Chapter Summaries

Su Su brought Cui Ying and Mo Shaoge to meet Qin Xiaoxia in the Mystic Realm, where they learned about Dawn and accepted important roles in its recovery. The chapter left Mo Shaoge beginning to train Monkey Sun while Cui Ying returned to Shencheng to review "Darkest Hour" and share the news.

• Su Su guided Cui Ying and Mo Shaoge through the Mystic Realm, where the Red Banshee greeted them and warned them not to take her hand.
• Qin Xiaoxia welcomed Cui Ying and Mo Shaoge, cooked for them, and explained Dawn's decline and efforts to recover before the Dark Tide.
• Qin Xiaoxia asked Cui Ying to organize Dawn's intelligence, serve as a Demon Seeker with proper protection, and take on part of the Voice of Dawn's future duties.
• Qin Xiaoxia asked Mo Shaoge to become Monkey Sun's martial arts instructor, and Monkey Sun immediately began training with him after lunch.
• Cui Ying returned to The Oriole's Pursuit editorial office in Shencheng to review "Darkest Hour" and bring the good news.

Kesby and his friend celebrated their bargain mirror, while police questioned Kesby about the dead man who had pawned it. Brown and the twin brothers followed the mirror's new owners, and the Ruby family suffered nightmares after bringing it home, though Mrs. Ruby woke delighted to find she had lost a kilo.

• The Ruby family praised the mirror's mysterious materials and discussed how Mr. Ruby and Kesby had obtained it cheaply.
• Police asked Kesby about the dead man who had pawned three items, and Kesby showed them the shop records and surveillance footage.
• Brown and the twin brothers followed the Ruby family home but could no longer sense anything unusual once they entered the house.
• Mrs. Ruby photographed the mirror and posted it to WeChat Moments before the family went to bed beside it.
• All three Ruby family members endured nightmares, and Mrs. Ruby celebrated weighing one kilo less in the morning.

Mrs. Ruby celebrated losing weight while her family unknowingly suffered recurring nightmares caused by an unseen presence. Brown and the others followed Qin Xiaoxia’s order to investigate the Ruby home themselves, and the chapter left the entity’s nature unknown as the nightmares continued.

• Mrs. Ruby posted about losing a kilogram, then noticed several others in her feed also celebrating sudden weight loss.
• Luna told her parents that she had slept poorly after having a nightmare.
• Brown, the twins, and Philier failed to sense the unknown presence, so Qin Xiaoxia told them to keep watching and deal with it if they could.
• Brown rallied the others to investigate, and they took turns surveilling the Ruby home while placing magically altered plants nearby.
• That night, Mr. Ruby and Mrs. Ruby both suffered terrifying nightmares involving shriveled figures struggling inside their bedroom mirror.
• The next morning, the Rubys remembered little of their dreams, and Mrs. Ruby found she had lost another half kilogram.

Luna feared the figures trapped in the mirror and found a strange sense of safety in Philier and Brown’s parked car. The two men ended their night watch without discovering anything, though they felt compelled to stay.

• Kesby visited the Rubys and encouraged them to sell the mirror, while Luna avoided looking at it because she saw gaunt figures inside.
• Luna noticed Philier and Brown’s car outside and felt drawn to its warmth and sense of safety.
• The Rubys and Kesby forgot to take Luna for a walk, and she spent the night terrified by roars, struggles, and scratching sounds from the mirror.
• Philier and Brown finished their watch without finding anything, but both felt strangely reluctant to leave.

Brown and Philier discovered that the Ruby family was being harmed by a Demon connected to a mirror in their bedroom. When the entity froze everyone and dragged Luna upstairs, Brown broke free and charged after her.

• Mrs. Ruby noticed how skeletal she and Mr. Ruby had become, and the couple discovered Mr. Ruby had lost over twenty kilograms.
• Luna ran to Brown and Philier, cried for help, and led the men and her parents back to the Ruby home.
• Brown, Philier, the Twin Brothers, and the two girls searched the house but found nothing until Luna identified the mirror in her parents' room as the source.
• The house shook as a cold presence approached from upstairs, immobilizing everyone and dragging Luna toward the staircase.
• Brown unleashed the Grand Sage's Magic Power, smashed through the bedroom doorway, and charged upstairs after Luna.

Brown was dragged into the mirror while rescuing Luna, and he protected her from the withered monsters gathering inside. He suspected they were no longer on Earth as he faced creatures resembling Ruby and his wife.

