Devil Slaughter Rankings

**Devil Slaughter Rankings** (Chinese: 屠魔榜 *tumobang*) show which people killed the most devils in the Devil Abyss. During a certain time period all different sects across the Martial Heaven Continent will send their younger generation of disciples to the Devil Abyss where they have to kill certain Devil Race Powerhouses. Every time you kill a Devil Race powerhouse, a Slaughter Value Point, through the Heaven Watching Divine Jade, will feed back to Demon Slayer Divine Tablet of Central Profound Region above the Martial Heaven Alliance Headquarters.

The Demon Slayer Divine Tablet will record each disciple's kills in quantity and quality and demonstrate a ranking which will be placed in the Demon Slaughter List. Liu Ruyan calculated that for these devil creatures, killing ten thousand counts as one point. In the top 10, one point is one trillion kills.[*Citation needed*] Of the 180k disciples that had participated in the battle of the Devil Abyss, less than 80k had returned. But some of those people had betrayed the sect.

Yue Xiaoqian helped save the Dragonblood Legion by unleashing a divine ability that completely stunned the Life Star level Empyrean Winged Blood Devils. As for why they’re important, there are two reasons. One reason is that the heavenly geniuses who can enter the top ten will be blessed by the Devil Slaughter Divine Tablet. Based on their rankings, they will each be bestowed a portion of the Martial Heaven Continent’s karmic luck.

The arc starts around Ch. 1683-1711. Results are shown in 1711, 1712.

## Rankings

**Spoiler warning: *Plot details follow.*** *(Skip section)*
**Demon Slaughter List Top 10**

* 1 Long Chen - full value - Dragon Blood Legion / Martial Heaven Alliance
* 2 Leng Yueyan - 19,895 Points - Evil Path
* 3 Dongming Yu - 18,543 Points - Blood Kill Hall
* 4 True Immortal Jiao Qi - 6781 Points - Xuan Beasts
* 5 Mo Nian - 6666 Points - Loose Cultivator
* 6 Hu Feng - 1188 Points - Loose Cultivator
* 7 Guo Ran - 1067+ Points - Dragon Blood Legion
* 8 Xiang Yunfei - 1067 Points - Ancient Clan Alliance
* 9 Ye Zhiqiu - 984 Points - Righteous Path?
* 10 Yu Qingxuan - 963 Points - Pill Valley

**Other**

* 11 Zi Yan - ? - Immortal Sound Palace
* 37 Chu Yao - ? - Dragon Blood Legion
* 63 - Tang Wan'er - ? Points - Dragon Blood Legion
* ~100 Meng Qi - ? Points - Dragon Blood Legion
* ~100 Li Qi - ? Points - Dragon Blood Legion
* ~100 Song Mingyuan - ? Points - Dragon Blood Legion
* ~200 Yue Zifeng - ? Points - Dragon Blood Legion
* 297 Meng Fei - ? Points - Dragon Blood Legion

* +500 Di Xin - ? Points - Ancient Family Alliance
* ~800 Xia Chen - ? Points - Loose Cultivator (at the time)
* ~1000 Bao Buping, Chang Hao, Heaven-Splitting Disciples

Looking through the top thousand experts, Long Chen saw that sixty percent of them came from the Central Xuan Region. When he looked at the top five hundred alone, he saw that eighty percent were Central Xuan Region’s experts. Their foundation was truly something that the other four regions couldn’t compare to.

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## Left behind messages

* Yu Qingxuan - "I hope the world will have no more slaughter, no more sorrow, and no more pain. We can live peacefully and happily."
* Ye Zhiqiu - "I'm waiting for you."
* Xiang Yunfei - "Long Chen, you only relied on external power or some shameful method to take first place. The human race really is despicable."
* Guo Ran - "The Dragonblood warriors are closer than blood. Brothers, we will fight through heaven and earth, leaving behind a name that will last through eternity."
* Hu Feng - "Ancient race idiot, do you think you were born from a stone? Without the human race, where do you think you'd have come from? Do you think you're so powerful that you don't even need to acknowledge your ancestors?"
* Mo Nian - "I hear the ancient races had quite a few powerful figures appear throughout their history. Just wait, once your grandpa Mo is done over here, I'll go have a stroll through your ancestral tombs too."
* True Immortal Jiao Qi - "Long Chen, don't be too arrogant. Next time we meet, I will personally take your head."
* Dongming Yu - "Original heart."
* Leng Yueyan - "There's nothing to say."
* Long Chen - "Idiots from Heavenly Fate Island, just wait for me. If I don't beat the piss out of you, you can count yourselves tough."

