Chapter Summaries

Luo Li helped the Federation complete its advancement into a God-tier Civilization by overseeing the first successful test of a Black Hole Engine and Barrier. Three months later, the Azure Dragon Alliance announced that the first God-tier Civilization in the Azure Dragon Universe had been born.

• After Luo Li became the Federation’s fifth Strategic Scientist, its scientific community made rapid breakthroughs under her guidance.
• In Federation Year 259, Luo Li, Li Lizhi, Wei, and the Federation’s scientists gathered in the Viers Supercluster to test the Black Hole Engine and Barrier.
• Luo Li directed Test Ship One through a one-way Black Hole Channel into Black Hole Cavity Space, where it successfully completed system checks and combat-speed trials.
• The Federation continued testing its black hole technology for three months without incident.
• The Azure Dragon Alliance announced that the Federation had become the first God-tier Civilization in the Azure Dragon Universe.

The Noreya Empire waged a holy war against three neighboring God-tier Civilizations, overwhelming them with endless troops and total mobilization of its population. After all three civilizations fell, Noreya continued its march, while seventeen civilizations across the Black Hole Cavity Space were revealed to have gone mad at the same time.

• Emperor Milantes's holy-war preparations drove the Noreya Empire to multiply its population and train newborns as warriors.
• The Noreya Empire fought three neighboring God-tier Civilizations for years, steadily exhausting their fleets while its own forces kept growing.
• The Kasa Republic's commander pleaded for reinforcements, but its headquarters had none left to send.
• The Noreya Empire broke through the Kasa Republic's border and slaughtered life-forms above Tier Three throughout its primary universe before continuing its advance.
• The other two God-tier Civilizations were breached over the following two months and suffered the same slaughter as the Kasa Republic.
• The chapter revealed that seventeen civilizations in the Black Hole Cavity Space had gone mad at the same time.

Luo Li completed the Federation’s seventh-generation Black Hole Engine, enabling its expansion plans to move forward. When a Black Mang Empire fleet appeared near the Kado Universe, Lin Fan decided to destroy it in black hole cavity space as a warning to the empire.

• Luo Li finalized the seventh-generation Black Hole Engine after testing it on an Azure Dragon-class battleship.
• Lin Fan visited Luo Li and, with Li Lizhi’s help, persuaded her to take a year off while Li Lizhi oversaw the research institute.
• By Federation Year 286, the Federation had refitted its main fleets with seventh-generation engines and supplied engines for a vast auxiliary fleet.
• Liang Xue reported that a fleet of one quadrillion warships was approaching the Kado Universe, though its Black Hole Lifeforms could not be confirmed.
• Lin Fan ordered the Federation to attack the fleet in black hole cavity space and make it a warning to the Black Mang Empire.

Lin Fan explained why the Azure Dragon Alliance First Legion would attack the Black Mang Empire’s approaching Third Imperial Guard Legion before reinforcements could be assembled. He revealed that the Empire was stretched thin by a war with the Hiltek Empire, and that defeating its only nearby legion could expose the Dolando Region to the Tailo Empire.

• Lin Fan told the First Legion’s commanders that the Black Mang Empire’s force consisted of ten trillion God-tier Civilization warships, and Wang Hai asked why they would attack before other Alliance legions were ready.
• Lin Fan explained the four methods of black cavity travel and used a map to show how Fault Channels shaped the Black Mang fleet’s fastest route to the Kado Universe.
• Lin Fan revealed that the Black Mang Empire had committed nearly eighty percent of its military strength to its war with the Hiltek Empire, while the Third Imperial Guard Legion was stationed in the Dolando Region to guard against the Tailo Empire.
• Lin Fan argued that the First Legion should strike while the Third Imperial Guard Legion was moving and the Empire’s other forces were occupied, then send news of its defeat to the Tailo Empire.

Lin Fan led the Azure Dragon Alliance's First Legion to ambush the Black Mang Empire's Third Imperial Guard Legion in the Stoke region, aiming to delay the empire and deter unruly Super Civilizations. The Black Mang fleet began emerging from a Fault Channel as the Federation launched its attack.

• Lin Fan explained that the Federation could track the Black Mang Empire's routes and exploit its conflict with the Hiltek Empire to set its territory ablaze and draw in the Tailo Empire.
• In Federation Year 295, Lin Fan deployed the First Legion in the Stoke region after its journey took nine years, while keeping its auxiliary fleet in reserve to witness the battle and serve as a warning to Super Civilizations.
• Lin Fan ordered the Federation's combat units to prepare for the Black Mang Empire's Third Imperial Guard Legion, with the first three attack waves planned as saturation strikes.
• As the Black Mang fleet neared the exit of its Fault Channel, Captain Barto welcomed the prospect of leaving, but his chief officer told him twelve Fault Channels remained on their route.
• Lin Fan ordered the fleets to attack and the Civilization Guardians to follow five seconds later as the Black Mang fleet approached.

