Recaps

The cultivators outside the Devil Qi Barrier prepared to rendezvous with Bu Hu’s returning team while the Small Tripod began absorbing the weakened barrier. Bu Hu emerged from the Restricted Area with sixteen others, and the chapter ended as Qu Jianlei noticed their speed-type magic treasure.

• Duo Gan told the cultivators to avoid entering the Restricted Area and focus on containing the Devil Qi Barrier, while Wen Yu argued against disrupting Bu Hu’s plans.
• The Small Tripod expanded and began drawing in the weakened Devil Qi Barrier, easing the cultivators’ fears of an attack from both sides.
• Elder Beihai ordered the main force to prepare for the returning team and elite squads to hunt Heavenly Demons.
• A cultivator team burst through the Restricted Area’s gate, and the waiting forces attacked the pursuing demonic qi in a chaotic rendezvous.
• Bu Hu emerged with sixteen others, wielding the Evil-warding Golden Pearl, and Qu Jianlei recognized that the team had also used a speed-type magic treasure.

True Immortal Bu Hu returned from the Restricted Area with her team battered but alive, then took charge of coordinating the cultivators’ battle against the Alien Race. The fighting became more orderly, but Bu Hu hesitated to give Red Leaf Ridge orders, while Hall Master Hu waited for her to address the unruly faction.

• True Immortal Bu Hu returned with all seventeen members of her team, though more than half were injured, and used the Evil-warding Golden Pearl to keep the Light Orb functioning.
• Qu Jianlei assessed the threat as Pseudo Out of Body and chose not to intervene, while Bu Hu ordered the cultivators to fight the Alien Race together.
• Bu Hu directed Hall Master Hu to relay her tactical orders, and he coordinated the major factions despite the Second Pavilion Master’s initial skepticism.
• Bu Hu issued more than a hundred orders, stabilizing the battle somewhat, while the cultivators continued to retreat.
• Hall Master Hu waited for Bu Hu to adjust Red Leaf Ridge’s tactics, but she held back because she feared the faction would refuse her orders.

True Immortal Bu Hu asked Qu Jianlei and Red Leaf Ridge to deal with two Out-of-Body Heavenly Demons attacking the battlefield, but Qu Jianlei demanded payment rather than accept responsibility for Cangwu’s crisis. Their negotiation left Bu Hu and Qu Jianlei at odds over whose resources and duty should be used to protect Cangwu.

• An Out-of-Body Heavenly Demon contaminated a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator’s hand, forcing him to sever his right arm before the Demonic Qi spread; the severed limb then exploded.
• True Immortal Bu Hu ordered Hall Master Hu to contact Red Leaf Ridge, but he warned that the group was outside their system and could not be compelled.
• Bu Hu contacted Qu Jianlei directly and asked him to deal with the two Out-of-Body Realm beings, while Qu Jianlei challenged her about karma and Cangwu’s calamity.
• Qu Jianlei asked what Bu Hu would pay for Red Leaf Ridge’s help and offered to help for free if she left the battlefield, prompting Bu Hu to ask about the cost of using his weapons.
• Jing Yuexin, Jiang Hui, and True Immortal Qi Ya teleported to the battleship as Qu Jianlei refused to help for nothing and challenged Bu Hu to use her Evil-warding Golden Pearl.
• Bu Hu argued that her golden pearl was her own trump card and that she owed Cangwu nothing, while Qu Jianlei insisted that her failed mission was not his responsibility.

Qu Jianlei negotiated True Immortal Bu Hu’s aid against the Heavenly Demons as Broken Blade suddenly charged into the Restricted Area. The battle continued with Red Leaf Ridge requesting Star Palace’s surveillance data to track the weapon.

• True Immortal Bu Hu offered one Origin, then agreed to provide two Origins or Rules in exchange for Red Leaf Ridge’s help, while Qu Jianlei warned her about the unknown existence.
• Jing Yuexin urged everyone to focus on the battle as Qu Jianlei and the others confronted two Out-of-Body Realm auras behind the Restricted Area’s gate.
• Broken Blade reacted to the cultivators’ cheers and shot through the gates into the Restricted Area without Qu Jianlei directing it.
• Duo Gan asked Star Palace duty personnel to share surveillance data so Red Leaf Ridge could monitor Broken Blade inside the Restricted Area.
• Duo Gan joked with the other cultivators to ease the battlefield tension while insisting she had confidence in Broken Blade.

