Chapter Summaries

Qu Jianlei promised to release his new path to the Out-of-Body Realm through an appropriate process, while making clear that he would not include True Venerables who had earlier refused to protect Houde. Word of the path drew thousands of Nascent Souls to the Cangwu cultivators, and the chapter ended with Bai Qiao waiting for the person with authority to decide when the knowledge would be shared.

• Qu Jianlei told visiting True Venerables that he would continue refining his new path and later discuss how to release it with Lingyun.
• Qu Jianlei said he would support those who protected Houde, while Han Li rejected appeals from True Venerables who had previously refused.
• Excluded True Venerables’ subordinates spread news of the new path, drawing thousands of Nascent Souls to the Cangwu cultivators in Yuefeng Three.
• Two Cangwu Nascent Souls disappeared and were rescued by True Venerables, while several Houde Nascent Souls were killed after resorting to underhanded tactics.
• Qu Jianlei and Han Li discussed why he had emphasized negotiating with Lingyun, and Bai Qiao concluded that only one person could decide when the path would be shared.

Baiqiao judged that True Venerable Qu’s growing influence made it unwise for Lingyun to pressure him, while the Baiyou Merchant Alliance’s negotiators realized the new path to the Out-of-Body Realm could unite Houde against them. A year later, the Merchant Alliance accepted Qu Jianlei and Han Li’s demands, and Jin Ge warned Outer-Domain Cultivators not to interfere before Houde mastered the path.

• Baiqiao told his disciple that Lingyun should wait rather than set a date or force True Venerable Qu to take a position.
• True Venerable Beiliu, True Venerable Wan An, and a female True Venerable concluded that the Merchant Alliance should accept Qu Jianlei and his companion’s demands to avoid provoking Houde into uniting against it.
• Qu Jianlei and Han Li waited while the Merchant Alliance sought headquarters’ approval, despite some True Venerables’ impatience.
• One year later, Wan An and Beiliu said the Merchant Alliance had accepted all the demands and reported that the True Venerable who had fought for it had self-destructed.
• Qu Jianlei rejected Beiliu’s request concerning the Three Realms, and Jin Ge warned Outer-Domain Cultivators to behave until Houde cultivators mastered the new path.

Qu Jianlei resisted Lingyun’s pressure to share the new path to the Out-of-Body Realm, while using the dispute with the Baiyou Merchant Alliance to draw attention away from Duo Gan and Jing Yuexin. He began planning how to teach the path fairly to Houde’s True Venerables, and the chapter ended with True Venerable Yueran asking whether Xiaoyou could hear the ideas early.

• Jin Ge threatened the Baiyou Merchant Alliance on Lingyun’s behalf, but Han Li backed Qu Jianlei and argued that Qu owed no one the new path to the Out-of-Body Realm.
• Qu Jianlei refused to expel the Merchant Alliance from Houde and redirected demands for action toward Lingyun and True Venerable Qing'er.
• Baiqiao sent Bentley to ask Qu Jianlei about rules for sharing the new path, and Qu said he wanted to include True Venerables currently in the Otherworld.
• Baiqiao questioned whether Lingyun should inform those True Venerables all at once and asked how to handle the Soul-Splitting Realm Human-Faced Bee; Bentley said Qu had left that matter to Lingyun.
• Half a year later, True Venerable Yueran told Qu Jianlei that True Venerable Xiaoyou had nearly finished the Creation Rule and asked whether she could attend a discussion of the new path.

Han Li and Qu Jianlei refused requests from several realms to attend Houde’s new Out-of-Body Realm path, while Han Li’s pressure on True Venerable Yueran sparked complaints. Lingyun later asked Qu Jianlei and Han Li to aid cultivators in the Insect Race World against a Spirit Severing Human-Faced Bee, and they agreed to go for up to five years.

• Han Li and Qu Jianlei refused True Venerable Yueran’s request to let Xiaoyou participate in Houde’s new cultivation path, and Han Li warned Yueran to avoid anything happening to Qu Jianlei.
• Yueran spread word that Han Li had bullied him, while Baiqiao and Elder Youjian discussed how to share news of the new path and arrange for absent True Venerables to attend.
• True Venerables from Shangshan Realm and Shanshui Realm separately asked Qu Jianlei to attend the new path and, after being refused, declared their sincere intentions before Heaven and Earth.
• Qingkong sent word that a Spirit Severing Human-Faced Bee had repeatedly attacked cultivator teams in the Insect Race World and asked Houde to send elite support.
• Baiqiao offered Qu Jianlei five Guardian Rules in advance and two Creation Rules after the mission; Qu Jianlei agreed to go with Han Li for up to five years, and Han Li declined to involve Wen Xian.

