Recaps

Ansaya captured a Sand Crab King and was ordered to pursue smugglers and collect another specimen while Wei He continued researching the Star Spirit River. Wei He then encountered a group of Giant Wood People in the Whispering Forest, defeated them, and took their staff to investigate its High Spirit Energy.

• Ansaya led a team through the Black Wind Desert, captured the Sand Crab King alive, and received Wei He's orders to intercept a landed spacecraft and retrieve Titan King Fermondo's brain tissue.
• Wei He told Ansaya that another smuggling ship had already been destroyed by the base's defenses and urged him to continue collecting research specimens.
• Wei He recorded his experiments with the Thousand-Eyed Demon's flesh before encountering masked Giant Wood People in the forest.
• A member of the group shot an arrow at Wei He, and he killed her with a burst of psionic energy.
• Lexi attacked Wei He with fire magic from her staff, but his shield stopped it; he incapacitated all fifteen women and took the staff.

Wei He captured the Giant Wood People's court mage Lexi and persuaded her to teach him High Spirit Energy, which she called magic. After months of study, she taught him how to use the Amethyst Reflection Method to uncover his hidden will, and Wei He prepared to begin.

• Wei He captured Lexi and froze her guards, then offered to let them go if she taught him her fire-breathing technique.
• Lexi agreed to teach Wei He, and he studied her language and culture while researching the Thousand-Eyed Demon's flesh and blood; his simulation progress reached 50% and his spirit energy reached 20 Spirit Ears.
• After more than three months, Lexi taught Wei He that the nine Ancestral Seals helped practitioners find their affinity and that contacting one could draw out their hidden will.
• Lexi explained that the Amethyst Reflection Method could release more than ninety percent of a practitioner's hidden will, and Wei He eagerly asked to begin learning it.

Duoshali refused Franci’s demand that Bilian divorce Wei He and marry Baron Menggela’s son, Benjamin. On Planet 184, Wei He continued studying the Amethyst Reflection Method and prepared to use it alongside his near-complete simulation of the Thousand-Eyed Demon.

• Franci asked Duoshali to persuade Bilian to marry Benjamin, arguing that the match would raise the Saluto family’s standing.
• Duoshali refused to pressure Bilian, warning that the Menggela family valued her connections and might make her unhappy; Franci left in anger.
• Wei He struggled to understand the abstract Amethyst Reflection Method but continued studying it because he wanted to reunite with Bilian.
• In May 1325, Wei He used a signal jammer in a canyon on Planet 184, removed his biological colony, and carved a secluded underground cave.
• Wei He meditated in the cave with his body covered in simulated Thousand-Eyed Demon eyes, having reached 99% of the flesh-and-blood structure and waiting for his method to advance further.

Wei He broke through the first layer of the Amethyst Reflection Method, releasing enough hidden will to reach the Illumination level’s Spirit Energy limit and form the Void Ancestral Seal. The seal drew him into a vision of the Star Spirit River, where he escaped with a trace of High Spirit Energy and glimpsed an ancient East Salun scroll.

• Wei He used the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to overcome his bottleneck and complete the first layer of the Amethyst Reflection Method.
• Wei He’s released hidden will surged into Spirit Energy, which reached 50 Spirit Ears, the Illumination level’s limit, and formed the Void Ancestral Seal.
• The Void Ancestral Seal transported Wei He into a deep-blue river where a vast consciousness urged him to stay and join the sleeping creatures below.
• Wei He resisted the river’s influence and returned to the cave holding what appeared to be a tattered scroll written in the ancient script of the East Salun Empire.
• Wei He discovered the scroll was not physically present and found a small trace of High Spirit Energy at the core of his Spirit Energy.

Wei He confirmed that High Spirit Energy let him see the Star Spirit River and prepared for a future breakthrough while waiting for Katri to lead an expedition into the volcano. As Katri and his reinforcements began exploring, Wei He monitored their progress and read an article equating mutants with polluted beasts.

• Wei He used High Spirit Energy to see the Star Spirit River, then left the cave and spoke with Bilian, who had recently advanced to Illumination level.
• Wei He read Katri's message that he would lead an expedition to the volcano with two reinforcements, Sophia and Modai, and arranged their welcome at the research center.
• Katri, Sophia, and Modai arrived, and Wei He provided them with the route map and details about the volcano's constant small eruptions.
• Katri and the other two Fission-level experts departed with Ansaya and a large support team to explore the volcano while Wei He monitored them from the research center.
• As the expedition progressed slowly under intense Star Spirit River pressure, Wei He read an article describing mutants as polluted beasts and potential threats to the empires.

