Chapter Summaries

Qingluan returned home, reflected on her strained relationship with her father, and learned that she had been selected to enter the Mental Image Remnants, where she hoped to uncover the secret of Full Bloom. Meanwhile, Honghe awoke as a mouse in the Witch Association’s postmortem review squad, where Shuangsheng and the others prepared to criticize her defeat.

• Qingluan returned home and recalled how her father had blamed her for her mother’s death and killed her cat, though he now accepted Little White and urged her to value people over pets.
• Qingluan contacted Iris, who told her that Xingxuan had exposed the Witch Association’s hidden forces in Hulin City and that the Holy Church had destroyed the group’s plans.
• Iris told Qingluan that Senior Jinque had selected her to enter the Mental Image Remnants, and Little White encouraged her and Iris to use Full Bloom if necessary.
• Qingluan decided to investigate Full Bloom’s secret and seek a way to save her senior.
• Honghe awoke in the Witch Association’s underground bar as a mouse, and Shuangsheng welcomed her to the postmortem review squad for her mistakes in the battle against the Azure Cloud Sect.

The captain, Shuangsheng, and Chilian persuaded a despairing Honghe to seek revenge by luring Jiang Motu into the Mental Image Remnants, and learned that An Shiyu could be the key to entering them. In BH City, An Shiyu registered with the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau and revealed that she had come to pursue Jiang Si.

• Shuangsheng and Chilian blamed Honghe and the captain for the Witch Association’s defeat, while Honghe clarified that Jiang Motu of the Holy Church had defeated them.
• The captain rallied Honghe by urging her to take revenge and proposing that they send Jiang Motu into the Mental Image Remnants alongside the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau’s magical girls.
• Honghe said the laboratory had searched for a magical girl with an unknown aptitude tied to the Full Bloom magical girl who owned the Mental Image Remnants, and that Scorpio had found An Shiyu.
• Li Yi brought Keke to the BH City Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, where Shancha arrived with newly registered magical girl An Shiyu.
• An Shiyu said she had come to BH City to find Jiang Si and wanted to pursue him, leaving Li Yi, Keke, Susan, and Peony stunned.

Li Yi struggled to send the friendship letter she had written for Jiang Si, while An Shiyu learned he had a girlfriend and was invited to stay with Keke. Meanwhile, Jiang Si assessed his cultivation and learned that the Witch Association and the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau planned to enter the Mental Image Remnants to investigate the Full Bloom realm.

• Li Yi visited the roadside monument commemorating Shion and decided she could no longer put off sending her friendship letter to Jiang Si.
• An Shiyu described Jiang Si to Peony and Susan, and Keke revealed that she was the Jiang Keke An Shiyu remembered from childhood.
• Susan told An Shiyu that Jiang Si had a girlfriend and urged her to leave Beihai, but An Shiyu broke down in tears and said she had nowhere else to go.
• Keke invited An Shiyu to stay at her home, and Li Yi announced that she was going too.
• Jiang Si assessed his Nascent Soul cultivation and outlined the paths and shortcomings he still needed to address.
• Winter Lord told Jiang Si that the Witch Association and the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau were preparing to enter the Mental Image Remnants, where they might uncover secrets of the Full Bloom realm.

Jiang Si and Bingtang discussed the Witch Association’s research into mental image remnants, then went shopping for gifts before learning that An Shiyu could open a way into the remnants. After Jiang Si returned home to attempt refining a Bigu Pill, An Shiyu arrived with Keke, Li Yi, and Susan, and Jiang Si called Bingtang, saying the key had come looking for him.

• Winter Lord told Jiang Si that the Witch Association had sought a way into Full Bloom magical girls’ mental image remnants, and Jiang Si criticized major sects for withholding knowledge from their branches.
• Bingtang said Shuangsheng planned to investigate South China, and Jiang Si decided to grant her honorary true disciple status for her work against the Witch Association.
• Jiang Si and Bingtang bought pastries for Four Leaves and Six Leaves and a bow-shaped hair clip for Yumo, then shared ice cream.
• Bingtang revealed that Hulin City had identified An Shiyu as a girl who could resonate with mental image remnants, and Jiang Si realized he had met her but let her go.
• Jiang Si returned home and began preparing to refine a Bigu Pill, but he stopped when Keke, Li Yi, Susan, and An Shiyu arrived.
• Jiang Si recognized An Shiyu as the key and immediately called Bingtang to tell her.

