Recaps

Han Xiao told Iso that a devastating external enemy threatened the universe, while World Tree explorers used information from captured Kunde survivors to head toward the Shattered World. The World Tree team prepared to investigate the region, unaware of what awaited them there.

• Han Xiao spent time with Ames, then went to meet Iso after receiving his message.
• Iso shared a prophecy of an approaching war and urged Han Xiao to flee with Ames if the conflict went badly.
• Han Xiao revealed to Iso that the Three Universal Civilizations had united against a powerful external enemy.
• Kasuyi and Manison speculated that the Three Universal Civilizations had made concessions because of an external invasion, while many Beyond Grade As quietly prepared for battle.
• A World Tree exploration team captured Kunde survivors, learned the coordinates of the Shattered World, and set course to investigate it.

Han Xiao learned that a World Tree exploration team had obtained the Three Universal Civilizations’ coordinates, forcing him and the leaders to prepare for war earlier than planned. The leaders put Han Xiao in charge of intercepting the team and ordered an immediate wartime mobilization.

• Han Xiao sparred with Hyperion, collected another mutated module, and explained the Three Universal Civilizations’ intelligence advantage over the World Tree.
• Oathkeeper summoned Han Xiao after the Child of Destiny detected that a World Tree exploration team had found the coordinates of an unknown civilization.
• Han Xiao realized the coordinates pointed to the former Kunde Race Civilization site and that the World Tree could reach the Three Universal Civilizations much sooner than expected.
• Han Xiao decided to intercept the exploration team and briefed the leaders of the Three Universal Civilizations on the discovery.
• Mabrus assigned Han Xiao to deal with the exploration team, and the leaders declared that the Three Universal Civilizations would enter a state of war.

Han Xiao intercepted and destroyed the World Tree exploration team, then began preparing a staging point beyond the Explored Universe. The World Tree leadership suspected the attackers were connected to the outsider who had stolen its secrets, while the Three Universal Civilizations prepared to send their fleets through the newly activated stargates.

• Han Xiao followed the exploration team's route, deployed mechanical troops, and destroyed both ships and everyone aboard after forcing them out of jump mode.
• Han Xiao gathered spatial coordinates and sent engineering troops to set up a staging point near the ambush site.
• Tedrian reported the exploration team's deaths to the Tree Kings, and Minajol suspected the unknown civilization knew about the Psychic Network and might be the outsider's home.
• The World Tree leaders ordered an advance force to follow the exploration team's last coordinates and continue its mission.
• The Three Universal Civilizations' joint fleet received orders from Commander Simon to move out as the stargates activated.

Han Xiao informed the Beyond Grade A Association that the Three Universal Civilizations had made a truce to fight the World Tree, an invading civilization, and asked its members to join the war. The Three Universal Civilizations and the association publicly announced the threat, and the Explored Universe began evacuating its border regions and preparing for war.

• Simon led the Three Universal Civilizations’ fleets in deploying defenses along the exploration team’s route, and spatial stabilization anchors disrupted a World Tree wormhole attempt.
• Han Xiao revealed the World Tree threat to the Beyond Grade A Association and explained that the association’s independent status depended on joining the war; Dilron refused, while Kant, Kasuyi, and others supported fighting to defend their home.
• After the meeting, Manison suggested using the war to replace the Three Universal Civilizations if they were weakened, but Han Xiao told him to focus on the external enemy.
• The Three Universal Civilizations announced the coming invasion and began relocating border populations, while the association confirmed the threat and recruited Supers to join the war.

The Super Star Cluster leaders considered how to protect their civilizations and exploit the coming war, while players and civilians reacted to the mobilization. At the interception zone, Han Xiao learned that a new World Tree exploration force had arrived and prepared to engage it.

• The Super Star Cluster leaders discussed the Three Universal Civilizations’ secrecy and considered weakening them or evacuating to escape their rule.
• Players welcomed the coming war, and Han Xiao summoned the legion’s combat-ready forces to the Shattered World.
• Interstellar citizens evacuated the Shattered World as fleets of Beyond Grade A forces arrived and headed toward the war zone.
• Han Xiao and the commanders reviewed the defenses against the World Tree and discussed its repeated attempts to open wormholes.
• Han Xiao received Oathkeeper’s message that a new World Tree exploration force had arrived four days from the farthest space stabilization node, and he prepared the group to engage it.

