Chapter 116: Slaying the Blood Demon

As the Blood Demon kept drawing nearer, Li Xuan strained to ignite the Burning Heart Divine Flame within the Blood Demon's body; once this creature's Heart Fire is fully lit, its reason will be devoured by rage and it will soon die of exhaustion.

However, the Blood Demon's Soul Saint Realm soul power is indeed domineering, actually allowing it to resist the Burning Heart Divine Flame with its soul power.

Yet the Blood Demon is still affected by the Burning Heart Divine Flame, constantly having to allocate some energy to suppress its inner rage, unable to unleash its full combat power.

Watching the Blood Demon draw ever closer, Li Xuan rolled his eyes at the creature.

"I'm not limited to just one kind of fire…" Li Xuan shrugged, saying so with utter ease.

At some point, a thick layer of Filthy Flame, resembling petroleum, began seeping from beneath Li Xuan's feet; centered on him, the ground within several meters was completely covered with Filthy Flame.

The Blood Demon paid no mind to the black liquid flowing on the ground and kept charging at Li Xuan.

When the Blood Demon was only five meters from Li Xuan.

"Puff!"

Suddenly, a Filthy Flame Tentacle rose from the ground, lunging straight for the Blood Demon's chest.

Li Xuan wasn't using a soul skill but his powerful control over Filthy Flame, releasing an attack that functioned like a soul skill through that control.

"Petty trick!" the Blood Demon snorted coldly, disregarding Li Xuan's attack, lightly tapping the ground before retreating straight back.

The moment its toe tip touched the Filthy Flame, the Blood Demon's shoe was corroded with a large hole, and even its toes were burned.

"You little brat are indeed odd, but that won't stop you from becoming my blood meal!" the Blood Demon snarled.

The Blood Demon suddenly jerked its head up and opened its mouth.

"Gulu… gulu…"

The Blood Demon's mouth turned into a fountain, bright red blood continuously gushing out.

"Whoa, that's so disgusting?" Li Xuan was stunned, staring dumbfounded at the scene.

This should be an ability of the Blood Demon's martial soul, but it's still rather filthy.

"The Blood Demon actually used its martial soul against a little kid!"

"That little kid is indeed quite strong, managing to trade blows with the Blood Demon."

…

As blood kept gushing out, the Blood Demon turned into a monster that constantly bled all over its body.

Yet Li Xuan could no longer sense the monster's Heart Fire.

【5】 "Lost your edge?" Li Xuan raised an eyebrow, gave a light laugh, and looked at the monster without any fear.

"Did you go too far?" Li Xuan raised his eyebrows, gave a light laugh, and looked at the monster before him without any fear.

"Come on, let me see if you can withstand my flame." Li Xuan shook his head; the Burning Heart Divine Flame fireball in his hand instantly turned into ink‑black Filthy Flame.

The Filthy Flame in Li Xuan's hand was like an oil spring, continuously spewing Filthy Flame from his hand, forming a black "puddle" on the ground.

"Come on, I always felt your blood is a great tonic for Filthy Flame." Li Xuan smiled faintly, then his spirit stirred; the Filthy Flame pool instantly surged like a wave and lunged at the Blood Demon.

"Chi…" "Chi…"

"Chi…"

The wave of Filthy Flame, upon touching the Blood Demon, was like cold water hitting a red‑hot iron ball, constantly vaporizing crimson energy.

The Blood Demon let out a strange cry as the Filthy Flame scalded it.

Li Xuan ignored the creature's scream, instead being drawn to the energy it emitted.

"This is… Spiritual Energy? How could Spiritual Energy appear? Such high‑level energy shouldn't show up on Douluo Continent." Li Xuan furrowed his brows, looking at the energy released by the Blood Demon, muttering in shock. He didn't doubt his sight; after all this Spiritual Energy resembled that in the Bing Huo Liang Yi Yan, yet it lacked the pure quality of the Spiritual Energy in the Bing Huo Liang Yi Yan; Douluo Continent may look splendid, but its soul power quality is not high, far inferior to the Spiritual Energy in the Bing Huo Liang Yi Yan.

The energy emanating from the Blood Demon was Spiritual Energy of a quality lower than that in the Bing Huo Liang Yi Yan, yet still superior to soul power.

Still, Li Xuan didn't rashly approach to check the Blood Demon's condition, since the creature could still kill him.

After a while, the Blood Demon, wounded, was forced to retract its martial soul back into its body.

Li Xuan stared at the gravely wounded Blood Demon.

Black turned red! The Filthy Flame instantly transformed into Burning Heart Divine Flame, beginning a frenzied assault on the Blood Demon's Heart Fire.

Before the Blood Demon could recover, its emotions were completely overtaken by rage, rendering normal thought impossible.

"No!" the Blood Demon shook its head, using soul power to suppress the Burning Heart Divine Flame.

At this moment, the Heart Fire inside the Blood Demon's body had been fully ignited by the Burning Heart Divine Flame; no matter how hard it tried, it could not resist the consumption of its Heart Fire.

Its originally red pupils instantly turned chaotic, the entire eyeball becoming blood‑red.

Li Xuan sensed the Blood Demon's Heart Fire was completely ignited, and slowly retracted the Filthy Flame on the ground back into his own body.

At the same time, he also gathered several Soul Guide Devices from the arena into his own hands.

"Ah!" the Blood Demon finally collapsed, anger filling its core, reason completely gone.

Immediately, the Blood Demon began crazily carving wound after wound onto its own body.

After a dozen minutes, the ground was left with only a pool of fresh blood and a red robe; the Blood Demon's martial soul backfired, turning it into a puddle of blood.

Li Xuan did not step forward; instead he commanded a Filthy Flame Tentacle to retrieve the Soul Guide Device, also bringing back a fist‑sized blood‑red crystal, then waved at the host.

The arena fell silent; no one could have imagined that the Blood Demon, unbeaten in 37 consecutive matches, died at the hands of an obscure little brat.

Seeing Li Xuan's raised hand, the host finally snapped back to reality.

"Today's match was truly spectacular; the Blood Demon, with 37 straight wins, died in a newcomer's hands. Congratulations to the victor of this match, 6013… kid!" the host's voice remained as lofty and resonant as ever.

After hearing the host, the others around finally came to their senses and began cheering; the Hell Slaughter Arena has no strongmen, only victors, and everyone only cheers for the victor.

Amid the cheers, a massive iron gate not far from Li Xuan slowly rose.

The City of Slaughter indeed followed the rules; after winning, it actually released itself, and Li Xuan had originally thought he still had several more matches to fight.

(End of Chapter)