Chapter Summaries

Wang Jixuan arranged a live-combat exercise for three squads to attack Psionic Management Committee investigators while Dragonfly Aunt’s squad faced an infiltration threat. After the coordinated operation, Fu Jian advised Wang Jixuan on command and revealed that the Ninth Pillar had reached its awakening warning threshold.

• Dragonfly Aunt used her ability to exchange intelligence with Wang Jixuan, who discovered two A-Class Psionicists hiding aboard her Stealth Aircraft and warned her.
• Peony located the four investigation squads, and Wang Jixuan assigned the Buddha Hall Squad, Maid Group, and Half-Human Mech Group to attack three teams using the Seven Star Sword Array.
• Fu Jian advised Wang Jixuan and Zhou Zhengde not to overstep the Frontline Commander’s authority, and said he intended to train Ling Tong as a leader who could influence Wang Jixuan.
• The Buddha Hall Squad and Maid Group destroyed their targets, while the Half-Human Mech Group killed the two A-Class Psionicists, let Bristle Bear and Dragonfly Aunt escape, and captured Shaman and Treant Beta.
• Wang Jixuan gave the Half-Human Mech Group the lowest score for disrupting its formation, and Fu Jian offered to show him stone slabs bearing possible Spiritual Practitioner patterns.
• Fu Jian revealed that the Ninth Pillar had reached the 24% awakening warning threshold three hours earlier.

Wang Jixuan examined the stone slabs recovered from the Six Elders and discovered that they formed a sophisticated spiritual-energy device, possibly a Teleportation Gate. As he left to train the returning teams, the device trembled and a faint voice called for help.

• Fu Jian explained that Pillar-Class Blade Beasts had never been defeated and that the sleeping monsters were protected by enormous forces of High-Tier Blade Beasts.
• Wang Jixuan visited the locked research warehouse with Zhou Zhengde and met the researchers studying 120 indestructible stone slabs.
• Director Chen showed Wang Jixuan that arranging the slabs together produced a three-dimensional image, which he had mistaken for a new projection technology.
• Wang Jixuan sensed intricate spiritual-energy pathways on the slabs’ smooth side and concluded that the assembled wall was an advanced artifact with an unknown function.
• Wang Jixuan told the researchers how to test the wall using thirty Pure Crystal Cores, warned them to keep away, and suggested it might be a Teleportation Gate.
• As Wang Jixuan prepared to leave for training, the stone wall trembled and a faint voice said, “Save... save me...”

Wang Jixuan investigated a mysterious stone wall that projected a beach and called for help, discovering that it rejected Psionicists and might contain a powerful remnant soul. He sealed off the area, continued teaching the trainees about Psionic abilities, and visited Treant Beta and Shaman in prison, bringing them into his custody while maintaining the ruse around their captain.

• Wang Jixuan used Demon Suppressing Talismans and a spell on the stone wall, which projected a beach scene and called for someone to save it.
• Fu Jian summoned Zheng Shiduo, whose approach caused the projection and wall’s radiance to disappear; Wang Jixuan concluded the wall rejected Psionicists and might contain a dangerous remnant soul.
• Wang Jixuan ordered Fu Jian to seal off the wall and keep people away while he planned to develop a demon-suppressing formation.
• Wang Jixuan taught the Buddha Hall Squad and other trainees how Psionicists used their abilities, including demonstrations by Ji Xiao and Ji Yale and footage of Huo Rong transforming into a Flame Giant.
• Wang Jixuan visited Treant Beta and Shaman in prison, told them their captain was safe and fleeing to War Zone D3 with Bristle Bear, then arranged to take them out and lodge them with him.

Wang Jixuan learned that Ye Zi had betrayed Kong Nu's family and fled D5 with a group of armed followers, then began suspecting that her escape had been planned long in advance. As he ordered an investigation into Kong Nu's mother, Ye Zi's new group approached an Agricultural Fortress in D3, reciting their mission to rebuild civilization.

• Wang Jixuan read Dongfang Zhenghong's messages, learned that Xing Tian was receiving resources that might help him reach SS-Class, and made him a priority target.
• A video revealed that Kong Nu's daughter had sold her ill mother to organ traffickers and described how Ye Zi had rescued them after an escort vehicle overturned, then later betrayed them and escaped with supplies and armed followers.
• Wang Jixuan asked Dongfang Zhenghong to give Ye Zi a missile if she was found, but then questioned how she had obtained the maps and plans needed to escape D5.
• Wang Jixuan asked Zhou Zhengde to reinvestigate Kong Nu's mother, Kong Meilian, in the Lower City.
• In D3, a truck carrying a group of teenagers approached an Agricultural Fortress as they recited their mission and prepared to eat, with Sister Ye Zi awaiting their news.

