Chapter Summaries

Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin discussed Rhine’s request to join their team and agreed to handle her case individually despite concerns about setting a precedent. At Twilight Bar, they heard Carl’s pitch for a Near-Earth Jump project and remained skeptical as he revealed it might require several billion in investment.

• Jing Yuexin told Qu Jianlei that Rhine knew his true identity and had endured pressure to keep it secret, then asked to bring her into the team.
• Qu Jianlei agreed to make an exception for Rhine, while Jing Yuexin worried about the precedent for Duo Gan’s followers.
• Carl approached Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin with an unsolicited pitch about Near-Earth Jump, and Mu Guang suspected Carl and Wei Bo were working together.
• Qu Jianlei decided to hear Carl out, and Jing Yuexin arranged for them to move to a private booth.
• Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin challenged Carl for lacking a concrete proposal and risk analysis, and Carl said the investment could require several billion.

Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin pursued Carl’s Near-Earth Jump research after learning it might improve their Teleportation Array. Carl led them from a bar to his company, where its hidden defenses suggested the meeting could turn dangerous.

• Carl invited Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin to his rented courtyard and showed them crude Near-Earth Jump materials, but demanded proof of funds before revealing the core concepts.
• Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin left after refusing to provide proof of funds, then turned back when Xiao Hu estimated a seventy percent chance the concept could improve teleportation.
• Qu Jianlei paid Carl one million to inspect more detailed materials, and Carl insisted they travel with him to his company to see them.
• Carl returned to the bar to bring Wei Bo, then flew with Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin to his company near Niala.
• Carl led Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin into the company’s underground levels, where Xiao Hu detected concealed weapons, sound-and-light devices, and poison gas.

Qu Jianlei examined Carl’s Near-Earth Jump proposal, recognized that its relay solution could help him develop an ultra-long-range Teleportation Array, and challenged Carl to provide a reliable plan for releasing the relay load. Though Carl and Wei Bo tried to persuade him to invest more, Qu Jianlei offered them securities worth about one billion, leaving them stunned.

• Carl showed Qu Jianlei two pages of his protected Near-Earth Jump proposal and withheld the rest until investment and expert cooperation were secured.
• Qu Jianlei identified that Carl’s proposal only addressed relay transmission and questioned whether its load-release plan could work without enormous costs and losses.
• Qu Jianlei realized Carl’s model gave him a theoretical foundation for an ultra-long-range Teleportation Array, making the one-million fee an exceptionally good bargain.
• Qu Jianlei offered to invest ten billion if Carl had a complete load-release solution, but Carl admitted he had not solved that remaining obstacle.
• Wei Bo urged Carl to give up, and Qu Jianlei called their performance good acting before handing them securities worth about one billion.
• Wei Bo recognized the securities were from a fund under Empire Trust Bank and froze in surprise.

Qu Jianlei funded Wei Bo and Carl’s research, then traveled with Jing Yuexin to Hongyuan with their group to hide at White Deer Villa and set up the Praying Rain Array. By the third day, rain began to fall, and Ruler asked if they would move that night.

• Qu Jianlei told Wei Bo to develop her project and invest his money without signing an agreement, leaving Wei Bo and Carl to wonder whether the securities were genuine.
• Jing Yuexin guessed Qu Jianlei’s investment could support ultra-long-distance teleportation, and he confirmed that a model existed.
• Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin reached Hongyuan with Old Lady Jia and the others, arriving during the day to avoid the city’s nighttime curfew.
• Sunset Glow led the group into Lu Ming’s White Deer Villa, where they avoided Mental Strength recognition devices and prepared the Praying Rain Array.
• Clouds gathered over Hongyuan by the third day, and light rain began that evening as Ruler asked whether the group would move that night.

Qu Jianlei agreed to help Sunset Glow settle old scores while keeping the team focused on the Divine Script Society’s warehouses and on having reasons for every killing. Their first target was already dead, so they left his descendants alive and moved on to the Supreme connected to him by marriage.

