Recaps

Jiang Liuer and his disciples were lured back to Wuzhuang Temple, where they discovered that Longevity Mountain’s inhabitants were skeletons and the temple lay in ruins. After the three black figures revealed their connection to the Formless Tribulation Realm and attacked, Jiang Liuer revealed his Great Buddha Golden Body and fought back.

• A white-robed attendant accused Jiang Liuer and his disciples of leaving before restoring the Ginseng Fruit Tree, then led them back to Wuzhuang Temple despite Jiang Liuer’s doubts.
• As they crossed Longevity Mountain, Jiang Liuer, Marshal Tian Peng, and General Juanlian saw its residents as skeletons with tormented primordial spirits.
• At Wuzhuang Temple, the three attendants revealed themselves as black-clad figures who had lured the group into a ruined temple and named the Formless Tribulation Realm.
• The black figures trapped Jiang Liuer and his disciples in black vortices, but Jiang Liuer broke free by manifesting his Great Buddha Golden Body.
• The black figures became armored giants and attacked with strange weapons, while Jiang Liuer countered them with swastikas as their clash shook heaven and earth.

Sect Master Tongtian defeated three black shadows from the Formless Tribulation Realm, then continued west with Jiang Liuer and the others after checking on Zhen Yuanzi. Near Huoyun Cave, he carried the disguised Red Boy, who made himself heavier to cause trouble.

• The three black shadows merged into a three-headed, six-armed form, but Sect Master Tongtian struck it apart with the Golden Great Rod and drove the shadows into a Spacetime Rift.
• The illusions around Wuzhuang Temple vanished, and Sect Master Tongtian found Zhen Yuanzi and Jiang Liuer drinking tea and playing chess; he warned that the Formless Tribulation Realm remained a threat.
• The four masters and disciples and White Dragon Horse left Longevity Mountain and continued westward, while Jiang Liuer worried that the intruders might have harmed Zhen Yuanzi.
• Near Huoyun Cave, the group found Red Boy pretending to be a lost, injured child, and Sect Master Tongtian carried him along the mountain path.
• Red Boy used a mountain-moving divine ability to make himself heavier, while Sect Master Tongtian recognized his trick and kept carrying him.

Sect Master Tongtian secretly helped Jiang Liuer and his disciples while they were captive in Huoyun Cave, then discovered that Red Boy had been hiding a terrifying power. As Red Boy confronted him, Sect Master Tongtian tried to claim he was Red Boy’s father.

• Sect Master Tongtian entered Huoyun Cave as a fly and found Jiang Liuer, Marshal Tian Peng, and General Juanlian tied up and being interrogated by Red Boy.
• Jiang Liuer explained that Red Boy was innately immune to his abilities, while Marshal Tian Peng joked about the demons eating him and was whipped by a little demon.
• Sect Master Tongtian used his power to kill the little demon with its own whip, then knocked out the demons who came to investigate.
• Red Boy appeared and confronted Sect Master Tongtian, whose Wisdom Eyes revealed that Red Boy had concealed an aura far beyond the Primordial Tribulation Realm.
• Sect Master Tongtian claimed that he had fathered Red Boy with Princess Rakshasa and urged him to call him Dad.

Sect Master Tongtian discovered that Red Boy and Princess Iron Fan came from the Rakshasa Tribulation Realm, then chose to help Red Boy uncover his origins rather than kill them. Red Boy transformed into a Female War God and clashed with Tongtian in a battle that left both weapons damaged.

• Red Boy bound Sect Master Tongtian with scarlet aura and attacked him for insulting his mother.
• Tongtian analyzed Red Boy's aura and saw that Red Boy and Princess Iron Fan came from the Rakshasa Tribulation Realm.
• The system offered Tongtian a choice between helping Red Boy uncover his origins or killing Red Boy and Princess Iron Fan, and Tongtian chose to help Red Boy.
• Tongtian broke free and slapped Red Boy, who transformed into a Female War God and attacked him with a blood-red weapon.
• Tongtian summoned the Golden Great Rod, and the two weapons clashed repeatedly, damaging both and shaking Heaven and Earth.

