Recaps

Xue Wuhen and Yuan Sha introduced themselves before the Arena battle, each claiming the other’s demonic power would be useful to devour or refine. Yuan Sha dismissed Xue Wuhen’s nine demonic flame dragons and unleashed his own primordial demonic aura, leaving the fight poised to begin.

• Xue Wuhen introduced himself to Yuan Sha, who called himself the Devil Ancestor and mocked Xue Wuhen as a Demonic Cultivator.
• Xue Wuhen and Yuan Sha each said they would refine or devour the other to improve their cultivation.
• Xue Wuhen stepped forward and summoned nine immense demonic flame dragons formed from the grievances of refined living beings.
• Yuan Sha laughed at the dragons, then warned Xue Wuhen that they were inferior to his primordial Demonic Dao Laws.
• Yuan Sha stepped forward and released a wave of scorching demonic qi that dimmed the Arena’s restrictions and ignited the Saintly Breath particles.

Yuan Sha attacked Xue Wuhen with the demonic path’s origin, forcing Xue Wuhen to defend with a bone wall. As Yuan Sha overwhelmed the wall, Xue Wuhen summoned his Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

• Xue Wuhen sensed the pure demonic power in Yuan Sha and recognized it as the legendary Devil Ancestor’s origin.
• Yuan Sha rushed toward Xue Wuhen and struck at him with a palm layered in demonic laws.
• Xue Wuhen summoned a bone wall with his bone pendant to block Yuan Sha’s attack.
• Yuan Sha shattered many faces on the wall and swallowed their spiritual attack with his demonic will.
• Xue Wuhen revealed the Ten Thousand Souls Banner as Yuan Sha continued crushing the bone wall.

Xue Wuhen unleashed the Ten Thousand Souls Banner against Yuan Sha, but Yuan Sha’s demonic Dao powers consumed the spirits with ease. Xue Wuhen finally recognized the threat and began taking the fight seriously.

• Xue Wuhen shook the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, plunging the Arena into darkness.
• Xue Wuhen sent a vast tide of refined souls and powerful cultivators’ remnants toward Yuan Sha.
• Yuan Sha fired a dark-red beam that incinerated the spirits and destroyed the cultivators’ remnants.
• Yuan Sha walked through the remaining soul tide, melting any spirits that came close and tasting a few soul-threads.
• Xue Wuhen watched Yuan Sha’s display and acknowledged the strength of the demonic Dao origin.

Xue Wuhen summoned the Resentment God from his Ten Thousand Souls Banner to fight Yuan Sha. Yuan Sha met its attacks head-on and shattered the resentment spikes embedded in him, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Xue Wuhen activated the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and summoned a thirty-zhang Resentment God.
• Yuan Sha praised the Resentment God as worthy prey, covered himself in flowing magma armor, and charged it.
• The Resentment God struck at Yuan Sha with its palms, but Yuan Sha punched through them and damaged its resentment shell.
• The Resentment God sent countless resentment spikes at Yuan Sha, piercing his armor and draining his vitality and demonic energy.
• Yuan Sha crushed one spike and unleashed ghostly green flames from his Bone Spikes, breaking the remaining spikes into black powder.

Yuan Sha shattered Xue Wuhen’s Resentment God and resisted his Purgatory Blood Formation with his innate Demonic Dao Origin. Xue Wuhen sacrificed his blood essence and then pierced his chest with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to unleash its Myriad Souls Return to One technique.

• Yuan Sha poured Demonic Dao Origin into the Resentment God, burning away its resentful souls until it shrank to a broken mass.
• Xue Wuhen confronted Yuan Sha over the destruction of the Resentment God, and Yuan Sha claimed his innate Demonic Dao made him a rank above Xue Wuhen.
• Xue Wuhen sacrificed thirty percent of his blood essence and his refined law fragments to form the Purgatory Blood Formation around Yuan Sha.
• Yuan Sha advanced through the formation, replenishing his Demonic Dao Origin faster than the formation could erode it.
• Xue Wuhen drove the Ten Thousand Souls Banner into his left chest, feeding it his heartblood essence and invoking Myriad Souls Return to One.

