Chapter Summaries

Bai Lin planned to transport defeated dwarf natives to the rear while directing fleets to contain a renewed enemy assault and link up with allied forces. As the front lines fought a brutal stalemate, the Imperial Academy of Engineering mobilized its researchers to work on wartime projects and study captured lifeforms for intelligence.

• Bai Lin ordered the Seven Star Empire to send transport ships to move the defeated dwarf natives to the rear and help them build their nation.
• After General Omi reported that the right flank faced over 150 million enemy warships, Bai Lin assigned fleets to reinforce both flanks and intensify the frontal assault.
• Bai Lin ordered Ailin Connell to advance through the universes separating allied territories so the three nations could join their forces.
• Marshal Milamont reported that reinforcements would arrive in two and five days as fighting continued in a brutal stalemate.
• The Imperial Academy of Engineering launched reserve research projects, and Chief Lin redirected captured warships to the Warship and Weapon Research Institute.
• The researchers arranged to study captured lifeforms for memory information that could provide the Empire with intelligence.

Imperial Academy researchers identified the captured warships as belonging to vassals of the Ninth-tier Crimson Flame Civilization and uncovered signs of a more powerful forbidden civilization. Li Muyao forced a captive expert to reveal what he knew, then ordered the use of a brain from that civilization to cultivate a loyal warrior for serum testing while keeping the captive alive as a test subject.

• Warship researchers identified the captured ships’ origins and found that their civilizations served the Ninth-tier Crimson Flame Civilization, which answered to an unnamed forbidden civilization.
• Researchers reported that the ships’ technology could improve the Empire’s energy, communications, and defense systems, while Li Muzi said the main laboratory sought permission to study a corpse’s brain.
• Li Muyao confronted the captive expert from the Mountain-Backing Sect and threatened to continue torturing him unless he revealed what he knew about the forbidden civilization.
• The old man described the forbidden civilization as the end of countless eternal worlds and recounted its persecution of them.
• Li Muyao ordered an academician to erase the memories in a brain from the forbidden civilization, cultivate a loyal warrior from it, and use that warrior to test the second Ninth-tier Lifeform serum.
• Li Muyao ordered the old man kept alive through blood draws as a living Ninth-tier Lifeform test subject.

Yang Yu learned that the Star Empire may be using him and other representatives to investigate worlds before invading them, and he withdrew from decisions about the Empire’s response. A week later, the Star Ancient Empire announced it had become a Ninth-tier Sequence civilization and made the Half-beastman Empire, Elf Empire, and Seven Star Empire its vassal kingdoms.

• Bai Mu brought Yi Congshuang to Yang Yu with a document from Li Muyao about a Ninth-tier Lifeform.
• Yang Yu read the document, learned of the Star Empire’s role in Rise of Civilization, and suspected it was using him to explore worlds before attacking them.
• Yang Yu told Nightfall’s leader to have Bai Mu announce the Empire’s successful construction of a Ninth-tier Sequence warship in his place.
• A week later, the Star Ancient Empire announced its Ninth-tier Sequence status and declared the Half-beastman Empire, Elf Empire, and Seven Star Empire its vassal kingdoms.
• The Star Ancient Empire and the three kingdoms released joint announcements and promoted the Empire’s currency, while public discussion of the news spread within their territories.

Queen Siof proposed linking the Elf Kingdom’s currency system with the Star Ancient Empire’s banking system, and Yang Lin’er outlined a plan for interstellar currency exchange and transfers. Yang Lin’er also introduced visa-free tourism between the two nations, leaving the Elf Kingdom’s officials to consider negotiations and security concerns.

• Queen Siof proposed automatically converting Elf Kingdom and Imperial currency when citizens crossed between their territories.
• Yang Lin’er told Siof that the Empire had prepared a proposal covering joint financial regulation, currency verification, exchange rates, and corporate transfers.
• Yang Lin’er explained that national treasuries would exchange the currencies while keeping them out of private circulation, with service fees applying to some transfers.
• Yang Lin’er said the Empire would add the currency proposal to its agenda and asked the Elf Kingdom to send representatives for negotiations and data matching.
• Yang Lin’er proposed visa-free tourism between the nations, while Duke Walker warned that open borders could allow spies to enter.

