Chapter Summaries

Wang Jixuan used the demonic energy and an Illusion Array to trap Elder Feng, Meng Jin, and their forces, then crippled Meng Jin during the battle. Elder Feng escaped after a nuclear blast, while Wang Jixuan turned his attention to the spire and Number Five.

• Wang Jixuan's battle puppet ambushed Meng Jin as he fled the nuclear blast, using Asura Phantoms to wound him before Elder Feng drove the puppet back with powerful wind attacks.
• Wang Jixuan concealed himself in the rock strata and activated an Illusion Array, summoning resentful souls to disorient Elder Feng and the surviving Psionicists.
• Elder Feng gathered his people and tried to escape the array, but Wang Jixuan dropped a suitcase that he mistook for a nuclear bomb, then struck with a massive demonic sword attack.
• Meng Jin turned back to fight Wang Jixuan and was overwhelmed by a concentrated demonic sword assault, leaving him unconscious and gravely damaged.
• Wang Jixuan threw another suitcase before retreating, and its nuclear blast injured Elder Feng, who escaped underground with Meng Jin while their forces suffered heavy losses.
• After searching the aftermath, Wang Jixuan turned toward the spire to find Number Five and inspect the core circuit.

Wang Jixuan fought Old Sophie after Number Five weakened him, then used Buddhist arts to cleanse the demonic energy and defeat the force behind him. He took the Dark Red Flame from Old Sophie’s shattered soul and left the Snow Mountain Base crisis resolved.

• Wang Jixuan observed Number Five and Old Sophie fighting, while Number Five revealed her Night form, sealed Old Sophie’s Psionic Energy Circuits, and nearly finished him.
• Old Sophie struck back with a blood-red beam, but Wang Jixuan’s battle puppet blocked it and took over the fight as Number Five repeatedly sealed Old Sophie’s circuits.
• Wang Jixuan battled Old Sophie with his full range of techniques until Old Sophie’s body fell and his soul emerged beneath a Coral Tree, wielding the Dark Red Flame and the souls of his spirit slaves.
• Wang Jixuan chanted Buddhist sutras with his battle puppet and the arriving Buddha Hall Squad, drawing the demonic energy away and consuming the Coral Tree while his Dragon Python Strange Soul weakened.
• Wang Jixuan approached Old Sophie’s remaining soul, identified himself as Wang Zheng with the Daoist title Ji Xuan, took the Dark Red Flame, and shattered the soul.

Wang Jixuan obtained the Dark Red Flame, which appeared to have chosen him as the host of the Spiritual Practitioner’s Core Circuit, and withdrew from the spire as the Blade Beast Tide arrived. After sleeping for ten hours, he woke to news that the Blade Beasts were mobilizing against D2 and that the Sixth Pillar Blade Beast’s awakening level had risen to 61%.

• Wang Jixuan found that the Dark Red Flame returned to his palm when Wu Man tried to take it, and the Fifth Spiritual Practitioner explained that the Core Circuit needed a new host to reopen the spire.
• Peony warned Wang Jixuan that the Blade Beast Swarm was approaching, so he led everyone out and left the spire embedded underground.
• Ling Tong received orders to send her Half-Human Mech group to help D2 defend against a force that included a Super King-Class Blade Beast.
• Wang Jixuan slept for ten hours aboard a transport plane, with the Dark Red Flame circling his arm as he dreamed of his former cultivation life.
• Peony showed Wang Jixuan the latest reports, and he saw that the Sixth Pillar Blade Beast’s awakening level had reached 61% while the Ninth Pillar Blade Beast’s had reached 47%.

Wang Jixuan learned that the Sixth Pillar Blade Beast had reached 61% awakening and examined the Core Circuit, which he hoped to give to a trusted ally rather than fuse with himself. After restoring part of his battle puppet and helping Number Five recover, he discussed the Core Circuit with her, but she suddenly tried to force him to swallow it.

• Number Five explained that the Sixth Pillar was still in its awakening phase and that Galinno had likely roused the Main Force Blade Beast Swarm, while the Twelve Pillars should still have years before awakening.
• Wang Jixuan declined to support the D2 front and arranged to delay a meeting with an SS-Class member of the Naturalist Faction until he had recovered.
• On the flight home, Wang Jixuan accidentally unleashed a huge ring of fire while studying the Core Circuit and realized that using it himself would require a period of growth and could limit his cultivation, so he considered giving it to a trusted human ally.
• Wang Jixuan restored some of the Dragon Python Strange Soul’s strength, refined pills for Number Five, and asked her how to transfer the Core Circuit to another person.
• Number Five said the Core Circuit had already recognized Wang Jixuan and would not choose another human host unless he died; when she told him to swallow it, she suddenly struck the flame toward his mouth, but he dodged.

