Chapter Summaries

The Six-Eared Macaque fought Sun Wukong and the Nameless Daoist while Pangu Group secretly collected samples for its gene research. Tang Sanzang turned the staged search for the true Monkey King into a public vote and betting contest, leaving the final judgment to the Three Realms.

• The Six-Eared Macaque realized the Nameless Daoist was being sustained by Pangu Group's technology as the three-way battle continued.
• Pangu Group's researchers collected blood and flesh samples from the fighters and asked Tang Sanzang to arrange a soul-level strike on the Six-Eared Macaque.
• Tang Sanzang ordered Sun Wukong to feign defeat and take the Nameless Daoist to seek help, so the Six-Eared Macaque followed them across the Three Realms.
• The Jade Emperor's Monster-Revealing Mirror failed to distinguish the two Sun Wukongs, and Di Ting refused to identify either one.
• At Mount Putuo, Tang Sanzang announced that viewers would decide the winner through a real-time vote and the final betting pool.

Tang Sanzang turned the True and False Monkey King dispute into a market-driven show, earning Pangu Group 630 million merit and securing Sun Wukong’s victory. As the group prepared to continue west, Tang Sanzang received a high-priority assignment in Western Liang Women's Country with a potential value of ten billion merit.

• Sun Wukong, the Nameless Daoist, and Zhu Bajie campaigned for votes and bets while the Six-Eared Macaque objected to the market deciding who was true.
• The Pangu Sky Screen announced Sun Wukong as the winner, the Nameless Daoist in second place, and the Six-Eared Macaque as having failed.
• The Ultra-Dimensional Karma Capture Net seized the Six-Eared Macaque and took him to the Pangu Group R&D laboratory.
• Tang Sanzang’s project generated 630 million merit, exceeding its target of 500 million.
• Tang Sanzang received a priority bug-fix directive for Western Liang Women's Country and began considering a major new business plan.

Tang Sanzang’s team began planning a ten-billion-merit project to reform Western Liang Women's Country by introducing men through a Primordial World beauty contest. He assigned his disciples roles in the contest and prepared a hundred-million-merit prize to attract contestants.

• Tang Sanzang revealed the ten-billion-merit project to his disciples and explained that they would build a new social model for Western Liang Women's Country.
• Zhu Bajie suggested matchmaking, but Tang Sanzang said the project required industrial upgrading and social restructuring rather than pairing off a few couples.
• Tang Sanzang assigned Zhu Bajie to organize the Primordial World's First 'Charming Male Immortal' Selection Contest, Sha Wujing to draft its business plan and advertisements, and Sun Wukong to handle security and demonstrations.
• Tang Sanzang planned to use Western Liang Women's Country as Pangu Group’s first Social Reform Demonstration Zone and promote the contest across all Pangu Sky Screen channels.
• Tang Sanzang announced that the contest winner would receive priority access to Western Liang Women's Country and a one-hundred-million-merit partner-finding development fund.

Tang Sanzang’s contest announcement sparked a rush of male immortals and drew the Heavenly Court, Buddhist Sect, Daoist Sect, and demon race into the competition. As the event’s popularity and revenue soared, the Queen of Western Liang answered with a decree forbidding men from entering her country.

• Male immortals across the Primordial World rushed to register for the contest and its hundred-million-merit prize.
• The Jade Emperor’s court decided to send True Lord Erlang, while the Buddhist Sect also selected disciples to compete.
• Zhu Bajie reported that registration fees and sponsorships had nearly earned a hundred million before the group reached Women's Country.
• Tang Sanzang said the contest’s growing hype would strengthen their bargaining power with Western Liang Women's Country.
• The Queen of Western Liang issued an edict forbidding men from entering within a hundred li of the border and threatening them with Soul Annihilation.

After the Queen of Western Liang banned Pangu Group’s male-immortal contest, Tang Sanzang turned the public relations crisis into a televised appeal, claiming the Mother-Child River and Western Liang’s civilization faced collapse. He ended by offering the Queen a choice between temporary technical aid and sweeping social reform.

