Recaps

Qin Xiaoxia and the Dawn Association rescued Hama Pi from Russian custody and recruited him to help the Akeniksen confront their decline. Back in Kyoto, Mo Shaoge and Mo Qingxue opened their martial arts hall and took in Sun Tian’s children as trainees.

• Gou Junbao and Xiao Lili learned that the egg in her womb was connected to them, and the Red Banshee and Su Su removed it, revealing the hatchling Gou Dandan.
• Russian soldiers captured Hama Pi, and after failing to communicate with him, Lozov sought help from Huaguo and the Dawn Association.
• Qin Xiaoxia, Doudou, and Mo Shaoge confronted Hama Pi, exposed his claims as unreliable, and persuaded him to leave with Dawn by warning him of the dangers of human captivity.
• Qin Xiaoxia traded a Philosopher’s Stone for Hama Pi, then brought him to the Qing Town Sanctuary, where she challenged him to confront the Akeniksen’s decline and planted a magic seed in his heart.
• Hama Pi accepted his role as a future leader of his people, declared himself a student of the Mentor, and began recording his knowledge for Dawn.
• Mo Shaoge and Mo Qingxue prepared the Skyward Martial Arts Hall, while Old Master Mo was amazed by their strength and the hall began attracting students.
• Sun Tian left Sun Ya'an, Zhao Long, and Du Heng in the Mo siblings’ care, and Mo Shaoge and Mo Qingxue welcomed the children as trainees who would live and train at the hall.

Ding Yi’s encounter with a soul-possessing spirit draws the Skyward Martial Arts Hall into a citywide operation that eliminates the parasites at great cost. Afterward, the trainees endure a punishing Amazon trial, while Qin Xiaoxia and Su Su investigate old sanctuaries and signs of another looming danger.

• Mo Shaoge selected Ding Yi for special admission, and Ding Yi began training at the Skyward Martial Arts Hall with Guo Wei and the other students.
• Ding Yi and Guo Wei encountered a soul-possessing spirit threatening Lu Li, prompting Mo Shaoge, Mo Qingxue, Dawn, and the Special Security Team to hunt the parasites across Kyoto.
• Qin Xiaoxia and Tao Xingzhi coordinated the Cellular Immunity Plan, and forces across Kyoto captured or killed the Spirit Mothers, though the operation caused heavy military and civilian casualties.
• Qin Xiaoxia rewarded Ding Yi and Guo Wei, then explained Dawn’s history and its cooperation with the government to them and three other students.
• The World Anti-Dark Tide Convention Alliance formed, and Baru set the Amazon trainees a three-week race against Apprentice Knight reservists, who repeatedly captured and defeated them before congratulating them on graduating.
• Qin Xiaoxia and Su Su investigated an Old Era map and discovered surviving Association buildings around the world, while Su Su warned Luo Yuguan and Ping Lei about a bloody calamity in their futures.
• Hilbert Charkus questioned his father Johnson’s sudden death and met Qin Xiaoxia and Su Su at the funeral, where Corlini stopped him from following the visitors and noted that they had crossed the rain without getting wet.

Hilbert uncovered the Charkus family’s connection to Dawn and learned that Demons were returning, while a Dream Drifter incident and a monster outbreak in Japan brought the Silent Knights into battle. Qin Xiaoxia destroyed the Puppeteer Demon Spirit at Daijing Bay, leaving Japan’s government in turmoil and Kana’s group wary of his power.

• Hilbert discovered Soul-Eaters in his father’s coffin, awakened the power in his Charkus bloodline, and learned that Christman had died fighting a Demon.
• Qin Xiaoxia revealed that the Charkus family’s hidden crest belonged to Dawn, warned them that the Dark Tide was returning, and uncovered Silent Moon Island’s connection to the Silent Knights and an Association archive.
• Luo Yuguan and Ping Lei’s recurring red nightmares led Old Master Mo and the Skyward Martial Arts Hall to force two Dream Drifters from their bodies and deliver them to the Headquarters Mystic Realm.
• Matsuda Yumi found a severed head at the television station, and Makino Kana warned her that a monster was hunting her before Silent Knight reservists arrived in Japan.
• A Puppeteer Demon Spirit possessed police officers and attacked the station, but Huateng Dao Yi, Clooney, and Zuo Zhongqiu helped the survivors escape as the Demon Spirit survived a missile strike.
• Qin Xiaoxia reached Japan, learned the Demon Spirit was beneath Daijing Bay, and trapped it in a vast whirlpool while Doudou and the others watched from shore.
• Qin Xiaoxia struck the Demon Spirit with lightning and purple flames, swallowed it in water and fire, and left Japan’s government facing upheaval as news reports blamed the storm on natural causes.

Dawn uncovered the truth about monsters, advanced dangerous research, and transformed Zhang Yi into the Holy Spirit Shadow. As its influence reached Germany, Peter and Nisso fought a Demon and were badly wounded, while the Neumann family discovered their connection to Dawn.

• Qin Xiaoxia told Sato and the students that ancient monsters had once defended the world from demons, while the Alliance learned Dawn had destroyed the intelligent Puppeteer Demon in Japan.
• Qin Xiaoxia and Su Su tested Gou Junbao’s essence as a catalyst, finding that it could fuse materials but that experiments on living creatures were dangerous and often fatal.
• Tao Xingzhi reported Huaguo’s secret preparations against the Dark Tide, including military construction, a new mobile defense station, and cooperation with Dawn.
• Du Peipei tried to arrest Zhang Yi after he accidentally killed his girlfriend, but the Enchantress took him to Dawn when his evolving eyes threatened his life.
• Qin Xiaoxia used the Demon Spirit Elixir to transform Zhang Yi, whose body disintegrated before he emerged as the Holy Spirit Shadow and gave the government Potion No. 1.
• Qin Xiaoxia and the Red Banshee completed a revised Transmutation Spell Formation that produced suspected magic steel and purified potions without human blood.
• Peter investigated the Neumann family for Dawn, befriended Frank, and drew the family’s attention after using the Dawn Salute.
• A Demon attacked in Lauch Park, where Peter and Nisso fought it until it wounded them and fled, and Old Neumann recognized their Dawn brands as his family helped free them.