Chapter Summaries

Fortress No. 76 prepared for an attack by a powerful Beast God Faction force, and Wang Jixuan discovered the enemy had infiltrated through tunnels and was targeting Red Snake. The enemy broke into the Surface Camp, where Black Shell launched a counterattack as Wang Jixuan and his Loyal Wingmen entered the fight.

• Dongfang Zhenghong ordered cluster bombs and tactical nuclear weapons prepared, but the enemies burrowed underground before the initial strike could hit them.
• Wang Jixuan sensed a force of more than a hundred Psionicists, several hundred Mimic Blade Beasts, three modified S-Class fighters, and a powerful black shadow advancing toward the fortress.
• The fortress forces used Drill Bombs, poison gas, and mines to inflict casualties, while Black Shell activated the Purge Type Three protocol and readied the camp's defenses.
• The black shadow transformed into a giant eagle, broke through the camp's fire, and crashed into the southwest corner, where its Psionicists began attacking the defenders.
• The black shadow became a giant and charged toward Red Snake's hangar as Black Shell attacked it with his mech; Wang Jixuan entered the battlefield with eight Loyal Wingmen, while Shen Qionglin requested armor.

Wang Jixuan used his concealed flying sword to kill two Pseudo S-Class Psionicists and discovered that the Black Smoke Giant grew stronger as its allies died. With the camp suffering heavy losses, he chose to risk a decisive flying-sword strike and called on Instructor Shell to coordinate.

• Wang Jixuan lured the enraged brute Pseudo S-Class Psionicist into exposing himself, then used a hidden flying sword to shatter his crystal core and leave him helpless.
• Wang Jixuan identified the crystal core as the Psionicists' weakness and began recovering his magical power while the battle continued to turn against the Human Faction.
• Wang Jixuan directed Peony to lure the telekinetic Pseudo S-Class Psionicist down, and Peony struck her with a Thousandfold Electromagnetic Fist.
• Wang Jixuan pierced the falling woman's brow with his flying sword, killing her, then used three General-Class Blade Beast crystal cores to restore his power.
• Wang Jixuan noticed that the Black Smoke Giant gained psionic energy when the female Psionicist died and realized it might possess a King-Class Blade Beast trait.
• Wang Jixuan weighed using the Buddha-Demon Grand Formation against making one more flying-sword attack, chose to trust his sword, and told Instructor Shell to coordinate with him.

Wang Jixuan and the fortress forces struck the Black Smoke Giant and used Black Shell’s mech to knock its mutated Psionicist out, allowing Wang Jixuan to sever the Brain-Eating Worm’s soul. The man revived as Jin Gu Gang, regained his own soul and combat abilities, and attacked the defenders; as he charged Shen Qionglin, Wang Jixuan devised a way to use Red Snake’s sedatives against him.

• Black Shell followed Wang Jixuan’s plan, drawing the Black Smoke Giant into Red Snake’s hangar, where the cannons and Red Snake’s attacks weakened it.
• Black Shell rammed the mutated Psionicist out of the giant, and Wang Jixuan struck with his flying sword and severed the soul he believed controlled the man.
• The Psionicist’s body revived behind a barrier, identified itself as Jin Gu Gang, and explained that Wang Jixuan’s strike had freed him from the Brain-Eating Worm’s control.
• Jin Gu Gang regained his combat memories, shattered the barrier, defeated Black Shell, and smashed Red Snake into the hangar floor.
• Shen Qionglin revealed herself to protect Red Snake and confronted Jin Gu Gang, while Wang Jixuan spotted sedatives that might weaken him and began planning how to administer them.

Black Shell overloaded his mech to battle Jin Gu Gang while Shen Qionglin and Wang Jixuan supported him. Wang Jixuan incapacitated Jin Gu Gang with anesthetic, helped destroy his soul, and the chapter ended with Black Shell collapsing after the fight.

• Shen Qionglin delayed Jin Gu Gang with metal attacks while Wang Jixuan prepared an anesthetic hidden in the flying sword.
• Black Shell overloaded his mechanical body and fought Jin Gu Gang, battering him until Jin Gu Gang's protective barrier retracted.
• Wang Jixuan used his flying sword to deliver anesthetic into Jin Gu Gang, leaving his body paralyzed.
• Jin Gu Gang's soul fled his body, but Shen Qionglin weakened it and Wang Jixuan trapped and destroyed it with talismans and white flames.
• Shen Qionglin asked to study Jin Gu Gang's corpse, and Black Shell collapsed from the strain of his overload as Wang Jixuan caught him.

