Chapter Summaries

Su Yu arrived at the Mount Fuji Spring Eye and told Fujiwara Chika that he had come to burn Renket cultural relics for the Lunkeers to see. He began destroying the artifacts outside the Skrull base, while Lanqi realized the Skrulls had forgotten Su Yu’s seven-day offer to redeem them with gold.

• Su Yu explained his plan to Fujiwara Chika, who supported it and stepped aside to watch.
• Lanqi chose to wait before sending reinforcements, trusting Cole to handle Su Yu.
• Cole challenged Su Yu’s purpose as the base’s weapons aimed at him.
• Su Yu displayed Renket artifacts and burned Gruman Figg’s manuscript, enraging Cole and the Lunkeers.
• Lanqi remembered Su Yu’s offer to return the artifacts for gold and wondered what day it was.

Su Yu burned Lunkeer artifacts at Mount Fuji Spring Eye after the seven-day deadline passed, while blaming Lanqi for failing to arrange their redemption. Lanqi arrived and promised the Solar Empire would pay, but Su Yu demanded twice the artifacts’ market value before returning them.

• Su Yu burned the artifacts and showed footage proving he had given Lanqi seven days to arrange their redemption.
• Cole warned his troops not to rush out of the spring eye, while the Lunkeer officers blamed Lanqi for keeping them uninformed.
• Lanqi arrived, apologized for forgetting about the artifacts, and promised the Solar Empire would redeem them and return them to the Renket National Museum within ten days.
• Su Yu reminded Lanqi that the deadline had passed and demanded gold worth twice the artifacts’ market value.

Su Yu bargained with Lanqi and Cole over the price of the Skrull artifacts, ultimately securing 130 tons of gold. He arranged the exchange for seven days later and announced he would attack a Skrull military base in Southeast Asia.

• Su Yu demanded a 90% increase in compensation for the artifacts, then negotiated with Lanqi and Cole until they agreed to a 50% increase.
• Su Yu and Lanqi disputed the value of the Renket Unity Great Seal, but Cole insisted it was worth at least 500 million Solar Coins to protect the Lunkeer's dignity.
• Su Yu and the Skrulls agreed that the artifacts were worth 130 tons of gold, to be exchanged in seven days.
• Su Yu warned Lanqi and Cole that he would burn the remaining artifacts if the gold was not delivered on time.
• Su Yu told Lanqi and Cole he was heading to attack their military base in Southeast Asia, leaving both Skrulls furious.

Su Yu negotiated with Lanqi over the Skrull prisoners of war, agreeing to postpone their ransom for a month while the prisoners continued receiving preferential treatment and anti-war instruction. After leaving Lanqi, Su Yu privately met with Fujiwara Chika, who said she had something confidential to tell him.

• Lanqi asked Su Yu to accept a ransom offer for the captured Skrulls, but Su Yu considered the prisoners' ongoing indoctrination and chose not to release them yet.
• After speaking with the Skrull Emperor, Lanqi asked to delay reclaiming the prisoners for a month, and Su Yu agreed while insisting their care costs be added to the ransom.
• Su Yu ended his negotiations with Lanqi and went to say goodbye to Fujiwara Chika.
• Fujiwara Chika asked Su Yu to turn off his livestream so she could tell him something privately, and he put away his phone and raised a Soundproof Barrier.

Fujiwara Chika persuaded Su Yu to reserve her a place on the next trip to Skrull Star, while Blue Star’s campaign to reclaim Psionic Springs made strong progress. The chapter ended with Su Yu visiting the Relevant Department to witness the first mage trainees manufacture Space Rune Stones.

• Fujiwara Chika asked Su Yu to let her join the next trip to Skrull Star, and he reluctantly agreed after she promised to reach the sixth rank and learn the Skrull language.
• Over the following seven days, Blue Star Cultivators reclaimed 302 Psionic Springs, bringing their total to 884 and strengthening humanity’s confidence in the war.
• Speaker Hu Jing selected personnel for the next Skrull Star trip and had them begin studying the Skrull language.
• Su Yu visited the Relevant Department’s main base to see the first batch of mage trainees make Space Rune Stones.
• Su Yu met the first hundred mage players on the second basement level, who had become the first trainees able to manufacture the stones independently.

