Chapter Summaries

Long Zhan proposed accelerating satellite launches, upgrading weapons, and arranging diplomacy with the elves while Lin Mo agreed to the plans. The chapter left Lin Mo discovering that Kael and Elder Muyu had been caught in an awkward food experiment involving Great Xia cuisine and alcohol.

• Long Zhan urged the launch of satellites and proposed replacing artillery explosives with cubic nitrogen and switching firearms to larger calibers.
• Long Zhan asked Lin Mo to bring books from the Elf Royal City and said Great Xia should protect him, and Lin Mo agreed.
• The meeting covered base defenses and power generation, and Zhao Gang sent the requests and battle data to headquarters.
• Lin Mo went to find Kael's party for lunch and saw them squatting with trays while Qian Zhenhua and Liu Chengen studied whether they could eat Great Xia food.
• Lin Mo discovered that Elder Muyu had lost his hair and beard and had a noodle hanging from his nostril after trying the food and liquor.

Lin Mo joined Qian Zhenhua, Elder Muyu, Kael, and their companions for a meal, and the Holy Human Race and Elves enthusiastically tried Great Xia’s food and beer. Meanwhile, five elders at Tianshu Underground City waited anxiously for news about the Portal until a secretary announced that an encrypted data packet had arrived from New Hope.

• Lin Mo joined the guests at the construction-site meal and toasted their victory with beer.
• Kael and the knights relished the braised pork, rice, mapo tofu, and other dishes, while Elder Muyu and the Elves enjoyed the vegetable dishes.
• Kael mistook Qian Zhenhua’s thumbs-up for the name of the meat, and Lin Mo realized his food introduction had not been understood.
• Five elderly officials gathered at Tianshu Underground City and anxiously awaited news about the Portal under attack by the Demon Clan.
• Elder Zhao dismissed Eagle Country’s proposal to jointly develop the moon and share aerospace technology.
• A secretary rushed into the conference room and reported that an encrypted data packet had arrived from New Hope.

Elder Zhao ordered the country to prioritize the New Hope Plan after footage and reports showed how dangerous the demons were and how urgently the Expeditionary Force needed better weapons. At Polaris Military Industry Group, Ma Dongsheng received the rushed production requirements and summoned Chief Engineer Wu to review them.

• Elder Zhao and the other officials watched footage of demons overwhelming conventional weapons before Kael’s holy magic drove a demon commander from the battlefield.
• The officials reviewed Long Zhan’s report, which called for 14.5 mm weapons and cubic nitrogen explosives to counter the demons.
• Elder Zhao directed all nonessential work to stop and ordered weapon prototypes within three days and the first mass-produced batch within five.
• Ma Dongsheng received the top-secret equipment requirements and, stunned by the deadlines, called Chief Engineer Wu to his office.
• Ma Dongsheng handed Chief Engineer Wu the requirements to review.

Ma Dongsheng ordered Old Wu and Polaris Military Industry Group to develop a cubic-nitrogen 14.5 mm bullet within three days, despite the technical obstacles. As conventional approaches failed, intern Sun Zhi proposed triggering a phase-transition collapse through resonance, and Old Wu ordered the team to investigate it while continuing artillery-shell work.

• Ma Dongsheng told Old Wu that the order to create a cubic-nitrogen bullet in three days came from the highest level and was essential to protect soldiers on the front line.
• Old Wu agreed to lead the effort and demanded full access to the group's laboratories, experts, and support from the Academy of Sciences.
• Polaris Military Industry Group mobilized its engineers and specialists, while Old Wu's team rejected conventional impact, chemical, and piezoelectric fuze designs.
• Sun Zhi proposed using resonance at impact to disrupt cubic nitrogen's molecular bonds and trigger a phase-transition collapse instead of conventional detonation.
• Old Wu ordered the simulation and materials teams to test Sun Zhi's theory while the group continued modifying artillery-shell production lines.

Mars learned that Great Xia had abruptly shifted to wartime production and ordered surveillance to uncover its plans, while Great Xia’s forces continued building a fortified base at Firefly Leaf Town. Kael and Elder Muyu watched the construction and learned from Lin Mo that electricity powered Great Xia’s technological civilization.

• Mars received intelligence that Great Xia’s military-industrial conglomerates had switched to wartime production, including making large-caliber weapons and cubic nitrogen explosives.
• The intelligence director told Mars that Great Xia had concentrated equipment, supplies, and personnel at a military base in the Arctic.
• Mars ordered reconnaissance satellites and high-level moles to investigate Great Xia’s actions.
• More than ten thousand Great Xia soldiers and engineers worked through the night to build a fortress and defensive gun positions at Firefly Leaf Town.
• Kael and Elder Muyu watched the construction, and Lin Mo explained that electricity was the cornerstone of Great Xia’s technological civilization.

