Chapter Summaries

Mo Bai and Zhengming fought Mahoraga in the Chimera Shadow Garden, with Zhengming’s powerful attacks forcing Mahoraga to reveal his Black Flash. Mo Bai then appeared behind Mahoraga and activated the Wish-Bearing Bell, seeing possible futures and preparing to draw on their power.

• Mahoraga explained that he had read Mo Bai’s memories while he was still a shadow, as Zhengming charged at him.
• Zhengming clashed with Mahoraga, combining the abilities of the fused Shikigami and briefly driving Mahoraga backward.
• Zhengming bound Mahoraga with his tongue, used Nue’s lightning against him, and brought forth a second Zhengming through Rabbit Escape’s cloning ability.
• Mahoraga destroyed one Zhengming with black lightning, then overwhelmed the other with full-power Black Flash.
• Mo Bai traveled through the domain’s shadows, touched Mahoraga’s head, and used the Wish-Bearing Bell to view possible futures.

Mo Bai used Feixue’s Wish-Bearing Bell to view alternate futures and found one in which the Goddess had empowered and later planned to kill a compliant version of him. He borrowed that future’s pure-white katana, then hid in his shadow to trace its power to its original owner and have the blade unlocked.

• Mo Bai examined alternate versions of himself shaped by different choices, including ones who joined the Remnant Star Society or killed Mo Hei.
• Mo Bai watched a future in which the Goddess treated him as a servant and planned to arrange his death after growing bored of him.
• Mo Bai chose that future to borrow the Goddess’s power, hoping to deal with Mahoraga, the people who had forgotten him, and Rover’s distant battlefield.
• Mo Bai returned to the present holding a pure-white katana, and Mahoraga sensed that the blade could kill him.
• Mo Bai poured cursed energy into the katana and sank into his shadow to trace its power to its original owner without being disturbed.

Mo Bai used Cursed Energy to reach the Goddess in Hei and questioned her about her role in his journey. She offered to help him if he answered a question, leaving him unsure what she wanted and wary of the future in which he became her assistant.

• Mo Bai sent his consciousness to Hei by tracing the Cursed Energy within the katana he had obtained through the [Future-Seeking Body].
• The Goddess appeared as a white-haired girl, and Mo Bai discussed her choice of him and her decision not to alter events in Solaris.
• The Goddess teased Mo Bai about using special privilege to bring him to her side, while he recalled a vision of himself becoming her assistant.
• Mo Bai realized the vision might branch from a choice he was about to make and asked whether helping him required something in return.
• The Goddess said he only needed to answer a question and promised to help if his answer satisfied her.

Mo Bai faced the Goddess to earn permission to use the katana and return to help Rover and Aemeath. After rejecting his first two answers to who mattered most to him, the Goddess heard him answer that it was himself.

• Mo Bai realized he needed the Goddess's permission to use the katana and hoped its power would let him return safely to the arena and help Rover and Aemeath.
• The Goddess explained that she was powerful but could not see through everyone's hearts, then asked Mo Bai who held first place in his heart.
• Mo Bai answered Rover, but the Goddess said he was wrong and gave him two tries left.
• Mo Bai answered Mo Hei, explaining to himself that Mo Hei was like family, but the Goddess rejected that answer too.
• Mo Bai settled on himself as his final answer.

Mo Bai reflected on selfishness and admitted that summoning Mahoraga had been an arrogant attempt to shoulder everything himself rather than trust Rover and the others. The Goddess granted him the power to use the sword when he returned, and Mo Bai asked about making a wish.

• Mo Bai answered that he himself came first in his heart, and the Goddess declared his answer correct.
• Mo Bai identified summoning Mahoraga as his most revealing selfish act, and the Goddess pointed out that he had hidden its abilities from Rover and Aemeath.
• Mo Bai acknowledged that taking everything on himself had been arrogant and said he needed to focus on the present and future.
• The Goddess touched Mo Bai's fist and gave him the power needed to use the sword when he returned.
• Mo Bai asked the Goddess about the wish she had offered, and she narrowed her eyes with interest.

