Chapter Summaries

Amitabha Buddha triggered the Reverse Karmic Cultivation Method and poured the power of his Twelve-Light Tathagata into Golden Cicada, transforming him into a Brahma-Saint Heavenly Demon. As Houtu detected the change and struck at the Land of Ultimate Bliss, Amitabha Buddha concealed the Earth-Splitting Chisel and took her punch.

• Amitabha Buddha used the Reverse Karmic Cultivation Method to awaken the power of Golden Cicada’s past lives and give him the Twelve-Light Tathagata’s power.
• Zhou Qingqing watched Golden Cicada transform into a Six-Winged Heavenly Demon and recognized the balance between the Buddha and Demon Paths as the Brahma-Saint Heavenly Demon Scripture.
• Zhou Qingqing wondered why Tang Sanzang had lost all his cultivation in the original trajectory, even without anyone’s interference.
• Houtu discovered the changes in Reincarnation and decided to test Amitabha Buddha by striking the Land of Ultimate Bliss with the power of the Earth Dao.
• Amitabha Buddha concealed the Earth-Splitting Chisel and took Houtu’s punch, which hurt him slightly.

Zhou Qingqing created the Heaven-Sent Fortune System to give Shi Ji an opportunity to attain sainthood and counter Amitabha Buddha’s move. Shi Ji’s Blue Planet projection bound to the system, which connected her soul to her true body in the Primordial World.

• Houtu recognized the gulf between the Dao Integration Realm and Dao Creation Realm and chose to trust Zhou Qingqing to contend with Amitabha Buddha.
• Amitabha Buddha healed his injuries in the Land of Ultimate Bliss and openly challenged Zhou Qingqing, while the Four Monkeys of the World remained in the Underworld fighting Ancestral Witch projections.
• Zhou Qingqing used the network Bai Ze and Daji had established to create the Heaven-Sent Fortune System for Shi Ji’s projection on Blue Planet.
• Shi Ji heard the system’s loli-like voice, realized Zhou Qingqing had created it, and agreed to bind with it.
• The system absorbed Shi Ji’s spiritual energy and completed its binding, linking her projection to her true body across the Great Dao.

Shi Ji received an immense amount of Inconceivable Dao-Proving Gold and used the Heaven-Sent Fortune System to search for Brahma-Saint Heavenly Demon Golden Cicada. After finding him with a divine ability, she chose to focus her exchanges on improving her foundation and path to proving the Dao.

• The system gave Shi Ji Inconceivable Dao-Proving Gold and tasked her with defeating Amitabha Buddha's pawn, Brahma-Saint Heavenly Demon Golden Cicada.
• Shi Ji exchanged some Dao-Proving Gold for Turning Back Heaven and Reversing the Sun, receiving Zhou Qingqing's insights along with the divine ability.
• Shi Ji used the divine ability to locate Golden Cicada and saw the monk surrounded by demonic qi and Amitabha Buddha's Twelve Lights.
• Shi Ji decided not to attack or spend the gold carelessly, reasoning that the system should help her prepare to prove the Dao.
• Shi Ji considered exchanging for Pangu's Blood Essence, then instead asked the system to exchange for a top-tier innate foundation.

Shi Ji received a top-tier Heaven-and-Earth Mystic Yellow Mother Stone foundation, which evolved her innate stubborn stone foundation and strengthened her potential. She decided to face Brahma-Saint Heavenly Demon Golden Cicada, while Amitabha Buddha prepared for their confrontation.

• Upper Pure Master Tongtian considered how Qingqing could create a top-tier foundation for Shi Ji.
• Qingqing exchanged for a Heaven-and-Earth Mystic Yellow Mother Stone foundation and offered it to Shi Ji.
• Shi Ji claimed the reward, and Heaven-and-Earth Mystic Yellow Mother Qi evolved her foundation.
• Shi Ji decided to challenge Brahma-Saint Heavenly Demon Golden Cicada to discover how to develop her expanded potential.
• Amitabha Buddha sensed Shi Ji's evolved foundation and Tai'a Sword, but trusted Golden Cicina's strength and doubted she could prevail.