• Brown used his blood-powered strength to reach through the mirror and grab Luna, but its pull dragged them both inside along with part of the bedroom wall.
• Philier and the others broke free of the restraint, found Brown and Luna gone, and took the mirror away while promising Ruby and his wife they would rescue their daughter.
• Ruby and his wife told the police that a haunted mirror was involved, while officers found them exhausted and frightened in the damaged house.
• Inside the mirror, Brown hurled a section of masonry at the approaching withered monsters and pulled Luna behind him.
• Brown told Luna that they might not be inside a mirror at all, but somewhere beyond Earth.

Brown and Luna fought their way across the strange realm, where Brown discovered he could control monsters’ blood and used it to protect them. They headed toward the mountains, unaware that an enormous eye in the valley was watching them.

• Brown carried Luna across the open plain while Bat Serpent-Tail Monsters pursued them from above.
• Brown shattered a rock and hurled fragments at the monsters, tearing apart two of their wings.
• Brown killed one fallen monster and wounded another, discovering he could control their blood and shape it into wings.
• Brown formed a cool hollow behind his neck to shield Luna from his heat after noticing her arms and legs were badly burned.
• Luna asked whether they could escape, and Brown confidently assured her that he had connections.
• An enormous, insubstantial eye watched Brown and Luna from the valley.

Brown and Luna reached a barren valley after photographing and dissecting the monsters pursuing them. Brown used a mental trick to expose the hidden Demon Eye of Reality and Illusion, which mistook him for a dangerous magical creature and panicked over its weakened position.

• Brown noticed the monsters behind them had stopped, then took Luna back to photograph and examine the bodies of two Bat Serpent-Tail Monsters.
• Brown continued toward the valley with Luna, who was thirsty, while he wondered how Philier and the others were faring.
• Brown sensed an unexplained unease and used the Sage’s mental technique to bluff at whatever might be hiding nearby.
• The Demon Eye of Reality and Illusion appeared before Brown and Luna and asked how Brown had detected it.
• The Demon Eye feared Brown was a powerful threat and realized it was trapped in a magical environment with its connection to the Demon Mirror weakened.

Brown and Luna confronted the Eye of the Void, and Brown’s taunts unexpectedly made the Demon believe they knew its hidden weakness and had captured the Demon Mirror. The Eye panicked and retreated, leaving Brown and Luna to fall silent as they tried to avoid provoking it further.

• Brown asked the Eye of the Void whether it had watched them since he entered, and the Demon reacted with surprise.
• Brown accused the Eye of turning people outside the mirror into monsters and challenged it to reveal its real body.
• The Eye shrank back and screamed in terror when Brown asked whether it had only one eye left.
• The Eye concluded that Brown and Luna knew about its true body and had secured the Demon Mirror, then regretted not destroying it.
• Brown blocked the piercing sound with Demon Blood Crystals, and he and Luna stayed quiet to avoid provoking the panicked Demon.

Qin Xiaoxia prepared to enter the Demon Mirror with the Red Banshee to rescue Brown, accepting the danger as part of his responsibility as Dawn’s Sage. He left Su Su and Mumu to hold the entrance open, while the Monkey King was chastened by his inability to help.

• The France Branch arrived at the Qing Town Sanctuary after escaping the mirror’s restraint, and Mumu sensed a force inside repeatedly trying to destroy the Demon Mirror and its entrance.
• Qin Xiaoxia decided he had to enter the mirror to save Brown, despite knowing nothing about the dangers within.
• Qin Xiaoxia asked the Red Banshee to accompany him, while Su Su and Mumu stayed behind to control the mystic realm’s power and keep the entrance open.
• The Monkey King offered to go with Qin Xiaoxia, but Qin Xiaoxia told him to train harder, leaving him to reflect on his lack of strength.

Qin Xiaoxia used the Mystic Realm and the Endless Abyss to break into the Demon Mirror and rescue Brown and Luna from the Eye of the Void. The Eye recognized the Red Banshee as Komir and was overwhelmed with terror.

