Chapter Summaries

Wang Hai’s Nether Fleet destroyed the Zilun Empire’s Guard Fleets and left its capital planet defenseless. As the remaining forces fled, the planet’s star core was pushed toward an explosion that could engulf the nearby Black Hole Channel and Nether Fleet.

• Wang Hai’s Nether Fleet destroyed Skat’s flagship, routed the first Guard Fleet, and prepared a defensive line for the arriving reinforcements.
• Latis ordered the Guard Fleets to hold while Planetary Bomb preparations continued, then directed nearby reinforcements to assemble at Kansai for an attack after the capital’s destruction.
• The Nether Fleet and nine Guard Fleets fought, with the Zilun forces suffering enormous losses as more Nether Battleships arrived.
• Wang Hai ordered a coordinated strike on the nine Guard Fleet flagships, breaking the remaining enemy resistance and sending the surviving warships fleeing.
• Wang Hai learned that the Zilun capital’s star core had been artificially destabilized and would explode within fifteen minutes, threatening the Black Hole Channel and nearby fleets.

Wang Hai prepared the Nether Fleet to withstand the Zilun Empire capital planet’s Star Core eruption, sacrificing ten billion evacuated warships to weaken its force. The remaining formations survived behind a combined Absolute Dark Energy Barrier, though it was pushed down to twenty-one percent integrity.

• Wang Hai ordered ten billion warships split into two shielded formations, with their crews evacuated, and ordered the remaining formations to prepare a combined Absolute Dark Energy Barrier.
• The Zilun Empire capital planet reached its critical point, erupted into energy, and destroyed a nearby satellite.
• The Star Core energy overwhelmed the first and second formations, consuming their five billion warships each.
• The third formation’s Absolute Dark Energy Barrier held against the eruption as its integrity fell to twenty-one percent and the energy began to weaken.
• The eruption passed, and the Nether Fleet cheered that its people were safe despite losing ten billion warships.

After the Planetary Bomb destroyed the Zilun Empire’s capital planet and billions of warships, Latis sent a massive fleet toward the Capital Sphere. Wang Hai prepared the Nether Fleet for the attack and held the line against overwhelming odds, waiting for the right moment.

• Loha reported that the Planetary Bomb had detonated, destroying the capital planet and nearby worlds along with more than forty billion Imperial Guard warships, while the enemy’s fate remained unconfirmed.
• Latis ordered 120 billion reinforcements to attack the Capital Sphere using the Ocean Current Defense strategy.
• Wang Hai told his adjutant to rebuild the defensive line and recover personnel, since the blast had disabled non-Dark Energy devices and Zilun fleets were approaching.
• The Zilun fleet arrived near the Black Hole Channel fifteen minutes later and began fighting the roughly seventeen billion warships of the Nether Fleet.
• Wang Hai endured the assault, waiting for the moment to act.

Wang Hai turned the battle at the Black Hole Channel by sending two Nether attack groups behind the Zilun Empire fleet, trapping it between Federation forces and preventing its escape or reinforcement. The Federation and Moy Union defeated the Zilun blockade, but the Union suffered heavy losses among its inexperienced recruits.

• Wang Hai waited for the Star Core Energy disruption to subside, then ordered two Nether attack groups to hyperspace behind the Zilun Empire fleet.
• The Zilun fleet could not use hyperspace to counterattack and split its forces, leaving its blockade exposed to attacks from both sides and the Federal reinforcements emerging through the channel.
• After more than an hour, the Moy Union fleet arrived with over ten billion warships and broke the Zilun blockade, which collapsed under the assault.
• The Federation and Moy Union pursued the remaining Zilun forces and destroyed about 180 billion warships, bringing total Zilun losses to roughly 220 billion.
• The Federation lost more than three million warships, while the Moy Union lost nearly three billion, largely because its fleet consisted of inexperienced recruits.

