Chapter Summaries

As the Great Silence Barrier spread across the Sirius Star System, the Nomu people panicked and fled, fearing another invasion. Huang Ji and Nifita mobilized the Revival Society to restore order, and ordinary Nomu citizens rallied by carrying lights into space and forming their civilization’s flag.

• The Great Silence Barrier engulfed the Homeworld, Enmeiya Star Ring City, Botuolo’s orbit, and the Floating Continents, causing panic, accidents, and mass flight toward the wormhole.
• Huang Ji told Nifita to activate the Revival Society’s plan, and she ordered members to calm the public and organize volunteers into a National Self-Defense Army.
• Vita and other Revival Society members stabilized communities across the Floating Continents as the organization stepped in where government institutions had fallen into chaos.
• Nomu citizens took their lighting globes into space, creating a vast river of lights against the darkness.
• People arranged their lights into the image of the Nomu Civilization’s flag, reassuring the people that their civilization endured despite the spreading silence.

As the Great Silence disrupted communications, General Black Shark evacuated the Nomu military’s main force and left Colonel Juvan to defend the Homeworld. Juvan instead used the crisis to capture Shadow Zhou, leaving the Shadow Kill Legion blamed for the chaos and terrorist attacks.

• General Black Shark decided to evacuate the satellite base but ordered a unit to stay behind and guard the Homeworld.
• Colonel Juvan volunteered to remain, and Black Shark supplied him with equipment and personnel before withdrawing with the main force.
• Shadow Zhou lost contact with his allies under the Great Silence and flew toward a planned evacuation point.
• Juvan’s two battalions destroyed Shadow Zhou’s spacecraft and surrounded him, and Shadow Zhou surrendered.
• Juvan captured Shadow Zhou as the Revival Society’s plan turned the Anunnaki assassins into suspects blamed for the Great Silence and recent attacks.

Juvan’s forces captured Shadow Kill Legion members and took control of the Homeworld while Huang Ji prepared to extract Shadow Fang and Shadow Jie. Shadow Fang chose to flee with Shadow Jie and preserve Huang Ji’s undercover identity, leaving Huang Ji behind to continue gathering intelligence.

• Shadow Zhou blamed Thundersun for the Great Silence, and Juvan imprisoned him before capturing more Shadow Assassins with Huang Ji’s coordinates.
• Juvan brought troops to the Homeworld, coordinated with the Star Alliance Guard, and imposed military control while Huang Ji and Nifita remained hidden.
• Huang Ji put away the Great Silence Barrier, escaped with Nifita, and then contacted Shadow Fang and Shadow Jie, who were hiding in the northern mountains.
• Huang Ji gave Shadow Fang a list of enemy informants and military deployment information, then flew to the mountains to pick them up.
• Shadow Fang decided Shadow Jie would sacrifice himself during their escape so Huang Ji could remain behind as a protected undercover agent.
• Shadow Fang and Shadow Jie departed in the spacecraft after Huang Ji removed its hatches to make their escape look like a hijacking.

During the great silence, Fanny tried to flee with Varu and the corpse to keep the Seven Stars Medical Skill secret, but a guard caught them and stopped her. Her false accusation helped spark a battle between Myriad Eyes and Light Burst, leaving both sides fighting in space without any way to contact their superiors.

• Fanny and Varu tried to escape aboard a small craft, but a Myriad Eyes guard stopped them after spotting Varu carrying the corpse.
• Fanny attacked the guard, failed to defeat him, and sent Varu fleeing through a breach in the ship while she returned to find Halogen.
• Fanny told Halogen that a Myriad Eyes guard had attacked her, and Socia concluded that Myriad Eyes was using the great silence to arrange an internal assassination.
• The Myriad Eyes Special Kill Squad arrived to confront Fanny, and Socia ordered the Light Burst forces to attack them.
• Socia's opening bombardment struck the Myriad Eyes group, and the ensuing fight destroyed the safe-house ship and spilled into space.

After the Great Silence ended, Shadow Fang and Dulan dealt with Anunnaki's losses and planned to profit from falling housing prices, while Huang Ji used the crisis to protect his cover and prepare a financial trap. Huang Ji left the chapter anticipating an imminent financial storm as Shadow Zhou and the other prisoners were taken to their public execution.

