Chapter Summaries

Akira led Flame Gate in a sudden assault that tore apart Kara’s hidden base and captured Jigen, Otsutsuki Isshiki, and the other members. He uncovered Kara’s infiltrators and scientific research, but an unknown secret remained hidden in Isshiki’s sealed memories as more than a month passed.

• Jigen, Victor, and Amado examined Kaido, unaware Flame Gate had already traced the hidden base through its Mind Communication System.
• Akira mobilized an elite force and appeared above Kara’s base, while Kakashi’s enhanced Kamui shattered the Inner Formation Space.
• Akira used Planetary Devastation to pull Kara’s underground base from the earth and trapped its members in a barrier that suppressed their Chakra.
• Jigen revealed his Karma markings, and Akira recognized him as Otsutsuki Isshiki’s vessel before capturing Isshiki and the remaining Kara members.
• Akira searched the captives’ memories, found dozens of Kara infiltrators and its Scientific Ninjutsu research, and brought both into Flame Gate’s possession.
• Orochimaru noticed the destruction and accelerated the spaceship project, while Akira remained unaware of a secret hidden in Isshiki’s memories as more than a month passed.

Otsutsuki Burke’s forces attacked Ashihara Star, overwhelming Flame Gate’s defenders despite Akira’s countermeasures. Akira was pinned down by Burke, who reached for his eyes and intended to use his soul as pill-refining material, as Akira prepared to make a desperate decision.

• Otsutsuki Burke and fifteen other Otsutsuki arrived near Desolate Star, and Mōka alerted Akira after detecting their energy signatures.
• Akira ordered Desolate Star to conceal itself and mobilized Flame Gate, evacuating civilians and researchers across the planetary system while keeping troops on Ashihara Star.
• Otsutsuki members landed in the Land of Fire, planted a God Tree, and crippled a fleet, killing more than two thousand soldiers and over a hundred elite Kage Level fighters.
• Akira led Shisui and more than a thousand Kage Level experts against Otsutsuki Burke, who used Nightmare Manifestation to assault the Flame Army.
• Akira analyzed the genjutsu, and Shisui copied it with his transplanted Mangekyo, but Burke destroyed the soldiers maintaining a Chakra-imprisoning barrier.
• Akira struck Burke with Netherworld Ghost Fire, but Burke swallowed the flames, pierced Akira with Yin-Yang Release Black Rods, and reached for his eyes and soul.

Akira and the Flame Army fought Otsutsuki Burke and his forces with nuclear weapons, Ten-Tails Mode, and fleet support, but the battle turned increasingly desperate. As both sides suffered heavy losses, Akira wondered whether he had no choice but to resort to another measure.

• Akira detonated more than a hundred nuclear bombs against Otsutsuki Burke and the other Otsutsuki, injuring some but failing to stop them.
• Akira entered Ten-Tails Mode and led the Flame Army in Dark Matter attacks, while Burke's forces raised barriers and counterattacked.
• Shisui fed Chakra Crystals into Akira, but Burke's power surged, and Akira used Izanagi to survive the Underworld Destruction Cannon by killing himself first.
• Reinforcing fleets attacked the battlefield, destroying Burke's Planetary Devastation attempt and helping kill one Otsutsuki member, though three warships were lost.
• Burke and Akira continued their fierce clash as the Flame Army took heavy losses and the Ten-Tails threatened to escape Akira's control.

Akira unleashed the souls of millions of Flame Army soldiers to overpower Burke, but their forced fusion drove him mad. After destroying the Otsutsuki attackers, he remained unable to control himself, while Flame Gate’s personnel had already evacuated to Desolate Star.

• Nuclear missile attacks and interference disrupted Urashiki, Kinshiki, Momoshiki, and the other Otsutsuki Branch Family members, while Burke and the other Main Family members remained composed.
• Burke suppressed Akira’s Magnetic Wave and pierced his chest with a Dark Sphere of the Wayless, causing the Ten-Tails to lose control.
• Akira connected his soul with millions of Flame Army soldiers and, with the Sage Mecha’s help, fused their souls and unleashed their power.
• Akira’s fused body overwhelmed Burke and shattered his Soul Body, after which Burke attacked and killed Yuexin and other Otsutsuki members.
• Akira destroyed the remaining Otsutsuki attackers and went on a destructive rampage, unable to control the chaos of the merged souls.

