Chapter Summaries

Qu Jianlei and Yi He uncovered Alliance and Federation spies in Silverwing by searching their souls, then decided to deliver captured agents to the City Guard under the name Digital Phantom. They left five prisoners in Yongming City, where a City Guard crew discovered the message and debated what to do.

• Qu Jianlei captured three spies in Moliere, and Yi He discovered that two had altered their genes with an unstable agent from the Alliance and Federation.
• Yi He searched the Modified Warrior's soul and confirmed he was from the Federation, but both prisoners became idiots from the searches.
• Qu Jianlei rejected Sunset Glow's suggestion to frame someone from the Ya Yi'an Family and decided to report the spies as captures by Digital Phantom.
• Qu Jianlei and his companions went to Yongming City, captured five more spies, and had Xiao Hu infiltrate the South District City Guard network to leave a message.
• Three City Guards on duty saw the report claiming Digital Phantom had captured enemy spies and debated whether to dispatch officers or report it.

Qu Jianlei investigated suspected spies on Silver Wing Star as the government intensified its search and scrutinized the Ya Yi'an Family. He approached Yi Suo, revealed himself as being from Digital Phantom, and proposed a deal involving an artifact, leaving Yi Suo wondering whether their ancestor Ya Yi'an had brought the family trouble.

• City guards found five unconscious suspects in Yongming City, and investigators confirmed that all five belonged to the Empire's genetic lineage despite warnings that they had been injected with Gene Simulation Agent.
• The Silver Wing Star government launched a broad spy investigation, focused on Moliere City and the Ya Yi'an Family, while the Divine Script Society hinted that Digital Phantom was likely genuine but withheld what it knew.
• Qu Jianlei tested two suspected spies in a small city and found that soul searching turned the Alliance spy into an idiot but left the other person unharmed.
• Yi He identified a suspected spy among the Ya Yi'an Family's business associates, prompting Qu Jianlei to visit the family before its members returned from the Core Circle.
• Qu Jianlei raised his cultivation before the family's receptionist and Yi Suo, identified himself as being from Digital Phantom, warned that enemy spies had targeted the family, and proposed a deal involving an artifact.
• Yi Suo asked why the family had been targeted and wondered whether the cause was their ancestor, Ya Yi'an.

Qu Jianlei told Yi Suo that the Ya Yi'an Family had been infiltrated by an enemy spy and negotiated a reward for helping them. After the Patrol arrested the suspected spy, Qu returned to demand the item hidden beneath Ya Yi'an’s grave, leaving Yi Suo surprised and wary of the risks.

• Qu Jianlei told Yi Suo that an enemy spy had infiltrated the Ya Yi'an Family and demanded a reward for providing evidence.
• Yi Suo agreed to let Qu choose the reward, then reported the suspicious female assistant to the authorities.
• The Patrol arrested the assistant and found her identity suspicious, while the military questioned Yi Suo about Digital Phantom’s involvement.
• Qu visited Yi Suo again and demanded that he retrieve the contents of a Secret Chamber beneath Ya Yi'an’s grave.
• Qu warned that spies might be targeting the family for a magical artifact, and Yi Suo reacted with alarm.

Qu Jianlei persuaded Yi Suo to let Digital Phantom investigate the magical artifact hidden beneath Ya Yi'an's grave, and Yi Suo agreed after realizing the danger of refusing. Guided by messages from the family’s ancestors, Yi Suo opened the Secret Chamber and returned without revealing what he found.

• Qu Jianlei left after Yi Suo objected to disturbing the ancestors’ graves, then returned when Yi Suo called him back and agreed to let him decide the terms.
• Yi Suo accepted that the Ya Yi'an Family needed Digital Phantom’s protection and promised to make arrangements, while Qu Jianlei said he wanted to see who would dare intercept Digital Phantom’s business.
• Yi Suo opened Ya Yi'an’s sealed safe and found alloy plates confirming that important items were hidden in a Secret Chamber beneath the grave.
• Yi Suo brought clansmen to the cemetery for three days of rites, then entered the concealed passage to the Secret Chamber at night.
• After spending an hour inside the passage, Yi Suo emerged, bowed, and sealed the entrance again.

