Chapter Summaries

Kronos strengthened the Insect Race’s war fleet, while the Delman Pirates found the final Twelve-Faced Spherical Metal Fragment. Kaina secured the fragment by doubling Captain Dede Sa’s payment and asked him to investigate Time Shards for Zhang Fan.

• Zhang Fan admired Kronos, but Sophia explained that its Control Bug took a hundred years to hatch and that the warship was too resource-intensive to build in large numbers.
• Kronos helped the Insect Race intimidate enemies as its invasions proceeded smoothly.
• The Delman Pirates found the remaining nine metal fragments, but Captain Dede Sa demanded energy blocks for two hundred years before surrendering the last one to Kaina.
• Zhang Fan told Kaina to double Dede Sa’s demand and ask whether he knew about Time Shards.
• Kaina promised Dede Sa four hundred years’ worth of energy blocks, warned him to keep her inquiry secret, and received the final metal sphere.

Zhang Fan learned that the completed gene map could create a being with the god gene, then agreed to send the Insect Race to join Varagon’s war against the Erl Universe. At the Andora Starfield, Plague explained that a time difference left Vitter forces exposed to ten years of enemy fire while crossing the Time Passage, and Zhang Fan privately wondered whether merchant routes could offer another way through.

• Kaina delivered the final metal sphere to Sophia, who completed the god gene map and identified three missing gene sequences.
• Sophia deduced that one missing sequence belonged to a powerful dragon, another to a blue humanoid, and the last to a powerful creature from the Vitter Universe, and Zhang Fan asked her to study a substitute-gene creation.
• Plague told Zhang Fan that Varagon was preparing an all-out assault on the Erl Universe and invited the Insect Race to join; Zhang Fan agreed and asked Sophia to investigate Plague’s teleportation.
• Zhang Fan led thirty million Insect Race warships to the Andora Starfield, where he saw a fleet of hundreds of trillions of ships and met Plague again.
• Plague explained that one day in the Erl Universe equaled ten years in the Vitter Universe, leaving ships crossing the timeline vulnerable to ten years of enemy fire, and Zhang Fan considered whether merchant ships’ routes could help.

Zhang Fan learned that the Time Shard he possessed was the missing core needed to complete the Time Device, and he secretly organized the Insect Race to build it. A hundred years later, the Insect Race had expanded enormously, drawing Varagon’s attention while Plague claimed he could control its Bio-Ships.

• Zhang Fan watched the Vitter Universe send vast numbers of warships into the Time Passage, then met Commander Varagon, who explained that the fleets were seeking a way into the Erl Universe.
• Varagon revealed that the final Time Shard, the core of the Time Device, was believed to be in the Erl Universe, and Plague gave Zhang Fan its structural blueprint.
• Zhang Fan returned to Ilis with the Insect Race’s warships and ordered Kaina, Dumite, Badara, and Sophia to prepare a secret project to build the Time Device.
• The Cave Insect Race constructed an underground kingdom, while the Orland Race studied the blueprint and Sophia researched the God Gene and a barrier against teleportation.
• Over the next hundred years, the Insect Race grew to a hundred billion warships and spread across hundreds of galaxies, prompting Varagon to warn Plague to watch them.
• Plague assured Varagon that the Insect Race’s primitive Bio-Ships were under his control.

Zhang Fan trained the god-gene humanoid Zhang Hongjun for twelve years before bringing him back to Kronos, where Hongjun secretly set out for Lucius Star to join the battle. He left aboard a Barton landing craft after convincing an officer he was carrying out Queen Kaina’s orders.

• Dumite proposed fusing Insect Race members to reduce their numbers, and Sophia began researching the idea with Zhang Fan’s approval.
• Zhang Fan tested the humanoid child’s strength, named him Zhang Hongjun, and trained him on a primitive planet as Hongjun mastered his abilities.
• After twelve years, Zhang Fan returned to Kronos with Hongjun and secluded himself in a heavily guarded room.
• When Hongjun saw the Insect Race struggling to capture a fortress on Lucius Star, Kaina refused to let him join the battle, so he went to the staging area alone.
• Hongjun disguised himself in a Barton soldier’s uniform and persuaded a noncommissioned officer to let him board a landing craft bound for Lucius Star.

