Chapter Summaries

Minamoto no Yorimitsu tried to dismiss the Nantianmen weapons as a bluff and insisted Dragon Country could still be attacked with nuclear bombs. The footage revealed ten thousand Chengying Tactical Mecha transforming into fighter jets and assembling on the Luan Bird carrier platform, where they announced the Nantianmen Mecha Team was ready.

• Minamoto no Yorimitsu reassured General Yasui that the Luan Bird and aerospace fighters were likely an intimidating illusion and urged him to continue attacking Dragon Country with nuclear bombs.
• The Nantianmen command ordered Dragon Country soldiers to release their Chengying Tactical Mecha and board the Luan Bird platform.
• The soldiers activated hidden lifts, bringing thousands of armored Chengying Mecha up from beneath the air base deck.
• The soldiers connected to their mecha, powered them up, and prepared to enter flight mode.
• Ten thousand Chengying Mecha transformed into fighter jets, flew into formation, and landed on the Luan Bird platform’s deck.
• The mecha saluted and announced that the Nantianmen Mecha Team was ready.

After the Firmament confirmed that Dragon Country had deployed the Nantianmen Battle Team, Minamoto no Yorimitsu and Yasui realized how hopeless the coming battle looked. Yasui died from fear, leaving Minamoto no Yorimitsu alone and refusing to surrender.

• The Firmament announced that ten Luan Bird carriers were heading for Bear Country and Eagle Sauce Country, and warned that the battle would be the hardest in Azure Star’s history.
• Minamoto no Yorimitsu recognized that Lin Ye’s weapons were real and collapsed into despair.
• Yasui panicked over the threat posed by the Nantianmen weapons and the consequences of losing the Instance.
• Yasui fainted and died, and Minamoto no Yorimitsu found him without a trace of life.
• Minamoto no Yorimitsu feared the Great He Clan was doomed, but declared that he could not admit defeat because he was the Emperor.

Minamoto no Yorimitsu rallied the remaining Daiwa Challengers and Eagle Sauce forces for a final battle against Dragon Country, while Xi'er watched the Nantianmen Project and resolved to face it with Bear Country’s forces. Xi'er concentrated Bear Country’s military in Moscow to test Lin Ye’s advanced weapons.

• Minamoto no Yorimitsu addressed the Daiwa Challengers and Eagle Sauce Country, urging them to fight alongside him in a final war against Lin Ye and Dragon Country.
• Minamoto no Yorimitsu ordered Eagle Sauce to prepare all its nuclear missiles for launch and summoned its forces to defend Washington.
• Xi'er watched the Nantianmen Project and recognized it as the trump card Lin Ye had kept hidden, while accepting that Bear Country might lose.
• Xi'er sketched the Luan Bird Aerospace Battleship and ordered Bear Country’s military and the Red Russian Bear Alliance’s forces to converge on Moscow.
• Bear Country’s tanks, aerospace forces, Dog-Head Mecha Warriors, and Ground-Effect Vehicles gathered in Moscow to face Dragon Country’s Future Warfare.

Lin Ye’s Nantianmen Project stunned spectators and Great Xia’s leaders, who saw it as an overwhelming advantage that left the Eight Settlements with no hope of winning. Lin Ye realized the Creation Space could help him build weapons beyond his own knowledge, while Long Yuan suspected his ambitions extended to challenging the Firmament.

• The Nantianmen Project’s flying mothership, Aerospace Fighters, and advanced mechas left the livestream spectators speechless before they concluded Dragon Country would defeat the Eight Settlements.
• Great Xia’s leaders celebrated Lin Ye’s reveal, while Long Yuan concluded that even vastly more Challengers could not overcome his designs and wondered if Lin Ye planned to challenge the Firmament.
• Long Yuan recalled that reaching one hundred million points and advancing to LV5 was necessary to challenge the Firmament, but kept his concern to himself until the Instance ended.
• Lin Ye watched the Project’s reveal and realized the Creation Space could simulate military technologies even when he did not understand their principles.
• Lin Ye credited Minamoto no Yorimitsu’s attack with bringing the Nantianmen Project into play two days earlier than expected.
• Lin Ye laughed at Minamoto no Yorimitsu’s plan to rely on nuclear bombs and judged that the Nantianmen Project could intercept the missiles before they reached Dragon Country.

