Chapter Summaries

Liu Qi used his Shennong Vines to poison Shen Guifang with a toxic illusion, defeating him after the vines produced millet. The Shennong Sect harvested the crop, and Adam wondered about its quality and whether he could buy some seeds.

• Liu Qi's vines transformed and burst open to reveal clusters of millet as Shen Guifang tore through them.
• Adam recognized that dust from the brittle vines had poisoned Shen Guifang and explained how it created a Yellow Millet Dream illusion.
• Shen Guifang collapsed, and the referee declared Liu Qi the winner after confirming that Shen Guifang could not escape the toxic illusion.
• Liu Qi withdrew his technique, Shen Guifang awoke, and the millet ripened into fragrant cooked grain.
• The Shennong Sect harvested the millet, while Adam considered asking to buy some or obtain seeds.

Adam and Yun Yanhu ate Shennong Sect millet porridge while Yun Jinshu resisted, then secretly finished a bowl. As the competition neared its end, Adam considered what to discuss with The Office first: the Statute of Secrecy or doing business together.

• Adam and Yun Yanhu praised the millet porridge while Yun Jinshu insisted he was not hungry.
• Yun Jinshu secretly drank Adam’s extra bowl of porridge and finished it before realizing what he had done.
• Adam explained that he had bought Shennong Sect seeds and could accept their demanding cultivation requirements because he had land, magic, and The Earth's magic.
• As the competition continued, Adam learned methods from China and decided it was nearly time to speak with The Office.
• Adam weighed whether to raise the Statute of Secrecy or business first, while resolving not to let conflict between wizards and ordinary people erupt.

Adam Reed told The Office that several Ministries of Magic supported repealing the Statute of Secrecy, and said he could represent Britain’s position. The Office’s leaders examined his ties to British and Egyptian officials and concluded he could likely speak for at least two countries.

• Adam Reed told a deputy director that several countries’ Ministries of Magic supported repealing the Statute of Secrecy, and the deputy director hurried back to report it.
• The Office’s leaders debated whether Adam was telling the truth and agreed that his ability to represent the British Ministry of Magic made the proposal serious.
• The meeting’s chair explained that Eugene Crowell, Bernard Lancelot, and Adam Reed had close ties and together held substantial influence over Britain’s Ministry of Magic.
• The chair added that the next Egyptian Minister for Magic had also been Adam’s roommate at Hogwarts and was closely connected to the group.
• A man in a shirt concluded that Adam could most likely represent the positions of at least Britain and Egypt.

The Office debated why Adam Reed and the British Ministry of Magic believed they could abolish the Statute of Secrecy, then decided to ask Adam directly about his motives. Yun Jinshu and Yun Yanhu went to speak with him while the leaders turned to planning China's future.

• An elderly woman questioned whether Adam had discovered something in the Hanging Gardens Ruins that gave him confidence to abolish the Statute of Secrecy.
• The Office leaders discussed how to negotiate with Adam Reed and asked Yun Jinshu and Yun Yanhu to assess his character and motives.
• Yun Jinshu suggested that Adam had come to warn China so it could prepare, since he did not need to notify The Office.
• The elderly woman sent Yun Jinshu and Yun Yanhu to speak with Adam directly on The Office's behalf.
• After the Yun Brothers left, The Office leaders began discussing China's future in light of the British Ministry of Magic's decision.

Yun Yanhu and Yun Jinshu discussed the inevitable repeal of the Statute of Secrecy with Adam, who argued that revealing the mystical world proactively would help control the consequences. To demonstrate their side’s power, Adam showed them how he could evade people’s attention and mechanical surveillance, then entered the room where The Office employees were monitoring their conversation.

• Yun Yanhu asked Adam whether the Statute of Secrecy’s repeal was inevitable, and Adam said it could no longer be maintained.
• Yun Yanhu asked how Adam would handle being blamed for exposing the mystical world, and Adam said he needed to demonstrate their ability before discussing what came next.
• Adam led Yun Yanhu and Yun Jinshu through an elevator, explaining that he had used a power closer to the Dao rather than Legilimency.
• Adam made himself and the brothers escape notice, then opened the monitoring room door while its employees remained unaware of their arrival.

