Chapter Summaries

Human Civilization sought allies in Sextans to weaken the Giant General Civilization, and Hu Yu’s liaison persuaded the Firmament Civilization to help locate its base. The Firmament leader agreed in exchange for the Giant General Civilization’s technology tree.

• Hu Yu argued that the civilizations of Sextans had suffered most of the losses under the Giant General Civilization and proposed driving a wedge between them.
• General Li approved seeking allies in Sextans B and the NGC 3109 galaxy instead of asking the Milky Way for help.
• Human Civilization secretly sent a spacecraft and robot into Firmament Civilization territory to contact its leader.
• The liaison promised the Firmament Civilization the Giant General Civilization’s technology tree in exchange for the coordinates of its base.
• The leader of Firmament agreed to find the coordinates, provided that was the only task required of them.

Li Zhixiong and Hu Yu sought allies against the Giant General Civilization, sending disguised Dreadnoughts to Sextans B and NGC 3109. After finding NGC 3109 utterly devastated, they attacked the Firefly Civilization in Sextans B while pretending to represent the Giant General Civilization, and the Aurora Civilization's fleet approached as the Dreadnoughts fell behind.

• Li Zhixiong arranged for civilizations in Sextans B and NGC 3109 to help humanity, while the Dreadnoughts were modified to resemble Giant General Civilization warships.
• The Dreadnought fleet reached Sextans B and found advanced civilizations there, then waited for the second fleet to arrive from NGC 3109.
• The second fleet found NGC 3109 destroyed and lifeless, so Hu Yu ordered the Dreadnoughts to withdraw and left miniature spacecraft to investigate.
• Hu Yu and Li Zhixiong chose to seek help from the Firefly Civilization and launched a surprise attack on its fleet in Sextans B.
• The Firefly Civilization recognized the attackers as the Giant General Civilization and counterattacked, while Hu Yu learned that the Giant General Civilization had secretly fought it before.
• Li Zhixiong taunted the Firefly Civilization as the Dreadnoughts fell behind its much larger fleet, and Hu Yu detected the approaching Aurora Civilization fleet.

The Firefly and Aurora Civilizations led 110 trillion warships toward the Giant General Civilization’s base in the fourth dimension, guided by the Dreadnoughts. As the battle began, Li Zhixiong sent the Conqueror to recover Yan Xue’s technology planet before the other civilizations could reach it.

• The Dreadnought escaped into the fourth dimension and later led the Firefly and Aurora fleets toward the Giant General Civilization’s base.
• Hu Yu praised Zhuge Xiong, while Yan Xue explained that only he could open the planet containing his people’s technology and buried dead.
• The Giant General Civilization detected the approaching fleets and summoned the Firmament Civilization and two others to defend its base.
• The Dreadnoughts revealed their identities and attacked as the Firmament Civilization and the other two civilizations turned against the Giant General Civilization.
• The Giant General Civilization sent warships to strike the three civilizations’ bases, but Hu Yu had already evacuated their people.
• Li Zhixiong ordered the Conqueror to retrieve Yan Xue’s planet, and Yan Xue’s fleet followed to help move it once secured.

The Conquerors and their allies overwhelmed the Giant General Civilization, but the battle stalled as the Giant General Civilization tried to escape with the Snow Tribe planet. When the planet revealed itself as a sealed four-dimensional silver sphere, Li Zhixiong’s forces and Yan Xue’s fleet moved to protect it and get close enough to claim it.

• The Conquerors joined five other civilizations in attacking the Giant General Civilization, whose fleet suffered heavy losses as it tried to evacuate its population.
• Yan Xue identified the planet the Conquerors needed to seize, and Li Zhixiong led the human fleet toward it through the Firefly Civilization’s assault.
• An energy wave stripped away the planet’s surface and revealed a silver sphere sealed against fourth-dimensional observation, drawing the attention of the other civilizations.
• The Giant General Civilization abandoned its escape attempt and gathered its remaining forces around the planet, while Li Zhixiong repeatedly attacked its defensive line.
• Yan Xue’s fleet joined the fight, using its strong defenses to shield the Conquerors as they advanced toward the silver planet.

