Chapter Summaries

Wang Jixuan planned to create Heavenly Demon Soldiers while investigating the Ancient Civilization and the strange connections among himself, Gao Huating, Ye Zi, and Kong Lianmei. Two days after he and his allies organized the first training group, he went to see Gao Huating, who had been drinking alone in the ruins of Fortress No. 76.

• Wang Jixuan proposed using Blade Beast Crystal Cores, formations, and demonic cultivation methods to train a million soldiers, and Fu Jian agreed to test the plan on three hundred people first.
• Wang Jixuan healed Ling Tong, promised to help Zhou Zhengde and Amina, and listened as Amina recounted her encounter with the Ancient Civilization's Guardian remnant spirits.
• Wang Jixuan told the group he would enter the Ancient Civilization in three months and shared his suspicions about his origins, Gao Huating, Ye Zi, and Kong Lianmei.
• Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong were intimate while Amina worried that his changed temperament might put Ling Tong at risk.
• The first three hundred Heavenly Demon Soldiers with strong aptitude began ten days of training at the ruins of Fortress No. 76.
• Wang Jixuan walked through the ruins and found Gao Huating asleep on a sofa beside a pile of empty liquor bottles.

Wang Jixuan trained young soldiers at Fortress No. 76 while drawing Gao Huating closer and guarding against the Ancient Civilization’s remnant spirit. On the ninth night, a voice reached his strange soul near the Number One Space Fortress, calling him a child and saying it had come to take him home.

• Wang Jixuan refused to comfort Gao Huating immediately and ordered Amina to have her come to the new studio after an hour.
• Wang Jixuan began teaching more than three hundred recruits to sense spiritual energy and assigned Wu Man to lead their studies.
• Gao Huating cried over the battle, told Wang Jixuan she had shared everything she knew, and agreed to help him if needed; her piano music guided the recruits into meditation.
• Wang Jixuan led the recruits through eight days of increasingly harsh cultivation and combat training, while some withdrew and others began to distinguish themselves.
• On the ninth night, Wang Jixuan sensed a call from near the Number One Space Fortress: someone said they had come to take him home and called him a child.

Wang Jixuan was abducted with his war puppet by Blade Beasts and used the opportunity to investigate their underground stronghold. He uncovered a human-cloning laboratory, a palace containing a sculpture resembling himself, and a Galinno that mistook him for a newly born consciousness; he ended the chapter inside the stronghold, planning to draw out the palace’s master.

• Wang Jixuan ordered the Space Carrier’s crew to prepare to abandon ship after Pseudo Spirit Slaves infiltrated it, then allowed the Blade Beasts to carry off his foreign soul and war puppet.
• Fu Jian sent fighters after the abductors, and the humans and Blade Beasts fought for hours before the Blade Beasts escaped with Wang Jixuan’s puppet.
• Wang Jixuan explored the Blade Beasts’ deep underground territory and discovered a nursery where mother insects transformed living humans into Pseudo Spirit Slaves.
• Wang Jixuan found a laboratory holding nearly ten thousand human scientists and a palace with a nude stone sculpture resembling his former and current appearances.
• A Galinno mistook Wang Jixuan’s foreign soul for a new consciousness born from a Blade Beast body, and its followers carried his puppet into a cavern.
• Wang Jixuan pretended to remain unconscious while keeping watch on the palace and considering how to lure out its master.

Wang Jixuan investigated the palace and laboratory while expanding his Heavenly Demon Soldier program, then discovered that Ye Zi had returned as the laboratory’s master. He secretly followed her as she inspected the results of decades of Blade Beast research, realizing she might possess cultivation abilities.

• Wang Jixuan and his allies discussed the palace, its lifelike statue of him, and the laboratory, while deciding to wait for its owner and investigate the research.
• Wang Jixuan trained the first six thousand Heavenly Demon Soldiers, prepared instructors for new camps, and investigated the laboratory’s cloning experiments and underground ecosystem.
• Wang Jixuan concluded that Ye Zi might be behind the laboratory and resolved to find her before she became a greater threat.
• Wang Jixuan detected a shuttle arriving at the laboratory and recognized Ye Zi, whose unfamiliar spiritual fluctuation seemed like that of a cultivator.
• Ye Zi ordered the elderly researchers to show her their latest results, including living Blade Beast organs, while Wang Jixuan secretly observed her.

