Chapter Summaries

Bei Miao and the Armor Heroes confronted Realm King in the Shadow Realm as Xi Zhao and Little Snow’s painful past was revealed. Realm King transformed into the Realm King Beast and took Little Snow hostage, but Rotom cut through its tongue and rescued her.

• Li Xin Nan and Dong Shan joined Bei Miao in battle after Little Snow reunited with him, while Rotom’s livestream drew support for the Armor Heroes.
• Li Xin Nan and Dong Shan found the Metal Shadow Stone in a cabinet after Instructor Mewtwo guided them to it.
• Realm King transformed into the Realm King Beast and seized Little Snow, prompting Xi Zhao to join the Light and Shadow Armor team.
• The Armor Heroes surrounded the Realm King Beast but held back to avoid hurting Little Snow, and Xi Zhao offered himself as a hostage instead.
• Realm King refused Xi Zhao’s offer and used Little Snow to demand a path to escape.
• Rotom used Psycho Cut to sever the Realm King Beast’s tongue and free Little Snow.

Xi Zhao defeated the Realm King and escaped the Shadow Realm with the Armor Heroes, while Mewtwo kept the Shadow Five Protectors suppressed. At the ERP Research Lab, the others learned that years of electric shocks had gravely damaged Xi Zhao’s body, but Rotom suggested that Hai Ming or Life Dew might save him.

• Bei Miao, Dong Shan, Li Xin Nan, and Kun Zhong battered the Realm King Beast, then Dong Shan gave Xi Zhao the Metal Shadow Stone and left the choice to him.
• Xi Zhao summoned the Snow Mastiff Armor, used the Thunderclap Axe to defeat the Realm King Beast, and helped expel the Realm King from its body.
• Li Xin Nan sealed the Demon Card, and Mewtwo teleported the group out of the Shadow Realm before ending Rotom’s livestream.
• Mewtwo suppressed the Shadow Five Protectors and the Black Empress, then returned to the Magic Martial Continent and told Hai Ming that Rotom wanted to stay with Porygon.
• At Happy Burger, Mei Zhen’s examination found Xiao Xue’s injuries manageable but revealed that years of high-voltage shocks had severely damaged Xi Zhao’s body and shortened his life expectancy.
• Rotom told the others that Hai Ming might be able to save Xi Zhao and offered to try using Life Dew.

Rotom used Life Dew to ease Xi Zhao’s injuries, and Hai Ming healed his remaining damage with Genesis God Power. As the team welcomed Xi Zhao and Little Snow over dumplings, Hai Ming revealed that the Five Elements Armor summoners could unite to summon the Emperor Armor.

• Rotom changed into Wash Rotom and used Life Dew to relieve Xi Zhao’s internal injuries.
• Hai Ming returned with Zhu Zhuqing and explained that Mewtwo had helped suppress the Shadow Five Protectors and Black Empress during the battle.
• Hai Ming restored Xi Zhao’s lost origin energy, leaving him feeling fully recovered.
• Mei Zhen proposed a celebration, and the team welcomed Xi Zhao and Little Snow at Aunt Hui’s Happy Dumpling Restaurant.
• Minci froze when she saw Xi Zhao, while Li Xin Nan and Little Snow noticed her reaction but said nothing.
• Li Xin Nan asked how they could face Black Empress, and Hai Ming explained that the Five Elements Armor could unite to summon the Emperor Armor.

The Light-Shadow Armor summoners discussed how to unite their powers and learned that Mewtwo had returned to its original world, so they planned to strengthen their teamwork. At the ERP Research Lab, Xi Zhao doubted whether he deserved to remain the Snow Mastiff Armor’s summoner, but his teammates encouraged him, and Hai Ming explained how they could summon the Emperor Armor.

