Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan’s forces destroyed all seven Black Hole Channels, exiling more than six trillion Sun River Empire warships and cutting off reinforcements to Turgar. As Divine Radiance and Gem Empire fleets arrived to overwhelm the remaining enemy forces, Lin Fan’s exhausted legion returned to the Hongmeng Warship to recover while he went back into battle.

• After the Sun River Empire detected unusual energy buildup before each channel’s destruction, Leon ordered his fleets to focus fire on the Hongmeng-class Warship.
• Lin Fan divided 504 Dark Energy Users into four teams to shield the warship while it destroyed the final two Black Hole Channels.
• Leon realized his forces in Turgar were trapped without reinforcements, and the empire’s demoralized troops lost much of their combat strength.
• Lin Fan led his Dark Energy Users through the weakened enemy fleet but refused to accept a Sun River Empire surrender because it would undermine the Federation’s plans.
• Fleets from the Divine Radiance Civilization and the Gem Empire arrived, giving their side overwhelming superiority and allowing Lin Fan’s exhausted legion to return to the Hongmeng Warship.
• Lin Fan ordered medical personnel to treat the collapsed Dark Energy Users, checked on Commander Altra, and then left to fight again.

After the Turgar Campaign, the Federation joined the anti-Sun River faction as the universe entered a temporary peace. Lin Fan then discovered that a strange signal was reaching him, while a mysterious darkness wiped out a primitive civilization, leaving him convinced that the anomaly threatened all humanity.

• Leon was captured after the Sun River Empire fleet at Turgar was destroyed, and the Federation and its allies secured the battle.
• The Divine Radiance Civilization and the Gem Empire invited the Federation to join their anti-Sun River faction, and Lin Fan accepted after consulting the Federation’s leaders.
• Amles ordered the Sun River faction’s frontlines to adopt a defensive posture while the weakened factions avoided large-scale warfare.
• A strange darkness enveloped the Blue River Civilization’s planet during its first spacecraft trial voyage, and every living being vanished when the darkness receded.
• Lin Fan told Liang Xue about the static-like sound he had been hearing and realized it might contain an attempted message addressed to him.
• Lin Fan contacted Li Lizhi and Wei, who agreed to come to Turgar and investigate the signal through scientific means.

Lin Fan and the Federation’s scientists investigated the strange message reaching him and suspected it came from Lin Hong in Zero-Dimensional Space. They summoned Jeram, whose dimensional research suggested he could project the mysterious life-form into their dimension, and he began preparing the experiment.

• Li Lizhi and Wei told Lin Fan that the message reaching him combined incompatible low- and high-dimensional characteristics.
• Lin Fan recalled Lin Aotian’s account of Lin Hong and Farn being dragged into Zero-Dimensional Space, and Li Lizhi suggested Lin Hong might be trying to contact him.
• Li Lizhi recommended James, also called Jeram, as a dimensional researcher who could help receive the full message, and Lin Fan ordered him to Turgar.
• Jeram arrived with his team, identified the source of the message as a life-form, and proposed projecting it into their dimension while its body remained in its own.
• Lin Fan approved the experiment, and Jeram returned to his Research Ship to prepare the equipment and system changes.

Jeram activated a device that let Lin Fan see and speak with Lin Hong, who had become a Zero-Dimensional Organism after transforming himself with energy from Zero-Dimensional Space. Lin Hong learned that the Alphart had left the Azure Dragon Universe and revealed that Farn had escaped as well.

• Jeram activated his sealed device, making Lin Hong’s otherwise incomprehensible form visible to Lin Fan and the others.
• Lin Hong explained how he had transformed into a Zero-Dimensional Organism and said the change was irreversible.
• Lin Hong told Lin Fan that he had searched for the Alphart but found their territory occupied by the Sun River Empire.
• Lin Fan explained the Sun River Empire’s betrayal, the war among the five civilizations, and the Alphart’s departure for the Black Cavity outpost.
• Lin Hong condemned the Sun River Empire and told Lin Fan that Farn had escaped.

Lin Hong revealed that Farn had escaped Zero-Dimensional Space and was devouring life to evolve, prompting Lin Fan to assign Jeram to find a way to stop him. Lin Hong also explained Farn’s connection to the Moy people, leaving Jeram stunned to learn that their historical god was an Alphart defector.

• Lin Hong explained that Farn had learned to convert energy in Zero-Dimensional Space and, like him, had become a multidimensional lifeform driven to evolve by devouring life.
• Li Lizhi reported that several Laplace civilizations had been wiped out, with their buildings intact but all life gone.
• Lin Hong identified Farn as responsible and warned that his continued evolution might soon make him stronger than Lin Hong.
• Lin Fan gave Jeram unrestricted access to Federation resources to develop a way to stop Farn, and Jeram said he already had some ideas.
• Lin Hong explained that Farn had once been part of the Moy people’s God-Making Plan and that the Moy people shared the Alphart bloodline.
• Jeram realized that the Farn worshipped as a god in Moy history was the Alphart defector, then asked Lin Hong for help.

