Chapter Summaries

Paranoid found Mu Yu alive but frail and insisted on taking her away, while Zheng Xuewen asked that they wait until she woke. Qu Jianlei and Tian Yin arrived later, and the group began discussing the trouble Mu Yu and Zheng Xuewen had endured.

• Hua Xiezhi and Paranoid entered Zheng Xuewen’s courtyard and found Mu Yu in a cage, where Paranoid recognized her poor condition.
• Paranoid identified himself as Mu Yu’s senior and offered to take her away, while Hua Xiezhi revealed that he had prepaid five hundred years of her fees.
• Zheng Xuewen declined to decide the fate of the injured man who had bullied him and asked Paranoid to wait until Mu Yu woke up.
• Paranoid contacted Qu Jianlei, who set out with Tian Yin after learning Mu Yu was alive and declined an offer of transport from Chaoyang Academy.
• Qu Jianlei and Tian Yin arrived at Zheng Xuewen’s courtyard six hours later, where Hua Xiezhi explained that they had found the injured bully there.
• Tian Yin expressed hatred toward the people who had caused Zheng Xuewen and Mu Yu hardship.

Qu Jianlei and Paranoid reunited with Mu Yu, whose condition improved after she took Ten Thousand Year Stone Marrow capsules. The chapter ended with Paranoid demanding that Blessing Star’s Guardian Supreme appear.

• Qu Jianlei entered the courtyard while Tian Yin reassured Zheng Xuewen that someone would handle the situation.
• Qu Jianlei and Paranoid discussed Mu Yu’s weak Inner Breath and how a Cultivation Room might help her.
• Mu Yu woke briefly, recognized Paranoid as Stone, and swallowed capsules from Qu Jianlei to restore her energy.
• Mu Yu meditated and fell asleep, prompting Paranoid to learn from Zheng Xuewen that she had rarely slept during her years of decline.
• Paranoid released his Supreme’s Coercive Pressure and called for Blessing Star’s Guardian Supreme to come meet him.

Paranoid and Qu Jianlei confronted Kortel over Mu Yu’s treatment and the abuse of her grandnephew, Zheng Xuewen. After learning that Mu Yu’s senior was a notable figure and that her awakening involved hidden complications, Kortel agreed to resolve Zheng Xuewen’s grievance while avoiding the larger dispute.

• Paranoid summoned Kortel, who apologized for neglecting Mu Yu and offered compensation.
• Paranoid demanded an explanation for the injured man and sent Qu Jianlei out with him while he stayed with Mu Yu.
• Kortel investigated Mu Yu’s identity and learned that her awakening had not followed normal channels, then questioned Zheng Xuewen about his injuries.
• Zheng Xuewen said he wanted to wait until Mu Yu recovered and could decide how to handle the matter herself.
• Tian Yin warned Kortel that the injured man might have someone backing him and revealed that she was a junior from Chaoyang Academy with a sensitive identity.

Qu Jianlei and Paranoid helped Zheng Xuewen recover his footing while Mu Yu briefly regained consciousness and discussed her future. They decided to leave with her before attracting unwanted attention, but first had to persuade Zheng Xuewen to let go of his obsession with his grand-aunt.

• Kortel punished the man who had injured Zheng Xuewen, arranged compensation for him, and disciplined the man's military backers.
• Zheng Xuewen received money and support, reconnected with worthy comrades, and began looking forward to a better life.
• After six days, Mu Yu woke lucidly for five minutes, took more Ten Thousand Year Stone Marrow, absorbed a Rank A Crystal, and left Zheng Xuewen's future in Paranoid's hands.
• Mu Yu told Paranoid she would pay any price to be with him, while Qu Jianlei and Paranoid decided to leave rather than draw attention to her recovery.
• Qu Jianlei told Zheng Xuewen that he could not go with them and tried to help him accept that Mu Yu might not return; persuading him to release his Obsession proved difficult.

