Chapter Summaries

Jenna and Ludwig recovered a withered healing mushroom from Mushu Hospital, while Franca decided to wait for Lumian before letting Ludwig eat it. After checking on An Reid and comforting Lumian-na, Franca collected her wages and encountered Zhou Mingrui, who seemed intent on speaking with her.

• Jenna took Ludwig from Mushu Hospital with the withered mushroom, and Franca suspected it was Li Keji’s final healing mushroom but urged them to wait for Lumian before testing it.
• Jenna checked An Reid’s apartment and confirmed that he was asleep and appeared safe.
• Lumian-na woke from a nightmare about her arrest, and Jenna and Franca comforted her before arranging for Miss Huang to take her in.
• Jenna went to work, Anthony returned to Dream City to watch Ludwig, and Franca completed her resignation and collected 3,500 yuan.
• Zhou Mingrui met Franca outside the Technology Department and asked whether she was resigning, leaving her anxious about what he might ask next.

Lumian and the Queen of Mysteries prepared an operation against Emperor Roselle, while Jenna learned that Great Pirate 3 was nearing the end of its theatrical run. Bernadette discovered that Huang Tao planned to leave the Dream City rather than put her in a difficult position.

• Franca put off Zhou Mingrui's questions, promising to explain things over a meal after she dealt with matters at home.
• Jenna learned from Jiang Yue that Great Pirate 3 was finishing its theatrical run and that a stage adaptation was being planned.
• Lumian-na told Bernadette she missed having her parents guide her, and Bernadette fell silent.
• The Queen of Mysteries explained the restrictions Lumian faced after being expelled from the dream and said they would act that afternoon; Lumian rented Magic Mirror Arrodes for the operation.
• Lumian and the Queen of Mysteries discussed their plan to restrain Emperor Roselle, with the Queen expecting to be expelled from the dream alongside her target.
• Bernadette visited Huang Tao's study, where he told her he was leaving and said he was glad she had hesitated for several days.

Emperor Roselle in the Mirror escaped into the deep Mirror World after warning Bernadette and the others that the apocalypse might arrive early and that people inside and outside the mirror could merge. His departure revealed a possible Celestial Worthy plan involving the Special Mirror World, prompting Lumian and his allies to hurry their operation; they also found his gift, the Blasphemy Card of the Primordial Witch.

• Huang Tao lured Bernadette into pursuing him through the Mirror World, while Franca, Anthony, Lumian, and Ludwig followed.
• At the edge of a region bordering the Special Mirror World, Emperor Roselle in the Mirror told Bernadette that he had achieved his purposes, warned of possible merging and an early apocalypse, and said he had left her a letter and Lumian a gift.
• Emperor Roselle in the Mirror entered the profound darkness and was permanently expelled from the dream; Bernadette hummed their familiar melody as he vanished.
• Lumian and the others concluded that Roselle’s presence may have caused the Special Mirror World to form and helped the Celestial Worthy’s plan, so they agreed not to delay their operation.
• Bernadette opened a desk drawer and found the gift for Lumian: a Blasphemy Card depicting Emperor Roselle in the Mirror as the Primordial Witch.

Lumian examined the Witch Blasphemy Card left by Emperor Roselle in the Mirror and learned the Witch pathway’s sequences and rituals, though its Sequence 0 ritual was obscured. After Ludwig ate the mushroom and developed the ability to produce healing spores, Lumian asked Arrodes whether its origin was connected to the Celestial Worthy’s plans, and the mirror answered no.

• Lumian activated the Witch card with Bernadette’s name and read its pathway information, including the rituals for Witch of Unaging, Calamity Witch, and Witch of Apocalypse.
• Bernadette could not discern the obscured Witch apotheosis ritual and agreed to join Lumian’s operation the next day.
• Lumian had Franca leave before Ludwig ate the mushroom, then watched Ludwig develop healing spores and grow mushrooms from his body.
• Lumian postponed taking Ludwig to Crimson Moon Hospital to treat An Xiaotian until the operation began.
• Lumian asked Arrodes whether the Celestial Worthy’s exploitation of the People in the Mirror was connected to Arrodes being born as a mirror, and Arrodes answered, “No.”

