Chapter Summaries

Tang Sanzang unleashed a devastating blow at Five Finger Mountain to test Sun Wukong, devastating the surrounding area and alarming cultivators across the Human Realm. Ancient beings briefly stirred at the display of power, then returned to their retreats after realizing it was confined to one location.

• Tang Sanzang grinned and announced he would attack, while Sun Wukong realized the monk intended to test him and feared the coming blow.
• Tang Sanzang unleashed blazing Buddha light, and Sun Wukong felt its heat pierce even his Indestructible Vajra Body.
• The golden pillar erupted from Five Finger Mountain, crushing the landscape and engulfing the escort convoy as the Leader shouted for everyone to retreat.
• Cultivators across Great Tang and other nations sensed the pillar’s destructive power, while ordinary mortals watched it as a strange spectacle.
• Ancient beings awakened across the world, wondered about the unfamiliar Buddhist power, and went back to their retreats after confirming the blast remained localized.

The Heavenly Court and Spiritual Mountain reacted to Tang Sanzang’s rampage, with the Jade Emperor demanding an explanation from Buddha. Buddha recognized that Orsaga was behind Tang Sanzang’s changed behavior but had no way to confront him, and wondered what grudge he held against Buddhism.

• Wind Listener and Thousand-Mile Eye reported to the Jade Emperor that Tang Sanzang had caused the disturbance and killed the local Earth God.
• The Jade Emperor ordered Venus to demand an explanation from Spiritual Mountain, and the ministers praised his decision.
• After the ministers dispersed, the Jade Emperor asked Orsaga whether Great Sun Tathagata Buddha would come to this world and asked him to keep any fight away from his territory.
• Buddha promised Venus that he would explain Tang Sanzang’s actions to the Jade Emperor, while the Arhats and Bodhisattvas condemned Tang Sanzang.
• Buddha realized that Orsaga had caused Golden Cicada’s transformation and feared that the Journey to the West Plan would fail, but he could not reach Orsaga or the trapped Cundi Buddha and Jieyin Buddha.

After defeating Sun Wukong, Tang Sanzang dragged him out of the pit and made him his flute-playing boy, then continued his Westward Path. The gods and Buddhas recalled Marshal Tian Peng and Sha Wujing after recognizing Tang Sanzang’s disturbing behavior, leaving the original escort group broken apart before it had assembled.

• Tang Sanzang hauled Sun Wukong out of the pit after overpowering him, and Sun Wukong realized his master had seen through his attempt to escape.
• That night, Tang Sanzang forced Sun Wukong into the role of flute-playing boy, terrifying the escort party and nearby beasts.
• Tang Sanzang lured demons and travelers toward his party with false claims about the magical benefits of consuming his blood and flesh.
• The Jade Emperor recalled Marshal Tian Peng and Sha Wujing after the gods and Buddhas noticed Tang Sanzang’s conduct.
• The planned Westward group fell apart before gathering, while Tang Sanzang’s growing party continued on with overwhelming force.

As Tang Sanzang’s procession neared India, Buddha ordered Guanyin to handle the demons and prepared to confront his former disciple. Buddha then underwent a sudden transformation, gained power over time and branching worlds, and Great Sun Tathagata Buddha’s consciousness entered the world.

• Guanyin warned Buddha that Tang Sanzang and his demon army were approaching Spiritual Mountain, and Buddha ordered her to deal with the demons while he handled Tang Sanzang.
• Buddha speculated that Supreme Jade Heaven Void-Nether Mystical True White Emperor had disrupted Buddhism’s plans to test the Heavenly Dao and the Ancestor of Dao.
• An unexplained sigh entered Buddha’s mind, and he gained a tranquil sense of boundless power without his strength visibly changing.
• Buddha saw across space-time, witnessing the past, present, future, and countless Parallel Worlds.
• Buddha created a new Worldline before Pangu Creation and caused innumerable Parallel Worlds to branch from it.
• Buddha recognized the Demon Lord from the Bottomless Abyss and the Haotian Golden Palace Jade Emperor, then announced that Great Sun Tathagata Buddha had arrived.

Great Sun Tathagata Buddha identified a blood-red spiral in the sky as the Heavenly Demon of Great Freedom and decided to intervene because Tang Sanzang and Sun Wukong were connected to him. Meanwhile, Tang Sanzang’s false rumor about his flesh drew an enormous crowd of demons, whose reckless pursuit was fueled by the world’s growing Calamity Qi.

