Chapter Summaries

Digital Phantom lent two Battalion-Class Ships to an Alliance reconnaissance fleet, then drew a vast Forest Sea force into pursuit and sacrificed one borrowed ship to destroy most of the attackers. The team escaped inside Qu Jianlei’s Abode and reappeared aboard their Division Level Ship, while the heavy robot lamented another major loss.

• Paranoid and Qinghu inspected the damaged Alliance fleet and lent it two Battalion-Class Ships, Small Ships, and ammunition.
• After the Division Level Ship pressed deeper into space, more than ten Forest Sea groups surrounded it, and Bentley complained that the Alliance had drawn the enemy’s hatred onto them.
• Qu Jianlei and Tian Yin used Light Art to provoke the Forest Seas, then the team transferred to a Battalion-Class Ship and hid inside Qu Jianlei’s Abode.
• The team triggered two Flawed Portable Abodes among the pursuing trees, destroying most of the Forest Sea and the Battalion-Class Ship while the Abode survived.
• Qu Jianlei deployed the Division Level Ship and escaped with the team as the heavy robot cursed that they had lost big again.

After the Alliance fleet escaped the forest of trees with a devastating blast, Qu Jianlei’s team headed for Sihe Star to target the Out of Body Mother Tree. They found its defenses unexpectedly thin and planned to send Wind Forgotten to plant Flawed Portable Abodes around the planet without landing.

• Qu Jianlei’s fleet hunted down the surviving tree aliens after the blast, then chose Sihe Star as its next destination before the Out of Body Mother Tree could respond.
• Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow traveled concealed toward Sihe Star while the rest of the team waited inside the Abode, noticing that fewer tree aliens appeared as they drew closer.
• Qu Jianlei reached Sihe Star and saw that the Mother Tree had grown, while the number of nearby tree aliens had fallen from hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands.
• After observing the area, Qu Jianlei decided to keep the team concealed and have Wind Forgotten disguise himself as a tree alien and place several Flawed Portable Abodes around Sihe Star.
• Qu Jianlei refused to let Wind Forgotten land on the planet, judging the risk too great and remaining wary that the Tree Traitor might change unexpectedly.

Qu Jianlei tried to deploy Flawed Mobile Palaces near Sihe Star while Wind Forgotten drew attention away, but a Tree Race group recognized the enormous traitor and forced it to flee. As more trees grew alert, Qu Jianlei abandoned the original plan and used the World Piercing Shuttle; Wind Forgotten then sensed a faint dark red streak closing in behind it.

• Qu Jianlei used a timed bomb and Warp Jammer to distract the Tree Race, then released Wind Forgotten and deployed the first Flawed Mobile Palace.
• A nearby Tree Race group challenged Wind Forgotten, and Qu Jianlei ordered it to escape while he and Sunset Glow fled separately.
• Wind Forgotten fought back and provoked the surrounding trees to keep their attention as it raced away from Sihe Star.
• Qu Jianlei judged that the Tree Race had become too alert to continue deploying the Mobile Palaces and decided to use the World Piercing Shuttle.
• Wind Forgotten reached roughly four million kilometers from Sihe Star and sensed an ominous dark red streak behind it.

Qu Jianlei and his team used the World Piercing Shuttle to destroy the Out of Body Mother Tree and rout the Forest Sea Alien Race around Sihe Star. After searching for survivors and capturing prisoners, they left some scattered trees alive as the chapter ended.

• Wind Forgotten fled the Forest Sea Alien Race, and the World Piercing Shuttle destroyed an Alliance Battalion-Class Ship and devastated the surrounding trees, allowing the Abode to escape.
• Wind Forgotten asked for more spiritual qi to recover from his injuries and warned Qu Jianlei that the alien race was using unfamiliar passwords.
• Qu Jianlei led the team out in their ships to hunt down witnesses and investigate the alien race's plans.
• Qu Jianlei and his team swept the area around Sihe Star for two days, but found no remnant soul of the Out of Body Mother Tree and failed to eliminate every survivor.
• The team captured more than twenty alien race members alive, including trees and locusts, while several trees surrendered.

Qu Jianlei’s group interrogated captured Tree Race members, learned that many had gone to Baozhi Star, and spared three surrendering trees under Wind Forgotten’s watch. They traveled to Baozhi to investigate its strange situation, where the Paranoid sensed a major threat nearby.

