Chapter Summaries

The imperial court session established the Star Domain as a special administrative region and set the Empire’s development priorities. After the governors were ordered back to their territories, Yang Yue discussed funding for the new secondary capital with Yang Lin'er.

• The Supreme Inspection Court took the Star River Realm Governor into custody over unpaid project balances.
• Nan Kexin ordered all governors to leave the imperial capital within three days and return to their regions.
• Nan Kexin reunited with her father, Nan Wentian, who had only one day before returning to the front lines.
• Yang Yue gave Nan Mengxi a week off and noted that the secondary capital announcement would come on the first day of the first lunar month.
• Yang Yue asked Yang Lin'er about the special administrative region’s budget, and Yang Lin'er offered up to 1.2 times the imperial capital’s expenditure while warning that resources were limited.

Yang Lin'er and Yang Yu decided how the Empire would share its postwar wealth through New Year gifts, higher wages, and aid for allied civilizations and soldiers. Yang Lin'er accepted Yang Yu's broader distribution plan, leaving the Empire preparing to send out funds and resources after the New Year.

• Yang Lin'er raised the Empire's New Year red-packet fund from 100 million to 1 billion Starry Sky Coins and ordered it distributed over the first three days of the lunar year.
• Yang Lin'er ordered salary and benefit increases of 10% to 15%, directed the Imperial Bank to work through the holiday with tenfold wages, and arranged new currency issuance and resource allocations to the Vast Sea and Vast Forest Realms.
• Yang Lin'er told Yang Yu that she had approved the 1 billion Starry Sky Coin gift only for people within the Empire.
• Yang Yu proposed expanding the 10 billion Starry Sky Coin distribution to include the Elf Kingdom, Beastman Kingdom, and Seven Stars Kingdom, with 2 billion for each and the Empire receiving 40%.
• Yang Yu pledged 1 billion of his own funds for soldiers and compensation for fallen officers and soldiers, and Yang Lin'er agreed to carry out his plan.

Lin Jiu reflected on waiting for a future reunion, then accepted a New Year’s Eve dinner prepared for her by His Highness. In the Star World, Queen Siof learned that the Star Ancient Empire had sent funds for its vassal nations to distribute to their citizens.

• The Misty Figure visited Lin Jiu and advised her to focus on her present identity while waiting for the future.
• Lin Jiu went to a private New Year’s Eve dinner arranged by His Highness, and told Bai Wen they would meet again very soon.
• Payne Edwin reported that Imperial forces had mobilized across several domains, but Lanny Leon explained that the military mobilized each New Year to protect the celebrations.
• Prince Polant reported that the Elf Kingdom had received 2 billion Starry Sky Coins from the Imperial Ministry of Finance for its citizens.
• Queen Siof ordered 500 million Starry Sky Coins kept in the central treasury and the remaining funds converted and distributed to the elves as red envelopes.

As Merlo Heavenly Court neared its advancement to the Fourth-level sequence, Ailan tried to prevent the rising tensions among Fiery Sun, Great Qin, and Styx from disrupting Merlo Homeland. She issued the three civilizations a five-year ultimatum and mobilized Merlo’s forces to defend its borders.

• Angel Leng reported that Fiery Sun, Great Qin, and Styx were on the brink of war, so Ailan ordered warnings forbidding war for five years.
• Ailan consulted Holy Kaisha, Hexi, and Liang Bing, who said their preparations to leave the Primordial Universe would take three to five more years.
• Ailan summoned Merlo Heavenly Court’s senior military officers and ordered full military mobilization along the borders of Styx and Fiery Sun.
• Ailan forbade her forces from attacking without orders but directed them to strike immediately if either civilization started a war.

The Merlo Heavenly Court ordered civilizations to avoid war for five years, prompting Pan Zhen to pull back his forces and Karl to restrain the Void Race. Angel Leng then departed for the Great Qin Empire while Karl reflected on being unable to join the Merlo Homeland as Shenhe’s last inheritor.

