Chapter Summaries

Wang Dong led Dark Peng into the Asteroid Belt and used the Abyss Eye and mining equipment to search for titanium crystal ore. The first asteroid yielded titanium crystals, proving they could be mined in Otherworldly Space, and after extending the battlefield duration, Dark Peng finished its search with 385 crystals and a promising new source for its future evolution.

• Wang Dong directed Dark Peng into the Asteroid Belt and used successive Abyss Eye screenings to narrow the search to a few hundred asteroids.
• Liu Zhi plotted a route through the remaining targets, and Dark Peng found titanium crystal ore inside the first asteroid it scanned.
• Wang Dong used the Guanant Drill to extract the ore, and the crew recovered eighteen titanium crystals, confirming that Otherworldly Space crystals could strengthen Kindling Warships.
• Dark Peng searched the Asteroid Belt for the rest of its battlefield time, and Wang Dong upgraded the Auxiliary System to extend each entry to ninety-six hours.
• Dark Peng finished checking every target asteroid and collected 385 titanium crystals, giving Wang Dong hope that it could secure enough crystals to evolve to Star Destroyer level.

Dicimov joined Black Stone Territory and warned that the Oda Shogunate was tightening its grip on the Revolutionary Army, while the Shannan Kingdom might be backing the Family Alliance. Wang Dong chose to keep the Dark Peng out of the factional conflict, then returned to the Yoda Star System and learned that the core relic had an active defense mechanism.

• Dicimov briefed Black Stone Territory on the Oda Shogunate's growing influence over the Revolutionary Army and the possibility that the Shannan Kingdom was supporting the Family Alliance.
• Wang Dong and the others concluded that the Family Alliance would probably attack the Revolutionary Army first, so Wang Dong decided to keep the Dark Peng out of sight and prepare for what followed.
• Wang Dong took the Dark Peng to the Yoda Star System, retrieved the construction crew, and compensated the Buteng Federation factions for the delay.
• A representative of Buteng Deep Space Industries Co., Ltd. told Xu Zhenzhi that repeated spatial quakes had occurred whenever excavation approached the core relic.
• Xu Zhenzhi learned that the core relic's active defense mechanism was causing the quakes, suggesting the relic might contain something valuable.

Wang Dong and the Dark Peng crew entered the Yoda Star System’s core relic using a Three-ring Space Anchor and Xu Zhenzhi’s identity verification device. After finding 24 Space Collapse Bombs and discovering that the relic’s interior was expanded by spatial-folding technology, Wang Dong agreed to risk dismantling the equipment.

• Xu Zhenzhi suspended the exploration contract with Buteng Deep Space Industries and recommended using the Dark Peng’s last Three-ring Space Anchor to reach the core relic.
• The Dark Peng crossed the relic’s spatial shock defense with the anchor active and reached the relic inside one of the Yoda Star System’s remaining planets.
• Xu Zhenzhi used an identity verification device to open an entrance, and the Dark Peng entered a relic whose interior was 27 times larger than its exterior volume.
• Xu Zhenzhi led the crew’s exploration, which uncovered various useful items, including 24 purple-quality Space Collapse Bombs.
• Xu Zhenzhi proposed dismantling the relic’s functioning spatial-folding equipment, and Wang Dong considered the unknown risks before deciding to proceed.

Wang Dong and his crew extracted the Star Radiance-class Space Folder from the Yoda Star System’s planetary core ruins, triggering a catastrophic spatial collapse that destroyed the system and flung Dark Peng into an unknown region. They survived, discovered the module’s powerful spatial traits, and installed it aboard Dark Peng, leaving them to plan a refit to use its expanded compartments.

• Xu Zhenzhi guided Dark Peng to the ruins’ innermost level and explained that the space-folding device maintained the folded space.
• Xu Zhenzhi overloaded the identity verification device, opened the device’s base, and let Dark Peng pull the space folder into its cargo hold.
• Wang Dong ordered Dark Peng to displace with its Mirage Shadow as the ruins collapsed, setting off a chain reaction that destroyed the Yoda Star System.
• Dark Peng was swept into a spatial shock and flung into an unknown region, but its protective systems and Paul’s damage-control team helped it survive.
• Wang Dong inspected the Star Radiance-class Space Folder, recognized its benefits for spatial stability and travel in Otherworldly Space, and installed it on Dark Peng.
• The folder expanded every compartment aboard Dark Peng, and Wu Baiyi noted that the ship would need renovations to make effective use of the added space.

