When Shen Hanyu opened his eyes again, the aura of Soul Power around him began to surge wildly, his presence abruptly rising to an entirely new level. A massive, strange Soul Ring of crimson gold settled firmly into the position of Shen Hanyu's ninth Soul Ring. The aura of that single Soul Ring steadily suppressed the combined aura of the previous eight.
Shen Hanyu slowly rose to his feet. After taking a deep breath, the nine Soul Rings gradually withdrew into his body, and his aura slowly returned to calm.
"Level ninety-eight..."
Shen Hanyu clenched his fist, then murmured in a low voice.
Looking at the blood pool below, which had clearly become somewhat depleted, Shen Hanyu's mouth twitched. The originally boundless blood pool had been unconsciously drawn out and refined into energy by him. Some areas had even been drained dry, exposing the bottom.
Even so, the amount remaining was still enough to maintain the normal operation of Slaughter City. It merely needed several more centuries of slaughter and the deaths of more Fallen Ones; sooner or later, it could recover.
Right? There was absolutely nothing wrong with that reasoning.
As the blood pool dried up, many strange Soul Beasts were exposed. From bats to scorpions to spiders, every Soul Beast here looked vastly different from those outside. Overall, they were all the sort of Soul Beasts that seemed inherently tied to the word evil.
Shen Hanyu merely glanced at them a few times before preparing to leave Hell Road. After defeating the previous Slaughter King and becoming the "new Slaughter King," Shen Hanyu discovered that although entering Hell Road still required sacrificing enough life energy to activate a special formation, leaving did not. Once Shen Hanyu arrived at the place where he had entered, a thought from him