Chapter Summaries

Cho'Gath sold Sahe the coordinates of an alliance of two civilizations, then offered Baroque another set while claiming he was too busy with a different war. The chapter left Baroque weighing the lure of a Gaia Core against the risk that Cho'Gath was sending it to its death.

• Cho'Gath bargained with Sahe, trading civilization coordinates for dark marrow ore, void marrow, and Space-Jumping Beasts.
• Cho'Gath warned Sahe that the civilizations had many high-order life-forms and growing numbers of iron constructs, then admitted they were difficult prey.
• Cho'Gath handed Sahe the coordinates after receiving the goods, and Yaxes learned that Sahe accepted because it had not found an intelligent civilization in a long time.
• Demon Venerables on the Trading Planet discussed Cho'Gath's second sale and wondered whether he had held both sets of coordinates when Aker and Brett died.
• Cho'Gath offered Baroque a third set of coordinates, and Baroque questioned whether the deal would lead to its death.
• Cho'Gath said he was holding Aker's legions, guarding its territory, and keeping its Space Wormhole closed, while Yaxes privately marveled at his shamelessness.

Cho'Gath sold three civilization coordinates and learned how the sales might affect his plans to claim Demon Gods' inheritances. On Terra, Lin Mo learned that Great Xia's fleet and industrial capacity had expanded rapidly, while construction of planetary engines accelerated.

• Cho'Gath sold Blue Star's coordinates to Herok, Terra's to Sahe, and Kona's to Baroque, then returned to Bone Mountain.
• Yaxes warned Cho'Gath that public knowledge of the coordinate sales could prompt Demon Gods to secure their inheritances, and proposed trading future coordinates for inheritance agreements.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that Great Xia had commissioned a hundred large warships and expanded its extra-large Universal Factories to more than ten.
• Zhao Gang reported that Tianxiong and Tianyong Underground Cities had become heavy-industry fortresses, where specialized crews and increased factory output had shortened planetary-engine construction time by a quarter.

Lin Mo learned that Great Xia had begun producing Life Potions that could extend lives, while Zhao Gang explained a new Contribution Points system meant to replace the old currency and root out illegal wealth. The chapter ended with Lin Mo questioning the risks of letting AI control finance and livelihoods, a concern the leadership also shared.

• Zhao Gang showed Lin Mo a Life Potion and explained that it could greatly improve health, resist most radiation-mutated viruses, and extend life by about twenty years.
• Zhao Gang said Great Xia planned to distribute Life Potions first to elderly officials, leading researchers, and major contributors, then eventually to all citizens.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that Great Xia would abolish its old currency and introduce Contribution Points, with Nuwa reviewing asset conversions and rejecting wealth without legitimate records.
• Zhao Gang showed Lin Mo how Nuwa rejected Sun Dafu’s conversion request and the Inspectorate confiscated his gold and banknotes as proceeds from illegal dealings.
• Lin Mo agreed that Great Xia needed strict reform to survive, but asked Zhao Gang whether AI control of finance and livelihoods carried hidden risks.

Zhao Gang briefed Lin Mo on Great Xia’s safeguards for its rapidly advancing AI, but Lin Mo remained troubled by the Demon Clan’s threat. When ten spatial anomalies appeared on Terra Continent, Great Xia’s forces entered combat readiness and Lin Mo called on the other races for help, until an adjutant reported a new problem.

• Zhao Gang explained that Great Xia was keeping human operators and physical overrides at critical positions while training people to take control if AI systems failed.
• After Zhao Gang left, Lin Mo worried that the Demon Clan had not been defeated for good and wondered what Cho'Gath was waiting for.
• A First-Level Combat Readiness alarm sounded, and Lin Mo rushed to the Command Center, where Long Zhan ordered drones and reconnaissance aircraft to investigate ten spatial anomalies.
• Long Zhan said the anomalies were likely underground Demon Clan wormholes, and he prepared space-based weapons and Earth-Penetrating Missiles for a possible strike.
• Lin Mo contacted Kael and other representatives to bring the races of Terra into combat readiness, but an adjutant then warned Long Zhan that they had a problem.

