Chapter Summaries

The human fleet attacked the insect swarm after the Grim Slayers were destroyed, using Reapers and Stingers to inflict heavy losses. The battle continued as the Reapers surrounded both Insect Kings and sought a way to capture one alive.

• Wen Zhonghua ordered the Reapers to split into ten groups and block the swarm from spreading to nearby systems.
• Ten billion Reapers launched a surprise spatial-cannon attack that killed over two hundred billion insects, including high-level insects.
• The swarm scattered to reduce the damage from the Reapers’ second spatial-cannon wave, while Stingers rammed insects and planted antimatter bombs inside them.
• Hu Yu ordered Gao Jianchuan to find a way to capture an Insect King alive for study.
• The Reapers surrounded both Insect Kings and used repeated spatial-cannon attacks to stop them from moving.

Humanity and the Tree Race exhausted and restrained the two insect kings so Academician Xiao could capture them. The kings were moved toward a nearby planetary system, where Xiao planned to use the openings in their shells.

• Tian Feng and the other Great Star Region Civilization leaders withdrew their fleet to let humanity continue fighting the insect kings.
• After years of attacks, the insect kings weakened, and Academician Xiao told Wen Zhonghua he could immobilize them if they stayed still for ten minutes.
• The Tree Race patriarch and elders bound the exhausted insect kings with branches while the reversal equipment formed thick Third Reversed State shells around them.
• The elders severed their frozen branches and withdrew, leaving openings in the shells for Academician Xiao to use.
• Wen Zhonghua ordered the insect kings taken to a nearby planetary system, and Academician Xiao prepared to arrive with a team on a biological ship.

Academician Xiao and the fleet discovered that the Insect King could attack them with a consciousness field, though Xiao remained unaffected. He went alone to study the bound creature and began directing robot police to restrain it.

• The Insect Kings’ consciousness-field attack incapacitated the academicians and guards, forcing Chen Peng to turn the fleet away until the pain subsided.
• Academician Xiao explained that the Insect King had likely attacked through a consciousness field and insisted on approaching it alive for study.
• Xiao set off alone for the Insect King planet while Chen Peng deployed one hundred million Reapers to secure the surrounding space.
• With robot police protecting him, Xiao reached the crater and saw the fifty-kilometer-long Insect King for the first time.
• At Xiao’s direction, robot police descended into the crater and used Second Reversed State gear blades to restrain the Insect King’s enormous legs.

Academician Xiao used a high-speed reversed state gear to cut through the Insect King's armor and entered its body to investigate its organs. After the Insect King repeatedly refused to answer questions, he reached its brain and severed a tissue strand, then released Little Crab.

• Academician Xiao questioned the Insect King, but it replied only that everyone must die, so he ordered the gear to begin cutting off its legs.
• The robot police restrained the struggling Insect King as the gear removed most of its legs, and Academician Xiao entered its body in powered armor.
• Academician Xiao explored the Insect King's interior and recorded details about its biological reactor and energy storage organs.
• Academician Xiao reached the Insect King's brain and again asked where it came from and what its purpose was, but it repeated its threat.
• Academician Xiao burned a tissue strand, endured the Insect King's violent reaction, and then severed a strand connected to its brain before releasing Little Crab.

Academician Xiao tried to use Little Crab to probe the Insect King’s mind, but the attempts killed the creatures and the first Insect King. After building and testing an enlarged Little Crab on the surviving Insect King, Academician Xiao received a desperate warning before the crab died.

• Academician Xiao connected Little Crab to the first Insect King’s brain tissue, but the creature died after experiencing the Insect King’s consciousness field.
• Chen Peng ordered the robot police officer to destroy the first Insect King’s brain, and Academician Xiao ordered the other Insect King buried inside a planet outside the galaxy.
• Academician Xiao studied Far Watcher Civilization brain tissue and created a large crab that grew over two years before sending it to the Insect King’s distant planet.
• The Reapers exposed the surviving Insect King, and Academician Xiao used antimatter to open its head and connect the large crab to its brain.
• The large crab died after linking with the Insect King, but it sent Academician Xiao the warning, “Humans, run! Run!”

