Chapter Summaries

Toreya withdrew the surviving Noreya forces through the Cross-border Channel while Lin Fan ordered his fleets to destroy the remaining enemy warships in Kousha. After the battle, Lin Fan planned to finish the war by striking the Noreya garrison and Cross-border Device in the Tuhr Realm.

• Toreya rejected his ministers’ first pleas to retreat, then ordered the surviving Black Hole Lifeforms and legions to withdraw toward the Cross-border Channel while other legions delayed the Federal Fleet.
• Lin Fan chose not to pursue Toreya, whose self-destruction could devastate the Federal Fleet, and ordered his forces to spread out and help the Alliance Fleet eliminate the enemy fleets.
• Toreya and his ministers entered the Cross-border Channel and escaped to the Tuhr Realm.
• Fifteen hours later, the battle in Kousha ended with the Noreya Empire losing nearly all its legions and 2.7 million Black Hole Lifeforms, while the Alliance Fleet lost 628 legions and the Federal Fleet lost 32.
• Lin Fan’s next objective was to defeat the 2,500 Noreya legions in the Tuhr Realm and destroy the empire’s Cross-border Device.

Lin Fan led the Federal Fleet through a newly opened Cross-border Channel and destroyed the Noreya Empire’s defenses in the Tuhr Realm. Toreya was trapped when the Empire’s channel collapsed, and Lin Fan ordered a cleanup of the remaining enemy forces.

• Toreya learned that only 1.3 million Black Hole Lifeforms and 687 legions had escaped the battle in the Kousha Realm, along with the nine Shadow Legions that had stayed out of the fighting.
• After a month of rest, Lin Fan ordered the Federal Fleet and the strongest Civilization Guardians to lead the advance into the Tuhr Realm.
• Toreya dismissed warnings about the new channel and planned to fight a defensive battle after joining the Tuhr Realm’s forces.
• Arthur recalled his resting fleets when the Federal Fleet emerged earlier than expected, but Lin Fan’s attack overwhelmed the unprepared defenders.
• Lin Fan ordered seven Chaos Ray Carriers to destroy the remaining enemy ships and the Cross-border Device, causing the Noreya Empire’s channel to collapse and trapping Toreya.
• Lin Fan ordered the remaining enemy fleets in the Tuhr Realm to be found and eliminated.

After the Alliance defeated the Noreya Empire in the Second Black Hole Cavity Holy War, Lin Fan proposed advancing to the Xiluo Realm and distributing 112 Black Hole Cavity Realms. He then called for civilizations that contributed fewer than twenty-two legions to lose their allocation rights, leaving the Alliance’s leaders debating the proposal’s consequences.

• Lin Fan pointed to the Xiluo Realm as the Alliance’s planned forward position, and Montero explained that advancing farther would overextend the Alliance’s ability to supply and defend its forces.
• Lin Fan proposed dividing the 112 Black Hole Cavity Realms between the Xiluo Realm and Federation territory.
• Lin Fan condemned Alliance civilizations that contributed fewer than one percent of the Alliance Fleet during the war and proposed stripping them of their allocation rights.
• Emperor Valeri agreed with Lin Fan’s proposal, while the Emperor of the Gem Empire warned that excluding so many civilizations could destabilize the Alliance.
• Lin Fan dismissed concerns about unrest and insisted that civilizations unwilling to contribute could leave the Alliance.

Lin Fan pushed the Alliance to punish civilizations that shirked their wartime duties, and the Ketis Kingdom was destroyed after its expulsion. Meanwhile, Orix began mass-producing low-tier Black Hole Lifeforms, while the Federation prepared its own plan to face stronger enemies such as the Xilbeila Empire.

• Lin Zhen put Lin Fan's proposal to a vote, and the Alliance stripped civilizations that deployed less than 1% of their forces in the Kousha Campaign of postwar distribution rights.
• The Alliance required every civilization to invest at least 30% of its output in fleet construction, and approved the Ketis Kingdom's withdrawal after it threatened to leave.
• Two civilizations invaded the Ketis Kingdom with the Alliance's tacit approval, and the kingdom was destroyed a year later.
• Orix became the Noreya Empire's emperor and activated the Divine Official Plan to mass-produce tens of millions of First Tier Black Hole Lifeforms.
• Thirty years later, Lin Fan reviewed the Federation's military and research reports and identified the Xilbeila Empire as its greatest threat.
• Luo Li's Mass Production Plan for Black Hole Lifeforms required that the lifeforms' potential not be sacrificed.

