Recaps

Black Impermanence fought Mahakasyapa and revealed that the monk’s apparent inability to feel pain came from his scars. By targeting an old wound, Black Impermanence made Mahakasyapa feel pain and fear, leaving him backing away as the fight continued.

• White Impermanence warned Mahakasyapa that Black Impermanence fought like a mad dog, then left.
• Mahakasyapa rushed Black Impermanence, who wounded him with the sickle on his Soul-Gathering Rope despite appearing to take a claw strike in return.
• Black Impermanence explained that Mahakasyapa’s scars had masked his ability to feel pain, and Mahakasyapa summoned his pitch-black staff to reveal the true Extreme Darkness.
• Black Impermanence endured a staff strike to slash Mahakasyapa’s existing wound, making the monk scream and retreat.
• Black Impermanence declared that Mahakasyapa feared remembering pain, then advanced as Mahakasyapa backed away.

Mahakasyapa exposed Black Impermanence’s buried hatred for Zhan Qisheng and used his Buddhist chant to make him relive Su Xiaoxiao’s death. Black Impermanence was left facing Du Yu, whom Mahakasyapa urged him to kill for revenge.

• After their fight, Mahakasyapa revealed that Black Impermanence still wanted to kill Zhan Qisheng, who existed inside another person’s body.
• Mahakasyapa chanted a sutra that brought Black Impermanence’s memories of Su Xiaoxiao flooding back.
• Black Impermanence remembered how Su Xiaoxiao’s soul scattered while the Operator was missing, and how he buried her clothes and cursed Zhan Qisheng’s spirit tablet.
• Black Impermanence recalled that Zhan Qisheng had returned in a corpse and that he had never found a chance to take revenge.
• Mahakasyapa pointed Black Impermanence toward Du Yu and urged him to kill him.

Black Impermanence resisted Mahakasyapa’s attempt to manipulate him with the Reverse Heart Curse and fought him to the death. After surviving the black Buddha’s explosive destruction, he warned White Impermanence about the spell and the danger posed when a monk’s actual body died.

• Mahakasyapa urged Black Impermanence to kill Du Yu, claiming Su Xiaoxiao wanted it, but Black Impermanence rejected the deception and attacked him.
• Mahakasyapa summoned a black Buddha that armored his body and healed his wounds, while Black Impermanence fought on despite his own injuries.
• Black Impermanence cracked the Buddha’s armor with Three Hun Return to One, then used the Soul-Gathering Rope and Avici Soul-Reaping Killing Array to bind and kill Mahakasyapa.
• The black Buddha exploded after Mahakasyapa died, blasting Black Impermanence away and leaving him badly wounded.
• Black Impermanence told Xie Bi'an that the black monks could use the Reverse Heart Curse and that a giant Buddha exploded when its actual body died, then continued surveying the battle.

Black Impermanence fought the Great Tengu, Myriad Bone Workshop, while A Can and Shiranui Asuka revealed how they had secretly gathered reinforcements for Du Yu. After Asuka recognized the injured Black Impermanence, she ordered the Great Tengu to hold him so she could bandage him.

• Black Impermanence challenged the black-winged Myriad Bone Workshop, who identified himself as a member of the Myriad Bone Workshop.
• A Can and Shiranui Asuka realized they had become separated from the others, and A Can explained that Xiao Qi had told him and A Kui to seek help from the Four Sea Dragon Kings.
• Shiranui Asuka revealed that she had learned Du Yu's plan early and had pretended to fall out with him so she could secretly bring reinforcements from Japan.
• A Can and Asuka found the Great Tengu fighting Black Impermanence, who had sustained many wounds but remained powerful.
• Asuka recognized Black Impermanence and ordered the Great Tengu to stop him so she could bandage him, threatening to spank him when he refused.