After the Otsutsuki Clan sent an Annihilation Squad to avenge Burke and the others, Flame Gate struggled to contain the crisis caused by the missing Akira, who had fused with millions of souls and gone berserk. Akira destroyed Mount Myōboku and reached the Land of Wind just as the squad arrived on Ashihara Star and found him.

• Otsutsuki Ovu sent twelve Annihilation Squad members to eliminate the enemy who killed Burke and the other Otsutsuki Clan members.
• Mihara concealed Ashihara Star's disaster from Flame Gate's members and gathered the Uchiha and other trusted forces to stabilize the organization.
• Munehiro's Scouting Parasites found Akira, and the Secret Guard realized his fusion with millions of souls was making him stronger and harder to kill.
• Momochi Zabuza suggested killing Akira and reviving him through the Soul Core, but Munehiro said they could not get close enough to him.
• Akira destroyed Mount Myōboku and the Great Toad Sage, then crossed the Land of Rivers into the Land of Wind.
• The Otsutsuki Clan's Annihilation Squad arrived on Ashihara Star and discovered the out-of-control Akira.

Akira was freed from the fused souls, but Wang Gao emerged in his body and defeated the Otsutsuki Squad by altering their souls. After making Flame Gate a Human Reform League branch, Wang Gao recruited Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Hiruko, while Jiraiya refused and remained behind.

• Otsutsuki Zero used Five Spirit Sealing and severed Akira’s Timeline, causing Akira’s body to expel the Ten-Tails and millions of souls.
• Akira rose again as Wang Gao took control of his body, caught Otsutsuki Zero’s attack, and altered Zero’s soul Meme Sequence.
• Wang Gao altered the other eleven Otsutsuki members and sent the squad back to the Hunter Universe, after agreeing that Flame Gate would become a Human Reform League branch with considerable autonomy.
• Wang Gao confronted Orochimaru, Tsunade, Hiruko, Jiraiya, and the others at their hidden base; Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Hiruko agreed to serve him, but Jiraiya refused.
• Wang Gao took Orochimaru and the others who surrendered back to the Hunter Universe, leaving Jiraiya behind.

Qin He survived a suicide attempt, but after waking he realized Wang Gao’s soul had fused with his and that he had arrived in the Three-Body Universe. Now inhabiting Qin He’s identity in 2006, Wang Gao planned to study the universe’s rules while Earth’s authorities investigated a wave of physicists’ suicides.

• Doctors stabilized Qin He after Zhang Yunshan and others waited outside the emergency room, and Chang Siwei ordered psychological counselors to help him.
• Chang Siwei reviewed the fourteenth case in a year of physicists’ suicides as the Earth Defense Security Department exchanged intelligence with other divisions.
• Qin He woke and recalled that Wang Gao’s soul Clone had been diverted from the Evil God Universe into the Three-Body Universe, where their souls fused.
• Wang Gao recognized the year as 2006 and planned to gather the universe’s rules before his main body opened a Crystal Wall Tunnel decades later.
• After Qin He left the ICU, Zhang Yunshan brought several psychological counselors to see him, while the Sophon had stopped monitoring him with interest.

Qin He assessed the Three-Body Universe’s resistance to the Human Reform League and found that its rules could take 1,300 to 1,400 years to analyze, far beyond the 205-year deadline posed by the Droplet. He arranged his students’ futures, sold his Panyu apartment to raise funds, and prepared to continue his plans while avoiding Sophon.

• Qin He refused psychological counseling and stayed silent while Shi Qiang and Zhang Yunshan questioned him, then asked them to leave so he could rest.
• A week later, Qin He returned to his Panyu residence with Lin Zicong, Wen Ming, and a Ministry of Security agent, after learning that the universe’s rejection could delay the Human Reform League’s entry for over a millennium.
• Qin He asked Lin Zicong and Wen Ming about their plans, arranged for Wen Ming to continue studying, and offered Lin Zicong a job recommendation at Guangdong Nuclear Power.
• Qin He assessed his resources and listed his Panyu apartment for sale, then sold it for 19,300 yuan per square meter and received 2.16 million yuan after fees.

