Chapter Summaries

The System School principal investigated why Germany's World War II leader had entered the Huaxia Historical Emperor Chat Group. Ying Zheng sent Little Mustache a red packet that revealed parallel-world coordinates, then called for nearby emperors to respond.

• The principal told the dean of instruction to establish a cultivation branch school and recruit suitable people who had died naturally, while excluding those who had committed evil.
• The secretary reported that Germany's leader, Little Mustache, had appeared in the Huaxia Historical Emperor Chat Group, prompting the principal to inspect the messages.
• Ying Zheng explained Little Mustache's historical identity and discussed the fate of X Country's descendants with the other emperors.
• Ying Zheng sent Little Mustache an exclusive red packet, which revealed parallel time-and-space coordinates and prompted nearby emperors to volunteer to investigate.

The Star Ancient Empire strengthened its industry while the Primordial Universe settled into a balance among four powers. In the Merlo Heavenly Court, Ailan pushed for population growth as uninvited visitors approached the Governing Hall on a mission.

• The System School principal barred the director of academic affairs from interfering in Huaxia's history and warned him not to assign students to that period.
• Over the following year, the Star Ancient Empire mass-produced Type-II Law Battleships and drove the Orc Empire back, while the Imperial Insectoid Race pressed the Primordial Insectoid Race.
• The Primordial Universe's territory settled among the Merlo Heavenly Court, Lieyang Civilization, Great Qin Empire, and Styx Beastforms, with Great Qin hemmed into the eastern region.
• Uninvited visitors arrived on Merlo Star and headed unnoticed toward the Merlo Governing Hall to carry out their mission.
• Kaira reported that Merlo Homeland had 4,568 gou angels and devils, and Ailan ordered officials to promote childbirth and provide civilization-funded care for children.

Seven inspectors from the Elf Kingdom arrived during Merlo Heavenly Court’s annual meeting and said they had come to restore the status of its supposed Elf branch. Yang Xiuwen and Han Yan explained the kingdom’s power and urged the leaders to negotiate carefully, leaving the final decision to Ailan.

• Dylan Edwin introduced himself to Ailan as an inspector and eldest son of the Edwin Family from the Elf Kingdom.
• Yang Xiuwen arrived, recognized Dylan’s connection to the Star Ancient Empire, and asked him to let Merlo Heavenly Court finish its annual meeting.
• Dylan agreed to withdraw with his people, and Yang Xiuwen and Han Yan later told Liang Bing, Hexi, and Holy Kaisha that the Elf Kingdom might seek to make Merlo Heavenly Court a Vassal Civilization.
• Liang Bing warned that the Elf Kingdom might exploit Merlo Heavenly Court, while Han Yan advised them to negotiate favorable terms before the Empire’s researchers left.
• Holy Kaisha said Ailan had the authority to decide, and Liang Bing concluded that Merlo Heavenly Court should accept the branch claim and use the Elf Kingdom’s power to advance.

Ailan negotiated Merlo Homeland’s nominal vassalage to the Elf Kingdom, seeking scientific aid while preserving the homeland’s independence. After Dylan Edwin explained the terms and invoked the Life Goddess’s protection, Ailan signed the contract, which received divine recognition.

• Ailan argued to Kaisha, Liang Bing, and Hexi that Merlo Homeland should use its claimed connection to the Elf Race to advance, despite the risks.
• After the former queens left, Ailan summoned Merlo Homeland’s leaders to negotiate with Inspector Dylan Edwin.
• Dylan Edwin promised noninterference, scientific guidance, and no taxes, but required Merlo Homeland to take the lead whenever the Elf Kingdom needed it.
• Moyi suggested that the Elf Kingdom wanted Merlo Homeland to stage trouble and request help, and Dylan Edwin denied the interpretation.
• Dylan Edwin warned that breaking the contract would bring the Life Goddess’s punishment, and he described her as the Elf Race’s primordial creator and protector.
• Ailan signed as Angel King Ailan, and the Life Goddess’s image appeared on the contract to recognize it.