Wang Jixuan hosted Shaman and Beta at Fortress No. 76, arranged for them to help War Zone D5 learn about the Psionic Management Committee, and accidentally blew up his first Alchemy Furnace while refining pills. Two days later, he began an experiment on the reassembled Stone Slab Wall with Fu Jian, Chen Wuchou, and Zheng Shiduo watching.

• Wang Jixuan invited Peony to skip class and show Shaman and Beta the nursery, where they ate with children and learned about life inside the fortress.
• Peony revealed that she was the commander's Loyal Wingman, and she led Shaman and Beta to Uncle Tai's workshop to meet Wang Jixuan and Ling Tong.
• Wang Jixuan offered to remove Shaman and Beta's Self-Destruct Chips and asked them to explain the Psionic Management Committee to War Zone D5; both agreed to help.
• Wang Jixuan tried refining Qi-Increasing Pills with Beta's hair, but the alloy Alchemy Furnace exploded before the pills could form.
• Two days later, Wang Jixuan arranged eighteen array foundations around the reassembled Stone Slab Wall and prepared to probe its center as Fu Jian, Chen Wuchou, and Zheng Shiduo watched.

Wang Jixuan forced the Incomplete Guardian inside the Stone Slab Wall to communicate by binding it and flooding it with demonic qi, then learned it guarded the Spiritual Cultivation Fire and the key to a treasure trove. As Wang Jixuan began questioning it, the church-like building in the Psionic Capital’s core area started trembling.

• Wang Jixuan attacked the Stone Slab Wall with qi swords, talismans, his spear, Peony’s electromagnetic punch, and Fu Jian’s cannon, but its shield held firm.
• Wang Jixuan proposed sending an ordinary person inside, while Fu Jian rejected creating another Psionic Capital and affirmed humanity’s alternative path with Peony.
• Wang Jixuan restrained the floating Stone Slab Wall with the Grand Formation and used blood, demonic qi, and the Dragon Python Strange Soul to make the Incomplete Soul emerge and apologize.
• The Incomplete Guardian said it had invited Wang Jixuan to undergo a trial and identified itself as the guardian of the Spiritual Cultivation Fire and an Inheritance Stone Slab, one of six on the planet.
• Wang Jixuan gave his name as Mu Liang and ordered the Incomplete Guardian to answer his questions directly.
• The church-like building where the Six Elders were gathered in the Psionic Capital’s core area began to tremble.

Wang Jixuan exposed the inheritance guardian’s attempt to lure him into a Stone Slab spire, then learned what lay inside and concluded that the Spiritual Practitioners were behind the Psionicists. He and Fu Jian prepared to confront the Six Elders and launch attacks against both the Psionicists and Blade Beasts.

• Wang Jixuan rejected the elderly phantom’s inheritance offer and identified contradictions in its claims, suspecting it wanted to trap him inside the spire.
• The phantom tried to put the Inheritance Stone Slab into a Quiescent Cycle, but Black Energy disrupted the spire and broke apart the Stone Slab Wall.
• Wang Jixuan told Fu Jian that the spire held a Spiritual Practitioner’s remnant soul, countless crystal cores, and awakening dried corpses that might become powerful Psionicists.
• Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian concluded that Spiritual Practitioners had created the spirit slaves known as Psionicists and discussed using the conflict between them and the Blade Beasts.
• Wang Jixuan proposed ambushing S-Class Psionicists and attacking the Six Elders’ forces while Fu Jian and others handled the King-Class Blade Beast horde.
• Fu Jian told Wang Jixuan to wear a helmet and observe the Six Elders as they arrived for a meeting.

Fu Jian confronted Steel Venerable Taisheng Steel over Psionic Capital’s control of Spiritual Practitioners and threatened retaliation, while Wang Jixuan exposed what he inferred about the Elders’ schemes. Three days later, forces prepared for battles in D5 and D3, with Wang Jixuan leading a surprise attack and Ling Tong’s team set to lure a King-Class Blade Beast.

