Chapter Summaries

Hu Yu and the allied civilizations struggled to stop the Fish Horse Star Civilization from advancing through the sub-universe, while searches for its hidden home base found nothing. At the Dark Moon base, the expanding spatial collapse weakened the Fish Horse Star fleet enough for the Dark Moon Civilization to escape into the fourth dimension.

• Hu Yu realized the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s expanding space would catch the relocating bases within decades, leaving humanity short of time rather than energy.
• Hu Yu and his companions discussed attacking the Fish Horse Star home base, but the Yun San Civilization and others could not risk deploying their remaining fleets.
• Academician Zeng and the other researchers confirmed that the Fish Horse fleet had come from Boötes, but its space-folding technology made its base difficult to locate.
• At the Dark Moon base, the spatial void expanded and swept Fish Horse Star warships away, allowing the allied fleets to hold them back.
• The Dark Moon Civilization’s fleet broke through the weakened encirclement and escaped into the fourth dimension.

The Justice League, secretly formed by Li Shun’s brain-controlled allies and managed by Guan Sengping, gathered a vast fleet to block the Dark Moon Civilization’s escape into the fourth dimension. The chapter explained how the League grew by offering technology to smaller civilizations and ended with its enormous force poised to confront the Dark Moon fleet.

• Guan Sengping organized Li Shun’s loyal puppet civilizations into the Justice League while Li Shun remained in hiding.
• The Justice League recruited a hundred thousand Small Star Sector Civilizations by promising shared technology and greater influence, while pressuring nonmembers to leave the inner galaxy.
• The League gave its members fourth-dimensional navigation and combat technology in exchange for future unconditional service and ordered them to refit their fleets.
• The Justice League assembled a fleet of ten million billion warships, including more than ten trillion ships from Great Star Region Civilizations and ten antimatter stars.
• As the Dark Moon Civilization’s fleet prepared to enter the fourth dimension, the Justice League’s super fleet appeared and blocked its route.

The Justice League’s antimatter fleet helped push the Dark Moon Civilization out of the fourth dimension, then demanded technology from the Great Star Region Civilizations and exposed that it had discovered the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s hidden base. The Yun San Civilization and the others debated whether to comply, while the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s plans remained a threat.

• The Justice League’s antimatter attacks weakened the Dark Moon Civilization’s fleet until it retreated to the three-dimensional universe, and the Fish Horse Star Civilization and its opponents paused their fighting.
• Commander Du Ka and the Yun San Civilization tried to persuade Li Shun to join their sides, but Guan Sengping demanded that the civilizations submit lists of technologies within three days.
• Guan Sengping sent Du Ka the coordinates of the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s hidden base and threatened to reveal its plan to the galaxy.
• The Yun San Civilization and the other leaders discussed the Justice League’s growing influence and whether to provide it with technology.
• The Demon Scorpion leader rejected the idea of joining forces with the Fish Horse Star Civilization to attack Li Shun, and the leaders remained divided over what to do.

Guan Sengping brought the Justice League fleet to the Mirror Sub-Universe and demanded technology from the civilizations there, threatening to detonate matter and antimatter stars to expand the entrance. Hu Yu and the others prepared to stall him while seeking a way out, but Academician Zeng warned that Guan Sengping’s threat could help the Fish Horse Star Civilization widen the entrance.

• Guan Sengping surrounded the Fish Horse Star fleet with the Justice League and warned Hu Yu that detonating the controlled stars could expand the Mirror Sub-Universe entrance.
• Hu Yu halted his approaching two-dimensional warships after Guan Sengping threatened to trigger a spatial collapse.
• Guan Sengping demanded that the civilizations provide lists of technologies within three days in exchange for Justice League assistance.
• Hu Yu learned that the Justice League had made the same demand of the Dark Moon Civilization, and he and the other civilizations began compiling technology lists to stall Guan Sengping.
• Academician Zeng told Hu Yu that exploding the stars could indeed widen the entrance and accelerate the flow of energy and space into the Secondary Universe.

