Chapter Summaries

Wang Jixuan and Amina tapped into the Blade Beasts’ communication network by using Gali Nuo’s body, while Fu Jian prepared to discuss aid for the besieged Psionic Capital. Wang Jixuan learned that the Blade Beasts planned to destroy the area and that reinforcements were coming through a Stargate.

• Peony told Wang Jixuan that Fu Jian wanted to know his plans, and Wang Jixuan arranged a private conversation while delaying his return to the cultivation sanctuary.
• Wang Jixuan told Fu Jian how he had provoked the Blade Beasts and Spiritual Practitioners into conflict, and Fu Jian agreed to try to save civilians while keeping Wang’s survival secret.
• Wang Jixuan and Amina used Gali Nuo’s corpse to infiltrate the Blade Beasts’ communication network, with Wang posing as a juvenile Blade Beast.
• Wang Jixuan learned that the Blade Beasts viewed Gali Nuos as their civilization’s thinkers and planned to defeat the Spiritual Practitioners before eliminating humanity.
• The Blade Beasts revealed that reinforcements would arrive soon through a charged Stargate, that the Stargate had been disrupted locally, and that everything in the area would ultimately be destroyed.

Meng Jin tortured Li Weiqi to death while seeking the missing intelligence, but Wang Jixuan saved Li Weiqi’s soul and recruited him as a future helper. Wang Jixuan began searching for a body for Li Weiqi, then learned the Living Museum was inside the Ball of Silence.

• Meng Jin used healing light and torture to interrogate Li Weiqi about the intelligence, then killed him when he kept repeating that Meng Jin had been crippled by Black Storm.
• Li Weiqi awoke as a soul in darkness and followed a light into an illusion where Wang Jixuan, disguised as Old Man Daoji, showed him a memory proving his identity.
• Old Man Daoji told Li Weiqi that Wang Zheng had returned to the Upper Realm and would be confined for three thousand years, then asked him to become a helper.
• Li Weiqi eagerly agreed to help Wang Zheng but became despondent when he spoke of Angel and the child he never knew about.
• Wang Jixuan told Peony he had saved Li Weiqi’s soul in a Soul Nourishing Talisman and began looking for a body among the failed Infusion Experiments.
• Mai Xiaomei sent word that the Living Museum was inside the Ball of Silence, surprising Wang Jixuan.

Wang Jixuan watched the Psionic Capital’s defenses face the largest Blade Beast Tide in human history while he waited to see the Spiritual Practitioners’ abilities. Wanda’s formation briefly checked the invasion, but Pseudo Spirit Slaves then ambushed the Psionicists and broke their first defensive line.

• Wang Jixuan secretly watched Ling Tong return, then chose to remain hidden and avoid taking an active role in the battle.
• Peony reported that Amina had joined the D5 team and was heading toward Fu Jian’s core force, while Wang Jixuan decided to observe the conflict from the sidelines.
• A blue-haired alien visitor warned Fu Jian that the Blade Beast Civilization had prepared a Stargate, and the Blade Beasts concentrated their forces around the Psionic Capital.
• Wanda activated a formation that halted the Blade Beast Tide briefly, but the golden barrier shattered and he weakened as he continued to resist the assault.
• Psionicists charged the Blade Beasts and held the line during an initial probe, until Pseudo Spirit Slaves launched surprise attacks and caused the first defense to collapse.

Wang Jixuan and Amina defeated Wanda in a fierce battle above the Arctic Circle, but Wanda destroyed his soul before Wang Jixuan could capture it. They discussed how to use Wanda’s Core Circuit and prepare for the Blade Beast Swarm, then Wang Jixuan resumed fighting.

• Wang Jixuan pursued the wounded Wanda while Amina sealed him and boosted Wang Jixuan’s abilities, and they fought as they descended toward Earth.
• Wang Jixuan used sword formations, demonic possession, lightning, and a spear to overcome Wanda, while Amina prevented him from self-destructing.
• Wanda revealed that the Blade Beasts had not awakened on their own and that the Ancient Civilization had not been destroyed, then he burned his soul before Wang Jixuan could capture it.
• Wang Jixuan gave Wanda’s Core Circuit to Amina and recommended Zhou Zhengde as a possible new Light Spiritual Practitioner, while they agreed to unite their strength against the Blade Beasts.
• Wang Jixuan declined Amina’s apparent invitation, told her he had a girlfriend, and continued replenishing his power so he could return to battle.