• Fu Jian and Wang Jixuan negotiated with Taisheng Steel, who warned that Spiritual Practitioners had created the Blade Beasts and that the Twelve Pillars’ awakening threatened humanity.
• Wang Jixuan accused the Six Elders of controlling three Spiritual Practitioners and using their Stone Coffins to guide Psionicists, while Fu Jian threatened war and ordered D5 to shoot down aircraft from Psionic Capital.
• Fu Jian appointed Wang Jixuan Special Adviser with authority equal to a three-star general and assigned him future retaliation against Psionic Capital.
• Three days later, Ling Tong prepared to lead a mech operation to lure a King-Class Blade Beast, while Wang Jixuan gathered eight Psionicists aboard a stealth transport plane for a surprise attack in D3.
• Wang Jixuan told the Psionicists he would distribute weapons and equipment to help ensure victory.

Peony briefed the Buddha Hall Squad and Maid Group on their raid against Iron Wall Fortress, where they planned to kill the S-Class Psionicist Ferli and destroy a 13th Institute Branch. Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian infiltrated the fortress and witnessed its drug-ravaged population before heading toward the branch as the assault began.

• Peony outlined the target, Iron Wall Fortress’s defenses, and the teams’ plan to attack Ferli and the 13th Institute Branch.
• The sixteen operatives split into four groups and infiltrated the fortress under stealth, while Wang Jixuan learned that Fu Jian intended to accompany him.
• Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian entered through a ventilation shaft and observed Inner City residents, including children, inhaling the addictive New Anti-Darkness Medicine.
• Wang Jixuan’s spiritual perception revealed widespread social collapse in the Inner City and industrial zone, while the Outer City military remained isolated from it.
• As the four groups approached their positions, Wang Jixuan urged Fu Jian toward the 13th Institute Branch after detecting what appeared to be an Infusion Wall and Psionic Mechas.

Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian infiltrated the Biological 13th Institute branch while Peony’s teams prepared coordinated attacks on Iron Wall Fortress. Wang subdued the guards, but Professor Shen revealed herself as an awakened A+ Class Psionicist as the assault began.

• Peony ordered the Buddha Hall Squad and Peak Maid Group to attack the checkpoints and cliffside airport in coordination.
• Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian entered the Institute branch, where Wang incapacitated the guards and mapped the facility.
• Wang discovered Professor Shen operating on a Preacher Blade Beast and collected data while the experiment continued.
• Professor Shen detected Wang and identified his X Armor, then revealed a powerful Psionic Fluctuation that marked her as an awakened A+ Class Psionicist.
• An S-Class Psionicist Phyllis shrieked as she encountered the Maid Group above.

Wang Jixuan stalled Professor Shen until Fu Jian arrived, then demonstrated his ability to destroy a Preacher and control its remnant soul. Professor Shen agreed to work with D5 in exchange for an interesting research subject, and she set off to fight Philly as Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian followed.

• Wang Jixuan bluffed Professor Shen and questioned her about her research, her hatred of Fu Jian, and her reasons for hiding in the backwater.
• Professor Shen offered to work for D5 if Wang Jixuan killed Fu Jian, but he refused and proposed searching her soul before giving her a research subject.
• Wang Jixuan killed the Preacher, extracted its remnant soul, and let a black flood dragon consume it, convincing Professor Shen of his abilities.
• Professor Shen accepted Wang Jixuan's offer, asked him to teach her to control Blade Beast souls, and left to change before fighting Philly.
• Fu Jian recognized Professor Shen as Shen Qionglin, a genius researcher missing for five years, and ordered his team to bring her back.
• Wang Jixuan knocked out the remaining people in the laboratory and hurried after Shen Qionglin and Fu Jian as the Buddha Hall Squad confronted Philly.

Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian joined Shen Qionglin to reach Philly’s palace, where the Buddha Hall Squad was fighting her forces. Shen revealed her powerful psionic abilities, helped subdue Philly, and ended the chapter by shooting her.

• Shen Qionglin led Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian through a hidden passage toward Philly’s palace and explained that the route had been used to monitor her.
• Wang Jixuan and Shen Qionglin incapacitated soldiers and Psionicists outside the palace, while Shen revealed her ability to control metal.
• Peony and the Loyal Wingmen arrived, and Wang Jixuan told them that Shen had joined their side.
• The Buddha Hall Squad formed its Seven Star Sword Array and gained the upper hand against Philly as Shen entered the palace battle.
• Shen blocked Philly’s Mental Shock, struck her down with a giant metal hand, and shot her in the eye.

