Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo completed the twelfth installment of Journey to the West, sending Tang Sanzang through a teleportation gate toward the Western Heaven, then began the thirteenth installment by introducing Sun Wukong beneath Five Elements Mountain. Meanwhile, Feng Nanzhi persuaded Feng Bugui not to seek revenge on Chen Luo for Feng Liancheng’s death, and Chen Luo announced that he would focus future installments on major turning points.

• Chen Luo wrote Guanyin’s account of Tang Sanzang’s mission, and Tang Sanzang entered the gate to the Western Heaven after Emperor Taizong of Tang saw him off.
• Feng Bugui told Feng Nanzhi that Chen Luo had killed Feng Liancheng, but Feng Nanzhi warned him that attacking Chen Luo could bring disaster upon the Tiger Clan, and Feng Bugui agreed to wait.
• Feng Bugui raised the possibility of having offspring with Feng Nanzhi, but she refused to discuss it before reaching the Ancestor Demon Realm.
• Chen Luo began the thirteenth installment, where Guanyin and Mucha found Sun Wukong imprisoned beneath Five Elements Mountain and told him that Tang Sanzang’s arrival would end his calamity.
• Chen Luo wrote Tang Sanzang’s encounter with the mountain and Sun Wukong’s cry that his master had arrived, then told readers that future installments would focus on major story turns.

Chen Luo bid farewell to the Southern Wastelands and prepared to return to Great Xuan, while the Azure Dragon Emperor revealed that peaches grown from Chen Luo’s writings could resist the River of Time. Chen Luo departed aboard Mount Fangcun, with the Underworld conflict and the Qilin Emperor’s plans awaiting him.

• The Kirin King gave Chen Luo a Storage Token filled with Great Sage meat and garlic demons prepared for cooking, then urged him to eat well on his journey.
• Jian Jia told Chen Luo that the Azure Dragon Emperor advised him not to visit the Wutong Forest and to focus on the human race; she also relayed the Emperor’s request that he write Journey to the West and the Heavenly Dao Demon Race properly.
• The Azure Dragon Emperor gave He Haohao an unripe peach from the Wutong Forest, which briefly halted the River of Time’s erosion, and promised him a peach when they ripened.
• The Azure Dragon Emperor explained that Chen Luo’s peach trees could produce fruit that resisted the River of Time, and He Haohao hurried away to spread the news among the Ancestral Demons.
• Chen Luo surveyed the Southern Wastelands from Mount Fangcun, sensed a secret watcher, and then lifted the mountain from Jingze Lake to fly toward Great Xuan.

Chen Luo brought Mount Fangcun back into Great Xuan, welcomed it home in Dongcang, and settled it at Yan Yun Plain before preparing to enter the Netherworld. After receiving three gifts from Half-Saints, he crossed over again and arrived amid the sounds of battle.

• Yuan Bubai escorted Mount Fangcun to Great Xuan's border, then returned to Jun Ji Kingdom after Chen Luo continued onward.
• Chen Luo flew Mount Fangcun north toward Yan Yun Plain, passed over the Fang Family in Mo Prefecture, and received a jubilant welcome in Dongcang City.
• Chen Luo visited Dongcang's residents and Martial Academy, then moved Mount Fangcun to Yan Yun Plain, where Han Qingzhu warned him that the Barbarian Heaven remained unstable.
• Han Qingzhu gave Chen Luo Kong Yingda's blade Divine Ability, Song Ci's jade tablet containing a hundred wronged corpses, and Wen Yun Sun's complete Song of Righteous Qi.
• When Mount Fangcun began to tremble, Chen Luo used its boundary-crossing power to enter the Netherworld and heard the sounds of battle as he arrived.

Chen Luo arrived on a Netherworld battlefield and used the Vengeful Corpse Guard to rescue Gao Gong’s Dafeng unit from the White Lotus Pure Land. After learning that he had been transported near Changjin City under King Shouguang’s command, he headed there with the soldiers, while the Lin Emperor wondered where Chen Luo had landed.

