Recaps

Liu Yishou finalized the 100,000-member fleet roster and received orders from Elder Zhao to join the New Hope Plan. He led the First Expeditionary Fleet toward the Arctic army base, unaware of what awaited them.

• Liu Yishou personally reviewed the NCO records, and the 100,000-member roster was finalized after three days.
• A modified Type 055 destroyer tested its underwater weapons in Arctic waters, accidentally stunning thousands of Arctic cod and drawing complaints from the crew.
• Liu Yishou surveyed the assembled fleet of carriers, warships, submarines, and support vessels at the harbor.
• Elder Zhao ordered Liu Yishou to take the fleet to the Arctic army base and revealed that it would officially join the New Hope Plan.
• Liu Yishou ordered the First Expeditionary Fleet to set sail, and the ships broke through the Arctic ice toward the base.

Liu Yishou led the Great Xia Navy fleet through a hidden Arctic canal and lock into an underground base, where he discovered a portal showing a sunlit world. Long Zhan revealed that it was the Astral Portal and welcomed Liu Yishou to the New Hope Plan.

• Liu Yishou reached the Arctic Army Base’s coordinates and verified his identity over the communicator.
• A passage opened in an iceberg, and Liu Yishou ordered the fleet into the artificial canal.
• Liu Yishou guided the fleet through a massive lock, dismantling the aircraft carriers’ bridges so they could pass.
• The Kunlun descended through the lock and arrived inside the underground base.
• Liu Yishou saw a giant glowing frame that opened onto a sunny world, despite it being three in the morning outside.
• Long Zhan told Liu Yishou that the gate was the Astral Portal and welcomed him to the New Hope Plan.

Liu Yishou led the fleet through an Astral Portal from Blue Star to an unfamiliar world and saw its strange wildlife and inhabitants. He reached shore to confront Long Zhan and demand an explanation.

• Liu Yishou ordered the fleet to enter the Portal after Long Zhan told him to see the other world for himself.
• The Kunlun and the fleet emerged into sunlit waters, where Liu Yishou confirmed they had lost contact with Blue Star and were receiving new satellite signals.
• Liu Yishou ordered the fleet to assemble in formation and forbade the soldiers from acting without authorization.
• After the fleet passed through, Liu Yishou took a landing craft ashore and spotted Long Zhan beside a mage, a dwarf, a dragon, and a centaur.
• Liu Yishou strode toward Long Zhan and demanded to know what was happening.

Lin Mo and Zhao Gang showed the other races Great Xia’s aircraft carrier and warships, explaining their uses and agreeing that modified warships could be sold to them. The chapter ended as Liu Yishou arrived and demanded that Long Zhan explain what was happening.

• Kael, Elder Muyu, Thorin, Adrian, Warwick, and Yadis watched Great Xia’s fleet emerge from the portal and stared in shock at the Kunlun Aircraft Carrier.
• Lin Mo explained that the carrier transported aircraft, while Zhao Gang described the warships’ weapons and role in defending Great Xia’s fief from the Demon Clan.
• Kael and Elder Muyu asked whether Great Xia would sell warships, and Zhao Gang agreed to sell modified vessels after basic training, though he could not yet quote a price.
• Thorin considered studying the ships and worried that Dwarf Mountain City would struggle to compete with Great Xia’s shipbuilding.
• Liu Yishou arrived at the docks and angrily demanded an explanation from Long Zhan.

Long Zhan introduced Liu Yishou to Lin Mo, the leader of the New Hope Plan, and the representatives of the Terra Continent’s races. Liu overcame his shock at seeing the dragon and other races, then followed Long Zhan into the Fief to learn about the situation.

• Long Zhan introduced Lin Mo as the core leader of the New Hope Plan, and Liu Yishou greeted him and Zhao Gang.
• Liu mistook Warwick, a werewolf commander, for a husky that had become a spirit until Zhao Gang gave him a translator earpiece.
• Liu saw the approaching representatives of several races and a hundred-meter dragon, mistook the dragon for a dinosaur, and reached for his pistol before Zhao Gang stopped him.
• Zhao Gang introduced Liu to Kael, Thorin, Elder Muyu, Grom, Warwick, and Yadis, and Liu accepted that they were real.
• Long Zhan led Liu along the dock road into the Fief and began explaining the situation as they passed an active construction site.