• Qu Jianlei accepted the team’s plan to target the Divine Script Society’s warehouses, then promised to kill Sunset Glow’s enemies himself while insisting each target needed a justification.
• Sunset Glow named three Supremes, around ten A-ranks, and four B-ranks who had taken part in its past mistreatment, and Qu Jianlei approved its reasons for pursuing them.
• Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow entered the old Supreme’s estate during the rain and learned he had died a natural death more than half a year earlier.
• Sunset Glow agreed to leave the old Supreme’s descendants alive, though it wanted them to experience hardship, and Qu Jianlei led it out of the estate.
• Sunset Glow identified the old Supreme’s in-law as its next target, describing him as a Supreme who had repeatedly killed people indiscriminately and escaped punishment through his connections.

Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow killed Supreme Braun and other people on Sunset Glow’s target list, then prepared to leave Future Star as the operation began. The chapter ended with Qu Jianlei sending out the secret code for the next phase.

• Braun rejected an A-rank man’s request to help the Alliance, though he agreed to speak in favor of the Federation in exchange for talisman-paper technology.
• Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow ambushed Braun and the A-rank man, killed them, and removed their bodies and the room’s furniture.
• Qu Jianlei killed a research fanatic and the three members of his experimental group at a Divine Script Society institute, then searched Brian’s residence for valuables.
• Qu Jianlei sent Mental Strength pulses that killed the remaining listed Awakened Ones below Supreme on Future Star.
• Qu Jianlei sent the secret code for the operation and prepared to slip away with Sunset Glow.

Qu Jianlei's team escaped a citywide search after killing Awakened Ones and raiding more than thirty Divine Script Society warehouses on Future Star. They tallied their haul in hiding as the Divine Script Society blamed hostile Nations and vowed to prevent another Tianfeng tragedy.

• Authorities traced the Mental Attacks to Brian's residence but delayed investigating, while Brian, his guest, and members of his experimental group disappeared as the attacks and warehouse robberies threw Future Star into alarm.
• Jia Shuiqing warned the raiders to withdraw after a Water Attribute Supreme sensed Tian Yin, and the team escaped to White Deer Villa before an Above Supreme began searching Hongyuan City.
• Inspectors searched White Deer Villa but did not enter its rooms after the guard invoked Lu Ming's connection to Digital Phantom, and the team remained hidden in the basement during the ensuing lockdown.
• After ten days, Qu Jianlei and the others assessed their haul of research materials, supplies, weapons, and one old-model Gauss Gun, while Sunset Glow offered to help investigate artifacts.
• Big Head Butterfly reported that the Divine Script Society had blamed hostile parties and said it would not let the Tianfeng tragedy happen again.

After the Tianfeng disaster, Qu Jianlei’s team waited out the lockdown in Hongyuan City while he sensed an unknown force tracking him. Elsewhere, an old Above Supreme used thousands of spirit stones with Divine Script Society leaders to investigate the strange workings of Luck, but stopped when the cost grew too high.

• The authorities ended Tianfeng’s lockdown after five days but withheld details, and Qu Jianlei’s team stayed in Hongyuan City for several more days.
• Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin walked together in the rain until he sensed someone tracking them and sent her away to investigate separately.
• Yi He suggested that someone might be calculating the secrets of heaven, and he agreed with Qu Jianlei to investigate.
• An old man at a domed facility used spirit stones and hand seals to scan Hongyuan City while four of the Seven Great Heads watched.
• The old man concluded that the investigation’s spirit-stone consumption had increased and refused to continue, despite the Divine Script Society woman offering more stones.

Qu Jianlei and his team left Hongyuan City after discovering that the Divine Script Society might have equipment capable of tracking heavenly secrets, then reunited with their Battalion-Class Ship near Pan Rock Star. There, the Core Circle military negotiated to buy talismans, and Qu Jianlei agreed to sell twelve billion worth in exchange for talisman-making materials.

