Chapter Summaries

Li Qingsong completed a Clone Cultivation Factory and used it to raise 2,000 clones, boosting his consciousness and research capacity. Four years later, his population had grown to 20,156, and he clearly sensed that his Consciousness Capacity could connect to only about 1,000 more brains.

• Li Qingsong completed a five-story Clone Cultivation Factory containing 2,000 Culture Pods.
• Li Qingsong placed 2,000 batches of Embryonic Cells in the Culture Pods, and six months later all 2,000 new clones awoke.
• Li Qingsong's consciousness expanded as it connected to the new clones, speeding up research and revealing a possible limit to his Consciousness Capacity.
• Li Qingsong assigned the new clones housing, supplies, and jobs after one day of adaptive training.
• Over four years, Li Qingsong expanded Luoshen Star Base, built more than 2,000 kilometers of railways, and grew his workforce to 20,156 clones.
• Li Qingsong sensed that his Consciousness Capacity could accommodate at most about 1,000 additional brains.

Li Qingsong tested whether clone brain quality affected how many clones he could control and confirmed that it did. He decided to prioritize improving Culture Pod technology so he could cultivate higher-quality clones and raise his connection limit safely.

• Li Qingsong estimated that his 21,000 clones had the productive capacity of roughly 210,000 ordinary humans and reflected on the limits of his current industrial and technological base.
• Li Qingsong found that his clones’ consciousness link had a speed-of-light transmission limit and suspected that brain quality affected his connection limit.
• After cultivating 2,000 more clones, Li Qingsong found that different bodies could connect to different numbers of clones, with a gap of more than 800 between the highest and lowest limits.
• Li Qingsong tested four clones’ cognitive abilities and found that those with higher scores could control more clones, confirming his hypothesis.
• Li Qingsong concluded that he needed to improve every clone’s brain quality and decided to prioritize breakthroughs in Culture Pod technology.

Li Qingsong expanded his clone workforce and industrial base, but his control capacity and logistics could not keep pace with the growing population. After shutting down the Clone Factory, he suddenly lost contact with a clone at the No. 45 Iron Mine Base and saw something alarming.

• Li Qingsong planned to cultivate 14,000 more clones so he could keep 21,000 working at all times, and several years later his base had reached that goal with 35,000 clones.
• Li Qingsong coordinated the base’s tens of thousands of versatile clones across farms, factories, kitchens, and laboratories, steadily improving its technology.
• Li Qingsong continued cultivating clones despite his control limit, and their population surpassed 100,000 while only 21,000 could be controlled and put to work.
• Li Qingsong reduced each clone’s work hours and expanded agricultural production to feed the growing population, which eventually reached 150,000.
• Li Qingsong shut down the Clone Factory, then lost contact with a clone at the No. 45 Iron Mine Base and saw something that shocked him.

Li Qingsong’s clones killed a monster bird at Base No. 45, and he concluded it might be a space-dwelling creature that fed on organic matter. The chapter left him facing a swarm of at least a thousand monster birds charging toward the base.

• A monster bird appeared beside a clone at Base No. 45, bit it in half, and swallowed it.
• Li Qingsong sent more than a hundred clones armed with improvised weapons to test the creature, and they killed it at the cost of more than twenty clones.
• Li Qingsong examined the monster bird and found organic compounds in its stomach, leading him to suspect it survived by gathering matter in space and feeding on planets.
• Li Qingsong feared his activity on Luoshen Star had attracted the monster birds and realized his clones had no proper weapons.
• The ground trembled, and the clones saw at least a thousand monster birds charging toward Base No. 45.

After discovering that thousands of strange birds had arrived on Luoshen Star and more were still descending, Li Qingsong withdrew the Deep Space spacecraft with fifty clones while preparing the remaining forces to defend the Main Base and major Mining Bases. He left the chapter mobilizing his clones and converting metalworking factories into arsenals to produce cold weapons.

• Li Qingsong searched Luoshen Star from the Deep Space spacecraft, then risked launching the Landing Spaceship when he could not locate the strange birds.
• Li Qingsong saw thousands of strange birds feeding across the planet and realized they had migrated from space but were temporarily weakened by the journey.
• Li Qingsong estimated the birds could regain their ability to fly within thirty to forty days and decided to send fifty clones and supplies into space aboard the Deep Space spacecraft.
• Li Qingsong ordered the abandonment of secondary bases and concentrated the remaining forces on defending the Main Base, ten major Mining Bases, and the Railway Line.
• Li Qingsong mobilized thousands of clones to reinforce the core bases, scout for attacks, and turn every metal-processing factory into an arsenal producing cold weapons.

