Recaps

The group learned that the Tiger-Human Race had once fought Cultivators and retained a vague lead to a Space Rift, but they failed to extract useful coordinates from the Tiger-Human Nascent Soul. They decided to prepare carefully for a voyage and consulted Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor about whether Star Continents could be moved between worlds.

• The Golden Core Realm Tiger-Human revealed that its race had fought Cultivators, fled after powerful reinforcements arrived, and hoped to draw the Asuras into another invasion.
• Everyone learned that the Tiger-Human remembered a Space Rift's location, but Yi He could recover only chaotic fragments from the Nascent Soul before it destroyed its own soul.
• Jiao Daoren, Yi He, and the others agreed to prepare for a long voyage while securing a retreat route and considering dangers in the Asura World and the Locust World.
• Paranoid proposed destroying Star Continents with Fire-luring Bursts, but Jiao Daoren and Yi He argued that the continents were valuable and might someday be moved to a Cultivation World.
• Jing Yuexin suggested asking Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor about Star Continents, so the group contacted the tribe despite heightened Asura patrols.
• Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor said Cultivators had left Star Continents untouched during their past invasion and guessed that moving one to another world was extremely difficult.

Qu Jianlei and his team spent three years preparing to weaken the Royal Clan, while the Asuras grew wary of their raids and struggled with unrest among their tribes. The team began its assault by destroying Royal Clan star continents, and a black shuttle appeared to shatter Star Valley Star Continent.

• Qu Jianlei agreed with Jiao Daoren's assessment of the Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor and approved a cleanup operation targeting Royal Clan territories.
• Qu Jianlei's team spent three years preparing attacks as the Asuras tightened defenses, feared the Cultivators' raids, and faced growing instability among their tribes.
• Explosions destroyed Ruotian and Nine Rivers star continents, killing a Royal Clan Old Ancestor on Ruotian.
• The next day, a black shuttle struck the seclusion site on Star Valley Star Continent and blasted the continent into seven or eight pieces.

Qu Jianlei’s team’s attacks devastated the Asura Royal Clan’s territories, weakening its rule and dividing the tribes, before the team quietly returned to Dawn Base. There, Qu Jianlei learned that Kefu had undergone tribulation a year earlier, explaining the Asuras’ continued vigilance at the Human Race side of the Channel Entrance.

• A black shuttle destroyed Star Valley Star Continent and its Mother Nest, killing many Asuras and badly wounding the Old Ancestor, and five more Royal Clan Star Continents were destroyed afterward.
• The Royal Clan withdrew its forces from the remaining Star Continents and the Human Race world, called on other tribes to help defend, and crushed tribes that refused to assist.
• As tribes became reluctant to join the invasion, news spread that a black shuttle had destroyed another Mother Nest, deepening Asura fears and hesitation.
• Qu Jianlei’s team monitored Asura movements near Red Jade Star Continent for half a year, then crossed the Channel Entrance and quietly returned to Dawn Base.
• Qu Jianlei learned that Kefu had undergone tribulation at the base a year earlier.

After Digital Phantom returned with news of the Cultivation World, Qu Jianlei learned that Kefu had died during tribulation and assessed the team’s security and plans. The Artifact Spirit advised waiting five to ten years before devouring the watched Nebula, so Qu Jianlei began modifying a Mother Nest to carry it away, despite Imperial objections.

• Duo Gan told Qu Jianlei that Kefu had died under the Fourth Path of tribulation lightning, and showed him the recorded footage.
• Qu Jianlei learned that the opposing artificial intelligence had stalled and that Big Head Butterfly had developed an ultimate defense method.
• The Artifact Spirit warned Qu Jianlei that the Abode should not devour the Nebula for another five to ten years because doing so now could create hidden dangers.
• Qu Jianlei decided to take the Nebula away inside a modified Mother Nest, and Hua Xiezhi told the watching Imperial starship that the team needed it for experiments against the Asura.
• Qu Jianlei divined that the modified Mother Nest could contain the Nebula, and Digital Phantom began transporting construction starships to alter it.
• The team discovered that the Mother Nest’s complex, sturdy structure made its modification far more difficult than expected.

