Chapter Summaries

Luo Qi’s replicas trapped a black tentacled entity in subspace and tried to destroy it by collapsing the underlying structure of space, but the entity captured them in a new subspace. The entity, called Destruction, recalled joining the Order Breakers to save his civilization and came to believe that uniting all souls could prevent universal destruction.

• Luo Qi’s original left as nineteen more replicas joined the first to use spatial anchors and expose the black tentacled entity hiding in subspace.
• The replicas sealed the combat zone and shattered subspace, but the entity pulled them out of the void and trapped them in a reconstructed subspace with Bastion Lockdown.
• The twenty replicas dispersed into particles and escaped through the entity’s tentacles, and Destruction remembered his civilization’s war with the Order Breakers.
• Destruction recalled how the Order Breakers recruited him as his civilization faced extinction under a spatial blockade.
• The Order Breakers told Destruction that souls reincarnated across universes and that uniting all soul essences could awaken a cosmic consciousness and halt universal destruction.
• Destruction calculated the Order Breakers’ proposal and concluded that preventing universal unification would not end the conflicts over finite resources.

Luo Qi escaped the Order Breakers, returned to Water Blue Star, and uncovered the history behind its recovery before taking its stellar system into his body. Meanwhile, Omok’s exploration ship became trapped near a stellar system as Destruction’s replicas continued destroying civilizations.

• Destruction removed the spatial barrier, ordered his replicas to follow their usual procedure, and destroyed the C4001 Nebula Constellation.
• Luo Qi escaped by dividing matter from a 100-light-year region among twenty replicas, then traveled to Water Blue Star.
• Luo Qi searched Star River Intelligence’s records, learned what had happened on Water Blue Star, and took its entire stellar system into his body.
• Omok and the crew of the Qiao Bi Lan discovered that they could not reach or communicate beyond an isolated stellar system, and Omok ordered them to escape.
• Destruction’s replica pulverized a 1,300-light-year Nebula Constellation and lamented the civilizations he had destroyed.

Luo Qi returned to the Profound Heaven Nebula Constellation after more than 1,700 years and discovered its Space Reversal Device. His test attack triggered the constellation’s defenses, and he became entangled in a chase between two unknown space-level civilizations.

• Luo Qi followed the Regional Administrators’ coordinates and found the universe darkened, with the recorded nebula constellations gone.
• Luo Qi reached the intact Profound Heaven Nebula Constellation and found that more than 1,700 years had passed there.
• Luo Qi analyzed the attached imperishable space and identified a Space Reversal Device that used matter from the central black hole to restore the constellation after damage.
• Luo Qi launched a Water Wave Vessel that shattered the Profound Heaven Nebula Constellation, but its Intelligent System arrested the collapse and launched spatial attacks.
• Luo Qi evaded the bombardment and trapped a silver pillar-like object in collapsed space, revealing two unknown space-level civilizations caught in a chase.

Luo Qi witnessed Yi confront the Gao'ai Civilization over an explorer who had been parasitized by an electromagnetic intelligence entity. Their shared evidence suggested that a similar entity had secretly instigated the war that destroyed the Profound Heaven Nebula Constellation, leaving the origins of Profound Heaven in doubt.

• Luo Qi emerged from hiding and warned Yi and the Gao'ai representatives about the approaching Order Breakers.
• Yi asked the Gao'ai Civilization's leaders to confirm whether its explorer had been replaced, then shared his evidence that an electromagnetic entity had merged with the man.
• The Gao'ai elders explained that the explorer had been parasitized after failing to follow isolation procedures and shared what they knew about the entity.
• Luo Qi and Yi studied the Gao'ai data, learning that the entity could parasitize matter and that its control over living or mechanical hosts could be exposed by extra memory storage.
• Yi's evidence suggested an electromagnetic entity had infiltrated the Profound Heaven Nebula Constellation and provoked its war, raising the possibility that its people had already been replaced before Profound Heaven became a Regional Administrator.

Luo Qi shared the Regional Administrator Profound Heaven’s warning about the Order Breakers with the Gao'ai Civilization and Yi, while they examined an electromagnetic intelligence entity’s memories. The Gao'ai leader concluded that the universe was headed for destruction, though simulations suggested matter might eventually form a new universe in a higher spatial layer.