• The Queen of Western Liang’s soul-annihilation decree sparked public outrage and sent the contest’s related investments plunging.
• Zhu Bajie worried that Pangu Group could not deliver its promised contest, while Sun Wukong proposed fighting his way into Western Liang; Tang Sanzang ordered a press conference instead.
• Tang Sanzang publicly apologized to the Queen and Western Liang’s citizens for launching the contest without their consent.
• Sha Wujing presented Pangu Group’s report, which claimed that the Mother-Child River’s laws were deteriorating and Western Liang’s civilization would eventually perish.
• Tang Sanzang offered the Queen free river-stabilization technology or a comprehensive plan for genetic introduction and social restructuring, leaving the choice to her.

Western Liang Women's Country faced a crisis as its court debated Pangu Group's proposals and Zhu Bajie used a lavish exhibition to win over the people. The Grand Tutor summoned a dangerous elder sister from Pipa Cave to defend the nation—or pursue her own poison-laced plans.

• The Grand Tutor opposed both of Pangu Group's proposals, while a female general urged the court to contact the company, leaving the queen unable to decide.
• Zhu Bajie set up Pangu Group's exhibition outside a frontier city and drew in local women with free gifts and alluring goods.
• Zhu Bajie promoted Pangu Baby nutritional supplements to mothers, who eagerly gathered to claim them for their children.
• The Grand Tutor, alarmed by Pangu Group's growing influence, secretly activated an ancient Teleportation Array and called for her elder sister.
• At Pipa Cave on Dudi Mountain, the Grand Tutor's elder sister awoke and set out to return to Western Liang, eager to confront Pangu Group with her poison.

Scorpion Spirit confronted the queen of Western Liang and proposed modifying her bloodline to give the country a third option beyond Pangu Group's plans. While Scorpion Spirit sought to take control of the country, Tang Sanzang turned her proposal into a commercial rival and prepared a public campaign against her technology.

• Scorpion Spirit arrived at the royal palace, mocked the Grand Tutor and queen, and immobilized a female general who challenged her.
• Scorpion Spirit proposed the Queen Enhancement Plan, offering to modify the queen's bloodline so she could empower the women of Western Liang.
• Tang Sanzang watched the palace confrontation through the Script Mirror and told Sha Wujing to register Queen Mythology Biotechnology Co., Ltd. on the Primordial Spiritual Stock Exchange.
• Tang Sanzang ordered a risk assessment white paper alleging severe dangers from Bloodline Modification and instructed Sha Wujing to distribute it anonymously.
• Tang Sanzang told Sha Wujing to bundle Pangu Gene Optimization shares with Queen Myth's shares in a gambling market for the Three Realms.

The Scorpion Spirit challenged Pangu Group to a live trial of her bloodline modification against Sun Wukong’s gene optimization, and the results exposed her technology as dangerous and unstable. After her volunteer transformed into a rampaging Scorpion Demon, the Scorpion Spirit fled to poison the source of the Mother-Child River.

• Pangu Group published a white paper warning that the Scorpion Spirit’s bloodline modification could destroy souls, and the Queen of Western Liang turned against her.
• Tang Sanzang accepted the Scorpion Spirit’s challenge and arranged a live broadcast comparing her demonic arts with Sun Wukong’s technology.
• The Scorpion Spirit transformed a palace maid into a powerful but unstable being, while Sun Wukong’s injection safely improved his volunteer’s health and potential.
• The Scorpion Spirit’s modified palace maid became a giant Scorpion Demon and attacked the crowd, targeting the Queen.
• The Scorpion Spirit escaped toward the source of the Mother-Child River and prepared to contaminate it with Reverse Horse Poison.

Tang Sanzang used Pangu Group’s emergency arbitration authority to strip the Scorpion Spirit of her powers and assets after she threatened to poison the Mother-Child River. He forced her to choose between soul annihilation and lifelong employment, while Pangu enforcers arrested the Grand Tutor.

