Recaps

Du Yu descended onto Ghost Valley Mountain twenty years after his first visit and reunited with Zhongli Chun, who had cultivated all seven po but lacked joy, fear, and desire. He promised she would see him again if she followed his guidance, but remembered that history destined her to marry King Xuan of Qi.

• Dong Qianqiu told Du Yu that his next descent would begin twenty years later, when Sun Bin and Pang Juan left the mountain, and gave him only ten minutes to prepare.
• Du Yu descended as a household servant carrying a single white flower and overheard Guiguzi explain that Zhongli Chun had cultivated all seven po but possessed four love po instead of joy, fear, and desire.
• Guiguzi discovered that Zhongli Chun had entered the qi refining realm, then asked his five disciples to bring him flowers before he would permit them to leave the mountain.
• Du Yu met Zhongli Chun, who showed him the candy she had kept for twenty years and confessed that thinking of him made her heart hurt.
• Zhongli Chun offered to undress so Du Yu would stay with her, but he covered her and told her not to do that; he then remembered that she would eventually marry King Xuan of Qi.

Guiguzi divined his disciples’ futures from flowers, while Zhongli Chun demonstrated her exceptional military skill and earned permission to leave Ghost Valley with Du Yu. She said a tearful farewell to Guiguzi and her fellow disciples as they watched her depart.

• Guiguzi interpreted Pang Juan’s withered flower as a sign of future success and danger, then sent him down the mountain; he gave Sun Bin a brocade pouch and told him to wait until spring before leaving.
• Guiguzi read the flower shared by Su Qin and Zhang Yi as a sign of their future fame, then divined from Du Yu’s white flower that Zhongli Chun had a benefactor and an unwavering heart.
• Zhongli Chun claimed she had mastered Guiguzi’s teachings and defeated Sun Bin in eleven of their twelve military strategy games.
• Zhongli Chun outmaneuvered Su Qin and Zhang Yi by leading an assassination unit herself, convincing Guiguzi that she was ready to leave the mountain.
• Guiguzi permitted Zhongli Chun to depart with Du Yu, and Zhongli Chun thanked her teacher and fellow disciples before leaving as they wept.

Du Yu and Zhongli Chun returned to Wuyan City, where Zhongli Chun rescued the maid Xiao Xia from abuse by Hua and the household master. Zhongli Chun claimed Xiao Xia as her personal maid, who accepted the name Xia Yingchun and vowed to devote her life to her.

• Du Yu reassured Zhongli Chun that he was taking her home to protect her, and they returned to Wuyan City together.
• Du Yu and Zhongli Chun found Hua beating Xiao Xia while the household master watched, and Xiao Xia tried to take her own life.
• Zhongli Chun stopped Xiao Xia from striking a pillar and defeated a guard with a light flick of her fingers.
• Du Yu reunited with A-Da and revealed that Zhongli Chun had returned after completing her studies on Ghost Valley Mountain.
• Zhongli Chun ordered the household to stop mistreating Xiao Xia and claimed her as her personal maid; Hua named her Xia Yingchun.
• Xia Yingchun initially asked to leave, but Zhongli Chun welcomed her, and Xia Yingchun vowed to live only for her.

Zhongli Chun decided to marry Du Yu after Xia Yingchun helped her understand marriage, but Du Yu fled because he knew they could not be together across two thousand years. He explained their separation and asked Zhongli Chun to marry King Xuan of Qi when she turned forty, leaving her to consider his request.

• Zhongli Chun asked Xia Yingchun about marriage and admitted that she liked someone, while Du Yu and Dong Qianqiu discussed his guard duty outside.
• After Xia Yingchun returned with her mother's wedding clothes, Zhongli Chun dressed as a bride and asked Du Yu to marry her.
• Du Yu ran from the courtyard, and Xia Yingchun confronted him for rejecting Zhongli Chun despite her knowing the risks and choosing him herself.
• Du Yu returned and told Zhongli Chun that a river spanning more than two thousand years separated them and that they could meet again after she lived out her natural lifespan.
• Zhongli Chun said she trusted Du Yu, and he asked her to marry King Xuan of Qi when she turned forty.

