Chapter Summaries

Funingna exposed the Buddhist Sect’s doctrines, then rallied the Four Great Walls to demand justice for Duan Cangqiong and the Moon Embracing Sect. Buddha admitted the sect’s responsibility and offered compensation, while trying to shift blame to the sealed Great Peng King and negotiate directly with the Moon Embracing Sect.

• Funingna mocked the Buddhist Sect’s teachings about karma and becoming a Buddha, provoking the Buddhist Patriarch and the monks.
• An immortal light stopped the Buddhist Patriarch from attacking Funingna, who then turned the dispute toward the Buddhist Sect’s treatment of Duan Cangqiong and the Moon Embracing Sect.
• The Immortal Kings of the Four Great Walls declared they would defend meritorious heroes, putting the Buddhist Sect under pressure to answer for its actions.
• Buddha blamed the Great Peng King for attacking Duan Cangqiong and claimed the Buddhist Sect had not known the Moon Embracing Sect was a meritorious force.
• Funingna challenged Buddha’s excuses, and the Willow Deity withdrew after warning the Three Thousand Continents against using strength to bully the weak.
• Buddha acknowledged the Buddhist Sect’s responsibility and offered compensation, asking to negotiate directly with the Moon Embracing Sect.

Lin Fan traveled to the Buddhist Sect to negotiate after Funingna arranged a meeting, then reunited with her and learned how deeply she still regarded him as her master despite becoming the Endless Long Wall’s Saintess. Their public reunion stunned the watching powers and left Buddha convinced the Buddhist Sect would face a costly settlement.

• Funingna agreed to negotiate with the Buddhist Sect and asked three Immortal Kings to open a gateway to the Moon Embracing Sect for Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan warned his disciples to recover and prepare for future threats, while Long Aojiao dismissed his concern about her exposed Overlord Divine Halberd.
• Lin Fan and Duan Cangqiong entered the spatial gateway and arrived at Western Heaven, where Funingna rushed into Lin Fan’s arms and called him master.
• The Endless Long Wall’s people, other Great Walls, and observers reacted with shock and bitterness as Funingna openly affirmed her servant-like devotion to Lin Fan.
• Buddha realized the Buddhist Sect was likely facing a massive financial penalty, while Funingna told Lin Fan she wanted to remain his maidservant rather than be Saintess.

Lin Fan and Duan Cangqiong negotiated compensation from the Buddhist Sect for the battle, with Lin Fan adding claims for Duan Cangqiong’s lost lifespan and depleted magical treasures. The Buddha agreed to the initial demands, but Lin Fan pressed for further compensation for Duan Cangqiong’s diminished strength.

• Lin Fan told Funingna he would not prevent her from leaving, but she declared that she wanted to remain by his side, and he then turned to negotiate with the Buddhist Sect.
• Duan Cangqiong demanded compensation for losses and an apology, while the Buddha agreed to compensation but rejected a public apology and settled for a private one.
• Lin Fan argued that the Buddhist Sect must compensate Duan Cangqiong for losing most of his remaining lifespan, and the Buddha agreed to provide twice the materials needed for life-extending pills.
• Lin Fan demanded replacement one-use magical treasures or valuables of equal worth, and the Buddha reluctantly accepted.
• When a Buddhist monk protested that Duan Cangqiong had no further losses, Lin Fan argued that his inability to protect himself was like being crippled and demanded compensation.

Lin Fan forced the Buddhist Sect to compensate Duan Cangqiong for the injuries inflicted by its Great Peng King, then demanded extensive reparations for the Moon Embracing Sect and its allies. The Buddhist Sect agreed to compensate them, but Lin Fan's final demands included a public apology, recognition of the Western Ox Continent as Moon Embracing Sect territory, and a ten-year non-aggression pledge.

• Lin Fan and the Immortal Kings argued that the Buddhist Sect owed Duan Cangqiong compensation for the damage the Great Peng King had caused.
• Lin Fan demanded the Buddhist Sect's Nine Revolutions Universe Pill, then proposed powerful magical treasures when the Buddha refused.
• The Buddha agreed to provide materials for two One Revolution Universe Pills, and Lin Fan secured additional benefits and an apology from an Immortal King Giant for Duan Cangqiong.
• Lin Fan demanded compensation for his injuries, the Moon Embracing Sect's disciples, battle expenses, property damage, and losses suffered by Great Qin and the Heavenly Secrets Tower.
• The Buddhist Sect agreed to pay, and Lin Fan further demanded a public apology, Buddhist withdrawal from the Western Ox Continent, and a ten-year pledge not to target the Moon Embracing Sect unless it struck first.

