Recaps

Lin Mo secured Han Niba’s approval to use an Antimatter Bomb and three nuclear bombs against the wounded Cho'Gath, while Han Niba warned him not to risk his life if the attack could not succeed. After learning how Great Xia was accommodating millions of people through Underground City expansions, lunar settlement, and migration to Terra, Lin Mo was told that the Demon Clan had launched a large-scale counterattack against the Terra Allied Army.

• Lin Mo argued that striking Cho'Gath while it recovered in Eolseu Underground City was worth the risk, and Chen Jianguo supported his assessment.
• Han Niba authorized one Antimatter Bomb and three megaton-class nuclear bombs to be sent to Tianyong Underground City, but urged Lin Mo not to force the attack if he could not kill Cho'Gath.
• Chen Jianguo told Lin Mo that Great Xia was easing population pressure by expanding Underground Cities, preparing to send five million people to the moon, and lifting Terra’s population quota.
• An Information Officer reported that the Demon Clan had begun a large-scale counterattack where the Terra Allied Army was stationed.

After the Demon Clan surrounded the weakened Terra Allied Army in Antarctica, Great Xia redirected its forces to support them. Missile, naval, and orbital strikes were prepared, with orders to keep fire clear of friendly forces.

• Lin Mo and Chen Jianguo saw the Terra Allied Army surrounded by Demon Clan forces and ordered urgent support.
• Chen Jianguo directed surface missiles, the Third Unmanned Legion, the navy, orbital strike satellites, and Kuafu to prioritize the Antarctic battlefield.
• Zhou Yue ordered missile units to bombard the Demon Clan's outer perimeter while enforcing a no-fire buffer around the Terra Allied Army.
• Shen Qingshan ordered naval missiles, carrier aircraft, drones, and gun batteries to strike the demon tide without crossing the friendly boundary.
• Luo Weidong redirected Kuafu's weapons and prepared its main gun, tungsten-rod strikes, and laser batteries against Demon Clan concentrations.

Luo Weidong ordered the Titan and orbital satellites to strike the Demon Clan forces around Eolseu No. 1 Underground City while the Terra Allied Army struggled to hold its defensive line. As the defenders faced being overwhelmed, Yadis spotted incoming fire and announced that Great Xia's support had arrived.

• Luo Weidong confirmed the strike zones and ordered the Titan's main gun, tungsten rods, and laser batteries to fire toward Antarctica as two orbital strike satellites prepared their payloads.
• Warwick, Balin, and the other defenders fought off the Demon Tide while Holy Human and Elf mages prepared a Magic Array behind them.
• Demons surrounded the position from underground fissures, and the Terra Allied Army fought to protect the Magic Circle until Lin Mo could return with a bomb for the Demon God.
• Warwick and the four other seventh-order Half-Orcs joined the outer defense while Balin held the tunnel entrance and the Dwarven Rune Metal Pillars blocked Burrowing Earth Dragons below.
• Yadis spotted streaks of fire approaching through the storm and shouted that Great Xia's support had arrived.

Great Xia’s missile strikes, orbital weapons, and unmanned forces tore into the Demon Tide and relieved the Terra Allied Army, while Cho'Gath unleashed six Seventh-Order Demon Venerables to stall the defenders. As Yadis carried Kael and the others away from the central battle, Lin Mo’s familiar voice announced that he had arrived.

• Great Xia’s missiles, naval guns, orbital weapons, and unmanned forces devastated the Demon Tide’s outer ranks, breaking its encirclement and easing pressure on the Terra Allied Army.
• Cho'Gath refused to retreat through a Space Wormhole and ordered six Seventh-Order Demon Venerables to kill the defenders.
• The six Demon Venerables emerged near the tunnel, forcing the exhausted Seventh-Order allies to abandon their Magic Circle and fight them.
• Yadis evacuated Kael, Fendona, Thorin, Grom, and the others from the central battlefield as the Seventh-Order combatants clashed.
• A familiar voice sounded in everyone’s earpieces and said, “I’m late.”

