Chapter Summaries

Li Qingsong arrived at the Tavira system intending to stabilize its dying star, while the Tavira Civilization mistook his fleet for a hostile invasion and prepared to sacrifice most of its population to preserve a remnant. After Ya Shan sent a desperate plea, Li Qingsong clarified that he had come to cure their star and would discuss his small request afterward.

• Li Qingsong learned that the Tavira Civilization had spent generations building a project to move its home planet, then decided he could extend the star’s life by dispersing the heavy elements in its core.
• Ya Shan learned that a technologically superior fleet was approaching and, after concluding resistance was hopeless, proposed offering ninety percent of the population as prisoners to preserve the civilization’s remaining ten percent.
• Ya Shan volunteered his family to become prisoners, and other officials followed his example as the civilization prepared a lottery for those who would be retained.
• Li Qingsong’s fleet reached communications range, and Ya Shan sent a message offering seventy percent of Tavira’s population as prisoners in exchange for sparing the rest.
• Li Qingsong replied that he had no intention of taking the Tavira Civilization prisoner and had come to cure its star, adding that he had one small request to discuss afterward.

Li Qingsong examined the Tavira Civilization’s sick star and carried out a precise stellar surgery to remove the cause of its illness. The star’s radiation began to decline, and Li Qingsong told the Tavira that it would recover fully in about a hundred years.

• Head of State Ya Shan cautiously welcomed the Lantu Ke Civilization after receiving its reassuring message.
• Li Qingsong inspected the Tavira Civilization for Demon Eye infection, then sent his fleet and probe ships to examine the sick star.
• Li Qingsong warned the Tavira to evacuate and prepare for a temporary surge in stellar radiation.
• Li Qingsong deployed the Omni-Force Field, bombs, and Electromagnetic Life forms to direct energy through the star and destroy the tumor at its core.
• Li Qingsong monitored the star for ten days as its radiation peaked at ten times normal and then began to fall.
• Li Qingsong announced to the Tavira spacecraft that their star had been cured and would recover fully in about a hundred years.

Li Qingsong cured Tavira Star, asked the Tavira Civilization to watch for the Ash Worm Civilization, and continued his search through space. He reached a star system where two Gravitational Civilizations appeared to be at war, but his close-range observations startled him.

• The Lantu Ke Civilization restored Tavira Star, and Tavira’s leaders thanked Li Qingsong and agreed to report any traces of the Ash Worm Civilization.
• Li Qingsong refused Tavira’s offer of supplies, but its leaders sent cargo ships after his fleet and persuaded him to accept them.
• Li Qingsong gave the supplies to a damaged Electroweak Civilization on an interstellar voyage, then destroyed a Machina Calamity and absorbed its main AI into Yuanshi AI.
• Li Qingsong detected signs of a Gravity Level civilization in a star system and concluded that two Gravitational Civilizations were fighting there.
• Li Qingsong approached the star system intending to mediate the war, but his comprehensive observations startled him.

Li Qingsong discovered that a Star Beast Cataclysm was besieging an intelligent civilization and initially chose to retreat rather than risk a battle. After spotting clues that the civilization was connected to the Ash Worm Civilization, he redirected his fleet toward the system and fought off the first group of star beasts, where he continued decelerating toward the system as more beasts gathered.

• Li Qingsong observed a Star Beast Cataclysm overwhelming an intelligent civilization around a Rocky Major Planet and decided to abandon the system.
• Li Qingsong detected a small transport fleet whose ship designs resembled those of the Ash Worm Civilization and changed course toward the system.
• Li Qingsong brought his fleet out of Warp Travel, began decelerating, and saw the besieged civilization reinforce its defenses as his fleet approached.
• A few hundred star beasts attacked Li Qingsong's fleet with energy, gravitational, and physical assaults, and he sent warships to fight them.
• Li Qingsong's fleet destroyed more than eighty percent of the attacking star beasts, while the survivors retreated and other star beasts converged on the fleet.

Li Qingsong's fleet entered the Star System to intervene in the battle between the Mo Lai Si Civilization and the Star Beasts, after the Mo Lai Si ships reacted to his question about the Ash Worm Civilization by self-destructing. His fleet ignored by both sides, Li Qingsong attacked the Star Beasts and breached their second defensive line with his Jupiter-class Battleships.

