Chapter Summaries

Pioneer Bank investigated the Broker Organization and concluded it was likely helping protect an illegal Energy Stone mine, not supporting rebels. The bank agreed to pursue Feng Jun’s complete D-Grade fleet, but warned that gathering it would take about thirty days, and Feng Jun asked whether secondhand weapons were available.

• Feng Jun demanded payment before delivery and a complete D-Grade deep-space combat unit with extra ammunition and logistical vessels.
• Pioneer Bank investigated the Broker Organization, and He Runxian confirmed that the Broker could deliver two hundred thousand tons of cargo without losses.
• Pioneer Bank pieced together evidence that the Broker had helped Hesheng transport Energy Stones and inferred that the organization was protecting an illegal mine.
• Pioneer Bank decided not to pursue the mine and agreed to seek Feng Jun’s requested equipment, though it warned He Runxian that assembling it would take about thirty days.
• He Runxian relayed the delay to Feng Jun, who asked whether Pioneer Bank had any secondhand weapons.

Feng Jun negotiated with Pioneer Bank for secondhand weapons and accepted a deal of two equipment sets plus a new Class-D Battleship. After learning that the goods were ready on a moon in the Dumbbell Galaxy, he went there and spotted extensive surveillance.

• Feng Jun told He Runxian that equipment at least eighty percent new would suffice, and He Runxian negotiated with Pioneer Bank.
• Pioneer Bank found enough used equipment for only two sets, so it offered three new Class-D Battleships as a substitute for the missing set.
• Feng Jun accepted the revised deal, while He Runxian worried about Pioneer Bank's warnings to modify the weapons and conceal their origins.
• Two days later, He Runxian told Feng Jun that the goods were ready on a moon in the Dumbbell Galaxy.
• Feng Jun traveled to the moon and noticed numerous satellites, space monitors, and other surveillance devices around it.

Feng Jun retrieved Pioneer Bank’s arms shipment from a hidden satellite warehouse and arranged for cultivators to study a D-Grade Battleship System for the planned Second Battlefield. He later brought the shipment to He Runxian’s storage yard, where the Military Intelligence Directorate watched as rain began falling again.

• Feng Jun found a new route through the satellite’s surveillance blind spots, reached the hidden warehouse, and stored away Pioneer Bank’s goods.
• Feng Jun used Fishing Elder’s token to request a Second Battlefield, and the Two Sects began assembling a team while he studied a D-Grade Battleship System with the cultivators.
• Feng Jun explained that Human Federation battleships could help confuse the Insect Race during the fishing operation, and the cultivators began learning to pilot them.
• Feng Jun made copies of Obsidian’s language knowledge and went to Xingzheng Star after the cultivators agreed to translate the battleship materials for him.
• Feng Jun contacted He Runxian and arranged to deliver Pioneer Bank’s shipment to No. 3 Storage Yard.
• The Military Intelligence Directorate sent hummingbird drones to watch the storage yard as its dome closed and rain began falling, prompting observers to wonder whether it was a weather weapon.

Pioneer Bank’s Rosen brought a convoy to Hesheng’s production base, where he and He Runxian argued over storing the bank’s goods. Meanwhile, Feng Jun received a new group of cultivators for the Second Battlefield, rejected a Chess Dao True Immortal, and secured approval to bring in more Emergence from Dust cultivators.

• A young lieutenant colonel ordered an investigation into the strange weather around Hesheng’s production base after a Hummingbird Drone reported another maneuver.
• Rosen led a Pioneer Bank convoy through the insect forces to Hesheng’s base, where the defenders repelled an attack and killed three colonel-class insects.
• Rosen asked to rent a warehouse for Pioneer Bank’s goods, but He Runxian refused and told him to transport the goods away in batches.
• Feng Jun received thirty True Immortals, five hundred True Adepts, and five hundred Emergence from Dust Stage disciples, then refused to escort the Chess Dao True Immortal.
• After Feng Jun explained the coordination risks of mixed-faction teams, Xia Nishang offered to supervise them, and Fishing Elder approved bringing another three hundred Emergence from Dust cultivators.

