Chapter Summaries

As midnight’s disaster approached, Su Mo prepared Hope and reassured Connie about the future, then upgraded the ship’s machinery and surveillance cameras. Hope endured the torrential storm with three of its twenty-one wind walls remaining, leaving Su Mo confident that the preparations had succeeded.

• The villagers of Hope Village left for Iron Stone Mountain, and Connie said goodbye to the lionfolk camp; Su Mo’s poison was meant to kill the two surviving lionfolk and grant him terrain-transfer authority.
• Su Mo encouraged Connie to focus on nearer goals, then shared a meal with her and Moore before the disaster.
• Su Mo upgraded six mechanical workers, four combat agents, and three cameras into Sky Eyes, then inspected Hope and reviewed his ship-driving materials.
• Su Mo and the villagers exchanged three flashes of light as they prepared for the storm, and he secured himself, Moore, Oreo, Connie, and the Sparks inside the bridge.
• Su Mo activated the Eye of the Typhoon defenses, and Hope survived the fifteen-minute storm with three of its twenty-one wind walls remaining.

Su Mo confirmed that Hope Village and the Tundra Shelter had survived the ocean’s arrival, then successfully launched Hope and said goodbye to the villagers. He sailed toward a mixed alien force intending to conceal his strength, but the chapter ended when Connie received prompts announcing her ship ranked first among the aliens in comfort and firepower.

• Su Mo received messages from Chen Shen and Shen Ke confirming that Hope Village and the Tundra Shelter had survived and entered the water safely.
• Gong Gong guided Hope through its launch, and Su Mo celebrated as the ship entered the sea without trouble.
• Su Mo sailed close to Iron Stone Mountain, exchanged farewells with Chen Shen and the villagers, and promised to return.
• Su Mo set course toward a force of about 5,500 aliens, planning to show weakness before striking so the enemy would not escape.
• Su Mo opened the alien live-stream interface and saw prompts announcing that Connie’s ship ranked first in comfort and firepower.

Su Mo watched the Thunder Monkey Race’s disaster-resistance livestream and discovered that its fast flying clipper had been built by enslaved humans. The Thunder Monkey King promoted human slavery to the foreign races, until the Golden Haired Lion King posted a cryptic comment that unsettled him.

• Su Mo realized Connie could lure foreign races toward the Golden Haired Lion King’s ship and help cover the flaws in his plan.
• Su Mo opened the Thunder Monkey King’s livestream and saw the Thunderclap, a fast flying clipper that ranked highly in firepower, defense, and speed.
• The Thunder Monkey King revealed that chained human slaves had built and operated the ship, and he urged foreign races to keep humans as laborers.
• The Thunder Monkey King secretly manipulated the livestream comments to promote a future human slave trade controlled by the Thunder Monkey Race.
• The Golden Haired Lion King posted, “Come back at six. You know what I mean!” and the Thunder Monkey King reacted with discomfort.

Su Mo used Connie’s voice-chat connection to humiliate the Thunder Monkey King, undermine his effort to rally aliens against humanity, and announce a livestream challenge for the next afternoon. After preparing for the confrontation, Su Mo checked the human Disaster Resistance Channel and opened the unusually popular livestream of the only raft owner.

• Connie asked whether to accept the Thunder Monkey King’s voice-chat request, and Su Mo told her to connect him instead.
• Su Mo insulted the Thunder Monkey King and challenged the Five Great Royal Clans’ plans to enslave humanity, prompting ordinary aliens to question the clans and support the Golden Haired Lion King.
• Su Mo announced that the Golden Haired Lion King’s clan leader would livestream at four the following afternoon, then left the voice chat without accepting the Thunder Monkey King’s friend request.
• Su Mo told Connie to leave the friend request pending until the next day, then inspected the Hope and ordered Gonggong to reduce its speed.
• Su Mo entered the human Disaster Resistance Channel, browsed its livestream titles, and opened the only raft livestream, which had 338 million viewers.

Su Mo examined the Ocean Disaster’s ranking rules and discovered that Hope One needed at least 50% Completion to qualify. He watched Sun Xian’s raft livestream, then left confident that humanity could survive the crisis.

• Su Mo read that rankings would be based on an escape vehicle’s Completion multiplied by its Potential Value, with Completion below 50% earning no score.
• Su Mo checked Hope One and found it had 33% Completion, boosted by its cannon, engine, equipment, and Connie’s Wind.
• Su Mo entered Sun Xian’s livestream, triggering a game announcement that granted viewers 100 Disaster Points and drawing a huge audience.
• Su Mo observed Sun Xian’s family operating their upgraded raft and learned that rafts could eventually evolve into Awning Boats.
• Su Mo watched the remaining human livestreams before closing the panel and resting, confident humanity would survive the Ocean Disaster.

