Arc 15The City in the Clouds

Wang Jixuan mastered his demonic power, uncovered Ye Zi’s role in the Blade Beast crisis, and led allies into the Ancient Civilization. In the City in the Clouds, He Ruli revealed how Wang Jixuan shaped the Ina Civilization and how Posa’s attack connected their souls to the present, leaving Wang Jixuan ready to visit his former sleeping place.

  • Wang Jixuan regained control of his Demonic Thought, defeated the Seventh Pillar, and entered seclusion to restore his Dao heart.
  • Wang Jixuan learned that the Eyes of the Firmament would arrive after 124 rotation cycles, stopped Fu Jian’s Doomsday Plan, and offered to train Heavenly Demon Soldiers.
  • Wang Jixuan discovered Ye Zi’s laboratory and learned that she had helped create the Blade Beasts and Pseudo Spirit Slaves, then used his Soul of Kindness to confront her.
  • Wang Jixuan assembled a team, entered the Ancient Civilization, and found Gao Huating missing while the woman who claimed to be her reincarnation held her captive.
  • Wang Jixuan explored the City in the Clouds, recognized his former face on a damaged statue, and reached the palace with his allies after the city’s drones pursued him.
  • He Ruli told Wang Jixuan that he had fallen through a Space-time Barrier, entered a human body, and guided the Ina Civilization toward psionic energy and individual cultivation.
  • He Ruli revealed that Posa shattered her Core Circuit and sent her soul to the place where Wang Jixuan slept, leading Wang Jixuan to order her to take him there.
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Ch. 355Proactive Demonic Transformation

Wang Jixuan’s demonic backlash worsened despite three days of Buddhist chanting, so he chose a dangerous plan to enter the Blade Beasts’ Out of Control Zone and purge his inner demons through battle. As Fu Jian prepared the operation, a mysterious lingering obsession manipulated Gao Huating into believing she had to risk her life to save Wang Jixuan.

  • Wang Jixuan fought off a demonic impulse to devour Amina and Sabrina, then asked Peony to take him to Wu Man for three days of scripture chanting.
  • After three days, Wang Jixuan’s Demonic Thought had grown stronger, and he told Fu Jian he planned to undergo Proactive Demonic Transformation and slaughter Blade Beasts before letting them defeat him.
  • Fu Jian ordered Peony to command the Autonomous Mechs and directed Ling Tong, Deep Sea, and military forces to prepare for the operation.
  • At Base No. 76, Gao Huating received a message in a book telling her to unite with Wang Jixuan and memorize an incantation, while a communicator message from Peony asked her to help him.
  • A golden-clad female phantom watched Wang Jixuan through a crystal ball as her plan proceeded.

Ch. 356Demon Devouring!

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.

Ch. 357Mara Descends Upon the World

Wang Jixuan’s demonic power surged as he slaughtered Blade Beasts across several lairs, becoming the focus of a growing counterattack. Amina learned he was nearing the human-controlled Earth Realm and rushed to stop him before he killed his own people.

  • Wang Jixuan killed a King-Class Blade Beast and swept through its lair, absorbing souls and growing stronger as he fought.
  • Peony and the Buddha Hall Squad watched Wang Jixuan’s progress and feared he might turn toward human territory, but he headed southeast and attacked more Blade Beast lairs.
  • Wang Jixuan killed the King-Class Blade Beasts guarding several lairs, while the Blade Beasts mobilized under a Galinno and sent forces to confront him.
  • Amina joined Sabrina and Nierda Tamon in the Spiritual Practitioners’ gathering place, explained that Wang Jixuan had lost control, and urged them to help him if needed.
  • Amina sensed that Wang Jixuan had reached the border of the D7 Comprehensive War Zone and rushed toward him, determined to prevent him from slaughtering humans.

Ch. 358The Last Move!

Wang Jixuan’s uncontrolled slaughter drive brought him to the Military Fortress, where his allies tried to stop him with scripture and Gao Huating’s chanting. Just as Gao Huating’s voice halted him, Ling Tong wounded herself and called for help, drawing Wang Jixuan away from the fortress toward her fighter jet.

