Chapter Summaries

Bishop Holder and the Holy Human Race delegation discovered that a Great Xia child had magic affinity, prompting Great Xia citizens to connect the phenomenon to the World Trees and spark a massive online debate. The chapter then shifted to Terra, where Lin Mo finished studying a magical tome and watched his sleeping wife, Fendona.

• Bishop Holder sensed magic elements in a Great Xia boy who was trying to retrieve his drifting balloon, astonishing the Holy Human Race delegation.
• Klein suggested that the World Trees had given Great Xia people magic affinity, but Holder declared the discovery a miracle of the God of Holy Light.
• Great Xia citizens shared videos of the boy, and the discovery went viral as netizens linked it to the World Trees and discussed whether children could learn magic.
• Lin Mo finished reading a tome on the Holy Human Race's advanced magical configurations at Villa No. 1 in Morning Dawn Garden.
• Lin Mo looked at Fendona sleeping beside him and reflected on their marriage and wedding a year and a half earlier.

Lin Mo and Fendona’s relationship deepened into a marriage proposal and a grand wedding that united Great Xia and the peoples of Terra. Their marriage became a public symbol of the growing alliance between the two worlds.

• After Great Xia and the Elves advanced their marriage alliance, Lin Mo and Fendona spent six months together, sharing their cultures and growing closer.
• During Lin Mo’s official visit to Lothia, Elf Queen Ellari asked when he intended to marry Fendona.
• Three nights after returning, Lin Mo proposed to Fendona beside the World Tree, and she accepted tearfully.
• The wedding became a major celebration attended by leaders and representatives from Great Xia and Terra’s races, who brought lavish gifts and blessings.
• Great Xia deployed Pangu Mecha guards and Aerospace Fighters for the ceremony, while Dragons flew overhead singing blessings.

At breakfast after their wedding anniversary, Lin Mo learned that the newborns’ magical affinity had become public and asked the Academy of Sciences about a cultivation path for Great Xia’s children. Elder Qian reported that Daoist methods and Ancient Martial Arts could work in limited ways, but their incomplete, dangerous teachings were unsuitable for mass education.

• Lin Mo remembered Zhao Kexia’s tearful toast at his wedding, then woke beside Fendona and teased her about how nervous he had been during their ceremony.
• Zhao Gang warned Lin Mo that a video of Bishop Holder discussing newborns’ Magic Affinity had gone viral and that public agencies were overwhelmed with inquiries.
• Lin Mo asked Zhao Gang to contact Academician Qian Zhenhua about the Academy of Sciences’ research into cultivation paths for the new generation.
• Elder Qian explained that Great Xia’s experiments had found Daoist guiding techniques and Ancient Martial Arts could stir trace elements and produce qi-like effects.
• Elder Qian warned that the recovered teachings were incomplete, difficult to understand, and likely to damage practitioners’ meridians, making them too unsafe and unstandardized for national education.

Lin Mo approved Great Xia’s first public magic academies and a pilot program for compulsory magic education, using adapted Holy Human Race textbooks and hiring foreign instructors. The authorities announced the program and the discovery that children raised in the World Tree Ecosphere had a stable affinity for magic, setting off a massive public reaction.

• Elder Qian explained why the Holy Human Race’s standardized spellcasting system was the most suitable foundation for human magic education.
• Lin Mo ordered Zhao Gang to announce the first Public Magic Experimental Academies and pilot compulsory magic classes across underground cities and major surface population centers.
• Lin Mo directed Great Xia to adapt the Holy Human Race’s textbooks into materialist energy mechanics and recruit third-order-or-higher mages and dwarf rune masters as instructors.
• Great Xia’s authorities announced the magic education pilot, selecting thirty thousand children and opening recruitment for foreign mages and craftspeople.
• Billions of comments flooded Great Xia’s and Terra’s networks, forcing major servers to expand capacity.

Great Xia’s recruitment drive drew a rush of Holy Human Race Mages eager for its salaries, research support, and opportunities. Kael decided the opening could spread Holy Light to Great Xia, and Jayne set off to apply as a teacher.

• Great Xia citizens celebrated the official recognition of magic and joked about future exams, jobs, and spell studies.
• Holy Mages crowded the Great Xia embassy in Holy Light City to apply for positions, while recruiters assessed them by theory, combat, and teaching ability rather than rank or noble status.
• Jayne told Kael that more than a hundred qualified Mages, including three Fifth Order Mage Adepts, had applied and warned that they could give Great Xia the Holy Human Race’s magical knowledge.
• Kael argued that teaching Holy Light Magic in Great Xia could spread the faith to another world despite the ban on proselytizing in classrooms.
• Jayne rushed off to apply for a teaching position so he could bring the Holy Light to Great Xia.

