Chapter Summaries

Luo Zhigao’s fleet escaped its pursuers by entering a spatial vortex, but became trapped inside and began running out of energy. As the fleet neared destruction, Li Wenfei reported that a small spaceship was approaching.

• The First Army Group sacrificed itself to hold back the pursuing fleet, allowing Luo Zhigao to lead the civilians farther away.
• Luo Zhigao directed the fleet into a spatial vortex, where distorted space kept the Xuan Star Civilization’s attacks from hitting accurately.
• The fleet’s warp engines failed inside the vortex, and its scientists could not find a way to escape before the fleet ran out of energy.
• Luo Zhigao received messages from Hu Yu, but refused to provide his coordinates because he feared Hu Yu would be endangered.
• As the fleet fell toward the vortex’s center, Li Wenfei reported that a small spaceship was approaching at high speed.

Hu Yu reunited with Luo Zhigao inside the space vortex and learned that the Xuan Star Civilization had trapped Luo’s fleet there. Hu Yu began coordinating a rescue and an attack while scientists from both fleets worked on an escape plan.

• Luo Zhigao ordered his communications ship to slow down and receive the approaching spaceship, which carried Hu Yu and his companions.
• Hu Yu and Luo Zhigao reunited in tears after a thousand years apart, and Hu Yu refused Luo’s order to leave.
• Luo Zhigao explained that the Xuan Star Civilization had driven his fleet into the vortex, where it could survive only five or six more years.
• Luo Zhigao described the Xuan Star Civilization’s space-compression attack, and Hu Yu recognized the technology from a previous encounter.
• Hu Yu ordered Academician Zeng and the scientists to devise an escape from the vortex while his fleet prepared to supply Luo’s fleet and join the rescue attack.

On Earth Two, Academician Zeng and Hu Yu devised a plan to disrupt the spatial vortex with energy balls so Luo Zhigao’s fleet could escape, but manufacturing enough would take five years. Hu Yu’s fleet began production while Luo Zhigao told him not to risk an early delivery, believing his reserves could last.

• Hu Yu decided to attack the Xuan Star Civilization to buy Luo Zhigao’s fleet time while Academician Zeng and Academician Liu continued studying how to weaken the vortex.
• Academician Zeng proposed detonating energy balls near the vortex’s center to disrupt its rotation, and Hu Yu agreed the plan was feasible.
• Hu Yu and Hu Yu’s team calculated that they needed a thousand large energy balls, which would take five or six years to manufacture.
• Hu Yu ordered transport ships and bases to begin producing energy balls around the extinguished star, while Luo Zhigao received the rescue news and worried that Hu Yu might risk his fleet.
• Luo Zhigao told Hu Yu his reserves could last and urged him not to expose himself by delivering energy early; Hu Yu checked Luo Zhigao’s energy situation repeatedly before feeling reassured.

Hu Yu prepared an unmanned Wind Master assault to strike the Xuan Star Civilization while ensuring Luo Zhigao escaped the spatial vortex without joining the battle. The first wave of energy sphere bombs reached the enemy fleet and began devastating its warships.

• Hu Yu concealed his plan to keep Luo Zhigao and his people out of the coming battle, while preparing Wind Masters and energy spheres for their escape.
• Hu Yu divided the Wind Masters into four groups and ordered them to attack the Xuan Star Civilization’s three fleets, using gravity bombs to disrupt enemy movement.
• The Wind Master fleet traveled to the Xuan fleets and split into four batches, while Luo Zhigao remained unaware of the attack.
• After the Xuan fleet detected the approaching Wind Masters, Hu Yu ordered the ships to launch energy sphere bombs.
• The bombs exploded inside the Xuan fleet and swept through space, destroying even its most powerful warships.

Hu Yu’s fleet attacked the Xuan Star Civilization with energy balls, then fought a deadly close-range battle while ten thousand Wind Masters entered the spatial vortex to support Luo Zhigao. Hu Yu revealed that he had started the war early to buy Luo time to escape, leaving the fleet to hold the enemy back.

