Recaps

You Si rescued Zhan Qisheng from a mob and a rampaging Demon Beast, but he copied her Time Spell and followed her through the wilderness. After he asked her to teach him cultivation, You Si ordered him to leave and told him to wait for her in three months.

• You Si freed Zhan Qisheng from his bonds and teleported him away from the burning village as a Demon Beast attacked.
• Zhan Qisheng copied You Si's Time Spell and arrived at their next destination an hour before she did.
• You Si repeatedly told Zhan Qisheng to leave, but he followed her through the mountains for several days.
• Under the full moon, Zhan Qisheng told You Si he had no home or family, and she suggested he could cultivate into an Immortal.
• When Zhan Qisheng asked You Si to teach him, she ordered him to go and return to the same place in three months.

You Si taught Zhan Qisheng the Time Five Elements Art after he vowed to honor her wish that everyone have the right to choose. Du Yu realized that You Si was the root of the Legend Management Bureau and the Supreme Pivots, while the vision continued to Meng Po discovering that her soup required two willing souls to erase You Si’s memories.

• You Si explained to Zhan Qisheng that changing her past self could not free her from her own memories, and he promised to fulfill her wish that everyone have the right to choose.
• You Si laughed at Zhan Qisheng’s pledge and taught him Reverse Wind and the Time Five Elements Art.
• Du Yu concluded that You Si was the source of Zhan Qisheng, the Legend Management Bureau, and the world’s Supreme Pivots, and that eliminating her would require eliminating time.
• Du Yu watched Zhan Qisheng return from hunting to find You Si dead, then saw You Si become friends with Meng Po and help her gather ingredients for a memory-erasing soup.
• Meng Po deciphered the ancient scroll and told You Si that two people would have to willingly offer their souls, though they would lose their memories afterward.

You Si collected the Shame and Guilt Brothers’ souls after they sacrificed themselves to help her stop killing, while Du Yu witnessed the collapse of the surrounding space. He found himself in a realm of drifting spacetime fragments, where “Time” told him that the world had toyed with him.

• You Si found A Can and A Kui living well under Meng Sheng’s care and asked whether they would give her their souls.
• A Can and A Kui slit their own throats, hoping their souls would help You Si stop killing, and she collected them in Meng Po’s jar.
• The space around Du Yu shattered into countless fragments, leaving him in a vast, dark realm beyond ordinary spaces.
• Du Yu saw “Time” rise from the stone chair and approach him.
• “Time” asked Du Yu how he felt after learning about human nature, himself, obsession, and time, then accused the world of playing him.

Du Yu learned that “Time” was an entity born from human obsession and confronted him about the frozen battlefield and the possibility of saving everyone. The chapter ended with “Time” angrily revealing that he had spent years atoning for his own wrongs.

• Du Yu challenged “Time” to explain why he needed guidance, and “Time” described time as a web of interconnected lines born from human obsession.
• “Time” showed Du Yu He Suoyi’s corpse, but Du Yu realized that He Suoyi’s death had not eased his grief or changed what he had lost.
• “Time” brought Du Yu to the frozen battlefield, where hundreds of millions of lines and Spirit Monsters threatened the surviving Immortals.
• Du Yu concluded that “Time” wanted him to become a replacement, but “Time” said only someone who willingly became time could leave.
• Du Yu proposed making a deal for “Time” to reverse the catastrophe, and “Time” grabbed his collar and shouted that he had spent years atoning for his wrongs.

Du Yu learned that “Time” had endured three hundred and thirty thousand years guarding the Eight Directions Ghost Record and had engineered Du Yu’s path toward becoming his successor. “Time” revealed that Du Yu was the 464th version in the current reincarnation cycle and that he had witnessed 713 cycles, leaving Du Yu confronting the vast web of lives woven around him.

• Du Yu challenged “Time” for forcing You Si to wander for ages, and “Time” angrily revealed that he had been trapped on a stone stool for three hundred and thirty thousand years.
• “Time” showed Du Yu a frozen battlefield where his brother Sihuang protected the Eight Directions Ghost Record, explaining that he wanted to save his own people.
• “Time” admitted that he had manipulated Sage and He Suoyi to make Du Yu become “Time,” and said Du Yu would need to take his place to restore his friends and reverse the great battle.
• Du Yu proposed that there were three versions of himself, but “Time” showed him countless scenes and revealed that he was the 464th Du Yu in the current cycle.
• “Time” disclosed that he had witnessed 713 reincarnation cycles, each containing varying numbers of Du Yus, and said meeting the real Du Yu had taken three hundred and thirty thousand years.

