Chapter Summaries

Lin Xiao entered Slaughter City, learned of the Bloody Mary’s danger, and discovered the system could absorb it to strengthen the Asura Demon Sword. When a gang of men threatened him, Li Bai cut off their leader’s hand, leaving the men ready to attack.

• Lin Xiao questioned a dying old man, who warned him to flee and cried that the God of Slaughter had descended before turning to ashes.
• Lin Xiao entered a tavern and sensed that Bloody Mary contained blood and the spirits of the dead.
• Lin Xiao drank a cup of Bloody Mary, which the system absorbed as nourishment for the Asura Demon Sword, and asked for two more cups.
• A burly man killed the attendant who refused to serve Lin Xiao more Bloody Mary, then threatened Lin Xiao and boasted about abusing children.
• When the burly man reached for Lin Xiao’s mask, Li Bai cut off his hand with the Green Lotus Sword, and the wounded man ordered his companions to kill them.

Lin Xiao and Li Bai entered Slaughter City’s hidden domain and reached its palace, where commander Trist challenged them for violating the city’s rules. Lin Xiao faced Trist’s charge, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Lin Xiao ordered Li Bai to kill the tavern’s attackers, then had Li Bai kill the burly man who confessed to murdering hundreds.
• Lin Xiao broke through the tavern floor and entered the domain beneath Slaughter City, with Li Bai merging into his body.
• Lin Xiao traveled through the blood-red domain, freezing undead that attacked him while the others fled.
• Lin Xiao reached a palace guarded by Trist and several hundred soldiers, and Trist demanded that Lin Xiao defeat him to enter.
• Trist charged Lin Xiao on his Blood-sweating Horse, confident that his ability to use soul skills would let him defeat the Titled Douluo.

Lin Xiao killed Trist with his feather fan and entered Slaughter City, where he rejected the Slaughter Emissary’s protection and headed for the slaughter matches. A terrifying skull appeared and identified itself as Slaughter City’s master, recognizing Lin Xiao’s artifact and suspecting he carried the Asura God King’s bloodline.

• Lin Xiao used his feather fan to kill the greedy Trist, and the guards let him pass without attacking.
• The Slaughter Emissary welcomed Lin Xiao and warned him about Slaughter City’s dangers, but he demanded to enter the main city and join the slaughter matches.
• Lin Xiao kicked the Slaughter Emissary aside and walked into the outer city; when she tried to strike him, a blood-red force blasted her back into the ruins.
• A massive skull appeared in the sky and asked Lin Xiao’s name, while only Lin Xiao could hear its voice.
• The skull called itself Slaughter City’s master, dismissed Lin Xiao’s divine artifact as ordinary, and asked whether his aura came from the Asura God King’s bloodline.

Lin Xiao learned that a mysterious divine sense in Slaughter City wanted him to uncover a hidden reward on Hell Road. He entered the city’s death-match arena and began his first battle, where his Green Lotus Sword killed two opponents at once.

• A skull told Lin Xiao that Hell Road would test him and might grant him something, but refused to reveal its identity or purpose.
• The King of Slaughter watched the encounter and ordered the Slaughter Emissary to take Lin Xiao to Slaughter City’s main district.
• The Slaughter Emissary explained that Lin Xiao needed to win a hundred consecutive matches to attempt Hell Road, and Lin Xiao registered for the competition.
• Lin Xiao entered the arena against nine Soul Elders, who mistook Liu Yi for a powerless child and decided to attack together.
• Lin Xiao summoned his Green Lotus Sword and carved a ravine through the arena, killing two opponents.

Lin Xiao won his 9,325th Slaughter City arena match by killing his opponents, then refused hundreds of people seeking his protection. When Soul King fighters attacked him, he slaughtered them until a blood-robed old man arrived.

• Lin Xiao killed the remaining Soul Elders in the arena and won his 9,325th match.
• Several hundred people asked Lin Xiao to accept them as followers, but he refused and warned them to leave.
• Dozens of Soul King-level Soul Masters attacked Lin Xiao, and he killed them as chaos spread through Slaughter City's main city.
• A blood-red beam shot into the sky, and an old man in a blood-red robe appeared before the crowd.

Lin Xiao defeated the Blood Robe Elder despite being unable to use soul skills, and Tang Chen ordered Slaughter City’s residents not to attack him. Lin Xiao later told Wang Zhaojun, Hou Yi, and Li Bai that their goal was to uncover a hidden secret in Slaughter City.