Sect Master Tongtian captured Red Boy’s blood-red vital energy and learned that it represented her purity. He agreed to return it after meeting her mother and uncovering the truth about her origins, then left the bound Jiang Liuer, Marshal Tian Peng, and General Juanlian behind in Huoyun Cave.

• Sect Master Tongtian stopped Red Boy’s attack, absorbed her blood-red energy, and learned that it represented an unmarried woman’s purity.
• Red Boy offered to release Jiang Liuer and his companions in exchange for her vital energy, but Sect Master Tongtian demanded an explanation of her origins.
• Red Boy admitted that her vital energy represented her purity and agreed to go with Sect Master Tongtian to meet her mother.
• Sect Master Tongtian left Jiang Liuer, Marshal Tian Peng, and General Juanlian restrained in Huoyun Cave while he and Red Boy departed.
• Jiang Liuer, Marshal Tian Peng, and General Juanlian speculated about why Sect Master Tongtian had left with Red Boy, and Jiang Liuer suddenly sensed something was wrong.

Bull Demon King confronted Jiang Liuer and his disciples, but Jiang Liuer revealed overwhelming power and struck Bull Demon King down a cultivation realm. Bull Demon King demanded Jiang Liuer’s name as he shrank to match his size, while Jiang Liuer rebuked him for changing his attitude.

• Bull Demon King appeared before Jiang Liuer, Marshal Tian Peng, and General Juanlian, accusing them of spouting nonsense and attacking them with icy breath and sword-light.
• Jiang Liuer broke free, transformed into a Golden Great Buddha, and blocked Bull Demon King’s attacks with his Nine-Ringed Monk’s Staff.
• Jiang Liuer smashed Bull Demon King’s head, cracking it open and causing his Violet Palace vital energy to leak out.
• Bull Demon King’s cultivation fell from the Saint Lord Realm, and he shrank his Dharma Body to Jiang Liuer’s size.
• Bull Demon King roared and demanded Jiang Liuer’s name, while Jiang Liuer scolded him for changing his attitude.

Jiang Liuer fought the Bull Demon King, while Sect Master Tongtian and Red Boy went to Princess Rakshasa’s cave, where Sun Wukong’s power overwhelmed her guards. The guards warned him not to cause trouble, insisting that Princess Rakshasa could defeat him.

• The Bull Demon King tore open a space-time rift and summoned Foreign Realm Creatures, but Jiang Liuer’s golden light devoured them.
• Jiang Liuer and the Bull Demon King clashed their staffs, shattering both weapons.
• Sect Master Tongtian and Red Boy arrived at Princess Rakshasa’s cave and learned that she had gone to find Red Boy’s father.
• Sect Master Tongtian swallowed the tall guard’s flying sword, then shattered the guards’ Heaven and Earth Net and injured them.
• The tall guard warned Sun Wukong not to cause trouble, claiming Princess Rakshasa could defeat him.

Sect Master Tongtian captured Red Boy, but Princess Iron Fan arrived and confronted him. After she stabbed Tongtian and Red Boy attacked, she blew Tongtian away with her fan, then promised to repair Red Boy’s broken spear.

• Sect Master Tongtian sent the women to Zhuaguo Country and dragged Red Boy away by his hair.
• Princess Iron Fan appeared, seized Sect Master Tongtian, and stabbed him in the chest with her Blood-red Dagger.
• Sect Master Tongtian sealed Princess Iron Fan’s aura and held her hand while they argued and waited for an opening.
• Red Boy attacked with his Blood-colored Spear, but Sect Master Tongtian twisted it out of shape.
• Princess Iron Fan used her fan to blow Sect Master Tongtian away while Red Boy cried over his broken spear.
• Princess Iron Fan promised to restore the spear, and Red Boy demanded that she repair it immediately.

Princess Iron Fan brought Red Boy to confront Sect Master Tongtian, who restored Red Boy’s Blood-colored Spear and asked about her origins. Princess Iron Fan offered to become his Dao Companion in exchange for the spear, but his question provoked her, and Bull Demon King arrived as Tongtian counted down.

