Chapter Summaries

Wang Jixuan used soul searching on Bristle Bear and uncovered the Psionic Management Committee’s structure, its nuclear bombs, and its secret departments. He then altered Bristle Bear’s soul with a Buddhist technique, and Bristle Bear woke as Dragonfly Aunt submitted an A+ loss-of-control rating for Fortress 76.

• Bristle Bear resisted interrogation until Deep Sea threatened him with the Annihilation Cannon, then offered to cooperate and warned that an S-Class Psionicist could attack Fortress No. 76 if he died.
• Wang Jixuan decided to extract Bristle Bear’s memories after Wu Man’s Mental Shocks left him unconscious.
• Wang Jixuan performed the Soul Searching Technique and learned about the Psionic Management Committee, the Six Elders, their nuclear bombs, and the groups and secret departments under their control.
• Wang Jixuan used the Demonic Rakshasa Buddha Heart on Bristle Bear, intending to make him abandon evil and embrace good.
• Dragonfly Aunt submitted a report rating Fortress 76’s loss of control A+, describing Bristle Bear’s capture and the youth’s strength as B+.

Wang Jixuan cultivated while the Bristle Bear’s sudden remorse exposed a warning about the coming Judgment Squad. As the squad headed toward Fortress No. 76, Wang Jixuan asked what forces it contained.

• Wang Jixuan resumed intensive cultivation and planned to flee to Fortress No. 82 if Fortress No. 76 fell, while continuing his mechanical studies and chatting with Ling Tong.
• After waking, the Bristle Bear confessed his guilt to Zheng Shiduo, broke free of his restraints, and begged to be whipped as punishment.
• Wang Jixuan and the others watched a recording of the Bristle Bear contacting Dragonfly Aunt, who secretly warned him that the Judgment Squad would arrive in twenty-four hours and target him.
• Wang Jixuan asked what forces the Judgment Squad had, while a transport aircraft carrying Ling Tong and researchers departed for Fortress No. 76.

As Psionic Capital’s Judgment Squad threatened Fortress No. 76, Ling Tong relayed orders for an ambush while the military arranged to move Wang Zheng to safety. Wang Zheng left the fortress with Zheng Shiduo, then encountered Ling Tong waiting for him at the supply station.

• Red Snake and the others debated moving Wang Zheng and Wu Man as Psionic Capital’s investigation and Judgment Squads threatened the fortress.
• Ling Tong relayed the Commander-in-Chief’s plan to use Wu Man and Bristle Bear as bait for an ambush, while Uncle Tai and Wan Xiaoqi joined Wang Zheng’s weapons research team.
• Ling Tong ordered Wang Zheng temporarily transferred under the protection of an instructor, and Wang Zheng agreed to follow the military’s arrangements.
• Wang Zheng told Zhou Zhengde to protect Wu Man and release Bristle Bear, then prepared to leave Fortress No. 76 with Zheng Shiduo.
• Wang Zheng and Zheng Shiduo reached the supply station, where Ling Tong waited for Wang Zheng wearing unfinished Mechanical Arms.

Wang Jixuan reunited with Ling Tong, gave her crystal cores, and impulsively kissed her before leaving with Zheng Shiduo. He then met Black Instructor, who brought him to observe and assess a Half-Human Mech operation as Psionicists approached Fortress No. 76.

• Wang Jixuan complimented Ling Tong, gave her twenty Pure Crystal Cores and two Magic Tool Bagua Plates, then turned back to kiss her before heading out with Zheng Shiduo.
• Wang Jixuan rode in a military truck and met Black Instructor, who explained that the Commander-in-Chief had assigned him to protect Wang Jixuan.
• Black Instructor showed Wang Jixuan the Half-Human Mech deployment and asked him to rate six New Generation Half-Human Mechs during the operation.
• Black Instructor detected a stealth transport carrying six Psionicists approaching and said the Half-Human Mechs would have to identify and handle the threat themselves.

Wang Jixuan watched Ling Tong and the Combat Machines ambush a Judgment Squad aircraft, killing several Psionicists and capturing one, but a hidden S-Class Psionicist turned the battle into a disaster. The enemy’s Ice Ball destroyed Expansion Zone C, and Wang Jixuan proposed hiding in Fortress No. 82.

