Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo learned how the Bhadrapala Pure Land drew power from compassion and met Dizang Tathagata, who asked him to include Buddhist teachings in the Netherworld Office. Dizang explained what might restore Buddhism’s orthodox Great Dao, and Chen Luo ended by asking why the sect had abandoned its former Dao and entered the Netherworld.

• Chen Luo questioned Yixing about the mysterious Purple Cloud Palace, and Yixing said it had aided humanity and the Heavenly Dao throughout history.
• Yixing explained that the Bhadrapala Pure Land had abandoned the Myriad Miles to the Heavens Great Dao and drew power from compassion, bearing the suffering of departed souls.
• Yixing gave Chen Luo a string of prayer beads, which summoned Dizang Tathagata and helped him temporarily contain the suffering afflicting him.
• Dizang asked Chen Luo to incorporate the Buddhist sect’s Six Paths Reincarnation, Eighteen Hells, and salvation of departed souls into the Netherworld Office, and Chen Luo agreed to consider it.
• Dizang said Buddhism could recover its orthodox Great Dao if its teachings reached people’s hearts and a new Buddha Lord established a new Great Buddhist Dao.
• Chen Luo asked Dizang what had caused the Buddhist sect to abandon the Myriad Miles to the Heavens Dao and enter the Netherworld.

Chen Luo learned how the Ancient Buddhist Sect sacrificed three generations of Buddhas to suppress the Blood Sea, then discussed the sect and Chen Xuan with the Qilin Emperor. After Chen Luo wrote a new chapter in the Underworld, its story stirred up a Coiled Dragon Pillar frenzy across the human, demon, and dragon realms, while the Qilin Emperor gained further insight into the Life and Death Rule.

• Dizang Tathagata explained that the third-, fourth-, and fifth-generation Buddhas fought Bo Xun and the Blood Sea, sacrificing the Buddhist Sect's path back to the mortal realm.
• Dizang Tathagata began to explain Mount Sumeru's purpose, but his black prayer beads triggered a detached state, and he sent Chen Luo away before finishing.
• The Qilin Emperor warned Chen Luo not to become biased toward the Ancient Buddhist Sect, then told him the Purple Cloud Palace had arranged her Underworld mission and that the Ancestral Dragon was its only known public traveler.
• Chen Luo wrote a new chapter for the Qilin Emperor, while its release inspired the Ape-Monkey Clan to seek staffs and Coiled Dragon Pillars and prompted Black Chicken Brother to drive up their auction prices.
• The Fang Family planned to escort Coiled Dragon Pillar seekers, Ye Dafu chose to sell Origin Sea maps and supplies, and the Azure Dragon lineage closed its gates after demons seized two Dragon King elders' pillars.
• Yun Siyao arranged to give armor to the Southern Wasteland and Great Xuan, while the Qilin Emperor absorbed Seven-colored Qi from Chen Luo's manuscript and showed signs of progress in his Life and Death Rule.

Chen Luo received the Kirin Emperor’s authority to establish the Yin Yang Division and went to take control of the Bottomless Prison. Meanwhile, a Human Race Master Teacher died after discovering something in the Wolf Lands, and the prison wardens plotted to conceal their corruption before Chen Luo arrived.

• The Kirin Emperor gave Chen Luo the Royal Command Token and ordered him to establish the Yin Yang Division, while Elder Di was told to watch over him and the Purple Cloud Palace.
• Chen Luo returned to the King of Fengdu’s Palace, where he learned Shangguan Zhaorong had brought two hundred servant ghosts and would manage his social obligations.
• Great Sage Lang Huo captured and killed Zhao Shishang, a Human Race Master Teacher who had infiltrated the Wolf Lands, then ordered two other wolf clan Great Sages to eat the body and leave no trace.
• Wen Yun Sun learned that Zhao Shishang’s soul token had shattered, while Yan Baichuan and the King of Suppression discussed the rising Southern Wilderness Bloodline Tide and the wolf clan.
• Fan Wujiu and Xie Bian joined Chen Luo’s Yin Yang Division and advised him to take control of the Bottomless Prison, where Lai Junchen’s authority had been based.
• The Bottomless Prison wardens discussed ways to hide their corruption from Chen Luo, while Ox Head and Horse-Face warned that the Royal Command Token and the Suspended Mirror Division could expose them.

