Chapter Summaries

Wang Jixuan reunited with Ling Tong, then met with humanity’s leaders to discuss the Starry Sky Gate and the looming Blade Beast threat. Gao Huating revealed a possible way to close the Gate, but the Ancient Civilization required Amina to submit to Wang Jixuan, and Amina refused.

• Ling Tong cooked for Wang Jixuan and shared her despair about humanity’s chances in the war, before they spent time together during her break from combat missions.
• Peony released Wang Jixuan’s astral soul so he could meet with Gao Huating, Amina, Wu Man, Red Snake, Shen Qionglin, and the others.
• Wang Jixuan outlined the need to close the Starry Sky Gate, the danger of Blade Beasts guarding it, and the evolving Pseudo Spirit Slaves.
• Gao Huating said backups of Spiritual Practitioners’ Core Circuits existed beyond the Gate and that Amina could use the knowledge there to create a circuit capable of closing it.
• Gao Huating relayed that the Ancient Civilization would let Amina go only if she submitted to Wang Jixuan, and Amina rejected the demand.

Amina left to explore the Ancient Civilization ruins while Wang Jixuan prepared humanity for the coming war and took an Ascension Pill to raise his strength. Three days later, Amina returned from the ruins and hurried to find him.

• Amina agreed to travel with the remnant soul controlling Gao Huating, and Wang Jixuan privately gave her instructions before she departed as Black Butterfly.
• Wang Jixuan held a meeting about deploying forces if Amina learned to close the Stargate, then returned to Ling Tong and helped her begin cultivation.
• As the Stargate threat intensified, Wang Jixuan went to the Fortress No. 76 Ruins and swallowed an Ascension Pill to strengthen himself.
• Peony, Red Snake, Treant Beta, Wu Man, and Zheng Shiduo helped protect Wang Jixuan and conceal the disturbance as he began his breakthrough.
• On the third day, Amina returned from the ruins through a collapsing passage and set out to find Wang Jixuan.

After Amina returned from the City in the Clouds with rare Psionic Energy Circuits, Wang Jixuan remained wary of the Ancient Civilization’s offer and decided to focus first on closing the Starry Sky Gate. Fifteen days later, the Starry Sky Gate Annihilation Battle began as Ling Tong prepared to fight the approaching Blade Beast swarm.

• Wang Jixuan completed his breakthrough to the first step of the Heaven and Earth Bridge and shared spiritual power with those guarding him.
• Amina told Wang Jixuan about the City in the Clouds, its abundant psionic energy, and the more than 120 Psionic Energy Circuits she had received.
• Wang Jixuan and Amina questioned why the Ancient Civilization wanted him as its inheritor, and Wang Jixuan decided they would try to close the Starry Sky Gate before considering the city further.
• Amina offered the three Spiritual Practitioners of Wings of Light twelve circuits suited to fighting Blade Beasts, while keeping the others for herself.
• Wang Jixuan spoke with Gao Huating about the soul from her past life and arranged for her to tour the military and sing for the soldiers.
• Ling Tong entered her Terror Mech, and the Starry Sky Gate Annihilation Battle began fifteen days later.

Ling Tong and Wang Jixuan watched humanity test the Starry Sky Gate while preparing for the Blade Beasts’ counterattack. Amina and three other Spiritual Practitioners began trying to close the gate, and Fu Jian received word that the four Pillar-Class Blade Beasts were rising.

• Ling Tong provided fire support against the High-Tier Flying Blade Beast Swarm, then watched an assault team test the Starry Sky Gate while the four Pillar-Class Blade Beasts remained in reserve.
• Wang Jixuan told Ling Tong that closing the enormous gate would be difficult, then used his hidden alternate soul to eavesdrop on the Galinno and send Fu Jian accurate intelligence about the Blade Beasts’ plans.
• Humanity’s nuclear attack failed to affect the Starry Sky Gate, while Wang Jixuan continued monitoring the Blade Beasts’ communications from the supply ship near Number One Space Fortress.
• Amina, Sabrina, Nierda Tamon, and Wanda set out for the gate, teleported nearby, and began casting the Psionic Energy Circuit needed to close it.
• Fu Jian prepared for the battle and heard that the four Pillar-Class Blade Beasts were accelerating upward as massive Blade Beast Swarms surrounded them.

