Chapter Summaries

Digital Phantom’s fleet devastated the Alliance forces, whose soldiers recognized the team and shifted their focus to destroying its marked battalion-class ship. As the Alliance awaited reinforcements, Fourth Boss refused to send more Imperial ships into the battle and ordered the fleet to follow its original plan.

• Digital Phantom’s nine attack ships coordinated precise strikes that destroyed two Alliance company-level warships and crippled two more.
• The Imperial battalion-class ship hit the Alliance battalion-class ship accurately, while Alliance soldiers realized they were being outmatched.
• Alliance soldiers recognized Digital Phantom’s logo and warned their comrades about the team’s artificial intelligence.
• The Alliance fleet changed tactics to target Digital Phantom’s marked ships, following orders from its military high command.
• Imperial warships requested permission to join the fight, but Fourth Boss ordered them to follow the battle plan and limit their casualties.

Fourth Boss ordered the Imperial fleet’s general offensive after Paranoid’s Golden Wheel destroyed two Company-level Warships and helped bring down an Alliance Battalion-Class Ship. The Alliance fleet’s control system was breached by Xiao Hu, and the sudden appearance of Behemoth left its forces stunned.

• Fourth Boss forbade further military deployments as the Alliance fleet swarmed the Imperial ships, but Digital Phantom’s Battalion-Class Ship and warships inflicted heavy losses.
• Alliance forces concentrated fire on one of Digital Phantom’s Small Ships, damaged it, and sent two Company-level Warships to capture its crew.
• Paranoid emerged from the damaged ship and used his Golden Wheel to slice apart both Company-level Warships and threaten an approaching Battalion-Class Ship.
• Imperial Attack Ships rescued Paranoid under heavy fire, while the Alliance continued concentrating its attacks on the Small Ship carrying Hua Xiezhi.
• Fourth Boss deployed eight more Attack Ship squads and ordered the general offensive; Xiao Hu then seized control of an Alliance Battalion-Class Ship.
• An enormous Division Level Ship appeared behind the Imperial fleet, and the Alliance military was stunned by Behemoth.

Digital Phantom and the Imperial fleet destroyed an Alliance Battalion-Class fleet and escaped with prisoners, salvage, and damaged warships. After Fourth Boss offered the military AI support and Item-Storing Talismans, the fleet prepared to improve its combat power as it continued through enemy territory.

• Hua Xiezhi used her magic artifact to crush an Alliance Company-level Warship, prompting the remaining Alliance forces to flee as Digital Phantom and the Imperial soldiers pursued them.
• The Alliance reinforcements arrived two hours later and learned that Digital Phantom had fought alongside an Imperial fleet, though they did not discover the Division Level Ship's identity.
• Digital Phantom and the Imperial fleet collected prisoners and supplies, then hauled away damaged Company-level Warships instead of destroying them after Fourth Boss revealed their storage space.
• Fourth Boss offered to repair the Company-level Warships while traveling, and the senior colonel welcomed the prospect of easing the fleet's supply problems.
• Fourth Boss offered to install artificial intelligence in the military warships and lend the soldiers fifty Item-Storing Talismans to improve their combat power and protect their crews.

Digital Phantom and the Imperial Military improved their coordination and escaped an Alliance interception before jumping into the Blue Light Star Region near Tianyu Star. Fourth Boss proposed planning a high-risk operation there, while Digital Phantom’s largest warships remained hidden.

• The Imperial Military colonel accepted artificial intelligence installations on smaller warships but refused to let the military study the technology, and Fourth Boss advised them to develop their own AI.
• The Alliance fleet attacked again, targeting Imperial warships, but the AI-equipped Imperial forces inflicted heavy losses and drove the enemy to retreat.
• Qu Jianlei’s fleet captured prisoners, fended off Alliance pursuers, and tested a jump point with an unmanned Company-level Warship before the rest of the fleet jumped.
• The fleet arrived in the Blue Light Star Region near Tianyu Star, where the colonel warned that attacking would carry enormous risks.
• Fourth Boss began discussing a battle plan as the Imperial forces divided into three sub-fleets, while Digital Phantom’s Battalion-Class Ship and Division Level Ship stayed hidden.

