Chapter Summaries

Great Xia’s nuclear strike destroyed Cherry Blossom Underground City and wiped out Cherry Blossom Country. As Elder Zhao mourned the ancestors who had been avenged, three nuclear bombs breached Great Xia’s defenses, leaving its Underground City bracing for impact.

• Thirty-three nuclear bombs cracked Cherry Blossom Underground City’s dome, and the thirty-fourth detonated on its first level.
• Further nuclear bombs destroyed the city’s lower levels until the thirty-seventh collapsed the entire structure, killing everyone inside.
• An information officer reported that the Blood Debt for Blood Plan had succeeded and that Cherry Blossom Country had no survivors.
• Elder Zhao watched the crater and murmured that Great Xia’s forebears could rest in peace.
• An officer reported that three nuclear bombs had penetrated Great Xia’s defenses and would hit in ten seconds.
• Great Xia’s residents took shelter as the alarms counted down, while an old man reassured his grandson that their country was with them.

Great Xia’s Underground Cities survived a global nuclear assault with no casualties, while Blue Star’s surface was devastated and nuclear winter began. Elder Zhao ordered continued monitoring, repairs, and preparations to keep Great Xia’s people safe and isolated from threats outside.

• Elder Zhao received confirmation that Tianxuan Underground City survived its first nuclear strikes with no internal damage or civilian casualties, and he warned that more than sixteen hundred bombs were still incoming.
• Great Xia’s defenses intercepted incoming Nuclear Bombs as nuclear explosions, earthquakes, tsunamis, radiation, and ecological collapse devastated Blue Star’s surface.
• Elder Zhao observed that Great Xia retained half its Satellites while the other major countries lost theirs, leaving them unable to monitor the outside world.
• Communications officers reported that all thirty-six Underground Cities endured the nuclear strikes with zero casualties and less structural damage than expected.
• Elder Zhao ordered radiation monitoring, medical care, passage repairs, stable supply distribution, public order measures, and global Drone surveillance to destroy other countries’ unmanned equipment.

Great Xia expanded construction and prepared new technologies and population growth while Eagle Country and European Country faced shortages, isolation, and political strain in their Underground Cities. The chapter left the European Archon blaming Eagle Country for provoking Great Xia’s retaliation as both countries struggled to survive.

• Great Xia launched another wave of Underground City construction, prioritized tunnel links and high-speed rail, and prepared new industries and a baby-making plan.
• Mars learned Eagle Country had only ten years of supplies, no surviving Satellites, and no safe way to reach the surface or contact other Underground Cities.
• Mars demanded a plan for joint retaliation against Great Xia, then learned legislators, generals, and tycoons were coming to demand an explanation from him.
• The European Archon ordered rationing, with the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled receiving half rations, after officials estimated supplies would last fifteen years or twenty with reduced portions.
• The European Archon and other countries blamed Eagle Country for launching the first nuclear bomb and provoking Great Xia’s retaliatory strikes.

Great Xia’s fleet conducted a live-fire naval exercise off Endless Plains and attacked a Demon Clan horde discovered underwater. The exercise ended with a submarine testing its Electric Eel System, leaving the horde incapacitated and vulnerable to torpedoes.

• Bear Country’s general ordered the Doomsday Act activated and opponents eliminated after officials reported only twelve years of supplies.
• Lin Mo and the other representatives observed Great Xia’s naval exercise from the Kunlun Aircraft Carrier while Yadis patrolled overhead.
• Liu Yishou ordered the fleet to attack after sonar detected over sixty thousand Demon Clan members underwater.
• The fleet bombarded the horde with torpedoes, guns, missiles, depth charges, and underwater weapons, forcing the Demon Clan to scatter.
• A submarine lured Demon Clan members close and activated its Electric Eel System, incapacitating those within a one-kilometer radius.
• The submarine fired torpedoes at the surviving high-ranking Demon Clan units.

After the fleet tested Great Xia’s powerful Electric Eel weapons against the Demon Clan, Lin Mo learned that a full-scale nuclear war had devastated Blue Star. He discovered that Cherry Blossom Country had been destroyed and proposed sharing the news with the soldiers.

• The submarine’s Electric Eel System exceeded its expected combat performance, and Kael and Elder Muyu asked about buying the weapon.
• The fleet killed or drove off most of the more than sixty thousand demons, completed its exercise, and returned to Great Xia’s Fief.
• Long Zhan told Lin Mo and Liu Yishou that more than ten thousand nuclear bombs had detonated on Blue Star after Eagle Country launched the first one.
• Lin Mo and Liu Yishou checked the internal briefings and learned that Great Xia had suffered relatively few losses, while many countries had lost surface facilities, people, and communications.
• Long Zhan revealed that thirty-seven bombs had blasted through Cherry Blossom Country’s underground city, destroying everyone inside.
• Lin Mo and Liu Yishou celebrated Cherry Blossom Country’s destruction, and Lin Mo suggested announcing the news to the soldiers on New Year’s Day.