• The Great Silence dissipated, the Nomu Race celebrated, and foreign factions reeled from the chaos as Shadow Fang hid from the Star Alliance with severe injuries.
• Dulan told Shadow Fang that Shadow Zhou and the others would be publicly executed, then ordered him to sell Void Lifeforms and buy Nomu property while prices fell.
• Huang Ji urged Shadow Fang to rescue the prisoners, but Shadow Fang refused and sent an apologetic recording for Huang Ji to deliver.
• At the prison, Huang Ji met Shadow Zhou and the other assassins, who suspected Juvan Colonel had tracked them during the Great Silence and revealed that they were all from the Golden Crow Race.
• Shadow Zhou and the others gave Huang Ji their tokens and asked him to warn the higher-ups about the Nomu Civilization, then went with the military toward the execution ground.
• Huang Ji told Juvan to draw foreign and local investors into the falling property market, and he predicted that a financial storm was certain.

Dulan learned that the Anunnaki’s informants in Lingzhu and Myriad Eyes had been exposed, then reluctantly agreed to rescue the high-level undercover agent Left Horn. He claimed to attack Lingzhu’s Life Science Center but waited near a wormhole instead, prepared to help Left Horn only if he escaped on his own.

• Ruuen told Dulan that the informants in the three major companies had been exposed, and Dulan urged him to arrest suspected Firebird Race members.
• Dulan rejected Ruuen’s plan to make Left Horn appear recruited, arguing that a direct extraction was more useful during the war.
• Ruuen insisted that company rules required rescuing high-level undercover agents, and Dulan agreed to go himself.
• Dulan told Ruuen he had reached Lingzhu’s Life Science Center and urged Left Horn to escape, though he was actually waiting near a wormhole a hundred million kilometers away.
• Dulan decided he would cover Left Horn if he detected him escaping, but otherwise return and claim he had done his best.

Left Horn escaped Lingzhu with an undercover assistant, but a Giant God Soldier destroyed their ship before Dulan could reach them. Cypher survived in an escape pod and Dulan rescued him, while Lingzhu mistakenly concluded that another undercover agent had escaped.

• Left Horn used an unexposed undercover assistant to escape the Lingzhu base and headed toward the Great Wormhole, expecting Dulan to meet him.
• Dulan told Left Horn he was still a hundred million kilometers away, and a Giant God Soldier destroyed Left Horn’s ship with a tracking projectile.
• Cypher survived the attack in an escape pod and followed Huang Ji’s instruction to fly straight toward the wormhole.
• Dulan arrived in a Golden Giant Bird Spaceship, deflected the projectile, rescued Cypher, and fled with him into the wormhole.
• Lingzhu investigators found Left Horn’s corpse and another dead expert, then realized an unidentified undercover agent had escaped.

Huang Ji persuaded Goldhorn to fund a high-stakes undercover mission inside the Anunnaki, using the chance to further his own plans. With Reaching Heaven Pavilion joining the Anti-Anunnaki Alliance, Huang Ji prepared to infiltrate the Anunnaki’s Special Affairs Department through someone close to Ruuen.

• Goldhorn told Huang Ji that Halogen and Lingzhu’s people had wiped out Myriad Eyes’ Special Kill Squad, while the alliance’s intelligence network had collapsed.
• Goldhorn explained that the Anunnaki had restored its funds and that Light Burst Group planned to send informants into the enemy.
• Goldhorn ordered Huang Ji to infiltrate the Anunnaki with a three-billion-Lang budget, but Huang Ji demanded ten billion and threatened to refuse.
• Goldhorn returned with the boss’s approval after Reaching Heaven Pavilion joined the alliance and supplied additional funds.
• Huang Ji accepted the mission under a military pledge and told Goldhorn he planned to enter the Special Affairs Department through someone close to Ruuen.

Huang Ji coordinated Anunnaki’s financial moves and learned that Light Burst would send him back as an infiltrator, giving him a chance to expose their agents. After discovering Lingzhu had produced a special gene-disguise substance tied to the Heavenfall Project, Dulan chose to attack its research center despite the risk of a costly war, leaving Anunnaki committed to defeating the alliance and destroying Lingzhu.

