Chapter Summaries

Lu Qingfeng and Six Ears left Flower-Fruit Mountain before Sun Wukong could seek weapons from the Dragon Palace, then settled in Boundless Mountain to cultivate. Three hundred years later, Sun Wukong arrived claiming to be their old friend.

• Sun Wukong returned to Flower-Fruit Mountain, learned that the Chaos Demon King had tormented his monkeys, and killed the demon with Six Ears.
• Sun Wukong offered the Chaos Demon King's saber to Six Ears, then heard the four old monkeys suggest seeking weapons at the Dragon Palace.
• Lu Qingfeng took Six Ears away from Flower-Fruit Mountain, explaining that the Dragon Palace was powerful and that Sun Wukong had his own great fortune and teacher.
• Lu Qingfeng and Six Ears settled in Boundless Mountain and cultivated for three hundred years.
• A general reported that Sun Wukong, master of the Water-Curtain Cave from Flower-Fruit Mountain, had arrived, and Lu Qingfeng and Six Ears went out to meet him.

Wukong sought Lu Qingfeng’s advice after the Dragon Palace and Netherworld tried to ensnare him, and he explained that he no longer trusted his sworn brothers to guide him. Lu Qingfeng agreed to reveal what he knew in secret, and his cultivation advanced as soon as he made the decision.

• Wukong arrived at Heaven Gate Cave and begged Lu Qingfeng and Six Ears to help him understand his troubles.
• Wukong recounted how the Dragon King lured him into taking the Compliant Golden-Hooped Rod, then threatened to report him to the Heavenly Court.
• Wukong described how he struck away the Black and White Impermanence when they came to claim his soul, and he suspected the Dragon Palace and Netherworld were plotting against him.
• Wukong said his six sworn brothers would only encourage him to attack the Netherworld, and he explained that meeting Lu Qingfeng at Gold-Silver Mountain had made him feel freed from a layer of shackles.
• Lu Qingfeng recognized that Wukong’s cautious nature might have changed the planned course of events, then agreed to tell him something privately; Lu Qingfeng’s cultivation advanced as he spoke.

After becoming the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Wukong was assigned to guard Heaven’s Peach Garden, where he and his sworn brothers secretly ate peaches and cultivated. When the Seventh Fairy arrived, Lu Qingfeng recognized that the Peach Banquet was beginning, and Wukong headed for Tushita Palace.

• After Heaven’s army failed to subdue him, Wukong and eight demon kings proclaimed themselves the Nine Great Sages, and the Jade Emperor appointed Wukong to watch over the Immortal Peaches.
• Lu Qingfeng and Six Ears revealed themselves in the Peach Garden, and Wukong agreed that Heaven was scheming against him before the three began eating peaches and absorbing stellar essence.
• Lu Qingfeng reached Celestial Immortal Peak and deduced the Invert-Grand-Void Glazed Wall, Transformation Technique, Invisibility Technique, and Cloud-Peak Step into Supreme Divine Abilities.
• The Seventh Fairy arrived at the Peach Garden, and Lu Qingfeng realized the Peach Banquet was about to begin.
• Wukong let the Seventh Fairy into the garden, immobilized her, and left for Tushita Palace.

Wukong stole the Peach Banquet’s food and Tushita Palace’s pills, then arranged for his monkey subjects to be hidden while he escaped. Meanwhile, Lu Qingfeng and Six Ears withdrew to Northern Kuru, and Wukong’s staged Jade Nectar Banquet turned into an open call to rebel as heavenly forces arrived.

• Wukong raided the Jade Pool Palace and Tushita Palace, taking the banquet food and consuming the Golden Cores and other pills with Lu Qingfeng and Six Ears.
• Wukong put the mountain monkeys to sleep, and Six Dolls swallowed all eighty-four thousand of them into a blue gourd for him to carry away.
• Wukong, Lu Qingfeng, and Six Ears made hair-clone doubles to impersonate the Nine Great Sages, then went their separate ways; Lu Qingfeng and Six Ears headed to their hidden stronghold in Northern Kuru.
• Lu Qingfeng gave Six Ears the Invert-Grand-Void Glazed Wall divine ability and helped him master it while they waited to learn whether Wukong would escape his tribulation.
• Wukong’s summons brought more than twelve hundred demon kings to Flower-Fruit Mountain for a feast, where his doubles stirred the gathering to defy Heaven and rebuild the Primordial Heavenly Court.
• As the demon kings shouted their rebellion, war drums sounded and heavenly soldiers descended.

