Chapter Summaries

Zheng Fan helped Jin Nanjiang recover before they watched Terriermon break Henry out of custody. At the same time, a golden-armored bull-headed Digimon materialized, destroyed U-Ghost, and revealed itself as one of the Twelve Devas.

• Zheng Fan revived Jin Nanjiang by channeling spiritual energy through her chest, then confused her by asking whether her acupuncture points differed from his knowledge of them.
• Terriermon entered the police building and gave Henry his Digivice, cards, and a newspaper before helping him prepare to escape.
• Henry used a card to recharge energy as Jin Nanjiang and Zheng Fan watched from nearby.
• A Wild One materialized inside the detention facility, and Guardromon identified it as one of the Twelve Devas.
• The golden-armored bull-headed figure crushed the materialized U-Ghost in his hand while Yamaki watched in alarm.

Jin Nanjiang used a talisman to stop a fight between Sakura Kinomoto, Syaoran Li, and Lee Henry after Henry escaped the Police Affairs Office with Terriermon. The group introduced themselves and encountered Tomoyo Daidouji, whom Jin Nanjiang ordered to explain what they had been doing.

• Fighter Taurusmon declared himself God's emissary, and Jin Nanjiang's warning talisman detected a Spirit Realm presence.
• Zheng Fan protected Jin Nanjiang with a Sword Aura Barrier and left, while Henry and Terriermon cut through the Police Affairs Office gate and escaped.
• Sakura Kinomoto attacked Terriermon, and Syaoran Li arrived with a sword strike that clashed against Henry's Brave Seal.
• Jin Nanjiang used a Calming Talisman to end the fight, and Sakura Kinomoto, Syaoran Li, Lee Henry, and their companions introduced themselves.
• Jin Nanjiang caught Tomoyo Daidouji taking photographs and ordered her to explain herself, while Sakura Kinomoto and Syaoran Li vouched for her.

Sakura, Syaoran, and their allies faced a newly appeared Clow Card while Zheng Fan confronted Fighter Taurusmon, who had come to the human world to retrieve Calumon. Zheng Fan refused to hand Calumon over, and Fighter Taurusmon warned that others would keep coming if he failed.

• Syaoran protected the group from a bloody blast, while Terriermon sealed the breach and Jin Nanjiang used Rosemon’s Thorn Domain to hold back the spreading threat.
• Sakura and Syaoran identified the presence as a newly born Clow Card, and Lee Henry wondered whether it had appeared because of him.
• Henry asked Calumon to join the fight, and Sakura, Kero, and Terriermon prepared to battle together.
• Zheng Fan recognized Fighter Taurusmon and judged that the Ultimate Digimon had reached his power through unusual means, while Fighter Taurusmon demonstrated his Death Gaze and asked Yamaki to help locate Calumon.
• Fighter Taurusmon showed Calumon’s image on a computer and demanded the Digimon, but Zheng Fan refused and told him to return to the Digimon World.
• Fighter Taurusmon warned Zheng Fan that his companions would continue coming to the human world unless Calumon was returned.

Zheng Fan fought Fighter Taurusmon to prove his strength, then Xiao used the Holy Ring to make Taurusmon and the humans grieve over Ancestor Angemon’s death. As the group wept, Zheng Fan recognized Guardromon’s signal flare and realized Jin Nanjiang was in danger.

• Zheng Fan challenged Fighter Taurusmon to one sword strike, and their clash sent him underground while Sword Qi killed many ambushing ninjas and wounded Naruto.
• Fighter Taurusmon questioned Zheng Fan’s strength, and Zheng Fan summoned Xiao to demonstrate the Holy Ring’s power.
• Xiao unleashed the sorrow tied to Ancestor Angemon’s fall, overwhelming Fighter Taurusmon and causing Yamaki and most of the humans to faint from grief.
• Zheng Fan spotted Guardromon’s signal flare and recognized that Jin Nanjiang was in danger.

Fighter Taurusmon was wounded and overwhelmed by sorrow as he charged toward Jin Nanjiang’s signal flare, while Sakura and her allies fought Gamble Clow. Terriermon’s unexpected Signal Flare pierced Gamble Clow but failed to kill him, and Fighter Taurusmon arrived to attack as the battle continued.

