Chapter Summaries

Xie Yujiao met Meng Po, who offered her a choice between tea that would preserve her current life and tea that would restore her memories as You Si. As Sage watched, uncertain how her decision would affect the battle and Du Yu’s fate, Xie Yujiao held both bottles without choosing.

• Xie Yujiao asked Meng Po about her forgotten past, and Meng Po gave her green tea meant to protect her current life with the person she loved.
• Xie Yujiao decided she wanted to recover her memories as You Si so she could help protect Du Yu.
• Meng Po admitted she had prepared red tea to restore Xie Yujiao’s memories and gave her both bottles, warning that the choice could not be undone.
• Xie Yujiao weighed the green tea against the red tea, which offered a chance to learn the truth about her past.
• In the future, Xiao Qi asked Sage what Xie Yujiao would do, and Sage considered how the unusual events of this timeline might change Du Yu’s fate.

Xie Yujiao agreed to drink the red tea and seek her memories as You Si, while Sage gambled that her return could turn the battle against Great Dark Heaven. Xiao Qi mourned that she might not live to see the companions reunite, then accompanied Dong Qianqiu onto the battlefield to search for Du Yu.

• Xiao Qi told Xie Yujiao that Sage wanted her to recover her memories through the Scientific Method and become both A'jiao and You Si.
• Xie Yujiao decided to find herself again in the war, and Sage explained that You Si might be a weakness for the monks allied with Great Dark Heaven.
• Xiao Qi recognized that Sage was taking the kind of risk Du Yu once had, and imagined the Legend Management Bureau and its companions restored.
• Xiao Qi discovered that her hand passed through the Voice Transmission Device and feared she would not live to see the future she hoped for.
• Dong Qianqiu and Xiao Qi entered the battlefield and began searching the immense fighting crowd for Du Yu.

Du Yu reunited with Medusa before the Great Buddha and refused to take responsibility for the other Immortals fighting the River-Crossing Arhat. He and Medusa set out to find allies for a plan against the Great Buddha, while the Northern Emperor challenged Du Yu about his intention to confront it.

• Du Yu arrived near the Great Buddha and called to Medusa, who immediately left the battle to greet him.
• Du Yu told the Orthodox God of the Thunder Department and the Dragon King of the East Sea that he would not join their fight against the River-Crossing Arhat or carry the Immortal Realm’s burden alone.
• The River-Crossing Arhat tried to contact Subhuti and wondered whether Du Yu had been switched with Sage, but received no answer.
• Du Yu invited Medusa to help him confront the Great Buddha, and she sent a white dove to summon assistance.
• Du Yu and Medusa left the two Immortals to resume fighting the River-Crossing Arhat, while the Northern Emperor stopped Du Yu and asked if he truly intended to challenge the Great Buddha.

Du Yu joined the Heavenly Venerables and warned them that the Great Buddha’s chanting had already turned many Chinese immortals against them. As they struggled to damage the Buddha, a host of unexpected allies arrived, leaving the battle poised for a larger assault.

• The Northern Emperor agreed to accompany Du Yu to meet the Heavenly Venerables but said he would flee if their strategy seemed unsound.
• Du Yu and Medusa met the Queen Mother of the West, who explained that the Heavenly Venerables’ attacks had failed to harm the motionless Great Buddha.
• Houtu arrived after sending the Monsters of Charming and Mei to protect the younger generation, while the Supreme Elder Lord questioned whether the battle could truly destroy the Immortal Realm.
• Du Yu warned the Heavenly Venerables that the Great Buddha’s sutras had caused many of China’s immortals to switch sides and that they could still lose the war.
• The Queen Mother of the West asked Du Yu for a way to smash the Great Buddha, and Du Yu suggested they might lack enough firepower.
• Ten thousand monsters led by Shuten Doji, Zhi Er and several thousand thugs, ten strange figures with scissors, and more than twenty Greek female immortals arrived as reinforcements.

Amid the battle against the enormous black Buddha, Shiranui Tsukimi Sake and Shiranui Fire God tried to arrange a match between Du Yu and Shiranui Asuka. Asuka confessed her feelings by giving Du Yu a letter, but Du Yu insisted that defeating the Great Buddha had to come first.

• Shuten invited Du Yu to join the Armed Monster Alliance as allies gathered around him.
• Shiranui Tsukimi Sake questioned Du Yu about his age and income, then declared that he should marry into the Shiranui Household.
• Shiranui Fire God called Du Yu his brother-in-law and tried to find a shared hobby with him.
• Shiranui Asuka handed Du Yu a letter and asked him to go out with her, prompting cheers from Shuten Doji, the monsters, and the Time Masters.
• Du Yu explained that accepting the letter was a gesture of respect and said he had not considered dating Asuka because they needed to deal with the Great Buddha.
• Shiranui Fire God teased Du Yu by asking whether he would start dating Asuka once the Great Buddha died.

