Recaps

After Jing Yuexin’s actions led Young Master Qiao’s grandfather to suicide, she demanded four trillion in compensation from his family. A mine-owning force then sought to appease Digital Phantom, and Keli revealed that his client employed Keros and Korona before invoking Rhine and the Protection Card.

• Imperial investigators questioned whether Young Master Qiao’s grandfather had truly killed himself over two artifacts, then confirmed he had tried and failed to buy them.
• Jing Yuexin explained that she had demanded two artifacts from the grandfather and, after he died without providing them, ordered his family to pay four trillion to Shui Xisheng within a month.
• Qu Jianlei accepted Jing Yuexin’s decision, while she explained that she had left the family’s fortune vulnerable to other forces so Digital Phantom would not stand out.
• Keli met Shui Xisheng and offered to transfer his client’s mine shares and repay extracted resources in exchange for being spared, but Qu Jianlei rejected the mine.
• Keli told Shui Xisheng that his client employed Keros and Korona, whom Jing Yuexin had once rescued, prompting Qu Jianlei to ask why Keli had mentioned Hongjingtian.
• Keli said he would mention Rhine and the Protection Card.

Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin confronted Keli over a Protection Card tied to Hongjingtian and ordered his client to return it, pay the mine’s earnings to Shui Corporation, and stop using Digital Phantom’s name. They later considered recruiting Poison Attribute users to fight the Alien Race, while a report revealed that numerous Mines were impersonating Digital Phantom.

• Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin met Keli, who explained that his client had bought the starship holding Hongjingtian’s Protection Card without coercion.
• Qu Jianlei ordered Keli to surrender the Protection Card, deliver the mined Energy Blocks to Shui Corporation, and pay the proper taxes without using Digital Phantom’s name.
• Keli explained how the Keros siblings had come to work for his client, and Jing Yuexin declined their request to thank her in person.
• Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin discussed whether to recruit Korona for her rare Poison Attribute, but Qu Jianlei hesitated because they had previously let the siblings leave.
• The Pan Rock Mine Management Department reported that eight Mines were already impersonating Digital Phantom and twelve more were being prepared, prompting Qu Jianlei to condemn the copycats.

Qu Jianlei refused Mine Management Headquarters’ request to drop the case against the mines that had impersonated Digital Phantom, but agreed to a settlement that protected the Empire’s interests. The chapter ended with the settlements and investigations proceeding smoothly.

• The head of the Pan Rock Mine Management Department asked Qu Jianlei to cover up the scandal in exchange for certifying Digital Phantom’s Energy Stone Mines, but Qu refused to abandon the pursuit.
• The department head explained that the government feared both the pressure that had driven a high-ranking official to suicide and the consequences of eliminating Digital Phantom, so it wanted a compromise.
• Jing Yuexin proposed that each of the five mines pay One Hundred Billion and expose another mine planning a similar scheme, and Qu accepted those terms.
• The government approved the compensation and disclosure requirements, and decided to impose additional fines on the offending mines.
• Shui Xisheng set Fifty Billion as compensation for mines that had been exposed before completing their schemes, and the remaining proceedings went smoothly.

Shui Xisheng dismissed a scheme that had failed when its perpetrators could not pay compensation, while Keros and Korona joined Digital Phantom. Qu Jianlei brought Wind Forgotten to Dawn Base under strict Imperial restrictions, where its arrival left Korona awestruck.

• A family that could not afford the compensation asked Shui Xisheng if killing its targets would count as punishment, and he dismissed their overconfidence.
• Keli told Shui Xisheng that Keros and Korona had disappeared, and Shui warned that keeping them had crossed a taboo.
• Keros and Korona agreed to join Digital Phantom after Claire warned them about the dangers of the Alien Race battlefield.
• Qu Jianlei escorted Wind Forgotten to Dawn Base after negotiating restrictions with the Empire, and Wind Forgotten detected the planet's spiritual aura but agreed not to absorb it.
• Keros and Korona watched Wind Forgotten land, and Korona declared that this was the kind of life she wanted.

