Chapter Summaries

Li Xuan exchanged for the Bagua Swimming Dragon Palm and White Jade Body-Forging Paste formula, then began practicing the palm technique and preparing its supporting medicines. He planned to take the technique to Slaughter City the next day to sharpen it in combat.

• Li Xuan cultivated on the Lotus Platform, confirmed he was level twenty-six, and estimated that he could reach level thirty within three months.
• Li Xuan opened the System Mall and exchanged for the Bagua Swimming Dragon Palm and the White Jade Body-Forging Paste formula.
• Li Xuan absorbed the palm technique’s knowledge and practiced until his movements became precise and produced strong gusts of wind.
• Li Xuan used Enlightenment Tea to deepen his understanding, then recorded the palm technique’s stances, breathing methods, and medicinal recipes.
• Li Xuan gathered ingredients and planted the Heavenly Treasure needed for the White Jade Body-Forging Paste, intending to cultivate the palm technique in Slaughter City the next day.

After winning thirty consecutive Hell Slaughter Arena matches, Li Xuan received an invitation from the King of Slaughter to visit the palace. He accepted and continued cultivating while wondering what the King wanted to discuss.

• Li Xuan won his thirtieth consecutive match in the Hell Slaughter Arena and became known as Flame Lord.
• Li Xuan recorded the shortcomings in his Bagua Swimming Dragon Palm, which had reached major completion.
• An envoy of the King of Slaughter entered Li Xuan's courtyard and invited him to the palace the next day.
• Li Xuan accepted the invitation, removed the Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame from the envoy, and speculated that his thirty victories had attracted the King's attention.
• Li Xuan returned to the Heaven-Grasping Bottle and cultivated more Purple Thunder Walnut Trees, producing ten pairs of Silver Thunder Walnuts and one pair of Cyan Thunder Walnuts.

Li Xuan met the King of Slaughter in the King's Palace, where he was asked to retrieve a sword from a treasury beneath Slaughter City. Li Xuan agreed and was left to pursue the dangerous mission.

• Li Xuan cultivated in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space and prepared a three-thousand-year-old Blood Dragon Ginseng as a gift for the King of Slaughter.
• Li Xuan went to the King's Palace and entered its dark, blood-soaked underground corridor after the guards let him pass.
• Li Xuan met the King of Slaughter in a pitch-black chamber and offered him the Blood Dragon Ginseng.
• The King of Slaughter asked Li Xuan to retrieve a sword left by the first King of Slaughter from the treasury beneath Slaughter City, explaining that its poisonous fumes kept others away.
• Li Xuan agreed to retrieve the sword, intrigued by the treasury's contents.

Li Xuan entered the Slaughter Treasury through the Abyss Gate and found a poisoned wasteland filled with corpses. After discovering that the corpses rose as Obsessions and yielded points and loot when burned, he cleared the battlefield and headed deeper into the treasury.

• Li Xuan agreed to enter the Slaughter Treasury, and the King of Slaughter opened the Abyss Gate using Tang Chen's Soul Power.
• Li Xuan crossed the portal and protected himself from the poisonous air with the Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame.
• Li Xuan touched a buried limb, awakened a zombie-like Obsession, and burned it, earning a point and finding a Soul Tool filled with Gold Soul Coins.
• Li Xuan cleansed the coins of strange energy, collected the loot, and realized the corpses belonged to dead Evil Soul Masters.
• Li Xuan burned more than a hundred corpses, gathered their Soul Tools and other valuables, and noticed the toxins in the air thinning.
• After clearing every corpse within sight, Li Xuan set off toward the deeper part of the Slaughter Treasury.

Li Xuan cleared thousands of corpses in the Slaughter Treasury’s blood mist and discovered a vast, ominous castle. He chose to postpone entering until the mist thinned further, but a silver-white crossbow bolt suddenly flew toward him.

• Li Xuan retreated from the thick blood mist, rested in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle, and cleansed toxins from his body in its hot spring.
• After six hours of sleep, Li Xuan returned to the Slaughter Treasury and began clearing corpses, finding many Soul Tools but no Spirit Bones.
• Over ten days, Li Xuan burned more than ten thousand corpses, greatly thinning the blood mist and revealing a massive ancient castle.
• Li Xuan decided to burn the remaining corpses before entering the dangerous Slaughter Treasury, since his Great Teleportation Talisman was still on cooldown.
• Li Xuan heard a sound behind him, turned, and saw a silver-white crossbow bolt shooting toward his chest.

