Chapter Summaries

Qin Xiaoxia completed his first Mystic Realm, trapping Gu Hao, Zhang Ruliang, and Nan Feng after they tried to leave the association’s old house. He invited them to hear the Red Banshee’s story and begin work on the sculpture, while Doudou watched their attempted escape fail.

• Qin Xiaoxia finished weaving the Mystic Realm, and Gu Hao, Zhang Ruliang, and Nan Feng awoke from the Red Banshee illusion.
• Nan Feng told his friends that villagers called the association’s old house haunted, and the three decided to wait until morning to leave.
• Doudou woke the three men and led them to breakfast, where Qin Xiaoxia showed them the sculpture’s enormous main body and told them to eat before starting work.
• Qin Xiaoxia asked the three men whether they wanted to hear the Red Banshee’s story, but Gu Hao apologized and led his friends toward the exit.
• The three men stopped after ten steps when they reached the Mystic Realm’s boundary, and Doudou realized they could not leave.

Nan Feng, Gu Hao, and Zhang Ruliang agreed to finish Qin Xiaoxia’s sculpting job after he explained that a mystic realm would protect them if they stayed inside for a month. Meanwhile, an expedition near Lyon followed an old family map to a reservoir and found a blazing fireball depicted on the map.

• Nan Feng, Gu Hao, and Zhang Ruliang returned to Qin Xiaoxia and agreed to complete the sculptures.
• Qin Xiaoxia demonstrated a curtain of water and explained that the mystic realm would protect the three craftsmen if they stayed inside for a month.
• The Red Banshee appeared and Qin Xiaoxia identified her as the mystic realm’s guardian, while Doudou warned that larger preparations were underway.
• Near Lyon, a young expedition searched a reservoir using an old map passed down through their leader’s family.
• A young Black man pointed out that the group had not searched the water, and the leader saw a blazing fireball pictured on the map.

Philier’s team investigated a reservoir near Leon after the Oriels brothers found it listed as one of the remaining possible sites. The chapter revealed how the brothers discovered the hidden supernatural crisis and joined Philier’s search, leaving the expedition preparing to explore the reservoir.

• The younger twin, Shirk, found records showing that the reservoir had been completed in the 1960s and might cover the remains of relocated houses.
• The older twin arranged for the team to rent diving equipment in Leon, while Philier’s companions established a campsite beside the reservoir.
• Philier told the team that their month-and-a-half expedition had begun after the suspicious fire at a family home near Paris.
• The Oriels brothers had watched Coria and her family burn without noticing the flames, then saw the authorities conceal the incident as arson.
• The brothers hacked into government networks, uncovered evidence of secret strange incidents, and turned to Philier and his grandfather’s old story for answers.

Philier told his friends about the Crick Family map and his grandfather’s stories of Dawn, prompting them to search for a Dawn hideout marked on the map. During a reservoir expedition, the group found nothing until footage from Philier’s underwater camera revealed a blurry outline in a deep depression.

• Philier recalled how his grandfather had described Dawn and the map before he died, but had left the story unfinished.
• Philier shared his grandfather’s account with his friends, and the O'Riels twins found evidence that the Dawn organization had existed.
• The group decided to search for the Mystic Sanctuary and a Dawn hideout, hoping to find or rebuild Dawn.
• Philier and four companions made several dives in the reservoir but found only abandoned houses on the lakebed.
• A young Black man spotted a blurry outline in the underwater camera footage from Philier’s last dive.

Philier and his companions discovered the submerged Dawn Hideout and found carvings that supported the legends of Dawn. Before leaving, they debated whether to warn the government about the danger described in “Within the Night.”

• After reviewing the footage, Philier and his companions decided to dive again in the morning to investigate the dark patch in the reservoir.
• Philier led four young men to a submerged Gothic building, where they found the Dawn emblem matching the map.
• The expedition explored the Dawn Hideout for two days and recorded carvings depicting Dawn figures driving out darkness and branding someone with the Dawn Seal.
• Philier speculated that the Branding Scepter might still be with the real Dawn, and the team resolved to keep searching.
• A team member raised the possibility that the danger in “Within the Night” was real, prompting the group to debate whether they should warn the government.

