Chapter Summaries

Qu Jianlei's group stopped evading the Asura and fought their way toward the meteor belt, where a Mother Nest blocked their route. As the Division Level Ship battled other nests, three bound Attack Ships charged the distant Mother Nest and struck it with their main guns.

• Hua Lei and Claire discussed Wind Forgotten and the Secret Treasure, and Claire said Boss Jing had agreed to help her secure a magical artifact if needed.
• Two Sub-Nests blocked the route to the meteor belt, so Jing Yuexin, the Fourth Boss, and Qu Jianlei agreed to force their way through.
• Qu Jianlei's group destroyed the two Sub-Nests, but Asura nests continued to intercept them as they advanced.
• A Mother Nest and its forces appeared near the meteor belt, and Qu Jianlei sent three bound Attack Ships on a desperate charge toward it.
• Qu Jianlei's clone, Silver Fir, moved among the ships as they took damage and evaded attacks, until two Attack Ships fired their Battalion-Class main guns at the Mother Nest.

Qu Jianlei’s team destroyed a Mother Nest with a Space Ripple and entered a second Mother Nest in the Meteorite Zone to fight its Asuras. After another Space Ripple struck, they remained trapped inside the damaged nest, unable to teleport back immediately.

• Xiao Hu’s Small Ships opened a breach in the first Mother Nest, and Qu Jianlei’s clone self-destructed inside it to trigger a Space Ripple that destroyed the nest and nearby Asuras.
• Qu Jianlei’s Division Level Ship entered the Meteorite Zone, where Asura forces ambushed it with multiple Sub-Nests and Mother Nests.
• Paranoid’s clone opened a breach in one Mother Nest and set a Teleportation Array, bringing Qu Jianlei, Jing Yuexin, Jia Shuiqing, Qinghu, and Paranoid inside as Jia Shuiqing’s clone attacked another nest.
• Paranoid, Jing Yuexin, Qu Jianlei, Jia Shuiqing, and Qinghu attacked the Mother Nest and overwhelmed its Asuras with magic artifacts and spells.
• A Space Ripple struck outside the Mother Nest, damaging the Asuras and meteorites; Qu Jianlei’s group could not teleport back while the spatial fluctuations persisted.

Qu Jianlei and his companions destroyed another Asura Mother Nest, while Cloud Crown refined the first one they had captured. After the latest nest was obliterated, Qu Jianlei noticed Cloud Crown’s opening had shrunk and wondered whether it was repairing itself.

• Qu Jianlei stored the first Mother Nest inside Cloud Crown, despite the enormous spiritual energy it consumed, and then recovered aboard the Division Level Ship.
• Three days later, the Division Level Ship encountered Asura nests, and Jing Yuexin used a Mobile Palace to devastate them and drive a Mother Nest into retreat.
• Jing Yuexin deployed a second Mobile Palace against the pursuing Mother Nest’s reinforcements, while the Division Level Ship endured attacks and Wind Forgotten’s Black Line cut through the nest’s defenses.
• After the Division Level Ship breached and destroyed the Mother Nest, Qu Jianlei decided it was too damaged to capture and ordered its mark taken instead.
• Qu Jianlei noticed that Cloud Crown’s opening had shrunk while it refined the captured Mother Nest, and Jiao Daoren wondered whether all the other Asura had been refined.

Qu Jianlei and the others tested whether Asuras and their nests could replenish the breach in the Mother Nest, then entered Link Nebula with reinforcements. The chapter ended with three Division Level Ships facing a vast Asura formation centered on six Mother Nests, as Qu Jianlei prepared Mobile Palaces for the coming battle.

• Qu Jianlei captured living Asuras and nests with Cloud Crown and confirmed they could replenish the Mother Nest’s breach, though intact nests worked better than fragments.
• The Asuras interpreted the team’s experiments as cruel “Warm Nurturing” and stopped attacking head-on, allowing the Division Level Ships to reach Link Nebula.
• Qu Jianlei called in two Alliance Division Level Ships, and the three ships traveled through Link Nebula while collecting bats for their modest replenishment effect.
• After the ships encountered three Asura Sub-Nests and pursued others through the nebula, they emerged before six Mother Nests and a dense Asura formation.
• Qu Jianlei gave Claire and Tian Yin boxes containing Mobile Palaces and told them to teleport the supplies to the other Division Level Ships.

