Chapter Summaries

Tang Qi traveled to Selma’s remote forest home for her dinner party and discovered her feast included a talkative plant familiar. He opened a Void Portal to bring the students to join them.

• Tang Qi declined an invitation to the Fire Dance Festival and followed Selma’s hand-drawn map through the forest to her treehouse home.
• Tang Qi recalled that the students had enjoyed their first Transcendental Combat Class and said they would soon arrive at Selma’s party.
• Selma welcomed Tang Qi and introduced her lavish feast, including roast Ayus Fiend and dishes made with supernatural plants.
• Selma’s Big Mouth Pitcher Plant scolded Tang Qi for pursuing Selma, then teased them after Tang Qi revealed Selma was older than him.
• Tang Qi opened a Void Portal, and a large Magic Carpet flew out toward him and Selma.

Tang Qi and Selma welcomed the Transcendental Combat Class to Selma’s treehouse, but a wolf attack led to a confrontation with Grandma Moore’s supernatural family. Selma cleared up the misunderstanding and introduced Tang Qi to Moore Town Number Two.

• Tang Qi and Selma prepared to welcome the students arriving on Tang Qi’s magic carpet for an outing.
• A black-furred giant wolf leaped from the forest and attacked the carpet, but Tate knocked it down in Orange Cat form.
• Selma caught Tate and the wolf with tree roots, and Tang Qi stopped the wolf from attacking again.
• Grandma Moore and her family emerged and confronted Tang Qi, while Selma explained that they were her guests and the wolf attack was a misunderstanding.
• Selma introduced Grandma Moore’s family as the original inhabitants of Moore Town and revealed that her treehouse was in Moore Town Number Two.

After meeting the Moore Family, Tang Qi recruited Selma as a visiting professor of Transcendental Botany at Melada Special Education School. When Professor Eva failed to appear at the Library Tower, Tang Qi discovered she had gone to mourn her dead lover and hurried after her, where an ominous supernatural disturbance awaited.

• Tang Qi learned about the Moore Family’s supernatural abilities, then joined them for dinner at Selma’s treehouse.
• The Moore Family invited Tang Qi and the children to visit Moore Town Number One before leaving.
• Tang Qi offered Selma a visiting professorship, and she accepted after seeing the Progenitor Fruit and the Lake Island Secret Realm illusion.
• After returning to Dragonheart Castle, Tang Qi summoned Professor Eva to handle Selma’s hiring, but she did not arrive.
• Tang Qi discovered Professor Eva had left the school to mourn her dead lover and followed her through a Void Portal to a cemetery, where an icy wind swept over him and the sky twisted.

Professor Eva began a Professional Level trial after the Sorrowful Ghost forced her to confront her grief, and Tang Qi destroyed the ghost and sacrificed the Evil God fragment it carried. He moved Eva’s body to safety and searched for ways to help her pass, but Raphael warned him that Jensen was in trouble.

• The Sorrowful Ghost attacked Professor Eva at her lover’s grave, driving her toward self-destruction until she chose to enter Mystery and begin her Professional Level trial.
• Tang Qi arrived too late to prevent Eva’s trial, then faced the Sorrowful Ghost as it tried to overwhelm him with sorrow.
• Tang Qi’s golden flames destroyed the Sorrowful Ghost and revealed an Evil God fragment, which he seized and sacrificed to the Projection of the Master of the Furnace.
• Tang Qi learned that Eva’s trial could not be interrupted without killing her, so he took her body to the Library Tower and searched the Forbidden Knowledge section for ways to improve her chances.
• Raphael appeared and told Tang Qi that Jensen was in trouble.

Tang Qi investigated how to help Professor Eva pass her Professional Level trial in the mysterious realm and learned that strengthening her soul will could improve her chances. He left the chapter seeking a way to do so while Mihuang City faced a growing threat from wanted Supernatural Creatures.

• Raphael told Tang Qi that Jensen had survived an encounter with the Hourglass Freak and warned that the Church had found traces of the Seeker Family and other wanted creatures in Mihuang City.
• Tang Qi agreed to Raphael’s advice to keep Melada Special Education School’s students and teachers indoors and move the Transcendental Combat Class.
• Tang Qi searched the library for ways to help Professor Eva, but the methods he found required preparation, a demigod, or a true god.
• Tang Qi consulted Zoe, who explained that White Witches faced a soul-will test during their Professional Level trials and that strengthening Eva’s soul will could improve her chances.

Tang Qi searched for a way to help Professor Eva through her Professional trial, but the Mystic Barrier blocked all his attempts. He realized Diana's Corpse might let him enter the trial and find Eva's soul, though he had not yet put the plan into action.