• The Blood Robe Elder attacked Lin Xiao after warning him to stop killing in Slaughter City, but Lin Xiao survived his strongest strike with the help of a golden feather fan.
• Tang Chen ordered everyone to leave Lin Xiao alone, and Lin Xiao warned Tang Chen to keep his subordinates under control before disappearing.
• The Slaughter Emissary asked Tang Chen why he had struck her, and Tang Chen explained Lin Xiao’s Three-life Martial Souls, his strength in the battle at Spirit Hall, and his connection to the Asura God King.
• Lin Xiao discussed their situation with Wang Zhaojun, Hou Yi, and Li Bai, then said their true goal was to find something hidden in Slaughter City.
• Lin Xiao explained that Slaughter City was a Soul Tool containing an unknown secret and suspected the senior from Nine Palaces Hall had sent them there for a reason.

A sudden riot swept Slaughter City, and Lin Xiao rescued the injured Hu Liena while discovering that the city’s vicious aura was driving its residents to kill. Lin Xiao and Hu Liena realized they needed to escape, and he suspected the senior from Nine Palaces Hall had sent him to uncover a secret.

• Lin Xiao awoke to widespread fighting in Slaughter City and found the streets filled with people attacking one another for Bloody Mary.
• Hu Liena fled into Lin Xiao’s room, pursued by a Soul Douluo and nine Soul Saints, and collapsed after asking him for help.
• Lin Xiao killed the ten pursuers with the Green Lotus Sword and absorbed their blood and energy.
• After heavy rain halted the riot, Hu Liena woke and explained that her head spirit bone had helped her resist the power urging her to kill.
• Lin Xiao learned Hu Liena still had more than fifty matches left and warned her to keep the riot’s cause secret as they considered how to leave Slaughter City.
• Lin Xiao suspected the senior from Nine Palaces Hall had sent him to Slaughter City to uncover its hidden secret.

The Blood Demon Emperor changed Slaughter City's rules and announced a ten-day countdown to Hell Road, provoking widespread slaughter as its inhabitants fought for a chance to escape with its treasures. When Hell Road opened, Lin Xiao recognized the Blood Demon Emperor and entered with Hu Liena.

• The Blood Demon Emperor appeared above Slaughter City, allowed soul skills, and announced that Hell Road would open in ten days with Divine Slaughter's Domain and a crucial treasure as rewards.
• Slaughter City's inhabitants began killing one another, while the King of Slaughter attacked the skull and later disappeared from the palace.
• Hu Liena told Lin Xiao that soul skills had turned the weaker residents into targets and that challengers had confronted the King of Slaughter; Lin Xiao told her to stay with him until Hell Road opened.
• Three days later, the Blood Demon Emperor appeared at the arena and declared that anyone who escaped Hell Road could claim the treasures.
• As the crowd rushed into Hell Road, Lin Xiao told Hu Liena to go down with him.

Lin Xiao and Hu Liena entered Hell Road, where they faced a deadly bat trial and a Three-headed Evil Dragon. The survivors were left confronting the dragon as Lin Xiao warned them of its enhanced strength.

• Lin Xiao woke Hu Liena and led her along Hell Road, where they found the remains of people who had died there.
• A swarm of bats attacked the travelers, and Lin Xiao incinerated the bats that approached him with a blood-red shockwave.
• The Blood Demon Emperor announced that the first trial required killing every bat, while several travelers used soul skills to fight the swarm.
• Lin Xiao told Hu Liena that the Titled Douluo were concealing their strength and letting others waste their Soul Power.
• The bats vanished and an enormous Three-headed Evil Dragon attacked, killing several exhausted travelers as Lin Xiao warned Hu Liena that Bloody Mary had greatly strengthened it.

Lin Xiao and Hu Liena survived the first trial and entered Hell Road, where extreme heat drained the challengers’ Soul Power and killed thousands. When a Peerless Douluo’s men tried to stop Lin Xiao, he killed one of them, but the old man let Lin Xiao and Hu Liena pass.

• The Three-Headed Flame Dragon defeated the Title Douluo before a Level 95 Title Douluo finally killed it, advancing the survivors to the second trial.
• Lin Xiao led Hu Liena down Hell Road and warned her to keep her Soul Power within her martial soul to resist the heat’s draining effect.
• Thousands of challengers died from the heat, while a Level 99 Peerless Douluo noticed Lin Xiao appeared unaffected and sent a Level 93 Title Douluo to stop him.
• Lin Xiao killed the Title Douluo with a single strike after the man attacked him.
• The Peerless Douluo confronted Lin Xiao but chose to let him and Hu Liena continue, despite his followers demanding revenge.

Lin Xiao and Hu Liena faced the demigod-level Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent in Hell Road after it killed most of a group of Title Douluo. With the way forward sealed, Lin Xiao agreed to join forces with the surviving Peerless Douluo to kill the beast and escape.

