Chapter Summaries

River Stream Technology’s attempt to have a guest taken away escalated into a confrontation at the guesthouse, where Xiang Xue and Silver Fir defended the property and Zi Jiuxian intervened for her former schoolmate Kakas. The dispute intensified when Patrol officers arrived and a Supreme’s coercive pressure descended over the courtyard.

• River Stream Technology went around the district city guards and enlisted patrol city guards to pursue a theft accusation, but Xiang Xue refused to let them take anyone without evidence.
• An emergency aircraft brought Kakas to the guesthouse, where he backed his Greenwater juniors and challenged the River Stream A-ranks.
• Zi Jiuxian recognized Kakas as a former schoolmate and decided to help him, while Silver Fir accompanied her and declined to reveal their group’s secrets.
• Xiang Xue ordered the intruders out, and Silver Fir shoved the tall A-rank back when he threatened the guesthouse staff.
• Two Patrol aircraft landed, and Zi Jiuxian challenged the officers’ authority before a Supreme’s voice accused them of acting without restraint.

Du Bang confronted the guesthouse, but Bentley and Silver Fir counterattacked, overpowering him and one of his Rank A fighters. The guesthouse’s side took both prisoners to the security room despite the other group’s pleas for treatment.

• Du Bang pressured Xiang Xue and the others, and Silver Fir countered with a Mental Attack.
• Bentley arrived and struck Du Bang with electromagnetic arts while Silver Fir attacked his mind, leaving him incapacitated.
• Xiang Xue and Zi Jiuxian armored Bentley as both sides prepared to fight, and Bentley restrained Du Bang.
• A Metal Attribute Rank A fighter attacked Bentley, but Bentley evaded, disrupted the fighter with Mental Attacks, and knocked him down with Falling Thunder Art.
• Bentley refused to release Du Bang, and Silver Fir carried Du Bang and the injured fighter toward the security room’s holding cell.

After River Stream Technology’s Du Bang was captured, Green Water’s Kakas and his junior explained that the conflict stemmed from Supreme Liang Shui’s research. The guesthouse Supremes offered to protect them, but demanded to know more about Liang Shui’s breakthrough and its records, leaving the junior unsure whether Bentley would truly intervene.

• Xiang Xue refused the Patrol officers’ request to release Du Bang, while Bentley rejected Kakas’s thanks and Kakas asked what had happened.
• Kakas’s junior revealed that River Stream Technology was targeting him because he had cared for Supreme Liang Shui, whose research had been suspended after his death two and a half years earlier.
• Silver Fir learned that Liang Shui had studied temporal imbalance caused by spatial distortion to develop a cultivation environment for rapid advancement.
• Bentley said he would consider intervening but asked about the research results, prompting the junior to withhold details and Bentley to say he would not interfere if another Supreme arrived respectfully.
• Silver Fir requested the relevant Divine Script Treasure, and Kakas urged his junior to speak; the junior claimed there were no such treasures, only holographic image records.
• Silver Fir offered to have his Supreme act if the junior produced the records, and the junior asked Bentley whether he would honor that promise.

Bentley accepted River Stream Technology’s case after Silver Fir verified its evidence, while the Patrol officer failed to draw him into a meeting with the Chief Patrol Captain. Silver Fir examined the damaged Black Colt Tower’s records and inferred its time-accelerating function, but the tower’s location remained unknown as more aircraft approached.

• Silver Fir verified the B-rank’s footage, and Bentley agreed to take on the matter before refusing the Chief Patrol Captain’s request to speak.
• Xiang Xue told the Patrol officer that Ironhide Snake had already visited Bentley, leaving the officer alarmed at River Stream Technology’s failure to investigate.
• Silver Fir projected the damaged Black Colt Tower, deciphered its instructions, and explained that time inside could pass roughly two and a half to three and a half times faster than outside.
• Bentley asked why the treasures they found were damaged, and Silver Fir suggested intact treasures might simply be beyond their reach.
• Fourth Boss and You You saw the tower, and Silver Fir suggested its material might be special while Fourth Boss suspected it was held by the Divine Script Society.
• Two aircraft approached the front courtyard as faint energy fluctuations came from it.

