Chapter Summaries

Sun Wukong was taken to the Underworld by ghost bailiffs after they claimed his lifespan had ended, but his calm politeness confounded King Zhuanlun and the court. The chapter left the Underworld’s planned attempt to provoke him in disarray as Sun Wukong welcomed reincarnation.

• Sun Wukong admired the Ruyi Jingu Bang and vowed to repay the unnamed benefactor who had given it to him.
• Patriarch Bodhi reported what happened to Jieyin and Zhunti, who decided to continue their plan for the Great Prosperity of the West.
• Two ghost bailiffs seized Sun Wukong’s soul while he meditated and brought him to Fengdu City, claiming his allotted lifespan had ended.
• Sun Wukong questioned the bailiffs’ writ but cooperated and followed them to King Zhuanlun’s hall.
• King Zhuanlun and the Judge struggled to provoke Sun Wukong, who calmly defended his conduct and said he welcomed reincarnation.

King Zhuanlun and the Judge tried to cover up their mistaken detention of Sun Wukong, but Sun Wukong demanded payment before leaving the Underworld. After taking a Bodhi Seed to free his chains, he threatened to tell Great Emperor Fengdu about the detention.

• The Judge and King Zhuanlun discussed how to handle Sun Wukong, whom Ksitigarbha King had arranged to provoke into tampering with the Book of Life and Death.
• King Zhuanlun pretended the Book of Life and Death showed Sun Wukong had surpassed life and death, then claimed the detention was a mistake.
• Sun Wukong refused to let the Judge remove his chains without payment and demanded compensation for being detained and threatened.
• King Zhuanlun gave Sun Wukong a Bodhi Seed, and Sun Wukong freed himself from the Netherworld chains.
• When King Zhuanlun tried to send him away, Sun Wukong demanded a separate payment for leaving and threatened to inform Great Emperor Fengdu.

Sun Wukong left the Underworld with a six-grade Merit Golden Lotus and a Bodhi Seed, but King Zhuanlun and the Judge plotted to frame him and clear their accounts by blaming him. Sun Wukong returned with an Imprint Stone recording their conversation, forcing them to abandon the scheme.

• King Zhuanlun gave Sun Wukong a six-grade Merit Golden Lotus, and the Judge escorted him out of Yama Hall.
• After Sun Wukong left, the Judge urged King Zhuanlun to accuse him before the Heavenly Court and blame him for the Underworld's altered records.
• King Zhuanlun and the Judge decided to pin their bookkeeping crimes on Sun Wukong, claiming he had trespassed, harmed ghost bailiffs, and damaged the Book of Life and Death.
• Sun Wukong appeared behind them and asked what they meant by pinning a black pot and clearing accounts.
• The Judge and King Zhuanlun claimed they had only been discussing replacing worn black pots and keeping a separate account for them.
• Sun Wukong played an Imprint Stone that had recorded their conversation, left it with them, and departed; King Zhuanlun abandoned the plan to punish him.

Zhunti and Jieyin discussed Sun Wukong’s failed recruitment and agreed to wait for events in the East to unfold. Meanwhile, nine-year-old Zhao Zheng was assassinated on his journey to Qin, but the Western Queen Mother, Xi He, and Chang Xi found him and revived him after teasing his unconscious incarnation.

• Zhunti worried that Sun Wukong’s refusal to follow their plans would disrupt the Buddhist journey, while Jieyin advised him to wait.
• A celestial omen appeared over Handan, though the future ruler destined to unite the states was born in Yiren’s manor outside the city.
• Zhao Zheng realized he was the transmigrator Hong Yun and Ying Zheng, but an assassin pierced his chest during an attack on his carriage.
• The Western Queen Mother, Xi He, and Chang Xi identified the dying Zhao Zheng as Hong Yun’s mortal incarnation and pinched his cheeks before reviving him with a petal of the Undying Snow Lotus.
• Zhao Zheng woke after two hours, wondered whether he had reached the Underworld, and complained that his face hurt.

After surviving a fatal attack, nine-year-old Ying Zheng met the three fairies who had saved him and unknowingly signed a contract they declared to be their marriage document. The chapter ended with the astonished Ying Zheng learning that the women were the Western Queen Mother, Wanjin, Xi He, and Chang Xi.

