Recaps

Mier rallied the frightened Green Vine Army by arguing that they could destroy the Instance’s star system with their space warships and win the reward. Turet recovered from fainting and ordered the remaining ninety million troops to assemble for an attack on the Solar System, while Mier revealed he had brought a special person into the Instance as a weapon.

• Mier persuaded the Green Vine people that destroying the star system could let them win, and they regained their courage.
• Turet fainted in fury, then revived after soldiers poured energy drinks over him and vowed to defeat Lin Ye’s Instance.
• Mier urged Turet to reach the Solar System before the Flying Star at Rest BUFF took effect.
• Turet ordered the ninety million surviving Green Vine troops to board ten Ancient Tree Spacefaring Warships and form up for the advance.
• Turet and Mier agreed to divide command of the ten warships, and Mier said he had brought a special person into the Instance as a weapon.

Mier brought the converted Kaza to the military base to learn about Lin Ye and how to defeat his Instance. Kaza described Lin Ye’s strengths but downplayed the threat, leaving Mier and Turet with a potentially misleading assessment.

• Mier summoned Kaza, a former Azure Civilization Challenger transformed into a Green Vine weapon, to question him about Lin Ye.
• Kaza described Lin Ye as a powerful, cunning Instance Designer who had risen to LV5 in just over a month.
• Mier demanded details about Lin Ye’s strength and possible weaknesses.
• Kaza said Lin Ye’s strongest weapons in Earth Online were the Nantianmen Warship System and a Stellar-Class Nuclear Bomb, and claimed he had nearly conquered Lin Ye’s Instance.
• Kaza called Lin Ye arrogant and said his Instances contained loopholes, then insisted Lin Ye could not defeat the Green Vine Civilization.

Turet and Mier trusted Kaza’s incomplete memories of Lin Ye’s Instance and decided to launch a surprise attack on Earth Online. After ordering the Green Vine Army to set out, Turet realized they had no way to cross the four light-years between the Trisolaran Civilization and the Solar System.

• Kaza transmitted his memories of Lin Ye’s confrontation with the Firmament Instance to Turet and Mier, who judged Earth Online to be an ordinary Endless-level Instance.
• Turet recruited Kaza as an adviser, and Kaza recommended attacking Earth Online as soon as they reached the enemy star system.
• Turet and Mier agreed with Kaza’s plan and dismissed evidence that Lin Ye’s Instance had become far stronger.
• A Green Vine Soldier reported that the army and its weapons were aboard ten Ancient Tree Aerospace Battleships, though the ships might not survive the Chaotic Era.
• Turet ordered the fleet to set sail for the Solar System, then realized their battleships might not be able to travel the four light-years to reach it.

Turet and Mier learned that the Trisolaran star system was too far from the Solar System for their fleet to reach it before the system’s deadly environmental changes. Divine Firmament revealed an optional portal, but Turet’s interruptions had caused the Instance to begin without activating it, so he ordered his forces to hurry there.

• Mier and Turet realized their battleships could not cross the four-light-year distance before the Trisolaran star system was destroyed, and Turet blamed Lin Ye for the setup.
• Turet protested to Divine Firmament that the map’s distance made the Instance impossible to play.
• Divine Firmament denied the protest and revealed a portal at Proxima Centauri that could transport the Challengers directly to the Solar System.
• Turet praised Lin Ye for adding the portal, but Divine Firmament explained that Turet’s interruptions had caused the Instance to start without activating it, costing them four hours.
• Mier warned Turet that the Solar System’s forces might attack through the portal and trap them, so Turet ordered his troops to board the Ancient Tree Aerospace Battleships and assemble there.

The Green Vine Army raced through the unstable star system and entered the portal, while Turet and Mier concluded that Lin Ye’s 48-hour warning was a trap. On Earth, Emperor Ding Chang received word that the enemy had breached the outer defense perimeter, and Alice was present as the Federation prepared to intercept them.

• The Green Vine Army escaped Trisolaris as the shifting Fixed Stars plunged the planet into a sudden ice age.
• Mier warned Turet that the chaotic star system could destroy their fleet long before 48 hours had passed, and Kaza agreed that Lin Ye’s warning was a smokescreen.
• Turet ordered all ten Ancient Tree Aerospace Battleships to charge through the portal at top speed and attack the Solar System.
• At the military command center in the Forbidden City, Emperor Ding Chang received reconnaissance signals while Alice ate snacks.
• A commander reported the enemy incursion to Alice and announced plans to deploy the Neptune military base, the Space Marine Seventh Legion, and the Star Destroyer fleet.