As Farn continued destroying civilizations, Lin Hong sensed Farn’s approach toward the Nilkenia Super Galaxy Cluster. Lin Fan ordered an immediate evacuation of Nilkenia, leaving the Four Great Super Civilizations alarmed.

• Jeram failed to interfere with Lin Hong’s zero-dimensional existence, but Lin Hong sensed the Mirta Device, giving Jeram hope that his experiments were working.
• Farn devoured the Divine Fire Empire’s Capital Sphere and decided that powerful lifeforms, especially those in Biological Civilizations, would provide more evolutionary nourishment.
• Farn headed for the Nilkenia Super Galaxy Cluster, where his biological laboratory held many imprisoned races, including Kirin Caesar.
• Lin Hong sensed Farn’s destination and vanished from Jeram’s Research Ship to try to stop him.
• Jeram warned Lin Fan, who ordered everyone in Nilkenia to evacuate through thousands of Black Hole Channels, frightening the Four Great Super Civilizations.

Lin Fan ordered a massive Black Hole Channel evacuation of the Nilkenia Super Galaxy Cluster as Farn approached, while Jeram persuaded him to send the Mirta Device. Farn arrived at the former Holy Land Hailavi and confronted Lin Hong, insisting that he would protect the Azure Dragon Universe even if every civilization had to be sacrificed.

• Lin Fan spent more than ten thousand Dark Energy Crystals to open thousands of Black Hole Channels and evacuate Nilkenia, alarming the Four Great Civilizations.
• Jeram asked Lin Fan to send the Blue River Research Ship to Nilkenia so he could use the Mirta Device with Lin Hong to drive Farn away.
• Lin Fan allowed Jeram to go on the condition that he stay near the Black Hole Channel entrance and retreat at the first sign of danger.
• The Blue River entered a Black Hole Channel and headed for Nilkenia.
• Farn reached the former Holy Land Hailavi, found it empty, and confronted Lin Hong.
• Farn said he would preserve the Azure Dragon Universe even if every civilization had to be sacrificed, while Lin Hong refused to accept his methods.

Lin Hong continued fighting Farn while Jeram’s team deployed the Mirta Device to blur the dimensional boundary. After correcting the device’s parameters to account for the battle’s effects, Jeram activated its Fourth Directorate and left the outcome to Lin Hong.

• Farn tried to persuade Lin Hong that sacrificing most civilizations would protect the Azure Dragon Universe from the Black Mang Empire, but Lin Hong kept fighting him.
• Jeram and his team arrived through a Black Hole Channel and deployed the Mirta Device near the battle.
• The device’s first attempt to blur the dimensional boundary failed, and Jeram realized the fighters’ collisions had altered the boundary’s parameters.
• Jeram adjusted the parameters, and the device successfully stabilized the boundary-blurring process.
• Jeram activated the Mirta Device’s Fourth Directorate and watched the battle, saying the rest depended on Lin Hong.

Lin Hong and Jeram used the unfinished Mirta Device’s Fourth Directorate to frighten Farn away from the Federation’s territory. Lin Fan ordered the Federation to support Jeram’s project, leaving its completion as the key to confronting Farn in the future.

• Lin Hong recognized the energy from Jeram’s unfinished Mirta Device, and Farn fled after sensing it might threaten him.
• The Fourth Directorate collapsed, and Lin Hong appeared on Jeram’s research ship to confirm that Farn had been scared off.
• Lin Hong warned Jeram that the device needed to be perfected before Farn discovered its limitations.
• Liang Xue reported to Lin Fan that Farn had come to Nilkenia to accelerate his evolution by devouring imprisoned Biological Civilizations.
• Lin Fan ordered the three major research academies to send dimension researchers to support Jeram, and the Federation promised to establish a fourth major research academy if he completed the Mirta project.

Farn devoured more than thirty high-order technological civilizations but could not find biological civilizations to fuel his evolution. The chapter revealed that the Alphart had hidden those civilizations in a Minor Universe with Galon and Hypnos, where Hypnos demonstrated a new ability that could reach into other spaces.

• Farn devoured more than thirty civilizations in the Azure Dragon Universe and searched unsuccessfully for powerful Biological Civilizations to consume.
• The chapter revealed that Lin Aotian and the Alphart councilors had hidden Galon, Hypnos, and captured Biological Civilizations in a concealed Minor Universe.
• Galon told Hypnos he could not leave the Minor Universe until he reached the Eleventh Order, since Super Civilizations could capture him.
• Hypnos showed Galon his new Tenth Order ability to connect to other spaces and retrieve materials, then pulled something from a rift.

