Recaps

Chen Mo showed Lan three prototypes of Top-Tier Standard Armor and explained their capabilities and weaknesses. Lan was stunned by the weapons and technology, and the chapter ended with Chen Mo claiming he had developed the technologies himself and found them very simple.

• Chen Mo introduced Sharpshooter, a laser-focused armor built to destroy distant priority targets but weak at close range.
• Chen Mo showed Lan Galaxy Surfer, a stealthy, laser-reflecting close-combat armor suited to space but limited by its radar and atmospheric speed.
• Chen Mo demonstrated Berserker, which could fire ten thousand remotely detonated Antimatter Bullets in two seconds but quickly ran out of ammunition.
• Lan considered how the three armors could be used in legion tactics and was overwhelmed by their destructive power and cost.
• Lan asked Chen Mo about the technology, and Chen Mo said he had developed it all himself and considered it simple.

Chen Mo’s armor production drew attention across the Star System, while Tu Yun learned that Fu Kun had urged Shui Ling to befriend him. Tong Qing visited Chen Mo to propose an alliance against the Thunder God Civilization, but Chen Mo refused and Tong Qing raised two other matters.

• News spread that Chen Mo had independently developed three sets of Top-Tier Standard Armor, astonishing Tu Yun and the Star System’s forces.
• Tu Yun asked Shui Ling about Chen Mo, and she revealed that her teacher had told her to befriend him and preserve their friendship.
• Tong Qing arrived alone from the Black Eye Civilization and requested an audience with Chen Mo.
• Tong Qing offered Chen Mo a share of the Demon Flame Civilization’s Superpower Development Technology and any condition he wished in exchange for joining the fight against the Thunder God Civilization.
• Chen Mo refused to join Tong Qing’s war, and Tong Qing said he had two other matters to discuss.

Tong Qing negotiated to buy Chen Mo’s Star System, offering money and technology instead of territory after Chen Mo refused to sell the war armor. Chen Mo agreed to transfer the system’s defenses after sixteen days, while Dan revealed that the conflict had changed because someone had arrived.

• Tong Qing offered a Supercluster for Chen Mo’s Star System and one hundred thousand sets of Standard War Armor, but Chen Mo agreed to sell only the system and demanded star coins and technology.
• Tong Qing offered seven thousand five hundred trillion star coins and thirty top-tier technologies for the Star System and the Space Connector, promising not to reverse-engineer it.
• Chen Mo set a sixteen-day deadline for Tong Qing to prepare payment and said his group would leave the Shi Gan Star System once control of its defenses was transferred.
• Dan told Lei Ting that Chen Mo’s defenses were exceptionally strong and ordered him to take Superpower Development data back to the home planet, while Dan stayed behind because someone had arrived.
• Lan and Mo Nv No. 2 began coordinating preparations across Chen Mo’s Star System.

Chen Mo completed the evacuation of the Shi Gan Star System, traded control of its stellar weapon system to Tong Qing, and prepared to depart through the Space Connector. As the fleet began its jump, Lan warned that the coming conflict between Tong Qing and Dan could bring major upheaval.

• Lan enforced strict evacuation rules, and the Super Artificial Intelligence organized over a hundred billion refugees while troublemakers and later intruders were killed.
• Chen Mo halted Antimatter and Dark Matter production, dismantled the factories, and armed the Hu Mu Group and Da Mo Group with the first three hundred thousand sets of Standard War Armor.
• On the sixteenth day, Tong Qing paid Chen Mo seventy quadrillion star coins and provided data for thirty top-tier technologies in exchange for the stellar weapon control system.
• Chen Mo ordered Mo Nv No. 2 to activate the Space Connector, and Lan instructed the millions of transport ships to enter autonomous driving before departure.
• Lan told Chen Mo that Tong Qing and Dan were evenly matched rivals whose conflict could intensify as great chaos approached, while Chen Mo and Tong Qing watched each other across the void.