• Ling Tong and the Combat Machines attacked the incoming aircraft, killing several Psionicists and trapping Target Two under a drone assault.
• Ling Tong and Black Scale used Electromagnetic Guns to kill Target One while Deep Sea ordered the forces to capture Target Two alive.
• A hidden Psionicist accelerated and armored the giant Ice Ball, defeating the defenders’ attempts to intercept it.
• The Ice Ball struck Expansion Zone C, destroying the camp and killing thousands as the S-Class Psionicist escaped upward.
• Black Instructor warned Wang Jixuan that Fortress No. 76 was unsafe and suggested an Agricultural Fortress, but Wang Jixuan proposed hiding in Fortress No. 82.

After the destruction of Fortress Zone C, Wang Jixuan decided to go undercover at Fortress No. 82 and target the lesser demons there. Black Instructor revealed Psionic Capital’s sinister experiments and began preparing Wang Jixuan for a task force assignment, leaving him at a Supply Vehicle for forty-eight hours of special training.

• Wang Jixuan said he would head to Fortress No. 82 to slay lesser demons, while Black Instructor explained that Psionic Capital was protesting the deaths of its Psionicists and identified the escaped S-Class Psionicist Mo Feng.
• Wang Jixuan finished scoring the mission team as Ling Tong and Red Snake organized relief efforts in Zone C, and the convoy continued toward Fortress No. 82.
• Black Instructor detected that Wang Jixuan was absorbing psionic particles and explained Psionic Capital’s cloning experiments, its attempts to advance Psionicists, and the six SS-Class Psionicists’ plan to reach the realm of gods.
• Black Instructor told Wang Jixuan that he was nearing the collapse of his self-awareness and that the Commander-in-Chief needed a young successor to restrain Psionic Capital.
• Black Instructor dropped Wang Jixuan beside a camouflaged Supply Vehicle and announced that he would give him forty-eight hours of special training for a task force investigating corruption at Fortress No. 82.

Wang Jixuan passed Black Instructor’s physical test and received a powerful experimental Silver-White Armor, which he trained with while learning about the tensions surrounding the 13th Institute. After thirty-nine hours, he and Black Instructor reached the outskirts of Fortress No. 82, ready to begin an infiltration, investigation, and hunt mission.

• Wang Jixuan carried a metal box across the dunes, then pushed himself through Black Instructor’s intensified endurance test and discovered that the burst of strength had nearly healed his soul injury.
• Black Instructor arranged a new experimental armor set for Wang Jixuan and told him to study its operation while they waited for it to arrive.
• Ling Tong told Wang Jixuan that Area C’s reconstruction had begun, tensions with the 13th Institute were rising, and an S-Class Psionicist might head toward Fortress No. 82.
• After hearing about the possible S-Class Psionicist, Wang Jixuan trained seriously with his armor and learned its basic functions.
• Black Instructor delivered the Silver-White Armor, and Wang Jixuan equipped it after connecting its Neural Auxiliary Chip.
• Thirty-nine hours later, Wang Jixuan and Black Instructor reached Fortress No. 82, where Wang Jixuan prepared to deploy on an infiltration, investigation, and hunt mission.

Wang Jixuan infiltrated Fortress No. 82 in X Armor, uncovered evidence of corruption and human trafficking, and identified the officials and psionicists behind the attack on Fortress No. 76. Black Instructor and War Zone D5 cut off the fortress’s communications as commanders issued an order to its personnel.

• Wang Jixuan used optical camouflage and spiritual awareness to enter Fortress No. 82 through a ventilation outlet while Black Instructor provided information support.
• Wang Jixuan deployed miniature drones to record officers violating discipline and overheard that the Commander-in-Chief had ordered missiles fired at Fortress No. 76 under the influence of the Biological Affairs Minister.
• Wang Jixuan discovered that psionicists planned to use Fortress No. 82 as a reception point for forces preparing to attack Fortress No. 76, and he saw the garrison commander under a psionicist’s control.
• Wang Jixuan found hundreds of people being processed and shipped to the Psionic Capital, while Black Instructor synchronized the evidence with the Commander-in-Chief.
• Black Instructor activated an Electronic Warfare Aircraft’s operation, sealing the fortress and cutting off its networks as Dongfang Zhenghong and Xiang Yubo appeared on screens to address its personnel.

