Chapter Summaries

Mars and the last evacuees tried to escape Freedom Underground City through Tunnel Five, but a collapse trapped them as the Demon Clan caught up. Mars detonated the evacuation convoy’s four nuclear bombs, destroying Freedom, while Yaxes found the location of Blue Star’s most powerful underground city beneath the Arctic glaciers.

• Mars and the survivors fled into Tunnel Five, sealed its entrance with explosives, and ordered the Construction Team to blast through the remaining rock.
• A tunnel collapse blocked the convoy, forcing Mars and about two hundred survivors to continue on foot as the Demon Clan dug through the sealed entrance and attacked.
• With the Construction Team unable to clear the final fifty meters, Mars detonated the four nuclear bombs accompanying the evacuation, killing himself and the pursuing monsters.
• The nuclear blast destroyed Freedom Underground City and cracked the surrounding ice, leaving Blue Star facing a growing disaster.
• Cho'Gath smashed through the ruins while Yaxes examined a map and identified the brightly marked underground city beneath the distant Arctic glaciers.

Lin Mo and Zhao Gang monitored the opening day of the Terra Trade Center, where crowds enjoyed the shops and attractions without major trouble. Lin Mo then saw that Terran visitors at the Great Xia Trade Center were buying goods in bulk to resell, and Zhao Gang said they would empty the warehouses if they could.

• Lin Mo visited the monitoring center and found Zhao Gang watching the busy trade center, where shops and attractions drew large crowds.
• Lin Mo spotted a child inside the dragon enclosure, and Zhao Gang quickly sent security officers to remove him safely.
• Zhao Gang reported ten thousand visitors, strong queues, and no accidents or conflicts, while Lin Mo noticed a Great Xia elderly woman enjoying a glowing insect lantern with help from a cat-eared girl.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that the day's greatest success was giving Great Xia's people a chance to have fun after years of hardship.
• Lin Mo examined footage of the Great Xia Trade Center and saw Terran merchants loading goods by the pallet.
• Zhao Gang explained that wealthy Terrans had come to stock up for resale, and he pointed out Half-Orcs buying goods as fast as they could.

Lin Mo and Zhao Gang watched the Great Xia Trade Center sell everyday goods to half-orcs and high-end appliances, energy blocks, and vehicles to wealthy Holy Human Race nobles. Lin Mo then spotted Fendona enjoying Great Xia fashion and beauty products in the Elves Section.

• Zhao Gang showed Lin Mo half-orc merchants eagerly buying toilet paper and seasonings to resell to their tribesmen.
• Zhao Gang showed Holy Human Race nobles admiring televisions and washing machines, which Great Xia powered with energy blocks sold at a steep markup.
• Holy Human Race nobles bought off-road vehicles and energy blocks, eager to take the cars back to Terra.
• Lin Mo watched elves flock to Great Xia clothing and beauty products, then recognized Fendona in a Lolita dress, white stockings, and sparkling nail stickers as she posed with a Polaroid Camera.

Great Xia’s goods drew enthusiastic buyers from the Terra Continent’s races, while walkie-talkies offered a cheap alternative to magical communication stones. In Antarctica, Lin Shigong’s command center traced a powerful tremor to Freedom Underground City and concluded that Eagle Country had detonated multiple nuclear bombs, leaving their purpose unclear.

• Fendona and the Elves admired Great Xia’s goods, while Thorin and the Dwarves eagerly bought industrial tools and liquor.
• Zhao Gang reported that merchants of several races were buying Great Xia walkie-talkies in large quantities.
• Lin Shigong awoke to an emergency report of a powerful tremor and went to the Tianxiong Underground City Command Center.
• Technicians traced the tremor to Freedom Underground City and first suspected Eagle Country was using explosives to dig a tunnel.
• A senior technician determined the tremors came from multiple nuclear explosions, and Lin Shigong questioned why Eagle Country would use nuclear bombs underground.

After a nuclear blast at Freedom Underground City, Lin Shigong’s drones revealed Heavy Armor Demon Soldiers emerging from the crater, confirming that the Demon Clan had reached Blue Star. Secretary Li received the footage and prepared to alert the senior leadership as Tianxiong and Tianyong Underground Cities went on first-level combat readiness.

• Lin Shigong ordered satellite surveillance and reconnaissance after concluding that internal conflict had caused a nuclear explosion at Freedom Underground City.
• A second nuclear blast erupted at the surface, and Lin Shigong sent radiation-resistant drones to inspect the crater.
• The drones filmed Heavy Armor Demon Soldiers climbing from the rubble, and Lin Shigong identified them as the Demon Clan.
• A Throwing Demon destroyed one drone with a bone spear, and Lin Shigong sent the remaining footage and information to his superiors.
• Secretary Li reviewed the footage, accepted that the Demon Clan had reached Blue Star, and ordered Tianxiong and Tianyong Underground Cities to enter first-level combat readiness before reporting to the leadership.

