Recaps

Han Xiao dealt with the revived Beyond Grade As as old leaders began asserting claims over their former legacies, while he and Hila brought Igor Vanaz to the Netherland. Meanwhile, the World Tree traced its intelligence leaks to precognitives and chose to keep the channel open for a possible trap.

• Han Xiao welcomed Nifogadi's challenge to spar and invited neutral revived Beyond Grade As and former subordinates to join the Beyond Grade A Association, drawing objections from Oulu and Clottey.
• Nifogadi asked Manison to announce his return to the Machine Race, while Manison privately resolved to protect his leadership and interests.
• Marsebo Dittmerit promised Milizaus a dragon-language secret technique that could shrink him without reducing his combat power.
• Han Xiao and Hila confined the defiant Igor Vanaz in the Netherland, making him its ninth Heroic Spirit King.
• The Heart Tree King learned that future-state perceivers were connected to the World Tree's leaked deployments and ordered the precognition channel kept available as a potential trap.

News of the revived Beyond Grade As boosted morale, while Bennett completed Planet Aquamarine’s evacuation under Ames’s escort. As the revived trained at the interception perimeter, Han Xiao considered the World Tree’s diminishing intelligence leaks and challenged them to spar.

• News that Black Star had revived historical Beyond Grade As spread through the armies and interstellar society, raising morale and prompting the Mechanic Faith’s bishops to debate his new honored name.
• Bennett supervised Planet Aquamarine’s citizens as they settled on a new world, and Ames ended her escort and left Dragon Calm to protect them before heading toward the front lines.
• Contemporary Beyond Grade As sparred with the revived, helping them recover their strength and exchange knowledge; Milizaus made progress mastering a dragon-language art that compressed his body.
• Han Xiao reviewed the players’ rapid leveling from suicide missions and considered whether the World Tree had detected the Child of Destiny’s intelligence channel and might feed it false information.
• After the sparring ended, Han Xiao opened a wide-area channel and invited the revived to fight him, promising to go easy.

Han Xiao sought a sparring partner among the newly awakened Revivors to trigger a challenge mission, and Kurr stepped forward. After Han Xiao and his Apostle Weapon fought Kurr for twenty minutes, Han Xiao returned to base and received a choice of five abilities to draw from him.

• Han Xiao invited the Revivors to spar, but they hesitated until Kurr volunteered and asked for his freedom if he gained the upper hand.
• Han Xiao triggered a challenge mission and fought Kurr, using Heaven Suppressing Flag to keep the match going for twenty minutes.
• Han Xiao defeated Kurr and asked for another opponent, but none of the Revivors accepted.
• Han Xiao returned to the army base, claimed his mission reward, and received five of Kurr's abilities to choose from.

Han Xiao chose and maxed out Azure Dragon Bind, while Pangon refused to exploit the World Tree invasion immediately and instead proposed gathering space pirates. The Three Universal Civilizations regained the initiative with new detection technology, but after months of fighting the World Tree began mobilizing an offensive exceeding two hundred billion troops, prompting Han Xiao to call an emergency meeting.

• Han Xiao chose Azure Dragon Bind, raised it to lv10, and accepted Ames’s request to bring her to the front line.
• Pangon rejected his companions’ plan to attack the Three Universal Civilizations during the invasion and proposed uniting space pirates before making a move.
• The Three Universal Civilizations used new observation devices to reveal the World Tree’s hidden camps, and players destroyed the strongholds, letting the space stabilization track resume expanding.
• The World Tree launched two major fleet assaults, but the Three Universal Civilizations repelled them with help from Han Xiao’s war technology and advance warnings from the Child of Destiny monitoring channel.
• After more than half a year of fighting, the World Tree mobilized an offensive larger than the previous three combined, exceeding two hundred billion troops, and Han Xiao convened an emergency meeting.

The Three Universal Civilizations prepared for a World Tree assault reportedly involving two hundred billion troops, while Han Xiao suspected the enemy would also deploy powerful combatants. The Heart Tree King confirmed he would lead the attack in person, intending to counter Aurora and relying on the Anchor Tree King's forces for support.

