Chapter Summaries

Pipi returned to the Dawn Merchant Group’s camp with the Water Magic Pearl and rallied the Akeniksen to demand change from the Merchant Association. Nixi gave Pipi a legendary fairy hair offering, and he called the city’s leaders to a meeting that would decide the Akeniksen’s future.

• Pipi reunited with Wei Kewei at the Dawn Merchant Group’s camp and addressed the gathered Akeniksen, arguing that their race needed redemption.
• Pipi described Keke Yilu’s betrayal as a product of Akeniksen society and asked the crowd whether they wanted such tragedies to happen again; they shouted that they did not.
• Nixi returned the Water Magic Pearl to Pipi and explained that it was a Flawless Pearl, freely surrendered by the elf who had trusted Keke Yilu.
• Nixi revealed that she had once intended to kill the Akeniksen after reading Final Thoughts, but changed her mind after witnessing Pipi’s promise and the crowd’s resolve.
• Nixi cut off a lock of her hair and offered it to Pipi as a sign of friendship, granting him the respect and aid of fairies.
• Pipi accepted the offering and invited the Merchant Association’s leaders and prominent Akeniksen to meet at the Dawn camp before dawn to discuss their race’s future.

Pipi led a mass assembly that declared the Merchant Association overthrown and began arresting its core members, setting the Akeniksen revolution in motion. With the transformation gaining unstoppable momentum, Qin Xiaoxia returned to Demon Eye’s Wasteland World in Fairy form and offered the Dawn members a rare gift of hair.

• Qin Xiaoxia watched Pipi and Gumiduo prepare the assembly and warned that revolution would require the enemies to shed blood.
• Pipi urged the assembled Akeniksen to fight for dignity and a new future, then shattered his Merchant Association badge and called for the association’s overthrow.
• The Akeniksen joined the Dawn Shadow members in pounding their chests, and the assembly voted to dismantle the old system and arrest its targeted leaders.
• Pipi’s followers accused absent Merchant Association officials of wrongdoing and set out to persuade other merchants to join the revolution.
• Qin Xiaoxia arrived in Demon Eye’s Wasteland World in Fairy form, and the Dawn members gathered around as he offered them a lock of the Fairy’s hair.

Qin Xiaoxia finished using the Fairy’s body, restored some of her soul with a Blood-Colored Flower of Life petal, and returned her to Margeson with two months left to live. Meanwhile, Dawn’s leaders reported that cunning Demons had become difficult to eradicate, leaving humanity to contain them over time.

• Qin Xiaoxia stopped cutting the Fairy’s hair after her magic power ran low, then discussed the worsening Demon cleanup with Huang Jiutian, Baru, Su Su, and the others.
• Huang Jiutian and Baru explained that Demons that had consumed many souls had become more lucid, cunning, and eager to prey on living beings, making them difficult for armies to hunt.
• Qin Xiaoxia gave the weakened Fairy a Blood-Colored Flower of Life petal, which restored her vitality and healed some damage to her soul.
• After returning to Margeson, Qin Xiaoxia released the Fairy from the Psychic Spell Formation and told Nixi that she had about two months left to live.
• Nixi celebrated the unexpected extra time while Qin Xiaoxia returned to his office at Dawn Headquarters and reflected on strengthening Dawn for the future.

Qin Xiaoxia resumed work at the Mystic Sanctuary, reviewed Red Banshee’s progress on the Summoning Spell Formation, and joined the others in preparing for Mid-Autumn Festival. Elsewhere, a battered group of soldiers in Texas took shelter among a ruined town, where powerful impacts shook the area and raised a choking cloud of dust.

• Qin Xiaoxia read the Association’s intelligence summaries and learned Doudou had come to ask whether he wanted food, which Su Su was preparing.
• Qin Xiaoxia met Red Banshee, who showed him her expanded framework for the ancient Summoning Spell Formation as they discussed testing it and the approaching danger from Kasluopa.
• Around the world, people marked Mid-Autumn Festival and tried to contact scattered relatives despite communications disruptions.
• A second lieutenant led six or seven survivors from a routed company into shelter in a ruined Texas town, where the soldiers shared their remaining water and checked their ammunition.
• Tremors and successive crashes shook the town, forcing the soldiers to take cover as dust thickened around them.

Nine Doolin Beasts fled a Twisted Abomination through a ruined town and collided with a group of U.S. soldiers, who wounded two of them. As the beasts pleaded for their companions and the Abomination drew near, a strange force shook half the town.

