Chapter Summaries

After the One-Eyed Multi-Legged Beasts’ invasion of the Obsidian Empire, Lin Zhen briefed civilization leaders on the threat from Ten-dimensional Space and proposed a unified rapid-response force. The meeting ended with a leader asking whether the required deployment of Peak Dark Energy Manipulators would be temporary or permanent.

• Lin Zhen told nearly ten thousand civilization leaders that One-Eyed Multi-Legged Beasts from Ten-dimensional Space had devastated the Obsidian Empire and described their strength.
• Lin Zhen announced that the Federation and senior civilizations planned to establish a Rapid Response Command Center under Lin Yu, requiring every civilization to send its Peak Dark Energy Manipulators there.
• Dortel questioned whether the Eskel Federation would be left defenseless without its sole Peak Dark Energy Manipulator, and Lin Zhen argued that unified deployment would provide more effective protection.
• A civilization leader asked Lin Zhen whether the Peak Dark Energy Manipulators’ deployment would be temporary or permanent.

Lin Zhen secured unanimous approval for the Rapid Response Command Center, where civilizations could voluntarily contribute their strongest forces against the Ten-dimensional Beings. After Galon asked to join with the Biological Civilization, the Four Great Civilizations accepted the proposal and announced that the former enemies would cooperate through the Azure Dragon Universe Alliance.

• Takris challenged Lin Zhen over how long civilizations would have to provide their Peak Dark Energy Manipulators, and Lin Zhen said they could withdraw but would then face any later invasion alone.
• Altra rebuked Takris for forgetting the Federation's role in helping the Tartarus Empire become a Super Civilization, and the civilizations unanimously approved the plan.
• Ten days later, Galon feared the Federation's forces gathered on the Starry Sky Continent might threaten the Biological Civilization, so Lin Fan told him about the Ten-dimensional Beings and the command center.
• Galon asked to join the plan with several hundred peak tenth-order individuals, and Lin Fan supported his proposal to Lin Zhen.
• The Four Great Civilizations approved the Biological Civilization's entry into the command center and the Azure Dragon Universe Alliance, announcing that the two camps would support one another during invasions.

Ten-dimensional Beings launched simultaneous invasions at thirty-nine locations, including the Hailan Empire, whose emperor had withdrawn from the Rapid Response Command Center program. Lin Yu deployed thirty-eight fleets and left the Hailan Empire without support.

• After two months without invasions, more than three hundred civilizations withdrew from the Rapid Response Command Center program to reclaim their Peak Dark Energy Manipulators.
• Weidi warned Pius that the Hailan Empire’s five Peak Dark Energy Manipulators could not defeat the One-Eyed Multi-Legged Beasts, but Pius dismissed the danger and hoped to win more Dark Energy Crystals.
• A guard reported that the One-Eyed Multi-Legged Beast swarm had invaded the Hailan Empire, and Pius requested support from the Rapid Response Command Center.
• The Alliance Rapid Response Command Center received reports of simultaneous invasions at thirty-nine locations, each facing a force of leader-class and clan-class beasts.
• Lin Yu ordered Fleets One through Thirty-Eight to deploy and kept the remaining fleets on standby, refusing to send a fleet to the Hailan Empire because it had withdrawn from the program.

Lin Yu sent 38 rapid response formations to repel Ten-dimensional Beings, while Starlan United's Grand Marshal Thervise sacrificed fleets to protect Hahars Supercluster's civilians until reinforcements arrived. The Alliance quickly defeated the invaders at the supported invasion points, but the Hailan Empire remained in danger.

• Lin Yu dispatched 38 rapid response formations through the Black Hole Channel and left the Hailan Empire to face its invasion as a warning to other civilizations.
• Thervise ordered successive waves of 10 billion warships to distract the One-Eyed Multi-Legged Beasts and buy half an hour for reinforcements to arrive.
• Thervise's fleet fed the invaders 80 billion warships before reinforcements emerged from the passageway at the 34-minute mark.
• The rapid response formation attacked the beasts, killing all five leader-class entities and nearly all of the clan-class entities within ten minutes.
• The Alliance relieved the invaded civilizations, while the Hailan Empire remained the exception.

Pius’s Hailan Empire faced annihilation after the Rapid Response Command Center refused to rescue it, and the Federation prevented its people from escaping. The empire fell, and its destruction persuaded other civilizations to rejoin the Command Center while Takris feared the Federation would discover his role in the revolt.

• Pius told Weidi that the Rapid Response Command Center had refused to send help, and Weidi urged him to activate the Kindling Plan while the Imperial fleets held back the Ten-dimensional Beings.
• Pius learned from Alec that the Kindling Plan had failed because the empire’s Black Hole Channels and outward Cosmic Currents had collapsed.
• Ten days later, the Hailan Empire had fallen with no survivors, and Federation task forces eliminated the remaining One-Eyed Multi-Legged Beasts.
• Neighboring civilizations blamed the Federation for sealing off the Hailan Empire, and more than three hundred civilizations that had withdrawn begged to rejoin the Rapid Response Command Center.
• Takris feared that the Federation would discover he had secretly encouraged the revolt against the Command Center.