Wei He discovered that traces of Star Abyss contamination remained within him while watching Katri’s team retrieve Dragon Heart from a volcano. After Sophia offered to take him as her son and then killed three soldiers who had laughed, Wei He asked Katri to proceed with his Fission Material application.

• Wei He sensed faint Star Abyss contamination resurfacing in his body and recalled the translated sacrificial rite he had set aside.
• Sophia cleared the team’s path through the volcano, and Katri, Modai, and Sophia retrieved a stone sample containing Dragon Heart.
• Modai observed that Wei He’s Spirit Energy was nearing its critical point, and Katri said he would recommend Wei He to their school if he survived his next breakthrough.
• Sophia offered to make Wei He her son, but he declined; she then killed three soldiers who had laughed at them and gave Wei a communicator.
• Katri explained Sophia’s status and asked whether Wei He truly wanted Fission Material, and Wei He said he wanted to act before fear gave him time to regret it.

As the Star Abyss Riot put the Penza Empire on alert, Wei He used Fission Material and the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to break through to the Fission level while simulating a Thousand-Eyed Demon body. His transformation revealed that Star Abyss will had contaminated his mutant flesh, and the will disrupted his ongoing psionic breakthrough.

• A damaged fighter reached Isabelle Star, and the Empire issued an emergency notice that the Star Abyss Riot had begun.
• Wei He received the alarm on Planet 184, checked on Bilian, Resius, and his friends, notified his employees, and shut off communications to focus on breaking through.
• Wei He touched the Fission Material, causing his psionic energy to turn violent, then used the Boundary-Breaking Pearl to guide its transformation while his body completed its Thousand-Eyed Demon simulation.
• Wei He completed the Fission breakthrough, but his new flesh released Star Abyss aura and revealed a tentacle of Star Abyss will within him.
• Wei He failed to suppress the Star Abyss will with his newly sublimated psionic energy, and its eruption interfered with the Pearl-assisted transformation.

Wei He survived the Star Abyss contamination and completed his breakthrough to Fission level, gaining immense physical strength and transformed psionic energy. After certification, Katri congratulated him and explained the paths and opportunities opening up across the vast Empire.

• The Boundary-Breaking Pearl and an Ascendant reserve force helped Wei He suppress the Star Abyss will as his psionic energy transformed.
• Wei He realized he had reached Fission level and suspected his psionic energy contained a trace of Star Abyss will captured by the Boundary-Breaking Pearl.
• Wei He told Katri that he had succeeded, then met him and Orga Galaxy certification staff aboard a warship above Planet 184.
• The certification officers recorded Wei He's abilities and confirmed his Fission breakthrough.
• Katri described Wei He's career choices and the scale of the Empire, encouraging him to travel and visit the Lyra Star System.
• Wei He and Katri toasted his breakthrough as a meteor crossed the view beyond the spacecraft window.

Freud, Li Hanyue, and Li Qingman learned that Wei He had advanced to Fission level and would receive major honors, stirring regret in Li Hanyue over her past choices. Yuna also saw the news and decided to attend Wei He's ceremony reception.

• Freud picked up Li Hanyue and Li Qingman for the Heming Festival and suggested that Li Hanyue meet a shy young man from his unit.
• Li Hanyue agreed to meet the young man, while Freud reflected on how her hopes and prospects had changed.
• Freud received an announcement that Wei He had reached Fission level and would become a Permanent Honorary Citizen with the highest permissions in the Silver Belt District.
• Li Qingman accepted Freud's invitation to Wei He's ceremony reception, while Li Hanyue silently regretted her past and Freud stopped them from dwelling on it.
• Yuna read her classmates' excited discussion of Wei He's achievement and decided to attend the ceremony reception.

Duoshali learned that Wei He had reached Fission level and realized Bilian had chosen well, even as Franci demanded that she repair their relationship for the Lineage’s benefit. She refused to beg Bilian and smashed her terminal, rejecting her branch-family position.

• Duoshali argued with her son Ludi, who asked her to seek Bilian’s help getting his son Xiaoyun accepted as Wei He’s student.
• Franci asked Duoshali to invite Bilian and Wei He over, then ordered her to reconcile with them for the Lineage’s plans.
• Franci revealed that Wei He had reached Fission level, and Duoshali confirmed the news in a city bulletin.
• Duoshali realized Bilian had surpassed her expectations and decided not to plead with her or bring her back to the Lineage.
• Duoshali declared she no longer wanted her branch-family position and smashed her personal terminal.

