Chapter Summaries

In Seven-Dimensional Space, Yang Yue learned that her presence could awaken the dormant Taboo Civilization, whose leaders and military forces began returning after tens of billions of years. The Taboo Civilization and the Zerg Mother Empress headed for the Chaos Vortex, where the sealed master was waiting.

• He told Yang Yue that her existence could awaken the dormant Taboo Civilization and trusted him to handle the situation below.
• Order Guardian, Wisdom Guardian, and Sky Shield Guardian requested reinstatement, while powerful Taboo figures announced their return across the Eternal Worlds.
• The divine temple approved the current cabinet’s handover, and the Military Department sent its T0-Class Joint Fleets toward the Chaos Vortex.
• The Zerg Mother Empress awakened, devoured her subordinates, and descended on the Taboo World to ask where her master was.
• Mystic Woman told the Zerg Mother Empress that her master’s seal was in the Chaos Vortex, and she rushed there ahead of the fleets.

The Zerg Mother Empress joined the Forbidden Zone leaders to discuss breaking the seal in the Chaos Vortex and confirm whether her master had returned. Meanwhile, Yang Yu abandoned the Mo Yu Realm, ordered its commanders to stand trial, and declared war on the Zerg, prompting the Elf Empire to offer an alliance.

• The Zerg Mother Empress arrived in the Chaos Vortex and learned that the Lord of the Dark Forbidden Zone had sensed the former Lord of Star and Moon, but not her master.
• The Zerg Mother Empress said the gathered beings could break the seal in three days to half a month, and God of Slaughter and Shura briefly arrived to confirm a fact before returning to their fleet.
• Secretary-General Bai Mu informed Yang Yu of the situation, and he issued orders abandoning the Mo Yu Realm and bringing the Sixth Joint Fleet's commanders back to the Imperial Capital for trial.
• Yang You declared war on the Zerg on behalf of the Star Ancient Empire, shocking civilizations across the Star World.
• Elf Queen Xiofu ordered Lanny Leon to seek an alliance with the Star Ancient Empire and offered to send an army against the Zerg.

Elven Queen Xiofu chose to seek a strategic alliance with the Star Ancient Empire despite the risks of opposing the Anti-Star Ancient Alliance. As the Empire mobilized for war against the insect race and prepared to respond to the Elf Empire, its officials considered the alliance proposal.

• Xiofu ordered Lanny Leon to apply for an alliance with the Star Ancient Empire and prepare the Elf Empire’s forces to attack the insect race if war began.
• Xiofu explained to the Goddess of Life that she distrusted the divided Anti-Star Ancient Alliance and wanted comprehensive cooperation with the Star Ancient Empire; the Goddess supported her decision.
• Bai Wen deployed the Empire’s joint fleets to the insect race’s border, the Elf Empire’s border, the Mo Yu Realm, and the Empire’s defensive domains.
• Michelle Rhine offered the Star Ancient Empire a strategic alliance, access to the Elf Empire’s Star Boundary Line, and trade benefits.
• Yang You agreed that the Empire could accept diplomatic trade and sent for the Emperor’s and Military Department’s approval of strategic cooperation.

The Star Ancient Empire’s cabinet approved comprehensive strategic cooperation with the Elf Empire and assigned the negotiations to Minister of Finance Lin Er. The Elven Queen ordered Prince Bolante and General Milameng to travel to the Star Ancient Empire to negotiate the agreement.

• Minister of Finance Lin Er proposed selling warships to the Elf Empire in exchange for mined resources, explaining that the ships could be remotely controlled if used against the Star Ancient Empire.
• Secretary-General Bai Mu told the cabinet that His Majesty had authorized it to handle the cooperation and urged it to protect the empire’s interests while treating the Elf Empire fairly.
• Prime Minister Long Ye approved comprehensive strategic cooperation, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Yang You informed the Elf Empire’s ambassador that the sides would negotiate the details.
• After receiving Michelle Rhine’s report, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lanny Leon asked the Elven Queen whether to send a minister to negotiate.
• Xiofu ordered Bolante and Milameng to depart for the Star Ancient Empire the next day and negotiate with its cabinet.

