Chapter Summaries

The Star Ancient Empire revealed that it could control and breed insectoids, alarming civilizations across the Star World as it shifted to defense and sent reinforcements to the Naro World. The Elf and Beastman Empires remained aligned with it, and Ma Shikefu Crouch ordered war against the Sky-Ox and Dwarf Empires.

• Marshal Milameng learned that the Star Ancient Empire's Sixth Joint Fleet was heading to the Naro World to help fight the four allied empires, while General Os explained that the Empire was shifting forces from offense to defense against the insectoids.
• The Star Ancient Empire withdrew from the insectoid frontal battlefield, and civilizations saw its controlled insectoids fight the insectoids in the Bison Realm, exposing its insectoid-control technology.
• Prince Bolante warned Queen Xiofu that the revelation could make the Anti-Star Ancient Empire Alliance target the Elf Empire, but Xiofu insisted that they had no choice but to remain with the Star Ancient Empire.
• Queen Xiofu told Bolante that the Sixth Joint Fleet had set out for the Naro World and that the Star Ancient Empire was preparing to overturn the table.
• Ma Shikefu Crouch confirmed that the Beastman Empire was ready for war, and he ordered Lao Ke to declare war on the Sky-Ox and Dwarf Empires while remaining on guard against the Beastman Empire.

As the Star Ancient Empire faced a coalition of hostile civilizations, Li Muyao demanded that the Imperial Academy of Engineering reveal its unreleased wartime technology. She learned that the long-developed Law-Level Intelligence Reduction Beam was ready but had not yet been deployed, and the researchers proposed equipping it on a Starry Sky Mothership.

• The Elf Empire and Beastman Empire sided with the Star Ancient Empire, while the Beastman Empire declared war on the Sky-Ox Empire and the Dwarf Empire and assigned Alisa command of two hundred million warships near the Sky-Ox Empire.
• The Seven Stars Empire withdrew from the Anti-Star Ancient Empire Alliance and sent hundreds of millions of warships to support the Elf Empire after the Star Ancient Empire persuaded it to switch sides.
• Li Muyao told the Imperial Academy of Engineering's researchers that the Empire's enemies would attack because its Zerg-control technology had been exposed, then demanded they reveal their hidden wartime projects.
• Yang Feng admitted that his institute had developed a Law-Level Intelligence Reduction Beam with a one-percent failure rate, but had withheld it while trying to reduce that rate to 0.5 percent.
• Yang Yue revealed that the Time-Space Fleet had been delivered to the Time-Space Administration for installation and commissioning.
• The deputy director of the Space-Time Research Institute explained that the beam could erase intelligent civilizations' memories and proposed fitting it to a Starry Sky Mothership.

Li Muyao discovered that Li Bai had secretly held back Type II Law-Level Material, which could help the empire advance to the Ninth-Order Sequence. She ordered Yang Feng to build IX-Level warships under accelerated low-dimensional time and directed the empire to fund mass production, leaving preparations for the new fleet underway.

• Li Bai revealed that Type II Law-Level Material reduced damage by 61%, and Lin Ling explained that it had exceeded the projected target when combined with the Causality Law.
• Yang Feng accused Li Bai of obstructing progress after learning that the material had prevented his warship designs from advancing.
• Li Muyao ordered Yang Feng to use the Nine Great Research Motherships to develop IX-Level warships, and he estimated the work would take one hundred thousand years in Low-Dimensional Time-Space.
• Li Muyao accelerated time in Low-Dimensional Time-Space and ordered Yang Feng to deliver designs for IX-Level Type I warships within ten days.
• Li Bai warned that Type II Law-Level Material could not be mass-produced affordably, so Li Muyao ordered the Reserve National Treasury opened and resources gathered across the empire.

Li Muyao mobilized the Engineering Academy to use the war as an opportunity to advance the empire toward Ninth-Level Sequence Civilization, and Yang Yu approved opening the Reserve National Treasury to fund it. In high-dimensional space-time, Xingchen confronted the Lord of the Forbidden Zone over the empire’s mounting losses, and the Lord proposed matching the flow of time in two realms until reinforcements arrived.

