Chapter Summaries

True Venerable Han Li and the others identified their captured treasure as Primordial Gangyuan, a rare remnant of the Primordial, and debated who should keep it. After leaving the passage, they ended their cooperation with the Star Tapir Great Venerables, though Great Venerable Lajan secured a way to contact True Immortal Jin Ge about future opportunities.

• True Venerable Han Li divined that the treasure was Primordial Gangyuan, and True Immortal Jin Ge and Great Venerable Wen Xian explained its destructive nature and rarity.
• True Venerable Min Ning admitted he did not know how to use Primordial Gangyuan, while True Immortal Jin Ge asked True Venerable Han Li to compensate the group for the Jin Jing Net.
• True Venerable Han Li refused to bring out Qu Jianlei's Broken Blade for divination and questioned why it had coveted the treasure.
• The five cultivators left the passage, and True Venerable Min Ning and True Venerable Wen Xian told Great Venerable Latan that their cooperation had ended.
• Great Venerable Lajan asked True Immortal Jin Ge how to report future opportunities, and Jin Ge gave him a Jade Pendant and warned him to contact him only about genuine opportunities.

Qu Jianlei and the others destroyed the Out-of-Body Mantis’s temples across three star systems, then conquered a large Insect Nest while training their subordinate Cultivators. They obtained a Soul Containing Universe Stone and, after finding few further opportunities, learned that Lajan had stirred True Immortal Jin Ge’s karma.

• The five left the Star Tapirs and secretly traveled to the Out-of-Body Mantis’s lair, where they destroyed its temples across three star systems.
• After resting, the five attacked a large Insect Nest and sent their subordinate Cultivators in first to gain battlefield experience.
• The Cultivators killed the Out-of-Body Insect Race being and obtained Xia Ji’s opportunity, a large yellow Soul Containing Universe Stone, which True Venerable Han Li placed in the public treasury.
• The five spent the next two-plus months destroying two more Insect Nests and plundering Spirit Stones, but found no news about the Channel Entrance to the Insect Race World.
• After they destroyed a Tree Race Mother Planet without finding an Out of Body Mother Tree, True Immortal Jin Ge said that Lajan had stirred his karma.

Qu Jianlei’s group learned that Great Venerable Lazhan had summoned them to help the Mò Race after the Insect Race retaliated for their capture of prisoners. Lazhan offered true Primordial Purple Qi as payment, leaving the group to consider a dangerous rescue and revealing that Qu Jianlei’s earlier suggestion had helped set the trap in motion.

• Qu Jianlei joined True Venerable Han Li, True Venerable Min Ning, and the others as they traveled to meet Great Venerable Lazhan, who admitted there was no opportunity and asked for help instead.
• Lazhan offered true Primordial Purple Qi sealed by the Five-Colored Stone, and True Venerable Han Li recognized it as a top-tier opportunity that could bring grave danger.
• Lazhan explained that the Insect Race had destroyed two Mò Race Mother Planets after Mò Race members joined the Cultivators in battle and captured Insect Race prisoners.
• True Immortal Jin Ge realized the Insect Race had targeted Lalu, Latan, and Lazhan in retaliation, and questioned why the Mò Race had chosen to capture prisoners.
• Lazhan admitted the Mò Race had captured prisoners to curry favor with the Cultivators, while Jin Ge blamed Qu Jianlei’s earlier suggestion for helping provoke the retaliation.

Qu Jianlei negotiated a limited alliance with the Mò Race in exchange for a Yin-Yang Odd Stone, while insisting that the coveted Primordial Purple Qi be handed over before any full deal. When an Insect Race force invaded Lajan’s territory, the Cultivators and Mò Race assembled to meet it, and Qu Jianlei opened the battle with the World Piercing Shuttle.

• Great Venerable Latan threatened to relocate the Mò Race unless it quickly secured the Cultivators’ help, and offered its strand of Primordial Purple Qi as leverage.
• True Venerable Han Li and the other Cultivators negotiated with Lajan, while Qu Jianlei secured a ten-year-or-eight-Great-Venerables-killed limit and demanded the Primordial Purple Qi in advance.
• The negotiations stalled over the Primordial Purple Qi, so the Mò Race gave the Cultivators a Yin-Yang Odd Stone in exchange for preliminary cooperation against a multi-God Lord Insect Race invasion.
• On the eleventh day after receiving the stone, Lajan’s region was invaded by four Insect Race Great Venerables; Han Li, Wen Xian, Lalu, and two more Mò Race Great Venerables arrived to reinforce the defenders.
• Qu Jianlei launched the World Piercing Shuttle at the Insect Race forces, disrupting their formation and starting the melee.

