Chapter Summaries

Mo Feng arranged a desert meeting to retrieve Feng Bangjie and capture a Task Force member, while Wang Jixuan’s side prepared a trap. At the dune, Zheng Shiduo provoked Mo Feng into charging him, and Wang Jixuan signaled the ambush to begin.

• Mo Feng rejected peaceful negotiations and ordered her team to capture the Task Force member, rescue Feng Bangjie, and show the Psionic Capital’s strength.
• Wang Jixuan instructed Peony to bargain over the meeting terms, and both sides settled on a dawn meeting in the Sari Desert.
• The military convoy set out with Zheng Shiduo wearing an X Battle Armor, Ling Tong escorting Feng Bangjie, and Wang Jixuan concealed in another vehicle.
• Mo Feng ordered the convoy to change its destination at the last minute, then descended to meet Zheng Shiduo at the dune.
• Zheng Shiduo unveiled his face, unleashed his Mental Strength, and insulted Mo Feng, prompting her to charge as Wang Jixuan, Peony, and Ling Tong launched their ambush.

Wang Jixuan and War Zone D5’s team trapped Mo Feng in overlapping arrays and battered her with coordinated attacks. As Mo Feng tried to escape, Wang Jixuan’s final lightning strike killed her, while Black Instructor Fu Jian confronted the old man who arrived to stop him.

• Wang Jixuan detonated Feng Bangjie’s High-Explosive Collar, disrupting Mo Feng’s attack and giving Zheng Shiduo time to survive.
• Peony and Ling Tong joined the fight, while Wang Jixuan used drone-deployed array bases to trap Mo Feng in the Yellow Sand Array.
• Wang Jixuan activated the Thunder Lord Suppresses Demons Killing Array and struck Mo Feng with lightning, but she endured the attack and kept trying to escape.
• Ling Tong and Peony struck Mo Feng as she charged toward the array’s edge, and Wang Jixuan entered the fight with his Peachwood Broadsword.
• Wang Jixuan ignored the old man’s plea to spare Mo Feng and killed her with a lightning strike, while Fu Jian confronted the arriving old man and charged his Special Grade Annihilation Cannon.

Wang Jixuan and his allies killed Mo Feng and cleared the poisonous gas from Fortress No. 82, while Fu Jian crippled the hidden S-Class Psionicist behind her. As the military prepared to use Mo Feng’s death against the 13th Institute, Fu Jian contacted Zhou Zhengde to ask his opinion on an undisclosed matter.

• Wang Jixuan destroyed Mo Feng’s soul and confirmed that she was dead, while Ling Tong directed the team to continue the plan.
• Mo Feng’s team tried to attack Fortress No. 82, but the Blood Worm Psionicist lost his connection to the worms, missiles locked onto their aircraft, and a technician sabotaged the craft before it exploded.
• Wu Man completed the purification of the infected people in Fortress No. 82 and passed out after reporting the mission’s success to Wang Jixuan.
• Wang Jixuan told Zhou Zhengde that Fu Jian had impersonated Black Shell Instructor and warned that the military should build support against the 13th Institute rather than act hastily.
• Fu Jian told Zhou Zhengde that he had taken the arm of a hidden S-Class Psionicist and damaged the man’s chance of advancing to SS-Class.
• Fu Jian contacted Zhou Zhengde and said he wanted his opinion on something.

Fu Jian planned to win Wang Jixuan’s trust and use his technology to strengthen humanity against the Blade Beasts, while Xing Tian ordered a covert attack on D5. The chapter ended with Wang Jixuan offering Fu Jian psionic therapy as the two began to reconcile, just as Dragonfly Aunt approached the Supply Station.

• Fu Jian told Zhou Zhengde that Wang Jixuan had received an alien civilization and that D5 needed to earn his goodwill while secretly removing Dominion Faction infiltrators.
• Fu Jian manipulated Peony’s repair request, delaying her hand repairs, while Wang Jixuan sent the sleeping Treant Beta back to Dragonfly Aunt with supplies.
• Xing Tian ordered his seven disciples to launch a covert surprise attack on D5 and, if necessary, draw a Blade Beast Swarm toward Fortress No. 82.
• Wang Jixuan offered Fu Jian psionic therapy to extend his life and promised a gift for War Zone D5, prompting the two to start talking like old friends.
• Peony noticed a psionic reaction approaching the Supply Station at high speed, and Wang Jixuan identified the arrival as Dragonfly Aunt.

