Recaps

True Venerable Wen Xian’s group caught Great Venerable Latan fleeing with the Disaster Fire and confronted the Star Tapir Great Venerables over the attempted theft. Latan pleaded to avoid execution, offering treasures and a way to treat the incident as an offense rather than a breach of their agreement.

• True Venerable Han Li and the others emerged from the Space Interlayer and found True Venerable Wen Xian pursuing Great Venerable Latan.
• True Venerable Han Li restrained Latan, and True Venerable Wen Xian trapped it with an Array Plate and took the Disaster Fire.
• Great Venerable Lajan and Great Venerable Laru disavowed Latan’s actions, while True Venerable Wen Xian warned Laru not to interfere again.
• Latan admitted it had taken the Disaster Fire but argued it meant to destroy it and insisted it had not intended to seize an opportunity.
• True Venerable Wen Xian accused Latan of exploiting the cultivators’ weakened state and demanded an explanation for its actions.
• Latan offered opportunities and treasures, then proposed that its offense not count as a breach of the agreement or require an Out-of-Body cultivator’s death.

The five cultivators settled their dispute with Great Venerable Latan and divided the opportunities they had secured. Qu Jianlei declined to claim an Origin, while Wen Xian put his share in the public pool as he shifted his resources toward a future breakthrough to Spirit Severing.

• Qu Jianlei suggested that Great Venerable Latan pay enough compensation to avoid a severe punishment, and True Venerable Wen Xian placed a warning restriction on it.
• The five cultivators confirmed there was no fourth opportunity and escorted the three Mò Race Great Venerables back.
• The team allocated the opportunities, reserving the Hidden Pattern Origin for True Venerable Han Li and assigning another Origin to True Venerable Min Ning.
• Qu Jianlei declined to claim the remaining Origin because he could not afford to compensate the others for it.
• True Venerable Min Ning claimed his Origin, while True Venerable Wen Xian put his share in the public pool and said the formation's losses should be remembered.

Qu Jianlei’s companions discussed his hidden assets and offered future opportunities before the team reached Great Venerable Latan’s territory to collect compensation. Latan’s meager payment angered Jin Ge, who challenged its claims of poverty and revealed that he knew the Mò Race cultivated through Ancestral Remains.

• Jin Ge told Wen Xian that Qu Jianlei could make imitations of the White Colt Tower, and Wen Xian offered yuan for the method.
• Qu Jianlei declined to sell more of his advantages, and Han Li promised to help him find another opportunity while Min Ning offered to sell him Origin Energy at a discount.
• The team reached Latan’s star system, and Han Li let Lajan and Lalu return after ordering them to deliver compensation.
• Lalu chose to stay and watch Latan’s situation, and five days later Latan arrived with two strands of Origin Energy, three similar treasures, twelve Extreme Spirit Stones, and other meager goods.
• Jin Ge attacked Latan over its poor payment, and Latan claimed the Mò Race lacked cultivation resources and relied on dietary supplements and external forces.
• Jin Ge questioned Latan about the Ancestral Remains, surprising it with his knowledge of the Mò Race’s cultivation practices.

True Immortal Jin Ge used the Mò Race’s Ancestral Remains and Rules as leverage to punish Great Venerable Latan for provoking them. Latan surrendered treasures and Rules to spare the tribe, while Qu Jianlei ended the chapter lamenting how poor he felt.

• True Immortal Jin Ge demanded ten Out-of-Body Ancestral Remains from Great Venerable Latan, then reduced the demand after Latan said only three remained.
• Great Venerable Latan agreed to a search but refused to surrender the tribe’s only intact Ancestral Remain, so Jin Ge threatened to take it anyway.
• Latan fled when Jin Ge attacked, then offered the Lightning Rule and Guardian Rules to make up for the protected Ancestral Remain.
• Jin Ge demanded more Rules, and Latan borrowed from Laru and another Star Tapir Great Venerable before adding seven Rules to the payment.
• Qu Jianlei gritted his teeth as the others looked toward him and told Jin Ge he was unhappy because he was poor.

