Chapter Summaries

At the Celestial Court assembly, Zhou Yi was appointed Dragon-Suppressing Imperial Envoy and ordered to resolve the Shang River dragon disaster. After learning the Dragon Clan had been betrayed by the Heavenly Emperor, Zhou Yi accepted the mission and requested command of one hundred thousand troops, leaving the court preparing for his campaign.

• The Heavenly Emperor called Zhou Yi to the front of the assembly, but Zhou Yi declined the honor and returned to his place at the back.
• Qin Xiao reported a cultivator who had stolen incense offerings, and Zhou Yi urged the Heavenly Emperor to have him judged according to the law.
• The gods debated how to answer the wicked dragons attacking the Shang River, and the Heavenly Emperor appointed Zhou Yi Dragon-Suppressing Imperial Envoy.
• Zhou Yi reasoned that the Dragon Palace was challenging the Celestial Court for power, while Bai Suixin told him the Heavenly Emperor had taken the Dragon Clan's treasures and reneged on granting it divine titles.
• Bai Suixin urged Zhou Yi to retaliate against dragon prisoners, but Zhou Yi refused and remained cautious as rumors spread that he had never deserved his former status.
• Zhou Yi submitted a memorial requesting one hundred thousand troops to campaign against the Shang River Dragon Palace and obtain the Dragon Clan's blood oath.

Zhou Yi led one hundred thousand celestial soldiers to subdue the Shang River Dragon Palace, diverting the river and demanding that Ao Tu restrain the dragon clan. When the Six Dragon Rings repelled the army’s attacks, Zhou Yi left for Heaven Mountain to return the sect’s treasures and speak with Grandmaster Xiaoyun.

• The Heavenly Emperor ordered the Demon Subduing Marshal and Zhou Yi to lead one hundred thousand troops against the Shang River Dragon Palace.
• Zhou Yi ordered the army to reroute the Shang River, and the sudden change forced Ao Tu and the assembled Demon Gods to confront the Celestial Court.
• Zhou Yi demanded that Ao Tu swear to restrain the dragon clan, then formed the Thunder Absolutes Formation when Ao Tu refused.
• Ao Tu used six true dragon corpses to create the Six Dragon Rings, which withstood repeated attacks from the celestial army.
• After several days without breaking the barrier, Zhou Yi told the generals to continue attacking and departed for Heaven Mountain.
• Zhou Yi returned the Seven Emotions Sword and Yellow Dragon Bell to Grandmaster Xiaoyun, who remarked on Zhou Yi’s readiness to give up power and treasures.

Zhou Yi returned the supreme treasures to the three sects and secured their Human Immortals’ intervention against the Shangwater Dragon Clan. After the Six Dragon Rings were broken and the Dragon Palace was surrounded, he forced Ao Tu to surrender the accused dragon son for execution.

• Grandmaster Xiaoyun sent Zhou Yi to Green Cloud Mountain for five hundred years of seclusion, while he told Huayang Zi that time would erase Zhou Yi and his legacy.
• Tianji Zi removed the Human Immortal marks from Zhou Yi, let him keep the Sun Concealing Robe and Nine Heavens Shuttle, and agreed to suppress the Shangwater Dragon Clan.
• Pudu Arhat drew a relic from Zhou Yi and ended their Buddhist ties after Zhou Yi refused conversion.
• Zhou Yi arrived at Shangwater and ordered the celestial soldiers to seal the area and prepare to exterminate the Dragon Clan.
• Three Human Immortals broke the Six Dragon Rings and took away the six true dragon remains, leaving the Dragon Palace defenses exposed.
• Ao Tu surrendered the accused dragon son to Zhou Yi, who sent him away for execution while threatening to destroy the Dragon Palace if he resisted.

Zhou Yi returned to Green Cloud Mountain after helping the Celestial Court subdue the Shangwater Dragon Clan, then spent centuries in seclusion as the Celestial Court brought the demon clans under its control. Near the end of his lifespan, he planned to fake his death and leave an heir, while the Blood Demon Child escaped the weakening Demon Extinction Immortal Formation and eventually landed as a pebble in the mountains.