Minamoto no Yorimitsu launched Eagle Sauce Country’s 4,000 nuclear missiles at Dragon Country, but the Nantianmen Aerospace Fleet intercepted them over the Pacific. The resulting waves devastated Eagle Sauce Country’s west coast, and three Luan Bird battleships arrived above Washington as the operation to destroy the country began.

• Minamoto no Yorimitsu asked Xi'er to join a nuclear strike on Dragon Country, but Xi'er refused and blamed him for their losses.
• Minamoto no Yorimitsu launched all 4,000 of Eagle Sauce Country’s nuclear missiles toward Dragon Country.
• Dragon Country’s Chengying Mechas and Baidi and Xuannü fighters intercepted the missiles over the Pacific within five minutes.
• The explosions and waves devastated Eagle Sauce Country’s west coast, destroying Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, and Oakland.
• Minamoto no Yorimitsu watched three Luan Bird battleships arrive above Washington as a Firmament Notification announced the operation to destroy Eagle Sauce Country.

Dragon Country’s Nantianmen fleet launched a devastating assault on Washington, overwhelming Eagle Sauce Country’s defenses and deploying Chengying Mechas to clear the city. Dragon No. 75 destroyed the tanks surrounding the White House and continued toward it on his mission to capture the president.

• The three Luan Bird Aerospace Battleships positioned themselves above Eagle Sauce Country and sent 264 Aerospace Fighters to attack Washington.
• Minamoto no Yorimitsu ordered the Great He Clan Challengers to fight back, but the Aerospace Fighters wiped out Eagle Sauce Country’s remaining air forces and rapidly reduced its instance population.
• The Aerospace Fighters bombarded Washington while 3,000 Chengying Mecha warriors landed across the city to conduct the ground cleanup.
• Dragon No. 75 landed near the White House, repelled the surrounding tanks with his defense system, and destroyed them with his weapons and strength.
• After smashing all one hundred tanks in three minutes, Dragon No. 75 activated his boosters and advanced toward the White House.

With Washington in ruins and the Eagle Sauce Country Instance reduced to one Challenger, Minamoto no Yorimitsu faced defeat and the destruction of the Dahe Settlement. As a Chengying Mecha came to execute him, he chose suicide to preserve his dignity, but Firmament kept him in the Instance as a spectator until it ended.

• Minamoto no Yorimitsu saw that only one Challenger remained in the Instance and realized his resistance had hastened their defeat.
• Members of the Dahe Settlement grieved and prayed for their gods to save them as they faced possible extinction.
• Minamoto no Yorimitsu recalled the decisions that had led him to provoke Lin Ye and regretted his role in the crisis.
• Dragon No. 75, a Chengying Mecha, ordered Minamoto no Yorimitsu to surrender and announced his execution.
• Minamoto no Yorimitsu performed seppuku with his Samurai sword and then stabbed himself in the heart.
• Firmament announced that Minamoto no Yorimitsu's journey had ended, but he would remain as a spectator until the Instance was over.

Minamoto no Yorimitsu died by suicide after Eagle Sauce Country’s Challengers were eliminated, and the Firmament declared the country destroyed. Xi’er became the last Challenger and prepared Bear Country’s forces for the coming battle against Lin Ye’s Nantianmen Project.

