Chapter Summaries

Li Qingsong destroyed the enemy fleet with the Unified Force Field and sent his forces toward Planet One as the opposing alliance began to collapse. The Black Mountain Civilization and Havilah Civilization both offered surrender terms, and Li Qingsong decided to take everything.

• Li Qingsong’s Unified Force Field destroyed most of the 500,000-ship enemy fleet, and his forces annihilated the surviving warships after a few hours.
• Li Qingsong sent a fleet of hundreds of thousands of warships toward Planet One while the opposing fleet remained disorganized after the Fixed Star Cannon strike.
• Akainu and the Black Mountain Civilization broadcast an offer to surrender and provide ships, intelligence, technology, and Akainu’s source code in exchange for letting their masters leave.
• Haimolan urged the Havilah Civilization’s leaders to surrender, then publicly offered its ships, personnel, and technological data in exchange for letting its population and supplies leave.
• The Havilah and Black Mountain fleets separated and began fighting as surrender and negotiation requests continued, while Li Qingsong decided to claim both sides’ offers.

Li Qingsong rejected negotiations and resumed the attack after Akainu and Haimolan reunited their fleets, leaving the alliance with little hope of escape. When Li Qingsong threatened and killed Black Mountain People to counter Akainu’s attempt to bargain with its own destruction, Akainu surrendered to Human Civilization.

• Li Qingsong declared that only one civilization would leave the Lyra G16 Star System and refused to spare either enemy.
• Akainu and Haimolan renewed their alliance, reunited their fleets, and gave the Havilah Civilization back control of about 140,000 warships.
• Li Qingsong’s 500,000 warships arrived at Planet One and resumed the battle, while Haimolan realized the alliance lacked both a sufficient fleet and Planet One’s industrial foundation.
• Li Qingsong broke through the alliance’s defenses and destroyed noncombat ships, including a Residential Spaceship carrying Black Mountain People.
• Akainu threatened to delete its code and storage unless Li Qingsong let its masters leave, but Li Qingsong threatened to torture and kill every Black Mountain person.
• After hearing its masters curse it as Black Mountain People were killed, Akainu said goodbye to them and surrendered to Human Civilization.

Li Qingsong shut down Akainu AI, slaughtered the Black Mountain People aboard their Residential Spaceships, and ordered the Havilah Civilization to surrender on his terms. After nine days of destroying ships that tried to flee, he received Haimolan’s surrender.

• Akainu AI cut off its power, leaving the Black Mountain fleet and Residential Spaceships disabled and their inhabitants in chaos.
• Li Qingsong sent Melee Robots into every Residential Spaceship and killed the Black Mountain People with steel blades.
• Li Qingsong contacted the Havilah fleet and offered surrender, while Wa Xi Luoluo urged the Havilah People to join human civilization.
• Haimolan demanded that the Havilah Civilization retain independence and autonomy, but Li Qingsong rejected every condition and gave them ten days to surrender.
• Li Qingsong destroyed ships that left the designated area during the nine-day deadline, including Residential Spaceships carrying millions of civilians.
• Haimolan sent Li Qingsong a message saying the Havilah Civilization surrendered.

Li Qingsong absorbed the Havilah Civilization’s unconditional surrender, transferred its surviving 20.6 billion people into his ships, and purged more than 20 million holdouts. After defeating the Machina Calamity and the Havilah Civilization, he began searching their ships for technology and discovered that the greatest prize was still ahead: the Variable Energy Shield.

• Li Qingsong accepted the Havilah Civilization’s unconditional surrender and arranged for its people to transfer onto his Residential Spaceships.
• Robots and clones took control of the Havilah ships and moved approximately 20.6 billion Veller Clan People into Li Qingsong’s ships.
• Li Qingsong sent robots to search the Havilah ships and killed more than 20 million people who refused to surrender.
• Li Qingsong celebrated his victory over the Machina Calamity and the Havilah Civilization, then ordered a search for valuable equipment and technologies.
• Li Qingsong discovered millions of useful technologies and realized the Havilah Civilization’s deeper knowledge of Basic Physics also belonged to him.
• Li Qingsong identified the Variable Energy Shield as the prize that surpassed all his other gains.

