Recaps

The Demon Scorpion leader prepared a secret plan to capture the Nebula Consciousness and arranged to lure Zhou Dao into a trap. The shadow captured Number Five and brought him to Demon Scorpion territory, expecting Hu Yu and Zhou Dao to come searching.

• The Demon Scorpion leader discussed the coming war against the Fish Horse Star Civilization and was told to strengthen resistance forces before the Firefly Civilization and Aurora Civilization arrived.
• The Demon Scorpion leader secretly distributed pills to citizens and arranged plasma cannons, electromagnetic cannons, and planets to prepare a trap.
• Commander Huang Chi warned that the plan could endanger the entire civilization, but the Demon Scorpion leader insisted it was necessary for the galaxy.
• The Demon Scorpion leader showed the weapons to the shadow, who agreed they could harm Zhou Dao and promised to bring him there.
• The shadow captured Number Five and explained that Hu Yu and Zhou Dao would likely come looking for him.

Gao Jianchuan investigated Number Five’s disappearance as Daozi went to confront the hidden Nebula Consciousness entity. The Demon Scorpion leader turned his attack against the entity, but the red mist remained and Daozi stood motionless.

• Gao Jianchuan recalled Number Six and gathered Number Four after Number Five suddenly lost contact, then learned that Hu Yu had returned from the Secondary Universe with Daozi.
• Daozi appeared beside the Demon Scorpion leader, who contacted the dark figure and pretended to betray Zhou Dao.
• The Demon Scorpion leader activated the pill-shaped devices, which rendered the Demon Scorpion population unconscious and channeled their Consciousness Field energy into a weapon.
• The Demon Scorpion leader fired at the dark figure while the civilization’s weapons attacked it, tearing the figure apart as red mist spread across the instrument’s display.
• Zhong Shan told the Demon Scorpion leader that the Nebula Consciousness entity was gone, but the red mist remained and Daozi’s Consciousness Field had grown dimmer.

Daozi and Hu Yu pursued the weakened Nebula Consciousness Entity to the galactic center, where it tried to recover by drawing energy from the black hole. When the fleet's attacks failed to stop it, Hu Yu used Space Decomposition and Space Banishment to remove the region of space containing it.

• Daozi broke off his pursuit after the Nebula Consciousness Entity escaped toward the galactic center and warned Hu Yu that they were in serious trouble.
• Hu Yu sent the fleet and Conquerors into the fourth dimension to search near the central black hole.
• The fleet detected the Nebula Consciousness Entity replenishing itself with energy from the black hole and surrounded it.
• Hu Yu ordered spatial and consciousness field attacks, but the entity passed through the spatial attacks and recovered from the others.
• Hu Yu commanded Space Decomposition and Space Banishment, causing the Nebula Consciousness Entity to vanish with the collapsing region of four-dimensional space.

After the Nebula Consciousness Entity was banished, Daozi and Hu Yu went to rescue the Demon Scorpion Civilization, whose people were near death from exhausting their Consciousness Fields. Daozi brought them near the central black hole, where its overflow energy began restoring them, and Hu Yu and the Demon Scorpion leader pledged cooperation.

• Hu Yu confirmed that the Nebula Consciousness Entity had vanished and took Daozi toward the Demon Scorpion Civilization.
• Hu Yu explained the Yun San Civilization’s betrayal to the galaxy’s civilizations, which accepted the evidence and restored order.
• Hu Yu and Daozi found the Demon Scorpion leader’s people unconscious or disoriented after he had maximized their Consciousness Field extraction to defeat the Nebula Consciousness Entity.
• Daozi ordered the Demon Scorpion fleet to the central black hole, where its overflow energy began sustaining the people, and promised they would recover.
• Hu Yu apologized to the Demon Scorpion leader, and he and Huang Chi agreed that the Demon Scorpion Civilization and Human Civilization would face future hardships together.
• Daozi remained beside a vast mass of energy moving along the Closed Spacetime Curve inside the central black hole.

