and rose into the air ahead of Tang San.

Tang San fought the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King across a crumbling path, using the Flying Sky Divine Claw and Clear Sky Hammer to evade its attacks. After the Bat King’s minions began destroying the path toward the Blood Pool, Tang San launched a calculated counterattack with the Godly Zhuge Crossbow and Clear Sky Hammer.

• The Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King attacked Tang San with dark-red ripples that destroyed part of the narrow path, but Tang San smashed its middle head with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• The Bat King swallowed three Blood Bats to regrow its head, then targeted the path where Tang San was about to land; Tang San used the Flying Sky Divine Claw to swing toward it.
• The Bat King split into hundreds of golden bats, while its Blood Bats gnawed away a long stretch of the path; Tang San hurled the Clear Sky Hammer at them to stop them.
• The golden bats reformed into the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King, which began preparing another Soul Skill as Tang San drew the Godly Zhuge Crossbow.
• Tang San used the Flying Sky Divine Claw to ride the Clear Sky Hammer toward the Bat King, then aimed the crossbow and sent the hammer flying at it.

Tang San killed the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King and fought through the remaining Blood Bats before continuing along the Hell Road. He encountered a strange nine-tumored serpent that blocked the path, and the chapter ended as he hurled a leather pouch and detonated realgar inside its poisonous mist.

• Tang San smashed the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King with the Clear Sky Hammer, then used the Flying Sky Divine Claw to return to the broken bridge.
• Tang San killed the remaining Blood Bats with silver threads, rested to recover his Soul Power, and continued deeper into the Hell Road.
• Tang San spotted a dark red serpent with nine glowing protrusions coiled across the narrow path and prepared realgar from his Soul Tool.
• The serpent sprayed fire and poisonous mist along the path, but Tang San swept the flames away with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang San threw a leather pouch into the poisonous mist and detonated realgar particles around it.

Tang San defeated a Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent on the narrow path with the Clear Sky Sect’s Chaotic Wind technique. The serpent fell into the abyss without leaving behind the Inner Core Tang San hoped to find.

• Tang San used realgar wine against the poisonous mist, but the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent charged at him unaffected.
• Tang San spun with his Clear Sky Hammer, using its black force to lift and repel the serpent whenever it tried to circle or strike the narrow path.
• The serpent launched golden-red liquid from its nine tumors, which merged into an orb and descended toward Tang San.
• Tang San stopped spinning and struck the orb skyward with a black dragon of light, then cut through the serpent with Nine Nines Return to One.
• Tang San recognized the serpent and regretted that it had not left an Inner Core behind.

Tang San fought through the oppressive heat and killing aura of Hell Road until he reached an exit across a thousand-meter sea of blood. He devised a way to cross using his Eight Spider Lances and launched himself into the air, leaving the crossing still ahead.

• Tang San realized the evil aura was clouding his mind, so he sped up with his Soul Power and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Tang San reached the exit but found a thousand-meter-wide sea of blood separating him from it.
• Tang San used his Mental Power to suppress his killing aura and studied the cave for a way across.
• Tang San recalled his Eight Spider Lances and rested briefly to recover Soul Power.
• Tang San planted his Eight Spider Lances into the path and launched himself high into the air toward the cave ceiling.

Tang San escaped the Hell Road and left Slaughter City, vowing to destroy it someday. He awakened Divine Slaughter's Domain and reunited with Tang Hao, who took him away to learn to control his killing aura.

• Tang San used the Clear Sky Hammer, Flying Sky Divine Claw, and Eight Spider Lances to climb out of the Hell Road.
• Before passing through the exit's white light, Tang San vowed to return and destroy Slaughter City.
• Tang San endured the domain of Killing Intent and awoke holding the Clear Sky Hammer, which bore new white markings that released Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Tang Hao met Tang San and explained that the domain weakened opponents while strengthening Tang San.
• Tang Hao took Tang San to learn to restrain his killing aura, and ten days later they reached Heaven Dou City.

Tang Hao brought Tang San to Moonlight Pavilion in Heaven Dou City, saying the visit would wash away the dust from Tang San. After staff tried to turn them away, Tang Hao sent a cryptic message to Yuehua, but the steward ordered them escorted out before the Pope of Spirit Hall and the Saintess arrived.

