Recaps

The Kona Civilization deployed self-expanding industrial bases across the Kona Satellite and formally took control of its regions outside Great Xia’s defense zone. As the Kona fleet headed for the Third Planet, Great Xia prepared to enter first through a portal under conditions negotiated by Zheng Jinren.

• The Kona Civilization landed equipment at twelve sites, established security perimeters, and built industrial bases that began expanding through local resource production.
• Watcher confirmed the Kona Civilization’s takeover of the Kona Satellite and promised Great Xia its chosen technology after the third-stage mission was completed.
• The Kona fleet regrouped and headed back to the Kona Home Planet before setting course for the Third Planet, where the joint operation was due to begin in eighteen hours.
• Zheng Jinren agreed that Great Xia would use a portal to establish the first landing zone, provided the Kona fleet cleared nearby Demon Clan forces and supplied reconnaissance and fire support.
• Watcher accepted Great Xia’s conditions, including the right to close the portal and choose another entry point if the ground threat proved too great.

Great Xia assembled its unmanned expeditionary force and prepared to open a portal to the Demon-occupied Third Planet. Lin Mo and the mages agreed to open a hundred-meter portal within four hours as Zheng Jinren outlined the deployment plan and warned that the first wave could face an immediate attack.

• Great Xia assembled more than one million unmanned units at Kona Base while keeping its limited space fleet behind to defend the base.
• Lin Mo arrived with Kael and three other Sixth-Rank Grand Mages, and Zheng Jinren told them the transfer of control was nearly complete and the Kona fleet would reach the Third Planet's orbit in eighteen hours.
• Lin Mo and Zheng Jinren reviewed the Third Planet's harsh conditions and the Demon Clan's lairs, then chose an abandoned mining city as the portal's destination.
• Zheng Jinren described a first wave of one hundred thousand unmanned units that would establish a defensive line within forty minutes before the rest of the force deployed.
• Lin Mo said the mages could expand the portal to a hundred meters within four hours, and Zheng Jinren agreed to proceed.

Lin Mo and four Sixth Rank Grand Mages opened five portals from Kona Base to the Third Planet, where reconnaissance found no nearby life or demons but detected dangerous pressure and corrosive dust. Zheng Jinren ordered an advance engineering team to prepare for deployment and notified the Kona Civilization that Great Xia’s landing had begun.

• Lin Mo completed the eastern plain magic array and coordinated with Zheng Jinren, who scheduled the portals to open ten minutes later.
• Lin Mo and the four Grand Mages raised magic shields and agreed to send reconnaissance units first, stopping the expansion if they found demons of the Seventh Order or above.
• Lin Mo opened the first portal, and its expanding passage revealed the Third Planet’s hostile landscape and sent high-pressure, harmful air toward Kona Satellite.
• Pangu Mecha detected no nearby life or Demon Clan activity, while Lin Mo remained wary of threats beyond its scanning range.
• Kael and the other three Grand Mages opened four more portals to spread the landing zone across five locations.
• Zheng Jinren ordered the advance engineering team to prioritize tracked platforms, communications nodes, and Burrowing Robots, and told the Kona Civilization that Great Xia’s landing had begun.

Zheng Jinren oversaw Great Xia’s unmanned landing on the Third Planet, where reconnaissance revealed a hostile environment and nearby Demon Clan forces. After the army built a network of defenses, artillery and Pangu Mechas repelled the first horde, but another sixth-rank demon approached from the north.

• Zheng Jinren sent the Kona Civilization the five Portal exit coordinates and drone reconnaissance data.
• Reconnaissance drones reported extreme gravity, corrosive air, an approaching electromagnetic storm, and seven suspected Demon Clan positions.
• Zheng Jinren ordered the force to secure the Portal exits, inspect underground structures, and build defenses as Great Xia’s unmanned units deployed through the Portals.
• The five landing positions formed a connected network of fire, and the Demon Clan sounded an alarm before a horde of more than ten thousand attacked.
• Zheng Jinren ordered an artillery salvo, and the barrage broke up the horde’s formation and cleared a path for a sixth-rank demon.
• Three Pangu Mechas killed the sixth-rank demon, while reconnaissance detected another suspected sixth-rank unit approaching from the north.