The Tunneler defeated Aleph-1’s mecha but held off on expelling Aleph-1 while Rover and Aemeath waited for Mo Bai, whose return restored everyone’s memories of him. Inside Chimera Shadow Garden, Mo Bai confronted Mahoraga and ended their thousand-year estrangement with a sword strike aimed at Mahoraga and Aleph-1’s space.

• The Tunneler, aided by Rover and Aemeath, destroyed Aleph-1’s mecha and prepared to drive Aleph-1 away, but waited for Mo Bai to return.
• The Tunneler promised to defend Solaris, and a burst of light restored its memories of Mo Bai’s first arrival over a thousand years earlier.
• Rover, Aemeath, Losera, Feixue, and others also remembered Mo Bai as he emerged inside Chimera Shadow Garden.
• Mo Bai found Mahoraga fighting the skeletal Zhengming and spoke with Mahoraga about his freedom, loneliness, and their past.
• Mo Bai acknowledged that Mahoraga was no longer his shadow and slashed at Mahoraga and the surrounding space within Aleph-1.

After defeating Aleph-1 and restoring his friends’ memories, Mo Bai worried that the sudden changes might confuse them or alter how they saw him. Rover found him at the hill where they first met and encouraged him to return to Star Torch Academy.

• Mo Bai admired the lifelike simulation beneath Lahai Luo while sitting on the hill where he had first met Rover and Lynae.
• Mo Bai explained that his slash had destroyed Aleph-1’s true body, eliminated Mahoraga, and restored his presence and memories in the world.
• The Tunneler remained beyond the Tunneler Gate to guard against further invasions and search for clues about Rover’s homeland, choosing Lahai Luo as its true name.
• Rover and Aemeath returned to Solaris with Mo Bai, reported the outcome to Losera, and Mo Bai used Limitless to go to the hill alone.
• Rover found Mo Bai and reassured him that his friends would still see him as their good friend now that their memories had returned.
• Mo Bai admitted he feared the sudden return of those memories might confuse his friends or change how they saw him.

Mo Bai reflected on his past and his identity after the battle, while Rover urged him to trust his friends. Mahoraga helped him recognize how much he had changed, and Mo Bai remembered choosing to leave the Goddess behind before heading back to Star Torch Academy.

• Rover told Mo Bai to put more faith in his friends, then headed back to Star Torch Academy.
• Mo Bai summoned Mahoraga, recovered the Cursed Tools stored in his Gluttony Wheel, and admitted he had brought Mahoraga back because he was once part of his shadow.
• Mahoraga told Mo Bai that he had changed and grown stronger, but refused to define who Mo Bai was for him.
• Mo Bai recalled wishing to never return to the Goddess's space, then thanked her and left through her doorway of light.
• Mo Bai realized he had already understood himself and followed Rover toward Star Torch Academy.

Mo Bai questioned whether the Tunneler Swarm Creatures and the sky beneath Lahai Luo were real, then reunited with his friends at Star Torch Academy. Principal Losera summoned Mo Bai and Mo Hei to help with Dania, who remained confined to her dorm despite behaving well.

• The narrator reflected on how the Tunneler Swarm Creatures seemed alive despite being pieces of the Tunneler, while a woman insisted that Lahai Luo’s sky and its life were false.
• Mo Bai left Lynae after their morning of racing because Principal Losera had called him in to handle something urgent.
• Mo Bai found Mo Hei waiting in Losera’s office, where Mo Hei sulked because Mo Bai would no longer let him sleep in his shadow and the Academy would not allow them to share a dorm room.
• Losera showed Mo Bai and Mo Hei a presentation about Dania and explained that she had been well-behaved in confinement.
• Mo Bai guessed that Losera wanted them to do something for the depressed Dania, but she had not yet explained the assignment.

Mo Bai and Mo Hei visited Dania at Losera’s request, despite the factions seeking to control her as a possible Threnodian Resonator. Mo Bai reassured Dania that Mo Hei’s friendship with her had been genuine, and she agreed.

• Losera asked Mo Bai and Mo Hei to comfort Dania because Rover and the others were unavailable.
• Mo Bai and Mo Hei learned that Academy officials and outside factions viewed Dania as valuable because they suspected she was Aleph-1’s Resonator.
• Mo Bai and Mo Hei entered Dania’s dorm room through the shadows, startling her before she recognized them.
• Dania teased Mo Bai as a heroic, kind person and pointed out that Mo Hei may originally have befriended her to keep watch on her.
• Mo Bai told Dania that Mo Hei had genuinely enjoyed being friends with her and Siglica, and Dania agreed that his happiness had been real.

