Chapter Summaries

The Azure Dragon Alliance assembled three expeditionary forces and sent Liang Xingchen’s army into the Canglan Realm, where it secured a position and waited until all one hundred legions arrived. The chapter introduces the powerful, cultivation-based Canglan Divine Domain, whose population pressure drove it to expand through Black Hole Cavity Space.

• By Federation Year 1050, the thirty-eight God-tier Civilizations of the Azure Dragon Alliance had formed three expeditionary forces, and the third-generation Cross-border Device reduced their crossing time to thirty months.
• In Federation Year 1052, Liang Xingchen led the Canglan Realm expedition while Lin Yu and Wang Hai commanded the other armies.
• After arriving between two universes, Liang Xingchen fortified the area and waited until all one hundred legions had assembled in Federation Year 1053.
• Ziegler’s intelligence described the Canglan Divine Domain as an exceptionally powerful, cultivation-based civilization whose strongest being, Dilote, was a mid-stage Fourth-order Divine Envoy.
• The Canglan Divine Domain expanded through Black Hole Cavity Space because its home universe had reached population saturation and its people faced strength suppression outside it.

The Canglan Divine Domain learned that an invasion from the legendary Outer Domain was imminent and began mobilizing for war. Meanwhile, the Azure Dragon Alliance’s forces gathered intelligence in Sea Blue Universe, where Liang Xingchen assessed the Divine Domain’s strength and the Alliance’s advantages.

• Rowan told Dilote that the prophets had foreseen an Outer Domain invasion near Star Blue and Copper Sea, but their divinations had cost one prophet’s life without revealing the enemy clearly.
• Dilote ordered all Ninth Order and higher Acolyte Divine Envoys and every Black Hole Lifeform to assemble, and Rowan agreed to support the Divine Domain’s defense.
• The Divine Radiance Civilization conquered Sea Blue Universe’s nine Super Civilizations and searched their databases for intelligence.
• Arches told Liang Xingchen that the Canglan Divine Domain had thirty thousand Black Hole Lifeforms, including two Fourth Tier beings, far more than earlier reports indicated.
• Liang Xingchen judged that the Alliance expeditionary force could overcome the numerical gap through its stronger fighters and faster Ninth Generation Black Hole Engines.

Liang Xingchen’s forces avoided major enemy concentrations while taking universes across the Canglan Realm. Near the Serto Universe, Archus and Daniel detected a force of five million approaching and decided to observe it before withdrawing.

• Liang Xingchen ordered his ten armies to avoid any enemy group with more than ten Black Hole Lifeforms within one hundred Black Hole Units.
• Archus complained to Daniel that his army had conquered twelve universes without meeting serious resistance or a God-tier Civilization.
• Archus’s deputy reported five million approaching targets, including more than thirty thousand Black Hole Lifeforms moving at the speed of sixth-generation Black Hole Engines.
• Archus persuaded Daniel to wait until the force came within one hundred Black Hole Units so they could observe how its non-Black Hole Lifeforms traveled through Black Hole Cavity Space.
• Dilote arranged for the Divine Guard to attack while Rowan and the Seers provided long-range support.

The chapter explains how Seers used long-range observation and Chaos Energy to launch powerful attacks, then follows the Azure Dragon Alliance as Rowan’s group targets a Divine Radiance Civilization legion. Daniel warned Aches to retreat, but the attack was already seconds away from striking the Third Legion.

• The chapter described Seers’ rarity, status, and ability to use Chaos Energy for long-range attacks.
• Aches’s fleet observed the enemy’s protective bubbles and learned that the force was advancing at speeds approaching seventh-generation Black Hole Engines.
• Dilote led thirty thousand Divine Guard soldiers and five million Acolyte Divine Envoys toward the Azure Dragon Alliance army while Rowan and twenty-eight Seers linked their powers.
• Rowan used the Seers’ combined ability to locate the invaders and prepared a Chaos Energy attack against the Divine Radiance Civilization legion at the front.
• Daniel detected the attack and urged Aches to withdraw, and Aches ordered the fleet to retreat.
• The attack headed toward the Third Legion, with impact expected in seven seconds and no time left to evade.