Wang Jixuan and Fu Jian evacuated Shen Qionglin and her research materials from Iron Wall Fortress to D5 after killing Philly, while the Psionic Capital’s emergency troops arrived to reclaim the fortress. As Wang Jixuan searched Shen Qionglin’s memories aboard the plane, Meng Jin learned that D5 had taken her and began preparing a unified response from the Psionic Management Committee.

• After Philly died, Wang Jixuan had Zheng Shiduo deal with the remaining Psionicists and arranged for Shen Qionglin and her willing students to evacuate to D5.
• Three transport planes left Iron Wall Fortress under D5 escort, and Fu Jian ordered the cleared research facilities destroyed before the garrison took control.
• Wang Jixuan scolded the Buddha Hall Squad, heard that the Half-Human Mech team had badly wounded a King-Class Blade Beast, and began searching Shen Qionglin’s memories with Gentle Breeze Entering Dream.
• Meng Jin questioned Iron Wall Fortress’s officers, learned that D5 forces had ambushed Philly and abducted Shen Qionglin, and called for a unified council meeting to respond to D5.
• Aboard the transport plane in D5 airspace, Wang Jixuan opened his eyes with a complicated expression and resumed searching Shen Qionglin’s memories.

Wang Jixuan reviewed Shen Qionglin’s memories, uncovering how childhood experiments, poverty, and the loss of her family shaped her life and research. After she woke, he asked Wu Man to teach her talisman drawing and told her she was one of the purest-hearted humans he had known.

• Wang Jixuan saw how Shen Qionglin was exiled to Iron Wall Fortress after her mother was murdered, her sister’s family was demoted, and her younger brother was ruined in an Infusion Experiment.
• Shen Qionglin recalled awakening to her abilities at fourteen when she used weak telekinesis and a kitchen knife to drive off two attackers targeting her older sister.
• Wang Jixuan discovered that Shen Qionglin’s father had made her a subject in the God Realm project when she was seven, leaving her the sole surviving child of the experiment.
• Shen Qionglin returned from her memories to find Wang Jixuan examining her past, and she asked about the project.
• Wang Jixuan called Wu Man over to teach Shen Qionglin how to draw talismans and told her he considered her pure-hearted.

Wang Jixuan reflected on Shen Qionglin’s memories, then gained a breakthrough while the Psionic Capital’s monopoly on psionic technology threatened to spark war. As the Beast God Faction appeared near Fortress No. 76, agents tracked Red Snake’s transfer from Fortress No. 82 and prepared to use her to locate an awakened Spiritual Practitioner.

• Wang Jixuan told Fu Jian that Shen Qionglin had developed her own awakening method and questioned whether she belonged to any Spiritual Practitioner; Fu Jian refused to let her study the Fourth Wall during her probation.
• Fu Jian learned that the Beast God Faction had appeared at the border and left to take command, while Wang Jixuan agreed to help if needed.
• Wang Jixuan observed Ling Tong’s forces preparing to kill the wounded King-Class Blade Beast, then used his reflections on human nature and cultivation to break through into the Dao Realm.
• Shen Qionglin recognized Wang Jixuan’s promotion and ordered the transport aircraft to circle while Peony’s maids used Spirit Release Arrays to supply him with crystal core energy.
• Beast God Faction agents near Fortress No. 82 identified Red Snake’s transfer convoy and planned to use her to find the Awakened Spiritual Practitioner.
• Uncle Tai and the other researchers traveled with Red Snake toward Fortress No. 76 as armed figures moved through the desert below.

Red Snake was ambushed by Beast God Faction Psionicists while being transported to Fortress No. 76, and she fought to protect the soldiers and researchers despite being badly injured. As the attackers closed in, a silver spear fell from the sky, and Red Snake recognized that Wang Jixuan had arrived.

• Wang Jixuan continued purifying his body and refining his cultivation while the transport planes entered War Zone D5.
• Uncle Tai woke to an alarm as Red Snake’s psionic index surged, and Red Snake broke free of her restraints and leaped from the transport platform.
• Six Psionicists ambushed Red Snake and the armored forces, using sand and lightning to attack while two of them displayed artificially enhanced S-Class power.
• Red Snake carried the wreckage containing Uncle Tai and several researchers away from the sandstorm, then turned back to fight when the attackers targeted the soldiers.
• Red Snake recognized the Brain-Eating Worms and accused the Psionicists of belonging to the Beast God Faction, but their attacks broke her shield and badly wounded her.
• A silver spear landed in front of Red Snake, and she collapsed to focus on defense as she realized Wang Jixuan had arrived.

