Recaps

Long Zhan tested cubic nitrogen ammunition against Demon Clan territory, and its power devastated Emerald Leaf City. Lin Mo then proposed soaking bullets in holy water, and a test on a captured Heavy Armor Demon Soldier showed that the holy-water round caused a far more damaging reaction than an ordinary bullet.

• Long Zhan fired a nitrogen shell that sheared off half a mountain summit, while technicians measured a power increase of more than fourfold.
• Long Zhan ordered rocket artillery to strike Demon Clan forces around Emerald Leaf City, and satellite footage showed twelve explosions engulfing the area as commander Wolaz watched in shock.
• Long Zhan ordered all units to switch to the new ammunition and prepare for combat within three days.
• Lin Mo suggested soaking bullets in holy water and proposed testing them on a captured Demon Clan prisoner.
• Long Zhan arranged a comparison test in which an ordinary machine-gun round dented the Heavy Armor Demon Soldier's chest, while a holy-water round produced black smoke and a sizzling reaction.

After Holy Water proved capable of stopping a Heavy Armor Demon Soldier from healing, Long Zhan ordered ammunition to be treated with it. Meanwhile, Gao Jianjun and his exhausted team completed ten rockets and sixty Hummingbird satellites, and the first rocket launched from Terra as the story turned to the satellite deployment.

• The Holy Water's effect ended, leaving the Heavy Armor Demon Soldier with a severe chest wound that would not heal, and Long Zhan ordered personnel to soak ammunition and shells in Holy Water.
• Gao Jianjun and the research team completed the final satellite assembly, and Chief Engineer Chen collapsed from exhaustion.
• A senior official inspected the rockets and Hummingbird-series satellites, praised Gao Jianjun's team, and ordered the convoy to begin phase two.
• The rockets and satellites were transported to the northern border, where Zhao Gang and Long Zhan prepared to launch them from the Forward Base.
• A rocket launched from Terra, and six satellites separated from it and began drifting toward their designated orbits.

Great Xia completed the Sky Eye satellite network around Terra Planet, giving Forward Base continuous communications and wartime monitoring as the Portal’s closure approached. With war looming, Zhao Gang approved a final supply shipment weighted heavily toward ammunition, and crates of cubic nitrogen weapons began pouring through the Portal.

• Qian Zhenhua and Zhao Gang oversaw the launches that deployed all sixty-one Hummingbird satellites and brought the Sky Eye monitoring system online.
• Lin Mo, Zhao Gang, and Long Zhan applauded the completed satellite network while Kael, Elder Muyu, and the others watched in shock.
• With twenty-four hours left before the Portal closed, Zhao Gang asked Long Zhan whether to increase the share of food and medicine in the final shipment.
• Long Zhan and Lin Mo argued that Forward Base could find food locally but needed Blue Star’s cubic nitrogen ammunition for the coming war, and Zhao Gang agreed.
• A conveyor belt began carrying machine-gun rounds, artillery shells, rockets, and missiles through the Portal to Forward Base.

As the Portal neared closure, Great Xia’s Expeditionary Force assembled to hear Elder Zhao’s farewell and prepare to fight without reliable support from home. Elder Zhao promised to await their return on Blue Star, and Lin Mo led the force in vowing to complete its mission and return victorious.

• Soldiers moved seemingly endless ammunition through the Portal, while Kael and Elder Muyu watched and wondered at Great Xia’s industrial power.
• The Expeditionary Force assembled in Firefly Leaf Valley as the command center prepared a live address from Great Xia.
• Elder Zhao saluted the troops and warned that the Portal was about to close, leaving them without dependable logistics or timely reinforcements.
• Elder Zhao told the soldiers that he and the people of Great Xia would wait for them to come home, moving many of them to tears.
• The soldiers vowed to complete their mission, and Lin Mo promised Elder Zhao that the Expeditionary Force would return victorious before the communication signal cut out.

Kael closed the Portal, leaving the Expeditionary Force isolated from Blue Star, and Long Zhan rallied the troops to begin their mission. Lin Mo and Long Zhan led twenty thousand soldiers out of Firefly Leaf Valley while Zhao Gang stayed behind to oversee the Forward Base.

• Kael chanted an incantation that collapsed the Portal after it had remained open for ten days.
• Long Zhan rallied the army and ordered the units to form up and report their status.
• Lin Mo asked Zhao Gang to appoint someone to oversee the Forward Base, and Zhao Gang promised to keep it secure.
• Lin Mo and Long Zhan boarded the command vehicle, saluted the base's new overseer, and Lin Mo ordered the troops to move out.
• The armored column, support vehicles, helicopters, soldiers, and robotic dogs set out from Firefly Leaf Valley.