After Academician Xiao saw the Insect Race’s vast stronghold through the insect king, the alliance leaders warned that the swarm might soon make a major move and discussed accelerating their preparations. They also devised a plan to have allied civilizations attack the Mu Star Civilization while using antimatter warships against the Fish Horse Star fleet, though their limited antimatter reserves remained a problem.

• Academician Xiao returned to the base and used a brainwave analysis helmet to reconstruct the image of the Insect Race’s enormous swarm and its central creature.
• Hu Yu and the others concluded that the swarm was likely the Abyss mentioned by the Destroyers, while Crab’s warning suggested it had seen something else before dying.
• Academician Xiao explained that they could not safely link another crab to the insect king, and said he would study the king’s structure to improve the biological warriors.
• The leaders agreed to strengthen the alliance and bring in the Xuan Star Civilization, while having the Brilliant Star Civilization and other allies attack the Mu Star Civilization.
• A leader proposed using antimatter warships to destroy the Fish Horse Star warships by making contact with them, but Wen Zhonghua doubted they could catch the fast ships or afford enough antimatter.

Hu Yu and Academician Xiao considered why the Xuan Star Civilization had joined the Fish Horse Star Civilization and planned to bring it into the alliance. At the first alliance military meeting, the civilizations volunteered forces to destroy the Mu Star Civilization, but the group still lacked a way to defeat the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s heavily armored warships.

• Academician Xiao suggested the Xuan Star Civilization’s leader might have made a secret agreement with the Fish Horse Star Civilization in exchange for a benefit.
• Hu Yu and Academician Xiao concluded they should kill the Xuan Star Civilization’s leader and negotiate with a successor, hoping the civilization would break free of the Fish Horse Star Civilization.
• Hu Yu convened the alliance’s first military meeting and outlined the plan to eliminate the Mu Star Civilization and recruit the Xuan Star Civilization.
• Leaders from several civilizations pledged their fleets, and Ninety-Seven offered to send the Tree Race’s elders if needed.
• The alliance leaders noted their numerical advantage over the Mu Star Civilization but admitted they had no way to destroy a hundred Fish Horse Star warships.
• Situhei asked about the Fish Horse Star warships’ armor, and the General explained that it might be neutron-degenerate matter.

Hu Yu and Situhei discussed using high-energy electron clusters and antimatter to destroy the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s warships, then turned to the problem of assassinating the Xuan Star Civilization’s leader. Muya proposed luring the leader outside their territory during a major upheaval, but the others questioned whether they could overcome the leader’s protection.

• Hu Yu and the scientists debated whether the Fish Horse Star warships’ materials and spatial defenses could be overcome.
• Situhei proposed bombarding the warships with macroscopic clusters of high-energy electrons and revealed that the Brilliant Star Civilization had stockpiled about ten billion tons of them.
• Hu Yu said humanity planned to use antimatter, and the group agreed that their combined supplies could destroy the hundred Fish Horse Star warships.
• Hu Yu asked how they could assassinate the Xuan Star Civilization’s leader, and the South Star Civilization’s leader said the target would be heavily protected.
• Muya suggested creating a major upheaval to make the Xuan Star leader evacuate outside their territory, but the Sand Star Civilization’s leader questioned how they could break through the leader’s escort fleets.

Muya proposed luring the Xuan Star Civilization leader out by making the civilization believe its territory faced a large-scale stellar attack, and Academician Zeng agreed to the plan. After the alliance began preparing for war, Hu Yu asked Zeng to explain his assassination method, which relied on the secret four-dimensional communication network.

