Chapter Summaries

Qin Xiaoxia welcomed Hama Pi into Dawn and arranged for him to record the Akeniksen’s knowledge, while considering whether the Association could help his isolated people change their fate. Gou Junbao and Xiao Lili eagerly anticipated training with Baru, and Hama Pi began working with renewed enthusiasm.

• Doudou introduced himself to Hama Pi, and the group welcomed the Ear-Piercing Monster as a new companion.
• Qin Xiaoxia considered using Hama Pi’s knowledge and the Akeniksen’s abilities to benefit Dawn and help transform their society.
• Gou Junbao asked Su Su about meeting his and Xiao Lili’s Mentor, and Su Su said they were still in an observation period.
• Gou Junbao told Xiao Lili they could marry and attend both of Baru’s training camps, prompting Xiao Lili to protest.
• Qin Xiaoxia asked Hama Pi to record his techniques and knowledge on parchment, and Hama Pi began writing with heartfelt enthusiasm.

Hama Pi joined the Dawn Association’s communal dinner and began planning his future with Qin Xiaoxia. In Kyoto, Mo Shaoge and Mo Qingxue prepared to open their large Martial Skills Hall, leaving their grandfather tempted to lend it his presence and guidance.

• Doudou found Hama Pi absorbed in transcribing magic scripts, and Qin Xiaoxia’s group waited for them before starting dinner.
• Hama Pi shared the communal meal, and Qin Xiaoxia planned how to help him develop his skills, learn the language, and prepare to speak to his people.
• Renovations and permits were completed for Mo Shaoge and Mo Qingxue’s three-story training facility ahead of its opening.
• Mo Shaoge and Mo Qingxue told Old Master Mo that they were the only instructors they trusted to teach genuine martial skills.
• Old Master Mo offered to lend the hall his authority and guidance, and the siblings eagerly tried to persuade him to help attract students.

Mo Shaoge and Mo Qingxue opened the Skyward Martial Arts Hall alongside the Sun Group’s new fitness center, and their grandfather watched them demonstrate their greatly enhanced martial arts. Their performance left Old Master Mo wondering whether martial arts could truly reach such a level.

• Sun Tian brought his daughter and two boys to Kyoto, hoping they could train at the Mo Family Hall and learn to protect themselves.
• The Sun Group opened Hongli Fitness early and advertised the Skyward Martial Arts Hall on its flyers, attracting nearby office workers with affordable memberships.
• Mo Shaoge and Mo Qingxue showed their grandfather the new hall and its training facilities.
• Ding Yi and two coworkers joined the fitness center after work while Old Master Mo watched the siblings spar.
• Mo Shaoge drove Mo Qingxue back with a knee strike, and Old Master Mo was stunned by how powerful his grandchildren had become.

The Skyward Martial Arts Hall opened on National Day and began selecting prospective students through private conversations and a magical Emotion Flower. Sun Tian brought his children to enroll, and Mo Shaoge and Mo Qingxue welcomed them while Old Master Mo watched from the training hall.

• Old Master Mo reprimanded Mo Shaoge for using too much strength against Mo Qingxue, then lost his composure when Qingxue threatened to tell her sister-in-law.
• Coach Wang told Ding Yi and his colleagues that the upstairs hall taught real kung fu and invited them to apply when it opened.
• The Skyward sign was unveiled, a lion dance drew a crowd, and assistant instructors began assessing children with the help of Emotion Flowers.
• Sun Tian brought his children to the hall, where Mo Shaoge and Mo Qingxue welcomed them and promised to train them into experts.

Sun Tian left Sun Ya'an, Zhao Long, and Du Heng at the Mo Family's martial arts hall, where they learned the demanding schedule and that they would be living with the instructors. Mo Qingxue demonstrated her skill by slicing a fly's head off with a single sword stroke, leaving the children stunned.

• Sun Tian introduced Sun Ya'an, Zhao Long, and Du Heng to Mo Shaoge and left them at the hall.
• Mo Qingxue and Mo Shaoge brought the children inside, where Old Master Mo asked their names and ages.
• Mo Shaoge explained that the children would train before sunrise and after school, pay no tuition, and live upstairs with the Mo siblings.
• Mo Qingxue led the children upstairs to choose rooms as they complained about being sent to the hall.
• Mo Qingxue flashed her sword while passing a potted tree, and Sun Ya'an found a headless fly on the floor.