• Tang Hao led Tang San to Moonlight Pavilion and said Yuehua would understand that an old acquaintance had come to visit.
• Two young attendants barred Tang Hao and Tang San from entering because Tang Hao's clothes were untidy, but Tang San's Killing Intent frightened them into backing down.
• Tang Hao told a young woman at the reception to give Yuehua a cryptic message about the full moon and an old acquaintance returning in the haze.
• The steward came downstairs, judged Tang Hao and Tang San as unrefined guests, and ordered two blue-clothed men to escort them out.
• The steward said the Pope of Spirit Hall and the Saintess would soon visit Moonlight Pavilion and that he would not let the pair offend them.

Tang San and Tang Hao attacked Moonlight Pavilion's attendants after being told to leave, but Lin Du arrived and subdued them both, overpowering Tang Hao with his domain and a single strike. He left Hu Liena with Tang Yuehua for training to control her Killing Intent, while Tang San recovered with his Clear Sky Hammer gone.

• Tang San summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and attacked two Moonlight Pavilion attendants, but Lin Du's Mental Domain froze him before he could strike.
• Lin Du arrived with Hu Liena and challenged Tang Hao, who unleashed Divine Slaughter's Domain and summoned his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Lin Du's vastly stronger domain overwhelmed Tang Hao's, weakened his hammer, and let Lin Du slap him to the ground without damaging the surroundings.
• Tang Yuehua greeted Lin Du and agreed to teach Hu Liena to restrain her Killing Intent.
• Lin Du left Hu Liena at Moonlight Pavilion, and Tang San regained movement to find his Clear Sky Hammer had disappeared.

Tang Hao left Tang San in Tang Yuehua’s care so she could teach him to control Divine Slaughter's Domain. Tang Yuehua set strict rules for Moonlight Pavilion and revealed that her Noble Ring domain came with only Level Nine Soul Power, but that she could teach Tang San skills beyond combat.

• Tang Yuehua dismissed the maids with Hu Liena, then criticized Tang Hao and Tang San for Tang San’s attack on her attendant.
• Tang San released his Killing Intent at Tang Yuehua, but her Noble Ring domain calmly dispersed it; Tang Hao stopped him from testing her further.
• Tang Hao apologized, entrusted Tang San to Tang Yuehua, and departed after telling Tang San to master Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Tang Yuehua laid down three rules for Tang San and said he must study at Moonlight Pavilion for a year, learning noble etiquette and music.
• Tang Yuehua explained that Moonlight Pavilion was a court etiquette academy and revealed her Level Nine Soul Power and innate Noble Ring domain.

Tang San and Hu Liena graduated from Moonlight Pavilion after a year of etiquette training, though Tang Yuehua judged Hu Liena the more accomplished student. Tang Yuehua released Tang San to follow his own path and encouraged Hu Liena to pursue her wish.

• Tang Yuehua told Tang San that stabilizing what he had gained mattered more than diligent cultivation after leaving Slaughter City.
• At Moonlight Pavilion's graduation ceremony, Tang San played the harp while Hu Liena accompanied him on the pipa, captivating the guests.
• Tang San made a small mistake during the performance, and Tang Yuehua and the nobles noticed it.
• Tang Yuehua gave Tang San his diploma, acknowledged his improvement, and told him he was free to leave Moonlight Pavilion.
• Tang Yuehua praised Hu Liena as her most satisfying student and wished her success in pursuing her goal.

After graduating, Tang San returned to Tang Hao and learned he would go to the Clear Sky Sect alone to seek Ancestral Recognition. He found the sect hidden in a small village and revealed his Clear Sky Hammer to prove his identity.

• Tang San returned to the mountain valley, where Tang Hao praised his progress and confirmed he should go to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Hao declined to accompany Tang San, and Tang San vowed to persuade the sect to welcome his father home in glory.
• After resting for several days, Tang San followed Tang Hao’s map to a small village east of Heaven Dou City.
• Villagers blocked Tang San from entering, so he summoned his Clear Sky Hammer to prove he belonged to the sect.