Recaps

At Great Xia’s Command Center on the Third Planet, Zheng Jinren kept two Demon Clan wormholes sealed underground while a new wormhole appeared far deeper than Great Xia’s burrowing equipment could reach. The chapter left Great Xia confronting the limits of its defenses against the Demon Clan’s underground invasion.

• A communications soldier reported that Great Xia and the Kona Civilization had destroyed one wormhole and buried the other two beneath collapsed rock, and Zheng Jinren ordered continued surveillance and containment.
• A new spatial fluctuation appeared more than 2,700 kilometers from Great Xia’s base, and Zheng Jinren ordered nearby units to locate it and seal it off if it was underground.
• Detection drones found that the new wormhole lay 10,372 meters below the surface, where extreme heat and pressure made the environment hostile to humans and ordinary machinery.
• Staff officers explained that Demon Clan Burrowing Earth Dragons could expand narrow underground fissures, while Great Xia’s Burrowing Robots could operate only to depths of less than five kilometers.
• Zheng Jinren learned that Great Xia had no existing way to reach the wormhole, as the Demon Clan had opened it beneath the reach of its burrowing defenses.

Zheng Jinren ordered Great Xia and the Kona Civilization to monitor the Demon Clan’s expanding underground wormhole after their weapons proved unable to reach it. When a massive presence began excavating upward and stopped just below the monitoring network, the staff feared an Eighth-Order Demon God was below.

• Great Xia’s staff concluded they could not destroy the underground target with their current weapons, and Watcher confirmed the Kona Civilization had no suitable equipment.
• Zheng Jinren ordered Burrowing Robots to build a seismic monitoring network five kilometers beneath the target, where it detected the Demon Clan enlarging a vast cavity and wormhole.
• After twelve hours, the cavity and wormhole exceeded four kilometers in diameter, alarming Zheng Jinren about what the Demon Clan intended to send through.
• The underground tremors stopped, then sensors detected an excavation roughly three kilometers wide moving rapidly toward the surface.
• The enormous presence stopped five and a half kilometers underground, just beyond the robots’ reach, and a staff officer wondered whether an Eighth-Order Demon God was below.

Zheng Jinren recognized the approaching underground target as a Demon God and ordered the forces on the Third Planet to prepare, but their explosives failed to slow it. Devouring Demon God Baroque emerged from beneath the surface and broke through the sound barrier as it charged a ground-based firing position.

• Zheng Jinren identified the enormous underground presence as a suspected eighth-order Demon God and ordered nearby forces to disperse, prepare long-range weapons, and alert Watcher.
• Burrowing Robots detonated high-explosive charges and Miniature Nuclear Bombs, but the target pushed through the blasted rock without slowing.
• Zheng Jinren ordered the remaining Burrowing Robots to withdraw and put Pangu Unmanned Mecha carrying Antimatter Bombs on standby.
• Devouring Demon God Baroque emerged from the Third Planet's crust, measuring about five thousand meters long and nearly three thousand meters wide, protected by a transparent energy shield.
• Ground forces and Kona Civilization spaceships attacked Baroque, but their weapons failed to penetrate its shield.
• Baroque accelerated past two thousand meters per second and charged a ground-based firing position.

Baroque evaded an Antimatter Bomb strike by retreating underground, then began creating multiple escape routes as the Demon Clan poured onto the surface. Great Xia and the Kona Civilization struggled to contain the advancing forces, and Zheng Jinren faced pressure to send Antimatter-carrying Mecha forward despite the mounting losses.

• Zheng Jinren sent an Antimatter-carrying Mecha toward Baroque, but Baroque repeatedly avoided it and escaped underground before a Hypersonic Missile carrying an Antimatter Bomb could reach it.
• The missile collapsed Baroque's underground entrance, but monitoring confirmed that Baroque had survived and retreated deeper beneath the surface.
• Baroque opened more exits by digging tunnels, giving itself additional escape routes from future attacks.
• Demon Clan legions surged from the exits while five Seventh-Order Demon Venerables attacked the retreating unmanned forces and blocked their routes.
• The Demon Venerables evaded missiles and Nuclear Bombs, while attacks against them caused devastating friendly-fire losses among Great Xia and Kona forces.
• A staff officer urged Zheng Jinren to advance the Mecha carrying Antimatter Bombs because the forces could not sustain their current losses.

