Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan went to the Slaughter Arena to earn Arena Points and signed up as a regular combatant despite the bartender warning him about its dangers. When he declared that every fighter in the bar was trash, One-Eye confronted him.

• Lin Yuan concluded that the city lord’s residence was the only place left to investigate for the possible Dragon Ancestral Land, but decided he needed to get stronger first.
• Lin Yuan arrived at the Slaughter Arena and found the quiet bar where its regular combatants gathered.
• The bartender explained the contract terms, including required fights and the thousand points Lin Yuan needed to regain his freedom, and Lin Yuan signed without hesitation.
• Lin Yuan asked to fight as often as possible, but the bartender warned him that even Dragon Claw Peak fighters had suffered from rushing into battles.
• Lin Yuan claimed he was much stronger than the other combatants and called everyone in the bar trash, prompting One-Eye to stand and challenge him.

Lin Yuan registered at the Slaughter Arena and learned how its rankings and points worked as he planned to earn enough rewards without revealing his full strength. He set out to raise his rating quickly, but the Primordial Era Spirit Mushroom’s negotiable price left him wondering what it would require.

• Lin Yuan accepted the arena fighters’ requests for back-to-back matches, and Lao Jiu agreed to test his strength before arranging One-Eye’s match.
• Lin Yuan registered at the Accommodation Area and moved into a private building at the Slaughter Arena.
• Lin Yuan studied the ranking system and redemption list, learning that higher-ranked fighters and death matches could earn more points.
• Lin Yuan resolved to display strength just above that of the Four Heavenly Kings and collect ten thousand points within two weeks while avoiding attention.
• Lin Yuan noticed that the Primordial Era Spirit Mushroom had no listed price and was marked negotiable.

Lin Yuan underwent the arena’s strength tests and deliberately set new records in every category. When One-Eye learned the results, he backed out of his planned match against Lin Yuan.

• Lin Yuan worried that the rare Primordial Era Spirit Mushroom might be difficult to obtain, then agreed to take the arena’s strength tests.
• Lin Yuan broke the Strength King’s record by holding the iron ball for thirty-one minutes, while pretending to be exhausted.
• Lin Yuan surpassed the Four Heavenly Kings’ records in the toughness and attack-power tests as well.
• Lao Jiu received Lin Yuan’s test results while One-Eye bragged about challenging him.
• One-Eye saw that Lin Yuan had broken every arena record and asked to put their match on hold.

Lin Yuan watched Blood King, one of Minglong City’s Four Heavenly Kings, fight ten opponents and saw him defeat their combined attacks with a single Slaughter Domain skill. The battle led Lin Yuan to suspect that slaughter authority held a secret, while the arena prepared to test his own strength.

• Lao Jiu decided to release Lin Yuan’s test results and seek a challenger among the Sixteen Assassins.
• Lin Yuan left his strength test, considered how to dominate future fights without revealing too much, and went to investigate the crowd at another venue.
• Lin Yuan watched the arena’s grand finale begin as Blood King faced One-Eye and nine other fighters, all apparently possessing Nine-Star S-rank strength.
• Blood King swept away all ten opponents’ skills with a single blood-red saber strike, prompting Lin Yuan to wonder whether slaughter authority was beyond categorization.

Lin Yuan tried to understand the Slaughter Authority and planned to question outsiders, but Blood King incapacitated them in the arena. Afterward, Blood King learned about Lin Yuan and arranged to fight him in over a week, confident the Slaughter Authority would grow strong enough to win.

• Lin Yuan reasoned that Minglong City's unusually powerful Slaughter Authority might have been altered by Chaos and decided to seek information from outsiders with experience in other cities.
• Blood King unleashed a wide-area attack that knocked down all ten fighters, killing several outsiders and ruining Lin Yuan's chance to question them.
• Blood King left the arena as the crowd cheered, while staff carried away the injured and dead.
• Blood King asked his assistant to identify Lin Yuan and, after learning of his strength assessment, assumed Lin Yuan intended to challenge his position.
• Blood King ordered his assistant to have Lao Jiu arrange a match with Lin Yuan for over a week later, expecting the Slaughter Authority to grow powerful enough to defeat him.

Lin Yuan learned that the Slaughter Authority granted extraordinary combat power and asked One-Eye, an outsider who had adopted the Slaughter Domain, about its unusual properties. One-Eye could offer no clear explanation, but recalled that Minglong City’s strange signs had become apparent only in recent years.

