Chapter Summaries

The Wind Shadow Hunters planned to assassinate Xu Wuyi by drawing him into a large battle, while Zhao Rui arranged a deceptive decisive battle at Sector E-9. As the Feathered Humans attacked the Federation position, Xu Wuyi and his allies waited in hiding, and Shadow Blade’s squad watched for him to appear.

• Shadow Blade told the old priest that the Wind Shadow Hunters would wait for Xu Wuyi to intervene in a battle, then kill him in one strike.
• The Feathered Humans captured a resource collection station on the eighth day, and Zhao Rui ordered Federation forces to assemble at Sector E-9 to bait their next attack.
• Xu Wuyi, Lei Hong, and Ye Guanlan hid in a concealed cave near the Federation position, where Ye Guanlan set up a detection array.
• More than twelve hundred Feathered Humans arrived at Sector E-9, and the five Wind Shadow Hunters rose behind their troops to watch for Xu Wuyi.
• The Feathered Humans began a probing attack with energy spears, while Shadow Blade waited to see whether Xu Wuyi would appear.

Xu Wuyi waited until the Feathered Humans committed their forces, then unleashed Prairie Fire and killed hundreds of them. As the battle turned, the Wind Shadow Hunters launched their planned attack, leaving Xu Wuyi surrounded by three fighters.

• Xu Wuyi stayed hidden while the Feathered Humans battered the Federation positions, and Shadow Blade ordered their remaining forces to advance.
• Xu Wuyi flew into the battlefield and used Heart Image perception to ignite hundreds of Flame True Seals, killing more than three hundred Feathered Human warriors in five seconds.
• Shadow Blade sent three Wind Shadow Hunters to surround and kill Xu Wuyi while he and the vice-captain intercepted Federation reinforcements.
• Lei Hong engaged Shadow Blade, and Ye Guanlan used energy runes to confront the vice-captain.
• Shadow Pierce and two other Wind Shadow Hunters closed in around Xu Wuyi, preparing to attack him at close range.

Xu Wuyi killed Shadow Pierce and Shadow Fang, revealing that he was both a deadly spear fighter and a master of Heart Image flames. As Shadow Blade ordered the hunters to retreat, Ye Guanlan intercepted him and sealed off his escape routes.

• Xu Wuyi killed Shadow Pierce with a single spear thrust, shocking the remaining Wind Shadow Hunters.
• Shadow Claw tried to retreat, but Xu Wuyi struck him back with overwhelming force as Shadow Fang attacked from the side.
• Xu Wuyi’s Heart Image flames burned Shadow Fang alive when the hunter’s blades struck his aura.
• Shadow Blade ordered the remaining hunters to retreat after seeing two squad members fall.
• Ye Guanlan appeared behind Shadow Blade and used a net of sword lights to block his escape.

Xu Wuyi and his allies annihilated the Feathered Human force in the Quicksand Star Realm, killing the Wind Shadow Hunters and more than twelve hundred warriors. The battle stabilized the situation, and Lei Hong asked whether they should attack the Feathered Humans’ main camp next.

• Lei Hong smashed Shadow Blade into a crater, leaving him unable to move, as the vice-captain began the Feathered Human life-or-death secret art.
• Xu Wuyi pierced the vice-captain with the Prairie Fire Long Spear, destroying his energy circulation and burning him to ashes.
• Xu Wuyi unleashed his Heart Image flames across the battlefield, reigniting them on fleeing warriors and killing every Feathered Human within his range.
• After ten minutes, the flames died down, leaving more than twelve hundred Feathered Human warriors dead and no survivors.
• Zhao Rui saluted Xu Wuyi and declared that the Quicksand Star Realm’s situation had stabilized, while Lei Hong asked if they should attack the enemy’s main camp.

After recovering from the battle that destroyed the Wind Shadow Hunters, Xu Wuyi joined the Federation’s full assault on the Feathered Humans’ main base. The army reached the shielded fortress, and Xu Wuyi stepped forward to prepare his attack.

• Zhao Rui delayed the assault for three days so the troops and Xu Wuyi could recover, and Xu Wuyi reviewed his fight and resolved to seek a stronger spear art later.
• The Feathered Humans’ remaining priests watched the defeat of the Wind Shadow Hunters and twelve hundred soldiers, then ordered a retreat to the main base and its defenses.
• After three days, Zhao Rui assembled more than two thousand Martial Artists and led them toward the Feathered Humans’ main base.
• The Federation force reached the fortress, where Ye Guanlan assessed its fully powered energy shield and Lei Hong urged Xu Wuyi to break it.
• Xu Wuyi walked to within five hundred meters of the shield and began gathering his Heart Image power as the Golden Crow’s flame runes lit up.

