Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo asked the Purple Emperor to let him replicate his Mind Control ability, but the Purple Emperor warned that his guarded consciousness made that unsafe and recommended his student Zi Yun instead. Zi Yun agreed to cooperate with Chen Mo despite her concerns that the process would expose her memories.

• Chen Mo visited the Purple Emperor, who said Zi Qing and the others were recovering after losing their memories.
• Chen Mo explained that he wanted to replicate the Purple Emperor's Mind Control as a reference for his consciousness-manipulation research.
• The Purple Emperor refused to lower his mental defenses and proposed that Chen Mo replicate Zi Yun's weaker Mind Control instead.
• Chen Mo and the Purple Emperor found Zi Yun reading in a café, and the Purple Emperor asked her to help Chen Mo.
• After learning that the process would touch her memories, Zi Yun agreed to cooperate with Chen Mo.

Chen Mo began an experiment to replicate Zi Yun’s ability while she sensed a familiar fluctuation in him. Meanwhile, Poison Skin Woman prepared Gray Twenty-One to use Superpower Armor for an assassination operation against Frost Empire ruler Bai Shuang.

• Chen Mo guided Zi Yun through the experiment and told her to release her ability so she could control a laboratory monkey.
• Zi Yun sensed a familiar, unfathomable fluctuation in Chen Mo, like the one she had felt from Mo Nv when her power failed to control her.
• A subordinate reported that Poison Skin Woman’s forces had found Bai Shuang’s location.
• Poison Skin Woman asked Gray Twenty-One whether he had mastered the Superpower Armor, which could extend their superpowers to Planet-Level.
• Gray Twenty-One confirmed he had mastered the armor, and Poison Skin Woman assigned him the operation against Bai Shuang.

Suo Li struggled to contain the Ant Army Group's assault on the Sauron Alliance, as its forces seized Ghost Bird Star and disrupted the Alliance's defenses. Lin Shu oversaw the construction of a Star Fortress there while preparing to evacuate if the enemy's space bombardment came too close.

• Suo Li committed the Sauron Alliance's fleets to a head-on battle, but the Night Owl Battle Division and another Ant Army force overwhelmed their defenses and trapped reinforcements with Space Jammers.
• Suo Li learned that destroyed Dark Matter reserves had left nearby star systems unable to build fleets, and his subordinate reported that Ghost Bird Star had fallen.
• Suo Li ordered unmanned warships to bombard the Ghost Bird Star System rather than leave it for the Ant Army Group to use.
• Lin Shu directed technical teams to build a Star Fortress and space gate at Ghost Bird Star before the enemy's next bombardment.
• Lin Shu ordered the teams to evacuate if a Space Weapon landed within one light-month while construction continued.

The Ant Army Group steadily advanced against the Sauron Alliance, using shifting battle tactics and rumors about Suo Li’s incompetence to weaken his position. Suo Li recognized the pressure as a conspiracy but faced the prospect of losing command as the Alliance’s leaders considered appointing a second commander.

• The Night Owl Battle Division secured Ghost Bird Star and connected it to Ant Army Group starfields, while Xiao Li’s attacks exploited the Sauron Alliance’s Dark Matter shortage and destroyed an elite division.
• The Kunpeng Battle Division took command of the battle’s tempo, disrupting Suo Li as the Ant Army Group maintained the initiative.
• Yan and Tong Qing reassessed the Ant Army Group’s strength after studying its commanders and battle divisions.
• Rumors that Suo Li was incompetent spread through the Sauron Alliance, prompting its upper ranks to consider appointing a second commander over half its forces.
• Suo Li’s commanders protested the rumors and the danger of replacing him midwar, but a communication alert interrupted their discussion.

Chen Mo mastered Planet-Level Mind Control and used it to stop a tribal battle, then redirected both sides to hunt together. Despite Lan, Zhao Min, and Xiao Yu warning him against it, he decided to go to the Sauron Alliance front lines to test his abilities and equipment, arriving at the command center with Mo Nv.

• Chen Mo used Mind Control to freeze the warriors and beasts on a planet, then made the Mu Tu Tribe and Han Ke Tribe join forces to hunt.
• The Purple Emperor praised Chen Mo's rapid mastery of Mind Control, while Zi Yun recognized that he possessed a powerful civilization's inheritance.
• Chen Mo announced he would go to the Sauron Alliance front lines, but Lan and Zhao Min objected and Xiao Yu warned him she would marry someone else if he died.
• Chen Mo insisted on going with Mo Nv to test his abilities and equipment, and Xiao Li and Black Hawk were told to protect him.
• Chen Mo and Mo Nv appeared through a spatial opening at the command center after Xiao Li questioned whether the boss was acting recklessly.

