Chapter Summaries

After Su Yu occupied a Skrull base, the Blue Star cultivators debated how to speed up their occupation of Small Psionic Springs. They voted to split up and work independently, beginning a second phase of the operation.

• Su Yu sent Xue Wenli the coordinates of the frozen Skrull base, then teleported to Kunyi 101 to occupy another spring.
• Chen She argued in the Great Cultivators' chat group that the sixth-rank cultivators were slowing down Alijeh, Tina, and Morning Star by requiring protection.
• Chen She proposed that the cultivators split up and occupy springs individually, while taking precautions against Stidim.
• Chancellor Cao held a group poll, and nine cultivators voted to work independently, three abstained, and three supported the current arrangement.
• Chancellor Cao warned the cultivators to report danger, and they dispersed toward the springs across the Kunlun Mountains, Karakoram Mountains, and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Su Yu threatened the Skrulls to deter them from attacking Blue Star’s sixth-rank cultivators, and the Great Cultivators captured every Psionic Spring in the Kunlun and Karakoram Mountains. The chapter ended with the cultivators celebrating a bloodless victory above the Giant Psionic Spring.

• Su Yu warned the Skrulls that he and Cao Cao would retaliate if their God-tier experts killed Blue Star’s sixth-rank cultivators.
• Marnina XIII flew into a rage over Su Yu’s threat, but a warning about Cao Cao’s assassination threat made him hesitate; then he overheard a consort’s gossip about Lanqi and Lanbo.
• With Marnina distracted by the scandal, the Skrulls did not attack the Great Cultivators, who continued capturing Psionic Springs without casualties.
• By eight in the morning, the Great Cultivators had captured all 177 Psionic Springs in the Kunlun and Karakoram Mountains.
• The Great Cultivators gathered above the Giant Psionic Spring, where Chancellor Cao celebrated the successful capture of one Giant, seven Large, and 169 Small Psionic Springs.

Su Yu and the Great Cultivators celebrated reclaiming 177 Psionic Springs and planned campaigns to clear the remaining Skrull bases in Huaxia. On Skrull Star, Emperor Marnina XIII punished Karog for concealing information and ordered him to silence people who knew the secret.

• Su Yu told the Great Cultivators they would reclaim the springs in the northeast and southwest, and Chancellor Cao scheduled their next departure for midnight.
• The Great Cultivators returned to Yunlu Mountain while Su Yu, Alijeh, Tina, and Morning Star flew back toward Donghai City.
• Su Yu thanked Alijeh, Tina, and Morning Star for helping secure the victory, then teased Alijeh and Tina aboard the plane.
• Marnina XIII accused Karog of hiding information and kicked him across the room when he denied knowing about it.
• Marnina spared Karog because of his family’s long service but ordered him to deal with everyone unimportant who knew the inside story.

Marnina punished those involved in Anna Plante's affair, then learned the Blue Star Cultivators had seized 177 Psionic Springs and ordered the Expeditionary Force to prepare to contest the Himalayan Mountains. Lanqi realized the plan might give his brother Lanbo a chance to survive after Marnina had sent him there.

• Marnina ordered Anna Plante demoted, Lanbo sent to the Himalayan Mountains, and Sara rewarded and threatened into silence.
• Marnina summoned Lanqi and told him Lanbo had been transferred to the Himalayan Mountains, where Lanqi knew the Blue Star Cultivators were expected to attack.
• Lanqi reported that Blue Star Cultivators had seized 177 Psionic Springs while the Expeditionary Force had held back.
• Marnina ordered preparations to abandon three northeastern mountain ranges and contest the Himalayan Mountains the following day to slow the Blue Star advance and support the Explosive Mining plan.
• Lanqi agreed to arrange the preparations and hoped the planned defenses would help Lanbo survive.

After the victory over the Skrulls, Su Yu returned to the game and helped Alijeh create a clone to handle her government duties. He then received an urgent invitation to meet Speaker Hu Jing, Political Commissar Zhang, and Snowflake Leopard in Forest City.

