Recaps

Lin Mo halted Fendona’s suicidal charge and exploited the Corroders’ brief recovery window by ordering the earth mages to disrupt the demon formation. With the shield wall broken, Leon’s sharpshooters struck the Corroders’ swollen growths, causing their corrosive slime to devastate the demon soldiers protecting them.

• The Corroders’ corpse-armored tower-shield escorts blocked the elves’ arrows while the Corroders killed sharpshooters in the canopy.
• Fendona prepared to lead a charge, but Lin Mo stopped her and noticed that the Corroders’ growths shriveled after firing and that their guards briefly lowered their shields.
• Lin Mo ordered the crossbowmen to hold the front and the earth mages to attack the ground beneath the Corroders during their recovery.
• The earth mages disrupted the demon formation, opening gaps in the shield wall and throwing the Corroders’ next shots off course.
• Leon directed the sharpshooters to fire explosive arrows through the gaps, and his arrow detonated a Corroder’s swollen growth.
• The Corroder’s corrosive slime splashed onto its tower-shield guards, burning them and collapsing the shield wall from within.

Lin Mo’s tactics helped the Elves win a decisive battle against the Demon Clan with far fewer casualties than usual. The grateful Elves hailed him as a saint and mobbed him with gifts and unwanted attention while Fendona struggled to intervene.

• Lin Mo and the Elf sharpshooters destroyed the Demon Clan’s artillery and shielded soldiers, allowing the Elves to rout the remaining demons.
• The Demon Clan sounded a retreat, and the surviving Elves celebrated their victory.
• Fendona thanked Lin Mo and said his strategy had turned a normally costly defense into an almost flawless victory.
• Master Elder knelt before Lin Mo and proclaimed him a saint sent by the Goddess of Life, prompting the Elves to shower him with gifts.
• The Elves crowded around Lin Mo and groped him, while Fendona tried unsuccessfully to pull him free.

Queen Ellari tested the Compound Bow and Repeating Crossbow sent by Lady Fendona and discovered that their immense power came from mechanics rather than magic. The Elves’ doubts about Master Lin Mo’s inventions gave way to stunned silence, leaving Ellari impressed by their potential.

• A messenger delivered Lady Fendona’s Compound Bow, Repeating Crossbow, blueprints, and arrows to Queen Ellari, saying they concerned the Elves’ survival.
• Despite Elder Archmond’s objections, Ellari ordered the inventions tested at the archery range.
• The Son of Wind fired the Compound Bow and pierced an iron target, two wooden targets, and a stone wall with one arrow.
• Elder Archmond tried the Repeating Crossbow and fired all ten bolts in three seconds, leaving him stunned.
• Ellari examined the arrow embedded in the stone and recognized that the weapons used no magic.

Ellari ordered Avenor City to mass-produce Compound Bows and crossbows, then prepared to lead the last 20,000 Elf soldiers to defend Lothia City after a Demon Clan assault. A messenger announced that Lin Mo and Fendona had won a miraculous victory with the new weapons, and Lothia’s survivors celebrated as they cleared the battlefield.

• Ellari ordered the Elf craftsmen to mass-produce weapons from Lin Mo’s blueprints, overruling Elder Archmond’s objections to abandoning tradition.
• A messenger reported that the Demon Clan’s Burrowing Giant Serpents had tunneled beneath Lothia City and reached the World Tree’s heartland.
• Ellari ordered the Royal Guard to reinforce Lothia City and prepared to march with the kingdom’s remaining 20,000 soldiers.
• A second messenger announced that Lothia had won, crediting Lin Mo, Fendona, the Compound Bows, and the Repeating Crossbows; Elf casualties were fewer than 3,000.
• In Lothia City, Elves cleared the battlefield and an Elf squad leader told Fendona that their fallen had been laid to rest beneath the World Tree.

After the Elves defeated the Demon Clan, Fendona received the Queen’s invitation and a Life Fruit as a reward for Lin Mo. Lin Mo accepted the gift and began imagining taking it back to Blue Star for research.

• Fendona reflected on the Elves’ losses after their victory against the Demon Clan.
• A Royal Messenger delivered the Queen’s letter and the first shipment of reinforcements and supplies.
• Fendona read that the Queen invited Lin Mo to Aivinol and offered him a Life Fruit in gratitude.
• Fendona presented Lin Mo with the Life Fruit and explained its effects on lifespan, health, and physical ability.
• Lin Mo considered bringing the fruit to Blue Star so it could be studied and potentially improve people’s lives.

