Recaps

Medusa arrived in the Netherworld and challenged the Queen Mother of the West, who overwhelmed her before agreeing to meet her challenge in the future. When Medusa met Du Yu, conflicting memories revealed that a Flashback had changed history, leaving the immortals to question what had really happened.

• The Queen Mother of the West used Thunder Manifestation to force Medusa to withdraw her Divine Ability, and Medusa challenged her to a future fight.
• The Queen Mother of the West led Medusa to the Legend Livestream Room, where Dong Qianqiu found Du Yu surrounded by the many gods Izanagi and Izanami had just given birth to.
• Dong Qianqiu told Du Yu that Medusa had come to see him, but she and the immortals did not remember Du Yu saving Medusa as he claimed.
• Zhan Qisheng questioned Dong Qianqiu about Zeus and concluded that a Flashback had altered the world's history, while Du Yu and those inside the legend retained different memories.

Dong Qianqiu explained that a flashback was a memory that survived history’s correction, convincing Du Yu that he had saved Medusa. As Izanami died giving birth to Kagutsuchi, Izanagi killed the infant and mourned his wife, while Shiranui Asuka told him how to reach Yomotsu Hirasaka to retrieve her.

• Dong Qianqiu explained the Mandela Effect and flashbacks, and Du Yu accepted that his memories of saving Medusa were real.
• Shiranui Asuka delivered Kagutsuchi as Izanami suffered fatal burns, and Izanagi watched without reacting until Izanami confirmed she was dying.
• Izanagi named his sword the Ten Fist Sword and killed Kagutsuchi, then buried Izanami on Mount Hiba.
• Qu Xi tried to persuade Izanagi to forget his painful memories, but he refused and said pain gave life meaning.
• Shiranui Asuka told Izanagi he could find Izanami at Yomotsu Hirasaka, and the place formed after he believed in it.

Du Yu and the others followed Izanagi to Yomotsu Hirasaka, where Izanagi’s attempt to retrieve Izanami turned into a frantic escape. They were trapped when Izanagi imagined they could not outrun the ghosts pursuing them.

• At the Legend Management Bureau, Medusa asked the Queen Mother of the West about Du Yu’s role, and the Queen Mother warned Medusa not to harm him.
• Izanagi entered a cave believing it led to Yomotsu Hirasaka while Shiranui Asuka prepared for the coming battle.
• Izanagi found Izanami behind the Gate of Yomi, saw her rotting appearance, and fled in horror as she chased him.
• Shiranui Asuka ordered Du Yu and the others to run, and thousands of ghosts appeared behind Izanami.
• Izanagi declared that the group could not escape, causing them to slow down and then stop as the ghosts closed in.

Du Yu and the others fought Izanami’s pursuing ghosts and Yellow Springs Army while Shiranui Asuka’s summons failed to help. They learned the legend’s escape trick, but Izanagi refused to believe his hair ornament could become a grape field.

• Izanami sent the Yomotsu-shikome and Yellow Springs Army after Du Yu and his companions, forcing Du Yu and Zhan Qisheng to fight their way through.
• Shiranui Asuka summoned Ghost Howl, but the little black dog only played tricks, and True Lord Erlang recognized him as one of the Six Divine Hounds.
• Shiranui Asuka summoned Myriad Bone Workshop, who refused to help because he had other plans, then tried and failed to call Snow Woman by phone.
• Yingning revealed her true form and helped hold off the weak enemies as Zhan Qisheng asked how Izanagi escaped in the legend.
• Shiranui Asuka explained that Izanagi’s discarded hair ornament became a grape field that distracted the female ghosts, so Du Yu urged Izanagi to throw his ornament away.
• Izanagi rejected Du Yu’s request, insisting that an ordinary hair ornament could not turn into a grape field.

Du Yu tricked Izanagi into diverting the female ghosts with grapes, then the group fled the Yellow Springs Army using three walnuts that exploded with immense power. They escaped through the opening at Yomotsu Hirasaka while Izanagi warned Izanami that crossing it would kill her.