Shiranui Asuka treated the exhausted Black Impermanence before he flew away, then began tending to the Great Tengu. On the western battlefield, Nezha’s Samadhi True Fire burned Aniruddha, who absorbed the flames and healed his wounds, revealing that he could wield the same fire.

• The Great Tengu restrained Black Impermanence while Shiranui Asuka bandaged and healed him.
• Black Impermanence thanked Asuka, promised to repay her kindness, and flew away.
• Asuka turned to bandage the Great Tengu after he protested.
• Nezha asked the blind monk Aniruddha about his closed eyes, then demonstrated his Samadhi True Fire.
• Aniruddha let the flames burn his shoulder, absorbed them into his body, and opened his eyes with Samadhi True Fire burning within them.
• Aniruddha explained that Nezha’s fire could be used against him, then healed his burned shoulder.

Nezha rejected Aniruddha’s attempt to recruit him into Extreme Darkness and fought back while protecting Ao Guang. Meanwhile, Horse-Face found himself facing Purna, and Ox-Head arrived with another of the ten great disciples chasing him.

• Aniruddha offered Nezha power from Great Dark Heaven, but Nezha said he wanted the ultimate “trend” and refused to join.
• Aniruddha attacked Ao Guang, and Nezha blocked the strike, explaining that Ao Guang’s kindness to him outweighed their supposed legendary feud.
• Nezha charged Aniruddha with his spear, and Aniruddha blocked the thrust with his prayer beads.
• Horse-Face struggled to survive against Purna and called for help.
• Ox-Head arrived, but he revealed that one of the ten great disciples was pursuing him and asked Horse-Face for help.

Ox-Head and Horse-Face fled from two monks, and White Impermanence joined them rather than fighting. As the monks caught up, Xie Bi'an triggered a massive explosion around them.

• Ox-Head ran to Horse-Face for help while a wiry monk pursued him, and Horse-Face realized Ox-Head had no magic treasure.
• Horse-Face urged Ox-Head to uphold the Underworld Enforcers’ honor, then revealed his plan was for them to run in opposite directions.
• Horse-Face and Ox-Head fled together, and when they found White Impermanence, he chose to run rather than face the two monks.
• The monks closed in on the exhausted Ox-Head, and Xie Bi'an silently mouthed “Explode,” setting off a thunderous blast around them.

Xie Bi'an used hidden spiritual-energy traps to wound the two monks twice, then divided them between himself and Ox-Head and Horse-Face. As She Li Fo attacked, Xie Bi'an realized the monk was weaker than expected and suspected he could uncover the secret behind the monks.

• Xie Bi'an revealed that he had led the monks into a Landmine Formation, which blasted them apart and left them badly wounded.
• White Impermanence, Ox-Head, and Horse-Face argued over how to divide the monks, then Ox-Head and Horse-Face chose to fight Fu Lou Na while Xie Bi'an took She Li Fo.
• Xie Bi'an secretly planted another trap while talking with his brothers, and the resulting explosion wounded both monks again.
• She Li Fo charged at Xie Bi'an while Ox-Head and Horse-Face blocked Fu Lou Na.
• Xie Bi'an caught She Li Fo's punch and found it weaker than expected, believing he might be able to kill the monk and uncover the monks' secret.

White Impermanence fought Shariputra while probing why the Great Luo Golden Immortal seemed unable to kill him, then used the souls of the battlefield dead to capture him alive. Shariputra revealed that the attackers intended to purge the Immortal Realm and plunge the cosmos into Extreme Darkness, but Xie Bi'an demanded the truth behind the slogans.

• White Impermanence blocked Shariputra’s attacks and taunted him, then used his Ghost-Crying Club to repel a palm strike.
• White Impermanence released souls from his sleeve and summoned the battlefield dead with his Soul-Summoning Banner, wrapping Shariputra in it.
• Shariputra’s fear allowed the souls to gnaw at his flesh, and Xie Bi'an offered to spare him if he answered questions.
• Shariputra said the attackers would carry out the Immortal Realm Purge, plunge the cosmos into Extreme Darkness, and worship Great Dark Heaven as their ruler.
• Xie Bi'an dismissed Shariputra’s words as slogans and demanded the real purpose of the attack.

