Chapter Summaries

As the Zerg sent every Leviathan toward Earth, Ding Chang realized that Insect Star itself was a living organism that controlled the Broodmothers and the rest of the Zerg. The expeditionary force had been nearly wiped out, and the chapter ended with the planet’s true nature revealed.

• The Firmament announced that the Broodmother was sending every Leviathan to Earth after the expeditionary force suffered over ninety percent casualties.
• Azure Star viewers despaired as they watched the expeditionary force’s losses and many left the livestream.
• Ding Chang studied his notes and recalled Insect Star’s fissure, eruptions, and rapid healing.
• Ding Chang concluded that Insect Star was a gigantic living creature that had given birth to and controlled the Zerg, with the Broodmothers serving as its organs.

Ding Chang ordered the Earth Allied Forces to retreat through the Dimensional Gate while the Heart of Gold launched the Stellar-Class Nuclear Bomb at Insect Star. He stayed behind with the Heart of Gold to delay the Leviathans, preparing for his final battle as the bomb approached its target.

• Ding Chang learned that the Stellar-Class Nuclear Bomb could destroy Insect Star and determined that the remaining forces needed to retreat before it exploded.
• Ding Chang ordered the Luan Bird aerospace carriers and the Star of Entrepreneurship to pass through the Dimensional Gate, while the Heart of Gold began the bomb's launch sequence.
• Ding Chang flew into space to hold back the approaching Leviathans, insisting that the commanders return to Earth and support the fighting there.
• The surviving crews saluted Ding Chang as the ships raced through the Dimensional Gate and the Heart of Gold launched the Stellar-Class Nuclear Bomb.
• Ding Chang and the Heart of Gold crew remained near Insect Star, accepting that the ship could no longer escape, and Ding Chang announced his final battle.

Ding Chang used the Yellow Emperor Mecha to hold back the 20 Leviathans at the Dimensional Gate as the Stellar-Class Nuclear Bomb approached Insect Star. Insect Star swallowed the bomb just before impact, and the chapter ended before its explosion was revealed.

• The 20 Leviathans raced toward the Dimensional Gate as the Stellar-Class Nuclear Bomb entered Insect Star's atmosphere.
• Ding Chang deployed the Yellow Emperor Mecha and vowed to stop the Leviathans from reaching his people.
• Ding Chang unleashed the mecha's weapons, using its Pulse Shield and heavy fire to block and wound the 20 Leviathans.
• The Leviathans attacked the Yellow Emperor Mecha with corrosive slime while the nuclear bomb's countdown reached its final seconds.
• Insect Star split open and swallowed the Stellar-Class Nuclear Bomb just before it landed.

A stellar-class nuclear bomb destroyed Insect Star, the Heart of Gold, and the twenty Leviathans before the blast killed Ding Chang and ended the livestream. Back in the Instance livestream room, Lin Ye reflected on Ding Chang’s decision and prepared to reveal Earth Online’s remaining advantage over Firmament.

• The nuclear bomb ignited Insect Star, whose destruction sent a shockwave that obliterated the Heart of Gold and reached the Dimensional Gate.
• The blast burned the twenty Leviathans to ashes and killed Ding Chang after he urged his fellow people of Earth to carry on.
• The Insect Star livestream vanished, and the spectators returned to Earth Online.
• Lin Ye praised Ding Chang’s final decision while acknowledging the expeditionary force’s earlier tactical mistakes.
• Lin Ye told Firmament that Earth Online’s trump card was not the stellar-class nuclear bomb and that the Zerg had no chance of winning.

The Dimensional Gate closed after the Earth Allied Forces destroyed Insect Star, but the surviving soldiers learned that Alliance Chief Ding Chang and President Trump had died in the battle. As Herlu rallied the troops to avenge them, Earth Online triggered a Technological Explosion buff.

• Thirty Luan Bird Aerospace Carrier Platforms and the Star of Entrepreneurship returned as the Dimensional Gate closed and the three Leviathans lost their shields.
• The Firmament announced that Insect Star had been destroyed and that the war would continue until either humanity or the Zerg were extinct.
• Herlu and the Earth Allied Forces celebrated the news, then learned that Ding Chang and Trump had died sacrificing themselves.
• Herlu ordered the allied forces to kill the remaining Zerg and avenge Ding Chang and Trump.
• The Firmament announced that Earth's losses had triggered the Technological Explosion buff.

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.