The Restricted Area’s passage exploded, releasing an overwhelming surge of demonic qi as the factions deployed their treasures to hold it back. A third Out-of-Body Realm presence emerged, and the defenders began testing its abilities while the battle’s outcome remained uncertain.

• Duo Gan kept the cultivators’ morale up by joking that Red Leaf Ridge had lost contact with the senior fighting inside the Restricted Area.
• The Restricted Area’s passage burst open, and Red Leaf Ridge, Star Palace, and Bitter Sea deployed their treasures to suppress the escaping demonic qi.
• An ancient, violent Out-of-Body Realm aura emerged from the Restricted Area, prompting Qu Jianlei to have Duo Gan reassure the cultivators that the escaped Heavenly Demon would not return.
• Elder Beihai sent his Tiangang Sword Formation into the black mist, suffered a divine sense attack, and warned the others that their opponent excelled at such attacks.
• Hall Master Hu directed the Sundial’s light at the aura, using the treasure’s power to dispel Evil Anomalies and filth.

The Five Great Factions struggled to stop an Out-of-Body Realm aura as their powerful treasures and techniques proved limited. Wen Yu activated a Blood Vomiting Heart Questioning Talisman, revealing causal lines from the aura to several factions, and Qu Jianlei and True Immortal Jin Ge discovered major connections to the Star Palace and Bitter Sea.

• The Sundial failed to slow the charging aura, and Elder Beihai challenged the Dao Palace’s Quiet Master over its ineffectiveness.
• The Book Pavilion’s Second Pavilion Master activated the Righteous Qi Talisman, briefly halting the aura and dispersing nearby Demonic Qi before its advance resumed.
• Bitter Sea aimed the Mountain Sea Boat at the aura, but its attack proved less effective than expected, while Wen Yu refused to summon the Dao Palace’s Eight Desolations Vitality Banner.
• Wen Yu secretly crushed a Jade Talisman and activated the Blood Vomiting Heart Questioning Talisman, causing Qu Jianlei and True Immortal Jin Ge to sense causality across the battlefield.
• Qu Jianlei and True Immortal Jin Ge traced major causal lines from the aura to the Star Palace and its Sundial, and unexpectedly to Bitter Sea.

Transformation Master Wen Yu’s attempt to trace the Out-of-Body Realm causality failed, and a skeletal Star Tapir burst from the black mist to attack Bu Hu. The gathered cultivators held it back, but they could not destroy it, and Bu Hu told them to focus on their own duties while Red Leaf Ridge remained in reserve.

• Transformation Master Wen Yu tried to burn his blood essence to force the Blood Vomiting Heart Questioning Talisman to identify a suspect, but the causality web did not change and he vomited blood.
• A massive skeletal Star Tapir emerged from the black mist and fixed its ghostly gaze on Bu Hu.
• The Star Tapir’s enormous forelimb struck toward Bu Hu, but the Righteous Qi Talisman, the Bitter Sea Battle Formation, and other forces joined the defense.
• Bu Hu beat her drum to rally the cultivators, and four Upper Realm Nascent Souls rushed to reinforce her.
• The gathered forces restrained the Star Tapir, but Qu Jianlei and True Immortal Jin Ge recognized that they could only entangle it, not destroy it.
• After Upper Realm cultivators questioned why Red Leaf Ridge had not joined the battle, Bu Hu ordered everyone to do their own part and avoid entangling themselves in further causality.

The cultivators’ struggle against the Out-of-Body Realm Star Tapir intensified when a strange, ritual-like sound weakened their attacks and True Immortal Bu Hu’s Evil-warding Golden Pearl drained her energy. Jing Yuexin joined the battle and unleashed stacks of Thunder Art talismans, forcing out a hidden power in the Star Tapir’s bones as the fight continued.

