Chapter Summaries

After the Iris escaped the Qiya by plunging into a black hole, Zhang Fan, Yan Hao, and Selena survived on an alien planet hostile to ordinary humans. Selena discovered a way to create silicon-based humans and hinted that she could control the planet’s life-forms if one of the men sacrificed himself.

• Zhang Fan ordered the Iris into a black hole rather than let the Qiya capture it, and the ship crashed on an unknown planet with only Zhang Fan, Yan Hao, and Selena surviving.
• Selena preserved the human embryos but said the planet’s silicon-based life made it uninhabitable for ordinary humans.
• Selena proposed modifying human embryos with genes from local life-forms so they could survive on the planet, while Zhang Fan questioned whether they would still be human.
• After Zhang Fan and Yan Hao found no other way to save humanity, Selena said she could control the planet’s creatures but would need one of them to sacrifice himself.

Selena fused Zhang Fan’s brain with silicon-based life, transforming him into a conscious silicon entity, while she and Yan Hao later abandoned him on the powerless Iris. Trapped in darkness, Zhang Fan eventually sensed a crystalline worm approaching him.

• Selena explained that she planned to combine a human brain with silicon-based life, and Zhang Fan volunteered after knocking Yan Hao unconscious.
• After seven days of fusion, Zhang Fan’s human body was declared dead, but he awoke as a silicon-based being with consciousness beyond ordinary senses.
• Selena and Yan Hao told Zhang Fan that the Iris was running out of power and revealed they were husband and wife before escaping in the only pod.
• The Iris lost power, leaving Zhang Fan alone in darkness until he sensed a small crystalline worm crawling toward him.

Trapped as a purple crystal life-form aboard the ruined Iris, Zhang Fan fought off a swarm of silicon-based worms, then learned to divide and control consciousnesses through his offspring. He evolved an obedient ecosystem across the Death Star and sent a distress signal, hoping to use the Qiya Star People to return to Earth and take revenge.

• Zhang Fan smashed through his culture vessel and crushed the attacking worms before exhaustion put him to sleep.
• Zhang Fan discovered that he had grown larger and could move by secreting lubricant, then sensed that the worms shared a vast consciousness.
• Zhang Fan learned to merge the worms' consciousnesses with his own and reproduced by splitting into identical Carbon-Silicon Worms.
• Zhang Fan's Carbon-Silicon Worms exterminated the primitive silicon-based worms, absorbed them, and consumed the Iris to fuel further growth.
• Zhang Fan's descendants spread across the Death Star, replaced its native life, and evolved into multiple specialized species that obeyed him.
• Zhang Fan sent a distress signal into space and planned to use the Qiya Star People to leave the Death Star and pursue revenge.

Zhang Fan preserved a million human embryos’ genetic data, then used the Rebecca explorers’ arrival to study their technology and escape Death Star aboard the Starmoon. After reaching Rebecca Star, he began secretly spreading Protozoans and planned to build up his Worm Legion before confronting the technologically advanced Rebecca People.

• Zhang Fan stored complete human genomes and individual variations from a million embryos inside his body while waiting for the Qiya Star People.
• Captain Liliwa and the Rebecca crew landed on Death Star, captured a juvenile Rabid Hound, and were attacked by Zhang Fan’s Sword Mantises and Night Apes.
• Zhang Fan’s creatures drove Liliwa and the survivors back to the Starmoon, while a Protozoan carrying Zhang Fan’s consciousness slipped aboard.
• The Starmoon returned to Rebecca Star with the Rabid Hound and hidden Protozoans, which attached themselves to crew members and infiltrated the planet.
• Zhang Fan resolved to plunder genes from lower life-forms and quietly grow his Worm Legion before targeting the Rebecca People.

Zhang Fan infiltrated Rebecca Star as a pet called Purple Thorn, using Huateng to spread his duplicates and profit from their sales. After war erupted between Huateng and Liliwa’s forces, Zhang Fan revealed he could speak, ate Huateng, and began his final evolution while ordering Huateng’s army to fight to the death.

