Chapter Summaries

Ling Xuzi tried to destroy Ren Weiyong’s statue, but Uncle Nine confronted him and revealed Ren Weiyong’s divine status and the restored immortal path. The confrontation paused after Uncle Nine warned Wencai to stop telling an outsider about the Dao Venerable.

• Ling Xuzi attacked Ren Weiyong’s statue, and Uncle Nine intercepted his sword strike.
• Uncle Nine identified himself as Lin Jiu and tried to explain that Ren Weiyong protected the region, but Ling Xuzi insisted on destroying the statue.
• Ling Xuzi attacked Uncle Nine, whose protective barrier stopped the strike without being shaken.
• Uncle Nine told Ling Xuzi that Heaven had granted Ren Weiyong divine authority and that he was an Earth Immortal; Qiusheng and Wencai also described the Dao Venerable’s role.
• Wencai explained that the Dao Venerable had upgraded the world and restored the immortal path, and Uncle Nine reprimanded him for revealing those affairs to an outsider.

Uncle Nine reconciled with Ling Xuzi after learning he practiced sword cultivation despite belonging to the Corpse Refining Sect. Ren Dalong arrived in Ren Family Town to pay respects to Ren Weiyong, reunited with Uncle Nine amid hints of a romantic rivalry, and revealed that Ren Tiantang had died two days earlier.

• Ling Xuzi apologized to Uncle Nine, compensated the Mountain God Temple, and explained that he rejected the Corpse Refining Sect’s corpse refining in favor of sword cultivation.
• Uncle Nine welcomed Ling Xuzi as a friend and led him to the rear courtyard to talk over tea.
• Ren Fa greeted his cousin Ren Dalong, who arrived with armed soldiers and said his pregnant wife, Sister Lian, had stayed home.
• Uncle Nine and Ren Dalong recognized each other as old rivals, exchanged barbs about Sister Lian and Aunt Zhe, and left Ren Fa, Qiusheng, and Wencai confused.
• Ren Dalong declined Ren Fa’s banquet because he needed to pay respects to Ren Weiyong and then visit their second uncle, Ren Tiantang, who had died two days earlier.

Ren Fa and Ren Dalong paid respects at Ren Weiyong’s tomb, while Uncle Nine and the others watched from concealment. Ren Weiyong then invited them to his underground palace, where Ling Xuzi explained his sect’s history and apologized for trying to destroy the Mountain God Temple.

• Ren Fa mourned Ren Tiantang’s death and gave Ren Dalong money to offer incense on his behalf.
• Ren Dalong visited Ren Weiyong’s tomb, spoke of his family’s ambitions, and asked for a son to be born safely to Sister Lian.
• After Ren Fa left, Ling Xuzi warned Uncle Nine that black qi around Ren Dalong foretold danger, and Uncle Nine decided to help his friend.
• Ren Weiyong invited Uncle Nine, Ling Xuzi, Wencai, and Qiusheng into his brightly lit underground palace.
• Ren Weiyong asked whether Ling Xuzi belonged to the Corpse Herding Sect, and Ling Xuzi explained that he belonged to the Corpse Refining Sect and condemned its branch’s atrocities.
• Ling Xuzi explained why he had tried to smash the Mountain God Temple, and Ren Weiyong warned him to investigate before acting rashly.

Huang Tian brought Uncle Nine and Ren Weiyong to the Huang Tian Realm, where he established the Netherworld and ordered Yanhuang Hall to send all Ghost Immortals into reincarnation. With the realm’s origin strengthened, he assigned Yanhuang Hall’s members to create Great Thousand Worlds and manage them as Realm Masters.

