Recaps

Du Yu revealed that he had killed the Supreme Pivots as Time and made the Terminator rewrite their lives, hoping to save them and ultimately end the cycle that had created successive versions of Time. He returned to the past as Time, where he recovered a black scroll and confronted He Suoyi.

• The Terminator bit Du Yu, then accused him of killing the Supreme Pivots and forcing him to fabricate their lives; Du Yu confirmed the plan and said only one final step remained.
• Du Yu explained that You Si had inherited A-Xiang's love for him, and told the Terminator he intended to return to the past as Time to break the curse.
• The Terminator followed Du Yu into the Inner World, where Du Yu entered a fragment showing the scene before the great battle.
• Du Yu arrived at the Legend Management Bureau as the Black Buddha descended, found a pitch-black scroll, and carved words onto it.
• He Suoyi descended and began to taunt Du Yu, but Du Yu seized him, slammed him into the ground, and asked him to talk.

Du Yu unleashed mysterious flames and killed Maudgalyayana, setting the Black Monks ablaze. As reinforcements arrived, Du Yu revealed that he was no longer truly Du Yu and called himself Divine Fire · Shiranui, leaving the allies to protect the Immortals while he faced the battle alone.

• Du Yu used his flames and control over time to stop Maudgalyayana, burn him, and explode him over the Black Monks.
• The flames spread through the hundred thousand Black Monks, while the seven people inside Du Yu's inner world watched and Zhongli Chun said he was not Du Yu right now.
• Queen Mother of the West, Houtu, the Three Pure Ones, Demon-Queller, and Gouchen arrived, followed by Greek gods, Dragon Kings, Heavenly Generals, and Underworld forces.
• A-Xiang brought Shuten Doji and the Monsters through a Portal, and Shuten recognized Du Yu's immense Yokai Aura and offered him leadership of Armed Monster.
• Du Yu asked Shuten to spread out and protect the Immortals from the flames, then identified himself as Divine Fire · Shiranui.

Du Yu used the Northern Emperor to kill Great Dark Heaven from within, then sealed the Northern Emperor and He Suoyi inside the Portal. He told the trapped Northern Emperor that his death had been foretold a million years earlier.

• Du Yu recruited the Northern Emperor and stopped Great Dark Heaven from dragging Dong Qianqiu and Shiranui Asuka toward him.
• Du Yu opened a Portal into Great Dark Heaven and sent the Northern Emperor inside to attack him.
• Du Yu unsettled Great Dark Heaven by revealing that You Si regretted saving him, allowing the Northern Emperor to breach his defenses and kill him.
• Du Yu invited He Suoyi into the Portal, then closed it and told the Northern Emperor that he had to die alongside Great Dark Heaven.
• The Northern Emperor protested that Du Yu had betrayed their agreement, but Du Yu said he had warned him a million years earlier that he would die there.

Du Yu used He Suoyi’s suffering and Great Buddha power to shatter time from within the Time Caves, hoping to escape control and become an “Operator.” As the caves collapsed and connected, the Terminator learned Du Yu’s final truth, and countless incarnations of time were destroyed.

• Du Yu trapped Great Dark Heaven inside a loop of portals, accelerated time within it, and sent the sphere containing He Suoyi into the Time Cave.
• Du Yu explained to the Terminator that He Suoyi would destroy time rather than space, then entered the sphere and burned He Suoyi to intensify his suffering.
• Du Yu released He Suoyi’s Great Buddha into the Time Cave, where its blood-red power filled the void and began erasing the cave’s boundaries.
• The Terminator accused Du Yu of killing him, and Du Yu insisted that he had saved him before vanishing and meeting the Terminator in his Inner World.
• Du Yu told the Terminator a final truth, after which the Time Rifts and Time Caves shattered, and He Suoyi’s immense form continued breaking them apart.

Du Yu took a Japanese passenger through the Underworld while fleeing Xie Jin and her companions, then learned about new hires at the Ghost Management Bureau and received a warning from Weaver Girl. After dropping off A-Xiang at the café Bitter Wait, Du Yu burned a talisman and went inside to meet someone important.

• Ox-Head assigned Du Yu a foreign passenger through the Ghostly Hearse app, and Du Yu picked up a Japanese girl named A-Xiang.
• Xie Jin and her companions pursued Du Yu for operating an allegedly counterfeit ferry vehicle, so he raced through Fengdu City with A-Xiang in the van.
• Du Yu stopped at Old Zhan's Vengeful Spirit Shop, bought a Spirit-Housing Paper Bag, and heard that Dong Qianqiu had recruited powerful people for the Ghost Management Bureau.
• Weaver Girl warned Du Yu that the Queen Mother of the West wanted him to behave before the Peach Banquet, while Nezha asked him for driving lessons.
• Du Yu took A-Xiang to the café Bitter Wait, vomited up a talisman, burned it, and went inside to meet someone important.