Xu Wuyi broke the Feathered Humans’ defenses at Rock Mountain with Heart Image flames, then rejected their surrender and led the Federation forces to destroy their main base. The Quicksand Star Realm fell, but Xu Wuyi expected the war with the Alien Races to continue.

• Xu Wuyi ignited more than three hundred Feathered Human warriors inside their shield with two waves of Prairie Fire, severely weakening its energy.
• The shield shut down, and the old priest offered the Feathered Humans’ surrender in exchange for safe passage home, but Xu Wuyi refused.
• The three priests began burning their life origins for a final strike, but Xu Wuyi, Lei Hong, and Ye Guanlan killed them.
• Xu Wuyi ordered the Federation Martial Artists to kill every enemy, then spread Heart Fire throughout Rock Mountain as two thousand fighters stormed the base.
• Three hours later, the Feathered Humans’ main base had fallen and their final force in the Quicksand Star Realm had been wiped out.

After the Quicksand Star Realm campaign, Xu Wuyi returned to Linjiang to see his parents and received 160,000 merits, using 100,000 to repay Ye Guanlan. With more than 83,000 merits left, he logged into the military intranet to look for a personal Smart Brain.

• Xu Wuyi, Lei Hong, and Ye Guanlan confirmed the Quicksand Star Realm was secure and returned to Blue Star.
• Xu Wuyi went to Linjiang and reunited with his parents, who told him they hoped to return to Honghe once the war settled down.
• Xu Wuyi received an S-rank campaign assessment and a total of 160,000 merits.
• Xu Wuyi repaid Ye Guanlan 100,000 merits for his debt to the research institute.
• Xu Wuyi logged into the Federation military intranet and opened the Auxiliary Equipment category to find a new personal Smart Brain.

Xu Wuyi equipped the Starlight-III Personal Smart Brain and named its assistant Anna. Anna analyzed his combat needs and recommended martial arts and resources to address his weaknesses, leaving him studying the Nether Heaven-Balancing Spear and its three realms.

• Xu Wuyi exchanged 2,000 merit points for a Starlight-III Personal Smart Brain and completed its setup, naming its female avatar Anna.
• Anna synchronized Xu Wuyi's profile and combat records, then generated a recommended resource exchange list based on his fighting style and development needs.
• Anna identified Xu Wuyi's weakness in close combat and evasion, recommending the Nether Heaven-Balancing Spear and Quicksand Step to complement his Heart Image flames.
• Anna explained the uses of Earthcore Flame Iron, Grandmaster-grade repair pod access, and mental stabilization agents as additional resources for Xu Wuyi.
• Xu Wuyi examined a demonstration of the Nether Heaven-Balancing Spear as Anna explained its realms of Heaven-Balancing Force, Nether Pull, and Domain-Suppressing Field.

Xu Wuyi spent his merit points on the Nether Heaven-Balancing Spear, Quicksand Step, Earthcore Flame Iron, repair pod uses, and mental stabilizing potions. After the deliveries arrived, he began studying the spear technique and made his first progress manipulating gravity before starting the movement technique’s basic footwork.

• Xu Wuyi exchanged merit points for the Nether Heaven-Balancing Spear and Quicksand Step, then spent the remainder on Earthcore Flame Iron, repair pod uses, and mental stabilizing potions.
• Anna arranged delivery of the items and transmitted the two martial arts manuals to Xu Wuyi’s Smart Brain.
• Xu Wuyi received the delivery, stored the Earthcore Flame Iron and potions, and bound the repair pod access cards to his personal terminal.
• Xu Wuyi studied the Nether Heaven-Balancing Spear, sensed the gravitational field, and made his spear heavier by attaching its force to the weapon.
• Xu Wuyi practiced the Heaven-Balancing Force and Nether Pull forms, then began learning Quicksand Step’s basic footwork in the Cultivation Room.

Xu Wuyi practiced the Nether Heaven-Balancing Spear and Quicksand Step, then prepared to strengthen himself before a possible Federation offensive against the Feathered Humans. The next day, he began sensing gravity through resonance as he worked to cultivate the spear art.

• Xu Wuyi practiced the Nether Heaven-Balancing Spear and Quicksand Step, quickly becoming proficient with their basic techniques.
• Xu Wuyi reviewed his status and learned that the Federation might launch a probing offensive against the Feathered Humans in one month.
• Xu Wuyi drank a mental stabilizing potion and cultivated Golden Crow Burns the Heart; Prairie Fire, bringing his condition back to full strength.
• Xu Wuyi worried that the Feathered Humans might send stronger assassins, possibly a quasi-Grandmaster, and resolved to master his new martial arts quickly.
• The next day, Xu Wuyi focused on resonating with the surrounding gravitational field before practicing the Nether Heaven-Balancing Spear.