• Zhou Yi secured the Shangwater Dragon Clan's blood oath, then received Green Cloud Mountain as his Dao field and a Dao Lineage Immortal Register from the Heavenly Emperor.
• Over the following centuries, the Celestial Court forced the Bai Ze, phoenix, qilin, fox, and Four Spirits Deadlands clans to swear bloodline oaths and submit.
• After nearly six hundred years of seclusion, Zhou Yi reached the peak of Nascent Soul but judged his chance of surviving Spirit Transformation too low, so he planned to find a kind child with spiritual roots and fake his death.
• The Blood Demon Child noticed the Demon Extinction Immortal Formation weakening, hesitated for decades, then exploded the Blood Sea to break through and escape as a blood bead.
• Eighty years later, an ape picked up the pebble the Blood Demon Child had become and carried it to its nest.

Zhou Yi staged his death, survived through the Heart Division Curse on a hidden East Sea island, and left Han Zhao to guard Green Cloud Mountain. As visitors revealed Zhou Yi’s past to Han Zhao, a Crimson Stone Egg was discovered by a Black Bear a century after an ape had transformed into it.

• Zhou Yi gave Han Zhao the Immortal Register and Azure Cloud Golden Register, then secretly planned to hide in the East Sea while the yellow ox guarded Green Cloud Mountain.
• Zhou Yi’s Lightning Tribulation failed, and the Celestial Court and Cultivation World accepted his death; Tianji Zi’s divination also confirmed it, though he regretted losing two spirit treasures.
• Zhou Yi revived in a small body on a hidden East Sea island and resolved to keep his remaining safeguards while the three Human Immortals had not ascended.
• Gu Xiao and Bai Suixin visited Zhou Yi’s cenotaph, recounted parts of his history to Han Zhao, and offered to help him if he faced trouble.
• An ape on Monkey Mountain transformed into a Crimson Stone Egg, which the clan leader eventually forgot in a tree hollow; a century later, a Black Bear found it while seeking a den.

The Monkey King emerged from the Crimson Stone Egg and led the apes of Monkey Mountain, discovering that his body could recover from any injury or death. After the old clan leader died, the Monkey King set out to find immortals and a way to spare his people from death, and he reached a town to ask the guards where he could find one.

• The Black Bear found the Crimson Stone Egg, grew enormous through the winter, and dropped it while fleeing the Monkey Clan’s stone barrage.
• The Monkey Clan claimed the egg as its totem and grew stronger for generations until it hatched into an ape, who named himself the Monkey King.
• The Monkey King discovered he could regenerate after being torn apart, burned, frozen, or otherwise killed, and declared himself indestructible.
• After the old clan leader died, the Monkey King vowed to find immortals and a way to overcome death for the Monkey Clan.
• The Monkey King left Monkey Mountain, traveled west for several months, and asked the guards outside a town where he could find an immortal.

The Monkey King endured decades of rejection while seeking a teacher and the art of longevity, until the yellow ox on Green Cloud Mountain directed him to a True Immortal in the East Sea. After repeated setbacks at sea, he rescued a stranded little whale, which returned with its family and carried him toward the deep sea.

• The Monkey King wandered for years, seeking immortals among humans, demons, and sects, but the Celestial Court’s immortal registry system barred him from cultivation.
• At Green Cloud Mountain, the yellow ox tested the Monkey King’s immortal body and learned that he had been born from a Crimson Stone Egg.
• The yellow ox refused to take the Monkey King as a disciple but gave him directions to a secluded True Immortal beyond the Eastern Divine Continent.
• The Monkey King crossed the land to the East Sea and struggled for years against currents, storms, and a playful little whale that repeatedly carried him back to shore.
• The Monkey King dug a channel to free the stranded little whale, and the whale later returned with two others and carried him toward the deep sea.

