Recaps

Qu Jianlei and his allies destroyed the Asura patriarch’s out-of-body realm Mother Nest with the World Piercing Shuttle and survived the resulting spatial vibrations inside their own Mother Nest. After defeating the remaining Asuras and finding no sign of the patriarch, they prepared their ships and wondered whether to enter the Asura World.

• The World Piercing Shuttle expanded and pierced the Asura patriarch’s Mother Nest, reducing it and its contents to dust as Qu Jianlei and his allies fled into their own Mother Nest.
• The spatial rhythm severely damaged their Mother Nest and ships, but the group endured it and observed that it destroyed nearby Asura nests while weakening farther away.
• Qu Jianlei recovered the World Piercing Shuttle and ordered the group to fight the approaching Asuras; after three nearby Mother Nests were destroyed, the remaining four fled and the other Asuras scattered.
• Qu Jianlei, Jiao Daoren, Sunset Glow, and Yi He searched the area for three days and nights but found no trace of the Ten-Armed Asura or spiritual fluctuations.
• The group returned to their warships to repair the Mother Nest and recharge the World Piercing Shuttle, then considered entering the Asura World.

Qu Jianlei’s fleet crossed the black-hole rift into the Asura World and found little resistance on the far side. After scouting the area, he began planning a Teleportation Array and investigating whether the new world had spiritual energy and spirit stones.

• Qu Jianlei’s damaged fleet reached the black hole, performed a divination, and entered while a Division Level Ship stayed behind to guard the opening.
• Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow emerged into an empty area, then found several seemingly idle Asura nests and learned that Burns had left to reinforce the other side.
• Qu Jianlei returned to the fleet, stored everyone and the ships in his Portable Abode, and traveled with Sunset Glow to a meteor suitable for hiding a Teleportation Array.
• Jiao Daoren identified Mystic Metal in the meteor, while Yi He warned that they needed to understand the world’s laws and determine what could power the array.
• Qu Jianlei agreed to investigate the world further, and Jing Yuexin pointed out that the team needed to learn whether spirit stones existed there.

Qu Jianlei and his team discovered an Asura-inhabited star continent, built a Teleportation Array there, and returned to the Division Level Ship. They learned that Fourth Boss, Xiang Xue, and Zi Jiuxian had defended the black hole entrance against several Asura nests.

• Jia Shuiqing urged the team to stop taking on new tasks, but Qu Jianlei agreed to visit one more celestial body before returning.
• Qu Jianlei and the others approached a life-filled star continent, avoided Asura nests, and landed amid the overwhelming stench of Asura waste.
• The team discovered more than two million Asuras, over a dozen settlements, idle Mother Nests, and abundant spiritual energy on the continent.
• The Nascent Soul Realm cultivators found a site beside the great river and built a Teleportation Array, which Jing Yuexin successfully tested.
• The main force returned to the Division Level Ship, where Qu Jianlei learned that Fourth Boss, Xiang Xue, and Zi Jiuxian had repelled several Secondary Nests and two Mother Nests.

After repelling an Asura attack, Qu Jianlei and his allies chose not to defend the dangerous Black Hole Entrance permanently. A later explosion of their traps triggered prolonged space fluctuations, while Jing Yuexin returned with supplies and news of the Empire’s interest in Digital Phantom’s actions.

• Qu Jianlei’s group discussed their discoveries in the Asura World and decided to patrol the Black Hole Entrance rather than defend it at all costs.
• Qu Jianlei stayed near the entrance while most of the others returned to rest and repair ships, and Xiang Xue and Zi Jiuxian chose to remain with him.
• Four Asura Mother Nests appeared, triggering three Flawed Portable Abodes and causing intense space ripples that forced Qu Jianlei’s Division Level Ship to flee behind a sacrificial Regiment-level ship.
• The space fluctuations lasted more than a month, and Jing Yuexin returned with Rhine, supplies, and three repaired Division Level Ships.
• Jia Shuiqing told Imperial military representatives that Digital Phantom had once controlled the Asura World entrance, while refusing to share further details.
• The military offered to replace four damaged Division Level Ships with new Imperial ships on the condition that the old ships would not be used within the Empire, and Digital Phantom left the offer undecided.

Jing Yuexin rejected the Empire’s reduced offer of two Division Level Ships, accusing the government of using Asura intelligence to pressure the Federation rather than fairly support the Digital Phantom. After renewed negotiations, the team agreed to trade its intelligence for six ships and provided edited battle footage, leaving military officers stunned by the scale of the Asura threat.

