Chapter Summaries

Zheng Fan and Jin Nanjiang opened a passage to Digimon World, but the group became trapped amid falling rocks and Saorimon’s effort to protect them. Zheng Fan and the others emerged from the passage just as more debris threatened them, and he prepared to defend everyone.

• Zheng Fan, Sakuyamon, and Jin Nanjiang combined their abilities to open a passage to Digimon World, while the others were left beneath a collapsing ceiling.
• Saorimon used Soul Chains to take the harm meant for Tai and the others, and Zheng Fan entered the passage with Takato, Ruki, Henry, and their companions.
• Zheng Fan discovered that Henry and the others had helped him stage a plan to keep Jin Nanjiang behind, but Jin Nanjiang had seen through their scheme.
• As the group traveled through the passage, Sakuyamon reverted to Ruki and Renamon, and Zheng Fan gathered her released data energy into a golden sphere.
• Saorimon struggled to endure the strain of protecting the group while Tai and Sora sensed something approaching from the passage.
• Zheng Fan emerged with the others as rocks fell, and he used Flowing Water Sword Style while Terriermon digivolved into Gargomon.

After learning that Myotismon had fled to Tai’s world and that the Gate connected different worlds, Zheng Fan agreed to take Takato and the others there. The Gate opened with Gomamon’s card, and Tai leaped through first.

• Zheng Fan learned that Myotismon had escaped to Tai’s world, then agreed to restore Sora’s appearance and take Takato’s group through the Gate.
• Zheng Fan explained that Takato’s Earth differed from Tai’s, but Juri persuaded him that leaving during the crisis would be like deserting a battlefield.
• Izzy worked out the card combination, and Tai uncovered Genai’s projection device beneath the castle ruins to ask for help.
• The group settled the final card choice with rock-paper-scissors, and Joe’s win meant Gomamon’s card was placed on the stone disk.
• The Gate opened, and Tai hugged Koromon and leaped through first.

Tai and the others returned to the real world, where they arranged to get off in Hikarigaoka and reunite with Takato’s group and the Digimon. After Gabumon accidentally cut down a utility pole while using the Night Dawn Sword, Zheng Fan asked whether they had a plan to find the eighth chosen child.

• Tai and the others confirmed they had returned to the real world and learned that their camping trip had been canceled because of the sudden snow.
• Mimi reunited with her classmates, and Tai stopped Sōgen Kyunosuke from touching Sora’s gloved hand.
• Tai persuaded their teacher to let him, Matt, T.K., Joe, and Izzy get off in Hikarigaoka, with the others joining them.
• Terriermon revealed that Ruki had hidden Takato’s group and the Digimon with Bakemon’s cloak, while Zheng Fan explained that he could track them by their auras.
• Zheng Fan gave the Night Dawn Sword to Gabumon, whose sword-infused Pepper Breath sliced through a roadside utility pole.
• Zheng Fan asked whether they had a concrete plan to find the eighth chosen child in Hikarigaoka.

Zheng Fan’s group followed the clues about the eighth child to Hikarigaoka, where Tai and Matt’s Digimon battled Mammothmon. The fight restored the others’ suppressed memories of the incident four years earlier, while a mysterious black mist entered Sora Takenouchi and gave her a new power.

• Joe Kido suggested that the eighth child might have lived in Hikarigaoka, and the group headed toward the school district where Tai and Sora Takenouchi had studied.
• A police officer warned the group about an escaped elephant, but they found Mammothmon attacking the street and let Greymon and Garurumon fight it.
• Sora Takenouchi recalled the Hikarigaoka explosion, prompting Zheng Fan to remove a hypnosis that had suppressed the group’s memories of the Digimon battle four years earlier.
• The black mist Zheng Fan extracted re-formed and entered Sora Takenouchi, whose severed fingers returned black and rune-marked.
• Sora Takenouchi pointed her middle finger at Mammothmon and paralyzed it, allowing Greymon and Garurumon to destroy it with their special moves.

