Recaps

Ying Zheng rebuilt the Earth Human Federation as the Great Qin Empire while Merlo Heavenly Court and Fiery Sun prepared to expand amid rising conflicts. The arc ended with Ying Zheng naming a new warship and learning that its governing Superbrain could take over the Empire if left without a successor.

• Ying Zheng renamed Earth Star and the Earth Human Federation, seized its military, exiled Ge Xiaolun’s group, and put Li Bing'er and Lin Xiaoxiao in charge of the South Heaven Gate Project.
• Ying Zheng formed a cabinet, appointed his ministers, and ordered Meng Tian to rebuild the Black Ice Bureau.
• Pan Zhen returned to Fiery Sun, stripped Lena of power, and restored his rule while Ailan mobilized Merlo Heavenly Court for expansion.
• Ailan sent six forces across Merlo’s borders, and Ying Zheng’s court began preparing for war, with Deno Civilization proposed as a target.
• Pan Zhen and Ying Zheng established diplomatic relations, while Pan Zhen promised Fiery Sun would not interfere in Great Qin’s war with Deno.
• Bai Yuan and Ji Ming warned Pan Zhen that higher civilizations could erase civilizations from history and placed limits on unauthorized fifth-generation Super Lifeforms.
• Ying Zheng learned that Great Qin controlled thirty-six galaxies and ordered the Canaan Empire’s people treated as citizens while preserving the former Federation’s alien races’ enslaved status.
• Ying Zheng named the new warship Mysterious Maiden Type I and its cannon Truth, then learned Lin Xiaoxiao’s Superbrain could seize control of the Empire if it lacked a designated successor.

Ying Zheng made Dark Bird the guardian of Great Qin, while Yang Yu settled postwar reparations and prepared the Empire for new campaigns. Fiery Sun and Merlo Heavenly Court maneuvered for power as Great Qin’s possible alliance with Styx threatened Lieyang.

• Ying Zheng kept the superbrain, named it Dark Bird, bound it to his genetic sequence, and authorized it to oversee Great Qin’s network.
• Dark Bird exposed illegal materials and system vulnerabilities, prompting Ying Zheng to order arrests and redirect resources toward heavy industry.
• Bai Yuan and Ji Ming assessed Fiery Sun’s military technology and supply needs while Lena learned that Pan Zhen had imprisoned her and sent messages in her name.
• Yang Yu arranged wartime reinforcements, negotiated reparations and pensions, and assigned the conquered Dwarf Empire territories to the vassal civilizations.
• Yang Yu ordered research into cultivation’s biological basis, and the Empire began investigating it through new experimental universes and studies of the Mountain-Backing Sect Supreme Elder.
• Ailan signed a vassal contract with the Elf Kingdom, accepting its scholars and support while preparing Merlo Heavenly Court to advance through the relationship.
• Pan Zhen arranged Qi Lin’s Fiery Sun citizenship and assigned Lena a governorship, while Ailan later offered Fiery Sun half the universe’s territory and resources for five hundred years.
• Ailan and Pan Zhen discussed the Void Race and the danger of a Great Qin–Styx alliance after Angel Leng reported that Great Qin had sent Meng Yi to Deathsong Academy.

Great Qin and Fiery Sun prepared for war while Ying Zheng brought people from Earth into Great Qin. Yang Yu’s empire discovered and subdued the Active Universe, then its researchers’ investigation of Princess Mu Ying’s past led to a confrontation with the emperor.

• Karl refused Meng Yi’s offer of an alliance, and Ying Zheng ordered Bai Qi to prepare Great Qin for war as Fiery Sun also mobilized.
• Pan Zhen negotiated a temporary compromise with Ying Zheng, while Ailan and Ruoning prepared Fiery Sun’s ten legions for a live-fire exercise.
• Ying Zheng led warships to Earth in 1937 and took one hundred million people, then told the emperors’ chat group he meant to rebuild Great Qin with Huaxia descendants.
• Yang Yu learned that a powerful universe contained Earth and ordered an investigation, while Star warned that the universe was alive and held a Seventh-level Sequence Civilization.
• Lin Fan confronted the Star Ancient Empire fleet, but the fleet and the Flame Dragon United Nations fought around the Active Universe as its defenses resisted their attacks.
• The Star Ancient Empire contained the Active Universe in a Spacetime Cage, and researchers began studying its structure and the possibility of Ninth-tier Lifeforms escaping universal constraints.
• Li Muyao and Yang Yue secretly traveled through time to investigate Princess Mu Ying, but Yang Yue’s younger self saw them, prompting Nightfall to arrest Su Tianlong and confront the researchers.
• Yang Yu reprimanded Li Muyao, Yang Yue, and Su Tianlong, suspended the two women from their projects, and ordered an audit to remove backdoors from major projects.

Yang Yu established Star as the Empire’s future companion capital and expanded New Year aid, while an Outer Realm Ninth-level Civilization attacked in the Fifth-dimensional Battlefield. The Empire’s fleets fought back, but the war remained active as Yang Yu ordered the battlefield held and considered how to contain rival civilizations.

• Yang Yu announced that the merged Vast Sea and Vast Forest Realms would become the Empire’s companion capital, Star, and ordered tighter reviews of governors and preparation for the capital’s relocation.
• Yang Lin’er raised New Year distributions and benefits, while Yang Yu expanded red-packet funds to allied kingdoms and pledged his own money for soldiers and bereaved families.
• Ailan and other leaders imposed a five-year ban on war, but Fiery Sun and Great Qin attacked the Beast Civilization as the Void Race counterattacked.
• Yang Yu put the Empire and its vassals on war readiness after a Ninth-level Civilization appeared in the Fifth-dimensional world, and the Elf Kingdom and other allies mobilized to support the defense.
• Enemy Ninth-tier Lifeforms infiltrated the Mechanical Civilization’s defenses, where Lin Jiu used the Tree of Life’s roots to drain General Laura and other hostile powerhouses.
• Edwin Zacharias and the Guangyu Empire’s forces faced the Empire’s fleets, while Long Ya, Nan Wentian, Yang Ming, and Bai Lin coordinated attacks and searches for scattered enemy warships.
• Bai Lin’s Sixth United Fleet found the enemy hiding in Universe T-3586 and destroyed more than eight hundred thousand warships, while warning that surviving forces could still infiltrate the front.
• Yang Yu rejected opening a second front and ordered Bai Wen to defend the Fifth-dimensional Battlefield, authorizing the Imperial Capital Defense Line’s Over-the-Horizon Spacetime Concept Destruction Strike if necessary.