Wang Jixuan discovered that Ye Zi had cultivated an Outer Golden Core and was secretly cooperating with the Blade Beasts, trading them powerful Psionic Energy Circuits while preparing for Earth’s barrier to open. Convinced that Ye Zi threatened his plans, he decided to capture her and began arranging his next move.

• Ye Zi inspected her experiments, then bathed beside the Stone Sculpture and spoke to it as if it were her beloved Big Brother.
• Wang Jixuan overheard Ye Zi and Galinno discuss Black Storm, the Ancient Civilization, Earth’s Planetary Barrier, and changing the Blade Beasts’ destination to Mars.
• Ye Zi gave Galinno three Psionic Energy Circuits that let him project and chant Buddhist scriptures, and warned him not to kill her Big Brother.
• Wang Jixuan realized Ye Zi possessed an Outer Golden Core and that the new circuits could undermine his Heavenly Demon Soldier Plan.
• Wang Jixuan decided to capture Ye Zi, sent Peony an order, and shifted his consciousness to Second War Puppet before sending another soul’s phantom projection toward the surface.

Amina agreed to help Wang Jixuan stage the return of his Soul of Kindness so he could approach Ye Zi and learn where she had obtained her Outer Golden Core cultivation method. A month later, as the Eye of the Firmament’s next appearance drew near, Wang Jixuan detected Ye Zi at the Underground Fortress and released the prepared Soul of Kindness.

• Amina returned from Sabrina’s subspace after Nierda Tamon agreed to wait before attempting a spirit slave contract on Galinno, and Peony asked her to help stage Wang Jixuan’s Soul of Kindness plan.
• Wang Jixuan organized his clues about Ye Zi and the Ancient Civilization, then explained to Amina that he wanted an opportunity to ask Ye Zi about her Outer Golden Core method.
• Amina warned Wang Jixuan that Little Hua Ting or the Ancient Civilization might expose their plan, but she agreed to help after he reassured her.
• Amina left after Wang Jixuan flirted with her, telling him to survive first and that they could discuss the future in a hundred or two hundred years.
• Over the next month, Wang Jixuan’s Heavenly Demon Soldier Plan advanced, the Soul of Kindness story spread among the Blade Beasts, and preparations continued for the Eye of the Firmament’s return.
• Wang Jixuan detected magical-power fluctuations from Ye Zi’s external golden core at the Underground Fortress and released the prepared Soul of Kindness.

Wang Jixuan used his Soul of Kindness to draw Ye Zi’s attention and discovered the depth of her obsession with him. After she strengthened his soul, he confronted her about her past, and she proposed becoming his wife before ordering a hundred young male bodies prepared.

• Galinno told Ye Zi that the Blade Beast Civilization wanted complete control of the Pseudo Spirit Slaves and claimed it had captured Wang Jixuan’s Soul of Kindness, but admitted he had only devised a plan to find it.
• Ye Zi left Galinno’s residence and returned to her palace, where Wang Jixuan secretly guided his Soul of Kindness into the Stone Sculpture in her bath.
• After waking, Ye Zi noticed the Spiritual Light in the Stone Sculpture, recognized Wang Jixuan’s soul, and used her own soul power to strengthen it.
• Wang Jixuan awakened and accused Ye Zi of killing her younger brother and sister, and she admitted it while declaring her love for him.
• Ye Zi asked to become Wang Jixuan’s wife, offered to change her name to Zhihan, and ordered her people to prepare a hundred young male bodies.

Wang Jixuan’s remnant soul was captured by Ye Zi and placed in a Pseudo Spirit Slave body, where she revealed her identity as Spiritual Practitioner Number Six and explained her role in creating the Blade Beasts. The chapter ended with Wang Jixuan asking whether Ye Zi and Gao Huating’s Past Life Body had cooperated.

• Ye Zi bound Wang Jixuan’s remnant soul and took him to choose a temporary body, despite his protests against taking over another person’s body.
• Wang Jixuan merged with a Pseudo Spirit Slave body, pretended to faint, and consulted his allies through his main body.
• Two days later, Ye Zi returned and revealed that she was Spiritual Practitioner Number Six, known by aliases sharing the syllables Posa.
• Ye Zi described her plan to reform Spiritual Cultivation Civilization and admitted that her organization’s attempt to use the Blissful Sky Curtain had led to the creation of the Blade Beasts.
• Wang Jixuan deduced that Ye Zi’s group had encountered the Ancient Civilization and asked whether she and Gao Huating’s Past Life Body had been cooperating.