The cultivators and the Mò Race searched for opportunities, then attacked Tree Race territory and swiftly cleared two planets. Qu Jianlei proposed taking the main planet, and Han Li shrank it away as the group recognized the risk of the act and the signs of a long-ago fusion between the Tree Race and Mò Race worlds.

• The five cultivators visited Lazhan's and Lalu's tribes, where each tribe paid one strand of origin and one Guardian Rule for their cooperation.
• The group checked a suspected opportunity in Tree Race territory, but the Star Tapir Great Venerables concluded it had disappeared.
• Han Li asked whether the nearby Out of Body Mother Tree was a target, and the group agreed to attack it and clear the surrounding planets.
• Jin Ge and Qu Jianlei helped destroy the Tree Race forces on two planets in less than half a day, while Han Li and the others restrained the planets.
• Qu Jianlei proposed taking the main planet, and Han Li enveloped and shrank it despite the karma it could bring.
• Qu Jianlei realized that the Tree Race and Mò Race worlds had fused more than ten thousand years earlier, and Han Li shared the responsibility for removing the planet.

Qu Jianlei and his companions tested the Tree Race World’s Will, extracted spirit veins, and moved on to another opportunity amid a Tree Race–Insect Race conflict. The World Will remained powerless, and the group decided to wait and watch the fighting before pursuing the opportunity.

• Qu Jianlei recognized the World Will’s faint sigh and deliberately provoked it, but it showed no further reaction.
• True Venerable Wen Xian extracted the spirit veins from two planets, leaving the star system unable to recover for five hundred thousand years.
• True Venerable Han Li compressed a planet into an ice ball, and the group traveled to their next opportunity.
• The group arrived at a planet where Insect Race forces confronted the Tree Race, and True Venerable Min Ning located an opportunity on the planet occupied by the Tree Race Mother Tree.
• True Immortal Jin Ge suggested that the group wait and watch the two races fight rather than attack directly.

Qu Jianlei and the four True Venerables confirmed that the Tree Race and Mò Race worlds were fusing, then turned their attention to the possible existence of an Insect Race World. The cultivators and Star Tapir Great Venerables agreed to enter the conflict together, and their intervention was immediately sensed by the Tree Race and Insect Race.

• The five cultivators used a month of divinations to confirm Qu Jianlei's theory that the Tree Race and Mò Race worlds were fusing, and True Venerable Han Li credited him with a merit.
• True Immortal Jin Ge suggested that the Insect Race might have its own Channel Entrance, prompting the group to make investigating the Insect Race their next objective.
• Lazhan pressed the cultivators to stop waiting, and Great Venerable Latan offered Star Tapir support in exchange for thirty percent of the alien corpses and a chance to fight both sides at once.
• True Venerable Min Ning negotiated the terms, and True Venerable Han Li agreed to the alliance and called for a division of labor.
• The Star Tapirs sent out their senses as the cultivators performed divinations, alerting the Tree Race and Insect Race that a new force had joined the conflict.

The cultivators and three Star Tapir Great Venerables launched a joint assault on the Insect Race and Tree Race, with True Venerable Han Li’s team targeting the Insect Race and the Star Tapirs engaging the Tree Race. The battle began with the cultivators rapidly breaking into the Insect Race’s forces, while the Star Tapirs advanced less effectively because they lacked coordination.

• The Star Tapir Great Venerables joined the cultivators after deciding that waiting for the Insect and Tree Races to weaken would leave them no role in the conflict.
• Qu Jianlei objected internally to True Venerable Han Li’s decision to attack rather than wait, but the team adopted a plan assigning the Insect Race to the cultivators and the Tree Race to the Star Tapirs.
• True Venerable Han Li unleashed an ice domain over the main forces, and True Venerable Min Ning, True Venerable Wen Xian, and True Immortal Jin Ge charged into the Insect Race’s ranks.
• Qu Jianlei stayed beside Han Li to guard against a possible half-step Divided Spirit, while Wen Xian used explosive formations and attacked Nascent Soul Insect Race members.
• The Star Tapir Great Venerables pushed through the Tree Race but attacked without coordination, while the cultivators continued their assault and sporadic attacks reached Qu Jianlei and Han Li.