After Wind Forgotten arrived at Dawn Base, the team put it through experiments while welcoming the Keros siblings into Digital Phantom. The military and government monitored the alien tree from afar, and Qu Jianlei left to help the military with testing in the Federation War Zone.

• Qinghu, Mu Guang, and Tian Yin began testing Wind Forgotten, which asked Qu Jianlei for Space Stone in exchange for cooperating.
• Qu Jianlei met Keros and Korona, and Digital Phantom held a welcome banquet for the siblings that night.
• Paranoid suggested Korona study Wood Attribute poisons on Wind Forgotten, while the alien tree repeatedly asked Qu Jianlei whether it could withdraw.
• The military intensified its surveillance of Dawn Base, and the government sent a Science Starship to observe Wind Forgotten from ten million kilometers away.
• Korona found that Paraquat had little effect on Wind Forgotten, while Paranoid's Gallium Element experiments caused the tree considerable damage.
• Paranoid told Wind Forgotten that Qu Jianlei had gone to help the military with testing in the Federation War Zone.

Digital Phantom inspected the Federation War Zone’s expeditionary fleet and won the war zone’s trust, then Qu Jianlei offered to train its soldiers for two days. The Federation’s leaders agreed to postpone their counteroffensive preparations and gather as many units as possible for the unprecedented online training.

• The Federation War Zone welcomed Digital Phantom’s Battalion-Class Ship, and Fourth Boss told the Third Boss that the Alliance faced more dangerous Alien Races.
• Digital Phantom spent three days inspecting the expeditionary warships’ control systems, with Xiao Hu issuing each approved ship a certificate.
• Qu Jianlei offered the Third Boss two days of training, and the Third Boss accepted before informing the Top Leader.
• The Top Leader ordered the war zone to cooperate fully and approved online training so more people could attend.
• Units across the Federation War Zone rushed to register for the training, which offered firsthand guidance unavailable through ordinary exchanges between war zones.

Digital Phantom trained Federation War Zone soldiers in combat and artificial-intelligence warship coordination, then returned to Dawn Base, where Qu Jianlei pursued research into a new poison and genetic weapons. The chapter left Qu Jianlei facing an offer of Primal Warrior resources from Luo Hanshuang, who had run into trouble.

• The Federation War Zone arranged a three-day preparation period, and Hua Xiezhi and Fourth Boss led Digital Phantom's training for its soldiers.
• The soldiers' questions extended the training into a fourth day, but Qu Jianlei ended it after Xiao Hu detected a question about the Alliance's Alien Race.
• Digital Phantom declined a farewell banquet and left the Frontline war zone, then Qu Jianlei and the others teleported back to Dawn Base.
• Korona and Paranoid proposed combining their research methods to create a new poison, and Qu Jianlei asked Xiao Hu whether genetic editing could help.
• Qu Jianlei asked the Empire's science team about genetic weapons and agreed to a confidentiality agreement before returning to the base.
• Jing Yuexin told Qu Jianlei that Luo Hanshuang had run into trouble and could offer Primal Warrior resources.

Qu Jianlei tested whether the Gold Digger could counter the Alien Race trees and learned that it could destroy them but hated consuming them. He assigned Wind Forgotten to serve as the core of experiments with the Five Elements Battle Array, then received news that the declining Luo family had offered information about the Divine Script System in exchange for protection.

• Qu Jianlei agreed to investigate Luo Hanshuang’s family and asked Jing Yuexin to find out what resources Primal Warriors possessed.
• Jing Yuexin brought the Gold Digger to test it against an Alien Race tree, and the Fire Essence consumed a branch while finding the experience disgusting.
• Wind Forgotten explained that severing its shell would damage its origin, and Qu Jianlei decided to use it as the formation core while the group tested the Five Elements Battle Array.
• Wind Forgotten welcomed the chance to learn combat techniques and cooperate in battle instead of serving only as experimental material.
• Jing Yuexin’s subordinate reported that the declining Luo family had supplied defective military goods and offered important information about the Divine Script System in hopes of gaining protection.

Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin met Luo Hanshuang to hear her request for help with the Luo family’s military-defective-goods case, hoping to learn about Cultivators and Divine Script origins in return. Jing Yuexin agreed to meet the Luo family, prompting the authorities and military to reconsider the restrictions on them.

