Recaps

Lin Mo returned to Tianshu Underground City as the World Tree sheltered the surface and construction began beneath its crown. When the tree bore seven fruits, Lin Mo proposed using abundant reactor energy to turn every fruit into a seed.

• Lin Mo and Liu Chengen inspected the World Tree, whose enormous crown covered Tianshu Underground City and kept radiation within its range safe.
• A major general asked to prune the low-hanging branches, and Liu Chengen explained that the cut leaves could absorb radiation while the wood could be reused.
• Engineering troops began pruning the tree and building beneath it as Lin Mo watched the work get underway.
• A researcher announced that the World Tree had borne seven Life Fruits, prompting an argument over whether to save one fruit for seed production or harvest the others.
• Lin Mo argued that the World Tree could turn all seven fruits into seeds because nuclear fission reactors could supply the energy it needed.

Lin Mo and Liu Chengen used the four nuclear reactors to accelerate the World Tree’s seven fruits until they ripened, then Lin Mo returned to Terra and reported Blue Star’s progress to Long Zhan. Long Zhan learned that Elder Zhao had ordered the elevator shafts of all non-Great Xia underground cities destroyed and said the decision was too indecisive.

• Lin Mo persuaded Liu Chengen to raise the four reactors to full output, and the World Tree absorbed nearly all the radiation to ripen seven emerald fruits.
• Liu Chengen reported that the World Trees in Tianyong City and Tianji City were still growing and had not yet borne fruit.
• Lin Mo returned to Terra and told Long Zhan that the World Trees had made areas of Blue Star safe from radiation and that construction had begun.
• Lin Mo told Long Zhan that Elder Zhao had ordered the elevator shafts of all non-Great Xia underground cities destroyed after Eagle Country's drones attacked the World Tree.
• Long Zhan called Elder Zhao too indecisive and warned that the other underground cities could eventually grow too powerful to control.

Lin Mo learned that the Demon Clan had a portal linking Terra to its home planet and might possess eighth- or ninth-order fighters. He and Long Zhan agreed to monitor the portals while Great Xia prepared for the threat, though Lin Mo feared an attack could come soon.

• Long Zhan showed Lin Mo Satellite images of a portal deep in Demon Clan territory, where demons were pouring through from their home planet.
• Long Zhan warned that the Demon Clan could send reinforcements, including eighth- or ninth-order fighters whose energy shields might withstand even nuclear weapons.
• Lin Mo asked about a contingency plan, and Long Zhan said Great Xia had no sure defense yet and had asked the Academy of Sciences to develop stronger weapons.
• Long Zhan reported that the Demon Clan had stopped attacking across Terra, which suggested it was gathering strength or waiting for something.
• Lin Mo proposed destroying the visible portal, but Long Zhan explained that several others existed, including underground portals, so they chose to keep the visible one under round-the-clock surveillance.

Lin Mo learned that Great Xia was establishing a dedicated Diplomatic Team as experts and businesses arrived on Terra, and he inspected newly arrived Plasma Rifles. Powered by Energy Blocks refined from Demon Clan corpses, the rifles were ready for large-scale deployment and could threaten third- and even fourth-order Demon Clan members.

• Zhao Gang proposed forming a Diplomatic Team so Lin Mo would not have to handle every liaison himself, and Lin Mo approved the plan.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that Plasma Rifles produced in other Underground Cities had arrived for large-scale deployment.
• At the shooting range, Lin Mo watched a Plasma Rifle blast a hole through a five-centimeter alloy steel plate and then tried the weapon himself.
• Zhao Gang explained that the rifles used Energy Blocks refined from Demon Clan corpses, with each magazine providing a hundred shots.
• Zhao Gang said Plasma Rifles could kill third-order Demon Clan members and, with enough firepower, take on fourth-order ones, leading Lin Mo to realize ordinary soldiers could threaten mid-order demons.

Lin Mo saw Great Xia’s new Plasma Rifle, Electromagnetic Cannon, and Plasma Cannon, which could threaten powerful Demon Clan members. He learned they still could not contend with eighth-order enemies and was left worrying about Great Xia’s future.

