Chapter Summaries

Warwick persuaded the Half-Orc chieftains to join Great Xia, and Grom accepted the terms of incorporation on behalf of the Half-Orc Alliance. The meeting left the Dwarves weighing their own future and ended with Zhao Gang teasing Lin Mo about Fendona.

• Warwick urged the chieftains to put the Half-Orc Clan’s future ahead of their own power, and they unanimously agreed to join Great Xia.
• Lin Mo outlined the Half-Orcs’ rights and obligations as an autonomous region, and Grom agreed to unified military command, citizenship duties, and a gradual transition.
• Lin Mo promised Great Xia would send a working group to register the Half-Orcs and plan their incorporation, and Grom said his people trusted Great Xia.
• Thorin, Fendona, and Kael considered how the Half-Orcs’ decision might reshape Terra’s alliances, while the Dwarves remained undecided.
• After Fendona left the meeting, Zhao Gang congratulated Lin Mo and teased him about their future wedding banquet.

Lin Mo and Zhao Gang reported that the Half-Orc Alliance had agreed to join Great Xia, prompting Elder Zhao to plan the integration and expansion of Great Xia’s territory on Terra. Elder Zhao also urged Lin Mo to consider the Elf Princess’s marriage proposal sincerely and not let her down.

• Lin Mo and Zhao Gang discussed why the Half-Orcs wanted to join Great Xia, given the Demon Clan’s looming threat.
• Lin Mo reported the negotiations to Elder Zhao, including the Half-Orcs’ formal decision to join Great Xia.
• Elder Zhao celebrated the prospect of gaining Half-Orc territory and directed Lin Mo to arrange registration, medical screening, infrastructure, and fair treatment for the new citizens.
• Elder Zhao asked Lin Mo to keep pursuing the Dwarves’ possible accession while avoiding pressure on the Elves and the Holy Human Race.
• Elder Zhao told Lin Mo to consider the Elf Princess’s marriage proposal as a personal matter and not use the political alliance to avoid responding to her feelings.

Lin Mo struggled to figure out how to court Fendona after Elder Zhao said their marriage was settled, then went to find her and apologize for his remarks at the meeting. The chapter ended with Fendona asking whether he had truly wanted her to marry someone else.

• Elder Zhao told Lin Mo to speak with Fendona, while Zhao Gang and General Long took charge of the administrative and military details.
• Lin Mo imagined life with Fendona, then consulted an AI assistant for step-by-step dating advice.
• Lin Mo messaged Fendona, learned she was out, and asked Guard Wu Suowei to find her.
• Lin Mo found Fendona at a bookstore and awkwardly tried to create a natural meeting before asking to talk privately.
• Lin Mo apologized for upsetting Fendona at the meeting, and she asked whether he had really wanted her to marry someone else.

Lin Mo confessed to Fendona that he had been happy to learn the Queen meant for her to be with him, then asked her to dinner and a movie. Their awkwardness eased as they shared familiar conversations, but a romantic scene at the cinema left them both distracted.

• Lin Mo told Fendona he had felt uncomfortable imagining her with someone else and had been happy to learn the Queen meant him.
• Lin Mo offered to take Fendona to see places in Great Xia, and she reminded him to keep his promise.
• Lin Mo invited Fendona to dinner and a movie, and she agreed on the condition that she chose the food and film.
• Fendona remembered Lin Mo's food preferences as they ordered dinner, and the two relaxed while chatting about shops they had visited.
• Lin Mo and Fendona watched a romantic scene at the cinema, and Fendona teased him about acting like the film's male lead.

Lin Mo and Fendona admitted their feelings and began dating, while the Dwarf Kingdom formally agreed to join Great Xia. The chapter ended with Thorin presenting a list of dwarves eager to learn Great Xia's technology.

• Lin Mo confessed that he liked Fendona and wanted to build a relationship with her, and Fendona accepted.
• Fendona took Lin Mo's hand and said she would teach him step four of dating.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that the Dwarf Kingdom had sent its official reply, and Lin Mo met Thorin in the conference room.
• Thorin presented the king and elders' resolution for the Dwarf Kingdom to join Great Xia, and Lin Mo welcomed him.
• Thorin unrolled a list of dwarves who wanted to come learn Great Xia's technology.