• Princess Iron Fan took Red Boy to find Sect Master Tongtian and threatened him unless he restored Red Boy’s weapon.
• Sect Master Tongtian produced a Blood-colored Spear that Red Boy recognized as restored, then reclaimed it when Red Boy mocked his trustworthiness.
• Princess Iron Fan offered to become Sect Master Tongtian’s Dao Companion for a hundred years if he asked his question and returned the spear.
• Red Boy protested and said she would rather become his Dao Companion herself, while Princess Iron Fan reacted with disbelief.
• Sect Master Tongtian asked about Red Boy’s true origins, and Princess Iron Fan grew hostile as he began a ten-count.
• Bull Demon King appeared and accused Sun Wukong of coveting his woman.

Bull Demon King confronted Sect Master Tongtian over Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy, then attacked him after learning how powerful he had become. Sect Master Tongtian absorbed Bull Demon King’s devastating punch, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Bull Demon King appeared before Princess Iron Fan, Red Boy, and Sect Master Tongtian, then greeted Red Boy warmly while confronting Sect Master Tongtian.
• Princess Iron Fan explained that her marriage to Bull Demon King had only ever been an agreement in name, and Red Boy affirmed that Bull Demon King was her only father.
• Bull Demon King lamented the difference between his humble origins and Sect Master Tongtian’s advantages, then declared Sect Master Tongtian unworthy of being his brother.
• Bull Demon King attacked Sect Master Tongtian, who easily freed himself and revealed his superior strength.
• Bull Demon King transformed with Dharma Manifestation of Heaven and Earth and launched a massive punch, but Sect Master Tongtian absorbed its force when it struck him.

Sect Master Tongtian and the Bull Demon King fought for forty-nine days, and their clashes tore open spatial rifts that let powerful Foreign Realm Creatures invade the Primordial Tribulation Realm. The battle ended with the Bull Demon King revealing that he had fought with a clone and warning Sect Master Tongtian to leave with his master and junior brother.

• The Bull Demon King broke Sect Master Tongtian's energy-draining grip with blood-colored talismans, then struck back with a fist covered in golden talismans.
• Sect Master Tongtian and the Bull Demon King fought repeatedly, tearing open spatial rifts and allowing Foreign Realm Creatures to enter the Primordial Tribulation Realm.
• Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy left her Small World as the two fighters continued battling for forty-nine days, nearly destroying it.
• The cultivators of the Infinite Primordial World watched and debated the battle while Foreign Realm Creatures invaded and began controlling and replacing beings.
• Sect Master Tongtian and the Bull Demon King finally separated, and the Bull Demon King revealed that his fighter had been a clone.
• The Bull Demon King told Sect Master Tongtian to leave with his master and junior brother and continue westward, but Sect Master Tongtian laughed at his warning.

Sect Master Tongtian fought Bull Demon King and copied his primordial spirit while beating him down. Third Prince Nezha arrived to intervene, but Sect Master Tongtian challenged his authority, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Bull Demon King transformed into his colossal green ox form and attacked Sect Master Tongtian.
• Sect Master Tongtian struck Bull Demon King with the Golden Great Rod, piercing his forehead and breaking off both horns.
• Sect Master Tongtian continued attacking until Bull Demon King collapsed, secretly taking control of and copying his primordial spirit.
• Third Prince Nezha arrived and asked Sect Master Tongtian to stop, explaining that Bull Demon King was Taishang Laozi's former mount.
• Sect Master Tongtian accused Third Prince Nezha of arriving only to plead for Bull Demon King, and Third Prince Nezha demanded to know what he would do about it.

Third Prince Nezha attacked Sect Master Tongtian, who shattered him into a blood-colored light sphere and discovered a powerful life growing inside. To prevent the danger it might bring, Sect Master Tongtian created a stronger, identical life and began testing its contact with Nezha’s sphere.

