Chapter Summaries

Wu Yazi explained the meaning behind Zhan Mu and Xifuzi’s spells before the martial arts contest escalated from restrained displays into deadly conflict. A Beggar’s Gang disciple killed a Shaolin monk with the Gutting Curse, leaving Qiao Feng furious and the factions on the verge of violence.

• Zhan Mu lost to Xifuzi, and Li Li caught him as he fell from the arena.
• Feng Bo'e urged the fighters to stop their restrained displays, and an eight-bag Beggar’s Gang disciple and Hui Jian began a match.
• Hui Jian defeated the Beggar’s Gang disciple with his Incendio-powered Burning Wood Saber Technique, but Fang Buping challenged him with Reducto.
• Duan Yu used Expelliarmus across Mount Shaoshi, disarming Fang Buping, and Hui Jian conceded before the two fighters left the arena.
• A seven-bag Beggar’s Gang disciple released poisoned creatures and used the Gutting Curse to burst a Shaolin monk’s internal organs, killing him.
• Qiao Feng erupted in rage as the Beggar’s Gang and Shaolin monks demanded revenge, while Xu Zhu considered stopping Qiao Feng so others could attack the Song Emperor.

Qiao Feng stopped the Shaolin monks and Beggar’s Gang disciples from fighting, heard a Seven-bag disciple accuse a Shaolin monk of abusing and killing his sister, and promised justice if the charge was true. As assassins attacked and Qiao Feng fought to reach the fleeing Song Emperor, Xuan Ci revealed that his defensive Curse Techniques made him the emperor’s Strongest Shield.

• Qiao Feng’s roar halted the brewing fight, and the Seven-bag disciple accused a Shaolin monk of abusing his sister and causing her death.
• Qiao Feng agreed that the accused monk should die if the charge was true and promised to punish criminals regardless of their status.
• Murong Fu attacked Qiao Feng, while Xiao Yuanshan and other assassins unleashed curses, weapons, and falling rocks across Mount Shaoshi.
• Qiao Feng knocked Murong Fu down, but Murong Fu recovered and attacked from the rear to keep Qiao Feng from reaching the Song Emperor.
• Xuan Ci protected the Song Emperor and his attendants with three defensive Curse Techniques, then declared himself the emperor’s Strongest Shield as Qiao Feng fought the rebels.

Song Emperor was assassinated after a chain of mistaken assumptions let Tang Mu's Killing Curse arrow reach him and Tong Guan finish him with Fiendfyre. Li Lin revealed that Li Canghai had become Shaolin's new sweeping monk and had transformed Jiumozhi into her successor, while Wu Yazi feared she might discover he was alive.

• Huang Rong asked Li Lin whether Qiao Feng or Xuan Ci was stronger, and Li Lin said Qiao Feng's fighting instincts and Patronus Charm made him the greater threat.
• Xiao Yuanshan, Xuan Ci, Tang Mu, and Tong Guan each misread the others' actions, allowing Tang Mu to shoot Song Emperor with a Killing Curse arrow.
• Song Emperor briefly recovered through his Phoenix Rebirth Charm, but Tong Guan used Fiendfyre instead of Incendio, and the imperial chimes confirmed the emperor's death.
• The troublemakers fled as Shaolin monks and Beggar's Gang members responded strangely, while Qiao Feng, Xiao Yuanshan, Murong Fu, Bao Butong, and Feng Bo'e had expected Song Emperor's death.
• Li Lin explained that Li Canghai had mastered the Memory Charm, caused Jiumozhi to forget his purpose, and transformed him into the new sweeping monk before leaving the Sutra Repository.
• Li Canghai sensed Wu Yazi nearby, and Li Lin reassured him that she believed he had died long ago.

Li Lin shared a meal with Huang Rong and Wang Yuyan while Qiao Feng's battle exposed the masked warrior's connection to him, and the Song Emperor's death led the heroes to support Qiao Feng as successor. At the cliff, Li Lin met Li Canghai and Wu Xingyun, whose reunion raised questions about their master and Wu Yazi.

