Chapter Summaries

Zheng Qing and Zhang Jixin used a Shapeshifting Talisman to have Tuantuan impersonate Xin Banner in Magic Spell Class, but Old Yao called roll and questioned the apparent illness. Old Yao postponed the Yuan Chen Shou Hu Spell lesson until Wednesday and switched to Magic Philosophy, leaving Dunton and Jiang Yu concerned about the schedule and attendance records.

• Tuantuan, disguised as Xin Banner, occupied a back-row seat while Zheng Qing and Zhang Jixin hoped the disguise would fool Old Yao.
• Old Yao began taking attendance, and Zheng Qing claimed Xin Banner had injured his throat by taking the wrong medicine.
• Old Yao accepted the explanation, petted Tuantuan, and warned the students to take care of themselves.
• Old Yao postponed the Yuan Chen Shou Hu Spell lesson until Wednesday and announced that the class would discuss Magic Philosophy instead.
• Dunton and Jiang Yu asked how to inform the other students and record the unexpected schedule change.

Professor Yao introduced the Dimension School and explained how it described reality through interacting dimensions. He used Sand Hour Worms as an example of how Dimension Theory changed wizards’ understanding of the creatures, while Zheng Qing struggled to keep up with the concepts.

• Professor Yao changed the class into a relaxed Magic Philosophy lecture and introduced the Dimension School.
• Professor Yao illustrated dimension lines interacting, vibrating, forming worlds, and breaking into new lines amid patches of blackness.
• Professor Yao explained that Dimension Theory identified Sand Hour Worms as pseudo-hyperdimensional creatures feeding on the Time Dimension Line.
• Zheng Qing took notes and struggled to understand the professor’s fast explanations and unfamiliar terms.
• Professor Yao added that Sand Hour Royal Jelly prolonged life and restored vitality, leading the creatures to be hunted nearly to extinction again.

Professor Yao explained the Dimension School’s view of dimensions, magic, and World Origin, showing how convergence produced Forbidden Curses. The lesson ended with his account of how Forbidden Curses overturned the wizarding world’s old understanding of power.

• Professor Yao opened the curtains to relieve the students’ mental strain and resumed his lecture with a little elf collecting his pipe smoke.
• Professor Yao explained that the Dimension School treated dimensions as measurable and described magic as energy released or absorbed when dimensional lines shifted between dimensions.
• Zheng Qing took notes for the Orange Cat, whose pawing at the blue dimensional lines repeatedly distracted him.
• Liu Feifei questioned how the Dimension School could measure dimensions if Origin was indescribable, and Professor Yao explained its method of convergence.
• Xiao Xiao identified Forbidden Curses as the result of Origin converging into a form that could be expressed through magic.
• Professor Yao said Forbidden Curses had shattered the gods’ glory and the old wizarding world, replacing the Five Fireball School’s boast with the claim that one precise Forbidden Curse could destroy any world.

Professor Yao lectured Zheng Qing’s class on Dimension Theory, explaining how convergence and divergence related to Forbidden Curses and worlds before introducing dimensional views of wizards and society. The lesson ended with Professor Yao emphasizing order as an important dimension of wizard society.

• Xiao Xiao answered that divergence upon the World Origin created worlds, and Professor Yao explained that it allowed wizards to touch infinite worlds.
• Professor Yao said the Albus Conjecture predicted forty to fifty methods of dimensional convergence, but only five or six Forbidden Curses were known and First University had sealed four.
• Professor Yao refused to reveal the Forbidden Curses’ names or locations and urged students to earn credits and enter First University’s Research Institute.
• Professor Yao explained that the Dimension School viewed wizards as dimensionalized creatures and the Wizarding World as a dimensionalized society.
• Zheng Qing regretted not bringing a Speed-writing Feather Pen and continued taking notes as Professor Yao introduced order as a dimension of wizard society.

Professor Yao lectured Zheng Qing’s class on the history and concepts of the Dimension School, from classical and modern theories to postmodern ideas. The lesson ended with Zheng Qing asking where the origin of dimension came from, and Professor Yao answering that it was the point of light before dismissing the class.

• Professor Yao explained how order related to dimension and described the Dimension School’s development from classical theory through the creation of the Forbidden Curse “Genesis.”
• Professor Yao outlined postmodern Dimension Theory and defined Non-dimension, real dimensions, and virtual dimensions.
• Professor Yao urged the students to question mainstream philosophies and said that proving the existence of Non-dimension creatures could lead beyond becoming an Archwizard.
• Zheng Qing asked where the point of light before the dimension line came from, and Professor Yao called it the origin of everything.
• Zheng Qing asked where the origin came from, and Professor Yao replied, “God said, let there be light!” before ending class and reminding everyone to attend Wednesday’s Magic Spell Class.

