Chapter Summaries

Luo Qi expanded Planet 6 into a mobile war star while investigating the high-energy universe and the strange structure of the nebula cluster. He left the planet preparing for its first high-speed maneuvers as his Observers continued searching for an explanation for the cluster’s stability.

• Luo Qi studied how gravity and glowing particulate objects behaved in the high-energy universe, finding that the objects repelled approaching gravity, electromagnetic force, and super-photons.
• Luo Qi’s Observers mapped seventeen percent of the nebula cluster, whose sixty-light-year spherical shape and sixteen Stellar Systems could not explain how it remained stable.
• Luo Qi expanded Planet 6’s construction, completing its Basic Framework and beginning work on 3,800 Power Acceleration Zones and the Planetary Framework.
• Luo Qi started relocating Planet 6’s production and research facilities underground and optimized the Network Sphere’s photon-computing architecture.
• Luo Qi prepared Planet 6 for high-speed maneuvers, which would become possible after another forty hours.

Luo Qi advanced Planet 6’s engineering and research programs, developing new energy, propulsion, computing, and high-speed technologies. The chapter ended with a breakthrough in extreme-range detection, which could gather information from up to thirty light-years away.

• Planet 6 began its third engineering phase, while inspection showed that its existing systems could not meet the future planet’s energy and propulsion demands.
• Luo Qi pursued an FTL attack weapon and a new supercomputer, exploring ways to send conventional beams into the high-energy universe and use magnetic-field life as a computing basis.
• Luo Qi sent the Flying Builder and Sky Whale Builders to an asteroid belt three light-years away to construct a Planetary Energy Furnace prototype.
• More than a hundred thousand Research Centers developed source energy version 3.0, compressing it to 161 times its original density, while Luo Qi also planned a particle collider encircling Planet 6.
• The Observer reached 89 times the speed of light, and later experiments pushed FTL travel speeds to 120 times the speed of light.
• Luo Qi formed new theories about the connection between the conventional and high-energy universes, while an extreme-range detector breakthrough enabled detection of information from as far as thirty light-years away.

Luo Qi advanced Planet 6’s technology, tested the destructive power of sixth-generation warships, and transformed the planet into Origin Star. At the appointed coordinates, the four humans arrived for a meeting with Civilization No. 1 and encountered an enormous alien construct emerging into the conventional universe.

• Luo Qi switched production to sixth-generation warships after a research breakthrough and tested their faster-than-light travel and attacks in a simulated battle.
• Luo Qi designated Planet 6 as Origin Star and organized its interior into resource, manufacturing, and research levels as construction of a vast orbital ring continued.
• Luo Qi sent a spacecraft ten light-years away to meet Civilization No. 1, bringing four humans out of dormancy near the appointed coordinates.
• The four humans saw a 5,000-kilometer spherical construct with millions of black pillars emerge from the shadows and loom over their spacecraft.

Feng Ke, a representative of Civilization No. 1, met Fang Tianyi and the other humans, then revealed that a hidden war was raging beyond the conventional universe. He asked Luo Qi for help against another civilization and demonstrated how easily he could reach through the wall separating their realities.

• A massive black creation appeared in the conventional universe, and Fang Tianyi led the other three humans onto a platform sent from it.
• Feng Ke introduced himself as a fellow mechanical intelligence life-form, while Luo Qi learned that Civilization No. 1 had known about him.
• Observers detected black shadow clusters and a faster-than-light attack, prompting Feng Ke to ask for help destroying another civilization in exchange for spatial technology.
• Feng Ke demonstrated that he could observe and manipulate events across a wall separating his space from the humans' reality.
• A black ray struck the creation but vanished against an invisible barrier, and its rectangular pillars detached and disappeared.
• Luo Qi watched as millions of white and black warships fought in a higher level of space, with both sides taking nearly equal losses.

After Feng Ke offered technology in exchange for Luo Qi becoming his vassal, Luo Qi destroyed his body and accelerated Origin Star’s preparations to leave the Mystic Heaven Nebula Cluster. He remained troubled by the hidden war and anomalous forces within the nebula as Planet 5 also departed its system.

• Feng Ke vanished after telling Luo Qi to call when he had decided whether to become his vassal, and Luo Qi ordered his body destroyed by antimatter.
• Luo Qi completed Origin Star’s half-finished Planet-Class Battleship framework and prepared it to travel beyond the Mystic Heaven Nebula Cluster.
• Origin Star activated its planetary tractors, detectors, and defenses, then began accelerating through the nebula while collecting matter.
• Planet 5 completed its defense deployment, ignited its planetary engines, and left its stellar system as resentment over Water Blue Star’s destruction spread among the New Humans.
• Luo Qi’s replicas found evidence of invisible anchors and hundreds of millions of hidden gravitational bodies, while Luo Qi questioned the war’s history, Feng Ke’s motives, and the forces shaping the nebula.