• Qu Jianlei agreed to visit Luo Hanshuang after learning the Luo family wanted help for two members accused of supplying defective goods to the military.
• Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin traveled to Tianbing Star and met Luo Hanshuang, who explained that her branch had been approached because of her abilities and her connection to Ran Bingluan.
• Luo Hanshuang said the Luo family might offer the Primal Warrior's Handbook and Divine Script materials, and Jing Yuexin told her to summon a responsible family representative in her name.
• After Luo Hanshuang contacted them, the Luo family received permission to travel to Tianbing Star, and the authorities and military began reconsidering their restrictions.

Qu Jianlei negotiated access to the government’s Alien Race genetic research database and obtained a promise of additional Calculation Units from the military. He then met with Luo Gaoheng on Tianbing Star to hear how the Divine Script Society had allegedly framed the Luo family, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• A government Supreme asked Digital Phantom to assist with genetic research, and Qu Jianlei offered to work with Alien Race gene templates if the government opened its database to them.
• The government agreed to open the relevant database, and Qu Jianlei requested three costly Calculation Units from the military.
• Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin arrived at Luo Hanshuang’s courtyard, where Luo Gaoheng explained that government scrutiny had prevented him from bringing the items for their transaction.
• Luo Gaoheng said the Divine Script Society had used faulty military supplies to pressure the Luo family into surrendering the Primal Warrior’s Handbook and related Divine Script materials.
• Qu Jianlei acknowledged the need for strict military quality control, while Jing Yuexin challenged Luo Gaoheng’s claim that the Luo family had always treated others kindly.

Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin investigated the Luo family’s military equipment scandal and negotiated limits on the military’s punishment. After the Divine Script Society approached Luo Hanshuang, Qu Jianlei confronted Giant Axe and suspected the Society had sabotaged the equipment.

• Luo Gaoheng explained that his family had inherited Cultivation Notes and Divine Script materials, and Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin agreed to investigate in exchange for copies if those resolved the matter.
• Jing Yuexin met with military officials and asked them not to punish Luo family members unrelated to the equipment scandal, while refusing to provide another training session.
• Several Luo family members were freed, and Luo Gaoheng arranged for his family to bring the ancestral treasures with military assistance.
• A man and a woman from the Divine Script Society visited the Luo family, but Luo Hanshuang received them and showed little warmth toward their offer of help.
• Qu Jianlei confronted Giant Axe at a secluded villa, accused the Divine Script Society of acting unscrupulously, and suspected it had tampered with the Luo family’s equipment.

Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin confronted Giant Axe over the plot against the Luo Family and secured compensation. Later, Qu Jianlei studied the Luo Family’s ancestral records, uncovered their ancestor’s ties to the Cultivation World, and confronted Luo Gaoheng about withholding something; the chapter ended with Jing Yuexin holding back from pressing him further.

• Jing Yuexin demanded compensation from Giant Axe, and Qu Jianlei accepted ten billion Energy Blocks for the Luo Family instead of killing him.
• On the third day, the Luo Family brought its ancestral treasures to Qu Jianlei and his companions.
• Qu Jianlei studied the Cultivation Notes and diaries, learning that the Luo Family’s ancestor was a Golden Core Cultivator who had loved an Imperial woman and left descendants, records, and spatial coordinates behind.
• The Soul Nourishing Wood bracelet revealed that Luo Gaoheng was lying, and Qu Jianlei pressed him to explain what else the Luo Family had kept hidden.
• Luo Gaoheng asked whether Qu Jianlei wanted to learn from the Divine Script Society, and Qu Jianlei urged Jing Yuexin to leave the descendants of a Cultivator some dignity.

Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin obtained copies of the Luo family’s ancient records on Spatial Rules and learned that the coordinates to the Maiden Star Region had been destroyed, though Luo Gaoheng supplied an approximate direction. Back at Dawn Base, Qu Jianlei revealed that the inheritance also contained a method for breaking through the Space Barrier, which could help them enter the Cultivation World.

