Recaps

Wang Jixuan secretly treated Fu Jian, easing his mental collapse, then met Dragonfly Aunt to trade information and arrange future cooperation. As Fu Jian headed to face a Psionicist delegation at the D5 Border, Sister Wan noticed Zheng Shiduo’s radar signal had disappeared.

• Fu Jian woke feeling much healthier after Wang Jixuan treated him, and Wang Jixuan left to meet Dragonfly Aunt while asking Fu Jian to pay him in crystal cores.
• Wang Jixuan reassured Dragonfly Aunt that Bristle Bear would soon be released, and she reported the Psionic Capital’s planned retaliation and Xing Tian’s likely revenge.
• Dragonfly Aunt asked who Wang Jixuan was and whether his healing water could help her friends; he concealed his identity but agreed to provide more water through their cooperation.
• Fu Jian arrived and said S-Class Psionicists were heading toward the D5 Border with D3’s support; after he left, Dragonfly Aunt introduced herself as Mai Qingting and negotiated a continuing exchange of intelligence and healing water.
• At Fortress No. 82, Ling Tong repaired her Mechanical Arm while Sister Wan teased her about Wang Jixuan, then noticed Zheng Shiduo’s radar signal had vanished.

After Zheng Shiduo was kidnapped and his X Armor stolen, Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong rescued him and locked down Fortress No. 82. During an inquiry, Wang exposed one suspected conspirator, while a woman in the room watched him with an eerie smile.

• Wang Jixuan used the Soul-Fixing Art to search for Zheng Shiduo while Ling Tong and Peony organized the lockdown and search.
• Zheng Shiduo woke in a wardrobe where two accomplices were shocking him, and Ling Tong and Wang Jixuan arrived to rescue him.
• Ling Tong received temporary control of Fortress No. 82 and summoned its former governor, ministers, and security captains to investigate the stolen armor.
• Wang Jixuan pressured the assembled officials and revealed that one man knew Zheng Shiduo had been rescued from a bedroom, information that had been sealed.
• The man admitted that the governor had ordered him to help steal the armor, and Wang Jixuan noticed a middle-aged woman smiling at him from across the room.

Wang Jixuan discovered that a Brain-Eating Worm had infiltrated a security captain, exposing the Blade Beasts’ ability to spy on humanity. As inspections uncovered growing numbers of carriers across the war zones, a soldier approached Wang Jixuan’s group and announced that he had come to negotiate on behalf of the Half-Human Mech.

• Wang Jixuan sensed something familiar in the Middle City Security Team captain, killed her after she attacked, and crushed the Brain-Eating Worm that burst from her head.
• Wang Jixuan learned that the Brain-Eating Worm could hide in the brain and spinal cord, while inspections found carriers in multiple war zones and raised fears that the creatures were monitoring humanity.
• Fu Jian ordered Wang Jixuan to avoid unnecessary risks and plan to return to Fortress No. 76 after its inspection, while Wang Jixuan warned Dragonfly Aunt about the worms.
• Wang Jixuan’s group reviewed reports of hundreds of carriers in War Zone D5 and more than a thousand detected in War Zone D3, with Ling Tong noting that some inspections could be used to purge political rivals.
• A soldier discarded his weapon, raised his hands, and declared that he had come to negotiate with the Half-Human Mech.

Wang Jixuan discovered that Ji Yale and Ding Jiajia, two A-Class Psionicists fleeing Xing Tian, had surrendered and removed their Self-Destruct Chips. The chapter ended when the Mimic Blade Beast Preacher approached the camp and called for Black Storm to talk.

• A controlled soldier approached Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong to negotiate, but Ji Yale revealed that he and his pregnant wife Ding Jiajia wanted to escape Xing Tian and seek the military's protection.
• After reviewing their message and memories, Wang Jixuan agreed to shelter the couple and remove their Self-Destruct Chips, while learning about Xing Tian's crimes and the other students' plans.
• Wang Jixuan removed both chips and decided to make Ji Yale an A-Class combatant for War Zone D5, while sparing Ding Jiajia from his Buddhist technique because she was pregnant.
• Peony detected a Mimic Blade Beast approaching the camp, and Preacher called out to Black Storm, saying that they needed to talk.