• Wind Forgotten interrogated and strangled several captured Tree Race members, learning that many had gone to support Baozhi Star, though the prisoners knew little about the trouble there.
• Xiang Xue and Claire objected when Wind Forgotten tried to kill three surrendering Tree Race members, and Qu Jianlei ordered him to spare them under his supervision.
• The group searched for a spatial weak point, found no strong evidence one existed, and decided to investigate Baozhi Star while the World Piercing Shuttle recovered.
• Jing Yuexin sent a clone to scout the Teleportation Array, and after it reported the Stone Cave was safe, Qu Jianlei’s group traveled there and waited until night to emerge.
• The group sensed disorder among the Alien Race on Baozhi Star, and the Paranoid detected something dangerous nearby.

The team discovered a second, powerful Mother Tree on Baozhi Star and concluded that the Tree Race was caught in internal strife. Qu Jianlei decided they would destroy it, while the team waited for Wind Forgotten to process the captured tree husks before acting.

• Jia Shuiqing and Qinghu spotted a second Mother Tree on Baozhi Star, and Zi Jiuxian judged that it had only recently grown.
• Qu Jianlei released Wind Forgotten, which confirmed the Mother Tree’s strength; Wind Forgotten and Tree Traitor explained that the Tree Race’s internal conflict had weakened the invaders’ defenses.
• Jiao Daoren suggested luring one Mother Tree into surrendering, prompting Wind Forgotten to secretly record the team’s ideas before denying that it meant to reunite its world.
• Qu Jianlei asked the team whether they should destroy the Baozhi Mother Tree, and Paranoid supported the plan to keep it from growing stronger.
• The team returned to the Abode beneath the sand and watched Wind Forgotten, which said it needed two more days to process the captured tree husks.

Qu Jianlei and his team destroyed Baozhi Star’s new Mother Tree after Wind Forgotten infiltrated the planet and helped prepare their attack. As the team navigated the resulting chaotic energy, Qu Jianlei’s unexplained sense of unease persisted, and he decided they should cautiously push into the disturbance.

• Wind Forgotten spent days absorbing and concealing its aura before Qu Jianlei urged the team to act while Baozhi Star’s Order remained chaotic.
• Wind Forgotten toured Baozhi Star and learned that the Tree Race members resented the Sihe Mother Tree and supported their new lord’s rebellion.
• Qu Jianlei and the team escaped through a hidden Teleportation Array as five explosions struck Baozhi Star and destroyed the new Mother Tree.
• Hua Xiezhi reported that Baozhi Star’s Teleportation Array had disappeared, and Qu Jianlei felt an unusually strong sense of unease but kept his concern to himself.
• After the Division Level Ship spent days circling the chaotic energy from Baozhi Star’s destruction, Qu Jianlei decided to try entering the disturbance with stronger defenses.

Qu Jianlei's team waited near Baozhi Star while hunting scattered Forest Sea Alien Race members and studying a captured Tree Race member. An Alliance reconnaissance fleet approached to investigate the violent energy fluctuations, but Hua Xiezhi dismissed its requests for information and told it to ask the Federation.

• Qu Jianlei decided that the team would wait five days before advancing toward Baozhi Star, and they hunted scattered Alien Race members while they waited.
• Qu Jianlei and Xiao Hu spent two days testing ways to restrain a captured Tree Race member and found that the Light Cage Technique could hold it temporarily.
• Hua Xiezhi warned an approaching Alliance fleet to leave, and its Major General Commander realized the ship ahead was an Imperial Division Level Ship.
• The Major General explained that the Alliance fleet had come to investigate dangerous energy fluctuations and offered ten billion for information, but Hua Xiezhi refused unless it paid immediately.
• Hua Xiezhi told the Major General to ask the Federation whether her team had caused the disturbance, then ordered the Alliance fleet to leave.

Digital Phantom exchanged intelligence with the Alliance and confirmed that the Tree Race had at least two Great Venerables, while the Alliance learned that Digital Phantom had destroyed one. After deciding to return toward the Heim Star Region, Qu Jianlei’s team arrived near a Space Wave Point and found the area crowded with Alien Race tree groups.