Three months after the Ten-dimensional Beings’ invasion intensified, Lin Fan proposed that Lin Hong evolve by devouring captured One-Eyed Multi-Legged Beasts. He hoped the results would let Lin Hong join a planned counterattack and provide the Alphart Civilization with a path to greater strength.

• The Federation and its civilizations supported the Rapid Response Command Center as Ten-dimensional Beings launched several invasions each day.
• Lin Fan, Lin Yu, Lin Hong, Lin Aotian, and Galon met, where Lin Fan asked Lin Hong about Farn’s evolution through devouring Ten-dimensional Beings.
• Lin Hong agreed to devour the captured leader-class One-Eyed Multi-Legged Beasts, and Lin Fan planned to capture more for him over the next three months.
• Lin Fan said he intended to launch a deterrence-oriented counterattack in three months and invited Lin Aotian to consider evolving the Alphart Civilization into Zero-Dimensional Lifeforms if Lin Hong’s evolution succeeded.

Lin Fan explained why he planned to turn the Alphart Civilization into Zero-Dimensional Lifeforms and told Galon that the Federation would soon meet the conditions to help him evolve. In Ten-dimensional Space, the Grand Dukes discussed their failed invasions of three-dimensional space and argued over their losses.

• Lin Fan decided to evolve the Alphart Civilization so it could become a powerful ally in wars against other universes.
• Lin Fan told Galon that Zi Ling and Zi Luo were expected to become Black Hole Lifeforms within a month, bringing the Federation close to fulfilling their agreement.
• The thirty-nine Grand Dukes considered how to overcome dimensional barriers and reduce three-dimensional space's resistance to their invasion.
• Grand Duke Saschels complained that his race had lost thirty percent of its members, and Cassius mocked him for choosing to send them as the vanguard.
• An authoritative voice interrupted as Saschels prepared to answer Cassius.

Grand Duke Trudo Aura ordered Sarschers to invade Three-dimensional Space, promising that the other Grand Dukes would help him descend. After learning that captured invaders offered Lin Hong little evolutionary progress, Lin Fan proposed sending them into Zero-Dimensional Space and summoned Jeram to carry out a test with the Mirta Third Directorate.

• Grand Duke Trudo Aura ordered Sarschers to travel to Three-dimensional Space and said the other Grand Dukes would help him cross the dimensional barrier.
• Lin Hong told Lin Fan that devouring the captured One-Eyed Multi-Legged Beasts yielded far less evolution because they had actively descended into three-dimensional forms.
• Lin Fan proposed sending the beasts into Zero-Dimensional Space to see if they would return to their ten-dimensional forms, and Lin Hong agreed they could try.
• Lin Fan asked Liang Xue to connect him to Jeram, learned the Mirta Third Directorate was complete, and ordered Jeram to bring his team and the Mirta Device.

Jeram and Lin Fan tested whether the Mirta Device could send One-Eyed Multi-Legged Beasts into Zero-Dimensional Space, and discovered that using Zero-Dimensional Energy let the device cross the dimensional barrier successfully. Lin Hong devoured the first test subject and gained a small but measurable advance toward his next stage, leaving the Federation with a way to fuel his growth.

• Jeram arrived with Mirta Project personnel and agreed to test Lin Fan’s plan to send One-Eyed Multi-Legged Beasts into Zero-Dimensional Space.
• After repeated failures to lower the dimensional-boundary blur value below 10, Jeram realized Zero-Dimensional Energy might work as the device’s medium.
• Three days later, Jeram’s eighth test used converted Zero-Dimensional Energy and lowered the blur value to 3.
• The Mirta Device successfully transported Test Subject Number Five into Zero-Dimensional Space, where Lin Hong devoured it.
• Lin Hong sensed that devouring the clan-level beast had advanced him roughly 0.01% toward his next stage, and the Federation had many more beasts, including leader-level ones.

Zi Luo and Zi Ling completed their breakthroughs into Black Hole Lifeforms, while Galon began his own. A new invasion then emerged in the Midas Supercluster, where Lin Yu and the Federation discovered Sarschers, a colossal One-Eyed Multi-Legged Beast leading a force of fifty thousand.

