Chapter Summaries

Qu Jianlei learned that he should delay his Out-of-Body breakthrough while True Venerable Han Li let rumors about the other world develop, and he agreed to stay on Yanfeng Three for now. The team began preparing to sell some of their gains discreetly, while Jia Shuiqing sought trading channels through True Immortal Feihong.

• True Venerable Han Li divined that Qu Jianlei would reach Out-of-Body in thirty to forty years and advised him to remain active while suppressing his aura.
• Han Li told Qu Jianlei to live on Yanfeng Three as the four True Venerables allowed the situation surrounding the other world to develop.
• Qu Jianlei explained Han Li's advice to the team, and they considered finding another breakthrough site before agreeing to try Yanfeng Three and sell surplus supplies.
• Qu Jianlei assigned Jia Shuiqing to handle the sale, while Duo Gan and Jing Yuexin entered semi-seclusion to prepare for their own breakthroughs.
• Jia Shuiqing contacted True Immortal Feihong, who reported her request to Min Ning; Min Ning told him to introduce discreet trading channels without purchasing the materials himself.

Xiang Xue and Claire sold rare goods at a gray-market stall while rumors about their origins spread, drawing the attention of the Shi Family. Mu Guang intervened when a Nascent Soul cultivator tried to pressure them, and the chapter ended as two Nascent Soul cultivators confronted him again outside the market.

• Jia Shuiqing located a gray-transaction market in Yanfeng Three, where Xiang Xue and Claire rented a front-row stall and began selling rare goods without explaining their origins.
• After six days without a sale, Xiang Xue and Claire made a few sales, then refused a Nascent Soul cultivator's offer to buy their stock in exchange for source information.
• Two Golden Core cultivators tried to detain Xiang Xue and Claire after the market closed, but Mu Guang appeared and warned their Nascent Soul Realm companion not to provoke his group.
• The Nascent Soul cultivator learned that Xiang Xue and Claire were tenants of True Venerable Min Ning, but decided not to approach them directly and instead watched their stall the next day.
• As Xiang Xue and Claire left the market, two Nascent Soul cultivators followed them and challenged Mu Guang over his threat to the Shi Family.

Mu Guang challenged True Immortal Niu and the Shi Family over their attempt to intimidate him, and the Shi Family Ancestor came to negotiate after learning the dispute involved True Venerable Min Ning’s territory. The chapter ended with Mu Guang meeting True Immortal Niu outside the market, where Niu questioned why he had come alone.

• Mu Guang accepted True Immortal Niu’s accusation that he had threatened the Shi Family and challenged him to settle the matter outside the plate with the Shi Family Ancestor present.
• True Immortal Feihong defended Mu Guang and warned Niu not to bully his guests, while Mu Guang left and said they would meet at any time.
• The Shi Family Ancestor decided to visit Mu Guang’s group, but a woman refused to meet them when they arrived at night and told them to leave.
• The Shi Family Ancestor arranged to meet the group outside the plate the next day, keeping the message private.
• Mu Guang accompanied Xiang Xue and Claire to the market, then followed a Golden Core cultivator outside after the man summoned him.
• True Immortal Niu and two other True Immortals waited outside the market, and Niu asked Mu Guang why he had come alone.

Mu Guang confronted True Immortal Niu and the Shi Family beyond the continent, using the group’s Abode and ties to powerful figures to pressure the Shi Family for compensation. As the Shi Family Ancestor negotiated and tried to invoke Shi Zhongxuan’s reputation, a newcomer arrived and challenged Mu Guang’s boast.

• True Immortal Niu led Mu Guang beyond the continent, while True Immortal Feihong followed at a distance to prevent anyone from being harmed.
• Mu Guang revealed that three Nascent Soul cultivators had traveled with the group and confronted True Immortal Niu and the Shi Family’s four True Immortals.
• The Shi Family Ancestor disavowed any intent to start a war, but Mu Guang demanded a complete set of Five Elements Source as compensation for the Shi Family’s earlier threats.
• The Shi Family Ancestor invoked his descendant Shi Zhongxuan and tried to negotiate, but Mu Guang countered by mentioning Immortal Maiden Bu Hu and her unpaid Source debt.
• True Immortal Feihong refused to intervene because Mu Guang’s group were friends of the Great Venerable, and the Shi Family Ancestor offered one Source and five Extreme Spirit Stones.
• Mu Guang brushed off the offer and stated his group’s principle about taking wealth or lives, just as a new figure appeared and challenged him.