Gao Huating awoke with strange memories and a golden transformation, then caught Old Sophie's Core Circuit when it flew toward her. Her past-life self thanked Wang Jixuan and revealed that Gao Huating was the key to a treasure trove that could end the Blade Beast crisis, while Wang Jixuan cautiously examined the remaining flame.

• Gao Huating woke from a dream of a powerful woman and discovered that her reflection could take that woman's form, marked by a pale golden lotus on her forehead.
• Wang Jixuan's Dark Red Flame flew toward Gao Huating, who transformed and caught it; her past-life self appeared, destroyed the lingering memories, and thanked him.
• Gao Huating's past-life self called Wang Jixuan a Cultivator, said she had reincarnated successfully, and urged him to help her grow and face a powerful enemy.
• Wang Jixuan demanded an explanation from Number Five, who said Gao Huating was the key to a treasure trove that could resolve the Blade Beast crisis.
• Number Five explained that Number Six had found the treasure trove and released her circuit to reincarnate near it, while Wang Jixuan decided to examine the remaining flame carefully.

Lu Wenwu battled Anderson and the Church of Light forces at Dragon Island as Anderson's divine will took control of him. After Anderson's Holy Light of Judgment failed to harm Lu Wenwu, Lu Wenwu revealed he could wield holy light too, breaking Anderson's divine possession and leaving him collapsed in despair.

• Lu Wenwu unleashed a storm of lightning, rain, hail, and Purgatory Dragon Breath against Anderson and the Church of Light forces, devastating their ranks.
• Lu Wenwu and Anderson fought fiercely while the Church of Light's remaining near-god fighters struggled to survive the battle.
• Anderson completed his assimilation with the will of the God of Justice and Judgment and unleashed a powerful torrent of Holy Light of Judgment at Lu Wenwu.
• Lu Wenwu emerged unharmed in human form, with a golden sun of merit behind him, and demonstrated that he could wield holy light.
• Anderson's divine will collapsed, his human consciousness returned, and he fell to his knees crying that holy light had betrayed him.

Wang Jixuan treated the wounded after the battle and began developing a way to train subordinate Spiritual Practitioners using the Core Circuit. As the Blade Beast threat grew, Fu Jian placed trusted Psionicists under Wang Jixuan's command, while Ling Tong recovered and Wang Jixuan prepared to meet the Naturalist Faction.

• Wang Jixuan treated Ling Tong and the other injured fighters, then began refining Healing Pills for the war zone.
• Wang Jixuan showed Wu Man and Zheng Shiduo the Core Circuit and explained his plan to train subordinate Spiritual Practitioners through Psionic Circuit Simulation.
• Wang Jixuan assessed the battle's aftermath and warned Fu Jian's meeting that Galinno was linked to the awakening of the Super King-Class Blade Beast and Pillar-Class Blade Beasts.
• Fu Jian visited Fortress No. 76, urged Wang Jixuan to form a United Front with the Naturalist Faction, and assigned him more than two thousand trusted frontline Psionicists to modify.
• Wang Jixuan spent several days on his work while delivering meals to Ling Tong, who recovered and took a week off; he then worried about how to undertake his Worldly Heart Refining trial.

Wang Jixuan wrestled with his desire for Ling Tong, sought dating advice from Shen Qionglin and Uncle Tai, and decided to pursue her. The chapter ended with Ling Tong visiting his dormitory and the two embracing, while Wang Jixuan postponed teaching her the Dual Cultivation Method until tomorrow.

• Wang Jixuan left Ling Tong and visited Shen Qionglin, where he admitted his feelings and heard that he should stop making excuses for his desire.
• Wang Jixuan asked Uncle Tai for advice about starting a romantic moment and how to behave afterward, then resolved to ask Ling Tong out.
• Uncle Tai gave Wang Jixuan two little umbrellas, but Wang Jixuan said he could control things himself.
• Wang Jixuan decided to invite Ling Tong to cultivate a Dual Cultivation Method with him the next day.
• Ling Tong visited Wang Jixuan's dormitory, and he embraced her from behind before they began to kiss.
• Wang Jixuan remembered the Dual Cultivation Method and told Ling Tong he would teach it to her tomorrow.