Lin Mo learned the army’s extensive equipment and firepower configuration as it advanced toward the Demon Clan, while Kael and Elder Muyu traveled alongside it on inspection duty. A Pegasus Knight delivered a message from His Majesty to Kael, who began reading it.

• A staff officer told Lin Mo that the force included twenty thousand troops with exoskeletons and rifles, robotic dogs, drones, heavy weapons, tanks, artillery, air defenses, missiles, and extensive logistics support.
• The staff officer explained that bunker-buster missiles were intended to counter Earth Dragons and that additional missile vehicles at the Forward Base could strike as far as Emerald Leaf City.
• Kael and Elder Muyu accompanied the army to inspect Great Xia’s conduct and equipment during its offensive against the Demon Clan.
• Kael cast a Holy Light Spell to signal a Pegasus Knight, and nearby soldiers felt its familiar restorative effects.
• The Pegasus Knight handed Kael a message from His Majesty, and Kael unrolled the parchment to read it.

As Great Xia’s army marched, Kael and Elder Muyu saw its equipment and firepower firsthand. When a river blocked the route, Great Xia deployed a steel pontoon bridge in ten minutes, leaving them astonished by the army’s ability to overcome the obstacle.

• Kael read the Holy City’s orders to coordinate a counterattack with the Elves, maintain relations with Great Xia, and report on its equipment.
• Kael and Elder Muyu watched Great Xia’s army march and marveled at its vehicles, aircraft, and other machines.
• When a river stopped the army, Lin Mo assured Kael, Elder Muyu, and Fendona that Great Xia could handle it without their mages.
• Great Xia’s engineers deployed a folding steel pontoon bridge across the river in ten minutes, astonishing Kael, Elder Muyu, and Fendona.

Lin Mo’s army crossed a wide river on pontoon bridges and continued its advance, impressing Kael and Elder Muyu with its technology. Long Zhan ordered new artillery and missile weapons tested against Demon Clan forces, and the column kept moving after wiping out its targets.

• Lin Mo explained that his unit had five modular pontoon bridges, and the army crossed the fifty-meter river before packing them up and resuming its march.
• A drone spotted about three hundred Demon Clan troops and airborne creatures twenty kilometers ahead, and Long Zhan ordered the column to advance while artillery and missiles attacked them.
• The self-propelled gun-mortars fired cubic nitrogen high-explosive shells, which destroyed the ground troops, while missiles eliminated the winged demons and gargoyles.
• The staff reported that the target area and all aerial enemies had been cleared, and Long Zhan’s forces continued their march as new Demon Clan targets were reported and destroyed.

Kael and Elder Muyu watched Great Xia’s army advance through the Demon Clan’s territory and build a fortified camp, while Mars learned that Great Xia was shipping vast military supplies and specialized satellites to its Arctic base. The chapter left Mars facing new evidence that Great Xia’s retired scientists and veterans had undergone a dramatic rejuvenation.

• Great Xia’s army destroyed detected Demon Clan forces as it marched, leaving Kael and Elder Muyu stunned by its distant, overwhelming style of warfare.
• At sunset, Long Zhan ordered the army to form a defensive perimeter and establish camp, where soldiers built a fortified base and prepared a meal.
• Mars’s intelligence director reported that Great Xia was producing Long March 11 rockets and cubic nitrogen ammunition at full capacity.
• The intelligence director showed Mars convoys carrying weapons, rockets, satellites, and supplies toward Great Xia’s Arctic base, while its planted moles had gone silent.
• The intelligence director revealed photographs showing that Great Xia’s retired scientists and distinguished veterans looked decades younger than before.

After learning that Great Xia had developed rejuvenation technology and applied room-temperature superconductors to nuclear fusion, Mars suspected it had uncovered a world-changing secret and organized a summit to pressure Great Xia into sharing its technology. Elder Zhao joined the call at the last second, where Mars opened with a sarcastic remark.

• Mars learned that Great Xia had developed rejuvenation technology and begun building nuclear fusion reactors in its underground cities.
• Mars ordered an international summit to demand that Great Xia share its superconducting material and nuclear fusion technologies.
• Secretary Li told Elder Zhao about the joint diplomatic note and invitation, and Elder Zhao agreed to attend the video summit.
• Mars planned to accuse Great Xia of avoiding the meeting if it failed to join, then push a joint resolution demanding its technology.
• Elder Zhao joined at the appointed time, and Mars greeted him with a taunt about oversleeping.

