Chapter Summaries

Lin Mo and Great Xia’s weapons killed Vel'Koz with a nuclear strike, and the battle at the coastal defensive line turned into a rout for the Demon Clan. The other races watched the mushroom cloud in shock, leaving Yadis asking whether Great Xia would sell them such weapons.

• Six missiles pursued Vel'Koz and herded him into the path of the final nuclear bomb, which killed him in a massive blast.
• Warwick and Wukong survived the shock wave and concluded that Vel'Koz could not have escaped the strike.
• The Demon Clan army retreated as soldiers at the defensive line watched the mushroom cloud and wondered whether Vel'Koz had been killed.
• Kael, Elder Muyu, Adrian, Thorin, and Yadis reacted with shock to Great Xia's weapon and its power over a seventh-order Demon Venerable.
• Yadis asked Elder Muyu whether Great Xia sold the weapons, and Elder Muyu answered with a bitter smile that it was unlikely.

Lin Mo confirmed that the nuclear blast had killed Vel'Koz, then used Holy Light Purification to reduce the radiation around the sea to safe levels. He returned to Great Xia's fief, where the soldiers and commanders praised him.

• Lin Mo scanned the blast site while Warwick and Wukong searched for signs of life, and they confirmed that Vel'Koz was dead.
• Lin Mo used Holy Light Purification to clear the radioactive contamination from the surrounding sea and air.
• Lin Mo flew back to Great Xia's fief with Warwick and Wukong after radiation levels dropped to a safe range.
• The soldiers cheered Lin Mo, and Long Zhan and Zhao Gang congratulated him for defeating the Seventh-Order Demon Venerable.
• Lin Mo credited the nuclear bomb, Warwick, Wukong, and the mecha for the victory.

Liu Chengen and Qian Zhenhua revealed that Demon Clan corpses could be processed into extremely energy-dense Energy Blocks and valuable minerals, so Long Zhan’s order to burn the bodies was halted. Lin Mo and the others were left stunned by the scale of energy a high-order Demon Clan corpse could yield and how difficult it would be to store the same amount with Great Xia technology.

• Long Zhan ordered the Demon Clan corpses collected and burned to prevent them from breeding a plague.
• Liu Chengen and Qian Zhenhua rushed over and told Long Zhan not to burn the corpses because they had discovered their uses.
• Liu Chengen showed the group an Energy Block extracted from a fourth-order Demon Clan member, and Qian Zhenhua said its energy density was 9,873 times that of a lithium battery.
• Liu Chengen explained that Demon Clan corpses could also yield metals and minerals because the Demon Clan mainly ate minerals to strengthen their bodies and advance in order.
• Liu Chengen estimated that a seventh-order Demon Venerable could yield a billion kilowatt-hours of energy, enough to require 25,000 Dalian All-Vanadium Flow Battery Projects to store with current Great Xia technology.

After the battle, Lin Mo and the others learned that Demon Clan corpses could yield powerful Energy Blocks and rare metals, then organized the soldiers to recover them. With energy storage and other technological breakthroughs accelerating plans for spaceships, Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that his arrival had ushered in a great era, just as someone called out to ask how the Mecha had performed.

• Liu Chengen and Qian Zhenhua explained that Demon Clan Energy Blocks could solve humanity’s energy-storage problem and that Demon Clan corpses contained valuable rare metals.
• Lin Mo regretted destroying the seventh-order Demon Venerable with a nuclear bomb, but Long Zhan reminded him that the bomb had saved their lives.
• Lin Mo ordered the soldiers to collect every Demon Clan corpse, and thousands of troops hauled remains ashore and loaded them onto trucks.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that advances in materials, nuclear fusion, and Energy Blocks had brought spaceship construction within reach.
• Zhao Gang credited Lin Mo with ushering in a great era, and someone behind him called out to ask how the Mecha had performed.

Lin Mo’s group successfully processed a Demon Clan corpse into an energy block, and Great Xia agreed to buy demon corpses from the otherworldly races. As construction advanced in the fief, Liu Yishou prepared a heavily modified fleet at Great Xia’s Arctic base without knowing what it would fight.

• Zhao Kexia confirmed the Pangu Mecha was in good condition and hurried off to maintain it and replenish its ammunition.
• Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen completed the Demon Clan Processing Plant’s system checks, and its first test produced an energy block capable of storing ten thousand kilowatt-hours of electricity.
• Lin Mo explained the energy blocks to Kael, Elder Muyu, Thorin, Grom, and the other representatives, then agreed that Great Xia could buy the Demon Clan corpses they collected.
• Long Zhan reported that the canal was nearing completion and the Blue Star tunnel was almost through, while Zhao Gang said Liu Yishou had assembled a fleet.
• At Great Xia’s Arctic Naval Base, Liu Yishou studied orders to prepare a fleet and one hundred thousand naval personnel, puzzled by the ships’ unusual modifications for underwater combat.