Xu Wuyi trained Nether Heaven-Balancing Spear, using moments of insight to master gravity and advance the art to Minor Achievement. He pushed through a thousand repetitions and received a great enlightenment that revealed gravity’s place in the universe, leaving him with a deeper understanding of its laws.

• Xu Wuyi aligned his spiritual power with gravity and used it to strengthen the force surrounding his spear.
• After reaching one hundred effective repetitions, Xu Wuyi gained a moment of insight and advanced Nether Heaven-Balancing Spear’s proficiency.
• Xu Wuyi trained the spear art and Quicksand Step over the following days, then altered the direction of gravity and reached Minor Achievement in the spear art.
• Xu Wuyi recognized that gravity could complete the earth aspect of his Dark Gold Mountain Body Heart Image and decided to intensify his training.
• Xu Wuyi completed one thousand spear repetitions and gained a great enlightenment that showed him how gravity shaped the universe.

After half a month of intensive cultivation, Xu Wuyi greatly improved his spear technique, movement technique, and Heart Image, then applied to return to the front lines. The military rejected his request to protect him from the Feathered Humans, who had ranked him seventh on their kill list and designated him a strategic-level threat.

• Xu Wuyi used a thousandfold enlightenment to strengthen his gravity control and advance the earth portion of his Dark Gold Mountain Body Heart Image.
• Over the following weeks, Xu Wuyi trained the Nether Heaven-Balancing Spear and Quicksand Step while studying gravity, bringing the spear close to Major Achievement.
• Xu Wuyi applied to the military to resume frontline combat, prioritizing battlefields against the Feathered Human Civilization.
• The military rejected Xu Wuyi's application and advised him to remain in Federation territory while it arranged future missions.
• Feng Zhuohua told Xu Wuyi that the Feathered Humans ranked him seventh on their kill list and that the military was protecting him from a decapitation attempt.

After being barred from the Astral Battlefield, Xu Wuyi applied for domestic military operations and was assigned to support the Dark Nether Rift garrison. He accepted the dangerous month-long mission and prepared to join Grandmaster Ren Bai at the outpost.

• Xu Wuyi learned that Feng Zhuohua wanted him to wait until the military had laid a trap and the Feathered Humans revealed a weakness.
• Xu Wuyi searched the Federation’s public missions, found none suited to his Xiantian combat power, and applied to the military for any domestic operation requiring it.
• The Dongjiang Province Wartime Command approved Xu Wuyi for support duty at the Dark Nether Rift Forward Outpost.
• Xu Wuyi reviewed the Rift’s history and learned that Grandmaster Ren Bai had held it for three years amid frequent beast attacks and heavy casualties.
• Xu Wuyi accepted the assignment and learned that a military vehicle would pick him up at Cloud Sea Residence at eight the next morning.

Xu Wuyi traveled to the Dark Nether Rift frontline outpost to assist Grandmaster Ren Bai with its defense. Tang Xiuqi briefed him on the rift’s dangers and assigned him to the second defensive echelon.

• Xu Wuyi told his parents he was leaving for a defensive mission in Honghe, then packed his equipment and set out.
• Xu Wuyi passed a heavily guarded checkpoint and arrived at the Dark Nether Rift outpost, where Grandmaster Ren Bai suppressed the rift with a rune formation.
• An outpost staff member escorted Xu Wuyi to the command tower, where he met Tang Xiuqi.
• Tang Xiuqi explained the rift’s history and recurring Star Beast attacks, including periodic assaults by Beast Kings.
• Tang Xiuqi assigned Xu Wuyi to the second defensive echelon, responsible for patrols and monitoring until an attack required deployment.

Xu Wuyi joined the second echelon at the Dark Nether Rift, where Grandmaster Ren Bai arranged for him to study the rift’s manifested rules under protection. During his first patrol, he learned that a Star Beast surge was expected within three days.

• Tang Xiuqi told Xu Wuyi that he was the second echelon’s thirteenth member and that Grandmaster Ren Bai wanted him to gain insight near the rift each day.
• Xu Wuyi settled into the fortress, cultivated through the night, and went to the second echelon’s morning gathering.
• Tang Xiuqi introduced Xu Wuyi to the team and assigned him to inspect the rift with Li Shuang and Ji Shanhai.
• Xu Wuyi found the rift’s force field too chaotic for his Heart Image perception to penetrate and confirmed that the nearby rune array was undamaged.
• Tang Xiuqi reported that a small-scale surge was likely within three days and explained that the second echelon would handle it unless the threat exceeded their limits.