• Yang Yu reassured Li Muyao, approved her request to open the Reserve National Treasury, and urged her to push the empire toward Ninth-Level Sequence Civilization.
• Li Muyao ordered the Engineering Academy to recall its researchers and fully activate its major projects.
• Yang Yu returned to the imperial capital and instructed Bai Mu to have the Minister of Finance send the Reserve National Treasury’s resources to the Engineering Academy.
• Lin Er questioned the decision to release the treasury, but Yang Yu explained the Academy’s potential to advance the empire, and she agreed to carry out the order.
• Xingchen blamed the Lord of the Forbidden Zone for the empire’s loss of more than thirteen million T0-Level Warships, while the Forbidden Guardian challenged her account of the Dimensional Black Hole.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone proposed making time flow equally in the Five-Dimensional Time and Space and the Six-Dimensional Universe so the empire could wait for reinforcements.

The Forbidden Guardian, the Zerg Mother Empress, and the Lord of the Forbidden Zone forced the Five-Dimensional and Six-Dimensional worlds’ time flows into parity, with Xingchen serving as their vessel. Yang Yu received the system’s IX-Level civilization rewards and questioned the system’s motives, while Mystic Woman ordered a new investigation and punishment for the missing First Sequences.

• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone proposed using Xingchen as a vessel to equalize the time flow between the Five-Dimensional and Six-Dimensional worlds, and Xingchen agreed to help the empire’s reinforcements arrive in time.
• The Forbidden Guardian, the Zerg Mother Empress, and the Lord of the Forbidden Zone joined forces to force the two worlds’ time flows into parity while Xingchen bore the dimensional forces.
• Yang Yu received a system notification that the Star Ancient Empire had reached the potential of an IX-Level Sequence Civilization and that the system would hibernate for an upgrade.
• Yang Yu learned that the empire was fighting the Chronos Empire, an affiliate beneath the Taboo Civilization, and wondered whether the system was helping or manipulating his empire.
• Mystic Woman learned that the First Sequences sent to Chaos City had disappeared, then ordered more fleets dispatched and directed the Imperial Guards to eliminate the Heaven Sword Sect and the Heavenly Horned Ant race.

The Chronos Empire and Star Ancient Empire reduced their attacks after suffering heavy losses, while Star Ancient Empire learned that the time difference between the Five-Dimensional and Six-Dimensional worlds was closing and reinforcements might arrive. The two sides tacitly ceased fire and began recovering their dead and wreckage, leaving the armies waiting for reinforcements.

• Emily Robinson ordered the Chronos Empire to reduce its attack frequency and establish a defensive line after seeing its casualties.
• Bai Wen learned that sixteen million warships had been lost and agreed with Nan Wentian to pause rather than pursue the enemy.
• A technician told Bai Wen and Nan Wentian that the time difference between the Five-Dimensional and Six-Dimensional worlds was approaching parity, which could bring timely reinforcements.
• Bai Wen and Nan Wentian recognized that the enemy might also be waiting for reinforcements, and the two forces withdrew to safe distances without continuing to fire.
• Bai Wen sent transport ships to salvage wreckage and collect soldiers' remains while warning them to avoid law magnetic fields.
• Emily Robinson ordered her transport ships to collect her soldiers' remains, destroy her own warship wreckage, and retrieve any enemy wreckage they found.

Emily Robinson weighed whether to resume fighting while Bai Wen ordered the First United Fleet to withdraw as the Zerg and Mechanical Tide approached. The Zerg poured onto the battlefield, and Ye Shi arrived aboard the Star Mothership as the officers assessed their strength and supply.

• Emily Robinson concluded that her fleet could not remain disengaged for long while reinforcements were uncertain and Jack was presumed lost.
• Bai Wen learned that the Zerg disaster and Mechanical Tide were about to enter the battlefield, then ordered most fleet groups and the transport ships to retreat to the Star Fortress.
• Bai Wen ordered the original six fleet groups to launch a destruction-level strike before withdrawing, despite the fleet having promised to clear the battlefield and recover remains.
• Masses of Zerg emerged from the artificial black hole, devoured battlefield wreckage, and transmitted information about evolutionary directions to their commander.
• Researchers identified the Zerg Commander as an early-stage Tier 8 lifeform and explained the tentacle markings that distinguished Zerg commanders from Mother Empresses.
• Ye Shi entered the Star Mothership command room after a researcher reported that the Zerg queens had ample resources and access to subordinate Five-Dimensional universes.

Bai Wen learned about the Mechanical Race’s independence and military capabilities as the Zerg entered the Law Battlefield and began consuming wrecked warships. Emily Robinson and Lina Chen learned that the swarm might be the Civilization Destroyers and faced a choice between retreating and striking before it adapted to the battlefield.