• Chen Luo appeared in the middle of a battle between White Lotus Pure Land monk soldiers and Gao Gong’s outnumbered Dafeng troops.
• Chen Luo killed a Third Rank Bodhisattva with a single blow and summoned the hundred Vengeful Corpse Guards.
• Chen Luo sent the Vengeful Corpse Guards to rout the White Lotus forces, killing three fleeing Bodhisattvas while another self-detonated.
• Gao Gong recognized Chen Luo as King Fengdu, and Chen Luo carried the wounded soldiers toward Changjin City with Red Dust Qi.
• In Fengdu’s Imperial Palace, ministers discussed the missing King Shouguang, and the Lin Emperor wondered where Chen Luo had been transported.

Chen Luo learned that King Shouguang’s army was trapped in the White Lotus Pure Land and traveled to Changjin City to meet its commander. There, he discovered that King Shouguang, Han Qin Hu, had been reduced to half a body.

• Gao Gong told Chen Luo that the White Lotus Pure Land had suffered a devastating attack from the human world and that King Shouguang’s army had advanced deep into its territory before becoming trapped.
• Chen Luo decided to return to Changjin City with Gao Gong and the surviving soldiers to meet King Shouguang.
• At Mount Fangcun, Hou An arrived with an imperial edict appointing Chen Luo Minister of Justice, but learned that Chen Luo had entered the Netherworld.
• Han Qingzhu agreed to return to the capital with Hou An to discuss the appointment, while keeping Chen Luo’s journey to the Netherworld from the emperor.
• Jiang Chen welcomed Chen Luo to Changjin City and explained that he was King Shouguang’s deputy festival envoy.
• Chen Luo met the severely wounded King Shouguang, who introduced himself as Han Qin Hu.

King Jiangchen explained how the White Lotus Pure Land’s Reincarnation Pagodas refined the Nether Land and revealed that a spy’s false intelligence had led King Shouguang and his army into an ambush. Chen Luo proposed a plan to help them, while in the human world Ye Heng pretended he had known Chen Luo entered the Netherworld all along.

• King Jiangchen told Chen Luo that Yuwen Jie, a longtime subordinate and White Lotus Reincarnation Slave, had lured their forces toward a Reincarnation Pagoda with false intelligence.
• King Jiangchen explained that two Garuda Kings ambushed them at the River of Three Crossings, and King Shouguang lost half his body protecting the soldiers while Jiangchen retreated to Changjin City.
• King Jiangchen asked Chen Luo to take King Shouguang back, but Chen Luo rejected the plan for a hopeless charge and said he had another idea.
• In the Imperial Palace, Ye Heng learned that Chen Luo had entered the Netherworld and pretended that Yan Baichuan had already informed him.
• Ye Heng blamed Hou An for failing to remind him, docked his salary for three years, and then told the ministers they could not discuss Chen Luo’s mission until they reached the Saint Position.

Chen Luo uncovered the Shadowless Army’s predicament in Changjin City and promised King Jiangchen a counterattack using overwhelming force. He summoned the Vengeful Corpse Guard as the White Lotus army prepared to attack, while the Qilin Emperor located someone beyond the River of Three Crossings.

• Chen Luo confronted King Jiangchen with his Royal Command Token, prompting Jiangchen to reveal that the Shadowless Army had sixteen First Rank combatants divided among six forces and was trapped after Yuwen Jie’s betrayal and King Shouguang’s injury.
• King Jiangchen explained that the White Lotus Pure Land hoped to lure the other Shadowless Army forces into a trap, and he refused to send a distress order that would put them at risk.
• Chen Luo proposed using “Firepower Cover” rather than breaking into smaller units, but Jiangchen warned that Changjin City faced five First Rank Bodhisattvas and more than fifty combatants above the Third Rank.
• A ghost soldier reported that the White Lotus monk army was preparing to attack, and Jiangchen offered to hold them off while Chen Luo escaped with King Shouguang.
• Chen Luo revealed that he had killed four Bodhisattvas attacking Gao Gong’s unit, then summoned the Vengeful Corpse Guard in coffins outside the main hall.
• In Fengdu, the Qilin Emperor used the Life and Death Great Dao to find someone beyond the River of Three Crossings.

