Chapter Summaries

Bai Haorui and the others discovered that Patrick’s wife Leah offered a reversal spell to restore the years Patrick had taken, but Patrick had secretly altered it. After Bai Haorui corrected the spell and the group began the ritual, Patrick attacked from the bar, and Bai Haorui fought to hold back his time magic.

• Sam unlocked Patrick’s apartment, where Leah froze Sam and Old Dean with time magic, but Bai Haorui broke through her spell and wounded her with his sword.
• Patrick freed Sam and Old Dean, revealed that his chips stored stolen lifespans, and challenged Sam to play him at the bar the next evening.
• Bobby admitted he felt useless and had considered killing himself, but Bai Haorui and Old Dean reassured him that he was family; Leah then brought them a reversal spell and promised Patrick’s DNA.
• Bai Haorui discovered Patrick had altered the spell, corrected it with Daoist runes, and assigned Sam to distract Patrick while Old Dean and Bobby prepared the cemetery ritual.
• At the cemetery, Bai Haorui and Bobby began the reversal ritual using Dean’s blood and Patrick’s toothpick, but Patrick sensed them and unleashed torrents of time magic.
• Bai Haorui protected the ritual with his true fire and yin-yang reversal, then formed the Zhen seal as Patrick’s attack threatened to overwhelm the formation.

Bai Haorui reversed Patrick’s time magic, restored the victims’ ages, and recovered from most of the damage it caused him. Patrick lost his powers and Leah chose to age and die, while the group prepared to move on the next morning.

• Bai Haorui used the Eight Trigrams Formation to absorb Patrick’s time magic and restore everyone whose age Patrick had changed.
• Bai Haorui burned the residual temporal energy from his body and used the formation’s remaining life energy to reverse his aging, though he said he needed a few days of rest.
• Sam won the final poker hand against Patrick and demanded Dean’s fifty years back, but Patrick tried to attack him after the cemetery ritual severed his connection to magic.
• Leah told Patrick she was tired of outliving her family, then lost a card game to him and aged into an old woman before dying; Bai Haorui guided her soul onward.
• The next morning, Dean apologized to Bobby, Sam returned with medicine, and Bai Haorui treated Sam and gave Bobby acupuncture.

Bai Haorui, Dean, and Sam investigated deaths in Wellington and traced them to the trickster, who trapped the Winchesters in an illusion based on the TV show Dr. Sexy. Bai Haorui broke through the illusion to reach them and confronted the trickster, revealed as Gabriel, as the chapter ended with their fight underway.

• Bai Haorui sensed chaotic energy at the Wellington crime scenes, while Sam and Dean investigated the strange deaths and found that a victim's wife had seen the Hulk from an old TV show.
• Sam and Dean concluded that the trickster was behind the deaths, and Bai Haorui gave them Mind-Clearing Illusion-Breaking Talismans as they headed to a homicide at an old paper mill.
• The trickster trapped Dean and Sam in an illusion based on Dr. Sexy, but Dean recognized him when he failed to wear the show's signature cowboy boots.
• The trickster challenged Dean and Sam to survive his games for twenty-four hours before he would hear them out.
• Bai Haorui tore through the illusion barrier and reached Dean and Sam, then blocked the trickster's attack and struck back with a fire dragon of sword qi.
• The trickster was revealed as Gabriel, who dodged Bai Haorui's attack as it blasted through the hospital set.

Bai Haorui fought Gabriel inside the shifting illusion while Dean and Sam endured a series of staged games, and Castiel tried to reach them. Gabriel revealed that he wanted the brothers to accept their roles as Lucifer’s and Michael’s vessels, and the chapter ended with Bai Haorui shielding Dean as Gabriel’s anger surfaced.

