Recaps

Sect Master Tongtian survived his isolation at Five Finger Mountain by cultivating, defeating demons for food, and caring for the local living beings. After a long winter, he unlocked his Small World and helped the insects and other creatures establish a warm, cultivated valley where peach trees began bearing fruit.

• Sect Master Tongtian killed a Tiger Demon that attacked him, roasted its body, and shared the remains with nearby living beings.
• Sect Master Tongtian fed the local creatures demon meat and arranged warm caves for them to survive a bitter winter.
• During the long winter, Sect Master Tongtian continued visualizing the sun, moon, and stars as he cultivated.
• When spring arrived, Sect Master Tongtian fed the living beings roasted fish and planted peach pits in a valley near Five Finger Mountain.
• The living beings formed a concealed valley, awakened their spiritual intelligence, and cultivated under Sect Master Tongtian's guidance.
• After the next winter began, Sect Master Tongtian unlocked his Small World and discovered that the peach trees could absorb spiritual energy on their own.

Nezha visited Sect Master Tongtian and recounted how Ancestor Hongjun defeated their allies, reshaped control of the Heavenly Court, and left many powerful figures weakened. After Nezha departed with a secret cultivation method and a bead containing records of the Heavenly Realm, Tongtian identified Hongjun’s strange power as a cultivation system unknown even in the later Supreme Primordial World.

• Nezha told Sect Master Tongtian that Hongjun had defeated their side, imprisoned Sun Wukong beneath Five Finger Mountain for five hundred years, and installed Shen Jiang and Haotian in positions of power.
• Nezha explained that the Jade Emperor and other experts had lost cultivation realms, while the Heavenly King, Emperor Ziwei, and Emperor Gouchen helped the Jade Emperor retain some authority.
• Nezha told Tongtian that he had married Liansheng and would soon have a son, and Tongtian named the child Li Bai, with the courtesy name Taibai.
• Nezha revealed that Hongjun’s barrier restricted travel between the Heavenly Realm and Human Realm, then apologized for Tongtian’s imprisonment; Tongtian told him the tribulation had been necessary regardless.
• Tongtian whispered a cultivation method to Nezha, who swore not to spread it, and Nezha left Tongtian a bead containing images of events in the Heavenly Realm.
• Three years later, Tongtian determined how Hongjun’s unfamiliar cultivation power worked and realized that its system did not exist even in the later Supreme Primordial World.

Sect Master Tongtian continued studying the power Dao Ancestor Hongjun used to imprison him while training the creatures around Five Finger Mountain. When the creatures found an underground cavern filled with ancient books, he discovered that their scripts came from beyond the Infinite Primordial World.

• Sect Master Tongtian remained unconcerned that no one visited him and continued treating his imprisonment as a chance to temper himself.
• During spring, the valley's formations helped the peach trees bear Immortal Peaches early, and the creatures evolved after eating monster bones and learning cultivation techniques from Sect Master Tongtian.
• Sect Master Tongtian gave the creatures peach pits and sent them to search distant caves for useful resources, training them to survive without him.
• When winter returned, Sect Master Tongtian roasted two wolf demons attracted by the Immortal Peaches while the creatures took turns keeping watch.
• A Human-faced Ant reported finding a vast cavern three thousand li away and brought back chests of ancient classics written in unfamiliar scripts.
• Sect Master Tongtian read the classics and realized their languages did not belong to the Infinite Primordial World.

After a century beneath Five Finger Mountain, Sect Master Tongtian recovered part of his strength and mastered knowledge from ancient books brought from other domains. He left the mountain to find Golden Ao Island, discovered it had disappeared, and searched the Eastern Sea for clues.

• Sect Master Tongtian spent three years moving more than a hundred ancient books underground while the living beings he guided evolved, cultivated, and built grotto-heavens around Five Finger Mountain.
• Sect Master Tongtian used the readers' auras to recreate them and learn the languages of the ancient books, which contained encyclopedias and cultivation methods from other domains.
• A hundred years passed as Sect Master Tongtian studied and cultivated; his primordial spirit broke free, and he recovered one-tenth of his original magic power.
• Sect Master Tongtian left Five Finger Mountain and determined that the barren land between Southern Jambudvipa and Eastern Continent had become ownerless.
• Sect Master Tongtian reached the Eastern Sea, found Golden Ao Island missing, and used his abilities to search toward the sea's depths.