Long Zhan explained Great Xia’s foothold on the Terra Continent, its war against the Demon Clan, and how demon corpses could provide valuable resources. He brought Liu Yishou to the Weapons Design Research Institute, where they were developing custom weapons for the continent’s races.

• Long Zhan told Liu Yishou how Lin Mo’s discovery led Great Xia to establish trade and secure a fief on the Terra Continent, where several races faced the Demon Clan’s invasion.
• Long Zhan explained that the Demon Clan had attacked the fief, including with a Seventh Order Demon Venerable, and that Great Xia could extract Energy Blocks and rare materials from demon corpses.
• Liu Yishou examined information about the continent and its demons, then promised to help protect the fief and joked with Long Zhan about missing earlier military merits.
• Long Zhan described plans to expand the fief seaward and strengthen its naval defenses.
• Long Zhan showed Liu Yishou the Weapons Design Research Institute, where Great Xia was designing portable artillery for Half-Orcs, mobile fortresses for Elves, and back-mounted long-range weapons for the Dragons Clan.

Liu Yishou saw weaponized treant and dragon designs at Great Xia’s Arctic Base, while Mars learned that Eagle Country’s spies had uncovered clues about the secretive New Hope Plan. The intelligence left Mars convinced Great Xia had found an underground world, with a photograph of a gigantic tree as apparent evidence.

• Long Zhan brought Liu Yishou into a research office, where Liu saw designs for a treant and dragon covered in weapons.
• Long Zhan told Liu Yishou to acclimate before joining live-fire exercises against the Demon Clan in the sea.
• Mars reviewed a report stating that Great Xia had captured three high-level moles and seven ordinary spies, while another mole at its Arctic Base had gone missing.
• The intelligence director told Mars that Great Xia’s fleet and Arctic Base had undergone extensive preparations, and that the activity appeared linked to the New Hope Plan and its advanced technologies.
• The intelligence director proposed that Great Xia had discovered an underground world and that its fleet modifications were meant to fight underwater creatures.
• Mars examined a photograph of a tree over four hundred meters tall beneath the Arctic Base and asked what it was.

After learning about the glowing giant tree beneath Great Xia’s Arctic Base, Mars ordered special forces to infiltrate the base and tried to pressure Great Xia into sharing its discoveries. Great Xia refused, and Mars learned that three squads were already en route to the base.

• The intelligence director showed Mars a verified photograph of a huge, glowing tree in Great Xia’s New Kyoto Underground City and said it suggested a connection to an underground world.
• The intelligence director warned that Great Xia’s technology and resources could surpass Eagle Country’s, and recommended sending special forces to investigate the Arctic Base.
• Mars approved the operation, then called Great Xia’s foreign affairs chief, Zhao Mingyuan, to demand that Great Xia disclose its discoveries and develop them jointly with other nations.
• Zhao Mingyuan rejected Mars’s request, said Great Xia did not need to explain its internal affairs, and ended the call.
• After Mars smashed a glass in anger, the intelligence director told him that three elite squads totaling forty-five people were already heading toward the Arctic Base and would arrive in twelve hours.

Mars ordered Eagle Country to infiltrate Great Xia’s Arctic base and uncover the underground world, despite warnings that the mission could be fatal. Three special forces squads disabled the base’s systems and breached its defenses with surprising ease, then split up to descend through the elevators.

• Mars ordered the intelligence director to send agents into Great Xia’s Arctic base and obtain information before they died.
• Falcon’s Number Three squad reached the buried defense cable, used a zero-day exploit to disable the base’s system, and signaled the other squads to proceed.
• Night Owl and Viper led Number One and Number Two in silently taking down the sentries and entering the darkened base.
• The two squads reached five elevators and split up, with Night Owl’s squad taking the oversized elevator alongside two military trucks.
• As the elevator descended, Night Owl’s soldiers took cover behind the trucks and aimed their weapons at the doors.