• Sun Wukong and Sha Wujing moved to stop the Scorpion Spirit and her demon, but Tang Sanzang told Wukong to use the rules instead of force.
• Tang Sanzang summoned Pangu Group’s emergency arbitration tribunal and charged the Scorpion Spirit with maliciously damaging assets, unfair competition, and endangering public safety.
• The tribunal found the Scorpion Spirit guilty and seized her powers, treasures, cave, demons, and Reverse Horse Poison, leaving her powerless.
• Tang Sanzang offered the Scorpion Spirit a choice between soul annihilation and signing a lifetime contract as Pangu Group’s chief safety tester.
• Witch Clan enforcers arrested the Grand Tutor on suspicion of commercial espionage and other crimes.

Tang Sanzang secured the queen’s agreement to make the Western Liang Women’s Country a Pangu Group special zone, earning the journey team ten billion merit. A law mutation then gave True Immortal Ruyi a monopoly over the downstream Abortion Spring, and he announced exorbitant prices for its water.

• The queen surrendered, and Tang Sanzang offered her a strategic cooperation agreement that preserved her rule while making Western Liang a Pangu Group special zone.
• The queen signed the agreement, triggering a Heavenly Dao bug-fix settlement that awarded the westward journey team ten billion merit.
• Tang Sanzang’s Business Terminal warned that the Mother-Child River’s genetic optimization had transformed the downstream Abortion Spring into water that could remove genetic enhancements.
• The report identified True Immortal Ruyi as the spring’s monopolist and warned that he could extort the project or disrupt its business.
• True Immortal Ruyi used Thousand Mile Sound Transmission to advertise Abortion Spring water at one million merit per bowl.

Tang Sanzang rejected a direct attack on True Immortal Ruyi over his million-merit price for Abortion Spring and instead plotted to bring the monopoly under Pangu Group’s control. He left the conflict poised to escalate by approaching Princess Iron Fan with an offer to audit and merge the Bull Clan’s assets.

• Zhu Bajie and Sun Wukong demanded to confront True Immortal Ruyi, but Tang Sanzang stopped them to protect Pangu Group’s reputation and avoid provoking Bull Demon King.
• Tang Sanzang explained that Abortion Spring was vital to the group’s projects and said they needed to acquire control of it rather than destroy it.
• Tang Sanzang drafted an antitrust complaint against True Immortal Ruyi as a pressure tactic, while acknowledging that the complaint might not be enough to secure a ruling.
• Tang Sanzang reviewed Princess Iron Fan’s customer profile, noting her financial strain, valuable assets, and dissatisfaction with Bull Demon King.
• Tang Sanzang messaged Princess Iron Fan, suggesting True Immortal Ruyi had excluded the spring’s profits from the Bull Clan’s joint property and offering Pangu Group’s asset-auditing and equity-merger services.

After learning that True Immortal Ruyi had hidden the profits from his Abortion Spring business, Princess Iron Fan went to Jieyang Mountain with Pangu Group auditors to inspect his accounts. The audit exposed major violations, and she pressured him to sell her a controlling share of the spring.

• Princess Iron Fan learned through her VIP Customer Contact Bracelet that True Immortal Ruyi's business earned enormous profits that had not been reported as shared family property.
• Princess Iron Fan asked Tang Sanzang for help, and he advised her to visit Jieyang Mountain with Pangu Group's professional audit team.
• True Immortal Ruyi welcomed Princess Iron Fan at Juxian Nunnery, where she announced a routine audit of the Bull Clan's assets.
• Princess Iron Fan presented Bull Demon King's authorization, and the auditors searched Juxian Nunnery and found unreported revenue and suspicious accounts.
• Princess Iron Fan offered to resolve True Immortal Ruyi's tax troubles if he sold her fifty-one percent of his Abortion Spring shares for ten thousand merit.

