Recaps

Wei He killed a fodder beast and learned that killing ten would earn him a military promotion, so he left the recruits to hunt more. Ende followed him but abandoned his plan to attack after being warned not to disrupt an experiment.

• Two fodder beasts overwhelmed the recruits, and Wei He, Lolsa, and Ende charged in when more arrived.
• Wei He killed a half-goat fodder beast by piercing its chest and crushing its head, while Ende also defeated his opponent and Lolsa struggled against a bat-shaped beast.
• Wei He learned that ten fodder-beast kills would promote him to Private Second Class and ran toward the first line of defense to hunt more.
• Ende followed Wei He and considered attacking him, but a voice over his earpiece ordered him not to jeopardize the experimental plan.
• Wei He confronted Ende, who withdrew, and then continued toward the fodder beasts to accumulate military merit.

Wei He fought in the ongoing pollution beast tide, earned enough military merit for promotion, and improved his sensory system while studying his carapace armor. At an awards ceremony, Resius announced the top recruits’ ranks and began checking Wei He’s record.

• Wei He hunted grunt beasts, earned promotion to Private Second Class, and obtained sensory organs through the Flesh and Blood Martial Arts Path.
• After the recruits returned to Hidden City, Wei He found Castor injured and learned that Ende was still alive; Holv praised his performance.
• Wei He fought repeated beast-tide assaults for months, joining Ende and Lolsa to intercept larger groups of grunt beasts.
• Resius held an awards ceremony for the twenty-one surviving recruits and promoted Lolsa and Ende to Private First Class based on their military merits.
• Resius announced Wei He as the top-ranked recruit and began checking his military merit record.

Wei He earned first place at the decoration ceremony after Resius confirmed he had hunted twelve polluted beasts, and he received the rank of Second Lieutenant. He entered the military library to study Liva-class body-frame designs, then planned to exchange his military merit for a better psionic method.

• Resius verified Wei He's record and announced that he had hunted twelve polluted beasts, stunning the other rookies and city representatives.
• Resius awarded Wei He the rank of Second Lieutenant, second class, and told him he could apply to enter the Silver Belt District and use the Military Merit Exchange System.
• Wei He explained that he had defeated the polluted beasts by isolating them one-on-one, while Lolsa suspected he had cheated and Ende reconsidered how strong he was.
• Wei He visited the Military Confidential Library and obtained the Liva-class body-frame materials he needed for his body's final fleshification.
• Wei He reflected on traces of radiation in his transformed body and resolved to exchange his military merit for a more suitable psionic method.

Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong sought refuge on a remote planet while discussing the persecution of mutants. On Planet 228, Wei He purchased the first level of the Star Sea Spirit Art and continued preparing for his next steps during his squad’s break.

• Yuan Du Zi and Li Rong landed in a desert blind spot where they hoped to stay beyond the Empire’s and Star Abyss’s surveillance.
• Li Rong questioned whether mutants could escape their hunted existence, and Yuan Du Zi said they would find hope.
• Wei He reviewed the available Spirit Arts and chose the difficult-to-master Star Sea Spirit Art to exploit the Boundary-Breaking Pearl.
• Wei He bought its first level, tried to visualize its star map, and learned from the forum that reaching the first level commonly took at least fifteen years.
• Wei He ignored an alarm during his half-month break, studied Liva-class body frames, and continued refining his body as his transformation progress passed ninety percent.

Wei He completed his transformation into a Grandmaster of the Flesh and Blood Martial Arts Path, refining his power into new states while retaining the Gravity God. He then offered Assam the chance to bring one person to the Silver Belt District, where Wei He hoped to investigate Eldest Senior Sister’s past.

• Wei He finished converting his body’s True Blood and True Force into the Flesh and Blood Martial Arts Path, gaining precise control and understanding the Grandmaster realm.
• Wei He found that the Gravity God still worked after the conversion and named his three special forms the Blood Energy State, Fusion State, and Dragon Turn State.
• After spending two more days adapting, Wei He visited Assam and told him his approved application would let him take one relative or friend to the Silver Belt District.
• Wei He offered the opportunity to Assam, who checked the approval and asked to discuss it privately with his family.
• Wei He waited nearby, intending to use his trip to the Silver Belt District to seek clues about what had happened to Eldest Senior Sister.

