Chapter Summaries

Yarrow and Xingxuan escaped Mila’s shared dream after Yarrow realized its dangers depended on fear, then tracked Mila down with magic. Jiang Si’s unconscious dream-driven violence had already beaten Mila into surrender, and he woke to find her clinging to Yarrow while he mistakenly accused his disciples of bullying her.

• Jiang Si restored his eyes, while Yarrow killed the Calamity Beasts outside the tunnel and concluded that the group was trapped in a dream.
• Yarrow used magic to wake Xingxuan and searched the tunnel, discovering that Mila had taken Jiang Si and the driver.
• Mila recalled that Jiang Si had defeated her dream horrors and repeatedly slapped her in reality while remaining asleep.
• Yarrow confronted Mila, who surrendered and begged the magical girls to protect her from Jiang Si.
• Jiang Si woke up, saw Mila clinging to Yarrow, and reproached Yarrow and Xingxuan for bullying an ordinary person.

Jiang Si drove Yarrow, Xingxuan, and the captive Mila through a surreal route to Disaster Countermeasures Bureau headquarters, where he and Mila vanished. Mila awoke in Main God Space and was ordered to surrender her dream-making ability to the Holy Church or die.

• Jiang Si dismissed Yarrow and Xingxuan's accusations about his sleepwalking and drove them and the bound Mila toward headquarters while Yarrow explained Bingtang's rules for magical girls.
• Jiang Si followed Xingxuan's Incubator across a strange river and sky to an academy-like headquarters, where Driver woke and warned him about parking fees and Yun Ke.
• Yarrow and Xingxuan discovered that Jiang Si, Mila, and the others had disappeared, and Bingtang calmed Yarrow by explaining that the sect master had taken Jiang Si and the witch.
• Mila woke in Main God Space, reunited with Helen, and was told to give her dream-making ability to the Holy Church for one thousand points or choose death.

Jiang Si assigned Ruoyun and Helen new Holy Church projects and discovered that Helen’s ring let him transform into a Calamity Beast without filthy magic power. At the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, Yarrow revealed that Jiang Si had signed a marriage certificate, and his arrival wearing a ring left the room under suffocating pressure.

• Jiang Si gave Ruoyun a long-term mission to produce magic-power storage converters for the Azure Cloud Sect, and Helen presented a ring that enabled safe Calamity Beast transformation.
• Jiang Si tested the ring, transformed his hand into a dragon claw, and considered combining the dragonified state with his Miracle Seed.
• At the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, Yarrow told the others that Jiang Si had signed a marriage certificate with someone else, prompting Bingtang to say she would ask him about the misunderstanding.
• Four Leaves and Six Leaves brought Jiang Si into the tea lounge, where Six Leaves drew attention to the wedding ring on his left hand and Xingxuan felt the room’s pressure surge beyond Senior Iris’s Mental Image Domain.

Jiang Si returned to the Disaster Countermeasures General Bureau with a ring, while Yumo, Bingtang, and Yarrow each misread the relationships around him in different ways. Bingtang hid her jealousy and encouraged Yumo to stay close to Jiang Si, while Bai Mei’s rewritten novel left Shuiling wondering if it was building a harem.

• Bai Mei gave Shuiling and Qian Jing the first copies of her rewritten novel, Azure Cloud Continent: Reborn Zombie, and Shuiling reluctantly read it aloud.
• Jiang Si showed off his ring, and Yumo became upset when he rejected her implied wish for a ring of her own.
• Yumo borrowed money from Blue Flower to buy Jiang Si a ring, while Yarrow suspected she was trying to pursue him.
• Bingtang asked Jiang Si about his marriage contract and recognized his plan to set up a broken-engagement plot, while Yarrow misread Bingtang’s jealousy and private notes.
• Bingtang sent Yumo to stay close to Jiang Si, then privately regretted being too slow to act.
• Shuiling finished Bai Mei’s novel and asked whether it was building a harem.

Keke and Yinlian joined a lesson on Mental Image Domain trials alongside the Azure Cloud Sect, where they reconciled with Dandelion and met their instructor, Iris. As Iris explained the Mental Landscape Trial, Jiang Si asked Qingluan to bring him Iris’s Miracle Seed.