• Ye Shi told Bai Wen that the Mechanical Race was His Majesty’s private reserve army and warned her not to command it in battle.
• Emily Robinson and Lina Chen saw the Zerg swarm pouring into the battlefield and devouring the Star Ancient Empire’s warship wreckage.
• The abnormal-radar officer reported a black hole near the enemy fleet, but Emily rejected the claim that the Zerg had emerged from it.
• The Matrix Radar technician observed that the Zerg were consuming eighth-level sequence warship wreckage at increasing speed.
• The abnormal-radar officer identified the creatures as likely Zerg and explained how quickly they could overrun a planet and evolve.
• Emily concluded that the Zerg could adapt to their attacks and asked whether the fleet should retreat or strike before the swarm adapted to the Law Battlefield.

Emily Robinson ordered the Chronos Empire fleet to fight the Zerg rather than retreat, while the Zerg prepared to evolve and the First United Fleet joined the battle. As the enemy attacked both the Zerg and the Chronos Empire, Emily ordered the Dark Devourer to unleash its Law Neutron Annihilation weapon.

• Emily Robinson rejected retreat and ordered the Chronos Empire fleet to bombard the Zerg and any enemy warships in range.
• The Zerg Commander shifted the assault to Tier 7 Zerg and ordered Tier 6 Zerg used to strengthen the Zerg Mothers.
• Ye Shi told the First United Fleet that the Mechanical Race would arrive soon and that the Time-Space Administration had opened a passage for the Zerg.
• Bai Wen ordered the First United Fleet to attack the enemy and deploy the Hyperspace Law Inhibitor to suppress its shields.
• Emily Robinson ordered the Dark Devourer to fire Law Neutron Annihilation at the Zerg.

The Star Ancient Empire’s Law-level Neutron Annihilation devastated the Zerg, and the First United Fleet recognized the weapon’s Laws and sent data to the Imperial Academy of Engineering. The Zerg Mother Queen responded by deploying eighth-tier warriors to study the neutron rays and evolve resistance to them.

• Neutron Annihilation killed the Zerg caught in its green rays, and the empire’s artillery vaporized their corpses.
• Bai Wen and the Research Academicians identified the weapon’s Laws of Time and Destruction, while Gravitas noted that the Law of Space likely accelerated it.
• Bai Wen ordered the battlefield intelligence uploaded to the Central Server for the Imperial Academy of Engineering.
• The Zerg Commander reported the weapon’s effects through the Zerg chain of command to the Zerg Mother Empress and then the Zerg Mother Queen.
• A late-eighth-tier Zerg Mother Queen arrived aboard her battleship and sent an army of eighth-tier combat warriors toward the neutron rays to gather information and develop immunity.

The Zerg’s arrival revealed that they could endure Neutron Annihilation long enough to learn how to resist it, while the Star Ancient Empire’s Mechanical Race entered the battle as an ally against the alien invaders. The Mechanical Race prepared a full-scale attack, and Bai Wen learned how its vast war machine was controlled by the empire.

• Emily Robinson and Lina Chen learned that the Zerg could survive Neutron Annihilation long enough to transmit information that might help the species adapt to the weapon.
• Alpha ordered the Mechanical Race to treat the Zerg as temporary combat allies and attack the alien forces threatening their world.
• Alpha ordered the Mechanical fleets to build fortifications and launch a full-scale attack in five minutes.
• Bai Wen was shocked by the Mechanical Race’s tens of billions of warships, and the Empire Research Academician explained its specialized factories and the empire’s safeguards against rebellion.

The Chronos Empire’s fleet was annihilated, but Emily Robinson sacrificed the Dark Devourer to destroy many attacking Zerg and Mechanical Race forces. As Bai Wen’s fleet prepared defenses, the Crimson Flame Temple ordered its subsidiary civilizations to assemble a larger force for another assault and revealed that the empire had destroyed rival sects after their failed expeditions.

• The Zerg and Mechanical Race overwhelmed the Chronos Fleet Group, leaving Emily Robinson’s forces facing annihilation.
• Emily Robinson ordered the Dark Devourer to attack, and the warship self-destructed on impact, wiping out the enemy forces at the front.
• Bai Wen ordered the First United Fleet to repair at the Star Fortress and build a defensive line instead of counterattacking.
• The leader of the Crimson Flame Temple ordered eight subsidiary civilizations to provide at least five billion top-grade warships for the next expedition.
• The Chronos United Imperial Family was excused from sending more ships, while the leader revealed that imperial guards had exterminated the Heaven Sword Sect, Heavenly Horned Ant Clan, Feixian Sect, and their nine clans.