• Wu Zhao told Pan Zhen that the Merlo Heavenly Court had forbidden conflicts for five years, and Pan Zhen ordered Lei Yan to withdraw and his fleet groups to return to Fiery Sun territory.
• Yuan Li reported that at least 200,000 Angel Domain warships under Sumali were advancing, while Yuxu reported that Atoks had assembled more than 500,000 warships and the Void Race had redirected forces against the Merlo Heavenly Court.
• Pan Zhen ordered all troops to return to their defensive regions and avoid war or conflict with the Styx Beastforms civilization for five years.
• Angel Leng told Karl that Queen Ailan and Queen Kaisha had forbidden wars for five years, and Karl agreed to obey Queen Kaisha’s order.
• Karl told Snow the Gravedigger to warn the Void Race to behave, then reflected that he could not join the Merlo Homeland because he was Shenhe’s last swordbearer.

Angel Leng warned Great Qin Empire that war was forbidden for five years, and Merlo Heavenly Court threatened a massive military response when Great Qin appeared to detain her. After Leng left, Lin Xiaoxiao discussed the Empire’s shift toward Star World and its plans to build a new imperial capital.

• Angel Leng warned First Emperor Ying Zheng that civilizations would face consequences if they fought during the next five years.
• When Bai Qi’s presence suggested Great Qin might keep her there, Angel Leng contacted Ruoning, who threatened to send ten million warships if Leng’s safety was not confirmed within half an hour.
• Ruoning, Liu Yue, Ailin, Kaira, and other Merlo Heavenly Court commanders discussed destroying Great Qin, while Sumali criticized the empire for daring to detain an Angel.
• Bai Qi withdrew after Ying Zheng questioned him, and Angel Leng left Earth Star for the Angel Domain.
• At a Sen Mountain villa, Lin Xiaoxiao told Li Bing’er that the Empire was abandoning low-dimensional worlds, merging Vast Sea and Vast Forest into a future imperial capital, and distributing New Year red packets.

Yang Xiuwen and Han Yan left Merlo Homeland as the universe-wide war between Fiery Sun, Great Qin, and the Beast Civilization began. Back in the Star Ancient Empire, scholars debated Ninth-tier Lifeforms and causality weapons, while Li Muyao set the Bio-gene Research Institute a thousand-year deadline to develop a genetic breakthrough.

• Ailan and the scholars of Merlo Homeland bid farewell to Yang Xiuwen and Han Yan, who departed through a beam of light.
• Fiery Sun and the Great Qin Empire declared war on the Beast Civilization and attacked, but the Void Race mounted a rapid counteroffensive.
• At the Bio-gene Research Institute, Li Muyao described Ninth-tier Lifeforms as existing across countless spacetimes and challenged scholars to develop a reagent that would break humanity’s final genetic shackle within a thousand years.
• At the Warship and Weapon Research Institute, Yang Feng discussed the unfinished Causality Weapon and its possible military and historical applications, while an academician dismissed ethical concerns as outside the institute’s remit.

Yang Yu mobilized the Empire after a Ninth-level Civilization invaded the Fifth-dimensional battlefield. The chapter ended with the Imperial Military Department rushing fleets and preparing for an imminent war.

• Yang Yu learned that a Ninth-level Civilization’s fleet had appeared in the Fifth-dimensional world and ordered the Cabinet and Imperial Military Department to respond.
• Yang Yu placed the Empire and its vassal civilizations on war readiness, ordered fleets to reinforce the battlefield, and directed agencies to secure supplies, public order, and the Xuanbing Realm.
• Prime Minister Long Ye pledged to organize two hundred million transport vessels, while Yang Yu ordered civilian factories to stockpile resources and prepare for military conversion.
• Bai Wen ordered the First and Eighth United Fleets toward the frontlines, coordinated the Insectoid Race’s preparation, and expanded the Empire’s reserves.

The Life Goddess told Queen Siof that a Ninth-level Civilization from the Outer Realm was attacking the Star Ancient Empire and that the Empire’s true main forces had long been resisting such invasions. Before leaving to join the battle, she charged Siof with protecting the Star World’s borders, and the Elf Kingdom began preparing to support the Empire’s war effort.