Qu Jianlei spent half a year modifying the Mother Nest while the Empire and Federation tried to learn about the Digital Phantom Team’s plans and its exploits in Asura World. When he finally tried to store Nebula, he discovered that it had become entangled with the karma of this world.

• Qu Jianlei completed the Mother Nest modifications after half a year, while Hua Xiezhi declined the Empire’s requests for details about the team’s technology.
• The Federation learned from captured Asura that the Digital Phantom Team had disrupted Asura World, and asked the Empire to find out whether the team would keep fighting there.
• Hua Xiezhi told the Empire that the team would follow its own plans and had eliminated a few dozen Asura Brood Mothers.
• Qu Jianlei began testing whether the modified Mother Nest could store Nebula, but found that he could not drag it.
• Qu Jianlei concluded that Nebula had become entangled with the karma of this world.

Qu Jianlei and Digital Phantom finished preparing for a journey to find the Cultivation World, while growing increasingly distant from the Empire. You You asked the authorities to lift restrictions on Garbage Star, and the chapter ended with Xiao Moshan negotiating over the Empire’s gradual plan to reform it.

• Qu Jianlei stored away the Mother Nest and Division Level Ship, then vanished from the Imperial starship’s surveillance, further straining relations with the authorities.
• The authorities paid the remaining balance for the talisman technology as Qu Jianlei’s team arranged to leave Xiao Moshan, Da Vinci, Xiao Qin, and Mu Guang at Dawn Base.
• After the team confirmed its preparations, You You asked the Empire to lift its controls over Garbage Star, with Bentley, Hua Xiezhi, Claire, and others supporting her.
• The authorities learned that several Digital Phantom members came from Garbage Star and, after debating the risks, devised a gradual plan to resolve its restrictions over twenty to fifty years.
• Xiao Moshan went to negotiate with the military, which recognized him as a former Garbage Star soldier who had advanced from A-rank to Supreme.

Qu Jianlei’s team assessed the Alliance’s troubles, helped Xiao Hu absorb artificial-intelligence fragments, and fought the Tree Race to gather resources. When they encountered Alliance forces retreating from the Forest Sea, they accepted a paid request for help and routed the alien army.

• Qu Jianlei’s team visited the Alliance, found that the Locust invasion was faltering and its artificial intelligence was being contained, and decided not to search for the Mother Tree.
• Qu Jianlei took the team to three Habitable Stars, where Xiao Hu pursued and nearly erased one artificial intelligence before its gains from the others diminished.
• The team used its Division Level Ship, Abodes, and Asura Brood Mother to crush the Tree Race in more than a dozen battles, sustaining only limited damage.
• Qu Jianlei’s team encountered Alliance forces fleeing a Forest Sea attack, and the Alliance offered payment for assistance after recognizing Digital Phantom’s Battalion-Class Ship.
• Digital Phantom deployed its Mother Nest and Abodes, broke the Forest Sea forces in five hours, and joined the Alliance in pursuing the fleeing aliens.

Qu Jianlei’s team swept through the Alliance, gathered Tree Race captives and resources, and triggered a massive Space Stone eruption near Sihe Star. They then traveled through the Federation and entered the Asura World, heading for the Great Strength Tribe to learn what had changed.

• Digital Phantom defeated the Forest Sea Alien Race and accepted Alliance ships as compensation for the remains it left behind.
• Qu Jianlei’s team spent half a year in the Alliance, capturing more than thirty Tree Race members and collecting tree remains and Locust corpses.
• Qu Jianlei’s team used four sets of Flawed Portable Abodes to unleash violent energy currents around the Space Wave Point near Sihe Star, then triggered an eruption that yielded twice as many Space Stones as the Purple Astral eruption.
• The team left the Alliance, traveled through the Federation, and captured two Secondary Nests before heading toward the Black Hole Entrance.
• Qu Jianlei’s team stealthily crossed into the Asura World and continued toward the Great Strength Tribe without using a Teleportation Array.

Qu Jianlei learned that the Asura Royal Clan planned to seize the Channel Entrance to the Empire and that the Imperial Clan might intervene in thirty to fifty years. With time running out, he launched a devastating strike against the Royal Clan and the Flying Vine Tribe, then expanded the team’s attacks into space.