Wang Jixuan recovered from the battle, resolved to save Black Shell with a Longevity Pill, and began preparing a stronger furnace for pill refinement. After the garrison finished suppressing the Beast God Faction attack, Zhou Zhengde and Shen Qionglin discussed the dead and her growing interest in Wang Jixuan, who invited her to visit him at the fortress.

• Wang Jixuan stabilized Black Shell with a talisman, arranged for Peony to carry him away, and used Earth Escape to leave Shen Qionglin and join the battle elsewhere.
• Wang Jixuan decided to save Black Shell with medicine, and he considered how a flying sword might be combined with other techniques and weapons.
• The surface garrison completed its encirclement of the Beast God Faction, and Zhou Zhengde helped treat the wounded, gather the dead, and attend the funeral at dawn.
• Zhou Zhengde told Wei Na about the Beast God Faction, then spoke with Shen Qionglin, who asked how to gain Wang Jixuan's trust and requested permission to study Jin Gu Gang's crystal core.
• Wang Jixuan asked Zhou Zhengde to bring Shen Qionglin to the Seventh Floor at eight in the morning, while Uncle Tai and the others installed a large furnace in Wang Jixuan's workshop.

After refining pills for his allies, Wang Jixuan weighed his plans against the escalating threats to D5 and joined Zhou Zhengde on a tour of Fortress No. 76. The tour exposed the Lower City's harsh conditions, and Wang arranged for Shen Qionglin to examine Glowing Stone Shards while the Commander-in-Chief requested more life-extending pills.

• Wang Jixuan refined Tiger Subduing Great Yang Pills, Crane Origin Pills, and Mysterious Spirit Pills, then took one Mysterious Spirit Pill himself.
• Wang Jixuan decided to focus on easing D5's border pressure before confronting Xing Tian and the Psionic Management Committee, and rejected spreading cultivation techniques for now.
• Zhou Zhengde drove Wang Jixuan, Shen Qionglin, Treant Beta, and Shaman through the fortress, where the group saw the Lower City's poverty and discussed its causes.
• Zhou Zhengde relayed that the Commander-in-Chief wanted more Crane Origin Pills for veteran Half-Human Mechs, and Wang agreed to make more later while warning him not to aid the enemy.
• Wang Jixuan asked Shen Qionglin to study Glowing Stone Shards from an immature Blade Beast Lair, and she agreed to examine them.

Wang Jixuan and the others investigated Glowing Stone Shards in a Blade Beast nest while Shen Qionglin shared her theory about the Blade Beasts’ origins. After Fu Jian saw a Crane Origin Pill revive an elderly Half-Human Mech, he prepared for a crucial military push, while Wang Jixuan relaxed at karaoke until an unexpected call shocked Zhou Zhengde.

• Wang Jixuan, Zhou Zhengde, and Shen Qionglin examined Glowing Stone Shards and discussed Shen Qionglin’s theory that the Spiritual Practitioner Civilization created the Blade Beasts as mining tools and weapons.
• Zhou Zhengde described plans to relocate Lower City residents to Fortress No. 82, and Shen Qionglin asked Treant Beta to become her experimental subject; Beta declined and moved away from her.
• Fu Jian watched a Crane Origin Pill improve the condition of an elderly Half-Human Mech, then ordered the Mech Legion to prepare for combat and requested nuclear strikes if Blade Beasts gathered near D5.
• Wang Jixuan and Zhou Zhengde discussed making more pills for Half-Human Mechs while Shaman and Wei Na danced at karaoke; Wang Jixuan also decided to stop investigating Ye Zi until he saw her himself.
• Wang Jixuan and Zhou Zhengde received simultaneous communicator alerts, and Zhou Zhengde reacted in shock, exclaiming that the caller was his great-grandmother.

Wang Jixuan escaped Zhang Huanying’s intense gratitude and advice, then investigated a Blade Beast scout and began designing a transformation method that might strengthen Red Snake. The chapter ended when Wu Man sensed an unseen presence watching the northwestern front and collapsed.