• Guanyin asked Great Sun Tathagata Buddha about the blood-red spiral, and he called it an Outer Realm Sky Demon, also known as the Heavenly Demon of Great Freedom.
• Great Sun Tathagata Buddha said he would intervene because Tang Sanzang was tied to his identity and Sun Wukong had suffered a loss on his side.
• Tang Sanzang’s lie that eating his flesh granted immortality attracted wave after wave of demons, who kept falling to his bait.
• The growing Calamity Qi made demons across the world act impulsively, while the Immortals and Spiritual Mountain’s Arhats and Bodhisattvas left Tang Sanzang to his own devices.

Tang Sanzang’s growing army of demons spread rumors that he was an ancient great demon marching to destroy Buddhism, drawing more followers and inflating his reputation. As his strength inexplicably surged along with his forces, he remained baffled, unaware that he was receiving the blessings of fortune for becoming a central figure in a great tribulation.

• Tang Sanzang consecrated demons who came looking for missing allies and forcibly recruited them, causing his ranks to swell.
• Rumors spread that Tang Sanzang was an ancient great demon intent on destroying the Great Thunderclap Monastery and establishing a demon kingdom.
• Ambitious demons and discontented followers of Spiritual Mountain and the Heavenly Court joined Tang Sanzang’s army, while ancient demon generals watched and speculated about his power.
• Tang Sanzang wondered why his followers kept proclaiming that they would kill Tathagata and destroy Buddhism, and why his strength was rapidly increasing.
• The chapter revealed that Tang Sanzang was receiving blessings of fortune as a force shaping the world’s great tribulation, with greater rewards carrying the risk of a worse downfall.

The Great Sun Tathagata Buddha restored Tang Sanzang to his former state as Golden Cicada and moved him, Sun Wukong, and Guanyin to safety as an Outer Realm Sky Demon appeared over the Primordial World. The blood-red sphere opened to reveal a vast, world-destroying eye, which invited the world to come.

• The Great Sun Tathagata Buddha’s golden light triggered the blood-colored vortex to spread across the Primordial World, and Hongjun identified the threat as an Outer Realm Sky Demon.
• The Great Sun Tathagata Buddha seized Tang Sanzang and Sun Wukong, and Tang Sanzang attacked him with the Great Vajra Heavenly Dragon—Eightfold Demon Dragon Scripture.
• The Great Sun Tathagata Buddha’s rebuke shattered Tang Sanzang’s soul and restored him to his original state as Golden Cicada, who remembered everything about Tang Sanzang.
• The Great Sun Tathagata Buddha moved Golden Cicada, Sun Wukong, and Guanyin to safety while the blood-red sphere caused living beings to glimpse truths and mutate.
• The sphere’s malign effects abruptly ceased, and its appearance brought a wail that every native being recognized as the Heavenly Dao’s scream.
• The blood-colored sphere split open to reveal a vertical pupil filled with halos and visions of destroyed worlds, and a voice invited the world to come.

Orsaga and Great Sun Tathagata Buddha’s battle tore through the world’s boundaries and sent a destructive impact across countless worlds and timelines. As their power continued to increase without limit, the surrounding planes and realities warped, froze, and changed unpredictably.

• Great Sun Tathagata Buddha struck at Orsaga’s Blood Light with a hand blade, and golden light from the lotus collided with it.
• The clash pierced the world’s Space-Time Barrier and formed a vast hollow that pulled in and destroyed time and space.
• The spreading impact scrambled the structures of countless worlds, turning fleets into pig-headed crowds and stars into howling clouds.
• The Great Unification Empire’s branching timelines shook, causing time, worlds, and powerful beings to shift between contradictory states.
• Orsaga and Great Sun Tathagata Buddha continued fighting as their energy grew without limit with every passing instant.

Orsaga and the Great Sun Tathagata Buddha’s playful battle spread across spacetime, reshaping worlds and inspiring countless later conflicts. When they reached a divine mountain, its guardians threatened to intervene, and the two ended their clash, with Orsaga leaving reluctantly.

• Orsaga and the Great Sun Tathagata Buddha battled across different moments in time, altering the origins and histories of countless regions.
• Their powers became foundations for future cultivation paths and inspired people in other planes to build weapons and wage wars in their names.
• Orsaga periodically watched the strange conflicts caused by his influence while continuing to fight the Great Sun Tathagata Buddha.
• A deep blue lightning bolt from a temple on a towering divine mountain blocked their way, and a majestic voice warned them to stop causing trouble.
• The Great Sun Tathagata Buddha proposed ending the fight, and Orsaga left rather than face the mountain’s beings and risk a larger confrontation.

Orsaga stopped fighting the Jade Emperor after deciding the battle would not change its outcome, and the two discussed immortality, effort, and the Jade Emperor’s existence as a vassal of Haotian Shangdi. Orsaga suggested that the Jade Emperor cultivate a hobby, but his offer of Abyssal soul wine was refused.