After naturally advancing his Dao Realm, Wang Jixuan returned to work, addressed Peony’s jealousy, and arranged the next Little Electric Sound Temple trainees. He then met He Qiongxue and Mai Qingting outside Fortress No. 76 and pressed He Qiongxue on whether the Naturalist Faction could be trusted and whether its Psionicists could resist the First, Second, and Third Spiritual Practitioners.

• Wang Jixuan gained an unexpected Dao Realm improvement while Ling Tong slept beside him, and the workshop staff joked about their absence.
• Peony briefed Wang Jixuan on the Pillar-Class Blade Beasts and upcoming duties; he chose thirty-two trainees for Little Electric Sound Temple and agreed to meet the Fifth Spiritual Practitioner.
• Wang Jixuan recognized Peony’s jealousy, warned her against envy, and reassured her that she would accompany him if he broke through the void.
• Sixteen hours later, He Qiongxue and Mai Qingting stopped outside Fortress No. 76, where Wang Jixuan met them in a Supply Vehicle with Fu Jian and the Fifth Spiritual Practitioner.
• Wang Jixuan asked He Qiongxue how he could trust the Naturalist Faction and whether its Psionicists could defy orders from the first three Spiritual Practitioners.

After meeting with Teacher He, Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian planned how to strengthen D5 and prepare for the possible awakening of the Pillar-Class Blade Beast. Wang Jixuan committed to helping while pursuing cultivation, and ended the chapter preparing to guide Ling Tong through an Inner Heavenly Cycle.

• After Teacher He left, Wang Jixuan judged the Naturalist Faction too weak to rely on, though its philosophy was gentler than the Dominion Faction's.
• Fu Jian explained that the Pillar-Class Blade Beast might awaken soon, forcing D5 to choose between preparing for it and continuing its struggle with Psionic Capital.
• Wang Jixuan proposed using the next month to improve himself, strengthen frontline Psionicists, and work with Number Five to prevent the Pillar-Class Blade Beast from awakening.
• Number Five agreed to let Wang Jixuan enter her spire the next day to discuss helping her recover, while Fu Jian outlined D5's plans for either a last stand or an offensive against Psionic Capital.
• Back at Fortress No. 76, Wang Jixuan saw Ling Tong preparing for his return and decided to guide her Inner Heavenly Cycle rather than begin formal dual cultivation.

Ling Tong woke to find Wang Jixuan had left for the day, while he taught twenty-eight Psionicists new methods and traveled with Shen Qionglin into Number Five’s subspace. Wang Jixuan discovered the valuable ore lining Number Five’s vehicle and began treating her like an ally he could bargain with.

• Ling Tong told Sister Wan that her leave had been extended and that she and Wang Jixuan had agreed to build a marriage together without forcing each other to change.
• Wang Jixuan taught twenty-eight Psionicists to use psionic tides and spiritual energy, removed their Self-Destruct Chips, and put them under the Number Four Core Circuit’s control.
• Wang Jixuan sent Wu Man and Zheng Shiduo to continue teaching the newcomers, then entered Number Five’s Stone Slab with Shen Qionglin using his war puppet.
• Number Five showed Wang Jixuan and Shen Qionglin her spacious subspace, its alien creatures, and her floating vehicle while explaining the unrest on the planets she ruled.
• Wang Jixuan recognized that the vehicle was lined with Eight Desolations Starfall Gold and eagerly called Number Five a die-hard ally.

Wang Jixuan toured Number Five’s lavish Inheritance Tower and learned about her surviving Spirit Slaves and failing health. After diagnosing her injuries and promising he could heal her, he and Number Five agreed to exchange selected memories to build trust, though she realized their proposed shares were far from equal.

• Number Five showed Wang Jixuan and Shen Qionglin her Inheritance Tower, including its vast collection of Spirit Slaves and the four endangered SS-Class attendants she hoped to save.
• Number Five asked Wang Jixuan to help restore her strength so she could protect him and stop the awakening Pillar-Class Blade Beasts, and they negotiated a gradual exchange of memories.
• Wang Jixuan examined Number Five’s injuries after she transformed into her larger form and concluded that he could heal her, provided she kept it secret from her companions.
• Number Five agreed to exchange one percent of their memories with Wang Jixuan, but learned that his entire life was only about a hundred years while she had lived for more than seventeen thousand years.