Xue Wuhen burned the souls in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to unleash Ten Thousand Souls Possession and wounded Yuan Sha. Yuan Sha explained how his Dao of Digestion could turn resentment into nourishment, but Xue Wuhen launched a powerful attack, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Xue Wuhen burned the remaining souls in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and transformed with Ten Thousand Souls Possession.
• Xue Wuhen struck Yuan Sha with a palm blade, cutting deeply into his arm.
• Yuan Sha ate the wounded flesh and used his Demonic Dao Origin to destroy the resentment, then explained that Xue Wuhen's power would weaken as he used up souls.
• Xue Wuhen used Space Rend Slash to attack Yuan Sha with ten black blades from every direction.
• Yuan Sha blocked with his Bone Spikes and Demonic Dao Origin armor, but the blades shattered his Bone Spikes and struck his body.

Yuan Sha endured Xue Wuhen’s attacks and transformed into his Devil Ancestor True Body, first form, greatly increasing his power. He launched a sudden strike at Xue Wuhen, who had little soul power left.

• Six wounds tore across Yuan Sha’s body, but he grinned and praised Xue Wuhen’s attack.
• Yuan Sha shed his cracked outer body and revealed his Devil Ancestor True Body, first form, saying its use burned ten thousand years of Demonic Dao Origin.
• Xue Wuhen sensed Yuan Sha’s pressure multiply and realized he could transform again.
• Yuan Sha rushed at Xue Wuhen and slammed a crystal-armored fist into his abdomen.

Yuan Sha defeated Xue Wuhen after withstanding his final attack, leaving Xue Wuhen battered and kneeling. Yuan Sha praised him as the strongest Demonic Cultivator he had fought.

• Yuan Sha sent Xue Wuhen crashing into a Coiling Dragon Pillar with a punch, shattering two of his demonic wings.
• Xue Wuhen forced himself to stand and gathered the last of his soul power into a final attack against Yuan Sha.
• Yuan Sha punched through the black ball of light, surviving the blast with cracked armor and a minor wound.
• Xue Wuhen's remaining wings shattered, and he collapsed to his knees as he realized his attack was not enough.
• Yuan Sha approached Xue Wuhen and praised him as the strongest Demonic Cultivator he had fought.

Xue Wuhen explained how he had become a Demonic Cultivator before Yuan Sha killed him in the Arena. The cultivators of Origin Continent honored Xue Wuhen for dying to protect them, while Yuan Sha left the Arena.

• Xue Wuhen said he had first refined only the dead and blamed others for forcing him into his later cruelty.
• Yuan Sha told Xue Wuhen he had chosen the wrong path and should not have cared about morality or others' opinions.
• Xue Wuhen thanked Yuan Sha for his guidance, and Yuan Sha killed him with a punch.
• The cultivators of Origin Continent paid their respects to Xue Wuhen for dying for them.
• A cultivator said Yuan Sha was so powerful that even he might not have been able to defeat him.

After another defeat, Yun Qiyue and Nangong Yue worried that Ye Lin might not be able to withstand the increasingly powerful Chaos Ancient Clan fighters, while Ye Lin eagerly awaited his turn. The next draw selected number twenty-four, and a monk known as Blood Knife Buddha, Blood Chan Zi, stepped forward.

• The great battle ended with another loss, including a Demonic Cultivator and an entire great state, leaving the crowd dispirited.
• Yun Qiyue watched the fighters and worried that Ye Lin would struggle against the stronger Chaos Ancient Clan experts.
• Nangong Yue, recovering from her own hard-won victory, wondered whether Ye Lin could survive his Arena match.
• Ye Lin waited impatiently for his turn, confident that he could face the Chaos Ancient Clan fighters.
• The draw selected number twenty-four, and Blood Chan Zi stepped forward with a bloodstained chopping blade and recited a Buddhist invocation.

