Chapter Summaries

Hong Cha found and retrieved encoded particles during a reconnaissance mission, but the Three Universal Civilizations discovered that the particles contained a star map of their territory. The Ancestral Tree King revealed that the leak was a deliberate ploy to sow suspicion, and Han Xiao joined the leaders as they prepared for a full-scale invasion and began searching for a traitor.

• Hong Cha ignored the mission briefing to flirt, then boarded a World Tree scout ship and found a hidden mission in its analysis room.
• Hong Cha secured the encoded particles, prompting the reconnaissance force to withdraw before World Tree reinforcements arrived.
• Researchers deciphered the particles and discovered that the Three Universal Civilizations' star map had been leaked.
• The Ancestral Tree King explained that the World Tree had deliberately allowed the Three Universal Civilizations to intercept the particles to provoke suspicion and division.
• Mabrus, Louis, and the Arcane Church's leader summoned Han Xiao, discussed the leak and possible traitors, and agreed to prepare for a full-scale invasion.
• Han Xiao requested encoded particles to study and suspected the Super Star Cluster Alliance or the Revengers might be involved.

Han Xiao examined the encoded particles and used [Bold Explorer] to witness their creation, delivery, and release near the World Tree, revealing signs that a surviving Lorl Civilization and an unknown outside civilization were behind the plot. He left without a way to locate the infiltrators and decided to gather intelligence secretly while preventing the Super Star Cluster Alliance from becoming a scapegoat.

• Han Xiao arrived at a secret laboratory and examined the encoded particles, identifying technical features associated with the Super Star Cluster Alliance.
• Han Xiao activated [Bold Explorer] and saw unfamiliar researchers create the particles, transport them in white cylinders, and release them near a World Tree scouting party.
• Han Xiao recognized a Lorxian from the supposedly extinct Lorl Civilization and concluded that it had survived with help from an unknown outside civilization seeking revenge.
• Han Xiao considered using [Information State Erasure] but concluded it could not erase the collective threat or reveal the infiltrators' location.
• Han Xiao decided to use conventional methods and expand surveillance of the quantum network while the outside civilization likely remained nearby.
• Han Xiao resolved to reduce suspicion of the Super Star Cluster Alliance and prevent it from being blamed for the encoded particles.

The World Tree launched a full-scale invasion across the Explored Universe, forcing the Three Universal Civilizations to fight on scattered fronts. At a Shattered Star Ring base, Carrot revealed the power of his new Martial God Fist by killing a Sacred Tree Envoy with one blow, then prepared to continue fighting alongside Rotel.

• Han Xiao learned that the Super Star Cluster Alliance planned to flee to the Unexplored Universe and worried that the plan would make them look responsible for the invasion.
• World Tree fleets poured through wormholes into multiple Star Fields, devouring planets and triggering battles, panic, and riots across the Explored Universe.
• Three Sacred Tree Envoys cornered Rotel and Carrot at a Shattered Star Ring base, and a toxin left Rotel struggling to move.
• Carrot used Martial God Fist: Galaxy Severance to kill the Pugilist Sacred Tree Envoy instantly and rescued Rotel.
• Carrot told Rotel he had created only two Martial God Fist moves, then joined him in preparing to fight the two surviving Envoys.

The World Tree launched a full-scale invasion, and Black Star’s Mechanical Divine Apostles helped the defenders hold their ground while the Machine Race unleashed its forces. As the Star Alliance celebrated the chaos and the Super Star Cluster Alliance prepared to abandon the conflict, Han Xiao contacted their leaders.

• A World Tree fleet attacked an evacuation convoy, but Heaven Suppressing Flag arrived, destroyed the Mechanical Apostles and their commander’s Dominion clone, and then left to reinforce another front.
• Manison and Nifogadi faced the World Tree invasion of Machine Race territory, and Manison ordered the Machine Race’s vast mechanical army to counterattack.
• Star Alliance observers celebrated that their leaked intelligence had helped provoke the invasion and expected the resulting war to break the Three Universal Civilizations.
• The Super Star Cluster Alliance voted to prepare its Great Migration plan and wait until the Three Universal Civilizations and the World Tree reached a stalemate before withdrawing.
• Han Xiao contacted the Super Star Cluster Alliance leaders, who agreed to hear what he had to say.

