Recaps

The Mechanical Civilization arrived to disrupt the Milky Way civilizations’ attack on the Fish Horse Star Civilization, leaving the galaxy’s forces unable to decide how to respond. Meanwhile, Wen Zhonghua sent Number One and the other Slaughterers toward the research ship to stop the Fish Horse fleet from evacuating its scientists.

• The Mechanical Lord announced that the Mechanical Civilization had come to avenge its past pursuit and threatened the Milky Way civilizations with attack.
• The Milky Way leaders hesitated to fight the Mechanical Civilization, while Wen Zhonghua learned that Fish Horse Star warships might still be approaching from elsewhere in the galaxy.
• Ci Ma ordered Fish Horse Star warships to crowd around the research ship as it struggled out of the Space Millstone, hoping to protect its scientists and enable their transfer.
• Number One asked Wen Zhonghua to let the Slaughterers disperse the enemy’s Consciousness Fields, and Wen Zhonghua agreed.
• Number One and the other Slaughterers boarded a warship and raced to intercept the research ship as Fish Horse Star warships abandoned their attacks to defend it.

Wen Zhonghua and the Yun San Civilization helped Number One and the others reach the Fish Horse Star Civilization scientists, who were killed after being transferred to another warship. Ci Ma preserved the research data and ordered a retreat, while Wen Zhonghua prepared the Two-Dimensional Conqueror to intercept the returning fleet.

• Wen Zhonghua directed Leader Yun San to attack through the dense Fish Horse Star Civilization formation, opening a route for Number One and the others toward the scientists.
• Ci Ma secretly transferred the scientists from the research ship to an ordinary warship, but Number One and the others tracked them with the Consciousness Field and killed them.
• Number One and the others destroyed the scientists' warship after Wen Zhonghua ordered them to abandon the attempt to capture it intact.
• Ci Ma revealed that the research data had been separated from the scientists and preserved aboard another warship, then ordered the fleet to return and reinforce the fortress.
• Wen Zhonghua prepared the Two-Dimensional Conqueror's fragments in the fourth dimension to intercept the retreating Fish Horse Star Civilization fleet.

Wen Zhonghua's forces and Leader Yun San's fleet defeated the Fish Horse Star Civilization's assault, but the enemy prioritized protecting its research data and prepared to capture a human officer. Gao Jianchuan hid his remaining ships inside the fortress and targeted its giant sphere, but he was knocked unconscious when a Fish Horse Star fleet ambushed his Slaughterer.

• Wen Zhonghua told Leader Yun San that the Fish Horse Star scientists had been killed, though their research data might have been transferred, and Yun San withdrew to defend his base.
• The Fish Horse Star First Leader ordered fleets to protect the research data, continue the scientists' work, destroy the fleet inside the fortress, and capture its human officer alive if possible.
• Gao Jianchuan abandoned his attack on the planets and redirected his surviving, concealed ships toward the giant sphere inside the fortress.
• A Fish Horse Star fleet secretly approached Gao Jianchuan's Slaughterer and caused him to lose consciousness with a sudden, violent pain.
• The fleet turned and attacked Gao Jianchuan's position as nearby fleets converged, threatening to expose the Slaughterer.

After surviving a consciousness attack, Gao Jianchuan studied the Slaughterer and found a way to get past the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s defenses. He sent gravitational bombs to weaken the enormous sphere, leaving its surface rippling as the fleet prepared to strike.

• The Slaughterer took command of the fleet and evaded the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s sweep after Gao Jianchuan was knocked unconscious.
• A robot revived Gao Jianchuan, who confirmed that the fleet should keep evading while he searched for a way through the enemy defenses.
• Gao Jianchuan discovered that the Slaughterer could fold space with gravity and slip past the fleet’s energy perimeter.
• After realizing that the sphere’s strength came from the black hole’s gravity, Gao Jianchuan ordered ninety-nine Slaughterers to carry gravitational bombs toward it.
• The Slaughterers crossed the energy perimeter and detonated the bombs near the sphere, sending ripples across its surface as the Blazing Sun Battleships prepared to attack.

