Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng left Sword God Academy and headed for Slaughter City, while Hu Liena persuaded Bibi Dong to let her train there without protection. The chapter ended with Chen Feng killing the men who attacked him at the town tavern using sword qi.

• Chen Feng said goodbye to the girls at Sword God Academy and left to seek Divine Slaughter's Domain and the Asura God's inheritance.
• Hu Liena asked Bibi Dong to let her enter Slaughter City alone to overcome her defeat by Chen Feng, and Bibi Dong agreed.
• Bibi Dong gave Hu Liena a Spirit Bone and warned her not to fight Chen Feng if she met him alone.
• Chen Feng reached the town entrance to Slaughter City and ordered a Bloody Mary, then poured it onto the floor.
• When the proprietor and several men attacked Chen Feng, sword qi cut off their heads and left the onlookers terrified.

Chen Feng entered Slaughter City, received the code number 1001, and learned its rules from his guide. He chose to enter the Hell Slaughter Arena immediately, where only one of ten contestants would survive.

• Chen Feng defeated the men at the entrance and persuaded the shopkeeper and waiter to open the way into Slaughter City.
• Terror Knight Scott assigned Chen Feng the number badge 1001 and told him he would lose his name.
• The Black-Veiled Girl welcomed Chen Feng into the city and explained that newcomers received twelve hours of guidance and that Bloody Mary sustained its residents.
• Chen Feng refused to delay and ordered the Black-Veiled Girl to take him to the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• The Black-Veiled Girl explained that each arena group had ten people, fights were forbidden while contestants waited, and only the last survivor could leave alive.

Chen Feng entered Slaughter City and concealed his identity before competing in the Hell Slaughter Arena. He killed all nine opponents, claimed a Genshin Treasure Chest, and asked the Black-Veiled Girl to take him to a better residence.

• Chen Feng killed a burly man outside the Hell Slaughter Arena to intimidate the crowd, then paid the Black-Veiled Girl with a cup of Bloody Mary to enter.
• Chen Feng altered his appearance to hide from Tang San and registered for a match in the arena.
• Chen Feng dodged a powerful contestant's punch and killed him with a sword strike.
• Chen Feng charged the remaining eight contestants and killed them all with the Broken Sword—Nameless.
• Chen Feng took the Genshin Treasure Chest and left the arena, earning the title Mr. One Thousand and One.
• Chen Feng asked the Black-Veiled Girl to lead him to a better residence, and she warned that experts with dozens of consecutive victories occupied them.

Chen Feng claimed a pavilion in Slaughter City by killing its previous resident, then used his system to summon Hu Tao. Hu Tao agreed to help him pursue the chance to become a god, giving him a companion as he settled into the city.

• The Black-Veiled Girl led Chen Feng to a pavilion, where he challenged its resident for the right to live there.
• Chen Feng defeated and killed the man, who had survived thirty matches in the Hell Slaughter Arena, then watched the Black-Veiled Girl leave.
• Chen Feng entered the pavilion, tidied it, and used the system to draw a lottery.
• The lottery brought Hu Tao to Chen Feng, and she recognized him as her master.
• Chen Feng explained Slaughter City and its opportunity to become a god, and Hu Tao offered to help him pursue it.
• Chen Feng shared food from his storage space and prepared to survive in Slaughter City with Hu Tao as his companion.

Chen Feng claimed another Genshin Treasure Chest in Slaughter City and summoned Xiao, who agreed to protect him. As Chen Feng’s victories made him famous as the Sword Demon Venerable, the King of Slaughter and his aide discussed the danger he posed and predicted that three Gods of Slaughter would appear.

• Chen Feng retrieved the treasure chest in Slaughter City and obtained ten Intertwined Fates.
• Chen Feng summoned Xiao, who promised to protect him, and Hu Tao recognized Xiao as the Conqueror of Demons.
• Chen Feng continued winning matches, encountered Hu Liena and Tang San without revealing his identity, and earned the name Sword Demon Venerable after surpassing seventy victories.
• The King of Slaughter and his aide discussed Chen Feng and the other rising fighters, then the King predicted that three Gods of Slaughter would appear.

After Chen Feng earned his seventy-second consecutive victory, the King of Slaughter tried to recruit him through the Black-Veiled Girl. Chen Feng revealed that he possessed a God of Slaughter’s Spirit Bone, but the King of Slaughter ordered a Slaughter Order against him, leaving Chen Feng targeted by Slaughter City.

