Chapter Summaries

True Venerable Wen Xian used a formation to destabilize the Red Giant so the group could extract its opportunity, while the Star Tapir Great Venerables watched. As True Venerable Min Ning joined the operation, True Immortal Jin Ge blocked the Star Tapirs from approaching, leaving cooperation tense as the star neared collapse.

• True Venerable Wen Xian negotiated the cost and risks of using a formation on the Red Giant, and Qu Jianlei advised that they proceed despite the danger of owing karma.
• True Venerable Wen Xian placed Suppression Stones and formation bases around the star, then activated the array and made the Red Giant expand and tremble.
• As sparks and solar winds erupted from the star, True Venerable Wen Xian warned the others that he could not hold the formation much longer.
• True Venerable Min Ning released a vast field around the star, destabilizing it further and making it swell violently.
• When Great Venerable Lajan, Lalu, and Great Venerable Latan moved closer to observe, True Immortal Jin Ge blocked them with a Golden Ray and ordered them to stop.

Han Li, Min Ning, and Wen Xian led the assault on the unstable Red Giant while Qu Jianlei guarded against uncontrolled spatial damage. After coordinated battle teams joined the attack, the Star Tapir Great Venerables retreated ahead of the coming rupture, while the cultivators prepared to withdraw after ten breaths.

• Han Li contained the Red Giant with his Ice-Sealing Domain as Wen Xian adjusted the Division Array and Min Ning's Rhythm Domain helped cut into the star.
• Qu Jianlei declined to use the World Piercing Shuttle because its spatial fluctuations could damage the opportunity, and he stayed behind to guard.
• Han Li summoned Warships and combat teams of Nascent Soul cultivators and Golden Cores, who attacked the Red Giant's weak points in coordination.
• The Star Tapir Great Venerables admired the cultivators' battle formations, then Latan sensed danger and led the three of them tens of millions of kilometers away.
• Wen Xian divined that the cultivators should withdraw after ten breaths, and Min Ning acknowledged the warning as the Star Tapirs watched them continue fighting.

Qu Jianlei and his companions endured the Red Giant’s stellar explosion while searching for the opportunity True Venerable Han Li had asked him to find. When they detected Great Venerable Laru probing the same opportunity, True Immortal Jin Ge attacked it.

• Great Venerable Laru called off the fighting, and the human squads and Warships fled as the Red Giant erupted in a wave of violent energy.
• Qu Jianlei sheltered in the Portable Abode as Jing Yuexin deployed Warships to shield it, and True Venerable Han Li urged Qu Jianlei to lock onto the opportunity.
• Qu Jianlei searched with his divine sense and divination while the stellar explosion destroyed their Battalion-Class Ships and then their Secondary Nest.
• Qu Jianlei ordered the new-model Division Level Ship to advance with another Secondary Nest, insisting that the team had to show its willingness to pursue the opportunity.
• Big Head Butterfly detected Great Venerable Laru weaving through the turbulence, and True Immortal Jin Ge sent a streak of Golden Ray to attack it.

Golden Ray drove Great Venerable Laru through the starry turbulence and forced it to follow True Immortal Jin Ge and Qu Jianlei aboard their warship. They encountered True Venerable Min Ning standing on Great Venerable Lajan’s head, and Jin Ge let Min Ning board while Lajan tried to explain why it had entered the battlefield.

• Golden Ray pursued Great Venerable Laru into violent turbulence, blocked its Star Spark defense, and forced it to come along after accusing it of stealing an opportunity.
• True Immortal Jin Ge learned that all three Star Tapir Great Venerables had entered the battlefield and warned Laru that he would search the other two.
• Great Venerable Laru followed the Division Level Ship through the turbulent flows while Jin Ge and Qu Jianlei continued searching for opportunities.
• Xiao Hu spotted Great Venerable Lajan, and Laru found True Venerable Min Ning standing on Lajan’s head when the groups met.
• True Immortal Jin Ge let Min Ning enter the warship to recover, while Great Venerable Lajan admitted it had entered to pick up scraps but denied intending to claim opportunities for itself.