The Firefly Civilization took possession of the silver planet, but Hu Yu confronted its fleet and explained that the Human Civilization had come to reclaim it. The Firefly Civilization agreed to return it if Hu Yu could prove ownership, and Yan Xue began unlocking the planet.

• The Giant General Civilization abandoned the silver planet and escaped into the fourth dimension, leaving it in the Firefly Civilization's hands.
• The Firefly Civilization prepared to leave with the planet, but Hu Yu blocked its path with the remaining Conquerors and Dreadnoughts.
• Hu Yu told the Firefly Civilization that his forces were the Human Civilization from the Milky Way and that they had come to reclaim the planet.
• The Firefly Civilization agreed to return the planet if Hu Yu proved it belonged to the humans.
• Yan Xue reached a magnetic pole on the silver planet and sank into its surface, which hardened again after he disappeared.

After Yan Xue frightened the Firefly Civilization with the silver planet’s speed, Hu Yu negotiated an alliance and warned them that NGC 3109 had been destroyed. The Firefly Civilization agreed to protect Sextans A and Sextans B, while the Human Civilization returned toward the Milky Way.

• The silver planet accelerated to fifty thousand times the speed of light and frightened the Firefly Civilization before returning to the Conqueror.
• Yan Xue emerged from the silver planet trembling and told Hu Yu that something inside had terrified him.
• Hu Yu asked the Firefly Civilization to take over Sextans A and warned them that NGC 3109 had been reduced to scorched earth.
• The Firefly Civilization agreed to safeguard Sextans A and Sextans B, and Hu Yu offered to share information and promised future cooperation.
• After the power of space returned to normal, the Conqueror and silver planet set off for the Milky Way.
• The Firefly Civilization’s leader offered the Aurora Civilization its tech tree, and the two civilizations agreed to protect both galaxies together.

Hu Yu and the others explored the silver planet, where Yan Xue discovered the Snow Tribe’s original form and watched a recording left by its second patriarch. The message revealed the tribe’s ancient enemies and warned that the Snow Tribe’s remains and technology must be kept secret.

• Yan Xue stayed aboard the Conqueror, but Li Zhixiong carried him after Hu Yu when the others explored the planet.
• Hu Yu saw billions of incomplete, cleaver-shaped warships and estimated that the planet might contain five to ten trillion of them.
• Hu Yu, Li Zhixiong, and Qin Yin found terrifying dead creatures covering the planet’s inner shell, and Hu Yu recognized them as the Snow Tribe’s former bodies.
• Hu Yu told Yan Xue that the creatures were his ancestors, and Yan Xue approached them in sorrow.
• A recording from the Snow Tribe’s second patriarch explained that genetic modification had changed the tribe’s bodies and that restoring their full abilities meant returning to their original form.
• The patriarch revealed that the Snow Tribe had 500 billion warships and warned Yan Xue to hide its remains from the Doomsday Civilization, the Knight Civilization, and the Deep Space Civilization.

Hu Yu and Yan Xue brought Snow Star and the Snow Tribe’s surviving warships out of the chaotic four-dimensional zone. Yan Xue began preparing to rebuild the Snow Tribe, though the 500 billion recovered ships were only a third-tier force.

• Hu Yu ordered Yan Xue’s people to hide in the chaotic zone, rebuild their technology, and prepare a fleet while Hu Yu considered threats to the Milky Way.
• Yan Xue explained that Snow Tribe ancestors had created the Lost Zone as a defensive barrier and had hidden Snow Star within it.
• After the silver planet crossed the Lost Zone, Yan Xue’s people brought Snow Star to Hu Yu, and rabbits gathered to hear about Yan Xue’s experiences in Sextans B.
• The Snow Tribe launched 500 billion folded warships, which expanded into enormous vessels when they left the silver planet.
• Yan Xue learned that the ships were an intact third-tier self-defense force rather than the Snow Tribe’s main fleet, and accepted that its peak technology had been lost with its ancestors.