Lin Mo arrived at the battlefield in the newly completed Pangu Mark II, a greatly improved mecha built with Great Xia technology and dwarven runes. As the seventh-order fighters pinned down the Demon Venerables, Lin Mo began clearing nearby demons and prepared to open a portal to drop a bomb into the Underground City.

• Lin Mo arrived in the Pangu Mark II, surprising Kael, Fendona, Thorin, and the others, who had believed the original Pangu was destroyed.
• Lin Mo explained that the Pangu Mark II had improved speed, impact resistance, and weapons, and deployed two Eagle Eye drones to monitor the battlefield.
• Lin Mo told the seventh-order fighters to keep the Demon Venerables occupied while he prepared to drop a bomb into the Underground City.
• The Demon Clan sent flying demons and gargoyles toward Lin Mo and Yadis, while Magic-Eye Beasts gathered corrosive beams.
• Lin Mo fired the Pangu's plasma cannons and homing missiles, destroying approaching demons and several Magic-Eye Beasts.
• Lin Mo asked the others to cover him as he prepared to open the portal.

Lin Mo opened a Portal into Eolseu No. 1 Underground City and sent an Antimatter Bomb into its core, forcing the Demon Clan and Great Xia’s fighters to flee. The bomb detonated deep underground, annihilating the lair and the Space Wormhole as the shock wave struck the surrounding strata.

• Thorin, Kael, Fendona, and Yadis protected Lin Mo and Pangu II while Lin Mo prepared to open a Portal.
• Lin Mo opened a Portal to the underground core and ordered Pangu to throw an Antimatter Bomb through it on a three-second timer.
• Cho'Gath sensed the bomb’s threat and layered its domain into shields, but the Portal closed before it could act.
• Lin Mo warned everyone to retreat, and Great Xia’s fighters and the Demon Venerables fled the battlefield.
• The Antimatter Bomb detonated deep beneath Eolseu No. 1 Underground City, erasing the core, the Demon Clan Lair, and the Space Wormhole before the shock wave hit.

A massive explosion destroyed Eolseu Underground City, but Lin Mo suspected the Demon God had survived and sent Pangu II high above the crater to drop a one-megaton Nuclear Bomb. The bomb reached the ruins and detonated, leaving the Demon God’s fate uncertain.

• The explosion tore through the ice sheet, devastated the demon tide and Great Xia’s forces, and hurled the Seventh-Order Experts and Demon Venerables away.
• Balin laughed that the demons had fallen for his trap, while Yaxes fled toward a Space Wormhole.
• Lin Mo ordered Pangu II to climb and prepare a Nuclear Bomb because he could not open a Portal into the chaotic Underground City.
• At fifteen thousand meters, Lin Mo released the one-megaton Nuclear Bomb and directed Pangu AI to guide it into Eolseu Underground City’s core.
• Pangu AI guided the bomb through the crater’s turbulence, and it detonated deep within the ruins.

After the explosions devastated Eolseu Underground City, Lin Mo and the Terra Allied Army searched the crater for the eighth-order Demon God but found no sign of it. As their search of the ruins came up empty, Lin Mo suddenly asked whether anyone had found the Demon Clan’s space wormhole.

• Lin Mo and the fifteen seventh-order experts regrouped above the crater, but their domains could not detect the Demon God.
• Lin Mo insisted they descend and confirm whether the Demon God had been killed, and a water elf elder cooled the crater so they could enter.
• Lin Mo, the Terra group, and the seventh-order experts searched the destroyed underground city and scanned the debris for traces of the Demon God.
• After finding nothing, Lin Mo remembered the Demon Clan’s space wormhole and asked whether anyone had found it.

After the antimatter blast, Lin Mo and the allied experts found the Demon Clan’s wormhole gone and concluded there was a two-thirds chance the Demon God had escaped. Lin Mo urged them to recover and cut off the Demon Clan’s supply lines on Blue Star, then returned with the others to Tianyong Underground City.