• Simon briefed the commanders on the reported two-hundred-billion-strong World Tree army and the vulnerabilities in the defense lines, and Han Xiao warned that the intelligence could be a deception.
• Kasuyi wondered whether the World Tree had found a way to restrict Aurora, while Han Xiao cautioned Ames about enemy powerhouses and joked that she should use Milizaus as a shield.
• Rotel trained Carrot and marveled at his rapidly accelerating progress toward Beyond Grade A.
• Tedrian reported that the World Tree had sent intelligence through its seer unit, and the Heart Tree King hoped it would draw the enemy's attention.
• The Heart Tree King said he would lead the assault to counter Aurora and asked the Anchor Tree King to take charge if he died; the Anchor Tree King offered his Dominion doppelganger, Apostle Weapons, and mechanical army.

The World Tree used a prolonged war of attrition to destroy the Three Universal Civilizations' space anchoring tracks, then overwhelmed the interception ring with waves of reinforcements. As the ring began to buckle and Han Xiao considered the worsening invasion, a Tree King finally entered the battle.

• The World Tree fleet deployed protective belts and swept through the Three Universal Civilizations' space anchoring tracks, forcing them into costly local battles and a strategic retreat.
• After three months, the World Tree destroyed the tracks at the cost of nearly a hundred billion troops and advanced toward the interception ring on April 6, Galaxy Calendar Year 784.
• The Three Universal Civilizations initially gained the upper hand at the interception ring, but successive World Tree reinforcements turned the fighting into an exhausting war of attrition.
• After nearly a month of continuous fighting, the first two defense belts were breached, and Kasuyi warned Han Xiao that the interception ring might not hold.
• A new World Tree fleet arrived with a Tree King's aura, drawing Han Xiao's and the other Beyond Grade As' attention as the battle worsened.

The Three Universal Civilizations sent their Beyond Grade As to attack Heart Tree King Minajol, hoping to disrupt the World Tree assault, while Aurora healed a wounded ally from the fleet. Anchor Tree King then emerged as an unexpected opponent for Han Xiao, and Minajol launched a mental attack toward Aurora.

• Heart Tree King Minajol led World Tree experts into the battle to bait the Three Universal Civilizations' high-level combatants into a costly fight.
• Han Xiao agreed to engage Minajol and warned Aurora to stay behind the fleet's defenses and keep Sorokin beside her.
• The Beyond Grade As of both sides clashed, and Han Xiao fought Minajol while Aurora's improved life-energy control let her heal an ally despite enemy attempts to intercept the healing.
• Minajol noticed Aurora's position, but Anchor Tree King emerged from a World Tree battleship in a Mechanical Deity and engaged Han Xiao.
• Han Xiao realized Anchor Tree King was an unknown Tree King, while Minajol targeted Aurora with the mental ability Illusion, Heart's Lock.

The Heart Tree King used a damaged Universal Treasure to seal Aurora’s consciousness, leaving the alliance without its healer during the battle. As Han Xiao struggled against both Tree Kings, Hyperion arrived to reinforce him, and the Heart Tree King realized Hyperion had revealed the World Tree to the civilization.

• The Heart Tree King’s purple beam bypassed the fleet’s defenses, and his crystalline leaf sealed Aurora’s mind despite her Space-Time Amber protection.
• Han Xiao identified Aurora’s Illusionscape seal, ordered psychic experts to break it, and returned to fight the Anchor Tree King while the others tried to hold the battlefield without her healing.
• Kasuyi confirmed that the seal could not be broken quickly, and the alliance’s Beyond Grade As suffered heavier losses as the World Tree fighters pressed their advantage.
• Han Xiao decided to target the Heart Tree King but remained pinned down by both Tree Kings, so he called an outside ally to join the fight.
• Hyperion arrived through the High-Dimensional Apocalypse Teleporter and struck the Anchor Tree King, prompting the Heart Tree King to realize that Hyperion had supplied the civilization with its initial information about the World Tree.

Hyperion battled the Anchor Tree King while Han Xiao fought the Heart Tree King and prepared a plan to seal him. Han Xiao sent Hila the Space-Time Amber and instructed her to wait for an opening to use it.

