Recaps

Qu Jianlei’s group forced the Ping An Merchant Group crew to surrender and learned that they were fleeing disguised Space Pirates in the Tianhe Star Region. Ka Ding warned that at least two pursuing ships would reach the settlement within five hours, but Hua Xiezhi rejected his attempt to frame the warning as a favor.

• Old Lady Jia and Mu Yu revealed their A-rank strength, and Qu Jianlei ordered the intruders to disembark from their damaged ship.
• The Ping An crew surrendered, and Qu Jianlei brought them into the Second Settlement to question their leader, Ka Ding.
• Big Head Butterfly identified their location as the Tianhe Star Region, while Ka Ding explained the Ping An Merchant Group’s troubles and its encounter with Space Pirates.
• Ka Ding said at least two pursuing ships with four small ships were tracking them and could attack within five hours.
• Hua Xiezhi told Ka Ding that bringing danger to their doorstep did not entitle him to thanks for the warning.

Hua Xiezhi negotiated with Ka Ding and Duo Duo to pay one hundred million for the group to eliminate their pursuers, while Qu Jianlei remained unconcerned. As a hostile starship approached, Qu Jianlei went to meet it, and Old Lady Jia said she did not want bloodshed today.

• Hua Xiezhi challenged Ka Ding to explain why the pursuers were hunting them, and he admitted the threat might include at least two Armed Merchant Ships and a Supreme.
• Duo Duo revealed that her great-grandfather was a Supreme in the merchant association, and Ka Ding offered one hundred million for the pursuers to be wiped out.
• Hua Xiezhi accepted the payment and the spoils, while Qu Jianlei said there was no need to deploy anyone from Ping An's side.
• Big Head Butterfly warned Qu Jianlei that a starship was approaching from two million kilometers away, and Qu Jianlei left with the others to deal with it.
• Ka Ding urged Duo Duo to seize the chance to secure Ping An's future, while Old Lady Jia said she did not want to see blood today.

The Ping An Merchant Group learned that Qu Jianlei's team had swiftly defeated their Space Pirate pursuers and could repair their damaged starships. After three months, the groups left together and agreed to pursue a partnership to mine the Energy Stone celestial body, while Qu Jianlei revealed that his seven-person team had at least four Supremes.

• Hua Xiezhi told the Ping An Merchant Group that the pursuers had been defeated, and Ka Ding and Old Seven went out to help clean the ships.
• Duo Duo and the others saw the two Space Pirate merchant ships and learned that Qu Jianlei's team planned to dismantle one ship to repair the others.
• Hua Xiezhi told Duo Duo that repairs would take about three months, and the Ping An Merchant Group waited as the ships were repaired.
• Qu Jianlei appeared after three months, and the two groups departed the celestial body in their repaired starships.
• Ka Ding and Duo Duo proposed that Qu Jianlei's team stay with the Ping An Merchant Group and cooperate on legal mining of the Energy Stone celestial body.
• Qu Jianlei agreed the partnership was worth considering and revealed that at least four members of his seven-person team were Supremes.

After returning to Zi Hong Star, Ka Ding and his companions secured shelter and support from the Ping An Merchant Group while keeping their identities hidden. Evidence recovered from a Space Pirate ship pointed to Dukas Company, but its powerful connections made the investigation difficult.

• Ka Ding and his companions returned to Zi Hong Star with a captured Armed Merchant Ship, and Haier secretly learned the real reason they had stayed in space.
• Hua Xiezhi negotiated false identities, relief funds, and protection fees with Jierte, who arranged a secure estate for Qu Jianlei's group.
• Duo Duo revealed that her great-grandfather was Auspicious Supreme, though she suspected he might already be dead.
• Qu Jianlei learned that Ping An could obtain large Calculation Units and arrange for their backdoors to be removed.
• The authorities identified nine people from tissue samples recovered aboard the captured ship, including three linked to Dukas Company, prompting Ping An to demand an investigation.

Ping An and Dukas escalated their dispute after the authorities declined to investigate, and Dukas threatened Ping An before a warehouse was burned. Jierte brought Haier to the estate to explain the merchant group’s troubles to Hua Xiezhi, Qu Jianlei, and Qinghu.

