Chapter Summaries

Angel collected materials from Bulei and then agreed to buy a rare Mether from Beers after learning how useful the tree-transformed winged woman could be. As Angel and Beers went inside to complete the deal, Rosam noticed buyers plotting to seize the treasure and quietly prepared to respond.

• Angel sorted and stored the materials from Bulei, then declined Beers's offer to deal with Shark Disciple.
• Beers showed Angel the merchant caravan's prized captive, a young Mether whose lower body had transformed into a tree stump.
• Angel considered how Mether could benefit Demon Illusion Island, Leon, and possibly Jon, then accepted Beers's offer of ten thousand magic crystals.
• Angel and Beers entered the stone house to complete the transaction while the buyers speculated about Angel's identity.
• Rosam noticed buyers secretly sending servants away to prepare for a robbery, gave instructions to a member of Ashen Time, and disappeared.

Angel left the Abyss District with Shark Disciple, but changed his plan to kill him after hearing a plea for help from Roydes. He used Nightmare Illusion to make Shark Disciple repel a massive Stone Chrysanthemum Shrimp attack, then resumed the death illusion with an endless spring dream added.

• Angel completed his transaction with Beers, accepted a card for contacting the Ashen Time Caravan in Roydes, and left the ruins with Bulei and Shark Disciple.
• Beers explained to Rosam that he wanted to approach Angel slowly, and Rosam volunteered to serve as the caravan’s contact in Roydes for ten years.
• Angel confronted Shark Disciple and began weaving a death illusion, but the Peace Tower broadcast a plea for help against over a thousand Stone Chrysanthemum Shrimp.
• Angel suspected the plea had come from Valli and altered the illusion, guiding Shark Disciple to drive back the shrimp and save Roydes’s outer city.
• Angel returned the Waterless District pass to the sleeping catfish merfolk, then continued Shark Disciple’s death illusion with an endless spring dream added.

Angel returned to Bolai Town to ask Frod for Dream Reading, while Frod's orphanage hosted a deadly illusion trial for gifted individuals. The chapter left Angel considering Frod's questions about his interest in the art and whether he had already learned Entering Dreams.

• Bulei questioned Angel about how he had bought a Mether and why Captain Beers had treated him favorably, but Angel gave brief answers.
• Angel flew to Revelation Continent and traveled to Bolai Town, telling Bulei he had come to find a soul.
• Angel entered the orphanage and found Hurricane Tower's gifted individuals undergoing Frod's terrifying illusion trial, with Sunny acting as the Butcher and Yada controlling the safe zone.
• Frod recognized Angel and left Neya to speak with him on the rooftop, where they discussed Sunny and the trial.
• Angel asked Frod for Dream Reading and agreed that Frod could make a reasonable request in exchange.
• Frod offered to teach Angel Dream Reading and asked whether he wanted to learn it himself or had already learned Entering Dreams.

Angel asked Frod to teach him the Listening level of Dream Reading so he could communicate with Jon, his comatose relative, through dreams. After hearing Jon’s condition, Frod proposed that Angel might let him live in the Dream Realm, leaving Angel intrigued as Frod began explaining how Dream Realm creatures could enter reality.

• Frod was astonished that Angel had mastered Entering Dreams so quickly, then explained the four levels of Dream Reading and warned that communicating in another person’s dream could be dangerous.
• Angel chose to learn Listening and told Frod that he wanted to speak with a lucid dreamer who would not harm him.
• Angel explained that Jon had fallen into a coma and that he planned to reach him through a Dreamweaver Ant; he also described Jon’s failing body and the mysterious curse affecting him.
• Frod suggested that Angel might let Jon live in the Dream Realm rather than cling to his mortal body, and Angel considered the possibility.
• Frod began explaining that Dream Realm creatures could enter the real world.

Angel updated the Dead by Daylight illusion to make its trials more psychologically intense after learning a Gifted One had been told its secrets. Before leaving Revelation Continent, he received Frod’s Dream Reading and a possible method to save Jon, though the method still required testing.

• Frod transcribed Dream Reading while Yada lulled the Gifted Ones to sleep, and Sunny complained that she had not heard enough screams.
• Sunny and Neya visited Angel, who learned that Meisi knew the illusion’s secret because Neya had told her about it.
• Angel criticized Meisi’s conduct and decided to improve the illusion by suppressing entrants’ memories, amplifying emotions, and hiding its Easter eggs behind tests of human nature.
• Frod gave Angel his copy of Dream Reading and his research on combining illusions with the Dream Conch, and Angel agreed to test his proposed method after returning.
• Angel left Revelation Continent with Bulei, pleased to have gained a possible way to save Jon, but he felt he had forgotten something.

Angel returned to Pat Manor, explained the caravan’s missing materials to Yurika, and revealed that he had bought a Mether with magic crystals from Sanders’s demon-beast spoils. After checking on Jon and the Soft-State Worms, Angel told Leon about the Mether the next morning.