• An old Above Supreme refused the four Supremes’ request to use Ask the Heavens' Secrets again, warning that it could damage his lifespan and foundation.
• Qu Jianlei confirmed that the suspicious signal had vanished, learned its likely location was the Divine Script Society's Military Application Research Center, and chose to leave Hongyuan City rather than risk provoking the military.
• Qu Jianlei’s team dismantled the Praying Rain Array and departed Future Star, while Fourth Boss refused the military’s request to meet aboard the Battalion-Class Ship and ordered it to rendezvous at Pan Rock Star.
• After the ships reunited near Pan Rock Star, Qu Jianlei rebuked the military for following them through space, then landed at a Shui Corporation goods yard with his team.
• The Core Circle military offered to buy twenty billion worth of talismans, but Qu Jianlei capped the sale at twelve billion and requested talisman-making materials instead of Energy Blocks.

Hua Xiezhi rejected the military district’s request for a Battle Formation instructor while negotiating talisman sales and sensitive materials. Jing Yuexin welcomed Rhine Haiyin into Digital Phantom after Rhine renounced her inheritance and cut ties with her former life, and Rhine met Qu Jianlei and Hua Xiezhi as a new teammate.

• Hua Xiezhi agreed to sell talismans at a discount but refused to send an instructor to the Core Circle Military District, then gave its military supreme a list of materials to purchase.
• Jing Yuexin met Rhine Haiyin and asked whether she had settled her affairs and severed her outside ties.
• Rhine told Jing Yuexin she had renounced her place in the Haiyin succession so she could join Digital Phantom and pursue a chance to reach the supreme realm.
• Qu Jianlei welcomed Rhine as a comrade after she bowed to him as First One.
• Hua Xiezhi recognized Rhine from their past encounters, encouraged her to work toward the supreme realm, and heard Rhine ask whether she had a magical artifact.

Qu Jianlei’s team welcomed Rhine into Digital Phantom, completed a military exchange, and turned away an offer to buy membership. After Qu Jianlei and Jia Shuiqing tested an ultra-long-distance Teleportation Array on a desolate planet and Tianfeng Star, Qu Jianlei prepared to travel to Future Star.

• Rhine joined Digital Phantom, and Hua Xiezhi explained that she needed to replace her Inner Breath with spiritual energy before pursuing Above Supreme.
• The military exchanged rare materials for talismans, while Qu Jianlei refused an Energy Stone Mine stake offered in exchange for joining the team and told Shui Xisheng to reach the peak of A-rank first.
• After Fourth Boss ended the sword-intent observations, the Battalion-Class Ship carried Zhenshan Fort into space and returned the group to Misty Rain Terrace.
• Qu Jianlei and Jia Shuiqing spent four months developing and testing an ultra-long-distance Teleportation Array, installing remote arrays on a desolate planet and Tianfeng Star.
• Qu Jianlei and Jia Shuiqing visited Paranoid and Mu Yu on Tianfeng Star, found Mu Yu nearing the peak of Supreme, and learned that Xiao Moshan and Xiao Qin remained under protection near the Abandoned Mine.
• Qu Jianlei returned to Misty Rain Terrace, set up another ultra-long-distance Teleportation Array, and planned to depart for Future Star.

Qu Jianlei searched Xinguang City for research into fate but found no leads, then got caught up in a Department of Anomalous Affairs sting at Twilight Bar. After a drunken street confrontation, he recognized Young Master Qian He among the people who had arrived.

• Qu Jianlei searched the Empire's network and asked around Twilight Bar but found no information about anyone studying the secrets of fate.
• A researcher offered a popular talisman research project at Twilight Bar, drawing a crowd before Department of Anomalous Affairs officers raided the gathering and detained more than ten people.
• After leaving the bar, Qu Jianlei was struck by a drunken young woman, who accused him of blocking her and called friends to confront him.
• Qu Jianlei evaded an A-rank man's shove and insisted the group check surveillance footage, which confirmed that the woman had run into him.
• When one of the men refused to apologize, Qu Jianlei addressed Qian He by name and asked him to make his friend apologize, startling Qian He.

Qu Jianlei met Qian He, who accompanied him fishing and traded information about Digital Phantom and the Divine Script Society. Qian He revealed that the Society’s Military Application Research Center concealed valuable secrets, but he woke from Qu Jianlei’s mental interference before naming an expert connected to predictions about the Empire’s future.