Wang Jixuan confronted Ye Zi over her role in Earth's disasters, then gathered his allies to plan a visit to the Ancient Civilization and attempt to open its Planetary Barrier. After half a month of preparation, he remained ready to descend underground, carrying a countermeasure he had not disclosed.

• Wang Jixuan revealed his Lone Soul to Ye Zi, condemned her actions, and destroyed the spirit before leaving the cloning laboratory under surveillance.
• Wang Jixuan reviewed evidence that Ye Zi and her faction had helped cause the Blade Beast disaster, supported the Six Spiritual Practitioners, and created the Pseudo Spirit Slaves.
• Wang Jixuan decided that he, Amina, Little Hua Ting, and Old Zheng would visit the Ancient Civilization after preparing for half a month, while Wu Man and Red Snake would oversee the Heavenly Demon Soldiers if needed.
• Fu Jian gave Wang Jixuan an alloy box and warned that the Six Elders remained dangerous, then told him he owed Human Civilization nothing if the Planetary Barrier could not be activated.
• Wang Jixuan completed the half-month preparation period while keeping his countermeasure secret.

Wang Jixuan led his team, joined by Nierda Tamon, into the Ancient Civilization ruins known as the City in the Clouds to uncover the truth. The group arrived in the empty city without Gao Huating, who awoke alone before a woman on a throne and was identified as the returned Number One Prisoner.

• Wang Jixuan assembled a six-person team and left Ling Tong behind as they traveled toward the Ancient Civilization entrance.
• Nierda Tamon joined the transport after swearing an oath not to attack the group and to share the intelligence he gained.
• Nierda Tamon revealed that the witch had contacted him and Sabrina with an offer to restrain Wang Jixuan's demonic arts in exchange for help obtaining the Cultivation Path.
• Amina led the group through the underground teleportation zones, and Wang Jixuan tied them together with an enchanted rope before they entered the gate.
• Wang Jixuan and the others arrived in the lifeless City in the Clouds, but Gao Huating was missing.
• Gao Huating awoke alone in a magnificent hall, where a synthesized voice identified her as the returned Number One Prisoner.

Gao Huating learned that the woman on the throne planned to use Wang Jixuan to revive her ancient civilization, while Wang Jixuan explored the City in the Clouds and witnessed its security system overpower Nierda Tamon. The chapter left Wang Jixuan and Amina confronting the mysterious force of civilization that governed the city.

• The woman revealed that Gao Huating was her reincarnation and explained her plan to revive their civilization by capturing Wang Jixuan, while Gao Huating resisted and was trapped in an illusion.
• Zheng Shiduo showed Wang Jixuan photographs suggesting the city once floated above the surface, and Wang Jixuan connected the city to Gao Huating’s earlier dream of falling meteors and Flame Giants.
• Wang Jixuan summoned Amina to translate a stele describing King Quimidanima’s victory in a fleet battle during the Fourth Epoch.
• Amina warned Wang Jixuan that damaging city property would summon security drones, but Nierda Tamon broke a statue’s finger and was subdued and carried to the Security Bureau.
• Amina said she felt the suppression of civilization, leaving Wang Jixuan shaken by the city’s power.

Wang Jixuan’s group explored the ancient city, where he inferred that its civilization had mastered the rule of time and noticed formations resembling those of the Cultivation World. In confinement, Nierda Tamon found ancient magazines naming Wang Zheng the Great Pioneer, while the group discovered a sculpture bearing Wang Jixuan’s original face.

• Nierda Tamon was confined after testing the city’s defenses, then accepted the Barbell Drone’s offer to shorten his confinement by reading.
• Wang Jixuan gathered the others to explore a medical facility, where Zheng Shiduo and Ji Xiao used a Beauty Instrument and became strikingly handsome.
• Wang Jixuan sensed that the Beauty Instrument had activated a citywide psionic circuit and concluded that the ancient civilization had used the rule of time to preserve the city and its devices.
• Nierda Tamon read old magazines that featured Wang Zheng as the Great Pioneer and tried to call Wang Jixuan over, but the city’s limits kept his voice from reaching him.
• Wang Jixuan told Amina that the city’s formations seemed connected to the Cultivation World and possibly to him.
• Zheng Shiduo led Wang Jixuan and the others to a row of busts, where Wang Jixuan recognized his own original face on the damaged central sculpture.