Li Qingsong mobilized the factories at the Main Base to produce cold weapons and protective equipment as monster bird flocks approached the base cluster. After dispatching reinforcements to No. 1 Copper Mine Base, he began training the armed clones in individual and group combat.

• Li Qingsong ordered the Steel Factory’s output sent to the Metal Processing Plant, where clones began mass-producing sabers, shields, and other combat equipment.
• The factories produced four thousand equipment sets in two days, then continued working toward Li Qingsong’s goal of two hundred thousand sets.
• Trains carried equipment and explosives to the ten core Mining Bases, and eight thousand clones were armed in four days.
• Scouts reported that more than seventy thousand monster birds were approaching the eleven bases, with a flock expected to reach No. 1 Copper Mine Base in five hours.
• Li Qingsong sent three thousand clones and supplies by train to reinforce No. 1 Copper Mine Base.
• Li Qingsong organized armed clones into pairs and teams to practice fighting techniques and group tactics on Luoshen Star.

Li Qingsong used synchronized combat experience, reserves, and explosives to defend No. 1 Copper Mine from a massive flock of monstrous birds. As the battle remained locked in a costly stalemate, he sent newly equipped clones by train to reinforce other bases threatened by the birds.

• Li Qingsong rapidly tested combat tactics and synchronized the resulting cold-weapon experience to all his clones.
• Reinforcements from the Main Base raised the defense at No. 1 Copper Mine to 3,500 clones, who formed layered ranks along the short defensive line.
• A huge flock of monstrous birds attacked, and Li Qingsong directed the front line while reserves immediately filled gaps left by fallen clones.
• Li Qingsong used explosives to kill groups of birds, helping the defense hold despite heavy losses.
• Factories produced 3,000 cold-weapon sets per day, while equipped clones boarded trains to reinforce other bases under threat.

Li Qingsong held off the monster birds by sacrificing Armed Clones to defend the Mining Bases and railway lines while supplies continued flowing to the Main Base. As the battle stalled, he devoted 1,066 Clones to coordinated research into gunpowder weapons.

• More than seventy thousand monster birds attacked Li Qingsong’s eleven bases, while smaller battles erupted along the railway lines.
• Li Qingsong deployed steam locomotives and Transport Battle Squads to keep minerals and supplies moving despite damaged tracks and heavy losses.
• Li Qingsong committed sixteen thousand Armed Clones to the fighting and maintained the stalemate through constant replacements.
• Li Qingsong assigned his remaining 1,066 Clones to one hundred teams researching gunpowder weapons.
• The research teams shared discoveries instantly and built on one another’s findings, rapidly expanding Li Qingsong’s knowledge of firearms.

After nearly seventy thousand clones died defending the bases, Li Qingsong used the knowledge accumulated by his industrial system to improve his firearms. He finalized an automatic weapon with a large magazine and ordered it into mass production.

• Clones continued dying in battle, but all ten Mining Bases and the Main Base remained operational.
• A thousand-odd researcher clones tested Li Qingsong’s inaccurate flintlock pistol and identified its slow firing rate, weak bullets, and small magazine as problems.
• Li Qingsong drew on the knowledge accumulated by his clones to refine the firearm and its ammunition.
• After two more dormitory buildings were emptied and roughly seventy thousand clones had died, the laboratory produced an automatic firearm holding eighty bullets and firing four rounds per second.
• Li Qingsong tested the firearm, declared it suitable, and ordered mass production.

Li Qingsong’s clones built a gun factory and produced firearms, magazines, and ammunition for the front line. The newly armed clones took over the most vulnerable section of the defense and began cutting down the attacking monster birds.

• Li Qingsong sent more than 1,500 clones to build machinery and establish a gun factory, where 26 production lines began manufacturing firearms, magazines, and bullets.
• On the first day of trial production, the factory made 100 firearms, 300 magazines, and 80,000 bullets and sent them to the Frontline Reserve Base.
• One hundred replacement clones received firearms and loaded magazines before running to reinforce the front line.
• The armed clones opened fire as monster birds surged toward a gap in the defense, and the first birds collapsed under the barrage.

