Chapter Summaries

The Jiangcheng Guild and its allies captured a resource base on Planet Hake, where Maple Moon used captives to trigger missions before the players killed the holdouts. News of the Black Star Army’s Immortal Troops drove several factions from Planet Hake, while the guilds established profitable footholds across the Emerald Star Cluster and the first foreign players arrived in the Shattered World.

• The players defeated Handgabu’s forces at a resource base and captured Handgabu and the other surviving officers.
• Maple Moon triggered a plea-for-mercy mission, and the players spared those who begged while killing Handgabu and the remaining captives.
• Frenzied Saber and the players released the spared captives, recaptured them to test the mission, and then killed them when no new missions appeared.
• The other factions learned that the reinforcements were Black Star Army Immortals; three factions abandoned Planet Hake, while the others consolidated their defenses.
• The guilds occupied resource bases and resumed extraction, establishing a lucrative foothold on Planet Hake.
• Army-affiliated guilds spread across the Emerald Star Cluster, and the first Black Hole Edge players arrived in the Shattered World.

Black Hole Edge players arrived in the Shattered World, where Muay Thai Warning began plotting to betray the Resek Corps for a chance to aid the Ursa Minor Civilization. Elsewhere, maintenance worker Evans encountered a mysterious red light that passed through him and restored his energy before disappearing.

• Viper and other Southeast Asian club leaders planned to use Black Star Army members to obtain discounted resources and intelligence for their teams.
• Resek brought tens of thousands of Black Hole Edge players to the Shattered World, believing they would help the Ursa Minor Civilization, while the players considered abandoning his mercenary corps for stronger factions.
• Muay Thai Warning realized the Resek Corps served the Ursa Minor Civilization and decided to offer that information as a gift when he switched factions.
• Evans completed a repair task aboard a financial group's ship and continued alone through a maintenance passage after his companion chose to rest.
• A red ball of light passed through Evans, restored his energy, circled him, and then vanished, leaving him wondering if he had gone crazy.

Resek’s attempt to transport Immortals into the Shattered World collapsed as players repeatedly deserted his Corps, while the Black Star Army gained a large influx of recruits. Han Xiao welcomed the experience gains and considered the coming arrival of Chaos Mysterious Energy, which had already contacted Evans.

• At Black Gate Star, many Immortals seized Resek Corps ships and fled to Black Star Army territory, cutting Resek’s forces roughly in half.
• Resek recorded the deserters as rebels and tightened security, but another mass exodus at the Free Competition Zone left fewer than one in ten players with his Corps.
• Resek learned that advanced factions, especially the Black Star Army, were still accepting the deserters, while Muay Thai Warning secretly passed the Corps’ movements to Army members.
• Han Xiao welcomed the foreign players joining the Army and anticipated that further recruits would boost his experience enough to reach level 320.
• Han Xiao reviewed Phillip’s report that Evans had already encountered an offshoot of Chaos Mysterious Energy, which appeared to have marked Evans as a potential host.

Aurora advanced to Calamity Grade and discovered that her healing could also grant powerful buffs, calm minds, and potentially extend lifespans. Han Xiao remained away from the Black Star Palace, secretly protecting Hila and pursuing the Chaos Mysterious Energy, while spies among new recruits began tracking his movements.

• Black Hole Edge players arrived at the Black Star Palace, where Sorokin’s agents recruited some guild spies to report on Han Xiao and the army.
• Hadavy, Fording, and the other guards visited Aurora as she completed her natural advancement to Calamity Grade.
• Aurora tested her improved healing on the guards and discovered that it boosted their attributes, recovery, and mental state while soothing hostility.
• Han Xiao explained that his main body had secretly gone to the Emerald Star Cluster to pursue the Chaos Mysterious Energy and protect Hila, leaving a Dominion avatar behind.
• Han Xiao tested Aurora’s healing on Fording and found that repeated treatments slightly increased cellular activity, suggesting Aurora could extend lifespans.

