Recaps

A group of students saw Elder Muyu’s Elf delegation pass through the Underground City and struggled to contain their excitement. Liu Youwan welcomed the visiting races to Great Xia’s residential district and explained that it was a home for ordinary life, unlike the military-focused Fief, as Kael asked whether the surface was uninhabitable.

• Four students discussed the official announcement about another world and wondered whether they might meet Elves and learn magic.
• The students spotted Elder Muyu and his Elven delegation outside the noodle house, and the tall, skinny boy stopped the round-faced boy from rushing out to approach them.
• Elder Muyu smiled and nodded at the students before the delegation continued through the street, accompanied by other races and soldiers providing security.
• Thorin remarked that the Underground City was too bright and tall, while Elder Muyu was astonished by its orderly, lived-in streets.
• Liu Youwan welcomed the visitors to the residential district and explained that it housed one million residents, unlike the military-focused Fief.
• Kael asked Liu Youwan whether Great Xia had built the city underground because the surface was uninhabitable, making her heart lurch.

Liu Youwan led the visiting representatives through Great Xia’s underground city, where they marveled at its technology and drew curious attention from residents. The tour paused when Thorin smelled liquor and Liu Youwan arranged to buy some for the dwarves.

• Liu Youwan explained to Kael that Great Xia built underground cities because the surface environment was harsh.
• The visitors explored the crowded commercial district, where Kael noticed the lack of magic and Thorin admired the electric vehicles.
• The half-orc group arrived, and residents stared, photographed them, and speculated aloud about the centaur and other visitors.
• Grom stumbled after overhearing residents’ questions, while Kailin teased Alistar about being called cool.
• Thorin caught the aroma from Li Family Century-Old Wine Cellar, and Liu Youwan asked a colleague to buy liquor for the dwarves.

Liu Youwan guided Thorin, Elder Muyu, Kael, and the others through Great Xia, where they encountered unfamiliar shops, schools, and entertainment. Kael questioned Great Xia’s social order and briefly mistook a movie poster for a real warship before learning it was fictional.

• Thorin and the Dwarves admired the adult goods store’s display until Liu Youwan’s explanation and their comments made him anxious.
• At a school, Kael questioned why commoners received education, and Liu Youwan explained that Great Xia had compulsory schooling and no nobles.
• Thorin smelled food from a restaurant, and Liu Youwan assured the group that a lavish banquet had been prepared for them.
• Kael saw a poster of a warship in space and asked whether Great Xia possessed such a weapon, but Liu Youwan explained that it was from a fictional movie.
• After hearing the warship was fictional, Kael reflected on the Dwarves’ failed attempt to build an airship that could travel beyond Terra.

Liu Youwan showed the visiting representatives Great Xia’s peaceful Central Square and revealed that Great Xia was building a real interstellar spaceship. Meanwhile, He Wuqi’s diplomatic mission arrived in Holy Light City, where High Archbishop Benedict welcomed them and offered to show them around while the Pope prayed.

• Liu Youwan told the representatives that Great Xia was building a real interstellar spaceship, and Thorin confirmed that Lin Mo had asked him to inscribe runes on it.
• Warwick wondered whether the representatives could buy and pilot the spaceship as the group continued through the shopping street.
• The representatives reached Central Square, where Muyu was moved by the peaceful sight of children playing and said it was good to have no war.
• Liu Youwan called the square their home, and Thorin said Great Xia’s people were lucky.
• He Wuqi led Great Xia’s diplomatic mission into Holy Light City and met Benedict, the High Archbishop of the Holy Light Holy See.
• Benedict blessed the mission and, since the Pope was praying, offered to show them around Divine Grace City.

Benedict led He Wuqi and the Great Xia delegation on a tour of Holy Light City, showing them its religious landmarks, market, and academy. He Wuqi saw the gulf between the poor commoners and the privileged clergy and nobles, and learned that residents were required to attend prayers or face execution disguised as purification.

• Benedict showed the delegation the statue of a former Holy Son, while Great Xia members discussed its history and questioned the Holy Kingdom's faith.
• Benedict claimed residents displayed Holy Light Emblems voluntarily, but a delegation member suspected the emblems were centrally required.
• He Wuqi bought bread from an old woman and learned commoners ate coarse rye bread while nobles and Holy See members had better food.
• Benedict showed the delegation the luxurious temple and said all residents had to attend weekly prayers or be sent to the Inquisition for purification.
• Benedict brought the delegation to Holy Light Academy, where Divine Holy Knights and clerics were trained.