• Du Yu got Izanagi to say a tongue twister that sent the female ghosts rushing to eat a magically grown vineyard, letting the group retreat.
• The Yellow Springs Soldiers pursued them, and Izanagi led the group toward an opening at the edge of Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• When the army surrounded them, Shiranui Asuka found a walnut tree, and Du Yu persuaded Izanagi to throw three walnuts as if they were peaches.
• The walnuts unleashed a devastating blast that destroyed the Yellow Springs Army, while Zhan Qisheng and Yingning shielded the group from the shock wave.
• The group escaped through the opening as Izanami attacked, and Izanagi warned her that leaving the Yellow Springs Realm would kill her, stopping her pursuit.

Du Yu and the others witnessed Izanagi create Japan's three gods from eye gunk and nasal filth before being pulled out of the legend. Back at the Legend Management Bureau, Medusa revealed that she had killed several Greek gods and asked Du Yu to use their weapons to unite China's Divine Realm.

• Izanagi washed himself after leaving Yomi, and Shiranui Asuka explained that his discarded clothes and grime would become gods.
• Izanagi created Amaterasu from his left eye gunk, Tsukuyomi from his right eye gunk, and Susanoo from an object in his nose, while Du Yu and the spectators retched.
• Dong Qianqiu's staff pulled Du Yu and the others out of the legend before Du Yu could see how Susanoo was born.
• Medusa introduced herself to Du Yu and said she had killed Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, and Athena.
• Medusa handed Du Yu the gods' weapons and asked him to kill China's rulers, unite its Divine Realm, and stand with her at its pinnacle.

Du Yu rejected Medusa’s plan to unite China’s Divine Realm by force, while the Queen Mother of the West identified the lightning attacking Medusa as a long-delayed transformation tribulation. The chapter ended with Weaver Girl giving Medusa a guide to surviving tribulations after accidentally handing her a romance novel.

• Du Yu told Medusa he would not harm China’s rulers and returned her divine artifacts, insisting that fighting was not the only way to survive.
• Medusa heard thunder, mistook the heavenly lightning for Zeus’s vengeful spirit, and used the Thunderbolt Spear to divert nine bolts.
• The Queen Mother of the West explained that the lightning was Medusa’s transformation tribulation, which had intensified because Medusa kept avoiding it.
• The Queen Mother of the West warned Medusa that the tribulation would eventually strike without pause and told Weaver Girl to give her a guide.
• Weaver Girl accidentally handed Medusa her romance novel, then blushed and replaced it with the Minutes of the Three Hundred and Twentieth Tribulation Conference and Provisional Regulations on the Latest Feasible Methods of Weathering Tribulations.

The Queen Mother of the West agreed to seek a way to help Medusa survive her imminent transformation tribulation, while Du Yu learned that his earlier interference had badly derailed the White Snake Legend. The chapter left him realizing he might need to find a green snake to fill Xiao Qing’s role.

• Du Yu persuaded the Queen Mother of the West that Medusa would not turn against them, and she agreed to help despite the danger of Medusa attaining the Dao.
• The Queen Mother of the West proposed having a stronger demon beast undergo its tribulation alongside Medusa so it would draw most of the heavenly lightning, and Weaver Girl asked the Four Sea Dragon Kings to search for candidates.
• Weaver Girl reported that the only recorded candidate due to undergo a tribulation soon was Sihuang, a tiger demon with twelve hundred years of cultivation, whom the Queen Mother of the West deemed too weak.
• Du Yu found Shiranui Asuka speaking with Erlang Shen and learned that he had been advising her on training spirit beasts before they returned to the Legend Livestream Room.
• Dong Qianqiu warned Du Yu that the White Snake Legend had gone badly astray: Bai Suzhen had missed Xiao Qing and Old Mother of Mount Li, and her cultivation and journey to repay Xu Xian were also off course.
• Du Yu realized that the story might need a green snake to take Xiao Qing’s place.

The Legend Management Bureau held a meeting about having Medusa play Xiao Qing in the White Snake Legend, and Medusa agreed to enter the legend after her soul was temporarily extracted. Du Yu changed the chosen team to himself, Medusa, and Shiranui Asuka, then argued that they needed to enter the story before the Broken Bridge Meeting so Xiao Qing and Bai Suzhen could become close friends.

