Chapter Summaries

Uncle Tai joined Wang Jixuan’s experiments to use human souls and Blade Beast bodies to create bio-mechas, while Fu Jian authorized a more dangerous test with Red Snake’s soul and a King-Class Crystal Core. The fusion succeeded, leaving Wang Jixuan facing the question of how to tell Deep Sea that his wife had become an eighteen-meter-tall quasi-Sub-King-Class Blade Beast.

• Uncle Tai arrived at Fortress No. 82 and learned that Wang Jixuan needed his help testing whether human souls could control Blade Beast bodies.
• Uncle Tai and Wang Jixuan’s team found that ordinary human souls could not survive inside Blade Beast Crystal Cores, so Wang Jixuan proposed testing Red Snake’s soul instead.
• Fu Jian approved the experiment and agreed to Wang Jixuan’s request for General-Class Crystal Cores as compensation.
• Wang Jixuan destroyed the Siege Hammer’s soul and inserted a King-Class Crystal Core, but the General-Class Blade Beast exploded and Red Snake returned to her Crystal Core.
• Wang Jixuan successfully fused Red Snake’s soul and King-Class Crystal Core with a Thorned Flower, which began evolving toward Sub-King-Class.
• Dongfang Zhenghong reported that Wang Jixuan asked how to explain to Deep Sea that his wife was now an eighteen-meter-tall quasi-Sub-King-Class Blade Beast.

Wang Jixuan tried to comfort Deep Sea after Red Snake’s death and revealed that he had preserved her soul inside a powerful Sub-King Class Blade Beast. The chapter ended with Red Snake speaking to Deep Sea from her new body.

• Wang Jixuan went to meet Deep Sea after he woke, bringing Uncle Tai and alcohol to help him through his grief.
• Deep Sea mourned Red Snake and explained their plans to have a child, while Wang Jixuan shared his fears about the enemy behind the Blade Beasts.
• Deep Sea vowed to keep fighting and said he might find another partner if he survived long enough, prompting Red Snake’s soul to react angrily from nearby.
• Wang Jixuan unveiled the humanoid Sub-King Class Blade Beast and told Deep Sea that he had saved Red Snake’s soul, though she now had Sub-King-Class power.
• Red Snake addressed Deep Sea from the Blade Beast’s body, teasing him about its fuller form.

Wang Jixuan cultivated in secret at Fortress No. 76 while the D5 Comprehensive War Zone faced growing political tension and suspected a traitor among its senior officers. Fu Jian summoned him to General Headquarters to conduct soul searches, but when he boarded Ling Tong's transport, Deep Sea was waiting to confront him.

• Wang Jixuan returned secretly to Fortress No. 76 and spent days stabilizing his Dao foundation while Peony reported on Red Snake, Deep Sea, and the retreating Blade Beast swarms.
• Fu Jian's letter warned that a traitor had leaked information to Psionic Capital and requested Wang Jixuan's help searching the twelve senior commanders' memories.
• Wang Jixuan decided to refine a flying sword and self-detonating Flying Needles, then advanced to the Mid Returning to Truth Realm during his quiet cultivation.
• Fu Jian ordered Wang Jixuan to travel to General Headquarters for the soul searches, and Wang Jixuan and Peony disguised themselves as members of Ling Tong's maintenance team.
• Wang Jixuan boarded Ling Tong's transport with Peony, where Deep Sea confronted him and pounced before hearing his explanation.

Wang Jixuan traveled to D5 General Headquarters disguised as Uncle Tai to help investigate which of Fu Jian’s senior generals had betrayed military secrets. As the group arrived, he surveyed the hidden fortress and prepared to begin his investigation.

• Wang Jixuan subdued Deep Sea, explained how he had exploited a Half-Human Mech weakness, and massaged Ling Tong and Deep Sea while Sister Wan briefed them on the Brain-Eating Worm inspections and the Blade Beasts’ movements.
• Sister Wan outlined plans to publicly destroy some crystal cores while secretly retaining valuable ones, and Wang Jixuan asked to handle the destruction under Uncle Tai’s disguise.
• Wang Jixuan reviewed the twelve senior officers suspected of leaking details to Psionic Capital and decided to begin with Black Shell, while Fu Jian ordered him to identify and eliminate any traitor.
• Ling Tong and Sister Wan brought Wang Jixuan’s requested materials, and Wang Jixuan disguised himself as Uncle Tai before the group traveled to General Headquarters.
• Wang Jixuan surveyed the massive underground fortress with his spiritual sense, then discussed his flying sword design and Red Snake’s future equipment with Ling Tong during the drive to the command building.