  • Fu Jian ordered the Underground Passage destroyed and the Military Fortress evacuated as Black Storm approached, while the Blade Beasts tried to guide Wang Jixuan toward it.
  • Peony organized a last defense, and Wu Man disrupted the underground Blade Beast Swarm while Nierda Tamon captured a Galinno.
  • Ji Xiao and five others chanted Buddhist scriptures to stop Wang Jixuan, but their attack failed and he passed them toward the fortress.
  • Gao Huating chanted from above, and Wang Jixuan stopped when he heard her voice and warned Wu Man to protect her from him.
  • Ling Tong crushed a jade talisman, stabbed herself, and called for Wang Jixuan to save her, causing him to turn away from the fortress and charge toward her fighter jet.

Ch. 359Unrivaled

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.

Ch. 360Don't Come Any Closer!

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!”

Ch. 361Grandpa Is Here!

Amina told Wang Jixuan that the Ancient Civilization’s guardian had deliberately stirred his demonic thoughts to push him and Gao Huating toward cultivation and ascension. Wang Jixuan staged his collapse, then revealed his Demon Star True Body and entered the Seventh Pillar to confront Cloaked Galinno.

  • Amina caught up with Wang Jixuan as he pursued the fleeing Seventh Pillar and warned him that his Strange Soul was close to breaking apart.
  • Amina recounted how the guardian had used the City in the Clouds’ Astrology Towers and a Crystal Ball to influence Wang Jixuan, claiming she was helping him and fulfilling Little Hua Ting’s past-life obsession.
  • Wang Jixuan confirmed the guardian knew his past, then asked Amina to watch over Little Hua Ting and his injured girlfriend while he recovered.
  • Wang Jixuan pretended to lose control, causing his Strange Soul to explode and drawing the Seventh Pillar into a vast zone of demonic energy.
  • When the Seventh Pillar charged into the zone, Wang Jixuan used Demon Star True Body to punch it into the air and detached a shadow that entered the beast to confront Cloaked Galinno.

Ch. 362Take Good Care of Her

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.

Ch. 363A Touch of Red Between the Brows

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.

Ch. 364Pass Down Techniques! Pass Down Demonic Arts!

Wang Jixuan discovered that he bore a Demon Lord’s Mark and learned the Blade Beasts planned to open five Stargates, while he resolved to turn demonic cultivation into humanity’s answer. At a family dinner at General Headquarters, he interrupted Fu Jian’s Doomsday Plan and announced a new technique that could produce Heavenly Demon Soldiers within three months.

  • Wang Jixuan examined the Demon Lord’s Mark between his brows, accepted his growing affinity for demonic cultivation, and arranged to meet the Commander-in-Chief and gather allies.
  • Wang Jixuan used his other soul to enter the recovering Galinno body and contact the Galinnos, who revealed that five Eyes of the Firmament would arrive after the Stargates finished charging in 124 rotation cycles.
  • Wang Jixuan ordered Peony to bring Amina, Zhou Zhengde, Zhou Meiying, and others to General Headquarters, while he reviewed news celebrating Black Storm’s victories during his month-long retreat.
  • Zhou Zhengde arrived at Fu Jian’s private residence, where Fu Jian questioned him about marriage and children before other guests joined the family dinner.
  • Fu Jian began to announce his decision, but Wang Jixuan arrived and stopped him from carrying out the Doomsday Plan.
  • Wang Jixuan offered to teach humanity the Heavenly Demon Soul Devouring Art and said it could create a force of Heavenly Demon Soldiers within three months.

Ch. 365Unease

Wang Jixuan planned to create Heavenly Demon Soldiers while investigating the Ancient Civilization and the strange connections among himself, Gao Huating, Ye Zi, and Kong Lianmei. Two days after he and his allies organized the first training group, he went to see Gao Huating, who had been drinking alone in the ruins of Fortress No. 76.

