Chapter Summaries

Wang Dong and the Dark Peng watched the Allen and Tyran civilizations fight a prolonged battle of attrition, until the Allen fleet’s twenty-four-hour window expired. Wang Dong then ordered the crew to reveal their identity to the Tyran Civilization and attack the Allen Civilization with the Supernova Burst Cannon.

• Wang Dong refused to join the battle immediately and watched as the Tyran fleet’s formation and superior range inflicted heavy losses on Allen fighters.
• The Allen Civilization sent its motherships forward as cover, allowing its fighters to attack the Tyran fleet at close range.
• Several thousand Tyran capital ships charged their bow guns and sank hundreds of Allen motherships with a single volley.
• The Allen and Tyran forces resumed their attritional battle, while the Dark Peng crew waited for the Allen fleet’s twenty-four-hour window to expire.
• After twenty-four hours passed, Wang Dong ordered Baiyi to identify the Dark Peng to the Tyran Civilization and Zunhou to fire the Supernova Burst Cannon at the Allen Civilization.

The Dark Peng joined the Tyran Civilization’s battle against the Allen Civilization and devastated the Allen fleet with its Supernova Burst Cannon. When the Allen flagship opened a Portable Star Gate and summoned a powerful warship from the eighth-level Cybertron Civilization, Wang Dong ordered the Tyran fleet to withdraw and prepared the Dark Peng for the confrontation.

• Wu Baiyi announced that the Dark Peng was joining the battle, and Shi Zunhou fired its Supernova Burst Cannon at the Allen fleet.
• The Dark Peng destroyed Allen fighters and carriers with repeated blasts, while Tang Yunlong and the Tyran fleet were stunned by its firepower.
• The Allen Civilization activated its Portable Star Gate, and the Cybertron Civilization’s Purple Fluorite Celestial emerged and agreed to destroy the Tyran fleet.
• Wang Dong sensed that the Purple Fluorite Celestial posed a near-lethal threat and ordered Wu Baiyi to contact the Tyran fleet and bring him three Micro Black Hole Generators.
• Wu Baiyi arranged the Tyran fleet’s withdrawal as the Cybertron warship’s arrival revealed that the conflict now involved an eighth-level civilization.

The Dark Peng fought the Level 8 Cybertron Civilization's Purple Fluorite Celestial, whose attacks overwhelmed its defenses and whose own shields barely yielded to the Dark Peng's fire. Wang Dong activated a Micro Black Hole Generator to trap the enemy ship, but a Cybertronian voice declared that the black hole would only delay the Purple Fluorite Celestial.

• Tang Yunlong approved Wu Baiyi's request for three Micro Black Hole Generators and had them delivered and installed aboard the Dark Peng.
• Wang Dong ordered the Dark Peng to attack, but the Purple Fluorite Celestial intercepted its Supernova Burst Cannon shot and damaged its shields with a deep-purple beam.
• The Dark Peng counterattacked with its Scorpio Death Ray Cannon, but its strikes barely reduced the Purple Fluorite Celestial's shields as the enemy's beams steadily depleted the Dark Peng's shields.
• Wang Dong activated the Chapter of Gale's Charge function, but Wu Baiyi still struggled to evade the Purple Fluorite Celestial's attacks.
• Wang Dong used the War Shackles to hold the Purple Fluorite Celestial in range while the Dark Peng activated a Micro Black Hole Generator, which pulled in nearby Allen Civilization motherships.
• A Cybertronian voice mocked the Dark Peng's crew and said the micro black hole would only impede the Purple Fluorite Celestial temporarily.

Wang Dong and the Dark Peng crew used three Micro Black Hole Generators and the Corrosion Charm to destroy the Cybertron Civilization’s special Purple Fluorite Celestial warship. After confirming no life remained aboard, they celebrated their victory, and Liu Zhi began operating the controls.

• Wang Dong ordered the Dark Peng to attack the Purple Fluorite Celestial while it resisted the first Micro Black Hole’s gravity, and the Corrosion Charm weakened its shield.
• Wang Dong activated a second Micro Black Hole Generator, and the Dark Peng’s fire eventually depleted the warship’s shield, revealing its tough purple-crystal hull.
• Wang Dong ordered the Corrosion Charm to weaken the hull, and the Dark Peng’s Scorpio Death Ray Cannon repeatedly struck the same spot until it pierced the armor.
• Wang Dong activated the third Micro Black Hole Generator, and the Dark Peng fired into the breach, devastating the warship from within as it began falling toward the black hole.
• Wang Dong used tractor beams to slow the warship’s descent, and Liu Zhi later detected that all signs of life aboard it had disappeared.
• Wang Dong congratulated the crew on their victory and warned them to remain vigilant, then Liu Zhi began operating the controls.

