Recaps

Su Bai learned that people killed in an Abyssal Rift could not be brought back, and decided to protect only his own small circle rather than save the world. That night, the Monster Hunting Bureau came to his apartment to investigate abnormal magic power, and Su Bai concealed his identity as they began their inspection.

• Kabi told Su Bai that Rift victims had been absorbed by Deep Space and could not be restored as themselves.
• Su Bai said he would focus on protecting himself and Xiaoxiao in Happiness Lane rather than pursuing grand ideals.
• Su Xiaoxiao defended Lady Ziwei online for supposedly inspecting the people’s lives by buying discounted boxed meals, while Su Bai admitted he had bought them himself.
• Monster Hunting Bureau officers Liang Bing and Han Dong arrived at Su Bai’s apartment for a routine sweep related to the West District disaster and the Tianhai Savings Bank attack.
• Su Bai hid Kabi, told Xiaoxiao the visitors were building management, and let the officers inside for questioning and testing.
• Han Dong scanned the apartment with a detection device, but its needle stayed still as Su Bai kept his magic power concealed.

Su Bai deflected Liang Bing’s questions about the Magical Girl by insisting Lady Ziwei was a publicity stunt, using the Monster Hunting Bureau’s own announcement about experimental armor as evidence. Liang Bing recognized the announcement as a cover story she had helped prepare, leaving her facing Su Bai’s accusation that the bureau was contradicting itself.

• Su Bai gave Han Dong and Liang Bing his identity and alibis for the West District and Savings Bank incidents, while joking that his sister believed in Magical Girls.
• Liang Bing examined Su Xiaoxiao’s Lady Ziwei standee and asked about her fan club, which Su Bai said planned to apply for registration with the bureau.
• Liang Bing showed Su Bai blurry footage of Lady Ziwei fighting monsters and asked what he made of her appearances.
• Su Bai denied that rogue Magical Girls existed and pointed to the bureau’s official report describing the sightings as a test of experimental magic armor.
• Liang Bing recognized the report’s seal and remembered helping create the false announcement to conceal the bureau’s difficulties and keep the public calm.

Liang Bing revealed to Su Bai that the violet-gold Magical Girl was real, though the authorities knew nothing about how Magical Girls awakened. She gave him an Action Team contact card, and Su Bai objected to being used as an informant.

• Liang Bing admitted that the exoskeleton armor story was fabricated but that a real Magical Girl had appeared.
• Su Bai dismissed the bureau’s claims and asked whether people could train to become Magical Girls, but Liang Bing said the authorities did not know how they awakened.
• Liang Bing warned Su Bai not to reveal the classified information and explained that leaking it could mean detention.
• Liang Bing gave Su Bai a direct contact card, saying his sister’s fan club and delivery work could help him find leads.
• Su Bai said he was too busy to act as the bureau’s informant.

After Monster Hunting Bureau officers Liang Bing and Han Dong searched Su Bai’s home for clues about Lady Ziwei, Su Bai and Kabi worried that another search could expose their hidden cores and stones. They checked the Star Magical Girls terminal and discovered that the support pool had brought their available funds to 18.62 million Federal Coins, with six boxes of primeval stones still awaiting a reply.

• Liang Bing offered Su Bai a twenty-thousand-coin tip for Lady Ziwei’s movements and a one-million-coin bounty for arranging an in-person meeting, but Su Bai claimed he had no way to find her.
• Han Dong left after hearing only Su Bai and Su Xiaoxiao inside the apartment, while Su Bai and Xiaoxiao joked about splitting the bounty.
• Su Bai told Kabi that future searches could uncover their hidden cores and stones, so they checked their family’s funds on the terminal.
• Kabi revealed 18.62 million Federal Coins in proceeds and support-pool settlements, plus six boxes of primeval stones awaiting a reply.
• Su Bai saw that hundreds of payments had come through the Lady Ziwei Support Pool, whose initiator was Dark Dragon Pitch-Black Flame Envoy.

