Chapter Summaries

The Human Reform League tore apart the Three-Body Universe’s two-dimensional regions and swallowed them into Small Universes, devastating the Singer Civilization, the Edge Civilization, and the Nullifiers. With defeat looming, the Nullifiers activated a universe-wide dimensional mutation defense system, plunging the universe into chaos in hopes of buying time.

• Wang Gao activated a plan to use the Human Reform League’s Small Universes to tear apart and consume the Three-Body Universe’s two-dimensional regions.
• The Singer ships, Edge Civilization, and Nullifiers attacked the Small Universes, but the Human Reform League’s defenses and rule-modification weapons overwhelmed them.
• The Human Reform League captured and destroyed Singer ships and their crews inside its Small Universes, while the Three-Body Universe lost 27.14% of its mass in less than half a month.
• The Singer Civilization lost around 47% of its members, the Edge Civilization lost around 31%, and the Nullifiers lost around 18.7%, prompting surrendered civilizations to abandon their schemes.
• The Nullifiers activated the Great Universe Rule Mutation Defense System, causing the universe’s dimensions and physical parameters to fluctuate chaotically and destroying many ships and branches.

Wang Gao ordered the Human Reform League to find a way through the Great Mutation Rule Field after its offensive slowed, and Vade proposed targeting the advanced civilizations’ Small Universes instead. Vade led a massive research effort to breach their defenses while Wang Gao continued the original plan, leaving both sides racing to break the stalemate.

• The scientific research department estimated that devouring the universe would take 270,000 years, so Wang Gao ordered it to find a solution within ten years.
• Vade suggested that destroying the advanced civilizations’ Small Universe defenses would collapse the Rule Chaos Field, and Wang Gao gave him authority to lead the effort.
• Vade gathered tens of millions of researchers, including Naturalized Humans, and Chief scientist Lin Shan outlined two known ways to destroy a conventional Small Universe: overwhelming computing power or Universe Restart-level destructive force.
• Vade and the scientists recognized that neither method was currently practical, while Wang Gao continued pursuing the original plan to overcome the Rule Chaos Field.
• The Human Reform League and the Nullifiers, Singer, and Edge Civilization continued racing to make scientific breakthroughs that could break the stalemate.

After the Human Reform League stabilized the Three-Body Universe and overwhelmed the Nullifiers, Wang Gao began the Great Collapse to restart the universe. The Three-Body Universe reached a singularity surrounded by the United Small Universe, leaving the League to monitor whether the planned Big Bang would succeed.

• In Stellar Year 222, Shi Ensi told Wang Gao that the Rule Force Stabilizer had been developed, and Wang Gao ordered the military to prepare to end the war.
• The Human Reform League deployed Rule Stabilizers, stabilized chaotic regions of space, and resumed devouring them with its Small Universes.
• The Nullifiers split over whether to surrender, and more than 76.4% of their members surrendered to the Human Reform League.
• Eight months later, Wang Gao began the Great Collapse, using the mass the League had devoured to bring the Three-Body Universe to the required threshold for a Universe Restart.
• After seventeen days, thirteen hours, and thirty-five minutes, the universe's core became a singularity surrounded by the United Small Universe, and Wang Gao and the scientists monitored its progress toward the Big Bang.

In Year 382 of the Stellar Era, Luo Ji, Zhuang Yan, and Shi Ensi arrived in the Human Reform League’s main universe for an exchange visit. They learned about the League’s other universes and began their stay on Hunter Star.

• The Human Reform League merged its headquarters with the Three-Body Universe branch in Year 269, revealing the source of its technology to Luo Ji, Rey Diaz, and others.
• Luo Ji, Zhuang Yan, Shi Ensi, and their delegation traveled through the Crystal Wall Tunnel to the Blue Light Galaxy, where Golden Ring welcomed them before leaving Machi to guide them.
• Machi told the delegation that the League controlled four universes and warned them that the rules of other universes could differ greatly from those of the Three-Body Universe.
• Machi led the delegation to an artificial island off Hunter Star, showed them unusual creatures, and arranged their accommodations.
• At the hotel restaurant, Machi assured Zhuang Yan that the visitors could safely eat the main universe’s food, and the delegation began their meal.