• Third Prince Nezha challenged Sect Master Tongtian, whose sharp perception revealed that Nezha seemed changed.
• Sect Master Tongtian swallowed Nezha’s Fire-Tipped Spear and struck him with two golden-lit punches.
• Third Prince Nezha’s body exploded into a ten-li blood-colored light sphere, and Sect Master Tongtian sensed a life pulsing inside it.
• Sect Master Tongtian used the Search Heaven Sweep Earth Divine Ability to examine the sphere’s past and learned of the life within.
• Sect Master Tongtian shaped an identical life with the Wind of Creation and the Great Art of Soul Shifting, producing a sphere with a thousand times stronger pulse.
• Sect Master Tongtian brought his sphere beside Nezha’s and tested it with light contacts, provoking a violent reaction from Nezha’s sphere.

Sect Master Tongtian killed Bull Demon King and merged Nezha’s blood-red orb with one he controlled, restoring Nezha to life. He reunited Nezha with Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy, whose determination to avenge his father led Sect Master Tongtian to demand that Princess Iron Fan reveal Red Boy’s true origins.

• Sect Master Tongtian killed Bull Demon King after Bull Demon King shot him from behind, then swallowed the bull demon’s remaining true spirit.
• Nezha’s blood-red orb collided with Sect Master Tongtian’s orb, and Sect Master Tongtian restored Nezha after the orbs merged.
• Sect Master Tongtian reunited with Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy at Bull Demon King’s cave, where they were preparing to leave.
• Red Boy vowed to avenge Bull Demon King by learning from Sect Master Tongtian and becoming his Dao Companion.
• Sect Master Tongtian said Red Boy could become his Dao Companion after Princess Iron Fan revealed his true origins, but Red Boy fiercely rejected the idea.

Sect Master Tongtian trapped Princess Iron Fan and her daughter, but Princess Iron Fan’s independent shadow emerged and attacked him. As the shadow tried to seize his body, Tongtian transformed into a rapidly shifting shadow that devoured its aura, leaving Princess Iron Fan’s shadow frightened and retreating toward her host.

• Sect Master Tongtian immobilized Princess Iron Fan and her daughter in a golden net.
• Princess Iron Fan’s shadow appeared independently and revealed its connection to the Shadow Tribulation Realm.
• The shadow infected Sect Master Tongtian with a chilling aura that breached the talisman formation protecting his Violet Palace.
• Sect Master Tongtian transformed into a black Buddha shadow, which devoured the aura inside him.
• The black shadow changed through countless forms, and Princess Iron Fan’s shadow retreated toward Princess Iron Fan.

Sect Master Tongtian revealed himself to Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy, then used his power to inspect them before Guanyin Bodhisattva arrived. Guanyin took Red Boy away, leaving Princess Iron Fan with Sect Master Tongtian, who revealed he knew she was a princess of the Rakshasa Tribulation Realm and insisted she become his Dao Companion.

• Sect Master Tongtian's living shadow devoured Princess Iron Fan's shadow before he revealed himself to Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy.
• Princess Iron Fan recognized that Sect Master Tongtian was not truly Sun Wukong, and he used his power to inspect her and Red Boy.
• Guanyin Bodhisattva arrived and claimed Red Boy had a destined connection with the South Sea; Sect Master Tongtian allowed her to take Red Boy in exchange for Princess Iron Fan becoming his Dao Companion.
• Red Boy asked Guanyin Bodhisattva to punish Sect Master Tongtian, but Guanyin ignored her plea and carried her away.
• Sect Master Tongtian told Princess Iron Fan he knew she was a princess of the Rakshasa Tribulation Realm completing a trial, and he insisted that she become his Dao Companion.

Princess Iron Fan became Sect Master Tongtian’s Dao Companion and broke through to the Dao Venerable Realm, while he received a mission involving Flaming Mountain’s Innate Fire Seed. He reunited with the travelers and arrived with them at Flaming Mountain, where the group faced a vast sea of flames.