Owell led a World Tree exploration fleet toward the unknown civilization, whose forces were trying to intercept its scattered ships. After Kasuyi defeated the fleet and felt the World Tree’s psychic pressure, the Tree Kings concluded the enemy was likely Han Xiao’s civilization and planned an attack to disrupt its unfinished defenses.

• Owell ordered the 274th Vanguard Exploration Corps to split up and take multiple routes toward its destination.
• An Arcane Church fleet encountered Owell’s contingent and opened fire, then called for Beyond Grade A support when the Sacred Tree Envoy unleashed psychic power.
• Kasuyi arrived through the High-Dimensional Apocalypse Teleporter, overwhelmed the Sacred Tree Envoy, and sensed the World Tree’s oppressive force when he tried to probe its memories.
• Kasuyi crushed the Sacred Tree Envoy and destroyed Owell’s flagship, while Owell and his crew returned to the World Tree as seeds.
• The Heart Tree King judged that the unknown civilization was likely Han Xiao’s home and proposed assembling a large force to disrupt its unfinished interception perimeter.

Han Xiao and the Three Universal Civilizations expanded their interception defenses as reinforcements arrived, while Hila and Aurora joined the war effort. The World Tree prepared a massive first assault, with the Heart Tree King demanding a fleet of at least fifty billion ships and warning that Han Xiao might intervene.

• Kasuyi returned from an interception and reported that a World Tree Beyond Grade A had formidable mental power, enhanced by the World Tree Connection.
• Han Xiao explained that the World Tree protected its members' minds, while Simon warned that the expanding interception perimeter could not stop every exploration team indefinitely.
• Beyond Grade A reinforcements arrived over the next few days, helping build layered defenses as the 274th Exploration Corps continued probing the frontier.
• Hila and Aurora arrived at the main base to join the fighting, and Han Xiao predicted that the World Tree would soon launch a major offensive.
• The Heart Tree King assembled an eight-billion-ship expeditionary force but ordered it expanded to at least fifty billion ships before attacking, while acknowledging Han Xiao could join the battle.

While the Beyond Grade As waited at the interception base, Han Xiao received warning that the World Tree was preparing an assault by tens of billions of warships. The Three Universal Civilizations began preparing for the attack, while Secret Master transferred his bad luck to Han Xiao.

• Kasuyi, Sun Hunter, Oulu, Clottey, and Secret Master discussed the association members’ willingness to risk their lives alongside the Three Universal Civilizations’ direct Beyond Grade As, and Han Xiao agreed to revive any direct members who died.
• Han Xiao reflected that players had less strategic value than in his previous life because the World Tree War had arrived before they reached higher levels, though Netherland might help fill the gap left by immortal player forces.
• Oathkeeper sent Han Xiao intelligence that the World Tree was mustering tens of billions of warships for a major assault, and Han Xiao reported it to Simon and the Three Universal Civilizations’ leaders.
• Mabrus thanked Han Xiao for the timely warning, and the commanders prepared to reinforce the interception perimeter while rejecting a proposal to harass the World Tree inside its territory.
• Secret Master divined that his death omen was flickering and transferred his bad luck to Han Xiao, who found the change on his interface.

The World Tree prepared an expeditionary force to probe the Three Universal Civilizations, while the Three Universal Civilizations rapidly assembled their fleets and Beyond Grade As for the coming battle. Han Xiao received word that the World Tree forces had arrived, leaving the gathered combatants braced for war.

