Chapter Summaries

Tongtian chose to bring Chang'e into Guixu and received the Infinite Dao Fruit and Infinite Sword Canon. Tianqiong then joined Chang'e, and the two told Tongtian they wanted to be his Dao Companions.

• Tongtian selected the option to take Chang'e into Guixu and received an Infinite Dao Fruit and an Infinite Sword Canon.
• Tongtian welcomed Chang'e, shared roasted bird with her, and asked whether Tianqiong could manage the Interception Sect without her.
• Tianqiong appeared beside Chang'e, dressed identically, and said Shi Ji could manage Golden Ao Island in her absence.
• Cultivators nearby argued about the relationship between Tongtian, Tianqiong, and Chang'e.
• Tianqiong told Tongtian that she and Chang'e had always wanted to be his Dao Companions.

Tianqiong and Chang'e confessed their desire to become Tongtian's Dao Companions, but their conversation was interrupted by Desolate People who challenged him. After Tongtian defeated them, he sensed that Nuwa was in trouble and brought Tianqiong and Chang'e into Guixu.

• Tianqiong and Chang'e confessed their feelings to Tongtian and asked to become his Dao Companions despite his existing partners.
• Chang'e instantly erased the White-Clad Man when he interrupted them, prompting his companions to surround the group.
• A Desolate People youth attacked Tongtian with a ball of light, but Tongtian caught it and used it to defeat the group, trapping their primordial spirits.
• Tianqiong sensed Mother's presence and Chang'e sensed that something had happened to Niangniang Nuwa.
• Tongtian took Tianqiong and Chang'e into Guixu, where they found a wasteland of beast skeletons, chariots, and ruins.

Tongtian used the Great Black Marsh to reveal past images and confirmed that Niangniang Nuwa had gone to the Infinite World and was safe. He then brought Tianqiong and Chang'e to a battle in Guixu, where the Primordial World’s forces were losing to the Infinite World’s army.

• Tongtian took Tianqiong and Chang'e to the Great Black Marsh and explained that it could record sounds and images from the surrounding area.
• Tongtian created a golden planet over the marsh and used its green lights to draw past scenes out of the vicious fog.
• Chang'e and Tianqiong saw that Niangniang Nuwa had gone to the Infinite World, and Chang'e confirmed through her Spiritual Connection that Nuwa would be away for several years and was safe with Senior Brother Tianhai.
• Tongtian took Tianqiong and Chang'e to a battle between the Infinite World’s powerhouses and the Primordial World’s forces, led by Sect Master Tongtian.
• The Five-Orifice Saint Son shattered Sect Master Tongtian’s Heavenly Law Manifestation and struck at the Primordial World’s battle formation.

Tongtian chose to extend the Primordial World's lifespan by establishing an Infinite Spirit Vein, then used overwhelming Buddhist and demonic power to defeat the Five-Orifice Saint Son and his forces. He emerged with Tianqiong and Chang'e and began summoning the Infinite Spirit Vein to revive the Primordial World.

• Tongtian chose the system quest to establish an Infinite Spirit Vein rather than reverse time, receiving Infinite Power and Infinite Light.
• The Five-Orifice Saint Son trapped the Primordial World's powerful figures in a net and mocked Tongtian, who warned that the Saint Son would eventually be imprisoned.
• Tongtian invoked his power as Buddha and demon, engulfing the golden dome in darkness and flames that overwhelmed the Infinite World’s powerful figures.
• Daoist Zhunti, Amitabha Buddha, and Sakyamuni Buddha recognized Tongtian's display as true Mahayana Buddhism.
• The Five-Orifice Saint Son roared threats and tried to escape, but Tongtian erased his beam of light and appeared before the Primordial World's powerful figures with Tianqiong and Chang'e.
• Tongtian invoked the Infinite Spirit Vein to bring rebirth to the Primordial World.

Sect Master Tongtian sealed Guixu and stabilized the Primordial World, then settled with his companions in the hidden Moon Palace on the lunar star. Centuries later, the Great Zhou era had ended, and Ying Zheng unified the six kingdoms and proclaimed himself the First Emperor.