Han Xiao confronted the Super Star Cluster leaders over their secret Great Migration plan and urged them to help fight the World Tree, warning that they would not escape its reach. The leaders agreed to suspend migration and commit more troops for now, but reserved the right to withdraw if their losses became too great.

• Han Xiao told the Super Star Cluster leaders that a traitor had leaked information about the Explored Universe to the World Tree, prompting them to suspect he was accusing their alliance.
• Han Xiao revealed that the alliance had planned the Great Migration and challenged the leaders to prove they had not helped the enemy; he then said he believed them but warned that the Three Universal Civilizations would still suspect them if they fled.
• Han Xiao explained that the World Tree could track them through the Information State and argued that staying to defeat it was their only chance of survival.
• The Star Arc leader demanded assurances that the Three Universal Civilizations would not persecute the alliance after the war, and Han Xiao offered to oppose such reprisals and help them develop freely.
• Han Xiao threatened to destroy the leaders' civilizations if they abandoned the war, and the Star Arc leader agreed to pause migration and send more troops, while retaining the option to withdraw if losses grew too great.

Han Xiao assessed the World Tree’s invasion and prepared to strike back, while Urnos refused to join the war so he could pursue advancement to Beyond God Grade. The chapter left Han Xiao’s Dominion avatar inside World Tree territory, ready to settle an old score.

• Han Xiao secured a temporary agreement from the Super Star Cluster Alliance to remain and support the war, then analyzed the World Tree’s invasion strategy and vulnerable targets.
• Urnos refused the Arcane Church’s request to fight, explaining that he needed to preserve his strength while seeking a path to Beyond God Grade.
• Black Star Army players fought World Tree forces across the Infinite Nebula, using their rapid revivals and large numbers to overwhelm enemy troops.
• Han Xiao arrived in World Tree territory through a wormhole in his improved Dominion avatar and set out to settle the score for their earlier battle.

Han Xiao attacked World Tree territory and forced the Ancestral Tree King to order its evacuation rather than divert invasion forces to stop him. His test of the Tree God's Character Card unexpectedly attracted the Mother Tree to his summoned roots, revealing a potential advantage with three uses of the card remaining.

• Han Xiao piloted Supreme Heavenly Venerate into World Tree territory, destroyed a planet, and overwhelmed the fleets sent against him.
• The Ancestral Tree King ordered the Mother Tree to reclaim its territory and relocate rather than recall invasion forces to fight Han Xiao.
• Han Xiao activated the Tree God's Character Card and summoned blue roots that devoured retreating battleships independently of the World Tree.
• The Ancestral Tree King mistook Han Xiao's summoned roots for evidence that he possessed another World Tree.
• The Mother Tree eagerly intertwined its roots with Han Xiao's blue roots and exchanged energy with them, leading Han Xiao to suspect it regarded them as a mate.
• The World Tree completed its withdrawal, and Han Xiao considered how to exploit his discovery with the Character Card's three remaining uses.

After the World Tree’s first invasion wave was repelled, the Three Universal Civilizations assessed the war and prepared to hunt down hidden enemy forces. In the World Tree Familia territory, the Ancestral Tree King recruited Hailian to assassinate the Pivot Snake youngling Black Star was protecting.

• Han Xiao reported that the World Tree had relocated its base, and the Three Universal Civilizations adjusted their strategy as its first invasion wave subsided.
• Tenny and Simon reviewed the invasion at a strategic meeting, where Han Xiao reported heavy losses among the World Tree’s high-level combatants and officers discussed the Super Star Cluster Alliance’s support.
• Manison said he had repelled the attack on Machine Race territory with his hidden mechanical army.
• The Interstellar Joint Army agreed to strengthen wartime controls, clear out hidden World Tree units, and prepare for a future strike on the Central Galaxy.
• The Ancestral Tree King offered Hailian the Secret Tree King’s crown if she killed the Pivot Snake youngling Black Star was protecting.
• The Ancestral Tree King gave Hailian a poisonous substance and a Leaf Concealment Garment, and she agreed to try the assassination.

