Recaps

Qu Jianlei negotiated with Stalwart Master Shen Miao and True Immortal Jin Ge over Restoration Fluid and Sources, while learning that people from the Upper Realm would arrive soon. Jin Ge inspected Nebula and insisted on paying a deposit before Qu Jianlei could gather enough Sources to abandon their trade.

• Qu Jianlei agreed to provide Bitter Sea with one thousand portions of Space Repair Fluid, gave Shen Miao a fragment to study, and accepted the Source of Fire Shen Miao had brought as payment.
• Shen Miao delivered two hundred portions of Restoration Fluid immediately and warned Qu Jianlei that a major change was expected in roughly five years, then left after Jin Ge told him that people from the Upper Realm were arriving.
• Jin Ge told Qu Jianlei to keep the Upper Realm's arrival confidential and offered him seven Sources, but Qu Jianlei refused to give up the Spirit Treasure.
• Qu Jianlei and Jin Ge went to Yin Ridge, where Jin Ge inspected Nebula and questioned whether Qu Jianlei might collect enough Sources to cancel their trade.
• Jin Ge insisted on paying a deposit for the Spirit Treasure before Qu Jianlei could gather two complete sets of Five Elements Sources.

Qu Jianlei and True Immortal Jin Ge negotiated over a Spirit Treasure fragment before a new Upper Realm force arrived to investigate the Forgotten Peninsula. As Red Leaf Ridge prepared to leave, True Immortal Jiken asked Qu Jianlei for their information and requested that they stay for another expedition into the Restricted Area.

• Qu Jianlei refused to take a deposit for the Spirit Treasure fragment, and True Immortal Jin Ge left Yin Ridge without securing it.
• Four days later, True Immortal Jiken arrived with eighteen True Immortals divided into three groups and began investigating the region.
• After waiting seven or eight days and sensing an atmosphere directed against Red Leaf Ridge, Qu Jianlei ordered his team to leave without notifying the others.
• A Nascent Soul cultivator tried to stop the departing Battalion-Class Ship, but True Immortal Bu Hu intervened and True Immortal Jiken came to speak with the team.
• Jiken revealed that he carried a strand of a Great Venerable's will, asked Qu Jianlei for Red Leaf Ridge's information on the Forgotten Peninsula, and requested that they stay for the next Restricted Area expedition.

Qu Jianlei rejected True Immortal Jiken’s attempt to involve Red Leaf Ridge in other Restricted Area matters and returned to the ridge, where he prepared for signs of a Heavenly Devil resurgence. He also learned that the Calculation Unit was aging and advised Bentley on his plan to form a Nascent Soul, leaving the team with several long-term problems to address.

• Qu Jianlei refused to explore with True Immortal Jiken, challenged the Upper Realm’s inaction against the Heavenly Devils, and departed without giving True Immortal Bu Hu the information they had discussed.
• Qu Jianlei returned to Red Leaf Ridge and learned that Heavenly Devils had grown more active in both the ridge’s research sites and Central Province, so he ordered closer observation and increased supplies.
• Qu Jianlei checked the Ritual Artifact’s progress and learned from Big Head Butterfly that the Calculation Unit might last only thirty to fifty years, prompting them to pursue a Mystic-Side alternative.
• Bentley asked Qu Jianlei to divine his chances of forming a Nascent Soul before entering Death Seclusion, and Qu Jianlei judged the timing acceptable but said the seclusion was unnecessary.

Qu Jianlei negotiated with True Immortal Jin Ge and rejected the Artifact Spirit’s request to absorb a small realm, while Jade Forest Matron sought his help after Master Peng vanished in Forgotten Peninsula. The Book Pavilion proposed using a contact named Xiuqin to reach the Upper Realm, and Qu Jianlei remained wary of the risk to his team.