Zheng Qing and Xiao Xiao visited Green Grocery Store so Zheng Qing could buy Speed-writing Feather Pens for taking class notes. The shop offered a wide selection, and Zheng Qing was left trying out bundled pens before choosing which ones to buy.

• Zheng Qing dragged Dr. Xiao to Green Grocery Store after lunch to find Speed-writing Feather Pens.
• Zheng Qing admired the crowded shop and its wide range of goods, while Xiao Xiao mocked his reasoning.
• The saleswoman showed Zheng Qing and Xiao Xiao a Green Peacock displaying quills made from different feathers, including a Green Luan tail feather.
• Zheng Qing clarified that he only wanted Speed-writing Feather Pens, and the saleswoman brought out a small tree holding bundles of six.
• The saleswoman gave Zheng Qing paper and ink to test the pens and directed him to pay a little elf after choosing.

At Green Grocery Store, Zheng Qing tested Speed-writing Feather Pens while Xiao Xiao explained the club’s founding requirements and the urgent application schedule. They discussed Lin Guo’s unusual Timeline and its dangers, and Zheng Qing decided to raise his concerns with Professor Yi before paying for his pens in copper coins.

• Xiao Xiao told Zheng Qing that the club meeting would include Dylan, Zhang Jixin, Lan Que, and Lin Guo, while Shi Yuan had agreed to sign the draft proposal but could not attend.
• Xiao Xiao explained that the club needed members from all four academies and that its founders had to attend an application defense, which they hoped to hold on Wednesday before Moon Hunt.
• Zheng Qing learned that Lin Guo had agreed to join despite the club’s plan to compete in the Rookie Hunt Competition, and he questioned Lin Guo’s use of his Timeline.
• Zheng Qing explained that altering the Timeline could be dangerous because consciousness could affect reality, and he decided to discuss the issue with Professor Yi.
• Zheng Qing chose a bundle of blue-green Quill Pens, then began paying the pointy-hatted witch one copper coin at a time while Xiao Xiao slipped away into the crowd.

Zheng Qing and his friends held their club’s first meeting in Dormitory 403, but they got stuck trying to choose a name. The meeting ended without a decision as the group rejected several suggestions and continued searching for one.

• Zheng Qing tried out a Speed-writing Feather Pen while Zhang Jixin and Lin Guo played Hunting Chess, and the others waited around the dormitory.
• Fatty Xin proposed naming the club “Issue Number 403,” but Zheng Qing, Xiao Xiao, Zhang Jixin, and Lin Guo objected.
• Lin Guo suggested “Invincible Starry Sky Hunting Team” or “Number One Hunting Team Under Heaven,” and everyone laughed at the grand names.
• Dylan proposed “Gentlemen’s Alliance,” but Zheng Qing rejected it because the word had acquired an unflattering modern meaning.
• Dylan explained that he was twelve hundred years old and not sensitive to changing slang, prompting Xiao Xiao to question his age again.

Zheng Qing and his friends struggled to name their new club, so he handed the final choice to Xiao Xiao. Xiao Xiao argued that they needed a shared purpose for the club’s Magic Contract and proposed “Knight Order,” but Zheng Qing questioned whether the name was too grand.

• Zheng Qing’s dormmates rejected a string of proposed club names, including Salty Fish Welfare Club and Special Operations Department Nine Demon-Hunting Division Three Mobile Unit.
• After the others agreed, Zheng Qing appointed Xiao Xiao to make the final decision on the club’s name.
• Xiao Xiao asked why the group was forming a club and learned that its members had different motives, including earning credits, fighting, and defeating demons.
• Xiao Xiao explained that members’ names had to fit the club’s purpose under a Magic Contract and proposed seeking a shared goal.
• Xiao Xiao suggested the elegant but martial name “Knight Order,” and Zheng Qing asked whether it sounded too grand.

Xiao Xiao led the dormitory in discussing a name and principles for their club, prompting several students to identify their personal flaws. After the others teased Zheng Qing about rumors linking him to three witches, Xiao Xiao proposed naming the club the Sin Absolution Knight Order and grounding it in forgiveness.