True Immortal Zhongming arrived and learned that the Shi family had provoked Red Leaf Ridge over the Five Elements Source, but he refused to take the family's side. Qu Jianlei demanded punishment for the Shi family's wrongdoing, and the Shi Family Ancestor left True Immortal Niu dead to appease him.

• True Immortal Zhongming greeted the Shi Family Ancestor, recognized Bentley, and learned that the Shi family had provoked Mu Guang's people while doing business over the Five Elements Source.
• True Immortal Zhongming declined to intervene, while Mu Guang and Bentley challenged his objections to their demands and questioned why he had arrived so conveniently.
• Qu Jianlei appeared and asked whether the Shi family had been in the wrong, and the Shi Family Ancestor admitted that his subordinates had erred.
• The Shi Family Ancestor cut off True Immortal Niu's left arm, but Qu Jianlei rejected the punishment as insufficient.
• The Shi Family Ancestor killed True Immortal Niu with a strike of Cyan Glow, and Qu Jianlei expressed surprise at his ruthlessness.

The Shi Family Ancestor settled the consequences of True Immortal Niu’s actions, while Xiang Xue and her companion carefully expanded their trade in goods from another world. As rumors spread and Lingyun Sect investigated the goods’ origins, True Venerable Han Li told Qu Jianlei that Lingyun’s Qingkong had come looking for him.

• The Shi Family Ancestor agreed to compensate Qu Jianlei and publicly declare that he had paid two Five Elements Sources, ending the harassment of Xiang Xue and her companion.
• Xiang Xue limited daily sales to protect the goods’ market value, and the stall gained a reputation over a month and a half.
• Visitors from other sectors, including Lingyun Sect outer disciples, sought to buy the goods in bulk and learned of the group’s power and the Shi family’s settlement.
• The news reached the Red Leaf Ridge Team, where Jia Shuiqing recognized that similar incidents elsewhere pointed to a brewing storm.
• Qu Jianlei studied the Portable Abode and Broken Blade while waiting to advance, then received True Venerable Han Li, who said Qingkong had come looking for him.
• Han Li explained that Lingyun Sect had traced otherworldly resources to Min Ning and Jin Ge, and was now pressing him for information about their source.

True Venerable Han Li and Qu Jianlei discussed evading Qingkong’s search and decided to travel to Cangwu, where Han Li could avoid Lingyun Sect’s reach. They arrived at Red Leaf Ridge, where Han Li noticed a Demonized Nightmare Essence and Yi He greeted him.

• True Venerable Qingkong failed to divine Han Li’s whereabouts, then secretly ordered Lingyun Sect’s disciples to look for him.
• Han Li complained to Qu Jianlei about Qingkong’s efforts, and they discussed negotiating over an opportunity while concealing their plans.
• Qu Jianlei suggested going to Cangwu or the void, and Han Li agreed that they should bring the main members of their group.
• Jing Yuexin asked about a Tier 5 Spirit Vein, and Han Li promised she could continue staying on Jiuyou Island if he could not find one.
• Qu Jianlei took Han Li to Red Leaf Ridge in Cangwu, where Han Li examined the Demonized Nightmare Essence and Yi He greeted him.

True Venerable Han Li, True Immortal Jin Ge, and Qu Jianlei discussed the dangers and politics surrounding the Forgotten Peninsula before Han Li began divining inside the Space Sub-layer with Broken Axe concealing his aura. True Venerable Bai Qiao sensed the disturbance and warned his disciples to stay vigilant, while his questions about Qingkong revealed that the Grand Protector was pursuing a private deal.

• True Venerable Han Li examined Yi He's Nightmare Transformation Demon Essence, learned about the other world, and agreed to investigate the Forgotten Peninsula with Qu Jianlei and True Immortal Jin Ge.
• Qu Jianlei and Jin Ge discussed Qingkong's age and suspected that injuries to his foundation explained his urgency to negotiate.
• Han Li, Qu Jianlei, and Jin Ge traveled to the Forgotten Peninsula, where Han Li sensed its strange restrictions and moved them into the Space Sub-layer to avoid alerting Lingyun Sect.
• At Han Li's request, Qu Jianlei released Broken Axe to conceal Han Li's aura and obstruct divination and causality while Han Li formed seals to divine.
• True Venerable Bai Qiao sensed a disturbance and instructed two Nascent Soul Realm cultivators to increase vigilance and maintain concern about Qingkong without alarming the sect.
• Bai Qiao concluded that Qingkong was still intent on a private deal and criticized his focus on an individual over the sect's interests.

