Recaps

Daozi revealed how he had fostered life and humanity in the Milky Way while trying to protect its weakened galactic consciousness from the Andromeda Civilization and the Insect Race. He warned that the Fish Horse Star Civilization sought control of the central black hole and had created a powerful false consciousness inside its fortress.

• Daozi revealed that he had arranged help during humanity's war against the Giant General Civilization, including the discovery of Third Energy.
• Daozi explained that he had seeded life across the Milky Way after the Deep Space Civilization stopped its purges two billion years earlier.
• Daozi recounted creating the first humans with the Insect Race's Consciousness Field, then abandoning them because of their destructive behavior.
• Daozi described how the Insect Emperor had forced the galactic consciousness back into slumber and how the five Great Star Region Civilizations had united without his intervention.
• Daozi said the Fish Horse Star Civilization was likely created by the Doomsday Civilization and the Knight Civilization to seize control of the weakened central black hole.
• Daozi revealed that the Fish Horse Star Civilization's fortress contained a false black hole consciousness whose powerful attacks carried a risk of severe backlash.

Mr. Daozi explained the Abyss, the Insect Race, and the threats facing the galaxy, including the Fish Horse Star Civilization's research into the galactic consciousness. He warned that the fortress might be near completion and told Zu to stay hidden, while promising to seek a way to free him after the crisis.

• Mr. Daozi said the Fish Horse Star Civilization might be feeding humans to insects in an attempt to understand the Insect Emperor and the galactic black hole.
• Mr. Daozi explained that the Abyss was a higher-dimensional universe where the Insect Race lived among powerful, incomprehensible existences.
• Mr. Daozi said destroying the Insect Emperor could end the insect scourge, but its evolutions were draining the galactic consciousness and bringing it close to collapse.
• Mr. Daozi warned Hu Yu that the Fish Horse Star Civilization's fortress might be nearing the final stage of its research and that they would be finished if it reached the galaxy's center.
• Mr. Daozi told Zu that a being seeking him wanted to use him as a stepping stone to seize the galactic consciousness, and advised him not to go out.
• Mr. Daozi said the galactic consciousness distrusted Zu because of his grave mistake, but promised to find a way to release him after the crisis.

Daozi questioned the Nebula Consciousnesses and suspected that a first-generation one might be behind Zu’s opponent, then assigned them to different duties. He also revealed that Xie Jinqiao’s Consciousness Field had been preserved and set off with Wen Zhonghua and Number One to seek help from the Aurora and Firefly Civilizations.

• Daozi explained that the Eagle Nebula’s consciousnesses could control matter because it formed their bodies, then asked the seven young Nebula Consciousnesses about their origins.
• Number One said they were second-generation Nebula Consciousnesses and could not find the first generation, so Daozi took Number One with him and assigned roles to the others.
• Daozi suspected a first-generation Nebula Consciousness might be Zu’s opponent and told Wen Zhonghua to continue researching consciousness attacks.
• Luo Zhigao asked about saving Xie Jinqiao, and Daozi said he had preserved Xie’s Consciousness Field but could not separate it from the black hole’s energy.
• Daozi chose Wen Zhonghua and Number One to accompany him to Sextans A to recruit the Aurora and Firefly Civilizations, while explaining that the Ant King and Haotian Civilizations had fled.

Daozi left with Wen Zhonghua and Number One to seek help from the Aurora Civilization and the Firefly Civilization, while Hu Yu’s forces prepared to resist the approaching Super Fortress. The Milky Way’s civilizations began fleeing as the fortress continued advancing and the galaxy grew desolate.

• Daozi departed with Wen Zhonghua and Number One to seek help from the Aurora Civilization and the Firefly Civilization.
• Academicians told the generals that research into Third Energy remained incomplete and that Academician Xiao had prepared biological warriors to attack the Insect Emperor’s consciousness.
• Hu Yu loaded Virtual Matter and two-dimensional fragments from the Secondary Universe base and returned to the greater universe.
• Hu Yu’s forces considered using large-scale spatial attacks against the Super Fortress and Mechanical Civilization’s fleet.
• Galactic civilizations fled toward other galaxies as the Super Fortress neared the Milky Way, leaving the galaxy increasingly empty.