Terra, Blue Star, and the Kona Civilization detected simultaneous Demon Clan wormholes, prompting their commanders to prepare for a coordinated invasion by multiple Demon Gods. Great Xia received second-generation Burrowing Robots to send Pangu Mecha carrying nuclear bombs toward the deep wormholes, and the chapter ended as Terra’s forces learned that ten passages lay more than two thousand meters underground.

• An adjutant informed Long Zhan, Lin Mo, and Zhao Gang that all three civilizations had detected spatial fluctuations at the same time.
• Han Niba convened an emergency meeting with Long Zhan, Lin Mo, and Zheng Jinren and warned that the invasion could involve multiple allied Demon Gods.
• The commanders agreed to locate the wormholes and use Earth-Penetrating Missiles against any within range, while conserving Antimatter Bombs for Demon Gods.
• Han Niba revealed second-generation Burrowing Robots that could carry Pangu Mecha equipped with nuclear bombs toward deep wormholes.
• Terra received twenty second-generation Burrowing Robots, and reconnaissance locked down ten wormholes more than two thousand meters underground.

Lin Mo and Long Zhan coordinated Great Xia’s response to the Demon Clan’s simultaneous invasions, while the allied races mobilized their armies and mages. As the forces assembled and portals began to open, the elves’ advanced troops arrived first.

• Long Zhan ordered Pangu Mechas and burrowing machines deployed toward the ten invasion sites, and asked Lin Mo to arrange portals with Holy Human mages.
• Kael, Fendona, Grom, and Thorin Ironbeard arrived, pledged their forces, and contacted their territories to summon soldiers.
• Lin Mo led the representatives to Great Xia’s military zone, where transport planes and a vast army were preparing to attack the Demon Clan’s wormholes.
• Lin Mo and Kael began opening large portals using Spatial Crystals as anchors, while High-Rank Mages set up additional teleportation arrays.
• The allied armies began arriving in formation, and Fendona’s elves arrived first with enchanted Great Xia weapons and steel-armored war treants.

Lin Mo gathered Great Xia's forces and allied Elves, Holy Humans, Dwarves, Half-Orcs, and Dragons to prepare for the Demon Clan's return. The allies arrived equipped with Great Xia weapons adapted to their abilities, and Warwick declared that they were ready to fight while hoping to profit from Demon corpses.

• The Holy Human Race arrived with magically enhanced firearms, human-powered tanks, and bomb-carrying pegasus riders.
• Thorin showed off the Dwarves' rune-enhanced weapons and homemade crystal-powered tanks.
• The Half-Orc Alliance assembled a mixed force equipped with heavy guns, explosives, and logistics support.
• Dozens of Dragons arrived carrying missile launch cells, cannons, and laser towers, but stayed airborne because there was no room to land.
• Lin Mo opened a hundred-meter portal as drones and robots scouted the destination and established positions.
• Warwick told Lin Mo that the allies had brought troops to fight the Demon Clan, while noting that selling Demon corpses could help fund the Half-Orcs' purchases from Great Xia.

Lin Mo sent Great Xia's forces and their allies through the Portals as the modern war against the Demon Clan began. Underground, Long Zhan ordered two Pangu Mechas to reach the Space Wormhole and plant nuclear bombs, but they were overwhelmed by Demon Clan forces while still hundreds of meters away.

• Lin Mo ordered General Long to clear a Portal for the allied races, and their forces followed Great Xia into the new world.
• Long Zhan's assault group deployed two Second-Generation Burrowing Robots and Combat Robots near the target area, then ordered the burrowing units to drill toward the Demon Clan's underground cave.
• The two burrowing units broke into the cave at Point B, where two Pangu Unmanned Mechas emerged and fought through nearby low-order Demon Clan members.
• Long Zhan ordered the Pangu units to bypass resistance and reach Point A to pass through the Space Wormhole and detonate nuclear bombs.
• Six commander-level Demon Clan members and a swarm of lesser troops attacked the Pangu units, draining their Magic Shields and severely damaging them before they could reach the wormhole.

