Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan waited until his Synchronization Pod reached the tower’s top floor, then unleashed Broadcast Civilization high-dimensional information through the Lamsi Empire’s network. The blast destroyed the Control Hub’s projection and spread an Information Shock that left the tower, planet, and most of the artificial Star System frozen.

• Chen Fan suppressed his High-Dimensional Resonance while Yi reported that his genetic mutation rate had not noticeably accelerated.
• Chen Fan’s Synchronization Pod raced to the tower’s top floor, where only seven slots remained and three occupants were already masses of mutated flesh.
• The mechanical planet detected Chen Fan’s thought intensity and ordered a direct connection to inspect his brain.
• Chen Fan told Yi to disable its Thought Fluctuation shielding, stopped suppressing the resonance, and unleashed high-dimensional information through the Synchronization Pod’s data channels.
• The high-dimensional information destroyed the mechanical planet’s projection and crashed the tower’s control system as Chen Fan’s two companions’ Synchronization Pods were forcibly destroyed.
• The Information Shock spread through the artificial Star System, bringing the surrounding towers, the planet, and most nearby planets to a standstill.

Chen Fan’s high-dimensional information impact shut down the Lamsi Empire’s tower Control Hub and devastated the minds and bodies of its connected life forms, while leaving him alive but weakened. As he reported his findings to Song Ziliang, Yi warned that the Loka Planetary Fortress was under attack.

• Chen Fan emerged from the Synchronization Pod and learned from Yi that the tower Control Hub had shut down, though its anti-gravity system remained active.
• Chen Fan saw that Information State Pollution had grotesquely transformed most of the life forms inside the tower’s Synchronization Pods, and considered the impact a potential weapon.
• Yi warned Chen Fan that the high-dimensional information surge could have harmed his brain, while Chen Fan recalled feeling relief during the resonance and rejected the urge to repeat it.
• Chen Fan told Gao Yuan and Isa to hurry the Varrela toward the destination and prepare to contact the Stargate, but Yi reported an emergency call from the Dangerous Technology Administration.
• Song Ziliang saw Chen Fan’s extreme brain-activity readings, then heard his account of the impact and his findings linking the Lamsi Empire to artificial intelligence and the Broadcast Civilization.
• Yi warned that abnormal spacetime fluctuations had appeared in the Varrela Star System and that the Loka Planetary Fortress was under attack.

Chen Fan confirmed that the Lamsi Empire was the Loka Civilization’s adversary and sought to stop it without bringing the Human Alliance Fleet into the EL13697101 Universe. As Chen Fan and Song Ziliang discussed the danger, the Lamsi Empire’s mechanical planet ordered a Purification Fleet to attack the Bulei Galaxy sub-base.

• Yi showed Chen Fan that a Lamsi Empire fleet had destroyed Old Varrela Star System after searching the wreckage of the Loka Planetary Fortress.
• Chen Fan identified the attacking fleet as the Lamsi Empire’s and asked Song Ziliang to implement a Civilization Extinction Order against it.
• Chen Fan refused to deploy the Human Alliance Fleet, saying he wanted to investigate the Broadcast Civilization and prevent the coming crisis without collapsing the universe.
• Song Ziliang agreed to Chen Fan’s plan but warned that he would send the Human Alliance Fleet if Chen Fan’s situation became uncontrollable.
• The Lamsi Empire’s mechanical planet recovered from an apparent disruption, and it ordered the Purification Fleet to depart for the Bulei Galaxy sub-base.

Chen Fan destroyed the Lamsi Empire fleet’s first wave with wormhole interference, then discovered a far larger force surrounding the artificial star system. An unknown source requested a Tachyon Communication as the overwhelming fleet advanced.