• Huang Ji transferred eighty billion lang to Oka and told him to ride the financial giants’ market push before their funds ran dry.
• Huang Ji told Shadow Fang that the Reaching Heaven Pavilion had joined the Anti-Anunnaki Alliance, but that he would infiltrate Anunnaki and could obtain the deployment roster of its agents.
• Cypher delivered a special grade gene disguise substance to Dulan, who learned it could threaten the secret Heavenfall Project and ordered an all-out assault on the Lingzhu Life Science Center.
• Shadow Fang warned Dulan that attacking the united factions could squander Anunnaki’s strategic advantage, but Dulan said Kaleidoscope had ordered him to ensure Lingzhu’s destruction.
• Dulan decided to keep fighting, use Huang Ji’s infiltration to gain an advantage, borrow money after driving up Nomu prices, and defeat Light Burst and its allies.

Fanny faced punishment from Lingzhu for provoking the battle between the allied companies, while her failed attempt to reproduce the Seven Stars Medical Skill left her unable to defend herself. As Lingzhu prepared to dismiss her and cancel her project, the Anunnaki attacked the research institute, interrupting the meeting.

• Fanny continued failing to reproduce Varu's self-healing and feared that Lingzhu would punish her if she could not prove her research had merit.
• Lingzhu admitted that Fanny had sparked the fighting aboard the Dark Ark, and the other bosses accepted her as the cause without pursuing the full truth.
• Fanny insisted that she had not ordered Varu's earlier betrayal and objected when Lingzhu tried to reveal her confidential research.
• Prince Stubi asked why Fanny had stolen Aurora's Assistant's body, prompting Lingzhu to begin explaining her claimed discovery of the Seven Stars Medical Skill.
• Lingzhu moved to remove Fanny and cancel her project, but an Anunnaki assault breached the research institute and the bosses' projections vanished amid signal interference.

Anunnaki unleashed a Nine Palaces Class Starburst Battle Cloud against the Bessel Open Star, devastating the companies’ defenses before the Star Alliance blocked it and allowed a conventional battle to continue. Dulan used the assault to target Lingzhu’s research division, while the Star Alliance gave his forces ten minutes to destroy it.

• Anunnaki’s Starburst Battle Cloud shattered the companies’ defenses and swept away much of their fleet as it threatened the Red Dwarf Star.
• The Star Alliance’s World Cleansing Azure Light stopped the battle cloud, but Anunnaki’s forces pierced the barrier and attacked the companies’ buildings.
• Stubi learned that the Star Alliance would not send more law enforcers and claimed it had no proof that Anunnaki was responsible.
• Anunnaki confined its attack to Lingzhu’s territory, and both sides began a costly battle as the Star Alliance watched.
• Dulan told a Star Alliance Law Enforcement Officer that he wanted Lingzhu’s research division destroyed, and the officer gave him ten minutes.

Podcasters turned the battle on Bessel Open Star into a spectacle while Dulan’s forces destroyed Lingzhu’s headquarters, research equipment, and data. Lingzhu’s chief chose to save the researchers, but the survivors included a suspected mole, leaving Fanny as his only trusted researcher and the Seven Stars Medical Skill project without essential resources.

• Podcasters and other bystanders joined the fighting on Bessel Open Star, and some attacked Lingzhu employees or staged dangerous stunts for their audiences.
• Dulan occupied Lingzhu’s territory and destroyed its research devices and data before withdrawing as the Star Alliance prepared to intervene.
• The Giant God Soldier brought Fanny and a handful of researchers to safety, and Lingzhu’s chief explained that he had prioritized saving people over data because he suspected the Anunnaki wanted the Seven Stars Medical Skill.
• Lingzhu, Fanny, and the Giant God Soldier concluded that a traitor had exposed Fanny’s work, while the chief urged the survivors to keep the project secret and rely on Fanny.
• The Giant God Soldier revealed that an unidentified mole might have escaped among the rescued researchers, leaving Lingzhu unable to trust the group or identify the agent because the records were destroyed.
• Fanny revealed that Lingzhu had also lost the Primordial Water formula, and the chief decided to avoid investigating Light Burst for a replacement and focus on recovering while the alliance fought the Anunnaki.