• Zi Luo and Zi Ling broke through under Lin Yu’s guidance, giving the Federation four Black Hole Lifeforms.
• After the women mastered their new power, Lin Fan brought them and Galon to Black Hole Cavity Space to fulfill their agreement; a month later, Galon was still nearing the end of his breakthrough.
• A crimson rift opened in the Midas Supercluster, releasing fifty thousand One-Eyed Multi-Legged Beasts led by the enormous Sarschers.
• Lin Yu ordered the Federation’s command center to investigate the massive anomalous energy signature and dispatched a surveillance orb to the Midas Supercluster.
• Sarschers ordered his beasts to spread out and hunt for food while he stayed behind, and the surveillance orb transmitted the invasion to the command center.
• After identifying Sarschers as the source of the energy signature, Lin Yu ordered the rapid-response formations to deploy and led them himself.

Lin Yu led nine special formations into the Midas Supercluster and fought Sarschers, using Black Hole Energy to trap and destroy the beast’s tentacles. Sarschers retaliated by draining nearby planets, leaving one completely black and dead.

• Lin Yu sent five armies to protect the Superclusters around Midas and led nine special formations into Midas to confront Sarschers.
• Sarschers spoke into the minds of Lin Yu and the others, then attacked Lin Yu with countless tentacles.
• Lin Yu created a temporary two-dimensional barrier with Black Hole Energy and used it to seal and shatter Sarschers’s tentacles.
• Sarschers screamed as more than ten thousand tentacles were severed, then spread his remaining tentacles across nearby planets to absorb their energy.
• Sarschers drained a planet until it turned completely black and died.

Sarschers threatened to destroy the Azure Dragon Universe, and Lin Yu began gathering Black Hole Energy for a decisive attack while the nine special formations fought to hold it back. As the formations neared defeat, Galon and Lin Fan arrived with Zi Ling and Zi Luo, giving the battle new reinforcements while Lin Yu continued preparing his move.

• Everyone realized Sarschers had devoured the planets around it and could destroy the Azure Dragon Universe if it was not stopped.
• Lin Yu ordered the nine special formations to harass Sarschers while he opened portals to Black Hole Cavity Space and gathered Black Hole Energy.
• Sarschers overwhelmed the formations, breaking their defenses and draining the energy of their eighty-one members as Lin Yu's preparations remained incomplete.
• Galon appeared with Lin Fan, Zi Ling, and Zi Luo, and his black lightning blades severed the tentacles holding the formations.
• Lin Fan told Zi Ling and Zi Luo to restrict Sarschers, and they joined the battle with a greatsword and a futuristic rifle.

Lin Yu used a simulated white hole to destroy Sarschers from within, killing him in less than three minutes. In the Ten-dimensional Space, the other grand dukes learned of Sarschers's death and were left questioning how a three-dimensional being could have killed him so quickly.

• Zi Ling and Zi Luo attacked Sarschers with Black Hole Energy while Lin Yu completed charging his attack.
• Lin Yu used Critical Point: White Hole Simulation to eject one-dimensionalized matter at Sarschers.
• The matter triggered destructive repulsion inside Sarschers's body, and Lin Yu explained that it would make him self-destruct.
• Grand Duke Trudo Aura announced Sarschers's death to the other thirty-seven grand dukes.
• Trudo Aura said Sarschers had gone from unharmed to dead in less than three minutes, shocking the grand dukes.

The Rapid Response Command Center eliminated the One-Eyed Multi-Legged Beast armies and captured enough creatures to support Lin Hong’s first evolution stage. In the Kado Universe, the beleaguered alliance debated a desperate gamble, while the Tuomiler Civilization held a device that could transport people and objects between adjacent universes.

• The Rapid Response Command Center destroyed the invading One-Eyed Multi-Legged Beast armies after three days and captured hundreds of leader-class beasts and more clan-class ones.
• The Black Mang Empire’s 485 allied Super Civilizations pushed the Kado Universe Allied Forces toward defeat despite suffering heavier casualties.
• Auror listened as the other seven alliance leaders urged him to make a desperate decision.
• Auror recalled how the Tuomiler Civilization found a research station tied to the vanished Qianhe Civilization and agreed to share its research with the other seven Super Civilizations.
• The Tuomiler Civilization determined that the station’s device could transport objects and living beings between adjacent universes.

Auror delayed activating the escape device for two years while the other Super Civilizations demanded immediate action. In the Azure Dragon Universe, Lin Hong hit an evolutionary bottleneck, and Lin Fan prepared an operation in Ten-dimensional Space that could also help him break through.

• Auror warned that the device's settings remained uncertain, then threatened to destroy it unless the other Super Civilizations gave him two years.
• Lin Fan suggested that leader-level One-Eyed Multi-Legged Beasts were too low-dimensional to help Lin Hong cross his Critical Point, and they decided to seek a stronger creature in Ten-dimensional Space.
• Lin Fan, Lin Hong, Lin Yu, Zi Ling, Zi Luo, and Galon gathered in the Virtual Meeting Room after Galon had become a complete Black Hole Lifeform and taken an ancient Alphart Civilization form.
• Lin Fan announced that the group would begin the deterrence operation in three days and add a capture operation if the opportunity arose.