At a global conference, Mars demanded that Great Xia share its fusion and superconducting technologies in the name of humanity’s survival. Elder Zhao turned the moral appeal back on Eagle Country and rejected the proposed trades, leaving the other leaders without a convincing offer.

• Elder Zhao dismissed Mars’s opening remarks, and Bear Country urged the leaders to begin the meeting.
• Mars described Blue Star’s worsening disasters and called for humanity to unite against Doomsday.
• Mars praised Great Xia’s breakthroughs and demanded that it share its controlled nuclear fusion and room-temperature superconducting technologies.
• Elder Zhao agreed that major powers should shoulder greater responsibility and proposed that Eagle Country fund and support underground cities worldwide.
• Mars accused Elder Zhao of joking, and Elder Zhao replied that Mars had joked first.
• The European Union, Cherry Blossom Country, and Camel Country offered technology or payment, but Elder Zhao argued that none could match fusion’s value.

Mars persuaded several nations to prepare joint live-fire military exercises against Great Xia after Elder Zhao rejected their threats and cut off negotiations. Meanwhile, Wolaz learned that a mysterious army had attacked Demon Clan troops near Emerald Leaf City.

• Elder Zhao warned the leaders that Great Xia would punish hostile actions, then disconnected the call.
• Mars proposed joint live-fire military exercises outside the Arctic Circle, and several countries agreed to join.
• Wolaz dismissed reports that Demon Clan foraging squads had gone missing near Emerald Leaf City.
• Damaged Gargoyles crashed into Wolaz's hall and reported that an army of two-legged beasts had attacked them.

Wolaz mobilized more than three hundred thousand Demon Clan troops to attack the approaching Great Xia Expeditionary Force. Great Xia tested its Cubic Nitrogen Ammunition on Demon Clan scouts, and the chapter ended when satellite imagery startled a communications soldier as the army neared Emerald Leaf City.

• A Gargoyle reported that humans with steel weapons were advancing, and Wolaz recognized them as the force that had wounded it before.
• Wolaz sounded the horn and rallied more than three hundred thousand Demon Clan troops, ordering them to spread out and march toward the Great Xia army.
• Great Xia’s reconnaissance drone detected a small group of Demon Clan scouts, and an artillery crew tested Cubic Nitrogen Ammunition on them.
• Great Xia’s artillery vaporized the scouts and surrounding terrain, leaving a vitrified crater, as the army used further strikes to clear threats and test its equipment.
• As the Great Xia army approached within thirty kilometers of Emerald Leaf City, satellite imagery made a communications soldier abruptly stand up.

Great Xia halted its advance and prepared a fortified position before launching a mass artillery strike at the approaching Demon Clan army. Wolaz’s carefully arranged forces spotted the incoming barrage too late, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Satellite reconnaissance detected the Demon Clan assembling outside Emerald Leaf City, and Long Zhan ordered Great Xia’s forces to establish defenses on the plain.
• Long Zhan ordered air defenses activated and artillery prepared to strike the enemy’s wings and central force with cubic nitrogen rounds.
• Great Xia’s artillery and rocket units fired a massive barrage toward the Demon Clan army from twenty kilometers away.
• Wolaz advanced at the head of a 300,000-strong army spread across a wide front, with Winged Demons and Gargoyles overhead and Earth Dragons tunneling below.
• Wolaz spotted hundreds of incoming points of light tearing across the sky toward its army.

Great Xia’s artillery devastated Wolaz’s Demon Clan army, prompting Wolaz to order the survivors to charge while Earth Dragons tunneled toward the steel positions. Meanwhile, Elder Archmond and General Adrian arrived at Lothia City with fifteen thousand Silver Moon Guard Elites equipped with Great Xia’s weapons, ready to join a counteroffensive.

• Great Xia’s artillery salvo struck the Demon Clan army with cluster, thermobaric, and cubic nitrogen munitions, killing a tenth of Wolaz’s three hundred thousand troops.
• Wolaz ordered the surviving demons to charge the Great Xia Expeditionary Force, while three Earth Dragons tunneled toward the steel positions.
• Elder Archmond and General Adrian brought a large elven force to Lothia City after two days of emergency mobilization.
• General Adrian led fifteen thousand Silver Moon Guard Elites, including five thousand specially trained to use Great Xia’s weapons, toward the front for a counteroffensive.