After the battle at Bessel Open Star, the Anti-Anunnaki Alliance helped Lingzhu recover while quietly investigating its secrets. Dulan used Shadow Long’s intelligence to trap infiltrators and planned to build Shadow Long’s standing by feeding Light Burst information about valuable shipments guarded by Anunnaki forces.

• The Star Alliance intervened after Dulan withdrew, seized Anunnaki’s Nine Palaces Class Starburst War Cloud, and captured or killed many Blackstone Mecha Warriors.
• The allied groups supported Lingzhu’s recovery rather than expelling it, while secretly placing moles and backdoors in its rebuilt headquarters.
• Anunnaki employees reported newly bribed infiltrators, costing the Anti-Anunnaki Alliance most of its new agents and bringing Dulan a windfall.
• Dulan told Shadow Fang that Shadow Long had been placed in the Special Affairs Department without Ruuen’s knowledge, and Shadow Fang explained that Light Burst was pressuring Shadow Long to prove himself.
• Dulan decided to give Shadow Long intelligence about valuable facilities and shipping routes, while strengthening Anunnaki’s guards so Light Burst would suffer losses if it raided the shipments.

The Alliance won several costly battles against Anunnaki, while Dulan pretended to retreat and prepared a counterattack. Huang Ji warned Light Burst’s boss and proposed a trap for Dulan, leaving the two sides set to meet on December 1 as both prepared to risk everything.

• The Alliance used Huang Ji’s intelligence to win a shipment ambush and destroy an Anunnaki factory, though both victories cost them heavily.
• After another Anunnaki loss, the Alliance offered ceasefire terms, but Dulan rejected them and ordered Shadow Fang to feign a retreat while preparing a decisive strike.
• The Alliance won three more clashes as Anunnaki closed malls and claimed it was preparing to surrender, but Huang Ji warned Light Burst’s boss that Dulan was concealing his plans and investing in the Nomu market.
• Huang Ji proposed that the bosses stage a meeting and leak its details so he could feed matching intelligence to Dulan’s undercover agents and draw Dulan into a trap.
• Light Burst’s boss agreed to meet on December 1 at 19:00, while Huang Ji warned that Dulan’s decision to cash out his Nomu investments would reveal whether he had taken the bait.

Huang Ji revealed that he had misled the Light Burst Alliance about Anunnaki’s plans, but Dulan realized he could use the deception to obtain military supplies without revealing that the Nomu assets were being leveraged. Dulan prepared to attack before the Alliance completed its encirclement, believing the plan gave Anunnaki a chance to win.

• Huang Ji told Dulan that the Light Burst CEO trusted him as Aurora, not knowing he was Shadow Long, and Dulan praised him for shaping the Alliance’s decisions.
• Dulan learned that Anunnaki could raise four hundred billion Lang against Nomu assets, but worried the Alliance’s prepared encirclement would make a decisive battle too costly.
• Huang Ji proposed attacking the Alliance’s ambush squads one by one using his intelligence, but Dulan explained that the Alliance could retreat once it discovered the leak, leaving Anunnaki unable to win.
• Huang Ji showed Dulan his conversation with the Light Burst CEO, explaining that he had advised the Alliance not to touch Nomu assets and had expected Dulan to exploit that restriction.
• Dulan decided to leave the Nomu assets untouched while using them as collateral to obtain equipment and supplies on credit, then attack before the Alliance realized what was happening.

Anunnaki launched its final battle against the alliance while a falsely reported stellar forecast concealed that Sirius would return, triggering a financial catastrophe. Oka and Ziwei Group exploited their advance knowledge to seize control of the market as Nomu’s economy collapsed into chaos.

• Dulan led Anunnaki’s forces into battle against the alliance, and Shadow Kill Legion arrived with a hundred thousand Little Greys as Anunnaki’s second batch of war machines joined the fighting.
• Nomu’s Astronomy Department broadcast last year’s forecast, then discovered that the new calculation showed Sirius returning; the team leader suppressed the corrected result and sold it to Deep Blue Consortium.
• Deep Blue Consortium tried to sell Enmeiya property and buy Sirius property, but Ziwei Group already controlled the available land in Sirius Star Ring City.
• After the real forecast became public, property values in Enmeiya collapsed, while Oka used Ziwei Group’s preparations to profit and drive Nomu’s market into turmoil.
• The financial crash spread through Nomu Civilization, wiping out assets and becoming its greatest financial disaster.