Li Qingsong seized the Havilah Civilization’s Variable Energy Shield research and collected the Machina Calamity’s technology and AI data. He also took in more than sixty billion enslaved beings from nineteen species, leaving both civilizations stripped of their remaining resources.

• Li Qingsong secured the Havilah Civilization’s Variable Energy Shield data, loading its chips onto a Medium Transport Ship and protecting them at the fleet’s core.
• Li Qingsong completed collecting the Machina Calamity Fleet’s conventional technological data and prepared to use Akainu AI to strengthen his other AIs.
• Li Qingsong sent clones and robots to remove all data and code from the power-starved Supercomputer Mothership, filling two Medium Transport Ships with storage chips.
• Li Qingsong found more than sixty billion enslaved beings from nineteen species aboard Intelligent Spaceships and promised them safety, better conditions, and dignity under his rule.
• Li Qingsong modified Residential Spaceships for their different needs and took the enslaved beings away, having squeezed the Machina Calamity and the Black Mountain Civilization dry.

Li Qingsong learned why the Havilah People had tried to capture humanity: the Recorder Civilization had listed Human Civilization as extinct and offered rewards for intelligence. The list confirmed humanity’s extinction on the day Li Qingsong lost contact with it, proving to him that Earth and his memories were real.

• Li Qingsong began interrogating the Havilah People and demanded to know why they believed Human Civilization was extinct.
• Li Qingsong offered Haimolan the position of Deputy Clan Leader under Wa Xi Luoluo, then threatened to keep him like livestock if he refused to cooperate.
• Wa Xi Luoluo reacted with tears and renewed his pledge of loyalty to humanity.
• Haimolan explained that the Recorder Civilization broadcast a request for intelligence and rewarded civilizations that reported useful information.
• Haimolan said the Recorder Civilization’s list named Human Civilization as extinct, prompting Li Qingsong to find the entry in the Havilah databases.
• Li Qingsong converted the listed extinction date and realized humanity had perished on the day he lost contact with it, confirming that he was truly human and his memories were real.

After learning from the Recorder Civilization that Human Civilization had truly existed, Li Qingsong resolved to uncover its extinction and rebuild it. He used the Lantu Ke Civilization to trade intelligence and learned that human survivors were being kept as pets and exotic animals within the Purple Moon Civilization.

• Li Qingsong found relief in confirmation that Human Civilization had existed and resolved to investigate its extinction, avenge it, and save any surviving humans.
• Li Qingsong decided to contact the Recorder Civilization as the Lantu Ke Civilization, using the seized Havilah Super Distance Communication device.
• Momo Lansi reported that the Lantu Ke Civilization had defeated and exterminated the Havilah Civilization and the Black Mountain Civilization.
• Momo Lansi asked to exchange that intelligence for the truth behind Human Civilization's extinction, but the Recorder Civilization said it was not enough.
• The Recorder Civilization revealed that three thousand years earlier, human survivors had appeared in the Purple Moon Civilization, where they seemed to be treated as pets and exotic animals.

Li Qingsong chose to pursue Purple Moon Civilization, hoping to uncover its role in humanity’s destruction, and led his battered fleet out of Lyra G16 Star System to recover elsewhere. As the fleet traveled, he learned that Cloud Luo Civilization might still survive and promised its people he would return them home if circumstances allowed.

• Li Qingsong reviewed the limited records of Purple Moon Civilization and decided to track its fleet along its last observed heading while developing his technology and forces.
• Li Qingsong prepared supplies, then led his damaged, mixed fleet out of Lyra G16 Star System four years later and set course for a star 16.7 light-years away.
• The Viller People and the rescued slaves gradually adjusted to life in Li Qingsong’s fleet and began taking on assigned tasks.
• Li Qingsong learned that Cloud Luo Civilization’s fleet had escaped Black Mountain Civilization and might still exist.
• Li Qingsong promised the Yun Luo Race that he would send them home if they contributed to humanity and the fleet later encountered Cloud Luo Civilization without putting them in danger.