Time explained that Du Yu was meant to become the next Time by fulfilling a long list of conditions, including falling in love with Shiranui Asuka. Du Yu revealed that he had already become Time and had manipulated events to make Time choose him, then proposed a big bet.

• Time told Du Yu that a qualified successor needed to meet many conditions and that Time would make He Suoyi the Supreme Pivot and provoke him into destroying Du Yu's spacetime.
• Time explained that Du Yu was the Terminator at the end of a cycle, while the Creator began it and had shaped the legends that would create Time.
• Time offered Du Yu the chance to return before the great battle, but warned that refusing would end the cycle and begin the seven hundred and fourteenth one.
• Time showed Du Yu his aged reflection and revealed that crossing spacetime rifts had already made him Time.
• Du Yu smiled and said he had made Time choose him, then told Time he was ready to make a big bet.

Du Yu revealed that he had long suspected Time was protecting him and deliberately tested him so he could take his place. He left Time with his ultimate gamble: to use the lives of every Du Yu across spacetime to rid the world of Time forever.

• Du Yu explained that he suspected someone was repairing legends for him after noticing the paradox surrounding Gorgon Medusa and Ramla.
• He admitted that he deliberately pushed the White Snake Legend toward disaster to test whether Time would repair it, and concluded that Time wanted Medusa to survive.
• Du Yu said he had interpreted Qu Xi's repeated fate and Time's efforts to gather people around him as evidence that Time wanted him to take his place.
• Du Yu revealed that Time's premature repair of Emperor Fuxi's story exposed him, and said he had secretly studied the legends' scripts while pretending to be foolish.
• Du Yu declared that he had deliberately worked toward becoming Time and was staking every Du Yu's life across spacetime on erasing Time forever.

Du Yu remained trapped on the stone stool as the new “Time,” repairing the battlefield’s fractured timelines while planning to eradicate Time forever. After ninety years of work, he discovered a strange timeline belonging to the Japanese monster “Yanyanluo.”

• Du Yu rejected “Time’s” warning and declared that he would end Time in every reincarnation before sending “Time” back to the battlefield.
• Du Yu awoke fused to a stone stool and realized his starry realm had been an inner world, then began repairing the battlefield’s timelines to keep its people alive.
• Du Yu mended the Queen Mother of the West’s timeline by making it believe it had mistaken her for the Queen Mother.
• Du Yu spent ninety years repairing timelines, driven by his obsession to free every Du Yu and prevent Time from taking tangible form.
• Du Yu rewound the battlefield and saw that doing so created more timelines, then encountered an unfamiliar one belonging to the Japanese monster “Yanyanluo.”

Du Yu spent tens of thousands of years in the cave reconstructing the great battle and endured crushing isolation until he began hallucinating. When A-Xiang’s phantom pointed to a small stone, the stone door opened and a new You Si appeared.

• Du Yu examined Yanyanluo’s Line, comforted Jin Jianglang with a lie, and realized that lines cut by the Shiranui Household might reach him.
• Du Yu advanced the great battle by an hour and spent thirty thousand years reconstructing it, bringing his time in the cave to forty thousand years.
• Du Yu struggled to preserve his sanity as the cave kept him imprisoned, biting his tongue and clawing at the walls without escaping.
• Du Yu hallucinated conversations with people he knew and pleaded with A-Xiang to explain why he had to love her to become Time.
• A-Xiang’s phantom pointed toward a small stone, and the stone door opened to reveal a brand-new You Si.

Du Yu remained trapped in the stone chamber as You Si offered to find someone to replace him as Time, while the cycle of Reincarnation began around him. A stone brought by You Si carried a Japanese message that Du Yu eventually deciphered as “A-Xiang's Morning Call.”

• You Si confessed her love for Du Yu and promised to find someone to replace him as Time, but Du Yu could not escape his chair.
• At Shiranui Asuka’s prompting, Du Yu asked You Si to bring him a stone, then urged Xiao Nian to follow You Si and kill Xie Yujiao.
• A new Du Yu appeared at the chamber door, and the imprisoned Du Yu warned him not to return to the two Super Grade A Legends.
• Du Yu endured months of pain to study the writing on the stone and pieced together the Japanese phrase “A-Xiang's Morning Call.”