Zhang Hongjun attacked Earthfire Fortress and battled General Kate as a virus crippled the Insect Race. He reached Zhang Fan on Kronos and helped him survive the infection, while Zhang Fan identified Plague as the culprit.

• Kaina and Queen Badara discovered that Zhang Hongjun had disguised himself as a Barton warrior and gone to Lucius Star without permission.
• Zhang Hongjun smashed through Earthfire Fortress's defenses and fought General Kate while the Insect Race advanced on the fortress.
• A virus struck the Insect Race, weakening its warriors and forcing them to retreat as the Lucians counterattacked.
• Zhang Hongjun recognized that the virus might also threaten Zhang Fan, withdrew from the battle, and returned to Kronos.
• Zhang Hongjun found Kaina and then Zhang Fan suffering from the infection, and used qi energy and thought energy to stabilize and treat Zhang Fan.
• Zhang Fan woke after more than an hour and accused Plague of seeking his death.

After recovering from Plague’s virus, Zhang Fan’s forces developed a serum and crushed the Lucians on Lucius Star in retaliation. Zhang Fan entered the Cultivation Pod for a Consciousness Transfer while his forces prepared against Plague and his Instant Teleportation.

• Zhang Fan recovered, and Sophia developed and distributed an antiviral serum that restored the Insect Race on Kronos.
• Zhang Fan ordered Kaina to regroup and strike Lucius Star, while Dumite was tasked with finding a way to counter Plague’s Instant Teleportation.
• Zhang Hongjun claimed he could rebuild the Time Control Device in less than three days, and Dumite promised that the Orland Race would take him as their master if he succeeded.
• Kaina led a much larger Insect Race army in a counterattack that drove the Lucians back to Earthfire Fortress and wiped them out.
• Zhang Fan told Kaina to avoid rash attacks and ordered Sophia to oversee affairs and watch Zhang Hongjun before entering the Cultivation Pod for Consciousness Transfer.
• Dumite and the Orlanders guarded the Transfer Room with a barrier against Instant Teleportation as Zhang Fan began the transfer, vowing to eliminate Plague.

Zhang Fan brought the Insect Race’s fleet to Varagon’s assembly point and used misleading claims about Plague to make Varagon suspect his loyal subordinate. After Plague discovered that he could not detect the Insect Race fleet with his teleportation ability, he realized Zhang Fan had prepared to fight him.

• Zhang Fan emerged in a stronger god-gene body and told Dumite that the Insect Race could not defeat Plague head-on, so he planned to seek Varagon’s help.
• Zhang Fan led the Insect Race fleet to Varagon’s assembly point, where Varagon questioned Plague about the arriving warships.
• Zhang Fan claimed Plague had strengthened and recruited him, then implied Plague had poisoned the Insect Race and promised him an antidote.
• Varagon grew suspicious of Plague, who admitted poisoning the Insect Race as a warning before Varagon dismissed him.
• Plague tried to locate the Insect Race warships but could not detect them with his teleportation ability, then found the fleet at the northwest observation station and prepared to fight.

Zhang Fan framed Plague for poisoning Varagon's army and turned the commanders against him. As Plague tried to escape custody with Instant Teleportation, he found himself unable to move.

• Zhang Fan and Sophia prepared a toxin modeled on Plague's toxin, then Zhang Fan planted it aboard the other races' motherships while disguised as Plague.
• When the toxin sickened Varagon's army, commanders blamed Plague after surveillance footage showed a figure resembling him at an outbreak site.
• Plague accused Zhang Fan, but Zhang Fan denied having a reason to poison the other races and challenged the commanders to test both armies.
• Military doctors found only a mild dose of toxin in Plague's troops but a lethal concentration in Zhang Fan and the sampled Insect Race soldiers.
• Zhang Fan portrayed the Insect Race as a victim of Plague's scheme, and Varagon ordered Plague taken into custody.
• Plague tried to escape with Instant Teleportation, but he remained rooted in place and asked Zhang Fan what had happened.

Plague’s apparent rebellion ended with Varagon killing him and taking over his body, though Zhang Fan suspected the truth was more complicated. Varagon appointed Zhang Fan to replace Plague, but Zhang Fan refused and wondered what the supreme commander was planning.

