Chapter Summaries

Wang Jixuan slaughtered Spiritual Practitioners while Black Obsidian planned to turn humanity against him and sent Ye Zi to release a destructive weapon. As Ling Tong's forces faced the threat of a high-mass asteroid, the battle for Earth took a sudden turn.

• Wang Jixuan killed multiple Spiritual Practitioners and pursued the survivors while Black Obsidian concealed himself and plotted to undermine him.
• Black Obsidian gave Ye Zi a pouch and ordered her to release its contents, warning that the result would destroy about half the life-forms in the region.
• Ling Tong reviewed reports of Black Storm killing Spiritual Practitioners, then prepared to return to battle with the Super Large Mecha.
• An auxiliary robot detected a massive asteroid accelerating toward Earth, propelled by enormous flames.

Wang Jixuan tried to stop Black Obsidian’s enormous asteroid from striking Earth as humanity’s forces scrambled to evacuate and survive. He damaged the asteroid but could not prevent it from annihilating D8 and parts of three neighboring war zones, leaving humanity to face a devastated world and a coming Blade Beast Tide.

• Wang Jixuan recognized that Black Obsidian had sent an immense asteroid toward Earth and rushed to reduce the impact, while Hei Yao fled.
• Fu Jian ordered Mechs and fortresses to retreat as human forces and Blade Beasts evacuated the battlefield ahead of the impact.
• Dongfang Zhenghong learned that his Space Carrier was trapped in the impact zone and addressed humanity, urging everyone to keep fighting.
• Wang Jixuan attacked the asteroid and damaged its surface, but he could not save Dongfang Zhenghong’s Space Carrier from being destroyed by the heat and air currents.
• Wang Jixuan continued attacking the asteroid as it struck Earth, annihilating D8 and parts of the D6, D7, and D9 Comprehensive War Zones.

Ye Zi and Black Obsidian watched the devastation caused by the asteroid strike, then Black Obsidian sent his Spiritual Practitioners to capture an exhausted Wang Jixuan. After Wang Jixuan slaughtered several attackers in his array, Black Obsidian struck him down, and Wang Jixuan burned his Mahayana Remnant Soul to unleash a final assault.

• Ye Zi handed Black Obsidian the mission pouch after the impact devastated the D8 Comprehensive War Zone and killed many humans.
• Black Obsidian summoned nine Spiritual Practitioners and sent them to seize Wang Jixuan, who appeared exhausted atop the asteroid.
• The Spiritual Practitioners fought among themselves over Wang Jixuan, while Amina, Nierda Tamon, and Sabrina arrived at the scene.
• Wang Jixuan trapped the nine Spiritual Practitioners in his Myriad Beasts Lock Souls array and began killing them as Nierda Tamon and the others watched from outside.
• Black Obsidian pierced the array with a spear and blasted Wang Jixuan into a cliff, but Wang Jixuan burned his Mahayana Remnant Soul and released a terrifying azure aura.

Wang Jixuan used the power of the Mahayana remnant soul to defeat Black Obsidian and the Spiritual Practitioners, then swept Earth clear of Pillar-Class Blade Beasts and prepared its defenders for his absence. He said farewell to Ling Tong and Fu Jian before confronting He Ruli at the City in the Clouds, where she revealed herself as a white-haired old man and defended her schemes to become immortal.

• Wang Jixuan crushed the old man’s Core Circuit, killed Black Obsidian’s avatar, and planted a demonic seed in his connected soul.
• Wang Jixuan took Amina and Nierda Tamon away, slaughtered the Pillar-Class Blade Beasts across Earth, and empowered Wu Man, Zheng Shiduo, and Red Snake.
• Wang Jixuan found Ling Tong and told her he might disappear for decades, confessed that loving her was the best choice of his Third Life, and gave her a farewell kiss.
• Wang Jixuan told Fu Jian that Earth’s powerful enemies were gone and that Amina and Nierda Tamon would protect Earth; Fu Jian then detonated the Ball of Silence.
• Wang Jixuan used the last of the remnant soul’s power to reach He Ruli, who transformed into a white-haired old man and said that scheming against all living beings was no shame on the path to immortality.