Zheng Jinren’s forces used Antimatter Bombs to deter the Demon God and cover the evacuation from the Third Planet, but their losses continued. After learning that Third-Order experts from Terra could deliver bombs hidden in Spatial Rings, Zheng Jinren offered a large reward for volunteers and sent Commander Lin the mission details.

• Zheng Jinren ordered the forces to stop pursuing the Demon God and use bomb-carrying Robots to protect evacuation routes.
• The Antimatter Bombs drove the Demon God and Demon Venerables away from threatened areas, allowing stalled convoys to move, but the evacuation remained incomplete.
• Zheng Jinren’s staff concluded that a Spatial Ring could hide a bomb from the Demon God’s Danger Sense, but ordinary pilots could not survive delivering one in a Pangu Mecha.
• A staff officer’s simulations showed that Third-Order experts from Terra could withstand the gravity and acceleration required for the mission.
• Zheng Jinren offered thirty million in Great Xia Currency for volunteers, ordered that the risks be disclosed, and sent Commander Lin the mission details.

The Demon Clan emerged onto the Terra Continent and discovered that Great Xia had laid an ambush. Long Zhan ordered conventional forces to bombard them, but Sahe and the Demon Venerables survived with little harm before the firing abruptly stopped.

• The Demon Clan poured through the tunnels onto the surface, where ten Demon Venerables detected Great Xia's forces waiting in an encirclement.
• The Demon Venerables reported that the surface seemed secure, and Sahe emerged from the wormhole and ordered the army to advance.
• Long Zhan confirmed the Demon God and the high-ranking demons had appeared, then ordered conventional weapons to attack while holding back nuclear and antimatter weapons.
• Great Xia's artillery, missiles, aircraft, and unmanned vehicles devastated the lower-rank demons, killing more than ten thousand in the first bombardment.
• The Demon Venerables dodged most attacks, while Sahe absorbed the fire with his shield and smashed combat vehicles with a tentacle.
• Great Xia's artillery suddenly ceased, and Sahe and the Demon Venerables turned toward the distance in puzzlement.

Terra’s thirty-five Seventh-Order Experts and a hundred Pangu Mechas entered the battlefield to surround the Demon Venerables and target the Demon God. After Lin Mo realized he could understand the Demon Clan’s language, Long Zhan resolved to capture a Seventh-Order Demon Venerable for information, just as an Antimatter Bomb detonated.

• Long Zhan deployed thirty-five Seventh-Order Experts in groups to engage the ten Demon Venerables and sent a hundred Pangu Mechas into battle, with two carrying Antimatter Bombs.
• Balin cursed at the Demon Venerables, who answered by ordering their forces to attack.
• Lin Mo understood the Demon Clan calling humans “Bipeds” and told Long Zhan and Zhao Gang he could understand their language.
• Long Zhan and Zhao Gang realized the Demon Clan’s language could reveal why they invaded other civilizations, and Long Zhan decided to capture a Seventh-Order Demon Venerable.
• An Antimatter Bomb detonated on the battlefield.

Terra's Seventh-Order Experts lured Sahe's Demon Venerables away while a hundred Pangu Mechas pinned the Demon God in place. Two pilots deployed an Antimatter Bomb, erasing Sahe, the mechas, and the nearby Demon Clan forces in a vast blast.

• Terra's Seventh-Order Experts fought while drawing the Demon Venerables west, away from Sahe and the battlefield.
• Sahe noticed the Pangu Mecha formation and charged into it, smashing machines aside as they swarmed it and attacked its weak points.
• The unmanned mechas sacrificed themselves to pin Sahe while two manned mechas approached under cover and opened their cockpits.
• The two pilots revealed an Antimatter Bomb, and Sahe sensed its lethal threat and tried to retreat.
• The Antimatter Bomb detonated, erasing Sahe, the Pangu Mechas, and nearby Demon Clan forces in a vast white blast.

