Chapter Summaries

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.

As the Universe watched Azure Star’s Instance challenge, its people rallied behind Colonel Kaza despite alien civilizations predicting failure. Kaza led two million Challengers into the Instance, determined to prove he should be Azure Star’s Civilization Guide.

• Alien civilizations mocked Azure Star’s chances in the livestream, and Azure Star’s people answered with boasts about Lin Ye and support for Kaza.
• Lin Ye and the regional leaders watched the exchange, and Lin Ye urged the Challengers to observe and learn.
• Kaza addressed his people in Libya Settlement, claiming he could have defeated the Firmament and was better suited than Lin Ye to guide Azure Star.
• Two million Challengers shouted slogans in support of Kaza as the countdown ended.
• A beam of light transported Kaza and the two million Challengers into the Instance.

Kaza and two million challengers entered the Tree Spirit Abyss Instance and discovered that their headquarters was on Seed Star 1, a satellite in an enormous interstellar battlefield. As the designated commander, Kaza faced the challengers’ doubts about the scale of the mission and urged them to believe they could win.

• Kaza arrived at the Green Leaf Military Command Center, a headquarters built into a giant tree, alongside the other two million challengers.
• Kaza and the challengers emerged into an unfamiliar jungle filled with colossal tree-built structures and alien wildlife.
• Divine Firmament named Kaza the Instance commander and explained that the challengers and assigned NPCs were under his command.
• Divine Firmament revealed a map of Tree Spirit Planet and its five satellites, identifying Seed Star 1 as the challengers’ Spawn Point.
• Divine Firmament explained that the Instance was designed for 50 million challengers across five satellites, but the two million available had all been assigned to Seed Star 1.
• The Libya Settlement challengers feared they could not handle an interstellar-scale battle, so Kaza rebuked them and insisted they could defeat the advanced civilizations.

Divine Firmament introduced Tree Spirit Prime Star’s vast population, layered zones, and defenses before announcing a mission to capture one zone’s Plant Neural Network Command Center within 240 hours. Kaza and the other Challengers were alarmed by the challenge as a countdown began and the planet prepared to attack Seed Star 1.

• Divine Firmament showed the Challengers Tree Spirit Prime Star and explained its Spirit Root Trees, Stellar Embryo, Tree Spirit People, and five overlapping zones.
• Kaza interrupted the lengthy explanation and demanded that Divine Firmament state the Instance mission.
• Divine Firmament announced that the Challengers had to breach one zone’s Plant Neural Network Command Center within 240 hours, with rewards increasing for deeper zones and a 100,000 Star Yuan penalty for failure.
• Divine Firmament warned that Tree Spirit Prime Star would detect and attack Seed Star 1 when the mission began, and granted the Challengers 12 hours to prepare.
• The Libya Gathering Place Challengers panicked over the Instance’s complexity, the planet’s 40 billion inhabitants, and their lack of spaceships to reach it.

Kaza urged the Challengers to trust his preparations and gather weapons for the Instance, despite the severe penalty for failure and the Green Vine Civilization’s formidable Tree Spirit Prime Star. On Azure Star, Long Yuan and the other Federation leaders studied the planet’s scale and layered structure, recognizing the challenge ahead.

• The Challengers realized that failing the Instance would cost each of them 100,000 Star Yuan, and spectators mocked their unprepared civilization before leaving the livestream.
• Kaza reassured his followers that he had brought weapons and a space fleet comparable to Lin Ye’s, and ordered everyone to prepare defenses on Seed Star 1.
• The Challengers regained confidence and began gathering weapons as they prepared for Tree Spirit Prime Star’s attack.
• On Azure Star, Divine Firmament’s briefing revealed that Tree Spirit Prime Star was larger than Earth Online and had a complex, layered structure with vast habitable space.
• Long Yuan told Commander Lin that the Green Vine Civilization and its Tree Spirit Abyss Instance were far more formidable than expected.

Lin Ye reassured Azure Star’s leaders that the Green Vine Civilization’s impressive Instance concealed a weakness: it focused on exploiting its own planet and had little capacity for interstellar expansion. He planned to use Kaza’s challenge to assess the civilization before drawing it into his own Instance.

• Fulangche and Xi'er studied the Green Vine Civilization’s five-layered map and worried that Azure Star might not be able to defeat it.
• The regional leaders realized Lin Ye had rushed to teach them technology and improve their Instances because their Exemption Authority would expire in a month.
• Lin Ye explained that the Green Vine Civilization had developed inward, exhausting its planet’s resources while neglecting interstellar colonization, and said he was confident he could defeat it.
• Lin Ye told the leaders that Kaza’s group carried little Star Yuan, so their defeat would not harm Azure Star, and joked that they were an ideal suicide squad.
• Lin Ye planned to use Kaza’s challenge to gauge the Green Vine Civilization’s strength, then make it the first civilization he pulled into his own Instance.