Han Xiao concealed Aurora’s Calamity Grade advancement and warned her and Fording that powerful figures might seek to exploit her healing ability. As players from across the galaxy gathered in the Shattered World and the Black Star Army expanded, Han Xiao reached level 320.

• Han Xiao ordered Phillip to destroy the records of Aurora’s advancement and told Aurora and Fording to keep her ability secret.
• Han Xiao informed Ames that Aurora had reached Calamity Grade and invited her to visit; Ames decided to travel to the Shattered World alone.
• Southeast Asian guilds led by Red Bay and Archipelago struggled to secure NPC faction cooperation, lacking the Black Star Army’s influence and organizational system.
• More players arrived in the Shattered World as Han Xiao hid in the Emerald Star Cluster and the Black Star Army grew to nearly eight million warriors.
• Han Xiao accumulated enough experience to reach level 320.

Han Xiao reached level 320, completed his advancement, and unlocked Divine Transformation talents that strengthened his Mechanical and Void abilities. He discovered a mysterious First Sanctum skill fragment and found a prized blueprint in the newly unlocked Terx Mechanical Legacy, though its details were not revealed.

• Han Xiao stopped his spaceship in open space and concealed the energy fluctuations from his advancement.
• Han Xiao spent his accumulated experience to reach level 320 and used a Mission Settlement Card to complete the advancement mission.
• Han Xiao gained Divine Transformation: Mechanical and Divine Transformation: Void, along with two Divine Transformation points and a First Sanctum skill fragment.
• Han Xiao invested one point in each Divine Transformation talent, improving his mechanical abilities and Void species talents.
• Han Xiao reviewed the newly unlocked Terx Mechanical Legacy blueprints and became delighted when he spotted a gold drop.

Han Xiao unlocked two Universal Treasure-grade Terx blueprints, the Sovereign armor and the Great Emperor’s Robe, and assessed how they could strengthen him and his Mechanical Deity. He planned to manufacture them soon as the Shattered World filled with powerful opponents, then reviewed his level 320 attributes.

• Han Xiao unlocked the Sovereign and Great Emperor’s Robe blueprints upon reaching level 320.
• Han Xiao examined the Sovereign’s combat enhancements and its ability to teleport him to and from a fixed Throne location despite spatial interference.
• Han Xiao judged that he could afford the Sovereign’s materials and had a promising chance of manufacturing it with his Divine Equipment talent.
• Han Xiao learned that the Great Emperor’s Robe reduced Mechanical Deity upkeep, strengthened its interior defenses, and improved its movement and attack speed.
• Han Xiao decided to pursue both pieces of equipment to prepare for a crisis among the Beyond Grade As gathered in the Shattered World.
• Han Xiao checked his level 320 attribute panel and saw a message that his evolution could lead toward a higher life form.

Han Xiao advanced to level 320, improved his class knowledge, and planned to manufacture powerful equipment while waiting for the Chaos Mysterious Energy to appear. Meanwhile, the Crimson Dynasty approved Gaud’s request to use the energy and prepared to seize it without relying on Black Star.

• Han Xiao reached level 320, left his free attribute points unspent, and raised [Ultimate Mechanical Engineering] to level 3.
• Han Xiao decided to work on Sovereign and the Great Emperor's Robe using the Secondary Dimension Army Factory while waiting for the Chaos Mysterious Energy.
• Bekorodi told Gaud that the Dynasty had approved his application to use the Chaos Mysterious Energy if his Esper Ability could control it.
• Bekorodi said the Dynasty had dispatched troops to likely locations and identified rival factions, while its prophets considered the Emerald Star Cluster the likeliest site.
• Gaud suggested drawing Black Star away, but Bekorodi said Black Star was likely at his headquarters and that the Dynasty could negotiate with him if he interfered.

