Recaps

Lin Mo drank all five liters of Dragon Blood under Liu Chengen’s supervision and broke through from the Second Order to the Third Order. His tests at Great Xia’s Fief confirmed a major increase in strength and speed.

• Liu Chengen persuaded Lin Mo to drink Dragon Blood in measured batches while monitoring his physical data.
• As Lin Mo drank the Dragon Blood, his body grew stronger and his readings rose dramatically.
• After drinking the full five liters, Lin Mo broke through to the Third Order.
• Liu Chengen brought Lin Mo to the training ground to test his new abilities.
• Lin Mo’s punch registered 2.2 tons, and he ran fifty meters in 1.25 seconds.

Lin Mo reached the third-order Intermediate Warrior level after drinking dragon blood and asked Liu Chengen to find a way to replicate it for Great Xia’s troops. At the weapons design office, the elves approved an armored treant plan, while the half-orcs began developing cannons they could carry and fire by hand.

• Lin Mo completed his speed and endurance tests, and Liu Chengen confirmed he was a third-order Intermediate Warrior.
• Lin Mo asked Liu Chengen whether dragon blood could be replicated in bulk, and Liu Chengen considered studying or drawing more blood from the dragons.
• A designer showed General Adrian a plan to equip treants with iron fortresses, heavy weapons, and air defenses, and Adrian approved it.
• Elder Muyu examined the treant design with Adrian and agreed that the elves would cooperate fully.
• Warwick told a designer that the half-orcs could carry and fire large cannons, and the designer proposed several handheld artillery designs.

Warwick and the designer planned weapons and support roles for the Half-Orc races to use against the Demon Clan, while Lin Mo learned why the Merfolk had lost their nation. The chapter ended with the designer sketching a torpedo launcher and other weapons.

• The designer proposed portable cannons, explosive shells, and aiming glasses for the Half-Orcs, and Warwick eagerly imagined them devastating the Demon Clan.
• The designer suggested aerial bombs and anti-aircraft weapons for the Winged People, and Warwick excitedly agreed.
• The designer assigned the Cat-Eared Clan and Fox Charm Clan conventional weapons and logistics duties.
• Warwick explained that the Demon Clan resisted the Merfolk's sonic attacks, which had helped lead to the Merfolk losing their nation; Lin Mo realized the demons were their natural counter.
• Warwick recognized that Lin Mo had grown stronger, and the designer began sketching a torpedo launcher and other weapons.

Warwick accidentally injured a Great Xia designer while praising plans for underwater weapons, and Lin Mo healed the man with magic. Lin Mo then found the Dragon weapon-design team working outside, where Yadis’s excitement blew away their tent, and Yadis apologized by spitting out gold coins.

• The designer proposed portable underwater torpedo launchers, timed naval mines, and magnetic bombs for the Merfolk, and Warwick praised the plans.
• Warwick accidentally knocked the designer down with a heavy pat on the shoulder, leaving him with a painful soft tissue injury.
• Lin Mo healed the designer with Holy Light Healing, and Warwick apologized while the designer joked about his strength.
• Lin Mo learned the Dragon weapon-design team was working outside and found researchers in a tent beside five Dragons.
• Yadis roared excitedly, blew the tent over, and apologized to the researchers by spitting gold coins onto the ground.
• Lin Mo pocketed the coins in his Spatial Ring and asked to see the designs that had excited Yadis.

Lin Mo reviewed designs to equip the Dragons with either super-cannon weaponry or powerful Prism Towers. Yadis chose to commission both configurations, and paid a deposit in gold and energy crystals.

• A designer showed Lin Mo a Dragon-mounted super cannon inspired by the Gustav railway gun, along with autocannons, missiles, and an AI targeting helmet.
• Yadis enthusiastically chose the super-cannon design and told the designer to proceed regardless of the cost.
• The designer presented an alternative configuration with a nuclear fusion reactor and a high-powered Prism Tower.
• Lin Mo suggested splitting the Dragons between the two configurations so they could support each other, and Yadis agreed to buy both.
• Yadis dropped a pile of gold coins and energy crystals as a deposit for the designs.

Lin Mo and Long Zhan prepared to use an approaching demon army for a live combat exercise and to show Yadis the power of Great Xia’s weapons. The Great Xia forces assembled and advanced toward the demons, with Yadis watching from the air as the opposing army appeared on the horizon.