Ding Yi visited the martial arts hall to ask about its accommodation and was unexpectedly accepted as a special admission student. He followed an assistant instructor into the training hall to meet the head instructors.

• Mo Shaoge told Old Master Mo that he and Mo Qingxue had met a hidden master and were preparing for a world cataclysm.
• Ding Yi and his colleagues learned that the hall had begun enrolling students, with Trainer Wang and many other trainers accepted.
• Trainer Wang explained the fees, special admission, and strict rules for advancing between terms.
• Ding Yi went upstairs to ask about accommodation and took the unusual admission assessment.
• An assistant instructor told Ding Yi that Head Instructor Shaoge had selected him as a special admission student, and Old Master Mo welcomed his potential.

Mo Ziming welcomed the first students to the Skyward Martial Arts Hall and explained that the first term would teach basic conditioning before selecting candidates for advanced training. The students left with training beginning the next morning, while Ding Yi urged his colleagues to enroll.

• Mo Ziming introduced himself and told the students that Mo Shaoge and Mo Qingxue had surpassed him in martial arts.
• Mo Shaoge explained that formal classes would begin the next morning and that the first term would focus on basic training.
• Mo Shaoge told the students they would need to pass a final initiation assessment to progress.
• Mo Ziming explained that initiation meant joining the orthodox lineage of the Skyward Society and becoming a true successor.
• Mo Shaoge dismissed the students and told them to arrive before five for training uniforms and morning practice.
• Ding Yi left the hall and messaged two colleagues to sign up.

Ding Yi arrived early for his first class at the Skyward Martial Arts Hall, where the students received unusual training uniforms and were taught the Skyward Stance at sunrise. The class began a breathing exercise that made the uniforms warm as the students imagined absorbing sunlight and transforming it into strength.

• Ding Yi went to bed early, woke before his alarm, and arrived at the Skyward Martial Arts Hall before five.
• Mo Shaoge and Mo Qingxue’s assistants distributed tailored Training Uniforms, which the students found heavy, comfortable, and striking in appearance.
• Mo Shaoge led the students to the rooftop, where Old Master Mo introduced the Skyward Stance as the sun approached the horizon.
• Old Master Mo guided the students through breath-holding and sunrise breathing exercises, while the warmth of their uniforms accompanied their visualization of photosynthesis.

After a month of training at the Skyward Martial Arts Hall, Ding Yi and Guo Wei grew stronger and more eager to uphold justice. While traveling to buy crabs, they confronted a suspected subway groper, only to discover that he was a ghost.

• Students felt the effects of the Breathing Skyward Stance, and Old Master Mo explained its purpose before Mo Shaoge led them to further training.
• Over the following month, the students improved their stamina and strength, and Ding Yi discovered he could lift a two-hundred-kilogram barbell.
• Ding Yi and Guo Wei rode the subway to buy mitten crabs and spotted a scrawny figure pressing close to a girl.
• Guo Wei grabbed the figure's shoulder, but his hand passed through it and felt a freezing chill.
• The figure turned to reveal a twisted, pitch-black face, and Guo Wei and Ding Yi realized they had encountered a ghost.

Ding Yi and Guo Wei encountered a horrifying entity on the subway, and Ding Yi chased it after it fled at Junle Road Station. Their report led the Skyward Martial Arts Hall and Qing Town Sanctuary to suspect a Soul-Possessing Spirit Progenitor and prepare to involve the Special Security Team.

• Guo Wei and Ding Yi saw a ghostlike entity threatening Lu Li, and Ding Yi pulled her away from it.
• The entity fled through the open subway doors at Junle Road Station, and Ding Yi pursued it while Guo Wei called Mo Shaoge for help.
• Guo Wei told Mo Shaoge that his hand had passed partly through the entity and was still cold and numb, prompting Mo Shaoge and Mo Qingxue to set off in pursuit.
• Cui Ying gathered details from Guo Wei and sent a report through a Spell Formation Array to the Qing Town Sanctuary.
• Qin Xiaoxia recognized the report as a possible Soul-Possessing Spirit Progenitor and decided to notify the Special Security Team.

Qin Xiaoxia mobilized Dawn and alerted Huaguo’s Special Security Team after a soul-possessing spirit progenitor was discovered near Kyoto, already more than halfway decomposed. The chapter ended with agents learning the human-shaped progenitor had likely matured inside a human host, raising the threat of a citywide outbreak.

