Chapter Summaries

After Starry Sky Descent, Sonia and her roommates walked through the increasingly bright night sky as Sword Flower University prepared for Throne Hall’s Starry Sky Festival. Professor Wesley explained that the month of celebrations would replace most classes, leaving students to take part in activities amid the Eternal Starry Night.

• Sonia prepared to leave by strapping a Spring Sword to her thigh and reflected on the hidden power of the Four Pillar Gods Church.
• Adele and the others dragged their sleepy roommate out of the dormitory as starlight made the campus bright as day.
• Sonia greeted Nolin and worried that she had spent her family’s money on cosmetic surgery, then learned her family owned Sprout Pool, a major Lala Fat supplier.
• Lois realized Nolin was wealthy and reacted in disbelief as students gathered at Starfall Great Hall.
• Professor Wesley announced that most classes would be suspended for a month of Starry Sky Festival events, following Throne Hall’s decision to present Eternal Starry Night as a blessing from the Star Law Master.

Sonia joined her class and club’s event planning before traveling with Felix and the sleeping Ash to a manor where Daedalus and the Four Pillars God Sect welcomed her as Sword Seat. Among the assembled cult members, Sonia recognized her elder sister Tello Zan.

• Sonia attended her class and club’s activity meetings and agreed to help with sponsorships and an onstage performance.
• Felix picked Sonia up with the sleeping Ash, whom she affectionately fussed over and had appointed Felix to care for.
• Sonia and Felix traveled with Ash to a secluded manor outside Gala City, where Daedalus and other Four Pillars God Sect members awaited them.
• Daedalus and the others knelt and welcomed Sonia as Sword Seat and Ash as Observer Seat.
• Sonia scanned the assembled cult members, recognized Tello Zan, and exclaimed, “Elder sister Tello Zan?”

Sonia discovered that her professor Tello Zan was the Four Pillar Gods Church’s Interstice Sword Maiden, then joined the believers as they launched the Sky Light Project to weaken the Starry Canopy. The chapter ended with Sonia unfurling her wings and pledging herself to the plan to break through the false sky.

• Daedalus introduced Tello Zan as the Interstice Sword Maiden, the Church’s chief combatant, and Sonia recognized her former professor.
• The Four Pillar Gods believers welcomed Ash as their new leader, and Felix revealed that Sonia was Observer Seat’s future wife, embarrassing her.
• Daedalus announced the Sky Light Project and explained that the Church planned to recover Golden Apples from a Meteorite near Lumei Creek to weaken the Starry Canopy.
• Daedalus explained that Golden Apples contained divine knowledge, could create World Secret Domains, and powered the Starry Canopy; taking them would mean declaring war on the Star Law Master.
• The believers spread their wings to show their resolve, and Sonia revealed her Fourth Void Wing and pledged to glimpse the sky light before the Stars fell.

Sonia led the Four Pillar Gods Church operation to seize the Golden Apple from a meteorite, but a hidden accomplice nearly escaped with it. After Vase recovered the meteorite, Witch Diya appeared and asked Sonia to take her to Ash.

• Sonia and the other Multistar Four Pillars waited at Lumei Creek while Claire chatted with Sonia about love and nail art.
• A meteor fell into the Church nobles’ miracle barrier, and Sonia ordered the team to ambush them as they moved to recover it.
• Sonia found the meteorite missing, but Claire tracked the fleeing Earth Art artificer and Sonia pursued him.
• Vase stopped the escapee and recovered the meteorite containing the Golden Apple, prompting Daedalus to question why Vase had left her assigned post.
• Witch Diya appeared, revealed herself as another Queen, and told Sonia she had arrived on time to see Ash.

Sonia and Diya learned to summon their Guardian Spirits and agreed to work together to save Ash, Aunt Bo Jin, and Uncle Harvey. Diya joined the Sky Light Project as the Black White Witch, while concealing that she could create a Void Gate to Gospel in three days if they faced a crisis.

• Diya explained that the Command Seal summoned Guardian Spirits through a specific emotion, and Sonia summoned the Extinct Resentful Blaze Dragon through her resentment at Ash choosing someone else.
• Diya explained that Guardian Spirit power had a limited quota, and she urged Daedalus and Felix to use their Guardians to advance the Sky Light Project and protect Ash.
• Diya revealed that Gospel had warned her not to take Ash's body away because his soul remained trapped in Multistar Country, then agreed to join the project and use her prophecy and combat abilities.
• Diya told the group that a Void Gate to Gospel would require at least three years to calculate, then privately revealed she could make one in three days but would withhold that option to keep the Four Pillar Gods Church committed.
• Diya and Sonia agreed to cooperate until Ash and the others woke, then Diya announced her codename as Black White Witch to the gathered Church members.