Yun Shang created humanity’s first Space Rune Stone, and the students mistakenly believed it was for a Space Teleportation Array. Su Yu accepted that long-distance teleportation should be added to the deployment plan as Xue Wenli prepared to secure materials, while Xue Wenli received a call from Neon Prime Minister Fujiwara Chika.

• Political Commissar Zhang and Xue Wenli joined Su Yu to watch Yun Shang engrave five Magic Arrays onto a spinel.
• Yun Shang successfully activated the arrays and presented humanity’s first Space Rune Stone to Su Yu’s clone.
• Yun Shang explained that she and the other students had guessed the rune stones were intended for a Space Teleportation Array.
• Su Yu’s clone asked the students to keep the supposed deployment plan from the Skrull, and they eagerly agreed.
• Xue Wenli offered to secure the materials, while Political Commissar Zhang proposed making Space Rings for soldiers.
• Xue Wenli received a call from Neon Prime Minister Fujiwara Chika and stepped outside to answer it.

Su Yu exchanged cultural relics for 130 tons of gold with Lanqi at the Mount Fuji Spring Eye and showed him a reassuring video of his brother Lanbo in captivity. As the exchange ended, more than 2,000 Skrull spaceships carrying Anti-gravity Crystal Instruments crossed into Blue Star, and Su Yu realized a major operation had begun.

• Fujiwara Chika told Su Yu that Lanqi had arrived at the Mount Fuji Spring Eye with seven crates and wanted to see him.
• Su Yu and Lanqi exchanged cultural relics for 130 tons of gold while arguing over which side had robbed the other.
• Su Yu gave Lanqi a video in which Lanbo showed that he had recovered and was being treated well in the prisoner-of-war camp.
• Lanqi watched the video, then prepared to record Su Yu's reaction to the Skrulls' Explosive Mining plan.
• More than 2,000 Skrull spaceships carrying Anti-gravity Crystal Instruments crossed the Space Rifts into Blue Star, and Speaker Hu Jing alerted Su Yu and other departments.
• Su Yu sensed disturbances in the Space Rifts and turned pale after receiving Hu Jing's notice.

The Skrulls used Anti-gravity Crystal Instruments to sharply increase the output of the Small and Large Psionic Springs, revealing a plan to extract as much psionic energy as possible before abandoning them. Speaker Hu Jing ordered the United Government to shift from capturing springs to competing with the Skrulls for their energy.

• Chancellor Cao arrived at the Istanbul Large Psionic Spring and saw a spaceship descend directly into its collection factory with an Anti-gravity Crystal Instrument.
• Chancellor Cao captured the Istanbul spring, while Su Yu captured the Fu 3 and Fu 6 springs in Neon and investigated the machines installed there.
• After two hours, psionic energy surged from collection factories worldwide and spilled into the surrounding bases.
• Xue Wenli reported that the instruments had increased the output of every Skrull-held Small and Large Psionic Spring by at least tenfold.
• Speaker Hu Jing concluded that the Skrulls planned to drain those springs and abandon them while defending the twenty-two Giant Psionic Springs.
• Speaker Hu Jing ordered Xue Wenli to distribute his analysis and told the United Government to fight for psionic energy instead of occupying springs.

Three scientists confirmed that Skrull anti-gravity instruments were forcing Psionic Springs to erupt at more than ten times their normal output, risking prolonged dormancy or permanent depletion. Su Yu urged the Great Cultivators to revise their offensive tactics and reclaim more springs and psionic energy before the eruptions ended.

