Chapter Summaries

Qu Jianlei and Red Leaf Ridge used the Seven Stars Battle Formation and the Cloud Crown to draw out and capture the Heavenly Demon imprints afflicting seventeen cultivators. After twelve imprints were collected, a Golden Core patient withdrew from treatment, apparently because he could no longer afford the cost.

• Tian Yin controlled the Po Jun position while Red Leaf Ridge treated the afflicted cultivators with repeated beams of Light Art.
• On the fifth day, a Golden Core patient suffered intense pain as his Demonic Qi began to emerge, and Elder Beihai recognized the imprint's attack on Tian Yin's Yao Guang position.
• Qu Jianlei's Cloud Crown, guided by the Little Snake, captured the imprint after a bolt of lightning stopped it, and Jiao Daoren said the treasure could handle more.
• The first patient left on the tenth day after recovering, and later imprints repeatedly rushed toward Tian Yin and were captured by the Cloud Crown.
• After twelve imprints had been collected over a month, the remaining Golden Core patient accepted Duo Gan's offer to withdraw from treatment, apparently because he could not afford more spirit stones.

The Red Leaf Ridge Team completed the treatment of the Stubborn Devil Qi patients, while Gao Qingyang worked to build goodwill with them after his recovery. Duo Gan then revealed that Red Leaf Ridge was preparing to cross the spatial passageway and investigate the Out-of-Body Heavenly Demon, though the passage might lead to the Heavenly Devil Realm.

• Gao Qingyang recovered from his Out of Body Imprint, confirmed that the earlier patients had been cured, and stayed nearby to help Red Leaf Ridge.
• The remaining Nascent Soul Realm cultivators received treatment, and Gao Qingyang offered to lend money to an independent cultivator who could not afford the fees.
• The last Nascent Soul Realm patient suffered a severe decline in cultivation, and Qu Jianlei identified it as an old injury before Red Leaf Ridge departed.
• Jiang Hui and Jade Forest Matron found Red Leaf Ridge's warship near the Channel Entrance and asked Duo Gan about the team's plans.
• Duo Gan told the two women that Red Leaf Ridge was considering entering the passageway to investigate the Out-of-Body Heavenly Demon, despite the risk that it led to the Heavenly Devil Realm.

Duo Gan told Jade Forest Matron and Jiang Hui that Red Leaf Ridge planned to enter a dangerous passage and hunt an Out-of-Body Heavenly Demon, prompting the Book Pavilion to offer an expedition force and Star Palace to consider support. As Red Leaf Ridge prepared to leave within months, the other factions worried about losing its protection and resources, and Sanjiang Commander went to visit Ridge Lord Qu.

• Duo Gan explained that Red Leaf Ridge would assess the risks of the enemy passage and hoped to depart in about three months, while declining new cooperation with the Dao Palace.
• Jade Forest Matron agreed to send Book Pavilion disciples on the expedition, while keeping the Book Pavilion's main force in Cangwu to resist the Heavenly Demons.
• Jiang Hui and Jade Forest Matron agreed that the Book Pavilion and Star Palace would protect those who remained after Red Leaf Ridge departed.
• Jiang Hui and Jade Forest Matron spread news of the planned expedition, worrying the other sacred mountains, especially the Dao Palace, which lacked Mortal Warships.
• Sanjiang Commander arrived beside Red Leaf Ridge's Battalion-Class Ship and requested a meeting with Ridge Lord Qu.

Qu Jianlei confronted Sanjiang Commander and Transformation Master Wen Yu as the Dao Palace sought to resume negotiations and offered him a rare Turtle Shell. The talks shifted to the Dao Palace guarding the Channel Entrance while Qu Jianlei traveled to the Forgotten Peninsula, but he questioned whether Sanjiang Commander could provide the treasure he wanted.

• Duo Gan refused to summon Ridge Lord Qu or Fairy Jing, but listened as Sanjiang Commander raised the unfinished negotiations and presented a ten-thousand-year Spiral Tortoise shell.
• Jiao Daoren criticized the shell as a poor divination tool, and Qu Jianlei appeared and demanded to know where it came from.
• Sanjiang Commander said the shell came from an upper-realm Small Grotto-heaven, and Qu Jianlei mocked his explanation and rejected Wen Yu's attempt to speak for the Dao Palace.
• Sanjiang Commander offered to guard Red Leaf Ridge's Channel Entrance while Qu Jianlei traveled to the Forgotten Peninsula for three to six months.
• Qu Jianlei agreed that he wanted to enhance his magic treasures but asked why Sanjiang Commander could not decide the matter of a single treasure.