Han Li and Qu Jianlei joined the tense Tree Race World camp to investigate the Spirit Severing Human-Faced Bee, whose attacks had killed cultivators and wounded True Venerables. After learning the bee had rarely suffered effective damage, Qu Jianlei took sealed Bee Down and prepared to confront it, while Qingkong and Min Ning volunteered to accompany them.

• Baiqiao left to oversee arrangements for the spirit vein, and Han Li warned Qu Jianlei that the Spirit Severing bee might turn toward the Empire.
• Jin Ge arrived with thousands of Lingyun cultivators, and Qu Jianlei organized their work before the group traveled to the Otherworld.
• Han Li, Qu Jianlei, True Venerable Xiwu, and their companions reached the Tree Race World camp and learned the bee had killed dozens of Nascent Soul cultivators and severely wounded two True Venerables.
• Min Ning explained that the bee's strength seemed inconsistent and that the cultivators had likely never inflicted meaningful damage on it.
• Qingkong revealed the camp had sealed the bee's aura and Bee Down, and Qu Jianlei took a strand of Bee Down into his Abode.
• Qingkong and Min Ning volunteered to accompany Qu Jianlei and Han Li, but Qu Jianlei said the camp still needed guards and questioned why so many should go.

Qingkong, Qu Jianlei, Han Li, Jin Ge, and True Venerable Xiwu visited the Soul Division spider to investigate the Human-Faced Bee, but discovered that the spider feared a powerful figure behind it. The exchange ended with that figure hinting at an earlier trade with Qu Jianlei and Han Li, which Qu Jianlei defended as the reason the Grand Lord had recovered so quickly.

• True Venerable Min Ning stayed behind while Qingkong and the others entered the Space Interlayer, and he explained that he expected Qu Jianlei and Han Li to stay safe and hoped to benefit from their good fortune.
• Qu Jianlei led the group to the spider's Mother Planet and offered the spider half of a Human Race Nascent Soul Realm corpse to help trace the Human-Faced Bee.
• The spider denied responsibility and refused Qu Jianlei's offer of Ugly Tree Root, warning that the target was extremely powerful and insisting the Insect Race differed greatly among its members.
• After a strange rhythm passed through the area, the spider's divine sense demanded more payment to help find the target, so Qu Jianlei withdrew his offer and prepared to leave.
• Han Li revealed his scarred Spirit Severing Palace and said they only needed evidence that the spider ate cultivators, while Qingkong realized the rumor about Han Li seizing a Grand Lord's Palace was true.
• A voice from the spider's direction brought up a previous transaction in which its family had lost out, and Qu Jianlei replied that the trade had helped the Grand Lord return to his soul quickly.

Qu Jianlei negotiated with the awakened Obsession and its Spider to enlist their help in finding the Soul-Splitting Realm Human-Faced Bee. The Spider located the target and agreed to discuss tactics, while the Obsession warned that the world’s Soul-Splitting restriction was dangerous to investigate.

• Han Li met the Obsession’s Coercive Pressure with the Palace, and Qu Jianlei recognized that the presence was an Obsession awakened by Spider’s Creation-tainted Ugly Tree Root.
• Qu Jianlei bargained with the Obsession, agreeing to provide ten times the previous amount of Ugly Tree Root in exchange for Spider’s help.
• The group asked about Creation, the Insect Race, and the Child of Creation, but the Obsession refused to discuss some matters and identified the Child of Creation as a piece of tree root.
• Spider examined the sealed Soul-Splitting Realm Bee Down and indicated that the Bee was not yet at absolute Soul-Splitting strength.
• Qu Jianlei asked whether the world prohibited Soul-Splitting, and Spider froze before warning him not to be so curious.
• Qu Jianlei paid Spider with Ugly Tree Root, and after nearly half a day Spider found the Human-Faced Bee and proposed discussing tactics.