• Du Yu explained that the Bureau needed Medusa to play Xiao Qing because the legend lacked a second snake demon, and Pu Songling reassured Medusa that Xiao Qing was more like Bai Suzhen’s younger sister than her servant.
• Fan Xiaoguo proposed temporarily extracting Medusa’s soul to give her an Operator’s constitution, and Medusa agreed to the plan for Du Yu’s sake.
• Dong Qianqiu initially selected Du Yu, Medusa, and Zhan Qisheng, but Du Yu persuaded her to replace Zhan Qisheng with Shiranui Asuka because he planned to cause a major upheaval inside the legend.
• Du Yu objected to beginning at the Broken Bridge Meeting and asked when Bai Suzhen first underwent her Transformation Tribulation.

Du Yu and the Legend Management Bureau prepared to use the White Snake Legend to help both Bai Suzhen and Medusa survive their heavenly tribulations. After descending into the story as Monk Huijing, Du Yu hurried to find the two women and watched Medusa protect Bai Suzhen from a lightning strike, though Bai Suzhen still distrusted her.

• Du Yu arranged Bureau support and supplies for the White Snake Legend, while the Queen Mother of the West took responsibility for obtaining elixirs and Fan Xiaoguo agreed to contact the Seventh Master and Eighth Master.
• Three days later, Du Yu, Shiranui Asuka, Medusa, and Black Impermanence prepared to descend; Black Impermanence drew Medusa's soul from her body and warned her she had seven days to return.
• Du Yu descended outside Hangzhou as Huijing, a Jinshan Temple monk and Fahai's disciple, then learned that Medusa and Bai Suzhen had begun their tribulations together.
• Du Yu used Zhongli Chun's possession to race toward the tribulation site, where he found Bai Suzhen suspicious of Medusa's claim to be her younger sister.
• Medusa intercepted a lightning strike aimed at Bai Suzhen with a Round Shield, which crumbled, while Bai Suzhen prepared her own magic treasures.

Medusa and Bai Suzhen endured Bai Suzhen’s transformation tribulation with Du Yu and the Supreme Elder Lord guiding them from hiding. After Medusa used up her magic treasures and pills to block the final thunderbolt, the sky fell quiet, but Bai Suzhen wondered who had shouted advice nearby.

• Medusa sacrificed magic treasures to shield Bai Suzhen, then took a thunderbolt herself and healed with an Earth Essence Pill after Dong Qianqiu relayed the Supreme Elder Lord’s guidance.
• Bai Suzhen began using her own treasures against the thunder, but a bolt struck her; Medusa gave her a Wood Essence Pill to heal her injuries.
• Medusa continued shielding Bai Suzhen and fed her an Yin Essence Pill after the tenth bolt struck Bai Suzhen’s arm.
• As the remaining thunderbolts fell, Medusa ran out of magic treasures and gave Bai Suzhen a handful of pills to hold.
• Du Yu shouted that the pills had spiritual power, and Medusa scattered them to intercept the final thunderbolt; afterward, Bai Suzhen asked whether anyone nearby had shouted.

After surviving their transformation tribulations, Bai Suzhen and Medusa grew closer when Du Yu staged an attack to make them act like sisters. The two women ended the chapter together, with Bai Suzhen offering to heal Medusa.

• Bai Suzhen thanked Medusa for helping her through the tribulation and returned the pills, but Medusa gave them to her and introduced herself as Xiao Qing.
• The clouds cleared, Bai Suzhen transformed into a human woman, and Medusa gained power without changing her appearance.
• Du Yu emerged disguised as a monk and pretended to attack the two snake demons so they would bond.
• Bai Suzhen twice shielded Medusa from Du Yu and admitted that Medusa was her younger sister, Xiao Qing.
• Du Yu struck Bai Suzhen, then prompted Medusa to punch him; he pretended to be injured and urged the sisters to face his master together.
• After Du Yu fled, Bai Suzhen checked on Medusa and offered to heal her wounds.

Du Yu found Shiranui Asuka working at an apothecary, where he discovered Xu Xian had mistaken Asuka’s former identity for his beloved. Bai Suzhen and Medusa arrived to buy medicine, and Xu Xian immediately turned his attention to them.