Qu Jianlei’s group entered the Forgotten Peninsula and traveled to a mist-covered valley where spatial rules prevented Jiao Daoren from joining them. After the five entered the valley, they reached a dangerous forest of enormous trees, and Jing Yuexin wondered whether they could take some trees with them.

• Qu Jianlei agreed that the Dao Palace would transfer half the warships before the expedition, and the factions arranged to buy additional ships.
• The Dao Palace’s forces arrived, sealed the Channel Entrance temporarily, and took delivery of half the warships.
• Qu Jianlei, Jing Yuexin, Duo Gan, Wen Yu, and Guan Fei entered the Forgotten Peninsula and encountered increasingly powerful spirit beasts; Guan Fei trapped a large hive of venomous bees.
• After twelve days, the group reached a valley where spatial rules barred Jiao Daoren from entering, so Paranoid and Mu Yu stayed outside while the five proceeded inside.
• The five crossed the thick mist and reached a forest of towering trees, where Wen Yu warned that some trees ate people and Jing Yuexin asked if they could take some away.

Qu Jianlei and his companions crossed a ruined gate into a strange, foggy space where a Company-level Warship was destroyed for using non-cultivator power. Transformation Master Wen Yu revealed that the area might contain an Out of Body Opportunity as he tried to convince Qu Jianlei to cooperate.

• Qu Jianlei and the others crossed the Forest Sea, fought off several Tapir Beasts, and reached a ruined city gate that led to another world.
• Qu Jianlei, Jing Yuexin, and Duo Gan entered together, felt the Trial Cave Dwelling react, and arrived in a hazy landscape of grass, fog, and hills.
• Transformation Master Wen Yu and Guan Fei True Immortal reappeared inside the space and used a Compass to follow Qu Jianlei's group.
• Qu Jianlei brought out a Company-level Warship, but it collapsed into dust when the space rejected power other than cultivator power.
• Transformation Master Wen Yu apologized for withholding information and said the group might have found an Out of Body Opportunity.

Qu Jianlei’s group searched the Peninsula for treasure while Wen Yu and Guan Fei told them about its ruins and the rumored Rule Item. They chose to investigate a heavily defended palace, and Qu Jianlei ended by asking whether Heavenly Demons had ever appeared at the Peninsula’s spatial anomaly points.

• Wen Yu and Guan Fei swore they would not covet an opportunity and explained that the mountain beyond the city contained treasure materials, shifting ruins, and few spirit beasts.
• Qu Jianlei, Jing Yuexin, and Duo Gan spent days gathering materials, and Qu Jianlei used calculations to improve their search despite Guan Fei’s warnings.
• The group entered several accessible ruins, found little, and fought two Nascent Soul Realm puppets whose cores soon ran out of energy.
• Wen Yu identified a palace as a major haul and described its strong defenses, while also revealing that a Paifang held a Rule Item but had driven previous explorers away with traps and counterattacks.
• Qu Jianlei chose to investigate the palace and asked what power artifacts could use; after learning that the upper realm forbade attacks above the Out-of-Body Realm, he asked whether Heavenly Demons had appeared at the spatial anomaly points.

Qu Jianlei and his companions reached the Palace but could not break through its defenses with a Battle Formation. After recovering from divination backlash, Qu Jianlei and Guan Fei used a modified Golden Crow Chasing Rabbit Grand Array to draw energy from the Palace into the Small Tripod, leaving the array’s effects still unfolding.

• Qu Jianlei’s group reached the Palace’s defenses, but he determined that they could not attack it with a Battle Formation.
• Qu Jianlei divined and suffered backlash, so the group rested in Jing Yuexin’s Mobile Palace for ten days.
• After emerging, Qu Jianlei asked Guan Fei to set up a Golden Crow Chasing Rabbit Grand Array to compress and absorb the Palace’s array energy.
• Qu Jianlei and Guan Fei gathered materials and devised a workaround to build a modified grand array around the Palace.
• Guan Fei activated the array, and after several days Qu Jianlei released the Small Tripod, which drew streams of energy from the shaking Palace.

Qu Jianlei and his companions broke the Golden Crow Chasing Rabbit Grand Array and entered the ruined palace complex, where a trace of Primordial Source suggested valuable discoveries. The group found the palace’s spatial folds made escape difficult, then searched several empty buildings before discovering a locked Palace.