Gao Jianchuan’s Blazing Sun Battleships exploited a gap in the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s defenses and battered its blockade sphere until a spreading crack appeared. With his fleet destroyed and communications blocked, Gao rested while the Fish Horse Star Civilization began mobilizing to repair the damage.

• Gao Jianchuan ordered the Blazing Sun Battleships to attack after super gravity bombs disrupted the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s defensive perimeter.
• Nearly five trillion warships concentrated their fire on the blockade sphere, but its surface only rippled under the bombardment.
• Gao Jianchuan sent the remaining Blazing Sun Battleships forward, and a crack appeared in the sphere and began spreading.
• Gao Jianchuan found his fleet gone and more than half the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s warships lost, then failed to contact Hu Yu and handed repeated communication attempts to a robot.
• The Fish Horse Civilization’s First Leader learned that the crack threatened ten sectors and had killed nearly a hundred trillion citizens, then ordered the civilization to unite and repair it.

Hu Yu received one hundred thousand new galaxy-class Expeller warships from the Academy of Sciences and prepared to use them against the Mechanical Civilization while rescuing Gao Jianchuan from the Super Fortress. The other fleets withdrew, and the Expellers launched a surprise attack on the Mechanical Civilization's forces.

• Hu Yu learned that the Fish Horse Star Civilization's research team had been wiped out, though its research data might already have reached its base.
• Li Zhixiong returned from the Secondary Universe with one hundred thousand new warships and the Academy of Sciences' top academicians.
• Academician Zeng explained that the new Expellers carried small black holes and used enhanced dimensional attacks, but had been built only as experimental vessels.
• Hu Yu revealed that Gao Jianchuan had entered the Super Fortress with up to twenty-five trillion warships and ordered the Expellers to attack and help rescue him.
• Hu Yu told the other civilizations to withdraw their fleets two hundred light-years, and they complied while the Super Fortress remained still.
• The Expeller warships charged toward the Mechanical Civilization's fleet and launched a sudden attack.

The Expellers devastated the Mechanical Civilization fleet with dimensional penetration attacks, destroying nearly a trillion warships in five hours. The mechanical lord considered defying the shadowy figure’s control, while the Fish Horse Star Civilization decided to abandon its advance and retreat to another galaxy.

• The Expellers used unstable fourth dimensions to penetrate and destroy Mechanical Civilization warships, and Hu Yu let them attack freely.
• The mechanical lord surrounded the Expellers, but their attacks destroyed nearly a trillion ships in five hours and forced him to order his fleet away from them.
• The mechanical lord weighed escaping the shadowy figure’s control as his fleet’s destruction threatened the Mechanical Civilization’s survival.
• The Fish Horse Star leader ordered every living being to give everything to the civilization’s final effort.
• The mechanical lord demanded to know why the Fish Horse Star Civilization had stopped advancing, and its leader said it would repair its fortress and retreat to another galaxy.

The Fish Horse Star Civilization chose to retreat, while Wen Zhonghua prepared an ambush for its fleet to prevent it from escaping with the research data. The chapter ended as the Two-Dimensional Conquerors sprang their trap and released their two-dimensional space fragments.

• The Fish Horse Star leader refused the Mechanical Lord’s demand to advance and ordered the civilization to retreat.
• Ci Ma entered the fourth dimension with the research data, unaware that Wen Zhonghua’s Slaughterers were tracking him.
• Wen Zhonghua positioned the Conquerors along the route he expected the Fish Horse Star fleet to take, despite reports that its course had changed.
• The Fish Horse Star fleet suddenly altered course and headed toward the Conquerors’ concealed pocket formation.
• Wen Zhonghua ordered the Conquerors to prepare for battle and waited until the fleet’s vanguard neared the trap.
• The Conquerors released all their prepared two-dimensional space fragments within ten seconds.

Ci Ma’s Fish Horse Star fleet was devastated by humanity’s two-dimensional fragment ambush, but the surviving ships escaped while transmitting their research data. Wen Zhonghua’s Conquerors returned to Boötes, where the Expellers were still attacking the fortress breach.