• The King of Slaughter rejected a proposal to make the Asura King, the Hell Messenger, and Chen Feng fight, fearing the wrath of their Gods of Slaughter, and told the Black-Veiled Girl to assess whether Chen Feng could be useful.
• After Chen Feng won his seventy-second match, the Black-Veiled Girl invited him to join Slaughter City, but he refused and challenged her assumptions about his backing.
• Chen Feng claimed he had killed the God of Slaughter behind the Asura King and gave the Black-Veiled Girl that God’s Spirit Bone as proof.
• The Black-Veiled Girl brought the Spirit Bone to the King of Slaughter, who recognized it but questioned how Chen Feng obtained it.
• The King of Slaughter ordered a Slaughter Order against Chen Feng.

King of Slaughter issued a Slaughter Order against Chen Feng, drawing the people of Slaughter City into an attack on him. Chen Feng survived the ambush and slaughtered everyone in the district, vowing to destroy Slaughter City if he escaped.

• King of Slaughter told Black-Veiled Girl that he intended to kill Sword Demon Venerable and dismissed the threat of Chen Feng's alleged allies.
• After his match, Chen Feng sensed an ambush and dodged a barrage of hidden arrows.
• A burly man identified Chen Feng as the target of the Slaughter Order, and the crowd rushed to kill him for the promised rewards.
• Chen Feng used his Broken Sword to kill the first wave of attackers, then blocked daggers and spears as more assailants joined in.
• Chen Feng transformed into an armored warrior and unleashed his Soul Cannon, killing the attackers and clearing the entire district.

Chen Feng, Hu Tao, and Xiao fought off Slaughter City’s killers and guards after the city’s King issued a Slaughter Order against Chen Feng. Chen Feng destroyed Koster’s forces with his Plasma Cannon and declared that the times had changed.

• Xiao protected Chen Feng by cutting through the attackers who crowded around them.
• Hu Tao and Chen Feng discussed the armor Xianyun had given him before Hu Tao fought off another wave of killers.
• Terror Knight Koster arrived with over a hundred guards and explained that the King’s Slaughter Order offered a reward to whoever killed Chen Feng.
• Koster ordered his guards to attack, and they fired a rain of arrows at Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng used his Plasma Cannon to destroy the guards and reduce the surrounding area to ruins, then said, “Sorry, the times have changed.”

The King of Slaughter learned that two Soul Emperors could use soul skills in Slaughter City and ordered higher-ranking administrators to confront them. While fleeing the city’s hunters, Chen Feng realized the Hell Slaughter Arena’s rules could protect him, and entered a match to recover his Soul Power.

• The Black-Veiled Girl reported that two Soul Emperors beside Sword Demon Venerable had used soul skills and inflicted heavy casualties, so the King of Slaughter sent Soul Saint- and Soul Douluo-level administrators after them.
• Chen Feng, Xiao, and Hu Tao fought off waves of hunters until their Soul Power ran low, then took turns keeping watch and recovering.
• Chen Feng reasoned that the Hell Slaughter Arena’s rule against outside interference would limit his opponents to nine and give him a place to recover, so the group waited for dawn.
• Chen Feng registered for a match while Xiao and Hu Tao stayed safe from the hunters, who were only pursuing him.
• Nine contestants surrounded Chen Feng in the arena and planned to kill him before competing for an administrator position.
• Chen Feng summoned his armor, sat down, and began recovering his Soul Power while telling the nine contestants to fight among themselves first.

After recovering in his armor, Chen Feng killed the last Soul Saint in the Slaughter Arena and slaughtered the people who attacked him, using the danger to temper his swordsmanship. He was then ambushed by a group of Soul Saints and asked whether they were the administrators.

• The nine opponents could not harm Chen Feng, and after half a day they turned on one another until only a Soul Saint remained.
• Chen Feng recovered, blasted the surviving Soul Saint apart with his Plasma Cannon, and challenged the people of Slaughter City.
• Chen Feng dismissed his armor and cut through the attacking crowd with the Broken Sword and Ethereal Sword Technique.
• Chen Feng killed more than a hundred experts, leaving the battlefield covered in corpses and blood.
• A long spear ambushed Chen Feng, who evaded it and found black-clad figures at least at the Soul Saint realm surrounding him on the rooftops.
• Chen Feng asked the surrounding figures whether they were the administrators.