Great Xia captured three teams of Eagle Country special forces after luring them into a trap at the Arctic Army Base. Elder Zhao and the other leaders then agreed to launch the Clearance Plan, setting off a major escalation as Great Xia mobilized and a nuclear bomb launched from Eagle Country’s Antarctic territory toward an underground city.

• Night Owl and Viper’s teams were sealed in the Arctic base corridors, overcome by gas, and captured after their explosives failed to breach the Zheng Gold gates.
• A Great Xia officer revealed that the intruders had hacked only an obsolete system and ordered the other invading unit to be trapped the same way.
• Elder Zhao told four leaders that all forty-five infiltrators had been captured and that Great Xia’s underground cities were nearly ready.
• Elder Zhao proposed the Clearance Plan, and the leaders agreed to turn Eagle Country’s scheme against it.
• Great Xia exposed the infiltration, declared retaliation, mobilized its forces, and ordered citizens into underground cities.
• A nuclear bomb launched from Eagle Country’s Antarctic territory toward a Great Xia underground city in Antarctica.

A nuclear missile exploded above Great Xia’s Antarctic Underground City, prompting Great Xia to announce a worldwide nuclear response and blame Eagle Country. Mars denied ordering the strike, but other nations threatened to retaliate, and he was left facing an incoming call from parliament and the military.

• A nuclear explosion struck above Great Xia’s Antarctic Underground City, leaving its underground facilities unharmed.
• Mars learned that the missile had launched from Eagle Country’s territory and that Great Xia had begun nuclear bundling.
• Great Xia’s spokesperson broadcast footage of the launch and accused Eagle Country of the nuclear strike and an earlier Arctic Base attack.
• Mars discovered Eagle Country’s nuclear weapons were all accounted for, leaving the missile’s origin unexplained.
• Other countries’ leaders accused Mars and threatened nuclear retaliation unless Great Xia stopped its attack.
• Mars accepted a video call request from Eagle Country’s parliament and military.

Mars tried to stop the nuclear retaliation after a nuclear bomb launched from Eagle Country triggered Great Xia’s response, but Elder Zhao refused to halt the missiles. As nuclear powers across Blue Star launched their own missiles, attacks crippled communications and command systems, leaving the world on the brink of destruction.

• Mars denied ordering the nuclear launch and accused Great Xia of setting a trap.
• Mars contacted Elder Zhao and demanded that Great Xia halt its nuclear launches, but Elder Zhao cited the missile launch and attacks on Great Xia as reasons for retaliation.
• Mars ordered interceptor launches and activated Eagle Country’s nuclear retaliation pact after learning Great Xia’s missiles were approaching.
• Global surveillance showed interception systems failing against Great Xia’s missiles, then revealed that countries across the world had launched their own nuclear missiles.
• Mars collapsed as alarms reported attacks on networks, satellites, underground cities, fleet command, and guidance systems.

Great Xia’s nuclear attack devastated targets in the Arctic and Antarctica while Eagle Country’s command systems failed. An earth-penetrating bomb struck an underground fortress where Eagle Country’s aristocrats were sheltering, leaving them trapped as it began to collapse.

• Mars knelt in Eagle Country’s command center as technicians reported that its satellite guidance, communications, and interceptor systems had failed.
• Great Xia’s nuclear bombs struck several countries in the Arctic, igniting widespread explosions across the polar region.
• Hundreds of Great Xia’s bombs reached Antarctica and detonated, setting the ice fields ablaze.
• Eagle Country civilians panicked above ground while aristocrats watched them from underground bunkers and mocked them.
• An earth-penetrating nuclear bomb hit the fortress above Antarctica’s underground city, shaking it and cracking its walls.
• The aristocrats panicked and tried to escape as the fortress groaned under the blast.