Bing Ke prepared to leave Linghai Star after warning Carus and Bilian about the coming Star Abyss unrest. News of Wei He's breakthrough and Carus's grandfather's death transformed their fortunes as Wei He traveled to Orga Prime to join the Lezman School.

• Carus defeated Bilian at Spirit Chess, and Bing Ke announced her departure while advising both students to remain cautious and true to themselves.
• Bilian received Wei He's message announcing his Fission-level breakthrough, while Carus learned that her grandfather had died during an operation against the Star Abyss Beast Tide.
• Bing Ke comforted the devastated Carus as Bilian struggled to process her husband's new power and influence.
• Wei He traveled from Planet 184 to Orga Prime to accept Katri's invitation to join the Lezman School, and Katri remarked on his bad luck in arriving during the Star Abyss unrest.

Wei He joined Katri and a squad of Colossi on patrol, where they destroyed a Star Abyss wormhole and its defending behemoth soldier. Katri warned Wei He that human psionic power had strict limits and that the Empire relied on weapons and coordinated forces to fight the Star Abyss.

• Wei He learned that he and Katri had been ordered to patrol space, and Katri gave him a psionic detector and a spare Fission Colossus.
• Katri identified a nearby Star Abyss wormhole and led Wei He and thirty Colossi to intercept it before it reached a planet.
• Katri used Spirit Arts to destroy a giant gray spider that emerged from the wormhole while the squad supported his attack.
• The squad planted bombs inside the wormhole and destroyed it in a massive crimson explosion.
• Katri told Wei He to avoid close combat with the Star Abyss and explained that humanity depended on weapons, fleets, and Dragon Machines to oppose it.

Wei He tested his new Fission-level body frame against a Star Abyss beast soldier while Katri taught him how to fight it. After Katri destroyed the beast, two Fission-level fighters ambushed him, leaving the battle suddenly turned against the group.

• Wei He volunteered to fight a giant rhinoceros beetle, but its pollution tendrils struck his shield and his attacks failed to harm it.
• Wei He lured the beetle away from its wormhole while Katri dropped a bomb into the opening and destroyed it.
• Niz considered attacking Wei He and Katri, but Xinli refused to help, so Niz ordered his ships to withdraw and continue searching for the Dragon Machine module.
• Katri demonstrated the power of offensive spirit arts by destroying the rhinoceros beetle with thousands of flying discs.
• Two Fission-level fighters ambushed Katri while his psychic power was depleted, and one blade cut deeply across his back.

Katri and his forces were ambushed by elite Knosus Ghost Body Frames, and Wei He was pursued because the attackers believed he had the Dragon Machine Key Module. After Xinli struck Wei He down, Wei He revealed his true form as a Thousand-Eyed Demon at the highest stage, trapping Niz inside its sphere as Niz tried to flee.

• Katri activated Annihilation Mode and fought back while Wei He escaped, but the Ghost Body Frames pursued Wei instead of Katri.
• Niz and Xinli demanded that Wei He surrender the Key Module, which they said had been inside the small black box he opened.
• Xinli and Niz surrounded Wei He, and Xinli's Ghost Body Frame cut through his frame and struck him down.
• Wei He's shattered frame released a black beam that pierced Xinli, and Wei He emerged in his monstrous true form.
• Niz recognized Wei He as a Thousand-Eyed Demon at the highest stage and fled to avoid making eye contact.

Wei He ambushed and killed the Fission-level Niz and Xinli, then returned to Olga Star while concealing his strength and worrying that the Dragon Machine Key Module had contaminated him. After Katri recommended him for a school, Wei He began advancing his Star Sea Spirit Art to match his newly liberated Psychic Energy.

• Wei He used his Thousand-Eyed Demon form to kill Niz and Xinli, then destroyed their bodies and Ghost Body Frames to erase evidence.
• Wei He requested a spacecraft pickup and arranged passage through a nearby planet to Planet 184 while searching for the Dragon Machine Key Module he suspected was on him.
• Wei He returned to Katri posing as badly injured and claimed a mysterious person had driven off the two Fission body frames.
• Several days later, Katri and Wei He arrived on Olga Star, where Katri said Lord Herudan's guard and Heart of the Banyan Tree would pursue the Knosus forces.
• Katri dismissed doubts about Wei He's account and agreed to recommend him for the school as Knosus raids spread across Pengsha border systems.
• Wei He began cultivating the Star Sea Spirit Art and reached one percent progress in its fourth level within half an hour.

