Chapter Summaries

Qu Jianlei recovered from a backlash, completed a second divination, and devised a way to test the Space Rift using Asuras. Meanwhile, four nests approached the rift, where a dispute between the Yanshang and Gangzhui tribes drew the Tiger-Human Race into the fighting.

• Qu Jianlei ordered the team to retreat, then entered Black Colt Tower to recover while Jing Yuexin insisted he rest for ten days.
• Wind Forgotten proposed feeding on captured Tree Race members, and Qu Jianlei realized Asuras could be sent to test the route instead.
• Qu Jianlei completed a second divination and rested for three days before the team resumed its plans.
• Two Grandchild Nests pursued a Sub-Nest toward the Space Rift, while another Sub-Nest followed behind them.
• The Tiger-Human Race warned the approaching nests to stay out of its territory, but Asuras from both sides fought near the rift.
• A second Nascent Soul Realm Tiger-Human intervened against the pursuing Gangzhui side as the battle continued.

The Tiger-Human Race and the Asuras clashed near the Space Rift until a Tiger-Human Great Venerable intervened and forced the fighting to stop. The Asuras withdrew, while Qu Jianlei focused on the altered fragments of the destroyed Outpost Nests.

• A Gangzhui Grandchild Nest attacked the Tiger-Human Race, and the conflict widened as more nests and Tiger-Human Nascent Souls joined the fight.
• The Yanshang Tribe's nest fled toward the Space Rift while Tiger-Humans tried to block it, and both sides suffered casualties as the battle grew chaotic.
• A Tiger-Human Great Venerable arrived, killed a Six-Arms Asura who insulted it, and caused the combatants to halt and withdraw.
• The Yanshang Tribe's nest escaped while the Gangzhui nests stopped at a Tiger-Human Nascent Soul's order, then regrouped farther away.
• An Eight-Armed Asura addressed someone as Celestial Immortal, and Qu Jianlei examined fragments of the destroyed Outpost Nests, which had been tampered with.

Qu Jianlei located the Tiger-Human Great Venerable hiding in a Space Interlayer and launched a World Piercing Shuttle at it. The Great Venerable emerged to face the attack, only to discover that the shuttle concealed Silent Extinction rules, the Tiger-Human Race’s greatest weakness.

• Qu Jianlei hid the Asuras after the Outpost Nest was destroyed and later returned to the Tiger-Human alert perimeter to search for the Great Venerable.
• Qu Jianlei observed the Great Venerable’s faint divine-sense fluctuations and used divination to pinpoint its position in the Space Interlayer.
• Qu Jianlei launched the black World Piercing Shuttle from beside a meteor inhabited by Tiger-Humans.
• The Tiger-Human Great Venerable sensed danger, emerged in its Dharma Body True Form, and reached to seize the approaching shuttle.
• The Tiger-Human Great Venerable recognized that the shuttle combined Spatial Rules with Silent Extinction rules and realized it was designed to exploit the Tiger-Human Race’s weakness.

The Cultivators struck the Tiger-Human Great Venerable with the World Piercing Shuttle, driving its soul to flee, then captured Tiger-Humans and investigated the Space Rift. After finding a usable passage, they entered the void, where the Division Level Ship’s shield began rapidly losing energy.

• The World Piercing Shuttle’s Silent Extinction aura forced the Tiger-Human Great Venerable to abandon its body and flee, while its blast shattered the Battalion-Class Ship and left part of its body intact.
• Qu Jianlei and the others recovered most of their Mobile Palaces, captured surviving Tiger-Humans, and searched captives for information about the Space Rift.
• The team tested passages with Tiger-Human captives, and Duo Gan’s clone confirmed that one passage led to the void.
• After Qu Jianlei performed a divination, the team boarded a Division Level Ship and traveled through the passage into the void.
• Paranoid lost a thread of spiritual sense after probing the void, and the ship’s warning system announced that its protective shield energy was rapidly declining.