Long Zhan’s forces failed to destroy the underground wormholes, so he ordered Plan C to contain them and keep the Demon Clan buried. On the other side, Sahe watched the invasion stall and reflected that coordinating with the other Demon Gods had been the right choice.

• Long Zhan ordered the Pangu units to self-destruct, and two nuclear blasts collapsed the cavern and buried the Demon Clan forces near the wormhole.
• Long Zhan learned the wormhole remained intact, while surviving Burrowing Robots prepared to collapse any new cavern the Demon Clan excavated.
• Across Terra, assault teams met sixth-rank Demon Clan resistance and repeatedly detonated their Pangu units when they could not reach the wormholes.
• Great Xia’s forces and Terra’s allied armies passed through ten expanding portals, established containment zones around the wormholes, and received Long Zhan’s order to execute Plan C.
• Sahe and the other Demon Venerables watched their invasion stall as the enemy repeatedly collapsed the tunnels, and Sahe judged that joining forces with the other Demon Gods had been wise.

Sahe’s Demon Clan forces struggled to break through underground defenses before Burrowing Earth Dragons finally opened a route to the surface. Sahe sent the Demon Venerables to advance cautiously, but remained suspicious of the enemy’s silence.

• After three precisely timed explosions killed Burrowing Earth Dragons, Sahe rejected a proposal to open more wormholes and ordered the forces to keep digging.
• The Burrowing Earth Dragons expanded underground until Burrowing Robot Generation One destroyed seven and blocked the lateral tunnels.
• Several Burrowing Earth Dragons dug upward and emerged on the surface, allowing the Demon Clan Army to assemble beneath two suns and spread out.
• Sahe questioned why the enemy had left the surface unchallenged, then ordered the Demon Venerables to avoid danger and slowly attack the outskirts.
• The Demon Venerables hurried toward the wormholes while Sahe stayed behind, uneasy about the traps underground and the enemy’s silence.

At Great Xia’s Command Center on the Third Planet, Zheng Jinren kept two Demon Clan wormholes sealed underground while a new wormhole appeared far deeper than Great Xia’s burrowing equipment could reach. The chapter left Great Xia confronting the limits of its defenses against the Demon Clan’s underground invasion.

• A communications soldier reported that Great Xia and the Kona Civilization had destroyed one wormhole and buried the other two beneath collapsed rock, and Zheng Jinren ordered continued surveillance and containment.
• A new spatial fluctuation appeared more than 2,700 kilometers from Great Xia’s base, and Zheng Jinren ordered nearby units to locate it and seal it off if it was underground.
• Detection drones found that the new wormhole lay 10,372 meters below the surface, where extreme heat and pressure made the environment hostile to humans and ordinary machinery.
• Staff officers explained that Demon Clan Burrowing Earth Dragons could expand narrow underground fissures, while Great Xia’s Burrowing Robots could operate only to depths of less than five kilometers.
• Zheng Jinren learned that Great Xia had no existing way to reach the wormhole, as the Demon Clan had opened it beneath the reach of its burrowing defenses.

Zheng Jinren ordered Great Xia and the Kona Civilization to monitor the Demon Clan’s expanding underground wormhole after their weapons proved unable to reach it. When a massive presence began excavating upward and stopped just below the monitoring network, the staff feared an Eighth-Order Demon God was below.

• Great Xia’s staff concluded they could not destroy the underground target with their current weapons, and Watcher confirmed the Kona Civilization had no suitable equipment.
• Zheng Jinren ordered Burrowing Robots to build a seismic monitoring network five kilometers beneath the target, where it detected the Demon Clan enlarging a vast cavity and wormhole.
• After twelve hours, the cavity and wormhole exceeded four kilometers in diameter, alarming Zheng Jinren about what the Demon Clan intended to send through.
• The underground tremors stopped, then sensors detected an excavation roughly three kilometers wide moving rapidly toward the surface.
• The enormous presence stopped five and a half kilometers underground, just beyond the robots’ reach, and a staff officer wondered whether an Eighth-Order Demon God was below.