Chen Feng fought the administrators of Slaughter City beneath a blood moon and revealed that his power came from the Sword Dao rather than soul skills. After defeating several Soul Saints, he left one badly wounded and pinned to the ground with the Broken Sword.

• An administrator offered Chen Feng a chance to join Slaughter City, but Chen Feng refused, and the administrators attacked him.
• Chen Feng blasted the administrators away and wounded one with sword qi.
• Three Soul Saints charged Chen Feng, and he killed them with five flying swords.
• A Soul Saint questioned how Chen Feng could use his powers in Slaughter City, and Chen Feng explained that they came from his Sword Dao.
• One administrator ignited his sickle and attacked Chen Feng, but Chen Feng shattered the weapon and severed the Soul Saint's arm and leg.
• Chen Feng drove the Broken Sword into the Soul Saint's chest and pinned him to the ground.

Chen Feng comprehended the embryonic form of his Sword Domain through battle and fully manifested it, summoning swords throughout Slaughter City. The King of Slaughter recognized the threat and decided Chen Feng could not be allowed to live.

• Chen Feng recalled his grandfather's teachings and realized that battle might help him complete his understanding of the sword Dao.
• Chen Feng attacked and killed a Soul Saint with sword qi, then recognized the power he had awakened as the beginning of his Sword Domain.
• Chen Feng unleashed his Sword Domain, filling a vast area with interwoven sword qi and making swords throughout Slaughter City tremble.
• Chen Feng called the swords to him, drawing them into a torrent of sword qi that gathered around him.
• The King of Slaughter watched in horror as Chen Feng formed a domain, and he and the woman in black gauze agreed that Chen Feng had to die.

Chen Feng unleashed his Sword Domain and massacred the Soul Saints who had attacked him, then used a sword net to slaughter everyone in Slaughter City. As he surveyed the blood-red sky, a terrifying presence confronted him and challenged his belief that no one could stop him.

• Tang San sensed the chaos and saw sword qi crossing the sky, wondering whether it was a domain, while Hu Liena also watched in shock.
• Chen Feng's sword qi chased down the fleeing Soul Saints and killed them all.
• Chen Feng spread a vast sword net across Slaughter City and unleashed countless swords, slaughtering its inhabitants as they tried to flee.
• After everyone in Slaughter City had been killed, Chen Feng admired the crimson sky.
• A terrifying aura approached Chen Feng, and an unseen speaker asked whether he thought Slaughter City had no one left to oppose him.

The King of Slaughter arrived to punish Chen Feng for killing Slaughter City’s residents and quickly overwhelmed him in battle. Trapped and facing death, Chen Feng provoked the King by revealing that he had failed the Asura trial, then asked whether he was really Tang Chen.

• The King of Slaughter attacked Chen Feng with blood-red lightning and shattered his sword energies, blasting him into ruins.
• Hu Tao and Xiao arrived, and Xiao offered to hold off the King of Slaughter while Chen Feng escaped, but Chen Feng refused to abandon his companions.
• The King of Slaughter trapped Chen Feng in a dark-energy net and moved in to kill him.
• Chen Feng mocked the King of Slaughter as a failed Asura trial candidate and a slave of the Asura God.
• The King of Slaughter clutched his aching head as Chen Feng asked him who Tang Chen was.

Chen Feng confused the King of Slaughter by forcing Tang Chen’s memories to resurface, making him attack himself. The King of Slaughter recovered enough to pursue Chen Feng and the others, then cornered Chen Feng and declared him an enemy.

• Chen Feng questioned the King of Slaughter about Tang Chen, Bo Saixi, Qian Daoliu, and his past, while Hu Tao asked whether Chen Feng was trying to restore his memories.
• The King of Slaughter remembered that he was Tang Chen, then became confused again when Chen Feng framed Tang Chen and the King of Slaughter as each other’s enemies.
• Chen Feng led the King of Slaughter to conclude that he should kill himself, and the King of Slaughter struck his own chest before realizing Chen Feng had deceived him.
• Chen Feng, Xiao, and Hu Tao fled in separate directions, but the King of Slaughter unleashed a shockwave that injured them and pursued Chen Feng.
• The King of Slaughter’s killing intent overwhelmed Chen Feng, who fell and spat out blood, and the King of Slaughter decided Chen Feng was his enemy.

Chen Feng faced death at the King of Slaughter’s hands until the Broken Sword awakened its Sword Spirit and revealed the power of the long-departed Sword God. The Sword Spirit healed Chen Feng and chose him to inherit the Sword God’s legacy, but he still had to pass a trial.