The Monkey King learned to cultivate under Zhou Yi, rose to great power, and returned to Monkey Mountain after being sent away with a warning and the Heaven Severing Art. There he found his former followers gone and exactly forty-eight thousand stone monkeys scattered across the mountain, and suspected they might be resurrected.

• The Monkey King spent half a year imitating the whales’ ripple spell with blood and qi until he formed a crimson protective membrane, then continued east with the whale family.
• The Monkey King reached Longevity Temple, where Zhou Yi refused to teach him directly but accepted him as an attendant and named him Sun Changsheng.
• Sun Changsheng comprehended cultivation techniques and spells from Zhou Yi’s recitations, advancing from Qi Refinement to Nascent Soul and then cultivating his Primordial Spirit over the following centuries.
• Zhou Yi sent Sun Changsheng back to Monkey Mountain, warned him to avoid the Celestial Court and keep Zhou Yi’s name secret, and gave him the Heaven Severing Art.
• Sun Changsheng returned to Monkey Mountain and found his former subordinates missing and the forty-eight thousand stone monkeys scattered across the mountain; he gathered them and suspected they could be brought back to life.

Sun Changsheng taught the Monkey Clan cultivation on Monkey Mountain, but a dying Bear Demon’s memories and the Blood Sea Sutra shook his Dao heart. When Jiazi Star Lord Ao Kun’s gods searched the mountain, one of them discovered Sun Changsheng’s hidden monkey demons, leaving their secret exposed.

• Sun Changsheng gathered the Monkey Clan, subdued its chief, built Longevity Temple, and began teaching Daoist scriptures and cultivation methods.
• Over a hundred years, the Monkey Clan developed into a community of demon cultivators, while Sun Changsheng gained insight and advanced his cultivation.
• A wounded Bear Demon fled into Monkey Mountain as Jiazi Star Lord Ao Kun and the Grand Duke Department pursued him; the Bear Demon detonated his blood shadow and died after reaching Sun Changsheng.
• The Bear Demon’s remnant soul merged with Sun Changsheng, revealing the Blood Sea Sutra and memories that made Sun Changsheng fear his origins were connected to the demonic path.
• Ao Kun demanded to inspect Monkey Mountain, and Sun Changsheng reluctantly opened its formation; an Orthodox God then reported seeing monkey demons hidden by an illusion formation.

Sun Changsheng fled Monkey Mountain after Ao Kun investigated his unregistered monkey demons, then sought refuge and counsel from the yellow ox before hiding the Monkey Clan underground. Meanwhile, Zhou Yi returned to Xuan Yuan Mountain and disguised himself as a child, where Ling Weizi recruited him as a disciple.

• Ao Kun questioned Sun Changsheng about his inheritance, warned him against secretly transmitting Dao teachings, and chased a blood shadow Sun Changsheng created to distract him.
• The Demon Subduing Marshal found Monkey Mountain empty and ordered Sun Changsheng and his 8,400 unregistered monkey demons placed on the wanted list.
• Sun Changsheng visited the yellow ox at Green Cloud Mountain, discussed the Blood Sea Sutra and his fear of being rejected by his master, then moved the Monkey Clan to an underground cultivation ground.
• Sun Changsheng resolved to use the Blood Sea Sutra to awaken the stone monkey.
• Zhou Yi returned to Xuan Yuan Mountain after learning that three Human Immortals had ascended, disguised himself as Niu Shitou, and accepted Ling Weizi's offer to take him as a disciple.

Zhou Yi joined the declining Xuan Yuan Sect and began cultivating while Ling Weizi tried to keep him from entering the Celestial Court’s Dao Academy. Elsewhere, Sun Changsheng used livestock blood to revive stone monkeys, and Xuan Jing warned Zhou Yi that the sect might soon disappear.