Ketoli’s Hengsheng fleet was ambushed by disguised Evil Empire warships near Tianyu Star, and the attackers captured the crews. Imprisoned among earlier captives, Ketoli learned the Empire was conducting harassment raids and would likely destroy the fleet’s high-grade Origin components.

• Ketoli ordered her crew to scan an unknown cloaked starship and then tried to avoid it as it approached.
• Imperial warships revealed themselves from ahead and behind, demanded surrender, and destroyed two cargo starships when the fleet resisted.
• Ketoli ordered her ship to stop, and the remaining cargo ships followed before Imperial personnel boarded and captured the crews.
• The captives were crammed into an overcrowded compartment, where Imperial guards punished complaints and killed one prisoner.
• A fellow captain told Ketoli the Empire was conducting harassment raids and would probably destroy Hengsheng’s high-grade Origin components.

Qu Jianlei’s three Imperial sub-fleets raided Alliance shipping near Tianyu Star, capturing crews and destroying cargo ships until the Alliance discovered the wreckage and organized a large-scale search. As the Imperial force prepared to respond, Qinghu reminded its commander to follow the battle plan and prioritize bringing his people home safely.

• Qinghu punished a captured Everlasting Prosperity employee for speaking out, while Ketoli realized the Imperial captors included a powerful Above Supreme and feared the prisoners would never return to the Alliance.
• For more than ten days, the three Imperial sub-fleets destroyed over a hundred starships near Tianyu Star and captured crews from Alliance cargo vessels.
• Alliance investigators found wreckage from multiple missing ships and suspected that an Imperial raiding fleet had entered their territory.
• After receiving top-secret intelligence about the Digital Phantom Team, the Alliance military and city guard gathered starships for a major search near Tianyu Star.
• Claire warned Qinghu that the Alliance search was imminent, and Qinghu informed the sub-fleet commander.
• The commander expressed eagerness for a direct clash, but Qinghu insisted that he follow the battle plan and bring his comrades home safely.

The colonel’s Imperial detachment chose to confront a suspected Alliance trap rather than retreat, despite Qinghu’s warning not to get drawn into a prolonged fight. The chapter ended as three Imperial ships charged a disguised Alliance fleet, whose commander planned to hold them until reinforcements arrived.

• The colonel’s detachment ambushed four more merchant ships, then waited in hiding as cargo traffic avoided the dangerous route.
• Detectors reported suspicious starships nearby, and the Imperial officers concluded they might be facing a trap but agreed to test the enemy’s strength.
• Qinghu told the colonel not to let the detachment become trapped in a prolonged engagement, and volunteered to pilot a Small Ship if rescue became impossible.
• The colonel and his soldiers chose to fight, and Qinghu joined the volunteers selected for the dangerous Small Ship crews.
• After two cargo ships appeared as bait, six Alliance ships approached; the three concealed Imperial ships activated their systems and charged when discovered.
• The Alliance commander identified the three Imperial ships, ordered his fleet to engage and hold them, and prepared to call on a larger force waiting behind them.

The Imperial fleet fought an Alliance force while Xiao Hu identified and destroyed the enemy’s digital combat system, but approaching reinforcements forced the Imperials to retreat. When an Attack Ship was disabled, Qinghu ordered its two crew members to suit up and began a rescue as the Alliance moved to intercept her.

• The Imperial and Alliance fleets exchanged attacks, and the Alliance lost many Small Ships while the Imperial fleet suffered damage.
• Xiao Hu infiltrated the Armed Merchant Ships, then helped destroy the Alliance digital combat system and seize control of a Company-level Warship.
• After Alliance reinforcements approached, the colonel ordered a retreat, and an Attack Ship destroyed the seized warship before being disabled by enemy fire.
• The two soldiers aboard the disabled Attack Ship prepared to self-destruct and use their last ammunition, but Qinghu ordered them to suit up.
• Qinghu’s Small Ship raced toward the stranded soldiers as the Alliance ordered its warships to intercept her.