Wang Jixuan attacked Fortress No. 82 in X Armor, killing Psionicists and uncovering their control of the garrison commander while the Military Task Force launched a purge. As Nagi Haminaka led the remaining Psionicists toward the first floor, Wang Jixuan prepared a grenade ambush from the ventilation duct above them.

• Wang Jixuan emerged from a ventilation shaft and killed armed gangsters in the warehouse before fighting his way through their defenses.
• Wang Jixuan raced to the Fifth Floor sanatorium, where disarmed soldiers obeyed his orders and he killed Psionicist attackers.
• Wang Jixuan killed the Psionicist women holding the garrison commander and, at Black Instructor's direction, helped the senile commander shoot himself.
• Nagi Haminaka learned the Task Force was advancing and ordered the Psionicists to take their weapons and head for the first floor.
• Wang Jixuan hid above the Psionicists, lowered a bag of High-Explosive Grenades into their midst, and braced for the explosion.

Wang Jixuan destroyed the Psionicists at Psionic Home No. 82, rescued Minister Nagi Haminaka, and put Fortress Cleanup Unit soldiers to work arresting those involved. Black Instructor revealed that the war-zone leaders planned to use the scandal as leverage against the 13th Institute and escalate the conflict into a war against the Psionic Capital.

• A bomb collapsed Psionic Home’s conference room, and Wang Jixuan killed the Psionicists who attacked him with the X Armor’s weapons and his spiritual attacks.
• Black Instructor watched Wang Jixuan’s fight, judged his combat power exceptional, and restarted the X Battle Armor development team.
• Fortress Cleanup Unit officers saw Psionicists flee the ruined building, then watched Wang Jixuan emerge with Minister Nagi Haminaka and order the remaining Psionicists shot or detained.
• Wang Jixuan assigned the officers to arrest targets throughout the fortress, then rested while considering a magical weapon for the X Armor.
• Black Instructor told Wang Jixuan that the war-zone leadership had let the scandal unfold to gain leverage against the 13th Institute and intended to escalate the conflict into war against the Psionic Capital.

Wang Jixuan learned that the war zones were preparing to confront the Psionic Capital and advised Zhou Zhengde on how to make his case. As a Psionicist team approached Fortress No. 82, Wang Jixuan and Black Instructor recognized that it might be Dragonfly Aunt’s investigation group and waited to confirm its identity.

• Black Instructor told Wang Jixuan that the war zones were preparing to break their restraint against the Psionic Capital, and that Zhou Zhengde would present evidence before the commanders and military court.
• After the Psionicists at Fortress No. 82 surrendered and an emergency team arrived, Wang Jixuan returned to Black Instructor’s hidden Supply Station, where he learned reinforcements and new equipment were on the way.
• Wang Jixuan exchanged messages with Zhou Zhengde and advised him to focus his speech on current violations, avoid broadening the conflict to all humanity, and keep Bristle Bear out of the dispute.
• Wang Jixuan and Black Instructor detected three Psionicists approaching in a stealth aircraft; Wang Jixuan refused to attack, and they considered whether the team belonged to Dragonfly Aunt’s investigation group.
• Aboard the approaching aircraft, Dragonfly Aunt paced irritably.

Wang Jixuan surveilled Dragonfly Aunt’s team and learned that they intended to investigate Fortress No. 82 but refused to attack civilians. After discussing Psionic Capital’s factions with Black Instructor, Wang Jixuan went to collect his reward, while Black Instructor eagerly anticipated his reaction to it.

• Wang Jixuan watched Dragonfly Aunt, Shaman, and Treant Beta from his X Armor and marked Treant Beta for capture as a valuable cultivation resource.
• Dragonfly Aunt explained the political crisis surrounding Fortress No. 82, and her team voted to investigate without carrying out orders to retaliate against innocent humans.
• Black Instructor explained the Naturalist, Dominion, and Beast God Factions to Wang Jixuan and agreed to monitor Dragonfly Aunt’s team rather than eliminate them.
• Wang Jixuan clarified that he wanted Treant Beta for research, then left to collect the operation’s reward while Black Instructor watched and anticipated his reaction.