Hu Yu organized the surviving Milky Way civilizations to build a vast reversed-state barrier around the galactic central black hole, hoping to stop the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s Super Fortress and buy time. The project began, but the protective shell remained far from complete.

• Hu Yu realized that the galactic central black hole was the target of several enemies and ordered Li Zhixiong to bring all the Reversed State equipment from the Secondary Universe while suspending Conqueror production.
• Hu Yu recalled the allied civilizations to the Milky Way and urged them to unite in protecting the central black hole.
• Hu Yu proposed filling the region within 100 light-years of the black hole with energy and converting it into a reversed-state protective shell, asking the civilizations to finish within 500 years.
• The Black Civilization and the White Civilization joined the effort, bringing their fleets and shared research to the defense.
• More than twenty quadrillion surviving warships opened passages to the fourth dimension and began using Reversed State equipment, while the Milky Way’s vast protective barrier remained incomplete.

The Yun San leader followed the shadowy figure’s orders to hunt Hu Yu and humanity’s senior command, then devised a plan to use the humans descended from Li Shun’s people as bait. He was left considering how to lure Hu Yu away from the Expeller warship.

• The shadowy figure told the Yun San leader to relocate the base and prepare to hunt Hu Yu and humanity’s senior command, explaining that he wanted the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s fortress and data but not its people.
• The Yun San leader agreed to serve the shadowy figure and began weighing the risks of assassinating Hu Yu, whose surveillance systems and protections made the hunt difficult.
• The Yun San leader recalled that the Yun San Civilization had secretly moved Li Shun’s people to a hidden planet in its fourth-dimensional base after Hu Yu failed to find them.
• The Yun San leader decided to use Li Shun’s people to lure Hu Yu out, but worried that Hu Yu would arrive aboard the heavily protected Expeller warship.

Leader Yun San sent First-Tier Mother Insects through a passage to overwhelm the human planet, plunging its population into panic and violence. Fang Wei, the planet’s leader, called for a worldwide truce and a united defense as armed forces moved against the swarm.

• At Yun San’s direction, warships brought the human planet to a sparsely populated corner of the Milky Way and connected it to a unit of First-Tier Mother Insects.
• Millions of mother insects poured through the passage, forming a mountain that consumed two nearby cities and spread across the planet.
• As the swarm’s arrival triggered panic, crime, and fighting, General Bai mutinied with part of the army against Fang Wei.
• Fang Wei recalled how he had led the survivors after Hu Yu abandoned more than 800 billion people on the planet, leaving fewer than two million alive after ten years.
• Fang Wei ordered a distress signal and a worldwide broadcast urging people to lay down their arms and unite against the swarm.
• Scattered armed forces began advancing on the insect mountain, unaware that the mother insects would continue evolving.

Fang Wei sent a distress signal as the mother insects overwhelmed his planet, and the Far Watcher Civilization dispatched Hu Yu to investigate. Hu Yu decided to go himself despite the planet’s unexplained displacement, leaving Gao Jianchuan in command.

• Mother insects opened passages across the planet, and Fang Wei realized that its people had little chance of escaping.
• Fang Wei sent a distress signal, which a Far Watcher Civilization warship received months later.
• The patrol warship found the planet overrun and sent Hu Yu a recording showing that the planet’s buried memories had resurfaced.
• Hu Yu agreed to investigate after the Leader of the Far-Seers provided the planet’s coordinates.
• Gao Jianchuan warned Hu Yu that the planet had shifted more than seventy thousand light-years, but Hu Yu chose to go in person and left Gao Jianchuan in command.

Hu Yu reached Fang Wei’s insect-ravaged planet and began rescuing its survivors while investigating who had orchestrated the crisis. As he used a holographic decoy to draw out the hidden enemy, the Yun San Civilization opened a passage and a strange fleet attacked the Insect Emperor.