Lin Fan and four others crossed into Ten-dimensional Space to attack Tricis while the Grand Dukes were weakened. The battle began with Lin Fan’s group struggling to adapt to a realm where attacks targeted time, rather than direction.

• Lin Hong sent dimensional coordinates to the Mirta Directorate, and Jeram activated the device to open a passage into Ten-dimensional Space.
• Trudo Aura sensed the breach near Tricis and warned him to gather his race, so Tricis summoned hundreds of thousands of his people.
• Jeram safely blurred the dimensional boundary, and Lin Fan and four others crossed into Ten-dimensional Space.
• Lin Fan found Tricis surrounded by fewer than a thousand of his people and ordered the group to attack without answering Tricis’s question.
• Tricis proved far more powerful in his home dimension than Sarschers had been in three-dimensional space, and Lin Fan’s group struggled to adapt to combat governed by time.

Lin Fan and the others struggled to hurt Tricis in Ten-dimensional Space until Lin Hong taught them to abandon their three-dimensional senses and perceive timelines. Lin Fan and his companions learned to attack through time, leaving Tricis vulnerable.

• Lin Fan and the others repeatedly attacked Tricis, but he revived each time because their attacks failed to follow Ten-dimensional rules.
• Lin Hong explained that they had to target time rather than direction and urged them to release their three-dimensional senses.
• Lin Fan saw life-forms as lines representing their individual timelines and realized Tricis could replace himself with versions from elsewhere on his timeline.
• Lin Hong told Lin Fan and the others to shut off their five senses and feel Tricis's existence.
• Lin Fan released energy that struck Tricis, and Lin Yu, Zi Luo, Zi Ling, and Galon followed his example.
• Lin Fan opened his eyes, now bright as galaxies, and declared that he understood how to fight in Ten-dimensional Space.

Lin Fan and the others trapped Tricis in a cage and transferred him to Zero-Dimensional Space so Lin Hong could use him to evolve. As Lin Hong began devouring Tricis, Lin Fan proposed reusing him and the other ten-dimensional lifeforms as a renewable source of the energy Alphart needed to evolve.

• Lin Fan and the others entered Ten-dimensional Space and asked Lin Hong to tell Jeram to begin the second phase.
• Lin Yu, Zi Ling, Zi Luo, and Galon created a three-dimensional cage within Ten-dimensional Space and imprisoned Tricis, while Lin Fan reinforced it with Black Hole Energy and ten-dimensional laws.
• Lin Hong used a brief opening in the boundary to receive Tricis in Zero-Dimensional Space, and Lin Fan and the others followed.
• Lin Hong began devouring Tricis as Lin Yu worried that the thirty-seven remaining ten-dimensional lifeforms would not be enough for Alphart to evolve.
• Lin Fan reasoned that Lin Hong needed only Tricis's special energy, not his entire body, and suggested releasing and recapturing him to create a reusable supply.

Ten-dimensional Space’s grand dukes reacted to Tricis’s abduction by realizing that isolated grand dukes could be targeted, while Lin Hong completed his evolution in Zero-Dimensional Space. Lin Hong revealed that he had connected with the universe’s will and could blend into any dimension, but could never leave the universe.

• Grand Duke Trudo Aura warned the other grand dukes that Tricis had been targeted because he was isolated, and they agreed to follow his lead.
• Lin Fan speculated that Lin Hong’s evolution was making him integrate with Zero-Dimensional Space, causing his presence to fade.
• Lin Hong vanished from everyone’s sight and mental perception, then reappeared when Lin Fan called out to him.
• Lin Hong explained that he had connected with the universe’s will, letting him blend into any dimension and use its rules without rejection.
• Lin Hong revealed that his new existence meant he could never leave the universe.

Lin Hong explained that the Black Hole Cavity was a living entity and that the Azure Dragon Universe was a mutated universe it sought to eliminate. He revealed that the Azure Dragon Universe could spread its consciousness into other universes, offering a way to survive and eventually transcend the Black Hole Cavity.

• Lin Hong told Lin Fan that he had learned the truth of the universe from the Azure Dragon Universe Consciousness.
• Lin Hong explained that the Black Hole Cavity was a lifeform containing universes like cells, and that the Azure Dragon Universe was a special universe with its own consciousness.
• Lin Hong revealed that the Black Hole Cavity created gifted civilizations to destroy mutated universes such as the Azure Dragon Universe.
• Lin Fan realized that the Azure Dragon Universe could spread like a cancer cell by implanting parts of its consciousness into conquered universes.
• Lin Hong said that humanity’s path to survival and escape was to infect more universes until the Black Hole Cavity could no longer stop them, then seek transcendence.