Wang Jixuan confronted San Jie Lang Lang Zi in the City in the Clouds and learned how his past life manipulated Black Obsidian and other pieces to destroy the Spiritual Cultivation Civilization. San Jie Lang Lang Zi revealed that his second tribulation ended when a finger emerged from the immortal gate and shattered him, leaving Wang Jixuan with new questions about the heavenly tribulations.

• Wang Jixuan suppressed the backlash from burning the Mahayana Remnant Soul and questioned San Jie Lang Lang Zi about the deaths caused by his schemes.
• San Jie Lang Lang Zi explained that he had used Black Obsidian to gather souls and avenge the Ina Civilization by encouraging Black Obsidian to attack spiritual practitioners.
• San Jie Lang Lang Zi revealed that Gao Huating, Posa Ye Zi, and Black Obsidian had all been pieces in a plan to guide Wang Jixuan to the City in the Clouds.
• Wang Jixuan rejected San Jie Lang Lang Zi's attempt to distance his Third Life from his past crimes and vowed to destroy the Blade Beasts and Black Obsidian Force.
• San Jie Lang Lang Zi said he would enter the Stone of the Past to study its secrets and revealed that a finger from beyond the immortal gate had shattered him after his second heavenly tribulation.

Wang Jixuan learned that an unknown finger had killed San Jie Lang Lang Zi as he tried to ascend, then collapsed from the backlash of using his past life’s power and entered a long healing seclusion. On Earth, Wu Man, Zheng Shiduo, and Red Snake awakened to new abilities as humanity prepared to fight the remaining Blade Beasts and face the coming winter.

• San Jie Lang Lang Zi showed Wang Jixuan his memory of an Immortal Realm finger striking him at the Immortal Gate and explained that the Stone of the Past had preserved his remnant soul.
• Wang Jixuan and San Jie Lang Lang Zi merged their minds, confirming the memory was genuine and giving Wang Jixuan greater confidence in surviving heavenly tribulation.
• Wang Jixuan’s Dao body collapsed from the backlash, so San Jie Lang Lang Zi reshaped it while Wang Jixuan sealed his primordial spirit and began a lengthy seclusion.
• Wu Man and Zheng Shiduo discovered they had gained golden Core Circuits, while Red Snake found her Blade Beast features gone and gained a new transformation ability.
• Amina’s spiritual servants told Wu Man and Zheng Shiduo that Amina and Nierda Tamon were helping Commander Fu Jian wipe out the remaining Blade Beasts, while Red Snake went to protect Ling Tong.
• The survivors learned that Wang Jixuan might remain in seclusion for decades, the Blade Beasts planned to relocate to Mars in a year and a half, and Amina would help Earth prepare for the coming winter.

Wang Jixuan endured the first stages of having his body and Dao foundation reforged while his Second Life prepared for the coming Blade Beast invasion. Amina learned that He Ruli was the Great Pioneer, received weapons and armor, and returned to warn humanity that Wang Zheng was safe as the story advanced to Space Era Year 134.

• Wang Jixuan survived the first wave of agony, and his Second Life began forging him a new Dao body and a foundation of twelve lotus platforms.
• Amina came to the City in the Clouds to warn that more than forty Pillar-Class Blade Beasts were approaching Mars, and He Ruli revealed himself as the Great Pioneer, San Jie Lang Lang Zi.
• He Ruli gave Amina the Heart of the Storm and other treasures, promised to protect the planet with a grand formation, and told her Wang Zheng would need a hundred years to recover.
• Amina informed Fu Jian, Ling Tong, and Peony that Wang Zheng was safe and urged humanity to prepare for battle while staying near Earth's atmosphere.
• The calendar in the Space Fortress advanced from Space Era Year 54 to Space Era Year 134 as Wang Jixuan remained absent.

Amina discussed a new enemy species and Earth’s expeditionary war with Speaker Zhou Zhengde, then predicted that Wang Jixuan would soon emerge from seclusion. In the City in the Clouds, Wang Jixuan completed his Dao foundation and began examining the Stone of the Past.

