Recaps

Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, Black Tortoise Patriarch, White Tiger, Beginning Qilin, and Donghua attained the Daluo Golden Immortal of the Origin and pledged themselves to protect the Great Desolation World. Enraged by their advancement and the completed Four Extremes Great Array, the Heavenly Dao turned to its plan to seize control through the Journey to the West Calamity in the Earth Immortal Realm.

• Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, Black Tortoise Patriarch, White Tiger, Beginning Qilin, and Donghua went to Buzhou Mountain, thanked the Sanqing and Twelve Ancestral Witches, and pledged to help protect the Great Desolation World.
• Taiqing welcomed the six new Daluo Golden Immortals of the Origin, and Dijiang and Houtu declared that the Witch Race was stronger and the Great Desolation Continent was secure.
• The Heavenly Dao discovered that the six had attained the Dao and that five of them had secretly acknowledged Taiqing as their master, provoking its fury.
• The Heavenly Dao realized that the Great Desolation Four Extremes Great Array prevented it from destroying the continent, after Hongjun failed to break more than a small immortal mountain on the Western Continent.
• The Heavenly Dao resolved to use the Journey to the West Calamity and the deaths of the disciples' incarnations in the Earth Immortal Realm to increase its power and seize control.
• Six-Eared Macaque and his group continued disrupting the western lands as Xuandu and others planted hidden pieces, while Luohu raced through chaos toward another land of opportunity.

The eight reincarnated Chaos Demon Gods witnessed the completed Great Desolation Four Extremes Great Array and recognized how thoroughly it had thwarted the Heavenly Dao. They resolved to join Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, with Ancestor Reincarnation heading to Buzhou Mountain to discuss their alliance.

• Ancestor Reincarnation and Old Ancestor Yang Mei examined the array and found that it had greatly strengthened the world and restricted their powers.
• World Daoist, Old Ancestor Creation, Yin-Yang Ancestor, Old Ancestor Wuxing, Qiankun Ancestor, and Ancestor Soul gathered with them and realized the array’s foundations may have been laid since the end of the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity.
• The Heavenly Dao darkened the skies in anger, but the array dispersed the clouds and thunder.
• Old Ancestor Creation urged the group to commit to Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches and help destroy the Heavenly Dao’s consciousness.
• Yin-Yang Ancestor proposed sending forces to the Earth Immortal Realm to help against the Heavenly Dao’s plans there.
• Ancestor Reincarnation set out to Buzhou Mountain to discuss the alliance with Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

Guanyin told Sun Wukong to await the scripture seeker, while Jiang Liuer began preaching that the scriptures lay in the road itself. As the other destined companions prepared to travel west, Xuandu’s allies searched for Mara and headed toward the Western Heaven.

• Guanyin visited Sun Wukong beneath Five Elements Mountain and told him to protect the scripture seeker when the westward journey began.
• Jiang Liuer spoke at Great Ci'en Temple, teaching that the scriptures lay beneath one’s feet, while Daoist Duobao watched approvingly.
• Zhu Bajie, Sha Seng, and White Dragon Ao Lie each received a Heavenly Dao message telling them to prepare for the journey west.
• Xuandu observed that the four companions were in place and said the plan depended on Six-Eared Macaque’s group finding Mara.
• Six-Eared Macaque, Shi Ritian, Ye Fan, and Guang Chengzi reasoned that Mara might be fused with the calamity and chose to search the Western Heaven for demonic power.
• Jiang Liuer looked west and said that his master’s teachings had prepared him to begin the journey.

Guanyin investigated Jiang Liuer in Chang'an and warned the Buddhist leaders that the scripture seeker might have been replaced, while suspecting Daoist Duobao’s influence. As Six-Eared Macaque’s group approached Spirit Mountain, the leaders prepared its defenses for an imminent battle.