After the Demon Clan appeared in Eagle Country's Freedom Underground City and destroyed it, Elder Zhao ordered nationwide first-level combat readiness across Great Xia. The leadership decided to contact Lin Mo and the New Hope Plan Group for their firsthand experience fighting the Demon Clan.

• Secretary Li showed Elder Zhao drone footage confirming that Demon Clan soldiers had emerged from nuclear craters in Freedom.
• Elder Zhao ordered General Han Niba summoned and activated first-level combat readiness throughout Great Xia's thirty-six underground cities.
• Great Xia's military forces mobilized, raising missiles and activating radars, strategic weapons, and nuclear submarines within fifteen minutes.
• Elder Zhao and the leadership concluded that Freedom had likely been destroyed and that a space wormhole could allow more Demon Clan reinforcements to reach Blue Star.
• Elder Zhao ordered Secretary Li to contact Lin Mo and share the full report on Freedom and the available Demon Clan intelligence.

Lin Mo joined Great Xia’s leaders to assess the Demon Clan invasion and explain which weapons could threaten its strongest members. He warned that multiple eighth-order Demon Gods had likely arrived on Blue Star, while a proposed missile decoy strategy would probably fail.

• Lin Mo arrived at the meeting and heard Secretary Li recount how the Demon Clan had reached Blue Star.
• Lin Mo explained that conventional weapons could handle lower-ranked demons, but nuclear or antimatter bombs were needed against Demon Gods; Great Xia had only three antimatter bombs.
• Lin Mo argued that the Demon Clan’s willingness to invade despite Ao Lingsi’s death meant it was confident and that multiple eighth-order Demon Gods had likely descended on Blue Star.
• An elderly man proposed hiding antimatter bombs among conventional missiles to exploit the demons’ attempts to intercept attacks.
• Lin Mo rejected the plan, saying the demons could sense danger and would likely evade the antimatter bombs.

Lin Mo and Elder Zhao planned to contain the Demon Clan and prepare for the eighth-order Demon God, while Lin Mo agreed to seek help from Terra and proposed using teleportation magic to deliver an antimatter bomb. Great Xia launched a devastating orbital and missile strike on Freedom Underground City, leaving the ruins engulfed in destruction.

• Lin Mo agreed to persuade Terra's races to help fight on Blue Star, while Elder Zhao insisted they had no way back and needed other contingency plans.
• Lin Mo proposed opening a portal to send an antimatter bomb at the enemy, and an elderly man suggested sacrificing an underground city if the eighth-order Demon God entered it.
• Elder Zhao ordered space-based weapons to target Freedom's ruins and directed the defenses of thirty-six underground cities to attack the surface.
• Seven minutes later, Tiangang satellites released tungsten-alloy rods that devastated the Demon Clan forces at Freedom's ruins.
• A space-based laser and missiles from Tianxiong and Tianyong Underground Cities followed, burning and blasting the area until no living creature remained standing.

Han Niba ordered missile and nuclear strikes against the Demon Clan trapped beneath Freedom, while Cho'Gath sent eight Demon Venerables to stop the attacks. A nuclear missile killed a Seventh-Order Demon Venerable, and Cho'Gath erupted in fury as Han Niba ordered the barrage to continue.

• Han Niba ordered a second wave of earth-penetrating missiles, including nuclear bombs, after the first strike killed more than five thousand Demon Clan units.
• Trapped deep underground, Cho'Gath sent Yaxes and seven Seventh-Order Demon Venerables to the surface to stop the incoming attacks.
• The eight Demon Venerables emerged into a devastated landscape and charged at a new wave of missiles, while Yaxes cautiously targeted only missiles he sensed were safe.
• A Red-Armored Demon Venerable struck a hypersonic nuclear missile and was killed in its three-hundred-kiloton blast, while Yaxes survived the shock wave.
• Han Niba celebrated the direct hit and ordered the missiles to keep firing, while Cho'Gath sensed the death and vowed to devour the humans.

After Yaxes let the nuclear explosions strike while intercepting conventional missiles, Great Xia ordered the armies of Tianxiong and Tianyong Underground Cities to contain the Demon Clan around Freedom Underground City. Their forces assembled beneath the World Tree, ready to advance toward the ruined surface.