Lin Mo, Zhao Gang, and Thorin planned how to assess and integrate the Dwarves and Half-Orcs into Great Xia, including training, registration, services, and support for elderly craftsmen. As officials reviewed the available records, they found major gaps in population and settlement data, leaving Great Xia unsure where many people lived.

• Thorin asked Lin Mo to arrange machinery, metallurgy, and energy technology classes for Dwarven craftsmen, and Lin Mo explained that trainees would first be assessed and taught in rotating batches.
• Lin Mo and Zhao Gang asked Thorin to compile accurate records of Dwarven people, settlements, workshops, mines, resources, and managers, while Great Xia assigned officials to prepare registration, asset verification, construction assessments, and medical coordination.
• Lin Mo prioritized assessing food, drinking water, and medical needs, and Zhao Gang agreed to include elderly craftsmen in the preliminary survey.
• Zhao Gang presented figures showing 100.86 million Half-Orcs across 286 reported settlements and 93.17 million Dwarves across six towns, 113 workshops, and 187 mines, while warning that many locations were unconfirmed or shifting.
• Lin Mo learned that the Dwarven food records exceeded the reported population's expected consumption and that patrols had confirmed only 186 of the Half-Orc Alliance's 286 listed settlements.

Lin Mo and his advisers debated the challenges and costs of integrating the Dwarves and Half-Orcs into Great Xia, concluding that they first needed accurate population data and minimum public-service standards. The meeting also weighed fiscal limits and military logistics, and Long Zhan raised concerns about sustaining the Joint Legion as war with the Demon Clan approached.

• Zhao Gang explained that incomplete records and shifting settlements made the Dwarf and Half-Orc populations difficult to count accurately.
• Lin Mo postponed construction plans and ordered officials to locate and register the populations before deciding where to build services.
• Xu Zhiyuan argued that Great Xia needed long-term operating budgets and service standards for schools, hospitals, water supplies, and other facilities before construction began.
• Lin Mo designated food, drinking water, basic healthcare, children's education, and minimum elder support as mandatory public welfare spending, even if other projects had to slow down.
• Xu Zhiyuan proposed taking inventory of the two races' assets, establishing autonomous-region accounts, and combining Great Xia's startup support with local production revenues and unified taxation.
• Long Zhan warned that the Joint Legion would need reliable supplies, medical care, repairs, and rotations, then asked Lin Mo for his proposal.

Long Zhan, Lin Mo, and Zhao Gang approved a phased plan to integrate the Half-Orcs and Dwarves into Great Xia, including reorganizing their armies and establishing separate budgets and measurable goals. At the first formal talks with Warwick and Muradin, Warwick asked whether unregistered Half-Orc tribes would lose their ancestral lands.

• Long Zhan proposed forming a Joint Legion from elite Half-Orc and Dwarf troops while retraining the remaining forces for other roles, and Lin Mo stressed providing soldiers with paths for promotion and reassignment.
• Long Zhan and Lin Mo agreed that the Half-Orcs and Dwarves, as Great Xia Citizens, would serve under unified command, while other races could apply to join Great Xia if they wanted the same treatment.
• Xu Zhiyuan presented a staged integration budget and schedule, and Lin Mo assigned officials to registration, finance, infrastructure, medical care, and military affairs with quarterly reviews and fixed livelihood standards.
• Lin Mo approved the integration plan, and three days later invited Warwick and Muradin to discuss detailed rules for integrating the two races.
• Warwick showed Lin Mo a map of Half-Orc tribes, including three nomadic tribes without formal land deeds, and asked whether they would be treated as people belonging to no one after registration.

Lin Mo and the delegates finalized protections for the Dwarves and Half-Orcs joining Great Xia, including rules for citizenship, land, private property, and autonomous regions. Great Xia announced that National Day and the autonomous-region ceremony would take place in the Terra Fief, where crowds gathered on October 1.