### Details

Just at this moment, the jade plate in Guo Ran’s hand with the Devil Slaughter Rankings on it shook slightly. A design appeared on it, one that looked like a blank piece of paper. Guo Ran was dumbfounded, but just at this moment, the same thing appeared on Long Chen’s jade plate.

“This is a special reward given only to the top ten of the Devil Slaughter Rankings. You have the right to leave behind some words for future generations. Take out a drop of your essence blood and you can write whatever you want to write. These words will be forever imprinted on the Devil Slaughter Rankings. Furthermore, your words will appear on the main palaces of all the major powers on the continent for ten days. It’s a chance to shake the entire continent,” said the patriarch.

### Pill Fairy's words

The first words came from the Pill Fairy: I hope the world will have no more slaughter, no more sorrow, and no more pain. We can live peacefully and happily.

Seeing that, Meng Qi, Chu Yao, Tang Wan-er, and the others felt emotional. The Pill Fairy’s words were very simple, yet it showed her dislike of fighting and how she yearned for there to be peace. It was the men who felt so competitive and aggressive that they wanted more fighting. They thirsted for power, to use that power to take, to kill, as if that was the only way to prove that they were strong.

After they took, after they killed, others could only bitterly endure, satisfying these so-called experts’ need for glory. Even if they beat you, you had to endure. If you didn’t, they would kill you.

Battle created the strong, but it was unknown how many unknown people were brought to pain because of that battle.

However, in this world where the weak were prey to the strong, being strong was the truth. Even if you disliked it, you had to endure it if you wanted to live. The Pill Fairy’s words touched all their hearts, especially the women’s.

Unfortunately, they all knew that this was just a beautiful dream. Unless someone grew so strong that they could overturn this whole world and establish a new order, it was just a fantasy.

## Story

Qu Jianying came to the Xuantian Dao Sect and called Long Chen over. “Little fellow, this time, you have to win me some face. You must enter the top ten of the Devil Slaughter Rankings for me.”

“The so-called Devil Slaughter Rankings are determined each time the Devil Abyss erupts as a whole. The Martial Heaven Continent’s young experts will kill the devil experts, and each devil expert they slay gives them a certain number of kill points. They are recorded with the Heaven Watching Divine Jades and that information is sent back to the Devil Slaughtering Divine Tablet in the Martial Heaven Alliance’s main headquarters in the Central Xuan Region. The Devil Slaughtering Divine Tablet will rank each disciple according to the number and strength of the devil experts they kill. That’s the Devil Slaughter Rankings. Although each time the Devil Abyss erupts the Martial Heaven Alliance is the main force holding them back, the embarrassing thing is that we haven’t been able to produce any geniuses that enter the top ten of the Devil Slaughter Rankings. Even those who can reach the top thirty are rare.”

“It’s because of the helplessness of the Martial Heaven Alliance. We haven’t been able to produce many good geniuses. Each time, the top ten is occupied by the ancient races, Xuan Beasts, Bloodkill Hall, and the Corrupt path’s experts,” said Qu Jianying gloomily.

“Don’t misunderstand. They aren’t helping us out of the kindness in their hearts. They’re just trying to give a blow to our morale. They will only send a few experts who they are confident in, and they enter the core of the battlefield through other entrances with their only goal being to get into the top ten. They don’t allow my Martial Heaven Alliance or the ancient family alliance’s experts to enter the top ten. The Righteous path’s morale has never been high, and one reason is because we can’t get into the top ten of the Devil Slaughter Rankings. Even getting into the top thirty would depend on luck,” sighed Qu Jianying.

“Then can’t you just not let them enter?” asked Long Chen.

“Hmph, being powerless myself, how am I supposed to prevent the competition from joining in? If I allowed the Righteous path to get such a big head and grow so conceited, the entire Righteous path would be disbanded within a thousand years. Don’t be so silly,” raged Qu Jianying.

Qu Jianying’s considerations were reasonable. With the Righteous path’s irrational pride, feeling inferior was definitely better than feeling superior.