Chen Luo joined King Jiangchen to defend Changjin City against the White Lotus Guardian army, then struck their ranks with the True Phoenix Bow and shattered the commander Spoka’s Dharma body. As the enemy charged, Chen Luo embraced his growing battle-restlessness and flew out to fight, followed by a hundred coffins.

• King Jiangchen showed Chen Luo Changjin City’s defenses, including Nether-Piercing Arrows, as the city raised a barrier against the approaching White Lotus army.
• The White Lotus army advanced with Bloodsea Ying Rats in its vanguard, and King Jiangchen ordered the city’s crossbows to fire, blasting gaps in their ranks.
• Chen Luo used the True Phoenix Bow to shoot a phoenix arrow through the enemy formation, setting its troops ablaze and shattering Spoka’s Dharma body.
• Spoka survived the attack and ordered the White Lotus army to charge and slaughter the city.
• Chen Luo told King Jiangchen he was going to fight in the enemy formation, then flew out of Changjin City as a hundred coffins followed him.

The Peaches of Immortality in Wutong Forest sparked a scramble among the Southern Wastes clans to win favor with Chen Luo and the Human Race. The chapter ended with the official Journey to the West bringing Chen Xuanzang’s pilgrimage and Sun Wukong’s wait together, while Chen Luo remained in the Nether Land.

• He Haohao’s account of the Peaches of Immortality spread through the Southern Wastes, prompting clans to reconsider their ties with Chen Luo and the Human Race.
• An Ancestral Demon ordered his clan to send Great Saints and troops to reinforce Mount Fangcun and treat the Human Race with courtesy.
• The Python Holy Lord approved a monthly martial competition in Yu Yuan Kingdom to attract Human martial artists and increase Human-Snake pregnancies.
• Bai Qingqing prepared to lead twelve hundred Fox Women to Dongcang to learn Human theatrical performances and build ties with its people.
• Yuan Bubai offered to guard the Peach Garden with eighteen Great Saints, and the Azure Dragon Emperor ordered him to retreat.
• The official Journey to the West, Chapters Twelve and Thirteen, was published, joining Chen Xuanzang’s journey west with Sun Wukong’s wait for the pilgrim.

After Journey to the West’s latest chapters stirred excitement and frustration across Great Xuan, the Sacred Hall debated whether Chen Luo’s story could restore Buddhism. In the Netherworld, Chen Luo left Changjin City’s battle to fetch a mountain, then carried it toward the battlefield as his promised Firepower Cover.

• Listeners packed Morning Awakening Teahouses to hear the twelfth and thirteenth chapters of Journey to the West, then cursed the storyteller for ending on a cliffhanger.
• Han Changli and the Sacred Hall discussed whether Chen Luo’s story could revive Mahayana Buddhism, and Yan Baichuan argued that Chen Luo might establish a new Buddhist path through Martial Dao.
• Han Changli ordered the Sacred Hall to monitor the Western Regions and warned that the enemy might counterattack despite the recent defeat of the White Lotus Pure Land of the Netherworld.
• Chen Luo flew away from Changjin City as King Jiangchen sent the Shadowless Army to attack the Ying Rat vanguard.
• Chen Luo returned carrying a mountain toward the battlefield, bringing the Firepower Cover he had promised.

Da Fuqi and the defenders of Changjin City fought overwhelming numbers of Ying Rats until Chen Luo arrived and devastated the White Lotus Guardian army with a supernatural mountain attack. After King Jiangchen sent the full army into battle, Chen Luo smashed the approaching Bodhisattvas and charged toward Spoka.

