Chapter Summaries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Fish Horse Star Civilization’s second leader had sacrificed his people’s branch to free the civilization from the Insect Emperor’s secondary body, while Li Shun used the civilization’s research to seize control of the Insect Emperor. The resulting attack destroyed the black hole’s protective barrier, and as the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s leader rejected retreat, an unknown group offered its help.

• The second leader’s story revealed that the Fish Horse Star Civilization had secretly used humanity and its research to seek freedom from the Insect Emperor’s control.
• Li Shun used consciousness research to control the Insect Emperor before the Fish Horse Star Civilization could act.
• Li Shun directed the Insect Emperor and the galactic fleet to destroy the black hole’s protective barrier, causing the fortress to break apart and fall into the black hole.
• The Fish Horse Star Civilization’s leader lamented the failure, while Knight urged him to retreat with their people.
• The leader ordered Ci Ma to take the people back and decided to keep the fleet from Li Shun, despite the old patriarchs’ orders.
• An unknown group approached the Fish Horse Star Civilization and offered to help it seize the Black Hole Consciousness.

Li Shun’s control of the Insect Emperor and the approaching black holes forced the Fish Horse Star Civilization and Hu Yu’s forces into a struggle over the black hole consciousnesses. The Insect Emperor escaped into the fourth dimension after the swarm’s attacks, while Hu Yu ordered a fleet to hunt it down and the Fish Horse Star black hole’s false consciousness was destroyed.

• Li Shun took control of the Insect Emperor and sent it into the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s black hole as the two black holes drew closer.
• The Fish Horse Star Civilization agreed to help an outsider in exchange for data from the black hole, while Hu Yu continued fighting its fleet without knowing Li Shun controlled the Insect Emperor.
• The Demon Scorpion leader warned Hu Yu that Li Shun had taken control of the false consciousness, and Hu Yu assigned forces to defend the Galactic Consciousness as Academician Xiao sent the swarm against the Fish Horse black hole.
• The swarm’s first consciousness attack weakened the Insect Emperor and freed it from Li Shun’s control; the second attack destroyed the black hole’s false consciousness but missed the fleeing Insect Emperor.
• Hu Yu ordered Number One to hold the galactic black hole and Number Two to pursue and kill the Insect Emperor before it could summon more insects.

Hu Yu’s outnumbered fleet struggled to stop the Fish Horse Star Civilization from advancing toward the galactic black hole, while the arrival of the Black Stone Civilization revealed the enemy’s possible plan to reclaim the Black Hole Consciousness. The Ant King and Haotian Civilizations brought twelve quadrillion warships to help, and Hu Yu called on nearby bases and civilizations for every available spacecraft as the battle continued.

• Hu Yu used battlefield obstacles and repeated attacks to slow the Fish Horse Star Civilization, while the Star Ring Alliance’s fleets suffered catastrophic losses.
• Li Zhixiong spotted the remnants of the Black Stone Civilization behind the enemy fleet, and Hu Yu suspected they had joined the Fish Horse Star Civilization to help it seize the Black Hole Consciousness.
• The Ant King Civilization and the Haotian Civilization arrived with twelve quadrillion warships and placed them under Hu Yu’s command.
• Hu Yu split the reinforcements to attack from both flanks, halting the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s advance but failing to inflict significant losses.
• Hu Yu ordered Luo Zhigao to send out all spacecraft from the base and asked nearby galactic civilizations to contribute their vessels.

The galactic civilizations sacrificed fleets to hold back the Fish Horse Star Civilization as the two black holes approached their merger. Academician Xiao and Mr. Zhong Shan killed the captured Insect Emperor inside the galactic black hole, strengthening its consciousness, before the black holes began to merge.

• The Haotian Civilization and Ant King Civilization sent fleets into suicidal attacks that reduced the Fish Horse Star Civilization's fleet and left most of the allied civilizations with nothing.
• Number Two reported that Li Shun had captured the Insect Emperor, and the boss ordered Academician Xiao to take it to the Demon Scorpion Civilization.
• Academician Xiao and Mr. Zhong Shan brought the Insect Emperor's consciousness entity into the galactic black hole and killed it, allowing the black hole to absorb its consciousness energy.
• Daozi watched the energy beside him grow more substantial, while Li Shun and his people were overcome with regret after the Insect Emperor's death.
• Academician Xiao and Mr. Zhong Shan left the black hole as Daozi warned them of an upheaval, and the two black holes began to merge.

The galactic civilizations struggled to hold back the Fish Horse Star Civilization and the Black Stone Civilization as their fleet dwindled and the black hole came under threat. Far from the Milky Way, the leader and General Wu Haifeng searched for the hidden Knight Civilization and Doomsday Civilization, then ordered a wider, stronger attack to reinforce Hu Yu and Luo Zhigao.

• Hu Yu learned that fewer than a hundred million Slaughterers and five hundred Expellers remained, while the Fish Horse Star Civilization protected the Black Stone fleet from fourth-dimensional attacks.
• Li Zhixiong asked about the missing Mechanical Lord, and Hu Yu ordered the Far-Seers to track every mechanical body, especially the Mechanical Lord.
• The leader's fleet searched the fourth dimension for the Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization, with Xu Xiaodong confirming they were hiding nearby.
• The leader urged General Wu Haifeng to hurry because Hu Yu and Luo Zhigao were under heavy pressure, and Wu ordered all fleets to widen and intensify their attacks.
• The leader's forces began searching after he learned that the Canes Venatici Group had suffered an insect invasion, and he had already sent Hong Lie with part of the fleet to reinforce Hu Yu.