• Zhou Zhengde introduced Wang Jixuan to Zhang Huanying, who thanked him and lectured Wei Na about her private life.
• Wang Jixuan fled Zhang Huanying’s request for a personal conversation and spotted a miniature Blade Beast spying near the camp.
• Wang Jixuan visited Red Snake, explained the mysterious glowing stones, and considered using a Transformation Technique to increase her strength.
• Red Snake agreed to Wang Jixuan’s risky experiment, and he devised a transformation plan that he believed could work.
• At the northwestern front, Wu Man sensed a figure watching from distant hilltops, warned Zheng Shiduo to return to camp, and collapsed.

Wang Jixuan trained Red Snake to circulate psionic energy, then began treating seven aged Half-Human Mech generals with Crane Origin Pills. After exchanging messages with Ling Tong, he learned Wu Man had become mysteriously ill and ordered him brought back immediately.

• Wang Jixuan guided Red Snake through a complex psionic-energy route and simplified it until she could practice it on her own.
• Black Shell thanked Wang Jixuan for saving him and pleaded with him to revive seven veteran Half-Human Mech generals.
• Wang Jixuan refined Crane Origin Pills, and seven Mechanical Maids began treating the generals.
• Wang Jixuan praised Ling Tong's practice speech and recommended that she wear casual clothes for her first address.
• Serious Business reported that Wu Man had become pale and repeatedly fallen asleep after seeing someone while on guard, so Wang Jixuan ordered him sent back immediately.

Wang Jixuan suspected the Beast Speaker had taken Wu Man’s Heavenly Soul and prepared a Soul Capturing Array to retrieve it. As the ritual began in Red Snake’s hangar, the Beast Speaker prepared for a promotion ceremony in an underground chamber.

• Wang Jixuan examined Wu Man and found his Heavenly Soul nearly extinguished, while Ji Xiao and two other clones had intact souls.
• Shen Qionglin explained that Wu Man’s condition could result from preparations for an A-Class or S-Class Psionicist’s promotion, which involved devouring clones.
• Wang Jixuan ordered Peony and Instructor Shell to prepare an array and crystal cores, then set up the Soul Capturing Array around Wu Man in Red Snake’s hangar.
• The Beast Speaker met with a King-Class Blade Beast Priest, confirmed he was ready, and prepared to begin his promotion ceremony.
• Wang Jixuan raised his Peach Wood Sword toward the floating Wu Man and called for his Heavenly Soul to return.

Wang Jixuan used the Soul Capturing Array to retrieve Wu Man’s soul, but the Blade Beast Priest fought to stop him from drawing out the Beast Speaker’s soul. Their struggle ended with the Beast Speaker’s soul exploding, leaving behind a strange sphere filled with voices and faces resembling Wu Man.

• Wang Jixuan stabilized Wu Man’s soul and activated the Soul Capturing Array, while the Blade Beast Priest tried to pull the Beast Speaker’s soul back into his body.
• Wang Jixuan strengthened the array with crushed crystal cores, the Dragon Python Strange Soul, and Red Snake’s psionic power as the Beast Speaker’s soul rose toward the vortex.
• Wang Jixuan and the Blade Beast Priest struggled over the Beast Speaker’s soul until the Priest fired a red beam that destroyed it and sent shockwaves through both locations.
• Peony caught the injured Wang Jixuan, Shen Qionglin raised a shield, and Red Snake’s soul retreated safely into her King-Class Crystal Core as the array collapsed.
• A translucent sphere appeared above Wu Man, displaying many faces like his and speaking in confused, frightened, and angry voices; Shen Qionglin prepared for a fight.

Wang Jixuan rescued Wu Man’s missing Heaven Soul from a mass of vengeful spirits, then learned of a looming counteroffensive and the Beast God Faction’s plan to make the Beast Speaker humanity’s king. The chapter ended when the Beast Speaker unexpectedly requested a satellite call from an underground location.