• Ling Weizi brought Zhou Yi to Xuan Yuan Mountain, claimed the sect’s ancestor had been sworn brothers with the Heavenly Master, and urged him to restore the sect’s former glory.
• Xuan Jing, Xuan Xu, and Xuan Yu proposed sending Zhou Yi to the Dao Academy in exchange for spiritual resources, but Ling Weizi refused and gave Zhou Yi the Daoist title Xuan Yi.
• Zhou Yi swore not to enter the Dao Academy, joined the Xuan Yuan Sect, received one thousand Spirit Stones and a body-refining scripture, and began cultivating in seclusion.
• Sun Changsheng posed as a merchant to buy livestock, then fed their blood to forty-eight thousand stone monkeys in his cavern, hoping to revive them without provoking the Celestial Court.
• Four months later, Zhou Yi had reached the eighth level of Qi Refinement, and Xuan Jing privately warned him that Ling Weizi’s claims were fabricated and that the sect’s inheritance might soon be lost.

Zhou Yi learned that the Celestial Court was weakening sects and drawing their disciples into its service, then resolved to help Xuan Yuan Sect endure. He secretly arranged a succession of fortuitous opportunities for its disciples, leaving Xuan Xu with a chance to form a core, Xuan Jing with rare spirit items, and Xuan Yu advancing toward Qi Refinement Perfection.

• Xuan Jing told Zhou Yi that he had become a Celestial Court informant to preserve Xuan Yuan Sect, and Zhou Yi refused to leave the sect or join a Dao Academy.
• Zhou Yi concluded that the Celestial Court was steadily consolidating control and decided to secure several hundred years of stability for Xuan Yuan Sect.
• Xuan Xu found a Millennial Spirit Horse hidden in an ancient grave on his family's land and brought it back to the sect.
• Xuan Xu offered the Spirit Horse to Xuan Jing, but Xuan Jing refused and urged him to use it to form a Golden Core; Zhou Yi revealed that he had planted the treasure.
• Zhou Yi planted Seven-Colored Immortal Lotus Seeds in an old statue, which Xuan Jing later found and returned to the sect.
• Xuan Yu's cultivation rose to Qi Refinement Perfection after a white-bearded immortal appeared in her dreams and clarified her cultivation technique.

Zhou Yi accepted Zhou Xin’s offer to become a Celestial Court official in exchange for helping monitor the Xuan Yuan Sect, then discovered that Ling Weizi’s plan to obtain Golden Core treasures would lead to his death and warned Yellow Ox to collect them first. Meanwhile, Sun Changsheng’s sermon in Tanruo City revealed him to Fading, who suspected that Sun Changsheng was the reincarnation of Eldest Senior Brother.

• Xuan Yu taught Zhou Yi the Profound Origin Mystic Classic, unaware that she was repeating what he had taught her in a dream.
• Zhou Xin recruited Zhou Yi as a Celestial Court official and asked him to prevent Xuan Yuan Sect cultivators from forming cores; Zhou Yi agreed after negotiating for more life-extending pills.
• Ling Weizi returned with a child named Xuan Li, praised Zhou Yi’s cultivation, and proposed secretly gathering two Golden Core spiritual treasures.
• Zhou Yi divined that the treasures were bait set by the Celestial Court to kill Ling Weizi, so he told Yellow Ox to collect them and turn them in for a reward.
• Sun Changsheng preached in Tanruo City, and Fading recognized his immense karmic burden and Buddhist understanding as signs that he was Eldest Senior Brother reincarnated.

Fading recognized Sun Changsheng as the reincarnated Sanzang and reported his discovery to Dajue Arhat, who planned to strengthen him with an Arhat Relic. Dajue revealed that he intended to provoke a catastrophe to relieve the Celestial Court’s growing resource crisis, leaving Fading horrified by the scale of his scheme.

