Murong Huai looked at the wound on the Desolate Sun-Swallowing Demon's arm. It was a blood-red sword scar, radiating evil and killing intent.
"What strange power. It's both powerful and mysterious!"
Murong Huai reached out to touch it, but just as he was about to make contact, a wisp of blood-red energy seeped from the wound and surged toward him. A special energy inside Murong Huai instantly annihilated it, along with the energy on the Desolate Sun-Swallowing Demon's arm.
"This is divine power—a wicked, highly aggressive kind of divine power. A human's Martial Soul shouldn't be able to withstand it. I'm afraid the other party is wielding an artifact," Heavenly Condemnation said from the Sea of Consciousness.
"An artifact, a sword, evil, killing, aggression—and it vanished for no apparent reason in a town in the Western Border. A divine inheritor... could it be..."
Murong Huai thought of a place in the original story: a land steeped in evil and slaughter, full of the fallen—the Slaughter City!
Most of the people in the Slaughter City were wanted fugitives from the two empires and Spirit Hall. They were already steeped in sin, and after entering a city where killing was a way of life, their wicked thoughts only grew stronger.
The Slaughter City had been established by the Asura God King. In a sense, it was a trial through which he screened candidates for his inheritance. The gods who governed evil thoughts in the world were the Asura God King, the Rakshasa God, and the Evil God King.
The original story had never mentioned an inheritance from the Evil God King. If this was happening in the Slaughter City, then the divine inheritor could only be the Asura God or the Rakshasa God.
The Rakshasa God was a possibility because, when Tang