• Qu Jianlei returned to the Luo family courtyard, and Luo Gaoheng handed over six ancient slabs containing Divine Script about Spatial Rules.
• Qu Jianlei copied the slabs and returned them, then learned that the Luo family ancestor had warned against coveting the inheritance and that Giant Axe Carving Flowers would spare two Luo family disciples.
• Luo Gaoheng explained that earlier descendants had gone to the Maiden Star Region and never returned, so the Luo family erased the recorded coordinates; he later gave Qu Jianlei an approximate direction.
• Jing Yuexin agreed to consider taking Luo family descendants to the Maiden Star Region, and Qu Jianlei placed the family under Digital Phantom’s protection.
• Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin teleported to Dawn Base, where Qu Jianlei said the inheritance included a method to break through flawed sections of the Space Barrier.

After emerging from seclusion, Qu Jianlei refused to let the military take samples from Wind Forgotten and approved sharing more Battle Formation knowledge, then left secretly to test his work with space and time. He waited for Qian He on Future Star while using divination to choose among Xiao Hu’s plans.

• Qu Jianlei emerged after more than two months in seclusion and said he had worked through the core stages of his inheritance.
• Qu Jianlei refused the authorities’ request for living samples from Wind Forgotten and approved giving the military more Battle Formation knowledge.
• Qu Jianlei arranged for Old Lady Jia to replenish Wind Forgotten’s energy when it fell to twenty percent.
• After receiving Xiao Hu’s calculations, Qu Jianlei teleported away without telling Jing Yuexin where he was going.
• Qu Jianlei waited a month for Qian He on Future Star and used Divination Technique to select among Xiao Hu’s plans.

After a humiliating rejection, Qian He procured experimental materials for Qu Jianlei and asked to join him on an Alien Race battlefield, but Qu Jianlei refused. Qu Jianlei then traveled to a remote planet near Bi Tao Star to conduct an experiment, leaving Silver Fir to scout ahead.

• Qian He accepted Qu Jianlei's order to procure materials and delivered them for 4.5 billion, while Qu Jianlei paid him 4.6 billion and warned him to keep the transaction secret.
• Qian He revealed that he could serve as a discreet procurement channel for Digital Phantom and asked Qu Jianlei to take him to an Alien Race battlefield to earn an accomplishment for his family.
• Qu Jianlei declined to bring Qian He, then vanished into the rain as Qian He wondered whether he had been too cowardly to go.
• Qu Jianlei traveled through the Channel Entrance to a desolate planet near Bi Tao Star to conduct his experiment away from the Empire.
• Qu Jianlei sent his clone, Silver Fir, to scout the planet and confirmed there were no nearby devices interfering with Space Ripple.

Qu Jianlei developed and tested a Mobile Palace, then built the first Time Differential Speedometer on the desolate planet. After an Alien Race Forest Sea passed nearby and left spores, he cleaned the area and tested the Speedometer, whose activation distorted the Cargo Hold and disabled instruments hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.

• Qu Jianlei forged a palm-sized Mobile Palace, and its first activation test caused an explosion that pierced a Small Ship with the power of space.
• Qu Jianlei refined the Mobile Palace through several tests until it operated steadily in space, then began researching the Time Differential Speedometer.
• A Forest Sea of more than a thousand Alien Race Trees arrived, wandered near the planet for eight days, and left spores behind before drifting away.
• Qu Jianlei sent Silver Fir to inspect the surface, cleared the spores, redeployed monitoring devices, and completed the first Time Differential Speedometer prototype.
• Qu Jianlei tested the Speedometer from a Small Ship, and its activation visibly distorted the Cargo Hold before disabling every observation instrument, including the distant Small Ship.

Qu Jianlei refined the Time Differential Speedometer, but an approaching Alliance fleet forced him to abandon the planet and confront the danger. When Warp Jammers blocked an easy escape, he appeared beneath a Battalion-Class Ship, which identified his attack as Destroyer-Class.