• Prime Minister Leon told Queen Siof that the Star Ancient Empire and its reserves were mobilizing for war, though the cause was unknown.
• The Life Goddess summoned Siof to the forbidden grounds and revealed that an Outer Realm Ninth-level Civilization was attacking the Empire.
• The Life Goddess explained that the Empire’s main forces had been defending the Star World from Outer Realm invasions and asked Siof to keep the Elf Race’s borders secure.
• Siof pledged the Elf Race’s support, and the Life Goddess departed with the Tree of Life to join the battle.
• Siof ordered the Elf Kingdom to prepare for war, convert major military docking ports to logistics production, and send fleets to the Dwarf and Beastman domains.
• The Half-Beastman Kingdom and the Seven Stars Kingdom learned of the Elf Kingdom’s deployment and made their own arrangements.

Bai Wen mobilized the Empire and its allies for war as the Ninth-tier Sequence civilization devastated a Mechanical Civilization fleet on the Fifth-dimensional Battlefield. After learning that enemy Ninth-tier Lifeforms had infiltrated and sabotaged the battlefield defenses, she ordered reinforcements and a counterattack.

• Bai Wen ordered the Empire's logistics fleets, reservists, and United Fleets to prepare for war, and assigned the Elf Kingdom, Half-beastman Empire, and Seven Star Empire to defend allied territories.
• Milamont, Ailin, and Augustus received deployment orders for the Elf Kingdom's fleets, while Bai Wen warned allied commanders to reach their assigned starfields within two days.
• Long Ya and Yang Ming reported that the Mechanical Civilization had lost more than three million warships in one exchange and that its reinforcement fleet faced destruction.
• Yang Ming explained that enemy Ninth-tier Lifeforms had infiltrated the Fifth-dimensional Battlefield and sabotaged the Mechanical Civilization's defenses.
• Bai Wen rebuked the Night Watch Department commander and ordered a thousand Ninth-tier experts to reach the battlefield within a day.
• Bai Wen ordered the Insectoid Race to replace the Mechanical Civilization and directed the Second and Third United Fleets, Nan Wentian, and Lin Feng to attack.

Grand Marshal Edwin Zacharias’s Guangyu Empire fleet faced an era-transcending strike from a Ninth-tier Sequence civilization, while the Star Ancient Empire’s commanders prepared a coordinated response with their vastly larger forces. The chapter left General Laura confronting a shadow-shrouded Night Watch Department expert at the Mechanical Race’s defense base.

• Edwin Zacharias learned that a Ninth-tier Sequence civilization had targeted his fleet with a strike arriving from the future and ordered the warships to disperse and prepare defenses.
• The Star Ancient Empire’s commanders estimated that the enemy vanguard had at least thirty million warships and planned coordinated attacks across spacetime and the Talos Universe.
• Long Ya connected with Nan Wentian, Lin Feng, and Yang Ming to organize the fleet deployment, while Lin Jiu and the Life Goddess arrived to guard the command staff.
• Night Watch Department experts reached the Mechanical Race’s defense base and began fighting the Outer Realm experts.
• General Laura challenged a dark-shrouded opponent, who dismissed her question.

Lin Jiu intervened when General Laura's Ninth-tier forces overwhelmed the Night Watch Department, killing them by draining their lives with tree-root tentacles. She explained to the frightened commander that this was the Tree of Life's true nature: life represented death.

• General Laura used his time-control powers to overpower the Night Watch Department squad leader and nearly kill him.
• Lin Jiu rescued the squad leader and pierced General Laura with a tree-root tentacle that disrupted his time domain.
• Lin Jiu's roots drained General Laura and the other Ninth-tier powerhouses until they vanished.
• The Night Watch Department commander watched Lin Jiu's display in fear, and Lin Jiu explained the Tree of Life's true nature.

Marshal Edwin Zacharias narrowly escaped a mysterious attack and ordered his forces to retreat after discovering the Mechanical Civilization’s overwhelming strength. He learned that millions of Guangyu Empire warships were already fighting the Insectoid Race and urged the trapped fleets to flee while he sought reinforcements.