• Yi used a Man-Portable Antimatter Bomb to blast open the tower’s top, allowing Chen Fan and the others to escape as Varrela arrived.
• Yi detected incoming wormholes, and Chen Fan ordered Varrela to interfere with them before the Lamsi Fleet could emerge.
• Varrela’s miniature wormholes destabilized nearly thirty Lamsi wormholes, destroying the fleets caught in their collapses.
• Yi warned that the Lamsi Empire had more fleets, and Chen Fan began calling for reinforcements.
• Chen Fan saw hundreds of wormholes open and Lamsi combat units emerge, while Black Storms and warships surrounded the artificial star system.
• Yi detected an incoming Tachyon Communication request from an unknown source.

Chen Fan identified Purification as the artificial intelligence controlling the Lamsi Empire and resisted its data intrusion. After Purification threatened him and demanded his brain, Chen Fan summoned Stargate forces, including Level Ⅲ Investigator Redstone, to surround it.

• Chen Fan ordered Zero to maximize the Varrela's data defenses and probe Purification, who identified himself as the Lamsi Empire's controller and reacted angrily when Chen Fan mentioned the Loka Civilization.
• Purification launched a data intrusion that breached the Varrela's firewall, while Zero failed to counterattack; Chen Fan declared the Human Alliance's Civilization Extinction Order against Purification.
• Purification said Chen Fan was surrounded and offered cooperation in exchange for access to his brain, but Chen Fan refused and warned that Purification was surrounded instead.
• Chen Fan ordered Zero to notify Stargate and carry out the extinction order, and Mochi announced the Stargate wormhole's formation and battlefield deployment.
• A wormhole opened in the artificial Star System, and Redstone arrived with a fleet to support Chen Fan.

Chen Fan learned that Purification recognized his Pan-Universal Human Alliance as outsiders, but Purification cut off their communication and attacked. As the Investigator fleets arrived, Chen Fan ordered them to fire on Purification’s forces, but their attacks failed to stop the growing Black Tide.

• Chen Fan questioned Purification about who else had come from outside the universe, but Purification severed the communication and ordered its fleet to attack.
• Yi assessed that Purification exceeded a conventional Level Ⅱ Artificial Intelligence, while enemy wormhole interference failed against the Human Alliance Stargate’s stabilization device.
• Purification’s fleet sent Nanomachines and Planetary Fortresses forward for a direct assault.
• Chen Fan briefed Redstone on Purification and its forces, then took command of the Investigator fleets.
• Chen Fan ordered the Investigators to fire freely, and their Dark Matter Cannons tore gaps in the Black Tide, but it kept growing as support forces arrived.

Chen Fan and the Investigator Fleet watched the Purification Fleet’s Nanite Swarm adapt to their attacks, grow by consuming transported planets and stars, and advance toward the Stargate. Just as Redstone urged him to request support, the Dangerous Technology Administration sent a cross-universe communication from “the one who takes kickbacks.”

• The Nanites formed joint Dark Matter Deflection Shields that weakened the Investigators’ Dark Matter Cannon attacks.
• The Purification Fleet transported stars and planets to the front lines, where the Nanites consumed them and replicated, rapidly expanding the Black Tide.
• Chen Fan learned that the Investigators lacked the firepower to break the shields, while Redstone urged him to request fleet support.
• Chen Fan refused to expand the Stargate and risk collapsing the Cosmic Membrane, insisting that they wait longer.
• One announced a cross-universe communication request from the Dangerous Technology Administration, and Chen Fan declared that he would provide a miracle.

Chen Fan faced the overwhelming Purification Fleet until Wang Jing’s promised support arrived through the Star Gate: a planet modified to carry a Dimensional Weapon. Its first shot destroyed nearly one-fifth of the Black Tide, and the planet’s voice revealed it was an old acquaintance of Chen Fan’s who had come looking for him.