Su Bai decided to buy a secure base at Cloud Summit Palace and used the Brotherhood’s anonymous bank card to offer to purchase three detached estates. The chapter ended with Zhou Xiaomin rushing to verify his funds after he declared he would take all three.

• Kabi told Su Bai that Su Xiaoxiao had raised money from over thirty thousand fans for Lady Ziwei, and the contract gave the proceeds to Su Bai.
• Su Bai decided to buy a heavily shielded property to protect his spoils from the Monster Hunting Bureau.
• Su Bai traveled to Cloud Summit Palace and asked receptionist Zhou Xiaomin about the detached estates on the back hill.
• Su Bai offered to buy all three estates for thirty-four million eight hundred thousand and handed Zhou Xiaomin his anonymous bank card for verification.

Su Bai bought two hillside manors, secured a private vault for his valuables, and settled in to relax. The Star Magical Girls Custom Communicator suddenly flashed red, and Kabi switched into work mode.

• Su Bai negotiated with Qian Guang and bought Manor One and Manor Two for sixteen million, while reserving Manor Three for later.
• Su Bai completed the notarized purchase and transfer, received the Psionic Barrier Crystal Keys, and ensured Zhou Xiaomin earned a 320,000 commission.
• Su Bai teleported to Manor One and stored his cores, crystals, cash, bonds, and documents in its vault.
• Su Bai returned to the manor with fried chicken, messaged Xiaoxiao, and settled on the sofa with Kabi.
• The Star Magical Girls Custom Communicator flashed red, and Kabi abruptly entered work mode.

Su Bai transformed into Ziwei and confronted the Rift-Splitting Dreadbeast as it attacked Reactor Three and threatened Xinghai City. The Companion Magic Book unlocked a spell that could contain the monster’s energy, and Ziwei identified its energy node as she prepared to strike.

• Su Bai learned that the D-Rank Lord Monster had breached the Cross-Sea Defense Line and was heading toward Xinghai City, while Night Watchers were too far away to respond in time.
• Kabi told Su Bai that the Companion Magic Book had absorbed enough energy to unlock a new technique, and Su Bai transformed into Ziwei.
• Ziwei discovered that the Rift-Splitting Dreadbeast was tearing into Reactor Three’s core, risking a runaway that could make much of Xinghai City uninhabitable.
• Ziwei read the newly unlocked Dusk Calamity Annihilation spell, which could trap the target’s energy inside its body and prevent an explosion from escaping.
• Ziwei found the beast’s pulsing blue energy node and prepared to charge the spell for three breaths.

Ziwei killed the Rift-Splitting Dreadbeast with one scythe strike, stopping its attempted explosion from reaching Reactor Three. She recovered the beast’s Abyssal Core and vertebrae while the Monster Hunting Bureau tried to contact her, and the beast’s last thought was that she was beautiful.

• Ziwei fell from a tower crane and charged her attack while the Rift-Splitting Dreadbeast attacked her, relying on Mind-Over-Matter Protection to shield her.
• The Rift-Splitting Dreadbeast gathered energy to destroy itself and Reactor Three, threatening Xinghai City.
• Ziwei used Dusk Calamity Annihilation to kill the beast and contain its self-destruction, restoring Reactor Three’s warning light to green.
• Ziwei muted the Monster Hunting Bureau’s dispatchers and collected the beast’s intact Abyssal Core and two lord vertebrae.
• The Rift-Splitting Dreadbeast’s lingering will remembered Ziwei’s appearance and thought that she was beautiful.

After Su Bai defeated the Rift-Splitting Dreadbeast, Su Xiaoxiao’s supporters mobilized to expose a smear campaign against Ziwei and punish its ringleaders. Kabi then warned Su Bai that three new Magical Girls might soon awaken nearby, prompting him to ask how many unrecruited wild Magical Girls remained in Xinghai City.