• Princess Iron Fan asked Sect Master Tongtian to teach Red Boy Daoist techniques, and he agreed in exchange for her performance as his Dao Companion.
• After three days and nights with Sect Master Tongtian, Princess Iron Fan advanced from the Saint Realm to the Dao Venerable Realm.
• Sect Master Tongtian completed his mission, spun the Lucky Wheel, and chose to find and store the Innate Fire Seed in Flaming Mountain.
• Sect Master Tongtian reunited with Marshal Tian Peng, General Juanlian, Jiang Liuer, and White Dragon Horse, and they continued their journey.
• The travelers reached Flaming Mountain and saw an endless sea of flames, prompting Marshal Tian Peng and General Juanlian to ask how they could cross.

Sect Master Tongtian tried to use Princess Iron Fan’s Banana Leaf Fan to extinguish Flaming Mountain, but the flames grew stronger because they came from an exotic domain. After studying the strange fire, he took the group to an inn to rest while he searched for a way to put it out.

• Sect Master Tongtian enlarged Princess Iron Fan’s Banana Leaf Fan and fanned Flaming Mountain, but the flames intensified instead of going out.
• Sect Master Tongtian discovered that Flaming Mountain’s fire came from an exotic domain and was unlike any flame he knew.
• Sect Master Tongtian set the strange flames on Marshal Tian Peng, burning away his clothes before gathering the fire back into a ball.
• After studying the fire for three hours, Sect Master Tongtian led the group to Laifu Inn in a nearby city to rest while he sought a way to extinguish Flaming Mountain.

Sect Master Tongtian discovered that Xu Laifu had secretly murdered more than a million inn guests over a thousand years, then left Laifu Inn to investigate Huoyun City. There, Princess Jade Face revealed that she was Princess Rakshasa’s younger sister and asked about the Banana Leaf Fan.

• Sect Master Tongtian used his divine abilities to examine Xu Laifu’s memories and learned that the innkeeper had carefully arranged the deaths of more than a million guests.
• Sect Master Tongtian asked Xu Laifu whether a soul survived death, gave the travelers instructions, and left Laifu Inn.
• Sect Master Tongtian wandered through Huoyun City’s market and later confronted a veiled woman who had been following him.
• The woman identified herself as Princess Jade Face and said she wanted to know whether the Banana Leaf Fan came from her elder sister, Princess Rakshasa.
• Sect Master Tongtian said the fan had come from his Dao Companion but questioned Princess Jade Face’s identity because Princess Rakshasa had never told him about her.

Princess Jade Face asked Sect Master Tongtian for Princess Iron Fan’s Banana Leaf Fan and offered to become his Dao Companion, then hurried away with the treasure. Tongtian explored Flaming Mountain, discovered its flames came from a bottomless cavern, and sent avatars into it to investigate; after returning to Huoyun City, he learned the annual Kindling Festival was about to begin.

• Princess Jade Face claimed to be Princess Iron Fan’s twin sister and offered to become Sect Master Tongtian’s Dao Companion in exchange for borrowing the Banana Leaf Fan.
• Sect Master Tongtian lent Princess Jade Face the fan, then left Huoyun City for Flaming Mountain.
• Sect Master Tongtian discovered a bottomless cavern at Flaming Mountain’s center, where fireballs emerged, and sent three thousand avatars inside to explore it.
• After searching the flames without finding the Innate Fire Seed, Sect Master Tongtian suspected it was hidden in the cavern and returned to Huoyun City.
• Sect Master Tongtian learned at Laifu Inn that Huoyun City’s annual Kindling Festival was about to begin.

Sect Master Tongtian returned to Huoyun City and took Jiang Liuer and the others out to see the busy streets ahead of the Kindling Festival. Their teasing and banter continued until a series of shrill screams rang out nearby.

• Many visitors arrived in Huoyun City ahead of the Kindling Festival, leaving Laifu Inn full.
• Sect Master Tongtian returned, and Jiang Liuer said there was no need to hurry the Journey to the West.
• Sect Master Tongtian learned that the others were busy reading, cultivating, eating, and writing scriptures, then decided to explore the city.
• Jiang Liuer, Marshal Tian Peng, General Juanlian, and Little White Dragon accompanied Sect Master Tongtian onto the bustling streets.
• Sect Master Tongtian and the others traded jokes as they walked, until shrill screams came from ahead.