Chen Luo punished the Bottomless Prison wardens for neglecting his arrival and established the Yin Precepts Division and Investigation Division with Emperor Xuan’s approval. He promised generous salaries and benefits, then unleashed his Red Dust Qi to draw on Fengdu City’s merit, leaving the city glowing with golden light.

• The wardens blamed the burned archives on White Lotus Wicked Monks and tried to excuse their failure to welcome Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo used his Royal Command Token to charge the wardens with grave disrespect and ordered Fan Wujiu and Xie Bian to take them into custody.
• Chen Luo renamed the Bottomless Prison the Yin Precepts Division, established a Judge system and an Investigation Division, and received Emperor Xuan’s approval and two First Rank Seals.
• The leading warden offered his wealth to avoid punishment, but Chen Luo announced high salaries, bonuses, shorter workdays, and a ban on corruption for his officials.
• Chen Luo released his Red Dust Qi and drew the Netherworld Death Qi and merit above Fengdu City into a glowing golden canopy.

Chen Luo took over the Bottomless Prison, recruited Ox-Head and Horse-Face, and sought help restoring Cui Shanque. After returning to Mount Fangcun, he resumed writing Journey to the West and began the story of Chen Xuanzang, unlocking the eighty-one tribulations quest chain.

• The Qilin Emperor confiscated the merit Chen Luo had gathered, while Li Bi and the Secretary Official abandoned plans to impeach him and sought to join the Underworld instead.
• Chen Luo ordered the former prison overseers locked up, then agreed to investigate Ox-Head and Horse-Face and let them serve in the Yin Precepts Division at a lower rank.
• Dizang Tathagata asked Prajnadara to deliver the reforged Buddha Bone Prayer Beads to Great Feng and send Chen Luo a message.
• Chen Luo asked Shangguan Wan'er to contact Ying Gou about preserving Cui Shanque's intelligence, and she agreed to send a letter.
• Chen Luo returned to Mount Fangcun, resumed writing Journey to the West, and began Chen Xuanzang's origins, unlocking the eighty-one tribulations quest chain.

Chen Luo rewrote Journey to the West to expose the Western Regions Buddhist Sect as a false branch and present Chen Xuanzang’s scripture-seeking journey as a path to restore orthodox Buddhism. As he finished, the story began solidifying a new Buddhist Dao beneath his Seven-Colored Great Dao, though it belonged to the Mortal World Martial Dao.

• Chen Luo wrote that the Western Regions Buddhist Sect had engineered Chen Xuanzang’s family tragedy and planned to use him as its public spokesman.
• Chen Luo invented an origin for Buddhism in which a false Buddha had usurped the teachings of the Buddha Ancestor and corrupted the Golden Cicada’s reincarnations.
• Chen Luo wrote that Guanyin vowed to save living beings, recruited Sha Wujing, Zhu Wuneng, and the Cloud Dragon Third Prince, and set out to find the pilgrim.
• Chen Luo finished the chapter with Guanyin arriving in Chang'an, then sensed seven-colored light from his Great Dao making the illusory Great Buddhist Dao solidify.
• Chen Luo realized that the emerging Buddhist Dao was a branch of the Mortal World Martial Dao and concluded that Buddhism was fated to be connected to him.

At Morning Awakening Teahouse, listeners reacted to the end of Journey to the West, while Adamo’s reading of the story awakened his compassion and brought him to the Seven Thousand Li Tong Shen Realm. As Adamo departed to correct Buddhist teachings, the Sacred Hall debated the Ancient Buddha’s return, and Chen Luo returned to his true body in the Netherworld to face a visitor from the Central Bhadrapala Pure Land.