Lin Mo received trade requests from the Elf Queen and the Pope after they learned of Great Xia’s victory and its weapons. He promised to discuss whether Great Xia could sell them equipment, while considering how enchantments could make firearms especially powerful in Elf hands.

• Lin Mo watched the defenses being built as Qian Zhenhua and the researchers recalculated rocket-launch data for Terra.
• Fendona arrived with Griffin riders, delivered a message from the Elf Queen, and brought Lin Mo’s sleeping body back from the Elf Royal City.
• Fendona said the Elf Queen was impressed by Lin Mo’s battle at Firefly Leaf Town and wanted to trade for Great Xia’s weapons.
• A Templar Knight delivered the Pope’s order, and Kael told Lin Mo that the Holy Human Race also wanted to buy weapons.
• Lin Mo said Great Xia’s supplies were limited and the trade was sensitive, but promised to consult his people and give Kael and Elder Muyu an answer.

Lin Mo and the Great Xia leaders negotiated a weapons trade with representatives of the Holy Kingdom, proposing grain as a shared measure of value. The talks reached the question of wheat prices, where Zhao Gang’s cost-based approach threatened to give Great Xia a major advantage.

• Lin Mo told Long Zhan and Zhao Gang that the Holy Kingdom wanted to buy Great Xia’s weapons and equipment.
• Lin Mo arranged a meeting between the Great Xia delegation and High Archbishop Kael, Elder Muyu, and Fendona.
• Kael proposed using Lie-Detecting Magic during negotiations and a Magic Contract to enforce any agreement.
• Zhao Gang raised the problem of valuing goods across worlds and proposed using grain as a common benchmark, measured at cost price.
• Zhao Gang asked for the Terra Continent’s cost of wheat, and Kael answered that one Iron Coin bought one jin.

Zhao Gang negotiated weapon sales to Kael and Elder Muyu while concealing how heavily Great Xia had marked up the prices. The Holy Human Race and the Elves each spent thirty million US dollars, and the negotiations moved on to the goods they would sell.

• Zhao Gang and Kael agreed that three iron coins equaled one US dollar, each believing the exchange rate favored his own side.
• Lin Mo presented Great Xia’s weapons and prices, and Kael accepted the cost of an AK-47 after discussing it with Elder Muyu.
• Zhao Gang defended the tank’s eight-and-a-half-million-dollar price by pointing to the costs of war, and Kael and Elder Muyu each agreed to buy one.
• Kael and Elder Muyu ordered a range of weapons, vehicles, and supplies, while passing on equipment that could not move.
• The Holy Human Race and the Elves each spent thirty million US dollars, and Great Xia rounded both bills down before the sides began discussing goods for sale.

Kael and Elder Muyu presented their races’ trade lists, and Zhao Gang and Long Zhan questioned the Holy Human Race’s portal prices and restrictions. Lin Mo realized a permanent Astral Portal would cost far less than expected after Great Xia’s discounts, while the Elves’ list revealed rare products including Life Fruits and World Tree Seeds.

• Kael listed the Holy Human Race’s goods and explained the uses of Pure Holy Water, Spatial Crystals, scrolls, and equipment to Zhao Gang.
• Kael said the Pope had not authorized permanent Astral Portals, and he explained that larger Portals cost proportionally more.
• Zhao Gang calculated that a permanent Astral Portal would cost five million gold coins, and he and Lin Mo suppressed their excitement over its discounted effective cost.
• Long Zhan said they would seek permanent Astral Portals again when the Holy Human Race began making larger purchases.
• Elder Muyu handed Lin Mo the Elves’ trade list, which included Life Fruits for five million gold coins and World Tree Seeds for one hundred million.

Zhao Gang, Lin Mo, and Long Zhan learned about the Elves’ goods and negotiated a trade with the two Terra Continent factions. They signed a contract for the purchases, establishing a new framework for economic trade.

• Elder Muyu explained why the Elves could sell magic crystals more cheaply and described the uses and differences of Life Spring Water, Holy Water, and Youth Potion.
• Lin Mo translated the explanations for Zhao Gang and Long Zhan, including Holy Water’s ability to purify parasites and cancer cells.
• Zhao Gang explained that the World Tree Seed’s high listed price reflected its importance to the Elves and could encourage Great Xia to help capture Emerald Leaf City.
• Zhao Gang urged Lin Mo to translate weapon and equipment manuals so the factions could use their purchases and be more likely to buy in bulk.
• The sides finalized their purchases and signed a detailed trade contract requiring delivery within two days; its magical glow marked the establishment of a new economic trade framework.