• Amina told Zhou Zhengde that she could not enter the City in the Clouds because its guardian’s consciousness was fading, and she refused to develop countermeasures against the new enemy species.
• A marshal described how spider-like Psionic creatures had boarded Fleet 07’s ships, while Amina identified them as likely variants of Pseudo Spirit Slaves and recommended consulting Shen Qionglin.
• Zhou Zhengde asked Amina to take him to see Wang Jixuan before his remaining years ran out, but she refused and said she felt Wang Jixuan would return soon.
• Amina returned to her meditation room and wondered whether Wang Jixuan would still seek out Ling Tong when he emerged.
• Wang Jixuan completed his Dao foundation, absorbed three memories, and summoned the Stone of the Past for examination.

After recovering from his long cultivation, Wang Jixuan left the City in the Clouds and met Lin Zhiwei, a young security guard who explained how humanity had defeated the Blade Beasts. Wang Jixuan learned that his old companions had become celebrated figures, then revealed himself to Lin Zhiwei as Black Storm.

• Wang Jixuan failed to activate the mysterious object, ordered two puppets to guard the City in the Clouds, and destroyed San Jie Lang Lang Zi's statue.
• Lin Zhiwei, conflicted about his easy job at a research institute, began writing a report about the place.
• Wang Jixuan appeared in Lin Zhiwei's room and questioned him about humanity's victory over the Blade Beasts.
• Lin Zhiwei described the major stages of the war and showed Wang Jixuan an album featuring Ling Tong and Dongfang Zhenghong.
• Wang Jixuan asked about the commanders, and Lin Zhiwei recognized him as Black Storm.

Wang Jixuan toured Earth with Lin Zhiwei, saw that humanity had prospered, and then reached the ruins of Fortress No. 76, where he found Beta alive as a Giant Tree. Beta told him that Ling Tong had waited for him through his eighty-year recovery, leaving Wang Jixuan to learn that she was nearly old.

• Wang Jixuan explained that Lin Zhiwei's high salary supported his secluded cultivation site, then asked Lin to show him modern Earth.
• Lin Zhiwei piloted an aircraft through several prosperous cities and explained the division between surface and Underground City residents.
• Wang Jixuan gave Lin Zhiwei a jade talisman and flew alone toward the restricted ruins of Fortress No. 76.
• Wang Jixuan found Beta's soul inside the Giant Tree and learned that Beta had died in battle on Mars before Professor Shen revived him from a surviving thigh.
• Beta told Wang Jixuan that Ling Tong had waited for him for more than eighty years, devoted herself to humanity, and was now nearly old.
• Wang Jixuan learned that Peony was in another star system and vanished before Beta could continue their conversation.

Wang Jixuan returned to Fortress No. 76 after eighty years away, reunited with Peony, Amina, and Zhou Zhengde, and began considering his next steps. As Ling Tong headed for Earth, Black Obsidian learned Wang Jixuan had emerged and planned to sell the information to powerful figures.

• Peony contacted Wang Jixuan and explained that Ling Tong was returning to Earth and that humanity had used captured Starry Sky Gate technology to fight the Blade Beasts across the Star Domain.
• Amina visited Wang Jixuan, confessed her feelings, and agreed to wait while he settled his worldly ties and pursued his plans to destroy Black Obsidian and wipe out the Blade Beasts.
• Wang Jixuan and Amina read and drank tea together until Zhou Zhengde arrived, and Zhou told him that his maternal grandfather's consciousness had been uploaded as a warship command support system.
• As Ling Tong traveled toward Earth, Black Obsidian learned that Wang Jixuan had reappeared and decided to sell the information to powerful figures who had been waiting for him.

Wang Jixuan reunited with Ling Tong, then met with his companions to hear about the vast Star Domain and the war against the Blade Beasts. The chapter ended with evidence that powerful Black Obsidian figures were searching for the remnant soul of the cultivator, possibly on behalf of the being behind the finger that had once crushed Wang Jixuan’s Dao Heart.

• Wang Jixuan reunited with Ling Tong, who promised to leave the front lines and stay with him while they had the chance.
• Wang Jixuan met Peony, Red Snake, Wu Man, and Zheng Shiduo, and asked them to report on events in the Star Domain.
• Amina told Wang Jixuan that the Ina Civilization’s expansion had been blocked by an Advanced Civilization, though some Spiritual Practitioners later escaped beyond the Star Domain.
• Wu Man explained that Human Civilization had become a leading force in the Northern Star Domain United Resistance Army, despite other civilizations growing wary of its rise.
• Wu Man and Zheng Shiduo reported that a small group using spiritual-energy-like methods had overwhelmed Spiritual Practitioners during two lost campaigns.
• Peony revealed that the group had interrogated captured Mechs about the location of a cultivator’s remnant soul, leading Wang Jixuan to suspect a connection to the being behind the finger.