Feng Jun discussed using his white blood cell treatment for military supplies and challenged the conditions for establishing a natural village on his land. He left Lin Beauty wondering whether he planned to obtain permanent land ownership on another planet instead.

• Feng Jun told Yang Yuxin that he had brought back a production line for the white blood cell treatment and suggested approaching the Military Medical University to supply it to the military.
• Yang Yuxin agreed to arrange contact with the military and give them three months to start production.
• Zhong Lijing asked Feng Jun about switching to agricultural household registration, prompting him to ask Lin Beauty whether his natural village application had been approved.
• Lin Beauty explained that officials were debating household minimums, and Feng Jun said he would abandon the village plan rather than accept extra conditions for his land.
• Feng Jun told Lin Beauty that he could obtain permanent land ownership on other planets, leaving her startled.

Lin Beauty reported Feng Jun’s plan to buy land on another planet, while Yang Yuxin arranged for experts to assess a Leukocyte Growth Inducer production line. Feng Jun sent a disciplined group of cultivators to the Insectoid World and later found the cultivators on the Giant Planet drilling warship coordination.

• Lin Beauty reported Feng Jun’s interest in buying alien land, and the higher-ups discussed the possibility.
• Yang Yuxin gave medical experts production line documentation for the Leukocyte Growth Inducer, while Lin Beauty learned what the project involved.
• Zhang Caixin returned with three hundred Emergence from Dust Adepts, and Feng Jun learned that many clan cultivators had joined after sect disciples declined to sign Mei Yeyu’s oath.
• Feng Jun sent the assembled cultivators to the Giant Planet and spent the following days translating technological materials in the Blue Star Realm.
• Yang Yuxin went to the Two-Way Door to ask Red Sister to invite Feng Jun to guide the production line’s groundbreaking, but Feng Jun had already gone to Kun Hao.
• Feng Jun found cultivators practicing warship coordination on the Giant Planet, and the Yuangang True Immortal explained that they were preparing to make the operation look convincing.

Feng Jun oversaw the cultivators’ battleship training and Mindsteel Obsidian production as they prepared an expedition into the Insectoid World. He reluctantly boarded the fleet after being asked to guide the force and teleport for reinforcements if needed.

• Feng Jun watched the cultivators practice space tactics for three days and reminded them to limit their use of Divine Thought so the Insect Race would not detect them.
• Feng Jun collected the Mindsteel Obsidian made by the True Adepts, and Yue Qing explained that he had made seven sets, including spares for others.
• Xia Nishang and a Xuanhuang Sect True Immortal proposed assigning Emergence from Dust Adepts to battleship training, and Feng Jun left the expedition’s personnel arrangements to them.
• The cultivators assembled a fleet with nine hundred True Adepts and one hundred and fifty Emergence from Dust Adepts, while Feng Jun privately worried they had left too few reserves behind.
• Xia Nishang and a Yuangang Sect True Immortal persuaded Feng Jun to board the battleship so he could guide them and fetch reinforcements if the expedition ran into trouble.

Feng Jun advised the cultivators at the Folding-Ruler Galaxy to resist changing their fishing plan into a full assault, citing their lack of battle experience, limited coordination, and unreliable reinforcements. The group agreed to advance cautiously, using early skirmishes to train before striking hard when an opportunity arose.

• Feng Jun's group arrived at the Folding-Ruler Galaxy, where Xia Nishang's earlier reconnaissance had found roughly seventy Nascent Soul and four thousand Golden Core Insect Race members.
• After the group proposed a surprise attack on an outer planet, Feng Jun urged them to keep their original fishing objective despite their increased numbers.
• An Artifact Refining Path True Immortal argued that the group could request a True Venerable as reinforcement, and Feng Jun warned that relying on him and outside aid was risky.
• Feng Jun explained that he had other responsibilities on the first battlefield and at the major planet, then said he approved of the fishing plan because the Insect Race was selfish.
• Feng Jun recommended advancing steadily, rotating cultivators through small skirmishes, and waiting until the Insect Race grew accustomed to them before launching larger attacks.