• The Heart Tree King assembled 107 high-level World Tree combatants and ordered the Tranquil Tree King to lead them, warning him to undergo a baptism in case he faced Han Xiao.
• The Three Universal Civilizations mobilized fleets, troops, and Universal Treasures throughout the interception zone in response to intelligence of a World Tree assault.
• Beyond Grade As gathered at the temporary base, where Kasuyi warned that their role was to eliminate enemy high-level combatants and Aurora offered to heal them.
• Manison asked whether Han Xiao could defeat the Ancestral Tree King, and Han Xiao admitted that he was not confident.
• Han Xiao received a message on his communicator and announced that the World Tree forces had arrived.

The Three Universal Civilizations prepared to intercept the World Tree expeditionary force, then summoned their Beyond Grade As when the two armies clashed. Han Xiao led the response against the World Tree’s high-level combatants and charged toward the Tranquil Tree King as the battle began.

• Simon briefed the commanders on the World Tree’s scouts and assigned the Beyond Grade As to standby while mechanics provided virtual support.
• The Three Universal Civilizations intercepted the scouts, but the World Tree expeditionary force reached the interception perimeter after enduring bombardment and traps.
• More than a hundred billion warships fought in a massive battle, and Simon sent the Beyond Grade As to confront the World Tree’s powerhouses.
• The World Tree’s high-level combatants broke through a Three Universal Civilizations fleet, and Han Xiao recognized the Tranquil Tree King among them.
• Han Xiao told the other Beyond Grade As to handle the remaining enemies and charged toward the Tranquil Tree King, beginning their clash.

Han Xiao and the allied Beyond Grade As fought the World Tree forces across a chaotic battlefield, with several powerful World Tree Executors engaging the coalition’s leaders. Hila endured a brutal assault alone, then healed her injuries and returned to full strength, declaring that she needed no help.

• Han Xiao fought the Tranquil Tree King, blocked his attempt to drill through the Mechanical Deity, and judged that neither could quickly defeat the other.
• Manison battled Lynn Karen, the World Tree's Third Leaf Executor, and recognized him as a top-tier opponent.
• Clottey fought Anrein Saro, the World Tree's Fourth Leaf Executor, whose strange comments left Clottey baffled.
• Hila was attacked by four World Tree powerhouses while Kasuyi and the other allies avoided helping her.
• Hila used her power to heal her injuries, restored her energy, and challenged her attackers to try again.

Kasuyi and the other Beyond Grade As fought the World Tree forces as Milizaus claimed the battle’s first kill and Aurora’s healing kept their side alive. The Tranquil Tree King transformed into his World Tree war form, raising the threat to Han Xiao and the entire battlefield.

• Kasuyi recognized the Second Ancestral Spirit as a powerful World Tree mage, ignored his attempts to talk, and warned the other Beyond Grade As not to answer their opponents.
• Milizaus endured concentrated attacks from the Dark Light Army Commander and other World Tree fighters, then killed a wounded Sacred Tree Envoy with his dragon breath.
• Aurora healed Milizaus, prompting World Tree fighters to target her, but Rega led four other Heroic Spirit Kings in to block their advance.
• Han Xiao and the Tranquil Tree King remained evenly matched as the Tranquil Tree King saw his allies dying and decided to draw on the World Tree’s power.
• The Tranquil Tree King transformed into his war form, summoning World Tree roots that blocked Han Xiao’s attacks and amplified the World Tree forces.

The Tranquil Tree King empowered the World Tree forces and avoided fighting Han Xiao, while Aurora’s healing helped the Three Universal Civilizations withstand the assault. Han Xiao used Aurora as bait to lure the Tree King into a trap, then teleported them both into a death zone filled with improved Keys of Destruction.

• The Tranquil Tree King unleashed the World Tree’s power, strengthening his army and worsening the Three Universal Civilizations’ losses.
• Han Xiao abandoned his attempt to attack the protected Tree King and struck World Tree fighters elsewhere, while the Tree King chose to target Aurora.
• World Tree troops boarded an Arcane Church flagship, where Legion players repeatedly revived and fought them off.
• Aurora moved closer to the battlefield to improve her healing, and the Tranquil Tree King ambushed her through the fleet’s defenses.
• Sorokin protected Aurora from the Tree King’s first strike, and Han Xiao appeared in her place and seized the attacker.
• Han Xiao teleported himself and the Tree King into a prepared trap, where hundreds of improved Keys of Destruction fired and engulfed them both.