After Mu Yu briefly regained consciousness and was taken to the Unlucky Starship, Paranoid, Qu Jianlei, and Hua Xiezhi confronted Chaoyang Academy over her forced awakening. The chapter left negotiations unresolved as Robbs offered compensation and sought a face-to-face meeting with Mu Yu.

• Mu Yu briefly woke, slipped into the starport with the others’ help, and waited aboard the Unlucky Starship under Tian Yin’s care.
• Paranoid returned to the Biological Research Center and demanded that Kafli be awakened in the same manner Mu Yu had been awakened.
• Robbs and a military representative tried to negotiate compensation, but Paranoid insisted the awakening go forward and demanded one hundred billion in unregistered banknotes.
• Qu Jianlei refused to negotiate and passed the task to Hua Xiezhi, stressing that none of them could represent Mu Yu’s wishes.
• Robbs said he wanted to apologize to Mu Yu in person and would speak with her directly if she would not forgive them.

Paranoid settled the dispute over Mu Yu with the Biological Research Center, then brought her back to the farm to recover. When Qu Jianlei treated her with a Soul Nourishing Pill, her Mental Strength surged amid alarming pain, leaving Paranoid unsure whether to trust the treatment.

• Paranoid agreed to settle the dispute for 1.2 billion, and the Biological Research Center paid an additional 300 million for violating the agreement.
• Paranoid, Mu Yu, and Tian Yin returned to the Warhammer Star Region aboard the Unlucky Starship, and Mu Yu gradually regained consciousness during the journey.
• After two months of recovery, Qu Jianlei examined Mu Yu, prepared her treatment, and gave her a Soul Nourishing Pill when she woke ready for it.
• Mu Yu’s Mental Strength surged after she swallowed the pill, and she endured severe pain as Paranoid noticed disordered fragments increasing in her brain waves.
• Qu Jianlei assured Paranoid that the changes were part of recovery, while Paranoid asked whether Mu Yu should receive more capsules.

Qu Jianlei treated Mu Yu with two Soul Nourishing Pills until her Mental Strength recovered, and she joined the Hongjingtian Team under the codename Ancient Tomb. Curious about the Gathering Spirit Array, Mu Yu asked to cultivate in it, but Qu Jianlei advised her to stabilize her health first; Hua Xiezhi then asked when he would return to Paradise.

• Qu Jianlei refused to give Mu Yu Ten Thousand Year Stone Marrow and later told Paranoid to wait five days before giving her a second Soul Nourishing Pill.
• Mu Yu endured the second pill’s effects for seven days, then woke after three days of sleep with her Mental Strength fully recovered.
• Tian Yin told the farm group that Mu Yu was a genius seen once in three hundred years at Chaoyang Academy, and Mu Yu chose Ancient Tomb as her codename.
• Mu Yu learned about the Hongjingtian Team and the Gathering Spirit Array, then asked Qu Jianlei whether she could cultivate in it.
• Qu Jianlei advised Mu Yu to stabilize her condition before using the Gathering Spirit Array, and Hua Xiezhi asked when he would return to Paradise.

Qu Jianlei considered Old Lady Jia’s request for a Super Qi Gathering Array and sought a channel to buy a Calculation Unit cluster. After Mu Yu joined the discussion, the group decided to investigate Sky Hook and their abandoned supplies before acting, and prepared to leave in ten days.

• Old Lady Jia asked about Mu Yu’s recovery and urged Qu Jianlei to put obtaining a Super Qi Gathering Array on the agenda.
• Qu Jianlei asked Tian Yin about buying a Calculation Unit cluster, and Mu Yu offered a token connecting them to the Pulit Family.
• Two months later, Mu Yu met Old Lady Jia and volunteered to help seize a Qi Gathering Array, while she and Paranoid argued over whether to target Planet Three or a more prosperous star region.
• Hua Xiezhi reminded Qu Jianlei that supplies remained in the Asteroid Belt, and the group agreed to investigate Sky Hook first.
• Big Head Butterfly reported that the manhunt in the Asteroid Belt had entered its second stage and the military was losing interest, so Qu Jianlei ordered everyone to prepare to leave in ten days.

