Chapter Summaries

Wang Jixuan accepted Red Snake as his Nominal Disciple and taught her demon and devil arts, then rejected cooperation with the leaders of Wings of Light and began preparing magic tools and a Demon Suppressing Tower. After more than half a month of work, two groups of powerful newcomers arrived near Fortress No. 76 as the Sixth Pillar’s awakening reached a stable 85%.

• Wang Jixuan taught Red Snake several incantations, discovered that devil arts suited her, and accepted her as his Nominal Disciple after she pledged not to betray humanity.
• Number Five told Wang Jixuan that the three leaders of Wings of Light wanted to cooperate, but he refused because he did not trust their character.
• Number Five sent Xiang Tiantian with a chest of spiritual-energy materials, prompting Wang Jixuan to consider mass psionic awakening and training Artifact Refiners while he built magic tools and the Demon Suppressing Tower.
• Wang Jixuan organized his days around cultivation, teaching, alchemy, artifact refining, and tower construction, with Wu Man, Red Snake, and Shen Qionglin assisting him.
• More than half a month later, two scaled newcomers approached Fortress No. 76 from the south while a Space Carrier descended from the north carrying two Psionicists in Space Fortress uniforms.

Angel and Li Weiqi arrived at Fortress No. 76 with Zheng Tianyuan to negotiate cooperation against the Pillar-Class Blade Beast, while Wang Jixuan prepared to hear Psionic Capital’s terms. As Zheng Shiduo went to meet the envoys, he discovered that Zheng Tianyuan was his genetic father.

• Angel worried that the Six Elders’ demands would anger Fu Jian, while Li Weiqi urged her to adopt a humble approach and offered to take the blame if negotiations faltered.
• Zheng Tianyuan told Angel and Li Weiqi that Commander Fu Jian had ordered Fortress No. 76 not to attack them and warned that cooperation depended on Psionic Capital’s attitude and sincerity.
• Wang Jixuan refused to meet the envoys, sent Zheng Shiduo to negotiate, and lent him a Sword Pellet for protection.
• Wang Jixuan sensed Galinno approaching from the south and prepared to receive him personally.
• Zheng Tianyuan recognized Zheng Shiduo as his one hundred and twenty-fifth Genetic Successor and asked whether he had started a family.

Wang Jixuan hosted negotiations at the Surface Camp, where he demonstrated his power by killing a Beast God Faction Psionicist and then spoke with Galinno. Galinno offered to spare humanity if Wang Jixuan surrendered Old Sophie's Core Circuit, leaving Wang Jixuan weighing the offer against his cooperation with Number Five.

• Dongfang Zhenghong welcomed Angel and Li Weiqi to negotiate, and Wang Jixuan arrived in his battle puppet to host the talks at the camp.
• Wang Jixuan had Zheng Shiduo fire at an approaching Beast God Faction Psionicist, then used a flying sword to kill him.
• A second Beast God Faction Psionicist approached, and Galinno explained that a Beast God was close to awakening and threatened to destroy a third of humanity's civilization.
• Galinno offered to spare the planet if Wang Jixuan gave him Old Sophie's Core Circuit and let the Blade Beasts kill the Spiritual Practitioners.
• Wang Jixuan weighed the offer against his cooperation with Number Five while Number Five listened nervously from the Seventh Floor.

Wang Jixuan rejected the Blade Beasts’ offer, killed their negotiating envoy, and continued preparing the Demon Suppressing Tower for the Sixth Pillar’s awakening. After negotiations with the Psionic Capital produced no substantial gains, he received Li Weiqi’s secret letter and chose to protect its contents as the countdown reached 75 hours.

• Wang Jixuan refused the Blade Beasts’ terms, proposed that they abandon Earth after eliminating the Radiant Wing Council Court’s Spiritual Practitioners, then killed their envoy when negotiations failed.
• Wang Jixuan returned to repairing the Demon Suppressing Tower, and Number Five offered to help suppress the Sixth Pillar while recovering her strength.
• Zhou Zhengde reported that negotiations with Angel and the Psionic Capital had yielded no substantial gains, and said they had refused humanity’s conditions.
• Zhou Zhengde delivered Li Weiqi’s letter, in which Li explained his plan to rise within the Psionic Capital and reform it; Wang Jixuan burned the letter and ordered a public statement that he would remember the envoys’ insults.
• Wang Jixuan resumed work as the countdown to the Sixth Pillar’s awakening reached 75 hours.

