Recaps

Kaiser Zane Truesdale destroyed Jiang He's monsters, revived his banished Cyber Dragons, and used [Power Bond] to summon a 5,600-attack [Cyber Twin Dragon]. He sealed Spell and Trap effects and launched a direct attack, but Jiang He stopped it with [Sphere Kuriboh], leaving Zane frustrated.

• Kaiser Zane Truesdale activated [Pot of Greed] and drew two cards, then used [Dark Hole] to destroy all three monsters on Jiang He's field.
• Kaiser Zane Truesdale activated [Return from the Different Dimension] and paid half his life points to revive three banished [Cyber Dragons].
• Kaiser Zane Truesdale used two [Cyber Dragons] as Fusion Materials for [Power Bond], summoning [Cyber Twin Dragon] with 5,600 attack points instead of bringing back [Cyber End Dragon].
• Kaiser Zane Truesdale activated [Anti-Magic Arrows] to prevent either player from using Spell or Trap effects, then ordered [Cyber Twin Dragon] to attack Jiang He directly.
• Jiang He discarded [Sphere Kuriboh] from his hand to change [Cyber Twin Dragon] to Defense Position, thwarting Kaiser Zane Truesdale's attack.

Jiang He countered Kaiser Zane Truesdale’s Power Bond backlash and set up a battle-damage strategy before using Future Fusion and Overload Fusion to summon Chimeratech Overdragon. The duel was left poised for Jiang He’s newly summoned monster to attack.

• Kaiser Zane Truesdale summoned Cyber Kirin and tributed it to prevent Power Bond’s effect damage for the turn.
• Jiang He activated Half Unbreak on Cyber Twin Dragon, then revealed Meteorain to let his monsters deal piercing damage to it.
• Jiang He activated Future Fusion and sent thirty Cyber Dragon-related Machine monsters from his deck to the graveyard as materials for Chimeratech Overdragon.
• Jiang He activated Overload Fusion, banished the thirty monsters from his graveyard, and Fusion Summoned Chimeratech Overdragon.

Jiang He defeated Kaiser Zane Truesdale with Chimeratech Overdragon, became Duel Academy’s new top student, and learned that The D would sponsor Zane. The celebration was interrupted by reports of cards failing to summon monsters, and Jiang He discovered that the affected cards carried a dense aura of dark power.

• Jiang He used Limiter Removal to raise Chimeratech Overdragon’s attack to 48,000 and unleash thirty attacks on Zane’s Cyber Twin Dragon, reducing Zane’s Life Points to zero.
• Chancellor Sheppard declared Jiang He the winner and Duel Academy’s new top student, and The D offered to sponsor Zane.
• Jiang He returned to his luxury cabin, where friends gathered to celebrate, and he mentioned sensing faint dark power among some students.
• Zane, Chazz Princeton, and Chancellor Sheppard reported that students’ cards had stopped summoning monsters, with similar incidents occurring beyond Duel Academy.
• Jiang He examined the sampled cards and saw that they were covered in a dense aura of dark power.

Jiang He confronted Mr. T, a dark-energy being connected to Darkness, and accepted his challenge to a Shadow Duel. Mr. T summoned Five-Headed Dragon, and Jiang He began a True Draco play that could Tribute Summon using Continuous Spells and Traps.

• Sphere Kuriboh warned Jiang He that the cards in Chancellor Sheppard’s hand carried an aura like Darkness’s power.
• Mr. T emerged from the cards and identified himself as an incarnation of a fragment of Darkness’s dark power.
• Jiang He challenged Mr. T to a Shadow Duel and brought out his True Draco deck.
• Mr. T used Future Fusion to send five Dragon monsters to the Graveyard, then activated Dragon’s Mirror to summon Five-Headed Dragon.
• Jiang He activated Disciples of the True Dracophoenix and revealed that Dinomight Knight, the True Dracofighter could use Continuous Spells and Traps as Tribute Summon materials.

