Recaps

Qu Jianlei searched Ten Thousand Treasures Plaza for useful goods, bought a damaged dagger, and later found an old Divine Script booklet. He hesitated over its one-billion price as a Fire Attribute Supreme offered to buy it instead.

• Qu Jianlei left a stall after Nutrient Solution warned him not to make a fuss over its attempt to provoke him.
• Qu Jianlei spent two hundred million on a damaged dagger after Nutrient Solution negotiated with the seller.
• Qu Jianlei returned to Ten Thousand Treasures Plaza the next day and found an old Divine Script booklet at a crowded independent shop.
• Qu Jianlei inspected the booklet’s first two pages and learned that the stall owner wanted one billion for it, with no bargaining.
• A Fire Attribute Supreme offered to take the booklet, and Qu Jianlei demanded to know his name.

Qu Jianlei lost a bidding war for a Divine Script booklet about Five Elements cultivation and Battle Formations, then planned to recover it himself. Nutrient Solution agreed to handle the aftermath and later chose not to interfere with the buyer’s fate.

• A Water Attribute Supreme outbid Nutrient Solution for the booklet, paying with Imperial Capital Energy Fund certificates after the stall owner demanded Unregistered Silver Notes.
• Qu Jianlei left Ten Thousand Treasures Plaza with Nutrient Solution and explained that the booklet could strengthen cultivation foundations and teach the principles of Five Elements Battle Formations.
• Nutrient Solution offered to commission someone to steal the booklet, but Qu Jianlei said he would handle it himself and asked for help covering the repercussions.
• Nutrient Solution agreed to make arrangements, then rode away and contacted someone to learn the buyer’s name.
• Nutrient Solution decided to leave the buyer alone and ordered that other prepared Divine Script manuals not be put on the market.

Qu Jianlei tracked the Supreme who had outbid him for the Divine Script tome to a villa in Red Pagoda and broke in under cover of rain. After knocking the man unconscious, he recovered the tome and discovered more than seven hundred million Silver Notes in the man’s Space Pouch, leaving him unsure whether to kill someone who had only won the auction by bidding higher.

• Qu Jianlei learned that the Supreme had fled to Red Pagoda, and Nutrient Solution arranged an aerospacecraft to take him there.
• Qu Jianlei used his divine sense and Xiao Hu’s access to the villa’s security system to investigate the Supreme and learn that the Divine Script tome was in his Space Pouch.
• After overhearing the Supreme boast about outbidding him and learning he knew about Yulia, Qu Jianlei decided he could act without betraying his conscience.
• Qu Jianlei entered the villa at midnight and knocked the Supreme unconscious with a swift Wind Attribute movement technique.
• Qu Jianlei found the Divine Script tome and more than seven hundred million Unregistered Silver Notes in the Supreme’s Space Pouch, then wondered whether to kill him.

Qu Jianlei handed a captured Above Supreme and his securities to Nutrient Solution, then negotiated a two-billion deal for the codex’s deciphered version with a twenty-year confidentiality period. They returned to Ten Thousand Treasures Plaza, where Qu Jianlei was mocked for being publicly humiliated, just as intense energy fluctuations erupted nearby.

• Qu Jianlei decided not to kill the captured Above Supreme and handed him to Nutrient Solution to handle.
• Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution agreed that Nutrient Solution would exchange the captive’s two billion in bearer securities and split any ransom money evenly.
• Nutrient Solution offered two billion for Qu Jianlei’s deciphered codex, and Qu Jianlei agreed to keep the results confidential for twenty years.
• Qu Jianlei told Nutrient Solution he would still visit Ten Thousand Treasures Plaza, and they discussed the auction and its overlooked bargains.
• Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution returned to the plaza and found people mocking Qu Jianlei for being slapped with cash the previous day.
• Intense energy fluctuations erupted seven or eight kilometers away as Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution talked.

Qu Jianlei learned that Yuanyuan had come to Dream Star seeking information about Luo Hanshuang and the sword stolen from her, but he avoided revealing himself. As Yuanyuan was taken away by a Supreme, Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution continued through the Night Market, where Qu Jianlei described his connection to Luo Hanshuang as merely cooperative.

