Douluo Continent: The Eternal Order of the Azure Sky.

Blood splattered into his back and exited through his left chest, bringing with it a spray of hot blood.

A hand with five fingers and nails as sharp as knives was slightly extended, and the arm was covered with a layer of dark red, eerie patterns, like countless tiny blood snakes crawling and wriggling under the skin.

It appears that the hand pierced Kong Tianxu's left chest and heart.

"Hahahahaha—!"

An extremely arrogant laugh erupted behind Kong Tianxu. A figure slowly emerged from the void.

A blood-red robe, a stand-up collar cloak, a pale face, the cloak fluttering in the wind, covered with large and small purplish-black holes, like pus and blood seeping from wounds that have healed and then been torn open again.

King of Slaughter.

He had changed a lot compared to back then. Many strange blood patterns had appeared on his pale skin, and there was a sword-shaped demonic mark on his forehead.

The King of Slaughter looked at his hand, which had pierced Kong Tianxu's left chest, and at the blood gushing from between his fingers; his laughter grew even sharper.

"I want to thank you!"

"You actually helped me get rid of such a major threat! I've wanted to get rid of that eyesore Tang Hao for a long time. But he had the Killing God Domain, and I really didn't know what to do with him. Finally dead! Good riddance! A wonderful death! Hahahaha!"

His laughter stopped abruptly. He lowered his head and examined Kong Tianxu's body with an almost greedy gaze. His fingers slowly moved inside Kong Tianxu's chest cavity, as if sensing the frequency of the heart's last beat before it died.

"And you, with such a superb physique, such a powerful martial soul, such perfect talent. You are more suitable as a host than Tang Chen. Let me become your new heart! Let me merge with your body, and together, let us reign supreme in this entire City of Slaughter, and reign supreme over the entire Douluo Continent!"

He suddenly tightened his grip, his fingers clenching, as if to rip the heart out of Kong Tianxu's chest.

Then, like a feather falling on the snow, a faint voice echoed from all directions:

"Since you know my physical strength is great, do you think you can pierce my heart so easily?"

The King of Slaughter's tightening hand suddenly froze.

He felt a chilling coldness rise from the very bottom of his spine, so intense and pure that the blood of slaughter that had flowed through his body for countless years was frozen solid in that instant.

The King of Slaughter's body reacted instinctively. As his blood-red claws retracted, his feet slammed into the ground, and his entire body shot backward like a streak of blood-red lightning.

But even faster than he withdrew his hand, the figure in front of him seemed like a dream, its colors slowly spreading, fading, and dissipating.

"How is this possible!" The King of Slaughter's voice became shrill and distorted. "Slaughter City, you don't even have the God of Slaughter Domain, yet you can use soul skills?"

Then, as if remembering something, his blood-red pupils suddenly contracted.

The most intense element is fear.

A strand of silver hair drifted from behind him, the end of which carried the crimson halo of a solitary 100,000-year soul ring.

"Tangible and tangible spiritual power, how could you possibly understand it?"

The King of Slaughter let out a sharp shriek, and his body instantly transformed into thousands of tiny blood-red bats, about to flee towards the outside world.

A terrifying suction force suddenly came.

"This is the true soul skill."

The pitch-black background, in that instant, spread out in all directions from Kong Tianxu's feet.

The entire space flipped at the same moment, as if someone had torn a scroll in half to reveal a pure black background, the blackness converging from the horizon towards the center. In an instant, everything was swallowed up by that pure darkness.

The blood-red bats that tried to flee in all directions crashed into an invisible wall in the darkness, unable to fly an inch further.

Darkness gathered around them, gradually compressing their space to move around.

When the darkness finally subsided, the swarm of bats gathered together, transforming into a pair of tattered, blood-red bat wings.

The King of Slaughter, now several times smaller, frantically threw off the oversized cloak that covered him completely, only to find himself standing on a fighting ring.