• The authorities refused to open a case against Dukas, and Ping An publicized the dispute and defended its refusal to surrender witnesses.
• Dukas sent armed squads to Ping An Building, then Supreme Kopaqi demanded that Jierte meet him within three days.
• After Jierte failed to appear, a Ping An warehouse was set on fire and its night watchman was blinded; Dukas denied responsibility.
• Haier reported the incident to Jierte, who decided to return to the estate that night and explain the situation.
• Jierte and Haier arrived at the estate and told Hua Xiezhi that Ping An had encountered trouble while pursuing the culprits.

Jierte asked Hua Xiezhi and Qu Jianlei to retaliate against Dukas for its attacks on Ping An, and they agreed to strike several of its A-rank and B-rank members. Kopaqi waited in a heavily guarded manor for a possible attack, but sensed something wrong before finding anything unusual on his terminal.

• Jierte asked for a harsh retaliation, but hesitated when Qu Jianlei suggested killing Supremes and admitted Ping An was not ready for an all-out war.
• Jierte gave the group a list of A-rank and B-rank targets, promised Ping An would handle the cleanup, and agreed to help sell their captured starship.
• Mu Yu, Qinghu, Paranoid, Old Lady Jia, Hua Xiezhi, and Xiao Moshan volunteered to impersonate Earth Attribute Supremes or take out the listed targets.
• Kopaqi moved into a suburban manor with a small guard detail and stayed awake, expecting Ping An might attack while Dukas carried out its own operation.
• Kopaqi sensed something was wrong, checked his Storm Smart Terminal without finding anything unusual, and called to Tai Si.

Four Earth Attribute Supremes cornered Kopaqi and forced him to punish himself for the attack on Ping An’s warehouse. After Kopaqi blinded himself, the group demanded the Item-Storing Talismans, leaving him to explain that some goods belonged to others.

• Kopaqi sensed four Earth Attribute Supremes surrounding him and realized they had blocked every escape route.
• Paranoid demanded that Kopaqi blind himself for the beating that left the people guarding Ping An’s warehouse blind.
• Mu Yu, Qu Jianlei, and Qinghu each used Gravity Art to prove their Earth Attribute and pin Kopaqi down.
• Kopaqi admitted defeat and stabbed out his own eyes, but Qu Jianlei rejected his plea to spare the estate’s other occupants.
• Mu Yu ended the confrontation and demanded the Item-Storing Talismans, and Kopaqi said two held goods belonging to other parties.
• Qu Jianlei challenged Kopaqi’s claim by pointing out that Ping An Merchant Group’s warehouse also held goods that did not belong to Ping An.

After Qu Jianlei’s group destroyed the Dukas estate and left its leaders alive, Dukas withdrew its operations and faced pressure from Ping An’s retaliation. Qing Yan warned Kopaqi that Dukas could not afford to provoke Ping An’s powerful allies and ordered him to seek terms with Jierte.

• Qu Jianlei’s group left the burning Dukas estate with five Item-Storing Talismans, while Kopaqi, Tai Si, and two Modified Warriors were left blinded.
• Kopaqi ordered Dukas to withdraw all operations against Ping An and made the people who robbed Ping An Jewelry surrender to the authorities.
• Reports revealed that six Awakened Ones who had targeted Ping An had been killed, while Ping An rejected the city guards’ investigation for lack of evidence.
• Kopaqi concluded that multiple Above Supremes had attacked Dukas and spoke with Qing Yan, who agreed that they had to accept the defeat.
• Qing Yan told Kopaqi to contact Jierte and work out how Dukas could put the matter behind them.

Kopaqi went to Ping An to negotiate an end to the conflict, while Qu Jianlei’s group weighed its next steps and sent messages to allies. As Ping An worked to reclaim control and weighed a mine-development plan, petty thieves tried to infiltrate Qu Jianlei’s estate.

