Chapter Summaries

Abeto realized the Heretics had changed the distance between Cross-border Channels to thwart the Allied Forces, delaying their advance and dooming the Dasaross Empire. By Federation Year 4021, Lin Fan’s forces had conquered the Empire outside its Imperial Capital, surrounded it, and secretly sent tens of thousands of legions out of the Saar Realm.

• Abeto concluded that the Heretics had deliberately changed the distance between the channels, causing the Allied Forces’ bombs to miss their target and face another delay of more than twenty years.
• More than ten days later, all 350,000 Allied legions entered the Cross-border Channel built by the Alliance.
• By Federation Year 4021, the Federation had cleared all 336 Black Hole Cavity Realms of the Dasaross Empire, leaving only the Imperial Capital.
• Lin Fan ordered the Alliance to crush the Imperial Capital’s outer defenses and surround it without entering the universe, explaining that he still needed the Dasaross Empire’s Divine Envoy alive.
• The Alliance destroyed the Empire’s fleets and cleared the Saar Realm outside the Imperial Capital Universe, leaving the Empire blind to events beyond its borders.
• Tens of thousands of Alliance legions left the Saar Realm through Cross-border Channels.

The Civilization Allied Forces launched a massive assault on the Kousha Realm, but found that the Heretics had abandoned it, leaving Abeto and his allies without a safe way to advance. With the Dasaross Empire’s final universe close to destruction, Abeto accepted Kachinsky’s advice to wait for their specialized ships to recharge, despite distrusting the Black and White Church’s cloning offer.

• Abeto and the Civilization Allied Forces opened more than a thousand Cross-border Channels into the Kousha Realm, but found no Heretic ships there.
• Abeto realized that the assault had used all the Dasaross cross-border specialized ships, which would take roughly fifty years to recharge.
• Abeto urged the allies to advance into Heretic territory, but Kachinsky warned that the empire’s last universe could fall before they arrived and that ordinary Cross-border Devices risked being destroyed.
• Kachinsky offered the Black and White Church’s perfect cloning technology to preserve the Dasaross civilization.
• Abeto distrusted the cloning offer because civilizations that had used the technology during the First Holy War later collapsed, but he accepted that the empire’s destruction was unavoidable and agreed to wait.

Lin Fan explained the Alliance Fleet’s plan to exploit the Dasaross Empire’s Cross-border Channel ships’ long charging time and lure the enemy into a decisive battle in the Kousha Realm. He left the commanders stunned by proposing that the fleet on the empire’s side kill the emperor, who served as the divine envoy, as the Alliance invaded.

• Abeto wondered why the Heretics had surrounded the Imperial Capital Universe for more than thirty years without attacking it.
• Lin Fan told the Alliance commanders that the enemy’s specialized ships needed roughly fifty to fifty-five years to charge, likely leaving the enemy reliant on ordinary Cross-border Devices.
• Lin Fan proposed dividing the Alliance Fleet among the three Black Hole Cavity Realms connected to Kousha to tempt the enemy to attack one force with overwhelming numbers.
• The commanders agreed that the enemy would likely leave 150,000 Dasaross fleets to guard the channel while the other two civilizations’ 200,000 fleets attacked.
• Lin Fan proposed that a fleet stationed on the Dasaross Empire’s side kill the emperor, who served as the divine envoy, at the moment the Alliance invaded Kousha.

The Alliance used the Dasaross Empire's divided forces to lure the Crimson Church and Weiwei Empire into an attack, then struck the Empire after its divine envoy fell. The campaign ended with the Dasaross Empire destroyed and the Federation poised to eliminate its remaining weakness in Cross-Realm Technology.

• Kachinsky persuaded Abeto to keep the Dasaross Empire's 150,000 legions in the Kousha Realm while the Crimson Church and Weiwei Empire sent 200,000 legions to attack the Heretics.
• The Alliance opened three Cross-border Channels and sent its 52,000 legions into the Kousha Realm, while Kachinsky and Lan Vitell let the Dasaross Empire face the Heretics alone.
• The Alliance's 1,000 legions destroyed the Dasaross Empire's capital and killed Bater, causing the Empire's forces in the Kousha Realm to lose morale and collapse.
• Wang Hai ordered the Alliance to destroy the Cross-border Device, causing the channels used by the Crimson Church and Weiwei Empire to collapse.
• In Federation Year 4059, the Alliance destroyed the Dasaross Empire's final warship and captured hundreds of its dedicated Cross-border Channel vessels for Luo Li to analyze.