Fourth Boss and Bentley refused River Stream Technology’s demands to hand over Supreme Du Bang, while Green Water alumni gathered outside the guesthouse. Bentley publicly declared that he would side with Green Water, and an aircraft arrived as the confrontation continued.

• Fourth Boss refused the Patrol Captain and River Stream Technology’s request to hand over Supreme Du Bang, citing the guesthouse’s ties to Green Water Academy.
• Three River Stream Supremes gathered outside the gate as Green Water alumni arrived and River Stream learned of the guesthouse’s powerful allies.
• Bentley appeared at the gate and challenged the Stone Attribute Supreme over Du Bang’s alleged plunder of Liang Shui’s research.
• Bentley accepted the Stone Attribute Supreme’s challenge and publicly declared that he would side with Green Water against River Stream.
• An aircraft flew in and hovered above the guesthouse’s front courtyard.

Hamilton arrived on behalf of Ironhide Snake to intervene in the guesthouse dispute, but Silver Fir revealed a Military Secret Affairs identity card that alarmed the River Stream Supremes. Ironhide Snake tried to mediate Du Bang’s release, but Bentley refused, leaving Du Bang in custody.

• Hamilton delivered Ironhide Snake’s warning that everyone should obey the rules, while the River Stream Supremes challenged the guesthouse’s right to take Du Bang.
• Bentley said the guests would reveal their identities but would take Du Bang away afterward, and Silver Fir handed Hamilton an identity card marked Military Secret Affairs.
• Ironhide Snake arrived and warned the River Stream Supremes against prying into the classified organization; Silver Fir allowed the Stone Attribute Supreme to inspect the card.
• The River Stream Supremes learned that Military Secret Affairs dealt in the Empire’s highest-level intelligence and suspected an Above Supreme stood behind the guesthouse’s party.
• Ironhide Snake asked Bentley to consider River Stream’s reputation and release Du Bang, but Bentley refused, saying the guesthouse also deserved respect.

Bentley refused River Stream’s offer of compensation and had Zi Jiuxian demand five billion in Unregistered Silver Notes for Du Bang’s release. The Chief Patrol Captain arrived to apologize and warn the factions against violence, while River Stream’s people stayed outside the guesthouse and more Green Water Academy graduates arrived.

• Bentley rejected River Stream’s offer and chose to publicize the incident, then had Zi Jiuxian negotiate a ransom for Du Bang.
• Zi Jiuxian demanded five billion in Unregistered Silver Notes, and River Stream’s representatives said they needed management’s approval.
• The Chief Patrol Captain arrived, apologized to Bentley, and warned both sides against further violence, chiefly directing his warning at River Stream.
• The Chief Patrol Captain and Ironhide Snake left, followed by two of River Stream’s Supremes; the Stone Attribute Supreme and several others remained outside the guesthouse.
• Seven or eight more Green Water Academy graduates arrived at the scene.

The River Stream dean negotiated a ransom reduction with the guesthouse, while Green Water Academy’s Old Dean arrived to take over the dispute involving Supreme Liang Shui’s research. After the visitors left, the guesthouse prepared to move Xiang Xue and entrusted Paradise Star’s operations to Fourth Boss and You You.

• The River Stream dean apologized for his academy’s oversight, negotiated a ten-billion reduction in the ransom, and promised to restrain the River Stream Faction.
• The guesthouse released Supreme Du Bang and the injured Metal Attribute Rank A after receiving payment, while Green Water Academy’s Old Dean later arrived and declared that Green Water would take over the grievance.
• Green Water’s Old Dean presented the guesthouse with a cooperation certificate and awarded Centennial Honorary Alumnus badges to Xiang Xue, Fourth Boss, and Zi Jiuxian.
• The Old Dean warned that Du Bang should stay out of the Hope Star Region, and Silver Fir asked about the Divine Script Treasure before Green Water’s group departed.
• Bentley’s group decided Xiang Xue should leave Paradise Star, leaving Fourth Boss and You You to manage the guesthouse, and Fourth Boss asked Silver Fir for advice about advancing to Supreme.