• Kopaqi visited Ping An Building and told Haier that Dukas wanted to end the conflict, but Haier said Jierte would have to decide.
• Jierte consulted Duo Duo, who asked Hua Xiezhi how to handle Dukas’s offer; Hua Xiezhi let Ping An set reasonable demands and some unreasonable ones.
• Qu Jianlei decided to keep his full force on Zi Hong Star for now and sent parcels with Pioneer Terminals and messages to Cloud Mist Mountain and Home's farm.
• Ping An faced resistance while reclaiming control, and Hua Xiezhi declined Jierte’s offer to share information unless Ping An needed the group to act.
• Duo Duo presented a plan for an abandoned Energy Stone Mine planet, but Hua Xiezhi advised delaying it; Qu Jianlei complained about their lack of money and joked about dealing with more fools.
• Petty thieves attempted to infiltrate Qu Jianlei’s estate that night.

Hua Xiezhi and Xiao Moshan captured two Cleaners who had infiltrated Jierte's manor, and Hua Xiezhi killed one while the other became an idiot under interrogation. Wary of the Cleaners' attention, Ping An advised Qu Jianlei's group to relocate, and they moved to a remote tract of land prepared for them.

• Hua Xiezhi and Xiao Moshan captured a Water Attribute B-rank and a Wind Attribute B-rank who had been hired to probe the manor for the Cleaners.
• The Water Attribute B-rank revealed that they were investigating the force behind Ping An's recovery of its abandoned businesses, while the Wind Attribute B-rank became an idiot after triggering his brain-domain protection.
• Hua Xiezhi killed the Water Attribute B-rank after he claimed to work for Military Intelligence, and Duo Duo warned that the Cleaners' focus on Ping An could cause trouble.
• Duo Duo urged Qu Jianlei's group to move, and Jierte decided it was better not to expose them while their new land was nearly ready.
• Qu Jianlei's group left the manor after two more days and settled on a remote tract of Ping An land where houses and living facilities had been prepared.

Qu Jianlei briefly left Mountain and Water Abode, then returned and secretly prepared a way for Old Lady Jia to extend her life. The chapter ended with Old Lady Jia planning to announce her seclusion while keeping the Longevity Pills secret from the others.

• Qu Jianlei, Mu Yu, and Paranoid visited Ping An Building, where Mu Yu and Qu Jianlei displayed their Supreme Auras and Paranoid startled Haier and Jierte with his violent Coercive Pressure.
• Paranoid and Mu Yu went shopping while Qu Jianlei disappeared for three days, then returned to Mountain and Water Abode and focused on refining the Teleportation Array.
• Qu Jianlei explained that he had deduced the Near-Earth Jump array from Paranoid's treasure, and Qinghu asked to study the original object with them.
• Qu Jianlei privately asked Old Lady Jia whether she was prepared, then gave her an Item-Storing Talisman containing Longevity Pills that extended her life by thirty years.
• Old Lady Jia told the others she might enter seclusion to study treasures bearing Divine Scripts, keeping the Longevity Pills secret.

Old Lady Jia entered seclusion with the Item-Storing Talisman while Salins of the Cleaners warned Ping An that the conflict was not over. Qu Jianlei prepared to assess the threat, and Qinghu explained Salins’s hidden Electromagnetic Attribute and asked whether cultivating multiple attributes could help Supremes advance.

• Old Lady Jia waited several days after receiving the Item-Storing Talisman before announcing that she would enter seclusion.
• Salins and a Fire Attribute A-rank visited Jierte and demanded information about the faction, but Jierte defended Ping An’s actions as lawful.
• Salins warned that the Cleaners would not let the matter go, and Jierte told him that passing the message along might take time.
• Duo Duo offered Ping An’s support to Hua Xiezhi, who asked her to keep Ping An out of the conflict while providing information if needed.
• Qu Jianlei questioned why the Cleaners dared to threaten his group and asked what was known about Salins.
• Qinghu revealed that Salins had an Electromagnetic Attribute and asked Qu Jianlei whether cultivating a second attribute could help someone break through to Above Supreme.

Qu Jianlei and his allies decided to confront Collins, a Cleaner leader whose hidden Electromagnetic Attribute made him a dangerous target. They found him in a nearby safehouse and launched a rainy-night attack, leaving Collins stunned when two Electromagnetic Supremes appeared.