Kaza assembled a vast army of weapons that closely resembled Lin Ye’s advanced military technology, surprising viewers who doubted his abilities. He ordered the forces deployed around Greenleaf Military Base to face the first attack from Tree Spirit Prime Star.

• George and others questioned whether Kaza had really developed weapons and technology comparable to Lin Ye’s, while Xi’er dismissed the claim.
• The conference discussed Kaza’s history of inflating his ranking and swindling other settlements for their technology.
• Lin Ye dismissed Kaza as weak and told the Federation meeting to keep watching the Instance.
• After twelve hours, Kaza reviewed the enormous arsenal gathered outside Greenleaf Military Base on Seed Star 1.
• A subordinate reported hundreds of thousands of fighters, millions of tanks and troops, and ten Stellar-Class Nuclear Bombs.
• Kaza ordered the forces deployed around the base as spectators noticed their equipment closely resembled Lin Ye’s designs.

Kaza’s futuristic arsenal and claim that he possessed ten Stellar-Class Nuclear Bombs stunned spectators and convinced some that he could threaten the Tree Spirit Civilization. When his subordinate asked how they would reach Tree Spirit Prime Star, Kaza claimed his invisible Quantum Ghost Spaceships were already overhead.

• Kaza’s fighters and other weapons resembled advanced technology from Lin Ye’s past Instances, and he claimed to possess ten Stellar-Class Nuclear Bombs.
• Spectators from other civilizations questioned whether Kaza was bluffing, while Azure Star viewers rallied behind him and celebrated his apparent strength.
• Kaza’s subordinate reported that preparations and equipment distribution were complete but asked where the spaceships were for the invasion of Tree Spirit Prime Star.
• Kaza pointed to the sky and said his more than ten thousand Quantum Ghost Spaceships were invisible, then chastised his subordinates for failing to see them.

The Challengers and spectators reacted with shock when Colonel Kaza revealed quantum spaceships, a technology beyond anything Lin Ye had developed. The spectators warned that a fleet of 10,000 such ships could destroy the Green Vine Civilization, which might shut down its Instance to avoid conquest.

• The Libyan Challengers recognized quantum technology from Lin Ye's earlier Earth Online battles and recalled the Quantum Legion created with Ball Lightning.
• Colonel Kaza revealed quantum-form spaceships, startling the Challengers and spectators from other civilizations.
• Spectators debated whether the spaceships were real and warned that a fleet of 10,000 could crush the Green Vine Civilization and vaporize the Tree Spirit Prime Star.
• The spectators noted that a civilization could forcibly shut down an Instance to avoid conquest, though the Divine Firmament would impose heavy penalties.

Kaza convinced the people at Greenleaf Military Base that he commanded ten thousand invisible Quantum Universe Spaceships, and they enthusiastically praised the imaginary fleet. Watching from the Azure Star Federation, Lin Ye recognized the ruse and admired Kaza’s talent for deceiving the Universe Arena.

• Kaza claimed that loyal people could see his Quantum Universe Spaceships and suggested that anyone who could not see them might be disloyal.
• One subordinate pretended to see the fleet, and others followed by describing its supposed size, weapons, and appearance.
• The people at Greenleaf Military Base applauded Kaza and shouted their support for him and Azure Star.
• Spectators from other civilizations believed Kaza might have mastered quantum technology and feared the Green Vine Civilization would be defeated.
• Lin Ye laughed at the spectacle, and Lin Dong remarked that Kaza was fooling the entire Universe Arena with one enormous lie.

Lin Ye judged Kaza's supposed quantum technology to be a bluff, but the Green Vine Civilization let the Instance mission begin. As Divine Firmament announced Tree Spirit Prime Star's powerful abilities, Kaza sneaked into Greenleaf Military Base.

• Lin Ye told Long Yuan and the other leaders that Kaza's quantum technology was fake and speculated that he hoped to scare the Green Vine Civilization into closing the Instance.
• Kaza waited anxiously as the mission countdown ended, and the Green Vine Civilization chose not to shut down the Instance.
• Divine Firmament announced that Tree Spirit Prime Star's self-defense legion would reach Seed Star 1 in one minute and attack the challengers.
• Divine Firmament listed the Tree Spirit race's special abilities, including rapid healing, plant-based transportation, regeneration after death, enhanced perception, and shape-changing defenses.
• While the challengers listened to the announcement, Kaza sneaked into Greenleaf Military Base.