• The Conquerors released two-dimensional fragments that threw the Fish Horse Star fleet into chaos and destroyed more than 60 trillion warships, including two data ships.
• Ci Ma reported the losses to the first leader, who ordered him to transmit the research data remotely and return alive.
• A dark figure copied all the data as Ci Ma transmitted it to the base.
• Wen Zhonghua’s returning Conquerors attacked the damaged fleet, but Ci Ma used the ships’ speed to escape and resume the journey home.
• Wen Zhonghua led the remaining 50 trillion Conquerors to Boötes and spoke with Hu Yu.
• The Mechanical Lord used fleet-swarm tactics to keep the Expellers from reaching the fortress breach.

Gao Jianchuan broke out of the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s fortress aboard the Slaughterer and reunited with Hu Yu, bringing information that revealed a weakened section of the fortress. Hu Yu ordered the galaxy civilizations’ fleets to attack the newly identified target.

• Gao Jianchuan realized the blockade inside the fortress prevented him from sending information out, so he ordered the Slaughterer to break through despite the danger.
• The Slaughterer used spatial attacks to force open a passage through the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s packed defensive fleet.
• Gao Jianchuan escaped the fortress and contacted Hu Yu, who told him the Mechanical Civilization was colluding with the Fish Horse Star Civilization.
• Gao Jianchuan brought the fortress data to Hu Yu, and the academicians calculated that the breach had weakened a section of the fortress.
• Hu Yu ordered the galaxy civilizations’ fleets to coordinate an attack on the weakened section and move into the fortress.

Gao Jianchuan returned and asked for information about the Expellers as galactic fleets prepared to attack the Fish Horse Star Civilization's Super Fortress. Meanwhile, the dark figure ordered the Yun San leader to divert scientists and secretly disrupt the humans and the attacking civilizations, while the Yun San leader continued plotting against him.

• Gao Jianchuan thanked Hu Yu and Li Zhixiong for his return, then asked for data on the warships outside.
• The fleets of the galactic civilizations received information about the Super Fortress's interior and prepared to renew their attacks alongside the Expellers.
• The dark figure ordered the Yun San leader to send him thousands of scientists to decipher Fish Horse Star Civilization data, then learned the Mechanical Civilization and Super Fortress were under threat from the humans.
• The dark figure told the Yun San leader to make trouble for the humans and galactic fleets without exposing their forces, and gave him coordinates in the Secondary Universe.
• The dark figure took more than twenty thousand Yun San scientists, while the Yun San leader concealed his growing desire to kill him and continued secret research toward that goal.

A mysterious figure gave Li Shun stolen Fish Horse Star Civilization research data in exchange for pressuring the Milky Way civilizations fighting in Boötes, while Leader Yun San recruited Demon Scorpion into a plan against humanity. Li Shun sent scientists into the Secondary Universe to decode the data, and Yun San began organizing his allies.

• A dark figure found Li Shun in the Insect Zone and offered him Fish Horse Star Civilization research data in exchange for harassing the Milky Way civilizations’ bases in Boötes.
• Li Shun accepted the data, summoned his scientists, and sent them into the Secondary Universe aboard a giant insect to decode it.
• Leader Yun San examined the coordinates the dark figure had given him and devised a plan against humanity.
• Yun San urged Demon Scorpion to join forces against humanity, and Demon Scorpion asked what Yun San needed him to do.

Yun San and Demon Scorpion plotted to seize the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s fortress, while Li Shun gathered a huge insect force to claim it for himself. The Milky Way assault resumed, but the fortress remained powerful, and Gao Jianchuan and Academician Zeng suspected the Fish Horse Star Civilization had rotated its damaged containment sphere.

• Yun San persuaded Demon Scorpion to help delay the Milky Way civilizations and let the fortress reach the galaxy, promising they could seize it together.
• Li Shun assembled more than five hundred trillion high-tier insects and decided to storm the fortress and replace the Fish Horse Star Civilization.
• The Milky Way fleet attacked the Super Fortress again, but it held firm, opened its passages, and used its gravitational pull and energy beams against the attackers.
• Gao Jianchuan ruled out a quick repair of the containment sphere, and Academician Zeng suggested the Fish Horse Star Civilization had rotated it to redirect the crack.