• After a day and night of fighting, the cultivators held their ground while Small Tripod continued absorbing the Demonic Qi.
• A strange sound from the Star Tapir’s left eye socket slowed the Three Powers Array of Bitter Sea, and the Art Venerable’s avatar suspected it was a sacrifice.
• True Immortal Bu Hu sensed an Extremely Evil Object, and her Evil-warding Golden Pearl struck back at the aura while draining her energy.
• When Bu Hu withdrew from channeling the Golden Pearl to recover, the sound grew louder and the blue flame in the Star Tapir’s eye expanded.
• Jing Yuexin emerged from Red Leaf Ridge’s warship and struck the Star Tapir bones with Thunder Art talismans, apparently expelling a hidden power and making the bones sturdier.
• Jade Forest Matron and True Immortal San He recognized that Jing Yuexin had forced out the enemy’s trump card, and Jing Yuexin sent out another stack of talismans.

Qu Jianlei and his allies discovered that the Star Tapir’s Deep Blue Light contained a strange presence possibly connected to the vanished Bitter Sea ancestor Hong Yun. As the light weakened their defenses and attacks, Wind Forgotten and the Art Venerable restrained it, leaving Qu Jianlei poised to act.

• The Deep Blue Light flared from the Star Tapir’s eye, weakened the Mountain Sea Boat projection, and caused the cultivators’ bodies and attacks to falter.
• Elder Fei Hu recognized the light as possibly connected to the vanished Ancestor Hong Yun, while Bu Hu warned that it might be a Heavenly Demon illusion.
• Junior Brother Qi used his Delusion Breaker ability to inspect the light, but blood streamed from his eyes and he collapsed after identifying it as a Heretical Cultivator.
• Qu Jianlei summoned Wind Forgotten, whose Black Lines damaged the Star Tapir’s skeleton and affected the Deep Blue Light.
• The Art Venerable immobilized the Deep Blue Light, and Qu Jianlei prepared to strike as the Art Venerable said only the final mass of light remained.

Qu Jianlei unleashed the Broken Axe’s ritual-artifact aura to counter the Deep Blue Light as a second Out-of-Body Realm threat emerged and weakened Star Palace cultivators. The battle remained precarious, but Qu Jianlei and True Immortal Bu Hu urged everyone to hold on as an overwhelming mass of Demonic Qi surged from the Restricted Area.

• The Deep Blue Light in the Star Tapir’s right eye socket began thrashing, causing the Sundial to retreat and weakening Star Palace cultivators; one Golden Core True Person exploded.
• True Immortal San He gave Jade Forest Matron an ancient book page and went to investigate the mysterious aura, while True Immortal Wen Yu offered to cover Sanjiang Commander’s retreat.
• Qu Jianlei drew the Broken Axe and unleashed its powerful ritual-artifact aura, halting the advancing Heavenly Devil Qi and frightening the second cluster of Deep Blue Light.
• Qu Jianlei and True Immortal Bu Hu urged everyone to endure until Senior Broken Blade and Senior Treasure Cauldron returned to reinforce them.
• An immense, unnaturally dark mass of Demonic Qi surged out from the depths of the Restricted Area.

Qu Jianlei prepared a powerful move against the black octopus, but the Broken Axe struck first and shattered it, leaving Qu to finish the fight. The battle continued as he formed hand seals, and he asked the Heroic Spirits whether they had suffered serious losses.

• The black octopus emerged from the Devil Qi Cluster, and Qu Jianlei readied his black shuttle while warning everyone to strengthen their defenses and prepare to withdraw.
• True Immortal Bu Hu urged the others to protect Qu Jianlei and help him stall for time as he formed hand seals.
• The Broken Axe surged with killing intent, pursued the fleeing octopus, and split it into countless pieces that could no longer regenerate or rejoin.
• Transformation Master Wen Yu collapsed in agony, and True Immortal Bu Hu warned the others not to touch him because he bore great karma.
• Jing Yuexin, Qinghu, and Jia Shuiqing formed a Battle Formation around Qu Jianlei as the battle intensified.
• Qu Jianlei learned that the Broken Axe had left the octopus alive for him to handle, then asked the Heroic Spirits whether they had suffered major losses.

