Chapter Summaries

Ding Yi grew suspicious that major events had followed his encounter with the Soul-Possessing Spirit Progenitor as Mo Shaoge and Mo Qingxue returned to the hall and took the students to lunch. Mo Qingxue brought Ding Yi, Guo Wei, Sun Ya'an, Zhao Long, and Du Heng to a private room, where they suddenly perceived a gathering of unfamiliar, old-fashioned guests.

• Ding Yi connected recent government operations and warnings about nighttime danger to his encounter with the Soul-Possessing Spirit Progenitor and worried that the instructors might not return.
• Mo Shaoge and Mo Qingxue arrived at the hall, and Mo Shaoge announced that the hall was treating the students to lunch.
• Zhao Chen greeted the instructors and students at the Fragrant Pavilion, where the group enjoyed a lavish banquet.
• Mo Qingxue summoned Ding Yi, Guo Wei, Sun Ya'an, Zhao Long, and Du Heng to a private room on the fifth floor.
• Old Master Mo told the five students to greet their guests, and they suddenly saw more than a dozen cloaked and old-fashioned figures seated around the table.

Qin Xiaoxia offered Ding Yi and Guo Wei a request each for discovering the soul-possessing spirit, and the gathering revealed Dawn’s hidden role in protecting the world. Ding Yi used his request to learn what had happened, leaving all five students aware of the secret organization and bound to keep its existence hidden.

• Qin Xiaoxia praised Ding Yi and Guo Wei for their discovery and promised to grant each of them one request.
• Guo Wei asked to join the Skyward Society’s Inner School, prompting the others to urge him to trade his request instead.
• Ding Yi used his request to ask Qin Xiaoxia what had happened over the past few days, especially the previous night.
• Qin Xiaoxia explained Dawn’s history and its cooperation with the government, shocking Ding Yi, Guo Wei, and the other students.
• Qin Xiaoxia warned the five students not to reveal what they had learned, then said the other three had been included because they had good fathers.
• Qin Xiaoxia resolved to develop Old Master Mo into a genuine master.

Tao Xingzhi reported on the Soul-Possessing Ogre Incident as six countries gathered to debate sharing information about anomalous threats. They founded the World Anti-Dark Tide Convention Alliance, adopted limited information-sharing rules, and agreed to prepare for a possible large-scale crisis.

• Tao Xingzhi briefed Special Security Team leaders on the Soul-Possessing Ogre Incident and Huaguo shared battle records with allied countries.
• Delegations from six countries met in Kyoto to discuss whether and how to disclose anomalous-incident information to other nations.
• A British expert argued that rising anomaly numbers made preparation and broader information-sharing increasingly urgent, while Dex warned the six countries to consider whether they had prepared enough themselves.
• The six countries voted to establish the World Anti-Dark Tide Convention Alliance and approved rules for limited information-sharing, protecting Dawn's secrecy, and mutual crisis intelligence.
• After the conference, some countries increased imports of rare minerals, materials, and energy while tightening exports and expanding domestic orders.

After completing the first phase of training in the Amazon, the trainees began a three-week trek to a rendezvous point while pursued by Apprentice Knight reservists. With a twelve-hour head start, Ding Yi led the group through the rainforest, and the reservists set out after them at night.

• Gou Junbao, Xiao Lili, Monkey, and the other trainees wrote notes about their first training phase before falling asleep in the Amazon camp.
• Baru arrived and announced that thirty-nine Apprentice Knight reservists would hunt the trainees during their advanced training.
• Baru ordered the trainees to reach a point five hundred kilometers downstream within three weeks, with everyone required to arrive and no floating downstream.
• Ding Yi ordered the trainees to run, and the group set off through the rainforest with Monkey scouting ahead.
• After the trainees used their twelve-hour head start, Otos's watch alarm sounded and the reservists raced through the treetops in pursuit.

Ding Yi and the trainees tried to evade the reservists through the rainforest, but the pursuers ambushed them while they crossed a river. With the first group captured and the rest swimming toward the opposite bank, Blaze’s team attacked with massive logs.

• Mackey and Hook found signs of Ding Yi’s group’s camp, and Blaze’s team used the tracks to close in on them.
• Ding Yi and the first trainees jumped into the river, where reservists hiding underwater grabbed and subdued them.
• Monkey urged the remaining trainees to cross the river and rescue Ding Yi and Gou Junbao, and the group swam toward the opposite bank.
• Blaze’s team felled trees and carried the logs to the shore as the trainees crossed the river.
• Blaze ordered the reservists to strike while the trainees were halfway across, and six massive logs swept toward them.