• The Alliance Major General concluded that Digital Phantom had caused the disturbance, then learned that an Alien Race tree specimen appeared to be alive.
• Hua Lei and Qinghu exchanged Alien Race intelligence with an Alliance Assault Ship, and Hua Lei revealed that Digital Phantom had fought a Tree Race Great Venerable on Baozhi Star.
• The Major General realized that the Tree Race had at least two known Great Venerables and that Digital Phantom had likely defeated one.
• Qu Jianlei’s team reviewed the Alliance’s intelligence and decided to return to the Heim Star Region rather than investigate Alien Race concentration zones.
• Qu Jianlei killed the captured Tree Race specimen after it refused to answer questions, and his experiment showed that it could not be converted into Thunder-struck Wood.
• Half a month later, Qu Jianlei’s team reached the vicinity of a Space Wave Point and found many small groups of Alien Race trees nearby.

Qu Jianlei and his companions debated how to approach the crowded Alien Race camps and chose to deploy Fire-luring Bursts from multiple Mobile Palaces. As unrest spread among the seven camps, Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow went to observe their gathering, where Wind Forgotten warned off two approaching Locusts.

• Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow assessed the seven camps of Alien Races and discussed the risks of using Mobile Palaces and Fire-luring Bursts near the Space Wave Point.
• Inside the Abode, Qu Jianlei refused to perform a divination, and the group approved Paranoid's plan to deploy a Mobile Palace for each camp and set off Fire-luring Bursts outside the defensive perimeter.
• Xiao Hu calculated suitable deployment distances and routes, and Qu Jianlei began placing the Mobile Palaces.
• A resonance-like communication spread through the camps, causing unrest and drawing large groups from all seven camps to gather outside the defensive perimeter.
• Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow approached the gathering and saw conflicts spreading among the Alien Races; Wind Forgotten fired a Black Line to warn two Locusts away.

Wind Forgotten and Qu Jianlei watched the Seven Great Camps negotiate before withdrawing amid a sudden outbreak of fighting. After escaping the area, Qu Jianlei detonated a Flawed Portable Abode, destroying nearby Tree Race members and bystanders.

• Wind Forgotten’s Black Line attack made two Locusts turn away, allowing it to move closer to the gathering without drawing further scrutiny.
• Wind Forgotten learned that the Forest Sea blamed Baozhi Star’s Mother Tree for drawing away Sihe Star’s forces before Sihe Star and its Out of Body Mother Tree were destroyed.
• Two days later, delegations from the Seven Great Camps gathered to negotiate, and Wind Forgotten overheard a reference to the Mother World watching over the Tree Race.
• When the negotiations erupted into fighting, Qu Jianlei and Sunset Glow placed a Flawed Portable Abode a million kilometers away, then ordered Wind Forgotten to leave.
• Wind Forgotten quietly withdrew and diverted a small Forest Sea group before Qu Jianlei triggered the Fire-luring Burst, killing nearby Tree Race members and onlookers with a Space Ripple.

Qu Jianlei’s fleet routed the Forest Sea Alien Race after its leaders were destroyed, then cleared the area around the Wave Point. After Qu Jianlei divined that the Tree Race’s attack site could be forced into an eruption, his team attacked it for half a month and saw signs that an eruption was near.

• Seven Division Level Ships struck the disorganized Tree Race forces, which fled the Wave Point after two days of fighting.
• Qu Jianlei ordered a massive fleet of Alliance warships to pursue the Tree Race, clearing every member from within thirty million kilometers of the Wave Point.
• Paranoid detected abnormal activity where the Tree Race had attacked the Wave Point, and Xiao Hu estimated that the area had a thirty percent chance of becoming an eruption outlet.
• Qu Jianlei used divination and learned that attacks could trigger an eruption within a month, while a natural eruption might take three to five years.
• Three Division Level Ships attacked the site in rotation for half a month, and the Wave Point began showing clear signs of an approaching eruption.

Qu Jianlei trusted Xiao Hu’s warning, withdrew before the Wave Point erupted, and led the team to collect a substantial haul of Space Stones. He tested and built an improved Black Colt Tower on a desolate planet, used it to recover with Mu Yu, and later learned that the Alliance’s artificial intelligence had attacked the Experimental Platform at the Channel Entrance.