• The Great Strength Tribe reported that the Royal Clan planned another campaign and was considering seizing the Channel Entrance to the Empire.
• The Great Strength Tribe confirmed that the Imperial Clan had learned of the conflict, though it would likely take thirty to fifty years to arrive.
• Qu Jianlei decided to attack the Royal Clan’s enemies and identified the Flying Vine Tribe as a likely target.
• Qu Jianlei’s team used groups of four Flawed Portable Abodes to destroy one Royal Clan continental star and two Flying Vine Tribe continental stars.
• The team also attacked Asura Nests in space and Human Race warships, while the black shuttle and enormous Cloud Crown appeared again.

The Asuras’ troubles deepened after the Flying Vine Tribe’s destruction, while Qu Jianlei’s team worked to mislead the Tiger-Human Race and approach the Space Rift. The chapter ended with Qu Jianlei beginning a dangerous divination about the Out-of-Body Great Venerables guarding the way.

• The surviving Flying Vine Tribe Old Ancestor denounced the Royal Clan through an Eight-Armed Race member, whom the Asuras executed, then sent elite squads to search for the Old Ancestor.
• The Royal Clan’s plans to attack the Federation stalled as other tribes refused to send reinforcements and urged it to defend the Channel Entrance instead.
• Qu Jianlei and his team reduced their attacks to make the Tiger-Human Race believe they had no interest in the other Cultivation World.
• The Asuras pressured the Tiger-Human Race into sending an Out-of-Body Realm expert to patrol, and the Great Strength Tribe Old Ancestor relayed this intelligence to Digital Phantom.
• Qu Jianlei’s team traveled toward the Space Rift and stopped more than two billion kilometers away, where Qu Jianlei used the Seashell and Turtle Shell to divine the danger and spat out two mouthfuls of blood.

Qu Jianlei recovered from a backlash, completed a second divination, and devised a way to test the Space Rift using Asuras. Meanwhile, four nests approached the rift, where a dispute between the Yanshang and Gangzhui tribes drew the Tiger-Human Race into the fighting.

• Qu Jianlei ordered the team to retreat, then entered Black Colt Tower to recover while Jing Yuexin insisted he rest for ten days.
• Wind Forgotten proposed feeding on captured Tree Race members, and Qu Jianlei realized Asuras could be sent to test the route instead.
• Qu Jianlei completed a second divination and rested for three days before the team resumed its plans.
• Two Grandchild Nests pursued a Sub-Nest toward the Space Rift, while another Sub-Nest followed behind them.
• The Tiger-Human Race warned the approaching nests to stay out of its territory, but Asuras from both sides fought near the rift.
• A second Nascent Soul Realm Tiger-Human intervened against the pursuing Gangzhui side as the battle continued.

The Tiger-Human Race and the Asuras clashed near the Space Rift until a Tiger-Human Great Venerable intervened and forced the fighting to stop. The Asuras withdrew, while Qu Jianlei focused on the altered fragments of the destroyed Outpost Nests.

• A Gangzhui Grandchild Nest attacked the Tiger-Human Race, and the conflict widened as more nests and Tiger-Human Nascent Souls joined the fight.
• The Yanshang Tribe's nest fled toward the Space Rift while Tiger-Humans tried to block it, and both sides suffered casualties as the battle grew chaotic.
• A Tiger-Human Great Venerable arrived, killed a Six-Arms Asura who insulted it, and caused the combatants to halt and withdraw.
• The Yanshang Tribe's nest escaped while the Gangzhui nests stopped at a Tiger-Human Nascent Soul's order, then regrouped farther away.
• An Eight-Armed Asura addressed someone as Celestial Immortal, and Qu Jianlei examined fragments of the destroyed Outpost Nests, which had been tampered with.

Qu Jianlei located the Tiger-Human Great Venerable hiding in a Space Interlayer and launched a World Piercing Shuttle at it. The Great Venerable emerged to face the attack, only to discover that the shuttle concealed Silent Extinction rules, the Tiger-Human Race’s greatest weakness.