As the World Tree invasion continued, Han Xiao guarded the Secondary Dimensions and raised Pivot Snake while the war’s losses weighed on the Explored Universe. When Jenny asked him to bring pregnant Harrison home from the Expeditionary Army, Harrison refused, determined to help end the war; Han Xiao accepted his choice and hoped his luck would bring a surprise.

• Over more than half a year of fighting, the Three Universal Civilizations contained the World Tree’s gains, while Han Xiao repelled seventeen invasions and successfully bred three Pivot Snake embryos.
• Oathkeeper and Kasuyi told Han Xiao they planned to leave the Explored Universe after the war and asked him to revive them if they died on their travels.
• Kasuyi relayed Jenny’s news that she was pregnant with Harrison’s child and hoped Han Xiao would persuade Harrison to leave the Expeditionary Army.
• Han Xiao contacted Harrison, who explained that refugees’ suffering had inspired him to volunteer for the expedition and refuse to return to Jenny.
• Harrison asked Han Xiao to tell Jenny he loved her, but Han Xiao told him to say it himself and ended the call.

Pangon turned his avenger fleet back to save refugees from the World Tree fleet, then explained that they could help ordinary citizens without joining the war. Meanwhile, Hailian continued her attempt to assassinate Pivot Snake by poisoning Secondary Dimensions it might consume.

• The White Mountain captain ordered the ship to land on a barren planet and sent its empty hull to delay the pursuing World Tree fleet.
• Pangon initially ordered his avenger fleet to ignore the refugees, but turned back and destroyed the World Tree ships as they prepared to bombard the planet.
• Pangon told his companions that the avengers should help ordinary citizens when possible, partly to prevent Black Star from suspecting them of betraying the Three Universal Civilizations.
• Hailian, unable to find a safe chance to approach Pivot Snake, decided to spread the Mother Tree's snake killer through Secondary Dimensions it might eat.
• Hailian injected a drop of the poison into a Secondary Dimension and hoped Pivot Snake would consume it.

Harrison’s fleet entered World Tree territory while Hailian secretly poisoned a Secondary Dimension that the Pivot Snake later ate. Han Xiao saved the poisoned Pivot Snake by transforming it into a virtual life form, then prepared to investigate the toxin and retaliate against the World Tree.

• Harrison’s expeditionary fleet continued into World Tree territory, and Hailian spotted it but let it pass before using its route to choose a Secondary Dimension to poison.
• Half a month later, the Pivot Snake ate that poisoned Secondary Dimension and began thrashing as the toxin rapidly damaged it.
• Dark Emperor identified the poison as a genetic toxin, and Han Xiao arrived, treated the Pivot Snake, and discovered its maximum health was still falling.
• Han Xiao used [Life Transformation · Virtual] to make the Pivot Snake immune to the toxin, separating the poison from its body.
• Han Xiao drew the extracted toxin toward himself and activated [Bold Explorer] to investigate the World Tree’s attack.

Hailian’s poison plot accidentally accelerated Pivot Snake’s growth, allowing Han Xiao to locate the World Tree’s true body. Han Xiao captured Hailian and told Harrison that the Expeditionary Army was no longer needed, leaving Harrison baffled about how he had helped.

• Hailian learned that the Mother Tree’s connection to Pivot Snake was weakening, then watched it suddenly strengthen until the World Tree could pinpoint Pivot Snake’s exact coordinates.
• The Ancestral Tree King realized Pivot Snake had matured and exposed the World Tree’s true location, while Han Xiao appeared and found Hailian hiding nearby.
• Han Xiao revealed that he had transformed Pivot Snake into a virtual life form and accelerated its growth, making the World Tree’s coordinates point to his own position.
• Hailian tried to escape, but Han Xiao and the Mechanical Divine Apostles defeated and sealed her in Space-Time Amber.
• Han Xiao contacted Harrison and ordered him to return, explaining that he had found the World Tree’s true body and that Harrison’s luck had helped; Harrison was left confused about his contribution.

