Recaps

Wang Jixuan cursed Xing Tian into unconsciousness, then gathered his allies to plan an assault on the Secret Base using a portable nuclear bomb. As he prepared to infiltrate the base, the Fifth Spiritual Practitioner followed him, and Wang Jixuan began using an escape technique with her watching.

• Wang Jixuan used Xing Tian's severed leg to cast a curse that overwhelmed Xing Tian and left him unconscious for at least three days.
• Wang Jixuan led his allies underground and revealed his plan to bomb the Secret Base's entrance, delay reinforcements, and force its occupants to emerge.
• Wang Jixuan assigned Peony and himself to plant the bomb, the Half-Human Mechs to intercept reinforcements, and Black Shell's group to stop escapees.
• Wang Jixuan and Peony traveled through the underground passages toward the Secret Base, where Wang Jixuan prepared the nuclear bomb for infiltration.
• The Fifth Spiritual Practitioner appeared beside Wang Jixuan to watch, and he began casting an escape technique in front of her.

Wang Jixuan infiltrated Snow Mountain Base while Meng Jin’s Judgment Group waited above for Black Storm, hoping to capture and recruit him. After planting bombs and stealing crystal cores, Wang Jixuan placed a nuclear bomb in Area One and began withdrawing as a faint unease stirred in him.

• Meng Jin told his companions that Spiritual Practitioner No. 4 had asked him to kill Black Storm, but he intended to find and invite Black Storm back instead.
• Wang Jixuan used Earth Escape to enter the Secret Base, where Xing Tian’s unconsciousness and the researchers’ deaths had thrown the defenders into confusion.
• Wang Jixuan worked with Peony to map the base, disable rail cars, plant miniature bombs, and copy research data while the Fifth Spiritual Practitioner questioned him.
• Wang Jixuan took several hundred crystal cores from the warehouse and set a nuclear bomb in the equipment room with a twelve-minute countdown.
• Wang Jixuan began withdrawing from Area One after Peony took control of the networked sensors, but he felt his Spiritual Sense twitch with unease.

Wang Jixuan detonated the nuclear bomb in the Secret Base, forcing the Psionicists to flee while the Judgment Group prepared to ambush him. As Peony led the attack, Wang Jixuan used Earth Escape to reach the unconscious Dragonfly Aunt, but Meng Jin’s forces identified his X Armor and descended to intercept him.

• Wang Jixuan questioned his spiritual warning, then returned to Peony and waited as the countdown reached its end.
• Wang Jixuan detonated the remote-controlled bombs, destroying Zone One and triggering a nuclear blast that killed Mitsui Zheng’s squad and devastated the Secret Base.
• Meng Jin learned that Sikou Wei and Luo Zhenzhen were escaping with Xing Tian and the Stone Slab Wall, then ordered his forces to lure Wang Jixuan into an ambush.
• Wang Jixuan found that the surviving Psionicists were fleeing without needing demonic energy, sent Peony to help Black Shell, and chose to rescue the unconscious Dragonfly Aunt.
• Wang Jixuan used Earth Escape to travel toward Area Four while Peony prepared to confront the escaping Psionicists.
• Meng Jin’s crew detected Wang Jixuan’s X Armor in the passage, confirmed his identity as Black Storm, and began descending to intercept him.

Wang Jixuan rescued Dragonfly Aunt and helped his allies gain the upper hand against the Judgment Squads, but Meng Jin arrived with more than ten S-Class Psionicists and cut off their retreat. The group fell back into Xing Tian’s Turtle Shell Base as Black Shell called for them to hold out until reinforcements arrived.

• Wang Jixuan revived Dragonfly Aunt with an oxygen mask and pills, then sent her to retrieve equipment data while he recovered his mana.
• Black Shell and the others overwhelmed the two Judgment Squads, while Wu Man and the Maid Group fought the Psionicists and Xing Tian remained unconscious.
• Wang Jixuan sensed Meng Jin’s arrival with more than ten S-Class Psionicists and ordered his allies to retreat rather than fight them head-on.
• Peony surprised and badly wounded the female S-Class Psionicist, and Wu Man’s group switched positions to escape as Meng Jin’s reinforcements attacked the passage.
• Black Shell collapsed sections of the passage to slow the newcomers, then ordered the others to fall back and said their reinforcements would arrive in forty minutes.

