Chapter Summaries

After the Journey to the West group defeated a zombie-controlling Reincarnator, they continued toward the Great Thunderclap Temple and entered Little Thunderclap Temple, where a speaking Buddha statue confronted Xuanzang. Meanwhile, two Reincarnators secretly planted a bomb inside the temple, and the chapter ended with the group facing an apparent trap.

• Grand Supreme Elder Lord suppressed the Empress of Ten Thousand Insects, prompting the Reincarnators to fear for their safety and consider operating in secret.
• Xiao Zhen returned to the Heavenly Court and received permission to cultivate for a year at the center of Heavenly Lake.
• Guanyin Bodhisattva suppressed the zombie-controlling Reincarnator, then gave Sun Wukong three life-saving hairs and a soul-defending collar.
• Xuanzang and his companions found Little Thunderclap Temple and entered, hoping to find Buddhist scriptures without traveling to the Great Thunderclap Temple.
• Old Wang and Old Li planted an Anti-matter Chaos Bomb inside the temple while relying on Invisibility Cards to hide from the group.
• A Buddha statue spoke to Xuanzang and demanded that he pay his respects.

Xuanzang and his disciples fought Yellow-browed Demon after exposing his fake Little Thunderclap Temple, but a bomb planted by two Reincarnators exploded before help arrived. The team survived inside the Golden Cymbals, though the artifact was badly damaged and Jinchi was near death.

• Xuanzang exposed the fake Guanyin and attacked Yellow-browed Demon, revealing Little Thunderclap Temple as a cave full of demons.
• Xuanzang and his disciples fought the demons while Sun Wukong battled Yellow-browed Demon, who trapped the Golden Cudgel between his Golden Cymbals.
• White Dragon Horse brought in two Reincarnators, and Old Wang revealed that a bomb in the cave could kill a Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Xuanzang heard the bomb's countdown and ordered his disciples into the Golden Cymbals, while Yellow-browed Demon remained outside.
• The bomb flattened the cave, and Maitreya Buddha saved Yellow-browed Demon before rescuing Xuanzang and his disciples from the damaged Golden Cymbals.
• Xuanzang found that everyone had survived, though Jinchi was barely alive and the Golden Cymbals were covered in dents and cracks.

While Xuanzang’s party approached Lion Camel Ridge, Xuanzang swore to destroy its three demon kings and their followers, threatening a major Buddhist Sect asset. Buddha Tathagata decided the scripture-seeking journey must continue, even if the Golden-Winged Great Peng had to be sacrificed.

• Buddha Tathagata rejected Maitreya Buddha’s attempt to take control of the westward journey, while Guanyin faced blame for the party’s near destruction.
• Xiao Zhen reached the peak of the mid-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and learned Xuanzang’s party was nearing Lion Camel Ridge.
• Xuanzang spread rumors exposing Guanyin’s Golden-Haired Roar for abducting the Vermilion Purple Kingdom’s queen, and Guanyin punished her mount.
• Sun Wukong captured Little Drill Wind, who revealed that Lion Camel Ridge held nearly fifty thousand demons and that its three rulers had devastated the surrounding lands.
• Xuanzang swore before Heaven and Buddha that he would eradicate the three demon kings and their followers before continuing west, and the Heavenly Dao accepted his oath.
• Buddha Tathagata resolved to let the Golden-Winged Great Peng be sacrificed rather than allow the scripture-seeking journey to stop.

Kong Xuan was restrained by Tathagata, Dipankara, and Maitreya while the Buddhist Sect accepted Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird’s death as a sacrifice for greater fortune. As the scripture-seeking party approached Lion Camel Ridge, hidden Reincarnators caused chaos, and Xuanzang’s group began searching for White Elephant’s treasure.

• Kong Xuan tried to resist the three Buddhas, but they used the Merit Golden Lotus to subdue him and planned to erase his memories.
• Sun Wukong and Red Boy killed demons along the party’s hidden route into Lion Camel Ridge while Reincarnators plotted to exploit the coming battle.
• A concealed Reincarnator warned the three demon kings about the outsiders hiding among their ranks, and they began investigating suspicious demons.
• More than twenty Reincarnators were exposed, and the resulting chaos brought Xuanzang’s party face-to-face with a Golden Immortal Reincarnator, whom Sun Wukong struck down.
• Xuanzang ordered Zhu Bajie to interrogate Little Drill Wind, who agreed to lead them to the gold White Elephant had hidden.

The Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird and the demon kings cornered the Reincarnators, and Liu Yun'er betrayed Wang Feng to save herself. Meanwhile, Sun Wukong and his companions attacked White Elephant Demon's cave, where Zhu Bajie killed Little Drill Wind after suspecting him of exposing them.

• Green Lion Demon joined White Elephant Demon against Wang Feng and Liu Yun'er, then the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird arrived and overwhelmed the Reincarnators.
• Wang Feng urged Liu Yun'er to escape and seek reinforcements, but she stabbed him and offered herself and information about other Reincarnators to the Great Peng Bird.
• A little demon reported that Reincarnators were looting White Elephant Demon's cave, prompting White Elephant Demon and the others to rush back.
• Green Lion Demon swallowed Wang Feng's corpse, while the Great Peng Bird took Liu Yun'er into his arms and placed magical safeguards on her soul.
• Sun Wukong and his companions fought their way into White Elephant Demon's cave, and Zhu Bajie accused Little Drill Wind of revealing their location before killing him.

The scripture-seeking party and Heavenly Court forces attacked Lion Camel Ridge, overwhelming the demons and targeting the Reincarnators. The Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird tried to escape Li Jing’s star formation, but Sun Wukong knocked him back down.

• The White Elephant Demon returned to find his cave abode strewn with corpses and sent lesser demons to fight Sun Wukong and his companions.
• Xuanzang and Red Boy fought the White Elephant Demon, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing fought the Green Lion Demon, and Guanyin’s group hunted the Reincarnators.
• Li Jing led one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals in an assault on Lion Camel Ridge, while Muzha told his father that Jinzha was dead.
• Li Jing ordered a star formation to surround the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird, who fled after learning the Heavenly Court intended to kill him.
• The Great Peng Bird blasted open part of the formation with his magical treasure, but Sun Wukong struck him and forced him back down.

Xuanzang’s party killed the three demons of Lion Camel Ridge, while the Main God escalated its invasion of the Primordial World by sending in tens of millions of Reincarnators. Xiao Zhen weighed whether to complete the scripture journey and drew Li Tianming’s Great Tang Immortal Dynasty toward the conflict, where Li Tianming decided to ally with the Primordial Continent and exploit the war for his own gain.

• Xuanzang killed the Green Lion Demon and the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird after the three demons’ forces were defeated at Lion Camel Ridge.
• Xiao Zhen revealed his cultivation had reached the initial stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal Realm, while the Main God loosened restrictions and sent tens of millions of Reincarnators into the Primordial World.
• As Xuanzang’s group resumed its journey, the Buddhist Sect changed the planned number of trials from eighty-one to one hundred and eight to account for the Outer Realm Demons.
• Xiao Zhen sent an incarnation to a world controlled by the Great Tang Immortal Dynasty and learned that Li Tianming had reached the Half-step Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm.
• Li Tianming learned of the conflict between the Primordial World and the Main God Space, then chose to send forces to ally with the Primordial Continent and seek a chance to profit from the war.

Li Tianming allied the Great Tang Immortal Dynasty with Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the Primordial World to hunt Reincarnators, while secretly seeking the Main God Space’s core and expanding his territory. Years later, Xuanzang reached Spirit Mountain, where Ananda and Kasyapa demanded payment for the scriptures, giving him a reason to cause trouble.

• Li Tianming swore an alliance with Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the Primordial World’s Saints, then sent his army to hunt Reincarnators.
• Li Tianming’s temporary boost faded after he returned to his army, and he planned to use the campaign to find the Main God Space’s core and expand his territory.
• The Jade Emperor hosted the Great Tang Immortal Dynasty, while Li Tianming investigated Ying Zheng and found that the Journey to the West story had changed.
• After several years of war against the Reincarnators, Xuanzang’s pilgrimage party reached Spirit Mountain following 106 tribulations.
• Buddha Tathagata sent Ananda and Kasyapa to take Xuanzang to the Sutra Repository, where they demanded payment for the scriptures.
• Xuanzang seized on Ananda and Kasyapa’s demand as an excuse to retaliate.

