Chapter Summaries

Qu Jianlei and the two Great Venerables entered the Tree Race’s hidden channel and reached a spiritual-energy-rich world, where they secured a way back and began exploring. After discovering several Out of Body Mother Trees, they found a dangerous nebula filled with opportunities and more Mother Trees, leaving them to decide whether to investigate it.

• Qu Jianlei consulted his teammates, who agreed to take the risk, and he joined True Venerable Min Ning and True Immortal Jin Ge on the journey.
• Qu Jianlei used two Division Level Ships to travel through the hidden channel, and the group emerged into another world after Jin Ge’s divination warned of danger ahead.
• The three found seventy or eighty thousand Tree Race members guarding the channel entrance and noticed that the world had spiritual energy but unusually few Nascent Soul Realm Tree Race members.
• Qu Jianlei set up three concealed Teleportation Arrays near the channel so the group could secure its retreat, and Min Ning helped erase their traces.
• While exploring together, the three discovered several Out of Body Mother Trees and later found a dangerous nebula containing opportunities and more than one Mother Tree.
• Jin Ge urged the group not to approach the nebula, arguing that its danger outweighed the auspicious chance and that they could search elsewhere.

Qu Jianlei, True Immortal Jin Ge, and True Venerable Min Ning followed Wind Forgotten’s intelligence to investigate the Tree Race and the Insects near a dangerous region. After arriving in a vast area crowded with Tree Race members, they evaded Nascent Soul Realm senses, and Qu Jianlei spotted something interesting.

• Qu Jianlei sent Wind Forgotten to scout a nearby Tree Race planet, where it learned that three Mother Trees were competing for an unclear opportunity and that two Nascent Soul Realm twin trees planned to leave.
• Qu Jianlei rejected Wind Forgotten’s offer to recruit two Locusts, and the group waited to intercept the departing twin trees.
• True Venerable Min Ning captured the twin trees, read their memories, and gave them to Wind Forgotten as a reward; the memories revealed vague information about hostile Insects and their direction.
• The three chose to investigate the Insects’ direction, traveling to the area the twin tree had described and approaching from the side farther from the Insects.
• After divine senses detected their arrival among many Forest Sea Alien Race members, True Immortal Jin Ge entered the Abode while Qu Jianlei used the Ruler to flee with True Venerable Min Ning.
• Qu Jianlei stopped after half a day and told the two Great Venerables that there was something interesting to watch.

Qu Jianlei, True Venerable Min Ning, and True Immortal Jin Ge watched the Tree Race fight a vast Insect swarm before Jin Ge began abducting cultivators from both sides. After his reckless raids attracted Out-of-Body Realm attention, Min Ning fled with the group and scolded Jin Ge as they escaped.

• Qu Jianlei and the two True Venerables approached a battlefield where the Tree Race and Insects were fighting across millions of kilometers.
• True Immortal Jin Ge used Sunset Glow to capture Tree Race and Insect Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators, eventually taking four Nascent Soul and eight Golden Core captives.
• Sunset Glow warned that Out-of-Body Realm cultivators were approaching, and Jin Ge finally agreed to leave after sweeping up another batch of corpses.
• True Venerable Min Ning sensed Great Venerable intentions and tore open space to take Jin Ge and Qu Jianlei away before the enemy forces could catch them.
• Min Ning erased their auras while escaping and berated Jin Ge, who argued back as they traveled through space.

Qu Jianlei and his companions investigated the danger surrounding their journey and learned from captured Tree Race cultivators that the trees were losing a desperate war against the Insects. They left with a clearer picture of the threat facing the Tree Race, while the Insects remained a looming danger to the human world.

• After returning to a safer place, True Immortal Jin Ge admitted he had acted recklessly, and Qu Jianlei asked whether something had influenced him.
• Qu Jianlei used the Broken Axe to consult Violent Obsession, who said the situation was beyond his ability to judge and warned Qu Jianlei to be careful.
• True Immortal Jin Ge urged True Venerable Min Ning to divine whether they could examine their prisoners, and Min Ning found that questioning the Insects carried mid-level danger.
• The three examined the memories of two Nascent Soul Realm trees and learned that the Insects were invading, devouring trees, and overwhelming the Tree Race with their numbers.
• Qu Jianlei called the conflict a cycle of the Heavenly Dao, while True Immortal Jin Ge and True Venerable Min Ning discussed whether the Tree Race might turn the Insects toward the human world.