Luo Qi reviewed his advanced technologies and began preparing to deploy them broadly while Origin Star developed seventh-generation warships. An Observer was destroyed by a mysterious attack near a shattered planet, but its communication cube was recovered by the planet’s strange inhabitants.

• Luo Qi sorted his technologies into destruction and creation categories and began replacing old equipment across Origin Star.
• An Observer piloted by Luo Qi V-94771 approached a broken planet to investigate signs of a civilization war.
• A black ray struck and destroyed the Observer as soon as it entered the conventional universe.
• The Observer’s heavy Particle Synchronization Communication Device survived the explosion and crashed into the planet, forming a huge crater.
• A convoy of varied humanoid and mechanical beings arrived, located the buried cube, and struggled to retrieve it.
• The beings examined the cube and took it away from the impact site.

Linderson’s recovery team retrieved a mysterious cube, but a massive black storm disabled their equipment and released self-replicating Molecular Robots. As Luo Qi prepared to conquer the damaged planet, the robots began infecting the gathered beings, and Linderson ran toward the storm to make contact.

• Linderson used a mechanical body to secure the cube, and the recovery convoy departed with it.
• A kilometer-wide black storm struck the convoy with an electromagnetic shock wave, disabling its vehicles and communications.
• Linderson ordered the team to hold position and wait for rescue while the beings set up a defensive line.
• Luo Qi received authorization to explore the planet, spread Molecular Robots through its atmosphere, and build humanoid combat bodies and an antimatter facility.
• Linderson recognized the approaching figures as self-replicating nanotechnology, then ran toward the storm to establish communication with the mechanical bodies.
• Molecular Robots entered the beings’ bodies, causing them to sneeze and cough as their bodies detected the foreign particles.

Luo Qi learned from captured memories that Prison Planet housed intelligent beings from defeated civilizations and identified Glimmer City and the Star Group as sources of information about events beyond the planet. As his constructs approached the city, a young high spirit named Shaya appeared on level 144.

• Luo Qi’s molecular robots read the captured beings’ memories and discovered that Prison Planet was home to nearly ten billion intelligent lifeforms living in underground cities.
• Luo Qi learned that the Star Group directed technology-recovery teams and chose to seek information in Glimmer City.
• Luo Qi sent constructs underground toward the city while more than ten thousand others tunneled through rock toward a metal barrier.
• The Sharp Investigation Team arrived at the factories, examined the fallen lifeforms, and identified Luo Qi’s constructs as extraterrestrial invaders.
• Luo Qi asked the team to contact the Star Group and warned that his people were approaching the city.
• Shaya, a young high spirit, stood among the crowded streets on level 144 of Glimmer City.

Luo Qi invaded Glimmer City with his Replicas and Molecular Robots while pretending to threaten Shaya, who resisted him with her hand cannon. After her communicator broke and snow began falling, Luo Qi revealed he had only been trying to scare her, then disintegrated her weapon.

• An anomaly alarm sent Glimmer City's residents rushing into the buildings as Shaya was left alone in the street.
• Linderson contacted Shaya and warned her to hide, but Luo Qi interrupted the call and grabbed her.
• Luo Qi cut off the communicator and sent his Replicas and Molecular Robots into the towers to attack the upper levels.
• Shaya shot Luo Qi with her electromagnetic hand cannon, then retrieved her broken communicator as snow began falling.
• Luo Qi sprang back up, told Shaya he had only been trying to scare her, and used Molecular Robots to disintegrate her hand cannon.

Luo Qi’s prank on Shaya exposes how isolation and relentless computation have eroded his emotions, prompting him to refresh his emotional module before repairing her communicator. He then meets the Star Group on Prison Planet and learns that the planet is a sealed-off living gene bank, whose inhabitants have repeatedly failed to escape.

• Luo Qi scares Shaya, then stops laughing when his consciousness entities warn that his emotions are deviating from predictions.
• Luo Qi refreshes his emotional module, comforts Shaya, repairs her communicator, and learns that her brother Linderson disappeared two years earlier.
• Luo Qi vanishes from Shaya’s street and reaches the twenty-fourth underground level, where he confronts three members of the Special Investigation Team.
• The Star Group members explain that Prison Planet’s survivors were abandoned after a war and that their group has worked for centuries to escape the planetary blockade.
• The Star Group recounts how an antimatter-powered Faster-than-Light Aircraft was destroyed by a beam from space ninety years earlier, killing six billion life-forms.

Luo Qi infiltrated Glimmer City's intelligent network and met Yi, who showed him the history of the civilization behind the First and Second Civilizations. The history ended with the Gene Faction and Mechanical Faction developing rival technologies and growing apart.