Qu Jianlei's group joined forces with Spider to ambush a Human-Faced Bee in the Tree Race's Core Area. Their carefully prepared traps stopped the Bee's escape, and the attack left it confronting Spider and the Human cultivators.

• Spider led the five True Venerables to an asteroid hidden among Tree Race forces and identified the Human-Faced Bee's location.
• Spider and True Venerable Xiwu spent fifteen days laying traps, while Qu Jianlei's group prepared to attack together.
• The six launched their assault, and the Human-Faced Bee fled using its Wing-Cup Flash ability as its aura devastated nearby Tree Race members.
• Spider's hidden webs caught the fleeing Bee, and Qu Jianlei's Warp Jammers and Xiwu's illusions disrupted its attempts to escape as multiple shadows.
• The Human-Faced Bee accused Spider of trying to devour it, then recognized the butterfly phantom appearing before it.

Spider, Han Li, Qu Jianlei, and Jin Ge attacked the Human-Faced Bee, whose Soul-Splitting Realm power made it difficult to kill. A Human Race Great Monarch briefly immobilized it, giving Qu Jianlei the chance to unleash Creation and Destruction as the battle continued.

• The Human-Faced Bee accused Spider of betraying the Insect Race, and Spider condemned it for splitting its soul without authorization.
• The Human-Faced Bee resisted the Golden Wheel and Spirit Mountain until a Human Race Great Monarch briefly froze its body and soul.
• Han Li called for Causality Kill, and Qu Jianlei opened his Taiji eye to use Creation and Destruction against the Human-Faced Bee.
• Butterfly targeted the Human-Faced Bee's true body while Jin Ge's Golden Wheel cut through it and several avatars.
• The Human-Faced Bee rejoined its severed body and recovered from the Golden Wheel's grinding attack, but it sensed a grave threat from Qu Jianlei's eye.

The Human-Faced Bee was trapped by Spider’s cold-resistant webs, metal nets, and layered illusions, while the Black-White Vortex threatened to drain its vitality. It split its body and tried to escape, but still believed its individual combat power could give it a way to fight back.

• Han Li’s cold energy shifted to hinder the Human-Faced Bee while Spider’s specially prepared webs closed around it.
• The Human-Faced Bee charged toward the eye but became entangled in Spider’s web and a metal net formed from the golden giant wheel.
• The Human-Faced Bee split its body, sending seventy percent fleeing while the rest struggled against the nets.
• The fleeing portion discovered that Spider and the Human Race cultivators had layered their illusion arts to conceal real webs and metal nets.
• The Human-Faced Bee split the fleeing portion into four figures, sending three smaller parts in different directions while the largest turned back to force a breakthrough.

Qu Jianlei and the other True Venerables trapped most of the Human-Faced Bee and slowly began destroying it, while a small portion of its original body escaped. They held the prisoner as they waited for reinforcements, wary of what the escaped portion might do.

• The Human-Faced Bee split off a small part of its original body to flee, then turned back to fight, but Qu Jianlei trapped most of it with nets and his Creation and Destruction divine ability.
• Qu Jianlei and the other True Venerables discussed how long it would take to destroy the captive, while the escaped portion left Spider in pursuit.
• The Human-Faced Bee argued with Spider about the taboo against splitting the soul as Qu Jianlei and Han Li waited for the stalemate to continue.
• Qu Jianlei asked Qingkong to return to camp for help, and Tree Race members who arrived fled after seeing the five True Venerables.
• Seven or eight days later, two True Venerables arrived from the camp to receive the group and protect them.

Qu Jianlei finished erasing the Human-Faced Bee after a month and a half, and the gathered cultivators celebrated while discussing what remnants might have escaped. As the group moved to secure the bee’s corpse, Spider volunteered to take it, warning that little would remain if they delayed.

• Qu Jianlei reduced the Human-Faced Bee to ash, then asked Han Li to distribute hardship pay to the cultivators guarding him.
• Han Li and Qu Jianlei discussed Qu Jianlei’s damaged foundation and his plan to enter Han Li’s Abode, while Jin Ge asked whether the bee’s escaped true body remained a threat.
• Han Li explained that the Creation and Destruction Divine Ability had destroyed the bee’s origin, leaving only a few powerful clones, and Qu Jianlei admitted a remnant might have escaped.
• Han Li put away the Spirit-Splitting-level Palace, and the Five True Venerables began cleaning up the battlefield.
• Qingkong found that Butterfly could not collect the bee’s corpse because of a hidden danger, so Spider offered to take everything except the wings, and Han Li agreed.

