Recaps

Wang Jixuan and the Spiritual Practitioners took control of the Sixth Pillar, forcing the Blade Beast Swarms to retreat and sending the Pillar-Class Blade Beast toward the Psionic Capital. As it approached, the Six Elders waited for their final defense: a figure in a golden gown emerged from a mural.

• Fu Jian held back the military’s fire assault while Wang Jixuan and the Spiritual Practitioners worked inside the Sixth Pillar.
• The Sixth Pillar rose, obeyed Number Five’s commands, and made the Blade Beast Swarms retreat; Wang Jixuan explained how the Pillar-Class Blade Beasts had rebelled and how they depended on souls.
• Wang Jixuan refused to refine the dead into puppets, then sent Shen Qionglin to learn the Pillar-Class Blade Beast’s controls.
• The Sixth Pillar charged northeast toward the Psionic Capital while human troops and Psionicists posed for photos and graffitied its back.
• The Psionic Capital panicked as its factions scrambled and Psionicists fled; the Six Elders waited inside the Ball of Silence as a figure in a golden gown stepped out of a mural.

Wang Jixuan and Number Five drove a captured Pillar-Class Blade Beast toward Psionic Capital to confront the Spiritual Practitioners. Sabrina attacked and revealed her recovered power, but as Number Five prepared to strike the gathered defenders, the Third Spiritual Practitioner Nierda Tamon appeared inside the control room.

• Wang Jixuan and Number Five led the Pillar-Class Blade Beast through abandoned fortresses toward Psionic Capital while their forces kept their distance.
• Shen Qionglin and Ji Xiao reported that Psionic Capital held fourteen SS-Class Psionicists, including eight defending the city alongside Sabrina.
• Number Five fired crimson beams at Sabrina, who dodged before summoning a giant phantom and counterattacking with golden light.
• Number Five slowed the beast before a hidden trap as Sabrina revealed eight SS-Class and more than one hundred sixty S-Class Psionicists arrayed before the city.
• Number Five began gathering the beast's power to attack the defenders, but Nierda Tamon appeared in the control room and ordered them to stop.

Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian negotiated publicly with the Spiritual Practitioners, demanding compensation and control over thousands of Psionicists in exchange for avoiding war. Sabrina called the terms extortion as the countdown continued, leaving the talks unresolved.

• Wang Jixuan forced Nierda Tamon to agree to public negotiations beside the Pillar-Class Blade Beast, with a one-hour deadline.
• Fu Jian, Number Five, and Wang Jixuan's battle puppet prepared a televised meeting, and Fu Jian greeted the arriving Spiritual Practitioners on behalf of humanity.
• Fu Jian accused the Spiritual Practitioners of causing the Blade Beast disaster and threatened to expose their crimes and attack the Psionic Capital.
• Wang Jixuan demanded the surrender of Psionicists who had attacked him, a public apology from the Six Elders, and control of two thousand high-ranking Psionicists for Weier'aimina Tuk.
• Sabrina called Wang Jixuan's demands extortion, and Wang Jixuan warned her that arguing used up the remaining negotiation time.

Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian secured a deal with Psionic Capital while relocating the Pillar-Class Blade Beast, then discussed humanity’s limited resources and looming threats. Wang Jixuan rejected a cultivation shortcut and planned to taunt the Blade Beasts through a communicator.

• Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian negotiated terms requiring Psionic Capital to transfer more than two thousand Psionicists, issue a public apology, end its interference in frontline affairs, and pay compensation, though the other side rejected Wang Jixuan’s demand for Meng Jin and Angel.
• Wang Jixuan’s group moved the Pillar-Class Blade Beast toward the northwestern border of the D2 Comprehensive War Zone, and he explained the threat of further Blade Beast retaliation and arranged a farewell for the hundreds of millions of souls.
• Fu Jian told Wang Jixuan that human casualties had been far lower than expected, while Wang Jixuan dismissed a Naturalist Faction message and heard that humanity could currently handle only four and a half Pillar-Class Blade Beasts and their swarms.
• Wang Jixuan considered using demonic cultivation to speed up his progress and Ling Tong’s cultivation, but decided that she should cultivate properly rather than risk future consequences.
• Wang Jixuan asked Fu Jian to send Mechs into the Blade Beasts’ active zone with a communicator so Wu Man could record a message taunting them.