• Huang Tian took Uncle Nine and Ren Weiyong to the Huang Tian Realm, leaving Wencai, Qiusheng, and Ling Xuzi to guard Ren Family Town.
• Huang Tian gathered Yanhuang Hall and ordered Qian Daoliu and the others to send all collected souls into the Netherworld for reincarnation, forbidding anyone from interfering with its laws.
• Yanhuang Hall released hundreds of millions of Ghost Immortals, and the Six Paths of Reincarnation erased their memories and sent them to be reborn.
• The Huang Tian Realm’s origin rose by ten percent, and Huang Tian considered using its power to advance his own cultivation rather than exchange it for Primordial Violet Qi.
• Huang Tian declared the Netherworld operational and ordered Yanhuang Hall’s members to open Great Thousand Worlds and become Realm Masters.
• Uncle Nine and Ren Weiyong watched in awe as Yanhuang Hall’s members accepted their assignments to manage their own worlds.

Tang Chen opened a Great Thousand World, attained the Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, and became its Realm Master. As Yanhuang Hall’s members began opening worlds of their own, their achievements strengthened the Huang Tian Realm and raised Huang Tian to the ninth-layer Great Perfection.

• Huang Tian gave 14,320 Quasi-Saint Great Perfection members of Yanhuang Hall the method for opening heaven and earth, and they traveled into the outer chaos.
• Tang Chen opened a Great Thousand World with the Clear Sky Hammer transformed into a Sky-Opening Axe, then spent one hundred thousand years stabilizing it against the chaos.
• Tang Chen attained the Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, received Great Dao merit, and used it to elevate the Clear Sky Hammer and Nine-Rank Merit Golden Lotus into stronger treasures.
• Tang Chen sent part of his Nascent Soul into his new world's Heavenly Dao, making it his incarnation, then absorbed the Great Thousand World into his body.
• After congratulating Tang Chen, Yanhuang Hall’s members spread through the chaos and began opening heaven and earth together.
• The Huang Tian Realm gained fortune and merit from Tang Chen’s breakthrough, and Huang Tian advanced to the ninth-layer Great Perfection of the Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

Huang Tian sent Lin Jiu and Ren Weiyong back to their chaotic homeland, then taught Liu Erlong and the other women how to create Great Thousand Worlds and ascend. After four Guardian Elders succeeded and Huang Tian Realm advanced again, the women set out for the Outer Chaos while Huang Tian resumed cultivating.

• Huang Tian returned to Huang Tian Realm and learned that demons had thrown the world of Mr. Zombie into chaos while Lin Jiu and Ren Weiyong cultivated in seclusion.
• Huang Tian sent Lin Jiu and Ren Weiyong back to their homeland, where they resolved to suppress the demons and restore the righteous path.
• Huang Tian told Liu Erlong and the other women that Tang Chen had created a Great Thousand World and reached the Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, then taught them the method.
• Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, Qian Daoliu, and Bo Saixi created Great Thousand Worlds, ascended, and caused Huang Tian Realm to expand again.
• Liu Erlong and the other women departed for the Outer Chaos to create worlds, while Huang Tian returned to cultivating and considered the dangerous single strike of his Sky-Opening Axe.

Three years later, Huang Tian’s growing realm produced repeated breakthroughs, but two unexpected body-seizure attempts disrupted his plans. He destroyed both intruders, gained their powers and treasures, and concluded that he would address the realm’s loopholes after the Yanhuang Hall members advanced.

• Huang Tian was struck by a system that tried to erase his consciousness, but he crushed it and absorbed its origin and the transmigrator’s memories.
• Huang Tian gained a deeper understanding of the Space Law and prepared to inspect the Yanhuang Hall members’ progress in the Outer Chaos.
• A Chaos Pearl attacked Huang Tian and projected a consciousness that tried to seize his body.
• Huang Tian erased the consciousness, forcibly refined the Chaos Pearl, and received its information and power.
• Huang Tian deduced that loopholes caused by Yanhuang Hall members attaining the Dao had drawn systems and treasures into his realm, and he prioritized their remaining breakthroughs over repairing those loopholes.

Huang Tian discovered a World-Breaking Chisel and repelled a Main God Imprint that tried to force him into the Main God Space. After learning how the Main God Space plundered Heavenly Dao Origin across worlds, he wondered how powerful its true master was.