• Lin Mo asked about the Demon Clan’s wormhole, and Ede confirmed there were no spatial fluctuations left in the crater.
• Lin Mo explained that the wormhole’s disappearance meant the Demon God had a one-in-three chance of dying in the blast and a two-in-three chance of escaping or closing the passage.
• Balin cursed that the Demon God was difficult to kill, while Lin Mo privately regretted losing the chance to send nuclear bombs through the wormhole.
• Lin Mo encouraged the exhausted experts and proposed dismantling every space wormhole on Blue Star before hunting down the remaining Demon Venerables.
• Lin Mo opened a portal to Tianyong Underground City, where soldiers welcomed him as construction crews rebuilt the surface beside the fallen World Tree.

After Lin Mo returned from fighting the Eighth-Order Demon God, he learned that Great Xia had built a detector capable of locating Space Wormholes and discussed the global battle with Han Niba. Han proposed keeping three monitored Wormholes so the Demon Clan could be controlled as a source of resources, with Antimatter Bombs deterring the Demon God.

• Lin Mo told Chen Jianguo and Han Niba that the Eighth-Order Demon God’s fate could not be confirmed after the battle.
• Lin Mo asked Han Niba for the locations of known Space Wormholes so the Terra Allied Army could destroy them, and Han reported that Academician Qian Zhenhua’s detector could locate Wormholes worldwide.
• Lin Mo replaced his damaged terminal and ordered the guard to replace the Terra Allied Army’s Translator Earpieces.
• Han Niba explained that unmanned equipment and Combat Robots were helping Great Xia hold the Demon Clan back.
• Han Niba proposed leaving three Wormholes under surveillance and placing Antimatter Bombs at two entrances to deter the Demon God while using weaker Demon Clan forces as resources.

Han Niba explained that Great Xia’s growing industrial capacity would let it produce Antimatter Bombs faster, and proposed tracing the space wormholes to learn where they led before considering a counterattack. The chapter ended with Great Xia preparing to fire Micro-Detectors through the wormholes to gather intelligence while keeping the option to destroy any new passage before it stabilized.

• Han Niba told Lin Mo that Great Xia’s Large Nuclear Fusion Reactors had resolved the energy crisis and would soon enable rapid Antimatter Bomb production.
• Han Niba said Great Xia wanted to trace the space wormholes to locate the Demon Clan’s home planet, but stressed that this did not mean launching an immediate counterattack.
• Han Niba warned Lin Mo and Chen Jianguo that attacking through a wormhole could provoke the Demon Clan’s leadership into concentrating its forces on Blue Star.
• Han Niba explained that Great Xia could detect newly forming wormholes and destroy them with Nuclear Bombs or Antimatter Bombs before they became stable.
• Han Niba told Lin Mo that Great Xia had prepared Micro-Detectors to fire through the wormholes and collect intelligence about the other side.

Lin Mo agreed to send the Terra Allied Army through the Demon Clan’s wormholes with probes to gather intelligence before destroying them. On a distant satellite, Cho'Gath escaped an antimatter blast that collapsed his wormhole, but he returned gravely wounded and vowed to take revenge after recovering.

• Han Niba explained that probes sent through the wormholes could reveal the Demon Clan’s deployments and transit network, and Lin Mo agreed to help the Terra Allied Army deploy them before destroying the passages.
• Han Niba arranged for the probing equipment to be sent to Tianyong Underground City, while Lin Mo realized Great Xia had been preparing for a counteroffensive for some time.
• An Antimatter Bomb detonated near a wormhole’s receiving end, collapsing the passage and tearing apart the Demon Clan Army gathered around it.
• Cho'Gath escaped the collapsing wormhole but lost his limbs and suffered severe injuries as he fled the blast.
• Cho'Gath roared in rage, and the demons around him realized their Demon God had been defeated and prostrated themselves in fear.
• Cho'Gath decided to recover his strength before returning to Blue Star to devour its inhabitants and erase his humiliation.

Lin Mo took the Specialized Space Reconnaissance Launch Platform and set out with fifteen seventh-order experts to destroy the Demon Clan’s space wormholes, leaving three in Antarctica untouched. They began by fighting through the demon remnants on the way to the first target in Eagle Country’s Freedom Underground City.

