Chapter Summaries

Qu Jianlei monitored Bentley’s advancement as strange clouds and heavenly pressure gathered over the planet, while his companions observed until some had to withdraw. The Survivors detected the abnormal lightning from far away and sent a lifeboat to investigate, just as Qu Jianlei sensed their movement.

• Qu Jianlei activated the Electromagnetic Generator to conceal Bentley’s growing energy fluctuations from the Supreme and mask the coming tribulation.
• As clouds gathered, Paranoid sensed Majestic Heavenly Might and connected Bentley’s breakthrough to the Natural Dao and the resistance of heaven and earth.
• Tian Yin, Claire, and Zi Jiuxian stopped observing when the strain became too much, and Tian Yin said they might need to guard against the Survivors using the 3344 Ship.
• On the twentieth day of Bentley’s Death Seclusion, Electric Arcs appeared in the clouds, and a Water Attribute Supreme ordered a lifeboat sent to investigate the abnormal lightning.
• Qu Jianlei sensed something as the Survivors’ lifeboat set out.

As Bentley’s breakthrough began, Qu Jianlei’s group faced both the tribulation lightning and a nearby Survivor party seeking help. The Survivors were stopped by a military ship, whose crew refused to escort or supply them, leaving them to find their own way out.

• Bentley’s first tribulation lightning bolt struck, startling Qu Jianlei and the others as they moved to follow First One’s orders.
• Fleshy Supreme and two Rank A Survivors cautiously piloted their lifeboat toward the planet after witnessing the lightning.
• A Company-Class Warship ordered the Survivors to halt, and its crew warned them to leave because the military was conducting a special operation.
• Fleshy Supreme asked the women aboard the 3344 Ship for rescue, explaining that he had graduated from Feiyang Military Academy and offering payment.
• Tian Yin and Claire refused to take the Survivors or provide supplies, telling them to buy an Attack Ship and return on their own.

Fleshy Supreme tried to persuade Tian Yin’s group to help his stranded Survivors, but Qu Jianlei’s warnings kept them from agreeing without payment. As Lao Ben endured increasingly powerful tribulation lightning, the group worried about how many bolts he could survive.

• Fleshy Supreme appealed to the Interstellar Navigation Mutual Assistance Clause, and Tian Yin offered to contact the Tongda Merchant Group after the mission.
• Fleshy Supreme asked the group to take his people into space, but Qu Jianlei warned Tian Yin not to agree easily, and she insisted on a sufficient payment.
• Fleshy Supreme said his group would try to gather money, while the others waited as Lao Ben’s tribulation continued.
• Qu Jianlei explained that the number of tribulation lightning bolts was uncertain, and Qinghu said Ran Bingluan had endured seven.
• Bentley emerged scorched after three bolts and swallowed capsules, while Nutrient Solution warned that he could withstand at most two more.

Bentley survived his fourth tribulation lightning bolt, and the group discussed what might follow as Heaven and Earth Feedback began restoring him. The chapter left Bentley shedding his charred outer layer while unusual energy flowed into him.

• Tian Yin negotiated with Fleshy Supreme, who agreed to leave and let the group inspect his Item-Storing Talismans later.
• Claire, Zi Jiuxian, and the others watched the lightning clouds weaken, while Qu Jianlei said Bentley had passed the tribulation.
• Paranoid proposed that the Supremes exchange information, and the others agreed to selective sharing while excluding Qu Jianlei.
• Qu Jianlei noticed Bentley beginning to recover as unusual energy descended on him and cracks revealed pink skin beneath his charred exterior.

After Bentley survived his tribulation and became Supreme, Qu Jianlei and his companions went to collect payment from Kenpas’s stranded group. Qu Jianlei discovered an unusual robot among their belongings and asked its price, prompted by Big Head Butterfly’s interest in its core.