Lumian explained that Dream City was formed from the subconscious of Mr. Fool and the Celestial Worthy, and that the Celestial Worthy was weaker and more restricted than they had assumed. After Zhou Mingrui unexpectedly took leave to meet his sister early, Lumian assigned the group their tasks and launched the operation.

• Lumian recognized Arrodes's warning that the group might soon encounter the Celestial Worthy, then gathered Franca, Jenna, Anthony, and Ludwig at the rented apartment.
• Lumian concluded that the Celestial Worthy's mental imprint was severely weakened and that Dream City's surroundings, like its inhabitants, blended Mr. Fool's and the Celestial Worthy's subconscious.
• Lumian warned that directly stating certain facts could awaken or stimulate the Celestial Worthy, while everyone in the dream was exposed to the two beings' corruption.
• Rosanne told Franca that Zhou Mingrui had taken leave, and Zhou Mingrui later revealed that his sister Zhou Shasha had changed her ticket and would arrive nearly two hours early.
• Lumian assigned the group separate tasks and told Anthony to brief the Major Arcana card holders in the real world before taking Ludwig to Crimson Moon Hospital.
• Lumian and Jenna left the apartment to begin the operation.

Anthony relayed Lumian’s warning to the Major Arcana card holders, while Rosanne decided to help Lumian and Jenna watch Zhou Mingrui at the station. They discovered Zhou Shasha carried a pocket watch containing a Special Mirror World Fragment, and Lumian and Jenna realized taking it from Zhou Mingrui would be extremely risky.

• Anthony repeated Lumian’s message to the gathered Major Arcana card holders, and a tall young man ordered everyone to stay in the room as sunlight filled it.
• Rosanne sketched herself guarding against monsters, then rushed to Zhang Qing’s office to request half a day off so she could help.
• Lumian and Jenna watched Zhou Mingrui at Yangdu High-Speed Rail Station, where Jenna discreetly brought Rosanne to join them.
• Zhou Shasha arrived and showed Zhou Mingrui a repaired pocket watch whose dark glass Lumian and Jenna recognized as a Special Mirror World Fragment.
• Jenna urged Lumian to steal the watch, but Lumian warned that Zhou Mingrui’s attachment to it made the attempt dangerous.

Rosanne chose to approach Zhou Mingrui and steal his pocket watch, insisting that her memories and life were real and that she could become a guardian. Meanwhile, Ludwig’s treatment awakened An Xiaotian, who warned Anthony and Ludwig to beware of Zhou Mingrui.

• Rosanne told Jenna that she envied her real-life counterpart but believed her own memories made her life real, and asked Jenna to remember her.
• Rosanne ran after Zhou Mingrui and Zhou Shasha to steal the pocket watch, declaring that she could be a guardian.
• Anthony brought Ludwig into An Xiaotian’s hospital room and used a maze drawing to conceal it before Ludwig began treatment.
• Mushrooms grew over An Xiaotian’s head as the hospital room became dim and nurses were trapped in a maze-like corridor.
• An Xiaotian woke and warned Anthony and Ludwig to beware of Zhou Mingrui.

Rosanne took Zhou Mingrui’s altered pocket watch, but the dream around them collapsed and Zhou Shasha became a mirror used to threaten him. Jenna shattered the mirror, while Lumian questioned Arrodes and Anderson Hood destroyed the empty hotel with an explosion.

• In Dream City, An Xiaotian warned Anthony about Zhou Mingrui as the dream rejected Anthony and Ludwig and began turning them into Marionettes.
• At Yangdu High-Speed Rail Station, Rosanne took Zhou Mingrui’s silver-white pocket watch and convinced him to let her keep it because it had changed and might endanger him.
• As the station darkened and blurred, Zhou Mingrui tried to lead Zhou Shasha toward a Light Gate and saw her become a mirror reflecting a hostile version of himself.
• Jenna shot Zhou Shasha’s mirror form with the Certain-Hit Gun and shattered it, but the reflected Zhou Mingrui figures warned that Shasha had already served as a medium pointing to the Mirror World.
• Lumian asked Arrodes whether it was a weapon or a medium, and Arrodes answered that it was a medium.
• Anderson Hood snapped his fingers, causing an explosion that engulfed the empty hotel in flames.

