Chapter Summaries

Queen Ellari apologized to Lin Mo for the nobles’ behavior and asked him to seek help from his homeland as the Elves faced growing losses against the Demon Clan. Lin Mo agreed to convey her request, then left with Fendona to rest at Moonlight's End.

• Queen Ellari publicly reprimanded Valerius and the other nobles, then apologized to Lin Mo for their rudeness.
• Ellari described the Elves’ dwindling population and weakening defenses against the Demon Clan, and asked Lin Mo and his homeland for help.
• Lin Mo said he could not decide on diplomatic matters himself but promised to convey Ellari’s request to his homeland.
• Ellari arranged for Fendona to escort Lin Mo to Moonlight's End, and Lin Mo explained his interpretation of the Queen’s political maneuver.
• Lin Mo pointed out the two moons in the sky, then teased Fendona when she asked about the other one.

Lin Mo asked Fendona to demonstrate magic and then tried to learn it himself. He failed to sense the elements, but considered trying the Holy Human Race’s methods in the future.

• Fendona brought Lin Mo to Moonlight's End, a guest room at the highest point of the Elf Royal City.
• After seeing the bathtub, Lin Mo asked Fendona to show him magic.
• Fendona shaped water into figures, froze it into a bird, and made it boil using her thoughts.
• Lin Mo eagerly asked Fendona to teach him magic, and she explained how to sense and connect with the elements.
• Lin Mo tried to sense the elements but failed, so he gave up on the Elf method and considered learning through the Holy Human Race instead.

After Lin Mo returned from the Elf Royal City, Zhao Gang praised his handling of the diplomatic incident but warned him about the risks he had taken. Zhao Gang outlined Great Xia’s three-part plan to strengthen the Elves, then revealed that lasting victory might require Great Xia’s soldiers to enter the war.

• Lin Mo told Zhao Gang about the banquet, his confrontation with Elder Valerius, Queen Ellari’s political maneuver, and her request for aid.
• Zhao Gang praised Lin Mo for giving the Queen an opening to rein in the hardliners, then sternly warned that Lin Mo had endangered himself and Project New Hope.
• Zhao Gang presented plans to help the Elves develop standardized industry, modern military tactics and training, and improved information-gathering tools.
• Zhao Gang said the measures could at least double the Elves’ combat effectiveness but would only delay their defeat against the Demon Clan.
• Zhao Gang said the war could turn only if a powerful third force entered it, and identified Great Xia’s soldiers as that force if they could reach the conflict.

Lin Mo told Queen Ellari that Great Xia had agreed to help the Elves, but requested a World Tree Seed in return. The Queen and Elders resisted, explaining that producing one would weaken the World Tree for a century.

• Fendona brought Lin Mo breakfast and escorted him to the royal court.
• Lin Mo told Queen Ellari that Great Xia had agreed to assist the Elves through their crisis.
• Queen Ellari asked what Great Xia wanted in return, and Lin Mo requested a World Tree Seed for study and planting.
• The Elders objected to the request, and Queen Ellari explained that making a seed would weaken the World Tree for a century.

Lin Mo discovered that the World Tree Seed was the size of a soccer ball and required a special energy vein to grow, leaving him unsure how to bring it back to Blue Star. He reported the problem to the leaders at Ark Underground Base, where they struggled to find a way to retrieve it without harming him or damaging the seed.

• Queen Ellari showed Lin Mo the World Tree Seed and explained that it was vital to her people's survival and still required discussion before any trade.
• Lin Mo returned to Ark Underground Base and called an urgent Team Meeting with Zhao Gang, Qian Zhenhua, Liu Chengen, and the other leaders.
• Lin Mo told the meeting that the seed was soccer-ball-sized and needed a special energy vein to grow.
• Liu Chengen proposed dislocating Lin Mo's jaw to carry the seed, but Zhao Gang rejected the plan because Lin Mo's safety came first.
• The leaders could not find a solution, and Lin Mo feared the seed's size would prevent humanity from obtaining it.

Lin Mo agreed to carry the World Tree Seed back to Great Xia through risky surgery, while Queen Ellari agreed to Great Xia’s terms in exchange for help retaking Emerald Leaf City. When Lin Mo clarified that Great Xia could not send troops and would instead provide military support and advice, the Elves reacted with anger and disappointment.