After learning that the Sweepers were assembling a massive allied force, Lin Fan and Luo Li prepared the Iris Plan to stop it. The Federation planned to exploit its control of the Black Hole Gate network to trap the enemy fleet during transit.

• The remaining fifteen divine envoys decided that eleven nearby Sweeper civilizations would unite under the Baitao Empire and launch a Holy War within a thousand years.
• A thousand years later, Luo Li had mastered Black Hole Gate technology and used the gate network to monitor Sweeper movements.
• Luo Li discovered that more than a million Sweeper legions, including three sixth-order civilizations and the Peak Sixth-order Baitao Empire, were heading toward the former Noreya imperial capital.
• Lin Fan and Luo Li planned to use an iris to block the destination gate, preventing the particles traveling through the Black Hole Gate from being reassembled.

As the Black and White Church overwhelmed the Xilbeila Empire, Emperor Cartero finally agreed to send the empire’s remaining people and seeds through a Black Hole Gate. Lin Fan learned that the Xilbeila Empire had activated a gate, but discovered its arriving force was only a little over a thousand warships.

• The Xilbeila Empire lost nearly all its territory to the Black and White Church, whose captured realms turned the empire’s citizens against it.
• Ministers urged Cartero to flee with the empire’s seeds, but he hesitated because using a Black Hole Gate would sacrifice the remaining Black Hole Lifeforms.
• Cartero agreed to leave, and his ministers were relieved that they would not have to remove him by force.
• At Federal Fleet Headquarters, Lin Fan received word from Luo Li that the Xilbeila Empire had activated a Black Hole Gate.
• Lin Fan prepared to evacuate the Federation and its allies, then learned the Xilbeila force numbered just over a thousand warships, not legions.

The Xilbeila Empire’s emperor arrived in former Dasaross territory with a thousand warships and a galaxy-sized colony ship, where the Azure Dragon Alliance intercepted him. After Cartero Guderian claimed to be a Chaos Lifeform, the Alliance confirmed his identity and decided to arrange a conversation with him.

• Luo Li explained to Lin Fan and Li Yan why she believed the Xilbeila Empire was cunning and that cloning technology had caused the destruction of other Cleaners.
• Ten years later, Cartero Guderian’s fleet emerged from the Black Hole Gate in former Dasaross territory and discovered the Azure Dragon Alliance’s forces nearby.
• Alliance forces led by Lin Yu challenged the Xilbeila fleet, and Cartero identified himself as the empire’s emperor and revealed purple energy as proof that he was a Chaos Lifeform.
• Lin Yu sent the recording to Fleet Headquarters, where Luo Li confirmed Cartero was a Chaos Lifeform and Lin Fan ordered a conversation with him.

Lin Fan learned from Cartero how the Xilbeila Empire’s two civil wars began and why the Emperor fled with the empire’s surviving people. He agreed to bring the request to the alliance for discussion, leaving the Xilbeila survivors’ fate undecided.

• Lin Fan questioned Cartero, who confirmed his identity and explained that the Black and White Church emerged after the First Holy War weakened the Black Hole Cavity Consciousness’s influence.
• Cartero recounted how the first Xilbeila Emperor ended the civil war with a peace settlement that allowed the Black and White Church to survive and retain part of the empire’s territory and military strength.
• Cartero explained that the Black Hole Cavity Consciousness later influenced the Xilbeila Empire again, sparking a second civil war after he opposed joining the Holy War.
• Cartero said the Black and White Church converted five Black Hole Cavity Realms and that he retreated rather than attack the Empire’s infected citizens, eventually escaping through the Black Hole Gate with the survivors.
• Cartero asked to take the Empire’s remaining people away from the Holy War, and Lin Fan said the alliance would decide the matter.
• Liang Xue asked Lin Fan whether he believed Cartero, and Lin Fan said Cartero seemed truthful before ordering her to contact the core civilizations’ leaders for a meeting.