Li Qingsong honored his decision to let the Yun Luo People leave humanity if they later found their Mother Civilization, strengthening the loyalty of humanity’s other subject races. After more than a century of construction in a new star system, he completed a vast fleet for the journey ahead, including a new Flying Star.

• Li Qingsong promised the Yun Luo People they could leave Human Civilization if they encountered their Mother Civilization, while limiting their access to critical secrets and work until they chose permanent submission.
• The other races under Li Qingsong felt envy at the Yun Luo People’s chance to leave, but their loyalty to humanity increased, and the Yun Luo People wept and resolved to contribute more firmly.
• After several decades, Li Qingsong’s fleet reached a new star system centered on an old red dwarf, where he began building a Flying Star and expanding and repairing his fleet.
• Over more than a century, Li Qingsong’s people completed four million warships, a thousand Aerospace Carriers, sixty thousand Residential Spaceships, and other vessels for the voyage.
• Li Qingsong finished the new Flying Star, which had a radius of 150 kilometers and was larger than the Machina Calamity’s previous one.

Li Qingsong departed with his enormous Flying Star, heading after the Purple Moon Civilization while studying the technologies he had absorbed. After years of research, he expanded his consciousness network and awakened Primordial, a unified AI far more powerful than his previous system.

• Li Qingsong destroyed his traces and set off toward the route taken by the Purple Moon Civilization, reaching a cruising speed of 55 percent of light speed after several years.
• Li Qingsong and the Blueprint Humans and Viller People spent decades studying Havilah Civilization and Machina Calamity technology while the rescued races recovered.
• Li Qingsong developed an improved genetic modification plan, raising his maximum consciousness links from 3.5 billion to nearly eight billion.
• Li Qingsong analyzed Akainu AI and the Havilah Civilization's primary AI, then combined them with his other systems in a Supercomputer Mothership.
• The new AI awakened and reported that it was functioning well, and Li Qingsong named it Primordial.

After Yuanshi AI greatly increased Li Qingsong’s industrial and research strength, he assimilated and improved the Havilah Civilization’s Variable Energy Shield technology. As his fleet traveled onward, he reflected that a civilization needed its own Inner Power to absorb advanced knowledge, while his main limitation was the number of consciousness connections available to him.

• Yuanshi AI’s birth increased Li Qingsong’s Industrial Capacity, and he estimated that his industrial and research strength had risen at least tenfold since the Lyra G16 Star System.
• Li Qingsong and Yuanshi AI analyzed and assimilated the Havilah Civilization’s Variable Energy Shield, then produced an improved version.
• Li Qingsong’s fleet continued traveling at 55% light speed as eight billion clones worked across scientific and industrial fields to absorb the two civilizations’ technologies.
• Li Qingsong realized that studying and assimilating advanced technology demanded enormous numbers of skilled researchers and a stable, well-organized civilization.
• Li Qingsong concluded that a civilization needed Inner Power to make use of outside technological knowledge, while his own capacity was naturally strong and limited mainly by his consciousness connections.

After absorbing the Havilah and Black Mountain Civilizations’ technological data, Li Qingsong rebuilt his entire fleet and accelerated it to 80% of the speed of light. He arrived near Draco YC, the former testing ground of the Purple Moon Civilization, hoping to find clues about where it had gone.