• Ziwei killed the Rift-Splitting Dreadbeast, and the morning news clarified that the Rift had caused the disaster before she arrived.
• Su Xiaoxiao rallied more than thirty thousand supporters to counter paid posts blaming Ziwei for the monster attacks and to spread the official evidence.
• Old Cat and Rat fled when the Southern District Wild Monster Hunters' Fighting Group confronted them, and concerned citizens delivered evidence of the smear campaign to the Patrol Police Duty Room.
• Su Xiaoxiao told Su Bai the supporters had won, then donated money to the public fund pool while Su Bai gave her an advance for pocket money.
• Kabi told Su Bai that three girls nearby had sensed the Magical Waveform and might soon become Magical Girls, and Su Bai asked how many unrecruited wild Magical Girls remained in Xinghai City.

Su Bai tracked down a gang selling fake Starlight Holy Water under Ziwei’s name and sent Ziwei to seize their evidence and proceeds. After the gang was delivered to the Monster Hunting Bureau, Kabi detected that a second unawakened Magical Girl was close to awakening at Tianqiong University’s women’s dormitories.

• Kabi used the Star Compass to locate three faint Magical Girl resonances in the city, and Su Bai decided to wait until they awakened.
• Su Bai discovered a scammer posing as Ziwei’s final disciple and selling fake holy water, then had Mint trace the gang to the Third Cotton Mill Warehouse.
• Ziwei broke into the warehouse, subdued all seven women, took their cash and goods, and forced them to record confessions and surrender their account records.
• The gang was left at Monster Hunting Bureau headquarters with evidence of their crimes, and Liang Bing vowed to capture Ziwei someday.
• Kabi’s Star Compass revealed that the second resonance was about to awaken at Tianqiong University’s women’s dormitories.

Su Bai prepared for a new magical girl’s awakening while balancing monster hunting with his university obligations. After the companion magic book gained a powerful physical-boosting skill, Su Bai headed to class, keeping the astrolabe ready to alert him if the awakening began.

• Su Bai trained through the night and learned that the awakening’s growing fluctuations could attract nearby monsters.
• The companion magic book revealed the Star Marrow Magic Body skill after eating the spiritual breath stone powder from Su Bai’s fake raw stones.
• Kabi pinpointed the likely awakening to the Third girls' dormitory at Tianqiong University and warned that monsters could converge there when the girl awakened.
• Su Bai chose to attend his Monday class and carry the astrolabe, telling Kabi to alert him if anything happened.
• Su Bai teleported to the sales office, changed clothes, and rode a cheap shared electric hovering bike toward campus.

Su Bai discovered that Abyssal Calamity Brotherhood zealots had infiltrated the school and were targeting an unawakened recruit in the Third Women's Dormitory. After the school announced a fake gas leak to keep students inside, Su Bai left class and followed Kabi toward the threat.

• Su Bai watched a crepe-stall owner kill a Mud Swamp Rat after two trainee agents failed to stop it.
• Su Bai realized that Lin Guoguo’s late-night job had been checking quotes for the fake raw stones he had sold her.
• The school announced that the Third Women's Dormitory was sealed because of a supposed gas leak, while Su Bai spotted gray-black mist above it.
• Kabi identified the mist as Demon-Attracting Incense and warned that zealots were hunting an unawakened recruit whose awakening was due in two hours.
• Su Bai slipped out of class, used the incense scent to locate room 502 on the fifth floor of Building Three, and set off with Kabi.

Ye Qingqing was trapped in her dorm room as three masked men tried to steal her Source Core, until Ziwei arrived to confront them. Ziwei stopped their gunfire with magic and turned their bullets back on them.

• Ye Qingqing lay immobilized in Dorm Room 502 as the Demon-Attracting Incense suppressed her wind resonance.
• The scar-faced man and his two accomplices entered to extract Ye Qingqing’s Source Core and threatened her with an abyssal energy gun.
• Ziwei appeared on the balcony and challenged the men’s belief that guns outweighed talent.
• The scar-faced man fired explosive rounds at Ziwei while holding Ye Qingqing at gunpoint.
• Ziwei stopped the bullets in midair and sent them back through the men’s wrists and knees.

