Recaps

The Three Eyes and Liang Ran Tribes attacked the Great Strength Tribe on Red Jade Star Continent over stolen goods allegedly linked to the Winch bandit gang. The Great Strength Tribe’s hidden Great Venerable emerged, but an opposing Ten-Armed Asura also revealed itself, leaving the battle between the two powerful figures unresolved.

• Great Hammer used a secret tribal signal to send the other nests away, and Paranoid rebuked him for breaking faith.
• The Three Eyes and Liang Ran Tribes accused the Great Strength Tribe of stealing goods and launched an assault on Red Jade Star Continent.
• The allied attackers began indiscriminate strikes, breaking through the Great Strength Tribe’s Defense Arrays and killing Asuras.
• The Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor revealed himself as a Great Venerable and badly damaged a Three Eyes Tribe Mother Nest with blue light.
• A Liang Ran Tribe Mother Nest fired back at Red Jade Star Continent, prompting the Old Ancestor to summon a Ten-Armed Asura Phantom.
• The opposing Mother Nest revealed another Ten-Armed Asura Phantom, which blocked the Old Ancestor’s attack and stunned the Three Eyes Tribe’s Asuras.

The Liang Ran Tribe’s hidden Great Venerable, revealed as the Man Shan Tribe Old Ancestor, joined the attack on the Great Strength Tribe’s Old Ancestor. As the Great Strength Old Ancestor risked his life against the coordinated assault, Great Hammer begged Qu Jianlei to save him.

• The Asuras realized the Liang Ran Tribe had concealed a Great Venerable, and suspected the fighter was the Man Shan Tribe Old Ancestor.
• The Man Shan Old Ancestor unleashed his full aura and attacked the Three Eyes Tribe’s and another Mother Nest while the Great Strength Old Ancestor confronted him.
• The Great Strength Old Ancestor struck the Three Eyes Mother Nest until it broke apart, but the Man Shan Old Ancestor and a Mother Nest’s stored attacks damaged him in return.
• The Great Strength Old Ancestor restored his injuries and began strengthening his Phantom, prompting Great Hammer to recognize that he was risking his life.
• Great Hammer knelt before Qu Jianlei and asked him to save the Great Strength Old Ancestor.

Qu Jianlei’s group debated whether to help the Great Strength Tribe’s Old Ancestor and finally let the Great Hammer contact it. The Old Ancestor stopped relying on the Cultivators, revealed its hidden techniques against the Man Shan Tribe’s Great Venerable, and left the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• The Great Hammer offered its tribe’s service and possible treasures in exchange for help, but Duo Gan, Jiao Daoren, and Yi He refused to intervene unless the Great Strength Tribe proved it could survive.
• The Great Hammer proposed using the Myriad Incarnations Technique and explained that self-harm would alert its Old Ancestor; Qu Jianlei then allowed it to make contact.
• The Ten-Armed Old Ancestor, growing tired of waiting for the Cultivators to act, launched five blue streaks at the Man Shan Tribe’s Great Venerable.
• The Man Shan Tribe’s Great Venerable blocked the attack with five red shields and sent eight blue streaks back at the Ten-Armed Old Ancestor.
• The Ten-Armed Old Ancestor solidified its Phantom, transformed golden, and endured five strikes with its Vajra Asura Body, surprising the Man Shan Tribe’s Great Venerable and Jing Yuexin.

Qu Jianlei negotiated with the Ten-Armed Ancestor for help against the Brute Force Tribe’s Out-of-Body cultivator, and learned that the ancestor possessed two cultivation methods above the Nascent Soul Realm. The chapter ended with Qu Jianlei asking whether it had the Heaven Devouring Cultivation Method.

• Great Hammer broke off its own arm, and the Ten-Armed Ancestor sent a thread of divine sense into the Outpost Nest to investigate.
• The Ten-Armed Ancestor greeted Qu Jianlei and asked why he had summoned it, while Qu Jianlei let Great Hammer explain the tribe’s predicament and request for help.
• The Ten-Armed Ancestor asked whether Qu Jianlei’s group could deal with the Brute Force Tribe’s Out-of-Body cultivator, and Qu Jianlei said they would act only if the reward justified it.
• The Ten-Armed Ancestor offered cultivation insights, then a Nascent Soul Realm Thunder Method and the Evergreen Skill; Qu Jianlei judged the offer insufficient and asked what else it had.
• Qu Jianlei asked whether the Ten-Armed Ancestor had the Heaven Devouring Cultivation Method.