• Xiao Xiao argued that the group should choose a knightly name and uphold knightly virtues, but admitted that he and his companions fell short of them.
• Xiao Xiao, Dylan, Lan Que, Fatty Xin, and Zhang Jixin each named a flaw they believed they embodied: greed, sloth, pride, gluttony, and wrath.
• Zheng Qing recognized that the discussion resembled the Seven Deadly Sins and objected that the others had left him no suitable title.
• Fatty Xin and the others teased Zheng Qing about rumors that he was involved with Li Meng, Jiang Yu, and Student Union vice president Colmar, while Zheng Qing denied knowing Colmar.
• Xiao Xiao ended the interrogation and proposed the club name Sin Absolution Knight Order, with forgiveness as its guiding principle.

Zheng Qing and the others finalized the name of their club and discussed the risks of drafting its charter, while Xiao Xiao revealed he had already prepared four copies. The meeting continued with the election of a club leader, which Lin Guo realized meant choosing a captain.

• Zheng Qing confirmed that everyone approved the name Absolution Knight Order and began filling out the application form.
• Xiao Xiao explained the club charter and warned that careless wording could leave members burdened with huge deductions to their academic credits.
• Zheng Qing, Fatty Xin, and Zhang Jixin considered disbanding because they feared the risks of running a small club, but Lin Guo urged them not to retreat.
• Xiao Xiao produced four prepared copies of the charter, which he had researched and drafted in advance.
• Fatty Xin and his fat cat brawled after Fatty learned Xiao Xiao had spent the previous night preparing club materials instead of going on a date.
• Lin Guo took over the meeting, and Zheng Qing introduced the election of the club leader; Lin Guo excitedly asked if they were choosing a captain.

Zheng Qing’s dormmates all abstained from becoming captain of the Sin Absolution Knight Order, so they made him captain instead. He learned the position came with extensive duties and found that Xiao Xiao expected payment for handling the paperwork.

• Fatty Xin, Lan Que, Lin Guo, Xiao Xiao, Dylan, and Zhang Jixin each declined or was disqualified from the captaincy.
• The dormmates pointed out that Zheng Qing was an adult with no conflicting duties and agreed to make him captain.
• Zheng Qing tried to use his authority to appoint Xiao Xiao as his successor, but Xiao Xiao explained that only the club members could elect a captain.
• Xiao Xiao completed the application and told Captain Zheng to sign and seal it at the Student Union Federation office after its decision arrived.
• As the others hurried off to class or settled back into their activities, Xiao Xiao demanded payment from Zheng Qing for his work and expenses.

Zheng Qing went to Professor Yi’s office to discuss treatment for his head illness, where he examined the professor’s mysterious, star-filled room. Professor Yao joined them, but the chapter ended before they began the discussion.

• Zheng Qing nearly forgot his appointment with Professor Yi while listening to classmates discuss the School Hunting Meet, until Dr. Xiao reminded him.
• Zheng Qing arrived at Professor Yi’s office and waited while the professor finished discussing Tarot Cards with several upperclassmen.
• Zheng Qing inspected the dim, hexagonal office and recognized the starry ceiling as an astrological sandbox.
• Professor Yi returned with Professor Yao, who placed a stack of documents on the desk and sat down to smoke his pipe.
• Professor Yi shut the curtains, then opened the documents as Zheng Qing waited silently in the room.

Professor Yi examined Zheng Qing’s records and confirmed that he was a witness whose divinations carried dangerous Information Perturbation. He gave Zheng Qing access to a diviners’ notebook, leaving him qualified to study its methods but not yet chosen as an inheritor.

• Professor Yi reviewed Old Yao’s documents and agreed that Zheng Qing was a witness.
• Professor Yi had Zheng Qing draw a Tarot Card without revealing its face, saying he would investigate clues about him.
• Zheng Qing explained what he knew about witnesses, and Professor Yi clarified that extracting dream memories for evidence could harm a wizard’s mind.
• Professor Yi explained that Zheng Qing’s headaches were a bodily response to Information Perturbation caused by divination.
• Professor Yi gave Zheng Qing a notebook of First University diviners’ methods, emphasizing that access only gave him the qualification to read it.

Zheng Qing studied a secret notebook describing the Subhuti Conjecture, which held that calamity faded when it could no longer identify its target. Professor Yi explained that his treatment plan would use Transformation Spell to change Zheng Qing’s life-form, but warned him to keep the knowledge secret because sharing it could magnify calamity.