The Oriels brothers sent an anonymous encrypted email warning French officials about a returning ancient crisis. Kodel used the message to argue for more resources, and the defense minister revealed that France’s allies had shared similar information.

• The Oriels brothers decided to send an anonymous encrypted email to the French authorities with what they had learned.
• A member of the Department for Research and Response to Supernatural Events received the email and showed it to Kodel.
• Kodel held a meeting with his subordinates and decided to include the email in their report to the higher-ups.
• Kodel presented his report to the Ministry of Defense and the Planning General Administration, where Henry challenged the warning.
• The minister of defense said Kodel’s claims might be true because France’s allies had shared related information the previous day.

French officials reviewed evidence of supernatural incidents around the world and approved Kodel’s proposal to expand his department. In Qing Town, Qin Xiaoxia found that the statue being sculpted had changed, its hair turning fiery red as the Red Banshee’s shadow watched it.

• Francois showed Henry and Kodel a slideshow of deadly plant growth, disappearances in a British supermarket, crystals growing from a man, and a writhing creature in the Middle East.
• Henry signed Kodel’s proposal, and Francois urged a larger meeting to expand Kodel’s department and share the Guardian Organization’s email with the British.
• Nan Feng and the others worked on the statue, drawn to its strange material and increasingly inspired to shape it like a human version of the Red Banshee.
• Qin Xiaoxia noticed that the statue’s hair had turned fiery red and asked Doudou what had happened.
• Doudou said she had noticed no unusual interference, while Qin Xiaoxia admitted he could sense no change in his magic polymer and watched the space between the statue and the Red Banshee’s shadow.

Qin Xiaoxia and Doudou watched as the craftsmen’s devotion unexpectedly triggered early Order Activation in Kormir’s Statue. A report from Su Su then revealed that Baru had uncovered another supposed Savior Organization, prompting Qin Xiaoxia to investigate.

• Qin Xiaoxia worried over the statue’s unexplained early Order Activation, while Doudou tried to reassure him.
• Nan Feng, Gu Hao, and Zhang Ruliang carefully refined the statue, whose changes were fueled in part by their yearning for the Red Banshee.
• Su Su called Qin Xiaoxia to report that Baru had found evidence of another Savior Organization and that the 19th Special Organization Department was searching for it.
• Qin Xiaoxia told Su Su to have Baru watch the group closely, then resolved to find out whether the supposed Savior Organization was real.

Qin Xiaoxia learned that the French group who sent the warning email was at risk of being tracked and arranged for Baru to approach them first. He reunited with his allies and asked Baru to report everything he knew about the United States' Nineteenth Organization Department.

• Philier and his group worried that France, the United Kingdom, and the United States had ignored their warning, while officials secretly monitored their email account and worked to identify them.
• Qin Xiaoxia decided to have Eagle Baru contact the email senders and planned to erase their name traces if he could recruit them.
• Jenny met Qin Xiaoxia at the airport, and Mark and Joey watched the perimeter before they all went to Su Su's maternal grandmother's house.
• Baru greeted Qin Xiaoxia as his mentor and explained that he was studying knightly organization and etiquette to help rebuild the Silent Knight Order.
• Qin Xiaoxia asked Baru for a detailed account of his knowledge of the United States' Nineteenth Organization Department, and Baru began recounting what he had learned there.

Qin Xiaoxia learned that the United States, United Kingdom, and France were still struggling to understand the supernatural changes, then formally invested Baru as Dawn’s first Silent Knight. He assigned Baru to find and protect the French email senders before other countries could reach them.

• Baru reported that the three countries had identified France as the location and described their differing responses to the supernatural changes.
• Qin Xiaoxia explained that the email’s senders were descendants of Dawn or people connected to it, rather than a separate organization trying to save the world.
• Qin Xiaoxia presented the scepter and asked Baru to swear an oath before granting him the Dawn Seal and the title of Silent Knight.
• Baru endured the branding and pledged his life to Qin Xiaoxia, while Qin Xiaoxia sensed that Baru’s power had become more unified with him.
• Qin Xiaoxia ordered Baru to keep gathering intelligence and find the French email senders so Dawn could contact and protect them first.

Qin Xiaoxia explained how the Association could use mystic realms to hide the sender’s true-name traces and help Baru investigate without exposing them. Baru proposed a covert investigation in France, and Norton launched the Sender Plan.