Wang Jixuan learned that the Blade Beasts planned to summon reinforcements, while Meng Jin reflected on the Psionic Capital’s weakening political position. At the farewell concert, Gao Huating’s past life offered Wang Jixuan access to an inheritance, warning that opening it would attract the Blade Beasts and Spiritual Practitioners.

• Galinno told Wang Jixuan that the Blade Beasts would open a Stargate for reinforcements and invited humanity to become their vassals, but Wang rejected the offer.
• Wang Jixuan learned that new Pillar-Class Blade Beasts could arrive at any time, then left Fu Jian to answer messages and attend the farewell gathering for the Heroic Souls.
• Elder Feng told Meng Jin that the Psionic Management Committee had been dissolved and replaced by a council that gave the Naturalist Faction twenty seats, and Meng predicted the Psionic Capital would soon fracture.
• Wang Jixuan arrived at the farewell concert venue and asked Gao Huating’s past life about the treasure the Spiritual Practitioners sought.
• Gao Huating’s past life offered Wang Jixuan her guarded inheritance in exchange for two conditions and warned that opening it would draw the attention of the Blade Beasts and Spiritual Practitioners.

Wang Jixuan learned that an ancient inheritance Secret Place could help him, but he had to reach the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm before opening it with Gao Huating. At the concert, he guided the departed souls away while Gao Huating sang, then took her back to Fortress 76.

• Gao Huating told Wang Jixuan that the planet was concealed from the Blade Beasts for about four or five months and agreed to open the inheritance Secret Place with him once he reached the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm.
• Gao Huating prepared for her concert, and Wang Jixuan arranged a farewell ceremony for the souls gathered at the ruins.
• Gao Huating sang as Wang Jixuan spoke with the old marshals, who chose to pass on and thanked him for helping humanity.
• Wang Jixuan sent off the souls throughout the night while more than a million army souls remained within the Blissful Sky Curtain to keep the Sixth Pillar from being reclaimed.
• Gao Huating finished the concert in tears, and Wang Jixuan called her to return with him to Fortress 76.

After recovering from his grief, Wang Jixuan returned to managing the D5 Comprehensive War Zone, discussing the Psionic Capital’s moves and the future of his allies. As Shen Qionglin developed new Psionic Mecha technology, an unidentified watcher observed the sleeping Pillar-Class Blade Beast and questioned whether Wang Jixuan was underestimating them.

• Wang Jixuan reunited with Ling Tong, discussed the transferred Psionicists and the Psionic Capital’s plans, and chose not to interfere in Zhou Zhengde’s potential political marriage with Xiang Tiantian.
• Wang Jixuan visited Shen Qionglin and approved an application for her to study the Pillar-Class Blade Beast after she explained her new multi-crystal-core synchronization technology.
• Red Snake, Deep Sea, Black Shell, and Dongfang Zhenghong gathered with matters requiring Wang Jixuan’s decisions about the Psionicists from the Psionic Capital.
• At the sleeping Pillar-Class Blade Beast, Number Five stood guard while an unidentified watcher surveyed the defenses and wondered whether the cultivator was underestimating them.

Wang Jixuan received Number Five’s secrets about the Ancient Civilization and her warning that Gao Huating’s Past Life Body might have a hidden agenda. After more than half a month of unexplained calm from the Blade Beasts, a Galinno suddenly sent a communication request, leaving the reason for their silence unresolved.

• Wang Jixuan refined and distributed pills, delegated formation work to Wu Man and Red Snake, and entered seclusion.
• Number Five told Wang Jixuan that the Spirit Source Civilization created the Core Circuits and may have left a vast Blissful Sky Curtain beneath the planet.
• Number Five warned Wang Jixuan to distrust the Ancient Civilization’s intentions and cautioned that the Blade Beasts’ unusual silence was suspicious.
• Wang Jixuan spent over half a month cultivating at Fortress No. 76 while humanity continued its preparations and worried about the Blade Beasts’ inactivity.
• At a meeting, Number Five said other Pillar-Class Blade Beasts could still issue orders through their Blissful Sky Curtains, and Wang Jixuan ordered everyone to continue their plans.
• Peony reported that a Galinno had activated its communication device and sent a request to contact them.

