Chapter Summaries

Du Yu recruited Xu Liunian, a devoted actress who had died and was now in the Underworld, to join the Legend Management Bureau. After telling her the risks of its one-take performances, he welcomed her aboard and then discussed the missing Houtu with the Queen Mother of the West, who said Du Yu would have to take the risk himself.

• Du Yu praised Xu Liunian's acting and offered her work in the Legend Management Bureau's unpredictable, dangerous performances.
• Du Yu revealed that Xu Liunian had died in a car accident and that she was in the Underworld, then admitted he had never watched her productions but knew of her remarkable acting and makeup skills.
• Xu Liunian explained that she could not act against her character, and Du Yu welcomed this trait; she agreed to keep performing even if he was her only audience.
• Du Yu reflected that he had gathered five of the Seven Outstanding Disciples of the Sage, with only the Stern-Faced Man and the opera-singing scholar still unaccounted for.
• The Queen Mother of the West arrived after Du Yu reported that the Teleportation Array was complete, and she outlined three options for dealing with Houtu, concluding that Du Yu would have to risk himself.

Du Yu agreed to plan a careful intervention in the Xingtian legend to help Houtu, while trying to minimize changes to the story. After learning that Liu Ling had been drunk for twenty-eight years before, Du Yu decided to use the legend of Liu Ling Gets Drunk as practice before entering the Grade A legend.

• The Queen Mother of the West told Du Yu to return to the age of Xingtian and help Houtu change her past, and Du Yu proposed planning how to sever her romantic bond without disrupting the wider legend.
• The Queen Mother of the West agreed to summon Weaver Girl to help Du Yu brainstorm, while Du Yu kept her hidden identity as a Supreme Pivot to himself.
• A Can called Du Yu to report that he and A Kui had found Liu Ling, but his drunken defensive immortal arts kept them from approaching him.
• Cowherd told Du Yu that Liu Ling had once slept drunk for twenty-eight years and that he was a Wine Immortal who valued wine above everything.
• Du Yu suspected that changing Liu Ling's thinking could wake him and decided to practice with Liu Ling Gets Drunk before entering War God Xingtian.

Du Yu heard Pu Songling recount the legend of Liu Ling and learned that Liu Ling had been sent to the Eighteen Levels of Hell, but Du Yu wanted to enter the legend to befriend him as part of a plan to save Lady Houtu. He gathered the Legend Management Bureau for an important meeting and began by sharing the proceeds from their last Legend Livestream.

• Du Yu asked Dong Qianqiu and Pu Songling about Liu Ling, and Pu Songling recounted how Du Kang's wine left Liu Ling drunk for three years before guiding him to immortality.
• Pu Songling said Liu Ling had been punished and should have finished his sentence and reincarnated, but Du Yu planned to enter Liu Ling's legend instead of seeking the present-day Liu Ling.
• Du Yu told Dong Qianqiu that entering Liu Ling's legend was part of a plan to save Lady Houtu and asked her to gather the bureau members for an important meeting.
• Du Yu introduced Xie Yujiao, Xiao Nian, and Shiranui Asuka to the gathered bureau members, while Weaver Girl also joined them.
• Du Yu poured out Heaven-and-Earth Bags containing spirit stones from the last Legend Livestream and insisted the proceeds be split equally among the bureau members.

Du Yu distributed spirit stones and assigned Qu Xi, Yingning, and Zhan Qisheng new duties before explaining that Lady Houtu’s condition threatened the Underworld. The bureau planned to enter War God Xingtian’s legend to sever her romantic bond without changing the story, and Shiranui Asuka said she might have a way.

• Du Yu offered spirit stones to the new colleagues, but Xie Yujiao and Xiao Nian refused their shares, while the others accepted theirs.
• Du Yu assigned Qu Xi and Yingning to manage grade C and D legends, and made Zhan Qisheng a roving team member responsible for helping them.
• Du Yu told the employees that Lady Houtu was in danger and that her condition could affect the entire Underworld.
• Du Yu proposed entering War God Xingtian’s legend to sever Lady Houtu’s romantic bond without changing the rest of the story, and suggested practicing first with Liu Ling Gets Drunk.
• The Weaver Girl warned that the plan required careful preparation, and Shiranui Asuka finally said she thought she had a way.

