Chapter Summaries

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.

Du Yu persuaded Fahai to take Xu Xian to Jinshan Temple to become a monk, despite Fahai’s promise to reunite him with Bai Suzhen. As the townspeople gathered to thank Fahai, one recognized Xu Xian, threatening to spread news of their departure to Bai Suzhen.

• Du Yu learned the poison mushroom came from Mount Kunlun and concluded Medusa had likely poisoned the townspeople unknowingly.
• Bai Suzhen and Fahai helped cure the townspeople, then parted after Fahai again denied detaining Xu Xian.
• Du Yu brought Fahai to the inn, where Xu Xian announced he wanted to become a monk and escape Bai Suzhen.
• Du Yu persuaded Fahai that taking Xu Xian to Jinshan Temple would protect Bai Suzhen and other women, and Fahai agreed.
• As the three set off, townspeople recognized Xu Xian and heard Fahai announce that he was going to Jinshan Temple to become a monk.

Bai Suzhen learned that she lacked the power to flood Jinshan Temple, so Medusa took up the Sea God Trident and raised a colossal wave to rescue Xu Xian. Du Yu prepared the temple for the flood, and Medusa and Bai Suzhen arrived before Fahai with the wave towering behind them.

• Du Yu rushed Xu Xian and Fahai out of the city after learning Bai Suzhen might discover their escape.
• Bai Suzhen admitted she could not counter Fahai’s powerful fire techniques or submerge Jinshan Temple, so Medusa volunteered to do it with her Sea God Trident.
• Dong Qianqiu told Du Yu that the legend called for the waters of the five lakes, four seas, and three rivers to flood Jinshan Temple, and warned that shrimp soldiers, crab generals, and possibly heavenly troops might appear.
• Du Yu had Fahai and the monks prepare sandbags and pile them at the temple’s entrances and around Xu Xian’s tower.
• A wave more than a hundred meters high arrived at Jinshan Temple with Bai Suzhen and Medusa standing atop it, and Medusa demanded that Fahai release her brother-in-law.

Du Yu found that the sea’s sudden deployment had confused even the Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals, then used the chaos to trick Li Jing into responding. Li Jing ordered an immediate descent to the mortal world and sent the Four Heavenly Kings to seek the Queen Mother of the West’s approval, leaving the troop deployment unresolved.

• Du Yu warned Fahai not to harm the two snakes, then raced toward Medusa and Bai Suzhen as their giant wave advanced on Jinshan Temple.
• Du Yu found Shiranui Asuka riding a lotus leaf, scolded her for coming despite her seasickness, and told her to summon all thirteen Shikigami if danger arose.
• Du Yu and Shiranui Asuka encountered Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals, who said they had followed the seawater without knowing why they had been deployed.
• Du Yu confused the gathered sea creatures with a deliberately vague explanation, then asked Dong Qianqiu who commanded the heavenly soldiers and generals.
• Du Yu opened a small Portal to Li Jing and shouted that the Dragon Palace was rebelling, prompting Li Jing to investigate the hundred thousand sea troops moving toward Jinshan Temple.
• Li Jing ordered the heavenly soldiers and generals to assemble despite lacking authorization, then sent the Four Heavenly Kings with his Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda to ask the Queen Mother of the West for approval.

Li Jing’s unauthorized force met the Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals at Jinshan Temple, where Medusa and Bai Suzhen fought Fahai amid the chaos. The battle escalated into a clash between Medusa’s giant form and Fahai’s golden Buddha, while Nezha and Yang Jian recognized a resemblance to He Suoyi’s black Buddha technique.

• Li Jing led a hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to Jinshan Temple, while Du Yu convinced the Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals that Li Jing had rebelled.
• Medusa blew a horn, triggering the Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals to attack the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, who fought back under Li Jing’s orders to capture them alive.
• Bai Suzhen attacked Fahai with the power of the surrounding seawater, while Xu Xian misheard her words and fled before hiding a woodcutting blade in his robes.
• Du Yu confronted Xu Xian, and Fahai struck Bai Suzhen with a fire-wreathed staff while she was distracted; Medusa caught her and challenged Fahai.
• Fahai manifested a golden Buddha and Medusa used Titan’s Strength to grow into a giant, and the two battled as Nezha and Yang Jian compared Fahai’s technique to He Suoyi’s black Buddha.

Two mysterious, scar-covered men attacked Du Yu inside the White Snake Legend, while a barrier kept Zhan Qisheng from entering to help. As the men countered Shiranui Asuka and Medusa, Medusa transformed into her Demon Beast form to protect Du Yu.

• Du Yu recognized two suspicious men as threats and attacked them, but they injured him and declared they had come to kill him.
• The men revealed they had sealed the legend against Zhan Qisheng and showed that they knew Shiranui Asuka’s shikigami schedule and Tamamo-no-Mae’s weakness.
• Shiranui Asuka summoned Tamamo-no-Mae, but Tamamo-no-Mae admitted she could not defeat the men and urged Asuka to stay out of the fight.
• Medusa abandoned her battle with Fahai and rushed to defend Du Yu, but the younger man silenced her with a talisman and suppressed her sacred relics.
• Medusa transformed into her Demon Beast form as the two men advanced on Du Yu.