Ziwei rescued Ye Qingqing from three men who planned to steal her Source Core, then told her she would soon awaken as a Magical Girl. When the Monster Hunting Bureau’s Night Watch Special Squad aimed sniper rifles at Ziwei, she disabled their positions with one slash, and Liang Bing ordered a retreat.

• Ziwei used Twilight Coffin to crush the three attackers’ equipment and drain their magic power, then restored Ye Qingqing’s dorm room.
• Ziwei gave Ye Qingqing a high-purity Spirit-Breath Primeval Stone and explained that her wind-type Source Core meant she would awaken as a Magical Girl within half a day to half a month.
• Kabi alerted Ziwei to three Night Watch Special Squad snipers aiming at the balcony from the sports field stands.
• Ziwei’s scythe slash split the snipers’ alloy blast barriers and knocked the agents and their rifles off their feet.
• Liang Bing ordered the Night Watch Special Squad to retreat despite the higher-ups’ orders to negotiate with or capture Ziwei.

Su Bai returned to class after transforming and collecting money, but the Monster Hunting Bureau sealed the campus and began screening students. As Liang Bing questioned him, Su Bai used a receipt and leave form to explain his absence while the Wind Element neared awakening at the Third Women's Dormitory.

• Su Bai hid in a restroom after transforming, pocketed a black card and seven other cards, and returned to class hungry.
• Lin Guoguo shared a compressed biscuit with Su Bai, who joked with Kabi about being mistaken for a demon king.
• The Monster Hunting Bureau sealed the teaching buildings, and Lin Guoguo told Su Bai about a risky delivery she had made for Black Crow.
• Su Bai and Kabi noticed that the Wind Element was awakening faster than expected, risking exposure of Su Bai's contacts.
• Liang Bing entered the classroom with enforcers and used a compass to search for the source of supernatural interference.
• Liang Bing questioned Su Bai about his whereabouts, and he presented a blurred convenience-store receipt and a signed leave request while Lin Guoguo vouched for him.

Su Bai secretly guided Ye Qingqing through a dangerous awakening by having her absorb the surging wind into her silver pocket watch, making the Monster Hunting Bureau’s readings vanish. After the lockdown ended, Ye Qingqing followed a message to a mountain shelter, where Lady Ziwei appeared to begin her training.

• Liang Bing received word that Ye Qingqing’s temperature was falling while her mana rose, and she ordered the classroom lockdown and detection array.
• Su Bai used the encrypted Star Communication Network to tell Ye Qingqing to draw the wind inside her into her silver pocket watch.
• Ye Qingqing followed the instructions, stopping the wind and reducing the detection readings to zero, so Liang Bing lifted the lockdown without finding the source.
• After classes, Su Bai bought food for a lesson and told Kabi that the new recruit needed practical training.
• Ye Qingqing went alone to the mountain air-raid shelter, where a violet-gold barrier sealed the entrance and Lady Ziwei emerged with a Great Scythe.

Ziwei transformed Ye Qingqing into a Magical Girl by condensing her Wind Element into a Starwind Seed. Ye Qingqing defeated two attacking Shadow Crows in her first battle and resolved to keep fighting and growing stronger.

• Ye Qingqing told Ziwei about her uncontrolled wind, and Ziwei explained that it was pre-awakening overflow before asking whether she still wanted to become a Magical Girl.
• Ye Qingqing said she wanted to protect herself and others, so Ziwei used origin magic to condense her Wind Element into a Starwind Seed and transform her.
• Ye Qingqing released a burst of wind pressure, while Ziwei assessed her reading at around four hundred and identified her as a one-star sprout.
• Kabi warned Ziwei that two E-rank Shadow Crows were approaching, and Ziwei ordered Ye Qingqing to fight them as her first lesson.
• After one Shadow Crow wounded her, Ye Qingqing stood her ground and used Rapid Chanting to unleash wind blades that killed both Ravens.
• Ziwei took the two Abyssal Cores as the instructor, then told Ye Qingqing she had to keep fighting and growing stronger; Ye Qingqing vowed to remember the lesson.