• Qu Jianlei, Paranoid, Qinghu, and Mu Yu agreed that Collins had to be dealt with, and chose Qu Jianlei, Paranoid, and Qinghu for the mission.
• Qu Jianlei sent Xiao Hu to gather information, and Ping An located Collins in an exposed Cleaner safehouse near the Patrol headquarters.
• Hua Xiezhi relayed Ping An's suggestion that the attackers might be warned not to kill anyone, while Collins prepared for a possible attack on the rainy night.
• Qu Jianlei infiltrated the area as Xiao Hu monitored the safehouse, and Collins sensed danger and moved to cover.
• Two Supremes attacked Collins with Electromagnetic Element fluctuations, and Collins realized they knew his awakened attribute and that his opponents had formidable strength.

Qu Jianlei and his allies ambushed Collins, overwhelming him with powerful Electromagnetic and Metal Attribute attacks. Collins surrendered his protective talisman and was left injured near his ruined courtyard as the attackers disappeared.

• Collins recognized the attackers as two Electromagnetic Supremes and fled when Qu Jianlei’s Lightning Guiding Art destroyed his house.
• Qu Jianlei caught up with Collins using a mastered Electromagnetic Movement Technique blended with Wind Attribute movement.
• A Metal Attribute Supreme attacked Collins with tracking Golden Spears, then another unleashed a powerful Golden Wheel that triggered Collins’s talisman.
• Collins threw the talisman to show he was not fighting back, but Qu Jianlei struck him with a Thunder Dragon and left him badly injured.
• Collins came to near the courtyard after the attackers vanished, and distant alarms began to sound.

Qu Jianlei and his companions injured Collins and returned to Mountain and Water Abode, while Jia Shuiqing emerged from seclusion as a vigorous peak Supreme. Ping An’s fortunes improved after the Cleaners backed off and the group reclaimed a starship, but Qu Jianlei and Xiao Hu argued over whether to buy an expensive Calculation Unit.

• Qu Jianlei told Qinghu and Paranoid that he had used a Mental Strength attack to seize an Item-Storing Talisman from Collins, while Collins warned his allies to stay away from Ping An after four Supremes attacked him.
• Qu Jianlei and the others returned to Mountain and Water Abode, and Jia Shuiqing emerged from seclusion with renewed vitality and the strength of a peak Supreme.
• Paranoid asked Jia Shuiqing to urge Ping An to release the impounded starship, but Qu Jianlei advised her to wait because her changed appearance might attract attention.
• After Collins was injured, the Cleaners stopped taking Ping An-related commissions, and the authorities eventually allowed Ping An to recover and keep the starship after it paid the required costs.
• Dukas paid 450 million for the starship, but Qu Jianlei received none of it because he was considering a 600-million Calculation Unit; Xiao Hu demanded they buy one costing at least a billion.

Qu Jianlei agreed to take on a large loan so Xiao Hu could get a powerful Calculation Unit, with Ping An guaranteeing the purchase. Two months later, the singer Pianpian arrived on Yuanwang Star and summoned someone from Peace, leaving her purpose unclear.

• Xiao Hu urged Qu Jianlei to borrow money for a better Calculation Unit, and Jierte agreed that Ping An would guarantee the loan.
• Qu Jianlei chose a 1.6-billion Calculation Unit, paid a 600-million down payment, and took on a one-billion loan.
• The manufacturer began producing the Calculation Unit and promised delivery within two months.
• Pianpian landed on Yuanwang Star with a trained entourage and was greeted by thousands of fans outside the Bridgehead Hotel.
• After meeting with a visitor carrying valid credentials and a passphrase, Pianpian told him to bring Peace's people to see her.

Pianpian met with Xijiesi and invoked Empire Storm’s authority to persuade Tai Ping Merchant Group to distract Ping An. Xijiesi learned that Tai Ping would receive no combat support and would serve as a decoy while others investigated the people behind Ping An.

• Pianpian asked Xijiesi about Tai Ping abandoning its acquisition of Ping An and warned that Ping An might retaliate.
• Xijiesi questioned whether Pianpian was speaking for herself, and she said she was conveying the intentions of Empire Storm and those behind him.
• Xijiesi accepted Pianpian’s claim and asked what Empire Storm wanted Tai Ping to do.
• Pianpian asked Tai Ping to create enough chaos to keep Ping An occupied while Empire Storm’s people secretly investigated the people behind Ping An.
• Xijiesi realized Tai Ping would serve as a decoy, and Pianpian said that handling the task well could earn the group considerable goodwill.