Qu Jianlei’s ancient killing strike erased the black fragments and ended the Star Tapir’s rampage, while the survivors learned that Ancestor Hong Yun and Wen Yu’s master, Senior Ze Qi, had fallen amid their schemes. The battle neared its end, Wen Yu was left disgraced and unable to defend himself, and Hall Master Hu discovered that the Sundial had cracked.

• Qu Jianlei completed his hand seals and unleashed an ancient killing aura that passed through the Deep Blue Light and erased the black fragments.
• The Star Tapir weakened, the fighting in the Bitter Sea ended in bloodshed, and Ancestor Hong Yun’s face vanished as the lingering resentment was cleared away.
• High-Crowned Daoist revealed that Senior Ze Qi had been tempted by the Out-of-Body method and accused Wen Yu of seeking it for himself before dissipating.
• Wen Yu accepted the suspicion and blamed himself for interrupting his master’s breakthrough, while the cultivators debated who was at fault and whether the Out-of-Body method should be revealed.
• Hall Master Hu examined the Sundial and found a crack in the palace-suppressing treasure.

The cultivators defeated the Out-of-Body Star Tapir and cleared most of the Demonic Qi outside the restricted area, while the shattered sundial revealed the presence of Star Palace’s fallen Great Venerable. Qu Jianlei remained motionless after his devastating strike as an elite squad reentered the restricted area and the others rested and guarded the spoils.

• Hall Master Hu and the Star Palace disciples realized that the deep blue light from the sundial was the Great Venerable, whose presence explained why the treasure had shattered.
• True Immortal Bu Hu called for the cultivators to focus on the Alien Race, while Jing Yuexin said Qu Jianlei was only exhausted and Red Leaf Ridge’s Five Nascent Souls guarded him.
• True Immortal Qi Ya rebuked the cultivators for comparing the battle to the Tiger-Man Invasion War and blamed the Upper Realm’s good-for-nothings for relying on Qu Jianlei.
• The Out-of-Body Star Tapir collapsed, and the Small Tripod absorbed most of the Devil Qi Barrier as the remaining Demonic Qi dissipated.
• True Immortal Bu Hu ordered a cautious advance toward the restricted-area entrance, and an elite squad later reentered while the other cultivators rested and guarded the Star Tapir’s bones.

Qu Jianlei returned to the Restricted Area after Broken Blade stopped fighting, and Bu Hu and the others shared what they had learned about True Immortal Hong Yun’s connection to the Great Venerable. Their investigation suggested that several powerful cultivators may have schemed together, but they could not confirm whether those implicated had truly perished.

• Art Academy and Book Pavilion disciples discussed Broken Axe and the black shuttle while guarding the Out-of-Body Realm corpses.
• Jiang Hui arrived and explained that Broken Blade had stopped because the other treasures had gone still and the team inside the Restricted Area had not attacked.
• After two days, Small Tripod returned to the warship and Qu Jianlei went to check on Broken Blade, which then returned and entered his body.
• Qu Jianlei, Bu Hu, Jin Ge, and San He discussed the investigation and the suspects being kept under watch.
• Bu Hu explained that Hong Yun’s mother had been a Star Palace disciple and that Hong Yun had visited its Immortal Remains, leading her to suspect he had stolen a wisp of the Great Venerable’s aura.
• Bu Hu warned that Hong Yun and other great cultivators might not truly have perished, leaving the extent of their schemes uncertain.

Qu Jianlei discussed Ze Qi’s past and the dangers surrounding Wen Yu with True Immortal Bu Hu, who pressed him to explain the powerful strike he had used. He revealed that it was an advanced form of Wither and Flourish connected to the Time Rule, but not the Years Divine Ability.

