Chapter Summaries

After the Crimson Mother's voice disappeared, Tang San tested his new dark powers by devouring a Ten Thousand Year Cave Demon Spider and advancing from level 66 to level 68. He gave the spider's defensive Soul Bone to Flender and asked him to help catch more Soul Beasts for his cultivation.

• Tang San urged Yu Xiaogang and Flender to leave before the divine-power fluctuations attracted attention, but a Ten Thousand Year Cave Demon Spider burst from the ground.
• Tang San used Dark Demon Domain and his Soul Skills to trap and suppress the Cave Demon Spider, while Flender and Yu Xiaogang watched in amazement.
• Tang San drained the Cave Demon Spider of its life force and Soul Power, reaching level 68 in less than a minute.
• Tang San collected the spider's torso Soul Bone, identified its Demon Spider Guard skill, and gave it to Flender.
• Tang San told Flender that he would need help catching more Soul Beasts so he could cultivate through devouring.

Ning Liu arrived at the outskirts of the City of Slaughter with Xu Jiushi, Titan, Bibi Dong, and Yue Guan. After explaining how the city suppressed soul skills, Bibi Dong described its two paths and asked whether Ning Liu still planned to target the King of Slaughter.

• Ning Liu and the others appeared in the wilderness outside the City of Slaughter.
• Xu Jiushi and Titan discovered that their soul skills were suppressed, but their physical strength and bloodline power remained intact.
• Ning Liu explained that he had brought Xu Jiushi and Titan because their strength would not be diminished as much as that of ordinary soul masters.
• Ning Liu asked Bibi Dong to explain the City of Slaughter, which she had visited before.
• Bibi Dong said entrants could become the city's nourishment or fight through Hell Road to obtain Divine Slaughter's Domain, then asked if Ning Liu still intended to target the King of Slaughter.

Ning Liu arrived at the City of Slaughter and declared that he would challenge the Hundred Man Kill at the Hell Slaughter Arena. As the arena crowd mocked and threatened him, he calmly announced that the next match was beginning.

• Ning Liu told Bibi Dong and his companions that he wanted to take the God of Slaughter trial rather than go directly to the King of Slaughter.
• A squad of Hell Knights confronted the group, but Bibi Dong’s Slaughter Aura made their leader recognize her and kneel.
• Ning Liu asked the knight to take them to the Hell Slaughter Arena, and Bibi Dong announced his intention to initiate the Hundred Man Kill.
• Ning Liu appeared in the arena after a brutal fight and drew jeers from the Fallen Ones and threats from the victorious fighter.
• Ning Liu brushed his clothes and said that the next match was beginning.

Ning Liu entered another Hell Slaughter Arena match and killed the burly Bone Crusher Buck with a single strike of the Asura Demon Sword. As the spectators recoiled in fear, Ning Liu called for his next opponent.

• Ning Liu's challenge triggered the arena's rule, and the host declared the match begun despite the burly man's threats.
• The burly man attacked Ning Liu with his Dust Storm Charge, using a cloud of dust to conceal his strike.
• Ning Liu summoned the Asura Demon Sword and sliced the charging man in two with a single strike.
• The crowd recognized the fallen fighter as Bone Crusher Buck, a winner of twenty-one consecutive matches, and feared Ning Liu.
• Xu Jiushi praised Ning Liu's sword strike, while Titan noted that the Sect Master had grown stronger.
• Ning Liu ignored the crowd and the bodies, then called for his next opponent.

Ning Liu defeated the forty-nine-win fighter “Ghost Claw” Moro with a single sword strike, revealing how his sword intent could immobilize opponents. He remained in the arena and asked whether anyone else would continue.

• The Fallen Ones debated Ning Liu’s swift defeat of Buck before “Ghost Claw” Moro entered the arena to challenge him.
• Moro attacked Ning Liu with Phantom Step and Soul-Snatching Ghost Claw, claiming his speed surpassed Ning Liu’s sword.
• Ning Liu planted the Asura Demon Sword in the ground and used sword intent to trap Moro’s movements.
• Ning Liu struck once without turning around and beheaded Moro.
• The arena fell silent as the crowd recognized Ning Liu’s overwhelming strength, and he asked, “Continue?”