Han Li and the True Venerables discussed the Human-Faced Bee’s remains and Spider’s knowledge of its divine-fall backlash, while Spider tried to join their travels. The group prepared to return and report their mission, but Spider’s gift of Three-Life Silk caught Jin Ge’s attention.

• Spider’s legs stripped the Human-Faced Bee’s corpse and sent its four wings to True Venerable Qu, while Qingkong and True Venerable Xiwu searched the asteroid and found only a few Top-Grade Spirit Stones and a shattered God Lord Tablet.
• Spider explained that the danger Qingkong sensed came from the Incense Divinity Path’s divine-fall backlash, which could cause Daoization or allow a fallen cultivator to seize a shell and be reborn.
• Spider offered to share clues about the Human-Faced Bee and exterminate its avatars, but said it wanted to roam with the others; Qu Jianlei refused because Spider’s karma was too powerful and a Great Monarch was watching.
• Spider said the Great Monarch would not interfere because of the Child of Creation, and Qu Jianlei proposed returning to report the mission.
• Spider offered a gift, and Jin Ge recognized the strand of silk on its forelimb as Three-Life Silk.

After helping complete the hunt for the Human-Faced Bee’s remaining main body, Qu Jianlei left to recover from his severe deficit at Digital Phantom’s old stronghold in the Empire. More than a year later, he began arranging to buy top-tier Calculation Units, while several figures arrived as he negotiated with the military.

• Spider revealed the hiding place of the Human-Faced Bee’s last main body, and Grand Protector Qingkong erased it with Butterfly.
• Qu Jianlei said he needed five years to recuperate, then left after Han Li would not let him rest in his Abode.
• Spider sensed that Qu Jianlei had gone to the Empire and set off to look for him.
• Qu Jianlei reached Misty Rain Terrace, set up Super Gathering Spirit Arrays, and spent over a year recovering while the Empire’s military kept others away.
• Qu Jianlei sent an avatar to a military base in an old Battalion-Class Ship to buy top-tier Calculation Units, and several figures appeared while he negotiated.

Qu Jianlei bought more warships from the Empire before True Venerable Xiaoyou arrived to trade Creation Rules and discuss other matters, including the Human-Faced Bee’s wings. Nearby, Han Li and True Venerable Xiwu worried that Xiaoyou might win Qu Jianlei’s trust or acquire the wings.

• Qu Jianlei ordered three Legion-Class Battleships, ten Division Level Ships, and two Experimental Platforms from the Empire’s military.
• True Venerable Xiaoyou and four companions appeared aboard Qu Jianlei’s battleship, and she offered Creation Rules in exchange for knowledge about the path to Out-of-Body Realm.
• Qu Jianlei accepted two Creation Rules and considered Xiaoyou’s offer to trade another for the knowledge, then took her group to Misty Rain Terrace.
• Xiaoyou praised Qu Jianlei’s Gathering Spirit Arrays, discussed his battle against the Great Monarch, and asked whether he would sell the Human-Faced Bee’s wings.
• Han Li and True Venerable Xiwu watched from the Space Interlayer and debated whether Xiaoyou might secure the wings or draw Qu Jianlei into an alliance.

Qu Jianlei met with True Venerable Xiaoyou and True Venerable Han Wei, who warned him that rivals might use their return journey to frame him. He agreed to travel back with the others, while Han Li and True Venerable Xiwu watched from nearby and discovered that Xiaoyou had moved in with him.

• Qu Jianlei learned that True Venerable Xiaoyou had found a new Otherworld but declined to commit to exploring it with her and True Venerable Han Wei.
• True Venerable Han Wei warned Qu Jianlei that attackers might target them and use their resources as an excuse to frame him.
• Qu Jianlei agreed to return with the others after some time rather than travel alone with True Venerable Xiaoyou.
• Han Li and True Venerable Xiwu stayed near the planet, and Xiwu later sent an avatar to check on Qu Jianlei.
• True Venerable Xiwu reported that Xiaoyou had moved onto Qu Jianlei's island, prompting True Venerable Lengyan to complain that they were living together.