• The Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent emerged from the magma and killed two Title Douluo, including a peak Level 98 expert.
• Lin Xiao grabbed Hu Liena and fled, explaining that the serpent was a primordial soul beast that had reached demigod level.
• The surviving Level 99 Peerless Douluo escaped the flames as Slaughter City's voice announced that killing the serpent was the only way to survive the trial.
• Lin Xiao and Hu Liena found the road ahead replaced by a sea of Bloody Mary, leaving only them and the Peerless Douluo alive.
• The Peerless Douluo asked Lin Xiao to join forces against the serpent, and Lin Xiao agreed, assigning the elder to restrain it while he attacked.

Lin Xiao and a black-clad old man attacked the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent on Hell Road. Lin Xiao took over the fight and pinned the wounded beast to the stone bridge, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Lin Xiao told the black-clad old man that the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s back tumors were its weakness and sealed Hu Liena inside a protective restriction.
• The black-clad old man struck one of the beast’s tumors with his Black Dragon Attack, but the serpent knocked his dragon aside and nearly sent him into the lava.
• Lin Xiao saved the black-clad old man and faced the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent with the Asura Demon Sword.
• Lin Xiao unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar, wounded the serpent, and severed its tail.
• Lin Xiao appeared on the serpent’s forehead and drove the Asura Demon Sword into its head, pinning it to the stone bridge.

Lin Xiao outmaneuvered the black-robed old man during the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s attack, exposing the King of Slaughter hidden inside him. Tang Chen emerged and questioned Lin Xiao about how he had sensed his presence and why Slaughter City’s rules had changed.

• Lin Xiao drew the Asura Demon Sword and vanished, leaving the black-robed old man in the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s attack range.
• The old man begged Lin Xiao to save him, but Lin Xiao said the being inside him did not intend to let him live.
• The old man’s shield shattered, and a blood-red beam blasted the serpent away as his blood was drained and his body disappeared.
• A blood-red seed expanded into Tang Chen, the King of Slaughter, who asked Lin Xiao how he had discovered him.
• Lin Xiao explained that he had noticed Tang Chen’s aura vanish before Hell Road and inferred that Tang Chen had kept the old man alive to absorb the serpent.
• Tang Chen admitted Lin Xiao was right, then accused him of coming from the God Realm and causing Slaughter City’s rules to change.

Lin Xiao, Tang Chen, and Hu Liena passed Hell Road, and the Blood Demon Emperor sent them into separate trials in the Rakshasa Void. Lin Xiao met the Blood Demon Emperor, who revealed that he had arranged the trials because he wanted to obtain a divine seat.

• The Asura God King suspected Lin Xiao had changed Slaughter City’s rules, but the blood-red skull warned that only three people could leave alive if they worked together.
• The King of Slaughter killed the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, and Lin Xiao seized its inner core before Tang Chen could claim it.
• Lin Xiao, Tang Chen, and Hu Liena passed the trial and entered the Rakshasa Void, where they were sent into separate spaces to cross a hundred li of Rakshasa attacks.
• Lin Xiao found that the altered space allowed only one person and one martial soul to exist at a time, so Li Bai could not manifest.
• The Blood Demon Emperor recognized the bloodline of Lin Xiao’s grandfather, Lin Tianqi, and told Lin Xiao that he wanted to obtain a divine seat.

The Blood Demon Emperor revealed that he intended to pass his deity to Lin Xiao and explained how the Nine Palaces Hall had betrayed him and left him trapped in Slaughter City. He urged Lin Xiao to inherit his power and avenge him, while warning that the Nine Palaces Hall was pursuing a hidden plan.

• The Blood Demon Emperor told Lin Xiao that he had arranged Slaughter City's changes so Lin Xiao alone would inherit his deity.
• The Blood Demon Emperor recounted how the Nine Palaces Hall had ambushed him millions of years earlier, forcing him to sever his cultivation and leaving him unable to return to the God Emperor realm.
• The Blood Demon Emperor explained that Lin Xiao's Asura Bloodline could combine with his slaughter domain and asked Lin Xiao to become the new Blood Demon Emperor and avenge him.
• The Blood Demon Emperor warned Lin Xiao that the Nine Palaces Hall was plotting something and would target him if he learned too much.
• The Blood Demon Emperor explained that a restraint kept him in Slaughter City and that the Nine Palaces Hall would kill him if he returned to the God Realm.

Lin Xiao received the Blood Demon Emperor’s promise that he could inherit his divine position after reaching the demigod realm, then left Slaughter City for Sea God Island. There, he found Bo Saixi in the middle of inheriting the Sea God’s divine position and agreed to wait until she could be disturbed.

