Recaps

Lin Mo and Great Xia repelled a massive Demon Clan invasion, with Pangu Mecha and a nuclear strike helping defeat the Seventh-Order Demon Venerable Vel'Koz. The discovery of energy-rich Demon Clan remains opened new prospects for Great Xia, while a specially modified fleet prepared for an underwater mission.

• Liu Chengen had Lin Mo drink five liters of Dragon Blood, which advanced him to the Third Order and greatly increased his strength and speed.
• Lin Mo and the designers planned weapons for Great Xia's allied races, while the Dragons funded designs for a super cannon and an alternative configuration powered by a nuclear fusion reactor and Prism Tower.
• Long Zhan led Great Xia's forces against a 147,000-strong Demon Clan army, whose commanders and troops were destroyed by missiles, aircraft, and artillery with no Great Xia losses.
• As nearly 500,000 aquatic demons approached, Zhao Kexia revealed Pangu Mecha's upgrades, and Lin Mo piloted it as Great Xia's forces bombed the sea and defended the beach.
• Great Xia destroyed five Burrowing Earth Dragons targeting the Portal, while Wukong and Warwick fought the Seventh-Order Demon Venerable Vel'Koz and Lin Mo used Pangu to defeat Sixth-Rank demons.
• Lin Mo, Wukong, and Warwick wounded Vel'Koz, then Lin Mo let the Demon Venerable flee beyond the coastline, where six missiles killed it with a nuclear strike.
• Lin Mo confirmed Vel'Koz's death, purified the radioactive area, and returned to cheers as Liu Chengen and Qian Zhenhua revealed that Demon Clan remains contained valuable energy and rare metals.
• Lin Mo ordered the corpses collected, and Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen tested a processing plant that produced a block capable of storing ten thousand kilowatt-hours as Great Xia prepared an underwater fleet.

Great Xia brought its fleet through the Astral Portal and joined the Terra Continent’s fight against the Demon Clan, while Eagle Country’s attack triggered a nuclear exchange that devastated Blue Star. Great Xia’s underground cities survived, and Lin Mo arranged new supplies, allies, and weapons as the Demon Clan prepared to advance on Terra.

• Liu Yishou led the First Expeditionary Fleet through the Astral Portal and arrived at the fief, where Long Zhan and Lin Mo explained the New Hope Plan and the Demon Clan threat.
• Mars sent forty-five agents to infiltrate Great Xia’s Arctic Base, but Great Xia captured them and launched the Clearance Plan after an unidentified nuclear missile struck its Antarctic city.
• Great Xia retaliated with nuclear strikes across the Arctic and Antarctica, and Cherry Blossom Country’s underground city was destroyed by the Blood Debt for Blood Plan.
• Great Xia’s thirty-six underground cities survived the nuclear attacks without casualties as the surface was devastated, while other countries faced shortages, isolation, and political unrest.
• Liu Yishou’s fleet defeated a Demon Clan force of over sixty thousand underwater, and Long Zhan told Lin Mo that more than ten thousand nuclear bombs had detonated on Blue Star.
• Ao Lingsi’s forces attacked the machine-run ruins of Kona Star, lost their wormhole entrance to nuclear strikes, and then departed for Terra after learning that Vel'Koz had been killed.
• Lin Mo secured World Tree Seeds, Holy Water, Purification Scrolls, ores, and other supplies, and renewed Wukong’s contract while hiring Warwick as a Seventh Order fighter.
• Great Xia presented its custom weapons to the allied races, including artillery for Warwick and the Half-Orcs, a Nuclear Fusion Reactor, and equipment for the Treants.

Lin Mo helped equip the Terra Continent’s allied races, established portals and trade, then planted World Trees in Antarctica with nuclear devices. Their growth lowered radiation, and Great Xia destroyed the surface access routes of rival underground cities after Eagle Country attacked the trees.

• Warwick and the other allied races tested Great Xia’s weapons, and soldiers outfitted five dragons and two Treants with powerful armaments.
• Lin Mo and the clan leaders agreed to build permanent portals, and messengers rode missiles back to their territories while the portals were prepared.
• The Pope, Elf Queen Ellari, Dwarf King Muradin, Old Wolf King, and Dragon King arrived through the portals, and Great Xia began trading with their peoples.
• Yadis sold Lin Mo ten thousand cubic meters of suspension crystal, and Lin Mo traveled from Kyoto to Antarctica with a World Tree Seed.
• Lin Mo used the Pangu Mecha to place four nuclear devices around a seed near Tianyong Underground City, where the World Tree quickly sprouted and drew energy from their radiation.
• Lin Mo planted another seed near Tianji Underground City, while the Kyoto World Tree reached the surface and grew rapidly as Elder Zhao broadcast its image to the Underground Cities.
• Mars sent drones to investigate and attack the World Tree, but Great Xia’s defenses shot them down as Chen Jianguo confirmed that radiation beneath the tree had fallen to human-tolerable levels.
• Chen Jianguo and Great Xia forces launched missiles against nearly a hundred non-Great Xia underground cities, destroying their elevator passages and leaving them sealed underground.

Lin Mo helped Great Xia strengthen its defenses while Terra’s races used its weapons to drive back the Demon Clan. The arc ended with diplomatic delegations arriving at Great Xia’s underground base as Lin Mo arranged for Dwarf craftsmen to inscribe the spacecraft.

• Lin Mo helped the World Tree ripen seven Life Fruits by directing Liu Chengen to raise the reactors to full output, then learned that Elder Zhao had ordered other underground cities’ elevator shafts destroyed after Eagle Country’s drone attack.
• Lin Mo and Long Zhan reviewed the Demon Clan’s portal threat as Great Xia tested Plasma Rifles and cannons, while Long Zhan warned that Great Xia still lacked weapons capable of stopping eighth-order demons.
• Adrian led the Elves into battle with Treant Fortresses, artillery, and magic, forcing the Demon Clan to retreat after heavy losses.
• Yadis led armed Dragons against a much larger Demon Clan force, and Great Xia’s cannons, lasers, and missiles shattered the demons’ formations.
• The Old Wolf King organized 150,000 Half-Orcs for a counterattack, and Usok, Talos, and Nar led them against Pyke’s 600,000-strong army.
• The Half-Orcs’ ammunition ran low, but Winged People and mounted tribal allies reinforced them, helping drive the Demon Clan into retreat as the allied forces won the battle.
• Usok urged the Half-Orc chiefs to unite under a Beast King and centralize purchases of Great Xia’s weapons, while Lin Mo and Great Xia’s officers reviewed the races’ victories and the Dwarves’ newly built tanks.
• Lin Mo agreed to diplomatic visits between Great Xia and Terra’s races, then asked Thorin Ironbeard to provide craftsmen to inscribe a massive rune circle across the spacecraft.
• The delegations arrived at Great Xia’s underground base, where Liu Youwan introduced its expanded underground city and Grom volunteered to take the Half-Orcs in a second elevator group.