• Huang Rong served Li Lin an elaborate soup, and he openly embraced Huang Rong and Wang Yuyan while Wu Yazi watched.
• Qiao Feng discovered that the masked warrior's fighting style and paternal affection suggested he was his father, while Xuan Ci suspected the man was Xuan Ku.
• Xiao Yuanshan fled after seeing Yale Dash and Tong Guan alive, striking Murong Fu before Feng Bo'e and Bao Butong carried the unconscious Murong Fu away.
• Xuan Ci sentenced Murong Fu and his retainers to spend their lives in the Discipline Hall, and the assembled monks and heroes backed Qiao Feng as the Song Emperor's successor.
• Li Canghai met Wu Xingyun at the cliff, and Li Lin appeared to explain that the aura of the Bei Ming Divine Skill had drawn them together.

Li Lin’s Demon Body awakened desire in Wu Xingyun and Li Canghai before his God Body restored their reason and brought them into the bamboo house. There, the sisters and Wu Yazi confronted their tangled past, while Wu Xingyun and Li Canghai confessed their feelings for Li Lin and accepted sharing him with Wang Yuyan and Huang Rong; Wu Yazi ended by asking where Xiaoyaozi was.

• Wu Xingyun and Li Canghai flirted with Li Lin until his Demon Body stirred their desires, and his God Body summoned them into the bamboo house and erased the incident from others’ memories.
• Li Canghai recognized Wang Yuyan as her grandniece, while Wu Xingyun confronted Wu Yazi after discovering he was alive and had written the Curse Scripture.
• Wu Xingyun and Li Canghai argued with Wu Yazi over Li Qiushui and Ding Chunqiu, and Wu Yazi transformed back into human form to prove he was still capable.
• Li Canghai confessed her feelings to Li Lin, and Wu Xingyun joined her; Wang Yuyan and Huang Rong also declared their feelings.
• Li Lin proposed that they share their love rather than claim him exclusively, and Wu Xingyun, Li Canghai, Wang Yuyan, and Huang Rong accepted.
• Wu Yazi, heartbroken by the women’s agreement, asked Li Canghai where their master Xiaoyaozi was.

Wu Xingyun and Li Canghai explained how the Xiaoyao School’s martial arts came from Ageless Spring Valley and revealed that Xiaoyaozi possessed the Immortality Curse. Duan Zhengchun arrived with Duan Yu to face Wang Yuyan’s family, and the chapter ended with Li Canghai warning him that Wang Yuyan would decide whether to forgive him.

• Wu Xingyun told Wu Yazi and the others about Ageless Spring Valley and explained how the four disciples’ martial arts drew on its arts and the Heavenly Mirror Divine Skill.
• Wu Xingyun demonstrated her freezing power, and Li Canghai recounted Xiaoyaozi’s journey to Europa and his fundamental Immortality Curse.
• Duan Zhengchun grieved over Li Qingluo and Wang Yuyan while Duan Yu tried to comfort him.
• Wu Xingyun brought Duan Zhengchun and Duan Yu into the bamboo house with an Apparition Charm after Wang Yuyan identified Duan Zhengchun as her father.
• Duan Zhengchun greeted Wu Yazi as his father-in-law, and Li Canghai told him that Wang Yuyan’s forgiveness was hers to give.

Li Canghai used mind reading to clear Duan Zhengchun of suspicion, and Li Lin welcomed Wang Yuyan’s sisters and the other women into the bamboo house. As Duan Zhengchun tried to leave with his family, Wu Xingyun asserted Lingjiu Palace’s authority and demanded they stay, leaving Li Lin ready to intervene as she grew angry.

• Li Canghai sensed Duan Zhengchun’s sincere love for his daughters and Wang Yuyan’s mother, ruling him out as a suspect and focusing on Wu Xingyun.
• Li Lin invited the people outside to enter, and Duan Wanqing, A'zi, A'zhu, Zhong Ling, A'bi, and others joined Duan Zhengchun, Duan Yu, and Wang Yuyan.
• Wang Yuyan reunited joyfully with A'zhu and A'bi, while Huang Rong felt jealous and Wu Xingyun hinted that Li Lin should arrange the women’s relationships.
• Duan Zhengchun proposed visiting Qiao Feng and tried to send his daughters away, but several of them wanted to remain with Li Lin and Wang Yuyan.
• Wu Xingyun used her knowledge of Dali and Tianlong Temple to pressure Duan Zhengchun to stay, but he objected that the royal family could not live under one roof with an unrelated man.
• Wu Xingyun’s power began to rise in anger, and Li Lin prepared to intervene.