Liu Yishou finalized the 100,000-member fleet roster and received orders from Elder Zhao to join the New Hope Plan. He led the First Expeditionary Fleet toward the Arctic army base, unaware of what awaited them.

• Liu Yishou personally reviewed the NCO records, and the 100,000-member roster was finalized after three days.
• A modified Type 055 destroyer tested its underwater weapons in Arctic waters, accidentally stunning thousands of Arctic cod and drawing complaints from the crew.
• Liu Yishou surveyed the assembled fleet of carriers, warships, submarines, and support vessels at the harbor.
• Elder Zhao ordered Liu Yishou to take the fleet to the Arctic army base and revealed that it would officially join the New Hope Plan.
• Liu Yishou ordered the First Expeditionary Fleet to set sail, and the ships broke through the Arctic ice toward the base.

Liu Yishou led the Great Xia Navy fleet through a hidden Arctic canal and lock into an underground base, where he discovered a portal showing a sunlit world. Long Zhan revealed that it was the Astral Portal and welcomed Liu Yishou to the New Hope Plan.

• Liu Yishou reached the Arctic Army Base’s coordinates and verified his identity over the communicator.
• A passage opened in an iceberg, and Liu Yishou ordered the fleet into the artificial canal.
• Liu Yishou guided the fleet through a massive lock, dismantling the aircraft carriers’ bridges so they could pass.
• The Kunlun descended through the lock and arrived inside the underground base.
• Liu Yishou saw a giant glowing frame that opened onto a sunny world, despite it being three in the morning outside.
• Long Zhan told Liu Yishou that the gate was the Astral Portal and welcomed him to the New Hope Plan.

Liu Yishou led the fleet through an Astral Portal from Blue Star to an unfamiliar world and saw its strange wildlife and inhabitants. He reached shore to confront Long Zhan and demand an explanation.

• Liu Yishou ordered the fleet to enter the Portal after Long Zhan told him to see the other world for himself.
• The Kunlun and the fleet emerged into sunlit waters, where Liu Yishou confirmed they had lost contact with Blue Star and were receiving new satellite signals.
• Liu Yishou ordered the fleet to assemble in formation and forbade the soldiers from acting without authorization.
• After the fleet passed through, Liu Yishou took a landing craft ashore and spotted Long Zhan beside a mage, a dwarf, a dragon, and a centaur.
• Liu Yishou strode toward Long Zhan and demanded to know what was happening.

Lin Mo and Zhao Gang showed the other races Great Xia’s aircraft carrier and warships, explaining their uses and agreeing that modified warships could be sold to them. The chapter ended as Liu Yishou arrived and demanded that Long Zhan explain what was happening.

• Kael, Elder Muyu, Thorin, Adrian, Warwick, and Yadis watched Great Xia’s fleet emerge from the portal and stared in shock at the Kunlun Aircraft Carrier.
• Lin Mo explained that the carrier transported aircraft, while Zhao Gang described the warships’ weapons and role in defending Great Xia’s fief from the Demon Clan.
• Kael and Elder Muyu asked whether Great Xia would sell warships, and Zhao Gang agreed to sell modified vessels after basic training, though he could not yet quote a price.
• Thorin considered studying the ships and worried that Dwarf Mountain City would struggle to compete with Great Xia’s shipbuilding.
• Liu Yishou arrived at the docks and angrily demanded an explanation from Long Zhan.

Long Zhan introduced Liu Yishou to Lin Mo, the leader of the New Hope Plan, and the representatives of the Terra Continent’s races. Liu overcame his shock at seeing the dragon and other races, then followed Long Zhan into the Fief to learn about the situation.

• Long Zhan introduced Lin Mo as the core leader of the New Hope Plan, and Liu Yishou greeted him and Zhao Gang.
• Liu mistook Warwick, a werewolf commander, for a husky that had become a spirit until Zhao Gang gave him a translator earpiece.
• Liu saw the approaching representatives of several races and a hundred-meter dragon, mistook the dragon for a dinosaur, and reached for his pistol before Zhao Gang stopped him.
• Zhao Gang introduced Liu to Kael, Thorin, Elder Muyu, Grom, Warwick, and Yadis, and Liu accepted that they were real.
• Long Zhan led Liu along the dock road into the Fief and began explaining the situation as they passed an active construction site.

Long Zhan explained Great Xia’s foothold on the Terra Continent, its war against the Demon Clan, and how demon corpses could provide valuable resources. He brought Liu Yishou to the Weapons Design Research Institute, where they were developing custom weapons for the continent’s races.