Qu Jianlei and the cultivators broke the Insectoids’ formation and defeated their Out of Body fighters, but a mysterious divine sense revealed that the Insectoids had a power beyond Out of Body. The Star Tapir Great Venerables reconsidered their agreement with the cultivators as the surviving Insectoids’ dormant state became a point of dispute.

• Qu Jianlei’s World Piercing Shuttle strike threw the Insectoid formation into chaos, allowing the cultivators and Star Tapir Great Venerables to attack.
• After two days of fighting, three Out of Body Insectoids were defeated and one escaped, though only the Scorpion was truly killed while the others entered dormancy.
• The Scorpion’s death brought down a powerful divine sense that threatened the cultivators, repeated strange messages, and then vanished.
• Qu Jianlei denied causing the divine sense’s disappearance, while True Venerable Han Li concluded that the Scorpion’s God Lord Tablet had shattered.
• Jin Ge and Wen Xian insisted that dormant Insectoids still had to be dealt with, while the Star Tapir Great Venerables questioned whether dormancy counted as death under their agreement.
• The Star Tapir Great Venerables recognized that the Insectoids might have a Soul-Splitting Realm expert and asked to discuss the agreement’s terms.

The cultivators and the Mò Race reached a revised agreement to exchange Primordial Purple Qi for help killing Out of Body Realm enemies, and the cultivators received the sealed treasure. When a Star Tapir Great Venerable tried to bargain for information about the Heaven-Mending Stone, True Immortal Jin Ge attacked, leaving the two sides on the brink of conflict.

• True Immortal Jin Ge rejected the Mò Race’s proposal to count two dormant Insect Race members as one kill and threatened to return to the Cultivation World.
• Lazhan and two other Great Venerables left to persuade the Mò Race, which then agreed to hand over the Primordial Purple Qi under a ten-year limit or ten-kill agreement.
• Two Star Tapir Great Venerables delivered the Primordial Purple Qi sealed inside a Heaven-Mending Stone, and True Immortal Jin Ge insisted the stone remain with the cultivators.
• A Mò Race Great Venerable secretly offered to agree to the cultivators’ condition in exchange for learning the stone’s use, and True Immortal Jin Ge said it could be used for artifact refining.
• When the Star Tapir Great Venerable asked whether the cultivators had an artifact-refining expert, True Immortal Jin Ge attacked it, and True Venerable Han Li and Qu Jianlei prepared to fight as the Star Tapir Great Venerables called for a discussion.

True Venerable Min Ning secured the Heaven-Mending Stone for the cultivators, and the group debated how to divide it and the Primordial Purple Qi. The Star Tapir Great Venerable then tried to hire an Immortal Venerable to help kill dormant Out-of-Body experts, but Qu Jianlei demanded better compensation before Jin Ge shut down further bargaining.

• A Mò Race Great Venerable tried to squeeze out more information about the Heaven-Mending Stone, and True Immortal Jin Ge attacked it for its scheming.
• The Mò Race agreed to hand over the Heaven-Mending Stone in exchange for compensation, while True Immortal Jin Ge confirmed that the deal was worthwhile.
• True Venerable Han Li and True Venerable Min Ning discussed whether to keep the Heaven-Mending Stone and Primordial Purple Qi within their group, and Min Ning agreed to seek more opportunities rather than claim the stone immediately.
• A Star Tapir Great Venerable offered one Guardian Rule for help holding off two dormant Out-of-Body experts, and Qu Jianlei demanded one Guardian Rule per expert.
• True Immortal Jin Ge agreed to accompany Qu Jianlei, but refused the Star Tapir Great Venerable's attempt to bargain further and threatened to beat it up.

Qu Jianlei and the others joined the Star Tapir Great Venerables in hunting dormant Out of Body Insectoids, but the latest attack uncovered multiple Flying Ant Insectoids and a vast swarm. The Star Tapirs called for support as the battle grew more dangerous.