• Hu Yu took 50 trillion Blazing Sun Civilization battleships and 100 Expellers toward Fang Wei’s planet as the Yun San leader prepared to ambush him.
• Hu Yu arrived at the desolate planet, found Fang Wei alive, and learned that the starry sky had changed shortly before the insects appeared.
• Hu Yu suspected a plot against humanity but concealed his presence inside an Expeller and ordered RoboCops to rescue survivors from underground fortresses.
• Hu Yu sent a holographic decoy onto the planet, and a hidden reconnaissance device relayed the image to the Yun San leader.
• The Yun San leader connected two devices through the fourth dimension, while a concealed fleet attacked the Insect Emperor and struck his body.

The Insect Emperor sent a smaller version of itself through the fourth dimension and used a consciousness attack to incapacitate Hu Yu. As the Expellers tried to evacuate him, swarms of mechanical entities found a way into his ship.

• After its body was damaged, the Insect Emperor sent a miniature version of itself through the fourth dimension toward Hu Yu.
• The miniature Insect Emperor evaded the fleets’ attacks and knocked Hu Yu unconscious with a consciousness attack before returning to its massive shell.
• The mechanical police rescued a little over a million people, who unexpectedly came back to life after dying for a few seconds.
• The Blazing Sun Battleships returned to Hong Lie, while the Expellers stalled because Hu Yu was unconscious and their Superintelligent Robots could not decide what to do.
• As mechanical entities flooded the fourth dimension, the Expellers entered it to escort Hu Yu away.
• The mechanical entities swarmed Hu Yu’s Expeller, opened its hatch, and rushed inside.

Hu Yu was taken from the Yun San Civilization’s attack by an unidentified fleet, but he remained unconscious after the Insect Emperor’s consciousness attack. Gao Jianchuan and his allies learned that Hu Yu’s life and whereabouts were unknown and resolved to keep the news secret.

• The Yun San leader sent mechanical units to seize Hu Yu after the Insect Emperor left, but an unidentified fleet rescued him and escaped into four-dimensional space.
• The Superintelligent Robots attacked the mechanical units and pursued the rescuers, while the Yun San leader withdrew his forces and reconsidered the odds that Hu Yu had survived.
• The Yun San leader learned that the humans on the planet had revived, raising his estimate that Hu Yu might also recover, though Hu Yu had not yet awakened.
• Commander Huang Chi’s crew examined Hu Yu, found his consciousness field close to dissipating, and planned to return him secretly to the human base for treatment by Academician Xiao.
• Gao Jianchuan, Li Zhixiong, and Chen Peng learned that Hu Yu had been taken by an unidentified fleet, and Gao Jianchuan urged them to keep the matter confidential.

Hu Yu and Gao Jianchuan revealed that Hu Yu’s apparent death was a deception meant to expose a traitor, but an unidentified fleet had genuinely taken him away. Meanwhile, the Yun San Civilization planned to exploit Hu Yu’s presumed death, and Chen Peng searched for the missing fleet without knowing the truth.

• Gao Jianchuan ordered Li Zhixiong to secretly inform Minister Luo and sent Chen Peng to search for the fleet that abducted Hu Yu, while making the human forces appear to return as usual.
• Hu Yu told Gao Jianchuan that the abducting fleet was different from the force that attacked him, and they planned to wait for the first civilization seeking confirmation of his fate to expose the mastermind behind their leaked base locations.
• Gao Jianchuan explained that Hu Yu’s artificial body could mimic his Consciousness Field, and Hu Yu told him to keep the operation secret and have Chen Peng only pretend to pursue the abductors.
• At the Yun San Civilization’s base, its leader ordered continued surveillance of the humans and planned to use the Demon Scorpion and Mechanical Civilizations against them once Hu Yu’s death was confirmed.
• Chen Peng rushed after the miniature spacecraft’s last known coordinates, fearing for Hu Yu and blaming himself for letting him act alone.

Huang Chi’s forces mistook Hu Yu for a biological duplicate and decided to conceal him so Yun San would believe he was dead. Meanwhile, Hu Yu revealed himself to Luo Zhigao and Li Zhixiong, but Chen Peng continued searching for him for six months before finally giving up.