Shiranui Asuka proposed waiting for her brother, Shiranui Jinkuro, whose help might solve every problem, while the Bureau prepared to enter Liu Ling Gets Drunk. The team settled on a plan to make Liu Ling regret his excessive drinking by showing him his wife’s hardship, and Du Yu suddenly found an answer to the problem of disguising the women as men.

• Shiranui Asuka said her solution depended on a friend arriving within a few days, and the team agreed to prepare another approach in the meantime.
• Pu Songling told the employees the story of Liu Ling Gets Drunk, and Du Yu asked how they could teach Liu Ling not to let drinking interfere with important matters.
• Weaver Girl suggested that Liu Ling should see the hardship his wife endured during his three-year drunkenness, leaving him with a lasting sense of regret.
• Du Yu proposed having Xu Liunian and Xie Yujiao disguise themselves as male bullies while he played the handsome hero who rescued Liu Ling’s wife.
• Xu Liunian pointed out that their voices might still sound feminine, and Du Yu suddenly exclaimed that he had an idea.

Du Yu arranged for Shen Shi to make Xiao Nian a voice-changing device and for Xie Yujiao to lay out its array, while managing their repeated arguments and assigning teams to other work. The Jade Emperor then called about an unfamiliar foreign immortal at the Southern Heavenly Gate, whom Shiranui Asuka identified as Jin Jianglang.

• Du Yu asked Shen Shi to make Xiao Nian a portable voice-changing device, and Shen Shi explained that Xie Yujiao would need to lay out a miniature Magic Array.
• Xie Yujiao and Shen Shi repeatedly argued over her warning that he might have improper intentions, until Du Yu assigned them to work together and told them to stop bickering.
• Du Yu assigned teams to reopen the Legend Livestream Room and prepare the legend of Liu Ling Gets Drunk.
• The Jade Emperor called Du Yu to ask whether the Queen Mother of the West was at the Legend Management Bureau because an unfamiliar foreign immortal had arrived at the Southern Heavenly Gate.
• Shiranui Asuka heard the Jade Emperor's call and identified the visitor as Jin Jianglang.

Du Yu arranged for Shiranui Asuka’s brother, Shiranui Jinkuro, to visit the Legend Management Bureau while preparing for the legend of Liu Ling Gets Drunk. He confronted Xie Yujiao about her jealousy and behavior, and she resolved to earn the Bureau’s respect before taking the completed ear stud to inscribe.

• Shiranui Asuka revealed that the powerful Time Master Shiranui Jinkuro was her brother, and Du Yu arranged through the Jade Emperor for him to visit the Legend Management Bureau.
• Du Yu assigned preparations for Liu Ling Gets Drunk and rehearsed the story with Xiao Nian while Shen Shi finished a tiny ear-stud Voice Changer.
• Du Yu brought the stud to Xie Yujiao and learned she was upset that he treated Shiranui Asuka more warmly and had not supported her during a dispute.
• Du Yu told Xie Yujiao to stop intimidating her colleagues and explained that his feelings for her could not be demanded or assumed.
• Du Yu described a woman who had loved and sacrificed herself for him, and Xie Yujiao vowed to work hard to change how the others saw her.
• Du Yu gave Xie Yujiao the ear stud, and she agreed to inscribe a formation on it.

Du Yu prepared Xiao Nian and Xie Yujiao for a Legend Descent, but questioning Xie Yujiao’s identity led the Bureau to test her with the Descent Device. The device first recognized her as an Operator, then changed its display to “Reincarnator Ready.”

• Xie Yujiao completed the voice-changing Earring, and Xiao Nian activated it through master recognition and confirmed that others heard her voice change.
• Du Yu selected himself, Xiao Nian, and Xie Yujiao for the Legend Descent, with Xiao Nian disguising herself and Xie Yujiao as burly men.
• Du Yu realized Xie Yujiao’s age and Xie Household ties conflicted with her calling Xie Bi'an her Old Ancestor, and he wondered whether she was a Supreme Pivot connected to Fan Wujiao.
• Dong Qianqiu had Xie Yujiao put on the Descent Device, which made her convulse before displaying “Operator Ready.”
• The display’s text changed into “Reincarnator Ready,” shocking Dong Qianqiu and the others.

