Chapter Summaries

Divine Firmament introduced Earth as the tactical core planet of Solar System Online and Lin Ye’s legacy work, impressing spectators with its complexity and lifelike variety. Azure Star viewers recognized the planet from Lin Ye’s earlier Instances and took comfort in seeing it become their strongest base against other civilizations.

• Divine Firmament presented Earth’s history, measurements, natural features, and highest and lowest points.
• Spectators compared Earth’s varied, realistic environments with the uniform battle-focused planets designed by other civilizations.
• The narration explained that Lin Ye’s Instances drew on his past-life experiences and evolved from their earlier foundations into realistic worlds.
• Azure Star viewers recalled Lin Ye’s earlier Earth-based Instances and felt reassured that Earth was now their main source of strength.
• Azure Star commenters declared that Earth and Lin Ye would lead them to victory against the other civilizations.

Lin Ye’s elaborate Instance made spectators reconsider the Azure Civilization’s strength, while Green Vine Civilization’s guide Turet grew increasingly uneasy. Turet tried to dismiss the Instance’s scale and demanded that Divine Firmament explain the mission so his team could begin clearing it.

• Azure Star viewers praised Lin Ye and mocked the civilizations that had doubted him.
• Spectators from other civilizations switched sides and began supporting the Azure Civilization as Lin Ye’s Instance impressed them.
• Lin Ye laughed at the spectators’ sudden change of attitude and reflected on the Arena’s ruthless relationships between civilizations.
• Turet became increasingly alarmed as Divine Firmament introduced the star system and Earth Online, but tried to keep his composure before his people.
• Turet cut off Divine Firmament’s map description and demanded the Instance mission so Green Vine Civilization could start clearing it.

Turet suspected Lin Ye’s Instance had unfairly isolated its Spawn Point debuffs to the Green Vine Challengers, but he kept up his confidence and believed his reserve of 400,000 Star Yuan would protect him from catastrophic losses. Divine Firmament announced that Solar System Online was a permanent Instance with no fixed time limit, leaving the Challengers to consider whether they could remain indefinitely as Turet dismissed the idea as futile.

• Turet realized the separated star systems meant the Spawn Point debuffs would affect only his group, and he wondered whether Lin Ye’s Instance lacked real substance.
• Turet reassured the Green Vine Challengers that he would lead them to victory, relying on his 400,000 Star Yuan reserve to limit the risk of failure.
• Divine Firmament announced that Solar System Online had no fixed time limit and that the Solar System might randomly attack the Trisolaran Civilization.
• The Green Vine people reacted with surprise to the permanent Instance setting and wondered whether they could stay and develop there.
• Turet dismissed the possibility, reasoning that Spawn Point buffs and the system’s extreme events would force them out or destroy the Trisolaran star system.
• Turet demanded that Divine Firmament explain the mission details.

Divine Firmament announced the Solar System Instance’s sequential objectives, rewards, and penalties, revealing that failure would cost the Challengers one million Star Yuan. The announcement plunged the Green Vine Army into panic as the Instance began its final countdown, while spectators realized both civilizations faced catastrophic stakes.

• Divine Firmament outlined three mission tiers: destroy or occupy Earth, then the sun, then the Solar System, with destruction and occupation defined as complete objectives.
• Lin Ye had designed the missions to be direct but extremely difficult, with occupation offering larger rewards than destruction.
• Divine Firmament announced rewards of up to two million Star Yuan and a one-million-Star-Yuan penalty if all Challengers died.
• Turet and the Green Vine Army panicked when they realized their 400,000 Star Yuan could not cover the failure penalty and that all one hundred million Challengers would die if they failed.
• Divine Firmament confirmed Lin Ye’s Instance complied with its rules, ended the time freeze, and began the three-minute countdown.
• Spectators warned that failure could annihilate the Azure Civilization or devastate the Green Vine Civilization.

Lin Ye explained that he intended to cripple the Green Vine Civilization by setting enormous Instance rewards and penalties, confident that Azure Star’s layered defenses would protect them. Prime Minister Mier rallied the panicking Green Vine challengers, and they regained enough confidence to prepare for the fight.

• Lin Ye said he wanted to wipe out the Green Vine Civilization’s one hundred million core members and restore Azure Civilization’s pride.
• Turet panicked over the one-million-Star-Yuan penalty as his subordinates pleaded to leave the Instance and fled outside, where the hot wind melted them.
• Prime Minister Mier urged the Green Vine people to ignore Lin Ye’s intimidation, arguing that the Solar System might be an empty shell and that their numbers gave them a chance.
• Mier promised that destroying the Solar System would earn two million Star Yuan and urged the challengers to fight for the reward.
• The Green Vine people rallied behind Mier, boasting that their space battleships could destroy Earth and insisting they would beat Azure Star again.

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.