• The Empire’s military and government debated whether to trade Division Level Ships for the Digital Phantom’s intelligence about the Asura entrance, ultimately authorizing two ships with limited ammunition.
• Jing Yuexin told the military that the Digital Phantom refused the deal because the offer had been cut from four ships to two and ammunition was restricted.
• Jing Yuexin explained that the government wanted the intelligence to pressure the Federation, and Qu Jianlei concluded that the Empire hoped to gain leverage from the Federation’s fight against the Alien Race.
• The government agreed to offer four ships with as much ammunition as possible, but the Digital Phantom demanded eight ships, and negotiations settled on six.
• The Digital Phantom refused to provide uncut footage, omitted the Flawed Portable Abode, and gave the military videos that showed countless Asura Nests and shocked the officers.

The Empire questioned Digital Phantom about its battle with the Asura Brood Mother, while the team prepared for the next threat and awaited its Division Level Ships. Jia Shuiqing then reported that Skyhook Cave Dwelling had expelled everyone, shrunk, and flown into space.

• The military learned from Hua Xiezhi that the Mother Nest was an existence one realm above Above Supreme, and Hua explained that Digital Phantom planned to take the initiative against the Alien Race.
• Qu Jianlei divined that You You would need three to fifteen years to form her core, then returned to Link Nebula as the Black Hole Entrance's fluctuations subsided.
• The Empire delivered four unmarked Division Level Ships to Digital Phantom, and the military said the ships should carry no team markings.
• Jia Shuiqing arrived at Link Nebula with Yi He and Jiao Daoren and told Qu Jianlei that Skyhook Cave Dwelling had disappeared.
• Skyhook Mystic Mansion expelled everyone inside, shrank to fist-size, and shot into space until it vanished.

The Empire sought Digital Phantom’s help after the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion vanished, while Qu Jianlei and his team concluded that its Artifact Spirit had deliberately escaped with their stored Energy Blocks. Qu Jianlei refused to divine its location, and Duo Gan went to protect the Dark Red Celestial Body in case the Artifact Spirit tried to devour it.

• The Empire searched space for the missing Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion and asked Digital Phantom to help investigate, while also seeking an explanation for the team’s withdrawal from the Abandoned Mine.
• Jia Shuiqing told Qu Jianlei about the military’s request, and the team considered whether the Artifact Spirit had deliberately stockpiled Energy Blocks before fleeing.
• Qu Jianlei decided not to pursue the Artifact Spirit or cooperate with its apparent test, and the others warned against divining its location because of the karmic ties involved.
• Qu Jianlei asked about the Dark Red Celestial Body, and Old Lady Jia said Duo Gan had already gone there to protect it from the Artifact Spirit.

Duo Gan teleported to the Dark Red Celestial Body to shut down its Teleportation Array and delay the Abode Artifact Spirit while Qu Jianlei organized support. Qu Jianlei sent Qinghu to hold the black hole front and had Digital Phantom negotiate with the military over access to the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion, leaving the garrison wondering how the team had returned so quickly.

• Duo Gan deduced that the Artifact Spirit might use the Division Level Ship’s Teleportation Array, then teleported to the Dark Red Celestial Body to shut it down and buy time.
• Jia Shuiqing and the others brought the crisis to Qu Jianlei, who called Qinghu back to hold the front and told her she could retreat if necessary.
• Jia Shuiqing offered to accompany Qinghu, but Qu Jianlei declined and said it was time for Digital Phantom to make a move.
• Three days after Qinghu departed, Dawn Base announced that Digital Phantom’s main force had returned, startling the nearby garrison.
• Hua Xiezhi negotiated with the garrison for at least one-third of the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion’s usage rights, independently and without supervision.
• The garrison reported the demand upward as troops and officials questioned whether Digital Phantom had returned to search for the Mystic Mansion.

Digital Phantom searched for the Mystic Mansion while the Empire debated the team's growing reputation, and Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin joined Duo Gan at the Dark Red Celestial Body. Unable to move or safely guard it, Qu Jianlei considered towing it away, despite the High-Fidelity Replica's warning that doing so might trigger unexpected changes.