• A tea guest at Morning Awakening Teahouse learned he could vent his frustration at the unfinished story by paying to beat a sandbag man bearing Marquis Wu’s likeness.
• Adamo read Journey to the West, invoked Guanyin Bodhisattva, and received a drop of water from a jade vase that appeared above him.
• Adamo broke through to the Seven Thousand Li Tong Shen Realm, gained sixty years of lifespan, and demonstrated Shaolin Martial Arts to the disciples gathered at Mount Shaoshi.
• Adamo advised Qin Yu and Su Qianqian on their paths of Utmost Emotion and Nature, then announced that he would travel the world to guide beings toward the true Buddha.
• The Sacred Hall agreed to spread Marquis Wu’s account of the false Buddhas and volunteered Lu Fang Weng, Ouyang Zui Weng, and Fan Xiwen to guard the west.
• Chen Luo returned to his true body in the Netherworld and learned that Venerable Prajnadara of the Central Bhadrapala Pure Land was waiting to see him.

Bodhisattva Prajnatara gave Chen Luo the hell prayer beads, revealing that he was the master of Mount Sumeru and explaining their powers to protect souls and open a route back to the mortal world. After discussing the gift and sharing a new Journey to the West manuscript, Chen Luo learned that the Southern Wasteland’s bloodline tide was nearing as Feng Nanzhi faced a decision.

• Bodhisattva Prajnatara presented Chen Luo with the reforged hell prayer beads and revealed that he was the master of Mount Sumeru.
• Bodhisattva Prajnatara explained that the eighteen hells could punish and imprison ghosts, protect souls from the River of Living Beings, and eventually help reverse reincarnation.
• Bodhisattva Prajnatara told Chen Luo that, with sufficient power, the beads could open a passage to Mount Fangcun and let him return to the mortal world.
• Chen Luo wrote Bodhisattva Prajnatara a new Journey to the West manuscript, but refused to write more when she offered him a Five-Decays treasure.
• Feng Nanzhi ordered her secret guards to keep watching Mount Fangcun without alerting Bai Mo, then sensed the approaching bloodline tide and said it was time to decide.

Chen Luo refined the hell beads and established the Eighteen Layers of Hell, while the Ancient Buddhist Sect debated Journey to the West and decided to help him. After Cui Shanque vanished, Chen Luo traced him to Tashan City, where the Nether Elephant lineage unexpectedly recognized Chen Luo as their benefactor.

• Chen Luo opened the Eighteen Layers of Hell and assigned Zhong Kui to oversee its prisoners, with Dai Zong serving as the underworld's terminal.
• At Great Leiyin Temple, Prajnadara Bodhisattva read the latest installment of Journey to the West, leaving the Buddhist disciples eager for more; they agreed to investigate Dao Lord Yin Yang and prepare restorative pills for Chen Luo.
• Shangguan Wan'er told Chen Luo that Cui Shanque had disappeared on the way to Fengdu, and Chen Luo used their spiritual connection to track him.
• Chen Luo, Shangguan Wan'er, and Bai Yue followed traces of spatial magic from the teahouse to Tashan City, where Chen Luo sensed Cui Shanque inside.
• Three leaders of the Nether Elephant lineage emerged from Tashan City and knelt before Chen Luo, welcoming him as their benefactor.

Chen Luo recruited the Nether Elephant Clan as his guards and appointed Cui Shanque as the underworld’s First Rank Judge. In Great Xuan, Cheng Nansong found a former Minister of Law in a coffin and persuaded him to return to the Central Capital, leaving his identity unrevealed.

• Xiang Shaolong offered Nether Elephant guards to repay Chen Luo, and Chen Luo accepted three hundred, which became a procession of six hundred after the clan register was reviewed.
• Cui Shanque reaffirmed his loyalty to Chen Luo, accepted the Judge’s Seal, and received the Judge inheritance, the Judge’s Brush, and the Book of Wrongful Deaths.
• Chen Luo assigned Cui Shanque to oversee the Yin Precepts Division’s Judge system while Zhong Kui handled condemned souls in the Eighteen Layers of Hell.
• Cheng Nansong climbed a mountain in Great Xuan and found his Senior Brother in a coffin among many corpses.
• Cheng Nansong told his Senior Brother that the Southern Wilderness Bloodline Tide was approaching and that Minister Wen had invited him to compete for sainthood; he also mentioned the Minister of Law’s position overseeing the Yuan Sea.
• The former Minister of Law agreed to return to the Central Capital with Cheng Nansong, but the chapter ended without naming him.