Lumian used the Witch card and Magic Mirror Arrodes to unleash deep darkness that swallowed the mirror selves and shattered much of Yangdu High-Speed Rail Station, while Dream City stabilized before Zhou Mingrui was consumed. Jenna tried to save Rosanne but failed, and Lumian warned Zhou Mingrui that the incident was not over.

• Bernadette called Director Ya Yagaitze to request the best protection, while Dream City’s Internet World malfunctioned and sunlight and lightning struck Mushu Hospital.
• Lumian sent Franca’s Mirror Substitute through Arrodes toward the Star Dream General Store, then used the Witch card with the Blood Emperor’s residual aura and the Underworld Daoist’s seal to break through the mirror-behind region.
• Deep darkness swallowed Zhou Mingrui’s mirror selves and began consuming Yangdu High-Speed Rail Station as Jenna tried to reach Rosanne.
• Rosanne disappeared into the darkness after urging Jenna to remember her, and Jenna escaped the city using the dream’s remaining repulsive force.
• The darkness stopped short of Zhou Mingrui as Dream City stabilized; Lumian told him the incident was not over, and Zhou Mingrui agreed.

Lumian confronted Zhou Mingrui with his deductions about the struggle between Mr. Fool and the Celestial Worthy, then revealed that he had stayed in the dream to draw Zhou Mingrui’s attention while a companion acted elsewhere. Franca entered the movie screen, leaving the result of her move unresolved.

• Lumian explained that Zhou Mingrui embodied both Mr. Fool and the Celestial Worthy, and outlined how the Celestial Worthy had been influencing Dream City to weaken Mr. Fool’s humanity.
• Zhou Mingrui confirmed parts of Lumian’s account, including that Peng Deng and Zhang Yujia had been created within the dream.
• Lumian revealed that he had deliberately distracted Zhou Mingrui and concluded that Zhou Mingrui had temporarily lost the ability to expel him or turn him into a Marionette.
• Lumian told Zhou Mingrui that a companion was missing and that he was waiting for her actions to take effect.
• Franca, watching Great Pirate 3 in a cinema far from Yangdu High-Speed Rail Station, pressed her palm against the screen and entered the movie.

Franca found Gehrman Sparrow inside a screening of Great Pirate 3 and persuaded him to leave the screen with her to help face the approaching Apocalypse. As the Major Arcana card holders tried to stabilize his image in the Dream City, Lumian explained how they might overcome the three-second limit on movie characters.

• Franca met Gehrman Sparrow aboard a sailing ship and truthfully told him she was a Transmigrator working under the Black Witch.
• Franca explained that Gehrman Sparrow was also a Transmigrator and asked him to leave the screen to help face the Apocalypse; he agreed to try, warning her not to lie.
• Franca took Gehrman Sparrow by the arm and exited the movie screen, despite worrying that he might quickly dissipate or destabilize the dream.
• At Yangdu High-Speed Rail Station, Lumian told Zhou Mingrui that Franca was bringing Gehrman Sparrow from Great Pirate 3 and proposed strengthening him with a Dream Image, real-world anchors, and stories about him.
• Madam Justice, Madam Magician, Mr. Sun, and Madam Hermit worked together to open a route into the Dream City and stabilize Gehrman Sparrow's image through a woven Dream Image, prayers, and Mystical Reappearance.
• Madam Justice's Dream Image of Gehrman Sparrow disintegrated after three seconds, while the cinema audience applauded and mistook Franca's entrance for a magic performance.

The Major Arcana members worked to create a pure Gehrman Sparrow from anchors and dream images, separate from the Celestial Worthy, and send him into the Dream City. As the Gehrmans merged and the dream began to collapse, Lumian revealed that his Despair potion had been fully digested.

• Ma'am Justice wove Gehrman Sparrow’s dream image while Ma'am Magician held open the passage and Mr. Hanged Man drove back the shadows with lightning.
• Mr. Stars sent Gehrman Sparrow into a nightmare, and Mr. Moon tried to summon him through a gate but reality resisted.
• Lumian explained to Zhou Mingrui that the plan was to create a pure World Gehrman Sparrow and said that failure would help future Lucky Gold Coin holders continue the effort.
• Mr. Stars weakened reality with a symbol of deceit, and Ma'am Judgement strengthened illusion, allowing Gehrman Sparrow to pass through the Summoning Gate toward the Dream City.
• Ma'am Justice’s dream image merged with the arriving Gehrman Sparrow, and Franca pulled the Gehrman from the film out before guiding him to merge with the other figure as the dream shook.
• Lumian told Zhou Mingrui that the attempt seemed to have succeeded and revealed that his Despair potion had been completely digested.