Fu Jian uncovered two traitors among D5’s senior leadership and worked with Wang Jixuan to plan their removal while expanding the investigation. As Wang Jixuan cultivated at headquarters and tensions with Psionic Capital rose, Peony received a request for help from Dragonfly Aunt.

• Fu Jian read reports documenting his old comrades’ past crimes and discovered that Meng Shushui was a Psionic Capital spy and Sheng Zuo was controlled by a Blade Beast.
• Fu Jian asked Wang Jixuan how to handle the traitors, and they agreed to disguise their deaths as a Psionic Capital assassination while continuing to inspect more officers.
• Wang Jixuan negotiated payment in General-Class Blade Beast crystal cores and asked to handle the Blade Beast Remnant Souls when Fu Jian staged the cores’ destruction.
• Wang Jixuan returned to Sister Wan and Ling Tong’s workspace, agreed to stay for further investigations, and began nurturing materials for a flying sword during several days of cultivation.
• Fu Jian’s conflict with Psionic Capital escalated as Blade Beasts attacked Fortress No. 82 and the investigation identified at least eight more officers to purge.
• On Wang Jixuan’s fourth day at headquarters, Peony received a message from Dragonfly Aunt asking her for help.

Wang Jixuan agreed to help Mai Qingting ensure four Naturalist Faction suicide operatives died quickly, then observed Fu Jian’s staged assassination of four corrupt officers and the operatives. After the operation, Fu Jian said the conflict had escalated and ordered preparations for shattering crystal cores.

• Wang Jixuan read Mai Qingting’s request and promised to watch over the operation and help the operatives die quickly.
• Fu Jian finalized the purge list and selected Meng Shushui, Sheng Zuo, and two other generals as assassination targets, while Wang Jixuan waited at General Headquarters.
• Black Shell summoned Wang Jixuan to observe a meeting where he revealed Red Snake as a controlled Sub-King Class Bio-Mecha.
• Wang Jixuan sensed four Naturalist Faction Psionicists and their guides take positions outside the conference room as Fu Jian signaled the operation to begin.
• The guides lured the four generals away from the meeting, where the Psionicists killed them before Autonomous Mechs killed the attackers; the guides then took their own lives.
• Fu Jian told Wang Jixuan that the conflict had escalated and that crystal core shattering would begin shortly.

After the assassinations at D5 General Headquarters, Fu Jian’s government used the crisis to confront Psionic Capital and prepare a public destruction of four hundred thousand crystal cores. Wang Jixuan hid near the presses, ready to absorb the released spiritual energy, as the livestreamed operation began.

• Wang Jixuan learned that Fu Jian had used the assassinations to justify cracking down on Psionic Capital and planned to destroy crystal cores as a political counterattack.
• Zhou Zhengde collected Wang Jixuan, Peony, and Ling Tong and took them to the crystal-core shattering site, where Wang Jixuan secretly prepared to cultivate from the released energy.
• Wang Jixuan hid in an equipment room near the hydraulic presses while Ling Tong and Peony guarded him and he assembled formations, pills, needles, and talismans.
• Zhou Zhengde addressed the global livestream, accused Psionic Capital of betraying D5 and assassinating four Senior Generals, and announced the destruction of the crystal cores.
• As a hydraulic press descended onto a crate, Wang Jixuan activated his Spirit Gathering Formation and raised a Soul Suppressing Talisman.

Wang Jixuan used the crystal-core crushing event to gather spiritual energy and remnant souls, pushing his cultivation to the Peak Great Perfection of the Returning to Truth Realm while risking contamination from Black Energy. After Zhou Zhengde concealed the strange events at the site, Wang Jixuan began preparing to refine sword materials and turned his attention to Peony.

• Wang Jixuan tested the Blade Beast remnant souls released by crushed crystal cores and confirmed that amplified Psionicist shrieks could destroy them.
• Wang Jixuan activated the Spirit Gathering Formation and used a Dragon Python to devour remnant souls while he advanced his cultivation into the Late Returning to Truth Realm.
• Wang Jixuan activated the Demon Star Annihilation Art, and his primordial soul joined the Dragon Python in consuming souls until a vertical eye appeared in the vapor.
• Wang Jixuan's flood dragon destroyed the vertical eye, while Zhou Zhengde halted the livestream and ordered the witnesses and recordings secured.
• Wang Jixuan assessed his contaminated primordial soul and newly completed Dao bones, then prepared a formation to enhance sword-forging materials.
• Wang Jixuan considered refining Peony and ordered her to come over and kneel.