He Wuqi and the Great Xia Diplomatic Mission toured a noble academy in the Holy Kingdom and learned how its class system and religious education worked. He Wuqi described Great Xia’s broad curriculum, leaving Benedict staring at him as though he were mad.

• Benedict explained that noble academies admitted gifted children and nobles, while most commoners inherited their parents’ occupations and slaves were expected to work.
• He Wuqi stopped a mission member from challenging the Holy Kingdom’s slavery system, saying they had to respect cultural differences.
• Benedict showed the mission the first Pope’s statue and recounted how he united humans and founded the Holy Kingdom.
• At a classroom, Benedict explained that the academy trained students to become Holy Mages and Divine Holy Knights, while students studied the Book of Holy Light rather than subjects such as geography and arithmetic.
• He Wuqi said Great Xia students studied a wide range of subjects, and Benedict looked at him as though he were mad.

During a diplomatic visit to the Holy Light Academy, He Wuqi and the Great Xia delegation clashed with Benedict over education and social order, then toured the city. He Wuqi spotted opportunities to sell Great Xia goods across Terra and began recording possible products for trade.

• Benedict argued that educating commoners would make them difficult to govern, while He Wuqi and a delegation member challenged his beliefs about privilege and national prosperity.
• He Wuqi stopped Benedict from preaching and asked him to show the delegation the Academy’s library.
• As a carriage rattled past, two delegation members realized rubber tires could sell well, and He Wuqi wrote the idea in his notebook.
• Benedict showed them a fashionable tailor shop, prompting delegation members to consider selling clothing and black stockings.
• He Wuqi noted demand for food, household goods, and entertainment, and recognized Terra as a vast market for Great Xia’s industrial products.

He Wuqi discovered that the Holy Kingdom’s Royal Library lacked practical knowledge, then impressed Benedict with a satellite phone during a test call. Meanwhile, Lin Mo took the Terra delegation to a hot pot restaurant, where the visitors enjoyed Great Xia clothing and a lively night out.

• Benedict led He Wuqi and the delegation through the Royal Library, where He Wuqi found mostly religious, historical, and magical books.
• A delegation member received a satellite phone call, and He Wuqi explained to Benedict that the technology could eventually connect anywhere across the Terra Continent.
• Benedict recognized the satellite phone’s military and political value, while He Wuqi marked it as a key item for negotiating with the Holy Kingdom.
• Lin Mo arranged Great Xia clothing for the visiting races, and the Cat-Eared Clan, Fox Charm Clan, and mermaid drew attention during their outing.
• Lin Mo booked a hot pot restaurant for the delegation, and the group gathered around steaming red and white soup bases for a late-night meal.

Lin Mo hosted Thorin, Kael, Elder Muyu, and other guests from different races at a Great Xia hot pot meal. The guests loved the spicy food and cola, and the chapter ended with Thorin and Kael competing over beef.

• Thorin tried beef tripe in the chili-oil broth, then drank beer and praised the spicy hot pot.
• Lin Mo showed Kael how to cook duck intestine, and Kael enjoyed it with cola.
• Elder Muyu and the Elves sampled mushrooms and vegetables, while Liu Youwan offered them hot pot soup base to take home.
• The Half-Orcs and other guests enthusiastically ate hot pot, drawing curious glances from the restaurant staff.
• Kael took fatty beef from Thorin’s plate and argued that food belonged to everyone, so Thorin scooped the remaining beef into his bowl.

After sharing a lavish hot pot meal, Lin Mo took the women from the other world to a nail salon for manicures. He then led the men toward another part of the mall, promising them some manly fun.

• Elder Muyu admired the peaceful abundance of Great Xia, and Liu Youwan promised that the Elves could enjoy hot pot once the Demon Clan was driven back.
• Lin Mo and the group finished their overnight hot pot feast, then left the restaurant full.
• A Fox Charm Clan woman asked Lin Mo about nail art, so he brought the otherworldly women to a nail salon in the mall.
• The salon owner offered free manicures in exchange for a commemorative photo, and Lin Mo left two members of the Great Xia Diplomatic Team to help.
• Lin Mo gathered Thorin, Kael, Grom, and the male Half-Orcs and led them toward the mall's flashing, noisy entertainment area.

