Recaps

Baiqiao tried to persuade Qu Jianlei to involve Lingyun Sect in Saving the Heavens from Tilting, arguing that success could bring the sect the karma and benefits of the entire Lianxing Realm. Qu Jianlei remained wary of Baiqiao’s schemes, and the discussion ended with Baiqiao insisting that the sect could take the risk because it had Qu Jianlei.

• Qu Jianlei told Baiqiao he would take Cangwu and leave if necessary, frustrating Baiqiao’s plan to use Cangwu as leverage.
• Baiqiao asked Qu Jianlei to explain his theories about the mechanism behind Lianxing’s heavens tilting and admitted Lingyun Sect hoped to participate in Saving the Heavens from Tilting.
• Han Li and Jin Ge challenged Baiqiao’s attempts to exploit Qu Jianlei, while Baiqiao defended his conduct and promised Lingyun Sect would gift Qu Jianlei a Tier 6 Spirit Vein if the effort succeeded.
• Qu Jianlei questioned the risk to Lingyun Sect, and Baiqiao argued that success could let it become a sect spanning realms and that the opportunity was worth seizing.
• Jin Ge warned Lingyun Sect lacked the strength to bear the resulting karma, but Baiqiao dismissed his concerns and said the sect had Qu Jianlei.

Qu Jianlei agreed to accept Lingyun’s manpower, resources, and records for Saving the Heavens from Tilting while refusing to share his private ideas, then assessed Nascent Soul Supremes and found the advancement odds of Duo Gan and Jing Yuexin troublingly low. Lingyun’s assessment and liaison representatives arrived, and the assessment Grand Elder approved the project as the liaison offered to handle future needs.

• Baiqiao said Lingyun could provide resources and records, but Qu Jianlei refused to disclose his ideas and said he wanted to retain the option to withdraw.
• Baiqiao promised Qu Jianlei a Tier 6 Spirit Vein if Saving the Heavens from Tilting succeeded, and Qu Jianlei suggested the undertaking might lead to the Soul-Splitting Realm.
• Qu Jianlei examined five Nascent Soul Supremes and gave them adjustment advice, demonstrating expertise in both new and mainstream paths to Out-of-Body.
• Qu Jianlei learned that Duo Gan’s and Jing Yuexin’s chances of advancing were only above average and worried he might see Jing Yuexin die again.
• Baiqiao brought two Lingyun representatives to assess the project, and Qu Jianlei told them he had not planned to apply for support.
• The assessment Grand Elder approved the project, while the liaison representative offered to handle Lingyun’s future provision of manpower and materials.

Qu Jianlei rejected Lingyun’s proposed liaison and review arrangements, arguing that the team’s karma should remain with its seven members. After Qingkong arrived, Xiaoyou joined the effort and offered to bring two True Venerables Han Wei to protect Qu Jianlei’s companions on their planned trip to Apollo World.

• Qu Jianlei turned down Lingyun’s liaison and reviewer, and Baiqiao accepted that they would discuss the cooperation framework only when his help became necessary.
• Baiqiao later sent Qingkong to Qu Jianlei, who explained that he had rejected the proposed officials to prevent them from taking a share of the team’s karma.
• Qingkong teased Qu Jianlei about looking after him, while Han Li, Xiaoyou, and the Dao Field Old Ancestor traded remarks about their ages and relationships.
• Xiaoyou arrived after getting her master’s approval to participate and said she could not provide information about Heavenly Tilting across Great Thousand Worlds.
• Xiaoyou told Qu Jianlei she had invited the two True Venerables Han Wei to protect his companions during their planned trip to Apollo World.

Qu Jianlei delayed his journey to Asura World so Jing Yuexin could be protected while she prepared to advance, then led a group of thirteen True Venerables there to study the world fusion. He met the Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor, who had no clear memories of how the previous world collapsed, leaving Qu Jianlei without the insight he had sought.