Amina comforted Gao Huating and discovered she could perfectly resonate with Wanda’s Core Circuit. Wang Jixuan emerged from seclusion with a steadier Dao heart and major cultivation gains, but a red mark between his brows suggested the Demon Lord’s Mark had appeared.

• Amina visited Gao Huating, reassured her that she was not responsible for Wang Zheng’s demonic state, and asked about the guardian who claimed to be her Past Life Body.
• Amina gave Gao Huating Wanda’s Core Circuit to test, and Gao Huating achieved perfect resonance with it.
• Wang Jixuan awakened from seclusion with his primordial spirit taking shape, his Dao Realm nearing the fourth stage of the Heaven and Earth Bridge Realm, and his Dao heart restored.
• Wang Jixuan returned to the transport aircraft, spoke with Peony and Shen Qionglin, and asked to be taken to Ling Tong and to hold an online meeting with Amina.
• Wang Jixuan noticed a red mark between his brows and suspected it was the Demon Lord’s Mark.

Wang Jixuan reunited with Ling Tong, then met with humanity’s leaders to discuss the Starry Sky Gate and the looming Blade Beast threat. Gao Huating revealed a possible way to close the Gate, but the Ancient Civilization required Amina to submit to Wang Jixuan, and Amina refused.

• Ling Tong cooked for Wang Jixuan and shared her despair about humanity’s chances in the war, before they spent time together during her break from combat missions.
• Peony released Wang Jixuan’s astral soul so he could meet with Gao Huating, Amina, Wu Man, Red Snake, Shen Qionglin, and the others.
• Wang Jixuan outlined the need to close the Starry Sky Gate, the danger of Blade Beasts guarding it, and the evolving Pseudo Spirit Slaves.
• Gao Huating said backups of Spiritual Practitioners’ Core Circuits existed beyond the Gate and that Amina could use the knowledge there to create a circuit capable of closing it.
• Gao Huating relayed that the Ancient Civilization would let Amina go only if she submitted to Wang Jixuan, and Amina rejected the demand.

After Amina returned from the City in the Clouds with rare Psionic Energy Circuits, Wang Jixuan remained wary of the Ancient Civilization’s offer and decided to focus first on closing the Starry Sky Gate. Fifteen days later, the Starry Sky Gate Annihilation Battle began as Ling Tong prepared to fight the approaching Blade Beast swarm.

• Wang Jixuan completed his breakthrough to the first step of the Heaven and Earth Bridge and shared spiritual power with those guarding him.
• Amina told Wang Jixuan about the City in the Clouds, its abundant psionic energy, and the more than 120 Psionic Energy Circuits she had received.
• Wang Jixuan and Amina questioned why the Ancient Civilization wanted him as its inheritor, and Wang Jixuan decided they would try to close the Starry Sky Gate before considering the city further.
• Amina offered the three Spiritual Practitioners of Wings of Light twelve circuits suited to fighting Blade Beasts, while keeping the others for herself.
• Wang Jixuan spoke with Gao Huating about the soul from her past life and arranged for her to tour the military and sing for the soldiers.
• Ling Tong entered her Terror Mech, and the Starry Sky Gate Annihilation Battle began fifteen days later.

Ling Tong and Wang Jixuan watched humanity test the Starry Sky Gate while preparing for the Blade Beasts’ counterattack. Amina and three other Spiritual Practitioners began trying to close the gate, and Fu Jian received word that the four Pillar-Class Blade Beasts were rising.

• Ling Tong provided fire support against the High-Tier Flying Blade Beast Swarm, then watched an assault team test the Starry Sky Gate while the four Pillar-Class Blade Beasts remained in reserve.
• Wang Jixuan told Ling Tong that closing the enormous gate would be difficult, then used his hidden alternate soul to eavesdrop on the Galinno and send Fu Jian accurate intelligence about the Blade Beasts’ plans.
• Humanity’s nuclear attack failed to affect the Starry Sky Gate, while Wang Jixuan continued monitoring the Blade Beasts’ communications from the supply ship near Number One Space Fortress.
• Amina, Sabrina, Nierda Tamon, and Wanda set out for the gate, teleported nearby, and began casting the Psionic Energy Circuit needed to close it.
• Fu Jian prepared for the battle and heard that the four Pillar-Class Blade Beasts were accelerating upward as massive Blade Beast Swarms surrounded them.