Wang Jixuan faced Meng Jin’s overwhelming ambush and found a way to escape by using Xing Tian’s weakened soul and body. He began a soul-transfer technique as the enemy forces neared the defenders.

• Meng Jin led more than a dozen S-Class Psionicists toward the trapped group, while Black Shell and the others prepared defenses and Wang Jixuan searched for a way to resist.
• The Fifth Spiritual Practitioner offered to save Wang Jixuan and his companions if he became her Spokesperson, but her offer sparked an idea for him.
• Wang Jixuan used the Soul Refining Grand Formation and several techniques to shatter Xing Tian’s soul, then had the Jiaolong Strange Soul swallow its remnant.
• Wang Jixuan began the Dragon Python Swallows Heaven Great Technique of Soul Transfer, and Xing Tian’s body opened its eyes with the same azure light shining in both their eyes.

Wang Jixuan possessed Xing Tian’s body with the Dragon Python Strange Soul and used negotiations to buy time while preparing an ambush. He struck as Xing Tian was handed over, killing the water-controlling S-Class Psionicist and another enemy before Meng Jin counterattacked.

• Wang Jixuan took control of Xing Tian’s body, adapted to its impure qi, and secretly prepared the avatar for battle.
• Black Shell stalled the Judgment Group by threatening to destroy the reactor core and bargaining over Black Storm, Xing Tian, and the Fifth Spiritual Practitioner’s stone wall.
• Wang Jixuan refined the avatar’s qi and prepared a sneak attack while Black Shell and Meng Jin continued negotiating.
• Black Shell arranged for the Mechanical Maid to hand Xing Tian over, and the middle-aged S-Class Psionicist dragged the seemingly weakened avatar toward her side.
• Wang Jixuan sprang up and cut off the middle-aged woman’s head, then struck the other S-Class Psionicists with Sword Light and killed an old man with his sword formation.
• Meng Jin sensed the ambush and launched an attack from the passage entrance.

Wang Jixuan controlled Xing Tian’s body and overwhelmed Meng Jin’s S-Class fighters with swordsmanship and spells before pursuing the survivors. The Fifth Spiritual Practitioner became convinced Wang Zheng’s methods were worth learning, and after the battle she offered to help him.

• Wang Jixuan used Xing Tian’s incomplete body to unleash sword attacks, elemental spells, and demonic techniques, leaving Meng Jin’s group badly wounded and killing several Psionicists.
• Meng Jin burned his blood to empower himself, fought Wang Jixuan at close range, and escaped after detonating golden blood and Spiritual Practitioner sigils to blast them both away.
• The Fifth Spiritual Practitioner watched the fight and decided she wanted to learn Wang Zheng’s methods, though she held back from intervening.
• Wang Jixuan told Black Shell and the others to retreat with his main body and the stone slab, then pursued Meng Jin through the wall and crippled some of the fleeing enemies.
• Wang Jixuan returned with the duplicate collapsing from demonic corrosion and ordered Zheng Shiduo to prepare the X Armor’s light blade to cut off Xing Tian’s good leg and preserve the body.
• The Fifth Spiritual Practitioner’s puppet fainted as her Black Butterfly returned to the stone slab, and she asked Wang Jixuan whether he needed help.

Wang Jixuan escaped the D2 battle with Xing Tian’s stabilized body and the Fifth Spiritual Practitioner’s stone slab, while Meng Jin concluded that Black Storm’s methods could transform powerful Psionicists. As Wang Jixuan discussed helping Dragonfly Aunt and bargaining with the Fifth Spiritual Practitioner, Peony reported an urgent problem with the Fourth Spiritual Practitioner’s stone slab.