• Long Zhan told Liu Yishou how Lin Mo’s discovery led Great Xia to establish trade and secure a fief on the Terra Continent, where several races faced the Demon Clan’s invasion.
• Long Zhan explained that the Demon Clan had attacked the fief, including with a Seventh Order Demon Venerable, and that Great Xia could extract Energy Blocks and rare materials from demon corpses.
• Liu Yishou examined information about the continent and its demons, then promised to help protect the fief and joked with Long Zhan about missing earlier military merits.
• Long Zhan described plans to expand the fief seaward and strengthen its naval defenses.
• Long Zhan showed Liu Yishou the Weapons Design Research Institute, where Great Xia was designing portable artillery for Half-Orcs, mobile fortresses for Elves, and back-mounted long-range weapons for the Dragons Clan.

Liu Yishou saw weaponized treant and dragon designs at Great Xia’s Arctic Base, while Mars learned that Eagle Country’s spies had uncovered clues about the secretive New Hope Plan. The intelligence left Mars convinced Great Xia had found an underground world, with a photograph of a gigantic tree as apparent evidence.

• Long Zhan brought Liu Yishou into a research office, where Liu saw designs for a treant and dragon covered in weapons.
• Long Zhan told Liu Yishou to acclimate before joining live-fire exercises against the Demon Clan in the sea.
• Mars reviewed a report stating that Great Xia had captured three high-level moles and seven ordinary spies, while another mole at its Arctic Base had gone missing.
• The intelligence director told Mars that Great Xia’s fleet and Arctic Base had undergone extensive preparations, and that the activity appeared linked to the New Hope Plan and its advanced technologies.
• The intelligence director proposed that Great Xia had discovered an underground world and that its fleet modifications were meant to fight underwater creatures.
• Mars examined a photograph of a tree over four hundred meters tall beneath the Arctic Base and asked what it was.

After learning about the glowing giant tree beneath Great Xia’s Arctic Base, Mars ordered special forces to infiltrate the base and tried to pressure Great Xia into sharing its discoveries. Great Xia refused, and Mars learned that three squads were already en route to the base.

• The intelligence director showed Mars a verified photograph of a huge, glowing tree in Great Xia’s New Kyoto Underground City and said it suggested a connection to an underground world.
• The intelligence director warned that Great Xia’s technology and resources could surpass Eagle Country’s, and recommended sending special forces to investigate the Arctic Base.
• Mars approved the operation, then called Great Xia’s foreign affairs chief, Zhao Mingyuan, to demand that Great Xia disclose its discoveries and develop them jointly with other nations.
• Zhao Mingyuan rejected Mars’s request, said Great Xia did not need to explain its internal affairs, and ended the call.
• After Mars smashed a glass in anger, the intelligence director told him that three elite squads totaling forty-five people were already heading toward the Arctic Base and would arrive in twelve hours.

Mars ordered Eagle Country to infiltrate Great Xia’s Arctic base and uncover the underground world, despite warnings that the mission could be fatal. Three special forces squads disabled the base’s systems and breached its defenses with surprising ease, then split up to descend through the elevators.

• Mars ordered the intelligence director to send agents into Great Xia’s Arctic base and obtain information before they died.
• Falcon’s Number Three squad reached the buried defense cable, used a zero-day exploit to disable the base’s system, and signaled the other squads to proceed.
• Night Owl and Viper led Number One and Number Two in silently taking down the sentries and entering the darkened base.
• The two squads reached five elevators and split up, with Night Owl’s squad taking the oversized elevator alongside two military trucks.
• As the elevator descended, Night Owl’s soldiers took cover behind the trucks and aimed their weapons at the doors.

Great Xia captured three teams of Eagle Country special forces after luring them into a trap at the Arctic Army Base. Elder Zhao and the other leaders then agreed to launch the Clearance Plan, setting off a major escalation as Great Xia mobilized and a nuclear bomb launched from Eagle Country’s Antarctic territory toward an underground city.

• Night Owl and Viper’s teams were sealed in the Arctic base corridors, overcome by gas, and captured after their explosives failed to breach the Zheng Gold gates.
• A Great Xia officer revealed that the intruders had hacked only an obsolete system and ordered the other invading unit to be trapped the same way.
• Elder Zhao told four leaders that all forty-five infiltrators had been captured and that Great Xia’s underground cities were nearly ready.
• Elder Zhao proposed the Clearance Plan, and the leaders agreed to turn Eagle Country’s scheme against it.
• Great Xia exposed the infiltration, declared retaliation, mobilized its forces, and ordered citizens into underground cities.
• A nuclear bomb launched from Eagle Country’s Antarctic territory toward a Great Xia underground city in Antarctica.