Du Yu urged Zhongli Chun to marry King Xuan of Qi and fulfill her destiny, then reunited with her in the Legend Management Bureau and promised to make up for their separation. As Zhongli Chun began building a fearsome reputation to deter unwanted suitors, Du Yu learned his final descent could either secure her marriage at forty or protect her from a dangerous war.

• Du Yu told Zhongli Chun she had to marry King Xuan of Qi, help repel foreign enemies, and restore peace to the Qi Kingdom, and she agreed because she believed it would let her see him again.
• After leaving Zhongli Chun, Du Yu asked Dong Qianqiu to take him to see her; he called her “Little Zhongli,” comforted her, and learned she had never regretted waiting for him.
• Zhongli Chun asked Xiao Xia to spread rumors that she was extremely ugly so only King Xuan of Qi would consider marrying her.
• Zhongli Chun appeared veiled before her adoptive father's gathered suitors, displayed her strength, and warned them that only a general, minister, prince, or king could marry her.
• Dong Qianqiu told Du Yu that his last descent could take place when Zhongli Chun turned forty or after she became queen, when she faced a sixty percent chance of dying while leading an army against Qin and Zhao.

Zhongli Chun and Xia Yingchun went to King Xuan of Qi to secure the Qi Kingdom’s survival, and Zhongli Chun became his queen. The story left Xia Yingchun in the palace as a royal consort while Zhongli Chun pushed her away to protect her, even as Xia defended her lady.

• Zhongli Chun and Xia Yingchun entered the Qi palace, where Zhongli Chun defeated the guards and confronted King Xuan of Qi.
• Zhongli Chun revealed her beauty privately to King Xuan, persuaded him to marry her, and secured his promise to reform the kingdom.
• On their wedding night, Xia Yingchun went to King Xuan’s bedchamber and accepted the position of royal consort to help protect Zhongli Chun’s aims.
• The next morning, Zhongli Chun told Xia Yingchun she no longer needed to serve her, but Xia begged to remain by her side.
• When King Xuan found them together, Zhongli Chun pretended to berate Xia and drove her away; King Xuan pursued Xia, who protested when he insulted Zhongli Chun.

Du Yu descended into the Warring States battlefield to protect Zhongli Chun, who had been fighting alone for three days after her army was trapped. He joined a small squad and reached her atop a mountain of corpses, where she warned that the Qi army was doomed and urged him to leave.

• Dong Qianqiu warned Du Yu that Zhongli Chun faced an eighty percent chance of dying in battle, but he insisted on descending to keep his promise and asked her to prepare weapons.
• Du Yu arrived on the battlefield as A-Wu, vomited at the sight and smell of the fighting, then joined squad leader Di Cong and three other soldiers.
• Di Cong led the squad north toward a trapped Qi unit, and Du Yu recognized Zhongli Chun atop a mountain of corpses after they fought through Zhao soldiers.
• Zhongli Chun told Du Yu she had killed for three days after assassinating the Zhao deputy commander, while Lian Po and Bai Qi argued over how to defeat her.
• Du Yu and the four soldiers shielded Zhongli Chun as she said the Qi army would lose and that she could not defeat the enemy commanders without another skilled general.

Du Yu used grenades to break the Zhao encirclement, but Bai Qi's Qin forces arrived and attacked, leaving Zhongli Chun badly wounded and Du Yu trapped. As the Qin soldiers closed in, Dong Qianqiu urged Du Yu to recall himself, but Du Yu refused to abandon Zhongli Chun and threatened the advancing army with another grenade.

• Du Yu threw a grenade into the Zhao ranks, killing and wounding soldiers and opening a breach in their encirclement.
• As Du Yu tried to escape with Zhongli Chun, Qin banners appeared and Bai Qi arrived with reinforcements.
• Zhongli Chun ambushed Bai Qi, but his elite guards attacked her and Bai Qi ordered archers to fire on everyone on the hill.
• Zhongli Chun shielded Du Yu from the arrows, while Corporal Di Cong and the surrounding soldiers were killed; Zhongli Chun suffered two arrow wounds.
• Du Yu threw another grenade at Bai Qi, killing his horse and hurling him aside, while Bai Qi ordered his troops to keep attacking.
• Dong Qianqiu urged Du Yu to recall himself, but Du Yu refused to leave Zhongli Chun and threatened the advancing Qin soldiers with another grenade.

