Chapter Summaries

The Remnants used his Positronium-based nature and a vast electromagnetic field to fight the Electron Warship, slowing and deforming it but failing to stop its advance. As the battle continued within the warship’s four-light-year kill radius, the combatants became locked in a struggle, and the watching civilizations saw the Electron Warship repeatedly stretched and restored.

• The Remnants extended his electromagnetic influence across light-years and sharply reduced the Electron Warship’s speed.
• The Electron Warship pushed through the field and reached four light-years from The Remnants, entering its known kill radius.
• The Electron Warship probed The Remnants while dodging the powerful jets erupting from his poles.
• The Remnants used electromagnetic-field differences to stretch the Electron Warship’s outer structure into an ellipsoid.
• The Electron Warship repeatedly restored its hazy spherical form, and the Silicon-Based Collective celebrated The Remnants’ apparent suppression of it.

The Silicon-Based Collective joined the battle, and the arrival of its forces and other Level Six Civilizations put the Harvester fleet in grave danger. The Electron Warship remained locked in a stalemate with The Remnants, and the Silicon-Based Collective hesitated to intervene after its long-range attacks were evaded.

• The Silicon-Based Collective rushed into battle with its transforming warships and helped erase the Harvester fleet’s numerical advantage.
• More than twenty other Level Six Civilizations joined the fighting, tipping the wider battle against the Harvesters.
• Observers saw the Electron Warship and The Remnants still locked in a stalemate, with the Electron Warship less than three light-years away and slowly deforming.
• The Silicon-Based Collective fired long-range attacks Beyond the Light Cone at the Electron Warship, but it detected and evaded them.
• The Silicon-Based Collective hesitated to move closer because the Electron Warship still had strength to spare and The Remnants could tear apart its warships.

The Silver Heart Alliance and other Level Six Civilizations gathered near the Electron Warship after the Harvester Civilization’s conventional forces suffered a severe defeat, but none dared approach the ship suppressed by The Remnants. The Awakeners confronted the Silver Heart Alliance over its failure to warn them, and the chapter ended with the fleets holding back from The Remnants’ deadly electromagnetic field.

• The Silicon-Based Collective urged Star River and the Perseus Commonwealth to help destroy the Electron Warship, but Star River told it to trust The Remnants and follow the plan.
• The Harvester Civilization’s conventional forces were driven into retreat, while most Level Six Civilizations turned their attention toward the Electron Warship instead of pursuing the fleeing fleets.
• The Silver Heart Alliance and the Perseus Commonwealth fleets approached to about five light-years from the Electron Warship, followed by the Silicon-Based Collective and the Awakeners.
• The Awakeners accused the Silver Heart Alliance of concealing the Electron Warship’s power, and the Silver Heart Alliance defended itself before urging the surrounding civilizations to help finish the ship.
• The Level Six Civilizations refused to move closer after detecting The Remnants’ Super Strong Chaotic Electromagnetic Field, which could tear their fleets apart.

The Level Six Civilizations watched The Remnants suppress the Electron Warship for a hundred years without joining the fight. As the Electron Warship neared defeat, the Silver Heart Alliance and the Perseus Commonwealth secretly plotted to attack The Remnants and divide the remains, while the Silicon-Based Collective began making its own plans.

• The Silver Heart Alliance urged the Level Six Civilizations to attack the Electron Warship, but they remained cautious and watched the battle from five light-years away for a hundred years.
• The civilizations observed the Electron Warship deforming under The Remnants' electromagnetic assault, while The Remnants also showed signs of strain.
• Star River warned the Perseus Commonwealth that The Remnants could become the galaxy's strongest force and proposed attacking him and the Electron Warship after seven more years.
• The Perseus Commonwealth agreed to consider the plan, then secretly informed the Silicon-Based Collective and suggested it claim the Electron Warship's fragments.
• The Silicon-Based Collective grew wary of the Silver Heart Alliance and began plotting with the Perseus Commonwealth, while all three factions pursued their interests before the battle was over.

The Level Six Civilizations moved closer to the Electron Warship after discovering that some fleets could approach it safely, and the Silver Heart Alliance led the charge when the Remnants weakened it again. As the attack began, the Silicon-Based Collective and the Perseus Commonwealth secretly agreed to destroy the Star River and seize control of the Milky Way Galaxy with the Remnants’ help.

