With the infusion of rich life energy, Hu Liena's condition improved significantly, at least enough to stop her violent convulsions.
"Bang—"
In the next moment, Mu Yang delivered a precise hand chop to Hu Liena's neck, ensuring she wouldn't wake up anytime soon.
"Uh… what are you doing?"
Seeing this, Shui Bing'er was a little confused.
Mu Yang pointed at the only path leading out from the platform beneath their feet, a narrow road barely half a foot wide, and said, "This path should be the way out. But I've noticed something unusual about the environment here. You carry her, and we'll use our battle armor to fly across.
Hu Liena is, after all, someone from the Spirit Hall. It's best not to reveal too many of our hidden cards in front of her."
As he spoke, a dazzling blue light radiated from Mu Yang's body. The Iceflame Battle Armor materialized around him, and a pair of metallic blue wings spread out from his back.
"That works."
Nodding in agreement, Shui Bing'er picked up Hu Liena and summoned her Ice Phoenix Battle Armor as well.
It was known that Pope Bibi Dong was one of the Killing Gods of this era and had once passed through the Hell Road herself. Since Bibi Dong had allowed Hu Liena to come to the Slaughter City for training, it meant that while the Hell Road might be dangerous, Hu Liena was capable of surviving it.
Otherwise, if it were certain death, Bibi Dong would never have let Hu Liena come here.
Furthermore, both she and Mu Yang were stronger than Hu Liena, not to mention that they also had their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Given this, they had no need to be cautious. If they encountered any trials, they would simply bulldoze through them.
With a powerful flap of their battle armor wings, the two carried the unconscious Hu Liena and shot forward along the narrow path, diving into the darkness ahead.
"Mu Yang, do you feel the air getting hotter?"
After flying for a while, Shui Bing'er frowned and asked.
"Yeah, even though our altitude hasn't changed, we're actually getting closer to the blood river below."
Mu Yang glanced downward at the thin red line shrouded in darkness and nodded.
"Blood river?"
Shui Bing'er instinctively shifted her gaze downward.
After staring for a while, her expression darkened. "Is that river made of Bloody Mary?"
"It should be… but I'm not entirely sure."
Mu Yang sounded uncertain.
The blood river below seemed like nothing more than a thin red line, but that was only because of their distance. If they got closer, its true scale would surely be immense.
If this entire river were truly composed of human blood, then even the blood of over a billion people wouldn't be enough to form something of this magnitude.
After all, the blood volume of a normal human only makes up a single-digit percentage of their total body weight.
"Mu Yang, the deity behind the Slaughter City is most likely an Evil God… His inheritance…"
Shui Bing'er said worriedly, her expression uneasy.
She understood the true reason why Mu Yang had brought her to the Slaughter City. Winning a hundred consecutive victories in the Hell Slaughter Arena, passing through the Hell Road, obtaining the power of a domain, and becoming the Killing God of the city—these were all secondary. The most important goal was to obtain a God's Inheritance.
But judging from the chaotic nature of the Slaughter City and the massive blood river within the Hell Road, the deity who left behind this inheritance was most likely an evil god.
In legend, no evil god was ever easy to deal with. They were cunning, much like the hellish demons who lured soul masters into corruption.
Because of this, Shui Bing'er now had serious doubts about Mu Yang's previous claim that he could inherit a god's position simply by finding the inheritance within the Slaughter City and completing the divine trial.
Would a devious Evil God really be willing to pass down their godhood to someone else? That would be no different from asking Emperor Xue Ye to hand over the Heaven Dou Empire's throne to an outsider.
More importantly, if possible, Shui Bing'er did not want Mu Yang to become an Evil God.
After all, in storybooks, Evil Gods were always the ones being hunted. They were eventually either slain by righteous gods or permanently sealed away.
Hearing her words, Mu Yang couldn't help but laugh. He understood Shui Bing'er's concerns.
To be honest, if one judged just from the Slaughter City, a place of chaos and sin, the Asura God-King would definitely seem like an Evil God.
But in reality, not only was he not an Evil God, but he was one of the enforcers of the Divine Realm, making an immeasurable contribution to the peace of the Douluo Universe.
Perhaps because he followed the path of slaughter and judgment, the Asura God-King could not be considered a benevolent god, but he was by no means an Evil God either.
So Shui Bing'er's worries were completely unnecessary.
Moreover, the Asura God's position was one of the highest Supreme God-King thrones in the entire Douluo Universe—there was no way Mu Yang wouldn't be tempted by it.
"Bing'er, don't worry. I know what I'm doing."
Mu Yang didn't explain much about the Asura God-King, choosing instead to comfort her with these words.
"…Alright—hmm? There's something ahead?"
Shui Bing'er, who had been about to nod, suddenly sensed a disturbance in the darkness ahead.
"It's nothing, just some small bats. Ignore them."
Mu Yang's golden eyes gleamed. With his Fiery Eyes of Truth, which could see through all hidden creatures, he responded indifferently.
The first trial of the Hell Road had arrived.
For ordinary challengers, facing a swarm of bats led by the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King, a creature with pseudo-immortality, was a formidable challenge.
But for Mu Yang, this test was completely trivial.
A mere swarm of bats wouldn't even be able to withstand his level-eight soul power suppression while wearing his Iceflame Battle Armor.
Even if the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King was stronger, it still wouldn't last more than one move against him.
And that's exactly what happened.
As the two continued flying forward at high speed, a massive swarm of blood-red bats approached them.
Mu Yang simply circulated his soul power, and as the pressure of an eight-ringed Soul Douluo-level expert burst forth, the thousand-plus bats—each over a foot long with a wingspan of more than a meter—fell like dumplings, plummeting into the darkness below.
Completely ignoring these insignificant small fry, Mu Yang and Shui Bing'er didn't slow down at all.
Very soon, Mu Yang spotted something ahead—a massive, dark-gold bat hanging upside down beneath the narrow path.
Compared to the previous swarm, this Dark Gold Bat was far larger. It was over four meters long, with huge, dark-gold claws tightly gripping the narrow road.
What was most unusual, however, was that this bat had three heads, each lined with razor-sharp fangs.
Perhaps due to the lack of challengers on Hell Road for a long time, the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King was in deep slumber, completely unaware of the arrival of the three intruders.
Since the Bat King hadn't woken up, Mu Yang had no intention of disturbing it.
After all, the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King didn't have anything that interested him.
As long as it didn't get in his way, Mu Yang couldn't be bothered to deal with it.
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