Chapter Summaries

Wang Jixuan watched as the Sword, Fire, and Spear God Palaces arrived to contest the Feather God Palace and Dark Cult over the Fusang Divine Wood’s spirit. Just as the factions seemed to settle on an arena to decide who would claim it, the Spirit of the Divine Wood rejected their authority.

• Wang Jixuan and Peony discussed the powerful newcomers, the Strange Soul Puppet, and why Black Obsidian should remain intact.
• Nine Spirits Sword Venerable challenged Huang Langyu and offered to take the Fusang Divine Wood’s core to forge a spirit sword.
• The Fire God Palace arrived, followed by the Spear God Palace, and Luo Tianjin backed Nine Spirits Sword Venerable against the Feather God Palace.
• Venerable Zhihui proposed an arena where young talents could compete for the Spirit of the Divine Wood, and Huang Langyu agreed.
• The Spirit of the Divine Wood shouted at the gathered factions to leave and declared that they had no right to decide where it belonged.

Wang Jixuan learned that Red Snake had left clues pointing to an Ancient Battlefield in the desert and joined Sword God Palace’s expedition to find her. As the team set out for the Earth Realm, he prepared to support the sword cultivators with his mechanical forces.

• Wang Jixuan arrived at the hall with Peony, where Jian Wu showed them a jade talisman whose sketches suggested Red Snake was alive in an Ancient Battlefield.
• Peony used her Patrolling Satellites to identify a desert site where hostile forces were clearing sand, revealing the likely location of the emerging ruin.
• Jian Wu explained that Spear God Palace had invited Sword God Palace to investigate the Ancient Battlefield, and Wang Jixuan asked to join because his companion might be buried there.
• Jian Wu approved Wang Jixuan’s participation and ordered the sword cultivators to aid Spear God Palace; Sword Nine equipped him with the Greatsword and placed restrictions on Xiao Sang for his protection.
• Lu Xuande led the expedition southwest on a cloud platform while Wang Jixuan monitored his Mechanical Army and showed the other disciples his high-performance mechs.

Wang Jixuan learned that Amina had mutated and was sealed in a cocoon, then approved Peony’s plan to use Earth and its technology to help the Thousand Worlds Alliance fight the Dark Cult. At the Dark Cult headquarters, Venerable Zhihui learned of the alliance between the Sword God Palace and Thousand Worlds Alliance and recognized Wang Jixuan as the man she had once tried to kill.

• Peony told Wang Jixuan that the Thousand Worlds Alliance had sent him three hundred concubines and six thousand immortal soldiers, and she delivered Bai Gu’s warning that Brahma had made him a primary target and that Amina was sealed in a cocoon.
• Wang Jixuan ordered the concubines trained as operators and maidservants, then agreed to Peony’s proposal to coordinate Earth’s forces and develop ships able to travel through the Immortal Spirit Path.
• Peony began sending the plan to Earth, while Wang Jixuan studied Sword Nine’s basic sword techniques and Sword Nine planned a suitable cultivation path for him.
• At the Dark Cult headquarters, a maidservant told Venerable Zhihui that the Sword God Palace had defeated the Feather God Palace and that the Thousand Worlds Alliance had called Wang Jixuan their benefactor.
• Venerable Zhihui recalled how she had been reborn, followed the Heavenly Dao’s instructions, and once believed she had killed the man who had taken her life.
• After receiving the Fourth Cult Master’s summons, Venerable Zhihui recognized Wang Jixuan in her memories, smashed her bronze mirror, and prepared to leave for the Feather God Palace.

Peony discovered that souls attached to the white bones could enter the Ancient Battlefield’s Small World when the bones transformed into Blood Mist, and Wang Jixuan prepared to test the method with his Dragon Python Strange Soul. As he waited for the Blood Mist to return, Venerable Zhihui and his allies gathered to discuss whether their plan would draw Wang Jixuan into the Ancient Battlefield.

• Wang Jixuan had Immortal Scarabs collect more than 136,000 white bones from the desert after Peony warned that the battlefield would not merge with the Main World for centuries.
• Peony’s experiments showed that energy simulating baleful aura turned the white bones into Blood Mist, and she deduced that an attached soul could enter the Small World with them.
• Wang Jixuan sent his Dragon Python Strange Soul to possess a skeleton made from white bones and said he would report the method to Patriarch Luo if the test succeeded.
• Wang Jixuan’s group waited for the Blood Mist while Venerable Zhihui, the Fourth Cult Master of the Dark Cult, Black Obsidian, Huang Langyu, and the Golden-haired Lion Demon met in a Stone Hall.
• Huang Langyu asked whether their plan would make Wang Jixuan enter the Ancient Battlefield ahead of time.