• Da Fuqi led his comrades against the Ying Rats outside Changjin City and was saved by one of King Fengdu’s Vengeful Corpse Guards.
• Chen Luo lifted Black Black Mountain and unleashed Mountain Collapse, raining boulders down on the White Lotus Guardians.
• King Jiangchen halted the Netherbreaking Arrows and ordered the entire army to charge from Changjin City.
• Chen Luo’s Vengeful Corpse Guards surrounded and beat apart several attacking Bodhisattvas.
• Chen Luo summoned countless blade phantoms and charged into the White Lotus Guardian army, calling for Spoka to face him.

Chen Luo charged into the White Lotus army at Changjin City, resisting the turmoil of slaughter with the Five Elements Mountain illusion from Journey to the West. After exposing and killing Ashna Shabi’s ghost body, he accused the White Lotus of breaking its promise and charged toward the wavering Bodhisattva aura.

• Chen Luo and the Vengeful Corpse Guards tore through the enemy formation as his Martial Dao cultivation surged, and the Five Elements Mountain illusion suppressed his chaotic thoughts.
• Ashna Shabi appeared before Chen Luo and tried to recruit him to the White Lotus Pure Land by promising an introduction to Great Bodhisattva Ashna.
• Chen Luo feigned willingness to cooperate, then persuaded the White Lotus leader to destroy Ashna Shabi’s ghost body and send him its Spiritual Light of Living Beings.
• Chen Luo crushed the Spiritual Light, realized it contained only Ashna Shabi’s ghost body, and demanded that the White Lotus surrender the light from his true body.
• After the White Lotus leader called Chen Luo shameless, Chen Luo charged toward the source of its faltering Bodhisattva aura.

Chen Luo slaughtered White Lotus’s Vajras and fought off three First Rank Bodhisattvas, but Spoka trapped him in a Buddhist kingdom and called in the Garuda King. King Shouguang intercepted the Garuda King above Changjin City, leaving Chen Luo to face Spoka and the other Bodhisattvas.

• Chen Luo used his Golden Bell Shield and Iron Cloth Shirt to defeat the Vajras with Shaolin martial arts, prompting three First Rank Bodhisattvas to attack him.
• King Jiangchen saw that Chen Luo had not sent out the Vengeful Corpse Guards and feared he was fighting the Bodhisattvas alone.
• Chen Luo captured the Great Vajra Charhan in the Book Spirit Snake Exquisite Pagoda, then engaged the other two Bodhisattvas alongside his Martial Dao Clone.
• A blood-colored figure left the River of Three Crossings and headed for Changjin City while Spoka and the Bodhisattvas kept Chen Luo occupied.
• Spoka trapped Chen Luo in a Buddhist kingdom and revealed that the Garuda King was approaching, but King Shouguang intercepted the beast above Changjin City.

Chen Luo and Han Qin Hu fought the White Lotus Pure Land forces at Changjin City, defeating Spoka and the Garuda King. With Han Qin Hu near death, Chen Luo used his authority to confer him a new royal title and promised him a place under his command.

• King Shouguang Han Qin Hu rebuilt his body at great cost and fought the Garuda King, using illusions and a concealed sword to kill him before collapsing.
• Chen Luo killed two First Rank Bodhisattvas, broke Spoka’s defenses, and defeated him after Spoka’s Five Decays calamity failed to harm Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo announced Spoka’s death, turning the tide of the battle, then rushed to Changjin City when he heard Han Qin Hu was dying.
• Han Qin Hu asked Chen Luo to help bring his brothers back, and Chen Luo offered to save him by taking him under his command.
• Han Qin Hu accepted, and Chen Luo used the Royal Command Token to confer on him the royal title Yama.