• Professor Yi gave Zheng Qing a notebook containing a little-known conjecture about calamity and warned him that he had only one chance to understand its treatment plan.
• Zheng Qing read how the Subhuti Conjecture proposed that calamity would collapse if it lost track of its target, and learned that generations of researchers had failed to prove it.
• Zheng Qing realized that Professor Yi’s treatment plan involved Transformation Spell, which could change his life-form and help him avoid calamity.
• Professor Yi explained that the notebook’s knowledge had to remain secret because Information Perturbation could make calamity grow geometrically.
• Old Yao laughed smugly, saying he had told Zheng Qing so long ago.

Professor Yi explained that Zheng Qing’s treatment depended on a protective spell anchored in his self-awareness, then assigned him a year of study before he could learn Transformation Spells. The chapter left Zheng Qing overwhelmed by the workload and frightened that he might suffer another headache before training began.

• Professor Yi explained the Impossible Triangle Rule and said a spell in Zheng Qing’s notebook could anchor his sense of self.
• Zheng Qing learned that the Wizard Alliance’s SCL Organization had certified the spell as safe, though he felt disturbed by its effect on his soul.
• Professor Yi summoned more than ten magic books and ordered Zheng Qing to master their contents within a year.
• Zheng Qing asked to learn a simpler transformation incantation sooner in case his headaches returned, but Professor Yi insisted he wait until he had studied the subject properly.

Zheng Qing learned that First University would provide Transformation Potions to protect him from his calamity while Professor Yi trained him to master the Transformation Spell. He left with a potion application underway, unaware that the school planned to cover the cost through his health insurance.

• Old Yao told Zheng Qing that the academy would provide Transformation Potions until he mastered the Transformation Spell, and Zheng Qing asked whether he would have to pay for them.
• Professor Yi warned Zheng Qing against relying on potions and scheduled weekly lessons to reinforce his studies and assess strange fragments in his dreams.
• Old Yao explained that Professor Yi was an experienced divination researcher and arranged for Zheng Qing to collect Transformation Potions from Professor Li each month.
• Hilda explained that taking the potion at the start or end of the month would help Zheng Qing avoid Werewolves and zombies on campus.
• After Zheng Qing left, Hilda questioned whether the school really provided free Transformation Potions, and Old Yao said the cost could be reimbursed through Zheng Qing's health insurance.

Zheng Qing tried to hide his interest in Ilena while his classmates speculated about his Transformation Potion. Professor Yao solved the schedule conflict by creating a second copy of himself, and the chapter ended with Zheng Qing's friends abandoning him when Ilena approached.

• Zheng Qing's friends teased him about Ilena, and he claimed he was thinking about collecting his Transformation Potion from Professor Li.
• The boys joked about what animal Zheng Qing might become until he stopped them, then he secretly glanced at the exhausted Ilena.
• Professor Yao conjured a second version of himself, sending Astronomy Class 08-1 to a separate room for a make-up Magic Spell Class while he taught Magic Philosophy in West 306.
• Zheng Qing discussed the club application interview and hunting team plans with his friends as they left class.
• When Ilena approached, Xiao Xiao, Zhang Jixin, and Fatty Xin made excuses and hurried away, leaving Zheng Qing behind.

Zheng Qing met Ilena in the corridor, where she invited him to dinner and asked for his help identifying a complicated talisman. He copied its shape to study later, and Ilena said she would find him after class to arrange dinner.

• Zheng Qing waited in the corridor with the Bohemian Dress still hidden in his Gray Cloth Bag, hoping for a chance to give it to Ilena.
• Ilena told Zheng Qing she had been waiting for him and invited him to dinner to congratulate him on receiving the Merlin Medal.
• Zheng Qing excitedly mistook the invitation for a date, then asked what Ilena needed from him.
• Ilena showed Zheng Qing a crude talisman in her notebook and asked what it meant or what its original form was.
• Zheng Qing copied the talisman into his notebook and promised to give Ilena an answer later.
• Ilena put away her notebook and told Zheng Qing she would find him after class about dinner.

After class, Zheng Qing’s friends stayed behind and teased him about his supposed feelings for Ilena. They left him alone with her, leaving him flustered and unable to deny the rumors.

• Zheng Qing ignored his friends during Magic Spell Class and crumpled Xiao Xiao’s paper message.
• After class, Zheng Qing’s friends apologized for leaving him alone earlier, and he forgave them.
• Ilena arrived, and Zheng Qing tried to persuade his friends to leave them alone.
• Fatty Xin, Xiao Xiao, and Zhang Jixin listed alleged romantic gestures Zheng Qing had made toward Ilena, embarrassing him with exaggerated claims.
• Xiao Xiao and Zhang Jixin left, and Fatty Xin wished Zheng Qing luck before departing, leaving Zheng Qing alone with Ilena.