• Muradin raised concerns about Dwarves losing ancestral property and workshops, and Lin Mo proposed transitional verification and safeguards for land and private ownership.
• Lin Mo explained how small workshops and strategic industries would be treated, while Warwick asked who would protect tribal lands and He Qinglan described procedures for land disputes.
• Over half a month of negotiations, He Qinglan, Xu Zhiyuan, Muradin, and Chen Li helped settle detailed provisions for citizenship, property, resources, finances, healthcare, and military obligations.
• Zhao Gang delivered the approved agreement to Lin Mo, who authorized it to proceed after reviewing the protections for the Half-Orc and Dwarf Autonomous Regions.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that Elder Zhao had chosen the Terra Fief for National Day celebrations and the ceremony establishing the autonomous regions and Joint Legion.
• Great Xia announced the celebrations online, and crowds filled the Terra Fief square on the morning of October 1.

Great Xia held a military parade and signed agreements with the Elves, Holy Human Race, Half-Orc Clan, and Dwarf Clan. The chapter ended as Lin Mo announced the terms for the Half-Orc and Dwarf Autonomous Regions, with their citizenship and civic obligations set to take effect upon signing.

• Great Xia's military parade displayed its soldiers, robots, Pangu Mecha, ground vehicles, aircraft, and holographic projections of its naval and interstellar fleets, stunning the gathered races and Dragons.
• Elder Zhao, Elf Queen Ellari, and Ryze signed the Strategic Cooperation Agreement on the Joint Legion and Mutual Defense, committing the Elves and Holy Human Race to the joint defense against the Demon Clan.
• Lin Mo invited Warwick and Muradin to sign the agreement establishing the Half-Orc Autonomous Region and Dwarf Autonomous Region.
• Lin Mo announced that residents of both races would receive Great Xia citizenship and protections for their cultures and property while taking on duties including military service, taxes, unified administration, and resisting the Demon Clan.

Warwick, Muradin, and Elder Zhao signed the agreement that brought the Half-Orc Clan and Dwarf Kingdom into Great Xia as autonomous regions. As netizens enthusiastically shared integration advice and newcomers raised practical questions, Lin Mo ordered officials to publish confirmed service points and plans while explaining that full integration would take time.

• Warwick signed the agreement for the Half-Orc Alliance, Muradin signed for the Dwarf Kingdom, and Elder Zhao signed and announced both races had joined Great Xia as autonomous regions.
• Half-Orcs, Dwarves, and Great Xia citizens celebrated together, while the Elf Queen and Ryze watched with uncertainty about their own choices.
• The announcement trended online, and netizens formed research groups and circulated guides about daily life, school enrollment, and services for the newly joined races.
• Dwarves focused on vocational school courses, Half-Orcs asked about food, clothing, schooling, medical care, and registration, and Great Xia netizens updated their guides with practical information.
• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that netizens were enthusiastic, and Lin Mo directed officials to publish confirmed service points, mobile working group routes, and inquiry channels while clarifying that integration would take time.

Lin Mo led a Working Group into the mountains to find the Blackrock Tribe and bring registration, supplies, and medical help directly to them. After Yan Jiao and the tribe questioned Great Xia’s intentions, He Qinglan began explaining the registration process, but an elderly Werewolf challenged her approach.

• Lin Mo decided to take the Working Group beyond the known settlements, and Zhao Gang arranged supplies, medical staff, registration equipment, and satellite phones.
• Three days later, Lin Mo, He Qinglan, Bai Zhi, and the Working Group set out from the Fief with a reconnaissance drone, supply trucks, and a medical vehicle.
• Bai Zhi identified the Blackrock Tribe’s likely location and explained that its members migrated seasonally, making the map’s coordinates unreliable.
• At a mountain pass, Yan Jiao confronted the convoy and asked whether Great Xia had come to collect grain or muster soldiers.
• Bai Zhi showed Yan Jiao the Beast King Token and explained that the team had brought supplies and registration equipment, not to collect grain or conscript people.
• He Qinglan explained that each household would provide its own information, prompting an elderly Werewolf to challenge why the chief could not answer for everyone.