Wei He explored the tactical Spirit Arts available at the Fission level and investigated the chaotic wills produced by his Thousand-Eyed Demon martial path. He discovered that his Spirit Energy could absorb those wills, then tested it on a Thousand-Eyed Demon eyeball and consumed its chaotic force.

• Wei He purchased the fourth level of the Star Sea Spirit Art, chose the tactical path, and downloaded its three basic offensive Spirit Arts.
• Wei He examined his inner world and found chaotic wills within his Thousand-Eyed Demon Flesh and Blood Martial Arts Path.
• Wei He washed the chaotic wills from the martial path in his Spirit Energy vortex and noticed that the vortex grew larger.
• Wei He touched a Thousand-Eyed Demon eyeball with his Spirit Energy, absorbed the chaotic wills surging from it, and watched the eyeball shrivel.

At a Lezman School gathering on Olga Star, Ascendant Herudan reported a massive Star Abyss Beast Tide threatening more than three hundred nearby Star Systems. Wei He volunteered to fight, but Belkin assigned him to lead the Empty Star Research Institute as Vice President instead.

• Wei He attended a Lezman School gathering at Star Bell Lake and spoke with Longhubo about his rapid advance to Fission.
• Herudan arrived and ordered Katri and Belkin to support the Bol Dead Star, reporting that thousands of giant beast soldiers and Horrors from a massive Star Abyss Beast Tide threatened the region.
• Belkin agreed to deploy with the other Fission experts while Herudan left to handle a spatial jump point.
• Katri and Longhubo explained Star Annihilation Weaponry and the limits Ascendants faced in fleet warfare.
• Wei He volunteered to fight the beast tide, hoping to absorb Star Abyss will, but Belkin assigned him to serve as Vice President of the Empty Star Research Institute.

Wei He accepted that he had to focus on building a Fission spiritual arts system and welcomed Bilian back to Olga Star. Meanwhile, Knossoss intelligence chief Nurhadiila investigated the missing officers and became suspicious of Wei He, and Bilian asked Wei He to protect her senior sister Carus.

• Wei He abandoned his request to join the Star Abyss Beast Tide battle and learned that Longhubo would investigate the attack by Knossoss on him and Katri.
• On Saint Francisco Star, Nurhadiila deployed the Chameleon team to restore Knossoss intelligence in the Olga Galaxy and investigate the disappearance of Niz and Xinli.
• Nurhadiila reviewed suspected Dragon Machine Key Module holders and noticed that Wei He’s reported history as an East Salun starfall survivor did not match his memory.
• Wei He reunited with Bilian at Olga Star’s Spaceport Number Four after more than three years apart.
• Bilian told Wei He that her senior sister Carus was in danger after her family’s Fission leader died, and Wei He agreed to meet her before deciding how to help.

Wei He joined the Empty Star Research Institute as Vice President and learned about its work studying threats from the Star Abyss. After returning home, he welcomed Bilian’s senior sister Carus and offered her protection.

• Wei He flew to the Empty Star Research Institute, where Dean Sean Niemann and the staff welcomed him as Vice President.
• Sean explained that the institute studied Star Abyss creatures and developed countermeasures for the military, while Tang Ning outlined the threat levels and the danger of Terror Human samples.
• Wei He learned that he had authority to inspect Terror Human samples and grew eager to use Star Abyss wills to strengthen himself.
• Wei He toured the institute, registered his information, and officially joined its staff.
• Wei He returned to his villa, met Carus, and told Bilian’s senior sister that she could stay safely under his protection.

Wei He used the study map to examine the vast scale of the known universe, then visited an Empty Star Research Institute sample with Dean Sean and discovered his Spirit Energy grew near Terror Human contamination. The chapter ended when the sample formed an aged human face and spoke to him.

• Wei He displayed the Penza Empire, Star Abyss, and humanity’s farthest detected region, the Golden River Supercluster Aggregate, on the study map.
• Wei He checked information about Bilian’s senior sister, then continued Spirit Law cultivation and gained another Spirit Ear.
• Two days later, Dean Sean escorted Wei He to the Empty Star Research Institute’s lowest level to see a Terror Human sample.
• Wei He found that his Spirit Energy grew while exposed to the sample’s contamination and approached to within one meter.
• The black sample formed an aged human face and spoke to Wei He.