Bai Lin’s Sixth United Fleet suffered a devastating defeat in Wanda Realm after enemy reinforcements overwhelmed the front and wiped out the left wing. After watching General Wang Lin’s final message, Bai Lin ordered a withdrawal, prepared to destroy Wanda Realm, and called for reinforcements.

• Milamont reported that more than twenty billion enemy warships had arrived, and Bai Lin ordered him to withdraw while abandoning the frontline troops.
• A general reported that the left-wing troops had been annihilated after an enemy ambush that overwhelmed them and jammed their communications and radar.
• Bai Lin ordered all troops to withdraw from Wanda Realm and watched General Wang Lin’s final recording of the fleet’s last stand.
• Milamont saluted the fallen, while Bai Lin vowed to bring his comrades home and ordered Wanda Realm detonated before the enemy could claim it.
• Bai Lin contacted the Empire and the Second United Fleet to request reinforcements after the Sixth United Fleet lost more than half its strength.

Meng Tian warned Ying Zheng that Zhixin, Zhao Xin’s wife, could not be harmed without risking war with Merlo Heavenly Court, so Ying Zheng sent Meng Yi to negotiate. After learning that the Milky Way Galaxy had been sealed off, Sumali and Atoks abandoned their outing as Sumali prepared to help Zhixin if needed.

• Meng Tian told Ying Zheng that Zhixin and her child with Zhao Xin posed a diplomatic dilemma because Zhixin came from Merlo Heavenly Court.
• Lin Xiaoxiao urged Ying Zheng to send Zhixin back, explaining that Merlo Heavenly Court was a powerful unified civilization and that Zhixin had a royal-like status.
• Ying Zheng ordered Meng Yi to travel to Merlo Heavenly Court and preserve Great Qin's standing.
• Kunpeng rushed to report to Queen Ailan that the Milky Way Galaxy had been sealed off.
• Sumali canceled his plans with Atoks and said he would help his former apprentice's disciple if the crisis required it.

Emperor Yang Yu learned that Zhuye Qing would face trial for crimes tied to a decades-old military disaster and a recent resource embezzlement scheme. At the Star Ancient Empire Supreme Military Court, Zhuye Qing pleaded guilty to delaying a battle opportunity but accused the Walker Duke Family of obstructing his transport fleet and offering him compensation to bury the matter.

• Bai Mu told Yang Yu that Zhuye Qing would be tried for embezzling Imperial resources and was suspected of involvement in the destruction of a fleet thirty million years earlier.
• Yang Yu said the Four Great Families would not be targeted unless they betrayed him or harmed the Empire, then left Zhuye Qing’s case to be handled normally.
• The next day, envoys from the Seven Stars Kingdom, Elf Kingdom, and Half-Beastman Kingdom attended Zhuye Qing’s trial, which Night Chief presided over.
• Night Curtain presented evidence that Zhuye Qing had embezzled resources, accepted bribes, and delayed battle opportunities, and Zhuye Qing pleaded guilty.
• Zhuye Qing said the Walker Duke Family had blocked his transport fleet despite its passage permit and later offered the Empire ten percent of its resources and him compensation to keep quiet.

Bai Lin ordered the Sixth United Fleet to retreat while he stayed behind to cover its withdrawal, then destroyed the universe around the front line to stop the enemy’s advance. In the Green Forest Realm, Zhao Bing learned that the Empire had entered the Ninth-tier Sequence and that delayed supplies were finally arriving.

• Bai Lin ordered the Sixth United Fleet to withdraw toward the Green Forest Realm, with himself and the Star Mothership covering the rear.
• As the fleet fought while retreating, Bai Lin caused the Wanda Realm’s universe to collapse and explode, frightening the allied enemy forces into halting their advance.
• Milamont and Zhao Bing led the retreating forces into the Green Forest Realm, where they met Lu Dequan and learned that Old Seven and Wang Lin had died with their fleets.
• Zhao Bing accused the Empire of abandoning the Sixth United Fleet, but Lu Dequan blamed the Elf Kingdom’s tariffs for delaying supplies and explained that the Empire had entered the Ninth-tier Sequence.
• Lu Dequan arranged for the exhausted troops to receive supplies and said he would report their losses and request more T0 Class United Fleets.