Lin Fan negotiated a ten-year truce and extensive concessions from the Buddhist Sect, then demanded compensation before releasing the Great Peng King. As the Buddhist Sect yielded, Long Aojiao revealed that the Winter Long Wall had named her its Saintess, leaving the watching powers wondering whether the other Great Walls had Saintesses too.

• Lin Fan demanded ten years of peace, the Western Ox Continent, noninterference from the Buddhist Sect, and a Dao Heart Oath preventing the Great Peng King from attacking the Moon Embracing Sect.
• Buddha accepted Lin Fan's conditions and promised to release the Great Peng King, but Lin Fan said he needed compensation to recover his strength before undoing the seal.
• Buddha sent an Arhat to fetch the promised compensation while watching Immortal Kings laughed at the Buddhist Sect's humiliation.
• Long Aojiao stepped forward and challenged the Buddhist Sect to settle her own grievance.
• An Immortal King incarnation from the Winter Long Wall bowed to Long Aojiao and identified her as its Saintess.
• The Immortal Kings were stunned by the revelation, and one asked whether the Sword Qi Great Wall also had a Saintess.

Long Aojiao used her new status as the Winter Saintess to demand compensation and a public apology from the Buddhist Sect for its attack on her and her followers. After Lin Fan helped collect a vast payment, the Great Peng King was released and immediately attacked him, prompting the Buddha to suppress him and order him to swear a Dao Heart Oath.

• An Immortal King of the Sword Qi Great Wall considered establishing a Holy Son or Saintess after learning the Vast Long Wall was preparing to name a female prodigy its Saintess.
• Long Aojiao revealed her Winter Saintess status to the Buddhist Sect and demanded compensation for the injuries and losses suffered by her followers.
• Long Aojiao asked Lin Fan to write the compensation list, and the Buddha agreed before arranging for the Buddhist Sect to pay and publicly apologize.
• Lin Fan and Long Aojiao counted the payment, which included an Immortal Crystal, an Arhat Fruit, and other rare treasures.
• After restoring his strength, Lin Fan released the Great Peng King, who attacked him and was promptly suppressed by the Buddha.

The Moon Embracing Sect celebrated its victory over the Buddhist Sect, then prepared its disciples to recover and grow stronger before heading back out into the world. Lin Fan welcomed Duan Cangqiong as an elder, while the remaining sect members settled in for a rare stretch of peace.

• The Great Peng King swore a Dao Heart Oath and left, while the Buddha dismissed Lin Fan and the others and later suffered recurring nightmares about Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan welcomed Immortal King Qing Ping and the other Endless Long Wall Immortal Kings at the Moon Embracing Sect, where they celebrated together before Funingna returned to her post as Saintess.
• Long Aojiao asked Xiao Ling'er to refine pills from the Buddhist Sect's spoils, and Three Leaves and Yaya prepared to return to their respective Great Walls.
• Lin Fan refined more than a hundred immortal pills, helped his disciples recover, and taught them practical techniques, including a simplified version of the Nine Sealing Demon Forbidden Arts.
• Shi Hao, Yaya, Xiao Ling'er, Lin Dong, Three Leaves, Qin Yu, Long Aojiao, and others left the sect, while Lin Fan urged those who remained to use the coming peaceful years to grow stronger.
• Duan Cangqiong asked to join the Moon Embracing Sect as an elder, and Lin Fan gladly accepted him.

Lin Fan cultivated while the Moon Embracing Sect prepared for the coming conflict, as Sun Wuxia searched for allies inside the Immortal Hall and the Great Peng King was ordered to delay his revenge. On Jiang Liu'er’s twelfth birthday, Gatling Bodhisattva regained his memories and began secretly cultivating, then recognized Elder Jinchi’s arrival as a possible sign that Journey to the West had begun.

