Chapter Summaries

Qu Jianlei met with Pute to discuss the Empire’s proposed cooperation on research into the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion and exchange of information. The talks ended with Pute asking for Digital Phantom’s methods for lightning tribulations and using magical artifacts in return for access to classified knowledge.

• After returning to Tianfeng, Qu Jianlei received Bai Jinhan and asked why the military wanted to research the Mystic Mansion; Bai Jinhan agreed to relay the question.
• Pute learned that Digital Phantom had another unknown Above Supreme and that Jing Yuexin was in seclusion, then asked Bai Jinhan to arrange a meeting.
• Qu Jianlei met Pute aboard the Battalion-Class Ship, and Pute proposed joint research into the Mystic Mansion and sharing information.
• Qu Jianlei declined the cooperation proposal, saying it did not seem equitable, until Pute revealed that the Alliance had nearly ten thousand Above Supremes and the Federation likely had a comparable number.
• Qu Jianlei requested detailed information about Primal Warriors and Divine Script System cultivators, and Pute offered to seek authorization in exchange for confidentiality and something of value.
• Pute asked for Digital Phantom’s methods for lightning tribulations and using magical artifacts, and Qu Jianlei objected to the price.

Qu Jianlei negotiated with Pute over sharing Battle Formation and talisman technologies, while Pute probed him about tribulations and his strength. Their conversation grew tense as Pute challenged Qu Jianlei to a fight, and Yuanyuan arrived, prompting Pute to regret calling Duo Gan a crazy woman.

• Qu Jianlei refused Pute's requests for tribulation secrets or magical artifact techniques, offering Battle Formations or talismans in exchange for resources instead.
• Pute asked about the lightning tribulation and whether Qu Jianlei had faced one, but Qu Jianlei declined to answer personal questions.
• Pute asked how he would fare against the tribulation passer, and Qu Jianlei said he would win before dismissing Pute as no match for him.
• Pute challenged Qu Jianlei to fight in space, then asked whether his side could resolve tribulation backlash; Qu Jianlei said they were still exploring it.
• Yuanyuan entered, and Pute recognized her as the person who had undergone the Passing Thunder Tribulation.
• Qu Jianlei told Yuanyuan to tell Duo Gan that Pute had called her a crazy woman, and Pute panicked and tried to take back the remark.

Qu Jianlei and Pute discussed magical artifacts, future cooperation, and Duo Gan’s growing strength before Pute left. Seven days later, Datela and two other Supremes arrived claiming to be Da Vinci’s friends, and Qu Jianlei confronted Datela for disguising himself before juniors.

• Yuanyuan offered to test her magical artifact against Pute, but Pute declined to avoid provoking Duo Gan or risking backlash.
• Qu Jianlei confirmed that Digital Phantom was still collecting magical artifacts, and Pute explained that expectations about future methods had driven their prices higher.
• Duo Gan emerged from seclusion, brushed off Pute’s questions, and warned him against being too curious.
• Pute asked Qu Jianlei about Tianfeng Military’s stolen Energy Blocks, but Qu Jianlei dismissed him and sent him away.
• Seven days later, Datela and two other Supremes visited Digital Phantom, and Qu Jianlei revealed himself and challenged Datela’s decision to joke with junior members.

Datela asked Qu Jianlei about Da Vinci and Ironhide Snake, then Da Vinci traveled to Tianfeng to meet his old friend. Their reunion turned to Da Vinci’s ties to Digital Phantom and his shrinking wealth, leaving Datela to explain his suspicions about the team’s recent activity.

• Datela asked Qu Jianlei about Da Vinci and passed along Ironhide Snake’s wish to learn whether anyone in Digital Phantom knew him.
• Qu Jianlei warned that Ironhide Snake’s curiosity could put him in danger and said he would wait for Paranoid before deciding how to handle contact.
• Fifteen days later, Da Vinci arrived on Tianfeng under a B-rank disguise and passed the military’s identity checks.
• Da Vinci met Datela at his courtyard and complained that the trip had interrupted his cultivation.
• Datela said he had noticed Da Vinci’s wealth shrinking and suspected his subordinates’ Energy Block gathering was connected to Digital Phantom.