Li Qingsong’s Gun Factory ramped up production, supplying the Main Base with firearms and ammunition that turned the battle against the monster birds around. After the siege was wiped out, he sent firearm clones by train to reinforce the other bases and the Railway Line.

• Li Qingsong sent his hundred firearm clones to reinforce threatened positions, where their gunfire stopped monster bird charges and eased pressure on the front line.
• With the factory’s assembly and calibration complete, the clones increased production to hundreds of firearms and millions of bullets per day.
• Trucks delivered guns and ammunition to the front, allowing the clones to keep firing as Cold Weapon Clones withdrew.
• One thousand guns and a steady supply of ammunition turned the tide, and the clones killed all ten thousand-plus monster birds besieging the Main Base.
• Li Qingsong left two thousand firearm clones to defend the Main Base and sent another two thousand by train to reinforce the other bases and the Railway Line.

After Li Qingsong’s firearms and ammunition wiped out the monstrous birds near the base network, he reorganized his forces and began expanding reconnaissance and weapons research. He planned to build armored vehicles and tanks powered by methane and oxygen, then discovered the monstrous birds’ bodily fluids were highly nutritious.

• Li Qingsong’s armed Clones cleared the monstrous birds from No. 1 Copper Mine and the other Mine Bases, eliminating all birds within ten kilometers in less than five days.
• Li Qingsong reduced defensive forces to seven thousand Clones, sent a thousand more to explore Luoshen Star, and reassigned the remaining workforce to production and weapons development.
• Li Qingsong decided to develop Armored Vehicles, tanks, and artillery, using Internal Combustion Engines fueled by methane and separately carried oxygen.
• Li Qingsong had monstrous bird carcasses examined in the Biological Laboratory and discovered that their bodily fluids were highly nutritious.

Li Qingsong investigated the Strange Bird’s nutrient-rich body fluid and used it to begin cultivating a hundred clones. He then developed a methane-and-oxygen internal combustion vehicle, which roared to life and offered the range needed to explore Luoshen Star.

• Li Qingsong found that the Strange Bird’s body fluid contained nutrients suited to clone development and set aside genetic analysis for later.
• Li Qingsong filtered and purified the fluid, then used it as Culture Medium for a hundred batches of his own cells without preliminary animal testing.
• Li Qingsong decided to build a methane-and-oxygen Internal Combustion Engine after electric vehicles’ limited range prevented scouts from traveling far from the base.
• Several hundred clones developed and optimized engines, transmissions, vehicle bodies, steering, and braking systems in less than ten days.
• Li Qingsong’s clones installed the engine in a reinforced, enclosed vehicle with methane and oxygen tanks capable of powering long-distance travel.
• A driver clone started the completed vehicle, and its engine roared to life.

Li Qingsong mass-produced vehicles and developed machine guns, artillery, armored vehicles, and tanks while sending reconnaissance teams across Luoshen Star to search for the missing strange birds. As the search found no living birds, Li Qingsong discovered that the embryos in the Biological Laboratory were far stronger than those he had cultivated before.

• Li Qingsong finalized the Hunter Type-1 off-road vehicle and produced a thousand of them.
• Li Qingsong sent a thousand clone drivers across Luoshen Star to locate strange bird flocks and survey mineral deposits.
• Li Qingsong began developing armored vehicles, tanks, tanker trucks, machine guns, and artillery, using three thousand reserve clones to support production.
• Li Qingsong's factories produced large numbers of weapons and vehicles, including tanks and tanker trucks.
• Li Qingsong found that the reconnaissance teams had located no living strange birds and wondered where they had gathered.
• Li Qingsong examined the embryos in the Biological Laboratory and sensed that they were far stronger than his previous embryos.

Li Qingsong discovered that the strange birds on Luoshen Star had gathered at a breeding site and were regaining their ability to fly. Fearing their growing strength and numbers, he shifted nearly all his resources to production, then sent his Expeditionary Force out.

• Li Qingsong found that some embryos cultivated with Strange Bird Body Fluid had superior physical qualities and resolved to capture every strange bird on Luoshen Star.
• A clone scouting in an off-road vehicle discovered a plain crowded with strange birds taking off, landing, and raising newborns.
• Li Qingsong concluded that the birds had gathered to breed and that their recovered nutrition meant they could fly near the planet's surface.
• Li Qingsong reclaimed most reconnaissance links, halted research, and devoted 20,500 of his 21,000 consciousness-link slots to production.
• After half a month of around-the-clock work, Li Qingsong finished preparing his weapons and supplies and ordered the Expeditionary Force to move out.

