Chapter Summaries

Wang Dong recruited Liu Zhi, helped him bring down Shalo, and upgraded the Dark Peng with a powerful warp device before the exchange fleet left Caruleon. As his academy years ended, Wang Dong said farewell to his friends, warned Li Wu'an about the border, visited Lin Xiaogui, and departed for the Northern Star Domain.

• Wang Dong brought Liu Zhi aboard the Dark Peng and approved his plan with Mada to take revenge on Shalo.
• The Dark Peng raided Shalo’s stores, recovered a Gold Quality Steel Bullet Warp Device, and Wang Dong upgraded it to LV.5.
• Shalo’s business empire collapsed, and his enemies arranged his death in a staged traffic accident.
• After the exchange fleet’s three-month voyage, Wang Dong and Sun Jie said farewell to An Yu, who returned to the troubled Seaton Duchy.
• Wang Dong asked Sun Jie to watch over his undeveloped planet and warned Li Wu'an about unusual activity by the Golden Snapdragon Federation.
• Wang Dong visited Lin Xiaogui on Yilan Star, then departed for the Northern Star Domain on December 15, Star Calendar 10108.

After claiming the Wisteria Compass and upgrading the Dark Peng’s Source Point multiplier, Wang Dong encountered the Gray Chrysanthemum Civilization’s wandering home planet and attacked it to harvest Source Points. The Dark Peng rapidly weakened the planet’s shield, while the Gray Chrysanthemum commander ordered continued resistance and the Seed Plan.

• Wang Dong chose the purple-quality Wisteria Compass as his prize, then departed aboard the Dark Peng after receiving the Command major’s rewards.
• Wang Dong entered an Otherworldly Space battlefield and discovered the Gray Chrysanthemum Civilization traveling through space on its rogue planet.
• Wang Dong spent three High-grade Energy Crystals to raise the Auxiliary System’s Source Point acquisition multiplier to four times, then ordered the Dark Peng to attack.
• The Dark Peng’s Scorpio Death Ray Cannon struck Gray Chrysanthemum’s planetary shield twice, while the planet’s warships and orbital cannons prepared to defend it.
• The Gray Chrysanthemum commander tried to contact Wang Dong, but Wang Dong refused communication and ordered the attack to continue.
• The Gray Chrysanthemum commander ordered repeated communication requests and told the escort fleet to carry out the Seed Plan.

Dark Peng destroyed the Gray Chrysanthemum Civilization, gained enough Source Points to evolve, and returned to the Phoenix Star System. Wang Dong completed Dark Peng’s second evolution, turning it into a Dreadnought with a powerful new Orange-quality trait and two super main-gun slots.

• Dark Peng used the Supernova Burst Cannon to destroy Gray Chrysanthemum Star and wipe out the Gray Chrysanthemum Civilization, gaining more than 800,000 Source Points.
• Wang Dong told the crew that his ability increased Dark Peng’s Source Point gains fourfold, boosting morale as the ship returned to the Phoenix Star System.
• Wang Dong chose the Phoenix Star System as the site for Dark Peng’s evolution, and the Viscount agreed to provide whatever resources it needed.
• Dark Peng completed its second evolution and received a “Perfect Evolution” verdict from its shipborne optical computer.
• Wang Dong discovered that Dark Peng had become a Dreadnought, gaining the Orange-quality Dreadnought trait, two super main-gun slots, and an expanded weapons system.

The chapter listed Dark Peng’s weapons, defenses, engine, hull, Shipborne Spark, and additional modules, detailing their abilities, requirements, and history. It left Dark Peng’s extensive build and Wang Dong’s growing arsenal fully laid out, with several modules still having room to upgrade.

• Dark Peng’s standard module list showed its three main cannons, including the Scorpio Death Ray Cannon and the newly acquired Positron Impact Cannon.
• The list described the Immortal Flowing Silver Armor, Black Hole Cruiser shield, Shadow Dark Matter Energy Reactor, Abyss Eye radar, and Epic Hull Structure.
• Dark Peng’s Purple Shipborne Spark and its selected traits were detailed, along with the ship’s available additional module slots.
• The list catalogued Dark Peng’s strategic, protective, mining, stealth, warp, and combat modules, including the Reformer Alliance Contract and Saint’s Crown.
• The later entries described the Insect Totem’s growth from Zerg remains, the Ancient Caller’s Horn’s marked contacts, the Bale Biochemical Brain, and the Ghost Warship’s Spirit Summoning Ghost Crystal.