After Great Xia, the Holy Church, and the Elves finalized a trade agreement, General Long Zhan asked Lin Mo to find Elf language materials so Great Xia could translate its weapons manuals. Lin Mo and Fendona visited Firefly Leaf Town, where he bought books and returned to camp to begin the translation work.

• Zhao Gang, High Archbishop Kael, and Elder Muyu celebrated the agreement and sent messengers to arrange the goods.
• Long Zhan told Lin Mo to find books that would help translate Great Xia's weapons and equipment manuals.
• Lin Mo asked Fendona to accompany him to Firefly Leaf Town, where returning Elf residents watched Great Xia's construction work.
• Lin Mo and Fendona met Xina and her younger sister, who asked about the Great Xia vehicle and received directions to the bookshop.
• Lin Mo bought Elf reading materials and a comprehensive dictionary, then returned to camp to work with the experts on translations.

Lin Mo worked with the Intelligent Brain to translate Elven texts and build a language model, while Great Xia prepared a rocket launch and tested a tethered airship on Terra. Kael and Elder Muyu watched the unfamiliar technology with awe, though Muyu briefly wondered whether he had been right to let Great Xia enter the continent.

• Lin Mo read scanned Elven texts aloud and helped the Intelligent Brain raise its translation accuracy to 85%.
• A transporter carried the Long March 11 Carrier Rocket through the Portal as engineers assembled it for a satellite launch.
• Great Xia technicians discussed the rocket's specially developed fuel and its limited satellite payload on Terra.
• Kael and Elder Muyu ate breakfast in the camp and disagreed over whether tofu pudding should be sweet or savory.
• Soldiers inflated and launched a tethered airship, which Kael and Elder Muyu watched rise above the camp.
• Elder Muyu questioned whether allowing Great Xia onto Terra had been the right choice, then remembered the Elves faced destruction without a new power.

Lin Mo completed the Terra Common Language translation project, then switched from his Blue Star body to his Terra body and went to observe the first rocket launch. At the launch center, he learned the satellite was intended to gather data, but questioned whether they could prepare enough equipment before the Portal closed.

• Lin Mo completed the translation matrix, updated the terminal, and confirmed it could speak Terra Common Language to Professor Wang.
• Lin Mo went to his aluminum-alloy quarters, slept, and woke in his Terra body after receiving Zhao Gang’s message about the rocket launch.
• Lin Mo joined General Long Zhan, Zhao Gang, Academician Qian Zhenhua, Kael, Elder Muyu, and Fendona at the temporary launch center.
• Academician Qian Zhenhua explained that the first satellite would collect environmental data and that sixty satellites were planned for a communications network around the Terra Continent.
• Lin Mo explained to Kael that the rocket would launch a communications relay rather than serve as a weapon.
• Lin Mo asked Zhao Gang whether they had enough time to design, manufacture, and transport the planned satellites and rockets before the Portal closed in six days.

Lin Mo and the others celebrated the successful launch of Great Xia’s first satellite on the Terra Continent, then he asked Kael to teach him magic. Kael explained that becoming a Holy Light mage required sensing spiritual power, harmonizing with the Holy Light through faith, and using the god’s incantations.

• Zhao Gang told Lin Mo that Great Xia had already prepared more rockets and would fully support the mission.
• The rocket launched successfully, and half an hour later the satellite entered its designated low planetary orbit.
• Lin Mo showed Kael and Elder Muyu the camp and answered their questions about its technology.
• Kael, Elder Muyu, and their attendants enjoyed the food at the dining hall.
• Lin Mo asked Kael to teach him magic, and Kael described the steps required to become a Holy Light mage.

Lin Mo studied the Book of Holy Light and accidentally unleashed an enormous Holy Light Purification that lit up the basin. Kael and the Elves realized Lin Mo had somehow reached the sixth rank, though Lin Mo did not understand what they meant.

• Lin Mo asked Kael for a textbook, then took the Book of Holy Light to a quiet hillside to study.
• Lin Mo sensed a mysterious energy, chanted the Holy Light Purification incantation, and produced a vast sphere of light that illuminated the basin.
• The soldiers felt their exhaustion disappear, while Kael recognized the immense light and rushed toward Lin Mo.
• Elder Muyu and General Adrian reacted to the light and flew to the hillside, where they found Lin Mo with Kael.
• Elder Muyu learned Lin Mo had cast the spell, and Kael exclaimed that Lin Mo had reached the sixth rank despite having no magic affinity; Lin Mo asked what the sixth rank was.