Luo Ji and his group met Nara Shikamaru’s delegation from Universe 3 and learned that the Human Reform League sought knowledge of other universes’ rules. Their conversation also raised concerns about powerful alien civilizations, but Shikamaru urged them to trust the League.

• Luo Ji noticed Golden Ring bringing Nara Shikamaru and the Universe 3 delegation to Exchange Island, and Machi identified them as members of Universe 3.
• Shikamaru introduced himself to Luo Ji and Shi Ensi, then explained that Universe 3 had only recently completed its internal unification and begun exchanges.
• Shikamaru demonstrated a fire technique and explained that people could use other universes’ technologies by understanding their rules.
• Luo Ji and Shikamaru agreed that the Human Reform League explored universes to learn their differing rules, possibly to advance evolution and technology.
• Luo Ji discussed the uncertain Universe Restart with Shikamaru, who asked whether it would let the Three-Body Universe return to normal.
• Shi Ensi raised the threat of powerful lifeforms in other universes, and Shikamaru told Luo Ji and Shi Ensi to have faith in the League.

Golden Ring sent the exchange group members to a simulated Small Universe for training, where Team 403021 was assigned to survive and explore Bavif Star. The team began its ten-year trial after losing its advanced equipment, while Usopp’s thoughts touched on how long lifespans were changing family and social ties.

• Golden Ring arranged training for the exchange group, and the participants were reorganized into five-person teams inside the simulated Small Universe.
• Usopp, Zhang Ce, Uzuma Original Husband, Jeanne Antony, and Boundary Room introduced themselves, with Jeanne taking the role of Temporary Captain.
• The team teleported to Bavif Star and discovered that their high-tech equipment and Jeanne’s armor had disappeared.
• The trial intelligence core issued quests to survive for ten years, explore the planet, and pursue additional objectives.
• Usopp reflected on cloning, mortality, and how centuries of life had distanced him from his family before the team began its training.

Janna’s team tested local plants for food and planned how to survive for ten years on the trial planet. After finding nitrate and making crude weapons, Usopp and Uzuma Original Husband encountered a thorn-shooting tree in the forest.

• Usopp and Zhang Ce tested unfamiliar plants, and the team identified seven as edible after more than seven hours.
• Usopp reported that the nearby Purple Banana supply would last only one or two months, while Boundary Room found a nitrate vein in the cave.
• Janna assigned the team to survey plants, explore the cave, and search nearby hills for minerals.
• Usopp made longbows and Carbonized Spears while Janna and the others chipped out Stone Axes, then the team split up to explore.
• Usopp provoked a Black Thorn Tree into firing its spikes, and Uzuma Original Husband found that the hard thorns could serve as arrowheads.
• Usopp spotted animal carcasses near the tree and warned Uzuma Original Husband that its black thorns might be poisonous.

Usopp and Uzuma Original Husband cautiously explored a dense forest while the Human Reform League’s training program tested members’ survival skills and gathered data for future exploration of Other Universes. Elsewhere, Janna and Zhang Ce found malachite and wondered whether the planet might be a natural world replicated by headquarters rather than an artificially modified one.

• Usopp and Uzuma Original Husband gathered Black Thorn Tree spikes, marked the site, and continued through the hot forest with caution.
• After resting and eating Cucumber Bamboo, Usopp and Uzuma Original Husband resumed their exploration while the chapter explained the Human Reform League’s goals and the knowledge supporting its survival training.
• Janna and Zhang Ce followed a mountain riverbed, traced an obsidian deposit, and noticed large animal tracks.
• Zhang Ce identified emerald-veined stones near a pool as malachite and gold-bearing composite ore.
• Janna suggested that headquarters might have replicated a natural planet, leading Zhang Ce to reconsider what they knew about their surroundings.