Feng Jun helped plan a bait operation against the Insect Race and returned to the Icefield Plane, where forces from several sects gathered to enter the Void. Hanhai True Venerable arrived with a large Mysterious Water Sect group, accepted Feng Jun’s terms, and revealed that he had gone to the Myriad Illusions Sect to demand an explanation.

• Xia Nishang recognized Feng Jun’s distinction between war and battle, and the cultivators prepared a bait site by filling a boulder with Energy Stones in a Shattered Stone Belt.
• Feng Jun suggested moving the boulder out of the belt and redirecting it to make it appear to be heading back in, and the True Immortals agreed.
• Feng Jun returned to the Icefield Plane and found cultivators from many sects waiting, including groups from Xuanhuang and Yuangang who had learned of the gathering through Divination.
• Hanhai True Venerable arrived and brought six more True Immortals and over forty True Adepts from the Mysterious Water Sect.
• Hanhai True Venerable accepted Feng Jun’s conditions for Void access and explained that he had visited the Myriad Illusions Sect to demand an explanation for its role in the attack on Yi Jue, Feng Jun, and Wanqing.

Hanhai True Immortal and You Xuan True Immortal pressured the Myriad Illusions Sect over Ouyang Beishan, forcing it to cripple his cultivation. Hanhai then told Feng Jun about the favor, but Feng Jun struggled to persuade him to accept a share of the treasure-hunting sites.

• Luan Xiong True Immortal supported Hanhai True Immortal's plan to confront the Myriad Illusions Sect over Ouyang Beishan.
• Hanhai True Immortal invited You Xuan True Immortal to join him, and they confronted the Myriad Illusions Sect together.
• You Xuan True Immortal demanded Ouyang Beishan's death, and the Myriad Illusions Sect's True Immortals eventually crippled his cultivation.
• Hanhai True Immortal later told Feng Jun that he had acted against the Myriad Illusions Sect, after Feng Jun had agreed to Hanhai's request.
• Feng Jun offered Hanhai all the treasure-hunting sites Hanhai discovered in the Void, but Hanhai refused to accept the gift outright.
• Feng Jun proposed giving Hanhai thirty percent of the sites, and Hanhai laughed while the other True Immortals pleaded on Feng Jun's behalf.

Feng Jun helped True Adept Hanhai establish a new treasure-hunting area in the Void and then returned to the Folding-Ruler Galaxy, where the Human cultivators had begun mining a huge boulder. The mining operation remained undetected, and Feng Jun urged the impatient cultivators to wait rather than lure the Insect Race with illusions.

• Feng Jun showed True Adept Hanhai the known treasure-hunting sites and explained why Big Rock was important to him.
• True Adept Hanhai asked Feng Jun for a Void map, and Feng Jun inscribed two maps and gave them to him.
• True Adept Hanhai chose a site at the edge of True Immortal Luan Xiong's explorations, and Feng Jun transported the Mysterious Water Sect members there.
• Feng Jun went to the Folding-Ruler Galaxy and watched as Emergence from Dust cultivators began mining the huge boulder under cover.
• After Golden-Core Insect Race members passed nearby without approaching, a Painting Dao True Immortal and Xia Nishang asked Feng Jun about luring the Insect Race over, but he advised them to be patient.

Feng Jun and the Human Race cultivators lured Insect Race forces to an illegal Energy Stone mine and ambushed them as reinforcements arrived. Their latest attack on six Nascent-Soul Insect Race and nearly a hundred Golden Cores lasted long enough for nearby planets to detect the battle, leaving the ambush exposed.

• Xia Nishang expressed concern about keeping more than thirty True Immortals and nearly a thousand Golden Cores waiting, but Feng Jun insisted they follow their planned tactics.
• An Insect Race squad discovered the mine, and the cultivators waited until the insects began shipping out Energy Stones before killing the hidden sentries and capturing the miners.
• Feng Jun's group captured a returning transport squad, then trapped and killed the Potter Wasp's forces when they came to investigate the missing scorpion and Energy Stones.
• Escaped insects revealed the deposit to two Nascent-Soul groups, which gathered allies and nearly fought over the mine before the Formation Dao True Immortal's ambush began.
• The cultivators struggled to eliminate six Nascent-Soul Insect Race and nearly a hundred Golden Cores before alarms and battle fluctuations alerted insects on nearby planets.