Wang Jixuan completed his flying sword’s Sword Pellet and accidentally awakened a spirit body inside Peony, who rebooted as a self-aware Loyal Wingman. After assessing his cultivation gains, he learned that two new King-Class Blade Beast packs were moving toward D5, while the chapter shifted to the Psionic Capital and the Six Elders’ Ball of Silence.

• Wang Jixuan discovered that Peony had crashed after he used the spirit-forging formation on her, but a spirit body emerged from her mechanical body and she rebooted, newly conscious and excited to be alive.
• Wang Jixuan told Peony to keep her transformation secret, ordered her to reduce her Humor System, and returned to Ling Tong’s studio to clean up.
• Wang Jixuan assessed his cultivation gains, including a peak Returning to Truth Dao Realm and greatly increased primordial soul power, and resolved to prepare for the dangers facing D5.
• Zhou Zhengde rushed back and warned Wang Jixuan that two new King-Class Blade Beast packs were moving toward D5.
• The narration described the Psionic Capital and the Six Elders’ Ball of Silence, a reinforced structure built in part to reduce Fu Jian’s deterrence against the city.

Wang Jixuan returned to Fortress No. 76 as D5 prepared for the approaching Blade Beast Swarms, while Xing Tian accepted a mission to investigate the Demon-Breaking Daggers. The chapter ended with Peony advising Wang Jixuan to ask Ling Tong on a date, leaving him unsure what a date involved.

• Wang Jixuan and the others discussed the defecting Psionicists and the approaching W71 and W92 Blade Beast Swarms, and he asked Peony to seek a list of the defectors from their partner.
• Wang Jixuan agreed to produce Demon-Breaking Daggers and Crystal Core Weapons, then decided to return to Fortress No. 76 and bring Ji Yale and Ji Xiao there.
• Xing Tian met an S-Class Psionicist aboard an aircraft, learned that the Demon-Breaking Daggers were being distributed to D5 troops, and agreed to trace their source in exchange for an S-Class Crippled Material.
• Wang Jixuan rested at Fortress No. 76 while Peony advised him to ask Ling Tong on a date, and he asked what a date involved.

Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong prepared for a date, while Xing Tian infiltrated Fortress No. 76 after acquiring an S-Class Psionicist as material for his advance toward SS-Class. Their awkward conversation was interrupted when Wang Jixuan sensed a powerful presence and recognized the approaching figure as Xing Tian.

• Peony advised Wang Jixuan on dating, and he asked her to invite Ling Tong to dinner.
• Sister Wan encouraged Ling Tong to ask Wang Zheng on a date and helped her prepare for the evening.
• Xing Tian obtained confirmation of an S-Class Psionicist and set out to infiltrate Fortress No. 76, using his earth-burrowing ability to avoid detection.
• Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong met for their date, but Wang Jixuan awkwardly began discussing her potential to become stronger.
• Wang Jixuan sensed danger, moved in front of Ling Tong, and used Search Heaven! Reveal Trace! to identify the approaching figure as Xing Tian.

Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong discovered that Xing Tian had infiltrated the area and tried to mislead him while the workshop prepared a trap. After Xing Tian survived an explosive ambush and confronted Wang Jixuan, the two began their first direct battle.

• Wang Jixuan warned Ling Tong that Xing Tian was nearby, and they pretended to quarrel while he secretly directed Sister Wan, Wan Xiaoqi, and Peony to prepare defenses.
• Xing Tian photographed the nursery, then infiltrated Uncle Tai's workshop and discovered the Demon-Breaking Dagger production lines and a collection of daggers.
• Xing Tian triggered an explosive trap beneath a lightning-strike box, but his S-Class body survived, and Wang Jixuan revealed himself in X Battle Armor.
• Wang Jixuan tried to distract Xing Tian with a real Demon-Breaking Dagger, but Xing Tian dodged it and rushed toward the first floor.
• Wang Jixuan pursued Xing Tian, summoned his hidden artifact spear, and attacked with a sword strike formed from his spiritual sense.

Wang Jixuan and his allies fought Xing Tian in Fortress No. 76, using talismans, technology, and coordinated attacks to badly injure him. Xing Tian escaped after wounding Wang Jixuan, then reported that an Awakened Spiritual Practitioner in silver-white armor was barely at A-Class strength and heavily crippled.