Wang Jixuan cultivated with Peony’s transmitted Dao insights while she reported Brahma’s mobilization against the Fire God Palace. As the Human Race prepared to respond and the Golden Lotus advanced south, Brahma explained his strategy to Hei Yao and revealed that he feared both Peony’s fleet and a later-arriving enemy.

• Wang Jixuan asked Peony to slow the stream of Dao insights, then resumed cultivating as four new stars formed.
• Peony reported that the Feather God Palace, Beast God Palace, Night God Palace, and Radiant God Palace were moving against the Fire God Palace, while thousands of Dark Cult experts gathered in the south.
• Peony told Wang Jixuan that the Fire God Palace had been surrounded, and he ordered the Third Base aboard the Golden Lotus to advance with the Human Race’s forces.
• Wang Jixuan learned that Huang Qian’er had returned to the Fire God Palace and suspected she might be a ticking time bomb controlled by Brahma.
• Brahma told Hei Yao that he targeted the Fire God Palace to consolidate opposition to the Human Race and revealed that Peony’s fleet and another future enemy threatened his plans.
• Brahma’s two faces argued over their past actions and the possibility of failure while Hei Yao listened in silence.

Wang Jixuan revealed that his Invincible Fleet had caused the Heavenly Dao to seal the Immortal Realm, and the Human Race’s elders considered joining forces with him against the Dark Cult. After they debated how to handle his power and learned he was the sole candidate for the next Human King, Layman Luoshan warned Jian Wu and Sword Nine that Moon God Palace Master Bai Gu might be hiding something.

• Wang Jixuan explained his Third Life Cultivation and showed the elders footage of the Invincible Fleet attacking the Immortal Realm’s protective barrier.
• Wang Jixuan described the fleet’s firepower and weaknesses, prompting the elders to consider protecting it and using it against the Dark Cult.
• The elders discussed verifying Wang Jixuan’s account, informing other Great Luo experts, and possibly honoring him as the new Human King; Wang Jixuan pledged to aid the Human Race and share limited technology.
• After Wang Jixuan left, Peony showed him surveillance footage of the elders questioning his character and debating whether his power posed a danger.
• Layman Luoshan revealed that Wang Jixuan was the sole candidate for the next Human King and that his Human King Sacred Body had begun awakening.
• After the other elders departed, Layman Luoshan warned Jian Wu and Sword Nine that Moon God Palace Master Bai Gu might be suspicious.

Wang Jixuan tried to unite the Ship of the End’s lingering spirits by promising them a path to dimensional ascension, while Peony and the human forces faced an escalating war against the Hundred Races and Brahma. After a costly pause in the fighting, Peony began recruiting reinforcements through loopholes in the Immortal Realm’s blockade.

• Wang Jixuan devised a plan to persuade the lingering spirits that becoming a collective could let them ascend and escape the Material Universe’s extinction.
• Peony assessed the worsening war as Heavenly Net joined the Hundred Races, and Sword Nine left to support the human front with the main stone slab.
• Sword Nine was injured in battle, and the fighting paused after both sides suffered heavy losses and mobilized for a second clash.
• Peony warned the leaders of the Three Immortal Palaces that Brahma’s soul-powered Mechanical Legion could only be stopped by force.
• Peony asked Murong Zhengyi to bring Fu Jian, San Jie Lang Lang Zi, and others into the Immortal Realm through the Thousand Worlds Alliance’s discovered loopholes.

Wang Jixuan failed to win the remnant souls’ support for his revolution, but identified the Ship of the End’s factions and sought an alliance with the God of Death faction. Meanwhile, Peony gathered Fu Jian and San Jie Lang Lang Zi to plan their response to Brahma and Wang Jixuan’s rescue, leaving Wang Jixuan discussing the Great Dao of Death with the faction’s leader.

• Wang Jixuan tried to persuade the remnant souls to support saving the Immortal Realm, but they argued that Brahma was responsible for the calamity and that destroying the realm was justified.
• Wang Jixuan identified four factions aboard the Ship of the End and descended toward the God of Death faction after its members summoned him with a Cloud Ladder.
• Peony briefed Fu Jian on taking command of the Mechanical Legion and told San Jie Lang Lang Zi that Brahma had destroyed Wangxian Valley, deepening his hatred of Brahma.
• San Jie Lang Lang Zi offered to die in Wang Jixuan’s place, but Senior Bai Gu said there was no known way to overcome the monster holding Wang Jixuan.
• Peony showed the group Wang Jixuan’s conversation with the God of Death faction, whose leader responded that the Great Dao of Death Wang Jixuan cultivated did not actually exist.

