Chapter Summaries

Luo Hanshuang, Aunt Han, and Qu Jianlei explored the Mystic Mansion’s Inner Circle and tested which treasures they could claim. Luo Hanshuang took a black bottle, a longsword, and ancient ginseng, while the chapter ended with her asking to try for a fourth item.

• Luo Hanshuang celebrated entering the Inner Circle and found a rack holding books, weapons, bottles, plants, and other treasures.
• Aunt Han urged Luo Hanshuang to choose the Divine Script book, but a pale blue barrier blocked both women from taking it.
• Luo Hanshuang claimed the smallest black bottle, then failed to take the pill furnace, the box, and several other items.
• Luo Hanshuang successfully took a longsword, and Aunt Han claimed a medium-sized bottle after failing to take other treasures.
• Luo Hanshuang could not take the Reed Fan or yellow stone, but she claimed the ancient ginseng.
• Luo Hanshuang asked Qu Jianlei whether she could try for a fourth treasure, and he agreed.

Qu Jianlei received a Divine Script inheritance from the booklet in the stone grotto, then collected several other treasures while explaining that the inheritance’s knowledge was dangerous and unfamiliar. He wondered how many more items he could take before leaving the grotto.

• The grotto’s entrance turned red, and the observers identified Luo Hanshuang as the student who had entered the Inner Circle.
• Qu Jianlei touched the booklet and received an inheritance that flooded his mind with information, with Xiao Hu and Vortex helping him endure it.
• Qu Jianlei told Luo Hanshuang and Aunt Han that the inheritance concerned a different system of Pill Refining and warned them that its knowledge could put them at risk.
• Qu Jianlei took the pill furnace, a box, a yellow energy stone he suspected was a spirit stone, and a Reed Fan that Luo Hanshuang thought might be a magical artifact.
• Luo Hanshuang apologized after Qu Jianlei cautioned her against greed, and Qu Jianlei wondered how many more treasures he could take.

Qu Jianlei, Luo Hanshuang, and Aunt Han weighed whether to take the last item in the Mystic Mansion’s stone cavern, and Qu Jianlei chose not to press their luck. When they pushed the exit door, it unexpectedly returned them to the main hall, where others recognized Luo Hanshuang as someone who had entered the Inner Circle.

• Qu Jianlei took several pills and plants, then refused to take the final black bottle after realizing it might contain Qi Recovery Pills.
• Qu Jianlei explained that the Mystic Mansion recognized his Shenzhou cultivation methods, while Aunt Han warned Luo Hanshuang to be content with what they had gained.
• Luo Hanshuang apologized for criticizing Qu Jianlei, and the three decided to wait before leaving so they would avoid drawing attention.
• Qu Jianlei pushed the door, and Luo Hanshuang stepped into the White Mist, which transported all three back to the main hall.
• Someone recognized Luo Hanshuang as the person who had entered the Inner Circle.

After Luo Hanshuang returned from the Inner Circle, Xingluo Academy and Feiyang Military Academy competed to recruit her while the academy kept her gains secret. Qu Jianlei traveled with the group back to Tianyi, where he learned the academy would not let him return to Tianrui alone because they feared trouble between guards.

• Luo Hanshuang emerged from the Inner Circle, and Guo Qiqiang of Feiyang Military Academy tried to recruit her before Xingluo Academy's team leader argued that she should stay.
• Qu Jianlei and Aunt Han kept a low profile, but teachers approached them after Aunt Han identified herself as Luo Hanshuang's family.
• The academy counselor stopped students from inspecting Luo Hanshuang's gains, and the group boarded a military warship to leave the Mystic Mansion.
• Xiao Hu suggested invading the warship's control system, but Qu Jianlei warned that it might be a trap.
• The group reached Tianyi and checked into a hotel, where Luo Hanshuang told Qu Jianlei that the academy feared he might be endangered if he returned to Tianrui alone.
• Qu Jianlei agreed to travel with the academy to Celestial Hook Star but said he would charge guard fees if they continued preventing him from leaving.