• Du Yu disguised himself with a wig and learned that Shiranui Asuka was apprenticing at the Hall of Rejuvenation.
• Du Yu found Asuka and learned that she had been working alongside Xu Xian, who called him his brother-in-law and claimed to love Asuka’s former identity.
• Du Yu warned Xu Xian not to make advances toward Asuka while he was there.
• Bai Suzhen and Medusa entered the apothecary to buy plasters, and Medusa pretended not to recognize Du Yu and Asuka after Dong Qianqiu’s warning.
• Xu Xian declared love at first sight to Bai Suzhen and Medusa and offered them his medicinal oil.

Du Yu found that Bai Suzhen remembered him as the person who saved her eighteen hundred years ago, but he persuaded Xu Xian to claim credit and win her affection. Bai Suzhen agreed to marry Xu Xian, and Du Yu left to help steer the increasingly chaotic legend from both sides.

• Xu Xian flirted with Bai Suzhen and Xiao Qing, while Bai Suzhen recognized Du Yu as the man who had saved her eighteen hundred years earlier.
• Du Yu told Xu Xian to pretend he had saved Bai Suzhen, and Xu Xian improvised a dramatic tale that moved her.
• Medusa warned Bai Suzhen not to trust men, but Bai Suzhen believed Xu Xian and offered to marry him.
• Xu Xian accepted Bai Suzhen's proposal, and Du Yu left with Shiranui Asuka and Medusa to plan how they would guide the legend.

Du Yu found Fahai and persuaded the kindly monk to investigate Xu Xian, whom he accused of pursuing a snake spirit in bad faith. Fahai confronted Xu Xian and gave him realgar wine to expose his bride-to-be’s true form, while Xu Xian planned to use the wine for his own purposes.

• Du Yu returned to the inn in Hangzhou and warned Fahai about the powerful snake spirit, but Fahai said she had avoided harming people and seemed kindhearted.
• Du Yu convinced Fahai that Xu Xian might deceive the spirit and cause trouble, so Fahai went to the Hall of Rejuvenation to stop their wedding.
• Fahai met Xu Xian outside the Hall of Rejuvenation and urged him to cancel the marriage because his bride was a spirit.
• Xu Xian dismissed Fahai’s warning and admitted he was interested in the spirit because of her beauty.
• Fahai bought realgar wine and gave it to Xu Xian, explaining that it would make the snake spirit reveal her true form.
• Xu Xian took the realgar wine and thought he could use it to get the spirit drunk and avoid marrying her.

Xu Xian served realgar wine to Bai Suzhen and Medusa on their wedding night, hoping to get them drunk, but Medusa transformed into her terrifying Gorgon form and turned him to stone. Du Yu and Fahai rushed toward Huichun Hall as the situation spiraled out of control.

• Fahai gave Xu Xian realgar wine, while Du Yu and Fahai discussed how Xu Xian might react when Bai Suzhen revealed her true form.
• Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen held their wedding ceremony at Huichun Hall, and Xu Xian tried to take both Bai Suzhen and Medusa to the bridal chamber.
• Xu Xian served realgar wine to Bai Suzhen and Medusa, and Bai Suzhen began transforming into a snake while Xu Xian remained undeterred.
• Dong Qianqiu alerted Du Yu that Xu Xian was not afraid of Bai Suzhen's transformation, and Du Yu and Fahai hurried toward the pharmacy.
• Medusa transformed into Emperor Gorgon Medusa, and Xu Xian screamed before she turned him into a stone statue.

After Medusa’s real form turned Xu Xian to stone, Du Yu and Fahai sought a way to save him. Lady Houtu revealed a method involving fire and wood, and the chapter ended with the Supreme Elder Lord identifying lingzhi as the needed herb.

• Shiranui Asuka entered the bedchamber and helped Medusa sober up and return to human form.
• Medusa realized Xu Xian had been petrified by her gaze, and Fahai questioned her about what happened.
• Fahai examined Xu Xian while Du Yu asked Dong Qianqiu to consult the Immortals for a cure.
• A masked female Immortal arrived and explained that fire should transform the stone before gentle Jia Wood undid it.
• Lady Houtu prompted the Supreme Elder Lord to identify lingzhi as the medicinal ingredient for the cure.