• Zhong Feng brought three high-energy equipment scientists to Su Yu's occupied Fu Three Small Psionic Spring, where they examined its dismantled Anti-gravity Crystal Instrument.
• The scientists discovered that the instrument could trigger eruptions exceeding ten times normal output, and Skrull-controlled springs worldwide soon erupted violently.
• Su Yu reasoned that the overexploitation could leave the Psionic Springs dormant or permanently inactive, a conclusion the scientists supported.
• Zhong Feng reported the danger to headquarters and asked Su Yu to contact the Great Cultivators about changing their battle plan.
• Chancellor Cao and Emperor Liu Che reported that Skrulls had activated instruments at nearly all occupied springs and sent transport ships to carry away the surging psionic energy.
• Su Yu warned the Great Cultivators that the springs might become useless after the eruption wave and called for tactics to reclaim more springs and energy quickly.

Blue Star’s cultivators adopted Emperor Liu Che’s plan to disperse among the Small Psionic Springs and disrupt Skrull psionic-energy transport. Liu Che struck Greater Caucasus Thirteen, destroyed key facilities, and fled as soon as Skrull reinforcements arrived.

• After discussing tactics while continuing their attacks, Chancellor Cao approved Emperor Liu Che’s plan to send Tier 6 cultivators to disrupt facilities at separate Small Psionic Springs.
• Emperor Liu Che flew to Greater Caucasus Thirteen, where the Skrull base had a substantial garrison and extensive defenses.
• Liu Che summoned the Desolate Myriad Spirits Monument and crushed the base’s force-field shield, Psionic Collection Factory, and Anti-gravity Crystal Instrument.
• A High Tier 6 Skrull reinforcer arrived, but Liu Che recalled his monument and flew away without engaging him.

Emperor Liu Che proposed a worldwide campaign to stop the Skrulls from carrying psionic energy off Blue Star, and the Great Cultivators and United Government mobilized to support it. As Blue Star's forces prepared to strike, Solar Emperor Marnina XIII watched the Skrulls' extraction surge and considered using their gains to strengthen his rule.

• Emperor Liu Che shared footage of his attack on a Skrull base and urged the Great Cultivators to destroy extraction facilities or transport assets to keep psionic energy on Blue Star.
• Chancellor Cao approved the strategy, warned the cultivators to flee if the Space Rifts fluctuated, and offered a larger psionic share to those lending powerful treasures.
• The Great Cultivators exchanged spare artifacts and scattered across the world to attack Skrull operations at the springs.
• Speaker Hu Jing ordered supersonic fighter jets to deliver Psionic Canisters to the cultivators and put the Blue Star Allied Army, nuclear missile silos, and garrisons on alert.
• Solar Emperor Marnina XIII watched Psionic Transport Ships return to Skrull Star at far greater speed and considered using the extracted psionic energy to cultivate loyal high-rank cultivators and unify the Skrull World.

Su Yu infiltrated a Skrull base in the Eastern Siberia Mountains and arranged for a psionic transport ship carrying missiles to return to Skrull Star, hoping to repeat the destruction of the Floating Island. The ship passed through the Space Rift unnoticed, with only thirty seconds left before it exploded.

• Lanqi told Marnina that the Blue Star United Government and cultivators were obstructing Skrull operations, while Su Yu had disappeared after capturing two springs in Neon Country.
• Marnina ordered Lanqi to report any information about Su Yu immediately.
• Su Yu infiltrated the Eastern Siberia Mountains base and used Mind Control to alter a transport ship's orders and load it with Buzz-626 missiles.
• Su Yu completed the operation within minutes, and the transport ship passed through the Space Rift back to Skrull Star.
• Lanqi monitored the battlefield but failed to notice the ship, which continued flying with thirty seconds left before its explosion.

Su Yu’s explosive transport ship destroyed a Skrull shipyard and temporarily halted their psionic energy network, but Skrull experts contained the damage and restored operations after half an hour. Over the following seven days, Blue Star Cultivators fought to seize Psionic Springs, while Chancellor Cao’s sword hilt gradually lost power.