• Angel returned to Yamei Province with Bulei and refused to help the owl deceive Yurika by presenting his Mether as an apology gift.
• Angel laid out the caravan’s materials before Yurika, and Bulei shifted her attention to Angel by describing his Mether and Captain Beers’s respect for him.
• Angel told Yurika he had bought the Mether for his brother and explained that he had earned the money by selling materials Sanders gave him.
• Angel checked Jon’s peaceful dream, fed Axo’s refined blood to the Dreamweaver Ant, and found that the isolated Soft-State Worm egg had consumed its supply of blood.
• Leon visited Angel the next morning to check on him, and Angel recounted his trip before raising the Mether.

Angel planted Mether on a floating cloud-soil island above Pat Manor, where its natural aura rapidly nourished the manor and surrounding settlement. He then went to Black Sand Prison to test whether people who died asleep could retain their minds in dreams, but his experiments left him uncertain whether Jon could survive in the dream world as himself.

• Leon warned Angel that leaving Mether at the manor could invite disaster, so Angel planted it in cloud soil on a concealed floating island instead of rooting it in the ground.
• Mether recovered and spread a natural aura that accelerated the growth of plants and crops around the manor, prompting Leon to look forward to beginning his wizarding journey.
• Angel left Gelu Town and traveled to Black Sand Prison to test Frod's hypothesis about preserving a dead person's consciousness in dreams as a possible way to save Jon.
• Angel's first attempt failed when pain woke the condemned prisoner, but a second prisoner died painlessly in a dream before the Dream Bridge vanished with its anchor.
• Angel tested more prisoners, spared seven who had been framed, and recorded his findings, but none had lucid dreams, leaving him unable to confirm whether Jon's full consciousness could persist.

Angel cultivated lucid dreaming among death-row prisoners in Sea Moon City to study the Dream Realm, while constructing the Dream Reading cantrip. After one prisoner retained a trace of consciousness in a dream following death, Angel recorded the uncertain result and continued observing the growing number of lucid dreamers.

• Angel recruited death-row prisoners with General Aaron’s help and taught them methods for cultivating lucid dreams in exchange for ten gold coins for their families.
• Angel observed the prisoners’ dreams nightly, studied Dream Reading, and periodically had Aaron remove prisoners who failed to practice.
• Angel visited Pat Manor and found Mether had improved the residents’ health; Yurika bought several bowls of Hicato Witch’s Soup from him.
• One prisoner lucidly dreamed of avenging his father, and Angel killed his body while monitoring the dream, where the man retained a trace of consciousness.
• Angel sent ten gold coins to the prisoner’s son, who lost them gambling, and recorded the uncertain possibility that the dead man had become a Dream Realm resident.
• Angel successfully constructed Dream Reading but postponed using it on Jon because lucid dreams surged among the prisoners and he wanted more data.

Angel investigated whether people who died during lucid dreams continued to exist in the Dream Realm, then returned to Pat Manor to use Dream Reading to speak with Jon. The chapter ended with Jon recognizing an unexpected voice in his dream as Angel’s.

• Angel recorded five lucid dreams and suspected the wilderness he glimpsed while crossing the Dream Bridge was connected to Nightmare Illusion.
• After gathering nineteen samples, Angel concluded that people who died in lucid dreams likely persisted as residents of the Dream Realm, though he could not track them after their Dream Bridges broke.
• Angel returned to Pat Manor and found Leon recording Jon’s physical data in the ice chamber.
• Angel entered Jon’s dream and found Jon imagining Angel and Qiao Mu as children chasing each other while Jon and Xia Yuwei watched.
• Angel objected to the dream’s old-fashioned scene, freezing the dream and prompting Jon to ask who was speaking.
• Angel revealed himself to Jon, telling him, “Mentor, it’s me!”

Angel entered Jon’s dream and proved his identity by answering questions Jon had once given him. Jon accepted that he might not be saved, but Angel promised to keep trying; after Angel shared stories of his journey, they agreed to meet again the next day.

• Angel told Jon he had entered the dream from outside, and Jon sensed the foreign presence before testing Angel with ten questions.
• Angel answered the questions, and Jon recognized him, then lectured him about diligence before discussing Jon’s uncertain chances of survival.
• Jon explained that he had accepted his fate, while Angel insisted he was still searching for a way to save him.
• Angel told Jon that a Dreamweaver Ant had caused the dreaming and began recounting his travels, including his encounter with a Cloud Whale.
• Angel ended the visit because he was hungry and wanted Jon to rest, and Jon revealed that he had already watched Angel’s memories from childhood.
• After leaving the dream, Angel remembered that he still needed to confront Jon about pairing him with Qiao Mu.

