Giving Jing Ni a Bug Exploit

To ensure he killed the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, he had poured nearly eighty percent of his Soul Power into the Hundred-Pace Flying Sword.

Man and sword became one, briefly activating his Martial Soul Avatar.

Qin Xuan was confident that under this move, a Soul Saint would have no chance of surviving. Even a Soul Douluo who was careless would suffer severe injuries.

That was assuming they could use soul skills. If they could not use soul skills and possessed neither Soul Bones nor domains, no one below the rank of Titled Douluo could escape unscathed.

Fortunately, the cost had been worth it.

Qin Xuan walked over to the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's inner core. Rather than touch it rashly, he took out a jade box he had prepared long ago.

"This inner core is the size of an egg. It really looks like it would choke someone to death. I wonder how that brothel phoenix from the original novel managed to swallow something so hard."

Looking at the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's inner core, which had turned completely red and radiated scorching heat, Qin Xuan indulged in a little humblebragging before carefully storing it in the jade box and placing it inside his Storage Soul Tool.

He set off again.

As he walked, a system notification suddenly sounded in his mind:

[Ding. Detected that the mission time for the character Recruitment Card 'Jing Ni' has only one shichen remaining. Please use it as soon as possible.]

"It should still be in time."

With the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent dead, Qin Xuan no longer had any reservations. He swallowed two antidote pills, circulated the Ghost Valley Breathing Technique, channeled Soul Power into his feet, and leaped several meters at a time as he sped forward.

Hell Road had three trials in total. The blood-colored bat swarm and the Dark-Gold Three-Headed Bat King counted as the first trial;

The Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent was the second;

The third was the end of Hell Road, which could stir restless emotions, trigger the killing intent within challengers, and turn them into Fallen Ones who ultimately perished by slaughtering each other.

It was also the core energy that kept all of Slaughter City running.

For others, this might have been the most difficult trial. But for Qin Xuan, who possessed [Phoenix Fire], it could not have been easier.

In some ways, it was even much easier than the first two trials.

Triggering the killing intent within one's body required a medium.

That medium was the Bloody Mary evaporating from the sea of blood at the end of Hell Road. With [Phoenix Fire], which could ward off miasma, and antidote pills—

Along with the Spirit-Concentrating Wisdom Skull, which had reached an age of sixty thousand years—

Qin Xuan's Mental Power was extraordinarily formidable.

The evaporated Bloody Mary could barely affect him at all.

Qin Xuan moved quickly. In less than half a shichen, he reached the end of Hell Road.

On both sides of the narrow path lay a sea of blood that stretched beyond sight. Rather than a sea, it looked more like a Blood River.

The Blood River was nearly a thousand meters wide. On the opposite side stood a smooth, sheer cliff face. Only around two hundred meters above was the pitch-black exit, where a faint glimmer of light could be seen.

"I doubt anyone else will leave the way I do." Qin Xuan smiled and took a raft from his Storage Soul Tool, which was already nearly stuffed full.

Yes, a raft. He had secretly made it while passing through a forest on his way to Slaughter City, using the excuse of relieving himself to hide it from Ju and Gui.

He could not fly, had no External Soul Bone, and certainly did not have any fancy things like Blue Silver Grass or Flying God Claws.

The lightness skill that came with the Ghost Valley Breathing Technique could not possibly carry him that high or that far without anything to push off from.

So he could only take another path and use the most primitive method.

The moment the raft entered the Blood River, Qin Xuan immediately smelled something burning. It was caused by the scorching blood plasma within the Blood River.

There was no time for Qin Xuan to hesitate. With a leap, he landed on the raft and headed for the opposite shore.

When only three hundred meters remained to the other side, the raft could no longer withstand the blood plasma's intense heat and burst into flames.

Qin Xuan lightly stepped on the raft, borrowed force from beneath his feet, and used his lightness skill to leap dozens of meters into the air. Then he released his Martial Soul, the Everbright Sword.

Without pursuing power and focusing only on distance, he unleashed the Hundred-Pace Flying Sword twice in succession.

The first time, he used the Everbright Sword in his right hand and flew more than two hundred meters. The second time, he used his left hand—a steel sword tied to a rope.

The steel sword embedded itself in the cliff face. Qin Xuan used the rope to swing himself over to the cliff. Looking back at the burning raft as it gradually sank into the sea of blood, his heart thudded with lingering fear.

That was close!

There was no time for him to dwell on it. He took out two short swords and began climbing the cliff.

When the exit was within reach, an idea suddenly surfaced in his mind.

He took out Jing Ni's exclusive Recruitment Card from the Storage Soul Tool at his waist and leaped into the exit tunnel.

At the instant before entering the cave, he used Jing Ni's Recruitment Card and vanished from this space.

The Recruitment Card's teleportation worked by returning him to wherever he had been when he left.

He could not remain in another world for long, at most no more than half a shichen. If the Recruitment Card expired midway, he would likewise be teleported back.

Qin Xuan wanted to see whether he could exploit some kind of bug.

Although obtaining Divine Slaughter's Domain required clearing Hell Road and accumulating sufficient killing intent through one hundred consecutive victories in Hell Road Arena.

Jing Ni, as a Heaven First-Class assassin, lacked nothing more than killing intent.

As for traversing Hell Road, the most important thing was passing through this exit. As long as Jing Ni passed through it with him, perhaps she could really get Divine Slaughter's Domain as well.

Thunder gradually rumbled across the sky, while the icy rain fell harder and harder.

The rain did not disperse the smoke of war hanging in the sky. Instead, it made this region even darker.

In a forest somewhere within the Qi Kingdom, Jing Ni wore a fitted purple-and-white striped metal combat suit and held the Jing Ni Sword. Her lower abdomen was swollen as she stood surrounded by more than a dozen Web assassins.

She could not spare any thought for her pregnancy or the rain lashing her face. Expressionless, she stared ahead.

"Why?"

"As an assassin, you should know why."

Opposite her stood another Web assassin. Unlike the others, however, he wore a red ghost-face mask.

The sword in his hand was no ordinary weapon. Though it was inferior to Jing Ni, one of the Eight Swords of the Yue King, it was still a peerless weapon of the age. Only Web assassins of Kill-Rank First Class were qualified to wield it.

"I have already completed the mission." Jing Ni tried to fight for maternity leave. At this point, she had not yet fully made up her mind.

If possible, she did not wish to leave Web, the largest assassin organization among the seven kingdoms, an organization that pursued traitors to the death.

"So you can begin your next mission."

The ghost-masked assassin slightly raised his head, continuing to frantically test Jing Ni's limits at the edge of death. The red ghost-face mask carried a chilling, terrifying air, while his voice was low and cold, without the slightest trace of emotion.

Just like the longsword in his hand, which symbolized Web's Kill-Rank First Class.

Thunder boomed in the sky, and silver lightning flashed through the clouds.

The rain grew heavier.

The rain became increasingly icy and piercing, yet it could never extinguish the fury and killing intent in Jing Ni's heart.

A pregnant woman born from an assassin's life was denied maternity leave.

It was easy to imagine what she would do.

As a mother, even if she had once been an assassin, so long as she possessed maternal love, she could do anything for her daughter.

Even betray Web.

At this moment, she finally made up her mind.

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