The Four Pillar Gods Church learned that the Meteorite contained a dangerous Golden Apple, and Diya showed them how to dissolve its wish-made shell. Sonia and Diya ate the Apple together, while Sonia revealed she could no longer return to Starry Sky and would stay with Ash.

• Daedalus and Chaos Singer explained that the Church could not break the Meteorite safely, and Diya consulted the magic mirror for a solution.
• Diya explained that the Golden Apple could flee and carried a curse that might let the Time Blade cut away history, then identified the Meteorite as a shell made from wishes.
• Sonia and Witch used the As You Wish Spell Spirit to dissolve the Meteorite, revealing the Golden Apple, which only someone with love in their heart could touch.
• Diya caught the Golden Apple, and Sonia tossed it to her after saying Diya and Felix were more deserving of it.
• Sonia told Diya she could no longer return to Starry Sky and would stay with Ash, then persuaded Diya that becoming stronger would help rescue him.
• Diya and Sonia ate the Golden Apple together, and Claire told Tello Zan that she believed in love again.

Sonia and Diya consumed the Golden Apple and were carried on a soul journey through the Void Realm, gaining stronger Spell Spirits and partially condensed Void Wings. Back in Gala City, they arranged Diya’s public exploration with Felix while Sonia returned to school, leaving Felix caught between the two women as Ash remained unconscious.

• Sonia and Diya’s souls followed the Golden Apple through the deep sea, White Mist, Gilded River, and Distant Void Domain before reaching Ruby Mountain’s empty summit and returning to their bodies.
• Sonia’s Ripple Sword Spell Spirit and Diya’s Witness Spell Spirit advanced to Four-Winged, while Sonia and Diya gained significant progress on their Void Wings.
• Daedalus agreed to arrange for Diya to explore Gala City as a child star, and Sonia left for school after telling Diya she was relieved they both wanted to save Ash.
• Felix cared for Diya and Ash at home, and Diya asked Felix to alert her if Sonia secretly approached Ash while she was away.
• Sonia warned Felix to watch the Witch and report any boundary-crossing, but Felix later found Diya sitting in Ash’s lap and feeding herself while he remained unconscious.

Vishy taught the artificers that reaching the Legendary Realm required the Void Realm to recognize a person’s achievement through a rare, large-scale exam, rather than mere mastery of a spell. She revealed that the Demigod Exam was the Path of Origin from Ruby Mountain into the Fifth Layer, but admitted she did not know what the exam involved.

• Vishy explained that demigods had to focus on their primary spells to survive the Fifth Layer’s frequent challenges and that Divine Lords could avoid them or stay ahead through Golden Apples.
• Vishy said she had multiple Legendary spells because she had been a legend in two lives and described the two conditions for a Legendary spell: a matching Spell Spirit system and a major legendary event.
• Vishy taught that spell advancement required the Void Realm to acknowledge an arcanist’s level through an exam, and she explained why the old Path of Origin had once enabled advancement but no longer did.
• Igula asked whether becoming a god required an exam, and Vishy explained that a Demigod Exam could immediately grant Void Realm recognition and entry into the Fifth Layer.
• Vishy identified the Demigod Exam as the Path of Origin from Ruby Mountain, then told the expectant arcanists that she did not know its contents.

Ash and his companions learned that discovering the Demigod Exam’s truth could trigger it, while Vishy warned them not to pursue the hidden knowledge. The city was suddenly covered in silver feathers, and the angel hunt began.

• Ash asked Vishy about Secret Poison, and she explained that the Void Realm had reclaimed most of hers when she was reborn.
• Igula realized that learning the Demigod Exam’s contents could trigger the exam, and Vishy warned the group not to uncover the name of the Fifth Layer of the Void Realm.
• Ash refused to manipulate Philly because he wanted to escape and reunite with Sword Maiden, while his companions teased him about his relationships.
• Vishy announced that angel hunting had begun, and Ash asked her to reveal the exam’s contents, but she stayed silent.
• A tremor struck the arcanists, and Ash rushed outside to find silver feathers falling across Jia Shi.

Philly accepted that Ash and his companions were real spellcasters from another world after a citywide spectacle of silver feathers, then joined them for work despite being unnerved by corpses in their car. Ash reassured her about her appearance and the likelihood that Dimier would like her, leaving Philly tearful as they continued on.

• After painful needle cleaning, Philly saw Silver Light Falling Feathers cover Jia Shi and concluded that Ash's claims about spellcasters, angel hunting, and her role as the Demon were true.
• Ash drove up to the beauty salon and caught Philly after she jumped from a third-floor window, with Yin Gula pulling them safely back into the car.
• Philly greeted the group, learned that Rose had been tracking her phone, and discovered that Harvey had packed five corpses into the sports car.
• Ash switched seats with Philly to get her away from the corpses beneath the carpet, then reassured her that spellcasters were physiologically ordinary and did not use Miracles to avoid bodily functions.
• When Philly worried that other women might be prettier and that Dimier might not like her, Ash told her that the group liked her and that Dimier would too.
• Philly cried harder and blamed the stench of corpses getting in her eyes.

