Douluo: AFK to Become a God

Before long, as Chu Chengzhou sped forward with the girl in his arms, he spotted the second trial of the Hell Road.

A dark-red figure, shaped like a twisted rope, coiled tightly around the narrow path ahead.

It was a snake, at least ten meters long, with an especially swollen belly. Its head and back were dotted with numerous protrusions, each resembling a crimson mushroom, as if blood flowed inside them.

There was no doubt: this was the ancient beast hailed by a certain God-King as the supreme among serpents—the Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake.

Perhaps because of their speed and their quiet approach, the snake, which acted as a roadblock, remained asleep.

Without stopping, Chu lightly stepped on its head and tail in quick succession, leaping over the serpent while holding Hu Liena.

After they vanished, the coiled snake abruptly opened its lantern-like golden-red eyes.

Something… had just stepped on its head?

Hissing sharply, the Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake arched its body on the path, tongue flickering in warning.

Finding no trace of a foreign scent in the air, it lowered its vigilance.Once past the starting point, even its keen senses could not detect lingering traces—because the defensive art "Instant Bloom" blocked not only the scorching heat and evil aura of the Hell Road, but also isolated their scents from the outside world.

Satisfied, the serpent shifted into a more comfortable position, ready to resume its sleep.The world here was too dull—nothing moved but the stinking bats, and there were no females of its kind. What else was there to do but sleep?

Just then, it sensed something and turned its head sharply.

Not far away, two tiny, strange-looking creatures had appeared.Tiny, because compared to its massive body, they were merely humans less than two meters tall.

Originally, Chu Chengzhou had passed it by, but he remembered the snake's inner core was a treasure and came back.

He recalled that the Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake's inner core could nullify any snake venom and suppress all serpent-type beings, including serpent soul beasts and serpent martial soul users.

In the original story, the core ended up with Ma Hongjun as his seventh spirit ring, granting him a domain and even mutating his martial soul.

For a fire-attribute soul master with a strong foundation, this inner core was an unparalleled treasure.

Naturally, Chu Chengzhou wouldn't let it go.

His vast spiritual power surged, activating the illusionary art: Void Mirage Realm. In an instant, he temporarily altered the serpent's consciousness, making himself its sole supreme faith.

"My devout little spicy strip," Chu said with mock solemnity, "your God has taken a liking to your inner core. Hand it over."

The snake's eyes filled with piety as it hissed excitedly.The great God had favored it! Even called it "little spicy strip"! What greater honor could there be?

Golden-red energy flared across its body. The nine mushroom-like protrusions on its back glowed, then shattered, releasing streams of golden-red liquid that merged midair.

The liquid condensed into a fist-sized golden-red orb, gently floating toward Chu.

The serpent even severed its connection to the core itself. Its aura plummeted sharply, its strength greatly diminished—but in its eyes, there was only devotion.

For its supreme God, even offering its life would be worth it.

"Well done, little spicy strip. Your God blesses you, may you thrive in paradise."

Chu pocketed the core, offering a perfunctory blessing, and left with Hu Liena like a heartless playboy abandoning his conquest.

After a while, when the altered consciousness wore off, the weakened serpent froze, its massive golden-red eyes widening.

What had it done?It had given its most precious inner core to a mere "two-legged snake"?

Furious, it roared toward the direction Chu had gone—but the detestable two-legged creature was long gone.Its power was unfathomable; with just one glance it had commanded absolute obedience. The serpent had no means of reclaiming its core.

While the snake fumed, Chu and Hu Liena reached the end of the Hell Road.

The exit was unmistakable: an oval curtain of white light.

But a thousand meters before the exit, the narrow path ended abruptly.Before them spread a blood-red expanse—the river of blood had pooled here into a small lake, boiling like molten lava and radiating intense heat and evil.

For any soul master without the ability to fly, the gap was an insurmountable chasm.

"See that?"

Chu pointed at the blood lake.

"I see it…"

The path ended while the exit lay a kilometer away. Hu Liena shrank her neck nervously.

"Still think you were ready to come here?"

Chu scolded her.She lacked self-awareness—what was a mere five-ring Soul King doing in Slaughter City?Though he was also a Soul King, his strength was far beyond ordinary, and he had prepared fully knowing the trials ahead—unlike her.

"You bad guy, don't underestimate me. I'm strong too."

She twisted her waist in protest.

"Fine. Forget the hundred consecutive victories and the earlier trials—just this place. If I weren't here, how would you cross?"