Dania admitted that her friendship with Mo Hei and Siglica had been real despite the secrets they had kept, but she hesitated when Mo Hei asked what she wanted now. When Mo Bai warned that someone was coming to investigate, he broke the window and had Nue carry Dania away.

• Dania acknowledged that Principal Losera had disabled the camera to give her and Mo Hei a chance to speak freely, despite the trouble it could cause Losera at the Academy.
• Dania rejected Mo Bai and chose to speak with Mo Hei, whose words about their shared nicknames reminded her of their genuine friendship.
• Dania told Mo Hei that they had both concealed their purposes, and he asked what she wanted to do now.
• Mo Bai received Losera's warning that an investigation was imminent and the camera would soon be working again.
• Mo Bai decided they could not leave Dania behind or take her without worsening Losera's position, then shattered the window and summoned Nue to carry Dania away.

Losera dealt with the fallout after Mo Bai and Mo Hei took Dania from the Academy, while the three escaped on Nue. Mo Bai explained why he had left so conspicuously, and Mo Hei vowed to stay by his side as Dania demanded their attention.

• Losera received reports that Dania had been taken and that the New Federation was cutting the Academy's funding, then decided not to call Mo Bai so her phone records would not expose her.
• Losera hoped Rover would reach the Academy and buy time as the factions searched for Dania.
• Mo Bai told Mo Hei that their dramatic escape would draw attention away from Losera and gave other reasons he could not quietly return to Academy life.
• Mo Hei promised Mo Bai that she would go with him and prove she was no longer a girl who could only cling to him.
• Dania, riding on Nue, interrupted Mo Bai and Mo Hei and asked them to pay more attention to her.

Mo Bai and Mo Hei took Dania out of her dorm to lift her spirits, and Mo Bai asked her to trade details of her time in the Remnant Star Society for their help. Dania accepted and chose to celebrate her birthday.

• Mo Hei explained that she and Mo Bai had brought Dania out because they were worried about her state of mind and health.
• Dania reminded them that she was under observation as a Remnant Star Society spy, and Mo Hei said Dania was also her friend.
• Mo Bai admitted he hated the Society but understood that some members had been forced into it, while making clear he had not forgotten Dania's attack on him.
• Mo Bai offered to help cheer Dania up in exchange for everything she knew about her time in the Remnant Star Society.
• Mo Hei called Dania "Yaya" and asked what she wanted to do, and Dania decided to celebrate her birthday.

Mo Bai and Mo Hei secretly brought Dania back to the Academy so she could celebrate her first birthday, but Siglica mistook Dania’s return for a kidnapping and pulled her away. The chapter ended with Mo Bai and Mo Hei appearing beside the two friends, startling Siglica.

• Mo Bai and Mo Hei used a Cursed Tool to make themselves and Dania invisible as they returned to the Academy for Dania’s requested birthday celebration.
• Dania wandered the Academy grounds while Mo Bai overheard people accusing him of stealing Rover’s credit and abducting Dania.
• Siglica rushed over, pulled Dania out of the Cursed Tool’s range, and ran away with her.
• Dania questioned why Siglica believed the kidnapping rumors, then reflected on their friendship and how difficult it would be to leave.
• Mo Bai and Mo Hei appeared beside Dania and Siglica, startling Siglica, who noticed how much the two brothers resembled each other.

Mo Bai and Mo Hei continued their mission to help Dania, who admitted her birthday excuse was false and asked them to visit where she was born. As they prepared to go, the Academy’s pursuer Rover confronted them.

• Mo Bai told Siglica that he and Mo Hei were helping Dania at Principal Losera’s request, and Siglica chose to let Dania go without pressing her doubts.
• After Siglica left, Dania admitted that it was not her birthday, and Mo Bai said he and Mo Hei had both seen through her lie.
• Mo Bai explained that they had returned with Dania to continue their task and prevent the Academy from taking her, while Dania recognized that they knew what was hidden inside her.
• Dania asked Mo Bai and Mo Hei to take her to the place where she was born, and Mo Bai confidently agreed to protect them from the Academy’s pursuers.
• Rover, the Academy’s pursuer, approached with her sword drawn and challenged Mo Bai’s confidence.