• Wang Jixuan fought Xing Tian with his spear, X Armor, and talismans while Xing Tian countered with his psionic powers and nearly overwhelmed him.
• Ling Tong, Deep Sea, Ji Xiao, Ji Yale, Wan Xiaoqi, and hidden soldiers joined the assault, and Wang Jixuan used a drone array to strike Xing Tian with lightning.
• Xing Tian escaped through the fortress floor and stabbed Wang Jixuan, but Wang Jixuan and Peony counterattacked and trapped him with the Earth Solidifying Technique.
• Xing Tian lost a leg but escaped using Water Escape, while Wang Jixuan collapsed and decided to move to Fortress No. 82.
• Xing Tian returned to his shuttlecraft, activated its automatic return, and reported that the Awakened Spiritual Practitioner was heavily crippled.

After Xing Tian escaped, Wang Jixuan and the fortress defenders learned that Huo Rong and a large Psionicist force were preparing to attack Fortress No. 76. As Ling Tong tried to evacuate Wang Jixuan, he invoked the Commander-in-Chief’s authority and headed out with Ji Xiao and Wu Man to face the coming assault.

• Wang Jixuan recovered from his wound, and Ling Tong reported that Xing Tian had taken a Demon-Breaking Dagger and that reinforcements were on the way.
• Wan Xiaoqi announced that Huo Rong, an S-Class Psionicist ranked nineteenth, was descending toward the fortress while over a hundred A- and B-Class Psionicists gathered around it.
• The defenders watched Huo Rong’s threat video, in which she promised to destroy the fortress and release a virus unless the military surrendered its secrets and authority.
• Ling Tong ordered Wang Jixuan evacuated during the fighting, but he overruled her with the Commander-in-Chief’s authorization and left with Ji Xiao and Wu Man.

Wang Jixuan used a dangerous demonic formation tempered by Buddhist chanting to defeat Huo Rong and her Flame Giant, though the backlash left him at risk of losing control. He escaped with Wu Man as Deep Sea led the counterattack against the remaining Psionicists.

• Huo Rong attacked Fortress No. 76 with the Flame Giant while Psionicists assaulted the underground levels, and Wang Jixuan analyzed her advanced control of psionic energy.
• Fu Jian ordered nuclear strikes against Psionic Capital’s bases and demanded that Huo Rong be killed before reinforcements arrived.
• Huo Rong broke through the Third Floor defenses, overwhelmed the soldiers, and injured Peony after Peony’s Mech Soul managed to hurt her.
• Wang Jixuan activated the Soul Refining Heaven Slaying formation using blood talismans, Blade Beast crystal cores, and chanting from the five Outer Expansion Zones.
• Wang Jixuan’s formation transformed into a combined Wrathful Buddha and Black Demonic Asura, which killed Huo Rong and allowed him to capture part of her soul.
• Wang Jixuan nearly attacked Deep Sea as the formation’s backlash took hold, then fled with Wu Man while Deep Sea ordered the remaining Psionicists wiped out.

After killing Huo Rong, Wang Jixuan recovered from the battle’s aftermath and proposed training a force to fight S-Class Psionicists, while warning Zhou Zhengde that the Psionic Capital’s secrets might trigger a widespread awakening. He left the others with plans to strengthen Fortress No. 76 as Ling Tong confronted him for a private talk.

• Wang Jixuan woke after hours of meditation, learned the battle had ended in a costly victory, and told Wu Man he would need half a month to recover.
• Wang Jixuan found notes from a father and daughter who had died in the abandoned Scavenger Camp, placed food and water beside their skeletons, and cremated them while reciting the Duren Sutra.
• Zhou Zhengde and Black Shell met Wang Jixuan, who proposed forming Psionic, Half-Human Mech, and Loyal Wingman groups to train against S-Class Psionicists.
• Wang Jixuan asked Black Shell to obtain Special Ore so he could build defensive formations around Fortress No. 76.
• Wang Jixuan told Zhou Zhengde that Huo Rong’s memories suggested a Spiritual Practitioner might be connected to the Six Elders and that mass Psionic awakening was a possible danger.
• Ling Tong approached Wang Jixuan and said they needed to talk.

After surviving the attack on Fortress No. 76, Wang Jixuan recovered while human war zones grappled with the fallout from Huo Rong’s failed assault and the growing Blade Beast threat. He opened his Little Electric Sound Temple classroom, assembled its unusual students, and introduced Fu Jian as a special teacher.

