Chapter Summaries

Qu Jianlei and the others hid from the Star Region military on Planet Three, where an enormous search left them with few escape options. They considered using Qu Jianlei’s untested Near-Earth Jump to reach distant starships, and Qinghu and Mu Yu urged the group to risk it.

• Qu Jianlei reunited with the group in a hidden hillside hollow, where Xiao Moshan explained that the Star Region military could search the entire planet.
• Qu Jianlei revealed that he could perform a Near-Earth Jump and had prepared Teleportation Arrays on two starships millions of kilometers away, but he had never tested a jump over that distance.
• The group decided to wait and assess the military search before attempting the dangerous jump.
• Qinghu, Paranoid, and Old Lady Jia investigated the search and reported that the military was searching Planet Three with overwhelming thoroughness.
• Qinghu argued that the group should risk the jump, and Mu Yu supported her, saying she would rather take the chance than suffer another public humiliation.

Qu Jianlei and the others attempted a Near-Earth Jump from Planet Three, but the teleportation went out of control and sent them drifting through space beyond the Hope Star Region. They escaped the planet but had no idea where they were, and the chapter ended with Mu Yu and Old Lady Jia revealing identical lifeboats.

• Qu Jianlei and the others agreed to risk the jump, prepared a huge stockpile of Energy Blocks, and set up the equipment in a stone cavern.
• Qu Jianlei gave Escape Pods to Hua Xiezhi, Xiao Moshan, and Mu Yu, while Paranoid, Qinghu, and Old Lady Jia refused them.
• As the military rushed to investigate the cavern's energy surge, flames and a collapse obscured the site while the group was caught in a spatial anomaly.
• Qu Jianlei, Paranoid, Qinghu, Old Lady Jia, and Mu Yu awoke in outer space and realized the jump had not brought them to a starship.
• Old Lady Jia recognized that they were probably outside the Hope Star Region, and Mu Yu released a lifeboat before Old Lady Jia produced an identical one.

Qu Jianlei and the other Supremes settled on an abandoned mining celestial body and built a residence while recovering from their journey. After securing a supply of Energy Stones and restoring the air, they prepared to resume their search, but Qu Jianlei wanted to stockpile Energy Blocks before sending a distress signal.

• Qu Jianlei brought Hua Xiezhi and Xiao Moshan aboard Mu Yu's lifeboat, and the group chose a distant celestial body as their destination.
• The five Supremes discovered the body had been mined for Energy Stones, then surveyed it and found small veins remaining in abandoned shafts.
• Mu Yu and Qinghu helped build a residence while Qu Jianlei worked on an Energy Block extractor and the others gathered materials and kept watch.
• Qu Jianlei completed a working extractor, and the group spent three months improving the residence and restoring its air supply.
• Old Lady Jia asked when they could send a distress signal, and Qu Jianlei said he would first build two more extractors and stockpile Energy Blocks.

After a year stranded on the celestial body, Qu Jianlei’s group had accumulated Energy Blocks and expanded their distress signals but received no reply. A battered starship finally arrived, and as the group prepared for a possible threat, its crew asked how long they had been there and whether they had Energy Blocks.

• After the group saved ten million Energy Blocks, Xiao Moshan asked Qu Jianlei whether he could attempt to break through to A-rank, and Qu Jianlei encouraged him to keep cultivating.
• When the first distress signal received no response, Qu Jianlei sent two Escape Pods away from the celestial body and dispatched the lifeboat unmanned to create additional signals.
• Over the next year, the group built a second settlement, concealed their main settlement, and accumulated another thirteen million Energy Blocks despite a broken Escape Pod and no rescue.
• Old Lady Jia spotted an approaching starship and told its crew that the group could offer ten million Energy Blocks for rescue, identifying their wreck as the Ke Feng Zi 15 science starship.
• After the starship detected the Energy Stone Mine, Qu Jianlei ordered everyone to their defensive positions as the approaching crew asked how long the group had been there and whether they had Energy Blocks.