The cultivators overwhelmed the insect race, but the Out of Body Mantis destroyed itself and its main force before they could capture it. The Star Tapir Great Venerables then advanced on the Out of Body Mother Tree, only to find that it had raised a planetary defensive shield.

• Han Li and Qu Jianlei helped suppress the battlefield while Min Ning, Jin Ge, and Wen Xian pressed the insect race and tried to capture the Out of Body Mantis alive.
• The Out of Body Mantis detonated its troops, escaped through the fields, and then destroyed its own body in a massive blast after Wen Xian disrupted its flight with a locking array.
• Han Li suspected the Mantis had not truly been killed and said they might have to destroy the God Lord Tablet to finish it; Jin Ge and Wen Xian then found that the Mantis's self-destruction had killed some of their captives.
• After the insect battlefield was cleared, the three Star Tapir Great Venerables advanced toward the Out of Body Mother Tree while Wen Xian covered the rear.
• The Mother Tree activated a defensive array on the planet, surprising Wen Xian, and Laru said some Tree Race knew arrays better than the Star Tapir.

The Star Tapir Great Venerables broke the Tree Race’s planetary formation, destroying an opportunity that had been used as its core, then defeated the Mother Tree and nearly wiped out the surrounding forest. The Cultivators demanded an accounting afterward, while the Mò Race struggled to offer compensation and the fate of the surviving Insect Race enemy remained unresolved.

• Latan persuaded Laru and Lazhan to attack the formation with all their strength, despite the Tree Race reinforcements and the Cultivators’ refusal to help.
• The grand formation collapsed, triggering intense fluctuations as its core opportunity was destroyed; the Star Tapir Great Venerables realized they had caused a disaster.
• The Star Tapir Great Venerables killed the Mother Tree and nearly wiped out the surrounding Tree Race Forest Sea while the Cultivators stood aside.
• Han Li demanded that the Mò Race answer for destroying the opportunity, and Latan offered to seek information from other tribes but could not promise results.
• Min Ning rejected responsibility for tracking down the Insect Race enemy, which Latan said might recover from hibernation, and Jin Ge argued that the Mò Race had chosen the battle itself.

After the promised opportunity in the Insect Race territory vanished, the Cultivators captured more Insects and found no clues about the channel to the Insect Race World. They agreed to follow Great Venerable Latan to one final opportunity site, but True Immortal Jin Ge declared their cooperation with the Star Tapirs over.

• True Venerable Han Li and the others ended their assistance to the Mò Race, divided the spoils, and rested after leaving the battlefield.
• The Cultivators examined prisoners' memories and learned that the Insect Race might have a realm above Great Venerable, but found no information about its world channel.
• After half a month, the group reached the promised opportunity site and discovered that the opportunity had vanished.
• Qu Jianlei proposed capturing more Insects, and six Great Venerables seized over twenty Nascent Souls and nearly a hundred Golden Core Realm Insects.
• The prisoners' memories still revealed nothing about the channel, and Great Venerable Lajan offered his captives to the Cultivators, who refused them.
• Great Venerable Latan persuaded Lalu and Lajan to accompany the Cultivators to its final opportunity site, where True Immortal Jin Ge ended their cooperative relationship.

The five Cultivators confirmed a Medium Auspicious opportunity in a dangerous Star Cluster guarded by two Out-of-Body Insectoids, then spent weeks calculating and preparing an ambush. Their two teams sprang simultaneous formations on the Insectoids, but Qu Jianlei’s group discovered that the Katydid could use a Size Dharma Image and had burned Incense Fire into its opening attack.