Qu Jianlei obtained the seashells, stone fragments, and Rouge Jade necklace recovered from Ya Yi'an’s hidden room, while Yi He identified a soul-nourishing quality in the fragments. Qu Jianlei offered Yi Suo ten billion and one future act of assistance for the items, leaving the family to decide whether to accept the bargain.

• Yi Suo encountered Black Shadow at the grave, but Qu Jianlei drove the intruder away and asked Yi Suo to bring him what he had found.
• Qu Jianlei shielded himself and Yi Suo from onlookers, and Yi Suo handed over an Item-Storing Talisman containing seashells, stone fragments, and a Rouge Jade necklace.
• Yi Suo believed the Divine Script fragments were the most valuable items, but Qu Jianlei sensed that the seashells were what had resonated with him.
• Yi He said the fragments resembled the Heart Cleansing Art and could help calm the mind and nourish a soul, though their benefit to him was limited.
• Qu Jianlei asked to take all the items and offered Yi Suo ten billion plus one act of assistance for the family, provided it did not violate public order or morality.

Yi Suo negotiated a protection deal with Qu Jianlei for the Ya Yi'an Family, while Qu Jianlei later studied the Seashells he had acquired with Yi He. The chapter ended with Qu Jianlei deciding to carve a Rouge Jade tray to support their divination.

• Yi Suo asked to exchange part of the payment for talismans and to send two family juniors to cultivate with Digital Phantom, but Qu Jianlei rejected those terms.
• Qu Jianlei offered twenty billion in cash, two billion worth of talismans, one chance for Digital Phantom to act, and public protection for the Ya Yi'an Family; Yi Suo accepted and asked that his family's juniors receive priority if Digital Phantom recruited members.
• Qu Jianlei told Yi Suo to inform the military that Digital Phantom was still refining its method for detecting spies, then left to return to Ironwood Star.
• After arriving at Misty Rain Terrace, Qu Jianlei studied the fourteen Seashells with Yi He, who explained that Seashells were the earliest medium for Li Divination and that nine of them were usable.
• Yi He advised Qu Jianlei to use a tray for divination, so Qu Jianlei decided to carve one from Rouge Jade he already had.

Qu Jianlei attempted to use Heavenly Oracle Calculation to predict when Claire would reach Above Supreme, but burning incense triggered backlash from the world's Heavenly Dao and injured him. The divination’s result remained unclear as one of the cracked Seashells split apart.

• Qu Jianlei crafted a Rouge Jade divination plate, learned Yi He's Nine Revolutions Spirit Focusing Art, and prepared to calculate Claire's future.
• Qu Jianlei felt foreboding but proceeded with the divination, then suffered backlash and spat out blood after casting the Seashells.
• Yi He realized that burning incense had provoked the world's Heavenly Dao and fled to Light Gauze Star, while Sunset Glow laughed at Qu Jianlei's misfortune.
• Qu Jianlei checked his injuries and reassured Claire and the others when they rushed to the Secret Chamber.
• Jing Yuexin asked whether the divination had succeeded, and one of the cracked Seashells split apart before Qu Jianlei could answer.

Qu Jianlei recovered from his backlash and used Rhine’s damaged Turtle Shell to prepare for another divination. When he asked when You You’s wanted notice would be revoked, the hexagram pointed toward Xiao Moshan, leaving the team to consider how she could resolve the matter without being publicly tied to Digital Phantom.

• Rhine brought Qu Jianlei a damaged Turtle Shell from her family’s estate, and he determined that it could still assist with divination.
• Jing Yuexin told Rhine not to worry about rank within Digital Phantom and offered to examine her other damaged magical artifacts.
• After further recovery and a simulated divination, Qu Jianlei began his second divination, this time asking when You You’s wanted notice would be revoked.
• Qu Jianlei’s divination produced an answer about a direction rather than a time, and he identified Tianfeng Star and Xiao Moshan as the clue.
• The team realized You You could ask Xiao Moshan to resolve her wanted status, while seeking help from Zhenshan Fort might publicly mark her as a member of Digital Phantom.

Qu Jianlei’s divination pointed You You toward Xiao Moshan as the best person to help remove her wanted notice, then he tested his abilities by searching for an ownerless damaged artifact on Ironwood Star. Jing Yuexin and Duo Gan followed his location and eventually found a battered miniature spaceship that was an artifact.