Great Xia’s devastating explosion killed the Demon God Sahe and sent the Demon Venerables fleeing. Terra’s forces killed one wounded Demon Venerable and captured another, leaving Lin Mo watching the captive in the Command Center.

• The allied legions bombarded the encircled Demon Clan until a blinding explosion shook the battlefield and swept across their barriers.
• Dragon Knight Reynolds declared the Demon God dead and rallied Terra’s experts to attack the demoralized Demon Venerables.
• Long Zhan ordered the experts to capture at least one Demon Venerable alive, so they abandoned most of the fleeing enemies and surrounded two wounded targets.
• Terra’s experts bound one Demon Venerable with spells and a Great Xia rope, while the other was blasted apart after it tried to escape.
• Lin Mo watched the captured Demon Venerable roaring on the Command Center screen.

After Sahe’s death, Long Zhan ordered the Allied Army to clear the battlefield, but the Kona forces faced devastating losses because they could not effectively use antimatter bombs on the Third Planet. Lin Mo arranged an openly advertised, certain-death recruitment mission for Terra’s Third-Order martial artists, offering compensation and Great Xia citizenship for their families.

• Long Zhan ordered the Allied Army to advance, eliminate high-ranking demons, and destroy the Space Wormholes after Sahe was killed and a Demon Venerable was captured.
• Zheng Jinren reported that extreme gravity on Kona’s Third Planet prevented the Pangu pilots from deploying antimatter bombs effectively, leaving retreating troops under heavy attack.
• Lin Mo proposed recruiting volunteers from Terra’s races and offering Great Xia citizenship and support to their families; Zhao Gang and Long Zhan approved the plan.
• Lin Mo published an emergency mission seeking Third-Order-or-higher warriors with resilient physiques to carry an antimatter bomb toward a Demon God in a Pangu Mecha.
• The Fief’s netizens reacted to the mission’s certain-death warning, compensation, and promise of protection for volunteers’ families.

Terra’s races rushed to volunteer for Great Xia’s deadly mission to Kona, drawn by the chance to defeat the Demon Clan and secure a safe future for their families. As applicants crowded the Great Xia Fief’s registration hall and staff began organizing them, a startled cry from the crowd drew attention to something overhead.

• Terra’s races debated whether to join the mission, while many envied the promise of support and citizenship for participants’ families; half-orcs flooded the comments with declarations that they would sign up.
• Applicants from many races arrived through portals at the Great Xia Fief and packed the government administration hall, where staff organized them into lines by race and profession.
• Locke recognized Batu, caught him trying to register despite previously discouraging others, and called him out; Batu admitted he had hoped to reduce the competition before the crowd laughed.
• Great Xia staff explained the eligibility rules, warned that cutting in line meant disqualification, and required applicants to register honestly and confirm the mission’s risks.
• Locke joined Batu in line, accepting the danger because the mission could secure his cubs and elderly parents’ future, and many others felt similarly willing to trade their lives for their families’ safety and a chance to kill an eighth-order Demon God.
• A startled cry rang out as someone told the crowd to look up.

Lin Mo announced that the Allied Army had won the defensive battle, with an Eighth-Order Demon God killed and a Seventh-Order Demon Venerable captured. The people of the fief celebrated the victory as the remaining troops pursued the demons and destroyed the space wormholes, while a staff member waited to report to Lin Mo.

• Reynolds, Balin, and other Seventh-Order Experts escorted a bound Demon Venerable over the fief, and the crowd cheered when they realized it was alive.
• An Allied Army unit marched through the fief in a victory procession, telling the crowds that Great Xia’s weapon had killed the Eighth-Order Demon God and that a Demon Venerable had been captured.
• Lin Mo addressed the people and announced that the Demon God was dead, one Demon Venerable was captured and another killed, five fleeing Demon Venerables had been confirmed dead, and the Allied Army was destroying the wormholes.
• The soldiers and civilians erupted in celebration, and Lin Mo left the loudspeaker as a staff member waited to speak with him.

Lin Mo established safeguards for selecting twenty volunteers for the Kona Battlefield, then went to question a captured Seventh-Order Demon Venerable. The prisoner was shocked when Lin Mo spoke to it and it understood him.