Wang Jixuan learned that the Blade Beasts planned to eliminate him, while Zhou Zhengde uncovered a trafficking network linked to Ye Zi and the Blade Beasts. The chapter ended with Ye Zi bargaining with Galinno to capture Wang Jixuan, and the Blade Beasts preparing to strike the next day.

• Galinno and four companions demanded that Wang Jixuan surrender or abandon humanity, then declared they would eliminate him before the Beast Gods awakened.
• Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian discussed the likelihood of a Blade Beast retaliation and considered relocating from Fortress No. 76.
• Zhou Zhengde told Wang Jixuan that Ye Zi was a manager in the Brotherhood Alliance and that a transport aircraft carrying materials had landed near the Third Pillar's dormant region.
• Wang Jixuan agreed to attack the marked location with a Drilling Nuclear Bomb and warned Peony to share the intelligence with Fu Jian.
• Ye Zi met Galinno underground and offered an improvement to the Pseudo Spirit Slave Plan in exchange for capturing Wang Jixuan.
• Galinno agreed to act the next day, beginning with a strike against a Beast God to draw Wang Jixuan out.

Wang Jixuan learned that the Blade Beasts had launched a coordinated assault on the Sixth Pillar and the human front line, using electromagnetic blasts and thousands of transformed human fighters. At the Command Center, he prepared a contingency plan and waited for the battle to develop, ready to evacuate Fortress No. 76 if the situation worsened.

• Wang Jixuan and Peony toured the lower floors of Fortress 76, where he reflected on an earlier failure and joked with Peony.
• Human soldiers detected scavengers and Psionic Energy across multiple sectors before electromagnetic blasts disabled the watchtowers and plunged a military camp into darkness.
• Peony reported that about twenty thousand suspected Beast God Faction Psionicists and raging Blade Beast Swarms were attacking the human front line and the Sixth Pillar.
• Wang Jixuan told Peony the Blade Beasts were prioritizing his death and asked her to prepare a contingency plan.
• Dongfang Zhenghong explained that new Blade Beast types countered human weapons and that the transformed human fighters might represent mass-produced Psionicists.
• Wang Jixuan, Ling Tong, and the others watched the assault from the Command Center, where Wang Jixuan ordered them to wait and prepare to evacuate Fortress No. 76 if needed.

Humanity struggled to hold its defenses as the Blade Beasts launched the largest offensive in recorded history, apparently targeting Wang Jixuan as the Beast God's nemesis. As Fortress No. 76 prepared for attack, Fu Jian urged Wang Jixuan to draw the enemy toward D5 so humanity could spring a long-prepared trap.

• Dongfang Zhenghong learned that the Blade Beasts had awakened half their main forces, deployed Pseudo Spirit Slaves, and were attacking human territory across all fronts.
• Wang Jixuan and Number Five suspected the Blade Beasts' new units had been designed specifically to fight humanity, and Wang Jixuan began teaching Number Five Buddhist techniques.
• The Blade Beasts broke through human defensive lines, forcing the Nine Comprehensive War Zones to retreat and fight alongside Mechanical Legions as attacks spread across land and air.
• The human front lines contracted, civilians were evacuated from Fortress No. 76, and the Blade Beasts revealed their strategic aim: eliminating the Beast God's nemesis.
• Fu Jian told Wang Jixuan that humanity had prepared a fifty-year-old Autonomous Mech Legion trap and suggested he provoke the Blade Beasts into concentrating on D5.

Wang Jixuan prepared to draw the Blade Beasts toward Fortress No. 76 by broadcasting a provocative speech in Black Storm’s persona. After sending the message, he left the fortress with Peony and Wu Man to confront a King-Class Blade Beast using his battle puppet while hiding his main body.

• Wang Jixuan told Ling Tong that he had a plan to resolve the crisis, though it might separate them for a while, and explained that he intended to provoke the Blade Beasts into concentrating their assault on Fortress No. 76.
• Number Five reported that her Advanced Spirit Slaves had captured Pseudo Spirit Slaves, whose bodies contained Blade Beast souls and crystal cores, and said Wings of Light was likely behind their creation.
• Wang Jixuan adopted Black Storm’s appearance and delivered Zheng Shiduo’s insulting speech to the Blade Beasts, with Wu Man translating it for them.
• After the speech was sent to the front lines, Wang Jixuan quietly departed Fortress No. 76 with Peony and Wu Man to lure the Blade Beasts toward him.
• Wang Jixuan hid his main body inside Old Sophie’s Stone Slab Wall and sent out his battle puppet, instructing Peony to stay within twelve kilometers and Wu Man to disrupt the beast horde.