• Sect Master Tongtian formed the Infinite Spirit Vein, sealed Guixu permanently, and warned the Saints that the Primordial World might face a crisis after a hundred thousand years.
• Cultivators outside Guixu found only open ocean, and rumors of the Primordial World's destruction faded when its powerhouses returned and confirmed Tongtian had resolved the danger.
• King Zhou Mu Ji Man returned to Haojing, made Sheng Ji his queen, fathered descendants, and eventually passed the throne to Zhou Yihu before disappearing.
• Tongtian brought Queen Mother Fang, Sheng Ji, Tianqiong, and Chang'e to the Moon Palace, a hidden realm beneath Guanghan Palace, while Ji Xia's primordial spirit remained absent.
• After several hundred years, Ying Zheng unified the six kingdoms and proclaimed himself the First Emperor.

Sakyamuni Buddha split from the Western Teachings and established Nirvana Mountain to spread Mahayana Buddhism, while Amitabha Buddha expanded Theravada Buddhism through his disciples. The chapter traced how Ying Zheng and Huhai advanced rival Buddhist and Slaughter Dao agendas in the Human Realm, then ended with Tianhai developing the Interception Sect's influence through two new halls.

• Sakyamuni Buddha left Spirit Mountain, explained his connection to Sect Master Tongtian to the Queen Mother of the West, and began building Nirvana Mountain with her support.
• Amitabha Buddha sent Guanyin Bodhisattva, Manjushri Guanfa Bodhisattva, Puxian Bodhisattva, and Buddha Juliusun to recruit disciples and spread Theravada Buddhism.
• Ying Zheng, Juliusun's disciple, ruled brutally, then returned to Spirit Mountain, overcame his tribulation, and became Nine Tripod Bodhisattva.
• Huhai killed Fusu, took the throne as the Second Emperor of Qin, and used his master's Slaughter Dao to unleash bloodshed across the Human Realm.
• Tianhai took charge of the Interception Sect and established the Divine Dragon Hall and the Demon Dragon Hall to extend its influence and support its expansion.

After another five hundred years, Ji Su asked to visit the Infinite World, and Niangniang Nuwa agreed to take her with Jiang Yuque. On their way out, Six-Orifice mistook Niangniang Nuwa for Tongtian’s Dao Companion, then appeared in Guixu holding a portrait of her.

• The Divine Dragon Army and Demon Dragon Army expanded through the Infinite World while the Congruent Dao, Human Dao, and Earthly Dao also built strongholds beyond the Primordial World.
• Niangniang Nuwa watched over Ji Su, who had remained three years old and at the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm for five hundred years.
• Ji Su asked to visit the Infinite World, and Jiang Yuque volunteered to accompany and protect her.
• Niangniang Nuwa escorted Ji Su and Jiang Yuque through Guixu into the Infinite World.
• Six-Orifice blocked Niangniang Nuwa and asked whether she was Tongtian’s Dao Companion; she denied it and left.
• Six-Orifice appeared in Guixu with a portrait depicting Niangniang Nuwa.

Six-Orifice discovered that Guixu’s entrance had been sealed, while Tongtian learned that the Five-Orifice Saint Son had five older brothers and sensed that trouble was coming. Meanwhile, Ji Feng’s ship reached Golden Ao Island, where Queen Mother of the West and the Western Kunlun group became surrounded by a vastly larger force of Eastern Sea Wastelanders.

• Six-Orifice tried to leave Guixu for the Primordial Wilderness but found the entrance sealed.
• Tongtian told Niangniang Nuwa that the Five-Orifice Saint Son had older brothers named Six-, Seven-, Eight-, Nine-, and Ten-Orifice, then confessed that he felt uneasy about an impending danger.
• Black-Clad True Man and White-Clad True Man tampered with a Five-Colored Stone near Guixu, and Ji Feng secretly altered it after they left.
• Ji Feng joined Queen Mother of the West aboard her tower ship, and they sailed to Golden Ao Island to meet Tongtian.
• An embroidered-robed Wastelander insulted Queen Mother of the West, so Ji Feng destroyed the Wastelanders’ ship, triggering a battle between their forces and Western Kunlun.
• The embroidered-robed Wastelander summoned reinforcements that outnumbered Western Kunlun by more than ten to one and demanded that Queen Mother of the West surrender.