Chen Mo’s fleet escaped the Shi Gan Star System through the Space Connector and regrouped in the Stone Pattern Galaxy. With his followers gathered, Chen Mo chose to head for the Pisces-Cetus Supercluster Complex, where he said his home was.

• Da Mo Group’s vanguard entered the Space Connector, confirmed the fleet’s location in the Stone Pattern Galaxy, and led the other ships out of the Shi Gan Star System.
• After Chen Mo’s final ship departed, the weapons systems command center self-destructed its installed Super Artificial Intelligence and transferred control to Tong Qing, who ordered the fleet monitored.
• Chen Mo freed the transport ships, leaving eight hundred Space Curvature Spaceships and three million followers with him.
• Tu Yun and Shui Ling thanked Chen Mo and departed to return to their civilizations, while Lan stayed with Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo told Lan they would develop in the Pisces-Cetus Supercluster Complex, explaining that it was his home.

Tong Qing activated the Space Stirrer, trapping the Shi Gan Star System in spreading spatial turbulence and provoking threats from four God-level Civilizations against the Black Eye Civilization. Meanwhile, Chen Mo approached the Milky Way Galaxy, revealed his true appearance to his crew, and prepared to return to Earth.

• Tong Qing deployed the Space Stirrer, disrupting the Space Connector and sealing off the Shi Gan Star System and nearby systems.
• The Thunder God, White Star, Ziwei, and Nether Body Civilizations pressured the Black Eye Civilization to stop Tong Qing, while Hei · Wei Fu Luo Yun angrily condemned his unauthorized action.
• Chen Mo's fleet reached Virgo's Sixth Quadrant, and Mo Nv No. 2 reported that one more jump would bring them to the Milky Way Galaxy.
• Chen Mo changed back to his human appearance, and Lan, Little Female Beast, Jing Ge, and Gray Twenty-One revealed their original appearances as well.
• Da Ma Zu recognized Chen Mo as the wanted figure from Shi Gan Star, and Poison Skin Woman confirmed his identity.
• Chen Mo told Mo Nv to prepare a jump to the Milky Way Galaxy.

After eight years away, Chen Mo found Blue Star and returned to the Solar System, where the Ant Army Group’s defenses initially warned his fleet to stop. He reunited with Mo Nv by video call and learned his family was well, then contacted Wushuang, who broke down in tears at seeing him.

• Chen Mo located Blue Star in the Orion Arm and ordered his fleet to jump to the Solar System.
• The Ant Army Group warned Chen Mo’s fleet that the Solar System was closed, and Lan feared its formidable defenses.
• Chen Mo revealed that he had founded the Ant Army Group and asked Mo Nv to connect him by video call.
• Mo Nv joyfully welcomed Chen Mo home and told him that Xiao Yu, their seven-year-old son Chen Wu Ming, Zhao Min, and Wushuang were well.
• Chen Mo asked Mo Nv to keep his return secret and connect him to Wushuang, who wept when she saw him.

After eight years away, Chen Mo returned to Bin Hai City and reunited with Xiao Yu, Zhao Min, his children, and his parents. Xiao Yu later told him to go comfort Zhao Min too, acknowledging how much pressure she had borne while waiting for him.

• Chen Mo arrived at the family villa, where Wushuang and Mo Nv had prepared everyone for his return.
• Xiao Yu and Zhao Min recognized Chen Mo and threw themselves into his arms, while Wushuang and the rest of the family welcomed him home.
• Chen Mo held Wu Ming for the first time, promised to love him, and embraced his tearful parents.
• Xiao Yu and Zhao Min cooked dinner, and the family shared a joyful meal together.
• That night, Xiao Yu clung to Chen Mo, released the burdens she had carried, and reunited with him intimately.
• Xiao Yu told Chen Mo to go to Zhao Min, explaining that Zhao Min had borne much of the company's pressure while he was gone.

After years of waiting, Zhao Min finally reunited with Chen Mo as his partner, and the family welcomed her and Mo Nv. Mo Nv asked Chen Mo for a human body, and he promised to make one for her.