As the Justice League’s overwhelming fleet threatened the Mirror Sub-Universe forces, Academician Zeng proposed isolating the region of space and reducing it to two dimensions. Hu Yu arranged for Number One’s fleet to help, while the commanders planned to obtain more two-dimensional fragments by offering Guan Sengping an enticing technology list; the chapter left the plan awaiting Guan Sengping’s response.

• Academician Zeng ruled out several attacks and proposed cutting off the region from surrounding space, sealing the fourth dimension, and destroying the trapped fleets with two-dimensional fragments.
• Hu Yu said Number One could bring a fleet of about two trillion warships to help seal off the fourth dimension and ordered them summoned.
• Wen Zhonghua questioned how the fleet could obtain more two-dimensional fragments through the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s blockade.
• Academician Zeng proposed showing three trillion warships and offering Guan Sengping attractive technology so he would arrange a passage for the technology list.
• Hu Yu compiled a list mixing technologies the fleet possessed with unverified or undeveloped ones, including rapid warship construction, and sent it to Guan Sengping.

Hu Yu negotiated with Guan Sengping for ten antimatter stars in exchange for his technology tree, while Guan Sengping secretly arranged with the Fish Horse Star Civilization to eliminate the Dark Moon Civilization and then Hu Yu. Wen Zhonghua returned with part of the technology tree and Academician Xiao, who began preparing instruments to locate the Fish Horse Star Civilization's lair.

• Hu Yu demanded ten antimatter stars and the withdrawal of the Justice League before he would hand over his technology tree to Guan Sengping.
• Guan Sengping secretly agreed to help the Fish Horse Star Civilization destroy the Dark Moon Civilization, then planned to turn against the weakened Fish Horse Star Civilization.
• Hu Yu revealed three trillion Conquerors, and Guan Sengping agreed to exchange antimatter stars for part of the technology tree.
• Wen Zhonghua led a squadron through the sub-universe, collected part of the technology tree, and returned with Academician Xiao and several billion Conquerors.
• The Conquerors distributed two-dimensional fragments across the battlefield, while Academician Xiao began assembling instruments to find the Fish Horse Star Civilization's lair.

Hu Yu negotiated with Guan Sengping over antimatter stars and technology while both sides prepared to betray the other. After the second exchange, Guan Sengping had the stars and a technology tree, and his fleet was poised to attack Hu Yu aboard the Conqueror.

• Hu Yu and Guan Sengping agreed to exchange antimatter stars for technology in stages, with Hu Yu insisting that Guan Sengping hand over the stars first.
• Guan Sengping and Du Ka continued plotting to seize technology and eliminate their rivals while Hu Yu’s forces and the Fish Horse Star Civilization remained temporarily at a standstill.
• Number One arrived with one trillion warships and agreed to disrupt the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s fourth-dimensional connections and later attack the Justice League fleet guarding the remaining antimatter stars.
• Hu Yu completed the first exchange, giving Guan Sengping fourth-dimensional positioning and Space Decomposition technology in return for two antimatter stars.
• Guan Sengping moved five more antimatter stars to the designated area, while Hu Yu kept the Anti-Space and Third Energy technologies from him.
• Guan Sengping tightened his fleet’s formation around Hu Yu and prepared to attack once the exchange was complete.

Hu Yu tricked Guan Sengping into handing over five antimatter stars, then trapped the surrounding fleets inside a sealed region and devastated them with two-dimensional fragments. Du Ka’s surviving forces turned on Guan Sengping and the Justice League, leaving their alliance in chaos.

• Hu Yu accepted Guan Sengping’s five antimatter stars while pretending to worry that Guan Sengping would break their agreement.
• Hu Yu ordered the Conquerors to sever a 0.4-light-year region from the universe and unleash two-dimensional fragments, while another fleet seized the remaining antimatter stars.
• Hu Yu escaped through concealed intact space as the fragments tore through the Fish Horse Star and Justice League fleets.
• The Aquila Fleet blocked Fish Horse Star ships in the fourth dimension from restoring space, and Du Ka lost nearly fifty trillion warships.
• Du Ka blamed Guan Sengping and attacked the Justice League, while Guan Sengping cursed Du Ka for ruining their chance to defeat the Dark Moon Civilization.