Ash and his companions entered the mist around Canaan City to hunt an Angel, while Sonia and the Four Pillar Gods Church prepared to attack the matching mist-covered city of Nash and disrupt Star Law Master’s ritual. Sonia’s group advanced toward the mist, knowing they might encounter Ash across the linked canopies but would not be able to bring him back.

• Ash and his companions reached the dense mist outside Canaan City, and Ash transformed Philly into his Demon form before leading the group toward the mist to hunt an Angel.
• Ash encouraged Philly to learn from the group’s fighting and fight beside him someday, while her questions about Sword Maiden revealed her familiarity with her.
• Diya explained that the mist covering Nash linked the Starry Canopy and Multistar Canopy, and that destroying Star Law Master’s ritual could damage the canopy.
• Sonia ordered the Four Pillar Gods Church to enter the mist and kill anyone who stood in their way, committing the group to success.
• Diya wondered whether Sonia might meet Ash inside the linked mist, but Sonia said she would rather not encounter him if they could not bring him back.

Ash and the others explored a White Mist region resembling the Sea of Knowledge, where they discovered an Angel Remnant Body was resisting digestion by the Star Law Master. As the group flew toward their objective, a huge black shadow leapt from the water.

• Ash helped Philly learn to fly, then carried her while she practiced using her void wings.
• Harvey noticed Silver Artificery recovered five times faster in the White Mist, and Vishy explained that the anomaly came from the Angel Remnant Body resisting digestion.
• Ash said the group should try to seize the angel's token and find and kill its true body.
• Ash and Philly flew together using one void wing each, and Ash recalled his first flight with Sword Maiden before Vishy stopped him from continuing.
• A huge, ferocious black shadow leapt out of the sea ahead of the group.

Ash and his companions fought a strangely resilient Fish-Slaying Dragon and discovered that it had swallowed many people from Canaan City. They deduced that the Star Law Master had used the city’s citizens to weaken the Source Angel’s Void Creature reinforcements, then realized Artificer Projections might pose another threat.

• Vishy, Yin Gula, and Harvey attacked a Fish-Slaying Dragon, but Ash and Philly killed it by bursting through its belly in Watcher Mode.
• Harvey found human corpses inside the fish and explained that the dead could trigger Mystic Chains through necromantic resentment.
• Yin Gula concluded that the Fish-Slaying Dragon had been weakened by eating Canaan City’s citizens, making the city a sacrifice intended to undermine the Source Angel’s forces.
• Philly grieved for the people of Canaan City, and Ash promised to do his best to help save others as she vowed to learn to fight beside him.
• Vishy warned that the Source Angel might summon Artificer Projections, which Mystic Chains could not reliably stop, and wondered whether the Star Law Master had arranged to deal with them elsewhere.

Sonia and the Four Pillar Gods Church entered Nash and discovered a ghostly city filled with Artificer Projections, then witnessed a battle between thousands of magically empowered phantoms and the Star Law Master's Starlight Rampart. The chapter left them watching the Rampart repel the phantoms with a devastating black gale.

• Diya, Sonia, Daedalus, and the others found Nash crowded with Artificer Projections despite the city's empty appearance from outside.
• Tello Zan identified the figures as Artificer Projections, and Sonia led the group deeper into the fog to investigate.
• The group saw hundreds of projections with four complete Void Wings dodge a sweeping light, while some were erased by it.
• Diya used her mirror to determine that the apparent four-wing phantoms were Silver Arcanist projections temporarily strengthened by Gospel's influence.
• The projections unleashed a massive Spell Spirit assault against the Star Law Master's Starlight Rampart, which answered with a black gale that erased hundreds of attackers.

Sonia and the Four Pillar Gods Church learned that the Source Angel’s Silver Wings were disrupting the Star Law Master’s ritual, while attacks from the secret group Tide exposed the Church’s presence and strengthened the Artificer Projections. Sonia drew her sword and unleashed Blood Moon Shattered Lake against the Starry Sky Barrier, aiming to connect the inner and outer Sky Curtain and let Ash escape Ruby Mountain.