Princess Iron Fan used Bull Demon King’s authorization to audit True Immortal Ruyi’s Juxian Nunnery and uncover major tax and accounting violations. She forced Ruyi to agree to transfer most of the Abortion Spring’s ownership, just as Bull Demon King arrived in a fury.

• Princess Iron Fan ordered Wu Clan auditors to seize Juxian Nunnery’s records and spring water for an audit.
• She showed True Immortal Ruyi Bull Demon King’s notarized authorization granting her oversight of clan assets.
• The auditors reported tax evasion, suspected money laundering, and other violations, recommending asset seizure and a three-hundredfold fine.
• Princess Iron Fan offered to handle Ruyi’s legal troubles in exchange for valuing the Abortion Spring at ten thousand merit and transferring fifty-one percent of its equity to her.
• True Immortal Ruyi agreed to sign, but Bull Demon King arrived and angrily confronted Princess Iron Fan for laying hands on his brother.

Bull Demon King returned to Juxian Nunnery and confronted Princess Iron Fan for involving Pangu Group in the family dispute. After seeing a financial report warning that the Bull Clan faced bankruptcy, he faltered but refused to engage with the new Commercial Rules and challenged Tang Sanzang to face him.

• Bull Demon King arrived at Juxian Nunnery as True Immortal Ruyi called for his help against Princess Iron Fan and the Pangu Group auditors.
• Bull Demon King accused Princess Iron Fan of joining outsiders to bully the family, but she said she was saving the Bull Clan's assets.
• Princess Iron Fan showed Bull Demon King Pangu Group's report, which warned that the clan could go bankrupt within three hundred years without reform.
• Princess Iron Fan accused Bull Demon King of neglecting her and Red Boy while she managed the household and its affairs.
• Bull Demon King admitted he did not understand the Commercial Rules, then called Tang Sanzang out to confront him.

Tang Sanzang hosted Bull Demon King in a lavish conference room and pitched a business partnership that would turn his reputation and demon network into a corporate empire. He offered Bull Demon King leadership of Pingtian Group and promised prominent roles for his family and allies, leaving him stunned and facing a choice.

• Tang Sanzang ordered Sha Wujing to set up a luxurious mobile conference room outside Juxian Nunnery, impressing Bull Demon King and the watching demons.
• Bull Demon King put away his Mixed Iron Rod and confronted Tang Sanzang, who addressed him as President Niu and called him an entrepreneur with valuable, underused influence.
• Tang Sanzang proposed Pingtian Group, with Bull Demon King as chairman, Princess Iron Fan as CEO, True Immortal Ruyi leading a health division, and the cave demon kings joining a security company.
• Tang Sanzang offered Red Boy a leadership training program and a future role in fire-energy development, while promising Princess Jade Face a position as brand ambassador.
• Tang Sanzang asked Bull Demon King to choose between remaining a demon king or joining the business partnership, and Bull Demon King was left stunned.

Tang Sanzang forced the Bull Demon King to sign a strategic cooperation and asset restructuring agreement, transforming the demon clan’s old order and earning enormous merit. After the deal, Tang Sanzang received a report about developing Flaming Mountain and prepared to confront the Grand Supreme Elder over the disputed land.

• Tang Sanzang warned the Bull Demon King that refusing the agreement would bring legal sanctions, financial ruin, and the loss of his family and followers.
• The Bull Demon King agreed to sign the Pingtian Group Strategic Cooperation and Asset Restructuring Agreement.
• The Heavenly Dao awarded one hundred billion merit for transforming the demon clan’s violent survival model into commercial cooperation, advancing Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie's cultivation and benefiting Pingtian Group.
• Tang Sanzang received a feasibility report recommending that his team claim the Flaming Mountain site before Doushuai Palace Group could assert ownership.
• Tang Sanzang told the newly appointed Chairman Bull that his first board resolution had arrived as he prepared to settle the debt with the Grand Supreme Elder.

Tang Sanzang organized a legal and public-relations blitz to claim Flaming Mountain for Pingtian Group and develop its geothermal energy. Grand Supreme Elder received the group’s legal notice and angrily vowed to fight back.