Lin Fan reviewed Luo Li’s plan to help Federation citizens become Black Hole Lifeforms without draining their potential, paving the way for many to become Chaos Lifeforms. He ordered an urgent feasibility check and immediate testing if the results proved viable, classifying the plan as five-star top secret.

• The chapter explained how civilizations used forced growth to create Black Hole Lifeforms quickly, but the method drained a person’s potential and limited their future rank.
• Lin Aotian’s Life Source modification had given Lin Fan perfect compatibility with the Azure Dragon Universe, and the Federation had later used similar technology to modify the Tailo Empire’s citizens.
• Luo Li developed a method that improved people’s chances of becoming Black Hole Lifeforms without consuming their potential, allowing them to keep advancing through cultivation.
• The plan aimed to give nearly all Federation citizens perfect compatibility, potentially producing thousands of Chaos Lifeforms and making the Cleansers no threat to the Federation.
• Lin Fan ordered a rapid feasibility review, authorized immediate tests if the plan proved viable, and restricted access to himself and the Federal Fleet Marshal.

By Federation Year 2058, the Azure Dragon Alliance had expanded its territory and military strength, while Luo Li began testing technology that could rapidly cultivate Black Hole Lifeforms. The Noreya Empire also cultivated Black Hole Lifeforms and planned to expand its facilities, but first needed more of a rare metal.

• Valeri credited Montero’s advice for the Tailo Empire’s rise to control seventeen Black Hole Cavity Realms and increasingly relied on him.
• The Azure Dragon Alliance’s fleets grew to 4,200 legions as Luo Li prepared the first test of her five-star top-secret project with Federation volunteers and participants from the Canglan Divine Domain.
• Luo Li told Lin Fan that the incubation technology could advance Peak Dark Energy Manipulators into Black Hole Lifeforms, with the Federation potentially cultivating nearly one hundred million.
• The Noreya Empire’s ruler learned that its Catalyst Pods had produced nearly eighteen million Black Hole Lifeforms and ordered facilities expanded to reach one hundred million within fifty years.
• The Noreya Empire’s official reported that expanding production required a rare metal in short supply, so the ruler requested the metal’s information and ordered the fleet to search for it.

The Federation learned that the Noreya Empire had sent 21,800 legions toward the Xiluo Realm, and Lin Fan decided the Federation must strike into enemy territory rather than fight only defensively. He revealed that a new Realm Folding System could cross ten Black Hole Cavity Realms in eight months, giving the Federation a way to overcome the distance.

• In the Vido Realm, the resource fleet detected a Cross-border Channel opened from the Noreya Empire, and its commander ordered the ships to gather resources and withdraw in ten months.
• Lin Fan approved a plan for Kexing Realm to open a channel in ten months and extract the 772nd Resource Extraction Fleet from Vido Realm.
• Orix learned that the channel led to a scattered Heretics resource fleet and ordered his legions to enter the Vido Realm while one legion guarded the Cross-border Device.
• A returning scout ship reported that the Noreya Empire had deployed 21,800 legions, prompting Lin Fan to tell Federation commanders he intended to invade the empire’s homeland after the coming battle.
• Lin Fan revealed that the Realm Folding System could carry forces across ten Black Hole Cavity Realms in the same eight months as a conventional crossing of one realm.

Lin Fan explained the Realm Folding System, which could let the Alliance cross ten Black Hole Cavity Realms at once, and the Federation waited as the Noreya Empire gathered forces. By 2268, Orix had assembled 93,700 legions and prepared a thousand-channel offensive against the Federation’s 8,200 legions.