After the cultivators found an Origin treasure in the turbulent space, Han Li arrived and explained its nature, revealing that his own Origin contained Hidden Patterns. The group then set off together after Han Li sensed Wen Xian divining him.

• Lajan explained that the Star Tapirs had avoided fighting because their clan had much to lose, while Lalu admitted Min Ning's strength had made it cautious.
• After two more days of searching, Qu Jianlei divined an opportunity, and Min Ning retrieved a ball containing bluish-white Origin.
• Han Li arrived and explained that Origin was a destructive form of the Source of Fire that could aid cultivation, then revealed his stronger Origin had Hidden Patterns.
• Han Li sensed Wen Xian divining him, then carried the battleship and the two Star Tapir Great Venerables through space toward the new opportunity.
• Laru felt powerless against Han Li and recognized that the human Immortal Venerable was far beyond the Star Tapirs' strength.

True Venerable Wen Xian’s group caught Great Venerable Latan fleeing with the Disaster Fire and confronted the Star Tapir Great Venerables over the attempted theft. Latan pleaded to avoid execution, offering treasures and a way to treat the incident as an offense rather than a breach of their agreement.

• True Venerable Han Li and the others emerged from the Space Interlayer and found True Venerable Wen Xian pursuing Great Venerable Latan.
• True Venerable Han Li restrained Latan, and True Venerable Wen Xian trapped it with an Array Plate and took the Disaster Fire.
• Great Venerable Lajan and Great Venerable Laru disavowed Latan’s actions, while True Venerable Wen Xian warned Laru not to interfere again.
• Latan admitted it had taken the Disaster Fire but argued it meant to destroy it and insisted it had not intended to seize an opportunity.
• True Venerable Wen Xian accused Latan of exploiting the cultivators’ weakened state and demanded an explanation for its actions.
• Latan offered opportunities and treasures, then proposed that its offense not count as a breach of the agreement or require an Out-of-Body cultivator’s death.

The five cultivators settled their dispute with Great Venerable Latan and divided the opportunities they had secured. Qu Jianlei declined to claim an Origin, while Wen Xian put his share in the public pool as he shifted his resources toward a future breakthrough to Spirit Severing.

• Qu Jianlei suggested that Great Venerable Latan pay enough compensation to avoid a severe punishment, and True Venerable Wen Xian placed a warning restriction on it.
• The five cultivators confirmed there was no fourth opportunity and escorted the three Mò Race Great Venerables back.
• The team allocated the opportunities, reserving the Hidden Pattern Origin for True Venerable Han Li and assigning another Origin to True Venerable Min Ning.
• Qu Jianlei declined to claim the remaining Origin because he could not afford to compensate the others for it.
• True Venerable Min Ning claimed his Origin, while True Venerable Wen Xian put his share in the public pool and said the formation's losses should be remembered.

Qu Jianlei’s companions discussed his hidden assets and offered future opportunities before the team reached Great Venerable Latan’s territory to collect compensation. Latan’s meager payment angered Jin Ge, who challenged its claims of poverty and revealed that he knew the Mò Race cultivated through Ancestral Remains.

• Jin Ge told Wen Xian that Qu Jianlei could make imitations of the White Colt Tower, and Wen Xian offered yuan for the method.
• Qu Jianlei declined to sell more of his advantages, and Han Li promised to help him find another opportunity while Min Ning offered to sell him Origin Energy at a discount.
• The team reached Latan’s star system, and Han Li let Lajan and Lalu return after ordering them to deliver compensation.
• Lalu chose to stay and watch Latan’s situation, and five days later Latan arrived with two strands of Origin Energy, three similar treasures, twelve Extreme Spirit Stones, and other meager goods.
• Jin Ge attacked Latan over its poor payment, and Latan claimed the Mò Race lacked cultivation resources and relied on dietary supplements and external forces.
• Jin Ge questioned Latan about the Ancestral Remains, surprising it with his knowledge of the Mò Race’s cultivation practices.

True Immortal Jin Ge used the Mò Race’s Ancestral Remains and Rules as leverage to punish Great Venerable Latan for provoking them. Latan surrendered treasures and Rules to spare the tribe, while Qu Jianlei ended the chapter lamenting how poor he felt.

