Recaps

The Preaching Squad crossed the Blackwater River and reached Chechi Kingdom, where they uncovered the warped Three Pure Ones Temple and challenged the royal preceptors. After the royal preceptors took the dispute before the king, the Squad entered a series of contests and found signs that the challenges were being manipulated.

• Little White Dragon exposed the Crocodile Dragon for driving out the Blackwater River God, then brought his cousin to face punishment and helped the Squad cross the river.
• The Water Women dragged the Squad underwater, but the Squad’s strength overwhelmed the trial and Amitabha Buddha said they would settle matters at Chechi Kingdom.
• The Squad found monks forced into labor under the three royal preceptors and stayed at the Three Pure Ones Temple, where the sacred statues attacked them.
• Tang Sanzang and Sun Wukong uncovered how the statues’ arrangement and incense offerings sustained their corrupted forms, then the Squad restored the statues’ proper order and Dao Resonance.
• Tiger Strength Immortal, Deer Strength Immortal, and Goat Strength Immortal accused the Squad of desecrating the temple, but Tang Sanzang challenged their authority before the king and secured a three-contest wager.
• Little White Dragon lost the rain-prayer contest after failing to summon rain, while Sha Wujin won the meditation contest by enduring Deer Strength Immortal’s attacks until Deer fell from the platform.
• Tiger Strength Immortal rejected the king’s offer to end the dispute in a tie, and Sha Wujin suspected Deer Strength Immortal had staged his fall as bait.
• Tiger Strength Immortal won the first Partition Guessing Game after Zhu Bajie’s attempt to tear the garment apart failed, and Sun Wukong prepared to take part in the second round.

The Preaching Squad exposed the Chechi Kingdom’s three state preceptors, defeated them in life-and-death contests, and helped restore the kingdom by offering its fortune to the Three Pure Ones. After the kingdom was renamed Chejing, the squad reached the Heaven-Reaching River, where Sha Wujin began a perilous effort to break Tongtian’s sword intent.

• Sun Wukong reforged his Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils, revealed the karmic chains linking the Vermilion Lacquer Cabinet to the three preceptors and imprisoned monks, and forced the king to void the rigged contest results.
• Tang Sanzang accepted a life-and-death wager, and Little White Dragon defeated Goat Strength Immortal by transforming the Taotie Cauldron’s power into Dragon Son Power.
• Zhu Bajie comprehended Eight-Realm Illusion Slayer and used it to destroy Deer Strength Immortal’s obsession and Dao foundation.
• Tang Sanzang used his Law Coffin to defeat Tiger Strength Immortal, then buried all three brothers, after which Chaos began consuming Chechi Kingdom.
• Tang Sanzang led the people in offering the kingdom’s destiny and fortune to the Three Pure Ones, whose Heaven-and-Earth Great Cart restored the kingdom’s circulation.
• The king renamed the kingdom Chejing, and after the Preaching Squad departed, its people rebuilt their institutions and infrastructure.
• At the Heaven-Reaching River, the Preaching Squad found Tongtian’s sword intent blocked their passage, so Sha Wujin entered the river to devise a solution.
• Sha Wujin shaped his Eight Hundred Quicksand Domain into a grinding formation, anchored it with his body, and severed the thread replenishing the river’s sword qi.