Chapter Summaries

Du Yu faced two strange men who claimed Sage wanted him dead, while Fahai fought them and Du Yu tried to get Medusa and Shiranui Asuka to safety. Xu Xian stabbed Bai Suzhen, who discovered he had never known her true identity and sank wounded into the sea, where Medusa sensed trouble and a green water snake found her.

• Du Yu bluffed that he could handle the two men, then called Fahai for help and learned they had come on Sage’s orders.
• Fahai attacked the two men as Du Yu prepared a Portal to send Medusa and Shiranui Asuka away, but Xu Xian disappeared.
• Bai Suzhen found Xu Xian by the sea, shielded him from the sea monsters, and was stabbed in the waist when he turned on her.
• Xu Xian mocked Bai Suzhen’s snake form, and she transformed into a giant white snake and plunged into the sea, gravely wounded.
• Du Yu sent Shiranui Asuka through the Portal, but Medusa sensed that something had happened to Bai Suzhen and refused to leave.
• A green water snake discovered Bai Suzhen sinking with a blade lodged in her vital spot.

Bai Suzhen survived Xu Xian’s attack and reunited with Medusa and Du Yu, who decided Xu Xian should die despite the legend’s expected plot. As Li Jing brought Leifeng Pagoda down to capture Medusa, Bai Suzhen pushed her and the little green snake out of danger and was trapped beneath the pagoda.

• Bai Suzhen pulled the blade from her wound and flew out to protect her younger sister, while the little green snake followed her.
• After the foreign monks ended their mission and vanished, Fahai went to Li Jing to report that Green Snake had summoned the shrimp soldiers and crab generals.
• Medusa and Du Yu found the wounded Bai Suzhen, and Du Yu approved Medusa’s plan to punish Xu Xian; Medusa turned him to stone below the head.
• Du Yu told Dong Qianqiu that Xu Xian was no longer needed for the legend and wagered that the story could still be completed after his death.
• Li Jing borrowed Leifeng Pagoda and sent it after Medusa, but Bai Suzhen shoved Medusa and the little green snake clear and was buried beneath it.

Du Yu realized the legend had not reached its true ending because Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian’s child, Xu Shilin, had never appeared, and he headed to the mountaintop to uncover the missing answer. Meanwhile, the Green-Clad Girl fought the heavenly forces while Fahai insisted on killing her, despite Li Jing’s warnings that she was Old Mother of Mount Li’s disciple.

• Medusa attacked Leifeng Pagoda to free Bai Suzhen, but Li Jing appeared and took the shrinking pagoda into his hand.
• Du Yu stopped Medusa from fighting Li Jing, sent her back through a Portal, and learned that the two would-be assassins had disappeared and that his Portal spell needed time to recover.
• The Green-Clad Girl attacked the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, while Li Jing repeatedly prevented Fahai from harming her.
• Du Yu and Dong Qianqiu noticed that Xu Shilin was missing and recognized that the legend’s expected causes and consequences had not occurred.
• Du Yu went to the mountaintop to seek the answer as Li Jing warned Fahai that the Green-Clad Girl was Old Mother of Mount Li’s personal disciple.
• Fahai rejected Li Jing’s warning and vowed to kill the girl, blaming demons for the destruction at Jinshan Temple.

Li Jing stopped Fahai from pursuing Bai Suzhen, and the Four Sea Dragon Kings settled the flood dispute as an accident. Du Yu and Medusa later returned to the Broken Bridge, where Du Yu gave Bai Suzhen Xu Xian’s old letter and a new encounter with Xu Xuan began.

• Fahai attacked Li Jing, but Thousand-Mile Eye intercepted him as the Four Sea Dragon Kings arrived and agreed to call the disaster a sudden flood.
• Li Jing freed Bai Suzhen from Leifeng Pagoda and blocked Fahai while Bai Suzhen escaped with the Green-Clad Girl.
• Du Yu asked Dong Qianqiu to arrange another descent with Medusa at the Broken Bridge twenty years later.
• Medusa left Xu Xian’s testimony for Bai Suzhen, who read its envelope and let the letter crumble into West Lake without opening it.
• A young man named Xu Xuan offered Bai Suzhen and Xiao Qing his umbrella, leaving Bai Suzhen unsure whether she recognized him.