• Lin Mo received the electromagnetic cannon and its Micro-Detector projectiles, then stored the weapon and ammunition in his Spatial Ring.
• Lin Mo checked on the new World Tree sapling, entered Pangu II, and met the Terra Allied Army experts after they finished eating.
• Lin Mo told Kael, Fendona, Thorin, Grom, and the others to stay behind while fifteen seventh-order experts accompanied him.
• Lin Mo instructed Pangu to preserve the three Antarctic wormholes and plot a route to destroy the rest, beginning at Freedom Underground City.
• Lin Mo and the experts attacked demons as they crossed the battlefield, and Lin Mo told them to keep moving toward the wormholes instead of getting caught up in combat.

Lin Mo and the seventh-order experts cleared the Demon Clan from Freedom Underground City and found four space wormholes. He fired a reconnaissance shell into one to learn what lay beyond, but an unknown life-form destroyed it almost immediately.

• Lin Mo brought twelve seventh-order experts into Freedom Underground City through a portal while three dragons guarded the surface.
• A Holy Human Race mage, Balin, Warwick, and the elf elders helped crush the Demon Clan resistance in the ruins.
• Ede sensed four strong spatial fluctuations deep underground, and the group found a wormhole still sending Demon Clan creatures through.
• Lin Mo ordered the group to hold back the creatures while a modified reconnaissance shell entered the wormhole.
• Pangu AI reported that an unknown life-form had destroyed the reconnaissance device.

Cho'Gath gathered his surviving Demon Venerables on the Kona satellite and demanded a strategy for defeating Blue Star after his forces suffered heavy losses. Yaxes proposed attacking Terra, but another Demon Venerable pointed out that the allied civilizations could reinforce each other, leaving Yaxes to beg Cho'Gath to hear its full explanation.

• Cho'Gath's army poured through seventy wormholes on the Kona satellite toward Blue Star while he fed and regenerated from his wounds.
• Six Seventh-Order Demon Venerables, including Yaxes, answered Cho'Gath's summons, and he demanded a plan to deal with Blue Star.
• Yaxes suggested opening another front against Terra because Blue Star's explosives and Terra's experts constrained the Demon Clan.
• A bony-horned Demon Venerable called Yaxes an idiot and explained that the allied civilizations could teleport between Blue Star and Terra.
• Yaxes prostrated itself and promised to become Cho'Gath's food if he remained dissatisfied after hearing its explanation.

Yaxes proposed exhausting Blue Star and Terra through a war of attrition, but destroyed wormholes and depleted Space-Jumping Beasts made the plan too costly. Cho'Gath decided to target the weakened Kona Civilization instead, only to learn that Blue Star and Terra had launched an attack on the Demon Lair Outpost.

• Yaxes urged Cho'Gath to attack Blue Star and Terra on multiple fronts and wear them down over time.
• A Demon Venerable pointed out that the wormholes to Terra had been destroyed and the army had exhausted its Space-Jumping Beasts.
• Cho'Gath erupted in anger as the Demon Venerables explained that attacking either Blue Star or Terra would be costly.
• A tall, thin Demon Venerable proposed that Cho'Gath set those targets aside and attack the nearly defeated Kona Civilization.
• Cho'Gath prepared to order an assault on the Kona Home Planet, but a telepathic message reported that Blue Star forces and Terra experts were attacking the Demon Lair Outpost.

Cho'Gath feared Blue Star might attack through the wormhole, so he rushed to guard it while its forces cleared out the Demon Clan inside. A reconnaissance projectile slipped past him and began transmitting data, and the Demon Venerables realized Blue Star was plotting something.

• After Blue Star began clearing the Demon Clan's footholds, Cho'Gath ordered six Demon Venerables to accompany him to the wormhole in case its forces attacked through it.
• Cho'Gath intercepted a fast projectile with a chunk of ore, tearing the muscles in his newly regrown arm while his subordinates admired his apparent composure.
• Cho'Gath and the Demon Venerables stopped five kilometers above the wormhole as holy light killed demons inside the passage.
• A second Electromagnetic Reconnaissance Round flew out of the wormhole, and the demons let it pass without recognizing it as a threat.
• The projectile unfolded into a detector and sent data through its optical fiber; a Demon Venerable noticed its transformation and warned Cho'Gath that Blue Star was plotting something.