Old Lady Jia and Qu Jianlei negotiated with a damaged merchant ship whose crew demanded their Energy Blocks and help, while concealing their own strength and capabilities. When the crew threatened to take the supplies by force, Qu Jianlei hijacked their controls and demanded a Small Attack Ship, leaving Old Seven to accuse Mu Yu.

• Old Lady Jia and the others met the merchant ship’s crew, and Old Lady Jia agreed to cooperate with their rescue efforts.
• Old Seven brought Old Lady Jia and Mu Yu aboard the Small Attack Ship and demanded their Energy Blocks, mined Energy Stones, and assistance with the crew’s work.
• Old Lady Jia agreed to help with work but refused to risk anyone’s life in combat, and she questioned why the crew expected payment if they would not rescue them.
• The crew threatened to seize the Energy Blocks, but Qu Jianlei intruded into the ship’s controls and demanded that they leave behind a Small Attack Ship.
• Old Seven saw the second Small Attack Ship emerge and accused Mu Yu of causing the control failure, though she protested that she had done nothing.

Qu Jianlei’s group forced the Ping An Merchant Group crew to surrender and learned that they were fleeing disguised Space Pirates in the Tianhe Star Region. Ka Ding warned that at least two pursuing ships would reach the settlement within five hours, but Hua Xiezhi rejected his attempt to frame the warning as a favor.

• Old Lady Jia and Mu Yu revealed their A-rank strength, and Qu Jianlei ordered the intruders to disembark from their damaged ship.
• The Ping An crew surrendered, and Qu Jianlei brought them into the Second Settlement to question their leader, Ka Ding.
• Big Head Butterfly identified their location as the Tianhe Star Region, while Ka Ding explained the Ping An Merchant Group’s troubles and its encounter with Space Pirates.
• Ka Ding said at least two pursuing ships with four small ships were tracking them and could attack within five hours.
• Hua Xiezhi told Ka Ding that bringing danger to their doorstep did not entitle him to thanks for the warning.

Hua Xiezhi negotiated with Ka Ding and Duo Duo to pay one hundred million for the group to eliminate their pursuers, while Qu Jianlei remained unconcerned. As a hostile starship approached, Qu Jianlei went to meet it, and Old Lady Jia said she did not want bloodshed today.

• Hua Xiezhi challenged Ka Ding to explain why the pursuers were hunting them, and he admitted the threat might include at least two Armed Merchant Ships and a Supreme.
• Duo Duo revealed that her great-grandfather was a Supreme in the merchant association, and Ka Ding offered one hundred million for the pursuers to be wiped out.
• Hua Xiezhi accepted the payment and the spoils, while Qu Jianlei said there was no need to deploy anyone from Ping An's side.
• Big Head Butterfly warned Qu Jianlei that a starship was approaching from two million kilometers away, and Qu Jianlei left with the others to deal with it.
• Ka Ding urged Duo Duo to seize the chance to secure Ping An's future, while Old Lady Jia said she did not want to see blood today.

The Ping An Merchant Group learned that Qu Jianlei's team had swiftly defeated their Space Pirate pursuers and could repair their damaged starships. After three months, the groups left together and agreed to pursue a partnership to mine the Energy Stone celestial body, while Qu Jianlei revealed that his seven-person team had at least four Supremes.

• Hua Xiezhi told the Ping An Merchant Group that the pursuers had been defeated, and Ka Ding and Old Seven went out to help clean the ships.
• Duo Duo and the others saw the two Space Pirate merchant ships and learned that Qu Jianlei's team planned to dismantle one ship to repair the others.
• Hua Xiezhi told Duo Duo that repairs would take about three months, and the Ping An Merchant Group waited as the ships were repaired.
• Qu Jianlei appeared after three months, and the two groups departed the celestial body in their repaired starships.
• Ka Ding and Duo Duo proposed that Qu Jianlei's team stay with the Ping An Merchant Group and cooperate on legal mining of the Energy Stone celestial body.
• Qu Jianlei agreed the partnership was worth considering and revealed that at least four members of his seven-person team were Supremes.