Great Xia began registering the Half-Orcs and other races for identity cards while assuring them that food and medical supplies were not conditional on registration. Meanwhile, Long Zhan outlined a revised Joint Legion plan, leaving its final troop contributions undisclosed.

• He Qinglan and Bai Zhi explained how identity cards would help residents access schools and hospitals, while Lin Mo assured them that supplies would be distributed regardless of registration.
• Luo Zhi registered her household, including her absent herder A Mu and her frail grandson, and received a temporary identity document and supplies.
• Yan Jiao organized the residents into orderly registration and supply lines as families asked how to record absent relatives and unnamed children.
• Bai Zhi showed children winter clothes adapted for tails, and more families joined the registration line after seeing Luo Zhi's family remain safe.
• Long Zhan told the Joint Legion planning conference that its authorized strength was tentatively three million and described how Great Xia's troop contribution had doubled under the original plan.
• Long Zhan said the plan had been revised after two more races joined, but had not yet explained the new arrangement.

Long Zhan set the Joint Legion’s three-million-troop allocation, with Great Xia covering the Half-Orcs’ and Dwarves’ shortfall and assigning the Dwarves technical and logistics roles. Lin Mo reassured the delegates that Great Xia’s commitment included its Unmanned Legion, while Long Zhan revealed that Great Xia had refused the Dragons Clan’s request to join the Joint Legion and receive a command seat.

• Long Zhan raised Great Xia’s contribution to 1.6 million troops, bringing the Joint Legion to three million and covering the Half-Orcs’ and Dwarves’ six-hundred-thousand-troop shortfall.
• Long Zhan assigned most Dwarf troops to engineering, maintenance, and logistics, while Thorin welcomed the chance for Dwarves to train for Pangu Mecha maintenance.
• Long Zhan assigned the Half-Orcs to infantry, scouting, border guard, and transport roles, and said remaining troops would take on regional duties after basic training.
• Fendona asked whether Great Xia’s additional troops would be equipped and ready for the battlefield, and Lin Mo said Great Xia’s reserves and systems were in place and included the Unmanned Legion.
• Kael worried that the Half-Orcs and Dwarves were becoming part of Great Xia while the Holy Human Race had only its Holy Son as a connection.
• Lin Mo asked about the Dragons Clan, and Long Zhan said Great Xia had refused its request to join the Joint Legion and obtain a command seat.

Great Xia finalized the Joint Legion without formally incorporating the Dragons Clan, and Long Zhan became its commander. After learning that three Demon Gods had died invading Blue Star, Terra, and Kona, Cho'Gath prepared to return home and worried that the news would ruin his sales of their coordinates.

• Great Xia and the Dragons Clan agreed that the dragons would remain autonomous and serve as a special support force rather than join the regular legion.
• The three-million-strong Joint Legion was formally established under Long Zhan's command.
• Cho'Gath admired the resources on Aker's former resource planet as Yaxes reported that Blue Star, Terra, and Kona had defeated their invaders and killed Herok, Sahe, and Baroque.
• Cho'Gath decided to return home to claim the dead Demon Gods' territories and resources.
• Yaxes warned Cho'Gath that the Demon Gods knew he had sold the civilizations' coordinates, making future sales unlikely, and Cho'Gath struggled to find a way forward.

Cho'Gath tried to secure Herok, Sahe, and Baroque's inheritances before rival Demon Gods could claim them, while Great Xia worked with Warwick to relocate a Half-Orc tribe and build new homes. The chapter ended with the Half-Orcs watching the machines at work and a child dreaming of building machines to drive away the Demon Clan.

• Yaxes persuaded Cho'Gath to delay selling the inheritances and quietly absorb them first, but a scout warned that other Demon Gods were already investigating Herok's, Sahe's, and Baroque's territories.
• Cho'Gath rushed through the Space Wormhole, determined to claim the inheritances before his rivals.
• Chen Li showed the Half-Orc elders why their flood-prone homes were unsafe and explained how Great Xia would move them to a higher, safer site.
• Warwick ordered the Half-Orcs to cooperate with the construction crew, and Chen Li assured him that the homes were designed for different races.
• Half-Orcs watched automated machines build roads and foundations, and a Minotaur child said he wanted to build powerful machines to drive away the Demon Clan.