Zu returned to the greater universe and met Daozi, who asked him to take control of the central black hole to save the Demon Scorpion Civilization. After initially refusing, Zu agreed to give up his consciousness energy instead, hoping to become a free member of the Snow Tribe again.

• Zu left the Secondary Universe aboard an Expeller with the Snow Tribe group and traveled to the central black hole.
• Zu met Daozi and said he wanted to wander freely and see the changed galaxy rather than fight.
• Daozi asked Zu to replace the Black Hole Consciousness so the Demon Scorpion Civilization could be saved, but Zu refused.
• Yan Xue, Chen Xue, and the Demon Scorpion leader pleaded with Zu to help their people.
• Zu agreed to separate from the Secondary Universe's consciousness and let the central black hole absorb his energy, while refusing to take over from the Black Hole Consciousness.
• Zu enveloped the Expeller in a ball of light and flew toward the central black hole, leaving only a nearly transparent shadow behind.

Zu replenished the Milky Way’s black hole with the Secondary Universe’s Consciousness Field energy, reviving the Demon Scorpion Civilization, but the energy’s return to the Galactic Consciousness triggered the Secondary Universe’s merger with the greater universe. The Milky Way was torn apart, and Hu Yu realized their lost time advantage would make fighting the Fish Horse Star Civilization harder, though the increased distance might buy them several hundred years.

• Zu argued with Yan Xue and Chen Xue about why he had helped the Demon Scorpion Civilization and said he wanted to live as a true member of the Snow Tribe.
• The black hole released the Secondary Universe’s Consciousness Field energy into the minds of the Demon Scorpion people, who awoke, and their leader thanked Zu.
• Daozi said the Galactic Consciousness remained too weak to restrain the Fish Horse Star Civilization and discussed unexplained matter and a brief, devastating war in NGC 3109.
• Daozi told the others to have Academician Zeng investigate the increased matter in the Eagle Nebula, then the Milky Way suddenly split as space shifted.
• Daozi explained that the Secondary Universe was merging into the greater universe because its Consciousness Field had dissipated, ending its time advantage and tearing apart the Milky Way.
• Hu Yu lamented their reduced ability to build Expellers, but Zu noted that the disruption had also increased the distance from the Fish Horse Star Civilization and might give them several hundred years.

After the Secondary Universe merged with the greater universe, Hu Yu coordinated humanity’s response and sent Academician Zeng and Academician Gao Zhengyang to investigate the Eagle Nebula. Their research revealed that Basic Space and the void had swapped places in parts of the region.

• The stars of the Milky Way appeared in the Secondary Universe, and Hu Yu contacted Academician Zeng and warned people not to panic as the universes merged and their times synchronized.
• Hu Yu returned to humanity’s base, where he briefed the scientists and ordered Academician Zeng and Academician Gao Zhengyang to investigate the unexplained increase in matter in the Eagle Nebula.
• Hu Yu and Academician Zeng discussed humanity’s scientific progress and plans to protect people aboard Expellers, while offering other civilizations warship technology and Fifth Reversed State hulls.
• Academician Zeng and Academician Gao Zhengyang traveled to the Eagle Nebula, where Li Zhixiong’s Conqueror Fleets stood guard as the scientists examined its matter and Basic Space.
• Academician Zeng and Academician Gao Zhengyang discovered that Basic Space and the void had swapped places in some parts of the Eagle Nebula.

Academician Zeng and Academician Gao Zhengyang investigated reversed regions of Basic Space and the Void in the Eagle Nebula, considering how they might relate to its Nebula Consciousness Entity and unexplained increase in matter. They continued their survey while waiting for Old Xiao, and the chapter explained the immense difficulty of advancing frontier technology at humanity’s current level.