After completing the White Snake legend, Du Yu discussed the mysterious Sage with the Queen Mother of the West and Weaver Girl, who deduced that the killers might have come from the future. The Queen Mother of the West revealed that Houtu, who was close to Xingtian, might help uncover the truth.

• Dong Qianqiu learned that Xu Xuan and Xu Xian were different people, and Du Yu returned after completing the White Snake legend.
• The Queen Mother of the West rewarded the Old Longevity Star with a Peach Ice-Skin Cake to make up for taking a thousand years of his cultivation.
• Du Yu asked the Queen Mother of the West about Sage, while Weaver Girl reported that King Arthur had failed to catch the devils.
• Weaver Girl and Du Yu connected the killers’ mention of Xingtian to Sage and suspected the assassins had come from the future.
• The Queen Mother of the West told Du Yu that Houtu, who was close to Xingtian, might help him investigate.

Du Yu discovered that Lady Houtu’s forgetfulness stemmed from drinking eighteen bowls of Meng Po Soup to forget Xingtian and suppress her demonic heart. The Queen Mother of the West explained that Houtu had spent thousands of years using her power to resist the soup, and Du Yu was left to consider whether he could help.

• Du Yu found Lady Houtu asleep and heard her mournfully say that a parting would be their last.
• Du Yu asked Houtu about Xingtian, but she could not remember him, so the Queen Mother of the West stopped her from trying and sent her away.
• The Queen Mother of the West warned Du Yu not to discuss what had happened, then admitted Houtu’s illness had a deeper cause.
• The Queen Mother of the West explained that Houtu and Xingtian had been close, but he never returned after they parted, leaving Houtu consumed by grief and violence.
• The Queen Mother of the West revealed that Houtu had drunk eighteen bowls of Meng Po Soup and had resisted its effects for thousands of years, causing her constant forgetfulness.

Du Yu and the Queen Mother of the West discussed Houtu’s lingering grief for Xingtian before Qu Xi asked to accompany Du Yu to Meng Po, hoping to forget her painful past. As Weaver Girl guided them across the Bridge of Helplessness, she explained the torment endured by spirits who tried to preserve their memories of loved ones.

• The Queen Mother of the West explained that Houtu could not sever her feelings for Xingtian and warned Du Yu against changing the past to save him.
• The Queen Mother of the West caught Qu Xi eavesdropping, but Du Yu stopped her and learned Qu Xi wanted to forget her painful memories.
• Qu Xi asked to visit Meng Po, and the Queen Mother of the West sent Weaver Girl to guide her and Du Yu.
• Weaver Girl told Du Yu that the legend of her and Cowherd was partly true, though the Queen Mother of the West had also nearly beaten Cowherd to death.
• Weaver Girl led Du Yu and Qu Xi across the Bridge of Helplessness, where Du Yu saw restless spirits in the River of Forgetfulness.
• Weaver Girl explained that spirits could avoid Meng Po Soup by enduring a thousand years in the river, watching loved ones reincarnate without remembering them.

Du Yu and Qu Xi followed Weaver Girl across the Bridge of Helplessness to meet Meng Po, learning that she held the same immortal rank as the Great Emperors. In the Inner Yellow Springs, Weaver Girl revealed her authority and led them into Meng Po’s house, where they were about to meet her.

• Du Yu, Qu Xi, and Weaver Girl crossed the Bridge of Helplessness and learned how ghosts collected Miss Meng’s Tea or qualified to receive Miss Meng’s Soup and reincarnate.
• Weaver Girl explained that Meng Po was an immortal equal in rank to the two Great Emperors and introduced the Inner Yellow Springs, where ghosts who refused reincarnation lived.
• A gang of grotesque ghosts surrounded the group, but Weaver Girl knocked down the hunchback and revealed that she was known as Sister Weaver.
• Weaver Girl ordered Zhi Er to take them to Sister Meng and not warn Cowherd, then made the thugs call her Sister Weaver.
• Zhi Er led the group to Meng Po’s guarded house, where the doorman let Weaver Girl enter without an announcement.