Elder Valerius resisted Queen’s orders to launch a counteroffensive against the Demon Clan, but Archmond forced him to submit and General Adrian assembled the Elf army. The chapter also describes the Holy Human Race’s preparations and reveals that the commander of Holy Radiance City is the Dragon Knight Commander, a Seventh-Tier Battle Venerable.

• Archmond delivered the Queen’s order for Lothia City’s troops to cooperate with Great Xia’s reinforcements and counterattack the Demon Clan.
• Valerius objected to the offensive and questioned the reliability of Great Xia’s weapons, while Adrian defended their power and value on the front lines.
• Archmond warned Valerius that he was defying the Queen, and Valerius reluctantly agreed to obey her orders.
• Archmond ordered Adrian to assemble the army, and Adrian left to begin the counteroffensive preparations.
• The Holy Human Race prepared twenty thousand troops, including four thousand trained to use Great Xia’s weapons, for the counteroffensive at Holy Radiance City.
• The chapter revealed that the Dragon Knight Commander, a Seventh-Tier Battle Venerable, commanded Holy Radiance City.

Holy Radiance City's army prepared to face the Demon Clan, while Reynolds deployed Great Xia's technological weapons enhanced by holy magic. The battle began with a devastating bombardment that decimated Wolaz's advancing forces.

• Kane ordered Holy Radiance City's assembled army to prepare for battle as scouts reported the Demon Clan approaching.
• Reynolds summoned Tanks, Armored Vehicles, Rocket Vehicles, and other weapons, and priests cast protective spells over them.
• Two thousand riflemen received magical enhancements and prepared holy-water-soaked Bullets as Kane and another Dragon Knight questioned the technology's usefulness.
• Reynolds assured the Dragon Knights that the machines would prove their worth, and the Demon Clan army appeared on the horizon.
• Wolaz led its surviving troops through relentless artillery fire, which killed Demon Clan soldiers and blasted Wolaz and its bodyguards aside.
• Wolaz roared in fury after being thrown across the ground by an explosion.

Wolaz ordered the Demon Clan’s flying units to intercept the Great Xia Expeditionary Force’s artillery, sacrificing many of them to reduce the damage. Long Zhan countered with cluster and thermobaric bombs, leaving the flying monsters engulfed in steel needles and fire.

• Wolaz forced Winged Demons, Gargoyles, and Throwing Demons to charge into the sky and intercept incoming shells.
• A Winged Demon leader and a Throwing Demon prematurely detonated a rocket above the ground, reducing its impact and sparing some Demon Clan infantry.
• Wolaz ordered the flying units to intercept every shell regardless of the losses, and many were killed while some Throwing Demons managed to detonate shells early.
• Long Zhan learned that the enemy’s interception had reduced artillery damage and ordered the Great Xia Expeditionary Force to fire cluster bombs and thermobaric bombs.
• The cluster bombs pierced Winged Demons with steel needles, while the thermobaric bombs ignited the mist coating the flying units and engulfed the airspace in fire.

Great Xia’s artillery devastated the Demon Clan army, while Wolaz raced through the bombardment toward the expeditionary force. Long Zhan identified him and prepared to use a hypersonic missile loaded with Cubic Nitrogen Explosive, leaving the attack about to begin.

• Great Xia’s artillery and thermobaric bombs destroyed much of the Demon Clan’s aerial force and battered its ground ranks.
• Wolaz realized he had been outmaneuvered, ordered his forces to keep advancing, and raced ahead alone.
• Kael and Elder Muyu watched drone footage of the bombardment from the command vehicle and saw the Demon Clan army being annihilated.
• A drone detected Wolaz moving at extraordinary speed, and Long Zhan recognized the Demon Clan commander.
• Long Zhan revealed that Great Xia had prepared a hypersonic missile loaded with Cubic Nitrogen Explosive to strike Wolaz.

Long Zhan ordered a hypersonic missile strike on Wolaz, killing the Demon Clan commander and devastating the troops around him. The Demon Clan vanguard fell into chaos but, driven by its commanders, pressed on toward the Great Xia defensive line.

• Long Zhan ordered a modified DF-17 carrying cubic nitrogen explosive to target the latest high-threat target.
• Wolaz spotted the incoming missile and tried to dodge, but it struck the ground beside him and detonated.
• The explosion killed Wolaz, destroyed thousands of nearby Demon Clan troops, and blasted a vast gap behind their line.
• Great Xia soldiers watched the mushroom cloud and felt the force of the blast from their trenches.
• The Demon Clan troops panicked after Wolaz vanished, but mid-ranking commanders killed deserters and drove the vanguard to charge the Great Xia positions.

