Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu’s Dark Energy attack killed Black Armor Norton by destroying every cell in their body, while Wei recognized its potential as a new strategic weapon. Heger emerged from the ocean current exit and discovered that Norton had no life signs, as Lin Yu prepared to attack.

• Wei stopped Lin Yu from finishing off Norton so she could collect data on the strange Dark Energy eroding their body.
• Norton’s attempts to resist the energy only accelerated the destruction, and they died after all their cells and tissues were destroyed.
• Wei concluded that Lin Yu’s attack could lead to strategic weapons more powerful than Zero-Point Particle armaments and planned to bring him to the Bailan Research Institute after the war.
• Norton’s forces maintained their shield formation while awaiting Heger, who emerged from the ocean current exit.
• Lin Yu recognized Heger and began forming more than a hundred Dark Energy Barriers as Heger sensed Norton’s lack of life signs.

Heige ordered the Black Armor race to form a line of ten thousand Level Six creatures as shields, hoping to protect him long enough for the First Legion to retreat. Lin Yu prepared a Focused Dark Energy Cannon attack, whose impact on the formation remained unknown.

• Heige discovered that Black Armor Norton was dead and sensed a terrifying killing intent aimed at him.
• Heige decided to hold his position until the First Legion could withdraw, then took command of the Black Armor race.
• Heige dissolved the spherical shield formation and placed more than ten thousand Level Six creatures in a single-file line in front of him.
• Lin Yu recognized the line of shields as a serious obstacle and considered how much power his attack would retain after breaking through them.
• Lin Yu fired the Focused Dark Energy Cannon, which focused energy from its arrays into a brute-force attack.

Lin Yu’s Focused Dark Energy Cannon tore through Heg’s Black Armor defenders and nearly broke his force field, but the attack dissipated before it could kill him. Seeing that Heg would prepare a stronger defense next time, Lin Yu contacted Lin Fan with a bold plan.

• Lin Yu’s cannon blasted through thousands of Black Armor warriors, including Norton, as it sped toward Heg.
• Heg poured everything into his force field, which cracked under the attack until the beam finally ran out of energy.
• A researcher watching from the Research Ship lamented that Lin Yu had destroyed a valuable test subject and vowed to deal with him later.
• Lin Yu realized Heg would use far more Black Armor defenders next time and told Lin Fan he had a bold plan.

Lin Yu proposed a plan to destroy the Purgatory Army at the ocean current’s exit while keeping its suspected ninth-order leader occupied, and Lin Fan approved it. The third round of the confrontation began as Lin Yu prepared his attack and the Zero-Point Missiles launched.

• Lin Yu suggested abandoning the goal of directly killing the suspected ninth-order creature and instead eliminating the Purgatory Army around it.
• Lin Yu outlined a three-step attack using Zero-Point Missiles, a Focused Dark Energy Cannon, and a Zero-Point Bomb Carrier to strike while the target was distracted.
• Lin Fan approved Lin Yu’s plan, canceled Operation Plan Three, and ordered the staff to carry out Lin Yu’s deployment as Operation Four.
• Liang Xue reviewed Lin Yu’s plan, recognized its similarity to Lin Fan’s, and instructed the staff to use it under the new designation.
• The Zero-Point Missiles launched from the new Gonggong as Lin Yu prepared one hundred and one dark energy arrays before the Xuanming Mech, beginning the third confrontation.

Hage deployed fifty thousand Black Armor Beasts to stop Lin Yu’s attack, but Lin Yu used repeated Zero-Point Missile strikes to weaken their defenses before sending a beam through the formation. Hage withstood the weakened beam, unaware that a large Hyperspace Window had opened behind him.

• Hage ordered fifty thousand Black Armor Beasts into a single-line defensive formation and had Douglas lock onto Lin Yu’s position.
• Lin Yu sent waves of Zero-Point Missiles through Hyperspace Windows, exhausting the Black Armor Beasts’ shell defenses without killing any of them.
• Lin Yu fired a beam through the weakened formation, which pierced all fifty thousand Black Armor Beasts and continued toward Hage.
• Hage judged the beam weaker than the first attack and raised his shield to withstand it.
• A large Hyperspace Window opened several AU behind Hage while he focused on the beam.