• Lin Mo ordered staff to select twenty candidates based on strength and fitness, while barring coercion and poverty from influencing selection.
• Lin Mo arranged for the candidates to be sent to Kona Base and required transparent support for their families under oversight.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that General Long had secured the prisoner, so Lin Mo traveled to the western experimental zone.
• Liu Chengen reported that the Demon Venerable was alive and that existing translation and analysis methods had failed.
• Lin Mo entered the isolation chamber and asked the Demon Venerable its name, and the prisoner was startled to understand him.

Lin Mo interrogated the captured Demon Venerable Herman and learned that the Demon Clan invaded civilizations to harvest their Gaia Cores and strengthen its members. Herman revealed the requirements for advancing through the ranks, then threatened Lin Mo with the Demon Emperor and was shocked again.

• Lin Mo discovered that Herman could understand him, and Herman said the Demon Clan invaded civilizations to grow stronger and obey the Demon Emperor's will.
• Lin Mo learned Herman's identity and reminded it that Sahe was dead, then used electricity to force the prisoner to cooperate.
• Herman explained that Gaia Cores came from the core of a civilization's Gaia consciousness and could help high-ranking demons advance.
• Herman said demons weakened a planet's Gaia consciousness by killing its inhabitants and damaging its ecology, and that roughly ten Gaia Cores were needed to reach the eighth order and at least a hundred to reach the ninth.
• Herman described the ninth-order Demon Emperor's power and threatened Lin Mo, who pressed the shock button again.

Lin Mo interrogated the captured Demon Venerable Herman and learned about the Demon Clan’s strength, its search for civilizations, and Cho'Gath’s role in exposing Blue Star. The chapter left Lin Mo realizing that Cho'Gath had sold Blue Star’s coordinates to multiple Demon Gods, putting Blue Star, Terra, and Kona at risk of further invasions.

• Lin Mo and the Terra experts tortured Herman until it agreed to answer their questions.
• Herman said the Demon Emperor was supreme ninth order, two other Demon Gods were ninth order, about 137 were eighth order, and more than a thousand were seventh order.
• Herman said the Demon Clan usually searched for civilizations by using Space-Jumping Beasts to open random wormholes.
• Herman revealed that Cho'Gath had provided Blue Star’s coordinates, and Lin Mo identified it as the Demon God that had previously invaded Blue Star.
• Herman said Cho'Gath had also approached the Demon Gods Herok, Sahe, and Baroque, while Lin Mo considered the danger to the Blue Star, Terra, and Kona alliance.
• Lin Mo asked whether the other Demon Gods knew about their civilizations.

Lin Mo questioned Herman about the Demon Clan’s coordinated invasions, its sale of spatial coordinates, and the limits of its wormhole technology. After threatening Herman with torture if its testimony proved false, Lin Mo offered to spare it if it kept cooperating.

• Herman confirmed that Herok, Sahe, and Baroque had coordinated attacks on Blue Star, Terra, and the Kona Star System because Demon Gods had already died there.
• Herman said Cho'Gath had sold the civilizations’ spatial coordinates and avoided the invasion because it feared dying.
• Herman explained that Space-Jumping Beasts read coordinate crystals and sacrificed themselves to open wormholes, and that only specialized Demon Lairs could breed the rare creatures.
• Herman said wormholes required rare minerals to stay open and collapsed without further supplies, though they could be reopened with enough minerals and another Jumping Beast.
• Lin Mo threatened Herman with torture if other Demon Clan prisoners contradicted its answers, then said it might be spared and kept if it continued cooperating.
• Herman insisted it had told the truth and agreed to answer more questions if Lin Mo did not use the threatened punishments.

Lin Mo learned that the Demon Clan had no writing system, making him the only effective translator while researchers planned further interrogation. After the Demon God’s death, Blue Star’s invasion was under control, but a Planetary Engine site had been destroyed, and Kona reported that its reinforcements had arrived.

