Chapter Summaries

Qu Jianlei and his companions infiltrated the Asura rear, observed the strengthened defenses around the channel, and searched a Star Continent for information and resources. They captured several Asura and learned that many foreign nests were regrouping there before heading to the Otherworld, but their sequences were unclear even to the locals.

• Qu Jianlei used the gaps between Asura nests to enter the channel, crossed it aboard Sunset Glow, and teleported from a Battalion-Class Ship that soon disintegrated.
• Qu Jianlei and the group inspected the Asura-side channel entrance, found more nests than before, and failed to sense the Out-of-Body Realm remnant soul.
• Qu Jianlei’s team returned to the previously explored Star Continent and split into groups to investigate its Asura and search for spirit stones.
• Yi He and Hua Xiezhi captured two four-armed Asura, while Zi Jiuxian brought back a six-armed prisoner and Jia Shuiqing trained her great-granddaughter.
• The team discovered that the continent had no spirit stone mines, though the Asura controlled a few hundred thousand mined spirit stones.
• Soul-searching the prisoners revealed that many foreign Asura nests were resting on the continent before going to fight in the Otherworld, and their sequence affiliations were unknown.

Qu Jianlei’s team seized a Grandchild Nest and learned about Asura tribes, reinforcements, and the local star map. After traveling away from the nearby Starland, they encountered an unescorted Secondary Nest and considered taking it.

• Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow ambushed a lone Grandchild Nest, and the team captured it along with several Outpost Nests.
• Yi He and Xiao Hu searched prisoners’ souls while the team learned that the nest had been carrying a request for reinforcements from the Shijian Tribe.
• The prisoners revealed that Shijian belonged to the major Chixi Tribe, and the team acquired part of an Asura World star map.
• Qu Jianlei avoided traveling in the captured nest near Shijian territory, then released it after traveling for more than twenty days.
• After five days of encountering escorted nests, Qu Jianlei’s team came upon a lone Secondary Nest with no Mother Nest nearby.

Qu Jianlei and his companions captured a Shiyan Tribe Secondary Nest, then learned of a vast spirit stone mine in Danghu that was being guarded by two Mother Nests and two Eight-Armed Asuras. The group urged Qu Jianlei to seize the mine before the Asura royal family became involved.

• Qu Jianlei kept the Grandchild Nest on course, and the passing Secondary Nest attacked it for failing to yield.
• Yi He posed as a Chixi Tribe envoy, but Qu Jianlei's group stormed the Secondary Nest and defeated its defenders with mental attacks and Jing Yuexin's Soul Suppressing Bell.
• An Eight-Armed Asura Self-Destructed during the fight, and Qu Jianlei stored the captured Secondary Nest inside the Abode after the battle.
• The captives revealed that the nest belonged to the Gangzhui Tribe, a subordinate of Shiyan, and that it had been traveling to contact scattered tribes.
• Yi He confirmed through a soul search that Danghu contained tens of millions of spirit stones, including Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, and that Shiyan's main tribe was mining the deposit.
• Paranoid and Jia Shuiqing urged Qu Jianlei to act quickly before the Asura royal family took an interest in the mine.

Qu Jianlei’s group postponed investigating the spirit stone mine and headed to Lianshan to establish a teleportation relay, while the Asuras they had captured continued to fear Cloud Crown. Later, four Sub-Nests surrounded their Grandchild Nest, and Qu Jianlei chose to evade them while claiming to carry a message from the royal clan.

• Jiao Daoren explained that the spirit stone mine in the Nebula was likely an abnormal, short-lived poor mine, and Qu Jianlei’s group agreed to delay investigating it.
• Three days later, Qu Jianlei’s group reached Lianshan to set up a Teleportation Array while Cloud Crown continued taking captured Asuras, many of whom begged to surrender.
• Zi Jiuxian suggested recruiting Asura traitors to negotiate, but Wind Forgotten and Hua Lei objected, and Qu Jianlei decided to enter the Starland himself.
• Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow slipped into Lianshan, where he sensed several Nascent Soul Realm auras, then later remarked that the Starland’s smell had seemed unusually mild.
• Four Sub-Nests surrounded Qu Jianlei’s Grandchild Nest, and several Six-Armed Asuras clung to its outer wall after Yi He warned them off.
• Qu Jianlei stopped Paranoid from attacking and told the group to evade the Sub-Nests while claiming they were delivering a message for the royal clan.

