Hell Road had three trials in total.
After overcoming the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King and slaying the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, one only had to endure the final trial to leave this inferno for good and truly awaken one's own Divine Slaughter's Domain.
Yet when Li Xun stepped onto the final stretch, the strange beast he had expected to block his path never appeared.
The entire narrow stone path was eerily quiet. There were no roars, no sounds of fighting, only an increasingly terrifying heat pressing down in layer upon layer, roasting his flesh and eroding his soul. The air brimmed with an immensely concentrated aura of evil, slaughter, and savagery.
Li Xun paused briefly, understanding at once.
Hell Road's third trial had never been a contest of brute force, but the ultimate test of self-control.
The endless malevolence and towering savagery here would constantly invade a Soul Master's mind. The longer they lingered, the more tangled their obsessions became, and the more easily murderous intent would devour them, plunging them into utter madness and reducing them to puppets forever lost in Slaughter City.
An ordinary Soul Master who reached this point, even one with heaven-shaking combat prowess, could easily suffer an eruption of inner demons and see all their efforts crumble at the final hurdle.
But for Li Xun, this trial might as well not have existed.
The hundred-thousand-year Head Soul Bone Qian Renxue had given him firmly protected his sea of consciousness, while the power of Purification kept his mind clear.
Thus, his path remained smooth, without the slightest obstruction.
Before long, a soft, pearly-white curtain of light stretched across the path ahead. This was the end of Hell Road, the exit from Slaughter City.
Li Xun stopped and looked back at the dark, fathomless road