• Tang Qi confirmed that supernatural beings faced deadly Professional trials and found that his spells could not affect Eva through the Mystic Barrier.
• After reports of powerful supernatural creatures appearing in Mihuang City, Tang Qi placed the school under lockdown and activated its magical defenses.
• Tang Qi spent another night failing to break the barrier and considered using his merits to seek help from the Master of the Furnace's projection.
• Tang Qi remembered Diana's Corpse, whose divinity and unusual state made it a possible way into the Mystic Side.
• Tang Qi decided to use Diana's Corpse to search for Eva's soul and left for Eva's residence.

Tang Qi visited Eva’s residence to retrieve a photograph of the powerful Male Witch and then used Diana’s Corpse to begin sending his soul into the Mystic while Eva advanced. His soul entered the mysterious opening, and he once again witnessed the boundless universe.

• Tang Qi went to Eva’s Witch Tower and used the Headmaster’s Token to authorize himself through its entrance.
• Tang Qi found a photograph of Eva with a pale young Male Witch and took it with him.
• Tang Qi noticed familiar explicit sketches beneath a book but left Eva’s residence without examining them further.
• Tang Qi, Eva, and Diana’s Corpse gathered in the Meditation Room as Tang Qi prepared to send a strand of soul power into the Mystic.
• Tang Qi commanded Diana’s Corpse to release Divine Radiance, which enveloped him and Eva and carried his soul into a mysterious opening.
• Tang Qi’s soul entered the Mystic, where he witnessed bizarre scenes and extraordinary beings across the universe.

Tang Qi used Diana's divinity to reach Eva's White Witch trial, where she fought an invasion of rapidly multiplying black plants. As the invaders overwhelmed the planet and breached the Birch Tree's defenses, black mist began corrupting Eva.

• Tang Qi followed Eva's soul aura to her trial planet and found her beneath a luminous Birch Tree.
• Black plant creatures poured through openings in the sky and began devouring the planet's inhabitants and vegetation.
• Eva rallied the planet's creatures and plants with battle magic, potions, and protective spells, slowing the invasion.
• The invaders concentrated their attack on Eva and trapped her and the Birch Tree inside a Black Fortress.
• Black mist slipped through the Birch Tree's failing barrier and began turning Eva's body, robe, and magic black and rotten.

Tang Qi entered Eva’s trial as Karl and helped her reject the darkness, allowing her to advance as a Professional-Level White Witch. After Eva awakened in the Meditation Room, Tang Qi hurried to return the Photo Frame he had taken before she noticed it was gone.

• Tang Qi saw Eva beginning to fall to darkness and transformed himself into Karl before plunging into the Black Fortress.
• Eva nearly succumbed to the Black Mist and contemplated becoming a Dark Witch to resurrect her lover.
• Tang Qi broke through the fortress, gave Eva her wand, and urged her to destroy the Black Tide with White Witch magic.
• Birch Tree’s cleansing radiance fused with Eva as the Black Tide retreated and the planet’s creatures bowed to her.
• Eva awakened in the Meditation Room and Tang Qi congratulated her on becoming a Professional-Level White Witch.
• Tang Qi sent Gluttony to return the Photo Frame to Eva’s residence before she could discover it was missing.

Tang Qi received a Manor Bureau invitation for a mission against the Angel Network and chose students to join the operation under Professor Eva’s leadership while he prepared to take part elsewhere. As he was about to leave for Colson Manor, he discovered Selma and an Elf Female Archer waiting to enter the Lake Island Secret Realm.

• Tang Qi read the Mystic Daily’s ranking of Mihuang City’s strongest Transcendentalists and found himself listed as the nineteenth seed.
• Raphael’s report said the bizarre monsters that had appeared in Mihuang City had vanished, while a confidential letter invited Melada Special Education School to help eliminate Little Trick at the Trick Slaughterhouse.
• Tang Qi suspected the mission marked the start of a wider Federation and Church campaign against the Angel Network.
• Tang Qi selected qualified students for the mission and appointed Professor Eva to lead them, leaving a hidden safeguard while he watched in secret.
• Tang Qi headed for Colson Manor to join the larger operation, then sensed a request to enter the Lake Island Secret Realm and appeared before Selma and an Elf Female Archer from the Moore Family.

Selma and Yevette brought Tang Qi to help Grandma Moore, whose body was being consumed by a mysterious contamination after she investigated the sick wilderness. Tang Qi drove the contamination out of her, but the crimson substance was identified as Angel's Blood, leaving him horrified.