• Hyperion ambushed the Anchor Tree King, badly damaging him, but the two became locked in combat.
• Han Xiao turned his mechanical army against the Heart Tree King, who tried to persuade him to flee or join the World Tree.
• Han Xiao judged that killing the guarded Heart Tree King would be difficult and contacted Hila with a plan.
• Hila withdrew from battle after killing World Tree fighters and returned to the ship where Aurora lay unconscious.
• A mechanical soldier delivered the Space-Time Amber to Hila, and Han Xiao told her to use it with her teleportation abilities if he created an opening.

Ames saw the association’s cautious fighters miss chances to kill World Tree experts, while a civilization expert sacrificed himself to take one down. Elsewhere, Han Xiao sprang a trap on the Heart Tree King and froze him inside the Space-Time Amber.

• Ames and her allies struggled to press their advantage as the association members avoided injuries and the World Tree experts fought recklessly.
• When their attack exposed a gravely wounded Sacred Tree Envoy, a civilization expert charged through enemy fire and died in the Envoy’s self-detonation, trading his life for the kill.
• Han Xiao kept battling the Heart Tree King, whose attacks were poorly suited to fighting Han Xiao’s mechanical forces and whose condition steadily worsened.
• As the Heart Tree King tried to retreat, Han Xiao used a Dominion avatar empowered by Silver Shadow’s [Comet Glide] and Oulu’s [Golden Treasure Ship: Ram] to seize him with [Azure Dragon Bind].
• Hila emerged beside the trapped Heart Tree King and used the Space-Time Amber to freeze him, while the Anchor Tree King’s attempt to intervene was stopped by Hyperion.

Han Xiao captured the Heart Tree King in Space-Time Amber as the Three Universal Civilizations’ forces withdrew from their failing interception line. The World Tree leadership decided to wait or attempt a rescue, while the Anchor Tree King went to water the Tranquil Tree King so he could hand off his new duties.

• Han Xiao sealed the Heart Tree King in Space-Time Amber and escaped through the fighting as the Three Universal Civilizations’ Beyond Grade As covered his retreat.
• The Anchor Tree King ordered the World Tree experts to withdraw, and both sides disengaged after suffering heavy casualties.
• Simon told Han Xiao that the interception perimeter had fallen and ordered a staged evacuation; the gathered psychics began breaking Aurora’s mental seal.
• The Ancestral Tree King learned that the Heart Tree King’s Crown could not be reclaimed while he remained sealed and proposed waiting or sending a rescue party.
• The Ancestral Tree King assigned the Anchor Tree King to oversee daily affairs, so the Anchor Tree King went to water the Tranquil Tree King, hoping to pass the work to him when he revived.

Han Xiao and his allies escaped the fallen interception circle, and Aurora awakened from the dream seal that had incapacitated her. As the World Tree broke through the defenses, the Three Universal Civilizations prepared to defend their home territory, while Han Xiao focused on the final years of preparation and awaited Oathkeeper’s new Sanctuary Key.

• Han Xiao’s group evacuated the interception circle while Kasuyi and the other psychic users broke the seal on Aurora; Aurora awoke, upset at leaving her dream, but recovered her strength.
• Aurora learned of the battle’s casualties and blamed herself, but Han Xiao reassured her that he had trapped the Tree King responsible for sealing her.
• The World Tree army overwhelmed the interception circle over ten days, while the Three Universal Civilizations withdrew their recoverable forces and destroyed the remaining fortifications.
• At a strategy meeting, Simon advised stripping resources from the Shattered World’s border and establishing a home-ground defensive line rather than building another distant interception circle; Han Xiao agreed.
• Han Xiao resolved to use the roughly eleven years before the World Tree reached their territory to strengthen himself and train potential Beyond Grade As, but prioritized waiting for Oathkeeper to assemble a new Sanctuary Key.

After the interception circle fell, panic spread among civilians and the Beyond Grade A Association struggled with shaken morale. Han Xiao organized preparations for the coming invasion and promised an escape route, while Aurora sought Hila’s help to become stronger; meanwhile, Harrison’s expedition searched the Secondary Dimension as an undetected shadow approached.