As the Sixth Pillar’s awakening approached, Wang Jixuan worked to complete the Demon Suppressing Tower while Ling Tong went to serve on the D5 front line. When the awakening countdown reached zero, Galinno triggered a massive emergence beneath the D2 border.

• Fu Jian joined a front-line dispatch meeting, discussed the rising awakening index and the threat of the Pillar-Class Blade Beasts, then fell asleep during the meeting.
• Ling Tong told Wang Jixuan she had been assigned to border duty in D5 instead of supporting D2, and she left for the front lines.
• Wang Jixuan continued building the Demon Suppressing Tower as Red Snake and the others helped with preparations; Zhou Zhengde reported that the Fourth Spiritual Practitioner’s spire was being transported to them.
• With the Sixth Pillar’s awakening index at 96%, Wang Jixuan ordered the tower assembled and said they would head to the front lines at 99%.
• When the countdown reached zero, Galinno raised his scepter as a jade-green light curtain and a black eye appeared underground, sending emerald beams from the rift and shaking the earth.

Wang Jixuan and his allies traveled toward the newly awakened Sixth Pillar, while the Psionic Capital’s elders debated whether to intervene. At a military staging point, Wang learned the dangers posed by the Pillar and its strengthened Blade Beast swarm, then received orders to remain in reserve as the Human Military assessed the frontline.

• Wang Jixuan ordered Peony to submit his battle plan, monitor the Psionic Capital, and stay alert for an ambush as they transported the Demon Suppressing Tower toward the Sixth Pillar.
• Taisheng Steel warned that the Sixth Pillar could destroy the Core Circuit of the Fourth Spiritual Practitioner and awaken every Pillar early, but another elder dismissed the danger and hoped Fu Jian’s forces would suffer losses.
• Wang Jixuan’s group arrived at a frontline logistics transfer point three hundred kilometers from the Sixth Pillar, where the Ancient Tower landed and military crews began preparing it.
• Number Five explained that the Pillar was near its peak strength and could unleash dangerous attacks while empowering nearby Blade Beasts.
• Peony told Wang Jixuan that the Commander-in-Chief had ordered his unit to remain in reserve, and Wang asked her to locate Old Fu.

Wang Jixuan joined Fu Jian at the command center as the Sixth Pillar emerged and advanced toward humanity’s defenses. After sixteen thermonuclear bombs failed to stop it, Fu Jian invited Wang Jixuan to accompany him to the battlefield.

• Wang Jixuan reached Fu Jian’s command center and discussed finding the Pillar-Class Blade Beast’s soul so he could try to seal it.
• Fu Jian explained that humanity planned to lure the Sixth Pillar toward a prepared trap near the airport, and Wang Jixuan offered to help draw it in.
• The Sixth Pillar rose from underground as human forces withdrew and the Blade Beast Swarm attacked the first defensive line.
• Sixteen thermonuclear bombs struck the Sixth Pillar, but it survived, regenerated its damaged exoskeleton, and continued advancing.
• Fu Jian assessed that the Sixth Pillar was weaker than it had been eighty years earlier, then invited Wang Jixuan to go with him to the battlefield.

Fu Jian piloted a Super Large Mecha against a Pillar-Class Blade Beast, striking its back and escaping its counterattack. As the beast pursued them toward the prepared defense line, Fu Jian told Wang Jixuan to learn the controls because he might one day have to pilot another copy.

• Fu Jian took Wang Jixuan into a mountain base and boarded a 360-meter Super Large Mecha with three assisting High-Tier Mechs.
• The mecha launched from the mountain and charged the Pillar-Class Blade Beast as humanity’s forces evacuated and cheered.
• Wang Jixuan sensed hundreds of demon-core-transformed crystal cores filled with countless wronged souls inside the beast.
• Fu Jian dodged the beast’s charge, fired plasma and missiles into its back, then struck the wound with the mecha’s overloaded laser-equipped fist.
• The Pillar-Class Blade Beast blasted the mecha with a shockwave, but Fu Jian shielded against it and retreated toward four waiting Terror Mechs.
• Fu Jian told Wang Jixuan to study the mecha’s controls because he might become its pilot if Fu Jian died.

Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian lured the Sixth Pillar toward a nuclear trap while humanity’s forces prepared for battle, but Wang Jixuan discovered that countless wronged souls inside the beast made it difficult to suppress. As the Sixth Pillar charged after the exposed Number Four Core Circuit, Wang Jixuan arranged for Number Five to learn the Rebirth Mantra, leaving the Buddha Hall Squad to try to purify the souls.