• Keke and Yinlian arrived at headquarters for the Mental Image Domain trial and joined An Shiyu, Susan, and the Azure Cloud Sect disciples in the lecture theater.
• Keke greeted Four Leaves, Six Leaves, Blue Flower, and Dandelion, then encouraged Yinlian to approach Dandelion; Yinlian returned pleased that she had finally beaten Dandelion in an argument.
• Hongmian announced the instructor’s arrival, while Qingluan watched her friend Iris wander toward the classroom after following a trail of violin music.
• Iris arrived tangled in a rope outside the classroom window, introduced herself as the strongest magical girl, and began teaching the group how to pass the Mental Landscape Trial.
• Jiang Si asked Qingluan whether she had made up her mind and told her to bring Iris’s Miracle Seed over.

Jiang Si recruited Yarrow as a captive to help him infiltrate the Witch Association’s operation against the Mental Image Domain trial. After the driver took them through a hidden route beneath headquarters, they met the Incubators who were the operation’s inside contacts.

• Jiang Si asked Yarrow to pose as his captive, and she agreed after getting Bingtang’s permission.
• Yarrow’s spell failed to wound Jiang Si, so he cut himself to make their capture look convincing and took her Miracle Seed.
• Jiang Si and Yarrow joined the driver on a bus, and the driver revealed that Yarrow was one of the Azure Cloud Sect’s Seven True Disciples.
• The driver concealed the bus and led them through a hidden route at the edge of headquarters, where they jumped through a spatial passage into a cavern.
• Jiang Si landed unharmed in the cavern and recognized the Incubators as the driver’s inside contacts.

Iris's lecture was interrupted when a gray-white magical girl attacked, while Jiang Si and Yarrow confronted Incubators in the End of the World. The Incubators rejected the New Witch Association and began eliminating them, but Jiang Si killed their transforming leader and demanded the others submit.

• Iris praised herself during a lecture until a dark-eyed magical girl accused her of exploiting Larkspur and threatened to take back Larkspur's powers.
• The dark-eyed girl transformed into a gray-white Remnants magical girl and attacked, while Dandelion restrained her and sent Keke and Yinlian to escort Iris to her Miracle Seed.
• Jiang Si, Driver, and Yarrow met Incubators in the End of the World, where the leading Incubator recognized Yarrow as Ailaya and refused to join the New Witch Association.
• The Incubators declared that they would erase the New Witch Association, and Jiang Si threatened to kill them unless they joined.
• The leading Incubator began transforming into a magical girl, but Jiang Si pierced the transformation's invincibility with his dragon claw and beat it to death before demanding that another Incubator step forward.

Keke, Yinlian, and Iris fought gray-white magical girls at headquarters until Blue Flower defeated them, while Jiang Si battled Incubators who could transform into magical girls and copy combat abilities. After the Incubators merged into a gray-white version of Yarrow, Jiang Si unleashed his purple Miracle Seed, and the clash left him standing without transforming as the cavern’s ceiling collapsed.

• Keke used her tainted magic and Great Desolate Heaven-Imprisoning Finger against the gray-white magical girls, but a pocket-watch wielder undid Yinlian’s transformation and sent attackers after Yinlian and Iris.
• Yinlian defended Iris with weapons and explosives until Blue Flower arrived, froze the attackers, and defeated the gray-white magical girls, including the pocket-watch wielder.
• Jiang Si demanded that the Incubators join the New Witch Association and sign a Witch Contract; when they refused, he attacked and killed the Incubators who transformed into Iris, Du Juan, Yinlian, Hongmian, Qingluan, and other magical girls.
• The Incubators’ remains merged into a gray-white Yarrow that copied her abilities and cut off Jiang Si’s arm, but Jiang Si regenerated it and counterattacked with a soul-piercing strike.
• Jiang Si summoned his purple Miracle Seed and faced gray-white Yarrow’s Expelliarmus, triggering a blast that blew away the cavern ceiling; Yarrow began regenerating while Jiang Si remained standing with the snapped necklace.