Qu Jianlei went out to settle an old score in Tianyi City while Luo Hanshuang reported her Mystic Mansion gains to Xingluo Academy’s teachers. She protected the Luo Family’s secrets and returned with the academy warning her to keep the internship details quiet.

• Qu Jianlei kept his distance from the B-rank guard, then went out after dinner to look for the people who had nearly forced a sale on him earlier.
• Luo Hanshuang showed the teachers her Item-Storing Talisman and explained that her gains came from the Mystic Mansion, Mangyuan, and the mountains.
• Luo Hanshuang refused to reveal how she solved the Mystic Mansion’s questions, saying the method belonged to her family’s inheritance.
• The teachers inspected Luo Hanshuang’s longsword and confirmed it was a magical artifact, then said Xingluo Academy would discuss it with the Luo Family.
• Luo Hanshuang identified the opportunities she had passed up but concealed some details, including the lifespan-extending pills.
• The female instructor ordered Luo Hanshuang to keep the internship details secret, and Luo Hanshuang wondered why she had revealed so much.

After arriving on Celestial Hook Star, Qu Jianlei parted ways with Xingluo Academy and began exploring the planet while searching for a Talent Exchange Center. The academy leaders remained suspicious of his identity, while Aunt Han questioned him about the pills he had given her.

• Aunt Han agreed to move rooms with Luo Hanshuang, and Xingluo's leader ordered the team to investigate Ran Bingluan, suspecting his simple background concealed his true strength.
• Guo Qiqiang pursued Luo Hanshuang at the spaceport with a more generous offer to join Feiyang Military Academy, but she declined and chose to remain at Xingluo.
• Six days later, Xingluo's starship landed in Tianxin City on Celestial Hook Star, where Qu Jianlei declined to leave with the academy and chose to tour the planet instead.
• Qu Jianlei reported completing his mission to Ford, asked Xiao Hu to search for a Talent Exchange Center, and drove around Celestial Hook Star.
• Aunt Han messaged Qu Jianlei about the poison remedy and the bottle he had given her; he avoided revealing the pills and put away his Wristwatch.
• Qu Jianlei drove to Celestial Hook Star's Talent Exchange Center.

Qu Jianlei hired Stone to help him settle into life on Celestial Hook Star and find a remote estate, then discovered from the Pill Book that his cultivation had drifted toward a flawed path. He began working with Xiao Hu to refine his cultivation method and received a message from Luo Hanshuang.

• Qu Jianlei hired the local Rank B Warrior Willitts, who asked to be called Stone, to run errands and help him gather information.
• Stone found Qu Jianlei a secluded suburban courtyard, which Qu Jianlei rented before treating him to dinner and asking him to search for a remote estate with clear ownership.
• Qu Jianlei reviewed the Pill Book and realized that Ability cultivation techniques had pushed his practice toward a dangerous direction before Core Formation.
• Qu Jianlei asked Xiao Hu to help deduce a better cultivation method, planning to spend a month refining his path toward Above Supreme.
• Luo Hanshuang messaged Qu Jianlei to ask whether he was asleep.

Qu Jianlei learned that the academy was investigating Luo Hanshuang’s pills and explained how dangerous Obstacle Breaking Pills could be, while she offered to save one for him. The chapter ended with Stone reporting that the Iron Blood Brotherhood was asking around about Qu Jianlei.

• Luo Hanshuang told Qu Jianlei that the stone cave had been only one branch of a gate whose destination stayed the same, and that some gates had disappeared permanently.
• Luo Hanshuang warned Qu Jianlei that Xingluo Academy was interested in her sword and was asking about the pills from Aunt Han’s bottle.
• Qu Jianlei explained the pills’ risks and said they could help an Above Supreme attempting to reach the peak, but he refused Luo Hanshuang’s offer to trade for one.
• Stone came to Qu Jianlei’s courtyard and reported that the Iron Blood Brotherhood was asking around about him.