• Ying Zheng woke with his chest healed and found the world frozen around him, with three fairies watching nearby.
• The Western Queen Mother explained that she, Xi He, and Chang Xi had saved Ying Zheng with immortal medicine after he was ambushed.
• Ying Zheng vowed to obey any future command from the three fairies in repayment for saving his life.
• The Western Queen Mother asked Ying Zheng to put his promise in writing, and he signed a contract swearing not to disobey them.
• The Western Queen Mother called the contract a marriage document, and Ying Zheng learned that all three fairies intended to marry him.
• The three women introduced themselves as the Western Queen Mother, Wanjin, Xi He, and Chang Xi.

Ying Zheng planned to seize Qin and rule it before marrying Xi He and the other goddesses, while Hong Yun continued his undercover rise in the Three Gods Sect. Hong Yun promised the impatient Thunder Demon God that they would attack the Origin Continent within ten years, leaving Hongjun unknowingly implicated in his oath.

• Ying Zheng recalled his marriage contract with Xi He and the two other goddesses and planned to conquer the six states before retiring with them.
• Hong Yun praised Pope Ross and received twelve Life Law Fragments, while Thunder Demon God Leiting watched his successful infiltration of the Three Gods Sect.
• Leiting confronted Hong Yun at home and demanded to know when they would seize the Origin Continent's resources.
• Hong Yun argued that the three main gods were powerful and asked Leiting to wait ten more years before they made their move.
• Hong Yun swore by the Great Dao in Hongjun's name that they would attack within ten years, and Hongjun sneezed in Purple Cloud Palace while wondering how his disciple was doing.

Hong Yun’s attempt to delay the Thunder Demon God’s attack ended when a coup within the Three Gods Sect unexpectedly cleared his path to the papal throne. He was left bewildered as the new faction prepared to make him pope.

• Over more than a decade, Hong Yun rose to Second Cardinal and unknowingly attracted a faction that clashed with Grand Cardinal Johnson’s conservatives.
• Johnson and four other cardinals plotted to overthrow Pope Ross before the God Sacrifice and seize the papal throne.
• The Thunder Demon God pressured Hong Yun to honor their ten-year pact, and Hong Yun finally agreed to act during the God Sacrifice.
• A guardian knight told Hong Yun and the Thunder Demon God that Johnson and his allies had rebelled, Pope Ross had died, and Hughes had helped the new faction defeat the conspirators.
• Hughes brought Johnson and the other captured cardinals to Hong Yun and announced that the pope’s position was his to inherit.

Hongyun learned that his followers had made him Pope of the Three Gods Sect, and the Lord of Wisdom arrived to test whether he deserved the position. The chapter ended with Hongyun discovering the god looked like a husky and taunting him before the trial began.

• Hughes explained that Hongyun’s followers had defeated the Old Faction and established him as their leader.
• Hughes and the other cardinals dressed Hongyun in papal vestments and declared him the new Pope despite his protests.
• At the God Sacrifice, Hongyun praised the Lord of Wisdom and received a Fragment of the Book of Knowledge.
• The Lord of Wisdom descended, revealed a husky-like true form to Hongyun, and ordered the others out to test the new Pope.
• Hongyun accepted the trial and called the Lord of Wisdom “Husky.”

Hong Yun passed the Lord of Wisdom Er Ha’s trial by rapidly answering a series of elementary riddles and math problems, earning the position of pope of the Three Gods Sect. When Er Ha offered to answer a difficult question in return, Hong Yun asked about advanced mathematics and modern physics, leaving the god speechless.

• Hong Yun flattered Er Ha by calling him a supreme wise one and received a Book of Knowledge Fragment.
• Er Ha tested Hong Yun with increasingly difficult arithmetic and logic questions, and Hong Yun answered each one immediately.
• After three days and nights of questioning, Er Ha acknowledged Hong Yun’s wisdom and offered him the pope position in the Three Gods Sect.
• Er Ha invited Hong Yun to ask him a difficult question, and Hong Yun asked whether he knew calculus, linear algebra, special relativity, and quantum physics.
• Er Ha could not answer, and his silence filled the divine hall.

Hongyun passed the Lord of Wisdom’s trial by overwhelming him with questions, then helped the Thunder Demon God trap and attack him. The Lord of Wisdom learned that Hongyun had been an undercover agent all along.

• Outside the Temple, Hughes and the other Cardinals worried that Hongyun might fail the Lord of Wisdom’s unusually long trial, while the Thunder Demon God prepared a trapping formation.
• Inside the Temple, Hongyun stumped the Lord of Wisdom with questions from his previous life until Er Ha declared that Hongyun had passed and tried to leave.
• The Thunder Demon God appeared and trapped Er Ha inside the Temple, prompting the Lord of Wisdom to shield Hongyun and confront the intruder.
• Hongyun struck the Lord of Wisdom from behind, then admitted that he was an undercover agent.