Jiang He dismantled Mr. T’s defenses, summoned two True Draco monsters, and stole his Five-Headed Dragon with Massivemorph. Mr. T responded by activating Fusion Birth, hoping to summon another Fusion Monster by sending the top five cards of his Deck to the Graveyard.

• Jiang He Tributed Disciples of the True Dracophoenix to summon Dinomight Knight, the True Dracofighter, then used the Spell’s Graveyard effect to destroy Mr. T’s set Skill Drain.
• Jiang He activated True Draco Heritage, drew a card, and Tributed it to summon Dreiath III, the True Draco Cavalry General; its Graveyard effect destroyed Mr. T’s set Dragon’s Rebirth.
• Jiang He set three cards and ended his turn, then took control of Mr. T’s Five-Headed Dragon with Massivemorph when Mr. T began his turn.
• Mr. T activated Fusion Birth, which sent the top five cards of his Deck to the Graveyard to potentially Special Summon a Fusion Monster.

Jiang He countered Mr. T’s second Five-Headed Dragon with True Draco effects and Negate Attack, then began his next turn by activating Domain of the True Monarchs. Mr. T welcomed the darkness, unaware that Jiang He intended to use it to make the duel even more punishing.

• Mr. T used Fusion Birth to send five Dragon monsters from his deck to the Graveyard and Fusion Summon a second Five-Headed Dragon.
• Jiang He activated True Draco Apocalypse by using Dinomight Knight, the True Dracofighter’s effect, then destroyed Dreiath III, the True Draco Cavalry General to halve Five-Headed Dragon’s ATK and DEF.
• Dreiath III’s effect Special Summoned another copy from Jiang He’s deck in Defense Position.
• Mr. T attacked Dinomight Knight with Five-Headed Dragon, but Jiang He flipped Negate Attack and ended the Battle Phase.
• Mr. T set his remaining two cards and ended his turn, and Jiang He drew and activated Domain of the True Monarchs, plunging the field into darkness.

Jiang He overwhelmed Mr. T by sealing his Extra Deck, repeatedly weakening [Five-Headed Dragon], and negating its effects. Mr. T surrendered and vanished after warning that Darkness would soon attack Duel Academy, leaving Chancellor Sheppard to plan a response with President Pegasus.

• Jiang He used [Domain of the True Monarchs] to prevent Mr. T from Special Summoning monsters from the Extra Deck, then repeatedly weakened [Five-Headed Dragon] with [True Draco Apocalypse] while reviving [Dreiath III, the True Draco Cavalry General] with [True Draco King's Return].
• Jiang He attacked [Five-Headed Dragon] with [Dinomight Knight, the True Dracofighter], reducing Mr. T's Life Points from 4000 to 2750.
• Mr. T switched [Five-Headed Dragon] to Defense Position, but Jiang He activated [The Monarchs Erupt] to negate its effects and weakened it further until its attack and defense fell to 625.
• Mr. T lost his composure, warned Jiang He that Darkness would target him and attack the dueling world, then surrendered and vanished.
• Jiang He and the others discussed the threat, and Chancellor Sheppard said he would inform President Pegasus and arrange a response.

Jiang He counted his Emotion Point gains, reassured Alexis about Darkness, and agreed to let her stay with him overnight. The next morning, Chancellor Sheppard revealed that nearly everyone in Domino City had disappeared and that Aster Phoenix was missing, leaving Duel Academy facing an escalating threat from Darkness.

• Jiang He saw that his Emotion Points had risen to 40,000 after his duels with Kaiser Zane Truesdale and Mr. T.
• Alexis asked Jiang He whether Darkness could control her brother Atticus through the sealed mask, and Jiang He reassured her while warning her about Darkness’s power to erase defeated people from the world and their friends’ memories.
• Alexis asked to sleep with Jiang He because of the danger from Darkness, and Rei Saotome interrupted to insist that she needed protection too.
• Professor Crowler brought Jiang He, Jaden Yuki, Chazz Princeton, Kaiser Zane Truesdale, and the others to Chancellor Sheppard’s office the next morning.
• Chancellor Sheppard reported that only a small fraction of Domino City’s population remained and that Aster Phoenix and his manager Sartorius had gone missing.
• Jiang He predicted that Darkness would soon target Duel Academy, while the other students realized the danger after learning that Aster had disappeared.