The author explained the novel’s intertwined timelines, revealing how Du Yu became Time, erased the Supreme Pivots, and replaced Ancestor Du Yu. The story ended with Du Yu living alongside his friends, though the empty Eight Directions Ghost Record and the universe’s larger mysteries remained unexplained.

• Xu Fu received the Cause-and-Effect Reversal Formula and later entrusted its teachings to the boys and girls he led east.
• Shiranui Asuka used the formula to revive Du Yu, became the first Time, and unknowingly created a second timeline.
• Second-Generation Du Yu became a Supreme Pivot, survived the world’s destruction, and eventually replaced Asuka as Time while searching for a successor.
• Du Yu uncovered Time’s manipulation, defeated him, and planned to erase the Supreme Pivots by becoming Time alongside another person.
• Du Yu used He Suoyi’s explosion to destroy the Time Caves, killed Ancestor Du Yu, and took his place in the timeline.
• Du Yu returned to live with his friends as the last Supreme Pivot, while the Eight Directions Ghost Record was left empty.

The author reflected on writing and completing Legend Management Bureau, describing its changing premise, struggles with readership and ratings, and gratitude to readers. The novel had ended, and the author planned to remain on the platform while considering a new book or side stories.

• The author explained that he replaced an immortal protagonist and an earlier outline with the mortal gambler Du Yu and rebuilt the story around legends and intricate schemes.
• The author described nearly abandoning the poorly performing novel but continuing to write and refining its broader storyline.
• A platform rating change sent the book's score down before supportive readers helped raise it to 9.2 and into the fantasy rankings' top 100.
• The author listed several planned legend stories he cut because they were not essential to the main plot.
• The author thanked readers, promised to make small revisions, and announced that he would stay on the platform and consider another book or side stories.

Shiranui Fire God struggled with the painful tattoos imposed on him by his lineage and wished he could escape with his brother and Xiao Xiang. During his trial to become a Time Master, Jin Jianglang encountered a strange female monster who declared that all monsters deserved to die.

• Shiranui Fire God complained to Jin Jianglang that the elders had tattooed flames across his body because they expected him to inherit Shiranui.
• Fire God asked to leave the lineage with Jin Jianglang and Xiao Xiang, but Jin Jianglang revealed that he had begun the Time Master trial by hunting ten monsters.
• Jin Jianglang entered the forest and saw three blue-skinned monsters fighting a female monster who used smoke and a wooden stick to resist them.
• The three monsters disarmed and seized the woman, who shouted that she intended to kill every monster, puzzling Jin Jianglang because she was a monster herself.

Jin Jianglang rescued a blind monster girl from three lesser monsters and learned that she believed she was human and wanted to become an onmyoji to avenge her parents. He left her his robe for warmth and departed, while she remained unaware of his presence.

• Jin Jianglang killed three lesser monsters who were attacking a woman claiming ties to the Shiranui Household.
• The blind girl smashed the monsters’ heads, then mistook Jin Jianglang for a monster when she heard him nearby.
• Jin Jianglang told the girl he was an onmyoji, and she asked him to take her to the Shiranui Household so she could become one.
• The blind girl explained that monsters had killed her parents and that she wanted to avenge them by killing monsters.
• Jin Jianglang warned the girl to abandon her plans and left his robe where she could find it.
• The blind girl found the robe, put it on, and rejoiced that she would no longer be cold.

Jin Jianglang met Myriad Bone Workshop while trying to complete the Lineage task of killing ten monsters in a month, then encountered a blind monster wearing a robe from the Shiranui Household. The chapter ended after she ate the grilled fish Jin Jianglang had left for her, transformed into mist, and startled Myriad Bone Workshop.

• Jin Jianglang left a harmless monster behind and stopped by a stream, where he met Myriad Bone Workshop, who insisted on calling him big brother.
• Jin Jianglang told Myriad Bone Workshop that he had to kill ten monsters within a month to become a Time Master, and the two grilled fish together.
• A blind woman wearing a robe from the Shiranui Household approached, found a grilled fish, and sat beside Myriad Bone Workshop to eat it.
• Myriad Bone Workshop teased Jin Jianglang about the woman and threatened to poke her, but Jin Jianglang stopped him.
• The woman ate the fish and transformed into thick white smoke, making Myriad Bone Workshop cough and startling her into dropping the fish.