Zheng Jinren’s forces secured the Third Planet landing zone and stabilized five portals, allowing the Kona Expeditionary Fleet to begin its descent. As tens of thousands of landing craft entered the atmosphere, the fleet bombarded Demon Clan forces across the region.

• Zheng Jinren’s troops destroyed the attacking demon hordes, then secured the landing zone and expanded reconnaissance without pursuing the survivors.
• Lin Mo and the other mages completed and stabilized the five portals to the Third Planet.
• Zheng Jinren received confirmation that no sizable Demon Clan concentrations were detected within a hundred-kilometer radius and authorized the Kona fleet to enter deployment orbit.
• The Kona Expeditionary Fleet launched tens of thousands of landing craft and opened fire on Winged Demons, Gargoyles, underground nests, and other Demon Clan forces.
• The fleet’s orbital strikes wiped out exposed demon concentrations and Sixth-Rank commanders across a radius of more than a thousand kilometers, clearing the way for the landing formation to descend.

The Kona Civilization landed its forces on the Third Planet and rapidly established twelve industrial bases while Great Xia recorded the display of its superior technology. As both unmanned legions expanded their territory without meeting serious resistance, Zheng Jinren investigated the Demon Clan’s absence and wondered why the enemy had become so easy to fight.

• Zheng Jinren ordered the Kona fleet’s weapons, landing footage, and performance data sent to Great Xia’s Academy of Sciences and military research institute for analysis.
• Kona landing craft were dismantled into twelve basic industrial bases, while engineering spaceships unloaded equipment and returned to orbit.
• Great Xia’s Unmanned Legion cleared remaining Demon Clan groups and recovered corpses as both civilizations’ forces expanded their controlled territory.
• Reports showed Demon Clan forces withdrawing or abandoning lairs, with no Seventh-Order Demon Venerables or Eighth-Order Demon Gods appearing to lead a counterattack.
• Zheng Jinren examined footage of emptied lairs and old drag marks, then questioned why the Demon Clan had become so easy to fight.

After Great Xia and the Kona Civilization crushed the Demon Clan’s resistance on the Third Planet, Lin Mo returned to Celestial Pivot City, exhausted from opening the portal. There, he noticed people burning paper beside the street and went to investigate.

• Zheng Jinren and Lin Mo watched Great Xia and Kona forces sweep across the Third Planet, with the Demon Clan unable to resist without its powerful leaders.
• Lin Mo warned Zheng Jinren to keep the portal supplied with energy crystals before leaving Kona Base with Kael and the other Grand Mages.
• Lin Mo stayed behind at Celestial Pivot City to rest and switch bodies, while Kael and the others returned to Terra.
• Lin Mo emerged onto the surface beneath the World Tree and smelled smoke from burning paper.
• Lin Mo followed the smell to several people squatting beside small fires, and the sight made his mood sink.

On the Ghost Festival, Lin Mo witnessed a grieving mother and daughter honor the father who had died saving them during the disaster. He comforted them with magic and left with a renewed resolve to protect Great Xia’s peaceful future.

• Lin Mo saw people burning offerings on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month and stopped near a mother and daughter.
• The mother mourned her husband, recalling how he died pushing his family to safety before they could fulfill their plans for a life together.
• Yaya wondered whether her father could use the paper phone and car in the Netherworld without power plants, charging piles, or gas stations.
• Lin Mo approached the pair and used magic to turn the ashes into drifting white sparks, telling Yaya that Great Xia’s light could reach her father wherever he was.
• The mother watched the sparks with a trace of release as Yaya cheered, and Lin Mo walked into the night, resolved to preserve the life the martyrs had hoped for.

Great Xia received the Kona Civilization’s interstellar engine technology as the reward for completing the third-stage mission, and Zheng Jinren learned it could greatly improve both starships and Blue Star’s planetary engines. Back on the Terra Continent, Lin Mo toured the thriving Great Xia Fief and admired its massive coastal expansion.