Lin Mo brought Thorin, Kael, Grom, and the other visitors from Terra to an arcade so they could experience Great Xia entertainment. They tried the games, and after Thorin accidentally destroyed a punching machine, Lin Mo arranged for him to pay with gold; Kael then stunned onlookers with perfect shooting-game accuracy.

• Lin Mo introduced the visitors to the arcade and gave them a basket of tokens to play with.
• A Winged man tried a motorcycle racing game but crashed, while Grom joined a race by straddling a machine with his four hooves.
• Thorin punched apart the arcade's punching machine and offered gold coins to cover the damage.
• Lin Mo reassured the staff member and confirmed Thorin's gold would more than cover the machine's cost.
• Kael scored consecutive headshots in a shooting game, leaving nearby boys amazed by his marksmanship.

Lin Mo took the visitors from another world to an arcade, a nail salon, and a Chinese restaurant, where they enjoyed games, makeovers, and unfamiliar food. As the group began sampling Peking duck, Grom declared it better than their own roast meat.

• Lin Mo gathered the visitors at the arcade after several hours of gaming, though Thorin wanted to keep playing the coin pusher.
• Lin Mo met the women after their nail salon visit and discovered that Annie and the others had received manicures and makeup.
• Lin Mo arranged a private lunch at a Chinese restaurant, where the manager hurried to accommodate the otherworldly delegation.
• Kael and Thorin tried sweet and sour pork, and both enjoyed it.
• Lin Mo showed Grom and the others how to eat Peking duck, and Grom praised it as better than their own roast meat.

After a lavish meal introduced the delegation to Great Xia dishes, Lin Mo took them to a 3D screening of The Wandering Earth. The film’s first startling image made Thorin, the Half-Orcs, and Kael react as if a spaceship were flying at them, putting the auditorium at risk.

• The delegation ate Great Xia dishes, and Thorin and Kael eagerly finished the roast duck while Elder Muyu hesitated over the meat dishes.
• Lin Mo introduced century egg salad, but the guests suspected the eggs were rotten and refused to try them.
• Lin Mo presented a durian, and Thorin bit its spiky shell before Lin Mo explained that the flesh was inside.
• Lin Mo led the delegation to the mall cinema and arranged a 3D screening of The Wandering Earth, with the larger guests standing beside the aisle.
• When a spaceship appeared to burst out of the screen, Thorin jumped up to strike it, the Half-Orcs panicked, and Kael began casting a Magic Shield.

Lin Mo showed the Terra delegation a film that amazed them with humanity’s technology and confirmed that Great Xia was building a real spaceship. He then took them by subway to Celestial Pivot City, where the chapter ended as they arrived at its busy central station.

• Lin Mo reassured the delegation that the spaceship passing close to them was a 3D illusion, and they watched the film in astonishment as it depicted a space elevator and engines moving a planet.
• After the film, Kael asked whether Lin Mo was building a spaceship, and Lin Mo confirmed it was real, though Great Xia could not yet push a planet.
• Thorin eagerly asked to see the spaceship and offer his rune-inscribing skills, and Lin Mo promised to arrange a visit after the tour.
• Lin Mo led the delegation to a newly built subway and explained that it could travel at three hundred kilometers per hour, while Kael observed that portals were more convenient.
• The subway arrived at Celestial Pivot City Central Station, and Lin Mo welcomed the delegation to the city.

Lin Mo took the visitors from Terra around Celestial Pivot City, showing them its museum and introducing them to Great Xia's street food. After Annie eagerly agreed to stay in Great Xia, she said she wanted to marry Lin Mo, leaving him startled.

• Lin Mo welcomed the visitors to Celestial Pivot City and arranged an open-topped truck for the Half-Orcs who could not fit on the bus.
• At the Celestial Pivot City Museum, Thorin mocked an ancient bronze sword while Kael admired a landscape painting, and Lin Mo told them how their ancestors had built their civilization.
• Lin Mo brought the visitors to a snack street, where Thorin tried stinky tofu and Annie and the others enjoyed ice cream and soft cream buns.
• Kael asked Lin Mo for a bread recipe, and Lin Mo agreed to have it printed for him; Thorin and Elder Muyu asked for it too.
• After tasting the street food, Thorin and Annie said they did not want to leave Great Xia, and Lin Mo joked that Annie could marry and settle there.
• Annie told Lin Mo she liked him and asked if she could marry him, leaving him startled.