Sora regrew two fingers with a terrifying power that injured Cupimon and suppressed Xiao, while the group learned that the eighth Chosen Child had once seen Greymon in Hikarigaoka. On the subway ride toward Odaiba, Terriermon and the other Digimon helped expose a molester, and Zheng Fan subtly influenced the passengers to follow the suspect off at Nerima Station.

• Sora discovered that Biyomon's power had regrown her fingers, and Zheng Fan explained how its aura had harmed Cupimon and suppressed Xiao.
• Joe concluded that the eighth child had lived in Hikarigaoka four years earlier and seen Greymon, while Sora suggested checking old address books for possible classmates.
• Tai bought Zheng Fan's subway ticket, and Ruki teased Zheng Fan when he asked how people bought train tickets.
• Terriermon called a man on the subway a train molester, and the Digimon agreed to shout a warning without revealing themselves.
• Juri used ventriloquism to identify the man in the yellow sweater, and the passengers subdued him.
• Zheng Fan used the Intent Sword Technique to turn the passengers' outrage into a decision to accompany the molester to the police station, and they left the train at Nerima Station.

Oikawa Yukio discovered the Digimon aboard the train and eagerly questioned them after Zheng Fan agreed to help with basic research. After the group reached Shinjuku, Zheng Fan let the children split up to explore, but Joe Kido and Izzy Izumi went missing from Tai’s group.

• Oikawa Yukio confronted Leomon about not being human, then fainted when he saw Calumon and the other Digimon.
• After waking, Oikawa Yukio questioned the Digimon about their biology and learned about their world from Zheng Fan, Izzy Izumi, and Tai.
• At Shinjuku, Takato asked to stay and explore, and Zheng Fan agreed as long as ordinary people did not see their Digimon.
• Zheng Fan gave Henry money and used cards to conceal the Digimon, then parted ways with Takato and his companions.
• Tai’s group walked through Shinjuku and realized Joe Kido and Izzy Izumi were missing; their Digivice showed only five people.

Zheng Fan used a staged abduction by the Black Dragon Society to make the children confront their strength and vulnerability, but Saori’s resurrection ability and Sora’s frightening fingers intimidated the gangsters instead. The group headed toward Odaiba in a limousine while Izzy Izumi colored Sora’s fingers to look normal.

• Zheng Fan read a note claiming Izzy Izumi, Joe Kido, and Saori Kido had been captured, but the group kept eating because Saori was a Champion-level Digimon.
• Joe returned after escaping the Black Dragon Society with Saori and explained that he and Izzy Izumi had fought the gangsters before they used guns and drugs.
• Zheng Fan admitted that he had arranged the encounter to show the children how weak ordinary people were and remind them they were not invincible.
• Joe declared Saori his little sister, and the group left in a stretch limousine after the Black Dragon Society arranged the ride.
• The Black Dragon Society’s bosses grew afraid of Saori’s resurrection power and Sora Takenouchi’s black fingers, while Izzy Izumi used Holy Light to color Sora’s fingers normally.

Zheng Fan and the others were trapped in a traffic jam when Gesomon attacked, and Zheng Fan struck the Digimon from within to stop its deadly special attack. As Ikkakumon and Tentomon fought Gesomon, they targeted the steel pipe lodged in its head, provoking a furious response.

• Yagyu’s limousine broke down and blocked most of the road, while Yagyu used his Black Dragon Society membership to intimidate the people stuck in traffic.
• Brother Wu hurled a steel pipe at the limousine, then fled with Xiaofu; Yagyu threw the pipe into the river.
• Gesomon burst from the river and attacked, but Zheng Fan vanished into its body and interrupted its Death Shadow attack.
• Gomamon evolved into Ikkakumon and challenged Gesomon, while Joe Kido and Sora Takenouchi tried to help.
• Izzy Izumi told Ikkakumon to wait, then directed Tentomon to strike the steel pipe in Gesomon’s head with Boom Bubble, making Gesomon howl furiously.