• Qian He caught up with Qu Jianlei, asked about his investment scale, and joined him on a fishing trip.
• While they fished, Qian He described the Divine Script Society’s stolen Gauss Gun artifact and its guarded collection of artifacts.
• Qu Jianlei claimed he had contacted Digital Phantom and offered to introduce Qian He in exchange for a suitable price.
• Qian He revealed that the Military Application Research Center was partly a front and that its twelfth floor supposedly held secrets concerning the Empire’s rise and fall.
• Qu Jianlei used Mental Strength interference to prompt Qian He to recall an expert who could calculate the Empire’s future, but Qian He snapped awake before giving the name.
• Qu Jianlei and Qian He fished until nearly noon the next day, and Qian He caught more fish.

Qu Jianlei investigated the Military Application Research Center with Evening Glow Senior and Yi He, where they discovered a powerful imitation of the Celestial Evolution Platform. After escaping with its Array Plate and learning Evening Glow Senior had stolen spirit stones, Qu Jianlei prepared to continue tracking the hidden legacy.

• Qian He had surveillance placed on Qu Jianlei, but Qu Jianlei changed his appearance, vanished from the cameras, and reached a forest near Hongyuan City.
• Evening Glow Senior scouted the research center and found at least a hundred thousand spirit stones, but Qu Jianlei hesitated to steal them because they might be an Imperial reserve.
• Evening Glow Senior teleported Qu Jianlei and Yi He to the building’s twelfth floor, where Yi He recognized a Celestial Evolution Platform and Qu Jianlei opened its cabinet.
• Qu Jianlei took the Taiji Bagua Array Disc, while Evening Glow Senior and Yi He escaped after the alarm sounded.
• Qu Jianlei learned that Evening Glow Senior had secretly taken spirit stones and said the legacy was not in Hongyuan City, then asked Yi He to explain the Celestial Evolution Platform.

While fishing in Tianyou, Qu Jianlei learned that the Trewba Team had been murdered and suspected that the killings and a theft from the Divine Script Society’s research center were being used to frame Digital Phantom. He decided to meet the Society in hopes of finding clues about heavenly opportunity, while Xiao Hu traced the speculation back to Hongyuan City.

• Qu Jianlei traveled to Tianyou, where Xiao Hu found an anomalous location as he searched for clues to heavenly opportunity.
• Big Head Butterfly reported that Trewba and his four teammates had been killed with Metal Attribute spells, while their six bodyguards remained unharmed.
• The Department of Anomalous Affairs distanced itself from the Trewba Team, and rumors began blaming the killings on Digital Phantom.
• The Divine Script Society announced that an apparent Above Supreme had stolen from its Hongyuan City research center, prompting further speculation about Digital Phantom.
• Yi He and Sunset Glow advised Qu Jianlei to meet the Society, and he agreed after realizing the meeting might reveal treasures connected to heavenly opportunity.
• Xiao Hu traced many claims linking Digital Phantom to the incidents back to Hongyuan City, leaving Qu Jianlei suspicious of the Society’s motives.

Qu Jianlei confronted the Divine Script Society in Hongyuan City after it demanded an explanation from Digital Phantom, overpowering its members with his presence. He accused the Society of destroying the Trewba Team and challenged its hypocrisy, leaving the accusation hanging before a stunned crowd.

• Qu Jianlei arrived at the Divine Script Society’s building at night, shattered over a hundred searchlights, and demanded that an Above Supreme come out to meet him.
• Qu Jianlei’s rebukes injured a Society member and knocked a newly advanced Above Supreme unconscious, while onlookers and city guards gathered nearby.
• An arriving Above Supreme backed away from a fight after Qu Jianlei challenged him to follow into space and accused the Society of slandering Digital Phantom.
• Qu Jianlei accused the Divine Script Society of wiping out the Trewba Team, prompting an uproar among the witnesses.
• Qu Jianlei rejected the Society’s demand for evidence and accused it of demanding that Digital Phantom prove it had not stolen anything.

