Chapter Summaries

After a difficult day, Mo Bai walked beneath the underground stars and reflected on the people he had overlooked. Back at Star Torch Academy, he found Professor Mornye troubled by a mole in the Research Institute and the approaching Day-Switching Ceremony, and approached her to discuss something important.

• Mo Bai walked toward Star Torch Academy beneath the stars and thought about how he had failed to appreciate his friends, including Mo Hei.
• Mo Bai read messages from Lynae, Moqu, and Rover, replying to Moqu that the Swift Blades were of poor quality.
• Mo Bai concluded that the Academy's suspicions that he was a mole had mostly been cleared and headed for the dormitory.
• Mo Bai overheard Professor Mornye worrying about a mole in the Research Institute and the upcoming Day-Switching Ceremony.
• Mo Bai said Rover was there to get Mornye's attention, then told her he had come to discuss something important.

Mornye told Mo Bai that the device taken from the Remnant Star Society was made by Verlaine, but she lacked conclusive evidence against him. Mo Bai agreed to investigate Verlaine and the Academy’s mole before the Day-Switching Ceremony, with Mornye offering him a reward if he succeeded.

• Mornye took Mo Bai to the rooftop and asked why Lynae had told him to keep the device secret; Mo Bai explained that he suspected she knew Rover.
• Mornye said the device’s construction marks identified Verlaine as its maker, but she had no conclusive evidence against him.
• Mo Bai volunteered to investigate Verlaine, citing his friendship with Rover and his grudge against the Remnant Star Society.
• Mornye agreed to share what she knew about Verlaine and the Remnant Star Society and asked Mo Bai to find evidence before the Day-Switching Ceremony.
• Mornye offered Mo Bai a reward if he succeeded, and he accepted.

Mo Bai investigated Verlaine’s suspected role in a plot against Star Torch Academy’s Day-Switching Ceremony while keeping up with classes and training. He stole the encrypted data from Verlaine’s computer, killed a New Federation operative who tried to recruit him, and left the evidence for Mornye.

• Mo Bai found that Star Torch Academy housed spies from the Remnant Star Society, the New Federation, and Roy drifters.
• Rover noticed Mo Bai’s exhaustion during training, invited him to observe the Day-Switching Ceremony, and urged him to rest.
• Mo Bai overheard Verlaine mention an accomplice and decided to copy the data from Verlaine’s computer using a modified Tacet Disc.
• A hidden New Federation operative offered Mo Bai power in Solaris, then threatened to join forces with the Remnant Star Society when Mo Bai refused.
• Mo Bai used Nue to kill the operative, took the copied data, and left to send it to Mornye over an encrypted channel.

Mo Bai helped Professor Mornye expose Verlaine as a Remnant Star Society mole, but Verlaine tried to implicate Mo Bai before the Academy. After Mornye defended him, Verlaine attacked Mo Bai, who shot him dead and left the conflict at Star Torch Academy unresolved.

• Mornye sent Mo Bai the evidence against Verlaine and asked him to report Verlaine in person.
• Mo Bai presented the evidence to the Star Torch Academy professors, and Verlaine accused him of breaking into his office and stealing files.
• Mornye admitted she had instructed Mo Bai to investigate Verlaine, and the professors accepted her account.
• Mo Bai and Mornye left the hearing, and she asked whether Verlaine's removal would help the Day-Switching Ceremony with Rover.
• Verlaine broke free, drew a gun, and charged at Mo Bai, who let himself be shot before taking the gun and shooting Verlaine dead.

After recovering from his gunshot wound, Mo Bai refused Mornye’s request to investigate another device among the Roy and urged her to take responsibility for helping Rover. Mornye accepted his challenge and left the Infirmary with renewed resolve.

• The Academy ruled that Mo Bai had killed Verlaine in self-defense, and Round Deer healed Mo Bai’s gunshot wound in Lu Hesse’s Infirmary.
• Mornye told Mo Bai that a signal resembling Verlaine’s device had appeared among the Roy and asked him to investigate it.
• Mo Bai refused, saying he had already achieved his goal of eliminating Verlaine and that Mornye could help share Rover’s burden herself.
• Mo Bai told Lu Hesse that Mornye should not miss her chance to help Rover, then left the Infirmary.
• Mornye reflected on Mo Bai’s words, resolved to prove herself, and left the Infirmary.

