Chapter Summaries

After Lin Yu defeated the Teli Empire’s invasion, he captured the Speight Universe to secure a rare metal needed by Luo Li. Years later, the Chaos Research Institute completed the first-generation Black Hole Cavity Teleportation Device, and its test ship successfully reached Speight.

• Lin Yu learned that the Speight Universe contained vast reserves of the metal Luo Li needed and ordered it secretly collected.
• Lin Yu designated Speight as a garrison universe and arranged for its native civilizations to relocate to the wealthier Akao Universe.
• The Azure Dragon Alliance shipped more than a hundred Transport Ships of the metal to the Azure Dragon Universe without revealing its purpose.
• In Federation Year 588, Luo Li and the Chaos Research Institute prepared the first-generation Black Hole Cavity Teleportation Device for its first test.
• Luo Li ordered the device activated and sent an Unmanned Warship through a stable passage toward Speight.
• Ten days later, the Speight Universe Garrison Base confirmed that the test ship had arrived.

In Federation Year 601, Lin Yu negotiated with Emperor Yehua of the Teli Empire, who sought a peace agreement with the Azure Dragon Alliance. Lin Yu demanded territory, limits on Teli's forces, and a share of its resources, but Yehua abruptly ended the call, leaving Lin Yu puzzled and ordering an investigation.

• The Federation's Black Hole Cavity Teleportation Device entered limited mass production, with only three units made each year.
• Yehua requested talks with Lin Yu, offering to recognize the Speight Universe as Azure Dragon Alliance territory in exchange for peace.
• Lin Yu rejected Yehua's offer and demanded four more universes, limits on Teli's legions, and thirty percent of its annual resources for a hundred years.
• Yehua refused the latter demands and cut off the communication, surprising Lin Yu.
• Lin Yu ordered the intelligence department to investigate recent developments in the Teli Empire.

Yehua was captured in the Sera Realm, converted to the White Church, and returned to the Teli Empire to help it expand. After the Empire suffered repeated military defeats, Yehua’s revolt and the White Church’s Crusader Army overthrew the imperial family, transforming the Empire.

• About two hundred years earlier, Yehua discovered ancient ruins and used their Cross-border Device to reach the Sera Realm, where the White Church captured him and destroyed his escort fleet.
• After ten years of torture, Ziegler offered Yehua redemption if he embraced the White Church, then recruited him to advance its interests in the Teli Empire.
• Yehua helped the White Church expand through his fief and other universes while the imperial family was weakened by defeats in the Black Radiance Universe and the Ketis Kingdom.
• Nine of the Empire’s thirty-seven universes declared support for Yehua, and the imperial family expelled him and tried to suppress the revolt.
• The White Church’s unknown, church-shaped warships annihilated the imperial family’s three Main Legions and, five years later, breached the capital and transformed the Empire.

Lin Yu sent a stealth reconnaissance ship into the Teli Empire after noticing Yehua’s unusual behavior, and its crew uncovered the White Church’s widespread influence and censorship. As Archbishop Paulina ordered Yehua to capture the Federation ship, Su He’s crew spotted a fleet resembling Black Church warships.

• Lin Yu dispatched a new special reconnaissance ship into Teli Empire territory, where Su He and his crew found that the White Church had many believers but no presence on public networks.
• Su He concluded that the Teli Empire was hiding information about the White Church and ordered the ship to investigate the imperial capital.
• Archbishop Paulina promoted Yehua to Purple-robed Bishop, then revealed that the Crusader Army had detected a Federation reconnaissance ship near the capital.
• Yehua identified the ship as belonging to the Human Federation, and Paulina ordered her forces to capture its crew for interrogation.
• The reconnaissance ship’s crew saw a fleet of church-shaped warships resembling those of the Black Church.

Su He’s reconnaissance ship was discovered by the White Church, whose strange energy crippled its Ninth Generation Black Hole Engine. Su He launched in his Chaos Mech to hold off the White Church’s forces while the ship tried to escape, and he began fighting three hundred Purple-robed Bishops.

• Su He identified the approaching white church-shaped warships as distinct from the Black Church’s black fleet and ordered the crew to investigate them.
• After the white warships’ energy cut the reconnaissance ship’s engine output by 99.8 percent, Su He ordered his crew to prepare an escape and launched in his Chaos Mech to cover them.
• Paulina concluded that the reconnaissance ship might possess an Eighth or Ninth Generation Black Hole Engine and ordered the White Church fleet to capture it intact.
• Three hundred Black Hole Lifeforms emerged from the White Church fleet, and Su He charged at them in his Chaos Mech.
• Su He traded blows on equal footing with the three hundred Purple-robed Bishops, aiming to disrupt the fleet’s interference and help the reconnaissance ship escape.