• After fleets approached the Electron Warship without being attacked, the Silver Heart Alliance advanced the Star River to within two light-years, and other civilizations followed while the Awakener Civilization stayed back.
• A year and a half later, the Remnants stretched the Electron Warship into a faint band, and the Silver Heart Alliance ordered them to keep suppressing it as the Star River charged and activated its Space Cutting Weapons.
• The Silicon-Based Collective told the Perseus Commonwealth that it had secretly allied with the Remnants to eliminate the Silver Heart Alliance after the Electron Warship was destroyed.
• The Perseus Commonwealth agreed to forgo the Electron Warship’s fragments in exchange for help keeping the Star River, and the two factions approached with their weapons aimed at it.

Star River and the Silver Heart Alliance fleet prepared to destroy the Electron Warship with a coordinated barrage of Space Cutting Weapons. When the Electron Warship abruptly contracted into a sphere, Star River recognized danger and used its Starry Outer Garment to flee through space, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Star River ordered the Silver Heart Alliance fleet to fire Space Cutting Weapons at the Electron Warship.
• The fleet launched more than a million spatial cuts toward the stretched Electron Warship.
• The Electron Warship rapidly contracted into a hazy sphere, prompting Star River to suspect something was wrong.
• Star River accelerated and activated its Starry Outer Garment, making its bow disappear and reappear more than a light-year away.
• Star River turned and continued vanishing and reappearing across distant stretches of space as it fled.

The Electron Warship wiped out trillions of warships within four light-years, while the Star River escaped with damage to its Starlight Outer Garment. The Remnants then began to lose control as the Electron Warship attacked his cognitive core, and the surviving civilizations fled.

• The Star River escaped the Electron Warship’s four-light-year range, but its Starlight Outer Garment was damaged as it fled.
• The Electron Warship disabled the fleets of roughly twenty-one Level Six Civilizations, leaving trillions of empty warships drifting through space.
• The Star River accused the Harvesters of sacrificing their own core lives, then used short-range Three-Dimensional Space teleportation to disappear.
• The Electron Warship taunted The Remnants and revealed that it had nearly destroyed his cognitive core.
• The Remnants wailed, lost control of his Electromagnetic Force and Super Blue Giant Star form, and struggled to avoid collapsing into a black hole.
• The surviving Level Six Civilizations regained their senses and began fleeing.

The Electron Warships destroyed The Remnants and hunted the fleeing Level Six Civilizations, targeting the Awakener Civilization for its Characteristic Technology. The Awakener survivors chose death rather than capture, while the Night Star River was left in ruins.

• The Electron Warships used their Micro-Electron companion electrons to destroy the structures supporting The Remnants' consciousness.
• The Electron Warships teleported toward the fleeing Level Six Civilizations, prioritizing the Awakener warships.
• The Remnants' body collapsed under its own gravity and exploded as a supernova, leaving a black hole that swallowed him.
• The Silver Heart Alliance's Star River fled, and the promised Gaia Consciousness never appeared.
• The Electron Warships destroyed Awakener warships, and surviving Awakeners ended their own lives to avoid capture and study.

A Dog-Headed Person learned at a museum that artifacts and legends from his planet’s past may have come from alien visitors. He decided to search for the Heavenly Gate described in ancient myths.

• A Dog-Headed guide explained that stone carvings and a towering statue represented different alien civilizations that had visited the planet.
• The guide said a pistol from a Bronze Age Volcano Kingdom was an alien artifact rather than a weapon made by the Dog-Headed People's ancestors.
• A muscular Dog-Headed Person connected the alien discoveries to legends about the God of Light and wondered whether the towering statue depicted the alien in armor.
• The Dog-Headed Person recalled that the myths described a Heavenly Gate through which travelers could leave the world, and decided to go exploring.

Professor Amir’s expedition crossed the Barren Continent in search of the Heavenly Gate, but dwindling supplies and harsh terrain drove several members to abandon the journey. San Mei paid Wei Shiba and the remaining guards to continue, and Wei Shiba offered to help with wilderness survival as they pressed onward.

• After months of travel, Professor Amir’s eight-member expedition reached the center of the continent’s deserts, where a team member warned that their food was nearly gone.
• The theologian, a security member, and the wilderness survival expert left the expedition and headed back toward the route they had come from.
• Amir’s two students argued over whether the remaining members should continue or return, while Amir had not yet decided what to do.
• San Mei asked Wei Shiba whether he would continue, offering to double his wages and pay ten times as much if they found the Heavenly Gate.
• Wei Shiba agreed to stay for the extra pay and told San Mei that he knew a little about wilderness survival.