• After fewer than ten Mo Lai Si warships reached Li Qingsong's fleet, they sent a distress message asking for help and offering compensation.
• Li Qingsong asked whether the Mo Lai Si Civilization was connected to the Ash Worm Civilization, and the ships tried to flee before self-destructing.
• Li Qingsong entered the Star System and ordered the Mo Lai Si Civilization and the Star Beasts to cease fighting, but neither side responded.
• When the battle continued, Li Qingsong sent his fleet against more than a hundred thousand Star Beasts, killing over twenty thousand and breaking their formation in less than a month.
• Li Qingsong deployed his Jupiter-class Battleships and Gravity Cannons against the Star Beasts' giant defenders, and his fleet breached their second defensive line.

Li Qingsong divided the battlefield between the Mo Lai Si Civilization and the Star Beast Cataclysm, but both sides attacked his fleet. After suppressing them on both fronts, he lured the super giant star beasts into colliding with Aerospace Carriers, destroying them, then wondered what the remaining star beasts were doing.

• Li Qingsong split the battlefield with his fleet and ordered the Mo Lai Si Civilization and the star beasts to stop fighting.
• The Mo Lai Si Civilization and the Star Beast Cataclysm ignored Li Qingsong’s warnings and attacked his forces, so he deployed Jupiter-class Battleships and fought back on both fronts.
• Li Qingsong’s forces suppressed both enemies, but he struggled to find a way to kill the heavily defended super giant star beasts.
• The super giant star beasts charged Li Qingsong’s defensive line, and he used attacks to guide them toward a concealed line of Aerospace Carriers.
• The Aerospace Carriers collided with the super giant star beasts, destroying them, and Li Qingsong then wondered what the remaining star beasts were doing.

Li Qingsong used the Omni-Force Field to kill most of the star beasts, then discovered that the Ice Giant Planet was their breeding nest and could continually replenish their numbers. To eliminate the threat, he began pumping the planet’s gases into space, aiming to strip it of its atmosphere and destroy the star beasts’ refuge.

• The star beasts triggered gravity disorder, disrupting Li Qingsong’s fleet and tearing apart weaker ships, so he unleashed the Omni-Force Field and killed more than seven hundred thousand of them.
• The surviving star beasts fought more fiercely, while new reinforcements emerged from the Ice Giant Planet and attacked Li Qingsong’s forces.
• Li Qingsong sent part of his fleet to encircle the Ice Giant Planet and used probes to confirm that star beasts reproduced there and grew by feeding on its gases.
• After finding that the star beasts could hide deep inside the planet, Li Qingsong built an industrial system on a nearby Rocky Major Planet to manufacture gas extractors.
• Li Qingsong installed ten thousand gas extractors in the Ice Giant Planet and began forcing its gases into space at above escape velocity.

Li Qingsong deployed millions of Gas Extractors to strip the Ice Giant Planet of its gases, devastating its rings and moons as the planet’s star beasts finally attacked. After ten and a half years, the Ice Giant Planet disappeared, leaving behind its lava-covered rocky core.

• Li Qingsong’s first ten thousand Gas Extractors began ejecting the Ice Giant Planet’s gases into space, and he soon expanded the operation to over a million machines.
• The extraction winds swept away the Planetary Ring, stripped moon atmospheres, melted an Ice Star’s global ice sheet, and battered rocky moons.
• Li Qingsong increased the force to fifteen million Gas Extractors, projecting that the Ice Giant Planet could be drained in roughly ten years.
• Millions of star beasts rose from the planet’s depths and attacked the Gas Extractors, so Li Qingsong positioned warships to defend them.
• After ten and a half years of extraction, the Ice Giant Planet vanished, leaving a lava-covered Rocky Planet with a radius of about 4,000 kilometers.

Li Qingsong destroyed the planetary core and hunted down the remaining Star Beasts before turning his fleet toward the Mo Lai Si Civilization, which surrendered. He learned that the Mo Lai Si Civilization had split from the Ash Worm Civilization after surviving the Demon Eye Tribulation, revealing a third path besides full infection or overcoming the threat.