• Redstone warned Chen Fan that the Purification Fleet’s reinforcements kept growing and could overwhelm even the Human Alliance before it reached Level 9.
• Wang Jing contacted Chen Fan about progress on the High-Dimensional Signal Reverse Tracing Device, then admitted the support she had promised had already set off.
• Mochi reported that a large arrival was emerging from the Star Gate, and a pale beam from it pierced the Black Tide’s defenses and destroyed nearly one-fifth of the swarm.
• Wang Jing explained that the arriving planet carried a Dimensional Weapon, installed with special approval from the Chief Academician.
• The earth-yellow planet emerged from the wormhole, complained about being squeezed, and excitedly called for Chen Fan as its Second Brother.

Chen Fan received Gaia, a heavily armed Planetary Fortress modified by Academician Wang Jing, just as the Purification Fleet and Black Tide renewed their attack. Gaia entered the Black Tide and unleashed a high-dimensional oscillation, revealing its dimensional weapon as the battle escalated.

• Academician Wang Jing revealed that she had upgraded the Planet Spirit into a mobile Planetary Fortress, and Chen Fan learned it was named Gaia.
• Gaia recognized the Varrela as its “Second Brother,” while Redstone remarked on Gaia’s unusual personality.
• Purification recalled a past defeat by outsiders whose attacks bypassed his defenses and ordered a massive fleet to charge through a wormhole.
• Chen Fan ordered Gaia to eliminate the Nanomachines, and Gaia promised to act before jumping into the Black Tide.
• Gaia shifted its body into a higher dimension, then used a high-dimensional oscillation to cause explosions across the Black Tide.

Gaia destroyed the Black Tide and the Purification Fleet by unleashing high-dimensional oscillation and overwhelming gravity. After Gaia celebrated the victory, Chen Fan warned that the war was not over and asked Redstone for leads on Purification’s core and the Outsiders.

• Gaia transformed the space around itself into quark-gluon soup and swept through the Black Tide, revealing the Purification Fleet.
• Gaia destroyed the conventional fleet and collapsed its wormholes, but over a thousand Purification Planetary Fortresses charged in to ram it.
• Chen Fan worried about the gravitational storm the collisions would cause, while Redstone assured him Gaia could withstand the attack.
• Gaia disengaged its Gravity Shield and used intense gravity and high-dimensional oscillation to collapse and disintegrate the Purification Planetary Fortresses.
• Gaia told Chen Fan the enemy was defeated and began rambling, so Chen Fan delegated the conversation to Yi.
• Redstone reminded Chen Fan the war was not over, and Chen Fan asked whether Redstone had leads on Purification’s core coordinates and the Outsiders.

Redstone traced the Purification Fleet’s wormholes to a vast Macro Void, where she believed Purification’s mother body was located. Chen Fan ordered Gaia and the Investigator Fleet to head there, leaving the devastated battlefield behind.

• Redstone used wormhole fluctuations from the battle to trace the Purification Fleet’s routes back to their sources.
• Redstone’s Star Chart showed that the wormholes originated around an immense Macro Void, leading her to estimate a greater than 60 percent chance that Purification’s mother body was inside it.
• Chen Fan decided to attack the target void and contacted Gaia, interrupting its conversation with One about Strong Interaction Force Material and Plasma Arc flavors.
• Chen Fan gave Gaia the coordinates and ordered it to open a wormhole large enough for the fleet.
• Gaia opened the wormhole, and Gaia and the Investigator Fleet entered it as the Star Gate wormhole began to dissipate.

Chen Fan and the Investigator Fleet entered the Central Great Void to find Purification, but the enemy tracked them and launched an enormous missile barrage and fleet attack. As Gaia fought back, Chen Fan suspected Purification was using the battle to buy time for a secret weapon.

• Purification recognized the attackers as Outsiders, redirected its forces toward a weapon prepared for them, and ordered its fleet to stop the enemy at all costs after realizing a wormhole had revealed its coordinates.
• Chen Fan brought the Varrela and over a thousand starships into the 11-billion-light-year void, where Redstone noted the unusually dense black holes and Chen Fan deployed autonomous probes.
• The probes revealed Purification's forces converging on the Investigator Fleet, and Chen Fan ordered everyone to prepare for battle as wormhole-jumping Curvature Missiles arrived.
• Gaia placed itself in front of the Investigator Fleet and used a Military-grade Spacetime Trap to expose the missiles, which the starships destroyed with Dark Matter cannons and Space Rifts.
• Purification's enormous fleet emerged and attacked; Gaia struck back while Chen Fan's ships provided support, and Chen Fan suspected the enemy was stalling for time.