Luffy’s team struggled to survive on Trial Star 00271, where a damaged exploration ship and dwindling reactor fuel left them vulnerable to swarms of powerful insects. Francis and the team planned ways to generate power, maintain the barrier, and improve their weapons as they faced more than nine years on the planet.

• Luffy and Wang Mingde fought off Mantis Demon Insects and carried their remains back to the ship before a swarm gathered outside its energy barrier.
• Francis assessed the ship’s damage and limited nuclear fuel, while Kaimi proposed reusing reactor components to generate power from starlight and geothermal energy or radioactive materials.
• Francis called a meeting, where Wang Mingde urged the team to plan exploration routes for radioactive materials and make weapons for defending the ship and fighting insects.
• Wang Mingde used insect fat and other materials to produce explosives and landmines as the team prepared for its ten-year mission.

On Trial Star 08266, Buckar’s team cautiously explored a ruined planet ruled by an artificial intelligence. On Trial Star 20034, Du Ziteng’s team fought off cultivators infected by alien parasites, learned their mission, and retreated to avoid further danger.

• Buckar’s team hid from robotic dogs while preparing to eliminate the artificial intelligence ruling Trial Star 08266.
• Du Ziteng’s team emerged from their spacecraft on Trial Star 20034 and prepared for battle as hundreds of high-energy signals approached.
• Du Ziteng and Vinsmoke Levis attacked the arriving cultivators, while Senju Shirayuki discovered a parasite inside one captive.
• The system revealed that the planet’s natives had been parasitized by an alien insect race whose members could disguise themselves as Inner Cores.
• Du Ziteng’s team killed over a hundred cultivators, drove others into flight, and retreated south.

Haku’s team discovered that a giant plant beast had been spawned by its planet’s Gaia Consciousness, while Philip’s team confronted the oppressive society of the Final Product and Gudao struggled to survive the Great Oxidation Event. Wang Gao silently watched the teams’ trials as they faced the consequences of different planetary and social conditions.

• Haku’s team observed a plant beast destroy an Indigenous People fortress and learned from Wei Fangcheng that the planet’s Gaia Consciousness had created it in response to ecological devastation.
• Philip’s team, trapped in Kaiford Star’s rigid society of artificial intelligence, Nanobots, and absolute law, secretly discussed their inability to change its course.
• Philip and the others concluded that private control of advanced technology could lead to the Final Product’s oppression, strengthening their resolve to support the Human Reform League’s public model.
• Gudao, an Archaebacteria on Trial Star 17009, fled into deeper water as oxygen-producing Blue Algae spread and threatened his survival.
• Wang Gao watched the teams’ trials in silence and reflected on the dangers of a world without sages.

In Year 577, Wang Gao restarted the Human Reform League’s Other Universe exploration project, sending scout Zheng Sen through soul transmigration into a dangerous, mutated version of ancient Earth. After waking in a mass grave with his abilities heavily suppressed and no contact with headquarters, Zheng Sen adapted to the local Martial Arts and set out toward Yangzhou City.

• Wang Gao restarted the Other Universe exploration project using soul transmigration after the exchange delegations shared their trial experiences with the Human Reform League.
• Zheng Sen crawled out of a mass grave and realized he had lost contact with headquarters after his soul entered a body killed by Yuwen Huaji.
• Zheng Sen studied the original owner’s memories and used his limited computing power to reverse-engineer Yuwen Huaji’s Mysterious Ice Force and repair his body.
• Zheng Sen avoided Yangzhou City overnight, ate wild plants, and kept watch from a tree near the mass grave.
• At sunrise, Zheng Sen gathered more food and headed toward Yangzhou City, planning to adapt headquarters’ contingency plans to the local situation.

Zheng Sen entered Yangzhou City, where the sight of refugees and poverty deepened his disgust with the apparent prosperity. After subduing the Black Scarf Gang with Life and Death Talismans, he learned it was largely a refuge for the destitute and began absorbing it into his organization.