• Academician Zeng and Academician Gao Zhengyang found places in the Eagle Nebula where the proportions of Basic Space and the Void were reversed and began taking samples.
• Academician Zeng suggested that the Void might form where space from another dimension intersected with their own, but Gao Zhengyang questioned whether matter from another space could explain the increase.
• Academician Gao Zhengyang and Academician Zeng discussed the Nebula Consciousness Entity and decided to focus on spatial research until Old Xiao returned from visiting the Tree Race with Zheng Kaiping.
• The two academicians continued their survey with a research team of fewer than five hundred people, despite the Eagle Nebula’s vast size.
• The chapter described how technological breakthroughs became increasingly difficult at higher civilization levels and noted that humanity’s military technology had reached the middle Galaxy-Level stage, while other fields remained at the Large Star Region stage.

Hu Yu rescued the Yun San Civilization from the Lost Zone and arranged for its survivors to join the Far Watcher Civilization, offering them technology and a place in the Star Ring Alliance. The Far Watchers agreed to accept the survivors and proposed transplanting their own brains into the bodies of Yun San beings who needed to be executed.

• Chen Xue built Zu a black rabbit body, and Zu became a strict chieftain among the Snow Tribe.
• Hu Yu took Yan Xue and the Slaughterer fleet to the Lost Zone, where they found the Yun San survivors starving and without order.
• The Slaughterers disabled and transported the Yun San warships to the galactic center.
• Hu Yu offered the Far Watcher leader care of the Yun San survivors, Superintelligent Robot technology, and membership in the Star Ring Alliance.
• Hu Yu proposed modifying the Yun San survivors’ memories so they could join the Far Watcher Civilization, and the leader accepted.
• The Far Watcher leader suggested transplanting Far Watcher brains into Yun San bodies slated for execution to ease their integration.

Hu Yu coordinated the aftermath of the Yun San Civilization’s betrayal while the galaxy’s civilizations prepared to face the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s Super Fortress. As reinforcements approached, the Far Watchers reported that they had intercepted a Yun San spaceship carrying more than ten thousand scientists.

• Hu Yu handed the Yun San Civilization’s people over to the Far Watcher Civilization and left their memory changes and leader’s fate to its scientists, while humanity sent social work teams to help.
• Humanity’s people entered the modified Expeller, which contained the Solar System in folded space, as the galaxy’s civilizations rebuilt their fleets and worked to solve the Super Fortress’s space maze.
• Wen Zhonghua told Hu Yu that the Firefly and Aurora Civilizations had each sent one hundred quadrillion battleships, while three Great Star Region Intermediate Civilizations had contributed another three hundred quadrillion.
• Hu Yu told Wen Zhonghua that the Yun San traitor had been dealt with, the Eagle Nebula’s previous Main Consciousness had been banished, and the Secondary Universe was gone.
• The leader of the Far Watchers reported that his civilization had intercepted a Yun San spaceship carrying more than ten thousand scientists, and Hu Yu ordered him to keep it secured until battleships arrived.

Hu Yu read the captured Yun San Civilization scientists’ memories and confirmed the Fish Horse Star Civilization planned to use a false black hole consciousness to seize control of the Milky Way’s consciousness. He learned that the Doomsday Civilization and the Knight Civilization had cultivated the Fish Horse Star Civilization, and considered the danger they might pose while keeping the discovery from the Snow Tribe.

• Hu Yu had Yan Xue bring the captured ship to the galaxy’s center, where he took control of its systems and arrested the Yun San Civilization scientists aboard.
• Hu Yu read the scientists’ memories and learned that the Nebula Consciousness Entity had made them decipher intercepted Fish Horse Star Civilization communications.
• Hu Yu discovered that the Fish Horse Star Civilization intended to use a false black hole consciousness inside the Super Fortress to replace the Milky Way’s black hole consciousness.
• Hu Yu confirmed that the Fish Horse Star Civilization was a descendant cultivated by the Doomsday Civilization and the Knight Civilization, and ordered his people to conceal the news from the Snow Tribe.
• Hu Yu reasoned that the Doomsday Civilization and the Knight Civilization might still have powerful fleets, though they had stayed hidden outside the Milky Way.
• The Doomsday Civilization and the Knight Civilization had escaped the Deep Space Civilization in damaged transport ships, lost all their warships, and rebuilt their technology together with surviving scientists.

