Chapter Summaries

Lin Mo explained that the Elves could not reliably assemble his weapons because their handmade parts lacked standardization and interchangeability. Fendona eagerly asked him to teach them, but Lin Mo offered no further instructions, leaving her waiting.

• Master Elder and Fendona told Lin Mo that the Elven craftsmen could not mass-produce the weapons because parts made by different craftsmen did not fit together reliably.
• Master Elder explained that the craftsmen had assembled only five Repeating Crossbows and that the Compound Bows could break when fully drawn.
• Lin Mo called the mismatched parts industrial junk and explained that weapon parts needed standardized measurements so they could be used interchangeably.
• Lin Mo told the Elves to use molds, jigs, and standardized processes instead of relying on individual craftsmanship.
• Fendona asked Lin Mo to teach the Elves standardization, and he smiled but then simply stared back at her.

Lin Mo realized he could not accurately draw standardized measuring tools for the Elves, so he returned to his modern world and reported their production needs to Zhao Gang. As Zhao Gang organized expert teams to help, Elder Zhao watched the footage of Lin Mo’s visit and saw the vast tree and the Elves’ world for himself.

• Lin Mo tried to prepare plans for standardized tools but realized he could not draw an accurate centimeter, so he told Fendona he needed to make preparations and discuss the matter with his people.
• Lin Mo returned to his modern bedroom and told Zhao Gang about the Elves’ production bottlenecks and need for standardized tools.
• Zhao Gang gave Lin Mo a secure phone with the base app and points, then began arranging for expert teams to address the Elves’ needs.
• Lin Mo ordered a feast through the app and relaxed with food and a video game.
• Elder Zhao received an encrypted video from the New Hope Team and moved to Conference Room Two to watch it on a large screen.
• Elder Zhao and Secretary Li watched footage of Lin Mo’s visit, including the enormous tree and the Elves, until the video ended.

Elder Zhao approved building goodwill with the Elves before raising the subject of World Tree seeds, while Lin Mo helped the Elves improve standardized production and devise a faster method for making arrowheads. A warning horn sounded across the camp, interrupting their preparations.

• Elder Zhao told Secretary Li to share the diplomatic report with the other four and decided to approach the Elves about the World Tree gradually.
• Lin Mo brought the Elves measuring-tool blueprints and production procedures, and Master Elder's apprentices began turning out precisely made parts.
• Fendona told Lin Mo that arrowhead production could not keep up with their bows and crossbows.
• Lin Mo proposed stamping arrowheads with a die, and Fendona rushed to put the method into practice.
• A bleak horn blast sounded from the horizon and silenced the camp.

The Demon Clan launched a surprise invasion, and Lin Mo rallied the elves to defend their city with their newly made weapons. As the defenders fought back, an Earth Python emerged from a tunnel and breached the city’s heart, plunging the elves into fresh chaos.

• A bloodied scout warned Fendona that the Demon Clan had broken through the first wooden wall.
• Lin Mo urged the panicking elves to arm themselves, and Fendona ordered Leon to lead the sharpshooters with the new weapons.
• The elves formed a defense line against the charging monsters, while Lin Mo stopped a young guard from fleeing and directed Leon’s squad to the high ground.
• Lin Mo spotted the Demon Clan gathering near a hillside, where an Earth Python burst from the ground and opened a tunnel into the elven city.

The Demon Clan broke through the tunnel with a Lich’s barrier and heavily armored troops, but the Elves used Lin Mo’s new weapons to stop their first assault. The Demon Clan then deployed Corroders whose acid beams began dissolving the treant defenses and maiming Elf guards.

• Fendona and the Elf mages killed the Earth Python after it emerged, but the Demon Clan poured through the tunnel behind it.
• Leon explained that a Lich’s barrier blocked most magic, then ordered the Compound Bow squad to use armor-piercing and explosive arrows.
• The Compound Bows pierced the demon soldiers’ bone shields, and the Elves used bows and repeating crossbows to cut down the advancing troops.
• Lin Mo grew suspicious when the Demon Clan kept attacking despite its losses, and larger beetle-like monsters emerged from the tunnel.
• Fendona warned the Elves to avoid the Corroders’ acid beams after they dissolved treants and destroyed an Elf guard’s arm.