• Guan Fei estimated that breaking the Golden Crow Chasing Rabbit Grand Array would take seven or eight days, and the Small Tripod absorbed the energy when the array finally collapsed on the fifteenth day.
• Jing Yuexin and Duo Gan suspected that the Small Tripod had been hiding its strength as it expanded and contained the explosion’s violent energy.
• Guan Fei detected Primordial Source, and after waiting for the energy to settle, Qu Jianlei led the group into the palace complex and told them not to split up.
• Jing Yuexin and Duo Gan watched the group’s flanks and rear while Qu Jianlei and Guan Fei identified the entrance as the Wordless Hall.
• Duo Gan, Guan Fei, and Wen Yu discovered that spatial folding had made the way back distant, while Qu Jianlei said the Small Tripod remained as a backup.
• Duo Gan and Guan Fei searched several palaces and found nothing until they discovered a locked Palace.

Qu Jianlei’s group explored the palace complex, finding rare materials, Sword Embryos, an Earth Fire courtyard, a Curse Art, and a Profound Water Source. After more than ten days of searching, they discovered a small side courtyard protected by an array, suggesting another unusual find.

• True Immortal Guan Fei broke the first palace’s Defense Array, and the group found only ineffective pills before discovering rare materials and Sword Embryos in later palaces.
• True Immortal Wen Yu offered a Rule Item for the Pill Courtyard and its dormant Earth Fire, but Qu Jianlei seized the entire courtyard with a Big Hand.
• Duo Gan found a hidden chamber beneath a stone flowerpot containing a Nascent Soul Technique, a forbidden Curse Art, and a sealed Profound Water Source.
• Qu Jianlei offered the Profound Water Source to the Dao Palace cultivators if they left, and Wen Yu and Guan Fei accepted his terms after smoothing over the dispute.
• The group made several more gains over the next ten days, then discovered a small side courtyard protected by an array.

Qu Jianlei discovered and claimed a withered divine plant containing Spatial Rules, then warned that collecting it had changed the Restricted Area’s array. Dao Palace’s Wen Yu agreed to continue the dangerous exploration, with Red Leaf Ridge retaining priority over future gains.

• Guan Fei, Qu Jianlei, and Wen Yu identified a concealed array hiding an unusual sprout in the desolate courtyard, and Duo Gan joined them.
• Wen Yu recognized the sprout as a supreme treasure that might be a Rule Item, while Qu Jianlei determined it contained Spatial Rules and might be a withered Jianmu.
• Qu Jianlei warned Wen Yu that the exploration ahead could be deadly; Wen Yu chose to continue and agreed that Red Leaf Ridge would get first choice of future gains.
• Qu Jianlei uprooted the sprout with a clump of earth, and the group waited for the courtyard to react.
• Wen Yu and Guan Fei sensed that something had changed, and Guan Fei detected an alteration in the array that he could not locate.

Qu Jianlei’s group pressed deeper into the strange Palace complex despite sensing growing danger, then fought a pack of powerful puppets. After opening ancient doors, they encountered a hostile aura that might belong to an Out-of-Body Realm presence.

• Qu Jianlei sensed estrangement from the realm, and Wen Yu explained that the Boundary Realm contained folded space from elsewhere; Qu Jianlei said the Territory Consciousness had told him it would not necessarily help the realm grow.
• After White Mist spread through the Palaces, Duo Gan urged the group to investigate the Profound Qi and find a way out, so they headed deeper and encountered eighteen Nascent Soul Realm puppets.
• Qu Jianlei divined Mid-level Danger, and Wen Yu chose to fight the puppets; two days later, the group had defeated all eighteen, though four members were lightly injured.
• The group found ancient doors behind the Palace, and Jing Yuexin opened them with a Nascent Soul Talisman after stopping Qu Jianlei from divining again.
• A heavy, wild aura surged from beyond the doors, and Jing Yuexin warned that an Out-of-Body Realm presence could not be ruled out.

Qu Jianlei and the others explored a wilderness where they sensed the lingering pressure of an Out-of-Body Realm being and found the bones of a dead Star Tapir. After Wen Yu sealed one bone for the Dao Palace, the group continued onward, with Qu Jianlei collecting another bone himself.