• Hu Yu’s fleet detonated energy balls that destroyed more than four million Xuan Star Civilization warships across three directions.
• The Xuan Star Civilization fleet spread out and advanced, and its superior warships began destroying Wind Masters in a chaotic melee.
• Li Zhixiong and Gao Jianchuan coordinated the Wind Masters’ defense as their ships fell under the enemy’s zero-delay laser attacks.
• Ten thousand Wind Masters entered the spatial vortex and transferred energy to Luo Zhigao’s fleet so it could prepare to break free.
• Hu Yu told Luo Zhigao that the battle had begun early and urged him to escape while Hu Yu’s fleet held off the Xuan Star Civilization.

Luo Zhigao’s fleet began escaping the spatial vortex while Hu Yu’s Wind Masters fought the Xuan Star Civilization’s fleets to buy him time. Facing heavy losses, Hu Yu ordered a desperate warp-speed ramming assault, prompting the Xuan Star commander to activate the Space Cage.

• The Wind Masters detonated a thousand energy balls to open a passage through the spatial vortex, allowing Luo Zhigao’s fleet to advance toward its edge.
• The fourth group of 35 million Wind Masters attacked the Xuan Star Civilization’s fleet, destroying more than three million warships, while Luo Zhigao’s ships accelerated against the vortex’s current.
• After forty-five days, the Xuan Star Civilization destroyed the Wind Masters at the other two positions and concentrated its fleets against Hu Yu’s remaining 32 million Wind Masters.
• Hu Yu ordered the Wind Masters to fire their bombs, activate their warp drives, and ram the enemy ships to keep the Xuan Star fleet occupied.
• The Wind Masters crippled or destroyed more than a million Xuan Star warships in two minutes, forcing the enemy fleet to flee at warp speed as the humans pursued.
• The Xuan Star commander ordered his forces to activate the Space Cage and focus on the pursuing Wind Masters, leaving Luo Zhigao’s fleet unblocked.

The Wind Masters adapted to the Xuan Star Civilization’s Space Cage tactic and continued to resist while Luo Zhigao’s fleet neared the edge of the space vortex. The chapter left Hu Yu’s fleet still fighting with 25 million ships as Luo Zhigao prepared to break out in two months.

• The Xuan Star Civilization trapped and destroyed over a million Wind Masters with more than 400,000 Space Cages, but Hu Yu and Wen Zhonghua ordered the survivors to maneuver between cages and avoid being trapped.
• Over the next four months, the Wind Masters lost five million ships while the Xuan Star Civilization lost 500,000, leaving 27 million Wind Masters after six months of fighting.
• Luo Zhigao abandoned large transport ships and discarded nonessential equipment from his warships to reduce their mass and speed his fleet’s journey out of the vortex.
• The Xuan Star Civilization’s commander ordered the fleet to keep wearing down the humans rather than use the energy-intensive Space Barrier against their scattered ships.
• Near Earth Two, production reached 3,000 Wind Masters a day, and the six million ships there were kept back to defend the system.
• A month later, Hu Yu told Luo Zhigao that his fleet could hold out; Luo Zhigao’s fleet was expected to break out of the vortex in two months.

Luo Zhigao’s fleet escaped the spatial vortex by activating its warp engines, while Hu Yu’s Wind Masters sacrificed themselves to hold the Xuan Star Civilization’s forces back. The chapter left Hu Yu’s survivors preparing to meet Luo Zhigao at the agreed planetary system.

• Luo Zhigao and Academician Gao Zhengyang confirmed that the fleet could risk using warp engines near the vortex’s edge, while Hu Yu promised to hold off the enemy.
• Luo Zhigao’s fleet activated its warp engines and escaped into normal space, then set course for the planetary system agreed upon with Hu Yu.
• The Xuan Star Civilization’s commander refused to pursue Luo Zhigao and continued trapping Hu Yu’s fleet in the spatial vortex.
• Luo Zhigao traveled toward the rendezvous by a winding route to prevent the enemy from tracking him.
• Hu Yu self-destructed the last 170,000 Wind Masters, severing the enemy’s connection to that region after all fifty million of his warships had been lost.
• Two million surviving Wind Masters deployed equipment and satellite coverage along the route to the planetary system where Luo Zhigao was expected to arrive.