Wang Jixuan learned that mysterious experts were searching for him and that they might be using Soul Search on people who knew his whereabouts. As he discussed the threat with Ling Tong, they received news that the ship carrying Gao Huating had been hijacked.

• After Wu Man and the others left for the front lines, Wang Jixuan warned them to report any sign of the mysterious experts and urged them to remain guardians of humanity.
• Gao Huating studied news about Black Storm aboard her ship, but four cloaked figures appeared outside and one shattered a porthole.
• Ling Tong told Wang Jixuan that Wan Linqian had warned Earth that the mysterious experts had found Sabrina, who had begun suffering intermittent memory loss.
• Ling Tong explained that Wan Linqian had become the powerful Lady Saintess of the Seven Gods Cult, which Sabrina and six Spiritual Practitioners had formed.
• Ling Tong received an emergency alert stating that the ship carrying Little Hua Ting had been hijacked.

Ling Tong and Wang Jixuan confronted four mysterious cultivators who hijacked a vessel and demanded that Wang Jixuan leave with them. After learning they knew about his failed tribulation and the danger posed by another group, Wang Jixuan invited them to the City in the Clouds to continue their discussion, while planning to uncover their true intentions.

• Ling Tong consulted Wang Jixuan after four cloaked hijackers seized Vessel Tianze-032, took Gao Huating hostage, and demanded access to the Interstellar Teleportation Gate.
• Wang Jixuan ordered the hijackers to come to him, then sent a clone with Amina to meet them at a Space Fortress as their vessel arrived under military escort.
• Four cultivators broke through the fortress barrier, released Gao Huating, and demanded that Wang Jixuan leave with them for his protection.
• Wang Jixuan questioned the cultivators' identity and motives, while Wu Man confirmed that they were not the group that had attacked them before.
• The leading woman revealed that the cultivators knew Wang Jixuan had survived a failed tribulation six hundred thousand years earlier and warned that spreading cultivation methods had burdened him with immense karma.
• Wang Jixuan invited the four cultivators to the City in the Clouds, and they agreed to go with him.

Wang Jixuan hosted four mysterious cultivators who urged him to leave Earth, while he questioned them about their mission and the unusually difficult heavenly tribulation in This Realm. After they departed, he learned they called this world the Immortal Restriction Zone and prepared for the arrival of their rivals as a civilian spacecraft left Earth.

• Wang Jixuan welcomed the four visitors to the City in the Clouds, secured the city, and hosted them at a banquet with Amina, Gao Huating, Wu Man, and Red Snake.
• The visitors urged Wang Jixuan to return with them, warning that he had accumulated immense karma, and were stunned when he claimed to have endured heavenly tribulation in his Second Life.
• Wang Jixuan discussed the visitors with his companions and concluded that another group might soon arrive, so he ordered Peony to take Ling Tong away and arranged markers to lure the newcomers into a trap.
• Wang Jixuan eavesdropped as the visitors identified the world as the Immortal Restriction Zone and praised his cultivation and Core Circuits, while Jia Nü sent an unexplained message.
• A civilian passenger spacecraft departed Earth's outer-space Stargate.

Black Obsidian brought a group of Spiritual Practitioners to Earth, while Wang Jixuan discovered another group of powerful visitors approaching and staged a confrontation to learn more about them. After the visitors denied summoning reinforcements, Wang Jixuan and Amina offered to help them find their enemies in exchange for information.

• Black Obsidian arrived at Earth with four Spiritual Practitioners and negotiated with their leader for a soul-control technique in return for taking them to Black Storm.
• Peony detected at least seven or eight Spiritual Practitioner-level Psionic Fluctuations outside the atmosphere, prompting Wang Jixuan to gather Amina and the others.
• Wang Jixuan arranged for Bronze and Silver Puppets to surround the visitors and had Zheng Shiduo and Wu Man accuse them of summoning reinforcements.
• Amina intervened and proposed searching for the newly arrived experts together, while Wang Jixuan asked the visitors to explain who their enemies were.
• The leading woman agreed to help Wang Jixuan find the newcomers in exchange for an item from their corpses, and Wang Jixuan agreed to trade information.