After salvaging and installing the Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal, the Dark Peng tested its devastating single-target and area attacks. The crew returned to the main universe and waited in ambush for Jia Yiqing, then began charging the cannon after confirming his transport’s route.

• The Dark Peng recovered the Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal from the Cybertron Civilization battleship wreckage, and Wang Dong installed it aboard the ship.
• Shi Zunhou fired the cannon at the wreckage and destroyed it with a single shot, then tested its Flowing Sun Skyfire trait by annihilating debris throughout a thirty-light-second area.
• Wu Baiyi persuaded the Tyran Civilization to join the fictitious Pan-Universal Human Alliance, and the Dark Peng returned to the main universe on April 9.
• Wang Dong positioned the Dark Peng in stealth among the rings of Galiford Star System’s Fifth Planet and waited for Jia Yiqing’s transport.
• Mingzhi Guangxiu confirmed that Jia Yiqing had departed aboard the Indomitable and that the transport was proceeding normally, so Wang Dong ordered Shi Zunhou to charge the Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal.

Shi Zunhou used Dark Peng and Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal to destroy Jia Yiqing’s Unyielding in a two-shot long-range assassination. Wang Dong escaped the Galiford Star System’s lockdown and learned that Fuhai Trading Market’s master owned an Orange Quality armor module.

• Shi Zunhou fired Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal from Dark Peng, destroying Unyielding’s escort fleet and badly damaging its shield with splash damage.
• Shi Zunhou fired a second shot that struck Unyielding directly, killing Jia Yiqing and destroying the battleship.
• Wang Dong escaped in Dark Peng under Mirage’s stealth, returned to Fuhai Trading Market, and received Mingzhi Guangxiu’s confirmation that the Jia Family had no leads.
• Wang Dong asked Mingzhi Guangxiu to prepare payment and auxiliary enhancement materials, and learned the market master, Wang Jiayuan, owned an Orange Quality armor module.
• Mingzhi Guangxiu suggested Wang Dong accept Wang Jiayuan’s information about the module as a goodwill gesture, and Wang Dong considered the offer.

Wang Dong reconsidered Fuhai Trading Market’s offer and agreed to accept its goodwill, exchanging his Level 7 Golden Quality Biological Essence Fluid for enhancement resources. After Mingzhi Guangxiu unlocked the device containing the Sky-Shield’s location, Wang Dong learned it was in the Dead Sea Star Abyss and prepared to meet Wang Jiayuan, who might know about Orange Quality armor.

• Mingzhi Guangxiu explained why Wang Jiayuan’s offer of an Orange Quality module was a sincere bid for goodwill, and Wang Dong agreed to accept it after Mada reminded him he could travel back to the Blue Eagle Federation with the Apocalypse High-Dimensional Transporter.
• Mingzhi Guangxiu sent Wang Dong Fuhai Trading Market’s inventory of enhancement resources, and Wang Dong accepted its crystals in exchange for leaving his Level 7 Golden Quality Biological Essence Fluid with the market to sell.
• Mingzhi Guangxiu brought Wang Dong an Otherworldly Space Signal Beacon and a blind young woman, whose help unlocked the encrypted device and revealed the Sky-Shield’s location in the Dead Sea Star Abyss.
• Wang Dong discussed how to investigate the Dead Sea Star Abyss with his crew, and Xu Zhenzhi and Mada advised him to seek information outside the Blue Eagle Federation to avoid exposing the deal.
• Wang Jiayuan returned to Fuhai Trading Market’s secret base, and Wang Dong prepared to meet him because he might have information about an Orange Quality armor.

Wang Dong negotiated with Wang Jiayuan for an Orange Quality armor module, rejecting a proposed crew member to protect the Dark Peng’s secrets but promising a future selection and help in a crisis. Wang Jiayuan accepted the terms and formally handed over the module, hoping to use Wang Dong’s support to strengthen the Fuhai Trading Market against the Jia Family.

