Recaps

Qin Xiaoxia strengthened the Association, awakened Su Su, and brought the Sun Family into Dawn’s efforts as strange anomalies spread around the world. When a Hell Shard breached the barrier above Bayview District, Qin Xiaoxia and Doudou fought the Flame Demon, leaving Qin Xiaoxia hospitalized and the monster’s fate in military hands.

• Qin Xiaoxia named the Tree Shepherd Mumu, while Huang Jiutian and Tao Xingzhi shared Huaguo’s findings on Evolvers and the monsters with Russian and Ukrainian delegations.
• Qin Xiaoxia tested a transformation spell, and Doudou used the resulting gold to forge Earth’s first Wish Coin, which Qin Xiaoxia used to initiate Su Su and awaken her magic.
• Su Su’s divinations led Qin Xiaoxia to Sun Tian, whose family honored an ancient oath to support Dawn, prompting Sun Tian to fund young teams and seek a natural gold deposit.
• Reports of Lung Fever and Death Miasma spread abroad, and Jenny saw a strange heat pattern over Bayview District before earthquakes signaled a disturbance above the city.
• Qin Xiaoxia summoned the Red Banshee, whose song exposed a Hell Shard pressing against the world’s barrier, and a giant Flame Demon emerged through fiery cracks in the sky.
• Qin Xiaoxia and the soldiers attacked the Flame Demon, and Qin Xiaoxia weakened it with rain, liquid nitrogen, and Bitter Cold before Doudou hid its whip and escaped with him.
• Norton’s troops approached the fallen Flame Demon as Su Su and Jenny found Qin Xiaoxia and Doudou trapped beneath a collapsed shopping center and helped rescue them.
• Qin Xiaoxia entered intensive care, then watched news reports describe the battle as a meteor strike while Su Su translated and Doudou teased him.

Qin Xiaoxia and his allies restored the Mystic Realm, while Mumu fought mutant rats and the Special Security Team encountered a mysterious figure warning of the Dark Tide. Meanwhile, Huang Jiutian joined international teams investigating an ancient Dawn Association hideout, where a surge of mental power left him unconscious and the investigation stalled.

• Qin Xiaoxia and the Red Banshee reshaped the weakened Mystic Realm, and Qin Xiaoxia expanded it to include the riverbank and its surroundings.
• Huang Jiutian and Tao Xingzhi uncovered Ben’s symbiotic fire-breathing entity and began joint Chinese and American research into Evolvers.
• Mumu helped the authorities destroy a vast population of mutant rats in Shencheng’s sewers, then demanded its body and Jin Kela before withdrawing.
• A black-robed figure freed Mumu’s captured thorn branches, warned Tao Xingzhi that the Dark Tide was approaching, and vanished with the branches and Jin Kela.
• Qin Xiaoxia brought Mumu and its remains back to the Mystic Realm, then used Echo Flowers to receive Huang Jiutian’s plea and prepare his next move.
• French investigators drained a reservoir and exposed an old Daybreak hideout, prompting Tao Xingzhi, Huang Jiutian, Norton, and Ben to travel to France.
• Huang Jiutian recognized a carving of the Branding Ceremony inside the hideout, then suffered a mental-power surge and collapsed as Qin Xiaoxia’s magic protected his mind.
• The Huaguo, American, and French teams debated the Dawn Association’s hidden history and awaited Huang Jiutian’s recovery to advance their investigation.

Dawn established its Los Angeles branch while Qin Xiaoxia and his companions dealt with Blaze and a strange affliction spreading through White Cloud Mountain. After the Monkey King recovered and gained the ability to speak, he chose to join Dawn, which also invited Cui Ying and Mo Shaoge to join.

• Huang Jiutian woke in the hospital with a new mental ability, identified the Dawn Association in the French carvings, and reported the mission’s findings to Tao Xingzhi.
• Zhao Chen secured Hillwen Park as a home for Jenny’s research group, and Qin Xiaoxia and Red Banshee connected the new Los Angeles branch to the mystic realm in Qing Town.
• Doudou’s prank led Blaze to seek out the person who had saved him, and Qin Xiaoxia offered to use his underworld connections if he gave up crime and proved useful.
• Baru took Blaze and six others as students, then put thirty-two men through punishing training and taught them to share as comrades in Dawn.
• Cui Ying and the others followed macaques into the forest, where they found the wounded Monkey King and discovered a dangerous black substance that poisoned Lü Bing and infected Cui Ying and Mo Shaoge.
• Huang Jiutian identified the substance as Plague Blood, and Su Su and her companions cured Cui Ying and Mo Shaoge while Tao Xingzhi exchanged the Original Host for answers and a message to the Sage of Dawn.
• Doudou used Inspiration Sharing on the Monkey King, who learned to speak, chose to stay in the mystic realm, and received the name Sun Wukong from Qin Xiaoxia.
• After recovering, Cui Ying and Mo Shaoge met Sun Wukong and Su Su, who invited them to join the Dawn Association and warned them that their unusual constitution could attract Demons.

Dawn rescued Brown and Luna from the Demon Mirror, subdued the Eye of the Void, and drew the attention of French authorities as anomalous threats spread. After Su Su completed a unique spiritification, Qin Xiaoxia discovered Gou Junbao had fathered a nonhuman egg and brought him to Hogwarts.

• Su Su showed Cui Ying, Mo Shaoge, and the editorial staff the Nine Sages’ creation of Daybreak, after which Qin Xiaoxia invited Cui Ying to organize Dawn’s intelligence and Mo Shaoge to train Monkey Sun.
• A mirror brought into the Ruby home caused nightmares and severe weight loss, then pulled Luna and Brown inside as Brown tried to save her.
• Brown fought the mirror’s monsters and confronted the Eye of the Void, while Qin Xiaoxia and the Red Banshee entered the mirror and rescued him and Luna.
• Qin Xiaoxia learned the Eye of the Void’s history, named it the Eye of Dawn, and ordered it to serve Dawn and conceal their identities.
• French police and officials investigated the mirror’s victims, and Kodel warned that Luna’s journey into another world and rising anomalous threats required France to prepare for disaster.
• Su Su completed a transformation Qin Xiaoxia named Special Spiritification, which the Red Banshee said appeared unique to their world.
• Qin Xiaoxia discovered that Gou Junbao had fathered an egg carried by Xiao Lili, then summoned Gou Junbao to Hogwarts.