After the Federation and Moy forces finished conquering Nirkenia, Lightmus lured Alphart councilor Zhang Hao into a trap using a device from the Black Mang Empire that stripped him of his energy form. Lightmus killed Zhang Hao and declared the Sun River Empire would usher in the fall of the gods, leaving the Azure Dragon Universe threatened by the Black Mang Empire.

• The United Fleet and the Moy forces wiped out the remaining Zilun Empire forces in Nirkenia, and the campaign ended ahead of schedule.
• Zhang Hao confronted Lightmus over the Sun River Empire's secret contact with the Black Mang Empire, and Lightmus led him to a silvery-white cube for inspection.
• The cube restrained Zhang Hao and prevented him from becoming an Energy Lifeform, turning him into mortal flesh and blood.
• Lightmus revealed that the Black Mang Empire had supplied the device and promised the Sun River Empire rule over the Azure Dragon Universe.
• Lightmus stabbed Zhang Hao through the heart with a Dark Energy Alloy blade, then ordered guards to drag his body away and throw it to the Harvey Beasts.

After killing Zhang Hao, Lightmus moved his plan forward and persuaded Nevitt to help him. The Alphart Civilization ordered the Divine Radiance Civilization, the Gem Empire, and the Fario Civilization to attack the Sun River Empire, while Lightmus secretly prepared to betray Nevitt and destroy all three allied civilizations.

• Lightmus told Nevitt that he had killed Zhang Hao and persuaded him to join a risky plan.
• Lin Aotian informed the Alphart council that Zhang Hao's Life Source had disappeared, and the council suspected the Sun River Empire had technology capable of killing Energy Lifeforms.
• Jiang Chen proposed having the three Super Civilizations attack the Sun River Empire, and Lin Aotian ordered them to mobilize.
• The Divine Radiance Civilization, the Gem Empire, and the Fario Civilization assembled an allied army, while Nevitt secretly coordinated with Lightmus.
• Lightmus told Nevitt that he had prepared two of the devices needed for their plan, then revealed that he intended to destroy the Fario Civilization as well as the other allies.

The Divine Radiance Civilization and the Gem Empire attacked the Sun River Empire’s Starry Sky Continent after the Fario Civilization volunteered to stay behind as a reserve. Their assault went smoothly until both commanders learned that the Sun River Empire had attacked their undefended homelands, forcing them to rush back.

• Civilizations across the universe prepared to seize the Sun River Empire’s allies as the three-Super-Civilization coalition advanced toward its core region.
• Silvie persuaded the Divine Radiance Civilization and Gem Empire commanders to let the Fario fleet stay outside the battlefield while their forces attacked.
• The Divine Radiance Civilization and Gem Empire fleets assaulted the Starry Sky Continent, damaging its defenses with Dark Energy weapons.
• The two commanders received messages that the Sun River Empire was attacking their homelands, which had been left vulnerable after most of their forces deployed.

Xivil and the Fario Civilization betrayed the Divine Radiance Civilization and the Gem Empire, trapping their fleets inside Black Hole Cavity Space. The plan appeared to leave the Sun River Empire and Fario poised to dominate the universe, but the Sun River Empire’s main fleet attacked Fario’s homeland.

• The Divine Radiance Civilization and the Gem Empire sent most of their fleets through Black Hole Channels to return home, leaving the Fario Civilization to guard the Starry Sky Continent.
• Xivil ordered the Fario fleet to attack the remaining ships of both civilizations and had Harry and Laurent deploy Black Hole Particle Destabilizers at the channel entrances.
• The destabilizers collapsed both Black Hole Channels, exiling the fleets that had already entered in Black Hole Cavity Space.
• The Fario fleet destroyed the remaining ships of the two Super Civilizations, and Xivil celebrated their apparent victory.
• Xivil received an emergency message reporting that the Sun River Empire’s main fleet had appeared over Fario’s homeland and was attacking.

After the Solar Empire defeated the three Super Civilizations, Lin Aotian told Lin Fan that the Alphart Civilization could not intervene because the Solar Empire had a weapon that could weaken Alphart energy bodies. As the Alphart prepared to withdraw to Black Hole Cavity Space, they entrusted their vast Dark Energy Crystal reserves to humanity.