• The Empire stalled on granting Digital Phantom usage rights to the Mystic Mansion, but the team deployed more than ten Battalion-Class Ships to search for it.
• Digital Phantom painted its Alliance warships with its own insignia, and the ships' appearance revived public interest in the team's years of fighting abroad.
• Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin teleported to a desolate planet and traveled to the Dark Red Celestial Body, where Duo Gan had been waiting for support.
• Qu Jianlei considered ways to protect the celestial body from the Artifact Spirit, but the High-Fidelity Replica could not control it and warned that moving it might cause unexpected changes.
• Jiao Daoren agreed that they should try towing the celestial body rather than let the Artifact Spirit claim it.

Qu Jianlei’s team abandoned their attempt to retrieve the Dark Red Celestial Body and secretly rigged it with Flawed Portable Abodes to punish the Artifact Spirit if it returned. Back at Future Star, Qu Jianlei learned that Black Colt Tower’s calculations were nearly complete and prepared to begin a risky experiment, while Jing Yuexin urged the team to handle it together.

• Qu Jianlei agreed with Duo Gan to leave the celestial body in place and secretly deploy Flawed Portable Abodes as a trap for the Artifact Spirit.
• The team left the site, returned to Dawn Base, and Qu Jianlei explained their decision; the other members supported him and continued searching for the Artifact Spirit.
• Korona and Keros told Qu Jianlei that the Future Star calculations were nearly ready to produce version 1.0, so he went to inspect them.
• After checking the results for two days, Qu Jianlei told Jing Yuexin he needed a place to experiment and asked her to manage matters on Asura’s side while he worked.
• Jing Yuexin objected to Qu Jianlei undertaking the risky experiment alone and proposed that the team withdraw from Link Nebula so everyone could research it together.

Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin worked together in the Link Nebula to build a new Black Colt Tower, while confronting their feelings about Xiao Hu. Their experiments were interrupted when Bentley reported that increasing numbers of Asura Nests were emerging from the Black Hole Entrance, possibly heralding the arrival of a main force.

• Qu Jianlei agreed to conduct experiments in the Link Nebula with Jing Yuexin, Rhine, and Lao Ben, and they brought Qinghu back after she warned that another Mother Nest might have escaped her attack.
• Qu Jianlei, Jing Yuexin, Hua Lei, and their nonhuman companions reached their former base, cleared out scattered Asura Nests, and began testing a new Black Colt Tower.
• After two months, Jing Yuexin had become a capable assistant, and she asked Qu Jianlei whether she or Xiao Hu had been better to him; he explained that Xiao Hu was asleep and that he was waiting for it to wake up.
• Jing Yuexin helped Qu Jianlei’s experiments progress more quickly, and he began refining the third test product with her rough processing.
• Bentley arrived to report that increasing numbers of Small Nests had emerged from the Black Hole Entrance, raising his suspicion that the Asuras’ main force—and possibly an Out-of-Body Realm Asura—was arriving.

Qu Jianlei and his allies monitored the Asura invasion, using a Fire-luring Burst trap to devastate an early force before withdrawing as the Asuras adapted. Two months later, Jing Yuexin’s traps lay too far from a new formation, so Qu Jianlei lured the Asuras into battle with a cloaked Battalion-Class Ship, which was eventually overwhelmed by reinforcements.

• Bentley reported three newly emerged Mother Nests, and Qu Jianlei chose to observe from a Division Level Ship rather than act rashly.
• As the Asura force grew to sixteen Mother Nests, a Sub-Nest destroyed a disguised probe and triggered a Fire-luring Burst that annihilated it and damaged many nearby nests.
• The Asuras returned more cautiously with over twenty Mother Nests, while Qu Jianlei withdrew and instructed Bentley to keep watch.
• Two months later, Jing Yuexin and Hua Lei had set up two Mobile Palace traps near a new Asura force, but the traps were too far away to catch it.
• Qu Jianlei agreed to lure the Asuras toward the traps, and his cloaked Battalion-Class Ship attacked their four-Mother-Nest formation.
• The Asuras sent additional Mother Nests and Small Nests into the fight, leaving Qu Jianlei’s badly damaged ship struggling as enemy forces closed in from the flanks.

Qu Jianlei’s forces destroyed three of four pursuing Asura Mother Nests, then investigated a new Space Ripple while keeping their main research focused on the Black Colt Tower. Bentley later reported a powerful Mother Nest guarded by seven others near the Black Hole Entrance, and Qu Jianlei questioned whether the threat was genuine or a trap.