• Su Yu’s high-explosive missiles detonated in the Skrull shipyard, triggering explosions among more than fifty Psionic Transport Ships.
• Plante, Stidim, and Victoria contained the blast, and Lanqi ordered an investigation that identified a transport ship from the 0086 Large Psionic Spring as the likely source.
• Su Yu left the Eastern Siberia base, and the explosion stopped Skrull psionic energy transportation for half an hour, allowing energy to leak into Blue Star.
• Su Yu told the group he would stop using missile ships and instead use long-distance teleportation to occupy Psionic Springs across Europe.
• Blue Star Cultivators and the Skrull fought over Psionic Springs for seven days, and Chancellor Cao seized seventeen Large Springs and twenty Small Springs.
• Chancellor Cao’s Hilt of the Sword of Myriad Truths weakened during continuous combat, but it could recover by absorbing sunlight while he rested.

Blue Star’s cultivators disrupted Skrull psionic-energy operations and captured hundreds of springs over seven days, while the United Government withdrew from its costly ground campaign. On December 2, the Relevant Department reported that the springs’ boosted output was rapidly declining, forcing Blue Star Humans to prepare for the next stage.

• Senior Yang Jian, Tina, Alijeh, and Morningstar captured 283 Small Psionic Springs by killing Skrull defenders unless they surrendered immediately.
• Su Yu captured 86 springs and disrupted Skrull psionic-energy transport 261 times, while missing nearly all game time and the third Illusionary Duel.
• Blue Star’s thirty-seven sixth-rank cultivators disrupted transport more than six thousand times and captured over a hundred springs, with three injured and none killed.
• Fujiwara Chika led the United Government’s assault on the Fu Si Small Psionic Spring, where six hydrogen bombs breached the shield but the forces lost nearly a thousand troops clearing the base.
• Blue Star Cultivators raised their captured springs from 884 to 1,376 and kept at least 30% of the psionic energy on Blue Star.
• At two in the morning on December 2, the Relevant Department reported that output from every Small and Large Psionic Spring was rapidly declining toward its previous level.

Xue Wenli reported that the Skrulls were preparing to evacuate their Psionic Springs, leaving most of them depleted. Su Yu proposed using guerrilla tactics to seize the Giant Psionic Springs before the Skrulls fortified them, and the Great Cultivators agreed to assemble in the Greater Caucasus Mountains.

• Xue Wenli reported that the Skrull army would evacuate the Small and Large Psionic Springs within twenty-four hours, after which most of them would dry up.
• Su Yu assessed the losses caused by the Skrulls’ extraction and called on the Great Cultivators to disrupt their plans before the evacuation ended.
• Su Yu proposed attacking the Giant Psionic Springs, and Emperor Taizong warned that their defenses and possible Rank Eight reinforcements made the plan risky.
• Su Yu suggested using guerrilla tactics to exploit the Skrulls’ limited forces and the delays caused by reinforcements crossing Space Rifts.
• Chancellor Cao polled the Great Cultivators, and twenty-eight of the thirty-one voters supported attacking the Giant Psionic Springs.
• Chancellor Cao told the group to assemble in the Greater Caucasus Mountains to prepare attacks on Giant Psionic Springs in Europe, Asia, or Africa.

After the Skrulls’ Explosive Mining Plan yielded an enormous haul of psionic energy, Marnina XIII announced that half would be shared among citizens and half used to cultivate experts. The payouts boosted his popularity and crushed the Anti-United Movement’s momentum, while Blue Star civilians fell back into despair over the loss of more than 2,000 springs.

• Blue Star civilians despaired after learning that more than 2,000 Psionic Springs had dried up, while people online worried about the Surrender Faction and asked whether Lord Ke could still change the situation.
• The Skrulls celebrated as the Explosive Mining Plan brought back more psionic energy than they had collected in the previous half year combined.
• Marnina XIII announced that half of the recovered psionic energy would fund a talent program and half would be distributed to citizens, with each citizen receiving at least 30,000 Solar Coins’ worth.
• Skrull citizens celebrated Marnina’s announcement, and his popularity surged as discussion of the Anti-United Movement faded.
• Marnina used the distribution to counter the Anti-United Movement promoted by Cindy Doppler and Zhu Yuanzhang, and public pressure led some nations to seek membership in the Skrull United Government.

