Recaps

Qu Jianlei refined his divination tools, helped protect Azure Dragon, and joined a mission into the Maiden Star Region to find five missing Wanwu True Venerables. The expedition reached the Silent Zone, where the group negotiated with the Crystal Race and found the missing cultivators behind a light barrier.

• Qu Jianlei enlisted True Venerable Zhu to craft a Turtle Shell and chess pieces from Chaos Wood, then Han Li reported Houde’s agreement to joint development by lower-realm cultivators.
• Qu Jianlei and seven other True Venerables confronted a powerful spider, but it negotiated for information about Creation and left after a divine command, and Azure Dragon’s tribulation then eased, and she entered Death Seclusion.
• Qu Jianlei underwent sudden enlightenment, held a Nascent Soul condensation ceremony, and helped Qianhuan contest the Baiyou Merchant Alliance’s bid for a Tier 5 Spirit Vein.
• Qu Jianlei agreed to help rescue five missing Wanwu True Venerables, and his group entered the Maiden Star Region aboard a warship while negotiating payment and collecting valuable materials along the route.
• After navigating chaotic space with Ke Lin’s blood tablet and Qu Jianlei’s divination, the group reached a Silent Zone and used an Asking Heart Array to find the Crystal Race.
• Han Li and the other True Venerables fought the Crystal Race until both sides accepted a ceasefire, and Ke Lin obtained a guide in exchange for information.
• Qingkong warned that something beyond the Silent Zone was holding the missing cultivators, and the group reached a light barrier where the five True Venerables emerged as Qingkong confronted Yueran.

Qu Jianlei and his companions escaped the Silent Zone, then he and Han Li pursued those behind the ambush against Qu Jianlei. After killing Linhe and Youyang and looting the Baiyou Merchant Alliance, they learned Beiliu was fleeing toward the Void Passage, where they could be outnumbered.

• Qu Jianlei and the rescued True Venerables escaped the Silent Zone through the Domain Passage he formed with Xiaoyou, then found and rescued their missing companion.
• Qu Jianlei and his companions returned from the Maiden Star Region, and Qu Jianlei later found a spatial trap that revealed an ambush involving Great Venerable auras and puppets.
• Qu Jianlei used the Creation Compass to locate the attacker and killed him with Causality Kill, then learned the Baiyou Merchant Alliance had sent the assassin.
• Han Li joined Qu Jianlei in targeting the people behind the ambush, and they captured Linhe after he left the Channel Entrance.
• Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiwu attacked Youyang’s stronghold, forced him back onto the plate, and killed him before looting the Merchant Alliance.
• Qu Jianlei admitted to a Houde True Venerable that he had killed Faceless and Linhe, while he and Han Li decided to pursue Beiliu.
• Beiliu fled toward another Channel Entrance into the void, and Xiwu warned Qu Jianlei and Han Li that they could face a superior force of allied Outer-Domain Cultivators there.

Qu Jianlei and Han Li rallied Houde against the Baiyou Merchant Alliance, then led an assault that trapped them in a Great Monarch array. They escaped after destroying the alliance’s forces and returned to Houde, where their victory left the Three Realms stunned.

• After Linhe detonated his abode and the cooperation ended, Qu Jianlei told Han Li he had begun using Compass through his body and gained a body-tempering effect.
• Qu Jianlei demanded that Houde’s True Venerables declare their support, and Bucai and Youjian backed him as he set out to unite the realm.
• Qu Jianlei and Han Li pressured the remaining True Venerables to choose sides, while the Baiyou Merchant Alliance attacked Houde cultivators and demanded Spirit Veins and compensation.
• As the alliance gathered reinforcements, Qu Jianlei and Han Li joined Jin Ge in confronting its camps, but the Hunyuan Tiandu Array trapped all four True Venerables.
• Qu Jianlei, Han Li, Jin Ge, and Xiwu fought through the array’s spatial maze while Lingyun’s True Venerables waited outside and failed to negotiate their release.
• The Baiyou Merchant Alliance’s palace and formations attacked the trapped group, but Han Li, Qu Jianlei, Jin Ge, and Xiwu destroyed the enemy arrays and killed the alliance’s True Venerables.
• The four escaped far from their original location, claimed the enemy’s palace and Abodes, and Qu Jianlei recovered enough to travel with them back to the Four Great Camps.
• Jin Ge told the waiting cultivators that the Baiyou Merchant Alliance had been wiped out, prompting celebration in Houde and disbelief among the Three Realms cultivators.

Qu Jianlei and Han Li settled their dispute with the Baiyou Merchant Alliance, while Qu Jianlei’s new path to the Out-of-Body Realm drew growing attention. They joined Houde’s campaign against the Human-Faced Bee, destroyed its avatars, and returned with new questions surrounding Spider and the Wanwu Realm.

• Qu Jianlei and Han Li ended their confrontation with Lingyun and arranged to anchor the Tier 5 Spirit Vein, while the Merchant Alliance eventually accepted their demands for compensation and an artifact.
• True Venerables pressed Qu Jianlei to reveal his new path to the Out-of-Body Realm, but he said he would discuss sharing it with Lingyun and support those who protected Houde.
• After Qingkong requested help against the Human-Faced Bee, Qu Jianlei and Han Li joined Houde’s forces in the Otherworld and bargained with Spider to locate the Bee.
• Spider led the group to the Human-Faced Bee, and Qu Jianlei, Han Li, Jin Ge, Xiwu, Qingkong, and Spider trapped and defeated it after a fierce battle.
• Spider took the Bee’s corpse, while Qu Jianlei recovered in the Empire and later met Xiaoyou, who offered Creation Rules and a Tier 6 Spirit Vein in exchange for knowledge of his cultivation path.
• Qu Jianlei and the Houde True Venerables hunted down the Human-Faced Bee’s remaining avatars over two years, while Spider taught Big Head Butterfly how to split its soul.
• Xiaoyou invited Qu Jianlei and Han Li to investigate a nearby Cultivator world, but they refused, and the group escorted the Wanwu cultivators to the Four Families Camp.
• Qu Jianlei visited Duo Gan and Jing Yuexin, helped them perform divinations, and told Jing Yuexin that he had killed a quasi-Spirit Severing expert.