Du Yu, Xie Yujiao, and Xiao Nian descended into Liu Ling’s home to stage a rescue, but found Liu Ling’s wife with his servant Dingchun instead. Du Yu changed the plan to make Xiao Nian save the servant, and she picked up a club to beat him.

• Du Yu entered the Wei-Jin Period with Xie Yujiao and Xiao Nian, assigning them to demand compensation and signal him to rescue Liu Ling’s wife.
• Xiao Nian adopted a convincing bully’s manner and, with Xie Yujiao, broke into the house.
• Xiao Nian and Xie Yujiao found Liu Ling’s wife in bed with a young man, disrupting their plan.
• Xiao Nian intimidated and struck the young man, who revealed that his name was Dingchun and that he had served Liu Ling.
• Dingchun explained that Liu Ling’s drinking had left his wife alone, and admitted to secretly meeting her.
• Du Yu told Xiao Nian to beat Dingchun and turn the rescue into a mission to save the servant.

Du Yu convinced Liu Ling's Wife and Dingchun to make their affair public, hoping Liu Ling would blame his drinking for losing his wife. He took Xiao Nian and Xie Yujiao several months into the future to continue the plan, but they were stunned by what they found in the courtyard.

• Xiao Nian subdued the servant, and Du Yu interrupted the confrontation by claiming to be the guardian god of affairs.
• Du Yu and Xiao Nian staged a fight, after which Du Yu used Dong Qianqiu's voice transmission to convince Liu Ling's Wife and Dingchun that he was an immortal.
• Du Yu persuaded the couple to publicize their relationship, promising blessings and claiming that an affair's public announcement would strengthen his power.
• Du Yu told Dong Qianqiu he hoped Liu Ling would learn that drinking could cost him his wife, though Dong Qianqiu remained uneasy about the plan.
• Du Yu reunited with Xiao Nian and Xie Yujiao and opened a portal to several months later, where the three were shocked by what they saw in the courtyard.

Du Yu discovered that Liu Ling's Wife and the servant had left town after their affair became public, putting his attempt to advance the legend in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Shiranui Jinkuro arrived at the Legend Management Bureau, revealed that A-Xiang was only an Apprentice Onmyoji, and urgently warned that Du Yu's changes to the legend would make the situation harder to resolve.

• Du Yu learned that Liu Ling's Wife and the servant had left town months earlier, so he sent Xiao Nian and Xie Yujiao to search for them.
• Shiranui Jinkuro arrived at the Legend Management Bureau, where Shiranui Asuka introduced him as a Japanese Time Master and future leader of the Shiranui Household.
• Jinkuro corrected Asuka, explaining that she had not passed the Time Master examination and was only an Apprentice Onmyoji.
• Weaver Girl asked Jinkuro whether he could handle failures in a legend, and he said that was a fundamental duty of Time Masters.
• After learning Du Yu had altered the plot and lost Liu Ling's Wife in history, Jinkuro angrily ordered them to stop, and Du Yu returned to the Legend Management Bureau with Xiao Nian and Xie Yujiao.

Shiranui Jinkuro rushed to find Liu Ling because mysterious threads were pursuing them. Jin Jianglang severed or drove away the threads, then learned Liu Ling was only a lonely ghost.

• Du Yu met Shiranui Jinkuro, who hurried Weaver Girl to take them to Liu Ling in the Inner Yellow Springs.
• Jin Jianglang revealed invisible threads with white powder and cut through Longing, while A Can was hurt after grabbing Suffering with his bare hand.
• Zhan Qisheng tried to stop Suffering with his Time Arts, but Jin Jianglang ultimately severed it with his scissors.
• Jin Jianglang summoned a magic array, and the multicolored thread Change entered it and disappeared.
• Cowherd told Jin Jianglang that Liu Ling was not an Immortal leader but a lonely ghost.