The Qilin Emperor reprimanded Chen Luo over the Netherworld government’s generous benefits, then asked him to write a Buddhist poem for Master Yixiu’s mission to approach Dilisa. After learning the White Lotus Pure Land was plotting against the Qilin Emperor, Chen Luo resumed writing Journey to the West, while his story shifted to Kong Yingda delivering justice against the Chen Family in Bai'an City.

• The Qilin Emperor confronted Chen Luo with memorials criticizing the Netherworld government’s benefits, and Chen Luo agreed to bring official benefits in line with Great Feng’s.
• The Qilin Emperor introduced Master Yixiu, who asked Chen Luo for a Buddhist poem to impress Dilisa and gain access to the White Lotus Pure Land’s inner circle.
• Chen Luo wrote Yixiu a love poem, and the Qilin Emperor asked him to produce a less impressive one because she thought Dilisa did not deserve it.
• Chen Luo learned the White Lotus Pure Land was planning to interfere with the Qilin Emperor’s progress, so he returned to writing Journey to the West.
• At Bai'an City’s government office, Kong Yingda accepted the elderly couple’s plea for justice, healed Lord Li, and killed Chen Mouzhi despite the Chen Family’s threats.
• Kong Yingda identified himself as a member of the Most Holy Kong Family and challenged the Chen Family to summon reinforcements, while Chen Luo’s wooden body awoke at Mount Fangcun.

Bai Ze’s new chapter of The Legend of Monkey revealed that Sun Wukong was appointed the lowly, unranked Bimawen, prompting him to quit and declare himself the Great Sage Equal to Heaven. The story’s publication stirred gamblers, the Ape-Monkey Clan, the Fang family, and Great Xuan’s court, while Chen Luo began writing the next chapters.

• Demons placed bets on Sun Wukong’s unknown rank, then learned the chapter title named Bimawen and mistakenly celebrated their wagers on high-ranking posts.
• Scholars read that Bimawen was an unranked horse-tending position, and Sun Wukong abandoned the post and returned to Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Sun Wukong accepted the title Great Sage Equal to Heaven, defeated the Heavenly Court’s forces, and was later granted the title without duties; White Ape Holy Monarch claimed the title for himself and ordered a banner raised on Junji Mountain.
• The Fang family interpreted the chapter as Bai Mo raising his price ahead of the Bloodline Tide and ordered Fang Huaping to reassure him while preparing to publish the story with commentary.
• Yan Baichuan advised Emperor Ye Heng to eventually grant Great Sage Equal to Heaven titles to selected demons, but they postponed the plan until after the Bloodline Tide.
• Chen Luo returned to his desk and began writing the chapters about Sun Wukong disrupting the Peach Banquet and later facing the Heavenly Court’s forces.

Chen Luo wrote Sun Wukong’s Peach Garden rebellion and capture, causing Azure Dragon Emperor’s wooden arm to become a peach grove that produced fruit capable of resisting the River of Time. After naming a law-enforcement ship Fujian, Song Ci prepared to return to public service, while Chen Luo finished his chapters and returned to the Netherworld, leaving Sun Wukong awaiting punishment at the Demon Slaying Platform.

• Chen Luo’s writing transformed Azure Dragon Emperor’s wooden arm into peach trees whose fruit could resist the River of Time, so Azure Dragon Emperor severed the arm and planted a grove.
• Cheng Nansong offered Song Ci the Faxiang Seal to name a law-enforcement ship, and Song Ci accepted and named it Fujian.
• Chen Luo wrote Sun Wukong’s theft of peaches, wine, and immortal pills, then his defeat of the Heavenly Court’s forces at Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Chen Luo made the Fang family patriarch recommend Erlang Shen and ambush Sun Wukong with Laozi’s Vajra Ring, shifting blame for the sneak attack onto the Fang family.
• Chen Luo finished the story with Sun Wukong captured and sentenced to the Demon Slaying Platform, then returned his soul to the Netherworld.

Chen Luo learned that Chen Xuan had entered Haoli Mountain, a hidden domain that would not reopen for months, and the Qilin Emperor promised to watch for its opening in exchange for more chapters. Meanwhile, the latest installment of The Legend of Monkey provoked reactions across both realms, and the Qilin Emperor caught Chen Luo ending the story on a cliffhanger.