Wang Gao used quantum communication to coordinate with financial experts and supercomputers in the Hunter Universe, turning 3 million Huayuan into more than 50 billion through international futures trading. Having hidden the money from human authorities and the Trisolarans, he prepared to use it to strengthen his security and build his own forces.

• Wang Gao went to Hong Kong and opened trading accounts, using quantum communication to consult experts and computers in the Hunter Universe.
• Cai Jiemin delivered documents to Wang Gao at New World Financial Company, where he ordered hourly reports and updates about major international events.
• Wang Gao used 3 million Huayuan and sixfold leverage to earn 327 million in less than a month, then spread the funds across offshore accounts.
• Wang Gao continued trading for two months and amassed 52.7 billion while avoiding attention from Sophon and human authorities.
• Wang Gao decided to use the money to improve his security and establish a small force.

Wang Gao rapidly expanded New World Company, built research facilities, and recruited carefully vetted graduates while the Earth Defense Security Department investigated the company and ETO. By May, New World was preparing to release its first technology, and the investigation into ETO had uncovered more of its secrets as the Guzheng Plan approached.

• Wang Gao directed New World Company to acquire more than a dozen businesses, build a research base near Yangcheng, and recruit 572 graduates with their families.
• Chang Siwei questioned New World Company's opaque ownership and unusual hiring of Qin He, then ordered Zhang Yunshan's team to monitor it and transferred the company investigation to the domestic security bureau.
• Sophon noticed New World Company but chose not to warn ETO, while the Trisolarans planned to undermine Qin He during his physics experiments.
• Wang Gao revealed that he had merged with an injured man in Hong Kong, creating a real-world identity and a backup Clone to protect his control of New World Company.
• Wang Gao continued earning money through financial markets and preparing New World's first technology, while the Earth Defense Security Department deepened its investigation into ETO and the Guzheng Plan entered its countdown.

After the Panama Canal massacre, the Five Great Nations learned of the Trisolarans’ arrival and began preparing for the threat as humanity entered the Crisis Era. Wang Gao expanded New World Company’s salt-battery and renewable-energy projects while secretly completing a device to evade Sophon surveillance.

• Agents recovered intelligence after Evans and the ETO members aboard his ship were sliced apart at the Panama Canal, and news of the Trisolaran fleet set the Five Great Nations on alert.
• Wang Gao and Fang Liheng inspected New World Company’s new sodium solid-state batteries, whose low cost and safety outweighed their lower energy density.
• Wang Gao launched electric vehicles and built renewable-energy storage facilities using salt batteries, drawing attention to New World Company’s rapid growth.
• After Trisolaran intelligence leaked, the Five Great Nations revealed the ETO and the incoming fleet, while unrest spread and the remaining ETO members stirred up chaos.
• In November, the Five Great Nations agreed to cooperate against the Trisolarans and announced the Crisis Era.
• At Shaoguan Research Base, Wang Gao completed a device designed to evade Sophon surveillance.

Wang Gao trapped a Sophon inside the Giant Egg Building, then severed its quantum communication and left the Trisolarans with only one functioning Sophon on Earth. The Trisolarans shifted their surveillance and sabotage plans while preparing more Sophons, which would take about 4.5 years to arrive.

• Wang Gao activated the Giant Egg Building’s shielding layers, trapping the Sophon that tried to pass through them.
• The Sophon escaped the Quantum Trap by reducing her dimension, but Wang Gao activated a Quantum Interference Field that severed her quantum communication.
• The Trisolarans learned that Sophons No. 3 and No. 4 had lost contact and ordered No. 2 to investigate.
• The remaining Sophon investigated New World Company and Qin He but avoided entering the Giant Egg Building.
• The Trisolarans abandoned direct surveillance of Wang Gao, contacted ETO members to target him and New World Company, and began producing more Sophons.