• The Jade Emperor asked why Orsaga had stopped, and Orsaga said continuing their inconclusive battle risked leaving him at a disadvantage if others joined.
• Orsaga lamented that his strength had robbed him of the exhilaration of facing death, then asked whether the Jade Emperor had ever experienced effort or crisis.
• The Jade Emperor explained that he had been born with nearly everything and depended entirely on Haotian Shangdi’s will and power.
• Orsaga suggested that the Jade Emperor try eating as a hobby, and the Jade Emperor said he might give it a try.
• Orsaga offered the Jade Emperor freshly brewed Abyssal wine made from souls, but the Jade Emperor declined.

Liu Longma and Ba Wuzang prepared their evolved army and the Gai-Emperor for the approaching final battle against Shi Tiankong. As Liu Longma vowed to end the conflict and revive their fallen comrades, the chapter recalled how he had defeated the Lagrus Universe to earn the right to face Shi Tiankong.

• Liu Longma stood with the Gai-Emperor as Geta Ray continually evolved the assembled troops and war machines.
• Ba Wuzang arrived and warned Liu Longma that Shi Tiankong was about to appear.
• Liu Longma recalled the comrades who had died in the struggle and resolved to give everything to end the war and restore them.
• Ba Wuzang agreed, recalling how they had defeated the Lagrus Universe and gained the initiative in the great war.
• The narration described the Lagrus Universe as a living expanse of time and space that evolved by devouring its surroundings, and said Liu Longma's victory over it earned him the right to confront Shi Tiankong.

Liu Longma’s army finished assembling as Shi Tiankong’s approach wreaked havoc across spacetime. The enemy finally arrived as a tide of Blood Light filled the void, carrying powerful evil spirits that were only scraps of Shi Tiankong’s power.

• Liu Longma used Modify Causality to calm the spacetime disturbances caused by the approaching force.
• Kam Hayato reported that the assembly had ended and that approximately 171 to the 89th power Combat Units had gathered.
• Liu Longma waited in the void until he sensed Shi Tiankong had arrived.
• A vast tide of Blood Light surged from the distance, contaminating spacetime and carrying countless powerful evil spirits.
• The chapter revealed that the evil spirits were merely food scraps left behind by Shi Tiankong.

Shi Tiankong’s immense power and countless Magic Wheels battered the defenders before he fully arrived, forcing Liu Longma to mobilize the army and prepare to keep him outside the Space-Time Gap. Once Shi Tiankong appeared, Liu Longma embraced the challenge and ordered the entire army to attack while he handled the main restraint.

• Shi Tiankong’s Magic Wheels inflicted distant mental and physical effects on weaker participants, alarming Liu Longma about the danger of his arrival.
• Liu Longma ordered those already suffering to retreat and directed the remaining forces to prepare the second plan and keep Shi Tiankong outside the Space-Time Gap.
• The troops formed layers of shields around Gai-Emperor, while detection devices shrieked and exploded as Shi Tiankong approached through the Space-Time Storms.
• Shi Tiankong appeared as a being so vast that stars and universes seemed like dust beside him, with a supermassive wheel of light destroying even abstract things such as time and death.
• Liu Longma welcomed the scale of the final battle and ordered the entire army to attack, declaring that he would handle the main restraint.

Shi Tiankong advanced through the allied forces, impervious to their attacks, while Liu Longma rallied the combatants and boosted their strength. Shi Tiankong revealed that he could reason and explained that he intended to devour them simply because their power and possessions were worthwhile.

• Shi Tiankong remained unharmed as the allies’ attacks, including weapons firing compressed universes, failed against his defenses.
• Liu Longma urged the allied forces to believe in themselves, and his empowerment restored their morale and strengthened Gai-Emperor.
• Shi Tiankong reacted to the growing power and praised it, but said the allies were still far too weak.
• Liu Longma asked why Shi Tiankong wanted to destroy everything, and Shi Tiankong explained that the strong devoured the weak and that the allies’ possessions appealed to him.
• The listeners learned that Shi Tiankong’s motive was simply to feed, and they struggled to accept how ordinary the reason was.

Shi Tiankong challenged Liu Longma’s belief in justice by arguing that the strong naturally preyed on the weak, then revealed that he cared only about strength and viewed resistance as entertainment. He ended their conversation by attacking Liu Longma with an enormous palm.