Xie Bi'an interrogated Shariputra and learned that the strange monks had gained their cultivation by becoming Buddhas on the spot. Shariputra warned that Great Dark Heaven would be unbeatable when he arrived, and Xie Bi'an left him to the ghost souls.

• Xie Bi'an pressed Shariputra about the invasion, and Shariputra said the monks had followed Great Dark Heaven's orders and that someone above him might be involved in a deal.
• Xie Bi'an reasoned that the invaders had a reason they could not abandon and suspected Du Yu was their target.
• Shariputra revealed that the monks had gained their cultivation by offering up suffering and becoming Buddhas on the spot.
• Xie Bi'an concluded that their instant cultivation made them weaker than their apparent realms suggested, while Shariputra insisted Great Dark Heaven would win once he arrived.
• Xie Bi'an refused to release Shariputra and let the ghost souls tear him apart before putting away the Soul-Summoning Banner.

Xie Bi'an pursued Fu Lou Na and called for the Nine-Turn Soul-Washing Whip so he could interrogate him, while Yang Jian and Ibaraki Doji struggled against the powerful Maudgalyayana. Ibaraki Doji transformed into the Rashomon Demon and trapped Maudgalyayana inside Rashomon with him.

• Xie Bi'an spotted Ox-Head and Horse-Face fighting Fu Lou Na, then chased the fleeing monk and told Horse-Face to bring the Nine-Turn Soul-Washing Whip.
• Yang Jian and Ibaraki Doji admitted they had no plan to defeat Maudgalyayana, who had remained uninjured despite their many exchanges.
• Ibaraki Doji told Yang Jian to step aside, planted Muramasa in the ground, and challenged Maudgalyayana alone.
• Ibaraki Doji asked Maudgalyayana about Lo City, then transformed into the Rashomon Demon as a stone gate and Magic Array appeared.
• Muramasa absorbed the Yokai Aura and grew into an Odachi, and Ibaraki Doji declared that Maudgalyayana had entered Rashomon.

Yang Jian watched Ibaraki Doji struggle against Maudgalyayana and learned from Xie Bi'an that Maudgalyayana was one of only four exceptionally powerful enemy monks. Shuten Doji then gathered more than twenty Japanese monsters to attack Maudgalyayana together.

• Yang Jian noticed that Ibaraki Doji's Demon Blade was draining its wielder's Yokai Aura as well as Maudgalyayana's flesh.
• Xie Bi'an told the Immortals that most black monks had limited combat experience and identified Maudgalyayana as one of four formidable enemies.
• Xie Bi'an warned that black monks could turn allies against one another and that a Great Buddha would explode when its true body died.
• Shuten Doji told Ibaraki Doji to withdraw Rashomon, then summoned more than twenty powerful Japanese monsters to surround Maudgalyayana.
• Maudgalyayana expected the monsters to challenge him one at a time, but Shuten Doji ordered them all to attack together.

Medusa searched the battlefield for Du Yu, killing those who could not help her, until she fought River-Crossing Arhat in a clash of thunder and water. As the battle escalated, Li Jing prepared to intervene, but the Nine Heavens Thunderous Universal Transformation Heavenly Venerable and the Dragon King of the East Sea arrived to take over.

• Medusa continued asking for Du Yu and killed a monk and a heavenly general who approached her.
• River-Crossing Arhat withstood Medusa's heavenly thunder and introduced himself, while Medusa called herself the Tyrant.
• Medusa and River-Crossing Arhat attacked each other with water dragons, forcing nearby fighters to retreat from their clash.
• Li Jing urged the heavenly generals to support River-Crossing Arhat under the Queen Mother of the West's orders, but they hesitated.
• The Nine Heavens Thunderous Universal Transformation Heavenly Venerable and the Dragon King of the East Sea arrived and told Li Jing they would handle the fight.