• Lin Fan made Duan Cangqiong an idle elder, entered seclusion, and later gave him a One Revolution Universe Pill so he could rebuild his foundation.
• The Heavenly Maiden suggested that the middle-aged beautiful woman join the Moon Embracing Sect to learn its Invincible Methods and Invincible Techniques.
• Sun Wuxia asked the Rat Spirit to secretly find Immortal Hall figures resembling Nezha and Erlang Shen, hoping to recruit them as allies.
• Buddha warned the Great Peng King not to act against the Moon Embracing Sect until Journey to the West had ended, and the Great Peng King reluctantly agreed.
• On Jiang Liu’er’s twelfth birthday, Gatling Bodhisattva regained his memories and secretly cultivated during private moments while avoiding his watchers.
• When Elder Jinchi arrived at Golden Mountain Temple to compete over a cassock, Jiang Liu’er asked to meet him and suspected Journey to the West was starting.

Jiang Liu'er received Lin Fan’s hidden techniques, secretly cultivated, and reached the peak of the Ninth Realm before the Tang Emperor arrived to set the scripture journey in motion. Renamed Tang Sanzang, he left the Tang Empire for Western Heaven and wondered when his monkey would appear.

• Lin Fan, disguised as Elder Jinchi, exchanged secret signals with Jiang Liu'er through Buddhist verses and gave him a cassock containing the Art of a Thousand Transformations and Great Vajra Heavenly Dragon.
• Jiang Liu'er used his blood to unlock the cassock, learned the techniques, secretly cultivated to the peak of the Ninth Realm, and suppressed his breakthrough to avoid attracting attention.
• The Tang Emperor came to Golden Mountain Temple after receiving a divine dream, and he and Jiang Liu'er arranged to become sworn brothers and begin the scripture journey.
• The emperor bestowed the name Tang Sanzang on Jiang Liu'er and prepared him to travel west in search of the True Sutras.
• Tang Sanzang departed the Tang Empire on a white horse and, after the escort withdrew, continued alone while wondering where Sun Wukong was.
• A Bodhisattva visited Tang Sanzang in a dream that night.

Tang Sanzang met Sun Wuxia beneath Five Finger Mountain, freed her, and joined forces with her while pretending to follow the Buddhist Sect’s plan. After the watchers left, he broke through to the Immortal Realm and celebrated with Sun Wuxia by eating a tiger.

• Tang Sanzang recognized the disguised old man as suspicious and told him that eating his flesh could grant immortality, leaving the Buddhist monitor baffled.
• Tang Sanzang reached Five Finger Mountain, met Sun Wuxia, and persuaded her to accept him as her master by threatening to send her to Western Heaven.
• Tang Sanzang freed Sun Wuxia, and the two agreed to conceal their knowledge of Journey to the West and work together.
• Tang Sanzang and Sun Wuxia searched for hidden watchers, then Tang Sanzang began a tribulation and entered the Immortal Realm while disguised.
• Tang Sanzang told Sun Wuxia to kill a tiger that tried to ambush him, and they prepared to roast and eat it.

Tang Sanzang and Sun Wuxia tested how closely the Buddhist Sect monitored their pilgrimage, then continued west while planning to grow strong enough to oppose it. At Jade Belt River, Sun Wuxia released their white horse and went to challenge Little White Dragon directly, prompting him to chase after the horse and improvise.

• Tang Sanzang and Sun Wuxia ate meat and drank wine, and Tang explained that the Buddhist Sect cared more about the pilgrimage’s goal than his conduct.
• When Sun Wuxia killed bandits, Tang spared a tiger hide for a poor family, while the pair continued their journey and trained along the way.
• Buddha learned that Tang ate meat and drank alcohol, then had a Bodhisattva warn him to behave discreetly in public.
• Tang told Sun Wuxia that the warning showed their test had worked, and they headed toward Jade Belt River to find the White Dragon Horse.
• Sun Wuxia released their white horse and went to Jade Belt River to challenge Little White Dragon directly, so Little White Dragon chased after the fleeing horse to restore the expected script.

Tang Sanzang and Sun Wuxia forced the Little White Dragon to swear loyalty and surrender a sliver of his True Spirit before the party continued through the trials at startling speed. As they reached the thirty-fifth trial and confronted the Green Bull Spirit, Buddha ordered an investigation into why they had never sought help.

• Sun Wuxia defeated the Little White Dragon when he attacked the white horse, and Tang Sanzang and Sun Wuxia pressured him into swearing a Dao Heart Oath and surrendering part of his True Spirit.
• Tang Sanzang and Sun Wuxia welcomed the White Dragon Horse into the party after securing his obedience, and the group resumed its westward journey.
• Sun Wuxia beat Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng into joining the party, then killed or defeated demons across more than thirty trials without asking anyone for help.
• The Immortal Hall and Buddhist Sect wondered why Tang Sanzang's party had not called for reinforcements as expected.
• Buddha discovered that the party had reached the Green Bull Spirit at the thirty-fifth trial and ordered the Bodhisattva to investigate their rapid progress and lack of requests for help.