• Wang Jixuan located Wu Man’s Heaven Soul inside the sphere of vengeful spirits, pulled it free, and used the Demon Breaking Art to purify many of the souls while Ji Xiao and Zheng Shiduo chanted the Rebirth Mantra.
• Wang Jixuan recovered at Fortress No. 76, where Peony reported that Wu Man had awakened as an A-Class Psionicist and that the D5 War Zone was preparing a major counteroffensive.
• Peony told Wang Jixuan that two King-Class Blade Beast Swarms had retreated underground near the border where Wu Man had lost his soul.
• Wu Man reported that the Blade Beasts planned to raise the Beast Speaker as humanity’s king and make humans vassals, while Brain-Eating Worms controlled the other Psionicists in the Beast God Faction.
• Peony announced that someone claiming to be the Beast Speaker had requested a satellite call from underground, about two hundred kilometers west of Wu Man’s former watchtower.

Wang Jixuan spoke with the gravely injured Beast Speaker, learned that the Six Elders had not awakened psionic abilities, and deceived him into agreeing to wait a month before their confrontation. After the call, Wang Jixuan told Fu Jian to prepare a preemptive strike within ten days or half a month, while the Beast Speaker secretly planned to attack even sooner.

• Wang Jixuan put on his Black Storm helmet and joined a communication with Beast Speaker Zhuge Zheng, who appeared severely weakened after his failed promotion ceremony.
• Beast Speaker threatened to unleash the Blade Beasts and declared that he would forge coexistence by letting humanity's past losses be forgotten; Wang Jixuan learned from him that the Six Elders had not awakened psionic abilities.
• Wang Jixuan posed as an understanding idealist and persuaded Beast Speaker to agree to meet in one month, promising to come if ordinary humans were spared.
• After ending the call, Wang Jixuan told Fu Jian he had only been stalling Beast Speaker and urged a strike within ten days or half a month to eliminate him and the Priest.
• Wang Jixuan pretended to cough blood and left the studio, while Beast Speaker decided he would attack in half a month rather than wait a month.

Wang Jixuan meditated on his plans to regain strength and defeat the Beast Speaker while Gao Huating experienced strange visions and encountered Fu Jian in the corridor. Fu Jian later discussed rewards, mecha strategy, and the Doomsday Protocol with Wang Jixuan, then proposed approaching Wall No. 4 again to exploit its fear of the Beast Speaker.

• Wang Jixuan reflected on his depleted strength, resolved to use fewer demonic arts, and planned to destroy his enemies once he returned to Mahayana.
• Gao Huating told her agent about dreams of flying and glowing things near Wang Jixuan’s room, then briefly saw a fiery, ruined sky in a vision.
• Gao Huating ran into Fu Jian outside her room, recognized the Commander-in-Chief, and hurried away after he asked her to keep his visit confidential.
• Fu Jian asked Wang Jixuan what reward would motivate him, but Wang Jixuan requested cultivation resources and urged him to quickly locate and attack the Beast Speaker.
• Fu Jian explained the strength of the older Half-Human Mechs, agreed to promote the Seven Star Sword Array, and warned that spreading it to Autonomous Mechs could upset the balance of power.
• Fu Jian told Wang Jixuan about the all-Mech Doomsday Protocol and proposed speaking with Wall No. 4 again, arguing that the Beast Speaker threatened it.

Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian brought Shen Qionglin to awaken the Fourth Spiritual Practitioner and learn what he wanted. After Shen Qionglin refused his request to rescue him and revealed her loyalty to Wang Jixuan, Wang Jixuan tried to draw the frightened practitioner into cooperation, ending with a threat that made the white light reappear.

• Wang Jixuan, Fu Jian, and Zheng Shiduo discussed the Ninth Pillar’s awakening and Fu Jian’s plans to expand the D5 Comprehensive War Zone toward D7.
• Fu Jian summoned Shen Qionglin, who activated her replicated Awakening Circuit and awakened the Fourth Spiritual Practitioner through the Stone Slab Wall.
• The Fourth Spiritual Practitioner told Shen Qionglin he was badly injured, sought an inheritor, and wanted her to take him back to the Six Elders or his allies.
• Shen Qionglin recognized the practitioner’s suspicions about Wang Jixuan and said she belonged to him and was loyal to him.
• Wang Jixuan played footage of the Beast Speaker’s call and proposed cooperation, but the Fourth Spiritual Practitioner withdrew the white light when Wang approached.
• Wang Jixuan threatened to destroy the entrance to the practitioner’s subspace and joked about giving the stone slab to the Beast Speaker, prompting the white light to reappear.