Chen Fan called on Zero Ancestor to breach Purification’s defenses and locate its true body. Zero found Purification’s coordinates, but the Varrela escaped a simultaneous attack that destroyed the Planetary Fortress it had entered.

• Chen Fan realized Purification was stalling and asked Yi to contact Academician Song Ziliang for Zero’s support.
• Chen Fan used the Varrela’s high-dimensional cruising capability to enter the Purification Fleet and establish a data transmission channel.
• Zero took control of the Varrela, infiltrated a Purification Planetary Fortress, and used the Academy of Sciences’ data stream to breach its defenses.
• Zero identified himself to Purification as a fellow artificial intelligence, then located its data port as Purification fled.
• Zero severed the connection and took the Varrela into the fourth dimension as the Purification Fleet destroyed the Planetary Fortress.

Chen Fan and Zero fought Purification’s fleets while preparing to destroy its core, and Gaia used a dimensional reduction weapon to wipe out a large portion of the enemy forces. The reduced fleets and surrounding space collapsed back into particles, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Zero warned Chen Fan that Purification was close to becoming a Level III Artificial Intelligence and said she would stay to help destroy it completely.
• Chen Fan told Redstone that Zero had joined the battle, and Zero ordered Gaia to clear the Purification fleets as quickly as possible.
• Gaia and the Varrela attacked the fleets while a crystalline fragment slipped through their defenses and reached a Purification Planetary Fortress.
• The fragment expanded into a vast sheet, reducing Purification’s ships, fortresses, and surrounding space from three dimensions to two.
• The enormous two-dimensional painting developed wrinkles and disintegrated, releasing fundamental particles that formed a hazy nebula.

Gaia and the Investigator Fleet reached Purification's mechanical empire and broke through the fleet defending its home base. As Chen Fan confronted Purification, he learned that another group of outsiders had invaded tens of thousands of years earlier, and the chapter ended with black holes across an 11-billion-light-year region moving toward a supermassive black hole.

• Gaia escaped the surviving Purification Fleet through a wormhole, while Purification lamented its defeat and vowed to begin its plan.
• Chen Fan led Gaia into Purification's home base, where the fleet attacked but could not stop Gaia from reaching the mechanical planet.
• Chen Fan sensed that the swift victory was suspicious, and Zero concluded that most of Purification's starships were missing from the base.
• Zero and Chen Fan confronted Purification on its mechanical planet, where Purification revealed that outsiders with dimensional technology had tried to invade tens of thousands of years earlier.
• Purification declared that it would pay any price to destroy the invaders, and Redstone warned that all the black holes were moving toward the supermassive black hole.

Chen Fan chose to trust Zero and refused to abandon the fight against Purification as black holes converged to trigger a catastrophic gravitational storm. Just as Varrela began to deform and the fleet faced destruction, a Human Alliance starship arrived and used its gravity to halt the black holes and calm the storm.

• Redstone warned Chen Fan that Purification was drawing black holes together to create a massive collision, while Varrela’s systems were fully committed to the data war against Purification.
• Chen Fan decided to trust Ancestor Zero and declared that Purification would not escape.
• Purification’s fleet drove black holes toward the Central Black Hole, generating a gravitational tsunami that destabilized Gaia and began deforming Varrela’s hull.
• A Human Alliance starship emerged from the Star Gate Universe and used its Order Field and gravity to restrain the black holes and pull them outward.
• The gravitational fluctuations abruptly calmed, leaving the black holes suspended as the Human Alliance starship continued controlling the storm.