• Lin Mo tested the Plasma Rifle and learned it had a range of five hundred meters and could pierce steel with little recoil.
• Zhao Gang showed Lin Mo a mobile Electromagnetic Cannon that fired projectiles at seven kilometers per second and could potentially take on sixth-rank Demon Clan members.
• Zhao Gang revealed a Plasma Cannon whose high-temperature plasma was designed, like the Electromagnetic Cannon, to strike seventh-order Demon Clan members.
• Lin Mo asked whether the cannons could defeat eighth-order Demon Clan members, and Zhao Gang admitted Great Xia’s technology could not yet match them.
• Lin Mo remembered the threat of stronger Demon Clan members emerging through the wormhole Portal and felt the weight of responsibility for Great Xia’s people and Blue Star’s future.

Lin Mo and Zhao Gang watched the races of Terra launch a coordinated counteroffensive against the Demon Clan with Great Xia weapons. The chapter left the Elf army advancing under Adrian’s command, its Treant fortresses and weapon-equipped troops prepared to attack.

• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that Elder Qian was leading a team to develop weapons against the Demon Clan’s Eighth Order demons.
• Long Zhan summoned Lin Mo and Zhao Gang to the command center to watch the races of Terra begin their counteroffensive.
• Lin Mo and Zhao Gang saw the Dragons Clan, Holy Human Race, Elves, and Half-Orc Clan assemble their forces, while Long Zhan said the Dwarves were making moves underground.
• Adrian ordered the Elven army to advance, with shield infantry leading and weapon-covered Treants following.
• The Elven Treant Fortress Corps planted its roots and set down its iron walls as Adrian prepared his army to attack the Demon Clan.

Adrian led the elves and their treant-mounted weapons against the advancing Demon Clan army, using artillery and air defenses to devastate its ranks before the demons reached the shield wall. The battle turned critical when several fifth-order and sixth-rank demons broke through the elf defenses.

• Adrian ordered the Treant Fortress to fire, and artillery blasts tore gaps through the Demon Clan vanguard.
• The elves’ autocannons, lasers, and missiles struck the charging demons and brought down many winged attackers.
• The Demon Clan army reached the shield wall, where elf shieldbearers held formation and fought the lesser demons and demon hounds.
• Fifth-order and sixth-rank demons drove low-ranking demons forward and punished those who fell behind.
• A sixth-rank demon and two fifth-order demons broke through the shield line, killing and wounding elf warriors and opening three gaps.

Adrian’s forces used the Elf Mage Corps to trap high-ranking Demon Clan creatures while Great Xia’s weapons destroyed them, but the overwhelming Demon Clan army pressed the elves into retreat. The treants became the first defensive line and were surrounded as the enemy streamed through the gaps toward the elves behind them.

• Adrian ordered the Elf Mage Corps to immobilize high-ranking Demon Clan creatures so treant-mounted cannons could kill them with minimal casualties.
• The elves’ weapons destroyed more Fifth Order creatures, siege behemoths, corroders, and liches, while the liches’ magical shields failed against physical attacks.
• As the Demon Clan army swelled to an estimated four hundred thousand and its high-ranking creatures battered the shield wall, Adrian signaled the elf shieldbearers to retreat behind the treants.
• The treants advanced as the first defensive line, but the Demon Clan army passed through the gaps between them and surrounded them on every side.

Adrian ordered the Treant Fortresses to unleash their weapons, turning the Demon Clan army’s charge into a slaughter. The remaining sixth-rank commanders watched their forces fall and realized the Elves had become far stronger than they expected.

• Adrian commanded the Treant Fortresses to fire, and their cannons, machine guns, and rockets mowed down the charging Demon Clan army.
• The Elves targeted and killed the fifth-order demons sent to attack the treants.
• A sixth-rank commander charged a Treant Fortress, evaded a missile, and pushed through artillery fire toward it.
• The Elf Mage Corps trapped the sixth-rank commander with spells and vines while the treant’s weapons battered it to death.
• The surviving sixth-rank commanders saw the Demon Clan army being slaughtered and reeled at the Elves’ strength.

The Elves defeated the demon army, recaptured a city stronghold, and prepared to counterattack. Meanwhile, the chapter explained the Dragons Clan’s history and its trade arrangements with the Elves and Holy Human Race, as the Elves sought Dragon support against the invasion.

• A Sixth-Rank Commander ordered the demon army to retreat after heavy losses, and the Elves pursued them as they fled.
• Adrian ordered the Elf Warriors to clear the battlefield, tend to the wounded, and collect demon corpses for trade with Great Xia.
• Adrian declared that the Elves’ victory was only the beginning and that they would counterattack next.
• The chapter described how the Dragons Clan came to trade with the Elves and Holy Human Race for food in exchange for wealth.
• The Elves warned that their destruction would leave the Dragons Clan without food, and they sought the Dragons’ combat strength against the Demon Clan.