Dylan Edwin delivered six Elf Race scholars to Merlo Heavenly Court Homeland under an agreement that guaranteed their safety, while Ailan defended her decision to pursue freedom for the Angel Race. After learning Merlo had become an Elf Race vassal, Bai Yuan and Pan Zhen prepared to advance Lieyang’s war plans and seize Merlo’s territory when it left the Primordial Universe.

• Dylan Edwin introduced the six Elf Race scholars to Merlo’s leaders, and Ailan promised their safety before he departed to search for the Elf Race’s branches.
• Ailan explained to Huaye and Jiali Ya that she would accept any stain on her name to free the Angel Race from its constraints.
• Huaye and Jiali Ya pledged their support to Ailan, with Jiali Ya giving her the highest Devil salute.
• Ji Ming told Bai Yuan that Merlo had become an Elf Race vassal and could enter the Fourth-level sequence within a hundred years.
• Bai Yuan ordered Ji Ming to tell Pan Zhen to negotiate with Merlo and prepare to seize its territory once it left the Primordial Universe.
• Pan Zhen learned the war plan could be brought forward and eagerly asked whether the Dark Rift-class Battleship was nearly complete.

Lena asked Pan Zhen to arrange work for Qi Lin, and the generals proposed that Lena govern a planet to gain experience. The chapter ended with Wu Zhao informing Lena that she would govern Silver Sky Star and that Qi Lin would receive Fiery Sun identification.

• Lena asked Pan Zhen to let Qi Lin join the military, but he refused and told her Qi Lin could find work herself.
• The generals asked Pan Zhen to let Lena govern at the grassroots level, and he agreed to assign her a planet.
• Lei Yan proposed Silver Sky Star, a poor planet with nearly thirty million people under Yuan Li's jurisdiction, and Pan Zhen approved the choice.
• Yuan Li explained that Qi Lin could not find work because she was not a Fiery Sun citizen and the cabinet had refused to issue her identification over concerns about the Great Qin Empire.
• Pan Zhen ordered Yuan Li to obtain Qi Lin's identification, and Wu Zhao told Lena that she would govern Silver Sky Star and Qi Lin would be able to work.

Lena and Wu Zhao accepted that their former friendship had ended, while Lena prepared to leave for a new post. At Qi Lin’s residence, Fiery Sun officials offered her legal residency and identity documents, subject to a ban on entering the military or political spheres.

• Wu Zhao left Lena’s bedchamber and reminded herself that she was now Lena’s subject, not her friend.
• Wu Zhao declined Yuan Li’s invitation to attend the battle-planning meeting and went home to rest.
• Lena told Qi Lin she had been assigned to govern the Celestial River Star System under the Western Theater.
• Fiery Sun law enforcement officers arrived to verify Qi Lin’s residence and offered to process her residency and identity documents.
• Qi Lin learned she could live in Fiery Sun long-term as long as she stayed out of its military and political spheres.

Lena helped Qi Lin obtain Fiery Sun citizenship and gave her ownership of a house before leaving to take up her post. Pan Zhen learned that Lena was beginning to understand the truth about her past and sent Xuan Tianji to pursue marriage with Miss Lin.

• Qi Lin worried that Lena had sacrificed her own future to secure her identity, but Lena denied making any deal with Pan Zhen and said she would become a governor.
• Two law enforcement officers registered Qi Lin as a Fiery Sun citizen with a household registration in Cloudsoar City.
• Qi Lin told Lena that Huang Lao had asked them to protect Earth's humans, and Lena welcomed her back before transferring her house to Qi Lin and leaving for her new post.
• Pan Zhen told Xuan Tianji that Lena was beginning to understand the truth and that he no longer needed to monitor Qi Lin.
• Pan Zhen gave Xuan Tianji the day off and ordered him to visit Old Lin with gifts to pursue Miss Lin for marriage.
• After Xuan Tianji left, Pan Zhen worried about Xiao Zhao and decided Lena had to handle her own affairs.