The Heavenly Court surrounded Flower-Fruit Mountain, and Wukong’s claim that the Great Sages planned to rebel forced the assembled Demon Kings into battle. After three days of fighting, the Demon Kings gathered six hundred thousand troops and swore to rebuild the Demon Court, leaving their rebellion openly declared.

• The Nine Malefic Luminaries accused Wukong of stealing from Heaven, and Wukong declared that he had lured the Great Sages into rebellion against the Heavenly Court.
• King Yuron fought the Nine Luminaries Officials and drove them into retreat, prompting King Li to send the Four Heavenly Kings and the Twenty-Eight Mansions into battle.
• Bull Devil King defeated the Four Heavenly Kings and thirty-two Luminaries Officials, and the other Great Sages joined the fighting as both sides battled for three days and nights.
• Lu Qingfeng and Six Ears watched as the Demon Kings assembled troops, with the eight Great Sages contributing three hundred thousand soldiers toward a combined force of six hundred thousand.
• King Tongming led the Demon Kings in swearing to shatter the Nine Heavens and rebuild the Demon Court.

The Heavenly Court’s campaign against Flower-Fruit Mountain turned when Guanyin exposed the Handsome Monkey King as a Dharma-Beyond-Incarnation, prompting him and two other incarnations to flee. Burning Lamp, Guanyin, and Lingji helped defeat the remaining Great Sages, while Lu Qingfeng and Six Ears wondered whether the Stone Monkey could escape the Heavenly Court and Buddhist Sect.

• The Jade Emperor sent Erlang Manifesting Sage True Lord and his forces to Flower-Fruit Mountain, where they joined the battle against the Demon Kings.
• Guanyin struck the Handsome Monkey King with her willow branch, revealing that he was a Dharma-Beyond-Incarnation; King Green Bamboo and King Tongming were exposed as incarnations too, and they fled with Lu Qingfeng and Six Ears.
• Burning Lamp captured Bull Devil King and Flood Dragon Devil King, while Guanyin captured Lion-Camel King and Peng Devil King escaped.
• Lingji Bodhisattva captured Macaque King, and Erlang God and the Six Sages of Mount Mei subdued King Yuron, ending the battle.
• The Heavenly Court routed the Demon Kings, with five of the Nine Great Sages captured and four escaping; in Northern Kuru, Lu Qingfeng and Six Ears discussed the Stone Monkey’s prospects.

Lu Qingfeng reached the Golden Immortal realm while Wukong was suppressed beneath Five-Finger Mountain, then learned that Wukong had split into three bodies, with his Imperishable Dao Body escaping. After another three hundred years of seclusion, Lu Qingfeng suddenly rose with a drastically changed expression.

• The Jade Emperor sent Yang Jian and his forces to the Primordial Northern Sea, where Yang Jian and Guanyin captured Wukong and brought him to Heaven.
• Lu Qingfeng sheltered Wukong's monkey descendants and encouraged Six Ears to keep cultivating.
• Forty-nine years later, Lu Qingfeng comprehended the Dao and became a Golden Immortal.
• Tathagata suppressed Wukong beneath Five-Finger Mountain, while Wukong's Imperishable Dao Body arrived at Lu Qingfeng's mountain and explained how the Eight-Trigrams Furnace had completed his cultivation.
• Wukong's Dao Body left for Flower-Fruit Mountain, and Lu Qingfeng resumed cultivation while Six Ears accepted that he could pursue his own path.
• Three hundred years later, Lu Qingfeng abruptly stood up with a drastically changed expression.

Lu Qingfeng returned from the Journey to the West Space-Time after parting with Six Ears and reunited with Ao Le, explaining how the destruction of past space-times erased their cultivation and treasures. He gave Ao Le Treasure Gourd Avatars for protection and revealed that he was leaving again to help Big Brother.

• Lu Qingfeng said goodbye to Six Ears, asked Daoist Wukong to look after him, and left the Journey to the West Space-Time.
• Lu Qingfeng reunited with Ao Le in the Guangyuan Realm and told her he had become a Golden Immortal, though his achievement came from an illusory space-time.
• Ao Le's cultivation from the destroyed Calamity-Eon Space-Time vanished, and the Eastern Emperor Bell, Dutian Nether King Banners, and Lu Qingfeng's other treasures were annihilated as well.
• Lu Qingfeng gave Ao Le two Treasure Gourd Avatars and explained that they could protect her from powerful enemies.
• Ao Le asked whether Lu Qingfeng was leaving again, and he confirmed that he needed to return to help Big Brother with trouble.

