Arc 1Chapters 1–25
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After Du Yu died in a traffic accident, Fan Xiaoguo and Xie Jin told him that he had been killed in place of Zhou Zhuangshi and might qualify for wrongful-death benefits. Du Yu chose reincarnation into a wealthy household and arrived at the underworld’s Ghost Gate, where he learned that he would likely never see the two officers again.
After Cui Jue discovered that Du Yu stirred memories of the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, he judged Du Yu’s death unjust and offered to advance his reincarnation in exchange for help with a dangerous task. Xie Jin and Fan Xiaoguo delivered Du Yu to the ruined Netherworld Office at the Peak of No Return, while Xie Bi'an’s strange reaction suggested Du Yu was tied to the Grand Judge’s suspicions.
Du Yu learned that the Legend Management Bureau needed him to enter a damaged legend and restore its story before its seal expired. He was sent into Yi Shoots Down Nine Suns with Sun Wukong and Zhuge Kongming’s souls, facing a seven-day deadline to save both the past and the present.
Du Yu arrived in the era of Emperor Yao as Pang Meng and discovered that Da Yi was the man he had come to find, though Da Yi denied being able to shoot down the suns. After searching his gift pack, Du Yu overheard Da Yi and Heng'e discussing a secret Da Yi had kept hidden for years.
Du Yu investigated the secret behind Da Yi’s past and used Dong Qianqiu’s help to prove himself an immortal to Da Yi and Heng'e. Da Yi revealed that Nine-Infant was the last monster, then gave Du Yu a phrase meant to identify his mysterious friend, but Dong Qianqiu supplied the wrong response and left Du Yu scrambling to explain.
Du Yu investigated the changing details of the legend and learned that Zhan Qisheng had once given Da Yi a choice that kept him from becoming a half-immortal. After Da Yi revealed he had chosen a life with Heng'e over saving all living souls, Du Yu asked whether he now wanted to shoot down the suns.
Du Yu asked Da Yi to shoot down the suns, but Da Yi hesitated because he feared losing Heng'e. As they traveled toward Nine-Infant, Da Yi revealed that he had once chosen an immortal artifact over a pill that would make him a half-immortal and require him to save all living beings; Du Yu and Da Yi were then warned that something enormous was following them.
Du Yu lost the jar holding Sun Wukong’s soul when Nine-Infant attacked, then joined Da Yi and the Cultivated Serpent in a desperate fight. He used Dong Qianqiu’s voice transmission to distract Nine-Infant, letting Da Yi shoot out another eye.
Du Yu and Da Yi mourned the Cultivated Serpent, whom Da Yi recognized as Little Ba, and Du Yu changed the serpent’s resting place into Ba Mausoleum. After returning to the village, Du Yu comforted Youqiong and discussed his mission and loneliness with Dong Qianqiu, while Xie Bi'an began arranging a match for Fan Xiaoguo.
Du Yu summoned Zhuge Kongming, who gave him three brocade pouches and pointed him toward the Queen Mother of the West as the key to the mystery of the extra suns. Du Yu teleported to the Summit of Kunlun and gained an audience with her, but the figure he encountered left him stunned.
Du Yu learned that the Queen Mother of the West had accidentally released nine Samadhi True Fire Pearls, creating the suns, and used Mr. Kongming’s clues to identify a missing treasure tied to Da Yi. He left to verify his theory, while the Queen Mother of the West prepared to give Da Yi the Elixir of Immortality and revealed she had only one and a half pills left.
Du Yu used Da Yi’s Plantain Fan to extinguish nine suns, but the effort badly injured him. After the Queen Mother of the West arrived and healed his hands, Du Yu woke and recognized her as “Big Cat.”
Du Yu learned that Chang'e Flying to the Moon had to happen to prevent catastrophic consequences in the present, and Dong Qianqiu told him to make Heng'e take the Elixir of Immortality. Torn between the fate of countless people and Da Yi and Heng'e's happiness, Du Yu followed Mr. Kongming's advice and confronted Heng'e for the elixir.
Du Yu forced Heng'e to choose whether to ascend, and she swallowed the Immortal Elixir to save lives while asking him to help Da Yi reunite with her. After Heng'e became Fairy Chang'e, Da Yi begged the Queen Mother of the West for another half pill and chose to become a white rabbit so he could join her on the moon.
After Zhan Qisheng separated Du Yu from the Legend Management Bureau, he confronted him over Heng'e’s fate and tried to recruit him, but Du Yu defended his choices and collapsed from his wound. Back at the bureau, the legend reached its first 100% completion rate as Emperor Yao took Hou Yi away, and staff reported that Du Yu’s soul had returned.
After recovering from his mission, Du Yu rejected the underworld’s lavish gifts and kept only Fan Xiaoguo’s box of amoxicillin, accidentally winning her ancestor’s approval. He left the Bureau with Dong Qianqiu for a trip to Fengdu City, accepting a ride from Fan Xiaoguo.
Du Yu received the legendary Eight Directions Ghost Record and explored the Underworld with Dong Qianqiu, who explained the Legend Management Bureau’s decline. Their visit to a café turned violent when a formidable woman named Zhongli Chun attacked a customer and confronted a Netherworld officer, leaving Dong Qianqiu to stop her punch.
Du Yu discovered that Zhongli Chun obeyed his commands, but after he left to summon help, constables captured and beat her. When Du Yu returned to defend her, Xie Bi'an arrived and found the situation unlike the one Du Yu had described.
Du Yu stopped Ox-Head and the underworld officers from punishing Zhongli Chun, then learned she was the legendary Zhong Wuyan and seemed to trust him for unknown reasons. He carried her to Must-Sleep-to-Die for treatment and brought Fan Xiaoguo to help, leaving Zhongli Chun in Dong Qianqiu's care.
After Dong Qianqiu, Fan Xiaoguo, and Du Yu helped Zhongli Chun, they brought her to the Legend Management Bureau, where He Suoyi barred her from watching the legend about to be reenacted. Du Yu learned that the Bureau forbade anyone from seeing their own legend, and the group prepared to investigate the story connected to Zhongli Chun.
Du Yu chose to investigate Zhongli Chun’s Saltless Woman legend before the other urgent missions, and learned that she had waited in the underworld for him for 2,300 years. After getting a bureau phone, he turned Xie Bi'an’s attempt to sell his contact into a profitable deal, then received a video call from Fairy Chang'e, who recognized him as Pang Meng.
Du Yu reunited with Heng'e and learned that the Jade Rabbit was Da Yi before beginning a new descent into Zhongli Chun’s legend. He found the ten-year-old Zhongli Chun abused and living in a pigpen, where she knocked him flying when he tried to stop her from eating rotten food.
Du Yu rescued Zhongli Chun from the pigsty, cared for her, and gave her the first comforts and kindness she had known in years. After taking her to eat, he discovered his backpack had been stolen and fled the restaurant with her.
Du Yu and Zhongli Chun defeated a gang of thugs, and Du Yu arranged for Zhongli Chun to seek out Guiguzi after he left. He then used Dong Qianqiu’s voice to impersonate the Queen Mother of the West and confront Hua about abandoning her daughter.
Du Yu and Dong Qianqiu used a vision of the Queen Mother to frighten Hua into taking Zhongli Chun to Ghost Valley Mountain. There, after six months of searching for a reason to stay, Zhongli Chun became Guiguzi’s disciple and the junior sister of Sun Bin, Pang Juan, Su Qin, and Zhang Yi.