• Liu Chengen proposed surgically placing the World Tree Seed inside Lin Mo’s abdominal cavity, and Lin Mo volunteered for the procedure.
• Queen Ellari agreed to Lin Mo’s terms but demanded that Great Xia help the Elves retake Emerald Leaf City, and Lin Mo accepted.
• Queen Ellari asked when Great Xia would send an army, and Lin Mo explained that Great Xia could not send troops to the Terra Continent.
• Lin Mo offered Great Xia’s warfare plan and other support, but Queen Ellari questioned whether that meant only teaching the Elves techniques, while Elder Valerius reached for his sword.

Lin Mo learned from Queen Ellari that the Holy Human Race might build a stable two-way Astral Portal between Blue Star and the Terra Continent. He returned to the Ark Underground Base and told Great Xia's leaders, who resolved to pursue the portal as a way to save humanity.

• Queen Ellari told Lin Mo that the Holy Human Race's Astral Teleportation could connect worlds, though a portal required space crystals, magic power crystals, and a High Archbishop.
• Lin Mo promised Queen Ellari he would seek cooperation and said reclaiming Emerald Leaf City should be possible if the portal could be built.
• Back at the Ark Underground Base, Lin Mo summoned Zhao Gang, Qian Zhenhua, Liu Chengen, and other senior figures to an emergency meeting.
• Lin Mo announced that a two-way portal could let people, weapons, and armies travel between Blue Star and the Terra Continent.
• Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen reacted with excitement at the portal's scientific and research possibilities.
• Zhao Gang declared that they had to build the portal, and Qian Zhenhua warned that the Ark project could not preserve humanity if Earth's environment collapsed.

The New Hope team confirmed that an Astral Teleportation portal could provide Great Xia with access to the Terra Continent and a possible refuge from Blue Star’s collapse. Zhao Gang traveled to New Kyoto to report the breakthrough to Elder Zhao, who was stunned by news of the stable two-way portal.

• Liu Chengen and Zhao Gang celebrated the portal as a chance for Great Xia to survive, relocate, and colonize a new world.
• Zhao Gang classified all portal information as top secret and ordered Liu Chengen’s team to prepare a biological and environmental risk assessment using samples Lin Mo would collect.
• Zhao Gang restricted the New Hope team to its base and announced he would report to the leadership in person; Lin Mo approved his arrangements.
• Zhao Gang flew to New Kyoto at night and found Elder Zhao reviewing an encrypted report about the annexation of the Southern Continent Alliance and the seizure of an Antarctic survival zone.
• Zhao Gang told Elder Zhao that the New Hope team had found a path to a new world and described the stable two-way portal, causing Elder Zhao to drop his teacup.

Zhao Gang told Great Xia’s leaders that the Holy Human Race possessed astral teleportation technology, giving them a possible escape from their dying world. The leaders debated the portal’s promise and dangers, and the chapter ended with an objection.

• Zhao Gang assured Elder Zhao that Lin Mo’s report was true and that their civilization could be saved.
• Elder Zhao called an emergency meeting with the other four leaders.
• Zhao Gang described astral teleportation and the two-way portal to Great Xia’s leadership.
• Yang urged the leaders to use the portal to move troops and resources to a new planet.
• The leaders in charge of the economy and culture and technology described the portal’s economic and scientific potential.
• An unidentified leader objected to the proposal.

Elder Zhao won approval for Great Xia to establish a portal and cooperate with the Elves, while Long Zhan received orders to form an expeditionary army without being told its destination or mission. The chapter left Long Zhan wondering where his troops would be sent.

• Elder Zhao argued that Great Xia had no choice but to risk opening a path to another world because its own survival was already uncertain.
• Elder Zhao set three priorities: send troops, present Great Xia as a cooperative ally and trading partner, and give Lin Mo full authority to negotiate with the Elf Queen and establish the portal.
• Elder Zhao ordered Zhao Gang to deliver Great Xia’s decision to Lin Mo, then decided to go meet him and thank him in person.
• Long Zhan received a top-secret order to select twenty thousand elite troops for the First Expeditionary Army and prepare them for deployment within 72 hours.
• Long Zhan verified the order’s authenticity but found its mission, destination, and anticipated enemy classified, leaving him to speculate about where the army would go.

Long Zhan learned that the First Expeditionary Army would lead Great Xia’s desperate bid to secure passage to a new ship that could save its civilization, while the country mobilized industry and supplies for an unknown war. At Ark Base, Lin Mo signed preparations for the mission and jokingly added a requirement to a proposal about recruiting women.