After the Dark Peng evolved into a battleship, Wang Dong planned to develop a Battleship Skill and agreed to join Xu Zhenzhi’s expedition to find a modern-civilization ruin in the Weijing River. The Dark Peng reached Xu Zhenzhi’s suspected destination, where Wang Dong spotted a Star Dragon and asked how Xu had explored so deep before.

• Wang Dong reviewed the Dark Peng’s new combat rating and scarce resources, then planned to raise its Hull Structure before generating a Battleship Skill slot.
• Xu Zhenzhi visited Wang Dong with clues to a modern-civilization ruin deep in the Weijing River, and Wang Dong agreed to share the expedition’s gains as they had before.
• Wang Dong gathered the crew and brought Wang Guannan, Wang Guanbei, and Wang Jujun aboard the Dark Peng for the expedition.
• As the Dark Peng traveled into the Weijing River, Xu Zhenzhi proposed that the region had once been a normal galaxy cluster transformed by a sudden upheaval; Wang Dong recognized that the ship’s Wisteria Compass 2.1 matched a legendary navigation module.
• The Dark Peng evaded Star Beasts with its Mirage System and reached Xu Zhenzhi’s indicated location on the sixth day, where Wang Dong spotted a Star Dragon and asked how Xu had reached that depth before.

Xu Zhenzhi joined Wang Dong’s team aboard the Dark Peng after seeing how safely and efficiently it could explore the Weijing River. The team found a modern civilization ruin inside a Star Dragon’s asteroid lair, killed the Star Dragon, and warped into the ruin, where they cleared its defenses and left Xu Zhenzhi calling the expedition a stroll.

• Wang Dong persuaded Xu Zhenzhi to join the Dark Peng team, and Xu Zhenzhi submitted his application, which Wang Dong accepted.
• Liu Zhi used True Sight to locate the ruin inside the asteroid where the Star Dragon had made its lair.
• Mada led the Dark Peng in killing the Level 7 Star Dragon, and Gao Luanqin’s boarding party recovered Star Beast meat and twelve Life Crystals.
• Wang Dong’s team chose to warp the entire Dark Peng into the underground ruin, and Liu Zhi calculated the ship’s point-to-point jump.
• Armed robots and defensive weapons attacked the Dark Peng, but Shi Zunhou’s secondary guns destroyed most of them before Zhou Tai led the assault team in to clear the rest.
• Xu Zhenzhi entered the cleared ruin and remarked that the expedition had been the easiest he had ever experienced.

Wang Dong upgraded Dark Peng’s Mirage System to Orange quality with the Miser Scepter, then followed Xu Zhenzhi’s coordinates toward the Miser Civilization’s central ruin. Before continuing the expedition, Dark Peng entered an Otherworldly Space battlefield and discovered the Micius Civilization’s experiment on the trapped Eden Civilization.

• Xu Zhenzhi reported that the spherical ruin was well preserved and gave Wang Dong the Miser Scepter, which Wang Dong used to raise the Mirage System from Gold to Orange quality.
• Xu Zhenzhi deciphered the ruin’s communications and found the approximate location of the Miser Civilization’s central ruin, and Wang Dong agreed to wait for its coordinates while hunting nearby.
• Xu Zhenzhi calculated the coordinates three days later, but Wang Dong delayed the deeper expedition until Dark Peng completed its Otherworldly Space battlefield.
• Wang Dong entered the battlefield and found Eden Star, a Level 2 civilization enclosed by a planetary shield, while Mada identified it as a farmed civilization.
• Abyss Eye revealed the Level 5 Micius Civilization and its moon-base fleet, and the battlefield briefing explained that the Micius had confined and manipulated the Eden Civilization as a sociological experiment.

Wang Dong’s Dark Peng attacked the Micius Civilization’s observation base, destroyed its warships, and annihilated the Eden Civilization before reinforcements arrived. The Micius fleet of ten thousand ships engaged the Dark Peng, whose Supernova Burst Cannon struck first but did not immediately break their shields.

• Wang Dong’s crew discussed the Micius Civilization’s experiment on Eden and prepared to attack its observation base.
• The Dark Peng destroyed most of the Micius warships inside Eden Star’s moon, then broke Eden’s planetary shield and wiped out the Eden Civilization.
• The Dark Peng gained 248,678 Source Points, while the Spirit Summoning Ghost Crystal absorbed the souls of Eden’s 4.8 billion inhabitants.
• Half an hour after the distress signal, ten thousand Micius warships arrived through a star ring and attacked the Dark Peng.
• Shi Zunhou fired the Supernova Burst Cannon at the Micius fleet, damaging its shields as the ships spread out to reduce the weapon’s impact.