Datela warned Da Vinci that the Empire was preparing to summon Above Supreme for war and asked him to speak on his behalf if needed. Pute then questioned Da Vinci about joining Digital Phantom and its mental-strength method, offering five billion Energy Blocks as an apology after provoking him.

• Datela told Da Vinci that the Empire was compiling information on Above Supreme and might summon them for war.
• Datela asked Da Vinci to put in a good word for him and learned that Digital Phantom preferred magical artifacts over Energy Blocks.
• Pute entered and asked Da Vinci about his whereabouts and how he had joined Digital Phantom, but Da Vinci refused to reveal team secrets.
• Pute told Da Vinci that the Empire was considering summoning Above Supreme and questioned him about the mental-strength method Digital Phantom had offered for twenty trillion.
• Da Vinci threatened to confront Pute once his condition stabilized, and Pute offered five billion Energy Blocks as an apology.

Pute traded secret information for Qu Jianlei’s Battle Formation Art, while Da Vinci warned Datela about rising Above Supreme powerhouses. The Sail Consortium then tried to negotiate a cheaper purchase of a cultivation method by offering a deal involving Patrice, and Hua Xiezhi called Fourth Boss for guidance.

• Pute left Da Vinci after probing him about Digital Phantom, and Da Vinci told Datela that more Above Supreme powerhouses would appear in Tianfeng within two months.
• Three days later, Pute brought Qu Jianlei information about Primal Warriors and Divine Script practitioners, then received Battle Formation Art in exchange.
• Pute asked Qu Jianlei to lower the price for divine-sense methods, but Qu Jianlei refused to bargain, leaving the military and Digital Phantom unable to agree on terms.
• Sural arrived on behalf of the Sail Consortium and asked to buy a cultivation method, proposing installments or a lower price for the four consortiums.
• Sural offered Patrice’s fate as a bargaining chip, and Hua Xiezhi contacted Fourth Boss after hearing the proposal.

Zhenshan Fort and Digital Phantom prepared to leave Tianfeng after refusing the military’s attempts to keep them there. As a covert fleet infiltrated the region, Pute sensed an attack and recognized the Alliance’s No-Fly Zone.

• Zhenshan Fort refused Sural’s offer of help, and Qu Jianlei told Sural that Digital Phantom would leave in two days.
• Hua Xiezhi told Pute and the Top Leader of Tianfeng Military District that Digital Phantom had no plans to return, while Datela visited Da Vinci and received a contact point.
• Seven Armed Merchant Ships unloaded cargo at the starport, concealing infiltrators who later divided into six teams and advanced toward the military district, Underground City, Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion, and Digital Phantom’s starships.
• Pute sensed danger before dawn, released his Above Supreme Coercive Pressure, and identified the descending force as an Alliance No-Fly Zone.

Pute was caught in a coordinated surprise attack on Tianfeng Star, where the attackers used rare talismans, heavy weapons, and battle formations to strike the military district, Underground City, and Mystic Mansion. As the Mystic Mansion faced an Antimatter Annihilation Bomb, one defender dismissed the threat of using antimatter against the Divine Script System.

• Pute escaped his residence under a No-Fly Zone effect and fled through nearby buildings as heavy weapons, spells, and Mental Attack talismans pursued him.
• Gunfire and explosions struck the military district and Underground City, and two Company-level Warships exploded as they took off.
• The attackers had secretly planted automated cannons and explosives, captured four heavy-firepower fortresses, and split into teams to attack the military district, Underground City, and Mystic Mansion.
• One team found that Datela had already left Tianfeng Star, then joined the assault on the Underground City.
• Attackers using Five Elements Arrays, Three Powers Arrays, and numerous talismans struck the Mystic Mansion, whose layered defenses held against their assault.
• A hazy gray wave made space fluctuate outside the Mystic Mansion, and a defender identified the weapon as an Antimatter Annihilation Bomb before another dismissed its effectiveness against the Divine Script System.