• True Immortal Bu Hu reported that little was known about Ze Qi, though Wen Yu and the others believed Ze Qi had entered the void and possessed a powerful divine soul.
• Qu Jianlei asked how deeply Wen Yu was involved in the karma, and Bu Hu suggested Wen Yu’s ties to it ran deep; Qu Jianlei said he only wanted to avoid suspicion.
• Bu Hu questioned Qu Jianlei about the Obsessions in his Ritual Artifact, his black Shuttle-shaped Magical Treasure, and his final strike, while Qu Jianlei resisted her probing.
• Bu Hu guessed that Qu Jianlei had used the Years Divine Ability, but Qu Jianlei said it was an advanced version of Wither and Flourish that had not reached Years.
• True Immortal Jin Ge explained that the strike carried the Time Rule, and the Third Pavilion Lord described it as an advanced version of Wither and Flourish and a simplified version of Years.
• Qu Jianlei recalled how Hypocrite and the Heroic Spirits had helped him develop the Knock-off Version of Years, which he had mastered after failing to comprehend the true Years Divine Ability.

Qu Jianlei explained that his knock-off time ability had succeeded because the Ritual Artifact prevented Ze Qi from recovering, then let Bu Hu know he still intended to destroy the Restricted Area. The Star Tapir’s remains were divided, and the chapter left Bu Hu worried about how Red Leaf Ridge’s plans might affect her mission.

• The Heroic Spirits discussed Qu Jianlei’s rapid mastery of Moment Eternal and attributed it to his long study of Black Colt Towers and the Time Rule.
• Qu Jianlei said Broken Axe had stopped Ze Qi from recovering, while Bu Hu apologized for questioning the Ritual Artifact and agreed to report the incident and provide rules.
• The factions divided the Star Tapir’s skeleton, giving Red Leaf Ridge nearly thirty percent, and Qu Jianlei asked that it receive any Guardian Rules.
• Bu Hu told Qu Jianlei that the Upper Realm might not send a Great Venerable to the Lower Realm and promised to gather rules and origin sources before leaving Cangwu.
• Qu Jianlei warned that similar beings might exist in the Restricted Area and said he wanted to destroy it, while Bu Hu explained that her mission was to protect it.

Qu Jianlei, True Immortal Jin Ge, the Third Pavilion Lord, and Bu Hu prepared to enter the Restricted Area to investigate its Demonic Qi and seek opportunities. After circling the area for days, they set out, leaving the other cultivators puzzled by their team’s strength.

• Bu Hu asked to join Qu Jianlei, True Immortal Jin Ge, and the Third Pavilion Lord, and they agreed on terms for sharing opportunities and keeping any Out-of-Body Opportunity secret.
• Qu Jianlei piloted the warship around the Forgotten Peninsula for several days while Bu Hu and the Third Pavilion Lord tried to understand his purpose.
• Concerned cultivators questioned Qu Jianlei about the Restricted Area’s Demonic Qi, and Bu Hu told them that Broken Blade and Treasure Cauldron were recovering before an investigation began.
• Five days later, Qu Jianlei, Bu Hu, True Immortal Jin Ge, and the Third Pavilion Lord decided to enter the Restricted Area and investigate the Heavenly Demons.
• Two Upper Realm cultivators volunteered to protect Bu Hu, while other cultivators wondered whether True Immortal San He was strong enough to join the group.

Qu Jianlei and his companions explored the Forgotten Peninsula, mapping the Demonic Qi and finding a Wind Source before withdrawing. Back at Red Leaf Ridge, Qu Jianlei heard from Senior Violent, who explained the Heavenly Demons’ connection to True Immortal Ze Qi and urged Qu Jianlei to cultivate further; he also asked whether Qu Jianlei had found his companion.

• True Immortal Bu Hu refused an escort and entered the Forgotten Peninsula, where Qu Jianlei used the Tiger-Human Great Venerable’s remains to disperse Demonic Qi.
• After several days of travel, Qu Jianlei released Broken Blade, driving back the Demonic Qi, and Bu Hu offered to explain how she had dealt with the area before.
• The four explored for four and a half months, discovered that Demonic Qi was concentrated around the peninsula’s edges and in two Folded Spaces, and found the Wind Source before leaving.
• Bu Hu confirmed that the Forgotten Peninsula was not completely demonized, while Qu Jianlei returned to studying how to separate a small realm.
• Senior Violent emerged and told Qu Jianlei that Hypocrite remained dormant after the battle, then explained that True Immortal Ze Qi had helped bring the Heavenly Demons to Cangwu.
• Senior Violent told Qu Jianlei to cultivate more and asked whether he had found his companion.