Han Xiao gravely wounded the Tranquil Tree King with a trap of Keys of Destruction and pursued him through the Three Universal Civilizations’ forces, but the Tree King self-detonated to avoid capture. The Heart Tree King learned of his death and went to water the seed he had become.

• Han Xiao’s trap of hundreds of Keys of Destruction wounded the Tranquil Tree King, who escaped the blast and fled while Han Xiao pursued him.
• Han Xiao and the Three Universal Civilizations’ fleets trapped the injured Tranquil Tree King under relentless attack, while other World Tree forces failed to reach him.
• Han Xiao tried to restrain the Tranquil Tree King with force fields so he could seal him, but the Tree King self-detonated before he could be captured.
• The Tranquil Tree King’s death ended the World Tree army-wide aura, easing pressure on the Three Universal Civilizations’ forces.
• The Heart Tree King told the executives that the Tranquil Tree King had become a seed, then left to water it.

After the Tranquil Tree King died, the Three Universal Civilizations gained the upper hand in the battle, though the World Tree’s high-level fighters used self-destruction to inflict losses. The fleets eventually repelled the offensive, but the threat of the World Tree’s rebirth left the victors uneasy.

• Simon ordered the Three Universal Civilizations’ fleets to advance after Black Star killed the Tranquil Tree King and ended his army-wide aura.
• Han Xiao sealed four World Tree powerhouses in Space-Time Amber, while World Tree fighters repeatedly self-destructed and killed six of the allied Beyond Grade As.
• Aurora received the group’s thanks for keeping casualties low, and Han Xiao told the wounded Beyond Grade As to recuperate while leaving the Amber captives under guard.
• The Three Universal Civilizations’ leaders accepted that Hila’s Netherland was collecting fallen soldiers’ souls, deciding that fighting the World Tree took priority.
• Over six or seven days, reinforcements and renewed Beyond Grade A attacks shifted the battle in the Three Universal Civilizations’ favor, and the World Tree’s army scattered to evade the interception network.
• The Three Universal Civilizations declared victory and sent the frontline reports to interstellar society, while their officers remained troubled by the World Tree’s impending rebirth.

After the Three Universal Civilizations announced their victory over the World Tree expedition, Han Xiao considered using the lull to enter a Sanctuary and revive more Beyond Grade As. The Heart Tree King planned to wait for his forces to revive and find a way to eliminate Aurora, whose healing had undermined their tactics.

• The Three Universal Civilizations announced that they had repelled the invaders, killing over a hundred enemy Beyond Grade As at the cost of six of their own and winning public praise.
• Dilron refused to join future battles, but Oathkeeper urged Baigel to fight and hinted that Black Star had another way to bring the dead back; Baigel decided to visit the front.
• Mabrus presented rewards to the Beyond Grade As, including Universal Treasures, while several fighters thanked Aurora for keeping them alive.
• Han Xiao considered entering a Sanctuary to revive more historical Beyond Grade As and planned to wait until he confirmed the World Tree would not attack again soon.
• The Heart Tree King learned that four World Tree combatants had been captured and ordered his forces to find a way to kill Aurora before their next operation.

Han Xiao announced plans to revive fallen Beyond Grade As and learned that Baigel would join the war, while Oathkeeper reported strong progress on the Sanctuary Keys. In Netherland, Han Xiao calmed newly gathered heroic spirits by explaining their situation and promising they could be released after the war, leaving Hila to manage them.

• Han Xiao told the Beyond Grade As he planned to revive six fallen comrades and historical powerhouses through Sanctuary Revival.
• Baigel told Han Xiao that he and several revived Beyond Grade As would join the war, while Dilron refused to fight.
• Han Xiao learned from Oathkeeper that most Sanctuary Keys were at least three-quarters complete, then received Hyperion's offer to fight in future battles.
• Hila brought Han Xiao to Netherland, where Onicelu had silenced and contained newly arrived heroic spirits who were protesting their captivity.
• Han Xiao explained that Netherland had saved the fallen soldiers, promised to release anyone who wished to rest after the war, and left Hila to organize them.