• Zheng Jinren heard that the Academy of Sciences’ preliminary analysis found the Kona engine could raise Great Xia’s warship speed to eight percent of the speed of light, potentially reaching ten percent once mastered.
• A staff officer told Zheng Jinren that the technology could also improve Blue Star’s planetary engines, and Zheng Jinren looked forward to further rewards after helping the Kona Civilization reclaim its colonial planet.
• Lin Mo switched back into his fourth-order peak body on the Terra Continent, washed, and walked through the busy trade district of the Great Xia Fief.
• Lin Mo reached the coast and saw that Great Xia’s combat engineers had pushed the shoreline more than ten kilometers out to sea through land reclamation.
• Lin Mo watched the distant aircraft carrier fleet and noted that Terra’s races tolerated Great Xia’s expansion despite its imposing coastal missile silos and military strength.

Lin Mo heard how trade and employment between Great Xia and Terra had expanded, then learned that young people from both worlds were beginning to date and apply for cross-world marriages. He halted the marriage applications and ordered research into whether humans and Terra’s magical races could safely have children together.

• Lin Mo told Zhao Gang that the situation in Kona had gone smoothly without High-Ranking Demon Clan members.
• Zhao Gang reported that cross-world merchants, Terran shops, and Terran employees in Great Xia had grown rapidly, with many working in livestreaming, entertainment, healthcare, and industry.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that young people from Great Xia and Terra were dating, and that some had submitted cross-world marriage applications.
• Lin Mo ordered the marriage applications put on hold and dismissed legal differences as less serious than the risks of mixed-race reproduction.
• Lin Mo instructed Zhao Gang to contact Academician Liu Chengen and investigate whether Blue Star Humans and Terra’s magical races had reproductive isolation.

Lin Mo and Zhao Gang confirmed that Blue Star Humans could not reproduce with Terra’s races and set conditions for approving cross-world marriages. The chapter then shifted to a resource planet where Cho'Gath surveyed the Demon Clan Army and celebrated inheriting Aker’s forces and territory.

• Zhao Gang called Liu Chengen, who confirmed that experiments found reproductive isolation between Blue Star Humans and Terra’s races.
• Liu Chengen explained that the races had independently evolved and warned that cross-species pathogens, allergies, and elemental reactions still posed medical risks.
• Lin Mo and Zhao Gang decided to allow cross-world marriages with risk disclosures, medical screening, and property agreements.
• Cho'Gath hovered over a resource planet’s vast Demon Clan Army and delighted in inheriting Aker’s territory and hundreds of millions of troops.

Cho'Gath forced the Demon Clan on the planet to accept him as their new king, then learned that the Kona Civilization and Blue Star Civilization were rapidly reclaiming occupied worlds. He realized he had been wise to flee the Kona Star System before facing their advancing armies.

• Yaxes reported that all remaining Demon Clan forces on the planet had gathered, and Cho'Gath announced Aker's death and demanded their submission.
• A Sixth-Rank Commander questioned Cho'Gath's claim, so Cho'Gath killed and ate it to silence any further dissent.
• The demons submitted to Cho'Gath, who declared himself their new king and ordered his forces to gather valuables and prepare to conquer another planet.
• Yaxes informed Cho'Gath that the Kona Civilization and Blue Star Civilization had allied and were quickly retaking the planets the Demon Clan occupied.
• Cho'Gath learned that their forces were close to taking the Third Planet and privately felt relieved that he had left the Kona Star System.

Cho'Gath accepted Yaxes's plan to sell the Blue Star Civilization's coordinates to reckless Demon Gods before it cleared the Kona Star System, then returned to the Demon Clan's Home Planet to prepare. He arrived at his trading mountain and was greeted by Kalu.