Blue Flower and the Azure Cloud Sect disciples monitored An Shiyu’s arrival at Jiang Si’s home, but their bedroom dispute was settled when Shion arrived and took Jiang Si away. An Shiyu accepted that Jiang Si and Shion were a couple and resolved to become their friend, while Li Yi struggled to let go of her hatred for Shion.

• Blue Flower ordered Four Leaves and Six Leaves to monitor An Shiyu, while Susan, Li Yi, and An Shiyu contested who would stay in the bedroom near Jiang Si.
• Yumo suggested they could end the dispute by taking Jiang Si away.
• Shion arrived with Jiang Si, declared the bedroom opposite his room a storeroom, and assigned the guests places to sleep.
• Shion left with Jiang Si for a hotel so he could focus on tutoring, leaving Keke and the others at home.
• An Shiyu said she would keep her feelings to herself and try to become friends with Jiang Si and Shion.
• Li Yi resolved to overcome her hatred of Shion, despite remembering that Shion had killed her sister.

Bingtang accompanied Jiang Si back through town, while An Shiyu asked Li Yi how close friends behaved as she tried to understand relationships. Shuangsheng watched a Witch Association livestream challenge end in the Azure Cloud Sect’s attack, and Jiang Si revealed that he wanted to challenge the sect himself because he was also a Witch Association member.

• Bingtang teased Jiang Si about rescuing her and said she would handle the arrangements for An Shiyu as they returned to the sect.
• An Shiyu asked Li Yi about Shion and what close friends could do together, taking notes on gestures ranging from hugs to princess carries.
• Shuangsheng watched Witch Association members compete in livestreamed challenges against the Azure Cloud Sect for Mental Image Remnants entry slots.
• A Witch Association streamer challenged the Azure Cloud Sect in Beihai and sent Calamity Beasts toward Jiang Si, Bingtang, and Shion, who swiftly overwhelmed him.
• Winter Lord explained that the Witch Association’s challenges were distributing few entry slots and said An Shiyu would be safe with the Beihai Disaster Countermeasures Bureau.
• Jiang Si told Winter Lord that he was a Witch Association member and intended to challenge the Azure Cloud Sect’s alert levels himself.

Jiang Si gave gifts to the disciples, then announced a sect-wide competition in which everyone had to defeat him. He refined Bigu Pills and, after discovering the Holy Church had collected over seven hundred Calamity Eggs, arranged to obtain them and announced a four-star Beihai Demon Cave challenge under the name Si Motu.

• Bingtang had Jiang Si give Four Leaves and Six Leaves a cake, then gave Yumo a hair clip that Jiang Si helped fasten.
• Jiang Si announced that every member of the Azure Cloud Sect had to do everything in their power to defeat him in the sect competition.
• Jiang Si refined Grief Seeds, Calamity Eggs, and Miracle Seed magic power into Bigu Pills, then planned to have the sect make more.
• Jiang Si learned that Ruoyun had spent most of the Holy Church's funds on equipment and a Calamity Beast hunting team, but ordered Flower Fox to let her continue collecting Calamity Eggs.
• Jiang Si learned the Holy Church had collected over seven hundred Calamity Eggs and announced a four-star Beihai Demon Cave challenge in a livestream as Si Motu.

Bai Mei recruited Qian Jing and Shuiling for the Azure Cloud Sect’s Hundred-City League and began hunting Witch Association members, while true disciple Dandelion slaughtered challengers in Hulin City. Xilan reached Beihai to support Jiang Motu, only to discover he had openly challenged the Azure Cloud Sect before a huge swarm of magical girls appeared.

• Bai Mei explained the sect tournament to Qian Jing and Shuiling, who backed away from joining after learning its final challenge might be against the sect master.
• Bai Mei transformed, struck down a complete witch from afar, and sent Qian Jing and Shuiling after the remaining Witch Association members as their trial.
• Dandelion appeared in Hulin City, killed Witch Association members who challenged her, and pursued the scattered survivors; Xilan escaped by merging with a crane.
• Xilan avoided magical girls on her way to Beihai and eagerly sought out Jiang Motu, expecting to help him undermine the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Jiang Motu publicly challenged the Azure Cloud Sect, and Xilan began to join him before hundreds of magical girls flew out of Beihai and she apologized and backed away.

