Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xiao brought Vervidakis to Mount Olympus and opened the gates to the ruined divine realm, where they found evidence that the Greek gods had been destroyed. Zhang Xiao suspected that Christianity had wiped them out for the sake of faith, but he then discovered a chair bearing the Hogwarts crest inside the ancient palace.

• Zhang Xiao teleported Vervidakis to Mount Olympus, then opened a bridge of light to the divine realm after the house-elves lit its sacred flames.
• Zhang Xiao and Vervidakis found the skeletons of the Horae outside the gates and used the moving statues of Zeus and Hera to open them.
• Zhang Xiao and Vervidakis explored the ruined divine realm, where they saw scorched gardens, a broken fountain, and the shattered statue of Zeus.
• Zhang Xiao hinted that Christianity had killed the Greek gods for the sake of faith, leaving Vervidakis stunned.
• Zhang Xiao noticed a dust-covered chair embroidered with the Hogwarts crest inside the ancient Greek divine realm.

Zhang Xiao investigated the abandoned palaces of the Olympian gods and found evidence that someone from Hogwarts had visited the divine realm. He discovered Salazar Slytherin’s former laboratory and a note inviting his descendant to find him, ending with a sketch of a place Zhang Xiao thought he recognized.

• Zhang Xiao left Vervidakis inside a protective circle and flew through the divine palaces on his Small Sword.
• Zhang Xiao found English writing in Hermes’s palace and a Golden Apple in Hera’s garden, which turned out to be made of solid gold.
• Zhang Xiao discovered the Hogwarts crest and Salazar Slytherin’s snake emblem on a door in Zeus’s palace, then opened it with Parseltongue.
• Zhang Xiao explored Slytherin’s room and found research books and a chamber filled with the bodies of the gods.
• Zhang Xiao read Slytherin’s notes, which said his research was complete and invited his descendant to find him, then studied a sketch of a place he thought looked familiar.

Zhang Xiao discovered that Slytherin’s parchment contained an unfinished Portkey spell and completed it, expecting to find the location Slytherin had left for him. He arrived in a foggy place face-to-face with a Dementor and realized he was in Azkaban.

• Zhang Xiao explored the Olympian Palace with Vervidakis, showing him its ruins and allowing him to keep his memories while blurring how to enter.
• Zhang Xiao received Dumbledore’s note expressing interest in Slytherin’s laboratory and studied the parchment bearing a sketch of an island.
• Zhang Xiao used his Magical Eye to identify a hidden, unfinished spell beneath the parchment’s preservation charm.
• Zhang Xiao realized the hidden spell was an incomplete Portkey and completed it by casting “Portus” on the parchment.
• Zhang Xiao activated the parchment and arrived in thick fog, where he recognized a Dementor and realized he had reached Azkaban.

Zhang Xiao followed a Dementor beneath Azkaban and found Salazar Slytherin’s preserved records, which revealed that Slytherin had created the Standard Book of Spells to build a magic network and prevent wizards from warping reality into another apocalypse. Slytherin had planned to contain the dangerous desires within his own body until the network could share the burden, leaving Zhang Xiao to wonder what had happened to him.

• Zhang Xiao followed a Dementor into a concealed cavern beneath Azkaban and found a decayed room that suggested Slytherin was no longer there.
• A three-meter-tall Dementor wearing a tattered black dress led Zhang Xiao to an ice-preserved room and pointed him toward Slytherin’s records.
• Zhang Xiao read that the ancient gods had destroyed one another because their power warped reality beyond what the world could withstand, and that growing numbers of wizards threatened to bring about another apocalypse.
• Zhang Xiao learned that Slytherin designed the Standard Book of Spells to create a magic network that would let wizards cast spells without relying on intense desires.
• Zhang Xiao read that Slytherin intended to contain wizards’ reality-warping desires within his own body while the magic network developed, and promised Godric to protect Hogwarts until the end of his life.