• Min Ning joined Han Li, Wen Xian, Qu Jianlei, and the Star Tapir Great Venerables as they set out to hunt Insectoids and complete their quota.
• The group attacked an injured Out of Body Rhinoceros Beetle and its Out-of-Body Snail protector; the beetle died, but the Snail escaped after a two-day battle.
• The Star Tapir Great Venerables destroyed the Out of Body Moth and claimed a Guardian Rule, then headed to the homeworld of a dormant Flying Ant Insectoid.
• Two Out of Body Insectoids, a Flying Ant and a Mantis, ambushed the group, but Qu Jianlei and Min Ning's blade attacks broke their intimidating divine sense.
• A huge Insectoid swarm emerged to support the pair, and another Out of Body Flying Ant arrived using Divine Descent with three Nascent Soul Insectoids as the Star Tapirs called for help.

True Venerable Min Ning, True Immortal Jin Ge, and Qu Jianlei trapped an Out of Body Mantis while Great Venerable Laru fought the Insect Race’s Divine Descent. As the mantis prepared to escape by sacrificing its swarm, Qu Jianlei brought out the Ritual Artifact, and the chapter ended as countless broken giant axes appeared before the restrained mantis.

• True Venerable Min Ning used the Stagnation Field to restrain the Out of Body Mantis, while True Immortal Jin Ge and Broken Blade attacked it and Qu Jianlei helped sustain the field.
• The mantis failed to escape and watched its swarm dwindle as the other Insect Race battles also turned against them.
• Great Venerable Laru used Soul-Guiding Kill to destroy one of the three Nascent Soul Realm Insect Race members bearing the Flying Ant’s Divine Descent, and the Flying Ant God Lord Statue cracked on the home planet.
• The mantis sensed the Flying Ant’s loss and ordered its subordinates to gather, while True Venerable Min Ning tightened the field around it.
• Qu Jianlei consulted Violent Obsession, then prepared the Ritual Artifact to erase the mantis; Min Ning intensified his restraint and Jin Ge withdrew.
• The mantis tried to self-detonate to escape, but the field disrupted it, and countless broken giant axes appeared in its vision.

Qu Jianlei and his allies annihilated the Out of Body Insectoids, and a soul-search revealed how they imitated the aura of a Half-Step Soul Division. The group learned that a Half-Step Soul Division definitely existed, but they were left questioning what the Scorpion’s death and its ravings had revealed.

• True Venerable Min Ning trapped the Out of Body Mantis while Broken Axe killed it and pulled back its escaping black thread.
• Qu Jianlei asked Violent Obsession to search the black thread’s soul, receiving information about the Insectoids’ ability to imitate a Half-Step Soul Division’s aura.
• The cultivators and Star Tapirs routed the Insectoid forces, and Starlight Kill erased the Out of Body Flying Ant and its subordinates.
• Great Venerable Laru explained that Starlight Kill could sever karma, and the Divine Lord Statue collapsed after the Flying Ant’s avatars failed.
• True Venerable Min Ning arranged for the two Guardian Rules to go directly to Qu Jianlei, while Qu Jianlei shared what he had learned from the soul-search.
• True Venerable Han Li asked whether the Insect Race had any Soul Divisions, and Qu Jianlei said he knew of none but was certain a Half-Step Soul Division existed.

After the Insect Race shifted to smaller battles, the Five-Person Group grew tired of waiting and rejected the Mò Race’s request to join a large-scale war. They resumed exploring, found Purple Extreme Yin Qi, and then detected a spatial disturbance ahead.

• The Insect Race reduced large-scale battles after losing Out-of-Bodies, and the Tapir Race’s morale rose despite its continuing losses.
• Han Li told Latan that the Five-Person Group would leave to seek opportunities, while promising to return if the Tapir Race sent a distress signal.
• Latan asked the group to fight in a large-scale war, but Qu Jianlei refused and the Five-Person Group departed.
• The group explored for three more months and obtained a strand of Purple Extreme Yin Qi.
• Han Li and Min Ning sensed a spatial disturbance ahead and decided to investigate.

The Five-Person Group discovered a vast conflict between the Forest Sea and Insect Races and divined that several uncertain opportunities might emerge within thirty years. Before they could investigate further, Lajan summoned them to help the Mò Race defend a mother planet from an advancing insectoid force.

• The Five-Person Group observed two Out of Body butterflies leading a huge insect swarm against two stretches of the Forest Sea Alien Race.
• Min Ning and Han Li divined that the opportunity could appear within three to thirty years and might involve two to four chances related to creation or destruction.
• Lajan called Jin Ge through the Causality Line, and Min Ning and Qu Jianlei went with him while Han Li and Wen Xian departed.
• Lajan asked the cultivators to join a major battle as three Great Venerables led insectoids toward a Mò Race mother planet.
• Jin Ge questioned the need for the cultivators against only three Out of Body Insectoids, and Lajan warned that killing them directly might be difficult.

