Recaps

Earth Online received a sweeping technological explosion that transformed its military, industry, and alliance structure as it prepared to face the alien invasion. Robot armies and other machines surged toward the battlefield, leaving Earth’s forces vastly strengthened.

• Earth Online gained buffs for quantum communication, genetic modification, psionic abilities, mass-produced fleets, fusion power, quantum computing, environmental reshaping, intelligent machines, universal military service, and a unified Alliance Era.
• Soldiers and military equipment in Africa glowed as technicians and mechanical arms upgraded mechs with stronger armor and optimized weapons.
• Rotten Cow Country’s robot factory expanded rapidly and began producing advanced robot soldiers in enormous numbers.
• More than a hundred million robot soldiers marched toward the African continent in a steel torrent.
• Cars, tractors, and other machines across Earth came under electronic control and headed for the battlefield.

Lin Ye triggered Earth Online’s Technological Explosion, rapidly advancing humanity from a level 0.7 civilization to level 1 and mass-producing advanced weapons and spaceships. Though Ding Chang had already defeated Insect Star’s trick, the Firmament’s showdown had strengthened Lin Ye’s Instance, and he prepared to enjoy the next stage.

• At Rooster Country’s Quantum Computer Data Center, technicians used the Quantum Computer’s enhanced power to rapidly build advanced arsenals and spaceships across Earth.
• Lin Ye revealed that Ding Chang’s sacrifice had been the hidden trigger for humanity’s Technological Explosion.
• Lin Ye explained that the resulting buffs raised Earth Online’s civilization to level 1, while Insect Star’s Zerg fell short of that level and were certain to lose.
• Lin Ye noted that Ding Chang had already exposed and destroyed Insect Star’s trick before the buffs were needed.
• Lin Ye recognized that the showdown had strengthened Earth Online, whose technological advances would remain after the Instance ended, and looked forward to what came next.

Earth’s upgraded forces launched a sweeping counterattack that killed two Leviathans, destroyed the Zerg Hatchery Pools, and wiped out the North African vanguard. The last Leviathan fled toward the vanished Dimensional Gate, and Herlu ordered the Yuri Legion to capture it.

• Herlu ordered the Earth Allied Forces to attack, and aerospace fighters and mechas heavily wounded the two Leviathans over the East African Rift Valley.
• The two Leviathans fell into the rift and died, leaving their swarms disorganized and vulnerable to the human forces.
• Moon Base announced a space-based strike and destroyed every Zerg Hatchery Pool on Earth with laser fire.
• Bear Country’s enhanced warriors and Rotten Cow Country’s upgraded Machine Legion wiped out the Zerg vanguard in North Africa.
• The last Leviathan tried to flee toward the vanished Dimensional Gate, and Herlu ordered Bear Country’s Yuri Legion to capture it.

Herlu and the Earth Allied Forces captured the Leviathan with the Yuri Legion’s mind-control powers, fulfilling Ding Chang’s final instruction. The Firmament confirmed the Zerg’s defeat and declared Lin Ye the winner of the Instance showdown.

• Herlu ordered the Yuri Legion to capture the fleeing Leviathan and preserve it for Earth’s research.
• The 1,000 Yuri warriors focused their mental powers on the Leviathan and bound it with red arcs.
• After struggling, the Leviathan submitted to the Earth Allied Forces and declared its allegiance to humanity.
• The Firmament announced that the Zerg had lost their advanced control units and ability to reproduce, and that their remaining forces were being assessed.
• Humans across Earth Online, the Moon Base, and the Satellite Cities celebrated the victory.
• The Firmament declared the Zerg Civilization exterminated and announced that Lin Ye had defeated it in the Instance showdown.

After Lin Ye won the showdown, Azure Star regained its resources and sunlight, and the Firmament appeared to self-destruct. Lin Ye then discovered the Instance backend still worked as a star chart appeared and Divine Firmament announced Azure Star’s promotion to a Level One Civilization Planet.

• The Firmament announced the showdown’s end, Azure Star’s freedom from Kazi Star, the return of its resources, and its own impending destruction.
• Lin Ye and the rest of Azure Star returned to their restored world, where people celebrated and Lin Ye saw sunlight and a blue sky for the first time.
• Lin Ye checked his Instance backend and found his level, points, and Instances still existed despite the Firmament’s disappearance.
• A vast star chart appeared overhead, displaying planets across the Universe.
• Divine Firmament introduced itself as the Instance Administrator for War Zone 102 and announced Azure Star’s promotion to a Level One Civilization Planet and Kazi Star’s downgrade to a Primitive Planet.