Adam showed Yun Jinshu and Yun Yanhu that he had secured economic leverage over several Ministries of Magic and possessed overwhelming firepower. The brothers accepted that his confidence was justified after he revealed Little Boy, an atomic bomb he could safely store with magic.

• Adam explained that control of markets and basic supplies could restrain blame-shifting and profiteering in multiple countries.
• Adam argued that strength was essential, and Yun Jinshu and Yun Yanhu wondered how the Ministries of Magic could resist him without it.
• Adam produced Little Boy, an atomic bomb, and the brothers panicked at the thought of it exploding inside The Office headquarters.
• Adam put the bomb away and reassured them that time-stop and protective magic kept it safe.
• Adam used time-stop magic to show Yun Jinshu and Yun Yanhu how safely he stored the bombs, and they accepted his confidence while asking whether he had controlled the British Prime Minister.

Adam met with the Chinese officials to discuss cooperation and explain his vision for a world after the Statute of Secrecy was abolished. He advocated integrating magic with ordinary society and left the officials considering a world where different kinds of power could coexist.

• The officials decided to verify the Yun Brothers' claims about Adam's abilities and influence over the market.
• Adam entered the conference room unnoticed by the officials and their surveillance until he spoke, confirming that his invisibility worked against cameras and magical observation.
• Fang Zeren welcomed Adam, and the officials began discussing cooperation after serving him tea.
• Fang Zeren asked Adam what the world should look like after the Statute of Secrecy was abolished.
• Adam argued that magic was a talent like other human abilities and proposed combining magic, qi, and technology in a world where wizards and ordinary people were integrated.

Adam argued that he could serve as a neutral force to prevent a conflict over the mysterious side from escalating into nuclear war, then demonstrated his power by producing Little Boy. After examining it and hearing Adam explain time magic and parallel worlds, Fang Zeren’s group accepted his claims but still wondered why his side wanted cooperation instead of ruling Earth.

• Adam told the gathered officials that he could become a neutral force to prevent a world war, then produced an atomic bomb that he identified as Little Boy.
• Fang Zeren had staff examine the bomb, and they found that its uranium components were suspended in midair by an unknown method.
• The officials recalled Adam’s claims about time magic and parallel worlds, and the next day Fang Zeren said their examination had convinced them he was telling the truth.
• Fang Zeren apologized for doubting Adam and asked why his side sought cooperation when it could declare dominion over Earth.

Adam secured The Office’s help in China with a contingency plan for abolishing the Statute of Secrecy, then learned Eugene had not known the plan was imminent. After discussing the enormous task of building a sustainable magical government, Adam sent Eugene grilled fish, while a brother in Azkaban complained about being left out.

• Adam explained to Fang Zeren why he sought The Office’s help with a plan to guide wizards and Muggles toward peaceful coexistence, and The Office agreed to cooperate.
• Adam told Eugene that the Statute of Secrecy would be abolished in about a month, and Eugene protested that he had not been told about the timing or the contingency plan.
• Eugene warned Adam that creating a self-governing, sustainable system could be fundamentally impossible, and Adam said the effort could take a hundred years or be abandoned.
• Adam sent Eugene a serving of bone-free Thirteen-Spice Grilled Fish through their parchment connection.
• A brother working overtime in Azkaban messaged Adam and Eugene, complaining that they were having a midnight snack without him.

Adam discussed plans for abolishing the Statute of Secrecy with Bernard and Uther, recruiting both to help prepare for the changes. Uther learned he might have to take on even more responsibility as Egypt’s future Minister of Magic.

• Adam sent Eugene food after realizing he had woken him in the middle of the night, then read the chat where Bernard had been asking for a share.
• Bernard explained that he was planning to renovate Azkaban, and Adam recruited him to help prepare legal contingency plans for abolishing the Statute of Secrecy.
• Bernard agreed to consult his parents about Muggle law, and Eugene approved his leave to work with the China Office.
• Uther returned from seclusion and complained that he had missed a gathering with hotpot and barbecue.
• Adam promised Uther a feast, then recruited him to help with the contingency plans; Uther cursed and wondered whether he really had to become Minister of Magic.
• Adam told Uther that he might end up doing the Egyptian president’s job as well.