• Qu Jianlei told Bentley to enter seclusion, then discussed Forgotten Peninsula and a trip to Yin Ridge with True Immortal Jin Ge.
• True Immortal Jin Ge returned and prepared to perform Sacrificial Refining, while Qu Jianlei asked whether True Immortal Jiken had investigated the three families.
• The Artifact Spirit asked Qu Jianlei to give it the small realm, but he refused and gave it five portions of origin instead.
• Jade Forest Matron told Qu Jianlei that Master Peng had entered Forgotten Peninsula and disappeared, then the Book Pavilion exchanged two types of origin for a Black Colt Tower.
• Jade Forest Matron and the Third Pavilion Lord said Xiuqin had offered to guide them to the Upper Realm in exchange for news of the Righteous Sect, and Qu Jianlei questioned whether he could trust him with the team.

Qu Jianlei and Red Leaf Ridge declined to search the void for two missing Upper Realm cultivators, while news from Forgotten Peninsula suggested the search for Master Peng remained unresolved. When Alien Race approached Dongsheng and the Cultivator Alliance proved understaffed, Red Leaf Ridge agreed to respond only after Jia Shuiqing forced the Alliance to follow proper procedures; the chapter ended with True Immortal Yuan Yi identifying the attackers as the eight-legged octopuses seen before.

• Jiang Hui told Qu Jianlei that the Upper Realm was offering a strand of Five Elements Source for locating two missing Nascent Soul cultivators, but Qu Jianlei and Red Leaf Ridge declined to join the search.
• News from Forgotten Peninsula revealed that True Immortal Jiken had found abnormalities in three small realms, including the realm where Master Peng disappeared, while Stalwart Master Shen Miao passed along a gesture of goodwill to Qu Jianlei.
• Duo Gan warned Qu Jianlei that Alien Race were approaching through the Sealing Grand Array, and explained that the Cultivator Alliance was short-handed because several officials had joined the search for the reward.
• True Immortal Yuan Yi appealed to Red Leaf Ridge for help, but Jia Shuiqing rejected his attempt to pressure them and told him to complete the proper procedures before they acted.
• True Immortal Yuan Yi returned an hour later and urgently told Jia Shuiqing that the attacking Alien Race were the eight-legged octopuses who had appeared before.

Qu Jianlei and the cultivators at the Sealing Grand Array investigated a Warship pursued by Piao and discovered Zhao Sanshui and Zeng Jiarui aboard. They learned the pair had been attacked while assisting other bounty hunters, and the chapter left Qu Jianlei questioning what had happened as the surviving cultivators explained their flight back toward Cangwu.

• True Immortal Yuan Yi reported that a Warship was circling near the Sealing Grand Array with several Piao pursuing it, and Qu Jianlei went to investigate with Jia Shuiqing, Qinghu, and True Immortal Qi Ya.
• Qu Jianlei and the others waited near the array until the Warship passed with Piao following it, then Qu Jianlei used his Ruler to approach and recognized Zhao Sanshui aboard.
• Zhao Sanshui told Qu Jianlei that he and Zeng Jiarui had gone to reinforce Thousand Hands True Immortal and True Immortal Ke Liang after they were attacked, but the pair had fled to summon help.
• The cultivators aboard explained that six Piao had pursued Zhao Sanshui and Zeng Jiarui after they withdrew, and that their Warships had been destroyed several times before they reached the array.

Qu Jianlei rescued Zhao Sanshui and Zeng Jiarui from the Piao and helped their families defeat the creatures. He then followed them into the void to search for Thousand Hands, reaching a region filled with shattered rocks and Demonic Qi, where the Small Tripod began absorbing the black qi with increased force.

• Zeng Jiarui and Zhao Sanshui accepted Qu Jianlei's help, and he sent Battalion-Class Ships to attack the pursuing Piao while Red Leaf Ridge joined the battle.
• Qi Ya killed one Piao, Qinghu captured another, and Qu Jianlei pursued and helped kill the fleeing creatures; Zhao Sanshui and Zeng Jiarui gave their families' Piao to Red Leaf Ridge as thanks.
• Zhao Sanshui agreed to accompany Qu Jianlei to search for Thousand Hands, and they sent the wounded back before continuing into the void.
• After several days, Qu Jianlei used divination to guide them toward a belt of shattered rocks, where they detected lingering abnormal energy and spreading Demonic Qi.
• Zhao Sanshui retreated as the Small Tripod appeared and absorbed the black qi, noticing that its suction seemed stronger than before.

