The Martial Soul Skeleton, in Douluo Continent's Bone-Changing Susanoo

Chapter 141 Road to Hell

"Die!" A loud and excited voice rang out, and then a Fallen One lunged at Xia Liang.

The fallen one was a middle-aged man with a well-proportioned and somewhat muscular build. He charged forward wielding a giant hammer in the form of energy, which was clearly a weapon spirit based on a hammer.

Using his X-ray vision, Xia Liang could tell from the thickness of the soul power within the body that this fallen soul with the hammer spirit possessed at least the cultivation level of a Soul Saint.

However, the City of Slaughter restricts the use of soul skills, which means that the Fallen One can only fight using the Hammer Soul, and cannot manifest soul rings or activate soul skills.

Soul Ring skills are restricted, but Soul Bone skills can still be used.

This is where the benefits of having a soul bone become apparent.

The bone dragon's external left palm bone was released, and Xia Liang's left hand transformed into a black dragon claw, grabbing forward and, as if taking something from a distance, tightly grasping the neck and body of the hammer spirit fallen one.

At the same time, Xia Liang activated the Bone Dragon Thrust skill, which attached to his left palm, and a sharp black bone pierced out from his left palm.

There was a soft "plop" sound.

Sharp black bone pierced through the neck of the Hammer Martial Soul Fallen, and blood bloomed like fireworks on the back of his neck.

Under the dark attribute erosion of the Bone Dragon Thrust, the Hammer Martial Soul Fallen's body skeleton and flesh rapidly collapsed, and he vanished into thin air in Xia Liang's left palm grip.

Upon seeing this, the surrounding fallen ones stopped fighting.

A fallen warrior with a sword-wielding spirit suddenly shouted, "Kill him! Kill him first!"

Immediately afterwards, a total of eight Fallen Ones swarmed toward Xia Liang's location almost simultaneously.

With his gaze fixed on the fallen sword spirit who had just shouted, Xia Liang swung his left hand forward, and a sharp black bone transformed into a three-foot-long black iron rod, which suddenly shot out from his left palm.

Surprisingly, the black iron rod suddenly disappeared into space, passing through the space where several fallen beings were located before reappearing and piercing the heart of the fallen being with the sword spirit.

In that very brief instant, the twelve-meter-tall, half-skeletal Susanoo that appeared above Xia Liang's head suddenly swung its right hand at the other Fallen Ones who were charging towards him, instantly grabbing a total of seven Fallen Ones in its palm.

Under the control of his mind, the ossified Susanoo squeezed hard with its giant hand, crushing the seven fallen ones to pieces in its enormous palm. The crimson blood spilled onto the ground like raindrops on a canvas.

As the corpses of the fallen Blade Martial Souls turned to ashes, only Xia Liang remained standing on the killing arena stage. The other nine fallen Blade Martial Souls were all reduced to ashes, and even their souls were devoured by the Undead Skeleton Martial Souls.

Among the nine fallen ones, there are two Soul Kings, four Soul Emperors, and three Soul Saints.

After devouring their spirits, although I couldn't obtain all their cultivation, I did accumulate a lot of physical energy.

Using his X-ray vision to examine the flow of soul power within his meridians, Xia Liang smiled with satisfaction. His decision to accelerate the increase in soul power by devouring the dead was indeed correct.

Although he is still at level 68 in terms of soul power, the thickness of his soul power has increased significantly. If he continues to kill like this, he will be able to break through the level 70 bottleneck in less than half a year.

The tenth day since entering the Killing City.

The number of fallen individuals who died at Xia Liang's hands already exceeded three digits, and he had only participated in five matches.

After ten days, Xia Liang gradually got used to life in the Killing City.

Here, the real concern isn't the enemies inside the hellish killing field.

Rather, it is the various threats one faces after the killing is over, when one is at one's weakest.

Each time you participate in a killing spree, you must give it your all in a ten-person death match. On your way back to the hotel from the hellish killing field, you must also be wary of ambushes and pursuits from other fallen ones.

Facing various unpredictable dangers and situations requires sufficient physical strength, spiritual strength, and mental fortitude.

Therefore, the fallen ones living in the Killing City generally wait until they are in excellent physical condition before participating in the killing in the Hell Killing Fields. No one wants to be killed before they have even had a chance to enjoy their decadent and depraved days.

However, in the City of Slaughter, Xia Liang doesn't need to worry about running out of physical strength and soul power.

Because his Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone can restore physical strength and injuries, and the restoration of soul power can also be achieved by having his Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul devour undead.