“That’s why, you have to enter the top ten for me, or I’ll skin you for all the trouble you gave me! Don’t think I’ve forgotten what you did. I’ve written it all in a book. If you do well, then I can write it off with one stroke, but if not… hehe.” Qu Jianying smiled threateningly. Most likely, Long Chen wouldn’t have any more good days if he couldn’t achieve this.

“Why not first place?” asked Long Chen.

Qu Jianying laughed. “Little brat, do you think others are all useless? I don’t want to give you a blow, but if you could enter the top ten, I’d already light incense as thanks. You have no idea how big the continent is, or how many experts there are. You also don’t know how great the difference is between the Central Xuan Region and the other four regions. Most importantly, just because you have high combat power doesn’t mean you’ll have killing efficiency. With just one saber, even if you could slash straight through the entire battlefield, you wouldn’t necessarily be able to enter the top ten. This isn’t a competition of battle power but how many you can kill. There are many experts who might lose in a fight against you, but have amazing area attacks that can instantly kill as many devil experts as you can kill in several hours. Not only that, but other than the sects that you know of, some existences that have been hiding for countless years and have almost been forgotten are reviving with the descent of the great era. Those ancient sects possess terrifying inheritances. Furthermore, they aren’t technically part of the Martial Heaven Alliance, so even if their people got in the top ten, it wouldn’t have the slightest relation to us. All kinds of monster-class geniuses will come out during the Devil Abyss’s eruption this time. They all want to leave their name on the Devil Slaughter Rankings. The competition will be exceptionally intense, and it will be unimaginably savage. You should just give up on first place. Just entering the top ten would satisfy me,” sighed Qu Jianying.

### Stone tablet

A huge stone tablet suddenly appeared on the plaza. It was three hundred meters tall and glossy like a mirror. It didn’t look particularly conspicuous.

It wasn’t a true stone tablet but a projection. Once the Devil Abyss’s eruption started, it would display the rankings of the disciples’ kill points. However, the Devil Slaughter Rankings only showed the top ten thousand disciples.

If you wanted to appear on the rankings, you would have to work hard to get into the top ten thousand. Before entering the Devil Abyss, each disciple had extracted a drop of their purest essence blood and placed it onto a special jade plate. Those jade plates had been issued from the Martial Heaven Alliance.

The jade plates were connected to the Devil Slaughter Rankings. They were what recorded how many devil creatures a person killed. It was shockingly accurate.

Rumor was that the divine tablet recording the Devil Slaughter Rankings was personally made by the first generation Sovereign, Yun Shang. It had the blessing of a Sovereign, so it couldn’t be mistaken.

It was the only divine item left behind by a Sovereign on this continent. The only regretful thing was that it was only used to count points. It had no offensive or defensive power on its own.

The projection of it was now established. However, there were no names on it yet. The battle had yet to truly start.

The entire Xuantian Dao Sect essentially closed down. All the disciples and Elders came to the plaza to watch the projection. They were calmly waiting to see the names appear on it.

It wasn’t just the Xuantian Dao Sect. All sects belonging to the Martial Heaven Alliance and ancient family alliance were capable of summoning this projection. Countless eyes were staring at it now. This was a chance to witness the rise of heavenly geniuses. Which monsters would fight to the front of the pack?

### Bloodkill Hall

Suddenly, the name of an expert who had climbed into the top ten started to dim. It then vanished.

“Why did this person’s name suddenly turn dark?” exclaimed Tang Wan-er.

“It means that person’s dead,” said Long Chen flatly.

“But how is that possible? Such a powerful person, how did they die to these devil creatures?” Tang Wan-er couldn’t believe it.

“Who said that they had to have died to the devil creatures?”

“Wait, you mean… but isn’t it unpermitted to fight amongst each other in the Devil Abyss?”

“Foolish girl, rules are nothing more than a joke. Some people exist above the rules because they are strong enough that the rules can’t restrict them. This person was likely killed by someone they had offended. I would even guess that the culprit is most likely the Bloodkill Hall. Only the Bloodkill Hall’s experts have killing power sufficient to eliminate such a powerful existence without them being able to escape.” Long Chen smiled faintly. His sixth sense was telling him that the Bloodkill Hall was starting to grow active again.