• Zhang Fan convinced Varagon and the other commanders to reject Plague’s accusations and exclude Plague’s troops from inspecting the Insect Race.
• A soldier reported that Plague’s army had attacked the Quiman Race’s and Mimipa Race’s warships, prompting Varagon to allow the commanders to strike back.
• Varagon crushed Plague’s heart, but a second Plague appeared, stabbed him, and merged with his body; afterward, Varagon announced that Plague had been executed and ordered his army to surrender.
• Plague’s forces surrendered and Varagon banished them to a frontier belt of planets, while Zhang Fan told Soraya to have {Ghost Shadow Bugs} watch them.
• Varagon claimed Plague had handed over an antidote and appointed Zhang Fan to command the campaign against the Erl Universe.
• Zhang Fan declined the appointment and supported the Mimipa commander’s proposal to give the role to the Kaia Race’s commander, while suspecting Varagon had another motive.

Zhang Fan arranged for the Primordial Progenitor to spread through the Varagon’s legion while Zhang Hongjun completed a replica of the Time Control Device, which still lacked its immense-power energy source. Mimipa became deputy commander and visited Kronos to court Zhang Fan, but the Insect Race’s military parade left him stunned.

• Zhang Fan refused the Varagon’s offer to replace Plague and backed Mimipa, while Talimo challenged Mimipa’s fitness for the deputy commander position.
• Zhang Fan secretly sent Shapeshifting Insects into the Varagon’s warships to release the Primordial Progenitor, then returned to Kronos.
• Zhang Hongjun finished replicating the Time Control Device’s structure, and Zhang Fan ordered its components kept safe while the group searched for its energy source.
• The Varagon’s legion chose Mimipa as deputy commander, prompting Talimo’s faction to begin an arms race.
• Mimipa arrived at Kronos seeking Zhang Fan, then followed Soraya to the military parade and was astonished by the Insect Race’s army.

Mimipa visited Zhang Fan to recruit the Insect Race into his faction, but Zhang Fan declined to commit. Talimo then met with Zhang Fan and agreed to cooperate on a plan to get rid of Mimipa.

• Sophia showed Mimipa the Insect Race’s powerful forces, and its guards stopped him until Kaina presented a token.
• Zhang Fan received Mimipa, who was astonished to find the Barton People serving under the Overlord.
• Mimipa offered privileges in exchange for the Insect Race joining his faction, but Zhang Fan said he would consider it and saw him off.
• Mimipa saw Zhang Fan personally welcome Talimo and grew furious as his warship departed.
• Talimo chose cooperation over recruitment, and he and Zhang Fan agreed to work together against Mimipa.
• Zhang Fan gave Talimo a Communication Bug, and they agreed to begin their plan as soon as they left the conference room.

Zhang Fan staged a failed negotiation with Talimo and used it to manipulate Mimipa into returning to Kronos, where Mimipa tried to pressure him into joining his army. Zhang Fan faked Kaina’s rebellion in front of Mimipa, leaving the recruitment talks unresolved as Mimipa departed.

• Kaina attacked Talimo during the failed negotiations, and Zhang Fan had her narrowly miss his ship with a Magic-Energy Ball as Talimo fled.
• Mimipa turned his warship back toward Kronos, believing the Insect Race had no choice but to accept his offer after falling out with Talimo.
• Zhang Fan arranged for Kaina to lead the Hevaracha Robots in a staged rebellion and had the Ravachans prepare for Mimipa’s return.
• Mimipa offered Zhang Fan protection and one-tenth of Talimo’s territory in exchange for joining his army, while Zhang Fan pretended to punish Kaina for objecting.
• A Matriarch announced that Kaina had escaped with the Hevaracha army, and Zhang Fan sent Mimipa away while claiming he would deal with the rebellion.

Zhang Fan endured Mimipa’s deputy commander’s contempt, then used the order to provide for his Insect Race as an excuse to ravage the royal capital. Gegenu sent the Insect Race to attack Cobalt Mine Star under the watch of thirty million warships, and Zhang Fan decided to hand that fleet to Talimo as a gift.