Du Yu, Qu Xi, and Weaver Girl visited Meng Po to ask her to erase Qu Xi’s painful memories, but Meng Po explained that removing them without losing other memories had never been achieved. The chapter ended with Meng Po recalling someone who had tried to use Magic Power to protect other memories, without success.

• Weaver Girl led Du Yu and Qu Xi into Meng Po’s residence, where they found a bound man being tortured while Meng Po arranged flowers.
• Meng Po welcomed Weaver Girl’s friends and explained that the man was being beaten because he had broken into her residence and could not explain why.
• Qu Xi asked Meng Po to erase the memories of her assault and suicide so she could live with a new identity.
• Meng Po objected to Qu Xi’s lack of respect, but she and Du Yu bonded over their admiration for The Godfather.
• Meng Po compared Qu Xi’s life to a dirty handkerchief and her painful memories to an ink stain, explaining that reincarnation was the only way to replace the whole slate.
• Meng Po said someone had once tried using Magic Power to preserve other memories while removing painful ones, but had never succeeded.

Du Yu learned that Houtu’s memories of Xingtian might remain as faint traces, then discovered the bound man at Meng Po’s residence was the present-day Brother, the assassin who would later target him. Du Yu chose to rescue Brother and take him away, hoping to prevent him from ever meeting Sage.

• Meng Po explained that Houtu might have forgotten Xingtian’s name while retaining faint memories of him, and suggested Du Yu ask about the tall man with the huge axe.
• Du Yu and Weaver Girl recognized the bloodied prisoner as Brother, the assassin from the White Snake Legend, and realized he was his present-day self who had not yet met Sage.
• Weaver Girl questioned Brother about breaking into Meng Po’s residence and Sage, but Brother asked who he was and did not answer.
• Du Yu decided to change Brother’s future by keeping him from meeting Sage, and asked Meng Po to release him.
• Meng Po’s underlings untied Brother, and Du Yu offered to take him for treatment, but Brother refused because someone was waiting for him.

Du Yu helped an injured, amnesiac man who claimed to have a little brother, then carried him to a bar to find him. When Weaver Girl demanded to see Cowherd, she fought the bar’s thugs, and Cowherd appeared before suddenly kneeling to her.

• The injured man admitted that the spirit stones he gave Du Yu were cursed to explode and confessed that his little brother was not on South Street.
• Du Yu returned the stones, carried the man, and offered to take him in after explaining that he believed the man could travel through spacetime.
• The man led Du Yu, Qu Xi, and Weaver Girl to a bar where his injured little brother had been taken in by the owner.
• Weaver Girl kicked in the bar door and demanded to see Cowherd, prompting the thugs to attack her.
• Weaver Girl repelled the thugs and bound several with a rope she stitched from a silver needle.
• Cowherd arrived in a mink coat and sunglasses, surveyed Weaver Girl, and dropped to his knees.

Du Yu followed Cowherd to learn why he had charged for treating the injured younger brother, while Black Impermanence and White Impermanence recognized the assassin as A Can and questioned their memories. The younger brother’s missing po had been replaced, and Du Yu offered to pay Cowherd so he could take the brothers with him, but Cowherd refused the money as a welcoming gift.

• Weaver Girl confronted Cowherd about charging the injured man and blamed him for the older brother’s beating, before Du Yu urged them to discuss matters privately.
• White Impermanence and Black Impermanence recognized the assassin who attacked Du Yu as A Can, an old acquaintance from the Old City God Temple.
• Black Impermanence questioned whether their memories of Du Yu, A Can, A Kui, and Xiao Nian as fellow beggars had appeared only after A Can returned.
• Cowherd explained that someone had extracted one of the younger brother’s po, so he had sent the older brother to raise money for a replacement black po.
• Cowherd said the black po cost thirty thousand spirit stones, and Du Yu offered to pay for it and the brothers’ help so he could take them with him.
• Du Yu introduced himself as an Operator at the Legend Management Bureau, and Cowherd refused the thirty thousand spirit stones as a welcoming gift.