• Zhang Fan let Lisa adopt him as Purple Thorn, then divided himself so Huateng could take a duplicate and sell it to households across Rebecca Star.
• Huateng bought Purple Thorn’s original body and built a fortune as the pet’s duplicates and mutant varieties spread throughout the planet.
• Liliwa and the Interstellar Exploration Committee challenged Huateng over Purple Thorn, but Huateng claimed ownership of the committee and left Liliwa powerless.
• Liliwa united with other exploration fleets, and war broke out between their forces and Huateng’s mercenaries, devastating cities and displacing millions.
• After Huateng suffered repeated military losses, Zhang Fan killed and ate his secretary, revealed that he could speak, and told Huateng he expected repayment for ten years of service.
• Zhang Fan ate Huateng, began his final evolution on Rebecca Star, and ordered Huateng’s army to fight to the death.

Zhang Fan defeated the Rebecca People and imposed a peace that confined them to Goblin Canyon and barred their space research, while claiming he wanted to protect them from a powerful alien race. After decades of genetic experiments, he created the {Rebecca} and entrusted Rebecca Star to the {Overmind}, then set out to search for Earth.

• Mutated Purple Thorns helped the mercenaries capture Liwana, then surrounded Liliwa and the surviving fleet at Qibei City without attacking them.
• Zhang Fan revealed himself to Liliwa and Xialis, explained that he had come to repay their kindness, and demanded half the planet and the Rebecca People's bio-armor and space exploration technology in exchange for peace.
• Liliwa agreed to negotiate, and Zhang Fan allowed the surviving Rebecca People to settle in Goblin Canyon under the watch of mutated Purple Thorns.
• Zhang Fan spent forty years combining the genes of Rebecca Star's organisms and Death Star creatures, creating the spacefaring bio-ship {Rebecca} and the intelligent {Overmind}.
• After modifying the {Overmind} to remove its rebellious tendencies, Zhang Fan left it in charge of Rebecca Star and sailed toward the stars with his forces to search for Earth.

Zhang Fan’s Rebecca Alliance fleet interrupted the Asha-Lila battle, and General Mora established contact with the newcomers. The chapter ended with Zhang Fan meeting Supreme Commander Lia at a banquet, where the Asha welcomed the insect visitors.

• Lia ordered the Asha fleet to hold its defensive line as an unidentified biological fleet appeared and the Lila began retreating.
• Lia sent the Envoy to contact the newcomers, and Mora boarded their vessel after a Lila ship approached them.
• The Lila fleet withdrew, and Mora returned to announce that the newcomers were allies from the Rebecca Alliance.
• At the banquet, Zhang Fan introduced himself to Lia and said he came in peace, speaking fluent Asha.
• Zhang Fan offered to have his guards leave and told Lia that the {Night Apes} ate raw meat.

Zhang Fan and Liya established an alliance between the Rebecca Insectoids and the Asha Empire, while the Lila Emperor secretly planned to use the insectoids against Asha. After three thousand Lila warships crossed the border, Zhang Fan offered to make the first battle a gift to the alliance and invited Liya and Mora to watch.

• Liya introduced Zhang Fan to Asha’s high priest, who used Zhang Fan’s star chart and concluded that the Milky Way lay beyond six million light-years.
• Liya pledged Asha’s help in finding Zhang Fan’s home and accepted a Purple Thorn, then presented him with an Ice Blue Dragon egg.
• The Whirlwind Emperor told Mierduoduo that the Lila People had secretly allied with the Rebecca Insectoids and planned to attack Asha, then let the insectoids take the empire.
• Zhang Fan and Liya signed a 999-year agreement granting the Rebecca Insectoids temporary sovereignty over Camille Star and setting out their mutual duties and exchanges.
• Zhang Fan told Liya that the Rebecca Insectoids would not fight the Lila People at Asha’s request unless the Lila attacked first, and Liya accepted the condition.
• A messenger reported that three thousand Lila warships had crossed the border, and Zhang Fan offered to lead the Rebecca fleet into battle.