Humanity used the Focused Dark Energy Cannon as a feint while a Zero-Point Bomb Carrier detonated behind Hegg and the Purgatory forces. The resulting spatial turbulence engulfed Hegg and the nearby creatures, while Lin Yu protected himself with Dark Energy Shields.

• A Zero-Point Bomb Carrier emerged from hyperspace 5.5 AU behind Hegg and began overloading its Warp Drive Engines.
• Douglas spotted the carrier and realized humanity’s attacks had been designed to distract Hegg while the bomb targeted the Purgatory forces.
• Douglas urged the other three Seventh Order Leader-class creatures to flee into the current, but they demanded an explanation and stayed.
• Seven seconds after the engines began overloading, the Zero-Point Bomb detonated as Hegg blocked Lin Yu’s cannon, engulfing him in spatial turbulence.
• Spatial turbulence spread across roughly 10 AU, and Lin Yu shielded himself against the blast’s possible effects.

The Zero-Point Bomb’s detonation unleashes spatial turbulence that kills tribal leaders and devastates the forces emerging from the Cosmic Current. After the turbulence ends, Heg orders Douglas to guide him toward Lin Yu, unknowingly beginning the next part of Lin Yu’s plan.

• Spatial Rifts and compression zones struck the area, and one Seventh Order tribal leader was dragged into a rift and destroyed.
• Spatial hazards killed four Seventh Order Leader-class creatures and many Sixth Order creatures, while Douglas survived with serious injuries.
• Heg saw the devastation but could not intervene while he struggled against the turbulence.
• After the spatial turbulence dissipated, Heg ordered Douglas to locate and guide him toward Lin Yu, five AU away.
• Douglas shared Lin Yu’s location with Heg, who gathered energy to attack, unaware that he was following Lin Yu’s battle plan.

Lin Yu’s Dark Energy Shields withstood Hagg’s strongest attack while humanity detonated another Zero-Point Bomb near the Cosmic Current entrance. Lin Fan’s command team prepared to repeat their operation until Hagg acted as they wanted, while Wang Hai’s forces awaited the results.

• Hagg fired his most powerful energy attack at Lin Yu’s seven Dark Energy Shields, but another Zero-Point Bomb Carrier appeared behind him.
• Hagg stopped attacking to defend himself, and the Zero-Point Bomb Carrier detonated, engulfing him and the Cosmic Current entrance in spatial turbulence.
• The turbulence injured Douglas further and killed most of the Purgatory Legion troops emerging from the Cosmic Current.
• Hagg wondered whether he had been too impulsive by attacking before securing the Viers Supercluster, then focused on defense.
• Aboard the Gonggong battle star, Liang Xue and Lin Fan confirmed the plan was proceeding smoothly and discussed Wang Hai’s deployed preparations.
• Lin Fan ordered his staff to have Lin Yu ready to restart the first phase once the spatial turbulence ended.

Lin Yu used the devastation at the Current Mouth to pressure Heg into retreating before Lin Yu’s Mental Power ran out. Heg fled into the Cosmic Current with Douglas, leaving the Inferno First Legion behind as Lin Yu prepared to rest.

• After the battle, Douglas had lost five legs, and most of the Inferno forces that emerged from the Current had been destroyed.
• When Heg asked Douglas for a solution, Douglas advised him to retreat to the Viers Supercluster and preserve himself so the First Legion could be rebuilt.
• Heg hesitated to abandon his army, but Douglas argued that staying would not protect the other fronts and could leave Heg trapped.
• Heg decided to flee and took the injured Douglas with him into the Cosmic Current.
• Lin Yu sighed with relief, knowing he had narrowly avoided another costly use of his Mental Power, and prepared to rest.

Wang Hai prepared to ambush Heg’s forces at Chers while Lin Fan’s fleet destroyed most of the Purgatory First Legion emerging at Lawell. After the battle, Wei asked Lin Fan for permission to take the enemy remains for research, then made a surprising request for Lin Tian.

• Wang Hai received Heg’s estimated arrival time and learned that the Dark Energy Spatial Resonance Device needed adjustments before it could operate at Viers.
• Lin Fan’s fleet used Zero-Point Bombs to kill twenty-five Seventh Order Purgatory creatures as they emerged at Lawell, while five escaped back into the Cosmic Current.
• After monitoring the Current Mouth for an hour without further arrivals, Lin Fan ordered the fleets to assemble at Lawell and sent the Melohua to retrieve Lin Yu.
• Wei requested permission to recover the Purgatory creatures’ remains for research, and Lin Fan granted it.
• Wei told Lin Fan that she wanted Lin Tian.

