Chapter Summaries

Qu Jianlei's group learned from Beng Ya how the Asura World had responded to the destruction of four Star Continents and how the Great Strength Tribe had been marginalized. Beng Ya refused to help them enter through the Channel Entrance, explaining that the Asuras were reinforcing it with elite troops for a counteroffensive.

• Seven Hands returned with Beng Ya, a six-armed Great Strength Tribe member who had slipped into its Outpost Nest during the battle.
• Great Hammer vouched for Beng Ya, and You You asked it to explain what had happened in the Asura World over the past two years.
• Beng Ya described the Asuras' search for Qu Jianlei's group, their suspicion that the Cultivators had left, and their plans to counterattack the Human Race.
• Beng Ya explained that the Royal Clan had failed to secure more Mother Nests from the Great Strength Tribe, whose members were now being provoked alongside the weakened Qingchuan and Xinai Tribes.
• You You asked Beng Ya to help create an opening for their entry, but Beng Ya refused and said the Asuras had reinforced the Channel Entrance with elite troops.

Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow carefully crossed the heavily guarded region around the Black Hole Entrance to enter the passage toward the Asura World. They reached it without being detected and released a Division Level Ship, leaving the people in the Abode relieved.

• Beng Ya explained that the Asuras had divided their forces between two worlds and that the Federation likely knew of their counteroffensive plan.
• Qu Jianlei and the others decided he and Sunset Glow would travel in the Abode and cross through the Black Hole Entrance rather than risk teleportation.
• Near the entrance, they found a vast, mobile network of Asura nests creating Space Ripples to disrupt teleportation and patrol the area.
• Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow observed the nests for two days, then cautiously worked their way toward the entrance while avoiding detection.
• Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow entered the passage and released a Division Level Ship, where the people in the Abode greeted them with relief.

Qu Jianlei's team traveled to the Evening Dusk Star Continent after Paranoid learned that its security was relatively relaxed and its trade was thriving. They established hidden bases and gathered intelligence, eventually finding a way to contact the Great Strength Tribe.

• After spending weeks traveling and scouting, Qu Jianlei's team learned that Evening Dusk had lighter inspections than Yanhou, though an Out-of-Body Realm Old Ancestor might be stationed there.
• Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow landed invisibly on Evening Dusk, where they observed patrols and released Blood Hammer and another Asura bandit to gather intelligence.
• Blood Hammer discovered that Evening Dusk's booming entertainment trade relied on loosely enforced security outside its busy districts and reported the useful ungoverned areas to Qu Jianlei.
• Qu Jianlei placed a Grandchild Nest in a hidden location, sent out more scouts, and had the team build underground caverns with Teleportation Arrays.
• Blood Hammer and the other bandits spent public funds at local establishments, gathered more information, and found a way to contact the Great Strength Tribe.

Qu Jianlei’s group established contact with the Great Strength Tribe and learned about the Purple Firmament Star Cluster, where the Royal Clan controlled the supply of Space Stones. They also learned that the Tiger-Head Humans had found an Otherworld rich in spiritual energy and were seeking Asura allies to conquer it.

• After Jia Shuiqing reported two Eight-Armed Asuras visiting an abandoned Essence Gold mine, Qu Jianlei ordered the group to keep away and avoid exposing their technology.
• The Great Strength Tribe’s Sub-Nest arrived, and Blood Hammer arranged a cautious meeting that eventually brought Great Hammer into contact with the tribe’s Six-Armed Asura.
• The Six-Armed Asura told Great Hammer that the Royal Clan was pressuring the tribe and that Space Stones came from the Purple Firmament Star Cluster, guarded by a Royal Clan Out-of-Body Great Venerable.
• Qu Jianlei asked for a star map, and Great Hammer offered to lead the group to the Purple Firmament Star Cluster.
• The Six-Armed Asura revealed that the Tiger-Head Humans had emerged from a Space Rift and were seeking Asura cooperation to take an Otherworld containing spiritual energy.

Qu Jianlei entered the Purple Firmament Star Cluster to destroy an Asura strategic stronghold and found an Out-of-Body Asura guarding a Mother Nest. After the World Piercing Shuttle destroyed the nest, its sinister aura affected Qu Jianlei from afar, leaving him and Sunset Glow alarmed.