• Qin Xiaoxia pierced the Demon Mirror with the Endless Abyss, while Su Su used the Mystic Realm’s chains to hold its breach open.
• The Eye of the Void trapped Brown and Luna in freezing clouds of magic and began to drain their souls.
• Qin Xiaoxia’s whip reached Brown and Luna, burned away the clouds, and terrified the Eye of the Void.
• Qin Xiaoxia and the Red Banshee entered the Demon Mirror and confronted the Eye of the Void.
• The Eye of the Void saw the Red Banshee clearly and recognized her as Komir.

Qin Xiaoxia and the Red Banshee rescued Brown and Luna from the Eye of the Void by terrifying it with their apparent godhood. Brown returned to the Association’s Mystic Realm, where his allies nearly attacked him before he explained that the demon had seemed to see the end of the world when it faced the Sage and his companion.

• The Eye of the Void mistook the Red Banshee for Komir and feared that Qin Xiaoxia and she were true gods.
• Qin Xiaoxia signaled Su Su, who used Void Chains to pull Brown and Luna through the Demon Mirror Entrance.
• The Eye of the Void begged Qin Xiaoxia and the Red Banshee to spare it, while Qin Xiaoxia considered taking advantage of its fear.
• Su Su hurled Brown and Luna into the Mystic Realm, where Mumu attacked them with thorn vines until Brown shouted that they were allies.
• Philier gave Brown a shirt, and Brown described the Eye of the Void’s terror when it saw the Sage and his companion.

After Brown and Luna escaped the Demon Eye’s mirror, Brown recovered and told the others what he had learned while Qin Xiaoxia and the Red Banshee continued questioning the Demon inside. Qin Xiaoxia intimidated the Eye of the Void into offering itself as a servant, but he still did not know how to control it safely.

• Monkey Sun brought food and water for Brown and Luna, and Mumu treated Luna’s burns before she rested.
• Brown recovered enough to tell everyone about the enormous Demon Eye and the information he had coaxed from it.
• Qin Xiaoxia and the Red Banshee learned that the Demon Eye had come from a dormant Ruined World, had been injured repeatedly, and was weakened by its loss of soul essence.
• The Eye of the Void revealed that its former body, the Hundred-Eyed Pupil Demon, had broken apart tens of thousands of years earlier, leaving only its central eye.
• Qin Xiaoxia and the Red Banshee frightened the Demon Eye by threatening to eat it, and it offered to become their faithful servant.
• Qin Xiaoxia hesitated to accept the Eye of the Void because he had no reliable way to control it.

Qin Xiaoxia and the Red Banshee revealed to Dororiankewa that they were incarnations of awakened laws and recruited it to assist their plans in the Ruined World. They left Dororiankewa with a drop of Qin Xiaoxia’s magic power inside its soul and a new name, the Eye of Dawn, while it embraced the chance to join their scheme.

• Qin Xiaoxia told Dororiankewa that the laws had awakened into conscious beings and that they had gained incarnations in a world they called a seed.
• The Red Banshee warned Dororiankewa not to obstruct their plans and used an illusion of overwhelming power to frighten it into submission.
• Qin Xiaoxia ordered Dororiankewa to answer the call of their small organization and keep their identities and secrets from anyone who approached it.
• Qin Xiaoxia placed a potent drop of his magic power inside Dororiankewa’s shattered soul core and named it the Eye of Dawn.
• After Qin Xiaoxia and the Red Banshee departed, the Eye of Dawn overcame its fear and eagerly considered what it could contribute to their scheme.

After the Demon Eye crisis ended, Qin Xiaoxia urged the France Branch to learn from its failure and grow stronger. Meanwhile, France’s Super-Research Department linked Luna’s account and drawing to the Dawn Association and prepared to raise its alert level to “World’s End.”

• Qin Xiaoxia told Brown and the France Branch that their failure stemmed from their weakness, then encouraged them to gain confidence through battle.
• Qin Xiaoxia and the Red Banshee left the group to rest, while Luna was sent home with money for repairs.
• The Paris police and Super-Research Group investigated the mirror’s victims and found that hundreds had suffered weight loss, lethargy, and poor sleep after seeing it or its photograph.
• Valshi reported Luna’s account of the world behind the Demon Mirror to Kodel and the Super-Research Department’s assembled staff.
• Kodel announced his intention to request a “World’s End” alert level, and Valshi said Luna’s drawing pointed to the Dawn Association as her rescuers.

France’s leaders met to respond to the growing threat from anomalous incidents, and Kodel Mambaf and Henry presented evidence that France was lagging behind its allies in preparing shelters and research facilities. The meeting settled on a three-year shift in spending toward the military, disaster relief, and shelters, leaving France committed to a major response.

