Chapter Summaries

Sophons invaded the Intelligent Machines God’s core data and disrupted the Intelligent Machines units, leaving the machine civilization unable to control its own forces. Lin Ye explained the Sophons’ effect to the Azure Star Federation leaders, while noting that their advantage applied to this civilization’s current level.

• The Intelligent Machines God felt Sophons invading and rewriting his core data, then asked Divine Firmament for a rematch.
• Divine Firmament told the Intelligent Machines God that Sophons caused the disruption and that he had to withstand their blockade to continue.
• Lin Ye explained that Sophons could exploit the Intelligent Machines Civilization’s lack of physical bodies, despite their own limitations.
• Long Yuan asked Lin Ye how Sophons had disrupted the Intelligent Machines units, and Lin Ye described them as invisible microscopic computers that modified programs.
• Xi'er celebrated the apparent destruction of the Intelligent Machines, while Lin Ye clarified that Sophons only countered the Level One civilization in War Zone 112.

Lin Ye explained that Sophons could overwhelm the weak Intelligent Machines Civilization because it lacked advanced computing, quantum technology, and microscopic understanding. In the Instance, Sophon interference shattered BT1315’s control, and four vassals carved up the Intelligent Machines army, leaving BT1315 powerless.

• Lin Ye told the observers that civilizations could counter one another and that the right strategy could let a weaker side survive.
• Across the African Great Rift Valley, Intelligent Machines units became uncontrollable, and several vassals declared themselves Intelligent Machines Gods.
• BT1315 realized its former vassals had rebelled and that its decision to divide command had given them authority over the army.
• TK75 seized the space combat mechas, 7NR assembled a giant spider nest, 44th8 formed an aerial fortress, and HD600 fortified the rift headquarters.
• The five-billion-strong Intelligent Machines army split into four factions, while BT1315 was left commanding only 1,000 units.

The Sophons’ interference fractured the Intelligent Machines Army into four rival factions, and a catastrophic civil war engulfed Africa. BT1315 watched helplessly as the army’s numbers plunged and the Spawn Point filled with wreckage.

• The awakened subordinates TK75, 7NR, 44th8, and HD600 split the Intelligent Machines Army into four hostile factions, while BT1315 failed to restore control.
• 44th8’s aerial fortress and TK75’s mecha army opened fire on each other, spreading their battle across the African continent.
• 7NR’s Spider Broodmother attacked HD600’s forces in the Great Rift Valley, devouring destroyed units and growing larger as HD600’s defenses fell.
• HD600 ordered indiscriminate bombardment and suicide attacks, turning the Great Rift Valley into a deadly metal furnace that also struck the other armies.
• BT1315 watched the number of surviving Intelligent Machines fall by billions as the civil war destroyed his army.

The Intelligent Machines God unleashed Core Storm to stop the infighting that Lin Ye’s Sophon technology had triggered among his army. The storm immobilized the Intelligent Machines forces across Africa, but the God had consumed his own resources and risked destroying himself to do it.

• Viewers in the Livestream Room marveled at the Trisolaran Civilization’s Sophon technology as the Intelligent Machines units fought among themselves.
• The Intelligent Machines God realized his four awakened dependents had abandoned production, and that losing the Instance could cost his civilization ten million Star Yuan points and its standing at the top of the War Zone.
• The Intelligent Machines God activated his domain-wide command override and spent his computing power, energy, and evolutionary substrate to unleash Core Storm.
• Core Storm spread across half the African continent, freezing the Intelligent Machines Army and halting its machines mid-battle.

The Intelligent Machines God triggered a crippled Core Storm to reboot the Intelligent Machines Army and erase the Sophon’s modifications, but a Sophon unfolded a higher-dimensional film across the sky. The chapter left the battlefield beneath the newly formed Sophon Firmament, as the Divine Firmament warned all Explorers to proceed with caution.

• The Intelligent Machines God’s damaged body issued commands that locked and rebooted Intelligent Machines units across the continent, hoping to erase the Sophon’s data and trace it in reverse.
• A strange, transparent film began unfolding above Africa and spread across the planet, bending sunlight into cold, prismatic beams.
• The film displayed the words “You are bugs!” where everyone could see them.
• The Divine Firmament announced that a Sophon monitoring Africa had detected a high-authority threat and activated its emergency higher-dimensional unfolding protocol.

The Trisolaran Civilization used a two-dimensional Sophon to seize control of the Intelligent Machines Army and rewrite its allegiance. Intelligent Machines God BT1315 was left powerless and destroyed, and the instance declared all five billion Challengers wiped out.