The Federal Expeditionary Force cleared a route through the debris at Current Mouth and departed, while Wei's garrison fleet collected Purgatory remains for research. A month later, Wang Hai prepared to face Heige after Bayerlan's experts calibrated the Dark Energy Spatial Resonator, leaving the battle set to begin the next day.

• Lin Fan ordered the Melohua, Nether Fleet, Dauntless Fleet, and conventional fleet to enter the Cosmic Current in sequence.
• Wei directed the garrison fleet to collect Purgatory Creature remains, while Lin Fan refused Aliya's request to give them to the Insect Race.
• A month later at Chers, Wang Hai learned Bayerlan's research team had calibrated the Dark Energy Spatial Resonator for the coming battle.
• Wang Hai ordered further inspections and prepared for Heige's arrival, hoping victory would buy humanity time to develop.

Lin Hong and Farn remained trapped in Zero-Dimensional Space, the Alphart Civilization’s energy-starved prison, and argued over humanity’s fate. Lin Hong secretly revealed through his thoughts that he had found a way to gather escape energy far faster than Farn.

• The chapter explained how the Alphart Civilization turned Zero-Dimensional Space into a prison by sending in individuals whose energy had been weakened.
• Farn complained to Lin Hong about their decades-long imprisonment and said escaping would take thousands of years.
• Farn claimed his laboratory’s Minor Universe would release its creatures if his location could no longer be confirmed, including Galon, who could threaten humanity.
• Lin Hong revealed that he had believed the Council Chairman stole Galon, then said he trusted humanity because of someone Farn had overlooked.
• Lin Hong secretly reflected that he had discovered an energy source in Zero-Dimensional Space and could convert it, allowing him to gather more than one-tenth of the energy needed to escape.

Wang Hai’s fleet activated the Spatial Dark Energy Resonance Devices to ambush Heg at Chers, but a synchronization error delayed the attack until the experts corrected it. Heg arrived with the badly wounded Douglas, and the chapter ended as Heg sensed a deadly danger.

• Wang Hai had deployed three hundred thousand stealthy Spatial Dark Energy Resonance Devices around Chers’s Cosmic Current node to target Heg and his forces.
• Wang Hai ordered the devices activated when Heg emerged from the Cosmic Current, but synchronization stalled at 88%.
• Wang Hai gave the experts three minutes to find the malfunction, and they corrected an incorrectly set parameter before synchronization rose above 93.7%.
• Douglas lost consciousness upon arriving at Chers, while Heg faced fewer than ten remaining Seventh Order Leader-class creatures.
• Heg sensed a deadly danger rising as he looked at the creatures ahead.

Heg and the creatures with him were weakened by the Nether Fleet’s Spatial Dark Energy Resonance Device while Wang Hai pushed to raise its efficiency before the Federation Fleet reached Chers. The system reached 99.5 percent, but a sudden alarm interrupted Wang Hai’s next order.

• The Spatial Dark Energy Resonance Device drained the creatures’ biological energy, leaving Sixth Order individuals convulsing and even Heg feeling discomfort.
• Heg sensed the Nether Fleet’s rough direction but could not locate it, and he worried over the unconscious Douglas.
• Wang Hai learned the device was operating at only 20 percent efficiency and heard that a rapid increase risked a Dark Energy riot powerful enough to devastate a star system.
• Wang Hai ordered the Second Legion’s warships, except the flagship, to withdraw one hundred AU and told his adjutant to draw the target away from the Current Mouth.
• Wang Hai pressed the expert team to raise the device’s efficiency, and the system stabilized at 99.5 percent before an alarm sounded across the bridge.

Wang Hai’s Resonance System faced catastrophic failure after Dark Energy density shifted beyond its calibration, while Heg’s forces suffered mass deaths from an unknown effect. The chapter ended with Heg unable to use its energy or open a teleportation channel as it tried to flee Chers.