• Liu Longma raged at Shi Tiankong for causing countless deaths merely to satisfy his appetite.
• Shi Tiankong compared the victims to microorganisms and livestock, arguing that beings ignored the suffering of weaker creatures whenever their needs demanded it.
• Shi Tiankong created and accelerated several hundred worlds to demonstrate how people treated speaking and nonspeaking livestock when morality conflicted with need.
• Shi Tiankong dismissed the argument as a way to test Liu Longma’s wavering convictions and said that strength alone determined who became aggressor or victim.
• Shi Tiankong declared the conversation over and swept an enormous palm toward Liu Longma.

Shi Tiankong and Liu Longma clashed in a battle that threatened to destroy the plane, as Liu Longma drew strength from allies across timelines and unleashed his final attack. Shi Tiankong ultimately overwhelmed him, and its Blood Light consumed the plane and began spreading toward neighboring planes.

• Shi Tiankong used Sole Dominator to create an anti-Geta Ray that weakened Liu Longma and the Gai-Emperor.
• Liu Longma called for help, and beings across timelines and parallel worlds lent him their strength, allowing him to withstand Shi Tiankong's attack.
• Shi Tiankong unleashed its vast power, crushing the support from Liu Longma's allies and gathering force for a decisive strike.
• Liu Longma drove the Gai-Emperor into a final, self-destructive attack, and Shi Tiankong met it head-on with the Fist of the End of All Things.
• Shi Tiankong's Blood Light overpowered Liu Longma's attack, destroyed the plane, and began spreading toward neighboring planes.

Orsaga assessed Liu Longma’s defeat at Shi Tiankong’s hands and reflected on the valuable gains he had obtained from Liu Longma’s death. He concluded that advancing toward becoming an Abyss Prince still required far greater rewards and dangerous action, while his neighbors likely plotted against him just as he plotted against them.

• Orsaga judged that Liu Longma’s brief surge could not overcome the immense gap between him and Shi Tiankong, who only needed to block Liu Longma’s single strike.
• Shi Tiankong warped time to keep Liu Longma trapped in his imminent destruction, driving him to die and causing the planes that had aided him to perish as well.
• Orsaga said Liu Longma’s death had brought him valuable gains, though they amounted to little on his long road to becoming an Abyss Prince.
• Orsaga recognized that greater progress would require risky, significant actions and that sacrificial victims and stepping stones were valuable to those seeking power.
• Orsaga noted that his neighbors in the Bottomless Abyss likely plotted to kill him, just as he plotted against them.

Orsaga and Golanel discussed their coming child and the choice to let their descendants develop naturally, despite the immense time and energy that would require. Remembering an old mystery about Philala and his Evolution System, Orsaga chose not to investigate it further for now.

• Orsaga told Golanel that he had made good gains and felt their unborn child growing inside her.
• Orsaga recalled how he had overcome his reluctance to accept descendants, while Golanel and his other wives chose natural gestation over using Time Abilities to accelerate their children’s growth.
• Golanel and the others sought advice from Philala about motherhood because she had experience raising Elsa.
• Orsaga remembered traveling back in time to change Philala’s past, only to discover that her former husband had been himself.
• Orsaga recalled the cryptic message hidden in the Evolution System and decided to leave its secrets for later.

Orsaga and Allison walked through their protected preserve in the Elsera Elf Kingdom, where they traded familiar jabs about his abnormal appetite and villainous habits. Allison, pregnant with a new family member, felt a renewed trace of unease about Orsaga’s violent life but kept her thoughts to herself.

• The chapter established that the Elsera Elf Kingdom had become an absolute domain after Orsaga altered its fate long ago.
• Orsaga walked through Golanel and Allison’s private preserve and remarked that one of the stars looked tasty.
• Allison teased Orsaga for his abnormal thoughts, and he accepted her familiar criticism without intending to change.
• Orsaga reflected that he committed evil because he wanted to, without disguising his motives as noble.
• Allison touched her stomach and felt uneasy about Orsaga’s sinful daily life after the arrival of a new family member, but said nothing.

Allison wondered whether she and Golanel had overprotected their kin, leaving them unprepared for the Multiverse’s dangers. Orsaga responded to her worries by deciding that still greater power would solve every problem, while Allison remained uncertain whether her protection had harmed her people’s future.

• Allison set aside her worries about Orsaga’s wickedness and asked what he thought of the plane.
• Orsaga called the plane decent and decided that gaining overwhelming power would eliminate every difficulty, including Allison’s concerns.
• Allison said that her kin had lived like caged birds and might suffer if they ever lost her and Golanel’s protection.
• The narration explained that Allison and Golanel had secretly restrained their kin’s negative emotions, helping the Elsera Elf Kingdom endure but depriving its people of hardship and experience.
• Allison wondered whether she had hindered her kin’s future by protecting them too much.