• Three Eyes fought a pair of Supremes blocking an intersection, and they withdrew after learning that an Above Supreme was watching.
• Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution left Ten Thousand Treasures Plaza and spotted Yuanyuan at the Night Market, but Qu Jianlei hid his identity.
• Yuanyuan told a female Supreme that Luo Hanshuang was safe but that her Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion sword had been stolen, and learned she could not enter the Main Auction House.
• A female Supreme restrained Yuanyuan and took her away, warning her to behave because they did not want to offend Qinghu.
• Nutrient Solution asked whether Qu Jianlei was worried about Luo Hanshuang, and Qu Jianlei said he owed her nothing beyond their cooperative relationship.

Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution intervened when a Wood Attribute Rank A and his injured sister were pursued over a mysterious treasure. After driving off a marquis family’s forces, they questioned the pair about the treasure and what they would offer for help.

• A Wood Attribute Rank A carrying his younger sister escaped a group of pursuers and asked Qu Jianlei for help.
• The pursuers claimed the pair had stolen a treasure, while the Wood Attribute man insisted it was his family heirloom and said they had injured his sister.
• Nutrient Solution rebuked a Water Attribute Rank A who tried to interfere, and Qu Jianlei scorned the Fire Attribute Supreme who demanded they control their companion.
• Two more Supremes appeared beside Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution, prompting the Fire Attribute Supreme to retreat with his group.
• The pursuers claimed the treasure belonged to the Divine Script Society, and Nutrient Solution asked the Wood Attribute Rank A what he would offer for their help.

Keros offered his family heirloom, a bronze figure inscribed with Divine Script, in exchange for protection and a fair purchase. Qu Jianlei identified its technique as the Mountain Shattering Art and agreed to buy it for two billion, while Keros prepared to make another request.

• Keros asked Nutrient Solution and Qu Jianlei to protect him and buy his heirloom as pursuers accused him of stealing it.
• Two supreme-level cultivators tried to inspect the Item-Storing Talisman, but Qu Jianlei repelled them with his Mental Strength.
• Qu Jianlei examined the One-Legged Bronze Man and found the Mountain Shattering Art and Mountain Shattering Fist inscribed on it.
• Keros demanded two billion, and the group returned to their courtyard, where a medical vehicle treated his injured sister, Korona.
• Qu Jianlei judged the technique useful to him despite its narrow value, and Nutrient Solution agreed to get the money for the purchase.
• Keros asked what the Divine Script technique was, and after Qu Jianlei warned him not to ask, Keros said he had another request.

Keros asked Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution to protect him and his sister after he sold the treasure, and they agreed. Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution then attended the auction at Triumphant Grand Plaza, where a Substitute Death Puppet left Qu Jianlei wondering what the main auction would offer.

• Keros told Qu Jianlei that he feared he and his sister would not survive long enough to spend the money from selling the treasure, and Nutrient Solution agreed to keep protecting them.
• Nutrient Solution paid Qu Jianlei, praised the cultivation technique he had acquired, and offered to help him afford items at the auction.
• Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution went to Triumphant Grand Plaza in disguises and surveyed its peripheral auction venues.
• Qu Jianlei saw Five Element Crystals and recognized that a cultivation technique being auctioned had been improved from his own work, but he decided not to interfere.
• At the cultivation resources auction, Qu Jianlei and the gathered Supremes learned that a Substitute Death Puppet with one remaining use was being sold as a peripheral item.

At the auction, Qu Jianlei watched an elderly Above Supreme explain why the twice-used Substitute Doll might not work reliably, and the doll sold for six billion. As Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution prepared to enter the Main Auction House, the Above Supreme who had insulted them demanded to buy their invitations, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• An elderly Above Supreme appraised the Substitute Doll and warned that Awakened One energy had likely weakened its Divine Script System powers; it sold for six billion.
• Nutrient Solution explained that Divine Script artifacts often worked poorly for Awakened Ones, prompting another Above Supreme to confront him before leaving.
• Qu Jianlei watched the outer auction's treasures and decided not to bid, then waited until the Main Auction House's entrance crowd had thinned.
• The Above Supreme who had called Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution ridiculous demanded two hundred million for their invitations, while the guards refused to intervene.
• Nutrient Solution warned the man that forcibly buying their invitations could keep him from leaving, and the Above Supreme released a brief Coercive Pressure before glaring at Qu Jianlei.

Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution entered an auction after Nutrient Solution drove off an aggressive Supreme with help from two allies. They watched several Divine Script-related items sell, and Qu Jianlei grew interested in a damaged Wooden Umbrella bearing faint Divine Scripts as it appeared onstage.

• Nutrient Solution warned an attacking Supreme to leave, and two more Supremes arrived, forcing the attacker to flee before they pursued him.
• Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution presented their invitation, paid a deposit, and entered a luxurious private booth at the auction.
• They watched a defensive robe sell for 9.9 billion, while Nutrient Solution explained its limitations and mentioned that fragments of his memories had returned.
• Qu Jianlei bid on a Lightning Strike Talisman but stopped at three billion; it later sold for 7.2 billion.
• Qu Jianlei recognized a pill formula for Heart Stabilizing Pills in a black bottle but declined to bid heavily, and the item sold for 3.5 billion.
• A damaged Wooden Umbrella with faint Divine Scripts appeared, and Qu Jianlei told Nutrient Solution that its scripts interested him.

Qu Jianlei won a damaged Wooden Umbrella at auction after recognizing that its Divine Script described Instant Flash, a movement technique he had long wanted to master. He received the umbrella and planned to test both the technique and its remaining defensive power.

• Qu Jianlei raised his bid to three billion and won the damaged Wooden Umbrella after the other bidder stopped bidding.
• Qu Jianlei told Nutrient Solution that the umbrella contained an all-attribute movement technique called Instant Flash, and Nutrient Solution offered to buy exclusive rights for thirty billion.
• Qu Jianlei declined to sell the technique but offered to teach Nutrient Solution, warning him not to pass it on.
• An attendant and two Supremes delivered the Wooden Umbrella, and Qu Jianlei paid three hundred bundles of banknotes.
• Qu Jianlei examined the umbrella and found detailed instructions for using Instant Flash with it, then decided to test the technique and the umbrella’s defense.

At an auction, Qu Jianlei recognized several relics from his own world but could not afford the Heaven and Earth Treasure or the Sword Pill. Nutrient Solution bid twenty billion for the Sword Pill on Qu Jianlei’s behalf, but Room 169 immediately raised the price, setting up another clash between the bidders.

• Qu Jianlei recognized the Tong Sheng as a familiar reference book and told Nutrient Solution he already had a copy; it sold for forty-seven billion one hundred million.
• Nutrient Solution suggested Qu Jianlei sell Divine Script tomes, but Qu Jianlei said he had no originals and would not sell replicas.
• Qu Jianlei sensed that an unknown A-rank lifeform might be useful to him, but declined to trade for it, and it sold for twenty-six billion.
• Qu Jianlei recognized a sphere in an ancient box as a Sword Pill with instructions for Sword Control and admitted it meant an extraordinary amount to him.
• Nutrient Solution bid twenty billion for the Sword Pill, but Room 169 countered with twenty-one billion, prompting Nutrient Solution to wonder whether they were fixated on competing.

Room 169 outbid Nutrient Solution for the Sword Pill, and the day’s auction ended with the Inheritance Stone Tablet selling for 710 billion. Qu Jianlei then mastered Instant Flash and taught Nutrient Solution, leaving him to practice as dawn approached.

• Room 169 outbid Nutrient Solution through several rounds and won the Sword Pill for 48.5 billion, establishing a grudge between them.
• Five groups competed for the Inheritance Stone Tablet, which sold for 710 billion as the day-long auction concluded.
• Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution flew to a desert, where Qu Jianlei mastered Instant Flash and demonstrated its extraordinary range and speed.
• Qu Jianlei taught Nutrient Solution Instant Flash, but Nutrient Solution struggled to use it effectively and practiced through the night.
• Qu Jianlei explained that Instant Flash should be adapted to each practitioner, then accidentally hinted at his connection to the Divine Script inheritance.

Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution escaped a starship crash with Keros and Korona, then learned the crash was part of an organized extortion campaign targeting vessels around the auction. The planetary government grounded all starships as the authorities considered whether the auction had attracted the attackers.

• Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution agreed that Keros and Korona could leave with them, then Qu Jianlei sensed danger and carried Korona out of the courtyard as Nutrient Solution grabbed Keros.
• A cargo starship crashed near the courtyard and exploded; the four escaped with Instant Flash, and a second explosion killed at least a dozen people and damaged nearby buildings.
• Qu Jianlei doubted the official claim that an aged power system caused the crash, while Big Head Butterfly reported that the crew said the power system had suddenly accelerated.
• Nutrient Solution learned that the crash had been deliberate: an organized group had sabotaged more than ten starships after demanding two hundred million Unregistered Silver Notes from each.
• The planetary government prohibited starship takeoffs, and the authorities suspected the extortionists' campaign was connected to the auction.

Qu Jianlei and his companions moved to a new residence while investigators traced their escape from the crash site. A powerful man identified Nutrient Solution from checkpoint footage and ordered an investigation, dismissing warnings that he had clashed with Eckberg.

• Qu Jianlei and the others suspected the government or auction organizers might be behind the attacks, then Nutrient Solution decided they should change residences.
• Government investigators spotted Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution moving at extraordinary speed in satellite footage, but could not identify them or investigate the Above Supreme connected to their residence.
• Nutrient Solution showed the group’s auction invitation at a checkpoint, and inspectors let them pass.
• A superior used linked alerts to learn that the people from Room 112 had passed the checkpoint and sent their images to his lord.
• The burly man recognized Nutrient Solution’s image and ordered an investigation, then challenged his subordinate’s warning about Nutrient Solution’s clash with Eckberg.

Qu Jianlei attended the auction with Nutrient Solution, became interested in several magical artifacts, and sensed that someone was watching him after the second auction. On the final day, Nutrient Solution opened the bidding on an ancient bell that Qu Jianlei recognized as a treasure of the Above Supreme, though he doubted the Awakened Ones could use its full power.

• Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution moved into an old warehouse near Triumphant Square and returned to the auction, where Qu Jianlei bid on dragon-shaped scissors but watched them sell for sixteen billion.
• After the auction, Qu Jianlei sensed three suspicious people watching him and memorized their auras; Nutrient Solution noticed his emotional shift.
• Nutrient Solution left the warehouse for several hours after receiving a call, and Qu Jianlei asked Xiao Hu to watch him before he returned near dawn.
• On the final day, the auctioneer presented an ancient azure bell that could trap people and unleash sound waves and Mental Attacks, but using its full power carried severe costs.
• Qu Jianlei recognized the bell as a treasure of the Above Supreme, and Nutrient Solution opened the bidding at thirty billion.

Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution left the auction after Room 117 won the Soul Suppressing Bell for ninety-nine billion, then returned to the warehouse amid signs that people were watching for targets to rob. When Qu Jianlei learned that the Tianbing Star team had arrived on Dream Star, he met them and brought Nutrient Solution along to help them evade inspections.

• Room 117 won the Soul Suppressing Bell with a bid of ninety-nine billion after the price climbed steadily from Nutrient Solution’s opening bid of thirty billion.
• Qu Jianlei and Nutrient Solution left the Main Auction House, where suspicious onlookers watched them until two Supremes arrived to pick them up.
• At the warehouse, Qu Jianlei chose to wait until things settled down, then left after Big Head Butterfly told him the Tianbing Star team had arrived.
• Qu Jianlei met Paranoid, Claire, Hua Xiezhi, Zi Jiuxian, Tian Yin, Bentley, and four other Supremes after they teleported to Dream Star from the 3344 Ship.
• Qu Jianlei contacted Nutrient Solution, who arrived by aircraft to help the group travel despite Dream Star’s strict inspections.

