Chapter Summaries

Wang Ming fought Youquan while exposing Xuan Tianzong as White Brows True Person, an extraterrestrial demon who had seized Xuan Tianzong’s body. As Wang Ming continued destroying Youquan’s revivals, White Brows True Person’s motives remained unknown.

• Wang Ming revealed his true body, evaded the Haotian Mirror, and faced the Mount Shu disciples as they split over whether to support him or Xuan Tianzong.
• Lian Xing declared his loyalty to Wang Ming, while Li Yingqi hesitated; Youquan’s attack devastated the battlefield and killed many Mount Shu disciples.
• Cheng Letian suffered backlash from the harm to civilians and prepared to use the nation’s power to protect the Shu Region.
• Wang Ming attacked Youquan with Tenfold Invincibility and the sword Lifeshort, draining his essence and striking down each attempt to revive.
• Wang Ming revealed that Xuan Tianzong was White Brows True Person, who had abandoned his original body and possessed Xuan Tianzong.
• White Brows True Person admitted Wang Ming had guessed correctly and revealed that he had planned to possess Wang Ming through the Southern Bright Fire.

Wang Ming defeated White Brows True Person, who had seized Xuan Tianzong’s body to cultivate the Qi Luck Dao and pursue power in the Heavenly Realm. After Wang Ming left, White Brows’s ambitions triggered conflict between the realms, and a millennium later the world’s cultivation paths had become entangled.

• Wang Ming deduced that White Brows True Person sought to cultivate the Qi Luck Dao, conquer the mortal world, and rise to become an Immortal King.
• White Brows True Person joined the battle against Wang Ming and absorbed Netherworld’s power, while Wang Ming trapped several immortal artifacts inside the Martial Dao Throne.
• Wang Ming used One Thought, Perfection to fatally wound White Brows True Person, who self-detonated and devastated half the mountainous region in the Shu Region.
• Quan You entered the Blood Cave after believing Wang Ming and Dan Chenzi were dead, but Wang Ming revealed that he had hidden a clone there and killed Quan You.
• White Brows’s clone’s death injured his main body in the celestial realm, where higher-level immortals discovered his ambitions and killed him; the realms then merged and conflict spread.
• A thousand years later, the Dao of National Fortune, Immortal Dao, Qi and Blood Path, and True Qi Path had become intertwined, and later generations called Wang Ming the Dao Lord of Myriad Laws.

After leaving the Mount Shu World with a newly reshaped body, Wang Ming arrived in a world where magic power could not be projected and began gathering information. He learned that it was The Forbidden Kingdom rather than the Journey to the West World, and decided he could safely explore it.

• Wang Ming reflected on his gains in the Mount Shu World, including his new physical body and the treasures he had acquired.
• Wang Ming listened to tavern patrons and learned that the Jade Emperor and other figures from Eastern mythology existed in this world.
• Wang Ming overheard Lü Yan speaking with the lost American youth Jason and learned that Jason was destined to return the Ruyi Jingu Bang to the Monkey King.
• Wang Ming feared he had entered the Journey to the West World, then learned the Jade Warlord had challenged and sealed Sun Wukong.
• Wang Ming identified the setting as The Forbidden Kingdom, where Jason was prophesied to defeat the Jade Warlord, and decided to proceed cautiously.

Wang Ming followed Lü Yan, Jason, and Golden Swallow after they fled a restaurant, then ambushed them in a bamboo forest and took the Ruyi Jingu Bang. He questioned the staff’s strange lack of powers before concluding that it was likely the real Ruyi Jingu Bang.

• Lü Yan and Jason got into a fight at a restaurant after Jason tried to pay with a dagger, and Golden Swallow helped them escape on stolen horses.
• Wang Ming followed the trio to another restaurant, saw a scene that revealed its location, and continued tracking them on horseback.
• Wang Ming knocked Lü Yan, Jason, and Golden Swallow from their horses in a bamboo forest and demanded the Ruyi Jingu Bang.
• Wang Ming seized the staff, kicked Lü Yan away when he attacked, and warned Golden Swallow not to use her Jade Hairpin.
• Wang Ming struck the Ruyi Jingu Bang with his Thunderflame Sword; the staff remained undamaged, leading him to believe it was real.