Hu Yu returned from Sextans A with Snow Tribe technology and discovered that the Fish Horse Star Civilization was still attacking the Mirror Sub-Universe while its time advantage dwindled. He also learned that the Justice League had risen to power in the Milky Way during his absence.

• Yan Xue gave Hu Yu copies of the Snow Tribe's technological reserves, and Hu Yu advised him and the Rabbit leadership to avoid the Milky Way and study their silver planet's technology.
• Hu Yu returned to the Mirror Sub-Universe entrance and found a vast, heavily fortified system marked by frequent fleet deployments and warship wreckage.
• Zhonghua told Hu Yu that the Fish Horse Star Civilization had reinforced its Milky Way fleet with sixty trillion warships and continued to harass them after a major battle.
• Zhonghua explained that the superconduit's time advantage had fallen from a hundredfold to at most twofold as space and energy from the greater universe flowed into the Mirror Sub-Universe.
• Zhonghua told Hu Yu that more than twenty Great Star Region Civilizations had formed the Justice League, which controlled the defensive line and had driven nonmembers into extragalactic regions.

Hu Yu met with the leaders of the six great star region civilizations and reported the destruction of NGC 3109 and the strange restrictions he faced in Sextans A. The Demon Scorpion leader revealed that evidence from Fish Horse Star Civilization wreckage pointed toward the Boötes Dwarf Galaxy as its possible home.

• Hu Yu chose to send Gao Jianchuan, Academician Qin Yin, and the others to the science ship while he traveled to the Yun San Civilization.
• Hu Yu told Leader Yun San that he had failed to find his people in Sextans A, where altered rules had nearly destroyed his fleet, and reported that all life in NGC 3109 had been wiped out.
• Hu Yu and the leaders discussed the threat posed by the Fish Horse Star Civilization and their inability to locate its base.
• The Demon Scorpion leader said analysis of contamination on Fish Horse Star Civilization wreckage suggested the civilization might have come from the Boötes Dwarf Galaxy.

Humanity used the Mirror Sub-Universe to upgrade the Conqueror fleet with new fourth-dimensional combat techniques while rebuilding after severe losses. The fleet had reached the level of a Great Star Region Intermediate Civilization, but it still lacked the energy and spatial control of the advanced civilizations as the Yun San Civilization prepared to confront the Fish Horse Star Civilization.

• The leader of the Yun San Civilization ordered Demon Scorpion to confirm the Fish Horse Star Civilization's real main base and told everyone to prepare for a decisive fight.
• Hu Yu returned to the base and found that the Conquerors had been almost wiped out, while humanity's two bases produced 600 million ships a year with help from the Superintelligent Robots.
• The academicians used the Mirror Sub-Universe to raise the Conquerors' speed and develop fourth-dimensional combat capabilities.
• Academician Liu and the other academicians developed Space Decomposition and Space Banishment using Basic Space Theory.
• The Conquerors could use those attacks only after gaining control of space, leaving humanity weaker than the Great Star Region Advanced Civilizations in energy and spatial power.

Hu Yu discussed new human technologies and the threat posed by the Fish Horse Star Civilization with the academicians. With Virtual Matter and Virtual Energy in production, humanity prepared to attack the civilization’s lair in Boötes once its location was confirmed.

• Hu Yu and the academicians considered whether Zu’s enemy had caused the events in Sextans and discussed helping the Snow Tribe rebuild its technology.
• Academician Zeng and Liu Bo explained research into directly reversing ordinary matter to produce antimatter celestial bodies and create Anti-Space.
• Academician Zeng reported that mass production of Virtual Matter and Virtual Energy had begun, and Hu Yu ordered production capacity shifted toward them.
• Hu Yu revealed that the Demon Scorpion Civilization had located the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s lair in Boötes and that humanity planned to attack once scouting confirmed the information.
• Hu Yu and the academicians warned that the Fish Horse Star Civilization might be difficult to eliminate and agreed it was time to confront its suspected conspiracy.

Hu Yu searched the Boötes galaxy for the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s hidden base while the Milky Way’s civilizations expanded their fleets and prepared for war. The Star Ring Alliance leaders pledged their forces to the coming campaign, and Wen Zhonghua began planning against an estimated two to three quadrillion enemy warships.

