"Who are you? How do you know these things?" Wang Zhong asked the woman with confusion.
What she said was actually sincere and without pretense!
"I cannot tell you my name for now, but you can call me Axu! Xiu, as in long and graceful!" Upon mentioning her name, the woman's cold and elegant demeanor vanished, replaced by a faint smile.
This smile was breathtakingly beautiful, enough to topple cities and nations!
Underneath such beauty, even Wang Zhong was momentarily lost in a daze. Yet, in that fleeting moment of distraction, his thoughts surprisingly returned to a sense of normalcy.
Before this, Wang Zhong's thoughts had been constantly disturbed by an inexplicable surge of violent desire and a tendency towards slaughter, consuming most of his spirit and attention.
But now, he seemed no longer affected by these two strange emotions.
It was very odd. Wang Zhong was certain he wasn't the type of person who would be unable to move when seeing a beautiful woman, nor did he have an extreme craving for such women.
"Huh, your rationality and state seem to have recovered somewhat."
"This is unbelievable!" Axu said with surprise in her eyes, marveling.
"You can detect my mental state and thoughts!" Wang Zhong looked at Axu with a scrutinizing gaze. With the insidious ability of mind-reading possessed by Blood Demons, he couldn't help but suspect if this woman had the same ability, or if she was even a member of the Saint Spirit Sect.
"No, reading people's minds is something even gods would find difficult. I cannot do it either."
"But I am extremely knowledgeable about killing intent and aura. I can clearly sense that your killing intent and aura were suppressed just now." Axu appraised Wang Zhong, feeling curious about the scene that had just unfolded.
Suppressing killing intent and aura was not uncommon. She had seen many winners of the Slaughter Arena who could do it.
However, that kind of accomplishment was achieved by exhausting all their energy and willpower, fueled by intense desires and hopes for something, awakening the reason buried beneath the killing intent.
But Wang Zhong had managed it in just a moment of distraction.
If it were anyone else, even someone who had won a hundred slaughter challenges and whose killing intent had solidified into substance, if they suppressed their killing intent through their own will, she wouldn't have given them a second glance.
But Wang Zhong had only won twenty slaughter challenges and had not lost his senses under the erosion of killing intent and chaos, which had drawn her attention. This was an extremely astonishing matter.
This was due to Wang Zhong's uniqueness, and also because of Axu's extraordinary identity.
"Are you the King of Slaughter?" With his thoughts regaining a sliver of calmness and clarity, Wang Zhong observed the woman, and suddenly thought of someone.
The absolute ruler of the Slaughter City, the King of Slaughter!
If it weren't for this person, who else would understand the Killing God Domain and killing intent so well?
"No, you guessed wrong. I am not the King of Slaughter."
"Although I know him, and have a certain relationship with him, it ends there. If he doesn't encounter any fortunate encounters or fortuitous circumstances, he will forever remain in that position, watching my silhouette from afar, yearning but unable to attain."
Axu's expression was natural as she recounted what seemed like an astonishing fact.
Within the Slaughter City, its absolute ruler, and Wang Zhong, had a woman whom even the King of Slaughter yearned for but could not reach.
This sounded like a joke, but Wang Zhong felt Axu's natural demeanor and lack of pretense.
She was telling the truth!
"Who exactly are you!" Wang Zhong faced Axu, his tone extremely serious.
"Didn't I say, I cannot tell you my name for now, but you can call me Axu." Axu replied with a soft sigh. Her identity and name could not be revealed to outsiders. If Wang Zhong hadn't been so special to her, she wouldn't have appeared here.
"What is your purpose?" Wang Zhong frowned. Her sudden appearance and her clear explanation of the relationship between the killing intent, the Killing God Domain, and the Hell Road, all seemed very strange.
"Purpose? I have no purpose!"
"If you absolutely must find a reason, then there is only one..."
"I've taken a liking to you!" This straightforward and, in a way, extremely bold statement made Wang Zhong's frown deepen.
Such words were akin to a confession of affection between a man and a woman.
"Are you joking?" Wang Zhong was amused, finding the reason absurd.
"No, I am serious!" Axu said with a solemn expression.
"Nonsense!"
Uttering these two words, Wang Zhong turned and left without hesitation. Axu's words, in his opinion, were nothing more than a malicious joke.
Watching Wang Zhong's retreating back, Axu did not say anything further to stop him this time. Her words, "I've taken a liking to you," were not the malicious joke Wang Zhong imagined, but a genuine yearning and emotion from her heart.
"Do you know how special you are to me?"
"And do you know how astonishing it is that you can still maintain your clarity right now!"
Her red lips parted, and words as light as the wind drifted out, but there was no lightness in her crimson eyes.
Decades ago, a prodigiously talented prodigy from the Clear Sky Sect named Tang Chen, with a desire to become a god, came to the Slaughter City, intending to use the inheritance left by the Asura God to achieve divinity.
He was indeed exceptionally capable, passing the first six trials of the Asura God's test in just a few years. However, as Tang Chen underwent the seventh trial, something hidden within him erupted – the malevolent intent of another god.
The outbreak of malevolent intent completely consumed his consciousness and sanity, and he was eventually possessed by the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King, transforming into the current King of Slaughter.
Tang Chen's eighth trial was named 'Obtain the Recognition of the Asura Divine Sword', and Axu was that seventh trial! She was the spirit of the Asura Divine Sword!
Tang Chen, whose sanity was lost to malevolent intent, had not recovered to this day, and thus could not obtain her recognition.
But the Asura God's trials had no time limit. Whoever participated would either die or succeed; there was no third outcome.
Although Tang Chen was possessed by the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King and lost his sanity to become the King of Slaughter, he did not die, so the trial continued. As the spirit of the Asura Divine Sword, Axu had no choice but to remain here.
And here, she had seen many people, and had also seen Wang Zhong, who was the most special to her.
She had never seen anyone whose killing aura could surge so rapidly.
After merely ten victories in the Hell Slaughter Arena, which involved a mere hundred people, the killing aura emanating from that person was no different from that of champions who had won a hundred Hell Slaughter Arena matches.
Upon first sensing that killing aura, Axu had briefly thought she had made a mistake. But the events that unfolded in the following days, along with the surging killing aura emanating from him, truly made her understand what it meant to be astonished.
From the eleventh match onwards, with every victory, his killing aura would multiply tenfold. If measured against the total killing aura of a complete Killing God, the killing aura he carried at this moment could rival that of a hundred Killing Gods!
Beyond imagination!
This person was Wang Zhong, and this was only his twentieth slaughter arena battle! If he were to truly complete a hundred matches, how terrifying would his killing aura be!
But could anyone truly withstand such a killing aura?
Regardless of whether Wang Zhong could withstand it, the fact that he could maintain his sanity amidst a killing aura that rivaled a hundred Killing Gods was enough to earn Axu, the spirit of the Asura Divine Sword, her admiration and recognition.
"I want you!" The meaning behind these words was that the Asura Divine Sword had recognized Wang Zhong!