Yadis led three thousand Great Xia-equipped dragons against the Demon Clan’s assembled army of more than a hundred and fifty thousand. As the demons charged, Yadis ordered the tech dragons to attack and fired his Super Giant Cannon at a sixth-rank commander.

• The Dragons King formed a Strategic Alliance Pact with the Elf Queen, and Great Xia’s weapons gave the dragons new offensive power.
• Yadis led three thousand dragons equipped with Great Xia weapons toward the Demon Clan’s territory.
• A Demon Clan scout spotted the dragons and raised the alarm, prompting the demons to assemble their forces.
• More than a hundred and fifty thousand demons faced the dragons and charged, eager to kill them and claim their bodies.
• Yadis ordered the tech dragons to attack and fired his Super Giant Cannon at a sixth-rank Demon Clan commander.

Yadis and the Dragons unleashed cannons, lasers, and missiles against the Demon Clan, devastating its ground and flying forces. The Demon Clan’s formations collapsed, but the Dragons continued their attack with a storm of metal.

• Yadis and ten other Dragons fired Giant Cannons, killing a Sixth-Rank Commander and destroying a fifth of the Demon Clan army in one volley.
• Ten Dragons swept Prism Tower lasers through the flying Demon Clan forces, cutting down Winged Demons, Gargoyles, and Bone Dragons.
• A Demon Clan commander crawled out of the blast zone and saw its own kind raining from the sky.
• Twenty-one armed Dragons launched over a hundred missiles, shattering the Demon Clan’s remaining formations.
• The Dragons began firing another devastating storm of metal at the Demon Clan.

Dragons and Elves used Great Xia’s weapons and magic to devastate the demons, while Lin Mo and the Command Center watched their victories. As the Half-Orc army prepared to enter battle in the Savage Bone Mountains, Talos and Usok surveyed its ranks.

• Yadis and the dragons slaughtered the demon army with cannons, missiles, Dragon Breath, and claws, then pursued the fleeing survivors.
• Lin Mo, Zhao Gang, and Long Zhan watched footage of the Elves’ and Dragons Clan’s victories and discussed Great Xia’s technological advantage.
• Lin Mo noticed the Half-Orc army was about to join the battle.
• Talos and Usok surveyed 150,000 Half-Orcs assembled in the Savage Bone Mountains; the Old Wolf King stayed home to defend his tribe.

Usok and the Old Wolf King tried to persuade the Half-Orc chiefs to join a counterattack against the Demon Clan by demonstrating Great Xia's weapons. Impressed by their power and the promise of weapons and training, the chiefs faced the choice of joining the allied offensive or risking their people’s eventual destruction.

• The Old Wolf King called a clan assembly and announced that the Half-Orcs should assemble an army to counterattack the Demon Clan, but the chiefs mocked him.
• Usok demonstrated a Gatling gun, a rocket launcher, and a cannon, then threw an explosive that blasted the chiefs off their feet.
• After the chiefs recovered, the Old Wolf King explained that Great Xia had enough equipment to arm an army of 150,000.
• The Old Wolf King urged the chiefs to contribute troops, promising weapons and training, and said the Half-Orcs would counterattack alongside the Elves, Holy Human Race, Dwarf Clan, and Dragons Clan.

The Old Wolf King assembled a 150,000-strong half-orc army to counterattack the Demon Clan with Great Xia's weapons, though most allied tribes planned to retreat if the battle went badly. After learning of the army's advance, Pyke feared it might possess Great Xia's weapons and ordered every nearby Demon Clan soldier to gather at its camp, weakening the encirclement.

• The Old Wolf King persuaded the chiefs to contribute 100,000 warriors, bringing the army to 150,000, while the chiefs privately told their warriors to avoid risking their lives if defeat seemed likely.
• Talos and Usok prepared to lead the army, and Nar joined them as the only Seventh-Order half-orc from the other tribes to fight.
• The half-orc army marched beyond the Savage Bone Mountains, with the Old Wolf King's tribe carrying the best equipment and the other tribes mostly armed with rifles and grenades.
• A scout reported the half-orcs' 150,000-strong army to Pyke, who recalled Great Xia's weapons and worried the half-orcs might have them too.
• Pyke ordered every soldier in the surrounding area to gather at its camp, dismissing the scout's warning that this would break the encirclement.

