Chapter Summaries

Duo Gan negotiated with Qu Jianlei’s team after her defeat, accepting responsibility for her subordinates’ actions and agreeing to surrender her Divine Script Treasures and other possessions. The team refused her offer to join, but agreed that she could sell them treasures in the future if she acquired them without using extreme methods.

• Duo Gan offered to teach the Five Elements Battle Array, but Qu Jianlei said the team had already figured it out and demanded all her Divine Script Treasures, artifacts, weapons, and research insights instead.
• Paranoid warned Duo Gan not to provoke anyone with an exceptionally formidable Five Elements Battle Array, then admitted he was looking for a solution to a problem with his Above Supreme cultivation.
• Qu Jianlei explained that Duo Gan’s subordinates had seized a longsword from the Luo Family during an academy Mystic Territory Trial and had pressured Xingluo Academy, prompting Duo Gan to accept responsibility.
• Paranoid asked Duo Gan to discipline her subordinates and provide all her Divine Script Treasures, explaining that his team urgently needed them.
• Duo Gan asked to join the team, but Nutrient Solution and Old Lady Jia refused because they distrusted her motives and the team’s information barrier.
• Duo Gan asked whether she could sell the team Divine Script Treasures in the future, and Qu Jianlei agreed on the condition that she avoid extreme methods.

Duo Gan left the sealed planet with Paranoid, Nutrient Solution, and the others after agreeing on compensation, hoping to learn more about their cultivation and leader. She joined them aboard the Unlucky Starship, where Kefu and Tang Lide learned she had been injured but remained unrestricted, and Duo Gan threatened to deal with them after they returned.

• Duo Gan tried to exchange information about the planet and magical artifacts, but Nutrient Solution warned that her cultivation path might be wrong.
• Nutrient Solution and Qu Jianlei opened the barrier, and Duo Gan explained how Fire Attribute users could pass through it directly.
• Duo Gan asked about the team's leader, and Paranoid warned her that the leader and two others were more formidable than he was.
• Duo Gan boarded the Unlucky Starship and sensed its artificial intelligence, but Paranoid gave her only a brief explanation.
• Kefu and Tang Lide boarded and discovered Duo Gan was alive and still an Above Supreme; she told them she had been injured and threatened to deal with them after their return.

Duo Gan returned to Strathford Star, dealt with the military’s challenge, and arranged compensation and secrecy after learning what had happened during her absence. After gathering treasures for Qu Jianlei and investigating the Luo Family, she came back with Little White Sweet’s Longsword and two captured Supremes who had misused her name to seize it.

• The Unlucky Starship returned to Strathford Star, where Duo Gan stopped the military from escalating the confrontation and Kefu learned that its four passengers had Above Supreme combat power.
• Duo Gan arranged an investigation into the Luo Family, ordered treatment for the injured Wood Attribute Supreme, and forbade her subordinates from discussing the artificial intelligence.
• Duo Gan dismissed Tang Lide with an Item-Storing Talisman, warned him not to repeat the title “Exalted One,” and imposed punishment on Kefu for his faults.
• Over the next half month, Duo Gan gathered magical artifacts, weapons, Divine Script materials, and talismans for Qu Jianlei, then left to handle the Luo Family’s affairs.
• Duo Gan returned with Little White Sweet’s Longsword and two captured Supremes, discovering they had used her name to seize it and had concealed their actions from Kefu.

Duo Gan brought two corrupt Supremes to Qu Jianlei’s group, where Paranoid claimed one for a clone experiment, and she later ordered an investigation into Luo Hanshuang. On the return journey, the group inspected their recovered treasures and landed on a desolate planet to test them, where the Silver Shuttle proved difficult for anyone but Qu Jianlei to control.

• Duo Gan captured two Supremes involved in extortion, robbery, and murder, then handed them over to Qu Jianlei’s group for punishment.
• Paranoid took the Metal Attribute Supreme for a clone experiment and admitted that creating a clone might help solve a hidden problem with his body.
• Duo Gan asked Qu Jianlei’s group how to contact them about future treasure finds, and Nutrient Solution suggested Strathford could hire outside workers later.
• After leaving, Duo Gan summoned her assistant and ordered an investigation into the Luo Family of Sky Hook, especially Luo Hanshuang.
• Qu Jianlei and the others sorted through recovered artifacts and weapons, and Qu Jianlei considered teaching Claire to use a broken Nine Section Whip.
• The group landed on a hot, barren planet to test their artifacts; Qu Jianlei controlled the Silver Shuttle smoothly, but Paranoid struggled to use it and Old Lady Jia asked to try.