Number Five displayed memories of the Spiritual Cultivation Civilization’s war against the Blade Beasts, revealing that Pillar-Class Blade Beasts commanded vast swarms capable of fighting in space. She paused before showing what happened after the six Spiritual Practitioners reached Earth, leaving the human witnesses alarmed about the vulnerability of their Space Fortress.

• Wang Jixuan and Number Five agreed to display selected memories before witnesses as a basis for trust and cooperation.
• Number Five showed memories of Weier'aimina Tuk joining the Dark Night faction’s campaign against the Blade Beasts.
• The memories revealed that Blade Beast Swarms were composed of countless creatures clustered around Pillar-Class Blade Beasts and could fight in outer space.
• The Spiritual Practitioners pursued a swarm onto a planet, where more than sixty Pillar-Class Blade Beasts ambushed them and both sides suffered heavy losses.
• Number Five paused the memories before the breakout battle of the six Spiritual Practitioners, and Zhou Zhengde feared the space-capable swarms could destroy humanity’s Space Fortress.

Number Five showed Wang Jixuan and the others memories of the Blade Beast war and how six Spiritual Practitioners escaped to Earth, revealing that the Sixth Spiritual Practitioner believed Earth held the origin of all Core Circuits. After reviewing the memories, Wang Jixuan decided to help Number Five recover her strength, but she demanded that he show his own memories in return.

• Wang Jixuan noticed three indistinct figures opening a spatial gate in Number Five's memories and suspected they were awakened SS-Class Psionicists or Spiritual Practitioners.
• Number Five's memories showed the six Spiritual Practitioners agreeing to flee to a blue planet after the Sixth Spiritual Practitioner claimed it held a treasure that could destroy Blade Beasts.
• The six Spiritual Practitioners fought through the Blade Beasts, reached Earth in a damaged spire, and crashed in the Arctic before humans discovered them.
• Number Five explained how the First Spiritual Practitioner cooperated with a human force, while Old Sophie later exposed herself to Fu Jian and the other Spiritual Practitioners ostracized Number Five.
• Wang Jixuan said the information meant they needed to revise their plans and decided to help Number Five recover her strength at her spire.
• Number Five demanded that Wang Jixuan show everyone his memories, leaving him unable to bluff his way out.

Wang Jixuan showed Number Five memories of his life in Wangxian Valley and his failed attempt to overcome a heavenly tribulation, giving her confidence to cooperate with him. Number Five accepted his offer, though she struggled to treat him with the same casual familiarity as before.

• Wang Jixuan projected memories of entering Wangxian Valley as a child and growing through his cultivation, then showed Number Five a bathing memory to confirm he had a human body.
• Wang Jixuan displayed three sect tournaments, showing how his combat skills grew from simple techniques to the effortless strength of a rising master.
• Number Five asked to see Wang Jixuan at his peak, and he privately showed her his failed attempt to overcome the nine heavenly tribulations as a Mahayana Stage cultivator.
• Number Five agreed to cooperate with Wang Jixuan, who offered to treat her injuries and told the others to consider her one of their own.
• Number Five swatted Wang Jixuan's hand away when he patted her forehead, and Ling Tong watched him enter the stone slab subspace with the battle puppet.

Wang Jixuan treated Number Five’s injuries while the human Command Center and the Six Elders debated how to respond to the Pillar-Class Blade Beasts and the Three Lords. After Number Five recovered, she pushed the exhausted Wang Jixuan into the Stone Coffin, saying she was giving him a return gift.

• Wang Jixuan used his true body and combat puppet to treat Number Five, repairing her internal damage while trying to drive out the corrosive power.
• Dongfang Zhenghong, Zhou Zhengde, and Fu Jian debated whether humanity should rely more on Wang Zheng, while Fu Jian monitored the Sixth and Ninth Pillars’ awakening progress.
• The Six Elders followed the Three Lords’ orders to withdraw their forces and shrink their defensive line, while Taisheng Steel argued with the elders about Meng Jin’s treatment and punishment.
• After half a day of healing, Number Five’s pain had greatly eased, but Wang Jixuan was nearly out of spiritual and mental energy.
• Number Five pushed Wang Jixuan into the Stone Coffin and told him she was giving him a return gift.