The Great Tengu tried to make Blind Girl reveal where Jin Jianglang was, but she refused because Jin Jianglang had given her warm clothes. After the Great Tengu flew off, Blind Girl realized he meant to kill Jin Jianglang and rushed into the forest to warn him, leaving Jin Jianglang to follow and stop her.

• The Great Tengu threatened Blind Girl and offered her grilled fish in exchange for the whereabouts of the Onmyoji who owned her clothes, but she refused to betray him.
• The Great Tengu flew off to search for Jin Jianglang after Blind Girl accidentally pointed toward the place where she had met him.
• Blind Girl ate her sandy grilled fish by the fire, then decided to save the senior who had given her his clothes.
• Blind Girl stumbled through the forest calling for Jin Jianglang and warning him that a monster was coming to kill him.
• Jin Jianglang picked up his Scissors and followed Blind Girl, knowing she would not survive the forest alone.

Jin Jianglang found Blind Princess being threatened by Ibaraki Doji and Yukigyo in the forest and stepped in to protect her. He told the monsters that Shuten Doji was a Shiranui Household shikigami and that they could win his friendship by bringing him one of four kinds of sake.

• Jin Jianglang lost track of Blind Princess in the dark forest and followed a distant firelight to find her with Ibaraki Doji and Yukigyo.
• Ibaraki Doji demanded that Blind Princess help him find a powerful monster so he could offer its head to Shuten Doji as a pledge of allegiance.
• Ibaraki Doji drew his Tachi on Blind Princess after learning she was an Onmyoji of the Shiranui Household, while Yukigyo tried to stop him.
• Jin Jianglang emerged from hiding, stood between Ibaraki Doji and Blind Princess, and warned the monsters not to harm anyone from the Shiranui Household.
• Jin Jianglang told Ibaraki Doji and Yukigyo that Shuten Doji served the Shiranui Household and would befriend them if they brought him one of four named sakes.

Jin Jianglang drove off Ibaraki Doji and Yukigyo, then found Blind Princess collapsed with a fever and carried her through Shuten Doji’s forest. Surrounded by hostile monsters, he summoned help as the fight escalated.

• Yukigyo led Ibaraki Doji away from Jin Jianglang, and the two decided to seek out Shuten Doji.
• Blind Princess explained that she had waited because she feared for Jin Jianglang, then collapsed from illness.
• Jin Jianglang carried Blind Princess through the forest, using talismans to light the way as monsters gathered around them.
• Jin Jianglang sent a fiery paper crane for help and killed a monkey-bodied monster that blocked his path.
• Monsters ambushed Jin Jianglang and wounded him, and a stone portal appeared beside him.

Shiranui Asuka arrived in the Maple Forest and helped Jin Jianglang bring the feverish Blind Princess to a sheltered hideout. Asuka cared for her while Jin Jianglang went to find firewood, and Blind Princess began to trust the kind girl.

• Shiranui Asuka appeared through an Anywhere Door, startling Jin Jianglang and sending nearby monsters fleeing.
• Jin Jianglang carried Blind Princess while Asuka led them to an abandoned temple hidden in the forest.
• Asuka laid Blind Princess on a bed, checked her fever, and sent Jin Jianglang to find firewood and boil water.
• Blind Princess asked why Asuka was helping her, and Asuka said she cared for sick people whether they were human or monster.
• Asuka covered Blind Princess with her robes and made her a pillow from dry grass, and Blind Princess praised her kindness.

Shiranui Asuka and Jin Jianglang cared for Blind Princess, who insisted she was human despite Jin Jianglang identifying her as a yokai. The chapter left Blind Princess gravely ill with a fever, while Jin Jianglang went to fetch medicine after Asuka noticed a cut on his hand.

• Jin Jianglang told Shiranui Asuka that he was taking his assessment in the forest, where he had found Blind Princess.
• Blind Princess explained that monsters had killed the parents who raised her, and Jin Jianglang warned her that she was in Demon King Shuten Doji's territory.
• Shiranui Asuka stopped Jin Jianglang from questioning Blind Princess and insisted that she rest.
• Shiranui Asuka discovered that Blind Princess had a severe chill, infected wounds on her bare feet, and a high fever.
• Shiranui Asuka sent Jin Jianglang to buy medicine and noticed a cut on his palm as he was leaving.

Jin Jianglang bought medicine for Blind Princess, then grew suspicious of her story and traced her past to Hiezu Village. After the Shiranui patriarch reminded him of the household’s ban on emotional attachments, Tsukimi Sake asked whether he would cut Xiao Xiang’s thread if she fell in love.

