Chapter Summaries

Divine Firmament explained how civilizations could plunder technology in the Universe Arena, and Lin Ye realized that Azure Star’s Challengers risked exposing their civilization’s knowledge. He decided to avoid attacking Instances during the beginner period, then lead a strike against the Crow Civilization’s Endless Night to seize its space-time technology.

• Divine Firmament outlined three conditions for plundering technology, military assets, and civilization information in the Universe Arena.
• Lin Ye connected the risks of technology plunder to Kaza’s attack on the Green Vine Civilization and resolved to keep Azure Star’s people out of Instances.
• Lin Ye chose the Crow Civilization’s Endless Night as a target because it contained rudimentary black hole and wormhole technology.
• Lin Ye planned to plunder Star Yuan and weaken rival civilizations during the beginner period, then attack other civilizations once daily challenges began.
• Lin Ye planned to lead Xi'er, Fulangche, Long Yuan, and others through Endless Night to seize the Crow Civilization’s space-time technology.

Lin Ye finished preparing the Solar System Online and Trisolaran Civilization Instances, equipping the latter with three Droplet probes and setting simple missions for both. He submitted both Instances with one hundred million Challengers each, despite Divine Firmament warning that the high numbers could make them vulnerable to conquest.

• Lin Ye rested and watched the other District Heads complete their Instances while Katerina, Singh, and Archbishop Brahma oversaw the planet’s development.
• On the first day of the third week, Lin Ye used One-Click Error Correction to generate Droplet technology and ordered three probes produced for the Trisolaran fleet.
• Alice celebrated the completed probes and asked to command an Instance, so Lin Ye assigned her to assist Ding Chang in Solar System Online and lead the Trisolaran Civilization Instance.
• Lin Ye set missions to destroy Earth, the sun, or the entire Solar System in Solar System Online, and to destroy Trisolaris in the other Instance.
• Lin Ye told Divine Firmament to submit both Instances with one hundred million Challengers apiece, and he confirmed the numbers after Divine Firmament warned him of the risks.

Lin Ye increased the capacities of his two Instances to one hundred million Challengers and raised the penalties for failure, accepting the risks. Divine Firmament confirmed that multi-civilization Instances were possible, leaving Lin Ye eager to exploit the idea to earn Star Yuan faster.

• Lin Ye set the capacities of “Solar System Online” and “Trisolaran Civilization” to one hundred million Challengers.
• Divine Firmament warned that a single run could yield no more than one million Star Yuan under the War Zone’s cap and explained the risks of civilization-wide losses.
• Lin Ye set the penalty for a failed challenge at one million Star Yuan and requested an Instance review.
• Divine Firmament explained that multi-civilization Instances were possible, though none existed in Level One Civilization War Zone 112, and warned that cooperation could trigger a Technological Explosion.
• Lin Ye realized he could eventually draw multiple civilizations into one Instance and saw a way to earn Star Yuan quickly and advance beyond his current War Zone.

Lin Ye summoned Azure Star’s District Heads and announced that he would open his first Universe Instance that day, ahead of schedule. He explained that he planned to use their own Instances to plunder Star Yuan and advance their civilization to a stronger War Zone before the beginner period ended.

• After finishing his conversation with Divine Firmament, Lin Ye called Katerina and ordered her to summon the District Heads.
• Katerina questioned whether Lin Ye was really opening an Instance that day, then carried out his order.
• The District Heads gathered at the Federation Tower, where Long Yuan and Fulangche voiced concern about going to war so soon, while Xi'er enthusiastically supported Lin Ye.
• Lin Ye told the District Heads that the civilizations in the Universe Arena seemed weaker than he had expected and that he wanted to strike first.
• Lin Ye proposed using their own Instances to plunder Star Yuan and advance Azure Star to a stronger War Zone before the beginner period ended.

Lin Ye announced that the Azure Civilization would advance within a month and that he would initially challenge the other civilizations with his own Instances. Divine Firmament approved both Instances as stellar grade, leaving Lin Ye able to open them and designate civilizations to participate.