Ravenlaude, Secret Master, the Modo Civilization, and Sisko each prepared to pursue Chaos Mysterious Energy in the Emerald Star Cluster. At Black Star Palace, Ames discovered Han Xiao was away, then decided to stay and wait for him while claiming she had only come to see Aurora.

• Ravenlaude agreed to help the empire pursue Chaos Mysterious Energy in exchange for the chance to claim a Universal Treasure if it appeared in the Emerald Star Cluster.
• Secret Master captured a group that knew the coordinates of Chaos Mysterious Energy and traveled to the Emerald Star Cluster to compete for it.
• Roddick sent an elite Modo Civilization team of around forty or fifty Calamity Grade combatants to seize Chaos Mysterious Energy, while Lagos worried that their stronghold would be left vulnerable.
• Sisko drove off two fighting fleets near the Star Pupil Protoss stronghold, then welcomed a rescued Calamity Grade who offered him a clue to Chaos Mysterious Energy.
• Ames arrived at Black Star Palace expecting to see Han Xiao, learned he was away, and agreed to stay with Aurora while pretending she did not care whether he returned.

Han Xiao studied Divine Transformation and the mysterious First Sanctum, then hid near a nebula where Chaos Mysterious Energy was expected to appear. As rival factions gathered and prepared an ambush, the energy emerged, leaving the contenders poised to fight for it.

• Han Xiao reviewed the empire's research on Divine Transformation, speculated that advancement conditions governed its points, and decided to keep leveling rather than hold back.
• Han Xiao learned that the empire knew nothing about the First Sanctum skill fragment he had obtained, then concealed his ship in the Emerald Star Cluster nebula.
• Ravenlaude, Sisko, Secret Master, and other factions arrived to compete for Chaos Mysterious Energy, each pursuing their own strategy.
• The factions set space stabilization traps and waited near the expected emergence site.
• Red energy spilled from the void, confirming that Chaos Mysterious Energy had appeared.

Ravenlaude sealed Chaos Mysterious Energy after defeating the Modo Civilization’s ambush and driving Sisko away, but Secret Master stole it before Ravenlaude could claim his reward. Han Xiao’s Dominion avatar then intercepted Secret Master and took the sealed entity, while Sisko retreated and Han Xiao confronted Secret Master.

• The factions activated a spatial stabilization trap, but Chaos Mysterious Energy destroyed the first fleet that tried to contain it and fled under pursuit.
• Ravenlaude and Sisko fought over Chaos Mysterious Energy while the Modo Civilization’s fleet was secretly hijacked into attacking them; the two Beyond Grade As destroyed the fleet and killed most of its Calamity Grades.
• Ravenlaude drove Sisko off and sealed Chaos Mysterious Energy in a crystal sphere, but Secret Master stunned him, stole the sphere, and prepared to escape through a portal.
• Han Xiao’s Dominion avatar appeared, used Void Displacement to take the sphere, and trapped Secret Master and Ravenlaude in Void Domain Prison while his mechanical troops escaped with it.
• Sisko chose not to pursue Han Xiao’s forces and retreated, while Han Xiao turned to confront Secret Master.

Han Xiao kept the chaos mysterious energy after Secret Master confronted him, then fought Secret Master while Ravenlaude tried to pursue the prize. Han Xiao deliberately let Ravenlaude escape so he could demonstrate his strength to the empire elsewhere, leaving his Dominion avatar and arriving forces to hold Secret Master back.

• Secret Master confronted Han Xiao over the stolen chaos mysterious energy and attacked him with spells, but Void Domain Prison kept him from escaping.
• Han Xiao closed in and battered Secret Master in melee, while Secret Master discovered that Han Xiao's fortune was almost impossibly low and lost focus.
• Ravenlaude helped break Void Domain Prison, then opened a portal and left to pursue the mechanical troops carrying the energy.
• The arriving mechanical troops activated space stabilizers and magic disruptors, preventing Secret Master from following Ravenlaude.
• Han Xiao revealed that he had deliberately allowed Ravenlaude to go so he could use him to demonstrate his strength to the empire while keeping the details from outsiders.