Qu Jianlei fought a growing force of Piaos in the void while searching for Thousand Hands and Ke Liang, and his battered warships gained unexpected support when the two rogues arrived. The Piaos revealed hidden reinforcements, leaving both groups under attack as Thousand Hands maneuvered to evade them.

• Qu Jianlei used the Small Tripod to draw in Demonic Qi and engaged five Piaos with more than twenty Battalion-Class Ships while Zhao Sanshui's Warship withdrew from the fight.
• The battle destroyed numerous Battalion-Class Ships and killed one Piao before a battered Warship appeared and attacked the Piaos; Qu Jianlei identified its pilot as Ke Liang.
• Six more Piaos emerged from spatial hiding, sending four after Thousand Hands True Immortal and two to reinforce the siege against Qu Jianlei's team.
• Thousand Hands maneuvered his Warship to evade the Piaos and occasionally counterattack, prompting Qi Ya to recognize his use of the kiting tactic she had taught him.

Qu Jianlei’s fleet and its allies retreated from the Piao as a powerful, mysterious aura emerged, while Zhao Sanshui recognized the danger and withdrew his team. After a costly day-long pursuit, Red Leaf Ridge lured eight Piao around a massive stone and revealed a hidden fleet of more than forty Battalion-Class Ships behind them.

• Zhao Sanshui suspected Red Leaf Ridge had concealed more Battalion-Class Ships, but when a faint, powerful aura appeared, he ordered his team to retreat at full speed.
• Qu Jianlei ordered Thousand Hands True Immortal to withdraw, and Red Leaf Ridge’s fleet fled as the mysterious aura continued to grow.
• Red Leaf Ridge’s fleet turned back to ambush its pursuers, destroying one Piao and severely injuring another, but losing eight Battalion-Class Ships.
• Qu Jianlei led the remaining ships through a day-long pursuit, during which the fleet counterattacked twice and damaged one more Piao.
• Qu Jianlei reached a massive stone and told Evening Glow Senior to begin; after the eight pursuing Piao circled around it, they found more than forty Battalion-Class Ships waiting behind them.

Qu Jianlei’s fleet trapped the Piao with Antimatter Annihilation Bombs, but the survivors summoned an Out-of-Body Piao. When it tried to retreat with a wounded Piao, Qu Jianlei attacked it with the World Piercing Shuttle, leaving the powerful enemy partially exposed and struggling to suppress the damage.

• Qu Jianlei’s Battalion-Class Ships used Antimatter Annihilation Bombs to damage several Piao, whose attacks and attempts to escape triggered more spatial disturbances.
• The Piao formed a defensive formation and summoned an Out-of-Body being, whose enormous black tentacle emerged from the void.
• The black tentacle seized a wounded Piao and tried to pull it away, so Qu Jianlei launched the World Piercing Shuttle at it.
• The Out-of-Body Piao recognized the shuttle’s connection to the Xuan Qing World and pleaded that the attack was a misunderstanding, but Qu Jianlei continued.
• The shuttle tore open a huge wound in the Out-of-Body Piao as it emerged partly from a spatial crevice, and Qu Jianlei noted that the opponent was unusually powerful.

Qu Jianlei used the World Piercing Shuttle and the Dao Stele to defeat an Out-of-Body Piao, then ordered the remaining Piao hunted down. Elsewhere, Thousand Hands True Immortal and True Immortal Ke Liang turned to confront the Piao pursuing them after realizing Qu Jianlei had likely succeeded.

• Qu Jianlei struck the Out-of-Body Piao with the World Piercing Shuttle, then escaped its counterattack by switching to another Battalion-Class Ship.
• The dying Piao delayed Qu Jianlei with talk of Great Venerable Wu Xuan before unleashing a hidden chill, which the Dao Stele's aura dispelled.
• Qu Jianlei refused to spare the Piao descendants, and the Out-of-Body Piao fell silent after offering its intact body.
• Qu Jianlei sent unmanned Battalion-Class Ships to attack the six Nascent Soul Piao; three were destroyed while three fled under pursuit.
• The four Piao chasing Thousand Hands True Immortal and True Immortal Ke Liang suddenly retreated, so the two True Immortals turned to pursue them.
• Zhao Sanshui's Warship moved closer after following Thousand Hands True Immortal's Flying Shuttle from a distance.