After returning to Zi Hong Star, Ka Ding and his companions secured shelter and support from the Ping An Merchant Group while keeping their identities hidden. Evidence recovered from a Space Pirate ship pointed to Dukas Company, but its powerful connections made the investigation difficult.

• Ka Ding and his companions returned to Zi Hong Star with a captured Armed Merchant Ship, and Haier secretly learned the real reason they had stayed in space.
• Hua Xiezhi negotiated false identities, relief funds, and protection fees with Jierte, who arranged a secure estate for Qu Jianlei's group.
• Duo Duo revealed that her great-grandfather was Auspicious Supreme, though she suspected he might already be dead.
• Qu Jianlei learned that Ping An could obtain large Calculation Units and arrange for their backdoors to be removed.
• The authorities identified nine people from tissue samples recovered aboard the captured ship, including three linked to Dukas Company, prompting Ping An to demand an investigation.

Ping An and Dukas escalated their dispute after the authorities declined to investigate, and Dukas threatened Ping An before a warehouse was burned. Jierte brought Haier to the estate to explain the merchant group’s troubles to Hua Xiezhi, Qu Jianlei, and Qinghu.

• The authorities refused to open a case against Dukas, and Ping An publicized the dispute and defended its refusal to surrender witnesses.
• Dukas sent armed squads to Ping An Building, then Supreme Kopaqi demanded that Jierte meet him within three days.
• After Jierte failed to appear, a Ping An warehouse was set on fire and its night watchman was blinded; Dukas denied responsibility.
• Haier reported the incident to Jierte, who decided to return to the estate that night and explain the situation.
• Jierte and Haier arrived at the estate and told Hua Xiezhi that Ping An had encountered trouble while pursuing the culprits.

Jierte asked Hua Xiezhi and Qu Jianlei to retaliate against Dukas for its attacks on Ping An, and they agreed to strike several of its A-rank and B-rank members. Kopaqi waited in a heavily guarded manor for a possible attack, but sensed something wrong before finding anything unusual on his terminal.

• Jierte asked for a harsh retaliation, but hesitated when Qu Jianlei suggested killing Supremes and admitted Ping An was not ready for an all-out war.
• Jierte gave the group a list of A-rank and B-rank targets, promised Ping An would handle the cleanup, and agreed to help sell their captured starship.
• Mu Yu, Qinghu, Paranoid, Old Lady Jia, Hua Xiezhi, and Xiao Moshan volunteered to impersonate Earth Attribute Supremes or take out the listed targets.
• Kopaqi moved into a suburban manor with a small guard detail and stayed awake, expecting Ping An might attack while Dukas carried out its own operation.
• Kopaqi sensed something was wrong, checked his Storm Smart Terminal without finding anything unusual, and called to Tai Si.

Four Earth Attribute Supremes cornered Kopaqi and forced him to punish himself for the attack on Ping An’s warehouse. After Kopaqi blinded himself, the group demanded the Item-Storing Talismans, leaving him to explain that some goods belonged to others.

• Kopaqi sensed four Earth Attribute Supremes surrounding him and realized they had blocked every escape route.
• Paranoid demanded that Kopaqi blind himself for the beating that left the people guarding Ping An’s warehouse blind.
• Mu Yu, Qu Jianlei, and Qinghu each used Gravity Art to prove their Earth Attribute and pin Kopaqi down.
• Kopaqi admitted defeat and stabbed out his own eyes, but Qu Jianlei rejected his plea to spare the estate’s other occupants.
• Mu Yu ended the confrontation and demanded the Item-Storing Talismans, and Kopaqi said two held goods belonging to other parties.
• Qu Jianlei challenged Kopaqi’s claim by pointing out that Ping An Merchant Group’s warehouse also held goods that did not belong to Ping An.

After Qu Jianlei’s group destroyed the Dukas estate and left its leaders alive, Dukas withdrew its operations and faced pressure from Ping An’s retaliation. Qing Yan warned Kopaqi that Dukas could not afford to provoke Ping An’s powerful allies and ordered him to seek terms with Jierte.