A Mimic Blade Beast envoy came to Fortress No. 82 to demand that Wang Jixuan return with it, but Wang Jixuan killed it and learned the Blade Beasts would wage war in ten days. With Blade Beast forces gathering, he planned to return to Fortress No. 76 to break through to the Returning to Truth Realm and prepare weapons for humanity.

• Wang Jixuan delayed meeting the Mimic Blade Beast envoy while he treated the captured A-Class Psionicist, and Peony waited outside the camp.
• Zhou Zhengde joined Fu Jian and other commanders as they watched Peony meet the envoy, while Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong traveled to negotiate.
• The envoy called Wang Jixuan a Spiritual Practitioner, threatened humanity, and declared that the Blade Beasts would launch a war in ten days.
• Wang Jixuan attacked and killed the Preacher envoy, then took its crystal core as Ling Tong reported the threat to the commanders.
• Fu Jian ordered War Zone D5 to enter first-level combat readiness as Blade Beast forces gathered near the war zone.
• Wang Jixuan decided to return to Fortress No. 76 to pursue a breakthrough and make Crystal Core Greatswords, then noticed Zheng Shiduo approaching with Wu Man.

Wang Jixuan discovered that Wu Man had begun cultivating by misusing a purification spell and planned to advance his own cultivation with Blade Beast corpses. As Fortress No. 76 prepared for battle, Wang Jixuan entered the corpse pile to practice the Dragon Python Swallowing Heaven Technique.

• Wu Man showed Wang Jixuan how repeated use of the purification spell had helped him control and increase the energy in his body, and Wang Jixuan warned him that he was following a dangerous path.
• Wang Jixuan decided to keep cultivation methods secret until he was strong enough to protect them, then asked Peony to request fresh Blade Beast corpses from Commander Dongfang.
• Gao Huating hurried to work after encountering Zheng Shiduo, Wu Man, Dongfang Zhenghong, and Ling Tong in the dormitory building, and Ling Tong went to help tidy Wang Jixuan's room.
• Wang Jixuan and Dongfang Zhenghong discussed the approaching Blade Beast threat, and Dongfang asked for help transferring to the front lines; Wang advised him to remain at Fortress No. 76 and revealed that Old Fu had selected him as a future military candidate.
• Wang Jixuan reached Uncle Tai's workshop, jumped into the Blade Beast corpses, and began cultivating the Dragon Python Swallowing Heaven Technique.

Wang Jixuan advanced his Dragon Python Swallowing Heaven Technique by absorbing Blade Beast blood energy and souls while the war zone prepared for an immense assault. As Ji Heibao and Ji Xiao infiltrated Fortress 76 to cause trouble, they sensed a powerful Psionic Fluctuation underground.

• Wang Jixuan completed the introductory stage of the Dragon Python Swallowing Heaven Technique, absorbed more than a hundred Blade Beast remnant souls, and formed a monstrous python tattoo on his arm.
• Wang Jixuan ordered Peony to supply more Blade Beasts, then helped Uncle Tai finish adjusting the Lightning Summoning Technique; four days later, the workshop sent good news to War Zone D5's Command Center.
• Fu Jian rejected seeking help from Psionic Capital and ordered one-third of the Autonomous Mech Legion activated as six King-Class Blade Beasts and their swarms gathered near the defensive line.
• Wang Zheng, Ling Tong, Little Zhou, and Old Zheng discussed the impending attack and agreed that Wang Zheng might support Fortress No. 82 if it came under threat.
• Wang Jixuan continued processing Blade Beasts and began another breakthrough while the exhausted workshop crew produced equipment for the front line.
• Ji Heibao and Ji Xiao infiltrated Fortress 76 intending to damage it and kill some people, but detected an intensifying Psionic Fluctuation underground and went to investigate.