Silver Fir advised Fourth Boss and You You before Bentley and the others left Paradise Star, while Qu Jianlei learned that the Divine Script Society’s captured gel had escaped by merging with a powerful Divine Script Treasure longsword. Qu Jianlei warned his companions to watch Golden Crow Third, whose connection to the gel remained uncertain.

• Silver Fir examined Fourth Boss, recommended cultivation changes, and assured him that his advice reflected First One’s views.
• Bentley and the others used teleportation to leave Paradise Star, and Xiang Xue experienced a Near-Earth Jump for the first time.
• Nutrient Solution told Qu Jianlei that the gel had escaped the Divine Script Society’s laboratory by entering a longsword and blasting through its defenses.
• Qu Jianlei checked Golden Crow Third, then gathered his companions and asked them to keep watch over it.
• Five days later, new intelligence confirmed that the longsword was a Divine Script Treasure whose enormous energy let it unleash the force of several top-tier Metal Attribute Above Supremes.

The Divine Script Society and the Empire searched the experimental planet for the escaped Gelatinous Creature, which had vanished despite extensive precautions. Qu Jianlei judged that its power was likely capped around the Nascent Soul Realm, leaving his team cautiously confident they could fight or escape if it appeared.

• The Divine Script Society concluded that the Gelatinous Creature may have secretly stolen energy while merging with the longsword, though they had no proof.
• The Empire and military searched the planet down to centimeter-level detail without finding the creature, while officials weighed a more costly search or destroying the planet with a Planet Destroyer Cannon.
• Nutrient Solution asked whether the creature could fly into space, and Qu Jianlei said its strength likely made that possible.
• Qu Jianlei reasoned that the creature's upper limit was probably the Nascent Soul Realm and explained why its immense attack power did not prove it was stronger.
• Nutrient Solution and the others took comfort in the possibility that their Five Elements Battle Array could oppose it, while Qu Jianlei trusted the team's battle options and Teleportation Array.

The team prepared for the Gelatinous Creature by discussing tactics, while Old Lady Jia considered advancing and Xiao Hu devised a flawed method to distinguish allies from enemies. Bentley returned with Xiang Xue and Silver Fir, bringing something Qu Jianlei wanted to inspect.

• The team spent two days discussing coordination and established tactics to prepare for the Gelatinous Creature.
• Old Lady Jia asked Qu Jianlei about advancing, and they discussed the risks of seclusion and whether the Five Elements Battle Array could be shared with trusted Supremes.
• Qu Jianlei asked Xiao Hu to improve its aura-based method for distinguishing friend from foe, and Xiao Hu revised the design.
• Bentley returned with four people, including Xiang Xue, and told Qu Jianlei he had brought back something good.
• Qu Jianlei retrieved Silver Fir's strand of divine sense and began examining its memories.

Qu Jianlei’s group learned that Black Colt Tower had been stolen from the Awakened One Empire Museum and arranged an anonymous bounty to find it. They discussed inviting Xiang Xue’s father, Mu Guang, to Qingyuan Star to help with the Five Elements Battle Array, and Qu Jianlei announced that a first-generation solution to Awakened One spells distinguishing allies from enemies was ready.

• Qu Jianlei received information from his split-off divine consciousness about Black Colt Tower and praised Bentley for bringing Xiang Xue back.
• Nutrient Solution learned that Black Colt Tower had vanished from the Awakened One Empire Museum after an important person inspected it, and that the person’s family had later been scattered by attacks.
• Nutrient Solution arranged an anonymous two-billion bounty to find Black Colt Tower, while Qu Jianlei approved spending money to pursue it.
• The group questioned Xiang Xue about Mu Guang’s character and agreed to invite him to Qingyuan Star to discuss the Five Elements Battle Array.
• Qu Jianlei announced that a first-generation version of Awakened One spells that could distinguish friend from foe had been developed.

Qu Jianlei and the others refined a spell-immunity array that reduced damage from their own spells, while the Gustin Family faced questions from officials and the military about their tests. Xiang Xue reunited with her father, Mu Guang, and the team began recruiting him to fill the Wood Attribute position in their Five Elements Battle Array.