Qu Jianlei prepared to act on Art Venerable’s plan to cut apart the Small World and revealed that his recovery secret technique would not be available for two hundred years or until he reached the Out-of-Body Realm. Bu Hu, Third Pavilion Lord, and Jin Ge jockeyed for places in line to obtain it, before Jin Ge pointed out a supposed Heavenly Demon and drew Qu Jianlei into investigating.

• Qu Jianlei told Violent Obsession about the plan to cut apart the Small World, and Violent Obsession reserved judgment on Gold Essence’s idea.
• After the group recovered and reached the other end of the Forgotten Peninsula, Qu Jianlei divined that the plan had no major problems, then spent three days recuperating in his Abode.
• Bu Hu asked Qu Jianlei to trade his rapid-recovery secret technique, and he said it would become available in two hundred years or when he advanced to the Out-of-Body Realm.
• Bu Hu and Third Pavilion Lord asked to get in line for the technique, and Qu Jianlei gave Third Pavilion Lord priority because of his Ritual Artifact meeting gift.
• Jin Ge claimed he had also signed up by giving Qu Jianlei a Guardian Rule, then pointed out a supposedly enormous Heavenly Demon and asked Qu Jianlei to help investigate.

Qu Jianlei and Art Venerable began cutting through the Forgotten Peninsula Restricted Area with Wind Forgotten, while Bu Hu negotiated a compromise and tried to keep the operation from drawing attention. Their work attracted an Upper Realm patrol ship, which ultimately stayed back after Bu Hu explained that Qu Jianlei was investigating a possible Heavenly Demon passage.

• Qu Jianlei summoned Wind Forgotten and had it use Black Lines to cut the Restricted Area’s outer barriers.
• Bu Hu demanded the truth about the operation, and Art Venerable revealed that retrieving a small realm was tied to his Out-of-Body opportunity.
• Bu Hu and Qu Jianlei bargained over the delay, settling on one hundred and fifty years after Jin Ge intervened.
• Wind Forgotten slowly weakened the barrier, and Art Venerable explained that cutting from inside the Restricted Area was too dangerous.
• An Upper Realm Company-level Warship arrived to question them, but Bu Hu said Qu Jianlei was investigating a possible Heavenly Demon passage, and the ship stayed nearby.

Qu Jianlei and the others spent months cutting a small realm free, with Wind Forgotten and another Tree Race member doing the work. Near the end, they discovered a powerful Imprisonment restriction tied to a Great Venerable, and Qu Jianlei revealed that the Venerable connected to the realm had fallen.

• True Immortal Bu Hu ordered a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator to leave and keep others away from the cutting site.
• After Wind Forgotten rested, Qu Jianlei used a timid Golden Core Realm Tree Race member to maintain the breach while the group continued cutting.
• True Immortal Jin Ge asked Qu Jianlei to sell him the Tree Race member, but Qu Jianlei refused and called it part of coordinated combat.
• Three months later, the group had cut through ninety-five percent of the small realm, and Tree Traitor continued the delicate work of severing its bindings.
• True Immortal Jin Ge and Qu Jianlei detected a sturdy Imprisonment restriction, and Senior Violent warned that separating the small realm intact would be difficult.
• Qu Jianlei revealed that the Great Venerable connected to the small realm had fallen, leaving True Immortal Bu Hu and Third Pavilion Lord stunned.

Qu Jianlei and the others debated how to handle the damaged small world and its fixed imprisonment before True Immortal Jin Ge agreed to proceed. After Jin Ge extracted it and suppressed the opening, Qu Jianlei inspected the badly damaged world and fulfilled their agreement, while Jin Ge asked for repair advice.