• The Fifth Spiritual Practitioner repaired the resonance between Xing Tian’s psionic circuit and the Strange Soul in exchange for a favor, allowing Wang Jixuan to stabilize the clone without surrendering his cultivation method.
• Wang Jixuan and his allies withdrew from the collapsing mountain as fighting resumed, and the Fifth Spiritual Practitioner claimed the healed girl as her Exclusive Spirit Slave.
• Meng Jin blamed Xing Tian’s betrayal and the unfamiliar combat techniques on Black Storm, then decided to pressure the Six Elders and pursue that power.
• Zheng Shiduo realized they had left an S-Class specimen behind, while Wang Jixuan reflected on the battle’s gains and his plans to strengthen the clone and cultivate further.
• Dragonfly Aunt asked Wang Jixuan for a new identity and instruction in moving through rocks; he agreed and offered to help her reach S-rank in exchange for help dealing with the Fourth Spiritual Practitioner.
• Peony told Wang Jixuan that Professor Shen had sent an urgent message about a problem with the Fourth Spiritual Practitioner’s stone slab.

Wang Jixuan discovered that the Fourth Spiritual Practitioner had escaped his Stone Slab subspace, leaving behind a dead wall and traces of Black Energy. As the Fifth Spiritual Practitioner revealed more about the old civilization and Number Four’s lies, the fugitive remained hidden in a dark space, vowing revenge.

• Shen Qionglin told Wang Jixuan that her experiments had triggered an abnormality and Number Four had stopped responding; she also revealed that he had contacted powerful Psionicists and intended to have her taken to the Psionic Capital.
• Wang Jixuan examined the reassembled Stone Slabs and found that Number Four’s wall had lost its inner space, while the Fifth Spiritual Practitioner confirmed that Number Four had abandoned his subspace.
• The Fifth Spiritual Practitioner explained that Number Four had escaped, described the old fossils’ role in the Blade Beast disaster, and speculated that the civilization had used Blade Beasts to gather souls and pursue godhood.
• Wang Jixuan learned that Number Four had lied about being friends with Number Six, then ordered a workshop meeting and asked Zheng Shiduo to care for the Fifth Spiritual Practitioner.
• In a dark space, Number Four’s spire remained embedded in rock as he cursed Wang Jixuan and swore revenge.

Wang Jixuan explored the Fourth Spiritual Practitioner's subspace, discovered a vast store of crystal cores, and discussed relationships and family with Shen Qionglin. Meanwhile, Meng Jin learned that the snowy mountain excavation had failed to recover the S-Class Material, and the Six Elders gathered to address Black Storm and the Spiritual Practitioner tablets.

• Wang Jixuan and Shen Qionglin entered the Fourth Spiritual Practitioner's subspace, where he found abandoned sculptures, a damaged spire base, and a huge cache of crystal cores.
• Wang Jixuan explained to Shen Qionglin that the subspace could transport troops and spoke candidly about his relationship with Ling Tong and his feelings about building a family.
• Shen Qionglin admitted that she struggled to understand romantic feelings and wanted to live a normal life, and Wang Jixuan encouraged her to imagine a future with someone.
• Meng Jin arrived at a meeting of the Psionic Management Committee and learned that the excavation team could not retrieve the S-Class Material from the snowy mountain Secret Base.
• Taisheng Steel warned the assembled leaders that Black Storm had obtained two Spiritual Practitioner tablets and needed to be dealt with quickly.

Taisheng Steel ordered an early strike against Fu Jian, while Meng Jin declined to lead the operation after warning that Black Storm and Fu Jian had competing interests. Fu Jian then organized a joint counteroffensive against Psionic Capital at Fortress 012, as Wang Jixuan prepared to refine a battle puppet before an unexpected visitor arrived.