Su He charged toward the White Church fleet to break the interference trapping the reconnaissance ship, while headquarters arranged a Black Hole Cavity Teleportation Passage for their escape. After Lin Yu reached him through the ship's weapons and reopened communications, Su He agreed to fall back and defend the reconnaissance ship until the passage was ready.

• Su He pushed his defenses to their limit and charged toward the White Church fleet.
• The First Officer contacted Lin Yu, who asked for their coordinates and promised to open a Black Hole Cavity Teleportation Passage.
• The First Officer learned that Su He had blocked communications and was still charging into the enemy fleet, so Lin Yu ordered the reconnaissance ship to fire at his Chaos Mech to get his attention.
• Su He realized the Dark Night reconnaissance ship was targeting him and reopened communications, then found Lin Yu on the bridge.
• Lin Yu told Su He that headquarters was preparing a route home and ordered him to return to the reconnaissance ship and hold the line for nine minutes.
• Su He agreed to fall back immediately.

Su He confronted Paulina, a powerful White Church leader, while buying time for the Black Hole transmission passage to open. He escaped with the reconnaissance ship through a mirror-like portal, leaving Paulina stunned.

• Paulina left the Imperial Palace and arrived on the battlefield to prevent the purple-robed bishops from suffering heavy casualties.
• Su He recognized Paulina as a Third Tier expert and tried to stall her by asking whether she was the Black Church's pope.
• Paulina learned that the Black Church had invaded the Kunsa Realm and been defeated, while Yehua was shocked to hear of the Black Church and the Azure Dragon Alliance.
• Su He discovered that the White Church worshipped the Black Hole Cavity Consciousness as the Lord of Darkness and mocked Paulina's faith.
• Su He announced that it was time to act and escaped with the reconnaissance ship through an inky-black mirror, leaving Paulina stunned.

After learning that the White Church had taken control of the Teli Empire, Lin Yu and the Azure Dragon Alliance’s leaders resolved to strike before it could spread. Three years later, the alliance’s unprecedented punitive fleet entered Teli territory, and Yehua feared the coming war would devastate every universe in the empire.

• Paulina recognized the passage window as Black Hole Cavity teleportation technology and questioned how advanced the Heretic civilization was.
• Lin Yu briefed the alliance’s leaders on the White Church’s control of the Teli Empire, and they agreed the threat could not be allowed to spread.
• Lin Fan proposed an expedition against the Teli Empire, and the Tri-Union Civilization, Gem Empire, Divine Radiance Civilization, and Biological Civilization pledged forces.
• The alliance assembled a punitive fleet of twenty-three legions and a biological legion, including 4,500 Black Hole Lifeforms and four million Peak Dark Energy Manipulators.
• Three years later, the fleet used Black Hole Cavity teleportation to reach Speight, then entered Teli territory.
• Yehua panicked when he learned the alliance had invaded, fearing the war would shatter every universe in the Teli Empire.

The Alliance rapidly conquered four universes and split into eight forces as Lin Fan ordered four armies to strike the White Church’s headquarters in the Walot Universe. Facing the Alliance’s superior technology, Ziegler decided to withdraw the White Church from the Kunsa Realm and destroy its Cross-border Device.

• The Alliance Fleet destroyed twelve local legions and conquered four universes near Speight before dividing into eight forces to advance across the Empire.
• Lin Fan ordered four armies to bypass other universes and attack the White Church’s headquarters in the Walot Universe, while his remaining forces continued toward the Trovas Universe.
• Ziegler, Paulina, and the other cardinals debated whether to reinforce the Teli Empire or retreat to the Sera Realm.
• Paulina argued that the White Church could not defeat a civilization with advanced Black Hole Engines and teleportation technology, and warned that the Alliance was approaching Walot.
• Ziegler ordered the White Church to withdraw from the Kunsa Realm and destroy its Cross-border Device so the Alliance could not capture it.

Lin Fan learned that the White Church was using a Cross-border Device in the Trova Universe to retreat, and that the Federation could not build one without a Seventh Tier Black Hole Lifeform. He decided the Alliance had to seize the device before the White Church destroyed it, then asked Luo Li about the enemy’s scanning range.

• Lin Yu reported that the White Church fleet was disappearing without any sign of teleportation, and Luo Li identified its method as a Cross-border Device.
• Lin Fan initially accepted the White Church’s retreat, preferring to avoid the cost of fighting its main fleet and wait until the Federation grew stronger.
• Luo Li explained that the Federation could not manufacture a Cross-border Device until Lin Fan reached the Seventh Tier, and that the White Church would likely destroy the Teli Empire’s device after withdrawing.
• Lin Fan realized the Alliance had to capture the device to avoid losing access to other universes for hundreds of years, and asked Luo Li about the White Church’s scanning range.
• Luo Li said the White Church’s scanning range could not exceed one hundred Standard Black Hole Units, while the Federation was exceptional because she existed.