• Speaker Hu Jing announced that the cultivators had reclaimed 117 Psionic Springs, prompting celebrations across the world.
• Su Yu, Alijeh, Tina, and Cat Morning Star returned to the game, and Su Yu sent his clone to meet the mage players in Forest City.
• Alijeh discovered that her headache from the Holy Light Chant potion had vanished after crossing worlds.
• Su Yu gave Alijeh the final strand of War God's Hair, and she used it to create an exact clone of herself.
• Tina wished for a clone of her own, and Su Yu promised to help her reach Tier 8.
• Snowflake Leopard invited Su Yu to Forest City for a meeting with Speaker Hu Jing and Political Commissar Zhang, and Su Yu agreed to go.

Su Yu joined Speaker Hu Jing and other Relevant Department leaders in Forest City to discuss how to use captured psionic energy to prepare Blue Star for the final battle. They hoped to raise their forces to the “7+70+700” target, but had no clear way to produce the seven God-tier Experts they needed.

• Su Yu traveled to Forest City, where the Relevant Department had established its headquarters in the Blue Star Office.
• Speaker Hu Jing, Political Commissar Zhang, Snowflake Leopard, and Xue Wenli welcomed Su Yu to their meeting.
• Speaker Hu Jing explained that Blue Star needed seven God-tier Experts, over seventy Tier 7 experts, and over seven hundred Tier 6 experts to face the Skrulls.
• Speaker Hu Jing said the Relevant Department planned to use psionic energy to rapidly advance players such as Zhong Feng and Xu Xiaotian, but lacked a plan for cultivating God-tier Experts.
• Su Yu recalled that in his previous life Blue Star had fallen far short of the target and its people had been swiftly defeated by the Skrulls.

Su Yu and the Blue Star leaders assessed how to gather seven Tier 8 fighters for the final battle, with Yang Jian and Chancellor Cao among the confirmed candidates. Su Yu proposed the Starvation Plan: channel all available resources to Great Cultivators and top players while ordinary players made do with less.

• Political Commissar Zhang said Yang Jian was the only ancient Great Cultivator likely to recover to Tier 8 within half a year, while Emperor Taizong and Emperor Liu Che would probably fall short.
• Su Yu told the leaders that he, Chancellor Cao, Yang Jian, and Bernina Tide could provide four Tier 8 fighters, though Bernina's participation was not certain.
• Su Yu recalled two unidentified Qin- and Han-era Ancient Mighty Ones from his previous life but could not remember who they were.
• Su Yu said Alijeh and Tina were unlikely to reach Tier 8 in time, while Morning Star had a small chance after absorbing the Soul Devouring Squid's corpse and gaining the Star Scar Eye.
• Su Yu identified Snowflake Leopard, Thousand Cups Not Drunk, Iced Tea, Sky Dragon, Unbreakable Alliance, Crimson-Eyed Black Dragon, and other top players as possible Tier 8 candidates.
• Su Yu urged Speaker Hu Jing to direct all resources toward Great Cultivators and the strongest players, calling the policy the Starvation Plan.

Su Yu proposed a Starvation Plan and a mage legion to strengthen Blue Star against the Skrull, and the United Government approved both policies. The new taxes and a roster of players selected for focused cultivation stirred debate across the Network World.

• Su Yu proposed forming a mage legion, explaining that a thousand fifth-tier mages could strike targets from as far as six thousand kilometers away.
• Speaker Hu Jing agreed to put the mage legion proposal on the agenda, and Su Yu returned to the Gorse Flower Imperial Palace.
• Over the following days, Su Yu cultivated with Alijeh and Tina while his clone taught Space Magic to players in Forest City and named their unit the Space Blade Company.
• The United Government approved the Starvation Plan and established the United Magic Legion, requiring it to recruit at least a thousand mages and appointing Su Yu's clone as commander.
• The Starvation Plan required players to surrender most of their game earnings, with taxes reaching over 90% for some large guilds and merchant associations.
• Players debated the new taxes and the roster of people chosen to receive focused cultivation, though most supported the plan.