Elder Zhao and Great Xia’s leaders faced an incoming nuclear counterattack as missiles targeted the nation’s thirty-six underground cities. While other countries abandoned citizens at capacity-limited shelters, Great Xia admitted everyone, and Elder Zhao insisted its deep bunkers could withstand the strikes.

• A ceiling collapse devastated an Eagle Country underground fortress monitoring room, while crowds outside underground cities across the world were turned away.
• Great Xia opened all thirty-six underground cities and transferred its citizens inside without abandoning anyone.
• In New Kyoto’s command center, officers reported widespread nuclear launches, satellite destruction, cyberattacks, and 1,611 bombs targeting Great Xia’s underground cities.
• A leader questioned whether Great Xia could survive the attacks, and Elder Zhao said the bunkers’ depth would protect them from bunker-busting bombs.
• Another leader doubted that Lin Mo’s magic, the World Tree, the Purification Scrolls, and the Blue Star Engine Project could save Blue Star, prompting Elder Zhao to explain the source of his confidence.

Elder Zhao reaffirmed Great Xia’s plans to rebuild Blue Star and ordered a nuclear assault on Cherry Blossom Country. The attack began tearing through the soil above Cherry Blossom Underground City, leaving its leaders fearing the bombs would eventually reach them.

• Elder Zhao told Great Xia’s leaders that the World Tree, Purification Scrolls, and Blue Star Engine Plan would allow the country to recover and become an interstellar civilization within ten years.
• An information officer reported that thirty-seven nuclear bombs had reached the skies above Cherry Blossom Country’s underground city, and Elder Zhao ordered the Blood Debt for Blood Plan carried out.
• Cherry Blossom Country’s Archon watched from the underground command center as nuclear strikes vaporized people on the surface and destroyed the country’s facilities.
• Earth-penetrating nuclear bombs, strengthened with the Dwarves’ Sharpness Runes, blasted progressively deeper holes above the underground city.
• Technicians reported that the fifteenth bomb had reached five hundred meters, and Cherry Blossom Country’s Archon feared Great Xia would eventually break through the soil above them.

Great Xia’s nuclear strike destroyed Cherry Blossom Underground City and wiped out Cherry Blossom Country. As Elder Zhao mourned the ancestors who had been avenged, three nuclear bombs breached Great Xia’s defenses, leaving its Underground City bracing for impact.

• Thirty-three nuclear bombs cracked Cherry Blossom Underground City’s dome, and the thirty-fourth detonated on its first level.
• Further nuclear bombs destroyed the city’s lower levels until the thirty-seventh collapsed the entire structure, killing everyone inside.
• An information officer reported that the Blood Debt for Blood Plan had succeeded and that Cherry Blossom Country had no survivors.
• Elder Zhao watched the crater and murmured that Great Xia’s forebears could rest in peace.
• An officer reported that three nuclear bombs had penetrated Great Xia’s defenses and would hit in ten seconds.
• Great Xia’s residents took shelter as the alarms counted down, while an old man reassured his grandson that their country was with them.

Great Xia’s Underground Cities survived a global nuclear assault with no casualties, while Blue Star’s surface was devastated and nuclear winter began. Elder Zhao ordered continued monitoring, repairs, and preparations to keep Great Xia’s people safe and isolated from threats outside.

• Elder Zhao received confirmation that Tianxuan Underground City survived its first nuclear strikes with no internal damage or civilian casualties, and he warned that more than sixteen hundred bombs were still incoming.
• Great Xia’s defenses intercepted incoming Nuclear Bombs as nuclear explosions, earthquakes, tsunamis, radiation, and ecological collapse devastated Blue Star’s surface.
• Elder Zhao observed that Great Xia retained half its Satellites while the other major countries lost theirs, leaving them unable to monitor the outside world.
• Communications officers reported that all thirty-six Underground Cities endured the nuclear strikes with zero casualties and less structural damage than expected.
• Elder Zhao ordered radiation monitoring, medical care, passage repairs, stable supply distribution, public order measures, and global Drone surveillance to destroy other countries’ unmanned equipment.