Wei He negotiated with a mysterious prisoner for research secrets while the Orga Galaxy faced a Star Abyss invasion. As the battle raged, Taril and Meilan arrived at Wei He's villa intending to deal with Carus quickly.

• Wei He questioned the old man, who claimed Sien had framed him, and agreed to verify one research result before lowering the suppression lamp's intensity.
• A vast Star Abyss force advanced toward the Orga Galaxy, where General Herudan Garcia Dis commanded the fleet and body frames defending against its beasts.
• Herudan's forces destroyed waves of colossal beast soldiers with Wood Dragon-class warships, while he waited for the Terrors to appear and considered deploying the space carrier.
• Taril and Meilan of the Longlan Family arrived at Wei He's villa and discussed quickly eliminating Carus before their plan was discovered.

After the Longlan Family’s hired attackers invaded Wei He’s villa and abducted Carus, Bilian tried to persuade them that their employers would kill them to cover up the crime. Wei He learned of the attack through his flesh offspring and rushed to retrieve a body frame, preparing to reveal his true strength.

• The Longlan Family’s representatives visited Wei He’s villa, then left after Bilian said he was away while Meilan sent a message.
• Unmarked body frames broke into the villa, suppressed Bilian and Carus, and seized Carus to extract the Beli Family’s hidden assets.
• Bilian warned the attackers that the Longlan Family might kill them and urged them to stay and seek protection from Wei He.
• Emergency troops approached the villa, and the Longlan Family ordered them to continue the operation while sparing Bilian.
• Wei He received a warning through his flesh offspring, informed Katri, and headed to the body frame storage facility.

Wei He rescued Bilian and Carus from the pirates’ exploding ship and pursued the conspirators who triggered the blast. He nearly captured Meilan and Taril, but an unseen spirit art blocked his strike.

• The Radiance-level pirate leaders chose to take Bilian and Carus hostage and flee in a cloaked ship.
• Taril and Meilan detonated bombs on the pirates’ ship, but Wei He’s Fission-level spirit energy froze everyone nearby and he rescued Bilian and Carus.
• Wei He sent Carus and Bilian to retrieve their body frames, then tracked the detonation signal to Taril and Meilan’s ship.
• Wei He rammed and split the ship, forcing Meilan and Taril to emerge and claim they belonged to the Longlan Family.
• Wei He attacked to capture them, but a Thousand Knot Spirit Web stopped his Light Blade just before it struck.

Wei He poisoned and killed Taril and Meilan after the Emergency Response Force blocked his attempt to pursue them, provoking Tashel Longlan. Longhubo and Katri prevented Tashel from retaliating, and an investigation at the Longlan Family estate identified the toxin as a Star Abyss-derived poison, leaving Wei He a dangerous target.

• Tashel Longlan confronted Wei He and refused to arrest Taril and Meilan, while Wei He warned that he would seek an investigation of the Emergency Response Force.
• Wei He counted down, embraced Bilian, and watched Taril and Meilan's body frames explode after the poison he had planted killed them.
• Tashel raised his hand to attack Wei He, but Longhubo and Katri arrived and helped restrain him; Tashel withdrew with the Emergency Response Force.
• Longhubo asked Wei He whether his poison could be used on a large scale, and Wei He declined to explain how it worked.
• Researchers at the Longlan Family estate identified the poison as Blue Star 117, a concentrated toxin derived from Star Abyss creatures, and Tashel and a silver-masked man discussed how to deal with Wei He.

At a wartime meeting, Herudan rejected Wei He’s request to collect live samples on the front lines after the Longlan Family and others opposed it. Wei He returned to research work at the Empty Star Research Institute, where he considered keeping Bilian and the others safe from retaliation.

• Herudan reviewed the five-day battle, logistics, and reports from the other fronts, while Sean requested permission for Wei He to collect live samples.
• Belkin, Longhubo, and Katri supported Wei He’s request, but Tashel Longlan and other Fissions opposed it, and Herudan rejected the application.
• Herudan discussed sending a rescue force to the Yingge Group fleet, whose passengers included Justin’s children and a Dragon Machine Key Module, and several Fissions volunteered troops.
• Sean told Wei He that the Longlan Family’s opposition had blocked his application, and Wei He accepted that he would remain at the institute.
• Wei He continued researching contaminated samples and reflected on the limits of strengthening his human body, then decided Bilian and the others should stay put during the war.