• Muya suggested infiltrating the Xuan Star Civilization with replicated warships to assassinate its leader, then attacking the Fish Horse Star Civilization's warships.
• Academician Zeng said cracking the Xuan Star Civilization's communications was impractical, but agreed that Muya's plan to fake a major attack could draw out its leader and residents.
• The alliance leaders committed their warships and resources to the campaign, and Zeng promised each civilization six space scientists if they won.
• The star system-level civilizations began producing warships, electrons, and antimatter in preparation for the battle against the Fish Horse Star Civilization.
• At the Earth Two base, Hu Yu asked Academician Zeng about the assassination method, and Zeng revealed that it required the secret four-dimensional communication network.

An Academician explained a photon-based assassination plan against the Xuan Star leader and proposed the Seeding Plan to create approximate routes through the fourth dimension. The General approved preparations to hide a spacecraft in a star and send photons toward Xuan Star territory, while the Academician returned to research with Zhou Xiaohua.

• The Academician told the General that entangled particles could send antimatter into a target’s brain, but the assassination would require the Xuan Star leader to leave protected territory.
• The General suggested sending particles through four-dimensional channels, and the Academician explained that transmission destroyed their entanglement, making a sublight operation necessary.
• The Academician described using computers to model photons and coordinate a precise attack, which the General estimated could take at least a thousand years to prepare.
• The Academician presented the Seeding Plan, which would release entangled particles to establish approximate coordinates and enable faster travel through the fourth dimension.
• The General ordered a spacecraft to hide inside a star outside Xuan Star territory and let photons drift into its territory with the starlight.
• The Academician returned to the laboratory to help Zhou Xiaohua research how to trace a route back from the fourth dimension and avoid getting lost there.

Humanity secretly seeded the Xuan Star Civilization’s territory with photons while preparing a star-based attack. As the Xuan Star leader learned that a distant fleet was moving a mass of stars toward them, Feng Ye warned that the stars were likely aimed at their civilization.

• An engineering ship entered a star and began sending entangled photons toward the Xuan Star Civilization, while microships slipped into its territory undetected.
• Humanity’s fleet prepared warships, antimatter, photons, and virtual particles as part of its plans for expansion and future four-dimensional travel.
• After a thousand years, the Xuan Star Civilization had recovered and built a fleet of thirty billion warships.
• Twelve billion allied star system-level warships gathered more than a thousand stars into a fiery region fifteen hundred light-years from the Xuan Star Civilization.
• Bi Cha reported that the stars were moving toward the Xuan Star Civilization, and the leader dispatched two billion warships to investigate.
• Feng Ye arrived and warned the leader that the approaching stars were likely aimed at their civilization.

The Xuan Star Civilization feared that the stars detonated by the six-civilization fleet would create a spatial vortex, so Bi Cha ordered its people evacuated from their planets. Hu Yu and the Academician concluded that star explosions could not create such a vortex, leaving the fleet’s purpose and the coming battle against the Mu Star Civilization unresolved.

• Feng Ye warned Bi Cha that the detonated stars might recreate humanity’s spatial vortex, and Bi Cha ordered the fleet to issue a warning to the approaching civilizations.
• Wen Zhonghua ordered the six-civilization fleet to withdraw after detonating over a thousand stars, as its next target was the Mu Star Civilization.
• The Xuan Star patrol fleet became trapped in powerful spatial currents, and its captain reported the danger to Bi Cha.
• Feng Ye advised evacuating the Xuan Star Civilization’s people and planets before the spatial disturbance arrived, and Bi Cha ordered everyone aboard warships within two months.
• Hu Yu asked whether the explosions could form a spatial vortex, and the Academician argued that stars could not create one because matter carried space less strongly than energy.

Humanity prepared to strike the Xuan Star leader with photons while the Xuan Star Civilization evacuated ahead of an insect swarm attack. When the swarm arrived and the leader emerged, humanity held off, fearing retaliation from the Great Star Region Civilization.