Adam and his old dormmates reunited over a dangerous hotpot meal and discussed plans for an international organization. They settled on a fixed headquarters in international territory, but left its location undecided, and Uther began pushing Klon to serve as its first president.

• Adam warned everyone that the poisonous mushroom broth remained toxic after cooking, while Klon eagerly ate food cooked in it.
• Eugene asked whether the organization would have a fixed headquarters, and Adam proposed locating it in international territory rather than any country.
• Bernard noted that the organization still needed a name, and Klon suggested the International Confederation of Wizards and Muggles.
• Uther nominated Klon as the first president, arguing that his passion and sense of justice made him suitable for the role.
• Klon questioned the position's purpose, and Uther explained that Adam would not personally oversee the organization.

Adam persuaded Klon to lead a new international organization, arguing that Klon’s sense of justice and lack of interest in fame made him the right choice. After their meeting, Adam went to the ruined site where the Ministries of Magic had gathered and began searching for the buried Hanging Gardens as a potential headquarters.

• Uther argued that Klon should lead the new organization, and Adam agreed that Klon’s character suited the role.
• Adam persuaded Klon to accept, while Bernard and the others celebrated and Klon believed he might retire after seven or eight years.
• Adam explained that the organization would not replace any government and promised Klon he could still pursue his interests in Fantastic Beasts.
• After parting from the others, Adam returned to the site where the Ministries of Magic had gathered and erased the hidden trigger spells left in the ruins.
• Adam prepared to dig up the Hanging Gardens and consider them as the organization’s headquarters.

Adam raised the buried Hanging Gardens Ruins to the surface and uncovered their true scale and structure. He found that most of the Gardens no longer functioned, though their magical nodes remained powerful and the restored pool was filling with life.

• Adam summoned The Earth and had her separate the Hanging Gardens Ruins from the surrounding earth and lift them out of the ground.
• Adam cleared away the excavated dirt and stone, then purified the ruins to reveal their full structure.
• Adam discovered that the black mineral peak was a gigantic temple surrounded by elevated gardens, platforms, bridges, waterfalls, and magical nodes.
• Adam realized that most of the Hanging Gardens could no longer operate, while the intact nodes remained valuable and powerful.
• Adam observed that the restored pool no longer produced sea monsters and had become filled with aquatic life.

Adam examined the Hanging Gardens Ruins, preserved them as a miniature collectible, and traveled back to their final days to investigate the intact structure. While exploring its market, he struggled to understand the locals’ language and discovered that their fruit tasted strangely salty and their bread was too hard to bite.

• Adam recognized the liquid in the Hanging Gardens Ruins as a powerful way to create aquatic life, then shrank the ruins and sealed them in an indestructible crystal sphere.
• Adam consulted Professor Dumbledore’s ancient text, used its detailed account to identify a date, and traveled back to the days before the Hanging Gardens fell.
• Adam concealed himself with magic and entered the Hanging Gardens, where he found a busy market but could not understand the locals’ language.
• Adam copied a local fruit and was baffled by its salty, unpleasant taste.
• Adam bit into a loaf of bread, found it rock-hard, and watched a wizard use a more powerful predecessor of the Severing Charm to break the bread into edible pieces.

Adam explored the Hanging Gardens, learned how its magical infrastructure and clay-tablet weapons worked, and copied a semi-finished tablet. As the gardens neared their recorded destruction, he wondered what force could bring down the sky fortress and looked forward to seeing the gods behind it.

• Adam traced the awful smell to a stall where a wizard processed an enormous, apparently unrefrigerated fish, and gave up on the Hanging Gardens' local food.
• Adam surveyed the gardens' transport boats, crystal-powered devices, and statues, then discovered that twenty-seven clay tablets stored powerful ancient spells.
• Adam concluded that the Hanging Gardens were a heavily armed sky fortress and wondered what could destroy them in two days, as the records foretold.
• Adam spent the next two days learning how the gardens' facilities worked and observing wizards make clay tablets.
• Adam copied a semi-finished tablet before its spells were carved onto it, but the Hanging Gardens were nearing their end before he could see the process completed.