Lin Mo tried to delay consuming the Life Fruit so he could take it back to Blue Star, but Fendona insisted he use it immediately and explained how. As the fruit dissolved in his mouth, its life essence began transforming and strengthening his body.

• Lin Mo accepted the Life Fruit from Fendona while pretending it was merely a token of friendship, and planned to smuggle it back to Blue Star in his mouth.
• Fendona stopped Lin Mo from leaving and explained that the Life Fruit's potency would dissipate if he delayed consuming it.
• Lin Mo tried to stall with excuses about his homeland's rituals, but the elves urged him to eat the fruit at once.
• Fendona stopped Lin Mo from biting the fruit and told him to hold it in his mouth so its life essence could dissolve into his body.
• Lin Mo placed the Life Fruit in his mouth, and it became warm liquid that surged through him, purifying impurities and strengthening his bones and muscles.

After consuming the Elves’ Life Fruit, Lin Mo gained a superhuman physique and struggled to fall asleep so he could return to Blue Star. Back at the Ark Underground Base, his enhanced strength came with him, and he called in Zhao Gang and the scientists for an urgent examination.

• Lin Mo discovered that the Life Fruit had made him extraordinarily strong and asked Fendona to knock him unconscious so he could return to Blue Star.
• Lin Mo awoke in his room at the Ark Underground Base and confirmed that his new power had transferred to his real-world body.
• Lin Mo called Zhao Gang and asked for an immediate, comprehensive medical examination.
• Lin Mo told Zhao Gang about the Life Fruit, and Academicians Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen arrived with a medical team.
• Lin Mo demonstrated his new strength by jumping to the ceiling and punching an imprint into the concrete floor.

Lin Mo underwent an extensive examination after eating the Life Fruit, and the tests showed that his strength, speed, and reflexes had surpassed human limits. The scientists concluded that he had become a new species, but they could find no trace of the Life Fruit or determine how to reproduce its effects.

• Lin Mo was ushered into a medical pod for a five-hour examination ordered by Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen.
• Tests recorded Lin Mo's strength at 1.1 metric tons and his speed at twenty-two meters per second.
• Lin Mo played Rhythm Master on its highest difficulty and missed only one note, astonishing the staff with his reaction speed and coordination.
• Qian Zhenhua told Lin Mo that his physical indicators had undergone transcendence and that he was theoretically an entirely new species.
• Liu Chengen and Qian Zhenhua explained that they could find no trace of the Life Fruit in Lin Mo's body and could not reverse-engineer it.

After learning that his transformation could not be replicated, Lin Mo was assigned to use the Elf Queen’s invitation to learn about the Elves, their world tree, and Terra Continent’s magic. He left the meeting to explore the underground base with guards Wu Suowei and Wu Jiandao, heading to see the city’s construction progress.

• Lin Mo joked about being a one-of-a-kind superhuman after Academician Liu Chengen confirmed that scientists could not reproduce his transformation.
• Zhao Gang explained that the Elf Queen’s invitation was likely a chance to explore cooperation, and Great Xia needed world tree seeds to help restore Blue Star’s ecosystem.
• Zhao Gang tasked Lin Mo with learning about the Elves, the world tree, and Terra Continent’s magic while carefully investigating the Queen’s intentions.
• Lin Mo finished his meal, decided to explore the underground base, and was joined by guards Wu Suowei and Wu Jiandao.
• Lin Mo asked Wu Jiandao to lead him to see the underground city’s construction progress, then noticed he was walking with his hands behind his back and his feet turned out.

Lin Mo toured Kunlun One, an underground city being built to shelter survivors from Blue Star’s slowing rotation, and learned how many people the disaster would leave behind. He ended the chapter confronting the scale of the coming deaths and cursing in defiance of fate.

• Wu Suowei and Wu Jiandao showed Lin Mo Kunlun One’s vast construction site and explained its planned capacity of three million people.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that the city’s central support column would house equipment for a simulated sky and that its energy center would contain three nuclear power plants.
• Zhao Gang explained that the project required sacrifices and was intended to spare future generations from suffering.
• Zhao Gang revealed that the planet’s slowing rotation had worsened, that thirty-six planned underground cities could shelter only a little over three hundred million people, and that many more would die in the next two years.
• Lin Mo remembered his dead parents, struggled with the projected losses, and cursed in defiance of fate.

