Chapter Summaries

Hilbert killed the greater demon Guman and left the captured cultists to the French government. Meanwhile, Dawn began building its first academy on a forest-surrounded grassland, where Cyclopes and magic made construction proceed at astonishing speed.

• Hilbert defeated Guman after the greater demon unleashed a final burst of power, and Dawn's members dealt with the remaining half-demons.
• Hilbert left the ordinary cultists in French hands and departed with two Dawn Association members.
• Governments around the world eradicated demon-linked cults, while Duobaili received a role revising Dawn's materials on Hell's magic script and teaching at its planned academy.
• Combat engineers and Dawn specialists began preparing the academy site, puzzling over a schedule that ignored normal construction and curing times.
• The company commander revealed that Cyclopes would serve as an alternative to tower cranes, and the giants arrived to help build the academy at extraordinary speed.

The academy’s construction was completed with the arrival of six crystal obelisks, and Qin Xiaoxia decided to open the school soon to give Dawn’s children a place to study. The story left off with Chen Dong discovering an unusual government directive requiring his office to add the academy to the school admissions system.

• Balendi and the Cyclopes carried crystal pillars from Dawn’s crystal forest and planted six of them around the academy, completing its framework.
• Qin Xiaoxia complained about a disappointing television finale while Doudou continued carving gold and teased him for ignoring earlier warnings.
• Red Banshee told Qin Xiaoxia the school was finished, and he showed her footage of Dawn’s children damaging Gou Junbao and Xiao Lili’s home.
• Qin Xiaoxia and Red Banshee agreed the school should open soon so Dawn’s children could have classmates and more of a normal childhood.
• Chen Dong’s supervisor gave him an urgent directive to add an unfamiliar key school, enrolling students from elementary through senior high, to the admissions system.
• Chen Dong read the school’s strange admission requirements and spat out his soy milk in shock.

Education officials and governments examined the bizarre admissions rules for Similson Plains Academy, while Dawn leaders treated the school as a place to care for children and cultivate talent. Gao Lun’s father urged him to consider applying, and Gao Lun discovered that the school was located in the Abyssal Wilderness, outside any nation’s territory.

• Chen Dong showed his colleagues the official directive for Similson Plains Academy, whose unusual admissions criteria baffled them.
• Education officials speculated about the school’s remote location as changing maps obscured the region’s geography.
• Qin Xiaoxia sent the school documents to the World Anti-Dark Tide Convention Alliance, whose member nations debated the school’s influence and graduates.
• Gao Lun’s father gave him a leaflet and advised him to list Similson Plains Academy among his college choices.
• Gao Lun searched for the academy using a military map service and found that the Similson Plains lay in the Abyssal Wilderness.

Gao Lun discovered that Similson Plains Academy had almost no public information, but his father’s advice led him to keep it among his choices. After the entrance exams, the academy admitted its applicants, and Gao Lun received its acceptance letter, deciding to trust his father.

• Gao Lun searched the Ministry of Education website and found Similson Plains Academy listed as a domestic institution, but its information included no majors.
• Qin Xiaoxia told Cui Ying to handle the academy’s majors and admissions, then teased Cui Ying and Mo Shaoge about having children.
• After learning that more than three thousand university-aged students had applied, Qin Xiaoxia told Cui Ying to admit them all.
• In June, a red-clad courier delivered Gao Lun’s acceptance letter from Similson Plains Academy, which he had listed as his third choice.
• Gao Lun accepted the letter and told himself that his father would not steer him wrong.

Gao Lun traveled to the address listed in his acceptance materials, expecting to find his university but arriving at a dilapidated compound instead. Lin and his son guided him through a hidden entrance to the real New Cloud Ravine Center, a transit center for students bound for the Forest of Origin.