• Zhunti and Jieyin sensed Huang Tian's aura, summoned Yuanshi and Daode for help, and set out toward the Huang Tian Realm.
• A purple radiance entered Huang Tian's sea of consciousness, but his true spirit erased its attempt to seize his body and revealed the intermediate Chaos Spirit Treasure, the World-Breaking Chisel.
• Huang Tian spent three months advancing the Purification Technique until it could purify all things a millionfold.
• A Main God Imprint appeared in Huang Tian's sea of consciousness and offered him entry into the Main God Space, then began forcibly binding him when he declined.
• Huang Tian used the Huang Tian Realm's Heavenly Dao power to erase the imprint's power, absorb Heavenly Dao Origin, and learn how the Main God Space sent Reincarnators to plunder worlds.

Huang Tian condensed his Magic Power a millionfold, but his cultivation consumed the Huang Tian Realm’s available resources, so he decided to seek resources in other worlds. After discovering that his Immortal Estate could not contain the now-powerful Huang Tian Realm, he stored it in his Dantian and prepared to travel onward.

• Huang Tian stored the Main God Imprint and used vast quantities of herbs and medicines to condense his Magic Power a millionfold.
• Huang Tian found that the Huang Tian Realm’s resources could no longer support his cultivation and chose to seek resources in other worlds.
• Huang Tian discovered that a thousand years had passed and that Yanhuang Hall had more than three thousand Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortals, including Qian Renxue and four other women.
• Huang Tian found that the Huang Tian Realm had surpassed the Number One Primordial Wilderness World but had not become an Eternal True Realm.
• Huang Tian learned that his low-grade Chaos Spirit Treasure Immortal Estate could not contain the Huang Tian Realm, so he stored it in his Dantian.

Huang Tian entered a foreign Primordial Wilderness world, suppressed its Saints, and plundered its Heavenly Dao Origin and treasures. As he escaped, an ancient will awakened, possessed Primordial Beginning, and ordered the world sealed.

• Huang Tian opened a spatial passage to the Primordial Wilderness world, alerting Hongjun and the other Saints to an invasion.
• Huang Tian emerged from the passage, overpowered the seven Saints, and used the rank of the Huang Tian Realm to suppress the Primordial Wilderness.
• Huang Tian sealed the world's Eye of Heavenly Dao, extracted its origin, and sent an avatar to plunder its treasures.
• Huang Tian discovered Hongjun was only an imprint in a projection world and stopped plundering when he sensed a terrifying will awakening.
• An ancient will possessed Primordial Beginning, failed to identify Huang Tian, and ordered the Primordial Wilderness sealed as Huang Tian approached his escape.

Fan Tianlei’s special forces surrounded Scorpion’s mercenaries after they took villagers hostage, but Fan Tianlei hesitated to risk the hostages’ lives. Just as Scorpion demanded safe passage to the border, a young man in Daoist robes descended on a white cloud and was hailed as an immortal.

• Fan Tianlei ordered He Chenguang and Wang Yanbing to find a sniper position while the rest of the squad surrounded the house where Scorpion held hostages.
• A mercenary shot a hostage in the thigh and threatened to kill him unless the soldiers backed away.
• Scorpion told Fan Tianlei to withdraw and promised to release the civilians after crossing the border, while Fan Tianlei tried to negotiate.
• A young man in a purple-and-gold Daoist robe descended from the sky on a white cloud and challenged Scorpion’s demand.
• The mercenary dismissed the newcomer as no match for a bullet and squeezed the hostage’s shoulder, making him cry out in pain.

After a storm at sea, the nameless ape arrived at Huang Tian’s hidden immortal estate and bargained for a cultivation technique by pawning Flower and Fruit Mountain. Huang Tian bestowed the name Sun Wukong, and the ape celebrated as he prepared to sign the pawn document.

• A storm battered the ape’s raft, but a sudden mist transported him from the East Sea to Huang Tian’s estate.
• The ape begged Huang Tian to accept him as a disciple and teach him how to attain longevity.
• Huang Tian offered the ape either a long life without power or a cultivation technique, and the ape chose the technique.
• Huang Tian required the ape to pawn Flower and Fruit Mountain for one hundred years, and the ape chose a redeemable pawn.
• Huang Tian bestowed the name Sun Wukong on the ape, who happily repeated his new name.