• Qu Jianlei decided to target Purple Firmament for Space Stones while the team stayed in Evening Dusk until the Great Strength Tribe had left and their trail had faded.
• A month and a half later, Qu Jianlei entered the Purple Firmament Star Cluster and found a central Space Stone ejection point guarded by a Mother Nest and six Sub-Nests.
• Qu Jianlei searched the area, confirmed an Out-of-Body Asura was inside the Mother Nest, and prepared to attack without disturbing the ejection point.
• Qu Jianlei launched the black World Piercing Shuttle from five million kilometers away, and it destroyed the Mother Nest before the Asura could react.
• Qu Jianlei sensed the shuttle's icy aura affecting his soul and entered a Sub-Nest, while Sunset Glow also felt its destructive presence.

Qu Jianlei and his allies survived the Silent Extinction Rhythm Field, but it devastated several nests and left their World Piercing Shuttle’s power difficult to handle. As they began clearing the battlefield, a second Asura Great Venerable appeared, and the team prepared for a direct clash while signaling their scattered allies.

• Qu Jianlei sheltered in successive nests and a Battalion-Class Ship as the Silent Extinction Rhythm Field destroyed the Sub-Nest and badly damaged the Grandchild Nest, Outpost Nest, and several distant Sub-Nests.
• Qu Jianlei and Qinghu emerged, and four Division Level Ships rushed out to clear the battlefield while Qu Jianlei watched the Wave Point and worried about reclaiming the World Piercing Shuttle.
• A second Out-of-Body Asura Great Venerable appeared through the Rhythm Field, prompting Qinghu to return to the Abode and bring out a Battalion-Class Ship.
• Qu Jianlei triggered a Flawed Portable Abode’s Fire-luring Burst near the distant Great Venerable, and Qinghu projected a warning so their teammates would return as quickly as possible.

Qu Jianlei’s team defeated the Asura forces, but the Ten-Armed Asura Out-of-Body cultivator fled before they could engage it. Unsure whether it would return, the team kept watch and began preparing to trigger the Space Wave Point before Asura reinforcements arrived.

• Qinghu signaled for more Division Level Ships as the team deployed seven ships to face the Asuras.
• The Ten-Armed Asura emerged from its hiding place, recognized the spatial attack as the work of visitors from another world, and fled rather than fight.
• Qu Jianlei’s team warned each other against a feigned retreat, eliminated the remaining Asuras, and gathered aboard one Division Level Ship.
• The team debated why the Out-of-Body cultivator had fled, while Qu Jianlei suspected it had come to claim Space Stones withheld by the Royal Clan.
• Qu Jianlei’s team stayed alert for the fugitive and began preparing to trigger the Space Wave Point before a larger Asura force could arrive.

Qu Jianlei’s team escaped the Purple Firmament Star Cluster with a huge haul of Space Stones, then met with the Great Strength Tribe near the Red Jade Star Continent. The tribe revealed that a world likely inhabited by Cultivators might be involved in a plan by the Tiger-Head Humans to enlist the Asuras, leaving Qu Jianlei to consider the danger and investigate further.

• Qu Jianlei’s team endured a month-long Wave Point eruption, gathered Space Stones, and lost several ships to the purple astral winds and Meteors before fleeing the Purple Firmament Star Cluster.
• After traveling and resting, the team contacted the Great Strength Tribe, whose Six-Armed Asuras met with Fourth Boss and You You and asked to trade for Space Stones.
• Fourth Boss refused the trade request and asked how the Asuras transmitted information; the Six-Armed Asura said their Out-of-Body Old Ancestors could communicate quickly.
• The Six-Armed Asura revealed that its Old Ancestor had investigated an Otherworld that might contain Cultivators and that the Tiger-Head Humans had sought Asura help to attack it.
• Qu Jianlei appeared and pressed the Six-Armed Asura for details, learning that the Tiger-Head Humans might not know the world’s Cultivators included Out-of-Body practitioners and that the Asura Old Ancestor could not verify their claims safely.