Adam duplicated the Hanging Gardens and its Clay Tablets, then mistakenly believed he had triggered the magic that would destroy them. After confirming another group of wizards had made matching Tablets, he released the seals on his copies, activating their power and terrifying the conspirators.

• Adam learned to communicate across language barriers and decided to take the old wizards, Clay Tablets, and Hanging Gardens with him.
• Adam duplicated and shrank the Hanging Gardens, then heard the temple’s Clay Tablets begin activating as the elderly wizards tried to suppress them.
• The elderly wizards explained that another set of matching Clay Tablets had been completed elsewhere, and Adam feared his copies had triggered the Hanging Gardens’ destruction.
• Adam created a second copy to test his suspicion and confirmed that the Clay Tablets in his frozen Hanging Gardens had not caused the activation.
• Adam released the seals on the twenty-seven Clay Tablets in his copy, and the wizards who had completed the other Tablets saw them light up and panicked.

Adam recruited the ancient wizards of the Hanging Gardens to travel two thousand years into the future and teach at Hogwarts, then continued searching the past for influential figures. He arrived in the Scottish Highlands as four wizards began building a magnificent castle with Ancient Magic.

• The elderly wizards agreed to travel to Adam’s era and work as researchers and teachers.
• An elderly witch explained that an ancient spell could extract language memories, and Adam warned the wizards to treat future Muggles as equals and act discreetly.
• Adam sent the elderly wizards back to the future, planning for Regulus to help them adjust while he continued through time.
• Adam passed the ruins of the Hanging Gardens and rejected historical figures he thought would add to his workload.
• Adam reached the Scottish Highlands and watched four wizards use Ancient Magic to build a castle.

Adam visited the young founders of Hogwarts and explained that he had traveled from the future, where he served as headmaster. The founders learned that the four houses still existed and that Adam had been a Hufflepuff student, leaving them warmly impressed with him.

• Adam arrived unannounced while the four founders were meeting in the Headmaster's Office, and Salazar Slytherin attacked him with a Binding Spell.
• Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff sensed traces of Hogwarts's power on Adam, and Ravenclaw guessed that he came from the future.
• Ravenclaw showed Adam her own unstable Time-Turner and began wondering aloud about its origins.
• Adam told the founders that he was Hogwarts's future headmaster and that Professor McGonagall was the deputy headmaster.
• Adam revealed that he had been sorted into Hufflepuff, and the founders became especially friendly toward him.

Adam told the four founders how Hogwarts and its students had changed over two thousand years, then revealed the fate of Slytherin’s descendants. The chapter left Gryffindor asking whether his own descendants had left behind any legendary stories.

• Adam explained that future Hogwarts was structurally similar, but most of its students were half-bloods and several of the era’s strongest wizards were half-bloods too.
• Slytherin asked what had happened to his family, and Adam said the Gaunts had preserved their bloodline and Parseltongue until their line was broken by a Squib daughter’s relationship with a Muggle.
• Adam revealed that Voldemort, a half-blood descendant of Slytherin, had killed the family’s remaining pure-blood members.
• Adam told Slytherin that his descendants in America and Ireland had likely abandoned blood-purity beliefs or died out, leaving Slytherin dismayed.
• Gryffindor tried to console Slytherin by praising Voldemort’s power, then asked Adam whether Gryffindor’s own descendants had left any legendary stories.

Adam told the Founders from a parallel world about their descendants, revealing that Ravenclaw’s daughter Helena stole her diadem and later died, while the only known claimant to Hufflepuff’s lineage was killed by Tom Riddle. The revelation left Ravenclaw reconsidering how she might have raised her daughter, and Hufflepuff learned her descendant’s grim fate.

• Adam explained that the Founders before him came from a parallel world and that he could return them without changing history.
• Adam told Ravenclaw that her daughter Helena stole her diadem after feeling overshadowed by her mother’s reputation.
• Ravenclaw explained that the diadem only helped its wearer stay clear-headed, not become wiser.
• Adam revealed that Helena rejected a man who loved her, and he killed her before taking his own life.
• Ravenclaw wondered whether her strict way of teaching would have left her daughter without a mother’s affection.
• Adam told Hufflepuff that Hepzibah Smith was the last person to claim her descent and that Tom Riddle killed her.