Wang Jixuan inspected Fu Jian’s soul while trying to extend his life and discovered that the Commander-in-Chief carried immense baleful aura from the lives he had sacrificed and the people he had killed. The memories ended with Fu Jian learning of the naturally awakened Mu Liang at Fortress No. 76 and ordering attention to remain on the peripheral Blade Beast Swarms.

• Wang Jixuan found dense baleful aura around Fu Jian’s soul and asked him to sleep so he could inspect it safely.
• Wang Jixuan witnessed Fu Jian’s memories of losing his parents to the Blade Beasts, joining the military, losing his lover, and volunteering for the Half-Human Mech project.
• Fu Jian piloted the first-generation Terror Mech against King-Class Blade Beast TT230 and killed it, beginning a human counteroffensive.
• Fu Jian led the assault on the Psionic Capital rebellion and ordered devastating attacks, while Wang Jixuan discovered that his baleful aura came from impossible wartime decisions and losses.
• Wang Jixuan saw Fu Jian’s private wall of photographs and heard him wonder whether humanity still had a future.
• At Fortress Era Year 84, Fu Jian learned that Mu Liang had apparently awakened naturally and ordered the peripheral Blade Beast Swarms targeted while the main swarms slept.

Wang Jixuan secretly treated Fu Jian, easing his mental collapse, then met Dragonfly Aunt to trade information and arrange future cooperation. As Fu Jian headed to face a Psionicist delegation at the D5 Border, Sister Wan noticed Zheng Shiduo’s radar signal had disappeared.

• Fu Jian woke feeling much healthier after Wang Jixuan treated him, and Wang Jixuan left to meet Dragonfly Aunt while asking Fu Jian to pay him in crystal cores.
• Wang Jixuan reassured Dragonfly Aunt that Bristle Bear would soon be released, and she reported the Psionic Capital’s planned retaliation and Xing Tian’s likely revenge.
• Dragonfly Aunt asked who Wang Jixuan was and whether his healing water could help her friends; he concealed his identity but agreed to provide more water through their cooperation.
• Fu Jian arrived and said S-Class Psionicists were heading toward the D5 Border with D3’s support; after he left, Dragonfly Aunt introduced herself as Mai Qingting and negotiated a continuing exchange of intelligence and healing water.
• At Fortress No. 82, Ling Tong repaired her Mechanical Arm while Sister Wan teased her about Wang Jixuan, then noticed Zheng Shiduo’s radar signal had vanished.

After Zheng Shiduo was kidnapped and his X Armor stolen, Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong rescued him and locked down Fortress No. 82. During an inquiry, Wang exposed one suspected conspirator, while a woman in the room watched him with an eerie smile.

• Wang Jixuan used the Soul-Fixing Art to search for Zheng Shiduo while Ling Tong and Peony organized the lockdown and search.
• Zheng Shiduo woke in a wardrobe where two accomplices were shocking him, and Ling Tong and Wang Jixuan arrived to rescue him.
• Ling Tong received temporary control of Fortress No. 82 and summoned its former governor, ministers, and security captains to investigate the stolen armor.
• Wang Jixuan pressured the assembled officials and revealed that one man knew Zheng Shiduo had been rescued from a bedroom, information that had been sealed.
• The man admitted that the governor had ordered him to help steal the armor, and Wang Jixuan noticed a middle-aged woman smiling at him from across the room.

Wang Jixuan discovered that a Brain-Eating Worm had infiltrated a security captain, exposing the Blade Beasts’ ability to spy on humanity. As inspections uncovered growing numbers of carriers across the war zones, a soldier approached Wang Jixuan’s group and announced that he had come to negotiate on behalf of the Half-Human Mech.

• Wang Jixuan sensed something familiar in the Middle City Security Team captain, killed her after she attacked, and crushed the Brain-Eating Worm that burst from her head.
• Wang Jixuan learned that the Brain-Eating Worm could hide in the brain and spinal cord, while inspections found carriers in multiple war zones and raised fears that the creatures were monitoring humanity.
• Fu Jian ordered Wang Jixuan to avoid unnecessary risks and plan to return to Fortress No. 76 after its inspection, while Wang Jixuan warned Dragonfly Aunt about the worms.
• Wang Jixuan’s group reviewed reports of hundreds of carriers in War Zone D5 and more than a thousand detected in War Zone D3, with Ling Tong noting that some inspections could be used to purge political rivals.
• A soldier discarded his weapon, raised his hands, and declared that he had come to negotiate with the Half-Human Mech.