• A herd of nine Doolin Beasts fleeing a Sleeper reached the Contact Point and charged through the ruined town as its roars stirred up dust and tremors.
• Two Doolin Beasts crashed into the building where Simon and the soldiers were hiding, and the second lieutenant ordered his men to fire.
• The soldiers stopped shooting when the two wounded beasts fell, then saw seven more Doolin Beasts cautiously surround the building.
• The seven Doolin Beasts pleaded for their injured companions while the ground trembled and the Sleeper's eerie roar sounded close by.
• A blurred ripple struck the air, and a gravitational force tugged at half the town.

A World Contact Point collapsed, spilling part of Kasluopa onto Earth and trapping soldiers and Doolin Beasts in a forest filled with spreading distortions. Qin Xiaoxia sent Hilbert and the Holy Spirit to investigate while Su Su began a divination, and the trapped group faced a growing ring of strange monsters.

• Second Lieutenant Simon's soldiers set C4 to a five-minute timer and fled as a distorted entity emerged and engulfed two wounded Doolin Beasts.
• The bombs exploded, but the World Contact Point collapsed soon afterward, dropping Kasluopa's land onto Earth and shaking the surrounding region.
• Qin Xiaoxia received the Alliance's earthquake report and sent Hilbert and the Holy Spirit toward the site while Su Su performed a divination from a Mystic Realm.
• Simon and his soldiers encountered the Doolin Beasts in the forest, and the two groups formed a temporary truce as distortions trapped them together.
• Simon ordered the soldiers to fire at approaching, deathly monsters, and the gunfire brought down the creatures at the front of the ring.

Simon and the trapped soldiers were overwhelmed by regenerating monsters until Hilbert entered the dust cloud and cleared a path for an evacuation. Elsewhere, Qin Xiaoxia deduced that the World Mother’s consumption of Kasluopa had caused the disaster and left the realm exposed to demons.

• Regenerating monsters pressed toward Simon’s group, and three Doolin Beasts charged through them before the warped substance infected the beasts and Simon had to shoot them.
• Simon’s soldiers and the remaining Doolin Beasts were trapped at the edge of the dust cloud as their ammunition ran out and the monsters rose again.
• Hilbert arrived with a Holy Spirit, entered the dust cloud, and used the Lionheart King Sword to cut apart nearby monsters and scatter the warped substance.
• Hilbert told the soldiers and Doolin Beasts that he was with Dawn and would prepare to evacuate them.
• Qin Xiaoxia deduced that the World Mother’s rapid consumption of Kasluopa had weakened its world barrier and released demons into the realm.

Hilbert rescued the trapped soldiers from the Twisted Abomination's domain, then attacked the abomination in the ruined town. His repeated strikes weakened its power but could not destroy it, and the Holy Spirit pulled him back as Kasluopa's collapse continued.

• Hilbert cut open the domain and ordered the Doolin Beasts to carry the soldiers to safety while he stayed behind.
• Hilbert followed the Holy Spirit's guidance toward the ruined town and unleashed a powerful strike against the Twisted Abomination.
• The soldiers escaped the dust field and watched from helicopters as Hilbert's attacks scattered the dust and weakened the abomination.
• The Holy Spirit explained Hilbert's Lionheart Baron title and determined that the abomination's essence could only be weakened, not removed.
• After Hilbert's seventh attack, the Holy Spirit told him to return, and it pulled him away from the ruins.

As Kasluopa collapsed, Qin Xiaoxia warned the world’s nations that more dangers could emerge and promised Dawn would deal with the falling world fragments. In Texas, Jilian rose with Demon Eye’s aid and swung the Heavenly Pillar, while Earth’s world power gathered and cracks opened in the sky to reveal Kasluopa’s dark red expanse.

• Qin Xiaoxia surveyed the failing Mystic Realm and realized Kasluopa’s collapse could bring dangerous creatures and fragments toward Earth.
• Qin Xiaoxia warned the World Anti-Dark Tide Convention Alliance nations about the collapse and told them Dawn would handle the world itself.
• On October 15, Dawn assembled in Texas to witness Qin Xiaoxia call on the Ancient Species for help.
• Jilian wrapped her hair around the unfinished Heavenly Pillar as Demon Eye’s enormous phantom spread across the sky.
• Jilian rose through Demon Eye’s phantom and swung the immense weapon, drawing on Earth’s world power as cracks split the sky and exposed Kasluopa.