The Half-Orc army faced a Demon Clan force four times its size, and Usok and Talos relied on Great Xia’s weapons and their own strength to hold the line. As the armies clashed, Pyke engaged them in the sky while Nar intercepted the Demon Clan’s elite fighters, leaving the battle raging on multiple fronts.

• Pyke surveyed the assembled six-hundred-thousand-strong Demon Clan army and expected victory over the Half-Orcs.
• Usok, Talos, and Nar arrived with a hundred and fifty thousand Half-Orcs, and Usok and Talos insisted they would lead the fight despite Nar’s doubts.
• The Demon Clan charged, and Usok and Talos unleashed their pressure domains before Pyke countered them and attacked the two Seventh-Order Experts.
• A dozen or more Sixth-Rank demons advanced on the Half-Orc formation, so Nar moved to intercept them and was surrounded.

The Old Wolf King's army used artillery and automatic weapons to devastate the advancing Demon Clan forces on the ground, while Winged People warriors annihilated demons in the sky and bombed the army below. The battle continued as the Winged People turned their aerial assault into a deadly combination of fighter and bomber attacks.

• The Old Wolf King's army opened fire with artillery, rockets, Gatling guns, and other weapons, tearing through the Demon Clan's advancing ranks.
• Five thousand Winged People met the Demon Clan's aerial forces and opened fire with autocannons, killing over a hundred Winged Demons in their first volley.
• Winged People snipers fired cubic nitrogen ammunition to destroy the heavily armored fifth-order Gargoyles.
• Winged People warriors dropped grenades, C4 Explosive, and Small Aerial Bombs onto the Demon Clan formations below.

The Old Wolf King Tribe used Great Xia weapons to devastate Pyke’s demon army, but dwindling ammunition let the demons overwhelm the firing line. As the Half-Orc warriors prepared to meet the charge in melee, reinforcements arrived behind them.

• Thousands of Centaurs circled the demon army’s flanks and bombarded its ranged units with Firecracker Hand Grenades.
• Pyke saw the destruction of its army and feared the Half-Orcs’ powerful weapons, so it stayed engaged with Usok and Talos.
• The Half-Orc firing line ran low on ammunition and suffered weapon failures as the demon army closed to within a hundred meters.
• The Old Wolf King Tribe’s warriors abandoned their empty guns, threw their last grenades, and prepared to fight the advancing demons with melee weapons.
• Ten thousand mounted warriors charged in from behind the Half-Orcs, shouting that they had come to reinforce them.

The Half-Orc coalition turned the battle against the Demon Clan, forcing Pyke and the remaining demons to retreat through tunnels beneath the battlefield. After killing the demons who failed to escape, the exhausted Half-Orcs celebrated their victory over the much larger army.

• The tribal coalition and Winged People joined the fighting, helping the Half-Orcs overwhelm the Demon Clan’s ground forces and destroy its air force.
• Nar fought off waves of sixth-rank demons while Pyke watched the battle deteriorate and ordered the Demon Clan to retreat.
• Pyke struck Nar to cover the escape of the sixth-rank demons, then fled with them through a hole opened by a Giant Burrowing Dragon.
• Usok, Talos, and Nar chose not to pursue the demons underground and instead killed the enemies left on the battlefield.
• Usok declared victory, and the Half-Orc warriors cheered, howled, and mourned their fallen comrades.

After the Half-Orcs defeated the demons, Usok confronted the Allied Army leaders over their late arrival and argued that the tribes needed a single Beast King to unite them. The leaders agreed to discuss a selection process, and Usok proposed giving the chosen Beast King authority over centralized purchases of Great Xia Weapons.

• Usok ordered the battlefield cleared and casualties counted as Talos praised the Old Wolf King Tribe’s strength.
• Nar and the Allied Army leaders arrived, and Usok rebuked them for joining the battle late and wanting to buy Great Xia’s weapons after previously considering surrender.
• Usok argued that the Half-Orcs kept losing because their tribes fought separately and said they needed a single leader.
• Usok proposed choosing a Beast King based on strength, wisdom, and the ability to unite the tribes, and Nar agreed to discuss the selection process.
• Usok proposed that the Beast King oversee centralized procurement of Great Xia Weapons and equipment.

Usok secured the Demon Clan corpses for his tribe, planning to sell them to Great Xia for resources, while Great Xia's leaders watched the Various Races battle across Terra. The Holy Human Race's shielded, mage-supported vehicles overwhelmed the demons, and the Dwarf Clan's battle emerged from underground as demons fled their tunnels.