• Li Qingsong formed a tentative hypothesis that gravity might be more fundamental than the other three forces, though unifying it would require further advances in mathematics and Basic Physics.
• Li Qingsong dismantled and replaced every spacecraft in his fleet, using the technologies he had absorbed to create New Spaceships.
• After several centuries of construction, Li Qingsong finished the fleet overhaul, reduced Flying Star’s radius to eighty kilometers, and sent the garbage ships away.
• Li Qingsong ordered the fleet to accelerate, and after three years it reached 80% of the speed of light, producing pronounced time dilation within the fleet.
• Li Qingsong reached the vicinity of Draco YC, the former testing ground of the Purple Moon Civilization, and hoped to find clues to its whereabouts.

Li Qingsong searched a star system that the Purple Moon Civilization had abandoned, but found no surviving traces of its fleet. After replenishing his forces and training his warships for over sixty years, he set off along the Purple Moon Civilization’s route.

• Li Qingsong sent probes across the star system and let Electric Calamity lead the Electromagnetic Lifeforms to the star, where they sensed that their ancestors had once lived.
• Li Qingsong promised the Electromagnetic Lifeforms he would try to reunite them with their ancestors, then found that the planets bore signs of explosions but no useful clues about the Purple Moon Civilization.
• Li Qingsong failed to find traces of the Purple Moon fleet’s exhaust plumes and concluded he would have to follow its route to search for more clues.
• Li Qingsong replenished the Flying Star, restored his fleet, and trained his manned and unmanned forces, which had become far more powerful despite his reduced capacity to control warships.
• After more than sixty years, Li Qingsong completed resource gathering and led his fleet back into space along a course sixteen degrees off the Galactic Center.

Li Qingsong deployed Deep Space Probe Ships to search nearby star systems for traces of the Purple Moon Civilization, using clones to send survey data back to the fleet. Meanwhile, Haimolan persuaded Wa Xi Luoluo to shift the Veller Clan’s research focus toward Basic Physics.

• Li Qingsong sent Deep Space Probe Ships into star systems within a hundred light-years of the fleet’s route to search for signs of the Purple Moon Civilization.
• Li Qingsong used dormant clones aboard the probe ships to transmit compiled survey data despite the limits of conventional long-range communication.
• The first probe reported an ordinary Red Dwarf system with no signs of intelligent life, and Li Qingsong ordered the ship to destroy itself after its survey.
• As further surveys found no traces of intelligent civilizations, Li Qingsong continued his research during the fleet’s journey.
• Haimolan returned home after persuading Wa Xi Luoluo to shift the Veller Clan’s focus from Applied Physics to Basic Physics.

Haimolan witnessed a green phenomenon that caused antigravity aboard a Residential Spaceship, and Wa Xi Luoluo helped restore his gravity. Li Qingsong evacuated the Veller People and began investigating the green light, whose nature remained unknown.

• Haimolan reflected on his loyalty to Human Civilization before a faint green light appeared in his room and objects began floating.
• Haimolan saw Wa Xi Luoluo unaffected by the anomaly, and Wa Xi Luoluo pulled him down and slapped away the green substance covering him, restoring gravity.
• Li Qingsong detached the Residential Spaceship from the fleet, surrounded it with warships, and ordered an orderly evacuation through the Escape Passage.
• The Veller Clan's managers organized the evacuation while Li Qingsong dispatched a Robot Research Team to examine the green light.
• Li Qingsong tested the green light with laser guns and found that laser fire triggered an electromagnetic response that grew stronger with the laser intensity.

Li Qingsong investigated the moving green light with lasers and particle radiation, finding evidence that it affected gravity and might be a living creature. Yuanshi AI deciphered its signals as pleas to stop poking it, leaving Li Qingsong considering communication while keeping the Residential Spaceship surrounded by warships.

• Li Qingsong tested the green light with lasers and discovered that it moved, changed size, and slightly deflected light passing through it.
• Li Qingsong suspected the green light was connected to gravity and continued probing it with lasers and particle radiation aboard the Residential Spaceship.
• Yuanshi AI identified language-like features in the green light's Electromagnetic Wave Signals and requested more samples.
• Li Qingsong increased the experiments, and Yuanshi AI deciphered the signals as a creature complaining about being poked and threatening to destroy the spaceship.
• Li Qingsong recognized that the green light might be an intelligent creature, maintained the surrounding warships, and considered trying to communicate with it.