The civilizations breached the Super Fortress and poured inside, while Li Shun’s insect forces arrived at Boötes. In the Secondary Universe, a Mechanical Civilization fleet approached the human base, and Zu offered to deal with it.

• Wen Zhonghua warned that the Fish Horse Star Civilization could use the fortress’s gravity channels to make a breach difficult, so the civilizations attacked in five groups and focused on the opening blasted through five-dimensional space.
• After more than a dozen rounds of attacks, the civilizations widened an opening, and the Expeller forced its way through the Fish Horse Star fleet into the Super Fortress as other warships followed.
• Li Shun’s insect citizens arrived at Boötes, and over 500 trillion warships and 200 trillion insects entered the fortress.
• A 30-trillion-ship Mechanical Civilization fleet reached the Star Ring Alliance’s location in the Secondary Universe and headed toward the human base, prompting Chen Peng and Yang Fan to prepare a defense.
• Zu came to Chen Peng and Yang Fan and said he would handle the Mechanical Civilization fleet, telling them to prepare robots to take it over.

Zu incapacitated the Mechanical Civilization fleet, allowing the humans to capture it, while Yun San reported the loss to the shadowy figure, who welcomed the news as useful to his plan. In Boötes, Hu Yu attacked Li Shun’s insect populace as the gathered forces remained wary of Li Shun’s allegiance.

• Zu used his Consciousness Field to destroy the mechanical beings controlling the fleet, and Chen Peng and Yang Fan sent Superintelligent Robots to take over the ships.
• Researchers prepared to search the captured fleet for clues about who had exposed the human base’s location.
• Yun San told the shadowy figure that the Demon Scorpion Civilization’s thirty trillion warships had been wiped out, and the shadowy figure said the result suited his plan.
• Yun San ordered his intelligence officer to rebuild the intelligence network and gather information about humanity, the Fish Horse Star Civilization, and Li Shun.
• Hu Yu sent Luo Zhigao’s Returners to attack Li Shun’s insect populace outside the fortress, disabling insects with precise spatial strikes.

Wen Zhonghua’s forces failed to affect Li Shun’s bug citizens with Consciousness Field weapons, but Number One and the others captured several bugs for Academician Xiao to study. Hu Yu and Academician Zeng concluded that the struggle centered on the fortress and the Milky Way’s central black hole, leaving the humans weighing how to destroy the fortress while fearing the Fish Horse Star Civilization had hidden weapons.

• Wen Zhonghua ordered the Conqueror to attack the bug citizens with Consciousness Field weapons, but the assault had no effect.
• As humans and other civilizations attacked, Li Shun ordered the bugs to retreat into the fourth dimension, and Number One’s group captured several smaller bugs by knocking them unconscious.
• Hu Yu ordered Number One and the others to escort the captured bugs to Academician Xiao for study.
• Academician Zeng reasoned that Li Shun, the Mechanical Civilization, and the Fish Horse Star Civilization were pursuing control of the central black hole through the fortress, while the humans needed to destroy it.
• Academician Zeng explained that the Expeller’s black hole and the Neutron Star Cannon would not defeat the fortress alone, and he worried that the Fish Horse Star Civilization still had trump cards.

Fish Horse Star Civilization turned the fortress’s interior energy beams against the invading fleets, devastating the Milky Way civilizations while the insects forced a breach. As the Expeller was stalled and the remaining attackers were wiped out, the half-insect reached the fortress’s outer interlayer, where the Fish Horse Star Civilization kept its bases and inhabited planets.

• Hu Yu ordered every fleet except the Expeller to retreat when he realized the fortress’s energy beams could fire inward, but the beams struck before many ships could escape.
• The surviving fleets and Li Shun’s insect citizens rushed toward the containment sphere, where they fought the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s defenders and disrupted repairs to the crack.
• An injured insect citizen reached the crack and burrowed inside, prompting the Fish Horse Star fleet to focus its attacks on the breach and stop further reinforcements.
• The Mechanical Lord sent his fleets to help the Fish Horse Star Civilization, and together they destroyed the remaining Milky Way warships and Li Shun’s insect citizens while stalling the Expeller.
• The half-insect entered the outer interlayer of the containment sphere, where it found the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s bases and tens of thousands of inhabited planets.