Hong Yun easily shattered the Lord of Wisdom’s forbidden art and then beat him down while praising him to gain system rewards. The Lord of Wisdom was left pleading for mercy as the Thunder Demon God watched in shock.

• The Lord of Wisdom attacked Hong Yun with a Divine Chain, but Hong Yun destroyed it with a finger and earned Way of Wisdom Comprehension Fragments.
• Hong Yun introduced himself as an ordinary Pope of the Three Gods Sect, while the Thunder Demon God recognized that Hong Yun had used the Great Dao of Power.
• The Lord of Wisdom charged Hong Yun with his shifting forms, but Hong Yun caught him and slammed him into the temple floor.
• The Lord of Wisdom’s Book of Knowledge attacked from behind, but Hong Yun used the Lord of Wisdom as a shield and struck him with the supreme treasure.
• Hong Yun repeatedly punched the Lord of Wisdom, praising him between blows to gain system rewards, until the Lord of Wisdom cried and begged for mercy.
• The Thunder Demon God watched Hong Yun’s beating and feared what might have happened had he fought Hong Yun in the past.

Hong Yun forced the Lord of Wisdom to summon the War Main God so they could ambush him. The Lord of Wisdom agreed after Hong Yun threatened to beat him again, and the chapter ended with the War Main God arriving and getting knocked unconscious by a Book of Knowledge.

• The Lord of Wisdom's trial continued for a year until Hong Yun beat him into surrendering.
• Hong Yun told the Thunder Demon God about a fellow Daoist he had once beaten for over a hundred years, causing Zhunti to remember his painful past and touch his cheek.
• Hong Yun asked the Lord of Wisdom to lure the War Main God to the temple for an ambush, and the Lord of Wisdom agreed after Hong Yun raised his fist.
• The Lord of Wisdom sent a message to War, and Hong Yun checked it before letting it leave the formation.
• War arrived at the temple and asked where Ross was, then the Lord of Wisdom struck him unconscious with a Book of Knowledge and admitted he was an undercover agent.

Hong Yun forced the War Main God to surrender by threatening his wife and child, then recruited him to lure the Main God of Balance into a trap. The War Main God’s ambush failed when Balance blocked it with a divine scale.

• Hong Yun sealed the War Main God’s divine power and beat him for a year, but he refused to surrender.
• Hong Yun threatened to let the Lord of Wisdom take the War Main God’s wife and child, making the War Main God surrender and agree to help capture Balance.
• After Hong Yun partially released his restraints, the War Main God attacked the Lord of Wisdom, then sent a message summoning Balance.
• Balance arrived at the Temple, and the War Main God struck at him with the Gauntlets of the God of War.
• Balance blocked the attack with a divine scale and taunted the group for underestimating him.

Hong Yun subdued the three Main Gods of Origin Continent and followed the Thunder Demon God to the Land of Gods, where they encountered the Creation Demon God. She recognized Pangu’s aura in Hong Yun, who greeted her with extravagant praise and received a World Origin Fragment.

• The Main God of Balance revealed his pig form, fought the Lord of Wisdom, then surrendered to Hong Yun and offered him a strand of his origin.
• Hong Yun took control of Balance, and all three Main Gods of Origin Continent were subdued under his command.
• After refining strands of origin from the three Main Gods, Hong Yun and the Thunder Demon God traveled to the Land of Gods, where Hong Yun drew the gods into his Cloud Realm.
• The Creation Demon God appeared and recognized the Thunder Demon God, then sensed Pangu’s aura in Hong Yun and asked why he carried it.
• Hong Yun introduced himself as Pangu’s descendant and praised the Creation Demon God, earning a World Origin Fragment.

Hong Yun and the Thunder Demon God confronted the Creation Demon God in the Origin Continent, but their attempted explanations failed and she attacked them. Hong Yun was knocked far away while the Thunder Demon God struggled against her, until Hong Yun returned to the fight from the east.

• Hong Yun tried to placate the Creation Demon God, but the Thunder Demon God challenged her and prepared to fight.
• The Creation Demon God unleashed her Half-Step Heavenly Dao Realm power and attacked Hong Yun and the Thunder Demon God with arrows formed from the Path of Creation.
• Hong Yun used the God-Slaying Spear to break an arrow, then blocked the Creation Demon God's scepter strike with the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Clouds and was sent flying billions upon billions of li.
• The Thunder Demon God attacked the Creation Demon God with his Demon Blade of Thunder, but she overwhelmed him in their exchange.
• After the Thunder Demon God called for help, Hong Yun returned from the east in a red light and charged at the Creation Demon God.