After a sleepless night aboard Hope, Su Mo checked the ship’s position, cared for his companions, and prepared for the coming battle. He ended the chapter ready to test the Destruction Main Cannon for the first time.

• Su Mo reflected on humanity’s inventive ships and hoped more refugees would survive to claim airdrop rewards.
• Su Mo stayed awake until dawn, worrying about Hope Village, his sister on the Tundra, and the dangers ahead.
• Su Mo checked Hope’s location and confirmed that no human signals were nearby, while the aliens remained in place.
• Su Mo showered, prepared breakfast, and quietly let Oreo stand guard so the others could rest.
• Su Mo inspected the Destruction Main Cannon before the battle and prepared to test it for the first time.

Su Mo reflected on humanity’s need to develop through technology and pressure, then tested the Destruction Main Cannon aboard Hope. The test devastated a hill, and Connie revealed the shell’s Power Level exceeded fifteen.

• Su Mo concluded that technology and civilizational development were humanity’s best path to resisting alien control and securing its future.
• Su Mo loaded shells into the Destruction Main Cannon and explained its manual aiming and firing controls to Moore and Connie.
• After Gong Gong found an uninhabited target, Su Mo fired at a hill 3.5 kilometers away.
• Su Mo inspected the impact and found the explosion had obliterated the hill across a radius of roughly 350 meters.
• Connie said the shell’s Power Level exceeded fifteen, prompting Su Mo to ask whether she could sense a weapon’s power.

Su Mo planned how to draw three alien forces toward Hope One and prepared supplies for Connie’s upcoming live broadcast. He fell asleep before the villagers finished their secret purchases, while they worried about his presumed seasickness and had no idea he was already resting soundly.

• Connie explained how alien races sensed the Power Levels of attacks, and Su Mo questioned why the ability often revealed an attack’s strength only after it hit.
• Su Mo calculated a likely battlefield southeast of Navigation Point One and planned to keep three alien units within Hope One’s radar and attack range.
• Su Mo instructed Chen Shen to have villagers secretly buy visible fireworks and several styles of animal outerwear, then arrange private trades to deliver them to him.
• Exhausted by planning, Su Mo fell asleep in the Captain’s Cabin while the villagers on Iron Stone Mountain carried out his orders.
• The villagers discussed widespread seasickness after watching the ocean broadcasts and worried that Su Mo was suffering alone at sea, unaware that he was sleeping soundly.

Su Mo learned that seasickness had made life aboard ordinary sand boats miserable, while the Tundra had managed the problem better. As Hope approached Navigation Point One, he prepared fireworks for the plan and upgraded a Simba costume into a lifelike male lion outfit for his disguise.

• Su Mo read complaints about severe seasickness on sand boats and learned from Shen Ke that the Tundra's stability, extra space, and medical care had helped its passengers adapt.
• Su Mo searched for seasickness medicine, then authorized Hope Village to spend up to 20% of its supplies researching a treatment.
• After Gonggong reported that Hope was nearing Navigation Point One, Su Mo prepared fireworks and inspected the animal costumes Chen Shen had supplied for the disguise plan.
• Su Mo spent 1,060 Survival Points to upgrade the Simba costume into a realistic male lion outfit with a voice-changing device.
• Su Mo put on the lion outfit, admired its convincing appearance, and waited for Connie to start the livestream and for the plan's next step.

Su Mo prepared Hope for a scheme to draw three alien groups together by disguising himself and Connie as Lionfolk, then entered Connie’s wildly popular livestream as the Golden Haired Lion King. The chapter ended as Su Mo joined the stream, ready to begin the performance.

• Su Mo summoned Moore, Oreo, and Connie, then assigned them roles in a plan to lure three alien groups into one location and destroy them together.
• Su Mo told Oreo to scout below deck, ordered Moore to hold his fire in the Cannon Room, and tasked Connie with posing as a Lionfolk who had discovered Hope.
• Su Mo hid Hope’s flag and replaced it with a crude banner reading “Lion King Simba!”
• Su Mo used Connie’s alien panel to take four first-place Disaster Resistance rankings, gaining permission to livestream as the top-ranked alien.
• Connie started the Golden Haired Lion King’s livestream, which quickly drew hundreds of thousands of viewers, and Su Mo joined it.