• Zhao Min looked through photos of herself with Chen Mo and cried until he entered her room and comforted her.
• Chen Mo and Zhao Min became intimate, and afterward Zhao Min sent him to Mo Nv’s room to “share the favor.”
• At breakfast, Xiao Yu welcomed Zhao Min into the family, and Chen Mo’s parents gave Zhao Min and Mo Nv red envelopes and jade bracelets.
• Xiao Yu invited Zhao Min and Mo Nv to make wishes, and Zhao Min asked to take wedding photos.
• Mo Nv asked for a human body, and Chen Mo promised he would make one for her.

Chen Mo returned to Earth and reunited his family with Jing Ge, Little Beast, and the Man Shan Tribe, promising to open a passage to the Small Universe. He put Lan in charge of the Ant Army Group’s defenses and revealed powerful weapons, mature superpower-development technology, and the Small Universe as further strategic advantages.

• The Ant Army Group announced Chen Mo’s return, and he introduced Jing Ge and Little Beast to He Xiaoyu, Zhao Min, and Mo Nv.
• Chen Mo contacted Tuo Li and the Man Shan Tribe, introduced the three women, and said construction of a Space Connector would begin so they could leave the Small Universe in about three months.
• Lan moved his daughter’s cryogenic pod into a protected chamber, then Chen Mo appointed him to lead the group’s defense against possible threats from the Ziwei Civilization and Dark Forest Civilization.
• Mo Nv showed Lan the Nether Crossing Space Weapon and revealed that Superpower Awakening and Development Technology had matured.
• Chen Mo told Lan that the Ant Army Group also possessed a Small Universe, leaving Lan stunned.

Chen Mo returned to the Ant Army Group and appointed Lan to lead its Armed Forces Department, with Wang Hai as his deputy. To introduce Lan’s command abilities and prepare the group for future conflicts, Chen Mo approved a five-part war simulation, which was ready to begin in virtual reality.

• Chen Mo gathered the Ant Army Group’s veterans and introduced Lan as the new head of the Armed Forces Department, with Wang Hai serving as his deputy.
• Xiao Yu proposed a war simulation to help Lan learn Wang Hai’s combat style and build his authority, and Chen Mo agreed.
• Chen Mo set up five simulation modes, from planetary warfare to universe warfare, with Mo Nv providing the virtual sandboxes and judging each result.
• The next day, the group’s senior executives and official observers entered the virtual reality world to watch the unprecedented war simulation.
• Chen Mo examined the vast cosmic sandbox as the others arrived, and the simulation was about to begin.

Lan faced Wang Hai’s strategists in a planetary war simulation designed to demonstrate her command ability and help her earn the Ant Army Group’s acceptance. As observers watched her Axis forces launch a rapid offensive, the chapter ended with a new move on the Pacific front.

• Lan reviewed Mo Nv’s war sandbox and agreed to demonstrate her abilities in a simulation against Wang Hai’s team.
• Wang Hai prepared his strategists and acknowledged that Lan’s experience could help them face large-scale cosmic warfare.
• The Ant Army Group’s executives and senior officials gathered to observe the five planned simulations, beginning with a World War II-style planetary war.
• The first simulation began with Wang Hai commanding the Allies and Lan commanding the Axis.
• Lan launched a faster, larger blitzkrieg than the historical German offensive, and observers noted that the Pacific front had also moved.

Lan used a rapid, unified deployment to bypass Northeast Asia and seize Southeast Asia, then advanced toward South Asia, forcing Wang Hai's team to reassess the historical war simulation. Wang Hai's strategists looked for ways to overcome their side's restrictions and anticipate Lan's next move.

• Lan rapidly built up his forces and chose to march south from the Island Nation instead of attacking the Central Plains.
• Chen Mo and the strategists recognized that Lan's move toward Southeast Asia had changed the course of the historical war model.
• An old strategist explained that Lan was allowing the region to remain consumed by civil war, preventing its forces from uniting against him.
• Wang Hai's staff concluded that North America would not fully enter the war until it was attacked and proposed sending spies to sabotage its military bases.
• Lan advanced again, this time targeting South Asia.