Qu Jianlei negotiated Ten-Armed Ancestor’s help, then used the World Piercing Shuttle to kill Man Shan Tribe Old Ancestor and destroy the Mother Nest. Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor survived the attack and realized the Cultivators had positioned Red Jade Star Continent to receive weaker shockwaves.

• Qu Jianlei added cultivation insights to the agreement and secured Ten-Armed Ancestor’s promise to deal with the nearby nests and Mother Nest.
• Qu Jianlei sent his companions into the Abode and left to confront Man Shan Tribe Old Ancestor.
• As Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor began drawing on its reserves, it sensed danger and used Instant Flash to retreat hundreds of thousands of kilometers.
• Qu Jianlei launched the World Piercing Shuttle, which pierced Man Shan Tribe Old Ancestor and collapsed the Mother Nest.
• Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor feared the shockwaves would devastate Red Jade Star Continent, then realized the continent had been positioned where the blast would be weakest.

After the World Piercing Shuttle devastated the battlefield, the Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor ordered a pursuit and killed the surviving Man Shan Tribe Old Ancestor. Qu Jianlei’s team regrouped with their allies, and the Ten-Armed Ancestor questioned whether their shuttle had previously killed a Great Venerable.

• The Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor emerged after the shockwave and ordered the Asuras to pursue the invaders fifty million kilometers.
• The Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor caught and crushed the Man Shan Tribe Old Ancestor’s Remnant Soul, then sent the scattered divine sense into nothingness.
• Jing Yuexin and Jia Shuiqing escaped the shockwave by transferring to another Outpost Nest, and Qu Jianlei returned to find two Great Strength Tribe nests approaching.
• Qu Jianlei refused to reveal the team’s methods and let the Outpost Nest continue its halfhearted cleanup of the enemy nests.
• Great Hammer learned that the Man Shan Tribe was gone, while the Paranoid reminded it that the immortals expected proper payment.
• The Ten-Armed Ancestor asked Qu Jianlei whether the World Piercing Shuttle had killed a Great Venerable before, and Qu Jianlei confirmed that the team had killed one.

Qu Jianlei and Duo Gan negotiated with the Ten-Armed Ancestor after the World Piercing Shuttle killed an Asura Great Venerable, using the threat of attacking the Man Shan Tribe to demand compensation. The Ten-Armed Ancestor offered Flawless Crystals and revealed that Asura tribes were still hunting survivors from the shuttle attack.

• Qu Jianlei told the Ten-Armed Ancestor that no one had heard them identify the World Piercing Shuttle, and the ancestor asked them to keep its existence quiet.
• Duo Gan insisted that the Great Strength Tribe could not control what Qu Jianlei’s team said on their captured Outpost Nest, and she demanded payment for their cooperation.
• Duo Gan rejected the ancestor’s offers of Spirit Stones and pressed for rare objects, threatening to attack the Man Shan Tribe.
• The Ten-Armed Ancestor offered Flawless Crystals and later promised Duo Gan access to its Item-Storing Ring, while she agreed that an attack on Man Shan could be postponed.
• Qu Jianlei asked whether the ancestor was nervous because survivors remained, and the ancestor said the tribes were still hunting them.

Qu Jianlei secured cultivation materials and two mysterious treasures from the Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor after learning that three Great Venerables had been killed. He led the Cultivators away from Red Jade before the Royal Clan's investigation team could arrive.

• The Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor told Qu Jianlei that it had erased Man Shan's Ten-Armed Remnant Soul and its warning, then revealed that Qing Chuan and Xi Nai had also lost their Great Venerables, along with Shattered Heart of the Royal Clan.
• An Eight-Armed Asura delivered three pieces of Obsidian, stone slips, a damaged Broken Blade, and a rust-covered Black Small Cauldron on the Old Ancestor's behalf.
• Great Hammer asked about the detained Eight-Armed Asura, and the messenger said the tribe's victory over Man Shan would keep it safe if it hid.
• Qu Jianlei arranged for the World Piercing Shuttle to be charged, while the Artifact Spirit warned him that the Black Small Cauldron seemed strange and the Broken Blade's Fierce Qi frightened nearby Asuras.
• Qu Jianlei quietly led the group away in the Outpost Nest, and the Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor prepared to erase their lingering auras before the Royal Clan's investigators arrived.

Qu Jianlei and his team cautiously examined the Great Strength Tribe’s cultivation methods and gathered intelligence on the Asura World. After learning that the Asura were considering a larger invasion of the Human Race’s world, they continued their effort to disrupt the Asura while weighing the growing danger.