Great Xia expanded construction and prepared new technologies and population growth while Eagle Country and European Country faced shortages, isolation, and political strain in their Underground Cities. The chapter left the European Archon blaming Eagle Country for provoking Great Xia’s retaliation as both countries struggled to survive.

• Great Xia launched another wave of Underground City construction, prioritized tunnel links and high-speed rail, and prepared new industries and a baby-making plan.
• Mars learned Eagle Country had only ten years of supplies, no surviving Satellites, and no safe way to reach the surface or contact other Underground Cities.
• Mars demanded a plan for joint retaliation against Great Xia, then learned legislators, generals, and tycoons were coming to demand an explanation from him.
• The European Archon ordered rationing, with the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled receiving half rations, after officials estimated supplies would last fifteen years or twenty with reduced portions.
• The European Archon and other countries blamed Eagle Country for launching the first nuclear bomb and provoking Great Xia’s retaliatory strikes.

Great Xia’s fleet conducted a live-fire naval exercise off Endless Plains and attacked a Demon Clan horde discovered underwater. The exercise ended with a submarine testing its Electric Eel System, leaving the horde incapacitated and vulnerable to torpedoes.

• Bear Country’s general ordered the Doomsday Act activated and opponents eliminated after officials reported only twelve years of supplies.
• Lin Mo and the other representatives observed Great Xia’s naval exercise from the Kunlun Aircraft Carrier while Yadis patrolled overhead.
• Liu Yishou ordered the fleet to attack after sonar detected over sixty thousand Demon Clan members underwater.
• The fleet bombarded the horde with torpedoes, guns, missiles, depth charges, and underwater weapons, forcing the Demon Clan to scatter.
• A submarine lured Demon Clan members close and activated its Electric Eel System, incapacitating those within a one-kilometer radius.
• The submarine fired torpedoes at the surviving high-ranking Demon Clan units.

After the fleet tested Great Xia’s powerful Electric Eel weapons against the Demon Clan, Lin Mo learned that a full-scale nuclear war had devastated Blue Star. He discovered that Cherry Blossom Country had been destroyed and proposed sharing the news with the soldiers.

• The submarine’s Electric Eel System exceeded its expected combat performance, and Kael and Elder Muyu asked about buying the weapon.
• The fleet killed or drove off most of the more than sixty thousand demons, completed its exercise, and returned to Great Xia’s Fief.
• Long Zhan told Lin Mo and Liu Yishou that more than ten thousand nuclear bombs had detonated on Blue Star after Eagle Country launched the first one.
• Lin Mo and Liu Yishou checked the internal briefings and learned that Great Xia had suffered relatively few losses, while many countries had lost surface facilities, people, and communications.
• Long Zhan revealed that thirty-seven bombs had blasted through Cherry Blossom Country’s underground city, destroying everyone inside.
• Lin Mo and Liu Yishou celebrated Cherry Blossom Country’s destruction, and Lin Mo suggested announcing the news to the soldiers on New Year’s Day.

Eighth Order Demon God Ao Lingsi led a Demon Clan invasion of Kona Star, where automated defenses fought back against the invading forces. After breaking through to the surface, Ao Lingsi faced a full-scale counterattack from the planet’s artificial intelligence.

• A Space-Jumping Beast opened a wormhole from Kona Star’s moon, and Ao Lingsi led Demon Clan commanders and soldiers through it.
• Robots attacked the demons in an underground tunnel, but Ao Lingsi’s domain and the commanders’ forces pushed them back.
• Ao Lingsi ordered Burrowing Earth Dragons to dig passages and punched through the tunnel’s alloy ceiling to reach the surface.
• Ao Lingsi emerged in the ruins of the extinct Kona Civilization, whose machines continued operating under artificial intelligence.
• The artificial intelligence detected Ao Lingsi and launched over a hundred nuclear bombs alongside aircraft and robot armies.

Ao Lingsi failed for the tenth time to land on Kona Star after its nuclear defenses destroyed the Demon Clan army emerging from a wormhole. Learning that Vel'Koz had also fallen to Great Xia on Terra, Ao Lingsi ordered Alpha to keep besieging Kona and led Komodo and an army toward Terra to stabilize the front.