Ding Chang met Alice, the artificial intelligence who could retain knowledge across Instance resets, and let her command the defense against the Green Vine Army. Alice began preparing to destroy the invaders while concealing the Solar System’s full strength.

• Alice finished eating cake and told Ding Chang that she would assist him.
• Alice explained how she connected the Instance to reality and carried combat records through each reset.
• Alice showed Ding Chang intelligence gathered by the Solar System’s outer defenses and judged the Green Vine Army weak.
• Alice recommended that Ding Chang rest while she used the defensive perimeter to defeat the invaders.
• Ding Chang approved, and Alice began operating a Solar System overview on her Light Screen.

Turet and the Green Vine Army entered the Solar System through a portal placed in the distant Oort Cloud, where they found themselves surrounded by extreme cold and darkness. Kaza realized their ships lacked the fuel to reach Earth, leaving the fleet stranded far from its target.

• Turet led ten Ancient Tree Aerospace Battleships through the portal into the Oort Cloud at the edge of the Solar System.
• The Green Vine Army encountered near-absolute-zero temperatures, darkness, and scattered frozen celestial bodies as Turet scanned the region.
• Turet examined the Instance map and learned their location was 50,000 to 100,000 astronomical units from the Sun and 1.6 light-years from Earth.
• Kaza warned Turet that the portal's remote location left the fleet without enough energy or fuel to reach Earth.
• Turet complained that Lin Ye had tricked the Challengers by placing the portal so far from their destination.

Lin Ye watched the Green Vine Civilization struggle to understand its predicament as Turet and Mier considered how to survive inside the Instance. Their plan to build up strength over a ten-year journey was interrupted when the Solar System’s defense system detected them and activated.

• Lin Ye mocked Turet and Mier’s indecision and said he was growing bored with the Green Vine Challengers.
• Mier reported that the Ancient Tree Warship had found no nearby life signs or enemy weapons.
• Turet pointed out that reaching Earth would take ten years because the Green Vine Civilization lacked faster-than-light travel and their ships lacked sufficient energy.
• Mier proposed staying in the outer region, building up their forces, and preparing for a protracted war.
• An unidentified system attack breached the spaceship’s systems, and the Divine Firmament announced that the Solar System Eight Planets Defense Ring System had activated.

The Solar System Defense Perimeter detected and disabled the ten Ancient Tree Aerospace Battleships, then prepared strikes from weapons across the planets. As countdowns began, Kaza recognized the overwhelming firepower as Lin Ye’s familiar style.

• Turet and the other Challengers questioned how the Solar System’s defense system could detect them at the edge of the system.
• The Divine Firmament announced that the Oort Cloud network had deciphered the fleet’s deployment and quantum weapons had disrupted the ships’ control systems.
• The ten Ancient Tree Aerospace Battleships lost control, their formation scattered, and Turet panicked.
• The Divine Firmament announced that defense platforms and weapons across the Solar System were preparing attacks, with strike countdowns underway.
• Kaza collapsed as the weapons announcements brought back memories of The Great Wall Watch and Lin Ye’s overwhelming firepower.

Mier tried to rally the Green Vine Civilization’s forces as Divine Firmament’s countdowns announced incoming attacks, but the crippled fleet could not respond. A Cryogenic Laser Beam struck the ten battleships, freezing their systems, warriors, and hulls as the civilization faced destruction.

• Kaza and Turet collapsed in terror as Divine Firmament’s weapon countdowns continued.
• Mier ordered the Green Vine Army to disperse, but the damaged control systems left his commands unanswered.
• Mier refused to believe that the Solar System’s attack could destroy the billions-year-old Green Vine Civilization.
• The Cryogenic Laser Beam arrived and struck the ten Ancient Tree Aerospace Battleships.
• The beam froze the battleships’ plant armor and systems, trapping millions of Green Vine Warriors in the cold.
• The frozen hulls cracked apart under the combined effects of the beam and the vacuum of space.

Alice used a low-intensity Freezing Laser to immobilize the Green Vine Army rather than destroy it, intending to follow up with Antimatter Missiles. As Turet remained frozen and helpless, the second wave of the Solar System Defense Perimeter's assault arrived.