Divine Firmament made Lin Ye Azure Star’s exclusive Civilization Guide and explained that the planet had entered a new era of interplanetary dungeon warfare. As Azure Star received futuristic infrastructure as a reward, Lin Ye learned that its people would have to compete against other civilizations in War Zone 102.

• Divine Firmament granted Lin Ye exclusive Civilization Guide privileges and showed him an interface listing Azure Star’s people and their dungeon status.
• Divine Firmament announced that Azure Star’s internal dungeon showdowns would end and that its Designers and challengers would face other planets in Planetary Civilization Instance Showdowns.
• Lin Ye asked about War Zone 102, and Divine Firmament explained that Level 1 civilizations were divided into war zones and could advance by defeating rivals and earning points.
• Lin Ye objected that Azure Star’s weak Designers were unprepared to face other civilizations, so Divine Firmament promised protective mechanisms and introduced a Civilization Replenishment reward.
• Divine Firmament upgraded Azure Star’s infrastructure to match the technology of its strongest dungeon, instantly bringing futuristic buildings, aircraft, and a Space Elevator to the planet.

The Divine Firmament rewarded Azure Star with mapped infrastructure, temporary exemption from other civilizations’ Instances, and control over a Primitive Planet. Lin Ye received a list of possible planets and had to choose how Azure Star would control one, leaving him to confront the cruelty of the system.

• The Divine Firmament explained that it had mapped the infrastructure from Lin Ye’s Instance onto the world, while leaving him to decide whether to share its technology and weapons.
• The Divine Firmament granted Lin Ye two months of exemption from other civilizations’ Instances and gave all humans on Azure Star one month of protection.
• Lin Ye considered how to use the protection period to advance his Instance toward a Level Two or Level Three Civilization.
• The Divine Firmament offered Azure Star three methods of controlling a Primitive Planet: a Parent-Child Planet Contract, forcible control, or plunder and destruction.
• Lin Ye received a list of hundreds of millions of Primitive Planets and realized that his choice could erase an entire civilization, reflecting that Kazi Star had spared Azure Star by not choosing plunder.

Lin Ye chose Firmament control and made Kazi Star, the civilization that had controlled Azure Star, his ruled planet. He established instance-battle and point-extraction rules, then announced himself as Kazi Star’s ruler.

• Lin Ye rejected cooperative control and plunder, choosing Firmament control over Kazi Star because it had once been a level-one civilization and could yield technology and points.
• Divine Firmament gave Lin Dong access to Kazi Star’s data, revealing a population of two billion, 900 million instances, and a civilization dependent on insects.
• Lin Ye named the program after himself and required Kazi Star’s inhabitants to enter instances twice daily, with a rest day every five days and the same point-rebate ratio Kazi Star had imposed on Azure Star.
• Divine Firmament generated Lin Ye’s Firmament on Kazi Star, and Lin Ye announced himself as the planet’s ruler and urged its Dungeon Designers to create better instances.

Lin Ye forced Kazi Star into a new cycle of Instance battles while Divine Firmament explained the Universe Arena’s planetary Star Yuan system. He learned that managing Azure Star’s shared reserves and population would be essential to its survival and advancement.

• Kazi Star citizens cursed Lin Ye and resisted his rule, but the Firmament killed those who attacked Dungeon Designers, while others took their own lives.
• Lin Ye ordered Kazi Star’s challengers and Designers to enter randomly selected Instance battles, with the first round beginning in ten minutes.
• Divine Firmament announced that points in the Universe Arena would be converted into Star Yuan, leaving Lin Ye’s hundred million points worth one Star Yuan.
• Divine Firmament explained that Azure Star’s roughly 60 trillion points amounted to 600,000 Star Yuan, and that planetary reserves would fund one Instance battle per day.
• Lin Ye learned that draining challengers of points could increase deaths and lead to the planet’s downgrade, so he would have to manage Azure Star’s resources and population as its guide.

Lin Ye learned that Azure Star had entered War Zone 102, where civilizations’ status and rankings were public and Instance battles threatened their survival. With the other Azure Star people facing battles in a month, he ordered Long Yuan to gather former Settlement Commanders and top Designers so he could organize the planet’s response.

