Chapter Summaries

Iris celebrated the Beihai Disaster Countermeasures Bureau with a loud train procession while Susan interrogated Shuangsheng and tasked her with recovering stolen Miracle Seeds. Nearby, Jiang Si encountered a dangerous blind swordswoman, whose first sword strike broke her cane before she aimed a handgun at him.

• Iris rode a train around the Bureau, playing a thank-you message and handing out red envelopes, while Susan accepted five thousand yuan and returned to work.
• Susan questioned Shuangsheng, who taunted her about Yinluo and the destruction of her Miracle Seed, then begged for mercy when Susan invoked the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Susan told Shuangsheng that Lady Bingtang trusted her as an undercover agent and ordered her to help retrieve the two Miracle Seeds held by the Witch Association; Shuangsheng agreed, believing she had to keep up her cover.
• Susan concealed that she could transform again and left Shuangsheng confined with Iris's loud celebration blaring outside.
• Jiang Si confronted a blind white-haired girl near the Azure Cloud Sect, and their clash broke her cane; when she said she knew only one move, she drew a handgun and aimed it at him.

Jiang Si reunited with his first disciple, Bai Mei, who returned to the Azure Cloud Sect after three years away and asked for help with her books and a Witch Association threat in Jiangming City. Jiang Si agreed to handle the threat himself, while Bai Mei also pressed him to read her novel.

• Bai Mei aimed a realistic water gun at Jiang Si, but Bingtang interrupted and scolded her for buying it before recognizing Jiang Si as the sect master.
• Bingtang explained that Bai Mei had been the sect’s first magical girl and true disciple, and that she had returned after years of medical treatment for her hereditary illness.
• Bai Mei said she had kept her eyes closed for three years to cultivate her mind’s eye, earning Jiang Si’s praise for her perseverance.
• Bai Mei asked Jiang Si to finish the stories she had published online based on his tales of the sect’s seniors, then gave him half the royalties in exchange for honoring the ancestors.
• Bai Mei asked Jiang Si to evaluate her original novel and reported that the Witch Association had grown stronger in Jiangming City, scattering four Azure Cloud Sect disciples.
• Bingtang proposed sending Blue Flower to help, but Jiang Si chose to go to Jiangming City himself; he then skimmed Bai Mei’s novel and dismissed it inwardly.

The Beihai Witch Association captain revealed that his sacrifices and preparations had been part of a plan, then used his Miracle Seed to begin reviving an A-rank Calamity Beast. After Jiang Si returned home and spoke with Keke about Shion’s advice, Keke called him “big brother,” prompting him to slap her and demand that she call him “Daddy.”

• The captain rejected Chilian’s demands for a Miracle Seed and revealed that his threads connected the seed to complete Calamity Beast Eggs.
• The captain pushed the Miracle Seed into the cross on his forehead and called for his beloved A-rank Calamity Beast to revive.
• Jiang Si returned home through the unusual fog and learned that Li Yi was staying at the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau to train with Senior Susan.
• Keke asked Jiang Si whether Shion had mentioned her, and he passed along Shion’s criticisms and praise.
• Jiang Si warned Keke that he would be away in Jiangming City for a few days, and Keke asked him to return soon and not leave her alone.
• Jiang Si heard Keke call him “big brother,” slapped her, and demanded that she call him “Daddy.”

Jiang Si absorbed a parasitic vine Calamity Beast, gaining a steady supply of polluted magic power, then set out toward the resurrected Larkspur. Meanwhile, Keke resisted a false Jiang Si and was led by the captain through the mist to a giant Calamity Beast, where the captain began questioning the circumstances of her parents’ deaths and Miracle Seed.

• Jiang Si discovered that Keke had left through her bedroom window, killed the vine creature impersonating her, and let the Calamity Beast Egg draw the vines into his body.
• Jiang Si gained a steady source of polluted magic power and headed toward the resurrected Larkspur while BH City was buried in white mist and its residents slept.
• Keke encountered a false Jiang Si in the mist, recognized the impostor, and destroyed it by kicking a sedan over it.
• The captain appeared and told Keke that his mist suppressed magical transformations, then showed her footage of Li Yi, Susan, and Iris unconscious and bound.
• Keke followed the captain to a high-rise where a massive Calamity Beast waited, and the captain asked why her parents had died and why her Miracle Seed had stopped working that day.