Wei Shiba joined Professor Amir’s expedition across the central desert and demonstrated his survival skills by finding Wisteria Stone Grass. As he explained how the team could navigate toward Cover Ears Four Rivers, he left them with the prospect of reaching the remote mountains—and the legendary Heavenly Gate they were seeking.

• Wei Shiba introduced Gou Erpang to Professor Amir, who praised Gou Erpang’s reliability, and Wei Shiba agreed to help the expedition survive in the wilderness.
• Wei Shiba stopped the group from setting out hungry, gathered Wisteria Stone Grass from beneath desert rocks, and had Gou Erpang cook it.
• Wei Shiba explained that Wisteria Stone Grass indicated a nearby water source and said the team had reached the Barren Zone at the Center of the Continent, with Cover Ears Four Rivers and the central mountain range ahead.
• Wei Shiba identified the Sky God Star and discussed using the Star Observation Technique to navigate where compasses could fail near Magnetic Mountains.
• Wei Shiba recalled that Gou Erpang had recruited him for the expedition by deception, and revealed his interest in finding the legendary Heavenly Gate, which some legends called the burial ground of the gods.

Wei Shiba used star lore and archaeological evidence to guide Professor Amir’s expedition toward the place where Sky God Star had supposedly fallen. After a long journey, the five Dog-Headed People reached Sky God Peak, but found only a barren, snowy wasteland and wondered whether they had found the Heavenly Gate.

• Wei Shiba explained the legends of Sky God Star and the Heavenly Gate, connecting ancient records to strange artifacts uncovered in the Ancient Volcano Area.
• Professor Amir recalled the gleaming ancient dagger, towering bronze statues, and pistols found during his archaeological excavation.
• The five Dog-Headed People resumed their expedition and, led by Wei Shiba, crossed the desert, climbed Snow Mountain, and followed a river upstream for one-sixth of a Local Year.
• The group reached Sky God Peak, where Wei Shiba identified the summit as the World's Highest Peak, but they found no sign of the Heavenly Gate.
• Gou Erpang questioned whether the ancient books were false, while Wei Shiba clarified that the Heavenly Gate and the God of Light’s Residence were different places, and San Mei asked if they might already be at the gate.

Wei Shiba used Feng Shui techniques while searching for the Heavenly Gate and connected the local conditions to legends about the God of Light. Chun Liuzai proposed that the Heavenly Gate was an alien passage into space, but the group had not yet found it.

• Wei Shiba examined the snow mountain with his compass and judged it to be an extremely ominous burial site.
• San Mei recognized Wei Shiba’s Feng Shui methods and questioned whether they could help find the Heavenly Gate.
• Wei Shiba recounted the God of Light legend and argued that the burial site’s icy conditions matched the story.
• Wei Shiba suggested replacing the God of Light with aliens, and Chun Liuzai proposed that the Heavenly Gate was a passage to other planets.

Wei Shiba led the expedition to search for the Heavenly Gate and said stargazing would help him narrow down its location after nightfall. After gathering food and rejoining the others at camp, he began his Star Observation Technique as the group watched.

• Chun Liuzai speculated that aliens had left behind the Starry Sky Ancient Road, while Wei Shiba defended the idea as a scientific deduction.
• Wei Shiba reassured Professor Amir that they had reached the right area and said he needed the stars to determine the Heavenly Gate's direction more precisely.
• Wei Shiba sent Professor Amir, San Mei, Chun Liuzai, and Gou Erpang to set up camp and melt ice while he went to find food.
• Wei Shiba gathered edible ice crystals and returned to the camp as night fell.
• Gou Erpang explained the ice crystals to the others, and the group ate them with their rations.
• Wei Shiba began his Star Observation Technique by the fire as San Mei and the others watched.

Wei Shiba used the stars and his compass-like object to locate the area where the Heavenly Gate was said to be. The search ended when San Mei found a huge metal structure embedded in the snowy mountainside, which Professor Amir recognized as the Heavenly Gate.

• Wei Shiba marked the ground with lines and stones while studying the stars, then told the others not to disturb his work.
• The next morning, Wei Shiba used his markings to identify a nearby area where the Heavenly Gate should lie.
• Professor Amir led Wei Shiba, San Mei, and the others to search the snowy mountainside with detection equipment.
• After searching for half a day, San Mei found a large, smooth object embedded in the mountainside.
• Professor Amir saw a silver gleam beneath the ice and declared that the object was the Heavenly Gate.