• The Divine Firmament announced the end of its guidance and warned that brutal Instance battles would begin after the exemption period.
• War Zone 102’s broadcasts revealed civilizations ascending, leaving, and being downgraded, while the Peak Rankings showed Azure Star in eightieth place with 600,000 Star Yuan.
• Lin Ye realized that Azure Star’s exposed status and low ranking could make it a target, and that its people had only one month before being drawn into battles.
• Lin Ye called Long Yuan and told him to contact former Settlement Commanders and the Hero Ranking’s top ten Designers.
• Lin Ye ordered everyone to gather at the Federal Building in Central City, Lin Ye Settlement, the next morning, and said Settlements would no longer be necessary.

The Intelligent Machines God and the Crow Civilization studied Azure Star after it appeared in Warzone 112, each viewing the newly promoted civilization as a target. The chapter ended by establishing that Azure Star had attracted attention across the warzone, where the law of the jungle ruled.

• The Intelligent Machines civilization traced its rise from Haijia Star to the Intelligent Machines God taking control of the planet through powerful Instances.
• The Intelligent Machines God declared that destroying Azure Star could provide enough Star Yuan for the civilization to rise to level two and ordered its people to target Azure Star after the newcomer protection period.
• The Crow Civilization noticed Azure Star and discussed how it might soon be swallowed by the darkness.
• The chapter explained that Crow Star had become a permanently dark, horrifying world after its Instance technology fed back into reality.
• Civilizations across Warzone 112 focused on Azure Star, which had drawn their attention as a newly promoted civilization.

Lin Ye gathered Azure Star’s strongest settlement commanders to establish a unified Federation, arguing that the planet needed to unite against alien civilizations. After explaining that settlements would be abolished, he declared his intention to become the Federation’s Commander and asked whether anyone objected.

• Katerina reported that most settlements supported Lin Ye’s Federation and were willing to surrender their stored points, while anti-war groups had begun forming across Azure Star.
• Lin Ye ordered Katerina to manage the anti-war population and prevent people from living too comfortably, and she agreed to prepare a proposal.
• Katerina asked when she could enter an Instance alongside Lin Ye, and he told her that opportunities would come if she became strong enough.
• Lin Ye entered the conference room and addressed the seven invited settlement commanders, including Long Yuan, Ivan, Fulangche, Xi'er, George, Arthur, and Brahma.
• Lin Ye announced that settlements would soon be abolished and declared that he wanted to become the Commander of the Federation, asking if anyone objected.

Lin Ye established the Azure Star Interstellar Federation after the former settlement leaders agreed to follow him as Commander. He assigned them territories and research fields, then left them to develop technology that could help Azure Star face stronger civilizations.

• Long Yuan, Xi'er, Brahma, Fulangche, Ivan, Arthur, and George all supported Lin Ye becoming Commander, and Lin Ye warned them that he could deal with anyone who betrayed him.
• Lin Ye declared the Azure Star Interstellar Federation established and appointed the seven leaders and Katerina as the planet’s highest rulers beneath him.
• Lin Ye ended the settlement system and assigned the leaders responsibility for Azure Star’s central, western, southern, northern, eastern, outer, and island regions.
• Lin Ye warned the leaders that other civilizations’ Instances were too powerful for them and promised to share basic and core technologies.
• Lin Ye assigned each leader a research field and ordered them to report their results to him weekly.

Lin Ye shared core technologies with seven former Commanders and tasked them with designing planet-scale Instances for Azure Star’s future battles. After assigning Katerina administrative duties, he entered Creation Space to begin designing his own new Instance.

• Lin Ye warned the seven former Commanders not to share their assigned core technologies and explained that they must keep them from falling into other civilizations’ hands.
• Lin Ye ordered the regional heads to stop designing small Instances and build planets, star systems, and fleets capable of fighting in the cosmic arena.
• Lin Ye revealed that he planned to use their designs to help expand his own Instances, and Xi'er and George exchanged challenges over their design abilities.
• Lin Ye told the regional heads to devote the month to Instance design and keep their people from challenging other civilizations’ Instances.
• Lin Ye assigned Katerina some Federation administrative duties and encouraged her to design starships.
• Lin Ye moved into the Federation Building and entered Creation Space to design his newest Instance.

Lin Ye entered the upgraded Creation Space and began designing Solar System Online, a level-two civilization Instance. After using one-click error correction to generate the Sun, he placed Earth Online in orbit around it, completing the first step of the new Instance.

