Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian told Yang Wudi he wanted to go to Slaughter City to break through a bottleneck in his self-created soul skill. Yang Wudi agreed to take him the next day and asked him to say goodbye to everyone first.

• Dugu Yan blushed as Dugu Bo teased her about Yang Jian, then turned away with a shy smile.
• Yang Jian returned to Yang Wudi’s residence after hunting a four-thousand-year-old Purple Mist Poison Spider with Dugu Yan.
• Yang Jian told Yang Wudi that his third spear move needed stronger killing intent and that Slaughter City was the best place to obtain it.
• Yang Wudi questioned whether Yang Jian had to go, but Yang Jian said a battlefield was an alternative and a war between the Star Luo Empire and Heaven Dou Empire was too far off.
• Yang Wudi accepted Yang Jian’s decision, said he would take him to Slaughter City the next day, and told him to say farewell to everyone.

Yang Jian told Bai Chenxiang, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling that he would leave to cultivate in seclusion. After sharing farewells with the first three, he told Ye Lingling, whose reaction remained unfinished.

• Yang Jian visited Bai Chenxiang and told her he would leave the next day to cultivate in seclusion, then kissed her and asked her to wait for him.
• Yang Jian visited Zhu Zhuqing and promised to take her to Star Luo to break off her engagement after he returned from seclusion, and she kissed him.
• Yang Jian told Dugu Yan he would be leaving, and she kissed him on the lips and asked him to come back early.
• Yang Jian visited Ye Lingling and told her he would cultivate in seclusion for a while; her hand paused, spilling tea across the table.

Yang Jian left the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well after telling Ye Lingling he would try to get to know her if he returned and her feelings remained. One month later, he reached the town near Slaughter City and confronted the tavern patrons, his six Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings appearing as the fight began.

• Ye Lingling confessed that she liked Yang Jian, and he said he would try to get to know her if he returned and her feelings had not changed.
• Yang Jian quietly left the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well alone the next morning without telling anyone the truth about Slaughter City.
• One month later, Yang Jian arrived in a small town and entered its tavern, where the patrons eyed him with hostility and greed.
• Yang Jian summoned his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear and asked whether anyone wanted to leave before he made his move.
• After the patrons mocked and threatened him, Yang Jian declared that he would take their lives and revealed six Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.

Yang Jian revealed his six Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and attacked the tavern’s criminals, killing their leader before fighting off the crowd. As the battle continued, the attackers struggled to land a hit, and one Soul Saint tried to escape through the back door.

• Yang Jian’s six Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings stunned the tavern crowd.
• Yang Jian killed the burly man with his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear and burned the body to ash.
• The criminals activated their Martial Souls and rushed Yang Jian together.
• Yang Jian used Space Leap to evade their attacks and kill several Soul Masters.
• A Soul Saint who had urged the others to attack crept toward the back door while Yang Jian continued fighting.

Yang Jian killed the fleeing Soul Saint and the tavern attendant after refusing to drink the Bloody Mary. He uncovered a hidden passage beneath the counter and jumped into the darkness below.

• Yang Jian pursued the Soul Saint and killed him with his spear and golden flames.
• Yang Jian refused the tavern attendant's demand to drink Bloody Mary and killed him by pinning him to the wall with his spear.
• Yang Jian destroyed the counter and used his Heavenly Eye to blast open the floor behind it.
• Yang Jian leaped into the pitch-black passage and fell through an invisible boundary.

Yang Jian entered Slaughter City and discovered a vast underground city beneath an eternal purple moon. A black-armored knight accused him of breaking the rules, but Yang Jian ignored the accusation and surveyed the city.

• Yang Jian descended a stone passage and sensed 100 Black Armor Warriors and a mounted knight waiting in the shadows.
• Yang Jian passed through a massive gate into a plaza where 101 black-armored figures stood in formation.
• The mounted black-armored knight told Yang Jian that he had broken the rules.
• Yang Jian ignored the knight and looked past the warriors at the city beneath the purple moon.

Yang Jian challenged Slaughter City’s claim to have rules, prompting Terror Knight Scott to attack him. Yang Jian defeated Scott with the second form of his Primordial Spear Art and left him pinned to the city wall.

• Yang Jian mocked Slaughter City’s rules, and Scott declared that Yang Jian would die for his disrespect.
• Scott charged Yang Jian on horseback with his lance, while the Black Armor Warriors cleared the plaza.
• Yang Jian summoned his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear and used Flying Star, a technique that did not rely on soul skills.
• Yang Jian’s spear struck Scott and his warhorse, hurling them into the city wall and pinning Scott through the abdomen.
• Yang Jian called the spear back into his hand as Scott remained wounded and unable to fight.