Han Xiao refused Bekorodi’s offer to trade a Universal Treasure for the Chaos Mysterious Energy, and the Empire ordered Ravenlaude to seize it. Ravenlaude trapped Han Xiao’s mechanical troops in a forbidden-spell domain, but Han Xiao’s hidden Apostle Weapons ambushed him and overwhelmed him.

• The onlooking forces gave up pursuing the Chaos Mysterious Energy when Han Xiao’s mechanical army blocked their way, while Dominion’s avatar fought the Secret Master.
• Bekorodi contacted Han Xiao, argued that he should have informed the Empire, and offered a Universal Treasure in exchange for the Chaos Mysterious Energy.
• Han Xiao declined to commit to the deal and agreed to continue competing, so Bekorodi ordered Ravenlaude to capture the energy.
• Ravenlaude drew the mechanical troops away from Dominion’s avatar and trapped them inside his Deep Purple Duel Arena, which weakened their Mechanical Force and blocked their escape.
• Ravenlaude attacked the troops and tried to grab the Chaos Mysterious Energy, but Dark Emperor and the other concealed Apostle Weapons ambushed him.
• Han Xiao’s Apostle Weapons overwhelmed Ravenlaude, who realized that Black Star had grown stronger again.

Ravenlaude summoned his mage tower and fought Han Xiao’s mechanical army, but was defeated despite using his full strength. Han Xiao secured the Chaos Mysterious Energy, while the Secret Master warned him that Gorutan might be plotting against him.

• Ravenlaude unleashed powerful spells and summoned his mage tower, enduring attacks from Dark Emperor and Heavenly Wild Hunt to complete the summoning.
• Ravenlaude joined with his tower and unleashed golems and monsters, but his forces were defeated by Han Xiao’s mechanical army.
• Imperial soldiers found Ravenlaude badly wounded, and Bekorodi learned that Han Xiao had reached Divine Transformation and ordered the information kept confidential.
• Bekorodi withdrew the Empire’s operation and refused Ravenlaude the promised Universal Treasure, offering only to cover repairs and replacement golems.
• Han Xiao stopped fighting the Secret Master, who conceded defeat and privately warned him that Gorutan might be plotting against him.
• The Secret Master and the watching factions departed, leaving Han Xiao with the Chaos Mysterious Energy and the Modo Civilization with heavy losses.

Han Xiao captured Chaos Mysterious Energy and tested whether he could host it, but incompatible energies caused severe physical penalties. After containing it again, he learned that it wanted to fight alongside him and offered to help him find its archenemy, Holy Light Particle.

• Dark Emperor returned with Chaos Mysterious Energy sealed, and Han Xiao praised the army for defeating Ravenlaude and gathering combat data.
• Han Xiao released Chaos Mysterious Energy and absorbed it, but the resulting energy conflict inflicted heavy damage and weakened his attributes, so he expelled it and sealed it in a containment device.
• Han Xiao communicated with Chaos Mysterious Energy, named it Little Chaos, and learned that it wanted a host and had spent much of its long life asleep.
• Chaos Mysterious Energy revealed that its archenemy was Holy Light Particle and described the secondary dimension where it lived.
• Han Xiao accepted the chance to capture Holy Light Particle and received the mission Chaos Mysterious Energy's Archenemy.

Han Xiao accepted the mission to obtain Holy Light Particle but postponed the expedition while he prepared equipment and monitored the Shattered World. After news spread that he had claimed Chaos Mysterious Energy, Gaud and the Modo commanders each faced setbacks tied to Black Star.