Lady Houtu explained how Xu Xian could be restored, and Du Yu sent Bai Suzhen and Medusa to Kunlun to find a Lingzhi Immortal Herb. Bai Suzhen found one but was stopped by the Old Longevity Star, who warned her that the herb belonged to the Queen Mother of the West.

• Lady Houtu gave Du Yu instructions for undoing Xu Xian’s petrification, and Du Yu sent Fahai away before explaining the plan to Bai Suzhen and Medusa.
• Bai Suzhen accused Du Yu of harming Xu Xian, but Medusa vouched for him and persuaded her to seek the Lingzhi Immortal Herb on Kunlun.
• Medusa told Bai Suzhen that she, too, had come to repay a kindness from Du Yu, easing Bai Suzhen’s doubts about her.
• Medusa gathered strange red mushrooms while Bai Suzhen found a thousand-year-old lingzhi on a cliff.
• The Old Longevity Star stopped Bai Suzhen from picking the herb and warned her that the Queen Mother of the West would be furious.

Bai Suzhen obtained the Lingzhi herb from Nanjí Immortal Elder to save Xu Xian, while the Queen Mother of the West watched the events unfold. Back at the Legend Management Bureau, Lady Houtu pressured Du Yu over Zhan Qisheng, and Du Yu finally told her not to destroy his cultivation.

• Bai Suzhen told Nanjí Immortal Elder that she would risk death to save her husband, so he decided to help her obtain the Lingzhi herb.
• Nanjí Immortal Elder enlisted the Lord of the Land and the Mountain Deity to help cover up the herb's removal, then gave Bai Suzhen the Lingzhi in a Heaven-and-Earth Bag.
• Bai Suzhen found Medusa, showed her the Lingzhi, and the two flew toward Hangzhou to save Xu Xian.
• Lady Houtu asked Du Yu for help with the Five-Element spells needed in the legend, and the group turned to Zhan Qisheng for assistance.
• Lady Houtu threatened to destroy Zhan Qisheng's cultivation, but Du Yu finally answered, "Don't."

Du Yu arranged for Zhan Qisheng to revive Xu Xian while Bai Suzhen waited anxiously, and the group visited West Lake. After Xu Xian regained his human form, Zhan Qisheng departed, leaving Du Yu to return undercover and conceal Lady Houtu’s hostility toward him.

• Bai Suzhen returned to the Hall of Rejuvenation with the Lingzhi Herb, and Zhan Qisheng began treating Xu Xian while Du Yu persuaded Bai Suzhen to wait outside.
• Medusa discovered that the red mushrooms she had collected were not Lingzhi, dumped most of them down a well, and secretly kept one.
• Du Yu took Bai Suzhen and Shiranui Asuka to West Lake, where he tried to reassure Bai Suzhen and awkwardly sang to her.
• Medusa told the group that the treatment was finished, and they returned to find Xu Xian restored to human form.
• Du Yu asked Zhan Qisheng to leave, then followed him and told Medusa and Shiranui Asuka to continue their roles while he went undercover.
• Zhan Qisheng asked Du Yu about a formidable female cultivator who seemed to resent him, but Du Yu pretended not to know who she was before Zhan Qisheng vanished.

Xu Xian woke to find Bai Suzhen and Medusa nearby, but rejected them and tried to exploit Shiranui Asuka’s sympathy. After Du Yu’s warning led Asuka to slap him, Xu Xian turned hostile, and Myriad Bone Workshop and Shuten Doji appeared to protect her as Fahai sensed their immense demonic auras.

• Xu Xian woke and recoiled from Bai Suzhen and Medusa, then asked Shiranui Asuka to stay with him.
• Xu Xian claimed he was cold and asked Asuka to undress and hold him, but Dong Qianqiu relayed Du Yu’s warning and Asuka slapped him.
• Xu Xian revealed his anger and cornered Asuka, while Du Yu rushed back after learning she was in danger.
• Myriad Bone Workshop emerged from the wall and stopped Xu Xian from striking Asuka, then Shuten Doji appeared and threatened Xu Xian.
• Fahai sensed two terrifying demonic auras and wondered whether the snake demons were responsible.