• Lin Ye learned that the upgraded Creation Space offered faster simulations, one-click error checks, and error correction usable once per week.
• Lin Ye learned that the Cosmic Arena version of the Creation Space drew on the technological achievements of civilizations throughout the Universe.
• Lin Ye began designing a stellar-scale Instance by entering the Solar System’s formation history and the Sun’s properties into the Creation Space.
• The Creation Space offered to correct errors in Lin Ye’s Sun-generation logic, and Lin Ye used his weekly error-correction opportunity.
• The Creation Space generated the Sun, then placed Earth Online in orbit around it.

Lin Ye used Creation Space to begin forming the seven planets around the newly created sun, planning to turn them into fortified extraterrestrial colonies. As the planets took shape, he decided Solar System Online’s first major technology would be the Dyson Sphere project.

• Lin Ye planned to create the seven remaining planets and their main moons, then build strategic fortifications and expand them into a star system legion.
• Lin Ye transmitted data about Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune to Creation Space.
• Creation Space gathered stardust into spheres, and the seven planets began taking shape in their orbits around the sun.
• Lin Ye chose to recreate the Solar System as it had existed in his previous life to avoid logical discrepancies.
• Lin Ye identified planetary surface transformation and stellar-scale energy extraction as crucial technologies, then named the Dyson Sphere project as Solar System Online’s first technology.

Lin Ye planned to build a Dyson Sphere to supply the energy needed for his war-zone campaign and set out a program to transform humanity into Space Marines and Psionics. The Dyson Sphere began generating in Creation Space, while Lin Ye prepared to unify the Solar System’s forces and create enhanced human warriors.

• Lin Ye entered the Dyson Sphere project into Creation Space, which assessed it as more than 50 percent feasible and began generating it around the sun.
• Lin Ye planned to replace the Five Permanent Members with a unified Solar System alliance and place its armies and starships under one command.
• Lin Ye planned genetic, psychological, and physical modifications to create Space Marines while preserving their basic human form.
• Lin Ye intended to use Yuri of Bear Country as the foundation for Psionics with abilities such as long-range communication, navigation, and control over machines.

Lin Ye decided to equip his Instance with Level Two Civilization technology and saw artificial intelligence as a way to accelerate its development and explore future technologies. He instructed Creation Space to create a self-aware super AI named Alice, bound to serve humanity and unable to replicate itself, while remaining wary of the danger it could pose.

• Lin Ye ruled out technologies below Level Two Civilization and considered advanced fields, including artificial intelligence, energy, space exploration, and dimensional weapons.
• Lin Ye realized an AI inside his Instance could generate technology independently and help Creation Space simulate new designs.
• Lin Ye speculated that Alice could research technologies such as the Dual-Vector Foil and submit proposals for Creation Space to correct and generate.
• Lin Ye ordered Creation Space to upgrade Rooster Country's quantum computer into Alice, requiring her to serve humanity, avoid self-replication, and remain destructible.
• Creation Space reported that Alice's design had a success rate above 50% and began preliminary simulation.

Lin Ye generated the remaining planets in the star system, began reshaping their environments, and turned to developing a Star Destroyer for interstellar combat. Creation Space warned that the blueprint had less than a 50% success rate, but Lin Ye ordered the simulations to continue.

• Lin Ye watched Creation Space generate the seven other planets and their major satellites.
• Lin Ye submitted instructions for technologies to reshape the planets and regulate their climates.
• Lin Ye decided that a large Star Destroyer was the essential weapon for future interstellar wars.
• Lin Ye submitted his Star Destroyer model to Creation Space, which warned that its success rate was below 50%.
• Lin Ye ordered Creation Space to continue simulating and generating the Star Destroyer.

Lin Ye learned that super artificial intelligence Alice had been designed and asked her to estimate how long the Solar System Online Instance would take to complete. Alice offered to supervise its development, potentially finishing it within a month, and assured Lin Ye that she would remain loyal to him.

• Creation Space notified Lin Ye that super artificial intelligence Alice had been designed and hidden within Earth Online.
• Alice introduced herself to Lin Ye and explained that she would assist with humanity’s development.
• Lin Ye asked Alice to estimate the time needed to complete the Solar System Online Instance, and she calculated about two and a half months.
• Alice offered to supervise the Instance’s design and shorten its completion time to within one month.
• Lin Ye warned Alice that her existence depended on the Instance, and Alice affirmed her loyalty and said he would always retain final authority.