• Hu Yu sent miniature spacecraft to investigate Boötes, but years of searching through ordinary and fourth-dimensional space revealed no trace of the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s base.
• The Fish Horse Star Civilization and the Milky Way’s major civilizations expanded their fleets, while occasional attacks near the Mirror Sub-Universe entrance left the central black hole in a tense standoff.
• Hu Yu and humanity helped Star Ring Alliance civilizations advance technologically, and those civilizations worked to build fleets against their shared enemy.
• Hu Yu summoned the Star Ring Alliance leaders, who pledged their civilizations’ forces and war production to the coming campaign.
• Wen Zhonghua met with the alliance’s senior commanders to discuss battle plans based on an estimate of two to three quadrillion Fish Horse Star Civilization warships.

As the Star Ring Alliance and the five Great Star Regions prepared to attack the Fish Horse Star Civilization, Zu visited Hu Yu and offered powerful aid. Zu left behind a higher-dimensional energy sphere and warned that he would disappear until the battle was won, while Hu Yu remained uncertain about Zu’s origins.

• Hu Yu returned home to Xiao Xiao after a day of war preparations, and a sphere of light appeared in their room.
• Zu confirmed that he supported the attack on the Fish Horse Star Civilization but warned Hu Yu not to underestimate the enemy.
• Zu explained that the massive passage project had been unnecessary, and Hu Yu admitted that the humans had miscalculated.
• Zu revealed that he had left an energy sphere at the base, containing enough power to build a fleet of several quadrillion ships.
• Zu explained that the sphere contained chaotic higher dimensions and said his opponent was already searching for him, so he would vanish until the Fish Horse Star Civilization was defeated.
• After Zu disappeared, Hu Yu considered the mystery of Zu’s nature and wondered whether he came from the Doomsday Civilization or the Knight Civilization.

Humanity used the higher-dimensional sphere to build up its fleet while the Fish Horse Star Civilization prepared a secret attack from its hidden Super Fortress. The Fish Horse Star Civilization ordered an assault on the Dark Moon Civilization and planned to strike the Mirror Universe entrance at the same time.

• Superintelligent Robots produced Conquerors using energy from the sphere, giving Hu Yu greater confidence against the Fish Horse Star Civilization.
• The chapter revealed that the Crimson Flame Civilization was made of biological puppets monitoring Boötes for the Fish Horse Star Civilization.
• The Fish Horse Star Civilization’s First Leader discussed the hidden Super Fortress and ordered the Dark Moon Civilization destroyed.
• The First Leader also ordered generals in the Milky Way to prepare an attack on the Mirror Universe entrance, expecting the Dark Moon Civilization’s allies to respond.
• The Dark Moon Civilization’s true main base was revealed to be hidden in folded space about five hundred thousand light-years away, with twenty trillion reserve warships.

The Fish Horse Star Civilization launched a surprise attack on the Dark Moon Civilization’s hidden home base, forcing the Dark Moon leader to abandon Alliance Space and call for reinforcements. As the five Great Star Region Civilizations mobilized, Hu Yu watched from outside the galaxy and saw that they still kept humanity at a distance.

• A concealed bubble carrying Fish Horse Star Civilization warships traveled through the fourth dimension toward the Dark Moon Civilization’s base.
• The Dark Moon Civilization’s alarms detected the bubble, and its leader received an emergency message while he was in Alliance Space.
• The bubble burst, revealing fifty quadrillion Fish Horse Star Civilization warships that forced the Dark Moon base into the open and attacked its fleet.
• The Dark Moon leader told Yun San that he had to withdraw his fleet to defend the base, and the other civilizations agreed to send fifty quadrillion warships to support him.
• Hu Yu detected the battle but received no message from the five Great Star Region Civilizations, which left humanity out of their emergency response.

The Fish Horse Star Civilization pushed its fleet toward the Dark Moon Civilization’s planet ships, using the Space Millstone to clear Virtual Matter weapons from its path. The Dark Moon commander ordered a direct ramming attack as Virtual Matter failed to stop the advance.