• Great Venerable Latan led the five Cultivators to the Star Cluster, where Wen Xian and Han Li confirmed an opportunity and sensed two Out-of-Body Insectoids.
• Wen Xian, Han Li, Min Ning, Jin Ge, and Qu Jianlei spent a month and a half calculating the danger and planning how to seize the opportunity without damaging it.
• Wen Xian secretly set up grand formations near both Insectoids, and the five Cultivators split into two teams to activate them at once.
• Han Li and Wen Xian restrained a Dragonfly with their formation and Han Li’s Cold Qi Domain, while Min Ning and Jin Ge attacked a Katydid alongside Qu Jianlei.
• The Katydid shrank with its Size Dharma Image to evade Jin Ge’s strike, then struck his Golden Ray with a Dark Ray; Jin Ge realized it had burned Incense Fire into the attack.

Qu Jianlei and the Cultivators killed two Out-of-Body Insectoids and fought off the swarms around the Star Cluster’s entrances. The Broken Blade revealed its strength against the Insect Race, leaving Jin Ge eager to count it as another ally.

• Qu Jianlei used the World Piercing Shuttle to distract the Out-of-Body katydid, giving his companions time to injure and kill it.
• The three Star Tapir Great Venerables joined the fight, and the Cultivators and Star Tapirs began clearing the leaderless Insect swarms around the Channel Entrances.
• Frenzied Insect Race forces charged from the entrances to protect their larvae and Insect Nests, while Han Li and Wen Xian handled one group.
• At Jin Ge’s prompting, Qu Jianlei used the Broken Blade to cut through an insect swarm and split the Insect Nests behind it.
• Jin Ge praised the Broken Blade as a new helper, then asked Qu Jianlei why he looked so strange.

Qu Jianlei and the Five-Person Group entered the Star Cluster, where they evaded dangerous Space Rifts and discovered a treasure capable of Instant Flash. The treasure repeatedly vanished to escape them, leaving the group to devise a more indirect way to track it while managing the growing danger.

• Qu Jianlei realized the Broken Blade wanted to enter the Star Cluster, and True Venerable Min Ning’s divination confirmed its interest in the opportunity.
• After the Insects were mostly cleared, the Five-Person Group waited for five days before entering the Star Cluster, while three Star Tapir Great Venerables took another route inside.
• The Star Tapir Great Venerables retreated after encountering increasingly strange Space Rifts, and Great Venerable Latan warned that the rifts seemed to be changing.
• The Five-Person Group used frequent divinations to avoid multiple Space Rifts, including some powerful enough to severely injure an Immortal Venerable.
• The group located the treasure capable of Instant Flash, but it vanished twice, revealing that it had spirituality and could conceal its divine nature.
• The five spread out within supporting distance and planned to divine the treasure more indirectly as the growing area of Space Rifts made constant divination impractical.

The Five-Person Group captured a winged mass of gray matter that caused Space Rifts, though no one could identify it. After Qu Jianlei proposed that it might be connected to the Primordial, the group was left considering what kind of destructive opportunity they had obtained.

• True Venerable Han Li led the group in tracking the gray matter, and True Venerable Wen Xian lost an Array Plate when Space Rifts erupted around it.
• True Venerable Min Ning divined that only True Immortal Jin Ge could withstand the gray matter, and Jin Ge agreed to take the primary risk for the credit.
• True Immortal Jin Ge trapped the gray matter in his damaged Jin Jing Net while True Venerable Wen Xian, True Venerable Han Li, and True Venerable Min Ning restrained it, allowing Han Li to capture it and flee with the others.
• The group gathered in the stable passageway and examined the struggling gray matter inside a Light Orb, but none of them recognized it.
• True Venerable Min Ning, True Venerable Wen Xian, and True Immortal Jin Ge compared it to powerful winds, while Qu Jianlei suggested it might be related to the Primordial.

