Recaps

Qu Jianlei’s group explored the Maiden Star Region, found the Fire Essence and the Sealing Token, and encountered Yi He True Monarch. They reached a calm area beside the Boundary Membrane to seek Voidstone, where Qu Jianlei chose to wait for an eruption and the group faced dangerous Space Rifts.

• Qu Jianlei exchanged captured ships and a Star Beast carcass with the Empire for a Battalion-Class Ship, supplies, and an artifact, then led his companions into the Maiden Star Region.
• Qu Jianlei’s group witnessed a strange cycle of Creation and Destruction, found a meteor marked by sword intent, and crossed a Space Sub-layer to reach a ruined continent with traces of cultivation.
• Qu Jianlei’s group broke into a hidden abode, discovered artifacts and cultivation records, and used the notes to derive methods for Nutrient Solution and Duo Gan while tending a Fire Essence that became attached to them.
• Qu Jianlei’s group named the Fire Essence Gold Digger and later found a Sealing Token left by Yi He, which revealed records of his mission and led them deeper into the dangerous spatial anomaly.
• Yi He True Monarch emerged as a Remnant Soul, sought the Fire Essence and Soul Nourishing Wood, and eventually guided Qu Jianlei’s group to an equilibrium zone where they collected Voidstone.
• Qu Jianlei discussed the Asura invasion, the Incense Divinity Path, and Digital Lifeforms with Yi He True Monarch, then agreed to cooperate while keeping a safe distance from him.
• Yi He True Monarch led Qu Jianlei’s group through a dangerous energy channel to the Boundary Membrane, where they saw Voidstone trapped beyond it and learned that breaking through would be dangerous.
• Qu Jianlei refused to attack the Boundary Membrane and chose to wait for an eruption, while Big Head Butterfly evaded sudden Space Rifts and Yi He True Monarch warned the group not to probe them with spiritual sense.

Qu Jianlei’s team explored the Maiden Star Region, recovered a Dao Stele, and took on missions tied to the Blade’s Edge invasion while resolving cultivation and artifact matters. The arc left them near Home Star, where they offered refuge to a pursued cargo ship and confronted the guards surrounding it.

• Qu Jianlei’s team recovered rare materials and a solidified Demonized Nightmare Essence, then searched the Energy Mass for Flawless Crystals and rescued Da Vinci’s stranded expedition.
• Qu Jianlei used the Plantain Fan and King Kong Bracelet to take the Dao Stele, then escorted Da Vinci’s group to Pan Rock Star and arranged repairs and military negotiations for the Battalion-Class Ship.
• Qu Jianlei studied the Dao Stele and entered Sudden Enlightenment for more than three months, gaining a mysterious sense of fate before the Blade’s Edge Awakened Ones United Association arrived.
• Digital Phantom accepted an Ink Marker from the United Association, inspected Snowfield Star for Alliance spies, and agreed to a paid relationship with the association before departing.
• Fourth Boss returned to the Sword Intent Meteor and revealed that Patrice had framed him, while Qu Jianlei’s team supported him and Hua Xiezhi completed Core Formation.
• Qu Jianlei’s team protected Yuanyuan through her advancement on Tianfeng Star, resisted intruders and military pressure, then left as Above Supremes began gathering.
• Near Home Star, Qu Jianlei’s team drove off city guards who tried to inspect the 1314 Ship and agreed to shelter a pursued cargo ship without revealing Digital Phantom’s identity.

Qu Jianlei’s group built a mining operation to fund the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion and helped restore the Abode while preparing for his Nascent Soul breakthrough. After Qu Jianlei survived his tribulation and reached the Nascent Soul Realm, the group escaped Tianfeng Star and continued cultivating inside the Mystic Mansion.

• Kabus and Kajia joined Qu Jianlei’s group, and Da Vinci arranged for Kajia’s family to be rescued before the crew established a mine holding hundreds of billions of Energy Stones.
• Qu Jianlei accepted the Artifact Spirit’s offer to form his Nascent Soul inside the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion, and his team installed hundreds of arrays to stabilize the Abode despite its enormous Energy Block consumption.
• When rival forces challenged the group’s mines and investigators pursued Yuanyuan, Fourth Boss, Yuanyuan, and Hua Xiezhi retaliated, while Da Vinci traced the group’s identities and offered to help fund its operation.
• Jia Shuiqing brought Da Vinci to Tianfeng Star to witness Qu Jianlei’s tribulation, where Da Vinci drove off military ships and Bentley helped stop an attacker from disrupting the final strikes.
• After the tribulation, the group concealed Qu Jianlei’s recovery inside an Ascension Column and used Fourth Boss’s energy turbulence to sweep away nearby warships and escape Tianfeng Star.
• Qu Jianlei’s group left Xiao Moshan, Xiao Qin, and Yi He True Monarch at the mine, while Old Lady Jia took the others to their starship and Da Vinci agreed to keep Fourth Boss’s magic artifact secret.
• Qu Jianlei continued cultivating inside the Mystic Mansion and ordered Xiao Hu to halve the Energy Block consumption when the supply dwindled.

Qu Jianlei and Digital Phantom pursued compensation for the Mineral Star seizure, clashed with the Hegel Family and other mine interests, and helped expose undeclared reserves on Kunhai Star. After the mine owner and shareholders were punished, the team left to practice spells while the military sought to learn whether they would research the Mystic Mansion.

• Qu Jianlei returned to Tianfeng, met Da Vinci, and accepted him as a prospective team member after Da Vinci offered substantial financial support.
• Digital Phantom robbed two military Energy Block depots on Tianfeng, then rescued miners from an illegally seized Mineral Star and demanded compensation from the Mine Management Department.
• Mu Guang rejected the department’s initial settlement, and Digital Phantom attacked Hegel Family holdings before negotiating mine shares and a sixty-billion-Energy-Block payment.
• Qu Jianlei’s group confronted Empire Storm and Old Tree at Chaoyang Academy, then negotiated compensation from them while Claire secured mine shares and a settlement from the Hegel Family.
• After an Assessment Team member was attacked on Kunhai Star, Feng Yese revealed evidence that the mine concealed at least two trillion Energy Stones and asked Digital Phantom to hold its owners accountable.
• Mu Guang gave Feng Yese five percent of the mine’s shares, and Digital Phantom’s presence on Kunhai helped prompt the arrest of the mine owner and penalties for the shareholders.
• Qu Jianlei and the team left Kunhai to practice spells on uninhabited planets, while Bai Jinhan and Nelson visited the Experimental Platform and reported the military’s interest in the Mystic Mansion.