• Wang Jiayuan offered to secure an Orange Quality armor module in exchange for Wang Dong’s Golden Quality Level 7 Biological Essence Fluid.
• Wang Jiayuan revealed the module belonged to a former ally’s family, which had pledged it to his family centuries earlier.
• Wang Jiayuan said the former ally’s family wanted to send a talented young member aboard Wang Dong’s warship, but Wang Dong refused and offered them a nomination in three years.
• Wang Jiayuan negotiated for the family to wait three years and requested Wang Dong’s help if the Fuhai Trading Market faced a serious problem; Wang Dong agreed to help where he could.
• Wang Jiayuan arranged an emergency contact method and formally handed the Orange Quality armor module to Wang Dong.

Wang Dong installed and upgraded the Defender Biological Armor, greatly strengthening the Dark Peng, while Wang Jiayuan weighed how to use his help against the Jia Family. Wang Jiayuan then gave Wang Dong intelligence on three heirs from the Jia Family’s Third Branch, setting up a targeted strike in its succession struggle.

• Wang Jiayuan handed Wang Dong the Defender Biological Armor and left him to wait at the secret base while she gathered intelligence on her adversaries.
• Wang Dong’s crew found that the armor’s Afterglow Rebound trait could restart the Dark Peng’s shield after it collapsed, so Wang Dong replaced the Immortal Flowing Silver Armor with it.
• Wang Dong upgraded the Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal to LV.10 and the Defender Biological Armor to LV.5, raising the Dark Peng’s Combat Power Rating to LV.45 and its actual combat strength above LV.135.
• Wang Dong considered using the Dark Peng to press the Jia Family for greater independence for the Fuhai Trading Market, but Wang Jiayuan instead spent two days preparing a plan.
• Wang Jiayuan gave Wang Dong detailed intelligence on three of the four leading inheritance candidates in the Jia Family’s Third Branch, leaving the last heir positioned to become its successor if Wang Dong eliminated the targets.

Wang Dong and his crew planned a direct attack on three Jia Family heirs after Mada used Dispel Falsehood, Retain Truth to conclude that the Jia Family likely could not call in a Star Destroyer. Dark Peng attacked near the Jia Family’s headquarters, and the chapter ended as Wang Dong pushed toward the final target while the Jia Family’s destroyers failed to damage him.

• Wang Dong approved of Wang Jiayuan’s discreet assistance and resolved to honor his agreement.
• Mada judged that the Jia Family probably could not summon a Star Destroyer, prompting Wang Dong to authorize a direct confrontation.
• Wu Baiyi proposed using Dark Peng’s range to attack the three heirs near the Third Branch headquarters, and Wang Dong approved the plan.
• Dark Peng approached the third planet under the identity Gentleman Number One and charged its Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal as Jia Family destroyers demanded identification.
• Wang Dong fired the Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal toward two tracked targets and continued toward the planet to bring the final target within range.
• The Jia Family destroyers recognized the attack as matching Jia Yiqing’s killing and fired on Dark Peng, but their weapons caused no damage.

Wang Dong lured out the Jia Family’s heirs and killed all three with the Dark Peng’s precise attacks. With the Jia Family’s elite forces gathering and its hidden trump card still unknown, the chapter ended with the family head asking whether the old ancestor had replied.

• Wang Dong turned the Gentleman Number One away from the Third Planet to draw the three marked heirs away from its planetary shield.
• Shi Zunhou’s first shot destroyed the warship carrying the first heir, while the two surviving heirs slowed down rather than risk being branded cowards.
• Wu Baiyi turned the Dark Peng to expose the remaining targets, and Shi Zunhou killed the second heir with another precise shot.
• The third heir tried to retreat behind the planetary shield, but Wu Baiyi charged the Dark Peng through the defensive fleet and Shi Zunhou destroyed the target ship.
• Wang Dong considered the Jia Family’s elite forces and its concealed LV.85-to-LV.90 Kindling battleship as the family headquarters remained quiet.
• The Jia Family’s head asked whether the old ancestor had replied, and his secretary said the last reply had come a month earlier.

Jia Yijiu activated the Jia Family’s one-use Exile System, which displaced Wang Dong and the Dark Peng into an unfamiliar starfield. After discovering they remained within the Apocalypse High-Dimensional Transporter’s range, Wang Dong explored the desolate region briefly before returning to the outskirts of the Galiford Star System.