Captain Barto’s vanguard fleet emerged from Fault Space and was ambushed by an enormous unknown fleet and a hundred Black Hole Lifeforms. After two devastating attacks destroyed most of his ships, Barto realized the Third Imperial Guard Legion had been lured into a trap.

• Barto’s vanguard fleet exited Fault Space and began its standard search for threats.
• The warship’s Mainframe detected more than one quadrillion enemy ships ahead, and Barto ordered the fleet to fully supply its Black Hole Cavity Armor.
• The unknown fleet opened fire before Barto’s ships could charge their weapons, destroying millions of warships in the first wave.
• A second attack unleashed a hundred singularity-like explosions, wiping out more than half of Barto’s nearly ten billion ships.
• Barto recognized the attackers as a massive God-tier Civilization fleet accompanied by a hundred Black Hole Lifeforms and concluded that the Third Imperial Guard Legion had been ambushed.

Lin Fan’s fleet prepared to intercept the Black Mang Empire’s Third Imperial Guard Legion as it emerged from the Fault Channel. The enemy formed a dense defense around twelve hundred enormous spacecraft, leaving Lin Fan uncertain what they contained.

• Taretel ordered Lante’s fleet to release all its Black Hole Cavity Creatures when the enemy emerged from the Fault Channel.
• Lin Fan predicted that the Black Mang Empire would send scouts ahead before committing its main force, then learned a quadrillion-warship fleet was approaching.
• Remembering intelligence about Black Hole Cavity Creatures in the Dolando Region, Lin Fan summoned Peak Dark Energy Manipulators to reinforce the defensive line.
• Lin Fan’s fleet attacked successive waves of Black Mang Empire warships, but nearly half of each wave survived and almost two billion ships gathered by the channel entrance.
• Around twelve hundred enormous spacecraft emerged, and the Black Mang Empire’s warships surrounded them in a dense hemispherical formation.

Lin Fan discovered that the Black Mang Empire's Third Imperial Guard Legion was hiding twelve hundred Black Hole Cavity Creatures inside its dense formation, putting the Federation at a severe disadvantage. After scans revealed control devices in the creatures' brains, Lin Fan proposed destroying the warship transmitting their commands.

• Lin Fan ordered the Federation's Civilization Guardians and Peak Dark Energy Manipulators to strike through the Third Imperial Guard Legion's formation.
• The attacks exposed twelve hundred Black Hole Cavity Creatures, which blocked the weakened beams with shield barriers.
• Lin Fan realized the Federation would be outnumbered by the creatures and threatened by fifty enemy Black Hole Lifeforms if it could not find a countermeasure.
• Lin Fan ordered his experts to scan the creatures and discovered unknown control devices in their brains.
• An expert traced the creatures' command signal to a controlling warship, and Lin Fan suggested destroying it to sever control.

Lin Fan's fleet identified Lance's hidden control ship and concentrated the Civilization Guardians' fire on it. The attack destroyed Lance and his ship, leaving the black hole cavity creatures poised to escape control.

• Lin Fan redirected the fleet's fire onto Lance's escorts while his staff searched for the ship controlling the black hole cavity creatures.
• Lance kept his ships in a dense defensive formation and expected the creatures to reach the Federation fleet before his control ship could be discovered.
• A shipboard expert confirmed the control ship's location, and Lin Fan ordered all Civilization Guardians to destroy it.
• Lance rejected his adjutant's suggestion to retreat and believed the creatures would break through within minutes.
• The Civilization Guardians launched a synchronized attack that destroyed Lance's control ship without leaving wreckage.

Luofesi and the surviving Black Hole Cavity Creatures regained their freedom and turned on the Black Mang Empire forces that had enslaved them. The Federation avoided the creatures as they joined its attack, leaving the Third Imperial Guard Legion in chaos.

• Luofesi awoke on a battlefield and reunited with the surviving members of his race after the captor controlling them had been destroyed.
• The Black Hole Cavity Creatures agreed to avenge their fallen kin by attacking the Black Mang Empire under Luofesi’s command.
• Lin Fan ordered Federal forces to avoid the creatures and watched to see whether they would attack the Federation or their former enslavers.
• Luofesi recognized the Federation’s restraint and kept his kin together as they coordinated their attack with its forces.
• With Lante dead and the Black Hole Cavity Creatures attacking alongside the Federation, the Third Imperial Guard Legion fell into chaos.