Qu Jianlei and the two Great Venerables investigated the Insect Race’s Incense Divinity Path and learned that its God Lords could reach the peak of the Out-of-Body Realm. They explored the world cautiously for two months, then turned back after Qu Jianlei’s divination revealed danger.

• True Venerable Min Ning read the memories of Golden Core Realm Insects and discovered that they worshiped God Lords through the Incense Divinity Path, with some able to offer incense across cultivation realms.
• True Venerable Min Ning searched a Nascent Soul Realm longhorn beetle’s memories and learned that its God Lord was likely at the peak of the Out-of-Body Realm.
• True Immortal Jin Ge proposed using another Nascent Soul Realm Insect to draw the Insect Race toward the Mother Trees, but Qu Jianlei refused because it could expose the Alliance’s Channel Entrance sooner.
• Qu Jianlei, True Venerable Min Ning, and True Immortal Jin Ge explored the world cautiously for more than two months, avoiding Insects and taking only a modest Spirit Stone mine.
• After Qu Jianlei divined a possible omen of danger and the others verified it, the three ended their exploration and returned to the Alliance’s Channel Entrance.

Qu Jianlei, True Venerable Min Ning, and True Immortal Jin Ge cleared nearly a hundred Tree Race forests before returning to report their findings and seek reinforcements. Their campaign prompted the Alliance, Federation, and Empire to compete in supplying Digital Phantom with Calculation Units and warships, while Duo Gan warned that a greater danger lay ahead.

• Qu Jianlei, True Venerable Min Ning, and True Immortal Jin Ge rested, planned to bring reinforcements, and toured the Several Races' territory before returning to the Alliance.
• True Venerable Min Ning and True Immortal Jin Ge led a six-month sweep that destroyed nearly a hundred Alien Race Forests of Trees, easing pressure on the Alliance front.
• Duo Gan told Alliance officers that Digital Phantom had finished its investigation, accepted three sets of super-large Calculation Units, and advised them to hold on a little longer.
• An imperial officer learned that the Federation had gifted Digital Phantom Calculation Units, prompting Marshal Xiao Moshan to confront the Federation and the Empire to begin producing more.
• Xiao Moshan welcomed Digital Phantom back with five sets of super-large Calculation Units and a fleet of warships bearing its insignia.

Digital Phantom settled its claims over assets taken during its absence, gave Xiao Moshan a Black Colt Tower, and left the empire after presenting it with the Sword Intent Meteor. Qu Jianlei, True Venerable Min Ning, and True Immortal Jin Ge then reunited with True Venerable Han Li and learned about an opportunity tied to the merging Asura Worlds, leaving Min Ning to recognize that Qu Jianlei had the backing of a human nation.

• Duo Gan arranged for Digital Phantom to confirm ownership of its businesses, set repayment terms, and offer a six-month confession period for unresolved accounts; the team halved and indefinitely extended the imperial government's debt.
• Qu Jianlei gave Xiao Moshan a Black Colt Tower, and the team left the Sword Intent Meteor with the empire before departing aboard its ship.
• Qu Jianlei and his two companions traveled through the Federation to the Asura World and met True Venerable Han Li to exchange news.
• True Venerable Han Li explained that he and True Venerable Wen Xian had found a place where two Asura Worlds were merging and hoped to gain insight into the Heavenly Dao.
• True Venerable Min Ning declared that the Lingyun Sect should control development of the Tree Race World, and True Venerable Han Li asked why Qu Jianlei had not minded him knowing about it.
• True Venerable Min Ning realized that Qu Jianlei had the support of a human nation.

True Venerable Min Ning and True Venerable Han Li negotiated the team’s share of the Tree Race World, then led the group into it to investigate the dangerous conflict. They learned that the world held a third major race, the Mò Race, which had long fought the Tree Race before the Insect Race appeared.

• True Venerable Min Ning offered Qu Jianlei’s team fifteen percent of the Tree Race World’s proceeds, and True Venerable Wen Xian agreed after learning how dangerous the world was.
• True Venerable Han Li divined that the danger was mid-lower and warned the group about the Tree Race’s war with the Insect Race and the possibility of a Soul-Splitting Realm ruler.
• True Venerable Han Li led the group to a remote planet, where True Venerable Wen Xian sealed it with a formation and True Immortal Jin Ge killed the Tree Race inhabitants.
• True Venerable Min Ning led the assault on a second planet, and the survivors revealed that the Mò Race had been the Tree Race’s ancient rival until the Insect Race appeared.