Qu Jianlei and his allies finished hunting the Piao and learned that Thousand Hands and Ke Liang had drawn the creatures’ pursuit after rescuing two Nascent Soul cultivators. The rescued cultivators revealed that their mission had been to eliminate a suspected Piao, but they had discovered a whole group instead.

• Qu Jianlei met Li Yuren and Zhu Jiayi’s bounty-hunting team, gave them a Piao corpse, and confirmed with Senior Violent that the Out-of-Body Piao had died from damage caused by the World Piercing Shuttle.
• Qu Jianlei’s team joined Li Yuren and Zhu Jiayi, found Thousand Hands and Zhao Sanshui hunting the last Piao, and helped kill it.
• Thousand Hands explained that he and Ke Liang had rescued two missing Nascent Soul cultivators, after which the Piao had pursued them relentlessly.
• Li Yuren and Zhao Sanshui confronted the rescued cultivators for bringing danger to Cangwu, while the younger cultivator promised compensation and said they had accepted a mission from an Immortal Venerable.
• The younger cultivator explained that he had searched for a suspected Piao for nearly half a year before discovering a large group of them.

Qu Jianlei and Red Leaf Ridge faced questions from the upper realm after repelling an Out-of-Body Piao, while several witnesses sought refuge or were summoned to Central Province. As the upper realm’s interest grew, Qu Jianlei called on Jin Ge to ask about traveling there.

• Wei Bing reported that the Piao had moved their battlefield, and Qu Jianlei ended the team’s mission after divining that the immediate danger had passed.
• Ke Liang and Thousand Hands received an earth-element origin source as a reward, then learned the upper realm wanted reports about Red Leaf Ridge’s battle with the Out-of-Body Piao.
• Qu Jianlei declined to explain how he had repelled the Piao, while Li Yuren, Zhao Sanshui, and Zeng Jiarui were summoned by Star Palace for questioning.
• Zhu Jiayi joined Red Leaf Ridge’s Heavenly Demon project, and Li Yuren realized he had missed an opportunity to seek refuge there.
• Jiang Hui told Qu Jianlei that the upper realm had reprimanded Li Yuren for disrespect, and Qu Jianlei summoned Jin Ge to ask about traveling to the upper realm.

Qu Jianlei learned that the upper realm considered a full-scale Heavenly Demon invasion unlikely, while Star Palace launched a broad counteroffensive. After True Immortal Jiken confronted him over damage to upper realm assets, Qu Jianlei said he would only go to the upper realm with his team.

• The upper realm announced that the Heavenly Demons had likely abandoned a full-scale invasion, and Qu Jianlei told Jing Yuexin to continue researching them.
• Star Palace mobilized the Thirty-Six Cities to purge Demonic Qi, while Star Palace and Four Sages Mountain committed resources to the counteroffensive.
• True Immortal Jiken withdrew from the Forgotten Peninsula with substantial gains, kept most of his personnel there, and traveled to Liuguang City with Bu, Immortal Maiden and two others.
• Jiang Hui pressed Jing Yuexin to send Red Leaf Ridge members to fight the Heavenly Demons, but Jing Yuexin welcomed Jiken's visit to escape the request.
• Jiken confronted Qu Jianlei about severing a small realm and alleged damage to upper realm assets, while Qu Jianlei denied fault and told him to leave.
• Jiken asked whether Qu Jianlei wanted to go to the upper realm, and Qu Jianlei said he would travel only with his team.

Qu Jianlei and True Immortal Jiken exchanged information about the Out-of-Body Piao, the Restricted Area, and the World Piercing Shuttle. Jiken recognized the shuttle’s maker, Great Venerable Wu Xuan of the Xuan Qing World, and wondered whether Wu Xuan had fallen.