• True Immortal Jin Ge demanded ten Out-of-Body Ancestral Remains from Great Venerable Latan, then reduced the demand after Latan said only three remained.
• Great Venerable Latan agreed to a search but refused to surrender the tribe’s only intact Ancestral Remain, so Jin Ge threatened to take it anyway.
• Latan fled when Jin Ge attacked, then offered the Lightning Rule and Guardian Rules to make up for the protected Ancestral Remain.
• Jin Ge demanded more Rules, and Latan borrowed from Laru and another Star Tapir Great Venerable before adding seven Rules to the payment.
• Qu Jianlei gritted his teeth as the others looked toward him and told Jin Ge he was unhappy because he was poor.

The cultivators and the Mò Race searched for opportunities, then attacked Tree Race territory and swiftly cleared two planets. Qu Jianlei proposed taking the main planet, and Han Li shrank it away as the group recognized the risk of the act and the signs of a long-ago fusion between the Tree Race and Mò Race worlds.

• The five cultivators visited Lazhan's and Lalu's tribes, where each tribe paid one strand of origin and one Guardian Rule for their cooperation.
• The group checked a suspected opportunity in Tree Race territory, but the Star Tapir Great Venerables concluded it had disappeared.
• Han Li asked whether the nearby Out of Body Mother Tree was a target, and the group agreed to attack it and clear the surrounding planets.
• Jin Ge and Qu Jianlei helped destroy the Tree Race forces on two planets in less than half a day, while Han Li and the others restrained the planets.
• Qu Jianlei proposed taking the main planet, and Han Li enveloped and shrank it despite the karma it could bring.
• Qu Jianlei realized that the Tree Race and Mò Race worlds had fused more than ten thousand years earlier, and Han Li shared the responsibility for removing the planet.

Qu Jianlei and his companions tested the Tree Race World’s Will, extracted spirit veins, and moved on to another opportunity amid a Tree Race–Insect Race conflict. The World Will remained powerless, and the group decided to wait and watch the fighting before pursuing the opportunity.

• Qu Jianlei recognized the World Will’s faint sigh and deliberately provoked it, but it showed no further reaction.
• True Venerable Wen Xian extracted the spirit veins from two planets, leaving the star system unable to recover for five hundred thousand years.
• True Venerable Han Li compressed a planet into an ice ball, and the group traveled to their next opportunity.
• The group arrived at a planet where Insect Race forces confronted the Tree Race, and True Venerable Min Ning located an opportunity on the planet occupied by the Tree Race Mother Tree.
• True Immortal Jin Ge suggested that the group wait and watch the two races fight rather than attack directly.

Qu Jianlei and the four True Venerables confirmed that the Tree Race and Mò Race worlds were fusing, then turned their attention to the possible existence of an Insect Race World. The cultivators and Star Tapir Great Venerables agreed to enter the conflict together, and their intervention was immediately sensed by the Tree Race and Insect Race.

• The five cultivators used a month of divinations to confirm Qu Jianlei's theory that the Tree Race and Mò Race worlds were fusing, and True Venerable Han Li credited him with a merit.
• True Immortal Jin Ge suggested that the Insect Race might have its own Channel Entrance, prompting the group to make investigating the Insect Race their next objective.
• Lazhan pressed the cultivators to stop waiting, and Great Venerable Latan offered Star Tapir support in exchange for thirty percent of the alien corpses and a chance to fight both sides at once.
• True Venerable Min Ning negotiated the terms, and True Venerable Han Li agreed to the alliance and called for a division of labor.
• The Star Tapirs sent out their senses as the cultivators performed divinations, alerting the Tree Race and Insect Race that a new force had joined the conflict.

The cultivators and three Star Tapir Great Venerables launched a joint assault on the Insect Race and Tree Race, with True Venerable Han Li’s team targeting the Insect Race and the Star Tapirs engaging the Tree Race. The battle began with the cultivators rapidly breaking into the Insect Race’s forces, while the Star Tapirs advanced less effectively because they lacked coordination.