Fiery Sun’s commanders debated preparations for war with Styx and the threat posed by the Great Qin Empire and the Void Species. Pan Zhen then met Ailan on Merlo Star, where she offered Fiery Sun territory and resources under strict conditions, leaving him to respond.

• Yuxu, Lei Yan, and Xuan Kun debated how Fiery Sun should prepare for war with Styx while guarding against the Great Qin Empire.
• Yuan Li warned the commanders that the Void Species were real, powerful, and beyond their ability to track, and the meeting ended with orders to refine battle plans.
• Two days later, Pan Zhen arrived on Merlo Star and met Ailan, who recalled his former imprisonment there.
• Ailan offered Fiery Sun half the universe’s territory and resources for five hundred years but refused to give up Merlo Homeland’s population.
• Ailan demanded that Fiery Sun avoid destroying stars or planetary systems and warned that Merlo Heavenly Court would eliminate Fiery Sun if it broke that condition.

Pan Zhen and Ailan discussed Lieyang’s ambitions, the people it had taken in, and the strength of the Void Race. After Angel Leng reported that the Great Qin Empire was seeking an alliance with Styx, Pan Zhen and Ailan prepared for the possibility of facing them together.

• Ailan teased Pan Zhen about Lieyang’s challenge in defeating the Great Qin Empire, and Pan Zhen insisted Lieyang had to reach the summit in this era.
• Pan Zhen said Lieyang had given Qi Lin an identity and would let her stay, while Ailan explained that Zhixin would teach students and her child would be left to live alone under Lieyang’s jurisdiction.
• Pan Zhen asked about the Void Race, and Ailan described its nine powerful members and said their king was between the fourth and fifth generations.
• Angel Leng reported that the Great Qin Empire had sent Meng Yi to Deathsong Academy and might be seeking an alliance with Styx against Lieyang.
• Ailan and Pan Zhen acknowledged the pressure of a Great Qin–Styx alliance, but Ailan declared that Lieyang would face whatever came.

Death God Karl rejected Meng Yi’s alliance proposal, judging that the Great Qin Empire would eventually turn against Styx. After sending Meng Yi away, Karl ordered the Void Race and Beast Civilization to prepare for war; Ying Zheng then called Bai Qi to discuss the Great Qin Empire’s next move.

• Meng Yi asked Death God Karl to ally with the Great Qin Empire, but Karl refused, calling Meng Yi’s people hypocritical gentlemen.
• Karl argued that Fiery Sun, the angels, and the Great Qin Empire shared outside assistance, and he saw no benefit in allying with Meng Yi.
• Karl sent Meng Yi out of Styx territory and told Snow to alert the Void Race and prepare the Beast Civilization for a possible attack by Lieyang Civilization.
• Meng Yi reported Karl’s refusal to Ying Zheng, who accepted it and ordered Meng Tian to summon Bai Qi to Zhangtai Palace.

As Great Qin Empire and Beast Civilization amassed forces, Pan Zhen weighed the danger of a two-front war and decided Fiery Sun would prepare to attack Styx while he personally went to Great Qin Empire. The chapter left Fiery Sun poised for war, with Pan Zhen warning that any threat from Great Qin could prompt Fiery Sun to destroy it.

• Bai Qi advised Ying Zheng to prepare for war, and Ying Zheng ordered him to position troops toward the western starfield while leaving Fiery Sun's embassy alone.
• Meng Tian reported that Fiery Sun's embassy showed no unusual behavior, and Ying Zheng suspected Fiery Sun might be using it to disguise its intentions.
• Pan Zhen heard that Great Qin Empire and Styx were massing forces, while his ministers warned a two-front war could drain Fiery Sun and ruin its chance to reach the summit.
• Pan Zhen ordered seventy-five percent of Fiery Sun's military to the southern starfield to await orders against Styx's Beast Civilization.
• Pan Zhen said he would travel to Great Qin Empire himself and ordered that Fiery Sun's forces destroy Great Qin first if it posed a problem.