Wang Jixuan recognized his fallen statue and concluded that his past was tied to the ancient civilization, then tested the city’s drones and their strange sealing beams. He and Nierda Tamon reached the palace, where the Ancient Remnant Spirit stopped them and invited them to approach peacefully.

• Wang Jixuan identified the toppled statue as his former self and theorized that he had once cooperated with the ancient civilization before falling from favor.
• Wang Jixuan sent Amina, Zheng Shiduo, and Ji Xiao ahead to the Palace Complex while he explored the city with Wu Man.
• Wang Jixuan fought the Barbell Drones, discovered that their red beams could nearly seal his physical body, and drew a vast swarm of drones and unmanned boats.
• Nierda Tamon escaped confinement and charged toward the Palace Complex, prompting Wang Jixuan to pursue him through the drone swarm.
• The Ancient Remnant Spirit raised a barrier that stopped Wang Jixuan and Nierda Tamon, then told them not to disturb the sleeping dead and said they could have come directly to her.

Wang Jixuan confronted He Ruli in the City in the Clouds and heard the history of the Ina Civilization, including how his arrival sparked its cultivation era and how a rebellion destroyed it. He recognized that He Ruli was not Little Hua Ting’s former incarnation and pressed her to explain what happened to Posa.

• Nierda Tamon told Wang Jixuan that magazines in the confinement room called him the Great Pioneer, and Amina led the group into the palace to meet the Ancient Remnant Spirit.
• He Ruli promised to activate the Planetary Barrier and began recounting the Ina Civilization’s history, from its rise and stagnation to its failed attempt to contact an Advanced Civilization.
• He Ruli said Wang Jixuan had fallen through the opened Space-time Barrier, entered a human body, and later guided the Ina Civilization toward psionic energy and individual cultivation.
• He Ruli explained that the Opposition Faction’s rebellion devastated the civilization, after which its research was released and the present Spiritual Cultivation Civilization arose.
• Wang Jixuan deduced that He Ruli was not Little Hua Ting’s former incarnation, and He Ruli admitted she had been an exiled dissenter who survived the civilization’s destruction.
• Wang Jixuan told He Ruli not to change the subject and demanded that she explain what happened to Posa.

Wang Jixuan questioned He Ruli about the Ina Civilization’s collapse and learned how his failures, the Opposition Faction, and the rebellion of conquered races led to its destruction. He discovered that Posa’s attack had sent his soul, a leader’s soul, and Posa’s soul out of the City in the Clouds together, explaining his connection to Mu Liang, Gao Huating, and Ye Zi; he then ordered He Ruli to take him to where he had slept.

• Wang Jixuan deduced that the Ina Civilization’s collapse involved rebellion by the races it had ruled, and He Ruli confirmed that his failed ascension had helped the Opposition Faction’s ideology take shape.
• He Ruli explained that the Ina Civilization dwindled to tens of thousands of women, and she sacrificed herself to the City in the Clouds after attempts to preserve the civilization failed.
• He Ruli revealed that Black Obsidian first contacted her about seven thousand years earlier, later returning with Posa and others to take technology and bring souls to sustain her and awaken the sleeping pioneers.
• He Ruli said Posa attacked her twenty-six years and three months earlier, shattered her Core Circuit, and sent her soul into the place where Wang Jixuan slept.
• Wang Jixuan realized that his soul had left the city at the same time as Posa’s and a leader’s soul, solving the mystery of his connection to Mu Liang, Gao Huating, and Ye Zi.
• Wang Jixuan ordered He Ruli to take him to his former sleeping place, and she agreed.

Wang Jixuan confronted He Ruli over her civilization’s schemes and refused to father a child with Gao Huating as the price of its revival. Negotiations collapsed, and He Ruli began using force as Wang Jixuan and his companions faced six awakening auras.