Yang Yu approved a strategic alliance with the Elf Empire as the Star Ancient Empire prepared for war against the Zerg. Meanwhile, three Taboo Experts broke the Chaos Vortex seal, but the Forbidden Guardian blocked them from entering the new world.

• Yang Yu told Bai Mu that the Elf Empire could claim any Zerg territory it seized and discussed the Empire's future with Lin Er.
• Three days later, Bolante and Milameng arrived to negotiate the strategic alliance, and Bai Wen joined the talks.
• Three Taboo Experts broke the seal on the Chaos Vortex, and the Zerg Mother Empress recognized a fresh world beyond it.
• The Forbidden Guardian and another returning figure appeared to block the Zerg Mother Empress, the Lord of the Forbidden Zone, and the Number Two Figure of the Forbidden Zone.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone challenged the Forbidden Guardian, who warned that the Lord of the Dark Forbidden Zone would be impossible to stop if the passage opened.

The Forbidden Guardian agreed to let the Dark Forbidden Zone Master and the Zerg Mother Empress work within the empire rather than fight them. Meanwhile, Yang Yu punished Bai Lin and the Sixth Joint Fleet for their roles in Mu Ying Princess Yang Yue’s failed experiment, while Lin Er chose the empire’s interests over her daughter.

• The Dark Forbidden Zone Master offered to work as a scientist, and the Zerg Mother Empress offered to protect the empire; the Forbidden Guardian agreed to their proposals.
• Yang Yu questioned Li Muyao, who insisted the experiment had succeeded but admitted Yang Yue remained unconscious despite becoming a Ninth-Order Lifeform.
• Bai Lin accepted responsibility for neglect of duty, attacking imperial officials, and illegal live experimentation.
• Yang Yu suspended Bai Lin pending investigation and reduced the star ranks of the other Sixth Joint Fleet commanders by four.
• Bai Mu asked whether Yang Yu would let the matter go, and he said he could not execute Bai Lin or all the commanders.
• Lin Er told Yang Yu she would handle the Imperial Academy of Engineering herself and that the empire’s interests came before her daughter’s.

Yang Yu punished the Imperial Academy of Engineering for using Yang Yue as an experimental subject, while sparing its researchers from harsher consequences. In Seven-Dimensional Space, the Lord of the Forbidden Zone and the Forbidden Guardian observed the empire and recognized a mysterious woman in the Imperial Palace.

• Yang Yu left Yang Yue in Bai Mu's care and returned to the Imperial Study, where Li Muyao was waiting.
• Yang Yu revoked Li Muyao's position as dean and ordered participating academicians to lose ten thousand years of salary and one Star Level.
• Yang Yu forbade Li Muyao from entering the imperial capital without his permission, and she accepted his orders.
• In Seven-Dimensional Space, the Lord of the Forbidden Zone and the Forbidden Guardian discussed the Star Ancient Empire's development and the Zerg's potential.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone noticed a woman in the Imperial Palace, and the Forbidden Guardian confirmed that she was the person the Lord suspected.

The Forbidden Guardian kept the Star Ancient Empire’s heir occupied while the Lord of the Forbidden Zone and the Zerg Mother Empress took on roles in the empire’s affairs. In the Primitive Universe, Ai Lan learned that rival civilizations and Merlot Home’s subsidiaries were becoming hostile, and Merlot Heavenly Court prepared to demonstrate its military strength.

• The Forbidden Guardian sent the Lord of the Forbidden Zone to act while the emperor’s removal of Li Muyao created an opening for him to rise to power.
• The Zerg Mother Empress left the Seven-Dimensional Space to intervene in the Star Ancient Empire’s Zerg experiments, while the Forbidden Guardian asked the empire’s heir to play chess and stay away from her duties.
• Over more than thirty thousand years, Ai Lan led Merlot Heavenly Court to become a 3.6-level sequence civilization after the Dark World framework was shut down.
• Angel Leng told Ai Lan that the Galaxy and Underworld River had clashed over resources and that the Lie Yang Civilization, De Nuo Civilization, and Triangular Bodies might be planning an assault on Merlot Home.
• Angel Leng reported that Merlot Home’s subsidiary civilizations were also stirring, and Ai Lan asked how the study of Earth Civilization’s military treatises was progressing.