• Selma and Yevette asked Tang Qi to help Grandma Moore, who had returned from investigating abnormalities in the forest and collapsed after saying, “The wilderness is sick.”
• Tang Qi examined Grandma Moore and discovered that contamination had rotted her body, cut off the wilderness’s blessing, and lodged a living source inside her heart.
• Tang Qi used Furnace Magic Power to destroy the contamination’s blood threads while Grandma Moore released her magic power to protect her skull.
• The crimson contamination escaped Grandma Moore’s body and was trapped in a glass bottle, leaving her safe.
• Tang Qi inspected the writhing blood in the bottle and recognized it as Angel’s Blood.

Tang Qi discovered that Angel's Blood was contaminating wilderness and water sources, and that diluted traces had already entered Mihuang City's residents. The dormant contamination left him fearing that Lecter's Angel Network had spread it across the Federation as he returned to Colson Manor.

• Tang Qi learned that Angel's Blood came from a Fallen Angel Fetus and that Grandma Moore had accidentally collected a concentrated mass while investigating sick wildlife.
• Grandma Moore warned Tang Qi that the Wilderness Will feared a threat originating in Mihuang City, and described contaminated animals, plants, and waterways.
• Tang Qi found blackish-green contamination in Green Dragon Ridge Lake and watched crimson parasites infect fish before burning the nearby creatures to ash.
• Tang Qi confirmed that a partygoer who drank contaminated water carried dormant, low-concentration Angel's Blood in her body.
• Tang Qi concluded that at least a million people in Mihuang City—and potentially hundreds of millions across the Federation—might be infected, then returned to Colson Manor.

Tang Qi delivered his findings about Angel’s Blood to the Manor Bureau, where experts confirmed the contaminant’s danger and the Federal Bureau revealed that infections had spread to more than ten million people. The Federation and Church of Light planned to proceed with their operation against Angel Network, and Tang Qi chose to join the coming events rather than withdraw to protect his school.

• Tang Qi met with William Marshall, William O'Neill, and other Manor Bureau members to present urgent intelligence.
• The Manor Bureau’s report found that Angel’s Blood spread through water, infected people entered dormancy, and the contamination could become a special-grade incident.
• A Federal Bureau reply confirmed suspected Angel’s Blood infections at Angel Network sites, affecting more than ten million people, but said the operation would continue as planned.
• Tang Qi realized the Federation and Church of Light would proceed against Angel Network despite the contamination, relying on their power and preparing countermeasures.
• William O'Neill offered Tang Qi the option to return to Witch School and cancel the Trick Slaughterhouse mission, but Tang Qi refused and asked to join the subsequent operation personally.

Tang Qi joined Raphael and the Manor Bureau in using Curio MH-046 to seek a way to kill Lecter. The Elder’s cryptic answer caused a terrifying psychic shock, leaving the operation’s participants facing an unknown threat.

• Eva led Noah, Shirley, Tate, Nydia, Lily, Luca, Peggy, and the gap-toothed girl through a portal to attack the Trick Slaughterhouse, while the Night Beast and Wilnas Sprite guarded them secretly.
• Tang Qi accompanied Raphael underground to the quarantine room where the Manor Bureau kept the highly contaminating Curio MH-046.
• Tang Qi read the file describing the Elder’s lethal radiation and powerful divination, which Raphael and William O'Neill could consult only once every twenty-four hours.
• After Raphael and the Elder silently met, Raphael asked how they could kill Lecter.
• The Elder stared through the glass and recited a cryptic prophecy, unleashing a psychic force that shook everyone’s minds and souls.

Tang Qi and Raphael learned that Lecter planned to become a god by using nine angels born from Angel's Blood, just as the blood activated and Mihuang City descended into supernatural warfare. The chapter ended with a live feed shifting to Carthage City, where the Lord of Thorns's statue appeared.

• MH-046 answered Raphael's question with a ballad revealing Lecter's plan to become a god and the role of nine angels.
• Tang Qi and Raphael left the underground chamber and used a Crown Salamander badge to return to the Secret Room.
• Projections showed the Manor Bureau and the Church fighting powerful angels across Mihuang City while Angel's Blood transformed ordinary residents under the two moons.
• Raphael told William O'Neill what MH-046 had revealed and urged him to alert the Investigation Bureau, allied agencies, and the Church of Light.
• A huge screen appeared, showing official Supernatural Organizations fighting the Angel Network in multiple cities before settling on Carthage City.