  • Wang Jixuan proposed using Blade Beast Crystal Cores, formations, and demonic cultivation methods to train a million soldiers, and Fu Jian agreed to test the plan on three hundred people first.
  • Wang Jixuan healed Ling Tong, promised to help Zhou Zhengde and Amina, and listened as Amina recounted her encounter with the Ancient Civilization's Guardian remnant spirits.
  • Wang Jixuan told the group he would enter the Ancient Civilization in three months and shared his suspicions about his origins, Gao Huating, Ye Zi, and Kong Lianmei.
  • Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong were intimate while Amina worried that his changed temperament might put Ling Tong at risk.
  • The first three hundred Heavenly Demon Soldiers with strong aptitude began ten days of training at the ruins of Fortress No. 76.
  • Wang Jixuan walked through the ruins and found Gao Huating asleep on a sofa beside a pile of empty liquor bottles.

Ch. 366The Child

Wang Jixuan trained young soldiers at Fortress No. 76 while drawing Gao Huating closer and guarding against the Ancient Civilization’s remnant spirit. On the ninth night, a voice reached his strange soul near the Number One Space Fortress, calling him a child and saying it had come to take him home.

  • Wang Jixuan refused to comfort Gao Huating immediately and ordered Amina to have her come to the new studio after an hour.
  • Wang Jixuan began teaching more than three hundred recruits to sense spiritual energy and assigned Wu Man to lead their studies.
  • Gao Huating cried over the battle, told Wang Jixuan she had shared everything she knew, and agreed to help him if needed; her piano music guided the recruits into meditation.
  • Wang Jixuan led the recruits through eight days of increasingly harsh cultivation and combat training, while some withdrew and others began to distinguish themselves.
  • On the ninth night, Wang Jixuan sensed a call from near the Number One Space Fortress: someone said they had come to take him home and called him a child.

Ch. 367Laboratory, Palace, Stone Sculpture

Wang Jixuan was abducted with his war puppet by Blade Beasts and used the opportunity to investigate their underground stronghold. He uncovered a human-cloning laboratory, a palace containing a sculpture resembling himself, and a Galinno that mistook him for a newly born consciousness; he ended the chapter inside the stronghold, planning to draw out the palace’s master.

  • Wang Jixuan ordered the Space Carrier’s crew to prepare to abandon ship after Pseudo Spirit Slaves infiltrated it, then allowed the Blade Beasts to carry off his foreign soul and war puppet.
  • Fu Jian sent fighters after the abductors, and the humans and Blade Beasts fought for hours before the Blade Beasts escaped with Wang Jixuan’s puppet.
  • Wang Jixuan explored the Blade Beasts’ deep underground territory and discovered a nursery where mother insects transformed living humans into Pseudo Spirit Slaves.
  • Wang Jixuan found a laboratory holding nearly ten thousand human scientists and a palace with a nude stone sculpture resembling his former and current appearances.
  • A Galinno mistook Wang Jixuan’s foreign soul for a new consciousness born from a Blade Beast body, and its followers carried his puppet into a cavern.
  • Wang Jixuan pretended to remain unconscious while keeping watch on the palace and considering how to lure out its master.

Ch. 368Ye Zi's Official Debut

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.

Ch. 369Outer Core Cultivator

Wang Jixuan discovered that Ye Zi had cultivated an Outer Golden Core and was secretly cooperating with the Blade Beasts, trading them powerful Psionic Energy Circuits while preparing for Earth’s barrier to open. Convinced that Ye Zi threatened his plans, he decided to capture her and began arranging his next move.

  • Ye Zi inspected her experiments, then bathed beside the Stone Sculpture and spoke to it as if it were her beloved Big Brother.
  • Wang Jixuan overheard Ye Zi and Galinno discuss Black Storm, the Ancient Civilization, Earth’s Planetary Barrier, and changing the Blade Beasts’ destination to Mars.
  • Ye Zi gave Galinno three Psionic Energy Circuits that let him project and chant Buddhist scriptures, and warned him not to kill her Big Brother.
  • Wang Jixuan realized Ye Zi possessed an Outer Golden Core and that the new circuits could undermine his Heavenly Demon Soldier Plan.
  • Wang Jixuan decided to capture Ye Zi, sent Peony an order, and shifted his consciousness to Second War Puppet before sending another soul’s phantom projection toward the surface.

Ch. 370Soul of Kindness

Amina agreed to help Wang Jixuan stage the return of his Soul of Kindness so he could approach Ye Zi and learn where she had obtained her Outer Golden Core cultivation method. A month later, as the Eye of the Firmament’s next appearance drew near, Wang Jixuan detected Ye Zi at the Underground Fortress and released the prepared Soul of Kindness.