Pan Zhen warned First Emperor Ying Zheng that Fiery Sun would destroy the Great Qin Empire if it obstructed Fiery Sun’s bid to claim the era. After Great Qin’s leaders accepted that they could not resist, First Emperor sought Lin Xiaoxiao and Li Bing’er’s help in having the two Academy Deans witness an agreement.

• Pan Zhen met First Emperor Ying Zheng and implied Fiery Sun would fight Great Qin to the end if it stood in the way.
• First Emperor summoned the cabinet, and Feng Jie, Bai Qi, and Li Si discussed Great Qin’s inability to match Fiery Sun’s strength.
• Great Qin’s officials agreed to yield the era for now and proposed having the two Academy Deans witness Fiery Sun’s guarantee.
• First Emperor asked Lin Xiaoxiao and Li Bing’er to bear witness, and both women agreed.

After Fiery Sun agreed to coordinate with the Great Qin Empire against the Beast Civilization, Ailan quietly ordered Ruoning to conduct a live-fire exercise. Ruoning mobilized her ten legions and selected a galaxy near Fiery Sun as the battlefield.

• Pan Zhen ordered troops stationed along the Beast Civilization's border and directed officials to discuss opening trade with the Great Qin Empire.
• Ailan learned that Fiery Sun had compromised with the Great Qin Empire, while Angel Leng reported that the Void race was gathering forces for a major battle.
• Ailan instructed Ruoning to take her ten legions out for a restrained exercise.
• Ruoning ordered all ten legions to assemble by 18:00, demanded warship maintenance reports, and warned commanders that concealed problems would make them responsible.
• Ruoning activated the Type III Heavenly Base Superbody and chose the Elliptical π2586 Galaxy, about five million light-years from Fiery Sun's Tianhe Stellar System, as the live-fire exercise battlefield.

Merlo Heavenly Court secretly moved its forces into the Elliptical π2586 Galaxy while its leaders wondered what Ruoning was planning. At the Celestial River Star System, Ji Ming advised Pan Zhen to wage a quick war against Styx and limit losses, leaving Pan Zhen to suspect Merlo might intervene if Fiery Sun weakened.

• Liu Yue and Ailin discussed Ruoning's unexplained troop mobilization, while Ailin argued that eating helped them feel alive.
• Huaye complained that Ruoning's forces had entered his warzone, but Ailin advised him to pretend nothing was happening.
• Ruoning received reports that the ten legions had entered the Elliptical π2586 Galaxy with 3.5 million combat ships and seven million escort ships, then ordered them into stealth positions and forbade communication between them.
• Ruoning refused to answer Sumali's urgent messages and ordered the fleets to cut off communications and switch to an independent combat system.
• Ji Ming told Pan Zhen that the academy would not interfere in a war with Styx and advised him to fight a lightning war with fewer losses.
• Pan Zhen suspected that Merlo Heavenly Court might act against Fiery Sun if its losses became too great, but Ji Ming warned him not to jump to conclusions.

Pan Zhen reconsidered Fiery Sun’s war plans after realizing Merlo Heavenly Court might attack if Fiery Sun weakened, and he convened the leadership to choose between a blitzkrieg against the Beast Civilization and waiting. The leaders agreed to withdraw most forces while keeping the Southern Starfield Theater mobilized for a hundred years, until it could be equipped with Dark Rift-class Battleships.

• Pan Zhen returned to his residence troubled after bidding Academician Ji Ming farewell, then ordered Wu Zhao to summon the cabinet ministers and senior military leadership despite it being a rest day.
• Pan Zhen told the meeting that Fiery Sun could either swiftly conquer the Beast Civilization or wait for Merlo Heavenly Court to leave the Primordial Universe before taking its territory.
• Prime Minister Lin Han recommended avoiding war for now, secretly withdrawing most army groups, and keeping the Southern Starfield Theater mobilized to expose and arrest Merlo spies through an internal purge.
• Yuxu, Yuan Li, and Xuan Kun agreed to withdraw forces, and Lin Han said the Southern Theater should remain mobilized for one hundred years to receive Dark Rift-class Battleships.

