Recaps

Mo Yan studied the Gluttony Demon Lord’s data and planned a custom dark form to balance his Angel Form, while searching for a source of authority that would not conflict with the Seven Great Demon Lords. His thoughts were interrupted by a powerful surge of data shooting into the sky.

• Mo Yan compared the Gluttony Demon Lord’s data with dark Digimon data and recalled how the Seven Great Demon Lords had claimed authority over the seven deadly sins.
• Mo Yan decided that his Dark Digicore needed to support a dark Digimon form strong enough to balance his Angel Form, but he could not challenge the Seven Great Demon Lords for their authority.
• Mo Yan realized he could design a Demon Lord-type form himself, then considered other possible sources of authority, including Apocalymon and Millenniummon.
• Mo Yan concluded that he needed a pure darkness capable of uniting with holy power, but found no Digimon that truly mastered darkness.
• A powerful surge of data shot into the sky and interrupted Mo Yan’s research.

Mo Yan watched a pillar of data light rise as Takato Matsuki and Guilmon set out for the Twin Towers to face the approaching Ultimate Digimon. As Mo Yan challenged Impmon’s doubts about the DigiDestined, a witch in red robes descended from the sky on a broom and called out to him.

• Mo Yan explained to Impmon that human children’s pure hearts could give Digimon the power to evolve, while Guilmon insisted that Takato was kind.
• Takato Matsuki arrived, saw the pillar of light, and learned from Guilmon and Mo Yan that an Ultimate Digimon was likely coming.
• Takato Matsuki and Guilmon ran toward the Twin Towers, while Mo Yan stayed behind and asked Impmon whether he wanted to watch.
• Impmon doubted that Champion-level partners could defeat an Ultimate, and Mo Yan criticized him for not understanding the DigiDestined.
• A witch in fiery-red wizard robes descended on a broom and asked Mo Yan if he had missed her.

Witchmon confronted Mo Yan and revealed that she had split herself into two DigiCores through a dangerous experiment, with their teacher's help. Mo Yan was shocked by the risk she had taken and regretted sharing his research on multiple DigiCores with SageMon.

• Witchmon arrived on her broom and challenged Mo Yan, who recognized her as the rival he had once tried to escape in Witchelny.
• Witchmon wielded dark power, and Mo Yan warned her that using dark data without proper precautions violated the Wizard's Code.
• Mo Yan repelled Witchmon's darkness and teleported Impmon away before Impmon could linger to hear their exchange.
• Witchmon used Double Doppelganger to divide herself into red-robed and black-robed forms, each with a DigiCore.
• Witchmon told Mo Yan that their teacher had helped her succeed, leaving Mo Yan alarmed and regretful about giving SageMon his research report on multiple DigiCores.

Mo Yan fought Witchmon in her Darkness Domain and received the mythological and ancient data SageMon had prepared to help him advance his Twelve Digicores. He realized Witchmon had incapacitated Ice Wizardmon to take his place, while she insisted their teacher was unharmed.

• Mo Yan used Nature Magic: Balanced Environment to grow data plants throughout Witchmon's Darkness Domain and challenged her to think like a wizard rather than rely on brute force.
• Mo Yan explained that he collected chivalry data to broaden his possible evolutions and balance his rationality, while warning Witchmon that dark data was affecting her personality.
• Witchmon delivered the initial fragments of mythological data and ancient data that SageMon had gathered for Mo Yan.
• Mo Yan suspected Witchmon had done something to Ice Wizardmon, and Witchmon admitted she had put him to sleep temporarily.

Mo Yan fought Red Witchmon and BlackWitchmon with his ten DigiCores, then turned their attacks into data for an experiment. As Witchmon guarded him, a remarkably pure strand of data began to form within the wheel of light.

• Mo Yan realized Teacher IceWizardmon had likely allowed Witchmon to put him to sleep, and he decided to teach her a lesson while venting his frustration.
• Mo Yan used his ten DigiCores to weaken BlackWitchmon’s darkness domain, purify its data, and store the results for his research.
• Red Witchmon attacked with Fierce Wind Water Vortex, while BlackWitchmon launched Darkness Wave, and Mo Yan countered with Ten Directions Annihilation.
• Mo Yan’s Ten Directions Annihilation dismantled and absorbed both attacks, refining their data without striking the Witchmons.
• Witchmon complained that Mo Yan had started experimenting again, then sat back and sent her Little Demon familiar to keep watch.
• Witchmon sensed an exceptionally pure strand of holy, vast, warm data taking shape within the wheel of light.