Yang Nanfei led Star Ancient Empire forces to the Elf Kingdom’s fortress and arrested Karl Walker for intercepting an allied supply convoy. He warned Baron Scott against further interference and returned to his fleet, while the Elf officers accepted that they could not challenge the Empire.

• Yang Nanfei presented Queen Siof’s and Emperor Augustus’s authorization documents to Baron Scott, who allowed the Empire’s soldiers into Karl Walker’s lounge.
• Yang Nanfei identified himself and announced Karl Walker’s arrest by order of the Emperor, the Supreme Military Court, and the Nightfall Commander.
• Karl Walker protested that the Elf Kingdom should judge him, and Yang Nanfei slapped him and accused him of endangering allied soldiers by intercepting a transport convoy.
• Yang Nanfei ordered the soldiers to take Karl Walker away and warned Baron Scott that further convoy interceptions would bring consequences.
• Baron Scott’s adjutant complained about Yang Nanfei’s arrogance, but Baron Scott asked whether the Elf Kingdom dared provoke the Ninth-tier Star Ancient Empire.

Queen Siof reclaimed control of the Elf Kingdom, while the Star Ancient Empire completed a vast defense line in five-dimensional space. The line could withstand an Eighth-tier Sequence, but Nan Wentian warned that it could not stop a Ninth-tier Sequence.

• Queen Siof forced the nobles to choose their families' future paths, expelled those from improper positions, and ordered their families to relocate to the Life Realm.
• Mashkov Crouch praised Siof's victory and sent her a congratulatory gift, while the Seven Stars Kingdom also sent gifts and concluded its trial of Zhuye Qing.
• Yang Yu accepted Siof's gift of resources and ordered Night Chief to hand Karl Walker over to the Elf Kingdom.
• The Mechanical Race completed the Empire's defense line across five-dimensional space after the Dimensional Black Hole remained inactive for nearly a month.
• Bai Wen praised the completed line, but Nan Wentian warned that it could resist only an Eighth-tier Sequence.

Bai Wen urged the military to keep its defensive barrier while awaiting Ninth-tier Sequence battleships, as the Imperial Academy of Engineering debated weapons for the second-generation Star-class Battleship. Yang Feng selected Void Annihilation Weapons as its primary weapon, but said the first-generation ships’ deployment depended on Imperial Treasury funding.

• Bai Wen told Nan Wentian that the defensive barrier could reduce casualties and ordered a message sent to the Battleship Weapons Research Institute asking when battleships could be equipped.
• Academicians at the Imperial Academy of Engineering argued over whether the second-generation Star-class Battleship should use Causality Weapons or Spacetime Annihilation Weapons.
• Yang Feng ended the dispute by choosing Void Annihilation Weapons as the second-generation ship’s primary weapon and Gene-Suppression Generator Weapons for its rapid-fire secondary guns.
• Yang Feng said other heavy weapons would go to first-generation Star-class Battleships and Starry Sky-class Command Motherships, while older battleships were retired.
• When his secretary reported Bai Wen’s inquiry about the first-generation ships entering service, Yang Feng blamed the deployment schedule on the Imperial Treasury’s release of funds.

Bai Lin’s forces suffered a catastrophic defeat in Wanda Realm as enemy reinforcements overwhelmed the front and annihilated the left wing. After watching General Wang Lin’s final message, Bai Lin ordered a retreat, the destruction of Wanda Realm, and an urgent call for reinforcements.

• Milamont reported that more than twenty billion enemy warships had arrived, and Bai Lin ordered him to prepare to withdraw while sacrificing the frontline forces to cover the retreat.
• A general reported that the left-wing forces had been wiped out in an ambush by an enemy force more than a hundred times their size, using equipment that blocked communications and radar.
• Bai Lin ordered all forces to evacuate Wanda Realm and watched General Wang Lin’s final recording as Imperial ships and soldiers fought to the death.
• Milamont saluted the fallen, and Bai Lin ordered Wanda Realm detonated before demanding reinforcements and support from the Second United Fleet.