The Dark Peng explored a nebula while waiting for the Apocalypse High-Dimensional Transporter to cool down and return it to the Northern Phoenix Star System. The crew discovered a Level 8 planetary life-form with a multicolored King's Halo, and Xu Zhenzhi and Gao Luanqin urged Wang Dong to capture it.

• Liu Zhi reported that the Northern Phoenix Star System was the only recorded coordinate still within the Apocalypse High-Dimensional Transporter's range, so Wang Dong chose to explore the nebula while it cooled down.
• The Dark Peng searched the nebula in stealth, collected over a hundred stalks of Star Grass, and the crew discussed the Dark Spirit Flower and rumors about consciousness residing in a Kindling Warship.
• Liu Zhi detected a Level 8 star beast, and Wu Baiyi steered the Dark Peng toward it while Lieba eagerly anticipated more advanced star beast meat.
• The crew discovered that the star beast was a beautiful, 25,000-kilometer-wide solid planet pursuing a band rich in free cosmic energy.
• Wang Dong sensed that the planetary life-form threatened the Dark Peng more than the Pioneer War Star, while Xu Zhenzhi identified its multicolored Bio-energy field as a King's Halo.
• Gao Luanqin urged Wang Dong to capture the planetary life-form and recounted how a Level 5 star beast with a King's Halo had nearly destroyed a Purple Thorn Kingdom battleship formation.

Wang Dong investigated a Level 8 Giant Planetary Life, judged it too dangerous to confront immediately, and left a tracking beacon on it before returning to the North. He then took the Dark Peng into the Ouhuang Civilization’s Otherworldly Battlefield to pursue the beacon on the Miser Scepter, where the ship’s new space folder enabled a much faster warp.

• Gao Luanqin explained that a Level 5 star beast King had once devastated two Purple Thorn Kingdom knightly orders, and Xu Zhenzhi recommended hunting the Level 8 Giant Planetary Life.
• Wang Dong chose to observe the Giant Planetary Life rather than attack it, and Gao Luanqin and Xu Zhenzhi estimated it could remain in the nebula for at least five years.
• Xu Zhenzhi supplied an indestructible disc, which the Dark Peng marked with a Tracking Beacon and sent down among space rocks to track the Giant Planetary Life.
• Wang Dong added the nebula to the Apocalypse High-Dimensional Transporter and returned the Dark Peng to the North on April 27.
• Wang Dong set course for the Capital Star System to visit Lin Xiaogui and search the royal archives, but first entered the Ouhuang Civilization’s Otherworldly Battlefield to pursue the Miser Scepter’s beacon.
• Liu Zhi located the beacon, and Wu Baiyi used the Steel Bullet Warp Device to send the Dark Peng into faster-than-light warp in just over ten minutes.

Wang Dong and the Dark Peng tracked the Miser Scepter to the Ouhuang Civilization’s Direct Step Star System, where they discovered two war stars and learned the Attacker War Star carried weapons from a Level Seven civilization. Rather than attack immediately, Wang Dong considered how to seize the Ouhuang star chart while the Attacker War Star was being dismantled.

• After more than eighty hours of superluminal travel, Dark Peng reached the Miser Scepter’s location in the Direct Step Star System.
• The crew found the Miser Scepter on a barren planet and confirmed the system belonged to the Ouhuang Civilization.
• The Abyss Eye identified the Brave War Star and the more heavily armed but deteriorating Attacker War Star stationed at the system’s outskirts.
• Wang Dong asked Mada how they could obtain the Ouhuang Civilization’s star chart or locate its other war stars.
• Mada proposed waiting until the Attacker War Star’s dismantling weakened its defenses, then infiltrating its core to seize the star chart or extract data from its control system.

Wang Dong learned that a Star Beast King’s remains could become a high-grade Life Essence, then returned to the Golden Snapdragon Federation and began turning a rocky planet into a War Star. He injected 1,521,000 Source Points into the Primary War Star Modification Device, which plunged into the planet’s core as the transformation began.

• Wang Dong examined the royal archives and found that a level-five Star Shadow Leopard with a seven-colored bio-energy field had yielded a level-seven Life Essence after its death.
• Wang Dong returned to the Golden Snapdragon Federation, where Mada reported that the Revolutionary Army and the Noble Alliance were locked in a standoff under six-month nonaggression pacts with Black Stone Territory.
• Mada recommended beginning the War Star modifications, and Wang Dong approved using the fourth rocky planet in the Baipu Star System.
• The Primary War Star Modification Device identified the planet as suitable and confirmed that Black Stone Territory had enough materials to proceed.
• Wang Dong injected 1,521,000 Source Points into the device, which turned into a streak of light and sank into the planet’s core.