• Huang Chi ordered Jin Yan to scan Hu Yu and concluded that the unusually healthy man was a duplicate rather than the real Hu Yu.
• Huang Chi refused to return Hu Yu to the humans and arranged a spatial transfer so Yun San’s side would assume Hu Yu was dead.
• Luo Zhigao rushed to the greater universe after Li Zhixiong reported Hu Yu’s disappearance, then found Hu Yu chatting with Gao Jianchuan.
• Hu Yu decided to reveal himself to Luo Zhigao and Li Zhixiong after more than a month, while keeping Chen Peng searching to avoid alerting the mastermind.
• Gao Jianchuan urged Chen Peng to accept reality, and Chen Peng finally ended his search after nearly six months.

Chen Peng returned without finding Hu Yu, leaving the Yun San leader convinced that Hu Yu was dead while humanity concealed the truth. Decades later, as the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s fortress neared the Milky Way, Luo Zhigao deflected the Yun San leader’s questions, and Wei Kaiyuan reported that scientists had deciphered the enemy’s data.

• Chen Peng returned to the galactic central base after searching for Hu Yu for six months, and the Yun San leader concluded that Hu Yu might have died.
• The Far Watcher Civilization investigated the planet, and Gao Jianchuan asked its leader to move it somewhere safe.
• Over a century passed as the Reversed State enveloped the galactic central black hole and the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s fortress approached the Milky Way.
• Hu Yu let Luo Zhigao answer the Yun San leader’s questions, and the Yun San leader became certain that Hu Yu was no longer among humanity.
• Wei Kaiyuan told Hu Yu that scientists had deciphered the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s stolen data and uncovered a plan with nearly a one-hundred-percent chance of success.

Li Shun continued strengthening his fleet while Hu Yu’s team investigated evidence linking the Yun San Civilization to the Insect Emperor’s emergence. The leader of the Far Watcher Civilization told Gao Jianchuan that Yun San had helped the Mechanical Civilization attack Hu Yu’s fleet, but had not yet explained what proof he possessed.

• Li Shun told Wei Kaiyuan to focus on building the fleet while his researchers worked on a way to kill the shadow.
• Hu Yu’s scientists recovered fragments of a self-destructed device from the planet where the Insect Emperor had appeared and sent them to the Star Ring Academy of Sciences for analysis.
• The leader of the Far Watcher Civilization visited the Expeller and asked Gao Jianchuan what had happened to Hu Yu.
• Gao Jianchuan admitted that Hu Yu had been missing for over a century and said the Mechanical Civilization might have attacked him.
• The Far Watcher leader revealed that the Yun San Civilization had also been behind the attack and said his civilization’s hidden reconnaissance devices had recorded evidence near the scene.

Gao Jianchuan and Hu Yu confirmed that the Yun San Civilization had directed the mechanical entities’ attack and had secretly sabotaged the galaxy’s efforts against the Fish Horse Star Civilization. Hu Yu ordered preparations for a swift war, including seeking the Dark Moon Civilization’s support and consulting the Star Ring Alliance and Heavenly Peak Civilization.

• The leader of the Far-Seers presented evidence that the Yun San Civilization’s fleet had followed the mechanical entities and that their damaged storage device contained a translation program linking them to the Yun San Civilization.
• Hu Yu revealed that the attacked General Hu Yu had been a biological decoy, created to uncover the traitor behind attacks on the Dark Moon Civilization’s base and humanity’s Secondary Universe base.
• Gao Jianchuan and Hu Yu explained that they had staged the deception to the leader of the Far-Seers, who agreed to find the Yun San Civilization’s home base and support their action.
• Hu Yu, Gao Jianchuan, Chen Peng, and Li Zhixiong analyzed the reconnaissance footage and device, confirming that the Yun San fleet had commanded the mechanical entities.
• Hu Yu ordered Gao Jianchuan to contact the Dark Moon Civilization’s leader secretly and said he would return to the Secondary Universe to discuss the war with the Star Ring Alliance and bring in the Heavenly Peak Civilization.

Hu Yu worked with the Heavenly Peak and Dark Moon leaders to plan a war against the Yun San Civilization after authentic evidence exposed its betrayal. The Far Watcher leader soon provided the location of Yun San’s base, and the coalition prepared to act before the Fish Horse Star Civilization reached the Milky Way.