Bai Lin ordered the Sixth United Fleet to retreat while he stayed behind to cover the withdrawal, and the battle in the Wanda Realm escalated into the destruction of a universe. At the Green Forest Realm, Milamont’s retreating forces learned their supply delay was tied to the Elf Kingdom, while Lu Dequan promised to report their losses and request reinforcements.

• Bai Lin ordered the Sixth United Fleet to fall back toward the Green Forest Realm and chose to remain behind with the Star Mothership to cover the retreat.
• The retreating fleet groups fought as they withdrew, then watched the Wanda Realm collapse and explode, causing the opposing allied forces to hesitate.
• Milamont led his fleet group into the Green Forest Realm, where he encountered Lu Dequan and the arriving supply convoy.
• Zhao Bing told Lu Dequan that Old Seven and Wang Lin had fallen, their fleet groups had been wiped out, and the Sixth United Fleet had suffered heavy losses.
• Lu Dequan blamed the Elf Kingdom’s tariffs for delaying supplies and explained that the Empire had entered the Ninth-tier Sequence.
• Lu Dequan told the troops to rest, said their supplies had arrived, and promised to report their situation and seek more T0 Class United Fleets.

As the Star Ancient Empire entered wartime readiness, the Cabinet coordinated citizen mobilization, public security, resources, and education. Long Ye left the meeting with every minister agreeing to carry out the Empire’s preparations.

• The Empire sent mobilization notices to citizens, and reserves boarded warships as citizens applied to join the military.
• Han Yin objected that officials’ families were recalling adult members in violation of the law, but Lin Yu defended their willingness to sacrifice for the Empire.
• Lin Yu warned that public security and the judiciary must enforce Imperial law impartially during wartime and said officials who abused their authority would lose everything.
• Long Ye prioritized resources over funding, and Yang Lin'er agreed to plans for greatly expanding mining and transport ship production.
• Long Ye ordered military instruction and compressed schedules at higher education institutions, and directed officials to investigate campus bullying and send lawbreakers to the front.
• The Finance Ministry, judiciary, Public Security Department, and Education Ministry each agreed to carry out their assigned work.

The Elf Kingdom's cabinet confronted the consequences of delayed reinforcements and the Star Ancient Empire's true wartime mobilization. Queen Siof's ministers debated conscription and warship shortages, and agreed to ask the Empire for ships and production-line assistance.

• Queen Siof demanded that Marshal Augustus explain why the Elf reinforcements had taken half a month to reach the front, contributing to losses of more than seven hundred million warships.
• Siof warned the cabinet that the Star Ancient Empire had mobilized its reserves and citizens, while Polant described the Empire's militarized training and expanded fleet strength.
• Prime Minister Lanny Leon proposed making every Elf a soldier, but the Minister of Finance warned that the kingdom lacked warship production capacity and many citizens did not want to fight.
• Augustus proposed sending officials' and nobles' children and relatives to the frontline first and punishing anyone who caused trouble.
• Lanny Leon urged the kingdom to request warships and engineering help from the Empire, and the cabinet agreed to ask whether it would provide them.

Yang Lin'er rejected Yang You's plan to sell warships to the Elf Kingdom, then proposed trading warships for mining and transport ships. Yang Yu approved the proposal in principle and suggested cultivating several civilizations in the Primordial Universe to balance one another.

• Yang You urged Yang Lin'er to sell warships to the Elf Kingdom so its forces would be drained in the war, but she refused and had Long Wen escort him out.
• Long Wen said the plan might work, but Yang Lin'er insisted she needed the Emperor's approval and hurried to find Yang Yu.
• Yang Lin'er explained that the Empire lacked enough mining and transport ships to extract resources from two regions and proposed trading equipped warships for ships made on the Elf Kingdom's production lines.
• Yang Yu agreed that Yang Lin'er could proceed if the trade worked, then proposed cultivating the Angel Civilization, Lieyang Civilization, and Earth Human Federation to check and balance one another.

Yang Lin'er advised Yang Yu on how to strengthen the Empire’s position in Star World and guide the Primordial Universe’s civilizations onto the wider stage. She ordered the Academy of Engineering to revive the First Emperor of Qin and the Terracotta Warriors and to help the major civilizations develop.