Wang Jixuan completed his breakthrough into the early Returning to Truth Realm, then helped orchestrate an ambush against the intruding A-Class Psionicists Ji Xiao and Ji Heibao. Ji Xiao escaped to the Eighth Floor, where he faced a mysterious armored figure whose power shattered his Telekinetic Spear.

• Wang Jixuan completed Bone Forging and entered the early Returning to Truth Realm, but detected Ji Xiao and Ji Heibao approaching the Seventh Floor.
• Wang Jixuan alerted Ling Tong, and Fortress No. 76 activated electromagnetic shielding while its forces prepared an ambush.
• Ji Xiao and Ji Heibao approached Wang Jixuan's workshop, where Ji Xiao's Mental Shock failed against Peony and the defenders opened fire.
• Peony, Ling Tong, and Red Snake attacked Ji Heibao while Deep Sea pursued Ji Xiao through the elevator shaft.
• Ji Xiao fled to the Eighth Floor and launched a Telekinetic Spear at a silver-armored figure, but the spear shattered before reaching it.

Wang Jixuan and Deep Sea captured Ji Xiao, then Wang Jixuan modified him and uncovered memories of the Infusion Ceremony that may connect to the Spiritual Practitioner Civilization. The chapter ended with a gigantic Vertical Eye appearing above Fortress No. 82 as a voice announced, “Found... you...”

• Wang Jixuan used talismans and his X Armor to defeat Ji Xiao, while Deep Sea arrived and helped capture him alive.
• Wang Jixuan took Ji Xiao to the workshop, where he examined the man’s memories and learned that Ji Xiao had been an agent for Xing Tian in War Zone D2.
• Wang Jixuan discovered memories of the Infusion Ceremony, in which an unknown device projected a pair of eyes and killed most of the people subjected to it.
• Wang Jixuan infused Ji Xiao with Buddhist teachings, disabled his ability to harm women, and arranged for Deep Sea to install a Self-Destruct Chip and take him away.
• Wan Xiaoqi reported that a gigantic Vertical Eye had appeared above Fortress No. 82, and Wang Jixuan heard a voice say, “Found... you...”

Wang Jixuan discovered that a King-Class Blade Beast had placed a Death Mark on him, making Fortress No. 82 a likely target for an assault. He prepared to use himself as bait in an ambush while the fortress and War Zone D5 mobilized for battle, and the chapter ended with Deep Sea checking on the guilt-ridden Ji Xiao before returning to the forge.

• Wang Jixuan saw a King-Class Blade Beast’s Vertical Eye and found a matching mark hovering above his head, which Ling Tong and the others could not remove.
• Ling Tong explained that past appearances of the Vertical Eye had preceded devastating Blade Beast assaults, and the team learned the attack might begin before Fortress No. 82 finished evacuating.
• Wang Jixuan proposed using the Death Mark to lure the seventh King-Class Blade Beast into an ambush and began teaching Wu Man, Deep Sea, and Ling Tong how to produce talismans, Crystal Core Weapons, and Formation Disks.
• Resources gathered at Fortresses 76 and 82 as Wang Jixuan’s group worked to prepare for the coming battle.
• Deep Sea found Ji Xiao repeatedly hurting himself in his cell over his past actions and ordered a soldier to sedate him and keep him alive.

Wang Jixuan prepared weapons and arrays for the battle against Assassin No. 7, then traveled to the battlefield near Fortress No. 82 as the Blade Beast Swarm advanced. The chapter ended with the swarm bypassing the minefields and expected to reach the fortress’s outer defenses within fifty minutes.

• Wang Jixuan gave Ling Tong a Crystal Core longsword and began forging weapons for the approaching battle.
• Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong left Fortress No. 76 for the battlefield near Fortress No. 82, where Dongfang Zhenghong commanded the forces assembled against Assassin No. 7.
• Wang Jixuan prepared the Thunder Lord Demon Purging Array and Dragon Binding Array, then took position on a dune with Peony and Ji Xiao.
• Dongfang Zhenghong announced that an underground nuclear explosion had been detected and ordered all units to complete their preparations.
• Wang Jixuan woke from a dream and saw the defenses ready as a messenger reported that the Blade Beast Swarm had bypassed the minefields and would reach Fortress No. 82 within fifty minutes.