Qu Jianlei and his team used their nests and apparent Great Venerable-level abilities to rout a group of Asura bandits and capture their Sub-Nests. After learning the captives were bandits who had mistaken them for powerful Asuras, the team discovered why the prisoners had refused to cooperate: they recognized their captors as the Alien Race.

• Paranoid claimed the Grandchild Nest belonged to the Royal Clan, but the Asura bandits dismissed the claim until a Secondary Nest and several Outpost Nests appeared from storage space.
• The four Sub-Nests fled, and the Outpost Nests pursued and battered three of them while Qu Jianlei waited to make sure no enemies were hiding nearby.
• Qu Jianlei appeared beside the remaining Sub-Nest and blasted through its entrance, then his team attacked and captured more than six hundred Asuras while killing over two hundred.
• Qu Jianlei stored the captured nests in the Abode and left the Grandchild Nest to continue its journey.
• The captured Asuras refused to cooperate until one broke down and explained that they were bandits who had fled because they thought they faced a powerful opponent, then resisted because they recognized the Alien Race.

Qu Jianlei repaired the captured Sub-Nest and learned about Asura tribes, spirit stone mines, and a way to arrange safe landings. The team kept seven Asuras as potential guides, while Qu Jianlei declined Jiao Daoren’s conditional offer to teach him a beast control method.

• Qu Jianlei learned that the defeated bandits had stronger backers but no hidden reinforcements, then focused on repairing their least damaged Sub-Nest.
• A veteran Six-Armed Asura identified the team’s Secondary Nest as belonging to the Gangzhui Tribe, and Yi He searched his soul for useful information.
• The captives revealed locations of spirit stone mines and offered to arrange landing services, so Qu Jianlei agreed to spare Blood Hammer after divination.
• The team kept seven Asuras, and Wind Forgotten proposed implanting spores in them, but Jiao Daoren offered his own beast control method instead.
• Qu Jianlei refused Jiao Daoren’s method because of its restrictions and poor suitability for controlling Asuras.

Qu Jianlei’s group landed their Sub-Nest on the commercial stellar continent Rockback and made cautious first contact with its Asura inhabitants. After discovering a community of Tiger-Head Humans and learning Rockback was backed by formidable forces, Qu Jianlei sent Blood Hammer and three other Asuras to gather information.

• Jiao Daoren decided to handle the matter himself after Qu Jianlei refused to take on karma and Paranoid offered to learn instead.
• Qu Jianlei’s group landed their Sub-Nest on Rockback after performing a divination and carefully adjusting their descent.
• Blood Hammer spoke with a Six-Armed Asura and offered it a chipped saber, securing the group’s initial acceptance.
• The team scanned Rockback cautiously and discovered several hundred Tiger-Head Humans trading with Asuras.
• Blood Hammer warned Qu Jianlei that Rockback had many powerful Asuras and backing from the Yanshang Tribe, so Qu Jianlei sent Blood Hammer and three Asuras to gather intelligence.

Qu Jianlei’s group gathered information about the Asura, spirit stones, and reports of powerful Cultivators while hiding in a Sub-Nest. A new group arrived claiming to know of treasures belonging to Cultivators and tried to recruit them, but Blood Hammer rejected the offer because they refused to identify the target.

• Two Asura approached Qu Jianlei’s group to propose cooperation, but Qu Jianlei ordered Gang Ya to send them away.
• Blood Hammer’s scouts returned battered after learning that envoys from the Otherworld had contacted major Asura tribes and that several spirit stone sites were controlled by powerful forces.
• Another pair of scouts returned with vague reports that some tribes had encountered powerful Cultivators, prompting Qu Jianlei to wonder whether they meant his own group.
• Qu Jianlei noticed more than ten Asura approaching their Sub-Nest, and he received five of them in an Outpost Nest.
• The visiting Six-Armed Asura offered to cooperate in obtaining Cultivator treasures but refused to reveal the target unless Blood Hammer’s group agreed to follow them.
• Blood Hammer rejected the offer, accusing the visitors of wanting his team to take the blame and do the work, and the Six-Armed Asura asked whether the seven present could represent the whole team.