Chen Mo tested his abilities by infiltrating Sauron Alliance strongholds, controlling everyone there and extracting information from Shang Xinghe. He reached the Sauron Alliance’s top leadership on Soren Seventeenth King Star and announced that he had come to discuss how to handle the alliance.

• Chen Mo asked Xiao Li to identify a defensive position on Colorful Bird Star and planned to control the Sauron Alliance’s leaders while Xiao Li coordinated the attack.
• Chen Mo and Mo Nv appeared in Colorful Bird Star’s command center, where Chen Mo controlled Shang Xinghe and the surrounding soldiers.
• Chen Mo learned from Shang Xinghe’s memories which planet held the Sauron Alliance’s core upper ranks, erased the witnesses’ memories and departed with Mo Nv.
• Chen Mo and Mo Nv entered the conference room on Soren Seventeenth King Star as the Sauron King and alliance officials argued over the war and their internal divisions.
• Chen Mo disabled the guards and controlled everyone in the room, then told the Soren King that he had come to discuss how to handle the Sauron Alliance.

Chen Mo used Mo Nv to take control of the Sauron Alliance’s core leadership, forcing the alliance to surrender without a decisive battlefield defeat. After Suo Li joined the Ant Army Group and Gun Xi retired, the Soren King publicly signed an unconditional surrender and ceded the alliance’s star territory.

• Chen Mo demonstrated that Mo Nv could alter the council members’ consciousness, then declared that the war should end.
• The Ant Army Group secretly seized control of the Sauron Alliance’s leadership and began reshuffling its upper ranks under Zhu He and Lan.
• Lan gave Suo Li and Gun Xi a choice about serving the Ant Army Group, and Gun Xi chose to retire while Suo Li asked for time to consider.
• Suo Li joined the War Department, and Gun Xi retired five days later and handed him military authority.
• The Ant Army Group and the Sauron Alliance announced a ceasefire and began negotiations.
• The Soren King publicly signed an unconditional surrender, and the Sauron Alliance’s star territory was incorporated into the Ant Army Group.

The universe’s powers struggled to explain the Ant Army Group’s nearly costless annexation of the Sauron Alliance, and several strategists suspected superpowers had secretly controlled its leaders. Zi Luo realized the projections had overlooked the possibility that the Sauron Alliance’s higher-ups had been made into “idiots.”

• Tong Qing and Yan considered whether the Ant Army Group had secretly controlled the Sauron Alliance’s higher-ups, recalling the massacre in the Ziwei Civilization.
• Hu Bingxin told the White Star Civilization’s generals that their projections had overlooked superpowers and proposed that the Ant Army Group might have controlled the Soren King and other leaders.
• The White Star generals revised their projections around the possibility of controlling the Sauron Alliance’s leadership.
• Zi Luo heard nearby generals wonder how the Sauron Alliance’s leaders could have acted like idiots, then called everyone over to project the war again.
• Zi Luo declared that the generals had overlooked the condition that all the Sauron Alliance’s higher-ups had become “idiots.”

Lei Yu publicly explained the Thunder God Civilization’s successful simulation of the Ant Army Group’s war to annex the Sauron Alliance, arguing that superpowers and spatial traversal made the seemingly impossible victory plausible. He left military leaders across the universe confronting a new model of warfare for the age of superpowers.

• Lei Yu ordered a universe-wide livestream to reveal his team’s simulation of the Ant Army Group’s war against the Sauron Alliance.
• Lei Yu explained that simulations failed until his team considered superpowers as a factor capable of changing the course of war.
• Lei Yu proposed that an Ant Army Group superpowered individual could have controlled Soren King and the Sauron Alliance’s senior leaders, enabling infiltration and unconditional surrender.
• Lei Yu argued that spatial traversal, as demonstrated by Chen Mo, Mo Nv, and White Star Old Chief, could let such an individual bypass defenses and reach the leaders.
• Lei Yu presented the simulation as a valid new mode of warfare and named the Ant Army Group its pioneer.

Chen Mo and Lan decided to pause expansion and adapt to warfare in the superpowered era after Lei Yu’s analysis exposed the threat posed by Chen Mo’s abilities. Meanwhile, Gray Twenty-One arrived at Bai Shuang’s hiding place in the Land of Chaos, and Bai Shuang sensed danger just as someone appeared behind him.

• Chen Mo and Lan agreed to stabilize the Sauron Alliance, study superpowered warfare, and strengthen their own forces before expanding again.
• Lei Yu’s livestream analysis prompted powers across the universe to rethink warfare and take precautions against the Ant Army Group’s abilities.
• Gray Twenty-One traveled to an inconspicuous planet to target Bai Shuang, the Frost Empire’s king, as part of a plan to unify the Land of Chaos.
• Bai Shuang worried about Dark Star’s military commanders and felt an ominous presence behind him before turning and freezing in terror.