Eighth Order Demon God Ao Lingsi led a Demon Clan invasion of Kona Star, where automated defenses fought back against the invading forces. After breaking through to the surface, Ao Lingsi faced a full-scale counterattack from the planet’s artificial intelligence.

• A Space-Jumping Beast opened a wormhole from Kona Star’s moon, and Ao Lingsi led Demon Clan commanders and soldiers through it.
• Robots attacked the demons in an underground tunnel, but Ao Lingsi’s domain and the commanders’ forces pushed them back.
• Ao Lingsi ordered Burrowing Earth Dragons to dig passages and punched through the tunnel’s alloy ceiling to reach the surface.
• Ao Lingsi emerged in the ruins of the extinct Kona Civilization, whose machines continued operating under artificial intelligence.
• The artificial intelligence detected Ao Lingsi and launched over a hundred nuclear bombs alongside aircraft and robot armies.

Ao Lingsi failed for the tenth time to land on Kona Star after its nuclear defenses destroyed the Demon Clan army emerging from a wormhole. Learning that Vel'Koz had also fallen to Great Xia on Terra, Ao Lingsi ordered Alpha to keep besieging Kona and led Komodo and an army toward Terra to stabilize the front.

• Ao Lingsi intercepted and detonated most of the nuclear bombs targeting it, but others destroyed the wormhole entrance and the Demon Clan army that had emerged.
• Ao Lingsi retreated to the satellite and recognized that Kona Star's machine-run defenses made it too difficult to conquer for now.
• A subordinate told Ao Lingsi that Vel'Koz had been killed by nuclear weapons on the Terra ocean battlefield, following Malphite's death.
• Ao Lingsi ordered Alpha to maintain pressure on Kona Star and instructed Komodo to assemble his legions for the journey to Terra.
• Ao Lingsi departed with the army, expecting the trip through multiple wormholes to take more than a month.

After Blue Star’s nuclear war left its surface heavily irradiated, Lin Mo arranged to buy World Tree Seeds and resources from the Elves, believing Great Xia’s nuclear reactors could accelerate the trees’ growth. He left the Elven camp optimistic that World Trees could help restore Blue Star far faster than nature alone would allow.

• Zhao Gang asked Lin Mo to negotiate with the Elves for World Tree Seeds and buy Holy Water, ores, and other supplies while Zhao went to the refining Demon Clan Factory.
• Elder Muyu explained that World Tree Seeds formed inside Life Fruits, and that leaving one fruit on a tree could speed the process but weaken the tree for a hundred years.
• Elder Muyu said energy crystals could accelerate fruiting, and Lin Mo realized Great Xia’s Nuclear Fission Reactors could provide abundant energy.
• Elder Muyu offered two World Tree Seeds at the established price of a hundred million gold coins each, and Lin Mo agreed to buy both.
• Lin Mo also ordered ores, mithril, and energy crystals, while Elder Muyu accepted accumulated purchase credit and sealed the deal with a Magic Contract.
• Lin Mo left the Elven camp planning to use nuclear energy to make the World Trees bear fruit rapidly and help purify Blue Star.

Lin Mo completed purchases with the Holy Human Race and renewed the Half-Orcs’ employment contract before inspecting the Demon Clan recycling factory. Zhao Gang reported that new electromagnetic cannons had made a major leap in power, leaving Lin Mo more confident about fighting the Demon Clan.

• Lin Mo negotiated a large purchase of ores, Purification Scrolls, and Holy Water with Kael, and they signed a Magic Contract allowing the Holy Human Race to accumulate credit.
• Lin Mo renewed Wukong’s employment for six months and hired Warwick as a second Seventh Order fighter, and Warwick eagerly signed the contract.
• Lin Mo visited the Demon Clan Biological Recycling and Processing Center, where Zhao Gang showed him how Demon Clan corpses were processed into Energy Blocks.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that Great Xia had developed more powerful Gauss weapons and electromagnetic cannons, whose muzzle velocity was five times that of conventional shells and whose destructive power was over ten times greater.
• Lin Mo said he had come to adjust Energy Block production standards and joked with Zhao Gang about whether Great Xia would have to breed the Demon Clan if they exterminated them.

Lin Mo and the other representatives gathered at the Weapon Testing Ground to receive the first custom weapons made for the various races. The Half-Orc Clan began testing its powerful new artillery as the other races watched.

• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that the recovered Demon Clan corpses were still being processed and that the first custom weapons would be ready the next day.
• Lin Mo arrived at the Weapon Testing Ground, where representatives of the Holy Human Race, Elves, Dwarf Clan, Dragons Clan, and Half-Orc Clan awaited the weapon convoy.
• Great Xia soldiers unloaded the custom weapons, including a massive cannon, a Nuclear Fusion Reactor, a Prism Tower, and mounting devices for the Treants.
• Warwick received a Back-Mounted Artillery piece and AI-Assisted Glasses that displayed an aiming interface and predicted shell impacts.
• Half-Orc warriors collected their artillery and other weapons, and Warwick headed to the Shooting Range to test his equipment as the other representatives followed.

Great Xia soldiers demonstrated heavy weapons and explosives to the Half-Orcs, who used their strength, speed, and flight to destroy distant targets. The Winged Person finished his demonstration by bringing out a Snap-Pop Hand Grenade and C4 Explosive.

• Warwick fired a cannon without its support frame, endured the recoil, and destroyed targets five kilometers away, impressing the Great Xia soldiers and Half-Orcs.
• A Fourth Order Bearman Half-Orc used the cannon with its support frame and celebrated being able to fire one for the first time.
• A Centaur threw impact grenades while galloping, demolishing targets as Lin Mo, Zhao Gang, Adrian, Elder Muyu, and Kael praised the Half-Orcs' new tactics.
• A Winged Person fired a sniper cannon at aerial targets and destroyed them before taking a Snap-Pop Hand Grenade and C4 Explosive from his Spatial Ring.

A Winged People fighter jet demonstration showed the Half-Orcs how their new weapons could destroy ground and aerial targets, prompting Warwick to vow revenge on the Demon Clan. Meanwhile, soldiers finished mounting modular weapons and AI systems on five dragons.

• A Winged People warrior bombed and strafed targets, launched a rocket at an aerial target, and destroyed a cluster of ground targets with a Small Aerial Bomb.
• Warwick, Lin Mo, Zhao Gang, Kael, Adrian, and Elder Muyu praised the weapons and discussed how they would transform the Half-Orcs’ fighting tactics.
• Lin Mo urged Warwick’s people to train with their equipment, and Warwick rallied the Half-Orc warriors to prepare to make the Demon Clan pay.
• Soldiers used cranes to install Giant Cannons, Prism Towers, missiles, autocannons, rocket pods, and Helmet-Mounted AI Systems on five dragons.
• The installation crews completed outfitting all five dragons.

Lin Mo and the others watched five weaponized dragons demonstrate the power of their cannons, Prism Tower, autocannons, missiles, and rockets. As the dragons proved capable of devastating the test range, the chapter ended with soldiers and Elves finishing the installation of weapons on two Treants.

• Yadis and four other dragons took flight after soldiers finished installing their weapons.
• Yadis fired a super-heavy cannon that destroyed a fifty-meter Siege Beast target and blasted a huge crater into the hill.
• A dragon equipped with a Prism Tower swept a laser across the range, slicing apart dozens of targets.
• The five dragons unleashed autocannons, missiles, and rockets, leveling the testing area and leaving the onlookers stunned.
• Elder Muyu looked toward two Treants as soldiers and Elves completed the installation of their weapons.

The Elves armed two Treants with steel fortresses and an array of weapons, turning them into mobile strongholds. After the Treants demonstrated their mobility and unleashed overwhelming firepower, the crowd recognized their potential to help the Elves withstand the Demon Clan.

• Soldiers secured Zheng Gold Alloy fortresses and mounted an array of weapons onto two Treants.
• Kael, Thorin, Warwick, Adrian, and Elder Muyu reacted to the Treants as heavily armed war machines, while Adrian and Elder Muyu celebrated the Elves gaining greater strength against the Demon Clan.
• Lin Mo explained that Zheng Gold alloy and Dwarven Weight-Reduction Runes kept the fortresses light enough for the Treants to move.
• Treant One walked to its position and rooted itself, setting its fortress down as a steel stronghold.
• Adrian ordered the weapons fired, and the Treants destroyed the test targets with artillery, rockets, autocannons, lasers, and close-in weapons.
• The fortress firing ports opened, revealing nearly a hundred cannon muzzles, and the Elves fired through them as the crowd watched in silence.

Lin Mo offered Great Xia’s allies weapons and proposed building portals to improve transport and trade. The races agreed to establish portals, and Lin Mo urged them to choose permanent ones as trade expanded.