• Qu Jianlei and the others tested spells and revised their recognition array until it blocked seventy to eighty percent of their own spells.
• The Gustin Family steward rebuffed government officials and a military patrol that questioned the family’s repeated spell tests and starship travel.
• Xiang Xue allowed Mu Guang’s two A-rank assistants to accompany him to a temporary residence, then brought him to meet the team at the manor.
• Mu Guang met Jia Shuiqing and Paranoid, then learned that the team had developed a Five Elements Battle Array.
• Nutrient Solution invited Mu Guang to fill the Wood Attribute position, and Qinghu’s movement technique convinced him to hear the team’s requirements.

Mu Guang agreed to study the Five Elements Battle Array after learning that Nutrient Solution had helped arrange his visit and that the team would not share more than necessary. Xiang Xue explained that First One would help Jia Shuiqing attempt her final breakthrough, and Mu Guang agreed to consider guarding them for one to two years, though he still questioned why they needed a Supreme-level battle array.

• Nutrient Solution revealed that Mu Guang's old friend had been influenced to persuade him to visit, and Mu Guang stopped arguing over the secrecy conditions.
• Mu Guang studied the Wood Attribute battle-array material for nearly an hour, then asked Old Lady Jia about the other positions and was told to memorize the Overall Tactics and Positioning Chart.
• Xiang Xue told Mu Guang that Jia Shuiqing planned to attempt a final breakthrough Above Supreme and that First One had restored her condition and modified her cultivation technique.
• Mu Guang learned that First One could use techniques of every attribute and suspected he was a No Attribute Supreme, then understood why the team was hiding him.
• Xiang Xue told Mu Guang that First One was far more skilled in Divine Script than he was, and Mu Guang agreed to consider guarding the group for one to two years.
• Mu Guang asked why the team needed a Supreme-level Five Elements Battle Array to protect Jia Shuiqing during her breakthrough.

Xiang Xue warned Mu Guang not to underestimate her team, and he joined their training to study the Five Elements Battle Array. After witnessing its extraordinary coordination and spells that distinguished allies from enemies, he questioned Qu Jianlei about the identification tags and asked whether he could learn the method behind them.

• Xiang Xue told Mu Guang that First One’s team had captured Above Supremes and extorted ransoms, so he should not underestimate them.
• Mu Guang moved into the Gustin Family manor and watched the Five Elements Battle Array combine the five Above Supremes’ attacks while avoiding friendly fire.
• Xiang Xue demonstrated that her Ice Arrows slid harmlessly off two Above Supremes, and Mu Guang realized the array’s spells could distinguish friend from foe.
• Mu Guang asked Qu Jianlei how the identification tags worked, and Qu Jianlei explained the general principle but refused to provide more details.
• Mu Guang asked whether Qu Jianlei could teach him how to separate a thread of Mental Strength without it dissipating, and Qu Jianlei agreed but told him to wait.

Qu Jianlei taught the team and Mu Guang his improved divine sense method, while Nutrient Solution offered to borrow research materials from his patron. As several members succeeded in cultivating the method, Mu Guang learned that Qu Jianlei had modified Xiang Xue’s cultivation and customized Bentley’s, leaving him curious whether anyone else had received one.

• Qu Jianlei began teaching the divine sense method to his team and Mu Guang, who agreed to keep it to himself and offered access to materials from the Archaeology Enthusiasts Association.
• Nutrient Solution asked Mu Guang for a detailed list of loanable materials, then offered Qu Jianlei the chance to borrow items from his Above Supreme patron.
• Nutrient Solution, the Paranoid, and Bentley succeeded in cultivating the divine sense method in that order, while Mu Guang grew eager to prove himself.
• Xiang Xue told Mu Guang that Qu Jianlei had personally guided Bentley’s cultivation and modified her later cultivation method, prompting Mu Guang to ask whether Qu Jianlei had customized methods for anyone else.

Mu Guang learned more about Qu Jianlei’s arrays and cultivation techniques, then weighed joining the team against his commitment to archaeology. After Xiang Xue arranged for Qu Jianlei to teach him a fist technique, Mu Guang accidentally demonstrated its power and learned that the authorities had invoked the nobles’ conscription obligations on Qingyuan Star.