• Xiaoyou urged Qu Jianlei to leave for Asura World, but Qu Jianlei agreed to wait half a year and let Xiwu and Song Yue'er protect Jing Yuexin until her advancement.
• Qu Jianlei and the other True Venerables departed for Asura World with the six True Venerables of Lianxing, after agreeing that the Lianxing group would focus on gaining insight rather than seeking opportunities.
• Thirteen True Venerables entered Asura World and headed to the world convergence, where many cultivators were meditating; the Grand Lord's avatar disappeared after sensing the Lianxing World aura.
• Qu Jianlei went to find the Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor, and Han Li joined him while leaving an avatar at the world convergence.
• The Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor told Qu Jianlei that he had been born after the worlds began fusing and had learned no special details about the previous world's collapse.

Qu Jianlei and Han Li searched the void for places that might hold clues to Lianxing’s crisis, while Xiaoyou left the junction of the worlds to follow them. They found a concealed, displaced Otherworld tied to Qu Jianlei, and prepared to break through its barrier, though Han Li worried about the powerful being behind it.

• Qu Jianlei agreed to visit the Maiden Star Region after Jing Yuexin advanced, but the Spider Grand Monarch refused to guide them to the Tree Race World, so Qu Jianlei chose to search the Land of Fallen Gods instead.
• At the junction of the worlds, Xiaoyou split off her true body to pursue Qu Jianlei and Han Li, leaving her clone with Han Wei.
• Xiaoyou caught up with Qu Jianlei and Han Li, who had found the place where an Otherworld once stood but could no longer locate it through divination.
• Xiaoyou used her Cloud Kerchief to pierce the concealment and identify the folded space hiding the Otherworld.
• Han Li and Qu Jianlei began calculating how to break the barrier, and Qu Jianlei decided a standard Mountain Felling array would suffice.
• Han Li warned that the Great Expert behind the barrier might not know of Qu Jianlei’s connection to the Otherworld.

Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou discovered that a Great Expert had extracted much of the Spirit Essence from the Otherworld where Qu Jianlei once broke through, leaving its cultivation energy system failing. After learning that the culprit was not the Master of Spirit Mountain and that the Territory Consciousness feared the unknown Human Race Great Expert, Qu Jianlei guessed who it was and wondered whether Miss Old Ancestor could tolerate the situation.

• Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou entered the Otherworld and found it had become a Spirit-Severed Land whose cultivation energy system no longer functioned properly.
• Qu Jianlei and Han Li realized that a Great Expert had severed some of their karma while extracting the world's Spirit Essence, but had left its magic system and some Spirit Essence intact.
• Xiaoyou and the others suspected the Master of Spirit Mountain, but Spider said the Great Expert's aura did not match the one who had helped them against the Human-Faced Bee.
• The Territory Consciousness timidly approached, then fled when Spider's aura frightened it, and Big Head Butterfly explained that it feared the unknown Human Race Great Expert who had plundered its foundation.
• Taiyuan Sea relayed the Territory Consciousness's account, and Qu Jianlei guessed the culprit's identity before asking whether Miss Old Ancestor could put up with it.

Qu Jianlei and the others investigated the changes in the world and learned that a Great Expert’s theft of its Spirit Essence had accelerated its fusion with the Main World, causing disasters known as the Era of Heavenly Changes. Qu Jianlei entered Sudden Enlightenment while studying the changes, and the chapter ended with Han Li and Xiaoyou realizing that he was simulating World Fusion.

• Taiyuan Sea said the unknown Great Expert connected to Qu Jianlei through karma was not the one Han Li suspected, and Qu Jianlei decided to deal with the matter if it arose.
• Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou spent more than three days learning that the Great Expert’s plunder had nearly completed the fusion of the Land of Fallen Gods and the Main World, triggering widespread disasters.
• Qu Jianlei entered Sudden Enlightenment while examining the heavenly changes, and Han Li and Xiaoyou guarded him as he continued to comprehend.
• After more than ten days, Qu Jianlei’s ripples spread into violent turbulence that made the world seem to suffer another heavenly change before the disturbance stopped.
• Spider identified the phenomenon as a World domain, and Xiaoyou realized Qu Jianlei was simulating the fusion of a broken world.