Lin Yu led a covert strike that ambushed the White Church during its evacuation and stole the Cross-border Device in under five seconds. Archbishop Paulina ordered the Crusader Army to pursue through the teleportation channel and destroy the device, while Lin Yu ordered his forces to withdraw.

• Lin Fan approved Luo Li’s plan to send fleets to a point a hundred Standard Black Hole Units from the Trova Universe.
• Lin Yu arrived near Trova with the fleets but used a single warship to approach unnoticed, then led hundreds of Civilization Guardians in Chaos Mechs toward the White Church’s evacuation point.
• Paulina sensed unease but dismissed it after a bishop reported that scans had detected no enemy intrusion.
• Lin Yu’s force attacked the White Church fleet, killed the bishops guarding the Cross-border Device, cut its energy supply, and hurled it through a newly opened teleportation channel.
• Paulina ordered the Crusader Army to pursue and destroy the Cross-border Device, and Lin Yu ordered his force to withdraw.

Lin Yu stayed behind to cover the Alliance forces’ retreat while the White Church fleet surrounded him, and Paulina recognized him as a Fourth Tier powerhouse and ordered her troops to let him go. When a Heretics fleet of at least fifteen legions arrived near Trowa and threatened the White Church with annihilation, Lin Yu demanded their surrender.

• Lin Yu remained behind in his mech to draw the White Church fleet away while the other Alliance forces escaped.
• Paulina sensed Lin Yu’s Fourth Tier strength and ordered the White Church forces to open the encirclement and let him leave.
• A purple-robed bishop reported that at least fifteen Heretics legions were approaching Trowa at incredible speed.
• Paulina realized the White Church could not retreat because the enemy had taken the Cross-border Device and vastly outnumbered the troops at Trowa.
• Lin Yu addressed every White Church member and demanded surrender or annihilation within one day.

Lin Yu’s attempt to persuade the White Church forces to surrender instead drove them to launch a fanatical assault, including repeated self-destructions. While holding off their attacks, he teleported behind their encirclement toward the enormous cathedral where Paulina was commanding the battle.

• Paulina’s purple-robed bishops rejected surrender and urged her to order a fight to the death using self-destruction attacks.
• Paulina ordered the Crusader Armies to attack and the bishops to charge Lin Yu through a passage in the firepower, sacrificing themselves for the Lord of Darkness.
• A First Tier Black Hole Lifeform charged Lin Yu and self-destructed, then the Crusader fleets opened fire from every direction.
• Lin Yu maintained his defenses and stayed to wear down the White Church forces until the follow-up fleets arrived.
• Lin Yu scanned for the White Church’s female high-ranking official and teleported behind the encirclement, appearing before the enormous cathedral.

Lin Yu captured Paulina and delivered her to the Chaos Research Institute, while the Alliance destroyed the White Church forces on Telohua. After Paulina revealed the Church’s secrets and asked for her husband Ziegler and the younger generation to be spared, Lin Fan agreed, provided her intelligence was accurate.

• Lin Yu captured Paulina aboard the White Church flagship and escaped with her as the Crusader Army fell into chaos.
• Lin Yu escorted Paulina to the Azure Dragon Universe, while the Alliance annihilated three Crusader Army legions on Telohua within two days.
• Ten days later, Luo Li told Lin Fan that Paulina had willingly confessed the White Church’s secrets, including that Paulina and Pope Ziegler knew the truth about the Black Hole Cavity Consciousness.
• Luo Li explained that Paulina hoped Lin Fan would spare Ziegler and the Church’s younger generation so they could establish a new civilization under the Azure Dragon Alliance.
• Lin Fan agreed to Paulina’s request if her intelligence proved accurate.

After the Azure Dragon Alliance annihilated the Teli Empire, the White Church learned of the destruction of Trova and Cardinal Paulina’s capture. Pope Ziegler resolved to launch a full-scale holy war against humanity and ordered the Church to prepare its forces for an invasion in 150 years.

• Yehua failed to secure allies or a surrender agreement as the Azure Dragon Alliance advanced on the Teli Empire.
• An Alliance announcement exposed the Teli Empire’s collusion with the White Church and revealed that its army had been destroyed and Paulina captured.
• In Federation Year 607, the Alliance conquered the Teli Empire and carried out a three-year purge on Lin Fan’s orders.
• In Federation Year 610, six and a half of the White Church’s ten Crusader Army legions returned to the Sera Realm, confirming that Trova had fallen.
• Ziegler ordered Aierduo to assemble the White Church’s forces and equip its warships with sixth-generation Black Hole Engines for a full-scale holy war in 150 years.