• Wang Jixuan told Fu Jian that he had seen hundreds of millions of wronged souls inside the Sixth Pillar and learned that the Super Large Mecha could not defeat it in a prolonged fight.
• Fu Jian explained that the plan was to lure the Sixth Pillar into a nuclear-bomb trap and hold it there until its Sleeping Circuit took effect again.
• The Sixth Pillar sensed the exposed Number Four Core Circuit and charged at the Super Large Mecha as Fu Jian redirected humanity’s forces into a defensive formation.
• Number Five and Peony discussed the Pillar-Class Blade Beasts’ strength and their belief that destroying Spiritual Practitioners would free them.
• Wang Jixuan asked Number Five about the wronged souls and concluded that they had to be purified before he could safely use the Demon Suppressing Tower.
• Wang Jixuan told Wu Man to teach Number Five the Rebirth Mantra so the Buddha Hall Squad could try to purify the souls.

Wang Jixuan tried to teach Number Five to use Buddhist power, then joined Fu Jian and the human forces in their prepared assault on the pursuing Pillar-Class Blade Beast. The beast was trapped and struck by ground, mecha, and orbital attacks, but the battle continued as hundreds of spears rained down upon it.

• Number Five recited the Rebirth Mantra, but her Psionic Energy Circuit prevented her from releasing its power, so Wang Jixuan planted a Buddha image in her heart to help her comprehend it.
• Wang Jixuan warned the Buddha Hall Squad to follow orders and survive while his main body and Fu Jian drew the Pillar-Class Blade Beast toward the trap zone.
• Fu Jian stopped the Super Large Mecha and unleashed a coordinated barrage that cleared the surrounding Blade Beast Swarm before the mecha charged the Pillar-Class Blade Beast.
• The Pillar-Class Blade Beast released Mental Shock waves that killed soldiers and absorbed their souls, angering Wang Jixuan until Fu Jian reminded him to stay calm.
• Human forces detonated underground nuclear bombs to collapse the ground beneath the beast, then attacked the exposed Blade Beast Swarm with mechas and firepower.
• Fu Jian pinned the Pillar-Class Blade Beast with two massive spears as hundreds more descended from space and struck its exoskeleton.

Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian’s forces severely injured a Pillar-Class Blade Beast, but its rapid healing and the advancing Blade Beast Tide left humanity little time. As the Six Elders sent Psionicists to aid Fu Jian, Wang Jixuan tested a way to harm the beast and began devising a more dangerous plan to locate its soul.

• Humanity’s coordinated bombardment destroyed part of the Pillar-Class Blade Beast’s back and disabled its Gravity Circuit, but Wang Jixuan warned Fu Jian that the beast was healing and would soon counterattack.
• Fu Jian stayed behind to recover while Wang Jixuan used spiritual power to relieve his exhaustion and prepared to act with his Golden Core battle puppet.
• Taisheng Steel argued that the Six Elders should help Fu Jian suppress the beast, and a message from the Three Lords instructed them to send Psionicists under Plan A.
• Wang Jixuan, appearing as Xing Tian, used Black Energy on the beast’s wound while the Buddha Hall Squad chanted, provoking a violent reaction and helping purify the resentful souls within it.
• Wang Jixuan judged that the Buddha Hall Squad would need years to purify the souls, realized the beast would recover within hours, and began planning how to find its own soul among the resentful souls.

Wang Jixuan sent his Dragon Python Strange Soul into the Pillar-Class Blade Beast and discovered a vast Sea of Grievances containing the souls of its victims. After rescuing newly arrived soldiers’ souls and failing to purify the mass with familiar scriptures, he used a Judge Hall technique to form Ghost Gate Pass and began guiding the aggrieved souls onward.

• Number Five told Wang Jixuan she could keep the Blade Beast’s damaged Gravity Circuit from recovering, while Wang Jixuan asked her to delay its repairs whenever possible.
• Wang Jixuan sent his Dragon Python Strange Soul into the Blade Beast’s wound, and Fu Jian saw a gray cloud of aggrieved souls gather over the beast as bombardments continued.
• Wang Jixuan explored the Sea of Grievances and discovered a small world formed from human souls beneath it.
• Wang Jixuan’s strange soul caught and lifted more than a dozen soldiers’ souls before he tried several scriptures and curses without improving the purification rate.
• Wang Jixuan recalled Judge Hall’s Three Thousand Samsara Paths, transformed his strange soul into Ghost Gate Pass, and caused aggrieved souls to rise toward it.