The Five-Person Group negotiated with the Mò Race Great Venerables over how to fulfill their promise during the war against the Insect Race. They reached a one-time agreement for the cultivators to hold the line, then quietly approached the battlefield to prepare an ambush.

• Lazhan summoned Mò Race Great Venerables, and eleven Star Tapir Great Venerables gathered alongside the cultivators.
• True Venerable Min Ning rejected the Mò Race’s proposals and insisted that the cultivators would not fight merely to let the Mò Race watch or depend on them.
• Lata negotiated a one-time agreement for the cultivators to hold the line, while the Mò Race Great Venerables handled the fighting; the cultivators would still fulfill their quota of twelve Out-of-Body Realm enemies on their own terms.
• Great Venerable Lajan stopped Star Tapir Great Venerables from bringing Nascent Soul Realm juniors along with them, and a Great Venerable explained that Qu Jianlei could match a Great Venerable in combat.
• The Mò Race Great Venerables and the cultivators quietly reached the battlefield, where both armies maintained extensive alerts and scouts for Space Ripple.

The Star Tapir reinforcements waited until the Mò Race and Insectoids were locked in battle, then six Star Tapir Great Venerables entered the fight and shifted the high-level balance. The battle continued as the Star Tapirs tried to break through the Insectoids’ organized swarms.

• The Star Tapir Great Venerables secretly coordinated with the Five-Person Group, while the Mò Race learned that reinforcements had arrived.
• The Insectoids captured a Nascent Soul Mò Race member and soul-searched him, learning that the Mò Race also had reinforcements in ambush.
• A fourth Out of Body Insectoid arrived with a vast swarm, and the Insectoids began coordinated probing attacks against the Mò Race.
• The Insectoids launched a full-scale assault, forcing the Mò Race to commit most of its forces while its members endured heavy losses.
• When the Star Tapir battle line neared collapse, six Star Tapir Great Venerables charged into the battlefield, changing the Out-of-Body fight from three against four to nine against four.
• The Star Tapir Great Venerables attacked the Insectoid swarms, but the Insectoids used their linked tactics to resist and strike back.

The Mò Race gained the upper hand with twelve Star Tapir Great Venerables, but eight hidden Out of Body Insectoids emerged and turned the battle around. As the Mò Race fled and its Great Venerables panicked, the five immortal cultivators entered the fight, and an unexplained chill suddenly filled space.

• The Star Tapir Great Venerables called in three more reinforcements and overwhelmed the Insectoids, while Latan, Lalu, and Lazhan remained concealed.
• Eight hidden Out of Body Insectoids revealed themselves, bringing their number to twelve and freeing the Insectoids’ other fighters to counterattack.
• The exhausted Mò Race began to rout, and two Star Tapir Great Venerables fled despite the immortal cultivators still being nearby.
• True Venerable Han Li ordered the five immortal cultivators to attack before the fleeing Mò Race overwhelmed them.
• The five immortal cultivators entered the tightly packed battlefield, and boundless chill suddenly spread through space without a visible source.

Han Li and Min Ning intervened in the Mò Race’s collapsing battle against the Insect Race, using their fields to slow and freeze enemies while the cultivators and Star Tapir Great Venerables mounted a counterattack. The Mò Race’s position stabilized, but a Half-Step Soul Division threat remained nearby as the cultivators focused on killing the Insect Race’s Out-of-Body fighters.

• Han Li spread his Ice Field across the battlefield, jolting some Mò Race fighters out of their panic and slowing both fleeing allies and attacking insects.
• Min Ning used his Stagnation Field on three Insect Race Out-of-Body cultivators, while Wen Xian, Jin Ge, Latan, Lazhan, and Great Venerable Laru charged into the fight.
• Qu Jianlei stayed behind to protect Han Li and Min Ning as a vast Coercive Pressure gathered among the Insect Race but did not approach.
• Great Venerable Lata ordered the fleeing Mò Race tribal leaders to return, and Han Li told the cultivators to focus on killing the Insect Race’s Out-of-Body fighters.
• Jin Ge and Wen Xian took over the fight against the three weakened Insect Race cultivators, sending the two Star Tapir Great Venerables to attack elsewhere.
• After one Star Tapir Great Venerable complained that Jin Ge had yelled at him, Wen Xian asked whether Jin Ge wanted a Star Tapir wife, and Jin Ge replied that he wanted descendants.