Zhang Xiao pieced together how Slytherin tried to contain the world’s accumulating negative desires and learned that the effort cost Rowena her life and transformed Godric into the giant squid. After asking the strange Dementor whether Slytherin was all right, he discovered that it was Orasia Slytherin, Slytherin’s wife.

• Zhang Xiao concluded that Slytherin had studied magic and collective consciousness, then used her body to contain the negative desires threatening the world.
• Zhang Xiao read Slytherin’s account of Rowena dying after being struck by Slytherin’s dark magic and Godric being cursed into a giant squid.
• Zhang Xiao learned that Helga used the children’s happiness and innocence in her Golden Cup to bring Slytherin back from the brink of losing herself.
• Zhang Xiao connected the founders’ fates to Trelawney’s prophecy and realized he did not know whether Slytherin’s plan had succeeded.
• Zhang Xiao asked the strange Dementor about Slytherin, and it handed him a parchment identifying itself as Orasia Slytherin.

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 read Orasia Slytherin’s letter and learned she had transformed herself into a Dementor to feed Slytherin positive emotions and keep him going.
• Orasia led Zhang Xiao through the underground mist to Slytherin, whose rotting body could no longer withstand the growing distortion.
• Orasia told Zhang Xiao that the catastrophe had begun and could not be reversed, and she reunited with Slytherin before they vanished into the void.
• Zhang Xiao Apparated to Hogsmeade and called Zhang Chengdao and Li Qingshu to tell them the world would end within a day.
• Zhang Xiao broke through Hogwarts’ defenses, reached Dumbledore, and warned him that the end of the world was coming.

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.

• Zhang Xiao recounted how he had found Slytherin and learned that the apocalypse had begun, and Dumbledore concluded that it could no longer be stopped.
• The Old Celestial Master urged Zhang Xiao and Dumbledore to rescue as many people as possible and bring them to China.
• Dumbledore ordered Hogwarts’s professors to expand the castle, open its fireplaces, protect the students, and prepare food, then declared that the school would shelter anyone seeking refuge.
• Zhang Xiao gathered Muggle-born students’ family details and asked them to contact their parents, while Neville asked him to help evacuate the people at his martial arts school in New York.
• Dumbledore went to the Ministry of Magic and told Minister Susan Bones that the world would end in one 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.

• Dumbledore swore that his warning was true, announced that doomsday was one day away, and urged witches and wizards to evacuate to China with as many Muggles as possible.
• Adam packed in a panic, then persuaded his neighbors to flee with him after showing them his magic and explaining that they could travel to Hogwarts.
• Zhang Xiao arrived at Mr. Granger's dental practice and confirmed that Hermione's warning was true as Mr. and Mrs. Granger gathered their luggage.
• When police officers confronted Zhang Xiao outside the practice, one officer's bullet stopped in front of him, and Zhang Xiao summoned a halo and enormous wings of light with “Angel Descent!”

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 appeared as an angel over London and announced that people seeking salvation should travel to the ancient castle at Durham.
• The prophecy spread across Britain, causing widespread panic and traffic jams as wizards and the Ministry of Magic worked to evacuate Muggles.
• Adam persuaded his neighbors to abandon their car and set out with him, while Zhang Xiao rescued Murphy’s parents and brought them to Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore told Zhang Xiao that he planned to transport Hogwarts and everyone inside it to China with an enormous Portkey.
• Dumbledore observed that spells were growing stronger and warned that doomsday could bring even greater devastation, then set midnight as the deadline for leaving.
• Zhang Xiao used Apparition to reach Chinatown in New York.