Blood Chan Zi was recognized for slaughtering the Buddhist Sect’s young cultivators in the Western Region, and the Chaos Ancient Clan chose Blood Slaughter to face him. Blood Slaughter entered the Arena and stood opposite Blood Chan Zi.

• Cultivators recognized Blood Chan Zi and discussed his massacre of the Buddhist Sect’s younger generation in the Western Region.
• A Chaos Ancient Clan cultivator declared he would kill Blood Chan Zi and stepped out from the clan’s ranks.
• The armored warrior introduced himself as Blood Slaughter.
• Blood Slaughter and Blood Chan Zi faced each other on the Arena.

Blood Slaughter and Blood Chan Zi prepared to fight in the Arena, while spectators on both sides confidently anticipated a fierce battle. The chapter ended as Blood Chan Zi raised his cleaver and stepped toward Blood Slaughter.

• The Chaos Ancient Clan’s powerhouses expressed confidence that Blood Slaughter would win.
• Origin Continent cultivators discussed Blood Chan Zi’s strength and his reputation for slaughtering Western Region Buddhism’s younger generation.
• Blood Chan Zi politely invited Blood Slaughter to make the first move, and Blood Slaughter accepted.
• Blood Slaughter lifted his giant axe, causing the Arena’s restrictions to snap and plasma to strike the stone floor.
• Blood Chan Zi invoked a Buddhist name, transformed the sky with golden and dark red light, and raised his cleaver toward Blood Slaughter.

Blood Chan Zi and Blood Slaughter clashed in the Arena, where Blood Slaughter’s powerful axe strike broke through Blood Chan Zi’s Buddha-light defense and wounded his palm. Blood Chan Zi praised the axe as the duel continued.

• Blood Chan Zi took a step and manifested a towering Buddha phantom that spread dark crimson Buddha light across the Arena.
• Blood Slaughter criticized Blood Chan Zi’s apparent compassion and raised his blood-wrapped Double-Edged Great Axe.
• Blood Slaughter brought the axe down, cleaving through the Buddha light with a dark crimson strike.
• Blood Chan Zi met the strike with a Blood-Colored Buddha Light Disc, but the impact shattered its diagram and cut his palm.
• Blood Chan Zi examined his wound, praised Blood Slaughter’s axe, and remarked that dying beneath it would be a kind of blessed fate.

Blood Chan Zi and Blood Slaughter clashed in the Arena, their blood-imbued weapons colliding under the force of their opposing attacks. Blood Chan Zi slipped past Blood Slaughter’s pressure and scratched his breastplate, making him falter briefly.

• Blood Chan Zi praised his bloodstained cleaver and revealed that its blade bore a line from the Diamond Sutra formed from congealed blood.
• Blood Slaughter mocked Blood Chan Zi and charged at him with his Double-Edged Great Axe.
• Blood Chan Zi met Blood Slaughter’s attack with a sweeping cleaver strike, and their weapons unleashed shockwaves across the Arena.
• Blood Slaughter’s axe pressed down on Blood Chan Zi’s blade, and its malice began to corrupt Blood Chan Zi’s Saintly Breath.
• Blood Chan Zi turned aside under the axe’s pressure and scored a shallow scratch across Blood Slaughter’s breastplate, briefly disrupting his step.

Blood Slaughter countered Blood Chan Zi’s karmic blade by transforming his armor with the blood of his victims. Blood Chan Zi closed his eyes and formed the Buddhist Rebirth Seal as the battle continued.

• Blood Chan Zi explained that the karma on his blade was spreading through Blood Slaughter’s armor and would eventually make it collapse.
• Blood Slaughter tore away a corroded piece of armor and claimed his own accumulated karma far exceeded Blood Chan Zi’s.
• Blood Slaughter struck his breastplate with his axe, using blood to form a heavier suit of armor covered in the faces of his victims.
• Blood Chan Zi watched the faces without faltering, closed his eyes, and changed his hand seal to the Buddhist Rebirth Seal.