The five explorers followed Qu Jianlei’s Medium Auspicious divination into Insect Race territory and found an extraordinary asteroid that his Portable Abode could not contain. After True Venerable Min Ning sealed it and True Venerable Han Li moved them to safety, True Venerable Wen Xian suspected it might be an Innate Dao Talisman and asked to examine it.

• The five learned that the Insect Race had defeated the Tree Race and taken control of the Frontline, then continued into its territory to investigate.
• Qu Jianlei divined a Medium Auspicious opportunity, and True Immortal Jin Ge confirmed that it was unusually valuable, though True Venerable Wen Xian could not detect it.
• The five located the opportunity inside an ordinary asteroid, which Qu Jianlei’s Portable Abode could not contain.
• True Venerable Min Ning sealed the asteroid, and True Venerable Han Li transported the group to a distant Gravel Belt before the nearby Insect Race noticed them.
• The five restored the asteroid to its original size, and True Venerable Wen Xian suggested that it might be an Innate Dao Talisman before asking Qu Jianlei to let him examine it.

Qu Jianlei and the True Venerables identified a meteorite as an innate Dao talisman, which Wen Xian claimed as the opportunity best suited to his formation cultivation. Qu Jianlei accepted Wen Xian’s promise to protect someone’s Out-of-Body Realm breakthrough, and Wen Xian began settling the others’ shares.

• Min Ning and Jin Ge warned that Qu Jianlei’s divination might have caused the innate Dao talisman to conceal itself, so Wen Xian contained the meteorite with a formation and examined it.
• Han Li confirmed that the meteorite was an innate Dao talisman and cautioned Wen Xian against probing further.
• Wen Xian argued that the talisman suited his formation cultivation and promised to protect Qu Jianlei through an Out-of-Body Realm breakthrough in exchange for keeping it.
• Jin Ge negotiated for Wen Xian to protect one person chosen by Qu Jianlei, and Qu Jianlei accepted the deal.
• Wen Xian gave Min Ning three Mother Nests in return for his silence, then offered to repay three of Jin Ge’s seven portions of origin.

True Venerable Han Li led the five-person group in an assault on a star system overrun by the Insect Race, where their coordinated attacks subdued the defenders on Fourth Star and Planet Three. The group prepared to question the captured Nascent Soul Realm fighters as they began taking control of Planet Three.

• True Venerable Wen Xian agreed to help True Immortal Jin Ge and Qu Jianlei, and the five continued exploring after securing the meteorite containing the Innate Dao Talisman.
• The group surveyed a star system, found Insect Race forces on Planet Three and Fourth Star, rested for ten days, and prepared to attack despite a Lower-Upper Danger reading.
• True Venerable Han Li froze the two planets with his Ice Domain Field, while True Venerable Min Ning and True Venerable Wen Xian restrained the Insect Race with Rhythm Field and a grand array.
• True Immortal Jin Ge and Qu Jianlei cleared the Insect Race patrols in space, then helped True Venerable Min Ning defeat the defenders on Fourth Star and capture two advanced Nascent Soul Realm fighters.
• True Venerable Wen Xian killed the weaker Insect Race on Planet Three and restrained its Nascent Soul Realm fighters so the True Venerables could examine their memories.

The Five-Person Group investigated an enormous temple on Planet Three, searched insect memories, and seized the planet’s spirit stone veins before entering the temple. Inside, the four True Venerables found a blood pool containing an ancient spearhead, while Qu Jianlei stayed outside.

• True Venerable Wen Xian sealed the large temple, and True Venerable Han Li began searching the captured insects’ memories.
• Wen Xian learned the general location of the Mò Race, while True Venerable Min Ning discovered that an aged dragonfly had been the temple keeper.
• True Immortal Jin Ge destroyed two nascent soul realm temples, and the group decided to extract the planet’s spirit stone veins as communal spoils.
• After the veins were removed, Qu Jianlei declined to enter the out-of-body realm temple, while the other four went inside.
• Min Ning spotted a black point in the blood pool, and the four True Venerables recognized it as an ancient spearhead from outside the Insect Race World.