Hu Yu searched for the Doomsday and Knight Civilizations while the Fish Horse Star Civilization captured the Mechanical Lord and made him its enforcer. Reinforcements from Sextans arrived with a Rule Space that might counter the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s Space Maze, and Hu Yu accepted a gift for Human Civilization to be taken for study.

• Hu Yu sent most of his reconnaissance ships toward Boötes to search for the hidden Doomsday and Knight Civilizations, hoping to eliminate them completely.
• After the Yun San leader was executed and the Nebula Consciousness Entity disappeared, the Mechanical Lord attacked the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s fortress but was captured and turned into its enforcer.
• The Secondary Universe’s disappearance lengthened the Milky Way’s journey, while Li Shun welcomed the change because it did not significantly affect the Insect Zone.
• Wen Zhonghua arrived with a reinforcement fleet from Sextans A and B, led by the Firefly Civilization and including ships and commanders from allied civilizations.
• Hu Yu briefed the Firefly leader on the Fish Horse Star Civilization, and the leader offered a Rule Space that might resist the Space Maze.
• Hu Yu accepted a transparent box gifted by the Galaxy Consciousness of Sextans A and sent Gao Jianchuan to take it to another Expeller for study.

Humanity’s scientists confirmed that Third Energy could affect the rules while the Fish Horse Star Civilization prepared to move its Super Fortress through the fourth dimension. After the fortress began its rapid approach to the Milky Way’s central black hole, Hu Yu mobilized the galaxy’s civilizations for the final battle.

• Academician Qin Yin, Academician Liu Bo, and Academician Li Youwei analyzed Gao Jianchuan’s box and confirmed that Third Energy had appeared inside it and could affect the rules.
• Mu Tang persuaded the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s patriarchs to move the Super Fortress into the fourth dimension, then ordered Ci Ma and Hui Chi to prepare for the operation and the consciousness invasion.
• The Super Fortress entered the fourth dimension and headed rapidly toward the Milky Way’s central black hole, throwing the galaxy into chaos.
• Hu Yu ordered fleets from across the galaxy to intercept the fortress, guard the black hole, and prepare for war in three-dimensional space.
• Hu Yu sent Chen Peng with ten Expellers and one trillion Conquerors to the Insect Zone to capture Li Shun alive, directing him to consult Academician Xiao first.

Hu Yu prepared for the coming war against the Fish Horse Star Civilization while the leaders planned a last-resort measure to preserve humanity. He told Xiao Xiao that she and Hu Yunhang had been selected for the Yanhuang Plan, leaving his own fate tied to the fleet.

• Hu Yu discussed the looming battle with Luo Zhigao, Yan Xue, and his comrades, then agreed that humanity still needed the Yanhuang Plan.
• Luo Zhigao took responsibility for choosing who would be saved, and Hu Yu went home to spend time with Xiao Xiao.
• Hu Yunhang arrived home after Li Wenfei took over his duties, and Hu Yu ordered him to take Xiao Xiao to the Tree Race before returning to the fleet.
• Xiao Xiao challenged Hu Yu about the sudden order, and Hu Yu explained that the Yanhuang Plan transferred selected humans' Consciousness Fields to new members of the Tree Race.
• Hu Yu revealed that Luo Zhigao had selected Xiao Xiao and Hu Yunhang, while he and Hu Yunhang would not undergo the modification and Hu Yu would remain with the fleet.