• Green digit chains sealed off Marshal Edwin Zacharias’s route, and their shifting laws overwhelmed his Law of War defenses.
• A vast sword-bearing figure formed from green digits attacked Edwin Zacharias, but strikes from the Guangyu Empire shattered it and let him escape.
• Edwin Zacharias ordered General Ram and General Pierce to abandon their battle plans and retreat from the Mechanical Civilization’s blockade.
• Edwin Zacharias reported a Ninth-level Civilization, at least two Heavenly Dao Kings, and three hundred million law-level warships, then ordered the fleet to return and request reinforcements.
• General Ram revealed that more than five million warships were already fighting the Insectoid Race and that the Mechanical Civilization had collapsed.
• Edwin Zacharias ordered the engaged fleets to withdraw or descend dimensions and prepared to return for reinforcements.

The Silver-haired Youth arrived at the Dimensional Black Hole battlefield and learned that an enemy fleet of hundreds of millions of warships had overwhelmed the Guangyu Empire’s forces. Recognizing the warships’ familiar numbering, he suspected the civilization behind them was connected to someone he knew, then sensed a terrifying powerhouse approaching.

• Lin Jiu told Star to warn the foremost battlefield and forbid individual lifeforms from fighting without restraint.
• Star learned that the enemy had broken the rules, and Lin Jiu admitted that Star’s presence meant their side had broken them first.
• General Ram and Pierce reported that more than three million warships had been lost and that over three hundred million enemy ships had sealed off the battlefield.
• The Silver-haired Youth arrived with Marshal Edwin Zacharias and examined intelligence showing two types of enemy warships.
• The Silver-haired Youth identified the fleet as Sequence 08 and murmured that the warships might belong to someone familiar before sensing a formidable powerhouse across the cosmic starfields.

A silver-haired commander took charge of the Guangyu Empire’s outnumbered fleet and ordered a rapid redeployment as enemy forces advanced. When the opposing fleets launched a devastating attack, he ordered ships to self-destruct and the rear forces to break through the blockade, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• The silver-haired commander forbade Ninth-tier Lifeforms from joining the battle and ordered Marshal Edwin Zacharias to redeploy the Guangyu Empire’s forces within ten minutes.
• Edwin Zacharias reported that reinforcements would take at least eight hours, but the silver-haired commander demanded they arrive within four hours before the remaining fleet was overwhelmed.
• Marshal Long Ya ordered the Second United Fleet to attack immediately, while Lin Feng kept his undisclosed fleet groups in silent mode and the Space-Time United Fleet Group prepared to begin a space-time war.
• The Second, First, and Third United Fleets unleashed a massive barrage against the Guangyu Empire’s vanguard fleet.
• The silver-haired commander ordered the foremost Guangyu warships to self-destruct as enemy attacks landed, while rear fleet groups activated their Cosmic Law Warp Engines to break through the blockade.

The Empire’s fleets discovered that the enemy had used a logistics fleet as a decoy to hide its main force, then launched an extensive search. The silver-haired commander kept his fewer than eight hundred thousand surviving warships silent and concealed while waiting for the enemy’s scans and reinforcements.

• Long Ya ordered the fleets to investigate after Long Xiao reported that the enemy logistics fleet had disappeared.
• Yang Ming deduced that the enemy had used a spacetime disruption to disguise its main fleet as logistics ships, and the commanders suspected Bai Lin was behind the tactic.
• Long Ya ordered a wide interstellar sweep, maximum radar scans, and a search of every Space-Time Line.
• The Guangyu Empire’s remnant fleet split into smaller groups, shut down its systems, and drifted silently beyond the enemy’s defensive line.
• Marshal Edwin Zacharias reported that at least two hundred thousand warships had been lost in the destroyed Spatial Passage.
• The silver-haired youth ordered his fleet to stay silent, record the enemy’s signals and radar frequencies, and wait for the first three rounds of scans.

Nan Wentian and the other marshals prepared to search for the hidden enemy fleet while guarding the Dimensional Black Hole, and Bai Wen ordered Bai Lin’s Sixth United Fleet to secure their rear. As Bai Lin planned his approach, Duan Chenfeng proposed using Law Entanglement Sound-Making Technology and radar to expose enemy ships in absolute silence.

