Recaps

Qu Jianlei joined Luo Hanshuang’s internship at the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion, helping her survive Mangyuan and solve the Inner Circle’s puzzle. They returned with valuable treasures and a new inheritance, while Xingluo Academy began questioning Luo Hanshuang about her gains.

• Qu Jianlei joined Luo Hanshuang’s group as her protector and traveled with her and Aunt Han to the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion, where inspectors confiscated students’ Item-Storing Talismans for safekeeping.
• Qu Jianlei helped Luo Hanshuang and Aunt Han cross Mangyuan, fought off a rat swarm, found Ten Thousand Year Stone Marrow, and led the group through a military restricted zone to the academy’s mountain-range camp.
• Qu Jianlei accompanied Luo Hanshuang and Aunt Han through the Mystic Mansion’s misty path, where Luo Hanshuang used her lasso to retrieve treasures while Qu Jianlei sensed threats and opportunities.
• Qu Jianlei revealed his A-rank No Attribute and helped Luo Hanshuang solve the Taiji Diagram’s Divine Script puzzle, opening the way to the Inner Circle.
• Inside the grotto, Qu Jianlei received a Pill Refining inheritance, and he and Luo Hanshuang and Aunt Han claimed treasures before returning to the main hall.
• After Guo Qiqiang tried to recruit Luo Hanshuang, the academy took the group back to Tianyi, where Qu Jianlei agreed to travel with them to Celestial Hook Star for a guard fee.
• Luo Hanshuang showed the teachers her gains but withheld details about how she solved the Mystic Mansion’s questions, and an instructor ordered her to keep the internship secret.

Qu Jianlei fought off the Iron Blood Brotherhood, traded knowledge with Yuanyuan, and killed Cohen and Arindell as the conflict with the Research Society deepened. While traveling in disguise to Tianrui Star, he joined Bai Jinhan and his descendants in resisting an anti-smuggling operation, leaving their starship descending toward the department’s base.

• Qu Jianlei hired Stone on Celestial Hook Star, settled into a secluded courtyard, and began working with Xiao Hu on a safer path to Above Supreme.
• Qu Jianlei killed Farmer, Heart-Eroding, and the Iron Blood Brotherhood’s attackers, then demanded compensation and information about Yuanyuan’s inheritance.
• Qu Jianlei and Yuanyuan exchanged details about their cultivation methods and discussed the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion and how it might be refined.
• Qu Jianlei killed Cohen at White Cloud Manor and beheaded Arindell at the Qingfeng Merchant Guild’s office before escaping the pursuing forces.
• The Divine Script Research Association and its allies struggled to find support, while Fobi disappeared and Qu Jianlei secretly boarded a starship for Sky Hook.
• Qu Jianlei encountered dozens of stowaways aboard the starship, where Bai Jinhan revealed he was a Supreme traveling under a false identity with two descendants.
• Qu Jianlei agreed to help Bai Jinhan protect his juniors, and they prepared to escape when the starship reached Tianrui Star.
• Bai Jinhan forced the pilot to disable autopilot and land despite the Signal Tower’s warning, while the Anti-Smuggling Department debated how to stop the ship.

Qu Jianlei escaped Tianrui Star, returned to Celestial Hook Star, and cultivated with Yuanyuan until he advanced to Supreme through a lightning tribulation. The resulting investigation brought Qinghu back into his affairs, and they repaired Half-Star Island’s defenses and Qi Gathering Array together.

• Bai Jinhan fought the Anti-Smuggling Department’s warships while Qu Jianlei got Bai Siwen and his sick niece to safety, then Qingtian intervened and Tianrui’s authorities promised to investigate the department.
• Qu Jianlei gave Bai Jinhan evidence of the department’s stowaway cases, then left for Tianbing Star and continued on to Celestial Hook Star, where Yuanyuan arranged for him to stay at Half-Star Island.
• Qinghu arrived at Half-Star Island with Yuanyuan’s grandmother, discovered Qu Jianlei’s Qi Gathering Array, and agreed to keep its existence secret.
• Qu Jianlei and Yuanyuan activated the Qi Gathering Array and cultivated for months until Qu Jianlei began his breakthrough and advanced to Supreme amid a destructive lightning tribulation.
• The Department of Anomalous Affairs investigated the storm’s unusual energy, but Qu Jianlei and Yuanyuan obstructed its efforts while Qinghu warned the authorities away from the island.
• Qinghu returned and studied the tribulation’s lingering Exotic Energy, while Qu Jianlei stopped Chiyang with a sonic attack and demonstrated his ability to produce lightning.
• Qinghu deduced that Qu Jianlei was the strange man linked to Bai Jinhan’s account and the deaths of Cohen and Arindell, but promised not to expose his hidden abilities.
• Qinghu gave Qu Jianlei an aura-concealing array diagram, drove away surveillance around Lone Leaf Lake, and helped him restore the Defense Arrays and Qi Gathering Array.

Qu Jianlei fled the Empire’s pursuit, escaped a Space Pirate base with its wealth, and built up his warships by robbing Titan Group and outfitting them at a market. When Cook and Three Butchers ambushed the 8384 Merchant Ship, Qu Jianlei destroyed their fleet and began towing away the spoils as another group approached.

• Qu Jianlei left Lone Leaf Lake before the Department of Anomalous Affairs surrounded it, then spent six months working under the name Tesla at a Precision Factory on Sky Hook Star.
• After his mother’s death prompted him to travel, Qu Jianlei was caught in a Space Pirate raid and taken to their hidden asteroid base, where he mapped the stronghold and triggered a power-center emergency.
• Qu Jianlei freed the captives, looted the pirates’ vault, and escaped with warships and Energy Stones before killing the captured Rank A pirate Tie Ling and learning the Supreme’s name was Morse.
• Qu Jianlei established a base in an abandoned mine, modified his warships, and robbed Titan Group’s Iron Scraps operation, later collecting the remaining debt and payment after freezing a patrolling Armed Merchant Ship.
• At a market, Qu Jianlei bought weapons, materials, and Calculation Units, then left aboard the 8384 Merchant Ship as Cook’s associates began following him.
• Cook and Three Butchers sent Attack Ships to rob the 8384, but Qu Jianlei and Xiao Hu sabotaged the pursuers’ systems and destroyed their fleet after the crews’ attempted surrender turned into continued fighting.
• Qu Jianlei ordered Xiao Hu to destroy the remaining escape craft and ships, and Cook died as her Aerospace Carrier self-destructed.
• Qu Jianlei and Xiao Hu counted their spoils and began towing away one Armed Merchant Ship and six Attack Ships, while a third passing group deliberately approached.