• Qu Jianlei hid the Asuras after the Outpost Nest was destroyed and later returned to the Tiger-Human alert perimeter to search for the Great Venerable.
• Qu Jianlei observed the Great Venerable’s faint divine-sense fluctuations and used divination to pinpoint its position in the Space Interlayer.
• Qu Jianlei launched the black World Piercing Shuttle from beside a meteor inhabited by Tiger-Humans.
• The Tiger-Human Great Venerable sensed danger, emerged in its Dharma Body True Form, and reached to seize the approaching shuttle.
• The Tiger-Human Great Venerable recognized that the shuttle combined Spatial Rules with Silent Extinction rules and realized it was designed to exploit the Tiger-Human Race’s weakness.

The Cultivators struck the Tiger-Human Great Venerable with the World Piercing Shuttle, driving its soul to flee, then captured Tiger-Humans and investigated the Space Rift. After finding a usable passage, they entered the void, where the Division Level Ship’s shield began rapidly losing energy.

• The World Piercing Shuttle’s Silent Extinction aura forced the Tiger-Human Great Venerable to abandon its body and flee, while its blast shattered the Battalion-Class Ship and left part of its body intact.
• Qu Jianlei and the others recovered most of their Mobile Palaces, captured surviving Tiger-Humans, and searched captives for information about the Space Rift.
• The team tested passages with Tiger-Human captives, and Duo Gan’s clone confirmed that one passage led to the void.
• After Qu Jianlei performed a divination, the team boarded a Division Level Ship and traveled through the passage into the void.
• Paranoid lost a thread of spiritual sense after probing the void, and the ship’s warning system announced that its protective shield energy was rapidly declining.

Qu Jianlei led the team through the void, where they struggled to establish Anchor Points and discovered that the realm accelerated Black Colt Tower's time while wearing it down. After finding Meteor Silver, they began testing it as an Anchor Point, but their journey took a new turn when Xiao Hu detected a massive object that might be alive.

• Hua Xiezhi warned that the Channel Entrance had vanished behind the Division Level Ship, and Xiao Hu suggested that divination might help the team find its way back.
• Qu Jianlei abandoned the team's failed Anchor Point plans and guided the ship through ten days of uneventful travel, using divinations to proceed cautiously.
• Qu Jianlei discovered that Black Colt Tower's time differential had increased to roughly one-to-six in the void, but its durability was falling three times faster than usual.
• Big Head Butterfly requested a ship change for maintenance, and the team later collected substances that Yi He identified as Meteor Silver.
• Qu Jianlei failed to leave an aura on the Meteor Silver and decided to preserve it, while advising the team to call Electromagnetic Art Thunder Method in the Cultivation World.
• Xiao Hu detected a massive object ahead with rhythmic movements and reported that it might be a life-form.

During the team’s long journey through the void, Qu Jianlei avoided dangerous creatures and taught the crew Divine Script to lift their spirits. After years of travel, Jing Yuexin proposed that they study cultivation techniques as well, and Qu Jianlei wondered why she supported it.

• Xiao Hu spotted a Star Swallowing Beast, but Qu Jianlei ordered the ship to detour rather than approach it.
• The crew later encountered Void Swamp Beasts and survived a powerful Energy Vortex that forced them to switch ships.
• After fifteen years in the void, Qu Jianlei began teaching Divine Script, and Xiao Hu prepared a textbook for the team.
• The crew learned Shenzhou language and studied its variations, making their journey more engaging for the next two years.
• Jing Yuexin proposed that the team put their studies into practice by learning cultivation techniques, and Qu Jianlei was surprised by her support.

Qu Jianlei let his team research cultivation techniques freely while Wind Forgotten tricked Tree Race captives into a dangerous void mission and secretly killed two of them. The group then spotted a moving Bone Dragon in the void, and Jiao Daoren considered trying to capture it.

• Qu Jianlei refused to settle disputes over cultivation research, letting his team members test their ideas against one another in the Portable Abode.
• Gold Digger told Jing Yuexin that Wind Forgotten and High-Fidelity Replica were hungry, so she reported it to Qu Jianlei.
• With Qu Jianlei's authorization, Wind Forgotten sent three Tree Race members into the void to scout and urged them to remain there longer than they could endure.
• Wind Forgotten had High-Fidelity Replica rescue one captive, while Tree Traitor declared the other two dead and Wind Forgotten killed them to feed High-Fidelity Replica.
• Xiao Hu detected a moving skeletal creature in the void, which Jiao Daoren identified as a Bone Dragon and considered capturing with Beast Taming Sect techniques.

