Chapter Summaries

The leader halted the fleet’s voyage to the Canes Venatici Group and attacked the hidden base of the Doomsday Civilization and the Knight Civilization to relieve pressure on Hu Yu and Luo Zhigao. After Wu Haifeng’s forces destroyed the base and captured survivors on its central planet, the leader ordered the fleet to head for the Milky Way.

• Hong Lie sent the leader detailed information about the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s exposed base and the nearby Galactic-Level Civilizations.
• The leader judged that Hu Yu and Luo Zhigao were in danger, suspended the voyage to the Canes Venatici Group, and chose to strike the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s base.
• The Longka Civilization’s reconnaissance led the fleet to a hidden base more than two hundred thousand light-years from the Milky Way.
• Wu Haifeng ordered his forces to kill everyone except those on the central planet, and the fleet destroyed the base in less than ten minutes.
• The leader learned that robots had captured the survivors and ordered the fleet to go to the Milky Way without interrogating them.

After Fish Horse Star’s original base was destroyed, Mu Tang ordered Ci Ma to sacrifice most of their people to strengthen a false consciousness. The Black Stone Civilization fleet then entered the black hole and attacked the Black Hole Consciousness with its consciousness energy.

• Ci Ma reported that Fish Horse Star’s original base had been destroyed and its people killed, while its two patriarchs had been captured.
• Mu Tang ordered Ci Ma to kill ninety percent of Fish Horse Star’s people and use their Consciousness Field Energy to strengthen the false consciousness.
• Ci Ma raised the temperature and lowered the pressure aboard the warships, killing the Fish Horse Star beings and empowering the false consciousness with their energy.
• The Black Stone Civilization fleet raced past the event horizon as Wen Zhonghua called for the Slaughterers to pursue it.
• Inside the black hole, the Black Stone fleet released consciousness energy that began corroding the Black Hole Consciousness.

As the Black Stone Civilization’s attack overwhelmed the black hole consciousness, Ninety-Seven sacrificed himself to defeat the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s false consciousness and take its place. A mysterious white entity then erased the Black Stone energy, leaving Daozi asking who it was.

• The Fish Horse Star Civilization’s false consciousness gained the upper hand over Daozi, while the Black Stone Civilization’s energy continued to weaken the black hole consciousness.
• Ninety-Seven entered the black hole with help from the Demon Scorpion Civilization’s fleet and destroyed the false consciousness, but struggled against the Black Stone energy.
• A white humanoid consciousness appeared and made the Black Stone energy vanish.
• Daozi urged Ninety-Seven to take the black hole consciousness’s place, and Ninety-Seven gathered the energy into his own body.
• Daozi asked the white entity what it was, and the entity offered him converted Black Stone energy.

Yun An revealed that he was the last Shadow Civilization being in this dimensional world and explained how he had arrived through a Star Eye. He described his role in coordinating resistance against the swarm and warned Hu Yu that the Insect Race’s higher forces could still arrive.

• Daozi recovered his strength and replenished the consciousness energy of the people aboard Hu Yu’s ship.
• Yun An introduced himself to Hu Yu and explained that he had entered this dimensional world through a Star Eye while fleeing the Black Stone Civilization.
• Yun An explained that he had once discarded consciousness energy, which later formed the Nebula Consciousness Entity the humans encountered.
• Yun An said he had returned when the swarm arrived and had coordinated several Great Star Region Advanced Civilizations while letting them handle the Insect Emperor.
• Yun An warned that killing the Insect Emperor too quickly could draw the Insect Race’s attention and that its true high-level forces could arrive at any time.

Hu Yu and humanity welcomed their leader back after a hundred thousand years, and the Milky Way began rebuilding under a new era. In the years that followed, Ninety-Seven helped revive the Tree Race and Captain Xie Jinqiao, while humanity worked to reunite its scattered peoples.

• Yun An explained that the Abyss Insect Race would not sense the Insect Emperor's death, while Hu Yu defended him to Daozi and learned that the Fish Horse Star Civilization and Black Stone Civilization fleets had been destroyed.
• Ninety-Seven used the black hole's energy to bring Hu Yu and the others to the leader's fleet, where they reunited with the leader, Director Xu, and their long-separated comrades.
• The leader named the year the first year of the Milky Way Era, and humanity began clearing the galaxy and restoring the Solar System in the years that followed.
• Ninety-Seven emerged from the black hole in the fifth year and worked with Academician Xiao to revive the Tree Race, while humanity resettled Li Shun and his people on Tau Ceti and began educating them.
• In the sixth year, Ninety-Seven rescued Captain Xie Jinqiao's consciousness from the black hole and restored him in a new body.