Pianpian disclosed that Empire Storm planned to secretly investigate Ping An’s large Calculation Unit array by provoking a conflict through Tai Ping, leaving Xijiesi trapped in the scheme and furious. Two days later, Ping An noticed Tai Ping’s growing moves against it, and Jierte ordered heightened vigilance and an investigation.

• Xijiesi refused to cooperate until Pianpian revealed the exact plan, then opened her sealed storage device with her.
• The intelligence revealed that Empire Storm wanted Tai Ping to distract Ping An while operatives secretly installed a backdoor in its 1.6-billion Calculation Unit array on Zi Hong Star.
• Xijiesi realized Tai Ping was being used as a cover and, before leaving, killed Pianpian’s trusted middle-aged B-rank woman, claiming she knew too much.
• Pianpian told a maid to keep the death quiet and arrange dinner with two randomly selected lucky fans.
• Two days later, Ping An noticed suspicious moves against it, and Jierte ordered departments to raise vigilance and investigate Tai Ping’s intentions.

Qu Jianlei oversaw the installation of Peace’s new Calculation Unit array while Xiao Hu investigated a suspicious data packet. Xiao Hu traced it to an off-world source and began analyzing a sophisticated intrusion that targeted backdoors and digital barriers.

• Four cargo starships delivered the Calculation Unit array to Peace headquarters, where installation and testing finished in sixteen days under Qu Jianlei and Xiao Hu’s watch.
• Qu Jianlei approved Xiao Hu’s plan to redesign the array with nonstandard parts to reduce its transport space, while warning it to check for monitoring backdoors.
• Xiao Hu discovered an abnormal data packet during its inspection and traced its route through Ping An’s headquarters to Zi Hong Star’s relay Signal Tower, indicating a likely off-world attack.
• Xiao Hu activated its self-protection measures, pretended to be inactive, and focused on analyzing the packet instead of continuing its array redesign.
• Xiao Hu determined that the packet intelligently dissolved data chains, especially blocked backdoors and digital barriers, and concluded that it came from a powerful but not necessarily superior intelligence.

Qu Jianlei and Xiao Hu secretly tested the backdoor in Ping An’s new Computer Group, moved the equipment to Mountain and Water Abode, and modified it for transport and safe operation. The group began accelerating their work on the Super Qi Gathering Array, though its heavy energy costs and the risk of exposing their activities remained.

• Xiao Hu and Qu Jianlei decided to leave the intruder’s backdoor undisturbed while Xiao Hu protected useful information and analyzed how it worked.
• After a Tai Ping Merchant Group consultant died and Tai Ping blamed his actions on a personal vendetta, Ping An shut down its newly installed Computer Group and kept its true purpose secret.
• Qu Jianlei and Hua Xiezhi inspected the Computer Group, removed its trackers, and confirmed that its backdoor could steal data but not transmit location information.
• Qu Jianlei moved the Computer Group to Mountain and Water Abode, where he and Xiao Hu spent half a month modifying it, isolating the backdoor, and preparing deceptive data.
• Qu Jianlei rejected Xiao Hu’s proposal to identify and eliminate the intruder, and Xiao Hu instead used the older eighty-million Calculation Units to help control the new Computer Group.
• After two months of operation, the Computer Group had advanced the deciphering of the Super Qi Gathering Array, cutting Qu Jianlei’s workload and potentially reducing the task to two or three years.

Qu Jianlei investigated the backdoor threat, moved the Computer Group to a hidden camp, and learned that the military might still be targeting his group. Meanwhile, Hua Xiezhi prompted Ping An to name Tai Ping as its target, and Jierte sent Duo Duo intelligence on Tai Ping’s key figures, leaving her stunned by a list of two thousand people.

• The Paranoid and Mu Yu investigated near a Computer Group Factory and found possible military and Tai Ping connections to the backdoor threat.
• Qu Jianlei concluded the military might still be targeting them and moved the Computer Group and cultivation arrays to a hidden underground camp.
• Hua Xiezhi told Duo Duo that Tai Ping was the chief culprit and asked whether Ping An intended to strike it.
• Duo Duo reported the news, and Jierte ordered Haier to send her intelligence on all of Tai Ping’s key figures.
• Duo Duo opened the encrypted package from headquarters and saw that it covered two thousand people.