Wang Jixuan discovered that Ji Yale and Ding Jiajia, two A-Class Psionicists fleeing Xing Tian, had surrendered and removed their Self-Destruct Chips. The chapter ended when the Mimic Blade Beast Preacher approached the camp and called for Black Storm to talk.

• A controlled soldier approached Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong to negotiate, but Ji Yale revealed that he and his pregnant wife Ding Jiajia wanted to escape Xing Tian and seek the military's protection.
• After reviewing their message and memories, Wang Jixuan agreed to shelter the couple and remove their Self-Destruct Chips, while learning about Xing Tian's crimes and the other students' plans.
• Wang Jixuan removed both chips and decided to make Ji Yale an A-Class combatant for War Zone D5, while sparing Ding Jiajia from his Buddhist technique because she was pregnant.
• Peony detected a Mimic Blade Beast approaching the camp, and Preacher called out to Black Storm, saying that they needed to talk.

A Mimic Blade Beast envoy came to Fortress No. 82 to demand that Wang Jixuan return with it, but Wang Jixuan killed it and learned the Blade Beasts would wage war in ten days. With Blade Beast forces gathering, he planned to return to Fortress No. 76 to break through to the Returning to Truth Realm and prepare weapons for humanity.

• Wang Jixuan delayed meeting the Mimic Blade Beast envoy while he treated the captured A-Class Psionicist, and Peony waited outside the camp.
• Zhou Zhengde joined Fu Jian and other commanders as they watched Peony meet the envoy, while Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong traveled to negotiate.
• The envoy called Wang Jixuan a Spiritual Practitioner, threatened humanity, and declared that the Blade Beasts would launch a war in ten days.
• Wang Jixuan attacked and killed the Preacher envoy, then took its crystal core as Ling Tong reported the threat to the commanders.
• Fu Jian ordered War Zone D5 to enter first-level combat readiness as Blade Beast forces gathered near the war zone.
• Wang Jixuan decided to return to Fortress No. 76 to pursue a breakthrough and make Crystal Core Greatswords, then noticed Zheng Shiduo approaching with Wu Man.

Wang Jixuan discovered that Wu Man had begun cultivating by misusing a purification spell and planned to advance his own cultivation with Blade Beast corpses. As Fortress No. 76 prepared for battle, Wang Jixuan entered the corpse pile to practice the Dragon Python Swallowing Heaven Technique.

• Wu Man showed Wang Jixuan how repeated use of the purification spell had helped him control and increase the energy in his body, and Wang Jixuan warned him that he was following a dangerous path.
• Wang Jixuan decided to keep cultivation methods secret until he was strong enough to protect them, then asked Peony to request fresh Blade Beast corpses from Commander Dongfang.
• Gao Huating hurried to work after encountering Zheng Shiduo, Wu Man, Dongfang Zhenghong, and Ling Tong in the dormitory building, and Ling Tong went to help tidy Wang Jixuan's room.
• Wang Jixuan and Dongfang Zhenghong discussed the approaching Blade Beast threat, and Dongfang asked for help transferring to the front lines; Wang advised him to remain at Fortress No. 76 and revealed that Old Fu had selected him as a future military candidate.
• Wang Jixuan reached Uncle Tai's workshop, jumped into the Blade Beast corpses, and began cultivating the Dragon Python Swallowing Heaven Technique.

Wang Jixuan advanced his Dragon Python Swallowing Heaven Technique by absorbing Blade Beast blood energy and souls while the war zone prepared for an immense assault. As Ji Heibao and Ji Xiao infiltrated Fortress 76 to cause trouble, they sensed a powerful Psionic Fluctuation underground.

• Wang Jixuan completed the introductory stage of the Dragon Python Swallowing Heaven Technique, absorbed more than a hundred Blade Beast remnant souls, and formed a monstrous python tattoo on his arm.
• Wang Jixuan ordered Peony to supply more Blade Beasts, then helped Uncle Tai finish adjusting the Lightning Summoning Technique; four days later, the workshop sent good news to War Zone D5's Command Center.
• Fu Jian rejected seeking help from Psionic Capital and ordered one-third of the Autonomous Mech Legion activated as six King-Class Blade Beasts and their swarms gathered near the defensive line.
• Wang Zheng, Ling Tong, Little Zhou, and Old Zheng discussed the impending attack and agreed that Wang Zheng might support Fortress No. 82 if it came under threat.
• Wang Jixuan continued processing Blade Beasts and began another breakthrough while the exhausted workshop crew produced equipment for the front line.
• Ji Heibao and Ji Xiao infiltrated Fortress 76 intending to damage it and kill some people, but detected an intensifying Psionic Fluctuation underground and went to investigate.