Qu Jianlei confronted the Divine Script Society over the deaths of Trewba’s team and accused it of framing Digital Phantom. After killing two people who challenged him, he met the Society’s legendary Giant Axe in space, where Giant Axe admitted the Society had killed Trewba’s team, though not intentionally.

• Qu Jianlei accused White Mist of killing Trewba’s team to frame Digital Phantom, while White Mist denied the charge and urged him to move elsewhere.
• When two A-rank spectators interrupted and threatened him, Qu Jianlei killed them, and White Mist used his Above Supreme pressure to silence the crowd.
• Qu Jianlei pressed White Mist about Trewba, and White Mist said the team had been a gang of swindlers who deserved to die if the Society had killed them.
• Qu Jianlei demanded a public apology, then followed White Mist more than two thousand kilometers above the ground to talk.
• White Mist revealed himself as Giant Axe, apologized for his followers’ conduct, and admitted the Society had killed Trewba’s team unintentionally.
• Qu Jianlei accused Giant Axe of lying and challenged his dignity as an Above Supreme.

Qu Jianlei confronted Giant Axe over the Divine Script Society’s scheme to draw Digital Phantom into helping recover the stolen Taiji Bagua Disk, then learned about the artifact and its history. He left to pursue clues about celestial mechanism divination, while Giant Axe resolved to repair the Society’s relationship with Digital Phantom.

• Giant Axe explained that the Divine Script Society had used the Trewba Team’s deaths as a pretext to contact Digital Phantom after the Taiji Bagua Disk was stolen.
• Qu Jianlei demonstrated his movement technique, criticized the Divine Script Society, and demanded a public apology before ending their cooperation talks.
• Giant Axe described the disk’s origins, its dangerous use, and the Divine Script Society’s research into it.
• Qu Jianlei said he would let the Divine Script Society off for now, then vanished from Giant Axe’s sight.
• Qu Jianlei rejected Sunset Glow’s suggestion to investigate the Xilai Family and said he wanted clues about celestial mechanism calculations instead.
• Qu Jianlei agreed to investigate more closely for celestial mechanism treasures, while Giant Axe sighed over having repeatedly provoked Digital Phantom.

Qu Jianlei investigated the families of the six assistants across several planets but found no clear trace of the possible treasure, then traveled to Silver Wing Star to search the Ya Yi'an Family’s remaining clan members. In Everbright, an unexpected rain prompted Yi He to sense something that Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow could not detect.

• Giant Axe refrained from tracking Qu Jianlei and arranged for the Divine Script Society to lower alarms near the Xilai Family’s important locations.
• Qu Jianlei searched Heaven’s Blessing and Ambition City, then investigated the assistants’ families on Pillar Star, Triumphant Star, and Seven Color Star without finding anything unusual.
• After Big Head Butterfly pointed out that the Ya Yi'an Family still had members on Silver Wing Star, Qu Jianlei decided to search there before giving up.
• Qu Jianlei and his companions arrived on Silver Wing Star, where Qu Jianlei sensed a vague pull toward a distant area but chose to visit the Central City first.
• In Everbright, rain began falling as Qu Jianlei and his companions explored the city, and Yi He reacted to something he sensed.

Qu Jianlei traced a divination-related treasure to a secret chamber beneath the Ya Yi'an Family’s ancestral grave, but struggled with how to obtain it without violating the family’s resting place. Yi He revealed that he had identified Federation and Alliance spies in Moliere, and the group headed back to investigate.

• Qu Jianlei searched Moliere and then a nearby town, where Big Head Butterfly identified eleven Ya Yi'an Family estates.
• Qu Jianlei located the treasure beneath the family’s ancestral grave and learned from Sunset Glow that a secret chamber lay below it.
• Qu Jianlei decided the family would need to bring the treasure out themselves, since he could not bring himself to disturb the grave.
• Yi He revealed that he had found Federation and Alliance spies in Everbright and Moliere.
• Qu Jianlei and his companions returned to Moliere in daylight, postponing further action because of the city’s surveillance.