Recaps

Qu Jianlei rescued Mu Yu, gathered allies, and stole a Super Qi Gathering Array while fleeing Planet Three’s military. A failed long-distance jump stranded the group on a mined celestial body, where they survived for over a year before a merchant crew arrived and tried to seize their resources.

• Paranoid and Qu Jianlei helped Mu Yu recover, then brought her back to the Warhammer Star Region and began treating her with Soul Nourishing Pills.
• Qu Jianlei reunited with Qinghu on Sky Handle, assassinated Talina, and escaped with Qinghu and Hua Xiezhi aboard the Unlucky Starship.
• On Planet Three, Qu Jianlei joined forces with Xiao Moshan to steal components from a Super Qi Gathering Array while the group helped Xiao pursue his former enemies.
• After the theft triggered a military alarm, Qu Jianlei rescued Xiao Moshan and escaped as military ships pursued them and the starport was sealed.
• The group attempted a long-distance Near-Earth Jump but emerged in outer space instead of reaching their waiting starships.
• Qu Jianlei and the others settled on a mined celestial body, built a residence and Energy Block extractors, and sent signals seeking rescue.
• After more than a year, a merchant ship arrived, but its crew demanded the group’s Energy Blocks and labor, prompting Qu Jianlei to take control of a Small Attack Ship.

Qu Jianlei’s group helped Ping An defeat its enemies, exposed a backdoor in its new Calculation Unit, and retaliated against Peace. After returning to Paradise Star, Qu Jianlei found the guesthouse facing a forced land requisition and confronted one of the planet’s Guardian Supremes.

• Qu Jianlei’s group defeated the Space Pirates pursuing the Ping An Merchant Group, repaired their ships, and agreed to consider partnering with Ping An on legal Energy Stone mining.
• After Dukas attacked Ping An, Qu Jianlei’s group retaliated against Kopaqi and other targets, forcing Dukas to withdraw and negotiate an end to the conflict.
• Qu Jianlei’s group confronted the Cleaners, and Jia Shuiqing emerged from seclusion with the strength of a peak Supreme as Ping An recovered its starship.
• Empire Storm arranged for Tai Ping to distract Ping An while operatives planted a backdoor in its new Calculation Unit, but Xiao Hu discovered and secretly studied the intrusion.
• Qu Jianlei moved the Computer Group to a hidden camp, while Hua Xiezhi’s group attacked Peace and killed one of its Supremes, prompting Ping An to prepare for war.
• Qu Jianlei returned to Home Star and learned that Lao Ben had left to search for him before the Pioneers arrived, then went with his companions to Paradise Star.
• At the guesthouse, Qu Jianlei learned that officials were pressuring Xiang Xue to sell its land, and he ordered her to identify who was behind the pressure.
• Terry arrived demanding to meet the Supreme at the guesthouse, and Qu Jianlei unleashed his aura and ordered him to leave.

Qu Jianlei and his companions avenged Tian Yin’s family by striking Wanhao Group and its allies, then returned to Zi Hong Star to confront officials over Ping An’s Energy Stone Mine. The mine inspection began amid competing claims and growing military involvement.

• Xiang Xue rejected the Fourth Administrator’s attempt to fold her inn into Cloud Mist Mountain’s tourism system, while Qu Jianlei’s team traced the land scheme to He Xu and learned of Tian Yin’s grudge against Wanhao Group.
• Qu Jianlei and Tian Yin captured He Xu, and after he revealed that Wanhao had destroyed Tian Yin’s cousin’s body, Qu Jianlei killed him and took his money.
• Qu Jianlei, Mu Yu, and Tian Yin traveled to Light Gauze Star, killed Pu Juxiang, Red Beard, Xian Ming, Thousand Layer Snow, and other Wanhao fighters, and exposed the attack as revenge for the Consair family.
• Tian Yin confronted Supreme Coning, who agreed to help her, and learned from him that her uncle Consair had killed an old friend over a gold vein before Wanhao used the friend’s recording against him.
• Qu Jianlei, Mu Yu, and Tian Yin destroyed Thousand Layer Snow’s family compound and attacked Wanhao’s branch on Claw Star, then escaped as flights were suspended and later declined Qian He’s dangerous contracts.
• Tian Yin returned home while Qu Jianlei went back to Paradise Star, where he learned Wanhao had withdrawn, and two months later, Ping An’s Energy Stone Mine permit was approved and Qu Jianlei led Supremes to Zi Hong Star.
• Qu Jianlei challenged the government departments’ dry-share demands and ordered Ping An to limit transportation fees, while Zhan Donglai suspected Ping An had arranged Shieler’s murder.
• Ping An’s mine expedition departed with government ships, but the Energy Block Merchant Alliance’s analysis showed that an organized force had previously mined the celestial body, and three military warships arrived to investigate.

Qu Jianlei’s group settled their mining disputes and resumed traveling, then confronted a ghost cultivator who was collecting souls on Snowfield Star. They defeated Long De, rescued Hua Xiezhi from his Soul Body, and regrouped to examine the loot and an unexplained black stone.

• Roger brought a Military Department order to the asteroid, but Empire Storm withdrew after the Latecomer intervened, and Qu Jianlei’s group completed its mining deal.
• Qu Jianlei moved the Computer Group to Paradise Star, then confronted Supreme Hillary over her obstruction of Tian Yin’s mine claim and negotiated compensation for Tian Yin.
• Qu Jianlei’s group traveled to Snowfield Star, where Qinghu found her family’s mountains under threat and the group discovered a ghost cultivator beneath Adol’s estate.
• Qu Jianlei and his companions pursued the escaping Soul Body to the Human Potential Research Institute, where they killed Ke Zhe and traced his ghost-cultivation methods to a Supreme.
• Qu Jianlei identified Long De as the Supreme behind the soul attacks, and his group lured Long De into an ambush on Kongming Mountain.
• Qu Jianlei, Old Lady Jia, Hua Xiezhi, and their companions killed Long De and destroyed his Soul Body after it entered Hua Xiezhi’s mind.
• Hua Xiezhi recovered after revealing how she had protected herself from mental attacks, and the group regrouped in a stone chamber to inspect their spoils and a cracked black stone.