After Black Star gained the exact coordinates of the World Tree's true body through Pivot Snake, the World Tree recalled its forces to defend its home. The Three Universal Civilizations seized the initiative and ordered a counterattack, while Han Xiao privately considered how their alliance might change once the war ended.

• The Ancestral Tree King ordered the World Tree's forces to return and protect the Mother Tree's true body after learning that Black Star could locate it.
• The Three Universal Civilizations debated the World Tree's sudden withdrawal and considered whether it was preparing an attack or responding to leaked intelligence.
• Han Xiao told the meeting that he had obtained the World Tree's true-body coordinates, explaining that the World Tree had withdrawn out of fear of a direct strike.
• The leaders of the Three Universal Civilizations changed their strategic objective from defending their territory to destroying the World Tree Civilization, and the Interstellar Joint Army gathered in the Central Galaxy.
• The Star Alliance observers wrongly assumed the World Tree was preparing a larger operation and remained unaware of its predicament.

Han Xiao rallied the Beyond Grade A Association for a decisive counterattack against the World Tree while securing support for turning the association into a civilization after the war. The Three Universal Civilizations launched the campaign, and player scouts arrived before the World Tree's fortified main body.

• The Super Star Cluster leaders concluded that Black Star's intervention had spared them the consequences of their migration plan and preserved them as potential postwar allies.
• Han Xiao secured the Beyond Grade A Association's support for establishing its own civilization after the war.
• Manison warned against letting the Three Universal Civilizations control the World Tree, and Han Xiao asked the association to prevent them from interfering with his actions.
• The Three Universal Civilizations assembled their fleets and planned scouting missions, bombardments, and a breakthrough assault led by Han Xiao and the Beyond Grade As.
• The Three Universal Civilizations launched the campaign by teleporting player scouts into the dimension housing the World Tree's main body.
• The Ancestral Tree King spotted the arriving scouts as the World Tree's fleets waited behind layered defenses.

The Interstellar Joint Army launched its counterattack in the World Tree’s true body dimension, enduring heavy losses until Han Xiao and the Beyond Grade As joined the fight. Han Xiao neutralized the Raelbo Space Protection Belt and led an assault on the World Tree’s defenses, where the Ancestral Tree King summoned the Tree God to stop him.

• The players entered the World Tree’s true body dimension, scouting its defenses while Keys of Destruction battered the outer defensive ring.
• The Interstellar Joint Army deployed in waves, and the World Tree fleet attacked its vanguard as both sides suffered massive casualties.
• The Interstellar Joint Army grew strong enough to counterattack, and Han Xiao arrived with the Beyond Grade As and Supreme Heavenly Venerate.
• Han Xiao used the Space Constant Debugger to disable the Raelbo Space Protection Belt, then led the assault through the World Tree’s outer defenses.
• The Ancestral Tree King burned his Beyond Divine Remnant Power to summon the Tree God, and Han Xiao clashed with it in battle.

Han Xiao pushed through the World Tree's defenses while the Three Universal Civilizations' forces fought a costly battle of attrition. As the Ancestral Tree King took control of the Tree God and sacrificed a Tree King Crown to boost its power, Han Xiao faced a newly strengthened opponent.

• Han Xiao battled the Tree God in the World Tree's main-body dimension, gradually gaining strength as his talents activated while the Tree God initially held him back.
• The Beyond Grade As of the Three Universal Civilizations overwhelmed many World Tree powerhouses, while Simon warned that the larger war could turn against them if the stalemate lasted too long.
• Han Xiao regained the initiative against the mindless Tree God, but the Ancestral Tree King's consciousness awakened and took control, making the Tree God's fighting more skillful.
• The Mother Tree restored the Ancestral Tree King's consciousness and gave him the crowns of the Anchor Tree King and Tranquil Tree King, at the cost of his chance to resurrect if he died in the Tree God state.
• The Ancestral Tree King activated [Tree King Crown: Release], sacrificing the Tranquil Tree King Crown to greatly increase the Tree God's power and push back Han Xiao's domain.