Wang Jixuan used himself as bait to draw out the Dark Cult members and trap them in a formation, while the four mysterious cultivators revealed that their enemies belonged to the Dark Cult. The chapter ended with Wang Jixuan calling on the four cultivators to join the ambush.

• Wang Jixuan refused to bomb the Space Elevator, ordered nearby settlements quietly evacuated, and lured the attackers toward a prepared ambush.
• Black Obsidian revealed that he had deliberately exposed his group to detection, but the nine Dark Cult members ignored his advice and leaped from the elevator to attack Wang Jixuan.
• Jia Nü identified the attackers as the Dark Cult and said they had come to capture Wang Jixuan, while refusing to reveal more about their organization.
• Wang Jixuan's formation stopped the attackers' first assault, but the nine broke through and pursued him as he fled.
• Peony's robots activated as mobile formation anchors, trapping the nine Dark Cult members in a disorienting formation.
• Wang Jixuan turned to the four hidden cultivators and told them it was their turn to act.

Wang Jixuan used Peony and Shen Qionglin’s shifting formation to pit the Heavenly Net visitors against the Dark Cult, then watched as they destroyed the nine-person group. After the battle, he asked to join Heavenly Net and learned the attacker who had nearly killed him belonged to neither faction, though they had ties to the Dark Cult.

• Peony altered the formation to release two trapped cultivators, and Jia Nü’s four-person group attacked them.
• Wang Jixuan seized and devoured one cultivator’s Nascent Soul, while Jia Nü’s group killed another; Peony then released two more Dark Cult members into the fight.
• Black Obsidian recorded the battle and withdrew rather than risk helping the trapped group.
• Peony activated the Planet Grand Formation, but Black Obsidian’s avatar had already escaped; Heavenly Net’s group killed the remaining Dark Cult members and their leader.
• Jia Nü gave Wang Jixuan a share of the spoils and said the owner of the finger that struck him belonged to neither faction, though they likely had ties to the Dark Cult.
• Wang Jixuan asked to join Heavenly Net, and Jia Nü offered to recommend him while warning that both Heavenly Net and the Tianluo Faction could return by teleportation.

Wang Jixuan considered the threat posed by the Tianluo Faction and Dark Cult while spending a honeymoon with Ling Tong, who decided to continue her career and proposed a private wedding and a child. As they approached the Moon, the Stone of the Past began glowing and trembling, signaling an unexplained anomaly.

• Wang Jixuan ordered Peony to investigate how Dark Cultists had entered Earth and discussed the possibility of leaving with her someday.
• Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong spent a month and a half traveling together before boarding a warship bound for the lunar base.
• Ling Tong told Wang Jixuan she would return to work after their time together and asked whether his new enemies posed a danger.
• Ling Tong proposed a private wedding, and Wang Jixuan agreed and suggested they have a child.
• As the warship descended toward the Moon's terminator, Wang Jixuan noticed the Stone of the Past glowing with pulsing seven-colored light.

Wang Jixuan discovered that the Stone of the Past resonated with something on the moon and prepared to investigate it with Ling Tong. Meanwhile, Peony detected a spatial anomaly on Earth as the three-month interval approached, and Wang Jixuan left her to handle the response before exploring Guanghan Province.

• Wang Jixuan consulted San Jie Lang Lang Zi about the Stone of the Past's reaction near the moon, and they discussed the Ina Civilization, the Immortal Restriction Zone, and the need to infiltrate the Tianluo Faction and Dark Cult.
• Peony and Gao Huating watched Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong approach the lunar base while discussing Peony's preparations and Gao Huating's retirement from idol work.
• Peony detected probing spatial fluctuations near the site of an earlier battle on Earth, and Gao Huating realized the three-month interval was nearly over.
• Wang Jixuan calculated that the anomaly matched the midpoint of the groups' three-month round trip and gave Peony authority to respond.
• Wang Jixuan arrived at Guanghan Province, saw the Stone of the Past glowing again, and invited Ling Tong to explore the moon with him.