• Xiao Lan explained that the Calabash Brothers combined their powers to trap the demons, prompting the team to discuss unity and teamwork.
• Hai Ming told the summoners that Mewtwo had returned to its original world, and Mei Zhen suggested that they learn from Sacred Mountain Sage in the Virtual Combat Lab.
• Mei Zhen asked Little Snow to help monitor the Shadow Realm, and Little Snow agreed.
• Mei Zhen found that Xi Zhao’s Snow Mastiff Armor was weaker than the others, and Xi Zhao offered to give up his summoner role.
• Bei Miao and Dong Shan encouraged Xi Zhao to stay, and Hai Ming told Li Xin Nan to use the Flame Dragon Armor as the core when summoning the Emperor Armor.

Hai Ming revealed the Light-Shadow Armor’s true potential by taking the summoners to witness Zhu Zhuqing destroy a planet, then helped them unleash much greater power. After a month of training and battles, Li Xin Nan and the others successfully summoned the Emperor Armor, and Hai Ming prepared to test it.

• Li Xin Nan agreed to try serving as the team’s core, and Hai Ming explained that the Emperor Armor could draw on cosmic power and reach planet-destroying strength.
• Hai Ming took the group into space, where Zhu Zhuqing destroyed a massive dead planet to demonstrate the armor’s potential.
• The summoners returned to the ERP Research Lab, where Li Xin Nan’s Flame Dragon Armor readings surged to three times their previous level, and the others later recorded five-to-tenfold increases.
• Over the next month, Xi Zhao caught up with the team’s basic stats, the Light-Shadow Armor Team drove off the Shadow Guardians and Black Empress, and they sealed the Four Great Ferocious Beasts.
• Li Xin Nan and the others balanced the Five Elements Armor and summoned the Emperor Armor, prompting Hai Ming to transform and challenge it.

Hai Ming fought the uncontrolled Light Emperor Armor on a distant planet, pushing it to awaken its own consciousness and true form. When the Emperor Armor unleashed its strongest attack, Hai Ming revealed the gap in their use of Creator God Power by splitting heaven and earth with a single slash.

• Li Xin Nan and the others summoned the Light Emperor Armor, but its power overwhelmed their minds, so Hai Ming moved the fight to a distant planet.
• The Emperor Armor attacked Hai Ming with its Aurora Sword and Demon-Sealing Card techniques, while Hai Ming countered with his own elemental powers.
• After Hai Ming’s Origin Pulse struck the Emperor Armor and cracked its Aurora Shield, the armor rose in an upgraded form and awakened its own consciousness.
• The Emperor Armor summoned the Emperor War Halberd and Emperor War Dragon, then pierced Hai Ming with Emperor Demon-Subduing Annihilation Slash.
• Hai Ming told the Emperor Armor that Creator God Power was not used that way, then slashed with the Creator God's Sword and split heaven and earth.

Li Xin Nan and the other Armor summoners woke after seven days and learned that Hai Ming had defeated the Emperor Armor and protected Earth while they were unconscious. As their friends reunited, Hai Ming defeated the merged Black Demon Beast and completed his assimilation of the Light-Shadow Armor World.

• Li Xin Nan, Kun Zhong, Bei Miao, Dong Shan, and Xi Zhao woke injured in the ERP Research Lab and pieced together that Hai Ming had defeated the Emperor Armor.
• Mei Zhen explained how Hai Ming brought the five back, Rotom drove off the Shadow Five Protectors, and Aunt Hui, Min Ci, Xiao Lan, and Little Xi had come to see them.
• Aunt Hui reunited with Li Xin Nan, while Little Xi told Bei Miao she had returned from abroad after he failed to answer her calls.
• Mei Zhen said Hai Ming, Zhu Zhuqing, and Rotom had gone to capture the Shadow Five Protectors, and the group discussed their lives after the Shadow Realm's defeat.
• Hai Ming lured the Shadow Five Protectors into merging as the Black Demon Beast, then destroyed it and absorbed its World Origin, completing the Light-Shadow Armor World's assimilation and fusion.

Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing entered a vast world drawn to both light and Sea God power, where the world barrier welcomed them instead of resisting. They found a glowing pyramid on Earth, and Hai Ming recognized the world as the one with Diga and the Light Giants, though he remained unsure who the other two statues represented.