• News of the World Tree’s breach sparked unrest, and refugees began seizing ships to flee the Explored Universe.
• Han Xiao told the Beyond Grade A Association that the World Tree could reach their territory in eleven years and proposed special combat training using Universal Treasures.
• Han Xiao promised to evacuate the association and its resources if the Three Universal Civilizations were defeated, then learned from Oathkeeper that the Sanctuary Key materials were not yet complete.
• Aurora blamed her lack of strength for the battle’s losses and asked Hila to train her; Hila agreed without promising to go easy on her.
• Harrison worried that his expedition had found no trace of the World Tree’s forces, unaware that a huge shadow was moving undetected outside the fleet.

Han Xiao organized intensive training for Calamity Grades and Beyond Grade As to strengthen the universe’s forces against the World Tree. When Harrison’s fleet vanished in a strange Secondary Dimension, Han Xiao found the abandoned Throne and faced a warning from the King of the Boundless.

• The Three Universal Civilizations replaced the players’ mission to defend the interception zone with hindering the World Tree’s advance, while the players welcomed the new wartime opportunities.
• Han Xiao opened a state-of-the-art training facility for promising Calamity Grades and required anyone who reached Beyond Grade A to join the war.
• Han Xiao assessed the Beyond Grade As, identified their weaknesses, and gave them training plans for the coming eleven years.
• A liaison informed Han Xiao that Harrison’s fleet had disappeared, and Han Xiao used an Observation Mark to find that it had been destroyed.
• Han Xiao teleported to the Throne and found himself alone in a black Secondary Dimension where his senses and equipment failed.
• The King of the Boundless pressured Han Xiao and ordered him to leave or become its enemy.

Han Xiao captured Babu Aenica, learned it had sent Harrison and his fleet to the King of the Boundless, and traveled to confront him. The King of the Boundless studied Harrison’s memories, withheld him as leverage, and waited for Han Xiao to arrive.

• Han Xiao challenged the black sea’s Guardian, Babu Aenica, and forced it to reveal itself by unleashing controlled bursts of energy.
• Han Xiao trapped Babu Aenica in a containment vessel and learned it had transported Harrison’s fleet to the King of the Boundless as tribute.
• Han Xiao obtained the King of the Boundless’s coordinates and traveled toward his domain to retrieve Harrison and the expedition fleet.
• The King of the Boundless examined Harrison’s memories, learned about Han Xiao and the conflict involving the World Tree, and decided not to eat Harrison while Han Xiao remained his backer.
• The King of the Boundless received Babu Aenica’s emergency message and waited for Han Xiao, considering whether to trade the expedition’s information to the World Tree.

Han Xiao confronted the King of the Boundless, who had captured Harrison and the Three Universal Civilizations’ expedition and used his knowledge of the World Tree as leverage to propose a deal. Han Xiao negotiated for intelligence and a sample of the King’s black substance, and the chapter ended with a mission to help reclaim a stolen Secondary Dimension.

• Han Xiao arrived in the King of the Boundless’s domain and found Harrison and the missing expedition in his custody.
• The King of the Boundless revealed that he had learned about Han Xiao and the Three Universal Civilizations from the captives’ memories.
• The King threatened to pass the expedition’s intelligence to the World Tree’s kin unless Han Xiao made a deal, then shared proof that he could contact them.
• The King asked Han Xiao to let him harvest souls and warship wreckage during the coming battle and to help reclaim a Secondary Dimension taken by rival dimension entities.
• Han Xiao negotiated for more World Tree intelligence and a sample of the King’s black substance, but the King refused to join a fight against the World Tree.
• Han Xiao received a mission to retake the stolen Secondary Dimension, with experience, favorability, and a character card as rewards.

Han Xiao helped the King of the Boundless reclaim a Secondary Dimension occupied by three dimensional deities, who surrendered after recognizing him. When Han Xiao examined the embryo the King claimed was his child, his interface revealed it was an extraordinary wondrous item, exposing the King’s lie.

• The King of the Boundless asked Han Xiao to retrieve an embryo from dimensional entities without destroying the Secondary Dimension, and Han Xiao sent a Dominion avatar while keeping his main body nearby.
• The King of the Boundless infused Harrison with his power through a contract, and Harrison joined Han Xiao’s expedition.
• Han Xiao and Harrison reached the occupied Secondary Dimension, where three dimensional deities fled at the sight of Han Xiao but were caught and beaten by his mechanical army.
• The three deities explained that they had migrated from near the shallow layers after witnessing Han Xiao defeat other dimensional deities, then stayed to pursue the embryo.
• Han Xiao approached the embryo and discovered through his interface that it was a wondrous item, then accused the King of the Boundless of lying about it being his child.