• Yaxes watched a nuclear mushroom cloud rise and continued intercepting conventional missiles, leaving the nuclear bombs to strike their intended targets.
• Elder Zhao ordered Tianxiong and Tianyong to deploy and build a firewall against the Demon Clan’s expansion across the surface.
• Lin Shigong ordered Tianxiong’s forces to assemble after satellite footage showed Demon Clan members still crawling out of the bombed ruins of Freedom Underground City.
• Tianxiong’s vehicles and soldiers emerged through a surface passage, using World Tree branches to purify radiation along their route.
• Tianxiong deployed ten thousand robotic dogs, 180 Rock heavy combat platforms, drone formations, and a hundred Pangu-based combat robots.
• The armies of Tianxiong and Tianyong completed their assembly beneath the World Tree, with soldiers and unmanned forces prepared to advance.

Lin Shigong sent the combined Tianxiong and Tianyong army toward the Freedom while the Rocket Force bombarded the demons there. In Tianshu Underground City, Han Niba ordered three Tiangang-series Satellites to target the seven Seventh Order Demon Venerables intercepting missiles.

• Lin Shigong rallied the soldiers to defend their families and ordered them to march out, though he regretted having to remain behind.
• The army advanced south as the Rocket Force launched repeated salvoes that devastated demons around the Freedom.
• The advancing soldiers watched Drone footage of the bombardment while rockets continued to blanket the battlefield.
• Han Niba learned that the seven Seventh Order Demon Venerables were intercepting most missiles and ordered three Tiangang-series Satellites to attack them with lasers.

Han Niba ordered orbital lasers and the Kuafu’s plasma cannon to support the fight against demons emerging from the Freedom’s wreckage, while Great Xia’s army prepared to encircle them. The chapter left Zheng Jinren’s forces deployed around the demon exits and readying their defenses against both surface and underground attacks.

• Han Niba ordered three Military Satellites to fire lasers, distracting the demons long enough for a hypersonic missile to breach their defenses and strike the monsters below.
• Han Niba ordered the Kuafu to bombard demon-packed areas with its Plasma Main Cannon, which burned dozens of demons despite missing the Seventh Order Demon Venerables.
• Staff officers debated the danger of sending ground forces against seven Seventh Order Demon Venerables, and Han Niba hoped the army would not have to use its hidden countermeasure.
• The armies from Tianxiong and Tianyong Underground City reached the target area and surrounded the known demon exits around the Freedom’s wreckage.
• Zheng Jinren ordered the Vanguard Army to prepare for combat and deploy subsurface detectors to catch Giant Burrowing Dragons trying to tunnel beneath the encirclement.
• Zheng Jinren’s force established a layered defensive line with helicopters, drones, robotic dogs, armored vehicles, Rock Hexapod Platforms, and Fifth Order robots.

Zheng Jinren’s forces detected Burrowing Earth Dragons tunneling out from beneath Freedom’s ruins and struck them with earth-penetrating missiles. As the attacks killed or diverted several groups, more seismic sources appeared around the encirclement, including targets nearing the surface.

• A technician identified underground seismic signals northwest of the defensive line as likely Burrowing Earth Dragons, and Zheng Jinren ordered a precision strike.
• Earth-penetrating missiles struck the predicted coordinates, and the targets’ seismic signals vanished.
• More Burrowing Earth Dragons emerged in every direction from Freedom’s ruins, prompting Zheng Jinren to order saturation strikes.
• The first missile wave hit targets around the encirclement, but one southern dragon changed direction and evaded the strike.
• Further seismic alarms revealed new groups and shallow burrowers rising near the surface, leaving Zheng Jinren with too little time for missiles to reach them.

Burrowing Earth Dragons opened tunnels beyond the encirclement, allowing waves of Demon Clan creatures to attack the defensive line as Zheng Jinren directed the forces to repel them. The line held under concentrated fire until a seventh-order winged demon demon venerable dived toward the northern section, arriving at the front of the defenses.

• A Burrowing Earth Dragon surfaced outside the eastern defensive line, and Demon Clan creatures poured from its tunnel as more breaches opened in the west and south.
• Zheng Jinren ordered long-range fire support, and the unmanned units attacked the creatures emerging from the tunnels.
• Rock platforms, drones, mechanical dogs, and a fifth-order robot fought off the advancing demons, including fourth-rank heavy armor demon soldiers and other powerful creatures.
• The defensive line kept the Demon Clan Army suppressed, though monsters continued to climb over the growing piles of corpses.
• A winged demon demon venerable spotted his army being slaughtered and dived toward the northern defensive line at high speed.
• The soldiers received an alert for a seventh-order demon venerable, and it swept to the front of the line.

The Winged Demon Venerable broke through the northern defensive line, and Zheng Jinren watched the losses mount. A soldier and his comrade detonated a concealed nuclear warhead at close range, killing the Demon Venerable and themselves while devastating both forces around the blast.