• Liu Chengen asked Lin Mo to find out whether the Demon Clan had a script, and Herman explained that demons communicated through speech and hierarchy without writing.
• The researchers realized that translating the Demon Clan’s language would be difficult, and Lin Mo offered to interpret future interrogations remotely.
• Lin Mo went to the Command Center, where Long Zhan reported that Blue Star’s invading Demon God had been killed and the remaining forces were being handled.
• Long Zhan told Lin Mo that the blast had destroyed part of a Planetary Engine construction site and warned that Cho'Gath’s survival meant further attacks remained possible.
• The communications station reported that all twenty reinforcements had reached Kona, and Long Zhan ordered the Kona Battlefield feed brought up.

Zheng Jinren sent twenty Terra warriors to the Third Planet in Pangu Mecha for a suicide attack on the Demon God, while Locke prepared to take part. The warriors began acclimation training during transit, with the mission and their families’ resettlement arrangements confirmed.

• Zheng Jinren ordered the Terra warriors to deploy immediately, with Pangu AI controlling their Mecha and Antimatter Bombs supplied in Spatial Rings.
• Locke learned that Batu had been held back because he was too large to fit inside a Pangu Mecha, and Batu promised to look after Locke’s family.
• The staff explained that the warriors would approach the Demon God in pairs and release their devices from the cockpits, warning them that they would die at the final attack position.
• The twenty warriors accepted the mission, and the staff confirmed that their designated family members had been added to Great Xia’s reception and resettlement list.
• Locke climbed into his Pangu Mecha, which began traveling to the combat zone and conducting acclimation training under its AI’s supervision.

Locke entered the Third Planet’s high-gravity battlefield in a Pangu Mecha, adapting to its strain and practicing Spatial Ring deployment during the long flight. As his team approached a rising Demon God’s predicted location, the ground suddenly bulged upward.

• Locke crossed the Portal and struggled with the Third Planet’s gravity and the Pangu’s acceleration, then gradually learned to brace and control his breathing.
• Locke practiced selecting and deploying items from his Spatial Ring while the Pangu flew toward the front line.
• Locke saw that a reception facility had been destroyed and later reached a battlefield scarred by explosions, wreckage, and advancing Demon Creatures.
• Eighteen accompanying Pangu units split into teams to cover other exits, while Locke and his partner were assigned to approach the Demon God’s predicted location.
• Locke’s partner, a Holy Human Race warrior, asked whether he could still hold up, and Locke said not to fall behind as unmanned machines formed up around them.
• The ground suddenly bulged upward beneath the advancing formation.

Locke and a companion delivered Antimatter Devices to Baroque, triggering a massive explosion that engulfed the Demon God and the surrounding battlefield. At Great Xia’s Kona Base, Zheng Jinren discovered that the Demon Clan’s forces were converging on the blast site and suspected Baroque had survived.

• Baroque emerged from underground and attacked the Unmanned Legion while Locke’s Pangu unit approached the delivery zone.
• Locke remembered his family, confirmed he could use the Spatial Ring, and prepared to release the Antimatter Device.
• Locke and his companion simultaneously deployed their devices, and the resulting explosions swallowed Baroque, the Pangu units, and much of the battlefield.
• Zheng Jinren ordered the Legion to monitor the blast’s effects, and reconnaissance revealed a crater more than ten kilometers across.
• Seventh-Order Demon Venerables retreated underground, while the Demon Clan’s forces across the Third Planet began moving toward the blast’s core.
• Zheng Jinren suspected Baroque was still alive as the Command Center realized the battle might not be over.

Zheng Jinren sent Great Xia and Kona unmanned forces into the underground passages to locate the Demon God Baroque and verify its condition. After reconnaissance revealed Baroque was severely wounded but regenerating, both civilizations agreed to clear a path so Great Xia could deliver an antimatter bomb, leaving the forces fighting toward the core area.

• Zheng Jinren ordered drones and high-rank robots to enter the underground passage while keeping manned crews back, and Kona forces joined the advance.
• Great Xia and Kona units fought through the Demon Clan’s defenses as the passages narrowed and resistance intensified.
• Kona reconnaissance robots found Baroque alive, badly wounded, and regenerating while Demon Clan forces dug to move it.
• Zheng Jinren warned Kona that Baroque might sense an approaching bomb and proposed that Great Xia deliver it while Kona cleared the path.
• The Kona Legion overloaded and self-destructed its units to break through the Demon Clan defenses, opening the way to the core area at the cost of more than three thousand combat units.