Wang Dong’s Dark Peng fought off successive waves of Micius Civilization reinforcements, destroying the first two fleets before confronting a mothership fleet whose linked energy fields weakened its weapons. The battle continued with Wu Baiyi dodging the motherships’ coordinated barrages while Shi Zunhou steadily damaged their formation.

• Shi Zunhou’s Supernova Burst Cannon destroyed the first Micius Civilization reinforcement fleet, earning Wang Dong 41,608 Source Points as a few ships escaped.
• The Dark Peng fought the elite second wave of 25,000 ships, broke through their encirclement, and destroyed 20,000 before the rest scattered, earning 81,422 Source Points.
• A third wave of just over 5,000 motherships arrived, and Mada deduced that their linked energy shields formed a field that greatly reduced the Supernova Burst Cannon’s damage.
• Wu Baiyi evaded the mothership fleet’s first coordinated wall of light, while Shi Zunhou used the Scorpio Death Ray Cannon to overload individual shields and sink ships.
• After more than an hour, the Dark Peng remained unscathed, over a hundred motherships had been sunk, and their shields had fallen to about half; Wang Dong let Wu Baiyi continue training as the battle went on.

Wang Dong let Wu Baiyi hone his ability against the Micius Civilization’s mothership fleets, then destroyed the Eden Star System’s Star Ring and escaped. After the Dark Peng went stealth, Wang Dong put Jujun in command of a guerrilla campaign that wiped out several isolated fleets, bringing its Source Points above six hundred thousand.

• Wu Baiyi evaded the attacks of up to seven mothership fleets, pushing himself to his limit while the Dark Peng’s shields absorbed a hit from a “wall of light.”
• Wang Dong led the Dark Peng away from the encircling forces and destroyed the Eden Star System’s Star Ring, preventing further reinforcements from arriving there.
• The Micius Civilization spread its mothership formations across the region to search for the Dark Peng, while Wang Dong reactivated the Mirage System and stayed hidden.
• Wang Dong appointed Jujun to command the Dark Peng’s operations, with Guannan as his deputy and Guan Bei operating the Supernova Burst Cannon.
• The Dark Peng ambushed and destroyed several isolated mothership formations, including the fleet repairing the Star Ring, as Jujun selected targets with help from the Abyss Eye and Liu Zhi.
• The Dark Peng’s Fire Seed accumulated more than six hundred thousand Source Points as the guerrilla attacks continued.

After escaping the Micius Civilization’s blockade, Wang Dong strengthened the Dark Peng and created an Orange-quality Warship Skill Slot for the Mirage System. He left the ship pointed deeper into the Weijing River, with the fully enhanced Wisteria Compass revealing the direction of the Zheng Family Compass.

• Wang Dong ordered the Dark Peng to leave the Eden Star System, and the Micius Civilization’s year-long search failed to find it.
• Xu Zhenzhi plotted a route toward the Miser Civilization’s central ruins as the Dark Peng resumed its exploration of the Weijing River.
• Wang Dong raised the Epic-grade Hull Structure Module to LV.25, selected the Destruction Mystery trait, and generated an Orange-quality Warship Skill Slot.
• Wang Dong placed the Mirage System in the slot to begin developing a Warship Skill, then upgraded the Purple Spore Membrane, Abyss Eye, and Scorpio Death Ray Cannon.
• Wang Dong enhanced the Wisteria Compass to LV.20, causing its needle to point toward the Zheng Family Compass.

Wang Dong led the Dark Peng to investigate the Miser Civilization’s central ruins, but Threat Perception warned him away from a Level 8 Ruin Guardian that the crew could not detect or resist. After hunting star beasts to upgrade the Purple Spore Membrane, he received news that a planet under his control had been sabotaged and its guards killed.

• Wang Dong followed Xu Zhenzhi’s coordinates to the central ruins of the Miser Civilization, which Liu Zhi found inside a star and confirmed were protected by an energy shield.
• Wang Dong’s Threat Perception sensed an overwhelming danger near the ruins, so Wu Baiyi steered the Dark Peng away before the crew identified the threat as a Level 8 Ruin Guardian microorganism.
• Wang Dong decided to obtain Dark Crystals to upgrade the Biochemical Medical Pod and began hunting Level 6 and higher star beasts to gather resources.
• The Dark Peng fought and killed a Level 8 Void Manta Ray after Wang Dong used the Star Hunter’s Crown Tracking Beacon to pursue it.
• The half-month hunt yielded 108 Life Crystals, which Wang Dong used to upgrade the Purple Spore Membrane to LV.30.
• Sun Jie reported through the Ancient Caller’s Horn that an undeveloped planet in the Southern Frontier Star Domain had been maliciously sabotaged and its guards wiped out, prompting Wang Dong to return early.