• Jia Yijiu ordered the Exile System activated against the Dark Peng after three of the Third Branch’s four heirs died and the Jia Family’s trump-card battleship was unavailable.
• Wang Dong let the last surviving heir escape, but the Exile System swept the Dark Peng through spatial turbulence and displaced it beyond its star charts.
• Liu Zhi and Mada reported the displacement and minor shield damage, while Wang Dong confirmed the Galiford Star System remained within the transporter’s range.
• Wang Dong agreed with Shi Zunhou and Wu Baiyi to explore the surrounding starfield, where Mada found abandoned systems and evidence of ancient battles that had destroyed habitable planets.
• Wang Dong ordered the Dark Peng back, and it used the Apocalypse High-Dimensional Transporter to return to the outskirts of the Galiford Star System despite the Space Warp Blocker.

Wang Dong returned to the Phoenix Star System after strengthening the Dark Peng’s transporter and securing a partnership with Wang Jiayuan. He learned that the Straw Hat Pirate Group had finally been located, leaving him poised to resume the mission.

• Wang Dong reassured Wang Jiayuan that he had survived the Jia Family’s exile weapon, then obtained star maps and agreed to receive twenty percent of Fuhai Trading Market’s annual net profits.
• Wang Dong exchanged ten Life Crystals for two hundred titanium crystals and upgraded the Apocalypse High-Dimensional Transporter to LV.15, extending its range to 8,000 light-years and unlocking the Northern Phoenix Star System coordinate.
• Wang Jiayuan gave Wang Dong a pair of Quantum UFO Balls for emergency contact, and Mingzhi Guangxiu delivered the year’s dividend in crystals and resources after Mada verified the accounts.
• Wang Dong waited for the transporter to recharge, then used it to bring the Dark Peng back to the Phoenix Star System and contacted the Marquis.
• The Marquis told Wang Dong that the Purple Thorn Kingdom remained divided, the Golden Snapdragon Federation had been shaken by the Jiyuan Chen Family’s conflict, and the Straw Hat Pirate Group mission was still pending.
• Mada reported that the intelligence network had tracked the Straw Hat Pirate Group through its usual supply and information channel.

Wang Dong recognized Cescott as the dangerous ability user known as The Corruptor and suspected he was targeting Jujun. After preparing to protect the boy, Wang Dong launched a direct assault on Cescott’s ship, the Atlantis, and the Straw Hat Pirate Group announced its arrival.

• The Marquis told Wang Dong that Cescott had become Jujun’s teacher and shared the explorer’s history with him.
• Wang Dong recognized Cescott as The Corruptor, a wanted criminal who could steal and absorb other people’s abilities, and suspected Jujun was his next target.
• Wang Dong consulted his crew, decided to attack Cescott swiftly, and upgraded Saint’s Crown to strengthen its protective shields.
• The Dark Peng approached A-21 Spaceport in stealth, and Mada triggered explosions that forced the docked ships to evacuate.
• Cescott’s Atlantis was among the first ships to leave the spaceport, and Wang Dong sent the Dark Peng after it.
• Shi Zunhou announced over communications that the Straw Hat Pirate Group would test the outsider’s strength and declared, “The Golden Rose is here!”

Wang Dong’s Dark Peng challenged Cescott’s Atlantis, and the Dark Peng’s superior gunnery and maneuvering quickly battered the enemy ship. Cescott sent the Atlantis into subspace, but Liu Zhi detected its movements as it approached the Dark Peng.

• Cescott accepted the Golden Rose’s challenge rather than risk damaging his image before Wang Jujun.
• Wang Dong sensed that the Atlantis’s main threat lay in boarding combat and ordered the Dark Peng to keep its distance and attack with artillery.
• Shi Zunhou fired the Scorpio Death Ray Cannon, and the Dark Peng’s accurate shots stripped away most of the Atlantis’s shields while its crew failed to land a hit.
• Cescott activated the Atlantis’s Subspace Dive Battleship Skill and sent the ship into subspace.
• Liu Zhi used True Sight and the Abyss Eye to track the Atlantis in subspace as it headed toward the Dark Peng.

Cescott’s Atlantis ambushed Wu Baiyi’s Dark Peng with repeated volleys, but the Dark Peng evaded most of the fire and shrugged off what hit. Cescott tried to escape after removing a tracking beacon, only to find warp travel blocked, while the expected fleet of the Marquis of Black Stone Territory failed to appear.