• Taisheng Steel explained that Fu Jian’s growing lifespan and alliances had weakened Psionic Capital’s position, and he urged the elders to strike before Fu Jian could act.
• Meng Jin proposed exploiting the conflict between Fu Jian and Black Storm, but Taisheng Steel rejected his plan and warned that Fu Jian intended to force Psionic Capital to submit.
• Taisheng Steel asked Meng Jin to recommend a leader for the operation, but Meng Jin excused himself because of his injuries and left the meeting.
• Wang Jixuan inventoried valuable materials and planned to refine Xing Tian into a battle puppet while attending Fu Jian’s meeting with the war-zone commanders.
• Fu Jian secured agreement for a rapid offensive at Fortress 012 in the D3 Integrated War Zone, and Wang Jixuan expected to focus on cultivation and puppet refinement.
• After the meeting, Wang Jixuan returned to his workshop, but Number Five’s Exclusive Spirit Slave arrived behind Zheng Shiduo.

Wang Jixuan began using the puppet Xing Tian to refine and increase his mana while D5 and Psionic Capital escalated their conflict in D3. The chapter ended as unwelcome visitors arrived at Fortress No. 76 asking whether Xing Tian was there.

• A girl watched by Number Five asked Wang Jixuan to let her write to her family, and he agreed to investigate her identity through Dongfang Zhenghong.
• Dragonfly Aunt offered intelligence about Psionic Capital in exchange for a promise that the Naturalist Faction would not be eliminated after the wars, but Wang Jixuan told her to discuss the matter with Fu Jian.
• Wang Jixuan entered secluded cultivation and began transferring mana between himself and Xing Tian, refining the puppet's mana and strengthening both bodies.
• After more than seventy hours, D5 and its allies attacked a branch of the Biological 13th Institute in D3, prompting fierce fighting with Psionic Capital's forces.
• Fu Jian declared that D5 would fight to the end, while both sides continued probing and escalating the conflict.
• Unwelcome visitors arrived at Fortress No. 76 and asked whether Xing Tian was there.

Yan Gui Zheng Zhuan took a day off after a blow related to his writing and the Abyssal series, then explained the pressures behind his breakdown and how he recovered. He restored his documents, resolved to keep writing for readers, and said updates would resume at noon.

• Yan Gui Zheng Zhuan announced that personal matters had affected his state and postponed updates until the next day while acknowledging four owed updates.
• Yan Gui Zheng Zhuan said he had deleted the outline and story structure for Abyssal Solitude 2 and planned to focus on xianxia mythology after finishing his current book.
• The next day, Yan Gui Zheng Zhuan apologized for worrying readers and said he had restored the relevant documents and recovered after taking an afternoon to rest.
• Yan Gui Zheng Zhuan explained that pressure from Abyssal Solitude's subscription performance and the platform's treatment of the Abyssal series as not science fiction had contributed to his breakdown.
• Yan Gui Zheng Zhuan resolved to stay rooted among readers, keep writing, and resume updates at noon as much as possible.

Li Qiwei’s investigation squad tracked Xing Tian to Fortress No. 76, but their attack was met by a devastating counterassault. Xing Tian slaughtered the attackers and turned toward Li Qiwei as the chapter ended.

• Li Qiwei’s captain ordered him to scan Fortress No. 76, and he detected a small number of Psionicists inside.
• A fast-moving Psionicist exposed the squad and remotely destroyed their equipment; Li Qiwei warned the captains that someone was approaching.
• Two fighters went out to confront Xing Tian, but one was killed and the other begged for mercy before being silenced.
• Xing Tian arrived in a flash of lightning and Sword Light, cutting the transport craft in half and overwhelming the defensive line.
• Xing Tian killed the burly S-Class captain and attacked the remaining fighters with talismans, lightning, and shifting weapons, forcing several captains to flee.
• Li Qiwei realized he was still among the intruders as Xing Tian turned to look at him.

Wang Jixuan completed his breakthrough to Void Return Realm Perfection and learned that an elite Psionicist force was targeting him. He agreed to appear publicly as Xing Tian to draw the attackers out while preparations continued to protect Fortress No. 76.