Lin Mo brought the Terra delegation to Central Ecological Park, where Elder Muyu awakened Great Xia’s rapidly grown World Tree and confirmed that it was healthy and wanted to remain on Blue Star. The chapter ended with Elder Muyu asking Lin Mo what Great Xia had fed it.

• Lin Mo showed Thorin, Kael, Elder Muyu, and the other visitors the enormous World Tree in Central Ecological Park.
• Elder Muyu used Wood Elf Activation Magic to awaken the tree, and Great Xia’s researchers hurried to record the unprecedented event.
• The World Tree said Great Xia’s daily feeding made it grow quickly and offered Elder Muyu its fruit, though its branches could not bring the fruit down through the dome.
• The World Tree said it wanted to take root on Blue Star rather than return to Terra, and Elder Muyu reassured it that the elves had not come to take it away.
• Elder Muyu asked Lin Mo what Great Xia had fed the World Tree, unable to explain its rapid growth through energy crystals.

Lin Mo and Liu Chengen learned that Great Xia’s nuclear energy could sustain the World Tree, and Elder Muyu made a permanent magic array for it. The World Tree revealed a way to connect with the distant tree in Antarctica Underground City by growing roots toward each other.

• Liu Chengen explained nuclear fission to Elder Muyu, who realized Great Xia had an alternative energy source for the World Tree.
• Elder Muyu said activation magic lasted only an hour but could be made permanent with a magic array, then built one beneath the World Tree.
• Elder Muyu placed an energy crystal in the array and explained that one crystal would keep it running for about a day.
• Lin Mo asked whether the World Tree could sense the other World Trees on Blue Star, and it said it could sense one and communicate with it.
• The World Tree explained that it could reach the distant tree by growing its roots toward it while the other tree grew toward it, until they were close enough to connect.

Lin Mo and Liu Chengen discovered that the World Tree could network with its kind and learned how to produce nine seeds in six months without weakening the mother tree. Lin Mo left the project to Liu Chengen’s team, then heard that Qian Zhenhua was working intensively in his laboratory and that Life Fruit had improved both scientists’ health.

• Lin Mo learned that the World Tree could turn its nine fruits into seeds in a year, while the Terra delegation was astonished by the speed.
• The World Tree explained that redirecting energy to the fruits could shorten seed production to six months, and that a constant energy supply would prevent its weakened state.
• Elder Muyu admitted that the Elves had limited energy crystals and could not sustain a World Tree at full capacity.
• Lin Mo tasked Liu Chengen’s team with producing the seeds, and Liu promised they would have them in six months.
• Lin Mo asked about Qian Zhenhua, and Liu explained that Qian was occupied with a critical research project and that both scientists had benefited from Life Fruit.

Lin Mo took Terra’s delegation to Peak Internet Cafe to try online games, where the races learned the basics of Delta Force. The delegation finished its beginner training and prepared to enter large-scale battlefield mode.

• Lin Mo led the delegation to Peak Internet Cafe, while Liu Youwan reluctantly informed Elder Zhao, who approved the outing.
• The internet cafe’s patrons were startled by the visiting races, then cleared computers and lent them game accounts.
• Lin Mo gave the delegation translation glasses and explained Delta Force’s controls and simulated combat.
• Thorin struggled to aim, the elves quickly learned to shoot, and the half-orcs enthusiastically sprayed targets with machine guns.
• After beginner training ended, Lin Mo announced that they would enter large-scale battlefield mode.

Lin Mo introduced the Terra delegation to a multiplayer shooter, and after an all-night gaming session, they became eager players who coordinated better under his command. He ended the session with breakfast and rest before an afternoon plan, while the visitors kept discussing the game and Great Xia’s food.

• Lin Mo led the delegation into their first match, where Thorin, Grom, and Alistar were quickly killed and the group suffered a crushing defeat.
• Lin Mo taught the delegation to use cover and coordinate, while Kael discovered the power of a sniper rifle and Thorin enjoyed firing a tank’s machine gun.
• The delegation gamed through the night at Peak Internet Cafe, with Annie, Elder Muyu, and the others becoming absorbed in the matches.
• At eight in the morning, Lin Mo ordered everyone to stop for breakfast and rest, allowing them one final round first.
• The delegation worked together in the final match and improved their rankings despite losing, then returned to their lodgings and discussed the game over breakfast.

Lin Mo and Liu Youwan showed the Terra delegation Celestial Pivot City's livestock farms, indoor gardens, and energy facilities, leaving the visitors despairing at Great Xia's technological superiority. Lin Mo decided to cheer them up with mahjong and announced it as a Great Xia national treasure.