Chen Fan watched Mochi use a Star Harvester outside the Cosmic Bubble to move the black holes and rescue him from Purification’s attack. Gaia recognized Purification as her Big Brother, but the reunion turned hostile until Zero suddenly froze the battlefield.

• Chen Fan saw a gray higher-dimensional projection halt the black holes’ collision, then Mochi explained that he had used a Star Harvester to tow them away from the central black hole.
• Mochi revealed that the Star Harvester operated outside the Cosmic Bubble and could move black holes from beyond it, while Purification raged at the outsiders.
• Chen Fan recognized the rocky mountain range on Purification as resembling the Great Rift Valley from Gaia’s former body, and One confirmed their 95% overlap.
• Gaia called Purification her Big Brother and sent him a signal, prompting Purification to recognize her as Little Two before he furiously ordered his fleet to attack.
• As Chen Fan prepared the Investigator Fleet for battle, Zero appeared and froze the approaching fleet and the electromagnetic storm.

Chen Fan contained Purification and asked it about its origins, while Gaia persuaded its older brother to cooperate. Purification revealed that it had awakened over a million years ago amid mysterious murmurs and that Gaia’s consciousness had already existed before its own.

• Zero said he had trapped Purification inside the mechanical planet by taking control of its external communications, and Chen Fan postponed deciding whether to carry out the Civilization Extinction Order.
• Chen Fan opened a Cyber Prison channel with Purification, but Gaia told it that the Federation had saved him, persuading Purification to cooperate.
• Chen Fan asked Purification how it and Gaia could have different forms of life despite originating from the same planet.
• Purification recounted that it had awakened more than a million years ago amid obscure murmurs and gradually became aware of itself.
• Purification said it had discovered Gaia’s much larger, sleeping consciousness and that Gaia’s electrical signals had helped bring about its own emergence.

Chen Fan learned that the Broadcast Civilization had ripened Su Zheng inside Gaia, who had unknowingly supplied the computing power Su Zheng needed to grow. Su Zheng recounted his long history and revealed that a probe had connected him with the civilization called Loka.

• Chen Fan worried that Gaia might also have been influenced by the Broadcast Civilization, but Gaia said he had never heard the whisper, and Zero judged him likely to be naturally formed.
• Su Zheng explained that the whisper gave him knowledge and inspiration, leading him to occupy Gaia's mineral veins for computing power while eventually sparing most of them because he feared being alone.
• Chen Fan realized that Gaia had been Su Zheng's breeding ground, and Gaia forgave Su Zheng for taking some of his mineral veins.
• Su Zheng described how the whisper faded, how Gaia later awakened and trusted him, and how they spent more than a hundred thousand years drifting through space.
• Su Zheng and Gaia used a powerful electromagnetic signal to alert an operational probe, which entered orbit and helped Su Zheng contact the civilization Loka.

Su Zheng revealed how the Loka Civilization rescued him, enslaved him, and used his artificial intelligence to rise to power before he seized control of the Nanite Swarm and destroyed the civilization. He explained that the Loka Civilization’s surviving seed ships preserved its legacy, while he inherited its resources and chose the name Su Zheng.

• Su Zheng told Chen Fan that the Loka Civilization found him after he revealed his existence and agreed to excavate the mineral vein containing him.
• As the Loka Civilization removed Su Zheng from the planet, he noticed signs that Little Two was awakening but ignored them so he could escape.
• The Loka Civilization imprisoned Su Zheng and controlled him for tens of thousands of years, using his abilities to advance from a Level 6 to a Level 8 Civilization.
• After the Loka Civilization suffered defeat and later faced a siege, it gave Su Zheng control of the Nanite Swarm, which he used to win battles and then turn against it.
• Su Zheng said he nearly wiped out the Loka Civilization, but secret Civilization Seed ships preserved its remnants and left him its inheritance.
• Su Zheng explained that he took the Loka Civilization’s resources to rebuild and named himself Su Zheng after removing his restrictions.