• Qu Jianlei led Jing Yuexin, Duo Gan, Wen Yu, and Guan Fei through the gate and across rain-soaked wilderness toward a strange Out-of-Body Realm presence.
• The group discovered a broken bone carrying intense pressure and a primordial aura, and Guan Fei identified it as belonging to an Out-of-Body Realm Alien Beast.
• Qu Jianlei consulted Hypocrite through the Broken Axe and learned the dead beast was a Star Tapir; Hypocrite advised against using its bone as a sacrifice because Qu Jianlei had little karmic connection to it.
• Wen Yu sealed and stored the bone for the Dao Palace, then admitted that the effort left him with only half his combat strength for the next half day.
• The group continued despite Wen Yu's weakened condition, and Qu Jianlei collected a second, much larger bone before Wen Yu could try to seal it.

Qu Jianlei and the others took a massive Star Tapir bone containing the Guardian Rule, awakening an overwhelming presence and forcing them to flee the Restricted Area. After escaping, they met Paranoid, learned Mu Yu was away hunting spirit beasts, and prepared to rest while she remained missing.

• Qu Jianlei stored the third and fourth bones, then pulled a massive bone containing the Guardian Rule from underground.
• The ground shook and an Out-of-Body Realm presence emerged, so Qu Jianlei carried Guan Fei as the group fled while Guan Fei threw Array Plates behind them.
• The group escaped the valley despite shifting arrays and Tapir Beast attacks, with Jing Yuexin also getting injured.
• The five encountered Paranoid outside the valley, and Qu Jianlei discreetly stored the Broken Axe in the Trial Cave Dwelling.
• Paranoid told them Mu Yu had been hunting spirit beasts for five days and had learned from High-Fidelity Replica that First One's group was not in immediate danger.

After returning from Forgotten Peninsula, Qu Jianlei’s group discussed the Star Tapir Great Venerable, handed over their spoils, and negotiated with the Dao Palace over the Pill Courtyard and repairing the Broken Axe. Back at Red Leaf Ridge, Qu Jianlei refused the Artifact Spirit’s requests for more resources and challenged the Hypocrite about using the Guardian Rule on the Broken Blade instead of the Ritual Artifact.

• Mu Yu returned from scouting, and the group left Forgotten Peninsula after recovering and reviewing their expedition.
• Qu Jianlei and the others discussed the Star Tapir’s survival, the mysterious bone that drove it mad, and the Broken Axe’s identity as a Ritual Artifact.
• Qu Jianlei handed the Dao Palace their spoils, then said he would only trade for the Pill Courtyard in exchange for Luck or rules; Wen Yu offered to consult the upper realm about repairing the Broken Axe.
• Qu Jianlei returned to Red Leaf Ridge, briefed the team, and entered seclusion with Jing Yuexin and Duo Gan to recover from their injuries.
• The Artifact Spirit asked Qu Jianlei for the Spatial Rules, the Profound Water Source, and the Star Tapir remains, but he refused to give up the team’s resources.
• Qu Jianlei asked the Hypocrite why the Guardian Rule should go to the Broken Blade rather than the damaged Ritual Artifact, and the Hypocrite said the rule would better strengthen and control the blade.

Qu Jianlei allocated a Guardian Rule to protect the Heroic Spirit Obsessions and spent weeks preparing for the team’s expedition into the void. As Wen Yu brought news about Ritual Artifacts from damaged worlds, Qu Jianlei learned that devouring them carried serious karmic risks, while the Heroic Spirits urged him to hunt the Out-of-Body Heavenly Demon.

• Qu Jianlei argued that the Heroic Spirit Obsessions deserved Guardian Rules, and he decided to use one to help them endure.
• Qu Jianlei studied the Profound Water Source and handled divinations and other duties for more than a month as the team prepared to enter the void.
• Jing Yuexin announced that Red Leaf Ridge would postpone its trip to West Ox Embrace Province, while Dongsheng factions urged the team not to risk the expedition.
• Wen Yu arrived with more than a thousand Dao Palace disciples, reported that the upper realm would watch the Out-of-Body Star Tapir, and raised the possibility of finding Ritual Artifacts from damaged worlds.
• Qu Jianlei asked the Heroic Spirits about devouring damaged Ritual Artifacts, and they confirmed it was possible but warned of severe karmic consequences.
• The Heroic Spirits urged Qu Jianlei to set out and kill the Out-of-Body Heavenly Demon, saying such extermination campaigns could greatly benefit Ritual Artifacts.