The Dark Peng transformed a rocky planet into the fully equipped Zhenyuan War Star, which the Black Stone Territory staffed and prepared for combat. On June 1, the Dark Peng entered the Ouhuang Civilization’s Otherworldly Space battlefield for the third time, arriving near the Zhibu Star System and finding the Attacker War Star under dismantling.

• The Primary War Star Modification Device turned the planet into a finished War Star, and Wang Dong named it the Zhenyuan War Star.
• Wang Dong reserved the highest access permission for himself, then told the Marquis about the new War Star; the Marquis decided to move the seat of government to it.
• Millions of personnel boarded the Zhenyuan War Star and learned to operate it, making it battle-ready after more than half a month.
• On June 1, the Dark Peng entered the Otherworldly Space battlefield and appeared on the outskirts of the Zhibu Star System.
• Shi Zunhou spotted the unshielded Attacker War Star being dismantled, and Xu Zhenzhi explained that its age and damage made it unsafe to use in battle.
• Lieba and Zhou Tai declared the assault team ready when Wang Dong asked whether they could begin the operation.

Wang Dong's team raided the Attacker War Star to retrieve its star charts, but the data had already been moved and the assault squad recovered only abandoned control-system equipment. After the squad escaped the Brave War Star's attack, Wang Dong ordered Mada to destroy the Ouhuang Civilization's forces and War Stars in the Zhibu Star System.

• Wu Baiyi piloted the concealed Dark Peng down the Ouhuang Civilization's passage into the Attacker War Star, smashing construction equipment along the way.
• Zhou Tai and Lieba led the assault squad into the central control area and fought past the guards while the Brave War Star prepared to attack.
• Wang Dong ordered the squad to return when the Brave War Star began charging its weapons, and the team escaped aboard the Dark Peng before its bombardment struck.
• Zhou Tai reported that the star charts had been removed days earlier, but the squad had recovered abandoned system-mainframe equipment and suffered almost no casualties.
• Wang Dong ordered Mada to wipe out the Ouhuang Civilization in the Zhibu Star System and sink both War Stars, and Mada fired the Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal into the Attacker War Star's core.

The Dark Peng destroyed the Attacker War Star and two inhabited planets, then pursued and destroyed the Brave War Star after it escaped with a space jump. Flush with Source Points, Wang Dong upgraded the Dark Peng’s fire seed to LV.90 and ended the chapter considering a fight against a Level 8 Giant Planetary Life.

• The Dark Peng destroyed the Attacker War Star and killed billions of Ouhuang Civilization members on two planets, gaining millions of Source Points.
• Wang Dong refused the Brave War Star’s request to communicate, and the Dark Peng attacked until it activated its space-warp device and escaped.
• The Dark Peng followed the Tracking Beacon through a long faster-than-light pursuit and ambushed the Brave War Star after it emerged from warp.
• The Dark Peng broke through the Brave War Star’s energy shield and armor, then destroyed its core and earned over six million Source Points.
• Wang Dong spent 15.75 million Source Points and 35 Intermediate Energy Crystals to raise the Dark Peng’s fire seed to LV.90, while Mada advised him against further upgrades.
• Shi Zunhou asked whether they could now deal with a Level 8 Giant Planetary Life.

Wang Dong chose to prepare the Dark Peng before hunting a Level 8 Giant Planetary Life, then used recovered Ouhuang data to plan a route toward the civilization’s home star system. In the Purple Thorn Kingdom, Lin Xiaogui revealed that the kingdom had once created a Star Destroyer, leaving Wang Dong to wonder why the ship and its power had vanished from history.

• Wang Dong and the crew agreed to strengthen the Dark Peng before pursuing the Level 8 Giant Planetary Life, then sent recovered Attacker War Star mainframes to experts for analysis.
• Experts reconstructed a route from the Attacker War Star’s base to the Ouhuang Star System, and Mada proposed following it to draw the Ouhuang Civilization’s forces toward its home system.
• Wang Dong accepted the risky plan to advance toward the Ouhuang Star System, confident that the Dark Peng could evade threats and retreat if needed.
• Lin Xiaogui told Wang Dong that Star Destroyers had the Weak Point Break trait, which let their attacks exploit targets’ weakest defensive resistance.
• Lin Xiaogui revealed that the Purple Thorn Kingdom’s Nation-guarding Ship had evolved into a Star Destroyer over a thousand years earlier and defeated an invading fleet, then destroyed the neighboring kingdom that had attacked.