Taretel activated a hidden backdoor in the Black Hole Cavity Creatures’ controllers to paralyze them after they turned on the Black Mang Empire’s fleet. Lin Fan recognized the code’s purpose and watched as the creatures stopped moving, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Taretel learned that Rant’s warship had been destroyed and the Black Hole Cavity Creatures were attacking the Imperial fleet.
• Taretel ordered his adjutant to broadcast the S78 Code, which would paralyze the creatures for about three minutes.
• Lin Fan warned his officers that the creatures could still be controlled through a backup system or another contingency.
• Lin Fan ordered Luo Hao to scan the creatures’ brain controllers after the enemy broadcast a strange code.
• Luo Hao detected the controllers overloading, and Lin Fan realized the enemy meant to disable the creatures rather than target the Federation.
• Luo Hao announced that the controllers had reached the critical point, and every Black Hole Cavity Creature stopped moving.

After the Black Hole Cavity Creatures’ controllers self-destructed, the creatures lay defenseless but began rapidly regenerating, prompting Lin Fan to order the Civilization Guardians to protect them. The Third Imperial Guard Legion attacked the creatures, but Black Hole Lifeforms intervened and shielded them, leaving the Legion stunned.

• Luo Hao reported that the Black Hole Cavity Creatures’ brains were repairing themselves and could regenerate within minutes.
• Lin Fan ordered Wang Hai and the Civilization Guardians to protect the unconscious creatures while other Federation forces provided fire support.
• The Third Imperial Guard Legion launched five waves of attacks, killing nearly two hundred creatures and severely wounding nearly three hundred.
• More than a hundred Black Hole Lifeforms entered the swarm and struck the Legion’s attack groups, reducing their firepower.
• The Legion’s temporary commander ordered paired attack groups to target each creature, but the Black Hole Lifeforms deployed Defense Barriers to protect them.

Luofesi and the Federation’s Civilization Guardians joined forces to protect the Black Hole Cavity Creatures, then launched a counterattack that routed the Third Imperial Guard Legion’s fleets at the passage entrance. With the front collapsing, Legion Commander Taretel ordered Avila’s specialized fleet to break through and secure a deployment zone.

• Luofesi woke to find more than 500 Black Hole Cavity Creatures dead or severely injured and the Federation’s Civilization Guardians shielding the survivors.
• Luofesi and the recovered Black Hole Cavity Creatures joined the Guardians’ protective formation, eventually stopping the Third Imperial Guard Legion’s attacks from causing further damage.
• Luofesi and Wang Hai led their forces in a coordinated charge against the Third Imperial Guard Legion, routing its warships with support from Federation fleet fire.
• The adjutant reported that the front had collapsed and losses had exceeded one hundred billion warships, while reinforcements continued arriving in batches.
• Taretel learned Avila’s fleet would reach the Fault Channel exit in an hour and fifteen minutes and ordered it to secure a safe deployment zone.

The Federation's forces and Luofesi's Black Hole Cavity Creatures continued slaughtering the Third Imperial Guard Legion at the Fault Channel, until an unfamiliar fleet configuration prompted Lin Fan to order a cautious withdrawal. Wang Hai warned Luofesi, but Luofesi refused to retreat, and the Great Elder let him keep fighting as a chance to mature.

• After more than an hour of battle, the Third Imperial Guard Legion's losses exceeded the rate of reinforcements, and Lin Fan warned Liang Xue that the Federation should remain vigilant.
• When a newly arrived fleet appeared in an unfamiliar configuration, Lin Fan ordered Wang Hai to pull back and retreat if danger emerged.
• Wang Hai established a mental connection with Luofesi and urged him to withdraw temporarily, but Luofesi rejected the idea as running away.
• Wang Hai relayed Lin Fan's order, and the Federation's ninety-nine other Civilization Guardians withdrew to observe the new fleet.
• The Great Elder considered advising the reckless Luofesi but instead allowed him to keep leading the Black Hole Cavity Creatures into battle.

The Black Mang Empire’s Avila Fleet used self-destructing Punishment-class Warships to unleash Black Hole-level attacks against the Black Hole Cavity Creatures. Luofesi survived but lost many of his kin, while Lin Fan learned the weapon could not be deployed over long distances.