Connie used her live stream to rally ordinary alien races against the Five Great Royal Clans and force Thunder Monkey King to answer for his dealings with humanity. As the confrontation escalated, a true male lion appeared beside her, revealing the source of her confidence and leaving viewers stunned.

• Connie welcomed a huge audience and showed off the Hope, presenting its top rankings as proof that an ordinary alien race could challenge the Five Great Royal Clans.
• Connie accused the royal clans of concealing their cooperation with humans and called Thunder Monkey King onto the stream, while the other four clans voted to accept the connection.
• Connie and Thunder Monkey King argued for nearly two hours as Su Mo tracked the alien commenters and noted their allegiances.
• Thunder Monkey King challenged Connie's claim that her man had explored a ruin and taunted her, but he suddenly fell silent after spotting something on her display.
• The viewers saw a scarlet-eyed male lion holding a spear behind Connie, and Thunder Monkey King reacted with fear and fury.

Su Mo’s disguised appearance as a powerful Lion Man Warrior won recognition from the Five Great Royal Clans, while Connie’s livestream performance convinced the foreign races that the Ao Clan could become a sixth royal clan. After Rayleigh received a message that changed his mood, Su Mo and Connie discussed how rare a strength rating of 3 was among foreign races.

• Su Mo appeared before Thunder Monkey King Rayleigh, who acknowledged his strength above 3 and promised a fair battle with the Ao Clan if the Lion Man Warrior continued to grow.
• Su Mo departed without answering the crowd, and Rayleigh declared that the Five Great Royal Clans might recognize the Ao Clan as the sixth royal clan if its warrior won a future battle.
• Rayleigh left the livestream in a rage, killed a slacking Thunder Monkey, then received a private message that made him celebrate by ordering an extra meal for everyone aboard his ship.
• Connie told Su Mo that the livestream had succeeded in drawing the other royal clans’ attention, and Su Mo explained that he had struggled to control his body while watching as a spectator.
• Su Mo asked Connie how rare a strength rating of 3 was, and she said no Lion Man in the first thirty recorded entries had reached it and that fewer than ten thousand foreign-race individuals had ever done so.

Connie told Su Mo that the wasteland had once been a fertile land where all living creatures could ascend, until a great war destroyed the gods and severed that path. Su Mo suspected humans were being sent as invaders by the game and resolved to gain enough shares to confront it, while preparing to ambush the alien forces pursuing the Hope.

• Connie explained that the Lionfolk’s inherited memories revealed a peaceful era when humans and other living creatures could ascend without Godhood Items.
• Connie said an invasion and great war turned the continent into a wasteland, killed or scattered the gods, and left Godhood Items as the sole path to godhood.
• Su Mo considered three possible origins for the game and concluded that humans might be an invading force deployed to seize the wasteland’s remaining authority.
• Su Mo decided he needed more than 51% of the shares to face the game and protect his family from the unknown enemies behind it.
• Su Mo prepared to attack the alien forces following the Hope, expecting reinforcements to arrive before dawn.

Su Mo left the Hope in his Lion Man disguise to train for sea combat and ambush an isolated alien scout. He killed the Leopard Man and found a wooden chest, while the larger enemy force remained nearby.

• Gonggong warned Su Mo that the alien second and third forces had converged and were scouting the Hope from a distance.
• Su Mo told Connie, Oreo, Big and Little Spark to rest, then used the Hope’s escape passage to launch a lifeboat.
• Su Mo practiced rowing, swimming, and using Su Family Spear underwater, gaining new insight into his combat techniques.
• Su Mo dried and donned the Simba suit, then rowed toward an isolated alien scout while preparing his weapons and defenses.
• The Leopard Man tried to flee, but Su Mo caught him, leaped onto his raft, and pierced his heart with the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade.
• Su Mo found a wooden chest where the Leopard Man had died.

Su Mo prepared the Hope to face the alien forces closing in, planning to strike the scattered troops before the stronger force could arrive. As Connie livestreamed their challenge, Su Mo unleashed the Lion Man’s Wind, and a breeze began to swell into a tornado.

• Su Mo returned to the Hope after killing an alien reconnaissance squad and ordered Gong Gong to enter combat readiness.
• Gong Gong calculated that attacking the miscellaneous troops first gave Su Mo the best chance of wiping them out before the strength-type aliens could catch up.
• Su Mo arranged for Connie to livestream their stand, then equipped the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade and the Sea Wave Horn.
• Connie told the watching aliens that Simba and the Ao Clan would not be easily defeated, while the Five Great Royal Clans stayed silent about their plans.
• Su Mo came out of hiding beside Connie as the miscellaneous troops drew near, and a breeze around him rapidly grew into a tornado.