Wang Jixuan held the Blade Beast Swarm in place while humanity’s forces battled across the Seventh Battlefield, waiting for the King-Class Blade Beast to reveal itself. After the King Beast breached Fortress No. 82 and surfaced at Wang Jixuan’s position, he escaped its attack and humanity opened fire as the Jiaolong Sub-Terror Mech descended.

• Wang Jixuan struck the Supply Vehicle’s roof to draw the Blade Beast Swarm toward him while human forces bombarded the emerging beasts.
• Dongfang Zhenghong ordered the troops to abandon Fortress No. 82 as the King-Class Blade Beast attacked it and the battle expanded across the Seventh Battlefield.
• Zhou Zhengde watched the fighting from the D5 Comprehensive War Zone Command Center as General-Class Blade Beasts and more swarms broke through human defenses.
• The King Beast breached Fortress No. 82, then turned toward Wang Jixuan’s position and began to surface.
• Assassin No. 7 burst from beneath the dune and fired a black beam at Wang Jixuan, who escaped into the air and detonated the Supply Vehicle beneath it.
• Dongfang Zhenghong ordered all forces to open fire as the Jiaolong Sub-Terror Mech descended toward the King Beast.

Wang Jixuan and the human forces fought Number Seven King Beast, but a Sub-King-Class Special Winged Dragon joined the battle and forced Ling Tong to sacrifice her mech to save him. Red Snake then tried to destroy Number Seven King Beast with a tactical nuclear bomb, but the beast repelled her with a mental shock.

• Wang Jixuan watched Number Seven King Beast survive the Supply Vehicle explosion before Red Snake, Ling Tong, and Deep Sea coordinated attacks that broke its shield and struck its wound.
• Number Seven King Beast escaped into the earth, pursued Wang Jixuan, and summoned more Blade Beasts as a Sub-King-Class Special Winged Dragon descended from the sky.
• Wang Jixuan directed Ling Tong to throw him toward Deep Sea while she drew the Special Winged Dragon away; the creature destroyed her mech, but she survived with her Steel Wings.
• Deep Sea caught Wang Jixuan with Jiaolong, but Number Seven King Beast struck the mech with a psionic tail and remained nearly unharmed by the human barrage.
• Red Snake attacked Number Seven King Beast with an Annihilation Beam and tried to push a tactical nuclear bomb into its mouth, but the beast repelled the Black Swan with a mental shock.

Wang Jixuan, Red Snake, and Deep Sea fought to bring down Number Seven King Beast as the human forces struggled to contain the Blade Beast assault. Red Snake sacrificed herself to cripple the King Beast, allowing Wang Jixuan to destroy its soul with the Thunder Lord Demon Purging Array; he then collapsed into Ling Tong’s arms as the remaining Blade Beasts were left exposed.

• Number Seven King Beast overwhelmed Black Swan and Jiaolong, threw away its nuclear bomb, and targeted Wang Jixuan as he tried to reach the Dragon Binding Array.
• Deep Sea held the King Beast back with Jiaolong while the wounded Red Snake recovered and charged it in Black Swan.
• Red Snake and Wang Jixuan opened a gap in the King Beast’s mouth, and Red Snake entered its body and detonated Black Swan’s Nuclear Battery, badly wounding the beast.
• Wang Jixuan activated Array Number Two and used the Thunder Lord Demon Purging Array to destroy the King Beast’s soul, while Deep Sea tore the Special Winged Dragon’s head from its body.
• Wang Jixuan lost consciousness as Ling Tong caught him, and the surrounding Blade Beast Tide remained unable to retreat.

Wang Jixuan discovered Red Snake’s soul trapped inside the King-Class Blade Beast’s crystal core after her self-destruction. He proposed testing whether she could control a General-Class Blade Beast, but the team still needed a way to refine its soul.