Qu Jianlei learned that the Iron Blood Brotherhood had taken a job from an unknown outsider to find him, and Stone explained the group’s connection to the powerful Heavenly Queen Yuan Yuan. Qu Jianlei hired Stone to identify who had commissioned the search, giving him three days to earn one thousand Silver Coins.

• Qu Jianlei learned from Stone that the Iron Blood Brotherhood controlled most of Tianxin City’s grain market and had four A-ranks, alongside the A-rank Heavenly Queen Yuan Yuan.
• Stone explained that Yuan Yuan’s Ion Purification Armor made her unusually formidable and that the Brotherhood had accepted a job from an outsider seeking Qu Jianlei.
• Qu Jianlei questioned why no one had investigated Yuan Yuan’s improved technique and decided to avoid drawing attention while Xiao Hu worked on cultivation techniques.
• Qu Jianlei asked Stone to investigate who hired the Iron Blood Brotherhood and offered him one thousand Silver Coins for the job.
• Stone accepted, saying he would need no more than three days, while Qu Jianlei considered blocking his Wristwatch to avoid being found.

Qu Jianlei protected Stone’s children from a night raid and killed the attackers, recognizing one as the man who had tried to force him to sell a slot in Tianyi City. Stone returned with information identifying the person behind the attack as Farmer, leaving Qu Jianlei with a lead on the revenge plot.

• Stone asked Qu Jianlei to shelter his children, and Qu Jianlei agreed after Stone brought more than twenty children to the courtyard.
• Qu Jianlei discovered that two of the children had received Gene Modification Agent and set up a Defense Array to protect them.
• A Water Attribute Rank B Warrior infiltrated the courtyard to lure Qu Jianlei into an ambush by two Rank A Warriors.
• Qu Jianlei recognized the Earth Attribute attacker as the man who had tried to buy a slot in Tianyi City, then killed the Wood Attribute Warrior and driver and knocked out the Water Attribute Warrior.
• Qu Jianlei killed the fleeing Earth Attribute Warrior before he could escape, and Stone arrived to report that Farmer had paid for information about Qu Jianlei.

Qu Jianlei killed four intruders, including prominent Heaven's Fallers Farmer and Heart-Eroding, and learned that another belonged to the Iron Blood Brotherhood. He refused to leave his courtyard and sent Stone to demand an explanation from the Brotherhood, while Stone asked why Qu Jianlei had become enemies with the two Heaven's Fallers.

• Stone identified Farmer as a powerful Heaven's Fallers leader and recognized Heart-Eroding as a former teacher, while Qu Jianlei confirmed he was Rank A and had killed them both.
• Stone recognized the Rank B intruder, Water Monkey, as a member of the Iron Blood Brotherhood, and Qu Jianlei cut off his head.
• Qu Jianlei searched the corpses, took their heads to cremate, and told Stone to handle the remaining bodies.
• Back at the courtyard, Qu Jianlei refused to move and ordered Stone to notify the Iron Blood Brotherhood that he wanted an explanation.
• Qu Jianlei offered to let Stone evacuate the children, but Stone said the courtyard was safer, then asked why Qu Jianlei had become enemies with Farmer and Heart-Eroding.

Qu Jianlei examined Farmer’s records and reasoned that the Reclamation Army was reducing the Mystic Mansion’s exotic energy to make it easier to refine. After waiting for the Iron Blood Brotherhood to respond, he faced four of its members at his courtyard gate, where Stone warned them against entering.

• Qu Jianlei inspected Farmer’s supplies and records, learning that the Mystic Mansion’s inner door could lead to its core and that Farmer believed the realm might be refined.
• Qu Jianlei connected the Reclamation Army’s cultivation of Ability Rice to reducing the Mystic Mansion’s exotic energy, and Xiao Hu said his reasoning was logically sound.
• Stone brought Qu Jianlei the bounty money for Farmer and Heart-Eroding, and Qu Jianlei paid Stone for his help.
• Stone chose to remain and protect the children while Qu Jianlei waited for the Iron Blood Brotherhood to act.
• After several days without a response, Qu Jianlei told Stone to wait two more days before spreading news and issuing a final deadline.
• Four Iron Blood Brotherhood members arrived at Qu Jianlei’s courtyard, and Stone warned them that entering with their hostile attitude could get them killed.