Angel told Jon about the dangers surrounding his identity and considered ways to save him, then returned to Sea Moon City to finish his dream experiments. His findings suggested that people who died in lucid dreams might become residents of the Dream Realm, and he devised a way to test whether they could be tracked afterward.

• Angel explained Jon's declining health, his unusual identity as a non-native pure-blooded human, and the risks of asking wizards to save him.
• Angel offered Jon two possible paths: reveal his existence to the wizards of Savage Cave or make him a resident of the Dream Realm.
• Angel returned to Sea Moon City and entered the prisoners' dreams, finding more lucid dreamers and one whose dream retained full consciousness and logical thought.
• Angel recorded that people who died in lucid dreams might merge with the Dream Realm and lose the ability to alter their dreams.
• Angel wondered whether he could use the Dream Conch on a prisoner's corpse to enter the dream and track the dead dreamer.

Angel used the Dream Conch to investigate the endless wilderness he had glimpsed in dreams and found that it appeared whenever he entered the dreams of nonliving objects. He left the wilderness's nature uncertain, wondering whether it was an independent world formed from dreams and Nightmare Illusion.

• Angel carried the dead prisoner away from Sea Moon City and used the Dream Conch to enter the corpse's dream, where he found himself in the endless wilderness.
• Angel pulled stones into dreams with the Dream Conch and confirmed that each one placed him in the same flat wilderness.
• Angel read Frod's research notes and learned that Frod had entered varied Dream Realm locations, unlike the wilderness Angel consistently encountered.
• Angel activated the Gondola and had Toby steer it while he entered its dream, surveying the wilderness for an hour before the Gondola ran out of energy and crashed.
• Angel returned to reality and wondered whether the wilderness dream contained anything beyond its vast, featureless grassland.

Angel and Frod investigated the Dream Wilderness, finding evidence that objects drawn into dreams by the Dream Conch appeared in the same place. Angel later sensed a thin Nightmare Realm aura in the wilderness and left the dream uncertain whether it was a Nightmare Domain, deciding to learn Dream Awakening before investigating further.

• Frod concluded that the wilderness might be a dream formed from illusion and dreams, and advised Angel to study it for differences from ordinary dreams.
• Angel explored the Dream Wilderness with Frod and found Neya's table there, strengthening Frod's belief that objects drawn into dreams shared the same wilderness.
• Frod proposed testing whether Dream Awakening could pull a living person into the Dream Wilderness, and Angel agreed to learn the spell.
• After Frod returned to the orphanage, Angel used the Dream Conch to draw his small building into a dream and sensed an aura resembling a faint Nightmare Domain.
• Angel left the Dream Wilderness without telling Frod about the aura and decided to ask him whether Revelation Continent had a device for contacting Sanders.

Angel visited the orphanage and asked Miye the Witch about signal towers and news from the Abyss, while learning that Jiebo had leaked footage of his alchemy work to make buying it easier. Miye later arranged a long-term trial contract with Frod, and Angel’s Holographic Tablet finished calculating the Dream Awakening Technique’s coordinates.

• Angel arrived at the orphanage, where the gifted ones frightened themselves in the illusion game while Miye the Witch spoke with Frod and sent Sunny upstairs to join the trial.
• Angel asked Frod about signal towers that could contact Prosperous Continent, and Frod suggested he speak with Miye.
• Miye told Angel that Revelation Continent had no signal towers and that the Abyss remained stable, while Lord Phantom Demon was reportedly prominent on the front lines.
• Miye revealed that Jiebo had recorded and spread footage of Angel’s high-grade alchemy work to make purchasing it less conspicuous, then advised Angel to set a high price if he sold it.
• Miye left the orphanage with the gifted ones three days later after agreeing with Frod on a long-term contract to pay five magic crystals per trial day.
• Angel continued visiting the dream of the small building as its Nightmare Realm aura spread, and the Holographic Tablet finished calculating the Dream Awakening Technique’s coordinates.

Angel tested the Dream Awakening Technique and learned that Frod entered the Dream Wilderness but could not control it. After Angel entered the wilderness himself, the Nightmare Realm aura from his green Patterns gave him a distant view of places it covered, and he spotted the building from his earlier dream while searching for the aura’s other source.

• Angel used the Dream Awakening Technique on Frod, who reported waking in a boundless Dream Wilderness that he could not control.
• Angel cast the technique on himself and found that he had become like an ordinary mortal inside the Dream Wilderness.
• The green Patterns on Angel’s right hand released Nightmare Realm aura, and Angel formed a tenuous connection with the aura in the wilderness.
• Angel discovered he could observe areas covered by the aura from a god’s-eye view, though he could not affect distant places.
• While following the aura toward a source in the southeast, Angel spotted the small building he had previously entered through the Dream Conch and continued searching for the source.

