Chapter Summaries

Bai Jinghong and his deputies watched Wang Feng and Zhang Tie Zhu fight an Eighth-Order Elite Zerg Warrior until it overpowered them. Bai Jinghong rescued Zhang Tie Zhu and returned to the fight, where he attacked the Zerg as it tried to swallow Wang Feng.

• Bai Jinghong arrived on Wost Planet and told his deputies to let Wang Feng and Zhang Tie Zhu gain combat experience against the Eighth-Order Elite Zerg Warrior.
• The Zerg struck Wang Feng away, then attacked Zhang Tie Zhu and sent him into a cloud of dust.
• Bai Jinghong rescued the bloodied Zhang Tie Zhu, while the Left-Wing Deputy Legion Commander ordered him to retrieve his lost weapon.
• The Zerg burst from the ground and tried to swallow Wang Feng, but Bai Jinghong struck it with a blue-light attack and began a fierce assault.

Bai Jinghong killed the Rank Eight Zerg on Wost Planet, then condemned Wang Feng’s unit for their failure and left to handle other battles. At the Star Fortress, Bai Wen learned the Zerg had evolved defenses against individual weapons and approved a plan to fight them with institute-developed Zerg; she also received an order to protect an unnamed, highly gifted academician.

• Bai Jinghong split the Rank Eight Elite Zerg Warrior in two, ending the attack on Wost Planet.
• Wang Feng blamed Bai Jinghong for arriving too late to save Tie Zhu, but Bai Jinghong ordered him to leave the military and flew away.
• The Chief of Staff told Bai Wen that the Zerg had evolved carapaces resistant to individual weapons and that stronger commanders would be needed against their quasi-kings and kings.
• The Chief of Staff reported that the Emperor had approved the Biological Gene Research Institute’s request to test its Zerg against the Zerg, and Bai Wen agreed to the plan.
• Bai Wen learned that the military had been ordered to protect an academician at the Space-Time Research Institute, whose identity and other details had been sealed.

Lin Jiu finished her work at the Space-Time Research Institute and accepted the Nightfall Organization’s protection. At the Imperial Palace, Yang Yu approved a plan to abandon the empire’s Four-Dimensional and Five-Dimensional universes, relocate their citizens to the Six-Dimensional World, and shift the empire’s focus to higher dimensions.

• Lin Jiu sensed Nightfall Organization members observing her and accepted their protection after learning that someone had drawn the Emperor’s attention.
• Minister of Finance Long Ye presented a plan to cut the empire’s costly Four-Dimensional and Five-Dimensional holdings, prompting Yang Yu and Bai Mu to question what would happen to their citizens.
• Long Ye proposed relocating citizens to uninhabited regions of the Six-Dimensional World and letting ambitious groups compete over the abandoned universes for resources.
• Yang Yu approved the relocation and withdrawal plan after considering the empire’s financial constraints.
• Long Ye reported that the Star Ancient and Canglan Domains held over twenty thousand Six-Dimensional Universes, while the empire’s population could fit into fewer than a thousand.

Emperor Yang Yu approved the empire’s plans for the Low-Dimensional World as Primitive Four-Dimension Director Xuantian prepared to confront the Great Qin Empire. In the Shenzhou Universe, Ying Zheng and Crown Prince Gao feared their message had exposed Great Qin’s location and began to suspect the Star Ancient Empire had warned them against contacting the civilization claiming to be Huaxia.

• Yang Yu told Secretary-General Bai Mu to proceed with the empire’s arrangements for the Great Qin Empire and the Primitive Universe, offering benefits if the plan could not be carried out.
• Xuantian ordered Primitive Four-Dimension’s army to the Shenzhou Universe after learning the Great Qin Empire had sent a message to the Primitive Universe.
• Xuantian learned the empire planned to move the Four-Dimensional and Five-Dimensional inhabitants to the Star World, but waited for an official directive before acting on it.
• Crown Prince Gao told Ying Zheng that Great Qin’s message had received no response and might have exposed the Shenzhou Universe’s location.
• Zhang Han reported that the Babylon Empire had no connection to the Taboo Civilization, prompting Ying Zheng and Crown Prince Gao to question why the Star Ancient Empire’s envoy had warned them.
• Crown Prince Gao and Ying Zheng realized the warning might have been against contacting the civilization claiming to be Huaxia.