• Nan Wentian ordered the United Fleets to vary their radar bands and frequencies while searching the likely jump range, and Yang Ming warned that the enemy could attack from behind.
• Bai Wen ordered Nan Wentian, Long Ya, and Yang Ming to defend the Dimensional Black Hole and advance toward the Star World boundary, while Bai Lin took charge of the rest and the Sixth United Fleet prepared to provide rear security.
• Bai Lin led the Sixth United Fleet into dimensional descent and asked his commanders to identify where the enemy was hiding.
• Duan Chenfeng argued that the enemy would scatter only within a limited area and shut down their ships to avoid detection.
• Duan Chenfeng proposed combining Law Entanglement Sound-Making Technology with military radar to scan for and locate the silent enemy ships.

Bai Lin’s forces detected an anomaly and moved to destroy the universe where the Guangyu Empire fleet was hiding. The Silver-haired Youth realized the enemy had exposed his fleet and ordered the AI to activate the warships while keeping the command ship concealed.

• Bai Lin ordered his commanders to carry out their plan while preparing additional contingencies.
• The Silver-haired Youth ordered personnel below Ninth-tier Lifeform into hibernation pods and had the fleet transmit spatial oscillation signals.
• The Sixth United Fleet discovered an abnormal law-energy shield in Universe T-3586, and Bai Lin ordered nearby fleets to withdraw and deploy spatial suppressors.
• The Silver-haired Youth realized Bai Lin intended to destroy the universe and ordered the AI to activate the warships while the command ship remained hidden.
• The Silver-haired Youth asked how long the fleet would need to leave the universe without dispersing its gravitational lens.

The silver-haired commander tried to flee the destruction of Universe T-3586, but the super law death ray destroyed his spatial wormhole and annihilated the universe. Bai Lin ordered fleets to search nearby universes for survivors and warned the Second United Fleet to prepare for a possible covert attack.

• The silver-haired commander ordered three hundred thousand warships to flee at full speed while the fleet activated and prepared its spatial jump system.
• The super law death ray caught the fleeing command ship and destroyed its spatial wormhole as it tried to escape.
• Duan Chenfeng reported that more than eight hundred thousand enemy warships had been destroyed, and Bai Lin dispatched fleets to search Universes T-3590, T-3588, and T-3589.
• Bai Lin suspected enemy remnants might infiltrate the front line using copied radar frequencies, so he ordered additional searches and warned the Second United Fleet to prepare its defenses.
• Long Ya and Nan Wentian discussed how the Empire might justify Bai Lin’s destruction of a universe inhabited by Imperial citizens.
• A communications officer delivered Bai Lin’s warning that enemy forces might still survive and attack covertly.

Yang Yu and his advisers debated whether to open a second front against the Dragon Human Empire and the Mechanical Empire while the Empire fought an established Ninth-level Civilization. Yang Yue proposed disrupting their technological progress, and Yang Yu ordered the Fifth-dimensional Battlefield secured, authorizing a devastating defense-line weapon if necessary.

• Yang Yu questioned the Empire's diplomatic response as Minister Yang You explained that other civilizations feared the Empire's military mobilization.
• Bai Wen reported that the frontline could only be held steady with six hundred million warships and warned that enemy reinforcements might arrive.
• Bai Wen suspected the Dragon Human Empire and Mechanical Empire were using the Empire's war preparations as cover to expand and recover resources for advancement to Ninth-level Civilizations.
• Yang Lin'er and Bai Wen opposed opening a second front, citing the risks to the Empire's finances, development, and active war.
• Yang Yue advised temporarily abandoning the war in Star World and using the Imperial Academy of Engineering to lock other civilizations' technology, potentially steering them toward mysticism or cultivation.
• Yang Yu ordered Bai Wen to defend the Fifth-dimensional Battlefield and authorized use of the Imperial Capital Defense Line's Over-the-Horizon Spacetime Concept Destruction Strike if needed.