Hu Yu’s forces destroyed the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s fleet with a two-dimensional attack, forcing the alliance and other civilizations to flee, while the Fish Horse Star Civilization appointed Ci Ma to replace Du Ka. Hu Yu then learned that Number One and the others had wiped out the Justice League’s civilizations, gave them access to more technology, and assigned them to find Li Shun.

• Guan Sengping ordered the alliance fleet to scatter as the Fish Horse Star Civilization and other forces withdrew from the battlefield.
• Hu Yu saw that the Conqueror had destroyed nearly fifty trillion Fish Horse Star Civilization warships with almost no losses.
• The Fish Horse Star Civilization’s first leader learned that Du Ka had killed himself and ordered Ci Ma to take command.
• Number One and the others told Hu Yu they had wiped out the Justice League’s civilizations, and Hu Yu agreed to give them more technology if they built up their fleets.
• Wen Zhonghua scolded Number One through Number Seven, and Hu Yu ordered them to find Li Shun without confronting him.

Hu Yu coordinated with the Great Star Region Civilizations as they pursued Guan Sengping and discussed the threats posed by the Justice League and Fish Horse Star Civilization. The civilizations could not locate Fish Horse Star’s hidden base or spare forces to attack its fleets, and Hu Yu asked whether the insect swarms had become unusually active.

• Number One agreed to find Guan Sengping alive after Hu Yu asked the group to pursue him.
• The Dark Moon Civilization and the other Great Star Region Civilizations arrived, and Yun San said they would hunt the Justice League and share information.
• Hu Yu concluded that Daozi had been powerless to rescue him during the earlier crisis, despite having noticed the approaching fleet.
• Yun San said the civilizations could not find Fish Horse Star’s base, while their heavy losses and restless insect swarms prevented them from attacking its fleets.
• Hu Yu asked whether other hidden advanced civilizations existed, then asked Yun San whether the insect swarms had shown unusual activity.

Hu Yu managed humanity’s preparations while the Fish Horse Star Civilization protected its secret plan and the Insect Emperor’s evolution threatened to complicate the situation. Academician Xiao discovered that the Crimson Flame Civilization’s unusually powerful consciousness field pointed to the Fish Horse Star Civilization hiding in its territory.

• Ci Ma strengthened the Fish Horse Star fleet’s defenses and prioritized protecting the civilization’s plan.
• Hu Yu sent Wen Zhonghua back to the sub-universe to inform its people and oversee their preparations.
• Hu Yu maintained living spaces and survival training for humanity aboard the Conquerors.
• Academician Xiao showed Hu Yu a map of consciousness-field strengths and explained that the Crimson Flame Civilization’s reading was far too high for its population and status.
• Academician Xiao told Hu Yu he was certain the Fish Horse Star Civilization was hiding in the Crimson Flame Civilization’s territory.

Hu Yu learned that the Fish Horse Star Civilization's hidden base was likely inside a star in the Boötes system and began preparing the Star Ring Alliance for a possible attack. He kept surveillance discreet while waiting for a detailed image of the star's interior to confirm the target and gather intelligence.

• Academician Xiao told Hu Yu that a powerful consciousness field inside a star likely came from the Fish Horse Star Civilization's base.
• Hu Yu ordered the photon channels in Boötes suspended and the star watched discreetly, then sent Li Zhixiong to notify the chief of staff and the Star Ring Alliance to prepare for battle.
• Hu Yu remembered the Fish Horse Star Civilization's past attacks, which had killed enormous numbers of humans, and vowed that humanity would finally take revenge.
• Gao Jianchuan urged Hu Yu to rest, but Hu Yu asked for news from Academician Zeng, whose team was mapping the star's interior for confirmation.
• Hu Yu maintained covert surveillance because he feared provoking the Fish Horse Star Civilization before humanity was ready and wanted to learn more about its defenses.

Hu Yu and the leaders of the Milky Way’s trusted civilizations met to coordinate a war against the Fish Horse Star Civilization, whose hidden base humanity had located inside a star. The five great star region civilizations and the Human Civilization agreed to share selected technologies as the galaxy prepared for an all-out conflict, and the Dark Moon Civilization invited Hu Yu to visit.