• Hu Yu weighed the cost of attacking the Yun San Civilization and decided that the evidence had to be authenticated before he could wage war without guilt.
• The Heavenly Peak and Dark Moon leaders examined the evidence and agreed not to inform Demon Scorpion or Rock Star until the plan began.
• Hu Yu proposed disarming Yun San, confiscating its tech tree, testing everyone’s memories, and killing those who had participated in the betrayal.
• The leaders approved an action plan while sparing the wider Yun San population, and they prepared to move before the Fish Horse Star Civilization arrived.
• The Far Watcher leader sent the coordinates of the Yun San base, revealing how extensively his civilization had searched for threats to the galaxy.

Hu Yu began a covert operation against the Yun San Civilization, using RoboCops to seize its industrial base and joining allied fleets to attack its distant main base. Before the fleet departed, Academician Xiao equipped it with a new defense against Consciousness Field attacks, made from virtual reversed state material.

• Hu Yu used the Far Watcher Civilization’s reconnaissance network to locate and monitor the Yun San Civilization’s base near the Four-Dimensional Lost Zone.
• Human transports delivered tens of billions of RoboCops to the Yun San Civilization’s Secondary Universe industrial base, where they captured its people and seized its fleets.
• Hu Yu interrogated the captured workers and learned they knew nothing about their civilization’s secret dealings, while the seized fleets were assigned to the Dark Moon Civilization.
• Hu Yu, leader Tian Feng, and the Dark Moon Civilization’s leader prepared to attack the Yun San Civilization’s main base with sixty trillion ships and a small number of Slaughterers and Expellers.
• Academician Xiao asked to equip the fleet with a new consciousness-impact defense system, and Hu Yu agreed to the short delay.
• Academician Xiao revealed that the defense system used virtual reversed state material, which was at least twenty times more effective than their previous protection.

Hu Yu’s fleet reached the Yun San Civilization’s base undetected, using Expellers to conceal its ships from consciousness-field detection. The Yun San leader prepared to flee into the Lost Zone while the black shadow promised to rescue him and sought help from Demon Scorpion.

• Hu Yu learned that the virtual reversed state could block consciousness-field attacks, and Academician Xiao modified several Expellers for the coming battle.
• Hu Yu left Gao Jianchuan in charge of the galaxy and led an allied fleet toward the Yun San Civilization’s base.
• The fleet traveled folded inside the Expellers and arrived about a thousand light-years from the base before releasing its ships.
• The Yun San Civilization’s alarms sounded as its leader saw the approaching human, Heavenly Peak, Dark Moon, and other allied warships.
• The black shadow found no consciousness fields in the fleet and recognized that computer programs controlled it.
• The Yun San leader agreed to evacuate into the Lost Zone while the black shadow went to seek help from Demon Scorpion.

The Yun San leader tried to evacuate his people while using mechanical bodies to hold back the human-led fleet, but Hu Yu’s forces pushed toward the base. At the same time, Gao Jianchuan launched a surprise attack that routed the Yun San fleets in the galaxy.

• The Yun San leader rushed preparations to evacuate the civilization’s population and supplies onto warships, but the slow-moving citizens delayed the boarding.
• The Yun San leader sent every mechanical body from the base to attack the combined fleet as it approached.
• The mechanical bodies swarmed over the warships but could not breach their hatches, so Hu Yu ordered allied ships to fire on ships from the Human Civilization, the Heavenly Peak Civilization, and the Dark Moon Civilization to clear a path.
• Gao Jianchuan used his fleet’s hidden positions to surround Yun San groups in the galaxy and ordered a sudden attack.
• The Yun San fleet was routed, and Dark Moon warships killed its commander before he could understand what was happening.

Humanity and its allies destroyed the Yun San Civilization’s fleet after Gao Jianchuan announced that it had betrayed the Dark Moon Civilization. Hu Yu’s fleet reached the Yun San base too late to stop the evacuation, and the Yun San leader escaped into the Lost Zone as the civilization destroyed its home system.

• Gao Jianchuan and the Dark Moon Civilization’s commander told the galaxy that the Yun San Civilization had betrayed the Dark Moon Civilization, and the other civilizations resumed work.
• Hu Yu realized the Yun San Civilization controlled the mechanical bodies and worked with Bi Cha to clear them from the Xuan Star warships.
• The Yun San leader prepared to flee to the Lost Zone with a small group of trusted researchers, hoping to continue his research there.
• Hu Yu’s combined fleet broke through the mechanical defenses and found the Yun San Civilization’s base burning as its stars exploded.
• The Dark Moon leader ordered the fleet to pursue the escaping Yun San Civilization.