• Long Zhan told Lin Mo that roughly a hundred thousand demons, led by commanders as powerful as sixth rank, were moving toward the Fief, and proposed using them for combat practice.
• Lin Mo agreed to let Yadis observe the battle, and Long Zhan arranged a speaker so the dragon could communicate with the forces.
• Yadis and the other four dragons followed the adjutant to join the armored forces while the command center tracked the approaching demon army.
• A staff officer reported that 147,000 demons led by five sixth-rank commanders were a hundred kilometers away and expected to arrive in two hours.
• Long Zhan ordered the ground and air forces to move out, and the assembled tanks, aircraft, drones, and dragons advanced toward the demons.
• Yadis maintained his position above the tanks and watched as the demon army appeared on the horizon.

Great Xia unleashed a massive attack on the Demon Clan army, devastating its vanguard and targeting its commanders. As fighter jets began clearing the aerial units, Zhao Mingyuan continued his first battle on the Terra Continent.

• Long Zhan ordered 120 rocket artillery vehicles to fire a saturation strike, killing tens of thousands of Demon Clan troops and throwing the vanguard into chaos.
• Long Zhan ordered hypersonic missiles to target five Sixth-Rank Commanders, and repeated strikes overwhelmed and killed them.
• Long Zhan sent fighter formations, drones, and armored units into the battle as Yadis and the young dragon watched Great Xia's firepower.
• Zhao Mingyuan led Falcon formation against Winged Demons and shot down several with his fighter's autocannon.
• Zhao Mingyuan turned his attention to the Gargoyles, whose hides the autocannon could not penetrate.

Great Xia’s forces annihilated a demon army of more than 140,000 with aircraft, missiles, artillery, and armored vehicles, suffering no casualties. After witnessing the rout, Yadis and the gathered representatives of the nonhuman races were left stunned by Great Xia’s strength.

• Zhao Mingyuan and other Great Xia pilots shot down Winged Demons and Gargoyles while ground forces bombarded the demon army.
• Yadis watched the assault and realized why the Elves and other races respected and allied with Great Xia.
• Long Zhan ordered fighter jets to pursue the fleeing Sixth-Rank Commander, which was destroyed by missiles.
• Great Xia recorded more than 120,000 enemy casualties, over 10,000 escapees, and zero losses of its own.
• Kael, Thorin, Elder Muyu, Warwick, and the other representatives watched the battlefield and marveled that Great Xia had killed its enemies without contact.

After Great Xia annihilated the Demon Clan’s land force, a surviving Demon Venerable abandoned the attack while a massive undersea army triggered naval mines near Great Xia’s Fief. Long Zhan ordered the Fief to combat readiness, as Yadis mistook the alarms for a victory celebration.

• Kael, Elder Muyu, Warwick, and other representatives witnessed Great Xia’s devastating weapons destroy the Demon Clan’s land force, while a hidden seventh-order Demon Venerable watched and fled through a tunnel.
• A seventh-order Demon Venerable led hundreds of thousands of aquatic demons toward Great Xia’s beach, expecting the land attack to distract the defenders.
• Naval mines exploded among the demons, killing several and throwing their seabed formation into chaos; active sonar detected the blasts.
• Long Zhan ordered level-one combat readiness and directed armored units, aircraft, helicopters, and beach defenses to prepare for the approaching army.
• Yadis wondered whether the alarms were a victory celebration, and Kael nearly fell from his Pegasus in disbelief.

As nearly five hundred thousand Demon Clan soldiers approached Great Xia by sea, Long Zhan weighed whether to accept help from the Terra races. Zhao Kexia arrived to report Pangu Mecha’s major upgrades, leaving Lin Mo stunned by its greatly improved defenses.

• Lin Mo told Thorin, Kael, Elder Muyu, and Warwick that nearly five hundred thousand demons were approaching through the sea.
• Kael, Elder Muyu, Warwick, and Thorin offered their forces, but Long Zhan decided to wait and assess the battle before calling them in.
• Zhao Kexia rushed into the command center, and Lin Mo and Long Zhan urged her to leave because of the danger.
• Zhao Kexia persuaded Lin Mo to hear about Pangu Mecha’s upgrades, saying it could now reach sixth-rank combat power.
• Zhao Kexia explained that Fortification Runes had increased Pangu Mecha’s defenses by fifty percent relative to Zheng Gold, astonishing Lin Mo.

Zhao Kexia explained Pangu’s upgrades to Lin Mo, including its improved defenses, weapons, and supersonic flight, then revealed the mecha hovering overhead. As researchers began evacuating through the Portal, Lin Mo ordered Wu Suowei to escort Zhao Kexia to safety.