True Venerable Han Li and the others identified their captured treasure as Primordial Gangyuan, a rare remnant of the Primordial, and debated who should keep it. After leaving the passage, they ended their cooperation with the Star Tapir Great Venerables, though Great Venerable Lajan secured a way to contact True Immortal Jin Ge about future opportunities.

• True Venerable Han Li divined that the treasure was Primordial Gangyuan, and True Immortal Jin Ge and Great Venerable Wen Xian explained its destructive nature and rarity.
• True Venerable Min Ning admitted he did not know how to use Primordial Gangyuan, while True Immortal Jin Ge asked True Venerable Han Li to compensate the group for the Jin Jing Net.
• True Venerable Han Li refused to bring out Qu Jianlei's Broken Blade for divination and questioned why it had coveted the treasure.
• The five cultivators left the passage, and True Venerable Min Ning and True Venerable Wen Xian told Great Venerable Latan that their cooperation had ended.
• Great Venerable Lajan asked True Immortal Jin Ge how to report future opportunities, and Jin Ge gave him a Jade Pendant and warned him to contact him only about genuine opportunities.

Qu Jianlei and the others destroyed the Out-of-Body Mantis’s temples across three star systems, then conquered a large Insect Nest while training their subordinate Cultivators. They obtained a Soul Containing Universe Stone and, after finding few further opportunities, learned that Lajan had stirred True Immortal Jin Ge’s karma.

• The five left the Star Tapirs and secretly traveled to the Out-of-Body Mantis’s lair, where they destroyed its temples across three star systems.
• After resting, the five attacked a large Insect Nest and sent their subordinate Cultivators in first to gain battlefield experience.
• The Cultivators killed the Out-of-Body Insect Race being and obtained Xia Ji’s opportunity, a large yellow Soul Containing Universe Stone, which True Venerable Han Li placed in the public treasury.
• The five spent the next two-plus months destroying two more Insect Nests and plundering Spirit Stones, but found no news about the Channel Entrance to the Insect Race World.
• After they destroyed a Tree Race Mother Planet without finding an Out of Body Mother Tree, True Immortal Jin Ge said that Lajan had stirred his karma.

Qu Jianlei’s group learned that Great Venerable Lazhan had summoned them to help the Mò Race after the Insect Race retaliated for their capture of prisoners. Lazhan offered true Primordial Purple Qi as payment, leaving the group to consider a dangerous rescue and revealing that Qu Jianlei’s earlier suggestion had helped set the trap in motion.

• Qu Jianlei joined True Venerable Han Li, True Venerable Min Ning, and the others as they traveled to meet Great Venerable Lazhan, who admitted there was no opportunity and asked for help instead.
• Lazhan offered true Primordial Purple Qi sealed by the Five-Colored Stone, and True Venerable Han Li recognized it as a top-tier opportunity that could bring grave danger.
• Lazhan explained that the Insect Race had destroyed two Mò Race Mother Planets after Mò Race members joined the Cultivators in battle and captured Insect Race prisoners.
• True Immortal Jin Ge realized the Insect Race had targeted Lalu, Latan, and Lazhan in retaliation, and questioned why the Mò Race had chosen to capture prisoners.
• Lazhan admitted the Mò Race had captured prisoners to curry favor with the Cultivators, while Jin Ge blamed Qu Jianlei’s earlier suggestion for helping provoke the retaliation.

Qu Jianlei negotiated a limited alliance with the Mò Race in exchange for a Yin-Yang Odd Stone, while insisting that the coveted Primordial Purple Qi be handed over before any full deal. When an Insect Race force invaded Lajan’s territory, the Cultivators and Mò Race assembled to meet it, and Qu Jianlei opened the battle with the World Piercing Shuttle.