Li Shun forced the Fish Horse Star Civilization to accept his deal by threatening its inhabited planets, promising to help it reach the Milky Way in exchange for help analyzing data. After several giant bugs entered the fortress, they tossed Hu Yu’s Expellers away from its central region.

• The half-bug crawled toward two inhabited planets, while Fish Horse Star’s warships held fire because attacks risked damaging the fortress’s inner layer.
• Li Shun told Commander Ci Ma that he would help Fish Horse Star survive Hu Yu’s warships, then killed nearly a hundred billion beings on a distant planet to prove his leverage.
• Li Shun demanded that Fish Horse Star let another hundred bugs into the fortress in exchange for his help; Ci Ma agreed on the condition that Li Shun first stop the warships.
• Several giant bugs entered the fortress as its energy pillars stopped firing, then grabbed and repeatedly threw Hu Yu’s Expellers away from the central region.

Hu Yu urged the Milky Way civilizations to build gravity bombs while the battle against the Fish Horse Star Civilization's fortress stalled. Mu Tang sought advanced equipment from two hidden patriarchs, who recognized the Snow Tribe's technology and revealed the origins of the Fish Horse Star Civilization.

• Hu Yu asked the participating civilizations to produce high-powered gravity bombs after their other attacks failed to destroy the fortress.
• The Milky Way civilizations began manufacturing bombs while the Fish Horse Star Civilization's fortress remained motionless.
• Mu Tang reached a hidden base inside a speck of dust near Ursa Major and reported the fortress's losses and humanity's discovery of its weakness.
• The first patriarch authorized Mu Tang to take the Space Maze equipment before both patriarchs recognized the Snow Tribe's Dimensional Waves in his information.
• The first patriarch revealed that the Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization had helped the Deep Space Civilization destroy the Snow Tribe before suffering its betrayal and Zhou Dao's pursuit.
• The first patriarch explained that the two surviving civilizations had merged and modified their genes to create the Fish Horse Star Civilization.

The Knight chiefs warned Mu Tang that the Snow Tribe had reappeared and urged him to protect the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s remaining technology. Meanwhile, the Fish Horse Star leader returned as Ci Ma stalled Li Shun, and human scientists built a black hole to power a warship’s Dimensional Waves.

• The Knight chiefs told Mu Tang that the Snow Tribe had once surpassed the Knight and Doomsday Civilizations and might have survived by joining humanity through Zhou Dao.
• The Knight chiefs cautioned Mu Tang to avoid exposing their old technologies, while Mu Tang insisted he would complete the final step and said the Fish Horse Star Civilization was their future.
• The first leader of Fish Horse Star departed with dozens of transport ships as Ci Ma delayed Li Shun, claiming he lacked authority to approve analysis of the shadow’s technology.
• Human academicians created a small Schwarzschild black hole in a warship’s Secondary Universe and folded space around it to contain its gravity.
• The scientists used the black hole as a powerful energy source for the warship’s large-scale Dimensional Wave attacks, applying technology brought by Academician Gao Zhengyang.

Humanity continued developing black-hole-powered Expellers while the Fish Horse Star Civilization prepared to use Space Maze equipment against the bugs threatening its fortress. Ci Ma captured the bugs and believed the fortress was nearing a decisive recovery.

• Human researchers used Gao Zhengyang's black-hole data and Liu Bo's verified Basic Space Theory to continue studying black holes and developing more advanced warships.
• The Fish Horse Star Civilization's returning leader told Ci Ma to install Space Maze equipment and eliminate Li Shun, then learned Li Shun wanted information that might have been leaked.
• Ci Ma transferred the Space Maze equipment to warships and activated it around the five bugs, distorting the space they occupied.
• The bugs hesitated as they tried to understand the distortion, and Fish Horse Star warships attacked and knocked them unconscious.
• Ci Ma towed the bugs away as prisoners while repairs to the fortress's outer blockade neared completion and more Space Maze equipment stood ready.