Du Yu learned that the younger brother’s replacement soul was being devoured and decided to retrieve the stolen soul aspect from An Lushan, leader of Wild Mountain. Cowherd and the Lang Group prepared to back him, while Du Yu told Qu Xi he had a way to restore her memories but did not want to use it.

• The younger brother woke, but his soul began devouring the Black Po, and the Soul-Calling Master warned that he needed a soul matching his unknown bloodline.
• Cowherd offered to buy more souls, but Du Yu suggested stealing back the soul aspect from the person who had taken it.
• Cowherd identified the thief as An Lushan of Wild Mountain, newly named the foremost of the Underworld’s Ten Great Evil People.
• Du Yu decided to confront An Lushan and told Qu Xi to stay behind and look after the brothers, while hinting he had a way to recover her memories.
• Cowherd offered to bring the Lang Group along to attack Wild Mountain, and Du Yu jokingly named the injured brothers A Can and A Kui.

Du Yu joined Cowherd and Weaver Girl as Cowherd rallied his forces to attack An Lushan’s Wild Mountain. An Lushan ambushed them in East Street, and the battle began with Du Yu fighting amid the chaos.

• Du Yu’s joke led the brothers to take the names A Can and A Kui, while Cowherd and Weaver Girl prepared to join the campaign.
• Cowherd gathered his Four Baleful Stars and nearly two thousand followers, and Meng Po learned that he was marching against Wild Mountain.
• Meng Po ordered her subordinates to warn An Lushan and monitor Li Lianying and Strong Woman for signs of action.
• Cowherd led his forces into East Street, where they found the streets empty and prepared for An Lushan to appear.
• A firework signaled An Lushan’s ambush, and evil ghosts rushed in from every direction as Du Yu joined the street battle.

Cowherd and the Lang Group fought An Lushan’s forces while allies attacked from behind and An Lushan’s lieutenant moved to seize West Street. At Cowherd’s bar, Liu Ling revealed his terrifying strength, slaughtered the invading hundreds, and let their leader live after cutting off both his arms.

• Cowherd fought An Lushan despite being outmatched, while Weaver Girl refused to intervene and Du Yu watched with concern.
• Cowherd revealed that An Lushan had sent his lieutenant to seize West Street, then renewed his attack as a woman in black leather and a swordsman cut through An Lushan’s men.
• An Lushan’s men found West Street deserted and decided to take Cowherd’s bar, where they encountered the drunken scholar Liu Ling.
• Liu Ling sang Pingju opera and used his strange movements to kill the hundreds of invaders who attacked him.
• Liu Ling spared the leader so he could report what happened, but severed both of his arms to prevent him from fighting Cowherd.

Du Yu confronted An Lushan after An Lushan's raid on West Street failed, then chased him into a trapped alley to recover A Kui's soul fragment. An unknown scarred young man killed An Lushan and revealed that he recognized Du Yu and intended to kill him.

• A dying subordinate told An Lushan that Liu Ling had slaughtered hundreds of his men while defending West Street.
• An Lushan overpowered Cowherd, but Du Yu intervened and revealed himself as Zhongli Chun, frightening An Lushan into fleeing with a black ball that released yin energy.
• Du Yu chased An Lushan into a dead-end alley, where An Lushan trapped him behind a rising wall and threatened to detonate explosives.
• An Lushan offered Du Yu several soul fragments, but Du Yu insisted on the fragment stolen the previous day and cautiously approached him.
• As An Lushan tried to detonate the explosives beneath Du Yu, a bloodied hand pierced An Lushan's chest from behind and killed him.
• Du Yu recognized the scarred young man as A Can, who said he had failed to recognize Du Yu before and would kill him this time.