• Awakened Ones detected faint Space Ripples around Bentley and spent three days discussing the Heaven and Earth Feedback’s spatial transmission.
• Bentley emerged from seclusion as a Supreme, adjusted his appearance to look middle-aged, and exchanged information before consolidating his realm for a month.
• Qu Jianlei piloted the 3344 Ship to the survivor camp with Nutrient Solution and Old Lady Jia to collect payment.
• Old Lady Jia recognized Kenpas and warned Qu Jianlei that he was shrewd; Kenpas handed over four Item-Storing Talismans and emptied their supplies.
• Qu Jianlei noticed a robot among the surrendered goods, examined its external power port and sealed intelligent core, and asked Kenpas how much he valued it.

Qu Jianlei bought Kenpas’s robot and brought the rescued Survivors back to Snowfield Star before returning to New Base. There, the team began dismantling the robot and discovered a Self-Destruct Device hidden in its sealed core.

• Qu Jianlei paid Kenpas ten million for the robot in addition to the rescue fee, and Kenpas agreed to sell it so his group could leave.
• A month later, the 3344 Ship carried Kenpas and the other Survivors toward Snowfield Star and escorted their lifeboat close enough to reach the planet safely.
• Qu Jianlei’s team returned to New Base instead of Qingyuan Star, deciding to stay for up to three months while he studied the robot.
• Qu Jianlei and Big Head Butterfly discussed how to examine the robot safely, and Qu Jianlei decided to dismantle it after returning to the base.
• Paranoid sensed a Self-Destruct Device inside the robot’s tightly sealed metal core and carefully bypassed it before opening a small hole.

Qu Jianlei dismantled the robot’s self-destruct device and discovered a Divine Script core containing a Wooden Tablet inhabited by a low-level intelligence. He cautiously contacted the intelligence, which insisted the tablet was its territory, and Xiao Hu suggested it might be an Artifact Spirit.

• Qu Jianlei opened the robot’s casing and found a Divine Script Array Plate made from six black stones and a Wooden Tablet.
• Claire, Paranoid, Old Lady Jia, Qinghu, and Nutrient Solution debated whether the robot showed that a powerful faction had combined Imperial technology with Divine Script.
• Qu Jianlei asked Xiao Hu whether the Wooden Tablet’s intelligence was a soul body, and Xiao Hu said it was not purely digital and might be low-level life intelligence.
• Qu Jianlei contacted the Wooden Tablet’s intelligence with divine sense, and it repeatedly told him to leave its territory.
• Qu Jianlei argued that the Wooden Tablet belonged to him because he had bought the robot, while the intelligence called him a robber.
• Xiao Hu suggested that the intelligence inside the Wooden Tablet was probably an Artifact Spirit.

Qu Jianlei confronted a jelly-like consciousness living inside the robot he had bought, first threatening it and then offering to relocate it. Its name, Golden Crow Third, and its memories of an original Cultivator master shocked him, and the chapter left him asking why Awakened Ones had recently controlled it.

• Qu Jianlei struck the consciousness, which took several minutes to gather itself again before crying and insisting the space was its home.
• Qu Jianlei recognized the consciousness as resembling a Heaven and Earth Treasure he had seen at the Main Auction House, while Xiao Hu refused to devour it for fear of changing its own identity.
• Qu Jianlei offered the jelly a choice between being destroyed and moving to a new home, but it said moving would cause it to die.
• The jelly identified itself as Golden Crow Third and said its original master had been a Cultivator who despised Awakened Ones.
• Qu Jianlei questioned how Awakened Ones had recently controlled Golden Crow Third if its original master was a Cultivator.

Qu Jianlei learned that Golden Crow Third was an Artifact Spirit created by a Shenzhou Cultivator to explore planetary minerals, and he questioned it about its past and abilities. The chapter left him unwilling to erase it after discovering it was an Out of Dust Stage consciousness with rare cultivation knowledge.