After the Chronos United Kingdom’s billion-warship fleet was annihilated, the Crimson Flame Lord gathered more forces from the Subsidiary Civilizations. Crimson Flame Venerable was ordered to lead a renewed assault with ten cultivators sent by the Empire, while other factions began offering experts.

• The Crimson Flame Lord negotiated for more warships, and the Chronos Kingdom agreed to send one billion troops after learning that an Empire study spot was available.
• The Crimson Flame Lord ordered the Subsidiary Civilizations to prepare their forces within one day, then reported to the existence on the divine throne that the Chronos United Kingdom’s frontline army had been annihilated.
• Crimson Flame Venerable pleaded for another chance and said the Crimson Flame Temple had dispatched eight billion T0-Level Warships from the VIII-level sequence.
• The existence on the divine throne gave Crimson Flame Venerable one final chance, sent ten cultivators to assist him, and ordered him to break through the enemy defenses and find information about that world and a particular person.
• The factions below the divine throne volunteered to send clansmen, while the aged giant realized that his family had almost no younger descendants left to send.

Bai Wen and Yang Yu learned that the time-flow difference between the Five-Dimensional and Six-Dimensional Worlds had narrowed, while Yang Yu considered how the empire should manage the Zerg and Mechanical Race. He left Ye Shi with the empire’s strategy and ordered him to prevent anyone from disrupting the development of space-time.

• At Star Fortress, Bai Wen learned that time in the Five-Dimensional World now flowed at 1.5 times the rate of the Six-Dimensional World and ordered the defensive lines to continue.
• Bai Mu informed Yang Yu that the worlds’ time-flow difference had narrowed, and Ye Shi warned that near parity could harm the Zerg and Mechanical Race.
• Yang Yu asked about Zerg resource needs, then gave Ye Shi the Finance Minister’s strategy memorial to read.
• Ye Shi learned that the Zerg could evolve using resources from any dimension, while the Mechanical Race depended on higher-dimensional resources, and worried that the Zerg could outpace it.
• Yang Yu explained that the Zerg and Mechanical Race would wear each other down and that the Zerg could pressure lower-dimensional civilizations.
• Yang Yu told Ye Shi to manage space-time carefully and eliminate anything that went against its proper flow.

After the Star Ancient Empire's Sixth Joint Fleet joined the war, Bai Lin and Milameng agreed to coordinate their forces and divide conquered territory. Their counterattack drove the four allied empires out of Naro World and back into the Otto Realm, where Bai Lin ordered a strike against its defenses.

• Bai Lin proposed that the Star Ancient Empire attack enemy armor and bridges while the Elf Empire suppressed shields, with conquered territory split evenly.
• Os persuaded Milameng to accept Bai Lin as nominal supreme commander, and Milameng agreed to the plan.
• The Sixth Joint Fleet joined the battle and helped the Elf Empire rout the allied forces of the Sky Beetle, Serpentman, Dwarf, and Goblin Empires from Naro World.
• Bai Lin ordered his fleet to pause its advance and prepare a destruction-level strike against the Otto Realm's defensive system.

The Star Ancient Empire's destructive beam obliterated the Dwarf Empire's steel defense line and the allied forces stationed there, leaving the Elf and Star Ancient commanders stunned. Marshal Bai ordered his forces to exploit the collapse and conquer Dwarf territory, authorizing ruthless attacks on any resistance.

• The Star Ancient Empire's beam pierced the defense line's shield and destroyed the steel fortifications and the allied army of the Celestial Bull, Dwarf, Snakefolk, and Goblin Empires.
• Marshal Milameng ordered the Elf forces to attack the Dwarf Empire's Shao Mier Realm from the flank and offered promotions for each realm they captured.
• Marshal Bai warned Marshal Shao Bo Su that the beam's aftershock could kill his soldiers, then directed him to seize Otto 358 Realm and expand outward.
• Marshal Bai's adjutant asked what to do if Dwarf civilians resisted, and Marshal Bai ordered the extermination of resisting populations and the destruction of planets where anyone fought back.
• Marshal Milameng authorized indiscriminate attacks, while Marshal Bai's forces prepared to seize as much Dwarf territory as possible before the empire could respond.