Lin Mo halted Fendona’s suicidal charge and exploited the Corroders’ brief recovery window by ordering the earth mages to disrupt the demon formation. With the shield wall broken, Leon’s sharpshooters struck the Corroders’ swollen growths, causing their corrosive slime to devastate the demon soldiers protecting them.

• The Corroders’ corpse-armored tower-shield escorts blocked the elves’ arrows while the Corroders killed sharpshooters in the canopy.
• Fendona prepared to lead a charge, but Lin Mo stopped her and noticed that the Corroders’ growths shriveled after firing and that their guards briefly lowered their shields.
• Lin Mo ordered the crossbowmen to hold the front and the earth mages to attack the ground beneath the Corroders during their recovery.
• The earth mages disrupted the demon formation, opening gaps in the shield wall and throwing the Corroders’ next shots off course.
• Leon directed the sharpshooters to fire explosive arrows through the gaps, and his arrow detonated a Corroder’s swollen growth.
• The Corroder’s corrosive slime splashed onto its tower-shield guards, burning them and collapsing the shield wall from within.

Lin Mo’s tactics helped the Elves win a decisive battle against the Demon Clan with far fewer casualties than usual. The grateful Elves hailed him as a saint and mobbed him with gifts and unwanted attention while Fendona struggled to intervene.

• Lin Mo and the Elf sharpshooters destroyed the Demon Clan’s artillery and shielded soldiers, allowing the Elves to rout the remaining demons.
• The Demon Clan sounded a retreat, and the surviving Elves celebrated their victory.
• Fendona thanked Lin Mo and said his strategy had turned a normally costly defense into an almost flawless victory.
• Master Elder knelt before Lin Mo and proclaimed him a saint sent by the Goddess of Life, prompting the Elves to shower him with gifts.
• The Elves crowded around Lin Mo and groped him, while Fendona tried unsuccessfully to pull him free.

Queen Ellari tested the Compound Bow and Repeating Crossbow sent by Lady Fendona and discovered that their immense power came from mechanics rather than magic. The Elves’ doubts about Master Lin Mo’s inventions gave way to stunned silence, leaving Ellari impressed by their potential.

• A messenger delivered Lady Fendona’s Compound Bow, Repeating Crossbow, blueprints, and arrows to Queen Ellari, saying they concerned the Elves’ survival.
• Despite Elder Archmond’s objections, Ellari ordered the inventions tested at the archery range.
• The Son of Wind fired the Compound Bow and pierced an iron target, two wooden targets, and a stone wall with one arrow.
• Elder Archmond tried the Repeating Crossbow and fired all ten bolts in three seconds, leaving him stunned.
• Ellari examined the arrow embedded in the stone and recognized that the weapons used no magic.

Ellari ordered Avenor City to mass-produce Compound Bows and crossbows, then prepared to lead the last 20,000 Elf soldiers to defend Lothia City after a Demon Clan assault. A messenger announced that Lin Mo and Fendona had won a miraculous victory with the new weapons, and Lothia’s survivors celebrated as they cleared the battlefield.

• Ellari ordered the Elf craftsmen to mass-produce weapons from Lin Mo’s blueprints, overruling Elder Archmond’s objections to abandoning tradition.
• A messenger reported that the Demon Clan’s Burrowing Giant Serpents had tunneled beneath Lothia City and reached the World Tree’s heartland.
• Ellari ordered the Royal Guard to reinforce Lothia City and prepared to march with the kingdom’s remaining 20,000 soldiers.
• A second messenger announced that Lothia had won, crediting Lin Mo, Fendona, the Compound Bows, and the Repeating Crossbows; Elf casualties were fewer than 3,000.
• In Lothia City, Elves cleared the battlefield and an Elf squad leader told Fendona that their fallen had been laid to rest beneath the World Tree.

After the Elves defeated the Demon Clan, Fendona received the Queen’s invitation and a Life Fruit as a reward for Lin Mo. Lin Mo accepted the gift and began imagining taking it back to Blue Star for research.

• Fendona reflected on the Elves’ losses after their victory against the Demon Clan.
• A Royal Messenger delivered the Queen’s letter and the first shipment of reinforcements and supplies.
• Fendona read that the Queen invited Lin Mo to Aivinol and offered him a Life Fruit in gratitude.
• Fendona presented Lin Mo with the Life Fruit and explained its effects on lifespan, health, and physical ability.
• Lin Mo considered bringing the fruit to Blue Star so it could be studied and potentially improve people’s lives.