• Gao Lun left home early for his new school, taking a train toward Li City while wondering what kind of university had accepted him.
• Two students on the train showed Gao Lun a picture of the mysterious school and discussed how strange and selective it seemed, unaware that he had enrolled there.
• Gao Lun arrived at the shabby New Cloud Ravine Center and met Lin and his ten-year-old son, Lin Xing, who were also heading to school.
• Lin and Lin Xing led Gao Lun through an apparent wall, revealing a crowded sanctuary filled with students, adults, and strange-looking people.
• Lin explained that the sanctuary was a Dawn Association Li City Core Mystic Sanctuary and a transit center for students heading to the Forest of Origin, leaving Gao Lun stunned.

Gao Lun and the other incoming freshmen traveled from New Cloud Ravine to Similson Plains Academy under Lu Min’s guidance. They arrived at the extraordinary campus, where Lu Min welcomed them to school.

• Gao Lun met other incoming freshmen and joined the group Lu Min was assigned to lead.
• Lu Min warned the students not to touch the enchanted plants and instructed them to hold their passes before entering the Crossing Spell Formation Array.
• A Death Shadow appeared and frightened the students, then vanished after Lu Min announced that everyone had a pass.
• Lu Min explained that the Death Shadow was a guardian of an advanced mystic realm and led the students into the teleportation formation.
• Lu Min used his crystal ring to transport the students to Similson Plains Academy, where they saw its lake, forest, campus buildings, and Crystal Obelisks.

Gao Lun and the other new students found their classrooms at Similson Plains Academy, where their faculty adviser, Baye-nozuofu, welcomed them and explained the significance of Dawn sharing its knowledge. The chapter ended with Gao Lun wondering whether other classes had advisers giving speeches like his.

• Lu Min left the students at the Obelisk noticeboard, and Gao Lun and the others found their class assignments there.
• An Echo Flower pointed the students toward the University District and the black teaching building.
• Gao Lun, He You, and six other students found class 2, where they joined students from around the world.
• Baye-nozuofu introduced himself as their faculty adviser and praised Dawn for opening its knowledge to humanity.
• Baye-nozuofu warned the students that the power they gained might lead future generations to betray Dawn, and then began asking them to introduce themselves.
• Gao Lun looked out the window and hoped other classes had professors giving speeches like Baye-nozuofu's.

Qin Xiaoxia discussed Huaguo’s request for special training for government Evolvers and said they would have to meet fair admission standards at Dawn’s Forest Origin Academy. Meanwhile, the academy’s first students grew excited after an introductory supernatural class and began dreaming of becoming stronger.

• Huang Jiutian visited Qin Xiaoxia and described Huaguo’s interest in Dawn providing specialized training for Evolvers.
• Qin Xiaoxia said Evolvers could attend the academy but would have to pass its entrance exams, with weighted scores and additional assessments planned for them.
• Forest Origin Academy’s new students learned they would take shared courses before choosing majors and passing assessments for their chosen fields.
• Gao Lun and his roommates stayed awake after a class on vital energy, spiritual power, and the soul, where their instructor demonstrated physical and mental power control.
• The first intake of students imagined following the academy’s systematic path toward strength and further evolution.

Qin Xiaoxia discussed Huaguo’s request for specialized Evolver training and decided Dawn’s school would welcome Evolvers but require them to meet fair, possibly stricter admissions standards. Meanwhile, Forest Origin Academy’s first students were inspired by their first supernatural class and imagined a future of growth and strength.

• Huang Jiutian visited Qin Xiaoxia and described Huaguo’s interest in having Dawn train Evolvers in government service.
• Qin Xiaoxia said Evolvers could attend the school but would have to pass its entrance exams, with additional assessments planned for them.
• Forest Origin Academy’s first students learned foundational material about life energy, mental power, and the soul in their first supernatural class.
• The instructor demonstrated physical power control by generating wind pressure and mental control by suspending a pointer in midair.
• Gao Lun, He You, and their roommates stayed awake, excited by the knowledge and the path to strength offered by the academy.