Li Xuan survived an ambush by a silver-armored figure guarding the Slaughter Treasury and discovered that it was a Puppet with a limited patrol range. He stole its Soul Tool crossbow and saber, then tested their power inside the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space.

• Li Xuan avoided a crossbow bolt by entering the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space, then reappeared behind a refined steel shield and identified the attacker as a silver-armored figure wielding a Soul Tool.
• Li Xuan bombarded the figure with fireballs, studied its nimble footwork, and charged it with his palms, but fled when its strength overwhelmed him.
• The silver-armored figure briefly froze, allowing Li Xuan to steal its crossbow, bolts, and saber before escaping beyond its one-kilometer patrol range from the Slaughter Treasury.
• Li Xuan tested the crossbow inside the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space and found that Soul Power made its bolts faster and sharper, strong enough to snap a Purple Thunder Walnut Tree.
• Li Xuan infused the saber with Soul Power and found that its activated patterns increased his strength by half.

Li Xuan explored another route toward the Slaughter Treasury and encountered a slow but heavily protected Bronze-Armored Figure. After defeating it with Filthy Flame, he claimed its powerful armor and stored it for later study.

• Li Xuan mapped the Slaughter Treasury and the Silver-Armored Figure's attack range, then approached from the north behind a shield.
• A Bronze-Armored Figure wielding a heavy hammer struck Li Xuan and sent him flying.
• Li Xuan's Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame failed to penetrate the figure's barrier, but his Filthy Flame corroded through it and entered the armor.
• Li Xuan burned the body inside the armor with Filthy Flame until the figure collapsed into gray powder.
• Li Xuan tested the Bronze Armor's protective barrier, then stored the armor in a Void Crystal and replenished his supply of Void Pearls and Void Crystals.

Li Xuan defeated the Silver-Armored Figure and discovered that its armor increased the power of his skills by fifty percent. He returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to recover and prepare before confronting the other armor sets.

• Li Xuan tested the Bronze Great Hammer, discovered it created a Gravity Field that increased gravity by up to fifty percent, and stored it in the Void Pearl.
• Li Xuan decided to clear more blood mist while waiting for the Great Teleportation Talisman's cooldown, then went to find the Silver-Armored Figure.
• Li Xuan fought the Silver-Armored Figure with Bagua Palm and burned the dried corpse inside it with Filthy Flame.
• Li Xuan activated the Silver Armor and found that it increased skill power by fifty percent, then collected its pieces for later study.
• Li Xuan returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, cleansed the lingering toxin in the hot spring, and resumed cultivation.

Li Xuan broke through to Soul Power Level 28, then fought a Golden Knight and its armored warhorse, defeating them with Cyan Thunder Walnuts and his flames. He claimed the Golden equipment, discovering that it enhanced speed and armor penetration.

• Li Xuan stabilized his cultivation and broke through to Soul Power Level 28.
• A Golden Knight charged Li Xuan on an armored warhorse, and Li Xuan evaded its spear attack by storing the weapons in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space.
• Li Xuan threw two Cyan Thunder Walnuts at the charging pair, blasting the horse's leg off and knocking both the horse and knight down.
• Li Xuan used Filthy Flame to attack the warhorse and Golden Knight, then extinguished the knight's Heart Fire with the Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame.
• Li Xuan collected the Golden armor, warhorse, and spears, discovering that the armor boosted speed and the spears improved armor penetration.

Li Xuan challenged the Black Armored Swordsman in Slaughter City and used the fight to improve his saber skills, though he did not reach the Grandmaster Realm. After defeating it and recovering in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's hot spring, he woke refreshed and prepared to clear more skeletons for Soul Tools.

• Li Xuan restored his Soul Power, then went to the western part of the Slaughter Treasury and found the Black Armored Swordsman.
• The Black Armored Swordsman charged through Li Xuan's Filthy Flame, and Li Xuan fought it with the long blade he had taken from the Silver Armored Crossbowman.
• After two hours of fighting, Li Xuan entered an enlightened state and rapidly improved his saber skills, but the battle did not bring him to the Grandmaster Realm.
• Li Xuan burned the Black Armored Swordsman to ashes with Filthy Flame and stored its Black Iron Greatsword and Black Iron Armor in his Void Pearl.
• Li Xuan rested in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's hot spring, slept, and woke refreshed the next morning, ready to clear more skeletons and obtain Soul Tools.