• The Qilin Emperor showed Chen Luo an image of Chen Xuan entering Haoli Mountain and promised to notify him when the hidden domain reopened.
• Readers across Great Xuan and the Southern Wilderness argued over Sun Wukong's actions, while Junji's monkeys set out to avenge him before White Ape Holy Monarch urged them onward.
• The ancestor demons discussed cultivating peach-tree demons to create Flat Peaches, and the ape Ancestor Demon insisted that monkeys would keep eating peaches.
• Ye Heng and Yan Baichuan speculated that Chen Luo was using Sun Wukong's defeat to win over the Southern Wilderness, while the Fang Family celebrated its role in the story.
• The Qilin Emperor grabbed Chen Luo by the ear after he ended the installment with Sun Wukong's fate unresolved.

Chen Luo learned that White Lotus Pure Land was using smuggled living souls to build a passage that could draw human-realm destiny into the Netherworld and empower its Reincarnation Great Dao. After realizing the sect was likely waiting for the Bloodline Tide, he arranged with Ma Qing to lure out the Bodhisattva overseeing the soul trade.

• The Qilin Emperor accepted Chen Luo’s explanation for pausing his writing, then discussed White Lotus Pure Land’s unexplained inaction with Shangguan Wan'er.
• Cui Shanque questioned Ma Qing, who revealed that souls sold by Lai Junchen had been used to build a passage for drawing human-realm destiny into the Netherworld.
• The Qilin Emperor explained that the passage could help White Lotus Pure Land make its Reincarnation Great Dao the Netherworld Heavenly Dao, but the sect would need an immense supply of destiny.
• Chen Luo realized that White Lotus Pure Land could be waiting for the Bloodline Tide, and the Qilin Emperor confirmed that its fortune could accelerate their plans.
• Chen Luo arranged for Ma Qing to pose as a fugitive with a cache of souls and lure the responsible Bodhisattva into a meeting.

Chen Luo captured Jiman Bodhisattva and learned how the White Lotus Pure Land planned to steal the human world’s destiny during the Bloodline Tide. He chose to return to the human world, where he arrived at Mount Fangcun and began preparing to act.

• Chen Luo led a team to Mangyuan Valley, captured Jiman Bodhisattva, and brought him to Fengdu City for questioning.
• Jiman Bodhisattva revealed that four Guardian Bodhisattvas would open a passage to the White Lotus Pure Land and named Fo Ding as Jin Yue, a First Rank Great Sage of the Peng Clan.
• Chen Luo learned how to contact Jin Yue and secured Jiman Bodhisattva’s oath of secrecy before reporting the plan to the Qilin Emperor.
• Chen Luo told the Qilin Emperor he would use the Eighteen Layers of Hell’s teleportation to return to the human world and prepare for the Bloodline Tide.
• Feng Nanzhi refused to pursue advancement during the Bloodline Tide and warned that Feng Bugui could not use his advancement to control her.
• Chen Luo arrived at Mount Fangcun through a golden vortex, asked Ao Lingling to contact Wen and Bai, and began arranging his next steps.

Chen Luo disguised himself as Jiman Bodhisattva to lure Great Sage Jin Yue into the White Snake Exquisite Pagoda, kill him, and absorb his Kunpeng bloodline. He then impersonated Jin Yue to contact the Buddhist Sect while Yan Baichuan and Han Changli prepared to act against the Netherworld plan; Chen Luo ended by faking danger to keep his contact waiting.

• Chen Luo used the White Lotus Wooden Fish to summon Jin Yue, then trapped him inside the White Snake Exquisite Pagoda.
• Chen Luo questioned Jin Yue about the Buddhist Sect’s soul-spirit communication network and Netherworld plan, then revealed himself as Chen Luo and killed him with his Martial Dao Clone.
• Chen Luo absorbed Jin Yue’s vital essence blood and learned that the Kunpeng had come from the Northern Darkness Grand World.
• Chen Luo impersonated Jin Yue and used the Buddha Bone Sarira to speak with the in-charge Great Bodhisattva, who told him to return to the Peng clan ancestral land.
• Yan Baichuan informed Han Changli of Chen Luo’s news and plan, and Han Changli agreed to seek help from a discreet Half-Saint and consult the Daoist Sect.
• Chen Luo read the Great Bodhisattva’s repeated messages and replied that the Third Elder was trying to kill him before closing the communication.