Black Eye Civilization exploited Ziwei Civilization’s unrest to prepare an intervention, while other God-level Civilizations launched coordinated attacks across the universe. As the conflict widened, Zi Yun returned to her homeland, and Chen Mo learned that the Ten Cities Alliance had sent an envoy.

• Poison Skin Woman received Gray Twenty-One’s report that his mission was accomplished and told him to notify the War Department.
• Footage accusing Zi Junzhi of conspiring with the Purple Emperor spread across Ziwei Civilization, triggering protests and demands for Zi Junzhi’s resignation and trial.
• Lan concluded that Tong Qing and Black Eye Civilization had engineered the crisis to weaken Ziwei Civilization before its recovery, and Chen Mo agreed to wait and observe.
• Black Eye Civilization stationed troops on Ziwei Civilization’s border under the pretext of supporting the people, while Thunder God Civilization attacked Nether Fire Civilization and White Star Civilization joined the Giant Race against Martial Immortal Civilization.
• Zi Yun told Chen Mo she was returning to Ziwei Civilization because the Star Master was under pressure and her homeland might face trouble.
• Lan informed Chen Mo that the Ten Cities Alliance had sent an envoy.

Chen Mo negotiated with Luo Huo of the Ten Cities Alliance, offering an alliance on conditions that gave the Army Ant access to their starfields and overall command of joint operations. The alliance leaders debated the terms, while Lan explained how Chen Mo could exploit the disagreement and suggested he look up an old flame.

• Luo Huo asked Chen Mo to form an alliance, and Chen Mo required Army Ant legions to enter the alliance’s starfields and lead any joint operations.
• Chen Mo agreed to sell the Ten Cities Alliance 700 million lun worth of Dark Matter in exchange for resources rather than star coins.
• Luo Huo reported Chen Mo’s terms to Kahn and the other city lords, who disagreed over whether to hand the Army Ant overall command.
• Chen Mo asked Lan whether the Ten Cities Alliance would accept, and Lan said its internal divisions and outside infiltration made agreement unlikely.
• Lan explained that Chen Mo’s command condition would reveal the alliance’s divisions and suggested he look up his old flame.

Kahn learned that factions in the Ten Cities Alliance had rejected the Ant Army Group’s demand for command authority, while Ling Xi planned to negotiate privately with its supreme commander. Chen Mo recruited the Dragon Fish Princess as an informant and offered support, training, and Superpower Armor to strengthen her standing in the Mermaid Constellation.

• Ling Xi told Kahn that four factions opposed the alliance’s command terms because they feared the Ant Army Group would remove the White Star Civilization’s and Black Eye Civilization’s influence from the Ten Cities Alliance.
• Ling Xi offered to privately arrange an agreement with the Ant Army Group, and Kahn entrusted the matter to him.
• Chen Mo asked the Dragon Fish Princess to become his informant in the Ten Cities Alliance, and she agreed after discussing the danger facing the Mermaid Race.
• Chen Mo promised to provide the Dragon Fish Princess with resources and personnel to raise her status, and said he would find a teacher to train her abilities.
• Chen Mo presented the Dragon Fish Princess with Superpower Armor that could extend her hallucination-inducing voice across an entire planet.

Tong Qing and Yan discussed plans to weaken the Ziwei Civilization and divide the Ten Cities Alliance while remaining wary of the Army Ant. Chen Mo tested a machine designed to mass-produce Aether Matter, and Mo Nv reported that it worked.

• Yan told Tong Qing that Zi Junzhi had lost his prestige and that the Black Eye Civilization could exploit the Ziwei Civilization's succession struggle.
• Yan advised Tong Qing to befriend and divide the Ten Cities Alliance rather than pressure it, while warning that Chen Mo and the Army Ant remained unpredictable.
• Chen Mo worked to solve the Aether Matter shortage, which limited production of Superpower Armor to one hundred sets.
• Chen Mo started the secret space base's Aether Matter mass-production machine and monitored its data during the test.
• After eight hours, Mo Nv announced that the machine had worked.

Poison Skin Woman proposed that the Thousand Stars Alliance join forces with the Land of Chaos, while Black Eye Civilization tried to draw the Ten Cities Alliance away from the Army Ants. The Ten Cities Alliance debated the offer, and Ling Xi warned that Black Eye Civilization could betray them once the Army Ants were defeated.