Wang Ming tested Sun Wukong’s Ruyi Jingu Bang, returned it when he could not activate its special powers, and refused to help kill the Jade Warlord. After taking Golden Swallow’s jade hairpin, he discovered that Jason shone with an intense light of destiny.

• Wang Ming used the Ruyi Jingu Bang to destroy bamboo with sheer physical strength, convincing Lü Yan that he was far beyond an ordinary mortal.
• Wang Ming returned the Ruyi Jingu Bang to Jason because he could not activate its special attributes and did not want to risk offending Sun Wukong.
• Wang Ming rejected Lü Yan and Golden Swallow’s appeals to kill the Jade Warlord, arguing that he had no obligation to help and did not want a costly fight.
• Wang Ming took Golden Swallow’s jade hairpin and found that it seemed ordinary when he tested it himself.
• Wang Ming looked at Jason with magical power and saw that he radiated the light of destiny.

Wang Ming agreed to travel with Lü Yan, Jason, and Golden Swallow after hearing that helping Sun Wukong might earn him a cultivation technique and let him investigate why his dharma powers could not leave his body. On the journey, he watched Lü Yan train Jason and amused himself by feeding the group absurd explanations of the Lun Yu.

• Golden Swallow reclaimed her jade hairpin and challenged Wang Ming over his refusal to fight the Jade Warlord, while Lü Yan explained that Jason was the prophesied Seeker despite knowing no kung fu.
• Lü Yan offered that Sun Wukong would repay Wang Ming if he helped free him, prompting Wang Ming to consider joining the group to seek the monkey's cultivation technique and investigate his own dharma powers.
• Wang Ming followed Lü Yan, Jason, and Golden Swallow through the night without helping when the Jade Warlord's soldiers caught up, using his Martial Dao Intent to make them overlook him.
• After the group stopped to rest, Lü Yan trained Jason while Wang Ming read, and Wang Ming claimed he had taught the Lun Yu.
• Jason repeated familiar sayings from the Lun Yu, and Wang Ming gave him and the others deliberately absurd interpretations, leaving Lü Yan exasperated and Jason and Golden Swallow half-convinced.

Wang Ming watched Lü Yan fight Sun Wukong’s white-robed monk clone, then drove the monk to recognize Jason as The Seeker. The group continued their journey together, leaving Wang Ming suspicious of Lü Yan’s identity.

• Lü Yan entered the ancient temple and fought the white-robed monk while Wang Ming watched and studied the clone’s strength.
• The monk tried to draw Wang Ming into the fight, but Wang Ming struck him with a greatsword and intimidated him.
• As the monk prepared to burn Sun Wukong’s remaining magical power, Wang Ming clarified that the group did not serve the Jade Warlord and identified Jason as The Seeker.
• The monk recognized Jason, took Lü Yan’s wine, and celebrated finding the Ruyi Jingu Bang and The Seeker.
• The group set out together, and Wang Ming wondered what role Lü Yan played among them.

At a desert shelter on the way to the Jade Warlord's Temple, Wang Ming realized Lü Yan might be the immortal Lü Dongbin and grew concerned that his long life was eroding his humanity. He used the system to sever the effects of time on his soul and began destroying the spirits in several weapons.

• While resting by a river, Wang Ming recognized Lü Yan's name and asked whether he was also called Lü Dongbin; Lü Yan confirmed that Dongbin was his style name.
• Golden Swallow considered the group's hidden motives, reaffirmed her plan to avenge her family by killing the Jade Warlord, and wondered whether Wang Ming could help her.
• The group reached the desert and sheltered from a sandstorm in a cave as Wang Ming reflected that he had become numb and was beginning to resemble the long-lived Xu Fu.
• Wang Ming used the system's Dust Severance to cut away the traces of time and other influences from his body and soul.
• Wang Ming took out several Mount Shu weapons and began obliterating their artifact spirits because he wanted weapons without the risk of betrayal.