Darkness’s forces erased most Duel Academy students from memory and appeared to have taken over the school. Jiang He prepared to confront Darkness, but his subordinates surrounded him and the others in the lecture hall.

• Chancellor Sheppard warned Jiang He and the others to stay ready for Darkness’s attack, and Jiang He reassured Alexis Rhodes and Rei Saotome.
• Jiang He sensed Darkness’s power on the island, then exchanged points for the Condor Mark, the Condor Earthbound Immortal Deck, and the Red Nova Deck.
• Jaden Yuki and the others discovered that most students were missing and that Vice Chancellor Bonaparte had forgotten his son Marcel and the rest of the student body.
• Jiang He confirmed that his marks had protected the Slifer Red dorm residents’ memories from Darkness’s power.
• More than a dozen Mr. T-like figures appeared in the lecture hall, declared Duel Academy had fallen to Darkness, and refused Jiang He’s demand to bring out their master.

Jiang He confronted Yusuke Fujiwara, a former Duel Academy genius who had willingly merged with Darkness, and began a Shadow Duel against him. Fujiwara opened the duel by summoning Clear Phantom and claiming that the Clear monsters were perfect.

• Jiang He summoned the three Sacred Beasts to threaten Darkness’s middle-aged subordinates, but a masked figure appeared and ordered them to stand down.
• Jiang He explained that the blue-green-haired masked figure had merged with Darkness while retaining control of his own consciousness.
• Atticus Rhodes, Zane Truesdale, and Alexis Rhodes recognized the figure as Yusuke Fujiwara, their former Duel Academy friend who had disappeared years earlier.
• Fujiwara rejected Atticus’s plea to abandon Darkness, challenged Jiang He to a Shadow Duel, and warned that the loser would have their soul sealed away.
• Jiang He accepted the duel, and Fujiwara transported the group into a Shadow Duel space before taking the first turn.
• Fujiwara summoned Clear Phantom and announced that he would demonstrate the power of his Clear monsters.

Jiang He faced Yusuke Fujiwara’s Clear World restrictions by setting a monster face-down, then let Yusuke attack it. The attack revealed Jiang He’s 4000-ATK Gren Maju Da Eiza, leaving the duel poised for the consequences of its reveal.

• Yusuke Fujiwara activated Clear World, whose effects restricted players according to their monsters’ Attributes, and explained that Clear Phantom avoided those effects by being treated as Attribute-less.
• Yusuke set two cards and ended his turn, while Jiang He drew with Pot of Desires and banished the top ten cards of his deck to draw two more.
• Jiang He set a monster face-down and placed three more cards before ending his turn.
• Yusuke summoned Clear Rage Golem and ordered it to attack Jiang He’s face-down monster.
• The attack flipped the monster face up and revealed Gren Maju Da Eiza with 4000 ATK.

Jiang He used [DNA Surgery] to turn Yusuke Fujiwara’s [Clear World] restrictions against him, then began dismantling Yusuke’s defenses. The duel continued with Jiang He sacrificing [Dinowrestler Pankratops] to destroy one of Yusuke’s set cards.

• Jiang He explained that [Gren Maju] had 4000 attack and defense because he had banished ten cards, then reflected [Clear Rage Golem]’s attack and reduced Yusuke Fujiwara to 1600 LP.
• Yusuke Fujiwara warned that [Clear World] would deal damage to Jiang He because [Gren Maju] was a FIRE monster, but Jiang He activated [DNA Surgery] and changed every monster’s Attribute to WIND.
• Bastion Misawa pointed out that WIND monsters prevented their controller from activating Spell Cards under [Clear World], leaving Yusuke unable to use his planned protection Spell.
• Yusuke switched [Clear Phantom] to Defense Position and ended his turn without setting another card.
• Jiang He Special Summoned [Dinowrestler Pankratops] because Yusuke controlled more monsters, then tributed it to destroy one of Yusuke’s set cards.