Du Yu noticed that Great Dark Heaven seemed to be holding back while the battle raged, then was nearly killed by the Eastern Peak Great Emperor of Mount Tai. The Northern Yin Great Emperor of Fengdu rescued him, but Du Yu remained unsure whether he could trust him and called on Xiao Qi for help.

• Medusa unleashed indiscriminate attacks as the battle continued, while Du Yu wondered why Great Dark Heaven had not intervened.
• Xiao Qi warned Du Yu of an attack, allowing him to dodge the Eastern Peak Great Emperor of Mount Tai's strike.
• The Eastern Emperor seemed confused, then accused Du Yu of deceiving him and charged again.
• The Northern Yin Great Emperor of Fengdu pulled Du Yu away with a strand of hair and took him into the air.
• Du Yu questioned the Northern Emperor's motives, then called on Xiao Qi to find powerful figures who could help.

The Northern Yin Great Emperor saved Du Yu from Cui Jue’s sudden attack and explained that Great Dark Heaven’s backward Heart Sutra awakened and magnified hidden regrets into murderous intent. Du Yu realized the Eastern Emperor had recognized him and attacked because of the regret he carried over their past exchange of identities.

• Cui Jue arrived and, after being forced to speak in the Northern Emperor’s presence, attacked Du Yu with a Death-Urging Edict.
• The Northern Emperor blocked Cui Jue’s attack with silver-white hair, then impaled Cui Jue and pulled Du Yu away from him.
• Cui Jue warned Du Yu to be careful before falling, and the Northern Emperor said Great Dark Heaven had caused his attack by reciting the Heart Sutra backward.
• The Northern Emperor explained that the backward scripture could turn a person’s smallest regret into a magnified cause and effect.
• Du Yu recalled the Eastern Emperor’s reaction and realized he had recognized Du Yu as the person who helped him exchange identities with the Jade Emperor.

Du Yu learned that Great Dark Heaven's backward Heart Sutra was turning the Immortals' resentments toward him into murderous intent. When Fairy Chang'e attacked over the fate of her husband, Du Yu chose to face her because he believed he owed her.

• Du Yu questioned why the Heart Sutra had affected only the Eastern Emperor and Cui Jue, and the Northern Emperor said he would protect Du Yu only while it remained safe for him.
• Qiangnan attacked Simaer over a grievance from seven hundred years earlier, but the Northern Emperor stopped Du Yu from intervening and urged him to focus on Great Dark Heaven.
• The Northern Emperor warned that Immortals whose lives Du Yu had changed might come to kill him as the Heart Sutra magnified their resentment.
• Fairy Chang'e attacked Du Yu, furious that the husband he had promised to reunite with her had become a White Rabbit.
• Du Yu told the Northern Emperor to let Chang'e strike because he owed her, and the Northern Emperor replied that he did not.

The Northern Emperor attacked Chang'e while Du Yu tried to stop him, and Chang'e unleashed a dying technique that White Rabbit intercepted to save Du Yu. After White Rabbit’s sacrifice brought Chang'e back to her senses, the Northern Emperor killed her anyway, leaving Du Yu to attack him in fury.

• The Northern Emperor ignored Du Yu’s pleas and wounded Chang'e until she unleashed Moonlit Night Radiance against them.
• White Rabbit sprang in front of Du Yu and took the crimson moonlight beam, suffering a fatal wound.
• Chang'e recognized White Rabbit’s devotion and apologized, recovering her former tenderness and warning Du Yu that she had nearly killed him.
• The Northern Emperor pierced Chang'e’s heart after she had stopped fighting, and she fell while holding White Rabbit.
• Du Yu seized the Northern Emperor and punched at him, shouting that Chang'e had already come to her senses.