At the Yangcheng Global Science Conference, Wang Gao, speaking as Qin He, revealed technologies that could counter the Sophons and secured major orders while building Qin He's public profile. Qin He was appointed to Huaguo's two academies, but his prominence also made him a target of ETO and the Trisolarans.

• Huaguo imposed strict security at the conference, and Qin He addressed attendees and viewers from a sealed glass room.
• Wang Gao presented footage of Sophons and announced that New World Company would sell shielding technology and Quantum Entanglement Interference Devices.
• Ding Yi judged the technologies capable of restraining Sophons and disrupting their quantum communications, while Da Shi warned that reinforcements could arrive in about 4.5 years.
• Wang Gao answered questions and let the conference establish Qin He as a genius scientist, helping him pursue a Wallfacer position.
• The Five Great Nations ordered 87.4 billion Huayuan worth of equipment from New World Company, and the Huaguo Academy of Sciences and Academy of Engineering appointed Qin He as an academician.
• Qin He's rising profile made him a target of ETO and the Trisolarans, while Wang Gao's plan advanced.

Ding Yi visited the Giant Egg Building, where Wang Gao showed him a compact Wakefield Accelerator and drew out his Macro-Atom research under the guise of an academic exchange. The chapter left Wang Gao communicating secretly with a clone in the South Pacific while New World Company acquired islands in Tuvalu.

• Ding Yi warned Wang Gao that the Quantum Interferer could not stop Sophons from exchanging information, and Wang Gao explained that lost quantum entanglement would trigger the Sophons’ self-destruction protocols.
• Wang Gao demonstrated that his compact Wakefield Accelerator could produce proton collisions and claimed it could surpass large colliders in collision energy.
• Wang Gao asked Ding Yi about ball lightning and Macro-Atoms, and Ding Yi shared his research without suspecting Wang Gao’s motives.
• Wang Gao told Ding Yi to keep their discussion secret because Sophons were monitoring people, then silently contacted his clone Davis through Quantum Communication.
• Davis, posing as New World Company’s Oceania branch manager, bought several uninhabited islands in Tuvalu under the guise of charitable relief.

New World Company turned Development Island into a Sophon surveillance blind spot, while the Trisolarans prepared a backup communication system and ordered ETO to kill Qin He. An ETO member confronted Qin He publicly, but Qin He exposed the planned countermeasure and reassured viewers that the existing blockade would remain effective until the new Sophons arrived.

• Davis ordered Quantum Interferers deployed across Development Island, creating another blind spot in Sophon surveillance.
• The Trisolaran leader approved a plan to produce ten thousand Sophons with backup electromagnetic-wave communication and ordered ETO to kill Qin He.
• ETO members discussed Qin He's security, and Gauss volunteered to reveal the Trisolarans' new communication system in a public confrontation.
• On March 14, Gauss confronted Qin He by video link at the Yangcheng science conference venue.
• Qin He identified the planned backup system and said the current blockade would remain effective until the new Sophons reached the Solar System.
• Guards arrested Gauss, who died from implanted poison half an hour later in the interrogation room.

Thomas Wade’s agency responded to Qin He’s confrontation by preparing to use four years without Sophon electromagnetic communication, while the ETO considered how to undermine Qin He. At the Shaoguan research base, Wang Gao recruited four young researchers into the Human Innovation Alliance.

• Thomas Wade and the Strategic Intelligence Agency learned that physics experiments had returned to normal and concluded that Earth’s Sophons could not enter Shielded Areas for now.
• Wade assigned Zhang Shaoying to establish confidentiality measures and ordered stronger security for Qin He at the Shaoguan research base.
• The ETO members discussed Qin He’s influence and struggled to find a way to disrupt humanity’s research or weaken public confidence.
• Wang Gao told Lin Zicong and Wen Ming that he had chosen less-established researchers to reduce the risk of ETO infiltration, then summoned a small group to consider a dangerous mission.
• After two researchers left and another departed near the end of the waiting period, Lin Zicong, Wen Ming, Zhang Chengfeng, and Wang Xin agreed to join Wang Gao’s Human Innovation Alliance.