Qu Jianlei and his companions tested magical artifacts, deciding who might use the Silver Shuttle while discovering that a damaged seal was difficult to control. Qu Jianlei then went off to test Golden Core Realm talismans, and Nutrient Solution learned he was seeking a better Thunder Cultivator artifact for Lao Ben.

• Old Lady Jia tested the Silver Shuttle and found its power lacking, while Nutrient Solution struggled to operate it.
• Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution discussed giving the Silver Shuttle to Lao Ben, but Paranoid tried to keep it for Mu Yu before Old Lady Jia allowed him to hold it temporarily.
• Qu Jianlei tested the damaged seal, found that it consumed much of his spiritual energy, and passed it to Old Lady Jia after Nutrient Solution failed to use it.
• Qu Jianlei traveled away from the group to test a Golden Core Realm Gold Spear Art talisman.
• Nutrient Solution confronted Qu Jianlei, who explained that he was looking for a specialized magical artifact for Lao Ben as a Thunder Cultivator.

Qu Jianlei and his companions discussed sharing responsibility and Paranoid’s hidden psychological strain before testing the Divine Script talismans. The Golden Spear talisman proved powerful enough to challenge Paranoid’s defenses, leaving the team convinced that the talismans could protect them but needed to be used cautiously.

• Nutrient Solution urged Qu Jianlei to share his burdens, and Old Lady Jia explained that Paranoid’s aggression had been fueled by anxiety about his hidden danger.
• Qu Jianlei disclosed that he had talismans in his Item-Storing Ring but had hesitated to let the team use them, and the group agreed to test their effects.
• Paranoid volunteered as the target for a Golden Spear talisman and tried to evade it with Instant Flash, but the spear tracked him across distances of up to twenty kilometers.
• Paranoid blocked the Golden Spear with Gold Shields and seized it after retreating, but the talisman nearly broke through his defenses.
• Qu Jianlei and his companions concluded that the talismans could provide valuable protection but might draw suspicion and jealousy, then decided to test the others.

Qu Jianlei and the others tested talismans, recovered on the planet, and prepared to leave after making progress with their cultivation and crafting. As their ship headed for Celestial Hook Star, they wondered whether Duo Gan’s unusual celestial space might have been a magical artifact, while a military fleet arrived to investigate the planet.

• Qu Jianlei and the others discovered that a Golden Core Realm Fireball Talisman could track targets within five hundred kilometers, and Qu Jianlei theorized that breaking spatial continuity might evade a spell’s aura lock.
• Paranoid asked the group to stay so Jia Shuiqing could refine the seal and he could forge a clone, and they spent a month recovering at a temporary base.
• Paranoid completed his clone, Jia Shuiqing made the seal usable, and Qu Jianlei successfully made talisman paper from an A-rank exotic beast hide but failed to draw a talisman.
• The group boarded the Unlucky Starship and left the planet, unaware that a military fleet arrived five days later to investigate a possible appearance of Exotic Energy.
• Nutrient Solution wondered whether Duo Gan’s unusual celestial space was a magical artifact, and Qu Jianlei and Paranoid considered the possibility.

After returning from their confrontation with Duo Gan, Qu Jianlei’s team distributed the recovered magical artifacts and weapons and discussed whether Yuanyuan might join them. The chapter ended with Mu Guang reporting that a Supreme who knew nothing about the team wanted to trade a magical artifact for membership.

• Qu Jianlei and his companions returned from settling their debts with Duo Gan, and Mu Yu hurried to greet Paranoid and ask about the encounter.
• Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution distributed the recovered magical artifacts and weapons, and Qu Jianlei offered to teach Claire whip techniques before Xiang Xue also volunteered to learn.
• Qinghu told Nutrient Solution that Yuanyuan planned to attempt a breakthrough to Supreme, and Nutrient Solution directed her to discuss Yuanyuan with Qu Jianlei.
• Qinghu explained that Yuanyuan had only recently regained her freedom after years of official suspicion, and Qu Jianlei said they could consider compensating her while warning that she must understand the team’s nature.
• Mu Guang told Qu Jianlei that a Supreme wanted to exchange a magical artifact for a place on the team, and assured him that the newcomer knew nothing about them.