Du Yu struggled to trust the Northern Emperor after he killed a woman, then reunited with Xie Bi'an, Ox-Head, and Horse-Face. Xie Bi'an revealed that a strange influence was making Underworld colleagues turn on one another and warned that Ox-Head and Horse-Face might be affected next.

• Du Yu told the Northern Emperor to leave, but the Northern Emperor refused and said he would do what he believed was right.
• Xie Bi'an arrived with Ox-Head and Horse-Face, and the Northern Emperor approached them suspiciously while Du Yu kept his distance.
• Xie Bi'an took Du Yu along with him, and the Northern Emperor followed behind as they traveled together.
• Xie Bi'an asked Du Yu about their sworn brotherhood and admitted that he had briefly felt Du Yu should die before remembering what Du Yu had done for him and Old Eight.
• Xie Bi'an warned Du Yu that Ox-Head and Horse-Face might be bewitched after seeing colleagues slaughter one another, and said he had come to discuss a plan.

Du Yu learned that the Sage had ordered an immediate retreat because their side was doomed to lose, while Xie Bi'an prepared to cover his escape. Xiao Qi revealed that Xiao Nian had tried to protect Xie Bi'an and Xie Bi'an from a terrible fate, leaving Du Yu questioning his role and the sacrifices he had made.

• Du Yu told Xie Bi'an that the Northern Emperor had killed Cui Jue after Cui Jue attacked him with the Death-Urging Edict, and Xie Bi'an vowed the matter would not end there.
• Xiao Qi relayed the Sage's order for Du Yu to take his companions and withdraw, while Xie Bi'an offered to cover Du Yu's escape and warned that their side would be defeated within half a day.
• Xie Bi'an explained that evil thoughts could not be eliminated and worried that Zhan Qisheng's soul inside Du Yu might make him a target.
• Xiao Qi revealed that Xiao Nian had tried to stop Xie Bi'an and Xie Bi'an from becoming Underworld Enforcers because the Sage knew they would die horribly in the Legend of Nüwa Mends the Sky.
• Du Yu asked whether Xie Bi'an resented him for changing their lives, and Xie Bi'an said their sacrifices had preserved stability while pointing out how much Du Yu had suffered for helping others.
• Du Yu began questioning whether anyone appreciated his work for the Legend Management Bureau and what he had gained from it.

Du Yu confronted Horse-Face over his attempt to kill him and deduced that Horse-Face was jealous of his relationship with Dong Qianqiu. The chapter ended with Du Yu slapping Horse-Face after he blamed Du Yu for stealing Qianqiu’s heart.

• Du Yu told Xie Bi'an that he had realized his past actions had made others resent him.
• Du Yu questioned Ox-Head and Horse-Face about why they had sought him out, and Horse-Face declared that he intended to kill him.
• Du Yu ruled out money and power as Horse-Face’s motives and guessed that Horse-Face wanted to kill him over a woman.
• Du Yu concluded that Horse-Face loved Dong Qianqiu and argued that killing him would not make Qianqiu love Horse-Face.
• Horse-Face blamed Du Yu for stealing Qianqiu’s heart, and Du Yu slapped him for making a trumped-up accusation.

Du Yu confronted Horse-Face and decided to attack Great Dark Heaven, but Black Impermanence demanded that he erase Zhan Qisheng from the Eight Directions Ghost Record. As White Impermanence intervened, Du Yu learned that an old misunderstanding might explain Black Impermanence’s grudge, while Fan Wujiao revealed the pain behind his desire for revenge.