Qu Jianlei led the team through the void, where they struggled to establish Anchor Points and discovered that the realm accelerated Black Colt Tower's time while wearing it down. After finding Meteor Silver, they began testing it as an Anchor Point, but their journey took a new turn when Xiao Hu detected a massive object that might be alive.

• Hua Xiezhi warned that the Channel Entrance had vanished behind the Division Level Ship, and Xiao Hu suggested that divination might help the team find its way back.
• Qu Jianlei abandoned the team's failed Anchor Point plans and guided the ship through ten days of uneventful travel, using divinations to proceed cautiously.
• Qu Jianlei discovered that Black Colt Tower's time differential had increased to roughly one-to-six in the void, but its durability was falling three times faster than usual.
• Big Head Butterfly requested a ship change for maintenance, and the team later collected substances that Yi He identified as Meteor Silver.
• Qu Jianlei failed to leave an aura on the Meteor Silver and decided to preserve it, while advising the team to call Electromagnetic Art Thunder Method in the Cultivation World.
• Xiao Hu detected a massive object ahead with rhythmic movements and reported that it might be a life-form.

During the team’s long journey through the void, Qu Jianlei avoided dangerous creatures and taught the crew Divine Script to lift their spirits. After years of travel, Jing Yuexin proposed that they study cultivation techniques as well, and Qu Jianlei wondered why she supported it.

• Xiao Hu spotted a Star Swallowing Beast, but Qu Jianlei ordered the ship to detour rather than approach it.
• The crew later encountered Void Swamp Beasts and survived a powerful Energy Vortex that forced them to switch ships.
• After fifteen years in the void, Qu Jianlei began teaching Divine Script, and Xiao Hu prepared a textbook for the team.
• The crew learned Shenzhou language and studied its variations, making their journey more engaging for the next two years.
• Jing Yuexin proposed that the team put their studies into practice by learning cultivation techniques, and Qu Jianlei was surprised by her support.

Qu Jianlei let his team research cultivation techniques freely while Wind Forgotten tricked Tree Race captives into a dangerous void mission and secretly killed two of them. The group then spotted a moving Bone Dragon in the void, and Jiao Daoren considered trying to capture it.

• Qu Jianlei refused to settle disputes over cultivation research, letting his team members test their ideas against one another in the Portable Abode.
• Gold Digger told Jing Yuexin that Wind Forgotten and High-Fidelity Replica were hungry, so she reported it to Qu Jianlei.
• With Qu Jianlei's authorization, Wind Forgotten sent three Tree Race members into the void to scout and urged them to remain there longer than they could endure.
• Wind Forgotten had High-Fidelity Replica rescue one captive, while Tree Traitor declared the other two dead and Wind Forgotten killed them to feed High-Fidelity Replica.
• Xiao Hu detected a moving skeletal creature in the void, which Jiao Daoren identified as a Bone Dragon and considered capturing with Beast Taming Sect techniques.

A Bone Dragon ambushed Qu Jianlei’s Division Level Ship in the void and badly damaged it, forcing the crew to fight back. Qu Jianlei and the Nascent Soul cultivators trapped the creature in a sustained lightning barrage, and the chapter ended with both sides nearing exhaustion.

• The Bone Dragon suddenly attacked the Division Level Ship, smashing its shield and damaging its hull and sealed compartments.
• Qu Jianlei sent the weaker teammates into the Abode and led six Nascent Soul Realm cultivators out to confront the Bone Dragon.
• Qu Jianlei’s group formed the Five Elements Battle Array and repeatedly struck the Bone Dragon with lightning while a Golden Core group added attacks.
• The Bone Dragon’s shadow-side nature left it paralyzed and injured by the lightning, but it endured the barrage as the team kept attacking.
• Qu Jianlei judged that the Bone Dragon and his team were both close to exhaustion, while the void’s hostility to divine sense limited the creature’s ability to use its soul.

Qu Jianlei’s team overwhelmed the Bone Dragon and the Black Shadow controlling it, despite the enemy’s attempted surrender and desperate summons. The Hellhound fell to the Paranoid’s freezing artifact, and Jiao Daoren urged the team to finish off the Bone Dragon.