• Qu Jianlei’s group left the burning Dukas estate with five Item-Storing Talismans, while Kopaqi, Tai Si, and two Modified Warriors were left blinded.
• Kopaqi ordered Dukas to withdraw all operations against Ping An and made the people who robbed Ping An Jewelry surrender to the authorities.
• Reports revealed that six Awakened Ones who had targeted Ping An had been killed, while Ping An rejected the city guards’ investigation for lack of evidence.
• Kopaqi concluded that multiple Above Supremes had attacked Dukas and spoke with Qing Yan, who agreed that they had to accept the defeat.
• Qing Yan told Kopaqi to contact Jierte and work out how Dukas could put the matter behind them.

Kopaqi went to Ping An to negotiate an end to the conflict, while Qu Jianlei’s group weighed its next steps and sent messages to allies. As Ping An worked to reclaim control and weighed a mine-development plan, petty thieves tried to infiltrate Qu Jianlei’s estate.

• Kopaqi visited Ping An Building and told Haier that Dukas wanted to end the conflict, but Haier said Jierte would have to decide.
• Jierte consulted Duo Duo, who asked Hua Xiezhi how to handle Dukas’s offer; Hua Xiezhi let Ping An set reasonable demands and some unreasonable ones.
• Qu Jianlei decided to keep his full force on Zi Hong Star for now and sent parcels with Pioneer Terminals and messages to Cloud Mist Mountain and Home's farm.
• Ping An faced resistance while reclaiming control, and Hua Xiezhi declined Jierte’s offer to share information unless Ping An needed the group to act.
• Duo Duo presented a plan for an abandoned Energy Stone Mine planet, but Hua Xiezhi advised delaying it; Qu Jianlei complained about their lack of money and joked about dealing with more fools.
• Petty thieves attempted to infiltrate Qu Jianlei’s estate that night.

Hua Xiezhi and Xiao Moshan captured two Cleaners who had infiltrated Jierte's manor, and Hua Xiezhi killed one while the other became an idiot under interrogation. Wary of the Cleaners' attention, Ping An advised Qu Jianlei's group to relocate, and they moved to a remote tract of land prepared for them.

• Hua Xiezhi and Xiao Moshan captured a Water Attribute B-rank and a Wind Attribute B-rank who had been hired to probe the manor for the Cleaners.
• The Water Attribute B-rank revealed that they were investigating the force behind Ping An's recovery of its abandoned businesses, while the Wind Attribute B-rank became an idiot after triggering his brain-domain protection.
• Hua Xiezhi killed the Water Attribute B-rank after he claimed to work for Military Intelligence, and Duo Duo warned that the Cleaners' focus on Ping An could cause trouble.
• Duo Duo urged Qu Jianlei's group to move, and Jierte decided it was better not to expose them while their new land was nearly ready.
• Qu Jianlei's group left the manor after two more days and settled on a remote tract of Ping An land where houses and living facilities had been prepared.

Qu Jianlei briefly left Mountain and Water Abode, then returned and secretly prepared a way for Old Lady Jia to extend her life. The chapter ended with Old Lady Jia planning to announce her seclusion while keeping the Longevity Pills secret from the others.

• Qu Jianlei, Mu Yu, and Paranoid visited Ping An Building, where Mu Yu and Qu Jianlei displayed their Supreme Auras and Paranoid startled Haier and Jierte with his violent Coercive Pressure.
• Paranoid and Mu Yu went shopping while Qu Jianlei disappeared for three days, then returned to Mountain and Water Abode and focused on refining the Teleportation Array.
• Qu Jianlei explained that he had deduced the Near-Earth Jump array from Paranoid's treasure, and Qinghu asked to study the original object with them.
• Qu Jianlei privately asked Old Lady Jia whether she was prepared, then gave her an Item-Storing Talisman containing Longevity Pills that extended her life by thirty years.
• Old Lady Jia told the others she might enter seclusion to study treasures bearing Divine Scripts, keeping the Longevity Pills secret.