Han Xiao arranged Sanctuary Revival for the Three Universal Civilizations and the Super Star Cluster Alliance in exchange for resources, while requiring the revived Beyond Grade As to join the war. After preparing his forces and handing command to his officers, he entered the First Sanctum, leaving the main universe for about three months.

• Han Xiao offered to revive the Three Universal Civilizations’ direct descendants if they provided his requested resources and sent the revived fighters to the front lines.
• The Three Universal Civilizations agreed, supplied the requested mediums, and learned that Han Xiao would also revive some of the Super Star Cluster Alliance’s direct descendants.
• Han Xiao promised the Super Star Cluster Alliance ten revival slots and offered another ten in a later batch, which its leaders eagerly accepted.
• Han Xiao instructed Hila and the senior officers to command his army and protect Aurora while he was gone.
• Oathkeeper opened the Sanctuary passage, and Han Xiao entered the First Sanctum as the passage vanished.

Han Xiao entered the First Sanctum, activated Sanctuary Revival, and gathered a large trove of advanced mechanical technology before reading newly revealed records about the Information State Stripping Plan. While he remained inside, the Beyond Grade As at the main base discussed the complications and personal anxieties surrounding the historical figures he planned to revive.

• Han Xiao stabilized the Sanctuary passage, activated Sanctuary Revival, and collected revival information and advanced mechanical blueprints until his level-eight access memory was full.
• Han Xiao examined the First Sanctum message board and learned that a past civilization had devised an Information State Stripping Plan to survive the Great Restart.
• At the interception circle's main base, Kasuyi, Sun Hunter, Milizaus, Kant, Hila, Baigel, and Heber discussed the troublesome ties and old grudges among the Beyond Grade As Han Xiao intended to revive.
• Manison worried that his Machine Race ancestor's return could threaten his leadership of the Machine Race.
• Clottey and Oulu discussed the former loyalists' coming revival, while Clottey privately recalled his training under the previous Pillar of the Nation.

Simon and the Three Universal Civilizations confronted a new World Tree strategy using Raelbo Space Protection Belts and coordinated over-the-horizon bombardment positions. Kant's expedition discovered the protected bases but came under attacks from multiple directions, leaving Simon and the commanders unsure how to respond without Black Star.

• Simon reported that World Tree attacks on the space stabilization anchor tracks had declined while reconnaissance activity and signs of distant targeting increased.
• The World Tree launched over-the-horizon strikes that destroyed hundreds of branches, and the Three Universal Civilizations' counterfire failed to reach the attackers.
• Simon sent Kant and nine other Beyond Grade As to destroy the bombardment positions and seize a Raelbo Space Protection Belt.
• Kant's fleet found a cluster of bases protected by a Raelbo Space Protection Belt, but its missiles were intercepted and Kant could not breach the bases' firewall.
• The World Tree struck Kant's expedition from multiple directions with coordinated over-the-horizon fire, and Manison warned that the enemy had built a mutually supporting network of hidden positions.

Simon and the Three Universal Civilizations used Spacetime Shearing Technology to destroy World Tree linked bases and captured a Raelbo Space Protection Belt device, but a World Tree virus nearly infiltrated their network before Manison stopped it. The sides remained in a stalemate until Han Xiao returned from the Sanctuary after roughly two months.

• Simon and the commanders agreed to use Space-Time Shearing suicide squads to attack World Tree bases while seeking ways to locate them and capture a Raelbo Space Protection Belt.
• Frenzied Saber and other players joined the suicide missions, and their fleets breached the Raelbo Space Protection Belt and destroyed several World Tree bases.
• The Three Universal Civilizations used normal fleets led by high-level combatants to capture a Raelbo Space Protection Belt device and bring it to the interception circle for analysis.
• A latent World Tree virus hidden in the captured device tried to breach the research institute's firewall, but Manison contained it before it could steal information.
• The Three Universal Civilizations and the World Tree traded attacks for roughly two months, and Han Xiao returned from the Sanctuary.