Mo Yan explained how he had combined Mythical Source Code, Ancient Data, and the power of his ten DigiCores to create new data with contradictory yet harmonious attributes. As the experiment reached its final stage, he altered its commands to give Witchmon a “little good fortune,” and the Holy Ring appeared.

• Mo Yan told Witchmon how his experiment fused mythical, ancient, and present-day data using ten DigiCores.
• Witchmon sensed that the emerging data embodied opposing qualities such as life and death, hope and despair, and light and darkness.
• Mo Yan described how cycling power attributes removed incompatible data and merged what could be combined.
• Mo Yan glimpsed the possibility that the new data could surpass Authority Power or become a new Authority Power suited to him.
• Witchmon grew alarmed when Mo Yan became distracted, but Mo Yan changed the experiment’s commands and the Holy Ring appeared.

Mo Yan used the wheel formed by “Ten Directions Annihilation” and the Holy Ring to inscribe unknown light-aligned data into Witchmon’s DigiCore, observing that her core data upgraded itself rather than evolving. Witchmon regained consciousness and secretly corrupted the data with darkness, causing it to connect to Mo Yan and begin inscribing itself into his data.

• Mo Yan trapped Witchmon and used the wheel of light to connect unknown data to her, then recorded how it entered her DigiCore.
• Mo Yan observed Witchmon’s core data absorbing higher-level foreign data and distinguished the process from Digimon evolution.
• Witchmon regained consciousness, examined her changed data, and secretly used her dark DigiCore to corrupt the unknown data.
• Witchmon shouted “Face the judgment of darkness!” and reversed the data’s attribute from light to darkness.
• The dark data ribbons connected to Mo Yan, and fragments of unknown data began inscribing themselves into his data.

Mo Yan used the unknown data and Dark Digicore to create Dark Angemon, a dark counterpart to his Angel Form. When the two forms appeared together, they faced each other without fighting as Mo Yan made the remaining Digicores circle them and both angels released their power.

• Mo Yan let the dark data ribbons connect, replaced the Dark Digicore in the halo with the Chivalry Digicore, and accelerated the unknown data’s formation.
• Mo Yan used the Dark Digicore to anchor his data, which gathered into a dark Digi-Egg.
• Mo Yan found data resembling a dark version of the Holy Ring and formed it into a Dark Ring inside the Digi-Egg.
• Mo Yan combined the Dark Ring with edited dark angel data and shaped the form into Dark Angemon, a Champion, Virus-attribute Fallen Angel-type Digimon.
• The dark Digi-Egg shattered, and Dark Angemon appeared as Mo Yan’s Angel Digicore summoned Flame Angemon · Divine Attendant Form.
• Mo Yan controlled the remaining nine Digicores to circle both angels, who released their power without attacking each other.

Mo Yan balanced the powers of light and darkness in his DigiCores, using the Gluttony Demon Lord’s dark data and discovering how each power could transform into the other. He set the two forces into a cycle of pursuit and conversion, beginning his path toward Holy-Demon Unity.

• Mo Yan used his nine remaining DigiCores to contain the clash between the Angel Digicore and Dark Digicore, then adjusted their powers to bring them into balance.
• Mo Yan unsealed the Gluttony Demon Lord’s data, strengthening his darkness until it could stand on equal footing with his light.
• As the powers clashed, Mo Yan studied their data and realized that light and darkness could transform into each other.
• Mo Yan corrupted a portion of light data with negative emotions, converting it into darkness, then used light data to raise darkness into light.
• Mo Yan established a cycle in which light pursued and purified darkness while darkness hunted and corrupted light.

Wizard Mo Yan used the data vortex created by Yamaki’s Extermination Plan to begin forging his own Flame Sword. He concealed himself when familiar data signatures approached, as Winged Tiger appeared and Takato Matsuki and his companions arrived at the Twin Towers.

• Yamaki watched the Extermination Plan drag wild Digimon into the vortex and turn them into data, unaware that it was widening the passage between worlds.
• Wizard Mo Yan emerged from the Wizard DigiCore and used the Crystal Ball to protect himself as he approached the vortex’s center.
• Wizard Mo Yan assembled the Flame Sword’s preliminary data from the four elements and prepared to finish forging it under the vortex’s pressure.
• Wizard Mo Yan sensed familiar data signatures, concealed himself, and saw a red figure fly toward Original Self Mo Yan.
• Winged Tiger appeared on the Twin Towers’ rooftop as Takato Matsuki and his companions arrived outside the building.