Qu Jianlei tracked the Asuras who threatened Blood Hammer, learned that the Great Strength Tribe possessed the Cultivators’ treasures, and raided Yanhou’s spirit stone stores. The theft was discovered just as he tried to escape.

• A group of Asuras threatened Blood Hammer, and Qu Jianlei promised to deal with them after they left the Outpost Nest.
• Qu Jianlei and his companions tracked the Asuras to a Residential Area, where the group challenged the Yanhou Tribe’s guards and won an arena battle.
• Qu Jianlei captured five Asuras and searched their souls, learning that the Three Eyes Tribe had recruited them to target the Great Strength Tribe, which held the Cultivators’ treasures.
• Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow stole more than six million spirit stones from two Yanhou warehouses while Jing Yuexin and Qinghu set up Teleportation Arrays.
• An Eight-Armed Asura’s divine sense swept over the second warehouse, and an enraged roar sounded as Qu Jianlei tried to slip away.

Qu Jianlei’s group escaped Yanhou Star Continent after robbing its warehouses, then spent months laying teleportation arrays and capturing lone Sub-Nests. They reached Red Jade Star Continent, where signs of Cultivator influence and unusual defenses suggested the Great Strength Tribe’s territory held secrets, and began searching for spirit stone mines.

• The Eight-Armed Asura discovered a warehouse breach, so Qu Jianlei escaped without attacking and rejoined his Sub-Nest as Yanhou imposed an air ban.
• Qu Jianlei’s team decided to lie low, captured lone Sub-Nests, and set up Teleportation Arrays on several star continents.
• Blood Hammer identified a Sub-Nest with a royal clan design, and the team captured it despite learning it belonged to a subordinate tribe.
• After more than five months, Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow descended onto Red Jade Star Continent and found gardens, vegetation, and little of the usual Asura stench.
• Jiao Daoren sensed three Nascent Soul Realm experts and a Defense Array, while Ruler urged the team to search for spirit stone mines.

Qu Jianlei and his team raided an Asura spirit stone warehouse on Red Jade, but their escape revealed that the tribe had an Out-of-Body Great Venerable. After fleeing, Qu Jianlei questioned two captured Eight-Armed Asura and learned that the tribe possessed magical artifacts from an earlier conflict with Cultivators.

• Jiao Daoren judged that Red Jade had once held several powerful Spirit Veins, which the Asura had destroyed through overexploitation.
• Qu Jianlei and his team broke into the spirit stone warehouse, collected its valuables, and triggered a hidden alarm.
• Qinghu captured one Eight-Armed Asura while Qu Jianlei and Jia Shuiqing confronted others, and Qu Jianlei escaped with the team and captives.
• An Out-of-Body Great Venerable emerged on Red Jade, but Qu Jianlei had already fled hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.
• Qu Jianlei released the captives and questioned an Eight-Armed Asura, which revealed that the tribe had picked up magical artifacts left behind after an earlier battle with Cultivators.

The Eight-Armed Asuras explained that the Great Strength Tribe had once shepherded a world for Cultivators before it collapsed, and that they had been drawn into the current invasion only reluctantly. They sought to serve the Cultivators again, and the chapter ended with one claiming their experience and sense of boundaries made them suitable.

• Jiao Daoren questioned the Eight-Armed Asura about the magical artifacts, and it admitted that most had been picked up after the war.
• The Eight-Armed Asura explained that the Great Strength Tribe had shepherded a region for Cultivators in another Asura World, which collapsed two thousand years earlier.
• The Asura described how the displaced Great Strength Tribe had settled on the Red Jade Star Continent under the royal clan and had been asked to join the current invasion.
• Paranoid challenged the Asuras’ claim that they did not wish to fight Cultivators, and they said they wanted to seek a return under the protection of the Cultivators’ Abode.
• Qu Jianlei asked why the Cultivators should choose the Great Strength Tribe to shepherd a region, and the Eight-Armed Asura cited its experience and sense of boundaries.