• Qu Jianlei lured four Asura Mother Nests into a trap, destroyed two with Mobile Palace explosions, then crippled the pursuing leader with more than two hundred Small Ships so Jing Yuexin could collect it.
• The surviving Asura forces withdrew, and the area fell quiet after three of the four Mother Nests were eliminated.
• After three failed experiments, Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin detected a Space Ripple resembling the World Piercing Shuttle, but Qu Jianlei insisted that developing the Black Colt Tower came first.
• Bentley reported an exceptionally high-ranking Mother Nest near the Black Hole Entrance, guarded by seven Mother Nests, and urged Qu Jianlei to strike before it could threaten them.
• Qu Jianlei questioned whether the Asuras were setting a trap and whether the suspected Out-of-Body Mother Nest truly possessed that level of power.

Qu Jianlei advanced the Black Colt Tower experiments, confirming that it could safely transport living creatures while altering the flow of time. After repelling another Asura invasion, he learned that the Federation was pressuring Digital Phantom to let it inspect the Asura entrance and threatening to expose the World Piercing Shuttle.

• Qu Jianlei stabilized the Black Colt Tower, tested it with spirit beasts and Wild Beasts, and found that Jing Yuexin’s avatar could spend three days inside while only half a day passed outside.
• Duo Gan’s avatar stopped a Science Vessel from entering Digital Phantom’s restricted zone, while the vessel’s survey found no trace of the fading energy fluctuation.
• Qu Jianlei began matching a Spiritual Qi Conversion Array to the Black Colt Tower, then joined Sunset Glow in using five Mobile Palaces to destroy eight invading Asura Mother Nests and relocate.
• Qu Jianlei visited Bentley and found that five Mother Nests remained at the Channel Entrance, with the suspected Out-of-Body Realm Mother Nest still protected by four others.
• Hua Xiezhi told Qu Jianlei that the Federation demanded access to the Asura entrance and threatened to reveal that Digital Phantom had obtained the World Piercing Shuttle illegally; the Empire offered ships and asked Digital Phantom how it would respond.

Hua Xiezhi and Qu Jianlei accepted a deal with the Empire and Federation that gave Digital Phantom additional ships in exchange for joining an expedition against the Asura. Qu Jianlei created and tested the first imitation Black Colt Tower, then learned he would need to improve it carefully as Digital Phantom prepared to travel to the Link Nebula.

• Hua Xiezhi agreed to accept three Division Level Ships from the Empire and Federation, while Qu Jianlei said their help could draw Asura forces away from Digital Phantom.
• Dawn Base recalled its members as Qu Jianlei returned to the Black Hole Entrance and then focused on overcoming his cultivation bottleneck.
• Qu Jianlei completed the first imitation Black Colt Tower and tested it with an A-rank wolf, which survived but absorbed too much spiritual qi.
• Jing Yuexin cultivated inside the tower for four days, but Qu Jianlei found that her Nascent Soul Realm demands had caused faint cracks.
• Yi He and Jiao Daoren warned Qu Jianlei that time-distorting treasures were rare and dangerous, so he resolved to improve the tower cautiously.
• Digital Phantom received three Division Level Ships and five Battalion-Class Ships and prepared to accompany the Empire and Federation toward the Link Nebula.

Qu Jianlei and the Digital Phantom Team cleared a temporary jump point near the Link Nebula in exchange for two Federation Division Level Ships. After Wood verified the route and saw Digital Phantom’s captured Asura Brood Mothers, the Imperial and Federation fleets began jumping into Asura territory, though the Federation remained wary of the team.

• Qu Jianlei agreed to find a temporary jump point after the Federation offered two Division Level Ships, and the Empire joined the operation as an observer.
• Qu Jianlei deployed three Division Level Ships and summoned teammates to sweep an area at the edge of the Link Nebula, driving the Asura into an evasive posture and clearing space over two billion kilometers wide.
• Hua Xiezhi gave the joint fleet the jump coordinates, and Wood led a Battalion-Class Ship through the jump to verify them.
• Wood returned safely, urged the fleet to jump, and revealed that Digital Phantom had captured two Asura Brood Mothers.
• The Federation held a meeting before committing its fleet, while an Imperial Battalion-Class Ship jumped first and Wood volunteered to bring up the rearguard.

The combined fleet entered the Asuras’ heartland and was surrounded by a large force of Mother Nests, prompting Digital Phantom to conceal ships inside a Mother Nest and take the lead in battle. As the fighting grew fierce, the other militaries questioned Digital Phantom’s apparent restraint, while the Empire urged them to trust the team’s experience.

