Chapter Summaries

Angel stabilized Helen after her emotions triggered a painful reaction and began preparing to treat her damaged spiritual power. He reminded her to make herself her own goal, and Helen agreed to the treatment at Liwei's home.

• Helen began vomiting blood as her emotional turmoil worsened her injuries, and Angel supported her.
• Angel used his energy to calm Helen's body and reassured Little Six that he would watch over her.
• Helen thanked Angel, remembered his advice to pursue and surpass herself, and admitted she had considered giving up.
• Angel warned that Helen's injured spiritual power could fall below the threshold needed to become a gifted one and explained how he would treat it.
• Helen defended Little Six after learning she had brought Angel to Liwei's house, and Angel prepared to sort out Helen's spiritual power.

Angel helped Helen recover her disordered spiritual force, guiding her through the backlash until it was fully restored. Helen successfully began constructing her spiritual force model, and Angel left after telling her that her physical injuries would heal with time.

• Angel entered Helen’s spiritual space and guided her spiritual force as she followed his lead, gradually untangling its disorder.
• As Helen’s spiritual force grew, its backlash intensified, but she suppressed it while Angel continued sorting it out.
• After Angel finished, Helen’s spiritual force recovered and felt more lively than before.
• Helen entered her thought space and successfully constructed a difficult corner of her spiritual force model before running out of strength.
• Helen thanked Angel, and he told her she would recover from her physical injuries before leaving.

Angel stayed at Summer Dew Ridge for a meal with Helen and learned that she feared the Shaluo Witch’s involuntary transplant and reconstruction plan. Helen’s concern for Si Man led Angel to offer help contacting Sky Mechanical City’s law enforcement team about her abduction.

• Angel stayed for a meal after treating Helen, while Toby eagerly ate the dried fish and seafood soup.
• Angel asked Helen about life at Summer Dew Ridge, and Helen admitted that the reconstruction plan troubled her because the Shaluo Witch chose transplants without considering recipients’ wishes.
• Angel explained the Shaluo Witch’s reputation and cautioned Helen that her transplants might not suit her, leaving Helen to decide whether to accept them or seek another path.
• Helen struggled to ask Angel for help with Si Man, and Angel invited her to explain the abduction, offering to speak with the law enforcement team if it happened near Sky Mechanical City.

Helen told Angel and Little Six how Si Man had been abducted by strangers riding a shuttle-shaped flyer, and Angel recognized the craft’s alchemical configuration as one associated with the Northern Territory and the Source World. With Angel’s help, Helen recovered a detail about the abductors, leaving them poised to identify the group.

• Angel offered to pass Si Man’s disappearance to the enforcement team, and Helen recounted how strangers had abducted Si Man north of Sky Mechanical City.
• Helen said an official wizard had captured Si Man and left her badly injured, but she could not identify the wizard or explain the abduction.
• Angel recreated the wizard’s appearance, but neither he nor Little Six recognized the man.
• After Helen described the shuttle-shaped flyer, Angel recognized its configuration as one associated with the Northern Territory and the Source World.
• Angel used a small illusion to help Helen recall details, and she remembered that the abductors all shared a similar emblem.

After Helen described the symbol worn by Si Man’s captors, Angel recognized it as the mark of the Budding Believers and decided to take the evidence to Sky Mechanical City’s Enforcement Team. He left Helen without promising Si Man would be safe, but believed she could still be rescued if she was alive.

• Helen described the strange symbol, and Little Six gave her a notebook so she could draw it from memory.
• Little Six failed to recognize the symbol, but Angel realized it depicted a budding sprout breaking through the soil.
• Angel told Helen he had a lead and would contact the Enforcement Team, while warning that he could not guarantee Si Man’s safety.
• Angel tore the drawing from Little Six’s notebook and left to take it to the Enforcement Team.
• Flying through the night, Angel identified the symbol as the mark of the Budding Believers and suspected they were spreading their faith in the Southern Region.