Qinghu rescued the stranded Imperial crew as the fleet escaped the Alliance pursuit, and the colonel admitted he had been wrong to reject AI implantation. After a day and a half of pursuit, the Imperial ships approached a sparse asteroid field while reinforcements closed in behind the Alliance fleet.

• Qinghu used Instant Flash to rescue two crew members from a damaged Attack Ship and returned with them to the Battalion-Class Ship as the abandoned vessel exploded.
• Qinghu’s fleet evaded the Alliance pursuers, while the Alliance concluded that the outnumbered Imperial force was fleeing and exchanged attacks with its Small Ships.
• The colonel asked Qinghu to implant AI in the Battalion-Class Ship, and Qinghu said the decision required discussion because the crew had to trust them fully.
• Qinghu teleported away and returned as a clone, while the Alliance reinforcements steadily closed the distance during the day-and-night chase.
• The Imperial ships passed through a scattered asteroid field as the Alliance fleet avoided the asteroids, and the reinforcements nearly caught up with the Alliance vanguard.

Qu Jianlei and Qinghu revealed a concealed Division Level Ship behind the Alliance reinforcements, trapping them between it and the fleeing fleet. The Alliance commander ordered his forces to turn and fight despite doubts about their chances, and the chapter ended as he questioned whether their starships could still retreat at full speed.

• Qu Jianlei and Qinghu waited on an asteroid and released the Division Level Ship after the Alliance fleet passed.
• Alliance observers spotted the ship and identified its Digital Phantom livery, alarming the reinforcements.
• The Alliance Commodore ordered all units except the forward search fleet to turn around and engage.
• Officers questioned the decision, arguing that the enemy could attack from both sides and that the Alliance might not withstand the fight.
• The Division Level Ship launched more than two hundred Attack Ships, and the Commodore ordered his forces to destroy as much enemy combat strength as possible.
• The Commodore asked whether the fleet’s Power Systems could still run after pursuing the enemy so far.

Qu Jianlei and Xiao Hu’s forces overwhelmed the Alliance fleet, using Small Ships and a cyberattack to seize control of its warships. The Alliance fleet was destroyed or captured, and Qu Jianlei ordered the survivors and ships brought aboard before they could waste time on the battlefield.

• Xiao Hu’s Small Ships and the Division Level Ships inflicted heavy losses on the Alliance fleet, while Digital Phantom lost only a few Small Ships.
• Alliance officers realized Digital Phantom’s combat strength exceeded their intelligence and learned that its forces were invading their ship systems.
• The Commodore ordered the Alliance units to escape independently, but the Vice Admiral’s preparations could not save them as ships lost control of their power, communications, and signal systems.
• Qu Jianlei deployed another fifty-four Small Ships and ordered Xiao Hu to close the net, leaving no Alliance starship able to escape.
• Qu Jianlei ordered the captured ships and surviving Alliance soldiers brought to the Division Level Ship; more than two thousand prisoners remained.

Qu Jianlei’s force captured more than a hundred Alliance starships and over two thousand prisoners while racing to clear the battlefield before reinforcements arrived. After the fleet withdrew, the senior colonel sought Qinghu to discuss implanting artificial intelligence, warning that another battle could begin at any time.

• Qu Jianlei’s forces cleared the battlefield, destroyed useful evidence, and searched damaged ships for survivors while capturing the Alliance personnel aboard.
• Qu Jianlei detected Commodore Bobis, an Above Supreme, aboard an Assault Ship and warned the senior colonel to be cautious.
• Bobis refused to surrender and asked to be killed, but Qu Jianlei knocked him unconscious with Mental Strength so the Imperial soldiers could capture him.
• The fleet seized more than a hundred starships and over two thousand prisoners, then withdrew into space after losing two Small Ships and sustaining further damage to a Company-level Warship.
• The senior colonel returned to Qinghu and urgently asked to discuss implanting artificial intelligence, citing the danger of another battle behind enemy lines.

Qu Jianlei agreed to implant artificial intelligence in the colonel’s Battalion-Class Ship and authorized Paranoid to do the same for his. As Qinghu headed to Tianyu Star and the military processed prisoners and requested more Small Ships, Qu Jianlei proposed using captured Alliance ships for suicide attacks, but the colonel worried they might contain a backdoor.

