Houyi the archer and Chang'e lived as husband and wife on earth after Houyi was stripped of his divinity, until Chang'e drank the elixir of immortality alone and rose to the moon, leaving Houyi to gaze at her cold palace from below for the rest of his mortal days.
Di Jun sent Houyi to discipline the ten suns, but when Houyi killed nine of them — Di Jun's own sons — Di Jun permanently banished Houyi and Chang'e from heaven.
Houyi shot He Bo in the left eye when the river god took dragon form and wandered the banks of the Yellow River, punishing him for causing floods and demanding human brides.
After shooting down the nine suns, Houyi hunted the six scourges devastating the earth — slaying the beast Yàyǔ, beheading Chisel-Teeth in the central wastes, drowning the nine-headed Jiǔyīng, felling the Great Wind with an arrow, hacking the giant serpent Xiūshé, and capturing the monstrous boar Fēngxī.
Houyi shot down nine of the Ten Suns with his divine bow to save the earth from scorching heat.
Féng Méng, having learned all he could from Houyi, struck his master dead with a peach-wood club — the one weapon no arrow could deflect — murdering the world's greatest archer by the hand he himself had trained.
Houyi journeyed to Mount Kunlun to beseech Xiwangmu for the elixir of immortality, which she granted him — though he would never drink it himself, for Chang'e stole it and ascended to the moon.
Houyi shot down nine of the ten suns, who were the children of Xihe, ending their scorching rampage across the sky.
Xiwangmu bestowed the elixir of immortality upon Houyi as a reward after he shot down the nine excess suns, though the elixir was sufficient for only one person to achieve full immortality.
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