Ding Yi, Gou Junbao, Monkey, and the trainees endured repeated fights and ambushes against the reservists as they struggled through a rainforest course. They reached the riverbank on the final day, graduated, and eagerly agreed to recruit their friends for training.

• Hook and the reservists defeated the trainees by the river, then hung them in trees far from their destination.
• After waking, the trainees used Monkey’s jungle skills to locate themselves near Main Camp and launched an ambush against the reservists, but lost again.
• Over three weeks, the trainees tried disguises, tricks, forced marches, and ambushes while the reservists repeatedly fought them and returned them to the route.
• The trainees and reservists both arrived at the finish line, where Baru congratulated the trainees on graduating.
• Baru invited the trainees to persuade their friends to attend the camp, and they enthusiastically agreed.

Qin Xiaoxia struggled to keep up with the Dawn Association’s many projects but agreed to find land for Baru’s Silent Knight Order. While examining an old map of hidden sites, he called Su Su and summoned her back from work.

• Baru asked Qin Xiaoxia for a large headquarters site and a special arsenal for the Silent Knight Order, and Qin Xiaoxia promised to help.
• Qin Xiaoxia reflected on the Association’s growing workload, then discovered that a Wish Coin could not safely share another person’s full memories.
• Qin Xiaoxia found an Old Era map that concealed locations by rearranging its marked regions, and he identified the Underwater Sanctuary in France.
• Qin Xiaoxia called Su Su to ask her to return after work, and she immediately abandoned her fortune-telling customers to come back.

At the House of Destiny, Su Su discovered through divination that Luo Yuguan and Ping Lei faced an ominous bloody calamity. She warned them to be careful in the coming days, then hurried off to meet her Mentor.

• Su Su gave a group reading to four couples and two college students, Luo Yuguan and Ping Lei, at the House of Destiny.
• After the couples left, Su Su secretly immobilized Luo Yuguan and Ping Lei and used the Crystal Ball to divine their futures.
• Su Su saw an ominous red sign in both men's futures and concluded that they would soon face a bloody calamity.
• Su Su woke the men and told them their shared dream of being unable to move might be a warning of danger.
• Su Su advised Luo Yuguan and Ping Lei to be cautious, closed the House of Destiny, and hurried toward the parking lot to meet her Mentor.

Su Su helped Qin Xiaoxia identify intact Association sites on a map before agreeing to let the Skyward Martial Arts Hall watch the two young men she had been tracking. Meanwhile, Hilbert Charkus returned home after learning his father had died and doubted the autopsy’s finding of a heart attack.

• Su Su arrived at the Mystic Sanctuary and helped Qin Xiaoxia correct and examine a map of star-marked locations.
• Su Su used the Crystal Ball to divine the sites and found intact Association buildings on every continent, with several surprising locations.
• Su Su told Qin Xiaoxia she needed to keep watch on two young men, and Qin Xiaoxia assigned the task to the Skyward Martial Arts Hall.
• Hilbert Charkus returned to the family mansion after learning his father, Johnson Charkus, had died.
• Hilbert read the autopsy report, rejected its conclusion that his healthy father had died of a heart attack, and alarmed his mother.

Hilbert investigated his father's sudden death and arranged his funeral, where two mysterious visitors suggested that the death might not have been natural. After they left, Corlini warned Hilbert that they were no ordinary people.

• Hilbert searched for evidence about his father's death, but the medical report and family history pointed to a heart attack brought on by an irregular routine.
• Hilbert arranged the funeral at the Charkus ancestral house, where his mother introduced him to Corlini, the man who had helped raise his father.
• Qin Xiaoxia and Su Su arrived at the funeral, and Qin Xiaoxia remarked that a Charkus should not have died of a sudden heart attack.
• Qin Xiaoxia stopped Su Su from blaming herself, then left with her to give the family peace after Hilbert rose to his feet.
• Hilbert tried to follow the visitors, but Corlini stopped him and said they had walked through the rain without getting wet.

Hilbert Charkus questioned his father’s supposed heart attack and discovered two Soul-Eaters feeding at the coffin. He killed one with a burst of blue light, while the other escaped and Hilbert was left exhausted and confused by his sudden power.