• Li Qingsong rammed a Dwarf Planet into the planetary core, destroying both bodies and killing thousands of Star Beasts hidden among the debris.
• Li Qingsong's fleet spent a year checking and destroying large fragments until no Star Beasts remained in sight, then headed for the Mo Lai Si Civilization's planet.
• The Mo Lai Si Civilization's leaders argued over whether to fight or surrender, and the Head of State chose unconditional surrender.
• Li Qingsong sent robots to inspect the Mo Lai Si Civilization, and the first hundred million people checked showed no signs of Demon Eye infection.
• The Mo Lai Si Head of State explained that the Mo Lai Si Civilization had split from the Ash Worm Civilization after Demon Eyes infected part of it during the Electroweak Stage.

Li Qingsong learned that the Mo Lai Si Civilization shared an origin with the Ash Worm Civilization and had repeatedly been pursued by it, so he took the Mo Lai Si Civilization under his protection and planned to use it to lure out their common enemy. After exchanging technology and reaching a chosen star system, they staged a siege and sent a distress signal, then waited for the Ash Worm Civilization to respond.

• The Mo Lai Si head of state explained that the Ash Worm Civilization had tried to infect and absorb his civilization, then pursued it through two wars.
• Li Qingsong decided to bring the Mo Lai Si Civilization with him rather than silence it, and the head of state accepted his arrangements.
• The two civilizations prepared for their voyage, combined their fleets, and began traveling through Warp Travel.
• Li Qingsong and the Mo Lai Si Civilization exchanged more than one million technologies across over sixty thousand specialized fields during their journey.
• After several centuries, the Mo Lai Si Civilization entered the selected star system, where Li Qingsong staged a battle that trapped it on a Rocky Major Planet.
• The Mo Lai Si Civilization sent a Gravitational Wave distress signal in a language the Ash Worm Civilization could understand, and both sides waited for a response.

After the stars around Li Qingsong vanished and reappeared as a finite set of replicated stars, he suspected he had been brought into a Small Universe belonging to a Space Level civilization. His probes uncovered Gravity Level and Dark Force Level Star Beasts throughout the system, and at the core he found an enormous Star Beast resembling those that had once besieged the Mo Lai Si Civilization.

• Li Qingsong halted the battle with the Mo Lai Si Civilization when stars disappeared and Super Distance Communication with distant probes failed.
• Li Qingsong observed that the reappearing stars were copies of 125 originals and suspected he was inside a Space Level nation.
• Li Qingsong and the Mo Lai Si Civilization sent research fleets to investigate the nation and found its outer star systems occupied by Gravity Level Star Beasts.
• Li Qingsong discovered that the inner star systems held stronger Star Beasts capable of making detection ships vanish without a trace.
• Li Qingsong sent a fleet to the nation’s core and saw a massive, curled-up Star Beast begin to unfurl, resembling the beasts that had attacked the Mo Lai Si Civilization.

After the Space Level star beast trapped Li Qingsong and the Mo Lai Si Civilization in the Star Beast Nation, they fortified their Star System while Li Qingsong searched for a way to escape. His proposed route depended on detonating their star, but before that research could progress, a group of Gravity Level star beasts began attacking.

• Li Qingsong realized his surviving clones in the Great Universe could preserve his consciousness, then persuaded the Mo Lai Si Civilization to help build a Star System Defense System.
• Over ten years, Li Qingsong and the Mo Lai Si Civilization completed extensive defenses and amassed a vast fleet while the star beasts remained inactive.
• Li Qingsong tried to contact the Recorder Civilization, but received no reply, so he investigated how his connection to his clones crossed between universes.
• Li Qingsong estimated that exploiting the connection to open a passage would require 3.9*10^44 joules, then proposed artificially detonating their star and began research with scientists and the Mo Lai Si Civilization.
• A probe reported that Gravity Level star beasts from Star System C85 were advancing on Li Qingsong's Star System, prompting both civilizations to mobilize for war.

Li Qingsong repelled four increasingly powerful waves of star beasts while preparing for an expected assault by Gravity Peak enemies. A breakthrough in Dark Matter theory led him to propose using Dark Force star beasts to trigger a stellar eruption and open a Spatial Channel, and he rallied his scientists to first survive the coming fifth wave.