Jilian used the Diamond Blade, empowered by World Mother, to tear open a vast fissure between Earth and Kasluopa, unleashing worldwide storms. When Jilian reached its limit, the Monkey King helped widen the opening with the Golden-Hooped Rod, despite suffering serious injuries.

• The fissure revealed Kasluopa to people on Earth as storms swept across the globe and cracks split the landscape in both worlds.
• Jilian struggled to control the immense world power as it widened the fissure with the Diamond Blade.
• Qin Xiaoxia sent the Monkey King to help Jilian, and the Monkey King launched himself into the sky with the Golden-Hooped Rod.
• The Monkey King hurled the enlarged Golden-Hooped Rod at the Diamond Blade, helping Jilian widen the fissure before catching the returning weapon and injuring his arms.
• The Monkey King called for another strike, while Demon Eye trembled at his resolve despite his grievous injuries.

Kasluopa collapsed after Jilian held open the Rift, and its shattered remains fell into the Wasteland World as the global Dark Tide eased. With the immediate threat over, the nations kept Kasluopa’s disappearance secret while Qin Xiaoxia rested and laughed at the fearsome reputation people had given Dawn.

• The Monkey King returned from the Mystic Realm exhausted while Jilian kept the Rift open with the Diamond Blade.
• Kasluopa broke apart, and the Demon Eye’s magical mirror diverted its fragments into the Wasteland World over the course of a week.
• Jilian’s Diamond Blade lost the World Power, the Rift vanished, and Qin Xiaoxia sensed Kasluopa’s remains dissolving into the Void.
• The World Anti-Dark Tide Convention Alliance chose not to announce Kasluopa’s disappearance while nations dealt with Earth’s continuing upheaval.
• Qin Xiaoxia rested at the Dawn Association and laughed at reports that portrayed Dawn and its Sage as overwhelmingly powerful and far-sighted.

Qin Xiaoxia browsed a global Dawn fan forum and discovered that the Great Sage Equal to Heaven had vastly more fans than he did. Meanwhile, mobile communications and internet services returned across human settlements, prompting people to celebrate and speculate that humanity had won a major victory.

• Qin Xiaoxia searched online and found the multilingual Silent Guardians forum, where he read his fan profile and learned he had six million fans.
• Qin Xiaoxia discovered that the Great Sage Equal to Heaven had 670 million fans, while Jilian had nearly 100 million, and sighed over the comparisons.
• Telecommunications providers received word that signal interference had disappeared in most regions, and workers began inspecting communications base stations.
• Two days later, the World Anti-Dark Tide Convention Alliance announced that mobile communications and related internet services could resume.
• People celebrated the restored signals and speculated that recent military operations and the Goddess's appearance meant Earth had won a sweeping victory.

Karp brought homemade pastries to his mother and sister at the hospital, where he met a wounded major and saw many recovering soldiers. His mother gave him an early Christmas present: a box of magic steel, leaving him stunned.

• Karp took muffins and strawberry pie to the hospital while browsing the Silent Guardians forum and the Silent Knight Order's page.
• Karp offered three muffins to a wounded major, who accepted them and thanked him.
• Karp visited the inpatient wards, then joined his mother and sister for afternoon tea in his mother's office.
• Karp's mother gave him a heavy wooden box as an early Christmas present and hinted it was connected to the website he liked.
• Karp opened the box, recognized the metal pieces as magic steel, and reacted with astonishment.

Karp learned that the magic steel his mother gave him was an extraordinarily valuable material, then posted on the forum about the wounded major and soldiers he had seen at the hospital. A stranger beside him praised his attitude, leaving Karp in the middle of an unexpected encounter.

• Karp and Tracy learned that their mother had received the magic steel from a charming man whose daughter she had saved during the Dark Tide, and Karp thanked her for the gift.
• Karp left the hospital carrying the magic steel and considered searching the Silent Guardians Forum for information about forging it.
• On the bus, Karp remembered the wounded major and soldiers, then posted, "Ordinary yet unyielding heroes," in the forum's public discussion section.
• A clear, pleasant voice beside Karp praised him for showing reverence without blindly worshiping.

Karp met Annie Belle on the bus after she praised his post and agreed with his views, while her father secretly watched them. Her father revealed that he was now a Magic Controller and planned to recruit Karp as his first student, then told Annie that both she and Karp had been enrolled in Silent Knight Order basic training under Lord Baru.

