Recaps

Qu Jianlei survived the Flying Centipede’s attack, recovered the Space-Time Heart, and led Digital Phantom into the Link Nebula. After major battles with the Asuras, his team reached the black hole and confronted Burns’s Mother Nest, where a massive shuttle-shaped artifact appeared.

• Qu Jianlei used the Dao Stele to weaken the Flying Centipede in his Sea of Consciousness, then learned from Yuan Wu that its many incarnations could revive and would require repeated exorcism.
• Qu Jianlei opened the Space Ruyi Pearl’s hidden chamber and found the World Piercing Shuttle, a dangerous broken axe, and the Space-Time Heart, then recovered while his team prepared to advance into the Link Nebula.
• Qu Jianlei’s team fought through the Asura nests, destroyed seven Mother Nests with Flawed Portable Abodes, and captured two more Mother Nests while losing five Battalion-Class Ships.
• Qinghu captured an Eight-Armed Asura envoy during a failed negotiation, and Qu Jianlei’s team continued toward the Information Barrier Breach as Asura nests gathered around them.
• Qu Jianlei led the fleet through unstable space toward the black hole, where the team discovered Burns’s enormous Mother Nest and hidden Asura forces.
• Burns’s Mother Nest pierced a decoy Division Level Ship with Cyan Glow, but the ship returned fire as a gigantic shuttle-shaped artifact appeared and Burns reacted in disbelief.

Qu Jianlei’s team destroyed rival Mother Trees, cleared the Tree Race from a Space Wave Point, and triggered its eruption to collect Space Stones. Afterward, Xiao Hu exposed and captured an artificial intelligence that had infiltrated an Imperial warship, and Bentley arrived with new defenses for testing.

• Qu Jianlei and the joint fleet destroyed the Out-of-Body Mother Nest, then he refused to renew his agreement with the Artifact Spirit before accepting its help in refining the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion.
• Qu Jianlei completed Black Colt Towers for accelerated cultivation and traveled with Digital Phantom to the Heim Star Region, where the team rescued an Alliance fleet and fought the Forest Sea Alien Race.
• Qu Jianlei’s team investigated Sihe Star and Baozhi Star, where Wind Forgotten helped destroy the newly grown Mother Tree amid conflict within the Tree Race.
• Qu Jianlei and his team attacked seven Tree Race camps near a Space Wave Point, drove the survivors away, and repeatedly struck the point until it erupted after their fleet had withdrawn.
• Qu Jianlei collected Space Stones and spent time cultivating in an improved Black Colt Tower before Jing Yuexin reported that an artificial intelligence had attacked the Experimental Platform.
• Xiao Hu trapped the intruding artificial intelligence and traced its entry to an Imperial Battalion-Class Ship infiltrated through an Alliance envoy starship.
• The Alliance War Zone’s second-ranking commander asked Digital Phantom to inspect its fleet, and Bentley arrived three days later with new anti-intrusion systems and Super Calculation Units.

Qu Jianlei led Digital Phantom into the Asura World, where the team captured nests, uncovered the Great Strength Tribe’s history, and raided spirit stone mines. After the raids drew attention across the region, Great Hammer asked Qu Jianlei to warn the tribe’s hidden ancestor of the approaching danger.

• Bentley inspected Alliance War Zone ships and found hidden markers and backdoors that could enable AI takeovers, while the Second Commander asked Digital Phantom for help defending against the Alliance.
• Qu Jianlei left the team to cultivate and later brought Digital Phantom back to Dawn Base after the Locust World invaded the Alliance, then led the group toward the Asura World.
• Qu Jianlei’s team crossed into the Asura World, captured several nests, and learned that foreign Asura forces were gathering there before fighting in the Otherworld.
• Qu Jianlei’s group captured Asuras and nests, uncovered spirit stone deposits, and stole millions of spirit stones from Yanhou warehouses before escaping an Eight-Armed Asura.
• Qu Jianlei’s team raided Red Jade’s warehouse and learned that the Great Strength Tribe had once served Cultivators and wanted to return to that role under their protection.
• The Great Strength Tribe’s Ten-Armed Ancestor learned that Qu Jianlei’s group had defeated three Great Venerables and ordered his tribe to conceal its reserves while cooperating with them.
• Qu Jianlei’s forces destroyed Asura defenses at a spirit stone mine and rapidly extracted its ore, then raided another mine near Danghu before fleeing from Shiyan reinforcements.
• As Asura tribes began investigating the mine raids, Great Hammer warned Qu Jianlei that the approaching Three Eyes and Liang Ran forces might target Great Strength, and Qu Jianlei sent Seven Hands toward Red Jade to alert the ancestor.