Chapter Summaries

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.

Sect Master Tongtian uncovered that the Venerable Lord was Ancestor Hong Yun, whose memories revealed how Dao Ancestor Hongjun had deceived and imprisoned him after he attained sainthood through a mysterious bead. After Hong Yun restored a fragment of Tongtian’s own erased memories, he vanished, leaving Tongtian wondering what had happened.

• Sect Master Tongtian dismantled the Venerable Lord’s talisman formations and recognized him as Ancestor Hong Yun.
• Tongtian recalled secretly saving a wisp of Hong Yun’s true spirit after Zhunti and Jieyin had schemed against him.
• Hong Yun explained that Dao Ancestor Hongjun had altered Tongtian’s memories, then restored a hidden memory fragment.
• Tongtian remembered that Hong Yun had swallowed a mysterious bead and attained sainthood through Body Attains Sainthood.
• Hongjun had convinced Hong Yun that he was suffering demonic possession, then sealed and suppressed him.
• Hong Yun disappeared, and Tongtian called for him without receiving a response.

Sect Master Tongtian ambushed Dao Ancestor Hongjun while they fought inside a hidden Small World, then completed his formation task and won a Reincarnation Bead. He rejoined Jiang Liuer and the disciples, and the group settled into a restaurant for a meal before a sudden boom interrupted them.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared before Sect Master Tongtian, claimed the Small World was a prison for a sealed demon, and attacked him.
• Their clash exposed and damaged the Small World's formations, so Hongjun restored it while Tongtian struck him from behind with the Power of Ten Thousand Worlds.
• Tongtian stopped Hongjun's incarnation from self-destructing and later returned to the street, where the master and disciples knew nothing of the fight.
• The system announced that Tongtian had completed the formation task, and he drew a Reincarnation Bead that could recreate Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water.
• Tongtian led Jiang Liuer and the disciples into a restaurant, ordered the best dishes, and tipped the waiter generously.
• A sudden boom sounded just as the food and wine were served.

Sect Master Tongtian confronted the young lord of Huoyun City and discovered that his golden pagoda was a powerful treasure from beyond the realm. After overcoming the young lord’s attacks, Sect Master Tongtian invaded his Violet Palace, where the young lord’s flames failed to stop him.

• The young lord of Huoyun City arrived with armed men and ordered Sect Master Tongtian to kneel, but Sect Master Tongtian caught a spear thrust at him.
• The young lord summoned a golden pagoda, which Sect Master Tongtian caught and recognized as a treasure from beyond the realm.
• The young lord transformed the pagoda into a golden dragon, but Sect Master Tongtian pierced it, swallowed it, and restored it with a Magic Incantation for rebirth.
• The young lord summoned a thirty-six-ranked black lotus, but it vanished after a clash that left Sect Master Tongtian unharmed.
• Sect Master Tongtian appeared behind the young lord and entered his Violet Palace, where the young lord’s flames could not harm him.

Sect Master Tongtian discovered that the young lord of Huoyun City held the Innate Fire Seed tied to the Flaming Mountain and fought off the City Lord’s guards. After the Lord of Huoyun City arrived and heard Tongtian’s account, a murderous streak of light suddenly flew toward them.

• The young lord’s flames went out, and the Innate Fire Seed appeared in Sect Master Tongtian’s Violet Palace, completing the system’s task and revealing the young lord’s connection to the Flaming Mountain.
• The City Lord’s Estate sounded its horn, and its guards surrounded the restaurant while demanding that Sect Master Tongtian release the young lord.
• Sect Master Tongtian used Supreme True Words to force the guards to their knees, but the Man in Black Armor shot him with ten arrows and destroyed his sacred body.
• Sect Master Tongtian’s primordial spirit absorbed the black energy and flames, then devoured the Man in Black Armor before restoring his body and sending the other guards back to the estate.
• The Lord of Huoyun City arrived, and Sect Master Tongtian explained that his group had defended itself after the young lord’s men attacked them.
• A cold streak of light filled with killing intent shot toward Sect Master Tongtian and the Lord of Huoyun City.

Sect Master Tongtian confronted Thousand-Eyed Ancestor of Mount Suihan, who demanded the release of his disciple, the Young City Lord of Huoyun City. Thousand-Eyed Ancestor’s eye formation blinded Tongtian and disrupted his divine soul, leaving him separated from his companions and seeking recovery when an elderly woman approached.

• Thousand-Eyed Ancestor of Mount Suihan appeared in Huoyun City and demanded that Sect Master Tongtian release the Young City Lord.
• The Young City Lord warned his master that Tongtian had come for the Innate Fire Seed.
• Thousand-Eyed Ancestor used thousands of eyes to attack Tongtian, severely impairing his vision and divine soul.
• Sect Master Tongtian fled by somersault but realized Jiang Liuer and the others had not escaped with him, then sent clones to investigate their fate and nearby locations.
• Sect Master Tongtian rested and took Spiritual Elixirs until an elderly woman approached and asked whether he could see.