A Bone Dragon ambushed Qu Jianlei’s Division Level Ship in the void and badly damaged it, forcing the crew to fight back. Qu Jianlei and the Nascent Soul cultivators trapped the creature in a sustained lightning barrage, and the chapter ended with both sides nearing exhaustion.

• The Bone Dragon suddenly attacked the Division Level Ship, smashing its shield and damaging its hull and sealed compartments.
• Qu Jianlei sent the weaker teammates into the Abode and led six Nascent Soul Realm cultivators out to confront the Bone Dragon.
• Qu Jianlei’s group formed the Five Elements Battle Array and repeatedly struck the Bone Dragon with lightning while a Golden Core group added attacks.
• The Bone Dragon’s shadow-side nature left it paralyzed and injured by the lightning, but it endured the barrage as the team kept attacking.
• Qu Jianlei judged that the Bone Dragon and his team were both close to exhaustion, while the void’s hostility to divine sense limited the creature’s ability to use its soul.

Qu Jianlei’s team overwhelmed the Bone Dragon and the Black Shadow controlling it, despite the enemy’s attempted surrender and desperate summons. The Hellhound fell to the Paranoid’s freezing artifact, and Jiao Daoren urged the team to finish off the Bone Dragon.

• Qu Jianlei ordered the Division Level Ship to attack after the Black Shadow called the battle a misunderstanding.
• Duo Gan and Jia Shuiqing struck the Bone Dragon with the Great Seal and bronze mirror, cracking its bones until the Black Shadow offered a ransom and summoned a three-headed Hellhound.
• The Paranoid froze the Hellhound with a bottle’s netherworldly chill, while the Black Shadow rushed toward Qu Jianlei.
• Jing Yuexin used the Soul Suppressing Bell and Qu Jianlei brought out the Cloud Crown and sealed Dao Stele, slowing and frightening the Black Shadow.
• Qinghu’s Light Therapy talisman weakened the Black Shadow as the Bone Dragon remained pinned, and the Hellhound collapsed under the freezing energy.
• Jiao Daoren identified the Hellhound’s arrival as a summoning technique and called for the team to attack the Bone Dragon.

The team defeated a Bone Dragon and captured its mage, then spent years searching the void as their ships and supplies deteriorated. In the seventh year, Qu Jianlei detected an anomaly and sent Tree Traitor to investigate it.

• Paranoid, Qinghu, and the others destroyed the Bone Dragon, while the Cloud Crown absorbed the Black Shadow mage.
• Jiao Daoren gathered intelligence from the mage, but Qu Jianlei ordered the team to refine it rather than trust its offers.
• The team continued through the void for more than six years as their ships deteriorated and supplies dwindled.
• Wind Forgotten and the High-Fidelity Replica finished digesting two Tree Race members, and Tree Traitor recruited three more for an exploration mission.
• Qu Jianlei sensed unusual void energy and ordered Tree Traitor to investigate, prompting Tree Traitor to fall silent until First One prompted it.

Qu Jianlei’s team searched the void for worlds and faced mounting pressure to find places where members could advance their cultivation. After nearly thirty years, they discovered a promising Small World and then a sealed entrance to the Cultivation World, leaving them poised to make contact without provoking its defenders.

• Tree Traitor found a Protective Membrane around a barren world, where the team rested for ten days and Qu Jianlei left an Obsidian marker.
• The team explored two more worlds, finding one with a low-level ecosystem and another whose aquatic creatures could use simple spells, then continued its voyage.
• Rhine told Jing Yuexin that Bentley was nearing the time to attempt the Nascent Soul Realm, prompting concern about the whole team’s cultivation needs and aging members.
• Qu Jianlei expanded the exploration fleet, and a Battalion-Class Ship found a massacred Small World where divination showed a chance of forming a Golden Core and signs that the Cultivation World was nearby.
• An unmanned Battalion-Class Ship discovered an array-sealed entrance much closer than expected, and the team gathered before it without attacking so they would not appear hostile.