Qu Jianlei used the broken world as a testing ground to practice fusing worlds, while Han Li and Xiaoyou learned to assist him. After more than half a year of experiments, they stopped as the fusion advanced substantially, and Xiaoyou raised the earlier information about that realm before they left.

• Qu Jianlei explained that his Sudden Enlightenment had involved Creation and Destruction, fate, and the passage of time, and he decided to use the world as a testing ground rather than consume it for resources.
• Qu Jianlei practiced world fusion for half a year, then let Han Li and Xiaoyou try their own attempts with his guidance.
• Han Li’s attempt nearly caused a disaster comparable to the first Heavenly Change, while Xiaoyou’s later attempt went somewhat better but still brought hardship to the world’s inhabitants.
• Qu Jianlei’s peaceful control of the fusion fluctuations came from borrowing the Dao Stele’s Luck Aura, though Han Li and Xiaoyou instead developed methods of their own by imitating him.
• Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou stopped their experiments after the world’s fusion had advanced substantially, and Xiaoyou brought up the earlier information about that realm.

Xiaoyou persuaded Qu Jianlei and Han Li to visit the Yelang Realm, whose True Venerables had already been subdued, and Qu Jianlei proposed using a sealed Golden Core-level secret realm as a small-scale test. After the group spent two years concealing the secret realm and traveled to the Maiden Star Region, they found the sealed starry sky and Mysterious Voice reacted to the method that remained there.

• Xiaoyou revealed that she and True Venerable Yueran had beaten the two remaining True Venerables of the Yelang Realm after one of its True Venerables ambushed Qu Jianlei and Han Li.
• Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou agreed to visit the Yelang Realm with a small world, and Qu Jianlei offered a sealed Secret Realm with a Golden Core Realm upper limit.
• Qu Jianlei explained that the Secret Realm in the Maiden Star Region had been sealed by a Great Expert, and Han Li suggested using it to rehearse the plan for Jieyi Realm.
• Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou spent three months unsuccessfully trying to conceal the Secret Realm before Taiyuan Sea instructed them in spatial folding; the work took two years.
• The three traveled to the Maiden Star Region, found the sealed starry sky with Xiao Hu's help, and Mysterious Voice marveled that the method had survived.

Qu Jianlei, Xiaoyou, and Han Li reached the war-torn Yelang Realm and discovered its factions were fighting over the realm’s sole Tier 5 Spirit Vein after outside news shattered their balance. Qu Jianlei chose to seek permission before settling the small world there, and the two wounded True Venerables agreed to discuss its inhabitants’ arrival.

• Qu Jianlei and his companions cleared Heavenly Devil Qi from a small world and carried it toward Yelang Realm.
• The three arrived in Yelang Realm and found widespread battles driven by conflict over the Tier 5 Spirit Vein.
• Qu Jianlei realized that Xiaoyou and Yueran’s appearance had prompted the two remaining True Venerables to push for unifying the realm, while their factions fought amid the resulting chaos.
• Qu Jianlei insisted that Xiaoyou inform Yelang Realm’s True Venerables before they settled the small world there.
• Xiaoyou contacted the two True Venerables, who appeared as hurriedly formed clones and agreed to let the small world’s orthodox Golden Core cultivators settle if they did not cause trouble.

Han Li, Xiaoyou, and Qu Jianlei reached an agreement with two True Venerables of the Yelang Realm to protect the small world's cultivators, but Han Li then revealed their plan to fuse the realms. The Yelang True Venerables withdrew to protect their realm, and three days later a fluctuation rippled through its starry sky.

• The two Yelang True Venerables asked the outsiders to judge their internal conflict, but Han Li refused to interfere and required them to guarantee the small world's cultivators' rights.
• Han Li produced the small world, and the Yelang True Venerables recognized its Boundary Membrane and thought it might become their Lower Realm.
• Han Li told the Yelang True Venerables to step aside because he intended to fuse the realms, prompting them to object to the danger and disruption.
• Xiaoyou explained that Han Li and Qu Jianlei were the principals behind the dispute and revealed that they had struck down a Great Monarch.
• The two Yelang True Venerables withdrew to protect their realm, and three days later a fluctuation spread through the Yelang Realm's starry sky.