• The colonel asked Qu Jianlei to implant artificial intelligence in his Battalion-Class Ship, and Qu Jianlei agreed while warning him against researching artificial intelligence.
• Paranoid reported that his subfleet had encountered a bait merchant ship, and Qu Jianlei told him to switch to Area Three and gave him an implant for his Battalion-Class Ship.
• Qu Jianlei checked Jia Shuiqing’s Teleportation Arrays, then let Qinghu travel to Tianyu Star while he stayed behind to oversee the more complicated situation.
• The Imperial Military processed and detained more than two thousand prisoners, and the colonel asked Qu Jianlei for additional Small Ships.
• Qu Jianlei learned that the Alliance had lost sixty-two intact Small Ships and proposed using captured ships as suicide attack ships.
• The colonel considered the plan but asked whether Qu Jianlei could ensure the enemy ships had no backdoor.

Qu Jianlei discovered that captured Alliance Small Ships had hardcoded backdoors and arranged for their chips to be modified. As his forces engaged Alliance fleets, he brought eighty-one Small Ships to Jia Shuiqing, then returned to Tianyu Star, where his team detonated explosives at military sites across the planet.

• Qu Jianlei had Xiao Hu inspect the captured Alliance Small Ships, and Xiao Hu found hardcoded backdoors that could lock or destroy their chips.
• Qu Jianlei and the colonel discussed modifying the ships, while Qinghu reported that Paranoid's and Jia Shuiqing's fleets had entered battle with Alliance forces.
• After learning that Jia Shuiqing's fleet was fighting Alliance reinforcements, Qu Jianlei gave her eighty-one Small Ships and explained his battle plan.
• Qu Jianlei returned to Tianyu Star, where Jing Yuexin warned that the Alliance was searching underground sites and Mountain Bellies, possibly because of their Teleportation Array.
• Qu Jianlei gathered his team and arranged explosions at more than a hundred military sites across Tianyu Star.

Digital Phantom detonated explosives across Tianyu Star and used the ensuing chaos to launch a Battalion-Class Ship into space. After escaping the military’s first pursuit, the ship attacked a Space Fortress and left the Alliance scrambling to respond and investigate how the attackers had infiltrated the planet.

• Sunset Glow and the Digital Phantom Team planted explosives at more than a hundred locations, including a military training base, and detonated them across Tianyu Star.
• Qu Jianlei released the Battalion-Class Ship amid the blasts, and it escaped while military communications were overwhelmed.
• After the military identified the ship as an Evil Empire warship bearing Digital Phantom’s mark, the Battalion-Class Ship destroyed pursuing vessels and broke through the defenses.
• The Battalion-Class Ship launched three Small Ships against a Space Fortress; Xiao Hu’s ships damaged it with precise attacks and an electromagnetic pulse bomb before the Battalion-Class Ship departed.
• The military’s First One ordered pursuit and a large-scale manhunt on Tianyu Star, while the government questioned how Digital Phantom had arrived and planted so many explosives.

Qu Jianlei and his allies escaped Heavenly Expanse, reinforced Jia Shuiqing and Paranoid, and overwhelmed the enemy fleets with Xiao Hu’s help. Heavenly Expanse then learned that Commodore Bobis and his fleet had gone out of contact, while a powerful reinforcement division found only wreckage.

• Qu Jianlei’s group fled Heavenly Expanse, then joined Jia Shuiqing’s battle and gave her five Vortex Twos to help defeat the enemy fleet.
• Qu Jianlei’s group teleported to Paranoid and gave him a Calculation Unit so Xiao Hu could seize control of the pursuing enemy fleet’s systems.
• Paranoid’s forces and Qu Jianlei’s reinforcements captured the enemy ships, and Jia Shuiqing later reported that her own battle had ended.
• Jia Shuiqing agreed to bring her forces to Qu Jianlei’s position, where he planned to wait for further enemy reinforcements.
• Heavenly Expanse received word that Commodore Bobis and his fleet were out of contact, and an elite reinforcement division found only scattered starship wreckage.