Du Yu and the wounded Zhongli Chun were surrounded by Qin soldiers while the Legend Management Bureau prepared an emergency soul recall that would kill everyone nearby. As Bai Qi ordered Zhongli Chun beheaded, Du Yu and Zhongli Chun turned toward him in perfect unison, hinting that something had changed.

• Zhongli Chun woke and fought beside Du Yu, but both were badly wounded as Qin soldiers closed in around them.
• Zhongli Chun tried to enter the Legend Management Bureau to reach Du Yu, but Dong Qianqiu stopped her and ordered a wide-area Rapid Soul-Absorption Method to begin.
• Dong Qianqiu warned Du Yu that the recall would destroy the souls of everyone near him, and Du Yu refused to use Zhongli Chun as a human shield.
• Du Yu tried to bargain with Bai Qi by predicting his future, but Bai Qi rejected the offer and ordered the two captives killed.
• A sinister wind rose before the soul device was ready, Du Yu stopped responding to Dong Qianqiu, and he and Zhongli Chun simultaneously challenged Bai Qi as he ordered her beheading.

Du Yu became a malevolent ghost and helped Zhongli Chun annihilate Bai Qi’s army, but Zhongli Chun sacrificed herself to guard the Eight Directions Ghost Record. A thousand years earlier, Dong Qianqiu met Zhongli Chun in the Underworld and learned she refused reincarnation because she wanted to cross two thousand years to find someone.

• Du Yu used the Ghostly Movement Technique to slaughter Bai Qi’s soldiers and joined Zhongli Chun in fighting their way through the Qin Army.
• Bai Qi asked who Du Yu was, and Du Yu called himself a malevolent ghost guarding the eight directions.
• Dong Qianqiu found Zhongli Chun gone, with her bloodied signature at the Death Gate position on the Eight Directions Ghost Record.
• A thousand years earlier, Dong Qianqiu urged Horse-Face to release Zhongli Chun from the Hell of the Mountain of Blades.
• Dongli Chun told Dong Qianqiu she refused reincarnation because she needed to cross a river spanning two thousand years to find someone.

Du Yu took control of the scattered Qi army and led it to victory before returning to Zhongli Chun, then left her with a promise to meet again. More than two thousand years later, Zhongli Chun waited in the Underworld until Du Yu appeared, and she chose to wait for him to return with mandarins.

• Du Yu reorganized the retreating Qi soldiers, promoted Kuang Zhang, and ordered three forces to attack the Zhao Army Camp from separate roads.
• The Qi forces overwhelmed the Zhao camp, and Lian Po and Bai Qi withdrew as the battle ended.
• After the victory, Du Yu returned to himself and told Zhongli Chun he would leave, asking her to find him next time and live her life well.
• Zhongli Chun promised to endure the long wait, and Du Yu departed after telling her not to force herself if she became sad.
• More than two thousand years later, Zhongli Chun attacked people in a café because she was overwhelmed by sadness, then stopped when Du Yu called out to her.
• Du Yu told Zhongli Chun to stay put while he went to buy mandarins, and she recognized his memory of their promise and decided to wait.

Du Yu mourned Zhongli Chun after learning she had vanished from the world, then reunited with her in his inner world. The bonus chapters turned to the Queen Mother of the West choosing the zodiac guardians and Heng'e receiving news of Hou Yi from the mortal realm.

• Dong Qianqiu told Du Yu that Zhongli Chun no longer existed in the world and could only be reached within his heart.
• Du Yu grieved over Zhongli Chun’s keepsakes, then found and embraced her in a dark inner realm where they promised to stay together.
• Dong Qianqiu left Du Yu undisturbed after he sat smiling in his office for three days.
• The Queen Mother of the West rejected the cat as a zodiac guardian and ordered the divine official to use the rabbit instead.
• Heng'e asked Emperor Haotian for regular news of Da Yi, and the Supreme Elder Lord suggested that he might be known as Hou Yi.
• Heng'e received a letter reporting that Hou Yi had accompanied Emperor Yao on a western campaign and won a great victory.