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 told Wu Jiayou and Mr. Zhang that a cosmic tribulation was coming and gave Wu Jiayou Ilvermorny's location as a place of shelter.
• Wu Jiayou believed Zhang Xiao, called the Wang Family, and went to warn Chinatown residents, while Mr. Zhang decided to follow him.
• Zhang Xiao delivered Neville's warning to Benjamin, who immediately led the Wudang martial arts school away.
• Adam and his neighbor's family crossed London's traffic jam, and Adam repaired a minibus with magic so they could travel toward the Scottish Highlands.
• 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 visited the Glove Lady in the Room of Requirement and asked her what had happened.
• The Glove Lady identified herself as Isidora Morgana and described her innate ability to see magic and her studies of ancient magic.
• Morgana explained that she tried to remove her grieving father's pain, but dark magic warped her mind and left him unable to feel emotions.
• Morgana said she divided her uncorrupted self into a special Horcrux, while the corrupted remnant merged with a mass of distortion after the professor's Killing Curse struck her.
• Morgana revealed that she gathered Hogwarts' positive emotions to balance and seal the distortion, and that she had placed this power, Future, inside 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.

• Morgana explained how she had spent four hundred years containing a destructive entity in the Room of Requirement and gave Zhang Xiao the gift of “Future.”
• Refugees streamed into Hogwarts, where Zhang Xiao, Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Nicolas Flamel coordinated their evacuation as the Magic Network began to fail.
• Adam guided a crowded bus toward Hogwarts, but the sky split open and panic spread as the apocalypse arrived early.
• Zhang Xiao flew stranded vehicles and crowds toward the castle, then rescued Adam, his neighbor, the neighbor’s wife, and their daughter outside the closing gates.
• Dumbledore shielded Hogwarts from the disaster’s waves and lifted the castle into the sky, where Zhang Xiao saw his parents welcome him home.

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 Xiao reunited with Zhang Chengdao and Li Qingshu near Hogwarts, where they saw the apocalypse spreading across the horizon.
• Zhang Chengdao heard China’s nationwide emergency mobilization order and said they would return to Dragon-Tiger Mountain to prepare for battle.
• The Slytherin Statue shattered beneath Azkaban, unleashing black mist and a vast darkness that spread across the world.
• As the darkness approached the Eastern Lands, spectral figures appeared in the sky and raised a golden barrier to hold it back.
• The Old Celestial Master gathered the Daoist Order’s disciples and explained that the incomplete Heavenly Court could not hold the darkness for much longer.
• Senior Brother offered to help the Old Celestial Master hold up the Heavenly Court.

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.

• Zhang Quandao volunteered to become an immortal, and Daoist disciples followed as the Old Celestial Master assigned those with enough golden light to the Ascension Ranking.
• Zhang Chengdao and Li Qingshu took Zhang Xiao on an outing, asked the Mountain Lord and Big Black Bear to look after him, and explained that ascension meant death and the erasure of consciousness.
• Zhang Chengdao told Zhang Xiao that sacrifice would protect the world and urged him to live well, while Li Qingshu tearfully said goodbye.
• As the Heavenly Court’s protection weakened and the Light Curtain retreated, the nation began evacuating civilians while the Daoist Order and wizards deployed across the land.
• Xu Laogen and his family joined the evacuation, while soldiers monitored the barrier and prepared to protect those still waiting to leave.
• A huge crack suddenly opened in the Light Curtain, triggering screams among the crowd.

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.

• Zhang Xiao learned that his parents planned to ascend, but cracks spread across the Heavenly Court before the ceremony could begin.
• Zheng Wei realized that souls could reinforce the Light Curtain, shot himself to test the idea, and became a spirit who charged into the darkness.
• Two Bars and Three Stars led the soldiers to follow Zheng Wei, and their deaths sent a torrent of spirits against the Great Tribulation.
• Xu Laogen and other civilians joined the charge as their courage spread, and the darkness thinned enough for the Light Curtain’s cracking to stop.
• Zhang Chengdao and Li Qingshu ascended as the mountain god and water god of their land, while Zhang Xiao knelt and bid them farewell.