• Gabriel sent Dean and Sam into a new scene, where Dean was shot and Sam stitched his wound before they were forced onto a Japanese game show; Sam was struck after failing to answer, while Dean won by playing along.
• Bai Haorui broke into the studio, trapped Gabriel briefly with a formation, and fought off his attacks, but Gabriel shattered the bindings and shifted the group into another scene.
• The three landed in an advertisement parody and then a sitcom set, where Bai Haorui sensed the illusion’s energy core in the backstage control room.
• Castiel forced his way into the apartment set to warn them that Gabriel was no ordinary trickster, but Gabriel knocked him unconscious before he could explain.
• Gabriel told Dean and Sam to accept their roles as Michael’s and Lucifer’s vessels, and Dean challenged his allegiance; Bai Haorui stepped between them as Gabriel’s anger and sorrow surged.

Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui exposed the Trickster as the archangel Gabriel and learned he believed they were destined to mirror Michael and Lucifer. They left him free and drove on, determined to choose their own paths and hoping Gabriel might eventually join them.

• Gabriel trapped Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui in a crime-show illusion, where their coordinated attack struck an energy double and Sam became bound to the Impala.
• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui lured Gabriel into a ring of Holy Oil fire, revealed his identity, and learned he had fled Heaven to avoid his brothers' conflict.
• Gabriel told Dean and Sam that they were destined to mirror Michael and Lucifer, but Bai Haorui challenged his fatalism and accused him of cowardice.
• Castiel arrived after Bai Haorui summoned him, and Dean extinguished the fire with the warehouse sprinklers before leaving Gabriel behind.
• On the drive away, Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui discussed Gabriel's warning and affirmed that they would not accept destiny as their master.

Bai Haorui stayed behind to finish treating Bobby while Sam and Dean went to Chuck’s fan convention, where they discovered a real haunting at the hotel. The chapter ended with Sam and Dean confronting a mutilated ghost boy in the attic.

• Bai Haorui declined to go with Sam and Dean, treated Bobby’s legs, and told him about a possible ghoul case they could investigate together.
• Sam and Dean learned that Becky had sent Chuck’s urgent text to lure them to the fan convention, and they confronted Chuck about publishing their lives.
• A scream led Sam and Dean to discover that a supposedly staged mystery game might involve a real ghost, and the hotel manager told them about the Gore Orphanage murders.
• Sam and Dean found a strong ghost reading in the attic while Barnes and Demian mistook a ghost’s map for a game prop and left with it.
• Sam and Dean approached a little boy repeating that his mother loved him and saw that his scalp had been torn off.

Bai Haorui healed Bobby’s legs, and the two hunted down two ghouls together. Meanwhile, Dean and Sam uncovered the truth about Leticia and accidentally freed the three evil boys’ ghosts; after one fan was killed, they planned to stop them with help from Barnes and Demian.

• Bai Haorui treated Bobby’s knees, enabling Bobby to walk and run again.
• Bai Haorui and Bobby infiltrated a funeral home, found a ghoul’s lair, and killed two ghouls.
• Sam discovered that Leticia’s son had been scalped while the three orphan boys had been killed with a sharp weapon, and Dean objected when Barnes and Demian treated the brothers’ story as entertainment.
• Dean and Sam burned Leticia’s remains, causing her ghost to vanish, then learned from the boy’s ghost that she had not killed him.
• Three child ghosts escaped Leticia’s control, killed a fan by scalping him, and revealed that Leticia had killed the boys to avenge her son.
• Dean planned to have someone impersonate Leticia while Barnes and Demian burned the children’s bones, and Barnes and Demian volunteered to help.

Dean and Sam learned that Crowley had the Colt and planned to use it against Lucifer, then tracked him to his manor. Crowley gave them the gun and Lucifer’s location, but the chapter ended with Dean questioning why Crowley was willing to risk helping them.

• The actress’s failed phone distraction nearly trapped Dean and Sam, but Chuck drove back a child ghost while Barnes and Demian burned the children’s remains, freeing the hotel.
• Becky told Sam that Bela had given the Colt to Crowley, and Dean, Sam, Bobby, and Bai Haorui prepared to find him; Bobby had recovered the use of his legs.
• Castiel followed Crowley after he made a crossroads deal with Pendleton and discovered that Enochian wards protected Crowley’s manor.
• Dean, Sam, and Joe infiltrated the manor, but Crowley’s demon guards captured the brothers before Crowley shot the guards with the Colt.
• Crowley handed Dean the Colt and said he wanted them to kill Lucifer, revealing that Lucifer would be in Carthage, Missouri, on Thursday.
• Sam tried to shoot Crowley but found the Colt unloaded, and Crowley remembered that they would need bullets as Dean questioned his motives.