• Qu Jianlei concluded that Xiao Moshan could use his standing to help You You and pretended to suffer backlash to discourage further requests for divinations.
• Jing Yuexin and the others recognized how remarkable Qu Jianlei’s calculation was, while he resolved not to perform more divinations until he understood their risks.
• After ten days of recovery and practice with the Nine Revolutions Spirit Focusing Art, Qu Jianlei divined a location on Ironwood Star where an ownerless damaged artifact might be found.
• Jing Yuexin and Duo Gan searched the area discreetly, expanding their search after two days without results.
• Jing Yuexin found Qu Jianlei and presented him with a rusted, battered miniature spaceship, which she and Duo Gan had discovered was an artifact.

The team recovered a damaged Nascent Soul Realm Flying Shuttle and found it could be operated with enough spiritual energy, though its need for High-Grade Spirit Stones made it impractical. After studying its shrinking and expansion, Qu Jianlei made a breakthrough in artifact design and secretly set out to investigate another damaged magical artifact; Jing Yuexin noticed he had left.

• Bentley used Xiao Hu's records to connect the buried toy spaceship to a battle against wanted criminals, and Mu Guang unearthed it.
• Jing Yuexin and Duo Gan enlarged the spaceship slightly, confirming it was a damaged Nascent Soul Realm magical artifact that still seemed usable.
• Jia Shuiqing supplied enough spiritual energy to expand the Flying Shuttle, and Qu Jianlei powered it with Low-Grade Spirit Stones and read its operating guide.
• The group learned the Flying Shuttle required High-Grade Spirit Stones and lacked its weapons, so Qu Jianlei agreed to set it aside while studying its design.
• Qu Jianlei spent two months mastering how to make magical artifacts change size, then divined the location of a second damaged artifact and secretly left Misty Rain Terrace to investigate.
• Jing Yuexin noticed Qu Jianlei had disappeared.

Qu Jianlei stopped divining after sensing danger and traveled to Light Gauze Star with Duo Gan, Hua Xiezhi, and the Fourth Boss to find Yi He and Sunset Glow. Yi He asked him to divine the Space Barrier’s weak point, but Duo Gan warned that the backlash could overwhelm him, while the group learned the damaged Flying Shuttle might have been capable of breaking through the barrier if its weapons still worked.

• Qu Jianlei returned from a nighttime search with a ruined handkerchief, and Jing Yuexin confronted him about sneaking out and divining.
• Qu Jianlei explained that he had stopped a divination after sensing danger, then spent the following days researching how to replicate the Black Colt Tower.
• Big Head Butterfly completed a preliminary model for identifying spies and advised Qu Jianlei to consult Yi He, so Qu Jianlei arranged a trip to Light Gauze Star.
• Qu Jianlei left Misty Rain Terrace with Duo Gan, Hua Xiezhi, and the Fourth Boss, then found Yi He and Sunset Glow near Light Gauze Star.
• Yi He asked Qu Jianlei to divine the weak point in the Space Barrier, but Duo Gan objected that the backlash could be too dangerous.
• Sunset Glow recognized Qu Jianlei’s damaged Flying Shuttle, and Yi He said that its weapons system might have let it break through the Space Barrier.

Qu Jianlei’s group searched Light Gauze Star for a damaged artifact, then traveled to Snowfield Star to capture spies and study a new screening method through Yi He’s soul searches. The chapter left Yi He and Xiao Hu beginning to convert searched memories into data with Qu Jianlei coordinating their efforts.

• Qu Jianlei divined the location of an ownerless damaged artifact on Light Gauze Star, and Hua Xiezhi retrieved a cracked Lifebound Flying Sword from a bank vault.
• Sunset Glow and Yi He found no confirmed spies on Light Gauze Star, so Qu Jianlei decided to investigate Snowfield Star instead.
• After arriving at Snowfield Star, the group discovered a large spy network, planned arrests, and captured more than two hundred people in one night.
• Qu Jianlei’s group built an underground Stone Chamber and equipped the captured spies with sensors so Xiao Hu could record data during Yi He’s soul searches.
• Yi He began searching the spies’ memories slowly for Xiao Hu to observe, then worked with Xiao Hu to convert those memories into data with Qu Jianlei’s help.