Wizard Mo Yan met TigerVespamon, who explained that Qinglongmon had created a separate version of himself using a Divine Jewel and warned that Mo Yan’s broad DigiCore specialization could hinder his progress. TigerVespamon revealed that he had come to help the DigiDestined gain mythological data, especially the future miko, whose potential interested Qinglongmon.

• Wizard Mo Yan noticed Witchmon and alerted the original Mo Yan that she had arrived in the real world.
• TigerVespamon detected Wizard Mo Yan and explained that his current form had been created from separated core data using Qinglongmon’s Divine Jewel.
• TigerVespamon relayed Qinglongmon’s warning that Mo Yan’s path of specializing his DigiCores was powerful but too broad and could slow his progress.
• TigerVespamon told Wizard Mo Yan that the DigiDestined needed help beyond evolution light to face future disasters.
• TigerVespamon confirmed that the children’s Digimon needed mythological data, and said Qinglongmon was especially interested in the future miko.

TigerVespamon tested the DigiDestined’s Digimon as part of Qinglongmon’s plan to grant them power, while Wizard Mo Yan struggled to shape chrono digi-alloy into his Flame Sword. As Takato Matsuki and Guilmon synchronized under pressure, Calumon’s Evolution Light triggered their Matrix Evolution.

• TigerVespamon admitted that his Wizardmon data was highly compatible with Witchmon’s, then watched the children prepare to challenge him.
• TigerVespamon defeated Kyuubimon’s Fox Flame Dragon, badly injuring her and forcing her to revert to Renamon.
• Gargomon attacked TigerVespamon with Gatling Gun, but TigerVespamon examined his angel data and knocked him off the rooftop with Confusion.
• Growlmon arrived to face TigerVespamon as Wizard Mo Yan found that he could not reshape the solid chrono digi-alloy in the data vortex.
• Takato Matsuki synchronized with Guilmon, and Calumon’s Evolution Light triggered their Matrix Evolution into Great Growlmon.

Wizard Mo Yan used Great Growlmon’s Atomic Blaster to reshape chrono digi-alloy into the Flame Sword while TigerVespamon fought the Demon Dragon. As TigerVespamon’s avatar vanished, he delivered Qinglongmon’s order for Mo Yan to return to the Qinglong Sanctuary for a new mission.

• Wizard Mo Yan asked TigerVespamon to lure Great Growlmon into firing its Atomic Blaster at him.
• Wizard Mo Yan used alchemy magic and sword data to forge the Flame Sword from chrono digi-alloy.
• Great Growlmon’s attack ended, TigerVespamon’s avatar began dissolving, and the children cheered beneath the Twin Towers.
• TigerVespamon relayed Qinglongmon’s order for Wizard Mo Yan to return to the Qinglong Sanctuary when the children traveled to the Digital World.
• TigerVespamon said he had seen Angel leave, and Wizard Mo Yan promised to challenge him to a fight when he returned.

Wizard Mo Yan used Calumon’s Evolution Light and the data vortex to evolve into Grand Mage Beast. Helicopters gathered to watch him, while the children below prepared to fight again.

• Wizard Mo Yan unified the data of his crystal ball and Flame Sword, then teleported Calumon to the vortex above the Twin Towers.
• Wizard Mo Yan asked Calumon for help and used his magic to draw out the power of Evolution Light.
• Wizard Mo Yan sent Calumon away, absorbed the remaining data in the vortex, and began evolving as dazzling white light dispersed the vortex.
• Wizard Mo Yan evolved from Wizardmon into Grand Mage Beast, an Ultimate Digimon skilled in magic and swordsmanship.
• Helicopters gathered around Grand Mage Beast, while the children below the towers prepared to fight again.

Wizard Mo Yan used Spatial Isolation to cut off the Island Nation's military and Land of No Dust to suppress Guilmon and the other Digimon, leaving the children unable to make them digivolve. Impmon appeared among the children and blurted out that Mo Yan's old flame had arrived, then realized Mo Yan was standing behind him.

• Wizard Mo Yan cast Spatial Isolation, blocking the Island Nation's military and surveillance from reaching the area.
• Wizard Mo Yan cast Land of No Dust, dispelling the Digimon Card boosts and suppressing Guilmon and the others' power and digivolution.
• Takato Matsuki, Li Jianliang, and Rika Makino questioned their partners about the spell and their opponent, while the Digimon confirmed they could not digivolve.
• Impmon appeared behind the children and said Mo Yan had teleported him there because his old flame had shown up.
• Takato Matsuki and the others pointed behind Impmon, who turned and found Wizard Mo Yan standing there.