• The Star Tapir Great Venerables joined the cultivators after deciding that waiting for the Insect and Tree Races to weaken would leave them no role in the conflict.
• Qu Jianlei objected internally to True Venerable Han Li’s decision to attack rather than wait, but the team adopted a plan assigning the Insect Race to the cultivators and the Tree Race to the Star Tapirs.
• True Venerable Han Li unleashed an ice domain over the main forces, and True Venerable Min Ning, True Venerable Wen Xian, and True Immortal Jin Ge charged into the Insect Race’s ranks.
• Qu Jianlei stayed beside Han Li to guard against a possible half-step Divided Spirit, while Wen Xian used explosive formations and attacked Nascent Soul Insect Race members.
• The Star Tapir Great Venerables pushed through the Tree Race but attacked without coordination, while the cultivators continued their assault and sporadic attacks reached Qu Jianlei and Han Li.

The cultivators overwhelmed the insect race, but the Out of Body Mantis destroyed itself and its main force before they could capture it. The Star Tapir Great Venerables then advanced on the Out of Body Mother Tree, only to find that it had raised a planetary defensive shield.

• Han Li and Qu Jianlei helped suppress the battlefield while Min Ning, Jin Ge, and Wen Xian pressed the insect race and tried to capture the Out of Body Mantis alive.
• The Out of Body Mantis detonated its troops, escaped through the fields, and then destroyed its own body in a massive blast after Wen Xian disrupted its flight with a locking array.
• Han Li suspected the Mantis had not truly been killed and said they might have to destroy the God Lord Tablet to finish it; Jin Ge and Wen Xian then found that the Mantis's self-destruction had killed some of their captives.
• After the insect battlefield was cleared, the three Star Tapir Great Venerables advanced toward the Out of Body Mother Tree while Wen Xian covered the rear.
• The Mother Tree activated a defensive array on the planet, surprising Wen Xian, and Laru said some Tree Race knew arrays better than the Star Tapir.

The Star Tapir Great Venerables broke the Tree Race’s planetary formation, destroying an opportunity that had been used as its core, then defeated the Mother Tree and nearly wiped out the surrounding forest. The Cultivators demanded an accounting afterward, while the Mò Race struggled to offer compensation and the fate of the surviving Insect Race enemy remained unresolved.

• Latan persuaded Laru and Lazhan to attack the formation with all their strength, despite the Tree Race reinforcements and the Cultivators’ refusal to help.
• The grand formation collapsed, triggering intense fluctuations as its core opportunity was destroyed; the Star Tapir Great Venerables realized they had caused a disaster.
• The Star Tapir Great Venerables killed the Mother Tree and nearly wiped out the surrounding Tree Race Forest Sea while the Cultivators stood aside.
• Han Li demanded that the Mò Race answer for destroying the opportunity, and Latan offered to seek information from other tribes but could not promise results.
• Min Ning rejected responsibility for tracking down the Insect Race enemy, which Latan said might recover from hibernation, and Jin Ge argued that the Mò Race had chosen the battle itself.

After the promised opportunity in the Insect Race territory vanished, the Cultivators captured more Insects and found no clues about the channel to the Insect Race World. They agreed to follow Great Venerable Latan to one final opportunity site, but True Immortal Jin Ge declared their cooperation with the Star Tapirs over.

• True Venerable Han Li and the others ended their assistance to the Mò Race, divided the spoils, and rested after leaving the battlefield.
• The Cultivators examined prisoners' memories and learned that the Insect Race might have a realm above Great Venerable, but found no information about its world channel.
• After half a month, the group reached the promised opportunity site and discovered that the opportunity had vanished.
• Qu Jianlei proposed capturing more Insects, and six Great Venerables seized over twenty Nascent Souls and nearly a hundred Golden Core Realm Insects.
• The prisoners' memories still revealed nothing about the channel, and Great Venerable Lajan offered his captives to the Cultivators, who refused them.
• Great Venerable Latan persuaded Lalu and Lajan to accompany the Cultivators to its final opportunity site, where True Immortal Jin Ge ended their cooperative relationship.