• Lin Fan learned that the Solar Empire had defeated the three Super Civilizations, leaving the Azure Dragon Universe in turmoil.
• Lin Aotian explained that the Solar Empire's technology could force Alphart energy bodies into vulnerable flesh-and-blood forms, and that the Alphart had already lost a councilor and hundreds of people.
• Lin Aotian told Lin Fan that more than ninety percent of the Alphart had relocated to outposts in Black Hole Cavity Space.
• Lin Aotian revealed that the Alphart Council would withdraw everyone from the Azure Dragon Universe, leaving the five Dark Energy Springs to the Solar Empire.
• Lin Aotian promised to give humanity the Alphart's enormous stockpile of Dark Energy Crystals as the seed of hope.

After receiving the Alphart Civilization’s vast stockpile of Dark Energy Crystals, the Federation accelerated its research and expansion while the Sun River Empire hunted the remnants of three Super Civilizations. Lin Fan concluded that humanity could bypass the incomplete stages of advancement and become a God-tier Civilization by mastering four technological systems as a Ninth Order Civilization.

• Lin Aotian gave Lin Fan a storage device that concealed and isolated the energy of the Dark Energy Crystals.
• In Federation Year 215, the Alphart Civilization disappeared, and Lightmus set aside the search to focus on the surviving forces of the three Super Civilizations.
• The Federation spent three years conducting unrestricted research, raising its Black Cavity data analysis from 5.9% to 18%.
• Using the Nilkenia Super Galaxy Cluster as a foothold, the Federation took over more than ten Superclusters and expanded to thirty-one.
• Lin Fan hypothesized that Tenth Order, Super, and Transcendent Civilizations were incomplete God-tier Civilizations, and that humanity could reach the true God-tier by mastering space, time, Dark Energy, and Black Cavity technology as a Ninth Order Civilization.

The Sun River Empire imposed harsh tribute demands across the Azure Dragon Universe, prompting former vassals and the remnants of three Great Super Civilizations to form an opposing alliance. Meanwhile, the Federation surpassed fifty percent in deciphering Black Hole Cavity data and developed Black Hole Cavity Armor, leading Lin Fan to consider building a fleet of one hundred million armored warships.

• The Sun River Empire demanded tribute from every civilization above the Eighth Order and assigned different rates to its three levels of vassals.
• Third-level civilizations united against the Sun River Empire, and remnants of the three Great Super Civilizations joined them with promises of lower tribute.
• The universe split into two camps, though the anti-Sun River Empire alliance had far less high-end combat power.
• By Federation Year 225, the Federation had deciphered more than half of the Black Hole Cavity data while the inner universe remained at war.
• Li Lizhi's Flying Bird Research Institute developed Black Hole Cavity Armor, which resisted even Lin Fan's full-force strike.
• Lin Fan considered building a special fleet of one hundred million warships equipped with the armor, despite the enormous Dark Energy Crystal cost.

The Moy Union’s Supreme Commanders debated whether to merge with the Federation as genetic surgery made more Moy people genetically human. Nina argued that removing an implanted gene fragment restored their true Moy bloodline, then revealed the Federation had analyzed half of the Black Cavity data and was using vast amounts of Dark Energy Crystals.

• Amos convened the ten Supreme Commanders to discuss fully merging the Moy Union with the Federation as genetic surgery and enhancement transformed the Moy population.
• Belterlun said the Moy Union faced a dead end: preserve the foreign gene fragment and risk decline, or remove it and become human.
• Nina argued the implanted fragment had never belonged to the Moy people, so removing it restored their true bloodline.
• Nina said Lin Fan had told her the Federation had analyzed fifty percent of the Black Cavity data, shocking the Supreme Commanders.
• Larnass confirmed the analysis figure through Jeram and revealed that the Federation’s three research institutes consumed hundreds of thousands of Dark Energy Crystals annually.