  • Amina returned from Sabrina’s subspace after Nierda Tamon agreed to wait before attempting a spirit slave contract on Galinno, and Peony asked her to help stage Wang Jixuan’s Soul of Kindness plan.
  • Wang Jixuan organized his clues about Ye Zi and the Ancient Civilization, then explained to Amina that he wanted an opportunity to ask Ye Zi about her Outer Golden Core method.
  • Amina warned Wang Jixuan that Little Hua Ting or the Ancient Civilization might expose their plan, but she agreed to help after he reassured her.
  • Amina left after Wang Jixuan flirted with her, telling him to survive first and that they could discuss the future in a hundred or two hundred years.
  • Over the next month, Wang Jixuan’s Heavenly Demon Soldier Plan advanced, the Soul of Kindness story spread among the Blade Beasts, and preparations continued for the Eye of the Firmament’s return.
  • Wang Jixuan detected magical-power fluctuations from Ye Zi’s external golden core at the Underground Fortress and released the prepared Soul of Kindness.

Ch. 371Obsession and Doubt

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.

Ch. 372Number Six

Wang Jixuan’s remnant soul was captured by Ye Zi and placed in a Pseudo Spirit Slave body, where she revealed her identity as Spiritual Practitioner Number Six and explained her role in creating the Blade Beasts. The chapter ended with Wang Jixuan asking whether Ye Zi and Gao Huating’s Past Life Body had cooperated.

  • Ye Zi bound Wang Jixuan’s remnant soul and took him to choose a temporary body, despite his protests against taking over another person’s body.
  • Wang Jixuan merged with a Pseudo Spirit Slave body, pretended to faint, and consulted his allies through his main body.
  • Two days later, Ye Zi returned and revealed that she was Spiritual Practitioner Number Six, known by aliases sharing the syllables Posa.
  • Ye Zi described her plan to reform Spiritual Cultivation Civilization and admitted that her organization’s attempt to use the Blissful Sky Curtain had led to the creation of the Blade Beasts.
  • Wang Jixuan deduced that Ye Zi’s group had encountered the Ancient Civilization and asked whether she and Gao Huating’s Past Life Body had been cooperating.

Ch. 373What Cannot Be Avoided

Wang Jixuan confronted Ye Zi over her role in Earth's disasters, then gathered his allies to plan a visit to the Ancient Civilization and attempt to open its Planetary Barrier. After half a month of preparation, he remained ready to descend underground, carrying a countermeasure he had not disclosed.

  • Wang Jixuan revealed his Lone Soul to Ye Zi, condemned her actions, and destroyed the spirit before leaving the cloning laboratory under surveillance.
  • Wang Jixuan reviewed evidence that Ye Zi and her faction had helped cause the Blade Beast disaster, supported the Six Spiritual Practitioners, and created the Pseudo Spirit Slaves.
  • Wang Jixuan decided that he, Amina, Little Hua Ting, and Old Zheng would visit the Ancient Civilization after preparing for half a month, while Wu Man and Red Snake would oversee the Heavenly Demon Soldiers if needed.
  • Fu Jian gave Wang Jixuan an alloy box and warned that the Six Elders remained dangerous, then told him he owed Human Civilization nothing if the Planetary Barrier could not be activated.
  • Wang Jixuan completed the half-month preparation period while keeping his countermeasure secret.

Ch. 374Entering the Game

Wang Jixuan led his team, joined by Nierda Tamon, into the Ancient Civilization ruins known as the City in the Clouds to uncover the truth. The group arrived in the empty city without Gao Huating, who awoke alone before a woman on a throne and was identified as the returned Number One Prisoner.

  • Wang Jixuan assembled a six-person team and left Ling Tong behind as they traveled toward the Ancient Civilization entrance.
  • Nierda Tamon joined the transport after swearing an oath not to attack the group and to share the intelligence he gained.
  • Nierda Tamon revealed that the witch had contacted him and Sabrina with an offer to restrain Wang Jixuan's demonic arts in exchange for help obtaining the Cultivation Path.
  • Amina led the group through the underground teleportation zones, and Wang Jixuan tied them together with an enchanted rope before they entered the gate.
  • Wang Jixuan and the others arrived in the lifeless City in the Clouds, but Gao Huating was missing.
  • Gao Huating awoke alone in a magnificent hall, where a synthesized voice identified her as the returned Number One Prisoner.