• Fading encountered Sun Changsheng in the city, mistook him for his reincarnated Senior Brother, and invited him to Lingshan, but Sun Changsheng declined and returned to protect the Monkey Clan.
• Fading rushed to Lingshan and told Dajue Arhat that Sun Changsheng was likely the reincarnated Sanzang.
• Dajue Arhat proposed using an Arhat Relic to raise Sun Changsheng’s cultivation to Void Return, while Fading warned that the relic would damage his Dao Path.
• Fading learned that Dajue Arhat wanted Sun Changsheng to overturn the Celestial Court and create a catastrophe, then confronted him over the plan.
• Dajue Arhat argued that population growth and rising demand for incense and cultivation resources threatened a future collapse, and proposed reducing the population by hundreds of millions to avert it.

Dajue Arhat and the other Human Immortals planned to avert a greater calamity by sacrificing people every few thousand years, and they identified Sun Changsheng as the person meant to meet the calamity. The Heavenly Emperor invited Sun Changsheng, the Heavenly Master's reincarnation, into the Celestial Court, where Sun accepted a Ninth Rank post and chose to guard the Heavenly Prison.

• Dajue Arhat told Fading that the three teachings planned to trigger smaller calamities to delay the great calamity, and Fading agreed not to obstruct them.
• Mingzhen Zi divined that Sun Changsheng was the Heavenly Master's reincarnation and sent Dajue Arhat a reply after devising a way to leave some leeway.
• The Minister of Revenue raised concerns about divine descendants taking Dao Academy places, then reported that he had found the Heavenly Master's reincarnation.
• The Heavenly Emperor ordered Gu Xiao to invite Sun Changsheng to the Celestial Court, and Gu Xiao found him preaching to the Monkey Clan.
• Sun Changsheng went with Gu Xiao to the Celestial Court, where the Heavenly Emperor appointed him to a Ninth Rank post.
• Sun Changsheng asked to guard prisoners, and the Heavenly Emperor made him a Ninth Rank warden of the Heavenly Prison.

Sun Changsheng accepted his appointment as Heavenly Prison camp superintendent while the Celestial Court treated him as the Heavenly Master's reincarnation. After a year of learning prison life and visiting the yellow ox, he began negotiating with a Qiongqi prisoner for Spirit Stones, while Zhou Yi speculated about the source of Sun Changsheng's past-life karma.

• Sun Changsheng learned from Zhu Xian that his supposed previous life had served in the Celestial Court, then accepted the Heavenly Emperor's order to work in the Heavenly Prison instead of reopening the Heavenly Master's Residence.
• Bai Suixin introduced Sun Changsheng as his senior brother and the Heavenly Master's reincarnation to Hao Siyu and the prison officials, who showed him the roster and explained the prison's eighteen levels.
• Sun Changsheng hosted a banquet for his colleagues and learned how prison officials exploited inmates, manipulated punishments, and took advantage of faulty cell formations.
• Over the following year, Sun Changsheng inspected and transferred prisoners, attended banquets with Celestial Court gods, then visited the yellow ox, who reassured him that any recovered past-life memories would not change who he was.
• Sun Changsheng returned to the Celestial Court and offered a Qiongqi prisoner in the twelfth-level prison Spirit Stones, while Zhou Yi guessed that a Void Return Realm cultivator had mistaken Sun Changsheng for the reincarnation of a great demon.

Zhou Yi continued protecting Xuan Yuan Sect while the Celestial Court suppressed core formation, and Xuan Yu accepted a dangerous reincarnation spell from a dream visitor. In the Celestial Court, Sun Changsheng obtained an ancient scripture for Huayang Zi’s celebration, then was dragged into a pill furnace where an Arhat Relic fused with him and transformed him into a Human Immortal.

• Zhou Yi ground up the pill Zhou Xin gave him instead of using it to sabotage Xuan Yu, while Xuan Li later left Xuan Yuan Mountain to continue his family line.
• An Old Daoist appeared in Xuan Yu’s dream, warned that she would inevitably fail at core formation, and offered a risky Buddhist reincarnation method; Xuan Yu asked him to cast it.
• Sun Changsheng rose to prison commandant, collected blood essence from prisoners, and obtained an ancient scripture from Xian Kong for Huayang Zi’s millennium celebration.
• At Huayang Zi’s banquet, Sun Changsheng drank heavily and accidentally crashed into the Immortal Pill Hall, where he discovered an Arhat Relic being refined.
• The Arhat Relic pulled Sun Changsheng into the furnace, shattered, and poured its inheritance into him as his 48,000 Blood God Clones merged with his body.
• Sun Changsheng combined Daoist arts, demonic Blood God Clones, and Buddhist inheritance, attained Human Immortal, and emerged from the furnace.