Sect Master Tongtian discovered that Golden Ao Island rested on an awakened golden ao, a sign that a world-destroying calamity was approaching, and secretly strengthened his disciples and allies with foreign-domain techniques. Though he appeared to remain trapped beneath Five Finger Mountain, a group led by General Shen arrived to torment Sun Wukong and seek revenge for Marshal Shen.

• Sect Master Tongtian found Golden Ao Island moving across the East Sea on the back of an awakened golden ao and suspected a world-destroying calamity was near.
• He entered Golden Ao Island, found its disciples in seclusion with their cultivation realms diminished, and awakened Tianhai, Kong Xuan, Duobao, and Zhao Gongming.
• Sect Master Tongtian taught his son and disciples foreign-domain techniques, then secretly visited allies and sent a hundred thousand clones to cultivate across different domains.
• After a hundred years of preparations, Sect Master Tongtian continued pretending to be trapped beneath Five Finger Mountain while waiting for an opportunity to strike at Dao Ancestor Hongjun, Amitabha Buddha, and Niangniang Shen Jiang.
• General Shen and his companions arrived at Five Finger Mountain, mocked Sun Wukong, and demanded revenge for Marshal Shen.

General Shen attacked Sect Master Tongtian after threatening him, but Tongtian easily devoured his whip’s serpentine monster and humiliated him. General Shen then summoned a blue sword net and began using a Foreign Realm Sword Control Technique that Tongtian recognized as far more dangerous than the Primordial World’s methods.

• General Shen formed a barbed whip and sent its monstrous serpentine form lunging at Sect Master Tongtian.
• Sect Master Tongtian bit off and swallowed the monster’s head, then mocked General Shen and his absent father and aunt.
• General Shen grew furious when his companions reacted with amusement and produced a blue-glowing sword that multiplied into a vast net.
• General Shen recited a Foreign Realm incantation, and Sect Master Tongtian recognized it as a Sword Control Technique that worked through resonance with the sword and could not be countered by ordinary Primordial World methods.

General Shen attacked Sect Master Tongtian with blue swords that opened a devouring Spacetime Rift, but Sect Master Tongtian remained unharmed and mocked him. General Shen tried to preserve his reputation by pretending the sword formation was slowly killing his opponent, but the trick failed in front of his companions.

• General Shen sent a barrage of blue swords at Sect Master Tongtian, and their aura corroded space into an expanding Spacetime Rift.
• Sect Master Tongtian explained that General Shen could not overcome the restraints placed by Dao Ancestor Hongjun and Amitabha Buddha.
• General Shen realized he could not defeat Sect Master Tongtian but feared losing face before the lackeys he had brought.
• General Shen covered Sect Master Tongtian with a blue sword formation and claimed it would slowly destroy him as he prepared to leave.
• Sect Master Tongtian mocked General Shen, the sword formation vanished, and General Shen's companions laughed at his failed boast.

General Shen killed his fair-weather friends after Sect Master Tongtian exposed his thoughts, but Tongtian subdued him and made a deal that left him unconscious. General Shen awoke in a brothel with no clear memory, then recognized a seductive voice as his mother’s.

• Sect Master Tongtian advised General Shen to kill his fair-weather friends to keep his humiliation secret.
• General Shen’s companions tried to flee, but he cut off their heads with his Crescent Moon Saber, and Sect Master Tongtian devoured their primordial spirits.
• General Shen realized Sect Master Tongtian had been pretending to be unable to leave, but an invisible force stopped General Shen from escaping.
• Sect Master Tongtian patted General Shen’s head, knocked him unconscious, and spoke of making a deal.
• General Shen woke in Yihong Courtyard with a hangover and fragmentary memories, then recognized a seductive voice as his mother’s.

Sect Master Tongtian manipulated General Shen into discovering his mother’s relationship with Dao Ancestor Hongjun, triggering his transformation into a demon god. Back beneath Five Finger Mountain, Sect Master Tongtian confronted Daoist Jieyin, who arrived to challenge him but ultimately withheld his attack.