• Jin Jianglang bought Frostbite Medicine and several varieties of Wind-Cold Medicine from the apothecary.
• Jin Jianglang questioned whether Blind Princess had lied about being raised by humans and decided to investigate her village.
• Jin Jianglang asked Tsukimi Sake and Hanamitsuki to locate the village, and Tsukimi Sake traced the smoky monster’s departure to Hiezu Village seven days earlier.
• Shiranui Jiuwu confronted Jin Jianglang and reminded him that the Shiranui Household forbade emotional attachments.
• Tsukimi Sake asked Jin Jianglang whether he would cut Xiao Xiang’s thread if she fell in love.

Jin Jianglang decided to seek answers from the Blind Princess and traveled to Hiezu Village, where the villagers denied that a monster lived there. Their suspicious behavior deepened his doubts, and he ended the chapter by confronting an old man for knowing the monster was blind.

• Jin Jianglang promised to protect Xiao Xiang’s chance at love, and Hanamitsuki and Tsukimi Sake vowed to help her if needed.
• Fire God urged Jin Jianglang to visit the Blind Princess and settle his questions rather than risk leaving with regrets.
• Jin Jianglang traveled to Hiezu Village and observed its unusual wreaths, tobacco pipes, and wary residents.
• An old man denied that any monster lived in the village and complained that the Shiranui Household kept investigating it.
• Jin Jianglang pointed out that he had never told the old man the female monster was blind.

Jin Jianglang found that the villagers feared he was a Tsuchimikado Onmyoji hunting Yanyanluo, but he revealed he belonged to the Shiranui Household. The villagers explained that they knew Yanyanluo was a monster and had secretly protected her since she was a baby.

• A child accused Jin Jianglang of threatening Yanyanluo, and the villagers surrounded him with farming tools to defend her.
• Jin Jianglang identified himself as a Shiranui Onmyoji, clearing up the villagers’ mistaken belief that he served the Tsuchimikado lineage.
• The villagers confirmed they knew Yanyanluo was a monster, and Jin Jianglang asked them how she had come to live among them.
• The old man explained that Gutai’s tobacco smoke produced a baby who became a blind smoke monster, and Michiko named her Yanyanluo.
• Yanyanluo cared for the villagers, who came to love her and quietly protected her by smoking pipes so her smoke would go unnoticed.

The villagers of Hiezu told Jin Jianglang how they had hidden Yanyanluo after the Tsuchimikado Household executed her adoptive parents and made her believe monsters were responsible. Jin Jianglang agreed to protect her and left to seek advice from his younger sister.

• The villagers explained that Yanyanluo became known as Smoke Yama after she defeated twenty-eight monsters, so Gutai gave her the name Blind Princess to conceal her identity.
• The Tsuchimikado Household discovered Yanyanluo's identity and executed Gutai and Michiko while she was away picking flowers, and the villagers lied that monsters had killed them.
• The villagers begged Jin Jianglang to protect Yanyanluo, and he agreed, though he was unsure whether she would accept becoming his shikigami.
• A child gave Jin Jianglang Yanyanluo's old flower garland, and Jin Jianglang promised the villagers they could seek him at the Shiranui Household.
• Jin Jianglang took the robe and medicinal herbs and departed by Flying Talisman, intending to consult his younger sister about Yanyanluo.

After hearing Yanyanluo’s story, Shiranui Asuka and Jin Jianglang arranged for powerful monsters to impersonate the Shiranui Household so Yanyanluo could pursue her dream of becoming an Onmyoji. The staged meeting began with Shuten Doji attempting to assess her, but the improvised performance quickly went off script.

• Asuka proposed letting Yanyanluo join a pretend Shiranui Household because they had no legal grounds to attack the Tsuchimikado household.
• Asuka and Jin Jianglang brought Yanyanluo to Shuten Doji’s lair, where monsters from the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons had gathered to play the Shiranui lineage.
• Shuten Doji struggled to read his script and, after Asuka prompted him, told Yanyanluo she would need to pass an assessment to become an Onmyoji.
• Shuten Doji abruptly handed the assessment explanation to Snow Woman, who guessed that the test involved killing monsters.

Jin Jianglang helped Yanyanluo become an Onmyoji of the Shiranui Household and shared a joyful spring with her before learning that the Tsuchimikado household had massacred her village. After realizing Yanyanluo would seek revenge if she learned the truth, he decided to continue lying to protect her.