• Fighter Taurusmon hurled a Large Horn toward Jin Nanjiang’s distress signal, and Zheng Fan flew after him after warning Yamaki and the others to improve their own strength.
• Sakura lost the Fly Card to Gamble Clow in a wager, and Syaoran caught her when she fell.
• Henry used Jin Nanjiang’s Paper Talisman to empower Terriermon, who fired Signal Flare through Gamble Clow’s foot and head.
• Gamble Clow survived the attack and roared at Jin Nanjiang and the others.
• Fighter Taurusmon spotted Terriermon, grew larger with rage, caught Gamble Clow’s tail, and struck him with the Large Horn.

Fighter Taurusmon and Syaoran Li defeated Gamble Clow, but Sakura could not seal him safely because Syaoran’s lightning power had entered his body. Zheng Fan stopped Syaoran from harming himself, and the group realized Gamble Clow might need to be destroyed rather than sealed.

• Fighter Taurusmon beat Gamble Clow and rescued Terriermon, while Zheng Fan stopped him from mistaking Terriermon for a traitor.
• Gamble Clow attacked Zheng Fan, but Fighter Taurusmon blocked him as he tried to fly away.
• Syaoran Li used Raitei Shourai to draw Gamble Clow’s thunder into a Thunder Sword, which pierced him and forced him out of his dragon form.
• Sakura tried to seal Gamble Clow, but lightning inside his body resisted her and left her weak.
• Zheng Fan stopped Syaoran Li from cutting his wrist, and Jin Nanjiang found Gamble Clow unresponsive when she tried to destroy him.
• Kero appeared and insisted that the Clow Cards could not be destroyed, and Zheng Fan learned that Kero was their Sealed Beast.

Syaoran overcame his fear and sealed Gamble Clow, then transformed it into one of his own Wolf Cards. Zheng Fan refused to let Fighter Taurusmon take Calumon, and Calumon healed Fighter Taurusmon before the chapter ended.

• Sakura urged Syaoran to seal Gamble Clow himself, and Henry defended his right to decide while Zheng Fan challenged him to act.
• Syaoran chose to try sealing the card and, encouraged by Sakura and the others, used an incantation and his sword to seal Gamble Clow.
• Syaoran used his own power to transform Gamble Clow into a Wolf Card depicting a giant dragon.
• Zheng Fan told Fighter Taurusmon that he would not allow Calumon to be taken, and Fighter Taurusmon decided not to fight him.
• Calumon sent multicolored light from the crystal on his forehead, removing the discomfort Fighter Taurusmon had suffered from forced digivolution.

Fighter Taurusmon reported to Azulongmon that humans had developed weapons against Digimon and that powerful humans posed a threat, while Zheng Fan spent a carefree day playing soccer and eating ramen with Takato’s group. At the ramen shop, Zheng Fan sensed a formidable, battle-hardened strength in the fisherman and left a sword mark on the table before departing.

• Fighter Taurusmon warned Azulongmon that human technology threatened weaker Digimon and described two humans with Champion-level strength, so Azulongmon knocked him unconscious when his grief worsened.
• Henry worried about Guilmon’s happiness, but Takato and the other children drew him into a soccer game with Zheng Fan, who quickly mastered the sport after joining.
• Zheng Fan treated Takato’s group to ramen at the Fisherman's Seafood Ramen Shop, where he noticed the proprietor’s fading killing aura and immense strength.
• After dinner, Zheng Fan left a sword mark on the table and walked out, shaken by the fisherman despite his own superior cultivation.

Jin Nanjiang struggled to purge the foul sludge from Zheng Fan’s wounds, then tracked down Sakura, Ruki, and Renamon, where she confronted the armored Baldur. After breaking Baldur’s armor and exposing her as Li Shuangyan, Jin Nanjiang learned the supposed military orders were fabricated, and Li Shuangyan escaped after giving her a Fourth-Generation Air Purifier.