• Guanyin sensed an unusual threat from Jiang Liuer at Great Ci'en Temple, though he bore only pure Buddhist aura.
• Guanyin disguised herself as an aged monk and questioned Jiang Liuer, who said the road lay beneath one's feet and asked whether the Western Paradise might be there too.
• Guanyin urged Xuanzang to travel west, then reported to Fake Tathagata, Fake Jieyin, and Fake Zhunti that the scripture seeker might have been replaced.
• Fake Jieyin suspected Daoist Duobao had left his mark on Jiang Liuer, while Fake Zhunti wondered whether Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches had other contingencies.
• Fake Tathagata sensed Six-Eared Macaque leading a group toward Western Heaven, and the Buddhist leaders ordered Spirit Mountain's forces to prepare for battle.
• Fake Jieyin, Fake Zhunti, Fake Tathagata, and the Buddhist cultivators raised a vast barrier of Buddhist light around Spirit Mountain as the approaching group drew nearer.

Six-Eared Macaque and his companions attacked Spirit Mountain to reach Mara beneath it, while Fake Jieyin and Fake Zhunti defended the mountain with a heavenly dao-powered formation. Fake Yuanshi and Fake Supreme Lord Lao joined the battle but were driven back, and the formation neared collapse.

• Six-Eared Macaque revealed that Mara's aura lay beneath Spirit Mountain and led eleven companions to attack the Western Heaven.
• Fake Jieyin activated Spirit Mountain's grand formation, and Six-Eared Macaque's first strike shook the barrier without breaking it.
• Shi Ritian, Ye Fan, Guang Chengzi, Taiyi True Person, and the others struck the formation together, spreading cracks across it.
• Fake Supreme Lord Lao and Fake Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi arrived to support the Western Heaven, while Fake Tongtian refused to help, claiming he was refining pills.
• Six-Eared Macaque and his companions overwhelmed Fake Yuanshi and Fake Supreme Lord Lao as Fake Jieyin and Fake Zhunti struggled to keep the cracked formation intact.

The Six-Eared Macaque and eleven Sanqing disciples fought Jidu’s incarnation to keep attacking Spirit Mountain, while Jiang Liuer delayed the Journey to the West and eventually freed Sun Wukong. After Sun Wukong agreed to protect him, Jiang Liuer received the Seven-Turn Profound Origin Art and its cultivation materials as a reward.

• Jidu’s incarnation arrived at Spirit Mountain, repelled the Six-Eared Macaque, and reinforced the grand formation with Heavenly Dao Law Power.
• The Six-Eared Macaque and eleven Sanqing disciples formed a battle array to hold back Jidu’s Wheel of Laws, while Jidu steadily drained their power.
• Jiang Liuer set out from Tang Chang’an and delayed his westward journey by preaching and speaking with people along the way.
• After reaching Five Elements Mountain, Jiang Liuer spoke with Sun Wukong for ten years before removing the seal and freeing him.
• Sun Wukong knelt and agreed to protect Jiang Liuer on the journey west, and Jiang Liuer received the Seven-Turn Profound Origin Art and its cultivation materials as a reward.

Sun Wukong and Jiang Liuer altered the westward journey’s trials, recruiting Ao Lie and other former opponents while the Defy Fate System rewarded Sun Wukong and diverted the trials’ causality. As their journey disrupted Heavenly Dao’s plans, an ancient statue in the Eastern Sea awakened, and Lü Dongbin began a new path under Venerable Taiqing’s guidance.

• Jiang Liuer subdued Ao Lie with his Dragon Transformation Incantation and Virtue Back, and Ao Lie joined the party as a human Dharma protector rather than a mount.
• The Defy Fate System rewarded Sun Wukong with an Eon of cultivation after Ao Lie’s role changed, and Sun Wukong continued growing stronger as he helped Jiang Liuer transform demons and overturn the planned trials.
• Sun Wukong protected Jiang Liuer during the White Bone Demon trial, while Princess Iron Fan and the Bull Demon surrendered the Banana Leaf Fan and the Bull Demon joined the westward party.
• At Lion Camel Ridge, Jiang Liuer and Sun Wukong transformed the Green Lion, White Elephant, and bird demon, causing Heavenly Dao’s major arrangement to fail as the system intercepted the displaced causality.
• An ancient stone statue beneath the Eastern Sea emitted golden light and raised a vast island from the seabed when the Journey to the West causality shifted.
• A figure sent Lü Dongbin to patrol the seas in service of Venerable Taiqing, awakened his immortal root, and gave him the Pure Yang Sword.