Shi Ji confronted Sui Sanzang, whose Heavenly Demon Six Paths suppressed her White Bone Path. She gained Demon Path techniques and fused them with her own path, blocking Golden Cicada’s attack and revealing the White Bone Demon Path.

• Shi Ji told Sui Sanzang to continue the Reincarnation and be reborn as a human, but he attacked her instead of replying.
• Golden Cicada struck with Heavenly Demon Six Paths, using the Demon Path to suppress Shi Ji’s White Bone Form.
• Shi Ji exchanged for Heavenly Demon Four Corrosions and Heavenly Demon Five Extinctions and absorbed their insights.
• Shi Ji fused the Demon Path with her White Bone Path and blocked Golden Cicada’s Heavenly Demon Six Paths.
• Amitabha Buddha watched Shi Ji wield the White Bone Demon Path and wondered how she had comprehended it.

Shi Ji used the system to seek a counter to Golden Cicada’s Thirteen-Lights Tathagata, carefully choosing powers suited to her rather than borrowing her master’s Sword Dao Torrent. The chapter left her with White Bone Contemplation, insights into the Great Dao of Grand Vows, and a cup of Enlightenment Tea to help her awaken to the Dao.

• Shi Ji realized that her White Bone Demon Path came from her own effort and the system, not from Eldest Senior Sister’s direct intervention.
• Amitabha Buddha observed Shi Ji’s improvement and prepared to test whether she could break the Thirteen-Lights Tathagata he had bestowed on Golden Cicada.
• Shi Ji rejected exchanging for her master’s Sword Dao Torrent because she feared she could not bear the principles within it.
• Shi Ji asked the system for a divine ability suited to her that could counter the Thirteen-Lights Tathagata, and Qingqing granted her a reversal of Buddhism’s demonic transformation of the White Bone Bodhisattva, White Bone Contemplation, and insights into the Great Dao of Grand Vows.
• Shi Ji requested help awakening to the Dao, and Qingqing created an Enlightenment Tea Tree and gave her a cup of Enlightenment Tea.

Shi Ji drank Enlightenment Tea, comprehended Buddhism’s White Bone Contemplation, and transformed it into a Demonic Buddha path aimed at destroying Buddhism. She made four murderous grand vows against Buddhist teachings and began channeling the White Bone Life-Slaying Dao against Golden Cicada.

• Shi Ji swallowed a pot of Enlightenment Tea as Golden Cicada prepared to unleash the Thirteen-Lights Tathagata.
• Shi Ji comprehended Buddhism’s White Bone Contemplation, and Amitabha Buddha recognized her transformation into a White Bone Bodhisattva.
• Shi Ji made four grand vows to slay sentient beings, cut down afflictions, destroy Buddhist gates, and sever the Buddha Path.
• Amitabha Buddha realized Shi Ji had reversed the Buddhist path into a demonic one, while the Three Pure Ones Heavenly Venerates praised her vows.
• Shi Ji circulated the White Bone Life-Slaying Dao, preparing to use her white bones as swords against Golden Cicada.

Shi Ji spent all her Dao-Proving Gold to obtain the Primordial World Version of the God-Striking Stone Technique, a method devised by Zhou Qingqing to erase Brahma-Saint Heavenly Demon Golden Cicada’s cultivation. As Shi Ji claimed the technique, countless bones appeared in Reincarnation and began stacking together.

• Amitabha Buddha realized that Shi Ji had countered the Thirteen-Lights Tathagata’s divine abilities and resolved to reveal Brahma-Saint Heavenly Demon’s full strength.
• Shi Ji used Dao-Proving Gold to trade blows with Brahma-Saint Heavenly Demon Golden Cicada while considering how to defeat him before proving her Dao.
• Zhou Qingqing devised a version of the God-Striking Stone Technique that would use Shi Ji’s Heaven-and-Earth Mystic Yellow Mother Stone to erase Golden Cicada’s cultivation.
• Shi Ji spent all her Dao-Proving Gold to obtain the technique and claimed the reward.
• Countless bones appeared in Reincarnation and stacked atop one another, alarming Amitabha Buddha.