Daoist Wang watched humanity battle the Blade Beasts and discovered that a traitor had informed them how to close the Stargate. Wanda betrayed Sabrina and interrupted the ritual, leaving the gate unclosed and the humans facing a stalemate with Wanda inside the membrane.

• Daoist Wang monitored the battlefield as humanity and the four Spiritual Practitioners fought to hold back the Blade Beasts while preparing to close the Stargate.
• Daoist Wang overheard the Galinno discussing the Stargate-closing method and warned Fu Jian and Amina that a traitor had leaked information.
• A Galinno appeared within the Stargate membrane and tried to persuade Wanda to join the Blade Beasts, while a supply ship headed toward the gate.
• Wanda struck Sabrina and interrupted her casting, then entered the Stargate membrane with Galinno's permission.
• Nierda Tamon took his strongest form to protect Sabrina as she resumed casting, while Wanda threatened to disrupt the ritual again.

Wang Jixuan put his plan to stop Wanda’s betrayal into motion as Amina prepared to close the Stargate. Amina detonated the hidden Psionic Energy Circuit inside Wanda, and Wang Jixuan emerged to attack as Wanda was pulled toward a vortex.

• Wang Jixuan left the supply ship and approached the Stargate while the Human Military fought the Blade Beast Swarm.
• Wang Jixuan recalled how Amina had secretly shared a bomb circuit among the circuits she gave the three Spiritual Practitioners.
• Wang Jixuan told Amina to attack Wanda when he emerged and warned her not to let Wanda’s Core Circuit fall into the Blade Beasts’ hands.
• Wanda came out through the Stargate and tried to persuade Amina to join the Blade Beasts, condemning Sabrina and revealing his plans with them.
• Amina abandoned the casting ritual and attacked Wanda, detonating the hidden circuit inside him and driving him toward a vortex.
• Wang Jixuan appeared in his black Combat Suit and helmet, ready to strike the Spiritual Practitioners.

Wang Jixuan and Amina defeated Wanda in a fierce battle above the Arctic Circle, but Wanda destroyed his soul before Wang Jixuan could capture it. They discussed how to use Wanda’s Core Circuit and prepare for the Blade Beast Swarm, then Wang Jixuan resumed fighting.

• Wang Jixuan pursued the wounded Wanda while Amina sealed him and boosted Wang Jixuan’s abilities, and they fought as they descended toward Earth.
• Wang Jixuan used sword formations, demonic possession, lightning, and a spear to overcome Wanda, while Amina prevented him from self-destructing.
• Wanda revealed that the Blade Beasts had not awakened on their own and that the Ancient Civilization had not been destroyed, then he burned his soul before Wang Jixuan could capture it.
• Wang Jixuan gave Wanda’s Core Circuit to Amina and recommended Zhou Zhengde as a possible new Light Spiritual Practitioner, while they agreed to unite their strength against the Blade Beasts.
• Wang Jixuan declined Amina’s apparent invitation, told her he had a girlfriend, and continued replenishing his power so he could return to battle.

Wang Jixuan helped the humans and Spiritual Practitioners repel the Blade Beasts, then watched Nierda Tamon and Sabrina destroy the Stargate and force Galinno out. After discussing Wanda’s death, Nierda Tamon proposed temporary cooperation, and Wang Jixuan agreed on the condition that the Spiritual Practitioners negotiate with Amina about joining him in the Ancient Civilization Ruins.

• Wang Jixuan used his Dragon Python Strange Soul to slaughter Blade Beasts and protect the human defensive line while Nierda Tamon fought a Pillar-Class Blade Beast.
• Sabrina and Amina combined their powers to collapse the Stargate, and the resulting shockwave forced Galinno out, where it destroyed itself.
• Nierda Tamon comforted Sabrina over Wanda’s death, then approached Wang Jixuan and Amina to discuss cooperation.
• Nierda Tamon acknowledged Wanda’s betrayal but said he had been his friend, while Wang Jixuan insisted their remaining grudge would still need to be settled.
• Wang Jixuan agreed to cooperate against the Blade Beasts if Nierda Tamon and Sabrina offered their sincerity to Amina regarding entry into the Ancient Civilization Ruins.
• Wang Jixuan left for the atmosphere, and Amina began exchanging information with Nierda Tamon and Sabrina.