• Great Venerable Latan threatened to relocate the Mò Race unless it quickly secured the Cultivators’ help, and offered its strand of Primordial Purple Qi as leverage.
• True Venerable Han Li and the other Cultivators negotiated with Lajan, while Qu Jianlei secured a ten-year-or-eight-Great-Venerables-killed limit and demanded the Primordial Purple Qi in advance.
• The negotiations stalled over the Primordial Purple Qi, so the Mò Race gave the Cultivators a Yin-Yang Odd Stone in exchange for preliminary cooperation against a multi-God Lord Insect Race invasion.
• On the eleventh day after receiving the stone, Lajan’s region was invaded by four Insect Race Great Venerables; Han Li, Wen Xian, Lalu, and two more Mò Race Great Venerables arrived to reinforce the defenders.
• Qu Jianlei launched the World Piercing Shuttle at the Insect Race forces, disrupting their formation and starting the melee.

Qu Jianlei and the cultivators broke the Insectoids’ formation and defeated their Out of Body fighters, but a mysterious divine sense revealed that the Insectoids had a power beyond Out of Body. The Star Tapir Great Venerables reconsidered their agreement with the cultivators as the surviving Insectoids’ dormant state became a point of dispute.

• Qu Jianlei’s World Piercing Shuttle strike threw the Insectoid formation into chaos, allowing the cultivators and Star Tapir Great Venerables to attack.
• After two days of fighting, three Out of Body Insectoids were defeated and one escaped, though only the Scorpion was truly killed while the others entered dormancy.
• The Scorpion’s death brought down a powerful divine sense that threatened the cultivators, repeated strange messages, and then vanished.
• Qu Jianlei denied causing the divine sense’s disappearance, while True Venerable Han Li concluded that the Scorpion’s God Lord Tablet had shattered.
• Jin Ge and Wen Xian insisted that dormant Insectoids still had to be dealt with, while the Star Tapir Great Venerables questioned whether dormancy counted as death under their agreement.
• The Star Tapir Great Venerables recognized that the Insectoids might have a Soul-Splitting Realm expert and asked to discuss the agreement’s terms.

The cultivators and the Mò Race reached a revised agreement to exchange Primordial Purple Qi for help killing Out of Body Realm enemies, and the cultivators received the sealed treasure. When a Star Tapir Great Venerable tried to bargain for information about the Heaven-Mending Stone, True Immortal Jin Ge attacked, leaving the two sides on the brink of conflict.

• True Immortal Jin Ge rejected the Mò Race’s proposal to count two dormant Insect Race members as one kill and threatened to return to the Cultivation World.
• Lazhan and two other Great Venerables left to persuade the Mò Race, which then agreed to hand over the Primordial Purple Qi under a ten-year limit or ten-kill agreement.
• Two Star Tapir Great Venerables delivered the Primordial Purple Qi sealed inside a Heaven-Mending Stone, and True Immortal Jin Ge insisted the stone remain with the cultivators.
• A Mò Race Great Venerable secretly offered to agree to the cultivators’ condition in exchange for learning the stone’s use, and True Immortal Jin Ge said it could be used for artifact refining.
• When the Star Tapir Great Venerable asked whether the cultivators had an artifact-refining expert, True Immortal Jin Ge attacked it, and True Venerable Han Li and Qu Jianlei prepared to fight as the Star Tapir Great Venerables called for a discussion.

True Venerable Min Ning secured the Heaven-Mending Stone for the cultivators, and the group debated how to divide it and the Primordial Purple Qi. The Star Tapir Great Venerable then tried to hire an Immortal Venerable to help kill dormant Out-of-Body experts, but Qu Jianlei demanded better compensation before Jin Ge shut down further bargaining.

• A Mò Race Great Venerable tried to squeeze out more information about the Heaven-Mending Stone, and True Immortal Jin Ge attacked it for its scheming.
• The Mò Race agreed to hand over the Heaven-Mending Stone in exchange for compensation, while True Immortal Jin Ge confirmed that the deal was worthwhile.
• True Venerable Han Li and True Venerable Min Ning discussed whether to keep the Heaven-Mending Stone and Primordial Purple Qi within their group, and Min Ning agreed to seek more opportunities rather than claim the stone immediately.
• A Star Tapir Great Venerable offered one Guardian Rule for help holding off two dormant Out-of-Body experts, and Qu Jianlei demanded one Guardian Rule per expert.
• True Immortal Jin Ge agreed to accompany Qu Jianlei, but refused the Star Tapir Great Venerable's attempt to bargain further and threatened to beat it up.