Wang Dong learned that newly emerged Star Destroyers had to serve on the Extraterritorial Battlefield, then visited the Fuhai Trading Market and discovered that the Mad Wolf Pirate Group had been targeting its customers. The chapter ended with Wang Dong noticing Mada's interest in the pirate group's apparent intelligence network.

• Lin Xiaogui told Wang Dong that Star Destroyers had to complete compulsory service on the Extraterritorial Battlefield and explained the service options and the fate of the Purple Thorn Kingdom's former Star Destroyer.
• Wang Dong shared the news with the Dark Peng's core crew, assigned Mada to gather information about compulsory service, and traveled to the Blue Eagle Federation.
• Wang Dong collected dividends of 300 titanium crystals, 35 Dark Crystals, and 10 Radiant Crystals from the Fuhai Trading Market.
• Mingzhi Guangxiu told Wang Dong that the Mad Wolf Pirate Group had attacked customers after large transactions and repeatedly avoided raids by the Jia Family.
• Wang Dong considered how the pirates identified their targets and turned to Mada, who appeared interested in the group's intelligence operation.

Wang Dong learned how the Mad Wolf Pirate Group tracked its targets and led the Dark Peng to their hideout near the Desa Star System. After luring the pirates away from a space farm, the Dark Peng caught and disabled their three destroyers, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Mada reported that the pirate leader, Xu Jia, could track a few targets’ direction and distance for up to three days within fifteen light-minutes, and he located the group near the Desa Star System.
• Wang Dong ordered the Dark Peng crew to travel to the Desa Star System and approach the pirates’ hideout at a space farm.
• Shi Zunhou persuaded the Mad Wolf Pirate Group to leave the farm by claiming the Dark Peng wanted exclusive use of its facilities.
• After the pirates’ three destroyers had moved away, the Dark Peng pursued them and blasted apart all three ships’ shields.
• Shi Zunhou warned the pirates to stop and surrender or die.

Wang Dong captured Xu Jia and discovered that her ability let the Star Hunter's Crown reveal the distances to its targets, then led the Dark Peng back into Ouhuang territory and destroyed the Bazhua Star System. After returning home, the crew checked on Black Stone Territory, where Gao Luanqin asked to take the Dark Peng hunting for starbeast meat.

• The Dark Peng forced the Mad Wolf Pirate Group's destroyers to surrender, and Lieba brought Xu Jia aboard.
• Xu Jia connected with the Star Hunter's Crown and enabled Wang Dong to see the distances to its tracking targets, so Wang Dong assigned her to Mada to manage the Pursuer System.
• Wang Dong handed the Mad Wolf Pirate Group's remaining underlings to the Fuhai Trading Market and departed the Blue Eagle Federation on July 5.
• The Dark Peng reached the Bazhua Star System, destroyed its defenses and population centers, and gained more than five million Source Points.
• The Dark Peng returned home and checked in with Black Stone Territory, where Gao Luanqin asked to go hunting for starbeast meat.

The Dark Peng hunted high-level starbeasts in the Weijing River and gathered thirteen Life Crystals before returning to the Otherworldly Space battlefield. In the Octopus Star System, Wang Dong's crew discovered a sixth-level Zerg race group, but Gao Luanqin identified it as a weakened remnant after a recent defeat.

• The Dark Peng stocked up in the Phoenix Star System, then entered a new region of the Weijing River to hunt high-level starbeasts.
• The Dark Peng used the Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal to kill a level-seven Star Jiao, and Gao Luanqin recommended it for future hunts because it preserved the quality of their spoils.
• Over the following weeks, the Dark Peng hunted more than ten high-level starbeasts and collected thirteen Life Crystals before entering the Otherworldly Space battlefield.
• Wang Dong's crew arrived in the Octopus Star System and discovered a vast Zerg Mother Nest surrounded by a swarm that had begun stripping nearby planets.
• The Abyss Eye identified the invaders as a sixth-level Zerg race group, and the crew feared the group would destroy the Ouhuang Civilization.
• Gao Luanqin noticed that the group had only four Mother Nests and 210 million Zerg, and that three Mother Nests had recently healed extensive injuries, suggesting the group was a defeated remnant.