• Tang Sanzang proposed that Pingtian Group and Pangu Group jointly develop Flaming Mountain’s geothermal energy, warning that the project had a connection to Grand Supreme Elder’s ownership.
• Tang Sanzang sent Sun Wukong to requisition the land through the local Earth God, Zhu Bajie to seek a Heavenly Court edict, and Sha Wujing to send Doushuai Palace a legal notice.
• Tang Sanzang told the Bull Demon King to announce the project to demon clans and build public support for the Bull Clan’s industrial upgrade.
• News of the trillion-merit Flaming Mountain project spread, prompting demon kings to offer congratulations and investment.
• Grand Supreme Elder read the legal notice in Doushuai Palace and angrily vowed to oppose Tang Sanzang and Pangu Group.

Grand Supreme Elder counterclaimed against Tang Sanzang over ownership of Flaming Mountain, turning the dispute into the Primordial World’s first commercial trial involving a Saint. With the public hearing set for three days later, Tang Sanzang planned to sway opinion with a press conference.

• Grand Supreme Elder rejected Tang Sanzang’s legal seizure of Flaming Mountain and drafted a counterclaim alleging that it was industrial waste and that its Samadhi True Fire was protected technology.
• Grand Supreme Elder filed the counterclaim, and the Heavenly Dao Commercial Arbitration System escalated the dispute to a live public trial three days later.
• The Three Realms reacted to news of the unprecedented trial involving a Saint.
• Tang Sanzang told Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing to hold a press conference and publicize the benefits of developing Flaming Mountain and the harm caused by Grand Supreme Elder’s inaction.

Tang Sanzang’s team took Grand Supreme Elder’s Doushuai Palace Group to court over Flaming Mountain, arguing that the group had caused environmental damage and owed compensation. When Grand Supreme Elder blamed Sun Wukong for accidentally knocking the furnace bricks into the mortal realm, Tang Sanzang called the Furnace Brick itself as a witness.

• In the days before trial, Tang Sanzang’s team broadcast interviews with Flaming Mountain residents and Bull Demon King to build public support against Grand Supreme Elder.
• The Primordial Supreme Commercial Court opened, with Tang Sanzang and his team representing the plaintiff and Grand Supreme Elder appearing for Doushuai Palace Group.
• Grand Supreme Elder claimed Flaming Mountain was his group’s experimental waste and demanded fees for using the Samadhi True Fire patent.
• Tang Sanzang argued that the group had illegally polluted the environment and demanded three hundred billion merit points for restoration and remediation.
• Grand Supreme Elder blamed Sun Wukong’s accidental kick of the furnace bricks, claiming force majeure reduced his liability.
• Tang Sanzang requested that the court summon the Furnace Brick that had become Flaming Mountain as a witness.

Tang Sanzang exposed Grand Supreme Elder’s deliberate role in causing Flaming Mountain through the Furnace Brick’s recorded memories, leading the court to rule against him and impose severe penalties. Tang then asked to let Grand Supreme Elder repay his debt by handing over his Nine-Turn Golden Elixir refining technology.

• Tang Sanzang invoked a law allowing the court to extract Origin Memory from spiritual materials, and the judge approved the Furnace Brick as evidence.
• Sun Wukong retrieved the Furnace Brick while Sha Wujing used a Pangu Group device to extract and reconstruct its memories.
• The footage showed Grand Supreme Elder secretly directing the Furnace Brick to land on Tang Sanzang’s westward route, exposing his testimony as false.
• The judge rejected Doushuai Palace Group’s counterclaims, granted Flaming Mountain’s development rights to Pangu Group and Pingtian Group, fined Grand Supreme Elder ten billion merits, downgraded his group’s credit rating, and confiscated his Banana Leaf Fan (Yang).
• Tang Sanzang asked the court to let Grand Supreme Elder repay his compensation debt with his Nine-Turn Golden Elixir refining technology.