During a sandstorm, Wang Ming cultivated in a cave and decided not to accompany the staff-escort team to the Jade Warlord's Temple in person. He created a blood clone to go with Golden Swallow and sealed the cave entrance to protect his secluded cultivation.

• After the sandstorm subsided, the monk sent the group onward, and Golden Swallow went into the cave to call Wang Ming.
• Wang Ming told Golden Swallow he would not go to the Jade Warlord's Temple, then agreed to send a clone after she urged him to continue.
• Wang Ming cut his wrist and formed an identical clone from his blood, explaining that it would accompany the group.
• The clone left the cave with Golden Swallow, then lifted a massive boulder to seal the entrance and keep Wang Ming's cultivation undisturbed.

Wang Ming found water for the exhausted group, and they emerged from the desert to rest before reaching the Jade Warlord’s Temple. He told Golden Swallow that the Jade Warlord, Sun Wukong, and Jason were Children of Destiny from different eras, and that the Jade Warlord was facing a tribulation to renew his destiny.

• When the group ran out of water in the desert, Golden Swallow asked Wang Ming to find a source, and he sensed underground water and punched a fountain through the ground.
• The group drank and continued walking, then reached a green, mountainous region a day later and rested while Lü Yan and the monk trained Jason.
• Golden Swallow asked Wang Ming whether they could defeat the Jade Warlord, and he said he would not fight and that the group was no match for the villain.
• Wang Ming explained that the Jade Warlord was the previous era’s Child of Destiny, Sun Wukong belonged to the next era, and Jason belonged to a more distant one.
• Wang Ming told Golden Swallow that the Jade Warlord was undergoing a heavenly tribulation and could extend his destiny by surviving it and taking destiny from Sun Wukong.

Wang Ming explained five realms of dart-throwing to Golden Swallow and used divine beast essence to strengthen her. As the squad rested in the peach forest, the White-Haired Demoness arrived to capture The Seeker and obtain Ruyi Jingu Bang for the Jade Warlord.

• Wang Ming watched Golden Swallow’s dart practice and explained the realms of technique, strength, energy, spirit, and the Principles of the Dao.
• Wang Ming demonstrated the spirit realm by trapping Golden Swallow in a terrifying vision of death and rebirth, then told her she could not advance through the other dart paths.
• Wang Ming infused Golden Swallow with divine beast essence to improve her physical abilities and threw her into a river to cool down.
• The White-Haired Demoness arrived with her followers to capture The Seeker, seeking the Elixir of Immortality promised by the Jade Warlord in exchange for Ruyi Jingu Bang.

Golden Swallow joined the battle against the White-Haired Demoness after absorbing much of the divine beast’s primordial essence, and her rapidly healing wound convinced the Demoness she had the Elixir of Immortality. The Demoness retreated to check the Jade Warlord’s Temple, but Lü Yan was unexpectedly stabbed in the back, leaving Wang Ming to wonder whether causality could be changed.

• Golden Swallow left the river early after hearing the battle and asked Wang Ming to help, but he told her to go alone.
• At the peach grove, Golden Swallow arrived with her strength boosted, while Sun Wukong's clone urged the others to retreat from the White-Haired Demoness and the heavenly soldiers.
• The White-Haired Demoness stabbed Golden Swallow in the waist, but the wound healed almost instantly, prompting the Demoness to suspect she had obtained the Elixir of Immortality.
• Golden Swallow fought back fiercely, forcing the White-Haired Demoness to retreat toward the Jade Warlord’s Temple to verify whether the elixir was still there.
• Wang Ming heard that Lü Yan had been stabbed in the back by a soldier and wondered whether the injury was an unalterable result of causality or a ploy.