Zheng Fan used South Heaven One Sword to escape Gesomon, survived the backlash, and left the children in the Black Dragon Society’s care. As the group headed home, Yagyu explained how the Society would cover up the battle as a miracle and silence witnesses.

• Zheng Fan invoked South Heaven One Sword, used Silver Mirror Beast’s Reflecting Shield to survive the sun’s counterattack, and escaped Gesomon before Ikkakumon killed it with Harpoon Vulcan.
• Saori healed T.K. Takaishi’s burned feet while the group waited for Zheng Fan to recover, and Ikkakumon offered to carry everyone home.
• Zheng Fan sent the navigation unit across the scorching, sword-scarred road and left after Yagyu promised to protect the children’s daily lives from the fallout.
• Izzy Izumi asked Yagyu about the Black Dragon Society’s name, and Yagyu said it had begun as a group serving the gods before becoming an underworld organization.
• Yagyu told Matt that the Society would present the battle as a miracle and threaten witnesses to keep the story from spreading.

Calumon secretly went hunting and tried to train by fighting an enhanced tiger, but he struggled because he lacked a special move and could not evolve. After the Night Dawn Sword rescued him from a wild boar, Calumon declared victory over the tiger.

• Calumon slipped out with the Night Dawn Sword while Zheng Fan slept and asked the sword to let him fight on his own.
• Calumon summoned a beam of light that the Night Dawn Sword destroyed, drawing an enhanced tiger into the forest.
• Calumon charged the tiger, shattered its teeth, and kicked it away, but the tiger tore fur from his back and later pinned him down.
• Calumon's forehead crystal flared and blasted the tiger away when it touched him, but his attempt to evolve failed.
• The Night Dawn Sword rescued Calumon from an approaching wild boar and carried him away with the boar's corpse as Calumon defiantly faced the tiger.

Calumon and the Night Dawn Sword forced Yagyu to gather Tokyo’s finest chefs and prepare dishes from the enormous wild boar they had hunted. The chefs finished four dishes, and Calumon was left to judge them.

• Calumon and the Night Dawn Sword found Yagyu before dawn and demanded that he find chefs to cook their wild boar.
• Yagyu struggled to contact anyone, then mobilized people across Tokyo to find top chefs and brought five of them to his house.
• The chefs inspected the giant boar and divided its cuts among their planned dishes, but their knives could not pierce its hide.
• Calumon used the Night Dawn Sword to sharpen the chefs’ knives, enabling them to prepare the meat.
• He Guyang, Zhao Kang, Kaimier and Kim Min-go, and Sekitani Kenjiro presented four wild boar dishes to Calumon.

After a dream unexpectedly advanced him to the Dharma Realm, Zheng Fan struggled to control his strength and decided to sheath the Night Dawn Sword. He left the story preparing to go out with Calumon and Yagyu Mubai while Xiao reluctantly agreed to enter the sheath.

• Zheng Fan woke weakened after dreaming and realized he had advanced beyond the Spirit Realm into the Dharma Realm.
• Yagyu Mubai brought Zheng Fan dishes made from a sentient boar, while Calumon and Xiao returned from hunting it.
• Zheng Fan ate the boar dishes, praised the chefs, and wrote seasoning recipes for Yagyu Mubai to pass along to them.
• Zheng Fan told Xiao that his new strength was difficult to control and decided to find a sheath for the Night Dawn Sword.
• Calumon tried to shield Xiao, but Xiao eventually agreed to enter the sheath after Zheng Fan explained that they might still face a fight.

Zheng Fan set out for Nanke Market to find materials for sheathing his power, while Yagyu Mubai’s ambitions and doubts came to the surface. At the market, a ninja ambushed Zheng Fan, whose recognition of the ninja lineage left him wondering how this hidden world could exist beyond Buzhou’s knowledge.