• Qu Jianlei ordered the Division Level Ship to attack after the Black Shadow called the battle a misunderstanding.
• Duo Gan and Jia Shuiqing struck the Bone Dragon with the Great Seal and bronze mirror, cracking its bones until the Black Shadow offered a ransom and summoned a three-headed Hellhound.
• The Paranoid froze the Hellhound with a bottle’s netherworldly chill, while the Black Shadow rushed toward Qu Jianlei.
• Jing Yuexin used the Soul Suppressing Bell and Qu Jianlei brought out the Cloud Crown and sealed Dao Stele, slowing and frightening the Black Shadow.
• Qinghu’s Light Therapy talisman weakened the Black Shadow as the Bone Dragon remained pinned, and the Hellhound collapsed under the freezing energy.
• Jiao Daoren identified the Hellhound’s arrival as a summoning technique and called for the team to attack the Bone Dragon.

The team defeated a Bone Dragon and captured its mage, then spent years searching the void as their ships and supplies deteriorated. In the seventh year, Qu Jianlei detected an anomaly and sent Tree Traitor to investigate it.

• Paranoid, Qinghu, and the others destroyed the Bone Dragon, while the Cloud Crown absorbed the Black Shadow mage.
• Jiao Daoren gathered intelligence from the mage, but Qu Jianlei ordered the team to refine it rather than trust its offers.
• The team continued through the void for more than six years as their ships deteriorated and supplies dwindled.
• Wind Forgotten and the High-Fidelity Replica finished digesting two Tree Race members, and Tree Traitor recruited three more for an exploration mission.
• Qu Jianlei sensed unusual void energy and ordered Tree Traitor to investigate, prompting Tree Traitor to fall silent until First One prompted it.

Qu Jianlei’s team searched the void for worlds and faced mounting pressure to find places where members could advance their cultivation. After nearly thirty years, they discovered a promising Small World and then a sealed entrance to the Cultivation World, leaving them poised to make contact without provoking its defenders.

• Tree Traitor found a Protective Membrane around a barren world, where the team rested for ten days and Qu Jianlei left an Obsidian marker.
• The team explored two more worlds, finding one with a low-level ecosystem and another whose aquatic creatures could use simple spells, then continued its voyage.
• Rhine told Jing Yuexin that Bentley was nearing the time to attempt the Nascent Soul Realm, prompting concern about the whole team’s cultivation needs and aging members.
• Qu Jianlei expanded the exploration fleet, and a Battalion-Class Ship found a massacred Small World where divination showed a chance of forming a Golden Core and signs that the Cultivation World was nearby.
• An unmanned Battalion-Class Ship discovered an array-sealed entrance much closer than expected, and the team gathered before it without attacking so they would not appear hostile.

Qu Jianlei and his companions calculated a way through the Sealing Array, and Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow spent months infiltrating and escaping it. After slipping past the cultivators guarding the array, Qu Jianlei fled into the desert and cautiously made his way out, leaving the story with Sunset Glow questioning his extreme caution.

• Jiao Daoren and Yi He explained the Sealing Array while Qu Jianlei and Xiao Hu calculated its structure and a possible infiltration route.
• Qu Jianlei chose a divination-approved plan and entered the array with Sunset Glow, carrying two Abodes and Ruler while enduring its corrosive energy.
• An unusual aura alerted the cultivators guarding the array, and two Nascent Soul cultivators watched for signs of an opportunity before eventually leaving.
• Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow spent over three months finding a way out, briefly using the Dao Stele to resist the array's pressure and attracting nearby cultivators' attention.
• Qu Jianlei waited another month before emerging, replenished his spiritual energy, and fled through the desert without using Instant Flash until the third night.
• Sunset Glow questioned Qu Jianlei's caution after he finally flashed beyond the vast desert.

After reaching the Cangwu Realm, Qu Jianlei’s team learned about its powers and debated how to establish themselves, then investigated possible land purchases in Dongsheng. While exploring the Yan Family’s territory, they discovered unusual underground Spirit Vein fluctuations that Human Face said could develop into a Tier 4 Spirit Vein.