Ailan weighed Merlot Home’s response to rival civilizations and the Nether River, then urged Ruo Ning to use hidden advanced weapons rather than openly display military force. He Xi asked Ailan for help with her disciple, but Ailan refused because the disciple had not returned.

• Ruo Ning urged Ailan to demonstrate Merlot Home’s military strength against Lieyang, Deno, and the Beast Body Civilization, while Keila advised mediation in the Nether River conflict.
• Ailan ordered diplomats to let the Subsidiary Civilizations choose whether to remain under Merlot Home’s protection and to make them sign an agreement forbidding planetary destruction.
• Ailan privately told Ruo Ning to use advanced technology such as the Teardrop Probe discreetly, including against Hua Ye’s Heavenly Palace Order.
• He Xi praised Ailan’s leadership but lamented that Merlot Home had lost the forcefulness it showed under Queen Keisha.
• He Xi asked Ailan for help with her disciple, but Ailan refused, pointing out that the disciple had not returned in all these years.

He Xi explained that the Dark Dimension’s closure had made the Void Engine unusable, then left Ailan to handle the Dark World research. On Lie Yang Star, Pan Zhen confronted Di Leina over her secret alliance with De Nuo and Ban Bo Lan and refused to let her lead Lie Yang into war.

• He Xi told Ailan that the Void Engine could no longer function without the Dark Dimension’s energy and shared what Merlot Home had learned about the Dark World before leaving through a spatial wormhole.
• Pan Zhen confronted Di Leina in the Cloud Firmament Treasure Hall about secretly cooperating with the De Nuo Civilization and the Ban Bo Lan Empire.
• Di Leina argued that war with the Merlot Heavenly Court was unavoidable and that Lie Yang needed to fight for its future.
• Pan Zhen warned Di Leina that the Angel Civilization was cultivating scholars and military leaders and that Lie Yang risked becoming cannon fodder if it acted rashly.
• Di Leina accused Pan Zhen of rebellion, and he declared that he would expel the envoys from De Nuo and Ban Bo Lan.

As Underworld prepared to invade the Milky Way, Ge Xiaolun and the Human Federation leadership considered how to respond and asked Zhi Xin to seek answers from the angels. Zhi Xin decided to return to the Angel Domain to visit her teacher and the sisters she had not seen for tens of thousands of years.

• Di Leina raged over Pan Zhen's return and his control of Lie Yang's military, which she could not command.
• Zhao Xin called Underworld's invasion a possible setup, while Ge Xiaolun and Liu Chuang prepared the Human Federation to fight back.
• Ge Xiaolun suggested that Zhi Xin return home and find out why Underworld was targeting the Milky Way.
• Zhi Xin declined Zhao Xin's offer to accompany her and decided to visit her teacher and former sisters.
• The next day, Zhi Xin set out for the Angel Domain, wondering whether her sisters and the familiar roads of Merlot Home remained.

After more than thirty-six thousand years away, Zhi Xin returned to Meru Star and reunited with Ling Xi, Fan Xing, and the other angels. Queen Ailan and Mo Yi suspected she had come seeking Merlot Home’s support because of trouble in the Milky Way, though Zhi Xin had not yet explained her reasons.

• Two young academicians discussed their stay in the Primitive Universe and prepared to return to the Empire.
• Zhi Xin returned to Meru Star and saw how greatly Heavenly City had expanded under Queen Ailan’s rule.
• Zhi Xin reunited with Ling Xi, Fan Xing, and other Legion Commanders, who asked whether she had returned because she was in trouble.
• Ling Xi told Zhi Xin that Sister Leng, Yan, Mo Yi, and Sister Zhui held important roles and were difficult to meet.
• Mo Yi told Ailan that Zhi Xin might be seeking Merlot Home’s support or testing its response to the Underworld’s invasion of the Milky Way.