• Zhao Kexia told Lin Mo that Pangu’s Stability Runes strengthened its frame and might let it withstand seventh-order attacks, though its defenses still depended on the pilot’s physical abilities.
• Lin Mo told Zhao Kexia he had advanced to third order, and she explained that Pangu’s new weapons could handle sixth-rank Demon Clan members.
• Zhao Kexia revealed that Pangu could fly at supersonic speeds using plasma technology and the dwarves’ Weight-Reduction Runes, but warned Lin Mo not to fight seventh-order opponents.
• Zhao Kexia pointed out Pangu hovering overhead, and Lin Mo saw its upgraded six-meter frame and flight systems.
• Lin Mo noticed Qian Zhenhua, Liu Chengen, and other researchers evacuating toward the Portal, then ordered Wu Suowei to escort Zhao Kexia there safely.

Lin Mo entered Pangu and confirmed that the Super Mecha was ready for battle. Beyond the Fief’s perimeter, helicopters attacked a vast Demon Clan tide at sea, but a huge demonized sea beast surfaced and threatened Song Rentou’s aircraft.

• Lin Mo put on the Dynamic Perception Suit and Holographic Helmet, entered Pangu’s cockpit, and completed the Mecha’s system check.
• Lin Mo tested Pangu’s movements and clenched its enormous metal fists in sync with his own.
• Song Rentou and his copilot dropped depth charges and launched torpedoes at the Demon Clan mass advancing underwater.
• Song Rentou used the helicopter’s remaining bombs while a commander ordered the aircraft to return for reloading before the bombers arrived.
• A fifteen-meter demonized sea beast surfaced, roared at Song Rentou’s helicopter, and sent a column of water toward it.

Long Zhan directed an aerial and naval assault against the vast Demon Clan forces advancing across the sea toward the Fief. The Demon Clan vanguard reached the beach, where the defenders opened fire.

• Song Rentou reported that Demon Clan forces were surfacing in overwhelming numbers and withdrew his helicopter after releasing its last torpedo.
• Long Zhan ordered bombers and reinforcements from the Portal to attack the Demon Clan forces as they breached the second mine defense line.
• Dozens of bombers carpet-bombed the sea, while more than a hundred and fifty helicopters from the Fief and Blue Star dropped torpedoes and depth charges.
• The Demon Clan vanguard reached the beach, led by a thirty-meter Demonized Sea Beast, as more monsters surged ashore.
• Long Zhan ordered the soldiers along the beach defenses to open fire, and ten thousand guns fired at once.

Great Xia Technology’s weapons devastated the Demon Clan’s beach assault, but Long Zhan discovered that five Burrowing Earth Dragons were tunneling toward the Portal and ordered Thor’s Hammer to strike them underground. The chapter ended as a missile bored through the rock toward the dragons and exploded nearby.

• Kael, Elder Muyu, Thorin, Warwick, Wukong, and Yadis watched Great Xia’s weapons overwhelm the demons on the beach.
• Long Zhan learned that five Burrowing Earth Dragons were approaching the Portal underground and recognized the beach assault as a diversion.
• Long Zhan ordered soldiers to evacuate the Portal area and commanded the missile unit to launch Thor’s Hammer.
• Great Xia launched five earth-penetrating missiles toward the Burrowing Earth Dragons, who were tunneling toward the Portal with a Demon Clan commander behind them.
• A Burrowing Earth Dragon sensed danger as a missile pierced the rock toward the group, and an explosion followed.

After Great Xia destroyed the Burrowing Earth Dragons without harming the Portal, Seventh Order Demon Venerable Vel'Koz emerged from the sea and attacked Wukong. Warwick joined the fight for five million gold coins, while ten Sixth-Rank Demon Clan members launched a concealed assault on the coastline.

• Great Xia's controlled explosions killed the Burrowing Earth Dragons and left the Portal intact.
• Wukong sensed a Seventh Order enemy rising from the sea, flew to meet it, and used his Domain to slow the Demon Clan forces.
• Vel'Koz emerged from the water, canceled Wukong's Domain with its own, and began fighting him in the sky.
• Elder Muyu recognized Vel'Koz as the ancient enemy who had led attacks against the Elves for nearly two hundred years.
• Long Zhan offered Warwick five million gold coins to help Wukong, and Warwick accepted and joined the battle.
• Ten Sixth-Rank Demon Clan members revealed themselves and charged toward the coastline.

Ten Sixth-Rank Demon Clan creatures attacked the coastal defenses, and missile strikes wounded several but failed to stop two from breaking through. As Grom fought one and another neared the third defensive line, an enormous Mecha descended from the sky.