Han Xiao discovered that the embryo the King of the Boundless had claimed as his child was a Pivot Snake Egg, a rare creature that could counter the World Tree. After securing the egg and the King’s cooperation, Han Xiao arranged a staging area and obtained intelligence to aid the Three Universal Civilizations’ expedition, leaving the expedition poised to continue its search for the World Tree’s main body.

• Han Xiao identified the embryo as a Pivot Snake Egg and confronted the King of the Boundless about lying.
• The King of the Boundless admitted he had found the embryo and intended to wait for it to mature; Han Xiao let him keep it but stationed a mechanical army nearby to guard it.
• Han Xiao received the King of the Boundless’ World Tree intelligence and negotiated for the Three Universal Civilizations to use part of his territory as an expedition outpost.
• Han Xiao gave Harrison the intelligence and ordered him to report to the expedition commander, halt the advance, and wait for further instructions.
• Han Xiao reflected that Harrison’s expedition had uncovered a possible counter to the World Tree, though they still needed to locate its main body.

Han Xiao reported his alliance with the King of the Boundless and the Secondary Dimension relay outposts to the Three Universal Civilizations, who also proposed memorials for fallen Beyond Grade As. He continued training promising talents, then entered the Sanctuary after Oathkeeper assembled another First Sanctuary Key.

• Han Xiao told Mabrus, Louis, and the Arcane Church leader about the King of the Boundless and gave them coordinates for relay outposts; they agreed to the alliance and planned to send envoys.
• Louis and the other leaders proposed memorials for Beyond Grade As who had died in the war, and Han Xiao agreed to relay the proposal to the association.
• Han Xiao coached Fording, who had reached the threshold of Beyond Grade A, and encouraged him to keep developing his psychic school and using the Soul-Switching Device.
• Han Xiao checked on Evans, whose transformation toward Beyond Grade A was underway, and promised him a gift when he completed it.
• Oathkeeper assembled another First Sanctuary Key, and Han Xiao entered the Sanctuary again.

While Han Xiao was in the Sanctuary, several groups made plans around his absence: anti-war Revived considered fleeing, third-batch Revived suspected they were being used as cannon fodder, and Kasuyi watched the association for trouble. The Tranquil Tree King was reborn in World Tree territory and learned that the Heart Tree King had been captured.

• Dilron urged the anti-war association members to leave the main universe while Han Xiao was in the Sanctuary, and they agreed that anyone who wanted to escape could make private plans without exposing the secret.
• Stein told the third-batch Revived that Black Star might have lied about Sanctuary Revival being unlimited, and they decided to wait for his return before confronting him and seeking allies.
• Kasuyi and Manison discussed Nifogadi's attempt to reclaim influence over the Mechanic Faith and Machine Race, and Kasuyi revealed that Han Xiao had given him Oathkeeper's contact information.
• The Tranquil Tree King emerged reborn from the World Tree's cocoon, learned that the Heart Tree King had been sealed, and accepted responsibility for matters while the Anchor Tree King returned to the World Tree.

While Han Xiao was away, Dilron led several revived individuals who opposed the war into the Secondary Dimension World. Oathkeeper failed to persuade Dilron to return, but offered the others a reason to reconsider, and Han Xiao returned after more than forty days with a new Sanctuary Revival Mark and plans to strengthen the Beyond Grade As' resolve to fight.

• After Dilron and several war-opposing revived individuals disappeared, Kasuyi contacted Oathkeeper, who agreed to speak with them.
• Oathkeeper confronted Dilron in the Secondary Dimension World, but Dilron refused to return unless the association again became enemies with the Three Universal Civilizations.
• Oathkeeper told Dilron's companions that he would show them something valuable after Han Xiao returned, leaving them to decide whether to stay away or rejoin the fight.
• Kasuyi kept Dilron's departure from causing a major disturbance, though other association members felt unsettled and continued training.
• Han Xiao returned from the Sanctuary after a little over forty days, learned that Dilron had left, and resolved to use his new Sanctuary Revival Mark to solidify the Beyond Grade As' commitment to the war.