The Rebecca Insectoids, led by Zhang Fan, rescued Karen and the Asha defenders from the Lila invasion of Norad Star. The Lila fleet withdrew under pressure from Zhang Fan and the Whirlwind Great Emperor, while the Rebeccas turned the battlefield into a Crystal Garden and the empire promised to help them find their way home.

• Mierduoduo ordered the Lila forces to conquer Norad Star, and Karen led the outnumbered Asha defenders in a desperate last stand at Bright Moon City.
• Zhang Fan arrived with the Rebecca Insectoids, and Karen withdrew her soldiers as tens of thousands of Sword Mantises and Purple Thorns attacked Lila's ground and air forces.
• Zhang Fan warned Mierduoduo not to break his agreement, and the Whirlwind Great Emperor ordered the weakened commander to retreat with the Lila fleet.
• The Rebecca Insectoids defeated the Mechanical Army and planted crystal flowers across the battlefield, which became a Crystal Garden.
• Karen asked about the flowers, and Liya told Zhang Fan that the empire had offered rewards to help the Rebecca Insectoids find their way home.

After centuries of evolution on Camille Star, Zhang Fan’s insectoids grew powerful enough to dominate the planet. When Asha’s new emperor seized control and attacked the Rebecca Insectoids, Zhang Fan chose to preserve the Asha people as potential allies while the Lila prepared to exploit the empire’s civil war.

• Zhang Fan established the gene decrement rule and used Camille Star species to create thousands of new insectoid varieties and a stronger legion.
• An Asha envoy named Ka... demanded that the Rebecca Insectoids submit to the Sixth Imperial Fleet and shot Raphael when he objected.
• A purple {Demon Ape} killed the envoy, and the insectoids devoured his soldiers until Likafeier spared one survivor.
• The survivor told Likafeier that Emperor Nu-no... Asalas had staged a coup, branded the emperor’s supporters traitors, and seized control of the Third Colony Star and Norad Star System.
• Zhang Fan told Likafeier to inform the Lila and arrange the rescue of Liya, Karen, Mora, and the others, while ordering that the Asha people not be exterminated.
• Whirlwind Great Emperor and Zhang Fan reaffirmed their agreement, and Zhang Fan revealed that the Scarab Mech Legion had been sent to Mudo Star.

Zhang Fan, Karen, Mora, and the Lila People rescued Liya from Asha’s detention and offered her forces to reclaim the empire and make peace. Though she doubted their motives, Liya agreed to lead them against Asalas, calling herself a traitor for Asha.

• Zhang Fan contacted the imprisoned Liya and offered to bring lasting peace to Asha.
• Karen and Mora rescued Liya with Mierduoduo and the Lila People’s mechanized forces.
• Liya accused Karen and Mora of betraying Asha, while Mierduoduo and Mora argued that Asalas had betrayed the empire and that the conflict centered on Mujing Ore.
• Likafeier explained that the Rebecca Insectoids and Lila People had agreed to help Liya reclaim Asha and offered her their fleets.
• Liya accepted command of the insectoid and Lila forces, declaring that she would become a traitor for Asha.

Lia Gross and Likafeier led the insectoid army to attack Deva, where Luke Eland’s defenders resisted fiercely. After the city fell into chaos, Lia tried to persuade the Asha warriors to stop fighting, but Luke challenged her to a deadly Sacred Challenge, which she accepted.

• Lia Gross led four hundred {Rebecca} toward Riwaka, while she refused to rely on the Lila People's army and Likafeier pledged the insectoids' support.
• The insectoid army seized Riwaka's six major cities and assaulted Deva, where Luke Eland ordered the defenders to fight Lia as a traitor.
• After the insectoids breached Deva's gates, Likafeier urged the defenders to surrender, and Lia used her psychic relay to call on them to stop fighting and oppose Asalas.
• Deva's defenders interrupted Lia's appeal with cannon fire, and Luke issued her a Sacred Challenge to the death.
• Despite Karen, Likafeier, and Mora warning her about Luke, Lia accepted the challenge, and Zhang Fan told the others to let her decide.