After learning Peace’s roster, Hua Xiezhi’s group launched a bloody campaign against its members while pursuing Xijiesi and the force behind him. Ping An chose to support them, raised its alert level, and drew the Zi Hong Star government into protecting its industries as the group waited for its unknown opponent to respond.

• Duo Duo gave Hua Xiezhi information on Peace’s Awakened Ones and Modified Warriors, and Hua said her group planned to move against Peace.
• Ping An chose to demand an explanation from Peace, but learned that Hua Xiezhi’s group had left Zi Hong Star under false identities.
• Over three days, Hua Xiezhi’s group killed one of Peace’s two Supremes and seven A-ranks, severely wounded the other Supreme and two A-ranks, and killed three B-ranks.
• Qu Jianlei’s group returned to Zi Hong Star, and Hua Xiezhi told Duo Duo to warn Xijiesi that the dispute with Peace would continue until he returned.
• Xiao Hu used Xijiesi’s Wristwatch records to identify possible suspects, while Hua Xiezhi publicly challenged the unknown force behind Peace.
• Jierte ordered Ping An to cooperate with Hua Xiezhi’s group and prepare for war, prompting the planetary government to send City Garrison troops to protect Ping An’s industries.

Qu Jianlei and his group returned to Home Star after two and a half years away, only to learn that Fourth Boss had gone to Paradise Star to help with trouble at their guesthouse. Lao Ben had left to search for Qu Jianlei and had not returned as expected, leaving the group concerned about what had happened to their scattered companions.

• After two months without further trouble on Zi Hong Star, Qu Jianlei decided to return to Gemini Star to deal with his loan, while Old Lady Jia and Qinghu stayed behind to guard the base.
• Qu Jianlei’s group traveled through the Blade Star Region and Home Star under changing identities, then hurried to check their farm.
• You You told Qu Jianlei that Fourth Boss had gone to Paradise Star after Bentley took Claire away and the guesthouse came under pressure.
• You You explained that Lao Ben had left to search for Qu Jianlei, taking Energy Blocks and promising to return after a year.
• Qu Jianlei worried about Lao Ben’s absence and complained that he had wasted Energy Blocks instead of staying to cultivate.

Qu Jianlei learned that Lao Ben had missed the Pioneers he sent because Lao Ben was away searching for the group, so he traveled to Paradise Star with Tian Yin and others. At Cloud Mist Mountain, he found the guesthouse under pressure from authorities seeking to requisition its land and began questioning their justification.

• Qu Jianlei realized that Lao Ben had never received the Pioneers because he had left to search for the group before the delivery arrived.
• Qu Jianlei took Tian Yin, Paranoid, and Mu Yu to Paradise Star, where they found city guards and military vehicles surrounding the guesthouse.
• Fourth Boss told Paranoid that the government wanted to requisition the guesthouse's land and that various groups had been pressuring its owners for months.
• Xiang Xue welcomed Qu Jianlei and explained that officials claimed Cloud Mist Mountain's tourist services needed unified management.
• Qu Jianlei questioned whether the tourist services were actually disorganized and noted that officials said their quality had declined over the past two years.

Qu Jianlei learned that Paradise’s authorities had pressured the guesthouse to exchange its land, and he decided to find out who was orchestrating the seizure before retaliating. As the group discussed their next steps, Guardian Supreme Terry arrived and demanded to meet the Supreme at the guesthouse, prompting Qu Jianlei to order him away.

• Fourth Boss explained that someone was pushing the land requisition behind the scenes and that the authorities had surrounded the guesthouse, driving away its customers.
• Qu Jianlei learned that the authorities had offered an exchange with a premium but were pressuring the guesthouse after Xiang Xue refused to sell.
• Qu Jianlei told Xiang Xue to find out who was behind the pressure, while she and Big Head Butterfly called for compensation.
• Terry, one of Paradise’s three Guardian Supremes, arrived and demanded to meet the Supreme at the guesthouse.
• Qu Jianlei unleashed a powerful aura and ordered Terry to get lost.