Qu Jianlei's group noticed two suspicious convoys approaching Digital Phantom during a storm and prepared their starships while trying to determine the attackers’ intentions. The suspected attackers held back, and Digital Phantom remained on guard as the chapter ended without a confrontation.

• Observers at the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion learned that the military had also been attacked and could not send reinforcements.
• Hua Xiezhi and other members of Digital Phantom detected two convoys more than a hundred kilometers away and noticed that their capable occupants had posted no sentries.
• Sunset Glow scouted the convoys and reported that something was wrong, prompting the First One and others to investigate.
• Qu Jianlei had the Battalion-Class Ship and Experimental Platform rise several meters to prepare for sudden developments.
• The convoys stayed put after seeing the starships take off, while Qu Jianlei's group discussed their identity and chose to remain cautious rather than confront them.

Qu Jianlei and Digital Phantom repelled an Alliance ambush, killing most of two convoys despite Law Restriction Talismans and perception-stripping authority. Yi He True Monarch suspected the Alliance had obtained a Cultivation World inheritance or found a passage there, while the military requested aid after its nearby Checkpoints were hit.

• Qu Jianlei warned his team that the two visiting convoys might attack from both sides, but the Alliance teams ambushed them with Law Restriction Talismans.
• Qu Jianlei and Jia Shuiqing confronted two Above Supremes, and Jing Yuexin’s Soul Suppressing Bell disrupted an enemy’s Sense Stripping authority before Jia Shuiqing crushed him.
• Qu Jianlei ordered Jing Yuexin and Duo Gan to support from the center, then led the others in killing the attackers and capturing two of the thirty-four people.
• Yi He True Monarch identified the talismans as crude imitations that mainly restricted the Awakened One System’s techniques and speculated that the Alliance had found a Cultivation World passage.
• Claire reported that the military had requested aid after the nearby Checkpoints were affected by the talismans and Jing Yuexin’s bell.

Qu Jianlei led Digital Phantom reinforcements to the military district, where invading Supremes and an Above Supreme were attacking. After Old Lady Jia struck the enemy commander with the Great Seal, the group discovered a Sky Banning Grand Array and fought back with powerful Cultivation World treasures.

• The military asked Digital Phantom to reinforce the military district, and Qu Jianlei sent Evening Glow Senior to observe Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion while taking the others with him.
• Qu Jianlei's group arrived to find more than twenty Supremes attacking the military district as an Above Supreme battered Pute.
• Old Lady Jia struck the Above Supreme with the Great Seal, but he survived through a Substitute Death Puppet, and Qu Jianlei killed him with his Sword Pill.
• Pute warned the group about Space Restriction Talismans, while Yi He identified a Sky Banning Grand Array that also targeted Awakened Ones.
• Qu Jianlei's allies attacked the invaders with magic artifacts, and Yuanyuan brought out her Soul Refining Cover.

Digital Phantom defeated the ambushers at the military district and hurried to reinforce the Mystic Mansion, where the fighting ended with the defenders refusing to take prisoners. The military launched a counterattack while Qu Jianlei and his team helped crush the remaining attackers.

• Mu Yu, Yuanyuan, Mu Guang, Qinghu, Bentley, and Hua Xiezhi used their artifacts to break Three Powers Arrays and kill or capture the Supremes attacking the military district.
• Pute asked Digital Phantom to support the Mystic Mansion, and the military district’s Top Leader offered the group an urgent special hire.
• Qu Jianlei and most of Digital Phantom vanished to the Mystic Mansion, while Pute ordered the military to counterattack and the Top Leader sent troops to the Underground City.
• At the Mystic Mansion, Jia Shuiqing destroyed a Three Powers Array as Qu Jianlei and Old Lady held back and let the team fight.
• Digital Phantom and the Mystic Mansion’s defenders crushed the ambushers, and Mystic Mansion fighters ignored surrender pleas and killed the wounded.

After the attack on the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion was halted by military orders, Qu Jianlei and his allies captured and interrogated enemy Supremes, learning that the Alliance and Federation had organized the assault to seize Digital Phantom’s magical-artifact methods. The chapter ends with the revelation that Qu Jianlei’s team had been targeted with both Space Restriction and Law Restriction Talismans.