• Qu Jianlei refused Jiken’s offer to help take people to the Upper Realm and questioned whether Red Leaf Ridge depended on Art Venerable.
• Jiken explained that an Out-of-Body Immortal Venerable had sent him to investigate the Piao, Star Tapirs, and abnormalities around the Forgotten Peninsula.
• Qu Jianlei told Jiken that he had killed the Out-of-Body Piao with the World Piercing Shuttle, but refused to show it or trade the Piao corpse.
• Jiken said Master Peng’s disappearance might be connected to a Folded Space, and Qu Jianlei revealed that he planned to enter the Restricted Area to rescue a friend.
• Jiken offered to accompany Qu Jianlei if he could see the shuttle, and Qu Jianlei identified it as a creation of Great Venerable Wu Xuan of the Taihao Sect in the Xuan Qing World.
• Jiken recognized Wu Xuan’s name and asked whether he had fallen.

Qu Jianlei learned more about True Immortal Wei Bing’s fate and received two Sources from Bu Hu, while refusing to join True Immortal Jiken’s investigation of the Restricted Area. He agreed to help Star Palace patrol Central Province, but True Immortal Jin Ge then arrived and asked whether he had met Baiqiao, the Great Venerable’s will.

• True Immortal Jiken told Qu Jianlei that Wei Bing had hunted Piao with help from Star Tapirs, but an Out-of-Body Piao had forced him to use his master’s life-saving trump card.
• Qu Jianlei refused to accompany Jiken into the Restricted Area, and Jiken said the Great Venerable would allow five of Qu Jianlei’s people into the Upper Realm.
• Bu Hu exchanged a Gold Source and a Dark Fire Source with Qu Jianlei, who offered her a Nascent Soul Realm Piao corpse as interest.
• Jiang Hui urged Star Palace to seek answers from the Immortal Remains, but Qu Jianlei refused and instead agreed to send patrols to help Star Palace.
• Qu Jianlei sent Paranoid and Mu Yu, along with Jiao Daoren and Qi Ya, to patrol Central Province with Golden Core Realm cultivators.
• True Immortal Jin Ge arrived and asked Qu Jianlei whether he had met Baiqiao, then angrily said the Great Venerable’s will had shielded itself from his perception.

Qu Jianlei and Qinghu accompanied True Immortal Jin Ge through his secret passage into the Upper Realm to scout its conditions. They arrived at Yanmao Fifteen, a vast but spiritually impoverished continental plate in the Houde Realm, and began assessing the people and cultivation resources there.

• Qu Jianlei agreed to travel with Qinghu, while Jing Yuexin stayed behind to oversee Red Leaf Ridge and the Encircle Devil Grand Array.
• True Immortal Jin Ge opened a concealed passage in the mountains, and he, Qu Jianlei, and Qinghu traveled through it toward the Upper Realm.
• After about a day in the passage, the three emerged in a rainy valley with sparse spiritual energy.
• Qu Jianlei sensed the surrounding area and learned they had arrived at Yanmao Fifteen District in the Houde Realm.
• True Immortal Jin Ge explained that Yanmao Fifteen was a large, backward continental plate with three Tier 3 Spirit Veins and fewer than ten Golden Core Realm cultivators.

Qu Jianlei, Qinghu, and True Immortal Jin Ge stayed in the Houde Realm’s Yanmao Fifteen region while their Lower Realm aura faded, learning about its people, resources, and privately owned Teleportation Arrays. Qu Jianlei chose not to use an array and asked True Immortal Jin Ge to take them through a passage, hinting that he knew Jin Ge had traveled that way before.

• Qu Jianlei and Qinghu agreed to remain in the Houde Realm for several days to dispel their Lower Realm aura, while Qu Jianlei reflected that he had never truly found a home.
• True Immortal Jin Ge explained that they needed to find a Tier 5 Spirit Vein, and Qu Jianlei said he would not worry before they knew what options were available.
• The three traveled through Yanmao Fifteen, where Qinghu noticed a family’s small patch of quasi-Tier 1 Spirit Grain and Qu Jianlei and True Immortal Jin Ge debated the hardship faced by ordinary people.
• Over five days, the group learned that Yanmao Fifteen had three Tier 3 Spirit Veins and that most outward Teleportation Arrays were privately owned by Golden Core Realm families.
• Qu Jianlei examined a Teleportation Array for ideas to improve his own, then chose to use a passage instead of someone else’s array.
• True Immortal Jin Ge objected to Qu Jianlei ordering him to construct a passage, and Qu Jianlei suggested Jin Ge had used one when he left the region before.