Crown Prince Gao learned that the Star Ancient Empire had risen to become a human superpower and that his system originated from the Aolei Empire. In the Seven-Dimensional Space, the Forbidden Guardian and its companion discussed Bai Mu’s interference, Xingchen’s plans, and the approaching Insect Race threat.

• After leaving First Emperor Ying Zheng, Crown Prince Gao asked his revived system about the Star Ancient Empire and learned it had once ruled the Chaotic Star Region.
• The system revealed that the Star Ancient Empire had defeated the Insect Race and Elf Race six hundred million years earlier and stood alongside the Aolei Empire as a guardian of humanity.
• Crown Prince Gao learned that the Aolei Empire was the foremost human power in the Six-Dimensional World and had protected civilizations across the myriad realms.
• In Seven-Dimensional Space, the Forbidden Guardian explained that Crown Prince Gao’s system was an Aolei artificial-intelligence core fused with a Time-Space Fragment.
• The Forbidden Guardian and its companion said Bai Mu had deliberately provoked the Great Qin Empire over its use of the title “empire,” while Xingchen’s plans and the Mother Empress’s anomaly signaled that the Insect Race era was approaching.
• When asked about changes in the cabinet, the Forbidden Guardian advised proceeding gradually and planning carefully.

Bai Wen ordered Long Ya to eliminate the remaining Zerg in one day and preserve their bodies for a military plan. Meanwhile, Li Muyao and the Biological Gene Research Institute brought a mutated insect with the potential to become a Zerg Mother Empress into the Dark Star Region for a live-fire test, where they prepared to begin their experiment.

• Bai Wen ordered Long Ya to clear the star sector of Zerg within one day and preserve their bodies for later use.
• Long Ya borrowed troops from the Joint Fleets, and the Second United Fleet finished eliminating the remaining Zerg two hours ahead of schedule.
• Long Ya ordered the exhausted soldiers to inspect the area again before the logistics construction forces arrived to build a resupply base.
• Li Muyao and Su Qing discussed the risks of bringing their mutated Zerg Mother Empress test subject to the battlefield.
• An academician told Li Muyao that the military had preserved Zerg bodies and warned the researchers not to damage planets in the Dark Star Region.
• Li Muyao ordered the researchers to take their positions, inspect and calibrate the Zerg Mother Empress, and monitor its movements.

The Zerg Mother Empress began deployment on Waters Planet while the Star Ancient Empire’s fleets struggled against the expanding Zerg swarm. As the Zerg adapted and multiplied, Marshal Lin Xiao received a report that biological warships were approaching.

• Li Muyao told Long Ya that the Zerg Mother Empress had been adjusted to attack everything except the Empire’s warships, then ordered detailed monitoring.
• The Zerg Mother Empress detected traces of a human soul on Wost Planet, and the Forbidden Guardian identified the traces as belonging to a transmigrator.
• After the Forbidden Guardian left, the Zerg Mother Empress began devouring corpses and planned to create eight King-Level Mother Worms to accelerate the Zerg’s development.
• The Zerg swarmed the five Joint Fleets outside the Bison Realm, devouring resources, evolving, and adapting to the Empire’s attacks.
• Marshal Lin Xiao watched the Zerg overwhelm the Fifth United Fleet as his crew reported that numerous Zerg biological warships were approaching.

Lin Xiao's fleets and the Joint Fleets fought the Zerg in a costly battle of attrition while the Star Ancient Empire's leaders assessed their losses, logistics, and ability to sustain the war. Yang Yu considered ways to fund a prolonged conflict, and the Hall of Governance debated whether the empire could afford its plans.

• Lin Xiao ordered two fleet groups to intercept the Zerg, and supporting fleets cleared space around them before another Zerg wave charged in.
• Bai Wen reported that the empire had lost seven thousand warships and 150 million personnel in three days while taking only one Six-Dimensional Universe.
• Lin Er proposed releasing Bai Lin from confinement so the marshal could join the war.
• Lin Er reported that the empire could build one T0-Class Warship every two days and proposed expanding trade with the Elf Empire to fund a prolonged war.
• Yang Yu offered to sell captured Aolei Empire warships or T1-Class Warships to the Elf Empire, while Long Ye claimed the empire could sharply increase troop production and warship construction.
• The Minister of Education challenged Long Ye's projections and asked whether the Imperial Treasury could truly afford the plans.