Wang Jixuan activated the Loyal Wingman R99 Black Instructor had given him and named her Peony after testing her abilities and personality. As Peony went to stand guard, Wang Jixuan detected movement from the aircraft carrying the investigation team.

• Daoist Wang found a humanoid combat robot resembling Ling Tong and learned from Black Instructor that the R99 was powerful but carried a risk of losing control.
• Wang Jixuan activated the R99, watched her verify his identity, and asked her to put on armor and choose her own appearance.
• Peony explained her combat capabilities and mission, and Wang Jixuan named her Peony after she said she wanted a name.
• Wang Jixuan tested Peony’s Humor Index, discovered her suggestive preset settings, and ordered her to stand guard without exposing herself.
• Wang Jixuan detected movement from the aircraft carrying the investigation team.

Wang Jixuan secretly harvested Treant Beta’s branches for talisman-making and returned to the Supply Station, where Peony helped monitor the equipment. He then heard Dragonfly Aunt refuse pressure from Psionic Capital to falsely rate Fortress No. 82 as an S-Class danger.

• Wang Jixuan followed Shaman and Treant Beta, then used the base’s drones to distract them and secretly took the branches Treant Beta had buried.
• Wang Jixuan discovered that Treant Beta’s branches were rich in spiritual power and could serve as talisman paper, so he sealed and stored them.
• Wang Jixuan brought Peony inside to operate the equipment and inspect his armor, then resumed cultivating.
• Peony intercepted a call between Dragonfly Aunt and Psionic Capital, and Wang Jixuan listened with Black Instructor.
• An old man offered Dragonfly Aunt promotion and S-Class resources if she rated Fortress No. 82 as an S-Class danger, but Dragonfly Aunt refused and cursed at him.

Wang Jixuan and Black Instructor prepared Fortress No. 82 for retaliation by the Psionic Management Committee while Wang Jixuan watched Zhou Zhengde’s televised military hearing. Zhou Zhengde exposed the accused psionicists and the Committee’s role, then seized an attempted network attack as an opportunity to identify and contact the attacker.

• Black Instructor warned that extremists in the Psionic Management Committee might retaliate against Fortress No. 82 and said he would transfer troops there while Wang Jixuan continued his research.
• Peony helped Wang Jixuan with his work and security as he cultivated for three days, while fortresses across War Zone D5 tightened defenses and prepared for conflict.
• Wang Jixuan encouraged Zhou Zhengde before the military hearing, and Peony sent a message threatening to arrange blind dates for Doctor Wei Na if Zhou failed to argue effectively.
• Zhou Zhengde presented evidence against Nagi Haminaka, Feng Bangjie, Bristle Bear, and Qin Qin, while Bristle Bear admitted his role in unjust investigations and implicated the Psionic Management Committee.
• Zhou Zhengde accused Nagi Haminaka of coercing Fortress No. 82 and using ordinary humans in the Infusion Experiment, then asked the judge to let them trace an attacker who tried to breach the hearing’s system.

Mo Feng announced that Dark Dawn would attack Fortress No. 82 with an ice meteorite, prompting War Zone D5 to prepare its defenses. As Ling Tong and Red Snake launched their mechas to intercept the falling Ice Ball, Wang Jixuan detected several figures approaching the Surface Camp through the desert.

• Mo Feng claimed responsibility for Dark Dawn and threatened to drop an ice meteorite on Fortress No. 82 within 24 hours.
• Black Instructor explained that Dark Dawn was a pretext and ordered preparations to kill Mo Feng while protecting civilians.
• Ling Tong warned Wang Jixuan that Mo Feng had formed an Ice Ball and urged him to leave the area.
• Peony reported that Mo Feng and two other Psionicists were outside the atmosphere as the Ice Ball descended toward Fortress No. 82.
• Red Snake fired her Annihilation Cannon at the Ice Ball while Ling Tong attacked it with her Laser Blade.
• Wang Jixuan detected several figures emerging from the Sari Desert and creeping toward the Surface Camp.