Wang Jixuan joined Zhang Huanying’s desperate defense against a King-Class Blade Beast and attacked its crystal core through the creature’s body. He swallowed the King-Class Blade Beast’s soul with Dragon Python Swallows Heaven, but suffered a severe backlash as its memories flooded into his soul.

• Zhang Huanying prepared the Suicide Squad and Mechanical Legion as Death Flower’s swarm advanced on the Military Fortress.
• Zhang Huanying ordered the troops to charge, but Special Winged Dragons attacked the assault force from the air.
• Wu Man appeared and disrupted the Blade Beast Swarm, while Wang Jixuan asked Zhang Huanying to clear the King-Class Blade Beast’s back and avoid bombarding it.
• Wang Jixuan broke through the Blade Beasts on Death Flower’s back, entered its body with Golden Escape, and attacked its crystal core with the Black Dragon.
• Wang Jixuan swallowed the King-Class Blade Beast’s soul, then endured a backlash as its fragmented memories struck his soul.

Wang Jixuan defeated one King-Class Blade Beast, then followed his plan to lure another toward Fortress No. 76 and provoke its mark. After crippling the second beast and injuring its soul, he saw the familiar vertical eye begin to form above him.

• Wang Jixuan destroyed the first King-Class Blade Beast's soul, then ordered Zhang Huanying to have the beast blown apart while he headed for another target.
• Wang Jixuan rested and sorted through the beast's chaotic memories as Fu Jian recognized his plan and coordinated the defense around Fortress No. 76.
• Wang Jixuan, Wu Man, and Peony attacked a giant-turtle King-Class Blade Beast, with Wu Man's Beast Speech throwing nearby Blade Beasts into chaos.
• Wang Jixuan battered the giant-turtle beast with techniques, formations, and demonic qi, then struck its mouthparts and gravely damaged its soul.
• Wang Jixuan sensed a familiar gaze and saw gray light gather into a vertical eye above him.

Wang Jixuan’s mark drew nineteen King-Class Blade Beasts toward Fortress No. 76, easing pressure on the other fronts but putting the fortress in grave danger. He told Fu Jian he planned to fake Black Storm’s death, relying on Number Five and the Mountain Protection Grand Formation to make the Blade Beasts believe humanity was no longer a serious threat.

• Wang Jixuan retreated after marking the injured King-Class Blade Beast, and General Headquarters ordered the front to keep it alive while continuing to kill Blade Beasts.
• Dongfang Zhenghong learned that the Blade Beast Swarms had stopped their assaults before nineteen King-Class Blade Beasts began advancing underground toward Fortress No. 76.
• Fu Jian contacted Peony, who woke Wang Jixuan and reported that the fortress was facing two waves of King-Class Blade Beasts.
• Wang Jixuan asked whether the fortress residents had evacuated and learned that the Blade Beast Swarm near the Sixth Pillar was retreating.
• Wang Jixuan told Fu Jian he intended to fake Black Storm’s death, use Number Five and the fortress’s Mountain Protection Grand Formation, and have the defenders prepare an underground escape route.

Wang Jixuan prepared Fortress No. 76 for an attack by four King-Class Blade Beasts while arranging for his allies and civilians to evacuate. The beasts struck the fortress’s Mountain Protection Grand Formation, and the battle began.

• Wang Jixuan told Number Five to remain behind and attack the second group of King-Class Blade Beasts after he dealt with the first four.
• Wang Jixuan arranged evacuations and assigned Ling Tong, Shen Qionglin, Red Snake, and the Buddha Hall Squad their roles in the coming battle.
• Wang Jixuan prepared a battle puppet and a fake-death plan, then hid his true body inside Old Sophie's stone slab subspace.
• The four King-Class Blade Beasts charged toward Fortress No. 76 as its remaining residents and defenders took their positions.
• The Mountain Protection Grand Formation activated, and the four King-Class Blade Beasts smashed into its Azure Light Film.

Wang Jixuan and Fortress No. 76’s forces defeated four King-Class Blade Beasts, but further waves were already advancing. As the defenders withdrew, Wang Jixuan prepared to face nineteen more King-Class Blade Beasts with Peony’s support, determined to fight to the death.