Lan rapidly conquered South Asia while Europe fell to his forces, then reorganized millions of troops across the remaining theaters for a decisive battle against Wang Hai’s side. After seeing Lan’s completed deployment, Lan issued his final command.

• Lan’s forces captured South Asia, swelling his army and alarming Wang Hai, who feared Lan would advance toward the Middle East and pressure the Soviet Union.
• Chen Mo explained that Lan had exploited Asia’s civil wars, secured key island chains, and coordinated his forces alone against the Ant Army Group’s staff.
• Chen Mo declared Europe finished as its territory turned blue, leaving North America, Western Europe, and Asia as the main battlefields.
• Zuo Qian predicted Lan would reorganize his forces before a major battle, and troops gathered across the world’s theaters.
• Lan completed the rapid deployment of millions of personnel, revealing a new balance of military forces across the sandbox.
• Lan examined the opposing deployment, grinned, and issued his final command.

Lan commanded a vast war simulation and decisively defeated Wang Hai by coordinating attacks across Europe and Asia, including a strike on the Soviet supreme command headquarters. After the simulation ended, Wang Hai rallied his team to prepare for the four remaining rounds.

• Lan's forces broke through Wang Hai's defenses and opened dozens of simultaneous battles across the sand table.
• Two elite units penetrated the Soviet interior and reached the Soviet supreme command headquarters.
• Lan's forces captured the headquarters, causing the Soviet front to collapse and most of Europe and Asia to fall under his control.
• The war simulation ended with Lan's victory, leaving the observers stunned and Wang Hai's team dejected.
• Wang Hai encouraged his team to recover and said they still had four rounds left to win.

Lan decisively defeated the War Department in five interstellar war simulations and formally took command. Chen Mo then left the virtual reality world and took Xiao Yu, Zhao Min, and Mo Nv shopping, reconnecting with his family after years away.

• The War Department lost five consecutive simulations against Lan, leaving its personnel convinced of his abilities.
• Wang Hai encouraged the defeated officers to accept Lan's appointment, and they agreed that stronger leadership would benefit the Ant Army Group.
• Lan formally took over the War Department after Chen Mo appointed him and the simulations silenced any doubts about his command.
• Zuo Qian and the others admired Lan's skill and said his arrival had filled the Ant Army Group's remaining military weakness.
• Chen Mo promised Xiao Yu, Zhao Min, and Mo Nv a break together, and the three women chose to go shopping.
• The women bought cosmetics and other items at BinHai Central Square while Chen Mo paid and watched their happy smiles.

After returning to Earth, Chen Mo resumed work at Ant Army Group and outlined four projects to advance humanity’s technology and defenses. He decided to begin by creating a human body for Mo Nv while pursuing the other projects in parallel.

• Chen Mo enjoyed breakfast with Xiao Yu, his family, Zhao Min, Wushuang, and Xiao Wu Ming, and promised to buy Xiao Yu a gift that evening.
• Chen Mo, Mo Nv, and Zhao Min flew to Ant Army Group headquarters and saw how Earth and Bin Hai City had transformed during his eight-year absence.
• Chen Mo told Zhao Min that the four projects involved creating Mo Nv a human body, reviving Lan’s daughter, developing strategic weapons, and pursuing Quantum Life.
• Chen Mo ordered work on all four projects to proceed at once, including testing brain-revival technology on willing vegetative patients.
• Chen Mo told Mo Nv to begin with the project of making her a human body.

Chen Mo and Mo Nv designed a gene chain for Mo Nv’s future body, while Zhao Min, Lan, and Mo Nv agreed that humanity needed to learn about the wider universe and grow stronger. The authorities and Ant Army Group publicly revealed the existence of alien civilizations and announced plans to connect Hua Xia with the Universe Alliance and prepare humanity for the cosmic era.