Qu Jianlei, True Immortal Jin Ge, and Qinghu were caught in a spatial passage and confronted by a towering figure identified as Dao Yan. Hypocrite emerged from the Portable Abode and used Slaying the Dao, leaving Qu Jianlei and Jin Ge stranded in the Houde Realm’s starry expanse while Qinghu lay unconscious.

• True Immortal Jin Ge planned to take Qu Jianlei and Qinghu to Yanfeng Three, and three days later he opened a spatial displacement route in the rain.
• The displacement unexpectedly turned into a passage, and True Immortal Jin Ge suspected a major cultivator had locked onto them.
• Hypocrite’s Broken Axe appeared on its own, and Hypocrite identified the towering presence ahead as possibly Dao Yan.
• Hypocrite attempted to use Slaying the Dao despite Qu Jianlei’s pleas, and a streak of light froze the space around them.
• Qu Jianlei awoke in the Houde Realm’s starry expanse, put unconscious Qinghu into the Portable Abode, and found True Immortal Jin Ge alive nearby.
• Qu Jianlei vanished into the Portable Abode to investigate, leaving Jin Ge facing a tiny floating pebble.

Qu Jianlei learned that Hypocrite had completed his final Slaying the Dao strike but remained uncertain whether his Obsession could be revived. After discovering the strike had lasted just over ten days and its target may have been a Void Refinement Realm being, Qu Jianlei welcomed the others into the Portable Abode and warned True Immortal Jin Ge not to harm the Little Match figure.

• True Immortal Jin Ge entered the Portable Abode, where Senior Violent told Qu Jianlei that Hypocrite had completed Slaying the Dao before his Obsession disappeared.
• Senior Violent suggested that Qu Jianlei might awaken Hypocrite if he grew powerful enough, and Qu Jianlei left determined to hold on to that hope.
• Qu Jianlei reasoned that Hypocrite's strike had broken through a powerful opponent's aura and wondered whether the Dao Stele could affect such an enemy.
• High-Fidelity Replica indicated that the Slaying the Dao strike lasted a little over ten days, while Big Head Butterfly estimated that its target was at least in the Void Refinement Realm.
• Qu Jianlei found Qinghu awake and let True Immortal Jin Ge enter the Portable Abode to recover.
• True Immortal Jin Ge realized the Little Match figure was the lifeform born from the Spirit Treasure remnant whose former home he had taken, and Qu Jianlei warned him not to harm it.

After a terrifying encounter in the Upper Realm, Qu Jianlei and his companions returned to Cangwu and kept the incident secret. Half a year later, Stalwart Master Shen Miao visited Red Leaf Ridge to negotiate for Asura Bubbles, but Qu Jianlei refused to travel to the Upper Realm and Shen Miao raised doubts about Ancestor Hong Yun.

• Qu Jianlei and True Immortal Jin Ge speculated about the powerful existence that had drawn them in, then decided to avoid further karmic entanglements and return to Yanmao Fifteen.
• The three traveled back to Cangwu without incident, and Qu Jianlei told Jing Yuexin that their trouble was too serious to discuss openly.
• Red Leaf Ridge kept a low profile for half a year while two Central Province squads worked together to exterminate Heavenly Demons.
• Stalwart Master Shen Miao visited Qu Jianlei and asked to trade for complete Asura Bubbles, offering to take him to the Upper Realm.
• Qu Jianlei refused to go to the Upper Realm and said he wanted laws, origins, or treasures of comparable value for the bubbles.
• After Qu Jianlei explained that Asura Bubbles had six levels, Shen Miao asked whether Ancestor Hong Yun's matter might be suspicious.

Qu Jianlei negotiated with Stalwart Master Shen Miao over rescuing Yi He from the Forgotten Peninsula, offering a Tier 3 Asura Bubble and a rare bone fragment. Shen Miao agreed to seek the Upper Realm’s involvement and warned that Star Palace might have harmed Qu Jianlei’s friend.