Rowan’s long-range attacks devastated the Divine Radiance Civilization’s Third Legion, and Daniel was relieved of command for disobeying orders. Luo Li recognized the Canglan Divine Domain as descendants of the Great Xia Federation’s Black Hole Sniper project and urged Lin Fan not to kill them.

• Rowan struck the Third Legion from nearly a hundred Standard Black Hole Units away, destroying nearly twenty trillion warships before the fleet escaped her range.
• Daniel reported the losses to Liang Xingchen, who relieved him of command and placed him in confinement pending further punishment after the war.
• Liang Xingchen informed Lin Fan about the Canglan Divine Domain’s extraordinary long-range attacks.
• Luo Li explained that the Canglan Divine Domain descended from the Great Xia Federation’s Black Hole Sniper project, whose modified Black Hole Lifeforms could not advance beyond the Fifth Tier.
• Luo Li told Lin Fan that the Canglan Divine Domain was the last surviving branch of the Great Xia Federation in the Black Hole Cavity Realm and asked him not to strike to kill.

Lin Fan learned that the Canglan Divine Domain descended from the Great Xia Federation and ordered the Federation to spare it, while Luo Li joined his planned visit. Meanwhile, Dilote captured enemy survivors, learned of the invading forces’ strength, and discovered evidence that their human civilization shared the Canglan people’s Great Xia origins.

• Lin Fan told Liang Xingchen to preserve the non-contact strategy toward the Canglan Divine Domain and agreed to bring Luo Li when he traveled there in three days.
• Dilote ordered his Divine Guard to capture surviving invaders and tow their damaged warships back instead of killing them.
• Dilote questioned the captives and learned that the Canglan Realm faced a hundred legions, including powerful Fourth-order and Fifth-order enemies.
• Dilote examined information about humanity and recognized that the invaders shared the Canglan people’s appearance, biology, and language.
• Dilote recalled ancient records about the Great Xia Federation and suspected that the invaders and Canglan people shared the same ancestry.

Lin Fan and Luo Li arrived at the Canglan Divine Domain while Dilote and its leaders faced the loss of resources and debated their options. Lin Fan introduced himself and offered to share an idea, while Dilote recognized the Great Xia Federation as part of the Canglan Clan’s ancient history.

• After nearly three years of avoiding Dilote’s fleet, the Azure Dragon Alliance had occupied over ninety percent of the universes in the Black Hole Cavity Realm, and Dilote had returned to the Canglan Divine Domain.
• Lin Fan ordered his flagship and guard legion to report to Liang Xingchen before heading for the Canglan Divine Domain.
• Rowan warned Dilote that the Canglan Divine Domain would soon lose its supplies, but Dilote rejected returning to the main world because it would suppress their strength and could not accommodate their people.
• Lin Fan and Luo Li appeared inside the leaders’ secured meeting room without being detected, then introduced themselves as Federation officials.
• Dilote recalled finding an ancient book that said the Canglan Clan had once belonged to the Great Xia Federation before it was destroyed tens of billions of years earlier.

Dilote learned that Luo Li had led the ancient Black Hole Sniper plan and that its effects had left the Canglan Clan unable to advance beyond the Fifth Tier and rejected by universes. Lin Fan invited the clan to join the Azure Dragon Alliance against an approaching threat, while Luo Li offered to try to remove the curse afflicting them.

• Dilote recognized Luo Li as the former leader of the Black Hole Sniper plan after explaining the ancient book he had found.
• Lin Fan told Rowan and the others that he and Luo Li had come to invite the Canglan Clan to join the Azure Dragon Alliance as a member state.
• Lin Fan warned that the self-aware Azure Dragon Universe would soon draw an attack from Black Hole Cleaners and urged the Canglan Clan to unite with the Alliance.
• Luo Li explained that the Black Hole Sniper plan had limited the Canglan ancestors to the Fifth Tier and caused universes to reject them.
• Luo Li told Dilote she believed she could remove the clan's curse and asked whether he wanted to try.