Ch. 375Spiritual Practitioner Under Suppression

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.

Ch. 376Great Pioneer

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.

Ch. 377Approaching the Truth

Wang Jixuan recognized his fallen statue and concluded that his past was tied to the ancient civilization, then tested the city’s drones and their strange sealing beams. He and Nierda Tamon reached the palace, where the Ancient Remnant Spirit stopped them and invited them to approach peacefully.

  • Wang Jixuan identified the toppled statue as his former self and theorized that he had once cooperated with the ancient civilization before falling from favor.
  • Wang Jixuan sent Amina, Zheng Shiduo, and Ji Xiao ahead to the Palace Complex while he explored the city with Wu Man.
  • Wang Jixuan fought the Barbell Drones, discovered that their red beams could nearly seal his physical body, and drew a vast swarm of drones and unmanned boats.
  • Nierda Tamon escaped confinement and charged toward the Palace Complex, prompting Wang Jixuan to pursue him through the drone swarm.
  • The Ancient Remnant Spirit raised a barrier that stopped Wang Jixuan and Nierda Tamon, then told them not to disturb the sleeping dead and said they could have come directly to her.

Ch. 378Book of Civilization

Wang Jixuan confronted He Ruli in the City in the Clouds and heard the history of the Ina Civilization, including how his arrival sparked its cultivation era and how a rebellion destroyed it. He recognized that He Ruli was not Little Hua Ting’s former incarnation and pressed her to explain what happened to Posa.

  • Nierda Tamon told Wang Jixuan that magazines in the confinement room called him the Great Pioneer, and Amina led the group into the palace to meet the Ancient Remnant Spirit.
  • He Ruli promised to activate the Planetary Barrier and began recounting the Ina Civilization’s history, from its rise and stagnation to its failed attempt to contact an Advanced Civilization.
  • He Ruli said Wang Jixuan had fallen through the opened Space-time Barrier, entered a human body, and later guided the Ina Civilization toward psionic energy and individual cultivation.
  • He Ruli explained that the Opposition Faction’s rebellion devastated the civilization, after which its research was released and the present Spiritual Cultivation Civilization arose.
  • Wang Jixuan deduced that He Ruli was not Little Hua Ting’s former incarnation, and He Ruli admitted she had been an exiled dissenter who survived the civilization’s destruction.
  • Wang Jixuan told He Ruli not to change the subject and demanded that she explain what happened to Posa.

Ch. 379The Case Is Solved

Wang Jixuan questioned He Ruli about the Ina Civilization’s collapse and learned how his failures, the Opposition Faction, and the rebellion of conquered races led to its destruction. He discovered that Posa’s attack had sent his soul, a leader’s soul, and Posa’s soul out of the City in the Clouds together, explaining his connection to Mu Liang, Gao Huating, and Ye Zi; he then ordered He Ruli to take him to where he had slept.

  • Wang Jixuan deduced that the Ina Civilization’s collapse involved rebellion by the races it had ruled, and He Ruli confirmed that his failed ascension had helped the Opposition Faction’s ideology take shape.
  • He Ruli explained that the Ina Civilization dwindled to tens of thousands of women, and she sacrificed herself to the City in the Clouds after attempts to preserve the civilization failed.
  • He Ruli revealed that Black Obsidian first contacted her about seven thousand years earlier, later returning with Posa and others to take technology and bring souls to sustain her and awaken the sleeping pioneers.
  • He Ruli said Posa attacked her twenty-six years and three months earlier, shattered her Core Circuit, and sent her soul into the place where Wang Jixuan slept.
  • Wang Jixuan realized that his soul had left the city at the same time as Posa’s and a leader’s soul, solving the mystery of his connection to Mu Liang, Gao Huating, and Ye Zi.
  • Wang Jixuan ordered He Ruli to take him to his former sleeping place, and she agreed.
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