Han Li and Xiwu met Qu Jianlei at Misty Rain Terrace and persuaded him to join the search for the Human-Faced Bee's remaining clones. Qu Jianlei agreed to head to the Tree Race World, where Xiaoyou was startled to discover the Spider on his shoulder was an Insect Race Great Monarch.

• Han Li and Xiwu arrived at Misty Rain Terrace and learned that Qu Jianlei had found no more clones of the Human-Faced Bee.
• Qu Jianlei explained that he had stayed in the Empire for peace and quiet, prompting Xiwu to challenge his choice to keep the Wanwu cultivators close.
• Xiaoyou offered Qu Jianlei a Tier 6 Spirit Vein, and Qu Jianlei announced that he would recover in her Abode on the way back to Houde.
• Han Li and Qu Jianlei exchanged confused remarks about Xiwu, Xiaoyou, and Han Li's romantic prospects.
• Qu Jianlei decided to leave for the Tree Race World and refused Xiaoyou's offer to travel by warship.
• After they entered the Tree Race World, Xiaoyou recoiled from the Spider on Qu Jianlei's shoulder when he revealed it was an Insect Race Great Monarch.

Qu Jianlei led the group to hunt the Human-Faced Bee's avatars, while Spider warned them about the danger of the Maiden Star Region and argued with Qu Jianlei over its role. After Qu Jianlei located and helped destroy an avatar, Spider offered to guide them to the next one, and Han Li suggested they recover first.

• Spider said the Maiden Star Region was dangerous even for a Grand Lord, and Qu Jianlei scolded it for having gone there.
• Qu Jianlei insisted that Spider help locate the Human-Faced Bee's avatars, but Spider argued that the avatars numbered in the hundreds of millions.
• Qu Jianlei used divination to find a swarm containing an avatar, and the group traveled there without relying on Spider.
• The Five True Venerables of Houde destroyed the avatar and its swarm while Spider and the Three True Venerables of Wanwu watched.
• Spider offered to guide the group to the next avatar, and Han Li asked True Venerable Qu whether they should rest and recover first.

After Han Li and Qu Jianlei finished their mission ahead of schedule, Big Head Butterfly asked to buy supplies and explained that Spider had taught it how to split its soul. Qu Jianlei learned that the two had secretly exchanged knowledge, then argued with Big Head Butterfly about whether it should inhabit a Crystal Race body before asking what it wanted to buy.

• Han Li and Qu Jianlei slowed their attacks while Qu Jianlei recovered, and the group killed the remaining powerful Human-Faced Bee avatars, completing the mission in just over two years.
• Big Head Butterfly asked Qu Jianlei to buy supplies, explaining that Spider had taught it how to split its soul.
• Big Head Butterfly described how Spider had secretly trapped one of its digital fragments in a warship and exchanged information with it.
• Qu Jianlei told Big Head Butterfly he had considered letting it inhabit a Crystal Race body, but Big Head Butterfly angrily refused.
• Qu Jianlei dismissed the argument and asked Big Head Butterfly what supplies it wanted to buy.

Qu Jianlei and his group returned from the Otherworld journey, and Xiaoyou revealed that she had tracked down a world connected to the ambush against him and Han Li. Qu Jianlei declined to investigate it for now, returned to the Four Families Camp, and told Jing Yuexin he had killed a quasi-Spirit Severing expert.

• Xiaoyou invited Qu Jianlei to investigate a nearby Cultivator world, then admitted she had found it while tracing the True Venerables who ambushed Qu Jianlei and Han Li.
• Qu Jianlei and Han Li both declined Xiaoyou's invitation, with Qu Jianlei saying his plans would keep him busy for about a hundred years.
• Spider sensed a strong connection between their location and the Wanwu Realm, while Qu Jianlei warned Big Head Butterfly to keep Spider away from his Abode's treasures.
• Qu Jianlei and the other True Venerables escorted the Wanwu cultivators to the Four Families Camp, where Xiaoyou told the Merchant Alliance that Houde had defeated the quasi-Spirit Severing Alien Race.
• Qu Jianlei visited Duo Gan and Jing Yuexin, helped them perform divinations, and told Jing Yuexin he had killed a quasi-Spirit Severing expert.