After learning that the Penza Empire planned to freeze Planet 116 because of contaminated entities, Wei He discovered that people like him were considered dangerous sources of contamination and resolved to hide his identity. The next day, he took Assam’s daughter Sally toward the Silver Belt District, where she would stay with him until her identity was finalized.

• Wei He watched the news announce that General Herudan Garcia Dis would freeze Planet 116 in five days because its contamination had become irreversible.
• Assam gave Wei He money for Sally’s ticket, and Wei He agreed to take her to the Silver Belt District.
• Wei He researched contaminated entities and realized that he and Eldest Senior Sister were likely classified as such, putting them at risk if discovered.
• Wei He resolved to conceal his identity and worried about Eldest Senior Sister Yuan Du Zi and the others.
• On January 11, Wei He and Sally boarded a spacecraft ascending from the Hidden City, and he explained that she would stay with him until her identity was finalized.

Wei He and Sally arrived at the Silver Belt District, where Wei He began a thirty-day advanced training camp required for him to qualify to stay. After a week of training, he watched young trainee Yuna rise from piloting a Liva-class frame to a Shadow Bug-class one, while his own psionic growth left him less conspicuous.

• Wei He and Sally left the planet’s surface and entered the Silver Belt District, where Zhang Yuling greeted them on Resius’s behalf.
• Zhang Yuling explained that Wei He needed to pass a physical examination and complete the advanced training camp, while Sally’s stay would also be decided.
• After two days of arrival procedures, Wei He began the thirty-day training program and studied higher-level body frames.
• A week later, Wei He observed two trainees sparring in Shadow Bug-class frames as chief instructor List explained the trainees’ future placement options.
• Yuna defeated her opponent and was assessed at Shadow Bug level, astonishing Wei He, Ivy, and Henry with her rapid progress.

Wei He completed the thirty-day Second Lieutenant training, quietly studying Shadow Bug bio-suits and spirit arts despite his slow psionic growth. After graduation, he and the other veterans were approached with job offers while the story left their next steps undecided.

• Wei He declined Ivy's invitation for a drink and focused on researching Shadow Bugs and ways to improve his spirit art cultivation.
• Siv received orders to monitor three Second Lieutenants and prepare an experimental attack using semi-mechanical equipment instead of tracked bio-suits.
• Wei He defeated Sri Lanka in a training match, then finished the course ranked among the lower-middle for psionic growth.
• Wei He, Ivy, and Henry graduated with the other Second Lieutenants, while Yuna and Stanley drew attention from recruiters.
• Recruiters offered the veteran Second Lieutenants consulting and security jobs as Wei He headed toward the bus where Sally was waiting.

Wei He settled into life in the Silver Belt District, balancing Security Department patrols with study and friendships while continuing his long-term pursuit of greater strength. More than two years later, Henry considered returning to his family below after losing hope of advancing further.

• Wei He declined the job offers he received after training, told Sally they would live at Silver Wolf Manor in the Rainbow District, and received a message from Ende, who identified himself as Secret Whisper.
• Wei He chose a concurrent post at Warsaw University and began working in the Security Department, while spending his free time studying and socializing with Ivy, Henry, and Sri Lanka.
• Over two years passed, and in April 1277, Sri Lanka was drafted to the surface for additional training as the Silver Belt District sent guard units on nest-clearing missions.
• At a bar, Henry told Wei He and Ivy that he planned to return to his family below because he had found little hope of extending his life or advancing further.

Wei He began working at the Silver Belt District Security Department, where a woman tried and failed to secretly take his blood sample. He realized he was being watched and entered an alley, while the people targeting him also discussed their plans to capture Bilian Saluto.

• Henry, Ivy, and Wei He toasted Henry at his farewell party before parting for the night.
• At work, Wei He explained the surface situation to Xia Li, who asked about joining a Colossi operation.
• A woman in a black trench coat collided with Wei He and tried to pierce him with a needle, but failed to obtain a sample.
• Wei He recognized the woman's attempt and sensed several people watching him as he left the Security Department.
• The woman and her partner ordered Team Two to attack Wei He with mechanical equipment and discussed finding a way to capture Bilian Saluto.