Qu Jianlei brought the Hongjingtian Team to the Asteroid Belt, where they found his supply planet destroyed and signs that someone was monitoring the area. He went alone to Lan Yun Market to follow up on the Protection Cards and compensate their clients, then asked why the market had let him land.

• Qu Jianlei and the others reached the Abandoned Mining Planet and discovered that it had been blasted apart, destroying his stored supplies.
• The Big Head Butterfly detected passive monitors nearby, so Qu Jianlei ordered a scan before deciding to leave for Lan Yun Market alone.
• After the 8384 Ship scanned Lan Yun Market and received landing approval, Qu Jianlei posted a job to address the Protection Card orders.
• Qu Jianlei offered one Armed Merchant Ship as compensation and another at a discount, but the victims' representatives said they could not afford to pay upfront.
• Qu Jianlei insisted that one ship would be sold at half price and secured the representatives' agreement to the condition, then asked why Lan Yun Market had allowed him to land.

Qu Jianlei learned that the Department of Anomalous Affairs controlled the hunt for the Hongjingtian Team, then traveled to Sky Handle to investigate the Abandoned Mining Planet and Qinghu’s detention. After confirming his identity through their messages, Qinghu asked him to get her out of Sky Handle.

• Qu Jianlei questioned agents at Lan Yun Market, learned that the Department of Anomalous Affairs was leading the search, and left aboard the 8384 Ship.
• Qu Jianlei and his companions traveled to Sky Handle, where they learned that Birdsong Stream Manor was under Department control and found security tight around the Tianbing Military Region.
• Xiao Hu discovered that Qinghu was under house arrest in the Star Region Military District, and Qu Jianlei contacted her through her Smart Terminal.
• Qu Jianlei asked Qinghu about the Abandoned Mining Planet and the Stealth Array, and she confirmed that the Department of Anomalous Affairs had probably taken his supplies.
• Qinghu verified that she was speaking to Qu Jianlei by asking about the Exotic Energy capsule, then asked him to find a way to get her out of Sky Handle.

Qu Jianlei weighed Qinghu’s offer to join him and asked her to gather intelligence while she moved freely outside the military district. After several days without an opening, he attacked Talina at a shopping mall, leaving her surprised as the mall lost power.

• Qinghu asked to join Qu Jianlei, offering her fighting and research skills and more than a hundred million in funds.
• Qu Jianlei asked Qinghu to observe the military district and report any changes, and Qinghu left the district for walks over the next three days.
• Qu Jianlei failed to find an opportunity to strike Talina during her first two outings, but spotted his chance when she visited a shopping mall on the fourth day.
• Qu Jianlei arranged support with Bentley and Hua Xiezhi, infiltrated the mall using the Transformation Technique, and charged up through two floors toward Talina.
• Qu Jianlei’s Logic Bomb cut the mall’s power as Talina sensed his attack and realized he had approached from below.

Qu Jianlei assassinated Talina at the mall and escaped, while Hua Xiezhi helped Qinghu evade her watchers and flee into a forest. The military tracked the two women but held back from attacking, as Talina’s assassination took priority and officials feared a Hongjingtian ambush.

• Qu Jianlei used a blackout and Mental Attacks to overcome Talina’s defenses, then beheaded her and took two Item-Storing Talismans.
• Talina warned her guards not to pursue Qu Jianlei before falling unconscious, and he changed clothes in a surveillance blind spot and slipped away.
• Qinghu knocked out a Department of Anomalous Affairs watcher, then met Hua Xiezhi, who urged her to flee with her.
• Hua Xiezhi and Qinghu raced toward a forest as satellites tracked them, but they reached cover before the military could act.
• The military delayed sending forces after Talina’s assassination was reported, wary that Hongjingtian might have prepared an ambush.