Wang Dong traveled to the Southern Frontier Star Domain to investigate the attack on his planet and the Distant Star Knight Order’s monopoly on Dark Crystal. After learning the Order had targeted him to vent its anger at Lin Xiaogui, he decided to retaliate, while Lin Xiaogui explained that the royal family intended only to contain the conflict.

• Wang Dong arrived in the Southern Frontier and met Ye Hao, who explained the nobles’ dispute with the Distant Star Knight Order and its control of Dark Crystal.
• Ye Hao told Wang Dong that the Distant Star Knight Order had bombarded planet C-303 and used a starbeast as a pretext; its radicals had targeted Wang Dong because Lin Xiaogui had criticized the Order.
• Wang Dong sent the Order a protest, but its commander dismissed him and replied that the bombardment had been necessary for pioneering.
• Wang Dong ordered Mada to investigate the Order’s warehouse stock and vowed to retaliate, then compensated Sun Jie with a Life Crystal for the damage to C-303.
• Wang Dong visited Lin Xiaogui, who explained that the royal family had sent her to cool tensions and had no immediate plan to rein in the Distant Star Knight Order.

Wang Dong warned Lin Xiaogui that the Golden Snapdragon Federation’s brewing conflict could grow into a major war, then used her arbitration to settle his dispute with the Distant Star Knight Order. After the Dark Peng left the Southern Frontier, Mada reported that the order had a secret warehouse and asked Wang Dong to increase funding for his intelligence networks.

• Lin Xiaogui explained the Royal Family’s divided loyalties and agreed to arbitrate Wang Dong’s dispute with the Distant Star Knight Order.
• Wang Dong warned Lin Xiaogui that the Oda Shogunate and Civilization Party might exploit a war between the Golden Snapdragon Federation and the Purple Thorn Kingdom, but she remained unconvinced.
• Lin Xiaogui ruled that the Distant Star Knight Order had to compensate Wang Dong for half his losses, and both sides accepted the decision.
• The Dark Peng departed the Southern Frontier Star Domain as nobles debated Wang Dong’s settlement with the Distant Star Knight Order.
• Mada told Wang Dong that the Distant Star Knight Order secretly stored valuable resources in an unknown warehouse in the Tiger’s Roost Star System and recommended reconnaissance.
• Mada requested more funding for his intelligence network, and Wang Dong agreed to increase the budget.

Wang Dong’s crew raided the Distant Star Knight Order’s hidden warehouse, seized a large stockpile of supplies, and upgraded the Dark Peng’s Biochemical Medical Pod and Mirage System. The Dark Peng returned to the Northern Star Domain, where Wang Dong prepared to challenge the central ruins of the Miser Civilization again.

• Liu Zhi and Mada located two Distant Star Knight Order warehouses in the Tiger's Roost Star System, and Wang Dong approved a direct raid on the concealed one.
• The Dark Peng’s assault team emptied the secret warehouse in fifteen minutes and escaped before the Order’s warships arrived.
• Gao Luanqin presented the haul, which included 205 Dark Crystals, 368 Titanium Crystals, and 10 High-grade Energy Crystals.
• Wang Dong spent 165 Dark Crystals to upgrade the Biochemical Medical Pod from LV.10 to LV.40, reaching its Purple-quality upgrade limit.
• After an Otherworldly Space battlefield yielded no battle, Wang Dong upgraded the Mirage System from LV.10 to LV.30 during the return trip.
• On March 30, the Dark Peng returned to the Northern Star Domain, and Wang Dong rallied the crew to prepare for another attempt at the central ruins of the Miser Civilization.

Wang Dong upgraded the Dark Peng’s Steel Bullet Warp Device and led the crew back into the Miser Civilization’s central ruin, where robots explored its unstable dimensions. They discovered an orange-quality Apocalypse High-Dimensional Transporter, and the chapter ended as the crew recognized its extraordinary potential.

• Wang Dong spent resources upgrading the Steel Bullet Warp Device to LV.20, raising its speed to 1,000 times the speed of light.
• Wang Dong and the crew entered the Miser Civilization’s central ruin after confirming that the Ruin Guardian microorganism no longer threatened them.
• Xu Zhenzhi explained that the ruin exposed them to information from other dimensions, so the crew sent robots to explore while remaining aboard the Dark Peng.
• Gao Luanqin and Xu Zhenzhi concluded that the ruin was likely an observation station where the Miser Civilization studied other dimensions.
• The robots found several Shipborne Modules, and Wang Dong fed a purple-quality Sky-Scanning Radar to the Abyss Eye.
• The robots uncovered the orange-quality Apocalypse High-Dimensional Transporter, whose instantaneous long-range jumps astonished the crew.