• Li Qingsong rebuilt his defenses after the first three star beast swarms attacked and fled, each stronger than the last.
• The fourth swarm overwhelmed his conventional defenses, so Li Qingsong deployed millions of Electromagnetic Lifeforms to help defeat it.
• Li Qingsong prepared for Gravity Peak star beasts while his forces pursued technological research, and scientists made a theoretical breakthrough about Dark Matter and tachyons.
• Li Qingsong theorized that a Dark Force star beast could use tachyons to trigger a stellar eruption and open a Spatial Channel for escape.
• Li Qingsong presented the plan to scientists from his allied civilizations and urged them to focus first on repelling the fifth wave.
• A larger, more ferocious group of star beasts set out toward Li Qingsong's star system.

Li Qingsong’s forces struggled against Gravity Peak star beasts whose coordinated movements shaped a battlefield-wide gravitational environment that steadily increased his losses. After using Electromagnetic Life forms to slow the effect, Li Qingsong unleashed his Omni-Force Field, shattered the gravitational environment, and led an all-out counterattack.

• Millions of Gravity Peak star beasts attacked Li Qingsong’s prepared Allied Forces, and his forces suffered heavy losses despite committing Jupiter-class Battleships to the front line.
• Li Qingsong analyzed the rising destruction rate and discovered that the star beasts’ movements created a gravitational environment that strengthened their weapons and weakened his own.
• Li Qingsong sent Electromagnetic Life forms to the star, where their presence slowed the star beasts’ ability to shape the battlefield’s gravitational environment.
• Li Qingsong realized the star beasts were testing his strength rather than fighting with every tactic available, and he resolved to use his own trump card to escape.
• Li Qingsong activated the Omni-Force Field, sacrificing one hundred billion clones to create Micro Black Holes and destroy the star beasts’ gravitational environment.
• Li Qingsong and the Mo Lai Si Civilization’s fleet seized the opening and charged with their remaining Jupiter-class Battleships at the spearhead.

After defeating the Gravity Peak star beasts, Li Qingsong prepared to face the coming Dark Force star beasts by moving his base close to the star and building an All-Stellar Defense Line. Once his forces had completed their preparations, a swarm of roughly ten million star beasts emerged from Faster-Than-Light Travel, 3.2 trillion kilometers away.

• Li Qingsong and the Mo Lai Si Civilization concluded that they could not face Dark Force star beasts head-on and ordered the Stellar Engineering project to begin.
• Li Qingsong moved the Main Base to the innermost Rocky Planet and used millions of Planet Thrusters to halt its rotation and bring it close to the star.
• Li Qingsong deployed vast orbital defenses, built up warships and reserve clones, and trained the Electromagnetic Life forms to fight near the star.
• Li Qingsong and the Mo Lai Si Civilization established the All-Stellar Defense Line, hoping to withstand the star beasts long enough for them to attack and detonate the star.
• A swarm of roughly ten million star beasts entered Faster-Than-Light Travel and appeared 3.2 trillion kilometers from Li Qingsong's star four months later.

Li Qingsong threw his forces and both trump cards against the Dark Force star beast swarm, but its overwhelming technology left his defenses near collapse. As the beasts continued advancing, a new star suddenly appeared within the Star Beast Nation.

• Li Qingsong saw the swarm enter the system at tremendous speed and ordered his forces to unleash a massive barrage, but tachyon technology made every projectile vanish without harming a single beast.
• The star beasts attacked with superior conventional weapons and tachyon methods, devastating Li Qingsong's All-Stellar Defense Line and pushing him to deploy the Electric Calamity.
• Electromagnetic lifeforms killed some smaller star beasts with stellar lasers, but the swarm adapted quickly and the casualties had little effect on the battle.
• Li Qingsong activated the Omni-Force Field, destroying more than nine thousand Dark Force star beasts, but the attack exhausted his final trump card and failed to slow the swarm.
• Li Qingsong continued fighting despite having committed all available resources, then noticed that a previously absent star had appeared within the Star Beast Nation.

Li Qingsong watched the Star Beast Nation’s creatures converge on a newly appeared, star-like object and discovered it was the Destroyer Civilization’s Cataclysm of Destruction. After detecting signs of an imminent supernova explosion, he calculated that its spatial influence might open a route out of the Star Beast Nation and ordered preparations to evacuate.