The Alliance forces struggled to respond after multiple fleets vanished while pursuing Imperial forces, and the delayed Mixed Division found only wreckage in Area Three. The Major General ordered his divided fleet to search a vast area for the enemy and possible prisoners, despite the danger of ambush.

• The Full Strength Division found Imperial wreckage, relocated to a sturdy meteor to establish a defensive position, and waited for further orders rather than pursuing Bobis's fleet.
• A second support fleet disappeared, prompting a Major General to lead an enhanced Mixed Division toward the battlefield while three Local Troops regiments resisted his orders to search as directed.
• After delays caused by disputes over autonomy and command, the Mixed Division arrived in Area Three two days late and found only debris, with no survivors or clear trail of the enemy.
• The Major General concluded that missing Alliance soldiers might have been captured and ordered the fleets to search for enemy traces within a radius of one billion kilometers.
• The Mixed Division divided its seven regiments into three search groups, assigning ships and the Division Level Ship among them.

Qu Jianlei’s forces infiltrated the Alliance fleet, then struck its rear as the Empire ambushed the vanguard, throwing the Alliance into chaos. The Alliance ordered a breakout, but only one company-level warship escaped as the Imperial forces pursued the fleeing ships.

• Qu Jianlei’s team used Xiao Hu and Big Head Butterfly to infiltrate and secretly control most of the Alliance fleet’s rear cluster.
• Qu Jianlei released captured Alliance warships and the Division Level Ship behind the Alliance main force, while the Empire ambushed the vanguard.
• Qu Jianlei appeared inside the Alliance main cluster and released more captured warships, which attacked nearby Alliance ships.
• The Alliance colonel ordered a free breakout after realizing the fleet was trapped between the Empire ambush and Qu Jianlei’s attack.
• Xiao Hu disabled three fleeing company-level warships, and the Imperial fleet pursued the retreating Alliance ships using Small Ships and Item-Storing Talismans.

Qu Jianlei’s forces debated whether to pursue a Major General after their costly victory, then used an impersonated Company-level Warship to infiltrate the Alliance fleet. Digital Phantom’s Division Level Ship appeared inside the fleet’s protective perimeter and launched a surprise attack, leaving the Major General ordering an all-out counterattack.

• Qu Jianlei warned the soldiers to prioritize controllable harassment over loot, but Fourth Boss agreed to pursue the Major General after the colonel argued that the operation’s purpose was to earn merit and deter the Alliance.
• Hua Xiezhi and Yuanyuan used a battered Company-level Warship and an injured colonel’s identity to pass inspections and approach the Major General’s fleet.
• The Major General questioned the supposed survivors about Digital Phantom’s Division Level Ship while an Imperial warship secretly released the Division Level Ship inside the fleet’s formation.
• The Major General recognized that the Company-level Warships had been compromised and ordered both destroyed, but Digital Phantom’s Small Ships attacked the Alliance vessels during the confusion.
• The Division Level Ship endured the guard fleet’s fire while damaged unmanned Small Ships drew enemy fire, prompting the Major General to deploy every Small Ship and crush the attackers.

The Alliance Division Level Ship lost control of its systems to Digital Phantom, and the battle turned against the Alliance. After a major general activated the Ship-Sacrifice Ritual and destroyed his ship, the reinforcements fled, but Digital Phantom pursued them and captured a Regiment-level ship.

• The major general ordered the Alliance Division Level Ship's systems isolated and its Small Ships deployed, but the power failure trapped most of them and left the ship unable to fight.
• Digital Phantom's Division Level Ship destroyed Alliance escorts while Xiao Hu controlled its weapons, then released captured Alliance Company-level, Battalion-Class, and Regiment-level ships into the battle.
• The major general activated the Ship-Sacrifice Ritual, and Fourth Boss revealed the prisoners were alive, but the major general refused to believe him and let the countdown continue.
• The Alliance Division Level Ship exploded, and the two reinforcing formations fled before Digital Phantom's forces pursued them for seven hours.
• Digital Phantom destroyed one Regiment-level ship and captured another after a Battalion-Class Ship invaded its systems.