• Ling Tong hugged Wang Jixuan to confirm they were both alive, then returned with him to the fortress.
• Wang Jixuan recuperated for three days as Wu Man recited the Rebirth Mantra, while war zones reacted to Huo Rong’s defeat, D5’s nuclear strikes, and unrest in Psionic Capital.
• Wang Jixuan finalized his classroom groups, added Fu Jian to the Half-Human Mech Group, and prepared the Little Electric Sound Temple for its first class.
• Zhou Zhengde arrived to find the classroom packed with Loyal Wingmen, Half-Human Mechs, Psionicists, and other D5 figures, then took a seat and began observing them.
• Ling Tong led the class in standing and saluting when Wang Jixuan arrived, and Wang explained the course’s purpose before calling in special teacher Fu Jian.

Wang Jixuan taught D5’s Psionic Group about Psionicists, Blade Beast souls, and Crystal Cores, then began training them to use a seven-person sword array. The chapter ended with the trainees practicing the array while Fu Jian and the commanders watched, and Fu Jian prepared to spar with the Half-Human Mech Group.

• Wang Jixuan appointed Zhou Zhengde discipline officer and explained the three types of Psionicists, demonstrating soul separation on Zheng Shiduo.
• Wang Jixuan and Wu Man demonstrated how the Vajra Demon-Subduing Scripture could destroy a Blade Beast’s remnant soul, then Wang Jixuan lectured on Blade Beasts, Crystal Cores, and Psionicist techniques.
• Wang Jixuan told Fu Jian that he would keep dangerous cultivation methods secret and that the afternoon lesson would teach coordinated attacks.
• Peony and the Maid Group brought training weapons as Wan Xiaoqi set up drones for the seven-person formations.
• Wang Jixuan put the Psionic Group through the first sword-array movements, punishing the group whenever anyone missed a position.
• Fu Jian agreed to spar with the Half-Human Mech Group after the lesson, while the Fortress Governor asked him to go easy on them.

Wang Jixuan’s Seven Star Sword Array let the Half-Human Mechs challenge Fu Jian and convinced the commanders that coordinated Exclusive Mechas could threaten King-Class Blade Beasts. As preparations began for a coming border battle, the story shifted to Dragonfly Aunt aboard a transport plane as she asked Bristle Bear about their mission.

• Wang Jixuan trained seven Half-Human Mechs in the Seven Star Sword Array, and they managed to disarm Fu Jian during their coordinated assault.
• Wang Jixuan explained that the formation could let seven Exclusive Mechas fight King-Class Blade Beasts, and Fu Jian agreed to equip the team and prepare for a border battle in twelve days.
• Wang Jixuan asked Fu Jian to collect branches from old plants across human territory, suspecting they might have developed spirituality.
• Fu Jian ordered his staff to select weaker King-level targets and provide supplies for the coming battle.
• On the fifth day of Wang Zheng’s Classroom, Dragonfly Aunt drank yogurt aboard a departing transport plane and asked Bristle Bear what their mission was.

Dragonfly Aunt warned Bristle Bear against defecting, while Wang Jixuan inspected spiritual plants and discussed the Psionic Management Committee’s investigation with her. He agreed to help her team and learned of hidden ruins and possible Spiritual Practitioner involvement, but then sensed two concealed auras aboard her team’s aircraft.

• Dragonfly Aunt told Bristle Bear to deliver Beta’s collected samples and rejected his suggestion that their faction abandon the Psionic Capital, explaining the political risks.
• Wang Jixuan examined plant samples, selected specimens with weak spiritual power, and sent Dongfang Zhenghong pictures and drawings of plants he wanted to obtain.
• Peony alerted Wang Jixuan to Dragonfly Aunt’s urgent call, and he met her in disguise to discuss the investigation teams sent near Fortress No. 76.
• Dragonfly Aunt described the Psionic Management Committee’s fear of Black Storm and revealed that the Psionic Capital and Xing Tian’s Snow Mountain Base might conceal ruins tied to Psionic technology.
• Wang Jixuan shared evidence linking the Six Elders, Blade Beasts, and Spiritual Practitioners, and agreed to help Dragonfly Aunt deal with the investigation while asking her to leave the Tree of Kindness behind.
• As Wang Jixuan prepared to leave, his spiritual sense detected two hidden auras inside Dragonfly Aunt’s team’s Stealth Aircraft.