• The Firmament penalized Minamoto no Yorimitsu for suicide and declared Eagle Sauce Country destroyed, making it a colony of Dragon Country.
• The Firmament announced that five Luan Bird Aerospace Carrier Platforms would head to Bear Country to strike it, while viewers mocked Minamoto no Yorimitsu’s actions.
• Xi’er saw that he was the only remaining Challenger in the Instance and laughed at how quickly the other countries had fallen.
• The Firmament warned Xi’er that ten Luan Bird Aerospace Fighters would assemble over Moscow in five minutes and urged him to hold out until the mission ended.
• Xi’er reviewed Bear Country’s enormous military reserves and ordered its forces to fight the Nantianmen Project in the coming Battle of Moscow.

Dragon Country’s Nantianmen fleet overwhelmed Bear Country’s forces in the battle for Moscow, while Xi'er watched and drew its weapons. After Bear Country’s military equipment was destroyed, Xi'er finished his drawing and kept it as the Instance ended.

• Ten Luan Bird Aerospace Carrier Platforms arrived above Moscow, and the central system announced the start of Operation Purify Moscow.
• The Luan Birds activated a force field that disrupted Bear Country’s aircraft and missiles, allowing 880 Aerospace Fighters to devastate the Russian Bear Aerospace Forces.
• Ten thousand Chengying Mechas landed and destroyed Bear Country’s tanks and Dog-Head Mecha Warriors.
• Xi'er watched the battle and frantically sketched the Nantianmen weapons, intending to recreate them in his own Instance.
• Bear Country’s remaining military equipment fell to zero, the battle stopped, and Xi'er finished his drawing and tucked it into his pocket.

Xi'er accepted Bear Country’s defeat and was killed, ending the Instance and triggering the Firmament’s final assessment of all sixteen million Challengers. The results rewarded Xi'er and several other leaders for their performances while imposing severe penalties on rule-breakers.

• Xi'er walked into the ruined streets of Moscow, accepted defeat, and was killed by a Chengying Mecha.
• The Firmament declared the Instance a failure and began assessing the Challengers’ performances.
• Long Yuan and the Great Xia leaders celebrated Lin Ye’s victory, while Long Yuan planned to tell him what he knew about the Firmament before Lin Ye advanced to LV5.
• The Firmament awarded Xi'er an S-rank rating, gave Guderian, Fulangche, Mansh, and Rommel A-rank ratings, and assigned lower ratings to other Challengers.
• The Firmament announced doubled penalties for rule violations, deducting two million points from Yasui and from Xiaochuan, Yamamoto Sanjūhachi, and Fuchikawa Yasuhide, and twenty million points from Minamoto no Yorimitsu.

The Great Wall Watch Instance ended with 5.25 million Challengers erased, and the Dahe Settlement was left on the brink of collapse. Lin Ye reflected on the battle and the Nantianmen Project before the Firmament began calculating his reward as Dungeon Designer.

• The Firmament tallied 5.25 million Challengers for erasure, including 1.95 million from Park Seong-man’s Burundi Settlement and 1.3 million from Myanmar.
• The Firmament reported the Instance’s final statistics, including a 0% clear rate and 50% completion, then closed the livestream.
• The surviving Challengers were teleported out as The Great Wall Watch Instance ended.
• Lin Ye reviewed the five-day battle and considered the Nantianmen Project’s importance to his future challenge against the Firmament.
• The Firmament announced that all three runs of Lin Ye’s Instance had ended without a clear and began calculating his Dungeon Designer reward.

Lin Ye became the top-ranked Dungeon Designer on Azure Star after The Great Wall Watch earned him enough points, and the Firmament granted him privileges reserved for the strongest. The Instance entered a three-day review and restriction process, while Lin Ye celebrated his achievement in a quiet moment of rest.

• The Firmament tallied the points from The Great Wall Watch’s missions, weapon sales, and VIP Spawn Points, then quadrupled Lin Ye’s earnings with his Super Doubling Card.
• The Firmament announced that Lin Ye had reached first place in the Hero Ranking with 54.28 million points and declared him the strongest on Azure Star.
• The Firmament granted Instance Exemption Authority to all residents of Lin Ye’s Settlement and upgraded his Creation Space.
• The Firmament announced a three-day review of The Great Wall Watch because its elimination count broke Azure Star’s record and its difficulty was deemed insurmountable.
• Lin Ye accepted the review and restriction process, then went to his villa courtyard to drink beer and admire his place at the top of the rankings.