Qu Jianlei, True Immortal Jin Ge, and True Venerable Han Li prepared to investigate a suspected source of space in the Restricted Area while avoiding Qingkong’s perception. They entered the area and waited outside an Erosion Array, where strange auras began leaking from within.

• Han Li divined the danger of the suspected source of space, and he, Jin Ge, and Qu Jianlei planned to enter the Restricted Area after resting and making further divinations.
• The three slipped into the Restricted Area and reached the cave where the Nightmare Transformation Demon Essence had been found, but Lingyun’s Erosion Array filled it with white mist.
• Han Li, Jin Ge, and Qu Jianlei waited outside the cave, gradually blending their auras into their surroundings as Qu Jianlei continued shifting between void and substance.
• In the fourth month, the mist began rippling and leaking a strange mixture of auras from the Erosion Array.
• Han Li explained that the fluctuations revealed a weakness in the array, since the aura being eroded could still escape.

Han Li, Jin Ge, and Qu Jianlei waited for the Erosion Array to weaken, then followed a mysterious seven-colored butterfly into the cave. They entered a viscous alternate space where Qingkong could no longer sense them, and Han Li warned that the array carried heavy karma.

• Han Li told Qu Jianlei to restrain his Essence of Creation and Destruction as the Erosion Array began to break.
• A seven-colored butterfly arrived, and Han Li, Jin Ge, and Qu Jianlei chose to wait rather than confront it.
• When the aura of destruction weakened, the butterfly flew into the cave, and the three followed it inside.
• Qu Jianlei, Jin Ge, and Han Li found themselves in a viscous transparent medium, which Jin Ge identified as another space.
• Han Li divined that they were cut off from Qingkong's sensing and said they could act, while warning them that the Erosion Array carried heavy karma.

Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Jin Ge tested the Erosion Array by exposing objects to its transparent medium and learned that it eroded auras and objects while leaving living beings protected. Their investigation was interrupted when demonic qi began clouding the medium around the motionless Seven-Colored Butterfly, leaving them unsure what it was.

• Qu Jianlei extended the Broken Blade tip into the medium, then severed his control when a terrifying force threatened to reach him through it.
• The blade tip released bubbles as the medium eroded certain auras, while Jin Ge's Asura Nest fragment and damaged weapon dissolved.
• Han Li cautiously tested the medium with divine sense and found that its erosive force could trace back through karma, but the blade tip itself remained intact.
• Jin Ge divined that demonic qi had partly neutralized the erosive liquid, and Qu Jianlei began divining the Erosion Array's eye at Han Li's suggestion to target Master of the Pot.
• The medium around the Seven-Colored Butterfly turned murky with demonic qi, prompting Han Li and Jin Ge to recognize it while Qu Jianlei questioned why a Heavenly Demon would enter the array.

Qu Jianlei, True Venerable Han Li, and True Immortal Jin Ge followed the Seven-Colored Butterfly into a sealed, misty space, where they sensed the nearby Heavenly Devil Realm. As the butterfly probed the surrounding realms, Yi He searched for the aura of his home world and found it missing.

• Qu Jianlei and Jin Ge noticed the blade tip’s sinister aura fading, and Qu Jianlei caught it in a net when the Seven-Colored Butterfly suddenly flew away.
• True Venerable Han Li carried Qu Jianlei after the butterfly while Jin Ge pursued them, and they arrived in a misty space where Yi He sensed the outside world.
• The Seven-Colored Butterfly clashed with Han Li’s divine sense, while Broken Blade emerged and restrained its Fierce Qi.
• Qu Jianlei’s interrupted divination revealed demonic qi from the Heavenly Devil Realm, and Jin Ge and Han Li also sensed nearby realms and warned of danger.
• Qu Jianlei released the Nightmare Transformation Demon Essence for Yi He to examine, but the butterfly ignored it and began probing the realms.
• Yi He searched for his home world’s aura and realized it was no longer where he expected it to be.

Qu Jianlei, Jin Ge, and Han Li explored a spatial maintenance point connected to many realms and tried to open a passage into one of them. Their attempt was interrupted when the Seven-Colored Butterfly recognized Qu Jianlei’s World Piercing Shuttle and revealed its ties to Lingyun Sect, leaving Han Li and Jin Ge astonished by its identity.