Qu Jianlei and the others joined the Star Tapir Great Venerables in hunting dormant Out of Body Insectoids, but the latest attack uncovered multiple Flying Ant Insectoids and a vast swarm. The Star Tapirs called for support as the battle grew more dangerous.

• Min Ning joined Han Li, Wen Xian, Qu Jianlei, and the Star Tapir Great Venerables as they set out to hunt Insectoids and complete their quota.
• The group attacked an injured Out of Body Rhinoceros Beetle and its Out-of-Body Snail protector; the beetle died, but the Snail escaped after a two-day battle.
• The Star Tapir Great Venerables destroyed the Out of Body Moth and claimed a Guardian Rule, then headed to the homeworld of a dormant Flying Ant Insectoid.
• Two Out of Body Insectoids, a Flying Ant and a Mantis, ambushed the group, but Qu Jianlei and Min Ning's blade attacks broke their intimidating divine sense.
• A huge Insectoid swarm emerged to support the pair, and another Out of Body Flying Ant arrived using Divine Descent with three Nascent Soul Insectoids as the Star Tapirs called for help.

True Venerable Min Ning, True Immortal Jin Ge, and Qu Jianlei trapped an Out of Body Mantis while Great Venerable Laru fought the Insect Race’s Divine Descent. As the mantis prepared to escape by sacrificing its swarm, Qu Jianlei brought out the Ritual Artifact, and the chapter ended as countless broken giant axes appeared before the restrained mantis.

• True Venerable Min Ning used the Stagnation Field to restrain the Out of Body Mantis, while True Immortal Jin Ge and Broken Blade attacked it and Qu Jianlei helped sustain the field.
• The mantis failed to escape and watched its swarm dwindle as the other Insect Race battles also turned against them.
• Great Venerable Laru used Soul-Guiding Kill to destroy one of the three Nascent Soul Realm Insect Race members bearing the Flying Ant’s Divine Descent, and the Flying Ant God Lord Statue cracked on the home planet.
• The mantis sensed the Flying Ant’s loss and ordered its subordinates to gather, while True Venerable Min Ning tightened the field around it.
• Qu Jianlei consulted Violent Obsession, then prepared the Ritual Artifact to erase the mantis; Min Ning intensified his restraint and Jin Ge withdrew.
• The mantis tried to self-detonate to escape, but the field disrupted it, and countless broken giant axes appeared in its vision.

Qu Jianlei and his allies annihilated the Out of Body Insectoids, and a soul-search revealed how they imitated the aura of a Half-Step Soul Division. The group learned that a Half-Step Soul Division definitely existed, but they were left questioning what the Scorpion’s death and its ravings had revealed.

• True Venerable Min Ning trapped the Out of Body Mantis while Broken Axe killed it and pulled back its escaping black thread.
• Qu Jianlei asked Violent Obsession to search the black thread’s soul, receiving information about the Insectoids’ ability to imitate a Half-Step Soul Division’s aura.
• The cultivators and Star Tapirs routed the Insectoid forces, and Starlight Kill erased the Out of Body Flying Ant and its subordinates.
• Great Venerable Laru explained that Starlight Kill could sever karma, and the Divine Lord Statue collapsed after the Flying Ant’s avatars failed.
• True Venerable Min Ning arranged for the two Guardian Rules to go directly to Qu Jianlei, while Qu Jianlei shared what he had learned from the soul-search.
• True Venerable Han Li asked whether the Insect Race had any Soul Divisions, and Qu Jianlei said he knew of none but was certain a Half-Step Soul Division existed.