• Hai Ming told Zhu Zhuqing that he had fused the Light-Shadow Armor World and used its light authority to seek nearby worlds suited to conquest.
• The Creator God's Sword led Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing to an enormous world with strong affinities for light and Sea God power, and Hai Ming crossed its welcoming barrier with her.
• A team of white-uniformed humans searched the mountains for a pyramid after Yazumi reported its location, and a handsome young man spotted a golden glow in a mountain gap.
• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing arrived before a glowing pyramid and realized they were probably on Earth in the world of Diga and the Light Giants.
• Hai Ming speculated that the pyramid's three statues were ancient leaders of the Light Giant race, and Zhu Zhuqing led the way inside.

Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing entered the pyramid and witnessed Daigo awaken Diga after Golza and Melba attacked. Diga defeated Melba while Golza escaped, and Hai Ming considered how to use the World Origin and Porygon’s network skills in this world.

• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing explored the pyramid, hid when Daigo and the Victory Team arrived, and discussed Daigo’s inheritance of the Light Factor.
• The Victory Team left the pyramid after learning Golza and Melba were approaching, while Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing stayed behind.
• Golza and Melba attacked the pyramid, and Hai Ming moved with Zhu Zhuqing to a nearby mountaintop as the two nameless statues were destroyed.
• Daigo fired a signal flare at Golza, but Melba struck his aircraft and sent it crashing.
• Daigo entered Diga’s statue, which revived and fought both monsters; Diga killed Melba, while Golza fled by burrowing away.

Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing settled into an old Tokyo residence, prepared it for a long stay, and visited their new neighbors with gifts. They discovered that the one neighbor they had not met was Megumi Iruma’s mother-in-law and son.

• Hai Ming collected a fragment of Melba’s corpse and left the area with Zhu Zhuqing after Diga transformed back into Daigo.
• Hai Ming bought an old residence in Tokyo and completed the purchase with help from a lawyer.
• Zhu Zhuqing decorated the courtyard with cherry trees, while Mismagius and the Wind Spirit Cat chose additions for their new home.
• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing gave tea to their welcoming neighbors, then learned that the remaining household belonged to Megumi Iruma’s mother-in-law and son.

Megumi Iruma appeared on television to present Tiga as humanity’s ally, while Hai Ming decided to capture the Kyrieloids and use them as an advance force in other worlds. After a Kyrieloid possessed the host and threatened Tokyo Television, Hai Ming confronted Mitsuo Itabashi and forced him to surrender.

• Director Sawai ordered Megumi Iruma to give Tokyo Television an interview that would reassure the public and portray the giant as humanity’s friend.
• While watching the broadcast with Zhu Zhuqing, Hai Ming explained TPC’s need to give people hope and decided to subdue the Kyrieloids for use in exploring other worlds.
• A possessed television host delivered a frightening prophecy about the Kyrieloids, and Mitsuo Itabashi tried to destroy the station by igniting its foundation.
• Hai Ming confronted Mitsuo Itabashi, dismissed the Kyrieloids’ strength, and made his flames vanish when they touched him.
• Hai Ming immobilized Mitsuo Itabashi, who begged to submit to him.

Hai Ming subdued a Kyrieloid and warned Megumi Iruma that more of its kind remained on Earth. After Diga defeated Keiko Onuma’s attack, Megumi visited Hai Ming and invited him to become a Victory Team consultant.

• Hai Ming took the captured Kyrieloid away after telling Megumi Iruma that other Kyrieloids were still on Earth.
• Megumi asked Yazumi to investigate Hai Ming, then discovered that the Kyrieloids had used the identities of the dead.
• Keiko Onuma restrained Megumi, announced an attack on the K1 Area, and vanished.
• Megumi deduced that the Kyrieloids likely lived underground and directed the Victory Team to prepare for an underground assault.
• Horii and the others stopped the Kyrieloids’ flame attack, and Diga defeated Keiko Onuma with a Zeperion Ray.
• Megumi visited Hai Ming’s home and invited him to join the Victory Team as a consultant.