Qu Jianlei secured a time-limited Beast Taming Sect token for the Great Strength Tribe, then led his team to Chixi Star Continent to investigate the Tiger-Head Humans and their rumored Otherworld. After surveying the heavily guarded continent, the team prepared to approach the Tiger-Head Humans under cover of rain and thunder.

• Qu Jianlei gave Six-Armed Asura a Beast Taming Sect token, and the Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor confirmed it was genuine but valid for only a hundred years.
• Qu Jianlei followed the Great Strength Tribe until it passed a Royal Clan inspection, then returned to plan an investigation of the Tiger-Head Humans on Chixi Star Continent.
• Qu Jianlei and his team reached Chixi and found two Mother Nests and many other nests on alert; he concealed himself and observed the continent without setting up a Teleportation Array.
• Qu Jianlei released Qinghu, Jia Shuiqing, Jiao Daoren, and Yi He to investigate the Tiger-Head Humans, whose security appeared relatively lax despite their formidable strength.
• Jia Shuiqing used clouds and rain to conceal the team, while Qu Jianlei knocked out a lone Six-Armed Asura to test the Old Ancestor's perception.
• Three Tiger-Head Humans left their Guest House at night, and Jia Shuiqing reported that one of them was at the Nascent Soul Realm.

Qu Jianlei and his companions ambushed three Tiger-Head Humans, then escaped by teleporting with a Six-Armed Asura’s corpse, leaving the Asuras to suspect their teleportation required Asura bodies. On a desolate meteor, the team searched the captured Tiger-Head Humans’ souls and identified them as the Tiger-Human Race, a branch of the Tiger Race from a collapsing Great Wilderness.

• Qu Jianlei, Old Lady Jia, Qinghu, and Jing Yuexin ambushed three Tiger-Head Humans near the Guest House and captured them.
• The team used Instant Flash and a Teleportation Array Disc set on a Six-Armed Asura’s corpse to escape, then destroyed the corpse and disc.
• The Ten-Armed Asura and two Eight-Armed Asuras investigated the attack and suspected Asura bodies were needed for the cultivators’ teleportation.
• On a desolate meteor, the team subdued the two captured Tiger-Head Humans and searched their souls.
• The team learned the Tiger-Head Humans belonged to the Tiger-Human Race, which had begun wandering after its Great Wilderness showed signs of collapse.

The group learned that the Tiger-Human Race had once fought Cultivators and retained a vague lead to a Space Rift, but they failed to extract useful coordinates from the Tiger-Human Nascent Soul. They decided to prepare carefully for a voyage and consulted Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor about whether Star Continents could be moved between worlds.

• The Golden Core Realm Tiger-Human revealed that its race had fought Cultivators, fled after powerful reinforcements arrived, and hoped to draw the Asuras into another invasion.
• Everyone learned that the Tiger-Human remembered a Space Rift's location, but Yi He could recover only chaotic fragments from the Nascent Soul before it destroyed its own soul.
• Jiao Daoren, Yi He, and the others agreed to prepare for a long voyage while securing a retreat route and considering dangers in the Asura World and the Locust World.
• Paranoid proposed destroying Star Continents with Fire-luring Bursts, but Jiao Daoren and Yi He argued that the continents were valuable and might someday be moved to a Cultivation World.
• Jing Yuexin suggested asking Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor about Star Continents, so the group contacted the tribe despite heightened Asura patrols.
• Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor said Cultivators had left Star Continents untouched during their past invasion and guessed that moving one to another world was extremely difficult.

Qu Jianlei and his team spent three years preparing to weaken the Royal Clan, while the Asuras grew wary of their raids and struggled with unrest among their tribes. The team began its assault by destroying Royal Clan star continents, and a black shuttle appeared to shatter Star Valley Star Continent.

• Qu Jianlei agreed with Jiao Daoren's assessment of the Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor and approved a cleanup operation targeting Royal Clan territories.
• Qu Jianlei's team spent three years preparing attacks as the Asuras tightened defenses, feared the Cultivators' raids, and faced growing instability among their tribes.
• Explosions destroyed Ruotian and Nine Rivers star continents, killing a Royal Clan Old Ancestor on Ruotian.
• The next day, a black shuttle struck the seclusion site on Star Valley Star Continent and blasted the continent into seven or eight pieces.