• The Seven-Colored Butterfly repeatedly probed realm barriers, while Qu Jianlei, Jin Ge, and Han Li calculated that the maintenance point touched at least a dozen realms, including two Heavenly Devil Realms.
• Han Li warned that divinations about reaching the connected realms were uncertain, and the group rejected a possible route into a Heavenly Devil Realm because of its risks.
• Qu Jianlei consulted Soldier Cultivator, who identified a reachable primordial world of warring Deities, and Han Li sent a blue-white beam toward its barrier.
• As Han Li’s beam stalled at the barrier, the Seven-Colored Butterfly arrived and warned that the World Piercing Shuttle could destroy the maintenance point.
• The butterfly recognized the shuttle and said the maintenance point belonged to Lingyun Sect; it also recognized Jin Ge and claimed it had searched for Han Li, while Han Li asked whether he could break into the other realm.

Qu Jianlei and Han Li confronted True Venerable Qingkong over the Forgotten Peninsula’s sustaining point, arguing that Lingyun Sect did not own it outright. They ended with a tense agreement to claim half the space, while Qingkong offered to share realm information and showed interest in their expedition’s gains.

• Qu Jianlei challenged Qingkong’s claim by pointing out Lingyun Sect’s role in the Forgotten Peninsula and that someone outside the sect had helped Master of the Pot Slay the Dao.
• Han Li argued that Lingyun had caused both the rise and fall of the place, and threatened to destroy the sustaining point unless he and Qu Jianlei received half of it.
• Butterfly transformed into the middle-aged True Venerable Qingkong, who warned that the sustaining point was unstable and that they needed a complete solution to continue.
• Qingkong sensed Qu Jianlei’s unusually strong fortune, prompting Han Li to note that Qingkong was only a clone and might be hard to reach with a Karma Curse Killing.
• Qingkong explained that his mouthpart drew in Realm Traits to assess opportunities and find realm information, then offered to share what he had learned if they cooperated.
• Han Li rejected Qingkong’s offer to explore together, and Qingkong asked about the expedition’s gains before dismissing his Butterfly Shell as external power with no benefit to the Dao Path.

Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Qingkong continued searching the unstable maintenance point for realms, first locating the homeland Yi He wanted to return to and then pursuing a possible realm connected to the Righteous Sect. Qingkong offered to help, but his defense of Lingyun’s treatment of the lower realm left Qu Jianlei challenging him over the Cangwu Realm’s offerings.

• Han Li used Yi He’s connection to locate his moving homeland and collected Realm Traits to help track it.
• Qingkong argued that unstable realms could offer valuable opportunities, and Han Li agreed to try searching for another realm.
• Violent Obsession sensed for three days, then identified a possible realm guarded by the Righteous Sect and pointed out its direction.
• Han Li struggled to sense the realm, and Qingkong offered his help after learning it might be connected to the Righteous Sect.
• Qu Jianlei challenged Qingkong for overlooking the Cangwu Realm and its offerings, while Qingkong said Lingyun had no necessary obligation to the lower realm.

Han Li and True Venerable Qingkong searched for a hidden realm and its Realm Trait, with Qu Jianlei calling on a Righteous Sect Heroic Spirit to strengthen Han Li’s probe. Han Li retrieved the trait, while Qingkong offered traits from two other realms to arrange future cooperation.

• Han Li gave Qingkong an Extreme Cold Bead to augment his divine sense, and Qingkong’s butterfly avatar located the hidden realm but failed to extract its Realm Trait.
• Qu Jianlei offered three Guardian Rules in exchange for help from a Heroic Spirit, who asked Han Li to open his Baihui.
• Han Li trusted the Heroic Spirit and opened his Baihui, allowing it to strengthen his Cyan-White Light enough to retrieve part of the Realm Trait.
• Han Li divided the Realm Trait into three portions, giving one to Qu Jianlei and keeping two for himself.
• Qingkong offered Han Li the traits of two realms and proposed that they investigate them together later.

Han Li, Qu Jianlei, and True Venerable Qingkong collected traits from several realms while debating whether Qingkong would join a future expedition. As they left the secret realm, Qingkong raised the expedition and Qu Jianlei’s upcoming advancement, and a tall, thin cultivator appeared.