• Qu Jianlei brought the team to a forest in Cangwu, rested in Black Colt Tower, and recovered from the journey.
• Jiao Daoren and the others gathered information about Dongsheng’s cultivation powers and learned that the realm was relatively peaceful.
• Xiang Xue and Zi Jiuxian explored buying land with Tier 2 Spirit Veins, prompting the team to inspect the Zitong Sect’s territory and then the Yan Family’s territory.
• Qu Jianlei, Jing Yuexin, Paranoid, and Mu Yu sensed unusual Spirit Vein fluctuations beneath a mountain ridge in Yan Family territory.
• Human Face judged that the underground Spirit Vein could grow to Tier 4, and Paranoid challenged Jiao Daoren’s doubts about its assessment.

The team negotiated with the Yan Family to buy mountain land containing a potentially Tier 4 Spirit Vein. Xiang Xue, Hua Xiezhi, and Bentley used Golden Core Realm talismans to pressure the Yan Family representative, who softened his stance and asked about their business and taxes.

• Jia Shuiqing estimated that the abode's Spirit Vein might be Tier 4, while Jiao Daoren worried that this could invalidate the purchase agreement.
• Qu Jianlei sent Xiang Xue, Hua Xiezhi, and Bentley to negotiate with the Yan Family for several mountain peaks.
• The Yan Family representative demanded an astronomical price and challenged Xiang Xue and Hua Xiezhi to reveal their identities.
• Hua Xiezhi and Xiang Xue displayed Golden Core Realm talismans, prompting the representative to let them leave and reopen price negotiations.
• Bentley implied that the team could have bought land through the Cultivator Alliance, and the representative asked about their business and tax arrangements.
• Hua Xiezhi rejected the Yan Family's proposed taxes, saying they would pay nothing.

Qu Jianlei and his companions bought a hundred-year land-use agreement from the Yan Family and began surveying their new territory. They discovered four impoverished villages on the land, and after most villagers resisted relocating, Qu Jianlei’s group faced the task of resolving the dispute.

• Hua Xiezhi agreed to pay three hundred thousand spirit stones for the land-use rights, and the Yan Family accepted a hundred-thousand-stone deposit.
• Yan Sicong reported the newcomers’ wealth and unusual talismans to Yan Xuemin, who chose to observe them and later planned to inspect their settlement.
• While clearing the purchased land, Qu Jianlei’s group discovered four villages with more than five hundred residents and two Qi Refinement cultivators.
• Hua Xiezhi reported the villagers to Qu Jianlei, who decided to offer relocation compensation and have the Yan Family handle anyone who refused to move.
• Most villagers resisted relocation, explaining that leaving would cost them their homes and livelihoods and take years to recover from.

Qu Jianlei’s group ordered four villages to relocate, offering compensation that decreased each day and threatening to test an Illusion Array on the land. Feng Yingyu and his son secretly planned to enlist Yin Family Fort’s help, while the newcomers watched their conversation and decided to let the contact proceed.

• Yan Sicong told Hua Xiezhi that the Yan Family would not immediately handle the villagers’ relocation, prompting Qu Jianlei’s group to devise its own plan.
• Qu Jianlei ordered the four villages to move within five to ten days, offering each person up to five spirit stones and threatening an Illusion Array if they remained.
• The team surveyed the villages for the array, and Foundation Establishment cultivators’ Coercive Pressure persuaded some villagers to move while others resisted.
• Feng Yingyu’s son, Feng Juncai, urged him to oppose the move and approach Yin Family Fort, hoping to protect the Feng Family’s plans for a nearby Tier 2 Spirit Vein.
• Feng Yingyu tacitly agreed to let Feng Juncai make contact, unaware that members of Qu Jianlei’s group had been monitoring them.
• Fourth Boss and Yuanyuan agreed to let Feng Juncai go, preferring to act against someone who had already committed a clear offense.

Hua Xiezhi and the new masters of Red Leaf Ridge watched villagers relocate and used two robberies to uncover who was targeting them. The bandits were caught and punished, Feng Junwu was killed for colluding with them, and nine households remained undecided about staying.