• Wang Jixuan watched the Mountain Protection Grand Formation withstand the first four King-Class Blade Beasts, then ordered the defenders to attack as the beasts surfaced.
• Dongfang Zhenghong directed the fortress’s weapons and combat teams against the beasts while Wang Jixuan charged one with his spear and lightning techniques.
• Wang Jixuan repeatedly tore through the King-Class Blade Beast’s body until it collapsed, while the Buddha Hall Squad and Peak Maid Group defeated their assigned targets and the Half-Human Mech group suffered heavy losses.
• Wang Jixuan recovered the Giant Crystal Core and learned that a second wave was approaching, followed by twelve more King-Class Blade Beasts, while the beast that had marked him retreated into its territory.
• Wang Jixuan ordered the organic forces to withdraw and the remaining forces to maintain fire, then prepared to confront nineteen King-Class Blade Beasts alongside Peony and the arriving Super Large Mecha.

After Fortress No. 76 fell, D5 released edited footage portraying Black Storm as a heroic martyr, though Meng Jin suspected he had survived. Wang Jixuan secretly hid inside the Sixth Pillar to cultivate with Peony, leaving his allies unaware of his location; nine months passed as Act Six ended.

• D5 distributed edited battle footage showing Black Storm fighting the Blade Beasts and apparently dying as Fortress No. 76 fell.
• After the fortress fell, the Blade Beast Swarm retreated, and D5 circulated a revised account presenting Black Storm as a martyr who had saved humanity.
• Meng Jin called the report fake, suspected Black Storm was alive, and asked to see the rules for an upcoming committee election.
• Wang Jixuan entered the Sixth Pillar in disguise, concealed himself inside its exoskeleton, and told Peony to prepare their hidden cultivation room.
• Wang Jixuan told Peony not to reveal their location to Fu Jian or Ling Tong and planned to cultivate there until he became invincible.

Zhou Zhengde questioned Gao Huating and Number Five about Wang Jixuan’s whereabouts and growing threats, then received a brief message proving Wang Zheng was alive. Wang Zheng stayed hidden near the Arctic Circle and secretly headed toward Psionic Capital.

• Zhou Zhengde visited the ruins of Fortress No. 76 with Xiang Tiantian and met Gao Huating, Red Snake, and Zheng Shiduo, who were waiting for news of Wang Zheng.
• Zhou Zhengde showed Gao Huating photos of stone pedestals beneath the sea, and she identified them as the destroyed City of Contract, where the Spiritual Practitioners’ Core Circuit had originated.
• Number Five said Wang Zheng’s whereabouts were hidden in the D5 Comprehensive War Zone and warned that his reappearance could attract the Blade Beasts; she also could not sense the Psionic Capital’s strength.
• Zhou Zhengde and Zheng Shiduo received Wang Zheng’s message saying he had exited the capsule, was fine, and could not show himself, then disconnected without replying.
• Wang Zheng hid his communicator and used an escape technique to travel toward the Psionic Capital near the Arctic Circle.

Dragonfly Aunt secretly reunited with Wang Jixuan in the Psionic Capital after he answered her call for help. She learned that he had reached the peak of the Golden Core Realm and was seeking an opportunity to advance, while Peony appeared at the end of their meeting.

• Dragonfly Aunt reviewed the Psionic Capital's dwindling resources and secretly communicated with Wang Jixuan, arranging to meet him after her meeting.
• Dragonfly Aunt endured Taisheng Steel's long meeting, changed clothes, and traveled through the underground levels to her secret residence.
• Wang Jixuan appeared in Dragonfly Aunt's hidden room, where she expressed relief that he had survived and complained about her position in the Psionic Capital.
• Wang Jixuan explained that nine months of secluded cultivation had let him form a nine-grade azure lotus Golden Core and reach the peak of the Golden Core Realm.
• Wang Jixuan brought out Peony, who greeted Mai Qingting and remarked on her changed appearance.

Wang Jixuan met Dragonfly Aunt in the Psionic Capital, learned that the Spiritual Practitioners were preparing a war against all Human Civilization, and asked her to find three rare herbs for his cultivation. After investigating the Ancient Civilization’s hidden secret place from a distance, he found the dying Li Weiqi imprisoned in a research institute and began searching his soul.