Qu Jianlei confronted Lubricant and the Iron Blood Brotherhood after they provoked him at his gate, killing a Driver and forcing Lubricant to apologize. The Brotherhood sought to settle the dispute peacefully, but Qu Jianlei refused to let the matter pass so easily.

• Lubricant killed the Driver for honking outside Qu Jianlei’s home, but Qu Jianlei accused the Brotherhood of staging the provocation.
• Lubricant admitted fault and apologized when Qu Jianlei threatened him, then Stone warned him that Qu Jianlei had killed Farmer and Heart-Eroding alone.
• Stone let Lubricant and the Earth Attribute Rank A enter the courtyard on foot, while warning Lubricant not to try anything.
• Lubricant explained that the Brotherhood had investigated Ran Bingluan, learned of his ties to the Luo Family and Luo Hanshuang, and wanted to end the conflict.
• Qu Jianlei rejected Lubricant’s attempt to settle the matter and demanded a proper explanation.

Qu Jianlei demanded one million in compensation and information about Yuanyuan from the Iron Blood Brotherhood, refusing to negotiate after it investigated him and helped arrange Water Monkey’s job. The Brotherhood paid the compensation but could not reach Yuanyuan, and Qu Jianlei returned to the courtyard after the deadline passed.

• Qu Jianlei rejected Lubricant’s explanations for Water Monkey’s death and the Brotherhood’s investigation, demanding one million in compensation and information about Yuanyuan’s inheritance.
• Qu Jianlei gave the Brotherhood a day to pay and two days to bring Yuanyuan back, then left the courtyard and visited several Brotherhood outposts.
• Lubricant arranged for the Brotherhood to deliver a one-million silver note to Stone the next day, while reporting that they still could not contact Yuanyuan.
• Stone told Lubricant he would relay the Brotherhood’s message, but Yuanyuan’s response was not his responsibility.
• After the two-day deadline passed without news of Yuanyuan, Qu Jianlei contacted Stone and returned to the courtyard at midnight.

Yuanyuan confronted Qu Jianlei over the Brotherhood’s conflict with him, but he let her go after weighing her strength and unknown connections. She offered to exchange information about her inheritance for what Luo Hanshuang gained in the Inner Circle, and Qu Jianlei had not answered.

• Yuanyuan arrived alone at Qu Jianlei’s courtyard and argued that she was not responsible for the Brotherhood’s actions.
• Qu Jianlei challenged Yuanyuan’s strength by telling her he had killed Farmer and Heart-Eroding after they ambushed him, and she admitted she might only be able to escape them.
• Yuanyuan warned Qu Jianlei that she had another powerful background, and he decided to let the matter with the Brotherhood go.
• Yuanyuan offered to share information about her inheritance in exchange for Qu Jianlei explaining what Luo Hanshuang obtained in the Inner Circle.
• Qu Jianlei refused to discuss Luo Hanshuang’s challenge, and Yuanyuan asked what she had gained instead.

Qu Jianlei and Yuanyuan traded information about her inheritance and the pills Little White Sweet found, revealing the inheritance’s military and Maiden Star Region origins. Yuanyuan challenged Qu Jianlei to show his independent research, and he mocked her confidence instead.

• Qu Jianlei exchanged details of Little White Sweet’s longsword and pill bottle for information about Yuanyuan’s inheritance.
• Yuanyuan said her technique came from an abandoned military project refined by her elder’s friends, a group that included more than ten Supremes.
• Qu Jianlei wrote the two Variant Divine Script characters from the bottle in the dirt, and Yuanyuan tentatively interpreted one as meaning “chiseled open with a Stone.”
• Yuanyuan revealed that the technique’s primary template came from both the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion and the Maiden Star Region.
• Yuanyuan explained that the technique tested whether Awakened Ones had taken the wrong development path, and Qu Jianlei said he shared that concern.
• When Yuanyuan demanded to see Qu Jianlei’s independent research, he replied, “Look at the size of your ego!”