Wang Jixuan returned to Number One Space Fortress, contacted the surviving Galinno, and joined a human military conference where he offered Earth’s humans the chance to inherit a Spiritual Practitioner’s Core Circuit. The leaders discussed the Blade Beasts’ plans and the fate of the Scavenger Camps as Wang Jixuan worried about the coming war and the mysterious force beneath Earth.

• Wang Jixuan contacted the eight surviving Galinno, learned they planned to search for him, and pretended to be a weak prisoner in a laboratory.
• Amina declined a welcoming ceremony, and Wang Jixuan chose to rest aboard the carrier before returning to the ground.
• Fu Jian convened military leaders and introduced Wang Jixuan, who explained that he and Amina controlled the traitorous Spiritual Practitioner’s Core Circuit and that a complete human could inherit it.
• The leaders agreed that Wang Jixuan should choose the recipient, while Fu Jian shared intelligence about the Blade Beasts’ six-month preparations and the Spiritual Practitioners’ plans for humanity.
• The conference debated whether the Psionic Capital should harvest the Scavenger Camps, then turned to plans for killing Pillar-Class Blade Beasts before the next decisive battle.
• Wang Jixuan wondered whether the Planetary Barrier could delay the Blade Beasts and pondered the Ancient Civilization, Amina’s gains, and the Spiritual Sense warning him about something beneath Earth.

After discussing humanity’s plans against the Blade Beasts, Fu Jian warned Wang Jixuan that he might sacrifice himself and urged him to consider civilization’s survival. Wang Jixuan later realized his unstable Dao Heart was fixating on Amina’s spiritual energy, so he fled before his temptation could grow.

• Fu Jian and Wang Jixuan discussed the threat of Spiritual Practitioners becoming Blade Beast puppets and Wang Jixuan’s plan to explore the Ancient Civilization.
• Fu Jian explained that he might sacrifice himself for victory and described humanity’s determination to prove that science was not the wrong path.
• Amina and Peony toured the Space Fortress and ate at a restaurant, where Wang Jixuan joined them after speaking with Fu Jian.
• Wang Jixuan told Amina that he planned to return to the surface and meet Ling Tong, then questioned whether his cultivation was producing an Inner Demon.
• Wang Jixuan realized that he was drawn to Amina’s spiritual energy rather than her appearance, abruptly left the restaurant, and fled using a Divine Movement Talisman.

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

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

Peony learned that Gao Huating’s Past Life Body had urged her to help Wang Jixuan, while Wang’s allies prepared to send him into Blade Beast territory to vent his growing demonic thoughts. Wang leaped from the transport aircraft into battle, determined to use slaughter to regain control as the rescue forces stood by.

• Peony arranged for Amina to investigate the Ancient Civilization after Gao Huating relayed her Past Life Body’s message about saving Wang.
• Wang ordered the transport aircraft launched, and humanity’s forces began a coordinated bombardment of a Blade Beast gathering point.
• Amina took Xiang Tiantian with her and transformed into Black Butterfly to travel toward the Ancient Civilization.
• Dongfang Zhenghong warned Ling Tong not to interfere with Wang’s plan, and she accepted her role in the later rescue operation.
• Wang entrusted Peony with his storage treasures, leaped from the aircraft into Blade Beast territory, and activated the Demon Star Annihilation Art.

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

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

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

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

Wang Jixuan briefly regained control of himself after Gao Huating’s singing and Ling Tong’s injury helped break through his demonic frenzy. He accepted his desires rather than suppressing them, then chose to keep slaughtering Blade Beasts deliberately while asking Ling Tong and Fu Jian to withdraw and Peony to support him.