Xingxuan witnessed the Azure Cloud Sect’s rigorous rookie assessment and resolved to join, while Si Motu’s defeat of Blue Flower’s puppet army drew Shion into battle. Shion’s attack engulfed Si Motu and Xilan in a massive blast, leaving their fate unknown.

• Xingxuan watched an Azure Cloud Sect rookie fail an assessment but learned that the sect protected members with emergency buttons and had seven powerful true disciples, so she asked to take the entrance exam.
• Si Motu annihilated Blue Flower’s magical girl puppets with a tainted-power arrow, impressing Xilan, who asked to become a formal employee under her.
• Bingtang ordered Blue Flower to unleash her final trump card, and Shion appeared amid the gathered magical power.
• Shion challenged Si Motu, who shielded Xilan before suddenly fleeing and warning that Shion could not be beaten by brute force.
• Xilan tried to stand and fight beside Si Motu, but Shion’s javelin struck behind them and engulfed both in a mushroom cloud.

Jiang Si fought Bingtang’s Shion magic doll, using Ignorance Delusion and close combat to wound it before Shion unleashed a devastating flame lotus. After the battle, Bingtang considered how to help Jiang Si enter the Mental Image Remnants, then received news that Witch Association headquarters wanted to cooperate with the Azure Cloud Sect.

• Jiang Si kept Bai Mei out of the fight and used Calamity Beasts and Ignorance Delusion to limit Shuangye’s interference.
• Bingtang’s magic spear gravely wounded Xilan, but Jiang Si revived her with a Grief Seed and emergency alchemy.
• Jiang Si fought Shion at close range, disrupting Bingtang’s control and using Ignorance Delusion to land a small wound on Shion’s face.
• Shion unleashed Buddha’s Fury, Flame Lotus, reducing the eastern district outside Beihai City to a wasteland and knocking Xilan unconscious.
• Bingtang questioned Shuangye about Jiang Si’s tactics and considered using An Shiyu to help him enter the Mental Image Remnants.
• Susan told Bingtang that Witch Association headquarters wanted to cooperate with the Azure Cloud Sect.

Jialan discussed the Mental Image Remnants and the Witch Association’s plans with a figure from the Land of Mirrors, then Si Motu requested the method for creating Complete Witches as his five-star challenge reward. Xilan mistook his request for a desire to keep her, but Si Motu said she wanted more Complete Witches so she could defeat the Azure Cloud Sect and avenge Chilian and the captain.

• Jialan watched Si Motu battle a purple magical girl and discussed her unusually high compatibility with Filthy Magic Power with the figure in blue work clothes.
• The figure in blue work clothes warned that the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau was sending powerful magical girls to secure the Mental Image Remnants, while Jialan revealed the Witch Association’s plans and its Magical Girl Hunter.
• Xilan woke in a Hulin City orphanage basement beside Si Motu, admired her, and told her that an Azure Cloud Sect disciple was also in Hulin City.
• Xilan contacted her former superior, rejected him, and then introduced Si Motu to Jialan, who offered Si Motu a reward for completing the five-star challenge.
• Si Motu asked for the method to make Complete Witches so she could create more and crush the Azure Cloud Sect; Jialan agreed.

Golden Tea visited the Beihai Disaster Countermeasures Bureau and, after hearing Li Yi’s troubled thoughts about her sister’s death, hurried to seek cooperation with the Azure Cloud Sect. Meanwhile, Jiang Si resolved to pursue the Complete Witch path and arrived at Yanji University, where he met his contact, Hyacinth.

• Golden Tea arrived at the Beihai Disaster Countermeasures Bureau and heard Susan and Peony’s impatient thoughts, then recognized Keke as the child Larkspur had saved.
• Golden Tea met Li Yi, heard her thoughts about seeking forgiveness for hating the girl who had killed her sister, and asked Susan to contact the Azure Cloud Sect about cooperation.
• Jiang Si discussed his cultivation with the black dragon and concluded that he needed the Complete Witch Transformation Mystic Art and access to a witch laboratory to advance his path.
• Xilan brought Jiang Si to Yanji University, where he met a black-haired, black-eyed girl who introduced herself as Hyacinth.