• Lin Ye told the District Heads that the Azure Civilization would not imitate other civilizations’ slow approach and planned to advance within a month.
• Lin Ye said he would initially open only his own Instances while the District Heads continued developing and preparing for later targets.
• The District Heads warned Lin Ye that a conquered Instance could erase its Designer and urged him not to take the risk alone.
• Lin Ye called his plan a highest order from a Civilization Guide and directed the District Heads to watch and learn from the livestream.
• Divine Firmament notified Lin Ye that “Solar System Online” and “Trisolaran Civilization” had passed review with stellar-grade ratings and could now be opened.

After Azure Star advanced to War Zone 112, Lin Ye’s two newly reviewed Instances were announced as Stellar-level, astonishing the District Heads and Katerina. Lin Ye dismissed the assessment as conservative, suggesting his Instances were stronger than the War Zone’s top three.

• Azure Star’s Dome disappeared after the planet advanced, while announcements about its Instances remained visible in the sky.
• The announcements revealed that Lin Ye’s “Solar System Online” and “Trisolaran Civilization” had both been rated Stellar-level.
• Katerina explained that Stellar-level was above Endless-level and that only three other Stellar-level Instances existed in War Zone 112.
• The District Heads celebrated Lin Ye’s advantage over most civilizations in the War Zone.
• Lin Ye smiled and said Divine Firmament had still rated his Instances too conservatively.

After the review, Lin Ye opened Solar System Online as his first Instance and chose the Green Vine Civilization as its initial challenger. He planned to open his other Instance later so the Universe Arena could watch both.

• Xi'er urged Lin Ye to open an Instance, eager to see his latest work.
• Lin Ye declared that he would open Solar System Online and summoned Divine Firmament.
• Divine Firmament let Lin Ye choose the civilization for the first challenge.
• Lin Ye selected the Green Vine Civilization, partly to settle its past attack on Azure Star.
• Divine Firmament announced that the Instance opening would be broadcast throughout the Universe Arena.

Lin Ye opened the Azure Civilization’s first Universe Arena Instance, Solar System Online, with the Green Vine Civilization selected as its challenger. As the five-hour preparation countdown began and the War Zone’s Civilization Guides gathered in a chat group, Lin Ye left them to wait for the Instance to start.

• The Divine Firmament began the five-hour countdown to Lin Ye’s Solar System Online Instance, with the Green Vine Civilization set to enter as challenger.
• The Universe Arena announced the Instance across War Zone 112 and invited its civilizations to watch the livestream.
• The Divine Firmament opened the public chat channel and private messaging for Civilization Guides, while warning them not to trust other civilizations or reveal Instance information.
• Lin Ye entered the chat group and read reactions from other Guides, including Ruitute’s threat that the Green Vine Civilization would make him pay.
• Lin Ye left the chat group, deciding it would be more interesting to watch after his Instance had turned the Green Vine Civilization upside down.

After two stellar-level Instances passed review, Lin Ye told the district heads to rest and prepare to watch the livestreams. Across Azure Star, people celebrated his achievement, while Brahma rallied the God Ye Church to support Lin Ye when the Instances opened.

• Lin Ye reassured the district heads, told them to watch the Instance livestreams, and asked Katerina to show them around Federation City.
• People across Azure Star celebrated the approval of Lin Ye’s stellar-level Instances, and most had already exchanged their points for currency through the Federation Government.
• More than ten thousand believers gathered at the God Ye Church, where they praised Lin Ye after seeing the review announcements.
• Brahma urged the believers to remain loyal and enter the livestream rooms to wave flags and cheer for Lin Ye and their civilization.

On Green Vine Star, Civilization Guide Ruitute and his people celebrated after defeating Kaza in Tree Spirit Abyss and looked forward to challenging Azure Star. Ruitute revealed that Azure Star had sent one hundred million challengers, prompting the Green Vine court to laugh at what they considered an absurd boast.

• Green Vine people gathered in Greenleaf Imperial Court and eagerly volunteered to fight Azure Star.
• The court celebrated the victory over Kaza, which had given the struggling Green Vine Civilization new confidence.
• Ruitute said Azure Star was an ordinary civilization based on information they had obtained from Kaza.
• Ruitute revealed that Azure Star had set the number of Instance challengers at one hundred million, and the Green Vine people burst out laughing.

Ruitute rallied the Green Vine Civilization to challenge Azure Star’s Solar System Online Instance with a hundred million challengers and every resource at their disposal. He left Prime Minister Mier to organize the forces during the five-hour preparation period while vowing to lead the attack himself.