Shen Yu completed his compilation of the Kasluopa Battle records, but a World Fragment struck Dawn’s mystic realm and the Summary Section went missing. Shen Yu reported the loss and canceled his leave while Xiaohulong faced the work of sorting the scattered files.

• Shen Yu finished compiling the Kasluopa records and asked his assistant, Xiaohulong, to file the scrolls in the mystic realm’s storage room.
• Xiaohulong placed the scrolls in their designated drawers as an oppressive World Fragment fell toward the mystic realm.
• The Shadow of the Mystic Realm cut the World Fragment apart, but the impact shook the realm and scattered files throughout the storage room.
• Xiaohulong told Shen Yu that the Summary Section was missing, and Shen Yu decided to report the loss and await an investigation.
• Xiaohulong asked whether Shen Yu could still take leave, and Shen Yu angrily refused.

The Dawn Archive Management Office failed to solve the disappearance of the Magic Script Compendium files, which were believed to have been destroyed during a World Fragment collision. Elsewhere in the Void, Grandma Xivier entertained children with stories about the stars until they spotted a shooting star falling toward the mortal world.

• The Archive Management Office investigated the missing files but found no conclusive evidence or trace of them.
• Su Su divined that the files were no longer on Earth and that the World Fragment had contained chaotic laws, leading investigators to suspect the collision destroyed them.
• The unresolved disappearance became an entry in the Association’s Secret History.
• Children in a town in the Void tried to count the stars until Grandma Xivier joined them and explained that stars could never all be counted.
• When the children asked about the outside world, Xivier began to reminisce, but Nono spotted a shooting star falling toward the mortal world.

After a meteor fell, Xivier reassured her grandson Nono that the star would be all right. In a distant city, Riva set out to find the meteor but was arrested at the city gate and mocked as a madman.

• Xivier watched a meteor fall beyond the horizon and told the children it might find its way back into the sky.
• Xivier walked home with Nono, who worried about the fallen star, and reassured him it would be fine.
• Riva packed supplies before dawn and left home to search for the meteor he had seen.
• Riva hid near the closed city gate, where a sentry spotted him and had him arrested as suspicious.
• As soldiers escorted Riva through the city, he shouted that he was searching for a star, and the crowd laughed at him.

Professor Baye-nozuofu read about supernatural evolution, while Riva was arrested as a suspected spy. Prince and Fangeni prepared to search for a fallen star, and Fangeni suggested taking Riva along; someone soon vouched for Riva and secured his release.

• Professor Baye-nozuofu finished reading about supernatural evolution and went to bed before his classes.
• Riva was dragged to prison after being accused of spying and spent the night without food.
• Prince and his companions prepared horn-helmet beasts to search for the fallen star.
• Fangeni suggested that Prince bring Riva along because Riva also wanted to search for the star.
• Guards told Riva that someone had vouched for him and that he could leave.

After being released from prison, Riva persuaded Goys to let him join the search for the fallen star by offering to calculate its landing place from its path and the stars. The party camped for the night, where Goys noticed Riva tracking the stars and ordered that he be given a meal.

• Riva was released from prison and brought before Goys and his party, who were searching for the fallen star.
• Riva explained that he had watched the star fall and could use its path and the stars to work out where it landed.
• Goys accepted Riva's offer and ordered his servants to bring him along.
• After leaving the city, Riva walked with the party and ate his hard flatbread while the others prepared camp.
• Goys noticed Riva comparing the stars and sent him meat soup and food.
• Riva gratefully ate the meat soup with pieces of flatbread.

Riva guided Goys’s Star-Seeking Expedition through the mountains toward the fallen star, while a meteor ignited a wildfire near the valley. After ten exhausting days, the expedition reached a stream dividing the withered forest from a lush, green one, leaving them wondering what lay beyond.