• Sect Master Tongtian watched as General Shen overheard that his mother, Zhang Yan, had a secret relationship with Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
• General Shen’s faith in his mother and Dao Ancestor Hongjun shattered, and he transformed into a blood-red demon god.
• General Shen found the room empty, sensed Zhang Yan and Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s scents, roared, and vanished into the void.
• Sect Master Tongtian returned beneath Five Finger Mountain and resumed waiting out his suppression.
• Daoist Jieyin appeared before Sect Master Tongtian and asked if he knew his crimes.
• Sect Master Tongtian taunted Daoist Jieyin about his inability to kill him, and Daoist Jieyin withdrew his lightning without attacking.

Daoist Jieyin used techniques from another realm to trap Sect Master Tongtian in a black vortex, but Tongtian calmly dispelled it. Jieyin then summoned the Yin Talisman Bird, whose attack destroyed Tongtian’s body and tore open a Spacetime Rift.

• Daoist Jieyin unleashed a powerful black vortex that swallowed Sect Master Tongtian and began devouring the ground beneath Five Finger Mountain.
• Sect Master Tongtian mocked Daoist Jieyin and calmly made the black vortex vanish without harming him.
• Daoist Jieyin summoned a black beast that Sect Master Tongtian recognized as the Yin Talisman Bird, one of another realm’s Ten Great Ferocious Beasts.
• The Yin Talisman Bird lunged at Sect Master Tongtian, disintegrating his body and tearing open a Spacetime Rift.

Sect Master Tongtian defeated and humiliated Daoist Jieyin, then secretly revealed that he had recreated Amitabha Buddha and gained control of him. General Shen returned home under Tongtian’s influence, and Zhang Yan noticed that Shen Hai was acting strangely.

• Sect Master Tongtian seized Daoist Jieyin after the Yin Talisman Bird appeared to destroy Sun Wukong, then slapped and threatened him.
• Daoist Jieyin awoke at Spirit Mountain and searched himself for signs that Tongtian had tampered with him, but found nothing.
• Sect Master Tongtian revealed that he had merged the original Amitabha Buddha into himself and secretly controlled the recreated one.
• Sect Master Tongtian recalled that he had also strengthened his control over General Shen by tampering with him and driving him into demonic possession.
• Shen Hai returned home and treated Zhang Yan coldly, prompting her to notice his unusual behavior and ask what was wrong.

Shen Hai confronted Zhang Yan about whether she had betrayed his father, and she revealed that he was not Shen Shan's son. The revelation shattered Shen Hai's remaining trust in her, while Sect Master Tongtian watched events unfold and realized the situation had slipped beyond his control.

• Zhang Yan tried to comfort Shen Hai, but he withdrew to his courtyard and drank alone.
• Zhang Yan found Shen Hai and offered to help him bear his troubles.
• Shen Hai asked Zhang Yan directly whether she had betrayed his father.
• Zhang Yan said she had never wronged Shen Shan except that Shen Hai was not his son.
• Shen Hai wondered whether Dao Ancestor Hongjun was his father, and Zhang Yan denied being familiar with him.
• Sect Master Tongtian observed through Shen Hai's six senses and realized Shen Hai's parentage was unexpected.

Zhang Yan revealed that Shen Hai was actually Liu Ji, the surviving heir of another family, and explained how Shen Shan had raised him as his own. After Liu Ji accepted both his birth and adoptive fathers, Zhang Wan arrived, and he became convinced she was the woman whose voice he had heard with Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

• Zhang Yan told Shen Hai that Shen Shan was not his biological father and recounted how she had secretly carried the child of her executed fiancé’s family.
• Zhang Yan revealed that Shen Hai’s true name was Liu Ji, courtesy name Bowen, and Sect Master Tongtian reacted with surprise at the name.
• Liu Ji used his divine abilities to replay the conversation between Zhang Yan and Dao Ancestor Hongjun, but Zhang Yan denied ever being involved with Hongjun.
• Liu Ji reassured Zhang Yan that he felt no shame and would honor both his biological father’s name and Shen Shan’s care and teachings.
• Liu Ji suggested Zhang Yan’s twin sister might explain the resemblance, and Zhang Yan recalled that Zhang Wan had been taken away by a Daoist.
• Zhang Wan arrived to meet Zhang Yan and Liu Ji, and Liu Ji recognized her as the woman from the conversation with Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

Zhang Wan reunited with Zhang Yan and Liu Bowen, then offered them the complete Dragon Bone of Yinglong, claiming it came from Dao Ancestor Hongjun. Zhang Yan and Liu Bowen questioned her motives as Zhang Wan admitted she hoped they would help her in the future.