• Qin Xiaoxia gathered more than seventy Dawn members in Kyoto and ordered them to study dossiers on soul-possessing spirits.
• Qin Xiaoxia went with Su Su to meet Tao Xingzhi, while the Red Banshee went to help Mo Shaoge and Mo Qingxue hunt the progenitor they were pursuing.
• Jiu Tian told Tao Xingzhi that Dawn was heading to headquarters and had sent urgent information about a discovered progenitor.
• Tao Xingzhi read the warning that the progenitor was more than halfway decomposed, mobilized senior and elite agents, and alerted the supreme commander.
• Dawn members and Special Security Team agents learned that soul-possessing spirits could parasitize human hosts and that the progenitor had been mistaken for a human sexual predator.

Tao Xingzhi and the Special Security Team coordinated a secret citywide operation with Dawn to eradicate the Soul-Possessing Spirits in Kyoto before they could spread. Meanwhile, Lu Li discovered she was pregnant, then gave in to a craving for living flesh and killed her boyfriend, leaving her abdomen marked by a huge scar.

• Tao Xingzhi, Qin Xiaoxia, Su Su, and the Dawn members agreed on a plan to search Kyoto and eliminate the spirits while keeping the public calm.
• Kyoto authorities, hospitals, transit systems, and security forces began a covert sweep, while Su Su used victims' bodies to help locate other parasites.
• Lu Li became nauseated during the night, took a pregnancy test, and learned she was pregnant; she and her boyfriend postponed deciding what to do.
• Unable to sleep, Lu Li developed a craving for living flesh and stared at her sleeping boyfriend.
• Lu Li called her boyfriend's manager to say he was ill, wiped blood from the bed, and prepared to go to work with an enormous scar across her abdomen.

Lu Li revealed herself as a spirit mother and devoured a colleague as the Special Security Team and Dawn prepared to strike the monsters spreading through Kyoto. At midnight on November 9, Tao Xingzhi launched the Cellular Immunity Plan.

• Lu Li devoured her colleague in a restroom after revealing the fanged maw in her abdomen.
• Special Security Team and Dawn positioned forces at Kyoto’s exits and across the city while monitoring suspected spirit mothers and concealing the operation from the public.
• Tao Xingzhi and the Crystal Ball Witch observed the captured, decaying soul-possessing spirit progenitor as tactical units tracked targets.
• Authorities issued public warnings about nighttime driving and vampire bats while elite teams prepared for the monsters’ feeding period.
• At midnight on November 9, Tao Xingzhi declared that the Cellular Immunity Plan had begun.

As the operation against the Spirit Mothers began across Kyoto, Su Su used the progenitor spirit and her crystal ball to locate fifty-two connected targets and dispatch reserve teams. At Moon Orchid Community, soldiers captured Ni Qiaoqiao alive, though they found signs that her husband, child, and neighbors had been killed.

• Combat units across Kyoto received orders and moved to capture Spirit Mothers while keeping their hosts alive.
• Su Su seized and burned the soul-possessing spirit progenitor, then used her crystal ball to identify fifty-two connected targets across Kyoto.
• Operators sent attack orders to the fifty-two nearest reserve combat teams.
• A Special Security Team agent and soldiers entered Building 12 at Moon Orchid Community and stormed Ni Qiaoqiao’s apartment.
• The soldiers shot Ni Qiaoqiao’s limbs, sealed the feeding organ in her abdomen with adhesive patches, and prepared to search the apartment.
• The team found signs of a struggle in the neighbors’ empty apartment and suspected Ni Qiaoqiao had eaten them, along with her husband and child.

Special Security Team units carried out raids across Kyoto, capturing or eliminating some targets while suffering casualties and failures. After Team 124 was overwhelmed by four targets, Tao Xingzhi awaited reinforcements from Macrophage Team 2, which included Kiel Otos.

• White Blood Cell Team 34 failed to find Hua Rong in her apartment, and she escaped through a fifth-floor window after a soldier was struck and killed by a falling security grille.
• Hua Rong dodged the soldiers' gunfire through the landscaping, and Team 34 requested reinforcements as it pursued her.
• Reports from across Kyoto reached the tactical command center, including successful operations and Team 124's report of nine personnel disabled, three dead, and four missing.
• Tao Xingzhi heard the injured Team 124 agent's halting report, while a moving soldier signal on the tracking map went dark.
• Su Su recognized Macrophage Team 2 as an important reinforcement because Kiel Otos, Baru's former colleague, was among its core members.