• Cescott used Atlantis’s Subspace Dive and Shadow Ambush to launch a surprise volley, but Wu Baiyi’s Dark Peng dodged all nine shots.
• Liu Zhi, Mada, Wu Baiyi, and Shi Zunhou discussed Atlantis’s tactics as it circled closer for another attack.
• Cescott fired a second Shadow Ambush volley at closer range, but the Dark Peng dodged the super main gun and took only minor shield damage that quickly recovered.
• After his first mate advised retreating, Cescott withdrew and ordered Atlantis to remove the tracking beacon and charge its warp drive.
• Atlantis’s warp drive could not activate because a Space Warp Blocker covered the area, and Cescott assumed it had been deployed against the Golden Rose.
• Dark Peng followed Atlantis in subspace for more than ten minutes, but the Marquis of Black Stone Territory’s garrison fleet still did not appear.

Wang Dong destroyed Cescott and the Atlantis after their battle in the Phoenix Star System, then explained Cescott’s threat to Wang Jujun when the boy arrived. Wang Jujun trusted his elder brother, though he was already considering what he might gain from the incident.

• Cescott transformed and ordered a forced invasion of the Dark Peng, but its red-quality shield repelled the attempt.
• After the Atlantis’s Subspace Dive ended, Wang Dong attacked until its shields failed, then destroyed the ship and killed Cescott.
• Wang Dong ordered Shi Zunhou to keep firing at the wreckage and used additional weapons to make sure Cescott could not survive through his Eroder ability.
• Wang Jujun arrived aboard his destroyer, boarded the Dark Peng, and asked Wang Dong why he had killed Cescott.
• Wang Dong explained that Cescott was a dangerous fugitive whose Eroder ability targeted other ability users, and Wang Jujun trusted his elder brother over Cescott.

After Cescott’s defeat, Wang Dong reviewed lessons about trust, safety, secrecy, and greed, then considered how to improve the Dark Peng. He returned to the Micius Civilization with the crew, where the ship reappeared above Eden Star and triggered alarms.

• Wang Dong warned the kid to distrust unexplained generosity, avoid unsafe situations, conceal his abilities, and control his greed, while the Atlantis wreckage was destroyed after its data was salvaged.
• Mada and Zhou Tai led a debriefing aboard the Dark Peng and discussed its strengths, weaknesses, and the need to prioritize complementary modules and develop its Battleship Skill, Mirage.
• Wang Dong discussed Cescott privately with the Marquis, rested at Silver Castle, and departed aboard the Dark Peng on May 10, 10110.
• Wang Dong used an Intermediate Energy Crystal to return the Dark Peng to the Micius Civilization’s Otherworldly Space battlefield, choosing to attack while the ship could still earn the greatest Source Point rewards.
• The Dark Peng appeared above Eden Star, where the Micius Civilization had rebuilt the planet’s defenses and stationed three mothership formations; alarms sounded across secret bases at the familiar sight.

The Dark Peng lured the Micius Civilization into sending 108 mothership fleets to the Eden Star System, destroying several fleets while the enemy gathered. Wang Dong then let the fleets tighten their encirclement and drive the Dark Peng into the asteroid belt, where their concentrated barrage began sweeping through the field.

• The Micius Civilization detected the Dark Peng in the Eden Star System and sent carrier fleets and reinforcements to capture it.
• The Dark Peng fought and destroyed several Micius Civilization carrier fleets, earning Source Points while the enemy continued buying time.
• Liu Zhi reported that the Micius Civilization had gathered 108 mothership fleets inside and outside the Eden Star System.
• Wang Dong ordered Wu Baiyi to lure the encircling fleets into tightening their net rather than destroying the Stargates.
• The Dark Peng was driven into the Eden Star System's Asteroid Belt, where the Micius Civilization fleets unleashed over a hundred light-wall attacks that began shattering the asteroids.

The Dark Peng used the Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal to devastate the Micius Civilization’s carrier fleet, earning more than four million Source Points. After the Micius Civilization shut down its stargates, Wang Dong hid the Mirage Shadow in the Asteroid Belt and sent the real Dark Peng after the fleeing carrier carrying the commander.

• Wang Dong ordered Shi Zunhou to fire the Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal, which cleared a vast area of Micius Civilization carriers with one shot.
• The Micius Civilization commander recognized the ambush, ordered his fleet to retreat, and accepted responsibility for the decision.
• The Dark Peng fired the weapon twelve times in half an hour, destroying most of the carrier fleet and gaining 4,289,640 Source Points.
• Wang Dong used the Mirage Shadow to conceal the Dark Peng’s real location while the Micius Civilization shut down its stargates.
• After Gao Luanqin voiced a bad feeling, Wang Dong hid the Mirage Shadow in the Asteroid Belt and sent the real Dark Peng after the commander’s carrier.