• Long Zhan called the second-in-command, who told him the First Expeditionary Army was the vanguard in a battle Great Xia had to win, and Long Zhan ordered level-one combat readiness.
• Wang Hai ordered Ma Dongsheng to put Polaris Military Industry Group on wartime footing, double production within twenty-four hours, and suspend foreign trade orders.
• Great Xia placed pharmaceutical production and food warehouses under military control and restarted its industrial mobilization.
• Lin Mo reviewed and signed proposals for the New Hope Project, including expedition, quarantine, security, logistics, and resource-planning preparations.
• Lin Mo read Liu Chengen’s proposal to recruit young women for the team and wrote, “Big breasts required!”

Lin Mo met Elder Zhao, who thanked him for helping Great Xia and gave him full authority over cooperation with the Terra Continent. The chapter ended with Elder Zhao praising the project team as heroes and thanking them for their hard work.

• Lin Mo complained about the paperwork until Zhao Gang returned and brought Elder Zhao into his office.
• Elder Zhao noticed Lin Mo’s crude comment on Liu Chengen’s personnel proposal, but responded with a good-natured remark.
• Elder Zhao thanked Lin Mo for his reports and footage, then told him that Great Xia had assembled 20,000 soldiers and begun preparing equipment, medicine, and supplies for the Terra Continent.
• Elder Zhao authorized Lin Mo to take full responsibility for contact and cooperation with the Terra Continent, with the highest decision-making authority over military affairs, diplomacy, and trade.
• Qian Zhenhua, Liu Chengen, and the core project team arrived, and Elder Zhao praised them as heroes and thanked them for their hard work.

Lin Mo learned that Great Xia would help the Elves retake Emerald Leaf City if they could establish a portal, so Queen Ellari sent him with a delegation to seek the Holy Human Race’s help. At the departure platform, Lin Mo mistook their allied dragons for attackers and publicly embarrassed Fendona by carrying her to cover.

• The chief encouraged Lin Mo to press on, reminding him that Great Xia could not afford to lose and feared nothing.
• Lin Mo told Queen Ellari that Great Xia’s soldiers could help reclaim Emerald Leaf City once the portal was opened, and she ordered a delegation to Holy Light City to request Astral Teleportation.
• Queen Ellari assigned Fendona and Elder Muyu to the delegation and arranged for two Elders to protect Lothia City.
• At the World Tree platform, Lin Mo mistook three descending Western Dragons for enemies and carried Fendona over his shoulder to shelter.
• Elder Muyu introduced the dragons as allies, including Yadis, who said he disliked humans, while the mortified Fendona hid behind Elder Muyu.

Lin Mo and Elder Muyu brought an Elven delegation to Holy Light City to ask the Church to connect Terra with Great Xia. The meeting ended with Elder Muyu urgently appealing to Pope Gregory VII to build a portal as the Demon Clan threatened the continent.

• Elder Muyu explained that Yadis was hostile to humans because the Holy Human Race had pursued dragon riding, and Yadis reluctantly accepted that Lin Mo was not one of them.
• Elder Muyu used his nature staff to grow wooden houses on three dragons, which carried the delegation on a seven-hour flight to Holy Light City.
• Lin Mo and the delegation arrived at Holy Light City and entered Holy Light Cathedral, where they met Pope Gregory VII and High Archbishop Kael.
• Elder Muyu described the Elves' desperate position, and Lin Mo explained that Great Xia relied on technology rather than magic.
• High Archbishop Kael mocked Lin Mo and the people of Great Xia, prompting Elder Muyu to demand respect and appeal to Pope Gregory VII to use Astral Teleportation to build a portal between the two worlds.

Lin Mo challenged High Archbishop Kael’s refusal to use Astral Teleportation and demonstrated the power of Great Xia’s weapons, persuading Pope Gregory VII to approve opening a portal. The pope required Great Xia to pay the costs and accept strict limits and oversight, leaving the agreement subject to a magical contract.

• High Archbishop Kael rejected Astral Teleportation, arguing that its risks and costs were too great and that the Church would not rely on mortals.
• Lin Mo confronted Kael, while Fendona defended him and Elder Muyu countered Kael’s pressure before warning the Church that the Demon Clan was overrunning Terra.
• Elder Muyu credited Lin Mo’s weapons with helping repel the attack on Lothia, and Lin Mo demonstrated a compound bow as an Elven guard fired a repeating crossbow.
• Pope Gregory VII approved Astral Teleportation after seeing the weapons and hearing Lin Mo warn that Terra would fall without a chance to seek survival.
• Pope Gregory VII demanded that Great Xia cover the portal’s costs and sign a magical contract limiting its personnel, weapons, and operations while requiring it to accept joint oversight.

Lin Mo negotiated with High Archbishop Kael over the size, operating area, and weapons restrictions for Great Xia's military aid to Terra. They agreed to send 25,000 soldiers to Elf territory, but negotiations stalled when Kael demanded approval of every weapon.