Luo Li explained that the Canglan Clan’s inability to reach Tier 5 stemmed from the Black Hole Sniper Project, and the clan agreed to join the Azure Dragon Alliance after negotiating terms with Lin Fan. Meanwhile, Lin Yu investigated the disappearance of three Ketis Kingdom legions inside the Stos Universe and turned to the Federation for help.

• Luo Li told Dilote and the Canglan Clan that side effects of the Great Xia Federation’s Black Hole Sniper Project had hindered their advancement and produced few seers.
• Dilote and the Canglan Clan discussed Luo Li’s proposal, then negotiated eighteen conditions with Lin Fan before agreeing to join the Azure Dragon Alliance.
• Lin Fan and Dilote agreed that the Canglan Realm would remain under Canglan Divine Domain ownership, while the Federation would receive one hundred universes for use and keep no more than five legions there.
• Lin Fan ordered Liang Xingchen to halt military operations, leave five legions in the Canglan Realm, and prepare the other forces to return to the Kunsa Realm.
• In the Xifeng Realm, three Ketis Kingdom legions disappeared after entering the Stos Universe, and Montero’s unmanned spacecraft also lost contact there.
• Lin Yu told Montero to remain on standby and contacted the Federation’s chief scientist for help investigating Stos.

Lin Yu sought Luo Li’s help after three legions lost contact inside the Stos Universe, and she identified the cause as a Great Xia Federation experiment meant to isolate the Black Hole Cavity Consciousness. She gave Lin Yu a device design to shut down the isolation system, and the chapter ended as the device entered Stos.

• Lin Yu told Lin Fan and Luo Li that three legions had disappeared after entering the Stos Universe.
• Luo Li studied the data and identified Stos as the former testing ground for the Great Xia Federation’s Universe Isolation Plan.
• Luo Li explained that her work on the plan’s core components let her devise a way to stop its Isolation Device.
• Luo Li sent Lin Yu blueprints and warned him to search for humans inside Stos after lifting the isolation.
• Several days later, Lin Yu’s forces activated the Wall-breaking Device and sent it into Stos aboard a remotely operated warship.

Lin Yu learned from Luo Li that the Ketis Kingdom’s three legions had likely perished because the Isolation Device changed Stos’s fundamental rules and disabled their life-support systems. After the device’s core was destroyed, a human inside a building on a drifting planet opened his eyes.

• Lin Yu sent a Star-Class Fleet into Stos to investigate the intact but lifeless Ketis Kingdom fleet.
• Luo Li explained that isolating Stos from Black Hole Cavity Space may have altered its fundamental rules, disabling the fleet’s equipment and killing everyone aboard.
• Luo Li confirmed that her device had destroyed the Isolation Device’s core and that Stos was safe to search for humans.
• The damaged Isolation Device activated its Creator repair protocol, and one of the three human bodies beside it slowly opened his eyes.

After waking from a five-billion-year sleep, Wang Feng learned that humanity on New Earth had grown to 300 billion but remained technologically trapped, and that an attack had disabled the Isolation Device. He traced the attack to code resembling Luo Li’s work and began scanning Stos as Lin Yu’s fleet headed for the device, unaware Wang Feng had detected it.

• Wang Feng woke after five billion years and learned that more than 300 billion people lived on New Earth, where repeated changes to physical laws had kept civilization from advancing beyond the Steam Age.
• Wang Feng discovered that a precise code attack had dismantled the Isolation Device’s core program and that the code resembled Luo Li’s coding style.
• Wang Feng learned that Stos had reconnected to the Black Hole Cavity Space, then ordered the research institute restarted and a comprehensive scan begun.
• Lin Yu’s fleet investigated the Ketis Kingdom’s three legions and found the soldiers dead, mostly from suffocation.
• Lin Yu located the Isolation Device on a planet outside any Supercluster and ordered his legion to seize it.
• Wang Feng detected the Federal Fleet as Lin Yu’s legion set out for the Isolation Device.