Li Qingsong’s Expeditionary Force of forty thousand clones and more than three thousand vehicles crossed Luoshen Star, using a mobile logistics team to keep the convoy supplied and organized. The force arrived near the Small Plains and prepared to attack the strange birds, with artillery, vehicles, and machine guns taking their positions.

• Forty thousand clones set out from the Main Base in more than three thousand vehicles, carrying one hundred thousand tons of supplies.
• A logistics detachment reached each campsite ahead of the main force, erected tents, prepared meals, refueled and inspected vehicles, then packed everything away.
• The Expeditionary Force traveled through the night, covering six hundred kilometers per day and nearing the battlefield after taking a detour that made the route thirteen hundred kilometers long.
• Reconnaissance reports showed that the convoy had not disturbed the strange birds swarming over the Small Plains.
• Li Qingsong’s force spread out around the Small Plains, positioned artillery, tanks, and Armored Vehicles, and aimed High-Rate Machine Guns at the birds and sky.

Li Qingsong’s forces trapped and annihilated the strange birds on Luoshen Star with a massive bombardment and a ground assault. After three days of cleanup, his trucks were loaded with recovered materials and wounded birds, and the force prepared to return to base.

• Li Qingsong ordered 1,000 artillery pieces to bombard the Small Plains, killing hundreds of thousands of strange birds and scattering the rest.
• Li Qingsong sent tanks, armored vehicles, and infantry clones into the battlefield while machine guns blocked the birds from escaping or attacking.
• After a little over an hour, Li Qingsong’s forces eliminated all strange birds still capable of fighting on Luoshen Star.
• Li Qingsong ordered his forces to collect frozen bird fluids and gathered wounded birds to take back to the base as livestock.
• After three days of cleanup, more than three thousand vehicles assembled with their loads, and Li Qingsong’s force set out for home.

After the Strange Bird War, Li Qingsong struggled to restore Luoshen Star’s damaged bases and depleted supplies. The first clone bodies cultivated with Strange Bird Body Fluid awakened, raising his consciousness-link quota enough to put every available clone body to work and plan a much larger cultivation factory.

• Li Qingsong returned to the Main Base with his forces and began rebuilding after the war had destroyed most Outer Bases and consumed his reserves.
• Li Qingsong endured slow progress restoring production because he could control only 21,000 clone bodies at once.
• Li Qingsong supervised the birth of the first clone bodies cultivated with Strange Bird Body Fluid as an additive.
• Li Qingsong linked to an awakened clone body and discovered that his consciousness-link quota had risen to at least 90,000.
• Li Qingsong assigned all available clone bodies to restore production and planned to build a larger Clone Cultivation Factory once the current production level returned.

After restoring the war-damaged base, Li Qingsong discovered the monstrous birds shared an ancient Earth ancestor with humans and began pursuing automation to expand production. He decided to start by developing millimeter-scale discrete integrated circuits, laying the groundwork for future automated construction.

• Li Qingsong analyzed the monstrous birds’ genes and found they were likely descended from an ancient Earth species related to water bears.
• Li Qingsong reflected on the possibility of life across the universe, then focused on restoring his production capacity before pursuing space exploration.
• More than sixty thousand clones repaired the damaged facilities and resumed production, while Li Qingsong prepared a site for the giant Clone Cultivation Factory Cluster.
• Li Qingsong concluded that automation could greatly increase productivity, but required chip technology first.
• Li Qingsong assigned ten thousand clones to build a laboratory and chose millimeter-scale discrete integrated circuits as his first chip-development goal.

Li Qingsong used ten thousand clones to develop primitive chips and test them on a screw production line, where they greatly reduced the number of clones needed to operate it. After the trial succeeded, he turned the researchers into workers at his first Chip Factory and began mass-producing chips for his bases and factories.

• Li Qingsong divided ten thousand clones into teams to research chip components, materials, assembly, and software.
• The clones produced working components and soldered the first batch of thirty chips, which used Magnetic Drums to store data.
• Li Qingsong installed the chips along a screw production line, automating its speed, furnace temperature, and screw sorting.
• The production line ran with four clones instead of fifteen, so Li Qingsong ordered chip components and assembly to be mechanized and mass-produced.
• Li Qingsong reassigned the ten thousand clones to his first Chip Factory, which began producing and encasing chips in iron shells filled with Argon.