Jiang He kept Yusuke Fujiwara under pressure with Thunder King Rai-Oh, then watched Yusuke summon his ace, Clear Vice Dragon. Jiang He seized the dragon with Massivemorph, leaving Yusuke unable to use the Spell Card that could destroy the trap.

• Jiang He Normal Summoned Thunder King Rai-Oh, preventing either player from adding cards from their deck to their hand except by drawing normally.
• Jiang He attacked Yusuke Fujiwara’s Clear Rage Golem with Gren Maju, but Yusuke activated Negate Attack to stop the attack and end the Battle Phase.
• Yusuke tributed his two remaining monsters and summoned Clear Vice Dragon, boasting that its attack would double that of any monster it battled.
• Jiang He activated Massivemorph and took control of Clear Vice Dragon, negating its effects and preventing it from attacking.
• Yusuke realized he could not use the Spell Card in his hand to destroy Massivemorph because Clear World’s restriction prevented him from using Spell Cards.

Jiang He defeated Yusuke Fujiwara, but the darkness inhabiting him emerged and began swallowing the world into its dark inner world. Jiang He challenged Darkness in a Shadow Duel and watched it summon Darkness Eye as their duel began.

• Jiang He used Solemn Judgment to negate Yusuke Fujiwara's Negate Attack, allowing Gren Maju to attack directly and reduce Yusuke Fujiwara's Life Points to zero.
• Darkness's power emerged from Yusuke Fujiwara, absorbed the ritual space, and formed its true body as a vortex began swallowing the island and surrounding world.
• Jiang He and the others went outside the Duel Academy, where Darkness challenged Jiang He to a Shadow Duel.
• Jiang He brought out a new deck, and he and Darkness began the duel with 4000 Life Points each.
• Darkness drew a card through its dark power and summoned Darkness Eye in attack position.

Jiang He exposed Darkness’s trick for identifying his randomly set traps, then survived Darkness’s 2,000-point Shadow Duel damage through the Crimson Dragon’s protection. He began his counterattack by Special Summoning Rapid-Fire Dragon, whose effect he was about to use.

• Darkness activated Darkness - Dark World and set five Continuous Traps from his deck, then used Zero and Infinity to activate the traps between them and deal Jiang He 2,000 damage.
• Jiang He revealed that Sphere Kuriboh and the Ojama Trio had secretly inspected Darkness Eye’s effect, which let Darkness check his set cards.
• Darkness’s damage struck Jiang He, but Crimson Dragon Quetzalcoatl’s power protected him from harm.
• Jiang He Special Summoned Rapid-Fire Dragon after taking effect damage and prepared to activate its other effect.

Jiang He turned the duel against Darkness by reflecting damage, destroying Darkness’s traps and Field Spell, and sealing off future Field Spell activations. Darkness summoned its 4,000-ATK ace, Darkness Neosphere, but Jiang He set a monster in Defense Position as the duel continued.

• Jiang He Special Summoned Rapid-Fire Dragon, which reflected 2,000 damage to Darkness and restored 1,000 LP to Jiang He.
• Jiang He activated Harpie's Feather Duster and destroyed Darkness’s five traps and its Field Spell, Darkness - Dark World.
• Darkness sent Darkness Eye and Darkness Bramble to the Graveyard to Special Summon Darkness Neosphere from its deck.
• Jiang He activated the Field Spell Closed Forest, preventing either player from activating another Field Spell.
• Jiang He Normal Summoned a monster face-down in Defense Position while Darkness Neosphere remained on the field.

Jiang He faced Darkness’s Life Point-resetting ace and a series of attacks after Darkness destroyed his set cards. The chapter ended as Darkness Destroyer attacked Jiang He’s face-down monster, which revealed itself as Mystic Tomato.

