Chapter Summaries

Ning Wen prepared to leave for Slaughter City the next morning, while Xiao Wu struggled with the thought of their separation. She asked him to promise he would return and confessed that she wanted to give herself to him before he left.

• Ning Wen told Ning Rongrong he planned to leave for Slaughter City the next morning, and Dugu Yan, Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, and Xue Wu overheard and worried about the danger.
• Xiao Wu visited Ning Wen's room at night and asked to sleep beside him because she feared he would be hurt in Slaughter City.
• Ning Wen refused Xiao Wu's plea to stay at Skywater Academy, explaining that he needed what awaited him in Slaughter City to gain strength to protect everyone.
• Xiao Wu asked Ning Wen to promise he would return alive and never be apart from her again, and Ning Wen agreed.
• Xiao Wu confessed that she wanted to give herself to Ning Wen before he left so he would remember he belonged to her and return to her alive.

Ning Wen left Skywater Academy and traveled with Sword Douluo Chen Xin to Slaughter Town to temper himself. After entering a tavern, Ning Wen unleashed his Asura Killing Aura and froze the gathered thugs in place.

• Ning Wen promised Xiao Wu he would return from Slaughter City and keep her safe, then left her sleeping peacefully the next morning.
• Ning Wen told Chen Xin he intended to go to Slaughter City, and Chen Xin agreed to escort him there on the Seven Kill Sword.
• Ning Wen and Chen Xin reached the desolate Slaughter Town, where Ning Wen sensed the pervasive stench of blood and entered a tavern.
• The tavern's thugs fell silent and stared at Ning Wen and Chen Xin as they came inside.
• Ning Wen released his Asura Killing Aura, freezing the bloodthirsty thugs with its killing intent.

Ning Wen used his Asura killing intent to cow the thugs in Slaughter Town, then smashed open the tavern floor and entered Slaughter City. He walked through the underground passage toward the Hell Slaughter Arena and emerged before an armored force of 101 people.

• Ning Wen unleashed his Asura killing intent, terrifying the tavern’s thugs until they collapsed or dared not move.
• Chen Xin told Ning Wen that the thugs’ minds had been twisted by years of slaughter, and Ning Wen withdrew his killing aura.
• Ning Wen ordered the Black-Clad Attendant aside and broke through the stone floor to reveal the entrance below.
• Ning Wen said goodbye to Chen Xin, leaped into the hole, and landed in the Dark Underground Passage of Slaughter City.
• Ning Wen walked toward the passage’s firelight, ignoring Slaughter City’s warning about its deadly price.
• Ning Wen emerged from the passage and faced 101 black-armored people led by a figure on an armored warhorse.

Ning Wen subdued Slaughter City's enforcement guards, claimed token 8888, and entered the city. After declining the black-veiled woman's offer of guidance, he asked her to take him to the Hell Slaughter Arena.

• Ning Wen unleashed his Asura Killing Intent and a single palm strike, shattering the guards' armor and knocking their commander from his horse.
• Ning Wen demanded the commander's token, and the defeated commander handed him the black entry pass numbered 8888.
• At the city gate, Ning Wen told the black-veiled woman he had an official token and was not interested in hiding his strength.
• Ning Wen entered Slaughter City and saw its cold blue-purple streets, crowded with indifferent warriors.
• The black-veiled woman offered to guide Ning Wen for twelve hours, but he asked her to take him to the Hell Slaughter Arena.

Ning Wen insisted on entering the Hell Slaughter Arena, and the woman in black gauze guided him through Slaughter City’s decadent inner city to its entrance. As she warned him that leaving would end his newcomer protection, dangerous criminals watched from the shadows.

• Ning Wen dismissed the woman’s warnings about the Hell Slaughter Arena and told her to lead him there.
• The woman in black gauze took Ning Wen from Slaughter City’s outer city into its violent, indulgent inner city.
• The woman’s status as a guide kept the criminals in the streets from obstructing or approaching them.
• Ning Wen reached the Hell Slaughter Arena, where winning a hundred matches could earn him the chance to face the Hell Road.
• Ning Wen told the woman she could leave, and she warned him that his newcomer protection would expire and criminals were lying in wait.

Ning Wen killed a would-be attacker to obtain the blood required to enter the Hell Slaughter Arena, then registered for a match. After waiting for the remaining fighters to be gathered, he joined a round in which only one of ten contestants could survive.

• Ning Wen killed the short thug with a single strike and collected his blood in a porcelain bottle.
• The woman in black gauze let Ning Wen enter the Hell Slaughter Arena after he presented the blood.
• Ning Wen registered and watched the ongoing match end with the deaths of its remaining contestants.
• Ning Wen waited about two hours until ten people had gathered for his match.
• A new slaughter round began under the rule that only one of the ten contestants could live.

Ning Wen entered the Blackstone Arena and faced four criminals who joined forces to kill him. He used the Asura Armor and Asura Purgatory Blade to defeat their attacks, leaving three attackers gravely wounded or maimed as the fight continued.

• Ning Wen entered the arena with nine other fighters, and four criminals singled him out as their first target.
• Ning Wen merged with the Asura Armor and summoned the Asura Purgatory Blade, startling the four attackers with his power.
• The scar-faced axeman, poison woman, chain-hook Soul Master, and Lone Wolf Soul Master launched a coordinated attack on Ning Wen.
• Ning Wen burned away the poison and knocked back the chain-hook Soul Master with a burst of purple lightning.
• Ning Wen shattered the scar-faced axeman's axe and sent him flying, then severed the Lone Wolf Soul Master's arm.