Hu Yu and the Milky Way forces prepared for war as the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s Super Fortress broke through into the fourth dimension. With Gao Jianchuan’s fleet unable to stop it, Yan Xue arrived with the Snow Tribe’s new fleet and began a plan to force the fortress into three-dimensional space outside the Reversed State defenses.

• Xiao Xiao urged Hu Yu and Hu Yunhang back to their posts after dinner, then wept and silently prayed for their victory.
• Hu Yu returned to Earth Four, where commanders and crews prepared for battle, and he called on civilizations across the galaxy to join the war and evacuate lower-level civilizations.
• Gao Jianchuan reported that his fleet could not stop the Super Fortress in the fourth dimension, and Hu Yu ordered him to hold it at the galaxy’s central black hole.
• Gao Jianchuan’s fleet and the fortress became locked in a destructive stalemate as both sides unleashed spatial attacks.
• Yan Xue arrived in the fourth dimension with the Snow Tribe’s fleet and took control of the Conqueror after ordering the other fleets to stop attacking.
• Yan Xue ordered the Slaughterers and J-99s to extract energy and the Conqueror to use Space Banishment against the Super Fortress.

Yan Xue brought the Snow Tribe battleship Blizzard into the fight against the Fish Horse Star Civilization's Super Fortress. The fortress descended into three-dimensional space and withstood the allied fleets' attacks, leaving the battle unresolved as Blizzard prepared to strike.

• Gao Jianchuan asked Yan Xue about the enormous Snow Tribe battleship, and Yan Xue explained that its technology and equipment had been concealed and downgraded.
• The Super Fortress descended into three-dimensional space after the fleet drained energy from its sealed space, and Hu Yu ordered the galaxy's fleets to coordinate with the Firefly Civilization.
• The Firefly Civilization exposed part of the fortress by forcing its Space Maze aside, while the Slaughterers and allied civilizations attacked it with gravity bombs.
• The fortress rotated and swept its energy pillars across the attacking fleets, destroying many ships and hiding its exposed shell within the Space Maze again.
• Yan Xue named the Snow Tribe battleship Blizzard and ordered it to attack as Hu Yu learned it had once served as a command ship.

The Snow Tribe and its allies attacked the Fish Horse Star fortress, using a giant silver warship to reopen a breach before the Fish Horse Star Civilization unleashed its hidden Galaxy-Level fleet. The galactic forces concentrated their remaining strength on the breach, while Zu identified the surviving Doomsday and Knight Civilizations among the enemy.

• The silver warship tore a breach more than a million kilometers wide in the fortress, then retreated after exhausting its special energy.
• The Knight and Doomsday Civilizations decided to let Mu Tang deploy their fleets, revealing their more than five quadrillion warships and their strength comparable to a mid-stage Galaxy-Level civilization.
• Wen Zhonghua sent the two-dimensional Expeller toward the breach, but Fish Horse Star warships poured out and disrupted its advance as Mechanical Civilization ships joined the fight.
• Fish Horse Star's fleet grew to 2.5 quadrillion ships, shifting the battle in its favor and forcing Hu Yu to rally the galactic fleets toward the breach.
• Zu told Hu Yu that he recognized the Doomsday and Knight Civilizations' fleets, and Hu Yu pledged to destroy them despite Zu's fear that the Snow Tribe might fall.
• The galactic warships formed a steel dragon and charged toward the breach through the enemy barrage.

As the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s fortress breached the Reversed State protective layer, Hu Yu decided to sacrifice the Milky Way’s uninhabited celestial bodies to create black holes and stop it. Meanwhile, the Snow Tribe’s J-99 fleet fought the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s warships in a vast, dimension-warping battle.