• Lin Mo and Liu Youwan led the delegation through automated livestock and plant-growing zones, astonishing the Half-Orcs and Elves.
• Thorin Ironbeard examined the city's pipes and energy systems, then admitted Great Xia's underground city surpassed the Dwarves' own.
• The visitors ate dinner in gloomy silence, overwhelmed by how thoroughly Great Xia's technology had outmatched their skills and magic.
• Lin Mo noticed the visitors' dejection, and Liu Youwan suggested mahjong as a distraction.
• Lin Mo announced that after dinner he would introduce them to a fun game and called it a Great Xia national treasure.

Lin Mo introduced mahjong to the visitors from Terra, and the game soon consumed the restaurant as they competed late into the night. Their excitement was interrupted when Long Zhan reported a new Demon Clan force arriving through the monitored spatial wormhole, including six likely Seventh Order units and a possible Eighth Order leader.

• Lin Mo explained mahjong and taught the visitors from Terra how to play.
• Annie won the first round, spurring the others to keep playing and compete through the night.
• Thorin, Kael, Elder Muyu, and the others grew absorbed in the game as their earlier dejection faded.
• Long Zhan called Lin Mo with an emergency report that a large batch of Demon Clan units had arrived at the monitored wormhole.
• Long Zhan said six of the newcomers were likely Seventh Order and their leader was likely Eighth Order.

Lin Mo and the others learned that the Demon Clan had received a suspected Eighth Order leader and six Seventh Order reinforcements, led by the feared Demon God Ao Lingsi. As they hurried back to the Arctic Base, Kael and Thorin recalled Ao Lingsi’s devastating role in the first invasion, and Lin Mo asked how powerful the Pope was.

• Lin Mo received word that new Demon Clan forces had arrived on Terra and ordered everyone to return to the Arctic Base.
• On the Subway, Lin Mo watched Long Zhan’s footage of an Eighth Order Demon Clan leader, six Seventh Order beings, and a massive army emerging from a spatial rift.
• Thorin identified the leader as Ao Lingsi, who had razed three Dwarven mountain cities nearly two hundred years earlier.
• Kael explained that the races’ top fighters had barely held Ao Lingsi back, and that the Pope had been gravely injured while the Merfolk king died fighting it.
• Lin Mo asked Kael what order the Pope was.

Lin Mo and the others learned that Great Xia’s nuclear strike against Ao Lingsi had failed, leaving them with no apparent way to stop the eighth-order Demon God. At the Astral Portal, Lin Mo arranged for his body on Terra to be sent back to Blue Star so he could maintain one body in each world.

• Kael told Lin Mo that the Pope was a half-step eighth-order mage who had only wounded Ao Lingsi more than a century earlier.
• Long Zhan informed Lin Mo that Ao Lingsi had intercepted Great Xia’s Dongfeng missile carrying ten nuclear warheads.
• Lin Mo watched footage of Ao Lingsi flying up and smashing the missile with one punch before its warheads could detonate.
• Long Zhan explained that Great Xia’s weapons could not reliably hit Ao Lingsi or penetrate its defenses, and said they were still discussing what to do.
• Lin Mo and the others reached the Astral Portal in the Arctic Underground City, and Lin Mo ordered a body he had left on Terra sent back to Blue Star.

Lin Mo returned to Great Xia’s command center as its leaders debated how to stop the Eighth Order Demon God Ao Lingsi. When the Demon Clan armies withdrew to assemble around Ao Lingsi, Great Xia realized it was likely the enemy’s next target.

• Lin Mo returned from the Astral Portal and arrived at the Command Center, where staff officers argued over whether to launch a nuclear strike.
• A senior staff officer proposed having Seventh-Order fighters carry nuclear bombs into close combat, but Zhao Gang warned that they might die without seriously injuring Ao Lingsi.
• Long Zhan proposed luring Ao Lingsi into a mountain range rigged with hundreds of nuclear bombs, then pointed out that the flying Demon God had no reason to enter the trap.
• Long Zhan said Terra’s races had not yet responded to Great Xia’s request for help.
• A communications soldier reported that the Demon Clan armies were withdrawing from the surrounding territories and converging near Ao Lingsi.
• Long Zhan warned that Ao Lingsi was gathering forces for an all-out offensive, and the command staff recognized that Great Xia was likely its intended target.