Lü Dongbin gathered the seven reincarnated immortals and led them on an eastern journey across the Eastern Sea, where they cleared demonic threats and disrupted the Heavenly Dao’s hidden plans. On the newly emerged island, Lü Dongbin reached the fifth revolution and became a Daluo Golden Immortal, setting his sights on the position of Ziwei Emperor.

• Lü Dongbin received the Pure Yang Nine Revolutions Formula and Pure Yang Sword, then was tasked with gathering seven fellow travelers for an eastern journey.
• Lü Dongbin found Li Xuan, Zhongli Quan, Zhang Guolao, Han Xiangzi, Lan Caihe, He Xiangu, and Cao Guojiu, and the Eight Immortals assembled on the Eastern Sea shore.
• Lü Dongbin led the Eight Immortals east across the sea, where they defeated or redeemed Demonic Beasts and Demon God Remnants, upsetting the Heavenly Dao’s hidden plans.
• The Heavenly Dao noticed the eastern journey and questioned whether it was a coincidence or a scheme by the Sanqing.
• Lü Dongbin reached the fifth revolution of the Pure Yang Nine Revolutions Formula on the immortal island and attained the realm of a Daluo Golden Immortal.

Lü Dongbin and the Seven Immortals seized Ziwei Star, forcing its puppet emperor to surrender the imperial seal and gaining Hunyuan Golden Immortal power. The Jade Emperor sent Li Jing and Nezha with one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers to retake the star, and Lü Dongbin's group prepared to meet them.

• Lü Dongbin led the Seven Immortals to Ziwei Star to claim the position of Ziwei Emperor, and all seven agreed to join him.
• Lü Dongbin defeated the puppet Ziwei Emperor and took the seal, becoming the Ziwei Emperor and reaching the Early-stage Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm.
• The Seven Immortals received starfield offices and also advanced to the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm.
• The Jade Emperor ordered Li Jing and Nezha to lead one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers against Lü Dongbin and the Seven Immortals.
• Lü Dongbin and the Seven Immortals stood ready as Li Jing and Nezha's army approached Ziwei Star.

Lü Dongbin and the Eight Immortals defended Ziwei Star against the Heavenly Court’s overwhelming forces with their Eight Immortals Formation. As the battle reached a stalemate, Nezha secretly used the formation’s power to crack Li Jing’s Exquisite Pagoda, hoping to free himself from its control.

• Li Jing led a hundred thousand celestial soldiers and generals to demand the Imperial Lord Seal, but Lü Dongbin and the Eight Immortals repelled their assault.
• The Heavenly River Navy and the Four Pole War Gods arrived, surrounding Ziwei Star with three hundred thousand troops and four quasi-saints.
• Lü Dongbin called on the Eight Immortals to form a Taiqing-derived formation that withstood the combined attacks of the Heavenly Court’s forces.
• Nezha saw a chance to escape Li Jing’s control by damaging the pagoda that held a wisp of his natal divine soul.
• Nezha secretly directed strikes at the Exquisite Pagoda’s weak point until a crack appeared and Li Jing’s control over it began to falter.

Nezha broke free from Li Jing’s control, defeated him, and helped the Eight Immortals repel the Heavenly Court’s army. Meanwhile, Jiang Liuer’s party arrived at Spirit Mountain, where the final battle against Mara and the false Buddhist leaders was about to begin.

• Nezha used the Eight Immortals Formation’s power to destroy the Exquisite Pagoda, freeing himself from Li Jing’s soul-binding control.
• Nezha killed Li Jing’s physical body, but the Investiture of the Gods Register preserved his true spirit and sent it toward the Heavenly Court.
• Nezha joined the Eight Immortals, and their combined forces drove the Heavenly River Navy and the Four Pole War Gods into retreat.
• Jiang Liuer’s party arrived at Spirit Mountain, where Sun Wukong sensed demonic energy beneath the mountain and suspected Mara was hiding there.
• Fake Jieyin, Fake Zhunti, and Fake Tathagata realized the western-bound party had arrived while Six-Eared Macaque’s group remained locked in battle with Jidu’s incarnation.