Sun Wuxia used the Green Bull Spirit and its treasure as bait to bring the Immortal Hall’s reinforcements—and the Third Prince—into her plan. The Green Bull Spirit collected the immortals’ magic treasures with its Vajra Bracelet, then Heavenly King Li was suddenly beheaded.

• Sun Wuxia proposed using the Green Bull Spirit to draw powerful allies into the conflict while concealing her and Tang Sanzang’s true strength.
• After the Green Bull Spirit captured Tang Sanzang and the others and defeated Sun Wuxia, she sent a clone to recruit the Third Prince, who agreed when she heard Heavenly King Li would be there.
• Sun Wuxia gathered a crowd of eager Immortal Hall officials and led them to the Green Bull Spirit’s cave, where they prepared to attack together.
• The Green Bull Spirit emerged, and the immortals launched a barrage of magic treasures at it before it could finish its scripted taunts.
• The Green Bull Spirit used its Vajra Bracelet to collect the immortals’ treasures, and Heavenly King Li was abruptly beheaded.

The Third Prince killed Heavenly King Li with the Green Bull Spirit’s stolen cauldron leaving him exposed, then broke through a major realm after his heart demon vanished. Laojun subdued the Green Bull Spirit, and the chapter ended with the Third Prince offering to join Sun Wuxia against the Immortal Hall.

• The Third Prince ambushed and killed Heavenly King Li, then destroyed his body and broke through to a new realm as his heart demon disappeared.
• The immortals panicked over Heavenly King Li’s death and the Green Bull Spirit’s role, while Buddha and the Bodhisattva worried that the Immortal Hall would use the incident to demand more benefits.
• The Giant Spirit God told Laojun that the Green Bull Spirit had taken Heavenly King Li’s pagoda, and Laojun hurried to retrieve and subdue his mount.
• Sun Wuxia rescued her master and junior brothers after Laojun took the Green Bull Spirit away, while the other immortals left without speaking to the Third Prince.
• The Third Prince thanked Sun Wuxia, called her his lifelong friend, and offered to join her in attacking the Immortal Hall.

Tang Sanzang and his companions reached Daughter Country, where he stayed with the queen for three years before resuming the journey. At Golden Horn and Silver Horn’s lair, Tang Sanzang revealed his Thirteenth Realm cultivation and helped Sun Wuxia kill the two demons, leaving Laojun to answer for his missing treasures.

• Sun Wuxia told Tang Sanzang they were near Daughter Country, and he eagerly led the group there.
• Tang Sanzang fell in love with the queen, stayed with her for three years, and then left to continue westward.
• Tang Sanzang revealed his cultivation when Golden Horn and Silver Horn trapped Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng, and he joined Sun Wuxia to defeat and kill the demons.
• Tang Sanzang and Sun Wuxia took the demons’ five treasures and freed Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng, who realized Tang Sanzang had hidden his strength from them.
• Laojun arrived and claimed he had not known the demons had taken his treasures, while Sun Wuxia challenged his explanation.

After Laojun restored Golden Horn and Silver Horn, Tang Sanzang and Sun Wuxia kept his treasures and devised a way to redirect the Journey to the West toward enemies they could defeat. They chose the Jietian Sect as their target, and Tang Sanzang hinted that he had a clever way to make its members capture him.

• Laojun recreated bodies for Golden Horn and Silver Horn, then accepted that Tang Sanzang and Sun Wuxia would keep the stolen treasures and his belt.
• Tang Sanzang and Sun Wuxia worried about the dangerous trials at Wuzhuang Temple and the Great Peng King, and discussed replacing the planned trials with fights against their own enemies.
• Sun Wuxia named the Jietian Sect, an enemy of the Moon Embracing Sect, as their target, and Tang Sanzang agreed that defeating it could benefit them and her former sect.
• Sun Wuxia doubted the Jietian Sect would capture Tang Sanzang, so he said he would use a method involving Han Dynasty Envoys.