• Baru warned Qin Xiaoxia that finding the sender could expose them to the departments of the three countries, but Qin said Baru should actively search while using mystic-realm power to create an alibi.
• Qin Xiaoxia taught Baru, Jenny, Mark, and Joey about erasing true-name traces and weaving mystic realms, then had them discuss how to protect the sender.
• Baru pointed out flaws in Jenny and Mark’s plan and explained that carrying out an American assignment would make a direct rescue difficult to conceal.
• Qin Xiaoxia suggested using a mystic realm to create an alibi, and the group assigned Jenny and the others to prepare a location for the Association’s branch.
• Baru asked Norton for permission to investigate anomalous incidents in France and proposed a covert investigation disguised as sightseeing.
• Norton approved the plan, ordered Baru to meet the operation’s members at Charles de Gaulle Airport, and named the operation the Sender Plan.

Qin Xiaoxia left the United States while Baru sensed his gaze at the airport, and Qin Xiaoxia later contacted Su Su through the Red Banshee to summon her to Qing Town. Doudou met Su Su and led her to buy snacks, leaving her confused about what they were doing.

• Qin Xiaoxia departed Los Angeles, and Baru arrived shortly afterward with Jonathan, sensing Qin Xiaoxia's gaze before boarding a private plane.
• Qin Xiaoxia used the Red Banshee's shadow to contact Doudou in Qing Town and told him to meet Su Su, guide her, and clean the kitchen.
• Su Su rushed to Qing Town after Qin Xiaoxia called her and instructed her to meet Doudou.
• Doudou led Su Su into Ruixing Supermarket and made her pay for a cart piled high with snacks.

Su Su followed Doudou into the Mystic Sanctuary’s hidden Weaving Mystic Realm and attempted a divination to identify the author of an email. With the Red Banshee’s song stirring the realm, Su Su’s Crystal Ball revealed a group of young people, but their identities remained unknown.

• Su Su carried snacks for Doudou and followed him from the supermarket to the Association’s Mystic Sanctuary.
• Doudou led Su Su through a hidden entrance into his older cousin’s Weaving Mystic Realm, where artisans worked on Kormir’s Statue.
• Doudou took Su Su to the attic and asked her to divine who had written an email, promising to persuade his older cousin to help awaken her magic power.
• Su Su read the translated email and used her Crystal Ball to seek its author while Doudou watched.
• The Red Banshee appeared and sang, stirring the mystic realm as the Crystal Ball showed a group of young people.

Su Su used her Crystal Ball to find young people in Paris who wore counterfeit Dawn Seals, but the difficult divination left her unconscious. Qin Xiaoxia received the location and sent it to Baru to find them.

• Su Su saw a group preparing for a long trip and recognized counterfeit Dawn Seals painted on their hands.
• Su Su pushed her divination further despite severe head pain and identified their location as 152 Fisher Street, Paris, before passing out.
• Doudou asked Nan Feng and Gu Hao to carry Su Su to Qin Xiaoxia's room, where Doudou settled her into bed.
• Qin Xiaoxia awoke on the plane and sent Baru the Paris address by WeChat.

Baru arrived in Paris with the Sender Plan team and directed them to investigate French supernatural authorities while he secretly followed a lead on the sender. He watched a gathering of young people who called themselves “Dawn,” whose crude fake seals convinced him they were not the real group.

• Baru received and listened to a WeChat voice message from Qin Xiaoxia during the flight to Paris.
• After landing, Baru briefed his six colleagues and assigned them to watch French department personnel and entrances while avoiding the authorities’ attention.
• Baru used his command position to separate from the team, then drew on the Sage’s magic power to test the Red Banshee inscription that made passersby overlook him.
• Baru traveled to Fisher Street and watched several young people enter a house for a gathering, noticing their poorly forged seals.
• Baru left a ramen shop after concluding that the young people’s self-styled “Dawn” was a fake.

Baru broke into the attic where Philier and the other young French people were discussing Dawn and their search for its secrets. He revealed that he knew about Dawn and warned them that Demons, not human authorities, were the real danger.