The combined fleet forced the Yun San Civilization into the Lost Zone, while Hu Yu prepared to hunt down the mechanical beings. Trapped inside the distorted region and unable to contact its scattered ships, the Yun San leader ordered the flagship to stay still.

• The combined fleet stopped at the Lost Zone's boundary after the Yun San fleet disappeared inside, and Hu Yu urged the commanders to destroy the mechanical beings.
• Hu Yu had Bi Cha explain that he had deliberately driven the Yun San fleet into the Lost Zone before arranging the hunt for the mechanical beings.
• The Yun San leader discovered that the Lost Zone obscured nearby ships, disrupted communication, and made escape seem impossible.
• After the flagship lost contact with every warship, the Yun San leader ordered it to remain in place and hoped the other ships would do the same.

Yan Xue captured the Yun San leader and the other occupants of his ship after the Slaughterers drained its energy, then returned them toward Hu Yu’s forces. Meanwhile, Dark Shadow remained unaware of the capture and appeared in the Demon Scorpion Civilization’s territory.

• Yan Xue ordered the Slaughterers to drain the energy from the Yun San leader’s ship, leaving it powerless.
• A Slaughterer breached the ship, and robots captured its occupants, including the unconscious Yun San leader.
• Yan Xue reported the successful capture to Hu Yu, who told him to deliver the prisoners to Academician Xiao and leave the other Yun San ships trapped in the Lost Zone.
• Yan Xue considered how Academician Xiao might interrogate the prisoners and uncover the Yun San Civilization’s secrets.
• Dark Shadow, unaware that the Yun San leader had been captured, appeared beside the Demon Scorpion leader, who demanded to know who he was.

The Demon Scorpion leader agreed to help a dark nebula life-form kill Zhou Dao in exchange for the Milky Way black hole’s vast store of information. Meanwhile, Hu Yu’s forces destroyed the Mechanical Lord’s mechanical entities, and recovered memories revealed the dark figure’s role in directing Yun San’s betrayal.

• A dark figure told the Demon Scorpion leader it had arranged Yun San’s actions and offered to share the Milky Way black hole’s information if the Demon Scorpion Civilization helped it seize the black hole’s consciousness.
• The dark figure asked the Demon Scorpion leader to find a way to kill Zhou Dao, promised to assist, and gave the leader an object for contacting it.
• After the dark figure left, the Demon Scorpion leader considered whether it was the hidden force he had been instructed to find and planned to hunt it down.
• Hu Yu’s fleet used consciousness-field detectors to locate and destroy the Mechanical Lord’s scattered, leaderless mechanical entities.
• In the Secondary Universe, Hu Yu and Academician Xiao examined Yun San’s memories and discovered that a long-lived conscious entity had directed the civilization’s betrayal.

Hu Yu learned that the Yun San Civilization had betrayed its allies and planned to attack Demon Scorpion, but Daozi revealed that Demon Scorpion was his longtime ally and warned Hu Yu not to strike. Daozi traced the galaxy’s hidden forces to the ancient Eagle Nebula, while Hu Yu and Number One identified Yun San’s shadowy accomplice as the previous generation of Nebula Consciousness.

• Hu Yu condemned Yun San for betraying his allies, and Academician Xiao revealed that Demon Scorpion had sent the mechanical fleet that attacked them.
• Daozi arrived with Number One, learned that Yun San was the captured mastermind, and condemned Yun San’s greed.
• Hu Yu proposed destroying Demon Scorpion before the Fish Horse Star Civilization reached the galactic center, but Daozi forbade the attack and explained that Demon Scorpion had long served as his hidden ally.
• Daozi said the Eagle Nebula had existed since the galaxy formed and was the only nebula known to have produced consciousness repeatedly.
• Hu Yu showed Number One an image of the shadow behind Yun San, and Daozi confirmed that it was the previous generation of Nebula Consciousness, whose capture might expose the forces behind the galaxy’s chaos.