• Qu Jianlei offered a complete Tier 3 Asura Bubble if Bitter Sea rescued his missing friend, Yi He, while Shen Miao hesitated because Qu’s side would not assist.
• Qu Jianlei asked the Upper Realm to send someone down to negotiate, and Shen Miao agreed to report the request.
• Qu Jianlei gave Shen Miao a bone fragment from a Bone Dragon, which fascinated him as an unfamiliar object from another world.
• Shen Miao told Qu Jianlei that Star Palace’s repeated involvement in the Lower Realm was suspicious and that Ancestor Hong Yun had likely been framed.
• Shen Miao suggested that Star Palace might have harmed Qu Jianlei’s missing friend.

Qu Jianlei tested his improved Teleportation Array and returned to Forgotten Peninsula with his companions to investigate the mutated Folded Spaces and search for Yi He. As they prepare to enter, Bu Hu notices that Qu Jianlei’s Array Plate carries a hint of the Upper Realm’s aura.

• Qu Jianlei declined to help Bitter Sea rescue Yi He, and Shen Miao accepted his Bone Dragon fragments as a gift.
• After testing his improved Teleportation Array, Qu Jianlei visited Forgotten Peninsula with Paranoid, Mu Yu, Jiao Daoren, and Qi Ya.
• Qu Jianlei refused Bu Hu’s invitation to explore the mutated spaces together, but Shen Miao later led Bitter Sea’s team to investigate them and failed to find Yi He or Master Peng.
• After the explorers returned and the Demonic Qi was purged, Bu Hu asked Qu Jianlei to investigate the spaces because their reported mutations had mysteriously disappeared.
• Qu Jianlei agreed to enter with Bu Hu, prepared his improved Array Plate, and told Qi Ya to guard it.
• Bu Hu noticed that Qu Jianlei’s Teleportation Array carried a hint of the Upper Realm’s aura.

Qu Jianlei’s group searched the suspicious space in the Restricted Area, but his divination about Master Peng’s whereabouts triggered a severe backlash and revealed a threat tied to a major cultivator. After warning True Immortal Bu Hu to prepare carefully if an Immortal Venerable intervened, he left the others to report the unsettling discovery.

• Qu Jianlei’s group searched two Folded Spaces and then combed the most suspicious space, but found no clues to its anomalies or Yi He’s disappearance.
• Qu Jianlei divined with the Seashell and Turtle Shell, then withdrew into the Abode while his companions guarded him for three days.
• Qu Jianlei emerged and ordered the group to leave the Restricted Area without discussing what he had discovered there.
• After returning, Qu Jianlei told True Immortal Bu Hu and Stalwart Master Shen Miao that his divination had concerned Master Peng’s whereabouts and warned them to prepare if an Immortal Venerable took action.
• True Immortal Bu Hu and Stalwart Master Shen Miao left the courtyard with heavy hearts, and Bu Hu called Qu Jianlei unfathomable.

Qu Jianlei revealed that he had briefly divined a Great Expert suspected to be Dao Yan, then escaped the backlash and led Red Leaf Ridge away. With True Immortal Bu Hu and the Upper Realm making no move, tensions gradually eased, while the campaign against the Heavenly Demons settled into a long-term stalemate.

• True Immortal Bu Hu and Stalwart Master Shen Miao realized Red Leaf Ridge had evacuated and removed its Teleportation Array, so Bu Hu ordered her forces to withdraw and prepare for combat.
• Qu Jianlei told True Immortal Jin Ge that he had stopped divining after sensing an aura like one he had encountered in the Upper Realm, and that he had escaped without drawing the being's attention.
• Qu Jianlei and True Immortal Jin Ge discussed their shared karma from severing the small realm and agreed to wait for Bu Hu's report rather than act rashly or involve the Five Great Factions.
• Red Leaf Ridge stayed on alert while Forgotten Peninsula remained quiet; Bu Hu neither contacted Qu Jianlei nor returned to Dongsheng before departing for the Upper Realm more than a year later.
• The Heavenly Demons learned to hide and disperse, leaving cultivators to expect long-term coexistence as the Demonic Qi campaign continued and Cangwu changed permanently.
• Red Leaf Ridge gradually relaxed after another quiet year, then grew vigilant again when Bentley began attempting to form his Nascent Soul.