• Wang Jixuan spared Li Qiwei and ordered him to warn the Psionicists not to harm civilians, then returned to the workshop and planned changes to War Puppet No. 1.
• Wang Jixuan reached Void Return Realm Perfection, shared a trace of spiritual energy with Gao Huating and Zheng Shiduo, and went to the command center.
• Dongfang Zhenghong and Zhou Zhengde briefed Wang Jixuan on the fighting at D3 and the elite Psionicist force that had attacked Fortress No. 76.
• Zhou Zhengde proposed using Xing Tian's public defection to lure the attackers out, and Wang Jixuan approved the plan while ordering Peony to delay the puppet's surgery.
• Wang Jixuan arranged to appear on camera in three hours as Wu Man and Zheng Shiduo studied the protective formation at Fortress No. 76.
• Wang Jixuan boarded a stealth transport plane with his battle puppet and watched a figure appear on the screen as a tangible entity.

Wang Jixuan reunited with Ling Tong and used Xing Tian’s puppet to prepare a surrender appeal, while Xing Tian’s confession video stirred doubt among Angel’s Psionicists. The chapter ended as Elder Tai and Elder Ji contacted the group.

• Ling Tong recorded a speech condemning the Psionic Capital, and Wang Jixuan surprised her at the studio.
• Wang Jixuan asked Ling Tong to guard his body while he transferred his mind into Xing Tian to address the D2 Comprehensive War Zone.
• Angel and the other Psionicists discussed Xing Tian’s strength and their plan to capture Black Storm, but worried about escaping D5’s encirclement.
• Li Weiqi Leon showed the group Xing Tian’s confession, which accused the Six Elders of opening the Stargate and conspiring with the Spiritual Practitioners.
• Li Qiwei told Angel that the Psionic Capital was contacting them, and Elder Tai and Elder Ji appeared on the screen.

The Six Elders reacted furiously to Xing Tian’s accusations and dispatched Angel and a force of Psionicists to attack Fortress No. 76. As Wang Jixuan discussed the attack and future plans with Fu Jian, Angel’s squad approached the fortress, unaware of its protective formation.

• The Six Elders denounced Xing Tian, mobilized more than a thousand Psionicists, and sent Angel to eliminate him and Black Storm.
• Wang Jixuan spent time with Ling Tong, then learned that the Six Elders’ forces were mobilizing and asked Peony to investigate their history.
• Angel led dozens of Psionicists toward Fortress No. 76, intending to kill officers and capture Black Storm if they found him.
• Fu Jian told Wang Jixuan that Fortress No. 76 was about to be attacked and that the battle would test Dongfang Zhenghong.
• Wang Jixuan proposed exploiting Xing Tian’s image to act in the D2 Comprehensive War Zone, then watched as Angel’s forces attacked the fortress’s protective formation.

Wang Jixuan monitored the Psionicists’ assault on Fortress No. 76 and watched the Mountain Protection Grand Formation withstand their attacks. After Ji Xiao used a Tactical Nuclear Warhead against the retreating enemies, the chapter ended with a Pitch Black Butterfly examining the formation’s main foundation before pursuing Angel and her group.

• Wang Jixuan watched Dongfang Zhenghong’s command center as Psionicists advanced underground toward Fortress No. 76.
• The Psionicists struck the Mountain Protection Grand Formation, but Wu Man, Zheng Shiduo, Uncle Tai, and Gao Huating kept it stable with Earth Qi, spiritual energy, and replacement crystal cores.
• Wang Jixuan offered to let the Psionicists into the fortress, but Dongfang Zhenghong chose to keep them outside and ordered Ji Xiao to help intercept their retreat.
• Ji Xiao used Wu Man’s Storage Magic Tool and his Earth Escape ability to place and detonate a Tactical Nuclear Warhead, killing more than a dozen Psionicists while the S-rank Psionicists escaped wounded.
• Wang Jixuan ordered Ji Xiao to write a three-thousand-word self-criticism and study chain reactions, while a Pitch Black Butterfly examined the formation foundation and pursued Angel and the others.