Wei He killed an attacker near Security Department headquarters, but Deputy Minister Felin dismissed the case, deepening Wei He’s suspicions about the department. A year later, Sri Lanka returned from the surface battlefield and warned Wei He about Sally and a potentially dangerous patrol assignment.

• A masked attacker struck Wei He in an alley, and Wei He killed him and recorded the incident as evidence.
• Felin dismissed Wei He’s report as a personal-grudge public security case, while secretly sending the recording through his personal terminal.
• Wei He noticed a green-haired young woman watching him outside the Security Department and concluded that the department might be compromised.
• In March 1278, Sri Lanka returned to Warsaw University, thanked Wei He for his techniques, and told him that Stanley had been promoted to captain.
• Sri Lanka told Wei He that Sally was working at a nightclub and warned him that he might be assigned to a dangerous patrol squad targeting nighttime attacks.

Wei He sought money and a way to raise his psychic power while investigating Sally’s sudden move into the Silver Belt District’s nightlife scene. After obtaining materials for Red Ridge Potion, he learned that Professor Floyd had been assigned a new project from above.

• Sri Lanka warned Wei He about temporary patrol teams, and Wei He suspected the mysterious force behind Whisper was still pursuing his group.
• Wei He visited Sally’s old apartment and learned she had moved to Huan Shu Street, where she was working in nightlife venues and brushing off his concern.
• Wei He decided to investigate Sally’s situation and send the relevant information to her parent, Assam.
• Wei He collected materials from the research center to prepare Red Ridge Potion and increase his psychic power.
• Professor Floyd told Wei He to pause his colony testing project and help with a new project assigned from above.

Wei He prepared and drank two doses of Red Ridge Potion, raising his Star Sea Spirit Art progress from 5% to 29%. After other students noticed, Di Bang approached him to ask for help obtaining and compounding psychic-energy potions, and Wei He agreed to speak with him outside.

• Freud offered Wei He a chance to earn research credit and promotion prospects, and mentioned that his granddaughter would join the city's temporary patrol.
• Wei He prepared a dose of Red Ridge Potion at the pharmacy, using his Thread Extraction Method to process its ingredients.
• A graduate student warned Wei He about the potion's severe side effects and unstable psychic-energy growth, but Wei He drank the first dose and saw his Star Sea Spirit Art progress rise from 5% to 17%.
• Wei He prepared and drank a second dose, increasing his progress to 29%.
• Di Bang approached Wei He and asked him to purchase and compound psychic-energy potions, so Wei He suggested they talk outside.

Wei He agreed to prepare Red Ridge Potions for Di Bang in exchange for payment, then joined a temporary patrol unit investigating attacks in the Silver Belt District. He began patrolling Lilac Street with Li Qingman, who dismissed him as an ordinary man despite her grandfather’s recommendation.

• Wei He negotiated a deal with Di Bang to buy restricted materials and prepare Red Ridge Potions, accepting a deposit of three million.
• Wei He returned to the Security Department, and two weeks later he joined Team Three of the newly established Silver Belt District temporary patrol unit under Major Feinna.
• Wei He met Li Qingman and Shadi at the team’s assembly point, where Feinna recognized them and asked after Li Qingman’s grandfather.
• Feinna assigned Wei He and Li Qingman to patrol nearby malls on Lilac Street as the unit searched for attackers and clues to the assaults.
• Li Qingman privately decided Wei He was an unsuitable match for her aunt and treated him as an ordinary civil servant.

Wei He tracked down the van that had abducted Bilian and other patrol members, then helped Feinna’s officers capture the kidnappers. He returned to his patrol assignment while the Security Department prepared a wider investigation.

• Li Qingman told Li Hanyue she had decided not to introduce Wei He to her, while Wei He spotted a van carrying someone he suspected was Bilian.
• Wei He followed the van to a deserted intersection and messaged Feinna for help.
• Two concealed kidnappers confronted Wei He, and he provoked one into drawing a gun, allowing Feinna to shoot him while officers surrounded the other.
• The officers found Bilian and three other unconscious patrol members inside the van, prompting Feinna to order an immediate return to the Security Department.
• Wei He told Feinna he needed to rejoin his teammate and left as Bilian briefly woke and saw his back.

Bilian Saluto thanked Wei He for saving her and gave him one million, while Wei He worked with Di Bang to produce Red Ridge Potions and joined Professor Floyd's research project on an ordinary crystal. The chapter left Bilian seeking Wei He's company as he continued his studies and research.