After The Great Wall Watch reshaped Azure Star’s power balance, Lin Ye remained focused on challenging the Firmament and earning the points he needed, while considering the cost of mass erasures. He then hurried to the Deep Forest Sanatorium to see the dying Ding Chang, who had lived long enough to witness Lin Ye reach the top.

• Lin Ye resolved to pursue 100 million points and challenge the Firmament, hoping to uncover the truth behind its world.
• Lin Ye watched reports describing the Dragon-Slaying Alliance’s dissolution, the Great Xia Settlement’s rise, and the collapse of several rival settlements.
• Lin Ye considered protests against his mass erasures and the difficulty of earning the remaining 50 million points under the Firmament’s limits.
• Bai Tianhao told Lin Ye that Ding Chang’s condition had worsened and that he wanted to see him, so Lin Ye drove to the Deep Forest Sanatorium.
• Lin Ye found Great Xia leaders gathered outside Ding Chang’s room, then entered and promised to fulfill any wishes the old man still had.
• Ding Chang praised Lin Ye for reaching the top of the Great Xia Settlement as he lay gravely ill.

Lin Ye agreed to give the dying Ding Chang a dignified farewell inside a custom Instance where Ding Chang could experience the Dragon Country at its peak. He designed the Instance and confirmed with the Firmament that he could enter as its commander and observer.

• Ding Chang asked Lin Ye to accept his remaining points and let him be erased inside an Instance rather than die from illness; the Great Xia leaders supported his request.
• Lin Ye refused to use The Great Wall Watch and promised to create a safer, milder Instance for Ding Chang, while coordinating participation with Long Yuan.
• Long Yuan pledged to organize the challengers and join Ding Chang’s farewell, and Li Yunlong and the other leaders promised their support.
• Lin Ye designed a three-day Instance with the Dragon Country as the Spawn Point and the impossible objective of destroying Earth Online, setting one million Great Xia participants and a 100-point reward or penalty.
• The Firmament approved Lin Ye’s entry for data gathering and said he would become the Instance’s supreme commander, receive no points, and face no penalties.

Lin Ye created a million-person farewell Instance for Ding Chang, titled "Earth Online: The Last Road (Special Edition)," and submitted it for review while planning to open it himself later. The Firmament warned that its Dragon Country spawn point and advanced technology could make the Instance dangerously easy to complete, while Azure Star panicked over the announcement and pleaded not to be chosen.

• Lin Ye finished designing Ding Chang’s farewell journey and submitted "Earth Online: The Last Road (Special Edition)" for review, asking the Firmament not to open it yet.
• The Firmament flagged Dragon Country’s Nantianmen Project as a safety concern but confirmed that the design did not violate Instance rules; Lin Ye confirmed the submission anyway.
• The Firmament announced that Lin Ye’s million-person Instance had entered review, and the news spread across Azure Star.
• News outlets reported that settlements were disbanding, offering payment, or praising Lin Ye in hopes of avoiding the Instance.
• People across Azure Star speculated online that Lin Ye’s new Instance would bring mass death, while Lin Ye realized they had mistaken his farewell project for another act of revenge.

Lin Ye’s new Instance, “Earth Online: The Last Road,” passed review with an Endless-level rating, and he arranged a voluntary Settlement selection before its opening. The announcement terrified Azure Star’s Settlements, while Lin Ye planned to use the registration stage to expose troublemakers and direct attention toward Great Xia.