Franca’s Despair potion finished digesting as the dream collapsed and Gehrman Sparrow absorbed the audience’s impressions of him. Lumian learned that Aurora could eventually be truly resurrected, while Zhou Mingrui prepared to fuse with the Celestial Worthy and returned to sleep, leaving Gehrman Sparrow to become The Fool.

• Franca realized Lumian’s plan had succeeded as the cinema began collapsing and white lights of the audience’s impressions flowed into Gehrman Sparrow.
• At Yangdu High-Speed Rail Station, Zhou Mingrui praised Lumian and explained that Aurora could be truly resurrected through the Witch pathway, though the outcome might take an unexpected form.
• Zhou Mingrui told Lumian that he needed to fuse with and resist the Celestial Worthy, and that the Celestial Worthy would ultimately win the struggle.
• Zhou Mingrui drank the Samaritan Woman Spring water and sank into the darkness, telling Lumian that resisting was worth it.
• Gehrman Sparrow awakened as the dream city disintegrated, and Franca awoke to find Lady Justice, Lady Magician, and others in a sunlit room.

Lumian and his companions woke from the collapsing dream, received promises of help advancing their Sequences, and visited Rosanne in reality. Lumian drew the Chariot card as his Tarot Club Major Arcana identity, then joined the club as Mr. Fool began to awaken.

• Lumian encountered Medici at the collapsing Yangdu High-Speed Rail Station, and Medici promised to wait until Lumian became an angel before hunting him.
• Madam Magician told Lumian, Franca, Jenna, Anthony, and Ludwig that they would be helped to advance one Sequence; Lumian chose to become a Witch of Unaging and revealed his new pinhole power.
• Lumian, Franca, and Jenna watched Rosanne and her daughter pass by a café in Tingen, and Jenna and Franca listened to their conversation about heroes and protecting others.
• Madam Magician offered Lumian and Franca one Major Arcana card, and Lumian drew the Chariot after first drawing the World; Franca revealed that the other card was the Empress.
• Lumian entered the Tarot Club gathering as Mr. Chariot, where Madam Justice introduced Madam Temperance and welcomed the awakening Mr. Fool.

Lumian and his companions prepared to explore the Blood Emperor’s treasury aboard the Blue Avenger, while discussing Mr. Fool’s revelation about Ombella and the Abscessed Severed Hand. The chapter ended with the group considering Gehrman Sparrow’s nature and how his faith anchors might need to be purified.

• Franca and Jenna questioned Lumian about Mr. Fool’s revelation, but Madam Magician arrived and offered to guide them to the Blood Emperor’s treasury.
• Lumian, Franca, Jenna, Madam Magician, and Mr. Hanged Man went aboard the Blue Avenger, where Lumian confirmed that he could still sense the Mirror Image Mark in the treasury.
• Lumian explained that Mr. Fool had advised him to borrow Earth's Gift after becoming a Witch of Unaging and take it to Banishment City before Severed-Hand Brother.
• Mr. Hanged Man and Madam Magician reasoned that becoming a Witch of Unaging was likely a necessary catalyst, rather than merely a way to gain strength.
• Franca compared Gehrman Sparrow to an AI shaped by faith anchors, and the group discussed purifying those anchors and changing people's perceptions of him.

Lumian, Franca, Jenna, Madam Magician, and Mr. Hanged Man entered Tudor’s treasure vault and found a corpse in a wedding dress inside a Western Continent-style coffin. Lumian’s palm suppressed the corpse’s power, and Madam Magician concluded that the woman was likely a monster from birth.

• Madam Magician transported the group to the mirror corridor and sealed the full-length mirror, allowing them to choose a treasure room safely.
• Lumian discussed why the Primordial Witch and the Great Mother had not interfered during the awakening operation, then followed a flash of inspiration into a treasure room.
• Lumian and the others opened a coffin and found a pale female corpse wearing a red wedding dress and phoenix crown.
• The corpse began to stir, and the Blue Avenger started drying out as the surrounding sea evaporated.
• Lumian extended his right palm, suppressing the corpse and ending the abnormalities.
• Franca wondered whether the corpse was an artificial hánbá, and Madam Magician said she was probably a monster from birth.