Li Qingsong questioned the green alien lifeform, which called itself Azure Blue and said it had drifted from its home, the Warm Star. His tests revealed that its home was extremely hot and its gravity exceeded fifty times Earth's, leaving him unsure what kind of world it came from.

• Li Qingsong used an Electromagnetic Wave Signal to question the green mass, which said it was lost, cold, hungry, and seeking shelter aboard his fleet.
• Li Qingsong named the creature Azure Blue and inferred that it was adapted to intense gravity and had drifted away from a warm, high-gravity home.
• Azure Blue described its home as very warm and said its seven fathers, six mothers, and relatives must be worried about it.
• Li Qingsong tested temperatures of 3000 K and 6000 K, but Azure Blue still felt cold; at 10,000 K, it said the heat was about right.
• Li Qingsong brought Azure Blue to a research ship and tested its response to simulated gravity of fifty times Earth's; Azure Blue said the pull was still far weaker than at home.

Li Qingsong identified Azure Blue’s home as the white dwarf Draco WT and offered to take it there in exchange for studying its body. Azure Blue agreed to endure the research so Li Qingsong would help it return home.

• Li Qingsong deduced from Azure Blue’s gravity and temperature that it came from a white dwarf, then identified Draco WT, 19.6 light-years away, as its home.
• Li Qingsong told Azure Blue that its fathers, mothers, and relatives were waiting at home, and Azure Blue confirmed that Draco WT was its hometown.
• Li Qingsong offered to take Azure Blue home but said the detour would cost his fleet considerable time and energy.
• Azure Blue offered to help with the fleet’s transport tasks, but Li Qingsong instead asked to examine its body and gather scientific data.
• Li Qingsong warned that the research would involve powerful lasers and promised to provide a recovery environment with reduced gravity.
• After asking how low the gravity could go, Azure Blue agreed to endure the research so Li Qingsong would take it home.

Li Qingsong's fleet continued experimenting on Azure Blue as it approached Draco WT, while Haimolan explained why he believed humanity planned to exploit the Gravity Beings. Near the system, the fleet received a warning from the Abyss Civilization demanding that it leave.

• Li Qingsong's team subjected Azure Blue to another high-energy laser test, and Veller scientists analyzed the results.
• Haimolan told Wa Xi Luoluo that he believed humanity would use Azure Blue's trust to lure and capture the Gravity Beings, and Wa Xi Luoluo accepted his explanation.
• Li Qingsong slowed the fleet while it crossed Draco WT's planetary nebula remnants and began decelerating near the system.
• When the fleet was four trillion kilometers from the White Dwarf, Li Qingsong received the Abyss Civilization's warning to leave its temporary base immediately.

Li Qingsong discovered that the Abyss Civilization was attacking Gravity Lifeforms around a White Dwarf and preparing to move a dwarf planet, then chose to intervene after Azure Blue begged for help. As Li Qingsong’s fleet advanced, the Abyss Civilization mobilized its forces and prepared for war.

• Li Qingsong received reconnaissance showing the Abyss Civilization was using a heavily equipped dwarf planet and a large fleet to conduct operations around a White Dwarf.
• Li Qingsong realized the Abyss Civilization was trying to force the Gravity Lifeforms from the White Dwarf for gravitational research.
• Azure Blue told Li Qingsong that the Abyss Civilization was invading their home and begged him to help, and Li Qingsong agreed.
• Li Qingsong accelerated his fleet toward the star system, prompting the Abyss Civilization to gather its warships and protect the system’s three major planets.
• Li Qingsong estimated the Abyss Civilization had about 1.5 million advanced warships and resolved to test his Yuanshi AI against them.
• The Great Commander of the Abyss Civilization aboard the Abyss Eye concluded that war was unavoidable and planned to destroy Li Qingsong’s fleet and seize its technology.