Qu Jianlei and his companions calculated a way through the Sealing Array, and Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow spent months infiltrating and escaping it. After slipping past the cultivators guarding the array, Qu Jianlei fled into the desert and cautiously made his way out, leaving the story with Sunset Glow questioning his extreme caution.

• Jiao Daoren and Yi He explained the Sealing Array while Qu Jianlei and Xiao Hu calculated its structure and a possible infiltration route.
• Qu Jianlei chose a divination-approved plan and entered the array with Sunset Glow, carrying two Abodes and Ruler while enduring its corrosive energy.
• An unusual aura alerted the cultivators guarding the array, and two Nascent Soul cultivators watched for signs of an opportunity before eventually leaving.
• Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow spent over three months finding a way out, briefly using the Dao Stele to resist the array's pressure and attracting nearby cultivators' attention.
• Qu Jianlei waited another month before emerging, replenished his spiritual energy, and fled through the desert without using Instant Flash until the third night.
• Sunset Glow questioned Qu Jianlei's caution after he finally flashed beyond the vast desert.

After reaching the Cangwu Realm, Qu Jianlei’s team learned about its powers and debated how to establish themselves, then investigated possible land purchases in Dongsheng. While exploring the Yan Family’s territory, they discovered unusual underground Spirit Vein fluctuations that Human Face said could develop into a Tier 4 Spirit Vein.

• Qu Jianlei brought the team to a forest in Cangwu, rested in Black Colt Tower, and recovered from the journey.
• Jiao Daoren and the others gathered information about Dongsheng’s cultivation powers and learned that the realm was relatively peaceful.
• Xiang Xue and Zi Jiuxian explored buying land with Tier 2 Spirit Veins, prompting the team to inspect the Zitong Sect’s territory and then the Yan Family’s territory.
• Qu Jianlei, Jing Yuexin, Paranoid, and Mu Yu sensed unusual Spirit Vein fluctuations beneath a mountain ridge in Yan Family territory.
• Human Face judged that the underground Spirit Vein could grow to Tier 4, and Paranoid challenged Jiao Daoren’s doubts about its assessment.

The team negotiated with the Yan Family to buy mountain land containing a potentially Tier 4 Spirit Vein. Xiang Xue, Hua Xiezhi, and Bentley used Golden Core Realm talismans to pressure the Yan Family representative, who softened his stance and asked about their business and taxes.

• Jia Shuiqing estimated that the abode's Spirit Vein might be Tier 4, while Jiao Daoren worried that this could invalidate the purchase agreement.
• Qu Jianlei sent Xiang Xue, Hua Xiezhi, and Bentley to negotiate with the Yan Family for several mountain peaks.
• The Yan Family representative demanded an astronomical price and challenged Xiang Xue and Hua Xiezhi to reveal their identities.
• Hua Xiezhi and Xiang Xue displayed Golden Core Realm talismans, prompting the representative to let them leave and reopen price negotiations.
• Bentley implied that the team could have bought land through the Cultivator Alliance, and the representative asked about their business and tax arrangements.
• Hua Xiezhi rejected the Yan Family's proposed taxes, saying they would pay nothing.

Qu Jianlei and his companions bought a hundred-year land-use agreement from the Yan Family and began surveying their new territory. They discovered four impoverished villages on the land, and after most villagers resisted relocating, Qu Jianlei’s group faced the task of resolving the dispute.

• Hua Xiezhi agreed to pay three hundred thousand spirit stones for the land-use rights, and the Yan Family accepted a hundred-thousand-stone deposit.
• Yan Sicong reported the newcomers’ wealth and unusual talismans to Yan Xuemin, who chose to observe them and later planned to inspect their settlement.
• While clearing the purchased land, Qu Jianlei’s group discovered four villages with more than five hundred residents and two Qi Refinement cultivators.
• Hua Xiezhi reported the villagers to Qu Jianlei, who decided to offer relocation compensation and have the Yan Family handle anyone who refused to move.
• Most villagers resisted relocation, explaining that leaving would cost them their homes and livelihoods and take years to recover from.