• The military ordered the Mystic Mansion garrison to accept surrenders, and Qinghu and Claire returned from the battlefield cleanup.
• Qinghu said he had captured a Supreme, while Qu Jianlei and his team left the Mystic Mansion and interrogated their prisoners.
• Old Lady Jia and the Palace-Attired Beauty urged soul-searching and retaliation, but the Fourth Boss killed the remaining Supreme before he could reveal anything.
• A military representative told the Fourth Boss that the Alliance and Federation had targeted Digital Phantom to obtain its methods for using magical artifacts.
• The representative explained that the assault on the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion had been a test and a diversion, while Qu Jianlei’s team had faced both Space Restriction and Law Restriction Talismans.

After Digital Phantom defeated the attackers, Qu Jianlei met with Pute and Tianfeng’s military leader to discuss the captured Space Restriction Formation and the Alliance and Federation’s threat. The military exchanged formation data and a sample talisman for a chance to recover activation talismans from the team’s loot, then offered funding for research that Qu Jianlei said was low priority.

• The military told Fourth Boss that attackers had seized anti-air fortresses as a backup plan against Digital Phantom’s starships, and Fourth Boss confirmed that the two Above Supremes were dead.
• Pute arrived near evening with Tianfeng’s top military leader and thanked Qu Jianlei for Digital Phantom’s help during the attack.
• Pute explained that the military had found an intact Space Restriction Formation but had lost its activation talismans, and Qu Jianlei agreed to search the team’s loot for them.
• Pute handed Qu Jianlei formation information and a sample talisman in exchange for relevant audio and visual materials about the captured formation.
• The military offered ten billion Energy Blocks to support research into reproducing the talismans, but Qu Jianlei said the project was low on the team’s research list.

Qu Jianlei explained the Law Restriction Talisman Treasure to Pute and discussed selling talismans to the Tianfeng Military District. He agreed to provide samples but refused a large order, and Digital Phantom planned to stay for at most three more days while awaiting the military’s findings about the attack.

• Pute inspected an Alliance talisman and asked Qu Jianlei about the Federation’s Battle Formation and the Alliance’s talisman technology.
• Qu Jianlei explained that the Law Restriction Talisman was a damaged Talisman Treasure with one use remaining, and Pute examined it.
• Pute asked to purchase Alliance talismans and Qu Jianlei’s talismans, but Qu Jianlei agreed only to sell samples because production was difficult and his time was limited.
• Pute asked to examine the attackers’ corpses, and Qu Jianlei allowed it while asking him to wait until Digital Phantom left before investigating the battle traces.
• Qu Jianlei said Digital Phantom would stay for at most three more days while awaiting the military’s investigation, and Pute said another attack of the same scale was unlikely soon.

Qu Jianlei refused Pute’s request for Digital Phantom to cooperate with the military, then had Hua Xiezhi negotiate a large talisman order. Tian Yin discovered four inactive Space Restriction Formations planted to capture Digital Phantom, and Major General Mora arrived as the team investigated them.

• Qu Jianlei declined Pute’s invitation to cooperate with the military and began making talismans, while Jia Shuiqing volunteered to learn the craft.
• Hua Xiezhi negotiated a talisman order worth less than five billion by setting a Supreme-grade talisman’s price at fifty million.
• Tian Yin found inactive Space Restriction Formations near both convoys and reported them to Hua Xiezhi.
• Sunset Glow searched the area, and Digital Phantom recovered four formations with self-destruct devices that Bentley dismantled with Xiao Hu’s help.
• Major General Mora arrived and asked whether the formations Digital Phantom had found were Space Restriction Formations.

Qu Jianlei’s team left Tianfeng Star after selling two Space Restriction Formations to Pute, while the military and visiting Above Supremes investigated the aftermath of the attack. The chapter ended with the renewed search exposing Xiao Moshan and Xiao Qin’s forged identities at the Abandoned Mine.