• Zheng Sen altered his facial features and entered Yangzhou City while avoiding recognition as Shi Long’s former disciple.
• Zheng Sen saw refugees and the city’s filth, then passed the silent Shi Long Dojo without confronting Yuwen Huaji.
• Zheng Sen used ice needles to torment four thugs until they agreed to lead him to the Black Scarf Gang’s headquarters.
• Zheng Sen subdued the gang members and leader Huang Dabiao with Life and Death Talismans and absorbed the gang.
• Huang Dabiao reported the gang’s people and resources, and Zheng Sen recognized it as a refugee camp whose members would need reforming.

Zheng Sen organized his subordinates and decided to move his followers from Yangzhou to Taihu Lake before Yang Guang arrived. To secure resources for the relocation, Hao Jian attacked the Sea Sand Gang and began exploiting its conflict with the Giant Kun Gang.

• Zheng Sen held his first high-level meeting, reviewed his forces and supplies, and ordered everyone to relocate south to Taihu Lake.
• Hao Jian took Xie Qiang and over fifty recruits to the river, where they used three sand boats to pose as merchant vessels.
• The Sea Sand Gang surrounded Hao Jian's boats, but Hao Jian killed One-Eye and subdued the attackers aboard five ships.
• Hao Jian interrogated the captured gang members, executed forty-seven criminals, absorbed thirty-two men, and sent fifty-eight to the Redemption Camp.
• Hao Jian launched surprise attacks on three Sea Sand Gang outposts and learned that Han Gaitian had recently clashed with the Giant Kun Gang.

After taking the Sea Sand Gang’s Yangzhou branch, Zheng Sen chose Hudou Island as his next objective and sent Bai Yulou to seize its headquarters. The group captured the island and began purging the Sea Sand Gang’s remaining power.

• Hao Jian’s forces captured the Sea Sand Gang’s Yangzhou branch, recruited some prisoners, and seized ships, supplies, and weapons.
• Hao Jian told Zheng Sen that Han Gaitian was away pursuing the Giant Kun Gang and identified Hudou Island as the Sea Sand Gang’s headquarters.
• Zheng Sen ordered Bai Yulou to take three hundred men and fifteen Mengchong Ships to Hudou Island, while he planned to follow with the old and weak.
• Bai Yulou arrived at Hudou Island, killed deputy leader Han Bantian, and led his men in capturing the town, water fort, Xitian Township, and East Salt Fort.
• Zheng Sen arrived with reinforcements, strengthened his control of Hudou Island, and began grievance meetings, punishment of evildoers, and prisoner integration.

After taking Hudou Island, Zheng Sen established the Human Reform League’s government, military administration, land policy, and state monopolies. The island began implementing sweeping reforms while preparing for the Sea Sand Gang’s expected counterattack and future expansion.

• Zheng Sen named the Human Innovation Alliance, established the Governor’s Mansion and five departments, and appointed Bai Yulou, Tang Feilin, Longsha, and Hao Jian to lead them.
• Zheng Sen divided Hudou Island into West Field Town, Nantong Town, and East Salt Town, then approved Bai Yulou’s proposal to register the population under the Total Military System.
• Zheng Sen set a land grant of ten mu per person and a grain tax of one kilogram per mu, explaining that the Governor’s Mansion would acquire supplies through commodity exchange rather than heavy agricultural taxes.
• Zheng Sen introduced a monopoly system giving the Governor’s Mansion exclusive control over goods such as salt, cloth, and iron, and relied on the exchange system to purchase farmers’ surplus grain.
• Zheng Sen and his allies finalized laws governing land, taxes, commerce, industry, and public enterprises, while raising the number of Combat Soldiers to 1,200.
• Bai Yulou prepared the military reorganization as Zheng Sen anticipated the Sea Sand Gang’s counterattack and planned expansion toward Taihu Lake and the Zhoushan Islands.