• Bilian Saluto visited Wei He at his dormitory and gave him one million as repayment for saving her.
• Wei He and Di Bang formulated two Red Ridge Potions, and Wei He warned Di Bang to wait a month between doses.
• Wei He stored the five remaining potions in his encrypted locker before joining Professor Floyd's team to study the ordinary crystal.
• Wei He questioned the researchers about ways to test the crystal, but Professor Floyd said they would need to prepare for a long project.
• Bilian met Wei He outside Warsaw University and walked with him to his dormitory, asking how he rested and spent his time.

Wei He raised his psychic power to 71% using five Red Ridge Potions, then studied records about the Fish Shadow Incident and the Empire’s powerful armored entities. More than a year later, news of over ten mutants appearing on Planet 228 unsettled the Security Department, while Bilian continued to seek Wei He’s company.

• Wei He drank five Red Ridge Potions, increasing his psychic power from 29% to 70%, then used the leftover drops to reach 71%.
• Wei He reviewed the Fish Shadow Incident records and learned that a Fission-level Colonel Tanggula had joined the hunt for two mutants.
• Wei He planned to let his drug resistance fade and resumed his routine of studying pharmaceutical papers as time passed.
• Over a year later, Ollie announced that more than ten mutants had appeared in a hidden city on Planet 228, prompting concern among the Security Department staff.
• Xia Li told Wei He that Bilian had come to see him, and he noticed her green hair outside the office window.

Bilian rejected her family’s plans to arrange a match, insisting she wanted an ordinary life with Wei He, while Wei He’s crystal research uncovered a stable spiral radiation structure that generated weak magnetism. After Di Bang revealed that he had reached Storm Class but could no longer use the Red Ridge Potion, he told Wei He that he had another way forward.

• Bilian’s brother told her their mother had arranged a meeting with the Ritu Lineage’s third son, but Bilian refused, saying she wanted to stay with Wei He.
• Wei He and Professor Floyd’s team examined an ordinary crystal and found that its spiral radiation structure generated weak magnetism.
• Professor Floyd divided the research funds, then unsuccessfully tried to set Wei He up with his daughter, Li Hanyue.
• Di Bang met Wei He after breaking through to Storm Class and said the accumulated side effects meant he could no longer use the Red Ridge Potion.
• Di Bang hinted that he had another option, and Wei He asked him to explain.

Wei He and Di Bang formed a psychic contract so Di Bang could share an ancient formula that countered Red Ridge Potion resistance, and Wei He tested it successfully. Later, Sri Lanka told Wei He that Bai Ling had appeared among a group of mutants, while Wei He prepared to resume taking Red Ridge Potion and attempt to advance to Storm Class.

• Di Bang and Wei He exchanged psychic imprints in a fifty-percent Fusion Spirit Art contract, then Di Bang shared an ancient formula for reducing Red Ridge Potion resistance.
• Wei He tested the formula for two weeks, confirmed it worked specifically against Red Ridge Potion, and used it to recover his own resistance.
• Wei He met Sri Lanka at his noodle shop, where Sri Lanka said Yuna and Stanley were still preparing to advance toward Illumination and teased Wei He about Bilian Saluto.
• Sri Lanka identified the leader of the mutants he had hunted as Bai Ling, and Wei He concluded that Bai Ling and his companions had reached the city without protective suits.
• Wei He went home after confirming his resistance had vanished and planned to take Red Ridge Potion again to break through Shadow Insect and reach Storm.

Bai Ling and Hua Yue struggled to survive on radiation-ravaged Planet 228 while searching for medicine and hoping to reunite with Wei He. Meanwhile, Wei He prepared ancient potions, rapidly raised his psionic energy to its limit, and began forcing a breakthrough with the Boundary-Breaking Pearl.

• Bai Ling and Hua Yue drove across Planet 228 in a stolen craft as a massive sandstorm approached, seeking radiation injections to treat their worsening mutations.
• Bai Ling explained that only five demons at most had survived entering the Black Gate, and he and Hua Yue hoped to find Wei He after stabilizing their situation.
• Wei He received medicinal ingredients, prepared six Red Ridge Potions and three Ancient Formula Potions, and ignored Bilian's invitation to shooting training.
• Wei He drank the potions and raised his psionic energy from 72% to 99%, where the first level of the Star Sea Spirit Art stalled.
• Wei He focused on the Boundary-Breaking Pearl and thrust his spirit upward to attempt a breakthrough.