Yumo, Bingtang, and Blue Flower maintained the Azure Cloud Sect’s defenses and sent Eternal Dolls to search for the missing disciples while the white mist blocked magical-girl transformations across Beihai. The Witch Association captain overwhelmed Keke, exposed the painful memories behind her Miracle Seed, and tried to turn her into a witch; Keke lost consciousness and awoke in a vision of her parents and Jiang Si.

• Yumo kept the Azure Cloud Sect’s formations running, while Bingtang concluded that the white mist stopped Miracle Seeds from enabling transformation and asked Blue Flower to send her Eternal Dolls to find Keke and the others.
• Blue Flower activated dolls modeled on Dandelion and Winter Lord, and she briefly shook the sect ancestors’ spirit tablets before sending the dolls out.
• The Witch Association captain cornered Keke, pinned her with vines, and told her she had caused BH City’s first Calamity Beast by becoming its first magical girl.
• The captain’s words brought back a memory of a dark figure corrupting Keke’s Miracle Seed after her parents died, and he tried to persuade her to become a witch.
• Keke fought back and insisted she would never become a witch, but the captain buried her in vines and her consciousness faded.
• Keke awoke beneath a mulberry tree in a vision of her parents and Jiang Si, then timidly called them Dad and Mom.

Keke relived the childhood bus trip that ended in a Calamity Beast attack, discovering that Jiang Si had protected her and then rushed toward the magical girl. Guided by a Miracle Seed, she found her fatally injured parents and heard her mother tell her to be good and close her eyes.

• Keke watched her younger self cling to Jiang Si on the bus while their parents joked with them and urged Jiang Si to approach a red-haired girl.
• Jiang Si confessed to the red-haired girl in a hurried three-second speech to win a bet with his father, then fed her cookies to Keke.
• A Miracle Seed appeared in Keke's hand, and the vine Calamity Beast overturned the bus.
• Jiang Si shielded Keke inside the wreckage, carried her to safety, searched for their parents, and then ran toward the magical girl.
• Keke followed an unseen pull to the attack site, where she found her father dead and her mother crushed beneath a car; her mother urged her to close her eyes.

The captain tried to turn Jiang Keke into a powerful witch, but her brother Jiang Si stormed the building and confronted him. After absorbing the captain’s vines and shrugging off his attacks, Jiang Si asked for more as the captain fled toward the ninth floor.

• The captain explained that he had lured Jiang Keke to the building to use her despair and the Calamity Beast’s corruption to create a witch stronger than Shion.
• Jiang Si arrived, smashed through the vine Calamity Beasts, and demanded that the captain send Keke home.
• The captain revealed that Keke was inside a cocoon and would become a witch, but Jiang Si accepted the possibility that the transformation would make her stronger.
• The captain attacked Jiang Si with underground vines, but Jiang Si crushed them, revealed his command of tainted magic power, and smashed the captain’s head and body into a building.
• The captain regenerated and sent vines into Jiang Si, but Jiang Si absorbed them all and demanded more, prompting the captain to flee toward the ninth floor.

Keke relived her parents’ funeral and the guilt that had consumed her, while Jiang Si fought the Witch Association captain and the A-rank Calamity Beast. Keke broke free of the Witch’s Egg, transformed as magical girl Liuli, and cornered the wounded captain with a length of rebar.

• Keke remembered Jiang Si collecting their parents’ remains and violently keeping their relatives from taking control of the siblings and their inheritance.
• The captain’s magic drove Keke deeper into grief and guilt, until Jiang Si’s cold words interrupted her despair.
• Jiang Si attacked the captain, who unleashed the A-rank Calamity Beast and left Jiang Si fighting amid the collapsing, vine-covered building.
• Keke burst out of the Witch’s Egg and resisted her witch transformation, declaring that she would remain a magical girl.
• Keke transformed into Liuli and pierced the vine wall with a crimson spear, badly injuring the captain before her transformation ended.
• Keke dragged rebar toward the helpless captain and raised it over his head as she repeated her mother’s last words.