Huang Tian taught Sun Wukong the Heaven-Reaching Profound Technique in exchange for Flower and Fruit Mountain, then moved the entire island into another world. Sun Wukong was stunned by Huang Tian’s power and resolved to cultivate until he could wield similar abilities.

• Huang Tian gave Sun Wukong literacy so he could sign the pawn document, then transmitted the Heaven-Reaching Profound Technique to him.
• Sun Wukong fainted from the vast information in the technique, woke, and thanked Huang Tian for granting it.
• Huang Tian collected the pledged Flower and Fruit Mountain by moving it out of the East Sea and into another world.
• The Jade Emperor learned that Flower and Fruit Mountain had vanished, while Tathagata Buddha investigated its disappearance and confirmed that Sun Wukong had already left the island.
• Huang Tian showed Sun Wukong the miniature Flower and Fruit Mountain in his palm, and Sun Wukong vowed to cultivate diligently.

Sun Wukong cultivated the Heaven-Reaching Profound Technique and rapidly advanced to Golden Immortal, while Huang Tian arranged for another Sun Wukong to train the monkeys on Flower and Fruit Mountain. Unable to divine who had altered his plans for the stone monkey, Patriarch Bodhi set out to investigate.

• Huang Tian sent Sun Wukong back to his raft and told him how to return using the token.
• Sun Wukong cultivated the Heaven-Reaching Profound Technique, reached Heavenly Immortal in one day, and traveled to Aolai Kingdom to continue training.
• Within a year, Sun Wukong advanced to Golden Immortal while Huang Tian monitored him and sent another Sun Wukong to teach the Monkey Offspring on Flower and Fruit Mountain.
• Patriarch Bodhi sensed that something was wrong and discovered through divination that Sun Wukong had become a Golden Immortal.
• Patriarch Bodhi failed to identify who had taught Sun Wukong and left the Cave of the Slanting Moon and Three Stars to investigate.

Patriarch Bodhi tried to recruit Sun Wukong, but Sun Wukong rejected his teachings and revealed that he already had superior cultivation and abilities. After Bodhi searched Sun Wukong’s memories and found no trace of his mysterious teacher, Great Sage Sun ambushed him and left him gravely wounded.

• Patriarch Bodhi arrived in Aolai Kingdom and offered to teach Sun Wukong immortality, the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Transformations, and the Somersault Cloud, but Sun Wukong rejected each offer.
• Sun Wukong demonstrated that he already cultivated the Heaven-Reaching Profound Technique and could transform and travel vast distances instantly.
• Huang Tian sent Great Sage Sun to confront Patriarch Bodhi, and Great Sage Sun agreed to strike without holding back.
• Patriarch Bodhi seized Sun Wukong, searched his memories, and found no clue to who had taught him his cultivation technique.
• As Patriarch Bodhi prepared to leave and warn Tathagata, Great Sage Sun ambushed him with the Golden-Bound Cudgel and gravely wounded him.

Great Sage Sun drove off Patriarch Bodhi after confronting him for attacking Sun Wukong, but spared his life to protect Huang Tian’s plan. At Great Thunderclap Temple, Patriarch Bodhi and Tathagata agreed to continue the Journey to the West plan while seeking the mysterious monkey’s identity.

• Great Sage Sun attacked Patriarch Bodhi for striking Sun Wukong and accused him of trying to steal the young monkey’s cultivation techniques.
• Patriarch Bodhi fled toward Western Spirit Mountain, and Great Sage Sun stopped his blow to avoid destroying Aolai Kingdom and exposing Huang Tian’s plan.
• Great Sage Sun returned to Huang Tian, who accepted that he had spared Patriarch Bodhi, and then sent him to protect Sun Wukong.
• Patriarch Bodhi reported to Tathagata Buddha that a Stone Monkey elder had wounded him and helped Sun Wukong reach Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Patriarch Bodhi and Tathagata decided to proceed with their original plan, identify the figure behind the interference, and later seek a Saint’s Dharma artifact.
• Tathagata instructed Bodhisattva Guanyin to monitor the plan and investigate the person behind the scenes.