Wang Feng discovered that the Great Xia Federation had survivors in Stos and reunited with his former teacher, Luo Li. He explained that he had secretly isolated the Black Hole Cavity Consciousness and kept the survivors’ technology restricted, leaving their future in question.

• Wang Feng identified the approaching fleet as human and ordered the Chaos Particle Cannon charged while he established contact.
• Wang Feng and Luo Li recognized each other as student and teacher, while Lin Fan and Lin Yu learned that Wang Feng was Luo Li’s student.
• Luo Li introduced Lin Fan as her husband, leaving Wang Feng bewildered because he remembered Lin Fan as having died tens of billions of years earlier.
• Wang Feng explained that he and two scientists had secretly continued the failed plan, isolated the Black Hole Cavity Consciousness, and settled several million people on a planet in Stos.
• Wang Feng revealed that he had restricted the survivors’ technological development and periodically altered their planet’s fundamental rules; their population had grown beyond three hundred billion.
• Luo Li asked Wang Feng what he planned to do with the Great Xia Federation survivors.

Luo Li explained to Wang Feng that the Great Xia Federation had vanished and that the surviving humans on Stos were a separate civilization, then offered them a choice of joining the Human Federation or restoring the Great Xia Federation as an Azure Dragon Alliance member state. Wang Feng agreed and revealed that Jiang Xinlan, the Great Xia Federation’s chief warship designer, was still alive and in hibernation.

• Luo Li told Wang Feng that the humans on Stos were not remnants of an existing Great Xia Federation, which had disappeared billions of years earlier.
• Luo Li explained that Lin Fan had once belonged to the Great Xia Federation before transmigrating to the Kunsa Realm, while she had traveled from the Human Federation to the distant past.
• Luo Li warned that the Azure Dragon Universe had developed self-awareness and that a new wave of Black Hole Cleaners might soon return.
• Lin Fan offered the Stos survivors the choice to join the Human Federation or rebuild the Great Xia Federation and enter the Azure Dragon Alliance, and Wang Feng accepted the arrangement.
• Wang Feng revealed that Jiang Xinlan was alive in hibernation and was now his wife, and Luo Li said the former Great Xia chief warship designer could help the Federation improve its warships.

Wang Feng’s secret revealed that he and his companions had survived in Stos for five billion years as preserved consciousnesses inhabiting created bodies. As the Azure Dragon Alliance prepared to attack the dangerous Kewei Realm, Lin Fan arranged for Jiang Xinlan and Bai Zhi to design a new warship, and successful tests cleared the way for production.

• Wang Feng’s secret explained that Chaos Lifeforms could not survive in Stos, so he and his companions abandoned their original bodies and transferred their consciousnesses into created ones.
• After Wang Hai occupied the Kasa Realm, the Azure Dragon Alliance ended the first phase of its second expansion and planned three years of recovery before attacking four more realms, including Kewei.
• The Federation’s records described the Taotie Civilization as a dangerous biological-technological species that had annihilated and eaten more than one hundred Crusader Army legions.
• Lin Fan assigned Jiang Xinlan to design a new warship for the planned assault on Kewei, while Bai Zhi developed its weapons and Luo Li handled the energy core and engine.
• Luo Li reported that the warship design and weapons had passed testing, and Lin Fan ordered production preparations for enough ships to equip one legion within three years.
• Three months later, testing of the new warships finished successfully under the Federal Fleet’s senior officers.

In Federation Year 1077, Lin Fan’s army reached the Kewei Realm and discovered that the Taotie had turned the Pellando Universe into a breeding ground for intelligent species, including descendants of the White Empire. Lin Fan ordered the 071 Legion to assemble for an attack, leaving the passage’s security to the follow-up fleets.