Jiang Si tested his strength against an A-rank Calamity Beast while Keke was trapped inside its vine-covered building, where the captain taunted her about the deaths of their parents and the threat to Beihai. Shion rescued Keke by destroying the beast and demonstrated a powerful Magic Technique, but Keke pretended to have become a witch rather than admit she had failed to learn it.

• Jiang Si used a tainted-magic bow to blast away half of the A-rank Calamity Beast, then transformed and attacked it with purple flames when his borrowed magic power ran out.
• Keke reflected on her guilt over her parents' deaths and worried that Jiang Si might abandon her before the captain's voice emerged from the vines and threatened to destroy Beihai.
• The vines captured Keke and took her Miracle Seed, but Shion arrived in a purple fire dragon and freed her.
• Shion used the Great Desolate Heaven-Imprisoning Finger to burn the Calamity Beast and collapse the building, then told Keke to remember the technique and practice it.
• When Keke failed to understand the technique, she pretended to have a second personality that had become a witch, and Shion punished her with another Heaven-Imprisoning Finger until Keke confessed.

Qingluan entered the fog-covered Beihai to find her friend Iris and discovered Bai Mei protecting the station. After witnessing the Azure Cloud Sect’s master unleash overwhelming power, Qingluan was caught off guard by an A-rank Calamity Beast, but Bai Mei revealed her swordsmanship and destroyed it with one strike.

• Qingluan entered Beihai’s magic-suppressing white fog with Little White and used her wand to locate Bai Mei at the station, where Bai Mei had protected a hall full of unconscious people from vine Calamity Beasts.
• Bai Mei told Qingluan that her master would keep Beihai safe, and Qingluan saw a purple attack destroy a distant high-rise with extraordinary precision.
• Bai Mei cut a hidden vine off Qingluan, then an A-rank Calamity Beast ambushed them, stole Qingluan’s wand, and covered her and Little White with attacking vines.
• Bai Mei stepped forward to face the beast, and the captain mocked her as a weak Bud-stage magical girl while gathering vines and fog to attack.
• Bai Mei revealed herself as the Azure Cloud Sect’s chief true disciple and unleashed a sword strike that annihilated the Calamity Beast and carved a vast trench.
• Bai Mei began coughing and asked Qingluan for water.

Blue Flower watched Shion purge Beihai of the Calamity Beast vines, while Keke survived the crisis and discovered that her magic had advanced. After returning home, Keke confronted Jiang Si about Shion’s scent on his mouth, and he admitted they had kissed.

• Blue Flower used Lady Winter Lord’s power to monitor Beihai and freeze the Calamity Beasts while the sect master rescued Keke and destroyed an A-rank beast.
• Shion spread purple magic throughout Beihai, burning away the fog and vines and freeing the sleeping residents from the infestation.
• Shion checked Keke’s blood and confirmed that Keke had not become a witch, then left her with instructions to practice.
• Keke called Li Yi, learned that Shuangsheng had escaped and the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau was in chaos, then discovered she could fly with her improved magic.
• Keke returned home and sensed her own tainted mana and blood on Jiang Si’s breath, then asked if he had kissed Shion; Jiang Si admitted that he had.

After returning from her beach vacation, Peony found Beihai frozen and badly damaged, then discovered Iris and the others hanging from a tree at the bureau. Keke and Jiang Si settled back into their routine, while Shuangsheng revived a tiny imitation of the dead Beihai Witch Association captain and contacted Jiangming City’s Witch Association.

• Peony returned to Beihai and saw the city’s ice and destruction, which the taxi driver credited to Magical Girl Winter Lord and the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Peony found Susan, Li Yi, and the others hanging from the bureau’s roof, then heard Iris ask for help from a tree.
• Keke reflected on how Jiang Si reassured her and asked him to return soon when he said he was going to Jiangming City.
• Jiang Si planned to infiltrate Jiangming City’s Witch Association under the name Blood-Handed Demon Butcher Jiang Motu.
• Shuangsheng used tainted magic to make a tiny imitation of the dead captain from a withered vine and showed him that Beihai had survived intact.
• Shuangsheng and the imitation captain contacted a red-haired Witch Association member in Jiangming City, and the captain insisted Beihai’s core still remained.