Wang Jixuan investigated the palace and laboratory while expanding his Heavenly Demon Soldier program, then discovered that Ye Zi had returned as the laboratory’s master. He secretly followed her as she inspected the results of decades of Blade Beast research, realizing she might possess cultivation abilities.

• Wang Jixuan and his allies discussed the palace, its lifelike statue of him, and the laboratory, while deciding to wait for its owner and investigate the research.
• Wang Jixuan trained the first six thousand Heavenly Demon Soldiers, prepared instructors for new camps, and investigated the laboratory’s cloning experiments and underground ecosystem.
• Wang Jixuan concluded that Ye Zi might be behind the laboratory and resolved to find her before she became a greater threat.
• Wang Jixuan detected a shuttle arriving at the laboratory and recognized Ye Zi, whose unfamiliar spiritual fluctuation seemed like that of a cultivator.
• Ye Zi ordered the elderly researchers to show her their latest results, including living Blade Beast organs, while Wang Jixuan secretly observed her.

Wang Jixuan visited Zhou Zhengde and learned that Kong Lianmei and Ye Zi might be linked to a suspicious network trafficking people and creating Pseudo Spirit Slaves. As Wang Jixuan reunited with Ling Tong, a mysterious girl at a Blade Beast research institute nurtured a crystal resembling a nascent soul and said her plan would soon be complete.

• Wang Jixuan observed that Gao Huating’s remnant soul was nourishing her, though his Spiritual Sense warned him that something was wrong.
• Wang Jixuan met Zhou Zhengde, who reported that Kong Lianmei had controlled Scavenger Camp gangs and was connected to people who vanished and became Pseudo Spirit Slaves.
• Zhou Zhengde showed Wang Jixuan photographs of Ye Zi, young Kong Lianmei, and other nearly identical girls, and they considered whether Kong Lianmei was tied to the Spiritual Practitioner Civilization or the Blade Beasts.
• Wang Jixuan and Zhou Zhengde reviewed the six Spiritual Practitioners’ backgrounds and decided to ask Amina about the mysterious Sixth Practitioner.
• Wang Jixuan prepared a candlelit dinner for Ling Tong and reunited with her, while a mysterious girl at a Blade Beast research institute bathed in a bloodlike pool and tended a crystal resembling a golden core.
• The girl lovingly returned the crystal to the pool and murmured that her plan would soon be complete.

Wang Jixuan destroyed Cloaked Galinno and overwhelmed the Blade Beast swarm before retreating into secluded cultivation to understand his true self. While Fu Jian advanced plans for Autonomous Mechs and the Seventh Pillar was moved beside the Sixth, Amina later arrived at the Fortress No. 76 Ruins to speak with Gao Huating.

• Wang Jixuan severed Cloaked Galinno from the Sea of Wraiths, killed it, and fought through the Blade Beast swarm until the tide retreated.
• Wang Jixuan told his allies he would seal his six senses to contemplate his Dao Heart and asked them to care for Ling Tong before entering Old Sophie's subspace.
• Fu Jian praised Dongfang Zhenghong, reported that the Blade Beasts had withdrawn, and began accelerating the development plans for Autonomous Mechs with Zhang Huanying and Black Shell.
• Amina helped move the Seventh Pillar beside the Sixth and spent the following days meeting with Spiritual Practitioners and attending Human Military meetings.
• Amina went to the Fortress No. 76 Ruins, where Peony told her that Gao Huating wanted to discuss the Ancient Civilization ruins.

Wang Jixuan briefly regained control of himself after Gao Huating’s singing and Ling Tong’s injury helped break through his demonic frenzy. He accepted his desires rather than suppressing them, then chose to keep slaughtering Blade Beasts deliberately while asking Ling Tong and Fu Jian to withdraw and Peony to support him.

• Dongfang Zhenghong learned that Zheng Shiduo believed Gao Huating’s singing could awaken Wang Zheng, so he arranged for her to accompany Fu Jian and the strongest fighters while Ling Tong continued luring Black Storm into Blade Beast territory.
• Gao Huating’s singing and the Restriction Talisman’s reaction helped Wang Jixuan recover a trace of reason, and he veered away from Ling Tong’s fighter toward a Blade Beast nest.
• Wang Jixuan resisted the surging Demonic Thought by reciting incantations and recalling people and memories from his life, then recognized the demonic desires as part of himself.
• Wang Jixuan absorbed the demonic qi without being consumed by it and regained deliberate control while standing atop a King-Class Blade Beast’s corpse.
• Wang Jixuan told Ling Tong to return and heal and ordered Fu Jian’s group to withdraw, while he continued killing Blade Beasts and called on Peony to support him.