Jiang Liuer and his allies attacked Spirit Mountain while Lü Dongbin led the Ziwei Star Domain against the Heavenly Court. Both battles began with the forces opposing the Heavenly Dao’s rule, and the Ziwei army broke through the South Heaven Gate’s defenses.

• Jiang Liuer led thousands of protector demons to Spirit Mountain and demanded the scriptures, while the resentment of living beings weakened the Buddha Light grand formation.
• Sun Wukong and Six-Eared Macaque shattered the formation and led the assault on Spirit Mountain, where Jiang Liuer and the demons fought the Buddhas and their forces.
• Sun Wukong and Six-Eared Macaque engaged Fake Jieyin, Fake Zhunti, and Fake Tathagata as Jiang Liuer struck down Fake Tathagata’s Ten Thousand Buddha Palm.
• Lü Dongbin led the Eight Immortals, Nezha, and the Ziwei Star Domain’s star gods toward the South Heaven Gate to challenge the Jade Emperor.
• The Jade Emperor mobilized the Heavenly Court’s forces and used the Heavenly Dao’s power to strengthen them before battle began outside the South Heaven Gate.
• Lü Dongbin’s Eight Immortals Formation and Nezha’s assault broke through the Heavenly Court’s defenses as its hesitant troops faced the advancing Ziwei army.

The Heavenly Dao forcibly brought Mara into being and used his Demonic Path to suppress every other cultivation path across the Earth Immortal Realm. Mara attacked Jiang Liuer and Sun Wukong at Spirit Mountain, while the Jade Emperor seized the upheaval to declare a new order; the Heavenly Dao hoped Mara would devour its enemies and help it reach the Supreme Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin.

• The Heavenly Dao poured its Origin power into the demonic abyss at Spirit Mountain, forcing Mara to descend and command the Demonic Path.
• Mara’s power spread across the Earth Immortal Realm, weakening cultivators outside the Demonic Path, though Sun Wukong’s strength remained unaffected.
• Six-Eared Macaque, Shi Ritian, and Ye Fan recognized the threat as the Demonic Path’s suppression reached Spirit Mountain and the South Heaven Gate.
• The Jade Emperor declared that Mara would rule and that those who resisted would die, as the Heavenly Court and Ziwei Star armies clashed in a chaotic battle.
• Mara attacked Jiang Liuer and Sun Wukong, sending Sun Wukong flying and forcing Jiang Liuer back, while Six-Eared Macaque’s strike was casually blocked.
• The Heavenly Dao watched Mara’s power spread and planned to use the devouring of the scripture-seeking party and Pangu-descendant disciples to reach the Supreme Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin.

Mara conquered Spirit Mountain and imposed the Devil Dao across the Earth Immortal Realm, while the Heavenly Dao discovered that most of the Devil Dao’s power was flowing to Luohu in Chaos. Sun Wukong learned that Pangu’s cultivation art could resist the Devil Dao, and the group prepared to endure until the balance of power shifted.

• Mara defeated Sun Wukong and the others, renamed Spirit Mountain Demon Heaven Spirit Mountain, and imprisoned Fake Jieyin, Fake Zhunti, and Fake Tathagata.
• The Heavenly Dao Will discovered that nearly seventy percent of the Devil Dao’s power of causality had drained away through a thread it could not sever.
• Luohu absorbed the power flowing from the Earth Immortal Realm, rose to the peak of the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal Sixth Heaven, and vowed to return to the Primordial Wilderness after reaching Seventh Heaven.
• Mara corrupted Spirit Mountain’s Buddhist disciples and drew Jiang Liuer’s converted demons into his ranks, forcing Jiang Liuer, Sun Wukong, and the others to retreat.
• Sun Wukong learned from the Defy Fate System that the Seven-Turn Profound Origin Art was unaffected by the Devil Dao and that perfecting its seventh turn could let him stand against Mara.
• Sun Wukong decided to cultivate in seclusion, while Jiang Liuer urged the group to hold out until the game turned around.

Sun Wukong, Nezha, and Yang Jian joined forces against Mara after discovering their abilities could resist the Demonic Path’s suppression. They planned a three-pronged assault on Spirit Mountain, targeting Mara, his imprisoned puppets, and the Heavenly Dao Origin node that empowered him.