• Blood King estimated that the Slaughter Authority would finish sublimating in about two weeks and planned to kill Lin Yuan to improve his chances of being appointed a Deputy Authority Holder.
• Lin Yuan watched more arena fights and realized that Slaughter Domain fighters who seemed to be Eight- or Nine-Star S-ranks were likely only Five or Six Stars in actual level.
• Lin Yuan left the arena and found One-Eye drinking at Lao Jiu’s bar, where One-Eye nervously apologized for their earlier conflict.
• Lin Yuan asked One-Eye which Regular Combatants were outsiders, and One-Eye revealed that he too had come from elsewhere before switching to the Slaughter Domain.
• One-Eye said the Slaughter Domain had made him stronger despite his limited cultivation, then recalled that Minglong City’s unusual signs had emerged only in recent years.

Lin Yuan learned more about Minglong City’s unusual Slaughter Authority and concluded that the Dragon Ancestral Land was likely beneath the City Lord’s Mansion. He then prepared to face Wind Eagle, who planned to kill the newcomer and climb the arena ranks.

• One-Eye told Lin Yuan that Slaughter Authority had grown exceptionally powerful over time, with its growth accelerating sharply in recent years.
• Lin Yuan questioned why City Lord Minglong had not used Explore the Sea or brought true Dragon Clan members to Minglong City, and learned that Minglong’s signature weapon was the Slaughter Blade.
• Lin Yuan concluded that the Dragon Ancestral Land was probably inside the City Lord’s Mansion and decided to visit it after improving his strength.
• After Lin Yuan left, One-Eye drank Blood Wine that carried hidden polluting power without noticing it.
• The arena staff informed Lin Yuan that his next fight would be the final bout on the largest platform, against Wind Eagle, one of the Sixteen Assassins.
• Wind Eagle looked forward to fighting Zero and resolved to kill him as he pursued advancement in the Slaughter Domain and higher arena ranks.

Lin Yuan faced Wind Eagle in the Slaughter Arena, where Wind Eagle’s powerful Slaughter Wind attacks revealed his growth into a monster-level fighter. The chapter ended as Wind Eagle’s relentless Slaughter Storm raged and the arena’s timekeeper chimed for the third time, before the battle’s outcome was shown.

• Lin Yuan entered the arena to skeptical spectators while Wind Eagle prepared to fight for a chance to advance.
• Wind Eagle opened with Slaughter Wind, but Lin Yuan took the attack without serious harm and studied the forces behind Slaughter Authority.
• Wind Eagle realized Lin Yuan was far stronger than expected and resolved to prove his own growth.
• Wind Eagle unleashed a much stronger Slaughter Storm that intensified across the ring, leading nearby combatants to assume he had won.
• The timekeeping device chimed for the third time as the storm continued.

Lin Yuan defeated Wind Eagle with a single punch after suppressing his wind abilities, drawing a stunned reaction from the arena. Back at his lodging, he received a letter from Lao Jiu about arranging his next fight and trying Blood Wine.

• After three minutes, Lin Yuan stopped holding back and suppressed Wind Eagle’s wind abilities.
• Lin Yuan used water jets to propel himself forward and killed Wind Eagle with one punch.
• The referee announced Lin Yuan’s victory, and the spectators celebrated his unexpected display of strength.
• The other combatants and Blood King concluded that Lin Yuan was exceptionally powerful, while Blood King planned to kill him after a week.
• Lin Yuan returned to his lodging and found Lao Jiu’s letter offering to arrange his next fight and inviting him to try Blood Wine.

Lin Yuan strengthened his Ship Hull with Dragon Essence, raising his Health to one billion, while Lao Jiu secretly carried Blood Wine to a chamber containing a Giant Mushroom. After Zero dominated the Slaughter Arena and spectators expected him to face Blood King, the arena announced an unexpected arrangement for his next match.

• Lin Yuan replied to Lao Jiu that he wanted battles arranged as soon as possible and against the hardest opponents, then learned Little Black could upgrade his Ship Hull with Dragon Essence.
• Lin Yuan put off visiting Lao Jiu and returned to his lodging to have Little Black strengthen the Ship Hull.
• Lao Jiu refused One-Eye more Blood Wine, secretly took barrels from an underground store, and carried them toward a room containing a Giant Mushroom.
• Over the following week, Lin Yuan's Health rose to one billion, and Zero won increasingly difficult arena matches, becoming a popular candidate to join the Four Heavenly Kings.
• Spectators expected Zero to face Blood King, who had already applied for a deathmatch, but the arena's match notice surprised Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan entered the Slaughter Emperor Battle to obtain the Primordial Era Spirit Mushroom from the Primordial Era Spirit Mushroom King, while planning to avoid drawing attention from Minglong City's officials. Before the match began, Lao Jiu remained missing, and the deputy city lord failed to appear at the arena.