Qu Jianlei took the group shopping on Dream Star, where the Keros siblings’ dispute drew attention from Eckberg’s people. He later taught everyone the Instant Flash movement technique, and several members quickly mastered it.

• Nutrient Solution found a guesthouse for the group, while the Keros siblings and Paranoid’s companions spent three days buying cultivation supplies.
• Paranoid’s group nearly fought over resources, and Qu Jianlei traced the incident to Eckberg’s people identifying Korona through her bandages.
• Qu Jianlei learned that the group had been exposed again and told everyone to stay in the next day.
• Qu Jianlei took the group to the hills and taught them the Instant Flash technique he had compiled from his auction gains.
• Hua Xiezhi mastered Instant Flash first, followed shortly by Old Lady Jia and Zi Jiuxian.
• Paranoid forced himself to use Instant Flash and ended up hanging from a tree ten kilometers away.

Qu Jianlei’s group practiced Instant Flash, then planned to extort money from Robbs to fund their treasure hunting on Dream Star. After tracking Robbs to Blue Bay Star, they departed without Nutrient Solution, sharing a starship with several wary groups.

• Qu Jianlei guided Tian Yin through learning Instant Flash and said the technique could be sold for thirty billion, while Old Lady Jia warned everyone not to spread it.
• After several days of unsuccessful shopping, Mu Yu and Paranoid told Qu Jianlei they had found Robbs and wanted to extort four or five billion from him.
• Qu Jianlei had Xiao Hu track Robbs and learned that Robbs planned to travel to Blue Bay Star, so he arranged for the group to follow him there.
• Nutrient Solution arranged their itinerary but stayed behind, telling Qu Jianlei to take Keros and his sister along.
• Qu Jianlei’s twelve-person group boarded a private starship with three other groups, whose members eyed their three Supreme Auras warily.

Qu Jianlei’s group stopped on Seahorse Star for an unexpected five-day layover and practiced Instant Flash in an abandoned mine. Before leaving for Blue Bay Star, Keros and Korona asked to join Qu Jianlei’s team, but he refused, and Keros revealed that Korona was a Poison Attribute B-rank.

• Qu Jianlei’s group landed on Seahorse Star, where the starship announced it would remain for at least five days while another passenger settled business matters.
• After finding little to do on the planet, Qu Jianlei led the group to an abandoned mine to practice Instant Flash while he kept watch nearby with the Keros siblings.
• When the group prepared to leave for Blue Bay Star, Keros and Korona chose to go with them rather than stay on Seahorse Star.
• Keros asked Qu Jianlei to let him and Korona join his team, but Qu Jianlei refused, warning that his group faced serious risks.
• Keros revealed that Korona was a Poison Attribute B-rank and that their family had concealed her ability by presenting her as Wood Attribute.

Qu Jianlei’s group was ambushed by five Supremes using Five Elements coordination while traveling through a rainy region. The attackers’ formation collapsed after Qu Jianlei and his allies disabled their Metal Attribute leader, and the Paranoid moved on to strike the Wood Attribute Supreme.

• Qu Jianlei rejected Keros’s request to accept Korona, explaining that his team only recruited elites and already had B-rank members with Light and Dark Attributes.
• Two nights later, Qu Jianlei’s group left the mine pit in off-road vehicles and was ambushed by five Supremes representing the Five Major Attributes.
• Qu Jianlei ordered his team to attack, while Qinghu and Mu Yu armored themselves and began protecting the others.
• Qu Jianlei blinded the Metal Attribute Supreme, while Bentley struck him with Thunder Dragons and the Paranoid attacked him with a Golden Wheel.
• The Paranoid’s Golden Wheel crippled the Metal Attribute Supreme, collapsing the Five Elements formation, and he immediately attacked the Wood Attribute Supreme while Old Lady Jia targeted the Fire Attribute Supreme.