Mu Guang’s search for intact artifacts led the team to consider protecting the long-missing Supreme Mage, while the group also arranged a reunion with Yuanyuan. Yuanyuan arrived at the villa and asked to see Ran Bingluan, now known as First One.

• Mu Guang told the team that Mage, a longtime association partner who had fled the Redemption Battlefield, wanted protection in exchange for an intact artifact.
• Qu Jianlei and the other Supremes agreed to consider the deal, but decided Mage would have to wait until an Above Supreme could meet him away from Celestial Hook Star.
• Nutrient Solution suggested giving Mage work on Zi Hong Star, and Qu Jianlei asked that Xiao Moshan and Xiao Qin first be asked whether they wanted to keep traveling.
• Yuanyuan left Celestial Hook Star under a false identity after Qinghu offered her a chance to join the group.
• Hua Xiezhi brought Yuanyuan to Qinghu, and Yuanyuan asked whether Ran Bingluan was there; Qinghu said he was now their First One.

Yuanyuan joined Qu Jianlei’s team and learned that Nutrient Solution had once guided her cultivation, while the team prepared to meet Supreme Mage on Ironwood Star. Mu Guang met Mage and arranged a visit with the team’s Above Supremes, leaving Mage to decide whether to trust their strength and offer up any remaining magical artifacts.

• Yuanyuan agreed to join Qu Jianlei’s team, and Nutrient Solution revealed that she had given Yuanyuan her inherited cultivation technique and that it needed alterations.
• Yuanyuan learned that the team had several Supreme members and received an Identification Badge before Fourth Boss and You You chose to return to the main force.
• Qu Jianlei’s group traveled to Ironwood Star to meet Supreme Mage, bringing Mu Guang, Xiang Xue, Nutrient Solution, and Old Lady Jia.
• Mu Guang showed Mage an Identification Badge, refused his request for one, and disclosed that the team had more than one Above Supreme.
• Mage agreed to visit the Above Supremes that night, while Mu Guang advised him to consider offering any other magical artifacts he had.

Mage met Qu Jianlei’s group to negotiate over his complete artifact, hoping to secure protection and support for cultivation. He retrieved the sealed Dragon Binding Rope, which Qu Jianlei identified as an artifact for Supremes, but the group’s casual reaction left Mage unsure of its value to them.

• Mage met Qu Jianlei, Nutrient Solution, and Old Lady Jia at a hotel, where Nutrient Solution revealed her Above Supreme aura and asked about his artifact.
• Xiang Xue offered Mage a business and protection, while Mage bargained for better cultivation support; Qu Jianlei said they would discuss terms after examining the artifact.
• Mage retrieved the Item-Storing Talisman from a park with Mu Guang accompanying him, then brought it back to the hotel.
• Nutrient Solution opened the box and handed the intact green Dragon Binding Rope to Qu Jianlei, who identified it as an artifact for Supremes.
• Nutrient Solution, Jia Shuiqing, and Mu Guang examined the rope, and Mage watched their casual, somewhat disappointed reactions.

Mage negotiated compensation for the artifact and traded frontline intelligence to Qu Jianlei and his companions. He revealed that enemy forces had breached two Information Barrier Breaches while the Empire refused to send reinforcements.

• First One offered Mage 150 billion for the artifact, including protection and industry compensation, and Mage asked for cultivation conditions instead of half the cash.
• Qu Jianlei agreed to provide Mage with a Super Qi Gathering Array, and Mage asked how he could earn additional benefits by sharing frontline information.
• Mage revealed that the Federation and Alliance had intensified their offensive and captured two breaches, prompting Qu Jianlei and the others to question the severity of the fighting.
• After the group refused Mage's requests for an Identification Badge and information about advancing to Above Supreme, he asked to save his reward for a future exchange.
• Mage explained that the Empire had rejected the garrison's request for reinforcements, and that troops had been killed, captured, or driven to surrender after the two breaches fell.