Professor Amir and the others found the Heavenly Gate frozen in a glacier, but the ice suddenly cracked and collapsed before they could return for help. The gate emerged from the mountainside and began opening, leaving the five Dog-Headed People watching in astonishment.

• Professor Amir had his students and the others photograph the Heavenly Gate, then agreed they should return and request national support rather than damage it.
• Gou Erpang complained that they should break through the ice, but the group could find no safe way to do so.
• Wei Shiba heard cracking, spotted the ice breaking, and led San Mei, Gou Erpang, Chun Liuzai, and Professor Amir behind a boulder for shelter.
• The glacier shattered and ice chunks crashed down the slope while the five Dog-Headed People waited behind the boulder.
• Wei Shiba saw that the ice had vanished, revealing a massive dark silver gate that split open with the sound of mechanical motors.
• Professor Amir, San Mei, Gou Erpang, and Chun Liuzai joined Wei Shiba in watching the Heavenly Gate slowly open.

After the heavenly gate opened, Wei Shiba approached it and triggered the activation of an ancient human base. He and the others entered the illuminated passage, concluding that the supposed God of Light had been an alien civilization.

• The five Dog-Headed People saw the heavenly gate open, and Wei Shiba volunteered to investigate despite Professor Amir's concerns.
• Gou Erpang handed Wei Shiba the Hunting Rifle, and Wei Shiba carefully crossed the shattered ice to the gate.
• A blue beam scanned Wei Shiba, and the base AI identified him as a Dog-Headed People before activating the reactor and opening the inner gate.
• Lights illuminated a futuristic corridor, and Wei Shiba realized the God of Light's language came from an alien civilization.
• Professor Amir and the others joined Wei Shiba at the entrance, where they marveled at the base and its potential to reveal ancient mysteries.

Professor Amir recognized the passage’s writing as God's Script and led Wei Shiba and the others into what he believed was a safe exit inside the God of Light Civilization’s buried base. A Chinese announcement welcomed the New Era Dog-Headed People, but none of them understood it.

• Professor Amir identified the symbols on the passage walls and floor as God's Script, which he believed had been left by an alien civilization.
• Wei Shiba asked whether the God of Light Civilization might be hostile, and Professor Amir said the open gate likely had been triggered by their arrival.
• Professor Amir translated the glowing words as “Safe Exit” and led Wei Shiba, San Mei, Chun Liuzai, and Gou Erpang into the passage.
• The group walked deeper into the spotless, warmly lit corridor as Gou Erpang marveled at the technology and asked whether the God of Light was still there.
• A Chinese announcement welcomed the New Era Dog-Headed People, frightening the group because none of them understood the sentence.

Professor Amir and the other Dog-Headed People entered an enormous base and discovered a spacecraft, then met its management AI. The AI showed them recordings of humanity’s arrival and departure, revealing that the legendary God of Light had been an alien civilization.

• Professor Amir led the five Dog-Headed People through a doorway into a vast chamber filled with unfamiliar technology and a gigantic spacecraft.
• Wei Shiba suggested the craft was a starship, prompting Professor Amir to connect it to legends of the Heavenly Gate and the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• A floating robot introduced itself as the base’s management AI, but it could not understand the Dog-Headed People’s language.
• The AI displayed a four-hour recording of humanity’s arrival on the planet, contact with the Dog-Headed People, and eventual departure.
• Professor Amir realized the recordings revealed the truth behind his civilization’s myths and wept with emotion.

Professor Amir and the other Dog-Headed People learned that the base had been left by Human Civilization to help them reach the stars. The base AI explained its purpose, while Gou Erpang eyed the technology and imagined the rewards they might gain by reporting their discovery.

• The base AI used videos and Chinese characters on a touchscreen to help the five Dog-Headed People understand its message.
• Gou Erpang admired the base's devices and considered taking something, but Wei Shiba warned him not to touch anything.
• Wei Shiba told Gou Erpang that safely escorting Professor Amir home could bring them rewards and recognition.
• Professor Amir used the touchscreen to ask the base AI who it was and why it had remained there.
• The base AI identified itself as the management Artificial Intelligence and explained that Human Civilization had built the base to help the Dog-Headed People leave their home planet and enter the stars.