Lin Mo came to understand Zhao Gang’s explanation of the compromises involved in governing and accepted his responsibility to obtain the World Tree seed. After waking in Lothia City, he eagerly set off with Fendona for Aivinol aboard a griffin.

• Zhao Gang explained to Lin Mo that corruption could not be eliminated all at once and that leaders sometimes had to weigh contributions against faults.
• Seeing the vast underground city under construction, Lin Mo understood the burden of responsibility and resolved to obtain the World Tree seed.
• Lin Mo woke in Lothia City feeling energized after eating the Life Fruit and found Fendona inspecting compound bows.
• Lin Mo asked when they would travel to Aivinol, and Fendona agreed to leave with him after making a few arrangements.
• Fendona and Lin Mo boarded the same griffin, which took off toward the royal city.

Eagle Country's chief executive Mars learned that Great Xia's underground cities were progressing rapidly, despite Eagle Country's media campaign and sanctions. He proposed joint lunar development as a pretext to obtain Great Xia's space technology and uncover its other capabilities.

• Eagle Country struggled to finish its underground cities, while corporate interests occupied much of Liberty City's completed sections and residents had to buy their homes.
• Mars heard that Cherry Blossom Country wanted its underground cities incorporated into Eagle Country and that Baton Country had protested Great Xia's use of the Heavenly Stems name.
• The secretary reported that all thirty-six of Great Xia's underground cities were over fifty percent complete, including several designed for ten million people.
• Mars dismissed the report as fake news, then ordered senior intelligence operatives to monitor Great Xia more closely.
• Mars decided to send Great Xia a diplomatic proposal for joint lunar development, intending to learn from its space technology and discover what else it was hiding.

Lin Mo and his companions arrived at the enormous Tree Kingdom, where the Elf Queen Ellari welcomed Fendona and honored Lin Mo for helping the elves. The chapter ended as Fendona formally introduced Lin Mo to Ellari.

• Lin Mo and his companions flew to the Tree Kingdom and were escorted by elven guards to a grand plaza.
• Lin Mo met Ellari, the Elf Queen, and marveled at her appearance and regal presence.
• An elven elder publicly praised Lin Mo for improving the elves’ weapons, fighting the Demon Clan, and healing the wounded.
• The elves in attendance discussed Lin Mo’s achievements and showed him admiration.
• Ellari welcomed Fendona home and praised her for protecting Lothia’s people.
• Fendona introduced Lin Mo to Ellari as the traveler from another world.

Lin Mo described Great Xia to Queen Ellari and the Elves as a weak, magicless civilization dependent on simple inventions, concealing its true strength. Elder Valerius proposed that the Elf Kingdom accept Great Xia as a vassal state, leaving Lin Mo and Fendona stunned.

• Lin Mo greeted Queen Ellari and joined her welcome banquet with Fendona.
• Queen Ellari asked Lin Mo to describe Great Xia, and he portrayed its people as physically weak and reliant on cars, airplanes, guns, and cannons.
• An Elf used the Truth-Detecting Art, and the Elders concluded that Great Xia was far weaker than they had expected.
• Valerius mocked Great Xia's inventions and suggested its people were weaker than the Holy Human Race's untrained militia.
• Valerius proposed that the Elf Kingdom accept Great Xia as a vassal state, shocking Lin Mo and Fendona.

Lin Mo confronted Elder Valerius after he demanded that Great Xia become an Elf vassal, reminding the banquet guests that Great Xia’s weapon blueprints had helped save Lothia. Queen Ellari rebuked Valerius and condemned the nobles’ arrogance, leaving the Elves faced with the need to reconsider their conduct.

• Valerius demanded that Lin Mo make Great Xia a vassal state and received approval from several Elf nobles.
• Lin Mo rebuked Valerius for insulting Great Xia and reminded him that Great Xia’s weapon blueprints had helped save Lothia from the Demon Clan.
• Lin Mo continued denouncing Valerius and the Elf leadership until Valerius spat blood and the banquet hall fell into chaos.
• Queen Ellari silenced the hall and reprimanded Valerius for humiliating the benefactor who had helped save Elf lives.
• Ellari condemned the nobles’ arrogance and warned that it had contributed to the Elves’ repeated defeats and shrinking territory.