• Zhao Gang explained that Great Xia’s limited production capacity meant the Half-Orcs would receive equipment for 200 people, the Elves five Treant weapon sets, and the Dragons three by the next afternoon.
• Lin Mo suggested building portals in Great Xia’s fief, and he argued that easier travel and trade would benefit every race.
• Adrian, Thorin, Warwick, and Yadis agreed to build portals linking their territories with Great Xia’s fief.
• Kael asked whether the races wanted temporary or permanent portals, and Lin Mo recommended permanent ones to support equipment transport, maintenance, and future trade.

The race representatives agreed to build Portals to Great Xia, despite Kael's expensive wartime prices. When messengers faced a long journey to seek approval, Lin Mo proposed launching them on missiles, leaving everyone stunned.

• Elder Muyu, Yadis, Warwick, and Thorin requested permanent Portals of different sizes for their races.
• Kael quoted high prices, and the representatives reluctantly agreed to pay for their Portals.
• Kael gave the representatives Spatial Crystals and arranged for a Holy Light Knight to carry his request to the Pope.
• Lin Mo suggested sending messengers back on missiles, and the warriors recoiled at the idea.
• Lin Mo explained that they could use blank rounds, secure the passengers, and provide parachutes, prompting Zhao Gang to see potential in the plan.

Zhao Gang and Lin Mo arranged for four sixth-rank warriors from allied races to ride Long Sword-10A missiles back to their cities. The missiles launched successfully, and the Command Center reported that they were on course to arrive within two hours.

• Zhao Gang quoted the missile price to the representatives, who agreed to send one warrior each as passengers.
• Zhao Gang explained how the warriors would exit the missiles and parachute down, while Elder Muyu said the nearby Elves could notify the Dragons Clan.
• Lin Mo had Rocket Force soldiers weld handles onto the missiles after they struggled to secure the warriors with ropes.
• Kael cast Holy Light's protection on the four warriors, and Zhao Gang authorized their launch.
• The four missiles blasted into the sky with the warriors clinging to them, and the Command Center reported that all had reached cruising altitude and were tracking normally.

Zhao Gang reassured the allied races that Great Xia’s missiles could carry Sixth-Rank warriors safely across long distances. An Elf Warrior arrived at Avenor City by parachute, while a Holy Human Knight approached Holy Light City aboard another missile, astonishing the Pope.

• Zhao Gang explained to the race representatives that the Long Sword-10A missiles traveled at a speed their Sixth-Rank warriors could handle.
• A Sixth-Rank Elf Warrior admired the scenery as his missile carried him toward the Elves’ territory.
• The Elf Warrior parachuted down beneath the World Tree, landed near Avenor City, and hurried to speak with Her Majesty the Queen.
• A Holy Human Race Sixth-Rank Knight rode a missile toward Holy Light City, marveling at Great Xia’s power.
• The Pope spotted the Knight riding the missile and struggled to believe what he was seeing.

Messengers from Mountain City and the Half-Orc tribe returned by passenger-carrying missiles, while Zhao Gang and Lin Mo prepared for the races to establish portals and begin trade. The messengers arrived safely overall, though Da Niu ended up hanging from a tree after her parachute caught on a branch.

• A Dwarf warrior escaped three Winged Demons when Great Xia remotely accelerated his missile, then parachuted down and returned to Mountain City through a hidden passage.
• The Dwarf warrior found imitation tanks parading through Mountain City as the Dwarves cheered.
• Da Niu reached her Half-Orc tribe by missile but opened her parachute too close to the ground and got caught in a tree.
• A command center staff member reported that all four messengers had reached their destinations, and Zhao Gang approved the results.
• Lin Mo noted that the portals would soon make passenger-carrying missiles unnecessary, and the representatives prepared to report to their leaders and establish portals.

Kael opened the Holy Human Race's Portal near Great Xia, and the Pope arrived and declared Lin Mo the Holy Son. Lin Mo denied the title, but Zhao Gang chose to leave the misunderstanding unresolved as he welcomed the Holy Human Race delegation.

• Representatives of the Elves, Dwarf Clan, Half-Orc Clan, and Holy Human Race argued over where to place their Portals until Kael claimed the best spot for the Holy Human Race, prompting the others to choose different locations.
• Lin Mo discussed logistics, warehousing, and a Terra Trade Center with Zhao Gang while the Holy Mage Corps drew the Teleportation Array.
• Kael activated the array and opened a Portal to Holy Light City, through which the Pope and his delegation arrived.
• Kael introduced Lin Mo and Zhao Gang to the Pope, who publicly called Lin Mo the Holy Son destined to guide the Holy Human Race.
• Lin Mo denied being the Holy Son, but Zhao Gang welcomed the Pope and decided not to correct the misunderstanding, hoping to preserve the Holy Human Race's goodwill and learn teleportation magic.