The world fusion caused prolonged fluctuations and panic in the Yelang Realm, while its True Venerables could only watch from a distance. As the fusion continued, Han Li and Qu Jianlei discussed the Forgotten Peninsula, and Han Li threatened the Yelang True Venerables when they tried to divine when the process would end.

• A giant Spider Phantom barred the two Yelang True Venerables from approaching the fusion, and they recognized it as a Grand Lord and retreated.
• After the fluctuations intensified, paused, and surged again, Xiaoyou reassured the Yelang True Venerables that the fusion would not grow more violent; Han Li later estimated that the initial fusion would take about two years and full stabilization around two hundred.
• Qu Jianlei reflected on the difficulty of the fusion and the Forgotten Peninsula, while Han Li considered investigating its world convergence; Xiaoyou offered to protect them if she reached the Soul-Splitting Realm, and Han Li challenged her confidence.
• The Spider Grand Monarch remained silent as the Yelang True Venerables cautiously tried to divine when the fusion would end, but Han Li appeared and warned them against divining cultivators of their rank.
• When a Yelang True Venerable explained that the prolonged disturbance was causing panic, Han Li told them to attack the small realm if they wished and said he wanted to try destroying a Middle Thousand World.

Han Li, Qu Jianlei, and Xiaoyou discovered a powerful being undergoing Assimilation into the Dao on the Lost Plate and realized its aura was influencing their judgment. Han Li launched the first attack, freezing the entire plate as the two local True Venerables watched in alarm.

• The Yelang Realm’s True Venerables warned their people that the disasters would likely continue for about two years, and more than a year passed as the disturbances spread across nearly half the realm.
• A powerful aura erupted on the Lost Plate, prompting Qu Jianlei and Xiaoyou to hurry there while the local True Venerables alerted the central region.
• Qu Jianlei identified the presence as Assimilation into the Dao, and he, Xiaoyou, and Han Li hesitated as they sensed the rare insight it might offer.
• A mysterious voice warned them that the being’s influence was affecting their judgment, and Qu Jianlei realized they had been bewitched.
• Han Li released his Cold Qi Domain and froze living beings across the Lost Plate, leaving two distant True Venerable avatars stunned that the group had attacked.

Han Li, Xiaoyou, and Qu Jianlei attacked a Human Race cultivator undergoing Assimilation into the Dao, using Han Li’s control field and Xiaoyou’s Years Divine Ability to disrupt his aim. Their opponent adjusted to the temporal distortion and began targeting them more accurately, leaving Xiaoyou to prepare a Jade Talisman.

• Two True Venerable Realm cultivators from Yelang Realm debated whether to help, then recognized the time distortion caused by Xiaoyou’s Years Divine Ability.
• Han Li used his field to restrain the quasi-Soul-Splitting Realm being and create an opening for Xiaoyou and Qu Jianlei.
• Xiaoyou and Qu Jianlei combined their abilities with Han Li’s, disrupting the being’s perception of time and causing its attacks to miss by millions of kilometers.
• The being’s misdirected attacks struck distant points, while Qu Jianlei refused Xiaoyou’s request to call the Spider Grand Monarch against a likely Human Race cultivator.
• The being adjusted its aim and sent its next attacks closer to the three True Venerables, so Xiaoyou took out a square Jade Talisman.

Xiaoyou, Han Li, and True Venerable Qu coordinated their abilities against the quasi Spirit Severing Grand Lord, disrupting his Assimilation into the Dao. Xiaoyou and Qu Jianlei combined their Years Divine Abilities with Qu Jianlei’s Creation and Destruction, leaving the enemy caught in shifting flows of time.