Megumi asked Hai Ming to serve as a Victory Team consultant, but he declined and offered a Kyrieloid instead. Director Sawai hesitated over trusting the alien until Mitsuo Itabashi appeared and applied for the job under Hai Ming’s orders.

• Megumi visited Hai Ming and asked him to become a Victory Team consultant, but he refused the position and offered to send a Kyrieloid in his place.
• Zhu Zhuqing reminded Megumi to spend more time with her son Tomoki before Megumi returned to TPC.
• Megumi proposed hiring a consultant to Director Sawai and explained that Hai Ming had defeated a Kyrieloid, but Sawai doubted whether a Kyrieloid could be trusted.
• Mitsuo Itabashi entered Sawai’s office, disarmed Megumi, and announced that he had come to apply for a job because his master Hai Ming ordered him to.

Mitsuo Itabashi joined TPC as an advisor after its leaders voted to accept him, and he pushed them to restart research on the Max Power System for weapons. Three days later, GUTS Wing 2 used its Neo-Maxima Cannon to nearly split the space monster Ligatron in two.

• Mitsuo Itabashi gave Director Sawai a document revealing TPC’s secret plans and vanished from his office.
• Director Sawai showed TPC’s senior officials a recording of Mitsuo Itabashi’s offer to serve as an advisor and explained that the document came from the Kyrieloid people.
• TPC’s senior officials voted by a two-thirds majority to accept Mitsuo Itabashi, and Megumi Iruma brought him to serve as an advisor.
• Mitsuo Itabashi restarted research on the Max Power System and redirected it toward weapons, helping TPC prepare GUTS Wing 2 with a Neo-Maxima Cannon in three days.
• Ligatron landed at the Energy Development Center, and GUTS Wing 2 fired a jade-green beam that nearly split the monster in two.

Ligatron repelled the Victory Team’s weapons and overwhelmed Tiga, but Hai Ming arrived and subdued the monster. He rescued the Jupiter 3 crew and planned to erase Ligatron’s intelligence so Mitsuo Itabashi could study its Subspace Shield.

• Rena fired the Neo-Maxima Cannon at Ligatron again, but its shield reflected the blast and brought down GUTS Wing 2.
• Daigo used Jet VTOL-1 to help rescue Munakata, Rena, and Horii, while Ligatron recovered and reflected their ground assault.
• Mitsuo Itabashi told Megumi Iruma that Ligatron was a planet-destroying Sphere Combined Beast and asked Hai Ming to intervene.
• Hai Ming arrived with Zhu Zhuqing, Wind Spirit Cat, and Mismagius, transformed into a giant, and restored Tiga’s strength.
• Hai Ming bound Ligatron, restored the damaged energy center, rescued the three Jupiter 3 crew members, and prepared to erase Ligatron’s intelligence for study.

Mitsuo Itabashi trained Daigo in Porygon’s virtual space, helping him use Diga’s powers more effectively. After Daigo mastered new tactics and defeated a rotten monster with ease, the Victory Team wondered why Diga seemed so different.

• Mitsuo Itabashi learned that TPC could not dissect Ligatron’s body, then took Daigo to a virtual training space created by Porygon.
• Mitsuo Itabashi revealed his transformed Kyrieloid form and brutally trained Daigo, forcing him to practice Diga’s attacks until he was knocked out of the virtual space.
• Mitsuo Itabashi told Daigo to return for weekly training, and Daigo later recovered and sought him out again.
• Over several training sessions, Daigo became more proficient at switching Diga’s forms and choosing the right attacks.
• Daigo used purification and freezing rays, then lifted and shattered a rotten monster in under a minute, astonishing the Victory Team.

After Siliza’s defeat, Daigo continued his training while the Victory Team investigated a strange egg that Mitsuo Itabashi identified as a travel monster’s capsule. Zhu Zhuqing found Saki, the alien girl who had waited on Earth for over two hundred years, and Hai Ming arranged for the Victory Team to return the capsule to her; Saki awakened Makina, revealing its monstrous form.