Shiranui Asuka reunited with her shikigami, Great Tengu Myriad Bone Workshop and Shuten Doji, and they beat Xu Xian before Du Yu joined in. After Xu Xian fled Bai Suzhen, a sudden outbreak of severe abdominal pain struck Hangzhou, and Fahai went to treat the afflicted townspeople.

• Shiranui Asuka stopped Shuten Doji and Great Tengu Myriad Bone Workshop from killing Xu Xian, though she let them kick him.
• Du Yu arrived, joined in beating Xu Xian, and met Asuka’s two shikigami, while Shuten Doji invited him to join the Armed Monster Alliance.
• After Du Yu left, Xu Xian jumped out the window to escape Bai Suzhen, who entered with Medusa and found him gone.
• The pharmacy owner called the women to help after a crowd of patients arrived, while townspeople pleaded with Fahai to save their sick relatives.
• Fahai learned that a sudden illness was causing severe abdominal pain and deaths in Hangzhou, then followed a townsman to treat his wife.

Fahai and the townspeople discovered that poisoned well water had sickened residents across Hangzhou, while suspicion fell on Du Yu. Du Yu met Xu Xian and demanded that he become a monk and write a letter severing ties with Bai Suzhen, leaving Xu Xian facing a threat if he refused.

• Fahai identified the townspeople’s illness as poisoning after a drop of well water turned his fingers blue.
• Bai Suzhen and Shiranui Asuka helped treat patients at the medicine shop, and Medusa discovered the shop’s well water was poisoned.
• The shopkeeper said he had seen a young monk go to the courtyard, leading Bai Suzhen to suspect Fahai and Shiranui Asuka to wonder whether Du Yu had poisoned the well.
• Xu Xian caught up with Du Yu and asked him to take him to Fahai for protection from the women pursuing him.
• Dong Qianqiu told Du Yu that Xu Xian was supposed to go to Jinshan Temple, where Bai Suzhen would flood the temple and later be imprisoned beneath Leifeng Pagoda.
• Du Yu agreed to save Xu Xian only if he became a monk and wrote Bai Suzhen a letter ending their relationship, then threatened to beat him to death if he refused.

Du Yu sent Medusa to give Bai Suzhen a poisoned red mushroom, which led Bai Suzhen and Fahai to accuse each other of poisoning Hangzhou City. Medusa realized that the mushrooms she had gathered were deadly and feared the townspeople would discover her mistake.

• Du Yu forced Xu Xian to agree to write something, threatening him with the Thin Sword and claiming to be Ripper the Client-Taker.
• Du Yu gave Medusa a Heaven-and-Earth Bag and told her to deliver its contents to Bai Suzhen as the cause of everything and Xu Xian's future.
• Medusa handed Bai Suzhen the red mushroom, and the shopkeeper warned that it was deadly poisonous.
• Bai Suzhen and Fahai confronted each other as townspeople accused them of poisoning the city and the Hall of Rejuvenation's well.
• Medusa realized that the poisonous mushrooms came from her own gathering and resolved to keep her mistake secret.

Du Yu learned that Medusa and Fahai were fighting over a Poison Mushroom amid a poisoning incident in Hangzhou, then hurried to the city as Medusa overwhelmed Fahai. Bai Suzhen stopped Medusa from killing him, and the two sides began questioning who had poisoned the water and how Fahai’s Poison Mushroom had reached her.

• Dong Qianqiu told Du Yu that Medusa had taken a Poison Mushroom from the Heaven-and-Earth Bag and was confronting Fahai over it.
• Du Yu sent Xu Xian to wait at the West Street Inn, learned from Dong Qianqiu that Hangzhou’s plague was a poisoning, and raced toward the fight.
• Fahai attacked Bai Suzhen with his flaming cassock, and Medusa intervened to protect her.
• Medusa used her powers to batter Fahai, but Bai Suzhen stopped her before she could kill him and insisted they only wanted to prove their innocence.
• Bai Suzhen and Fahai each denied poisoning the water, while Medusa tried to redirect the conversation toward Xu Xian.
• Bai Suzhen asked Fahai why he had sent her a Poison Mushroom as Xu Xian’s future, and Fahai denied knowing anything about it.