• Jin Nanjiang used Paper Talismans to help expel the black sludge from Zheng Fan’s many scars while her companions took turns enduring the stench.
• Tomoyo told Jin Nanjiang that Sakura and Ruki had gone to answer Renamon’s call for help, so Jin Nanjiang used Howling Celestial Dogmon’s tracking technique to find them.
• Jin Nanjiang found Sakura, Ruki, and Renamon with a figure in Fourth-generation Nano Armor, then sent Henry, Takato, Syaoran Li, and the others away.
• Baldur announced a supposed promotion and award from Military Command, but Jin Nanjiang angrily defended Zheng Fan and attacked the armored figure with Flash Bancho Punch.
• Jin Nanjiang recognized Baldur as Li Shuangyan and deduced that Lin Feng had fabricated the orders; Li Shuangyan gave her a Fourth-Generation Air Purifier and escaped using the mecha’s rockets.

Jin Nanjiang and Li Shuangyan were rescued after their dangerous attempts to reach each other, and the group used a Bandage Card to revive Jin Nanjiang. While they waited for the Air Purification Device to clear Zheng Fan’s room, Jin Nanjiang helped Ruki turn her tears into a new ambition, and Tomoyo went to check on Zheng Fan.

• Li Shuangyan’s damaged mecha ejected her onto a rain cloud and self-destructed, while Jin Nanjiang waited behind a barrier with the Air Purification Device.
• Renamon found the unconscious Jin Nanjiang, and Takato, Guilmon, Henry, and Syaoran used a cart to bring the heavy device back.
• Ruki used a Bandage Card to restrain Syaoran and restore Jin Nanjiang, while Henry realized the card could affect humans.
• Jin Nanjiang explained that Zheng Fan could wait until the Air Purification Device had removed the smell from his room.
• After Jin Nanjiang teased Ruki about being a queen consort, Ruki cried, then left Jin Nanjiang’s encouragement determined to become the Digimon Queen.
• Two hours later, Tomoyo went to check on Zheng Fan at Jin Nanjiang’s request.

After Jin Nanjiang healed Zheng Fan’s body, he felt close to reaching the spirit realm. In Takato’s world, his friends gave him their Digimon cards as he worried about Guilmon, while Juri was abducted and taken toward Guilmon’s reservoir, where Guilmon and Impmon were working under Li Shuangyan’s gun.

• Jin Nanjiang removed the grime and scars from Zheng Fan’s body, and he said that his breakthrough to the spirit realm was near.
• Ms. Asanuma warned Takato’s class to stay home at night because children dressed as monsters had been frightening people in Central Park.
• Hirokazu and Kenta gave Takato their Digimon cards and agreed to fight alongside him.
• Takato wondered whether Guilmon had been responsible for the Central Park pranks, while Juri was seized by two men after encountering them in the woods.
• Juri recognized that the men were heading for Guilmon’s reservoir and stopped struggling.
• Guilmon and Impmon were forced by Li Shuangyan to gather firewood under threat of her modified gun.

Zheng Fan pursued Cheng Ming but was caught in the explosion of one of his false bodies and survived only because he used a substitute jade talisman. Meanwhile, Takato was caught in Central Park by a suspicious officer, who used the incident to obtain Teacher Asanuma’s contact information.

• Jin Nanjiang chose Central Park for her patrol after realizing Inspector Megure’s assignment was linked to the Ishihara family.
• Zheng Fan destroyed Cheng Ming’s pleasure house and pursued him, then learned during their clash that Cheng Ming was also a false body.
• Cheng Ming’s explosion leveled the forest, shattered Jin Nanjiang’s substitute jade talisman, and left Zheng Fan alive but battered.
• Zheng Fan admitted his failure to Jin Nanjiang over the phone, and she invited him to dinner.
• An officer caught Takato in Central Park and questioned him about the reports of children frightening people as ghosts.
• Teacher Asanuma identified Takato as her student, but the officer pressed her for her contact information, leaving her uneasy.

Jin Nanjiang intervened when Moguki Kanzo questioned Takato, then helped Takato contact the missing Guilmon with a Ten-Thousand-Mile Voice Transmission Talisman. Guilmon heard Takato calling and tried to leave Li Shuangyan, who shot at him, but Impmon blocked her bullet and Guilmon Cannon struck her.