The Milky Way was rebuilt over thousands of years as civilizations returned, advanced, and prepared for new growth. In year 15000, Hu Yu, Wen Zhonghua, and Bi Cha received a distress call about an unknown fleet in NGC 3109 and set out for a new campaign.

• The leader restored the Milky Way and allowed fleeing civilizations to return under restrictions while opening channels to the Magellanic Clouds.
• Academician Liu Bo advanced matter-to-antimatter conversion, and mechanical beings helped complete the galaxy's reconstruction and begin the Seeding Plan.
• Ninety-Seven secretly became the representative of the Black Hole Consciousness, while Yun An later left the Milky Way to seek his people and promised to return.
• The Xuan Star Civilization mastered the creation of five-dimensional space and became a galactic-level civilization.
• By year 12000, the expanded Milky Way was complete, with plans underway to accelerate life and research using time.
• In year 15000, Hu Yu, Wen Zhonghua, and Bi Cha received a request from the Firefly Civilization for help against an unknown fleet in NGC 3109 and prepared to depart.

The Snow Tribe rose rapidly from a new civilization into a major galactic power, then became locked in a struggle with the Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization. As the Snow Tribe expanded its population and military production, the two older civilizations launched an all-out war against it.

• The Snow Tribe developed from a planetary civilization into a galactic-level civilization in a few tens of thousands of years.
• The Snow Tribe expanded across tens of thousands of light-years and encountered the Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization in the Milky Way.
• The Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization forced the Snow Tribe to surrender most of its territory and repeatedly attacked it in secret.
• The Snow Tribe's leader ordered the tribe to reproduce rapidly, raising its population to tens of quadrillions in ten thousand years.
• The Snow Tribe relaxed technological restrictions and built warships across its vast territory, prompting the Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization to begin an all-out war.

The Snow Tribe turned the war against the Knight Civilization and Doomsday Civilization after developing faster warships and fifth-dimensional technology, then debated whether to accept peace. Their meeting was interrupted by an entity claiming to be the conscious Milky Way, which challenged them to reconsider what life was.

• The Snow Tribe fought the Knight Civilization and Doomsday Civilization across the Milky Way, using its technological edge and its people’s direct involvement to withstand their larger fleets.
• Snow Tribe warships reached ten thousand times the speed of light and adopted fifth-dimensional technology, allowing them to smash enemy fleets and turn the tide after hundreds of billions of Snow Tribe lives were lost.
• The Knight Civilization and Doomsday Civilization sought peace, but Lei Dong, Xing Feng, and most of the generals opposed talks because of the enemy civilizations’ past attacks and threat to the tribe.
• Chi Xue worried that trying to destroy the enemy civilizations would provoke a devastating counterattack, while hidden tracking systems could expose Snow Tribe members across the galaxy.
• An energy being appeared before Chi Xue and the generals, identified itself as the Milky Way’s consciousness, and asked them questions about the nature of life and identity.

Galaxy revealed that it was the Milky Way’s black hole consciousness and demonstrated its connection to the central black hole. It warned the Snow Tribe that the Andromeda Galaxy Consciousness planned to eliminate it, and Chi Xue agreed to help after the Snow Tribe dealt with the Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization.

• Galaxy explained that life in the Milky Way was connected to its central black hole and invited Chi Xue to test whether the warship could enter it.
• Galaxy opened a path through an extra dimension, and Chi Xue led the warship into the quiet space inside the central black hole.
• After the Snow Tribe accepted Galaxy’s identity, Galaxy said the Andromeda Galaxy Consciousness had come to the Milky Way and was stronger than it.
• Galaxy warned that the Andromeda Galaxy Consciousness would likely recruit civilizations to attack before the galaxies eventually merged.
• Chi Xue agreed to aid Galaxy but said the Snow Tribe would first have to deal with the Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization.

The Snow Tribe unified the Milky Way while preparing to face the Andromeda Galaxy, whose consciousness rallied four civilizations to defend its central black hole. As both galaxies armed for war, the Knight and Doomsday leaders arrived to meet Chi Xue, leaving their purpose unknown.

• Chi Xue agreed to spare the Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization until the threat from the Andromeda Galaxy was dealt with, and the Snow Tribe unified the Milky Way.
• Chi Xue focused on expanding the Snow Tribe and building warships while researchers struggled to find a way to attack the Andromeda Galaxy Consciousness.
• Yuanshi convinced the Deep Space Civilization and three other Galactic-Level Civilizations to guard the Andromeda central black hole and prepare for a hundred thousand years.
• The civilizations of both galaxies began racing to develop their technology and prepare for war.
• The leaders of the Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization visited Chi Xue, who suppressed his anger and demanded to know why they had come.

Chi Xue rejected outside technology and planned to defeat Andromeda through the Snow Tribe's own advances, while the Knight leader and the Doomsday leader sought ways to preserve their civilizations. The Snow Tribe used the Secondary Universe to develop defensive space mazes, but its technological progress stalled as the Deep Space Civilization reached star cluster-level.