Du Yu discovered that the stone marked with patterns held a recording left by Shiranui Asuka. The diary began revealing her loneliness in the cave, while Du Yu and You Si listened.

• After You Si returned from searching for a new "Time," Du Yu showed her the stone and learned it bore patterns.
• You Si searched the chamber for other marked stones, then found the original stone again by its faint spiritual energy.
• Du Yu asked You Si to add spiritual energy, causing the stone to project a triangle and a square.
• Du Yu recognized the shapes as play and stop buttons, and You Si touched the triangle to start a recording.
• Shiranui Asuka introduced herself and renamed the carved "Xiao Xiang wake-up service" the "Xiao Xiang diary service," then described how bored and trapped she felt in the cave.

Du Yu listened to a recording revealing that Shiranui Asuka had spent ages trapped in the cave and had sacrificed herself to save him. He suspected she had become an incarnation of Time, then asked You Si to cut him free from the stone chair.

• Du Yu heard Shiranui Asuka describe her long confinement, her feelings for him, and her plan to escape after someone came to save her.
• Du Yu realized the recording suggested A-Xiang had become an incarnation of Time to save him.
• Du Yu asked You Si to find the two other stones and inspect the chair, but she found neither stones with writing nor words on its back.
• Du Yu asked You Si to cut the flesh connecting him to the chair with her Wind Blade.
• You Si sliced beneath Du Yu's arm, but his flesh regenerated and left him attached to the chair.

Du Yu and You Si tried increasingly powerful ways to suppress his regeneration so he could escape the stone stool, but years of burning only left him exhausted. You Si returned with a bead containing an eternal flame, and Du Yu swallowed a talisman he believed would let him escape before asking her to begin.

• You Si cut Du Yu with Wind Blades, but he could move only three centimeters before being pulled back onto the stool.
• You Si burned Du Yu's left arm and then his whole body with Reversed Flowing Fire, but he regenerated and could not escape.
• Du Yu endured years of repeated fires, then asked You Si to find a flame that never went out.
• After ten years, You Si returned with a crimson bead containing an eternal flame and warned Du Yu that it might burn him forever.
• Du Yu had You Si place a yellow talisman in his mouth, swallowed it, and told her to release the flame.

Du Yu endured centuries of agony after You Si used the Immortals’ fire on him, eventually learning to stand and control his pain. When he saw an inscription on the back of the chair, he lost control and demanded to know what it meant.

• You Si caused a drop of Immortals’ fire to fall on Du Yu, engulfing him in flames and unbearable pain.
• You Si visited Du Yu over the following centuries as he gradually learned to endure the pain, regain control of his mind, and finally sit up.
• Du Yu eventually stood and found the words on the back of the chair, which triggered his pain and sent him into a violent outburst.
• You Si protected herself and the Time Cave as Du Yu unleashed fire and energy, then called out to stop him from destroying the place.
• Du Yu regained his clarity, pointed to the inscription, and read, “Respectfully presented by the Shiranui Household”!

Du Yu listened to A-Xiang’s recordings and concluded that the stones held clues to the formation and his escape. The recordings revealed more about A-Xiang’s past with Du Yu, but the chapter left the exact way out unresolved.

• Du Yu connected A-Xiang’s claim of being Xu Fu’s descendant to the Shiranui Household and decided the two stones might explain the formation.
• Du Yu and You Si activated the first stone, which played A-Xiang’s self-interview about borrowing the chair and failing to learn the full effect of Xu Fu’s square.
• A-Xiang’s first recording described how she met Du Yu after mistakenly calling his unlicensed cab and calling him “Senior.”
• A-Xiang recounted that Du Yu’s soul had been scattered after he fought a resentful murderer who tried to seize the steering wheel.
• Shiranui Asuka struggled to say that Du Yu’s car had wrecked and his soul had scattered.

Du Yu mastered the Time Spell and endured seven hundred thousand years in the Time Cave while searching for a worthy replacement as Time. When another version of Du Yu arrived and recognized him as the one above, Du Yu invited him to talk.