Angel discovered that the Dream Wilderness was an interlayer space connected to the Nightmare Realm and considered turning it into a Nightmare Domain, despite the danger. He barred Frod from entering until the threat was understood, then studied how to sever and merge with Nightmare Domains and considered whether his right hand could supply enough Nightmare Realm aura.

• Angel recognized the Dream Wilderness's source as a Nightmare Domain Membrane and found no creatures behind it, unaware that a being with crimson eyes watched from the darkness.
• After returning from the Dream Wilderness, Angel learned that Frod had brought back a comatose death-row prisoner and refused to let Frod or anyone else enter the dream again until its danger was ruled out.
• Frod offered to make a Luo Oath to learn the truth, but Angel told him the Dream Wilderness was as dangerous as the Demon God Shadow and said he would explain more if the danger was eliminated.
• Angel reread Mystery of the Nightmare Domain and reviewed the risks and requirements of severing an interlayer space and merging with a Nightmare Domain.
• Angel considered whether the Nightmare Realm aura produced by the green Patterns on his right hand could sustain a second Nightmare Domain, or whether he would need to buy Nightmare Stones.

Angel studied how to sever the interlayer space between the Nightmare Realm and the real world, learning that the spell Black Evil Elegy was normally essential. He realized the green Patterns on his right hand might replace the spell and devised a way to bring materials and the Gondola into the Dream Wilderness, but still needed to secure the materials.

• Angel read that severing the interlayer space required Black Evil Elegy and at least fifty pieces of Domain Glass, along with a diluted solution of Constant Shards.
• Angel discovered he could refine Domain Glass himself and afford the diluted Constant Shards solution, but worried that learning the required spell would take too long.
• After studying Sanders's instructions, Angel learned that Black Evil Elegy controlled and absorbed Nightmare Realm aura to protect the spatial coordinates during severing.
• Angel realized the green Patterns on his right hand could rapidly absorb Nightmare Realm aura and might replace Black Evil Elegy, even inside the Dream Wilderness.
• Angel planned to use the Dream Conch to bring the materials and Gondola into the Dream Wilderness, then enter repeatedly to locate them and fly to the half-channel.
• Angel recognized that he still needed to settle how to obtain the materials before he could carry out his plan.

Angel returned to Roydes to buy materials needed for his work, reconnecting with Ashen Time and learning that Sanders and Su Mishi were both in the Abyss. After Beers delivered the materials and hinted that he could help with Yurika, Angel paid for the order and left Roydes.

• Angel reached the Ashen Time ruins but found them empty until he encountered Rosam, who agreed to arrange the materials he needed.
• Rosam told Angel that Sanders was active on the front lines in the Abyss and that Su Mishi had gone there to find him.
• Angel gave Rosam a list of materials, and Beers agreed to send them through a Planar Corridor.
• Angel spent four days exploring Roydes while Rosam helped him and their relationship appeared to grow closer.
• Beers arrived with the materials and left a Crocodile-Scent Fruit as a hint that he could help Angel against Yurika.
• Angel paid more than fifty thousand magic crystals for the materials and left Roydes.

Sanders brought Su Mishi to capture a Pink Imps clan, then learned that Su Mishi’s unstable Nightmare Domain could not be repaired by simply adding another domain. On their way back, Sanders saw an image of Angel’s alchemical work and ordered Su Mishi to investigate who had recorded it and the Rat-and-Ant Underground Society, while sensing that Angel remained safe.

• Sanders warned Su Mishi that Dongla had come for the Pink Imps’ tails and sent him to fight the clan while he watched.
• Su Mishi failed to contain the wizard-level Tailed Clan member because he could not use his unstable Nightmare Domain, and he explained the breach to Sanders.
• Sanders advised Su Mishi to stop using his Nightmare Domain and said he would revisit an idea for repairing it.
• Su Mishi told Sanders that Angel had a Nightmare Soul Physique and showed him an image of Angel’s alchemical work.
• Sanders asked Su Mishi to investigate the Rat-and-Ant Underground Society and seek other news about Angel, then sensed the unused blood essence he had given Angel.

Angel spent a month refining the Domain Glass needed to seal the Dream Wilderness’s half-passage, then traveled through the Dream Wilderness to reach it with the materials. He arrived at the damaged boundary membrane and prepared to place the Domain Glass, but an unexpected change interrupted him.

• Angel refused Frod’s offer to swear a Luo Oath, saying he would decide what to do after confronting the danger in the Dream Wilderness.
• Angel brought the Gondola and the Domain Glass into the Dream Wilderness, then repeatedly used the Dream Awakening Technique to refresh his location until he reached the Gondola.
• Angel flew the Gondola to the half-passage and found its boundary membrane riddled with holes, though no Demonic Beasts had crossed through.
• Angel skipped calculating the nodes because he had already mapped them, and carried the Domain Glass toward the half-passage to place it.
• An unexpected change occurred just as Angel was about to place the Domain Glass.