Yarrow witnessed Jiang Si create a Miracle Seed and transform into the sect master, who overwhelmed the gray-white Yarrow and struck the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau headquarters. Meanwhile, Keke, Yinlian, Iris, Susan, and An Shiyu gathered in the dormitory building, where a violent tremor and spreading darkness marked the onset of night over the headquarters of perpetual daylight.

• Jiang Si seized purple magic power and molded a new Miracle Seed with his bare hand, leaving Yarrow to suspect that he was the sect master.
• The gray-white Yarrow charged Jiang Si out of the cavern, but Yarrow stopped their fall as Jiang Si injected himself with a potion and transformed into a black-and-gold magical girl.
• The transformed Jiang Si silenced the cavern, defeated the gray-white Yarrow, and slammed her into the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau headquarters, tilting the floating building.
• Keke, Yinlian, and Iris met Susan and An Shiyu in the dormitory building and argued over which of the Seven True Disciples was strongest.
• Iris disappeared during the argument, then the dormitory building shook, its windows shattered, and darkness spread over the headquarters of perpetual daylight.

Bingtang and Golden Tea discussed the Dream Hatchers and agreed that the Azure Cloud Sect would help the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau track them and investigate the Old World. Shion defeated gray-white Yarrow, but the resulting destruction collapsed headquarters; Iris then halted everyone and everything in midair with Amber Sea of a Breath's Eternity.

• Golden Tea explained that rogue Incubators called Dream Hatchers had infiltrated headquarters, and Bingtang agreed to help find and deal with them.
• A witch-like Shion appeared, and Golden Tea identified her as the Azure Cloud Sect's sect master.
• Shion brutally fought gray-white Yarrow, who survived fatal injuries through Restoration to the Original State.
• Shion annihilated Yarrow with Expulso, triggering a ripple that demolished headquarters and sent its magical girls and rubble falling.
• Iris used Amber Sea of a Breath's Eternity to stop the falling magical girls and debris in midair, drawing Shion's attention.

Qingluan returned to headquarters intending to take Iris’s Miracle Seed, but Iris gave it to her willingly and transformed without it. Iris challenged the witch Shion, was overwhelmed despite reaching a new form, and Shion restored the destroyed headquarters before the magical girls could retaliate.

• Qingluan found Iris’s Miracle Seed in her dormitory room and struggled to leave with it when Iris returned and searched for it.
• Qingluan admitted she planned to steal Iris’s seed, but Iris gave it to her and transformed through her own power as headquarters collapsed around them.
• Iris confronted Shion, resisted her attacks, and reached a new Supreme Iris form before Shion overwhelmed her with countless fingers and knocked her unconscious.
• Shion used corrupted magic and the power to reverse time to rebuild headquarters without harming the magical girls.
• Golden Tea stopped Hongmian from attacking Shion, while Shion descended among the restored headquarters and Iris lay unconscious but safe.

Iris celebrated her defeat by Shion as a near-victory while eating with the other magical girls, and the cafeteria learned she had given her Miracle Seed to a friend. After the Mental Image Domain Trial was announced, Bingtang briefed Shion on the Dream Hatchers and the Azure Cloud Sect’s new trial slot, then asked which Seven True Disciples would participate.

• Iris boasted that Shion had feared her and claimed Shion restored headquarters to avoid angering her, while the others struggled to keep Iris from provoking the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Iris revealed that she had given her Miracle Seed to a friend, and insisted she would keep transforming without one; the cafeteria loudspeaker announced the upcoming Mental Image Domain Trial.
• Bingtang returned from a meeting with Golden Tea and told Shion that the Dream Hatchers had worked with the Witch Association and were behind the Magical Girl Killer and the grayish-white magical girl.
• Bingtang explained that the Magical Kingdom had offered the Azure Cloud Sect an additional Mental Image Domain Trial slot in exchange for help against the Dream Hatchers, and Shion suspected the kingdom was deliberately withdrawing from the world.
• Bingtang asked Shion not to expel Yarrow, and Shion agreed to let Yarrow keep using her own ability name; Bingtang then asked which of the Seven True Disciples would enter the trial.