Lin Fan broke through to the Thirteenth Realm and joined Tang Sanzang’s plan to provoke the Jietian Sect, recruiting allies to destroy it. As Tang Sanzang’s group entered Jietian Sect territory, Su Wen confronted them and was stunned by Tang Sanzang’s claim that eating his flesh granted immortality.

• Lin Fan emerged from seclusion as a Thirteenth Realm Grand Unity True Immortal and received Sun Wuxia’s report about Tang Sanzang’s plan.
• Lin Fan agreed to join the operation, contacted the Emperor Qin and the Heavenly Secrets Tower, alerted the Butian Pavilion, and secretly set out for the Jietian Sect.
• Tang Sanzang told Sun Wuxia to stay outside the Jietian Sect and summon reinforcements when he gave the signal.
• After the pilgrimage party entered Jietian Sect territory, a higher-up recognized their apparent lineup and reported them to the Sect Master, who sent Su Wen to investigate.
• In a busy town, Tang Sanzang announced that eating his flesh granted immortality, prompting Su Wen to pull him and his companions aside.
• Su Wen questioned Tang Sanzang about his identity and route, and Tang Sanzang insisted the claim about his flesh was true.

Su Wen and the Jietian Sect Master tried to reason with Tang Sanzang, who insisted that the Jietian Sect’s spirit beasts were demons and demanded to slay them. After the Sect Master cast Tang Sanzang and his disciples out, they returned to denounce the sect, leaving the Sect Master to arrange a staged demon-slaying to make them leave.

• Tang Sanzang told Su Wen that he used himself as bait to find demons, then accused Su Wen of sheltering them when Su Wen defended the Jietian Sect’s spirit beasts.
• Sun Wuxia secretly switched places with a monkey-hair clone and slipped away while Tang Sanzang ordered his disciples to subdue demons.
• Su Wen brought Tang Sanzang and his disciples to the Jietian Sect Master, who rejected Tang Sanzang’s accusations and swept the group through a spatial rift back onto their route.
• Tang Sanzang declared the Jietian Sect the Land of Ten Thousand Demons and returned with his disciples to challenge the sect.
• Su Wen reported that Tang Sanzang was threatening to smash his head and return in future lives, so the Jietian Sect Master ordered the sect to remove its mounts and pets and arrange a few demons for Tang Sanzang to slay.

Tang Sanzang used demon-slaying as an excuse to enter the Jietian Sect, assault its Saintess, and loot its treasure vault. The Jietian Sect Leader learned that Tang Sanzang was genuine, while the Bodhisattva accepted the chaos as part of the scripture-seeking trials.

• The Jietian Sect Leader welcomed Tang Sanzang and arranged for the sect's demons to be cleared, but Tang Sanzang returned and claimed that more remained.
• Tang Sanzang led the Jietian Sect Leader to the Saintess's palace, accused her of being possessed, and attacked her while the Sect Leader waited outside.
• The Jietian Sect Leader discovered Tang Sanzang's abuse of the Saintess but endured it, then watched him claim that demons remained in the treasure vault.
• The Jietian Sect Leader sent an incarnation to Western Heaven, where a Bodhisattva agreed to investigate whether Tang Sanzang was genuine.
• Tang Sanzang looted nearly a third of the treasure vault, and the Bodhisattva confirmed that he was the real scripture-seeker.
• The Bodhisattva called the Jietian Sect's ordeal one of the eighty-one trials, leaving the Jietian Sect Leader furious over his losses.

Tang Sanzang deliberately provoked the Jietian Sect Master into suppressing him and his disciples, giving Sun Wuxia time to recruit reinforcements. As Sun Wuxia rushed toward the Jietian Sect with forces from the Immortal Hall and Buddhist Sect, Lin Fan prepared to settle the score and destroy the sect.

• Tang Sanzang looted the Jietian Sect's treasure vault and copied its Scripture Repository, then provoked the Jietian Sect Master while confronting his mother.
• The Jietian Sect Master lost his temper, severed Tang Sanzang's arms, and sealed him and his disciples, while Tang Sanzang secretly welcomed the outcome.
• The Jietian Sect Master discussed how to respond with Su Wen, who warned that making an enemy of the Buddhist Sect could doom them.
• Sun Wuxia learned Tang Sanzang had succeeded and recruited immortals from the Immortal Hall and Buddhist Sect to rush to the Jietian Sect.
• Sun Wuxia told Lin Fan she was on her way, and Lin Fan watched the Jietian Sect from a tree and declared that it should be destroyed.