Wei He broke through to Storm Class with the Star Sea Spirit Art, registered for Storm body frame certification, and began studying the art’s second layer. After officials verified his application, his new rank appeared in records across the Silver Belt District, startling people in his circle.

• Wei He used the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to break through to Storm Class, strengthening his psionic energy and clearing away the chaotic wills in his flesh.
• Wei He bought the second layer of the Star Sea Spirit Art with nine bronze badges and submitted his personal information for Storm Class certification.
• Wei He studied the second-layer star chart and its Starry Sky and Spiritual Power Activation techniques, then read forum discussions comparing major Spirit Arts.
• Two Civil Affairs Certification Center officers inspected Wei He’s psionic energy and confirmed his Storm Class rank.
• The Silver Belt District database updated Wei He’s records from Shadow Bug level to Storm Class, causing a stir among people around him.

Wen Han approved Wei He’s Storm Class registration, while Ivy and her friends learned that the five-year points settlement had begun and that anyone below the required total would be expelled from the Silver Belt District. Ivy searched for points to cover her shortage but found few affordable options, leaving her to turn to her closest friends.

• Wen Han reviewed Wei He’s profile, verified his Storm Class assessment, and placed him in the high-attention group.
• Ivy spent an evening partying with Freya and their friends, reflecting on how comfortably she had lived in the Silver Belt District.
• Ivy and her friends received notice that the points settlement had begun and discussed the five-hundred-badge minimum required to remain citizens.
• Ivy discovered she was more than eighty Transparent Badges short and began contacting acquaintances for help.
• Ivy found that her contacts had already transferred their badges or offered prices she could not afford, so she turned toward her closest friends.

Ivy tried to buy points for someone else, but learned Wei He had reached Storm Class and chose not to contact him. At Warsaw University, Wei He celebrated his breakthrough by entering a Storm body frame for the first time, eager to study its capabilities.

• Ivy asked Sri Lanka for spare points, but he had given his points to his dead comrade’s younger siblings and suggested she ask Wei He instead.
• Ivy saw that Wei He’s profile certified him as Storm Class, but she decided not to contact him.
• Wei He received congratulations at Warsaw University, where Professor Floyd asked whether he needed points and later sent his breakthrough information to his daughter.
• Wei He applied to pilot a Storm body frame, paid the usage fee, and chose to add an opponent for combat testing.
• Wei He entered Arena Number Five, donned the black Storm body frame, and began examining its structure and speed.

Wei He entered interstellar simulator battles to learn how Storm body frames fought at extreme speed. After losing his first match, he adapted to the frame and defeated a twin-sword opponent, then continued searching for new opponents to improve his skills.

• Wei He joined interstellar network battles and was defeated by Frozen Membrane in his first Storm body frame match.
• Wei He connected his psychic energy to his body frame and fought Sound of Blades, a twin-sword opponent.
• Wei He adapted to Storm body frame combat and altered his flesh to imitate the frame’s cellular structure.
• Wei He used timing and a high-speed collision to defeat Sound of Blades, whose frame shattered on impact.
• Wei He chose to keep his gravity ability concealed and prepared to test his martial arts against another opponent.

Wei He advanced his Storm body-frame research through simulated battles, then learned about the Empire’s martial schools from a skilled opponent. Meanwhile, Li Qingman discovered his Storm Class certification and sent his information to Li Hanyue, though she doubted her aunt would consider him a suitable match.

• Wei He lost several difficult Storm Class matches, exchanged contacts with the dual-sword fighter Sound of Blades, and learned that the fighter’s school combined spirit arts with combat techniques.
• Wei He concluded that he would have to advance his Flesh and Blood Martial Arts Path by studying body frames and psionic energy, then paid four thousand for his four hours at the simulation facility.
• Freud told Li Qingman that Wei He had reached Storm Class and asked her to contact Li Hanyue about him.
• Li Qingman verified Wei He’s black storm insignia and forwarded his information to Li Hanyue, but judged that her aunt would still pursue a Radiance-ranked partner to protect their Lineage.