• Lin Yuan read that the Slaughter Emperor Battle would pit the four Heavenly Kings and Zero against each other alongside ferocious beasts, including the Primordial Era Spirit Mushroom King, and decided to enter for its treasure.
• Lin Yuan planned to act cautiously because the deputy city lord and the city defense army commanders would attend, then decided to visit Lao Jiu's bar before his final arena match.
• One-Eye told Lin Yuan that Lao Jiu had been missing since the previous day and had a rare Authority domain called Disorder.
• Lin Yuan waited for Lao Jiu, but he never returned, so Lin Yuan went to the Slaughter Arena with a growing sense of unease.
• Lin Yuan saw six people seated on the viewing platform while the central chair, apparently reserved for the deputy city lord, remained empty even as the host prepared to start the match.

Lin Yuan entered the Slaughter Emperor Battle while the City Defense Army commanders watched him with suspicious interest. Blood King attacked him immediately, but Lin Yuan focused on defense and kept his attention on the arena’s lift and the commanders.

• The six City Defense Army commanders opened their eyes to scrutinize Lin Yuan as he entered the arena, then closed them again.
• Lin Yuan suspected trouble was brewing in Minglong City and planned to kill the Primordial Era Spirit Mushroom King and use the Gold Dragon corpse after the match.
• The host began the Slaughter Emperor Battle, and Slaughter King, Strength King, and Shadow King spread out while Blood King charged at Lin Yuan.
• Lin Yuan defended against Blood King's attacks while remaining wary of the commanders, whose gazes seemed covetous.
• Blood King grew frustrated when he realized Lin Yuan was not truly suppressed and barely paid attention to him.

Lin Yuan watched the arena’s commanders and waited for the Primordial Era Spirit Mushroom King while the battle escalated around him. Blood King destroyed the arena floor, revealing that the mushroom had become a Chaos Monster, which incapacitated everyone but Lin Yuan with a scream.

• Lin Yuan knocked Blood King into the arena wall with a casual sweep, then noticed the commanders’ minds seemed affected by something they coveted.
• A lion-like beast emerged, and Slaughter King, Strength King, and Shadow King blocked Lin Yuan and Blood King from joining their fight for points.
• Blood King spread his markings across the arena and used them to dissolve its floor, exposing the beast cages below.
• Lin Yuan discovered the Primordial Era Spirit Mushroom King had been corrupted into a Chaos Monster that fed on flesh and blood.
• The Spirit Mushroom Chaos Monster roared, and everyone except Lin Yuan fell unconscious; the creature possessed the strength of an Authority Holder.

Lin Yuan survived Lao Jiu’s Blood Wine attack and discovered that his A-rank Energy countered the pollution of Destruction. He attacked the Spirit Mushroom Chaos Monster to save the commanders and obtain the Primordial Era Spirit Mushroom, but found that Chaos’s power was far harder to purge than Destruction.

• The Spirit Mushroom Chaos Monster sprayed Blood Wine at Lin Yuan and the six commanders, infecting them with pollution that Lao Jiu had prepared for Lin Yuan.
• Lin Yuan purged the Destruction pollution from himself and realized Lao Jiu might be the anchor through which Chaos was polluting Minglong City.
• Lin Yuan saw the commanders struggling under the worsened pollution and decided to kill the Spirit Mushroom Chaos Monster before it mutated further.
• The Spirit Mushroom Chaos Monster drained the unconscious Four Heavenly Kings while Lin Yuan attacked it with the Holy Hall Light Blade and A-rank Energy.
• Lin Yuan found that his energy purged Destruction from the monster but barely affected Chaos, revealing why it had taken so much energy to kill the Crawler Apostle.

Lin Yuan drew out the Explore the Sea Dragon Soul to distract the Spirit Mushroom Chaos Monster and the polluted commanders, then cut off and stored the monster’s lingzhi cap. As the newly formed Chaos Monster attacked the commanders, Lin Yuan fled the Slaughter Arena with one commander in pursuit.

• Lin Yuan withdrew the Holy Hall Light Blade and summoned the Explore the Sea Dragon Soul, which fought the Spirit Mushroom Chaos Monster while the polluted commanders recognized and coveted the Dragon Soul.
• Lin Yuan used the Shell Pump to reach the monster’s head and hacked off its lingzhi cap, then stored it in the Lin Yuan's Warehouse.
• The Spirit Mushroom Chaos Monster lost its remaining original power, melted into surrounding debris, and attacked the six mutating commanders with sludge tentacles.
• Lin Yuan realized the newborn Chaos Monster was instinctively seeking Destruction power and fled as it weakened the commanders.
• One commander escaped the sludge, pursued Lin Yuan for the Dragon Soul, and flew with him out of the Slaughter Arena.