Blaze killed Hua Rong in a hotel lobby after she fled there wounded, while Otos and his soldiers rushed toward the last known locations of the missing Spirit Mothers. Otos sensed an ambush near their destination and ordered his squad to prepare to engage.

• Traffic officers and soldiers set up roadblocks around the combat zone, forcing Jia Dong and his companions to take detours to their hotel.
• Hua Rong, injured and pursued, burst into the hotel lobby and told the guests not to call the police.
• Blaze confronted Hua Rong, struck her into the reception counter, and killed her while the civilians watched.
• Soldiers arrived, confirmed Hua Rong was dead, and carried her body away as an officer reassured the hotel guests.
• Otos sped toward a target location after all four satellite tracking signals vanished, then sensed an ambush and ordered his soldiers to prepare for combat.

Otos led Macrophage Team 2 to a suspected Spirit Mother ambush and discovered twelve enemies waiting in the area. He killed them all and uncovered their method of communication, while Tao Xingzhi and the command center reassessed the threat.

• Otos reached the pursuit location and reported that twelve Spirit Mothers had set a trap instead of the expected four.
• Otos entered the encirclement alone and fought the Spirit Mothers while the soldiers held their positions.
• Otos unleashed his full speed, killed the ambush force, and ordered the soldiers to request a cleanup team.
• Otos found a phone among the remains and realized the Spirit Mothers had been communicating with technology.
• Tao Xingzhi heard Otos's report as Dawn's witch marked newly discovered targets, and the command center considered raising the security rating for parasitic mutations.

Tao Xingzhi coordinated the hunt as the surviving Spirit Mothers fled, while Qin Xiaoxia and the soldiers used a park as bait for a large ambush. The lure-and-destroy operation ended with the Spirit Mothers wiped out and no casualties reported on the human side.

• Tao Xingzhi issued updated orders as reports of casualties and failed assaults increased and the first phase of the operation continued.
• Lu Li and another Spirit Mother fled Kyoto after receiving warnings, having escaped a trap set at a park.
• More than two hundred Spirit Mothers gathered at the park, where Qin Xiaoxia and the troops waited behind an illusion.
• Qin Xiaoxia gave the signal, and soldiers and Dawn fighters attacked the gathered Spirit Mothers with gunfire and flamethrowers.
• Qin Xiaoxia swept the area with magic power during cleanup, and the officer reported that the operation was complete with no human casualties found.

Lu Li and the surviving Spirit Mothers fled Kyoto City, but the Special Security Team trapped them at the expressway exits and destroyed them. After Su Su confirmed that no targets remained, Tao Xingzhi declared the operation won.

• Lu Li and another Spirit Mother escaped the slaughter at the Park in a stolen car and raced toward the city’s expressway exits.
• Tao Xingzhi ordered the final phase of the operation, sending the Blood Clot Team and all Platelets teams into action as Su Su tracked the remaining Spirit Mothers.
• Police and other officials redirected ordinary vehicles away from the outbound routes while military units prepared an ambush at the expressway entrances.
• Searchlights, military vehicles, and helicopters surrounded the fleeing Spirit Mothers, and soldiers destroyed their cars with missiles.
• By 2:26 a.m., every target had disappeared from Su Su’s map; after a final divination found none, Tao Xingzhi announced victory.

After the battle, Qin Xiaoxia summoned torrential rain to help clean Kyoto City while officials worked to conceal the supernatural events and assist those affected. Tao Xingzhi reviewed the severe casualty figures as the city returned to ordinary life and authorities quietly suppressed online speculation.

• Qin Xiaoxia used the Red Banshee’s power and the Reaction Formula to bring heavy rain over Kyoto City and wash down the battlefield.
• Huang Jiutian and the soldiers in the South China Sea watched the downpour and joked about attending the victory banquet.
• Kyoto’s morning news described the operation as a crackdown on a criminal organization and reported that the vampire-bat threat had been contained.
• Police, cleanup crews, insurers, and government departments handled damage, witnesses, confidentiality agreements, and compensation.
• Tao Xingzhi reviewed reports listing forty-two dead and eighteen disabled among frontline personnel, along with more than two thousand civilian deaths caused by the Spirit Mothers.
• Authorities steered online discussions away from the battle and removed a few troublesome posts.