• Du Yu realized the flames had given him immense spiritual power and asked You Si to teach him the Time Spell.
• Du Yu mastered the spell, then sent You Si away to seek a replacement for Time.
• Du Yu endured seven hundred thousand years, rejecting three Terminators who entered the Time Cave.
• A demonic apparition urged Du Yu to surrender and destroy the world, but Du Yu resisted and made it disappear.
• Another version of Du Yu entered the cave, recognized Du Yu as the one above, and asked what he wanted.
• Du Yu said he had been waiting for him and invited him to talk.

Du Yu told the “Terminator” the history of Ancestor Du Yu, A-Xiang, and the Cause-and-Effect Reversal Formula, explaining how A-Xiang became the first Time and how generations of Du Yus were created. He revealed that the Ancestor Creator entered the Time Cave and found A-Xiang, though each loved someone else in another spacetime.

• Du Yu explained that Ancestor Du Yu, an ordinary unlicensed ferryman, fell in love with Shiranui Asuka and later died alongside an evil soul.
• Du Yu said the Shiranui Household had understood the Cause-and-Effect Reversal Formula but concealed its dangers, until one girl used it to save Ancestor Du Yu and became the first Time.
• Du Yu explained that saving Ancestor Du Yu created a supreme pivot and set off a chain reaction that led to the Legend Management Bureau and generations of Du Yus.
• Du Yu proposed that the Ancestor Creator sought to kill Great Dark Heaven but instead found the latter half of the formula and learned to enter and leave the Time Cave.
• The “Terminator” identified A-Xiang as the reason the Ancestor Creator became a Creator, and Du Yu revealed that the Creator found her in the cave, though they each loved someone else.

Du Yu explained how the Creator’s attempt to save A-Xiang created an endless cycle of Du Yus and Times, while A-Xiang alone never regretted her sacrifice. He revealed that he wanted the Terminator to willingly become Time, but the Terminator had not answered.

• Du Yu explained that the Creator became Time to save A-Xiang and that You Si’s awakening expanded the cycle into a vast web of Du Yus.
• Du Yu described how the Creator manipulated Du Yus into battles and how countless Times and Du Yus replaced one another over hundreds of thousands of years.
• Du Yu said A-Xiang never regretted staying in the Time Cave and that the first Time’s final sanity had compelled later generations to cherish and protect her.
• Du Yu told the Terminator that he wanted him to become Time willingly, and the Terminator frowned without agreeing or refusing.

Du Yu tested whether the “Terminator” would become a Qualified Candidate and watched him question Shakyamuni Buddha about “Great Dark Heaven.” Shakyamuni recognized Du Yu’s vast plan and urged him to stop, but Du Yu refused to heed the warning.

• Du Yu told the “Terminator” he had waited seven hundred thousand years to select him, while a black apparition accused Du Yu of lying about his true goal.
• After completing the Legend of “Xingtian,” the “Terminator” went to the Western Paradise and asked Shakyamuni Buddha why he would not act against “Great Dark Heaven.”
• Shakyamuni explained that killing “Great Dark Heaven” would violate cause and effect, and the “Terminator” concluded that the world’s cause and effect was flawed.
• Du Yu revealed himself to Shakyamuni, who listed seven sins and warned him that his plan spanned more than a hundred million years.
• Du Yu thanked Shakyamuni but said no version of himself had ever listened to advice.

Du Yu endured the heavenly punishment and arranged for the "Terminator" to become the new "Time," while secretly planning to keep the role himself. The chapter ended with Du Yu revealing that both he and the "Terminator" would be "Time."

• The heavenly thunder struck Du Yu nine times, but he regenerated after each blow and remained engulfed in flames.
• Du Yu told the "Terminator" that he had chosen him because he loved A-Xiang most and would willingly become "Time."
• Du Yu showed the "Terminator" his former timeline and said he would return after becoming "Time" to save him and defeat Great Dark Heaven.
• The "Terminator" realized Du Yu might need to eradicate You Si to destroy Great Dark Heaven, but his subconscious still compelled him to become "Time" for A-Xiang.
• The "Terminator" tried to send Du Yu away, but Du Yu revealed that he intended to remain "Time" alongside him.

Du Yu trapped the Terminator in the Time Cave after destroying the Magic Array and made a deal with him to help break the cycle of reincarnation. He then killed everyone on a list across timelines and headed to the East Sea Islands in 219 BC to find the Cause-and-Effect Reversal Formula before Xu Fu.