• Han Xiao agreed to take Chaos Mysterious Energy to Holy Light Particle, but delayed the mission while he worked on equipment, a mechanical host, and the situation in the Shattered World.
• The participants publicized Han Xiao’s capture of Chaos Mysterious Energy, and the news spread widely across the universe and among players.
• Gaud learned that Chaos Mysterious Energy had fallen into Han Xiao’s hands, then gave up hope of recovering it through a trade and reconsidered his development plan.
• After the Modo Civilization’s Three Kings reprimanded Roddick over the deaths of dozens of Calamity Grades, Roddick proposed finding outside help to keep the Black Star Army occupied.

Evans was injured when a mercenary used an Esper ability in the cafeteria, then learned that the Black Star Army had stopped his ship to recruit him at Black Star’s request. Meanwhile, a mysterious group in the Ancient Star Desert discussed taking the chaos mysterious energy from Black Star and preparing an awakening ritual.

• Evans’s supervisor defended him after coworkers ostracized him, but a reckless mercenary’s wind attack wounded him and guards treated the incident as minor.
• The Black Star Army stopped the fleet and announced it was searching for Evans, causing the crew to recoil from him and guards to surround him.
• A Grade B captain confirmed Evans’s identity and said Black Star wanted to recruit him for his talent.
• Evans wondered whether some hidden power within him had drawn Black Star’s attention, while his coworkers regretted mistreating him.
• In the Ancient Star Desert, a mysterious group resolved to reclaim the chaos mysterious energy from Black Star and prepare an awakening ritual.

Manison’s transformation into a Primordial Esper Ability Entity continued as his allies pressed him to finish quickly. Meanwhile, Han Xiao discovered that Evans had a suppressed Esper Gene and an ability identical to Sorokin’s, revealing him as Sorokin’s nemesis.

• A hooded phantom spoke with the entity consuming Manison and urged it to complete its transformation for the plan to unlock the Third Sanctum.
• Han Xiao explained to Ames that he had asked her to protect Hila and Aurora while helping conceal his absence, and Ames agreed to keep playing along.
• Han Xiao examined Evans, discovered his powerful Esper affinity and a suppressed Esper Gene, and offered to help him awaken in exchange for fighting for the army.
• Han Xiao used Aurora’s life potion to revive Evans’s Esper Gene, then discovered that Evans’s ability absorbed Esper abilities just like Sorokin’s.

Han Xiao recognized Evans’s Replication ability and planned a careful path to help him grow without repeating Sorokin’s mistakes. He devised a way to use Esper Class players as a source of abilities, then completed the Sovereign Mecha and gained the Universal Treasure Creator talent.

• Han Xiao identified Evans’s ability as Replication and explained its risks, limitations, and potential, while warning him not to follow Sorokin’s corrupt path.
• Han Xiao decided Evans should absorb only a small number of useful abilities and resolved to keep him hidden until he became stronger.
• Han Xiao realized Esper Class players could provide abilities without permanently losing them after revival, and ordered Phillip to catalog their abilities and simulate combinations.
• Han Xiao returned to building the Sovereign Mecha and completed it, gaining a Divine Transformation point, free attribute points, crafting bonuses, and the Universal Treasure Creator talent.

Han Xiao gained Divine Transformation points and new abilities by crafting the gold-quality Sovereign suit, then tested the suit and reviewed his rewards. While browsing the player forums, he discovered Sorokin’s spy mission had been exposed and saw a post claiming Black Star Army players were being repeatedly spawn-camped.

• Han Xiao discovered that crafting a Universal Treasure could grant Divine Transformation points and reset attributes, then added a point back to his luck after it fell to zero.
• Han Xiao invested his new Divine Transformation point in Mechanical and gained the Universal Treasure Creator talent and another First Sanctum skill fragment.
• Han Xiao examined and tested the Sovereign suit, impressed by its performance and its Throne component.
• Han Xiao browsed the player forums, where Meat Bun’s Black Star Army video series had attracted a growing audience and a player had exposed Sorokin’s spy mission.
• Han Xiao considered using army players to take Sorokin’s money, then noticed a popular post reporting that Black Star Army players were being repeatedly spawn-camped.