• Wang Jixuan absorbed the memoryless fragment of his Mahayana Remnant Soul from the Crystal Ball, while Amina and Nierda Tamon discussed Black Obsidian’s influence and their civilization’s prospects.
• He Ruli asked Wang Jixuan to help revive her civilization by joining with Gao Huating and having children, but he rejected the demand and insisted on checking Gao Huating’s safety.
• Wang Jixuan found Gao Huating alive behind a sealed barrier and refused to promise He Ruli’s condition, arguing that she had no right to demand it.
• Wang Jixuan negotiated for the Planetary Barrier to be opened and for technology to be shared, while Amina and Nierda Tamon raised terms for their factions; He Ruli insisted that Gao Huating first bear Wang Jixuan’s child.
• When Wang Jixuan refused, He Ruli faded away and the palace began to shake as six powerful auras awakened; Wang Jixuan told his companions to surrender if they could not win and wondered where his second Mahayana Remnant Soul had gone.

Wang Jixuan and his companions battled the six Bronze Puppets but were overwhelmed and captured. Imprisoned and stripped of their belongings, they discussed the Ancient Remnant Spirit’s demands until Zheng Shiduo revealed a hidden Storage Ring that might give them a chance to escape.

• Wang Jixuan, Nierda Tamon, and Amina fought the six powerful Bronze Puppets, with Wang Jixuan damaging one before surrendering as Barbell Drones surrounded them.
• The puppets captured Wang Jixuan’s group and the others waiting outside the Palace Complex, confiscating their Storage Magic Treasures and sealing the psionic energy of several captives.
• Wang Jixuan told the group that the Ancient Remnant Spirit would open the Planetary Barrier if he agreed to father children with Gao Huating, but he refused to be forced into reproduction.
• Wang Jixuan said he might break the formations if he could obtain materials, and Zheng Shiduo produced a hidden Storage Ring as their possible chance to turn things around.

Wang Jixuan studied the Ina Civilization’s formations and Bronze Puppets while his group remained imprisoned, as Amina negotiated with He Ruli. After four days, He Ruli moved Gao Huating to the palace where Wang Jixuan was being held.

• Wang Jixuan began studying the palace’s formations and estimated that cracking them would take several days, while Amina asked He Ruli about Black Obsidian and revealed that he was her biological father.
• Wang Jixuan’s other soul discovered that Black Obsidian’s faction supplied technology to the Pseudo Spirit Slaves, while Ye Zi argued with Galinno about attacking the Human World and left after Galinno refused.
• Over four days, Amina mediated between Wang Jixuan and He Ruli while Wang Jixuan used the palace formations to extend his spiritual consciousness and study the Bronze Puppets’ intricate circuits and energy systems.
• He Ruli lifted the formation imprisoning Gao Huating and had two Bronze Puppets escort her toward Wang Jixuan’s palace.

Wang Jixuan tentatively agreed to He Ruli’s plan to use his and Gao Huating’s Germ Cells to activate the Planetary Barrier, while demanding that she restore his mental state. After secretly warning Gao Huating that he planned to oppose He Ruli, he sent her to sabotage a formation hub; meanwhile, Ye Zi arrived at an Antarctic Secret Base.

• He Ruli offered to fulfill Wang Jixuan’s requests in exchange for Germ Cells and permission to cultivate infants in the nursery.
• Wang Jixuan agreed in principle and demanded that He Ruli find a way to restore his mental state before he provided the cells.
• Wang Jixuan privately told Gao Huating that He Ruli could not be trusted and gave her a jade talisman to attach to a formation hub.
• Wang Jixuan discovered He Ruli’s true body and additional armored puppets in the underground Command Center, then secretly instructed Gao Huating to sabotage the Palace Complex’s formation.
• Ye Zi arrived at a Secret Base in Antarctica and led the waiting group toward a nearby mine.

Amina struggled with her feelings about Wang Jixuan while Nierda Tamon warned her that the Wings of Light were close to extinction. Two days later, Black Obsidian’s forces attacked the City in the Clouds, and their Necromantic Sacrifice breached the gray-mist defenses, leaving the city under threat.

• Nierda Tamon told Amina that only thirty-two of their people remained and urged her to express her wishes before battle; Amina left without taking his advice.
• Wang Jixuan continued studying the City in the Clouds’ puppets until a thunderous blast struck the city’s northwestern edge.
• He Ruli identified the intruders as strange lifeforms sent by Black Obsidian, and Wang Jixuan watched them test the city’s gray-mist barrier from the Command Center.
• He Ruli sent four Bronze Puppets to confront the intruders, who knelt and claimed they had come to protect the holy land on their master’s orders.
• Twelve intruders revealed hexagonal marks and unleashed black energy through a Necromantic Sacrifice; He Ruli raised the city’s defenses, but the swarm tore through the gray mist.