• The Federation fleet rendezvoused with Digital Phantom and advanced into the Link Nebula, where both sides fought scattered Asura Nests along the way.
• After days without a major Asura response, the fleet was surrounded by Mother Nests and agreed on a general battle plan, with Digital Phantom taking the front.
• A Digital Phantom member stored away one Mother Nest, while the remaining Mother Nest sheltered a Division Level Ship and non-combat vessels from the Empire and Federation.
• The battle began as three Mother Nests attacked Digital Phantom’s forward Division Level Ship, while the combined fleet fought Asuras approaching from other directions.
• After half a day, eight Asura Brood Mothers had joined the battle, and the Federation and Empire debated Digital Phantom’s limited-looking combat strength and possible hidden reserves.

Qu Jianlei and Evening Glow destroyed two approaching Asura Mother Nests with Space Explosion Bombs, shifting the battle but provoking fiercer attacks. After divination warned him of an Out-of-Body Mother Nest near the Federation fleet, Qu Jianlei rushed to intercept it and hid from its powerful mental scan.

• Qu Jianlei rejected Bentley's suggestion to attack the Black Hole Entrance and decided to focus on the agreed battlefield mission.
• Qu Jianlei and Evening Glow detonated Space Explosion Bombs, destroying two reinforcing Mother Nests and sending spatial shockwaves through the joint fleet.
• The Asuras intensified their assault, and reinforcements pressured the Imperial and Federation fleets while Digital Phantom faced less resistance.
• Qu Jianlei divined that the battle's greatest variable was an Out-of-Body Mother Nest, then hurried toward a disguised Mother Nest approaching the Federation fleet.
• Qu Jianlei and Evening Glow concealed their presence as the Out-of-Body Mother Nest searched the area with a powerful mental scan, which eventually withdrew without finding them.

Qu Jianlei used the World Piercing Shuttle to destroy an Out of Body Mother Nest, but its Rhythm Field devastated nearby Federation and Asura forces alike. After escaping inside the Abode, he ordered a retreat, while the fleets argued over the friendly-fire losses and the strength of the enemy they had eliminated.

• Qu Jianlei launched the World Piercing Shuttle from beside a Federation Division Level Ship, striking the Out of Body Mother Nest before it could escape.
• The shuttle’s Rhythm Field destroyed the Mother Nest and damaged or destroyed ships and nests across the battlefield, while Qu Jianlei’s Abode drifted through the blast.
• Qu Jianlei emerged from the Abode after two minutes and ordered an immediate retreat.
• Federation soldiers flashed red signals to protest the lack of warning, and Claire replied that they had eliminated a powerful enemy.
• Military specialists debated whether the Mother Nest’s immense energy indicated a Great Venerable-level foe or came from the shuttle itself.

After the battle against the Asura, Digital Phantom recovered damaged nests and set off with the fleet, while the Federation forces discovered that rescued Colonel Hunter was transforming. Hua Xiezhi identified him as a victim of a Great Venerable’s Body Seizure and ordered the Federation to throw him out before he endangered the ship.

• The Imperial and Federation fleets resumed their attacks after the spatial ripples weakened and defeated the Asura, though two Brood Mothers escaped.
• Digital Phantom stopped the Federation ships from pursuing the escapees and collected damaged nests and corpses using Duo Gan’s Divine Script refining method.
• Hua Xiezhi had Digital Phantom drive the non-combat ships out of a Mother Nest, then stored the injured nest for Warm Nurturing.
• Colonel Hunter transformed aboard a Federation Battalion-Class Ship, grew larger and more violent, and overwhelmed the Supreme trying to restrain him.
• After the Federation contacted Digital Phantom for help, Hua Xiezhi identified Hunter as having undergone Body Seizure by a Great Venerable and ordered him thrown out of the ship.

Digital Phantom sent Qu Jianlei, Paranoid, and Qinghu to attack the Asura Great Venerable possessing Colonel Hunter, using a powerful electromagnetic Three Powers Array. Hunter’s body exploded, revealing a Ten-Armed Asura shadow, and Hua Xiezhi warned the fleets that it might attempt another Body Seizure.

• The Federation soldiers ejected Colonel Hunter, and Digital Phantom sent a Small Ship toward him while warning the nearby fleets to retreat.
• Qu Jianlei, Paranoid, and Qinghu formed a Three Powers Array and struck Hunter with sustained electromagnetic attacks.
• The three Above Supremes bombarded Hunter for more than twenty minutes, convincing the observers that Digital Phantom had formidable reserves.
• Hunter’s body burst apart, and a huge, hazy Ten-Armed Asura shadow emerged from the explosion.
• Hua Xiezhi ordered the warships to maximize their Protective Shields and warned that the Asura might possess someone again.