• Dragonfly Aunt told Wang Jixuan that the Spiritual Practitioners had formed thirty-six detachments and were preparing to retaliate against all Human Civilization, while a possible Blade Beast envoy hid in the Psionic Capital.
• Wang Jixuan asked Dragonfly Aunt to find Biyou Grass, Sky Crane Earth Auspicious Vine, and Golden Cloud Fruit, and she agreed to investigate the Biological 13th Institute and nearby Satellite Cities.
• Wang Jixuan left using Earth Escape, then watched Dragonfly Aunt to make sure she had not exposed him before resuming his search.
• Peony confirmed that Little Hua Ting was at the rebuilt Fortress No. 76 site, but Wang Jixuan chose to delay visiting the Ancient Civilization’s secret place and instead study the Psionic Capital’s weaknesses.
• Wang Jixuan found Li Weiqi chained and dying in an underground prison, learned that he had become a Detachment Leader before his recent disappearance, and used the Gentle Breeze Entering Dream technique to search his soul.

Li Weiqi’s memories revealed how he spied on the Psionic Capital’s planned offensive for Fu Jian, only to be exposed, tortured, and condemned by Angel and Meng Jin. Hidden beneath the laboratory, Wang Jixuan learned that Li Weiqi’s intelligence had already reached the Naturalist Faction and began considering another way to save him as Meng Jin approached to kill him.

• Li Weiqi trained himself, advanced to an Awakened A-Class Psionicist, and became a Detachment Leader while secretly gathering evidence of the Psionic Capital’s planned attack on the Human Military.
• Li Weiqi passed the encrypted evidence to a Naturalist Faction contact, but the operation was exposed six days later.
• Angel revealed that she knew Li Weiqi was a spy, had him seized, and sent him to the laboratory, where he endured days of torture without revealing his contact.
• Wang Jixuan discovered that Li Weiqi had supplied the intelligence Dragonfly Aunt received and resolved to consider saving him despite the risks.
• Angel asked Meng Jin to kill Li Weiqi, and Meng Jin entered the cell as Wang Jixuan abandoned a direct attack and contemplated another plan.

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 taught Li Weiqi a rapid cultivation method and helped him enter the body of the dying Wan Linqian, hoping he could become an ally inside the Psionic Capital. After Wan Linqian began to revive, Wang Jixuan turned his attention to probing the Ball of Silence for the Herbal Medicine he needed.

• Wang Jixuan decided to settle Li Weiqi’s situation before investigating the Ball of Silence and taught him the Dragon Python Transformation cultivation method.
• Li Weiqi chose the rapid cultivation path and asked Wang Jixuan to find him a powerful body, even if it belonged to a young woman.
• Wang Jixuan and Li Weiqi entered Professor Wan Wenxuan’s laboratory and selected the soul-dispersed Wan Linqian, whose body had A+-grade psionic abilities.
• Li Weiqi entered Wan Linqian’s body, while Wang Jixuan warned him that he would have no second chance if he failed.
• Wan Linqian’s readings began to rise, and Wang Jixuan left the laboratory to probe the Ball of Silence.

Wang Jixuan secretly investigated the Ball of Silence, obtained living samples of two rare herbs through Dragonfly Aunt, and learned of her frustration with the Psionicists’ subservience to the Spiritual Practitioners. Her intelligence led him to a secret Arctic drilling site that appeared to connect to the ancient ruins beneath Earth, where two powerful Psionicists said the ruins were nearly within reach.

• Wang Jixuan infiltrated the Ball of Silence with his spiritual sense and found Biyou Grass and Sky Crane Earth Auspicious Vine in its living gene bank, but no Golden Cloud Fruit.
• Dragonfly Aunt obtained a living sample of Biyou Grass for Wang Jixuan and arranged for the vine to be sent later.
• Dragonfly Aunt told Wang Jixuan she wanted to seize power and change the Naturalist Faction, but he advised her that Psionicists remained bound to the Spiritual Practitioners.
• Dragonfly Aunt shared intelligence about a secret Arctic laboratory, and Wang Jixuan traveled north to investigate its suspected drilling site.
• Wang Jixuan discovered the site’s pit connected to spatial pathways and watched two SS-Class Psionicists discuss how the awakened ruins might be reached within two or three months.
• Wang Jixuan decided he needed to consult his allies before the Spiritual Practitioners reached the ancient ruins.