• Academician Zeng used fleet data and simulations to model the star, then entered the subsidiary universe to develop more technological support while Academician Qin Yin took over the remaining work.
• Hu Yu convened the leaders of over a hundred civilizations and announced that humanity had found the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s base inside a star with ninety-nine percent certainty.
• Leader Yun San warned that the allied civilizations could at best fight the Fish Horse Star Civilization to a standstill and announced that the five great star region civilizations would share technology to strengthen their fleets.
• Hu Yu announced that the Human Civilization would share rapid warship construction and dimensional elevation technology while withholding Reversed State technology from civilizations outside the Aquila Civilization.
• Leader Yun San explained the threats facing the galaxy and called for every civilization to prepare, and the leaders rallied behind the demand to destroy the Fish Horse Star Civilization and defend the Milky Way.
• After the meeting, the Dark Moon Civilization’s leaders thanked Hu Yu for saving them and invited him to visit their settlement in the subsidiary universe.

Hu Yu visited the Dark Moon Civilization and was captivated by its vast, natural planetary world. The leader of Dark Moon privately warned him that someone might have betrayed their hidden base, and Hu Yu returned to his base unsettled by the suspicion.

• Hu Yu accepted the leader of Dark Moon’s invitation to make a friendly visit, while the other leaders declined and agreed to focus on defeating the Fish Horse Star Civilization.
• The leader of Dark Moon showed Hu Yu the civilization’s beautiful planetary spaceships, and Hu Yu rode a giant flying creature through the sky as Dark Moon residents welcomed him.
• The leader of Dark Moon told Hu Yu that the Fish Horse Star Civilization should not have been able to find their isolated base and raised the possibility of a traitor among their allies.
• Hu Yu promised to watch for clues and suggested the Fish Horse Star Civilization might have found the coordinates another way, though he did not believe his own explanation.
• Hu Yu returned to his sub-universe base, left Gao Jianchuan to guard outside, and remained troubled by the leader of Dark Moon’s suspicions.

Hu Yu considered which civilization had betrayed the Dark Moon Civilization’s base coordinates, then learned from Academician Li Youwei about a new, undetectable Virtual Reversed State. After consulting the generals, Hu Yu ordered one trillion Conquerors retrofitted with the technology, though its usefulness against the Fish Horse Star Civilization was limited.

• Hu Yu weighed the Yun San, Heavenly Peak, Rock Star, and Demon Scorpion Civilizations as possible accomplices in the leak, but could not determine who was responsible.
• Academician Li Youwei told Hu Yu he had synthesized a Virtual Reversed State that matched the Fifth Reversed State’s defenses and could evade detection except by optical equipment.
• Hu Yu asked whether the technology could provide Virtual Matter, but Li Youwei explained that the state collapsed into Basic Space when attacked and left no Virtual Energy.
• Li Youwei said Academician Zeng had reassigned him to help Academician Liu Bo research the reversal of positive matter, and Hu Yu accepted the decision.
• After consulting the generals, Hu Yu judged the Virtual Reversed State more useful for escape than attack and ordered one trillion Conquerors retrofitted.

Hu Yu and the other leaders tested whether pieces of Alliance Space could preserve their time advantage inside the Secondary Universe, where they could use the extra time to build fleets against the Fish Horse Star Civilization. The test succeeded temporarily, and the civilizations began moving their supplies and bases into cut-off pieces of Alliance Space.

• Academician Zeng proposed cutting out a piece of Alliance Space and moving it into the Secondary Universe, and Hu Yu gained the other leaders’ agreement to try it.
• The civilizations cut away a test piece one hundred astronomical units across and escorted it through the spatial fragments to a large fragment roughly two thousand light-years into the Secondary Universe.
• Scientists found that the piece would slowly lose its time advantage but could provide nearly twenty thousand years of advantage over a hundred years before being assimilated.
• The leaders ordered each civilization to prepare stockpiles and cut out a piece of Alliance Space two hundred astronomical units across, while scientists investigated whether the damage could be repaired.
• The Great Star Region Advanced Civilizations sent pieces to more than a hundred civilizations in the Secondary Universe, and Hu Yu moved his base into Alliance Space and stocked it with energy.