Li Shun stole extensive information from the Fish Horse Star Civilization and prepared to replace it, while Ci Ma’s fortress activated its space maze and shrugged off the Milky Way civilizations’ attacks. The fortress entered curvature travel toward the Milky Way, leaving Hu Yu and the other defenders with no way to stop it as they awaited the academicians’ research.

• Li Shun used his insect citizens to copy brainwave information from Fish Horse Star officials, learning the civilization’s secrets and sending useful data to the fortress’s entrance in the Matter River.
• Li Shun ordered surviving insects to keep scouting near Boötes and began modifying more insects so he could overwhelm the Milky Way civilizations and claim their territory.
• Ci Ma’s forces installed and activated maze devices powered by the black hole, causing the Super Fortress to vanish from view and reflect or trap incoming attacks and ships.
• Academician Zeng told Hu Yu that the fortress could not be harmed until its internal space devices were destroyed, then returned to the Secondary Universe to seek a solution.
• Hu Yu coordinated the fleets as the fortress and the Mechanical Civilization inflicted heavy losses, but the defenders could not stop the fortress from advancing.
• The Super Fortress entered curvature travel at fifty times the speed of light and left Boötes for the Milky Way while Hu Yu and Wen Zhonghua could only await the academicians’ results.

The Fish Horse Star Civilization demonstrated its Space Maze, overwhelming the Milky Way civilizations, while Hu Yu returned to the Secondary Universe and founded the Star Ring Academy of Sciences. He and the leader of Heavenly Peak discussed the suspected leak of base coordinates and the possibility of a traitor, but Hu Yu did not reveal whom he suspected most.

• The Fish Horse Star Civilization trapped enemy warships in a shifting Space Maze and withdrew its ships as its fortress advanced, leaving the Milky Way civilizations unable to challenge its strength.
• The academicians made little progress studying Super Fortress fragments without a black hole's gravity.
• Hu Yu returned to the Secondary Universe after a long drug-induced sleep and established the Star Ring Academy of Sciences.
• The leader of Heavenly Peak brought nearly twenty thousand scientists to join the academy and praised its future.
• Hu Yu and the leader of Heavenly Peak discussed the exposed bases, the Mechanical Civilization fleet, and which civilizations might have betrayed them.
• The leader of Heavenly Peak asked Hu Yu whom he suspected most, and the chapter ended before he answered.

Academician Xiao revealed that Mr. Daozi was the consciousness of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and Mr. Daozi confirmed it. Mr. Daozi began explaining the history and limitations of galactic consciousnesses.

• Someone warned that Yun San and Rock Star seemed suspicious, but admitted there was no evidence and said the base had been secretly relocated.
• Academician Xiao detected an unusually faint consciousness field while studying the worm civilians and went to the main base with his findings.
• Academician Xiao identified Mr. Daozi as the consciousness of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and Mr. Daozi confirmed his identity.
• Mr. Daozi explained that the Milky Way’s consciousness had awakened more than ten billion years earlier and that nearby galaxies had developed consciousnesses of their own.
• Mr. Daozi said galactic consciousnesses could compete with one another but initially could neither affect matter nor change the direction of a single particle.

Daozi explained how the Milky Way’s consciousness was born from its central black hole and how the Snow Tribe’s attack on Andromeda ended in disaster. Zu recounted how Daozi saved him and the Snow Tribe, while Daozi revealed that he had helped them hide in Sextans A.

• Daozi said the galactic consciousness had manipulated the Snow Tribe into attacking Andromeda, whose Deep Space Civilization then devastated the Milky Way and attacked its central black hole.
• Daozi explained that the black hole transferred its consciousness field into him before its destruction, leaving the galactic consciousness without self-awareness.
• Zu asked whether the Doomsday Civilization and Knight Civilization might still survive, and Daozi said he could not be certain.
• Daozi explained that destroying a galaxy’s central black hole would release the energy that sustained its consciousness field.
• Zu recalled how the galactic consciousness persuaded him to lead the Snow Tribe into war, and how Daozi saved his fading consciousness and placed it in the Secondary Universe.
• Daozi told Yan Xue that he had arranged for Sextans A’s black hole to alter the Snow Tribe’s consciousness fields so the Deep Space Civilization could not identify them.