• Du Yu rebuked Horse-Face for trying to kill him and challenged him to fight, then told Xie Bi'an he wanted to launch an all-out assault on Great Dark Heaven.
• Black Impermanence arrived and demanded that Du Yu renounce the Eight Directions Ghost Record and let Zhan Qisheng’s soul disappear.
• Du Yu refused, and Black Impermanence attacked him, but Xie Bi'an caught the chain and challenged his claim that Zhan Qisheng killed Su Xiaoxiao.
• Du Yu asked Zhan Qisheng about Su Xiaoxiao and learned that Zhan had once promised Black Impermanence help before leaving without hearing what he needed.
• Black Impermanence told Xie Bi'an that his unresolved hurt felt like a thorn in his heart and that he truly felt pain.

Black Impermanence remained determined to kill Zhan Qisheng, and White Impermanence agreed to hold him off for one hour so Du Yu could kill Great Dark Heaven. Du Yu flew to confront Great Dark Heaven while Shiranui Asuka and Xie Yujiao fought Black Monks and received unexpected help.

• Black Impermanence rejected White Impermanence and Xie Bi'an's pleas, insisting that the world owed him a Su Xiaoxiao.
• Xie Bi'an offered to hold Black Impermanence off for one hour, and Du Yu vowed to kill Great Dark Heaven before the hour ended.
• Du Yu asked Ox-Head and Horse-Face to save Black and White Impermanence if they tried to kill each other, then flew toward Great Dark Heaven with the Northern Emperor.
• Shiranui Asuka and Xie Yujiao struggled against Black Monks, and Shiranui Asuka summoned Ghost Howl, who backed away from the attackers.
• An unseen helper cut down the Black Monks surrounding Shiranui Asuka and Xie Yujiao.

Shiranui Fire God and the others arrived to take Shiranui Asuka away, warning that a catastrophic future was approaching. Asuka refused to abandon Du Yu’s side and pressed Fire God for the timing of the coming Lines.

• Shiranui Fire God flirted with Xie Yujiao, who threatened him with an Array Flag until Tsukimi Sake intervened.
• Tsukimi Sake told Shiranui Asuka to gather her belongings and leave because the battle was about to be lost.
• Shiranui Asuka refused to leave Du Yu and the others behind, despite Fire God warning that the Lines would soon cover China.
• Shiranui Fire God revealed that he foresaw hundreds of billions or trillions of Lines appearing across China within one to two hours.

Shiranui Asuka revealed that she loved Du Yu and chose to stay in China, prompting the Shiranui Time Masters to stand with her. Du Yu found Nezha badly burned in battle with a monk wielding Samadhi True Fire, and the chapter left him facing the blazing skeletal opponent.

• Shiranui Asuka urged the Shiranui Time Masters and Jin Jianglang to leave, but said she could not abandon China.
• Asuka confessed that she was in love with Senior Du Yu and asked the others to leave without her.
• Tsukimi Sake and the other Time Masters chose to fight alongside Asuka and bring their brother-in-law home.
• Du Yu flew toward a nearby battle and found Nezha gravely wounded by a monk's Samadhi True Fire.
• Du Yu tried to extinguish the flames, but they clung to his hands until Nezha drew them back onto himself.
• Nezha urged Du Yu to flee while the charred skeletal monk stood before them, still wreathed in flames.

Nezha sacrificed himself to attack the monk who had absorbed his Samadhi True Fire, while Shuten Doji led the Armed Monster Alliance toward the great Buddha after realizing the monsters were unaffected by its spell. A girl from the Inner Yellow Springs also arrived with her followers, determined to defend their home from the invaders.

• Nezha told Du Yu that Samadhi True Fire was burning him from within and that he intended to take the monk down with him.
• Nezha sang the song Du Yu had taught him and transformed into a fiery lotus that charged at the monk; Du Yu admitted the song gave him no power and vowed to avenge him.
• Shuten Doji and the Great Tengu observed the Immortals killing one another, while the monsters remained unaffected by the great Buddha's spell.
• Shuten Doji ordered the ten thousand monsters of the Armed Monster Alliance to race toward the great Buddha.
• A girl accompanied by Li Lianying and other followers arrived and declared that they would fight to protect the Inner Yellow Springs from the invaders.