Big Shark had barely left.
The room fell silent once more.
Qin Xuan reset the alarm bell, tightly shut the door, reopened the grand prize wheel, and selected two consecutive draws.
[Ding! Emotion Points -1000. Congratulations to the host for obtaining ten Low-Grade Recovery Pills. (Automatically restore Soul Power: 100% for Soul Masters, 90% for Soul Grandmasters, 80% for Soul Elders... decreasing successively to 60% for Soul Kings and 10% for Titled Douluo.)] [Ding! Emotion Points -1000. Congratulations to the host for obtaining Wushuang City's supreme treasure from The Blood of Youth World, the Wushuang Sword Case.]
With that, the prize wheel draws Qin Xuan had saved up over the past year were exhausted.
But Wushuang City in The Blood of Youth World was in for a miserable time. Because of the Blind Box (Emotion) System, the people and items drawn from blind boxes or the grand prize wheel truly existed in some world.
For example, that secret manual Qin Xuan had obtained was the one collected by the current Guiguzi, master of Wei Zhuang and Gai Nie.
It was merely with the System's aid that the contents of those manuals had turned into the easiest-to-understand stream of information and fused into Qin Xuan's mind, allowing him to learn them with ease.
Without the Wushuang Sword Case, Wushuang City would only decline further. Even if Wushuang joined Wushuang City in the future, without the Wushuang Sword Case, he would find it difficult to reach the Sword Immortal Realm in a short time.
Of course, Qin Xuan did not know any of this, and even if he did, he would not have cared.
Because he was already engrossed in studying the Wushuang Sword Case.
"Great King, that is what happened."
After changing clothes and returning to that spacious, dimly lit chamber at the top of Slaughter City's tallest building, the Slaughter Messenger gave the Slaughter King a rough account of what had happened.
She concealed the part about being put in her place by Qin Xuan.
"So he agreed?" The Slaughter King was somewhat surprised.
Slaughter City and Spirit Hall had always maintained a cooperative relationship.
Given Spirit Hall's foundations, it was impossible for them not to know about Hell Road, much less Divine Slaughter's Domain.
And for that brat to be escorted here by two Soul Douluo who were about to advance to Titled Douluo, his identity could not have been simple. Barring any surprises, he had been sent here to train.
Yet he had so readily agreed to become an honorary guest of Slaughter City and give up the chance to become a Slaughter God. That truly surprised him.
"Yes, my great King," the Slaughter Messenger replied respectfully.
"He did not touch you?" The Slaughter King's voice rang out again. A bat's senses were exceptionally sharp, and he had not detected any signs that the Slaughter Messenger had lost her virginity.
"No. He did not seem interested in me." The Slaughter Messenger lowered her head, biting her red lip beneath her veil.
"Enough. You may leave for now." The Slaughter King waved a hand, no longer interested in questioning her.
"Then, regarding the hundredth Hell Slaughter Arena match..." The Hell Messenger asked hesitantly.
"Meet his conditions first," the Slaughter King said indifferently.
Compared to such a trivial matter, he was more curious about the "old man even more terrifying than the Slaughter King" Qin Xuan had mentioned.
Could it be one of the Elder Hall's enshrined elders, or perhaps Qian Daoliu, one of the three Peerless Douluo of that era, who was as famous as the owner of this body?
The former was manageable. After all, in this place, he was invincible. No matter how many came, he had nothing to fear.
But Qian Daoliu was different.
The Angel Domain, Level-Ninety-Nine Soul Power, a Demigod body, and a full set of Soul Bones alone would be enough to destroy all of Slaughter City.
Time flew by. Two days were ultimately too short, and it was not until noon on the third day that enough participants had finally gathered for the hundredth match.
When the nine Fallen Ones saw that "Black Dragon" was among them as well, they were scared out of their wits. They exchanged glances, then, in order to survive, surrounded Qin Xuan without prior agreement.
The outcome was obvious.