Shion interrogated Veteran Driver, spared him, and sent a warning to Prince, while the Mental Landscape Trial at headquarters turned into a chaotic battle against unexpectedly powerful Calamity Beasts. Yinlian and Liuli saved the remaining contestants, and the chapter ended as the Azure Cloud Sect's Seven True Disciples arrived.

• Shion learned from Veteran Driver that Prince had sent him to contact Si Motu, discovered the mirror shared a signal with her crystal ball, and let him go with a message for Prince.
• Hongmian led the Mental Landscape Trial's safety assessment at Five Tones Grand Square, where hundreds of millions of projected B-rank Calamity Beasts attacked the magical girls.
• Unexpected A-rank Calamity Beasts emerged and overwhelmed the contestants until Yinlian used Flowing Cherry Blossom Burial to turn the beasts into petals and replenish the magical girls' magic.
• Liuli unleashed Buddha's Fury Flame Lotus, destroying the remaining Calamity Beasts and impressing the trial's spectators.
• Susan announced that Liuli was the Beihai Disaster Countermeasures Bureau's deputy captain and had defeated the Witch Association's captain, while she and An Shiyu discussed Keke's promotion.
• The Azure Cloud Sect's Seven True Disciples arrived in the trial space, drawing a crowd eager to see which disciple was strongest.

The Azure Cloud Sect’s Seven True Disciples entered the Mental Landscape Trial and overwhelmed the duplicated magical girls while fighting among themselves. As Yarrow and Dandelion’s clash threatened the other examinees, Four Leaves and Six Leaves enlisted Keke’s help and lent her their magic power, leaving a seven-colored fire lotus ready to strike.

• The Seven True Disciples entered the assessment space as the second stage began, while Hongmian led her team through the forest to escape the duplicates.
• Yarrow attacked Dandelion and Blue Flower, and Blue Flower trapped them in a giant pillar of ice that wiped out the surrounding duplicates.
• Yarrow and Dandelion broke free, and their continuing fight sent dangerous aftershocks toward Hongmian’s team.
• Four Leaves and Six Leaves revealed themselves to Keke and explained that they needed her to stop the fighting before everyone was eliminated.
• Four Leaves and Six Leaves poured their magic power into Keke, who formed a seven-colored fire lotus as they promised their Cognitive Obstruction would make it hit.

Yarrow and Dandelion battled for the Azure Cloud Sect’s mental image domain slot while Keke used a seven-colored Buddha’s Fury Flame Lotus to strike them both. Four Leaves and Six Leaves ultimately knocked out the exhausted rivals, and the sisters declared victory to Shion.

• Yarrow entered the assessment determined to prove herself to Shion, while the Azure Cloud Sect’s true disciples had insisted that Bingtang receive a slot in the mental landscape trial.
• Yumo and Yarrow focused on defeating each other as Keke formed a seven-colored Buddha’s Fury Flame Lotus with help from Four Leaves and Six Leaves.
• Keke merged with the panda girl’s Dream Marrow, broke through to Lush Leaves, and unleashed the flame lotus at Yarrow and Dandelion.
• Yarrow severed Dandelion’s arm with Divine Edge Without Shadow, but Dandelion used Wind Generates Lightning to change Yarrow’s magic and disable her spells.
• Yarrow and Dandelion exchanged final attacks until Shion’s purple flames contained the blast, then Four Leaves and Six Leaves knocked both rivals out and announced their victory.

Bingtang comforted Yumo after the battle and discussed the true disciples’ performance with Shion, who arranged another Mental Image Domain Trial place for Yarrow. In the Mirror Space, Prince learned that Shion had sent word that Si Motu would return later, and she hid her anger while vowing to settle things on her wedding day.

• Yumo woke believing she had lost to Yarrow, and Bingtang comforted her and reviewed her mistakes in the battle.
• Shion praised Shuangye’s strategy but criticized their final attack, while Bingtang urged her to encourage the victorious sisters and treat Yarrow more kindly.
• Shion revealed that the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau had offered two more trial places, and she assigned one to Yarrow while secretly interfering with her practice.
• Prince rescued Xilan, continued preparations to use her wedding to enact the Full Bloom Plan, and questioned Veteran Driver about Si Motu’s delayed return.
• Veteran Driver admitted that Shion had told him Si Motu would come back later, and Prince concealed her fury as she anticipated confronting Shion on her wedding day.

