Chapter Summaries

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.

After reaching Storm Class, Wei He considered returning to the surface and met Sally, who apologized for her choices and wanted to earn money to bring her parents up. He secretly poisoned her so her old work would become unbearable, then turned down Bilian’s suggestion to join the Inspection Department as he considered departments that would let him wear a body frame longer.

• Wei He asked Sri Lanka whether the surface force had found Bai Ling, and learned they had killed four mutants but had not tracked down the rest.
• Sally approached Wei He, apologized for her work, and explained she hoped to earn enough to bring her parents to the surface.
• Wei He urged Sally to find an honest job and secretly administered a toxin that would make her fart continuously in the environments where she used to work.
• Bilian congratulated Wei He and asked whether he would join the Inspection Department, but he refused.
• Wei He considered the Security Department’s Ground Assault Force because its members spent three months at a time wearing body frames on the surface.

Wei He chose the Ground Assault Force and left Warsaw University, determined to return to the front lines, while Bilian struggled with his rejection and decided to follow him. At the bar, Bilian ran to find Wei He, and a red-haired man urged Di Bang to act with courage.

• Wei He applied to the Ground Assault Force, received approval, and told Professor Floyd and Bilian that he was leaving for the front lines.
• Wei He met Sri Lanka at the training base, where they discussed mutant activity and a planned surface operation.
• Bilian drank with a friend, reconsidered Wei He's rejection, and decided to go to the front lines to find him.
• A red-haired man challenged Di Bang to show the courage that Bilian had just displayed.

Ludi Saluto and his mother reacted with fury to a message from Bilian Saluto, while Wei He struggled to afford potions that could advance him from Storm Class toward Illumination. Li Hanyue tried to approach Gabriel but was dismissed, leaving her unable to pursue him.

• Ludi Saluto's mother condemned his sister's situation, then became furious after receiving a message from Bilian Saluto.
• Wei He consumed his remaining Red Ridge Potion and estimated that it advanced his spiritual method by about three percent.
• Wei He searched for stronger psionic energy potions and chose the Mind Potion, which he hoped to make more cheaply using ingredients from Planet 228.
• Li Hanyue arranged to meet Gabriel at a hotel and introduced herself as Floyd's daughter.
• Gabriel briefly acknowledged Li Hanyue, entered the elevator with his companion, and left her frozen by the pressure of his psionic energy.

Wei He returned to Planet 228 with his squad for a ground-clearing operation and unexpectedly reunited with Bilian Saluto, who had joined the Storm body frames. Meanwhile, Bai Ling and Hua Yue were trapped and weakened on the planet until Wei He appeared before them.

• Li Hanyue resolved to pursue her other plans to connect with Radiance before agreeing to marry Wei He.
• Wei He and Fourth Squad landed on Planet 228 and prepared to search for mutants near Ouri City.
• Bilian Saluto killed a contaminated rhinoceros that charged Wei He, then told him they would be comrades; Wei He ignored her and led his squad onward.
• Bai Ling and Hua Yue hid from searching body frames and discussed their dwindling demon power and inability to return through the one-way door.
• As nearby body frames approached, Bai Ling prepared to use a life-force-converting secret art to teleport Hua Yue, but Wei He appeared and revealed himself to both Demon Kings.

Wei He rescued Bai Ling and Hua Yue and arranged for six demons to hide in Hidden City under identities he forged. Two years later, after advancing his Storm body frame research and patrolling Planet 228, he went alone to investigate the Black Mother Sandstorm.

• Wei He gave Bai Ling and Hua Yue nutrient paste, radiation injections, and a way to contact him, then promised to arrange shelter for them and the other demons.
• Wei He used Flesh and Blood Martial Arts cells to disguise the six remaining demons, who infiltrated Hidden City by taking the identities of dead body frame warriors.
• Wei He researched the Storm body frame, supported the demons, and alternated Mind Potions with Red Ridge Potions while struggling to fund his psychic training.
• Two years later, Wei He led Fourth Squad beyond its usual patrol boundary, then sent the squad back so he could continue alone.
• Wei He reached the edge of the enormous Black Mother Sandstorm and studied the barrier dividing the desert.