Mo Bai spoke with Lynae, then confronted the Remnant Star Society’s President, who contacted him through a rabbit. The President acknowledged that Mo Bai’s Jade Rabbits had disabled the Society’s Voidmatter Devices in the Floating Light Forest, while remaining suspicious that Mo Bai still had hidden secrets.

• Mo Bai learned that Mornye and Rover had left the Academy, then declined Lynae’s invitation to race because Rover had grounded her and he was keeping a low profile.
• Mo Bai sprang at a rabbit that approached him, then halted his attack when it spoke in the Remnant Star Society President’s voice.
• The President told Mo Bai that the Society had identified most of his abilities but still believed he had undiscovered secrets.
• The President remarked that Mo Bai’s Jade Rabbits had disrupted the Society’s plans by purifying Void Matter frequencies in the Floating Light Forest.
• Mo Bai dismissed the distant Shikigami after the Jade Rabbits had disabled the hidden Voidmatter Devices, then challenged the rabbit beside him with a look.

Mo Bai realized the Remnant Star Society had used a red portal to snatch something from the Tunneler’s Furnace Core and transported him to the desert to face the Voidworm. The stolen Furnace Core Mech Abomination fell from the sky and attacked the Voidworm, leaving Mo Bai to confront the threat to the Tunneler’s heart.

• The President taunted Mo Bai, and Jade Rabbit vanished after she snapped her fingers.
• Mo Bai spotted a red portal briefly opening beside the Tunneler’s Furnace Core and suspected the Remnant Star Society had taken something through it.
• Rover urgently warned Mo Bai to get out, but a red portal transported him to the desert before the call could finish.
• The portal vanished, and the Voidworm emerged from the sand to attack Mo Bai.
• A Furnace Core Mech Abomination fell from the sky and struck the Voidworm, revealing what the Remnant Star Society had taken from the Furnace Core.

Mo Bai fought the Furnace Core Mech Abomination after it absorbed a Voidworm and attacked him. He broke its weapon and countered its fireballs before summoning his strongest Shikigami, the Ultimate Chimera Beast.

• The Furnace Core Mech Abomination absorbed the Voidworm and charged at Mo Bai, who used Max Elephant to halt its advance.
• Mo Bai decided to fight the giant himself rather than wait for Rover, and he blocked its flaming sickle with Wolf Claw.
• Mo Bai used a forceful kick to throw the creature off balance, then snapped its sickle blade and extinguished its fireballs with Max Elephant's water ability.
• Mo Bai summoned the Ultimate Chimera Beast, fused from Tiger Funeral, Round Deer, Great Serpent, Nue, and the Divine Dogs.

Mo Bai defeated the Furnace Core Mech Abomination with Etu, but the Shikigami’s heavy Cursed Energy cost left him vulnerable to a portal that abducted him. He arrived in a desolate part of Sonoro and faced a scarred man in a red coat, sent by the President to push him to his limit.

• Mo Bai summoned Etu, who battered the Furnace Core Mech Abomination, endured its fireballs, and punched through its skull before Mo Bai recalled him.
• Communications briefly returned as the Void Matter Energy dissipated, and the Rover arrived, dusty and wounded.
• A portal pulled Mo Bai away despite his attempt to escape through the shadows, and he exchanged a look with the shocked Rover as he vanished.
• Mo Bai found himself in a desolate landscape of dead trees and purple-black terrain, where he could still control the shadows.
• A scarred man in a red coat introduced himself as the President’s chosen opponent, and Mo Bai prepared to fight as shadows roiled beneath him.

Mo Bai fought Scar, a powerful Remnant Star Society member with spatial abilities, and struggled to conserve his dwindling Cursed Energy. Scar sought to break Mo Bai’s spirit, while Mo Bai resolved to land a Black Flash to survive.

• Scar attacked Mo Bai with explosive playing cards, but Mo Bai used Rabbit Escape to shield himself and hide.
• Mo Bai used a shadow-made copy and Max Elephant’s water to bind Scar, but Scar broke free and overwhelmed him with his strength.
• Mo Bai used Nue’s electromagnetic force to guide Swift Blades at Scar, then was hurled through trees by Scar’s counterattack.
• Mo Bai healed himself with Reverse Cursed Technique, leaving his Cursed Energy nearly depleted, and decided he needed to land a Black Flash.
• Scar explained that he enjoyed destroying individuals by breaking their spirits, and the two introduced themselves as Scar and Mo Bai before facing off.