Tianhai saved the Queen Mother of the West and Ji Feng from the Desolate Men, then brought them to Golden Ao Island, where Ji Feng was welcomed by the Interception Sect. The Queen Mother of the West gave the sect’s disciples generous gifts and asked them to guide her son.

• Tianhai appeared to stop the Desolate Men’s attack and greeted the Queen Mother of the West and Ji Feng.
• Tianhai and the Queen Mother of the West destroyed the Desolate Men, and Tianhai crushed and swallowed the true spirit of their leader, Wúqióng Yǒulóng.
• Tianhai introduced Ji Feng to the Interception Sect’s elite disciples, who welcomed him and presented him with gifts.
• The Queen Mother of the West gave the disciples Ancient Profound Ice rings and asked them to guide Ji Feng through his training.
• The Queen Mother of the West and the others arrived at Golden Ao Island, where the sect welcomed them and exchanged more gifts.

After settling on Golden Ao Island, Ji Feng spent three hundred years training in the Ten Thousand Feet of Red Dust formation and emerged as a ninth-level Grand Unity Golden Immortal of the Killing Dao. Tongtian told him that the Western Desolate Hall had repeatedly attacked Western Kunlun, and Ji Feng decided to return there to fight the Desolate People.

• Queen Mother of the West gave generous gifts to the Interception Sect disciples, and she and Ji Feng settled on Golden Ao Island.
• Tongtian and Niangniang Nuwa visited Ji Feng and Queen Mother of the West, gave them gifts, and welcomed Queen Mother of the West as family.
• Queen Mother of the West and Ji Feng visited Tianqiong and the others at the Moon Palace, then Ji Feng returned to Golden Ao Island to train.
• Ji Feng spent three hundred years in the Ten Thousand Feet of Red Dust formation and reached the ninth level of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal of the Killing Dao.
• Tongtian told Ji Feng that the Western Desolate Hall had repeatedly invaded Western Kunlun, and Ji Feng chose to return there to strengthen its forces and deal with the Desolate People.

Ji Feng returned to Western Kunlun, where the Interception Sect troops departed and Queen Mother of the West moved to the Moon Palace so he could defend the region without restraint. A hundred years later, the Five-Colored Stone gave birth to a golden monkey, who became the Handsome Monkey King and learned immortal arts, but did not know how to help his followers live forever.

• Ji Feng returned to Western Kunlun, hosted a farewell feast, and gave generous gifts to Daoist Yang Mei and the Interception Sect disciples as they departed.
• Ji Feng sent Queen Mother of the West to the Moon Palace with several attendants, leaving the rest of Western Kunlun in his care.
• Tongtian told Queen Mother of the West and the others that the Five-Colored Stone had become part of White-Clad True Man and Black-Clad True Man's scheme against Jiang Ziya and Human Emperor Di Xin.
• After another hundred years, the Five-Colored Stone endured heavenly tribulation, cracked, and produced a golden monkey that fell into the Eastern Sea.
• The golden monkey reached a beautiful island, defeated rival monkey leaders, and became the Handsome Monkey King.
• The Handsome Monkey King found an immortal's cave, ate its pills, learned the Immortal Arts, and became an immortal cultivator, but did not know how to teach the arts to his followers.

The Handsome Monkey King reached the Western Ox Continent by mistake while seeking immortality, then traveled to Mount Lingtai Fangcun to ask Old Ancestor Bodhi to accept him as a disciple. After the gate attendants threatened him, he appealed directly to the unseen master, leaving his fate at the mountain gate unresolved.

• The Handsome Monkey King left Flower-Fruit Mountain to seek immortality in the Eastern Continent, but storms carried him to the Western Ox Continent.
• After hearing about Mount Lingtai Fangcun and Old Ancestor Bodhi, the Handsome Monkey King decided to seek instruction there instead of risking another journey east.
• Two Daoist attendants mocked the Handsome Monkey King for being a monkey and threatened him when he tried to leave.
• The Handsome Monkey King prepared to fight rather than kneel to the attendants, but a gentle voice from inside the mountain stopped them.
• The Handsome Monkey King asked Old Ancestor Bodhi to take him as a disciple and pleaded that the attendants were trying to kill him.

