Chapter Summaries

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.

Du Yu revealed that he had killed the Supreme Pivots as Time and made the Terminator rewrite their lives, hoping to save them and ultimately end the cycle that had created successive versions of Time. He returned to the past as Time, where he recovered a black scroll and confronted He Suoyi.

• The Terminator bit Du Yu, then accused him of killing the Supreme Pivots and forcing him to fabricate their lives; Du Yu confirmed the plan and said only one final step remained.
• Du Yu explained that You Si had inherited A-Xiang's love for him, and told the Terminator he intended to return to the past as Time to break the curse.
• The Terminator followed Du Yu into the Inner World, where Du Yu entered a fragment showing the scene before the great battle.
• Du Yu arrived at the Legend Management Bureau as the Black Buddha descended, found a pitch-black scroll, and carved words onto it.
• He Suoyi descended and began to taunt Du Yu, but Du Yu seized him, slammed him into the ground, and asked him to talk.

Du Yu unleashed mysterious flames and killed Maudgalyayana, setting the Black Monks ablaze. As reinforcements arrived, Du Yu revealed that he was no longer truly Du Yu and called himself Divine Fire · Shiranui, leaving the allies to protect the Immortals while he faced the battle alone.

• Du Yu used his flames and control over time to stop Maudgalyayana, burn him, and explode him over the Black Monks.
• The flames spread through the hundred thousand Black Monks, while the seven people inside Du Yu's inner world watched and Zhongli Chun said he was not Du Yu right now.
• Queen Mother of the West, Houtu, the Three Pure Ones, Demon-Queller, and Gouchen arrived, followed by Greek gods, Dragon Kings, Heavenly Generals, and Underworld forces.
• A-Xiang brought Shuten Doji and the Monsters through a Portal, and Shuten recognized Du Yu's immense Yokai Aura and offered him leadership of Armed Monster.
• Du Yu asked Shuten to spread out and protect the Immortals from the flames, then identified himself as Divine Fire · Shiranui.

Du Yu used the Northern Emperor to kill Great Dark Heaven from within, then sealed the Northern Emperor and He Suoyi inside the Portal. He told the trapped Northern Emperor that his death had been foretold a million years earlier.

• Du Yu recruited the Northern Emperor and stopped Great Dark Heaven from dragging Dong Qianqiu and Shiranui Asuka toward him.
• Du Yu opened a Portal into Great Dark Heaven and sent the Northern Emperor inside to attack him.
• Du Yu unsettled Great Dark Heaven by revealing that You Si regretted saving him, allowing the Northern Emperor to breach his defenses and kill him.
• Du Yu invited He Suoyi into the Portal, then closed it and told the Northern Emperor that he had to die alongside Great Dark Heaven.
• The Northern Emperor protested that Du Yu had betrayed their agreement, but Du Yu said he had warned him a million years earlier that he would die there.

Du Yu used He Suoyi’s suffering and Great Buddha power to shatter time from within the Time Caves, hoping to escape control and become an “Operator.” As the caves collapsed and connected, the Terminator learned Du Yu’s final truth, and countless incarnations of time were destroyed.

• Du Yu trapped Great Dark Heaven inside a loop of portals, accelerated time within it, and sent the sphere containing He Suoyi into the Time Cave.
• Du Yu explained to the Terminator that He Suoyi would destroy time rather than space, then entered the sphere and burned He Suoyi to intensify his suffering.
• Du Yu released He Suoyi’s Great Buddha into the Time Cave, where its blood-red power filled the void and began erasing the cave’s boundaries.
• The Terminator accused Du Yu of killing him, and Du Yu insisted that he had saved him before vanishing and meeting the Terminator in his Inner World.
• Du Yu told the Terminator a final truth, after which the Time Rifts and Time Caves shattered, and He Suoyi’s immense form continued breaking them apart.

Du Yu took a Japanese passenger through the Underworld while fleeing Xie Jin and her companions, then learned about new hires at the Ghost Management Bureau and received a warning from Weaver Girl. After dropping off A-Xiang at the café Bitter Wait, Du Yu burned a talisman and went inside to meet someone important.

• Ox-Head assigned Du Yu a foreign passenger through the Ghostly Hearse app, and Du Yu picked up a Japanese girl named A-Xiang.
• Xie Jin and her companions pursued Du Yu for operating an allegedly counterfeit ferry vehicle, so he raced through Fengdu City with A-Xiang in the van.
• Du Yu stopped at Old Zhan's Vengeful Spirit Shop, bought a Spirit-Housing Paper Bag, and heard that Dong Qianqiu had recruited powerful people for the Ghost Management Bureau.
• Weaver Girl warned Du Yu that the Queen Mother of the West wanted him to behave before the Peach Banquet, while Nezha asked him for driving lessons.
• Du Yu took A-Xiang to the café Bitter Wait, vomited up a talisman, burned it, and went inside to meet someone important.