The four True Venerables destroyed the temple and its Divine Lord Statue, provoking a strange aura that pursued Qu Jianlei into his cave dwelling. The aura vanished there, leaving Han Li and the others puzzled as they prepared to leave and Jin Ge guessed Qu Jianlei had asked the Ritual Artifact for help.

• True Venerable Han Li and the others searched the temple, found evidence that its followers had preyed on cultivators, and decided to destroy the Divine Lord Statue.
• True Immortal Jin Ge took the sacrificial spearhead, and Han Li used the Heavenly Pearl of No-Delusion to smash the statue and sever its lingering karma.
• A strange aura approached, and Qu Jianlei escaped into his cave dwelling before it enveloped the stone and disappeared.
• Han Li identified the aura as something like the Out-of-Body Realm wasp, while the group wondered how Qu Jianlei had made its danger seem slight.
• Han Li told True Venerable Wen Xian to withdraw the arrays and erase their traces, and Jin Ge guessed Qu Jianlei had sought help from the Ritual Artifact.

Qu Jianlei told the True Venerables how he had killed the wasp’s divine sense with the Dao Stele, revealing that it seemed close to Soul Division. After considering Jin Ge’s opportunity, Han Li proposed traveling to the Mò Race’s territory to deal with the damaged item.

• Han Li and Jin Ge doubted that Qu Jianlei had used his Slaying the Dao obsession, and Han Li guessed that Qu Jianlei had already resolved the threat and called him out.
• Qu Jianlei explained that the wasp’s divine sense had targeted him because he had killed its companion in another world, and Han Li offered to support Jin Ge’s opportunity if Qu Jianlei told the story.
• Min Ning explained the opportunity to Qu Jianlei, and Han Li clarified that it was suitable only for Jin Ge.
• Qu Jianlei recounted how he had used the Dao Stele to suppress and kill the wasp’s divine sense, while keeping the Dao Stele and other details secret.
• Qu Jianlei estimated that the wasp’s divine sense had been just short of Soul Division, leaving the group concerned about the danger posed by its true body.
• Han Li suggested that the group visit the Mò Race’s territory to deal with the damaged opportunity.

Qu Jianlei and the True Venerables reached Mò Race territory to investigate the Insect Race and learned about the Mò Race’s civilization and wars with the Tree and Insect Races. Qu Jianlei then went to observe the Mò Race while True Venerable Han Li prepared for a possible encounter with a returning Mò Race Soul Departure cultivator.

• Nine days after leaving Insect Race territory, True Venerable Han Li and the others arrived in Mò Race territory and selected a star system with three inhabited planets.
• True Venerable Min Ning and True Venerable Han Li explored the planets while Qu Jianlei rested and True Immortal Jin Ge worked to erase the aura from his spearhead.
• True Venerable Han Li reported that the planets held a primitive but diverse Mò Race civilization, and the group learned from memories that the Mò Race had long fought the Tree Race and feared the Insect Race even more.
• Qu Jianlei asked whether the Insect Race had Spirit Division cultivators, and True Venerable Han Li explained that the Mò Race Nascent Souls they examined could not provide that information.
• True Venerable Han Li prepared for a possible returning Mò Race Soul Departure cultivator, while Qu Jianlei asked to explore the planets and received permission.
• Qu Jianlei observed the Mò Race’s care for its young, regional spoken languages, and cultivation differences between the planets, while Jin Ge complained that Qu Jianlei had left before his work was done.

Qu Jianlei encountered an Out-of-Body Star Tapir hiding beneath the seventh planet and was restrained before True Venerable Han Li and the other Great Venerables joined him. The Star Tapir explained that it had mistaken Qu Jianlei for a threat, then offered its Top-Grade Spirit Stones in exchange for the safety of its kin.

• Qu Jianlei sensed something unusual near the seventh planet and cautiously produced a black shuttle, a Stone Disk, and a Tree Race Nascent Soul trunk.
• The hidden Star Tapir restrained Qu Jianlei and told him not to touch the items, while True Venerable Han Li projected his attention from afar and freed him to handle the exchange.
• Great Venerables Min Ning and Wen Xian emerged, and the Out-of-Body Star Tapir revealed itself and explained that it had been recovering on the planet.
• Min Ning discovered a spirit stone vein beneath the Star Tapir, while Wen Xian set up a formation to prevent it from fleeing.
• The Star Tapir offered all the Top-Grade Spirit Stones in exchange for the release of its kin and warned that it would fight to the death otherwise.