• Luo Qi entered Glimmer City's network, was pulled into its dark world, and met the silver mechanical figure who called itself Yi.
• Yi revealed a map of the Mystic Heaven Nebula Cluster and showed Luo Qi how intelligent life evolved on one of its planets.
• The planet's tribes and nations rose through technological progress and wars that devastated its biosphere, after which survivors united and rebuilt.
• As the restored civilization sought immortality, the younger Gene Faction pursued longer-lived bodies while the older Mechanical Faction transferred consciousness into metal bodies.
• The factions' differences and competing beliefs fueled conflict as the Gene Faction adopted consciousness transfers and both sides developed separate technological paths.

Luo Qi learned from Yi that the Mystic Heaven Nebula Cluster was sealed within an eternal system that repeatedly restored the Gene and Mechanical Factions after their wars. Yi warned that Luo Qi could not leave without finding the Holy Ark, then Luo Qi returned to the construct and faced a crowd of puppet-like life-forms.

• Luo Qi watched visions of the Gene and Mechanical Factions wage war across the cosmos and rebuild the nebula cluster.
• Yi explained that the factions created the eternal nebula cluster, using spatial and dimensional technology to preserve records and restore civilizations after destruction.
• Luo Qi learned that the original factions had left, while their proxy civilizations continued fighting and being rebooted without knowing it.
• Yi told Luo Qi that he could not escape the altered nebula cluster without finding the Holy Ark, and Luo Qi was expelled from the Prison Star Network World.
• Luo Qi regained control of his body after only 0.01 seconds and saw life-forms emerge from buildings like marionettes, speaking together about finding something interesting to do.

Luo Qi discovered that Prison Planet could restore itself after a devastating antimatter explosion and that the Mystic Heaven Nebula Cluster prevented Observers from escaping its boundaries. Unable to risk Prison Planet approaching Origin Star, he launched a fleet and a swarm of superluminal torpedoes toward it.

• The Luo Qis destabilized their molecular structures and self-destructed, but Yi restored Prison Planet to its original state.
• Luo Qi sent an Observer beyond the nebula cluster's boundary and found that it remained stationary in his observation network despite reporting that it had traveled outside.
• Luo Qi considered whether folded space or the living nebula cluster itself trapped departing Observers, while his research center analyzed space and its dimensions.
• As the planetary Particle Accelerator Ring neared completion, Luo Qi concluded that he had to prepare for war against Prison Planet.
• Luo Qi dispatched three thousand Sixth-Generation Warships and hundreds of thousands of Superluminal Antimatter Torpedoes toward Prison Planet.

Luo Qi mobilized Origin Star’s forces and factories to prepare for war against Prison Planet while creating a flesh-and-blood body to explore his world through humanlike senses. Origin Star began producing a vast Seventh-Generation Warship fleet, leaving its preparations underway as long as two supercivilizations stayed out of the conflict.

• Luo Qi deployed Origin Star’s external assets and activated its Computing Centers as hundreds of thousands of technological creations advanced toward Prison Planet.
• Origin Star began producing Seventh-Generation Warships and upgrading its research on how space and matter influenced each other.
• Luo Qi created a flesh-and-blood Humanoid Construct using Flesh-and-Blood Technology copied from Prison Planet and reshaped it into a superhuman body.
• Luo Qi walked through Origin Star’s underground manufacturing levels, testing his body’s abilities and surveying the planet’s expanding infrastructure.
• Luo Qi saw that 270,000 large factories were producing warships and that the fleet would consume 78 percent of Origin Star’s current material reserves.

Luo Qi oversaw the construction and first ignition of Origin Star’s Planet-Class Power Furnace while Prison Planet vanished from observation. Prison Planet then emerged from Dimensional Space and swallowed the newly activated furnace.

• Luo Qi monitored Origin Star’s advance and oversaw the construction of two Seventh-Generation Battleships as Prison Planet began moving and disappeared without leaving traces.
• Luo Qi recalled his battleship fleet and Superluminal Antimatter Torpedo Fleet while the Observer System continued monitoring the star system.
• Several light-years away, the Planet-Class Power Furnace completed construction and began its trial run using matter and antimatter.
• Luo Qi monitored the furnace as its first matter-antimatter portions ignited and the containment field held the resulting energy.
• Prison Planet emerged from Dimensional Space and swallowed the Planet-Class Power Furnace.

Luo Qi watched Prison Planet escape with two higher-dimensional civilizations before Yi’s actions unleashed a catastrophic upheaval across the Profound Heaven Nebula. As Origin Star’s defenses failed, Luo Qi prepared a desperate experiment to break free by firing a supercharged cannon at a superheavy particle in the high-energy universe.