• Long Zhan learned that ten Sixth-Rank Demon Clan creatures were rushing toward the coast and ordered the automated defenses to engage.
• Hypersonic Missiles saturated the beach, severely wounding one creature and leaving two others able to push through the first defensive line.
• Two Sixth-Rank Demon Clan creatures charged toward the third defensive line while automated weapons struggled to slow them.
• Grom intercepted the lead creature and clashed with it using his Giant Axe, while the other creature raced past him.
• Ten Tracking Missiles struck the advancing creature, shattered its shield, and blasted it across the beach.
• A six-meter-tall Mecha descended from above and hovered over the wounded creature.

Lin Mo piloted the Pangu Mecha against a Sixth-Rank Demon Clan, using its weapons and Unmanned Wingmen to blind and weaken the demon before severing its arm. He launched a miniature nuclear bomb at the fallen demon, leaving its fate unclear after the blast.

• Lin Mo arrived in the Pangu Mecha and blasted the charging demon with the Plasma Cannon.
• Lin Mo deployed Unmanned Wingmen to blind the demon while the Electromagnetic Cannon blast missed its target.
• The demon dodged the cannon and attacked at close range, but Lin Mo evaded its Spiked Club and fought back with the Laser Sword.
• A tank shell struck the demon, allowing Lin Mo to seize its club-wielding wrist and sever its arm with the Laser Sword.
• Lin Mo kicked the demon into a crater and launched a miniature nuclear bomb, which exploded in a mushroom cloud.

Lin Mo killed one Sixth-Rank Demon Clan creature with the Pangu Mecha’s weapons, then intervened when Grom was losing to another. Lin Mo and Grom attacked the second demon together and wounded it, but the battle continued.

• Lin Mo used a Miniature Nuclear Bomb and then the Coalesced Plasma Cannon to vaporize the first Sixth-Rank Demon Clan creature.
• The soldiers and observers celebrated Lin Mo’s victory, while Long Zhan watched with relief from the command center.
• Lin Mo saw Grom struggling against another Sixth-Rank Demon Clan creature and flew in to stop it from killing him.
• Lin Mo shielded Grom and agreed to fight alongside him despite Grom’s insistence that he could continue alone.
• The Unmanned Wingmen distracted the demon as Grom attacked from the flank and Lin Mo cut its ribs with the Plasma Lightsaber.

Lin Mo and Grom killed a Demon Clan creature, then Lin Mo purified radiation around the nuclear crater and flew to join Wukong and Warwick against Vel'Koz. After Lin Mo healed the two Seventh Order fighters, he shouted a warning as danger approached.

• Lin Mo and Grom worked together to kill the Demon Clan creature, and Lin Mo sent the exhausted Grom back to rest.
• Lin Mo used Holy Light Purification to disperse the radiation around the nuclear crater and destroy low-order demons caught in the light.
• Lin Mo flew to the sea and joined Wukong and Warwick, who were fighting Vel'Koz, a Seventh Order Demon Venerable.
• Lin Mo used Holy Light Healing to restore Wukong's wings and Warwick's shoulder, surprising both fighters.
• Lin Mo suddenly shouted, "Watch out!!"

Lin Mo, Wukong, and Warwick battled Vel'Koz, using coordinated attacks and healing to weaken the Seventh Order demon until it fled from Great Xia's coast. Lin Mo revealed that he had been waiting for Vel'Koz to move away from the coastline, and Great Xia launched six missiles at it.

• Warwick, Wukong, and Lin Mo attacked Vel'Koz together, with Lin Mo firing the mecha's Plasma Cannon and shielding it from a counterattack.
• Lin Mo healed and purified his allies during the fight, while their attacks left Vel'Koz increasingly wounded.
• Vel'Koz called for Pyke, but scans by Pangu and the drones found no ambush or hidden enemies.
• Vel'Koz knocked Wukong and Warwick back, nearly broke Lin Mo's shield, and fled while ordering its army to retreat.
• Lin Mo stopped Warwick from pursuing and revealed he had waited for Vel'Koz to leave Great Xia's coastline.
• Great Xia launched six missiles, including one carrying a nuclear device, toward Vel'Koz.

Lin Mo and Great Xia’s weapons killed Vel'Koz with a nuclear strike, and the battle at the coastal defensive line turned into a rout for the Demon Clan. The other races watched the mushroom cloud in shock, leaving Yadis asking whether Great Xia would sell them such weapons.

