Recaps

Qu Jianlei’s group seized magical artifacts, entered the Core Circle, and used force and negotiation to secure ships and resources. After returning to Pan Rock Star, they turned to Sural, who sought their help against Dyson’s pressure, with his artifact set as payment.

• Hua Xiezhi killed the Alliance Supreme after questioning him, and Qu Jianlei’s group crippled and captured a pursuing Battalion-Class Ship.
• The group recovered the Scissors Magical Artifact from the Black Zone, entered the Core Circle, and reached Pan Rock Star with help from Mu Guang’s contacts.
• Qu Jianlei’s group attacked Hook Supreme’s fleet, seized his bottle artifact, and released Hook and his crew after verifying the prize.
• Fourth Boss successfully became a Supreme, while the group learned that Hope Fourth Star had fallen under military control.
• Qu Jianlei’s group confronted Liege over the Battalion-Class Ship he had promised Young Master, and Liege paid ten billion and delivered the vessel.
• Qu Jianlei outfitted the new Battalion-Class Ship, marked it with Digital Phantom’s emblem, and installed a Smuggling Interdiction Terminal with Xiao Hu’s subprogram.
• Sural met Yuanyuan and Xiang Xue on Pan Rock Star and explained that Dyson’s pressure was draining his wealth, so Yuanyuan offered help in exchange for his magical artifact.

Digital Phantom traded for artifacts, searched war-torn Fourth Star, and learned of an approaching star-beast threat. On Kunhai, Qu Jianlei’s team met the Heaven and Earth Treasure Sunset Glow and gained a lead to an abandoned Mineral Star, while Nan Lio’s family delayed delivering its magical artifacts.

• Sural gave Digital Phantom his complete Divine Script Artifact in exchange for protection, then helped Supreme Galileo approach the group about another artifact and a freight license.
• Qu Jianlei’s group reunited with the damaged Unlucky Starship near Zalifu Star, explored mining opportunities, and continued toward Fourth Star.
• On Fourth Star, Qu Jianlei’s team rescued survivors from cannibals, investigated settlements, and learned that star beasts might have invaded.
• After gathering information and collecting genetic samples, the group left Fourth Star with two Cosmos-linked Awakened men and learned that companies had used Cosmos Mining’s name on Zalifu Star.
• The team traveled to Kunhai to meet Thirteenth Aunt and negotiate for magical artifacts, while Ta Taer heard about the star-beast threat and Digital Phantom’s recent operation.
• Duo Gan brought the chubby infant Guodong to meet Qu Jianlei, and the being offered knowledge of Energy Stone Mines and cultivation guidance in exchange for a place with the team.
• Qu Jianlei required the infant to make an Oath of the Heavenly Dao, and after nine oaths triggered a response from heaven and earth, he gave it Spirit Stones and named it Sunset Glow.
• Sunset Glow explained its origins and its ability to temporarily suppress the incompatibility between Duo Gan’s soul and body, while Nan Lio reported the artifact delay and offered an abandoned Mineral Star for testing techniques.

Qu Jianlei’s team entered Federation territory on a military mission, captured ships, and launched a devastating attack that exposed a possible Incense Divinity inheritance. After Claire and Tian Yin advanced, the team pursued a new lead through Tony, who revealed the inheritance’s dangers and asked Qu Jianlei to kill Hermann.

• Qu Jianlei’s team joined Galileo’s dangerous reconnaissance mission, captured Patrol Ships in an engineered Energy Storm, and continued behind Federation lines.
• Qu Jianlei’s team seized a supply ship, infiltrated Kode Star, and killed six A-ranks and a Supreme after Xiao Moshan’s group was robbed.
• Qu Jianlei’s team attacked a military convoy on Yongxing Star, killed an Above Supreme with the Soul Suppressing Bell, and took his corpse for study.
• Qu Jianlei and the Ruler found evidence that the Above Supreme might have received an outside consciousness through an investiture, leading Qu Jianlei to identify the Incense Divinity Path.
• Claire and Tian Yin advanced to A-rank, and Qu Jianlei’s team moved to Teres to seek an opportunity against the Federation military.
• Qu Jianlei’s team attacked personnel connected to a veteran’s death, while Tony decided to act after his grandson was injured and the military feud spread.
• Tony told Qu Jianlei that the Above Supreme’s inheritance might be nonhuman, carried severe risks, and involved an Imperial Decree, then asked Qu Jianlei to kill Hermann.
• Qu Jianlei suspected that the Above Supreme had gained authority over Ice Seal, and explained Incense Divinity systems and divine offices to Sunset Glow.

Qu Jianlei’s group seized a Federation ship, fought alongside the military against the Star Beasts, and then tried to leave the Frontline with captured soldiers and Asura remains. The group broke through a Federation artillery blockade after Qu Jianlei confronted the Lieutenant General over the Federation’s treatment of Imperial people.

• Qu Jianlei’s group captured Colonel Hill’s Battalion-Class Ship and was drawn into the Federation’s campaign against the Star Beast nests.
• Qu Jianlei’s team fought the Asura, destroyed nests, and helped defend Federation forces, while Jia Shuiqing struck the Mother Nest to open a breach.
• Qu Jianlei’s group collected six Asura corpses and departed, then used Scott’s permits to bring its ships into the Military Control Zone.
• Qu Jianlei led the three ships toward the Frontline without an escort, and the military pursued them after suspecting the observation group had defected.
• Hill and Xiao Hu showed the Lieutenant General that more than four hundred Federation soldiers were alive aboard the ships, while Qu Jianlei identified his group as coming from the Evil Empire.
• Qu Jianlei condemned the Federation’s actions in the Hope Star Region and the Hope Fourth Star Massacre, and Hill offered intelligence about Federation battle arrays and magical artifacts.
• Xiao Hu destroyed nearly half the blockade’s firepower points, and Qu Jianlei’s three ships forced their way through the remaining defenses.