Lin Mo and the twelve seventh-order experts gathered reconnaissance data and destroyed all four Demon Clan wormholes inside Freedom Underground City. After returning to the surface, they set out for another wormhole as Great Xia's Command Center began analyzing the transmissions, including the first blurry image of the distant starry sky.

• Cho'Gath refused to respond to the reconnaissance shell's destruction, and the Demon Venerable who suggested attacking through the wormhole backed down when ordered to go himself.
• Lin Mo fired a second reconnaissance shell through the wormhole, and Pangu AI collected data before the device's optical-fiber connection was severed.
• A Seventh-Order Holy Human Race Mage analyzed the first wormhole's structure, and Lin Mo's team retreated as it collapsed, crushing the Demon Clan members trapped inside.
• Lin Mo and the experts cleared and destroyed the other three wormholes, gathering reconnaissance data along the way.
• Lin Mo returned to the surface with the twelve seventh-order experts, then led them toward their next target while Pangu AI sent all four wormholes' data to Great Xia's Command Center.
• Great Xia's Command Center began analyzing the data, and the first blurry image of the starry sky beyond a wormhole appeared on its screen.

Han Niba and the Tianshu Underground City command team analyzed Pangu II’s transmissions and located the Demon Clan on a moon in the Milky Way’s Perseus Arm, over three thousand light-years from Blue Star. The probe also revealed the ruins of an industrial civilization, leaving humanity with its first confirmed evidence of another technological civilization at a known location.

• Han Niba ordered the experts to identify Pangu II’s transmitted data, and they confirmed the probe had reached a moon crowded with Demon Clan heat sources.
• The astronomy team compared star charts and radiation signals, locating the moon near the outer edge of the Perseus Arm, over three thousand light-years from Blue Star.
• Han Niba examined images showing the moon’s harsh environment and scattered space wormholes.
• The probe’s clearer images revealed a destroyed metal city, and experts identified its industrial structures as the work of a technological civilization rather than the Demon Clan.
• The command team discussed whether the Demon Clan had overrun the civilization and whether any of its people might still be alive.

Han Niba ordered Great Xia to assess whether the technological civilization in the Perseus Arm had survived and whether cooperation was possible. New probe data revealed what appeared to be artificial lights on its main planet, leaving the civilization’s fate uncertain as Great Xia prepared to observe and attempt communication.

• Han Niba ordered files on the unknown civilization’s possible survival and abandoned technology, while a staff officer outlined reasons cooperation could benefit Great Xia.
• Analysts assembled the fourth set of wormhole probe data and detected regularly arranged lights on the target planet.
• An astronomy expert judged the stable visible and infrared signals likely to be artificial lighting, raising hopes that the civilization or its systems remained active.
• Han Niba cautioned that the lights might come from surviving cities, automated systems, or facilities left by the Demon Clan.
• Han Niba designated the lights a top-priority observation target and ordered the Academy of Sciences to prepare a communication plan.
• Another data packet arrived shortly after Han Niba’s orders were relayed.

As Lin Mo destroyed more Space Wormholes, the data revealed that the Demon Clan was using a nearby Milky Way system as a transit station and that a technological civilization there was still broadcasting. Han Niba told Lin Mo the Demon Clan was about three thousand light-years away, then revealed that the other civilization was still alive.

• Lin Mo destroyed Space Wormholes and sent Reconnaissance Shells through them, while the gathered images showed the Demon Clan moving troops between battlefields.
• Han Niba and the command staff identified the Demon Clan’s system as a transit station and mapped its unusual star system, including a super Satellite orbiting a giant planet.
• A data packet from Pangu II contained a regular electromagnetic signal, which experts identified as a broadcast from an intelligent civilization.
• Han Niba ordered all idle computing resources to prioritize deciphering the broadcast.
• After the nineteenth Space Wormhole collapsed, Lin Mo contacted Han Niba, who located the Demon Clan about three thousand light-years away in the Milky Way’s Perseus Arm.
• Han Niba told Lin Mo that another technological civilization had been discovered and was still alive.