Qu Jianlei, Qinghu, and the Three Powers Array weakened the Asura Great Venerable’s remnant soul, and Duogan helped capture it with the Cloud Crown. Afterward, Digital Phantom’s exchanges with the Empire and Federation revealed how formidable the team was, while questions about Body Seizure and the Mystic Mansion remained.

• The Three Powers Array intensified its electric assault on the Asura Phantom, and Qu Jianlei summoned a figure that deployed the Cloud Crown.
• Qinghu lent the figure spiritual energy, helping it draw the struggling Asura remnant into the Cloud Crown.
• The four were picked up and taken to the Division Level Ship, where observers learned that the mysterious figure was Duogan, not a puppet.
• Duogan dismissed the Mystic Mansion as insignificant and rejected questions about where she had been residing.
• Hua Xiezhi told the Federation that Body Seizure was probably over, advised ordinary semi-isolation observation, and confirmed Digital Phantom had killed a Great Venerable before.

The Federation fleet traveled with Digital Phantom toward the Black Hole Entrance, relying on their Mother Nest for shelter and joining up with another Digital Phantom Division Level Ship. After reaching the entrance, Hua Xiezhi refused to promise an assault, saying their task was only to deliver the Federation there.

• Twelve days after the major battle, the fleet reached the White Mist region, where Federation experts suspected a former wave-absorbing zone and learned the Black Hole Entrance was still more than ten days away.
• Hua Xiezhi allowed the Federation’s non-combat ships and some lower-grade warships to shelter inside their Mother Nest as the fleet crossed an Energy Turbulence Zone.
• Three days after setting out again, the fleet rendezvoused with a Digital Phantom Division Level Ship, and Rhine requested permission from the two First Ones to lead the way through the region.
• Bentley led the fleet through the Energy Turbulence Zone, then shared surveillance footage showing the Black Hole Entrance and its nearby Mother Nests.
• Digital Phantom explained that the entrance was guarded by three visible Mother Nests and two more that wandered nearby; Hua Xiezhi said they had no need to fight again and were only responsible for bringing the Federation there.

Digital Phantom, the Empire, and the Federation coordinated an attack on three Asura Mother Nests, with the Federation targeting the unusually powerful one in the middle. The Federation’s assault revealed that the Mother Nest had been concealing its true strength, and warning signal lights appeared from Digital Phantom’s warships.

• Qu Jianlei agreed to cooperate in battle after the Federation and Empire pressed to attack the Mother Nests, but he demanded that the Federation target the strange middle one.
• The Federation negotiated safeguards with Digital Phantom, including coordinated support and warning signal lights before any devastating attack.
• Five days after setting out, the fleet reached the three Mother Nests and divided its forces to engage them.
• The middle Mother Nest overwhelmed the Federation’s Battalion-Class Ships, then charged a Division Level Ship and heavily damaged it.
• The Federation launched waves of Suicide Small Ships, but they barely affected the middle Mother Nest, revealing that its earlier damage had been misleading.
• Federation soldiers noticed warning signal lights from Digital Phantom’s warships.

Qu Jianlei faced a powerful Mother Nest that was destroying the fleet and prepared to use Mobile Palaces despite the risk to his team. As his Small Ships were struck down and he reconsidered spending computational power, Xiao Hu reappeared through its surviving avatar in the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion.

• The Mother Nest pierced two Division Level Ships, and Qu Jianlei ordered everyone to teleport into a Division Level Ship inside the Mother Nest while Jing Yuexin took the Portable Abode.
• Qu Jianlei rejected divination and sent Small Ships carrying Mobile Palaces toward the enemy, hoping to trigger enough Fire-luring Bursts to destroy the Mother Nest.
• The Mother Nest pierced Digital Phantom's Division Level Ship, and Qu Jianlei decided against detonating the three Mobile Palaces aboard it because the ship was poorly positioned.
• After two Small Ships were destroyed, Qu Jianlei hesitated to spend more computational power because doing so could reduce the chance of reviving Xiao Hu.
• Xiao Hu appeared as a blurry shadow in Qu Jianlei's Sea of Consciousness and explained that its avatar in the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion had survived.