Qu Jianlei’s team’s attacks devastated the Asura Royal Clan’s territories, weakening its rule and dividing the tribes, before the team quietly returned to Dawn Base. There, Qu Jianlei learned that Kefu had undergone tribulation a year earlier, explaining the Asuras’ continued vigilance at the Human Race side of the Channel Entrance.

• A black shuttle destroyed Star Valley Star Continent and its Mother Nest, killing many Asuras and badly wounding the Old Ancestor, and five more Royal Clan Star Continents were destroyed afterward.
• The Royal Clan withdrew its forces from the remaining Star Continents and the Human Race world, called on other tribes to help defend, and crushed tribes that refused to assist.
• As tribes became reluctant to join the invasion, news spread that a black shuttle had destroyed another Mother Nest, deepening Asura fears and hesitation.
• Qu Jianlei’s team monitored Asura movements near Red Jade Star Continent for half a year, then crossed the Channel Entrance and quietly returned to Dawn Base.
• Qu Jianlei learned that Kefu had undergone tribulation at the base a year earlier.

After Digital Phantom returned with news of the Cultivation World, Qu Jianlei learned that Kefu had died during tribulation and assessed the team’s security and plans. The Artifact Spirit advised waiting five to ten years before devouring the watched Nebula, so Qu Jianlei began modifying a Mother Nest to carry it away, despite Imperial objections.

• Duo Gan told Qu Jianlei that Kefu had died under the Fourth Path of tribulation lightning, and showed him the recorded footage.
• Qu Jianlei learned that the opposing artificial intelligence had stalled and that Big Head Butterfly had developed an ultimate defense method.
• The Artifact Spirit warned Qu Jianlei that the Abode should not devour the Nebula for another five to ten years because doing so now could create hidden dangers.
• Qu Jianlei decided to take the Nebula away inside a modified Mother Nest, and Hua Xiezhi told the watching Imperial starship that the team needed it for experiments against the Asura.
• Qu Jianlei divined that the modified Mother Nest could contain the Nebula, and Digital Phantom began transporting construction starships to alter it.
• The team discovered that the Mother Nest’s complex, sturdy structure made its modification far more difficult than expected.

Qu Jianlei spent half a year modifying the Mother Nest while the Empire and Federation tried to learn about the Digital Phantom Team’s plans and its exploits in Asura World. When he finally tried to store Nebula, he discovered that it had become entangled with the karma of this world.

• Qu Jianlei completed the Mother Nest modifications after half a year, while Hua Xiezhi declined the Empire’s requests for details about the team’s technology.
• The Federation learned from captured Asura that the Digital Phantom Team had disrupted Asura World, and asked the Empire to find out whether the team would keep fighting there.
• Hua Xiezhi told the Empire that the team would follow its own plans and had eliminated a few dozen Asura Brood Mothers.
• Qu Jianlei began testing whether the modified Mother Nest could store Nebula, but found that he could not drag it.
• Qu Jianlei concluded that Nebula had become entangled with the karma of this world.

Qu Jianlei and Digital Phantom finished preparing for a journey to find the Cultivation World, while growing increasingly distant from the Empire. You You asked the authorities to lift restrictions on Garbage Star, and the chapter ended with Xiao Moshan negotiating over the Empire’s gradual plan to reform it.

• Qu Jianlei stored away the Mother Nest and Division Level Ship, then vanished from the Imperial starship’s surveillance, further straining relations with the authorities.
• The authorities paid the remaining balance for the talisman technology as Qu Jianlei’s team arranged to leave Xiao Moshan, Da Vinci, Xiao Qin, and Mu Guang at Dawn Base.
• After the team confirmed its preparations, You You asked the Empire to lift its controls over Garbage Star, with Bentley, Hua Xiezhi, Claire, and others supporting her.
• The authorities learned that several Digital Phantom members came from Garbage Star and, after debating the risks, devised a gradual plan to resolve its restrictions over twenty to fifty years.
• Xiao Moshan went to negotiate with the military, which recognized him as a former Garbage Star soldier who had advanced from A-rank to Supreme.