• Commander Avila ordered the frontline fleet to attack the Black Hole Cavity Creatures after confirming they had not fled.
• Lin Fan sensed the Punishment-class Warships’ Black Hole Energy and ordered Wang Hai and the other Civilization Guardians to retreat.
• Ten Punishment-class Warships exploded near the Black Hole Cavity Creatures, killing more than a hundred and severely injuring most of the survivors.
• The Great Elder and dozens of other creatures shielded Luofesi, and the Great Elder died while protecting him.
• Luo Hao analyzed the attack and told Lin Fan that the Black Mang Empire could not use it as a long-range weapon.

Lin Fan ordered a revised strike plan and urged the Black Hole Cavity Creatures to withdraw so they could recover under Federal protection. Luofesi agreed to retreat with the wounded, but another wave of Avila's fleet arrived as they began moving.

• Lin Fan approved a strike plan expected to destroy 92% of the self-destruct ships in each wave and told Wang Hai to offer the Black Hole Cavity Creatures protection while they recovered.
• Luofesi mourned the Great Elder and hesitated between charging back into battle and retreating with the severely wounded clansmen.
• Wang Hai persuaded Luofesi that another charge would needlessly kill the more than seven hundred wounded companions who could recover.
• Luofesi agreed to withdraw and directed the uninjured and lightly injured creatures to carry the severely wounded to safety.
• Another wave of Avila's fleet arrived as the Black Hole Cavity Creatures began their retreat.

After the Federation crippled most of the Black Hole Lifeforms, Avila sought a way to break its defenses and received Taretel’s approval to attempt a fake surrender. The Federation intercepted the surrender message, and Lin Fan suspected the enemy planned to use it to get close and self-destruct.

• Avila learned that the Black Hole Lifeforms were fleeing and that the Federation’s attacks had killed or badly damaged most of them.
• The think tank estimated that a direct assault would require hundreds of billions of warships, so Avila considered its risky fake-surrender proposal.
• Avila sent the proposal to Taretel, who replied with permission to proceed.
• Avila ordered the think tank to prepare a detailed battle plan, while the Federation continued targeting the enemy’s self-destruct ships.
• The Federation translated the enemy’s message as a surrender offer, and Lin Fan suspected it was a fake surrender ploy.

Avila’s fleet pretended to surrender and packed its warships into an extremely dense assembly area, while Avila planned to wait for later fleets to distract the Federation before attacking. Just as he announced that the remaining Third Imperial Guard Legion fleets would arrive soon, the Mainframe’s alarm sounded.

• Avila received the Federation’s demand that his fleets shut down their weapons and assemble in a designated area, and he ordered them to comply.
• As nearly 100 billion Avila warships filled the assembly area, Avila ordered them to compress their formation further and told Taretel he would wait for later fleets to engage the Federation before launching his operation.
• Taretel confirmed that the later-arriving fleets would relentlessly attack the Federation’s defensive formation upon arrival.
• Two hours later, Avila’s assembled ships were packed roughly a hundred meters apart, with only about a dozen waves of his fleet still due to arrive.
• Avila ordered a message sent to the Federation warning that the other Third Imperial Guard Legion fleets would arrive in twelve waves, then the Mainframe’s alarm sounded.

Avila's fleet was caught in a Federation trap and suffered devastating losses before it could spread out or fight back. Legion Commander Taretel ordered Avila to detonate the fleet's self-destruct ships in a Black Hole Tide, leaving Avila to carry out the fleet's final attack.

• The Federation attacked Avila's densely packed, unpowered fleet, destroying billions of warships and trapping the rest under further strikes from more than a hundred Civilization Guardians.
• Avila ordered his fleet to disperse, told later-arriving fleets to attack the Federation, and asked Legion Commander Taretel for tactical guidance.
• Taretel replied that Avila should make the fleet's final embers burn and pave the army a path to victory.
• Avila realized Taretel had approved the plan regardless of whether it succeeded because the fleet could create an opening by detonating all its self-destruct ships together.
• Avila accepted that the fleet's end had come and prepared to use the mass detonation to trigger a Black Hole Tide.

Avila ordered the Punishment-class Warships to prepare Black Hole Energy compression while the fleet’s outer layers charged the Federal line to buy time. Lin Fan suspected the assault concealed a plan involving the suicide ships and ordered Wang Hai’s forces to destroy them, but the enemy’s purpose remained unknown.

• Avila ordered the outer warships to launch desperate attacks and all Punishment-class Warships to prepare for Punishment Judgment.
• The Avila Fleet’s outer layers broke formation and charged the Federal defensive line, diverting some of its firepower.
• Lin Fan rejected Liang Xue’s theory that the assault was only meant to disperse Federal fire and noticed that no suicide ships had joined it.
• Lin Fan ordered Wang Hai’s Civilization Guardian Squadron and the Peak Dark Energy Manipulators to focus on destroying the suicide ships.