• Yaxes convinced Cho'Gath to sell the Blue Star Civilization's coordinates before the allied civilizations destroyed the Demon Clan's footholds in the Kona Star System.
• Cho'Gath ordered his forces to return to the Home Planet, planning to profit from selling the coordinates and later seize the territories of defeated Demon Gods.
• Cho'Gath and Yaxes arrived at Cho'Gath's territory in the Demon Clan's Home Planet Galaxy, where the demon creatures prostrated themselves before their king.
• Cho'Gath passed through a wormhole to the Demon Emperor's public trading planet and reached his mountain of bones, where rare resources were stored.
• Kalu, the Seventh-Order Demon Venerable guarding Cho'Gath's trading mountain, came out to greet him.

Cho'Gath returned to the Trading Planet and learned that Demon Gods were accusing him of hoarding Aker's territory, but he used their disdain as cover for his plan to sell the Blue Star coordinates. He offered the coordinates to Herok, who stopped him as he was leaving and asked what he wanted.

• Kalu reported that Demon Gods had divided up much of Brett's territory and were spreading rumors that Cho'Gath had greedily kept Aker's spoils.
• Cho'Gath laughed off the rumors and set out with Yaxes and three other Demon Venerables to visit his wealthy old friends.
• Cho'Gath offered Herok the coordinates of a technological civilization and said he would sell them to the Obsidian Demon God if Herok did not want them.
• Herok suspected the civilization was responsible for Brett's death, and Cho'Gath said Brett had died because it was useless.
• Herok called Cho'Gath back as he was leaving and asked what he wanted; Cho'Gath demanded dark marrow ore, star core crystals, and Plasma Bug Hatcheries.

Cho'Gath sold Herok the coordinates to Blue Star Civilization, then approached Sah to offer the coordinates to the magic civilization Terra. Sah challenged Cho'Gath over Aker's death and asked why he would not conquer Terra himself.

• Herok hesitated over Cho'Gath's price but agreed to trade supplies for the coordinates to Blue Star Civilization.
• Yaxes confirmed that Herok's supplies had arrived, and Cho'Gath handed Herok the coordinates in exchange.
• Cho'Gath left Herok's territory and went to Sah's palace to offer him the coordinates to an intelligent civilization.
• Sah accused Cho'Gath of involvement in Aker's death, then asked why Cho'Gath would not conquer Terra himself.
• Cho'Gath explained that Terra was allied with the technological civilization Blue Star Civilization.

Cho'Gath sold Sahe the coordinates of an alliance of two civilizations, then offered Baroque another set while claiming he was too busy with a different war. The chapter left Baroque weighing the lure of a Gaia Core against the risk that Cho'Gath was sending it to its death.

• Cho'Gath bargained with Sahe, trading civilization coordinates for dark marrow ore, void marrow, and Space-Jumping Beasts.
• Cho'Gath warned Sahe that the civilizations had many high-order life-forms and growing numbers of iron constructs, then admitted they were difficult prey.
• Cho'Gath handed Sahe the coordinates after receiving the goods, and Yaxes learned that Sahe accepted because it had not found an intelligent civilization in a long time.
• Demon Venerables on the Trading Planet discussed Cho'Gath's second sale and wondered whether he had held both sets of coordinates when Aker and Brett died.
• Cho'Gath offered Baroque a third set of coordinates, and Baroque questioned whether the deal would lead to its death.
• Cho'Gath said he was holding Aker's legions, guarding its territory, and keeping its Space Wormhole closed, while Yaxes privately marveled at his shamelessness.

Cho'Gath sold three civilization coordinates and learned how the sales might affect his plans to claim Demon Gods' inheritances. On Terra, Lin Mo learned that Great Xia's fleet and industrial capacity had expanded rapidly, while construction of planetary engines accelerated.

• Cho'Gath sold Blue Star's coordinates to Herok, Terra's to Sahe, and Kona's to Baroque, then returned to Bone Mountain.
• Yaxes warned Cho'Gath that public knowledge of the coordinate sales could prompt Demon Gods to secure their inheritances, and proposed trading future coordinates for inheritance agreements.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that Great Xia had commissioned a hundred large warships and expanded its extra-large Universal Factories to more than ten.
• Zhao Gang reported that Tianxiong and Tianyong Underground Cities had become heavy-industry fortresses, where specialized crews and increased factory output had shortened planetary-engine construction time by a quarter.