• The authorities continued treating victims of the Demon Mirror incident while police investigations uncovered drugs in one patient’s home.
• The French president opened a high-level meeting and announced that the next three years of fiscal spending would shift from economic development to the military, disaster relief, and shelters.
• Kodel Mambaf showed that anomalous incidents and high-risk threats were increasing, including the Death Miasma and the Demon Mirror incident.
• Henry compared France’s shelter spending with Huaguo’s and the United States’, showing that both allies had already committed far more resources.
• Kodel warned that Luna’s journey into another world meant France could no longer wait, and the meeting moved on to plan budget cuts and spending priorities.

Qin Xiaoxia and the others gathered to observe Su Su’s long-delayed physical spiritification, which proved distinct from Elvenization. After Su Su completed the transformation, Qin Xiaoxia provisionally named it Special Spiritification, leaving the group to celebrate her change.

• Luna remained with her family while the Super-Research Department supported her education and trained her, though she still longed to see Brown again.
• Qin Xiaoxia prepared to observe Su Su’s physical spiritification and gathered the Sanctuary’s residents at Association Headquarters.
• Su Su began her transformation inside a sealed Mystic Realm Barrier while Qin Xiaoxia and the Red Banshee watched.
• Su Su completed her spiritification within minutes, and Qin Xiaoxia and the Red Banshee agreed that it was not Elvenization.
• The Red Banshee said Su Su’s transformation seemed more thorough and might be unique to this world, and Qin Xiaoxia named it Special Spiritification.

Qin Xiaoxia took Huang Jiutian and the others to a restaurant, where they discovered that their waitress was pregnant with a nonhuman egg. Qin Xiaoxia recognized her as Gou Junbao’s ex-girlfriend and laughed at the prospect of calling him with the news that he was going to be a father.

• Qin Xiaoxia abandoned his plan to cook and took the group to the Fuhua Grand Hotel, promising to bring untouched dishes back for Mumu.
• Qin Xiaoxia teased the waitress while ordering, and Huang Jiutian asked whether he had taken a fancy to her.
• Doudou identified the waitress as Gou Junbao’s childfree ex-girlfriend, and the group sensed another heartbeat inside her.
• The Red Banshee detected that the waitress’s pregnancy was nonhuman, while Huang Jiutian prepared to investigate before Qin Xiaoxia reminded him they were there to eat.
• Qin Xiaoxia laughed and suggested calling Gou Junbao with the good news that he would become a father.
• The Red Banshee revealed that the waitress had an egg inside her, making Qin Xiaoxia laugh even harder.

Qin Xiaoxia discovered that the egg growing inside Gou Junbao’s ex-girlfriend carried Soul Elements similar to Gou Junbao’s, suggesting it was his child. When Qin Xiaoxia called to tell him, Gou Junbao was stuck on a date with Cui Cui and used the call as an excuse to leave immediately.

• Qin Xiaoxia explained that the egg’s Soul Elements resembled Gou Junbao’s and concluded that Gou Junbao had fathered it.
• Su Su asked what should happen to the egg, but Qin Xiaoxia said the parents should decide and the group continued eating.
• Xiao Lili served the group repeatedly as they ordered nearly every dish several times and emptied the plates.
• Qin Xiaoxia called Gou Junbao, who answered anxiously after hearing that his buddy was in the hospital.
• At a café in Shen City, Gou Junbao told Cui Cui and her mother that his buddy urgently needed him, paid the bill, and hurried away.

Qin Xiaoxia told Gou Junbao that Xiao Lili was pregnant with his child, prompting him to rush back to Qing Town. At the Qin family's old house, Gou Junbao found himself facing a magical landscape, and Qin Xiaoxia welcomed him to Hogwarts.

• Gou Junbao escaped an overwhelming matchmaking meeting and called Qin Xiaoxia to ask why he had called earlier.
• Qin Xiaoxia told Gou Junbao that Xiao Lili was pregnant with his child, and Gou Junbao hurried back to Qing Town.
• Xiao Lili delivered the bill for the private room, and the Red Banshee briefly met her gaze.
• Gou Junbao arrived at the Qin family's old house and stepped outside into a vast, flower-filled landscape beneath a starry sky.
• Qin Xiaoxia welcomed the stunned Gou Junbao to Hogwarts.