• At a hidden valley near Spirit Mountain, Six-Eared Macaque, Shi Ritian, Ye Fan, and the others discussed how Mara’s Demonic Path and the Heavenly Dao had weakened them.
• Sun Wukong revealed that his Seven-Turn Profound Origin Art was unaffected by the suppression, making him capable of fighting at full strength.
• Nezha and Yang Jian arrived at the valley and explained why their bodies and techniques could also resist the Demonic Path.
• Six-Eared Macaque asked Sun Wukong, Nezha, and Yang Jian to join forces against Mara, and all three agreed to fight.
• Sun Wukong proposed freeing Fake Jieyin, Fake Zhunti, and Fake Tathagata before attacking Mara’s demonic aura core, while Yang Jian identified a Heavenly Dao Origin node within it.
• Nezha volunteered to free the three puppets, Sun Wukong agreed to hold Mara off, and Yang Jian prepared to locate and conceal his approach to the node.

Sun Wukong, Nezha, and Yang Jian attacked Mara together on Spirit Mountain, and Yang Jian destroyed the Heavenly Dao node feeding Mara power. Mara’s strength fell, but he claimed his Demonic Path foundation in the Earth Immortal Realm would let him recover without end.

• Sun Wukong confronted Mara’s demon-qi chains while Nezha circled toward the cage holding Fake Jieyin, Fake Zhunti, and Fake Tathagata.
• Mara struck Nezha as he broke open the cage, and Yang Jian interrupted his attack with a strike from behind.
• Yang Jian revealed the golden Heavenly Dao node and urged Sun Wukong and Nezha to distract Mara while he attacked it.
• Yang Jian shattered the node, cutting off the flow of Demonic Path power and reducing Mara’s aura to the peak of the Golden Immortal of the Origin.
• Sun Wukong and Nezha struck the weakened Mara and sent him crashing into the ruined temple, but Mara claimed he could recover by devouring the Earth Immortal Realm’s demonic qi.

Sun Wukong and his allies began reactivating righteous-path seals along the Journey to the West to cut Mara off from the demonic qi sustaining him, while Sun Wukong, Nezha, and Yang Jian kept Mara pinned at Spirit Mountain. As the seals weakened his supply, Mara resolved to kill his opponents before pursuing the others.

• Yang Jian identified Mara’s demonic soul core as anchored in Earth Immortal Realm’s Demonic Path, and Sun Wukong proposed reversing the Journey to the West’s causality by reactivating its seals.
• Six-Eared Macaque, Jiang Liuer, and their allies set out to restore righteous-path seals along the journey, while Sun Wukong, Nezha, and Yang Jian blocked Mara at Spirit Mountain.
• Lü Dongbin led the Ziwei Star army with a simplified Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Formation, forcing the Jade Emperor to commit his remaining troops at the South Heaven Gate.
• Jiang Liuer reawakened righteous-path power at nodes including Two Realms Mountain, Eagle Sorrow Ravine, Gao Family Village, Flowing Sand River, Flame Mountain, and Lion Camel Ridge, gradually weakening Mara’s demonic qi supply.
• Mara tried to send a demonic shadow after the group, but Sun Wukong, Nezha, and Yang Jian stopped it and continued to hold him at Spirit Mountain.
• Mara recognized that he could neither escape nor prevent the seals from being restored, and vowed to slaughter his opponents first.

As the Heavenly Dao abandoned its failing Earth Immortal Realm scheme, it ordered Hongjun and Jidu to secretly create two new worlds and cultivate separate calamities there. In the Great Desolation, Xuanqing attained the Daluo Golden Immortal of the Origin, while the Sanqing and Twelve Ancestral Witches sensed the Heavenly Dao’s new plan and prepared to turn it to their advantage.

• Mara unleashed his demonic qi against Sun Wukong, Nezha, and Yang Jian as they fought to hold him back on Spirit Mountain.
• The Heavenly Dao summoned Hongjun and Jidu and ordered them to create two subsidiary worlds, one based on the immortal path and the other on the Demonic Path, using the Earth Immortal Realm’s remaining causality.
• Hongjun and Jidu accepted the decree, and the Heavenly Dao promised to conceal the new worlds from Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Xuanqing attained the Daluo Golden Immortal of the Origin, prompting the Sanqing to celebrate the Witch Race’s new strength.
• Taiqing and Yuqing Yuanshi sensed obscure causality extending from the Heavenly Dao Origin, and Houtu declared that every world the Heavenly Dao opened would deliver destiny to the Great Desolation.