Yi He, Qu Jianlei, and Xiao Hu developed a model for identifying spies, prompting a planetwide screening on Snowfield Star. Qu Jianlei then performed another divination, which led Yi He and Sunset Glow to find a ghost cultivator’s soul-tempering method.

• Yi He, Qu Jianlei, and Xiao Hu completed a memory-to-data model and soul-searched more than two hundred people, leaving nine Suspected Spies who had not become idiots.
• Qu Jianlei and his companions released five innocent people, while Snowfield Star’s military investigated the mass disappearances and suspected Digital Phantom was responsible.
• Qu Jianlei had Xiao Hu infiltrate the military network and send it the spy-identification model and the warehouse’s coordinates.
• The military recovered the missing people, tested the model against them and soldiers, and confirmed its accuracy before requesting planetwide screening.
• After the Empire ordered Snowfield Star to serve as a pilot site, Yi He asked Qu Jianlei to divine a method for refining the divine soul.
• Qu Jianlei’s divination led Sunset Glow and Yi He to an underground Stone Chamber, where they found a ghost cultivator’s method and corpse.

After recovering on Snowfield, Qu Jianlei considered Duo Gan’s request to help her chief steward Kefu attempt a breakthrough to Above Supreme. Yi He offered a method for binding oaths, and Kefu accepted the condition, leaving Qu Jianlei to arrange their meeting.

• Qu Jianlei recuperated for five days in the underground Stone Chamber while military warships searched the area and failed to detect the group.
• Duo Gan told Qu Jianlei that Kefu wanted his help attempting to break through to Above Supreme and offered information about a vast Energy Stone Mine.
• Qu Jianlei hesitated because he barely knew Kefu and feared adding another difficult-to-manage Pseudo-Nascent Soul to the team.
• Yi He offered Qu Jianlei a method for imposing binding Oath Restrictions and explained that Kefu would be free if Qu Jianlei died.
• Duo Gan reported that Kefu had accepted the oath and would still offer the mine information, so Qu Jianlei told her to arrange a concealed meeting on Snowfield Star.

Kefu arrived on Snowfield Star, joined Qu Jianlei’s team, and learned about its Gathering Spirit Array. Qu Jianlei then divined a damaged Yin Soul Pouch that could serve as a Spirit Beast Pouch, but Yi He warned him that repeated divination could cause irreversible harm.

• Kefu passed Snowfield Star’s genetic screening and told the inspectors he had come hoping to help Digital Phantom.
• Duo Gan met Kefu, brought him to Qu Jianlei, and Kefu revealed the information about the Energy Stone Mine before swearing a secrecy oath.
• Kefu saw the Gathering Spirit Array and was astonished that Energy Blocks could generate vast amounts of spiritual energy.
• Qu Jianlei divined an ownerless damaged magic artifact, and Sunset Glow and Yi He returned with a Yin Soul Pouch that could hold living creatures up to the Golden Core Realm.
• Qu Jianlei designated the pouch for the team’s shared use, and Yi He warned that Qu Jianlei’s excessive divination could cause irreversible damage.

Kefu reunited with Qu Jianlei’s group on Ironwood Star after accepting Space Stones from the Blade Star Domain military, which helped Qu Jianlei’s research into spatial compression. When Qu Jianlei’s group visited a newly developed Energy Stone Mine, the Pan Rock military offered them more Space Stones and asked for help with attacks on Ya Yi'an’s clansmen.

• Kefu left Qu Jianlei’s team, accepted five Space Stones from the Blade Star Domain military, established a mining company, and eventually joined the group on Ironwood Star.
• Qu Jianlei used the Space Stone powder he had to make two Item-Storing Talismans and was glad that Kefu brought solid Space Stones for his Black Colt Tower research.
• Qu Jianlei learned that Qinghu planned to form a Nascent Soul at Misty Rain Terrace and face the tribulation lightning after teleporting elsewhere, while Nationwide Gene Detection inspections spread to Ironwood Star.
• Qu Jianlei, Jing Yuexin, Duo Gan, Hua Xiezhi, and Fourth Boss traveled to Pan Rock Star to inspect their Energy Stone Mine and told the military they had no interest in visiting headquarters.
• The Pan Rock military gave the group ten fist-sized Space Stones, then warned them that Ya Yi'an’s clansmen had suffered attacks and asked for help protecting them.