Qu Jianlei escaped with Qinghu and Hua Xiezhi using an experimental Near-Earth Jump device, leaving a forest fire and a damaged disk behind. The group regrouped near the spaceport and prepared to exploit the military’s delayed response to take off.

• The military district accepted Talina for treatment and mobilized forces to hunt Hongjingtian, then reconsidered its deployment after detecting another fast-moving figure near Qinghu.
• Qu Jianlei met Qinghu and Hua Xiezhi in the forest, used the Rainfall Art, and had Hua Xiezhi prepare explosives and incendiary agent while he assembled a disk-shaped device.
• Qu Jianlei, Qinghu, and Hua Xiezhi stepped onto the disk and vanished in a Near-Earth Jump as the device left behind detonated and set the forest ablaze.
• The three reappeared in a basement near the spaceport, where Qinghu recognized the jump’s spatial effects and Qu Jianlei explained that the experimental device was dangerous and had been damaged.
• Qu Jianlei told the women to move so they could use the time difference to take off, while Bentley had already submitted a liftoff request for the Unlucky Starship.

Qu Jianlei and his companions escaped Tianbing Star using a ground-based jump, while Qinghu realized the device was an epoch-making invention. After reuniting with their allies in space, Qinghu recognized Paranoid as someone who had attempted to reach Above Supreme.

• Qu Jianlei, Qinghu, and Xiao Hu boarded the Unlucky Starship after jumping more than three thousand kilometers from the military district to the starport.
• The Unlucky Starship took off before the government suspended departures, and Qu Jianlei asked Xiao Hu to gather information about the response.
• Qinghu called Qu Jianlei's jump device an epoch-making invention, while Qu Jianlei insisted it was a defective prototype.
• Xiao Hu reported that Talina had survived and was being taken to a military hospital, and Qu Jianlei explained that his plan had been to create a time gap rather than kill anyone.
• Qu Jianlei's group reunited with three Above Supremes in space, where Paranoid questioned Qinghu and she said she could tell he had attempted to reach Above Supreme.

Qinghu joined Qu Jianlei’s group after learning that Mu Yu had recovered and that they planned to steal a Super Qi Gathering Array. On Planet Three, the group investigated the military’s Qi Gathering Arrays and found Qu Jianlei’s old acquaintances Fang Cao and Spirit Fox, as well as Xiao Moshan watching Spirit Fox.

• Qinghu recognized Jia Shuiqing and Mu Yu, learned that Qu Jianlei had cured Mu Yu, and revealed that she had met someone Above Supreme.
• Qu Jianlei and the Supremes explained their plan to convert Exotic Energy into spiritual energy by stealing a Super Qi Gathering Array, and Qinghu joined them.
• More than ten days later, the group arrived at Planet Three and investigated the military district’s Qi Gathering Arrays with Xiao Hu’s help.
• Qu Jianlei spotted Fang Cao and Spirit Fox on Planet Three and decided to keep his distance from Spirit Fox to avoid implicating him.
• Qu Jianlei discovered that Xiao Moshan was also watching Spirit Fox.

Qu Jianlei reunited with the fugitive Xiao Moshan and agreed to help him while seeking intelligence on the military district’s Cultivation Rooms. Xiao Moshan identified a possible second unused super cultivation array and asked Qu Jianlei to deal with Titan and two A-rank targets.

• Qu Jianlei revealed his identity to Xiao Moshan, who confirmed he was Panda and asked for help.
• Xiao Moshan explained that he had been implicated in a military conflict, that his former superior had been punished, and that he wanted revenge on Titan and two A-rank warriors.
• Qu Jianlei asked Xiao Moshan to gather information about the military district and said Spirit Fox should be left alone unless he had committed evil himself.
• Qu Jianlei revealed that he wanted to take a super cultivation array, and Xiao Moshan said the military district might have a second unused one.
• Xiao Moshan named Titan and two A-ranks as his targets, and Qu Jianlei confidently asked him to make a list.