Li Lin and the others remained with the daughters Duan Zhengchun had left behind while their mothers stayed with him overnight. When Ruan Xingzhu finally arrived, her conflicting affection for A'zhu and attraction to Li Lin devastated her daughter, and Li Lin comforted A'zhu as Ruan Xingzhu was expelled.

• Li Lin stopped Wu Xingyun from striking Duan Zhengchun, and Duan Zhengchun asked about Li Lin's relationship with Wu Yazi.
• Duan Yu and Duan Zhengchun left without Wang Yuyan, Mu Wanqing, Zhong Ling, A'zhu, and A'zi, while Duan Zhengchun's lovers stayed behind to reminisce with him.
• A'zhu, A'zi, and Mu Wanqing discussed how their mothers had neglected them, and the women still had not come by nightfall.
• Ruan Xingzhu arrived the next day and professed that she missed A'zhu and A'zi, but Li Canghai read her mixed feelings of maternal love and attraction to Li Lin.
• A'zhu broke down when Ruan Xingzhu could not stop displaying her charms even as she wept, so Wu Xingyun banished Ruan Xingzhu and Li Lin comforted A'zhu.

After a month in the past, Li Lin brought Huang Rong back to her own time, where they unexpectedly arrived at her mother's grave and encountered Huang Yaoshi. Huang Yaoshi attacked Li Lin, then learned Huang Rong had spent years a hundred years earlier and discovered the Library Component's projection still allowed martial artists to draw cards.

• A'zhu, A'zi, and Zhong Ling teased one another at Lingjiu Palace, while A'zhu's spirits lifted and A'zi showed that Door Keys could return to their owners when called.
• Li Lin agreed to return Huang Rong to the present, but they arrived on Peach Blossom Island beside the grave of Feng Shi Mai Xiang.
• Huang Yaoshi found Li Lin embracing Huang Rong at the grave and attacked him with several martial arts techniques.
• Huang Rong blocked Huang Yaoshi's strike with the Green Wave Palm Technique, nearly knocking him down and startling him with her strength.
• Huang Rong explained that she had spent years a hundred years in the past and that Li Lin had brought her home.
• Li Lin told Huang Yaoshi that the Library Component's traces remained, allowing martial artists to draw cards suited to their abilities and improve cards they already possessed.

Li Lin’s Grimoire absorbed cards drawn across the martial arts worlds, leaping to level 180, and Huang Yaoshi became the first card drawer in the untouched Legend of the Condor Heroes world. The Witch Club unlocked its Wizard Space, while Li Lin prepared Huang Rong and Wang Yuyan to receive gifts that would help them adapt to the club.

• Li Lin’s Grimoire gained the cards and levels collected by generations of martial artists, raising it from level 4 to level 180 and increasing his Health and Magic Power.
• Huang Yaoshi drew Water Prison Spell, Apparition, and Nebulus, becoming an all-rounder; Huang Rong recognized the Water Prison Spell as a card absent from the Curse Scripture.
• The Witch Club verified that it was linked to six worlds and unlocked the Wizard Space, where Zoe Benson entered her personalized room and welcomed Madison Montgomery, Sophie, and Isabella Swan.
• Madison and Sophie noticed the rooms belonging to Huang Rong and Wang Yuyan, while Li Lin was already with them in Huang Rong’s room.
• Huang Rong and Wang Yuyan discussed Peach Blossom Island’s formation and the club, and Li Lin advised them to digest his gifts before meeting the other members.

Huang Rong and Wang Yuyan awakened transformed bodies and joined Basil’s club, where they met its members and learned their world had split into a separate linked world. The club was one world short of meeting its level-four upgrade requirements, while Basil turned his attention to investigating the Marvel world.

• Huang Rong and Wang Yuyan completed their transformation under Li Lin’s guidance, and he told them that only they knew his original name.
• Huang Rong and Wang Yuyan emerged through a newly appeared door and met Beatrix, Ariana, Madison, Bella, Zoe, and Sophie at the club.
• Sophie showed that the club needed one more linked world to reach the level-four upgrade requirements, and Basil explained how Huang Rong and Wang Yuyan’s world had split.
• Ariana asked whether Basil could resurrect her parents, but he explained why he would not bring them back from the afterlife.
• The members suggested recruiting someone from another world, but Basil declined and decided to investigate the Marvel world, where the Behind-the-Scenes God had not appeared recently.