• Dongfang Zhenghong learned that Zheng Shiduo believed Gao Huating’s singing could awaken Wang Zheng, so he arranged for her to accompany Fu Jian and the strongest fighters while Ling Tong continued luring Black Storm into Blade Beast territory.
• Gao Huating’s singing and the Restriction Talisman’s reaction helped Wang Jixuan recover a trace of reason, and he veered away from Ling Tong’s fighter toward a Blade Beast nest.
• Wang Jixuan resisted the surging Demonic Thought by reciting incantations and recalling people and memories from his life, then recognized the demonic desires as part of himself.
• Wang Jixuan absorbed the demonic qi without being consumed by it and regained deliberate control while standing atop a King-Class Blade Beast’s corpse.
• Wang Jixuan told Ling Tong to return and heal and ordered Fu Jian’s group to withdraw, while he continued killing Blade Beasts and called on Peony to support him.

After overcoming the Demonic Thought, Wang Jixuan tore through Blade Beast territory and forced the Galinno to accelerate the Seventh Pillar's awakening. As he neared it, Amina arrived nearby, unaware of his transformation, while the awakening Pillar-Class Blade Beast cried out for him to stay away.

• Ling Tong heard Wang Jixuan call her “dear,” confirmed with Peony that he had entered a stable new state, and requested a medical team.
• Wang Jixuan looted and slaughtered Blade Beasts as he advanced toward the Seventh Pillar, prompting the Galinno to strengthen the swarms and sacrifice Blade Beasts to hasten the Pillar's awakening.
• Wang Jixuan changed to zigzagging routes to keep killing efficiently, and he welcomed the chance to face the Seventh Pillar once it awakened.
• Nierda Tamon recognized that Wang Jixuan's mindset had changed and decided to give him a sealed Galinno as a gift.
• Amina escaped the canyon, realized the Ancient Civilization Guardian had plotted against Wang Zheng, and flew toward a human fortress before spotting the awakening Pillar-Class Blade Beast.
• The Seventh Pillar awakened and urgently called out, “Don't come any closer!”

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

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

Wang Jixuan destroyed Cloaked Galinno and overwhelmed the Blade Beast swarm before retreating into secluded cultivation to understand his true self. While Fu Jian advanced plans for Autonomous Mechs and the Seventh Pillar was moved beside the Sixth, Amina later arrived at the Fortress No. 76 Ruins to speak with Gao Huating.

• Wang Jixuan severed Cloaked Galinno from the Sea of Wraiths, killed it, and fought through the Blade Beast swarm until the tide retreated.
• Wang Jixuan told his allies he would seal his six senses to contemplate his Dao Heart and asked them to care for Ling Tong before entering Old Sophie's subspace.
• Fu Jian praised Dongfang Zhenghong, reported that the Blade Beasts had withdrawn, and began accelerating the development plans for Autonomous Mechs with Zhang Huanying and Black Shell.
• Amina helped move the Seventh Pillar beside the Sixth and spent the following days meeting with Spiritual Practitioners and attending Human Military meetings.
• Amina went to the Fortress No. 76 Ruins, where Peony told her that Gao Huating wanted to discuss the Ancient Civilization ruins.

Amina comforted Gao Huating and discovered she could perfectly resonate with Wanda’s Core Circuit. Wang Jixuan emerged from seclusion with a steadier Dao heart and major cultivation gains, but a red mark between his brows suggested the Demon Lord’s Mark had appeared.

• Amina visited Gao Huating, reassured her that she was not responsible for Wang Zheng’s demonic state, and asked about the guardian who claimed to be her Past Life Body.
• Amina gave Gao Huating Wanda’s Core Circuit to test, and Gao Huating achieved perfect resonance with it.
• Wang Jixuan awakened from seclusion with his primordial spirit taking shape, his Dao Realm nearing the fourth stage of the Heaven and Earth Bridge Realm, and his Dao heart restored.
• Wang Jixuan returned to the transport aircraft, spoke with Peony and Shen Qionglin, and asked to be taken to Ling Tong and to hold an online meeting with Amina.
• Wang Jixuan noticed a red mark between his brows and suspected it was the Demon Lord’s Mark.

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

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