Yang Jian killed Terror Knight Scott with a single spear strike and walked through the terrified Black Armor Warriors toward Slaughter City's gate. He reached the gate and studied the marks left by those who had failed to escape.

• Scott fell from the wall, mortally wounded, as his blood seeped into the stone.
• Yang Jian walked away without looking back, dragging his spear across the square.
• The Black Armor Warriors recoiled from Yang Jian, then parted and bowed their heads to clear a path.
• Yang Jian crossed the square and reached Slaughter City's towering black gate.
• Yang Jian looked over the marks left on the gate by past escape attempts without changing his expression.

Yang Jian entered Slaughter City after killing Scott and demanded to go straight to the Hell Slaughter Arena. The black-veiled woman warned him about its danger, but Yang Jian mocked her advice, and she agreed to lead him there.

• The black-veiled young woman welcomed Yang Jian at the city gate after he killed Scott.
• Yang Jian entered Slaughter City and decided he would kill anyone who stood in his way.
• Yang Jian stopped the woman’s introduction and ordered her to take him to the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• The black-veiled woman warned Yang Jian that few people survived the arena and advised him to wait.
• Yang Jian mocked her for advising against slaughter, and she led him toward the arena.

As the black-veiled girl drew away, starving residents of the outer city swarmed Yang Jian, hoping to take his blood. Yang Jian raised his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear and unleashed the first form of the Primordial Spear Art, filling Slaughter City with golden light.

• The black-veiled girl quickened her pace toward the depths of the outer city, and Yang Jian followed her calmly.
• Starving residents emerged from the shadows and rushed toward Yang Jian, eager to drain his blood.
• The black-veiled girl stopped nearby and watched as the crowd closed in on Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian raised his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear and invoked the first form of the Primordial Spear Art, Follow the Waves.
• Golden light burst from Yang Jian like a blazing sun, illuminating Slaughter City.

Yang Jian effortlessly destroyed dozens of attackers with one strike, shocking the Black-Veiled Girl as she led him from the Outer City into the Inner City of Slaughter City. The chapter left Yang Jian entering the Inner City, where bright lights, luxury, and crowds stood in stark contrast to the Outer City.

• Yang Jian used the golden light of his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear to turn dozens of attackers into bone ash.
• Yang Jian asked the Black-Veiled Girl whether opponents in the Hell Slaughter Arena were stronger, and she assured him he would not be disappointed.
• The Black-Veiled Girl hurried Yang Jian onward as the frightened residents of the Outer City hid from him.
• After walking for over an hour, Yang Jian reached the open gate separating the Outer City from the Inner City.
• Yang Jian crossed into the Inner City and found its streets brightly lit, luxurious, crowded, and noisy.

Yang Jian entered the crowded Inner City and ignored the violence and cruelty unfolding around him, focused only on his purpose in Slaughter City. Led by the Black-Veiled Girl, he reached a vast plaza and saw a massive, fortress-like building at its center.

• Yang Jian entered the Inner City and found its streets packed with people engaged in open violence and debauchery.
• Yang Jian watched a wounded man flee from armed pursuers and passed a murdered woman without intervening.
• Yang Jian concluded that the residents had abandoned civilized restraints and continued onward without taking responsibility for them.
• The Black-Veiled Girl led Yang Jian along a quieter side street to a large circular plaza.
• Yang Jian saw an enormous black, cone-shaped building standing at the center of the plaza.

Yang Jian arrived at the Hell Slaughter Arena and learned that each match had no rules except that only one of ten entrants could survive. When he tried to obtain the required Bloody Mary from a burly bald man, the man attacked, and Yang Jian struck him down with golden beams from his eyes.

• The Black-Veiled Girl introduced the Hell Slaughter Arena and gave Yang Jian Identity Token 8972.
• The Black-Veiled Girl explained that Yang Jian needed a cup of Bloody Mary to enter and that he could use his own blood or someone else's.
• Yang Jian approached a burly bald man carrying Bloody Mary and demanded that he hand it over or let Yang Jian draw blood from him.
• The burly bald man summoned a serrated broadsword and attacked Yang Jian with Soul Power.
• Yang Jian's eyes shone like golden suns, and two beams pierced the burly bald man's forehead, stopping his sword before it reached Yang Jian.

Yang Jian killed Steel Skull with a glance and entered the Hell Slaughter Arena, where he registered for the next match. After the previous bout ended, several spectators left in sync, disappearing into the purple moonlight.