Mo Bai fought Scar with martial arts while searching for the elusive feeling needed to unleash Black Flash. He finally landed one as Scar’s kick nearly hit him, recovered some Cursed Energy, and challenged Scar to continue.

• Mo Bai and Scar traded punches, with Scar overpowering Mo Bai despite the strange sensation he felt when their fists collided.
• Scar tricked Mo Bai with an exploding playing card, then lost interest and surged forward with demonic energy.
• Mo Bai kept searching for the feeling behind Black Flash as Scar vanished and launched a powerful kick at him.
• Mo Bai struck Scar’s leg with Black Flash, knocking it down and matching the speed of Scar’s attack.
• Mo Bai felt his Cursed Energy recover and invited Scar to begin round two.

Mo Bai used shadows and shikigami to keep Scar guessing, while Scar analyzed Mo Bai’s improved abilities and prepared to unleash his full strength. As Scar transformed into a demonlike form, Mo Bai activated Domain Expansion.

• Scar attacked Mo Bai, who evaded through the shadows and used decoys and a surprise claw strike to counter him.
• Scar blasted Mo Bai with exploding cards and assessed his shadow movement, summons, and recovery.
• Scar and Mo Bai resumed their fight, and Mo Bai summoned Yamata no Orochi to shield him and stall Scar while he approached through the shadows.
• Scar recognized Mo Bai’s tactics and declared that he would use his full strength, then began transforming into a demonlike creature.
• Mo Bai clasped his hands and activated Domain Expansion.

Mo Bai remembered how his grandfather’s death taught him to value ordinary lives and reject treating life like a game. In the Chimera Shadow Garden, he recognized Scar as a Society Overseer of the Remnant Star Society and declared his disgust for the organization.

• Mo Bai recalled that he had shown no grief when his grandfather died because he had not yet grasped that the loss was real.
• Mo Bai realized that his grandfather’s ordinary life had left a lasting mark on him, and he began to treasure life.
• Mo Bai expanded Chimera Shadow Garden as Scar grew larger, enveloping his enemy.
• Mo Bai remembered Rover’s description of a Society Overseer and recognized the ram-horned demon as one.
• Mo Bai thought of the President’s subordinates and said that everyone in the Remnant Star Society disgusted him.

Mo Bai expanded Chimera Shadow Garden against Scar and used its empowered shadows and fused Yamata no Orochi to attack him. As the two prepared to fight all out, they sensed someone outside disrupting the domain.

• Mo Bai expanded Chimera Shadow Garden, and Scar dismissed its dark surroundings as a mere change in atmosphere.
• Mo Bai sent an empowered Yamata no Orochi, fitted with Hun of the Divine Dogs' Wolf Claw, against Scar while the domain's shadows formed weapons.
• Scar charged Mo Bai and severed his arm with a tiny portal, but Mo Bai refused to dismiss Yamata no Orochi to heal himself.
• Mo Bai unleashed tens of thousands of shadow blades at Scar, who transformed into his enormous demonic form and welcomed the fight.
• Mo Bai and Scar sensed that someone outside had disrupted the stability of the domain.

Rover broke into Scar’s separate space and found Mo Bai badly injured, but Mo Bai chose to continue fighting Scar. He baited Scar into close combat and left him vulnerable to Rover’s Time Order, then approached him with a raised fist.

• An outside force destroyed Mo Bai’s domain and drove him and Scar apart, leaving Mo Bai injured and unable to use his Cursed Technique.
• Rover broke into the separate space, found Mo Bai, and confronted Scar, who opened a portal to escape.
• Mo Bai challenged Scar to keep fighting, and Scar closed his portal and accepted.
• Scar attacked Mo Bai with cards and close-range strikes while Mo Bai endured the assault without summoning an animal or dodging.
• Mo Bai drew Scar’s attention with black lightning as Rover used Time Comes to an End to halt Scar’s movements.
• Mo Bai admitted he fought dirty and walked toward the immobilized Scar with his fist raised.