Du Yu rallied the gathered forces to attack the motionless Great Buddha after the Inner Yellow Springs, Shuten Doji’s monsters, Medusa’s cultivators, and the Time Masters arrived. The mass assault left the Great Buddha apparently unharmed as Du Yu watched for an opening.

• Shiranui Fire God turned Du Yu’s promise to consider dating A-Xiang into a rallying cry for the battle, and Jin Jianglang arrived and agreed to fight before discussing their relationship.
• Zhi Er told Du Yu that Meng Po had sent the Inner Yellow Springs forces and had come herself, prompting Du Yu to wonder why she had brought such weak fighters to the battlefield.
• Du Yu told the assembled forces to concentrate their attacks on the Great Buddha and exploit any opening they created.
• A girl with a lip piercing led the assault, joined by Shuten Doji’s monsters, Medusa’s cultivators, the Inner Yellow Springs thugs, the Time Masters, and the Heavenly Venerables.
• The Great Buddha endured the barrage without moving or showing injury, while Du Yu rose into the air and watched, suspecting that the attack was getting them nowhere.

Du Yu and the others concentrated their attacks on a cross he marked on Great Dark Heaven, but the black Buddha remained unharmed. Suspecting it was focusing on defense, Du Yu flew toward its face to provoke it into attacking.

• Du Yu marked a cross on Great Dark Heaven's knee and ordered everyone to attack the same spot.
• Strong Woman and her female thugs brought out automatic rifles and an RPG, joining the barrage against the cross.
• After the attacks failed to harm Great Dark Heaven, Du Yu wondered whether it was concentrating on defense and asked the Queen Mother of the West about its strength.
• Du Yu asked the Queen Mother of the West to launch him toward the Buddha's face, then used Zhan Qisheng's power to keep flying when her boost ran out.
• Yinglong lent Du Yu his power, giving him Six Golden-Radiant Rainbow Wings that carried him up to Great Dark Heaven's face.
• Du Yu shouted at Great Dark Heaven to open its eyes and declared that its grandpa had come to see it.

Du Yu tried to provoke Great Dark Heaven into exposing an opening, but Great Dark Heaven saw through his plan and used Dong Qianqiu and Xiao Qi to break his resolve. After Xiao Qi was killed, Du Yu’s connection to the Sage was severed.

• Great Dark Heaven opened his eyes, recognized Du Yu’s attempt to bait him, and warned that he could kill everyone Du Yu wanted to protect.
• Great Dark Heaven pulled Dong Qianqiu to him and crushed her between his fingers as Du Yu charged forward.
• Great Dark Heaven dragged Xiao Qi toward him, and Du Yu failed to intercept her.
• Xiao Qi urged Du Yu to keep fighting and accept the losses of war, but Great Dark Heaven crushed her and burned her blood.
• Xiao Qi said goodbye, and Du Yu’s connection to the Sage was completely severed.

Du Yu confronted “Great Dark Heaven” and deduced that the Buddha feared his abilities, then unleashed all seven powers against him. Meanwhile, “Sage” awoke to find everyone gone and realized they had vanished in the past as the calamity approached.

• River-Crossing Arhat reported that contact with the “Ten Great Disciples” had been lost, and “Great Dark Heaven” transformed two Heavenly Generals into monks, including the supposedly dead Maudgalyayana.
• “Great Dark Heaven” ordered the monks to keep slaughtering China’s immortals, even at the cost of their lives.
• Du Yu concluded that “Great Dark Heaven” was avoiding a direct fight because he feared Du Yu’s abilities, provoking an angry denial.
• Du Yu unleashed all seven people’s powers and spells against “Great Dark Heaven.”
• “Sage” awoke to find Xiao Qi and the others missing, then saw Du Yu fighting “Great Dark Heaven” on the Legend Device.
• “Sage” realized everyone had vanished in the past and feared the coming calamity would erase even Du Yu.

Sage entered the Descent Device to reach Du Yu, while Du Yu entered a Portal into Great Dark Heaven’s body to find his true form. As Great Dark Heaven killed Du Yu’s companions to force him to stop, Du Yu reached the figure inside the Buddha, and both he and Great Dark Heaven froze when Xie Yujiao was dragged over.

