"Master, we're finished killing."
Yan Lingji's voice came from the stands. She stood amid the heap of corpses, her long black-and-red dress covered in blood, her snow-white fox ears twitching slightly and her nine fox tails swaying slowly behind her.
Tide Siren stood beside her, her purple dress trailing along the ground and her purple eyes cold. Shreds of flesh and bone clung to the Blood-drinking Twin Swords, and dark purple mist rose slowly around her.
Not a single person remained alive in the stands of the entire Hell Slaughter Arena.
Thousands of corpses lay strewn across the steps. Blood gathered into streams, flowing down through the cracks in the stone and pooling on the ground in a dark red lake of blood.
The air was thick with the stench of blood.
Yet the auras emanating from Yan Lingji and Tide Siren were growing wildly.
Slaughter City's rule forbade magic, but the foundation of the Divine Slaughter's Domain was killing intent.
In this land of slaughter, killing was itself cultivation.
Every life was a strand of killing intent, every corpse a measure of nourishment.
The killing intent released as the lives of thousands of Fallen Soul Masters, all high-ranking Soul Kings or above, faded away was drawn by Yan Lingji's and Tide Siren's origin powers and absorbed into their bodies.
Feeling the power surging within her, Yan Lingji twitched her fox ears in excitement.
After Ye Guixu's repeated irrigation, she had already risen to level 93, and a great deal of essence still lay within her, not yet digested.
Now, the killing intent from the slaughter acted as a catalyst, fully activating that accumulated power.
Her aura climbed steadily, breaking straight through the threshold of level 94.
Tide Siren's improvement was even more pronounced.
After further irrigation from Ye Guixu,