After returning from the First Sanctum, Han Xiao learned that the World Tree’s distant network of camps had stalled the Three Universal Civilizations’ efforts to locate and intercept it. He shared a powerful detection technology from the Sanctum and prepared to revive another batch of people, ordering the Beyond Grade As to help keep the reluctant recruits under control.

• Han Xiao returned from the First Sanctum with access level eight and called Simon, who briefed him on the World Tree’s connected camps and the stalled interception efforts.
• Han Xiao recognized that the First Sanctum’s technical data included a detection technology suited to finding distant enemy camps, and he reflected that it could strengthen the Three Universal Civilizations’ war effort.
• Han Xiao told Simon and the Oathkeeper that Sanctuary Revival had succeeded and that he needed the other Beyond Grade As present for its final step.
• At the main base, Han Xiao reviewed the battle reports and showed Simon and the others the detection technology, proposing that the Three Universal Civilizations build its framework while he handled its core.
• Han Xiao directed the Beyond Grade As to accompany him to the revival site and keep the newly revived people under control as they were asked to join the war.

Han Xiao revived a mixed group of historical Beyond Grade As and explained that an invading universe-level civilization threatened their home. As he asked them to join the war voluntarily, support from some revived members was challenged by refusals, including Hilbert Muller’s, whose words swayed others.

• Han Xiao activated sanctuary revival on a silver planet, bringing more than a hundred historical Beyond Grade As back to life as the other Beyond Grade As watched.
• Hilbert Muller recognized that the revived group had returned from death, and Han Xiao introduced himself and explained sanctuary revival.
• Rive recognized Clottey and greeted him before Han Xiao interrupted their reunion to explain the external invasion and request their help in the war.
• Han Xiao promised the revived people would not be forced to fight, while Mabro took a communicator to consult the super star cluster upper echelons.
• Rive and several others from the Three Universal Civilizations agreed to fight, but Garoze and other recently revived Association members refused.
• Hilbert Muller also refused, saying he had already fulfilled his duty to the Arcane Church, and his argument caused other revived members to reconsider joining the war.

After Hilbert asked to retire, Han Xiao agreed that the Three Universal Civilizations would pay for his revival but ordered the revived Supers confined. Igor Vanaz led a breakout attempt and tried to seize Aurora, so Han Xiao killed him and Hila sent his soul to the Netherland, warning the others that Black Star could take back their lives.

• Hilbert asked to leave the Three Universal Civilizations’ service, and Han Xiao said they would still pay the full cost of his revival.
• Han Xiao ordered the revived Supers held under house arrest, while Garoze and his companions were allowed to join the Beyond Grade As.
• Igor Vanaz rejected confinement and led several revived Supers in an attack to break out.
• Manison, Kasuyi, and other Beyond Grade As fought the rebels, and Aurora healed the injured Motes.
• Igor Vanaz charged at Aurora to take her hostage, prompting Han Xiao to restrain and bombard him until he died.
• Hila extracted Igor Vanaz’s soul and sent it to the Netherland, warning the revived Supers not to resist.

Hila and Han Xiao subdued the revived Supers, and Han Xiao persuaded them to join the war by promising unlimited Sanctuary Revival. The revived Supers boarded a ship for the interception zone, while the Three Universal Civilizations remained convinced that Han Xiao’s promise was a lie.

• Hila warned the revived Supers that further trouble would send them to Netherland, and Han Xiao’s killing of Igor Vanaz deterred them from resisting.
• Han Xiao offered the revived Supers permanent Sanctuary Revival if they fought in the war, and Hilbert agreed the deal was worth making.
• The revived Supers boarded Han Xiao’s ship and traveled toward the interception zone, where they began reconnecting with contemporary Beyond Grade As.
• The Three Universal Civilizations’ leaders thanked Han Xiao, asked why Gaud had not been revived, and questioned whether Sanctuary Revival was unlimited.
• Han Xiao advised the leaders to assume his claim was a lie and to keep the revived Supers from learning the truth, and they agreed.