Wang Gao implanted Auxiliary Systems in four recruits and explained his plan to build the Human Reform League to reform humanity and resist the Trisolarans. The League expanded covertly to 36,000 members by February of Crisis Year 3, remaining undetected by the world’s intelligence agencies.

• Wang Gao used a deep-sleep helmet while implanting Auxiliary Systems into Lin Zicong, Wen Ming, Zhang Chengfeng, and the fourth recruit.
• Wang Gao told the recruits that the Human Reform League would unite humanity, transform society, and prepare to resist the Trisolarans, and Wen Ming pledged to fight for humanity.
• Wang Gao’s Clones recruited members through companies and training programs, growing the League to 137 members within a month.
• By February of Crisis Year 3, the League had expanded to 36,000 members worldwide, many of whom became highly capable workers through their Auxiliary Systems.
• Wang Gao used rigorous organization and Quantum Communication to keep the League hidden from the Five Great Nations and the Strategic Intelligence Agency.

The United Nations selected Qin He and four others as Wallfacers, while Qin He hinted that humanity needed a new perspective on the Trisolarans. At a secret laboratory in the South Pacific Special Zone, Wang Gao began an experiment involving twenty-two Human Reform League participants.

• The United Nations established the South Pacific Special Zone after New World Company gained control of three island nations and licensed its technology to the Five Great Nations.
• The United Nations selected Qin He, Taylor, Shi Ensi, Rey Diaz, and Luo Ji as Wallfacers, and Qin He suggested that changing perspectives might reveal a way to confront the Trisolarans.
• Qin He proposed regular meetings among the Wallfacers, while Luo Ji resigned and learned that his resignation was part of the plan.
• Qin He returned to Shaoguan Research Base, while Lin Zicong and Zhang Chengfeng arrived at a secret laboratory on Development Island with twenty Human Reform League members.
• Wang Gao ordered the experiment to begin, and twenty-two participants entered a spherical device and were immersed in orange-yellow liquid.

Wang Gao transformed participants into Quantum Warriors equipped with Meme Armor, then organized them into new departments for the Human Reform League. The Ghost Investigation Bureau began preparing to gather intelligence, while the Dark World Development Department readied an expedition beyond the Solar System.

• Wang Gao separated twenty-two participants’ souls from their bodies and equipped the resulting Quantum Ghosts with Meme Armor, allowing them to become Quantum Warriors.
• Lin Zicong, Zhang Chengfeng, Cheng Jianshe, and the other participants examined their Quantum Bodies and learned that unprotected human Quantum Ghosts could survive in the Dark World for only a few months.
• After testing continued for over half a month, the number of Quantum Warriors reached eighty-six.
• Wang Gao established the Ghost Investigation Bureau, the Dark World Development Department, and the Soul Research Institute, appointing Cheng Jianshe, Zhang Chengfeng, and Lin Zicong to lead them.
• Wang Gao planned for ghost agents to investigate Shan Shan Huizi and other human factions, while Zhang Chengfeng prepared an expedition to a planetary system thirty-seven light-years from the Solar System.

Luo Ji visited the South Pacific Special Zone with Zhuang Yan and Da Shi, where New World Company showed them its vast floating-island settlement and self-sufficient infrastructure. The visit left Luo Ji considering whether the company’s society might resemble humanity’s future after technological progress and material abundance.

• The Human Reform League established a Dark World base on Mars and expanded its membership, especially in Southeast Asia and East Asia.
• New World Company and Fighter Group built and expanded floating island groups in the South Pacific, including Development Island and its airport.
• Luo Ji visited the South Pacific Special Zone after Qin He declined to meet him, and New World Company’s security team escorted him and his companions.
• Luo Ji explored Development Island and recognized how New World Company’s employee-owned, company-run society resembled a transformed social system.
• Captain Zhou Xinhua explained that the Special Zone relied mainly on nuclear power, and Luo Ji saw Farm Town’s large-scale food production and synthetic flour.