• The Blood Demon Emperor chose Lin Xiao as his successor and told him to return to Slaughter City after reaching the demigod realm, giving him one hundred years.
• The Blood Demon Emperor teleported Lin Xiao to Sea God Island, and Divine Slaughter's Domain merged into Lin Xiao’s body as he departed.
• Lin Xiao arrived at Sea God Island and greeted Sea God Poseidon, who recognized him and praised his strength.
• Poseidon told Lin Xiao that Bo Saixi was inheriting the Sea God’s divine position and could not be disturbed.
• Lin Xiao sensed Bo Saixi’s powerful aura within Sea God Hall and understood that she was undergoing the inheritance.

Lin Xiao returned to Blue Sea Academy at Sea God Poseidon’s suggestion and reunited with its students and teachers. After learning that Meng Yao was Sea Dragon Douluo’s granddaughter, he said he would stay at the academy for a few days while Sea God Island’s Great High Priest inherited her godhood.

• Lin Xiao flew to Blue Sea Academy, where the students recognized him as a Titled Douluo who had returned after years away.
• Lin Xiao praised Camille’s progress to Soul King and encouraged him to aim to become a guardian of Sea God Island.
• Lin Xiao met Meng Yao, learned she was Sea Dragon Douluo’s granddaughter, and praised her talent.
• Teacher Shui Ning greeted Lin Xiao and told him that several classes had graduated since he left.
• Lin Xiao said he had returned to see the Great High Priest but would stay at the academy for a few days while she inherited her godhood.

Lin Xiao rested on Sea God Island and discussed pursuing divine inheritances and future enemies with Li Bai, Wang Zhaojun, and Hou Yi. Sea Horse Douluo then visited and invited Lin Xiao to have a drink with someone who wanted to see him.

• Shui Ning arranged a private room for Lin Xiao, and he began cultivating there after she and the students left.
• Li Bai suggested Lin Xiao undergo the Sea God's Light trials, and Lin Xiao said he would take the assessment after resting.
• Lin Xiao told Li Bai, Wang Zhaojun, and Hou Yi that they would seek the Clear Sky Sect's map fragment and pursue divine inheritances to grow stronger.
• Li Bai proposed killing Qian Daoliu and the Angel clan, but Wang Zhaojun warned that Spirit Hall would be difficult to defeat.
• Sea Horse Douluo visited Lin Xiao, advised him not to spend all his time cultivating, and invited him for a drink with someone who wanted to see him.

Lin Xiao met Sea God Island’s Sacred Pillar Guardians and learned that an assault blamed on Spirit Hall had killed many islanders, including Sea Star Douluo’s grandson. He promised to investigate who was responsible before deciding whether Sea God Island would retaliate against Spirit City.

• Sea Horse Douluo led Lin Xiao to a hotel, where Sea Dragon Douluo and the other Sacred Pillar Guardians welcomed him and explained they had gathered to discuss the attack on Sea God Island.
• Sea Phantom Douluo showed Lin Xiao an image of Qian Daoliu striking him at Spirit Hall and reported that Spirit Hall had sent experts to attack Sea God Island after Lin Xiao was rescued.
• The Guardians told Lin Xiao that Sea God Island had lost two Soul Douluo and one Titled Douluo, and Sea Dragon Douluo said they wanted to retaliate against Spirit Hall.
• Sea Phantom Douluo showed images of black-robed attackers massacring civilians, while Sea Dragon Douluo revealed that the attackers had concealed their martial souls and might not have been from Spirit Hall.
• Sea Star Douluo demanded an attack on Spirit City, but Lin Xiao promised to investigate first and retaliate only if Spirit Hall was truly responsible.

Lin Xiao calmed Sea Star Douluo and promised to uncover who attacked Sea God Island before seeking revenge. He received the God-level Seven Trials, beginning with a two-year challenge to climb four hundred steps under tenfold Sea God's Light.

• Sea Star Douluo accused Spirit Hall of attacking Sea God Island and demanded revenge, but Lin Xiao insisted they first identify the force responsible.
• Sea Star Douluo revealed that the attack had killed his grandson and daughter-in-law and left his son gravely injured, then begged Lin Xiao to find the culprit.
• Lin Xiao promised to help Sea God Island reclaim its honor and asked the Sacred Pillar Guardians to protect the island while he underwent the Sea God's trials without Soul Power.
• The seven Sacred Pillars activated the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar, and Lin Xiao received the God-level Seven Trials from Sea God Poseidon.
• Poseidon announced that Lin Xiao had thirty years to complete the trials and must climb four hundred steps of tenfold Sea God's Light within two years.