• Qu Jianlei improved the Time Differential Speedometer until its directional control improved, then divined a Small Inauspicious warning before another test.
• Qu Jianlei sent Silver Fir to retrieve the distant Small Ship and Cargo Hold, but monitors detected an approaching fleet of Alliance warships.
• The fleet searched the planet, deployed Warp Jammers, and threatened Qu Jianlei over the public channel while Small Attack Ships began probing attacks.
• Qu Jianlei decided against deploying his warships and used Instant Flashes to appear beneath a Battalion-Class Ship.
• Qu Jianlei unleashed Gray Radiance toward the Battalion-Class Ship, whose crew raised the alarm and identified it as a Destroyer-Class attack.

Qu Jianlei used his Sword Pill to destroy Alliance warships from over a million kilometers away, then Digital Phantom captured the surviving fleet. He interrogated a senior colonel, who explained that the Alliance had been investigating Space Ripples and temporal distortions after fighting an Alien Race Forest of Trees.

• Alliance soldiers identified Qu Jianlei's long-range magical artifact attack as Digital Phantom's work and ordered their fleet to retreat.
• Qu Jianlei's Sword Pill severed another Battalion-Class Ship, but a second ship took the next strike and shielded the remaining vessel.
• Digital Phantom's Battalion-Class Ship and six Small Ships engaged the Alliance fleet and captured every surviving starship.
• Qu Jianlei interrogated a senior colonel and showed him footage of the events on Baozhi Star, including the rescue of Wu Zhen and the others.
• The senior colonel explained that the Alliance fleet had been sent to investigate Space Ripples and temporal distortions after helping an Above Supreme draw away an Alien Race Forest of Trees.

Qu Jianlei moved his experiments to a concealed meteor, improved the Space-Time Differential Speedometer, and learned that detailed divination about time differentials could harm his condition. As he continued refining it, an isolated Small Ship carrying Apu and Alliance captives approached and received an unexpected signal asking if it needed assistance.

• Qu Jianlei concealed two Battalion-Class Ships and four Company-level Warships beside a meteor, then successfully tested an improved Space-Time Differential Speedometer for two hours before stopping it as it began to age.
• Qu Jianlei asked Yi He to assess his exhaustion, and Yi He concluded that introducing time differentials into the world had affected the Heavenly Dao.
• Big Head Butterfly detected an approaching Imperial military starship, and Qu Jianlei ordered his starships to prepare while they observed it.
• Qu Jianlei learned the approaching vessel was a Small Ship and sent another Small Ship to dock with it.
• Apu and ten others struggled onward aboard the damaged Small Ship, carrying three Alliance captives and dwindling options for escape.
• A voice suddenly called the Small Ship from the console and asked for its unit designation and whether it needed assistance, startling Apu.

Digital Phantom rescued Apu and joined the Imperial forces to save a battalion pursued by thousands of Alien Races. After a costly day-long battle, the Alien Races were wiped out, and Qu Jianlei left the surviving soldiers with damaged ships and plans to return to the Channel Entrance.

• Apu told Xiao Hu that his battalion was being pursued by seven or eight thousand Alien Races, and Xiao Hu ordered him to turn back while reinforcements arrived.
• Qu Jianlei brought a fleet led by a Battalion-Class Ship and heard Apu explain how his battalion had become trapped while rescuing Alliance defectors.
• The stranded Battalion Commander spotted Digital Phantom, which promised enough ships to annihilate the pursuing Alien Races, including a Division Level Ship.
• Qu Jianlei's forces fought for a day and wiped out the Alien Races, though they suffered heavy ship losses and expended substantial ammunition.
• Qu Jianlei arranged for the surviving Imperial soldiers to take prisoners and damaged ships back, while warning them to guard the prisoners and noting that his data fragments were less capable.

Qu Jianlei completed the Time Differential Speedometer and arranged a secluded estate on Future Star to continue his dangerous experiment. Jing Yuexin and Sunset Glow tracked him down, and after he explained his work with space and time, Jing Yuexin said she would no longer stop him from divining.