With a hundred Gengar lurking in the shadows to observe and protect them, they are more likely to be ambushed or plotted against.

Before we knew it, a month had passed quickly.

Having honed his skills in the Killing City, Xia Liang has developed his own rhythm of life. Currently, his record in the Hell Killing Arena is fifteen wins, which means he has participated in fifteen death matches in a month.

Registering for the Hell Killing Arena fifteen times in a month is unprecedented.

As a newcomer, Xia Liang's actions not only attracted the attention of many degenerates, but also drew the attention of the law enforcement team.

If a Fallen One were allowed to kill at this rate, how many Fallen Ones would survive in the Killing Capital?

In order to maintain the population of the Killing City, the captain of the enforcement team wanted to interfere and deliberately prevent the Fallen from signing up for any killings that Xia Liang was involved in.

Unfortunately, with the effects of attacking souls in the necromantic domain and top-level mental control, those fallen ones were completely powerless. Without exception, all those who met the competition requirements were forcibly registered to participate in the killing by Xia Liang's mental manipulation.

That's how they achieved a record of fifteen wins in just one month.

After getting used to the killing in the Hell Slaughter Arena, Xia Liang became more purposeful. Of the nine people he killed in each round, he would select one or two dead souls and seal them in the Undead Domain. The remaining dead souls would be devoured by the Undead Skeleton Martial Soul to help increase his cultivation.

To date, the number of undead sealed within the realm of the dead has reached as high as one thousand. Among them are undead who are level 89 Soul Douluo powerhouses, as well as some undead who have low Soul Power levels but possess special Martial Soul abilities.

For example, a spirit master with a book-like spirit was a six-ring spirit emperor in life. Even without spirit rings, he could summon the monsters sealed within the book. However, there can only be a maximum of six monsters in the book, and the number of times it can be sealed is determined by the number of spirit rings.

Don't underestimate the six monsters in the Book Martial Soul. By consuming soul power and mental power, you can summon these six monsters multiple times. In a sense, as long as your soul power and mental power are large enough, you can summon them infinitely.

In addition, there was a spirit master who possessed the Elemental Scepter Martial Soul. In his previous life, he was a five-ring Soul Emperor, which is related to the fact that his Elemental Scepter Martial Soul could only be equipped with a maximum of five Soul Rings.

This Soul Master can summon elemental attacks corresponding to the five Soul Rings to descend from the sky, thereby achieving large-scale or long-range attacks.

These undead with special martial soul abilities are very suitable for use in all-out war. They can be sealed in the undead realm and summoned later when needed using the sixth soul skill, Reverse Arena of Life and Death.

As more undead were sealed in the Undead Domain, Xia Liang originally thought that the domain space would be filled up. However, to his surprise, the increase in the number of sealed undead did not cause any burden on the Undead Domain. Instead, it prompted the domain to evolve.

The current undead domain now covers an area of ​​500 meters, and the associated alternate dimension has also doubled in size. This increases the damage inflicted on the souls of those attacked.

These benefits bring the undead attribute of the Necromancer Skeleton Martial Soul one step closer to its ultimate attribute.

It wasn't until the third month after entering the Killing City.

The number of undead sealed within the realm of the dead has reached as high as two thousand. These undead were engaged in a wide variety of professions in their previous lives, including senior poisoners, pharmacists, swordsmen, and so on. They were all top performers in their respective fields.

If two thousand undead from the undead realm could be summoned at the same time, it would be equivalent to having a completely elite army of soul masters.

However, this is currently impossible.

Just summoning Tang Hao, who possessed an 89th-level soul power, consumed two-thirds of his soul power and mental energy.

Unless one possesses an extremely regenerative physique capable of rapidly recovering from the depletion of soul and mental energy, they simply cannot withstand the frequent summoning of the undead.

In these three months, in addition to his undead domain becoming stronger, Xia Liang's soul power level finally broke through the bottleneck of level seventy after devouring various undead.

His practical experience became richer, and his combat skills became increasingly outstanding. Living in the dangerous killing city also had a good training effect on his mental strength and calm judgment.

Three months of killing had made Xia Liang disregard life and death. Compared with when he first entered the Killing City, his expression had become colder, and he even had a faint bloody aura, giving people a feeling of bloodthirstiness, coldness, and cruelty.

However, Xia Liang's personality did not change drastically due to his life in the Killing City. His cold and evil appearance was merely a reflection of his murderous and wicked aura. Apart from becoming more decisive in his actions, his personality did not change much.