Galon agreed to let Hypnos study a mysterious silver polyhedron that seemed to stir his desire to evolve. Meanwhile, Amles learned that a vast shadow was killing civilizations and ordered contact with the other Super Civilizations and Turgar to propose a ceasefire and joint research effort.

• Galon felt his body crave the silver polyhedron Hypnos had found, and agreed to leave it with him for study.
• The intelligence minister told Amles that more than twenty-four Level Eight or higher civilizations had been exterminated that month, bringing the total above a thousand.
• The intelligence minister showed Amles recordings of a vast shadow appearing before the civilizations' inhabitants died and reported the Science Department's theory that High-Dimensional Beings were invading.
• The intelligence minister proposed suspending the war against the Alliance and uniting the Four Great Super Civilizations against the crisis.
• Amles ordered him to contact the other three Super Civilizations and the civilization on Turgar to propose a ceasefire and joint research team, while warning that the war would continue if they refused.

At the Big Three meeting, Lin Zhen confirmed that Farn had become a multidimensional lifeform and explained that the Federation had only frightened him away, not learned how to defeat him. The leaders agreed to cooperate with the Sun River Empire on the technology needed to counter Farn, with the Federation leading the research.

• Xilavi told Rotavis and Lin Zhen that Amles had identified the cause of the recent attacks as an invasion by Dimensional Beings and wanted to cooperate on countermeasures.
• Lin Zhen confirmed that Farn was the invader and said the Federation had driven him away from the Nilkenia Super Galaxy Cluster using a trick.
• Lin Zhen explained that Farn had changed through multidimensional fusion and believed he needed to devour living beings to complete his evolution.
• Xilavi and Rotavis considered refusing Amles’s offer, but Lin Zhen argued that the Alliance still needed the Sun River Empire’s top scientists to improve the unfinished technology.
• Lin Zhen said the Federation would lead the cooperation and would not proceed if the Sun River Empire rejected its terms.

Lin Zhen’s plan put the Federation in charge of research into technology against Farn, but Amles rejected the conditions. The chapter ended with Amles learning that Farn had destroyed the Cavite Civilization and annihilated the Sun River Empire’s 19th Legion.

• Xilavi and Rotavis agreed that the Federation should lead the research and host its site, reasoning that Farn’s threat would eventually force Amles to accept.
• Xilavi told Amles the Federation had a prototype technology for dealing with the dimensional lifeform, but Amles refused the proposed terms.
• Amles flew into a rage after Xilavi ended the call.
• The intelligence minister informed Amles that Farn appeared to have attacked the Cavite Civilization and wiped out the Sun River Empire’s 19th Legion.

After the Sun River Empire’s Nineteenth Legion and the Cavite Civilization were wiped out in seconds by a Dimensional Being, Amles feared the empire would lose to the alliance and agreed to cooperate. Three months later, the Federation hosted the five civilizations’ Mirta research effort and prepared to share a limited device that could block Farn from devouring life.

• A shadow engulfed the Cavite Civilization, killing everyone there and aboard the Nineteenth Legion’s three trillion warships within seconds.
• After an investigation confirmed the deaths, Amles realized the empire could not defend itself against the Dimensional Being and agreed to cooperate with the alliance.
• Lin Fan selected the Federation’s Nilkenia Super Galaxy Cluster as the site for the five civilizations’ research cooperation.
• Lin Zhen agreed to provide the Divine Radiance Civilization and the Gem Empire with one hundred Dark Energy Crystals each year.
• Scientists advanced the Mirta project, and the Federation planned to share only a finished First Directorate device while withholding its other technology.

In Federation Year 229, Lin Zhen announced that the first mechanism of the Mirta Device had passed testing and that mass production had begun. He persuaded the Four Great Super Civilizations to share production with ordinary civilizations and required transparent reporting, then proposed distributing devices by region to solve delivery problems.

• Lin Zhen told the leaders of the Four Great Super Civilizations that the first-generation Mirta Device could protect a radius of about one hundred light-years from Farn and that 100,000 units could be produced each day.
• Lin Zhen proposed allocating twenty percent of production to the Federation, twenty percent to ordinary civilizations, and the remaining sixty percent among the Four Great Super Civilizations, prompting Amles and Nevitt to object.
• Lin Zhen explained that the first mechanism could not repel or kill Farn and argued that ordinary civilizations needed devices to preserve their populations; Amles accepted his reasoning, and Nevitt stopped objecting.
• Lin Zhen told the Four Great Super Civilizations they would each receive twenty percent of production and required them to publicly report how devices for ordinary civilizations were distributed.
• When Amles worried that the devices could not be delivered quickly without the Federation’s Black Hole Channels, Lin Zhen proposed distributing them by region.