Six months after construction began, Great Xia expanded infrastructure, housing, services, and economic activity across the Half-Orc and Dwarf Autonomous Regions. Warwick saw his tribe adapting to its new civic system, while Dulong embraced standardized manufacturing and blueprint training.

• Chen Li prioritized water, medical stations, and roads before housing and community facilities, while Great Xia scheduled construction in batches across the regions.
• Great Xia workers supplied Purification Water and built a school designed for students from different races and physical needs.
• Six months later, Warwick's tribe had completed its core infrastructure, and Half-Orc staff and patrol officers began working within Great Xia's government and legal systems.
• Great Xia merchants entered the Half-Orc Autonomous Region, while local young people took jobs in factories and construction crews.
• Muradin chose to build the Dwarf town near an old mine, and Chen Li redesigned its ventilation, dust extraction, and water systems.
• After seeing standardized parts fit together precisely, Dulong called the Dwarves to learn blueprints and arrived first at the Workshop the next day.

Two years later, the Dwarf and Half-Orc Autonomous Regions had transformed through cooperation with Great Xia, combining local expertise with modern infrastructure and technology. The chapter left the regions with more efficient industries and public services, while their people gained greater access to work, education, healthcare, and independent civic services.

• The dwarves used automated transport and standardized production, with Dulong Anvil becoming an outspoken supporter of industrial transformation.
• Dwarven workshops combined automated machining with master craftsmen’s forging and magic, while locally modified vehicles fused Great Xia technology with dwarven runes.
• Muradin’s city gained cleaner factories and stricter safety systems, and medical statistics showed dust lung cases and cave-in casualties had fallen by seventy percent.
• Bai Zhi helped a Cat-Eared Clan girl enroll in advanced nursing and encouraged her to use her knowledge in her tribe after graduation.
• A Great Xia technician demonstrated a driverless delivery vehicle to curious half-orcs, who joked about whether it would chase a thief.
• The Half-Orc Autonomous Region established broad public-service networks and mobile services for migrating tribes, allowing residents to handle many matters without relying on tribal chieftains.

Zhao Gang reported that the tribes were becoming a society as Great Xia completed infrastructure and expanded public services in the Autonomous Region. In Holy Light City, Weien Chenguang saw how deeply Great Xia had entered everyday life and wondered how long the Holy Human Race could resist its influence.

• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that construction, medical access, and school enrollment in the Autonomous Region had advanced rapidly, while Great Xia adapted services to different races and customs.
• Residents of the Autonomous Region used online services for daily needs, and a Dwarf contacted logistics to correct a delivery address.
• Great Xia logistics and commercial businesses operated openly in Holy Light City, where Holy Human apprentices eagerly discussed buying phones and livestreaming.
• Weien Chenguang patrolled the city and observed that its utilities, supplies, businesses, and institutions increasingly depended on Great Xia.
• Weien concluded that the Dwarf and Half-Orc integrations had freed Great Xia from constraints and questioned how long the Holy Human Race could hold out.

Great Xia accelerated construction of the equatorial planetary engines to slow Blue Star’s fall toward the sun, while World Trees helped restore the surface and support a population boom. The chapter left Bishop Holder and Vane-Klein touring Celestial Pivot City and marveling at its recovery.

• Engineer Chen reported that the thousand equatorial planetary engines were more than 2,500 meters tall on average and five years ahead of schedule.
• Secretary Li explained that the equatorial engines needed to ignite first to slow Blue Star’s plunge and buy at least twenty years.
• Great Xia used World Trees to purify radiation, stabilize tectonic plates, and make surface living possible for hundreds of millions of people.
• Great Xia’s childbirth support and free services helped produce a hundred million births in a few years.
• Bishop Holder and Vane-Klein visited Celestial Pivot City, where Holder expressed disbelief at what he saw.