Lumian and the others explored the Blood Emperor’s underground chambers, where Madam Magician uncovered ingredients and Beyonder characteristics from corrupted corpses. Lumian gave Franca the War Bishop potion formula so she could decide whether to pursue advancement, and the group found another Witch of Unaging characteristic in the next room.

• Madam Magician explained that the girl in the coffin had become a monster when the Blood Emperor’s ritual failed to restrain the power bestowed on her, and Franca suggested the ritual might have involved refining a corpse.
• Lumian led the group to a spring whose enticing water came from a decomposed female corpse, and Madam Magician collected Witch of Unaging ingredients for Lumian and a Witch of Despair characteristic for Jenna.
• Lumian gave Franca the War Bishop potion formula, saying he wanted her to have the right to choose whether to advance.
• Franca opened the next starlight door, where a human skin attacked her, and Madam Magician destroyed it, revealing another Witch of Unaging Beyonder characteristic.

Lumian and his companions left the Tudor treasure vault after collecting the materials for their rituals, while the Hanged Man stayed behind with Madam Magician to explore it. Back in Trier, Lumian discussed his allies’ plans and used the War Bishop gift to return temporarily to his male appearance, sharing a kiss with Franca.

• Madam Magician explained that the vault was unlikely to hold other angel-level treasures, and Lumian led Franca and Jenna back to the villa while the Hanged Man and Madam Magician remained to explore.
• Jenna left to contact Julian and planned to advance as a Witch in Banishment City, while Anthony chose to keep using the Psychic Alchemy Association as an intelligence channel after becoming a demigod.
• Franca decided to continue the Witch Sect mission to investigate the Primordial Witch and the Special Mirror World, despite Lumian offering to end it.
• Franca asked whether Lumian’s War Bishop gift could change his body, and Lumian demonstrated that it could restore his male appearance without changing his Spirit Body.
• Franca kissed Lumian while he was in his male appearance, then asked him to change back and limit the gift’s effects.

Jenna observed Intis’s ordinary city life and worried it might disappear, while Lumian waited for his Person in the Mirror and discussed Franca’s risky plans with Madam Magician. Above the Gray Fog, the Major Arcana began comparing their impressions of Gehrman Sparrow and Mr. Fool to unify their understanding.

• Jenna paid to send a telegram, then heard news about telephone construction and large generators as she walked through the Art District.
• Lumian watched his reflection for an hour, hoping to find his Person in the Mirror for the Witch of Unaging ritual.
• Madam Magician warned that Franca’s continued contact with the Witch Sect was dangerous, then agreed to protect her when she met the Black Witch.
• Madam Magician told Lumian that the Major Arcana would meet above the Gray Fog to unify their understanding of Gehrman Sparrow and Mr. Fool.
• Madam Justice proposed that the Major Arcana describe and record their impressions, and Mr. Moon and Madam Justice shared their views of Gehrman Sparrow and Mr. World.

The Major Arcana shared their impressions of Gehrman Sparrow and agreed on a more nuanced public image for him. Madam Justice asked Madam Magician to finish Great Adventurer 7 within two weeks, and Madam Magician came up with its tagline.

• Madam Justice and Mr. Stars described Gehrman Sparrow as humorous inwardly, cautious, deeply attached to family and friends, and willing to risk himself to prevent disaster.
• Madam Magician, Mr. Hanged Man, Madam Judgement, Mr. Sun, and Madam Hermit each shared their impressions of Gehrman Sparrow and his other identities.
• Lumian described Mr. Fool as a guardian, while Mr. Stars added that he fought against danger and madness; Lumian also called him gentle, kind, and deeply attached to family and friends.
• Madam Temperance presented her written impressions, and Madam Justice led the group in agreeing that Gehrman Sparrow’s image should be enriched while retaining its familiar public labels.
• The Major Arcana settled on a shared description of Gehrman Sparrow as powerful, cautious, compassionate, generous, devoted to relationships, and yearning for his homeland.
• Madam Magician suggested adding that Gehrman Sparrow had a rich inner life and liked to joke inwardly, and Madam Justice assigned her to finish Great Adventurer 7 within two weeks.