Lin Fan discussed the Federation’s research into Black Hole Cavity data and explained to Lin Hong why humanity was not advancing toward a Tenth Order Civilization. Meanwhile, Galon’s evolution transformed its energy and rapidly advanced the surrounding Biological Civilization races, leaving Hypnos close to the peak of the Tenth Order.

• The Federation began distributing Mirta Devices across controlled territories through an interstellar delivery operation.
• Lin Hong told Lin Fan that the Alphart Civilization had produced Dark Energy Crystals by analyzing Black Hole Cavity data, and Lin Fan said the Federation could finish its own analysis within five years.
• Lin Hong asked why the Federation was not pursuing a Tenth Order Civilization, and Lin Fan explained his theory about the path to becoming a God-tier Civilization.
• Lin Hong realized the Alphart Civilization might have taken the wrong path as early as the Ninth Order stage and wondered whether the plan to transform Galon had also been mistaken.
• Galon slept in a hidden Minor Universe as its energy transformed, causing hundreds of millions of surrounding Biological Civilization individuals to evolve within three months.
• Hypnos neared the peak of the Tenth Order Biological Civilization and wondered what he had pulled from the strange space.

Hypnos’s new tenth-order ability opened a passage to an undeveloped Interlayer Space, allowing him to bring back Black Hole Crystals that helped Galon begin his final evolution. Meanwhile, the Federation’s Mirta Devices protected civilization safe zones from Farn, who realized someone had developed a way to counter him.

• The chapter explained that tenth-order Biological Civilization individuals needed Black Hole Cavity Particles to complete their evolution, but Dark Energy Crystals provided too few of them for Galon to advance.
• Hypnos’s new organ connected the universe to an undeveloped Interlayer Space near the Azure Dragon Universe, where he found Black Hole Crystals made almost entirely of Black Hole Cavity Particles.
• Hypnos retrieved several hundred Black Hole Crystals, and Galon used them to begin his final evolution, remaining asleep for months as Hypnos worried over him.
• The Federation distributed Mirta Devices to nearly every civilization of the seventh order or above, and civilizations used them to protect their capitals and move elites into safe zones.
• After his attacks repeatedly failed to wipe out protected populations, Farn realized that some civilization had created a device capable of countering him.

Farn discovered that a mysterious force was shielding star regions across many civilizations, and he suspected the humans were responsible. Near the former Alphart Civilization, Galon emerged from a Minor Universe and faced a Sun River Empire legion that recognized him as a Kirin and feared his power.

• Farn found that a familiar force blocked his projections and observations in star regions across many civilizations, and he suspected the human technology he had encountered in Nirkenia.
• A hidden Minor Universe appeared near the former Alphart Civilization, and a stationed Sun River Empire legion detected its immense energy.
• The Legion Commander ordered reconnaissance and defenses, but the Minor Universe's energy surged beyond the fleet's detection limits.
• Galon emerged from the Minor Universe behind a barrier that withstood the legion's full barrage.
• The Legion Commander recognized Galon as a Kirin, judged him far more powerful than a Tenth-order Biological Civilization individual, and ordered every weapon fired while requesting reinforcements from Your Majesty.

The Sun River Empire dispatched three peak Eleventh Order Dark Energy Manipulators to reinforce the Third Legion against Galon, a Kirin who had evolved into a Super Biological Civilization. As Farn approached the battlefield, Galon recognized him and prepared to unleash a devastating attack on the encircling fleet.

• Harris informed Amles that Galon had emerged from a Minor Universe near Dark Energy Spring No. 1 and was impervious to the Third Legion's attacks.
• Amles ordered the Third Legion to hold Galon in place and sent three peak Eleventh Order Dark Energy Manipulators as reinforcements.
• Galon destroyed hundreds of millions of warships at a time while the Third Legion's nearly three trillion ships failed to breach his barrier.
• The Third Legion's commander learned the reinforcements would arrive within an hour and ordered the fleets to maintain their assault.
• Galon sensed Farn approaching, remembered his past experiments in Farn's laboratory, and decided to destroy the fleet quickly before their arrival.
• Galon gathered energy and covered his body in black lightning as he began Thunderclap: World Annihilation.

Galon devastated the Third Legion with his newly mastered Black Hole Energy and confronted Farn, who planned to devour him. Lin Hong recognized Galon and realized Farn was moving to attack him, then rushed to intervene.

• Galon unleashed Thunderclap: World Annihilation, destroying nearly all of the Third Legion's warships.
• Galon sensed Farn and challenged him, while Farn declared his intention to devour Galon and the life within his Minor Universe.
• Lin Hong sensed Galon and identified him as the last Kirin, whom Farn had abducted as a juvenile.
• Lin Fan showed Lin Hong information about the Purgatory Creatures' leader, and Lin Hong confirmed it was Galon.
• Lin Hong explained that Lin Aotian had staged Galon's apparent self-destruction to rescue him.
• Lin Hong sensed Farn heading toward Galon and vanished to stop him.