Pilánpo Bodhisattva healed Sect Master Tongtian and negotiated for Old Ancestor Thousand Eyes, but the demon arrived and attacked her. She subdued him and prepared to decide his fate, while Sect Master Tongtian still wanted his eyes.

• Pilánpo Bodhisattva healed Sect Master Tongtian and asked to take Old Ancestor Thousand Eyes, but Sect Master Tongtian demanded the demon's powerful eyesight as compensation.
• Pilánpo Bodhisattva refused to surrender her life for the demon and offered to leave him a fragment of his true spirit instead.
• Old Ancestor Thousand Eyes appeared and attacked Pilánpo Bodhisattva with his eye formation, then transformed into a giant centipede.
• Pilánpo Bodhisattva erased the eye formation and trapped the Centipede Demon in a golden net, forcing him back into human form.
• Old Ancestor Thousand Eyes begged for his life, and Pilánpo Bodhisattva looked toward Sect Master Tongtian.

Sect Master Tongtian captured Old Ancestor Thousand Eyes, rescued Jiang Liuer and his disciples, and returned with them to Huoyun City. After a system quest prompted him to investigate Xu Laifu’s identity, he chose to stay in the city with the group for a few more days.

• Sect Master Tongtian studied Old Ancestor Thousand Eyes' destructive eyes, copied their structure, and created creatures with similarly powerful eyes before leaving Pilánpo Bodhisattva.
• Sect Master Tongtian found Jiang Liuer and the others bound in a cave on Suihan Mountain, freed them, and watched Marshal Tian Peng and Jiang Liuer kill demons as the rest fled.
• Sect Master Tongtian took the group back to Huoyun City, where the system offered him a quest to investigate Xu Laifu's identity or continue traveling.
• Sect Master Tongtian chose to investigate Xu Laifu and received Unlimited Golden Pills and the Unlimited Compendium.
• Jiang Liuer and the others asked to rest in Huoyun City, and Sect Master Tongtian agreed to stay a few more days while warning them to stay safe.

Sect Master Tongtian settled the group into an inn in Huoyun City, then went to find Xu Laifu, whose identity and background he needed to uncover for a system task. At a teahouse, he discussed the changing times with Xu Laifu and three old shopkeepers, and the water in their cups flowed back into his teapot.

• A group of wealthy, powerful young men offered precious ores for a room, and Sect Master Tongtian accepted the trade.
• Sect Master Tongtian spied on the newcomers with his divine ability, but their leader noticed and unsettled him with his sharp gaze.
• Sect Master Tongtian sent Jiang Liuer and the others into Huoyun City to explore while he searched for Xu Laifu.
• Sect Master Tongtian found Xu Laifu at a teahouse, where Xu Laifu introduced him to three old shopkeepers and invited him to share their table.
• The shopkeepers asked Sect Master Tongtian about changing business customs, and he compared the changing world to water flowing onward.
• After Sect Master Tongtian finished speaking, the water in the cups flowed backward into his teapot.

A mysterious girl confronted Xu Laifu, revealing him as a powerful enemy with a hidden teahouse full of victims. Sect Master Tongtian captured one of Xu Laifu’s ancient clones, and the girl offered him a Reincarnation Bead in exchange for taking the traitor away.

• A beautiful girl arrived at the teahouse, recognized Xu Laifu, and accused him of facing retribution for his past deeds.
• Xu Laifu attacked the girl, but her starlight form enveloped him in shrinking metal armor before he broke free and revealed the teahouse as a vast Small World.
• Sect Master Tongtian discovered that Xu Laifu had stripped the primordial spirits from hundreds of millions of visitors and left their bodies as living corpses.
• Sect Master Tongtian subdued Xu Laifu, then realized he had captured only an ancient clone.
• The girl offered Sect Master Tongtian a Reincarnation Bead in exchange for Xu Laifu, whom she identified as a traitor she had pursued across spacetime dimensions.

Sect Master Tongtian bargained with White Emperor for Xu Laifu’s identity, then saved her from an attack by Xu Laifu’s true self. White Emperor injured Xu Laifu, and Sect Master Tongtian captured him, deciphered his divine soul, and completed his mission.

• Sect Master Tongtian told White Emperor he wanted to know Xu Laifu’s identity and claimed he hoped to make her his cultivation partner.
• White Emperor gave Sect Master Tongtian the Reincarnation Bead, but he sensed danger and carried her away from a devastating beam of light.
• Xu Laifu revealed that the captive was only his clone, then attacked Sect Master Tongtian and cut off his head.
• White Emperor confronted Xu Laifu over his betrayal of Emperor Venerable and struck him with her white Solar Disc’s power.
• Sect Master Tongtian seized Xu Laifu as he tried to escape, shattered his bones, and extracted his divine soul memories.
• Sect Master Tongtian completed his mission and learned that Xu Laifu’s origins were far more complicated than White Emperor understood.