• Darkness activated Darkness Neosphere’s effect and set its Life Points back to 4000.
• Darkness used Dark World Dealings, then activated two Mystical Space Typhoons to destroy Jiang He’s Massivemorph and Solemn Judgment.
• Darkness summoned Dark Necro Slime, sent it to the Graveyard, and revived Darkness Destroyer from its Graveyard.
• Darkness Neosphere destroyed Rapid-Fire Dragon, reducing Jiang He’s Life Points from 3000 to 1400.
• Darkness Destroyer attacked Jiang He’s face-down monster, which flipped over and revealed Mystic Tomato.

Jiang He used Mystic Tomato’s effect to summon Earthbound Immortal Wiraqocha Rasca, whose protection stopped Darkness’s monsters from attacking him. He then activated Wiraqocha Rasca’s effect to reduce Darkness’s Life Points to 1 and struck it with the immortal’s attack.

• Darkness Destroyer destroyed Jiang He’s Mystic Tomato, leaving Jiang He with 200 Life Points.
• Jiang He used Mystic Tomato’s Graveyard effect to Special Summon Earthbound Immortal Wiraqocha Rasca from his Deck.
• Wiraqocha Rasca’s shared Earthbound Immortal effects prevented Darkness’s monsters from targeting it with attacks or affecting it with Spell and Trap effects.
• Jiang He played Upstart Goblin and Spellbook Burial Card, raising Darkness’s Life Points to 5000 while drawing cards.
• Jiang He activated Wiraqocha Rasca’s effect to change Darkness’s Life Points to 1, then ordered the Earthbound Immortal to attack Darkness.

Jiang He defeated Darkness with a final 500-point burn, freeing the people trapped in his dark world. The next morning, the group learned that Domino City had vanished and been replaced by a strange, familiar-looking New Domino City.

• Jiang He restored 1200 of his own LP with Poison of the Old Man, then used Hinotama to reduce Darkness's final LP to zero.
• Darkness exploded in rage, and his defeat ended the dark world and returned its captives to Duel Academy and locations around the world.
• Chancellor Sheppard and the others woke up, confirmed Darkness had been defeated, and thanked Jiang He and the group before they went to rest.
• The next morning, Jaden Yuki, Chazz Princeton, and Syrus Truesdale told Jiang He that Domino City had changed completely.
• Jiang He searched the news and learned that the original Domino City had been replaced by New Domino City, whose layout and residents were unfamiliar.

Jiang He learned that New Domino City and its future inhabitants had appeared in the present after Darkness’s defeat, while Domino City’s original residents had been displaced into the future. He acquired two powerful decks and learned that Duel Academy planned a school trip to New Domino City, where its leaders hoped to recruit students and restore the academy’s reputation.

• Jiang He learned from Eisenstein that Darkness’s collapsing Dark World had created a space-time singularity that brought New Domino City into the present and sent Domino City’s original residents into the future.
• Jiang He checked his system and saw that he had gained 14,500 Emotion Points, then found new deck options in the shop.
• Jiang He redeemed both the PSY-Framelord Deck and The Tyrant Neptune Deck.
• Chancellor Sheppard announced that Rex Goodwin had invited him and other dueling celebrities to visit New Domino City, and proposed a school trip for Duel Academy students.
• Professor Crowler and Vice Chancellor Bonaparte praised the trip as a way to showcase Duel Academy and attract students from New Domino City.

Jiang He and the Duel Academy group arrived in New Domino City, where Lazar tried to intimidate them while dismissing Jiang He's request to meet Rex Goodwin. When Lazar learned that Jiang He was an honorary prince of the Serpent God Kingdom, he panicked and apologized.

