Chapter Summaries

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.

A Bear Wind Armor Regiment fleet entered the Milky Way and sent a reconnaissance ship toward the Ant Army Group’s developed planets, while Lan prepared to intercept it without exposing their wider expansion. Chen Mo and Wushuang discussed the challenges of transferring Mo Nv’s consciousness into a biological body, leaving the technology’s success unresolved.

• The Bear Wind Armor Regiment identified the Laniakea Supercluster as its location, set course for Perseus, and launched a reconnaissance ship toward a developed planet after detecting signs of an Advanced Civilization.
• Mo Nv alerted Lan that an unidentified fleet had appeared in Orion, and Lan identified it as interstellar bandits from the Bear Wind Armor Regiment.
• Lan refused to use a Space Weapon that could reveal their presence, ordered the garrison planets to destroy the reconnaissance ship when it entered their defensive range, and sent Da Ma Zu’s Da Mo Group to train against the fleet.
• Wushuang explained how Neural Consciousness Connection Technology might bridge biological brains and Quantum Consciousness, and warned that a transfer could create a second consciousness instead of preserving Mo Nv’s identity.
• Chen Mo and Wushuang acknowledged that successful Life Consciousness Transfer Technology could enable practical immortality, though Chen Mo said immortality was only a byproduct of their research.

Black Bear Man’s Bear Wind Armor Regiment attacked Orion 9B for its Dark Matter and Antimatter reserves, but the planet’s powerful defenses stopped their advance. As the regiment waited for intelligence on the civilization’s headquarters, Hu Mu’s youth reserve force began developing another star system in the Small Universe.

• Black Bear Man’s reconnaissance ship discovered mechanical cities and suspected Dark Matter and Antimatter warehouses on Orion 9B, but War Robots and a space-based laser destroyed it.
• Black Bear Man ordered his regiment to investigate the enemy’s life-bearing planets and charged at Orion 9B to seize its reserves.
• Da Ma Zu led one million soldiers onto twenty warships, while Hu Mu’s youth reserve force followed the instructor’s orders to develop another star system and train.
• Orion 9B’s War Robots, space-based weapons, and Antimatter attacks held the Bear Wind Armor Regiment outside its defensive line.
• Black Bear Man proposed using light-speed weapons against the enemy’s command center, then grew excited at the possibility that the civilization had Dark Matter and Antimatter production technology.
• Detectors returned information showing six isolated star systems.

Ant Army Group’s traps and orbital defenses devastated the Bear Wind Armor Regiment’s attacking forces, but the bandits answered with light-speed weapons. Da Ma Zu’s million-strong Da Mo Group joined the battle at Orion 9B and prepared to face Black Bear’s numerically superior force.

• Zhao Min and Xiao Yu watched the battle and discussed Ant Army Group’s growing power and its hidden, heavily defended headquarters.
• Black Bear sent six detachments to seize the revealed planets, but concealed War Robots and orbital lasers ambushed them and killed thousands.
• Black Bear ordered light-speed weapons fired from seven locations, destroying many War Robots and scorching planets across the systems.
• Lan and Da Ma Zu assessed the damage, and Da Ma Zu ordered a fleet jump to Orion 9B while War Robots and surviving fortresses resumed fighting in the other systems.
• Da Mo Group arrived at Orion 9B and formed ranks as Black Bear’s main force launched a chaotic swarm of Mech Warriors.
• Da Ma Zu ordered the Berserkers to prepare to fire at the charging Bear Wind Armor Regiment.

Lan watched the Da Mo Group’s first battle against the Bear Wind Armor Regiment, whose forces were devastated by overwhelming weapons fire. As the bombardment gave way to a second attack, Black Bear realized the enemy had Top-Tier Standard Armor and faced certain defeat.

• The Da Mo Group opened fire with a billion Antimatter Bullets, and Black Bear ordered high-temperature particle bombs to intercept them.
• The Bear Wind Armor Regiment tried to destroy the incoming bullets and evade the barrage, but nearly a million Mech Warriors died in the first volley and nearly ten million were blasted into fragments.
• Lan calmly watched the battle from the combat room while Long Yue served him Red Date and Goji Berry Tea.
• Black Bear recognized that the unknown force used Top-Tier Standard Armor, while his troops struggled to decide whether to fight or flee.
• Fifty thousand Da Mo Group sniper Mech Warriors attacked with Sharpshooter’s purple pulsed lasers, killing Bear Wind Mech Warriors and leaving Black Bear despairing.

Long Ka’s Bear Wind Armor Regiment was devastated by the Ant Army Group’s robot tide and fled, while the Perseus king ordered an investigation into the unknown force behind the destruction. The Ant Army Group resumed normal operations, and Chen Mo’s laboratory completed Mo Nv’s body.

• Long Ka deployed the Bear Wind Armor Regiment’s limited Dense Metal against the robot tide, then ordered a retreat after receiving an alarming notification, leaving his forces caught between conflicting commands.
• The robot tide overwhelmed the regiment’s spacecraft, destroyed two of its six divisions, and sent the remaining divisions and fleeing Mech Warriors into disarray.
• Bo Erxius learned the Bear Wind Armor Regiment had been destroyed near Virgo and ordered investigators to identify who had done it.
• The Ant Army Group treated the battle as a routine training exercise, while Lan punished Da Mo Group for its injuries.
• Research in Chen Mo’s laboratory advanced until Mo Nv’s body had matured.