• The Winged Demon Venerable tore through the northern defensive line, destroying machines and killing soldiers as Zheng Jinren watched from the Command Vehicle.
• A soldier in a nuclear warhead carrier saw the Demon Venerable approach and steadied himself to press the detonation button.
• The soldier and a comrade in a nearby shell crater triggered the two-hundred-kiloton warhead as the Demon Venerable struck the vehicle.
• The nuclear blast vaporized the Winged Demon Venerable and destroyed nearby Great Xia and Demon Clan forces, including the two soldiers who triggered it.

Han Niba ordered the defense line restored and pressed for faster civilian evacuations as an Eighth-Order Demon God emerged beneath the ice. Great Xia’s weapons opened fire on Cho'Gath, but the chapter ended before revealing their effect.

• Han Niba ordered General Zheng to purify the nuclear blast zone and asked about evacuations, learning only twenty percent of civilians had reached the Portal.
• Han Niba learned Lin Mo had gone to Terra for reinforcements and ordered staff to contact the Holy Human Race’s Kindling Plan personnel.
• The six surviving Demon Venerables sensed a terrifying roar and psychic pressure spreading from underground.
• Cho'Gath emerged from beneath the ice after learning that another Seventh-Order Demon Venerable had died.
• Great Xia detected Cho'Gath and unleashed its cannons and missiles at him.

Cho'Gath slaughtered Great Xia's defensive forces and survived a nuclear blast, while Han Niba ordered a massive missile barrage and rushed the evacuation of Tianxiong and Tianyong Underground Cities. Civilians gathered at the portals, where soldiers ordered them to abandon their luggage and run.

• Cho'Gath blasted through Great Xia's defensive line at tremendous speed, destroying vehicles, robots, aircraft, and soldiers.
• A soldier detonated a concealed nuclear bomb, but Cho'Gath emerged unharmed behind his shield and berated Yaxes and the other five Demon Venerables.
• Han Niba ordered Great Xia's forces to bombard Cho'Gath with every available missile and asked about the evacuation and the agreement with the Holy Human Race.
• The staff officer reported that about half the civilians had been evacuated through the portals, and Han Niba ordered them to leave their luggage behind and hurry.
• At the portals beneath the World Tree, an officer relayed Han Niba's order and told the gathered civilians to drop their large bags and run.

As Cho'Gath destroyed Great Xia's defensive line, civilians fled through an evacuation passage while Yaxes searched for human settlements. The chapter ended with Yaxes reporting that he had found an enormous underground human settlement.

• An officer warned civilians that the Southern Defense Line had fallen, and the crowd abandoned its luggage and rushed toward the portal.
• Cho'Gath rampaged through Great Xia's defenses, shrugging off missiles and dodging nuclear blasts.
• Yaxes and the other five seventh-order Demon Venerables scattered to search for human settlements.
• Cho'Gath annihilated the defensive force, leaving only a few thousand survivors to retreat into the Northern Plains.
• Yaxes contacted Cho'Gath and reported discovering an enormous human settlement underground.

Cho'Gath discovered the humans underground and ordered the Demon Clan Army to tunnel toward their settlement, while Jieshibang watched what he believed were nuclear attacks destroying Freedom Underground City. As Shengdun's residents clung to hope, an overwhelming pressure suddenly enveloped them.

• Cho'Gath sensed humans beneath the ground and ordered the Burrowing Earth Dragons to carve a new route toward them.
• Jieshibang learned that seismic waves from Freedom Underground City resembled nuclear explosions and feared the city was under attack.
• Jieshibang watched the seismic readings spike for hours as Shengdun's Command Center feared Freedom had been destroyed.
• Jieshibang calmed the panicking staff by insisting that Freedom was still resisting and that Eagle Country would recover once its underground cities united.
• An invisible, suffocating pressure pierced the rock and enveloped Jieshibang and everyone in the Command Center.

A second wave of pressure from Cho'Gath crushed people in Shengdun Underground City, while Great Xia's Command Center watched him destroy its Antarctic defenses. Han Niba learned that Cho'Gath had flown to the surface above Shengdun to meet Yaxes, and ordered evacuations to continue while the monsters were monitored.

• Cho'Gath's pressure pinned millions of people in Shengdun Underground City, where some believers mistook the demon's arrival for a miracle.
• Han Niba watched Cho'Gath overwhelm Great Xia's defenses and worried about civilians still awaiting evacuation from Tianxiong and Tianyong Underground Cities.
• A staff officer spotted Cho'Gath turning away from the underground cities, and Han Niba ordered uninterrupted satellite and drone surveillance.
• Han Niba matched Cho'Gath's route with Demon Venerable Six's tracking data and saw him meet Yaxes above Shengdun Underground City.
• Han Niba ordered the monitoring to continue and urged Tianxiong and Tianyong to speed up their evacuations.