• Xiaoyou prepared her Jade Talisman while Han Li released a Soul-Splitting Level Palace, disrupting the Grand Lord’s accelerated Assimilation into the Dao.
• Qu Jianlei opened his right eye and revealed his Creation and Destruction Divine Ability, while Xiaoyou continued her Years Divine Ability.
• Han Li recognized the danger of combining similar abilities and warned Xiaoyou that an attack could be transferred onto Qu Jianlei.
• Xiaoyou said her Years attack had already landed and alternated between speeding up and slowing down the flow of time.
• Qu Jianlei divided the affected area with Xiaoyou, and she extended and withdrew her influence to intensify the tearing effect on the Grand Lord’s Assimilation into the Dao.

Qu Jianlei, Xiaoyou, and Han Li kept a quasi–Great Monarch trapped in a prolonged battle while Qu Jianlei used Creation and Destruction to resist Assimilation into the Dao. After the enemy engulfed Qu Jianlei in Gray Radiance and the Creation Compass absorbed it, Han Li vanished with the Palace and challenged Xiaoyou to take over his world-merging work.

• Qu Jianlei and Xiaoyou coordinated their attacks through shifting time while Han Li complained that they were neglecting his world-merging task.
• Qu Jianlei warned that his Creation and Destruction reserves were limited, and Han Li cautioned him about the risk of being drawn into Assimilation into the Dao.
• After twelve days of grinding down the enemy, the quasi–Great Monarch asked whether the group had offended him, and Qu Jianlei answered that he wanted to know the same about his opponent.
• The enemy suddenly attacked Qu Jianlei with a vast streak of Gray Radiance, which enveloped him in a huge cocoon despite Xiaoyou preparing to intervene.
• Qu Jianlei's Creation Compass emerged and absorbed the Gray Radiance until it vanished, after which Han Li made the Palace and the group disappear.
• Han Li left Xiaoyou a message challenging her to take over his world-merging task or let him continue.

Qu Jianlei recovered from his battle with the Gray Radiance True Venerable, confirmed that he had not been affected by Assimilation into the Dao, and reflected on what he had gained. Xiaoyou proposed that she and Qu Jianlei become the Twin Venerables of Time, prompting the Handsome Youth to appear and challenge her.

• Qu Jianlei asked Missy whether he was still himself, then checked for lingering Assimilation into the Dao with the Dao Stele, Mohong, Black Blade, and the Heroic Spirits.
• An obsession summoned by Violent Obsession confirmed that Qu Jianlei had not been affected and hinted that he had already met someone from the Righteous Sect.
• Qu Jianlei told Xiaoyou that the fallen True Venerable's Abode had become heaven and earth and confirmed that the opponent had died.
• Xiaoyou pressed Qu Jianlei to admit that their cooperation had been pleasant, and he said they should work together again.
• Xiaoyou urged Qu Jianlei to cooperate with her more than Han Li and declared that they would be the Twin Venerables of Time.
• The Handsome Youth appeared and asked Xiaoyou what she had said.

Han Li and Xiaoyou finished fusing two worlds and argued over their rivalry and feelings for Qu Jianlei. They learned Qu Jianlei had left for another world, then waited near Jing Yuexin while discussing their ambitions and the Dao paths ahead.

• Xiaoyou called herself and Han Li the Twin Venerables of Time and vowed to help Jing Yuexin become a True Venerable, prompting Qu Jianlei to leave them to fuse the worlds.
• Han Li and Xiaoyou spent more than half a year completing the fusion, then learned Qu Jianlei had gone to the Wanwu Realm with True Venerable Qingkong.
• Han Li found Jing Yuexin still comprehending the void outside the Cangwu Realm and suggested that he and Xiaoyou pretend to be Dao Companions until Qu Jianlei returned.
• Han Li and Xiaoyou discussed Jing Yuexin's cultivation and their own ambitions, each declaring confidence in surpassing the other while refusing to undermine her Dao path.
• Xiaoyou asked where Qu Jianlei had gone, and Han Li admitted he did not know.