Chen Luo appointed Han Qin Hu as King Yama, allowing him to use the Underworld’s new rule to rescue the Shadowless Army and return it safely to Fengdu. After reporting his victories to the Great Emperor Lin Tian, Chen Luo learned that the White Lotus Pure Land planned to exploit the Ancient Heavenly Dao, then awakened his wooden body at Mount Fangcun and discovered that Demon forces had gathered there over the flat peaches.

• The Great Emperor Lin Tian refused to send reinforcements to King Shouguang, but sensed a change in the Life and Death Great Dao and realized Chen Luo was involved.
• Chen Luo appointed Han Qin Hu as King Yama, and the Hall of Yama appeared as Han Qin Hu took his place and gained a new physical body and royal seal.
• Han Qin Hu used the Underworld Rule to travel through the Life and Death Great Dao, bringing the beleaguered Shadowless Army back to Fengdu.
• Chen Luo reported the battle and the Bloodline Tide to the Great Emperor Lin Tian, who advised him to bring the Wolf Clan under his command and asked him to write more Journey to the West chapters.
• The White Lotus Pure Land agreed to spread Heavenly Dao Power through the Reincarnation Great Dao to reopen the Netherworld’s Strange Land and challenge the Life and Death Great Dao.
• Chen Luo awakened his wooden body at Mount Fangcun and learned from Ao Lingling that Demon forces had gathered around the mountain because of the flat peaches.

Chen Luo revised Journey to the West, freeing Sun Wukong and binding him with the Tight-Fillet Spell, while the Cloud Dragon Heavenly Palace discovered a gifted young Dragon Girl and debated whether to seek Chen Luo’s help. Yun Siyao heard her family’s discussion about her and Chen Luo, and Chen Luo began another chapter dedicated to her.

• Chen Luo planned a Southern Wilderness friendliness system with flat peaches as a high-level reward, then wrote Tang Sanzang freeing Sun Wukong from Five Elements Mountain.
• Chen Luo changed the story so Sun Wukong killed six bandits, left Tang Sanzang, and later accepted the Tight-Fillet Spell and promised to control his temper.
• The Azure-robed Dragon Marquis recognized Little Dragon Girl’s exceptional Soul power and arranged for her to cultivate in the Dragon Emperor Palace.
• The Azure-robed Dragon Marquis told the Old Dragon Emperor that Bai Mo was Chen Luo and asked whether Chen Luo’s writing could help Cloud Dragons connect with the Heavenly Dao.
• The Old Dragon Emperor refused to ask Chen Luo for help, insisting the Cloud Dragons should stand tall and avoid putting Yun Siyao in a difficult position; Yun Siyao overheard them.
• Chen Luo began writing the next chapter of Journey to the West for Sixth Senior Sister.

Chen Luo added the Cloud Dragon lineage to Journey to the West, creating a Heavenly Dao rule that let Cloud Dragons temper their souls by reading Mortal World Books. The Cloud Dragon Heavenly Palace accepted the rule as Chen Luo’s betrothal gift to Yun Siyao, and the lineage celebrated its new path to cultivation.

• Chen Luo revised the White Dragon’s backstory so the Cloud Dragon lineage could gain a share of the Heavenly Dao inheritance through the pilgrimage.
• Chen Luo finished writing the chapter, and a jade dragon phantom emerged from the manuscript and flew toward the Origin Sea as a newborn Heavenly Dao Rule.
• Li Changgu recognized the rule as related to the Cloud Dragon Heavenly Palace and hurried there, hoping to gain the Cloud Dragons’ favor.
• Yun Jielou’s mother comforted him as he worried that his elder sister would outgrow his ability to protect her, just before the Heavenly Tribulation arrived at the Cloud Dragon Sea.
• Yun Siyao told the Old Dragon Emperor that her Younger Junior Brother had drawn the Heavenly Tribulation, and the Old Dragon Emperor’s Divine Soul accepted the rule as a betrothal gift.
• The Heavenly Dao revealed that Cloud Dragons who read Mortal World Books could draw in Heavenly Dao Power to temper their souls, and the Dragon Emperor confirmed Chen Luo as his future grandson-in-law.