• Witch explained that the Silver Wings had summoned the Sea of Knowledge to resist being digested, creating an overlapping zone where Artificer Projections could be controlled and strengthened.
• The little Empress said that destroying the Ritual and breaking the Starry Sky Barrier could let Ash leave Ruby Mountain, though the barrier still blocked everything except the angel wings.
• Sonia told her allies to use ordinary miracles so they would not reveal their identities, but a distant Blood Moon Shattered Lake struck the barrier.
• Daedalus identified the attackers as Tide, a secret anti-starry-sky organization whose sorcerers could use miracles that Silver Arcanists could not have learned.
• Diya explained that the Silver Wings copied sorcerer miracles to strengthen the Artificer Projections, and Sonia drew her sword and unleashed Blood Moon Shattered Lake at the barrier.

Ash and his companions pressed deeper into the fog, where the Void Creatures grew stronger, while Harvey held a funeral for a destroyed corpse he considered family. As Vishy urged Ash to decide whether to risk continuing their hunt for the angel remains, nine enormous shadows suddenly attacked from the sea.

• Harvey burned the remains of a corpse eaten by a Fish-Slaying Dragon and explained the family rituals he followed as a Necromancer.
• Vishy questioned whether Ash and the others should keep pursuing the angel remains as the Void Creatures grew stronger, and Ash chose to continue while allowing Igula and Harvey to retreat if needed.
• Igula teased Ash for longing to see Sword Maiden, and Ash joked that Harvey should not date a corpse.
• Philly admitted she liked the story of Ash and Sword Maiden, but nine massive black shadows burst from the deep sea and attacked the group.

Ash and Philly survived the Nine-Headed Fish-Slaying Dragon’s attack, discovered that Void Creatures were evolving and that the White Mist inverted flight above a certain height, and chose to press toward the core to end the disaster. Ash flew ahead with Philly in Watcher mode, where a Mud Fish Dragon lunged at them.

• Ash and Philly were separated from Igula, Harvey, and Vishy after the Nine-Headed Fish-Slaying Dragon attacked and used a Shriek Storm to blast them away.
• Ash realized the Void Creatures were evolving and concluded that the Nine-Headed Fish-Slaying Dragon’s sound attack came from mouthparts on its tail.
• Ash discovered that an Inversion Miracle in the White Mist flipped their direction of flight and prevented them from escaping above it.
• Ash and Philly decided to continue toward the core, hoping to end the White Mist Ritual and save their separated companions and others in Canaan City.
• Ash carried Philly through the White Mist in Watcher mode, and a deep-blue Mud Fish Dragon lunged at them.

Yin Gula fought the Nine-Headed Fish-Slaying Dragon with his Miracle Contemplation Overlap, but the monster imitated his Mind Shriek and left him helpless. He crashed into the Black Sea and awoke to Liss treating his injuries.

• Yin Gula used Forbidden Style—Miracle Contemplation Overlap to wound the Nine-Headed Fish-Slaying Dragon, damaging his right eye and blurring his left.
• The Nine-Headed Fish-Slaying Dragon healed quickly and drove Yin Gula into a desperate fight as he reflected on his regrets and hoped no one would see his corpse.
• Yin Gula used Silent Scream to sense the monster and imagined Ash and Harvey pulling him clear of its attack.
• The Nine-Headed Fish-Slaying Dragon imitated Mind Shriek, stunning Yin Gula and sending him crashing onto the Black Sea.
• Yin Gula regained his senses as a woman treated him, and he recognized her as Liss.

Igula joined Yinzhi and Amilo to break the Angel’s wings, hoping to find his missing teammates. Harvey met the Necromancer Tiramisu and her Demon, Yami, who asked him to become their blood kin.

• Amilo Kesrui killed the Nine-Headed Fish-Slaying Dragon and identified Igula to Yinzhi.
• Yinzhi invited Igula to join her and Amilo in breaking the Angel’s wings, and Igula followed them.
• Harvey met Tiramisu, a renowned Necromancy Faction arcanist, and recognized her.
• Yami introduced himself as Tiramisu’s Demon and asked Harvey to become his blood kin.

Ash and Philly fought their way through the White Mist Black Sea while Void Creatures adapted to Ash’s abilities and trapped them in an overwhelming siege. Just as Ash prepared for their deaths, Vishy arrived and rescued them with her Flame Halberd and Flame Whip.

• Ash and Philly fled the Fox Lantern Dragon and other Void Creatures, while Ash learned that Deep Blue Mud Fish Dragons could enter Watcher mode and threaten him in the line world.
• Surrounded and injured, Ash reassured Philly and explained that spellcasters were adventurers who faced death on the road.
• Ash and Philly broke through the monsters’ siege by attacking the wounded Fox Lantern Dragon, but the Double-Headed Fish-Slaying Dragon blocked their escape.
• Ash sacrificed his forearm to protect Philly from a Deep Blue Mud Fish Dragon, then emerged into the middle of the surrounding pack.
• As the Void Creatures closed in and Ash raised his Holy Domain, Vishy arrived, struck down the Double-Headed Fish-Slaying Dragon, and pulled Ash and Philly to safety.