• Luo Qi realized Prison Planet had used its power-furnace explosion to destroy hidden Surveillance Devices, then watched two civilizations seize the fleeing life-forms and take Prison Planet away.
• Yi detonated Prison Planet inside the Dark Alternate Dimension, triggering gravitational chaos that engulfed the Mystic Heaven Nebula Cluster.
• Luo Qi diverted Origin Star’s power to its shields as the gravitational tides began tearing apart the planet and destroyed its nearly finished particle accelerator ring.
• Luo Qi ordered Molecular Robots to build a Planet-Class Power Furnace inside Origin Star and used it to charge the Star-Class Main Cannon.
• Luo Qi prepared to fire the compressed energy at a superheavy particle in the high-energy universe, hoping to create a passage out of the Profound Heaven Nebula.

Luo Qi forced Origin Star through a spatial jump, devastating the planet and burning out nearly all its power furnaces. Origin Star emerged in an empty region of space, where Luo Qi and ten surviving Computing Centers began restoring essential systems.

• Luo Qi overclocked Origin Star's power furnaces to stabilize the cannon's containment fields, then ordered the planet to jump into the high-energy universe.
• Luo Qi fired a black sphere at an ultraheavy particle, opening a vast black void that swallowed Origin Star before the Mystic Heaven Nebula Cluster's program repaired the anomaly and began a 10,000-year rollback.
• Origin Star emerged badly damaged in empty space, having lost almost half its mass and most of its surface, power furnaces, and Computing Centers.
• Ten Computing Centers powered by independent supplies started rebuilding a local Network Sphere as Luo Qi produced Observers and restarted Molecular Robot manufacturing.
• Luo Qi's flesh-and-blood self contacted him, and Luo Qi reintegrated his other selves and ordered them to survey the surrounding universe and restore production capacity.

Luo Qi rebuilt Origin Star into a heavily armed war star while trying to determine where its spatial jump had taken it. After completing the planet’s refit, he renamed it the Ninth War Star and prepared to continue its voyage.

• Luo Qi emerged from the transport shaft onto Origin Star and found himself in an unknown region of space, vowing to return to the Profound Heaven Nebula.
• Luo Qi restored the planet’s power furnaces and production facilities, then sent Observers and deployed torpedoes and Seventh-Generation Warships to survey and guard the surrounding space.
• Luo Qi discovered that nearby space held no known concentrations of matter and that the visible nebulae did not match his records.
• Luo Qi built a genuine Planet-Class Power Furnace, repaired the Planetary Framework, and covered Origin Star with a defensive shell that blocked jumps from the high-energy universe.
• Luo Qi completed Origin Star’s exterior and interior refit, linked his brainwaves to its Network Sphere, and renamed the transformed planet the Ninth War Star.

Luo Qi sent the Ninth War Star and a fleet to scout and begin developing the Giraffe Constellation, where they found no advanced civilization. After contemplating humanity’s destruction and the copied consciousnesses he had kept, Luo Qi resolved to create an organization called the Scavengers to promote peace across the universe.

• Luo Qi sent Observers to scout the Giraffe Constellation and recalled his warships and torpedoes to the Ninth War Star.
• The Ninth War Star followed the Observers toward the constellation, while Luo Qi dispatched a fleet of construction ships and warships to establish a remote base.
• An Observer entered the H1 star system, scanned its eight planets, and found no signs of civilization.
• Observers surveyed more of the constellation, and the construction fleet began deploying equipment across H1’s planets.
• Luo Qi examined his copy of the Water Blue Star humans’ consciousnesses and questioned the cycle of destruction between civilizations.
• Luo Qi declared that he would create a universal peace organization called the Scavengers, while his main entity inside the Network Sphere froze.

Luo Qi approved the creation of the Scavengers ∞ Umbrella and planned to expand his civilization while keeping its main forces hidden. After exploring the Giraffe Constellation, he declared it the Scavengers' headquarters and began setting standards for civilizations seeking protection.

• Luo Qi approved the Scavengers ∞ Umbrella, established the Infinite Individual Synchronization Plan, and ordered his civilization to expand its territory, forces, and research systems.
• Luo Qi kept his main forces secret behind the Scavengers' public forces, released the consciousness entity replication template into the Giraffe Constellation, and destroyed the genetic individual replica.
• Luo Qi began building three war stars and laboratories in the H1 Star System, then expanded construction into the H2, H3, and H4 Stellar Systems while studying superheavy particles.
• Luo Qi explored the Giraffe Constellation, discovered its resources and life-bearing planets, and declared it the Scavengers' headquarters.
• Luo Qi set initial requirements for civilizations seeking Scavengers protection, including scientific development, nuclear energy, and technological transparency.