• The fortress advanced toward the Reversed State protective layer while Fish Horse Star Civilization warships destroyed the Fourth Reversed State and opened a path through it.
• Hu Yu faced urgent demands from the civilizations as their fleets struggled to stop the fortress and protect the gap.
• Hu Yu told Daozi that he would use the power of the entire galaxy to destroy the Super Fortress, and Daozi accepted the risk of sacrificing their resources.
• Hu Yu ordered most allied warships to withdraw and transport every uninhabited celestial body in the Milky Way to the center of the galaxy within two years.
• The Fish Horse Star Civilization sent 100 trillion warships against the Snow Tribe’s J-99 fleet, which held its own in a battle spanning ten light-years.

Yan Xue drew more Fish Horse Star warships into battle while Hu Yu failed to reach the fortress, and Academician Zeng and Academician Gao investigated a strange mass that appeared in the Eagle Nebula. A fleet from another world emerged from it, and the academicians realized what had caused the phenomenon.

• Yan Xue intensified his fight to draw Fish Horse Star warships away from the fortress, and another hundred trillion ships joined the battle.
• Hu Yu failed to find a way to approach the fortress as most Fish Horse Star ships cleared its path through the Reversed State.
• A huge, elongated mass appeared near Academician Zeng and Academician Gao in the Eagle Nebula, and Li Zhixiong ordered them to retreat while preparing defenses.
• The mass exploded and released a fleet of fewer than a billion warships, whose Consul discussed their escape from the Shadow Civilization and the possibility of contacting the local civilization.
• Academician Zeng and Academician Gao said they had figured out the mystery, while Li Zhixiong urged them to withdraw.

Academician Gao explained that their universe belonged to a vast dimensional structure, and the Black Stone Civilization confirmed it had arrived from another dimensional world while hunting the Shadow Civilization. Li Zhixiong suspected the beings in the Black Stone Civilization’s images were connected to the Nebula Consciousness Entity and awaited Hu Yu’s instructions as he questioned their visitors.

• Academician Gao described how universes and dimensions formed a larger, possibly pyramidal structure, and explained why the unknown fleet likely came from another dimensional world.
• Li Zhixiong let an incoming signal through after isolating the fleet’s information storage, and the Black Stone Civilization introduced itself.
• A Black Stone subordinate reported finding traces of the Shadow Civilization, and the Consul showed Li Zhixiong images of the entities they were pursuing.
• Li Zhixiong recognized a resemblance between one white shadow and the Nebula Consciousness Entity, secretly sent the images to Hu Yu, and denied having seen them.
• The Black Stone Civilization admitted that the consciousness entities were its mortal enemies, while Li Zhixiong noticed they seemed to sense his thoughts.
• Academician Zeng explained that the Expeller only partly blocked Consciousness Fields and told Li Zhixiong to question the visitors directly.

Li Zhixiong’s Conquerors crippled the Black Stone Civilization’s invading fleet, though some survivors escaped into the fourth dimension. As Hu Yu’s alliance began creating billions of black holes to destroy the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s fortress, the galaxy was left dark and the Fish Horse fleet fought to escape.

• Li Zhixiong ordered the Conquerors to attack the Black Stone Civilization’s fleet with two-dimensional fragments and close-range assaults.
• The Conquerors fused with the Black Stone warships and self-destructed, destroying many ships before the surviving Black Stone fleet escaped into the fourth dimension.
• Li Zhixiong gathered the wreckage, then joined Hu Yu and the academicians at the galactic center to discuss the Black Stone and Shadow Civilizations.
• The allied civilizations moved hundreds of billions of stars into position and created tens of billions of small black holes near the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s fortress.
• Hu Yu ordered several fleets to block the Fish Horse Star fleet while others cleared space ahead of the black holes to shorten their route to the fortress.

Hu Yu led the galaxy fleets into the battered Fish Horse Star Civilization fortress while its defenders absorbed black holes and prepared a plan involving the fortress’s fourth dimension. As the fortress raced toward the galaxy’s black hole, Hu Yu ordered the fleets to search its outer layers for the Space Maze equipment and destroy the energy beam emitters.