• Alice's Freezing Laser froze the Green Vine Army, exploiting the Green Vine people's vulnerability to extreme cold.
• Ding Chang asked Alice why she had not used a stronger laser to deal with the army directly.
• Alice explained that she wanted to let the Antimatter Mega Bomb fly longer and give the Challengers and spectators time to experience the Instance.
• Turet struggled against the freezing effect but could move only his mind, and he wondered how one laser could subdue the Green Vine Army.
• A flash of white light appeared in the sky as the second wave of the Solar System Defense Perimeter's assault arrived.

An antimatter missile struck the Green Vine fleet and unleashed an annihilation wave that erased battleships and warriors in a vast, silent explosion. As the destruction spread, Kaza realized the Green Vine Army’s fleet was doomed and was overcome with regret as he thought of Lin Ye.

• Turet and Kaza watched the antimatter missile approach the fleet and explode at its center.
• The blast tore open space and began silently erasing the nearest Ancient Tree Aerospace Battleship and everything aboard it.
• The expanding Annihilation Wave engulfed more battleships, reducing Green Vine warriors and military equipment to energy and atomic dust.
• A gigantic Mushroom Cloud of warped space and pure energy rose from the fleet, leaving a smooth spherical void at its base.
• Kaza recognized the destruction would wipe out the Green Vine Army’s fleet and thought of Lin Ye with fear, despair, and regret.

Lin Ye's antimatter attack annihilated the Green Vine fleet and all nearly one hundred million Green Vine challengers, ending the Instance. The settlement erased the challengers for failing to pay their penalty and awarded Lin Ye several Green Vine technologies.

• Kaza regretted betraying Lin Ye and Azure Star as he watched the Space Rift spread, while Turet and the frozen Green Vine people faced their doom.
• Lin Ye's antimatter explosion engulfed the fleet, dissolving its living beings and closing the Space Rift as the ten Ancient Tree Aerospace Battleships vanished.
• Divine Firmament announced that all Green Vine challengers had been killed and that the Instance mission had failed.
• Divine Firmament used its funds to cover the challengers' unpaid penalty and erased all Green Vine Civilization challengers.
• Divine Firmament awarded Lin Ye several Green Vine technologies, including Plant Body Form Transformation Technology and Ancient Tree Aerospace Giant Ship technology.

After Lin Ye eliminated the Green Vine Civilization’s hundred million elites in under ten minutes, Divine Firmament announced that the civilization had lost its available Instances and nearly all its Star Yuan. The settlement rated Solar System Online among the Universe Arena’s top five Instances, while the Green Vine Civilization faced a two-week deadline to recover or be downgraded.

• Divine Firmament warned that the Green Vine Civilization had fallen below War Zone 112’s minimum Star Yuan threshold and had lost all its available Instances.
• Divine Firmament reported that the Solar System Online Instance had eliminated 100,000,000 people, with a 0% clearance rate and a 100% elimination rate.
• Divine Firmament gave Solar System Online a Stellar-level rating and projected it to rank among the top five Instances in the Universe Arena.
• Spectators across the Universe Arena reacted in stunned silence before flooding the livestream with comments about Lin Ye’s overwhelming victory.

Lin Ye’s Solar System Online Instance ended in a decisive victory, earning the Azure Civilization one million Star Yuan and drawing attention from civilizations across the Universe Arena. Back in the Federation Tower, the shaken District Heads reacted to the Instance, while Lin Ye prepared to plan his next moves.

• Azure Star spectators celebrated Lin Ye’s victory and taunted the civilizations that had mocked the Instance.
• The Instance ended, and Lin Ye and the District Heads returned to the Federation Tower, where only a second had passed in reality.
• Lin Ye judged Alice’s performance successful because she had revealed enough strength to intimidate rivals while keeping the Azure Civilization’s core technology secret.
• Divine Firmament awarded the Azure Civilization one million Star Yuan and transferred the Green Vine Civilization’s plundered technology to Lin Ye’s Creation Space.
• George, Arthur, and the other District Heads admitted that Lin Ye’s Instance had terrified them.

Lin Ye showed the District Heads his vast Solar System Online Instance, leaving them stunned by its scale and power. He explained that they could eventually create similar Instances by studying the Earth Online data and building them step by step.