• Lin Fan explained that the Realm Folding System temporarily connected distant Black Hole Cavity Realms and could support Cross-border Devices, prompting the commanders to approve preparations.
• In 2175, Orix brought 21,800 legions to the Okang Realm but waited for reinforcements rather than attacking the Xiluo Realm.
• Lin Fan advised the Alliance not to attack, since its resources were sufficient and time would allow the Realm Folding System and Black Hole Lifeforms to mature.
• By 2268, Orix’s forces had grown to 93,700 legions, while the Federation had 8,200 legions drawn from its own and Alliance forces.
• Orix ordered a one-month rest before an offensive, and Commander Xivil presented a plan to attack through one thousand Cross-border Channels, claiming simulations gave the Noreya Empire certain victory.

Xivil persuaded Orix to use Fleet Simulation decoys while the Noreya Empire moved its forces through a thousand Cross-border Channels. Lin Fan recognized the deception and warned the Alliance that the Empire’s main force could arrive in six months, leaving the leaders to realize the apparent fleet in the Okang Realm was only a decoy.

• Xivil explained that the Empire would attack through a thousand channels and use Fleet Simulation to hide its forces from a Heretic reverse-crossing operation, and Orix accepted the plan.
• After half a year without activity from the Noreya Empire’s fleets in the Okang Realm, Liang Xue reported the anomaly to Li Yan and Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan recognized that the Empire was imitating the Federation’s earlier Fleet Simulation tactic and summoned the Alliance’s supreme commanders to assign combat missions.
• Lin Fan told the Alliance leaders that the Noreya Empire’s main force could arrive in six months, confusing them because they believed its fleet had not moved.
• Montero and Valeri reasoned from Lin Fan’s warning and scan records that the Empire’s main force had already entered the Cross-border Channels, while the visible fleet in the Okang Realm was made up of decoys.

Lin Fan and Montero identified the weakness in the Noreya Empire’s plan to attack through a thousand Cross-border Channels: the Federation could use the vast distances within the Xiluo Realm to defeat isolated Imperial fleets before reinforcements arrived. When Orix’s forces entered the realm, the Alliance defended only eighty routes and quickly routed the Imperial fleets that encountered them.

• Lin Fan explained that the enemy’s thousand-pronged offensive could be countered by defending selected channel entrances and exploiting the travel time between them.
• Montero described how the Alliance could destroy isolated Imperial fleets before forces from other channels could reinforce them, and Lin Fan confirmed the plan.
• In Federation Year 2176, more than 90,000 Imperial fleets entered the Xiluo Realm through a thousand Cross-border Channels, but only eighty routes encountered Alliance defenders.
• Orix ordered nearby Imperial fleets to encircle the defenders, expecting overwhelming numerical superiority.
• Before the encircling fleets could arrive, all eighty Imperial fleets engaged by the Alliance had been routed in under two hours.

The Alliance routed the Noreya Empire’s scattered fleets across the Xiluo Realm, inflicting overwhelming losses while taking few casualties. As Lin Fan’s forces advanced toward the Mobile Imperial Capital, Orix ordered the remaining Imperial fleets to launch a fight-to-the-death assault.

• Lin Fan’s forces left defeated Imperial fleets behind and moved on to attack fleets before they could assemble, routing more Imperial legions over the following days.
• Orix ordered the scattered fleets to gather, but by the tenth day the Empire had lost most of its thousand fleets and had fewer than five thousand legions around the Mobile Imperial Capital.
• By the thirtieth day, the assembled Imperial force had reached eight thousand legions, while the Empire had lost at least eight hundred million legions in exchange for fewer than eight hundred Alliance legions.
• After clearing the remaining Imperial fleets, the Federation regrouped and advanced to within five hundred Standard Black Hole Units of the enemy; Lin Fan predicted that the new Mobile Imperial Capital held millions of Black Hole Lifeforms.
• Lin Fan ordered the Chaos Ray Carriers to gather and the other fleets to advance, while Orix ordered the Imperial fleets into an assault formation centered on the Mobile Imperial Capital and commanded them to attack to the death.

Orix ordered the Noreya Empire fleet to launch a desperate assault, hoping to release its Black Hole Lifeforms inside the Alliance formation. Lin Fan anticipated the plan, destroyed the Mobile Imperial Capital with concentrated Chaos Rays, and left the Empire fleet without its spiritual pillar before wiping it out.