Zheng Sen oversaw West Field Town’s land reforms, winning the tenant farmers’ support with land for every person, low taxes, and exemption from levies and corvée labor. Meanwhile, Longsha began reorganizing East Salt Town and planning a large sun-dried saltworks.

• Zheng Sen’s secretarial officers registered Liu Laogen’s family and explained the new land allotments, land tax, and exemption from levies and corvée labor.
• Liu Dakong and other farmers welcomed the reforms, and many Farmer Households sided with the Human Reform League and volunteered to enlist.
• Zheng Sen completed West Field Town’s initial reforms, distributed land, and erected a stele displaying the land laws, tax rules, and standard measurements.
• Longsha reorganized East Salt Town, assigning workers to the East Blue Salt Company, the Redemption Camp, and local militia units.
• Longsha chose an improved Sun Drying Salt Method and planned one thousand mu of salt fields to produce five hundred to eight hundred tons of Crude Sea Salt annually.

Bai Yulou led an ambush against Han Gaitian’s Sea Sand Gang fleet in the Yangtze River and captured its entire main force. The chapter ended with the Sea Sand Gang defeated and Han Gaitian and his protectors subdued.

• After receiving word that Han Gaitian’s fleet was returning, Zheng Sen approved Bai Yulou’s plan to ambush it in the Yangtze River.
• Bai Yulou led warships and Combat Soldiers to the Grand Canal junction, hiding part of the fleet upstream under Huang Dabiao and Lin Sandao.
• When Han Gaitian’s fleet arrived, Bai Yulou attacked with warships and long-range weapons while ordering his recruits to avoid boarding combat.
• Bai Yulou froze You Qiufeng and You Gui, then struck Han Gaitian and defeated the remaining protectors, including Ling Zhigao.
• With Huang Dabiao and the upstream force joining the fight, Bai Yulou’s forces overwhelmed the Sea Sand Gang and captured its entire main fleet.

After Bai Yulou’s fleet defeated the Sea Sand Gang, Zheng Sen studied the captured leaders’ martial arts and taught his followers the principles of the Scientific Martial Way. Bai Yulou then destroyed the gang’s Yongdong and Yuhang branches, relocating Yuhang’s people and supplies to the Zhoushan Islands to avoid a clash with the Sui Army.

• Bai Yulou returned to the East Sea Fleet’s port with more than 2,400 Sea Sand Gang prisoners and 77 captured ships, and Zheng Sen ordered Hao Jian to process the prisoners.
• Zheng Sen examined the frozen bodies of Han Gaitian and eight other leaders, recorded his findings, and used their techniques to develop his martial arts research.
• Zheng Sen explained to Gu Yuanzhao, Qin Mo, and the other youths that scientific knowledge and experiments were the foundation of the Scientific Martial Way.
• Bai Yulou captured the Sea Sand Gang’s Yongdong Branch, seized its supplies, and left Huang Dabiao to garrison the Zhoushan Islands.
• Bai Yulou wiped out the Yuhang Branch and moved its population and supplies to Zhoushan, choosing to abandon Yuhang rather than risk fighting the Sui Army.

Bai Yulou assessed the Human Reform League’s spoils and organized Zhoushan, while Longsha began establishing an industrial zone with kilns, workshops, and mineral surveys. The League spent more than three months strengthening its position as Yuwen Huaji remained unable to attack amid growing rebellions.

• Bai Yulou catalogued the people, supplies, livestock, and materials seized from the Sea Sand Gang remnants and continued organizing Zhoushan.
• Zheng Sen assessed the League’s martial abilities and prepared for the possibility that Ning Daoqi and Cihang Jingzhai would become enemies.
• Longsha arrived at Zhoushan with three Mengchong Ships and directed workers to level land and build typhoon-resistant factory buildings.
• Longsha adjusted the lime kilns, planned cement and iron-production facilities, and led surveys that found several small mineral deposits.
• Yuwen Huaji did not attack Hudou Island after the Sea Sand Gang’s defeat, and the Human Reform League safely spent four months in the region.