• George and Arthur trembled at the scale of Lin Ye's Instance, and Lin Ye reassured them that they were on the same side and had nothing to fear.
• Long Yuan and Fulangche praised Lin Ye's Instance and its weapons, while Long Yuan struggled to comprehend how far it surpassed their own designs.
• Xi'er celebrated the slaughter of the Green Vine people and told Lin Ye she wanted to see them suffer longer.
• Lin Ye told the District Heads that his galaxy-sized Instance was built from planets and urged them to study the Earth Online data and begin producing their own designs through fission.

Lin Ye ordered the District Heads to create Instances quickly so Azure Civilization could fill its remaining Arena slots and advance. After Azure Civilization climbed to twentieth place, he decided to delay opening Trisolaran Civilization until Solar System Online had revealed more of its progress, so other civilizations would still challenge his Instances.

• Lin Ye told the District Heads to stay at Federation Tower, complete their Instances within a week, and wait for his assessment before deploying them in the Universe Arena.
• The District Heads agreed to focus on designing their Instances and left district affairs to their subordinates.
• Lin Ye apologized to Katerina for not using her Queen in the recent Instance and promised she would appear in a future one; Katerina thanked him and left to rest.
• Lin Ye saw that Azure Civilization had reached twentieth place with 1.6 million Star Yuan after its victory.
• Lin Ye decided to open Solar System Online several more times and reveal half its progress before launching Trisolaran Civilization, so rival civilizations would remain willing to challenge his Instances.

Lin Ye saw the Azure Civilization’s Instance records and ignored their rewards, then greeted the other Civilization Guides in the public chat. As Guides privately sought peace or cooperation, a message from Black Crow caught his attention.

• Lin Ye saw the Azure Civilization’s records in several Universe Arena Instance rankings and judged their exemption rewards useless for his plans.
• Civilization Guides discussed the Azure Civilization’s strength in the War Zone 112 public chat, and Lin Ye invited everyone to challenge his Instance.
• Parute privately apologized on behalf of the Green Vine Civilization and begged Lin Ye to spare it.
• Other Civilization Guides privately sought peaceful relations with Lin Ye, while Black Crow offered cooperation on behalf of the Crow Civilization.

Lin Ye dismissed Black Crow’s proposed alliance and returned to his Creation Space, where he assigned Alice new projects for expanding his Instances. He also ordered her to display Coward Kaza as a warning to future challengers.

• Black Crow offered Lin Ye an alliance and shared information about the Intelligent Machines Civilization’s Core Storm Instance, but Lin Ye suspected he was being lured into a dangerous challenge.
• Lin Ye told Black Crow he would consider the alliance, then decided to avoid challenging other civilizations’ Instances for now.
• Lin Ye returned to the Creation Space, where Alice reported building more Star Destroyers, adding Droplets, and improving the star system’s planets and military bases.
• Lin Ye asked Alice to recreate Insect Star and Plant Planet on asteroids using the giant insect Leviathan’s genes and technology plundered from the Green Vine Civilization.
• Lin Ye ordered Alice to imprison Coward Kaza outside the Forbidden City’s Meridian Gate as a warning to anyone who challenged his Instance.

Lin Ye reclaimed Kaza and agreed to Alice’s plan to imprison him as a perpetually suffering NPC. He then asked Divine Firmament how to exceed the one-million-Star-Yuan reward limit and learned that proving his Instance and civilization were far above War Zone 112’s level could change the rule.

• Lin Ye considered Kaza’s usefulness as a source of Species Modification Technology and as a public warning against betrayal.
• Alice proposed locking Kaza in a cage outside the Forbidden City and giving him an updating memory so he would suffer indefinitely, and Lin Ye approved.
• Lin Ye inspected Creation Space, left it, and asked Divine Firmament how to break the one-million-Star-Yuan-per-Instance limit.
• Divine Firmament explained that civilizations with strength and potential far beyond their assigned War Zone could earn an adjustment by proving their Instances exceeded the War Zone’s level.
• Lin Ye recognized the system as a hidden-rating mechanism and asked Divine Firmament how to prove his Instance was far stronger than the War Zone average.