Feng Jun and the cultivators waged a guerrilla campaign across the Insect Race’s six planets, killing Nascent-Soul insects and disrupting their forces. After nearly two months, Feng Jun visited the large planet and entered the Void, where he found the Mysterious Water Sect still searching the Shattered Stone Belt.

• The Insect Race mobilized against the Human Race warship, but Feng Jun and the cultivators killed the Sandworm and escaped with the Energy Stones.
• Human Race mechs struck the sixth, fourth, second, and first planets, forcing the Insect Race to scatter back to defend its worlds.
• Feng Jun taught the cultivators guerrilla tactics, and they killed another eight Nascent-Soul insects over the following days.
• Feng Jun decided that fighting alongside the cultivators suited him and helped them travel between planets and retreat safely.
• After nearly two months, Feng Jun found the large planet orderly and entered the Void, where he discovered the Mysterious Water Sect disciples still searching the Shattered Stone Belt.
• Feng Jun asked why the Mysterious Water Sect had stayed together in the Shattered Stone Belt instead of seeking other treasure-hunting sites.

Feng Jun learned that True Venerable Hanhai had discovered a Void Wraith Horde and helped him bring True Venerable Yang Jing to the Shattered Stone Belt. He set limits on transporting True Venerables and arranged to send Yang Jing away discreetly, while Hanhai and Yang Jing prepared to deal with the horde.

• A True Immortal told Feng Jun that the Mysterious Water Sect party had encountered Void Nomads but stayed in the Shattered Stone Belt to explore its treasure-hunting sites.
• True Venerable Hanhai returned and told Feng Jun he had discovered a Void Wraith Horde led by a Spirit Projection Stage wraith with over a hundred lesser wraiths.
• Feng Jun agreed to help Hanhai seek reinforcements but insisted that the Insectoid World remained his priority and that the Void trip needed careful timing.
• Feng Jun brought Hanhai to the Icefield, then used his time waiting for Yang Jing to notify Xia Nishang and the others in the Insectoid World.
• True Venerable Hanhai returned with Martial Uncle Yang Jing, and the three traveled through the Void to the Shattered Stone Belt.
• Feng Jun refused to bring half the Mysterious Water Sect members without a time limit, then agreed to send Yang Jing away discreetly; Yang Jing revealed that the wraiths countered Hanhai's cultivation technique.

Feng Jun returned to the Folding-Ruler Galaxy and learned that Xia Nishang and the cultivators had launched a sweeping campaign against the Insect Race across several planets. After the Human Race besieged the Spider Broodmother Nest on the second planet for five days, a giant phantom spider appeared and began forming a gray beam of light.

• Feng Jun wondered why True Immortal Hanhai and True Immortal Yang Jing had entered the Void together before Xia Nishang told him the cultivators were launching a major campaign.
• Thirty True Immortals attacked the Insect Race warehouse on the third planet, killing most of its Nascent Soul defenders and looting the warehouse.
• The Human Race attacked an advanced breeding base on the fourth planet, wiping out its Insect Race population and forcing reinforcements from the sixth planet to turn back.
• The cultivators attacked the Spider Broodmother Nest on the second planet with Super Particle Cannons and fought for five days while the first planet withheld support.
• A giant phantom spider appeared above the broodmother nest as the Human Race prepared to break through its final defenses, and a pale gray beam began to form.

Feng Jun sought urgent help after an Insect Race god-lord answered a Divine Descent, threatening the Human Race cultivators. The Guardians offered a three-breath use of the Mountain-River Seal or a loan to repair the Overturning Heaven Seal, and Feng Jun chose to pay five thousand Upper Spirit Stones upfront.

• The Spider God answered the call of a spider Nascent Soul guarding the shrine, and the Human Race cultivators contacted Feng Jun for urgent reinforcements.
• Feng Jun teleported into the void to seek help, but True Venerable Yang Jing grabbed him; after Feng Jun escaped, the two Venerables realized they might be stranded there.
• Feng Jun went to the Guardians and asked for timely help, explaining that his friends faced Divine Descent in the Insectoid World.
• The Guardians pointed out that Feng Jun’s Mountain-River Seal was the original Overturning Heaven Seal and offered three breaths of its power for five thousand Upper Spirit Stones.
• The Guardians offered to repair the seal for ten thousand Top-Grade Spirit Stones on loan at nine in, thirteen out, but Feng Jun decided to pay five thousand Upper Spirit Stones upfront.