• Annie Belle sat beside Karp, praised his post on Silent Guardians, and talked with him about the Dawn Association and their heroes.
• Karp told Annie that the Silent Knight Order’s unseen commander was his idol, and Annie said she feared the Dawn Association’s privately named “Great Emperor.”
• Annie entered her name into Karp’s phone before he got off the bus, and Karp watched the bus leave, delighted to learn her name was Annie Belle.
• Annie’s father revealed that he had been on the bus all along and praised Karp’s kindness, sense of justice, and courage.
• Annie’s father said he had awakened as a Magic Controller and intended to guide Karp into Dawn as his first student.
• Annie’s father revealed that he had signed Annie and Karp up for the Silent Knight Order’s basic training camp, which was led by Lord Baru.

Karp celebrated the response to his forum post and eagerly agreed to meet Annie Belle after dinner, expecting a private outing. At the park, Annie revealed that her father had come along and invited Karp to watch him carry out a mission.

• Karp posted on the Silent Guardians Forum urging people to recognize the efforts of heroes beyond the Dawn Association, and moderators helped manage the many replies.
• Karp's father, Mr. Noring, asked what he wanted for dinner, and Karp requested several dishes and his father's fruit-filled sweet cakes.
• Annie Belle called Karp and invited him out after dinner, and he agreed to bring pastries.
• Karp rushed to bake pastries and met Annie at the park shortly before eight that evening.
• Annie introduced Karp to her towering, hooded father and said they might get to follow him on a mission.

Annie’s father led Karp and Annie to an alley, where they witnessed him expose and kill a monster preying on a homeless man. He revealed his connection to the Dawn Association and asked Karp to become his student.

• Annie pulled Karp after her father to a dim residential alley, where the man explained the contradictions in human nature.
• Annie’s father showed Karp and Annie that a beautiful woman seducing a homeless man was a monster preparing to attack him.
• Annie’s father restrained the monster with magic, questioned it about its kind and the Dawn Association, then killed it when it refused to answer.
• Annie’s father told Karp and Annie to remember the encounter as their first lesson and revealed that he had been watching Karp.
• Annie’s father praised Karp and invited him to become his student.

Karp and Annie Belle entered the Silent Knight Order’s basic training camp, where Baru subjected them to brutal exercises designed to toughen their bodies and reflexes. On the fifteenth day, Karp faced another round of deadly iron-ball training and asked Annie if she was really their mentor’s biological daughter.

• Karp accepted a Dawn Association mentor’s offer and went with Annie Belle to the Silent Knight Order’s training camp on Silent Moon Island.
• Baru arrived with a sixteen-ton iron ball, introduced himself as the trainees’ instructor, and threw the ball into the group for their first test.
• Baru ordered the trainees to wear weighted moss and put them through relentless training that rapidly built Karp’s strength and endurance.
• On the fifteenth day, Baru announced another bumper-ball game, this time with thirty iron balls and ten instructors present.
• Karp asked Annie whether she was really their mentor’s biological daughter.

Karp and Annie Belle graduated from the beginner training camp, while a group of Akeniksen explorers crossed Lobelica’s storm boundary in search of new trade routes and worlds. Their expedition advanced Qin Xiaoxia’s plan to find suitable worlds for Earth to connect with, though its success remained uncertain.

• Baru congratulated the surviving trainees on graduating, and Karp and Annie Belle left the camp relieved to have escaped advanced training.
• Karp reflected that Annie Belle’s parents might have enrolled them in the full training program if her mother had not intervened.
• An Akeniksen expedition rode Camel Beasts through Lobelica’s chaotic storm boundary to seek new worlds and trade routes.
• Qin Xiaoxia had encouraged the Akeniksen’s exploration to locate relatively primitive worlds where Earth could establish connections without risking catastrophic conflict.
• The expedition became part of Qin Xiaoxia’s broad effort to improve the odds of finding a suitable world for Earth to reach.

Hulun and Flower Forehead were swept into the Storm Boundary, where a spatial rift carried them away. After Hulun and the Camel Beast washed up beside a stream, eight Ridge-Crowned People found them and tried to capture Hulun and take the beast’s carcass.

• A storm swept Hulun and Flower Forehead away from the Akeniksen caravan, leaving their companions to believe they were unlikely to survive.
• Hulun and Flower Forehead were pulled toward a spatial rift, and Hulun lost consciousness as they passed through it.
• Eight Ridge-Crowned People found the unconscious Hulun beside a stream and mistook him for an unknown barbarian.
• The Ridge-Crowned People tied up Hulun and tried to carry off Flower Forehead’s carcass, but it was too heavy to lift.
• The elder struck the Camel Beast’s foreleg with his blade, leaving only a white mark on its hide.