• Six missiles pursued Vel'Koz and herded him into the path of the final nuclear bomb, which killed him in a massive blast.
• Warwick and Wukong survived the shock wave and concluded that Vel'Koz could not have escaped the strike.
• The Demon Clan army retreated as soldiers at the defensive line watched the mushroom cloud and wondered whether Vel'Koz had been killed.
• Kael, Elder Muyu, Adrian, Thorin, and Yadis reacted with shock to Great Xia's weapon and its power over a seventh-order Demon Venerable.
• Yadis asked Elder Muyu whether Great Xia sold the weapons, and Elder Muyu answered with a bitter smile that it was unlikely.

Lin Mo confirmed that the nuclear blast had killed Vel'Koz, then used Holy Light Purification to reduce the radiation around the sea to safe levels. He returned to Great Xia's fief, where the soldiers and commanders praised him.

• Lin Mo scanned the blast site while Warwick and Wukong searched for signs of life, and they confirmed that Vel'Koz was dead.
• Lin Mo used Holy Light Purification to clear the radioactive contamination from the surrounding sea and air.
• Lin Mo flew back to Great Xia's fief with Warwick and Wukong after radiation levels dropped to a safe range.
• The soldiers cheered Lin Mo, and Long Zhan and Zhao Gang congratulated him for defeating the Seventh-Order Demon Venerable.
• Lin Mo credited the nuclear bomb, Warwick, Wukong, and the mecha for the victory.

Liu Chengen and Qian Zhenhua revealed that Demon Clan corpses could be processed into extremely energy-dense Energy Blocks and valuable minerals, so Long Zhan’s order to burn the bodies was halted. Lin Mo and the others were left stunned by the scale of energy a high-order Demon Clan corpse could yield and how difficult it would be to store the same amount with Great Xia technology.

• Long Zhan ordered the Demon Clan corpses collected and burned to prevent them from breeding a plague.
• Liu Chengen and Qian Zhenhua rushed over and told Long Zhan not to burn the corpses because they had discovered their uses.
• Liu Chengen showed the group an Energy Block extracted from a fourth-order Demon Clan member, and Qian Zhenhua said its energy density was 9,873 times that of a lithium battery.
• Liu Chengen explained that Demon Clan corpses could also yield metals and minerals because the Demon Clan mainly ate minerals to strengthen their bodies and advance in order.
• Liu Chengen estimated that a seventh-order Demon Venerable could yield a billion kilowatt-hours of energy, enough to require 25,000 Dalian All-Vanadium Flow Battery Projects to store with current Great Xia technology.

After the battle, Lin Mo and the others learned that Demon Clan corpses could yield powerful Energy Blocks and rare metals, then organized the soldiers to recover them. With energy storage and other technological breakthroughs accelerating plans for spaceships, Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that his arrival had ushered in a great era, just as someone called out to ask how the Mecha had performed.

• Liu Chengen and Qian Zhenhua explained that Demon Clan Energy Blocks could solve humanity’s energy-storage problem and that Demon Clan corpses contained valuable rare metals.
• Lin Mo regretted destroying the seventh-order Demon Venerable with a nuclear bomb, but Long Zhan reminded him that the bomb had saved their lives.
• Lin Mo ordered the soldiers to collect every Demon Clan corpse, and thousands of troops hauled remains ashore and loaded them onto trucks.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that advances in materials, nuclear fusion, and Energy Blocks had brought spaceship construction within reach.
• Zhao Gang credited Lin Mo with ushering in a great era, and someone behind him called out to ask how the Mecha had performed.

Lin Mo’s group successfully processed a Demon Clan corpse into an energy block, and Great Xia agreed to buy demon corpses from the otherworldly races. As construction advanced in the fief, Liu Yishou prepared a heavily modified fleet at Great Xia’s Arctic base without knowing what it would fight.

• Zhao Kexia confirmed the Pangu Mecha was in good condition and hurried off to maintain it and replenish its ammunition.
• Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen completed the Demon Clan Processing Plant’s system checks, and its first test produced an energy block capable of storing ten thousand kilowatt-hours of electricity.
• Lin Mo explained the energy blocks to Kael, Elder Muyu, Thorin, Grom, and the other representatives, then agreed that Great Xia could buy the Demon Clan corpses they collected.
• Long Zhan reported that the canal was nearing completion and the Blue Star tunnel was almost through, while Zhao Gang said Liu Yishou had assembled a fleet.
• At Great Xia’s Arctic Naval Base, Liu Yishou studied orders to prepare a fleet and one hundred thousand naval personnel, puzzled by the ships’ unusual modifications for underwater combat.