Hongjun created the Mountain and Sea Realm as a visible distraction while Jidu established the hidden Eternal Night Realm to gather causality for the Heavenly Dao. After detecting the new world, the Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches sent disciples to explore it and investigate the Heavenly Dao’s plans.

• Hongjun formed the Mountain and Sea Realm, where strange beasts, ancient gods, and body-refining cultivators emerged.
• Jidu created the Eternal Night Realm, whose cultivators would generate causality for the Heavenly Dao as they pursued cultivation in its prolonged darkness.
• The Heavenly Dao Will planned to use the Mountain and Sea Realm as bait while the Eternal Night Realm secretly accumulated power.
• Over several hundred years, the Mountain and Sea Realm filled with life, and Hongjun planted hidden measures to hinder investigations by the Sanqing's and the Twelve Ancestral Witches' disciples.
• Taiqing and the others sensed the Mountain and Sea Realm and decided to send disciples there to investigate and gather resources.
• Taiqing assigned Shi Ritian, the Martial Ancestor, Ye Fan, and Chu Luoli to explore ancient gods' ruins, while Six-Eared Macaque, Kong Xuan, the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird, and Taixu were tasked with obtaining strange-beast Essence Blood.

Sun Wukong, Nezha, and Yang Jian defeated Mara after the Journey to the West’s righteous-path seals weakened him, ending the demonic crisis at Spirit Mountain. Meanwhile, Lü Dongbin defeated the Jade Emperor and took control of the Earth Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Court.

• The final righteous-path node reactivated, weakening Mara as Sun Wukong, Nezha, and Yang Jian attacked and destroyed his demonic soul core.
• Six-Eared Macaque and Jiang Liuer declared the Causality concluded, while Fake Jieyin, Fake Zhunti, and Fake Tathagata begged for mercy and were warned to abandon their old ways.
• The abyss beneath Spirit Mountain vanished, and Sun Wukong told Jiang Liuer that he had finished walking this road.
• Lü Dongbin defeated the Jade Emperor outside the South Heaven Gate and announced that he would govern the Heavenly Court.
• The Heavenly Court army surrendered or fled, and the Ziwei Star army hailed Lü Dongbin as Imperial Lord Ziwei.

After Sun Wukong destroyed Mara’s demonic soul and purified Spirit Mountain, the Heavenly Dao began draining the Earth Immortal Realm’s spiritual energy to impose the Dharma-Ending Age. Lü Dongbin declared that the calamity could be broken by replenishing the world’s spiritual energy and looked toward the Primordial Wilderness main body.

• Lü Dongbin left Iron Crutch Li, Zhongli Quan, and Zhang Guolao at the Heavenly Court to restore order while he hurried to Spirit Mountain with the other Eight Immortals.
• Sun Wukong struck Mara’s remaining demonic soul with the Golden-Hooped Staff, destroying it and clearing the Demonic Path’s corruption from Spirit Mountain.
• Lü Dongbin joined Sun Wukong, Six-Eared Macaque, Jiang Liuer, and the others and said the eastern and western calamities had ended.
• The Heavenly Dao began draining the Earth Immortal Realm’s spiritual energy, causing its spiritual veins to wither and cultivators’ realms to fall.
• The Heavenly Dao told Hongjun it would bring about the Dharma-Ending Age rather than let the Sanqing take control of the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Lü Dongbin said the calamity could be broken by replenishing the world’s spiritual energy and looked toward the Primordial Wilderness main body.

Lü Dongbin opened the passage between the Earth Immortal Realm and the Great Desolation, and the Sanqing sent Innate Spiritual Qi through it to destroy the End of Dharma Tribulation. The Heavenly Dao responded with an Infinite Tribulation that began tearing the realm apart, so the cultivators divided up to protect it and Sun Wukong, Nezha, Yang Jian, and Six-Eared Macaque flew toward the central rift.