Peony sent Murong Zhengyi to bring San Jie Lang Lang Zi and Fu Jian to the Immortal Realm, hoping they could help Wang Jixuan, whose consciousness was sinking at the boundary between nothingness and reality. San Jie Lang Lang Zi left with Murong Zhengyi while Wu Man stayed behind to lead the campaign against the Dark Cult, and Daoist Wang approached the abyss in the Void Boundary to seek its leader’s support.

• Peony told Murong Zhengyi that San Jie Lang Lang Zi was an independent remnant of Wang Jixuan’s Second Life and might help resolve Wang Jixuan’s predicament in the Immortal Realm.
• San Jie Lang Lang Zi and Wu Man led a fleet campaign against the Dark Cult while preparing new Core Circuits and discussing deployments after an attack by allied Dark Cult and Heavenly Net forces.
• Murong Zhengyi arrived at the fleet with four Heavenly Immortals and revealed that Wang Jixuan had been severely injured and his consciousness was sinking.
• San Jie Lang Lang Zi agreed to go to the Immortal Realm with Murong Zhengyi, while Wu Man stayed behind and received command of the Thousand Worlds Alliance’s immortal soldiers.
• Daoist Wang reached the abyss in the Void Boundary and prepared to ask its leader for support.

Red Snake was ambushed by Beast God Faction Psionicists while being transported to Fortress No. 76, and she fought to protect the soldiers and researchers despite being badly injured. As the attackers closed in, a silver spear fell from the sky, and Red Snake recognized that Wang Jixuan had arrived.

• Wang Jixuan continued purifying his body and refining his cultivation while the transport planes entered War Zone D5.
• Uncle Tai woke to an alarm as Red Snake’s psionic index surged, and Red Snake broke free of her restraints and leaped from the transport platform.
• Six Psionicists ambushed Red Snake and the armored forces, using sand and lightning to attack while two of them displayed artificially enhanced S-Class power.
• Red Snake carried the wreckage containing Uncle Tai and several researchers away from the sandstorm, then turned back to fight when the attackers targeted the soldiers.
• Red Snake recognized the Brain-Eating Worms and accused the Psionicists of belonging to the Beast God Faction, but their attacks broke her shield and badly wounded her.
• A silver spear landed in front of Red Snake, and she collapsed to focus on defense as she realized Wang Jixuan had arrived.

Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian used the threat of Beast Speaker to pressure Fourth Spiritual Practitioner into sharing technology, while Shen Qionglin drew out information about Galinno and the Blade Beasts. As Wang Jixuan headed back to rest, he sensed spiritual energy and demonic energy gathering in Gao Huating's secret workshop.

• Wang Jixuan rejected Fourth Spiritual Practitioner's demands for a return to Psionic Capital and thirty thousand human spirit slaves, offering protection from Beast Speaker in exchange for technology instead.
• Fu Jian and Wang Jixuan pretended to have little interest in Fourth Spiritual Practitioner's knowledge, then left Shen Qionglin to question him under Peony's watch.
• Shen Qionglin warned Fourth Spiritual Practitioner that Beast Speaker might attack within days and showed him evidence of the Preacher Galinno and Blade Beasts modifying Psionicists.
• Fourth Spiritual Practitioner explained that Galinno were network nodes who had evolved from thinkers into traitors capable of influencing Pillar-Class Blade Beasts.
• Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian watched Shen Qionglin's questioning and admitted that they had deliberately fooled Fourth Spiritual Practitioner into revealing information.
• Wang Jixuan sensed spiritual energy and demonic energy gathering inside Gao Huating's secret workshop.

After the Blade Beast attack, Zhou Zhengde and Fortress 76’s leaders agreed to conceal the incident and keep the mysterious hunter’s actions quiet while seeking to build trust with him. Ling Tong protected the unconscious Wang Jixuan from scrutiny and began questioning her feelings for him; he awoke at the end, worried she had heard his strange dreams.

• Zhou Meiying reported that the Blade Beast attack had killed sixty-two miners, and the governor’s meeting agreed not to publicize it or allow the 13th Institute to investigate Expansion Zone C.
• Dongfang Zhenghong confronted Zhou Zhengde about deleting photographs of Blade Beasts whose crystal cores the hunter had taken, and Zhou Zhengde argued that the hunter should be protected and approached about weapon technology.
• Zhou Zhengde accidentally let Ling Tong read his messages on the Text Exchanger, and she revealed that Wang Zheng was unconscious and that she had taken care of him.
• Ling Tong told Sister Wan to conceal evidence of Wang Jixuan’s power and arrange a reconnaissance satellite, while Sister Wan urged her to consider whether her concern for him was more than a mission.
• Wang Jixuan woke from a disturbing dream and asked Ling Tong whether she had heard anything he had said.

While Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong surveyed the desert, they shared a quiet, tentative moment as Ling Tong spoke about her past and her longing for ordinary romance. Their conversation ended when Zheng Shiduo arrived, and Wang Jixuan warned Ling Tong that extensive Mechanical Modification could prevent him from improving her physical condition.

• Ling Tong made Wang Jixuan carry the terrain detectors until he offered to drive, then asked about his talismans and his experience near death.
• Ling Tong told Wang Jixuan that her parents had died in a Blade Beast attack when she was eight, and described her determination to kill King-Class and General-Class Blade Beasts.
• Ling Tong explained that she read romance novels because their depictions of everyday life seemed beautiful, then asked Wang Jixuan to pretend they were a couple and embraced him on the bike.
• Wang Jixuan learned that Blade Beast forces had begun attacking the Ancient Basin defense line and that Ling Tong would serve as bait in a planned battlefield.
• Ling Tong began hinting at trying a romantic relationship with Wang Jixuan, but Zheng Shiduo interrupted them; Wang Jixuan then warned Ling Tong against undergoing too much Mechanical Modification.

Wang Jixuan fought to keep the camp from falling as a General-Class Blade Beast and several Special Winged Dragons threatened the defensive line. Zheng Shiduo lured a Special Winged Dragon toward himself and seemed moments from death before three emerald talismans on his Steel Wings activated.

• Wang Jixuan used his spiritual awareness and magical artifacts to kill Mimic Blade Beasts while the camp came under heavy attack.
• Uncle Tai reported that a General-Class Blade Beast was advancing toward the secondary battlefield, and missiles struck it as it pushed toward the camp.
• Wang Jixuan assembled his spear, powered it with crystal cores, and fought to protect the camp as a Special Winged Dragon targeted an Electromagnetic Cannon turret.
• Ling Tong's mecha intercepted and killed one Special Winged Dragon, while Zheng Shiduo used his Special Psionic Skill to draw another toward himself.
• Zheng Shiduo prepared to sacrifice himself as the Special Winged Dragon bore down on him, but three emerald talismans on his Steel Wings suddenly lit up.

Wang Jixuan questioned Meng Caiyuan’s soul and learned how the boy could command Blade Beasts and how Qin Qin and Uncle Feng had tried to use him against Ling Tong. After hearing the boy ask whether he was human, Wang Jixuan left him with reassurance and a reason to keep living.

• Wang Jixuan spoke with Meng Caiyuan’s soul, who explained his limited ability to send commands to Blade Beasts and his origins as one of many experimental clones descended from Beast Speaker.
• Meng Caiyuan asked Wang Jixuan about parental love, romantic love, his past actions, and whether Wang could kill him, then asked whether someone like him could be called human.
• Meng Caiyuan revealed that Qin Qin and Uncle Feng had planned to direct the Blade Beast Swarm against the desert battlefield and eliminate Ling Tong, but he had instead ordered the swarm to retreat.
• Wang Jixuan told Meng Caiyuan that his latest command had helped humanity and promised to consider whether the boy’s actions had harmed anyone.
• Wang Jixuan warned Qin Qin that she would be interrogated, then told Ling Tong what Meng Caiyuan had revealed and asked to review the investigation’s findings before trying to save him.
• Wang Jixuan told Meng Caiyuan that he was human and that being alive felt good, and a tear fell from the unconscious boy’s eye.

Wang Jixuan forged a prototype Demon-Breaking Dagger while Ling Tong reported that Qin Qin had used Meng Caiyuan to send signals to nearby Blade Beasts. The fortress prepared for a possible attack as Qin Qin sought help from the Psionic Capital and the Young King Insect watched Ling Tong, Meng Caiyuan, and Wang Jixuan.

• Wang Jixuan forged a small dagger with restrictions that let it pierce armor, and Uncle Tai and Ling Tong tested its power.
• Ling Tong reported that Meng Caiyuan, a dying Pseudo B-Class Psionicist, could imitate High-Rank Blade Beast signals and had likely sent the sound detected the previous night.
• Ling Tong said reinforcements would arrive and planned to lure the Blade Beasts into favorable terrain, while Wang Jixuan agreed to keep Wang Zheng separate from Black Storm.
• Wang Jixuan named the prototype the Demon-Breaking Dagger and offered to donate its forging technique to Zhou Zhengde's faction once he improved the design.
• After Ling Tong went to sleep, Qin Qin realized her attempt to lure Blade Beasts toward Ling Tong and Expansion Zone C had been exposed and considered seeking intervention from the Psionic Capital.
• The Young King Insect watched Fortress 76 at dawn, seeing Meng Caiyuan, Ling Tong, and Wang Jixuan as it confirmed multiple threats.