• Yi asked the Gao'ai elders whether they needed the captured explorer’s body back, and their leader examined the young man’s memories, which showed only darkness before Yi took control.
• The Gao'ai leader explained that electromagnetic intelligence entities might perceive forces and spatial fluctuations as darkness, and that they gained ordinary senses only after taking over a living vessel.
• Yi copied the explorer’s data for Luo Qi, who reviewed its life and shared the coordinates and warning he had received from Regional Administrator Profound Heaven.
• After learning that the Order Breakers were destroying civilizations, the Gao'ai leader modeled the universe’s fate, and Yi concluded that the loss of matter and its interactions would make the universe collapse and perish.
• The Gao'ai leader described simulations in which matter might enter a higher spatial layer and eventually form a new universe, then recalled the dark, dying cosmos and compared ancient records of falling stars to the destruction they were witnessing.

Luo Qi and the two other space-level civilizations left their collapsing universe through a black hole, carrying matter and the civilizations inside Luo Qi's microcosm with them. A Destruction replica later reported that Universe 1173 had lost its matter and that its spatial layers were collapsing.

• The three civilizations agreed to travel together to the Regional Administrator's coordinates rather than wait for the universe to collapse around them.
• Luo Qi warned the civilizations in his microcosm of the coming departure and reorganized its matter in preparation for possible crises.
• Luo Qi sent the twenty-two Holders into the greater universe, where they witnessed its matter, photons, and physical forces disappearing.
• Luo Qi, Yi, and the Gao'ai Civilization gathered matter from the Profound Heaven Nebula and entered the black hole at the center of the universe.
• A Destruction replica captured the twenty-two Holders, reported the loss of matter in Universe 1173, and ordered the replicas to regroup in Endless Source One.

Luo Qi merged with his counterpart in a new universe and awoke as a member of the Metal-Body Species, whose society was divided over whether to explore space. As the Thirteen Stars prepared to decide, he learned how the species had formed from a once-solitary planetary consciousness.

• Luo Qi recovered memories from multiple versions of himself and recalled crossing a black hole into another universe.
• He realized he had merged with a metallic life-form and that his microcosm remained connected to him on a lower spatial layer.
• Luo Qi sensed twelve metallic individuals asking what the species should do, and learned that its members were nearly evenly split between exploration and isolation.
• He learned that the Thirteen Stars were powerful decision-makers descended from the planet's original sovereign consciousness.
• The sovereign developed by absorbing stellar energy, grew lonely, and split itself into hundreds of millions of individuals, creating the Metal-Body Species.

Luo Qi, now Shouyang, used his decisive vote and overwhelming strength to secure the Striver Faction’s chance to explore space. He left the species to plan its voyage while turning his attention to strengthening his microcosm and gathering information about the universe.

• Luo Qi voted for the Striver Faction, helping it win the tally ten to three and continue its research.
• Luo Qi threatened to confront anyone who tried to stop the faction and displayed his power, silencing the Stellar Beings.
• Millions of Striver Faction members cheered for Shouyang, and Luo Qi urged them to return to their posts and help plan space exploration.
• The Striver Faction members formed groups and began experiments, while Luo Qi considered how to increase his microcosm’s mass dimension and invade the universe.

Luo Qi tested his ability to tunnel through the universe’s spatial layers and explained civilization levels to the Metal Race. He left the Metal Race with basic knowledge while continuing to explore, as the microcosm gathered energy to rise to a higher layer.

• Luo Qi transformed into an openwork sphere, and the Metal Race individuals struggled to control their newly detached limbs.
• The twelve Stellar Beings discussed the coming departure from the planet and recalled the night, ten thousand years earlier, when one of the planet’s four stars disappeared.
• Luo Qi tunneled through spatial layers, found the microcosm in layer negative seventeen, and shut down the device after gathering data on the universe.
• Luo Qi replenished his energy from the planet while the microcosm consumed mass to raise its energy level.
• Luo Qi demonstrated stable control of his body and began teaching the Metal Race about their bodies, energy, and the five known civilization levels.

Luo Qi organized the Metal Race’s Striver Faction and raised his microcosm to the spatial energy level, greatly enhancing his own body. As the space mothership took shape, he learned that only faction members could use the Knowledge Tower.

• Luo Qi invited the other Stellar Ones to explore the universe, but most chose to remain at home; Yang Shi and Yang Shier stayed to support him.
• Luo Qi told Yang Shi and Yang Shier to organize the Metal Race’s technological knowledge, and they established a database and refined the Striver Faction’s system.
• The Striver Faction assigned missions to 5,317,496 members and built a Knowledge Tower to store the Metal Race’s history and knowledge.
• Luo Qi raised his microcosm’s energy level, restored its inhabitants from a backup, and merged it with his body to gain spatial force.
• Yang Shier reported that faster-than-light technology was complete and the space mothership was twenty-seven percent finished, while Luo Qi noted that only faction members could use the Knowledge Tower.