Yang Yu assigned the empire's cabinet to plan the evacuation of Low-Dimensional World citizens while the Elf Empire faltered against the insectoids. In the Shenzhou Universe, Lin Xiaoshuai's forces approached the Great Qin Empire and launched a Death Line Strike after Ying Zheng requested talks.

• Yang Yu calmed the officials, tasked the cabinet with planning the citizens' relocation to the Star World, and told them to leave the frontline fighting to the Military Department.
• Yang You reported that the Elf Empire had failed to break through the Star Boundary Line and was being pushed back by the insectoids, prompting Lin Er to consider selling it imperial warships.
• Lin Xiaoshuai and Lao Hei discussed their victory over the Babylon Empire and ordered the remaining Babylon forces eliminated.
• A technician reported that First Emperor Ying Zheng wanted to discuss matters with Lin Xiaoshuai, who ordered a Death Line Strike against the Great Qin Empire.
• Lao Hei instructed the technicians to execute Lin Xiaoshuai's order.

Crown Prince Gao used all her system points to dispel the Star Ancient Empire’s Death Line Rupture attack on the Great Qin Empire’s Lan Hai Star Region. Enraged that his attack had been neutralized, Lin Xiaoshuai ordered a full assault on the Great Qin Empire, while Lao Hei gave his forces only three days to destroy it.

• Xiao He worried that the Great Qin Empire might be the Star Ancient Empire’s next target, and Crown Prince Gao urged him to return to his duties while awaiting news from the First Emperor.
• The system warned Crown Prince Gao that a Level Six civilization’s Death Line Rupture was spreading through the Lan Hai Star Region and offered her three choices.
• Crown Prince Gao spent all her system points, and the system quietly neutralized the Death Line Rupture.
• A technician told Lin Xiaoshuai that an unknown energy wave had deciphered and neutralized the attack.
• Lin Xiaoshuai denied promising the Great Qin Empire a chance and ordered an assault, while Lao Hei directed the fleets to destroy it within three days.

Lao Hei and Lin Xiaoshuai learned that an official order would let them leave the Low-Dimensional World after dealing with the Great Qin Empire. In the Imperial Capital, Lin Er and Long Ye planned how to resettle the arriving citizens and use some low-dimensional soldiers in the empire’s public security system.

• Lao Hei gave Lin Xiaoshuai the officially sealed document, and Lin Xiaoshuai urged him to follow their plan while resolving the Great Qin Empire conflict quickly.
• Lin Er told Long Ye that the order had been approved and would reduce the empire’s spending on operations in the Low-Dimensional World.
• Lin Er directed Long Ye to bring citizens to the Star Ancient Domain first, sell them vacant homes affordably, and prohibit housing speculation and ownership of more than two homes.
• Lin Er said the Treasury had arranged jobs for some newcomers and that the Imperial Military Department would absorb others, while Long Ye warned that several trillion universes of citizens posed a huge challenge.
• Lin Er proposed transferring selected low-dimensional soldiers and police into Imperial Security, and Long Ye explained that the Low-Dimensional World had no separate public security force.

Yang Yu presented Lin Er with a reform plan to merge research institutes and expand the empire’s oversight of low-dimensional worlds. Lin Er proposed producing certified systems to cultivate influence and power across the Myriad Realms of the Heavens, and Yang Yu considered using a similar method to help his mother civilization.

• Yang Yu gave Lin Er his latest reform plan and explained that he wanted to consolidate the empire’s many research institutes.
• Lin Er objected to placing the Law Research Institute under the Space-Time Research Institute, but supported giving the Night more oversight of low-dimensional time-space.
• Lin Er proposed a System Wholesale Laboratory that would distribute certified systems across low-dimensional universes and turn their hosts into future assets for the empire.
• Lin Er explained how systems could exploit other worlds’ laws and histories to reward their hosts, and Yang Yu accepted the idea.
• Yang Yu suggested creating a chat group to help the same civilization from parallel worlds grow together and restore its standing across the All Heavens and Universe.