Lin Fan proposed trading the Xilbeila Empire’s database for safe passage, using the Empire’s Seed Ship to keep Cartero from attacking. After Cartero agreed and the Alliance downloaded the data, Luo Li and the other researchers began examining it for useful ideas.

• Valeri and many Alliance leaders favored capturing Cartero and taking the Xilbeila Empire’s technology, but Lin Fan warned that Cartero was a Chaos Lifeform capable of destroying Lin Yu’s fleet.
• Lin Fan proposed that the Alliance exchange safe passage for access to the Empire’s entire database, avoiding a fight that could put the Seed Ship at risk.
• The next day, Lin Fan offered Cartero a choice between opening the database for download or facing an Alliance attack on the Seed Ship.
• Cartero questioned whether the Alliance would keep its promise, and Lin Fan explained that the intact Seed Ship was leverage for both sides; Cartero then agreed to open the interface.
• The Alliance spent more than ten days downloading the Empire’s vast database, and Luo Li and the other researchers studied it for inspiration rather than as a source of basic technology.

Lin Fan proposed exploiting the Black Hole Gate network to strike seven weakened Cleanser civilizations at once, using the Xilbeila Empire’s fleet to avoid alerting them. The chapter ended as the seven Cleansers received reports that a fleet was approaching through the Dasaross Empire’s Black Hole Gate.

• Lin Fan reviewed the Xilbeila Empire’s intelligence on seventeen Cleansers and learned that the Tianshu Church was forbidden territory with almost no known information.
• Lin Fan told the Alliance leaders that seven nearby Fifth Order Cleanser civilizations had been weakened after their fleets were destroyed by the Iris Plan.
• Montero questioned how the Alliance could power Black Hole Gates and prevent the Cleansers from detecting and preparing for an attack.
• Lin Fan said the Federation would solve the gate-power problem and proposed sending the Xilbeila Empire’s thousand warships instead of an Alliance fleet.
• In Federation Year 5328, the seven nearby Cleansers received monitoring reports that a fleet was traveling through the Dasaross Empire’s Black Hole Gate toward them.

Luo Li used the Xilbeila Empire’s records to devise a one-time plan to deceive the Sweepers and charge Black Hole Gates with Cosmic Origin instead of sacrificing lives. The seven Sweepers prepared to capture the supposed Xilbeila exile fleet, unaware that their defenses were already too late.

• Luo Li learned that Cosmic Origin could charge Black Hole Gates and worked out how to hack the system and feed false intelligence to the Sweepers.
• The seven Sweepers received the same report that fewer than two hundred Xilbeila Empire warships were traveling through the gate network toward their civilizations.
• The bishop of the Black and White Church asked the seven divine envoys to capture Cartero’s fleet and send it to the Church for execution.
• The seven civilizations dismissed the threat and left their Capital Realms’ existing legions to handle the small fleet.
• In Federation Year 5338, fifteen divine envoys discussed the missing eleven-civilization coalition, which had reached Noreya Realm ten years earlier but had vanished; they planned an investigation and ordered their forces expanded.

The Alliance Fleet overwhelmed the seven Sweeper civilizations, killed their Divine Envoys, and began the next phase of its campaign. In a mental meeting, the Tianshu Church offered to solve the Black Hole Gate iris problem in exchange for the Black and White Church's method of opening gates without sacrificing Black Hole Lifeforms, raising the possibility of striking back at the Heretics.

• The Alliance Fleet sent 5,000 legions through each of seven Black Hole Gates and quickly defeated the Sweeper civilizations’ defenses.
• A month later, the seven Sweeper Divine Envoys had fallen, and the Alliance began targeting the civilizations’ main forces and valuable Black Hole Cavity Realms.
• The Divine Envoys debated how the Heretics had bypassed their surveillance and learned that the Black Hole Gates could be accessed through the iris.
• The Tianshu Church Divine Envoy said the church could resolve the iris problem within a hundred years if the Black and White Church shared its method for opening gates without sacrificing Black Hole Lifeforms.
• The Tianshu Church Divine Envoy reasoned that Cartero had given the Heretics that method, and the Black and White Church Divine Envoy confirmed that the church possessed it.