The Moy Union voted to join the Federation, while Nina asked Lin Fan about the Federation’s plans for Turgar after the Zilun Empire joined the Sun River Empire’s camp. Lin Fan planned to build a Black Armor Fleet and wait for fighting to break out in Turgar before intervening, as Turgar’s shift threatened to give the Sun River Empire a major logistical foothold.

• The Moy Union’s leaders voted to join the Federation after learning how vastly its Dark Energy Crystal consumption exceeded theirs.
• Nina told Lin Fan that Latis had brought the Zilun Empire into the Sun River Empire’s camp and asked when the Federation would move on Turgar.
• Lin Fan said the Federation would build a Black Armor Fleet within three years and wait for conflict in Turgar before stepping in.
• The Zilun Empire’s decision made Turgar a focus of the war because it could serve as a logistics base deep in the anti-Sun River alliance’s rear.

Lin Fan and Nina arranged for the Moy Union to lead the Federation’s coming battle over Turgar, each with private reasons for sending its fleet into the fighting. As the war between the Sun River Empire’s faction and the anti-Sun River Alliance became a three-year stalemate, Lin Fan prepared a large Federation force in Luolan and decided the Federation would enter Turgar through the Cosmic Current.

• Lin Fan and Nina agreed that the Moy Union would serve as the main force against ordinary civilizations while the Federal Fleet engaged the Super Civilizations.
• Nina planned to use the battle to remove Moy people who opposed joining the Federation, while Lin Fan hoped the Moy fleet would suffer losses that reduced its overwhelming size.
• The Sun River Empire’s faction and the anti-Sun River Alliance sent fleets through Black Hole Channels into Turgar, where millions of trillion warships assembled for battle.
• The Federation fortified Luolan and deployed measures to destroy Black Hole Channels, preventing either faction from entering Federation territory through the supercluster.
• After three years of attrition, both factions continued reinforcing Turgar, while Lin Fan kept more than five hundred trillion warships waiting in Luolan.
• Lin Fan ruled out entering Turgar through a Black Hole Channel and chose to send the Federation fleet through the Cosmic Current.

The Lothar Republic’s defense at the Cosmic Current Node came under attack from the Federation Black Armor Fleet, whose armor shrugged off the defenders’ weapons. As the Black Armor Fleet tore through the defense line and Speight called for reinforcements, the Nether Fleet arrived at the Current Mouth.

• Marshal Speight ordered the Lothar Republic’s forces to attack the unidentified fleet emerging from the Cosmic Current.
• The Black Armor Fleet’s armor resisted the Lothar Republic’s massive barrage with only superficial damage.
• Admiral Sophia ordered the Black Armor Fleet to charge through the defense line, where it began destroying Lothar Empire warships.
• Speight sent a message to the Sun River Empire requesting reinforcements against the attacking Super Civilization.
• The Nether Fleet arrived at the Current Mouth.

Leon ordered the Lothar Republic to hold the Star System Cluster for one day until an experimental fleet arrived, while the Republic faced a powerful, unidentified enemy assault. Lin Fan prepared Zi Ling and Zi Luo to reveal their hidden strength if the Sun River Empire sent reinforcements.

• Leon learned that an unidentified fleet with Super Civilization-level power was attacking the Lothar Republic through the Cosmic Current and that the Republic could hold out for only a few days.
• Leon found that he could not withdraw fleets from the main front, so he ordered the Lothar Republic to hold for one day until the empire's experimental fleet arrived.
• Speight reported that the enemy included the Black Armor Fleet and a growing fleet of Ninth Order Dark Energy Users, and warned that the Lothar Republic could not hold for a day.
• Lin Fan learned that Sophia's Black Armor Fleet had disrupted the enemy defenses and Wang Hai's Nether Fleet had opened a breach.
• Lin Fan ordered Zi Ling and Zi Luo to act if Sun River Empire fleets arrived, but to remain hidden if only ordinary civilization fleets came.