Two strange visitors barged into the Legend Management Bureau to take Dong Qianqiu, and Du Yu and Cui Jue fought to stop them. Ox-Head and Horse-Face arrived after Du Yu secretly summoned help, leaving the visitors facing several powerful opponents.

• Two horned visitors forced their way into the Legend Management Bureau and demanded that Dong Qianqiu come with them.
• Du Yu returned after reconciling with Little Zhongli and confronted the man when he grabbed Dong Qianqiu, but the man overpowered him.
• Dong Qianqiu agreed to go with the visitors to keep them from fighting Du Yu, but Cui Jue arrived and challenged the man.
• Cui Jue and the man exchanged powerful attacks, while the woman identified the man as Chi Ghost.
• Du Yu secretly summoned help through GhostChat, and Ox-Head and Horse-Face arrived as the woman teased Chi Ghost about the reinforcements.

Chi Ghost and Mei Ghost took Dong Qianqiu away on Lady Houtu’s orders, leaving Du Yu with a jade pendant and instructions to continue his work. He Suoyi told Du Yu to proceed with the Eight Great Underworld Enforcers’ legends, though Du Yu suspected the director had known what was coming.

• Horse-Face and Ox-Head attacked the man, while Cui Jue trapped him in the Infinite Hell Formation until Mei Ghost shattered a rune and broke it.
• Black Impermanence and White Impermanence arrived and ordered Dong Qianqiu to go with Chi Ghost and Mei Ghost, explaining that their mistress was Lady Houtu.
• Dong Qianqiu agreed to leave, and Mei Ghost gave Du Yu a jade pendant and said Lady Houtu would contact him if he descended into the Eight Great Underworld Enforcers’ legends.
• Chi Ghost, Mei Ghost, and Dong Qianqiu vanished, while Fan Wujiao told Du Yu that Lady Houtu had entrusted him with the Eight Directions Ghost Record.
• He Suoyi told Du Yu to continue preparing the remaining legends, and Du Yu questioned whether the director had anticipated Dong Qianqiu’s departure.

Du Yu entered Cui Jue’s legend, where he was assigned as a Misfit and faced questioning in Cui Jue’s courtroom. He left Cui Jue baffled by claiming to have committed mass killings, while the legend’s unresolved case of the old woman and the tiger remained ahead.

• Cui Jue asked Du Yu to return to his past and disrupt the events that made him Grand Judge, and Du Yu proposed asking Cui Jue’s younger self to choose.
• Xiao Jin and Xiao Qi briefed Du Yu on the legend “Cui Jue Slays the Tiger,” explaining that the old woman had not reported her son’s death, so the court hearing had not begun.
• Du Yu descended into the Tang dynasty legend and found himself among three Misfits presented to Cui Jue in court.
• When Cui Jue asked about his offenses, Du Yu claimed he had killed a tyrant and thousands of gang members, leaving Cui Jue and Constable Li Neng questioning how such a man could be a Misfit.

Du Yu met Cui Jue and the other new Misfits, then went to investigate an old woman whose son had supposedly been eaten by a tiger. He discovered that she was hiding something, but left without learning why she had concealed her son’s death.

• Cui Jue welcomed Du Yu and the two other Misfits to Qi County and told Constable Li to lead them on duty starting the next day.
• Du Yu encouraged the nervous Xiao Qi, then followed her directions to the old woman’s home outside Qi County.
• The old woman denied that her son was dead and claimed he had gone up the mountain seeking immortals.
• Du Yu questioned the old woman about her meal and the chicken bones, noting that she had been hunting despite her son’s long absence.
• Du Yu suspected the old woman was concealing something about her son, but ended the visit and left as it grew dark.

Du Yu investigated the old woman’s suspicious behavior and went to Cloud Dream Mountain to find the Fierce Tiger. He discovered the tiger was an intelligent creature studying Guiguzi’s writings in a hidden grotto, and began questioning it.