• Humanity caused stellar explosions to disrupt Xuan Star space and positioned miniature spacecraft near the Xuan Star leader's planet.
• The Xuan Star Civilization evacuated its people and gathered its warships and industrial planets before preparing to leave its territory.
• An insect swarm of roughly 18 units descended on Xuan Star, trapping the civilian fleet and forcing Bi Cha to defend the evacuation.
• The Xuan Star leader contacted the Great Star Region Civilization, but it refused to send help and said Xuan Star should handle the swarm itself.
• The leader and Feng Ye left their protected building as humanity learned the leader was exposed to its photons.
• Old Hu refused to attack, fearing the Great Star Region Civilization would trace humanity's engineering ships, and Academician Zeng suspected humanity had drawn the insects to Xuan Star.

Academician Zeng and Wen Zhonghua discussed how stellar explosions might draw the swarm through the fourth dimension, while the Xuan Star Civilization fought to protect its civilian fleets. The battle remained unresolved, and Bi Cha’s forces faced dwindling energy reserves and a likely collapse of their defenses within six months.

• Academician Zeng told Wen Zhonghua that the swarm might track major spatial fluctuations, explaining its arrival near Xuan Star Civilization territory after a stellar explosion.
• Wen Zhonghua suggested detonating stars during a war with the Mu Star Civilization to test the theory, but Academician Zeng warned that the swarm could kill the humans held captive there.
• Xuan Star Civilization battleships used a powerful Space Barrier to shield civilian fleets while other ships fought to clear an escape route through the swarm.
• Bi Cha learned that the fleet had lost more than six billion battleships over two months while destroying at least eight units of bugs.
• Bi Cha concealed that the nonstop Space Barrier was draining energy, and the fleet could hold out for at most another six months before its defenses collapsed.

Bi Cha urged the Xuan Star leader to use the antimatter star against the encircling swarm, but the leader hesitated over the danger to civilians. As the Xuan Star Civilization’s defenses weakened, the Reaper and Stinger set out to help, and the Xuan Star leaders recognized the approaching fleet as human.

• Bi Cha proposed moving and detonating the antimatter star to destroy the swarm, warning that the Space Barriers could not be maintained indefinitely.
• The Xuan Star leader questioned the risks to civilians and delayed deciding whether to use the antimatter star.
• Bi Cha failed to break any warships through the swarm’s encirclement, while the Xuan Star fleet continued to suffer heavy losses.
• The alliance leaders ordered the Reaper and Stinger to aid the Xuan Star Civilization, and the fleets began a four-month journey.
• A reconnaissance satellite detected the approaching fleet, and the Xuan Star leaders identified it as humanity and considered asking the Great Star Region Civilization to intervene.

The Xuan Star Civilization debated whether to trust humanity when the human fleet arrived to help destroy the swarm. After a failed attempt to move the antimatter star, the Xuan Star leader accepted the humans’ help, and their fleet began devastating the swarm while Bi Cha remained suspicious of their motives.

• The Xuan Star leader ordered Bi Cha to prepare the antimatter star as a weapon, but the Reapers relayed a message that the human fleet would arrive in three months to help eliminate the swarm.
• Bi Cha warned that humanity was cunning and could not be trusted, while Feng Ye and the leader argued that accepting help was necessary to protect their people.
• Under Ji Wa’s arrangements, five million warships withdrew from the defensive perimeter to test moving the antimatter star, but billions of bugs rushed through the gap before the ships destroyed them at heavy cost.
• After Bi Cha reported that moving the star could let as many as a hundred billion bugs inside, the Xuan Star leader abandoned the plan and chose to trust humanity.
• The Reapers attacked the swarm with powerful space cannons and Stinger ships, while their Reversed State Armor resisted the bugs and their devices captured more than a dozen bug kings.
• Bi Cha remained wary of humanity, but Feng Ye and the leader noted that the human fleet’s attacks had not harmed their warships and that humanity likely had not brought the swarm.