After discovering how weak he was, Sun Wukong rapidly cultivated to the Peak Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, then sought treasures from the East Sea Dragon King to ransom Flower and Fruit Mountain. Ao Guang welcomed him because Bodhisattva Guanyin had instructed him to, and Sun Wukong arrived at the Dragon Palace treasury with a plan to take as much as he could.

• After an old man attacked him and vanished, Sun Wukong resolved to become stronger and cultivated for a year to reach the Peak Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.
• When his progress slowed and he needed resources to redeem Flower and Fruit Mountain, Sun Wukong recalled the East Sea Dragon King's wealth and traveled to the Crystal Palace.
• General Crab told Ao Guang that Sun Wukong had come to visit, and Ao Guang recognized him as the demon monkey Bodhisattva Guanyin had mentioned.
• Sun Wukong asked Ao Guang for treasures, rejected two ordinary weapons, and pressed the Dragon King with his aura.
• Ao Guang took Sun Wukong to the treasury, where Sun Wukong secretly considered taking every treasure and asked whether there were any more formidable ones.

Sun Wukong took the Sea-Pacifying Divine Needle Iron, looted Ao Guang’s treasure vault, and demanded armor before leaving the East Sea. Bodhisattva Guanyin followed him to investigate, while Great Sage Sun revealed that the Buddhist Sect was searching for the force behind him.

• Sun Wukong claimed the Sea-Pacifying Divine Needle Iron from Ao Guang and transformed it into the As-You-Will Golden-Bound Cudgel.
• Sun Wukong pressured Ao Guang into handing over his treasure vault, killed two guards who tried to stop him, and swallowed the vault’s treasures.
• Sun Wukong demanded armor, and Ao Guang gave him the Phoenix-Feather Purple-Gold Crown, Chain-Linked Golden Armor, and Lotus-Root Silk Cloud-Stepping Boots.
• Bodhisattva Guanyin watched Sun Wukong leave Aolai Kingdom and rob the Dragon King of the East Sea, then followed him because his actions seemed suspicious.
• Great Sage Sun appeared after Bodhisattva Guanyin left and recognized that the Buddhist Sect was investigating Sun Wukong and the Dao Venerable behind him.

Sun Wukong brought the treasures he had taken from the East Sea Dragon Palace to Huang Tian to redeem Flower and Fruit Mountain. After Huang Tian accepted enough treasure, Sun Wukong reclaimed the mountain and burned the Pawn Document, then departed after Huang Tian warned him to be careful on the way back.

• Sun Wukong visited Huang Tian and offered the treasures he had taken from the East Sea Dragon Palace to redeem Flower and Fruit Mountain.
• Huang Tian judged the first piles insufficient, then accepted another pile once the total was enough.
• Huang Tian gave Sun Wukong a Qiankun Bag to store treasures instead of swallowing them.
• Huang Tian returned Flower and Fruit Mountain and the Pawn Document to Sun Wukong.
• Sun Wukong burned the Pawn Document and left after Huang Tian warned him to be careful on his way back.

Bodhisattva Guanyin confronted Sun Wukong after he mysteriously vanished and reappeared, hoping to discover who had taken him away. Their fight escalated when Guanyin used Buddha's Palm and Sun Wukong transformed into a giant ape to meet the attack.

• Bodhisattva Guanyin waited near Aolai Kingdom and watched Sun Wukong reappear from nowhere.
• Sun Wukong mistook Guanyin for an enemy connected to the Dragon King of the East Sea, and Guanyin revealed herself and demanded to know where he had gone.
• Guanyin attacked Sun Wukong, but he struck her palm aside with the Golden-Bound Cudgel.
• Guanyin unleashed Buddha's Palm, and Sun Wukong used the Heaven-Reaching Profound Technique and Size as Desired to become a giant ape and strike back with his staff.