• Wang Jixuan recovered by absorbing blood qi from the King-Class Blade Beast’s corpse and ordered Ling Tong to keep the corpse for him.
• Wang Jixuan heard Red Snake’s voice through his Dragon Python Strange Soul and found her remnant soul inside the Beast’s crystal core.
• Wang Jixuan concealed the crystal core in a supply vehicle and explained his discovery to Ling Tong, Sister Wan, and Peony.
• Peony theorized that the crystal core had mistaken Red Snake’s soul for the dead Blade Beast’s soul and absorbed it.
• Wang Jixuan proposed capturing a General-Class Blade Beast and replacing its crystal core with Red Snake’s, but he struggled to explain how he would refine the Beast’s soul.

Uncle Tai joined Wang Jixuan’s experiments to use human souls and Blade Beast bodies to create bio-mechas, while Fu Jian authorized a more dangerous test with Red Snake’s soul and a King-Class Crystal Core. The fusion succeeded, leaving Wang Jixuan facing the question of how to tell Deep Sea that his wife had become an eighteen-meter-tall quasi-Sub-King-Class Blade Beast.

• Uncle Tai arrived at Fortress No. 82 and learned that Wang Jixuan needed his help testing whether human souls could control Blade Beast bodies.
• Uncle Tai and Wang Jixuan’s team found that ordinary human souls could not survive inside Blade Beast Crystal Cores, so Wang Jixuan proposed testing Red Snake’s soul instead.
• Fu Jian approved the experiment and agreed to Wang Jixuan’s request for General-Class Crystal Cores as compensation.
• Wang Jixuan destroyed the Siege Hammer’s soul and inserted a King-Class Crystal Core, but the General-Class Blade Beast exploded and Red Snake returned to her Crystal Core.
• Wang Jixuan successfully fused Red Snake’s soul and King-Class Crystal Core with a Thorned Flower, which began evolving toward Sub-King-Class.
• Dongfang Zhenghong reported that Wang Jixuan asked how to explain to Deep Sea that his wife was now an eighteen-meter-tall quasi-Sub-King-Class Blade Beast.

Wang Jixuan tried to comfort Deep Sea after Red Snake’s death and revealed that he had preserved her soul inside a powerful Sub-King Class Blade Beast. The chapter ended with Red Snake speaking to Deep Sea from her new body.

• Wang Jixuan went to meet Deep Sea after he woke, bringing Uncle Tai and alcohol to help him through his grief.
• Deep Sea mourned Red Snake and explained their plans to have a child, while Wang Jixuan shared his fears about the enemy behind the Blade Beasts.
• Deep Sea vowed to keep fighting and said he might find another partner if he survived long enough, prompting Red Snake’s soul to react angrily from nearby.
• Wang Jixuan unveiled the humanoid Sub-King Class Blade Beast and told Deep Sea that he had saved Red Snake’s soul, though she now had Sub-King-Class power.
• Red Snake addressed Deep Sea from the Blade Beast’s body, teasing him about its fuller form.

Wang Jixuan cultivated in secret at Fortress No. 76 while the D5 Comprehensive War Zone faced growing political tension and suspected a traitor among its senior officers. Fu Jian summoned him to General Headquarters to conduct soul searches, but when he boarded Ling Tong's transport, Deep Sea was waiting to confront him.

• Wang Jixuan returned secretly to Fortress No. 76 and spent days stabilizing his Dao foundation while Peony reported on Red Snake, Deep Sea, and the retreating Blade Beast swarms.
• Fu Jian's letter warned that a traitor had leaked information to Psionic Capital and requested Wang Jixuan's help searching the twelve senior commanders' memories.
• Wang Jixuan decided to refine a flying sword and self-detonating Flying Needles, then advanced to the Mid Returning to Truth Realm during his quiet cultivation.
• Fu Jian ordered Wang Jixuan to travel to General Headquarters for the soul searches, and Wang Jixuan and Peony disguised themselves as members of Ling Tong's maintenance team.
• Wang Jixuan boarded Ling Tong's transport with Peony, where Deep Sea confronted him and pounced before hearing his explanation.