• Han Li and Qu Jianlei judged the Grand Protector’s two realm traits to be of limited value, but Qingkong offered to help Han Li with his divine sense, and they collected traits from two more realms.
• Qu Jianlei discovered an exceptionally hidden realm, and the three men gathered its difficult-to-obtain trait before dividing it.
• Han Li and Qingkong traded remarks about the opportunities in the other world and refused to reveal their valuable treasures to each other.
• After the four men left the cave, Qingkong proposed discussing an expedition to another world, while Han Li insisted he would negotiate with Lingyun Sect himself.
• Qingkong offered a special quota for Qu Jianlei to advance at Lingyun Sect, but Han Li said Qu Jianlei would advance on Jiuyou Island.
• A tall, thin cultivator appeared in the distance as the group stood in the secret realm.

True Venerable Bai Qiao confronted True Venerable Qingkong and Han Li over their activities in the Secret Realm and pressed Han Li to help resolve Lingyun’s otherworld expedition. Han Li agreed the matter could not be put off, while Qu Jianlei tried to avoid being drawn in as he prepared to advance.

• True Venerable Bai Qiao appeared as an avatar and challenged True Venerable Qingkong over rumors that he had plotted against Han Li and sought to monopolize the Secret Realm’s resources.
• Han Li told Bai Qiao that he had come at local Cangwu cultivators’ invitation to eliminate hidden dangers, and insisted the opportunity in the Secret Realm had nothing to do with Lingyun.
• Bai Qiao asked Han Li to contact Wen Xian about improving the Erosion Array and argued that the otherworld expedition needed to be settled soon amid unrest and attacks on Min Ning’s trading teams.
• Han Li asked to postpone detailed talks until after Qu Jianlei advanced, but Bai Qiao said the matter could not wait and invited Qu Jianlei to participate.
• Qu Jianlei refused to get involved and entrusted his group’s gains to Han Li, who said decades remained to make a round trip to the otherworld and reminded Bai Qiao that he had promised to protect Qu Jianlei.

Qu Jianlei rejected the Lingyun Sect’s offer to protect his advancement and chose to remain in Cangwu, where he believed he could defend himself. After the Book Pavilion offered Jade Forest Matron a chance to travel to the upper realm, Qu Jianlei asked Han Li whether he could attempt the Out-of-Body Realm without a Tier 5 Spirit Vein.

• True Venerable Bai Qiao offered two Immortal Venerables to protect Qu Jianlei’s advancement, but Qu Jianlei declined because of his ties to the Righteous Sect.
• True Immortal Jin Ge proposed creating a false body for Qu Jianlei, but Qu Jianlei said he would stay in Cangwu and face anyone who came for him.
• True Venerable Bai Qiao and True Venerable Qingkong departed after Qu Jianlei chose to remain in Cangwu, and Qu Jianlei returned to Red Leaf Ridge with Jing Yuexin and the others.
• The Third Pavilion Lord visited Red Leaf Ridge, warned that Qu Jianlei and the ridge might be targeted, and asked for Jade Forest Matron to be allowed to travel to the upper realm.
• Tian Yin agreed to pass the request to Qu Jianlei, who then asked Han Li whether someone without a Tier 5 Spirit Vein could attempt the Out-of-Body Realm.

Qu Jianlei consulted Han Li and Jin Ge about using a small world to break through to the Out-of-Body Realm, but they judged it too small to support the necessary karma. When Han Li discovered the karma carried by Qu Jianlei’s bone trophies, True Venerable Qingkong appeared and offered to help Qu Jianlei advance in exchange for a truce.

• Qu Jianlei told Han Li he was considering breaking through in a Small World, and Han Li advised against it because the world could not bear the karma of an Out-of-Body cultivator.
• Han Li, Qu Jianlei, and Jin Ge inspected Qu Jianlei’s naturally formed Small World and concluded it was better kept as a shelter in the void than used for an advancement or refined into a cave dwelling.
• Qu Jianlei revealed he had another Small World and bone trophies from an undead being he had killed in the void.
• Han Li and Jin Ge sensed that the bones retained substantial karma, and Han Li noticed someone listening near the Small World’s entrance.
• True Venerable Qingkong appeared, and Handsome Youth threatened to destroy his avatar until the Grand Protector warned that the Small World could not withstand a fight.
• True Venerable Qingkong offered to help Qu Jianlei reach the Out-of-Body Realm and asked them to stop fighting.