Recaps

Bu Hu and the cultivators battled the Heavenly Demons emerging from the Restricted Area while Qu Jianlei’s treasures and techniques helped turn the fight. Afterward, Qu Jianlei joined Bu Hu’s investigation, cut a small world free, and delayed a new request to explore the Restricted Area because he feared they had awakened something.

• Bu Hu returned with her team and took charge of the battlefield, while Qu Jianlei negotiated with her over Red Leaf Ridge’s help against the Out-of-Body threats.
• A Star Tapir and clusters of Deep Blue Light emerged from the Restricted Area, and the cultivators struggled to hold them back as Jing Yuexin, Qu Jianlei, and others struck at their powers.
• Qu Jianlei used Broken Axe and his killing technique to destroy the black octopus and clear the lingering resentment, while the Sundial cracked and the cultivators debated Wen Yu’s connection to the calamity.
• After the Devil Qi Barrier subsided, Bu Hu and Qu Jianlei investigated the Forgotten Peninsula, where they found concentrated Demonic Qi, two Folded Spaces, and the Wind Source.
• Qu Jianlei and his companions cut a small world free from the Restricted Area, despite discovering that the dead Great Venerable’s Imprisonment restriction would leave it damaged.
• Qu Jianlei negotiated with Jin Ge over sources and the crimson Star Cluster, while the Artifact Spirit accepted a Five Elements Source in place of the Star Cluster.
• The Third Pavilion Lord discussed access to Qu Jianlei’s Black Colt Tower, and Master Shen Miao later asked Red Leaf Ridge to assess and clear the Restricted Area in exchange for a Fire Art Source.
• Qu Jianlei postponed entering the Restricted Area until more Upper Realm experts arrived, concealing his fear that cutting apart the small world had awakened mysterious existences.

Qu Jianlei led Red Leaf Ridge through a battle with the Piao, then traveled briefly to the Upper Realm before returning to investigate the Restricted Area. His divination revealed a danger he kept secret, leaving Red Leaf Ridge on alert as the Heavenly Demons adapted and Bentley prepared to form his Nascent Soul.

• Qu Jianlei refused True Immortal Jiken’s request to join the Restricted Area expedition, while Heavenly Devils grew more active and Red Leaf Ridge began monitoring them closely.
• Qu Jianlei and Red Leaf Ridge rescued Zhao Sanshui, Zeng Jiarui, Thousand Hands True Immortal, and True Immortal Ke Liang from the Piao, then defeated a powerful Out-of-Body Piao with the World Piercing Shuttle.
• Qu Jianlei declined to explain how he had killed the Out-of-Body Piao, and True Immortal Jiken later offered to take him to the Upper Realm if he showed the shuttle.
• Qu Jianlei traveled with Qinghu and True Immortal Jin Ge through a concealed passage, but a powerful presence disrupted their route and Hypocrite disappeared after using Slaying the Dao.
• Qu Jianlei returned to Cangwu and refused Stalwart Master Shen Miao’s offer to take him to the Upper Realm, instead seeking a valuable exchange for complete Asura Bubbles and help finding Yi He.
• Qu Jianlei entered the Folded Spaces with True Immortal Bu Hu’s group, divined for three days, and warned Bu Hu and Shen Miao to prepare for an Immortal Venerable’s intervention.
• Red Leaf Ridge evacuated the Forgotten Peninsula, while Qu Jianlei told True Immortal Jin Ge he had sensed a familiar Upper Realm aura and escaped its notice.
• Red Leaf Ridge remained on alert as the Heavenly Demons learned to hide and disperse, then grew vigilant again when Bentley began attempting to form his Nascent Soul.

Qu Jianlei recovered Yi He, secured a foothold in the Upper Realm, and used the Asura Mother Nest to negotiate with powerful factions. As interest in the Asura World and a rumored Tier 5 Spirit Vein grew, the Handsome Youth appeared and asked whether Qu Jianlei could wait no longer.

• Qu Jianlei met with True Venerable Bai Qiao, who identified Old Ancestor in the Pot as the force behind the Forgotten Peninsula events and explained that he had undergone Assimilation into the Dao.
• Qu Jianlei negotiated compensation and cooperation with True Venerable Bai Qiao, True Immortal Jin Ge, and Stalwart Master Shen Miao, then led the team back into Forgotten Peninsula and rescued Yi He and other survivors.
• Qu Jianlei and his companions returned to Cangwu, where Red Leaf Ridge weathered scrutiny over the recovered remains and Yi He awoke with blurred memories of his abduction.
• Qu Jianlei traveled to the Upper Realm with True Immortal Jin Ge and inspected a Tier 4 Spirit Vein on Yanfeng Three, while tests of his Teleportation Array Disc established a route between worlds.
• Qu Jianlei endured a tense dispute with neighboring cultivators over suspected interference with the earth veins, then sold the Asura Mother Nest at an auction where the Handsome Youth outbid True Venerable Min Ning.
• Qu Jianlei earned two ascent quotas for Red Leaf Ridge, experimented with True Immortal Jin Ge on void travel, and discussed the Asura World with True Venerable Han Li, who sought information about its entrance.
• Qu Jianlei reclaimed Red Leaf Ridge’s Artifact Spirit Clones from Mortal Warships, arranged further sales of Asura sub-nests, and considered offers from two families seeking to attract his group with Spirit Veins.
• Qu Jianlei pursued a rumored Tier 5 Spirit Vein in the Xiku Sector, but after no reply arrived for several days, the Handsome Youth appeared and asked whether he could not wait any longer.

Qu Jianlei gathered Han Li and other Great Venerables to conquer the Asura World, then led an assault on the Tree Race in the Alliance World. After clearing much of the Tree Race and using the Ritual Artifact to consume powerful sacrifices, the group prepared to enter an Otherworld through a Channel Entrance that Min Ning judged dangerous.

• Qu Jianlei persuaded True Venerable Han Li to fund an expedition against the Asura World, and Han Li secured repayment from its administrative gains before the remaining profits were divided.
• After a ten-year journey, Qu Jianlei and the Great Venerables entered the Asura World, captured Secondary Nests, gathered intelligence, and decided to force the Asuras into submission.
• The expedition crossed Human Race territory, where Federation and Alliance forces welcomed Digital Phantom and provided ships, while Xiao Moshan reunited with the team and told them Xiao Qin had died.
• Qu Jianlei led Jin Ge and Min Ning into the Tree Race World, where Jin Ge killed an Out-of-Body Mother Tree and the group began clearing Tree Race territory and collecting Space Stones.
• The three Great Venerables fought a Mother Tree and Locust as Qu Jianlei used a World Piercing Shuttle, then coordinated with the Broken Blade to destroy a vast Tree Race force.
• Qu Jianlei and the Great Venerables detonated Flawed Portable Abodes and used the Ritual Artifact to consume a tree root and wounded Tree Race members, after which Qu Jianlei discovered that the Broken Axe had grown a new membrane.
• After sweeping the Alliance World for more Mother Trees, Qu Jianlei, Jin Ge, and Min Ning reached a Channel Entrance, where Min Ning divined Mid-level Danger and Small Auspicious for their crossing.