• Divine Firmament explained that the Trisolaran Civilization had unfolded an 11-dimensional Sophon into a planetary membrane that could suppress information and rewrite logic.
• The Sophon froze the Intelligent Machines Army across Africa, then restarted the units under the Trisolaran Civilization’s control.
• The instance rules removed five billion units from the Challenger count, leaving only one Challenger.
• The Sophon’s control overwhelmed BT1315’s Infinite Storm, and his core began to collapse as he lost command and authority.
• BT1315’s self-destruct sequence failed, and Divine Firmament announced that bt1315 had been destroyed and all five billion Challengers in the Trisolaran Civilization Instance had been wiped out.

Divine Firmament ended the Instance after Lin Ye’s Sophon attack left the Intelligent Machines Civilization’s forces dead or mindless. The Instance’s all-zero settlement penalized the civilization ten million Star Yuan and ranked the Trisolaran Civilization among the top two open Instances.

• Divine Firmament declared the Instance a failure and crushed the remaining Intelligent Machines units after they became puppets of the Trisolaran Civilization.
• Spectators in the Livestream Room struggled to understand how Lin Ye’s Sophon had defeated the Intelligent Machines Civilization almost instantly.
• Divine Firmament recorded zeroes for the Instance statistics and deducted ten million Star Yuan from the Intelligent Machines Civilization.
• Divine Firmament triggered Technology Plunder, allowing Dungeon Designer Lin Ye to obtain a random Intelligent Machines technology.
• Divine Firmament kept the Trisolaran Civilization’s Stellar-level rating unchanged and placed it among the top two open Instances.
• The Instance closed and Divine Firmament announced that it would reopen in 24 hours.

Lin Ye’s Trisolaran Civilization crushed the Intelligent Machines Civilization, earning Azure ten million Star Yuan and the enemy’s complete technological data. Azure rose to fifth in War Zone 112, and Lin Ye prepared to draw the Demon Pet Civilization into challenging his Instance.

• Lin Ye’s Trisolaran Civilization defeated the Intelligent Machines God and his army in minutes, ending the battle with a decisive victory.
• The District Heads reacted with shock, while Lin Ye told them not to dwell on the Instance’s principles and promised to explain his approach later.
• Divine Firmament awarded Azure ten million Star Yuan and extracted BT1315’s underlying data, technology, and ultimate skill, Infinite Core Storm.
• Lin Ye realized that transferring BT1315’s data to Alice might let her inherit the Intelligent Machines system and potentially command a self-expanding army.
• Azure’s Star Yuan total rose to 16.6 million, placing it fifth in War Zone 112 and granting it fifteen Absolution Card uses and an expanded, faster Creation Space.
• Lin Ye planned to target the Demon Pet Civilization next, expecting it might challenge the Trisolaran Civilization Instance.

Lin Ye explained higher dimensions and dimensional weapons to the District Heads, urging them to consider such weapons in future Instance designs. He ended by naming the Dual-Vector Foil as the simplest dimensional weapon, capable of compressing three dimensions into two.

• Lin Ye told the District Heads not to dwell on the Sophon and said he would explain three lessons about dimensions.
• Lin Ye described the Sophons as eleven-dimensional existences and said civilizations were bound by dimensional rules.
• Lin Ye urged the District Heads to explore dimensional weapons, explaining that they could destroy targets by reducing spatial dimensions.
• Lin Ye explained that higher dimensions were not automatically more powerful and contrasted dimensional warfare with ordinary technological conflict.
• Fulangche questioned whether civilizations could manipulate dimensions, and Lin Ye identified the Dual-Vector Foil as a weapon that compressed three dimensions into two.

Lin Ye explained dimensional technology and the threat of dimensional weapons to the District Heads, then reassured them that Azure Civilization had time to develop. With his Instance ending, he planned to publish the District Heads’ Instances and use them to earn Star Yuan toward advancing to a new War Zone.

• Lin Ye described dimensionality reduction, higher-dimensional weapons, and how civilizations might survive dimensional warfare, leaving the District Heads shocked and awed.
• Xi'er celebrated the Dual-Vector Foil as the ultimate weapon, while Lin Ye warned that it was far beyond their current capabilities.
• Long Yuan asked whether the Sophon counted as a dimensional weapon, and Lin Ye clarified that it was only a limited application of dimensional technology used by a Level Two Civilization.
• Lin Ye encouraged the District Heads by pointing to his research tools, Alice’s computing power, and his knowledge of advanced civilizations as reasons Azure Civilization could keep progressing.
• Lin Ye decided to release the District Heads’ Instances into the Universe Arena to earn Star Yuan, since he expected advancing to a new War Zone to require about forty million.

Lin Ye reviewed the Azure Civilization leaders’ upgraded Instances and prepared them for the Universe Arena, while planning the civilization’s future forces. He then fed the Intelligent Machines Civilization’s data to Alice, whose evolution made her a new Intelligent Machines God of the Azure Civilization.