Shiranui Jinkuro severed Liu Ling’s influences, letting time erase the altered history, and Shiranui Asuka pressured him into agreeing to work with Du Yu’s Legend Management Bureau. Cowherd then urged Liu Ling to follow Du Yu, who offered him fine liquor from every dynasty.

• Shiranui Jinkuro explained that he had cut off the influences linking Liu Ling’s altered legend to the present, allowing time to repair history.
• Shiranui Asuka revealed that she had summoned Jinkuro to ask him to work for Du Yu, then threatened to smoke, get a tattoo, and join Shuten’s Armed Monster Alliance until Jinkuro agreed.
• Shiranui Jinkuro agreed to stay at the Legend Management Bureau when Asuka made clear she would otherwise pursue those plans.
• Liu Ling woke with a vague sense of loss and offered to fulfill another request for Cowherd.
• Cowherd introduced Du Yu to Liu Ling and asked Liu Ling to go with him, and Du Yu offered him liquor from every dynasty.

Du Yu gathered the new Operators and asked Shiranui Jinkuro whether his thread-cutting ability could help Lady Houtu, but Jinkuro said severing powerful historical influences was beyond his strength. Jinkuro explained the seven kinds of threads and their talismans, leaving the group without a clear way to solve Houtu’s situation.

• Liu Ling joined the Legend Management Bureau after Du Yu promised he could taste fine wines from every dynasty, and Shiranui Jinkuro joined as well.
• The Queen Mother of the West returned injured after clashing with Lady Houtu and asked Du Yu how their plan was progressing.
• Du Yu gathered the Operators and the Queen Mother of the West to discuss saving Lady Houtu, explaining that Jinkuro’s thread-cutting ability might be crucial.
• Jinkuro warned that cutting an influence tied to many lives—or to a ruler in the Immortal Realm—would be too difficult for him.
• Jinkuro explained how Time Masters reveal and cut historical threads, then showed the seven talismans and described the influences each one addressed.

Du Yu tried to secure Jin Jianglang’s help in changing the past of the founder of the Chinese Underworld, but Jin Jianglang warned that Thread-Cutting could bring Heaven’s punishment and his scissors might not be strong enough. Shen Shi examined the scissors and explained that their rare Eight-Branched Serpent bone material could not be replicated, leaving the group searching for a way to obtain a stronger tool.

• Jin Jianglang explained that Liu Ling’s powerful longing had taken twelve talismans to sever, and Du Yu realized the scale of the task ahead.
• Du Yu asked Jin Jianglang to help sever the romantic bond of the Chinese Underworld’s founder, but Jin Jianglang refused to risk Heaven’s punishment for the Shiranui Household.
• Shiranui Asuka confirmed that past Thread-Cutting had nearly destroyed her household, and Du Yu acknowledged that changing the founder’s history could provoke Time’s wrath.
• Qu Xi brought Shen Shi to inspect Jin Jianglang’s Unending Severance, and Shen Shi learned that it was made from the Eight-Branched Serpent’s tailbone.
• Weaver Girl and Shiranui Asuka described the Eight-Branched Serpent as a powerful Japanese demon beast slain by Susanoo, while Shen Shi found that he could not reproduce its rare material.
• The Queen Mother of the West began to voice a question about the scissors.

The Queen Mother of the West arranged to obtain the Three Firmament Immortals' Golden Flood Dragon Scissors so the Legend Management Bureau could use flood dragon bones against change. Afterward, Du Yu visited Xie Yujiao to ask about her role as a Reincarnator and her formation work.

• The Queen Mother of the West proposed using flood dragon bones instead of snake bones and arranged to borrow the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors from the Three Firmament Immortals.
• The Three Firmament Immortals initially declined the exchange, but agreed after the Queen Mother of the West offered two Magic Treasures for their scissors.
• The Queen Mother of the West left to check on Houtu, and Du Yu assigned the team to compile the War God Xingtian legend and settle on a strategy.
• Du Yu settled Liu Ling and Jin Jianglang into an empty room, then went to see Xie Yujiao.
• Xie Yujiao told Du Yu she was developing a formation to stop outsiders from descending into legends, and Du Yu said he had questions he wanted her to answer honestly.