Li Xuan waited for the Great Teleportation Talisman's cooldown to end, broke through to Level 29, and investigated the mysterious Slaughter Treasury. After discovering a bat had delivered a message inviting him inside, he entered the castle as its gates opened and an unseen voice welcomed him.

• Li Xuan found no corpses while digging near the Slaughter Treasury, so he cultivated inside the Heaven-Grasping Bottle while waiting for his talisman's cooldown.
• After a month, Li Xuan broke through to Level 29 and confirmed that the Great Teleportation Talisman's cooldown had ended.
• Li Xuan discovered a letter in his tent welcoming him to the Slaughter Treasury and trapped the tiny black bat that had delivered it.
• Li Xuan went to the Slaughter Treasury, where the gates opened on their own and a hoarse voice invited him inside.
• Li Xuan entered the dark passage, and the wall lamps lit as he advanced.

Li Xuan passed the Slaughter Treasury’s trial, discovered that the voice belonged to a soul trapped in a Soul-Nurturing Wood puppet, and confined it in a fire formation. He explored the first floor and collected valuable ores before preparing to investigate the higher floors.

• Li Xuan purged the powerful blood mist from his body and emerged into the Slaughter Treasury’s grand hall, where he learned he had passed the trial.
• Li Xuan recognized the puppet as Soul-Nurturing Wood containing a soul and trapped it inside a Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame formation.
• Li Xuan searched the first-floor rooms and found that most stored materials had crumbled, but he collected tens of thousands of jin of valuable ores.
• Li Xuan finished checking the first floor and returned to the hall to head up to the second floor.

Li Xuan explored the Slaughter Treasury’s second floor and discovered a library filled with ancient books and lighting Soul Tools. He carefully packed away the books, rested and cleared the Blood Mist Toxin, then resumed cultivating toward level 30.

• Li Xuan used Starfire Fruits to light the stairs and cautiously climbed to the second floor.
• Li Xuan discovered that the yellow crystals on the walls were lighting Soul Tools and decided to leave them in place for now.
• Li Xuan entered a numbered room and found shelves of ancient books, then used steam to make them less brittle.
• Li Xuan transferred the bookshelves, books, and room plaque into six Void Crystals and stored them in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle.
• Li Xuan soaked in the hot spring to cleanse the Blood Mist Toxin, then cultivated to approach level 30.

Li Xuan discovered a hidden compartment in the Slaughter Treasury and found the Asura Killing Canon, a cultivation method preserved in Blood Amber. After studying and recording it, he rested in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space, leaving the remaining lighting Soul Tools to collect the next day.

• Li Xuan decided to retrieve the lighting Soul Tools from the Slaughter Treasury for Spring and Autumn Winery.
• Li Xuan twisted a fixed lighting crystal, triggering a mechanism that opened a hidden compartment in room 924.
• Li Xuan found a metal box containing Ten-Thousand-Year Blood Amber labeled with the Asura Killing Canon.
• Li Xuan sent Soul Power into the Blood Amber and received the Asura God's cultivation method as a memory.
• Li Xuan judged the method bloodthirsty and inferior to Douluo No. 1, but recorded it and memorized its killing-intent techniques.
• Li Xuan confirmed the compartment was empty, then returned to the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space to bathe and rest.

Li Xuan sent the Heaven-Grasping Bottle into the third floor of the Slaughter Treasury to absorb its dense, corrosive blood mist. After climbing up once the mist cleared, he found the enormous skeleton of what appeared to be a nine-headed bat.

• Li Xuan cleared the lighting Soul Tools from the second floor and found that the staircase to the third floor had crumbled.
• Li Xuan used Starfire Fruits to illuminate the blood-mist-filled third floor and suspected the mist was the source of Slaughter City's blood mist.
• Li Xuan sent the Heaven-Grasping Bottle into the third floor, where it absorbed the blood mist while he waited and kept a Great Teleportation Talisman ready.
• Li Xuan regained contact with the Heaven-Grasping Bottle after two hours and saw that the third floor's blood mist had disappeared.
• Li Xuan protected himself with the Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame and Filthy Flame, climbed to the third floor, and discovered a vast, curled-up skeleton that looked like a nine-headed bat.

Li Xuan waited while the Heaven-Grasping Bottle drained the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat’s remains, then discovered the creature’s nearly million-year-old Bloody Crown Spirit Bone. The bone contained a powerful sleeping soul, leaving Li Xuan to wonder whose soul inhabited the Soul-Nurturing Wood puppet and who had spoken inside the Slaughter Treasury.