Lu Qingfeng sensed that Great Sage Huangfeng was in danger and returned to the Earth Immortal Realm, where Huangfeng had been fighting Lingji Bodhisattva for more than ten years. As Yang Ren and Huang Tianhua watched and discussed whether Lu Qingfeng’s Black Wind Mountain lineage might intervene, the chapter ended with Mu Yuanyi being warned not to underestimate the experts of the Three Realms.

• Lu Qingfeng told Ao Le he had to return to help Great Sage Huangfeng, then set out with several generals, Qin Zhen’s corpse, the Square-Heaven Jade Seal, and the Son of Heaven Sword.
• Using the Seven Birds Lesser Evolving Numerology and Cloud-Peak Step, Lu Qingfeng found the Earth Immortal Realm and returned after more than thirteen thousand years.
• At Yellow Wind Ridge, Great Sage Huangfeng battled Lingji Bodhisattva, whose chanting and treasures had kept Huangfeng at a stalemate for more than ten years.
• Yang Ren and Huang Tianhua watched the battle and discussed Huangfeng’s history, his possible ties to Black Wind Mountain, and whether Lu Qingfeng might intervene.
• Huang Tianhua warned his disciple Mu Yuanyi to watch the battle and not let swift cultivation make him arrogant.

Great Sage Huangfeng tried to escape Yellow Wind Ridge after his Threefold Samadhi Divine Wind overwhelmed Lingji’s Flying Dragon Treasure Staff, but Lingji countered with the Wind-Calming Pearl. Just as Great Sage Huangfeng was about to be captured, an unknown Daoist in azure robes took both treasures, and Great Sage Huangfeng recognized him as his third brother.

• Lingji demanded that Great Sage Huangfeng submit to Buddhism, but Great Sage Huangfeng mocked him and refused.
• Great Sage Huangfeng unleashed his Threefold Samadhi Divine Wind and blew the Flying Dragon Treasure Staff away from Yellow Wind Ridge.
• Lingji used the Wind-Calming Pearl to weaken the wind, and Great Sage Huangfeng struck the pearl with his Golden Blade Soul-Slaughter Method before trying to flee.
• Lingji regained control of the Flying Dragon Treasure Staff and sent its golden dragon after Great Sage Huangfeng.
• An unknown Daoist in azure robes snatched both the Flying Dragon Treasure Staff and the Wind-Calming Pearl, and Great Sage Huangfeng joyfully called him his third brother.

Lu Qingfeng reunited with Great Sage Huangfeng and helped him repel Lingji Bodhisattva, the Eightfold Assembly, and the Eighteen Arhats. The brothers headed for Black Wind Mountain, where they hoped to seek protection from its sect master.

• Lu Qingfeng appeared, seized Lingji Bodhisattva’s Flying Dragon Treasure Staff and Wind-Calming Pearl, and reunited with Great Sage Huangfeng.
• Lu Qingfeng and Great Sage Huangfeng decided to travel to Black Wind Mountain and ignored Lingji Bodhisattva’s demands to stop.
• Lingji Bodhisattva summoned the Buddhist Sect’s Eightfold Assembly, but Great Sage Huangfeng blew them and Lingji away with his Threefold Samadhi Divine Wind.
• The Eighteen Arhats arrived to block the brothers, but Great Sage Huangfeng’s wind scattered all eighteen across the land.
• Lu Qingfeng and Great Sage Huangfeng set out for Black Wind Mountain.

Lu Qingfeng and Great Sage Huangfeng reached Black Wind Mountain after refusing the Jade Emperor’s offer of heavenly office. At the mountain gate, Huangfeng used Lu Qingfeng’s origins as a Pure Law Bamboo to request an audience with the young sect master, leaving Lu Qingfeng to reflect on why Huangfeng had treated him so well.

• Lu Qingfeng and Great Sage Huangfeng traveled together to Black Wind Mountain, praising each other’s Divine Abilities along the way.
• Sa Shoujian met the brothers and invited them to serve as officials in Heaven on the Jade Emperor’s orders, but both refused.
• After Sa Shoujian departed, Great Sage Huangfeng explained the Jade Emperor’s need for capable followers, and the brothers continued to the mountain gate.
• Great Sage Huangfeng introduced himself and Lu Qingfeng to Black Wind Mountain’s guards and said they had come to pay their respects to the young sect master.
• Lu Qingfeng revealed his true form as a Green Bamboo, convincing the guards to let them wait while one reported to the patriarch.
• Lu Qingfeng realized Great Sage Huangfeng had befriended and cared for him despite their difference in power, but chose not to question his brother’s motives.