• Qu Jianlei learned that Golden Crow Third's original master had built its robot body for interstellar mineral exploration and that Imperial technology had been used for parts of it.
• Golden Crow Third explained that a Black Tide had killed its master while it survived underground, after which the Awakened Ones found it and put it to work.
• Qu Jianlei asked about the master's cultivation and Golden Crow Third's abilities, learning that it remembered little but identified itself as being at the Out of Dust Stage.
• Golden Crow Third said it needed energy to persist and could be replenished by a machine or a Gathering Spirit Array.

Qu Jianlei questioned Golden Crow Third, also called Guodong, about cultivation, Awakened Ones, and the inheritance it knew while negotiating to remove its wooden tablet and use its robot as an avatar. Guodong accepted the plan and suggested replacing the robot’s power source with spirit stones, while Qu Jianlei proposed Exotic Beast Crystals.

• Qu Jianlei confirmed that Guodong was a Cultivator and asked to remove its wooden tablet after letting it experience the Gathering Spirit Array.
• Guodong explained that Awakened Ones’ cultivation system was inferior, that Cultivators had withheld later methods, and that leaking inheritances to natives violated a Cultivator consensus.
• Qu Jianlei told Guodong that Awakened Ones were trying to improve their system and that he wanted to develop an Infant Soul method to help them and himself.
• Qu Jianlei revealed that he wanted to make Guodong’s robot his avatar, and Guodong agreed as long as it could return to the robot later.
• Guodong complained about the robot’s Energy Blocks and external Energy Box, so Qu Jianlei said he planned to replace its power source with Exotic Beast Crystals.

Qu Jianlei negotiated with Guodong over a larger home made of Soul Nourishing Wood and moved it into the Gathering Spirit Array to recover. After Qu Jianlei explained the arrangement to his companions, Nutrient Solution questioned whether Guodong could be trusted with the team’s secret formation.

• Qu Jianlei moved Guodong from the Wooden Tablet into a larger piece of Soul Nourishing Wood, agreeing that Guodong would work for him at two thousand Silver Coins per day to pay for it.
• Guodong entered its new home and complained that traces from other soul entities remained in the wood, which Qu Jianlei said had come from a ghost cultivator.
• Xiao Hu asked to control the robot as a body of its own, and Qu Jianlei let it try while postponing any decision about ownership.
• Qu Jianlei carried Guodong’s wood into the Gathering Spirit Array, where Nutrient Solution asked why he had brought a soul entity there.
• Qu Jianlei told Nutrient Solution, Old Lady Jia, Paranoid, and Qinghu that Guodong had agreed to leave the Wooden Tablet and that the array could help it grow; Nutrient Solution questioned whether Guodong could be trusted with the team’s secret.

Qu Jianlei tested a robot controlled by his divine consciousness, then returned with his companions to Qingyuan Star and rebuilt the machine into a lifelike avatar. He named the completed robot Silver Fir, though its energy fluctuations still revealed that it was not human.

• Qu Jianlei explained that the soul entity had weak A-rank Mental Strength and discussed with Nutrient Solution whether it could escape or invade electronic devices.
• Big Head Butterfly agreed that Qu Jianlei should test the robot’s core first, and Qu Jianlei spent five days preparing the power source and modifying the machine.
• On the twelfth day after landing, Qu Jianlei sent a strand of divine consciousness into Old Clumsy’s robot and tested its functions while the group watched.
• After three months on the barren planet, the group stored supplies in caves, sealed their base, and returned to Qingyuan Star, where the Gustin Family’s steward reported that little had changed.
• Qu Jianlei secretly left the territory to buy materials, then spent half a month rebuilding the robot into a lifelike human-shaped avatar and named it Silver Fir.

Silver Fir and Bentley traveled with Tian Yin, Claire, and Zi Jiuxian to visit Xiao Moshan and Xiao Qin on Zi Hong Star. They learned that Great Fortune was pressuring the Ping An Merchant Group to sell its Energy Stone Mine, and Xiao Moshan had challenged the conglomerate’s Supremes over the dispute.