Qu Jianlei’s fleet fought through an Asura ambush and used three Flawed Portable Abodes to devastate the enemy forces. With six Mother Nests still advancing, Qu Jianlei warned his crew that the Asura might be hiding their true tactics or waiting for reinforcements from the Nebula behind them.

• Qu Jianlei mass-produced Flawed Portable Abodes and led the three Division Level Ships straight toward the six Mother Nests.
• As the battle intensified, Qu Jianlei used Cloud Crown to draw in Asura corpses and Four-Armed Asura, provoking the enemy into an even fiercer assault.
• The three Division Level Ships fired Flawed Portable Abodes, whose Space Explosion Bomb blasts wiped out most of the Asura nests while leaving the ships nearly unharmed.
• The six Mother Nests split into attacking and supporting groups, and Qu Jianlei told Claire that their formation might be a deception or an effort to stall for reinforcements.
• Claire pointed toward the Nebula behind them and asked whether reinforcements might emerge from there.

Qu Jianlei’s forces used decoy attacks and successive Space Explosion Bombs to destroy Asura Mother Nests while risking their own ships. The chapter left the remaining Asura facing another devastating blast as Jing Yuexin accepted the danger beside Qu Jianlei.

• Qu Jianlei prompted Claire to identify the likely enemy reinforcements, and she ordered the forces to destroy the enemy quickly.
• Duo Gan, Qinghu, Jia Shuiqing, and Paranoid deployed Battalion-Class Ships, whose Mobile Palace bombs destroyed two Asura Mother Nests.
• An Asura Mother Nest charged Digital Phantom, so Qu Jianlei ordered Xiao Hu to send three Small Ships toward it.
• The Asura destroyed the three Small Ships, triggering three successive blasts that overwhelmed the Mother Nest.
• Jing Yuexin watched the final blast from Digital Phantom and resolved to stay with Qu Jianlei whether they lived or died.

Qu Jianlei used reduced-power Flawed Portable Abodes to destroy three Asura Mother Nests, while the Paranoid used one to cripple another. The Alliance ships overwhelmed a fifth nest, but Qu Jianlei’s flagship pursued the last one as the others warned him that incoming enemy ships could surround them.

• Qu Jianlei explained that he had refined weaker Flawed Portable Abodes and used three detonations to destroy three Mother Nests.
• Duo Gan and Qinghu battered a Mother Nest with their Division Level Ship until it was nearly destroyed.
• The Paranoid asked Qu Jianlei for Portable Abodes, then detonated one near an enemy Mother Nest and destroyed it with a follow-up assault.
• The Paranoid brought his Division Level Ship to help Duo Gan and Qinghu attack the last Mother Nest on their battlefield.
• Duo Gan and the Paranoid urged Qu Jianlei not to pursue the fleeing Mother Nest alone because enemy ships were coming to encircle them.
• Qu Jianlei weighed the risks as the fleeing Mother Nest released small nests that continued to wear down his Small Ships.

Qu Jianlei’s forces battered the Asura in the Link Nebula, then tested five Flawed Portable Abodes at once and discovered their combined blast could devastate a vast area. After the resulting Space Ripples damaged their ships, the group debated resting before continuing their investigation of the Information Barrier Breach.

• Qu Jianlei sent more than a hundred Small Ships after the retreating Mother Nest, and a Small Ship’s Flawed Portable Abode blast forced the Mother Nest to turn before it self-destructed and scattered its kin.
• Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin harvested fleeing Asura while their forces regrouped, then the team replaced a badly damaged Division Level Ship and laid five Flawed Portable Abodes near the Nebula.
• Qu Jianlei activated all five Mobile Palaces when an Asura Mother Nest emerged, and their combined explosion erased the arriving nests and tore away a huge section of the Nebula.
• Qu Jianlei ordered the three Division Level Ships to flee the devastating Space Ripples, which lasted a day and a half and further damaged the ships.
• Jing Yuexin and Qinghu proposed pausing to rest and repair, while Qu Jianlei urged the team not to delay long because the Asura might develop a countermeasure.