• Orix ordered the Empire fleet to charge the Alliance and send the Mobile Imperial Capital into its formation.
• Lin Fan recognized the Empire's plan and prepared the Alliance's Chaos Ray Carriers for the assault.
• The Alliance encircled the Empire fleet and opened a corridor for its Chaos Ray Carriers to target the Mobile Imperial Capital.
• Orix ordered the Mobile Imperial Capital to evade, but twenty-eight Chaos Rays destroyed it along with its Black Hole Lifeforms.
• The Empire fleet lost its divine envoy and the Black Hole Cavity Consciousness's influence, then collapsed under the Alliance's attack.
• The Alliance destroyed all eight thousand Empire legions over two days, and Lin Fan concluded that targeting a Cleaners' leader could be effective.

The Federation began its invasion of the Noreya Empire using the Realm Folding System, while the Empire gained a new Divine Envoy, Radu Aisvide. Radu discovered the Empire's forces were depleted and ordered a major military expansion as the Federation's fleets set out toward his territory.

• In Federation Year 2192, Lin Fan ordered 9,100 Federation and Alliance Legions to begin crossing toward the Noreya Empire through the Realm Folding System.
• The Federation's system opened a route spanning ten Black Hole Cavity Realms, allowing the journey to the Noreya Empire to take eight years.
• Radu Aisvide became the Noreya Empire's new Divine Envoy after Orix's death, and the ministers knelt before him on Imperial Capital Star.
• Minister Derek reported that the Empire had 13,000 Main Legions and at least 50,000 local Guard Legions, but few experienced veterans remained after Orix's mass conscription.
• Radu blamed Orix for the Empire's depleted reserves and ordered the military to expand rapidly.

Ladu ordered the Empire to rebuild its depleted military while an unexplained cross-border channel appeared in Saimon Realm. The channel opened onto the Heretics’ territory, and their fleet invaded before the Empire could respond.

• Ladu ordered Derek to recruit soldiers and rapidly train enough troops to form one hundred thousand legions.
• An unregistered cross-border channel appeared in Saimon Realm, and the seven neighboring Black Hole Cavity Realms denied opening it.
• Ladu ordered the seven governors to investigate, then directed Saimon Realm to send a tracking device through the channel.
• Eight months after the channel opened, a fleet of Heretics warships poured into Saimon Realm through it.
• Ladu learned that the Heretics had invaded Saimon Realm and that its Garrison Fleet could not stop them.

Radu ordered every Imperial fleet to gather at the capital and all citizens to sacrifice themselves to slow the Alliance’s invasion of Saimon Realm. Lin Yu’s vanguard crushed the local Noreya Empire forces and began exterminating the population, while the civilians’ attacks delayed the Alliance’s advance.

• Radu learned that the Heretic fleet had reached Saimon Realm through a Cross-border Channel and accepted Derek’s theory that the enemy could cross multiple Black Hole Cavity Realms at once.
• Radu ordered the Imperial fleets to converge on the capital and commanded citizens throughout the empire to join the war, including by charging and self-destructing in civilian ships.
• Derek agreed to carry out Radu’s order, despite worrying that sacrificing the population would leave the empire unable to rebuild its military.
• Lin Yu learned that the Alliance had defeated ten Noreya Empire legions in less than half an hour and ordered the remaining fleets cleared before the purge began.
• The Alliance exterminated the empire’s citizens across its universes, but civilian ships repeatedly charged its forces and slowed their advance.

Lin Fan ordered the Federation to bypass the Noreya Empire’s suicidal resistance and advance rapidly toward its capital, while the Empire prepared a desperate defense. When the Alliance Fleet arrived at the Reno Realm, Imperial civilian ships self-destructed en masse at the channel entrance.

• Liang Xue learned from Li Yan that the Noreya Empire’s people would fight to the death because the Black Hole Cavity Consciousness influenced the Cleansers.
• Lin Fan ordered Lin Yu to stop the cleansing operation, defend the channel entrance, and send follow-up fleets through successive channels toward the imperial capital.
• Lin Yu established defenses, then moved most of his legions onward while leaving one hundred legions to guard the Cross-border Device.
• Derek told the Emperor that the Heretics could cross ten Black Hole Cavity Realms in eight months and would reach the capital in about a month, while the Empire’s forces were outmatched.
• The Alliance Fleet arrived in the Reno Realm, where Imperial forces and more than fifty thousand armed or self-destructing civilian legions formed a desperate defense.
• As the Alliance Fleet emerged from the channel, the civilian ships blocking its entrance began to self-destruct before it could fire.