Expressionless, he pointed at the exit a kilometer away.

"Well… I could just channel soul power to my feet and run across, right?"

She hesitated, then said with sudden inspiration.

"Really? Did your teacher teach you that?"

He asked coldly.

Hu Liena didn't know how deadly the blood was, but Bibi Dong, who had crossed this path herself, surely knew.If he didn't know Bibi Dong truly cared for her, he might have thought she was trying to harm her disciple.

"Not exactly… the trials here aren't what my teacher described."

She stuck out her tongue sheepishly.

"Here, stretch out your hand. I'll let you feel what this trial is like."

Chu said, shaking his head.

She blinked but obeyed, extending her right arm.

He controlled the soul flower above him, withdrawing part of its protective light and exposing her arm to the Hell Road's environment.

Instantly, it felt like her arm had been thrust into a furnace, heat burning through her.

Alongside the heat came a surge of evil aura.She felt her arm sink into a space of pure malice, the aura flooding into her body.

Her eyes turned blood-red, her accumulated killing intent teetering on the brink of total loss of control.

Just as she was about to succumb, a white petal drifted down. The protective light from the soul flower enveloped her arm once more.

The searing heat faded, and the evil aura was blocked completely.

After a long while, drenched in sweat and gasping for breath, Hu Liena finally recovered, shaken.

"Scared now?"

A soul-power hand flicked her forehead. Chu asked.

She didn't answer, only buried her head in his chest, hugging him tightly.

"Nana, I'm not stopping you from training, but you must know your limits.

If not for the importance of the God of Slaughter's domain and the fact I happened to break through a new art, I wouldn't have come here.

If I hadn't made it in time, I'd regret it forever."

"But you came."

"Yes, I came. Fate brought me here to save my little fox.

But fate doesn't always favor the same person. Promise me, if I'm not by your side, you'll protect yourself."

"Mm~"

Chu Chengzhou activated his movement art, Ground-Shrinking Divine Light, stepping as if walking on air, and carried Hu Liena straight into the white light curtain a kilometer away.

Everything around them seemed to change. The moment his figure entered the white light, he felt as though his body had stepped into a special world.

All he could see was endless whiteness. Above his head, the soul power flower was suppressed by some unknown force and dissolved into nothing. Hu Liena, too, slipped out of his arms as the force separated them.

In this world of white void, he could not exert any strength at all. The only sensation left to him was bone-chilling cold.

It felt like countless waves of cold were gathering toward him, and countless more were seeping out from him. In this endless white void, Chu endured the terrifying pain alone.

The void's coldness was not a true change in temperature but the chill born of killing intent.

Pure slaughter intent invaded his body, each incursion making him shudder involuntarily.

As the coldness gradually froze his heart, his senses quietly faded alongside his consciousness.

At the moment he lost awareness, Chu understood: this was the God of Slaughter's Domain.

The pain he felt was merely the divine power purifying and refining the immense killing intent he had accumulated.

Whether it was the Asura God himself transforming the killing intent in his body, or a mechanism left behind by the Asura God ages ago in the Hell Road, Chu did not know.

He had no idea how much time passed. In the faint fragrance of grass, Chu slowly woke up.

Looking around, he found himself lying on a field of Blue Silver Grass, with Hu Liena lying not far away.

Perhaps because of her lower strength, Hu Liena had not yet awakened.

Seeing that she was unharmed, Chu shifted his attention back to himself.

Closing his eyes, he sensed that all pain was gone, replaced by a refreshing lightness. The familiar flow of soul power and the ability to use soul skills without restriction returned fully to his body.

His gaze then fell on the True Spirit Banner martial soul that had automatically materialized in his right hand.

Every soul master knew their martial soul best. Chu could clearly see that, aside from the five patterns of tree, lion, phoenix, bear, and turtle on the flag's surface, white patterns had appeared on the previously gray flagpole.

He walked a short distance away and focused on the white patterns. In an instant, a surge of white light spread silently from the banner, only to fade quickly into colorless transparency.

At that moment, his perception of the world shifted. He could feel his strength had increased significantly, and the Blue Silver Grass, tiny flowers, and even insects in the soil trembled under an unseen current.

"The God of Slaughter's Domain… definitely worth it."

Pale-faced, with an undeniable aura of killing between his brows, Chu thought to himself.

There was no loss.This was a domain power that even most Title Douluo could never grasp. And he had achieved the Slaughter City's hundred victories and passed the Hell Road in less than a month.