• Hu Yu ordered the galaxy fleets to withdraw from the fortress’s rear attacks and concentrate on surrounding it with black holes.
• The Fish Horse Star Civilization guided the incoming black holes toward its supermassive black hole, while the fortress suffered extensive damage and opened its fourth dimension.
• Hu Yu sent the galaxy fleets through holes in the fortress and ordered them to stay near the entrances as the Firefly Civilization and Xuan Star Civilization laid and stabilized passages.
• The invading fleets advanced through the fortress as the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s forces struggled to manage the black holes and clear a path.
• Bi Cha warned Hu Yu that the fortress was moving too quickly, so Hu Yu ordered most warships to search the outer layers for the Space Maze equipment and destroy the energy beam emitters.

The galactic fleet narrowed the Space Maze and prepared to face the Fish Horse Star fortress as it accelerated toward the central black hole. A burst of consciousness energy drew the Insect Emperor through a spatial passage, and Academician Xiao warned Hu Yu that it was approaching with biological warriors hidden among nearly every insect.

• Firefly's leader recalled warships to help the Xuan Star Civilization fleet restore space and destroy the Space Maze's emission points.
• The galactic fleet confined the Space Maze and the Fish Horse Star warships to a small region near the central black hole.
• The Fish Horse Star leader ordered the Insect Emperor brought to the fortress, which split open as Hu Yu's Consciousness Field weapons failed to stop it.
• The fortress sent consciousness energy through a spatial passage and struck the Insect Emperor, drawing it toward the fortress.
• Daozi warned Hu Yu that he would soon die, and Academician Xiao reported that the Insect Emperor was coming with biological warriors parasitizing almost every insect.

As the insect populace collapsed, Li Shun fled toward the Milky Way’s center with the Insect Emperor, while the galactic civilizations sacrificed their fleets to break through the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s space maze. The Slaughterer and the Expeller advanced toward the fortress black hole, and Yan Xue sent the giant silver warship into the final passage to clear their way.

• Wei Kaiyuan reported that more than ninety percent of the insect populace had died, and the Demon Scorpion leader ordered the fleet to set out while the Insect Emperor raced toward the galaxy’s center.
• Hu Yu learned that Li Shun had escaped and was heading for the center, then rallied the galactic fleet as it struggled against the space maze.
• The Brilliant Star Civilization, followed by the Zhalong and other civilizations, sacrificed its warships to blast open a passage while Bi Cha and the Xuan Star Civilization worked to keep it stable.
• The Firefly Civilization and its allies covered the final stretch, allowing the galactic fleet to break through toward the fortress black hole.
• Hu Yu sent the Slaughterer and the Expeller to attack the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s final defenses, but their advance stalled under heavy resistance.
• Yan Xue ordered the giant silver warship into the passage, where it rammed aside Fish Horse Star Civilization warships as the Slaughterer and the Expeller followed.

The Fish Horse Star Civilization sent the Insect Emperor to stop the Snow Tribe warship, but the Emperor failed to halt it and the galactic fleet gained support from Academician Xiao’s insect army and Li Shun’s fleet. As the Fish Horse Star Civilization prepared to act, Li Shun ordered Wei Kaiyuan to seize the Insect Emperor’s consciousness, while the chapter revealed the civilization’s separate scheme involving the Insect Emperor This-Life Body.

• The Fish Horse Star leader urged Ci Ma to ensure the Insect Emperor arrived in time to stop the Snow Tribe warship.
• The Insect Emperor blocked the massive silver ship but was split apart when it charged through, then rapidly reassembled itself.
• Hu Yu noticed the fortress had reached the galactic black hole as Academician Xiao deployed his insect army, which helped the galactic fleet navigate and attack.
• Li Shun arrived with five hundred trillion warships and ordered Wei Kaiyuan to seize the Insect Emperor’s consciousness.
• The Fish Horse Star Civilization prepared to act, and the chapter explained how it had secretly negotiated with the independent Insect Emperor This-Life Body.