Minister Wen Zhou Zuofeng arranged for books to be sent to the Cloud Dragon lineage after Princess Yunlong’s Heavenly Dao connection emerged, while Adamo found a place to establish Southern Shaolin among the Bear Clan. The chapter ended with Chen Luo finishing four new chapters of Journey to the West and preparing to return.

• Zhou Zuofeng used Wenchang Pavilion’s Minister Wen seal to send one hundred thousand Mortal World Books to the Cloud Dragon Sea, and rumors of Chen Luo’s dragon-related story stirred concern among demons.
• Feng Nanzhi rejected the Ninth Elder’s plan to protest Journey to the West’s depiction of tigers, though she privately vowed to send troops if Chen Luo targeted them again.
• Adamo realized Journey to the West’s Monkey Mind and mind-horse ideas could benefit martial-Dao cultivation, then continued south to spread Buddhist teachings.
• Adamo met Confucian scholars fleeing Davali Kingdom because they could not teach the Bear Clan, and he offered to establish Southern Shaolin there; the Bear Clan Great Sage accepted.
• Chen Luo completed four chapters of Journey to the West and prepared to return, with the next two chapter titles announced.

Adamo began spreading Buddhist Dharma in Davali, while Xie Xiaofeng returned to Yuezhou to relocate his mother's grave and establish a martial arts lineage. In the Underworld, Chen Luo discussed the lull in the barbarian conflict before Emperor Lin sensed the White Lotus Pure Land drawing Heavenly Dao power into the Underworld.

• Adamo sent a letter asking Shaolin junior brothers to help spread the Dharma in Davali and received a banner bearing the words “Southern Shaolin.”
• Xie Xiaofeng challenged the Luo Family's ban on burying songstresses on land, defeated two Luo Family Great Scholars, and announced the founding of the Divine Sword Manor.
• Lamia told Yu Jia that Tagu had become a god and proposed marriage to her; Lamia resigned as Divine Daughter and put Yu Jia to sleep before freeing her from the spears.
• Cheng Nansong told Chen Luo that Great Xuan would avoid invading Barbarian Heaven while its tribes fought over the vacant eighth khanate, then placed Mount Fangcun's military affairs under Wei Wu Prefecture.
• Chen Luo returned his wooden body to bed and descended back into the Underworld.
• Emperor Lin sensed Heavenly Dao power being drawn into the Underworld through Buddhist Dao and realized the White Lotus Pure Land was targeting the Ancient Heavenly Dao.

Chen Luo’s new Journey to the West chapters sparked excitement among the Demon Race, and the Bear Clan hoped the story would help them gain a Heavenly Dao bloodline. At Southern Shaolin, Xiong Xiaoneng risked his life to stop bear children from stealing Adamo’s kasaya and awakened the Heavenly Dao Demon Race’s Mountain Suppressing Black Bear Bloodline.

• Chen Luo returned with four manuscripts, but Shangguan Wan’er told him the Qilin Emperor had entered seclusion and could not receive them.
• The latest Journey to the West chapters described the theft of Tang Sanzang’s kasaya by the Black Bear Demon, prompting the Demon Race to focus on whether the Bear Clan could gain a new bloodline.
• Xiong Xiaoneng arrived at Southern Shaolin to read Adamo’s manuscript, while bear children from the Davali Kingdom plotted to steal the kasaya.
• Xiong Xiaoneng intercepted the bear children and fought them to protect the temple, refusing to let them pass even after they left him gravely wounded.
• The manuscript absorbed Xiong Xiaoneng’s blood, and Shaolin’s Buddhist scriptures helped form the Mountain Suppressing Black Bear Bloodline, which entered his body.
• Adamo declared Xiong Xiaoneng a disciple of Shaolin Temple, and an Ancestor Star warned others not to interfere with the Bear Clan’s newly awakened bloodline.