Lin Mo learned that Great Xia had begun producing Life Potions that could extend lives, while Zhao Gang explained a new Contribution Points system meant to replace the old currency and root out illegal wealth. The chapter ended with Lin Mo questioning the risks of letting AI control finance and livelihoods, a concern the leadership also shared.

• Zhao Gang showed Lin Mo a Life Potion and explained that it could greatly improve health, resist most radiation-mutated viruses, and extend life by about twenty years.
• Zhao Gang said Great Xia planned to distribute Life Potions first to elderly officials, leading researchers, and major contributors, then eventually to all citizens.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that Great Xia would abolish its old currency and introduce Contribution Points, with Nuwa reviewing asset conversions and rejecting wealth without legitimate records.
• Zhao Gang showed Lin Mo how Nuwa rejected Sun Dafu’s conversion request and the Inspectorate confiscated his gold and banknotes as proceeds from illegal dealings.
• Lin Mo agreed that Great Xia needed strict reform to survive, but asked Zhao Gang whether AI control of finance and livelihoods carried hidden risks.

Zhao Gang briefed Lin Mo on Great Xia’s safeguards for its rapidly advancing AI, but Lin Mo remained troubled by the Demon Clan’s threat. When ten spatial anomalies appeared on Terra Continent, Great Xia’s forces entered combat readiness and Lin Mo called on the other races for help, until an adjutant reported a new problem.

• Zhao Gang explained that Great Xia was keeping human operators and physical overrides at critical positions while training people to take control if AI systems failed.
• After Zhao Gang left, Lin Mo worried that the Demon Clan had not been defeated for good and wondered what Cho'Gath was waiting for.
• A First-Level Combat Readiness alarm sounded, and Lin Mo rushed to the Command Center, where Long Zhan ordered drones and reconnaissance aircraft to investigate ten spatial anomalies.
• Long Zhan said the anomalies were likely underground Demon Clan wormholes, and he prepared space-based weapons and Earth-Penetrating Missiles for a possible strike.
• Lin Mo contacted Kael and other representatives to bring the races of Terra into combat readiness, but an adjutant then warned Long Zhan that they had a problem.

Terra, Blue Star, and the Kona Civilization detected simultaneous Demon Clan wormholes, prompting their commanders to prepare for a coordinated invasion by multiple Demon Gods. Great Xia received second-generation Burrowing Robots to send Pangu Mecha carrying nuclear bombs toward the deep wormholes, and the chapter ended as Terra’s forces learned that ten passages lay more than two thousand meters underground.

• An adjutant informed Long Zhan, Lin Mo, and Zhao Gang that all three civilizations had detected spatial fluctuations at the same time.
• Han Niba convened an emergency meeting with Long Zhan, Lin Mo, and Zheng Jinren and warned that the invasion could involve multiple allied Demon Gods.
• The commanders agreed to locate the wormholes and use Earth-Penetrating Missiles against any within range, while conserving Antimatter Bombs for Demon Gods.
• Han Niba revealed second-generation Burrowing Robots that could carry Pangu Mecha equipped with nuclear bombs toward deep wormholes.
• Terra received twenty second-generation Burrowing Robots, and reconnaissance locked down ten wormholes more than two thousand meters underground.

Lin Mo and Long Zhan coordinated Great Xia’s response to the Demon Clan’s simultaneous invasions, while the allied races mobilized their armies and mages. As the forces assembled and portals began to open, the elves’ advanced troops arrived first.

• Long Zhan ordered Pangu Mechas and burrowing machines deployed toward the ten invasion sites, and asked Lin Mo to arrange portals with Holy Human mages.
• Kael, Fendona, Grom, and Thorin Ironbeard arrived, pledged their forces, and contacted their territories to summon soldiers.
• Lin Mo led the representatives to Great Xia’s military zone, where transport planes and a vast army were preparing to attack the Demon Clan’s wormholes.
• Lin Mo and Kael began opening large portals using Spatial Crystals as anchors, while High-Rank Mages set up additional teleportation arrays.
• The allied armies began arriving in formation, and Fendona’s elves arrived first with enchanted Great Xia weapons and steel-armored war treants.