Ron was chosen by the livestream platform to travel to a new world, where he arrived in a reality shaped by the Merlin Dimension and discovered that he occupied the body of a Skrull named Kent. After meeting Phil Coulson at Merlin Platform, Ron learned that magical authorities and S.H.I.E.L.D. jointly guarded the boundary between the magical and human worlds.

• Ron reunited with Harry, who explained that he had reached Ron through their connection across worlds and had ten hours of free travel each day.
• Ron received an official message selecting him as a traveler to a new world, granting him 500 gems and setting his departure for three days later.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald learned that Ron Weasley had been chosen, and Dumbledore speculated that the new world might need someone kind and clumsy.
• Ron arrived at King's Cross in a world where wizarding villages were part of the Merlin Dimension and learned from his memories that he was actually a Skrull named Kent.
• Phil Coulson introduced himself as a former Hogwarts classmate of Ron's father and explained that Legendary Duelists and S.H.I.E.L.D. jointly guarded Merlin Platform.

Ron, still controlling the Skrull Kent, reunited with Harry after Harry escaped a Skrull impersonator at the station. Arthur took them to his Ministry office, then transported them to a space station where they met Tony Stark, Mordo, and Dumbledore.

• Harry Apparated into the station and told Moody that a Skrull had captured him.
• The guards petrified the Skrull impersonator, and Harry hugged Ron after confirming he had not been replaced.
• Coulson and Moody sent Harry and Ron away from the human world, and Moody transported them to Arthur Weasley's office at the Ministry of Magic.
• Arthur took Harry and Ron through a portal to a room in space overlooking Earth.
• Tony Stark welcomed them with food, while Mordo criticized Harry and Dumbledore told everyone to give the children peace.

Ron and Harry learned that Thanos threatened the universe, while Strange explained why their apparent escape plans would fail. Basil, suspecting that the situation was a trap, chose to observe through Ron and his counterpart and wait for the Duel Arena component’s cooldown before retrieving it.

• Wanda reported that Odin was dead and that Hela had attacked Asgard, while Strange explained that Thor and Loki had been defeated.
• Strange warned that Thanos had prepared for attempts to hide in the Merlin Dimension, remove the Infinity Stones, or recruit the cosmic forces that planned to ascend dimensions.
• Arthur Weasley told Ron that the Sorcerer Supreme could not bring his true body to Earth, and Strange said the Infinity Stones could not override the Sorcerer Supreme’s contracts.
• Basil considered whether powerful multiversal beings were waiting for him to descend and concluded that the situation felt like a trap.
• Basil decided to keep observing through Ron and his counterpart and wait one month for the Duel Arena component’s cooldown before retrieving it.

Stark sent Harry, Ron, and Arthur Weasley away while the meeting turned to Thanos’s invasion, and Thanos used the Mind Stone to alter Gravik’s memories after learning a Skrull had killed a wizard. Ron learned that the Skrulls planned to infiltrate the Merlin Dimension, then met a suspicious Riddle and was killed by his Killing Curse, only to appear alive in the Duelling Hall.

• Stark transported Harry, Ron, and Arthur Weasley back to the previous office, where Arthur explained that the Skrulls considered wizards valuable.
• Thanos questioned Gravik about Gru’s death, then used the Mind Stone to search and rewrite Gravik’s memories.
• Ron inferred that the Skrulls intended to enter the Merlin Dimension to escape Thanos’s snap, while Harry told him his mother might be involved with Professor Snape.
• Harry explained the Merlin Dimension’s magic and took Ron to the Duelling Hall, where they encountered Riddle, who recognized Ron as having grown taller.
• Riddle cast Avada Kedavra at Ron, and Ron later complained to Harry about losing a duel after he sneezed.

Harry and Ron lost a second duel to Star-Lord and Rocket Raccoon after Star-Lord used his fading Celestial power and a powerful Tarantella Dance. Back aboard the Milano, Gamora discussed Harry’s importance as the Sorcerer Supreme’s prospective disciple, while the Guardians continued toward Earth, seven days away.