• Zheng Fan asked Yagyu Mubai to take him to Nanke Market, and Yagyu explained Takamagahara’s martial ranks and arranged a subway carriage for the trip.
• At the Emperor Hotel, a hostess’s contemptuous remarks and correction of Yagyu’s story prompted Zheng Fan to challenge Yagyu’s fixation on rising above others, leaving Yagyu dazed.
• Zheng Fan sent Takumi to stay with Yagyu, then reassured the undercover agent that Yagyu would not dare harm him while Zheng Fan was present.
• Zheng Fan browsed Nanke Market and bought items before confronting a dark-clad man who had been following him.
• The ninja attacked with a sonic technique and hidden weapons, but Zheng Fan blocked them and recognized the kunai and technique as belonging to the Six Paths Adept’s lineage.

Zheng Fan killed a Ninja and examined the diluted Six Paths Breakthrough bloodline before visiting Nanke Market to look for rare materials. He learned about stone gambling and chose an expensive ore, while Iwatani Masatada suspected Zheng Fan was a powerful outsider and hurried to consult Furukawa Shū.

• Zheng Fan crushed the Ninja’s heart, then concluded he would need to visit the Ninjas’ lair to learn more about their bloodline.
• Zheng Fan explained to Calumon that the Ninjas in his world inherited power through bloodlines, unlike those in Yamaki’s world, who relied on cultivation methods.
• A fat proprietor led Zheng Fan to his Burmese Old Mine shop and explained that customers gambled on whether ore contained jade or valuable metals.
• Zheng Fan tested a bar of No. 98 molybdenum steel and discussed how ordinary technology could advance beyond cultivation.
• Iwatani Masatada recognized Zheng Fan as a likely level-seven expert, sent Yuan Bing to watch him, and went to find Furukawa Shū.
• Zheng Fan selected a dark-brown rock priced at eighteen million US dollars and asked whether he had to cut it open there.

Zheng Fan shopped in Nanke Market while Myotismon’s forces plotted their next moves, and Kiwimon’s attempt to digivolve with a Crest turned him into Toadmon instead of Gesomon. Gatomon uncovered Myotismon’s trap and reflected on how his inexperience had alienated the Digimon under his rule.

• Zheng Fan bought unusual items and arranged for the shop to deliver a three-ton piece of guyasha despite not remembering his address.
• Kiwimon proposed disrupting Odaiba’s transportation network, and Myotismon gave him a Crest after Kiwimon revealed he wanted to become Gesomon.
• Gatomon reprimanded the Digimon for their defeats and revealed that BlackKnightmon and Straw Hat Captainmon had disappeared in Shinjuku, prompting Myotismon to strike her with his Demon Blood Whip.
• Kiwimon shattered and swallowed the Crest, but its hidden dark power merged with his Digicore and made him digivolve into Toadmon.
• Gatomon revealed she had dozens of Fake Crests and realized Myotismon had set a trap for anyone who used them to digivolve.
• Gatomon recalled her difficult past and contrasted her experience with Myotismon’s sheltered rise to power, noting that the other Digimon waited for him to fail.

Zheng Fan examined Shinichi Kudo, identified the likely cause of his condition, and agreed to inspect a mysterious Kudo family ore. At the Kudo Old Residence, he learned that the cultivation community was celebrating his arrival from the Celestial Empire, where a young man immediately challenged him.

• Shinichi Kudo introduced himself to Zheng Fan and described how an experimental drug had altered his body, while Zheng Fan suspected it contained the effects of the Four Seasons Revolving Flower.
• Zheng Fan threatened Shinichi after he asked about Ghost Festival symptoms, then accepted Shinichi's invitation to inspect a family ore measuring nearly three cubic meters but weighing only eight taels.
• Shinichi explained that the Kudo family wanted to hand over the ore, which had played a secret role in the Pearl Harbor Incident, but its elders were afraid to act.
• The Kudo family welcomed Zheng Fan with fireworks and cannons, and an elder explained that his arrival as a cultivator from the Celestial Empire was a major occasion for Fusang's cultivation community.
• After Zheng Fan sorted out the language, a young man challenged him, and Zheng Fan told him he needed another forty years of cultivation.