Qu Jianlei weighed whether to accept the Great Strength Tribe’s allegiance after learning about its hidden Ten-Armed Ancestor and the Royal Clan’s restrictions. The Asuras offered to serve him, but Qu Jianlei insisted that their Old Ancestor appear, leaving the negotiations unresolved.

• Yi He warned Qu Jianlei that the Asuras might turn against them if they learned there was no Out-of-Body Great Venerable on their side.
• An Eight-Armed Asura explained that the Great Strength Tribe’s Out-of-Body Ancestor had witnessed Cultivators before and stayed hidden because the Royal Clan forbade the tribe from recruiting others.
• Paranoid revealed that at least three Asura Out-of-Body cultivators had died on the Human Race world’s battlefield, frightening the Eight-Armed Asuras into believing their side had killed them.
• Qu Jianlei used divination to confirm that the Asuras had found the Flying Shuttle inside a damaged Item-Storing Ring.
• The Eight-Armed Asuras offered their tribe’s service, but Qu Jianlei asked to meet their Old Ancestor, and they replied that he was too ill and their own side could handle the matter.

Qu Jianlei’s group negotiated with the Great Strength Tribe, which offered allegiance in exchange for protection while chiefly providing intelligence. The Asuras revealed their ties to Connecting Heaven Peak of the Profound Yellow World and explained how few Eight-Armed Asuras remained to guard the Red Jade Star Continent.

• Eight-Armed Asura asked Qu Jianlei’s group to keep its Old Ancestor’s involvement hidden and offered to accept responsibility for any failed coordination.
• Qu Jianlei asked what the Great Strength Tribe could offer, and its representatives promised full cooperation in intelligence rather than joining the fighting.
• Jiao Daoren challenged the Asuras to prove their former stewardship, and they identified Connecting Heaven Peak of the Profound Yellow World as the force that had granted them a region.
• Eight-Armed Asura offered customized services and said its Old Ancestor would visit after the world was pacified, while Jing Yuexin questioned how readily the Asuras submitted.
• The group learned that two of Great Strength’s seven Eight-Armed Asuras had been conscripted to the Otherworld frontline, two had gone into hiding, and only three remained to guard the Red Jade Star Continent.

Qu Jianlei’s group sent a Six-Armed Asura back to the Great Strength Tribe to negotiate while keeping two Eight-Armed Asuras under watch in the Abode. The returning Asura reached Red Jade and reported to the Ten-Armed Ancestor, who asked to hear the full account.

• The group agreed to let a Six-Armed Asura return with an Outpost Nest while their Sub-Nest followed under surveillance.
• Paranoid allowed the two Eight-Armed Asuras to enter the Abode again after Jia Shuiqing suggested keeping them there would reduce the risk they posed.
• A Great Strength Tribe search team found the returning Outpost Nest, and the Six-Armed Asura persuaded the nests to let Qu Jianlei’s Sub-Nest follow them back without confrontation.
• The Six-Armed Asura secretly reported the situation to the sole remaining Eight-Armed Asura, including the claim that Qu Jianlei’s group had destroyed three Great Venerables.
• The Ten-Armed Ancestor summoned the two Asuras and ordered the Six-Armed Asura to recount the events in detail.

The Ten-Armed Ancestor learned that three Asura Great Venerables had fallen and considered the danger posed by the Cultivators who had raided the Great Strength Tribe. It chose to focus on surviving and gathering information, but an Eight-Armed Asura suggested trading the nest for resources, provoking its suspicion.

• The Ten-Armed Ancestor confirmed that three Great Venerables had fallen, including the royal-clan member Shattered Heart, and warned the tribe against exploiting the resulting turmoil.
• The Six-Armed Asura recounted what Great Hammer had said about the enormous Abode, leaving the Old Ancestor astonished by the Immortal Venerable’s power.
• The Old Ancestor reflected on the Great Strength Tribe’s history with Cultivators and concluded that the tribe had to investigate the invaders and prepare for possible stronger enemies.
• The Eight-Armed Asura complained that the invaders had emptied the tribe’s resources, but the Old Ancestor told it to focus on surviving the immediate danger.
• The Eight-Armed Asura proposed trading the nest for resources, and the Old Ancestor angrily asked which tribe had bribed it to make that suggestion.