Shion led the Azure Cloud Sect disciples to the Land of Mental Image, where she entered a trial that placed her in the body of Jiang Si. She found Jiang Si’s father, Jiang Changshou, celebrating a supposed cure-all before his pill furnace exploded.

• The Disaster Countermeasures Bureau welcomed the Seven True Disciples with banners and crowds, while Yarrow rallied magical girls to rename headquarters Hogwarts until Bingtang dragged her away and reprimanded her.
• Shion encouraged Yumo to remain confident about defeating Yarrow and reassured Keke that her seven-colored flame lotus had helped Four Leaves and Six Leaves win the assessment.
• Bingtang, Golden Tea, and Hongmian explained the Land of Mental Image trial, then Shion entered through her door after checking that the black dragon and the Emperor were suppressed.
• Shion emerged in a snowy alley as Jiang Si, found a freezing kitten, and went to the dilapidated Soaring Jade Hall.
• Jiang Changshou, Jiang Si’s unemployed father, celebrated having made a cure for every illness, but his pill furnace exploded and he called for his son to open it.

Jiang Si revisited memories of his father Jiang Changshou’s misguided pill refining and confronted the relatives at his father’s funeral. After burning his father’s old alchemy books and smashing the pill furnace, Jiang Si tore out his own heart and used his Dao heart to create a pill called the Miracle Seed.

• Jiang Si watched a memory of his father Jiang Changshou obsessing over pill refining and told him that his methods were wrong.
• Jiang Si’s young mother pulled him away from the house after Jiang Changshou suffered cultivation deviation, and Jiang Si later recalled how his parents had fought over his pursuit of cultivation.
• Jiang Si arrived at Jiang Changshou’s funeral and identified himself to his younger brother and sister-in-law, then drove the mourners and guests out of the hall.
• Jiang Si burned his father’s alchemy books and pills, smashed the pill furnace, and explained that Jiang Changshou had abandoned pill refining after nearly dying from one of his own pills.
• Jiang Si heated a fruit knife in the funeral brazier, cut open his chest, tore out his heart, and crushed it into a purple-lit pill he named the Miracle Seed.

Jiang Si returned to his childhood home and cared for his elderly mother as she grew weaker. He took her to the mountain to see the sea, where she died, then fulfilled her wish by sending her into the depths.

• Jiang Si visited his mother in their old home and cleaned and cared for her as she reminisced about their family.
• Jiang Si went to his younger brother for money and continued tending to his mother as her health declined.
• Jiang Si carried his mother up the mountain in the snow so she could see the sea, a trip they had long put off.
• His mother shared her wish to go to the bottom of the sea and asked Jiang Si to send her there after her death.
• His mother died at the summit, and Jiang Si pushed her wheelchair over the edge and into the sea.

Jiang Si returned to his mother’s home, read her final letter, and left after confronting his younger brother. At the mountain summit, surrounded by accusations and armed police, he awakened the Miracle Seed and manifested his Mental Image as a purple girl who unleashed Soul Transformation Immortal Altar.

• Jiang Si ignored the security guard who called the police and went home to pack his mother’s belongings and return borrowed items to the neighbors.
• Jiang Si told his younger brother that their mother was dead, then read her letter and took the bank card she had left him.
• Jiang Si’s younger brother tried to run him down with a car, but Jiang Si stopped it with one fist, pulled him out, and left him alive.
• Jiang Si returned to the mountain summit, where his younger brother and his wife arrived with the armed police and the crowd condemned him.
• Jiang Si stepped into the air as the Miracle Seed lit up, manifesting his Mental Image as a purple girl who overturned a helicopter and set the sea and sky ablaze.
• The purple girl declared Soul Transformation Immortal Altar and opened her Personal Reality, causing all existence to lose the ability to think.