• Silver Fir agreed to accompany Bentley to check on Xiao Moshan and Xiao Qin, and Tian Yin, Claire, and Zi Jiuxian joined them.
• The five traveled aboard Ship 6502 to Zi Hong Star and reunited with Xiao Moshan at Mountain and Water Abode.
• Xiao Qin told the visitors that Great Fortune had approached Ping An to acquire the Energy Stone Mine, which she and Xiao Moshan suspected was a test of their resolve.
• Xiao Moshan and Xiao Qin refused to sell the mine and met Great Fortune’s Supremes at Ping An’s headquarters without notifying their own Supremes.
• When Great Fortune’s Supreme released Coercive Pressure and questioned their authority, Xiao Moshan calmly reminded him that their Supremes had previously been present.

Xiao Moshan and Bentley discussed Great Fortune’s continued pressure on Ping'an and its attempt to acquire the Energy Stone Mine. Silver Fir decided to investigate the reasons behind the acquisition and took Xiao Moshan with him, leaving Great Fortune’s intentions unresolved.

• Xiao Moshan told Bentley that Great Fortune had stopped confronting them directly but continued pressuring Ping'an through mining qualifications, paperwork, and management issues.
• Xiao Moshan guessed that Great Fortune urgently wanted the newly discovered mine because its own Energy Stone Mines were nearly exhausted and the deposit was hidden.
• Silver Fir questioned why Great Fortune would risk offending them over such a small mine and decided to investigate before drawing conclusions.
• Bentley offered to meet Great Fortune’s Supreme, but Silver Fir warned him not to assume that an Electromagnetic Supreme was invincible, and Bentley accepted the correction.
• Silver Fir asked Xiao Moshan to join him in investigating several places, and they planned to drive from Mountain and Water Abode.

Xiao Moshan uncovered Hongyun’s covert attacks on Ping An, and Ka Ding’s murder convinced the team that Hongyun was escalating its probing. Ping An notified the group while retaliating against Hongyun’s people overnight, leaving Hongyun’s Supreme furious and preparing for a battle.

• Xiao Moshan and Silver Fir investigated Hongyun’s influence and discovered that it had secretly targeted factions connected to Ping An through staged murders.
• Ping An reported that Ka Ding had been shot dead at a club, and Bentley, Xiao Moshan, and the others concluded that Hongyun was raising the stakes.
• Xiao Qin warned Duo Duo about Hongyun’s covert moves, and the group agreed to meet Ping An the next day while striking Hongyun’s operatives that night.
• Duo Duo told Xiao Qin to proceed, while Ping An publicly accused departments and factions that had obstructed it to draw attention.
• The team killed more than ten Hongyun personnel and collaborators in scattered attacks, including one inside a city guards’ prison.
• Hongyun counted seventeen dead and two seriously injured, and its Supreme ordered the group to prepare for battle and vowed retaliation.

At a tense wharf negotiation, Bentley and the Ping An Merchant Group refused to sell the Energy Stone Mine to Hongyun. After Silver Fir killed a Hongyun negotiator and Bentley struck unseen targets in the river with lightning, the confrontation escalated toward open conflict.

• Hongyun and Ping An arranged a night meeting at the Abandoned Wharf, and both sides deployed armed security around the site.
• Bentley arrived with six others, rejected Hongyun's demand to learn his background, and challenged Five-Short Supreme to wager their lives in a duel.
• Silver Fir shot a Modified Warrior dead when he tried to interrupt the Supremes, triggering an armed standoff while Bentley and his group remained seated.
• Bentley declared that Ping An would never sell the Energy Stone Mine, while Five-Short Supreme denied responsibility for earlier killings and warned that Bentley was in serious trouble.
• Bentley struck the river twice with bolts of lightning and challenged Five-Short Supreme to consider the consequences of Hongyun's forced buying and selling.

Bentley confronted Five-Short Supreme over Hongyun's coercive business tactics and the deaths and injuries among their hidden trump cards. Silver Fir killed the wounded Water Attribute Supreme, Nalisha, leaving Five-Short Supreme to accept defeat and offer compensation while warning that others might seek revenge.

