Recaps

After Laxus left Fairy Tail, the guild prepared for Fantasia and joined an alliance to stop Grind 7 from obtaining Nirvana. Chen Fan rescued Wendy and confronted Brain as Nirvana awakened, while Gray, Lucy, and Jura faced Midnight aboard the moving weapon.

• Laxus left Fairy Tail to train after Chen Fan warned him about Ivan and told him the guild would await his return, while Fairy Tail celebrated Fantasia and Chen Fan sang for the town.
• Fairy Tail paid for the damage caused during the battle, then Lucy pursued a Weekly SOR interview and the guild members worked at Yajima’s restaurant as they learned the rebuilt Magic Council would lack an ally.
• Makarov announced an alliance with Blue Pegasus, Lamia Scale, and Cait Shelter against Grind 7, and the guild representatives gathered at BoBo’s villa to plan their mission to stop Nirvana.
• Chen Fan uncovered Angel’s disguise and left the group, while Brain’s forces defeated the alliance’s fighters until Chen Fan rescued Wendy and she healed the injured members.
• Chen Fan carried Wendy and Charle toward Nirvana as its seal broke, defeated Grind 7’s remaining members, and watched Brain activate the colossal weapon and invite him to join.
• Chen Fan bet that his companions could defeat Brain’s subordinates, while Natsu fought Cobra and Lucy and Gray explored Nirvana with Jura and the reformed Hoteye.
• Hoteye explained Nirvana’s origins and confronted Midnight, who attacked and left Gray, Lucy, and Jura sprawled in a huge pit.

Chen Fan helped Fairy Tail defeat Grind 7 and stop Nirvana, then Wendy joined the guild as the New Magic Council moved to arrest him. Chen Fan accepted a brief imprisonment, while Wendy began considering her first guild job.

• Hoteye revealed his real name was Richard and fought Midnight while Natsu and Happy faced Cobra, who revealed he was a Poison Dragon Slayer.
• Natsu defeated Cobra, but Brain turned against him and threatened to make him a puppet, prompting Chen Fan to protect his companions and overpower Brain.
• Chen Fan defeated Midnight after exposing the limits of his Refraction Magic, and the final mark vanished from Brain’s face.
• Brain’s sealed personality Zero emerged and attacked the wizards, but Chen Fan defeated him and redirected Nirvana’s attack away from Cait Shelter.
• Chen Fan brought Nirvana crashing down and shattered its six magic crystals, then broke the New Magic Council’s enchantment and warned Lahar that he would visit the Council.
• Rob Lucci revealed that Cait Shelter’s members were illusions and that Chen Fan had asked him to raise Wendy and erase her memories of their first meeting, then Rob Lucci vanished.
• Fairy Tail welcomed Wendy and Charle as new members, while Wendy’s memories raised questions about Jellal and Chen Fan told her the Jellal she knew was not the same person the others meant.
• The New Magic Council arrested Chen Fan on bribery and related charges, but he denied wrongdoing and was sentenced to half a month in prison, and Wendy later asked Mira for help choosing a job.

Chen Fan joined Fairy Tail’s marathon, returned after losing to Happy, and learned that Gildarts had been wounded by a nearly magic-immune black dragon. As the guild faced Lisanna’s approaching death anniversary and discussed the 100 Years Quest, a vortex erased Magnolia, leaving Chen Fan behind.

• Chen Fan was released from confinement, then joined Fairy Tail’s marathon and fought his way through the guild until Happy reached the finish line first.
• Gildarts returned from his 100-Year Task, and Chen Fan learned that a black dragon had inflicted serious wounds on him.
• Chen Fan told Gildarts that the black dragon had once been a Dragon Slayer Mage and was nearly immune to magic, while Natsu ran off to search for it.
• Chen Fan recalled that Wendy and the other Dragon Slayers’ dragons had disappeared on July 7, year 777, then entertained the guild with ghost stories and flirted with Erza.
• As Lisanna’s death anniversary approached, Levy told Lucy that Lisanna had been close to Chen Fan and Natsu, and Chen Fan resolved to bring Lisanna back.
• Makarov told Erza that the guild would handle the 100 Years Quest without involving anyone else, while Chen Fan noticed a vortex forming over Magnolia.
• A beam of light covered Magnolia, and when it vanished, the town was gone and Chen Fan remained behind.

Chen Fan returned to Fairy Tail in Azeroth and set out to confront the kingdom while Natsu and the others tried to free the guild and stop its magic crystal from striking Extalia. The group split up amid the palace’s collapse, as Chen Fan fought Black-Clad Chen Fan and the crisis remained unresolved.

• Chen Fan forced his way through a spatial crack into Azeroth, found Fairy Tail, and learned that the guild believed its missing master dead and that Lisanna had returned in hiding.
• Chen Fan defeated Shuka and Regio, gave Fairy Tail hope, and went alone toward the royal capital while Natsu’s group learned the kingdom had outlawed magic and arrested its users.
• Natsu and his companions reached the capital and saw Fairy Tail members and Magnolia’s magic trapped in a crystal, then entered the palace through an underground passage and were captured.
• Chen Fan caught Lucy as the false Erza threw her from the palace, learned Natsu and Wendy were imprisoned, and fought through the royal forces as Gray and Gajeel helped free the crystalized guild members.
• Erza Scarlet confronted her counterpart while Lucy, Gray, Happy, and Charle rescued Natsu and Wendy, who revealed the kingdom planned to launch the guild’s Lacrima at Extalia.
• Chen Fan shook the palace while searching for King Fast, then faced Black-Clad Chen Fan, who attacked with magic containing traces of Natsu’s and Wendy’s Dragon Slayer Magic.
• Azeroth’s Natsu rescued Lucy’s group from the collapsing passage, and Natsu divided his companions’ tasks before leading Gray and Lucy through the amusement park.
• Chen Fan crippled Black-Clad Chen Fan with coin projectiles and blows, but his opponent released black mist, healed, and began reassembling his severed limbs.