After learning that the Ya Yi'an Family had been targeted by enemy spies, Digital Phantom considered its response and Qu Jianlei reconsidered how he used divination. The group later reached an Energy Stone Mine in the Tianhe Star Region, where Qu Jianlei secretly established a long-range Teleportation Array.

• The Lieutenant General told Hua Xiezhi and Duo Gan that the military had protected the Ya Yi'an Family after spies targeted them, and offered to arrange travel to the Federation or Alliance.
• Hua Xiezhi said Digital Phantom had not hit the spies hard enough, but Duo Gan declined to discuss their plans with the Lieutenant General.
• Jing Yuexin warned Qu Jianlei not to waste divination on wealth, and he agreed to reserve it for when it was necessary.
• Fourth Boss finished observing the sword intent four days later, and Shui Xisheng confirmed that the Ya Yi'an Family had already received military protection.
• A month later, Digital Phantom arrived at the Energy Stone Mine in the Tianhe Star Region, where Duo Gan established their authority and Qu Jianlei resisted divining the reserves.
• Qu Jianlei chose a location on the celestial body and secretly set up a long-range Teleportation Array.

Qu Jianlei's group changed course to investigate a Frontline where the Alliance had withdrawn and the Empire was fighting an Alien Race. After learning about the Winged Hand Race, they decided to continue to the Frontline, where they finally reached the military fleet.

• Qu Jianlei brought Bentley, Yuanyuan, Claire, Tian Yin, Sunset Glow, and Yi He toward the Frontline, but two Empire generals asked them to visit another breach instead.
• Qu Jianlei's group agreed to change course, refused the generals' offer to send a warship with them, and learned from Xiao Hu that the military lacked a clear grasp of the situation.
• A Major General explained that the Alliance had deliberately abandoned the breach after luring an Alien Race into the war zone, leaving the Empire to defend its bridgehead.
• The Major General showed Qu Jianlei's group footage of the Winged Hand Race, and Yi He judged that the aliens posed no serious threat to them.
• Qu Jianlei decided to inspect the Frontline, refused the Major General's guidance, and continued onward until the group reached the military fleet.

Qu Jianlei’s group entered the forest-like Locust territory and fought their first battle against the trees and Locusts. They withdrew after testing the enemy’s defenses and collecting Locust corpses and tree fragments for study.

• Qu Jianlei chose a Heavy Cargo Starship from the military and refused to let military personnel aboard as the group headed deeper into space.
• Yi He explained that the metallic trees and Locusts shared a symbiotic relationship and spread between planets together.
• Qu Jianlei’s ships tested their weapons against the trees, finding that destroying them required heavy firepower and many shots.
• The trees fired black threads, and the Locusts attacked the ships; tests showed that lasers were effective against Locusts while their black threads could breach a Small Ship’s defenses.
• After the Small Ships ran low on ammunition and energy, one collected Locust corpses and tree fragments before Qu Jianlei sent three more ships to cover the retreat.

Qu Jianlei and his crew retreated from a vast Tree Sea after the military refused to help, then discovered the Locusts’ strange corrosive energy could be contained in boxes made from the trees. They repeatedly attacked the pursuing swarm until it was halved, then finally left the area.

• Fourth Boss contacted the military for help, but the military refused and advised Qu Jianlei’s crew to take a detour.
• Qu Jianlei ordered the Battalion-Class Ship to disengage, and the crew inspected damage from the Locusts’ attacks and found evidence of corrosive energy.
• Qu Jianlei suggested using wood fragments to contain the energy, and the crew later confirmed that boxes made from the trees could hold it.
• Qu Jianlei’s crew returned to attack the Tree Sea, lost a Small Ship while collecting samples, and gathered wood fragments and Locust corpses.
• Qu Jianlei repeatedly sent the Battalion-Class Ship back to bombard the pursuing Tree Sea, reducing it by half before finally departing.