A nuclear missile exploded above Great Xia’s Antarctic Underground City, prompting Great Xia to announce a worldwide nuclear response and blame Eagle Country. Mars denied ordering the strike, but other nations threatened to retaliate, and he was left facing an incoming call from parliament and the military.

• A nuclear explosion struck above Great Xia’s Antarctic Underground City, leaving its underground facilities unharmed.
• Mars learned that the missile had launched from Eagle Country’s territory and that Great Xia had begun nuclear bundling.
• Great Xia’s spokesperson broadcast footage of the launch and accused Eagle Country of the nuclear strike and an earlier Arctic Base attack.
• Mars discovered Eagle Country’s nuclear weapons were all accounted for, leaving the missile’s origin unexplained.
• Other countries’ leaders accused Mars and threatened nuclear retaliation unless Great Xia stopped its attack.
• Mars accepted a video call request from Eagle Country’s parliament and military.

Mars tried to stop the nuclear retaliation after a nuclear bomb launched from Eagle Country triggered Great Xia’s response, but Elder Zhao refused to halt the missiles. As nuclear powers across Blue Star launched their own missiles, attacks crippled communications and command systems, leaving the world on the brink of destruction.

• Mars denied ordering the nuclear launch and accused Great Xia of setting a trap.
• Mars contacted Elder Zhao and demanded that Great Xia halt its nuclear launches, but Elder Zhao cited the missile launch and attacks on Great Xia as reasons for retaliation.
• Mars ordered interceptor launches and activated Eagle Country’s nuclear retaliation pact after learning Great Xia’s missiles were approaching.
• Global surveillance showed interception systems failing against Great Xia’s missiles, then revealed that countries across the world had launched their own nuclear missiles.
• Mars collapsed as alarms reported attacks on networks, satellites, underground cities, fleet command, and guidance systems.

Great Xia’s nuclear attack devastated targets in the Arctic and Antarctica while Eagle Country’s command systems failed. An earth-penetrating bomb struck an underground fortress where Eagle Country’s aristocrats were sheltering, leaving them trapped as it began to collapse.

• Mars knelt in Eagle Country’s command center as technicians reported that its satellite guidance, communications, and interceptor systems had failed.
• Great Xia’s nuclear bombs struck several countries in the Arctic, igniting widespread explosions across the polar region.
• Hundreds of Great Xia’s bombs reached Antarctica and detonated, setting the ice fields ablaze.
• Eagle Country civilians panicked above ground while aristocrats watched them from underground bunkers and mocked them.
• An earth-penetrating nuclear bomb hit the fortress above Antarctica’s underground city, shaking it and cracking its walls.
• The aristocrats panicked and tried to escape as the fortress groaned under the blast.

Elder Zhao and Great Xia’s leaders faced an incoming nuclear counterattack as missiles targeted the nation’s thirty-six underground cities. While other countries abandoned citizens at capacity-limited shelters, Great Xia admitted everyone, and Elder Zhao insisted its deep bunkers could withstand the strikes.

• A ceiling collapse devastated an Eagle Country underground fortress monitoring room, while crowds outside underground cities across the world were turned away.
• Great Xia opened all thirty-six underground cities and transferred its citizens inside without abandoning anyone.
• In New Kyoto’s command center, officers reported widespread nuclear launches, satellite destruction, cyberattacks, and 1,611 bombs targeting Great Xia’s underground cities.
• A leader questioned whether Great Xia could survive the attacks, and Elder Zhao said the bunkers’ depth would protect them from bunker-busting bombs.
• Another leader doubted that Lin Mo’s magic, the World Tree, the Purification Scrolls, and the Blue Star Engine Project could save Blue Star, prompting Elder Zhao to explain the source of his confidence.

Elder Zhao reaffirmed Great Xia’s plans to rebuild Blue Star and ordered a nuclear assault on Cherry Blossom Country. The attack began tearing through the soil above Cherry Blossom Underground City, leaving its leaders fearing the bombs would eventually reach them.

• Elder Zhao told Great Xia’s leaders that the World Tree, Purification Scrolls, and Blue Star Engine Plan would allow the country to recover and become an interstellar civilization within ten years.
• An information officer reported that thirty-seven nuclear bombs had reached the skies above Cherry Blossom Country’s underground city, and Elder Zhao ordered the Blood Debt for Blood Plan carried out.
• Cherry Blossom Country’s Archon watched from the underground command center as nuclear strikes vaporized people on the surface and destroyed the country’s facilities.
• Earth-penetrating nuclear bombs, strengthened with the Dwarves’ Sharpness Runes, blasted progressively deeper holes above the underground city.
• Technicians reported that the fifteenth bomb had reached five hundred meters, and Cherry Blossom Country’s Archon feared Great Xia would eventually break through the soil above them.