Major corporations tried to dismiss the prediction that Sirius would return, but the Ziwei Group released Star Alliance-certified calculations that triggered a financial collapse across the Nomu Civilization. The crisis wiped out Dulan’s collateral and cut off Anunnaki’s supplies during the Final Battle, leaving him to order a retreat after his forces collapsed.

• The major corporations and Nomu authorities called the Sirius prediction false to stabilize the markets, while Xiao Yu scrambled to raise funds and tried to stop the Star Alliance from releasing its calculations.
• The Ziwei Group published Star Alliance-certified calculations bearing Xiao Yu’s signature, confirming Sirius would return and the Homeworld would break away from Enmeiya.
• The report crushed the rumor campaign, sent asset values plunging, and trapped the Nomu Civilization’s economy in a worsening financial crisis.
• Anunnaki’s promised military supplies failed to arrive as Dulan’s collateral lost most of its value, leaving his forces short of weapons and energy during the battle.
• Dulan defeated the Giant God Soldier in a burst of rage, but his forces continued to collapse; after Shadow Fang urged him to retreat, Dulan finally ordered a withdrawal.

After losing the Bessel Celestial Region and its assets, Dulan returned to a hidden outpost and heard that the Anunnaki branch was bankrupt and surrounded. Huang Ji stopped Dulan from killing himself and persuaded him to surrender so he could defend the company’s interests in negotiations.

• Dulan confronted Wu Lu Sai over delayed weapons shipments, but Wu Lu Sai explained that Dulan’s mortgaged collateral had collapsed in value and that the contract did not require him to divert other customers’ supplies.
• Dulan summoned Xiao Yu to the hidden outpost, where subordinates reported that the branch had lost its assets, faced debts and compensation claims, and was being hunted by the alliance.
• After Huang Ji reported that the Light Burst Group had blocked the wormholes and threatened to capture Dulan, Dulan blamed himself for the defeat and tried to kill himself.
• Huang Ji kicked aside Dulan’s attack and argued that Dulan had to survive to represent the company in surrender negotiations and prevent Firefeather from signing a damaging agreement.
• Dulan accepted that surrender was necessary and resolved to stay alive to deal with Firefeather and protect the company’s interests.

After the defeat, Huang Ji tried to take responsibility and volunteer as the sacrifice demanded by Prince Stubi, but Dulan refused because he was an invaluable infiltrator in the Light Burst Group. Dulan instead persuaded Shadow Fang to admit he had provoked Stubi, leaving him to be handed over for the company's sake.

• Dulan blamed himself for the defeat, but Huang Ji claimed his own suggestion had led to the failed logistics plan, and Dulan defended him while questioning Xiao Yu about the assets.
• Huang Ji absolved Xiao Yu and volunteered to face Prince Stubi, recalling the Shadow Assassins who had died before him.
• Dulan refused to sacrifice Huang Ji because he remained undiscovered inside the Light Burst Group and could help the company recover.
• Dulan named Shadow Fang as the Shadow Assassin to hand over, and Shadow Fang protested that the source of Stubi's anger was still unknown.
• Huang Ji admitted that he had provoked the Shacha Royal Family, but Dulan pressed Shadow Fang until he accepted the blame, and Dulan promised to let him die with dignity.

A month after the Nomu economy collapsed, Ziwei Group became the civilization’s dominant power and backed the Revival Society as it gained local autonomy. General Black Shark sought funds from Congress to crush the uprising, but the legislators refused to contribute enough, leaving him furious as the crisis deepened.

• Foreign investors withdrew from Nomu, worsening the economic collapse, while the government lost public trust and the Revival Society gained autonomy across many regions.
• General Black Shark told Congress that a hundred billion people supported the Revival Society and revealed that Ziwei Group had supplied it with weapons.
• Congress members learned that Ziwei Group had acquired most of Nomu’s assets and become the civilization’s richest power.
• Black Shark demanded six hundred billion Lang to defeat the Revival Society, arguing that the military’s morale was low and the rebels were growing stronger.
• Black Shark urged legislators to contribute their personal wealth, but they offered only a little over seventy million Lang.
• Black Shark stormed out of the congressional hall after mocking the legislators’ donations.