Tu Shisan and the Striver Faction built a fleet in hopes of reaching the stars, while Luo Qi created and tested No. 1 System. The Metal Race’s Knowledge Tower rapidly organized its accumulated knowledge into the foundations of an elementary light-level civilization as the countdown to its entry into the universe continued.

• Tu Shisan led the Striver Faction as its members began building a fleet, despite the Sunny Faction’s fears about the dangers beyond the planet’s shield.
• Tu Shisan went to investigate a problem with the particle combustion furnace after a member warned that it might not provide enough energy for the warships to exceed light speed.
• Luo Qi created a Photon Computer, assembled it into a supercomputer, and activated No. 1 System to seek civilizations and guide their technological development.
• Luo Qi placed No. 1 System in the Microcosm’s Experimental Layer to observe its effects on civilization.
• The Knowledge Tower’s contents expanded into an organized body of knowledge for an elementary light-level civilization, and a third of the countdown to the Metal Race’s entry into the universe had elapsed.

Luo Qi observed how souls formed from matter and electrons, then weighed the risks of restarting his infinite replica experiments. He ultimately created a perfect duplicate of himself, leaving the two identical Luo Qis facing each other.

• Luo Qi observed life and death on two planets and concluded that nearby matter released electrons that together formed a soul.
• The No. 1 system completed its first host's life cycle and began parasitizing a second-generation host.
• Luo Qi considered whether to restart his replica experiments, develop space technology alone, or turn a Nebula Constellation into a laboratory.
• Luo Qi partitioned off a pitch-black space and replicated himself with the same microcosm, civilizations, and mass.
• The two identical Luo Qis faced each other, and the replica acknowledged the perfect replication.

Luo Qi and his replica discussed unlimited perfect replication and how to unite countless versions of themselves without producing outliers. After the replica rewrote the Metal Race’s memories to spur their curiosity, the two returned to the Space Fortress to refine their shared origin, but their differing perspectives had already led to disagreements.

• Luo Qi and his replica debated controlling an entire universe to investigate how particles might gain energy across cosmic spatial layers.
• The replica argued that the Metal Race should be put to work and altered every member’s memories, uniting the Striver Faction and the Sunny Faction through a shared fascination with the night sky.
• Luo Qi accepted the replica’s intervention, and the Metal Race members set out to explore the sky’s secrets.
• Luo Qi and his replica entered the Space Fortress and discussed perfect replication as a way to create equal, united versions of themselves.
• The two Luo Qis simulated and refined their common origin, but differences in their starting perspectives produced disagreements.

Luo Qi multiplied into a thousand perfect Replicas, then merged their efforts to spread through Universe 3184 by altering its particles and making the universe part of himself. A greater-universe overseer detected the invasion and prepared to cleanse the universe and exile Luo Qi.

• Luo Qi’s Replicas debated unifying their research and infecting matter with his thoughts, then divided up projects to explore the universe and seek other civilizations.
• After merging a thousand Replicas into one, Luo Qi directed the Metal Race to build faster-than-light resonators that transported their planet away from its three suns.
• Luo Qi dissolved his microcosm form and spread through hundreds of Nebula Constellations, turning particles throughout the universe into parts of himself.
• On a distant planet, a spatial fluctuation briefly made all life-forms lose control as Luo Qi altered the microscopic particles composing them.
• An inspector discovered that Universe 3184 was being invaded by a space-level civilization and prepared a cleansing procedure to exile it.

After a cosmic anomaly hurled Luo Qi into Universe No. 3, he found himself in an empty region of space near the wreckage of a vast battlefield. His scans revealed that an anomalous sphere was racing toward a light-level civilization, leaving the conflict’s cause unresolved.

• Luo Qi surveyed Water Blue Star and discovered that its Sun was transforming into a supergiant as its humans faced a crisis resembling The Wandering Earth.
• Luo Qi copied the star system’s data, but spatial layers shattered across the universe and a burst of superheavy particles erased his Metal Race body.
• Luo Qi’s microcosm escaped into the endless void and emerged in Universe No. 3, where he concluded that his activity had drawn attention and led to his exile.
• Luo Qi scanned a silent battlefield and observed a cylindrical collection robot dismantling the wreckage of a white warship.
• Luo Qi traced an anomalous, spiked sphere moving nearly at the speed of light toward a light-level civilization occupying a Stellar System.

Luo Qi discovered that an invading species of gigantic monsters had destroyed the civilizations in Universe No. 3, so he began devouring the universe and multiplying to fight them. After taking control of the universe, he found that an unseen force was sending in endless monsters and that even a system resembling Earth had been ruined.