Han Li and Xiaoyou waited for Qu Jianlei, then reunited with him and the other True Venerables to discuss searching for more Otherworlds. The group learned that Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou had killed a Great Monarch and gained a small Middle Thousand World, leaving the Lianxing visitors stunned.

• Han Li learned from Bentley that Qu Jianlei had gone to another world to prepare for a major matter, and Xiaoyou refused to abandon her search for him.
• Xiaoyou and Han Wei left, then returned with Han Li after making plans together.
• Three days later, Qu Jianlei appeared after Han Li, Xiaoyou, and Han Wei revealed that they had been waiting for him.
• Han Li suggested that the group search for more Otherworlds, while Qingkong and Jin Ge shared that they had gathered clues in the Forgotten Peninsula.
• Han Li gave Qu Jianlei a Light Orb containing a small Middle Thousand World, and explained that they had killed a Great Monarch during its acquisition.
• The True Venerables from Lianxing Realm were shocked to hear that Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou had defeated a Great Monarch.

Qu Jianlei discussed the delayed benefits of the Yelang Realm’s merger and resisted pressure to investigate more anomalous worlds. He finally revealed that Jing Yuexin was the only Obsession on his Dao Path, making clear why he could not leave her breakthrough unattended.

• Qu Jianlei learned that his role in killing the quasi-Great Monarch and merging the small realm had earned him greater Territory Joy, though he had left before receiving the full benefit.
• Qu Jianlei refused to deal with the lingering Assimilation into the Dao, citing the danger it could pose to the World Convergence Point.
• The Grand Protector warned that Jing Yuexin’s situation was becoming riskier now that Qu Jianlei’s group was known to be guarding the place, and Qingkong insisted the others needed Qu Jianlei’s help.
• True Venerable Qigou argued that many worlds held anomalies worth investigating, while Xiaoyou and True Venerable Han Wei cited dangerous places in their own realms.
• Han Li proposed continuing their Dao Discussion elsewhere, and True Venerable Qigou offered information about other worlds that the Lianxing Realm had collected.
• Qu Jianlei declared that the person attempting a breakthrough was the only Obsession on his Dao Path, explaining why he could not leave her.

Qu Jianlei changed how he led the True Venerables, organizing them into teams to investigate Otherworlds while arranging protection for Jing Yuexin. As the teams began operating, he reviewed possible worlds to explore and promised to keep an avatar present, though he hinted he might have another plan.

• Qu Jianlei accepted Baiqiao's help but said Jing Yuexin would not break through in Lingyun.
• Qingning and Qing'er arrived and volunteered to protect Jing Yuexin, while Song Yue'er and Xiwu sought a share in the arrangements through Han Li.
• Qu Jianlei assigned nine True Venerables to teams, with three teams investigating worlds and Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou holding down Cangwu Realm's void.
• Bai Qiao learned that Qu Jianlei had organized the True Venerables into a coordinated system for exploring Otherworlds and reflected on the authority and trust that required.
• Qu Jianlei reviewed information on potential worlds and proposed that the teams investigate them, then promised an avatar would remain present while leaving his other plans unstated.

Qu Jianlei moved a Tier 5 Spirit Vein into a newly gathered minor realm, then prepared to use the creation-and-destruction aura he had comprehended in the Yelang Realm to baptize Jing Yuexin. Han Li and Xiaoyou observed as Qu Jianlei began the process, whose unusual potential for strengthening Nirvana surprised them.

• Song Yue'er and Xiwu joined Jin Ge and Qingkong's expeditions to other Otherworlds, while Han Wei invited True Venerable Yueran to accompany him and Xiaoyou.
• Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou spent over a year moving Houde Realm's Tier 5 Spirit Vein into the Space Interlayer, exchanging cultivation ideas as other True Venerables joined their practical Dao discussion.
• Qu Jianlei declined Han Li's suggested uninhabited plates and instead found a desolate minor realm in the void to serve as the spirit vein's foundation.
• After Jing Yuexin emerged from seclusion, Qu Jianlei escorted her to Qingning's Spirit Vein and prepared to baptize her with the creation-and-destruction aura he had gained in the Yelang Realm.
• Qu Jianlei began the baptism to strengthen Jing Yuexin's Nirvana, while Han Li and Xiaoyou watched and reacted with surprise at the method's potential.