• The Firmament approved Lin Ye’s Instance as Endless-level, and Lin Ye told Long Yuan he would open Settlement registration before challenger registration.
• Long Yuan assured Lin Ye that Great Xia could provide a million challengers and thanked him for making an Instance for Dean Ding.
• Lin Ye announced the Instance’s preliminary selection stage, including random selection if no Settlement volunteered and a general amnesty when it opened.
• Azure Star’s media and residents panicked at the possibility that any Settlement could be selected for the Endless-level Instance.
• Lin Ye privately intended to frighten lingering troublemakers, see which Settlements would volunteer, and ultimately choose Great Xia.

Lin Ye chose the Great Xia Settlement to participate in his Instance, then registered as a Challenger himself. After selecting one million Great Xia Challengers, he entered the Instance as the countdown ended.

• Lin Ye selected the Great Xia Settlement, prompting widespread speculation about his reasons for choosing his own settlement.
• Lin Ye registered as a Challenger for his Instance, Earth Online: The Last Road.
• More than two million Great Xia people applied, and Lin Ye selected the first million by level and points, excluding all Level 1 applicants.
• The Firmament began the Instance countdown with one million participants and opened the livestream.
• Lin Ye and the selected Challengers were transported into Earth Online.

A million Challengers arrived in the Forbidden City, where the Firmament made Dragon Country their Spawn Point and appointed Lin Ye supreme commander for a mission to destroy the world and eliminate all humans. Lin Ye led them outside to a military parade he had arranged to reassure Ding Chang, and the parade began at his command.

• The Firmament teleported the Challengers to the Forbidden City and declared Dragon Country their Spawn Point and domain.
• The Firmament assigned the Challengers the mission of destroying the world and eliminating every human within 72 hours, and placed Lin Ye in command of Dragon Country.
• Lin Ye reassured the Challengers that Earth Online was peaceful unless they attacked, then told Ding Chang that a farewell ceremony awaited him.
• Lin Ye led Ding Chang and the million Challengers outside the Forbidden City, where Dragon Country soldiers stood assembled for a military parade.
• Lin Ye took Ding Chang, Long Yuan, and the others onto Chengtian Gate and ordered the parade to begin.

Lin Ye staged a vast military parade to display Dragon Country’s armed forces and inspire the Great Xia Challengers. After the parade ended, he reassured Ding Chang that Great Xia’s years of humiliation were over and that even stronger Instances would come.

• Lin Ye began the parade with drones forming Dragon Country’s banners and the words “Dragon Country shall live forever!” above Chang'an Avenue.
• Dragon Country’s military branches marched past, ending with the elite War Wolf formation, while Li Yunlong and Deng Xian discussed how the display could inspire Instance design research.
• Armored formations displayed more than a hundred kinds of weapons, and Lin Ye explained how Dragon Country’s forces were designed to coordinate across land, sea, and air.
• Aircraft swept over the Forbidden City before the Nantianmen formation appeared, with aerospace fighters forming a message in the sky and Chengying Mecha saluting Lin Ye.
• After the parade, Lin Ye told Ding Chang that The Great Wall Watch was only one of his Instances and promised that stronger ones would follow.

After a military parade, Lin Ye took Ding Chang and Long Yuan aboard the Dragon God for a final cruise along Dragon Country’s coast. As they discussed the Firmament and Ding Chang’s advice, Lin Ye was left considering the cost of earning points by killing other humans.

• Lin Ye ended the parade and invited Ding Chang to cruise at sea aboard a ship, giving the former naval commander a chance to see the ocean again.
• Lin Ye assembled Dragon Country’s Three Fleets, and the Challengers sailed along the coast while Lin Ye, Ding Chang, and Long Yuan talked privately aboard the Dragon God.
• Ding Chang asked whether Lin Ye would soon challenge the Firmament, and Long Yuan explained that Azure Star’s LV4 Challengers had researched it and hoped to advance to LV5.
• Ding Chang advised Lin Ye to stop killing large numbers of people for points, warning that the shrinking human population could leave Azure Star a dead planet.
• Lin Ye agreed that he had considered the consequences and said he would seek a better way to earn points if he could.