• Qu Jianlei rested and divined that the Great Strength Tribe’s methods were genuine and safe to cultivate, and the team chose First One as the best candidate to receive the inheritance back in the Human Race’s world.
• Qu Jianlei divined that the Broken Blade was beyond the level of a magical treasure, then confirmed that tying the Black Small Cauldron outside the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion would not affect the Abode.
• Qu Jianlei’s team released a Grandchild Nest on a star continent and sent four groups to gather intelligence.
• The returning groups reported that the Great Strength Tribe was receiving frequent Royal Clan visits, while news of Man Shan’s death remained hidden; the team suspected the tribe was under investigation.
• The team learned that more Asura tribes and the Royal Clan were considering intensifying the invasion of the Human Race’s world.
• Qu Jianlei’s team teleported toward Three Waters Star Continent, choosing to disrupt the Asura rather than watch their own people suffer, despite the greater risks.

Qu Jianlei’s team planted Flawed Portable Abodes on four Asura star continents and triggered massive spatial storms before escaping back to the Link Nebula. The resulting disasters ravaged the Asura World for half a year, while the Asura struggled to determine what had happened.

• Qu Jianlei’s team planted Teleportation Arrays on four major Asura star continents and prepared Flawed Portable Abodes to destroy them.
• Jia Shuiqing encountered a suspicious Great Venerable on Heshan Star Continent, hid from its search, and changed the Mobile Palaces’ trigger method before escaping.
• A spatial storm erupted on Hechuan Star Continent, killing the Ten-Armed Asura Great Venerable and destroying the continent.
• Qu Jianlei gathered the four groups and ordered them to teleport away before the remaining storms erupted.
• The four spatial storms caused widespread spatial disasters across the Asura World, disrupting travel and communication for half a year.

After returning from the Asura World, Qu Jianlei’s team arranged observers at the Link Nebula entrance and prepared for You You’s shopping trip before her breakthrough seclusion. Qu Jianlei studied several cultivation techniques and decided that relying on the Black Colt Tower to support Evergreen Skill cultivation was not practical.

• The Asura World confirmed that four continents had been destroyed by human action, while the Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor tried to blame an anomalous celestial phenomenon.
• Xiang Xue, Zi Jiuxian, Rhine, and Bentley volunteered to remain at the Black Hole Entrance as observers, and Qu Jianlei warned them to flee if they could not win.
• You You set out to shop in the Core Eight Stars with the Fourth Boss, while Claire complained to Qu Jianlei that several teammates were pairing off.
• Qu Jianlei divined that he lacked the strength to wield the Broken Blade and then learned about the power and limitations of Nine Heavens Great Freedom Divine Thunder and Evergreen Skill.
• Qu Jianlei rejected using the Black Colt Tower to make Evergreen Skill a long-term cultivation plan because the tower and its materials were scarce and costly.

Qu Jianlei deduced a modified Nine Heavens Great Freedom Divine Thunder cultivation method and found that Yuanyuan and Claire were compatible with it, while Fourth Boss waited for Bentley’s result. After months of studying the Broken Blade and Black Small Cauldron, Qu Jianlei refined an Asura Sub-Nest into strange, dazzling liquids that Jiao Daoren suspected were close to Rule Items, and he prepared to pour them out for inspection.

• Qu Jianlei spent more than a year in the Black Colt Tower adapting the Nine Heavens Great Freedom Divine Thunder, then found Yuanyuan, Claire, and Fourth Boss compatible with the method.
• Yuanyuan and Claire agreed to cultivate the Thunder Method, while Fourth Boss chose to wait for Bentley’s compatibility result and Qu Jianlei postponed checking the Nascent Souls.
• Qu Jianlei spent more than half a year divining the Broken Blade and Black Small Cauldron, learning that the blade had lost its spirit and the cauldron was a powerful refining furnace.
• Qu Jianlei refined an Asura Sub-Nest in the Small Tripod, exhausting his spiritual energy before producing several dazzling liquid clumps that affected and partly devoured his divine sense.
• Jiao Daoren said the liquids resembled substances close to Rule Items and asked Qu Jianlei to pour them out for examination.

Qu Jianlei learned that the liquid from the Small Tripod was the origin of laws, then divined You You’s breakthrough and watched Digital Phantom negotiate with Pute over talisman technology and an investigation. Pute was rejected when he asked to join the team, and the chapter ended with Duo Gan offering to show him an Eight-Armed Asura for two trillion.