## Monetary reward

“Because the rewards for the eastern, western, southern, and northern regions always have to stay the same according to the rules…” Qu Jianying couldn’t help apologizing. This rule was based on the Devil Abyss' formation that split the devil creatures into several channels. The Central Xuan Region was always the main force, so it got a larger reward, while the rest of the devil creatures were split between the other four regions equally, so the reward was split equally as well.

However, Long Chen had killed an even larger number of the devil creatures due to Heavenly Fate Island’s sabotage. According to reason, he should obtain an even greater reward.

Unfortunately, that matter was an accident, something unexpected. So if she wanted to reward Long Chen, she would have to go through the Elders and have this matter fully investigated first.

Heavenly Fate Island was so crafty, and they couldn’t have left behind any evidence. Since this matter would remain murky and unclear, it would be very difficult to give Long Chen his big reward.

Furthermore, Long Chen’s kill points had explosively grown, to the point where there was no longer a number. That was also something that had not occurred in the history of the Devil Slaughtering Rankings.

Qu Jianying was clearer than anyone just how strict the reward system of the Martial Heaven Alliance was. Without bringing out all the evidence, obtaining the reward was very, very difficult.

That was why Long Chen’s current reward was just the base reward. The aftermath of Heavenly Fate Island was not taken into account, so those Life Star level winged devils he had slain were not counted.

If Long Chen wished to persevere in chasing after that reward, the Elder Hall of the Martial Heaven Alliance would send experts to investigate this matter, but with their strict rules, the chances of him obtaining the reward were slim.

Qu Jianying disliked these strict and unbending rules, but there was nothing she could do about them, as they were passed down from countless years ago. Furthermore, without these strict rules, many people would be able to pull tricks with the reward, leading to greater corruption and greed. At that time, the day of the Martial Heaven Alliance’s collapse would not be far.

So despite how much Long Chen had done, she couldn’t help him, making her feel guilty.

“It’s fine. In any case, this is enough money for me.” Long Chen smiled. The reason he lacked money was because he needed to rebuild the Xuantian Dao Sect. Fifteen billion spirit crystals was more than enough.

After discussing it with Li Tianxuan, they decided to split the fifteen billion spirit crystals into three even portions. One portion would go to the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect.

Li Tianxuan told Long Chen that in truth, the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect was so poor that they had nothing to eat. They had been reducing the number of disciples they were recruiting with each passing year.

However, the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect cared far too much about face. If Li Tianxuan were to give them this money, they definitely wouldn’t accept it. It would be up to Long Chen to handle that.

Both the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect and the Xuantian Dao Sect were united, and they were like Long Chen’s family. Considering their absolute trust in him, Long Chen wouldn’t let them suffer.

Of course, there was no way that he could give his own money to the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect. With the old man’s character, he would definitely beat Long Chen. However, when it came to splitting this reward after all the hard work had been done, there was no reason for the old man to refuse.

The second portion of the money would go to the Xuantian Dao Sect. It was enough to finish the construction and more.

As for the remaining portion, Long Chen proposed splitting it amongst the families of the disciples who had died in the battle this time. This kind of compensation was too generous. It made even Qu Jianying nod with approval. It was no wonder so many disciples would follow Long Chen to death.

After all, based on the current situation, just taking out one billion spirit crystals as compensation would be a stunning move.

## Trivia

Sample size, representation:

“Yes, don’t think that the strongest geniuses are on the Devil Slaughter Rankings. First of all, the ancient races, Xuan Beasts, Corrupt path, ancient family alliance, and other powers only chose to send a single representative. Those representatives have amazing area attacks that give them an advantage when it comes to the Devil Slaughter Rankings, but that doesn’t mean that those people are necessarily the strongest,” said Qu Jianying.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1687 (Wuxiaworld)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 1749 (Wuxiaworld)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Chapter 1719 (Wuxiaworld)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Chapter 1711 (Wuxiaworld)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Chapter 1712 (Wuxiaworld)
6. ↑ Chapter 1683 (Wuxiaworld)
7. ↑ Chapter 1684 (Wuxiaworld)
8. ↑ Chapter 1685 (Wuxiaworld)
9. ↑ Chapter 1691 (Wuxiaworld)
10. ↑ Chapter 1720 (Wuxiaworld)