Lin Fan explained that the Skolasi Empire’s rising morale signaled the imminent birth of a new divine envoy, and Montero was tasked with finding and eliminating it before it fully awakened. Montero’s unconventional plan drew Skolasi forces to defend three overlapping channel exits, but the Alliance closed two channels after the defenders held their positions for three months.

• Lin Fan told the Alliance leaders that the Skolasi Empire was likely to produce the next divine envoy within three to five years, and said Montero would test whether it could be located and destroyed before awakening.
• Montero learned that Kordo Realm was the likeliest location, despite holding most of the Skolasi Empire’s remaining fleet, and devised an unconventional plan.
• The Alliance opened three Cross-border Channels at different locations in Kordo Realm, with their entrances overlapping so Skolasi forces could not tell which exit each channel connected to.
• The Skolasi Empire split its fleet among all three exits and kept reserve forces ready to reinforce any of them.
• After three months of holding the exits, the Skolasi fleet saw the Alliance close two of the three channels.

Montero used Luo Li’s Divine Envoy detection program to locate a half-awakened Divine Envoy in the Skolasi Empire’s universe and ordered the Alliance to eliminate it. After the Empire’s fleets assembled, the Alliance destroyed them with minimal losses, validating the program and leaving the war’s outcome seemingly assured.

• The Alliance broke through the Skolasi Empire’s passage defense, and Montero let the Empire’s fleets assemble while he pursued a suspected Divine Envoy.
• Montero’s expert confirmed the Divine Envoy detection program had identified the correct universe, so Montero sent the Alliance’s fleets to search and cleanse it.
• The Skolasi Empire’s consciousness transmission signal stopped, and the expert confirmed that the half-awakened Divine Envoy had been killed.
• Montero recalled the Alliance’s fleets and ordered an attack on the assembled Skolasi forces, which the Alliance destroyed after more than thirty days of travel and battle.
• The Alliance’s losses totaled only 21 legions against more than 20,000 Skolasi legions, and Montero concluded Luo Li’s program had passed its test.

The Federation’s rapid expansion left it developing conquered territories while Liang Xingchen commanded the Kunsa Realm’s defenses. When the Hacker Gate activated and its iris failed, a fleet from the Bas Empire emerged, leaving the Federation’s home under attack.

• The Federation sold contribution points to Alliance civilizations in exchange for rare resources, spurring development across conquered territories.
• Liang Xingchen commanded 11,500 legions stationed in the Kunsa Realm to guard the Federation’s gate network and the Chaos Research Institute.
• The Hacker Gate suddenly activated, and the gate’s iris failed to respond.
• Liang Xingchen ordered a Level One combat alert, evacuated the Chaos Research Institute, and reported the threat to Federal Fleet Headquarters.
• A fleet from the Sixth Order Black Hole Civilization Bas Empire emerged from the Hacker Gate, and Liang Xingchen ordered all fleets to open fire.

The Bas Empire attacked the Kunsa Realm through the Black Hole Gate, forcing the Federation to evacuate civilians and mobilize its Black Hole Lifeforms. Liang Xingchen held the front as enemy numbers grew, and the first emergency-mobilized legions arrived to reinforce the defense.

• Lin Fan ordered the evacuation of the Kunsa Realm and conscripted suitable Third Tier Black Hole Lifeforms after the Bas Empire appeared at the Black Hole Gate.
• Liang Xingchen warned Lin Fan that he could defeat fewer than twenty thousand enemy legions but might face mutual destruction against a larger force.
• Liang Xingchen fought the Bas Empire and changed from psychological tactics to rigid formations after recognizing that the Sweepers did not fear death.
• The Bas Empire's fleet grew to sixty percent of the Federation's, while its deployed Black Hole Lifeforms reached at least fifteen thousand.
• The first emergency force of twenty-five legions, all made up of Third Tier and above Black Hole Lifeforms, arrived, and Liang Xingchen assigned them to Sectors C and D.

As the Kunsa Realm battle turned into a war of attrition, Lin Fan suspected the Bas Empire was holding back because it feared the iris interference might fail. He ordered the three Black Hole Cavity Battle Groups to prepare for deployment and said he would lead them himself, leaving Liang Xingchen alarmed about his plan.