Wang Jixuan discussed plans to use formations and Mechs against the Psionicists, while Peony revealed her mysterious influence over emerging Mech consciousness. The Fifth Spiritual Practitioner drove the defeated Psionicists from the Ancient Basin, and Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong began their thirty-six-hour break together.

• Wang Jixuan told Fu Jian that Wu Man could help install Mountain Protection Formations and proposed using Psionic methods to create a second battlefield in D2.
• Peony admitted that self-aware Mech data clusters seemed to listen to her, while Wang Jixuan stayed with the sleeping Ling Tong.
• The Fifth Spiritual Practitioner appeared to Angel, claimed Black Storm as her territory, and injured the S-Class Psionicists before vanishing.
• Li Qiwei carried the unconscious Angel toward a shuttle as the surviving Psionicists prepared to evacuate the Ancient Basin.
• Wang Jixuan learned that the Psionicists were leaving, then spent time with Ling Tong after she received thirty-six hours off.

After gaining insight into his Love Tribulation, Wang Jixuan learned that an SS-Class Psionicist had devastated an Agricultural Fortress and began preparing a counterattack. He lured the Fifth Spiritual Practitioner to his workshop, where she revealed a human-like form as he finished refining Crane Origin Pills.

• Wang Jixuan realized his feelings for Ling Tong had helped complete his Dao Realm, while Peony and Sister Wan discussed his relationship and her own unexplained emotions.
• Peony showed Wang Jixuan footage of an SS-Class Psionicist destroying an Agricultural Fortress and leaving a threat for Fu Jian and Lord Number Five.
• Wang Jixuan planned to strengthen his battle puppet and true body, then arranged for the Fifth Spiritual Practitioner to visit by hinting that he would perform Open Furnace Alchemy.
• Number Five came to Wang Jixuan's workshop, watched his battle puppet refine Crane Origin Pills, and asked to try one.
• Number Five emerged from her Stone Slab as a short-haired girl less than 1.4 meters tall.

Wang Jixuan negotiated a cautious alliance with the Fifth Spiritual Practitioner, offering healing pills in exchange for technology and advancement opportunities. As he continued refining pills and preparing to strengthen his allies, a special request for aid arrived from the D2 Comprehensive War Zone.

• The Fifth Spiritual Practitioner ate a Crane Origin Pill, felt her injuries improve, and tried to seize the remaining pills before Wang Jixuan's battle puppet stopped her.
• The Fifth Spiritual Practitioner proposed an alliance, explaining that she could destroy the dormant Pillar-Class Blade Beasts if she recovered enough strength, while Wang Jixuan questioned her claims and demonstrated his cultivation techniques.
• Wang Jixuan offered the Fifth Spiritual Practitioner guidance as a nominal disciple, then refined a healing pill for her in exchange for two S-rank advancement slots.
• The Fifth Spiritual Practitioner explained the three methods of advancing Spiritual Slaves, and Wang Jixuan gave her a Soul Nurturing Pill while planning to inspect Ji Xiao and Ji Yale's memories after their promotions.
• Wang Jixuan continued refining artifacts, building array foundations, observing the war in the D3 Integrated War Zone, and improving his strength before receiving a special request for aid from the D2 Comprehensive War Zone.

Wang Jixuan refused to give D2’s leaders Xing Tian’s addictive drug formula, rejecting a plan to keep them dependent while gradually replacing them. As D2 searched for the drug and investigators pursued Ye Zi’s activities, an old Half-Human Mech left D2 for D5.