• Baru slipped into the house at 152 Fisher Street and listened as Philier's group planned to search for Dawn ruins.
• Philier and the others discussed whether their email had drawn attention and considered searching abroad for more clues.
• Baru entered the attic, took food from the table, and asked why the group was looking for him.
• Baru set his M9 on the table and confronted the group about their involvement with Dawn.
• Baru warned Philier and the others that Demons were watching from the darkness and that Dawn had been preparing to face them.

Baru revealed himself to Philier and the others as the Silent Knight of Dawn, then learned how their treasure hunt had exposed them to French investigators. Qin Xiaoxia used Wish to erase the traces linking their names to Dawn, but the French team still uncovered clues and found that the diving association’s records had become illegible.

• Baru identified himself as the Silent Knight of Dawn and scolded Philier and the others for their reckless search and the attention they had attracted.
• Philier and the others told Baru about their search for the Dawn Hideout and the email they had sent, and Baru ordered them to stop gathering or planning another expedition.
• Qin Xiaoxia received Baru’s report, returned to the Association’s old house, and used Wish to erase external traces connecting the group’s names to Dawn.
• French investigators followed reports of treasure hunters seeking miraculous artifacts and questioned witnesses about the group’s movements.
• The investigators visited a diving association in Leon, where they found that the register pages containing the group’s names were stained and unreadable.

Investigators found that records and memories of the mysterious group had been systematically erased, leading Kodel to suspect a connection between them and the sender. Meanwhile, Qin Xiaoxia discovered Su Su asleep in his bed and punished Doudou for arranging it, while Nan Feng and the craftsmen continued carving amid Doudou’s screams.

• Investigators found the surveillance footage of the group’s visit was missing because a rat-damaged hard drive had been discarded, and other teams reported similar gaps in records and witnesses’ memories.
• Kodel suspected the mysterious group was connected to the sender after the team’s online tracing lost crucial redirect logs, and he wondered why they had rented equipment from Leon's Scuba Diving Enthusiasts Association.
• Qin Xiaoxia heard Su Su breathing in his room, recognized her scent, and went to the kitchen instead of entering.
• Qin Xiaoxia caught Doudou making a badly salted meal and learned he had stolen money and snacks, then discovered Doudou had arranged for Su Su to sleep in his bed.
• Qin Xiaoxia threatened Doudou with a merciful death, while Nan Feng and the other craftsmen resumed carving the statue as Doudou screamed in the background.

Su Su woke in Qin Xiaoxia’s room after exhausting herself with divination, then joined him, Doudou, and the three craftsmen for dinner. After the others left for the night, Qin Xiaoxia and Doudou examined the nearly completed Kormir’s Statue, which Qin Xiaoxia sensed was extraordinary.

• Su Su woke in Qin Xiaoxia’s room, realized where she was, and hurried downstairs when he came to fetch her.
• Su Su met Nan Feng, Gu Hao, and Zhang Ruliang in the empty hall and learned Qin Xiaoxia had confiscated Doudou’s stash of snacks.
• Doudou brought out a black, sticky dish he called his latest masterpiece, but nobody tried it and Qin Xiaoxia gave him a lump on the forehead.
• Su Su watched Qin Xiaoxia and Doudou together during dinner and felt their closeness was warm and sweet.
• Nan Feng, Gu Hao, and Zhang Ruliang went to rest while Qin Xiaoxia and Doudou stayed to examine the nearly finished Kormir’s Statue.

Qin Xiaoxia used the Weaving Mystic Realm and a ritual to give form to Kormir's Statue, strengthening the realm far beyond its temporary limits. The statue remained still after the ritual, but with his eyes closed, Qin Xiaoxia sensed it turn its head toward him.

• Qin Xiaoxia isolated Nan Feng and the other two young men's rooms so they could sleep undisturbed, then prepared the Mystic Realm for the statue's completion.
• Qin Xiaoxia recited Kormir's name in Magic Language, causing the Weaving Mystic Realm to expand and the statue to glow with the resonance of laws.
• Qin Xiaoxia pressed a drop of his blood to the statue's forehead and declared in humanity's language that he guided the truth of order and gave it form.
• Qin Xiaoxia and Doudou hid behind pillars as order surged through the Mystic Realm, but the wind subsided after five minutes and the statue appeared unchanged.
• Qin Xiaoxia closed his eyes and sensed the statue seemingly turn its head to look at him.