• Hilbert became convinced that his father had not died of natural causes and wondered about the Charkus family’s hidden history.
• Qin Xiaoxia identified a Soul-Eater’s mark on old Charkus’s body and watched the estate for the creature as rain fell.
• Hilbert spotted wilted flowers beside his father’s coffin and later saw two Soul-Eaters reaching into it.
• Hilbert charged the monsters, pursued one into the main hall, and destroyed it with a blue-lit punch.
• The second Soul-Eater escaped through an open window, leaving Hilbert in pain and bewildered by his power.

After Hilbert secretly killed the Soul-Eater with power awakened from his bloodline, Qin Xiaoxia left him to recover and attended Baron Charkus’s funeral. Hilbert learned that intense emotions could trigger the power, while Qin Xiaoxia warned him not to overuse it and promised to investigate the old man’s death.

• Qin Xiaoxia refused Su Su’s suggestion to catch the fleeing Soul-Eater, reasoning that it was better to let Hilbert find it or draw out a possible mastermind.
• Hilbert woke in the mourning hall exhausted, told Lady Charkus he had sleepwalked, and recovered after eating and sleeping.
• At the funeral, Hilbert grew excited about the power in his Charkus bloodline and wondered about his family’s origins.
• Qin Xiaoxia erased the Soul-Eater’s last trace from Baron Charkus’s coffin and warned Hilbert not to overdraw his bloodline’s magic power again.
• Qin Xiaoxia explained that intense emotions and an external stimulus could awaken Hilbert’s power, promised to investigate Baron Charkus’s death, and left before Hilbert could learn more.

After Old Chacus's funeral, Hilbert told Mansha and Corlini that he had destroyed evil spirits trying to take his father's soul, but Mansha doubted him. Corlini revealed that Charkus had a hidden family crest on its private island, leaving Hilbert poised to learn more about his family's secret.

• At dinner, Hilbert reflected on his father's burdens and told Mansha that Christman had not died of an illness.
• Hilbert told Mansha and Corlini that he had destroyed evil spirits, but Mansha feared that grief had made him delusional.
• Corlini suggested that Charkus did have secrets and explained that he had long overseen costly maintenance of the family's private island.
• Corlini said that hidden beneath coatings on parts of the island castle was another Charkus crest, which represented the breaking dawn.
• Qin Xiaoxia and Su Su listened as Corlini began revealing what he knew about the hidden crest.

Hilbert learned that the Charkus family crest was tied to a hidden history and insisted his father had been killed by a supernatural force. Qin Xiaoxia and Su Su investigated the baron's study and found that his soul had vanished there, but the cause of death was elsewhere.

• Corlini recalled seeing a sunlike emblem representing the first light of morning throughout a mysterious castle, and Hilbert connected it to the Charkus family crest.
• Hilbert claimed that his bloodline held the family's true secret and that his father could not have died from an ordinary illness, while Qin Xiaoxia privately suspected a heart attack.
• The next morning, Qin Xiaoxia and Su Su asked Hilbert to take them to the study where his father had died, and he agreed.
• Su Su performed a divination in the study as Qin Xiaoxia explained that another Soul-Eater had died unexpectedly the previous night.
• Su Su said the baron's soul had dissipated in the study but that whatever had killed him was not there, and Hilbert took this as confirmation of his suspicions.

Qin Xiaoxia told Hilbert, Mansha, and Corlini that Christman Chacus had likely defeated the Demon that had harmed him before dying. The family accepted a moving account of Christman’s final battle, while Qin Xiaoxia privately wondered whether his discovery of the Mystic Sanctuary Coordinate Map had affected what happened.

• Su Su asked Qin Xiaoxia whether a Demon could poison a soul unnoticed, and he suggested that a Red Banshee’s Sonic Illusion could create a similar effect.
• Qin Xiaoxia explained that Su Su could not divine the Demon because it had already been completely destroyed, and identified Christman Chacus as its killer.
• Hilbert, Mansha, and Corlini imagined Christman returning home after his final battle, and Mansha broke down in tears.
• Qin Xiaoxia reflected that his account gave Christman’s loved ones a reasonable, comforting truth, then wondered whether searching the Mystic Sanctuary Coordinate Map sooner would have changed events.

Qin Xiaoxia and Su Su revealed that the Charkus family had once been part of the Dawn Association and warned that a new Dark Tide was bringing Demons back into the world. Three days later, they arrived with the Charkus family at its Atlantic island, which Qin Xiaoxia intended to requisition and rename.