After the Xuan Star Civilization’s fleet lost track of Luo Zhigao, Hu Yu and Luo Zhigao’s fleets reunited on Earth Two after 1,500 years apart. Hu Yu declared a huge welcome and National Day celebration for the arriving fleet, and Earth Two erupted with excitement.

• Hu Yu left machinery and planets for Luo Zhigao, while sharing technology to help both fleets overcome their shortages.
• After four years without being caught by the Xuan Star Civilization, Luo Zhigao arrived at Earth Two with his battered fleet.
• Hu Yu, Xiao Xiao, and other fleet personnel welcomed Luo Zhigao and his people with tearful embraces and joyful reunions.
• Hu Yu announced that September 28, 3685, marked the fleets’ reunion and ordered everyone to begin a grand welcome and National Day celebration.
• The announcement spread across Earth Two, and countless small spacecraft took off as its thirteen billion people celebrated.

Luo Zhigao's ten billion people left their cramped fleet and settled into comfortable temporary homes on Earth Two, where they were welcomed with celebrations and gifts. In Science City, Hu Yu's and Luo Zhigao's scientists began sharing their fleets' advanced technologies.

• Small spacecraft surrounded Luo Zhigao's fleet to transport its ten billion people to Earth Two, where temporary houses had been built for them.
• The arriving people surprised their hosts with glasses that simulated scenery and sounds, then gave pairs away until nearly everyone on Earth Two had one.
• After two days of boarding, all ten billion people were settled in temporary homes and explored the rivers, lakes, forests, and grasslands.
• People across Earth Two held welcoming festivities and National Day celebrations while scientists from both fleets gathered in Science City.
• Academician Zeng shared the fleet's latest technologies, including the four-dimensional communications network, spatial density, Basic Energy, and Basic Space, with space physics academicians represented by Gao Zhengyang.

Academician Zeng and Academician Liu explained Basic Space, Basic Energy, and Perfect Structure to the gathered academicians. Gao Zhengyang then shared how his team had used compressed space to achieve faster-than-light communication, leaving them with a possible route toward spatial transfer.

• Academician Zeng and Academician Liu spent more than four hours explaining their technologies and theories to the academicians.
• Gao Zhengyang bowed to thank them for sharing their knowledge and admitted his team had little to present beyond its communication research.
• Gao Zhengyang described how his team noticed electromagnetic signals crossed space around binary stars slightly faster than expected.
• Gao Zhengyang explained that his team modified curvature engines into space compressors, which compressed space and enabled signals to travel up to a thousand times the speed of light.
• Gao Zhengyang outlined the method's limits, including its need for large specialized ships, directional long-distance transmissions, restricted range, and high error rates.

Gao Zhengyang explained how spatial transfer could carry weapons hidden inside moving space, and Academician Liu Bo confirmed that massless energy balls might travel farther than solid matter. The group decided to begin producing space compressors and reconsider laser weapons.

• Gao Zhengyang described tests showing that spatial transfer carried signals quickly over short distances, while a metal ball traveled less than one light-second.
• Academician Zeng challenged Gao Zhengyang's claim that the technology could deliver weapons, and Academician Liu Bo and Academician Li Youwei helped restore the friendly atmosphere.
• Gao Zhengyang explained that matter inside moving space was difficult to detect and that spatial turbulence could conceal real attacks among decoys.
• Academician Zeng asked whether energy balls could be transmitted farther, and Academician Liu Bo agreed that their lack of mass made long-distance delivery possible.
• The academicians decided to mass-produce space compressors for energy balls and discussed improving laser weapons, prompting Gao Zhengyang to object to turning the energy balls into lasers.

Hu Yu and Luo Zhigao discussed their fleets’ history after a month of technological exchange, including their encounter with a civilization that fed humans to insect swarms. Luo Zhigao revealed that Mr. Daozi had rescued his fleet, while Hu Yu suspected the mysterious figure was testing and guiding them.