Old Lady Jia entered seclusion with the Item-Storing Talisman while Salins of the Cleaners warned Ping An that the conflict was not over. Qu Jianlei prepared to assess the threat, and Qinghu explained Salins’s hidden Electromagnetic Attribute and asked whether cultivating multiple attributes could help Supremes advance.

• Old Lady Jia waited several days after receiving the Item-Storing Talisman before announcing that she would enter seclusion.
• Salins and a Fire Attribute A-rank visited Jierte and demanded information about the faction, but Jierte defended Ping An’s actions as lawful.
• Salins warned that the Cleaners would not let the matter go, and Jierte told him that passing the message along might take time.
• Duo Duo offered Ping An’s support to Hua Xiezhi, who asked her to keep Ping An out of the conflict while providing information if needed.
• Qu Jianlei questioned why the Cleaners dared to threaten his group and asked what was known about Salins.
• Qinghu revealed that Salins had an Electromagnetic Attribute and asked Qu Jianlei whether cultivating a second attribute could help someone break through to Above Supreme.

Qu Jianlei and his allies decided to confront Collins, a Cleaner leader whose hidden Electromagnetic Attribute made him a dangerous target. They found him in a nearby safehouse and launched a rainy-night attack, leaving Collins stunned when two Electromagnetic Supremes appeared.

• Qu Jianlei, Paranoid, Qinghu, and Mu Yu agreed that Collins had to be dealt with, and chose Qu Jianlei, Paranoid, and Qinghu for the mission.
• Qu Jianlei sent Xiao Hu to gather information, and Ping An located Collins in an exposed Cleaner safehouse near the Patrol headquarters.
• Hua Xiezhi relayed Ping An's suggestion that the attackers might be warned not to kill anyone, while Collins prepared for a possible attack on the rainy night.
• Qu Jianlei infiltrated the area as Xiao Hu monitored the safehouse, and Collins sensed danger and moved to cover.
• Two Supremes attacked Collins with Electromagnetic Element fluctuations, and Collins realized they knew his awakened attribute and that his opponents had formidable strength.

Qu Jianlei and his allies ambushed Collins, overwhelming him with powerful Electromagnetic and Metal Attribute attacks. Collins surrendered his protective talisman and was left injured near his ruined courtyard as the attackers disappeared.

• Collins recognized the attackers as two Electromagnetic Supremes and fled when Qu Jianlei’s Lightning Guiding Art destroyed his house.
• Qu Jianlei caught up with Collins using a mastered Electromagnetic Movement Technique blended with Wind Attribute movement.
• A Metal Attribute Supreme attacked Collins with tracking Golden Spears, then another unleashed a powerful Golden Wheel that triggered Collins’s talisman.
• Collins threw the talisman to show he was not fighting back, but Qu Jianlei struck him with a Thunder Dragon and left him badly injured.
• Collins came to near the courtyard after the attackers vanished, and distant alarms began to sound.

Qu Jianlei and his companions injured Collins and returned to Mountain and Water Abode, while Jia Shuiqing emerged from seclusion as a vigorous peak Supreme. Ping An’s fortunes improved after the Cleaners backed off and the group reclaimed a starship, but Qu Jianlei and Xiao Hu argued over whether to buy an expensive Calculation Unit.

• Qu Jianlei told Qinghu and Paranoid that he had used a Mental Strength attack to seize an Item-Storing Talisman from Collins, while Collins warned his allies to stay away from Ping An after four Supremes attacked him.
• Qu Jianlei and the others returned to Mountain and Water Abode, and Jia Shuiqing emerged from seclusion with renewed vitality and the strength of a peak Supreme.
• Paranoid asked Jia Shuiqing to urge Ping An to release the impounded starship, but Qu Jianlei advised her to wait because her changed appearance might attract attention.
• After Collins was injured, the Cleaners stopped taking Ping An-related commissions, and the authorities eventually allowed Ping An to recover and keep the starship after it paid the required costs.
• Dukas paid 450 million for the starship, but Qu Jianlei received none of it because he was considering a 600-million Calculation Unit; Xiao Hu demanded they buy one costing at least a billion.