• Sage decided he had to descend to Du Yu’s timeline and entered the Descent Device, knowing no one would summon him back.
• Du Yu opened a Portal into Great Dark Heaven’s body and searched the pitch-black space for his true form.
• Great Dark Heaven showed Du Yu images of himself killing A Can, A Kui, Liu Ling, and Xiao Nian, but Du Yu continued searching.
• Du Yu spotted a meditating figure and flew toward it as Great Dark Heaven seized Shiranui Asuka and Jin Jianglang.
• Du Yu reached the figure just as Great Dark Heaven dragged Xie Yujiao over, and both of them froze.

Xie Yujiao completed a transformation into You Si while Great Dark Heaven revealed that Subhuti had encouraged his invasion of the Immortal Realm. As You Si urged Great Dark Heaven to withdraw his troops, Du Yu struck the young monk and sent the giant Buddha crashing into the Underworld, where You Si recognized him inside.

• Xie Yujiao’s awakening powers clashed with the darkness within her until she became half black and half white, with goodness and evil in balance.
• You Si questioned Great Dark Heaven’s plan to create a new world and learned that Subhuti had encouraged him to invade the Immortal Realm.
• You Si told Great Dark Heaven to withdraw his troops, explaining that she wanted outsiders to be accepted in the existing world.
• Du Yu noticed the young monk’s Protective Barrier falter and struck him with the strength of everyone except Xingtian.
• The young monk and giant Buddha flew into the Underworld, where You Si called out to Du Yu and asked if he was inside.

Du Yu prepared to kill Great Dark Heaven, but You Si and Sage warned that killing him would trigger explosions powerful enough to destroy the world. Du Yu remained determined to finish Great Dark Heaven, while Sage used his power to stop him.

• You Si recognized Du Yu and warned him that killing Great Dark Heaven would destroy the world, but Du Yu rejected her plea and severed their telepathic connection.
• Just as Du Yu moved to strike the injured Great Dark Heaven, Sage appeared and drained Du Yu’s strength, forcing him to his knees.
• Sage explained that a Black Buddha’s death would cause cascading explosions that would kill the Immortals and destroy the Underworld and mortal world.
• Sage recounted that his own world had collapsed after he and the Seven Outstanding Disciples of the Sage killed Great Dark Heaven, and warned that Great Dark Heaven grew stronger by absorbing pain and injuries.
• Du Yu refused to abandon the fight, naming the dead he wanted to avenge, while Sage moved closer and vowed that Du Yu would not strike as long as he was there.

Du Yu defeated Great Dark Heaven by trapping Sage in the Eight Directions Ghost Record and striking the Buddha, but the resulting explosion devastated the Underworld. He Suoyi took Great Dark Heaven’s Extreme Darkness Bodhi Heart and summoned a larger red Buddha bearing the words “Cause and Effect,” leaving Du Yu facing a worse threat.

• Du Yu wrote Sage’s name into the final slot of the Eight Directions Ghost Record, trapping him there and restoring Du Yu’s strength.
• Du Yu struck Great Dark Heaven’s head, shattering it and causing the Buddha’s body to crack with destructive power.
• He Suoyi approached Great Dark Heaven’s body and extracted the Extreme Darkness Bodhi Heart.
• Great Dark Heaven exploded, destroying the Underworld and killing most of the Immortals, though Fengdu and Mount Tai remained standing.
• A red Great Buddha rose as He Suoyi declared that Great Dark Heaven was unworthy and that he would purge the world.

He Suoyi began a world-ending self-destruction, and Du Yu and Sage devised a plan to send him into the lifeless future using Xingtian's portals. The plan faltered when He Suoyi grabbed Du Yu and halted the portals, threatening to take Du Yu and the other Supreme Pivots away with him.

• He Suoyi revealed his Supreme Pivot Physique and began swelling as he prepared to destroy the Immortal Realm in a single explosion.
• Sage and Du Yu realized they could exploit He Suoyi's Supreme Pivot Physique by sending him to the lifeless future where Sage came from.
• Xingtian borrowed the power of the others in the Eight Directions Ghost Record and opened two huge Portals around He Suoyi.
• Xingtian used ice, silk threads, and sand-and-stone blades to push the Portals together, but He Suoyi grabbed Xingtian and pulled Du Yu toward him.
• Du Yu regained control of his body and realized He Suoyi intended to take him into the future, along with Sage and Zhan Qisheng.

Du Yu released the souls in the Eight Directions Ghost Record and entered He Suoyi as their Portals merged, but He Suoyi’s explosion shattered spacetime and mixed past, present, and future. Du Yu pursued the mortally wounded He Suoyi through scenes from different eras, determined to kill him.