Lin Mo tried to delay consuming the Life Fruit so he could take it back to Blue Star, but Fendona insisted he use it immediately and explained how. As the fruit dissolved in his mouth, its life essence began transforming and strengthening his body.

• Lin Mo accepted the Life Fruit from Fendona while pretending it was merely a token of friendship, and planned to smuggle it back to Blue Star in his mouth.
• Fendona stopped Lin Mo from leaving and explained that the Life Fruit's potency would dissipate if he delayed consuming it.
• Lin Mo tried to stall with excuses about his homeland's rituals, but the elves urged him to eat the fruit at once.
• Fendona stopped Lin Mo from biting the fruit and told him to hold it in his mouth so its life essence could dissolve into his body.
• Lin Mo placed the Life Fruit in his mouth, and it became warm liquid that surged through him, purifying impurities and strengthening his bones and muscles.

After consuming the Elves’ Life Fruit, Lin Mo gained a superhuman physique and struggled to fall asleep so he could return to Blue Star. Back at the Ark Underground Base, his enhanced strength came with him, and he called in Zhao Gang and the scientists for an urgent examination.

• Lin Mo discovered that the Life Fruit had made him extraordinarily strong and asked Fendona to knock him unconscious so he could return to Blue Star.
• Lin Mo awoke in his room at the Ark Underground Base and confirmed that his new power had transferred to his real-world body.
• Lin Mo called Zhao Gang and asked for an immediate, comprehensive medical examination.
• Lin Mo told Zhao Gang about the Life Fruit, and Academicians Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen arrived with a medical team.
• Lin Mo demonstrated his new strength by jumping to the ceiling and punching an imprint into the concrete floor.

Lin Mo underwent an extensive examination after eating the Life Fruit, and the tests showed that his strength, speed, and reflexes had surpassed human limits. The scientists concluded that he had become a new species, but they could find no trace of the Life Fruit or determine how to reproduce its effects.

• Lin Mo was ushered into a medical pod for a five-hour examination ordered by Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen.
• Tests recorded Lin Mo's strength at 1.1 metric tons and his speed at twenty-two meters per second.
• Lin Mo played Rhythm Master on its highest difficulty and missed only one note, astonishing the staff with his reaction speed and coordination.
• Qian Zhenhua told Lin Mo that his physical indicators had undergone transcendence and that he was theoretically an entirely new species.
• Liu Chengen and Qian Zhenhua explained that they could find no trace of the Life Fruit in Lin Mo's body and could not reverse-engineer it.

After learning that his transformation could not be replicated, Lin Mo was assigned to use the Elf Queen’s invitation to learn about the Elves, their world tree, and Terra Continent’s magic. He left the meeting to explore the underground base with guards Wu Suowei and Wu Jiandao, heading to see the city’s construction progress.

• Lin Mo joked about being a one-of-a-kind superhuman after Academician Liu Chengen confirmed that scientists could not reproduce his transformation.
• Zhao Gang explained that the Elf Queen’s invitation was likely a chance to explore cooperation, and Great Xia needed world tree seeds to help restore Blue Star’s ecosystem.
• Zhao Gang tasked Lin Mo with learning about the Elves, the world tree, and Terra Continent’s magic while carefully investigating the Queen’s intentions.
• Lin Mo finished his meal, decided to explore the underground base, and was joined by guards Wu Suowei and Wu Jiandao.
• Lin Mo asked Wu Jiandao to lead him to see the underground city’s construction progress, then noticed he was walking with his hands behind his back and his feet turned out.

Lin Mo toured Kunlun One, an underground city being built to shelter survivors from Blue Star’s slowing rotation, and learned how many people the disaster would leave behind. He ended the chapter confronting the scale of the coming deaths and cursing in defiance of fate.

• Wu Suowei and Wu Jiandao showed Lin Mo Kunlun One’s vast construction site and explained its planned capacity of three million people.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that the city’s central support column would house equipment for a simulated sky and that its energy center would contain three nuclear power plants.
• Zhao Gang explained that the project required sacrifices and was intended to spare future generations from suffering.
• Zhao Gang revealed that the planet’s slowing rotation had worsened, that thirty-six planned underground cities could shelter only a little over three hundred million people, and that many more would die in the next two years.
• Lin Mo remembered his dead parents, struggled with the projected losses, and cursed in defiance of fate.