• Shuten welcomed Yanyanluo into the Shiranui Household as Shiranui Blind Princess, and Shuten's protection kept her safe.
• Jin Jianglang and Yanyanluo grew close, and he made cherry blossoms fall so she could imagine seeing them.
• Yanyanluo asked to return to Hiezu Village and tell its people she had become an Onmyoji, so Jin Jianglang went ahead to prepare them.
• A dying child from Hiezu told Jin Jianglang that the Tsuchimikado household had killed the villagers and urged him to protect Yanyanluo.
• Jin Jianglang considered how to hide the massacre from Yanyanluo, consulted his Almanac, and decided to keep lying to her.

Jin Jianglang brought more than a hundred monsters to Hiezu Village to impersonate its murdered residents and prevent Yanyanluo from discovering what had happened. As the monsters prepared the village for her arrival, a strange young man wearing a Yaksha Mask approached Jin Jianglang and said that his visit was against the rules.

• Jin Jianglang led the monsters to Hiezu Village, where they found the villagers brutally murdered.
• Jin Jianglang told the monsters to move the bodies, investigate the villagers' homes, and impersonate the residents.
• The monsters studied the houses and gathered tobacco to make smoke drift through the village, while Jin Jianglang recognized his parents' former home.
• The monsters tried to recreate the village's bustle despite the bodies and blood, making the scene eerie beneath the moonlight.
• A young man wearing a Yaksha Mask approached Jin Jianglang and hesitated as he tried to explain why he had come.

After interpreting a masked stranger’s three sentences, Jin Jianglang realized the Tsuchimikado Household might be targeting Yanyanluo and raced back to the Maple Forest. He arrived with Shuten and the Great Tengu to find Yanyanluo badly wounded, Shiranui Asuka unconscious, and Shuten seizing the enemy leader.

• A young man wearing a Yaksha Mask gave Jin Jianglang three cryptic sentences and warned him to remember them to avoid regrets.
• Jin Jianglang realized that the Maple Forest was empty of monsters because its protectors had left, leaving Yanyanluo and Shiranui Asuka exposed to the Tsuchimikado Household.
• Jin Jianglang summoned Shuten and the Great Tengu, and they flew with Yukigyo back to the Maple Forest at full speed.
• The group found dozens of dead hunters near Shikiyasha, with Yanyanluo gravely wounded and Shiranui Asuka unconscious behind her.
• The Great Tengu carried Yanyanluo to safety while Shuten seized the enemy leader by the face and confronted him.

Jin Jianglang and Shuten confronted the Tsuchimikado Household after its members attacked Yanyanluo, and Shuten brutally punished their leader. Jin Jianglang and his shikigami killed the other attackers, but the surviving Tsuchimikado member escaped using four clones.

• Jin Jianglang found Yanyanluo badly injured and unconscious, and she warned him to be careful before passing out.
• Shuten revealed that Yanyanluo was his master and tore the skin from Tsuchimikado Eleven’s forehead as punishment.
• A Tsuchimikado member accused Yanyanluo of killing villagers and thirty-six Onmyoji, prompting Jin Jianglang to question the strange circumstances surrounding her strength and his own task.
• Jin Jianglang declared that Yanyanluo would become his shikigami and drew his Scissors when the Tsuchimikado members challenged his right to protect her.
• Jin Jianglang, the Great Tengu, Shuten, and Yukigyo killed four Tsuchimikado members, but the last man used black smoke to create four fleeing clones.

Yukigyo escaped Tsuchimikado Jūichirō’s pursuit after encountering the powerful Tsuchimikado Itsuki, while Jin Jianglang realized Yanyanluo had likely protected Hiezu Village for years. When Yanyanluo awoke, she admitted she had hidden her nature and cultivation to protect the human family who raised her and the village.

• Yukigyo fled Tsuchimikado Jūichirō after Tsuchimikado Itsuki’s team stopped him, and Itsuki chose to pursue a more interesting game instead of killing him.
• Yukigyo rejoined Jin Jianglang, Great Tengu, and Shuten and warned them that Tsuchimikado Itsuki was extremely powerful.
• Jin Jianglang and Great Tengu reasoned that Yanyanluo had concealed her strength and deliberately left a monster alive to keep Hiezu Village safe.
• Great Tengu removed the needles sealing Yanyanluo’s power, and Yanyanluo woke and asked whether Shiranui Asuka was all right.
• Jin Jianglang accused Yanyanluo of lying about being human, and she explained that she had hidden the truth to protect the humans who raised her and the village.
• Yanyanluo revealed that she was born from smoke and had killed 1,923 monsters around Hiezu Village over twenty years.