Dean, Sam, Bai Haorui, and their companions entered demon-infested Carthage to stop Lucifer, but Joe was gravely wounded when hellhounds attacked. Trapped in a hardware store, the group learned that Lucifer planned to summon Death and agreed to build a bomb using Joe’s proposed sacrifice to escape.

• Bai Haorui warned that Carthage was surrounded by demons and fought them with his sword and talismans while the others retreated.
• Dean and the others encountered Meg and hellhounds; Joe doubled back to protect Dean and was badly wounded.
• The group barricaded themselves inside a hardware store, and Bobby explained that Lucifer intended to summon Death at William Jasper’s farm.
• Joe proposed staying behind to detonate a bomb and give the others time to reach the farm, and Ellen told Sam and Dean to start building it.

Dean and Sam’s plan to kill Lucifer with the Colt failed, and Bai Haorui arrived at Jasper Farm to confront him before the midnight ritual. Bai Haorui trapped Lucifer in an Eight Trigrams Formation and attacked, but Lucifer struck back as their fight began.

• Ellen stayed behind with Joe to detonate the bomb while Dean and Sam escaped onto the roof, and Castiel escaped Lucifer’s holy-fire trap after Meg fell into it.
• Bai Haorui saved Ellen and Joe from the hardware-store explosion, hid them in the woods, and hurried to Jasper Farm.
• Dean shot Lucifer with the Colt, but Lucifer healed and knocked Dean unconscious before telling Sam he would say yes in Detroit within six months.
• Lucifer revealed that demons had possessed the town’s able-bodied men and that women and children had been piled in a pit for the Horsemen’s ritual.
• Bai Haorui attacked Lucifer with sword qi, formed an Eight Trigrams Formation to restrain him, and lunged at his heart, but Lucifer cut his neck with black holy light.

Bai Haorui was gravely injured after fighting Lucifer, who completed the ritual to summon the Death Horseman, while the hunters returned to Bobby's house in despair. Three days later, Bai Haorui woke and insisted on treating Joe's internal injuries even though his own meridians remained damaged.

• Bai Haorui unleashed a powerful sword strike that wounded Lucifer, but Lucifer's counterattack knocked him unconscious before Castiel could carry him away.
• Lucifer completed the ritual, and the Death Horseman descended as Castiel, Dean, and Sam escaped with the unconscious Bai Haorui.
• Bobby examined Bai Haorui, Joe, and Ellen at his house, while Dean and Sam struggled with their failure and set out to investigate Martin's letter.
• Dean and Sam went to Glendale Psychiatric Hospital to see Dr. Fuller, who admitted both brothers for observation.
• After three days, Bai Haorui woke at Bobby's house and learned that Joe and Ellen were still recovering.
• Bai Haorui ignored Bobby's protests, went to Joe's room, and prepared to clear the stagnant blood from his injuries.

Bai Haorui pushed himself to treat Joe and make talismans despite his injuries, while Dean and Sam investigated suspicious deaths at the psychiatric hospital. Sam mistook Dr. Fuller for the monster and was restrained and sedated, leaving the brothers’ search in jeopardy.

• Bai Haorui treated Joe and Ellen, then created Clear Heart Talismans while Bobby warned him not to exhaust himself.
• Dean and Sam learned from Martin that five patients had died strangely and heard other patients describe a monster that hunted inside the hospital.
• Dr. Cartwright questioned Dean about his trauma and family, while Wendy kissed both brothers, unknowingly leaving gray-black traces on their skin.
• Dean and Sam examined Susan’s corpse and found a small hole in her skull, then Martin identified the suspected monster as a Soul Eater that could disguise itself as hospital staff.
• Bai Haorui completed another treatment for Joe, but dark energy surged through his damaged meridians and forced him to spend fifteen minutes suppressing it.
• Sam and Dean searched the hospital with silver knives and mirrors; Sam attacked Dr. Fuller, but Martin saw that the wound did not burn, and orderlies sedated Sam.