After returning from the Miser Civilization’s central ruin, Wang Dong faced political upheaval in the Purple Thorn Kingdom and sweeping reforms in the Golden Snapdragon Federation. The Dark Peng then entered an Otherworldly Space battlefield centered on the Yaqin Civilization’s war against a corrupted god, where Liu Zhi detected an orange-quality Shipborne Module on the planet.

• The Dark Peng left the Miser Civilization’s central ruin with the Apocalypse High-Dimensional Transporter, and Wang Dong decided to preserve the ruin rather than destroy it.
• The Dark Peng hunted through the Weijing River, returned to the Phoenix Star System on April 25, and gave its crew a week off.
• Grand Duke Seaton’s marriage alliance with Prince Lin Rongxiang’s family led to Lin Changjiu becoming Grand Duke of the Northern Star Domain and taking North Wind Fortress and the Star Gate Star System from Lin Xiaogui, who relinquished her remaining command authority.
• The Golden Snapdragon Federation published a plan to gradually open Kindling Warships to the civilian sector, prompting widespread excitement and changing the political climate.
• The Dark Peng entered an Otherworldly Space battlefield and learned that the Yaqin Civilization’s hundred tribes were preparing to fight the Nameless God, which had emerged from the corrupted God of Yaqin.
• Liu Zhi used True Sight to locate an orange-quality Shipborne Module somewhere on the planet.

The Dark Peng watched the hundred clans of the Yaqin Civilization prepare the Longinus Source Cannon to kill the Nameless God, whose revival accelerated when the weapon emerged. The Giant Hero fired the cannon at the deity, while Wang Dong and his crew stayed hidden and observed.

• Wang Dong decided the Dark Peng would keep its distance and watch as the Yaqin heroes gathered at the giant tribe.
• The Giant Hero opened the Otherworldly Space, revealing the Longinus Source Cannon and triggering the Nameless God's accelerated revival.
• Liu Zhi used the Abyss Eye to locate the Nameless God beneath the planet as the Yaqin heroes began pouring their source energy into the cannon.
• The heroes of the hundred clans exhausted their source energy, and the Giant Hero offered his body and divine soul as fuel.
• The Giant Hero raised the Longinus Source Cannon, took aim, and fired at the Nameless God.

After the Nameless God awakened on Yaqin Planet, Wang Dong and the Dark Peng seized the Longinus Source Cannon and used it to attack the god while bombarding the Yaqin Civilization for Source Points. The Nameless God remained alive but weakened, and the Dark Peng continued charging the cannon as the chapter ended with the battle still underway.

• The Longinus Source Cannon struck the Nameless God's Divine Core, leaving it too weak to act until its Divine Core merged with its Divine Body.
• Wang Dong ordered the Dark Peng to seize the Longinus Source Cannon from the Yaqin Civilization before the Giant Priest could activate it again.
• Wu Baiyi installed the cannon aboard the Dark Peng, and it fired at the Nameless God as the deity regained the ability to move.
• Wang Dong ordered Shi Zunhou to bombard Yaqin Planet with the Supernova Burst Cannon, killing many Yaqin Civilization members and earning 908366 Source Points.
• The Dark Peng fired the Longinus Source Cannon at the Nameless God again, slowing its recovery, while Shi Zunhou continued targeting survivors.

Wang Dong and the Dark Peng finally killed the Nameless God after hours of bombardment, recovered its Red Quality Divine Body, and strengthened the shipborne kindling. Back in the Northern Star Domain, Wang Dong learned that the new Grand Duke and Prince Lin Rongxiang’s faction were likely to target the Black Stone Viscountcy as they sought control of the region.

• Wang Dong kept the Dark Peng firing the Longinus Source Cannon until its 333rd shot killed the Nameless God and revealed a Red Quality Divine Body.
• Wu Baiyi used Free Assault to take the Dark Peng into the planet’s mantle, where the crew retrieved the Divine Body before the battlefield ended.
• After returning home, Wang Dong declined to pursue the distant Zheng Family Compass and spent 300,000 Source Points raising the shipborne kindling to LV.10.
• Lin Changjiu arrived at North Wind Fortress as the new Grand Duke of Northern Star Domain and invited the region’s noble territories.
• Mada and General Chen Detong warned Wang Dong that Prince Lin Rongxiang’s faction would seek control of the Northern Territory and view the Black Stone Viscountcy as a key target.