• Xiang Xue told Mu Guang that Qu Jianlei had helped Jia Shuiqing recover and had created cultivation techniques for Hua Xiezhi and Claire, while Qu explained the difference between the Qi Gathering Array and the Gathering Spirit Array.
• Mu Guang asked Qu whether he could reach Above Supreme, but Qu said he only helped team members, and Mu Guang admitted he could not give up leading the Archaeology Enthusiasts Association.
• Xiang Xue offered to ask Qu to teach Mu Guang Mountain Shattering Fist, and Qu agreed on the condition that Mu Guang not pass it on.
• Three days later, Mu Guang tested the technique and shattered a huge Stone, prompting Bentley to warn him that someone was in seclusion.
• The steward told Bentley that the authorities had ordered nobles to fulfill their conscription obligations, and Hua Xiezhi wondered what emergency had occurred on Qingyuan Star.

Qu Jianlei and his team resisted being drawn into the authorities’ vague security measures on Qingyuan Star while Nutrient Solution uncovered signs of military and rebel conflict. The chapter ended with the steward having answered the authorities’ call and Nutrient Solution promising to seek an exemption for Qu Jianlei’s group.

• The authorities warned of an unspecified risk, and Qu Jianlei told the steward to patrol only within the fief’s territorial airspace until the danger was clarified.
• Hua Xiezhi refused to let the steward extend patrols beyond the territorial airspace, but he said the employees would accept the distinguished guests’ orders over the authorities’ to protect their management rights.
• Nutrient Solution reported that rebels had assassinated the First One of the Ninth Group Army, triggering unrest and possible military interest in the Space Wave Point.
• A middle-aged military man and a woman discussed a rare opportunity and her demand for revenge, while he warned that acting on Qingyuan Star could provoke the nobles.
• Nutrient Solution later warned that the military might requisition civilian forces and revealed that the steward had already answered the authorities’ call, prompting Qu Jianlei to suspect he had been maneuvered.
• Nutrient Solution promised to coordinate with others and try to secure an exemption for Qu Jianlei’s group.

Mu Guang told Qu Jianlei and the others that the Information Barrier Breaches might lead to another human civilization, not merely resistance hideouts. After the team discussed the threat and their loyalties, Nutrient Solution took charge of investigating, and three days later Big Head Butterfly reported a military rotation at the Space Wave Point.

• Mu Guang arrived with news that someone had infiltrated through an Information Barrier Breach, prompting Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution to ask what the breaches contained.
• Mu Guang revealed that, according to an archaeological rumor, another human civilization with habitable stars and Divine Script Relics existed beyond the breaches.
• The team considered the possibility that the Empire was guarding against another nation, and Nutrient Solution agreed to investigate the matter further.
• Qu Jianlei asked whether the reported infiltrator came from beyond the breach, and Mu Guang said he knew only that a military contact had mentioned it.
• Mu Guang said he still cared about the Empire and would not consider treason for now, while Nutrient Solution offered to investigate the infiltration as well.
• Three days later, Big Head Butterfly told Qu Jianlei that a military rotation had appeared at the Space Wave Point.

Qu Jianlei investigated the Information Barrier Breach and the Space Wave Point while his allies prepared to patrol outer space. He questioned Golden Crow Third about other worlds and strange treasures, learning that the Heaven and Earth Treasure might be a sealed entity rather than part of a magical artifact.

• Qu Jianlei learned that the Information Barrier Breach was not natural, though Nutrient Solution could not rule out a connection to the Wave Point.
• The Gustin Family failed to obtain information from other nobles, who demanded an agreement to act in concert before sharing intelligence.
• After the authorities ordered the territory to send a Supreme on patrol, Bentley volunteered and Qu Jianlei sent Silver Fir with him.
• Qu Jianlei asked Golden Crow Third about barriers between worlds and learned that humans and Cultivation Systems existed across multiple worlds ruled by Empires, Alliances, and Federations.
• Golden Crow Third identified the Black Colt Tower as a precious cultivation treasure that used unequal time and Spatial Rules.
• After seeing the Heaven and Earth Treasure, Golden Crow Third said it might not reside in a magical artifact and could have been sealed by a Great Expert.