Jiang Si and Xilan visited Hyacinth’s laboratory to test the Complete Witch technology, where Hyacinth described the deadly Mirror World and demonstrated a trick with a reflection. While Jiang Si began the experiment inside the locked laboratory, Xilan was left outside and saw her reflections throw scissors before switching to paper, so she panicked and called for help.

• Hyacinth led Jiang Si and Xilan through a mirror-filled university building and told them about Alice of the Land of Mirrors, who had caused the disappearance of hundreds of Witch Association members.
• Hyacinth demonstrated rock-paper-scissors against a mirror, revealing that she had secretly used her other hand to make the reflection appear to win.
• Hyacinth took Jiang Si to a laboratory containing a chained, unconscious magical girl and prepared to conduct the Complete Witch experiment on him.
• Jiang Si ordered Xilan to stay quiet, then put her outside the laboratory and closed its iron doors.
• Xilan saw every reflection of herself throw scissors, then watched them all switch to paper when she was about to throw rock, and she pounded on the door for Jiang Si to help her.

Golden Tea met Winter Lord to discuss the threat posed by Mujin’s Mental Image Remnants and learned that a key to the Land of Mirrors’ seal lay inside them. Meanwhile, Hyacinth completed an experiment on Jiang Si, whose newly altered body proved powerful enough to attack her, but her defensive magic sent him crashing into a school lake.

• Golden Tea reflected on her mind-reading ability and met Winter Lord, who used her Echo to silence the thoughts around them and revealed how Golden Tea’s dislike of coffee showed in her mannerisms.
• Golden Tea told Winter Lord that Mujin had entered Full Bloom to seal the Land of Mirrors and that Mujin’s Incubator had confirmed the key to undoing the seal was inside her Mental Image Remnants.
• Winter Lord agreed that the Azure Cloud Sect would monitor the threat, while Golden Tea warned that its harsh methods had stirred public hostility and Winter Lord said the sect should not be judged by magical-girl standards.
• Hyacinth completed her experiment on Jiang Si, whose body could endure surgery and pain without reacting and whose altered magical power no longer caused internal pain.
• Jiang Si attacked Hyacinth to test his strength, but her defensive magic rebounded his blows and sent him through the laboratory and into the school lake.
• Hyacinth protected the school’s teachers and students from falling debris, while Jiang Si emerged from the lake and used a Grief Seed through his shattered mask.

Jiang Si transformed into a Dragonblood Warrior and defeated Hyacinth by exploiting gaps in her reflection abilities, but his transformation left him gravely wounded and unable to absorb filthy mana. As Alice of the Land of Mirrors tried to force him into the Mental Image Remnants, Jiang Si revealed a nearly black purple seed and began another transformation.

• Jiang Si’s Complete Witch surgery transformed him into a black dragon, but his inner demon took over and attacked the school’s fleeing students before Hyacinth drove him back.
• Jiang Si tore the dragon horn and scales from his own body to expel the inner demon, then fought Hyacinth by exploiting the brief gaps between her reflection abilities and defeated her with dragon breath.
• Jiang Si’s Grief Seed shattered and his transformation ended, leaving him badly injured and unable to absorb more filthy mana; he took a little girl from the laboratory as he prepared to leave.
• The girl transformed into a pale purple magical girl and attacked Jiang Si for killing Miss Shion, but Jiang Si knocked her aside before Hyacinth struck him with a black whip.
• A second, unharmed Hyacinth appeared, identified herself as Alice of the Land of Mirrors, and demanded that Jiang Si enter the Mental Image Remnants, while the other Hyacinth woke and recognized him as Keke’s older brother.
• As a bell rang, Jiang Si revealed a nearly black purple seed and began transforming again.

Shion arrived at the academy, identified Splash as the enemy, and defeated her despite her reflection barrier and damage-rebound ability. Splash escaped to the Land of Mirrors and tried to warn its leaders about Shion, but Shion breached the Mirror World and found her again.

• Shion found a damaged recorder, asked who was on which side, and learned that the wounded Hyacinth was the real one while the other was Splash of the Land of Mirrors.
• Shion attacked Splash, overwhelmed her reflection barrier with repeated strikes, and pierced her with a mana spear after the barrier shattered.
• Splash activated damage rebound, but the reflected fatal injury left only a tiny mark on Shion before Shion burned Splash down with purple mana.
• Splash woke in her mirror space and tried to email the prince a warning that Shion could destroy abilities and penetrate the Mirror World's defenses.
• Shion tore open the mirror-space ceiling and appeared before Splash just as Splash sent her warning.