Lin Yuan fled a City Defense Army commander through Minglong City while testing his A-rank energy on a polluted treasure. He upgraded the Conversion Line, consumed Gold Dragon’s Authority Body to triple his energy capacity, and left the commander unaware that Lin Yuan now saw him as another target.

• A Lang recognized Lin Yuan fighting a commander and left to gather people for an uprising.
• Lin Yuan used his A-rank energy to expel Chaos power from the Primordial Era Spirit Mushroom.
• Lin Yuan fed the mushroom into the fully upgraded Conversion Line, bringing it to a 100% conversion rate.
• Lin Yuan converted Gold Dragon’s Authority Body into energy and raised his capacity to 300 million, reaching roughly 500th place in the Authority Ranking.
• Lin Yuan looked toward the pursuing commander and considered him another Authority Body to convert.

Lin Yuan used his A-rank Energy to weaken a polluted City Defense Army commander and killed him after summoning the Explore the Sea Dragon Soul. He escaped the other commanders by hiding nearby, but the Dragon Soul’s appearance awakened a mysterious black figure in the City Lord’s Mansion.

• Lin Yuan tested his strength against the commander and realized his A-rank Energy could erode the commander’s Destruction Authority.
• Lin Yuan repeatedly attacked the commander, weakening him as the power of destruction consumed his power of slaughter.
• After an explosion at the Slaughter Arena suggested the Spirit Mushroom Great Chaos Monster had been killed, Lin Yuan summoned the Explore the Sea Dragon Soul and overwhelmed the commander.
• The Dragon Soul’s appearance stirred a black figure from the City Lord’s Mansion, but Lin Yuan killed the commander, collected his Authority Body, and fled.
• Lin Yuan secretly returned to a nearby house and hid while the other commanders searched unsuccessfully, then wondered who the black figure was.

Lin Yuan converted the City Defense Army commanders’ Authority Bodies and discovered they had contained a large amount of Dragon Qi. He realized this confirmed a Dragon Ancestral Land was hidden in Minglong City, then let the Explore the Sea Dragon Soul consume the Dragon Qi.

• Lin Yuan suspected the dark figure in the City Lord’s Mansion was the Deputy City Lord rather than Minglong and wondered where the City Lord had gone.
• Lin Yuan processed the commanders’ Authority Bodies and learned that most of their energy had dissipated after death.
• Lin Yuan fed the remaining Authority Bodies into the Production Workshop, raising his A-rank Energy to 450 million.
• The conversion line unexpectedly produced a large number of little golden dragons, which Lin Yuan recognized as Dragon Qi fused into the commanders’ bodies.
• Lin Yuan concluded that the commanders’ Dragon Qi proved a Dragon Ancestral Land existed in Minglong City and summoned the Explore the Sea Dragon Soul to eat it.

Lin Yuan used a dragon’s roar to isolate and ambush one of the mutated City Defense Army Commanders, hoping to defeat them one by one. When loyal soldiers rushed to the commander’s aid, Chaos Monsters transformed from A Lang and the Rebel Army attacked them.

• Explore the Sea Dragon Soul devoured Dragon Qi and turned pure gold, though its body remained illusory and its perfect evolution still required the Dragon Clan’s Ancestral Land.
• Lin Yuan concluded that the Ancestral Land was likely inside the City Lord’s Mansion and began planning how to deal with the Deputy City Lord.
• Panic and violence spread through Minglong City as its mutated commanders circled overhead, searching for the source of a dragon’s roar.
• Lin Yuan used the roar to draw the commanders away from one another, then ambushed and suppressed the isolated commander at the rear.
• City Defense Army soldiers rushed to help their commander, but Chaos Monsters transformed from A Lang and the Rebel Army sprang from the shadows and attacked them.

Lin Yuan used the Rebel Army’s attack on Minglong City to eliminate a commander, then joined the fight over the Explore the Sea Dragon Soul. He fed it the Dragon Qi converted from defeated commanders, restoring its wounds and greatly strengthening it as three commanders continued the battle.

• A Lang’s Rebel Army defeated the City Defense Army, offered Lin Yuan a chance to join them, and then departed after agreeing to remain neutral toward him.
• Lin Yuan killed the City Defense Army commander and fed his Authority Body into the Conversion Line before heading toward the city’s corner.
• Four commanders attacked the Explore the Sea Dragon Soul, while Lin Yuan lured one commander away from the others and killed him.
• Lin Yuan joined the fight, defeated a third commander, and used the Conversion Line to send Dragon Qi from two commanders to the Dragon Soul.
• The Explore the Sea Dragon Soul absorbed the Dragon Qi, healed its wounds, and grew several times stronger.