• Zhang Wan tearfully embraced Zhang Yan while Liu Bowen watched skeptically.
• Liu Bowen asked where Zhang Wan lived and whether she had a husband or children; Zhang Wan said she cultivated at Zixiao Palace and had a husband but no children.
• Zhang Wan told Zhang Yan and Liu Bowen that her Ancestor had discovered the complete Dragon Bone of Yinglong.
• Zhang Yan questioned why Hongjun would leave such a valuable treasure to them, and Zhang Wan claimed it was a gift meant for her because Hongjun had favored her master.
• Liu Bowen asked why Zhang Wan would not find the Dragon Bone herself, and Zhang Wan said she had no one else to trust and hoped they would help her when she needed it.

Liu Bowen followed Zhang Wan to Unnamed Island to search for Yinglong's Dragon Bone, despite his mother’s warnings and his suspicions about his aunt. As Zhang Yan boiled away the lake, they uncovered transparent creatures from another tribulation realm, raising the possibility that someone had been raising them there for a long time.

• Zhang Wan told Liu Bowen that Yinglong's Dragon Bone was on Unnamed Island, and Liu Bowen decided to go there immediately with loyal men despite Zhang Yan’s concerns.
• Liu Bowen used the Heavenly Eyes and Earthly Ears to check Unnamed Island before leading his party through the mist and onto it.
• Zhang Wan guided Liu Bowen and Zhang Yan to a lake, where her blue pearl indicated that the Dragon Bone lay beneath the water.
• Zhang Yan threw a blood-red pearl into the lake, making its water boil away and revealing transparent aquatic creatures.
• Sect Master Tongtian recognized the creatures as beings from another tribulation realm and suspected someone had deliberately raised them on Unnamed Island.

Zhang Yan's blood-red pearl drained Unnamed Lake, revealing countless transparent creatures that repeatedly vanished in mysterious mists. Liu Bowen's party unearthed a colossal Dragon Coffin instead of Yinglong's Dragon Bone, and as Zhang Wan urged them to open it, a talisman-covered stranger appeared.

• Zhang Yan used her blood-red pearl to evaporate Unnamed Lake, revealing strange aquatic creatures that Sect Master Tongtian recognized as valuable lifeforms from another realm.
• Mist swept over the lake twice, making most of the aquatic creatures disappear, while Zhang Yan suspected Zhang Wan was concealing information.
• Zhang Wan used a blue pearl to locate Yinglong's Dragon Bone beneath a patch of pebbles, and Liu Bowen's guards excavated the lakebed.
• Liu Bowen found an enormous rust-covered metal object that his Divine Weapon could not damage, and Zhang Wan identified it as a Dragon Coffin holding the Dragon Bone.
• After three days of digging revealed the three-hundred-zhang coffin, Zhang Wan urged the group to open it, but Zhang Yan sensed someone approaching and confronted a heavily built man covered in talismans.

Talisman Master opened the Dragon Coffin and possessed Yinglong’s dragon bone, while Liu Bowen and the others escaped his talisman bell. Zhang Yan and Zhang Wan revealed their true forms during the fight, and the chapter ended with Zhang Wan’s beast form charging at Yinglong.

• Talisman Master trapped Liu Bowen, Zhang Yan, Zhang Wan, and the Shen family guards inside a talisman bell, and its rebound destroyed the guards.
• Liu Bowen used a Yin Talisman Bird to corrode an opening in the bell, letting the three escape as Talisman Master possessed Yinglong’s dragon bone.
• Zhang Wan rang a Soul Summoning Bell that drew Yinglong toward it, but Talisman Master’s attack struck Zhang Yan and revealed her White Qilin form.
• Zhang Yan’s third-eye attack struck Zhang Wan, exposing her true form as a blood-red, three-headed beast.
• Zhang Wan swallowed Talisman Master’s blood-red talisman and charged at him, but he returned to Yinglong’s body and struck her with its tail.