• The two fleets’ academicians spent a month exchanging technological knowledge, bringing both fleets closer to becoming a small star sector civilization.
• Hu Yu proposed settling in a quiet planetary system, and Luo Zhigao recounted discovering high-tier insect swarms feeding on captured civilized beings about a thousand years earlier.
• Luo Zhigao said his fleet found humans among the insects, then encountered the food-delivery fleet of a late-stage star system-level civilization while fleeing.
• A mysterious old man in an ox-shaped spaceship rescued Luo Zhigao’s fleet by transporting its residential and support ships to an unfamiliar planetary system.
• Hu Yu recognized the old man as Mr. Daozi and told Luo Zhigao that Daozi had also led Hu Yu’s fleet to a four-dimensional space bubble after an encounter with the Wind Star Civilization.

A minister recounted how his civilization survived an insect swarm, was devastated by Fish Horse Star Civilization warships, and later clashed with Xuan Star Civilization. After discussing the secret feeding of the Insect Race, he and Xiao Hu agreed to separate and pursue their own development in accordance with the Leader’s mission.

• The minister explained that his people had escaped thousands of light-years from the insect swarm and peacefully advanced for more than four hundred years before returning to investigate it.
• The minister’s fleet destroyed a rival fleet and the insect swarm, but a hundred mysterious warships—identified as Fish Horse Star Civilization ships—destroyed tens of millions of his warships and killed hundreds of millions of crew members.
• The minister and Xiao Hu concluded that Fish Horse Star Civilization was secretly feeding the Insect Race and suspected a still larger mastermind was behind the scheme.
• The minister argued that the Leader wanted his followers to act independently rather than reunite or rely on him, so he and Xiao Hu decided to part after completing their technology exchange.
• Xiao Hu planned to settle in a quiet planetary system and advance, while the minister planned to continue toward the galactic center and eventually fight the Insect Race.

After five years of technological exchange and cooperation, Luo Zhigao’s fleet said farewell to Hu Yu’s fleet and departed with Earth Three. The Xuan Star Civilization’s fleet was closing in on Hu Yu, leaving his smaller fleet at risk while Luo Zhigao worried that something about their pursuit was wrong.

• Over five years, Luo Zhigao’s fleet upgraded its ships while Hu Yu’s fleet improved its weapons, and the two fleets built Earth Three into a habitable planet.
• During a Wind Master production inspection, Wen Zhonghua reported that two reconnaissance satellites a thousand light-years away had gone silent, prompting Luo Zhigao and Hu Yu to recognize that it was time to part.
• Luo Zhigao embraced Hu Yu, then led his people aboard their warships and left with more than thirty million ships, Earth Three, and several rocky planets.
• The lost satellites’ images showed a fleet of around ninety million Xuan Star Civilization ships; Luo Zhigao’s fleet took a course at a right angle to it, while Hu Yu’s fleet remained on the same course and could be caught within two years.
• Hu Yu dismissed Luo Zhigao’s repeated concerns, but he suspected something strange about the pursuit as Luo Zhigao sat deep in thought with Li Wenfei, Fang Xinyun, Gao Zhengyang, and the others.

Luo Zhigao severed contact with Hu Yu’s group to protect them from being traced, while Hu Yu split his forces and prepared to strike the Xuan Star Civilization. The chapter ended with Hu Yu revealing his suspicion that the Xuan Star Civilization had deliberately allowed Luo Zhigao to escape.

• Luo Zhigao sent Hu Yu and his comrades a farewell message, warning that their communication method could expose them and arranging for future technology deliveries to Epsilon Eridani every five thousand years.
• Hu Yu struggled with the sudden separation, then decided to abandon the plan to go to JD4 and attack the Xuan Star Civilization instead.
• Hu Yu assigned Yang Fan and Chen Peng to lead Earth Two and three million Wind Masters toward JD4, while he stayed behind with Wen Zhonghua, Gao Jianchuan, Li Zhixiong, and three million crew members to build a fleet.
• Hu Yu planned to search for the Xuan Star Civilization’s home base, destroy its insect-swarm allies, and find the Fish Horse Star Civilization’s location.
• Hu Yu told his advisers that the Xuan Star Civilization might have deliberately let Luo Zhigao escape, since it could have sent more forces to intercept him after destroying fifty million Wind Masters.

