Arc 22Chapters 529–546
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Zhang Xiao learned from Orasia Slytherin how she became the Dementor Queen to sustain Salazar Slytherin, but found him near collapse as the Stadium Battle’s malice accelerated the catastrophe. With less than a day left, Zhang Xiao raced to warn his family and Dumbledore.
Zhang Xiao told Dumbledore that Slytherin’s failing efforts to hold back the apocalypse left the world with only one day before destruction, and Dumbledore confirmed the danger. They began organizing an evacuation and opening Hogwarts as a sanctuary, while Dumbledore went to warn the Wizarding World and Muggles; the chapter ended with him telling Susan Bones that the world would end within a day.
Dumbledore announced that doomsday would arrive in one day and urged witches and wizards to evacuate to China, bringing Muggles with them. As Adam and Zhang Xiao began helping Muggles flee, Zhang Xiao prepared to reveal the warning to the people outside the Grangers' dental practice.
Zhang Xiao’s prophecy sent Britain into panic, while he and other wizards rushed to bring Muggles to Hogwarts. As Dumbledore prepared to turn the castle into a Portkey to China, he warned that magic was growing stronger and doomsday might be worse than expected; Zhang Xiao then headed to New York’s Chinatown.
Zhang Xiao warned people in New York that a cosmic disaster was coming and helped Neville's martial arts school evacuate. As London descended into chaos, Adam used magic to help his neighbor's family escape, and Zhang Xiao returned to Hogwarts to speak with Glove Lady.
Zhang Xiao visited the Glove Lady, who revealed that she was Isidora Morgana, a former Ravenclaw who had fallen into dark magic while trying to ease her father's grief. She explained that she had split off her uncorrupted self as a Horcrux to seal the corrupted Morgana, and had entrusted the balancing power called Future to Zhang Xiao.
Zhang Xiao and Dumbledore raced to bring refugees to Hogwarts as the apocalypse arrived ahead of schedule. After Zhang Xiao rescued Adam and his neighbors, Dumbledore lifted the castle into the sky, where Zhang Xiao found his parents waiting for him.
The Old Celestial Master brought Zhang Xiao and others to safety near Dragon-Tiger Mountain as the apocalypse spread, and the Heavenly Court appeared to hold back the encroaching darkness. He revealed that the incomplete Heavenly Court could not hold for long, and Senior Brother offered to help support it.
Zhang Quandao and the Daoist Order agreed to ascend by surrendering their lives and consciousness to complete the Heavenly Court, while Zhang Xiao learned what the sacrifice meant and said farewell to his parents. As the barrier failed and evacuation began, a huge crack suddenly appeared in the Light Curtain.
As the Heavenly Court’s Light Curtain neared collapse, soldiers and civilians gave their lives to weaken the Great Tribulation and buy time for the Ascension Ceremony. Zhang Xiao watched his parents ascend as the mountain god and water god to guard Huaxia, while their sacrifice left him behind.
After the deaths of Zhang Chengdao and most of Dragon-Tiger Mountain’s disciples, Zhang Xiao learned that the Old Celestial Master had long known about his past-life memories and unusual powers. The Old Celestial Master and Dumbledore then transferred the Celestial Master’s mantle to Zhang Xiao as they sacrificed themselves to stabilize the Heavenly Court and Magic Network, leaving him to guard a world emptied of his family, friends, and teachers.
Zhang Xiao inherited the Celestial Master’s secret through the Tiger and Dragon Jade Pendant, learning that the Heavenly Court was created to contain the Dark Abyss and protect the world. He received the burden of carrying that secret forward after Grandfather’s death.
After learning the truth behind the Heavenly Court and the Western Prohibition, Zhang Xiao returned to a world whose magical leaders had fallen and began confronting the work of rebuilding. At Hogwarts, he learned that Professor Sprout expected him to become headmaster and that Minister for Magic Susan urgently wanted to speak with him.
Zhang Xiao met with Minister Susan Bones, who offered him several new positions and explained plans to unite wizarding governments and bring magic to Muggles. Back at Dragon-Tiger Mountain, surviving disciples revealed that the Old Celestial Master had preserved them for the crisis, and Zhang Xiao went to master the Heavenly Court's power and the magic network.
Zhang Xiao connected with the Heavenly Court and the magic network, survived their immense powers, and gained abilities that let him restore Dragon-Tiger Mountain. He realized the Great Tribulation’s next stage would turn billions of people and animals into demons, then prepared to act on a solution as stars began falling across the Divine Land.
Zhang Xiao used the Heavenly Court and magic network to project millions of young people’s consciousnesses from a twin world, giving them a chance to fight the apocalypse. Gou Wa reunited with his mother, learned of his father’s sacrifice, and joined the mental network, where he reported back to his squadron.
Zhang Xiao led tens of millions of people from another world against the demons in Straya, while Zhao Yuanxu organized the homeland’s forces to support them. After days of brutal fighting left the defenders near collapse, Zhao Yuanxu arrived with a vast fleet, aircraft, and reinforcements, and Zhang Xiao ordered everyone to charge again.
After the monsters were defeated at immense cost, Zhang Xiao realized he could use Reparo on the whole world to restore everyone and everything to a time before the war. He succeeded, reunited with his friends and family, and the story ended with an optional joke about an inspector reporting that Earth had handled its own abyss outbreak.