• Qu Jianlei discovered that the liquid vanished outside the Small Tripod, and Jiao Daoren explained that it was the origin of laws and would become clearer when Qu Jianlei reached the Out-of-Body Realm.
• Jing Yuexin told Qu Jianlei that You You was preparing to enter Death Seclusion, and his divination showed that her breakthrough would take four to six months.
• Pute negotiated with Hua Xiezhi to buy Digital Phantom’s talisman-production technology and asked the team to accept an investigation into the missing Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion.
• Hua Xiezhi demanded the names of those behind the proposed search, and Duo Gan backed her while Pute offered to join Digital Phantom.
• Duo Gan rejected Pute’s request, and Pute warned that resisting the Alien Race required the Empire’s National Power.
• When Pute asked whether they had an Eight-Armed Asura, Duo Gan said he could see one within three seconds for two trillion.

Wind Forgotten killed the last Tree Traitor after interpreting a poem taught by Xiao Hu as proof of disloyalty, and Qu Jianlei let the matter drop. Rumors that Digital Phantom colluded with Alien Races spread across the Empire's network, but Duo Gan's bounty ended the uproar; meanwhile, three Supremes arrived at Dawn Base, where Ironhide Snake recognized Hua Xiezhi.

• Wind Forgotten killed the remaining Tree Traitors, alarming the Asuras and prompting Jia Shuiqing to scold it after their complaints.
• Qu Jianlei confronted Wind Forgotten, learned that Xiao Hu had taught the High-Fidelity Replica a poem, and decided not to pursue the matter.
• Pute learned about Digital Phantom's Alien Race subordinates, and rumors of collusion spread across the Empire's network.
• Jing Yuexin offered to deal with the rumor-mongers, but Duo Gan issued a bounty, and the uproar subsided after a few hundred people were killed.
• Bai Jinhan, Nelson, and Ironhide Snake came to Dawn Base, where Ironhide Snake asked Hua Xiezhi if they had met before.

Hua Xiezhi learned that Ironhide Snake, Nelson, and Bai Jinhan had brought coordinates to a dangerous site in the Maiden Star Region, which might conceal a weak point in a barrier and a valuable opportunity. After Qu Jianlei’s team analyzed the coordinates, they agreed to investigate with at least four Above Supremes, leaving Duo Gan and Jia Shui Qing at Dawn Base.

• Ironhide Snake told Hua Xiezhi that an A-rank Awakened One’s family had preserved coordinates to a dangerous place in the Maiden Star Region, and the three Supremes offered them to Digital Phantom.
• Hua Xiezhi requested the coordinates before agreeing, then reported them to Qu Jianlei for analysis.
• Xiao Hu linked the coordinates to a possible barrier weak point mentioned by an Out-of-Body Realm Remnant Soul, and Qu Jianlei planned to divine the dangers and gains after waiting a few days.
• Hua Xiezhi told the three Supremes that the team would explore the site and offered them a reward if they stayed behind.
• Qu Jianlei’s team departed Dawn Base aboard a Battalion-Class Ship, while Duo Gan and Jia Shui Qing remained to guard the base.
• Ironhide Snake recognized Paranoid aboard the ship, and Paranoid challenged him about not advancing to Above Supreme before Ironhide Snake asked whether he had passed Thunder Tribulation.

Paranoid and Qu Jianlei brought Bai Jinhan, Nelson, and Ironhide Snake through the dangerous Maiden Star Region while concealing their teleportation method. After a long search inside the Black Zone, the team found the seven-colored Light Orb and cautiously approached it.

• Paranoid told Ironhide Snake that he had passed the thunder tribulation but refused to explain further.
• Qu Jianlei used the Celestial Hook Mystic Mansion and a Teleportation Array to bring the Sub-Nest near the Maiden Star Region, then concealed it again aboard the Battalion-Class Ship.
• Digital Phantom entered the Maiden Star Region, where the ship endured increasingly chaotic energies as Paranoid warned that even a Division Level Ship might not be enough for what lay ahead.
• After searching near the Black Zone without success, Qu Jianlei led the group into it aboard the Sub-Nest, keeping six Battalion-Class Ships on standby inside.
• The Sub-Nest searched the Black Zone for eleven days before Hua Xiezhi spotted the seven-colored Light Orb, and Jing Yuexin ordered the defenses raised as they approached.

Qu Jianlei’s team investigated the Seven-Colored Light Orb, retreated when the Sub-Nest neared its defensive limit, and used divination to determine that the phenomenon was probably a Cultivator’s formation that would target an attack. After resting, Ironhide Snake asked Paranoid what it would take for him and the other two Supremes to join Digital Phantom, but Paranoid said it was too late.