Xie Yujiao revealed that she was a Forgotten One who had reincarnated repeatedly without entering the Underworld or losing her memories. After hearing her story, Du Yu joined Weaver Girl and Jin Jianglang to inspect the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors, which were given to Jin Jianglang.

• Xie Yujiao told Du Yu that she had died dozens of times, wandered as a soul, and reincarnated by possessing women about to give birth.
• Xie Yujiao explained that the Seventh Master and Eighth Master found her after roughly two thousand years, and that the Seventh Master gave her the identity she used as Xie Yujiao.
• Weaver Girl told Du Yu that Fairy Yunxiao had delivered the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors and hurried away, so Du Yu went with her to see the treasure.
• Du Yu, Weaver Girl, and Jin Jianglang joined the gathered Legend Management Bureau members to examine the enormous, dragon-shaped scissors.
• Weaver Girl told Jin Jianglang that the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors were his to keep, and Du Yu fell over when he tried to lift them.

Weaver Girl taught Jin Jianglang the Object-Controlling Art so he could wield the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors, while Dong Qianqiu briefed the Legend Management Bureau on the War God Xingtian legend. Yingning proposed that resentment had transformed Xingtian into a ghost, allowing him to fight after losing his head.

• Du Yu and Jin Jianglang failed to lift the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors, but Zhan Qisheng controlled them with the Object-Controlling Art.
• Weaver Girl warned Jin Jianglang about the scissors’ killing aura and taught him the Object-Controlling Art, which he learned well enough to move the treasure after half a day.
• Dong Qianqiu briefed the Legend Management Bureau on the Yan-Huang Alliance, its wars against the Flame Emperor and Chiyou, and Xingtian’s battle with the Yellow Emperor.
• Dong Qianqiu showed the group a video of the headless Xingtian fighting and asked why he had survived decapitation.
• Yingning suggested that Xingtian’s resentment had turned him into a ghost, letting him keep fighting despite losing parts of his body.

Du Yu and his companions planned a Descent into the Legend of War God Xingtian to sever Houtu’s romantic bond with Xingtian while minimizing changes to the story. As the mission began, Du Yu discovered Shiranui Asuka had joined the group, adding one more inexperienced companion for him to look after.

• Du Yu and Dong Qianqiu agreed to intervene after the Battle of Zhuolu, and Du Yu decided that all Seven Outstanding Disciples of the Sage should accompany him.
• Du Yu proposed that the group pose as a tribe joining the Flame Emperor’s camp so they could approach Houtu and Xingtian without attracting suspicion.
• Jin Jianglang told Du Yu that cutting Houtu’s thread would depend on minimizing their impact and on how strongly Houtu still felt for Xingtian.
• Du Yu and the Seven Outstanding Disciples of the Sage prepared to enter the Grade A Legend, and Dong Qianqiu selected two souls for him to take along.
• Du Yu noticed Shiranui Asuka on a Descent Device and tried to stop her from joining, but she insisted on seeing the Elder Era Legend.

Du Yu and his companions arrived in the Elder Era near the Flame Emperor’s tribe, where they encountered the young Houtu. After Du Yu persuaded Houtu to accept them into her tribe, he hugged her as their welcoming ceremony.

• Jin Jianglang and Liu Ling vomited after their first journey through time and space, while the group found themselves south of the Yellow River in the Flame Emperor’s era.
• Du Yu led the others toward the Flame Emperor’s tribe, but a young warrior and her followers nearly collided with Xiao Nian.
• Du Yu recognized the warrior as Houtu, and Shiranui Asuka angered her by calling her “Lady Houtu.”
• Du Yu claimed his group came from the National Men Tribe and persuaded Houtu to accept them as followers.
• Houtu made Du Yu kneel, gave the newcomers stone daggers, and declared herself their Father Chief.
• Du Yu hugged Houtu to complete the tribe’s welcoming ceremony.