Qu Jianlei and his allies coordinated attacks on Xiao Moshan’s enemies while he infiltrated the military zone to seize a deactivated cultivation array. The alarm sounded as Mu Yu incapacitated Xiao Moshan’s second target, leaving the operation’s outcome unresolved.

• Qu Jianlei told the Supremes that Xiao Moshan had identified another Super Cultivation Room, and he confirmed that its deactivated system was missing two components locked in a nearby safe.
• Paranoid and Mu Yu ambushed two A-ranks, killing them before returning to join Qu Jianlei’s infiltration of the military zone.
• Xiao Moshan asked Mu Yu to take him to another B-rank enemy, and she helped him kill the target before carrying him toward the next one.
• Qinghu and Hua Xiezhi left to ambush Titan at his estate while Qu Jianlei, Paranoid, and Mu Yu entered the military zone and Xiao Moshan pursued his revenge.
• Mu Yu restrained Xiao Moshan as they waited for Qu Jianlei’s signal, then sensed the alarm from the Cultivation Room and incapacitated Xiao Moshan’s second target before leaving.

Qu Jianlei’s team stole two components from a military warehouse, but a hidden mechanical alarm exposed their intrusion and triggered a pursuit. Qu Jianlei rescued Xiao Moshan from the officers surrounding him and escaped with him as artillery fire struck the military district.

• Qu Jianlei removed two components from the safe, triggered its pressure-sensitive alarm, and ordered the team to retreat after checking the components for trackers.
• Military personnel discovered that surveillance in the area had gone dark, identified a possible threat to the Super Qi Gathering Array, and eventually activated the highest-level alarm.
• Xiao Moshan killed a B-rank officer but was trapped by awakened soldiers, while Mu Yu and Paranoid fled and Old Lady Jia intensified the rain to help cover their retreat.
• Qu Jianlei knocked down several soldiers and went to rescue Xiao Moshan, who declared that he would blow up the arsenal and stay behind.
• Qu Jianlei used Xiao Hu to fire missiles at the military district, struck pursuing A-ranks with Mental Strength, and carried Xiao Moshan away through the rain.

Qu Jianlei fled the Star Region Military District with Xiao Moshan after the theft of the Super Qi Gathering Array triggered a massive pursuit. As warships took off to chase them, Qu Jianlei used hidden firing positions to destroy two Attack Ships.

• The military suspected Xiao Moshan and an insider had stolen the Super Qi Gathering Array, so it searched the warehouses, launched warships, and placed outside Awakened Ones under house arrest.
• A Supreme from Thorn Star Region refused to help with the pursuit after a military officer tried to conscript him.
• Qu Jianlei escaped with Xiao Moshan and ordered Xiao Hu to target the first three Attack Ships with remotely fired tracking shells.
• The captain of the first Attack Ship ordered the crew to abandon ship, and the vessel exploded under the concentrated fire.
• Qu Jianlei's tracking shells struck the second Attack Ship and blasted it into a wreck.

Qu Jianlei’s team faced a rapidly tightening military blockade after their attacks on Planet Three, and he changed the rendezvous plan when the starport was about to be sealed. As he fled with Xiao Moshan, Xiao asked to join the team and revealed he had prepared explosives in his Item-Storing Talisman.

• The military destroyed several hidden artillery positions, began coordinating a capture operation, and prepared to seal Planet Three’s starport.
• Xiao Moshan told Qu Jianlei he wanted to join him, and Qu Jianlei ordered Bentley to launch the Unlucky Starship and rendezvous with the other ships.
• Qu Jianlei redirected Old Lady Jia’s group to Location Six and asked her to notify Qinghu while he drew the military’s attention.
• Qu Jianlei rebuked Xiao Moshan for waiting until the operation had become dangerous to ask to join, and Xiao admitted he had expected to die after taking revenge.
• Xiao Moshan revealed that his Item-Storing Talisman held explosives he had intended to use rather than be captured alive.
• Paranoid learned the starport had been sealed, while Hua Xiezhi noted that the team would have missed their chance to leave even if Qu Jianlei had not saved Xiao Moshan.