• Dongfang Zhenghong told Wang Jixuan that seven D2 senior leaders wanted Xing Tian’s drug formula, and Wang refused to help them control others with it.
• Wang Jixuan reviewed how Xing Tian had corrupted D2’s leadership and ordered Peony to prevent Number Five’s D2-descended Exclusive Spirit Slave from contacting D2.
• Dongfang Zhenghong returned with Zhou Zhengde and explained that eleven D2 officers and their Commander-in-Chief were pleading for the formula; Wang again refused, and Zhou argued that D2 would survive without the compromised leaders.
• Zhou Zhengde reported that D2 was searching Snow Mountain Base for the drug and that Ye Zi had gathered Wild Wanderers and sent groups of teenagers to D3 and D4; Wang ordered the investigation to continue and the threatened fortresses to be warned.
• Wang gave Dongfang Zhenghong and Zhou Zhengde pills, then watched a transport aircraft depart D2 for D5 with an old Half-Human Mech aboard.

Wang Jixuan prepared to improve his cultivation and struck a bargain with Number Five to delay Psionic Capital’s attacks. A video from Fu Jian revealed why Xiang Lin Tian wanted Xing Tian’s prescription and left the question of Fu Jian’s new hope unanswered.

• Wang Jixuan took a pill to improve his aptitude and prepared to activate a cultivation array the next day.
• Number Five asked Wang Jixuan whether he could reconcile with Psionic Capital and warned that the Six Elders still wanted him dead.
• Wang Jixuan agreed to pretend to reconcile, and Number Five promised to keep Psionic Capital’s leaders from causing trouble in exchange for a Soul Nurturing Pill every five days.
• Zhou Zhengde delivered a video in which Fu Jian questioned Xiang Lin Tian about why D2 wanted Xing Tian’s prescription.
• Xiang Lin Tian admitted that D2’s leaders had used Xing Tian’s drug-controlled people to prevent civil war and that Psionic Capital had coerced him by threatening his family.
• Fu Jian told Xiang Lin Tian that Wang Jixuan had refused to hand over the prescription, then offered him a cigar containing a Crane Origin Pill and revealed that his granddaughter was safe with Wang Jixuan.

Wang Jixuan learned that D2’s leaders had enabled Xing Tian’s influence and reflected on humanity’s crisis before finding calm while listening to Gao Huating sing. Meanwhile, Fu Jian brought Xiang Lin Tian to Fortress No. 76 to inspect its defenses and meet Wang Jixuan, as a camp near Rainbow Town prepared to move boxes leaking demonic energy.

• Zhou Zhengde explained that Fu Jian had used Wang Jixuan’s views to draw Xiang Lin Tian toward D5 and persuade him to reform D2.
• Wang Jixuan completed his aptitude improvement, then went to Gao Huating’s studio, where her singing steadied him and prompted him to examine her connection to psionic energy.
• Xiang Lin Tian arrived at Fortress No. 76 with Fu Jian, inspected the Demon-Breaking Dagger production line, and saw his granddaughter Xiang Tiantian near the Spiritual Practitioner stone slab.
• Fu Jian urged Xiang Lin Tian to help lead D2’s reform, and Xiang Lin Tian decided to meet Wang Jixuan before making his choice.
• Near Rainbow Town, soldiers emerged from an underground elevator carrying Alloy Boxes that leaked demonic energy as a giant Drill Machine was assembled.

Xiang Lin Tian weighed whether D2 should abandon its long-standing alliance with the Psionic Capital, while Wang Jixuan offered to treat the Xing Tian Faction’s drug-dependent leaders. Just as Xiang Lin Tian arranged to bring several people to D5, he discovered that the newly distributed medicine was dangerous.

• Xiang Lin Tian told Wang Jixuan that changing D2’s course could trigger civil war, and Wang offered to protect and treat up to seven people.
• After receiving a message that D2 had obtained a two-and-a-half-year supply of medicine, Xiang Lin Tian hesitated and asked to learn about Spiritual Practitioners, spiritual slaves, Psionicists, and Blade Beasts.
• Wang Jixuan refined antidote pills while Peony, Xiang Tiantian, and Zhou Zhengde explained the Spiritual Cultivation Civilization to Xiang Lin Tian.
• D2 military aircraft distributed the medicine to senior generals, who eagerly received injections.
• Xiang Lin Tian suddenly demanded an aviation pass so he could send several planes to D5, warning that something was wrong with the medicine.