Qu Jianlei’s team assessed the Alliance’s troubles, helped Xiao Hu absorb artificial-intelligence fragments, and fought the Tree Race to gather resources. When they encountered Alliance forces retreating from the Forest Sea, they accepted a paid request for help and routed the alien army.

• Qu Jianlei’s team visited the Alliance, found that the Locust invasion was faltering and its artificial intelligence was being contained, and decided not to search for the Mother Tree.
• Qu Jianlei took the team to three Habitable Stars, where Xiao Hu pursued and nearly erased one artificial intelligence before its gains from the others diminished.
• The team used its Division Level Ship, Abodes, and Asura Brood Mother to crush the Tree Race in more than a dozen battles, sustaining only limited damage.
• Qu Jianlei’s team encountered Alliance forces fleeing a Forest Sea attack, and the Alliance offered payment for assistance after recognizing Digital Phantom’s Battalion-Class Ship.
• Digital Phantom deployed its Mother Nest and Abodes, broke the Forest Sea forces in five hours, and joined the Alliance in pursuing the fleeing aliens.

Qu Jianlei’s team swept through the Alliance, gathered Tree Race captives and resources, and triggered a massive Space Stone eruption near Sihe Star. They then traveled through the Federation and entered the Asura World, heading for the Great Strength Tribe to learn what had changed.

• Digital Phantom defeated the Forest Sea Alien Race and accepted Alliance ships as compensation for the remains it left behind.
• Qu Jianlei’s team spent half a year in the Alliance, capturing more than thirty Tree Race members and collecting tree remains and Locust corpses.
• Qu Jianlei’s team used four sets of Flawed Portable Abodes to unleash violent energy currents around the Space Wave Point near Sihe Star, then triggered an eruption that yielded twice as many Space Stones as the Purple Astral eruption.
• The team left the Alliance, traveled through the Federation, and captured two Secondary Nests before heading toward the Black Hole Entrance.
• Qu Jianlei’s team stealthily crossed into the Asura World and continued toward the Great Strength Tribe without using a Teleportation Array.

Qu Jianlei learned that the Asura Royal Clan planned to seize the Channel Entrance to the Empire and that the Imperial Clan might intervene in thirty to fifty years. With time running out, he launched a devastating strike against the Royal Clan and the Flying Vine Tribe, then expanded the team’s attacks into space.

• The Great Strength Tribe reported that the Royal Clan planned another campaign and was considering seizing the Channel Entrance to the Empire.
• The Great Strength Tribe confirmed that the Imperial Clan had learned of the conflict, though it would likely take thirty to fifty years to arrive.
• Qu Jianlei decided to attack the Royal Clan’s enemies and identified the Flying Vine Tribe as a likely target.
• Qu Jianlei’s team used groups of four Flawed Portable Abodes to destroy one Royal Clan continental star and two Flying Vine Tribe continental stars.
• The team also attacked Asura Nests in space and Human Race warships, while the black shuttle and enormous Cloud Crown appeared again.

The Asuras’ troubles deepened after the Flying Vine Tribe’s destruction, while Qu Jianlei’s team worked to mislead the Tiger-Human Race and approach the Space Rift. The chapter ended with Qu Jianlei beginning a dangerous divination about the Out-of-Body Great Venerables guarding the way.

• The surviving Flying Vine Tribe Old Ancestor denounced the Royal Clan through an Eight-Armed Race member, whom the Asuras executed, then sent elite squads to search for the Old Ancestor.
• The Royal Clan’s plans to attack the Federation stalled as other tribes refused to send reinforcements and urged it to defend the Channel Entrance instead.
• Qu Jianlei and his team reduced their attacks to make the Tiger-Human Race believe they had no interest in the other Cultivation World.
• The Asuras pressured the Tiger-Human Race into sending an Out-of-Body Realm expert to patrol, and the Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor relayed this intelligence to Digital Phantom.
• Qu Jianlei’s team traveled toward the Space Rift and stopped more than two billion kilometers away, where Qu Jianlei used the Seashell and Turtle Shell to divine the danger and spat out two mouthfuls of blood.