Sun Changsheng emerged from the pill furnace as a Human Immortal, while the Celestial Court’s leaders planned a great calamity and the Heavenly Prison’s inmates escaped. Mistaking Sun Changsheng for the reincarnated Blood Demon Child, the Celestial Court’s rulers arrived to confront him as he faced tens of thousands of freed prisoners.

• Xian Kong escaped his cell after the Heavenly Prison’s formations cracked, then joined Yin-Yang Dao Lord and other prisoners in releasing thousands of inmates.
• At Heavenly Pool, the Heavenly Emperor and the three Imperial Lords agreed to launch a great calamity and send Orthodox Gods to confront Sun Changsheng.
• Demonic clouds and Buddhist light appeared over the Celestial Court, and Mingzhen Zi and Shoushan Gong realized that Blood Demon Child had reincarnated through Sun Changsheng.
• Sun Changsheng emerged from the pill furnace as a Human Immortal, learned of Blood Demon Child’s past, and decided to leave the Celestial Court and return to the mortal world.
• Sun Changsheng reached the Heavenly Prison, where tens of thousands of escaped inmates knelt before him, and the Imperial Lords and True Gods accused him of freeing them.

Sun Changsheng fought the Celestial Court after realizing its True Gods had framed him, and his battle devastated the court and left the Divine Continent threatened by the aftershocks. He entered the only surviving palace, the Hall of Celestial Glory, and confronted the Heavenly Emperor, claiming the destruction had forced three Human Immortals to ascend.

• Sun Changsheng attacked Huayang Zi and the Celestial Court’s formation, then slaughtered thousands of Orthodox Gods as his Blood Demon Child nature grew stronger.
• Ji Shan used the Arhat Relic to calm Sun Changsheng, but Sun Changsheng seized and swallowed him before spitting him back out weakened.
• Sun Changsheng created 48,000 Blood God Clones, overwhelming the Celestial Court’s forces until Shoushan Gong, Dajue Arhat, and Mingzhen Zi arrived.
• The three Human Immortals attacked Sun Changsheng, who unleashed a vast blood sea and destroyed the Celestial Court’s palaces with bloody rain.
• Sun Changsheng and the Six Dragon Rings detonated their mana, shattering the Celestial Court’s protections and nearly unleashing catastrophic aftershocks across the Divine Continent.
• Sun Changsheng entered the surviving Hall of Celestial Glory and told the Heavenly Emperor that the three Human Immortals had been gravely injured and would have to ascend.

Sun Changsheng survived the Celestial Court’s destruction and left after the gods and three sects halted their fight, while the Heavenly Emperor plotted to rebuild by cooperating with demons. Fading rejected the Celestial Court’s hypocrisy and entered Nirvana, and the chapter ended with Zhou Yi receiving an upsetting message from Niu'er.

• Sun Changsheng struck the Heavenly Emperor but stopped fighting when the three Human Immortals intervened and the Heavenly Emperor’s remaining gods urged restraint.
• Sun Changsheng refused to associate with the demons he had freed, while the surviving demons returned to the Heavenly Prison.
• The Heavenly Emperor persuaded the Celestial Court’s gods to work with demon lords to create mortal calamities and restore their incense offerings.
• Fading denounced the Celestial Court’s hypocrisy, transformed into a demon, and burned himself away in Nirvana.
• Zhou Yi watched Xuan Yu survive her tribulation and condense her Golden Core, then received a message from Niu'er and angrily cursed Sun Changsheng.