Mo Bai defeated Scar with a Black Flash, and Rover helped him recover his severed arm while recounting the Day-Switching Ceremony. As they spoke, Mo Bai reflected on Rover’s kindness and thought of her as a third sun who brought light to people overlooked by others.

• Mo Bai realized his restored Cursed Energy let him summon his Shikigami again and use a Black Flash against Scar.
• Mo Bai struck Scar into the ground, and Rover released her temporal ability and appeared beside him.
• Rover summoned Round Deer, which treated Mo Bai’s damaged arm and helped it regrow.
• Rover told Mo Bai the Day-Switching Ceremony had gone smoothly and described her trip to Floating Light Forest with Mornye.
• Mo Bai thanked Rover for sparing the unconscious Scar and told her he was only letting out pent-up negativity.
• Mo Bai thought of Rover as a third sun who shone on people overlooked by the other two suns.

After the Remnant Star Society attack, Mo Bai recovered in the Academy Infirmary while Rover left him a Shell Credit and arranged for a friend to train him. When Mornye arrived with Lynae, Mo Bai recognized the sound of their modified engine and expected his real gift.

• The people from Star Torch Academy contacted Huanglong and had Scar arrested, while Rover brought the injured Mo Bai to Lu Hess.
• Rover gave Mo Bai a hot Shell Credit to pass to her friend when she came to Lahai Luo to train him, then left after Mo Bai wished her a safe trip.
• Lu Hess refused to let Mo Bai leave the Infirmary and offered him rainbow-colored candy, which Mo Bai put away without eating.
• Mo Bai chatted with Lu Hess and learned that the doctor had kept him there partly for company during the quiet weekend.
• Lynae arrived outside the Infirmary with Mornye, and Mo Bai recognized the engine and thought they had brought his real gift.

After Lynae brought Mornye to see Mo Bai in the Infirmary, Mornye recounted her time with Rover and joined Mo Bai for a stargazing trip. The chapter ended with Mo Bai asking for credits as his reward, only for Mornye to explain that the Academy forbade her from awarding them privately.

• Lu Hess teased Lynae about visiting the Infirmary, and she explained that she had come to see Mo Bai before leaving them alone.
• Mornye told Mo Bai about helping Rover deal with a traitor among the Roy and watching the stars with her.
• Mo Bai asked what Mornye thought of Rover, and Mornye praised Rover while reflecting on the hardships she faced.
• Mo Bai got Lu Hess to declare him ready for discharge, then took Mornye by Motorcycle to a hillside with a view of the stars and the Academy.
• Mornye shared why the stars mattered to her, then offered to send Mo Bai her favorite stargazing spots as his reward.
• Mo Bai asked for credits instead, but Mornye said the Academy did not allow private credit awards for personal reasons.

After Mornye explained that she could not give Mo Bai extra credits, Mo Bai reflected on what he had gained and talked with Mo Hei about their recent fight. Mo Hei made Mo Bai train Reverse Cursed Technique through the night, and both of them showed progress.

• Mornye told Mo Bai she could not award him extra credits, though she gave him candy and a prime stargazing spot.
• Mo Hei browsed the Academy's Feixun forum and found students complaining that Mornye had failed them in her elective.
• Mo Hei confronted Mo Bai for not letting him out during the fight with the Remnant Star Society member, and Mo Bai admitted he had acted out of anger.
• Mo Hei insisted that Mo Bai learn Reverse Cursed Technique to avoid reckless fighting, so Mo Bai summoned Round Deer and began training with him.
• Mo Bai produced a wisp of light and Mo Hei made progress with his own technique, though Mo Hei complained that he had no Shikigami because he was Mo Bai's Shikigami.

Mo Bai continued training in Cursed Technique Reversal while waiting for Rover’s new combat instructor to arrive. Gabriella appeared and introduced herself after testing his abilities, and Mo Bai left with her to begin training.

• Mo Bai struggled to master Cursed Technique Reversal while Mo Hei trained beside him and drained some of his Cursed Energy.
• Rover messaged Mo Bai that Voidmatter Magnetic Storms had eased in Lahai Luo and his new teacher would arrive soon.
• A fiery-winged figure attacked Mo Bai, but he dodged her scorching bullet and recognized that she was likely his new instructor.
• The woman introduced herself as Gabriella and agreed to train Mo Bai’s combat skills.
• Gabriella told Mo Bai to call her by her name and motioned for him to follow her.