Xuanzang and his companions reached the Great Thunderclap Temple, where he robbed Ananda and Kasyapa for the scriptures instead of paying them. When the stolen scriptures proved blank, Xuanzang refused to return and wrote a poem in one, forcing Buddha Tathagata to send Guanyin Bodhisattva after the group.

• Xuanzang rebuked Ananda and Kasyapa, then slapped one and ordered his companions to seize the scriptures without paying.
• Xuanzang's group loaded more than twenty suitcases of scriptures onto the carriage and left the Great Thunderclap Temple.
• Black Bear Demon opened a scripture and found it blank, and Sun Wukong discovered that the others were wordless too.
• Xuanzang refused to return to Spirit Mountain and wrote a poem in one of the blank scriptures, insisting they could present them as the real scriptures.
• Buddha Tathagata ordered Guanyin Bodhisattva to bring Xuanzang and his companions back as hidden observers watched their progress.

Guanyin stopped Xuanzang’s team from returning to the Qin Empire with blank scriptures and sent them back to collect the real ones. As the team traveled home with Buddhist books, Reincarnators ambushed them, and the battle escalated when Lu Ya betrayed Maitreya Buddha and the Reincarnator leaders joined the attack.

• Guanyin intercepted Xuanzang’s team, burned their blank scriptures, and ordered them back to Great Thunderclap Temple for the true scriptures.
• Buddha Tathagata sent Ananda and Kasyapa to lead the team to collect the scriptures, and they left Spirit Mountain carrying as many books as they could.
• The Main God ordered every Reincarnator to stop Xuanzang from delivering the scriptures to the Qin Empire, and the team encountered repeated attacks on the journey.
• Maitreya Buddha fought a sword-wielding Reincarnator while Lu Ya arrived and hurled the Eastern Emperor Bell at Maitreya, severely injuring him.
• The Reincarnator Controller of All Things turned more than a dozen experts into traitors, and Li Tianming arrived on the battlefield.

Li Tianming confronted the Main God’s Reincarnators, but their attacks on the Great Tang Immortal Dynasty and a trap targeting his fortune forced him to rush back to the military camp. Amid the ensuing battlefield chaos, Xiao Zhen killed Lu Ya and took the Eastern Emperor Bell, presenting the act as a defense of the Primordial World.

• Li Tianming threatened the Reincarnators, but the Main God revealed that Reincarnators were destroying worlds under the Great Tang Immortal Dynasty and draining Li Tianming’s fortune.
• Li Tianming learned from his empress that Reincarnators were attacking the imperial palace, ordered the Great Tang’s Grand Unity Golden Immortals to return, and then hurried back after a spear trap struck at his fortune.
• The Great Tang forces withdrew, leaving Maitreya Buddha besieged while Xuanzang, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Jinchi remained amid the battle.
• Xiao Zhen used the Soul Extinguishing Needle to briefly free Lu Ya from control, then killed him and took the Eastern Emperor Bell while Guanyin Bodhisattva watched.
• Xiao Zhen told Guanyin that Lu Ya had sided with the Outer Demons and that he had acted to uphold justice.

After Xuanzang’s party returned to the Qin Empire with the scriptures, the tribulation aura faded, but Xiao Zhen sensed that the conflict was not over. Wutian joined the Main God Space and agreed to work with the Reincarnators against the Buddhist Sect and Heavenly Court.

• Dipankara Buddha’s reinforcements repelled the Reincarnators, though Maitreya Buddha suffered severe injuries, and Liu Yu warned Dao Ancestor Hongjun that he still had other methods.
• The Main God Space recruited a resentful young man whose home the king’s troops had destroyed, and it began drawing other resentful people across the Primordial Continent.
• Protected by gods and Buddhas, Xuanzang’s party reached the Qin Empire’s new capital, where Ying Wang and the monks welcomed them; Xuanzang’s Soy Sauce Poems were mistaken for profound scriptures.
• After returning to the Heavenly Court, Xiao Zhen sensed a hidden threat even as the tribulation aura dissipated.
• Wutian agreed to join the Main God Space and cooperate with its Reincarnators in hopes of overthrowing the Buddhist Sect and Heavenly Court.