Angel learned that Sky Mechanical City had been near Paladova when Helen encountered a strange group, leading him to suspect they were connected to the Budding believers. He reached Rosen at the Infinite Battle Tower to discuss what happened in the void and seek the city lord’s help, and the chapter ended as Rosen prepared to speak with him.

• Angel learned from Antonio that Muse remained in seclusion and that Rosen was at the Infinite Battle Tower.
• Angel discovered Sky Mechanical City had been near Shangnao Town, close to Paladova, half a month earlier, and linked that location to the strange group Helen encountered.
• Angel flew to the Infinite Battle Tower, where Melantha told him Rosen was expecting him and asked about the aura from earlier.
• Rosen had Melantha leave his office, then stood before Angel in the metal hall.

Angel met City Lord Rosen, who tested Toby with his pressure and questioned him about Toby’s abilities. Rosen showed Angel footage of the Purification Garden and asked whether Angel had come to discuss Toby.

• Rosen directed his pressure at Toby, who transformed into a Snakebird to protect Angel.
• Angel calmed Toby, who changed back after coating part of the hall with petrification toxin.
• Rosen showed Angel surveillance footage and explained that Sky Mechanical City monitored supernatural creatures to keep unstable factors in check.
• Rosen played footage of the Purification Garden and pointed out that Toby had transformed into a griffin to rescue Angel.
• Rosen questioned Angel about Toby’s transformations and legendary aura, but Angel stayed silent.
• Rosen asked whether Angel had come to discuss Toby’s affairs.

Angel told Rosen about the Budding, an unsolvable out-of-control mysterious object, and warned him that its believers had appeared again. He left Rosen with evidence about Si Man’s disappearance and his suspicion that the abductors had brought the Budding faith to Paladova.

• Angel told Rosen that a disappearance case had led him to uncover the Budding and its connection to missing believers in Paladova.
• Angel explained that the Budding was an unsolvable out-of-control mysterious object whose recovery was nearly impossible.
• Angel said he and his mentor had agreed to keep knowledge of the Budding limited, but he had changed his mind after its believers appeared again.
• Angel gave Rosen Helen’s parchment symbol and described Si Man’s disappearance and his suspicions about the abductors.
• Rosen agreed that the group’s presence in Paladova was no coincidence and that they had to be stopped.

Rosen learned that the Budding could threaten all of Sky Mechanical City and decided to investigate it discreetly. He recruited Antonio and summoned the prophecy wizard Oupulia, who agreed to learn more after signing a confidentiality contract.

• Rosen realized that the Budding could trigger a disaster across the Wizarding World and resolved to stop it before it spread.
• Rosen contacted Antonio, explained the Budding, and said they needed intelligence on its believers and people from other domains.
• Rosen asked Antonio to use the Magic-Energy Eye to monitor Sky Mechanical City and report anything resembling the Budding.
• Rosen summoned Oupulia and gave him a contract requiring him to keep the matter secret.
• Oupulia signed the contract and agreed to hear about the matter.

Oupulia failed to use prophecy to uncover anything about the Budding or its followers, and probing its secrets threatened to contaminate his mind. As Rosen and the others searched for another solution, a breeze carried a parchment marked with a symbol that made Angel and Rosen think of Si Man.

• Oupulia accepted Rosen's request to investigate the Budding and performed a prophecy using the River of Fate.
• Oupulia found that every attempt to learn about the Budding and its followers was blocked by a black fog that risked irreversibly contaminating his spiritual power.
• Rosen, Angel, and Antonio recognized that the Budding's mysterious force concealed its followers and left them unable to track them down.
• Oupulia tried a Lucky Choice Art to find a way to resolve their troubles, but the spell seemed to fail.
• A breeze lifted a parchment bearing the symbol “Ya” above “Yi,” and Angel and Rosen thought of Si Man.

Oupulia used Si Man’s feather and the accounts of Little Six and Helen to find her trail through prophecy. He located her near the void corresponding to Sky Mechanical City, and Angel told Helen that Si Man was still alive for now.