Lin Ye raised the Solar System Online Instance’s population to one billion and its reward or penalty to the five-million-Star-Yuan limit, accepting the risk that failure would destroy the Azure Civilization. The updated Instance was released to the Universe Arena, where its unprecedented scale shocked all one hundred civilizations.

• Lin Ye decided to set the next Solar System Online Instance’s Challenger population to one billion, and Divine Firmament warned that this exceeded the Arena’s limit by ten times before accepting his command.
• Lin Ye asked for the maximum possible reward or penalty and learned that he could set it to five million Star Yuan per run, with failure risking the Azure Civilization’s annihilation.
• Lin Ye accepted the danger, ordered the updated Instance released, and Divine Firmament announced it to the Arena’s one hundred civilizations.
• The announcement said civilizations could sign up within twelve hours to challenge the Instance, after which Divine Firmament would select one at random.
• Civilizations across the Arena reacted with shock, and many considered Lin Ye’s one-billion-Challenger design reckless.

The Intelligent Machines God BT1315 assessed Lin Ye’s Solar System Online Instance and decided that its expanded player limit made it a chance for the Intelligent Machines Civilization to advance. He ordered his creations to prepare for battle and announced that he would submit a challenge application.

• The Intelligent Machines God BT1315 received his creations’ reports about Lin Ye and the Solar System Online Instance.
• BT1315 concluded that the Instance was powerful but believed Lin Ye had made a fatal mistake by raising its player limit to one billion.
• BT1315 reasoned that the large population and high rewards could let the Intelligent Machines Civilization overwhelm the Instance and advance.
• BT1315 said the Demon Pet Civilization was also likely seeking to challenge the Instance and ordered his creations to update their data and prepare for battle.
• BT1315 announced that he would submit an Instance challenge application.

Lin Ye chose the Intelligent Machines Civilization as the next challenger for Solar System Online, eager to test the strongest civilization in War Zone 112. The announcement shocked the Universe Arena and fueled Azure Star’s fervent worship of him as the dungeon’s next battle approached.

• After Divine Firmament reported 52 applicant civilizations, Lin Ye read the public chat and saw the Intelligent Machines and Demon Pet civilizations insulting him and demanding a challenge.
• Lin Ye judged the Crow Civilization too dangerous to challenge for now and selected the Intelligent Machines Civilization.
• Divine Firmament announced the Intelligent Machines Civilization would challenge Solar System Online in 12 hours, broadcasting the news throughout the Universe Arena.
• More than a million believers gathered outside God Ye Grand Cathedral and celebrated Lin Ye’s decision to challenge the strongest civilization.
• Archbishop Brahma urged the believers to rest and prepare to cheer Lin Ye when the dungeon opened.

Lin Ye prepared the District Heads to watch the next Solar System Online Instance, assuring them that its previous 0.05% completion rate had barely revealed its power. As the countdown began, the believers and spectators gathered to watch him challenge the Intelligent Machines Civilization.

• Lin Ye convened the District Heads and told them to study Instances while they waited for the livestream.
• Long Yuan questioned Lin Ye's decision to raise the Azure Civilization's population to a billion and challenge the War Zone's top-ranked Intelligent Machines Civilization.
• Lin Ye said Solar System Online had shown only 0.05% of its content and claimed the Intelligent Machines Civilization could be destroyed with a flick of the fingers.
• Lin Ye assigned the District Heads to watch with questions and prepare a reasonable question about Instance design afterward.
• The Solar System Online livestream room opened, and God Ye Church followers flooded it with messages of support.
• Divine Firmament announced that Lin Ye's Instance would open in three minutes, and the countdown began.

The Intelligent Machines Civilization entered the Stellar-level Instance Solar System Online and rapidly turned Trisolaris into a heavily armed mechanical stronghold. The chapter left the spectators witnessing the vast gap between the top-ranked civilization and the Green Vine Civilization.

• Spectators flooded into the Livestream Room and mocked the Azure Civilization for challenging the undefeated Intelligent Machines Civilization.
• The countdown ended, and Divine Firmament began the Stellar-level Instance Solar System Online.
• The livestream revealed that the Intelligent Machines Civilization had already seized control of Trisolaris and begun expanding its military base.
• The Intelligent Machines Army deployed factories, mecha, fortresses, weapons, robots, aircraft, and spaceships across the planet.
• The Intelligent Machines Civilization prepared its defenses and aimed its weapons at the system’s three fixed stars.