Dean and Sam succumbed to the Soul Eater’s toxin, which magnified their guilt and anger into hallucinations, until Bai Haorui used his power to steady their minds. Dean and Sam killed the Soul Eater and returned to Bobby’s house, where Sam acknowledged his anger and Bai Haorui gave the brothers talismans; the Jian Hexagram then warned Bai Haorui that the road ahead was perilous.

• Sam and Dean experienced hallucinations as the Soul Eater’s toxin amplified their darkest thoughts, while Dr. Fuller warned Sam about his anger.
• Bai Haorui sensed that Dean and Sam were in danger and sent calming power into their minds, badly weakening himself in the process.
• Dean realized the hunters’ shared hallucinations pointed to a monster, identified Wendy as the Soul Eater, and found Nurse Foreman killing her.
• Martin held off two orderlies while Dean chased the Soul Eater to Sam’s room and killed her with a silver letter opener.
• Outside the hospital, Sam told Dean that his anger had always been inside him, but Dean stopped him from saying more before they drove back to Bobby’s house.
• Bai Haorui gave Dean and Sam Clear Heart Talismans, then cast the Jian Hexagram, which foretold danger and difficulty ahead.

Bai Haorui healed Joe and prepared for secluded cultivation while Dean and Sam investigated a locked-room murder, where Gary used body-swapping magic to steal Sam’s body. Sam woke in Gary’s body as Dean grew suspicious, and Bai Haorui sensed the brothers were in danger but remained in cultivation.

• Bai Haorui finished healing Joe, and Joe promised Dean a proper date after the Apocalypse if they both survived.
• Ellen and Joe left to help other hunters, while Dean and Sam accepted a case about Hank Dawson, who had been strangled in a locked bedroom.
• Bai Haorui gave Dean protective talismans and entered secluded cultivation to refine Lucifer’s dark energy from his meridians.
• Gary and Trevor planned to use body-swapping magic, and Gary drugged Sam in the diner’s alley before taking over his body.
• Sam woke in Gary’s body and set out to find Dean, while Gary returned to the diner and struggled to imitate Sam as Dean became suspicious.
• Bai Haorui refined the last of Lucifer’s dark energy and sensed that Sam’s soul and body had been separated, but he stayed to stabilize his cultivation.

Sam was trapped in Gary’s body while Gary occupied Sam’s, and Dean uncovered a demonic plot to make Sam Lucifer’s vessel. After they reversed the swap and reunited, the brothers returned to Bobby’s yard, where Bai Haorui had recovered and joined them in preparing for the growing conflict.

• Sam searched Gary’s room and found a black magic book with instructions for reversing the body swap, while Dean tested Gary at a cemetery and realized he was not Sam.
• Trevor and Nora captured Sam, while Gary helped Dean exorcise the demon possessing Nora after learning that Sam’s body was meant to be Lucifer’s vessel.
• Gary told Dean where Sam was being held, and Dean rescued Sam from an abandoned basement.
• Sam and Gary performed the reversal ritual, restoring both to their own bodies, and Gary apologized before the brothers left town.
• The brothers returned the black magic book to Gary and drove back to Bobby’s yard, where Bai Haorui had completed his seclusion and discussed the threats from Heaven and Hell.

Dean dreamed that Anna had escaped Heaven’s prison, but Bai Haorui and Castiel suspected Heaven had sent her to kill Sam. After Anna went back to 1978 to target John and Mary, Castiel took Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui into the past, where he collapsed from exhaustion and the group prepared to find the Winchesters.

• Anna appeared in Dean’s dream and arranged to meet him at an abandoned warehouse, claiming she had escaped from Heaven’s prison.
• Bai Haorui and Castiel concluded Heaven had released Anna on a mission, and she admitted she planned to kill Sam to stop the Apocalypse.
• Bai Haorui persuaded Sam that his death would not prevent Heaven and Hell’s war, but Castiel sensed Anna had traveled to 1978 to kill John and Mary.
• Castiel took Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui back to 1978, then fell into a coma after exhausting his holy power.
• Bai Haorui carried Castiel to a motel, set up a concealment array, and Sam found John and Mary’s address in a phone book.