Federation Year 760 saw the Alliance continue developing while Luo Li completed a major advance in warship technology. Lin Fan began reorganizing the Federal Fleet with the new ships and planned to finance the rapid refit by selling the previous generation across the Alliance.

• The Federation’s Black Hole Lifeforms surpassed twenty thousand, while the Azure Dragon Alliance grew to seventeen God-tier Civilizations and the Biological Civilization camp added another.
• The Tailo Empire, led by Montero, crushed neighboring God-tier Civilizations, and the Hiltek Empire also began expanding into nearby territory.
• Luo Li told Lin Fan that Great Xia’s fleets had once wielded immense power, then developed a new generation of warships with the Federation’s support.
• Simulations showed the new warships could let a legion defeat a Main Legion of the four great empires even at a one-to-ten disadvantage, so Lin Fan ordered the Federal Fleet reorganized into true main fleets.
• The Federation auctioned hundreds of billions of retired warships to Alliance civilizations and decided to expand production and sales of the previous generation, reducing the planned refit from a century to twenty years.

The White Church launched a massive invasion of the Kunsa Realm through a random Cross-border Channel, but the Federation detected it and prepared a defense. Ten years later, the White Church fleet emerged into a Federation ambush, and Ziegler ordered a Divine Punishment Attack after learning the enemy’s ships were far stronger than expected.

• Ziegler set the holy war for three days later and ordered the White Church to enter the Kunsa Realm through a random channel.
• Luo Li detected the channel and later confirmed that at least one White Church legion had entered it, prompting Lin Fan to prepare defenses.
• The Federation stationed twenty legions in three defensive lines near the channel and kept them ready for ten years.
• White Church fleets emerged at the channel entrance, and Lin Fan ordered the Federation’s first defensive line to open fire.
• Aierduo reported that the Federation had twenty legions and warships rated at 278, so Ziegler ordered the arriving Crusader Army to use the Divine Punishment Attack.

The White Church used Divine Punishment Attacks to strike the Federal Fleet with power far beyond the attackers’ tiers, killing each user after the attack. Lin Fan learned from Luo Li that the attackers were the Cleanser’s Martyrs.

• Ziegler ordered Aierduo to use the White Church’s Divine Punishment Attack, which drained its user’s energy and killed them.
• A Divine Punishment Attack tore through the Federal first defensive line, destroying 11.72 billion warships and killing or injuring several Civilization Guardians.
• Lin Fan sent Wang Hai and his squad to defend the line while ordering Luo Li to analyze the attack.
• A second attack from an early Second Tier Black Hole Lifeform was blocked by Wang Hai, who lost nearly twenty percent of his energy, and the attacker died.
• Luo Li told Lin Fan that the attackers were the Cleanser’s Martyrs.

Lin Fan took over the first defensive line and effortlessly blocked a White Church martyr’s attack while Luo Li worked on improving the fleet’s scans. After seeing Lin Fan’s pitch-black mech withstand the attack, Ziegler ordered the martyrs to attack in groups of three, though the White Church had only enough martyrs at the front to sustain ten rounds.

• Luo Li explained that martyrs’ attacks had limited range and took about ten seconds to charge, then left to adjust the scanning program.
• Lin Fan ordered the flagship toward the first defensive line, prepared his Chaos Mech, and left Liang Xue in command of the battlefield.
• Lin Fan arrived as Wang Hai withdrew after blocking three attacks, then casually stopped another Divine Punishment Attack.
• Ziegler watched the footage, suspected Lin Fan’s mech was enhancing his power, and ordered Aierduo to have the martyrs attack in groups of three.
• Aierduo relayed the order, but the White Church had enough martyrs at the front for only ten rounds of attacks.

Lin Fan used a Chaos Energy barrier to withstand the White Church’s increasingly powerful martyr attacks. After ten waves, the White Church ran short of martyrs, giving Lin Fan time to recover while he waited for Luo Li’s deadline.

• Three Second Tier Black Hole Lifeforms sacrificed themselves to unleash an attack at Lin Fan exceeding an intensity of fifty thousand.
• Lin Fan deployed a Chaos Energy barrier that remained intact against the attack, while Ziegler explained Chaos Energy and the power gap associated with Fifth Tier lifeforms to Aierduo.
• Ziegler ordered the White Church to keep attacking, and ten waves failed to breach Lin Fan’s defense.
• The White Church halted its attacks because too few martyrs remained on the front lines and reinforcements had not yet arrived.
• Lin Fan estimated that the White Church had run out of martyrs for the moment, rested to recover the sixty percent of his energy he had spent, and watched the enemy formation as he waited for Luo Li’s deadline.