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 mourned his parents and the fallen Daoists as Black Tiger and Azure Luan accompanied him through Dragon-Tiger Mountain.
• Zhang Xiao asked the Old Celestial Master whether he had foreseen the disaster, and the Old Celestial Master explained that he knew Zhang Xiao carried memories from a past life.
• Zhang Xiao recalled that, while drunk, he had spontaneously manifested spells to help Norbert catch a plane, and the Old Celestial Master could not explain how he had done it.
• The Old Celestial Master told Zhang Xiao that he and Zhang Xiao’s parents had supported him out of guilt, and warned him to attend a final ceremony the next morning.
• The Old Celestial Master named Zhang Xiao the new Celestial Master, while Dumbledore explained that he and the Old Celestial Master would become the cores of the Magic Network and Heavenly Court.
• Dumbledore put the wizards into a deep sleep, and he and the Old Celestial Master ascended as a phoenix and dragon, aligning the stars with the Giant Net before the disciples bowed to Zhang Xiao as their Celestial Master.

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 the Celestial Master died, Zhang Xiao sent the grieving Daoist disciples to rest and entered Grandfather’s quiet room.
• Zhang Xiao awakened the Tiger and Dragon Jade Pendant with his Golden Light, and its Tai Chi and Bagua diagram sent him into a vision.
• In the vision, Zhang Hao explained that he and his allies fought to prevent the world’s collapse and established the Heavenly Court to regulate supernatural changes and warn of the Dark Abyss.
• Zhang Hao revealed that Zhang Xiao had been brought from a twin world, explained the origin of cultivation and the Dark Abyss, and urged him to protect the world.
• Zhang Xiao received the memories of Daoists who gave themselves to form and sustain the Heavenly Court, then saw Grandfather confirm that he had passed on the Celestial Master’s position.

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 watched the Old Celestial Master’s recorded farewell and learned how the ancient immortals had sacrificed themselves to form the Heavenly Court.
• Zhang Xiao realized the Western Prohibition had kept Daoist cultivation and Western spellcasting apart to prevent people from combining the two paths of the ancient immortals.
• Zhang Xiao returned to Dragon-Tiger Mountain, considered how the Heavenly Court and magic network could protect the survivors, and recognized that he had become the world’s strongest person.
• Zhang Xiao met Chairman Zhao, Zhao Fangyuan, at Hogwarts, where he organized the registration and resettlement of millions of foreigners and described plans for rationing and military administration.
• Professor Sprout told Zhang Xiao that Dumbledore had asked her to keep Hogwarts running until Zhang Xiao turned twenty, and said Minister for Magic Susan urgently wanted to meet 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 visited the emergency Ministry headquarters and met Susan Bones in her office.
• Susan Bones offered Zhang Xiao the roles of Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot and special president of the International Confederation of Wizards, along with the Order of Merlin, First Class.
• Susan Bones described plans to dissolve national Ministries, unite wizarding leadership, expand schools, and make magic accessible to Muggles; Zhang Xiao said he needed to consider the consequences for the Daoist Order.
• Susan Bones thanked Zhang Xiao for his support, and he returned to Dragon-Tiger Mountain to meet surviving disciples from the Talisman Investiture examination.
• The disciples told Zhang Xiao that the Old Celestial Master had preserved them for the coming crisis and trusted the next Celestial Master to find a solution.
• Zhang Xiao returned to the quiet room to try to master the power of the Heavenly Court 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 entered the Heavenly Court, resisted being assimilated by its collective consciousness, and connected with a light bearing his grandfather’s presence.
• Zhang Xiao merged with the magic network through a light linked to Professor Dumbledore, gaining a luminous cloak and a gemstone-like mark on his forehead.
• Zhang Xiao’s roar devastated the summit of Dragon-Tiger Mountain, but he restored the ruins with his new powers as the disciples watched.
• Zhang Xiao told Black Tiger that the Great Tribulation’s next stage would turn people and animals into billions of powerful demons, and said he had found a way to stop it.
• Zhang Xiao rose into the sky and summoned a vast vortex as countless stars began streaking across the Divine Land.