After public criticism, the United Government revised its training roster to create fairer ways for ordinary players to qualify and require roster members to keep improving their scores. Su Yu's clone met Snowflake Leopard and nearly all of the game's top 500 players in a secluded valley, where the assembled groups awaited a discussion.

• Players criticized the original roster for favoring major guilds and lacking a way for stronger newcomers to qualify.
• On the fifth day, the United Government announced a revised roster with a Fair Arena, government missions, and score-based replacements.
• Su Yu's clone trained the 144 members of the Space Blade Mage Corps in a valley north of Forest City.
• Snowflake Leopard arrived with about 500 top players, including nearly everyone ranked in the game's top 500.
• Su Yu's clone ordered the Mage Corps to assemble, and the visiting players formed a loose formation beside them.
• Xiao Tian tried to touch Su Yu's clone, but he dodged her before Snowflake Leopard called her back to the group.

Snowflake Leopard warned the gathered players that Blue Planet’s war effort depended on their collective strength and that anyone who failed to meet standards would lose their resources. After Iced Tea pointed out that rapidly promoted experts lacked equipment, skills, and combat experience, Su Yu proposed mass-producing Root-Strengthening Potions to improve their combat power, and the players set out to secure the plants needed to make them.

• Snowflake Leopard told the players that Blue Planet needed to produce at least seventy Tier 7 experts and seven hundred Tier 6 experts, and threatened to remove underperformers from the Starvation Plan.
• Su Yu's avatar backed Snowflake Leopard and warned that the Mage Corps would also face strict standards.
• Iced Tea raised the danger that players promoted by burning materials would be weaker than veterans of the same tier because their gear, skills, and combat awareness lagged behind.
• Su Yu's avatar explained that skills and equipment would take time to improve, then proposed using Root-Strengthening Potions to compensate for players' weaknesses.
• Snowflake Leopard and Su Yu's avatar led the players to the northern Gorse Flower region, while Snowflake Leopard coordinated more than a hundred guilds to send four hundred thousand players to clear the mountains where Root-Strengthening plants grew.

Su Yu exhausted his stored Monster Materials and gathered 50 billion Psionic Coins from Winged God Dragon, Speaker Hu Jing, and Alijeh to buy more cultivation resources. He estimated that reaching Tier 8 would take at least 90 billion Psionic Coins’ worth of resources and left repayment of Alijeh’s loan for later.

• The United Government and the Relevant Department continued the Starvation Plan, concentrating resources on the “70+700” reserve players.
• Su Yu burned through his remaining Monster Materials, reaching Level 80 at 50% before his cultivation stalled.
• Su Yu asked Winged God Dragon and Speaker Hu Jing for funds, receiving 4 billion and 26 billion Psionic Coins respectively.
• Su Yu took Morning Star to the Gorse Flower Imperial Palace and obtained a 20-billion-Psionic-Coin promissory note from Alijeh.
• Su Yu told Morning Star that he would focus on spending the 50 billion Psionic Coins and deal with repaying Alijeh later.

After spending most of his borrowed funds on high-tier monster materials, Su Yu joined the Great Cultivators’ campaign to capture Psionic Springs in the Himalayan Mountains. The Skrull launched a counterattack, and Su Yu began fighting the first base he encountered.

• Su Yu spent 45 billion Psionic Coins buying high-tier materials across four countries and returned with his necklace full.
• Chancellor Cao’s group captured fifty Psionic Springs in the Greater Khingan and Lesser Khingan Mountains and Changbai Mountain while Su Yu spent the night showing Alijeh and Tina around.
• Su Yu joined the Great Cultivators for the Himalayan Springs operation, and Chancellor Cao ordered everyone to spread out and report unusual activity.
• Jennifer detected the Great Cultivators’ movements, and Lanqi ordered the Skrull Expeditionary Force to begin its counterattack plan.
• Su Yu teleported to the Himalayan One Small Psionic Spring and demanded the Skrull soldiers surrender, but they attacked him instead.
• Su Yu summoned a lightning wyrm that killed more than ten Skrull soldiers while he blocked the base’s laser weapons with an Earth Shield.