Beyond the arena lay endless darkness.

Across the arena, Kong Tianxu's figure slowly emerged from the pitch-black background. His white robes stood out starkly against the darkness, like a blade formed purely of light.

A murderous aura emanated from them.

The innate abilities of the 100,000-year-old Dark Demon God Tiger, the first soul skill of the Holy Spirit Demon Puppet, the Arena of Life and Death.

"King of Slaughter, do you still remember me?"

Kong Tianxu's voice echoed on the arena. A terrifying purple aura began to spread around him.

The purplish-gold soul power flowed within the purple aura, splitting into a thin silver stream. That stream meandered out, swirling, condensing, and taking shape beside him, finally transforming into a silver dragon.

The dragon's body was long and elegant, covered entirely in silvery-white scales. Each scale was only the size of a fingernail, its edges gleaming with a cold metallic sheen. Its head was held high, and a pair of purplish-gold eyes slowly opened, looking down condescendingly at the King of Slaughter opposite it on the arena.

"You are... that kid with the Silver Dragon Martial Soul!"

The King of Slaughter's deep, sharp voice, incongruous with his youthful appearance, rang out, cracking slightly with intense emotional fluctuations.

"How could this be? Only five years! How could you be so strong!"

The King of Slaughter's voice was filled with extreme shock and disbelief.

Five years ago, when this young man escaped from his clutches, he was just a minor Soul King.

Five years later, he defeated Tang Hao with just one punch. What kind of training speed is that? What kind of talent is that?

Kong Tianxu held the Sky-Piercing Spear, its tip pointing at the King of Slaughter opposite him on the arena. A slight, cold smile played on his lips.

"Now, who is the prey?"

The silver dragon roared, unleashing five years of pent-up rage without restraint. Its claws, carrying terrifying elemental fluctuations, tore through space as the King of Slaughter looked on in despair.

There is nowhere to run!

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The darkness receded like a tide.

The arena of life and death gradually disappeared into the darkness, as if it had never existed. Only the bloody soul rings that floated silently could prove that the crushing battle had indeed taken place.

In the arena of life and death, the opponent's strength is restored to its former youth while the player remains completely unchanged. With such a huge difference in strength, Kong Tianxu ended the battle without much effort.

With a flick of his wrist, a small soul tool appeared in his palm.

This soul tool is blood red in color and appears to be carved from a special crystal. The crystal has countless intricate patterns on it.

Kong Tianxu pressed a button on it, and immediately the entire circular soul tool lit up, with red ripples spreading outwards.

Soon, it touched the blood-red soul ring floating in the air, and the red ripples immediately wrapped around it as if they had found a target.

Strangely enough, the invisible, intangible crimson soul ring was drawn towards it by these red ripples and merged into them. Soon, it was absorbed into the small soul tool.

Kong Tianxu glanced down at the soul tool in his palm and nodded slightly.

The soul tool he just used is called a soul ring storage device. Don't be fooled by its small size; the materials used in it are extremely rare.

Its core magic array needs to be carved from a blood jade marrow that only grows deep in the Yangyun Volcano, while the inner shell needs to use a rare metal called Soul Gathering Gold Crystal, a piece the size of a fingernail is priceless.

This soul ring storage device was the result of Xuan Ziwen's research. It was with this achievement that he became the chief researcher of Mingde Hall.

Unfortunately, although this thing was ingeniously designed and its practical value was undeniable, its cost was simply too high.

The Soul Gathering Gold Crystal alone, which serves as the inner shell, is enough to bankrupt a mid-level sect. Furthermore, its level eight soul tool makes its production extremely difficult, with even experienced level eight soul tool masters achieving a success rate of less than 30%.

Therefore, although Xuan Ziwen's research received high praise within the Mingde Hall, it was not widely promoted in the Sun Moon Empire.