The five Cultivators confirmed a Medium Auspicious opportunity in a dangerous Star Cluster guarded by two Out-of-Body Insectoids, then spent weeks calculating and preparing an ambush. Their two teams sprang simultaneous formations on the Insectoids, but Qu Jianlei’s group discovered that the Katydid could use a Size Dharma Image and had burned Incense Fire into its opening attack.

• Great Venerable Latan led the five Cultivators to the Star Cluster, where Wen Xian and Han Li confirmed an opportunity and sensed two Out-of-Body Insectoids.
• Wen Xian, Han Li, Min Ning, Jin Ge, and Qu Jianlei spent a month and a half calculating the danger and planning how to seize the opportunity without damaging it.
• Wen Xian secretly set up grand formations near both Insectoids, and the five Cultivators split into two teams to activate them at once.
• Han Li and Wen Xian restrained a Dragonfly with their formation and Han Li’s Cold Qi Domain, while Min Ning and Jin Ge attacked a Katydid alongside Qu Jianlei.
• The Katydid shrank with its Size Dharma Image to evade Jin Ge’s strike, then struck his Golden Ray with a Dark Ray; Jin Ge realized it had burned Incense Fire into the attack.

Qu Jianlei and the Cultivators killed two Out-of-Body Insectoids and fought off the swarms around the Star Cluster’s entrances. The Broken Blade revealed its strength against the Insect Race, leaving Jin Ge eager to count it as another ally.

• Qu Jianlei used the World Piercing Shuttle to distract the Out-of-Body katydid, giving his companions time to injure and kill it.
• The three Star Tapir Great Venerables joined the fight, and the Cultivators and Star Tapirs began clearing the leaderless Insect swarms around the Channel Entrances.
• Frenzied Insect Race forces charged from the entrances to protect their larvae and Insect Nests, while Han Li and Wen Xian handled one group.
• At Jin Ge’s prompting, Qu Jianlei used the Broken Blade to cut through an insect swarm and split the Insect Nests behind it.
• Jin Ge praised the Broken Blade as a new helper, then asked Qu Jianlei why he looked so strange.

Qu Jianlei and the Five-Person Group entered the Star Cluster, where they evaded dangerous Space Rifts and discovered a treasure capable of Instant Flash. The treasure repeatedly vanished to escape them, leaving the group to devise a more indirect way to track it while managing the growing danger.

• Qu Jianlei realized the Broken Blade wanted to enter the Star Cluster, and True Venerable Min Ning’s divination confirmed its interest in the opportunity.
• After the Insects were mostly cleared, the Five-Person Group waited for five days before entering the Star Cluster, while three Star Tapir Great Venerables took another route inside.
• The Star Tapir Great Venerables retreated after encountering increasingly strange Space Rifts, and Great Venerable Latan warned that the rifts seemed to be changing.
• The Five-Person Group used frequent divinations to avoid multiple Space Rifts, including some powerful enough to severely injure an Immortal Venerable.
• The group located the treasure capable of Instant Flash, but it vanished twice, revealing that it had spirituality and could conceal its divine nature.
• The five spread out within supporting distance and planned to divine the treasure more indirectly as the growing area of Space Rifts made constant divination impractical.

The Five-Person Group captured a winged mass of gray matter that caused Space Rifts, though no one could identify it. After Qu Jianlei proposed that it might be connected to the Primordial, the group was left considering what kind of destructive opportunity they had obtained.

• True Venerable Han Li led the group in tracking the gray matter, and True Venerable Wen Xian lost an Array Plate when Space Rifts erupted around it.
• True Venerable Min Ning divined that only True Immortal Jin Ge could withstand the gray matter, and Jin Ge agreed to take the primary risk for the credit.
• True Immortal Jin Ge trapped the gray matter in his damaged Jin Jing Net while True Venerable Wen Xian, True Venerable Han Li, and True Venerable Min Ning restrained it, allowing Han Li to capture it and flee with the others.
• The group gathered in the stable passageway and examined the struggling gray matter inside a Light Orb, but none of them recognized it.
• True Venerable Min Ning, True Venerable Wen Xian, and True Immortal Jin Ge compared it to powerful winds, while Qu Jianlei suggested it might be related to the Primordial.