Wang Hai proposed gathering the Federation’s Tenth Order Dark Energy Manipulator warships to break through the Lothar Republic’s defensive line, while Sophia used the Black Armor Fleet to disrupt the enemy’s response. Their combined strike tore open a massive breach, and Wang Hai ordered the fleet to push through before the Lothar Republic could seal it.

• As the Lothar Republic reinforced its damaged defensive line, Wang Hai told Sophia he could gather the Tenth Order warships and blast a hole through it.
• Speight learned that tens of thousands of suspected Tenth Order warships were gathering and ordered every available fleet to concentrate fire on them.
• Sophia led the Black Armor Fleet into the enemy formations, scattering the fleets preparing to attack Wang Hai’s assembly point.
• After the Black Armor Fleet cleared the attack path, Wang Hai’s gathered warships fired together, annihilating nearly fifty billion enemy warships and punching a huge hole in the defensive line.
• Wang Hai left five hundred million warships to hold the bridgehead and ordered the remaining fleets to break through the breach immediately.

As the Black Armor Fleet attacked the Lothar Republic in the Jultus Star Cluster, the Anti-Sun River Alliance learned that humanity had emerged from the Luolan Supercluster. Altra and the other commanders ordered a full-scale counteroffensive, set to begin in one hour.

• The Nether Fleet, the Lothar Republic fleet, and the Black Armor Fleet converged on the breach in the defensive line.
• Altra told the commanders gathered on Turgar that an unknown fleet from Luolan had crushed the Lothar Republic fleet in the Jultus Star Cluster.
• Altra showed footage of the Black Armor Fleet resisting a barrage from hundreds of billions of warships.
• Triente identified the fleet as humanity and said its people resembled the ancient Alphart people.
• Altra proposed attacking across the front while the Sun River Empire might divert forces to Jultus, and Autwell and Triente agreed.
• The three Super Civilizations ordered a full-scale counteroffensive under Plan No. 275 to begin in one hour.

The Federation’s assault pushed the Lothar Republic toward defeat, but its troops returned to fight after learning their civilization’s survival depended on holding the line. When Lin Fan contacted the Republic, Marshal Speight mistook him for an Alphart and revealed why the Lothar Republic had been forced to serve the Sun River Empire, giving Lin Fan an opening to negotiate.

• The Federation used Black Hole Channels to bring reinforcements to the Jultus Star Cluster, leaving the Lothar Republic’s defensive line on the verge of collapse.
• Marshal Speight ordered the Lothar fleet to fight to the death because the Republic would be destroyed if it abandoned the Sun River Empire.
• Lin Fan noticed that fleeing Lothar warships were returning to battle and agreed with Liang Xue to contact the Republic.
• Speight initially rejected the enemy’s communication, then allowed it through to find out which Super Civilization was attacking.
• Speight recognized Lin Fan as an Alphart, knelt before him, and explained that the Lothar Republic had been forced to support the Sun River Empire to protect its people.
• Lin Fan realized Speight’s mistake could give him a chance to negotiate as the Alphart Civilization’s spokesperson in the Azure Dragon Universe.

Lin Fan arranged for Speight and the Lothar Republic fleet to fake their destruction and hide in the Holter Supercluster. Believing the Lothar Republic had fallen, Commander Leon ordered the Blazing Sun Fleet to rush to Turgar through a new Black Hole Channel.

• Lin Fan told Speight that humanity was a branch of the Alphart Civilization and offered a way to protect the Lothar Republic by having its fleet play dead.
• Speight agreed to surrender and conceal his fleet, and Lin Fan arranged for the warships to hide in the Holter Supercluster.
• The Federation and Lothar Republic staged a battle in the Jultus Star Cluster, where the Lothar ships shut down their transponders and entered a Black Hole Channel.
• After the final War Fortress appeared destroyed, Commander Leon was told that Speight's fleet had been annihilated.
• Commander Leon ordered the Blazing Sun Fleet to open a new Black Hole Channel and travel to Turgar at maximum speed.