Du Yu was cornered by A Can and A Kui, future assassins who knew his history and blocked his attempt to summon help. Master Wazhang intervened and drove the brothers away, but warned that all Seven Outstanding Disciples of the Sage had mobilized.

• A Can confronted Du Yu after killing An Lushan and explained that the brothers had studied the timeline and expected Du Yu to die there.
• Du Yu tried to escape and summon the Eastern Emperor with the Eastern King Pearl, but A Kui froze it before he could crush it.
• A Can and A Kui prepared to kill Du Yu, but Wazhang's Great Compassion Seal shielded him.
• Wazhang told the brothers he was preserving true history, and they withdrew rather than fight him and his Arhats.
• Before leaving, A Kui warned Wazhang that all Seven Outstanding Disciples of the Sage were taking part in the assassination campaign.

After killing An Lushan and recovering A Kui’s soul fragment, Du Yu returned to the bar and struggled with doubts about whether he could trust the Shame and Guilt Brothers. He decided to take the brothers to Mount Unreturning, but learned that Empress Medusa and Shiranui Asuka were preparing to leave.

• Du Yu returned to Cowherd and Weaver Girl after An Lushan’s defeat and gave Cowherd the recovered soul fragments to identify their owners.
• Du Yu found hundreds of headless ghosts outside the bar and encountered a drunken scholar who tried to make him enter by insisting he sing Pingju opera.
• Du Yu gave A Kui his recovered soul fragment, and A Kui regained strength; both brothers pledged their loyalty and offered to leave with Du Yu despite their injuries.
• Du Yu told the brothers to prepare to leave for Mount Unreturning and asked Dong Qianqiu to send the Four Great Physicians to treat them.
• Dong Qianqiu told Du Yu that Empress Medusa and Shiranui Asuka had decided to return home, and Du Yu asked her to keep them there until he could get back.

After returning from the Underworld, Du Yu realized the assassins might be following a history he was destined to create—and feared that his future self, Sage, had ordered them to kill him. At Mount Unreturning, he kept the Shame and Guilt Brothers and said goodbye to Medusa and Shiranui Asuka, while Medusa promised Greece would help him if he ever needed it.

• Weaver Girl helped Du Yu realize that the Shame and Guilt Brothers had been waiting at An Lushan's place because his actions might already be part of history, leading him to suspect that his future self was Sage and the assassins' master.
• Du Yu considered killing the brothers to protect himself, but Weaver Girl reminded him they were only following his orders, and the group reached Mount Unreturning.
• Du Yu explained the situation to Dong Qianqiu and the others, then decided to keep the Shame and Guilt Brothers as allies in the Legend Management Bureau.
• Du Yu found Medusa and Shiranui Asuka preparing to leave and declined Greece's sacred relics, saying he wanted to face challenges without relying on such powerful advantages.
• Medusa hugged Du Yu and promised that she and the gods of Greece would fight for him if he ever needed their help.

Du Yu said goodbye to Medusa and the Immortals while learning that Shiranui Asuka planned to stay in China. After the Queen Mother of the West revealed that the Underworld had Seven Great Underworld Enforcers and only one Impermanence, Du Yu realized the unresolved Black and White Impermanence legend had changed, then discovered that Zhan Qisheng still remembered both figures.

• Shiranui Asuka told Du Yu she planned to return for her luggage and stay in China long-term, and Medusa gave her and Du Yu her phone number.
• Du Yu discussed building a Teleportation Array between the Legend Management Bureau and the Queen Mother of the West's bedchamber, and she told him to ask Xie Yujiao to visit her at the Jade Pool.
• The Queen Mother of the West said the Underworld had Seven Great Underworld Enforcers and identified Xie Bi'an as its Seventh Master, Living Impermanence.
• Du Yu learned that Dong Qianqiu knew of no faulty legends and realized Black Impermanence had disappeared because the unresolved legend's ending had changed.
• Du Yu found Zhan Qisheng and confirmed that he still remembered Black and White Impermanence, concluding that the legend had undergone a Flashback.