Jiang Liuer and his companions encountered eerie streets and a mysterious white-haired painter, while Sect Master Tongtian stayed behind after discovering a primordial spirit identical to himself. Tongtian seized the spirit and began examining the memories flooding into his mind.

• Sect Master Tongtian stopped Marshal Tian Peng from investigating a scream and led the group away from a crowded street.
• The travelers passed through a sinister street of stiff-moving pedestrians, paper lanterns, and paper figures before Tongtian sensed a deadly trap and took another route.
• Jiang Liuer drew a magnificent landscape for a white-haired old man, who laughed that his Myriad-Li Landscape Painting was complete before collapsing.
• Jiang Liuer and the disciples left the shop, while Sect Master Tongtian stayed behind after realizing the old man’s emerging primordial spirit looked exactly like him.
• Sect Master Tongtian seized the primordial spirit with the Search Heaven Sweep Earth Divine Ability and used his comprehension ability to control it, triggering a flood of images in his mind.

Sect Master Tongtian discovered that a mysterious magical-treasure shop bewitched cultivators and led them into a hidden Small World. He and his four companions were taken before a powerful Venerable Lord, whose intentions remained unknown.

• Sect Master Tongtian placed his incarnation's primordial spirit in the white-haired old man's Violet Palace, then watched the old man lock up the shop and leave.
• Sect Master Tongtian found the master and his four disciples entranced by the magical treasures in a nearby shop and saw that the treasures' strange aura could control their primordial spirits.
• A brocade-robed man ordered the snake-like force controlling Sect Master Tongtian to bring the group to the third floor, where they entered a hidden Small World.
• A Black-clothed Woman led Sect Master Tongtian and his four companions along a divine path past countless bones and resentful souls to a dark gate and a suspended stairway.
• The Black-clothed Woman announced to the Venerable Lord that she had brought the people, and the Venerable Lord ordered her to withdraw.

Sect Master Tongtian entered the darkness beyond the steps and learned that Venerable Lord had brought him there to unlock a dangerous Interlocking Great Formation. As the formation revealed itself, the system offered him two choices, leaving him to decide whether to break it or destroy it and capture Venerable Lord.

• The Black-clothed Woman jumped into the darkness, and Venerable Lord recognized Sect Master Tongtian inside Sun Wukong's body.
• Sect Master Tongtian used Search Heaven Sweep Earth to draw the Black-clothed Women, their camp, and countless remains and treasures into his Small World.
• Venerable Lord asked Sect Master Tongtian to help unlock a formation in the abyss, then illuminated the ruins of an ancient battlefield.
• Sect Master Tongtian discovered talismans forming a deadly Interlocking Great Formation across the metallic floor and began deducing how to overcome it.
• The system offered Sect Master Tongtian a choice between breaking the formation for its rewards or destroying it and capturing Venerable Lord for different rewards.

Sect Master Tongtian chose the task of deciphering the formation and discovered it imprisoned the Venerable Lord, who admitted to being the captive. After demanding to inspect the Venerable Lord’s primordial spirit, Sect Master Tongtian learned information that suggested the Venerable Lord came from the future spacetime and knew secrets about his identity.

• Sect Master Tongtian chose the formation task and received a Supreme Formation and Formation Warriors.
• Sect Master Tongtian spent three hours studying the formation and warned that breaking it could release an unknown lifeform and trigger further changes.
• The Venerable Lord admitted he was the lifeform trapped by the formation and threatened to disrupt Sect Master Tongtian’s plans unless he was freed.
• Sect Master Tongtian left the Venerable Lord’s Small World, forcing the Venerable Lord to agree to let him inspect his primordial spirit.
• Sect Master Tongtian examined the Venerable Lord’s primordial spirit and concluded that the Venerable Lord came from the future spacetime and knew that his true self had possessed Sun Wukong.