Ning Liu continued to dominate the Hell Slaughter Arena, killing a wounded man Mad Shark Zhao Kang had thrown into the ring before Zhao challenged him. As Zhao finished boasting about his strategy, Ning Liu calmly asked whether he was done warming up.

• The host began a countdown after Ning Liu’s victories, but no one entered the arena until a wounded man was thrown down from the stands.
• Ning Liu killed the wounded man with a single step and no weapon.
• Mad Shark Zhao Kang, a fighter with seventy-two consecutive wins, entered the arena and mocked his fallen subordinate.
• Zhao explained that he had used the subordinate as bait to make Ning Liu lower his guard, drawing approval from the crowd.
• Ning Liu calmly asked Zhao whether he was done warming up.

Ning Liu effortlessly killed Zhao Kang in the Hell Slaughter Arena, leaving the assembled experts wary as the countdown began for another challenger. Just before it ended, someone called for the host to wait.

• Zhao Kang attacked Ning Liu with his enormous curved saber, but Ning Liu calmly dodged his strikes.
• Zhao Kang unleashed Tearing Tide, filling the arena with a storm of saber qi, and Ning Liu cleaved through it with a single sword strike.
• Ning Liu sheathed his sword as Zhao Kang split in two, and the host declared 9527 the victor.
• The arena’s experts hesitated to challenge Ning Liu while the host counted down, and Ning Liu wiped the hilt of the Asura Demon Sword.
• Someone shouted “Wait!” just before the countdown ended.

The King of Slaughter summoned Ning Liu, but Ning Liu refused to meet him. When the King appeared in the arena, Xu Jiushi, Titan, Bibi Dong, and Chrysanthemum Douluo arrived, and Bibi Dong's Divine Slaughter's Domain countered his bloody aura.

• The Black Veil Messenger told Ning Liu that the King of Slaughter wished to see him, but Ning Liu refused.
• The King of Slaughter appeared in the arena and asked Ning Liu if he still intended to refuse.
• Xu Jiushi, Titan, Bibi Dong, and Chrysanthemum Douluo appeared behind Ning Liu.
• Bibi Dong spread her white aura, purifying the King's blood mist and prompting him to identify it as Divine Slaughter's Domain.

Ning Liu ordered Bibi Dong, Titan, Xu Jiushi, and Yue Guan to take down the King of Slaughter. They launched a coordinated attack in the Hell Slaughter Arena, leaving the King of Slaughter facing their combined assault.

• The King of Slaughter questioned Bibi Dong's relationship with Ning Liu, and she silently looked to Ning Liu for instructions.
• Ning Liu told his allies to take down the King of Slaughter, drawing laughter and disbelief from the arena.
• Bibi Dong expanded her Divine Slaughter's Domain as Titan, Xu Jiushi, and Yue Guan revealed their powerful Martial Souls and Soul Power.
• Ning Liu ordered the attack, and Titan charged the King of Slaughter while Xu Jiushi sent golden shockwaves across the ground and Yue Guan unleashed a storm of chrysanthemum petals.
• The King of Slaughter's expression turned grave and furious as the attacks converged, and he declared that they were courting death.

The King of Slaughter overwhelmed Titan, Xu Jiushi, and Yue Guan, then fought Bibi Dong to a stalemate. Ning Liu struck with his sword, seriously wounding the King of Slaughter and leaving him horrified by its Asura-like power.

• The King of Slaughter used the Blood Bat Phantom to repel Titan, evade Xu Jiushi’s attack, and corrupt Yue Guan’s golden petal storm.
• Bibi Dong summoned her Spider Emperor Clone and attacked the King of Slaughter, who trapped them in a blood-red canopy.
• Ning Liu raised his sword, and its aura made the King of Slaughter freeze and recoil.
• Ning Liu swung his sword and inflicted a deep wound on the King of Slaughter, whose blood energy began to dissipate.
• Bibi Dong struck the wounded King of Slaughter and sent him crashing into a wall.
• The King of Slaughter recognized the sword as resembling the Asura Demon Sword and demanded to know who Ning Liu was.