Wang Jixuan used Ghost Gate Pass to free resentful souls from the Pillar-Class Blade Beast, weakening the Sea of Grievances and uncovering an illusion called Blissful Sky Curtain. After Gao Huating’s Past Life Body entered the illusion, she revealed that it was a failed pursuit of immortality that had helped destroy her civilization.

• Wang Jixuan formed Ghost Gate Pass, which purified resentful souls as they escaped the Sea of Grievances, and he saw that they had nowhere to go afterward.
• Wang Jixuan told Fu Jian and the others that the Blade Beast used trapped souls as fuel, then arranged for Zheng Shiduo to project his soul into the illusion.
• Zheng Shiduo entered the illusion, saw its beautiful landscape and the suffering souls within it, then returned safely to his body.
• Gao Huating’s Past Life Body entered Ghost Gate Pass and introduced herself as an ancient Lone Soul who would gradually pass her power to Gao Huating.
• Gao Huating’s Past Life Body named the illusion Blissful Sky Curtain and said it was a farce of immortality that had contributed to her civilization’s destruction.

Wang Jixuan learned that the Blissful Sky Curtain was the Pillar-Class Blade Beast’s soul and that its weakness might be hidden in the illusory city. While Fu Jian planned to recruit death warriors to investigate, Wang Jixuan descended into the city himself to search for the Spiritual Practitioners’ souls.

• The woman explained that the Eternal Illusion Realm was the Blade Beast’s soul, might contain Spiritual Practitioners, and could hold a weakness, while warning that killing the beast could attract others.
• Wang Jixuan and Number Five discussed the Sleeping Circuit, Galinno, and the danger of the Blade Beast’s collective will before the woman departed.
• Wang Jixuan told Fu Jian what he had learned, and they agreed that Fu Jian would suppress the Blade Beast while Wang Jixuan investigated its soul.
• Wang Jixuan drained much of the Sea of Grievances as Fu Jian’s forces kept the battlefield stable and saved time for civilians to escape.
• Wang Jixuan’s strange soul grew stronger, and he and Number Five decided to enter the illusory city to look for the Spiritual Practitioners.

Wang Jixuan and Number Five explored a sealed Divine Kingdom and learned that Galinno had killed its Divine King. At the ruined palace, Wang Jixuan sensed a gray, six-winged figure appear beside a pillar.

• Number Five interrogated the Divine Kingdom’s inhabitants while Wang Jixuan controlled a priestess they called Heisi, who revealed that the Divine King was dead.
• Heisi identified the killer as an ugly six-winged insect, and Wang Jixuan and Number Five recognized it as Galinno.
• Heisi explained that she and other priests had been killed in an Ascension ceremony and sent to the Divine Kingdom, where its residents lived unchanging lives.
• Number Five connected the Divine Kingdoms to the Blissful Sky Curtains and learned that Spiritual Practitioners had discussed sharing the technology with Wings of Light.
• Wang Jixuan and Number Five reached the palace and saw the bloodied ruins where Galinno had killed the Divine King.
• Wang Jixuan sensed a gray figure with six thin wings standing beside a pillar.

Wang Jixuan and Number Five fought Galinno inside the Pillar-Class Blade Beast’s soul-city, then negotiated a truce by using his demonic energy as leverage. As the battlefield crisis worsened and Psionic Capital forces approached, Wang Jixuan asked Fu Jian whether he should trick the beast into attacking the capital.

• Wang Jixuan and Number Five were ambushed by Galinno, which killed the black-haired priestess before they drove it back.
• Wang Jixuan realized Galinno represented the Pillar-Class Blade Beast’s immense soul and proposed negotiations instead of continuing a losing fight.
• Wang Jixuan threatened to unleash demonic energy that could infect the beast, giving him leverage to bargain with Galinno.
• Wang Jixuan and Galinno agreed to exchange questions and answers while Number Five watched their discussion.
• Fu Jian learned that Heiming and more than two thousand Psionicists were nearing the battlefield, despite efforts to keep them away from the beast.
• Wang Jixuan asked Fu Jian whether he should trick the Pillar-Class Blade Beast into attacking the Psionic Capital.

Wang Jixuan negotiated with the Sixth Pillar and uncovered why the Blade Beasts needed Spiritual Practitioner souls and had made an agreement with the Bright Wings Council. He tried to turn the Sixth Pillar against the three Spiritual Practitioners in the Arctic Circle, ending by claiming they had deceived it and were close to destroying the Blade Beasts.