Wang Jixuan traveled to D5 General Headquarters disguised as Uncle Tai to help investigate which of Fu Jian’s senior generals had betrayed military secrets. As the group arrived, he surveyed the hidden fortress and prepared to begin his investigation.

• Wang Jixuan subdued Deep Sea, explained how he had exploited a Half-Human Mech weakness, and massaged Ling Tong and Deep Sea while Sister Wan briefed them on the Brain-Eating Worm inspections and the Blade Beasts’ movements.
• Sister Wan outlined plans to publicly destroy some crystal cores while secretly retaining valuable ones, and Wang Jixuan asked to handle the destruction under Uncle Tai’s disguise.
• Wang Jixuan reviewed the twelve senior officers suspected of leaking details to Psionic Capital and decided to begin with Black Shell, while Fu Jian ordered him to identify and eliminate any traitor.
• Ling Tong and Sister Wan brought Wang Jixuan’s requested materials, and Wang Jixuan disguised himself as Uncle Tai before the group traveled to General Headquarters.
• Wang Jixuan surveyed the massive underground fortress with his spiritual sense, then discussed his flying sword design and Red Snake’s future equipment with Ling Tong during the drive to the command building.

Fu Jian uncovered two traitors among D5’s senior leadership and worked with Wang Jixuan to plan their removal while expanding the investigation. As Wang Jixuan cultivated at headquarters and tensions with Psionic Capital rose, Peony received a request for help from Dragonfly Aunt.

• Fu Jian read reports documenting his old comrades’ past crimes and discovered that Meng Shushui was a Psionic Capital spy and Sheng Zuo was controlled by a Blade Beast.
• Fu Jian asked Wang Jixuan how to handle the traitors, and they agreed to disguise their deaths as a Psionic Capital assassination while continuing to inspect more officers.
• Wang Jixuan negotiated payment in General-Class Blade Beast crystal cores and asked to handle the Blade Beast Remnant Souls when Fu Jian staged the cores’ destruction.
• Wang Jixuan returned to Sister Wan and Ling Tong’s workspace, agreed to stay for further investigations, and began nurturing materials for a flying sword during several days of cultivation.
• Fu Jian’s conflict with Psionic Capital escalated as Blade Beasts attacked Fortress No. 82 and the investigation identified at least eight more officers to purge.
• On Wang Jixuan’s fourth day at headquarters, Peony received a message from Dragonfly Aunt asking her for help.

Wang Jixuan agreed to help Mai Qingting ensure four Naturalist Faction suicide operatives died quickly, then observed Fu Jian’s staged assassination of four corrupt officers and the operatives. After the operation, Fu Jian said the conflict had escalated and ordered preparations for shattering crystal cores.

• Wang Jixuan read Mai Qingting’s request and promised to watch over the operation and help the operatives die quickly.
• Fu Jian finalized the purge list and selected Meng Shushui, Sheng Zuo, and two other generals as assassination targets, while Wang Jixuan waited at General Headquarters.
• Black Shell summoned Wang Jixuan to observe a meeting where he revealed Red Snake as a controlled Sub-King Class Bio-Mecha.
• Wang Jixuan sensed four Naturalist Faction Psionicists and their guides take positions outside the conference room as Fu Jian signaled the operation to begin.
• The guides lured the four generals away from the meeting, where the Psionicists killed them before Autonomous Mechs killed the attackers; the guides then took their own lives.
• Fu Jian told Wang Jixuan that the conflict had escalated and that crystal core shattering would begin shortly.

After the assassinations at D5 General Headquarters, Fu Jian’s government used the crisis to confront Psionic Capital and prepare a public destruction of four hundred thousand crystal cores. Wang Jixuan hid near the presses, ready to absorb the released spiritual energy, as the livestreamed operation began.