At Merlot Hall of Governance, Ailan welcomed Zhi Xin back before turning to reports about Death God Karl's plans and possible involvement by Lie Yang, Deno, and the Beast Body Civilization. The meeting ended with Ailan ordering Ruo Ning to review and finalize regulations allowing Subsidiary Civilizations to leave Merlot Home's control.

• Zhi Xin greeted Angel Leng at Merlot Hall of Governance, then Ailan teased her about returning without her husband and child.
• After Zhi Xin left, Angel Leng reported that Death God Karl might be testing Merlot Home and using the conflict between the Nether River and the Milky Way to draw it into war.
• Ruo Ning said Pan Zhen's loyalty to Lie Yang made him unlikely to support an alliance with Deno and the Beast Body Civilization, though Ailan cautioned against lowering their guard.
• Keila presented draft regulations permitting Subsidiary Civilizations to leave Merlot Home's jurisdiction if they signed treaties restricting the destruction of planets and star systems.
• Ailan instructed Ruo Ning to review the regulations and finalize them that day.

A Lan warned Merlot Heavenly Court’s leaders to treat Zhi Xin as a member of the Earth Human Federation, while Zhi Xin reunited with her former sisters at a welcome-back gathering. At Oder Star, He Xi refused to intervene on Zhi Xin’s behalf, and Holy Keisha told A Lan that time had changed their loyalties.

• A Lan told Merlot Heavenly Court’s leaders to watch Zhi Xin closely and not share information with her without permission.
• Zhi Xin began packing at home, then welcomed Mo Yi, Ling Xi, Fan Xing, and the other sisters who came to see her.
• Mo Yi and Ling Xi brought Zhi Xin to a welcome-back party, where she asked whether Yan would attend.
• Zhi Xin reunited with Yan at the hotel and learned the sisters had paid a high price to invite her.
• He Xi told A Lan to judge Zhi Xin by her actions and arrest or execute her if she harmed Merlot Home’s interests.
• Holy Keisha told A Lan that Zhi Xin now belonged to the Earth Human Federation and that people’s loyalties could change over time.

He Xi and Holy Keisha discussed protecting Zhi Xin and Earth Star while wondering whether someone would save the Earth Human Federation if it faced extinction. Elsewhere, Bai Chen warned Sun Wukong not to interfere in the Federation’s troubles, while researchers in the Star Ancient Empire sought permission to investigate Earth Star’s past.

• He Xi told Holy Keisha she would protect Zhi Xin in the future war but would not concern herself with whether the Earth Human Federation survived.
• Holy Keisha explained that the empire could survive only by protecting Earth Star or ascending to the Four-Dimensional World, and she and He Xi wondered whether someone would aid the Federation.
• Bai Chen warned Sun Wukong that his duty was to guard the Primitive Universe and Earth Star, not to side with Earth’s people, and threatened him with the Imperial Military Tribunal if he broke the rules.
• Yang Yue learned that space-time research suggested the Star Ancient Empire was Earth Star’s first intelligent life-form.
• A Three-Star Academician asked Yang Yue for permission to study Earth Star’s past, hoping to learn whether the empire had been raised by someone else.

Yang Yue tried to stop a Three-Star Academician from secretly investigating whether civilizations had existed before the Empire, while the Empire Supercomputer Xingchen and another being considered strange mysteries surrounding the Eternal World. In the Chaos World, the Mystic Woman learned that the Forbidden Guardian had sealed the Chaos Vortex with Your Highness and ordered leading researchers to go there.

• Yang Yue warned the Three-Star Academician that uncovering the truth about civilizations predating the Empire could bring cruel consequences, but left after he insisted on pursuing it.
• The Three-Star Academician realized Yang Yue had chosen to ignore his plans and decided to investigate in secret.
• In Seven-Dimensional Space, the Empire Supercomputer Xingchen denied creating the early intelligent life, while another being questioned the Eternal World's unusual history and hidden destiny.
• The second-in-command of the Dark Forbidden Zone told the Mystic Woman that the Forbidden Guardian had sealed the Chaos Vortex and that Your Highness had accompanied him.
• The Mystic Woman ordered the president of the Imperial Academy of Engineering and directors of several research institutes to hurry to the Chaos Vortex.