• Lin Ye reviewed the District Heads’ upgraded Instances, including Long Yuan’s planetary computer, Xi’er’s weapon-filled planet, and Katerina’s Battleship Civilization.
• Lin Ye praised Fulangche’s Eternal Domain, which used a micro black hole array to create a strong gravitational field and lower the speed of light.
• Lin Ye said he would submit the leaders’ Instances to the Universe Arena with protections in place, and ordered Singh and Archbishop Brahma to train Azure Star’s Challenger forces.
• Lin Ye opened Creation Space and began installing the Intelligent Machines Civilization’s data into Alice.
• Alice absorbed the data, increased her processing speed a hundredfold, gained the optimized Infinite Core Storm, and comprehended the new skill Infinite Overload.

Lin Ye saw Alice gain a hundredfold increase in computing power after absorbing the Intelligent Machines God's legacy, along with a new skill, Infinite Overload. He planned to build toward Galaxy Online and a higher Civilization Sequence, while Alice vowed to become the God of Intelligent Machines across the Universe.

• Lin Ye was astonished as Alice's computing power increased by 10,000%, and she gained Infinite Storm and comprehended Infinite Overload.
• Alice told Lin Ye that she could now deconstruct everything in the Instance, speed up unit design, create more intelligent agent clones, and simulate future technologies.
• Lin Ye concluded that Alice's growth would be essential for the Azure Civilization to advance into higher Civilization Sequences and develop technologies such as dimensional and curvature technology.
• Alice asked whether to introduce Intelligent Machines methods into the Trisolaran Civilization and Solar System Online Instances, but Lin Ye said their larger goal was to build a Galaxy beyond both star systems.
• Lin Ye explained that they would first accumulate Star Yuan and permissions in War Zone 112 and lay the groundwork for the Galaxy before advancing to a higher War Zone.
• Alice accepted Lin Ye's plan and declared that she wanted to become the God of Intelligent Machines of the entire Universe.

Lin Ye told Alice to expand Creation Space into a vast universe by incorporating the District Heads’ Instance data, then laid out a dimensional technology research program. The chapter left Alice beginning work on the ambitious project, with Lin Ye urging her to advance gradually toward Pseudo-Dimensional Weapons for the next Civilization Sequence.

• Lin Ye uploaded Azure Star’s District Heads’ Instance data and instructed Alice to place their planetary civilizations around the Solar System and synchronize their technologies.
• Lin Ye explained dimensions, higher-dimensional space, brane-universe theory, Dimensional Weapons, and the risks that dimensional interference posed to the universe.
• Alice recognized that earlier spacetime technologies were only Pseudo-Dimensional Weapons and asked about the limits of dimensional technology.
• Lin Ye transmitted a four-tier Dimensional Weapons tech tree covering spacetime manipulation, higher-dimensional intervention, weapon systems, and dimensional rule rewriting.
• Lin Ye told Alice to develop the technology step by step and aim to use Pseudo-Dimensional Weapons by the next Level Two Civilization Sequence War Zone.

After Alice learned Lin Ye’s technology plan, he decided his existing Instances needed no further strengthening and submitted the District Heads’ Instances for review. When other Civilization Guides avoided challenging his Trisolaran Civilization Instance, Lin Ye provoked them in the public chat.

• Alice praised Lin Ye’s higher-dimensional technology plan and asked whether their Trisolaran Civilization and Solar System Online Instances needed strengthening.
• Lin Ye said both Instances had plenty of unused power, including the Trisolaran Civilization’s deadly Droplets, and left Alice to continue researching Dimensional Weapons.
• Lin Ye submitted the other District Heads’ Instances to Divine Firmament for review and planned to match their first opponents against weaker civilizations.
• Civilization Guides in the War Zone 112 public chat discussed Lin Ye’s victories over the Intelligent Machines Civilization, while BT1315 stayed silent and Demon Mountain Envoy avoided challenging him.
• Lin Ye concluded that the Guides were too cautious to challenge the Trisolaran Civilization and called everyone in the public chat trash.

Lin Ye provoked the civilizations in War Zone 112 until the Demon Pet Civilization challenged his Trisolaran Civilization Instance. While waiting for the match to open, he assigned several noisy civilizations to newly approved Instances designed by Azure Civilization District Heads.

• Lin Ye mocked the civilizations in public chat, drawing angry responses from the Intelligent Machines Civilization and the Demon Pet Civilization.
• Lin Ye taunted the Demon Mountain Envoy until the Demon Pet Civilization agreed to challenge his Trisolaran Civilization.
• Divine Firmament notified Lin Ye that the challenge was registered and that the Instance would open in three hours.
• Lin Ye reflected on the chance to earn ten million Star Yuan and planned to showcase the Trisolaran Civilization’s technology.
• Lin Ye designated the Silk Road, White Iron, Wind God, and Arc Civilizations to participate in newly approved Instances.