• Wang Jixuan learned that Fu Jian had used the assassinations to justify cracking down on Psionic Capital and planned to destroy crystal cores as a political counterattack.
• Zhou Zhengde collected Wang Jixuan, Peony, and Ling Tong and took them to the crystal-core shattering site, where Wang Jixuan secretly prepared to cultivate from the released energy.
• Wang Jixuan hid in an equipment room near the hydraulic presses while Ling Tong and Peony guarded him and he assembled formations, pills, needles, and talismans.
• Zhou Zhengde addressed the global livestream, accused Psionic Capital of betraying D5 and assassinating four Senior Generals, and announced the destruction of the crystal cores.
• As a hydraulic press descended onto a crate, Wang Jixuan activated his Spirit Gathering Formation and raised a Soul Suppressing Talisman.

Wang Jixuan used the crystal-core crushing event to gather spiritual energy and remnant souls, pushing his cultivation to the Peak Great Perfection of the Returning to Truth Realm while risking contamination from Black Energy. After Zhou Zhengde concealed the strange events at the site, Wang Jixuan began preparing to refine sword materials and turned his attention to Peony.

• Wang Jixuan tested the Blade Beast remnant souls released by crushed crystal cores and confirmed that amplified Psionicist shrieks could destroy them.
• Wang Jixuan activated the Spirit Gathering Formation and used a Dragon Python to devour remnant souls while he advanced his cultivation into the Late Returning to Truth Realm.
• Wang Jixuan activated the Demon Star Annihilation Art, and his primordial soul joined the Dragon Python in consuming souls until a vertical eye appeared in the vapor.
• Wang Jixuan's flood dragon destroyed the vertical eye, while Zhou Zhengde halted the livestream and ordered the witnesses and recordings secured.
• Wang Jixuan assessed his contaminated primordial soul and newly completed Dao bones, then prepared a formation to enhance sword-forging materials.
• Wang Jixuan considered refining Peony and ordered her to come over and kneel.

Wang Jixuan completed his flying sword’s Sword Pellet and accidentally awakened a spirit body inside Peony, who rebooted as a self-aware Loyal Wingman. After assessing his cultivation gains, he learned that two new King-Class Blade Beast packs were moving toward D5, while the chapter shifted to the Psionic Capital and the Six Elders’ Ball of Silence.

• Wang Jixuan discovered that Peony had crashed after he used the spirit-forging formation on her, but a spirit body emerged from her mechanical body and she rebooted, newly conscious and excited to be alive.
• Wang Jixuan told Peony to keep her transformation secret, ordered her to reduce her Humor System, and returned to Ling Tong’s studio to clean up.
• Wang Jixuan assessed his cultivation gains, including a peak Returning to Truth Dao Realm and greatly increased primordial soul power, and resolved to prepare for the dangers facing D5.
• Zhou Zhengde rushed back and warned Wang Jixuan that two new King-Class Blade Beast packs were moving toward D5.
• The narration described the Psionic Capital and the Six Elders’ Ball of Silence, a reinforced structure built in part to reduce Fu Jian’s deterrence against the city.

Wang Jixuan returned to Fortress No. 76 as D5 prepared for the approaching Blade Beast Swarms, while Xing Tian accepted a mission to investigate the Demon-Breaking Daggers. The chapter ended with Peony advising Wang Jixuan to ask Ling Tong on a date, leaving him unsure what a date involved.

• Wang Jixuan and the others discussed the defecting Psionicists and the approaching W71 and W92 Blade Beast Swarms, and he asked Peony to seek a list of the defectors from their partner.
• Wang Jixuan agreed to produce Demon-Breaking Daggers and Crystal Core Weapons, then decided to return to Fortress No. 76 and bring Ji Yale and Ji Xiao there.
• Xing Tian met an S-Class Psionicist aboard an aircraft, learned that the Demon-Breaking Daggers were being distributed to D5 troops, and agreed to trace their source in exchange for an S-Class Crippled Material.
• Wang Jixuan rested at Fortress No. 76 while Peony advised him to ask Ling Tong on a date, and he asked what a date involved.