Dean and Sam warned young Mary and John about Anna, but Bai Haorui drove her off before the group escaped to a Campbell Family safe house. Dean revealed their future to Mary and urged her to flee, but she said she was already pregnant, leaving the brothers to realize their trip could not change the timeline.

• Dean and Sam visited Mary and John, and Bai Haorui discovered that Anna had lured John to the garage.
• Mary, Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui rushed to the garage, where Anna attacked John and knocked Mary and Dean aside before Bai Haorui wounded her and forced her to teleport away.
• Mary led everyone to a hidden Campbell Family safe house, where Bai Haorui began building a Bagua Trapping Formation with John's help.
• Dean told Mary that he and Sam were her future sons and warned her that the Yellow-Eyed Demon would kill her in a fire.
• Sam argued that Mary could avoid the future only by leaving John and never having them, while Dean refused to accept that they should disappear.
• Mary said she could not leave John and revealed that she was already pregnant, convincing Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui that the past could not be changed.

Michael possessed John, killed Sam and nearly killed Mary before restoring Sam and sending Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui back to Bobby’s house. Bai Haorui challenged Michael’s claim that free will was an illusion, while John and Mary returned to their peaceful life with their memories erased.

• Uriel and Anna attacked the group, and Bai Haorui fought them off until three more angels arrived and overwhelmed his defenses.
• Anna killed Sam, but John awakened as Michael and destroyed both Anna and Uriel before defeating Bai Haorui.
• Michael told Dean that the Winchester family was destined to provide vessels, then restored Sam and erased John’s and Mary’s memories.
• Dean, Sam, Bai Haorui, and Castiel awoke at Bobby’s house, where Bai Haorui argued that the angels’ need for willing vessels proved free will existed.
• John gave Mary a pendant, and the two looked forward to their child’s birth without remembering the angels or the danger they had faced.

Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui investigated couples who died in acts of extreme violence and discovered angelic marks that Castiel identified as the work of an out-of-control Cupid. They went to a singles bar to find him, where Dean suddenly lost his appetite and Castiel watched his burger hopefully.

• Allison and Russell kissed, became consumed by a violent desire, and died after eating each other.
• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui examined the deaths and found an unexplained influence that agitated their minds; Bai Haorui gave them Clear Heart Talismans.
• Jennifer shot her supervisor Brad and then killed herself with Brandon, after the couple decided death would keep them together.
• Sam and Dean found matching silver marks near the victims’ hearts, and Bai Haorui sensed weak angelic energy in them.
• Castiel identified the marks as Cupid’s and said an overloaded mark could intensify affection until it became deadly.
• Dean, Sam, Bai Haorui, and Castiel went to a singles bar to find Cupid, where Castiel fixed his gaze on Dean’s burger.

Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui discovered that Famine was amplifying the town’s desires and driving people to ruin, while Sam’s craving for demon blood returned. They prepared to hunt Famine, leaving Sam to be locked away as the Horseman arrived at a restaurant.

• Cass revealed Cupid, who said Heaven had ordered his colleagues to arrange John and Mary’s match so Dean and Sam would be born; Dean punched him after learning their parents had been destined to be together.
• At the hospital, Bai Haorui found no Cupid mark on Lester Finch, and Sam’s records showed a town-wide rise in suicides, overdoses, and deaths; Sam spotted a demon carrying a briefcase and chased him.
• Sam wounded the demon, which escaped and dropped the briefcase; its light revealed Castiel, whose hunger for burgers helped him identify Famine as the source of the town’s amplified cravings.
• Bai Haorui concluded that the demons were delivering human souls to Famine, and Dean planned to take the Horseman’s ring as they had taken War’s.
• Sam admitted he was craving demon blood, so Bai Haorui gave him Clear Heart Talismans and Pure Yang True Fire pills, while Sam asked Dean to lock him up before the others went after Famine.
• Demons brought a dying old man wearing a black ring to the Biggerson restaurant, revealing Famine’s arrival.