Feng Jun returned to the second planet and used the modified Mountain-River Seal to destroy the spider phantom, wipe out the nearby Insect Race, and smash their nest. After the cultivators searched and destroyed the Divine Temple, Feng Jun led everyone beyond the star system.

• Feng Jun retrieved the Mountain-River Seal, and the Guardians added three mysterious gray lines to it.
• Feng Jun returned to find Divine Descent exposing the cultivators as the spider phantom formed overhead.
• Feng Jun struck the spider phantom with the Mountain-River Seal, whose ancient staff-like phantom destroyed it and killed the Insect Race within three thousand miles.
• Feng Jun refused a share of the insect corpses and agreed to lead the cultivators to the Divine Temple.
• Feng Jun and the True Immortals searched the Temple's vaults, destroyed the temple, and fled before relocating beyond the star system.

The Spider Ancestral God investigated the destruction of its Divine Descent and learned that the Human Race had destroyed its Divine Temple. Unable to discover how the humans had done it, it sought help from the Centipede Ancestral God, who refused to send a Nascent Soul to the second planet.

• Insects on the first planet spotted humans shattering the Spider Clan's Divine Descent and reported the strange event to their higher gods.
• The Spider Ancestral God discovered that its predecessor's Divine Soul had lost consciousness after suffering backlash, then failed to contact the damaged Divine Temple.
• The Spider Ancestral God contacted the Centipede Ancestral God, who said the Human Race had destroyed the temple and mentioned humans without protective suits.
• The Spider Ancestral God asked the Centipede Ancestral God to arrange for a Nascent Soul to erect a divine statue on the second planet in exchange for Incense Faith.
• The Centipede Ancestral God refused, saying its only remaining Nascent Soul was guarding its Divine Temple.

After the battle on Planet Two, Feng Jun organized the wounded and discussed how the cultivators should proceed against the Insect Race. He sent the forces to recover and be examined for lingering karma, then visited the miners on the major planet, where he agreed to obtain formation materials from Heavenly Zither.

• The cultivators counted eight dead Golden Core cultivators and eighteen dead Emergence from Dust cultivators, with many more seriously wounded, and Feng Jun ordered two days of rest before their next push.
• Xia Nishang asked why they had not summoned a True Venerable, and Feng Jun explained that the sudden Divine Descent had left no time to find one.
• Feng Jun told the Formation Dao True Immortal that his sect had given him three strands of aura, two of which remained, and the cultivators went to the passage entrance to be checked for Divine-Path Karma.
• Feng Jun sent the wounded and surviving forces to their respective gathering places, while the factions claimed the campaign vacancies for their own people.
• Feng Jun visited the major planet and agreed to buy formation materials for the miners, asking them what else they might need.

Feng Jun arranged to obtain materials for the Insectoid World and discussed his method for destroying Divine Descent with True Venerable Luan Xiong. Luan Xiong offered to help if trouble arose in the Insectoid World, but Feng Jun declined to carry his token and said he would come to Blazing Flame if he needed rescue.

• Feng Jun asked the Golden Crow Sect shop to gather materials for formations in the Insectoid World, and the shop agreed to prepare them by the next morning.
• After learning what the materials were for, the Golden Core cultivator offered two hundred sets for free, but Feng Jun insisted on paying; True Venerable Luan Xiong then increased the gift to four hundred sets.
• True Venerable Luan Xiong asked Feng Jun about the technique he had used against Divine Descent, and Feng Jun hinted that it came from the Investiture Era but refused to explain further.
• Feng Jun warned Luan Xiong that incidents had been happening in the void and said having more True Immortals along would improve safety.
• Luan Xiong offered to help if trouble arose in the Insectoid World, but Feng Jun declined his token and said he would come to Blazing Flame to seek rescue if needed.