• Du Yu gave up his claim to the Eight Directions Ghost Record, freeing the souls inside, and threw it to Lady Houtu before He Suoyi and Du Yu vanished into the merged Portals.
• Du Yu awoke in a ruined future and saw fractures in spacetime spilling out figures from different eras, including a young general carrying a baby, Sun Wukong, and Kuang Heng.
• Du Yu realized He Suoyi’s explosion had shattered spacetime and found He Suoyi alive but gravely wounded, boasting that the world had been purged.
• Du Yu punched He Suoyi, and the two fell through shifting rooms and eras before He Suoyi fled into a forest.
• He Suoyi seized an axe from River God and hurled it at Du Yu, who dodged and continued chasing him.

Du Yu pursued the wounded He Suoyi through spatial rifts and fell with him into a dark sea, then emerged in a flooded courtyard where eight immortals crossed the waters. Du Yu followed He Suoyi into a mud-brick house and urged three terrified men to catch him as He Suoyi ran toward a bedroom.

• Du Yu fought He Suoyi in the forest, but He Suoyi opened a rift beneath them and they fell into the sea.
• Du Yu and He Suoyi struggled underwater until a new rift appeared, and Du Yu escaped through it into an ancient courtyard.
• Du Yu emerged from a broken water vat and warned nearby children as seawater flooded the courtyard and street.
• Eight immortals crossed the flood using treasured objects and a donkey while Du Yu and He Suoyi made their way toward the courtyard rooms.
• He Suoyi entered a mud-brick house and charged toward a bedroom, while Du Yu told three frightened men to grab him before he escaped.

Du Yu pursued He Suoyi through a spacetime rift into a peaceful, isolated valley, where he realized the place matched the legendary Peach Blossom Spring. He and the farmer who followed him remained trapped there, with He Suoyi still missing.

• He Suoyi escaped the farmers by overturning a table and slipping into a small room, and Du Yu chased him through a spacetime rift into a misty valley.
• A farmer followed Du Yu into the valley, and Du Yu found that the rifts and the entrance had disappeared.
• Du Yu searched the village and learned that the farmer had come to help avenge his seven-year-old nephew, whom the Water Monkey had drowned.
• Du Yu and the farmer met a friendly villager who invited them to his home, and Du Yu noticed the valley was encircled by peach trees.
• Du Yu recognized the isolated village as The Peach Blossom Spring, while the farmer mistook the name for someone who had died.

Du Yu realized that the old farmer could be the fisherman from the Peach Blossom Spring legend and tried to guide events toward the legend’s ending. After learning the farmer’s surname was Du, he vowed to protect him as villagers returned with others.

• Du Yu recognized the old farmer as a possible fisherman from the Peach Blossom Spring legend and planned to use him to bring the story to its conclusion.
• A villager brought Du Yu and the old farmer to his home, where Du Yu learned the villagers descended from people who fled Qin after Prince Fusu was sent north.
• Du Yu told the villager that Qin had fallen and the current era was the Taiyuan era of Jin, while the old farmer struggled to understand his explanation.
• The villager went to prepare a meal, and the old farmer warned Du Yu that immortal food might be dangerous and suggested they run away.
• The old farmer spotted the villager returning with others, then revealed that his surname was Du, prompting Du Yu to promise to keep him safe.

Du Yu and Old Man Du were welcomed by the villagers, then learned they were trapped in the village and could leave only by following a Rabbit Path. The villager led them toward it as Du Yu remained uncertain whether the wounded Water Monkey was alive or whether either man could return home.

• The villagers took the old man's pole and brought Du Yu and Old Man Du a feast, treating them as guests rather than forcing them to work.
• After Old Man Du drank and spoke freely, Du Yu prepared to leave and warned the villagers to search for a wounded, deceptive water monster hiding in the village.
• Du Yu asked a villager to show them the way out, but the villager admitted he had never left and knew of no ordinary road beyond the village.
• Old Man Du spotted rabbit bones and reasoned that rabbits must enter and leave somehow, prompting the villager to recall a path called the Rabbit Path.
• Du Yu and Old Man Du followed the villager toward the Rabbit Path while discussing the Water Monkey and their slim chances of getting home.

Du Yu and the old man used fire and cold water to crack open the mountain and escape through the Rabbit Path. They found another peach blossom grove beyond the opening, then sealed it and marked their route because Du Yu planned to return and make sure Water Monkey died.

• Du Yu and the old man discovered that the Rabbit Path was a narrow fissure, and the old man sent the villager away before preparing to break through the rock.
• The old man heated the rocks with a fire, and Du Yu helped fan the smoke into the fissure.
• Du Yu and the old man poured river water over the heated rock, then the old man shattered it with his carrying pole and opened a crawlspace.
• Du Yu and the old man crawled through the opening into another peach blossom grove, where Du Yu blocked the passage with rocks.
• Du Yu marked the rocks and asked the old man to mark the peach trees so they could find their way back to kill Water Monkey.