Yinglong and Talisman Master were trapped inside the Dragon Coffin as Sect Master Tongtian’s plan unfolded on Unnamed Island. Haotian Saint Venerable entered the island to investigate a burst of green light, and the island exploded, leaving the Heavenly Realm to realize that Haotian had died.

• White Qilin tore off Yinglong’s dorsal fin, sending Yinglong and Talisman Master into the Dragon Coffin, whose lid sealed shut as golden runes appeared.
• Sect Master Tongtian watched the Dragon Coffin swell and Unnamed Island tremble, while Liu Bowen secretly placed a bead in the ground.
• Zhang Wan also secretly buried a bead, intensifying the island’s tremors until Haotian Saint Venerable arrived and tried to stabilize it with purple light.
• Liu Bowen, Zhang Yan, and Zhang Wan fled using Zhang Yan’s golden shuttle as Haotian continued working to quiet the island.
• Haotian entered Unnamed Island to investigate a burst of green light, and the island broke free of the purple radiance and exploded.
• Golden and purple lights vanished, a mournful bell rang, and blood rain fell as the Heavenly Realm learned that Haotian Saint Venerable had died.

Haotian Saint Venerable’s death stirred the Infinite Primordial World, where many suspected the Sect Master Tongtian had retaliated against Dao Ancestor Hongjun. Hidden beneath Five Finger Mountain, the Sect Master Tongtian left a Spacetime Rift open as a source of powerful demonic beasts, while Dao Ancestor Hongjun failed to locate either him or Haotian Saint Venerable’s true spirit.

• Haotian Saint Venerable’s death spread across the Infinite Primordial World, and old-era cultivators suspected the Sect Master Tongtian had killed him in retaliation.
• The Sect Master Tongtian remained hidden inside Sun Wukong and had erased the memories of Tianhai and his direct disciples after revealing his secret to them.
• Beneath Five Finger Mountain, the Sect Master Tongtian discovered a Spacetime Rift beneath a swamp and left it open to harvest powerful demonic beasts from another tribulation realm.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun awoke in Zixiao Palace, confirmed Haotian Saint Venerable’s body had died, and deduced that his true spirit still existed but could not be located.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun blamed the Sect Master Tongtian for Haotian Saint Venerable’s death but could not find him.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun confronted Sect Master Tongtian beneath Five Finger Mountain about Haotian Saint Venerable’s death, but Tongtian insisted a strand of Haotian’s true spirit remained. Tongtian used a peach to gather traces of Hongjun and created a fake version to advance his scheme, then faced a new imprisonment that he hoped to study for a breakthrough.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun visited Sect Master Tongtian beneath Five Finger Mountain and questioned him about Haotian Saint Venerable’s death and his suspected true body.
• Sect Master Tongtian told Hongjun that Haotian’s true spirit still remained and urged him to search for it.
• After Hongjun left, Sect Master Tongtian gathered traces from the peach with a formation and used them to create a Fake Dao Ancestor Hongjun seven years later.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun returned, observed Tongtian’s progress in breaking free, and imposed a new power that restrained his holy body and primordial spirit.
• Sect Master Tongtian began analyzing the new power system and hoped to understand it well enough to break through the Heavenly Ceiling of the True Self Supreme realm.

Sect Master Tongtian studied more than a hundred billion jade slips during his remaining years under Five Finger Mountain and prepared to leave once his five-hundred-year suppression ended. Jiang Liuer arrived at the mountain, where he met Tongtian and mistook him for a demon.

• A giant ant reported finding a cave filled with jade slips, and Sect Master Tongtian began studying the ones the ants brought back.
• More than ten thousand giant ants spent thirty years moving over a hundred billion jade slips to Tongtian's underground palace.
• Tongtian absorbed the jade slips' contents into his Violet Palace and guided more than five million beings on Five Finger Mountain, helping them become immortals.
• Tongtian calculated that his five-hundred-year suppression had ended and confirmed he had made arrangements for the beings on the mountain before leaving.
• Jiang Liuer, a white-robed monk riding a white horse, arrived at Five Finger Mountain and asked who Tongtian was.
• Tongtian identified himself as Sun Wukong, and Jiang Liuer concluded that he was a demon.