• Rosen gathered Si Man’s black feather and brought Little Six and Helen to tell Oupulia what they knew about her.
• Rosen erased Little Six and Helen’s memories of the Budding emblem, following Angel’s advice to leave their other memories intact.
• Oupulia used the feather and what he had learned about Si Man to locate her trail near the void corresponding to Sky Mechanical City.
• Rosen and the others assembled a combat team and headed into the void to search for Si Man and the suspected Budding believers.
• Angel told Helen that the prophecy indicated Si Man was still alive for now.

Angel bought dried fish and other goods in Benshiweiquzigai Street, where he encountered Oupulia. Before they parted, a clown handed them flyers advertising a grand theater performance featuring Shali.

• Angel wondered whether City Lord Rosen would find Si Man and how he would handle the Budding Believers during the secret raid.
• Angel visited Magic Food House to buy dried fish for Toby, then browsed the shops and stalls on Benshiweiquzigai Street.
• Angel ran into Oupulia outside the Elysium Pavilion, and they walked together toward a plaza near the grand theater.
• A clown handed Angel and Oupulia flyers advertising a theater performance called “Magic Time.”
• Angel recognized Shali in the flyer’s portrait, and Oupulia identified her as the Water-Pattern Witch’s disciple.

Angel waited for news about the Budding after reporting its second appearance to Sanders, while Oupulia sensed an omen and headed to Shali’s magic show. Antonio later told Angel that Rosen’s operation had gone smoothly, and Angel learned that Si Man was alive and had been sent back.

• Oupulia sensed that fate was directing him to Shali’s magic show and went to the grand theater to investigate the playing cards on her flyer.
• Angel returned to the manor, told Sanders that the Budding had appeared again, and waited for Rosen’s results.
• Gloria and Azaz went out together with Shali’s magic-show flyers and returned in the early hours, still discussing something.
• Antonio contacted Angel at dawn and said Rosen’s operation had gone smoothly, inviting him to hear the details in person.
• Angel met Rosen at the Infinite Battle Tower and learned that the group had been found in the void and that Si Man was alive and had been sent back.

Rosen told Angel how he found and defeated the Budding Believers, who vanished into the Budding’s Disorderly Rhythm after revealing that they had planned to sacrifice Si Man. Si Man was rescued, but the group’s leader warned Rosen that punishment for his sins would soon come, leaving the source of the threat unknown.

• Rosen explained that the Budding Believers came from the Wizarding World of the Northern Territory and that the group in Paladova had been recruited by them.
• The Budding Believers chanted special syllables and were pulled into the Budding’s Disorderly Rhythm before Rosen could question or punish them further.
• Rosen found Si Man in their flying vehicle, where she had been held as a living sacrifice to the Sprout God, and freed her from her sealed bloodline power and shackled magic source.
• Rosen credited Toby’s legendary aura for drawing the hidden Budding Believers out of an Exile Space, allowing the group to find them and rescue Si Man.
• Antonio urged Rosen to take seriously the formal wizard’s final warning that punishment for his sins would soon descend upon him.

After considering the threat against Rosen, Angel visited Benshiweiquzigai Street and saw that Shali’s magic show had already begun attracting curious audiences. He spoke with Oupulia, who found deep inspiration in the card performance, then left as Oupulia began imagining a card-based method of prophecy.

• Angel judged that the Budding Believers might retaliate in the Southern Region, but trusted Rosen and Antonio to prepare for them.
• Angel bought alchemy materials at the Fingernail Alchemy House and noticed that more people were reading Shali’s flyers and heading to the grand theater.
• Angel spotted Oupulia outside the theater with a ticket to Shali’s second magic show and asked why he wanted to see it again.
• Oupulia explained that the cards’ combinations suggested unpredictable fates and inspired him to consider using cards for prophecy.
• Angel left Oupulia to his musings and suspected that the card format could become popular.