Wizard Mo Yan confronted Impmon and admitted that he had suppressed the Digimon cards and evolution, explaining his hostility toward human surveillance. The children struggled to understand his identity and motives before he linked his teleportation spell to Impmon’s and vanished with him.

• Impmon tried to escape with a makeshift teleportation spell, but Wizard Mo Yan noticed it and secretly set its destination.
• Wizard Mo Yan confirmed to Takato Matsuki, Rika Makino, and Li Jianliang that he had evolved on his own and caused the earlier displays of power.
• Wizard Mo Yan said he disliked being watched by humans and had no reason to fear their forces, leaving the children unable to answer him.
• Li Jianliang declared that Wizard Mo Yan was not Mo Yan, and Wizard Mo Yan replied that he was and was not.
• Impmon taunted Wizard Mo Yan as his spell activated, but Wizard Mo Yan connected it to his own spatial spell and disappeared with Impmon.

Impmon fought Dark Impmon, a copy created from the fears and memories he had buried, inside the chaos of the Four Elements Crystal Ball. As Wizard Mo Yan watched, Impmon confronted his painful memories of Xiao Ai and A Zhen, and Mo Yan prepared Evolution Light as Impmon’s resolve solidified.

• Impmon fled through a dark space while a Digimon with data identical to his pursued and taunted him.
• Dark Impmon revealed that he was born from the fear and darkness in Impmon’s heart, and the two began trading attacks.
• Dark Impmon brought up Xiao Ai and A Zhen’s fight over Impmon, reviving Impmon’s memory of fleeing after seeing them tear apart a teddy bear.
• Impmon and Dark Impmon fought hand to hand, each badly wounded as they tried to vent their anger and fear.
• Wizard Mo Yan watched through the Crystal Ball and explained that he had created Dark Impmon to make Impmon face his inner fears.
• Seeing Impmon’s resolve become complete, Wizard Mo Yan conjured a ball of Evolution Light.

Impmon confronted the Dark Impmon born from his own past and chose to stop running from his fears. After absorbing Dark Impmon and a mass of white light, Impmon evolved into Wizardmon.

• Dark Impmon knocked Impmon down and taunted him for running from his problems, but Impmon declared he would face Xiao Ai and A Zhen.
• Impmon recalled Mo Yan's lessons about magic and cast Dark Night Barrier to withstand Dark Impmon's fireballs.
• Dark Impmon summoned Dark Night Fire Rain, but Impmon seized control of the data in the space and approached him.
• Impmon explained that Digimon could evolve into more complete versions of themselves, then embraced Dark Impmon.
• Dark Impmon dissolved into light and entered Impmon, followed by a mass of white light, and Impmon digivolved into Wizardmon.

Wizardmon evolved from Impmon and discussed Digimon evolution with Wizard Mo Yan, who explained why Wizardmon’s original form was the best starting point for studying subspecies forms. The chapter ended with Wizard Mo Yan revealing that the Twelve Digicores represented divine power and the Digital World’s blessing.

• Impmon evolved into Wizardmon, retaining his red scarf around his upper arm, and sensed something strange about the space around him.
• Wizardmon greeted Wizard Mo Yan as his teacher, and Mo Yan asked what he had learned about Digimon evolution.
• Wizard Mo Yan explained that Digimon evolved through data and that evolution preserved their ability to grow, change, and influence many worlds.
• Wizardmon questioned why Mo Yan had suppressed his evolution, and Mo Yan explained that Transfer Evolution was easier from an original form to a subspecies.
• Wizardmon asked what the Twelve Digicores meant, and Wizard Mo Yan said they were a facet of divine power and a blessing from the Digital World.

Wizard Mo Yan explained the meaning of divine titles and the burdens Digimon faced as intelligent life, then gave Wizardmon a mark granting access to his Knowledge Treasury. Wizardmon received the authorization and learned what it was for.

• Wizard Mo Yan corrected Wizardmon's assumption that possessing Twelve Digicores could make him a god and explained why the Four Holy Beasts were honored as gods.
• Wizard Mo Yan said the Four Holy Beasts had completed their path while he still had far to go, and Wizardmon concluded that staying alive mattered most.
• Wizard Mo Yan described how accumulated data and encounters with other intelligent life could change or destabilize Digimon, contributing to conflicts and the Dark Area.
• Wizard Mo Yan formed an access mark and gave it to Wizardmon, explaining that it opened his Knowledge Treasury.

Wizard Mo Yan explained the purpose of databases in the Digital World and gave Wizardmon access to his Knowledge Treasury. He encouraged Wizardmon to study independently, and Wizardmon left determined to train and search for Xiao Ai and A Zhen.