At Five Finger Mountain, Sect Master Tongtian’s incarnation inside Sun Wukong killed Guanyin Bodhisattva after she tried to recruit Wukong for the pilgrimage. When Amitabha Buddha intervened and threatened him, Tongtian defeated him too, and the chapter ended with Heaven mourning another Saint’s fall.

• Jiang Liuer boasted about being the Tang’s most powerful enlightened monk as Guanyin Bodhisattva arrived to arrange for Sun Wukong to accompany him west.
• Sect Master Tongtian immobilized Guanyin and destroyed her body, leaving only her true spirit as Amitabha Buddha appeared and offered Sun Wukong Buddhahood in exchange for accepting the precepts and Golden Fillet.
• Sect Master Tongtian rejected Amitabha’s offer and threat, prompting blood rain and a funeral bell as the world mourned Guanyin’s death.
• Amitabha Buddha attacked Tongtian beneath Five Finger Mountain, but Tongtian shattered his attacks and crushed him with the Pillar of Heaven.
• Sect Master Tongtian smashed Amitabha Buddha’s golden body apart, and crimson tears poured from the heavens as another Saint fell.

Sect Master Tongtian emerged to find blood rain falling across the Infinite Primordial World, while Dao Ancestor Hongjun explained that their journey west was part of a game against powerful beings from foreign realms. Tongtian set out with Jiang Liuer, whose immunity to magical attacks and irreverent complaints made their scripture-seeking journey anything but ordinary.

• Marshal Tian Peng saw the blood rain and funeral bell, then left for Gao Family Village to settle a karmic bond from a former life.
• A black fish transformed into a red-haired man at Quicksand River, while a white dragon roared above Eagle Sorrow Stream.
• Sect Master Tongtian dispersed Dao Ancestor Hongjun's violet radiance, and Hongjun explained their shared game against foreign-realm powers and swore an oath to prove his sincerity.
• Tongtian put on the Golden Fillet and joined Jiang Liuer, discovering that Jiang Liuer was immune to attacks involving magical power.
• Jiang Liuer and Tongtian began walking west after Baima vanished; Tongtian refused to fly or carry him, and Jiang Liuer soon spotted another Baima.

Jiang Liuer and Sect Master Tongtian continued their journey, where Jiang Liuer killed and butchered a Tiger Demon, ate its Demon Core, and explained his unusual life as a monk and former butcher. After traveling to a lush land, Jiang Liuer stopped to rest and complained about a wild fruit, while Sect Master Tongtian questioned his slow pace.

• Jiang Liuer mounted a white horse that transformed into a Tiger Demon, but he stayed on as it tried to throw him off.
• Jiang Liuer tricked the Tiger Demon into rolling over, then pinned and killed it with his Buddhist staff.
• Jiang Liuer butchered the Tiger Demon, ate its Demon Core, and told Sect Master Tongtian he had once worked as a butcher to support his elderly master.
• Jiang Liuer told Sect Master Tongtian he intended to become a Buddha, while Sect Master Tongtian suggested his journey was part of a scheme.
• Sect Master Tongtian summoned a giant black beetle to carry them a thousand li, and they continued on foot through a verdant land.
• Jiang Liuer stopped to rest, complained that walking was exhausting, and spat out a wild fruit he had tasted.

Jiang Liuer and Sect Master Tongtian encountered a young lady whose infatuation with the Holy Monk began at first sight. Jiang Liuer refused her invitation and claimed he lacked the power to cure her, while Sect Master Tongtian urged him to help; the young lady remained desperate for Jiang Liuer’s attention.

• A young lady spotted Jiang Liuer from her carriage and ordered her attendants to invite him inside.
• Jiang Liuer refused the invitation and set off, but the middle-aged attendant blocked his way and threatened him.
• The young lady stopped the attendant and pleaded with Jiang Liuer to help drive away the demon troubling her.
• Jiang Liuer claimed he was only an ordinary monk and pointed to Sect Master Tongtian as the one with the power to subdue demons.
• The young lady continued pursuing Jiang Liuer, saying her illness was in her heart and asking him to examine her.
• Sect Master Tongtian urged Jiang Liuer to save the young lady, who looked at him with gratitude.