After overcoming the Demonic Thought, Wang Jixuan tore through Blade Beast territory and forced the Galinno to accelerate the Seventh Pillar's awakening. As he neared it, Amina arrived nearby, unaware of his transformation, while the awakening Pillar-Class Blade Beast cried out for him to stay away.

• Ling Tong heard Wang Jixuan call her “dear,” confirmed with Peony that he had entered a stable new state, and requested a medical team.
• Wang Jixuan looted and slaughtered Blade Beasts as he advanced toward the Seventh Pillar, prompting the Galinno to strengthen the swarms and sacrifice Blade Beasts to hasten the Pillar's awakening.
• Wang Jixuan changed to zigzagging routes to keep killing efficiently, and he welcomed the chance to face the Seventh Pillar once it awakened.
• Nierda Tamon recognized that Wang Jixuan's mindset had changed and decided to give him a sealed Galinno as a gift.
• Amina escaped the canyon, realized the Ancient Civilization Guardian had plotted against Wang Zheng, and flew toward a human fortress before spotting the awakening Pillar-Class Blade Beast.
• The Seventh Pillar awakened and urgently called out, “Don't come any closer!”

Peony learned that Gao Huating’s Past Life Body had urged her to help Wang Jixuan, while Wang’s allies prepared to send him into Blade Beast territory to vent his growing demonic thoughts. Wang leaped from the transport aircraft into battle, determined to use slaughter to regain control as the rescue forces stood by.

• Peony arranged for Amina to investigate the Ancient Civilization after Gao Huating relayed her Past Life Body’s message about saving Wang.
• Wang ordered the transport aircraft launched, and humanity’s forces began a coordinated bombardment of a Blade Beast gathering point.
• Amina took Xiang Tiantian with her and transformed into Black Butterfly to travel toward the Ancient Civilization.
• Dongfang Zhenghong warned Ling Tong not to interfere with Wang’s plan, and she accepted her role in the later rescue operation.
• Wang entrusted Peony with his storage treasures, leaped from the aircraft into Blade Beast territory, and activated the Demon Star Annihilation Art.

Wang Jixuan witnessed more of San Jie Lang Lang Zi’s memories and absorbed the spiritual power stored in the Stone of the Past, then broke through into the Nascent Soul Realm. Afterward, he continued reading the stone to find the final memory of his Second Life.

• Wang Jixuan watched San Jie Lang Lang Zi prepare for his second Heavenly Tribulation and realized that even his formidable cultivation had failed.
• Wang Jixuan experienced San Jie Lang Lang Zi’s memories with two women and nearly became overwhelmed by the spiritual power pouring from the Stone of the Past.
• Wang Jixuan refined the incoming spiritual power, advanced toward the Nascent Soul Realm, and decided to break through without waiting for perfect preparation.
• Wang Jixuan formed his Nascent Soul with the Black Dragon’s help, and its rosy light granted insights to those outside the hall except Nierda Tamon and Amina.
• Wang Jixuan picked up the Stone of the Past and resumed searching for the final memory of his Second Life as a strand of white hair appeared at his temple.

Wang Jixuan used his Soul of Kindness to draw Ye Zi’s attention and discovered the depth of her obsession with him. After she strengthened his soul, he confronted her about her past, and she proposed becoming his wife before ordering a hundred young male bodies prepared.

• Galinno told Ye Zi that the Blade Beast Civilization wanted complete control of the Pseudo Spirit Slaves and claimed it had captured Wang Jixuan’s Soul of Kindness, but admitted he had only devised a plan to find it.
• Ye Zi left Galinno’s residence and returned to her palace, where Wang Jixuan secretly guided his Soul of Kindness into the Stone Sculpture in her bath.
• After waking, Ye Zi noticed the Spiritual Light in the Stone Sculpture, recognized Wang Jixuan’s soul, and used her own soul power to strengthen it.
• Wang Jixuan awakened and accused Ye Zi of killing her younger brother and sister, and she admitted it while declaring her love for him.
• Ye Zi asked to become Wang Jixuan’s wife, offered to change her name to Zhihan, and ordered her people to prepare a hundred young male bodies.