Qu Jianlei discussed cultivation techniques and Above Supreme with Yuanyuan, then asked her to help him find a place to set up a Qi Gathering Array. He ended by revealing that he had been considering how to refine the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion.

• Yuanyuan showed Qu Jianlei part of the Ion Purification Armor technique, and he identified its demanding constitution requirements.
• Qu Jianlei shared an improved Metal Attribute cultivation method, while Yuanyuan asked to see his Fire Attribute method.
• Yuanyuan said that people who failed to advance to Above Supreme survived but aged faster, and offered to help Qu Jianlei with a breakthrough.
• After learning he could not easily use a military Qi Gathering Array under his current identity, Qu Jianlei asked Yuanyuan to find a location where he could set one up himself.
• Yuanyuan agreed to use Qu Jianlei's array and pay a fee, and he then asked what else she knew about the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion.
• Qu Jianlei told Yuanyuan he had been thinking about how the Mystic Mansion should be refined.

Qu Jianlei abandoned his plan to travel to Tianrui Star when flights were suspended, and went to Hope Star instead. After learning that the search for Panda had shifted away from Planet One, he planned to kill one of the remaining Supremes there, but Xiao Hu’s news about Heltman’s death stunned him.

• Qu Jianlei discussed refining the Mystic Mansion with Yuanyuan, who later tried to find him after he disappeared into seclusion.
• Qu Jianlei left seclusion and went to the spaceport to travel to Tianrui Star, but a meteor swarm and its electromagnetic interference halted flights.
• Qu Jianlei boarded a starship to Hope Star, where Xiao Hu learned that Hawkstan and Fobi had gone to Fourth Star and only four Supremes remained mainly searching Planet One.
• Qu Jianlei decided to kill one Supreme on Planet One, weighing Arindell against Cohen.
• Xiao Hu told Qu Jianlei that Heltman had died more than a month earlier, apparently after slashing his own back over thirty times, and Qu Jianlei questioned the official claim that it was suicide.

Qu Jianlei learned that Heltman and Glady had been killed and decided to strike back at the Divine Script Research Association’s people. He attacked Supreme Cohen at a dinner in White Cloud Manor, where the chapter left the other guests scrambling to respond.

• Xiao Hu told Qu Jianlei that Heltman had been killed, Glady had died in a fire, and their children were missing; Qu Jianlei decided to target Cohen and investigate Arindell.
• Qu Jianlei and Xiao Hu found that Cohen would visit White Cloud Manor, where Kentel and several Rank As planned to discuss business with him.
• At the dinner, Cohen declined to intervene directly in development matters, while the other guests urged him to use the Research Society’s influence.
• A visitor claiming to know Cohen revealed a weapon and struck him with Electromagnetic Art.
• The attacker charged into the dining room and warned the guests not to interfere as Kentel and the Rank As tried to respond.

Qu Jianlei killed Cohen Supreme and wounded Hunter during a lightning-fast ambush, then escaped with Cohen's head. At the manor, the survivors argued over who should notify the Divine Script Research Society and speculated about Qu Jianlei's weapon and motives as the City Guard arrived.

• Qu Jianlei used the Thunder Goat Horn to strike Cohen Supreme with electromagnetic force, then cut off and took Cohen's head while Hunter was left badly burned.
• Kentel urged the banquet guests to arrange medical care and contact the City Guard, Patrol, military, and Divine Script Research Society, but no one wanted to take responsibility for notifying the Research Society.
• The guests debated whether Qu Jianlei was an A-rank or Supreme and guessed that his dark green weapon might be a disguised Thunder Goat Horn or a weapon made with its powder.
• The guests found Cohen Supreme's Item-Storing Talisman still at the scene, and Kentel reasoned that Qu Jianlei had taken Cohen's head to prevent Limb Regeneration.
• Alarms sounded outside as the City Guard arrived.