Angel returned to the manor, where he found Witch Sang Ye and Gloria preparing to attend a witches’ tea party. He learned the gathering concerned a future trip to Savage Cave and that Liana would organize the next large-scale tea party.

• Angel returned to the manor and found Witch Sang Ye in formal court dress, speaking with Gloria.
• Gloria told Angel that she and Sang Ye were going to an event where men were forbidden, and teased him about transforming to attend.
• Sang Ye again offered to trade for Ocean Rhythm, but Angel said he had nothing he urgently needed and would soon leave for Savage Cave.
• Sang Ye said the event was a witches’ tea party connected to plans for the next trip to Savage Cave.
• Gloria explained that Liana would organize the next large-scale tea party.

Angel learned that Liana’s upcoming tea party would take place at Savage Cave, where Sang Ye hoped to trade for Ocean Rhythm, though Angel planned to avoid her. He arranged to leave with Sanders the following afternoon and began designing alchemical equipment to strengthen Toby’s energy attributes.

• Angel recalled that Liana would host a large tea party at Savage Cave, where witches exchanged information, traded items, and spread rumors.
• Sang Ye offered to obtain items from the tea party in exchange for Ocean Rhythm, but Angel only agreed to see what happened and later decided to avoid meeting her.
• Sang Ye and Gloria left to attend a small tea party themed around the Drama Shadow Box and planned to watch Shali’s magic show.
• Angel discussed departure plans with Sanders, and they decided to leave the following afternoon after Sanders finished speaking with Horus.
• Angel began drafting versatile alchemical equipment to amplify Toby’s energy attributes across his three forms.

Angel visited Youthful Grace Hall to ask Leon about his plans, then prepared to leave with Sanders. Sanders returned and agreed that Gloria and Azaz would accompany them, setting their departure for one o’clock.

• Angel went to Youthful Grace Hall and offered to take Leon to Savage Cave, but Leon chose to stay in Sky Mechanical City and continue training in the Sky Tower.
• Gloria returned at noon and asked Angel about Sanders's energy research, while Angel said he did not know what had inspired his mentor.
• Sanders returned from meeting Lord Horus, said his research might help Gloria recover her physical body, and told Angel they could leave.
• Gloria chose to keep traveling with Sanders and said she would bring Azaz along because his circumstances remained uncertain.
• Sanders agreed to take Azaz with them and set their departure for one in the afternoon; Gloria offered him a card game, but he went upstairs without answering.

Sanders took Angel and Gloria to Savage Cave’s station instead of the teleportation hall, explaining that Savage Cave was not part of the Corridor Pact. Horus had arranged a reimbursed return through the Planar Corridor, and the carriage arrived at the station.

• Sanders led Angel and Gloria through Sky Mechanical City by carriage rather than heading directly to the teleportation hall.
• Gloria noticed the carriage had taken a different route, and Sanders explained that Savage Cave was not a signatory to the Corridor Pact.
• Sanders said they would return to Savage Cave through the Planar Corridor instead of teleporting through the hall.
• Sanders revealed that Horus had been ordered to bring Angel home if he was threatened or wished to leave, with Savage Cave covering the expenses.
• Gloria recognized the arrangement as a privileged passage for Angel, while Angel wondered whether he could receive the reimbursed materials himself.
• The carriage stopped at Savage Cave’s station.

Angel, Horus, Sanders, Gloria, and Azaz sensed an unprecedented danger as a vast fissure darkened the sky above Sky Mechanical City. Angel opened a door to help them escape, but a brilliant light appeared in the fissure before they could leave.

• Horus met Angel and said Lord Rhein wanted his help, then led the group toward the station with the Planar Corridor materials.
• Horus created an ice Dome after he and Sanders sensed danger, and Angel and Gloria felt a powerful premonition of crisis.
• A vast black fissure appeared overhead, turning day into night without releasing any detectable aura.
• Horus urged everyone to flee, and Angel opened a door to escape Sky Mechanical City without using the unstable Planar Corridor.
• A brilliant light flickered at the center of the sky vortex as Angel prepared to leave.