Mage reported the Empire’s use of the Ultimate Graveyard and shared information about several artifacts before leaving for Paradise Star. There, Mu Guang became interested in an artifact held by the young Sural, but Qu Jianlei questioned whether it suited him.

• Mage told Qu Jianlei, Old Lady Jia, Nutrient Solution, and Jia Shuiqing that the Empire had activated the Ultimate Graveyard after two breaches fell, and that infiltrators had been operating for five days.
• Mage shared more than a dozen verified artifact leads, including the Invisibility Cloak’s location, and received two billion before leaving to reach Paradise Star.
• Mage secretly made his way to Paradise Star, where Qu Jianlei and the others had already arrived.
• Mu Guang proposed pursuing a four-sided scraper artifact held by Sural, explaining that he wanted it to strengthen his attacks and hoped the team’s influence would help secure it.
• Qu Jianlei asked Mu Guang whether he wanted an artifact for restraint instead.

Qu Jianlei weighed how to distribute two magical artifacts, and Mu Guang yielded a binding rope to Qinghu while accepting that Lao Ben was better suited to the Four-sided Blade. Mage took over the guesthouse and investigated the team, growing more astonished by its secrecy and the suspicious disappearances of its enemies.

• Mu Guang declined the Dragon Binding Rope, and Qu Jianlei said he would give it to Qinghu because Mu Guang already excelled at binding spells.
• Qu Jianlei judged that the Four-sided Blade might suit the Electromagnetic Attribute, so Mu Guang agreed not to compete with Lao Ben for it and asked Qu Jianlei to find him another artifact later.
• Nutrient Solution praised Mu Guang for putting the team first and questioned Qu Jianlei about his extensive knowledge of magical artifacts.
• Mage received a message directing him to the Cloud Mist Mountain guesthouse, where he completed the handover and received a Super Qi Gathering Array from the team.
• Mage investigated the guesthouse’s history and found that the team’s identities remained hidden despite several enemy Supremes dying or disappearing under suspicious circumstances.

Qu Jianlei’s team discussed a potential recruit, received a Dragon Binding Rope, and resolved to seek magical artifacts through purchase rather than force. After Qu Jianlei successfully made Talisman Ink, Mu Guang reported a bounty to recover a stolen magical artifact, and Qu Jianlei immediately ordered the team to act.

• Fourth Boss asked Qu Jianlei to consider recruiting an old comrade from the Living Dead Organization after Fourth Boss reached the Supreme Realm, and Qu Jianlei agreed to the plan.
• Qu Jianlei gave Qinghu the Dragon Binding Rope, which she began sacrificially refining.
• Nutrient Solution and Old Lady Jia brought Qu Jianlei a list of magical artifacts, and he decided the team should first approach their owners about purchasing them.
• More than a month later, Qu Jianlei successfully compounded Talisman Ink and prepared to experiment with drawing talismans.
• Mu Guang told Qu Jianlei that someone had posted a bounty to recover a magical artifact stolen by a Supreme from the Resistance, and Qu Jianlei ordered everyone to act.

Qu Jianlei’s group learned that the Bentley Family’s stolen complete scissors artifact was taken by a team linked to the Alliance and fled toward the Thorn Star Region. Qu Jianlei agreed to lead a group there, while Paranoid stayed behind, and Jia Shuiqing and Nutrient Solution hinted that his connection to Starry Sky Academy mattered.

• Mu Guang told Nutrient Solution, Old Lady Jia, Qinghu, and Qu Jianlei that the Bentley Family had been robbed, and they identified the stolen artifact as the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors.
• Paranoid said he had once tried to inquire about the scissors, while Mu Guang asked to inspect them and Qu Jianlei assigned Nutrient Solution to confirm the details discreetly.
• After failing to draw talismans for several days, Qu Jianlei learned from Nutrient Solution that four thieves had stolen the scissors, one was likely from the Alliance, and the suspects had fled toward the Thorn Star Region.
• Qu Jianlei assembled a group to pursue the thieves, including Nutrient Solution, Old Lady Jia, Mu Guang, Bentley, Qinghu, Zi Jiuxian, Hua Xiezhi, and Tian Yin; Paranoid chose to stay behind.
• On the starship, Jia Shuiqing and Nutrient Solution connected Duo Gan to Starry Sky Academy, and Jia Shuiqing warned Mu Guang not to discuss Above Supreme matters.