After the Journey to the West team received their Buddhist titles, Xuanzang affirmed his new identity to Tathagata, while Xiao Zhen returned to his family and broke through to the late Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm in another world. When local experts attacked him, he began killing them and draining their destiny with the Sword of Destiny.

• Tathagata rewarded the scripture-seeking team, naming Jinchi the Golden Light Emissary, Xiong Da the Scripture Custodian, and Red Boy Guanyin’s disciple and the Wealth-Bringing Youth.
• Xuanzang told Tathagata that Golden Cicada no longer existed and agreed to maintain a private master-and-disciple relationship with him.
• Xiao Zhen reunited with his family and Medusa in the Great Thousand World before traveling elsewhere to break through his cultivation bottleneck.
• After three years of cultivation, Xiao Zhen reached the late Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and attracted powerful experts from the Great Heavenly God Realm.
• Xiao Zhen struck down the attacking experts and used the Sword of Destiny to drain one victim’s destiny, alarming the others.

Xiao Zhen and the Chat Group fought off the Great Heavenly God Realm’s powerhouses and set out to stop the Son of Destiny from collecting the four Creation Divine Artifacts. After reaching the Light God Clan, they faced its resistance and another heavenly lightning strike, which Xiao Zhen blocked with the Eastern Emperor Bell.

• Xiao Zhen used the Eastern Emperor Bell to withstand attacks while the Sword of Destiny absorbed the besiegers’ destiny, then fought back as the world consciousness unleashed heavenly lightning.
• The heavenly lightning killed several attackers and injured the two late Grand Unity Golden Immortal powerhouses, whose destiny Xiao Zhen drained before some survivors fled.
• Xiao Zhen learned from Nia’s unfinished novel that the Chat Group mission was to stop an Earth transmigrator from collecting the four Creation Divine Artifacts, then led the group toward the Light God Clan.
• At the Light God Clan’s territory, Xiao Zhen showed the clan its Old Ancestor’s corpse, and Ye Fan demanded that the clan surrender most of its wealth.
• The Light God Clan refused, but Xiao Zhen shielded the group from heavenly lightning with the Eastern Emperor Bell; afterward, Ye Fan taunted a battered survivor who wondered why Heaven’s power had failed to kill them.

After leaving the Great Heavenly God Realm, Xiao Zhen returned to a Primordial World plunged into greater chaos, where native Reincarnators had joined the Main God Space and Kunpeng led the Fallen Ones. The chapter ends with Kunpeng fighting Zhen Yuanzi and revealing how the Main God Space helped him grow toward the Saint realm.

• The Son of Destiny emerged from hiding after the outsiders left and vowed to avenge his father, the patriarch of the Light God Clan.
• Xiao Zhen returned to the Primordial World and learned that Wutian, Kunpeng, and other native Reincarnators had worsened the chaos while the Heavenly Court struggled to contain them.
• Kunpeng and other Reincarnators attacked Five Zhuang Temple, stealing the Ginseng Fruit Tree and killing or injuring many of Zhen Yuanzi's disciples.
• The Heavenly Court formed an allied army against Kunpeng, while the Dragon King of the North Sea joined the Reincarnators and the Dragon King of the East Sea sent troops to support the front.
• Zhen Yuanzi confronted Kunpeng over the stolen Ginseng Fruit Tree, and Kunpeng revealed that he had reached the Half-step Great Luo Golden Immortal realm through the Main God Space.

The Main God Space’s Reincarnators fought the Primordial World’s defenders as weakened Saints struggled to resist the Outer Demons. As Buddha Tathagata prepared to leave the battle against Wutian and return to Spirit Mountain, a disguised Manjushri Bodhisattva stabbed him and revealed his betrayal.

• Kunpeng tried to recruit Zhen Yuanzi, then ordered Reincarnators to attack him, but Grand Supreme Elder Lord and other experts arrived to support Zhen Yuanzi.
• Xiao Zhen used his Soul Extinguishing Needle to kill three Reincarnators, while Fuxi rescued the wounded Nuwa from the sea.
• Nuwa told Fuxi that the Saints’ power had fallen and that they were helping Dao Ancestor Hongjun resist the Outer Demons.
• Li Tianming and Buddha Tathagata fought Wutian, who warned that traitors were helping the Outer Demons attack the Great Thunderclap Temple.
• Manjushri Bodhisattva arrived wounded and urged Buddha Tathagata to return to Spirit Mountain, then stabbed him and revealed that he had betrayed the Buddhist Sect.