• Du Yu destroyed the Magic Array, leaving the Terminator fused to the stone stool, and promised to return and save him.
• Du Yu carved a list of names into the cave wall and persuaded the Terminator to help him by fulfilling his duties as Time.
• Du Yu traveled across timelines and burned people, ghosts, and an Immortal Maiden of the Heavenly Court to death.
• After completing the killings, Du Yu froze time and traveled to the East Sea Islands in 219 BC.
• Du Yu began searching for the Cause-and-Effect Reversal Formula before Xu Fu so he could unify the timelines.

Du Yu searched the East Sea for the Cause-and-Effect Reversal Formula, then followed Xu Fu’s fleet and discovered a letter from the First Emperor telling Xu Fu he could leave court and settle elsewhere. The letter prompted Du Yu to rewind time and witness Xu Fu asking an old master to teach him the Longevity Art.

• Du Yu searched the East Sea for the Cause-and-Effect Reversal Formula for years, then found Xu Fu’s fleet and disguised himself as a shiphand.
• Du Yu observed Xu Fu’s directionless gaze and followed him when the fleet landed on an island.
• Xu Fu climbed a mountain alone and opened a letter from the First Emperor, who offered him a chance to leave court and avoid returning.
• Xu Fu thanked the First Emperor and remained bowed to the ground as Du Yu wondered about his past.
• Du Yu rewound time thirty years and saw young Xu Fu beg an old master to teach him the Longevity Art.

Guiguzi accepted Xu Fu as his final disciple and foretold the course of his future, while Du Yu confronted the meaning of the cause-and-effect formula that had shaped countless lives. Guiguzi began carving the formula for Xu Fu, leaving Du Yu to decide whether to destroy it and choose a real life over a planned one.

• Guiguzi accepted Xu Fu as his final disciple and foretold his future, including meeting the First Emperor and seeking the Way in the Eastern Ocean.
• Guiguzi recognized Du Yu and described him as powerful yet unable to live freely or express his love.
• Guiguzi asked Du Yu whether people, rather than the formula, reversed cause and effect, prompting Du Yu to understand his choices differently.
• Du Yu asked whether he would succeed, and Guiguzi said Du Yu could avert the foretold events by destroying the formula he was about to write.
• Xu Fu brought bamboo slips and a carving knife, and Guiguzi began inscribing the cause-and-effect reversal formula.

Du Yu traced how Guiguzi’s prophecy shaped Xu Fu’s life, from studying medicine and meeting Ying Zheng to being forced to seek the Elixir of Immortality. The chapter revealed that Ying Zheng’s execution order was meant to protect Xu Fu, leaving Du Yu to understand why Xu Fu had broken down over the bamboo scroll.

• Du Yu understood how the Cause-and-Effect Reversal Formula, the Shiranui Household’s Thread-Cutting art, and Zhan Qisheng’s unstable travel spell had created the Time Cave’s looping anomalies.
• Du Yu followed Xu Fu’s life as he studied medicine for twenty years, saved a town from an epidemic, and met Ying Zheng in the southwest.
• Xu Fu tapped a stone on Mount Heng and uncovered a spring, drawing attention and prompting court occultists to challenge him to produce the Elixir of Immortality.
• After Xu Fu returned from his first voyage empty-handed, Ying Zheng ordered him to sail again and publicly gave him a bamboo scroll commanding him to take his own life if he failed.
• Du Yu learned that Xu Fu had climbed alone to kill himself, then discovered that the bamboo scroll’s contents revealed Ying Zheng had been trying to protect him.

Du Yu intervened in Xu Fu’s plan, burning half of the Cause-and-Effect Reversal Formula while telling him to follow his heart. Xu Fu led his people to Yingzhou, established them there, and arranged for the formula and his mission to be passed down through twenty lineages before he died.

• Du Yu appeared before Xu Fu, took the Cause-and-Effect Reversal Formula, and burned half of it after deciding not to alter the fate planned for Xu Fu.
• Xu Fu accepted the remaining half of the formula, left the mountain, and sailed with his party toward Yingzhou Island two days later.
• Xu Fu and his six thousand people reached Yingzhou, where he taught the natives Chinese civilization in exchange for food and land.
• After twenty years, Xu Fu gathered his more than eight thousand followers and ordered them to pass down the formula and send anyone who mastered it to Great Qin to fulfill his mission.
• Xu Fu divided his followers into twenty lineages, gave them distinctive surnames, and entrusted the original formula to the Shiranui lineage before he died.