Ning Liu used the Asura Demon Sword to destroy the Nine-headed Blood Bat controlling King of Slaughter and purify the City of Slaughter. The weakened old man recognized Ning Liu, thanked him, and collapsed.

• King of Slaughter attacked Bibi Dong and the others with a storm of blood arrows, while Yue Guan, Titan, Xu Jiushi, and Bibi Dong defended against them.
• Ning Liu sensed the human and Nine-headed Blood Bat wills struggling inside King of Slaughter and realized the bat drew power from the blood pool.
• Ning Liu summoned countless swords from folded layers of space and struck King of Slaughter with them all at once.
• The Nine-headed Blood Bat's phantom emerged from King of Slaughter, but Ning Liu's Asura Divine Power burned it away and calmed the blood pool.
• King of Slaughter's evil aura faded, and he thanked Ning Liu before closing his eyes and falling backward.

After defeating and purifying Tang Chen, Ning Liu used an immortal herb to revive him and secretly took him away. The Fallen Ones hailed Ning Liu as the new King of Slaughter, and he asked Bibi Dong whether the sinners in the City of Slaughter would accept a chance to atone.

• Ning Liu found Tang Chen near death after purifying him and fed him a Hundred Thousand Year Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone.
• The herb restored some of Tang Chen's strength, but Ning Liu judged that he still needed further treatment to survive.
• Ning Liu made Tang Chen vanish from the arena using an unexplained method.
• The Fallen Ones proclaimed Ning Liu the new King of Slaughter after he defeated the old king.
• Bibi Dong asked Ning Liu what he planned to do with the City of Slaughter, and Ning Liu asked whether its residents would accept a chance to atone for their sins.

Ning Liu reconsidered whether the City of Slaughter should be destroyed after Bibi Dong explained why the rejected Soul Masters had gathered there. He renamed it the City of Freedom and imposed a ban on fighting, killing, and disobedience, ending the chapter by killing a man who challenged his authority.

• Bibi Dong described the pasts of two Fallen Ones and warned Ning Liu that destroying the City of Slaughter would unleash tens of thousands of rejected Soul Masters upon the continent.
• Ning Liu accepted Bibi Dong’s argument that the Fallen Ones needed guidance and a place to live rather than blind destruction.
• Ning Liu renamed the City of Slaughter the City of Freedom and declared himself its first and only City Lord.
• Ning Liu abolished the old rules, banned private fighting and killing, and threatened violators with forced labor in the mines.
• A burly man protested the new rules, and Ning Liu killed him with sword qi before ordering the crowd to keep listening.

Ning Liu announced a new order for the City of Slaughter, offering its Fallen Ones a choice between safer arena matches, mining, and civic jobs while forbidding private violence. As he left to recruit capable organizers, Bibi Dong and her companions realized he intended to build a nation within a nation.

• Ning Liu killed an arena challenger and used the display to command the Fallen Ones’ attention.
• Ning Liu denounced the City of Slaughter as a trap that exploited its fighters and left them with a doomed path.
• Ning Liu proposed a points-based gladiatorial arena where winners could earn rewards and losers would survive unless they lost all their points.
• Ning Liu offered mining as an alternative source of points and promised administrative, enforcement, and building jobs to those who could help run the city.
• Ning Liu banned private fighting and killing, then invited capable applicants to meet him backstage at the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Bibi Dong remained silent as Yue Guan concluded that Ning Liu meant to build a nation within a nation.

Ning Liu began turning the City of Slaughter into the City of Freedom by recruiting its first followers and assigning them roles in a new civic order. Bibi Dong watched his plan take shape and acknowledged the scale of his move.

• The Corpse-Eating Crow woman and a burly gladiator led six other Fallen Ones to follow Ning Liu backstage, choosing his promised alternative to slaughter.
• Ning Liu told the eight recruits that he was the Sect Master of Glazed Heaven Sect and promised supplies and rewards in exchange for building a City of Freedom under his control.
• Ning Liu appointed Hu Tu captain of law enforcement and ordered him to ban private fights, arrest violators, and kill anyone who resisted.
• Ning Liu appointed Ya Jiu to coordinate supplies and conduct a census, then assigned the other recruits to plan the arena system, city repairs, and mining operations.
• The eight recruits accepted their orders and left to carry them out, while Bibi Dong praised Ning Liu's grand move.