Lin Mo came to understand Zhao Gang’s explanation of the compromises involved in governing and accepted his responsibility to obtain the World Tree seed. After waking in Lothia City, he eagerly set off with Fendona for Aivinol aboard a griffin.

• Zhao Gang explained to Lin Mo that corruption could not be eliminated all at once and that leaders sometimes had to weigh contributions against faults.
• Seeing the vast underground city under construction, Lin Mo understood the burden of responsibility and resolved to obtain the World Tree seed.
• Lin Mo woke in Lothia City feeling energized after eating the Life Fruit and found Fendona inspecting compound bows.
• Lin Mo asked when they would travel to Aivinol, and Fendona agreed to leave with him after making a few arrangements.
• Fendona and Lin Mo boarded the same griffin, which took off toward the royal city.

Eagle Country's chief executive Mars learned that Great Xia's underground cities were progressing rapidly, despite Eagle Country's media campaign and sanctions. He proposed joint lunar development as a pretext to obtain Great Xia's space technology and uncover its other capabilities.

• Eagle Country struggled to finish its underground cities, while corporate interests occupied much of Liberty City's completed sections and residents had to buy their homes.
• Mars heard that Cherry Blossom Country wanted its underground cities incorporated into Eagle Country and that Baton Country had protested Great Xia's use of the Heavenly Stems name.
• The secretary reported that all thirty-six of Great Xia's underground cities were over fifty percent complete, including several designed for ten million people.
• Mars dismissed the report as fake news, then ordered senior intelligence operatives to monitor Great Xia more closely.
• Mars decided to send Great Xia a diplomatic proposal for joint lunar development, intending to learn from its space technology and discover what else it was hiding.

Lin Mo and his companions arrived at the enormous Tree Kingdom, where the Elf Queen Ellari welcomed Fendona and honored Lin Mo for helping the elves. The chapter ended as Fendona formally introduced Lin Mo to Ellari.

• Lin Mo and his companions flew to the Tree Kingdom and were escorted by elven guards to a grand plaza.
• Lin Mo met Ellari, the Elf Queen, and marveled at her appearance and regal presence.
• An elven elder publicly praised Lin Mo for improving the elves’ weapons, fighting the Demon Clan, and healing the wounded.
• The elves in attendance discussed Lin Mo’s achievements and showed him admiration.
• Ellari welcomed Fendona home and praised her for protecting Lothia’s people.
• Fendona introduced Lin Mo to Ellari as the traveler from another world.

Lin Mo described Great Xia to Queen Ellari and the Elves as a weak, magicless civilization dependent on simple inventions, concealing its true strength. Elder Valerius proposed that the Elf Kingdom accept Great Xia as a vassal state, leaving Lin Mo and Fendona stunned.

• Lin Mo greeted Queen Ellari and joined her welcome banquet with Fendona.
• Queen Ellari asked Lin Mo to describe Great Xia, and he portrayed its people as physically weak and reliant on cars, airplanes, guns, and cannons.
• An Elf used the Truth-Detecting Art, and the Elders concluded that Great Xia was far weaker than they had expected.
• Valerius mocked Great Xia's inventions and suggested its people were weaker than the Holy Human Race's untrained militia.
• Valerius proposed that the Elf Kingdom accept Great Xia as a vassal state, shocking Lin Mo and Fendona.

Lin Mo confronted Elder Valerius after he demanded that Great Xia become an Elf vassal, reminding the banquet guests that Great Xia’s weapon blueprints had helped save Lothia. Queen Ellari rebuked Valerius and condemned the nobles’ arrogance, leaving the Elves faced with the need to reconsider their conduct.

• Valerius demanded that Lin Mo make Great Xia a vassal state and received approval from several Elf nobles.
• Lin Mo rebuked Valerius for insulting Great Xia and reminded him that Great Xia’s weapon blueprints had helped save Lothia from the Demon Clan.
• Lin Mo continued denouncing Valerius and the Elf leadership until Valerius spat blood and the banquet hall fell into chaos.
• Queen Ellari silenced the hall and reprimanded Valerius for humiliating the benefactor who had helped save Elf lives.
• Ellari condemned the nobles’ arrogance and warned that it had contributed to the Elves’ repeated defeats and shrinking territory.