• Wizard Mo Yan explained how Digimon and factions built databases to preserve knowledge and pass it on.
• Wizard Mo Yan showed Wizardmon his Knowledge Treasury and granted him access on the condition that he contribute his own knowledge.
• Wizardmon asked to keep learning from his teacher, so Wizard Mo Yan showed him books about Champion-level abilities and training.
• Wizard Mo Yan told Wizardmon to become a fellow traveler rather than a follower, and Wizardmon decided to study, train, and search for Xiao Ai and A Zhen.
• Wizard Mo Yan departed, leaving behind a DigiCore, while Wizardmon vowed to find his friends and learn what had happened to them.

Mo Yan’s evolved Wizard Digicore helped Flame Angemon and Dark Angemon take physical form, but the reunion of their DigiCores triggered a much larger transformation. After all twelve DigiCores gathered, they formed a dodecahedron around Mo Yan’s data and began a higher-level unification that was still settling at the chapter’s end.

• Flame Angemon’s Divine Attendant Form became physical, and Dark Angemon emerged from Mo Yan with its own dark DigiCore.
• Mo Yan rebuked Witchmon for splitting her DigiCore and experimenting with dark data, while Witchmon defended the procedure by citing SageMon’s ninety-nine-percent success estimate.
• Flame Angemon and Dark Angemon completed their exchange, returned to DigiCore form, and spiraled into Mo Yan as Witchmon raised a domain barrier and defensive shields.
• The light and dark DigiCores drew out all eleven other DigiCores, and Mo Yan’s evolved Wizard Digicore joined them to form a twelve-sided polyhedron around his data.
• Mo Yan’s twelve DigiCores began reorganizing and unifying his data, and the expanding, contracting polyhedron eventually started to settle.

Mo Yan emerged from absorbing ancient and mythological data in his Grand Mage Beast form, while Dark Witchmon boldly clung to and teased him. After restoring their surroundings to the park, Mo Yan sensed Sandiramon and teleported with Dark Witchmon to investigate.

• The dodecahedron shattered, and Mo Yan woke without unleashing the shock wave Dark Witchmon had expected.
• Mo Yan caught Dark Witchmon reaching toward him, absorbed the surrounding data, and transformed into his Grand Mage Beast form.
• Dark Witchmon refused to change back and magically clung to Mo Yan's arm as he restored their surroundings to the park.
• Mo Yan sensed Sandiramon's arrival, invited Dark Witchmon to investigate, and teleported them away.

Mo Yan and Dark Witchmon used a time-stopping spell to speak privately with Sandiramon, who was fighting Takato Matsuki and the others. After discussing his doubts about Zhuqiaomon’s plans and evolving independently, Mo Yan left with Dark Witchmon, while Sandiramon suspected Mo Yan had noticed something and anticipated future encounters.

• Mo Yan and Dark Witchmon arrived in the underground tunnel, and Mo Yan used the Four Elements Crystal Ball to freeze most of the battlefield in time.
• Mo Yan asked Sandiramon whether Zhuqiaomon had gained a similar ability, but Sandiramon praised his god without giving a convincing answer.
• Sandiramon admitted that the long years had weakened his resolve and that he resented being sent to serve as easy prey for human children and their partner Digimon.
• Mo Yan sympathized with Sandiramon’s struggle to evolve independently and develop a unique ultimate form.
• As the spell began to wear off, Mo Yan and Dark Witchmon teleported away after exchanging farewells with Sandiramon.
• Sandiramon suspected Mo Yan had noticed something and reflected that their future encounters would not be boring.

Takato Matsuki and the others defeated Sandiramon in the underground tunnel, while Mo Yan watched from afar and kept his presence hidden. After Sandiramon vanished, the group decided to ask Mo Yan about the Deva, and Dark Witchmon questioned Mo Yan about Sandiramon's strange behavior.

• After Mo Yan left, Growlmon and Kyuubimon sensed that another Digimon had been in the tunnel, but they could not identify him.
• Rika Makino, Li Jianliang, and Takato Matsuki powered up Kyuubimon, Gargomon, and Growlmon, and the three Digimon struck Sandiramon with their strongest attacks.
• Sandiramon accepted the attacks, claimed that twelve Deva had come to the Human World at their god's command, and warned the children that Ultimate-level power would not be enough.
• Sandiramon broke apart into data that flowed into Kyuubimon, Gargomon, and Growlmon, and Takato Matsuki led the group toward the emergency exit.
• Mo Yan and Dark Witchmon appeared on a distant rooftop, where Dark Witchmon asked why Sandiramon had acted strangely.