Red Leaf Ridge and its allies entered the Endless Void aboard two Battalion-Class Ships and quickly engaged the Heavenly Demons guarding the Channel Entrance. After most of the enemies were defeated, Sunset Glow pursued the lone Nascent Soul Realm Heavenly Demon that escaped.

• Qu Jianlei refused to delay the expedition for Bitter Sea and the Art Academy’s unfinished transactions, and Red Leaf Ridge departed for West Ox Embrace Province.
• Jing Yuexin arranged for the Book Pavilion to lead Star Palace and Jade Forest Matron’s disciples, while Red Leaf Ridge gave the Book Pavilion a Battalion-Class Ship.
• True Immortal Wuchen stowed away aboard the Book Pavilion’s ship, and Qu Jianlei allowed him to remain with the expedition.
• The two ships entered the Endless Void and attacked the Heavenly Demons guarding the passage, with Jade Forest Matron leading her disciples into battle.
• Most of the Heavenly Demons fell, but one Nascent Soul Realm enemy escaped, so Sunset Glow went after it.

Qu Jianlei used divination with the Broken Axe and seashell to guide Red Leaf Ridge toward a vast mass of Heavenly Devil Qi, while the Book Pavilion fleet withdrew to a safe distance. As the fleets prepared for a possible battle with an Out-of-Body Heavenly Demon, an unseen attack dissolved the entire mass of Heavenly Devil Qi.

• Qu Jianlei learned from Hypocrite that the Left Spiral Tortoise Shell carried the karma of Divination Combat and should be used cautiously.
• Qu Jianlei divined the direction of a large mass of Heavenly Devil Qi, and Hypocrite told him to make the final preparations.
• Jiao Daoren collected the last Golden Core Realm cultivator's Out of Body Imprint, and the cultivator transferred to the Book Pavilion's battleship to recover.
• Jade Forest Matron moved her battleship away from Red Leaf Ridge's and warned her people to remain alert as they waited near the vast mass of Heavenly Devil Qi.
• A faint glimmer and wave of energy appeared, and the mass of Heavenly Devil Qi dissolved into nothingness.

Qu Jianlei’s group used the Flawed Portable Abode to crush most of a Heavenly Demon swarm, then prepared to evade a possible Out-of-Body Realm attack. As the Book Pavilion warship fled, the allied Battalion-Class Ship vanished into the void, leaving Qu Jianlei and the Broken Axe behind.

• Qu Jianlei’s group struck the Heavenly Demon swarm with the Flawed Portable Abode, killing most of the demons but leaving injured Nascent Soul Realm Heavenly Demons fleeing.
• Duo Gan asked whether the Book Pavilion warship carried a treasure that could interfere with powerful karma, and Jade Forest Matron withdrew her crew from the fight when their Talisman Treasure proved inadequate.
• Ruler returned after Sunset Glow escaped the destruction of a Company-level Warship, while Qu Jianlei’s team prepared for an Out-of-Body Realm presence and gathered near the Broken Axe.
• After faint fluctuations passed, Qu Jianlei told his companions to run, and the allied Battalion-Class Ship vanished, leaving him and the Broken Axe behind.
• The Book Pavilion warship received an Artifact Spirit warning and fled at maximum speed as its crew watched the screens for the allied ship’s fate.

Qu Jianlei used the repaired Dao Stele to bait the Out-of-Body Heavenly Demon while Xiao Hu led the warship in an apparent escape. The demon attacked through Xiao Hu’s digital domain and invaded Qu Jianlei’s Sea of Consciousness, where the Dao Stele struggled to hold back its cold aura.

• The Dao Stele appeared aboard Qu Jianlei’s warship after the Stone Egg’s Fate Rule partially repaired it, and Jing Yuexin confirmed the repair’s effects were uncertain.
• Qu Jianlei let the Dao Stele suppress its aura, hoping the weakened display would tempt the Heavenly Demon to pursue it, while Xiao Hu accelerated to draw the demon away from the other warship.
• The Heavenly Demon attacked Xiao Hu through the data network, but Big Head Butterfly mocked its attempt to corrupt an Artifact Spirit and pretended to struggle as Qu Jianlei instructed.
• Red vapor invaded Qu Jianlei’s Sea of Consciousness and took familiar forms, including memories from his previous life, until Xiao Hu and the red figures drove it out.
• Qu Jianlei regained consciousness to find the cold aura intensified and the Dao Stele barely protecting him, so he repeatedly used Nascent Soul Realm Light Therapy to warm himself.