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

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

Wang Jixuan investigated Gao Huating’s strange spiritual energy, heard Shen Qionglin’s report on the Spiritual Practitioners, and continued refining pills as the D5 Comprehensive War Zone prepared for a major Blade Beast assault. On the eighth day of preparations, he began using a Blood-Refining Asura Array to rapidly strengthen the Buddha Hall Squad.

• Wang Jixuan sensed unusual spiritual energy gathering around Gao Huating as she sang, but decided to observe her further rather than report her to Fu Jian.
• Shen Qionglin briefed Wang Jixuan on the Spiritual Practitioners, Galinnos, and the possibility that the Six Elders could survive the thermonuclear bombs by being sent into the stone slabs.
• Wang Jixuan proposed that Shen Qionglin deceive Fourth Spiritual Practitioner with staged battle reports to coax more technology out of him.
• Wang Jixuan refined eighty-one Crane Origin Pills over three days while Fu Jian pressured Psionic Capital and the D5 Comprehensive War Zone prepared for eleven approaching King-Class Blade Beast Swarms.
• Wang Jixuan decided to use cultivator methods to strengthen the Buddha Hall Squad and, on the eighth day of preparations, set up the Blood-Refining Asura Array in the Surface Hangar.

Wang Jixuan used the Blood Refining Asura Array to strengthen the Buddha Hall Squad and Red Snake, then prepared a strike against the Beast Speaker and a King-Class Evangelist. Five days later, his team headed for a military fortress where Ling Tong and the Half-Human Mechs were preparing a feint for the operation.

• Ji Xiao endured the formation’s soul- and body-tempering effects, while Wang Jixuan observed that his Psionicist power had neared low-tier S-Class.
• Wu Man, Ji Yale, four Buddha Hall Squad members, and Zheng Shiduo entered the formation in turn; pills helped Wu Man and Zheng Shiduo make especially large gains.
• Red Snake devoured the remnant souls of Blade Beasts supplied through the formation, strengthening her body and soul as her transformation progressed.
• Wang Jixuan ordered the Buddha Hall Squad and the Peak Maid Group to prepare an ambush against the Beast Speaker and a King-Class Evangelist.
• Five days later, Wang Jixuan and eight Loyal Wingmen flew toward a military fortress with Crystal Core weapons, where Ling Tong’s Half-Human Mech group would provide a feint for their search for the Evangelist.

Wang Jixuan reviewed the dangerous three-layer plan to strike the Blade Beasts and prepared to join the assault. Before the operation began, he found Ling Tong at the underground airport, where she kissed him.

• Wang Jixuan, Black Shell, and Peony outlined a plan for the Half-Human Mech Group to attack the Blade Beasts, the Buddha Hall Squad to target the Beast Speaker, and Wang Jixuan's group to strike a King-Class Evangelist if the assault went smoothly.
• Shen Qionglin learned that the human military's technology, rather than Psionicists, formed the main force resisting the Blade Beasts, while Red Snake traveled toward the northeastern front as a diversion.
• After three strategy meetings, Wang Jixuan boarded a stealth transport plane with the Maid Group and watched preparations for the assault, declining to join a political meeting with Fu Jian.
• Wang Jixuan spotted Ling Tong at the underground airport, hurried to intercept her, and greeted her before the operation began.
• Ling Tong pulled Wang Jixuan close and kissed him.

Wang Jixuan prepared to lead the assault on Point Two while the Beast Speaker and Galinno discussed their plans, including a Pseudo Stargate. After the humans' surprise attack began, the Beast Speaker moved toward Area One, and Wang Jixuan ordered the Buddha Hall Squad to intercept him.

• Wang Jixuan reviewed the assault plan and used Heavenly Gate Ruthlessness before departing for Point Two.
• Zhuge Zheng arrived at the Blade Beast cavern and told his subordinates that their offensive would begin within three days.
• Galinno explained the Beast Beasts' conflict with Spiritual Practitioners and revealed a Pseudo Stargate that could teleport forces thousands of kilometers.
• The Beast Speaker agreed to pursue the stone tablet, the traitor, and the Spiritual Practitioner's disciple, but explosions disrupted their discussion.
• Galinno sent the Beast Speaker to aid the King-Class Blade Beast, and the Beast Speaker headed toward Area One.
• Wang Jixuan detected the Beast Speaker moving underground and ordered the Buddha Hall Squad to intercept him.