• Du Yu listed the old woman’s suspicious behavior and decided to seek out the Fierce Tiger before reporting to Cui Jue.
• Du Yu searched Cloud Dream Mountain with Xiao Qi’s map, while Zhongli Chun recalled her memories of the mountain and guided him to a hidden grotto.
• Du Yu entered the grotto and found the Fierce Tiger speaking and studying by candlelight; Xiao Qi explained that it was cultivating into a demon.
• The Fierce Tiger warned Du Yu to leave, but Du Yu sat beside it and recognized the writings on the cave walls as Guiguzi’s works.
• Du Yu learned that the Fierce Tiger struggled to understand the profound texts and suggested it begin with simpler books.

Du Yu taught Fierce Tiger about demon cultivation and promised him a way to live among humans with the girl he cared about. In the Underworld, Lady Houtu asked Dong Qianqiu which side the Legend Management Bureau would support in an impending war, revealing that the Great Emperor of Fengdu had been wounded in an assassination attempt.

• Du Yu explained demon cultivation and the transformation tribulation to Fierce Tiger, who admitted he had eaten the old woman's son but would not explain why.
• Fierce Tiger told Du Yu that he had promised the girl not to reveal the reason, and Du Yu offered a plan for him to live openly among humans by confessing to the killing.
• Du Yu left Fierce Tiger on Cloud Dream Mountain, where the tiger wondered whether he could really live with the girl.
• Lady Houtu argued with Chi Ghost and Mei Ghost before telling Dong Qianqiu that the Underworld was in danger.
• Lady Houtu asked which side the Legend Management Bureau would take if the Northern Yin Great Emperor of Fengdu and the Eastern Peak Great Emperor of Mount Tai went to war.
• Lady Houtu revealed that the conflict was real and that the Great Emperor of Fengdu had been wounded seven days earlier in an assassination attempt by the King of the Wheel.

Dong Qianqiu learned that the King of the Wheel had tried to assassinate the Northern Yin Great Emperor on the Eastern Peak Great Emperor’s orders, bringing the Underworld to the brink of war. Meanwhile, Du Yu’s attempt to advance a legend led him to discover that the old woman had a painful history with the fierce tiger Sihuang, and he promised to protect it.

• Lady Houtu told Dong Qianqiu that the King of the Wheel had attempted to assassinate the Northern Yin Great Emperor, and Wraith confirmed that the Eastern Peak Great Emperor had ordered it.
• Dong Qianqiu said the Legend Management Bureau would not take sides, but Du Yu might support Cui Jue, Fan Wujiao, and Xie Bi'an because of his personal bonds.
• Du Yu told Cui Jue about the fierce tiger and the old woman, then grew uneasy and went to visit her again.
• The old woman attacked Du Yu after learning he had reported the matter, and Constable Li arrived with orders to execute the fierce tiger.
• Li Neng recognized the old woman as someone who had reported a case three years earlier, and Du Yu promised her he would not let the officers kill Sihuang.

Du Yu stopped Constable Li and the two Misfits from killing the tiger demon by using Xiao Qi’s image-transmission ability to blind them with a red screen. After they agreed to report back to Cui Jue, Du Yu treated the tiger’s wound and decided to take him to see his girl.

• Du Yu followed Constable Li and the two Misfits into the mountains, hoping to keep them from finding the tiger, but Constable Li lured it out by calling for Sihuang.
• The tiger emerged and was wounded by an arrow, but Du Yu stopped it from attacking the men and asked Constable Li to let him take it to Cui Jue.
• Du Yu fought the three men while Xiao Qi colored a red image, then used her transmitted picture to blind them and defeat them with the Red Seven Art.
• Constable Li agreed to report back to Cui Jue and left with the two Misfits, while Du Yu bandaged the tiger’s wound.
• Du Yu asked the tiger to tell him about its past and its girl, and agreed to take it to see her; Xiao Qi wondered whether he knew who she was.

Du Yu reunited the old woman with Sihuang, then asked her to explain their past and the fate of her son, Mengshan. She began recounting how Sihuang saved her as a girl and later became her only companion, before hinting at a terrible event from three years earlier.