Zheng Jinren recognized the approaching underground target as a Demon God and ordered the forces on the Third Planet to prepare, but their explosives failed to slow it. Devouring Demon God Baroque emerged from beneath the surface and broke through the sound barrier as it charged a ground-based firing position.

• Zheng Jinren identified the enormous underground presence as a suspected eighth-order Demon God and ordered nearby forces to disperse, prepare long-range weapons, and alert Watcher.
• Burrowing Robots detonated high-explosive charges and Miniature Nuclear Bombs, but the target pushed through the blasted rock without slowing.
• Zheng Jinren ordered the remaining Burrowing Robots to withdraw and put Pangu Unmanned Mecha carrying Antimatter Bombs on standby.
• Devouring Demon God Baroque emerged from the Third Planet's crust, measuring about five thousand meters long and nearly three thousand meters wide, protected by a transparent energy shield.
• Ground forces and Kona Civilization spaceships attacked Baroque, but their weapons failed to penetrate its shield.
• Baroque accelerated past two thousand meters per second and charged a ground-based firing position.

Baroque evaded an Antimatter Bomb strike by retreating underground, then began creating multiple escape routes as the Demon Clan poured onto the surface. Great Xia and the Kona Civilization struggled to contain the advancing forces, and Zheng Jinren faced pressure to send Antimatter-carrying Mecha forward despite the mounting losses.

• Zheng Jinren sent an Antimatter-carrying Mecha toward Baroque, but Baroque repeatedly avoided it and escaped underground before a Hypersonic Missile carrying an Antimatter Bomb could reach it.
• The missile collapsed Baroque's underground entrance, but monitoring confirmed that Baroque had survived and retreated deeper beneath the surface.
• Baroque opened more exits by digging tunnels, giving itself additional escape routes from future attacks.
• Demon Clan legions surged from the exits while five Seventh-Order Demon Venerables attacked the retreating unmanned forces and blocked their routes.
• The Demon Venerables evaded missiles and Nuclear Bombs, while attacks against them caused devastating friendly-fire losses among Great Xia and Kona forces.
• A staff officer urged Zheng Jinren to advance the Mecha carrying Antimatter Bombs because the forces could not sustain their current losses.

Zheng Jinren’s forces used Antimatter Bombs to deter the Demon God and cover the evacuation from the Third Planet, but their losses continued. After learning that Third-Order experts from Terra could deliver bombs hidden in Spatial Rings, Zheng Jinren offered a large reward for volunteers and sent Commander Lin the mission details.

• Zheng Jinren ordered the forces to stop pursuing the Demon God and use bomb-carrying Robots to protect evacuation routes.
• The Antimatter Bombs drove the Demon God and Demon Venerables away from threatened areas, allowing stalled convoys to move, but the evacuation remained incomplete.
• Zheng Jinren’s staff concluded that a Spatial Ring could hide a bomb from the Demon God’s Danger Sense, but ordinary pilots could not survive delivering one in a Pangu Mecha.
• A staff officer’s simulations showed that Third-Order experts from Terra could withstand the gravity and acceleration required for the mission.
• Zheng Jinren offered thirty million in Great Xia Currency for volunteers, ordered that the risks be disclosed, and sent Commander Lin the mission details.

The Demon Clan emerged onto the Terra Continent and discovered that Great Xia had laid an ambush. Long Zhan ordered conventional forces to bombard them, but Sahe and the Demon Venerables survived with little harm before the firing abruptly stopped.

• The Demon Clan poured through the tunnels onto the surface, where ten Demon Venerables detected Great Xia's forces waiting in an encirclement.
• The Demon Venerables reported that the surface seemed secure, and Sahe emerged from the wormhole and ordered the army to advance.
• Long Zhan confirmed the Demon God and the high-ranking demons had appeared, then ordered conventional weapons to attack while holding back nuclear and antimatter weapons.
• Great Xia's artillery, missiles, aircraft, and unmanned vehicles devastated the lower-rank demons, killing more than ten thousand in the first bombardment.
• The Demon Venerables dodged most attacks, while Sahe absorbed the fire with his shield and smashed combat vehicles with a tentacle.
• Great Xia's artillery suddenly ceased, and Sahe and the Demon Venerables turned toward the distance in puzzlement.