Blood Chan Zi admitted that his supposed compassion masked a life devoted to killing and unleashed his blood-lotus attack on Blood Slaughter. Blood Slaughter shattered the attack’s defenses and charged in, leaving Blood Chan Zi narrowly evading his axe.

• Blood Chan Zi confessed that he had never been compassionate and that his Buddha, Bodhisattva, and cultivated paradise all embodied killing.
• Blood Chan Zi unleashed a storm of blood-red lotus petals, each carrying the final moments of someone he had killed.
• Blood Slaughter formed a blood-slurry shield with his Double-Edged Great Axe, then shattered it to cancel the petals and clear a path.
• Blood Slaughter charged through the opening and swung his axe at Blood Chan Zi.
• Blood Chan Zi leaned back and narrowly dodged the axe, which cut a strand of his hair.

Blood Chan Zi used karmic scriptures to distort the faces of the souls sealed into Blood Slaughter’s armor, damaging Blood Slaughter’s spiritual defenses. Blood Slaughter replaced the armor with a featureless black suit marked by a tiny teardrop, and its aura made Blood Chan Zi’s karmic threads shriek in pain.

• Blood Chan Zi’s scriptures twisted the faces on Blood Slaughter’s armor and caused cracks in his spiritual platform’s defenses.
• Blood Chan Zi said he was helping the wronged souls and making their expressions look blissful.
• Blood Slaughter called Blood Chan Zi more twisted than himself and transformed his armor into a smooth black suit bearing a teardrop on its left pauldron.
• Blood Chan Zi’s karmic threads shrieked, and stabbing pain struck his spiritual platform.

Blood Slaughter revealed the origins and immense power of the Carved Tear, overwhelming Blood Chan Zi’s karmic blade. Blood Chan Zi then challenged him to withstand three final strikes, and Blood Slaughter blocked the first before Blood Chan Zi began the second.

• Blood Slaughter explained that he had sealed his first tear after killing his father at age three and filled it with the final breaths of countless victims.
• The Carved Tear absorbed the Arena’s remaining laws, while the lives within Blood Slaughter’s axe surged into a pillar of dark-red light.
• Blood Chan Zi’s blade and karmic threads began to break, but he declared that Blood Slaughter must withstand three strikes for him to concede.
• Blood Chan Zi summoned three phantom Blood-Colored Ring Blades and struck with the first, Wrathful Vajra.
• Blood Slaughter blocked the first blade with his axe, trembling from the impact, and Blood Chan Zi announced the second strike.

Blood Chan Zi and Blood Slaughter unleashed their final attacks, leaving both fatally wounded. Blood Slaughter died after surviving the clash, and the Arena declared him the winner.

• Blood Chan Zi used his second strike, Bodhisattva Lowers His Brows, and damaged Blood Slaughter's axe and Carved Tear.
• Blood Chan Zi's third strike, My Buddha Is Compassionate, collided with the final breaths released by Blood Slaughter's Carved Tear, shattering the Arena's laws and wounding both fighters.
• Blood Chan Zi died and dissolved into light, leaving his head beside the Coiling Dragon Pillar.
• Blood Slaughter discovered that Blood Chan Zi's karmic power had reached his heart, then collapsed and died.
• The Arena cleared away the debris and announced Blood Slaughter as the winner.

The Origin Continent’s cultivators struggled to accept Blood Chan Zi’s death, while the Chaos Ancient Clan mourned Blood Slaughter and warned its remaining fighters not to underestimate their opponents. The battle ended with Blood Slaughter’s victory, but both prodigies died, leaving the next fights to proceed with greater caution.