As for the over a thousand fallen ones who died by his hand to build up his killing intent?Since they were already fallen, their lives were worthless.

The greatest price he paid for obtaining this domain was perhaps his own temperament.The once handsome youth had become a man whose very presence radiated a sinister air, a clear sign of one who had killed too much.

Shaking his head, he dismissed the thought. Five soul rings rose around him, black, black, black, black, black. The second ring glowed, and with a surge of power, the Bright Lion Little White materialized.

"Little White, hit me with a Purge."

He patted the lion's head.

The massive lion affectionately nuzzled its master and released a beam of white light that shot into Chu's body.

The innate soul skill, Purge, could dispel abnormal states, including poison and curses.

After sensing carefully, Chu's face showed regret.The Purge had no effect on him. The cold aura, the inner hostility, the killing intent that leaked unconsciously—none of it changed.

The good news was that the God of Slaughter's Domain also empowered his summoned spirits.

The domain in its basic form increased his strength by 10% and suppressed opponents by 10%.Since a martial soul and soul master were one, and his summons were extensions of his banner, the domain's amplification applied to them as well.

Suddenly, the sound of geese honking echoed from above.

Looking up, Chu saw two goose-sized birds flying in the sky.

Without hesitation, he formed a bow and arrow from soul power. Drawing and releasing, a golden streak shot out, killing one of the birds instantly as it crashed to the ground.

The surviving bird seemed to cry out: Are you serious?

"Go, Little White. Guard your fourth mistress."

He pointed at Hu Liena, still unconscious, patted the lion, and went to collect the prey.

Xiao Wu was the first wife, Ning Rongrong the second, Zhu Zhuqing the third—so naturally, Hu Liena was the fourth.

"Roar?"

Little White tilted its head in confusion at the term but obeyed its master's command.

Hu Liena dreamed.

She dreamed she had passed the Hell Road, gained the God of Slaughter's Domain, and returned to Spirit Hall with Chu Chengzhou, who agreed to join.

Bibi Dong, her teacher, was overjoyed, immediately summoning the elders to announce her as the Saintess of Spirit Hall, while Chu was accepted as her second disciple and named Saint Son. A wedding for the Saint Son and Saintess was arranged.

On the wedding day, after endless rituals and the night's arrival, the bridal chamber awaited.Inside the room decorated with the "double happiness" character, after drinking the wedding wine, she eagerly pulled Chu toward the bed. But in that instant, her groom suddenly turned into a roasted chicken.

"No!"

The bizarre scene jolted Hu Liena awake.

"No what?"

Chu, sprinkling seasoning on a goose roasting over the fire, looked at her in surprise.

"Roast chicken?"

Smelling the aroma and seeing the roast goose, Hu Liena asked uncertainly.

"Uh… not roast chicken. Do you want to eat roast chicken?"

Hu Liena:I want to eat you.

Half an hour later, the poor, delicious goose ended up in their stomachs.

"Nana, want to try your new domain power?"

After the meal, Chu said to her.

She nodded slightly. The demon fox martial soul possessed her, activating the white patterns on it. White light spread as her God of Slaughter's Domain unfolded.

Within her domain, Chu felt his strength suppressed.Testing it, he found he could not break free from the suppression unless he released his own domain.

"So this is the God of Slaughter's Domain? What an amazing feeling!"

Sensing her strength greatly enhanced and her perception of the domain's area crystal clear, Hu Liena exclaimed.

Chu nodded. "Naturally. A domain is power that even most Title Douluo cannot obtain. Soul masters with domains are far rarer than Title Douluo."

After experiencing its wonders, Hu Liena withdrew her domain. "Where are we now?"

"I'm not sure. It's getting late. Let's find a city to stay in. No rush to return. I've got a few arts to teach you and raise your strength."

Licking his lips, Chu looked forward to it.

Fifteen years—it was time to taste real meat.

A blush crept over Hu Liena's pale cheeks.

Chu was right. There was no need to rush back.

She had spent four months training in Slaughter City, managing only twelve consecutive victories. But with Chu's arrival, in less than a month she had achieved a hundred victories, passed the Hell Road, and gained the God of Slaughter's Domain.

This ended her training much sooner than she expected and far earlier than her teacher Bibi Dong likely anticipated.

There was no reason to return so soon.

Besides, in her dream earlier, she still hadn't gotten to eat that roast chicken!

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