Han Xiao overwhelmed the Ancestral Tree King despite two successive Tree King Crown releases, then pursued the injured Tree God through the World Tree’s defensive rings. Just before they reached the World Tree’s main body, the Tree God’s domain swallowed them both, leaving the battlefield and Simon without a trace of their location.

• The Ancestral Tree King sacrificed the Suppression Tree King’s crown to boost the Tree God’s Pugilist strength, but Han Xiao overpowered him and badly wounded him.
• The Ancestral Tree King shattered the Secret Tree King’s crown and added the Mage Class’s power, yet Han Xiao restrained him, tore out roots, and blasted him away with physical cannons.
• World Tree warriors sacrificed themselves to delay Han Xiao, but he destroyed their fleets and continued after the Tree God.
• Han Xiao drove the Tree God through the third and fourth defensive lines toward the fifth ring and the World Tree’s main body.
• The Tree God expanded his green domain and vanished with Han Xiao, while Simon panicked after their signals disappeared from the tactical display.

Han Xiao battled the Ancestral Tree King inside the Tree God's inner space, where the World Tree's support let the Tree God withstand attacks and gain overwhelming power. Han Xiao outlasted its overloaded strength, killed the Ancestral Tree King, and escaped as the collapsing inner space opened onto the outside world.

• The Ancestral Tree King drew Han Xiao into the Tree God's inner space, where the World Tree's digestive force weakened him and the Tree God's attacks forced him to defend.
• Han Xiao realized the Ancestral Tree King was transferring damage to the Mother Tree World, so the Ancestral Tree King sacrificed Tree King Crowns and burned through the World Tree's Beyond Divine Remnant Power to strengthen the Tree God.
• Han Xiao activated his stockpiled Character Cards and matched the Tree God's power, prompting the Ancestral Tree King to sacrifice his own crown and spend the remaining resources in a final boost.
• Han Xiao and the Ancestral Tree King fought relentlessly until the overloaded Tree God ran out of Beyond Divine Remnant Power and collapsed.
• The dying Ancestral Tree King cursed Han Xiao, but Han Xiao crushed him, ending his life permanently.
• Han Xiao recalled his depleted mechanical army and piloted the Supreme Heavenly Venerate through a rift as the Tree God's inner space collapsed.

Han Xiao returned after killing the Tree God and drove into the World Tree’s main body, where its collective consciousness unleashed a devastating psychic attack. Protected by a Character Card, Han Xiao sent Pivot Snake to consume the World Tree’s independent consciousness and began subduing it.

• The Interstellar Joint Army and its Beyond Grade As struggled against the World Tree Familia while Han Xiao was missing, and Urnos watched from strategic headquarters.
• Han Xiao emerged from the fifth defensive ring and announced that he had eliminated the Tree God, raising the Interstellar Joint Army’s morale.
• The World Tree Familia launched a desperate, suicidal defense, but Han Xiao charged through the final defensive ring and struck the World Tree’s main body.
• The World Tree’s collective consciousness attacked Han Xiao through their energy link, but his Source of Ten Thousand Souls Character Card absorbed the mental assault.
• Han Xiao released Pivot Snake, which coiled around the World Tree and began consuming its independent consciousness through an information bridge.

Han Xiao subdued the World Tree after the Pivot Snake defeated the Mother Tree’s will, gaining control of its civilization and storing its main body in his inner space. After the Three Universal Civilizations failed to destroy it, Han Xiao proposed suppressing news of the victory and using the World Tree’s Warning Network to track the third party that had leaked information.

• Han Xiao used the Pivot Snake to pin down the World Tree while he established a soul connection and began taking control of its main body.
• The Three Universal Civilizations realized Han Xiao was subduing the World Tree and ordered their forces to attack it, while the Beyond Grade A organizations obstructed them.
• The Pivot Snake merged with the World Tree, strengthening Han Xiao’s control; he took command of the World Tree Civilization and recalled its fleets.
• Han Xiao shielded the World Tree from the Three Universal Civilizations’ bombardment, then shrank its main body and stored it in his inner space.
• Han Xiao rejected the leaders’ demand to destroy the World Tree and asked them to suppress news of the victory so they could use its Warning Network to find the third-party force.