Lin Er delivered the emperor’s reforms to the imperial cabinet and the Imperial Academy of Engineering, then told the Space-Time Research Institute to develop systems for supervising the Low-Dimensional World. Lin Jiu correctly guessed that the empire wanted systems like those given to transmigrators, and Lin Er confirmed the project’s purpose.

• Lin Er insisted that the imperial cabinet carry out the emperor’s reforms, and the ministers accepted the decision and left.
• The research institutes received their new assignments and obeyed the order without making a fuss.
• Lin Er visited the Space-Time Research Institute, where director Yang Yue gathered its researchers, including Lin Jiu.
• Yang Yue guessed that Lin Er wanted a new time-space management system, but Lin Jiu suggested a system like one from transmigration novels.
• Lin Er confirmed that the institute would develop multiple systems to control and supervise the Low-Dimensional World while reducing the empire’s operating costs.

Lin Jiu took charge of developing the system project for the Star Ancient Empire and was left to work alone after estimating it would take three months. Meanwhile, Mu Ying Princess showed signs of waking from her long sleep, prompting Emperor Yang Yu to secure the Imperial Palace and summon researchers.

• Lin Jiu volunteered to organize the system project after the other academicians refused, and asked for one researcher from each relevant field but no academicians.
• Lin Jiu estimated the project would take three months, and Director Yang Yue decided she would handle it alone and told her to secure funding from Minister Lin Er.
• In higher-dimensional space, the Forbidden Guardian discussed Lin Jiu's hidden abilities with her companion, who then departed.
• At Mingxiang Palace, A Xin noticed Mu Ying Princess showing signs of waking and sent word to the Secretary-General.
• After Bai Mu confirmed the news, Yang Yu hurried to Mingxiang Palace, summoned the Biological Gene Research Institute, and ordered Guardian Dragon to place the Imperial Palace under martial law.

Yang Yu waited at Mingxiang Palace for his unconscious daughter, Yang Yue, to awaken, then learned she had regained her strength. He stopped her from returning to the Mo Yu Realm and ordered her to recover while the Imperial Military Department handled the Ink Race.

• Yang Yu visited Yang Yue, and Secretary Nan Mengxi reported that her fingers had moved; Secretary-General Bai Mu identified Nan Mengxi and her sister Nan Kexin as daughters of Vice Marshal Nan Wentian.
• Yang Yu ordered the Nan sisters to care for Mu Ying and receive Level-One Secretary benefits, and he praised Nan Wentian's service.
• Yang Yue awakened and told Yang Yu that she felt full of strength; he scolded her for risking her life and urged her to rest.
• Yang Yue asked about the Ink Race of the Mo Yu Realm, and Yang Yu said he had ordered the Imperial Military Department to deal with them.
• Yang Yue requested to take office, but Yang Yu told her to recover and govern only within the Star Ancient Domain.

Mu Ying Princess Yang Yue awakened with physical and mental capabilities that exceeded the empire’s Ninth-Order Lifeform standards, alarming Academician Su Tianlong and impressing Emperor Yang Yu. Meanwhile, Nan Wentian and Bai Wen debated how to deploy the empire’s fleets against the Zerg, with Bai Wen warning that the proposed route through Elf territory might be refused.

• Su Tianlong examined Mu Ying Princess and reported that her condition surpassed the empire’s Ninth-Order Lifeform thresholds, while noticing an unexplained seal in her mental body.
• Mu Ying Princess Yang Yue exceeded the training grounds’ physical test limits and defeated Guardian Dragon, Ye Jiu, and Yang Lin without using her special power.
• Yang Yu praised Yang Yue, then left to handle official duties and arrange her future work environment.
• Yang Yue reassured Su Tianlong, who hurried away from the palace intending to report his findings to the institute director.
• Nan Wentian proposed reinforcing Marshal Lin Xiao’s Fifth United Fleet and redirecting two T0-Class Joint Fleets, but Bai Wen warned that the Elf Empire might not permit them to cross its territory.

Nan Wentian urged Bai Wen to send reinforcements to the Elf Empire before the Zerg could overrun it, while Bai Wen considered the risks and the possibility of war if the elves refused. The Emperor promoted Nan Wentian to marshal and restored Bai Lin to his post, and Bai Wen proposed sending Bai Lin to the Star Boundary Line to prepare an offensive against the Zerg.

