Chapter 217: The Devoured Killing God Domain
After resting for an hour in the Hell Road, Luo Ling waited until Hu Liena had recovered before resuming their journey.
"Xiao Ling, how did you know that core could evolve a Martial Spirit?" Hu Liena asked, hopping happily behind him.
Her Martial Spirit's evolution and the power of her new sixth spirit skill filled her with joy. With greater strength, she could finally better support Luo Ling.
The sixth ability, Demonic Fire Evil Flame, had transformed her attacks—she was now as powerful as an assault-type spirit master, no longer limited to long-range charm techniques.
"I read about the Ten-Headed Blazing Sun Serpent once, in an old archive," Luo Ling replied casually.
As they talked, they reached the end of the Hell Road. The air grew hotter and the killing aura thickened around them.
Luo Ling released his Domain of Desire. Instantly, the suffocating killing intent was cut off—violently repelled by his domain.
His soul domain, capable of influencing and controlling emotional and spiritual desires, could easily suppress even the corrosive bloodlust of the Hell Road.
Before them stretched a blood-red ocean—formed by centuries of slaughter in the City of Slaughter.
At the center of that vast sea, a white oval barrier of light shimmered—the exit. It was nearly a kilometer away, with not a single place to stand along the way.
To leave, one had to cross the crimson sea itself.
Luo Ling couldn't help but admire it.
The Hell Road of the City of Slaughter was truly formidable: the blood bats at the entrance, the blazing serpent in the middle, and finally this endless sea of killing blood.
Each trial tested both strength and will. Without spirit skills, escaping alive was nearly impossible.
Even those who survived the beasts ahead could still drown in this blood sea, consumed by killing intent and turned into part of it forever.
But for Luo Ling, it was nothing.
"Let's go." He gestured for Hu Liena to follow.
Their Desire Cloaks flared around them, lifting them effortlessly across the sea.
Within moments, they reached the exit.
Looking back at the path behind them, Luo Ling thought idly of Tang San. When that boy finally walked this same road, how would he survive?
Without the Blue Silver Emperor's bloodline and domain, he would have no protection against the killing aura.
Would he die here, lost to madness and blood?
Luo Ling shook his head. Tang San's fate was irrelevant. His only concern with that boy had always been Yu Xiaogang.
Taking Hu Liena's hand, he moved decisively through the oval light barrier.
Instantly, the world around him changed. Vision went white—endless emptiness. A profound and ancient energy poured toward him, trying to merge into his body… no—into his Martial Spirit.
Luo Ling recognized it at once.
The Killing God Domain.
This was the mark left by the God of Shura for candidates of his divine inheritance.
Though Luo Ling already possessed the Primordial and Evil God assessments, another domain was always useful—power was still power.
He was just about to accept it when suddenly, his Martial Spirit stirred on its own.
The surrounding energy was pushed back.
The Demon of Desire was rejecting the Killing God Domain!
Luo Ling's heart trembled—but it didn't stop there.
A crimson gleam flashed through his eyes, and the devouring power of his Martial Spirit burst forth.
The surrounding energy was consumed in an instant.
Luo Ling could feel it vividly—the Killing God Domain that was supposed to embed into him was being completely swallowed by his Martial Spirit.
His Domain of Mind began to transform.
After a long, silent moment, when the last trace of the divine mark was gone, Luo Ling's eyes shone sharply.
His soul domain had evolved—absorbing the essence and power of the Killing God Domain entirely.
The void shattered with a thunderous crack.
When the light faded, Luo Ling stood once more in the world beyond the Hell Road.
He drew in a slow breath, sensing the profound changes within his body.
He had done something extraordinary.
The Killing God Domain was meant to bind its inheritors to the God of Shura, marking and monitoring them. But by devouring it, Luo Ling had gained its power while cutting the connection entirely.
…
In the Divine Realm, within the Shura Temple—
The God of Shura's eyes suddenly snapped open. "Impossible! Someone severed the mark of the Killing God Domain?"
With a wave of his hand, a blood-red screen materialized before him, revealing the scenes of the Hell Road.
"The Ten-Headed Blazing Sun Serpent… slain?" he muttered in surprise.
For several moments, he watched quietly, then shifted the image.
The King of Slaughter. Tang Hao. Bibi Dong. Hu Liena…
All four appeared, all still bearing the mark of his domain.
His brows furrowed as he searched further.
The Killing Arena looked as it always did—no anomalies.
But his expression turned cold.
There had always been three Killing Gods in the mortal world: the King of Slaughter, Tang Hao, and Bibi Dong.
Then came a fourth—Hu Liena.
But now… there was another. Someone who had passed through the Hell Road recently, one who had taken his power and then severed all ties.
His gaze drifted briefly to Hu Liena but soon moved away.
She was talented, yes, but not divinely qualified enough to reject him outright.
It never even occurred to the God of Shura that two people might have entered the Hell Road together and completed a hundred victories each.
The odds were too absurd.
"Who could it be…?" he murmured, eyes searching the shifting light before finally dismissing the screen.
He had left the City of Slaughter to choose a successor. Each who survived the Hell Road was a genius worthy of inheriting his divinity.
The one who not only survived but consumed his mark—that was beyond genius. It was power that rivaled gods.
To have such an inheritor would have been ideal.
But divine time flowed differently: one day in the Divine Realm equaled a year in the mortal world.
Without the mark, finding that person again was like searching for a needle in infinity.
…
At the exit of the Hell Road, Luo Ling tested his newly evolved Domain of Mind and smiled with satisfaction.
He looked around, realizing Hu Liena wasn't beside him.
During their passage through the exit, they had been forcibly separated.
He wasn't worried. They couldn't have been sent far apart.
Taking to the air, his mental sense rippled across the land.
Within moments, he felt her presence ten kilometers away.
Without hesitation, Luo Ling flew straight toward her.
(END CHAPTER)
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