• Usok persuaded the chiefs to accept centralized Great Xia weapons purchases and let his tribe take the Demon Clan corpses, which he intended to sell for a profit.
• Lin Mo, Long Zhan, Zhao Gang, and the staff officers watched footage of the Various Races defeating the Demon Clan and recorded combat data.
• The Holy Human Race advanced with Holy Knights pushing shielded tanks and infantry fighting vehicles while mages and aerial forces attacked the demons.
• A staff officer spotted movement on the Dwarves' screen, where demons fled the tunnels and Dwarf warriors chased them out.

Lin Mo and the Command Center watched the Dwarves deploy replicated tanks against the Demon Clan, then Lin Mo learned from Wu Suowei how many ways a trained guard could kill a supposedly resilient Third Order target. The chapter ended with Lin Mo reassessing how safe he was, while Wu Suowei stressed that Lin Mo’s importance made him irreplaceable.

• The Dwarves rolled more than a hundred scaled-down tanks from underground tunnels and used them to blast the fleeing Demon Clan, astonishing Zhao Gang and Long Zhan.
• Lin Mo explained that the Dwarves could replicate tanks by studying Great Xia’s vehicles, while Long Zhan and Zhao Gang predicted they would soon copy more equipment.
• After Zhao Gang and Long Zhan left for the night, Lin Mo stayed to study, then walked back to his residence through the camp.
• Lin Mo told Wu Suowei and the other guard that they did not need to stand watch all night, since the camp was safe and he was Third Order.
• Wu Suowei listed ten ways to kill a Third Order target, including poison, suffocation, extreme temperatures, explosives, drowning, and a sharp weapon.
• Lin Mo grew alarmed at how vulnerable he was, but Wu Suowei reassured him that trained guards were replaceable and Lin Mo was not.

Lin Mo inspected Great Xia’s camp and saw the races of Terra selling Demon Clan corpses for resources. Zhao Gang told him that the spaceship’s basic framework was ready and the dwarves were needed on Blue Star to help build it.

• Lin Mo spent the night studying fifth-order magic and planned to learn portal magic after advancing to the sixth rank.
• After breakfast, Lin Mo inspected the camp and found the races of Terra selling Demon Clan corpses to Great Xia for credit.
• Lin Mo explained that specialists would need to assess whether previously buried Demon Clan corpses could be recycled.
• Zhao Gang pulled Lin Mo aside and said the spaceship’s framework on Blue Star was ready and the dwarves needed to help with construction.

Lin Mo and Zhao Gang arranged a diplomatic exchange so representatives of Terra’s races could visit Blue Star, with the Dwarves also helping build the Arctic Underground City. After the representatives agreed to begin the visits the next day, Lin Mo pulled Thorin Ironbeard aside to discuss something privately.

• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that components had reached the Arctic Underground City and that Dwarf craftsmen were needed to inscribe runes, while assuring him that precautions would keep them from learning Blue Star’s true condition.
• Zhao Gang proposed using a diplomatic visit to let Terra’s races see Blue Star, and Lin Mo agreed that the exchange could build trust and prevent suspicion.
• Lin Mo invited the representatives of the Elves, Dwarves, Holy Human Race, and Half-Orcs to send diplomatic missions to Blue Star and arranged for Great Xia’s team to visit their races.
• Thorin, Warwick, Kael, and Elder Muyu agreed to the proposal, and the representatives accepted Lin Mo’s plan to begin the visits the next day.
• Lin Mo offered to film the visits for the Dragon Clan after Yadis declined to visit Blue Star, then privately called Thorin Ironbeard aside to speak.

Lin Mo arranged for the Dwarf Clan to help inscribe runes on Great Xia’s enormous spacecraft, then prepared to guide Terra’s delegations around Blue Star. The representatives arrived at Arctic Base and began their tour, leaving the Half-Orc Clan to take the second elevator group.

• Lin Mo asked Thorin to provide dwarf craftsmen to inscribe a massive rune circle across the spacecraft, and Thorin agreed enthusiastically.
• The delegations from Terra’s races assembled to travel to Blue Star, while Lin Mo planned to meet them at Arctic Base after switching bodies.
• The representatives passed inspection through the portal and arrived at Great Xia’s underground base, where Liu Youwan welcomed them.
• Liu Youwan explained that the base had expanded into an underground city and that Great Xia had thirty-six such cities.
• Liu Youwan led the delegations toward the residential area, but the oversized group could not fit in one elevator.
• Grom volunteered for the Half-Orc Clan to take the second elevator group.