• Qu Jianlei continued attacking the Wave Point until Xiao Hu warned him to retreat, and the point erupted violently five days later after the fleet had departed.
• Qu Jianlei’s team collected Space Stones worth more than their recent expenses, then waited for their returning warships before heading to a desolate planet.
• Qu Jianlei divined Small Auspicious and spent a month building an improved Black Colt Tower with a faster time flow, though he suspected it was less durable.
• Qu Jianlei and Mu Yu entered the tower to recuperate, while Qu Jianlei refused Xiao Hu’s request to move the Calculation Unit inside because its supporting equipment needed too much space.
• After spending two years inside the tower, Qu Jianlei emerged, sent Claire and Tian Yin in to cultivate, and continued designing another tower.
• Jing Yuexin returned two days later and told Qu Jianlei that the Alliance’s artificial intelligence had attacked the Experimental Platform at the Alliance War Zone’s Channel Entrance.

Qu Jianlei brought Xiao Hu’s new avatars to the Experimental Platform, where one avatar battled an attacking artificial intelligence by luring its fragments into a trap. The attack traced back to an Imperial Battalion-Class Ship secretly infiltrated months earlier, and Xiao Hu suspected the Alliance had planted the digital virus.

• Jing Yuexin discovered that the Experimental Platform was under attack, so Qu Jianlei ordered Xiao Hu to create three new avatars.
• Qu Jianlei sent one avatar to the Portable Abode, where High-Fidelity Replica showed Xiao Hu the Tree Race member it had been devouring and shared a branch with it.
• Qu Jianlei learned that Da Vinci and Kefu had remained inside Black Colt Tower for nearly a year, then reviewed the Empire’s growing interest in Digital Phantom.
• Qu Jianlei returned to the Experimental Platform and learned that Xiao Hu had faked a breach to lure the enemy’s main data fragments into a trap.
• Xiao Hu traced the attack to an Imperial Battalion-Class Ship that had been secretly infiltrated more than half a year earlier through an Alliance envoy starship, and it accused the Alliance of poisoning them.

Xiao Hu trapped and seized the Alliance artificial intelligence that had infiltrated an Imperial Regiment-level Battleship, while Qu Jianlei and Bentley dealt with the military’s concerns. Three days later, Bentley returned with testing equipment, upgraded defenses, and Super Calculation Units as the investigation continued.

• As the Alliance artificial intelligence attacked the Regiment-level Battleship, Qu Jianlei reassured its soldiers and Xiao Hu lured the intruder into a trap.
• Xiao Hu imprisoned the enemy’s self-destructing core fragment and took control of its core code.
• Qu Jianlei told the soldiers that an Alliance escort warship had launched the intrusion, then ended the communication.
• The Alliance War Zone’s second-ranking commander apologized, thanked Digital Phantom, and asked for help inspecting the fleet; Bentley promised an answer after three days.
• The Imperial Military switched ships to manual control, isolated sub-control systems, and organized warships into groups to test defenses against artificial intelligence.
• Three days later, Bentley arrived aboard the infiltrated warship with testing equipment, a new Fire Wall and anti-intrusion system, and Super Calculation Units.

Bentley and Qu Jianlei negotiated with the Alliance War Zone over Digital Phantom’s identity, then began inspecting its warships after the military approved their help. The inspections revealed widespread hidden infiltration and a backdoor on the Second Commander’s ship.

• A Major General asked Bentley to reveal his identity so the military could manage the risks of Digital Phantom’s work, but Bentley refused and warned that the team would leave if pressed.
• Qu Jianlei gave the military one day to decide, and the Major General returned just before the deadline to say the request had been approved.
• Bentley began inspecting Alliance War Zone ships, and Xiao Hu learned from concealed changes to a battalion-class ship’s control system.
• The inspections found that nearly one-fifth of the warships had hidden markers or backdoors that could enable a rapid AI takeover.
• Bentley discovered a concealed backdoor on the Second Commander’s ship that also leaked information, and the Second Commander reacted with alarm.

The Imperial Military discovered widespread artificial-intelligence infections across its Alliance War Zone ships, while Xiao Hu developed several defenses against the Alliance’s AI. Qu Jianlei and his team debated whether to support Xiao Hu’s growth, and the chapter ended with Bentley taking the defensive plans back to the Second Commander’s ship.