• Du Yu brought the wounded Sihuang to the cottage, where the old woman embraced the tiger and wept with it.
• The old woman told Du Yu that Zheng Liu had abducted her as a child and that she had freed the tiger cub Sihuang from him during a snowy winter.
• After Zheng Liu vanished while pursuing Sihuang, the tiger brought the starving girl game and later left an abandoned infant at her door.
• The old woman raised the infant, Mengshan, but he grew cruel, injured her, and tormented Sihuang.
• Sihuang learned to speak and became the old woman's companion, while she grew estranged from Mengshan.
• The old woman began describing an event from three years earlier that still made her tremble.

After Mengshan tried to kill Yatou and abandoned her in a pit, she survived with Sihuang’s help and took her son to court, where Mengshan convinced Cui Jue that she was delusional. Yatou protected Sihuang from the county’s hunters, then endured three years of starvation and fear under Mengshan’s abuse.

• Sihuang fell into a pit of bamboo stakes, and Yatou jumped beneath him so he could escape, dislocating her shoulders in the process.
• Mengshan refused to rescue Yatou and left her in the pit, but Sihuang returned the next day with a rope and pulled her out.
• Yatou accused Mengshan of attempted murder before Cui Jue, but Mengshan claimed she was mad and had mistaken Sihuang for her son.
• Constable Li examined Yatou’s injuries, yet Cui Jue accepted Mengshan’s story and ordered men to hunt Sihuang.
• Yatou secretly warned Sihuang to hide from the hunters and stop visiting her, then returned home and hid scissors beneath her pillow.
• Mengshan cut off Yatou’s food, and she survived by eating unknown plants while enduring three years of fear and hunger.

The old woman recounted how Sihuang killed Mengshan while saving her from being murdered, and Du Yu resolved to seek justice for them. He confronted Cui Jue and challenged his judgment of the case, leaving the judge shaken by the evidence he had ignored.

• Mengshan attacked the old woman when she tried to kill him, but Sihuang burst in and killed him while protecting her.
• Du Yu heard the old woman's account, examined her injuries, and decided to demand justice from Cui Jue.
• Du Yu brought the old woman and Sihuang to Cui Jue's residence, struck Cui Jue, and stopped Li Neng from intervening.
• Du Yu showed that Sihuang would not attack him even when he was bleeding, then challenged Cui Jue for never investigating the old woman's injuries or Mengshan's circumstances.
• Cui Jue's mother questioned whether her son had kept his promise to be a good official, and Cui Jue began to doubt his judgment.

Du Yu helped reopen the old case against the tiger, and Cui Jue cleared Sihuang and made him the old woman’s adopted son. Lady Houtu descended to appoint Cui Jue as an Underworld Enforcer, then unexpectedly offered Du Yu the same role, which he refused as an Outside-System Immortal.

• Cui Jue reopened the case and convened a trial, where the old woman recounted Mengshan’s abuse and showed her scars.
• The old woman demonstrated that Sihuang understood people, and Cui Jue ruled that the tiger had acted to protect her and would not be punished.
• Du Yu suggested that Cui Jue make Sihuang the old woman’s adopted son, and she gratefully accepted.
• Lady Houtu descended, praised the trial, and announced that Cui Jue would join the celestial roster as leader of the Underworld Enforcers.
• Lady Houtu offered Du Yu a place among the Underworld Enforcers, but Du Yu declined and identified himself as an Outside-System Immortal.

Lady Houtu froze everyone in the county office and asked Du Yu to explain his identity and the future of the Underworld. After Du Yu helped her redirect the recruitment toward Cui Jue, Cui Jue unexpectedly refused her offer to become Civil Judge.

• Lady Houtu used her Immobilizing Spell on everyone except Du Yu, then learned he came from a thousand years in the future to ensure Cui Jue became Civil Judge.
• Lady Houtu tried to make Du Yu name the Eight Great Underworld Enforcers, but he refused and instead listed their eight official roles for her notebook.
• Lady Houtu and Du Yu planned to make it appear that she had invited Cui Jue to serve as Civil Judge all along.
• Lady Houtu released the frozen townsfolk and offered Cui Jue the Civil Judge post, but Cui Jue solemnly declined.