• After the pope left, High Archbishop Kael proposed limiting the initial force entering Terra to 10,000 soldiers.
• Lin Mo rejected the limit as inadequate against the Demon Clan and demanded 50,000 soldiers, while Elder Muyu urged Kael to reconsider.
• Kael refused 50,000, but accepted Lin Mo's compromise of 25,000 soldiers.
• Kael restricted the army's operations to Elf territory, and Elder Muyu specified the area between Aivinol and Emerald Leaf City; Lin Mo agreed to the plan to retake Emerald Leaf City.
• Kael demanded a detailed weapons inventory and approval of all weapons entering Terra, and Lin Mo hesitated to provide one because Great Xia's weapons systems were complicated.

Lin Mo secured permission for 25,000 Great Xia troops to enter the Terra Continent, then asked Great Xia's leadership to share the full intelligence with General Long Zhan. Elder Zhao approved the request and assigned Long Zhan to the New Hope project team.

• Lin Mo persuaded Kael to postpone the weapons-list discussion until the next day, then returned to the Bell City base.
• Lin Mo told Zhao Gang and the other core members that he had raised the troop quota from 10,000 to 25,000, though Kael still required a weapons list for review.
• Zhao Gang proposed letting General Long Zhan's Arctic Theater team prepare the list and share all available intelligence with him, and Lin Mo agreed.
• Elder Zhao approved sharing the intelligence and officially assigned General Long Zhan to the New Hope project team.
• Elder Zhao told Old Yang that Lin Mo had secured a quota of 25,000, and they praised Lin Mo as Great Xia's lucky star.

Elder Zhao assigned General Long Zhan and his expeditionary force to the New Hope Plan, placing them under Lin Mo's command. After learning that Lin Mo was only 23 and that his file was almost entirely classified, Long Zhan resolved to find out who he really was.

• Elder Zhao authorized General Long Zhan's assignment to the New Hope Group, whose commander-in-chief was Lin Mo.
• Long Zhan reviewed his assembled twenty-thousand-soldier expeditionary force and turned down repeated requests from commanders seeking places on the mission.
• A call raised the first deployment quota to twenty-five thousand and ordered Long Zhan to serve under the New Hope Plan and cooperate fully with Lin Mo.
• Long Zhan searched the highest-security system and found only Lin Mo's age, position, and a top-secret classification.
• Long Zhan suspected Lin Mo had powerful connections and decided to meet him to see who he really was.

Long Zhan learned that the Expeditionary Force would enter the Terra Continent to secure a new home for Blue Star, then pledged the Arctic Theater’s 25,000 troops to Lin Mo. Lin Mo brought Great Xia’s equipment list to the Holy See to finalize the Portal arrangements, but had to enlist Fendona to translate it.

• Brigade Commander Zhao and officers from several units crowded Long Zhan, demanding slots in the Expeditionary Force, and Long Zhan agreed to allocate them.
• At the Bell City underground base, Zhao Gang briefed Long Zhan on the Terra Continent, the Demon Clan, and the New Hope Project.
• Zhao Gang introduced Lin Mo as the only world traveler connecting Blue Star to Terra and the project’s Commander-in-Chief, prompting Long Zhan to salute and pledge the Arctic Theater’s 25,000 troops.
• Long Zhan prepared a simplified weapons and equipment list, which Lin Mo took back to Terra to finalize the Portal arrangements.
• At the Holy See, High Archbishop Kael could not read Great Xia’s writing, so Lin Mo asked Fendona to translate the equipment list onto parchment.

Lin Mo and Kael negotiated the terms for Great Xia’s forces to enter Terra, including weapons, penalties, and inspections, before the Elves paid for a ten-day Portal opening. Lin Mo realized the Portal’s time limit could leave his people stranded after retaking Emerald Leaf City and asked Elder Muyu how they would return.

• Kael questioned Lin Mo about the weapons on Great Xia’s list, and after bargaining, allowed three Dongfeng missiles while rejecting biological and chemical weapons.
• Kael proposed that every Great Xia soldier face death for any contract breach, but Lin Mo objected until they agreed to joint Holy Human Race and Elf inspections at the Portal.
• Kael wrote a Magic Contract that bound the parties and could provoke rejection by Terra’s World Will if they broke it.
• Elder Muyu presented the Elves’ payment for ten days of unlimited Portal use, and Lin Mo learned they would need to renew the fee afterward.
• Lin Mo asked Elder Muyu how Great Xia’s forces would return after the Portal’s ten-day opening ended.