• Zhang Fan visited Mimipa on Slapa Planet, but Gegenu turned him away to a hotel and treated him with contempt.
• Zhang Fan’s Insect Race occupied Susutaxia’s beach, ate people who challenged them, and took over the hotel.
• After Gegenu refused to provide meat, Zhang Fan sent the Insect Race into the capital, where they killed half the population and the {primordial progenitors} transformed responding guards.
• Gegenu confronted Zhang Fan, then ordered the Insect Race to attack Cobalt Mine Star alongside thirty million warships, warning that the planet belonged to Mimipa.
• Aboard {Kronos}, Zhang Fan told Soraya to inform Talimo of the plan so they could give the thirty million warships to him as a gift.

Zhang Fan used the Insect Race fleet to capture Cobalt Mine Star while destroying Gegenu’s thirty million obsolete warships at Foxhunt Star, then talked his way out of Gegenu’s accusations. After Talimo launched an offensive against Mimipa, Zhang Fan refused to let the Insect Race be blamed for the resulting conflict.

• Zhang Fan and Soraya discovered that Gegenu’s thirty million warships were battered wrecks, and the fleet’s commander said they were there to monitor the Insect Race rather than support it.
• Zhang Fan arranged with Talimo to destroy Foxhunt Star and the obsolete fleet with Kronos’s Mirass Super Cannon while Talimo took responsibility for the attack.
• Talimo’s forces fled after a brief clash, the Insect Race occupied Cobalt Mine Star, and Zhang Fan returned to the Slapa Starfield with part of his forces.
• Gegenu accused Zhang Fan of betraying him, but Zhang Fan claimed the fleet had left for Foxhunt Star under Gegenu’s orders and that Talimo attacked afterward.
• After Talimo attacked Mimipa’s territory, Zhang Fan blamed Gegenu for the lost ships and threatened to end cooperation, prompting Mimipa to ask the Insect Race to fight Talimo.
• Zhang Fan rejected Mimipa’s request and said the Insect Race would not fight.

Zhang Fan maneuvered Mimipa and Gegenu into a battle plan that would make Gegenu responsible for any defeat while secretly coordinating with Talimo. As the fleets prepared to clash, Zhang Fan also ordered an investigation into Plague’s supply ship and had Kaina contact Plague’s surviving forces.

• Mimipa punished Gegenu for the loss of thirty million warships, then appointed him commander of the forces gathering to fight Talimo.
• At the Moyun Galaxy, Zhang Fan challenged Gegenu’s deployment plan and secured a written agreement assigning Gegenu blame if the battle went badly.
• Zhang Fan gave Soraya the agreement and ordered her to investigate Plague’s supply ship and have Kaina contact Plague’s people.
• Zhang Fan told Talimo the battle plan and explained that a failure caused by Gegenu would make Mimipa trust him more.

After the Allied Forces were routed in the Moyun Galaxy, Zhang Fan broke with Gegenu and killed him when he attacked the Insect Race fleet. Zhang Fan prepared to withdraw from the alliance, but Soraya reported that Talimo's army was heading for the Insect Race Starfield, prompting Zhang Fan to order all forces to return and defend it.

• Talimo's bombardment defeated the Allied Forces in the Moyun Galaxy, and Zhang Fan's Insect Race covered their retreat to the Shuyun Galaxy.
• Zhang Fan refused Gegenu's tactical review and convened the other commanders at Kronos, where Zhang Hongjun punched Gegenu out of the meeting.
• Gegenu ordered his warships to attack Kronos, and Zhang Fan fired the Dawnlight Barton cannons, destroying Gegenu and his mothership as Mimipa tried to stop him.
• The commanders blamed Gegenu for the defeat, while Mimipa accepted the outcome and privately questioned Zhang Fan about his loyalties.
• Zhang Fan said the Insect Race would leave the alliance, but Soraya reported Talimo's advance on the Insect Race Starfield, and Zhang Fan ordered all forces to return and defend it.

Zhang Fan maneuvered Talimo and Mimipa toward a joint ambush while preparing the Insect Race Starfield for battle. With Talimo’s army arriving first and Mimipa expected hours later, Zhang Fan’s plan remained uncertain as he questioned whether Mimipa would help if only Insect Race warships appeared to be losing.