• Luo Qi captured and examined a giant monster after finding a cloaked star system and the surrounding region’s civilizations destroyed.
• Luo Qi began devouring the Nebula Constellation and multiplying, then lifted the restrictions on his microcosm to start consuming the universe.
• Luo Qi noticed the Gaolan Civilization fleeing with twenty-four planets while monsters pursued them, but he focused on the many other battles across the universe.
• Luo Qi took control of the universe and discovered that monsters were pouring in through spatial breaches from an endless void.
• Luo Qi created combat avatars to battle the invaders, found no surviving space-level civilizations, and saw that Water Blue Star and its system had been destroyed.

Luo Qi restored Water Blue Star, wiped out the Prickly Pear invaders in Universe No. 3, and discovered that the universe’s passage to higher speeds was sealed. When an unknown force dragged the universe into the void, he unleashed a Cosmic Flash and transferred himself into Microcosms, then drifted through the void conducting experiments until he fell into another universe.

• Luo Qi used Pseudo-Time Reversal to restore Water Blue Star and its moon, drawing replacement matter from elsewhere in the universe.
• Luo Qi’s Combat Proxy Bodies destroyed the Prickly Pears and guarded the spatial breach, while escapee civilizations sought his protection.
• Luo Qi found that an unknown force had sealed access to higher-speed realms and that his Combat Proxy Bodies could not survive passage into the void.
• Luo Qi severed the spatial passages to the void, sensed an unknown presence dragging him away, and triggered a Cosmic Flash while transferring into newly created Microcosms.
• The flash annihilated the civilizations in Universe No. 3, and the universe was dragged into the void as Microcosm Luo Qi was expelled from it.
• Microcosm Luo Qi drifted through the void conducting experiments before falling into another universe and continuing to analyze what he had observed.

Microcosm Luo Qi discovered that electromagnetic swarm life-forms had secretly invaded Universe No. 4 and taken control of its humans, including his humanoid self on Water Blue Star. He and his other self planned to let the universe undergo a flash and rebuild it using Universe No. 3's framework, while investigating why space-level civilizations avoided controlling entire universes.

• Luo Qi received a signal from another microcosm version of himself and found that Universe No. 4 contained no other such versions besides the one he contacted.
• The two microcosm Luo Qis discovered that hidden electromagnetic swarm life-forms had invaded the universe and controlled humans on Water Blue Star.
• Humanoid Luo Qi, trapped in his room as society collapsed, tried to assess his dwindling food and water supplies before an unseen voice startled him into revealing his monstrous transformation.
• Microcosm Luo Qi identified the electromagnetic beings as a mysterious threat and resolved to prevent them from entering his own body or spreading through the replication plan.
• The two microcosm Luo Qis planned to rebuild Universe No. 4 after its flash using Universe No. 3's framework and sought answers about space-level civilizations and the forces behind universal reshuffling.

Luo Qi destroyed Universe No. 4 with a cosmic flash, then rebuilt its order, stars, and civilizations from saved data. While monitoring the restored universe for electromagnetic bodies, he watched his humanoid self begin an ordinary morning, which ended when an unexplained anomaly caused people at a bus stop to collapse.

• Luo Qi activated the cosmic flash, obliterating Universe No. 4’s civilizations and reducing its matter to a chaotic particle storm while he survived inside the Microcosm.
• Luo Qi split himself and reorganized the particles into spatial layers, cooling the universe and accelerating the formation of stars and galaxies.
• Luo Qi used his saved database to reconstruct the universe and restore its civilizations, while a pale-yellow humanoid figure followed him unnoticed.
• The Microcosm Luo Qi deployed monitoring devices to investigate how electromagnetic bodies formed as the humanoid Luo Qi went through his morning routine.
• The humanoid Luo Qi heard an alert about an anomaly and saw people at the bus stop suddenly collapse as a crowd gathered around them.

Luo Qi fought an invasion of electromagnetic bodies by giving them physical forms, then converting them into harmless Photon Computing Modules. He met a light-made traveler who revealed that only two of their twenty thousand days remained before death.

• Luo Qi detected electromagnetic bodies invading Universe No. 4 and created flesh bodies for them, but the bodies mutated into destructive monsters.
• A humanoid figure made of light appeared beside Luo Qi and identified themself as a traveler between universes.
• Luo Qi changed the flesh bodies into Photon Computing Modules and used planetary magnetic fields to capture the invading electromagnetic bodies.
• Luo Qi questioned the traveler about their civilization and learned they had lived for nearly twenty thousand days and were nearing the end of their life.