Wang Ming's group reached Jade Warlord's Temple, where the Celestial Soldiers let them pass and the battle began. As Jade Warlord overpowered the group and seized Jason, the monkey's clone reclaimed Ruyi Jingu Bang and rushed toward Sun Wukong's stone statue.

• Wang Ming healed Lü Yan, and the group continued up Five Finger Mountain toward Jade Warlord's Temple.
• Jason swept aside the Celestial Soldiers, while Wang Ming learned they were deliberately slacking off because they feared Jade Warlord and hoped the Seeker would overthrow him.
• The group entered the temple, where Jade Warlord ordered his soldiers to attack and promised White-Haired Demoness the Elixir of Immortality for Ruyi Jingu Bang.
• The monk and Lü Yan tried to cover Jason as he ran to free Sun Wukong, but Jade Warlord knocked them down and grabbed Jason.
• Golden Swallow distracted Jade Warlord with flying darts, allowing the monkey's clone to reclaim Ruyi Jingu Bang and charge toward the stone statue.

Wang Ming observed the Jade Warlord fighting Jason, Lü Yan, and the Monkey Clone while assessing the immortals’ strengths and the rules of the world. He finally intervened to free Golden Swallow from the White-Haired Demoness and agreed to help her get revenge on Jade.

• The Jade Warlord stopped the monk from breaking Sun Wukong’s stone seal, then attacked Jason, the monk, and the Monkey Clone as they fought back with Lü Yan.
• Wang Ming watched from the roof beams, deducing that spells could only be used inside the temple and the Heavenly Court and that immortals were exceptionally difficult to kill.
• The White-Haired Demoness overpowered Golden Swallow with her hair, while Wang Ming ignored her repeated pleas for help as he studied the Jade Warlord.
• The Jade Warlord struck Jason and put more pressure on Lü Yan and the Monkey Clone, while Golden Swallow again begged Wang Ming to help her take revenge.
• Wang Ming knocked the White-Haired Demoness into a wall, helped Golden Swallow up, and agreed to help her get revenge on Jade.

Wang Ming rescued Golden Swallow and brutally battered the Jade Warlord, though his clone could not overcome the Warlord’s powerful defenses. The Jade Warlord ended up with his head stuck in a wall, leaving him unaware as Golden Swallow’s Jade Hairpin flew toward him.

• Golden Swallow joined the fight against the Jade Warlord, but Wang Ming rescued her from his reflected palm attack.
• The Jade Warlord defeated Lü Yan and Monkey Clone and prepared to finish them off, but Wang Ming interrupted him with a spear and a flurry of blows.
• Wang Ming repeatedly slammed the Jade Warlord into the floor while Monkey Clone and Lü Yan joked about Wang Ming being a teacher of the Analects.
• The Jade Warlord broke free and crashed headfirst into a wall, while Wang Ming’s narration revealed that the clone’s attacks barely damaged his defenses.
• Golden Swallow launched her Jade Hairpin at the dazed Jade Warlord, who failed to notice it approaching.

Golden Swallow’s Jade Hairpin failed to harm the Jade Warlord, so Wang Ming attacked him with shameless close-quarters tactics. The Jade Emperor revealed that he had engineered the larger conflict to shift destiny between the Eastern and Western Divine Courts, but withheld the hairpin’s power because he could not identify Wang Ming and Golden Swallow could not bear the karmic cost.

• Golden Swallow launched the Jade Hairpin at the Jade Warlord, but it bounced off without injuring him.
• Wang Ming rushed the enraged Jade Warlord and kept him from casting spells with a relentless series of dirty close-combat attacks.
• Golden Swallow wondered why the Jade Hairpin had failed to kill the Jade Warlord.
• The Jade Emperor tried to calculate Wang Ming’s origins but discovered that he could learn nothing about him.
• The Jade Emperor reflected on his plan to use Lü Yan, Jason, the Ruyi Jingu Bang, and the Jade Hairpin to redirect destiny and weaken the Western Divine Court.
• The Jade Emperor had withheld the Jade Hairpin’s true power because he did not know who Wang Ming was and Golden Swallow could not bear the karmic backlash.