Lin Mo gathered Great Xia's forces and allied Elves, Holy Humans, Dwarves, Half-Orcs, and Dragons to prepare for the Demon Clan's return. The allies arrived equipped with Great Xia weapons adapted to their abilities, and Warwick declared that they were ready to fight while hoping to profit from Demon corpses.

• The Holy Human Race arrived with magically enhanced firearms, human-powered tanks, and bomb-carrying pegasus riders.
• Thorin showed off the Dwarves' rune-enhanced weapons and homemade crystal-powered tanks.
• The Half-Orc Alliance assembled a mixed force equipped with heavy guns, explosives, and logistics support.
• Dozens of Dragons arrived carrying missile launch cells, cannons, and laser towers, but stayed airborne because there was no room to land.
• Lin Mo opened a hundred-meter portal as drones and robots scouted the destination and established positions.
• Warwick told Lin Mo that the allies had brought troops to fight the Demon Clan, while noting that selling Demon corpses could help fund the Half-Orcs' purchases from Great Xia.

Lin Mo sent Great Xia's forces and their allies through the Portals as the modern war against the Demon Clan began. Underground, Long Zhan ordered two Pangu Mechas to reach the Space Wormhole and plant nuclear bombs, but they were overwhelmed by Demon Clan forces while still hundreds of meters away.

• Lin Mo ordered General Long to clear a Portal for the allied races, and their forces followed Great Xia into the new world.
• Long Zhan's assault group deployed two Second-Generation Burrowing Robots and Combat Robots near the target area, then ordered the burrowing units to drill toward the Demon Clan's underground cave.
• The two burrowing units broke into the cave at Point B, where two Pangu Unmanned Mechas emerged and fought through nearby low-order Demon Clan members.
• Long Zhan ordered the Pangu units to bypass resistance and reach Point A to pass through the Space Wormhole and detonate nuclear bombs.
• Six commander-level Demon Clan members and a swarm of lesser troops attacked the Pangu units, draining their Magic Shields and severely damaging them before they could reach the wormhole.

Long Zhan’s forces failed to destroy the underground wormholes, so he ordered Plan C to contain them and keep the Demon Clan buried. On the other side, Sahe watched the invasion stall and reflected that coordinating with the other Demon Gods had been the right choice.

• Long Zhan ordered the Pangu units to self-destruct, and two nuclear blasts collapsed the cavern and buried the Demon Clan forces near the wormhole.
• Long Zhan learned the wormhole remained intact, while surviving Burrowing Robots prepared to collapse any new cavern the Demon Clan excavated.
• Across Terra, assault teams met sixth-rank Demon Clan resistance and repeatedly detonated their Pangu units when they could not reach the wormholes.
• Great Xia’s forces and Terra’s allied armies passed through ten expanding portals, established containment zones around the wormholes, and received Long Zhan’s order to execute Plan C.
• Sahe and the other Demon Venerables watched their invasion stall as the enemy repeatedly collapsed the tunnels, and Sahe judged that joining forces with the other Demon Gods had been wise.

Sahe’s Demon Clan forces struggled to break through underground defenses before Burrowing Earth Dragons finally opened a route to the surface. Sahe sent the Demon Venerables to advance cautiously, but remained suspicious of the enemy’s silence.

• After three precisely timed explosions killed Burrowing Earth Dragons, Sahe rejected a proposal to open more wormholes and ordered the forces to keep digging.
• The Burrowing Earth Dragons expanded underground until Burrowing Robot Generation One destroyed seven and blocked the lateral tunnels.
• Several Burrowing Earth Dragons dug upward and emerged on the surface, allowing the Demon Clan Army to assemble beneath two suns and spread out.
• Sahe questioned why the enemy had left the surface unchallenged, then ordered the Demon Venerables to avoid danger and slowly attack the outskirts.
• The Demon Venerables hurried toward the wormholes while Sahe stayed behind, uneasy about the traps underground and the enemy’s silence.