Radu’s suicide-ship and planet attacks failed to inflict the losses he expected, and Lin Yu’s arrival helped the Alliance build a force of more than one hundred legions at the passage. As the conventional battle turned against the Empire, Radu ordered Derek to use a prepared weapon.

• Radu’s civilian suicide ships drew fire while hundreds of millions of Black Hole Engine-equipped planets surged toward the passage, forcing the Federation fleet and Black Hole Lifeforms to intercept them.
• Two Chaos Ray Carriers and Lin Yu arrived, easing the Alliance’s pressure as its forces at the passage grew beyond one hundred legions.
• Radu halted the suicide ships and planets so the Imperial defenders could begin a conventional battle against the Alliance.
• The sides fought evenly, but the Empire suffered a casualty ratio worse than one to four, alarming Radu.
• Radu ordered Derek to use the prepared weapon.

As the Empire's defensive line neared collapse, Radu ordered the Black Hole Cavity Particle Annihilation Device activated to destroy Reno Realm. Lin Fan and Luo Li recognized the danger in the anomalies, and Luo Li warned that the Alliance's forces could be wiped out within a day.

• Radu ordered Derek to activate the device, which would annihilate Reno Realm and collapse its Cross-border Channel after about a day.
• As the battle worsened, Lin Yu detected an alarming drop in Black Hole Cavity Particle density near the Noreya Empire's capital and sent the data to headquarters.
• Lin Fan recognized the anomalies as signs that Reno Realm might be deliberately collapsed and realized the Alliance's fleets could be destroyed.
• Lin Fan connected Luo Li to the data, and she confirmed that the entire army could be wiped out within a day.

Lin Yu’s Alliance Fleet raced to destroy the Noreya Empire’s Black Hole Cavity Particle Annihilation Device before it triggered a catastrophe, while the Empire’s forces resorted to attacking their own people to delay them. The Alliance regrouped after the bombardment turned suicide planets into dangerous, scattered fragments.

• Lin Fan estimated that the Alliance had no more than twenty-three hours to destroy the device, and Lin Yu vowed to break through the Empire’s defenses within ten.
• Lin Yu ordered the Alliance Fleet to sustain full firepower as it pushed through the Noreya Empire’s defenses.
• Radu realized the Heretics had discovered the device and ordered civilian suicide ships and planets to advance while the Empire fleets fired without regard for friendly casualties.
• The Empire’s bombardment injured more than twenty Black Hole Lifeforms and shattered suicide planets into fragments that threatened the Alliance and shielded suicide ships.
• Lin Yu ordered the frontline fleets to regroup, the Black Hole Lifeforms to destroy the fragments, and the fleets to scan and precisely target those with unusual signals.

Lin Yu’s army stabilized against the Noreya Empire’s self-destructing ships and planets but remained unable to advance. After the Civilization Guardian Legion’s Twenty-First Detachment arrived, Lin Yu ordered Zhang Sai to join him in a dangerous strike intended to destroy a target within twenty hours and prevent the Alliance army’s destruction.

• Lin Yu tightened the battle line and redirected attacks, keeping the debris and self-destructing forces beyond three Standard Black Hole Units.
• Lin Yu learned the enemy could sustain its attacks for at least ten hours and arranged for reinforcements, including Zhang Sai’s detachment, to arrive.
• The Alliance and Empire forces remained locked in place for two hours while Radu took their stalemate as evidence that the Alliance had run out of options.
• Zhang Sai arrived with the Civilization Guardian Legion’s Twenty-First Detachment, and Lin Yu ordered him to penetrate the Empire’s defenses and destroy a designated target in the Scanberra Universe.
• Lin Yu warned Zhang Sai that failure to destroy the target within twenty hours would wipe out the Alliance army, then ordered the detachment to rendezvous with him in Sector A71.