• TPC staff found the seaside resort spotless after Daigo purified the battlefield, and the owner later used Diga’s reputation to attract visitors.
• Mitsuo Itabashi took Daigo for special training while Shinjo and the others wondered why the advisor favored him.
• The Victory Team investigated an egg-shaped object at a construction site, and Mitsuo Itabashi recognized it as a capsule containing a travel monster.
• Zhu Zhuqing rescued Saki, learned she had waited on Earth for more than two hundred years, and brought her to Hai Ming, who agreed to help recover her capsule.
• Mitsuo Itabashi told the Victory Team that Hai Ming had found the capsule’s owner, Saki, and the team agreed to return it to her.
• Saki recognized Daigo, blew her whistle, and awakened the Makina Capsule into an armored monster.

After Saki departed, Daigo learned that her people considered six thousand years the age of adulthood, while Mitsuo Itabashi prepared to build safer GUTS Wings. On Halloween, Daigo transformed into Diga and defeated Gilanbo, returning the children’s stolen dreams and turning the holiday into a nationwide celebration.

• Rena reassured Daigo that Saki was unlikely to miss Earth, and Mitsuo Itabashi revealed that her civilization considered six thousand years the age of adulthood.
• Hai Ming and Zhu Zhuqing celebrated Halloween, where Hai Ming recognized the candy-giving Witch as the extradimensional being Gilanbo and Mismagius followed it with a camera.
• Mismagius filmed Daigo fighting Gilanbo, and Zhu Zhuqing and Hai Ming watched the recording at home.
• Daigo transformed into Diga and overwhelmed Gilanbo, stopping it from using Spatial Movement before destroying it with a Zeperion Ray.
• Diga rescued the children and their stolen dreams, then posed with Gilanbo’s flying ship as the crowd cheered.
• Diga’s victory dispelled people’s fear and sparked a nationwide Halloween celebration with unusually high economic activity.

Mitsuo Itabashi and Porygon developed a serum that greatly enhanced the Victory Team, and the team used their new strength to defeat Alien Crows who were abducting humans. After Mitsuo Itabashi restored the captives and sent the recovered technology to Hai Ming, Hai Ming passed the data to Mewtwo for research.

• Mitsuo Itabashi and Porygon developed the First-Generation Super Soldier Serum, and the TPC approved it after extensive testing and sealed its existence before authorizing the Victory Team to receive injections.
• Megumi Iruma objected to the serum, but she and the other Victory Team members received it and gained greater strength, younger appearances, and seemingly boundless energy.
• Mitsuo Itabashi told Hai Ming about the serum and the Victory Team's deployment against Alien Crows, and Hai Ming ordered him to study their technology and back it up with Porygon.
• The enhanced Victory Team stormed the Alien Crows' hideout, rescued the captured humans, and killed the Crow leader after Daigo and Rena stopped his escape.
• Mitsuo Itabashi reversed the Shrink Ray and storage containers' programs to restore the captives, then sent the research data through Porygon to Hai Ming, who passed it to Mewtwo.

Wind Spirit Cat discovered Lucia, a Dawn Planetian fleeing the Muzhen Star People, and secretly healed her before TPC found her. Mitsuo Itabashi realized Wind Spirit Cat had learned about the hunt and likely gone after the Muzhen Star People, turning them into the prey.

• Wind Spirit Cat left home for a night walk and saw a spacecraft crash in a nearby forest.
• Wind Spirit Cat found the injured Lucia, healed her, and learned from her memories that the Muzhen Star People were hunting her and her brother Zara.
• Megumi Iruma and Rena found Lucia and brought her to TPC headquarters, where she explained that she was from Dawn Planet and being hunted.
• Mitsuo Itabashi confirmed Lucia's story and explained that the Muzhen Star People ran a brutal hunting operation across the universe.
• Mitsuo Itabashi removed Wind Spirit Cat's healing light from Lucia and concluded that Wind Spirit Cat had intervened and was likely hunting the Muzhen Star People.