• Green Vine officials laughed at the hundred-million-person challenge but recognized that the crowd could bring the civilization’s strongest weapons and technology into the Instance.
• Ruitute urged his people to exploit Azure Star’s apparent weakness and promised the challenge could bring back enough Star Yuan to improve the Green Vine Civilization’s standing and stability.
• Ruitute announced that he would personally command the challengers, prompting the crowd to cheer.
• Ruitute ordered Prime Minister Mier to fill all hundred million slots, organize the challengers into formations, and gather the civilization’s Instance technology.
• Ruitute told the crowd to remember Lin Ye, whom he blamed for giving the Green Vine Civilization this opportunity, and vowed to put his name on a pillar of shame after their promotion.

Lin Ye and the District Heads entered the livestream for Azure Star’s Solar System Online Instance as civilizations across the War Zone gathered to watch and mock them. The countdown ended and the Instance officially opened, with the coming battle still ahead.

• Lin Ye woke from his nap as the District Heads returned to the conference room, and Katerina prepared to fill the livestream with Azure Star viewers.
• Lin Ye and the District Heads entered the Instance livestream and watched the empty space before its opening.
• Civilizations across the War Zone flooded the livestream and mocked Azure Civilization, while the Intelligent Machines Civilization threatened to attack it after the Instance.
• Azure Star viewers defended Lin Ye and boasted that his Stellar-level Instance would prove its strength.
• The countdown reached zero, and the Solar System Online Instance officially opened.

Lin Ye’s Solar System Online Instance revealed a bizarre system of three red stars pulling a battered gray planet between them, drawing mockery and confusion from the spectators. After the map finished loading, Divine Firmament deployed all 100,000,000 challengers into the Instance.

• Divine Firmament announced that the Instance was open and revealed the generated Spawn Point map.
• The spectators saw the gray planet caught in the gravity of three red stars, and many mocked Lin Ye’s design as chaotic and illogical.
• Knowledgeable spectators recognized that the system’s unusual arrangement had been deliberately designed according to Creation Space’s rules.
• The view zoomed in on the gray planet, revealing a cracked surface, extreme heat, and a thin, turbulent atmosphere.
• Lin Ye said the challengers would soon show whether the harsh environment could stop them.
• Divine Firmament finished loading the map and deployed all 100,000,000 challengers into Solar System Online.

Ruitute and his hundred-million-strong Green Vine Army entered Lin Ye’s Solar System Online Instance and discovered that their Spawn Point was exposed to two blazing suns. As the extreme heat ignited and killed millions of his soldiers, Ruitute faced an urgent call to deploy base vehicles and climate regulation technology.

• Ruitute and his Green Vine Army arrived at the center of Gray Planet after a long loading period and found a barren, scorching Spawn Point.
• Ruitute complained about Lin Ye’s Instance design before seeing two enormous red suns rise on the horizon.
• The suns’ heat and storm swept through the Green Vine Army, setting its plant-based soldiers on fire and killing many of them.
• Ruitute watched the Challenger count on his interface fall by millions shortly after the Army’s arrival.
• Prime Minister Mier urged Ruitute to deploy Green Vine Base Vehicles and activate Climate Regulation Technology.

Turet ordered the Green Vine Army to build heat-resistant bases, but the extreme climate killed fifteen million troops before the instance mission began. Divine Firmament then explained the Trisolaran star system and announced that its environmental debuffs would persist as long as challengers remained there.

• Turet ordered the Green Vine Army to activate climate adaptation devices and construct temporary bases.
• The Green Vine Army completed plant-based fortresses, but the heat killed around fifteen million troops during construction.
• Turet blamed Lin Ye and began cursing the Azure challenger before Divine Firmament interrupted him.
• Divine Firmament announced that the challengers had completed the first stage by adapting to the spawn-point environment.
• Divine Firmament identified the planet as Trisolaris and explained how the three stars' gravitational forces created its harsh conditions.
• Divine Firmament announced that environmental debuffs had taken effect and would remain with challengers throughout their stay in the star system, shocking Turet.

Divine Firmament revealed that Trisolaris would endure alternating extreme heat and cold before its star system entered a catastrophic state after 48 hours. Turet protested that Lin Ye had disguised an impermissibly short mission time limit as a BUFF.