• Qin Xiaoxia and Su Su revealed marks on their palms, and Corlini recognized them as the hidden crest associated with the Charkus family.
• Qin Xiaoxia explained that the symbol belonged to Dawn and that the Charkus family had once been a branch of the ancient Association.
• Qin Xiaoxia warned Hilbert, Mansha, and Corlini that the Dark Tide was returning and that Demons were already crossing into the world.
• Qin Xiaoxia offered the Charkus family a choice in accordance with Dawn's principles.
• Three days later, Qin Xiaoxia, Su Su, and the Charkus family arrived by yacht at the family's remote Atlantic island, which Qin Xiaoxia planned to rename.

Qin Xiaoxia restored Charkus Island’s hidden Dawn features, revealing its true identity as Silent Moon Island and establishing it as the Silent Knights’ headquarters and an Association archive. Hilbert welcomed the chance to join the Knights’ training camp, while Qin Xiaoxia wondered whether belief in the Charkus bloodline might awaken something in him.

• Qin Xiaoxia asked whether the island’s four maintenance workers could be trusted, and Corlini assured him they belonged to the Charkus household.
• Qin Xiaoxia used magic to strip the castle and its outbuildings of their coverings, revealing the Dawn symbol across their walls.
• Qin Xiaoxia reflected on Dawn’s deception of its own members and considered whether the organization’s history might conceal something real.
• Hilbert, Mansha, Corlini, and the workers toured the castle and were swept up in the newly revealed artwork and history.
• Baru and Otos led more than two hundred reservists through the Mystic Realm Formula, where they saw the castle and learned that the island was Silent Moon Island, home to the Silent Knights and an Association archive.
• Baru invited Hilbert to the Silent Knight Full-Stage Training Camp, and Hilbert accepted as Qin Xiaoxia wondered whether belief in his family’s bloodline could change him.

Luo Yuguan and Ping Lei’s unease over their shared nightmare intensified when their Jade Talismans trembled and the dorm lights flickered. Meanwhile, more than a dozen members of the Skyward Martial Arts Hall gathered on a rooftop to face the danger foreseen by the Crystal Ball Witch.

• Luo Yuguan and Ping Lei told their roommates that they had both dreamed of nothing but red after visiting the House of Destiny.
• Luo Yuguan and Ping Lei said they had returned to the House of Destiny three times, but the Witch was absent and they suspected she was avoiding them.
• Luo Yuguan and Ping Lei showed their roommates the Jade Talismans they trusted more than their other protective charms.
• The two Jade Talismans trembled and the dormitory lights flickered, leaving all six men convinced something real had happened.
• More than a dozen members of the Skyward Martial Arts Hall gathered on the men's dormitory roof to prepare for the danger the Crystal Ball Witch had foreseen.

Mo Qingxue and Old Master Mo discovered that Luo Yuguan and Ping Lei were experiencing something connected to an eerie red vision, while the protective talismans on them had been drained. The Red Banshee identified the phenomenon as a dream and offered to teach them how to catch it.

• Mo Qingxue tried to remove Luo Yuguan and Ping Lei's protective talismans but felt a strange force drain her magic power, so she alerted Old Master Mo.
• Old Master Mo touched Ping Lei's Jade Talisman and briefly saw an eerie expanse of red, then found that both talismans had lost their magic power.
• Mo Qingxue called Cui Ying, who contacted the Association's higher-ups about the strange situation.
• The Red Banshee told the Skyward Martial Arts Hall group that the phenomenon was a dream and asked whether they wanted her to teach them how to catch it.

Mo Qingxue and the Skyward Martial Arts Hall learned that a Demon was hiding inside Luo Yuguan and Ping Lei’s dreams, and Old Master Mo devised a plan to approach them. After the two students followed him from a breakfast shop, he revealed that the trouble he had mentioned was his own.

• Red Banshee explained that the Demon likely lived within Luo Yuguan and Ping Lei’s dreams, and she advised the group on how to deal with it.
• Old Master Mo announced that he had a plan to catch or eliminate the Demon.
• Luo Yuguan and Ping Lei went out to buy breakfast after another night of nightmares and spotted Old Master Mo at Chen's.
• Old Master Mo murmured about trouble coming to him, prompting Luo Yuguan and Ping Lei to chase after him.
• Old Master Mo told the two students that the trouble he had spoken of was his own.