Han Niba and Lin Mo learned that the Kona Civilization was still resisting the Demon Clan and deciphered its warning broadcast, which described the civilization’s imminent collapse. Han Niba went to report the situation to Elder Zhao while Lin Mo continued clearing wormholes, leaving the question of whether to contact the Kona unresolved.

• Han Niba told Lin Mo that evidence from the Demon Clan’s satellite and a regular broadcast indicated the Kona Civilization was alive and under attack.
• Lin Mo and Han Niba weighed the possibility of contacting the Kona against the risk of revealing Blue Star’s location to the Demon Clan.
• A cryptography expert deciphered the Kona broadcast, which warned other civilizations to avoid the region and described its fleets and planetary defenses being destroyed.
• The broadcast said the Kona would detonate its planet’s core if its final surface defenses fell, and repeated, “Do not make contact!”
• Lin Mo urged that the Kona not be left to perish, and Han Niba said he would report the matter to Elder Zhao while Lin Mo continued clearing wormholes.
• Han Niba went to Elder Zhao’s office and told Secretary Li he had an urgent matter to report.

Han Niba reported the Kona Civilization’s desperate position and its warning against contact to Elder Zhao, who chose to establish cooperation despite the risks. Han Niba then began preparing a message to send through the wormhole, urging Kona to hold on as Great Xia designed a special communication shell.

• Han Niba showed Elder Zhao reconnaissance data about the Demon Clan and the besieged Kona Civilization.
• Han Niba explained the risks of contacting Kona and the danger of letting the Demon Clan redeploy its forces if Kona fell.
• Elder Zhao ordered contact with Kona in stages and told Han Niba to ask them to postpone detonating their planet’s core.
• Han Niba ordered the command center to send a specially designed communication shell through the wormhole with a message offering cooperation and urging Kona to hold on.
• Han Niba approved the message and ordered military manufacturing to begin designing the shell.

Great Xia prepared a communication shell to contact the Kona Civilization while Lin Mo and the Terra experts withdrew to rest after destroying twenty Space Wormholes. Lin Mo woke refreshed on the Terra Continent and met Zhao Gang, who was ready to report on the rapid changes there.

• Han Niba ordered the experts to omit Blue Star's precise coordinates, and Great Xia began producing the Custom Communication Shell.
• Lin Mo led the exhausted Terra group back to Tianyong City after they destroyed their twentieth Space Wormhole.
• Lin Mo left Pangu II for maintenance, returned to Tianshu Underground City, and fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Lin Mo woke on the Terra Continent, explored the lively fief, and saw Great Xia people and Terra's races mingling.
• Lin Mo met Zhao Gang, explained the group's progress on Blue Star, and asked how Terra had changed.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that a lot had changed on Terra and began preparing a report.

Zhao Gang briefed Lin Mo on booming trade between Great Xia and Terra, the arrival of more than a million Great Xia citizens, and plans for Terra’s people to study Great Xia’s systems before entering Blue Star. He and Lin Mo recognized cultural influence as a strategic tool for strengthening Great Xia’s ties with Terra.

• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that Terra’s merchants were competing fiercely for Great Xia goods, which the war-scarred races needed to rebuild their lives.
• Zhao Gang reported that the two worlds had established a framework for free trade and that more than a million Great Xia people had entered Terra to build businesses and services.
• Zhao Gang said the Holy Human Race had built a second Astral Portal so people and goods could travel through separate portals.
• Zhao Gang explained that Terra’s visitors would receive a week of training in Great Xia’s culture and urban systems before entering Blue Star.
• Zhao Gang described cultural assimilation as a means of building Terra’s identification with Great Xia, and Lin Mo agreed that spreading Great Xia’s culture was strategically important.