• Chen Feng rose despite his grave injuries and resolved to fight rather than wait for death.
• The Broken Sword erupted with divine sword intent and black light, startling the King of Slaughter.
• A woman in black appeared and introduced herself to Chen Feng as the Broken Sword’s Sword Spirit, then healed his injuries and forced the King of Slaughter back.
• The Sword Spirit explained that the Broken Sword had belonged to the Sword God, who had left the world for other realms rather than ascend to the God Realm.
• The Sword Spirit told Chen Feng she had chosen him to carry on the Sword God’s legacy, but he had to pass a trial to inherit it.

The Sword Spirit used the Sword God’s Broken Sword to kill the King of Slaughter, then explained the first of the nine Sword God trials to Chen Feng. Chen Feng left needing to defeat a Soul Saint who could use their full abilities to prove himself.

• The Sword Spirit revealed that the Sword God had sealed three god-slaying strands of sword qi within her and restored the Broken Sword into a demonic sword.
• The Sword Spirit cut through the King of Slaughter’s defenses and split him in two with a single strike.
• The Sword Spirit told Chen Feng that the first Sword God trial required him, as a Soul Emperor, to kill a Soul Saint alone, and said his previous Slaughter City kills did not count because those Soul Saints could not use their soul skills.
• Xiao and Hu Tao arrived, confirmed Chen Feng was safe, and were shocked when he explained how the Sword Spirit had killed the King of Slaughter.
• The Sword Spirit explained that the Sword God’s power was unaffected by this world’s laws because he came from the Douluo World.

Hu Liena proposed that she and Tang San join forces to cross Hell Road, explaining that it granted the Divine Slaughter's Domain. Their conversation was interrupted when the Black-Veiled Girl summoned them both for an important message.

• Chen Feng told Hu Tao and Xiao that they would set out for Hell Road the next day to obtain the Genshin Treasure Chest and Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Hu Liena visited Tang San and asked him to cooperate with her when they challenged Hell Road.
• Tang San questioned Hu Liena's motives, and she revealed that she was from Spirit Hall and that her teacher was its current Pope.
• Hu Liena explained that Hell Road absorbed the blood and souls from the Hell Slaughter Arena and that surviving it could earn them the Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• The Black-Veiled Girl appeared and asked Tang San and Hu Liena to come with her for an important announcement.

The Black-Veiled Girl told Tang San and Hu Liena that the King of Slaughter had been killed by Sword Demon Venerable and offered them the chance to compete for his title. A diary revealed that the dead King was Tang Chen, Tang San’s great-grandfather, and Tang San realized that Sword Demon Venerable was Chen Feng, the man who killed his father.

• The Black-Veiled Girl brought Tang San and Hu Liena to the castle and announced that the King of Slaughter had died at Sword Demon Venerable’s hands.
• The Black-Veiled Girl named Tang San and Hu Liena the new Gods of Slaughter and said one of them would be chosen as the next King of Slaughter.
• Hu Liena and Tang San both declined the position, but the Black-Veiled Girl gave Tang San a box containing a Spirit Bone, a small hammer, and the King of Slaughter’s notebook.
• Tang San read the notebook and learned that the King of Slaughter was his great-grandfather, Tang Chen, who had regained his memories after seeing his father’s Spirit Bone.
• Tang San concluded that Sword Demon Venerable was Chen Feng, the man who had killed his father, and hatred surged within him.

Tang San learned that Chen Feng had killed Tang Chen and accepted the position of King of Slaughter to pursue the Asura God's trial and open Hell Road. As Tang San's ritual opened the road, Chen Feng, Hu Tao, and Xiao seized the chance to enter alongside Tang San and Hu Liena.

• Tang San learned that Chen Feng had killed Tang Chen and accepted the role of King of Slaughter so he could pursue the Asura God's trial.
• Tang San ordered Slaughter City to keep hunting Chen Feng and told Hu Liena that he would open Hell Road the next day.
• Chen Feng chose to go to the Hell Slaughter Arena with Hu Tao and Xiao, expecting to use the opening of Hell Road to enter.
• Tang San summoned the fallen ones and unleashed red light that drove them to tear themselves apart, causing their blood to form a pattern that opened Hell Road.
• Chen Feng, Hu Tao, and Xiao rushed into the red light as it swept up Tang San and Hu Liena, and all five disappeared.