Wang Jixuan completed his breakthrough into the early Returning to Truth Realm, then helped orchestrate an ambush against the intruding A-Class Psionicists Ji Xiao and Ji Heibao. Ji Xiao escaped to the Eighth Floor, where he faced a mysterious armored figure whose power shattered his Telekinetic Spear.

• Wang Jixuan completed Bone Forging and entered the early Returning to Truth Realm, but detected Ji Xiao and Ji Heibao approaching the Seventh Floor.
• Wang Jixuan alerted Ling Tong, and Fortress No. 76 activated electromagnetic shielding while its forces prepared an ambush.
• Ji Xiao and Ji Heibao approached Wang Jixuan's workshop, where Ji Xiao's Mental Shock failed against Peony and the defenders opened fire.
• Peony, Ling Tong, and Red Snake attacked Ji Heibao while Deep Sea pursued Ji Xiao through the elevator shaft.
• Ji Xiao fled to the Eighth Floor and launched a Telekinetic Spear at a silver-armored figure, but the spear shattered before reaching it.

Wang Jixuan and Deep Sea captured Ji Xiao, then Wang Jixuan modified him and uncovered memories of the Infusion Ceremony that may connect to the Spiritual Practitioner Civilization. The chapter ended with a gigantic Vertical Eye appearing above Fortress No. 82 as a voice announced, “Found... you...”

• Wang Jixuan used talismans and his X Armor to defeat Ji Xiao, while Deep Sea arrived and helped capture him alive.
• Wang Jixuan took Ji Xiao to the workshop, where he examined the man’s memories and learned that Ji Xiao had been an agent for Xing Tian in War Zone D2.
• Wang Jixuan discovered memories of the Infusion Ceremony, in which an unknown device projected a pair of eyes and killed most of the people subjected to it.
• Wang Jixuan infused Ji Xiao with Buddhist teachings, disabled his ability to harm women, and arranged for Deep Sea to install a Self-Destruct Chip and take him away.
• Wan Xiaoqi reported that a gigantic Vertical Eye had appeared above Fortress No. 82, and Wang Jixuan heard a voice say, “Found... you...”

Wang Jixuan discovered that a King-Class Blade Beast had placed a Death Mark on him, making Fortress No. 82 a likely target for an assault. He prepared to use himself as bait in an ambush while the fortress and War Zone D5 mobilized for battle, and the chapter ended with Deep Sea checking on the guilt-ridden Ji Xiao before returning to the forge.

• Wang Jixuan saw a King-Class Blade Beast’s Vertical Eye and found a matching mark hovering above his head, which Ling Tong and the others could not remove.
• Ling Tong explained that past appearances of the Vertical Eye had preceded devastating Blade Beast assaults, and the team learned the attack might begin before Fortress No. 82 finished evacuating.
• Wang Jixuan proposed using the Death Mark to lure the seventh King-Class Blade Beast into an ambush and began teaching Wu Man, Deep Sea, and Ling Tong how to produce talismans, Crystal Core Weapons, and Formation Disks.
• Resources gathered at Fortresses 76 and 82 as Wang Jixuan’s group worked to prepare for the coming battle.
• Deep Sea found Ji Xiao repeatedly hurting himself in his cell over his past actions and ordered a soldier to sedate him and keep him alive.

Wang Jixuan prepared weapons and arrays for the battle against Assassin No. 7, then traveled to the battlefield near Fortress No. 82 as the Blade Beast Swarm advanced. The chapter ended with the swarm bypassing the minefields and expected to reach the fortress’s outer defenses within fifty minutes.

• Wang Jixuan gave Ling Tong a Crystal Core longsword and began forging weapons for the approaching battle.
• Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong left Fortress No. 76 for the battlefield near Fortress No. 82, where Dongfang Zhenghong commanded the forces assembled against Assassin No. 7.
• Wang Jixuan prepared the Thunder Lord Demon Purging Array and Dragon Binding Array, then took position on a dune with Peony and Ji Xiao.
• Dongfang Zhenghong announced that an underground nuclear explosion had been detected and ordered all units to complete their preparations.
• Wang Jixuan woke from a dream and saw the defenses ready as a messenger reported that the Blade Beast Swarm had bypassed the minefields and would reach Fortress No. 82 within fifty minutes.