Lu Qingfeng gave Yellow Wind Great Sage the Wind-Calming Pearl and Flying Dragon Treasure Staff, then left Black Wind Mountain after its Young Patriarch summoned only his brother. While traveling to resign from his Thunder Ministry post, Lu Qingfeng was ambushed by the Eighteen Arhats, but broke through their formation and escaped.

• Lu Qingfeng reunited Yellow Wind Great Sage with Green Fox’s whereabouts and handed him the Wind-Calming Pearl and Flying Dragon Treasure Staff, warning that Tathagata’s imprint remained.
• Black Wind Mountain’s mountain-guarding general allowed Yellow Wind Great Sage to meet the Young Patriarch but barred Lu Qingfeng from entering, so Lu Qingfeng left rather than wait outside.
• Lu Qingfeng set out for the Heaven-Watching Marshal’s Manor to resign from his position as Spirit-Capturing Great General and make arrangements for his disciples.
• The Eighteen Arhats intercepted Lu Qingfeng and Meditating Arhat demanded that he return to Arhat Monastery, claiming he belonged to Black Wind Mountain and Arhat Court.
• Lu Qingfeng used the Five-Colored Divine Light to tear a hole in the Arhat Formation and escaped with Cloud-Peak Step.

After returning to the Earth Immortal Realm, Lu Qingfeng was summoned by Sa Shoujian, who conveyed the Jade Emperor’s second invitation for him to serve in Heaven. Lu Qingfeng accepted and left with Sa Shoujian, while Heaven-Watching Marshal Zhang Weiyu ordered the Flame God Great General to investigate Yellow Wind Ridge.

• The Flame God Great General reported Lu Qingfeng’s deeds to Zhang Weiyu and explained that Lu Qingfeng had left after helping the generals return.
• Lu Qingfeng arrived at Heaven-Watching Marshal’s Manor and learned from the Flame God Great General that Zhang Weiyu had guessed he was returning to Yellow Wind Ridge.
• Sa Shoujian arrived and told Lu Qingfeng that the Jade Emperor had sent him to invite Lu Qingfeng to Heaven to take office.
• Lu Qingfeng accepted the invitation and left for Heaven with Sa Shoujian.
• After hearing the Flame God Great General recount the meeting, Zhang Weiyu ordered him to investigate the situation at Yellow Wind Ridge and report back quickly.

Lu Qingfeng rejected Master Sa’s offer of a subordinate post in the Spirit Officer Hall and challenged Wang Lingguan’s standing. In their court duel, Lu Qingfeng’s divine lights repeatedly disarmed Wang Lingguan, leaving him battered before the Jade Emperor’s court.

• Lu Qingfeng arrived at the Empyrean Palace, concealed his aura, and answered the Jade Emperor’s summons.
• Master Sa proposed that Lu Qingfeng serve under Wang Lingguan in the Spirit Officer Hall, but Lu Qingfeng refused and objected to being ranked below him.
• Immortal Elder Ge suggested a duel to test their abilities, and the Jade Emperor summoned Wang Lingguan.
• Wang Lingguan attacked Lu Qingfeng with his golden whip, but Lu Qingfeng blocked the blow and swept the weapon away with the Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Lu Qingfeng also swept away Wang Lingguan’s divine sword and spear, then battered him with his staff until Master Sa called a halt.
• Wang Lingguan admitted that Lu Qingfeng’s divine abilities were formidable and declared himself convinced.

Lu Qingfeng was appointed Grand Marshal True Lord Tianpeng and given command of the Celestial River Water Army after defeating Wang Lingguan, then arrived to find the force depleted and many of its leaders absent. He began taking stock of the unruly army and learned that only a fraction of its generals remained.

• Lu Qingfeng rejected the lesser Spirit Officer post, and Minister Li proposed appointing him commander of the Celestial River.
• The Jade Emperor invested Lu Qingfeng as Grand Marshal True Lord Tianpeng, gave him the Tianpeng Seal and divine weapons, and placed eight hundred million water troops under his command.
• Venus Star Lord Taibai told Lu Qingfeng that the once-mighty army had dwindled to roughly six million troops and had many vacant posts.
• At the Celestial River, Lu Qingfeng summoned his new subordinates, but Great Sage Tiangang was away training troops and several senior generals had departed for Flower-Fruit Mountain, the Buddhist Sect, or the South Sea.
• Ziri Direct Talisman Envoy reported that only fifteen of the thirty-six generals remained in the army, with nine of those still away on duty or training troops.