• Li Xuan watched the Heaven-Grasping Bottle absorb the crimson sphere’s blood mist while he avoided the glowing Spirit Bone, fearing it might be a trap.
• After five hours, the Heaven-Grasping Bottle drained the sphere and the bones, then Li Xuan entered its space to escape the collapsing bones and cultivated in the increased spiritual energy.
• Li Xuan emerged, cleared away the bone ash, and found a yellow Inner Core and a crimson Head Spirit Bone.
• Li Xuan used the system to identify the Spirit Bone as the 990,000-year Bloody Crown, which granted Bloody Domain and Blood Drop Resurrection and contained a powerful sleeping soul.
• Li Xuan wondered whose soul was inside the Soul-Nurturing Wood puppet and whose voice had entered the Slaughter Treasury.

Li Xuan confronted the eerie puppet that had escaped its Fire Formation and learned that it held a soul familiar with the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat. He absorbed the puppet’s blood mist with the Heaven-Grasping Bottle and burned it, but a wooden spike shot toward him as the puppet cracked.

• Li Xuan found the eerie puppet in the hall and dodged its blood-red longsword before surrounding it with Filthy Flame and Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame.
• The puppet spoke with the same aged voice Li Xuan had heard upon entering the Slaughter Treasury and demanded that Li Xuan hand over his body.
• The puppet released blood mist that pushed back Li Xuan’s flames, and Li Xuan suspected its soul was another Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat.
• Li Xuan summoned the Heaven-Grasping Bottle, which absorbed all the puppet’s blood mist and left it unable to move.
• Li Xuan engulfed the puppet in flames, but a wooden spike shot out as cracks formed, and Li Xuan caught it.

Li Xuan was struck by a thorn from the Soul-Nurturing Wood and entered his mental world, where the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat tried to possess him. Li Xuan trapped the bat and began burning its soul for nourishment, settling in for a long battle.

• Li Xuan grabbed a barbed wooden thorn, lost consciousness, and entered the Heaven-Grasping Bottle.
• Li Xuan realized his mental world had expanded after he absorbed the Filthy Flame Yin Lotus.
• The Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat appeared and demanded that Li Xuan become its nourishment.
• Li Xuan used the Burning Heart Seal and Filthy Flame Cage to trap the bat and bind it with flaming chains.
• Li Xuan burned the bat's soul and absorbed the soul power it released, preparing to continue until the bat was drained.

Li Xuan absorbed the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat’s soul power and memories after refining it in the Burning Heart Array. The memories revealed the bat’s long history in Slaughter City and its plan to escape its limits by taking a human body, but it had yet to overcome the Asura High Priest guarding the Slaughter Treasury.

• Li Xuan used the Burning Heart Array to strip away the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat’s soul power and stored it in his own soul.
• After two hours, the bat’s soul was fully refined, and Li Xuan absorbed its memories over three days and three nights.
• Li Xuan learned that six hundred thousand years ago, an Asura God inheritor had captured the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat and a Golden-Patterned Blazing Sun Snake to guard Slaughter City.
• The bat cultivated in Hell Road’s Blood Pool, reached nine hundred and ninety thousand years, and failed to break through to a million years.
• The bat planned to use a Soul Spirit Wood puppet to preserve its soul and eventually seize a Godhood inheritor’s body.
• The bat hesitated to steal the Soul Spirit Wood because the Asura High Priest, a rank ninety-nine Limit Douluo empowered by Asura Divine Power, guarded the Slaughter Treasury.

After absorbing the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat’s memories, Li Xuan learned how it had taken over Tang Chen and gained control of the King of Slaughter. He recovered in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle space, then returned to the Slaughter Treasury to prepare to explore its fourth floor.

• The Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat’s memories revealed how it acquired the Soul Spirit Wood puppet, split its soul into nine portions, and eventually took over Tang Chen with the Rakshasa Body’s involvement.
• Li Xuan spent three days and nights sorting through the memories and discovered that the bat’s immense soul power had made his own soul bloated.
• Li Xuan returned to consciousness in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle space, ate plain congee and pickled vegetables, and rested before eating again a day later.
• Li Xuan returned to the first floor of the Slaughter Treasury, found it scorched and largely destroyed, and picked up the surviving Soul-Nurturing Wood spikes and blood-red sword.
• Li Xuan placed the Soul-Nurturing Wood in walnut oil to preserve it, then planned to explore the fourth floor.