Queen Ellari apologized to Lin Mo for the nobles’ behavior and asked him to seek help from his homeland as the Elves faced growing losses against the Demon Clan. Lin Mo agreed to convey her request, then left with Fendona to rest at Moonlight's End.

• Queen Ellari publicly reprimanded Valerius and the other nobles, then apologized to Lin Mo for their rudeness.
• Ellari described the Elves’ dwindling population and weakening defenses against the Demon Clan, and asked Lin Mo and his homeland for help.
• Lin Mo said he could not decide on diplomatic matters himself but promised to convey Ellari’s request to his homeland.
• Ellari arranged for Fendona to escort Lin Mo to Moonlight's End, and Lin Mo explained his interpretation of the Queen’s political maneuver.
• Lin Mo pointed out the two moons in the sky, then teased Fendona when she asked about the other one.

Lin Mo asked Fendona to demonstrate magic and then tried to learn it himself. He failed to sense the elements, but considered trying the Holy Human Race’s methods in the future.

• Fendona brought Lin Mo to Moonlight's End, a guest room at the highest point of the Elf Royal City.
• After seeing the bathtub, Lin Mo asked Fendona to show him magic.
• Fendona shaped water into figures, froze it into a bird, and made it boil using her thoughts.
• Lin Mo eagerly asked Fendona to teach him magic, and she explained how to sense and connect with the elements.
• Lin Mo tried to sense the elements but failed, so he gave up on the Elf method and considered learning through the Holy Human Race instead.

After Lin Mo returned from the Elf Royal City, Zhao Gang praised his handling of the diplomatic incident but warned him about the risks he had taken. Zhao Gang outlined Great Xia’s three-part plan to strengthen the Elves, then revealed that lasting victory might require Great Xia’s soldiers to enter the war.

• Lin Mo told Zhao Gang about the banquet, his confrontation with Elder Valerius, Queen Ellari’s political maneuver, and her request for aid.
• Zhao Gang praised Lin Mo for giving the Queen an opening to rein in the hardliners, then sternly warned that Lin Mo had endangered himself and Project New Hope.
• Zhao Gang presented plans to help the Elves develop standardized industry, modern military tactics and training, and improved information-gathering tools.
• Zhao Gang said the measures could at least double the Elves’ combat effectiveness but would only delay their defeat against the Demon Clan.
• Zhao Gang said the war could turn only if a powerful third force entered it, and identified Great Xia’s soldiers as that force if they could reach the conflict.

Lin Mo told Queen Ellari that Great Xia had agreed to help the Elves, but requested a World Tree Seed in return. The Queen and Elders resisted, explaining that producing one would weaken the World Tree for a century.

• Fendona brought Lin Mo breakfast and escorted him to the royal court.
• Lin Mo told Queen Ellari that Great Xia had agreed to assist the Elves through their crisis.
• Queen Ellari asked what Great Xia wanted in return, and Lin Mo requested a World Tree Seed for study and planting.
• The Elders objected to the request, and Queen Ellari explained that making a seed would weaken the World Tree for a century.

Lin Mo discovered that the World Tree Seed was the size of a soccer ball and required a special energy vein to grow, leaving him unsure how to bring it back to Blue Star. He reported the problem to the leaders at Ark Underground Base, where they struggled to find a way to retrieve it without harming him or damaging the seed.

• Queen Ellari showed Lin Mo the World Tree Seed and explained that it was vital to her people's survival and still required discussion before any trade.
• Lin Mo returned to Ark Underground Base and called an urgent Team Meeting with Zhao Gang, Qian Zhenhua, Liu Chengen, and the other leaders.
• Lin Mo told the meeting that the seed was soccer-ball-sized and needed a special energy vein to grow.
• Liu Chengen proposed dislocating Lin Mo's jaw to carry the seed, but Zhao Gang rejected the plan because Lin Mo's safety came first.
• The leaders could not find a solution, and Lin Mo feared the seed's size would prevent humanity from obtaining it.

Lin Mo agreed to carry the World Tree Seed back to Great Xia through risky surgery, while Queen Ellari agreed to Great Xia’s terms in exchange for help retaking Emerald Leaf City. When Lin Mo clarified that Great Xia could not send troops and would instead provide military support and advice, the Elves reacted with anger and disappointment.

