Chapter Summaries

Humanity continued preparing to attack the Fish Horse Star Civilization, developing new reversed-state matter and secretly researching two-dimensional weapons while mapping the enemy’s base. Academician Liu and Chen Peng returned from the Tree Race, and the chapter ended with Hu Yu asking whether the defensive line had sent news.

• Academician Li Youwei accidentally synthesized the fifth reversed state, which required 300 million tons of matter converted into energy per cubic centimeter.
• Humanity expanded Virtual Matter extraction and secretly produced Two-Dimensional Basic Space for possible covert attacks.
• Academician Zeng mapped the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s base and began a major spatial-physics research project to find a way to attack it.
• In 52500 CE, Academician Liu and Chen Peng secretly returned from the Tree Race, and Academician Liu joined the research into the enemy base.
• Hu Yu asked Mr. Dongdong whether the defensive line had sent news, and Mr. Dongdong said it had not.

Hu Yu arranged to obtain a Fish Horse Star Civilization warship through biological warriors, sending Wen Zhonghua into the bug zone under the cover of placing coordinate base stations. The plan left Wen Zhonghua’s fleet with a few bugs carrying Fish Horse wreckage, and he entered one to retrieve it.

• Hu Yu asked Dongdong to watch the Fish Horse fleet and sought relatively intact warship wreckage, but Dongdong said salvaging was forbidden.
• Hu Yu convinced Academician Xiao to provide one billion biological warriors, fitted with antimatter bombs for destruction after their mission.
• Wen Zhonghua led the biological warriors, Li Zhixiong, several academicians, and ten billion Reapers through the Heavenly Peak Civilization’s defensive line to place coordinate base stations in the bug zone.
• Wen Zhonghua secretly left biological warriors behind, and thirty years later a swarm with extra high-rank bugs attacked the Fish Horse fleet.
• After the Fish Horse fleet destroyed most of the swarm, a few bugs carrying warship wreckage reached Wen Zhonghua’s fleet, and he piloted a RoboCop into one of them.

Wen Zhonghua recovered thirteen Fish Horse Star warship wrecks from the bugs and helped reconstruct their communications equipment, which Hu Yu passed to the Xuan Star Civilization. As the alliance grew stronger and prepared to attack the Fish Horse Star Civilization, Hu Yu asked the Crystal Civilization and Gemini Civilization to shelter the lower-level civilizations if the alliance lost.

• Wen Zhonghua found thirteen warship wrecks inside the bugs, and the academicians reconstructed a complete set of Fish Horse Star communications equipment from two damaged sets.
• Hu Yu gave the Xuan Star Civilization the warship analysis, and Bi Cha said the information would increase its chances of victory by twenty percentage points.
• The alliance expanded its fleets and Exterminators over the following years as the antimatter star grew brighter.
• The Crystal Civilization and Gemini Civilization leaders visited Hu Yu and questioned his plans to attack the Fish Horse Star Civilization openly.
• Hu Yu asked the two leaders to care for the lower-level civilizations if the alliance lost and had to flee, and they agreed.

As the date of humanity’s attack on the Fish Horse Star Civilization drew near, Hu Yu expanded the fleet and prepared its weapons while investigating the disappearance of seven Small Star Sector Civilizations. The chapter ended with the attack five hundred years away and humanity’s forces largely ready.

• Hu Yu built enormous spaceships that vanished into the fourth dimension, while humanity continued producing Exterminators and a reduced number of Reapers.
• Hu Yu searched for the missing leader and Luo Zhigao and investigated the destroyed civilizations, but he found no culprit and suspected a conspiracy against humanity or the Star Ring Alliance.
• Hu Yu expanded the fleet’s population, settlements, and access to the Tree Race as the Xuan Star Civilization and human fleets grew to immense sizes.
• The Yun San Civilization’s giant ship arrived above Earth Four, lingered briefly, and left without directly stopping Hu Yu.
• In 58500 CE, five hundred years before the planned attack, Hu Yu gathered more than seventy billion Exterminators and eighty billion Reapers, while secretly preparing two-dimensional weapons.