Qingluan returned to Jiangming City and encountered an Azure Cloud Sect Bud helping the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau fight Calamity Beasts. Meanwhile, Chilian boasted about building the Witch Association’s power in Jiangming and revealed a captured Azure Cloud Sect magical girl, but the captain and Shuangsheng treated the reveal as their chance to claim victory.

• Qingluan returned to Jiangming City, where the Witch Association controlled the north and the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau struggled to defend the south.
• Qingluan saw rank-C and rank-D Calamity Beasts go berserk and charge the Bureau’s guards, then met an Azure Cloud Sect Bud playing a xiao who turned the beasts against one another.
• Chilian told the captain and Shuangsheng how she had built the Witch Association in Jiangming and mocked the captain’s failures in Beihai.
• Chilian revealed an Azure Cloud Sect magical girl imprisoned inside an apparently indestructible crystal and said the Witch Association would eventually break her defense.
• The captain admitted Chilian had outdone her, then secretly celebrated with Shuangsheng that they had won.

Jiang Si revised Bai Mei’s novel while traveling toward Jiangming City with Iris, then met Bai Mei and Shuangsheng aboard the train. Shuangsheng handed him a Miracle Seed, mistook his relationship with Bingtang, and panicked after learning he was Shion’s boyfriend; Jiang Si then prepared to go with her and Bai Mei to the restroom.

• Jiang Si struggled to revise Bai Mei’s novel while Iris complained that the Beihai Disaster Countermeasures Bureau had refused to recognize Shion and the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Iris thanked the Azure Cloud Sect with a banner flown by helicopters, gave Jiang Si a phone, and traveled with him toward Jiangming City.
• Jiang Si discovered that Bai Mei and Shuangsheng had put the train passengers to sleep with magic arrays, then met them to discuss his undercover mission and Shuangsheng’s captured disciple.
• Shuangsheng gave Jiang Si her Miracle Seed, then teased him as an outer disciple until Bai Mei revealed that he was Shion’s boyfriend.
• Shuangsheng apologized in panic, and Jiang Si told her to retrieve her captured disciple that afternoon without causing trouble.
• When Shuangsheng tried to leave, Jiang Si and Bai Mei said they would go with her.

Bai Mei and Shuangsheng located the captured Lengyue at the Gale Factory in Jiangming City, where An Hui and Deputy Mayor Dakang planned to use Calamity Beasts against the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau. Bai Mei devastated the factory and rescued the Azure Cloud Sect’s captive, while Jiang Si told Shuangsheng to keep attacking until Chilian needed help.

• Shuangsheng found that Chilian had left Lengyue, sealed in crystal, at Gale Factory in Jiangming City.
• An Hui and Deputy Mayor Dakang discussed their plans to unleash Calamity Beasts on the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau and exploit public anger against magical girls.
• Bai Mei swept through the factory with powerful sword qi, killing the deputy mayor and Witch Association members as An Hui urged them to capture her.
• Shuangsheng watched Bai Mei destroy the factory and reconsidered her belief that the other Azure Cloud Sect disciples were weak.
• Jiang Si asked whether the destruction would make Chilian seek help, and Shuangsheng said they should keep killing until she did.

Qingluan registered Shuiling, an Azure Cloud Sect magical girl, while the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau faced an escalating Calamity Beast assault. After a white magical girl destroyed Gale Factory and a pharmaceutical factory, Chilian blamed the Azure Cloud Sect and ordered the Witch Association to attack the sect and the Bureau.

• Qingluan registered Shuiling and learned that her teacher was Bai Mei, that the Azure Cloud Sect had three other missing members, and that its magical girls treated their Incubators as expendable.
• Shuiling invited Qingluan to join the Azure Cloud Sect, and Qingluan said she might visit after resolving her doubts about the Bureau.
• Two B-rank Calamity Beasts appeared over the industrial park, and Qingluan transformed and rushed out to fight them.
• Chilian met with her Witch Association division captains and ordered them to guard Gale Factory and monitor the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau.
• Flower Fox reported that Gale Factory had exploded, the deputy mayor and An Hui were dead, and two B-rank Calamity Beasts had vanished; the middle-aged captain then demanded retaliation against the Bureau.
• Flower Fox reported that a white magical girl had also destroyed the pharmaceutical factory, and Chilian ordered the Witch Association to wipe out the Azure Cloud Sect and the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau.