Qu Jianlei and the others returned to Dawn Base as Zi Jiuxian completed her tribulation and reached the Supreme Realm. When Imperial fleets tried to investigate the aftermath and test the base’s warning perimeter, Yuanyuan refused them entry, but one starship pressed on toward the planet.

• Jia Shuiqing decided to return to the Empire to check on Zi Jiuxian, and Qu Jianlei waited two days before Qinghu sent a clone to scout the teleportation route.
• Qinghu’s clone returned with news that Zi Jiuxian was undergoing Tribulation Lightning, prompting most of the team to teleport back to Dawn Base.
• Yuanyuan, Rhine, and Xiang Xue guarded Zi Jiuxian as the final bolt fell, while Yuanyuan drove off a Science Starship that tried to approach during the tribulation.
• Three days later, the Empire Central Research Institute fleet requested access to analyze the spiritual energy, but Yuanyuan refused and warned that the restricted perimeter extended ten million kilometers.
• A starship from a second fleet crossed the warning perimeter and continued toward Dawn Base despite Yuanyuan’s warning.

Several starships probed Dawn Base’s defenses, hoping to claim a reward for Digital Phantom’s secrets, and Digital Phantom destroyed the one that descended closest. Yuanyuan refused the authorities’ request to take the intruders into custody, leaving the other trespassing ships to face the same ruthless response.

• A starship crossed the warning zone and descended to one thousand kilometers from Dawn Base while claiming it only wanted to collect data.
• Old Lady Jia’s Great Seal rose from the base, and Digital Phantom’s artificial intelligence disabled the starship’s controls and power.
• The Great Seal smashed the disabled starship into the ground, while three other trespassing starships began losing control and pleaded for mercy.
• Digital Phantom cut off the intruders’ communications after their pleas and curses grew noisy.
• The military asked whether the authorities could take custody of the intruders, but Yuanyuan refused, saying they had crossed Digital Phantom’s bottom line.
• Dust began clearing around the wrecked starship, which had been flattened into the earth like a Paper Sheet.

While Digital Phantom’s main force was away, Yuanyuan refused to surrender three captured starships and warned that tribulation lightning would doom their crews. After the ships crashed and the Empire handed over the attackers, Yuanyuan arranged repairs for three badly damaged Division Level Ships before Qu Jianlei and the others returned to Link Nebula, where the team resolved to secure the surrounding region.

• Yuanyuan rejected the military’s request to hand over the three captured starships and warned that anyone who tried to rescue their crews would face consequences.
• The crews’ attempts to escape failed, and all three starships eventually crashed without anyone surviving; the military later asked Digital Phantom to help with the Alliance artificial intelligence crisis, but Yuanyuan refused.
• The Empire delivered more than a dozen people involved in interfering with tribulation lightning, but Yuanyuan said Digital Phantom could deal with them itself and reported that the expedition’s leader had already left again.
• Yuanyuan asked the military to repair three badly damaged Division Level Ships and said the battle against the Alien Race had inflicted even greater losses on the enemy.
• Qu Jianlei and the others returned to Link Nebula, where the team concluded the Empire was no longer a suitable base and decided to secure the surrounding star region.

Qu Jianlei and his team prepared to pursue a Secret Treasure while splitting up to investigate several planets. Paranoid returned with news that the Wild Wolf Business Association had linked a missing military warship to Digital Phantom, while the Teleportation Arrays on Yongxing Star had also attracted military attention.

• Hua Lei asked Qu Jianlei to let her help retrieve the Secret Treasure, and he agreed to the expedition after arranging for Bentley, Claire, and Tian Yin to guard their base.
• The team traveled to Horseshoe Star, then planned for Sunset Glow to head secretly to Fengrao Star, Paranoid to investigate Teres Star, and others to remain behind.
• Paranoid reported that the Wild Wolf Business Association had secured a warrant for suspects aboard a ship believed to be connected to Digital Phantom, making Teres Star too risky to revisit soon.
• Paranoid reported that the military was investigating the damaged Teleportation Arrays on Yongxing Star after discovering the Array Discs there.

Paranoid established two Teleportation Arrays on Yongxing, and the group traveled to Fengrao Star to investigate a clue beneath the Fengrao Suite sculpture. Qu Jianlei uncovered a palm-print stone deep beneath the statue, and the group sensed a warning-like Mental Influence from the senior connected to it.