• Five-Short Supreme denied that Hongyun had forced a deal, but Bentley challenged him over the dead Mental Attribute A-rank and ordered Peace Security to drive the hidden Water Attribute Supreme from the river.
• Peace Security's people clashed with Hongyun's subordinates as Five-Short Supreme realized his side had lost its advantage and tried to withdraw.
• Bentley stopped Five-Short Supreme and ordered Silver Fir to kill the injured Water Attribute Supreme, while Five-Short Supreme chose not to risk a full-scale fight.
• Five-Short Supreme offered compensation for the damage, but Silver Fir returned carrying Nalisha's corpse.
• Bentley dismissed Five-Short Supreme's protest that they had killed one of Hongyun's Supremes, and Five-Short Supreme accepted the loss while warning that Nalisha had admirers who might retaliate.

Bentley and the others forced Hongyun Conglomerate to pay for its attack on Ping An, then traveled to Paradise Star to reunite with Xiang Xue, Fourth Boss, and You You. They left Nalisha in Ping An’s care and ended with Silver Fir proposing that Xiang Xue help guard Cloud Mist Mountain.

• Bentley forced Five-Short Supreme to name Nalisha’s admirers, and the group discovered Nalisha had survived by feigning death.
• Five-Short Supreme agreed to pay fifty billion and identified Dukas’s Supreme as the one who had incited Hongyun to target Ping An.
• Bentley demanded Dukas’s Supreme’s head and kept Nalisha at Ping An until Hongyun paid; Dukas’s Supreme had already disappeared.
• Bentley reminded Xiao Moshan to contact the group for help, then told him to ignore the claim that Silver Fir might be non-living.
• Zi Jiuxian reunited with Xiang Xue at Cloud Mist Mountain Guesthouse, where Fourth Boss and You You also met the group and learned Bentley had become a Supreme.
• Silver Fir proposed that Xiang Xue, Fourth Boss, and You You take turns guarding Cloud Mist Mountain, and Xiang Xue suggested that Silver Fir stay and guard it himself.

Xiang Xue resisted staying tied to the guesthouse, while Bentley and Silver Fir met Ironhide Snake, the planet’s Guardian Supreme. On their sixth day there, Xiang Xue confronted River Stream Technology troublemakers who were harassing a guest.

• Xiang Xue refused Silver Fir’s plea to keep managing the guesthouse and agreed to meet Ironhide Snake when he arrived.
• Ironhide Snake recognized Bentley’s Electromagnetic Attribute and spoke privately with Bentley and Silver Fir, leaving impressed by their knowledge.
• Ironhide Snake suspected Silver Fir’s energy resembled Standard Energy but chose not to investigate the mysterious guesthouse residents.
• On the sixth day, a security captain told Xiang Xue that three Rank A people from River Stream Technology were causing trouble for a guest.
• Xiang Xue flew to the front courtyard and ordered the shouting people to quiet down.

Xiang Xue defended six guests accused by River Stream Technology of stealing research results, insisting that the city guards follow proper procedure. The guards arrived without the necessary documents, and Xiang Xue refused to let them take the guests away.

• Three A-rankers confronted Xiang Xue and accused her guests of stealing River Stream Technology's research results, but she said the guests had checked in and must wait for the city guards.
• The female A-ranker threatened Xiang Xue and accused her of being involved, while Xiang Xue rejected the accusations and refused the tall man's attempt to get her Wristwatch number.
• The accused man said River Stream Technology was coveting his group's results, and Zi Jiuxian identified Greenwater as her academy but declined to get involved with its many alumni.
• The accused woman said she and her husband had brought their four children to seek refuge, and Xiang Xue promised only that the guesthouse's six guests would receive its protection.
• A B-rank city guard arrived with a C-rank subordinate and tried to take the suspects away, but Xiang Xue demanded documents and refused to release the guests without them.
• The B-rank city guard ordered his subordinate to arrange the documents, though the subordinate knew they would be difficult to obtain because the patrol had exceeded its authority.