• Li Qingsong saw star beasts across the Star Beast Nation abandon their battles and rush toward the newly appeared star-like object.
• The space-grade star beast stretched into a vast, mist-shrouded form and vanished, while Li Qingsong sent probes and observation devices toward the object.
• Li Qingsong’s closer observations revealed that the apparent star was a small, intensely hot planet whose temperature kept rising.
• Nearly ten million Dark Force-level star beasts charged the planet and disappeared amid immense energy and spatial fluctuations.
• The space-grade star beast arrived and led a mixed force of star beasts in an assault on the planet; months later, Li Qingsong detected neutrinos indicating an imminent supernova explosion.
• Li Qingsong identified the planet as the Destroyer Civilization’s Cataclysm of Destruction, calculated that its energy might open a Spatial Channel, and ordered preparations to evacuate.

Li Qingsong and the Mo Lai Si Civilization escaped the Star Beast Nation through spatial channels opened by the Destroyer Civilization’s Cataclysm of Destruction, but the channels scattered their fleets across the Milky Way. After learning the Mo Lai Si Civilization had emerged beside the Ash Worm Civilization, Li Qingsong set out to reunite his forces and rescue them, while suspecting his capture might have helped the Destroyer Civilization find the Star Beast Nation.

• Li Qingsong ordered his and the Mo Lai Si Civilization’s fleets to prepare for evacuation after detecting neutrinos near the battlefield core.
• The Cataclysm of Destruction opened numerous spatial channels, and Li Qingsong ordered every fleet to evacuate through them.
• Li Qingsong emerged roughly six hundred light-years from his original location and discovered that the different channels had scattered the fleets across the galaxy.
• The Mo Lai Si Civilization reported that the Ash Worm Civilization had arrived near its fleet before communications were cut off.
• Li Qingsong sent his first-echelon fleet into warp travel, planning to rendezvous with his second echelon and then reach the Mo Lai Si Civilization in roughly two hundred years.
• Li Qingsong questioned how the Destroyer Civilization had found the Star Beast Nation and wondered whether his capture had been more than coincidence.

Li Qingsong learned that Destroyer Civilization had been monitoring Lantu Ke Civilization and used its capture to locate and attack the Star Beast Nation. After exchanging intelligence with Recorder Civilization, he set out to rescue Mo Lai Si Civilization and pursue stronger technology, but arrived to find the star system scarred by war.

• Li Qingsong asked Recorder Civilization whether Destroyer Civilization had been watching them and learned there was an 86% probability that it had.
• Li Qingsong revealed what he had witnessed in the Star Beast Nation and asked Recorder Civilization for help escaping Destroyer Civilization’s attention, but Recorder Civilization refused to intervene.
• Recorder Civilization explained that Destroyer Civilization’s attack on the Star Beast Nation could drive hidden space-grade powers to unite against it, and that the sealed Small Universe left the star beasts nowhere to hide from the Cataclysm of Destruction.
• Li Qingsong decided to rescue Mo Lai Si Civilization, seek information about Human Civilization’s extinction, and advance Lantu Ke Civilization’s technology to the Dark Force Level.
• Several decades later, Li Qingsong rendezvoused with the second-echelon fleet and exited Warp Travel 1.3 light-years from Mo Lai Si Civilization’s star, where he saw only remnants of war.

Li Qingsong found the Mo Lai Si Civilization’s devastated home system and vowed to avenge it by destroying the Ash Worm Civilization. He rebuilt his fleet, pursued technological advances during centuries of Faster-Than-Light travel, and set off again with a faster fleet, though he still lagged behind his target’s speed.

• Li Qingsong discovered evidence that the Ash Worm Civilization had captured most of the Mo Lai Si people after a devastating war and vowed to avenge them.
• Li Qingsong withdrew from the star system, established industry elsewhere, and restored his fleet to its peak size.
• Li Qingsong built a massive Flying Star to support a long pursuit of the Ash Worm Civilization, whose Faster-Than-Light speed exceeded his own.
• Li Qingsong’s scientists advanced energy technology and many other fields during centuries of travel through Warp Space.
• Li Qingsong dismantled and rebuilt his entire fleet, then resumed Faster-Than-Light travel at 4.6 times the speed of light.