• Poison Skin Woman told Wan Tianxing that their regions would be swallowed if they stayed divided and offered an alliance to restore the former glory of the Thousand Stars Empire.
• Wan Tianxing was tempted by the proposal, though he noted that the other Thousand Stars alliances might refuse.
• Chen Mo celebrated preliminary mass production of Aether Matter and continued research on the Hand of God project.
• Zhu He reported that Black Eye Civilization had offered the Ten Cities Alliance resources and military support in exchange for ending cooperation with the Army Ants and joining a war against them.
• Kahn led the Ten Cities Alliance city lords in debating the offer, with some supporting it and Moon Deer City Lord, the Mermaid Race chief, Yaoluo City Lord, and Ling Xi opposing it.
• Ling Xi argued that Black Eye Civilization could defeat the Army Ants first and then use an excuse to attack the Ten Cities Alliance.

Zi Junzhi urged Zi Yun to become Ziwei Civilization’s next Star Lord as the civilization struggled through political turmoil. Meanwhile, Somi’s rare time-related superpower earned him a place in the Army Ant’s secret superpowered warrior project, where his ability was set to draw the attention of its leaders.

• Zi Junzhi explained that Zi Yun was the most suitable successor and offered to hand her all power, while Zi Yun questioned whether she had a choice.
• Somi accepted the Superpower Academy’s special training invitation and attended an Army Ant selection interview.
• Somi demonstrated that he could make a flower wither and bloom again, then suggested his ability was related to time.
• Zhong Lei invited Somi to join the superpowered warrior project, and Somi eagerly agreed.
• The interviewers recognized Somi’s ability as an exceptionally rare Time Superpower and decided to report it to Lord Lan and the boss.

Chen Mo investigated Somi’s suspected Time Superpower after learning about his ability to make flowers bloom and wither. Somi demonstrated the power at the base, and the Sci-Tech Library stirred in response.

• Mo Nv showed Chen Mo a video of Somi’s ability, and Chen Mo asked to meet him.
• Somi trained at the Superpower War Department’s base and worried that his instructor, Gorees, was taking him away to dismiss him.
• Gorees brought Somi to a laboratory, where Somi met Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo asked Somi whether his ability involved time and had him demonstrate it on several objects.
• Somi accelerated or altered the objects’ time fields, and the Sci-Tech Library stirred as Chen Mo reacted.

Chen Mo realized Somi’s Time Ability had triggered a reaction from the Sci-Tech Library and asked Somi to help with a crucial experiment. Meanwhile, Zi Yun took control of Ziwei Civilization, reshaped its government, and led it into war against Black Eye Civilization.

• Chen Mo connected Somi’s Time Ability with his Space Ability and the Sci-Tech Library’s final mission, then asked Somi to join a private but important experiment for Army Ant.
• Zi Yun accepted the Ziwei Civilization throne with Zi Luo and Fatty Luo’s support, then launched a coup that removed Zi Junzhi from power.
• Zi Yun publicly exposed the former ruling families’ crimes, condemned Zi Junzhi’s actions, and accused Black Eye Civilization of interfering in Ziwei Civilization’s affairs.
• Zi Yun rallied Ziwei Civilization against Black Eye Civilization, while Zi Luo assembled troops and launched attacks that captured twenty-eight star systems.
• Zi Yun appointed Zi Zhong chief administrative officer, and he introduced reforms that broadened access to government and established Superpower Academies.
• Zi Yun purged much of Zi Junzhi’s former leadership, restored internal order, and consolidated support as the war with Black Eye Civilization began.

Chen Mo followed the Sci-Tech Library’s new changes to a mysterious door he could not touch, concluding that he needed greater mastery of time and space. He then prepared to study Somi’s Time Ability in the laboratory, promising Somi support in return.

• Chen Mo touched the Sci-Tech Ball, which opened an avenue through the library and led him to a mysterious door.
• Chen Mo tried to pass through and touch the door but found it existed beyond his current dimension, so he decided to return after mastering time and space.
• Mo Nv brought Somi to Chen Mo’s secret superpower laboratory for the ability study.
• Chen Mo explained the experiment, offered Somi compensation and a token promising future help, and Somi accepted the token.
• Chen Mo seated Somi, attached sensors, and began connecting to his consciousness to observe his memories and superpower.

Chen Mo studied Somi’s Time Superpower and considered its potential to reverse time and alter causality, but Somi could not yet use it to turn back time. As Chen Mo prepared to continue learning the ability, an urgent message revealed that something had happened to the Ten Cities Alliance.

• Chen Mo observed Somi controlling plants and reflected on how Time Superpowers changed matter along its natural past and future trajectories.
• Chen Mo considered how powerful time control could enable time travel, create or erase Parallel Universes, and kill an enemy before they grew strong.
• Chen Mo asked Somi to reverse the plants’ time, but Somi exhausted himself trying and could not overcome the barrier.
• Chen Mo told Somi to rest, acknowledged that he had gained some insight without copying the ability, and invited him to eat together.
• An urgent intelligence department message arrived, and Mo Nv told Chen Mo that something had happened to the Ten Cities Alliance.