• Yang Lin'er criticized the Earth Human Federation and asked who should lead it, while Yang Yu and Secretary-General Bai Mu discussed possible candidates and the Federation’s dangers.
• Bai Mu explained that Lieyang had split into factions led by Empress Di Lena and the Regent King, and Yang Yu said the Super God Universe was ready to enter the wider conflict.
• Yang Lin'er proposed sending the Empire’s Ninth-tier Sequence warships to Star World to force the myriad races to cede territory, then using the resources and allied civilizations to prepare for the Outer Realm.
• After Yang Lin'er left, she told Yang You to offer T0-class warships to the Elf Kingdom if it agreed to the Empire’s terms.
• Yang Lin'er ordered Li Muyao to have Imperial Academy of Engineering scholars revive the First Emperor of Qin and the Terracotta Warriors and help the Angel Civilization, Lieyang Civilization, and Earth Human Federation grow.

Lin Xiaoxiao and Li Bing'er were assigned to help the Earth Human Federation revive the First Emperor and his terracotta army so he could reclaim control over Earth. At the First Emperor's Mausoleum, they began reviewing his past, while remaining wary of the Empire's restrictions on altering space-time.

• Lin Xiaoxiao and Li Bing'er received orders to support the Earth Human Federation by reviving the First Emperor and his terracotta army.
• The two agreed to work together, with Li Bing'er handling the mausoleum's biological research and Lin Xiaoxiao managing space-time, energy, and power.
• They traveled to the First Emperor's Mausoleum and found it remarkably well preserved because excavations had stopped after humanity faced extraterrestrial threats in 1999.
• Li Bing'er said she could scan the First Emperor's genes but not his memories, and Lin Xiaoxiao warned her against interfering with the laws of space-time.
• Lin Xiaoxiao opened the space-time management interface and began observing the First Emperor's life from his birth through his ascension to the throne.

Lin Xiaoxiao and Li Bing'er resurrected the First Emperor and his buried Terracotta Warriors, triggering upheaval across the Qinling Mountains. As the mausoleum emerged, General Meng Tian and the other warriors awakened and confronted Zhao Xin.

• Night Ten paused time, confirmed their assignment, and gave Lin Xiaoxiao and Li Bing'er ten minutes to restore the First Emperor's memories before forbidding further private exploration of time and space.
• Lin Xiaoxiao and Li Bing'er recorded the First Emperor's life and restored his memories, while Li Bing'er used the Qinling Mountains' vitality to regenerate his body.
• The earth shook, uncontrollable thunderclouds formed over the Qinling Mountains, and people across nearby cities heard the ancient Qin battle song "The Song of No Clothes."
• Qi Lin and Zhao Xin investigated the disturbance, and Zhao Xin flew toward the Qinling Mountains after Qi Lin explained the song's historical significance.
• The Qinling Mountains parted to reveal the imperial mausoleum, where the awakened General Meng Tian attacked Zhao Xin for hovering above the First Emperor.
• The Terracotta Warriors opened their eyes, shed their earthen coverings, and marched out of the mausoleum in battle formations.

First Emperor Ying Zheng awakened in the Qinling Mountains, projected his image across the Milky Way, and ordered Great Qin forces to seal the galaxy. The Federation's super soldiers were left powerless outside his mausoleum as Lord Wu'an led Qin troops toward the borders.

• A radiant pillar erupted from Mount Li Imperial Mausoleum, and Ying Zheng's declaration and image appeared across the Milky Way.
• Li Si, Wei Liao, Feng Jie, Meng Tian, Meng Yi, Meng Ao, Wang Jian, Bai Qi, and the terracotta warriors welcomed Ying Zheng as he rose from his coffin.
• A Qin general struck at the Earth Human Federation delegation, and Zhao Xin rescued the warship halves after Ge Xiaolun dodged the sword.
• Ying Zheng ordered Lord Wu'an to seal the Milky Way and destroy any nation that crossed its borders.
• Lord Wu'an led eight thousand Qin Elite Soldiers toward the galaxy's borders, while the Federation super soldiers fell before the two thousand remaining Qin soldiers.
• Liu Chuang recognized Lord Wu'an as possibly Bai Qi, the famed Human Butcher.