Zheng Fan defeated Kudo Shinji’s Draw-Sword Technique, then examined the Kudo Family’s mysterious azure heaven jade and identified it as impure ascension heaven crystal. Kudo Yusaku decided to give the crystal to Zheng Fan.

• Kudo Shinji challenged Zheng Fan to demonstrate Fusang’s martial heritage, and Zheng Fan allowed him one strike with a bamboo sword.
• Zheng Fan dodged Shinji’s first attack and flicked aside his second, destroying the bamboo sword; Shinji knelt and asked Zheng Fan to accept him as a disciple, but Zheng Fan ignored him.
• Shinichi Kudo led Zheng Fan to the basement, where Zheng Fan confirmed that the immovable azure heaven jade was connected to water and had been affected by a high-energy particle collision.
• Kudo Yusaku asked Zheng Fan about the ore, and Zheng Fan explained that azure heaven jade was impure ascension heaven crystal mixed with heavenly water qilin.
• After consulting the elders, Kudo Yusaku decided to give the ascension heaven crystal to Zheng Fan.

Zheng Fan accepted the Kudo Family’s ascension heaven crystal but left it in their care until it could be transported, then spoke with reporter Zhao Beiyue about Emperor Allen’s palace. Zhao’s investigation put her in danger at Tokyo Television, while Matt learned that his father had gone to Shibuya instead of coming home for dinner.

• Zheng Fan agreed to take the ascension heaven crystal and left a sword imprint at the Kudo estate to deter intruders.
• Zheng Fan discussed the dangers of the crystal and the Auxiliary Cultivation Path with Xiao and Calumon on the way back to the hotel.
• Zhao Beiyue interviewed Zheng Fan about the Kudo Family and Emperor Allen, hoping to research the emperor’s palace for a history program.
• Zhao Beiyue submitted a program plan, and her superior Uryu Ishida protected her from a Tokyo Television executive who planned to kill her.
• Matt called Sakurada to ask his father to come home for dinner, but Sakurada said the Section Chief had gone to Shibuya and would likely be late.

Matt and T.K. considered going to find their busy father, while Zhao Beiyue presented a media proposal to the Kudo Family with Uryu Ishida. Shinichi Kudo agreed to cooperate if Zheng Fan supported the plan, and Zhao Beiyue left excited to attend the Super Shape-Up semifinals.

• T.K. suggested that he and Matt go find their father, and Matt objected before reconsidering their ability to handle danger.
• Zhao Beiyue discussed her investigation with Uryu Ishida at a café and asked him to pay the bill.
• Uryu Ishida and Zhao Beiyue visited Shinichi Kudo at Nanke Market, where he revealed that someone had given him hope of curing his illness.
• Zhao Beiyue explained that Zheng Fan had provided information about the Kudo Family and that she had prepared a proposal using the television station's research on Emperor Allen.
• Shinichi Kudo warned Zhao Beiyue to justify herself to Zheng Fan, then returned her proposal and agreed the Kudo Family would cooperate if Zheng Fan wanted it.
• Zhao Beiyue invited Shinichi Kudo to Shibuya for the Super Shape-Up semifinals.

Zheng Fan broke free of time’s restraints, created the sword strike Flowing Light, and collapsed from exhaustion. In Shibuya, T.K. Takaishi chased after Patamon while Gabumon was carried off by Pumpkinmon and Oremon, leaving the group in pursuit of several Digimon.

• Zheng Fan used the Way of Time, decided it clashed with his sword path, and created Flowing Light before losing consciousness.
• Patamon flew out of the subway after T.K. Takaishi angrily told him to stop talking, and Matt went after him with T.K. Takaishi following.
• Pumpkinmon and Oremon talked about ruling Shibuya after Myotismon took over the human world.
• Gabumon sensed Digimon in Shibuya, but Pumpkinmon and Oremon grabbed him and ran from a woman demanding her ice cream back.
• T.K. Takaishi pointed the woman toward an intersection where Pumpkinmon and Oremon had gone.