• Paranoid learned that the military had discovered and destroyed one Teleportation Array on Yongxing, then set up two more before leaving.
• Sunset Glow returned from Fengrao Star with three Teleportation Arrays, and the group teleported to Mu La, where Hua Xiezhi released Hua Lei.
• The group visited the Fengrao Suite sculpture at Five Colors Mountain, and Hua Lei directed them to a spot beneath the One-Armed Female Warrior statue.
• Jia Shuiqing stayed behind to condense water vapor, while Qu Jianlei, Jing Yuexin, Qinghu, and Hua Lei returned at night and waited until dawn to evade surveillance.
• Qu Jianlei excavated beneath the statue and found a stone bearing a huge palm print, which the Soul Nourishing Wood and Plastic Little Snake identified as likely identity verification.
• As Qu Jianlei prepared to use the seashell for divination, he sensed an unusual influence and concluded it was the senior's Mental Influence.

Qu Jianlei and his companions tested a mysterious palm print, and Jiao Daoren activated it, revealing a star map before the Federation sounded an alarm. As the team escaped the ensuing response, Qu Jianlei ordered Jia Shuiqing to restore the damaged landmark while Paranoid and Qinghu drew attacks away from it.

• Qinghu, Paranoid, and Jing Yuexin tried pressing their palms to the Stone, but it rejected them; Jing Yuexin sensed that it considered her unworthy.
• Jiao Daoren pressed his giant hand against the Stone, causing it to dissolve into a star map whose red-marked planet the team memorized.
• The Stone Cave began to tremble, and an alarm announced that traitors had infiltrated the Fengrao Suite as searchlights and starships mobilized.
• Qu Jianlei chose to restore the statue instead of leaving a hole, and Jia Shuiqing cast Imperial Decree Ice Seal to cover the area in Ice Mist.
• Paranoid and Qinghu attacked the Federation's starships as the military and authorities focused their encirclement on the landmark.

Qu Jianlei’s group escaped Fengrao Star after using the Ice Seal Imperial Decree to delay the military, while false traces left investigators uncertain about what the thieves had taken. On Horseshoe Star, Jia Shuiqing impersonated a Data Center employee and helped Xiao Hu secretly obtain the star-map records Qu Jianlei needed.

• The military’s warships charged into the Ice Mist around the Fengrao Suite statue, but Ice Spike Arts brought them down before weather weapons could disperse the spell.
• Qu Jianlei’s group escaped Fengrao Star and returned to Horseshoe Star, where Paranoid questioned why they had fought until the others raised the possibility of Time Reversal.
• Jing Yuexin’s false leads left the military and authorities unsure whether the thieves had succeeded, and they suspected the Empire or Digital Phantom was responsible.
• Xiao Hu told Qu Jianlei that downloading the star-map records from Horseshoe Star’s Data Center would take years at the current speed.
• Jia Shuiqing captured a Data Center employee, had Yi He search his soul, and impersonated him to access the facility.
• Jia Shuiqing used the employee’s poor reputation to avoid suspicion and downloaded all the data Xiao Hu needed in three days.

Jia Shuiqing left the Data Center after the team cracked the star map, and Qu Jianlei’s group traveled to Jinyuan Star to settle Hua Lei’s family crisis before heading for Mushu 258. At the barren planet, Jiao Daoren offered to search for the Secret Treasure, but Ruler challenged how its contents would be shared.

• Jia Shuiqing stayed at the Data Center until the star map was decoded, revealing Mushu 258 in the Valencia Star Region as the team’s destination.
• Qu Jianlei’s group captured the two Supremes on Jinyuan Star, seized their authority through soul-searching, and arranged for them to flee with Dark Matter’s fortune, helping protect Hua Lei’s family.
• Qu Jianlei’s group traveled toward Mushu 258 aboard a Battalion-Class Ship and passed an inspection dispute with a three-starship fleet without exposing their identities.
• The team reached Mushu 258, and Duo Gan wondered whether the barren celestial body resembled her space before Jiao Daoren said it was not a Spirit Treasure.
• Jiao Daoren volunteered to search for the Secret Treasure, while Ruler demanded that he not monopolize its spirit stones; Jiao Daoren replied that he chiefly sought knowledge about breaking through the Cultivation World’s barriers.