• Mo Nv selected Xiao Yu’s and Zhao Min’s genes for her body, and Chen Mo ordered the genes synthesized for cultivation in an artificial womb.
• Lan argued that Earth needed to expand and that humanity had to learn the truth about the universe to face the threat of a God-level Civilization.
• Zhao Min explained Earth’s xenophobia and social constraints, while Mo Nv described the Small Universe’s population and advanced Armor Masters.
• Lan urged Mo Nv to contact the authorities, and an elderly official agreed to make the wider universe public.
• The authorities and Chen Mo jointly announced that alien life and advanced civilizations existed, and outlined plans for Universe Alliance integration, Battle Armor Academies, and human-enhancement medicines.
• Cao Long watched the announcement and was stunned by the news.

As the Universe Alliance’s existence transformed Earth society, Chen Mo began using Directed Superpower Development Technology to strengthen the Ant Army Group’s senior fighters. The first group entered development chambers, leaving the technology’s success yet to be seen.

• The Ant Army Group uploaded information about the Universe Alliance, and humanity reeled as it learned how insignificant Earth was in the wider universe.
• Chen Mo began researching Superpower Development Technology to rapidly improve humanity’s bodies and brains before the threat of cosmic war arrived.
• In Yinghuo City, Chen Mo gathered Wang Hai, Black Hawk, A Nan, White Pearl, Zhu He, Zhong Lei, Mount Tai, Luo Yu, Hu Mu, Red Crab, Poison Skin Woman, Da Ma Zu, and other senior fighters to volunteer for directed development.
• Chen Mo offered four abilities: Jing Ge’s Battle Awareness, Gray Twenty-One’s Teleportation, an Undying Body, and a berserk state; the volunteers chose their abilities based on their roles and strengths.
• Mo Nv warned the volunteers that the process would be painful and could not use anesthesia, then Chen Mo sent them into the development chambers for the first official trial.

Chen Mo oversaw the successful development of new abilities in Mount Tai, Da Ma Zu, and the others, confirming that the technology could produce powerful fighters. News then revealed that Tong Qing had defeated Dan in Shi Gan Star, leaving Chen Mo and Lan troubled by the outcome.

• Chen Mo considered a hypothesis that superpowers came from the residual consciousness of life in a former Multi-dimensional Universe, then continued monitoring the development pods.
• Mount Tai and Da Ma Zu completed development first, tested their enlarged forms and abilities, and were told to prepare for armor training.
• The remaining subjects completed development, and Chen Mo concluded that the technology could help the Ant Army Group produce top-tier fighters.
• Mo Nv showed Chen Mo a report that the Space Connector had reopened the Shi Gan Star System and that fleets and survivors had emerged.
• Ming Lin said the Nether Body Civilization had no information about the conflict, while the Ziwei Civilization stayed silent and the Dark Forest Civilization departed.
• Jiong Wu announced that Tong Qing had defeated Dan and regretted being unable to preserve Dan's remains, prompting Chen Mo and Lan to exchange worried looks.

After Dan’s death, the Thunder God Civilization threatened war against the Black Eye Civilization, while Chen Mo’s allies prepared amid growing hostility from several God-level Civilizations. On Venus, Lan’s harsh training for the Ant Army Group was interrupted by an unexpected assembly order.

• Zi Yun ordered Zi Mu to keep searching for Chen Mo after tracing his different identities and losing track of his fleet.
• Lei Xing demanded that the Black Eye Civilization surrender Tong Qing and moved Thunder God forces to the border after Dan’s death.
• Lan discussed the danger of angering multiple God-level Civilizations and relied on the Small Universe as a refuge.
• On Venus, Bian Li explained that Lan’s brutal gravity training followed Top-Tier Civilization soldier standards and used medicine to stimulate the soldiers’ potential.
• Lan ordered all personnel to assemble at the Troop Review Ground within five minutes, and the soldiers hurried there.