Hu Yu led the Human Civilization and Xuan Star Civilization fleets to attack the Fish Horse Star Civilization, evacuating Alliance planets and preparing to destroy its hidden base with an antimatter star. The battle began with both sides exchanging four-dimensional hypersphere attacks, while Hu Yu’s forces searched for the base and fought to keep the Fish Horse fleet from intercepting them.

• By 59000 CE, the Alliance had amassed immense fleets and weapons, but Hu Yu refused to bring the other seven Small Star Sector Civilizations’ warships into the battle.
• Hu Yu sent the Alliance’s planets more than 30,000 light-years away, left 50 billion Reapers behind to guard them, and announced that the coming attack was solely the responsibility of the Human Civilization and Xuan Star Civilization.
• The joint fleet of 320 billion warships set out for the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s base, while 10 billion Reapers split off to investigate earlier sightings of its fleet.
• Hu Yu encountered 200 billion Fish Horse Star warships, exchanged threats with their commander, and ordered his fleet to spread out and launch four-dimensional hyperspheres.
• The Fish Horse Star fleet advanced through the bombardment and counterattacked, while Hu Yu’s Exterminators and Purgers searched for its hidden base and his other forces guarded the antimatter star.
• More than 500 billion warships fought across a widening region of space, and the Exterminators proved able to withstand the Fish Horse Star warships’ long-range attacks.

Hu Yu led the Xuan Star Civilization in a sweeping attack to locate the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s hidden base, while the academicians worked to reopen the sealed passage. The fleet’s search provoked a fierce battle, and the chapter ended with Bi Cha asking whether they should attack from another direction because they could not advance.

• Hu Yu had Gao Jianchuan analyze the battlefield data, but Gao Jianchuan found no sign that the Fish Horse Star fleet was protecting a particular area.
• Academician Zeng told Hu Yu that the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s passage opening appeared sealed, so the academicians were trying to reopen it.
• Hu Yu ordered ten billion Exterminators to sweep the region, and Bi Cha joined the effort with the Purger fleet under cover of the Exterminators.
• The Xuan Star fleet advanced with Space Barriers while the Exterminators fought off Fish Horse warships, suffering heavy losses on both sides.
• Hu Yu and Bi Cha noticed the Fish Horse fleet reinforce one direction after the Xuan Star fleet changed course, and they gathered their forces to push toward the suspected base.
• The fleets became locked in a devastating close-range battle amid shattered space, and Bi Cha asked Hu Yu whether they should attack from other directions.

The combined fleet fought off a Fish Horse Star Civilization ambush, and Academician Zeng found a way to expose the civilization’s hidden passages. Hu Yu sent Reapers through two passages toward the enemy base while the battle around it continued.

• A hundred billion Fish Horse Star Civilization warships surrounded the combined fleet and destroyed more than thirty billion ships before the Xuan Star Civilization restored its defenses.
• Hu Yu ordered the Exterminators into the fourth dimension, and they struck the newly arrived enemy fleet, inflicting heavy losses and easing pressure on the Xuan Star Civilization.
• Academician Zeng identified how the Fish Horse Star Civilization hid its spatial passages and proposed blasting their entrances open with a surge of energy.
• Hu Yu sent Reapers into the fourth dimension to open two passages, then dispatched five billion Reapers through each toward the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s base.
• Fish Horse Star warships continued using four-dimensional traversal in the battle, but the Xuan Star Civilization’s solidified space weakened their attacks.

Hu Yu and Xuan Star Civilization reached the Fish Horse Star base, where they discovered Wind Star Civilization's 300 billion warships reinforcing Fish Horse Star Civilization. The fleets formed up around the base and resumed fighting, leaving the battle unresolved as the antimatter star approached.

• Hu Yu sent the Exterminators into close combat and used fourth-dimensional space to open a passage for Xuan Star Civilization's fleet.
• Xuan Star Civilization advanced through the passage, and its fleet revealed the Fish Horse Star base after the nearby warships fell back.
• Hu Yu and Wen Zhonghua discovered that Wind Star Civilization had 300 billion warships at the base, alongside 50 billion Fish Horse Star warships.
• Fish Horse Star Civilization withdrew its warships into the base's defenses, while Xuan Star Civilization and the Exterminators took positions around it.
• Hu Yu advanced the Reapers through the passages toward the base, hoping to strike Fish Horse Star Civilization's important planets and disrupt its command system.
• Fish Horse Star Civilization attacked the Exterminators again as the antimatter star neared the base, and Xuan Star Civilization joined the chaotic battle.