Qin Qin tried to negotiate with Ling Tong and learn about Mu Liang, but Ling Tong drove her group off after firing her Mechanical Arm. Ling Tong brought Wang Jixuan to her camp and welcomed him to her team.

• Qin Qin introduced herself to Ling Tong and explained that she wanted to restore the 13th Institute's reputation and investigate Mu Liang.
• Ling Tong refused to discuss Mu Liang, then fired her Annihilation Cannon at an armored vehicle and forced Qin Qin's group to retreat.
• Qin Qin concluded that Ling Tong and Mu Liang were close and ordered the burly Psionicist to keep Wang Zheng under constant surveillance.
• Ling Tong and Wang Jixuan reached her supply station, where she introduced him to her workshop and welcomed him to her team.

Wang Jixuan decided to cooperate with the military by developing Crystal Core weapons, successfully tested a small Formation Disk, and discovered Ling Tong’s mental injury had worsened. When a group of Psionicists arrived at the Supply Station, he went out armed to confront them, leaving Ling Tong and the others monitoring the situation.

• Ling Tong told Wang Jixuan she would not include his sleep talk in her report, and he considered his options before deciding to help the military improve its weapons.
• Wang Jixuan asked Zhou Zhengde to secretly obtain samples of ores, Blade Beast exoskeletons, and flesh, then built a Formation Disk that produced pure spiritual energy.
• While massaging Ling Tong, Wang Jixuan noticed her Stagnant Qi had grown denser and warned that her mental injury appeared to be worsening.
• Wan Xiaoqi reported that the Blade Beasts had no tracking agents, and Wang Jixuan said they had seemed organized and that he had seen a vertical pupil.
• When more than ten Psionicists arrived, Wang Jixuan armed himself with grenades and a rifle and went outside with Uncle Tai, while Ling Tong activated the Supply Station’s defenses.
• Wang Jixuan warned the Psionicists to stop, and Ling Tong asked Wan Xiaoqi to show her the surveillance footage.

Ling Tong arrested Qin Qin after Uncle Feng and his Psionicists tried to interfere at the fortress laboratory. Wang Jixuan learned that Meng Caiyuan was being destroyed by Blade Beast resentment, and the chapter ended as he sensed a phantom watching him while Meng remained unconscious.

• Ling Tong subdued Qin Qin and forced Uncle Feng and his subordinates to leave, while Wang Jixuan recognized them as threats after overhearing their plan to pose as reinforcements.
• Wang Jixuan examined Meng Caiyuan and identified Blade Beast resentment as the force destroying his organs, then told Ling Tong that Meng had only months to live.
• Ling Tong ordered Qin Qin to awaken Meng, and Zheng Shiduo interrogated her without sexual humiliation before she agreed to cooperate.
• Ling Tong explained the 13th Institute’s ties to powerful capitalists and described the Blade Beasts’ dominance and rapid evolution.
• Wang Jixuan reviewed information about Meng Caiyuan, sensed eyes watching him despite Meng’s unconsciousness, and told Ling Tong to clear the room and turn off the cameras.

Dongfang Zhenghong and the command team discovered that a Blade Beast swarm had breached Fortress No. 76 from below, while Wang Lei’s Cleansing Force fought the emerging beasts on Level Forty-Nine. As the Lower City defenses collapsed, Wang Jixuan sought a faster way back to the fortress.

• Dongfang Zhenghong received Wang Zheng and Wu Man’s warning that a new Blade Beast nest might lie beneath Fortress No. 76, then learned that the fortress had been breached by a growing swarm.
• Dongfang Zhenghong ordered the fortress’s independent defenses activated and sent Psionicists to fight as thousands of Blade Beasts appeared on the bottom level of the Lower City.
• Wang Jixuan asked how to return faster, and Wu Man described a dangerous method that involved sacrificing a missile and enduring extreme acceleration.
• Wang Lei received the attack warning, mobilized the Cleansing Force, and prepared his troops for a possible underground assault.
• Drill Worms and a huge number of Blade Beasts burst through the collapsed ground, overwhelming the Cleansing Force and its weapons.
• Wang Lei reported that Level Forty-Nine had fallen and recommended sealing the Lower City, then fought until a Blade Beast cut him in half.