Wang Jixuan’s group explored the ancient city, where he inferred that its civilization had mastered the rule of time and noticed formations resembling those of the Cultivation World. In confinement, Nierda Tamon found ancient magazines naming Wang Zheng the Great Pioneer, while the group discovered a sculpture bearing Wang Jixuan’s original face.

• Nierda Tamon was confined after testing the city’s defenses, then accepted the Barbell Drone’s offer to shorten his confinement by reading.
• Wang Jixuan gathered the others to explore a medical facility, where Zheng Shiduo and Ji Xiao used a Beauty Instrument and became strikingly handsome.
• Wang Jixuan sensed that the Beauty Instrument had activated a citywide psionic circuit and concluded that the ancient civilization had used the rule of time to preserve the city and its devices.
• Nierda Tamon read old magazines that featured Wang Zheng as the Great Pioneer and tried to call Wang Jixuan over, but the city’s limits kept his voice from reaching him.
• Wang Jixuan told Amina that the city’s formations seemed connected to the Cultivation World and possibly to him.
• Zheng Shiduo led Wang Jixuan and the others to a row of busts, where Wang Jixuan recognized his own original face on the damaged central sculpture.

Wang Jixuan investigated the Spirit Slaves who attacked the City in the Clouds, learned they served a mysterious Divine Seal in Antarctica, and weighed the threat from Black Obsidian’s faction. As the city remained quiet and Wang Jixuan focused on studying Ina technology, He Ruli arrived with a solution to his demand.

• The City in the Clouds’ golden cannons destroyed most of the attacking Spirit Slaves, and He Ruli activated the Planetary Barrier after recognizing the hostile civilization’s black energy.
• Amina told Wang Jixuan that the enemy civilization was called Hasamia Nu Ru Ye and that its followers had taken Ina technology; Wang Jixuan sent Ji Xiao and Wu Man to collect remnants and question them.
• Wang Jixuan tortured four captured souls until they revealed that they were Earth humans raised in Antarctica who followed Divine Oracles issued through a Core Circuit called the Divine Seal.
• Wang Jixuan sent Wu Man to ask He Ruli for information about the stolen technology and had Gao Huating place a jade talisman as a contingency.
• Fu Jian reported that Antarctica’s abandoned fortress had left no visible traces, while Wang Jixuan continued studying Ina technology during the City in the Clouds’ uneasy calm.
• He Ruli visited Wang Jixuan in her true remnant-spirit body, having found a solution to the condition he had proposed.

Gao Huating learned that the woman on the throne planned to use Wang Jixuan to revive her ancient civilization, while Wang Jixuan explored the City in the Clouds and witnessed its security system overpower Nierda Tamon. The chapter left Wang Jixuan and Amina confronting the mysterious force of civilization that governed the city.

• The woman revealed that Gao Huating was her reincarnation and explained her plan to revive their civilization by capturing Wang Jixuan, while Gao Huating resisted and was trapped in an illusion.
• Zheng Shiduo showed Wang Jixuan photographs suggesting the city once floated above the surface, and Wang Jixuan connected the city to Gao Huating’s earlier dream of falling meteors and Flame Giants.
• Wang Jixuan summoned Amina to translate a stele describing King Quimidanima’s victory in a fleet battle during the Fourth Epoch.
• Amina warned Wang Jixuan that damaging city property would summon security drones, but Nierda Tamon broke a statue’s finger and was subdued and carried to the Security Bureau.
• Amina said she felt the suppression of civilization, leaving Wang Jixuan shaken by the city’s power.

Wang Jixuan tentatively agreed to He Ruli’s plan to use his and Gao Huating’s Germ Cells to activate the Planetary Barrier, while demanding that she restore his mental state. After secretly warning Gao Huating that he planned to oppose He Ruli, he sent her to sabotage a formation hub; meanwhile, Ye Zi arrived at an Antarctic Secret Base.

• He Ruli offered to fulfill Wang Jixuan’s requests in exchange for Germ Cells and permission to cultivate infants in the nursery.
• Wang Jixuan agreed in principle and demanded that He Ruli find a way to restore his mental state before he provided the cells.
• Wang Jixuan privately told Gao Huating that He Ruli could not be trusted and gave her a jade talisman to attach to a formation hub.
• Wang Jixuan discovered He Ruli’s true body and additional armored puppets in the underground Command Center, then secretly instructed Gao Huating to sabotage the Palace Complex’s formation.
• Ye Zi arrived at a Secret Base in Antarctica and led the waiting group toward a nearby mine.