The author explained the novel’s intertwined timelines, revealing how Du Yu became Time, erased the Supreme Pivots, and replaced Ancestor Du Yu. The story ended with Du Yu living alongside his friends, though the empty Eight Directions Ghost Record and the universe’s larger mysteries remained unexplained.

• Xu Fu received the Cause-and-Effect Reversal Formula and later entrusted its teachings to the boys and girls he led east.
• Shiranui Asuka used the formula to revive Du Yu, became the first Time, and unknowingly created a second timeline.
• Second-Generation Du Yu became a Supreme Pivot, survived the world’s destruction, and eventually replaced Asuka as Time while searching for a successor.
• Du Yu uncovered Time’s manipulation, defeated him, and planned to erase the Supreme Pivots by becoming Time alongside another person.
• Du Yu used He Suoyi’s explosion to destroy the Time Caves, killed Ancestor Du Yu, and took his place in the timeline.
• Du Yu returned to live with his friends as the last Supreme Pivot, while the Eight Directions Ghost Record was left empty.

The author reflected on writing and completing Legend Management Bureau, describing its changing premise, struggles with readership and ratings, and gratitude to readers. The novel had ended, and the author planned to remain on the platform while considering a new book or side stories.

• The author explained that he replaced an immortal protagonist and an earlier outline with the mortal gambler Du Yu and rebuilt the story around legends and intricate schemes.
• The author described nearly abandoning the poorly performing novel but continuing to write and refining its broader storyline.
• A platform rating change sent the book's score down before supportive readers helped raise it to 9.2 and into the fantasy rankings' top 100.
• The author listed several planned legend stories he cut because they were not essential to the main plot.
• The author thanked readers, promised to make small revisions, and announced that he would stay on the platform and consider another book or side stories.

Shiranui Fire God struggled with the painful tattoos imposed on him by his lineage and wished he could escape with his brother and Xiao Xiang. During his trial to become a Time Master, Jin Jianglang encountered a strange female monster who declared that all monsters deserved to die.

• Shiranui Fire God complained to Jin Jianglang that the elders had tattooed flames across his body because they expected him to inherit Shiranui.
• Fire God asked to leave the lineage with Jin Jianglang and Xiao Xiang, but Jin Jianglang revealed that he had begun the Time Master trial by hunting ten monsters.
• Jin Jianglang entered the forest and saw three blue-skinned monsters fighting a female monster who used smoke and a wooden stick to resist them.
• The three monsters disarmed and seized the woman, who shouted that she intended to kill every monster, puzzling Jin Jianglang because she was a monster herself.

Jin Jianglang rescued a blind monster girl from three lesser monsters and learned that she believed she was human and wanted to become an onmyoji to avenge her parents. He left her his robe for warmth and departed, while she remained unaware of his presence.

• Jin Jianglang killed three lesser monsters who were attacking a woman claiming ties to the Shiranui Household.
• The blind girl smashed the monsters’ heads, then mistook Jin Jianglang for a monster when she heard him nearby.
• Jin Jianglang told the girl he was an onmyoji, and she asked him to take her to the Shiranui Household so she could become one.
• The blind girl explained that monsters had killed her parents and that she wanted to avenge them by killing monsters.
• Jin Jianglang warned the girl to abandon her plans and left his robe where she could find it.
• The blind girl found the robe, put it on, and rejoiced that she would no longer be cold.

Jin Jianglang met Myriad Bone Workshop while trying to complete the Lineage task of killing ten monsters in a month, then encountered a blind monster wearing a robe from the Shiranui Household. The chapter ended after she ate the grilled fish Jin Jianglang had left for her, transformed into mist, and startled Myriad Bone Workshop.

• Jin Jianglang left a harmless monster behind and stopped by a stream, where he met Myriad Bone Workshop, who insisted on calling him big brother.
• Jin Jianglang told Myriad Bone Workshop that he had to kill ten monsters within a month to become a Time Master, and the two grilled fish together.
• A blind woman wearing a robe from the Shiranui Household approached, found a grilled fish, and sat beside Myriad Bone Workshop to eat it.
• Myriad Bone Workshop teased Jin Jianglang about the woman and threatened to poke her, but Jin Jianglang stopped him.
• The woman ate the fish and transformed into thick white smoke, making Myriad Bone Workshop cough and startling her into dropping the fish.