• Zhang Fan persuaded Mimipa to commit troops against Talimo in exchange for one fifth of the spoils, then returned to reinforce the Insect Race Starfield.
• Zhang Fan directed the Delman Pirates to raid Mimipa’s transit stations and had Soraya delay Talimo, while he and Dumite decided to target Talimo first.
• Talimo arrived before Mimipa, whose forces were still about three hours away, so Zhang Fan ordered Talimo’s warships to enter the starfield without attacking.
• Pangu returned with thirty million Insect Race warships after Zhang Hongjun recalled him, strengthening Zhang Fan’s position despite Zhang Fan’s displeasure over the unauthorized order.
• Zhang Fan proposed using one million Insect Race warships as bait to draw Mimipa into an ambush, but worried Mimipa would not come if only Zhang Fan’s forces seemed to be losing.

Zhang Fan betrayed Talimo, used his death to win Mimipa’s trust, and revealed Varagon’s identity to persuade Mimipa to rebel against him. Mimipa considered Zhang Fan’s proposal to unite the Vitter Universe’s fleets against Varagon.

• Talimo lured Mimipa’s forces into an ambush, but Zhang Fan had the Insect Race attack Talimo’s fleet instead.
• The Insect Race and Mimipa’s forces destroyed Talimo’s fleet, while Pangu subdued Talimo and Zhang Fan killed him.
• Zhang Fan presented Talimo’s corpse to Mimipa, who appointed Zhang Fan as his adjutant.
• Zhang Fan demanded the position of Deputy Commander and told Mimipa that Varagon was the former Deputy Commander Plague.
• Zhang Fan claimed Varagon was the Great Emperor of the Southern Realm and had forced the Vitter Universe into a needless war to weaken its forces.
• Mimipa asked how they could remove Varagon, and Zhang Fan proposed revealing his identity and rallying the fleets of the entire Vitter Universe.

Zhang Fan and Mimipa gathered allies to oppose Varagon while Zhang Hongjun developed a detector to investigate Varagon’s fleet and search for energy for the Time Control Device. After a century of searching, Zhang Fan followed Varagon’s forces to the edge of the Vitter Universe, where the detector turned red, but its maximum setting left him uncertain about what they had found.

• Zhang Fan persuaded Mimipa to unite Talimo’s forces and recruit allies against Varagon, while Kaina helped coordinate the effort from within the Plague Race at Border.
• Zhang Hongjun gave Zhang Fan a Mystic Energy Detector Ball to investigate Varagon’s fleet and a Super Energy Detector to search for a power source for the Time Control Device.
• Zhang Fan put Zhang Hongjun in charge of the attack on Varagon and privately told Pangu to kill him if he showed suspicious signs.
• A hundred years passed as Zhang Fan’s forces searched for energy, while Soraya reported that Zhang Hongjun and Mimipa had contacted over half of the advanced interstellar civilizations and Varagon’s fleets were heading for the universe’s edge.
• Zhang Fan ordered his army to follow Varagon’s forces to the edge of the Vitter Universe, where the Super Energy Detector turned red; he raised it to maximum, but the result left him unsure whether they had found the needed energy source.

Zhang Fan lured Varagon away from Plague’s planet and destroyed the fleet left behind, then learned from Nübayi that the planet’s dark power could create nearly invulnerable materialized souls. He realized Kaina and the others were in immediate danger and ordered them to retreat.

• Zhang Fan sent Mimipa and the Insect Race army to attack Varagon’s Homeworld while Varagon stayed at Plague’s planet to extract energy.
• Varagon left with nearly half his fleet, and Mimipa ambushed him near his Homeworld as Zhang Fan attacked the forces remaining behind.
• The Insect Race’s Primordial Progenitors struck from within the remaining fleet, and Zhang Fan’s forces destroyed it and captured Nübayi.
• Zhang Fan accused Varagon of being Plague in disguise, and Nübayi began to doubt his master’s identity.
• Nübayi revealed that Plague’s planet held dark power capable of materializing souls into bodies resistant to almost every kind of attack.
• Zhang Fan realized Kaina and the others were in danger and ordered them to retreat from Plague’s planet immediately.