• Fu Jian said he personally opposed cooperating with the Blade Beasts, but suggested Wang Jixuan could probe the Spiritual Practitioners’ strength for humanity’s sake.
• Wang Jixuan told Number Five and Cloaked Galinno that humanity might temporarily focus on the Spiritual Practitioners while the Blade Beasts resolved their conflict with them.
• Cloaked Galinno revealed that the Blade Beasts had an agreement with the Bright Wings Council and would not attack the Psionic Capital under its terms.
• Wang Jixuan deduced that the Blade Beasts depended on Spiritual Practitioner souls and knowledge because their civilization could not evolve independently.
• Wang Jixuan told Cloaked Galinno that the Bright Wings Council had deceived it and claimed the three Spiritual Practitioners knew the location of a treasure meant to deal with the Blade Beasts.

Wang Jixuan and Number Five negotiated with Cloaked Galinno, then uncovered that it had replaced the Blissful Sky Curtain’s former Divine King rather than serving as the Pillar-Class Blade Beast’s main consciousness. As Wang Jixuan prepared to release the trapped souls, he realized he might be able to turn the Blissful Sky Curtain into a Small Underworld.

• Wang Jixuan refused Cloaked Galinno’s offer of psionic energy, Stargate materials, and friendship, and learned that it had taken the name Aisar after consuming the old Aisar’s memories.
• Wang Jixuan stopped Number Five from confronting the three Spiritual Practitioners and suspected that the calm Galinno they had met was not the Pillar-Class Blade Beast’s main consciousness.
• Wang Jixuan questioned Army Souls and learned they had endured constant suffering inside the Pillar-Class Blade Beast, supporting his theory that Galinno had replaced the Blissful Sky Curtain’s Divine King.
• Wang Jixuan prepared to burn the trapped souls and grant them release, but realized the Blissful Sky Curtain might be turned into a Small Underworld.

Wang Jixuan devised a way to send the hundreds of millions of souls trapped by the Blissful Sky Curtain into the Pillar-Class Blade Beast. With Gao Huating’s song, he gathered more than two million fallen soldiers, who charged into the city to fight.

• Wang Jixuan identified ways to protect souls entering the Blissful Sky Curtain and empower them, then tested an improved Soul Summoning Array with Zheng Shiduo.
• Wang Jixuan called for soldiers among the lost souls, but only a few hundred responded until Gao Huating sang and stirred their memories.
• Gao Huating’s song drew millions of fallen soldiers together, and Wang Jixuan explained their deaths and asked them to help defeat the Pillar-Class Blade Beast.
• The fallen soldiers assembled into formations, and their generals asked Wang Jixuan to assign them a battlefield.
• Wang Jixuan opened a path through a Demonic Taint Pool, the Soul Summoning Array, and Ghost Gate Pass, while Fu Jian saluted the soldiers and urged them to fight for humanity.
• The marshal, generals, and assembled Army Souls charged through the path into the city inside the Pillar-Class Blade Beast.

Wang Jixuan opened Ghost Gate Pass and led an immense army of human souls against Cloaked Galinno inside the Blissful Sky Curtain, while Number Five identified the Pillar-Class Blade Beast’s exposed Sleeping Circuit. The assault broke the palace and shattered Cloaked Galinno, leaving a layer of rainbow light where it fell.

• Wang Jixuan sent streams of Army Souls through Ghost Gate Pass, and they overwhelmed Cloaked Galinno with coordinated attacks inside the Blissful Sky Curtain.
• More human souls arrived to reinforce the assault, while Wu Man, Zheng Shiduo, Ji Xiao, and Ji Yale chanted Buddhist scriptures to purify the demonic taint in them.
• Fu Jian ordered maximum bombardment of the Pillar-Class Blade Beast’s wound, requested a Special Cocoon Breaker, and prepared the mechanical assault units for the Blade Beast Tide.
• Number Five found the Pillar-Class Blade Beast’s Sleeping Circuit and realized the repeated soul attacks were disrupting Cloaked Galinno’s thoughts and might leave the beast a mindless war machine.
• Wang Jixuan asked Number Five to prepare to control the Pillar-Class Blade Beast, and he stopped Fu Jian’s heavy bombardment while the human souls prepared to breach the palace.
• The human souls shattered the palace barrier and then Cloaked Galinno, whose body broke apart as Wang Jixuan and Number Five descended toward the rainbow light left behind.