Because the places he stayed were always filled with the aura of the dead. The roads he passed were always piled with corpses and reeked of blood. Therefore, Xia Liang was given the title of Grim Reaper by the fallen ones of the Killing City.

Another month passed before his record reached ninety wins, still ten wins short of qualifying for the Hell Road.

Now, those fallen ones who have reached the point of participating in the ninetieth killing have all gone into hiding. No one wants to be matched with Xia Liang as an opponent, because in the hands of Death, even the soul will be imprisoned or even erased, never to be reborn.

No one would be foolish enough to engage in a deadly fight against an opponent they know they can't win.

With less than four months left until the deadline for the first test of the Evil God, and unable to find an opponent willing to match him, Xia Liang had no choice but to have his Gengar search every corner of the Killing City, find the hidden Fallen Ones, and then use their mental attributes to control them and force them to participate in the competition.

It wasn't until the following month that he finally achieved a record of ninety-nine wins. He only needed to win one more kill to qualify for the Hell Road.

The City of Slaughter, the Hellish Slaughter Arena.

boom--

The last opponent was reduced to a pool of blood by the blow of Ossified Susanoo.

This was the last opponent, and also the last victory.

With the bone-transformed Susanoo released, Xia Liang gazed at the purple sky. After spending half a year in the City of Slaughter, he had finally achieved a hundred victories.

My soul power level has reached the bottleneck of level 70, and the undead domain has been upgraded once again. The number of undead sealed within the domain has reached three thousand, and the domain covers an area of ​​over seven hundred meters. It's time to leave.

As Xia Liang crushed his last opponent, the Fallen Ones in the Killing Arena fell silent. They had become unusually well-behaved, fearing that a single shout would attract the attention of Death and lead to their annihilation.

An almost tangible crimson aura formed a huge vortex in the air; this was the accumulated killing intent from Xia Liang's hundred killings.

As the massive vortex of killing intent flowed into his body, his black pupils suddenly turned red, and a peculiar mark appeared in them.

The mark is exactly the same as the symbol engraved on the floor of the Hellfire Arena, but no one knows what it means.

Despite their fear of death, the presence of witnesses to a hundred victories still roused the fallen in the audience to shout.

The name Death echoed throughout the entire hellish killing field.

"Congratulations, Fallen One number 900. No, they call you Death."

Upon hearing the sudden low, sharp sound, the atmosphere in the hellish killing field became even more heated, and the fallen ones cheered and jumped for joy.

Because in mid-air, the figure of the city's supreme ruler, the King of Slaughter, descended from the sky and slowly floated down onto the throne on the display platform.

"King of Slaughter, King of Slaughter, King of Slaughter..." The almost frenzied and excited shouts made the Fallen Ones hoarse, but they did not stop cheering.

Xia Liang looked toward the display stand, where the King of Slaughter was already sitting on the throne, accompanied by a woman in black veils.

The woman in black veiled fawned over him from the moment she entered the City of Slaughter. Later, he learned that this was all arranged by the King of Slaughter, who used his beauty to keep the genius sent in by the God of Slaughter forever serving in the City of Slaughter.

The King of Slaughter. He was a tall, imposing man, his entire body shrouded in a huge, blood-red cloak.

With his pale face and blood-red eyes, he didn't even need to consciously activate his power; his domineering killing aura automatically suppressed those around him.

Xia Liang was certain that the King of Slaughter's strength was no less than Qian Daoliu's, and even with the power of the angels, it would be unrealistic to kill him.

After all, according to the original description, the King of Slaughter was able to use the Asura God's super artifact, the Asura Demon Sword, which meant that his strength was greater than any peerless Douluo.

"Grim Reaper, this title suits you perfectly. From this day forward, you are the Grim Reaper of the Killing City. Anyone you dislike can have their life taken, or even have their soul erased."

The King of Slaughter lowered his head, looked at Xia Liang standing on the arena, and said in a deep voice, "Furthermore, to commend your achievements, I have decided to exceptionally bestow upon you the title of God of Slaughter. From now on, you may freely enter and leave the City of Slaughter. Moreover, you will be appointed as a guest elder of the City of Slaughter, under my command."

Xia Liang smiled. "No need. Great King of Slaughter, please open the Road to Hell. The God of Slaughter who sent me here is waiting for me to come out and do his bidding."

Upon hearing this, the King of Slaughter's expression changed drastically, his blood-red eyes revealing a hint of murderous intent.