Wang Jixuan held the Blade Beast Swarm in place while humanity’s forces battled across the Seventh Battlefield, waiting for the King-Class Blade Beast to reveal itself. After the King Beast breached Fortress No. 82 and surfaced at Wang Jixuan’s position, he escaped its attack and humanity opened fire as the Jiaolong Sub-Terror Mech descended.

• Wang Jixuan struck the Supply Vehicle’s roof to draw the Blade Beast Swarm toward him while human forces bombarded the emerging beasts.
• Dongfang Zhenghong ordered the troops to abandon Fortress No. 82 as the King-Class Blade Beast attacked it and the battle expanded across the Seventh Battlefield.
• Zhou Zhengde watched the fighting from the D5 Comprehensive War Zone Command Center as General-Class Blade Beasts and more swarms broke through human defenses.
• The King Beast breached Fortress No. 82, then turned toward Wang Jixuan’s position and began to surface.
• Assassin No. 7 burst from beneath the dune and fired a black beam at Wang Jixuan, who escaped into the air and detonated the Supply Vehicle beneath it.
• Dongfang Zhenghong ordered all forces to open fire as the Jiaolong Sub-Terror Mech descended toward the King Beast.

Wang Jixuan and the human forces fought Number Seven King Beast, but a Sub-King-Class Special Winged Dragon joined the battle and forced Ling Tong to sacrifice her mech to save him. Red Snake then tried to destroy Number Seven King Beast with a tactical nuclear bomb, but the beast repelled her with a mental shock.

• Wang Jixuan watched Number Seven King Beast survive the Supply Vehicle explosion before Red Snake, Ling Tong, and Deep Sea coordinated attacks that broke its shield and struck its wound.
• Number Seven King Beast escaped into the earth, pursued Wang Jixuan, and summoned more Blade Beasts as a Sub-King-Class Special Winged Dragon descended from the sky.
• Wang Jixuan directed Ling Tong to throw him toward Deep Sea while she drew the Special Winged Dragon away; the creature destroyed her mech, but she survived with her Steel Wings.
• Deep Sea caught Wang Jixuan with Jiaolong, but Number Seven King Beast struck the mech with a psionic tail and remained nearly unharmed by the human barrage.
• Red Snake attacked Number Seven King Beast with an Annihilation Beam and tried to push a tactical nuclear bomb into its mouth, but the beast repelled the Black Swan with a mental shock.

Wang Jixuan, Red Snake, and Deep Sea fought to bring down Number Seven King Beast as the human forces struggled to contain the Blade Beast assault. Red Snake sacrificed herself to cripple the King Beast, allowing Wang Jixuan to destroy its soul with the Thunder Lord Demon Purging Array; he then collapsed into Ling Tong’s arms as the remaining Blade Beasts were left exposed.

• Number Seven King Beast overwhelmed Black Swan and Jiaolong, threw away its nuclear bomb, and targeted Wang Jixuan as he tried to reach the Dragon Binding Array.
• Deep Sea held the King Beast back with Jiaolong while the wounded Red Snake recovered and charged it in Black Swan.
• Red Snake and Wang Jixuan opened a gap in the King Beast’s mouth, and Red Snake entered its body and detonated Black Swan’s Nuclear Battery, badly wounding the beast.
• Wang Jixuan activated Array Number Two and used the Thunder Lord Demon Purging Array to destroy the King Beast’s soul, while Deep Sea tore the Special Winged Dragon’s head from its body.
• Wang Jixuan lost consciousness as Ling Tong caught him, and the surrounding Blade Beast Tide remained unable to retreat.

Wang Jixuan discovered Red Snake’s soul trapped inside the King-Class Blade Beast’s crystal core after her self-destruction. He proposed testing whether she could control a General-Class Blade Beast, but the team still needed a way to refine its soul.

• Wang Jixuan recovered by absorbing blood qi from the King-Class Blade Beast’s corpse and ordered Ling Tong to keep the corpse for him.
• Wang Jixuan heard Red Snake’s voice through his Dragon Python Strange Soul and found her remnant soul inside the Beast’s crystal core.
• Wang Jixuan concealed the crystal core in a supply vehicle and explained his discovery to Ling Tong, Sister Wan, and Peony.
• Peony theorized that the crystal core had mistaken Red Snake’s soul for the dead Blade Beast’s soul and absorbed it.
• Wang Jixuan proposed capturing a General-Class Blade Beast and replacing its crystal core with Red Snake’s, but he struggled to explain how he would refine the Beast’s soul.