Xu Wuyi helped defend the fortress when an unusually powerful rift surge unleashed a vast Star Beast horde and three Grand Commander-level beasts. He burned through much of the horde, then used gravity manipulation to disrupt the Toxic Miasma Commander as it charged him.

• Xu Wuyi spent two days training and patrolling the outpost, improving his Nether Heaven-Balancing Spear before an alarm warned of a major rift surge.
• Su Wen detected more than 150 Star Beasts and three Grand Commander-level targets, and Tang Xiuqi deployed the defenders to the fortress walls.
• The rift burst open, releasing a horde led by a Red-Tooth Commander, a Blade-Tooth Commander, and a Toxic Miasma Commander.
• Xu Wuyi used Prairie Fire to incinerate more than half the horde, relieving pressure on the defensive line.
• The Toxic Miasma Commander charged Xu Wuyi, who used Nether Pull to reverse its gravity and disrupt its advance.

Xu Wuyi helped Tang Xiuqi and Zhao Kun swiftly defeat a Star Beast surge at the Dark Nether Rift, then studied gravity manipulation and settled into life at the outpost. The chapter leaves him sensing the chaotic energy around the rift as he continues seeking insight into its rules.

• Xu Wuyi killed the Toxic Miasma Commander with his spear and flames, while Tang Xiuqi and Zhao Kun defeated the Red-Tooth Commander and Blade-Tooth Commander and the remaining Star Beasts were eliminated.
• Tang Xiuqi praised Xu Wuyi’s battlefield effectiveness after the battle ended in less than ten minutes without casualties.
• Xu Wuyi trained with his spear and reflected on combining gravity control with the flames of Golden Crow Burns the Heart.
• Xu Wuyi settled into the outpost’s training and patrol routine, and Grandmaster Ren Bai gave him guidance on understanding gravity rules.
• Xu Wuyi sat at the edge of the rift and extended his Heart Image perception into its chaotic energy field.

Xu Wuyi studied the distorted gravity around a spatial rift to improve his control of gravity, but hit a bottleneck. Grandmaster Ren Bai advised him to develop his own understanding of the rule, and Xu Wuyi returned to his dormitory to reflect on that guidance.

• Xu Wuyi cautiously sensed the warped force field around the rift and focused on imitating areas where gravity intensified.
• Xu Wuyi practiced with the Prairie Fire Long Spear, using his Heart Image power to make gravity fluctuate around his movements.
• Grandmaster Ren Bai watched Xu Wuyi practice, then explained that he should merge with and guide gravity rather than try to grasp it through brute force.
• Grandmaster Ren Bai recommended Grandmaster Xie Tang's recorded Battle Net courses and told Xu Wuyi to develop his own understanding of gravity.
• Xu Wuyi returned to his dormitory and reflected on Grandmaster Ren Bai's advice.

Xu Wuyi discovered that Heart Image gravity came from projecting his own understanding of weight into reality, improving his Nether Heaven-Balancing Spear. He watched Grandmaster Xie Tang’s lecture and learned that a Martial Artist’s grasp of gravity needed to be self-consistent, not scientifically correct.

• Xu Wuyi magnified the concept of weight in his palm and realized Heart Image power acted through firm, personal cognition.
• Xu Wuyi practiced the Nether Heaven-Balancing Spear again, raising its realm to Minor Achievement at 97.1%.
• Xu Wuyi asked Tang Xiuqi for time off and accessed Grandmaster Xie Tang’s gravity lecture on the military’s internal Battle Net database.
• Grandmaster Xie Tang explained that Heart Image gravity projected a Martial Artist’s personal understanding of weight, sinking, and pull into reality.
• Grandmaster Xie Tang told his students that a belief did not need to be correct, only deep and self-consistent, for Heart Image power to produce effects.

After studying Grandmaster Xie Tang’s Heart Image cultivation, Xu Wuyi rebuilt his understanding of gravity and learned to amplify weight and pull objects with Heart Image power. He began a thousandfold spear-art realization, and the 999th repetition caused his Dark Gold Mountain Body to shake and glow.

• Xu Wuyi realized Heart Image power manifested a practitioner’s firm self-perception rather than a scientifically accurate imitation of reality.
• After two days of contemplation, Xu Wuyi used his Heart Image power to make Earthcore Flame Iron feel heavier and pull it toward his palm.
• Xu Wuyi spent two days refining his control of gravity while his Nether Heaven-Balancing Spear reached 98.7% of Minor Achievement.
• Xu Wuyi began his planned thousandfold realization, integrating gravity into each spear thrust as he practiced.
• When Xu Wuyi completed the 999th repetition, his Dark Gold Mountain Body shook and its surface patterns glowed faintly yellow.