Su Mo used Simba’s wind control to stop a vast alien army at sea, then unleashed a tsunami with the Ocean God Horn. He shut down the livestream before the coming slaughter could reveal the weapons and loot left behind.

• Connie blamed the opposing army for attacking the Ao Clan while Su Mo and Connie prepared to meet them at sea.
• Su Mo formed a powerful waterspout that halted the aliens’ advance and drove thousands back, astonishing the livestream viewers.
• As the armies closed in, the aliens launched ranged attacks that could not break through the storm.
• Su Mo used the Ocean God Horn with one thousand Disaster Points, raising a massive tsunami behind the alien army.
• With Gonggong reporting another army nearby, Su Mo told Connie to end the livestream so the aliens would not witness what happened next.

Su Mo used the horn to create a costly but short-lived wave, then maneuvered Hope toward the converging enemy forces while preparing its weapons. As the attackers closed in, he ended the disguise and carried the exhausted Connie toward the cockpit, ready to unleash Hope’s firepower.

• The Five Great Royal Clans lost contact with their forces in combat and waited anxiously for battlefield news.
• The horn’s enormous wave collapsed after raising, causing fewer than a hundred casualties among the foreign-race army.
• Su Mo ordered Gong Gong to steer Hope toward South 90 and had the Combat Agents man the machine guns.
• Gong Gong reported enemy forces approaching from multiple directions, with contact expected within seconds.
• Su Mo dispersed the tornado, picked up the nearly unconscious Connie, and headed for the cockpit as the final battle approached.

Su Mo drew the alien forces into range and ordered the Hope’s Destruction Main Cannon to open fire, devastating their charge. The chapter ended at dawn with the battlefield silent and the surviving aliens stunned by the bombardment.

• Su Mo escaped into the cockpit with Connie as the flying alien races swooped toward the Hope.
• The Hope’s six machine guns wiped out the attacking flying alien races and their leader.
• The power troops surrounded the Hope, rested, and then charged alongside the miscellaneous troops.
• Su Mo ordered Gong Gong to overclock the Fire Control Radar and waited for the alien forces to close within range.
• Su Mo ordered Moore to fire the Destruction Main Cannon, which blasted the charging alien forces across the sea.
• The bombardment left Su Mo and the aliens deafened as dawn approached and the attackers stared in shock at the destruction.

Su Mo destroyed the foreign-race fleet with the Destruction Main Cannon, revealed himself as the Lion Man Warrior, and began collecting the floating treasure chests. Moore offered the survivors a chance to surrender to Su Mo and join the Ao Clan, leaving them to choose sides before seven o'clock.

• Su Mo's bombardment killed most of the 23,500 foreign-race soldiers, and the Shan Hai Painting card repaired his damaged ears.
• Gonggong detected 76 surviving enemies, and Su Mo ordered the agents to receive real-time targeting information but not attack without his command.
• Su Mo covered the unconscious Connie with the Lion Man suit, put on his Combat Armor, and rowed out to collect treasure chests as survivors recognized him as Su Old Devil.
• The surviving foreign races cleared a path for Su Mo, while Moore and the four little creatures helped gather treasure from the sea.
• Moore announced that survivors could surrender to Su Mo and join the Ao Clan, giving them until seven o'clock to choose whether to submit.

Su Mo used Moore to persuade the surviving aliens to join the Ao Clan, then enlisted them to collect treasure chests from the sea. After bringing the haul into Hope, Su Mo found a mountain of chests and prepared to open them.

• Moore invited the alien squad leaders to ask questions, and Li Li asked whether Ao Clan workers would be fed well and whether Su Mo would seek revenge.
• Moore described Hope’s meals and other benefits, convincing the nearby aliens that joining the Ao Clan would improve their lives.
• Su Mo collected chests from the sea with help from Big, Little Spark, and Oreo, then welcomed the surviving aliens as they gathered more.
• Moore directed the aliens to collect chests, and they eagerly brought them to Su Mo while he stored the growing haul.
• Su Mo tallied twenty-one Gold, forty-three Silver, eighty-seven Copper, 136 Iron, and 790 Wooden Treasure Chests, then decided to open them once the aliens finished collecting.