Handsome Monkey King accepted Old Ancestor Bodhi’s trial to guard the mountain gate for three months, using the time to listen to his teachings and cultivate. After several weeks, three young men arrived seeking discipleship and ordered him to announce them.

• Old Ancestor Bodhi sent Juexin and Juexing to contemplate for three months and told Handsome Monkey King to guard the gate for three months as a test.
• Handsome Monkey King endured hunger and a night of rain, listened to Old Ancestor Bodhi’s lectures, and improved his cultivation while guarding the gate.
• During the forty-nine days of rain, Handsome Monkey King sheltered mountain creatures, who later bowed to him and returned to the forest.
• Fangcun Mountain disciples went down the mountain for their day of rest, then returned and whispered about Handsome Monkey King’s unusual bid to become a disciple.
• Three young men arrived and told Handsome Monkey King to go inside and announce them as prospective disciples.

The Handsome Monkey King tested those seeking entry to Mount Fangcun by asking them to guard the gate for three months, believing the ordeal could reveal their character. When Juexin and Juexing rejected the remaining applicants and insulted them, the Handsome Monkey King defended the seven and faced the brothers’ hostility.

• The Handsome Monkey King restrained three arrogant applicants after they tried to force their way through the mountain gate, then gave them the choice to leave or guard the gate for three months; they chose to leave, holding a grudge.
• He continued offering the same test to later applicants, and several stayed to guard the gate while others departed.
• After Mount Fangcun’s disciples mocked the gatekeepers, the Handsome Monkey King explained his intentions to the seven men, who thanked him and began answering applicants in his place.
• When his three-month test ended, Juexin and Juexing told the seven applicants they could not become disciples and ordered them to leave.
• The Handsome Monkey King challenged Juexin and Juexing’s authority and objected to their insults, then stepped in front of the seven as the brothers’ killing intent rose.

Handsome Monkey King entered Mount Fangcun with seven other prospective disciples and proved himself by reaching the summit in fifteen minutes. Old Ancestor Bodhi revealed his origins, named him Sun Wukong, and sent him to settle into the sect; afterward, Tongtian appeared to speak with Bodhi.

• Juexin and Juexing challenged Handsome Monkey King, but Yuanrong arrived and announced that Old Ancestor Bodhi had accepted all eight newcomers.
• Yuanrong led Handsome Monkey King and the seven men through the Cave-heaven Blessed Land and up the mountain’s force-laden steps; the seven men stopped after about a thousand steps, while Handsome Monkey King reached the summit in fifteen minutes.
• Old Ancestor Bodhi told Handsome Monkey King that he had formed from a fragment of Nuwa’s Five-Colored Stone and warned that his destiny would bring many hardships.
• Old Ancestor Bodhi gave Handsome Monkey King the name Sun Wukong and sent him with Yuanrong to collect his duties and find a place to live.
• Tongtian appeared before Old Ancestor Bodhi, who spoke wistfully about his renunciation of the Western Teachings.

Tongtian met with Old Ancestor Bodhi, who revealed a formation that could downgrade Primordial World cultivators and extend the world’s life, but required one billion sentient beings to activate. Tongtian agreed to provide them and bear the Karma, leaving the two to prepare to activate the Nameless Great Formation.

• Tongtian visited Old Ancestor Bodhi, who agreed to teach Sun Wukong but insisted that Wukong never mention his name after leaving Fangchen Mountain.
• Bodhi explained that he had developed a presence in the Infinite World to protect himself and had discovered a formation that could downgrade Primordial World cultivators.
• Bodhi told Tongtian that the formation could prolong the Primordial World’s life but needed one billion sentient beings as its power source.
• Tongtian received a choice between helping activate the formation or leaving the Primordial World to its fate, and chose to help.
• Tongtian inspected the formation and promised to provide the one billion sentient beings and bear the resulting Karma.
• Tongtian and Old Ancestor Bodhi sealed their agreement to activate the Nameless Great Formation together.