Qu Jianlei’s group learned that the thieves had fled to the Thorn Star Region, then returned to find two Armed Merchant Ships pursuing the 1314 Ship and demanding to requisition it. Xiao Hu fought back and infiltrated their systems, while Qu Jianlei promised to get it a dedicated robot for using talismans.

• Qu Jianlei’s group gathered intelligence on Blessing Star and confirmed the thieves had fled toward a Rebel Organization base in the Thorn Star Region.
• The group teleported back to the 1314 Ship and found two Armed Merchant Ships pursuing it after Xiao Hu refused their demand to board and inspect the unmanned vessel.
• Qu Jianlei explained that Xiao Hu could not attack humans without authorization, and the group decided to capture the pursuers and use a data infiltration attack.
• Xiao Hu returned fire with precise shots and infiltrated the Armed Merchant Ships’ systems, prompting Qu Jianlei to mark their furious attacker for death.
• Xiao Hu asked Qu Jianlei for a dedicated robot, then proposed using it to wield talismans once Qu Jianlei learned to draw them.

Qu Jianlei’s team seized two starships from people who had attacked them, taking valuable intelligence and supplies before entering the Black Zone to search for suspects. After five days of searching, another starship followed the 1314 Ship and declared a robbery, and Old Lady Jia identified its crew as rookies.

• Qu Jianlei’s team disabled two hostile starships, killed several crew members who challenged them, and requisitioned both vessels.
• Qu Jianlei announced the requisition, and the Metal Attribute Above Supreme accepted after he threatened to kill the crews.
• Bentley and Old Lady Jia inspected the ships, and the team found detailed suspect lists and valuable spatial items before assigning supervisors to the vessels.
• The three starships entered the Black Zone and began searching together, using Xiao Hu to keep them coordinated despite the region’s hazards.
• After five days, a larger Armed Merchant Ship followed the 1314 Ship for twenty hours and announced that it was robbing them.
• Tian Yin suggested blowing up the robber, but Old Lady Jia called the pursuing crew rookies.

Qu Jianlei’s fleet captured a would-be robber’s unusually powerful starship and put its crew to work. Four days later, the Young Master’s crew started another fight, and the 1314 Ship seized the two starships they had provoked.

• Qu Jianlei ordered Xiao Hu to disable the robbers’ fire-control systems, and two support ships arrived as the enemy surrendered.
• Nutrient Solution and Mu Guang boarded the enemy ship, where two Above Supremes subdued its crew and accepted their surrender.
• Qu Jianlei added the captured ship to the fleet, which grew to four ships on its sixth day in the Black Zone.
• Four days later, the Young Master’s crew attacked two starships and called for support, drawing Qu Jianlei’s fleet into the battle.
• Xiao Hu took control of the two starships’ systems, and Old Lady Jia sensed two more Above Supremes aboard them.

Qu Jianlei’s growing fleet became known as the Digital Phantom as it expanded its search for the magical artifact in the Black Zone. After news arrived that a Resisters’ starship had been found outside the zone, the competing factions grew anxious, and one of Qu Jianlei’s ships encountered two starships from the Bentley Family Members.

• Qu Jianlei requisitioned Nelson and Bai Jinhan’s crippled starships to help search, while Young Master decided to keep provoking ships and earning credit.
• Over more than a month, Xiao Hu’s fleet grew to twelve ships and Qu Jianlei’s team gained nine unaffiliated Supremes, including Coning, from whom Qu Jianlei took valuables.
• Word of the team’s aggressive captures spread, and the Black Zone came to call them the Digital Phantom, one of its Five Great Factions.
• Qu Jianlei learned that the Bentley Family Members led the factions with dozens of ships, while his own fleet grew to eighteen as the search continued.
• News that someone outside the Black Zone had found and destroyed a Resisters’ starship made the factions anxious, though the bounty remained active.
• One of Qu Jianlei’s starships encountered two Bentley Family Members’ ships, and both sides fired warning shots after trying to requisition each other.