After exhausting himself creating a core, Su Bai returned home and ate dinner while Su Xiaoxiao celebrated Lady Ziwei’s growing fan club and planned an offline festival. He discovered the fans had raised 460,000 for the event, which Su Xiaoxiao intended to hold without Lady Ziwei’s knowledge.

• Su Bai arrived home weak and ravenous, then ate braised pork and three bowls of rice while Su Xiaoxiao teased him about his appearance.
• Su Xiaoxiao showed Su Bai a viral video of Lady Ziwei and insisted that the Magical Girl had defeated a Monster Hunting Bureau team, but Su Bai explained that she had only cut a railing before the bureau withdrew.
• Su Xiaoxiao announced that she suspected Lady Ziwei was a Tianqiong University student and planned to sneak into the school during its open day.
• Xia Ning visited, and Su Xiaoxiao showed her a Star Team badge and described her plan to become Lady Ziwei’s Saintess and lead the other Magical Girls.
• Su Bai checked the Star Communication Network and discovered that Su Xiaoxiao’s fan-club fundraiser had collected 460,000 for an offline Lady Ziwei festival.
• Su Xiaoxiao told Xia Ning she would hold the festival despite Lady Ziwei not knowing about it, then announced the event to Su Bai.

Su Xiaoxiao held a crowded fan festival where she spread increasingly exaggerated stories about Lady Ziwei, while Su Bai watched and helped the event profit. As the festival continued, three men plotted to kidnap Su Xiaoxiao to lure out Ziwei or sell the girl to the Golden Scale Society.

• Su Xiaoxiao hosted Lady Ziwei's fan festival and promoted a booklet recounting embellished versions of Ziwei's battles.
• Su Bai watched from a milk tea shop and admitted to Kabi that Su Xiaoxiao had invented several details and that the fan stories were bringing in money.
• Su Bai helped Xia Ning restock Ziwei body pillows and suggested raising their price while demand was high.
• Three men watched the donation box and discussed a Golden Scale Society bounty for discovering Ziwei's identity or location.
• The narrow-faced leader ordered the tall, thin man to abduct Su Xiaoxiao and use her to draw out Ziwei.

Su Bai secretly stopped three men from using dark magic to abduct Su Xiaoxiao, but his attack drew the Monster Hunting Bureau’s attention. Liang Bing recognized the purple-gold magic traces and confronted Su Bai after the bureau sealed off the area.

• Su Bai spotted three men trying to bewitch Su Xiaoxiao and went to the milk tea shop’s roof to avoid drawing attention.
• Su Bai crushed the men with tenfold gravity and reversed their magic circuits, leaving them powerless; he dispersed the spell before it reached Su Xiaoxiao.
• Liang Bing arrived with armed agents, identified the three victims as off-duty Intelligence Department agents, and recognized Ziwei’s magic in the alley.
• Su Bai pulled Su Xiaoxiao away from an argument with an agent and gave her lemonade while police tape closed off the alley.
• Liang Bing approached Su Bai and asked him to talk inside the milk tea shop.

Liang Bing questioned Su Bai and Su Xiaoxiao about their repeated presence at Monster incidents, but Su Bai explained his delivery work and demanded compensation for lost wages. The siblings left with five thousand Federal Coins, while Kabi suggested robbing the Monster Hunting Bureau for money.

• Liang Bing confronted Su Bai about repeatedly being near Monster incidents, and he showed her his delivery orders and explained that he had come to help Su Xiaoxiao run the Fan Festival.
• Su Xiaoxiao accused the Bureau of targeting her group and insisted that Lady Ziwei had protected its donation box from thieves.
• Su Bai demanded compensation for the delivery income he had lost, and Liang Bing gave him a five-thousand-Federal-Coin assistance allowance.
• Liang Bing warned Su Xiaoxiao that future large gatherings had to be registered with the Monster Hunting Bureau and undergo a safety assessment.
• Su Bai pulled Su Xiaoxiao out of the shop, and Kabi suggested robbing the Bureau after hearing how easily Su Bai had earned the allowance.