Hu Yu helped the Xuan Star Civilization repair and hide a section of Alliance Space while the civilizations built up their fleets for war against the Fish Horse Star Civilization. A reconnaissance image then revealed a colossal Fish Horse Star structure near the central black hole, and Hu Yu ordered an infiltration mission while concealing the discovery from the allies.

• Academician Liu Bo left the Fourth Space’s repair to other academicians, and they completed the work after five thousand years.
• Hu Yu arranged for the Xuan Star Civilization to receive a repaired space, energy-supply methods, and advanced shipbuilding technology, and its leader pledged the civilization’s loyalty to humanity.
• The five Great Star Region civilizations agreed to send another section of space into the sub-universe every hundred years until the Fish Horse Star Civilization was destroyed.
• Academician Qin Yin showed Hu Yu an image of a five-hundred-astronomical-unit octahedral structure near the Fish Horse Star fleet, which Hu Yu ordered her to investigate using miniature spacecraft in the Virtual Reversed State.
• Hu Yu concealed the discovery as the civilizations expanded their forces to around ten trillion warships each, while humanity’s Conqueror fleet reached fifty trillion.

Hu Yu and the allied civilizations prepared a massive three-dimensional assault on the Fish Horse Star Civilization after discovering its proton fortress. On New Year’s Eve in 95000 AD, the fleet launched toward the Boötes Galaxy, where the decisive battle would begin.

• The miniature Virtual Reversed State spacecraft reported that the Fish Horse Star Civilization had built an enormous fortress from protons, and the five civilization leaders debated how it worked.
• The 168 participating civilizations assembled three quadrillion warships, including eighty trillion Conquerors, for the operation against the Fish Horse Star Civilization.
• On New Year’s Eve, Hu Yu gathered the commanders and fighters aboard a Conqueror and ordered the attack to begin.
• The allied fleet entered the three-dimensional universe and headed for the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s lair in the Boötes Galaxy, while planning to intercept its returning ships.
• Twenty antimatter stars and twenty ordinary-matter stars, reduced to two dimensions, had already been sent ahead to the Boötes Galaxy.

Hu Yu led the Milky Way civilizations’ surprise attack on the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s base in Boötes, beginning with antimatter explosions that destroyed the Crimson Flame Civilization. The Fish Horse Star Civilization’s Super Fortress survived and deployed its fleet, leaving Hu Yu commanding a fierce battle against an unexpectedly large force.

• Hu Yu ordered ten antimatter stars detonated, and their explosions destroyed the Crimson Flame Civilization and its more than 80 billion intelligent beings.
• The Fish Horse Star Civilization’s Super Fortress appeared and survived the spatial collapse by replenishing three-dimensional space from the fourth dimension.
• The Super Fortress opened its doors and launched warships as the Milky Way fleets surrounded it and attacked.
• Hu Yu kept the Star Ring Alliance’s fleet in reserve and withheld a surprise force while the battle spread across Boötes.
• Hu Yu ordered Li Zhixiong to stop enemy ships in sector C from activating the Space Millstone, then directed Yang Fan and Chen Peng to increase attacks in sectors H and D.

The Fish Horse Star Civilization's Super Fortress unleashed sweeping pillars of energy that devastated the Milky Way fleets and steadily stabilized the battlefield's fractured space. Hu Yu kept the fourth-dimension blockade in place as the fleets struggled to approach the fortress and the Conquerors' spatial attacks weakened.

• Two-dimensional fragments and shifting space disrupted the battlefield, while the Conquerors continued attacking without losses as the battle passed two months.
• The Super Fortress opened countless holes and fired energy pillars that destroyed more than twenty billion Milky Way warships in its first attack.
• The Super Fortress rotated and swept the battlefield with continuous pillars, forcing the Milky Way fleets to dodge while the Fish Horse Star fleet withdrew inside.
• Academician Zeng calculated that the fortress's energy output exceeded what its stored energy or the fourth dimension could supply, and advised Hu Yu to keep the fleets back.
• Hu Yu maintained the fourth-dimension blockade, while the fortress's sustained fire stabilized space and made spatial attacks and movement into the fourth dimension increasingly difficult.