True Venerable Min Ning and the others questioned Star Tapir Great Venerable about the Mò Race, the Tree Race, and the Insect Race. After learning of the Mò Race’s worsening war against the Insect Race, the cultivators prepared to leave, but Star Tapir Great Venerable offered to join them and provide Nascent Soul companions.

• True Venerable Min Ning refused Star Tapir Great Venerable’s offer of six Top-Grade Spirit Stones and demanded information instead.
• Star Tapir Great Venerable admitted the Mò Race had dealt with cultivators in ancient times and described its long war against the Tree Race and its more recent losses to the Insect Race.
• True Venerable Han Li and True Immortal Jin Ge joined the conversation, and Star Tapir Great Venerable said it had never heard of Insect Race beings above Soul Projection.
• The cultivators doubted Star Tapir Great Venerable’s casualty figures and prepared to leave after it could not swear on the lives of its kin.
• Star Tapir Great Venerable offered to travel with the cultivators and let them take ten Nascent Souls as companions.

Star Tapir Great Venerable offered ten willing Nascent Souls and paid the cultivators to wait while he sought other Great Venerables. When Latan and Laru arrived, the humans rejected an alliance and offered to hunt their enemies in exchange for reliable information about opportunities.

• Star Tapir Great Venerable offered ten Nascent Soul Mò and paid five Top-Grade Spirit Stones for the humans to wait ten days, while Qu Jianlei chose the mineral vein over the Mò.
• Star Tapir Great Venerable returned with two Nascent Soul Mò to guard the vein, and True Venerable Han Li examined it.
• On the eighth day, Star Tapir Great Venerable returned with Great Venerables Latan and Laru, who discussed cooperation with the humans.
• True Venerable Min Ning rejected an alliance and offered to hunt Insect Race Great Venerables if the Star Tapirs supplied useful information about opportunities.
• The Star Tapir Great Venerables asked to discuss the offer, and True Venerable Han Li questioned Qu Jianlei about whether their information would be trustworthy.

The humans negotiated with the Star Tapirs for information about opportunities, but the first lead had already been taken by an Out of Body Mother Tree. After the Star Tapirs supplied a second, dangerous lead in the Insectoids' Controlled Zone, both groups found the site guarded by an Out of Body Insectoid.

• Qu Jianlei warned that the Star Tapirs' polished diplomacy did not mean they could be trusted, while the humans negotiated for an opportunity lead.
• Great Venerable Latan gave the humans coordinates to a former Mò Race territory, and the two groups traveled there together.
• The groups learned that an Out of Body Mother Tree had already taken the opportunity, prompting the Star Tapirs to insist their information had been correct.
• Qu Jianlei explained that the Star Tapirs might sincerely believe their excuses, and True Venerable Han Li briefly reconsidered his understanding of the Heavenly Dao.
• The Star Tapirs proposed another opportunity in the Insectoids' Controlled Zone, where the humans and Star Tapirs discovered an Out of Body Insectoid was guarding the site.

The human cultivators and Star Tapir Great Venerables argued over whether to attack an Insect Race breeding base, but the Mò Race’s demands drove the humans to refuse cooperation. They moved on to another opportunity, where both groups gathered around a massive star to investigate a potentially valuable treasure.

• The human True Venerables dismissed the opportunity at the Insect Race breeding base as too minor, while the Star Tapir Great Venerables insisted on attacking its Out-of-Body defender.
• True Venerable Min Ning and Great Venerable Laru argued over who would receive the opportunity, and the humans refused to fight unless they could claim it themselves.
• Boss Latan persuaded the Star Tapir Great Venerables to let the humans inspect the opportunity first, but True Venerable Min Ning rejected their proposed conditions.
• The five human cultivators left for a third opportunity, and the three Star Tapir Great Venerables followed after realizing the humans had not abandoned it.
• The two groups gathered near a massive star, and True Venerable Wen Xian offered to assist with a Decomposition Array as they prepared to investigate the possible Fire Attribute treasure.