Wang Jixuan cultivated in the Stone Coffin with Number Five and broke through a minor realm while the Psionic Capital evacuated D2 and D3. After learning that the Spiritual Practitioners wanted to contact him, he refused direct contact and referred them to his spokesperson.

• Number Five shared purified spiritual energy with Wang Jixuan in the Stone Coffin, and he used the opportunity to cultivate, recover, and comprehend her Core Circuit.
• Peony learned that Psionicists had withdrawn from D3, that bases were being abandoned, and that aircraft were gathering near the Arctic Circle as the Pillar-Class Blade Beast neared awakening.
• Wang Jixuan emerged after his breakthrough, heard Peony's reports, and learned that Number Five had recovered about twenty percent of her strength and could help people escape the Blade Beast.
• Number Five said she could not reactivate the Sleeping Circuit alone and suggested Peony ask Little Hua Ting about stopping the Blade Beast's awakening.
• Mai Qingting arrived with news that her teacher, inside the Psionic Capital's spaceship, wanted to contact Wang Jixuan, who refused and directed the Spiritual Practitioners to his spokesperson.

Wang Jixuan discussed ways to prevent the Pillar-Class Blade Beasts from awakening with Number Five and proposed using a Demon Suppressing Tower. Number Five agreed to cooperate under two conditions, while Red Snake approached the fortress.

• After cultivating with Ling Tong, Wang Jixuan prepared to teach and dismissed the Naturalist Faction’s disappointment over his refusal to meet its leaders.
• Wang Jixuan invited Gao Huating and Number Five to lunch, reassured Gao Huating about her identity, and discussed the threat of the Pillar-Class Blade Beasts.
• Wang Jixuan presented three possible approaches to stopping the Sixth Pillar Blade Beast, including interrupting its awakening, reinforcing its Sleeping Circuit, and constructing a Demon Suppressing Tower.
• Number Five said she could not locate Galinno and agreed to consider the other approaches, asking to exchange for the tower’s complete manufacturing method if it worked.
• Number Five also demanded to learn how Wang Jixuan had tamed Red Snake, which Peony reported was approaching within a hundred kilometers.

Wang Jixuan used a grand array to attempt to transform Red Snake, whose soul had been trapped in a Sub-King-Class Blade Beast body. The transformation succeeded, leaving Red Snake able to take human form, while Deep Sea was left considering his own application to abandon his human organs for mecha modifications.

• Deep Sea traveled with Red Snake to Wang Jixuan’s hangar after learning his application for further modifications had been approved.
• Wang Jixuan prepared a grand array with help from Shen Qionglin, Number Five, Peony, and the mechs, then examined Red Snake and explained the risks of the transformation.
• Red Snake agreed to the procedure, and Wang Jixuan activated the array while the Mountain Protection Grand Formation shielded the area.
• Red Snake endured severe pain as the array broke down her Blade Beast body, and Wang Jixuan used spiritual energy to stabilize and transform her.
• Red Snake emerged able to take human form, celebrated with Peony, and declared that she would follow Wang Jixuan.
• Wang Jixuan left before anyone could interview him, while Deep Sea looked at his application to undergo extensive Second Generation Mecha modifications.

Wang Jixuan learned that Red Snake’s human form retained Blade Beast traits and possessed formidable combat abilities, then turned to preparing a Demon Suppressing Tower and battle equipment. Number Five received a demand from the other Spiritual Practitioners for Black Storm to negotiate with them, and she hesitated over whether to tell Wang Jixuan about the contact.

• Fu Jian watched Black Shell’s report of Red Snake’s transformation and decided not to interfere with Wang Jixuan’s work.
• Wang Jixuan observed Red Snake’s Blade Beast-like anatomy, then asked Shen Qionglin to conduct tests while he returned to cultivation and battle preparations.
• Shen Qionglin reported that Red Snake’s human form had exceptional durability, speed, strength, and Sub-King-Class Mental Shock, and Wang Jixuan told her to prioritize the Psionic Mecha project.
• Wang Jixuan began designing the Demon Suppressing Tower with Uncle Tai and Peony and ordered them to keep the project confidential.
• Number Five attended a Spiritual Practitioner Conference, rejected the three elders’ request for her cooperation, and heard their ultimatum for Black Storm to negotiate with them.
• Number Five cut off the conference and wondered whether telling Wang Jixuan about it would make him misunderstand.