• Harry and Ron reentered the Duel Arena and faced Star-Lord and Rocket Raccoon, who attacked with an energy cannon.
• Harry cast Sacred Shield and Ron used instantaneous Apparition to evade the blast, but Star-Lord deflected the reflected energy with his Celestial power.
• Star-Lord explained that his divine power weakened during prolonged battles, then used Tarantella Dance to shake the arena and defeat Ron and Harry.
• Harry explained the Dance Spell’s history to Ron, then said Star-Lord knew him as the Sorcerer Supreme’s prospective disciple.
• On the Milano, Star-Lord told Gamora he had encountered Harry, and she explained why the Sorcerer Supreme’s disciple mattered to their plans against Thanos.
• Star-Lord praised Harry’s skills, and Nebula learned that the Guardians were seven Earth days from reaching Earth.

Harry became discouraged after being deceived by the Skrulls, while Ron tried to cheer him up and learned that Harry was worried about Ginny. Elsewhere, Skye discovered that Peter was Spider-Man, Basil grew suspicious of the women around him, and Ron found a mission in his livestream platform ordering him to kill Shang-Chi.

• Ron tried to cheer up Harry at The Burrow, and Harry revealed his worry about whether Ron would accept him dating Ginny.
• Peter left home as Spider-Man, while Ned warned him that facing armed thugs with Killing Curses was dangerous.
• Skye used Hacker Magic to uncover Peter's identity and considered whether S.H.I.E.L.D. could help her find her parents.
• Basil avoided a student's advances and decided to test his suspicions by using Ron.
• On Hogwarts's opening day, Ron found that his livestream platform had returned and saw a mission to kill Shang-Chi.

Ron returned to an enormous Hogwarts built on the Heart of Merlin and learned more about the magical world’s connections to the Inhumans. As the new students gathered, he spotted his roommate Peter and admired the metal-armed man guiding the first-years.

• Ron learned that Shang-Chi had fled the Ten Rings organization and was working as a doorman at The Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade.
• Ron stepped out of the fireplace at Hogwarts and marveled at the school’s vast grounds, its position on the Heart of Merlin, and the strange route to Hogsmeade.
• Ginny reunited with Harry and told him she regretted going to Attilan for her internship while he had been in danger.
• Ron recalled the Inhumans’ history and their connections with wizards, including Ginny’s trip to Attilan to awaken her powers.
• A metal-armed man called the first-years over, and Ron recognized the thin boy beside him as his roommate Peter.

Ron concluded that Shang-Chi had to die to save the universe and planned to seek a secret passage to Hogsmeade. Meanwhile, Basil revealed that Avengers from another universe had arrived in the Merlin Dimension, where Nebula regained her human body.

• Peter questioned Ron about Harry, Attila, and Shang-Chi, and Ron hurried away after hearing Shang-Chi’s name.
• Ron decided that Shang-Chi’s death was necessary to prevent Thanos from destroying the universe, then planned to ask Fred and George about the Secret Passage to Hogsmeade.
• Steve Rogers encountered another Captain America, Tony, Scott, and Hulk in the Forbidden Forest, and Scott awakened magic after entering the Duel Arena.
• Basil revealed that he had delayed the arrival of Thor, Natasha, Clint, Rhodey, Rocket, and Nebula, and explained that the visitors were in the Merlin Dimension.
• Tony and the others discussed their failed mission and learned from Basil that their original future had involved sacrifices on Morag.
• Basil restored Nebula’s flesh-and-blood body, and she wept as she realized she was human again.

Basil explained how Thanos had disrupted the Avengers’ plan in the original future and detailed the mistakes that led to Tony’s sacrifice. He recruited the parallel Avengers to help against the more cautious, magic-wielding Thanos in his universe.

• Basil moved the group to a room and explained that Thanos had captured Nebula, taken Pym Particles, and arrived to attack after the Avengers revived half of all life.
• Basil revealed that Natasha had sacrificed herself for the Soul Stone, then explained its rules and how Thanos had used a couple in love to obtain it.
• Basil described how the Avengers’ poor coordination let Thanos defeat them, take the Stones, and force Tony to sacrifice himself with a snap.
• Basil explained that Thanos in his universe was a cautious magic user who could see the future, and said the parallel Avengers were hidden from his foresight.
• The parallel Avengers agreed to help by existing as new variables and sharing information, while Tony requested a lab free from the Magic Field and Rhodey asked for help healing his legs.