• Divine Firmament announced that the Instance would begin in a 48-hour Chaotic Era, alternating between scorching heat and bitter cold every five hours.
• Turet raged that the extreme conditions would force the Green Vine Army to rebuild its Spawn Point facilities and prevent them from staying there.
• Divine Firmament explained that after 48 hours, Trisolaris would face Three Suns in the Sky or Flying Star at Rest, destroying the Spawn Point and killing all life in the star system.
• Turet realized the army had to finish its mission and escape within 48 hours, then accused Lin Ye of using a BUFF to evade the Universe Arena's rules on mission time limits.

Turet objected that Lin Ye’s 48-hour BUFFs violated the Universe Arena’s rules, but Divine Firmament rejected his complaint and revealed another BUFF: Thought Transparency. Turet dismissed it as redundant, while the livestream audience began to reconsider Lin Ye’s skill and debate whether Azure Civilization or Green Vine Civilization would prevail.

• Turet argued that Flying Star at Rest was an improperly shortened mission time limit and asked Divine Firmament to review the Instance again.
• Divine Firmament warned Turet and the challengers to stop interrupting, then confirmed that all Arena Instances had passed rigorous review.
• Divine Firmament revealed the Thought Transparency BUFF, which would expose challengers’ thoughts after 48 hours and increase the chance that other civilizations could decipher them by 2000%.
• Turet complained that Thought Transparency duplicated the danger of the star system’s destruction after 48 hours and accused Lin Ye of designing the BUFFs carelessly.
• Livestream viewers began praising Lin Ye’s design ability, though they disagreed over whether Azure Civilization or Green Vine Civilization would better withstand the harsh environment.

Turet and Mier dismissed the Trisolaran star system’s hazards and became confident they could defeat Lin Ye’s side within the 48-hour limit. The Divine Firmament began introducing the Instance faction’s star system, leaving Turet wondering if their enemy was not in the Trisolaran star system at all.

• Spectators mocked the Azure Civilization and doubted the Instance’s strength because its debuffs had not yet shown their full effects.
• Mier reassured Turet that the Green Vine Civilization could withstand the harsh environment and urged him to trust their advantage over the Azure Civilization.
• Turet concluded that Lin Ye’s environmental mechanics would hinder both sides and that the Green Vine Civilization could win before the 48-hour limit expired.
• Turet demanded the Divine Firmament reveal the Instance faction and mission.
• The Divine Firmament announced that the Spawn Point introduction was complete, paused the timer, and began showing the Instance faction’s star system.
• Turet wondered whether the Instance faction was located outside the Trisolaran star system.

Divine Firmament revealed that the hostile forces in Lin Ye’s Instance were based in the enormous Solar System, leaving Turet and Mier stunned by its scale. They learned that it contained eight planets, nearly 500 moons, and at least 1.2 million asteroids, most of which Alice had casually added after Lin Ye designed the Sun and planets.

• Turet realized that if the hostile forces were not in the Trisolaran star system, his Green Vine Army would have to endure the debuffs there.
• Divine Firmament showed Turet, Mier, and the Green Vine Challengers a star system with a giant Fixed Star and eight orbiting planets, shocking them with its scale.
• Divine Firmament identified the system as the Solar System, home to Solar System Online, and described its distance, contents, boundary, and formation.
• Mier struggled to believe that one Instance could contain nearly 500 moons and at least 1.2 million asteroids.
• The narration explained that Lin Ye focused on designing the Sun and eight planets, while Alice later added asteroids until the Solar System contained 1.2 million of them.

Divine Firmament introduced the Sun and planets in Azure Civilization’s enormous Solar System Instance, revealing conditions and energy technology far beyond a Level One Civilization. The Green Vine Army grew increasingly unsettled as it realized the Instance was anything but an empty shell.

• The Green Vine Army panicked after Divine Firmament revealed that the Instance contained two star systems, including one with 1.2 million asteroids.
• Prime Minister Mier urged the Green Vine Army to stay calm and wait to learn about the Instance’s weapons and technology.
• Divine Firmament described the Sun’s extreme conditions and explained that the advanced Dyson Sphere project could provide nearly limitless energy.
• Divine Firmament introduced the seven planets besides Earth, and the Green Vine people questioned whether their civilization could compete with such a detailed Instance.