Wang Jixuan detected six Psionicist intruders attacking Fortress No. 82, and Peony killed a B-Class attacker before joining him at the camp. After Mo Feng sent a challenge and a Psionic Fluctuation swept the fortress, soldiers began attacking one another.

• Wang Jixuan detected six intruders approaching the ventilation ducts and alerted Fortress No. 82, where the attackers launched a coordinated assault and released pink gas into the vents.
• Peony asked to intercept a B-Class Body Enhancement Psionicist charging toward Wang Jixuan's Supply Station and killed him with a Hundredfold Electromagnetic Fist.
• Black Instructor explained that Peony was a restricted Loyal Wingman whose prototype had destroyed a satellite fortress, and Wang Jixuan headed to the camp with her.
• A female officer reported that the unknown gas had spread through parts of the fortress, and Ling Tong told Wang Jixuan that the captured attackers had been transferred from the heavily infiltrated D3 War Zone.
• Mo Feng sent a video challenging them to a Murder Game, then a Psionic Fluctuation swept the fortress and caused soldiers to attack their comrades.

Wang Jixuan discovered that Mo Feng’s group had unleashed a gu plague across Fortress No. 82 and began purifying infected soldiers while Wu Man learned an incantation to help save the population. After Mo Feng issued her demands and the military retaliated against Psionicists, Wang Jixuan gathered Zheng Shiduo, Peony, and Ling Tong to track down Mo Feng.

• Wang Jixuan identified the berserk soldiers’ condition as a reproducing Spirit Gu and purified the pink mist as the outbreak spread through Fortress No. 82.
• Wang Jixuan arranged a container and treated nearly three hundred soldiers, while Mo Feng released a video threatening daily killings and listing five demands.
• Ling Tong reported the casualties and the military’s execution of fifty-three Psionicists in retaliation, as Wang Jixuan continued treating the infected.
• Wang Jixuan taught Wu Man a Demon Purifying Incantation, and Wu Man demonstrated that it could release a powerful Azure Light while using little of his energy.
• Wang Jixuan left Wu Man to help purify the fortress and called Zheng Shiduo, Peony, and Ling Tong to join him in hunting Mo Feng.

Wang Jixuan negotiated with Dragonfly Aunt for Mo Feng’s location and Treant Beta’s help, offering relief from her psionic suffering in return. With Beta joining his group, Wang Jixuan began preparing a thunder array to confront Mo Feng.

• Wang Jixuan recruited Zheng Shiduo and Peony for his plan, then took a holographically camouflaged vehicle into the Sari Desert.
• Dragonfly Aunt discussed the political crisis with Shaman before Wang Jixuan contacted her team and proposed a deal.
• Wang Jixuan revealed Dragonfly Aunt’s health problems and gave her Talisman Water, which eased her symptoms and secured her cooperation.
• Dragonfly Aunt agreed to share Mo Feng’s location when she came within range the next day, and sent Treant Beta with Wang Jixuan’s group.
• On the way back to the Supply Station, Wang Jixuan planned to use Beta’s wood to build the Thunder Venerable Cleanses Demons killing array.

Wang Jixuan organized a small squad to prepare a trap for Mo Feng, using Treant Beta’s ability to grow peach wood to build array bases and devise formations. As the squad finished preparing its equipment, Mo Feng’s team learned that the military had agreed to their conditions and would hand over Feng Bangjie and the Task Force members.

• Wang Jixuan gathered Ling Tong, Zheng Shiduo, Peony, and Treant Beta to plan a way to lure Mo Feng into a trap before her squad’s next attack.
• Wang Jixuan had Treant Beta grow peach wood while Ling Tong and Zheng Shiduo gathered supplies, then secretly studied how spiritual energy affected Beta’s psionic energy.
• After six hours, Wang Jixuan and his teammates processed the peach wood into array bases for the Sky-Obscuring Yellow Sand Array and the Thunder Lord Demon Purging Array.
• The Black Instructor reviewed Ling Tong’s risky plan and secretly authorized X Battle Armor for Zheng Shiduo.
• Two hours later, Mo Feng’s teammates cheered after learning that the military had agreed to hand over Feng Bangjie and the Task Force members first.