• Cultivators around the arena reacted in disbelief when they learned Blood Chan Zi had died, despite his reputation as one of the strongest Third Heaven Quasi-Saints.
• The crowd recognized that Blood Chan Zi had killed Blood Slaughter before dying, meaning the Origin Continent had lost the battle and another prodigy.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan’s powerhouses regretted Blood Slaughter’s death, knowing he could have reached the Ninth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan’s remaining participants agreed to be more cautious and avoid underestimating the Origin Continent’s fighters.

The Origin Continent contestants debated the increasingly powerful Chaos Ancient Clan fighters and tried to steel themselves for the battles ahead. As another drawing began, Ye Lin waited without concern while the others eagerly hoped to be chosen.

• The remaining Origin Continent contestants questioned whether the drawing was unfair but accepted that they would eventually face their opponents.
• The contestants discussed fighting together on the Arena and encouraged one another to challenge the Chaos Ancient Clan.
• Ye Lin withdrew from the conversation because he could not connect with the other contestants after Yan Ting died.
• The next round of drawing began, and the contestants eagerly called for their names to be selected.

Long Yuan of the Dragon Hall and Zhao Leer of the Chaos Ancient Clan were drawn as the thirteenth combatants and entered the Arena. Zhao Leer launched the first attack, but Long Yuan parried her punch with his saber, leaving their battle underway.

• The thirteenth match was drawn, and Long Yuan stepped forward as the Dragon Hall's chosen fighter.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan discovered that Zhao Leer had been drawn; she insisted she would win gloriously despite their concern for her safety.
• Zhao Leer and Long Yuan faced each other in the Arena, where she remarked on his height and warned him that she was strong.
• Zhao Leer vanished and struck at Long Yuan's ribs from behind, but he blocked her punch with the back of his golden saber.
• Zhao Leer retreated after the clash, noticed his saber intent eroding her protection, and remarked that his saber was fast.

Long Yuan shifted from testing Zhao Leer to attacking her with his golden saber, forcing her to evade and defend herself with blood mist. The fight continued with Zhao Leer wounded and a faint chill gathering in her eyes as Long Yuan watched her reaction.

• Long Yuan recognized that Zhao Leer had tested him and called her too weak.
• Long Yuan drew his golden saber and struck at Zhao Leer, who dodged the blade by less than half an inch.
• Long Yuan sent more than a hundred streaks of saber light after Zhao Leer, and she used blood mist to deflect or absorb them.
• Zhao Leer emerged with cuts in her skirt and a fine wound on her cheek, then praised Long Yuan's fierce saber technique.
• Long Yuan examined Zhao Leer's injuries and saw the chill gathering in her eyes with a knowing glimmer in his own.

Long Yuan accused Zhao Leer of hiding her true strength and attacked her with his Heaven-Sundering Arc. Zhao Leer escaped the spatial rift, but she was left injured and sprawled across the Arena.

• Long Yuan judged Zhao Leer’s earlier punch too weak and accused her of concealing her strength.
• Long Yuan raised his golden saber and used Heaven-Sundering Arc to split the space around Zhao Leer.
• Zhao Leer wrapped herself in a blood cocoon, but the displaced space cracked it apart.
• Zhao Leer blasted the spatial layers back into place with pillars of blood-colored light.
• Zhao Leer was thrown across the Arena and came to rest with her skirt torn and her legs covered in wounds.

Zhao Leer revealed her hidden form after Long Yuan pushed her to her limit, transforming into a tall, sinister woman surrounded by dark-red blood mist. Long Yuan showed no surprise and said her transformation confirmed his suspicions.

• Zhao Leer warned Long Yuan that he was forcing her to use her full strength.
• Zhao Leer grew from a petite girl into a tall woman with ink-black eyes, sharp features, and a blood-red aura.
• Zhao Leer told Long Yuan that her transformed form needed blood and pointed at him, demanding her fill.
• Long Yuan calmly said Zhao Leer could not possibly have been as weak as she had seemed.