• Qu Jianlei gave the Battalion Commander ships and ammunition, then obtained the bounty hunters’ intelligence network on Taiqing Star before leaving to continue his experiment.
• The Battalion Commander interrogated the prisoners, learned that Digital Phantom’s experiments involved spatial distortion and time, and ordered his troops to return.
• Two months later, Qu Jianlei completed the Time Differential Speedometer and asked Qian He to find a concealed site for the Calculation Unit.
• Qian He secured an estate on Future Star and later delivered supplies, when Jing Yuexin appeared and confronted Qu Jianlei about his dangerous experiment.
• Sunset Glow revealed that Digital Phantom had searched for Qu Jianlei after he vanished, and Jing Yuexin agreed to stop preventing him from divining.

Qu Jianlei gave Jing Yuexin a Mobile Palace and explained that he planned to return to Taiqing Star to continue testing and gather cultivation resources. After regrouping with Digital Phantom on Future Star, he and Jing Yuexin secretly entered the Alliance, but found Taiqing Star’s waters heavily monitored.

• Qu Jianlei gave Jing Yuexin a Mobile Palace, and she activated it and explored its courtyard and built-in Gathering Spirit Array.
• Qu Jianlei told Jing Yuexin and Sunset Glow that his experiments remained unfinished and that he planned to test them on Taiqing Star, while asking Jing Yuexin to draw attention in the Empire.
• Fourth Boss reported that the Federation War Zone had secured an unstable bridgehead, and Qu Jianlei declined its request for Digital Phantom’s help, offering Alliance warships instead.
• Digital Phantom gathered at the separate courtyard, chose Qu Jianlei’s plan to visit Taiqing Star before investigating the Maiden Star Region, and received two Mobile Palaces for Dawn Base to test.
• Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin entered the Alliance through an ocean trench on Taiqing Star, where monitoring equipment detected their arrival and patrolled the surrounding waters.

Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin sought intelligence and false identities in the Alliance, then decided to obtain a marriage certificate and join a tour group on Taiqing Star. The chapter left them preparing for a bonfire party during their sightseeing trip.

• Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin failed to buy intelligence at a bar after its new owner questioned them about a Dark Web Account.
• The next night, they bought intelligence elsewhere at triple the usual price and learned that false identities were available, though prices were expected to rise as people fled the Occupied Area.
• Jing Yuexin decided to order several false identities, and she and Qu Jianlei agreed to get a marriage certificate.
• After completing their documents over five days, Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin joined a small, high-end tour group on Taiqing Star.
• When the group reached its hotel, Qu Jianlei realized he and Jing Yuexin would share a suite, and they discussed what to perform at the bonfire party.

At a bonfire party, Qu Jianlei chatted with Mr. Lawrence and offered to diagnose him, then agreed to examine three sisters who doubted his skill. He ended the chapter by telling Second One that she was pregnant.

• Jing Yuexin performed a solo dance, and Qu Jianlei praised her afterward.
• Mr. Lawrence tried to recruit Qu Jianlei for a job, but Qu Jianlei declined because he wanted to wait and see how events developed.
• At the tour guide’s urging, Qu Jianlei diagnosed Mr. Lawrence and advised him to have his aorta checked and adjust his diet.
• Second One asked Qu Jianlei to diagnose her and her sisters, and he told her she was pregnant.

Qu Jianlei exposed the three sisters’ pregnancies and learned that his diagnosis had helped Lawrence avoid a serious health problem. Lawrence then revealed his interest in joining Qu Jianlei and, when turned down, asked for help finding a way to survive the coming turmoil; Qu Jianlei considered using him as an informant inside the Alliance.

• Qu Jianlei told Second One and Third One that they were pregnant by the same man, embarrassing the sisters and unsettling the tour group.
• Lawrence thanked Qu Jianlei after a special reagent confirmed an aortic problem that could be treated early, then asked about Qu Jianlei’s diagnostic technique and questioned his identity.
• Lawrence explained that his superior wanted to recruit Qu Jianlei, but Qu Jianlei said he was not interested; Lawrence then asked Qu Jianlei to take him on instead.
• Qu Jianlei told Lawrence that his cultivation was too low, and Lawrence said that he wanted a way to protect himself amid the coming chaos.
• Qu Jianlei privately told Jing Yuexin that Lawrence could serve as an insider on the Alliance side, and Lawrence agreed to hear his taboo proposal.