• Nan Wentian warned Bai Wen that the Elf Empire could not hold back the Zerg and urged her to send the Ninth and Tenth United Fleets to support it.
• Bai Wen said the fleets would instead prepare at Hanyang World to fight the Elf Empire if it refused imperial aid.
• A First-Rank Secretary delivered the Emperor’s orders promoting Nan Wentian to marshal and restoring Bai Lin to his position.
• Bai Wen proposed sending Bai Lin, Alisa, and Xiahou to the Star Boundary Line, with three United Fleets ready to strike the Zerg’s Sparta World if the Elf Empire accepted help.
• Nan Wentian questioned sending Bai Lin because the Elf Empire still resented his past role in attacking it, but Bai Wen threatened imperial military action if the elves obstructed him.

The Elf Empire struggled to hold the Zerg at Sena Realm while learning that the Star Ancient Empire had rapidly captured Bison Realm. The Star Ancient Empire requested permission to send three Joint Fleets through Elf territory, and Prince Bolante opposed the proposal before Queen Xiofu decided.

• Marshal Milameng requested reinforcements for the Elf Empire’s stalled campaign against the Zerg, and General Mansa Fal urged him to send four T0-Class Joint Fleet Groups.
• An intelligence officer reported that the Star Ancient Empire’s six Joint Fleets had captured Bison Realm and crippled a Zerg Biological Mother Ship Group.
• Milameng ordered four more Fleet Groups to Sena Realm and assigned his commanders to attack the Zerg and prevent further advances.
• Lanny Leon told Queen Xiofu that the Star Ancient Empire had requested passage for its Sixth, Ninth, and Thirteenth Joint Fleets through Elf territory to reach Sena Realm.
• Prince Bolante objected to allowing the three Joint Fleets through Revival World and other Elf realms.

Queen Xiofu approved a comprehensive strategic partnership with the Star Ancient Empire, including allowing its fleet to support the Elf Empire's flank against the insect race. She remained anxious about the war and about Bai Lin, while the Goddess of Life left to help the Star Ancient Empire's ruler.

• Minister Lanny Leon reported that the Star Ancient Empire had captured the Bison Realm and warned that it might station three T0-Class Joint Fleets outside Hanyang World and Revival World if the Elf Empire refused to cooperate.
• Lanny told Xiofu that the Star Ancient Empire offered large-scale trade and unlimited sales of T1-Class Warships, prompting Bolante to consider the Elf Empire's limited population and military needs.
• Xiofu ordered comprehensive cooperation, instructed Lanny to negotiate warship prices and training, and approved the Star Ancient Empire's fleet deployment.
• Xiofu visited the Tree of Life, where the Goddess of Life reassured her about the Star Ancient Empire's intentions and said she would go help its ruler.
• Xiofu worried that Bai Lin, the Star Ancient Empire's commander sent to support the Elf Empire, was hated for slaughtering its prisoners.

Yang You secured the Elf Empire’s agreement for the Sixth, Ninth, and Tenth Joint Fleets to travel to Sena Realm and attack the insect flank at Sparta World. Meanwhile, Yang Yue asked to return to work as a governor and chose Hanlin World despite her father’s warning that its situation was dangerous.

• Yang You learned that the Elf Empire had agreed to let the three Joint Fleets pass through Revival World and began negotiations over warships, resources, and a rapid transportation route.
• Bai Wen ordered Bai Lin, Alisa, and Xiahou to lead the Sixth, Ninth, and Tenth Joint Fleets through Hanyang World and Revival World toward Sena Realm.
• Mu Ying Princess Yang Yue ordered Nan Mengxi and Nan Kexin to train for a month to meet the strength expected of first-rank secretaries.
• Yang Yue asked Secretary-General Bai Mu about the governor candidates whose work had been suspended after Yang Yue was injured.
• Yang Yue told Yang Yu that she had recovered and wanted to return to work, then chose Hanlin World as the world she wanted to govern.
• Yang Yu warned Yang Yue that Hanlin World’s situation was poor and asked whether she was certain about her choice.