• The Sub-Nest approached the Seven-Colored Light Orb until its pressure nearly overwhelmed the ship, so Qu Jianlei ordered it to retreat and move laterally while keeping the Orb in view.
• Qu Jianlei consulted the team about probing the Orb, and Jiao Daoren and Yi He discussed whether a counter-formation could be prepared despite limited materials.
• Qu Jianlei divined that the Orb was likely a Cultivator’s formation and that an attack would draw a targeted counterattack, leaving him exhausted.
• The team set up a Qi Gathering Array and rested for seven or eight days while the three outsider Supremes struggled with the significance of the discovery.
• Ironhide Snake asked Paranoid how he and his companions could join Digital Phantom, and Paranoid said they had missed their chance.

Qu Jianlei and his group tested the Light Orb and confirmed it was protected by a powerful grand array, then used divination to plan a Demon Subduing Formation. After the array’s Secondary Nest Suppressant Artifact began to fail, Qu Jianlei left the Sub-Nest again, with Jing Yuexin and Ruler following him.

• Qu Jianlei attacked the Light Orb with two Division Level Ships, which black beams destroyed within a minute.
• Jiao Daoren, Yi He, and the others debated how to break the grand array, and Qu Jianlei divined that they should use the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Demon Subduing Grand Array with an Asura Nest as its Suppressant Artifact.
• After recovering, Qu Jianlei and the group spent five days setting up the formation across more than ten thousand kilometers.
• Qu Jianlei placed a Secondary Nest as the Suppressant Artifact and moved the Sub-Nest more than a thousand kilometers away before activating the formation.
• The Secondary Nest began trembling and turning black, so Jiao Daoren called for the Mother Nest; Qu Jianlei then left the Sub-Nest again, followed by Jing Yuexin and Ruler.

Qu Jianlei followed a sudden inspiration into the Black Zone and discovered that the World Piercing Shuttle might be able to break the grand formation. It flew to the Secondary Nest and replaced it as the Suppressant Artifact, leaving Qu Jianlei and his companions watching to see whether it could endure the formation’s energy.

• Qu Jianlei ignored Jing Yuexin’s protests, brought the Abode into the Black Zone, and continued toward the Light Orb despite the dangerous energy currents.
• Qu Jianlei sensed that one of his treasures could deal with the grand formation, then recognized that the World Piercing Shuttle was eager to act.
• Qu Jianlei chose to trust his intuition, released a Secondary Nest and a Division Level Ship as protection, and watched the shuttle fly toward the formation’s Suppressant Artifact.
• The World Piercing Shuttle pierced the Secondary Nest, destroyed it, and took its place as the Suppressant Artifact instead of attacking the grand formation.
• Jing Yuexin, Paranoid, Little Snake, and Hua Xiezhi emerged to observe the shuttle absorbing the formation’s energy, and Hua Xiezhi warned that it might not withstand the strain.

Qu Jianlei and his companions watched the World Piercing Shuttle absorb the formation’s violent energy as they wondered whether it had developed intelligence. He determined that its reluctance to return came from its spirituality, then let it continue suppressing the formation as its absorption gradually slowed.

• Hua Xiezhi, Paranoid, Yuanyuan, and Jing Yuexin joined Qu Jianlei in the Abode to help, and he divined a Small Inauspicious, Medium Auspicious omen for the World Piercing Shuttle.
• The World Piercing Shuttle grew enormous, darkened, and resisted Qu Jianlei’s attempts to sense or retrieve it while absorbing the formation’s energy.
• Qinghu suggested testing the formation with another attack, so Qu Jianlei sent two Battalion-Class Ships to strike it; both were destroyed, and the formation’s counterattack weakened.
• Qu Jianlei sensed that the shuttle was reluctant to leave because of its spirituality, not intelligence, and chose to let it keep suppressing the formation.
• After enduring for nine days, the shuttle had turned black and translucent; two days later, its absorption slowed as the formation’s energy also weakened.

Qu Jianlei and the others prepared to replace the World Piercing Shuttle as the grand array’s Suppressant Artifact, choosing the Broken Blade despite its resistance and the danger of backlash. The Broken Blade pierced the array and redirected a surge of energy toward the already strained shuttle, which Qu Jianlei urged to endure a little longer.