Mo Bai and Rover staged a hostile confrontation to deceive the Academy and let Mo Hei and Dania leave safely. Once they were alone, Rover advised Mo Bai about helping Mo Hei become independent, then drew her Blood Pact to test Mo Bai's strength.

• Mo Bai weighed Rover's abilities as Mo Hei prepared a wilderness location for their apparent fight.
• Rover followed Mo Bai into Mo Hei's Shadow Space, and they emerged together in the wilderness.
• Mo Bai told Mo Hei to take Dania and fulfill the Principal's request, so Mo Hei left with her.
• Rover dropped her hostile act and revealed that she and Mo Bai had staged the confrontation to deceive onlookers.
• Mo Bai asked Rover about helping Mo Hei become independent, and Rover drew her Blood Pact to test him.

Mo Hei escorted Dania toward the Dark Plains at Mo Bai's request, explaining that he trusted Mo Bai to face Rover while he helped her. Dania accepted Mo Hei's sincere friendship, though she wondered how he would react when he learned the truth about her origins.

• Mo Hei rode his Capricorn Shikigami with Dania toward the birthplace she had described.
• Dania asked why Mo Hei had not gone to help Mo Bai fight Rover, and Mo Hei said he trusted Mo Bai and was following their agreement.
• Mo Hei recalled how his life had revolved around Mo Bai and said Rover had shown Mo Bai the care of an elder.
• Dania complained that Mo Hei barely cared about her and Sisi, and Mo Hei explained that he treasured them as genuine friends he had made while he had lost his memory.
• Dania felt fortunate to have Mo Hei's friendship but wondered how he would respond after learning the truth about her origins.

The Rover began assessing Mo Bai for a future place with the Black Shores, starting with a swordsmanship test that barred Resonance and Cursed Energy. Mo Bai struggled with his rusty weapon skills as the Rover criticized his movements and knocked away his Cursed Tools.

• The Rover told Mo Bai that he, Mo Hei, and Dania could not keep their places at the Academy and proposed an assessment of Mo Bai’s future prospects.
• Mo Bai accepted the Rover’s offer to test him through physical challenges and questions, hoping to earn a place with the Black Shores.
• The Rover began the first test by challenging Mo Bai to a blade contest without Resonance or Cursed Energy.
• Mo Bai fought the Rover with Cursed Tools taken from Mahoraga’s Gluttony Wheel, but the Rover pointed out that his movements lacked coordination and disarmed him repeatedly.

Rover put Mo Bai through a series of combat trials without Cursed Energy to assess whether he could adapt to Black Shores. After he passed the adaptability test, she asked him what path he wanted for his future, leaving his answer unresolved.

• Rover made Mo Bai attack and answer questions during trials in which he could not use Cursed Energy.
• Rover explained how Resonators differed from Jujutsu Sorcerers, including their greater physical strength and longer lifespans.
• Mo Bai changed tactics and imitated the weapon combat and battlefield adaptability of Heavenly Restriction Tyrants.
• Rover declared that Mo Bai had passed the adaptability test but said one question remained before he could be hired.
• Rover asked Mo Bai what path he wanted to take, since she wanted to know what he truly wished for rather than whether he would follow her.

Mo Bai reflected on how his relationships and growing strength had given him a sense of self and a purpose beyond simply following Rover. He decided he wanted to reach the end alongside his friends and witness the ending of Solaris’s greatest tragedy.

• Mo Bai recalled how meeting friends, especially Mo Hei, changed his former outlook that every extra day of life was only a bonus.
• Mo Bai explained that gaining the Limitless and Mahoraga’s Wheel gave him confidence to protect himself and his friends from the Threnodians.
• Mo Bai realized that he had acted on his own desires when he faced Aleph-1 for Aemeath and Rover, showing he was no longer merely Rover’s shadow.
• Rover teased Mo Bai about his growth and asked what he wanted to do in the future.
• Mo Bai told Rover that he wanted to reach the end with his friends and witness the ending of the world’s greatest tragedy.