• Qu Jianlei explained that the Great Venerable’s death had fixed the imprisonment and that cutting it away would damage the small world, so the group decided to proceed with the damaged world rather than seek another.
• True Immortal Jin Ge remembered that his opportunity was connected to Qu Jianlei and asked Qu Jianlei to divine what he should do.
• After eight days, True Immortal Jin Ge extracted the small world and sealed the opening as violent energies surged through it.
• True Immortal Jin Ge suppressed the opening while the restrictions repaired themselves, and the Third Pavilion Lord inspected the small world before Qu Jianlei did.
• On the tenth day, Qu Jianlei inspected the nearly shattered small world, and True Immortal Jin Ge accepted it and asked Qu Jianlei for advice on repairing it.

Qu Jianlei negotiated with True Immortal Jin Ge over the small realm and revealed the crimson remnant body of an Innate Spirit Treasure as a possible trade. Jin Ge agreed in principle to exchange it for two sets of Five Elements Sources, but the price remained unsettled.

• Qu Jianlei completed his transaction with Art Venerable, who gave him Gold and Water Sources as compensation.
• Qu Jianlei took Jin Ge aside and explained that repairing the small realm required one Source of each of the Five Elements.
• Qu Jianlei offered the small realm in exchange for an item and two sets of Five Elements Sources, then showed Jin Ge the enormous crimson Star Cluster.
• Jin Ge recognized the Star Cluster as the remnant body of an Innate Spirit Treasure and agreed to the trade, but tried to haggle over the steep price.
• Qu Jianlei rejected Jin Ge's attempt to count the earlier Sources toward the deal and admitted that he had promised the treasure to the Trial Cave Dwelling's Artifact Spirit.

Qu Jianlei negotiated with the Artifact Spirit to exchange the red Nebula for a set of Five Elements Source, then returned to the warship and later discussed a healing technique with the Third Pavilion Lord. The chapter ended with the Third Pavilion Lord asking whether he could prepare an exchange in advance.

• Qu Jianlei divined that the Artifact Spirit would need about sixty years to digest the red Nebula and negotiated to give it a set of Five Elements Source instead.
• The Artifact Spirit accepted the deal, explaining that the Five Elements Source would nourish the Abode without requiring hibernation.
• Qu Jianlei refused to lower his demands to True Immortal Jin Ge, and Jin Ge left after saying Qu was making things difficult for him.
• Qu Jianlei, True Immortal Bu Hu, and the Third Pavilion Lord waited until the restrictions recovered, then departed aboard the warship.
• The Third Pavilion Lord visited Qu Jianlei and asked why he wanted a secret technique for rapid healing; Qu Jianlei said he was acting on behalf of the Righteousness Post.
• The Third Pavilion Lord offered the Book Pavilion's Rule of Thunder for information, but Qu Jianlei declined and the Third Pavilion Lord asked whether he could arrange an exchange in advance.

Qu Jianlei negotiated a confidential exchange with the Book Pavilion involving the Black Colt Tower, then received Master Shen Miao, who sought Red Leaf Ridge’s help with the Restricted Area and Space Repair Fluid. The chapter ended with Qu Jianlei delaying action until Upper Realm experts arrived, wary that earlier events might have disturbed mysterious beings.

• Qu Jianlei showed the Third Pavilion Lord the Black Colt Tower and discussed its time differential, possible improvements, and the need to keep its production secret.
• The Third Pavilion Lord agreed to confidentiality and considered exchanging Sources or other valuable treasures for access to the Black Colt Tower.
• True Immortal Bu Hu summoned the Third Pavilion Lord to the Upper Realm Cultivator Station to discuss the Righteousness Post.
• After Red Leaf Ridge’s warship continued observing Forgotten Peninsula, Master Shen Miao visited Qu Jianlei with a Sword Art and a Poison Art as meeting gifts.
• Master Shen Miao asked Red Leaf Ridge to help assess and clear the Restricted Area and offered a Fire Art Source for one thousand portions of Space Repair Fluid.
• Qu Jianlei postponed entering the Restricted Area until more Upper Realm experts arrived, concealing his concern that cutting apart the small world might have awakened mysterious existences.