Annie and the Interethnic Pangu Mecha Special Operations Unit arrived at Guanghan Palace Underground City for their first lunar combat maneuver test. After entering an airlock and preparing for the vacuum, Annie saw the lunar surface and its vast industrial operations.

• Two hundred Pangu Mecha piloted by Dwarves and Half-Orcs passed through the Portal into Guanghan Palace Underground City.
• Annie learned from Pangu that the underground city extended three thousand meters below the lunar surface and had a phase-one capacity of one million residents.
• Annie reflected on how Great Xia had rescued the Half-Orcs from the Demon Clan and how she had joined the military and qualified as a mecha pilot.
• Zhou Xiangming ordered the mecha companies into Airlock Transfer Chamber Number Three and instructed them to complete their life-support checks.
• The pilots watched the chamber depressurize and its outer doors open, revealing the Moon, Blue Star, and the lunar mining and manufacturing facilities.

Zhou Xiangming led Annie and the mecha squad through low-gravity maneuvers and a near-moon orbit test, where they saw Great Xia’s vast lunar construction projects. Annie discovered that one project was a planned Space-Based Planet-Buster Cannon, and the squad was left stunned by its scale and destructive power.

• Zhou Xiangming ordered the mecha squad to practice tactical jumps across the lunar surface, and the Dwarf Captain pulled Thor away from a cliff after Thor misjudged his landing.
• Annie kept her mecha balanced through the low-gravity maneuvers and then followed Zhou Xiangming’s order to enter near-moon orbit for a formation interception test.
• Annie saw the moon covered in construction sites, including planetary engines and defensive installations, and realized Great Xia was turning it into a fortified industrial base.
• Annie spotted an enormous excavated basin and asked Pangu what it was.
• Pangu identified the site as Space-Based Planet-Buster Cannon One, with a planned two-hundred-kilometer barrel and twenty-kilometer bore, and the squad reacted in disbelief.

Annie and the other Pangu Mecha pilots completed their month of lunar training and were ordered to join the final campaign against the Demon Clan on Kona’s Third Planet. After crossing through a portal into the planet’s crushing gravity, they boarded a transport ship bound for the Aker Grand Canyon, where their mission awaited.

• Annie reflected on her place in Great Xia as the Pangu Mecha saluted Blue Star from lunar orbit.
• Zhou Xiangming ended the pilots’ month of training and ordered the two hundred Pangu Mecha to deploy to Kona’s Third Planet.
• At the Kona Satellite base, Zhou Xiangming briefed the unit on the planet’s harsh conditions and assigned them to eliminate the last Demon Clan stronghold in the Aker Great Rift.
• Annie and her companions passed through a portal and endured the Third Planet’s 3.7-gravity environment as they reached the Great Xia outpost.
• The unit boarded a transport ship bound for the Aker Grand Canyon.

Annie and the Great Xia forces destroyed the last Demon Clan stronghold on the Third Planet, completing its liberation. At Kona Satellite Base, Zheng Jinren contacted the Kona Civilization to claim three sets of technological data under their agreement.

• Annie and two hundred Pangu Mecha descended into the Aker Great Rift to attack its Demon Clan stronghold.
• Annie, Thor, and the ground-based Unmanned Legion overwhelmed the demons and killed the last sixth-rank Lich without losing any mecha.
• Zheng Jinren received confirmation that the Third Planet and its three accompanying satellites were clear of Demon Clan activity.
• Zheng Jinren ordered the troops to rest and refit, then asked the Kona Civilization's Watcher to provide the agreed technological data.
• The Kona Civilization verified Great Xia's contribution and opened its catalog for Great Xia to choose three sets of technical data.

At the Academy of Sciences, Qian Zhenhua discussed Great Xia’s joint weapons research with the Kona Civilization and explained why the universe followed a dark forest law. The meeting ended when Zheng Jinren reported that the Third Planet mission had succeeded and asked which three technologies Great Xia would choose as payment.

• Academician Li reported that energy shields had been miniaturized, while Academician Zhang described improvements to robots and antimatter production.
• Qian Zhenhua said the Kona Civilization had agreed to help develop antimatter cannons and planet-buster cannons, then explained why it considered such weapons impractical.
• Qian Zhenhua described the cosmic dark forest law and argued that its dangers were no reason to abandon technological progress.
• Old Wang demanded that Great Xia build a planet-buster cannon on Blue Star as well as on the moon, and Qian Zhenhua began to respond.
• Zheng Jinren contacted Qian Zhenhua and reported that the Third Planet mission had eliminated all Demon Clan strongholds; he asked which three technologies Great Xia would choose as payment.