Alisa and Lao Ke coordinated the Half-Beastman Empire’s role in the war, arranging for Lao Ke to defend against the Beastman Empire while his forces delayed the Dwarf Empire. Lao Ke explained that the Half-Beastman Empire had to commit to the alliance’s risky plan to defeat their enemies and secure their own future.

• The Anti-Human Empire Alliance mobilized to help its member empires, while the Star Ancient Empire and Elf Empire captured more than fifty Dwarf Empire worlds.
• Alisa told General Hai Er to send Lao Ke to the Star Boundary Line between the Half-Beastman and Beastman Empires, while her fleet pinned down enemy forces and secretly sent fifty million warships to support the Half-Beastman front.
• Lao Ke agreed with Alisa’s strategy and ordered General Er to hold the line against the Dwarf Empire while he returned to defend the Half-Beastman Empire.
• Lao Ke told General Er that the Half-Beastman Empire would endure losses to buy time for its allies, then help defeat the Beastman Empire and the Zerg.
• Lao Ke argued that victory could make the Half-Beastman Empire a ruler of the Star World, while defeat meant ruin, leaving his people with no better choice than to follow the Star Ancient Empire’s plan.

Yang Yu met with the rulers of the Elf Empire, Beastman Empire, and Seven Stars Empire to coordinate their alliance against their enemies. After Bai Mu presented the Star Ancient Empire’s battle plan, the rulers questioned why seven of its Fleet Groups were absent, and she began explaining the reason.

• Yang Yu arrived at the meeting with Bai Mu and announced that the four empires would discuss resisting the Beastman Empire, Mechanical Empire, and insect race.
• Xiofu offered to commit the Elf Empire fully and even place its frontline command under Yang Yu.
• Ma Shikefu Crouch the Great pledged the Beastman Empire’s forces, while Chi Yanfeng described the Seven Stars Empire’s support for the Elf Empire’s front and rear.
• Bai Mu presented a battle plan for a war that could last a million years, prompting Xiofu and Chi Yanfeng to ask why only three of the Star Ancient Empire’s Fleet Groups were listed.
• Bai Mu began to explain that the Star Ancient Empire had lost more than a million warships to the enemy in just a few minutes.

Bai Mu told the rulers of the Seven Stars, Beastman, and Elf Empires that a World Black Hole had unleashed a powerful Ninth-Order Sequence civilization’s subsidiary fleet, forcing the Star Ancient Empire to fight on another front. Yang Yu revealed that the Star Ancient Empire was close to entering the Ninth-Order Sequence, leaving the allied rulers questioning why it still needed a million-year plan.

• Bai Mu showed the imperial governors footage of a World Black Hole in five-dimensional space and explained that it connected to another world.
• Bai Mu revealed that more than a billion ships had emerged from the black hole and that their civilization was merely a subsidiary of a Ninth-Order Sequence civilization.
• Bai Mu warned that the Star Ancient Empire could not trust the Anti-Star Ancient Empire Alliance to unite against the invaders, and the three rulers remained on its side.
• Yang Yu said the Star Ancient Empire was nearing the Ninth-Order Sequence, with its new warships in development, and Chi Yanfeng asked why it still needed a million-year plan.

Chi Yanfeng offered to make the Seven Stars Empire a subsidiary of the Star Ancient Empire, and Yang Yu explained the terms of submission. The Seven Stars Empire accepted and agreed to become the Seven Stars Kingdom.

• Bai Mu and the Beastman and Elf leaders pledged their support for the Star Ancient Empire's war against the Anti-Human Star Empire Alliance.
• Chi Yanfeng offered to make the Seven Stars Empire a Subsidiary Civilization of the Star Ancient Empire, startling Ma Shikefu Crouch and Xiofu.
• Yang Yu warned Chi Yanfeng not to decide hastily, but Chi Yanfeng affirmed that he was clearheaded and wanted to submit.
• Yang Yu listed restrictions on subsidiary civilizations, including renaming the empire, rules for leadership changes and wars, and a ban on fighting other subsidiaries.
• Bai Mu described the benefits and obligations of subsidiary status, and Ma Shikefu Crouch questioned how generous the terms were.
• Chi Yanfeng declared that his Seven Stars Kingdom voluntarily agreed to become a Subsidiary Civilization of the Star Ancient Empire.