• Alexis Rhodes told Jiang He that Johan Andersen, Jim, Axel Brodie, and others had returned to check on their families, and Jiang He explained that most of his own assets had survived the spacetime incident.
• Jiang He, Chancellor Sheppard, and the Duel Academy group arrived in New Domino City and met Lazar, who revealed that he could hear Tyranno Hassleberry's private remark.
• Jiang He asked Lazar to arrange a meeting with Rex Goodwin, but Lazar bragged that Goodwin was meeting Prince Ojin and dismissed Jiang He as unimportant.
• Rei Saotome and the others revealed that Jiang He was an honorary prince of the Serpent God Kingdom, equal in status to Prince Ojin.
• Jiang He showed Lazar his honorary prince's medal, and Lazar dropped to his knees and apologized in fear.

Jiang He accepted Lazar’s duel wager and faced the Security Maintenance Bureau deputy at the docks. Lazar set up his Clown Deck strategy, but Jiang He summoned Lyrilusc - Independent Nightingale and Tributed it to bring out The Tyrant Neptune.

• Jiang He challenged Lazar to a duel, wagering that Lazar would do something for him if he lost.
• Lazar began with three set cards and summoned Jester Lord, whose attack rose to 3,000 while it was the only monster on the field.
• Lazar Special Summoned Jester Confit, then ended his turn after explaining its return effect and activating the Continuous Trap Level Lifter to stop Jiang He’s Battle Phase.
• Jiang He drew and activated Instant Polymerization, paying 1,000 LP to Special Summon Lyrilusc - Independent Nightingale from his Extra Deck.
• Jiang He Tributed Lyrilusc - Independent Nightingale and summoned The Tyrant Neptune.

Jiang He defeated Lazar by using The Tyrant Neptune to inherit Lyrilusc - Independent Nightingale’s effects, giving it 6,000 ATK and a direct-damage effect. Lazar pretended to be unconscious after losing, then sprang up and acted as if he had just awakened.

• Jiang He explained that The Tyrant Neptune inherited Independent Nightingale’s effects and gained its ATK and effects as a Tribute Summon.
• The Tyrant Neptune’s inherited level-based effect raised its ATK to 6,000, while its immunity protected it from Lazar’s Jester Confit.
• Jiang He used the monster’s level-based burn effect to deal 5,000 damage and reduce Lazar’s 4,000 LP to zero.
• Jiang He joked that Lazar’s subordinates should put him in a sack and sink him, revealing that he knew Lazar was faking unconsciousness.
• Lazar jumped up and pretended he had just regained consciousness.

Jiang He toured New Domino City with the Duel Academy group, met the reigning dueling king Jack Atlas, and learned about the upcoming Fortune Cup. Rex Goodwin invited Jiang He to enter the tournament, and Jiang He accepted the invitation as an opportunity to duel strong opponents.

• Jiang He and the others toured New Domino City's facilities and arrived at its professional dueling arena.
• Jack Atlas confronted Chazz Princeton Thunder, declared himself the city's sole dueling king, and challenged newcomers to earn the right to face him.
• Rex Goodwin arrived with Lazar, apologized to Jiang He, and introduced the Fortune Cup tournament.
• Goodwin offered Jiang He a chance to bypass the preliminary rounds because he had defeated Lazar in one turn.
• Jiang He declined the special privilege, said he wanted to duel the tournament's strong competitors, and accepted Goodwin's invitation.

Jiang He settled into his New Domino City villa and accepted Jack Atlas's challenge to a duel. Jack began demonstrating Synchro Summoning, leaving the duel poised as he prepared to bring out his ace monster.

• Jiang He bought a villa beside Duel Academy's temporary rest area and asked Lazar for technology related to a new device in New Domino City.
• Jack Atlas visited Jiang He and challenged him to a duel before Duel Academy returned the next day.
• Jiang He accepted Jack's challenge, and Jaden Yuki, Chazz Princeton, and the others gathered to watch.
• Jack went first, summoned Dark Resonator, and explained that it was a Tuner monster used for Synchro Summoning.
• Jack sent a Level 1 monster from his hand to the Graveyard and Special Summoned Power Giant, reducing its Level from 6.