• Hua Xiezhi paid spirit stones to villagers who relocated, and Su Ye's family left the territory with fifty-five spirit stones.
• Two Qi Refining Realm bandits robbed Su Ye's family, while several streams of divine sense witnessed the attack.
• More than twenty households moved to the designated area, where an organized gang later robbed them of over one thousand spirit stones and injured several people.
• Hua Xiezhi and Xiang Xue captured the bandits and displayed them upside down; they also hung Feng Junwu's head beside them after discovering his involvement in the robbery.
• A gust of wind killed one bandit when he spoke harshly to the villagers, and the remaining bandits revealed Feng Junwu's collusion.

Xiang Xue and Hua Xiezhi enforced Red Leaf Ridge’s relocation terms, while the Su Family returned to settle nearby after recovering its stolen spirit stones. Yan Xuemin and Yan Sicong arrived to assess the new owners and considered whether to encourage a conflict with Yin Family Fort.

• Feng Yingyu blamed Feng Junwu’s attack on personal misconduct, then led the Feng Family away without compensation and left Feng Junwu’s body behind.
• Xiang Xue denied the remaining eight households access to the Temporary Residence, and they departed after spending the night near Red Leaf Ridge.
• Hua Xiezhi returned villagers’ stolen spirit stones and appointed two representatives to collect ransoms for the captured bandits.
• Su Ye recovered his family’s fifty-five spirit stones but was refused permission to return to the Temporary Residence, so he bought land beside Red Leaf Ridge for the Su Family.
• Yan Xuemin judged Qu Jianlei’s group disciplined and forceful, and he suspected a major force had placed them at Red Leaf Ridge.
• Yan Sicong asked whether the Yan Family should provoke a dispute between the Red Leaf Ridge group and Yin Family Fort.

Red Leaf Ridge ignored Yin Family Fort’s schemes and focused on building up its settlement, while Yin Family Fort secretly exterminated the Feng Family. The chapter ends with Qu Jianlei preparing to help Claire and Hua Lei, who are nearing breakthroughs into the Golden Core Realm.

• Yan Xuemin rejected Yan Sicong’s suggestion to deliberately provoke Yin Family Fort, and two days later Yin Family Fort sent Feng Juncai’s head to Red Leaf Ridge.
• Hua Xiezhi declined to decide the fate of the Feng Family’s twenty-six remaining members, so Yin Family Fort confined them in the wilderness and later secretly killed them all.
• Red Leaf Ridge completed major construction, including drawing up part of a Tier 4 Spirit Vein, building cultivation caverns and a Mountain Protecting Grand Formation, and setting up surveillance equipment.
• Qu Jianlei accepted the villagers and agreed to split their agricultural yield evenly, while restricting them to their assigned area and establishing a Spirit Beast Breeding Farm.
• After emerging from seclusion, Qu Jianlei learned from Qinghu that Yin Family Fort had exterminated the Feng Family and revealed that Claire and Hua Lei were close to attempting Golden Core breakthroughs.

Qu Jianlei’s team decided to sell supplies and buy resources in the Cultivation World, bringing four members to Yan Family Market. Yan Sicong welcomed them as partners of the Yan Family and began assessing their strength and goods.

• Qu Jianlei decided the team needed to sell supplies to fund purchases and better establish itself in the Cultivation World.
• Paranoid urged Mu Yu to go out, but Qu Jianlei, Jing Yuexin, Duo Gan, Jia Shuiqing, and Little Snake went to Yan Family Market instead.
• The group paid the entrance fee and attracted attention as unfamiliar visitors from Red Leaf Ridge.
• Yan Sicong approached them, called them partners of the Yan Family, and withdrew his probing after sensing Duo Gan’s intimidating presence.
• Jia Shuiqing told Yan Sicong they wanted to buy supplies and sell items to the highest bidder, so he led them to a Yan Family reception courtyard.
• Yan Sicong served Heart Cleansing Tea, and Jia Shuiqing asked its price while Duo Gan remained watchful and declined to drink.