Emperor Liu Che attacked the Skrull base at Gachung Kang Peak, but powerful reinforcements emerged from the Space Rift before he could secure the Psionic Spring. He withdrew beyond its range and assessed the two Skrull experts, leaving the base contested.

• Emperor Liu Che demanded the Skrulls at the Xi 63 base surrender, but they refused and activated their defenses.
• Emperor Liu Che used his 108 Golden Thunder Swords to break the base’s shield and kill Skrull Soldiers while deflecting a laser cannon attack.
• Emperor Liu Che sensed the Space Rift twisting and retreated beyond the Psionic Spring’s range as reinforcements arrived.
• Two Skrull experts, a Psionic Martial Artist and a Psionic Telepath, emerged but did not pursue Emperor Liu Che.
• Emperor Liu Che clashed mentally with the two experts and estimated that the woman was Mid Tier 6 and the man Low Tier 6, making the base difficult to capture quickly.

Su Yu and the Great Cultivators discovered that Skrull reinforcements were appearing at nearly every Psionic Spring, thwarting their offensive. After they considered their options, Yang Jian proposed a guerrilla strategy, leaving the cultivators with a new plan to try.

• Su Yu polled the chat group and learned that nearly every Great Cultivator except him and Alijeh had been stalled by Skrull reinforcements.
• The cultivators tried targeting other Small Psionic Springs, but King Arthur and others reported that reinforcements were waiting there too.
• Su Yu deduced that the Skrulls were tracking Blue Star cultivators and defending the springs with targeted reinforcements.
• Marnina XIII praised the stalling strategy and ordered Karog to tell Lanqi to hold off the Blue Star humans while completing the Explosive Mining plan.
• Cao Mengde reported that powerful reinforcements guarded all five Large Psionic Springs in the Himalayas, and Su Yu explained that Skrull forces could respond instantly anywhere on Blue Star.
• Yang Jian proposed splitting the cultivators into two teams and using guerrilla tactics to switch targets whenever Skrull reinforcements appeared.

Blue Star’s cultivators adopted Senior Yang Jian’s guerrilla tactic to capture Small Psionic Springs while avoiding Skrull God-tier Experts. As the Skrulls struggled to respond, Plante revealed to Stidim that the Explosive Mining plan was underway and that their priority was to delay Blue Star.

• Senior Yang Jian assigned Chancellor Cao and Su Yu’s group to attack separate Small Psionic Springs, while Fenshen Stage cultivators stayed behind to handle the aftermath.
• Chancellor Cao and Su Yu’s group began capturing springs across the Himalayan Mountains before the Skrulls realized the new tactic.
• Marnina XIII told Lanqi to send God-tier Experts to interfere when Blue Star was partway through capturing a base, emphasizing that their main goal was to buy time for the Explosive Mining plan.
• Chancellor Cao and Su Yu’s group repeatedly withdrew when Plante, Victoria, or Stidim arrived, leaving the Skrull God-tier Experts unable to reinforce other springs effectively.
• After returning to Skrull Star for the third time, Stidim asked Plante how the Skrulls could escape their predicament, and Plante explained the Explosive Mining plan.

After a night of guerrilla fighting, the Blue Star Cultivators had captured only thirty-one Small Psionic Springs, while Su Yu grew uneasy about the Skrulls’ calm. On Skrull Star, Lanqi discovered Su Yu’s group and Chancellor Cao converging at high speed, suggesting they were preparing to attack a larger target.