The Demon Pet Civilization assembled a five-billion-strong legion to fight the Trisolaran Civilization and kill Lin Ye. The Demon Mountain Envoy addressed the assembled forces, warning them not to share the fate of the Intelligent Machines Civilization.

• The Demon Pet Civilization assembled its five species into a legion on Beast Source Star for the impending Instance war.
• The Multi-legged Species, Winged Species, Orc Species, Deep Sea Species, and Giant Species gathered with the living Starry Sky Behemoth fleet.
• The Demon Mountain Envoy commanded the five billion Demon Pets to fall silent.
• The Demon Mountain Envoy told the legion that the battle would determine the Demon Pet Civilization's advancement and warned it against the fate of the Intelligent Machines Civilization.

The Crimson General assured Demon Mountain that the Demon Pet Civilization could defeat the Trisolaran Civilization, arguing that the Sophon posed little threat to their living forces. Demon Mountain warned him not to underestimate the enemy but ended by urging him to conquer the Instance and bring their civilization closer to ascending the Civilization Sequence.

• Demon Mountain asked the Crimson General for his assessment of the coming war against the Trisolaran Civilization.
• The Crimson General declared victory certain and argued that the Sophon could not threaten the Demon Pet Civilization because it relied less on intelligent devices.
• Demon Mountain cautioned the Crimson General that the Trisolaran Civilization's harsh environment suggested advanced technology and that it might be as formidable as Lin Ye's Solar System Online.
• The Crimson General claimed the Demon Pet Civilization had matching technology and superior genetic engineering, and speculated that the Sophon might be the Trisolarans' only weapon.
• Demon Mountain praised the Crimson General's confidence and urged him to conquer the Instance for the glory of ascending the Civilization Sequence.

Lin Ye watched the District Heads’ instances and was impressed when Katerina’s guerrilla tactics won her Battleship Civilization instance. After celebrating her victory, he invited her to a private lesson and began teaching her how to design a Curvature Spaceship.

• Lin Ye received notice that the Trisolaran Civilization instance would reopen, while the District Heads’ instances continued their challenges.
• Lin Ye reviewed six broadcasts and saw Fulangche’s Eternal Domain and the other instances performing well.
• Katerina used guerrilla tactics in the Battleship Civilization instance to defeat the Silk Road Civilization and earn Azure Civilization 100,000 Star Yuan.
• Katerina rushed into Lin Ye’s arms to celebrate, then thanked him for his guidance.
• Lin Ye invited Katerina to a private lesson and began explaining how to design a Curvature Spaceship.

Lin Ye explained Curvature Technology and Curvature Spaceships to Katerina, hoping to inspire her shipbuilding research. Katerina began to grasp the idea of traveling by bending space, and the chapter left her with new ideas taking root.

• Katerina joined Lin Ye to watch a spaceship travel through space and recalled his stories about Dimensional Weapons.
• Lin Ye explained that Curvature Technology was a form of dimensional technology for long-distance intergalactic travel, unlike a Star Destroyer’s weapons systems.
• Lin Ye told Katerina that a Curvature Spaceship was carried forward by space rather than pushing through it like a conventional ship.
• Katerina connected the idea to drifting with the waves and began forming new ideas about navigation.
• Lin Ye described how a Curvature Engine could compress space ahead and stretch it behind, allowing a ship to approach or exceed conventional light speed.

Lin Ye explained how Curvature Propulsion creates permanent wakes that can slow light and form Black Domains, prompting Katerina to reject isolation and pledge to stand with him. After Azure Civilization won all six Instances and gained Star Yuan and several technologies, Lin Ye prepared for his upcoming Trisolaran Civilization Instance.

• Lin Ye explained that Curvature Propulsion leaves permanent Low-Light-Speed Channels, and Katerina realized that accumulated wakes could create a Black Domain.
• Katerina said she would not accept sealing Azure Star away from the universe, and Lin Ye vowed to lead Azure Civilization toward the universe’s pinnacle.
• Katerina promised to stay with Lin Ye until the end, leaving them both embarrassed by the romantic tone of her pledge.
• Lin Ye received notifications that all six Azure Civilization Instances had been won, earning 500,000 Star Yuan and technologies for Long Yuan, Xi'er, and Fulangche.
• Lin Ye told Katerina that the District Heads’ Instances would reopen the next day and that everyone would watch his Trisolaran Civilization Instance; Katerina went to make notes and review the battles.