• Lü Dongbin used Taiqing’s mark and the Pure Yang Sword to open the origin passage between the Earth Immortal Realm and the Great Desolation.
• The Sanqing poured their power into the passage, and the Great Desolation’s Innate Spiritual Qi swept away the End of Dharma Tribulation and restored the Earth Immortal Realm’s spiritual qi.
• The Heavenly Dao unleashed an Infinite Tribulation, causing the sky to crack, land veins to break, and parts of the world to collapse.
• Six-Eared Macaque sent Shi Ritian, Martial Ancestor, Ye Fan, Chu Luoli, Guang Chengzi, Taiyi True Person, Kong Xuan, Golden Winged Great Peng Bird, and Taixu to stabilize the realm’s regions.
• Six-Eared Macaque, Sun Wukong, Nezha, and Yang Jian flew to the central heavenly rift to seal the source of the Infinite Tribulation.

As the Immeasurable Tribulation pushed the Earth Immortal Realm toward destruction, Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches summoned Pangu True Body, which repaired the world and forced the Heavenly Dao to withdraw. The Earth Immortal Realm survived, but Taiqing warned that the Heavenly Dao might strike again and that they needed to prepare for the secretly developing Mountain and Sea Realm.

• The Heavenly Dao's projection declared that the collapsing Earth Immortal Realm would become Chaos within one shichen, while Sun Wukong, Nezha, and the others struggled to hold it together.
• Pangu True Body appeared before the rift, healed the sky, restored the earth veins, and warned the Heavenly Dao against targeting the Primordial Wilderness and its affiliated worlds.
• The Heavenly Dao withdrew the Immeasurable Tribulation and dispersed its avatar, allowing Pangu True Body to fade and return to Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Taiqing said that summoning Pangu True Body had nearly exhausted their strength and warned that the Heavenly Dao might return, so they needed to prepare for the Mountain and Sea Realm.
• Sun Wukong, Nezha, Yang Jian, the Six-Eared Macaque, and the others stood on Spirit Mountain and saw that the Earth Immortal Realm had stabilized.

The Heavenly Dao planted the seeds of six overlapping calamities in the Mountain and Sea Realm to accumulate karmic power beyond Sanqing’s reach. The realm’s beasts, races, cultivators, and altars began changing as the calamities took root.

• The Heavenly Dao decided to recreate the Fierce Beast, Dragon-Phoenix, Dao-Demon, Witch-Demon, Investiture of the Gods, and Journey to the West calamities within the Mountain and Sea Realm.
• The Heavenly Dao’s influence drove strange beasts to grow savage and attack cultivator settlements, while the Chi Dragon, bird clans, and fierce beasts began competing for dominion.
• Some cultivators used forbidden methods to fuse fierce-beast Essence Blood and fell into the Demonic Path, setting them against cultivators who upheld form-refining.
• Ancient tribes established totems while beast kings launched campaigns against them, and the ancient gods’ altars began enticing cultivators into binding contracts.
• A golden light appeared atop an ancient altar at the far end of the continent, marking the route for a heaven-chosen traveler to retrieve scriptures.
• The Heavenly Dao let the six calamities develop simultaneously, expecting their intertwined conflicts to multiply karmic power before Sanqing could intervene.

Shi Ritian, the Martial Ancestor, Ye Fan, and Chu Luoli could not locate or dispel the six streams of calamity qi in the Mountain and Sea Realm. Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches found the Heavenly Dao had blocked direct interference, so they devised a plan to exploit conflicts between the tribulations and leave them in a stalemate.

• Shi Ritian, the Martial Ancestor, Ye Fan, and Chu Luoli searched the Mountain and Sea Realm but found the calamity qi was fused with its laws and beyond their reach.
• The four reported their findings to Kunlun Mountain, where Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches identified six simultaneous tribulations planted by the Heavenly Dao.
• Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches divined a causal vortex linked to the calamity qi, but found a barrier and causal backlash preventing them from reaching the Heavenly Dao's true body.
• Houtu proposed exploiting conflicts between the six tribulations to slow their progress, and Taiqing agreed to have their disciples locate and redirect the points of conflict.
• Shi Ritian received the plan and welcomed the idea of making the streams of calamity qi fight among themselves.