• Jin Nanjiang and Zheng Fan arrived and Moguki Kanzo left after warning Jin Nanjiang he would report her.
• Takato and Zheng Fan discussed battle strategies while Jin Nanjiang spoke with Asanuma.
• Jin Nanjiang asked Takato why he was in Central Park, and he explained that he was looking for Guilmon, whose Digivice signal had vanished.
• Jin Nanjiang gave Takato a Ten-Thousand-Mile Voice Transmission Talisman, and he used it to call Guilmon before it burned away.
• Guilmon heard Takato's voice while carrying firewood for Li Shuangyan and tried to run to him.
• Li Shuangyan fired at Guilmon, Impmon blocked her Pain Bullet, and Guilmon Cannon hit her.

Li Shuangyan attacked Guilmon and Impmon with a Space Bullet that could track its target by aura, while Zheng Fan and Jin Nanjiang broke through the barrier to reach the fight. With the bullet still pursuing Guilmon and too dangerous to destroy by force, Jin Nanjiang and Li Shuangyan agreed to let it detonate on its own.

• Zheng Fan tracked Guilmon's aura and warned Jin Nanjiang that a barrier blocked their way as Takato sensed Guilmon fighting.
• Li Shuangyan's helmet gem protected her from Guilmon's attack, and she retaliated with a cannon and a Space Bullet while Impmon's Dark Night Flame melted her cannon.
• Takato used an A-rank High-Speed Plug-In card to help Guilmon evade the bullet, which tracked Guilmon's aura and returned to chase him.
• Zheng Fan shattered the barrier with sixteen sword strikes and stabilized the shifting earth vein as Jin Nanjiang healed Takato and tried to assist.
• Zheng Fan redirected the Space Bullet with gusts of wind while Li Shuangyan warned that destroying it by force would unleash spatial power.
• Jin Nanjiang learned that the bullet could detonate without destabilizing space and agreed with Li Shuangyan to let it explode on Fusang's soil.

Zheng Fan used his origin power to guide a spatial bullet through Takato’s Cross Beacon toward Guilmon, causing the Reservoir to explode. Leomon rescued Juri from her captors, and the chapter ended with him facing Guilmon while Takato asked him to wait until Juri woke up.

• Takato used Altairmon’s Cross Beacon to anchor a Space Passage at the Reservoir, and Zheng Fan suppressed the spatial bullet with his origin power before sending it through.
• Two men carried Juri into a small building while searching for Guilmon, but Juri tried to scare them away with ventriloquism.
• Juri’s captors found Guilmon’s footprints and left with her, just as the spatial bullet destroyed half the Reservoir.
• Leomon killed the boss with Beast King Fist after he punched Juri, and Guilmon hit the lackey with Guilmon Cannon.
• Takato carried the injured Juri to Leomon and asked him to wait until she woke up, while Guilmon and Leomon faced each other without fighting.

After Zheng Fan and Li Shuangyan saved the world by destroying an earth vein, Cheng Ming survived the spatial backlash but was left gravely injured and desperate for energy. Henry encountered him on the street, and Ruki ran off with Henry after refusing her mother's plans, leaving Grandma to offer Cheng Ming a meal.

• Zheng Fan explained that the dead earth vein would leave Central Park barren, and he comforted Li Shuangyan and Jin Nanjiang over their guilt and blame.
• Cheng Ming's system reported that he needed 300,000 emotional energy points to restore his body, while he had only ten points left to keep it running.
• Henry took Terriermon from Suzie and left home after she refused to let him go, then found Cheng Ming collapsed on the street.
• Cheng Ming claimed an earthquake had buried him in a basement, and Henry assessed his weakness while showing that he knew medicine and martial arts.
• Ruki and her grandmother met Henry and Cheng Ming, and Ruki ran off with Henry after telling her mother she had plans with friends.
• Grandma offered to treat the abandoned Cheng Ming to a meal.

Zheng Fan and Jin Nanjiang tried to find a way for Juri to gain enough strength to defeat Leomon, while Jin Nanjiang’s Seal of Vigor briefly boosted Henry. The chapter ended with Zheng Fan realizing Cheng Ming had manipulated Henry and that Ruki’s grandmother was in grave danger.