Tongtian borrowed Breathing Soil from Houtu and used it to create Vast Land, where he rapidly populated a new human race. A century later, the population had exceeded one billion, and he met an exhausted-looking Old Ancestor Bodhi to ask what had happened with the Nameless Great Formation.

• Tongtian visited Houtu Palace, received a piece of Breathing Soil from Houtu, and gave bracelets to Tianhou and Tiantu.
• Tongtian teased Houtu, who kicked him out of the Netherworld, and he traveled to the Human Realm to gather human bloodlines and souls.
• Tongtian found a fog-shrouded starfield and used Breathing Soil to join its waters into a vast continent he named Vast Land.
• Tongtian created humans on Vast Land using the Supreme Art of Creation and a Spirit Gathering Formation, and the population surpassed one billion in a hundred years.
• Tongtian met Old Ancestor Bodhi and asked why he looked so old and haggard.

Old Ancestor Bodhi told Sect Master Tongtian that Sun Wukong had exploded while cultivating in seclusion, leaving his body behind but his primordial spirit missing. Tongtian took Wukong’s body and continued his plans, then visited Wa Huang Palace, where Tianqiong revealed her concern about merging with her true self.

• Old Ancestor Bodhi and Sect Master Tongtian discussed their preparations and learned that Sun Wukong had died during secluded cultivation.
• Old Ancestor Bodhi showed Tongtian Wukong’s body, whose Violet Palace was empty and primordial spirit missing, and Tongtian took the body into his system space.
• Tongtian confirmed that the Nameless Great Formation would begin in three months and require the primordial spirits of one billion Human Race members.
• Tongtian traveled to Wa Huang Palace and encountered Tianqiong disguised as Niangniang Nuwa.
• Tianqiong asked what would happen if her true self and incarnation merged, and Tongtian explained that they had originally been one through the Great Art of Soul Shifting.

Tongtian learned from Niangniang Nuwa that she had used the Supreme Art of Creation to repair the Heavenly Dao, then used that art with the Great Art of Soul Shifting to restore Wukong. Wukong returned to Old Ancestor Bodhi, who questioned him and accepted that his primordial spirit and memories had returned.

• Tongtian explained to Tianqiong that the Great Art of Soul Shifting could create multiple selves, and that he had merged into King Zhou Mu's body.
• Tongtian asked Niangniang Nuwa how she had refined the Five-Colored Stone to mend Heaven, and she said she had used the Supreme Art of Creation to seal a breach in the spatial barrier outside the Primordial World.
• Niangniang Nuwa explained that the barrier was the Heavenly Dao and that the Five-Colored Stone had needed life and consciousness to repair it.
• Tongtian returned to his land and spent seven days and seven nights using the Great Art of Soul Shifting and the Supreme Art of Creation to restore Wukong's body and primordial spirit.
• Wukong returned to Mount Lingtai Fangcun, where Old Ancestor Bodhi questioned him and concluded that his primordial spirit and memories had returned.

Wukong mastered the Cloud Somersault but chose to keep cultivating, while Old Ancestor Bodhi and Tongtian prepared and activated the Nameless Great Formation to suppress cultivators in the Primordial World. The formation met far more resistance than Bodhi expected, and he realized the Heavenly Dao was secretly working against it despite their contract.

• Old Ancestor Bodhi taught Wukong the Cloud Somersault, which Wukong comprehended after one use, but Wukong decided to cultivate for another hundred years before leaving the mountain.
• Old Ancestor Bodhi entered the Infinite World to prepare for the Nameless Great Formation, while Tongtian used the Great Art of Soul Shifting to copy the primordial spirits of one billion members of the Human Race.
• Tongtian and Old Ancestor Bodhi gathered at the formation with one hundred thousand arhats, three thousand bodhisattvas, and one hundred and eight Buddhas to support its activation.
• Tongtian sent the one billion copied primordial spirits into the formation, and Old Ancestor Bodhi used them to form a net around a miniature Primordial World and begin suppressing its life-forms.
• As the formation's progress slowed under strong resistance, Old Ancestor Bodhi told Tongtian that the Heavenly Dao seemed to be interfering despite their contract.