• Jiao Daoren and Yi He determined that the World Piercing Shuttle had absorbed most of the grand array’s counterattack, though breaking the array would still be difficult.
• Qu Jianlei sensed that the World Piercing Shuttle could absorb no more energy and considered using the Broken Blade as a replacement.
• Jing Yuexin and Qinghu opposed having Qu Jianlei perform another divination and supported risking external possessions to protect him.
• Qu Jianlei released the Broken Blade and discovered that its baleful aura resisted the turbulent flow, but the blade resisted his attempts to control it.
• Qu Jianlei gripped the Broken Blade, fed it half his spiritual energy, and threw it toward the grand array.
• The Broken Blade plunged into the Light Orb, redirecting a surge of energy toward the World Piercing Shuttle, which began trembling as it neared its limit.

Qu Jianlei’s blackened World Piercing Shuttle returned after being tempered, while the Broken Blade absorbed the grand formation’s energy and eventually destroyed the Light Orb with one strike. The Broken Blade then reappeared beside Qu Jianlei and rejected his attempt to seal it.

• Qu Jianlei recalled the World Piercing Shuttle after it absorbed the Light Orb’s energy, revealing the Broken Blade in its place as the formation’s barrage weakened.
• The team advanced and waited as Jiao Daoren judged the formation close to breaking, while the Broken Blade’s baleful aura continued to grow.
• Qu Jianlei commanded the Broken Blade to break the array, and it cleaved the Light Orb apart before falling still.
• Qu Jianlei refused to call the Broken Blade again or pursue it, but it later appeared beside him as he passed.
• Qu Jianlei tried to seal the Broken Blade, and it clearly rejected the Seal talisman.

Qu Jianlei and his team searched a fog-shrouded formation for weeks before the Artifact Spirit detected an unusual area. Qinghu, Jing Yuexin, and the Paranoid charged inside, while Qu Jianlei ordered the rest of the team to hold back.

• Qu Jianlei sealed the Broken Blade again despite suspecting it had a blade spirit, then the team entered a fog-filled formation that crippled their visibility and sensing.
• Jiao Daoren advised the team to put away the Sub-Nest, and Qu Jianlei led them deeper into the fog in search of whoever was behind the formation.
• After wandering for over a month, Qu Jianlei assured Bai Jinhan that he could take the team out whenever they wanted, but they continued exploring.
• The Artifact Spirit sensed unusual fluctuations, and Qu Jianlei led the team to investigate the strange area.
• Qinghu charged into the area in a Battalion-Class Ship, followed by Jing Yuexin and the Paranoid, while Qu Jianlei forbade everyone else from following.

Qu Jianlei and his companions entered a hidden Small World, cautiously explored its human settlements, and discovered a society of cultivators preparing for war. The chapter left them wondering how brutal the conflict between the towns would become.

• Qu Jianlei led his companions through the Boundary Membrane into the Small World and landed near farmland after detecting people and spiritual energy.
• Qu Jianlei released several companions from the Abode, and the group agreed to investigate cautiously without contacting the natives at first.
• The group found seven towns, nearby villages, about one hundred thousand residents, and cultivators whose strongest practitioners were at Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Qu Jianlei proposed learning more before making contact, while Paranoid asked him to teach the group Divine Script and Qu Jianlei refused for now.
• After three days, Qu Jianlei and the others discovered that four towns were preparing for war, with two alliances forming and the remaining towns being courted.
• Jiao Daoren and Jing Yuexin discussed the causes of human conflict as the group wondered how brutal the fighting would be.

Qu Jianlei and his companions watched a brutal war engulf the Small World, then secretly abducted and soul-searched four wounded Qi Refining Realm fighters to learn why its people were fighting. They discovered that the natives were descendants of Cultivators trapped in a world whose spiritual energy was fading, while Jiao Daoren argued that a Great Expert’s formation there must have served a purpose beyond protecting them.

• Qu Jianlei and his companions watched village skirmishes escalate into a war involving tens of thousands, with more than ten thousand dead by the eleventh day.
• Paranoid suggested searching wounded people’s souls, and Qu Jianlei eventually agreed after seeing fighters return to battle with only basic treatment.
• Qu Jianlei and the others abducted four severely wounded Qi Refining Realm cultivators, but the captives attacked them and demanded that they help win the war.
• Qu Jianlei and his companions soul-searched all four captives and learned that their ancestors had been abandoned in the Small World, where spiritual energy was declining and rival families fought over resources.
• Jiao Daoren argued that an Out-of-Body Realm Great Expert would not have built a grand formation merely to shelter the Small World’s people.