Ning Liu asked Bibi Dong about the Rakshasa God's influence and the Asura God's inheritance in the City of Slaughter. After she revealed the Asura Blood Pool's location, Ning Liu set off to investigate it.

• Ning Liu thanked Bibi Dong for advising him to transform the City of Slaughter rather than simply seize it by force.
• Ning Liu asked Bibi Dong whether the Rakshasa God had affected her, and she explained how its aura tainted those who remained in the city.
• Ning Liu asked Bibi Dong where the Asura God's inheritance site was, and she pointed out the Hell Road entrance behind the throne.
• Bibi Dong told Ning Liu that the Asura God's true trial lay at the Asura Blood Pool, the city's source of power and the place most corrupted by the Rakshasa God.
• Ning Liu decided to investigate the entrance to the Hell Road immediately.

Ning Liu led Bibi Dong and their companions along Hell Road, where they easily overcame its dangers. Bibi Dong reflected on how different her earlier, solitary trial had been as the group continued onward.

• Ning Liu opened a passage through the skull wall and led Bibi Dong, Chrysanthemum Douluo, Xu Jiushi, and Titan into Hell Road.
• Bibi Dong explained that Hell Road amplified negative emotions, while Ning Liu and the others showed no sign of being troubled by it.
• Xu Jiushi knocked the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King unconscious after Ning Liu told him to make it quick.
• Yue Guan bound the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent and dragged it from the abyss, then released it when Ning Liu ordered him to let it remain a gatekeeper.
• Ning Liu praised Bibi Dong for completing Hell Road alone in the past, and Bibi Dong said the road would have been easy with his strength and companions.

Bibi Dong revealed that the Rakshasa God had forced her to corrupt the Asura Blood Pool, and the group watched as the Rakshasa power left in it returned to her. As the pool began to purify, the story left Bibi Dong enduring the backlash of its accumulated resentment.

• Bibi Dong led Ning Liu and the others to the Asura Blood Pool, where they found it polluted by clashing Asura and Rakshasa divine powers.
• Bibi Dong explained that she had used her essence blood to contaminate the pool at the Rakshasa God's command, disrupting the Asura God's Eighth Trial and causing the King of Slaughter to be parasitized by the Nine-headed Bat King.
• Ning Liu told Bibi Dong that they had come to end the past, and the Rakshasa mark on her forehead lit up.
• The polluted pool boiled and sent its Rakshasa power surging into Bibi Dong, who endured the force and the negative emotions left behind.
• As Bibi Dong absorbed the returning power, the pool changed from purplish black to dark red and began to recover its pure killing intent.

After Bibi Dong purified the Asura Blood Pool and completed a hidden Rakshasa trial, Ning Liu’s Asura Demon Sword (Replica) absorbed the pool’s power and began transforming toward a true divine artifact. The blood pool was left completely dry, with the newly empowered sword floating at the platform’s center.

• Bibi Dong stabilized her Rakshasa God Seal, learned she had passed the first six Rakshasa trials, and raised her Rakshasa Affinity to 60%.
• Bibi Dong reflected on cleansing the blood pool and looked at Ning Liu with softened frost in her eyes.
• Ning Liu’s Asura Demon Sword (Replica) reacted to the purified pool, so he released it into the rising blood tornado.
• The sword devoured the entire blood pool as pure Asura Divine Power reshaped its internal structure.
• The pool dried up, leaving the blood-red sword floating before the stunned onlookers.

Ning Liu’s imitation Asura Sword absorbed the Asura Blood Pool’s inheritance and became a true divine artifact, recognizing him as its master. In the God Realm, the Asura God sensed the new Asura aura and began searching for its source.

• The Asura Sword identified itself to Ning Liu and returned to his hand as its power and bond with him transformed.
• Ning Liu told Xu Jiushi that the sword had simply evolved, then stored it and prepared to leave the City of Slaughter with Bibi Dong.
• The Asura God sensed that his Asura Blood Pool had vanished and detected a newly born aura of pure Asura Divine Power in the lower realm.
• The Asura God searched the God Realm Laws for his missing inheritor and wondered who had created the unexpected new aura.