• Riva explained how he used the stars to estimate the meteor’s direction, and Goys said he wanted to find it out of curiosity.
• A meteor rested in a burning crater east of the valley, while Xivier reassured Nono that the forest fire would soon go out.
• After ten days of difficult travel, a young noble struck Riva with a Beast Whip, but Fangeni stopped him and Goys ordered the expedition to camp.
• Riva continued to insist that the expedition was on the right route, though he was increasingly uncertain.
• Riva, Fangeni, and the expedition discovered a stream separating an autumnal, withered forest from a lush, green one.

Goys’s expedition crossed into a strangely vibrant part of Spirnosi Forest, found a Faerie town, and pressured Xivier into guiding them toward the fallen star. As the party camped closer to the star’s location, a faint sound emerged from the light in the crater.

• Goys led the party across the river after Riva confirmed the star’s direction, and they found a beast-made road three days later.
• Goys and his companions reached a Faerie town, where Xivier challenged them and asked why they had entered Spirnosi Forest.
• Goys apologized for his party’s mockery but insisted they would continue searching and demanded supplies and a guide.
• Xivier volunteered to guide the expedition, which traveled far from the town before nightfall.
• Riva gestured toward the stars and said the party was close, while Xivier realized how they had found their way there.
• In the crater, the light gathered over a wider area, and a faint sound came from within it as its outline rose.

Goys's party reached the fallen star's crater but found no star, and Goys's suspicion of Xivier brought the group to the brink of attacking her. As Xivier prepared to fight, Riva spotted a mysterious girl in a tree, who told him he was going to die.

• Goys's party followed the smoke to a huge, scorched crater, believing the fallen star had caused the fire.
• After searching the crater, Goys's party found no star, and Goys suspected Xivier or her people had taken it.
• Xivier accused the outsiders of always finding excuses to attack the Faeries, while Goys's nobles threatened to capture them.
• Xivier prepared to kill Riva and escape, but Riva noticed a mysterious girl sitting in a charred tree.
• The girl giggled at Riva and warned him that he was going to die.

Xivier attacked Goys’s group and stabbed Riva before escaping, leaving him near death. A mysterious little girl healed Riva, and he realized she was Star.

• Xivier fought past the guards, stabbed Riva, and fled into the forest.
• Goys’s group abandoned the dying Riva and left to search for a way back.
• A black-haired little girl appeared and used luminous motes to heal Riva, collapsing from exhaustion afterward.
• Riva woke, drank water, and learned that the girl had saved him.
• The girl hinted that she was the Star everyone had been searching for, and Riva recognized her as Star.

After falling from the sky, Youyi rescued the wounded Riva, gave herself a name, and cared for him through the night. As Riva fell asleep by the campfire, Youyi hinted that gods existed in the place she came from.

• Youyi examined Riva's wound and learned that he had guided the nobles by following the stars.
• Youyi realized she had no name, rejected the joking title of Her Majesty the Queen, and chose to be called Youyi.
• Youyi found and roasted an animal, then shared the food with the injured Riva.
• Youyi questioned Riva about his world while they sat by the campfire.
• Riva asked whether gods existed in the sky, and Youyi said she had seen none in this world's stars.
• Youyi recalled that gods existed in the place she came from, but Riva had already fallen asleep.

Youyi kept watch over the sleeping Riva as Goys’s party struggled through the forest without him. After twenty days, they escaped the woods, while Riva recovered enough for Youyi to propose setting out to explore the new world.

• Youyi reflected on her new existence and why she had rescued Riva, then stayed by the fire while he slept.
• Xivier returned to her town and ordered its people to prepare for the possibility that Goys’s party would find them.
• Goys’s party suffered a deadly beast attack that killed eight people and cost them most of their Horn-Helmet Beasts and supplies.
• Goys’s guards found a marker left by Lati, and Goys ordered the party to rest before continuing.
• Goys’s party emerged from the forest twenty days later, having paid a heavy price on the journey.
• Riva recovered enough to walk comfortably, and Youyi asked to set off and explore the new world.