• Ao Lingsi intercepted and detonated most of the nuclear bombs targeting it, but others destroyed the wormhole entrance and the Demon Clan army that had emerged.
• Ao Lingsi retreated to the satellite and recognized that Kona Star's machine-run defenses made it too difficult to conquer for now.
• A subordinate told Ao Lingsi that Vel'Koz had been killed by nuclear weapons on the Terra ocean battlefield, following Malphite's death.
• Ao Lingsi ordered Alpha to maintain pressure on Kona Star and instructed Komodo to assemble his legions for the journey to Terra.
• Ao Lingsi departed with the army, expecting the trip through multiple wormholes to take more than a month.

After Blue Star’s nuclear war left its surface heavily irradiated, Lin Mo arranged to buy World Tree Seeds and resources from the Elves, believing Great Xia’s nuclear reactors could accelerate the trees’ growth. He left the Elven camp optimistic that World Trees could help restore Blue Star far faster than nature alone would allow.

• Zhao Gang asked Lin Mo to negotiate with the Elves for World Tree Seeds and buy Holy Water, ores, and other supplies while Zhao went to the refining Demon Clan Factory.
• Elder Muyu explained that World Tree Seeds formed inside Life Fruits, and that leaving one fruit on a tree could speed the process but weaken the tree for a hundred years.
• Elder Muyu said energy crystals could accelerate fruiting, and Lin Mo realized Great Xia’s Nuclear Fission Reactors could provide abundant energy.
• Elder Muyu offered two World Tree Seeds at the established price of a hundred million gold coins each, and Lin Mo agreed to buy both.
• Lin Mo also ordered ores, mithril, and energy crystals, while Elder Muyu accepted accumulated purchase credit and sealed the deal with a Magic Contract.
• Lin Mo left the Elven camp planning to use nuclear energy to make the World Trees bear fruit rapidly and help purify Blue Star.

Lin Mo completed purchases with the Holy Human Race and renewed the Half-Orcs’ employment contract before inspecting the Demon Clan recycling factory. Zhao Gang reported that new electromagnetic cannons had made a major leap in power, leaving Lin Mo more confident about fighting the Demon Clan.

• Lin Mo negotiated a large purchase of ores, Purification Scrolls, and Holy Water with Kael, and they signed a Magic Contract allowing the Holy Human Race to accumulate credit.
• Lin Mo renewed Wukong’s employment for six months and hired Warwick as a second Seventh Order fighter, and Warwick eagerly signed the contract.
• Lin Mo visited the Demon Clan Biological Recycling and Processing Center, where Zhao Gang showed him how Demon Clan corpses were processed into Energy Blocks.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that Great Xia had developed more powerful Gauss weapons and electromagnetic cannons, whose muzzle velocity was five times that of conventional shells and whose destructive power was over ten times greater.
• Lin Mo said he had come to adjust Energy Block production standards and joked with Zhao Gang about whether Great Xia would have to breed the Demon Clan if they exterminated them.

Lin Mo and the other representatives gathered at the Weapon Testing Ground to receive the first custom weapons made for the various races. The Half-Orc Clan began testing its powerful new artillery as the other races watched.

• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that the recovered Demon Clan corpses were still being processed and that the first custom weapons would be ready the next day.
• Lin Mo arrived at the Weapon Testing Ground, where representatives of the Holy Human Race, Elves, Dwarf Clan, Dragons Clan, and Half-Orc Clan awaited the weapon convoy.
• Great Xia soldiers unloaded the custom weapons, including a massive cannon, a Nuclear Fusion Reactor, a Prism Tower, and mounting devices for the Treants.
• Warwick received a Back-Mounted Artillery piece and AI-Assisted Glasses that displayed an aiming interface and predicted shell impacts.
• Half-Orc warriors collected their artillery and other weapons, and Warwick headed to the Shooting Range to test his equipment as the other representatives followed.