Hu Yu's forces uncovered signs that the Wind Star Civilization had acquired technology from seven vanished small star sector civilizations, possibly through a powerful mastermind linked to the Fish Horse Star Civilization. The Reapers reached the Fish Horse Civilization's hidden home base and attacked its inhabited planets, while two-dimensional antimatter bombs struck a charging warship.

• The Wind Star Civilization used dimensional travel and overwhelming force to destroy most of the Stingers before they could attack the Fish Horse Civilization's planets.
• Bi Cha, Hu Yu, and Wen Zhonghua concluded that the Wind Star Civilization's weapons showed traces of technology from the seven missing small star sector civilizations and suspected the Fish Horse Civilization's mastermind was involved.
• Hu Yu recognized why Mr. Daozi had ordered the attack and kept the antimatter stars and two-dimensional bombs ready while the Reapers approached the Fish Horse Civilization's base through a spatial corridor.
• A Reaper self-destructed to break the corridor, revealing the Fish Horse Civilization's base and its fleet defending more than ten thousand inhabited planets.
• Hu Yu sent two groups of Reapers toward nearby planets as the Fish Horse warships charged them, and two-dimensional antimatter bombs entered one of the advancing warships and unleashed immense energy inside it.

Hu Yu and Li Zhixiong’s Reapers fought their way into the defensive perimeter but were trapped by the Wind Star fleet, then reinforced through the coordinate base station. As the Fish Horse Star Civilization joined forces with the Wind Star fleet to compress the Reapers’ space, Wen Zhonghua realized too late that they could no longer escape into the fourth dimension.

• Hu Yu revealed that ten billion Reapers were disguised Exterminators and that the fifty billion held at the base were also scaled-down Exterminators.
• The Reapers entered the space between the defensive layers, where the Wind Star fleet surrounded them and prevented their advance.
• Wind Star warships used close-range dimensional reduction strikes to destroy Reapers, while the Reapers’ counterattacks inflicted heavy losses on the Wind Star fleet.
• Li Zhixiong used the coordinate base station to bring ten billion more Reapers into the encirclement after the original force was nearly wiped out.
• The Fish Horse Star and Wind Star fleets began spatial compression around the Reapers; Wen Zhonghua ordered a fourth-dimensional jump, but the compressed space had made escape impossible.

The Xuan Star Civilization identified two likely Fish Horse Star command planets and launched a desperate assault to reach them. Its disguised Purgers slipped through the confused battlefield, with several dozen getting behind the enemy defenses.

• Hu Yu and Bi Cha concluded that two barren planets inside the Fish Horse Star and Wind Star fleets' protective perimeter were the likeliest command planets.
• Bi Cha told the Xuan Star leader that the civilization would destroy the Fish Horse Star command base, and the leader ordered the attack.
• One hundred and fifty billion Xuan Star Purgers charged into the enemy fleets, where their space-solidifying effect weakened incoming attacks before the Wind Star fleet struck them from the fourth dimension.
• One billion Xuan Star warships shed their outer armor to resemble Fish Horse Star ships and moved through the battlefield as the other Purgers kept the enemy occupied.
• The Fish Horse Star Civilization hunted the disguised ships, while the Wind Star Civilization hesitated to fire on vessels that might be allies.
• Several dozen disguised Purgers made it behind the Fish Horse Star and Wind Star defenses, near the area the Reapers had reached earlier.

The Xuan Star Civilization released millions of armored warriors from disguised Purger ships to infiltrate the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s planets, while Hu Yu ordered the Exterminators to break through the enemy fleets and support them. The Xuan Star warriors and Exterminators suffered catastrophic losses as they pushed toward the Fish Horse command worlds.