In fact, it couldn't be promoted at all. In the eyes of many people, spending enough resources to build a team of soul tools to exchange for a small gadget that can only store soul rings and has a limited storage time is a losing deal no matter how you look at it.

According to Xuan Ziwen's original design, this level eight soul ring storage device could temporarily store soul rings under the guidance of the core magic array through a special fluctuation of its own metal.

It can store up to nine spirit rings at the same time, but only for one week. After one week, the stored spirit rings will dissipate on their own, and the energy will return to the world.

The one in Kong Tianxu's hand, after being modified by Kong Deming and himself, can now store spirit rings for a long time.

Of course, the price was that its grade also changed from level eight to level nine.

Kong Tianxu put away the soul ring storage device and turned his gaze in another direction.

There, a strange skeleton floated.

It was a structure similar to a vertebra, with many other bones connected to it. The entire torso bone had a lustrous, blood-red texture, as if it were carved from the purest blood-red crystal, yet it possessed a warm, soft glow that surpassed crystal.

This should be a piece of torso bone that Kong Tianxu was missing.

Like the previous 100,000-year soul ring, this torso bone was also formed after the fall of the King of Slaughter. The fact that it could produce a soul ring and soul bone means that the so-called King of Slaughter was a genuine 100,000-year soul beast, and a super existence at the very top of the pyramid - the Crimson Nine-Headed Bat King.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be able to reside within Tang Chen, the strongest level 99 peerless Douluo in the world, and control his every word and action.

Kong Tianxu carefully examined the soul bone.

Compared to a normal torso, it appears rather enormous, but what occupies most of its volume is a pair of huge wings covered with extremely terrifying magic patterns. Just by looking at them, one can feel that it perfectly inherits the toughness and sharpness of this 100,000-year-old blood-red nine-headed bat king.

In stark contrast is the central torso, with its incredibly thick vertebrae. Each vertebra looks as if it has been repeatedly forged, giving it an extremely heavy feel, as if it contains a terrifying power capable of splitting mountains and shattering rocks.

Kong Tianxu raised his eyebrows slightly.

This sense of weight and solidity doesn't seem to belong to the Crimson Nine-Headed Bat King himself.

That beast's strength is mainly reflected in its speed and attack power; its skeletal structure should be lighter, rather than the robust and heavy build of this kind of brute-force-type soul beast.

Could it be... that Tang Chen's power has also been integrated into it?

After a moment's thought, he understood the key to it.

The King of Slaughter was formed when the Crimson Nine-Headed Bat King possessed Tang Chen while he was completing the Asura God Trial. Now that they have both perished, a portion of Tang Chen's cultivation as a level 99 Peerless Douluo and his abilities as the Asura God of Slaughter have been inherited by this soul bone.

This was an unexpected delight. The Crimson Nine-Headed Bat King was the direct successor to the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King, possessing extremely powerful bloodline strength. Coupled with the tempering of Tang Chen's lifelong cultivation, the quality of this soul bone far surpassed that of ordinary 100,000-year-old soul bones.

Undoubtedly, this combination of spirit rings and spirit bones is a perfect fit for Cain.

Kong Tianxu had taken this into account when he killed the King of Slaughter, and used a specially treated soul tool to deliver a fatal blow, so that the soul rings and soul bones had no restrictions on the absorber.

As for Kong Tianxu himself, this soul bone is good, but it may not be suitable for him.

Moreover, it is only 100,000 years old, which is undoubtedly much worse than the one Kong Tianxu chose for himself.

He nodded in satisfaction and put the torso bone into his storage soul tool.

In addition to the two high-quality ten-thousand-year soul bones that Tang Hao revealed, and the location of the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor leg bone extracted from Tang Hao's memories, Kong Tianxu's trip can be considered quite fruitful.

After putting away the soul bone, Kong Tianxu played with the small golden hammer in his hand, a golden light flashing in his eyes.

Those who deserved to die have all been executed; the next one is—

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His figure gradually disappeared among the ruins of the killing city.