Marnina celebrated the United Government’s generous benefits and the collapse of Cindy Doppler’s Anti-United Movement, while Cindy faced growing calls for Beck Country to join. Cindy decided to counter with 40,000 Solar Coins’ worth of domestic consumption vouchers per person and ordered Lake to promote them as clean money.

• Karog told Marnina and Lanqi that the public praised the benefits, petitions for other countries to join were growing, and searches for the Anti-United Movement had plummeted.
• Marnina, Karog, and Lanqi mocked Cindy Doppler and the Anti-United Organization, and Marnina vowed to make Cindy submit one day.
• Lake reported that more than ten thousand people had signed an online petition urging Beck Country to join the United Government for the benefits.
• Cindy rejected silencing the petitioners and decided Beck Country would offer each citizen 40,000 Solar Coins’ worth of benefits, funded by Space Ring sales.
• Cindy chose domestic consumption vouchers instead of cash and told Lake to promote Beck’s money as clean and the Solar Empire’s as plundered.

Karog told Marnina that Cindy Doppler had successfully made a Space Ring using an absurd list of materials, and Marnina ordered Flare to investigate further. A warning redirected Marnina and Lanqi’s attention to Blue Star, where the Great Cultivators had gathered to attack the Greater Caucasus Giant Psionic Spring.

• Karog reported that Flare had failed to steal Cindy Doppler’s Space Ring manufacturing craft, but agents had seen his notebook and its bizarre material list.
• Karog revealed that Cindy had made a Space Ring from the listed materials and was preparing a first batch of 100 rings for mass production.
• Marnina ordered Karog to monitor Cindy’s material purchases at the highest priority and have high-tier Psionic Masters test the listed materials.
• After an alert sounded, Lanqi advised Marnina to focus on Blue Star instead of Cindy Doppler.
• Marnina viewed a map showing Blue Star’s Great Cultivators gathered at the Greater Caucasus Mountains, where they were attacking the Greater Caucasus Giant Psionic Spring.

Marnina and Lanqi watched Blue Star cultivators attack Psionic Spring No. 0005, where Chancellor Cao and the Heavenly Dipper Great Array broke through the base’s shield. As Chancellor Cao moved to destroy the railguns, Plante arrived through a Space Rift and blocked his way.

• Marnina ordered Devour Blue to display the live footage of Psionic Spring No. 0005 and studied the attacking Blue Star cultivators with Lanqi.
• Chancellor Cao and thirty-seven Tier 6 cultivators used the Heavenly Dipper Great Array to attack the base, while Su Yu and four Tier 7 cultivators guarded against Skrull reinforcements.
• Marnina identified Emperor Liu Che and Emperor Taizong as cultivators nearing Tier 7 and had Devour Blue mark them as priorities.
• After twenty minutes without reinforcements, Chancellor Cao and the array shattered the base’s outer force field shield.
• Chancellor Cao and the Tier 6 cultivators rushed to destroy the antigravity railguns, but Plante crossed the Space Rift and teleported between Chancellor Cao and the guns.

After Plante’s arrival forced the Blue Star Cultivators to abandon the Giant Psionic Spring, Su Yu and his companions headed for their next target, the Damavand Mountain Giant Psionic Spring. During the flight, Alijeh and Tina worried about the families and responsibilities they had left behind in the game world.

• Plante blocked the Blue Star Cultivators’ attack with a particle shield, and Chancellor Cao led their retreat from the Giant Psionic Spring.
• The Blue Star Cultivators abandoned the spring because they could not defeat Plante and expected Skrull reinforcements.
• Su Yu, Alijeh, Tina, and Cat Morning Star boarded a fighter jet and set course for the Damavand Mountain Giant Psionic Spring.
• Su Yu explained that he and Senior Yang Jian would lead the next assault while Chancellor Cao covered their retreat.
• Alijeh worried that her double might struggle to govern her country, and Su Yu reassured her that the United Government, the Relevant Department, and players would help.
• Tina worried that her father and younger sister had gone eighty-four days without seeing her.