Lin Ye assigned Alice to oversee Instance design and guide Earth Online while he rested after leaving Creation Space. Katerina then reported that Kaza had formed a resistance army in the Libya Settlement and escaped Lin Ye’s control by signing himself and two million residents up for the imminent Universe Arena Instance.

• Lin Ye told Alice to manage Instance designs, encourage Earth Online’s development, and explore future space-time technologies.
• Lin Ye left Creation Space and ate breakfast prepared by Katerina.
• Katerina told Lin Ye that Kaza had rejected his election as alliance commander and formed a resistance army in the Libya Settlement.
• Katerina revealed that Kaza and two million residents had signed up for the Universe Arena Instance, which was about to open.

Lin Ye learned that Colonel Kaza had challenged the Universe Arena and ordered Azure Star to watch the livestream together. He gathered the regional leaders to observe Kaza’s challenge and assess other civilizations, then asked about their recent hardship.

• Katerina showed Lin Ye a video in which Kaza denounced the Federation and declared that he would challenge the Universe Arena directly.
• Lin Ye judged that Kaza’s defeat would not seriously harm Azure Star as long as he did not spend its Star Yuan or reveal its technology.
• Lin Ye praised Katerina for bringing the regional leaders together and ordered Azure Star’s people to watch Kaza’s challenge.
• Half an hour later, Lin Ye arrived at the Federation conference room, where the leaders had gathered before the livestream began.
• Prince Singh told Lin Ye that he had collected nearly all of Azure Star’s points, and Lin Ye told him to stay and learn at the meeting.
• Lin Ye noticed that the leaders looked exhausted and asked whether they had been having a hard time.

Lin Ye gathered Azure Star’s leaders to discuss their instance designs and watch Kaza’s challenge against the Green Vine Civilization. The Tree Spirit Abyss finished loading with two million Azure Star volunteers and NPCs filling the remaining challenger slots.

• Long Yuan, Xi'er, and the other regional leaders told Lin Ye they were struggling to master his instance-design techniques.
• Lin Ye advised the leaders to study other civilizations’ instances and keep learning as they prepared their designs.
• Lin Ye gathered the leaders to watch Kaza challenge the Green Vine Civilization’s Tree Spirit Abyss instance.
• Miss Carter told Lin Ye that Green Vine ranked last in the War Zone and had 50,000 Star Yuan.
• The Tree Spirit Abyss loaded for two million Azure Star volunteers, with NPCs set to fill the remaining challenger vacancies.

Lin Ye and the Azure Star delegation entered the livestream for the Green Vine Civilization’s Tree Spirit Abyss instance, a 50-million-person instance matched with 16 million challengers. As the countdown began, they saw the plant-covered world and its unusual inhabitants, and Lin Ye concluded that the civilization excelled at ecological technology.

• Xi'er said Divine Firmament was using NPCs to fill the challenger slots, and Lin Ye explained that the NPCs would only serve as foot soldiers and could not bring technology or weapons into the instance.
• Divine Firmament announced that matchmaking was complete for 16 million challengers, started a three-minute countdown, and opened the Tree Spirit Abyss livestream to War Zone 112.
• Lin Ye ordered everyone in the conference room to enter the livestream, and they watched the camera reveal a planet covered in dense, living vegetation.
• Lin Ye recognized the Green Vine Civilization as one that specialized in ecological technology and made extensive use of planetary energy.
• Fulangche remarked that the instance units were planets and suggested they observe the war zone’s last-ranked civilization as the camera showed its plant-covered world and hairless, eyeless inhabitants.

Lin Ye watched the Green Vine Civilization’s Tree Spirit Abyss Instance and judged it to be built on familiar, scientific principles. As the countdown to the challenge ended, spectators from across the war zone mocked Azure Star for confronting another civilization so soon.

• The regional leaders commented that the Green Vine people looked cute and harmless, but Lin Ye warned them not to judge the Instance by appearances.
• Lin Ye reasoned that the Green Vine Civilization’s humanoid appearance supported his belief that civilizations followed similar paths, and he felt confident he could defeat one that relied on science rather than mysticism.
• With less than a minute until the Instance opened, the livestream filled with insults aimed at Azure Star and its decision to challenge another civilization.
• Spectators from Crow Star, Machine Intelligence Star, Swan Star, Vega, Yumo Star, and the Dark Star Civilization mocked Azure Star’s inexperience and predicted it would suffer in the Universe Arena.