Hong Yun and the Thunder Demon God fought the Creation Demon God, then drew her battle away from the Origin Continent. When Hong Yun summoned the Axe of Creation and took on the appearance of Pangu, the Creation Demon God panicked and fled.

• The Creation Demon God attacked Hong Yun, who used his many Great Daos and treasures to hold her off before his strength began to wane.
• The Thunder Demon God joined Hong Yun, and Hong Yun lent him the Qian Kun Cauldron for protection.
• Hong Yun suggested moving the fight into the chaos to spare the Origin Continent, and the Creation Demon God agreed.
• The two allies continued attacking the Creation Demon God in the chaos, but her defenses held against their assaults.
• Hong Yun summoned the Axe of Creation and manifested Pangu Battle Markings, terrifying the Creation Demon God into fleeing toward the Origin World.

Hong Yun and the Creation Demon God fought a devastating battle in the chaotic void until the Thunder Demon God joined in. When the Creation Demon God summoned the Three Main Gods of Origin for help, none appeared, leaving her demanding to know where they were.

• Hong Yun struck the Creation Demon God with the Axe of Creation, and she wounded him in return with the Scepter of Creation.
• Hong Yun praised Creation to trigger a system reward, then he and the Creation Demon God resumed their prolonged battle.
• The Thunder Demon God ambushed the Creation Demon God, but she drove him off and pursued him until he begged Hong Yun for help.
• As Hong Yun prepared to rejoin the fight, the Creation Demon God called for Wisdom, War, and Balance from the Origin Continent.
• After waiting a full day without an answer, the Creation Demon God roared, asking where her three Main Gods were.

Hong Yun and Thunder Demon God fought Creation Demon God, then negotiated a truce by revealing Hong Yun’s Cloud Realm and offering a trade of Spiritual Roots. Meanwhile, Hao Tian grew furious over the Buddhist Sect’s failure and decided to move the plan forward himself.

• Hong Yun revealed that he had captured Creation Demon God’s three Main Gods, and he and Thunder Demon God attacked her together.
• Creation Demon God began burning the Origin Continent’s World Origin, but Hong Yun revealed the Cloud Realm and persuaded her to stop fighting.
• Creation Demon God agreed to release the three Main Gods if Hong Yun and Thunder Demon God withdrew, and Hong Yun proposed trading Spiritual Roots.
• Hong Yun displayed Flat Peaches, Immortal Apricot Flowers, Yellow Middle Plums, Ginseng Fruits, Fusang Wood, and Moon Laurel Trees, leaving Creation Demon God stunned.
• Hao Tian read the Buddhist Sect’s confidential letter, condemned their failure to deal with the monkey yao, and summoned Grand White Golden Star.

Hao Tian sent Grand White Golden Star to the mortal realm to recruit a demon monkey, and Grand White Golden Star discovered that Flower Fruit City at the foot of Flower Fruit Mountain was prosperous and orderly. He suspected its city lord, Monkey Doctor, was the target and began a guided tour of the city.

• Hao Tian tasked Grand White Golden Star with descending to the mortal world and recruiting a demon monkey.
• Grand White Golden Star used information from Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Hearing Ear to locate Flower Fruit Mountain.
• Grand White Golden Star was astonished to find a thriving city where humans, demons, spirits, and cultivators lived together peacefully.
• Commander Ox stopped Grand White Golden Star at the gate, explained the Spirit Mirror registration system, and offered him a guide.
• Grand White Golden Star paid for a guide and concluded that Monkey Doctor was the remarkable demon monkey Hao Tian wanted to recruit.
• Commander Ox offered Grand White Golden Star upgraded guide packages, including an outing with the Fox Race's number one beauty, leaving him speechless.

Grand White Golden Star visited Flower Fruit Mountain on the Heavenly Emperor’s orders and was deeply impressed by Sun Wukong’s learning and leadership. Sun Wukong agreed to join the Heavenly Court after arranging affairs on the mountain.

• Grand White Golden Star spent three months enjoying Flower Fruit City before remembering his mission and visiting the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Black Third welcomed Grand White Golden Star and escorted him to meet Sun Wukong.
• Sun Wukong and Grand White Golden Star talked for three days, and Grand White was astonished by Sun Wukong’s knowledge and insights.
• Grand White Golden Star urged Sun Wukong to enter the Heavenly Court and offered to seek him an important post.
• Sun Wukong agreed to go to heaven after settling Flower Fruit Mountain’s affairs, while Grand White Golden Star agreed to wait.