Ying Zheng brought Great Qin warships through a dimensional gate to Earth in 1937 and ordered them to capture one hundred million impoverished people to replenish his empire’s population. After Zhu Di reported the mass disappearances, Ying Zheng explained to the Emperor Chat Group that Great Qin had fallen from four dimensions and needed its Huaxia descendants to rebuild.

• Ying Zheng ordered Ying Yinman to prepare ten advanced warships and secretly led them through a dimensional gate to the Solar System.
• Ying Yinman’s crew identified Earth as a Level 0.2 civilization in August 1937, and Ying Zheng ordered them to capture people and eliminate the forces bullying them.
• Ying Zheng ordered the ships to seize one hundred million impoverished people, prioritizing the southwest and northwest, and families vanished across those regions.
• Zhu Di asked the Emperor Chat Group for help after discovering the southwest’s population had disappeared on a massive scale.
• Ying Zheng told the group that Great Qin had fallen from four dimensions after its universe was shattered and that he had come to gather Huaxia descendants to rebuild the empire.

After the war, Yang Yu lifted the Empire’s wartime alert but refused the Dwarf Empire’s offer of vassalage, aiming to break apart the Anti-Human Empire Alliance through diplomatic ties instead. He then learned of looming battles in the Fifth-dimensional Battlefield and a strange universe with Earth Star, and decided to investigate it himself.

• Yang Yu lifted the wartime alert and ordered the Empire to restore normal order and stabilize its economy and newly controlled starfields.
• Yang Yu rejected the Dwarf Empire’s request to become a vassal, saying it should leave the Anti-Human Empire Alliance before the Empire would establish diplomatic relations with it.
• Yang Yu ordered compensation for affected families and said the Empire would not wage war for the next hundred thousand years.
• Night Chief warned Yang Yu that large-scale combat was approaching in the Fifth-dimensional Battlefield and asked whether Star World’s Insectoid Race should be deployed there.
• Night Chief reported that the System Department had found a powerful, unusual universe containing Earth Star and a civilization of Sequence Level 4.3.
• Yang Yu ordered a warship prepared so he could investigate the strange universe himself.

The Time-Space Administration Bureau discovered that the hidden universe was alive and contained a Seventh-level Sequence Civilization, and Yang Yue ordered a fleet and the Imperial Academy of Engineering to prepare to take control of it while avoiding Earth Star. Yang Yu learned that the Active Universe could help the Empire develop research on Ninth-tier Lifeforms.

• The reconnaissance vessel entered the universe and detected a hidden Seventh-level Sequence Civilization and signs that the universe itself was alive.
• Yang Yue ordered a Type II warship group and the Imperial Academy of Engineering to be dispatched, while warning the Bureau not to touch the Solar System or alarm the universe’s controller.
• Night Chief reported the findings to Yang Yu, including that Earth Star was around the year 1937 and could not be provoked.
• Yang Yu asked about the Active Universe’s abilities, and Star explained that it could wield the power within itself but had limited strength outside it.
• Star said the Active Universe could assist the Empire’s research into Ninth-tier Lifeforms by helping improve its imperfect medicine.

Yang Yu ordered the Empire to investigate the newly discovered Active Universe, with Star assigned to monitor it. The Imperial Academy of Engineering mobilized researchers and a military escort to study the universe, and Yang Yue prepared to lead the investigation.

• Yang Yu told Star to monitor the Active Universe but not to intervene, and Star accepted the order.
• Long Ya ordered Long Xiao to lead the First Fleet to the three-dimensional coordinates and coordinate with the Imperial Academy of Engineering.
• Li Muyao reviewed the classified information about the Active Universe and urgently summoned senior researchers to a conference.
• The institute directors learned that Nightfall had confirmed the Active Universe and its Seventh-level Sequence Civilization, and Li Muyao ordered them to begin investigating.
• Yang Yue volunteered to lead the investigation, while Li Muyao arranged an escort and prepared the Research Mother Ship.