Han Xiao revealed that Sanctuary Revival had no usage limit and used the truth to rally the Beyond Grade As for the war against the World Tree. He then prepared to confront the Three Universal Civilizations, whose leaders learned that the revival could be used more than once.

• Han Xiao revived Beyond Grade As who had died a second time, startling the association members who believed Sanctuary Revival was limited to one use.
• Han Xiao explained that he had concealed Sanctuary Revival’s true scope to avoid provoking the Three Universal Civilizations before the war, and Kasuyi backed his account.
• The association members became excited and resolved to protect Han Xiao, while Han Xiao ordered Kasuyi to share the truth and make future revival slots conditional on fighting in the war.
• Han Xiao turned to address the direct-line Beyond Grade As and said it was time to speak with the Three Universal Civilizations.
• A supervisor informed Mabrus, Louis, and the Arcane pontiff that Sanctuary Revival could be used more than once, leaving the three leaders stunned.

Han Xiao told the Three Universal Civilizations that Sanctuary Revival had no limit, though he claimed repeated revivals required authorization, and explained why he had concealed the truth. The news spread through the training base and the Sanctum Organization, where the Oathkeeper said the Sanctum Revived would need to join the war to keep receiving revivals, leaving them eager to fight.

• Han Xiao met Mabrus, Louis, and the Arcane leader, who confronted him for deceiving them about Sanctuary Revival and their failed plan to weaken the Beyond Grade A Association.
• Han Xiao said individuals could be revived without limit but claimed each revival required a matching authorization level from whoever opened the Sanctuary.
• Han Xiao told the leaders he had planned to reveal the World Tree threat if they had pursued a purge, then left them to consider the consequences of his deception.
• News of unlimited revival spread through the training base, motivating Calamity Grade Supers to train harder, while Baigel secretly informed the Sanctum Organization.
• The Oathkeeper told the Sanctum Revived that future revivals required them to fight alongside the association, and they immediately declared their willingness to join the war.
• The Oathkeeper summoned Dilron in a ball of Soul Flame and wondered whether he could make him see him in a new light.

After learning Sanctuary Revival could be used repeatedly, the Revived who had left the war returned to join it, including Dilron. Han Xiao accepted them but kept Dilron behind and ordered him sent to Netherland, promising to restore him after the war before preparing to beat him.

• Oathkeeper told the Revived traveling with Dilron that Sanctuary Revival was not limited to one use, and most of them left to return to the main universe.
• Han Xiao gathered the war’s Beyond Grade As, recorded their decision to keep fighting in exchange for eligibility for Sanctuary Revival, and welcomed the anti-war Revived who had stayed on Planet Fein.
• Dilron and the other Revived who had fled arrived and asked to join the war; Han Xiao accepted them, while Sun Hunter mocked Dilron for changing his mind.
• After the meeting, Han Xiao kept Dilron behind, condemned his repeated interference, and ordered him sent to Netherland, promising to restore him after the war before threatening to beat him.

Han Xiao defeated Dilron in a public fight and killed him, declaring that he would be sent to Netherland until the war ended before receiving revival. The Beyond Grade As accepted his decision, and Dilron became Netherland’s tenth Heroic Spirit King as Han Xiao anticipated the reward from his challenge mission.

• Han Xiao ambushed Dilron after the conference, beat him in close combat, then overwhelmed him with his mechanical army until Dilron was nearly dead.
• Han Xiao announced that he would send Dilron to Netherland temporarily and have him revived after the war, and the watching Beyond Grade As stopped objecting.
• Dark Emperor killed Dilron, while Hila captured his soul and entered Netherland with Aurora to transform him.
• Han Xiao told Kasuyi to repair the conference room and teleported away as the Beyond Grade As interpreted the killing as a warning against abusing sanctuary revival.
• In Netherland, Han Xiao named Dilron the tenth Heroic Spirit King, and Dilron cursed him until Hila silenced him.
• Han Xiao checked his interface and saw Dilron’s Beyond Grade A challenge mission, wondering what ability he would obtain.