Wang Dong led Dark Peng into battle against the sixth-level Zerg, destroying the Mycelial Carpet on the Octopus System’s habitable planets and testing the Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal against the swarm. Dark Peng held off the Zerg’s coordinated attacks, but the Mother Nests changed tactics and sent tens of millions of Zerg pressing toward it at once.

• Wang Dong ordered Dark Peng to attack the Mycelial Carpet instead of waiting for the battlefield’s twenty-four-hour duration to end.
• Dark Peng destroyed the Mycelial Carpet on the first habitable planet, then charged through the Zerg swarm to clear the second planet.
• After Dark Peng attacked the third planet, the Zerg surrounded it, and Wang Dong authorized the Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal’s first strike, killing more than a hundred thousand Zerg.
• The Mother Nests organized the Zerg into defensive groups, reserves, scouts, and waves of attackers that surrounded Dark Peng.
• Wu Baiyi maneuvered Dark Peng through the encirclement while the Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal repeatedly wiped out dense clusters of Zerg.
• The Zerg abandoned their wave attacks and tightened the encirclement, with tens of millions pressing toward Dark Peng at once.

The Dark Peng cleared away fifty million ordinary Zerg, but the Mother Nest sent elite Zerg to exploit gaps between the Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal’s attacks. The Dark Peng destroyed several waves, yet newly arrived giant crabs coated its shield in stacking biological radiation, sharply increasing the damage as the battle continued.

• The Dark Peng endured the ordinary Zerg’s insect-ball assault for more than five hours and killed all fifty million attackers, gaining 561,890 Source Points.
• The Mother Nest sent elite Zerg among a second wave of ordinary attackers, and three enormous survivors pounced on the Dark Peng before the Scorpio Death Ray Cannon killed them.
• The Zerg launched hundreds of giant beetle-like elite individuals, which damaged the Dark Peng’s shield until the Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal and Scorpio Death Ray Cannon eliminated them.
• The Mother Nest sent repeated waves of giant beetles, and the Dark Peng’s shield fell to around eighty percent as the elite attackers’ numbers dwindled.
• Gao Luanqin warned the crew that the giant crabs’ pale green biological radiation could stack, and hundreds of crabs covered the Dark Peng’s shield in radiation.
• The Shipborne Optical Computer reported that the radiation’s continuous damage had risen to 1,600 points per second, while the giant beetles continued attacking and the Dark Peng’s shield began falling much faster.

The Dark Peng wiped out the sixth-level Zerg group’s elite forces and hundreds of millions of ordinary Zerg, then began attacking its four Mother Nests. Wang Dong’s Corrosion Charm helped the Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal break through one Mother Nest’s powerful bio-energy field, leaving it temporarily exposed.

• Wang Dong ordered the Dark Peng to target the elite “big crabs,” and Wu Baiyi maneuvered the ship into their cluster so the Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal could kill them at close range.
• The Dark Peng destroyed the “big crabs” and “big beetles,” prompting the Mother Nests to send nearly the entire swarm to overwhelm it.
• The Dark Peng endured the swarm’s assault for forty hours, using its energy reserves to kill the last ordinary Zerg and earn more than two million Source Points in total.
• The Mother Nests landed on three habitable planets and began extracting their life energy while producing more Zerg, but Gao Luanqin estimated the new forces would need at least ten days to mature.
• The Dark Peng attacked the Mother Nest floating in space, but its bio-energy field withstood repeated shots from the Purple Fluorescent Sky Crystal.
• Wang Dong activated the Corrosion Charm as Shi Zunhou fired, weakening the Mother Nest’s field until it shattered and left the creature temporarily unprotected.

The Dark Peng destroyed the remnants of a sixth-level Zerg group after nearly sixty hours of fighting, then collected its spoils. Wang Dong fed the battlefield’s Zerg remains to the Insect Totem and enhanced it to its limit, leaving it ready to evolve once it absorbed enough high-grade Zerg flesh.

• The Dark Peng used the Flowing Sun Skyfire and its weapons to wipe out the remaining elite Zerg individuals and four Mother Nests.
• Wang Dong and the crew discussed how the defeated group’s weakened state made the battle easier than fighting a peak sixth-level Zerg group would have been.
• The Dark Peng gained over four million Source Points and a Level 6 Biological Essence that could extend one crew member’s lifespan by 25 years.
• Wang Dong released the Insect Totem’s restrictions, and it absorbed Zerg flesh from the battlefield while he spent Source Points to enhance it.
• The Insect Totem reached LV.40 and 100/100 evolution progress, but still needed 100,000 units of high-grade Zerg flesh to evolve.