Qian Zhenhua chose three technologies from the Kona Civilization to strengthen humanity, while Lin Mo and Kael cultivated on Terra and broke through to the seventh order at the same moment. The chapter ended with both newly elementalized mages floating above the hillside.

• Qian Zhenhua explained why humanity would select a heat-resistant alloy formula, self-replicating robot technology, and an algorithm training library instead of warp drive theory.
• Zheng Jinren confirmed the technology choices with the Kona Civilization, and the academicians discussed how the technologies would improve human industry and military capabilities.
• Lin Mo and Kael continued their long-running cultivation on a hillside at the eastern edge of the Great Xia Fief.
• Lin Mo sensed the Will of Heaven and Earth and broke through the threshold to become a seventh-order element walker.
• Kael broke through at the same moment, and both men elementalized into holy light and rose into the air.

Lin Mo and Kael both broke through to the Seventh Order, drawing celebrations across the fief. Lin Mo tested his new ability to fly and instantly cast spells, then faced Kael in a spar as Kael summoned the Holy Spirit Cage.

• Lin Mo and Kael discovered that they had both become Seventh-Order Element Walkers, and the residents of the fief cheered their breakthrough.
• Lin Mo celebrated the new strength and thanked Kael for breaking through alongside him.
• Lin Mo and Kael restored their solid forms, and Lin Mo invited his teacher to spar.
• Lin Mo flew over the Great Xia base, marveling at how freely he could move through the air.
• Kael fired a Radiant Burst Bomb, and Lin Mo instantly formed three Holy Light Shields that blocked it without cracking.
• Kael began casting Holy Spirit Cage as Lin Mo focused the holy light within him for a powerful counterattack.

Lin Mo demonstrated the immense power of his Seventh Order by rapidly casting a forbidden spell and discovering that elementalization made him immune to ordinary physical attacks. Kael explained the limits and longevity of Seventh-Order Element Walkers, leaving Lin Mo excited about his thousand-year lifespan and future with Fendona.

• Lin Mo cast the seventh-order Heavenly Punishment Sacred Sword in ten seconds, and Kael countered it with overlapping Holy Radiance Curtains.
• Lin Mo found that the forbidden spell had consumed only a small portion of his magic power, while his physical strength remained at the peak of the Third Order.
• Kael tested Lin Mo's elementalization with a mithril shortsword, which passed through him without causing injury.
• Kael warned that high-order magic and attacks imbued with mental will could damage or kill Element Walkers.
• Kael told Lin Mo that Seventh-Order Element Walkers could live for more than twelve hundred years if their essence remained uninjured.
• Lin Mo realized his extended lifespan could let him face Great Xia's future alongside Fendona without their lifespans separating them.

Lin Mo returned to the Great Xia Fief after advancing to the Seventh Order, and the residents celebrated his achievement. He flew home to Fendona, who rejoiced at his breakthrough and the thousand-year lifespan it gave him, before his Wristwatch Terminal began vibrating.

• Lin Mo and Kael left the site of Lin Mo's test, and Kael flew to report to the Holy See.
• Lin Mo landed in the Municipal Square, where residents of many races swarmed him with cheers and questions about his power.
• Lin Mo escaped the crowd by flying to his villa in Morning Dawn Garden.
• Fendona learned that Lin Mo had become a Seventh-Order Element Walker and celebrated his breakthrough and extended lifespan.
• Lin Mo and Fendona embraced and joked together until Lin Mo's Wristwatch Terminal began vibrating.

After Lin Mo broke through to the seventh order, leaders across Great Xia congratulated him, and footage of his duel made him a viral sensation. He celebrated with Fendona, then learned that Academician Qian planned to come study his new abilities.

• Zhao Gang and Long Zhan called Lin Mo to confirm his breakthrough and congratulate him.
• Lin Mo received congratulations from commanders, city leaders, and Elder Zhao, who said his new strength reassured the country.
• Lin Mo and Fendona watched his duel go viral on Great Xia's social media, where commenters praised him and joked about his retreat from the crowd.
• Lin Mo and Fendona shared an intimate moment together.
• Academician Qian called Lin Mo and announced he was coming to Terra to study a seventh-order mage.

Lin Mo underwent scientific tests at the Advanced Research Institute after reaching the seventh order, while Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen investigated the mysterious will he had sensed. Liu Chengen proposed that it was Gaia Will, a collective consciousness formed by life on Blue Star.

• Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen examined Lin Mo and found that his pulse was only thirty-five beats per minute.
• Lin Mo hovered above the scanning platform, and Qian Zhenhua interpreted his flight as a biological system that used vacuum fluctuations for thrust.
• Lin Mo told the academicians that he had sensed a powerful will during his advancement to the seventh order.
• Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen considered whether the will belonged to an eighth-order being or a god, but Liu Chengen rejected those explanations.
• Liu Chengen proposed that the will was Gaia Consciousness, a collective organism formed by Blue Star's life, and Lin Mo compared it to the planet-level consciousness in Avatar.

Lin Mo, Liu Chengen, and Qian Zhenhua developed a scientific explanation for the Gaia Will, Lin Mo’s transmigration, and his two bodies. They then tested Lin Mo’s Seventh-Order elemental form and found that conventional physical attacks passed through it.

• Liu Chengen and Lin Mo connected the Gaia Will to the Gaia Core and discussed how it might regulate Seventh-Order cultivators to protect Terra.
• Qian Zhenhua proposed that the Gaia Will had pulled Lin Mo’s soul from Blue Star and created his second body to help defend Terra against the Demon Clan.
• Lin Mo felt relieved that the Gaia Will, rather than a god, had brought him to Terra and that he was not the Holy Son.
• Liu Chengen began testing Lin Mo’s elemental form with a laser and a high-frequency vibrating dagger.
• The laser merged into Lin Mo’s body of light, while the dagger passed through without harming him.
• Qian Zhenhua explained that Lin Mo had converted his body into a photon cloud with no rest mass and could restore physical substance through magic power.

Lin Mo endured Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen’s attempts to collect samples from his nearly impenetrable seventh-order body. At the Kona Satellite Base, Zheng Jinren learned that Demon Clan wormholes had appeared at the edge of the Kona star system, just as the allies prepared to retake the Fourth Planet.

• Qian Zhenhua explained that Lin Mo’s elemental deflection force field could lead to future warships needing less armor, while Liu Chengen marveled at his apparent immortality.
• Liu Chengen tried to draw Lin Mo’s blood, but the needle bent against Lin Mo’s hardened skin, prompting the researchers to threaten more extreme ways of collecting samples.
• Lin Mo reluctantly offered one tube of blood after warning that he would use a forbidden spell if the researchers took more.
• At the Kona Satellite Base, Zheng Jinren agreed to coordinate Great Xia’s expedition with Kona’s planned operation against the Demon Clan on the Fourth Planet.
• A Kona deep-space probe detected violent spatial fluctuations matching Demon Clan wormholes at the outer edge of the star system, and Zheng Jinren ordered the detailed data brought up.

The Demon Clan opened an enormous wormhole near the Tenth Planet, and Great Xia prepared for a renewed war despite not knowing what the enemy intended. As the wormhole continued expanding without any demons emerging, Zheng Jinren asked Lin Mo to open a portal for closer reconnaissance.

• Zheng Jinren explained that the Tenth Planet was too distant for timely reinforcements and that communications delays meant the Demon Clan might already have assembled its vanguard.
• Zheng Jinren ordered the Unmanned Legions to prepare for battle and summoned Lin Mo to open a portal, choosing him to avoid the Holy Human Race's high fees.
• Lin Mo arrived at Kona Satellite Base, where a report revealed that the Tenth Planet's wormhole had expanded for more than twenty-four hours.
• Lin Mo and Zheng Jinren examined footage showing a vast wormhole with no demons emerging, leaving the Demon Clan's purpose unclear.
• Zheng Jinren asked Lin Mo to open a portal so they could send equipment for reconnaissance, and Lin Mo agreed.

Lin Mo opened a two-meter Astral Portal from Kona Satellite Base to the Tenth Planet, enabling Great Xia to send reconnaissance machines and engineers through while keeping the route small enough to limit the Demon Clan's threat. With the landing zone secured and a defensive outpost ordered, Zheng Jinren invited Lin Mo back to the Command Center to monitor the operation.

• Lin Mo used his Seventh-Order light-form and psychic power to assemble a hundred-meter Astral Portal Magic Circle from rare magical materials.
• Zheng Jinren showed Lin Mo the Star Chart and identified the Tenth Planet's northern permafrost zone as the site of the Demon Clan wormhole, warning him to keep the Portal within two meters.
• Lin Mo anchored a two-meter Portal to the Tenth Planet after chanting Teleportation Magic.
• Zheng Jinren sent spider reconnaissance robots and miniature drones through the Portal, and their telemetry reported harsh conditions but no Demon Clan activity within three kilometers.
• Zheng Jinren ordered engineers to build a defensive outpost and stationed a Pangu Mecha with an antimatter warhead behind the Portal, then invited Lin Mo to the Command Center.