• The disguised Purgers exploded one after another, releasing 37 million Xuan Star warriors who scattered through space and evaded the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s warships.
• Hu Yu learned from Bi Cha that ten billion Xuan Star warriors had joined the operation and that all but those already deployed had fallen, then ordered the Exterminators to support them.
• Most surviving Xuan Star warriors converged on the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s two command planets, where more than a hundred million warships guarded each world.
• Hu Yu regrouped the Exterminators, which forced their way through the Wind Star and Fish Horse fleets despite losing more than ten billion ships.
• The Fish Horse Star Civilization began indiscriminate scanning attacks, while the Exterminators used four-dimensional hyperspheres to clear their path toward the planets.
• Only five million Exterminators remained as they continued ramming through enemy warships toward the two planets.

Bi Cha led the surviving Xuan Star warriors through the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s defenses and chose to attack one of its barren planets. After the warriors uncovered and breached an underground facility, they split up and fought through the planet’s defenses to reinforce the force below.

• As the Exterminators drew near the final defensive line, the Fish Horse fleet moved out, allowing the Xuan Star warriors to slip through and head for the planet Bi Cha had chosen.
• More than five thousand Xuan Star warriors reached the barren planet, flew low, and discovered a flat area that appeared to be an aircraft landing site.
• A Xuan Star warrior bombed the site, exposing an underground structure, while Fish Horse warships sent robots to oppose the attackers.
• A fifty-meter-tall Xuan Star warrior sacrificed himself to blast an opening into the structure, and Hu Yu saluted the Xuan Star warriors on humanity’s behalf.
• More than two thousand Xuan Star warriors entered the opening and split up underground, while other warriors fought through surface attacks to reinforce them.

Hu Yu and Bi Cha’s forces searched the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s underground base while the great star region civilizations watched the war without intervening. The Xuan Star warriors finally discovered a cavern holding more than a hundred thousand Fish Horse Star Civilization creatures, and Bi Cha received the report.

• Hu Yu considered building ground combat robots to protect inhabited planets after seeing the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s helplessness.
• Bi Cha doubted the underground complex was an ordinary base because the Fish Horse Star Civilization had deployed its noncombat robots there, but the Xuan Star warriors found no command system.
• Xuan Star warriors planted antimatter bombs on three planets and died in the resulting explosions along with every other living creature there.
• The Yun San Civilization urged the great star region civilizations to watch the conflict and ordered that fleets at the Fish Horse Star defensive line be prevented from returning.
• The Exterminators and Purgers withdrew from the battle while Xuan Star warriors opened a towering gate in the underground base.
• Xuan Star warriors found more than a hundred thousand Fish Horse Star Civilization creatures in a cavern, and Bi Cha received their report.

The Xuan Star warriors captured the Fish Horse Star leader, but neither side would yield, leaving the battlefield at a stalemate. Hu Yu revealed that he had anticipated the Gemini Civilization’s arrival and prepared a fleet to confront it.

• Bi Cha ordered the Xuan Star warriors to find the Fish Horse Star leader, and they tortured and killed Fish Horse Star People until one identified him.
• The warriors seized the Fish Horse Star leader, who said his deputy commanded the fleet elsewhere and that capturing him would not force the fleet to surrender.
• Bi Cha demanded the Fish Horse Star fleet disarm, while a message from the other planet threatened the Star Ring Alliance unless its leader was released; both sides held their positions.
• Hu Yu watched a fleet of 150 billion Gemini Civilization warships approach the alliance base and sent out a small Reaper force when it came within ten light-years.
• Hu Yu told the Xuan Star leader that he had suspected the Gemini Civilization was spying for Fish Horse Star and had prepared 50 billion scaled-down Exterminators to meet its fleet.

The Gemini Civilization attacked Human Civilization’s base to seize inhabited planets and force the release of the Fish Horse Star leader. Hu Yu let the attack run its course, then destroyed the occupied planets and demanded to know why Gemini had allied with the Fish Horse Star Civilization, as Gemini threatened to send its trillion-ship fleet against the humans’ relocated base.

• The Gemini Civilization fleet attacked the Exterminators and destroyed more than a dozen inhabited planets, killing hundreds of billions of civilians.
• Hu Yu and Wen Zhonghua ordered the Exterminators to stop defending the planets and strike back, but Gemini captured fifteen planets at the cost of most of its fleet.
• Hu Yu detonated every planet occupied by Gemini, rejecting its attempt to bargain for the lives of three hundred billion people.
• Hu Yu demanded to know why Gemini had joined the Fish Horse Star Civilization, while Gemini threatened that its trillion-ship fleet could still reach the humans’ base.