• Chi Xue rejected the technology offered by the Knight leader and the Doomsday leader and pledged to march on Andromeda within a hundred thousand years.
• The Knight leader and the Doomsday leader planned to hide some of their people in the fourth dimension, develop their strength, and let the Snow Tribe bear the fighting.
• Chi Ding launched a probing attack with the Deep Space Civilization and assessed the Milky Way's defenses.
• Snow Tribe scientists discovered the Secondary Universe, where accelerated time offered more time for research.
• The Snow Tribe developed rule-based space mazes and spent nearly ten thousand years establishing the Lost Zone to block invasions through the fourth dimension.
• Chi Xue learned that the Deep Space Civilization had reached star cluster-level while the Snow Tribe remained unable to achieve that breakthrough.

The Milky Way manipulated Chi Xue and the Snow Tribe while Yuanshi helped the Deep Space Civilization advance and unite Andromeda. After 60,000 years, the Snow Tribe had failed to break through beyond the star cluster level and began preparing for war.

• Yuanshi gave the Deep Space Civilization access to his memories and support, while the Milky Way withheld useful memories from the Snow Tribe.
• Five hundred years later, the Snow Tribe reached the star cluster level, matching the Deep Space Civilization.
• The Milky Way falsely told Chi Xue that Yuanshi had attacked him and predicted a final assault in a little over 50,000 years.
• The leader of the Deep Space Civilization rallied Andromeda's civilizations to expand production, while the Snow Tribe relied on its own strength and its accelerated time in the Secondary Universe.
• After 60,000 years, the Snow Tribe had made no progress toward a higher civilization level, and Chi Xue began mobilizing for war in Andromeda.

Chi Ding’s reconnaissance revealed that the Snow Tribe’s fleets might be based in a vast debris belt in the Milky Way. Deep Space Civilization’s leader ordered scientists and technology shared with lower-level civilizations to strengthen their allies against the Snow Tribe.

• Chi Ding led a reconnaissance fleet into the Milky Way, where Snow Tribe warships intercepted him and forced him to retreat to Andromeda.
• Chi Ding told Dawa that he suspected the Snow Tribe was concealing part of its strength, and Dawa agreed to analyze the reconnaissance data and prepare Andromeda’s defenses.
• Dawa’s team found an enormous debris belt at the center of Snow Tribe fleet routes and identified a planet within it, leading Dawa to suspect the belt concealed the Snow Tribe’s headquarters.
• Chi Ding reported his findings to Deep Space Civilization’s leader, who ordered scientists and technology sent to lower-level civilizations to help them develop and join the fight.

As war between the Snow Tribe and the Deep Space Civilization became unavoidable, both sides rushed to build fleets and gather rule energy while the Snow Tribe isolated the Milky Way. Fearing the Snow Tribe would eventually destroy them, the Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization chose to ally with the Deep Space Civilization and pool their research on consciousness.

• The Snow Tribe and the Deep Space Civilization gathered rule energy and expanded their war preparations, while the Snow Tribe severed the Deep Space Civilization's entangled-particle links to the Milky Way.
• The Snow Tribe sealed the Milky Way's routes through the fourth dimension and barred spacecraft from leaving without permission, trapping the Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization.
• The Doomsday leader proposed joining the Deep Space Civilization and redirecting their peoples' consciousness connections to another black hole, and the Knight leader agreed to take the risk.
• The Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization opened their technology trees to each other and formed a joint research team focused on consciousness.
• The two civilizations built a lasting alliance that gradually merged into the Fish Horse Star Civilization.

The Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization allied with the Deep Space Civilization, trading information about the Milky Way for survival assurances and consciousness technology. As their combined research advanced, the Snow Tribe learned that the Deep Space Civilization was rapidly expanding its warship production, while its ships' combat power had declined somewhat.

• Chi Ding arrived in the Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization's territory, and the three sides quickly agreed to cooperate.
• The Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization agreed to gather information about the Milky Way and the Snow Tribe in exchange for the Deep Space Civilization's promise to spare them and provide consciousness technology.
• The Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization learned that the Milky Way had attacked the Andromeda Consciousness and concealed the truth from the Snow Tribe.
• The Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization found they could not scout the Secondary Universe because the Snow Tribe watched the surrounding space and sealed the fourth dimension.
• The Knight Civilization and the Doomsday Civilization combined their consciousness research, allowing newly born members to live without relying on a central black hole.
• Huo Dian warned Chi Xue that the Deep Space Civilization's fleet buildup could overwhelm the Snow Tribe's numerical disadvantage, while reporting that enemy warship combat power had declined somewhat.