After becoming Tianpeng, Lu Qingfeng began consolidating his command while Great Sage Huangfeng joined the Way of Heaven Sect as Zhou Zhu’s registered disciple. Huangfeng learned that Lu Qingfeng had been appointed Grand Marshal True Lord Tianpeng, but missed him when Lu left the Celestial River to gather his followers.

• Zhou Zhu accepted Great Sage Huangfeng as a registered disciple, took the Wind-Calming Pearl and Flying Dragon Treasure Staff into her care, and gave him Ten-Billion-Year Star-Sand Iron to refine into his trident.
• Zhou Zhu refused to accept Huangfeng’s third brother, and Huangfeng discovered that Lu Qingfeng had already left Black Wind Mountain.
• Zhang Weiyu told Huangfeng that the Jade Emperor had appointed Lu Qingfeng Grand Marshal True Lord Tianpeng and put him in command of the Celestial River’s eight million troops.
• The Ziri Direct Talisman Envoy told Huangfeng that Lu Qingfeng had left the Celestial River, and Huangfeng returned to Black Wind Mountain after asking to be informed when Lu came back.

Lu Qingfeng traveled from the Celestial River toward the Guangyuan Realm but encountered Yin Jiao and Venerable Six-Eyes fighting over the Barbarian God Realm. After overpowering their attacks and revealing his identity as True Lord Tianpeng, he left both Golden Immortals wondering how he had learned the Five-Colored Divine Light.

• Lu Qingfeng subdued the generals of Tianpeng Water Palace, took command of the Celestial River Water Army, and set out to bring his family and disciples from the Guangyuan Realm.
• On the journey, Lu Qingfeng found Yin Jiao and Venerable Six-Eyes fighting beside the Barbarian God Realm and entered the sealed world with his five Treasure Gourd Avatars.
• Yin Jiao and Venerable Six-Eyes attacked Lu Qingfeng when he tore open the realm's boundary, but Lu Qingfeng used the Immortal Binding Rope and Bell Chime to counter their treasures.
• Lu Qingfeng swept away Yin Jiao's imitation treasures and Venerable Six-Eyes's Emerald-Pupil Peak with the Five-Colored Divine Light, making both fighters wary.
• Lu Qingfeng recited his rise to office, and Yin Jiao recognized him as the new True Lord Tianpeng; Venerable Six-Eyes questioned where he had learned the Divine Ability.

Lu Qingfeng revealed his past in the Barbarian God Realm to Yin Jiao and Venerable Six-Eyes, then entered the realm to assess the Guangyuan Immortal Sect he had founded. After discovering the sect still dominated the Material World, he granted its leader Zong Yangzi a sudden advance in cultivation.

• Lu Qingfeng explained that Yin Jiao and Venerable Six-Eyes had blocked his warship and revealed that Venerable Poison Dragon had sent him to the Barbarian God Realm 129,000 years earlier.
• Yin Jiao and Venerable Six-Eyes recognized Lu Qingfeng as the cultivator who had once disrupted their plans in the Material World and were astonished that he had returned as a Golden Immortal.
• Lu Qingfeng entered the Barbarian God Realm, found Abyss-Suppressing Mountain, and encountered Zong Yangzi cultivating with the Luofu Heart Lamp, Luofu Sword Canon, and Soul-Severing Spirit-Scattering Bell.
• Lu Qingfeng questioned Zong Yangzi, learned that the Guangyuan Immortal Sect remained the Material World's foremost power, and used a Divine Ability to discover what Zong Yangzi did not know about the sect's immortals in the Heavenly Realm.
• Lu Qingfeng imparted insights into the Luofu Sword Canon to Zong Yangzi, who awakened to a major cultivation breakthrough and the Lamp-Heart Evolving Method.

Lu Qingfeng returned to the Heavenly Realm, destroyed a deep-sea octopus, and recognized its tormentor as Daoist Taiyang, now calling himself the Fire God Augavin. When Augavin tried to stop him, Lu Qingfeng summoned his disciple Xuanyu, who trapped Augavin in a powerful formation.

• Lu Qingfeng encountered a giant octopus rising from the ocean and destroyed it, leaving behind a blazing black pearl.
• Daoist Taiyang arrived and claimed the name Augavin, revealing he had become the Fire God after escaping to the Heavenly Realm and fusing with a fire divinity.
• Lu Qingfeng returned the black pearl to Augavin and prepared to leave, but Augavin demanded an explanation for the octopus’s death.
• Lu Qingfeng summoned Xuanyu and asked his disciple to deal with Augavin in his place.
• Xuanyu unleashed his Nine-Strategies Profound-Hao Sticks and trapped Augavin in the Nine-Heavens Demon-Binding Formation as thunderbolts fell.