Jin Ge and Wen Xian fought to eliminate three Out of Body Insectoids while the Star Tapirs struggled to turn the battle around. Qu Jianlei discovered that four Insectoids were preparing a high-level Divine Descent, and Han Li took him to plant Flawed Portable Abodes before carrying him back to safety.

• Jin Ge and Wen Xian battled three Out of Body Insectoids as the Star Tapirs and Mò Race fought across the chaotic battlefield.
• Four Insectoid Out of Body fighters withdrew and formed an equilateral triangular pyramid around the rising Half-Step Soul Division aura.
• Qu Jianlei divined that the Insectoids were preparing a Battle Formation, and Han Li recognized that they intended a high-level Divine Descent.
• Han Li took Qu Jianlei into the pyramid and told him to set three Flawed Portable Abodes before they escaped within three breaths.
• Han Li carried Qu Jianlei hundreds of millions of kilometers away, leaving the Flawed Portable Abodes behind as the Divine Descent preparations continued.

True Venerable Han Li and Qu Jianlei used a Flawed Portable Abode to unleash a devastating Space Ripple that crippled the battlefield and drove the Star Tapir Great Venerables to retreat. After the Mò Race resumed its attack on the Insect Race, Han Li reappeared and questioned Qu Jianlei about how long he had kept the device concealed.

• True Venerable Han Li warned the Star Tapir Great Venerables to flee as the Space Ripple from the triangular cone Battle Formation threatened the battlefield.
• Wen Xian and Jin Ge escaped, the double fields vanished, and the spatial eruption devastated the area, killing or scattering many combatants.
• Great Venerable Lata forbade the Mò Race from complaining about friendly-fire losses, while Lazhan and Lalu urged them to pursue the Insect Race.
• True Venerable Han Li reappeared, dismissed the Star Tapir Great Venerable's concern, and asked Qu Jianlei about the Portable Abode's activation.
• Qu Jianlei explained that he had kept the device active for three breaths because four Insect Race Out-of-Body Realm cultivators could have noticed it and concealed it.

After the cultivators helped the Mò Race win a devastating battle against the Insectoids, they refused to remain tied to the Mò Race’s unreliable alliance. Qu Jianlei proposed that Great Venerable Lajan act as a middleman arranging business between them and other tribes, while the five cultivators prepared to leave and let future crises set the price of their help.

• Qu Jianlei explained that he had thrown out three Flawed Portable Abodes, and True Venerable Han Li confronted him about nearly exhausting himself during the battle.
• The Mò Race and cultivators tallied the casualties and agreed the cultivators’ contribution exceeded merely holding the line, while True Immortal Jin Ge demanded that their obligations be settled.
• Great Venerable Lajan asked the cultivators to stay, but True Immortal Jin Ge criticized the Mò Race’s weak discipline and Qu Jianlei rejected further dealings with it.
• Qu Jianlei proposed that Lajan act as an intermediary and bring the cultivators business from other tribes, and Lajan agreed to report the proposal.
• The five cultivators agreed to reduce their involvement with the Mò Race and charge more when it needed help, while more than thirty Star Tapir Great Venerables arrived to urge them to stay.
• Qu Jianlei and the others entered the Space Sub-layer to avoid meeting the visitors as the Mò Race continued trying to keep them from leaving.

The Five-Person Group debated whether to accept the Tapir Race’s compensation after its poor performance in battle, then decided to refuse the treasures and prepare to leave when their ten-year term ended. Qu Jianlei took over negotiations and maneuvered toward a paid consultation, while Jin Ge realized he had been outplayed.

• Qu Jianlei and Lazhan criticized the Tapir Race’s reluctance to risk itself or offer compensation, then summoned Great Venerable Lata and other leaders to confirm their decision.
• Great Venerable Lata offered Heavenly One True Water and a larger piece of Heaven-Mending Stone, and the Five-Person Group hesitated over whether to accept them.
• Han Li urged the group to remember their original purpose and plan to leave after their ten-year term, so they decided not to keep pursuing every opportunity.
• Qu Jianlei told Great Venerable Lata that the group would decline the treasures because the Tapir Race remained an unreliable ally, but Lata offered to pay for advice instead.
• Lata sent Lazhan to speak with Jin Ge while Qu Jianlei continued negotiating, and Jin Ge realized Qu Jianlei was seeking a bribe.