• Liu Chengen proposed surgically placing the World Tree Seed inside Lin Mo’s abdominal cavity, and Lin Mo volunteered for the procedure.
• Queen Ellari agreed to Lin Mo’s terms but demanded that Great Xia help the Elves retake Emerald Leaf City, and Lin Mo accepted.
• Queen Ellari asked when Great Xia would send an army, and Lin Mo explained that Great Xia could not send troops to the Terra Continent.
• Lin Mo offered Great Xia’s warfare plan and other support, but Queen Ellari questioned whether that meant only teaching the Elves techniques, while Elder Valerius reached for his sword.

Lin Mo learned from Queen Ellari that the Holy Human Race might build a stable two-way Astral Portal between Blue Star and the Terra Continent. He returned to the Ark Underground Base and told Great Xia's leaders, who resolved to pursue the portal as a way to save humanity.

• Queen Ellari told Lin Mo that the Holy Human Race's Astral Teleportation could connect worlds, though a portal required space crystals, magic power crystals, and a High Archbishop.
• Lin Mo promised Queen Ellari he would seek cooperation and said reclaiming Emerald Leaf City should be possible if the portal could be built.
• Back at the Ark Underground Base, Lin Mo summoned Zhao Gang, Qian Zhenhua, Liu Chengen, and other senior figures to an emergency meeting.
• Lin Mo announced that a two-way portal could let people, weapons, and armies travel between Blue Star and the Terra Continent.
• Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen reacted with excitement at the portal's scientific and research possibilities.
• Zhao Gang declared that they had to build the portal, and Qian Zhenhua warned that the Ark project could not preserve humanity if Earth's environment collapsed.

The New Hope team confirmed that an Astral Teleportation portal could provide Great Xia with access to the Terra Continent and a possible refuge from Blue Star’s collapse. Zhao Gang traveled to New Kyoto to report the breakthrough to Elder Zhao, who was stunned by news of the stable two-way portal.

• Liu Chengen and Zhao Gang celebrated the portal as a chance for Great Xia to survive, relocate, and colonize a new world.
• Zhao Gang classified all portal information as top secret and ordered Liu Chengen’s team to prepare a biological and environmental risk assessment using samples Lin Mo would collect.
• Zhao Gang restricted the New Hope team to its base and announced he would report to the leadership in person; Lin Mo approved his arrangements.
• Zhao Gang flew to New Kyoto at night and found Elder Zhao reviewing an encrypted report about the annexation of the Southern Continent Alliance and the seizure of an Antarctic survival zone.
• Zhao Gang told Elder Zhao that the New Hope team had found a path to a new world and described the stable two-way portal, causing Elder Zhao to drop his teacup.

Zhao Gang told Great Xia’s leaders that the Holy Human Race possessed astral teleportation technology, giving them a possible escape from their dying world. The leaders debated the portal’s promise and dangers, and the chapter ended with an objection.

• Zhao Gang assured Elder Zhao that Lin Mo’s report was true and that their civilization could be saved.
• Elder Zhao called an emergency meeting with the other four leaders.
• Zhao Gang described astral teleportation and the two-way portal to Great Xia’s leadership.
• Yang urged the leaders to use the portal to move troops and resources to a new planet.
• The leaders in charge of the economy and culture and technology described the portal’s economic and scientific potential.
• An unidentified leader objected to the proposal.

Elder Zhao won approval for Great Xia to establish a portal and cooperate with the Elves, while Long Zhan received orders to form an expeditionary army without being told its destination or mission. The chapter left Long Zhan wondering where his troops would be sent.

• Elder Zhao argued that Great Xia had no choice but to risk opening a path to another world because its own survival was already uncertain.
• Elder Zhao set three priorities: send troops, present Great Xia as a cooperative ally and trading partner, and give Lin Mo full authority to negotiate with the Elf Queen and establish the portal.
• Elder Zhao ordered Zhao Gang to deliver Great Xia’s decision to Lin Mo, then decided to go meet him and thank him in person.
• Long Zhan received a top-secret order to select twenty thousand elite troops for the First Expeditionary Army and prepare them for deployment within 72 hours.
• Long Zhan verified the order’s authenticity but found its mission, destination, and anticipated enemy classified, leaving him to speculate about where the army would go.