Chapter Summaries

Li Qingsong received the Galactic Alliance’s call to unite against the Destroyer Civilization, but decided not to join and instead focused on finding the Ash Worm Civilization. Near a gathering point, he hid his fleet and searched for other civilizations, eventually detecting an early-stage Electroweak Civilization.

• Five Space-grade Civilizations announced the Galactic Alliance and called on Milky Way civilizations to gather at designated coordinates to fight the Destroyer Civilization.
• Li Qingsong judged that joining would leave Human Civilization dependent on others, so he refused to join while suspecting the Ash Worm Civilization would participate.
• Li Qingsong redirected his fleet toward the nearest gathering point, continuing research until his Warp Travel speed reached 5.2 times light speed.
• Eighty-five light-years from the gathering point, Li Qingsong concealed his fleet and deployed probes to search the surrounding region for civilizations, including the Ash Worm Civilization.
• Li Qingsong’s search detected an early-stage Electroweak Civilization in the star region.

Li Qingsong investigated a primitive Electroweak Civilization and discovered a covert probe war involving many civilizations, including the Abyss Civilization. After withdrawing and waiting for news about the Ash Worm Civilization, he learned that the Demon Eye Civilization had not joined the Galactic Alliance gathering.

• Li Qingsong sent a fleet and concealed Spy Satellites to observe the Electroweak Civilization, but probes from other civilizations began attacking one another.
• Li Qingsong developed armed probes, captured devices from more than twenty types of civilizations, and detected signs of at least two Dark Force Civilizations.
• Li Qingsong identified probes resembling those of the Abyss Civilization and contacted it, learning that it planned to join the Galactic Alliance.
• Li Qingsong asked the Abyss Civilization to send him any information about the Ash Worm Civilization, then destroyed his probes and withdrew.
• After waiting more than 120 light-years from the gathering point, Li Qingsong received the Abyss Civilization's report that the Demon Eye Civilization was absent from the gathering.

Li Qingsong discovered that Ash Worm Civilization had lured him into a trap, where a horde of Gravity Peak Star Beasts ambushed his fleet and hydrogen bombs devastated the planet he planned to use for defense. As the battle began, Star Beasts broke through to the core of his fleet, destroying Residential Spaceships and killing millions of intelligent lives.

• After searching for more than three hundred years, Li Qingsong found traces of Ash Worm Civilization in a system and identified its former operations on Planet Three.
• Li Qingsong discovered ten million Gravity Peak Star Beasts emerging from Planet Four and realized Ash Worm Civilization had led him into a trap.
• Li Qingsong ordered his fleet and industrial forces to prepare defenses on Planet Three, but hidden hydrogen bombs detonated beneath its surface and destroyed the facilities and thousands of spacecraft.
• Li Qingsong began rebuilding industrial defenses amid the ruined planet as the Star Beasts launched a coordinated attack on his fleet.
• Star Beasts broke through to Li Qingsong's core area and destroyed Residential Spaceships, killing millions of intelligent lives.

Li Qingsong used the Omni-Force Field to inflict heavy losses on the Star Beasts, then spent ten years building an Industrial System while enduring their siege. After the Star Beasts rejected his offer to join forces, he began pushing the planet toward the star so he could deploy Electromagnetic Lifeforms and a Fixed Star Cannon; more than a decade later, the Planet Engines fired and swept ships and Star Beasts into Interstellar Dust.

• Li Qingsong activated the Omni-Force Field, killing more than three hundred thousand Star Beasts and severely damaging about two hundred thousand, but gained only a temporary reprieve.
• Li Qingsong spent ten years defending his position and built a complete Industrial System on the unstable Rocky Major Planet, stabilizing his defensive lines as the Star Beast numbers recovered.
• Li Qingsong broadcast an offer of peace and alliance, but the Star Beasts replied that they would destroy both Lantu Ke Civilization and the Destroyer Civilization.
• Li Qingsong decided to push the planet toward the star so he could send Electromagnetic Lifeforms there and support his forces with a Fixed Star Cannon.
• Li Qingsong completed more than a million Planet Engines after over ten years of construction and activated them, blasting ships and Star Beasts in the area into Interstellar Dust.