Liya defeated Luke and led the Insect and Lila forces in conquering much of the former Asha Empire. Zhang Fan proposed a tripartite council to settle the alliance dispute, while the fleets gathered around Asha Star to help reunify the empire.

• Liya killed Luke in a duel outside Deva City and demanded the city surrender.
• The Insect and Lila fleets overwhelmed the Asha imperial fleet and captured two-thirds of its former star systems.
• Karduoduo pressed Liya to let the Lila People lead their alliance, while Likafeier said the Insect Race would leave after Asha was reunified.
• Zhang Fan proposed a tripartite council with one vote per star system, giving the Insect Race two votes, Asha thirty-seven, and the Lila People thirty-six.
• Liya accepted Zhang Fan's proposal, and Karduoduo promised Lila's support for reclaiming the Asha Empire.
• Two thousand Lila Warships, six hundred {Rebecca}, and more than thirteen hundred Asha warships surrounded Asha Star.

After Asalas’s death, Asha and the Lila People ended their war and formed a united Alliance, while Zhang Fan departed to pursue his return to Earth. A century into his journey, three robots attacked Rebecca, and Zhang Fan sent his Poison Thorn units to fight them.

• Asalas argued with the Purple Thorn about how the insectoids had manipulated Asha and Lila, then took his own life after crushing the creature.
• Liya’s forces entered the palace, where Likafeier devoured Asalas; Mora grew suspicious of the insectoids’ actions.
• Lia Gross became Asha’s first empress, and Asha and the Lila People opened their star systems to one another and formed the Western Universe Alliance.
• Likafeier told Liya that Zhang Fan had left to pursue his return to Earth, while Asha and the Lila People pledged to remain allies of the insectoids.
• Zhang Fan traveled through the universe for a century aboard Rebecca, seeking other life and creating a hybrid body for his consciousness.
• Three gigantic robots attacked Rebecca, and Zhang Fan ordered his Poison Thorn units to deploy and destroy them.

Zhang Fan fought off an attack in space, was rescued by the Liruwara People, and traveled with Chiwila to Myriad Demon Hall. There, King Pamir addressed him as the Overlord, leaving Zhang Fan facing an unexpected revelation.

• Zhang Fan used {Rebecca}, {Poison Thorns}, and Ice Blue Dragon artillery to fight three Nagang People robots before three small fighters destroyed them.
• The fighters guided {Rebecca} to Myriad Demon Star, where Chiwila met Zhang Fan and explained that the Liruwara People had rescued him from the Nagang People.
• Zhang Fan learned Liruwara by exchanging blood with Chiwila and shared Earth's star-chart information through telepathy, alarming her with his mental power.
• Chiwila invited Zhang Fan to meet King Pamir at Myriad Demon Hall, and Zhang Fan went with her while secretly considering conquering the planet for its diverse life-forms.
• King Pamir called Zhang Fan the Overlord and asked why he was smiling.

Zhang Fan negotiated with the Liruwara People to build an army against the Nagang People, using their blood samples and qi to evolve his swarm. Ten years later, his new army stunned King Pamir and High Priest Hu Baili.

• King Pamir accused Zhang Fan of seeing the Liruwara People as food, but Hu Baili broke Zhang Fan’s mental control and proposed an alliance against the Nagang People.
• Hu Baili gave General Ox Spider to Zhang Fan, who used two Primitive Worms to show that his swarm needed blood rather than people as food.
• Zhang Fan agreed to build an army in exchange for land, food, energy, and the Liruwara People’s promise of future help.
• After Rebecca landed, the Liruwara People supplied blood samples and qi, which Zhang Fan used to create Qi Spiders that powered his swarm creatures.
• Over ten years, Zhang Fan assembled a vast new swarm army, leaving King Pamir and Hu Baili speechless with astonishment.

Zhang Fan equipped the Li'erwala with new insect units and helped launch a campaign to reclaim the Flame-Thunder Star System. After learning that a lost Li'erwala expedition might have reached Earth, he resolved to infiltrate Huo Star to search for records that could lead him home.