• Yang Jian caught the Bloody Mary and told the Black-Veiled Girl to go with him after Steel Skull died from a bloody hole between his brows.
• The Black-Veiled Girl led Yang Jian into the Hell Slaughter Arena, where he watched the last three fighters battle among seven corpses.
• Yang Jian poured the Bloody Mary into the arena's container and asked the Black-Veiled Girl to register him for the next match using his Identity Token, marked 8972.
• The final fighter survived, but staff dragged him away and cleared the arena as a mechanical announcement called out Yang Jian's number.
• Yang Jian took back his Identity Token and headed to the waiting area, noticing several spectators leave the arena together without looking back.

Yang Jian entered the Hell Slaughter Arena and faced nine contestants who targeted him as an inexperienced newcomer. He annihilated them with a Self-Created Soul Skill, leaving the spectators to declare that Slaughter City was about to change.

• Yang Jian entered the Hell Slaughter Arena and was singled out by the other nine contestants as an easy target.
• When the match began, all nine contestants charged at Yang Jian while the spectators mocked him.
• Yang Jian unleashed the First Form of the Primordial Spear Art, Follow the Waves, with his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear.
• The golden blast killed all nine attackers and reduced them to piles of bone ash, while Yang Jian remained unharmed.
• The spectators recognized Yang Jian's technique as a Self-Created Soul Skill and exclaimed that Slaughter City was about to change.

Yang Jian left the Hell Slaughter Arena after killing nine opponents and found the previous match’s victor murdered outside. He chose a nearby building as his new lodging, but discovered someone was inside when he opened the door.

• Yang Jian killed nine people with one strike, ignored the arena’s spectators, and left the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Yang Jian found the previous match’s victor dead outside, with his left arm torn off and his blood drained.
• Yang Jian walked through the Inner City, where passersby watched him warily, and searched for a place to stay near the arena.
• Yang Jian chose a two-story stone building and gently opened its ajar front door rather than kicking it in.
• Yang Jian heard panting and moaning from upstairs, smelled stale air inside, and noticed that a window had been nailed shut with iron spikes.

Yang Jian entered Blood Butcher’s building and ordered him to leave, ignoring the onlookers who expected the veteran fighter to kill him. Blood Butcher attacked Yang Jian by transforming into a shadow, and the chapter ended as he re-formed in midair with his arms extended.

• Yang Jian pulled out the nails sealing a window and opened it to clear the stale air from the building.
• People outside watched Yang Jian enter and predicted that Blood Butcher would kill him, noting his record of thirty-four consecutive victories.
• Yang Jian sensed the people upstairs and found Blood Butcher emerging from behind the bed curtains, with a woman watching from the bed.
• Yang Jian told Blood Butcher, “I'm taking this place. If you know what's good for you, leave on your own.”
• Blood Butcher laughed, transformed into a black shadow, and lunged at Yang Jian before re-forming in midair with his arms extended.

Yang Jian killed Blood Butcher with a single spear strike after disrupting his attack with a look. The seductive woman upstairs then approached Yang Jian and flirted with him.

• Blood Butcher launched a lethal attack on Yang Jian with his claws and level seventy-nine Soul Power.
• Yang Jian met Blood Butcher's gaze, briefly disrupting his mind, then swung his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear.
• Yang Jian severed Blood Butcher's head before his claws could reach him.
• The woman upstairs suppressed a scream, then reassessed Yang Jian and walked toward him.
• The woman praised Yang Jian and asked whether he was as amazing in another way.

Yang Jian rejected a woman who tried to seduce him and ordered her to remove Blood Butcher’s corpse. After she left, he displayed Blood Butcher’s head as a warning, shut the doors, and went upstairs.

• Yang Jian told the woman to leave, and she hurried downstairs after realizing he was serious.
• Yang Jian stopped the woman and ordered her to drag Blood Butcher’s corpse outside.
• The woman carried Blood Butcher’s headless body out of the room.
• Yang Jian kicked Blood Butcher’s head onto a nail by the door as a warning to the street.
• Yang Jian shut the doors with a gust of air and went up to the second floor.

Yang Jian inspected the rooms in Blood Butcher’s house, chose a clean one to settle in, and cultivated the killing aura he had absorbed. During his first three days in Slaughter City, he entered three Hell Slaughter Arena matches and killed every opponent.

• Yang Jian searched the second floor and chose a small, clean room at the end of the corridor.
• Yang Jian used Soul Power to clean the room, then sat down to cultivate with the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear across his knees.
• Yang Jian circulated the killing aura he had gained from his recent killings and merged it with his Soul Power.
• Yang Jian entered three Hell Slaughter Arena matches during his first three days in Slaughter City and wiped out his opponents in each.
• Eight fighters teamed up against Yang Jian in his second match, while one fighter was stabbed by an ally before he could declare his position.