Manjushri and Samantabhadra betrayed the Buddhist Sect, while Li Tianming and Hongjun struggled against the Main God Space’s forces. Xiao Zhen intercepted a clue to the Main God Space and sent Li Tianming its approximate location, leaving Li Tianming poised to investigate.

• Manjushri revealed that he and Samantabhadra had turned against the Buddhist Sect, and Buddha Tathagata learned that Samantabhadra had taken Peacock Buddha Mother.
• Li Tianming used fate to raise his cultivation and repel Wutian and the Reincarnators, while Hongjun continued battling Liu Yu with help from the Heavenly Dao.
• Xiao Zhen’s Adventure System intercepted the Main God Space’s recruitment message and detected a flaw that might provide an entrance.
• Xiao Zhen decided to help Li Tianming reach the Main God Space so he could try to take a piece of its origin.
• A spatial coordinate reached Li Tianming during his interrogation of captured Reincarnators, and he killed them after they could provide no useful information.

Li Tianming followed Jia Xu’s plan to draw the Primordial World’s forces into an assault on the Main God Space, using them to test whether its defenses were weak. The vanguard found the Main God Space undermanned, and Xiao Zhen joined the ensuing invasion, where he destroyed an entire world inside it.

• Jia Xu advised Li Tianming to let the Heavenly Court, Buddhist Sect, and other Primordial World forces bear the brunt of testing the Main God Space while Great Tang sought to profit from the attack.
• Li Tianming persuaded the Jade Emperor and the other factions to send a vanguard, and each force dispatched Golden Immortals and Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
• Li Tianming opened a spatial passage, and the vanguard entered the Main God Space; reports soon showed that its many worlds were poorly defended.
• The reserve forces, including Xiao Zhen, entered the Main God Space after receiving the reports, while Yang Jian remained behind with the reserves until the signal came.
• Xiao Zhen spotted a familiar world within the Main God Space and annihilated everyone inside it with a single strike.

The Great Tang forces fought through the Main God Space as Liu Yu used the energy of conquered worlds to create endless clones of the dead. Li Tianming confronted Liu Yu’s avatar, Kong Xuan, while powerful figures across the Primordial Continent faced the choice of entering the besieged space.

• Hongjun learned that the Great Tang Immortal Dynasty had found the Main God Space and restrained Liu Yu as the invasion began.
• Xiao Zhen and Li Tianming encountered powerful Reincarnator clones that revived by absorbing energy from nearby worlds.
• Liu Yu targeted Li Tianming’s system, sending Kong Xuan, powered near the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, to fight him.
• Li Tianming drew on the Great Tang Immortal Dynasty’s fortune to battle Kong Xuan, causing disasters and cultivation declines across the dynasty.
• Reincarnators on the Primordial Continent gained access to the Main God Space, but Kunpeng stayed away while Manjushri and Samantabhadra suspected a trap.

The Primordial World forces fought the Main God Space as Li Tianming battled Kong Xuan and the system controlling him. Xiao Zhen sent the Adventure System into a contest with the Main God System, helping Li Tianming survive, and the two men tacitly agreed to defeat the Main God before settling their own rivalry.

• Xiao Zhen killed a replica Reincarnator while the Primordial World forces battled the remaining replicas, and the Jade Emperor hesitated to help the besieged emperor of the Great Tang Immortal Dynasty.
• Buddha Tathagata tried to support Li Tianming against Kong Xuan, but replicas self-destructed and badly injured him.
• After three days of fighting, Li Tianming beheaded Kong Xuan, but the peacock's corpse exploded and its head attacked Li Tianming's Strongest Emperor System.
• Xiao Zhen sent the Adventure System into the contest, allowing it to steal some Origin Energy and slow the Main God System's attack on Li Tianming.
• Li Tianming recognized Xiao Zhen as the hidden True Monarch of Marvelous Pills, while the Strongest Emperor System and Adventure System stalemated the weakened Main God System.
• Xiao Zhen and Li Tianming tacitly agreed to deal with the Main God first and leave their future conflict unsettled.