• Liang Xingchen assigned the twenty-five Black Hole Lifeform legions to Zones C and D so the rookies could adapt before facing the fiercest combat.
• The Angel Church's divine envoy warned the other Cleaners that the Heretics might soon solve the iris flaw, and the divine envoys regretted sending only thirty thousand legions.
• As Bas Empire fleets overwhelmed the Alliance in numbers, Alliance casualties rose, though its defensive line and Third Tier Black Hole Lifeforms kept it temporarily ahead.
• At the frontline command center, Lin Fan learned that no Black Hole Lifeforms had been detected among the attacking Bas Empire fleets and suspected the enemy was limiting its forces out of fear that the iris interference would fail.
• Lin Fan ordered the three Black Hole Cavity Battle Groups to prepare for deployment and said he would lead them, while Liang Xingchen questioned what he planned to do.

Lin Fan used three prototype Hawk Bombs to disable the Bas Empire fleet after leading three Black Hole Cavity Battle Groups into its formation. With the enemy's ships paralyzed, the Alliance Fleet advanced to destroy them.

• Liang Xingchen warned Lin Fan that the Hawk Bombs were untested and their carrier delivery could endanger friendly fleets, but Lin Fan explained that the Bas Empire had only thirty to fifty thousand fleets and needed to be stopped from gathering more.
• Liang Xingchen ordered the defensive fleets to retreat ten Black Hole Units before Lin Fan led three Black Hole Cavity Battle Groups into the Bas Empire formation.
• The Bas Empire fleet opened a path for Lin Fan's forces, then closed in to surround them after they penetrated its formation.
• Lin Fan ordered the Hawk Bomb deployed and activated, sending out a shockwave that degraded Hawk Metal and disabled the Bas Empire's engines, weapons, and energy cores.
• The Alliance Fleet charged back in and destroyed the paralyzed Bas Empire fleets.

After the Alliance defeated the Bas Empire’s remaining forces, Lin Fan learned that the Bas Empire had hacked the Alliance with a computer virus and decided to retaliate. More than twenty years later, he sent eighty thousand legions toward the Bas Empire while making the Eight Purgers believe five hundred thousand were coming, and the other Purger factions dispatched reinforcements.

• Liang Xingchen’s forces destroyed the Bas Empire’s remaining four thousand-plus legions, ending the battle with nearly a thousand Alliance legions lost overall.
• Luo Li told Lin Fan that the Bas Empire had hacked the Alliance with a Homeworld Era computer virus, and she said she could remove it within hours.
• Lin Fan decided to retaliate by letting the Bas Empire know that the Alliance was coming rather than concealing its fleets.
• In Federation Year 5498, Lin Fan sent eighty thousand legions through the Black Hole Gate toward the Bas Empire’s capital.
• The Eight Purgers detected the advance but believed the Alliance had five hundred thousand legions, prompting six Purger factions to dispatch one hundred thousand legions each as reinforcements.
• Luo Li’s hack made the Black Hole Gate network report five hundred thousand Alliance legions, though only eighty thousand had actually departed.

Lin Fan’s forces used a Hawk Bomb to disable the Purifier fleets across Saint De Realm, then conquered the Bas Empire. The Purifier divine envoys learned that the weapon could only be countered by destroying it before detonation, while Luo Li continued seeking a safer way to deliver it.

• A Hawk Bomb disabled the Purifier warships and civilian vessels throughout Saint De Realm, allowing the Federal Fleet to massacre the immobilized forces.
• Luo Li reviewed the Hawk Bomb’s successful test results and identified its vulnerable delivery method as a major problem to solve.
• Lin Fan’s forces captured Saint De Realm, killed the Bas Empire’s emperor, blocked reinforcements by installing the Iris System on the Black Hole Gate, and began conquering the empire.
• The Purifier divine envoys met to discuss the weapon that had paralyzed the fleets, and Lyons admitted the Black and White Church had no countermeasure.
• Jiang Hai identified the Hawk Bomb’s effect as particle-level decay of Hawk Metal and said it had to be destroyed before detonation.