Qu Jianlei’s team turned the ambush around with Instant Flash, close-range attacks, and coordinated abilities, killing several of the attacking Supremes. A newly arrived Wood Attribute Supreme called for a ceasefire, but the battle had already escalated as Qinghu joined the assault and Old Lady Jia held the Fire Attribute Supreme at bay.

• Paranoid used Instant Flash to shatter the Wood Attribute Supreme’s armor and cut him in two, while Qu Jianlei attacked the Earth Attribute Supreme with a Hand Axe.
• Bentley used Instant Flash and his Serpent Cones to electrocute the Water Attribute Supreme, dodging the Metal Attribute Rank A’s Golden Arrow Arts and striking again.
• Qu Jianlei noticed another Wood Attribute Supreme approaching and used Sight Deprivation against the already-paralyzed Water Attribute Supreme.
• The arriving Wood Attribute Supreme called the fight a misunderstanding and offered compensation, but the battle continued.
• Qinghu used Instant Flash and two longswords to kill the Water Attribute Supreme, while Old Lady Jia requested help through Mental Strength as she suppressed the Fire Attribute Supreme.

Qu Jianlei’s team defeated the ambushers after Qinghu and Old Lady Jia disrupted their coordinated attacks and the Supremes were eliminated. The team survived with several injuries, while the attackers were wiped out and Qu Jianlei regretted that Keros and Korona had been hurt because of him.

• Qinghu recognized the Water Attribute Supreme as a crowd-control threat, then attacked the Fire Attribute Supreme to free Old Lady Jia.
• Old Lady Jia cast an area Freeze spell that slowed both allies and enemies, while Qu Jianlei broke through the Earth Attribute Supreme’s defenses.
• The Wood Attribute Supreme stopped short of the battlefield and offered compensation, but Paranoid blinded him and struck him down.
• Qu Jianlei’s team finished off the remaining ambushers in just over two minutes, with Old Lady Jia’s crowd control and Claire’s Sight Deprivation preventing escape.
• Zi Jiuxian, Tian Yin, Bentley, Keros, and Korona suffered injuries, while Claire emerged unscathed.
• Qu Jianlei regretted that Keros and Korona had been injured after they were caught up in the fight because of him.

After defeating the ambushers, Qu Jianlei’s group interrogated the survivors and searched their belongings for the stolen Sword Pill. Hua Xiezhi found a suspicious safe, and Qu Jianlei discovered it required both a random combination and a genetic fragment to open.

• Paranoid beheaded a Wood Attribute Supreme, while Qu Jianlei ordered the captives questioned and treated the wounded Keros and Korona.
• Keros said Seahorse’s security checks were lax, and the surviving Supremes insisted they were connected to Gan Duo Above Supreme.
• Hua Xiezhi found an auction invitation on the Metal Attribute Supreme, who revealed that Duo Gan Above Supreme was his great-grandmother and refused to identify the Sword Pill’s location.
• Bentley returned with the ambushers’ vehicles, while Hua Xiezhi searched their Item-Storing Talismans for the Sword Pill bought for forty-eight and a half billion.
• Hua Xiezhi discovered a safe among the Energy Blocks, and Qu Jianlei sensed that it had a random combination lock requiring a genetic fragment.

Qu Jianlei and his companions opened the Metal Attribute Supreme’s supposedly secure safe and recovered the Divine Script Treasure inside. After the Supreme demanded death, Qu Jianlei killed him despite his claim that Duo Gan Above Supreme was his great-grandmother.

• Xiao Hu said it could crack the safe from within, and Qu Jianlei asked Paranoid to prepare a precisely aimed needle strike while Old Lady Jia maintained Crowd Control.
• Paranoid pierced the safe with a fine needle, and Qu Jianlei entered the sequence Xiao Hu provided to open it without triggering its self-destruct.
• Qu Jianlei took an ancient-looking box from the safe and handed it to Paranoid, who opened it to reveal a tiny Divine Script sphere.
• Qu Jianlei mocked the injured Metal Attribute Supreme for spending a fortune on the treasure, and the Supreme demanded that Qu Jianlei kill him.
• Qu Jianlei formed a hand seal and killed the Metal Attribute Supreme with a golden needle through the brow.