Jiao Daoren retrieved a Portable Abode from the barren planet, but it rejected him and then Qinghu when they tried to open it. The group turned to Qu Jianlei as the only remaining cultivator with spiritual energy pure enough to try.

• Jiao Daoren argued that he deserved the first chance to explore the Secret Treasure, and Yi He lent him a Mind-Stabilizing Talisman Treasure.
• Jiao Daoren expanded into a huge, illusory serpent, circled the barren planet, and burrowed underground to find the Secret Treasure.
• Jiao Daoren emerged with a Portable Abode bound to the planet and explained that he could not make it acknowledge him or take it away.
• Yi He recovered his Mind-Stabilizing Talisman Treasure, and Qinghu won the chance to try opening the box ahead of Jia Shuiqing.
• Qinghu poured spiritual energy into the box, but it rejected her, so Jiao Daoren said Qu Jianlei had to try next.

Qu Jianlei activated the Secret Treasure and encountered the lingering obsession of an emaciated Daoist, who offered its clues but demanded to know Qu Jianlei’s identity. Qu Jianlei refused to reveal his origins and stopped channeling spiritual energy, leaving the Daoist stunned that he might abandon the treasure.

• Jing Yuexin urged Hua Lei to test the box, but the box rejected her and hurled her backward.
• Jing Yuexin’s sense of danger prompted Qu Jianlei to divine, and he drew a hexagram of Medium Auspicious and Mid-level Danger.
• Qu Jianlei accepted a Mind-Stabilizing Talisman Treasure, approached the box, and fed spiritual energy into it until White Mist enveloped him.
• Jing Yuexin warned that danger was directed at Qu Jianlei, while the Great Serpent told the team not to interfere during the inheritance or transfer of authority.
• Yi He sensed soul fluctuations in the White Mist, and Qu Jianlei met an emaciated Daoist who asked about the Federation and the Cultivation World.
• The Emaciated Daoren offered Qu Jianlei clues to the Secret Treasure but asked him to reveal his identity; Qu Jianlei refused and stopped channeling spiritual energy.

Qu Jianlei discovered that the box was draining his spiritual energy to empower Emaciated Daoren’s invading remnant soul, and fought to escape its Body Seizure. As his soul neared collapse, a giant Big Head Butterfly appeared inside his Sea of Consciousness, leaving the struggle unresolved.

• Qu Jianlei realized the box had trapped his hand and was drawing out his spiritual energy, so he attacked Emaciated Daoren with divine sense and struck the box with his newly devised Palm Thunder.
• Qu Jianlei’s Palm Thunder shook the box and disrupted Emaciated Daoren, allowing him to break free and retreat, but Emaciated Daoren pursued him inside his Sea of Consciousness and continued the Body Seizure attempt.
• Qu Jianlei summoned his avatar and warned the others, then struck his own head with Palm Thunder as Emaciated Daoren’s suction threatened to make his soul collapse.
• Qu Jianlei recalled Yi He’s Mind-Stabilizing Talisman Treasure and prepared to use it, while drawing out the talisman and a Flawed Portable Abode.
• A giant Big Head Butterfly suddenly appeared in Qu Jianlei’s Sea of Consciousness, startling Emaciated Daoren, who nevertheless opened his mouth and resumed sucking.

Qu Jianlei’s companion Xiao Hu sacrificed itself with a Logic Bomb, weakening the figure that had attacked his soul and giving him a chance to escape the White Mist. He ordered his allies to assault the mist and prepare to retreat while he struggled to keep his collapsing soul intact.

• The Emaciated Daoren swallowed Xiao Hu, but Xiao Hu detonated its fragments with a Logic Bomb and blurred the figure.
• Qu Jianlei struck the box with Palm Thunder, retreated beyond the White Mist, and realized the mist had thinned.
• Qu Jianlei ordered the Five Elements Battle Array to attack the White Mist, and Jing Yuexin put Qinghu in command.
• Qu Jianlei told his allies to focus on defense and be ready to flee while they coordinated an escape plan.
• Qu Jianlei threw out the Soul Nourishing Wood bracelet and Yin Soul Pouch as his soul neared collapse, then struggled to find his Soul Nourishing Pills in his Item-Storing Rings.