Chen Luo manipulated Great Bodhisattva Boya into revealing Buddhist hideouts, then used the information to arrange for human, demon, and Kirin forces to eliminate four Five Decay Realm Bodhisattvas. Boya finally invited Chen Luo to meet him directly, and Chen Luo prepared to set the next part of his plan in motion.

• Great Bodhisattva Boya sent Jin Yue a secret refuge location and ordered Buddhist temples to investigate disciples who had traveled between the Netherworld and the human realm.
• Chen Luo, posing as Jin Yue, claimed he was in danger and learned that a Five Decay Realm Bodhisattva guarded the refuge; he alerted Martial Uncle Wen, who killed the Bodhisattva.
• Boya sent Chen Luo another refuge location, and Chen Luo alerted Bai Yan Yan, who killed its Five Decay Realm Bodhisattva and took his sarira.
• Chen Luo sent the final location to the Kirin King, whose forces arrested and killed two Bodhisattvas; Boya grew suspicious, but Chen Luo talked him into believing Jin Yue was innocent.
• Boya gave Chen Luo his own location and invited him to meet; Chen Luo claimed Gan Tang was watching him, entered Boya's location into a Wenchang Pavilion token, and crushed it.

Chen Luo and the Half-Saints forged a false Bloodline Tide to lure the Western Regions Buddhist Sect into opening a passage to the Netherworld, allowing the Sacred Hall, Dao Palace, and Southern Wilderness Ancestor Demons to devastate White Lotus Pure Land. In Fengdu, Emperor Lin ordered an all-out assault on the weakened White Lotus.

• Han Changli explained to Zhang Wenchang why Chen Luo's deception could fool the Great Bodhisattva and confirmed that the next stage of the plan was beginning.
• Chen Luo, Zhang Zhengdao, Wang Ximeng, and Old King Jing prepared the Bloodline Tide painting with the Bai Ze Monster Scroll, vital essence, Primordial Qi, and Chen Luo's Imperial Demon Kirin bloodline.
• Chen Luo used paintings and Blood Body Transformation to stage the Bloodline Tide, while Old King Jing and Demon Races across the Southern Wilderness raised their auras to create a convincing spectacle.
• The Great Bodhisattva believed the staged Bloodline Tide was real and opened a passage between the Southern Wilderness and White Lotus Pure Land to seize its fortune.
• Chen Luo revealed the trap, and the Sacred Hall, Dao Palace, and Southern Wilderness Ancestor Demons attacked through the passage, destroying White Lotus Pure Land before it closed.
• Emperor Lin learned that the Reincarnation Great Dao had regressed by three hundred years and ordered the Ten Directions Festival King to launch an all-out attack on the White Lotus.

Chen Luo helped the Sacred Hall and Dao Palace stall the Southern Wasteland’s Ancestor Demons while Great Scholars secretly entered the region ahead of the Bloodline Tide. After the tide arrived early because a Great Bodhisattva had been sacrificed, Lang Feixian rushed in to protect Chen Luo’s Third Senior Brother.

• Chen Luo escaped after Jin Yue’s death, while five Ancestor Demons killed the Great Bodhisattva who had pursued him.
• The Sacred Hall and Dao Palace claimed they could not leave the Southern Wasteland because their formations were damaged, and Han Changli called for Bai Mo to inspect the Sacred Hall.
• Chen Luo pretended to accept the invitation, then used the demons’ concern for his safety to buy time until the Azure Dragon Emperor intervened and the Sacred Hall and Dao Palace departed.
• Wen Yun Sun told Chen Luo that the Great Scholars had secretly entered the Southern Wasteland, identified Fang Zhilin as another Dao Protector, and warned Chen Luo not to interfere casually in the coming tide.
• The Bloodline Tide arrived early after the Great Bodhisattva’s sacrifice, and Lang Feixian hurried to the Southern Wasteland to protect Chen Luo’s Third Senior Brother.