• Cheng Ming used his suggestion to influence Henry into following Ruki, then controlled the proprietress at the Fisherman's Seafood Ramen Shop.
• Juri failed to awaken Sakura’s cards, and Zheng Fan and Jin Nanjiang discussed ways to help her become strong enough to defeat Leomon.
• Jin Nanjiang cast her improved Seal of Vigor on Henry, who demonstrated its power by punching apart a dead tree.
• Zheng Fan tested Henry’s control of his strength by having him attack, then asked whether Henry and Ruki had encountered anyone on their way.
• Ruki remembered meeting someone with her grandmother, and Zheng Fan warned that her grandmother was in grave danger as he drew the Night Dawn Sword.

Zheng Fan and the others rushed to stop Cheng Ming, but Minamoto no Yoritomo Tsukuru killed Ruki’s grandmother while she blocked his way. After Zheng Fan admitted he had killed others who were controlled, Calumon revealed Ruki’s desire to protect her family, and the Light of Evolution enveloped Ruki and Renamon.

• Zheng Fan refused to let Henry join the dangerous pursuit, accepted Takato and the others’ help, and took Jin Nanjiang’s Substitute Talisman.
• Minamoto no Yoritomo Tsukuru killed Ruki’s grandmother after she blocked his attempt to reach Cheng Ming, then fought Renamon and the arriving Digimon.
• Zheng Fan stopped the Digimon from attacking Minamoto no Yoritomo Tsukuru and admitted that he had killed other people who had been controlled.
• Jin Nanjiang and Li Shuangyan arrived with Calumon, who urged Zheng Fan to use the Soul-Probing Mantra on Ruki.
• Under the mantra’s influence, Ruki spoke of wanting to protect her family, and the Light of Evolution enveloped her and Renamon.

Sakuyamon saved Ruki’s grandmother by removing Cheng Ming’s influence, but the effort left her powerless and unconscious. After Zheng Fan pursued Cheng Ming for a month, he returned with a badly injured Leomon and learned that saving Sakuyamon might require entering Digimon World.

• Renamon evolved into Sakuyamon, who used the Nine Tribulations of All Beings, Nine Wishes of All Beings, and Soul Summoning to free Grandma from Cheng Ming’s doppelganger and revive her.
• Sakuyamon collapsed from exhaustion, and Zheng Fan set out to find Cheng Ming with Minamoto no Yoritomo Tsukuru; Leomon joined them, while Jin Nanjiang stopped Takato and Growlmon from following.
• For a month, Zheng Fan and his companions pursued Cheng Ming amid destructive incidents and outbreaks of violent, zombie-like humans caused by Cheng Ming extracting emotional power.
• Zheng Fan returned to find Sakuyamon unconscious and Leomon gravely injured after shielding the group from an enemy’s self-detonation.
• Jin Nanjiang explained that Sakuyamon’s power had depended on Ruki’s will, that Calumon had given up his power to help her, and that Sakuyamon needed data energy and access to Digimon World’s laws to recover.
• Zheng Fan considered whether to return to Digimon World, despite the danger posed by its powerful Digimon.

Leomon and Juri formed a partnership, and Zheng Fan received a Digivice with Calumon as his partner, discovering that Calumon could use modified cards to enhance him. The group renamed the card ranks Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, while Izzy Izumi’s investigation ended with a card falling into the Nine Palaces Grid and opening a gate in Myotismon’s castle.

• Leomon gave Juri an orange-and-white Digivice and promised to help her become the strongest Tamer.
• Zheng Fan asked Calumon to fight alongside him, and a black Digivice appeared in his hand.
• Jin Nanjiang had Calumon swipe a modified Paper Talisman, which enhanced Zheng Fan and remained reusable after its power was spent.
• Zheng Fan and Jin Nanjiang agreed to name the card ranks Earthly Branches and Heavenly Stems.
• Izzy Izumi identified the lion, archer, and ape cards with Leomon, Sagittariusmon, and Etemon as Vaccine, Data, and Virus; Mimi Tachikawa startled him, causing the cards to fall into the Nine Palaces Grid.
• The gate clicked open, and light from the other world shone into Myotismon’s castle.