After the Fan Festival, Ye Qingqing mistook Su Bai’s strength and bearing for those of a legendary Body Cultivator while Su Xiaoxiao tried to recruit her into her Magical Girl faith. As they headed out to celebrate with dinner, Ye Qingqing asked Su Bai to train with her again.

• Su Bai carried four heavy donation boxes to the cargo tricycle, and Ye Qingqing concluded that he was a Body Cultivator.
• Su Xiaoxiao introduced Ye Qingqing to Su Bai and gave her a copy of the Magical Girl's Ultimate Transformation Guide, unaware that Ye Qingqing had already awakened as a Magical Girl.
• At apartment 703, Su Xiaoxiao showed Ye Qingqing three editions of her guidebook and promised her the other two if she passed a test.
• Su Bai used his newly approved subsidy to invite Su Xiaoxiao and Ye Qingqing to dinner at a barbecue place.
• Watching Su Bai walk, Ye Qingqing sensed a pressure like Lady Ziwei's and asked if she could work out with him again.

Su Bai took Su Xiaoxiao and Ye Qingqing to a barbecue restaurant, where a Rift opened and a colossal C-class monster attacked the shopping street. As Su Xiaoxiao faced the monster while Su Bai remained buried beneath rubble, she invoked the wish from her Magical Girl Super Transformation Manual.

• Su Bai refused Ye Qingqing's request to train, and she resolved to bring him breakfast each day in hopes he would teach her.
• Su Bai treated Su Xiaoxiao and Ye Qingqing to barbecue while watching the restaurant's surroundings, impressing Ye Qingqing with his alertness and skill.
• A Rift opened above the shopping street, and a Bloodthirsty Stitching Beast fell into the district as Su Bai struggled to unlock his sealed magic power.
• Su Bai kicked Su Xiaoxiao and Ye Qingqing into a safer corner before the restaurant collapsed and buried him under rubble.
• Su Xiaoxiao desperately dug for Su Bai while the monster attacked the street, then gripped her Magical Girl Super Transformation Manual and declared her wish.

Ziwei sealed the shopping district inside a Starlight Barrier and quickly killed the Bloodthirsty Stitching Beast. Outside, Su Xiaoxiao awakened as a Magical Girl through her wish to protect her brother, leaving Ziwei stunned.

• The Bloodthirsty Stitching Beast crashed into the shopping street while rescue forces were delayed, and its tentacle nearly reached Su Xiaoxiao.
• Ziwei appeared, raised a Starlight Barrier around the district, and fought the monster alone.
• Ziwei killed the Bloodthirsty Stitching Beast in two strikes, collected its Abyssal Core and other valuable remains, then dropped the Barrier.
• Su Xiaoxiao searched the rubble for her brother and wished for the power to save and protect him, causing the transformation manual to dissolve into her.
• Su Xiaoxiao awakened as a Magical Girl, and Ziwei realized she had transformed without guidance, a Star Seed, or Ziwei's magic.

A newly transformed Starshine tried to use her magic to reach her buried brother, but Ziwei stopped her and explained how her wish and long-held beliefs had shaped her Star Core. Starshine learned to shield the rescue workers from falling debris, then nearly exhausted her magic as Ziwei warned her to stop.

• Starshine completed her transformation, and Ziwei and Kabi confirmed that her Star Core had stabilized at the one-star budding stage.
• Seeing people trapped in the ruins, Starshine tried to unleash a wide light spell, but Ziwei cut it off before it could drain her magic and cause her to fall.
• Starshine told Ziwei that her brother had pushed her to safety and was buried beneath the rubble; Kabi explained that her Star Core combined her wish, her guide's words, fan-club faith, and a trace of Ziwei's magic.
• Ziwei ordered Starshine to stay at the edge of the ruins and protect the firefighters from aftershocks while Ziwei handled the rescue.
• Starshine struggled to form a shield, then held up a translucent barrier that deflected falling concrete away from a stretcher.
• Starshine's knees buckled as her magic ran low, and Ziwei braced her with the scythe and warned that another spell would end her transformation.