• The Second Commander asked Digital Phantom to help retaliate against the Alliance, and Bentley agreed to provide defensive measures after a fleet inspection.
• Bentley set up Calculation Units on the Second Commander’s flagship, and Digital Phantom inspected more than a hundred starships daily for over two months, finding infection or risk on nearly a quarter of them.
• Bentley refused to screen ships at another Channel Entrance, while Xiao Hu completed its analysis of the opposing AI and produced five defensive plans.
• Qu Jianlei consulted Hua Xiezhi, Bentley, and Jing Yuexin about supporting Xiao Hu’s development, and Hua Xiezhi urged him to cultivate it for the team’s strength.
• Qu Jianlei said cultivators should act with reverence, and Bentley took the three selected solutions back to the Second Commander’s division-level ship.

Bentley and Second Commander agreed on security measures for the Alliance’s artificial intelligence, while Qu Jianlei expanded Digital Phantom’s cultivation network by building a fourth Black Colt Tower. The chapter ended with Big Head Butterfly and Sunset Glow setting out for the Federation, claiming they would help maintain the Teleportation Array.

• Second Commander agreed to keep Bentley’s high-tier countermeasure and the complete artificial intelligence under strict secrecy, and Bentley agreed to leave the AI for six months before it self-destructed.
• Bentley asked Second Commander to help collect six Battalion-Class Ships owed to Digital Phantom, then returned to the Experimental Platform.
• Five days later, the War Zone Boss arrived to inspect the platform, but its cold electronic voice gave no sign that Bentley or the others remained there.
• Qu Jianlei left Bentley and Hua Xiezhi at the third Black Colt Tower, then spent six months building a more stable fourth tower in the Federation.
• Jing Yuexin invited Rhine and Fourth Boss to join her at the tower, while Qu Jianlei, Xiao Hu, and Big Head Butterfly used it for cultivation or calculations.
• Big Head Butterfly completed a new avatar and set off with Sunset Glow for a Habitable Star in the Federation, saying they would help maintain the Teleportation Array.

Qu Jianlei ended Digital Phantom’s long period of rest as the Locust World began a massive invasion of the Alliance and the threat of an Asura counteroffensive grew. After returning to Dawn Base and supplying the military with Locust Qi Gathering Array 2.0, he led the main force toward the Federation, leaving the military hoping they would focus on the Alliance.

• Qu Jianlei declined the Empire’s invitation to investigate abnormal Space Ripples in the Maiden Star Region, while Jia Shuiqing chose to follow the authorities secretly.
• Xiao Hu reported that the Federation was forming a Dare-to-Die Fleet for the Asura World and that rumors falsely linked Digital Phantom to it; Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin dismissed the rumors.
• After years of cultivation, Qu Jianlei learned that the Locust World had launched a massive invasion of the Alliance and that the Alliance was developing Space Explosion Bombs while seeking cooperation with Digital Phantom.
• Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin ended the team’s rest, returned to Dawn Base, and gave the military Locust Qi Gathering Array 2.0 before the main force prepared to leave.
• After three days of preparation, the main force departed for the Federation; military personnel arriving later asked the remaining guards to keep Digital Phantom focused on the Alliance.

Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin learned that the Federation was not prioritizing the Asura Channel Entrance, then traveled toward it and found the Asura defenses far denser than expected. While Qu Jianlei secretly watched a Mother Nest, an unfamiliar warship emerged that Sunset Glow recognized as a Cultivator’s Flying Shuttle.

• Qu Jianlei and Jing Yuexin visited Lawrence, learned of the Federation’s campaign against the Asura, and questioned why it had not moved to seal the Channel Entrance.
• Qu Jianlei’s team traveled aboard Alliance Battalion-Class Ships and fought off Asura Nests, destroying a Mother Nest at the cost of three ships before retreating from another approaching Mother Nest.
• Qu Jianlei decided to infiltrate the Asura World rather than reveal their Division Level Ships, and he spent twenty-three days traveling toward the Black Hole Entrance.
• Qu Jianlei found more than ten Mother Nests near the entrance and concealed himself on a Secondary Nest to observe the defenses.
• After five days of waiting, Qu Jianlei saw a strange shuttle emerge from a Mother Nest, and Sunset Glow identified it as a Cultivator’s Flying Shuttle.