Bai Mei destroyed a Witch Association base to make the Azure Cloud Sect known in Jiangming City, while Shuangsheng and Qian Jing followed her. Elsewhere, Jiang Si attacked Swordsmith and a Witch Association member, killed the bald man, and demanded that Swordsmith use the crystal ball to contact Chilian.

• Bai Mei freed Qian Jing from her crystal, and Shuangsheng learned that Qian Jing’s ability could only seal herself.
• Bai Mei destroyed a Witch Association leather factory, then killed a deranged woman who attacked her with foul magic.
• Swordsmith forced a bald Witch Association member to reveal what he knew about Bai Mei’s search for bases, but he could not give her the teacher’s exact location.
• Jiang Si entered the warehouse claiming he wanted to join the Witch Association, defeated Swordsmith, and survived her close-range grenade blast.
• Jiang Si killed the bald man, demanded his position and access to Chilian, then asked the untransformed Swordsmith to operate the crystal ball.

Qingluan and Shuiling defeated two powerful B-rank Calamity Beasts, but an A-rank appeared as Qingluan neared exhaustion. Meanwhile, Jiang Si captured Ruoyun, contacted Chilian, and resolved to force his way into the Witch Association by killing its members.

• Shuiling used her xiao to lull the B-rank Calamity Beast, and Qingluan compressed it into a card with Final Judgment.
• Qingluan sent Shuiling and the exhausted magical girls to safety, then faced a newly arrived A-rank Calamity Beast alone.
• Jiang Si questioned Ruoyun, learned she had come to find Bai Mei, and ordered her to contact Chilian.
• Jiang Si introduced himself to Chilian as the Blood-Handed Demon Butcher and asked to join the Witch Association, but Chilian threatened him and ended the call.
• Jiang Si told Ruoyun he would kill enough Witch Association members to force Chilian to accept him, then said only two executives remained.

Qingluan nearly died fighting an A-rank Calamity Beast until Iris arrived and defeated it, but Chilian then used gu insects to seize control of the magical girls at the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau. Chilian prepared to take over the Bureau and believed she could hold out for three years.

• Qingluan ran out of cards and magic, but Iris arrived by helicopter and used her gravity magic to destroy the goat Calamity Beast.
• Chilian learned that Jiang Motu had killed Hu Feng and other Witch Association officers, then gave him access to Calamity Eggs and control methods in exchange for attacking the white magical girl.
• Jiang Motu demanded the secret process for becoming a Perfect Witch, and Chilian promised to reveal it if he defeated the white magical girl.
• Chilian used a Complete Witch's Grief Seed to transform and headed toward the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau to take it over.
• Chilian's gu insects incapacitated Iris, Qingluan, Shuiling, and the other magical girls, leaving them under her control.

Jiang Si demonstrated his power to Ruoyun, persuaded her to seek strength through the Holy Church, and offered her membership, but Bai Mei arrived before she could answer. Ruoyun chose to leave the Azure Cloud Sect, and Jiang Si stood between her and Bai Mei as the two prepared to fight.

• Jiang Si broke into the Witch Association’s underground treasury, destroyed a Calamity Beast and Calamity Eggs by kicking in the door, and took control of the remaining beasts by filling them with fear.
• Ruoyun asked Jiang Si why he served the Witch Association, and he revealed the Holy Church’s lore and offered to recommend her for membership.
• Ruoyun eagerly asked to join the Holy Church, but Jiang Si told her she had to decide whether to abandon her former identity before accepting.
• Bai Mei arrived and confronted Jiang Si, while Qian Jing came to bring Ruoyun back to the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Ruoyun rejected Qian Jing and announced that she would leave the Azure Cloud Sect, prompting Bai Mei to draw her sword against Jiang Si.