Terra’s thirty-five Seventh-Order Experts and a hundred Pangu Mechas entered the battlefield to surround the Demon Venerables and target the Demon God. After Lin Mo realized he could understand the Demon Clan’s language, Long Zhan resolved to capture a Seventh-Order Demon Venerable for information, just as an Antimatter Bomb detonated.

• Long Zhan deployed thirty-five Seventh-Order Experts in groups to engage the ten Demon Venerables and sent a hundred Pangu Mechas into battle, with two carrying Antimatter Bombs.
• Balin cursed at the Demon Venerables, who answered by ordering their forces to attack.
• Lin Mo understood the Demon Clan calling humans “Bipeds” and told Long Zhan and Zhao Gang he could understand their language.
• Long Zhan and Zhao Gang realized the Demon Clan’s language could reveal why they invaded other civilizations, and Long Zhan decided to capture a Seventh-Order Demon Venerable.
• An Antimatter Bomb detonated on the battlefield.

Terra's Seventh-Order Experts lured Sahe's Demon Venerables away while a hundred Pangu Mechas pinned the Demon God in place. Two pilots deployed an Antimatter Bomb, erasing Sahe, the mechas, and the nearby Demon Clan forces in a vast blast.

• Terra's Seventh-Order Experts fought while drawing the Demon Venerables west, away from Sahe and the battlefield.
• Sahe noticed the Pangu Mecha formation and charged into it, smashing machines aside as they swarmed it and attacked its weak points.
• The unmanned mechas sacrificed themselves to pin Sahe while two manned mechas approached under cover and opened their cockpits.
• The two pilots revealed an Antimatter Bomb, and Sahe sensed its lethal threat and tried to retreat.
• The Antimatter Bomb detonated, erasing Sahe, the Pangu Mechas, and nearby Demon Clan forces in a vast white blast.

Great Xia’s devastating explosion killed the Demon God Sahe and sent the Demon Venerables fleeing. Terra’s forces killed one wounded Demon Venerable and captured another, leaving Lin Mo watching the captive in the Command Center.

• The allied legions bombarded the encircled Demon Clan until a blinding explosion shook the battlefield and swept across their barriers.
• Dragon Knight Reynolds declared the Demon God dead and rallied Terra’s experts to attack the demoralized Demon Venerables.
• Long Zhan ordered the experts to capture at least one Demon Venerable alive, so they abandoned most of the fleeing enemies and surrounded two wounded targets.
• Terra’s experts bound one Demon Venerable with spells and a Great Xia rope, while the other was blasted apart after it tried to escape.
• Lin Mo watched the captured Demon Venerable roaring on the Command Center screen.

After Sahe’s death, Long Zhan ordered the Allied Army to clear the battlefield, but the Kona forces faced devastating losses because they could not effectively use antimatter bombs on the Third Planet. Lin Mo arranged an openly advertised, certain-death recruitment mission for Terra’s Third-Order martial artists, offering compensation and Great Xia citizenship for their families.

• Long Zhan ordered the Allied Army to advance, eliminate high-ranking demons, and destroy the Space Wormholes after Sahe was killed and a Demon Venerable was captured.
• Zheng Jinren reported that extreme gravity on Kona’s Third Planet prevented the Pangu pilots from deploying antimatter bombs effectively, leaving retreating troops under heavy attack.
• Lin Mo proposed recruiting volunteers from Terra’s races and offering Great Xia citizenship and support to their families; Zhao Gang and Long Zhan approved the plan.
• Lin Mo published an emergency mission seeking Third-Order-or-higher warriors with resilient physiques to carry an antimatter bomb toward a Demon God in a Pangu Mecha.
• The Fief’s netizens reacted to the mission’s certain-death warning, compensation, and promise of protection for volunteers’ families.