• Zhang Fan revealed the specialized Li'erwala Insect Tribe units and persuaded Hu Baili to support an offensive against the Nagang People.
• Hu Baili agreed to command the campaign, while Zhang Fan secured a planet for his insect tribe and appointed Yata to assist the High Priest.
• The Li'erwala fleet and insect army departed to reclaim the Flame-Thunder Star System, their first target.
• Hu Baili told Zhang Fan that a Li'erwala expedition had vanished about eight thousand years earlier and might have reached Earth, but its records were on Nagang-held Huo Star.
• Zhang Fan proposed infiltrating Huo Star rather than fighting through the six star systems around it, then wandered the imperial capital seeking an idea.
• Zhang Fan stopped to watch Li'erwala children playing a war game.

Hothead’s Thunderflame forces fought Yata’s Lilvara fleet, but the powerful {Dragon-Type Rebecca} and {Venom Bee} overwhelmed them. As the Nasteel fleet withdrew and Tieqian ordered the Star-Destroying Cannon prepared, Yata wondered whether the retreat meant the robots had abandoned Hothead or were sacrificing him to win.

• Hothead raged over the Lilvara invasion as Tieqian mourned the shattered command table, then charged out after hearing the fleet had broken through three defensive lines.
• Yata sent the {Dragon-Type Rebecca} against Hothead’s Thunderflame Guard, destroying nearly a third of it in their first clash.
• Hothead transformed the Thunderflame into a Two-Winged Fierce Tiger and destroyed nearby {Dragon-Type Rebecca} with a missile volley, while Yata ordered more attackers to pin him down and launch an assault on planet Thunderflame.
• Yata told King Pamir that she had been reborn on Myriad Demon Star, and Hu Baili warned Pamir that the insect race would punish any betrayal tenfold.
• Tieqian ordered the Nasteel forces to retreat and told Thunderflame to prepare the Star-Destroying Cannon, despite Hothead still fighting on the front lines.
• Yata watched the withdrawal and asked King Pamir whether the Nasteel had abandoned Hothead or were sacrificing him to secure victory.

The Insect Tribe and Lilvara forces were devastated by a Nagang superweapon, leaving King Pamir withdrawn and Myriad Demon Star grieving. Zhang Fan prepared a new campaign with Hu Baili, then challenged Pamir to join him on a dangerous mission to the planet.

• The Insect Tribe attacked Nagang defenses on Thunderflame Star, but a beam weapon destroyed the planet’s defenses and erased many insects and Lilvara warships.
• Zhang Fan ordered the surviving forces to withdraw and said the insects left behind would sacrifice themselves to destroy the weapon; he rejected King Pamir’s suggestion that they surrender.
• After the defeat, King Pamir shut himself away while Myriad Demon Star mourned, and Zhang Fan told Hu Baili that the insects had destroyed the cannon.
• Zhang Fan revealed he had found a way to infiltrate the Nagang planet, and Hu Baili agreed to take command of the army.
• Seven days later, as the fleets departed, Zhang Fan urged King Pamir to leave his bedchamber and accompany him to the planet, but refused to promise he would not abandon him.

The Insect Race used misleading attacks to lure the Nagang People into an ambush at Jiede Star, then devastated their forces and seized the advantage in the Thunderflame Star System. As Huobao and Tieqian captured the lost King Pamir and Zhang Fan, Tieqian incapacitated Huobao and chose to take the prisoners alive to Huo Planet.

• Tieqian advised Huobao to ambush the Insect Race on Jiede Star, and Huobao sent the Nagang forces there.
• Hu Baili explained to Yata that the Insect Race had planted misleading clues while preparing a larger attack on Kazi and a hidden force at Jiede Star.
• The Insect Race redirected its main force toward Kazi, then attacked Jiede after the Nagang fleet departed, nearly annihilating the forces there.
• Huobao and Tieqian fled Jiede and ordered reinforcements as the Thunderflame Star System fell into danger.
• Tieqian's scouts found King Pamir and Zhang Fan aboard a lost Lilvara command ship, and Huobao and Tieqian captured them.
• When Huobao attacked Zhang Fan, Tieqian electrocuted Huobao and said he would take the prisoners to Huo Planet alive.