Tang Qi realized that Lecter was using Angel’s Blood and stolen Power of Faith to create nine angels and pursue godhood, while the Church struggled to stop them. In Mihuang City, Tang Qi sent Diana to investigate St. Mary’s Hospital after her purification revealed a new source of contamination.

• In Carthage City, the Church uncovered a Fallen Angel Fetus, but it absorbed the believers’ prayers, declared itself Fate, and revealed Lecter’s plan to steal the Lord of Light’s Power of Faith.
• Raphael explained that Lecter needed nine angels to reproduce the path to godhood, and William O’Neill relayed the gathered intelligence to the Federation’s supernatural organizations.
• Tang Qi watched the angels Fate, a second angel in Saint Eagle’s Nest City, and Suffering in Lincoln City emerge, then suspected that the gods were asleep and that Mrs. Anderson was carrying a Fallen Angel Fetus in Mihuang City.
• Diana purified Green Dragon Ridge Lake, triggering a surge of contamination beneath Mihuang City and leading her toward a relatively untouched district.
• Diana found St. Mary’s Hospital, sensed a nearly vanishing gateway, and entered the unknown space beyond it.

Tang Qi discovered that Lecter’s Angel’s Descent plot involved dozens of hidden Angel Fetuses and watched a counterfeit angel fall to York Sims in Bunker City. Lecter then revealed his attempt to seize the Lord of Light’s place by raising a throne in the Second Holy City, as the angels began intercepting the Federation’s faith.

• Tang Qi infiltrated the Angel’s Lair and found Mrs. Anderson sustaining a dead Angel Fetus while captured Supernatural Creatures were drained by Flowers of Evil.
• Tang Qi saw an angel manifest in Saint Nia City and judged that attacking Mrs. Anderson could expose him to Lecter’s retaliation.
• In Bunker City, York Sims emerged from seclusion and destroyed a smiling angel with a single sword strike.
• The projected vision shifted to the Second Holy City, where faith became an Evil Spring and Lecter’s throne began to rise.
• Tang Qi saw more than thirty hidden Angel Fetuses revealed as their angels intercepted the Lord of Light’s faith and reached toward the Second Holy City.

Tang Qi waited for the Church of Light’s hidden forces to strike as Lecter’s plot unfolded, but the Church’s four Demigod-level champions were overcome by the Angel of Time. With the ninth angel born and Lecter close to ascending, the Federation and the Church unleashed two more powers against the throne.

• Tang Qi suspected the throne-raising scene was a trap and held back from attacking Mrs. Anderson while the crisis around her persisted.
• Kenneth Grahame, Lancelot, the Holy Nun statue, and the Thorn Sword Saint joined forces to destroy the angels, but the Angel of Time froze and then erased their attack.
• Lecter revealed himself as Bourne Anderson, spread nightmares and corruption across the Federation, and neared godhood as the ninth angel was born.
• William O'Neal’s justice flames burned the Angel’s Blood in Mihuang City, while Mrs. Anderson quieted the fetus by feeding it her severed arm and then faded away.
• A Federation parchment declared that the Federation would have no king, and the Statue of the Lord of Thorns came alive and struck at Lecter’s throne.

Tang Qi returned to Dragonheart Castle as the Church and authorities unleashed their strongest attacks against Lecter, only for the God of Darkness and the Doomsday Cult to intervene and weaken their assault. As the Angel Fetus gave its first cry in Mihuang City, Tang Qi realized Lecter had used all his Trump Cards.

• Tang Qi told Raphael he was returning to Dragonheart Castle, then opened a portal from Colson Manor while continuing to watch Diana through the Blood Bubble.
• The Hero Contract suppressed Lecter as the Lord of Thorns' sword descended, but Lecter summoned a Giant whose darkness halted the strike.
• Lecter called on the Doomsday Cult, whose ritual defiled the Hero Contract and weakened its power.
• Tang Qi recognized that Lecter planned to help the God of Darkness and the Lord of Doomsday descend into the human world.
• The Angel Fetus cried out in Mihuang City, and Tang Qi announced that Lecter had used all his Trump Cards.

Tang Qi watched Lecter’s attempt to become a god collapse after Diana’s Divine Radiance destroyed the angels supporting his throne. Lecter mutated into a monstrous mass of flesh, and the Mystery began pulling him toward another realm.

• The true Ninth Angel was born in Mihuang City and raised its arms to lift Lecter’s throne.
• Diana’s Divine Radiance broke Lecter’s angelic domain and purified the eight injured angels.
• Lecter tried to reach the Mystery’s light, but his body swelled and transformed into a monster.
• Tang Qi watched as the Mystery’s Pulling Force dragged the transformed Lecter toward another realm.