Lin Mo repeated his Holy Light Purification spell, producing an astonishing burst of light that led Kael to declare him the Holy Son. Kael explained that Lin Mo’s vast mental power could eventually make him a Seventh-Rank Element Walker, and Lin Mo asked how to reach that level.

• Kael urged Lin Mo to cast Holy Light Purification again, and Lin Mo successfully produced a burst of light that illuminated the night and filled the soldiers with pleasure.
• Kael called Lin Mo the Holy Son chosen by the God of Holy Light and tried to take him to the Holy City.
• Elder Muyu and General Adrian stopped Kael, reminding him that Lin Mo was Great Xia’s Commander-in-Chief and that his actions could affect the alliance.
• Lin Mo asked why his spell differed so greatly from the version described in books, and Kael explained that Lin Mo’s mental power was vast like an ocean.
• Kael said Lin Mo could eventually become a Seventh-Rank Element Walker, prompting Lin Mo to ask what knowledge he needed to master.

Kael explained the lengthy education Lin Mo would need to become a seventh-order Element Walker, leaving Lin Mo dismayed when he learned there were no shortcuts. Meanwhile, Great Xia received Terra’s satellite survey data and recognized the planet as a new hope for its struggling people.

• Kael listed the Holy City’s courses and said Lin Mo would need about twenty years of study before attempting to become a fifth-order Mage Adept.
• Lin Mo asked Kael for a crash course, but Kael insisted there were no shortcuts and made Lin Mo begin memorizing a 1,245-page history book within three days.
• Researchers at the temporary launch center completed Terra’s basic planetary survey, and Zhao Gang ordered the data sent to Blue Star.
• Great Xia’s leaders learned that Terra was twice the size of Blue Star, had more than four times its habitable area, and was rich in minerals and life.
• The chief leader ordered the planned missions to proceed, giving Great Xia hope as disasters made Blue Star increasingly uninhabitable.

Gao Jianjun received an order to produce sixty custom satellites in six days and mobilized the Aerospace Military Industry Group to meet the deadline. Meanwhile, Lin Mo remained unaware that his actions had triggered the emergency effort and struggled to read Kael’s enormous book.

• Gao Jianjun learned that the military required sixty custom satellites, each under fifty kilograms, within six days.
• Gao Jianjun secured unlimited funding and top-priority support before promising to complete the mission on time.
• Gao Jianjun ordered engineers and workers to suspend other projects and begin round-the-clock satellite design and production.
• The Aerospace Military Industry Group mobilized experts from across the country and began a frantic race against time.
• Lin Mo read the first pages of Kael’s 1,245-page history book and realized it had no illustrations.

As Great Xia prepared its defenses against the Demon Clan, Long Zhan learned that Earth Dragons could burrow beneath the valley and threaten the entire base. The Elves promised to protect the ground with Earth Elemental Elves, and a group of flying beasts arrived as Long Zhan stayed to meet them.

• Staff officers warned Long Zhan that Earth Dragons could tunnel beneath the basin, where Great Xia’s defenses could not detect or stop them in time.
• Long Zhan went to Excavation Zone Three and asked Elder Muyu and Fendona how other races defended against underground attacks.
• Elder Muyu explained that Earth Elemental Elves sensed underground movement and that the Elves would safeguard the ground beneath the base.
• Elder Muyu described the Holy Human Race’s barriers, the Dwarves’ runes, and the Half-Orcs’ lack of effective defenses against Earth Dragons.
• Long Zhan received word that Elves were approaching on flying beasts and stayed to meet them as Griffins and other creatures landed nearby.

Long Zhan showed Elder Archmond’s delegation the weapons and vehicles Great Xia had prepared for the Elves. When Elder Archmond produced their payment from a Spatial Ring, Lin Mo and the commanders realized the technology could solve Great Xia’s transport problems.

• Elder Archmond arrived with the Elven delegation, and Long Zhan led them to Warehouse Three to inspect the weapons and equipment they had requested.
• Lin Mo left his history lesson with Kael after receiving Long Zhan’s message that the Elves had arrived.
• Long Zhan confirmed the inventory with Elder Archmond while Lin Mo, Zhao Gang, and the others watched the young Elves examine the weapons.
• Elder Archmond used his Spatial Ring to produce the Elves’ payment in wooden crates, stunning the Great Xia soldiers.
• Kael explained how Spatial Rings worked, and Lin Mo, Zhao Gang, and Long Zhan recognized their potential to ease Great Xia’s logistical difficulties.