Lan gave the two million soldiers a choice to leave Army Ant or continue their training, and every one of them chose to stay. Meanwhile, Chen Mo oversaw the rapid growth of Mo Nv’s cloned human body, which was nearing its next stage of development.

• Lan announced that basic training was over and offered the soldiers the choice to leave Army Ant or stay, promising compensation and support either way.
• Nord told Willis that leaving made no sense, and all two million soldiers stayed.
• Lan praised their choice, announced Top-Tier Standard Armor and team-based training, and promised rewards for top performers.
• At the Biomedicine Laboratory, Mo Nv reported that her cloned body’s organs and brain had formed and its vital signs were stable.
• Chen Mo ordered Mo Nv to increase the growth solution concentration by twelve percent so the body would mature more quickly.

Chen Mo learned that the Space Connector was nearly complete and sparred with Jing Ge, while Zi Yun received a mission to find him and obtain his Superpower Development Technology. The chapter left Zi Yun heading out to pursue Chen Mo as Zi Junzhi worried over the declining Ziwei Civilization.

• Chen Mo visited the training grounds, where Jing Ge was teaching Xiao Wu Ming martial arts, and told Jing Ge that the Space Connector was almost complete.
• Chen Mo and Jing Ge fought for an hour, leaving Chen Mo exhausted and exhilarated.
• Zi Yun told Zi Junzhi that the lifeform who killed Ze Qi was Chen Mo and described his unusual abilities and apparent connection to Superpower Development Technology.
• Zi Junzhi assigned Zi Yun to find Chen Mo and recover the technology, allowing her to use any means, including recruiting him.
• After Zi Yun left, Zi Junzhi reflected on the Ziwei Civilization's decline, while the fat man and the drowsy young man discussed her prospects and planned to fish for Mermaids.

Chen Mo and his companions opened a Space Connector between the Solar System and his Small Universe, giving humanity a secure place to develop. The chapter ended with the Man Shan Tribe members greeting Chen Mo and his companions, while Jing Ge ordered Tuo Li to resume training.

• Xiao Yu asked Chen Mo about Mo Nv's body, and Chen Mo explained that they were preparing the Consciousness Transfer Technology.
• Chen Mo brought Xiao Yu, Zhao Min, and others to Mars after the Space Connector test was completed.
• Chen Mo activated the Space Connector, and after an hour the passage stabilized and spacecraft began emerging from the ring.
• Red Crab, Hu Mu, Da Ma Zu, Poison Skin Woman, and Lan reacted with awe and excitement as they realized Chen Mo possessed a Small Universe.
• Tuo Li, Tuo Shan, Long Yue, and the others greeted Chen Mo and his companions when they arrived.
• Jing Ge ordered Tuo Li's training checked, and Tuo Li's excitement faded.

After Tong Qing's Space Dimensional Reduction attack devastated Shi Gan Main Star, the Thunder God and White Star Civilizations declared war on the Black Eye Civilization. Meanwhile, Chen Mo's forces planned to build up their Small Universe and sent Poison Skin Woman and Gray Twenty-One to establish an intelligence network in the Land of Chaos, as a large fleet appeared in Orion.

• The Black Eye Civilization lifted its blockade around the Shi Gan Star System, but a Space Dimensional Reduction weapon flattened Shi Gan Main Star and nearby systems, killing countless lives.
• Tong Qing's subordinate Ta La reported that Chen Mo had vanished, and the Speaker Vifro Yun exiled Tong Qing to Black Hole Prison for using military forces without authorization.
• The Thunder God Civilization and the White Star Civilization declared war on the Black Eye Civilization, plunging the Universe Alliance into turmoil.
• Lan reviewed the Small Universe's star map with Wang Hai, Hu Mu, and the others and urged them to strengthen the Army Ants amid the coming chaos.
• Lan ordered Poison Skin Woman and Gray Twenty-One to establish an intelligence network and assassin organization, beginning in the Land of Chaos.
• A fleet of more than ten thousand spacecraft emerged from warped space in Orion.