Wang Jixuan and the Peak Maid Group joined Red Snake and the human fighters against six Beast God Faction Psionicists, defeating them with coordinated attacks and Daoist arts. After discovering strange Crystal Cores inside the enemies, Wang Jixuan warned Red Snake not to eat the corpse she was about to swallow.

• Peony and the Peak Maid Group attacked the Beast God Faction Psionicists, while Peony kept one S-Class opponent occupied and the maids overwhelmed the other.
• The Buddha Hall Squad and Zheng Shiduo joined the battle, and Red Snake recovered enough to attack the remaining A-Class Psionicists.
• Wang Jixuan leaped into the battlefield, used sword arts and talismans to help defeat the A-Class Psionicists, then froze the ground to stop the stronger S-Class Psionicist from escaping.
• Ji Xiao and the Buddha Hall Squad killed the two S-Class Psionicists, and Wang Jixuan found unusual Crystal Cores inside the six bodies.
• Red Snake rushed to swallow one of the corpses, but Wang Jixuan warned her that something filthy was inside.

Wang Jixuan recovered from his interrupted breakthrough and reached the Void Return Realm while refining his flying sword, as the war against the Blade Beasts intensified. After Ling Tong’s team defeated a King-Class Blade Beast, Fu Jian asked her to choose between remaining a frontline fighter and becoming his successor.

• Wang Jixuan’s group returned to Fortress No. 76 with the captured bodies and rescued researchers, while a small scorpion-shaped Blade Beast secretly targeted Red Snake and vanished into the sand.
• Wang Jixuan meditated, reached the Void Return Realm, and continued refining his flying sword as the Buddha Hall Squad departed to support the front lines.
• Ling Tong’s seven Half-Human Mechs defeated a King-Class Blade Beast, and she reviewed reports revealing that the Blade Beasts had modified Beast God Faction Psionicists with crystal cores and Brain-Eating Worms.
• Fu Jian told Ling Tong that she could remain on the frontline combat route or become his candidate successor, leaving her hesitant about the choice.

Wang Jixuan completed his flying sword and learned that Ling Tong had accepted a role in Fu Jian’s successor plan while warning him of a possible Psionic War and a mysterious Master behind the Beast God Faction. After deciding to interrogate the captured crystal cores, Wang Jixuan headed for the Surface Camp as an enemy force approached Fortress No. 76 under holographic concealment.

• Wang Jixuan finished refining his flying sword, ate noodles, and heard Peony report that Mechs had helped repel the Blade Beast Offensive across the Six Frontlines.
• Wang Jixuan woke Ling Tong, who told him Fu Jian had chosen her as a candidate for the next generation’s Hero Card and assigned her sword-array teaching, lecture tours, and dates with Wang Jixuan.
• Wang Jixuan advised Ling Tong to prepare to shoulder broader command responsibilities, and she warned him that the Blade Beasts might attack again at dawn.
• Ling Tong told Wang Jixuan that the Psionic Capital’s Fifteen-Person Council was preparing pressure against D5 and that Beast God Faction Psionicists served an entity they called Master.
• Wang Jixuan decided to interrogate the six crystal cores and went with Peony to the Surface Camp, while a concealed enemy force approached Fortress No. 76 and planned to capture or kill a traitor and watch for an Awakened Spiritual Practitioner.

Wang Jixuan searched the Beast God Faction Psionicists’ crystal cores and uncovered their collaboration with Blade Beasts, including plans for an assault on D5. Shen Qionglin detected an approaching force near the fortress, and the group began preparing for an attack while Red Snake remained as bait.

• Wang Jixuan used a Soul-Capturing Talisman to search the residual souls in the Beast God Faction Psionicists’ crystal cores and reported that the faction was controlled by Blade Beasts and led by Beast Speaker.
• Wang Jixuan revealed that a humanlike King-Class Preacher commanded the Blade Beast forces, planned to attack D5, and sought both the newly Awakened Spiritual Practitioner and Red Snake.
• Wang Jixuan examined another crystal core and learned that Beast Speaker had founded the faction to seize power, deceived its members about their alliance with Blade Beasts, and used Mo Feng to provoke conflict between D5 and the Psionic Capital Dominion Faction.
• Black Shell relayed the Commander-in-Chief’s request to capture Beast God Faction Psionicists alive, while Wang Jixuan agreed to try displaying their memories.
• Shen Qionglin sensed many approaching Blade Beasts and Psionicists nine kilometers southeast of the fortress, prompting Black Shell to mobilize defenses and the others to evacuate underground while Red Snake stayed behind as bait.