God of Slaughter Realm

Jian Shang looked up in confusion...

He had already drawn down the Ironblood Killing Cloud and merged it with the Ravenous Wolf Guards, displaying a rough form of Military God's Power. No Ironblood Killing Cloud remained above their formation.

Yet a dark mass of mist still hung over the Ravenous Wolf Guards like a storm cloud. It held none of the clanging steel, boldness, or tragic valor of the Ironblood Killing Cloud. Instead, it radiated a savage, sinister aura of death and violence that made his heart shudder.

The Murderous Shadowcloud?!

The longer Jian Shang looked, the more the cloudlike mist seemed to carry a chilling sense of ghostly winds and wailing spirits. He could not help wondering what it was.

The Pagoda Prison-Suppressing Scripture!

Thinking back on the strange changes within him, Jian Shang fell into deep thought.

The Pagoda Prison-Suppressing Scripture was a Heaven Grade cultivation art, one of the Ten Great Scriptures. It embodied the idea of a demonic hand and a Buddhist heart suppressing the Hell Realm. Its practitioner could cultivate through killing: the more he killed, the faster his cultivation rose. He could also wield killing intent against his enemies in ways both wondrous and unpredictable.

Simply put, wherever slaughter occurred was a "hell"—the ideal place to cultivate. Even when Jian Shang made no deliberate effort to practice, his cultivation rose far faster there than it did through ordinary hard training.

But the Pagoda Prison-Suppressing Scripture was not Jian Shang's primary cultivation art. It was only one of the nine star tribulations encompassed by his primary art, the Cosmic Star Tribulation.

Left to run on its own, the Pagoda Prison-Suppressing Scripture naturally struggled to drive the whole. Like a pony pulling a great cart, it yielded half the result for twice the effort, while still