Hu Yu revealed that the Gemini Civilization had been tricked into attacking with false human civilians and forced it to surrender its tech tree and fleet. The Crystal Civilization joined the Star Ring Alliance, while the Fish Horse Star Civilization remained surrounded and its hidden mastermind prepared to abandon it.

• The Gemini Civilization admitted that the Fish Horse Star Civilization had supplied it with technology and promised it a Great Star Region warship, then handed over its tech tree and more than two billion warships after Hu Yu threatened it.
• Hu Yu explained that he had used robotic civilians and a staged withdrawal of allied fleets to lure the Gemini Civilization into attacking, and that the human fleet had destroyed more than thirty planets to trap it.
• The Crystal envoy announced that the Crystal Civilization would join the Star Ring Alliance, and Hu Yu welcomed it.
• The antimatter star and the Exterminator and Purger fleets surrounded the Fish Horse Civilization, while Hu Yu and the five Great Star Region Civilizations waited for its mastermind to appear.
• A voice inside Fish Horse Star declared that it would abandon the civilization, prompting a subordinate to ask about the second leader and their years of effort.

The Fish Horse Star Civilization abandoned its inhabited planets and revealed a giant bug that attacked its own fleet and the Wind Star Civilization. Hu Yu’s forces detonated the matter and antimatter stars, while new ships pursued the bug into the fourth dimension; the battle ended with the Fish Horse Star fleet breaking through and fleeing as spatial collapse consumed much of the battlefield.

• The Fish Horse Star Civilization turned its command base into a giant ship and abandoned its inhabited planets, prompting a giant bug to emerge and attack the Fish Horse Star and Wind Star fleets.
• Hu Yu moved a matter star and an antimatter star to the Fish Horse Star base and detonated them, while an Exterminator rescued the Xuan Star warriors by moving their planet away.
• The giant bug devastated both enemy fleets until tens of thousands of massive ships arrived and pursued it into the fourth dimension.
• The Xuan Star forces blocked the Fish Horse Star and Wind Star fleets as spatial collapse destroyed ships and made escape difficult.
• More than thirty billion Fish Horse Star warships broke through into normal space and fled.

After the Wind Star Civilization destroyed itself, the victorious Alliance faced the surviving Fish Horse Star fleet before its exhausted forces could return. Hu Yu’s hidden 200-billion-ship force ambushed the enemy, leaving its fleet incapacitated and its command ship and some warships intact.

• The Wind Star fleet and its remaining planet self-destructed as spatial collapse reached them, and the battered Exterminators and Purgers withdrew.
• The Alliance celebrated victory, but Hu Yu learned that the escaped Fish Horse Star fleet had appeared in the Alliance’s path.
• Hu Yu ordered the Alliance fleets to protect inhabited planets while the Fish Horse Star fleet slaughtered tens of billions of weaker Alliance warships.
• A concealed force of 200 billion warships surrounded the Fish Horse Star fleet and attacked with four-dimensional hypersphere bombs and dimensional strikes.
• The Fish Horse Star fleet lost control and began self-destructing, but more than a hundred damaged ships and most of its command ship survived.

Hu Yu’s hidden fleet of Number One and the others destroyed the Fish Horse Star and Wind Star civilizations in moments, ending the war. The Xuan Star leader chose to remain in the Star Ring Alliance, while the survivors faced heavy losses and began assessing their technological spoils.

• Number One and the others appeared in Hu Yu’s command room after swiftly defeating the enemy fleet, and Wen Zhonghua teased them before ordering them to salvage the battlefield.
• Hu Yu explained that he had prepared the hidden fourth-dimensional fleet as a contingency, and the alliance leaders praised its strength.
• Hu Yu declared victory over the Fish Horse Star and Wind Star civilizations but said the mastermind behind the conflict remained unknown.
• Hu Yu confessed that the alliance had arranged the previous Xuan Star leader’s death to free the civilization from Fish Horse influence, and the Xuan Star leader said they had already guessed and would stay in the alliance.
• Hu Yu and the Xuan Star leader pledged to keep fighting together, then the survivors counted their severe losses and the enemy ships and technology they had captured.