The Great Strength Tribe agreed to share intelligence with Qu Jianlei's group while keeping its hidden reserves secret from the Immortals. Qu Jianlei's forces raided a spirit stone mine near Danghu, destroyed its defenders, and began extracting the ore rapidly despite the waste.

• The Old Ancestor told Eight-Armed Asura to suppress unrest, conceal the tribe's reserves from the Immortals, and have Great Hammer cooperate with them.
• The six-armed Asura delivered the message to Qu Jianlei's group and provided detailed intelligence about spirit stone mines and their guards.
• Qu Jianlei's group selected two mines in space and traveled toward the first target near Danghu, where they withdrew after an Imperial Clan outpost challenged their impersonation.
• At the second mine, Qu Jianlei deployed five Division Level Ships, and his forces destroyed the Mother Nest and the Asuras defending the site.
• Qu Jianlei ordered his team to bombard the mining site and use engineering starships, robots, and mining equipment to extract the ore quickly, accepting that much of it would be wasted.

Qu Jianlei’s group rapidly mined two spirit stone mines, then moved toward the more heavily defended mine near the Danghu Nebula and infiltrated its Mother Nest. The chapter ended as a Secondary Nest from the Gangzhui Tribe appeared near the mine, drawing the attention of the Asuras.

• Qu Jianlei’s mining equipment rapidly excavated a spirit stone mine while Blood Hammer and Great Hammer questioned the methods and risks.
• Fifteen days later, Jia Shuiqing’s clone reported that the first mine had yielded over ten million ordinary spirit stones and more than two hundred thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Qu Jianlei’s group traveled to the mine near the Danghu Nebula and discovered that only one Mother Nest remained there.
• The group sent Jing Yuexin and Sunset Glow into the Mother Nest while Qu Jianlei waited nearby with Cloud Crown.
• Explosions erupted inside the Mother Nest, and the surrounding Asura nests converged on it.
• A Secondary Nest from the Gangzhui Tribe appeared near the mine, and some Asuras recognized its origin.

Qu Jianlei's team captured a spirit stone mine in Danghu, defeated the guarding Asuras, and mined the site before fleeing when reinforcements arrived. After learning the raids had become known across the Asura World, the team hid near the Red Jade Star Continent and continued experimenting on captured Eight-Armed Asuras.

• Qu Jianlei's team launched a surprise attack from the Gangzhui Tribe's Secondary Nest, destroying Asura nests outside while the main force captured the Mother Nest.
• The team spent five days pursuing fleeing Asuras, then mined the spirit stone site and searched unsuccessfully for escaped Six-Armed Asuras.
• A Shiyan Tribe nest arrived as the team refined fragmented spirit stones, and Qu Jianlei ordered everyone to leave after prisoners revealed it had come to reinforce the defenses.
• The team erased its traces, escaped Danghu, and waited near the Red Jade Star Continent while the Asura World investigated the mine raids.
• Qu Jianlei learned the attacks had spread across the Asura World, while his team refined captured Eight-Armed Asuras to make soul-searching easier, leaving Great Hammer near collapse.

Qu Jianlei learned that Three Eyes and Liang Ran forces were approaching Great Strength Tribe territory, and helped Seven Hands carry an urgent warning to Red Jade. He left a disguised nest near the continent while the tribe’s response remained unknown.

• You You emerged from seclusion close to advancing, and Qu Jianlei advised her to stop cultivating in the Asura World for now.
• Xiao Hu’s instruments detected a large swarm of Asura Nests, which Blood Hammer identified as mostly belonging to the Three Eyes Tribe and Liang Ran Tribe.
• Great Hammer realized the approaching tribes might be targeting Great Strength, and explained that the tribe’s Great Venerable had long remained hidden.
• Great Hammer asked Qu Jianlei to help warn the ancestor, so Qu Jianlei transported Seven Hands toward Red Jade in an Outpost Nest.
• Qu Jianlei released a disguised Great Strength patrol nest ten million kilometers from Red Jade, and a real patrol nest charged toward it.