Shion took control of the sealed Mirror World, renamed its system Main God, and began turning it into an exchange-based Main God Space. Meanwhile, Coral and Hyacinth were transported there after Coral accidentally accepted a mysterious invitation, where Shion welcomed them.

• Shion discovered that the Mirror World’s system had been wiped and its connection to the Land of Mirrors severed, then renamed it Main God Space and ordered Main God to create a catalog and personal space.
• Coral recalled her captivity and experiments, Hyacinth’s rescue and alliance with the Land of Mirrors, and her decision to help Hyacinth fight the Witch Association.
• Coral struck Si Motu while trying to avenge Shion, only for Si Motu to transform into Shion and leave with Splash; Coral and Hyacinth feared Shion would blame them.
• While waiting for Shion to return, Hyacinth saw a virtual screen asking whether she wanted to know the meaning of life and truly live.
• Coral accidentally selected yes, and she and Hyacinth were transported to Main God Space, where Shion greeted them beneath a huge ball of light.

Hyacinth reflected on her selfish desire to be the only magical girl, her defeats, and the three transformations she spent after losing her power. Reborn through the Land of Mirrors, she told Shion she wanted to protect all magical girls and make Shion happy, but Shion challenged her motives.

• Hyacinth recalled how Shion's overwhelming strength crushed her dream of becoming the one and only magical girl, and how she later lost her power after using her final three transformations to help others.
• Hyacinth wished before a mirror for the power to draw closer to Shion, and a new miracle answered her.
• Shion explained that the newcomers could join the Holy Church and complete missions or surrender their Miracle Seeds and become ordinary people.
• Hyacinth revealed that the Land of Mirrors had restored her power in exchange for fighting in Mental Image Remnants, then told Shion she wanted to protect every magical girl, including her.
• Shion descended from her seat and asked Hyacinth whether she was trying to make an enemy of her.

Hyacinth and Coral registered in Shion’s Main God Space, while Ruoyun finally reached it after doubting the Holy Church and exchanged her collected materials for new weapons and skills. As Ruoyun and Hyacinth began a mission in the Mental Image Remnants, Shion tested a remote lightning-strike system and prepared to bring its Heavenly Tribulation to the wider world.

• Shion introduced Hyacinth and Coral to Main God Space, and Hyacinth persuaded her to revise its warning rules to reduce accidental eliminations.
• Ruoyun reached Anyang, worried that the Holy Church might be fake, then accepted a mysterious prompt and arrived in Main God Space with five thousand points’ worth of collected materials.
• Shion helped Ruoyun exchange her points for a South China magic wand, a Lost Land card, and Buddha’s Fury Flame Lotus, then assigned her and Hyacinth to investigate the Mental Image Remnants.
• Bingtang arranged for Blue Flower, Bai Mei, and An Shiyu to join the Azure Cloud Sect’s preparations for the Mental Image Remnants, while Shion collected magic dolls from Blue Flower.
• Shion used Bingtang’s magic doll to remotely target a Calamity Beast and strike it with heavenly lightning, then freed Xilan and prepared for the mission.

Shuangsheng escorted the Prince of the Land of Mirrors toward the Mental Image Remnants, while she and her companions fed him false intelligence about Shion. At a nearby resort, Peony tried to convince An Shiyu to relax until an attack split Iris’s helicopter in two.

• Shuangsheng met the Prince of the Land of Mirrors and endured his insults while agreeing to guide him to the Mental Image Remnants.
• The Prince shared his report about Splash’s battle with Shion, and Shuangsheng, Captain, and Chilian pretended to confirm his claims while inventing Shion’s weaknesses.
• Captain convinced the Prince that Shion was ticklish and that enemies should attack her at close range, prompting him to order an anti-Shion Alice designed for melee combat.
• Shuangsheng celebrated the deception by opening champagne, then had the Prince pay the resort’s expensive bill.
• Peony explained her approach to Bureau assignments and her magical-girl life goals to An Shiyu at the resort.
• A black shadow cut Iris’s helicopter and its banner in two, sending them plunging toward the sea as An Shiyu noted that the strongest magical girl had failed to hold up the sky.