In an instant, nine enormous heads flew through the air, and nine headless corpses appeared on the Hell Slaughter Arena stage.
The atmosphere within the Hell Slaughter Arena instantly surged to its peak. The Fallen Ones in the stands smugly believed they were about to witness the opening of Hell Road.
Little did they know that this road required their blood to pave it.
"Congratulations, young Black Dragon."
At that moment, a blood-red figure descended from the sky and stopped five meters above the ground. The Slaughter King appeared at just the right moment, his low and shrill voice echoing in every direction.
Along with him came a bone-chilling coldness and a sweet, bloody stench.
Yet in the vast Hell Slaughter Arena, aside from Qin Xuan, no one seemed to sense that coldness or sweet, bloody stench. They only screamed wildly.
"Slaughter King! Slaughter King!" Not a single Fallen One stopped, even after shouting themselves hoarse.
Qin Xuan's heart tightened. This was the first time he had encountered the Slaughter King since entering Slaughter City.
He was tall, with a pale face, entirely blood-red eyes, and two pairs of strange bull horns growing from his head. His entire body was wrapped in a suit of dark-red bat armor.
No wonder Tang Hao had failed to recognize that the Slaughter King was his grandfather when he achieved a hundred consecutive victories in the Hell Slaughter Arena.
He had almost completely lost his human characteristics.
"I am delighted. After five years, I have once again witnessed the birth of a Hell Slaughter Arena powerhouse. And this time, it is a young man. With his formidable strength and killing intent, he has made all of you tremble, has he not, my subjects?"
"Yes! Yes! Yes!"
The Slaughter King had the Fallen Ones completely dazzled by his words.
But Qin Xuan heard something different in them.
As everyone knew, the timeline in Sanshui's original Douluo novel was an extremely unreliable thing.
Tang Hao entered Slaughter City at twenty-six and left at twenty-eight.
At thirty, he broke through to Soul Saint, obtained Clear Sky Sect's second Inheritance Soul Bone, and began traveling the continent with Tang Xiao, who was fifteen years older than him and had already reached Level-Seventy-Eight Soul Power.
After traveling for five years, they met Ah Yin. Both brothers fell in love with Ah Yin, yet neither saw through her identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
The bugs began from there.
To see through a 100,000-Year Transformed Soul Beast, one only needed Soul Douluo cultivation. In other words, after five years, Level-Seventy-Eight Tang Xiao had still not broken through to Soul Douluo.
That year, Tang Hao was thirty-five.
The three then traveled together for another three years. Tang Xiao realized Ah Yin liked Tang Hao and withdrew in sorrow, while Tang Hao and Ah Yin fell in love.
By then, Tang Hao should have been thirty-eight.
Yet Tang Hao claimed that at thirty-five, his Soul Power had reached Level-Eighty-Four, and that he encountered Spirit Hall's Titled Douluo when he brought Ah Yin back to the sect.
He even counter-killed one and crippled one of that Titled Douluo's legs.
That same year, Tang Hao's deadbeat father fell gravely ill and was angered to death when Spirit Hall held them accountable. Tang Xiao, who had just advanced to Titled Douluo, was ordered to take over in a crisis and became sect master. Left with no choice, he expelled Tang Hao from Clear Sky Sect.
Then Tang Hao fled from place to place with Ah Yin. Nine years later, at forty-four, his Soul Power broke through Level-Ninety, Ah Yin entered the Maturity Stage, and Spirit Hall discovered them again.
Tsk, tsk. This timeline was truly absurdly messed up.
Tang Xiao left the sect with Tang Hao, who had just broken through Level-Seventy, at Level-Seventy-Eight, yet failed to break through Level-Eighty in five years.
Then, after traveling with Ah Yin and Tang Hao for three years, he returned to the sect and broke through Level-Ninety.
Even Tang San, that cheating bastard, was not this outrageous, was he?
P.S.: Second update.
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