Zheng Jinren’s forces killed Demon God Baroque with two antimatter devices, triggering a collapse that buried the underground network and began the counteroffensive against the Demon Clan. After learning that Cho'Gath had sold the civilizations’ coordinates and the Demon Clan still had enormous forces, Terra’s races began preparing modern armies.

• Zheng Jinren’s Pangu units deployed two antimatter devices that shattered Baroque’s depleted shield and killed the Demon God, destroying the surrounding Demon Clan Army.
• The blast collapsed the underground passages, and Zheng Jinren ordered surviving units to withdraw and all legions to launch a counteroffensive.
• The three civilizations celebrated victories on their battlefields while Great Xia shared intelligence from Herman, revealing the Demon Clan’s vast numbers of powerful beings.
• Lin Mo told the leaders that Cho'Gath had sold the coordinates of Blue Star, Terra, and the Kona Civilization to other Demon Gods, and Long Zhan urged the civilizations to prepare for a possible legion-scale invasion.
• Terra’s races sent Great Xia procurement requests for modern weapons, vehicles, drones, and heavy arms to build modern armies.

Great Xia negotiated weapons sales and joint technology projects with Terra’s races and the Kona Civilization. As Thorin Ironbeard arrived seeking Antimatter Bombs to kill a Demon God, the story left him waiting for Lin Mo’s response.

• Zhao Gang approved selling Terra’s races available weapons and retired equipment, while reserving complicated systems and offering to operate missiles for them.
• The Kona Civilization requested materials for Antimatter Bomb containers, so Lin Mo proposed joint research projects instead of simply selling raw materials.
• Lin Mo and Watcher agreed to begin cooperation on shield miniaturization and robotics, with Antimatter Cannons and Planet-Buster Cannons left for later discussion.
• Lin Mo told Zhao Gang he expected the Kona Civilization’s attitude to change as Great Xia proved its strength.
• Thorin Ironbeard privately asked Lin Mo whether Great Xia would sell Antimatter Bombs, explaining that nuclear bombs could not kill a Demon God.

Thorin, Grom, Fendona, and Kael asked Lin Mo to sell their races Antimatter Bombs as protection against the Demon Gods. Lin Mo explained why Great Xia could not readily sell such strategic weapons and left the leaders wondering whether certain conditions could make a sale possible.

• Grom, Fendona, and Kael followed Thorin to Lin Mo's office and confronted him for trying to negotiate for Antimatter Bombs alone.
• Fendona, Grom, Kael, and Thorin each told Lin Mo their race needed Antimatter Bombs to deter the Demon Gods.
• Lin Mo considered the risks of selling strategic weapons to other races, including uncontrolled conflicts and undermining Terra's future unity under Great Xia.
• Lin Mo told the visitors that Great Xia would not readily sell Antimatter Bombs, comparing the decision to the Holy Human Race's earlier restrictions on Astral Teleportation.
• Fendona asked Lin Mo whether Great Xia might sell the bombs if the other races met certain conditions.

Lin Mo offered the races access to Antimatter Bombs only if they joined a unified defense system under Great Xia’s command and shared military and resource responsibilities. Fendona, Kael, Thorin, and Grom considered the terms, while Lin Mo left the details for later negotiations.

• Lin Mo said the Antimatter Bombs would have to be stored and maintained in Great Xia, and their use would require Terra Committee approval and Great Xia’s final authorization.
• Lin Mo required Terra’s races to form a Joint Legion under Great Xia’s command, share wartime resources, and support one another against the Demon Clan while retaining their cultures and traditions.
• Fendona recognized that the agreement meant becoming true allies, and the group understood that Great Xia was asking them to entrust their armies and security to a common system.
• Thorin asked whether Great Xia would share weapons and technology in return for access to the races’ resources, and Grom asked whether the soldiers would receive weapons, ammunition, food, and lodging.
• Lin Mo said Great Xia would manufacture and distribute weapons from supplied raw materials and provide soldiers with uniforms and food, while noting that the terms still needed detailed negotiation.