The Human Civilization explained that its attempt to move stars was meant to redirect the swarm away from Xuan Star Civilization, and that it had come to help destroy the insects. Hu Yu urged Bi Cha to sever ties with the Fish Horse Star Civilization, leaving Xuan Star’s leaders weighing their future.

• The Reaper and the Stinger destroyed the swarm, while Xuan Star Civilization’s fleet was reduced from 30 billion warships to 20 billion.
• Bi Cha questioned why the humans had moved stars and asked what they wanted from Xuan Star Civilization.
• The humans said they had tried to change the swarm’s arrival point and had intervened after their plan failed to redirect it.
• Feng Ye confirmed that changes in space could affect where a swarm arrived, while Bi Cha questioned whether humans had brought it there.
• Hu Yu urged Bi Cha to abandon the Fish Horse Star Civilization and choose an honorable role in defending the galaxy.
• Bi Cha and Xuan Star Civilization’s senior figures reflected on Hu Yu’s words and the danger of remaining tied to the Fish Horse Star Civilization.

The allied fleet attacked the Mu Star Civilization while trying to trap and destroy the Fish Horse Star warships with layered antimatter and electron-cluster strikes. The chapter ended as Wen Zhonghua ordered Virtual Matter long arrows launched against the damaged enemy ships, with their effectiveness still unknown.

• The allied fleet launched an attack on the Mu Star Civilization, sending five billion warships forward while keeping seven other fleets ready to strike from separate positions.
• The Mu Star leader dispatched one billion warships to meet the attackers, while the Fish Horse Star warships charged into the battle and tore through allied ships.
• Hu Yu realized that one of the allied fleets was inside Xuan Star territory and ordered Zhonghua to monitor events there and attack if the situation changed.
• The allied fleet divided the battlefield into 99 sectors, surrounded the Fish Horse Star warships, and used antimatter bombs followed by high-energy electron clusters to disrupt their spatial defenses and damage their armor.
• The allied fleet sent a second wave of antimatter bombs into the craters, then Wen Zhonghua ordered Virtual Matter long arrows launched at the Fish Horse Star warships.

Humanity attacked the Fish Horse Star warships while seven billion allied warships advanced on the Mu Star Civilization. The Xuan Star Civilization broke with Fish Horse Star after the missing enemy warship appeared in its territory, and its leader was shocked to hear that humans had already taken out Fish Horse Star warships.

• Humanity's Virtual Matter arrows pierced the Fish Horse Star warships but failed to disable them, so commanders ordered continued antimatter attacks and sent the combined fleet toward the Mu Star Civilization.
• Seven billion warships approached the Mu Star Civilization from seven directions, aiming to destroy its remaining inhabited planets.
• A missing Fish Horse Star warship emerged from the insect remains in Xuan Star Civilization territory, where Hu Yu and the humans confronted it.
• The leader of Xuan Star Civilization declared that his civilization would stop cooperating with Fish Horse Star, and Bi Cha, Feng Ye, and other senior officials supported him.
• The humans claimed they would soon destroy the Fish Horse Star warships in Mu Star territory, and the Xuan Star leader asked in surprise whether they had already done so.

Hu Yu showed the Xuan Star Civilization how the allied fleets destroyed the Fish Horse Star warships, prompting the Xuan Star leader to renounce the Fish Horse Star Civilization and take his own life. Bi Cha led a furious attack that destroyed another Fish Horse Star warship, while the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s Second Leader chose to avoid retaliation until its plan succeeded.

• Hu Yu projected the allied fleet’s destruction of the Fish Horse Star warships in Mu Star Civilization territory for the Xuan Star Civilization to witness.
• The leader of the Xuan Star Civilization ended his people’s ties with the Fish Horse Star Civilization and took his own life to protect its secret.
• Bi Cha ordered twenty billion Xuan Star warships to attack and destroy the Fish Horse Star warship.
• The Fish Horse Star Civilization’s Second Leader rejected calls to retaliate against humanity and the Xuan Star Civilization, insisting that they wait until the plan succeeded.