At Mystic Woman’s command, the Imperial Academy of Engineering reunited at the Chaos Vortex to investigate it, while powerful figures watched the protected Research Mothership arrive. The academicians began assigning research duties, including having the biological genetics institute study the Life Law.

• The Taboo Civilization’s engineering academicians and Research Motherships gathered at the Chaos Vortex, where Mystic Woman’s presence deterred potential attackers.
• President Di asked President Bai whether they could defeat Shadow, and President Bai warned that doing so would amount to rebellion.
• The Engineering Academy’s former dean reunited with the vice dean and other Five-Star Academicians aboard the Research Mothership.
• The vice dean lamented the absence of a former colleague, while the vivacious director redirected the conversation to the work ahead.
• The dean ordered the academicians to return to their departments and study the Chaos Vortex, assigning the Life Law to the biological genetics institute.

The Forbidden Guardian and a woman discussed the empire’s scientific progress and the return of influential figures as the Zerg threat grew. At the Mo Yu Realm front, Bai Wen prepared the empire’s T0-Class fleets for a decisive offensive against the Zerg and ordered them to destroy the Zerg Mother Empress if she entered the battlefield.

• The Forbidden Guardian told the woman that the empire had advanced impressively despite lacking powerful allies and complete technology, while she decided not to interfere with events.
• The Forbidden Guardian explained that Qin, Jiang, Bai, and other former leaders had returned after sensing the woman’s revival, and that the Engineering Academy might soon harness the Chaos Vortex’s laws.
• Bai Wen ordered the T1-Class Joint Fleet withdrawn and prepared the T0-Class Joint Fleet to seize Zerg territory and prevent the Zerg from reproducing on a massive scale.
• Long Ya requested that the Second United Fleet lead the offensive and that the Sixth Joint Fleet be replaced because it lacked its commanders; Bai Wen approved both requests.
• Bai Wen declared that the empire could only win its war against the Zerg and ordered the fleets to destroy the Zerg Mother Empress if she entered the battlefield.

Long Ya led the Star Ancient Empire's T0-02 Joint Fleet into a full-scale assault on the Zerg, ordering the fleets to break through their Star Boundary Line and leave no Zerg alive. In the Forest Domain, Queen Xiofu learned the Empire had begun its attack and tasked Marshal Milameng with helping eliminate the Zerg.

• Long Ya ordered the First, Second, and Third Fleets to lead the assault and told the other fleets to bombard Zerg territory without letting any escape.
• The War Insect King signaled the Zerg forces to withdraw, but the T0-Class fleets struck before they could evacuate and destroyed the Zerg left behind.
• The Zerg Biological Mothership Group entered the battle, and Zerg Warriors charged the Empire's ships, where their self-destructing bodies released corrosive green mist.
• Long Ya ordered the fleets to prepare a frontal assault on the Zerg Star Boundary Line and gave the other Joint Fleets half an hour to break through.
• Queen Xiofu received news of the Star Ancient Empire's attack and ordered Marshal Milameng to make the Zerg disappear from the world.

Queen Xiofu arranged trade and cooperation with the Star Ancient Empire while preparing to use the war against the Zerg to weaken her political opponents. Yang Yu learned that the Mechanical Race might widen the conflict and that the De Nuo Civilization had contacted the Great Qin Empire, so he ordered a warning and threatened destruction if it crossed the line.

• Queen Xiofu assigned Prince Bolante to oversee trade with the Star Ancient Empire and guard against the Elf Empire’s rival families.
• The Goddess of Life agreed that the Zerg should pay for the Elf Race’s past humiliation, and Queen Xiofu resolved to act.
• Bai Mu told Yang Yu that the Elf Race had once lived in the Central Domain before internal division and the Mechanical Race drove it into the Forest Domain, where the Zerg devastated it.
• Yang Yu learned that the Mechanical Race might join the war and said the Empire would make it spend resources if it tried to start another conflict.
• Bai Mu reported that the De Nuo Civilization had contacted the Level-Five Great Qin Empire in the Primitive Universe, and Yang Yu ordered a warning and a lesson for those backing it.