• In Federation Year 1074, Lin Fan assembled a ninety-three-legion expeditionary force, including a new-style legion built around advanced warships.
• The Alliance’s four armies departed, and by Federation Year 1077 Lin Fan’s force entered the Kewei Realm through a passage more than a thousand Standard Black Hole Units from the nearest universe.
• Lin Fan ordered the vanguard to secure the passage and sent Strategic Reconnaissance Ships to investigate Pellando, a Taotie-controlled universe.
• Reconnaissance footage showed White Empire descendants being bred, slaughtered, and processed as food, prompting Paulina to demand an immediate attack.
• Lin Fan agreed to lead troops to Pellando and ordered the 071 Legion to assemble while the remaining fleets guarded the passage.

Lin Fan ordered the newly arrived 071 Legion to deploy and briefed its commanders on the Taotie Civilization’s overwhelming individual strength. He chose guerrilla warfare to avoid devastating Federation losses and began assigning missions based on enemy forces detected in Pellando.

• Lin Fan ordered the 071 Legion to depart and summoned the formation commanders to the Virtual Combat Room for an operation briefing.
• Lin Fan explained that the Taotie Civilization had over a million Black Hole Lifeforms and that even its weakest adults were powerful Dark Energy Users.
• Lin Fan announced that the Federation would use guerrilla warfare because a frontal victory would cost too many lives.
• Lin Fan displayed reconnaissance data showing the forces deployed in Pellando: one Third Tier, thirty-six Second Tier, 721 First Tier Black Hole Lifeforms, and 1.97 million peak tenth-order combatants.

Governor Lancalis learned that an unknown fleet with at least five thousand Black Hole Lifeforms was approaching Pellando and ordered its defenses to mobilize. The Taotie King sent reinforcements, but they would take a month to arrive, leaving Lancalis to hold out until then.

• Lancalis waited impatiently for lunch until a subordinate reported an unknown fleet approaching Pellando.
• The subordinate said the fleet had at least five thousand Black Hole Lifeforms and could reach Pellando in less than an hour.
• Lancalis ordered the warriors and slave army to mobilize and sent a request for reinforcements to the Taotie King.
• The Taotie King told Lancalis that General Kavio's reinforcements needed a month to reach Lampet and ordered him to hold out until then.

Lin Fan’s 071 Legion attacked the Taotie-controlled fleets outside Pelando and pushed into the universe, while Lancalis ordered his outmatched forces to defend it for a month. The chapter ended with Lancalis leading his troops into battle against Lin Fan’s advancing force.

• Slave fleets under Taotie command complained that Lancalis was using them as cannon fodder, but they prepared to fight because their civilization was at Taotie’s mercy.
• Liang Xue reported that five Super Civilization-level legions guarded Pelando, and Lin Fan ordered a full-strength assault followed by guerrilla warfare.
• The 071 Legion overwhelmed the slave fleets, blasted open their formation, and let Lin Fan lead the Civilization Guardian Legion and the Divine Guard of the Canglan Divine Domain through the breach toward Pelando.
• Lancalis told nearly eight hundred Black Hole Warriors and nearly two million peak Tier 10 Biological Civilization individuals that their families would die if they failed to hold Pelando for a month.
• Lancalis ordered his troops to self-destruct if they could not hold the line, then led them out of the Valdo Galaxy to confront Lin Fan’s advancing force.

Lin Fan led the Federation forces in an overwhelming assault on the Taotie at Pelando, crushing their Black Hole Warriors and confronting their governor, Lancalis. After Lancalis revealed that General Kavio's Fourth Front Army would arrive in a month, Lin Fan killed him before he could send a warning.

• Lin Fan ordered the Divine Guard to support the battle, avoid unfavorable matchups, target stronger Taotie, and watch for self-destruction.
• The Federation's higher-tier fighters broke through the Taotie formation and rapidly overwhelmed the Black Hole Warriors.
• Lancalis watched his force shrink from nearly eight hundred Black Hole Warriors to just over a hundred as the Federation pinned them down.
• Lin Fan suppressed Lancalis's three guards and asked whether he was the Taotie's highest commander in the universe.
• Lancalis identified himself as Pelando's governor and threatened Lin Fan with General Kavio's Fourth Front Army, due in a month.
• Lin Fan killed Lancalis as he tried to alert General Kavio through the Taotie mental network.