The human fleet planned to evade the pursuing Xuan Star Civilization by returning toward the space vortex while sending Earth Two and a decoy force on different routes. The Xuan Star commander tracked the humans’ satellites and expected to find their hidden base soon.

• The humans reasoned that the Xuan Star Civilization had let Minister Luo’s fleet go so it could follow the fleet back to their base, then spent years building up its forces and tracing their route.
• The human leaders decided to take twenty thousand transport ships toward the space vortex, while Yang Fan and Chen Peng escorted Earth Two and ten million Wind Masters carried rocky planets as a decoy.
• Earth Two departed with three million Wind Masters, and Hu Yu and the other three million people boarded transport ships carrying five billion robots and engineering equipment.
• The Xuan Star commander explained that he had released Minister Luo’s fleet to lead him to the humans’ base, and planned to let Ji Wa take the first attack because of the humans’ strange bombs.
• The Xuan Star commander’s officers continued tracking the humans through their reconnaissance satellites, and he expected to catch up with them soon.

Hu Yu hid humanity’s transport ships on an inconspicuous planet while Wind Masters drew the Xuan Star Civilization into a costly battle that ended with the planets destroyed. A year later, Earth Two appeared safe for now as Hu Yu and the academicians prepared to rebuild and advance their technology.

• Hu Yu landed the transport ships on an inconspicuous planet and buried them in its soil near the spatial vortex.
• Ten million Wind Masters ambushed Ji Wa’s fleet, destroying more than five million ships before Bi Cha’s force joined the battle.
• Bi Cha’s warships destroyed the planets, and Ji Wa’s spatial net wiped out the Wind Masters, though Ji Wa lost more than six million warships.
• Hu Yu’s hidden fleet resumed producing energy spheres, and a year later satellites showed the Xuan Star Civilization fleet returning, easing his fears for Earth Two.
• Academician Zeng began designing an improved transitional Wind Master, while Academician Liu Bo’s team continued seeking a breakthrough in spatial technology.

Academician Liu discovered that transferring space from behind a spacecraft to in front of it could enable travel faster than a thousand times the speed of light, potentially advancing the fleet toward Small Star Sector Civilization. After the breakthrough reached Academician Zeng, the Wind Master improvement plans were halted and work shifted toward a new warship design.

• Academician Liu realized that a space compressor could transfer space from behind a spacecraft to the front, creating a density difference to propel it.
• Academician Liu explained that increasing the compressor's energy supply and transfer rate could raise travel speed beyond the current limit, and Academician Su Shuai suggested powering it directly with energy spheres.
• The academicians agreed to develop a rough compressor design and consider space weapons for the new warships, while postponing tests until they reached JD4.
• Academician Zeng halted the Wind Master improvement plans, joined Academician Liu in space technology research, and began preparing for a new warship design.

Hu Yu paused construction while waiting for Academician Liu’s spatial-transfer results and continued converting energy spheres as Earth Two began its seventeen-year return to JD4. The chapter traced the Mu Star Civilization’s history and its deal to raise intelligent creatures for the Insect Race, leaving its leader alarmed by the rapidly advancing human fleet and awaiting the mysterious fleet’s response.

• Hu Yu stopped preparing for construction, continued converting energy spheres, and waited for Academician Liu’s spatial-transfer results while Earth Two returned toward JD4.
• The chapter described the Mu Star Civilization’s enormous defensive fleet and its long struggle to advance beyond the advanced star system level.
• A supernova’s energy tide devastated Mu Star, and the surviving Many-Legged Beasts gradually evolved intelligence into the ancestors of the Mu Star Race.
• A mysterious fleet promised the Mu Star Civilization small star sector technology in exchange for raising high-level insects, so the Mu Star people brought in planets and confined intelligent two-legged creatures there.
• After Luo Zhigao’s fleet destroyed an Insect Race base and transport fleet, the Mu Star leader recognized the creatures as nearly identical to humans and warned the mysterious fleet about the human fleet’s rapid growth.