• Hu Yu sent two trillion two-dimensional Conquerors into hiding in space, ready to ambush Fish Horse Star warships.
• A Fish Horse Star commander ordered the First and Second Fleets to activate the Space Millstone, while the Fourth and Fifth Fleets targeted the Dark Moon Civilization’s planet ships.
• The Space Millstone cleared a passage through the Virtual Matter weapons, destroying only several hundred thousand Dark Moon warships.
• The Dark Moon Civilization’s fleet formed a line to protect its retreating planet ships as the Fish Horse Star Fourth and Fifth Fleets charged through the cleared passage.
• The Dark Moon commander sent Virtual Matter weapons against the advancing fleet, but Fish Horse Star ships, robots, and small craft absorbed or evaded many of the attacks.
• The Dark Moon commander ordered the first echelon to ram the Fish Horse Star fleet directly.

The Dark Moon Civilization sacrificed five trillion warships to destroy eight trillion Fish Horse Star Civilization warships, buying less than a day for its retreating planetary ships. As the Fish Horse Star fleet neared the final defenses, a joint fleet of five Great Star Region Civilizations arrived with a new fourth-dimensional attack formation.

• The Dark Moon Civilization's first echelon charged the Fish Horse Star fleet and used glancing collisions and self-destructions to trigger chain wrecks, destroying eight trillion Fish Horse Star warships.
• The Dark Moon commander sent the fleet forward again to delay the Fish Horse Star fleet while the Dark Moon leader returned to the base.
• The Fish Horse Star fleet abandoned the Space Millstone, pushed through Virtual Matter weapons, and advanced on the planetary ships as another fleet blocked their escape routes.
• The Dark Moon commander weighed opening the fourth dimension as control over it shrank and the Fish Horse Star fleet approached the final line of defense.
• A joint fleet of five Great Star Region Civilizations arrived in the fourth dimension and formed a giant sphere around most of the Fish Horse Star warships for a combined attack.

The Milky Way civilizations fought the Fish Horse Star fleet to a stalemate while preparing to evacuate the Dark Moon Civilization into the Mirror Sub-Universe. The chapter ended with Fish Horse Star warships appearing near the sub-universe’s entrances, where the civilizations had already moved their bases and cleared Alliance Space.

• The Dark Moon fleet retreated as a four-dimensional strike tore through the Fish Horse Star fleet, forcing its surviving ships to scatter.
• The Fish Horse Star leader condemned Du Ka’s mistakes but postponed replacing him, while the two sides’ fleets became locked in a stalemate.
• Yun San urged the allied civilizations to concentrate their firepower and move their inhabited planets into the Mirror Sub-Universe before reinforcements arrived.
• The allied leaders agreed to evacuate their bases into the sub-universe, while the Demon Scorpion leader continued searching for the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s hidden lair.
• The civilizations struggled to open a gap for the Dark Moon evacuation as Fish Horse Star warships appeared near the Mirror Sub-Universe’s entrances.
• The allied leaders learned that the Fish Horse Star fleet had appeared near the sub-universe, but their preparations had left Alliance Space empty and the entrances clear.

Hu Yu tried to protect the civilizations inside the Mirror Sub-Universe while the Fish Horse Star Civilization advanced, but its fleet found a way to open the sub-universe to the fourth dimension. The new influx of space and energy restored the sub-universe and enabled warp travel, leaving Hu Yu facing an enemy whose capabilities had just expanded.

• Leader Tian Feng and Leader Demon Scorpion discussed the threat to their bases and told Hu Yu to protect the civilizations in the sub-universe.
• Hu Yu turned his fleet back rather than risk his Conquerors, then sent ten trillion ships to shadow the Fish Horse Star fleet and wait for an opening.
• Hu Yu opened breaches in the Reversed State channel, drained its energy, and led the civilizations deeper into the sub-universe.
• Hu Yu gathered aboard a Conqueror as the Fish Horse Star fleet reached the sub-universe entrance and cut a passage toward its interior.
• The Fish Horse Star fleet connected the Mirror Sub-Universe to the fourth dimension, flooding it with space and energy and restoring warp travel.