Qu Jianlei and his companions moved Jing Yuexin to True Venerable Tianli's spirit vein, then encountered a surge of Heavenly Demons and a strange aura of the world's end outside the Cangwu Realm. Han Li and Xiaoyou fought the swarm while Qu Jianlei used the Creation Compass to draw out the corrosive presence, and the group suspected a hidden mastermind was watching them.

• Qu Jianlei completed his aid to Jing Yuexin, and the four secretly transferred to True Venerable Tianli's spirit vein so she could make her final preparations for secluded cultivation.
• When Qu Jianlei considered revisiting the magic world, Han Li warned him that the Great Expert who had plundered Spirit Essence might belong to the Righteous Sect.
• Qu Jianlei sensed Heavenly Demons and a decaying aura of the world's end outside the Cangwu Realm, and Xiaoyou attacked the approaching swarm with a wall of azure lotuses.
• Han Li expanded his Extreme Cold Field over the Heavenly Demons while Xiaoyou continued fighting, but they noticed the swarm was unusually weak and its corrosive aura could damage Han Li's field.
• Qu Jianlei summoned the Creation Compass, which absorbed strange, contradictory auras from the devil qi as Han Li and Xiaoyou realized some existence might be watching them.

Qu Jianlei used the Creation Compass to absorb the decaying aura of the Heavenly Tilting Catastrophe, drawing on what he had learned from fighting the Quasi-Great Monarch. As the compass acted, Han Li and Xiaoyou discussed how other divine abilities related to creation and destruction, and a mysterious voice brought up Ice and fire, Nine Heavens.

• Qu Jianlei reflected on how his battle with the Quasi-Great Monarch had taught him to distinguish creation and destruction from Assimilation into the Dao, and how the Creation Compass could absorb dangerous auras he could not safely take in.
• Qu Jianlei tested whether the Creation Compass would absorb the decaying aura in the Heavenly Devil Qi, then persuaded it to act by threatening to use the Right Eye.
• The Creation Compass began absorbing the Heavenly Tilting Catastrophe's aura, easing Han Li's concern as he praised Qu Jianlei's growing control of the treasure.
• Qu Jianlei explained to Han Li and Xiaoyou that the Heavenly Tilting Catastrophe, Assimilation into the Dao, and Nirvana were related to the Great Dao of Creation and Destruction, though they were not identical.
• Xiaoyou offered to demonstrate Wither and Flourish, but Qu Jianlei said he was seeking more substantial manifestations of the Great Dao; Han Li then asked whether Cold and Heat could help.
• A mysterious voice suggested that Ice and fire, Nine Heavens could separate Yin-Yang and decide life and death.

Qu Jianlei and his companions fought off a Heavenly Devil invasion while a mysterious dying Grand Lord watched them and then withdrew. After learning the enemy’s karma was obscured and securing Taiyuan Sea’s promise to protect Jing Yuexin, Qu Jianlei decided to investigate the Heavenly Devil Nest, with Han Li and Xiaoyou joining him.

• Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Xiaoyou blocked the Heavenly Devil Qi mass for several days, killing three Out-of-Body Heavenly Demons as a hidden watcher observed them.
• After the watcher fled, Qu Jianlei and his companions spent ten more days clearing the remaining heavenly devils.
• Qu Jianlei collected roughly a hundred wisps of Heavenly Devil Qi and proposed searching for the Heavenly Devil Nest.
• Qu Jianlei divined with a wisp of Heavenly Devil Qi and discovered that all related karma had been obscured, suffering a significant backlash.
• Miss confirmed that Lingyun knew something about the watcher’s background and promised that Lingyun could protect Jing Yuexin.
• Qu Jianlei decided to pursue the investigation, and Han Li and Xiaoyou volunteered to go with him.