Wang Ming fought the Jade Warlord at Five Finger Mountain, repeatedly preventing him from using his powers while the others tried to free Sun Wukong. Wang Ming sent Golden Swallow away and kept the Jade Warlord occupied for several days, ending the chapter with his clone cremated and the Jade Warlord victorious but frustrated.

• Wang Ming overwhelmed the Jade Warlord with close-range attacks, while the Monkey Clone tried to reach Sun Wukong’s stone statue.
• The Jade Warlord broke free, petrified Wang Ming, kicked away the Monkey Clone, and took Ruyi Jingu Bang before Wang Ming escaped by severing the affected part of his body.
• Wang Ming hesitated to strike Sun Wukong’s statue after sensing his personal destiny drain, and Golden Swallow accidentally kicked Ruyi Jingu Bang out of the temple and down Five Finger Mountain.
• Wang Ming held off the Jade Warlord and sent the Monkey Clone, Lü Yan, and Jason away, then ordered Golden Swallow to flee while he continued fighting.
• Wang Ming learned the Jade Warlord’s divine arts by studying his magic-power circulation, and the Jade Warlord sent the White-Haired Demoness after Golden Swallow.
• Wang Ming’s clone fought the Jade Warlord for several days before cremating itself, leaving the Jade Warlord the victor but deeply frustrated.

After the battle at the Jade Warlord's Temple, Golden Swallow sought greater strength while fleeing the White-Haired Demoness across the desert. Meanwhile, Chao and Lü Yan trained Jason and discussed the Jade Warlord's invulnerability, leaving them without a clear way to defeat him.

• Golden Swallow reflected on her disappointment in The Seeker and the Jade Hairpin and set out to find Wang Ming's cultivation grotto to gain power.
• The White-Haired Demoness pursued Golden Swallow for days, wearing her down rather than risking a fight to the death.
• After four days without water, Golden Swallow tricked the White-Haired Demoness with dirty fighting, stole her horse, and escaped.
• Chao and Lü Yan watched Jason train in a bamboo forest after the group escaped Five Finger Mountain, and Chao planned to strengthen him before returning to unseal Sun Wukong.
• Chao explained that the Jade Warlord's Undying Body seemed impossible to overcome, while Lü Yan questioned whether Jade Nectar's five-year limit offered any hope of defeating him.

Golden Swallow fought the White-Haired Demoness in the desert after losing her way to Wang Ming, and Wang Ming intervened before she could be killed. Back in his cavern, he extracted the clone’s imprinted knowledge from Golden Swallow and learned how to use spells there by carving formation patterns into the walls.

• Golden Swallow crossed the desert for five days while the White-Haired Demoness pursued her and her remaining Dragon-Phoenix Power dwindled.
• When Golden Swallow realized she was lost and could no longer find Wang Ming, she fought the White-Haired Demoness, who tried to avoid her mutual-destruction attack and escape.
• Golden Swallow used her remaining strength to catch the White-Haired Demoness, but both were blasted backward and Golden Swallow saw that her enemy remained unharmed.
• Wang Ming arrived, knocked out Golden Swallow and the White-Haired Demoness, and carried them to his cavern.
• Wang Ming extracted the clone’s mental imprint from Golden Swallow, studied the Jade Warlord’s spells and temple formation, then carved formation patterns into the cavern walls so he could use spells there.

Wang Ming began reforging his swords in the Moving Sands River cave and offered the awakened White-Haired Demoness a phoenix-blood elixir of immortality. The White-Haired Demoness recognized its value, leaving her tempted by Wang Ming’s offer.

• Wang Ming expanded the rock cave and used the Southern Bright Fire and Three Saints Fire to begin refining four swords.
• The White-Haired Demoness woke in the cave and objected when Wang Ming called her his maid.
• Wang Ming said he knew she wanted the Elixir of Immortality and showed her a phoenix-blood pill that could extend her life.
• The White-Haired Demoness recognized the pill as genuine and felt a strong desire to obtain it.