• Bentley found four activated talismans, and Qu Jianlei prepared the team to leave Tianfeng Star with only Xiao Moshan, Xiao Qin, Paranoid, and Mu Yu staying behind.
• Pute asked Qu Jianlei for Space Restriction Formations, and Qu Jianlei agreed to sell him two sets for fifty billion Energy Blocks each.
• After the team departed aboard its two starships, Hua Xiezhi teleported ten billion Energy Blocks to the Abode for the Artifact Spirit.
• Four days later, military fleets and several Above Supremes arrived on Tianfeng Star to investigate the attack and inspect the restricted battlefield.
• The military’s sweeping investigation uncovered Xiao Moshan and Xiao Qin’s forged identities while they guarded the Abandoned Mine.

Xiao Moshan and Xiao Qin endured an investigation on Tianfeng Star, refusing to reveal their past or accept the authorities’ attempts to control them, until Natasha offered to protect them near their mine. Two months later, while Tianfeng’s leaders debated the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion and the planet’s future, Qu Jianlei and the others had reached Da Vinci’s island on Ironwood Star.

• Xiao Moshan and Xiao Qin claimed to follow Jing Yuexin, but investigators uncovered Xiao Moshan’s military record and Xiao Qin’s links to a Garbage Star, leaving both under suspicion.
• Pute chose to monitor the pair rather than intervene, while investigators threatened them and Xiao Moshan challenged them to prove the two were spies.
• Investigators offered to buy the mine and provide housing and salaries, but Xiao Moshan refused and warned them they would bear blame if anything happened to him or Xiao Qin.
• Natasha, assistant to Above Supreme Datela, took responsibility for protecting the pair and offered to build a residence beside their mine; Xiao Moshan declined to move into the Underground City.
• After a major inspection uncovered more than a hundred fake identities, Above Supremes failed to gain permission to enter the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion and discussed restoring Tianfeng Star.
• Qu Jianlei and the others arrived on Ironwood Star, where Da Vinci had a secluded island that served as a place to recuperate.

The team settled on Ironwood Star and transformed an island into Misty Rain Terrace, where Qu Jianlei and Yi He True Monarch created an improved Praying Rain Array. When Yi He proposed visiting Light Veil Star, Sunset Glow instead insisted they first go to Future Star, where the Divine Script Society's research center stood, to pursue its long-held grudge.

• Qu Jianlei chose Ironwood Star as the team's new cultivation site, and the group built their base on a secluded island.
• Qu Jianlei and Yi He True Monarch worked together to create and improve a Praying Rain Array that used Energy Blocks and localized materials.
• The team completed the island's transformation and named it Misty Rain Terrace.
• Jiaotan asked Qu Jianlei to visit Light Veil Star, and Yi He True Monarch offered to travel with Sunset Glow.
• Sunset Glow redirected the trip to Future Star, where the Divine Script Society's research center was located, and Qu Jianlei hesitated over its plan for revenge.
• Sunset Glow interrupted Qu Jianlei's response by pointing out that the research center contained many magical artifacts.

Qu Jianlei and his companions traveled to Future Star to search for artifacts, taking precautions to avoid detection on the Empire’s heavily monitored research hub. At the Twilight Bar, Jing Yuexin told Qu Jianlei that Rhine planned to attempt a breakthrough to Above Supreme.

• Qu Jianlei agreed to set out after a month of rest and asked Evening Glow not to kill indiscriminately.
• Qu Jianlei left with Yi He True Monarch, Evening Glow, Jing Yuexin, Jia Shuiqing, and Hua Xiezhi, while Duo Gan, Qinghu, and others stayed behind at Misty Rain Terrace.
• The group traveled toward the Core Circle aboard a Battalion-Class Ship and a separate luxury starship, which stopped near Future Star and waited at a space hotel.
• Qu Jianlei and the others teleported to a hidden array near an exotic beast park, then cautiously made their way into a nearby town.
• Evening Glow led the group to the Twilight Bar, where Jing Yuexin told Qu Jianlei that Rhine wanted to attempt a breakthrough to Above Supreme.