• By 8:00 a.m., Su Yu’s group and Chancellor Cao had captured thirty-one Small Psionic Springs without casualties, far fewer than their earlier haul of 177.
• Tina reassured Su Yu that they had nearly two hundred days to reclaim the springs, while Alijeh hoped to bring Skrull technology to her people.
• Su Yu received a call from Chancellor Cao as the scene shifted to Skrull Star, where Lanqi reported the Blue Star Cultivators’ progress to Marnina XIII.
• Marnina XIII praised Lanqi and learned that the Explosive Mining plan would be ready in nine days.
• Jennifer told Lanqi that Su Yu’s group was meeting Chancellor Cao, and their unusually high speeds convinced Lanqi they were gathering to attack a larger target.

Lanqi realized Su Yu's group and Chancellor Cao were targeting Large Base 0076, where his brother Lanbo was stationed, but he could not send reinforcements in time. Su Yu teleported the five Blue Star cultivators straight to the base atop Kangchenjunga Peak, launching their ambush on the undefended psionic spring.

• Lanqi ordered the Skrull bases to prepare their defenses after learning Su Yu's group and Chancellor Cao had gathered.
• Jennifer warned Lanqi that the Blue Star cultivators were likely to attack Large Base 0076, whose defensive team had been transferred away.
• Lanqi called his brother Lanbo and urged him to flee, but Lanbo said the Blue Star cultivators had already arrived.
• Lanqi saw the five cultivators disappear from the screen and realized Su Yu had used a Teleportation Array to bypass the distance.
• Su Yu teleported Chancellor Cao and the other four to Base 0076, nicknamed "World's Third," to ambush the undefended Large Psionic Spring.

Su Yu, Chancellor Cao, and the other Blue Star experts captured the Skrull base at the World's Third spring, forcing its soldiers to surrender. They discovered Lanbo, the imprisoned brother of Expeditionary Force commander Lanqi, and left him in custody.

• Chancellor Cao severed the base's communications and demanded that the Skrulls surrender, while Su Yu used Wind Lord Al'Akir to absorb the base's laser barrage.
• Commander Andrew Plante judged resistance futile and surrendered, and the base's soldiers followed suit.
• After the countdown, Chancellor Cao searched the base and found a Tier 6 Skrull in prison clothes who had not raised his hands.
• Lanbo explained that torture had crippled his arms and identified himself as Lanqi's older brother.
• Su Yu told Lanbo to stay put until someone took him to the prisoner-of-war camp.

Over five days, the Blue Star Cultivators reclaimed 180 Psionic Springs, and Su Yu failed to get intelligence from Lanbo. On November 17, Su Yu flew to Mount Fuji to burn the relics he had taken from the Renket National Museum unless the Skrulls redeemed them.

• After the Skrulls surrendered Base 0076, Chancellor Cao and the others occupied it and prepared for further raids.
• From November 13 to November 17, the Blue Star Cultivators reclaimed 180 Psionic Springs, including all but three of the springs in Huaxia Country.
• Chenxing absorbed the Soul Devouring Squid and joined Su Yu's combat team, while Su Yu's attempt to question Lanbo yielded no intelligence.
• When the November 17 deadline passed without the Skrulls contacting him, Su Yu decided to burn the relics at Mount Fuji, where Renket Alliance forces were stationed.
• Su Yu flew from Donghai City toward Mount Fuji and saw the Skrull base and Blue Star forces below at 23:28.

Su Yu arrived at Mount Fuji to livestream his plan to burn the Skrull artifacts after the Skrulls failed to pay for their return. Fujiwara Chika, now a frontline fighter as well as Neon’s prime minister, flew out to meet him.

• Su Yu read forum speculation about why he had stopped streaming and decided to livestream the destruction of the Skrull artifacts.
• Su Yu announced the stream, flew to Mount Fuji, and explained that the Skrulls had ignored his seven-day deadline to exchange gold for the artifacts.
• Su Yu showed viewers the many artifacts he had taken from the Renket Alliance National Museum, drawing a rapidly growing audience eager to watch the Skrulls’ reaction.
• Fujiwara Chika flew to meet Su Yu near the Giant Psionic Spring, having become a level 74 fighter determined to battle the Skrulls herself.