Great Xia’s forces crushed the Demon Clan’s charge with mines, guns, aircraft, and lasers, while their bombardment appeared to kill the commander Wolaz. Kael and Elder Muyu watched in stunned fear, and Kael asked Lin Mo how wide the missile’s lethal radius was.

• The Demon Clan’s ground troops charged into Great Xia’s minefield as air defenses and aircraft tore apart their flying forces.
• Long Zhan ordered the soldiers to fire, and Great Xia’s explosive ammunition and weapons slaughtered the demons without suffering casualties.
• A drone scanned the vitrified blast crater and detected no life, leading Long Zhan to confirm that Wolaz had been killed.
• Kael and Elder Muyu stared in shock at the crater, and Kael asked Lin Mo about the missile’s lethal radius.

Lin Mo explained the destructive power of Great Xia’s weapons as Long Zhan’s sensors detected three Earth Dragons burrowing toward the defensive position. Long Zhan launched earth-penetrating missiles at them, while the lead Earth Dragon sensed danger but kept digging.

• Lin Mo described the weapon’s blast radius to Kael and Zhao Gang, leaving Kael and Elder Muyu stunned by the crater’s scale.
• A sensor operator reported that three Earth Dragons were moving underground toward the center of the position, and Long Zhan revealed he had prepared sensors to detect them.
• Long Zhan ordered three DF15C missiles with Nanotungsten Alloy earth-penetrating warheads launched at the detected targets.
• The missiles rose into the sky as Kael and Elder Muyu watched, shocked that technology could strike deep underground.
• The lead Earth Dragon sensed a deadly threat from above, but dismissed the warning and resumed burrowing toward the surface.

Great Xia used seismic detection and earth-penetrating missiles to destroy three Fifth Order Earth Dragons and the Demon Clan elites following them underground. Lin Mo explained the technology to Kael, Elder Muyu, and Fendona, who were left stunned by its power.

• Three DF-15C missiles descended and penetrated the ground toward the detected Earth Dragons.
• The warheads detonated underground, killing the three Earth Dragons and the Demon Clan elites in their tunnels.
• A soldier reported that all three targets’ seismic signals had vanished, and Long Zhan ordered continued monitoring.
• Kael asked how Great Xia had located and attacked the underground enemies, and Lin Mo described their seismic sensors and missiles.
• Elder Muyu and Fendona were stunned by Great Xia’s technology.

Great Xia destroyed the Bone Dragon and routed the Demon Clan, then Lin Mo set out with Kael to test his abilities against the fleeing troops. They flew toward the retreating army under the protection of Kael’s powerful spells.

• Long Zhan ordered anti-aircraft missiles and helicopter missiles to destroy the Bone Dragon, while Academician Liu Chengen lamented the loss of his research subject.
• Great Xia’s weapons overwhelmed the Demon Clan, and the surviving troops broke ranks and fled after their commander and major forces were lost.
• Long Zhan ordered the army, drones, and Attack Helicopters to pursue and prevent the Demon Clan from reaching Emerald Leaf City.
• Lin Mo asked to go to the front and test his abilities, but Zhao Gang and Long Zhan objected because of the danger.
• Kael agreed to protect Lin Mo and cast two Sixth Rank defensive spells over him.
• Lin Mo and Kael mounted a Pegasus and flew toward the fleeing Demon Clan army.

Lin Mo unleashed a massive Holy Light Purification that devastated the demon army, astonishing both the battlefield observers and Kael. After Lin Mo returned to the command vehicle, Long Zhan ordered the troops to let the scattered demons flee through the southwestern opening while blocking those heading toward Emerald Leaf City.

• Lin Mo used Holy Light Purification from his Pegasus, burning or killing demons across a vast area and badly injuring even fifth-order demons.
• Kael recognized Lin Mo as the Holy Son but lamented his crude spellcasting and the waste of magical power.
• Lin Mo finished off several wounded fourth-order demons with improvised magical attacks, then returned to the command vehicle with Kael, exhausted.
• Zhao Gang and Long Zhan praised Lin Mo's magical abilities, and Lin Mo said he might try teaching magic to the researchers.
• Long Zhan ordered the interception units to leave the southwestern route open and block demons fleeing toward Emerald Leaf City.
• The steel forces advanced as only tens of thousands of battered demons escaped into the wilderness.