• Team Leader Liang warned Wang Hai that faulty Dark Energy data could cause the Resonance System to devour everything within one AU unless it was shut down and recalculated.
• Wang Hai proposed holding out for two hours and then detonating a Zero-Point Missile inside the warship, and Team Leader Liang agreed despite the low chance of success.
• Wang Hai said his adjutant would lead the Nether Fleet onward if they failed to survive.
• Heg watched Purgatory clan-level creatures die in waves and ordered the Seventh Order leaders to evacuate the army from Chers.
• Heg failed to open a Space Teleportation Channel and discovered it could no longer use any energy.

Hegg’s Purgatory Second Legion was devastated by humanity’s Resonance System, leaving Hegg as its sole survivor. Wang Hai chose to keep draining Hegg’s strength and planned to destroy the warship with a Zero-Point Missile just before Lin Yu arrived; two hours passed, and Wang Hai gave the detonation order.

• Douglas died after the energy drain made it impossible for their body to recover.
• Hegg led the six remaining Leader-class creatures in an attempt to escape the Resonance System’s range, but they died one by one until only Hegg remained.
• Team Leader Liang asked Wang Hai whether to shut down the Resonance System and contain Hegg with the Spatial Interference Device.
• Wang Hai decided to continue weakening Hegg, then evacuate the warship and detonate a Zero-Point Missile to destroy it and shut down the Resonance System.
• Two hours later, Wang Hai ordered the missile detonated.

Wang Hai led the operation to disable the Dark Energy Resonance Field and trap Hegel with Spatial Interference Devices. Hegel realized the humans had blocked its escape just as a warship emerged nearby.

• Wang Hai arrived at the fleet flagship and checked that the Spatial Interference Devices were ready for a seamless deployment.
• Wang Hai ordered a Zero-Point Missile detonated at the 180-second mark, destroying the Dark Energy Resonance Field around Hegel.
• Wang Hai had Hegel scanned, and Team Leader Liang estimated its unstable energy would take about ten minutes to settle.
• Hegel noticed its energy loss had stopped and tried three times to open a Space Teleportation Channel, but Spatial Interference Devices prevented it.
• Hegel recognized the humans’ interference and saw a warship emerge from the Cosmic Current 0.3 AU away.

Lin Yu arrived at Chers aboard the Melohua and fired a full-power Focused Dark Energy Cannon at Heg while it was vulnerable. The attack overwhelmed Heg’s defenses, leaving it in severe pain as it struggled to withstand the beam.

• Lin Yu reviewed the Second Legion’s reports and praised Wang Hai for destroying his flagship rather than retreating.
• Bai Xuan cleared a flight path, and Lin Yu launched the Xuanming Mech from the Melohua.
• Lin Yu constructed the Dark Energy arrays and fired the Focused Dark Energy Cannon at Heg from 0.27 AU away.
• Heg detected the lethal attack too late to identify it precisely and recognized it as the humans’ weapon from Lawell.
• The beam struck Heg without being weakened by shields or a shield formation, and Heg struggled as the attack threatened to pierce its defenses.

Lin Yu attacked Heg with an Inductive Dark Energy Compression Cannon while Heg’s energy remained unstable, penetrating his scales and drilling several kilometers into his body. The beam dispersed, but its destructive energy took root inside Heg, leaving him gravely threatened.

• Heg endured the Dark Energy Cannon’s assault, suffering hundreds of wounds as his energy remained in turmoil.
• Heg hoped to stabilize his energy and contact his elder brother, Galon, for help.
• Lin Yu realized the Inductive Dark Energy Compression Cannon could exploit Heg’s inability to use an Energy Shield and began constructing its array.
• Lin Yu fired the compression cannon, and its beam pierced Heg’s scales and outer skin.
• The beam dispersed after drilling several kilometers into Heg, but its destructive energy took root inside his body.

Lin Fan sent Federal scientists to investigate the coordinates where Heige and the Purgatory Second Legion had appeared, hoping to uncover how they crossed the Boötes Void and what traces they left behind. After three days of inconclusive research, Wei arrived aboard the super Research Ship Bailan.

• Heige died after the Inductive Dark Energy Compression Cannon caused mutations that destroyed its cells and organs, but it sent Galon part of its memories before its death.
• Lin Fan ordered the Nether Fleet, the Dauntless Fleet, and the conventional fleet to send Star System Legions to investigate Heige's arrival coordinates.
• Thousands of scientists scanned the site and detected traces of Black Hole Energy, but struggled to understand the black cavity.
• Wei arrived at the coordinates aboard her personal super Research Ship, the Bailan.