Shi Ji used the Heaven-and-Earth Mystic Yellow Mother Stone to erase Golden Cicada’s cultivation, thwarting Amitabha Buddha’s plan to make him Buddhism’s protagonist. She then fused with the Primordial Purple Qi and became an Earth Dao Saint, while Amitabha Buddha vowed to make Golden Cicada’s entry into the human world the true beginning of the struggle.

• Shi Ji petrified the white bones into a boulder and used her Petrifying Eye to immobilize Golden Cicada.
• Shi Ji struck Golden Cicada with the boulder, erasing his cultivation and disrupting the reincarnation’s intended course.
• Shi Ji kicked the petrified Golden Cicada into the Human Dao, destroying Amitabha Buddha’s plan for him to become Buddhism’s protagonist.
• Shi Ji fused with the Primordial Purple Qi and became an Earth Dao Saint, completing her mission and losing the Heaven-Sent Fortune System.
• Amitabha Buddha accepted Golden Cicada’s setback but vowed to obstruct his journey through the human world.

Zhou Qingqing arranged a Burial System for Golden Cicada after he reincarnated as a child in Yin Wenjiao's womb. Golden Cicada awakened as a primordial spirit, bound the system, and claimed its beginner's gift pack.

• Amitabha Buddha believed he could use his superior knowledge of the Journey to the West Calamity to exploit Golden Cicada's reincarnation.
• Zhou Qingqing decided to give the reincarnated Golden Cicada a Burial System and linked Chen Guangrui and Yin Wenjiao's destined relationship.
• Golden Cicada regained consciousness in Yin Wenjiao's womb and wondered about his hazy memories of being struck and kicked.
• The Burial System offered to bind with Golden Cicada, and he accepted after hearing its threat to erase him if he refused.
• The Burial System completed the binding and offered a beginner's gift pack, which Golden Cicada chose to claim.

Tang Sanzang claimed his novice gift pack and began cultivating in his mother’s womb, while Amitabha Buddha found Golden Cicada’s reincarnation and empowered Liu Hong with Weak Water. Liu Hong shared the power with his river bandits, setting them on a path to challenge Holy Tang.

• Tang Sanzang claimed the Heaven-Burying Scripture, Coffin Lamp flame, and a page from the Book of Life and Death, then began cultivating in the womb.
• Burning Lamp panicked and begged the Daoist Heavenly Venerates for forgiveness after they mentioned him.
• Amitabha Buddha identified Tang Sanzang as Golden Cicada’s reincarnation and decided to use Liu Hong to arrange his parents’ deaths.
• Amitabha Buddha granted Liu Hong the power of Jieyin’s Weak Water.
• Liu Hong’s Weak Water power flowed into his bandits, who celebrated receiving it.

Chen Guangrui and Yin Wenjiao encountered Liu Hong’s river bandits on the Flood River, where Amitabha Buddha’s Weak Water overcame Chen Guangrui’s Confucian powers. The chapter left Yin Wenjiao feeling movement in her pregnant belly as Chen Guangrui was injured.

• Chen Guangrui and pregnant Yin Wenjiao sailed toward Jiangzhou, where Amitabha Buddha turned the Flood River into purgatory with Weak Water.
• When the river turned black, Chen Guangrui shielded Yin Wenjiao and attacked the water with his righteous qi.
• Chen Guangrui used The Analects to strengthen his Confucian power, but the black river remained unchanged.
• Liu Hong’s river bandits emerged and attacked Chen Guangrui with Weak Water that dissolved his righteous qi, injuring him.
• Yin Wenjiao panicked as she could not help her injured husband, then felt movement in her lower abdomen.

Tang Sanzang began the funeral task while still in Yin Wenjiao’s womb and used the Heaven-Burying Scripture to send his power through her body. He took control of her and destroyed a river bandit, drawing Amitabha Buddha’s attention to the unborn Golden Cicada.

• Tang Sanzang learned that he had to bury those blocking the ship and escape the Flood River, and decided to act before Chen Guangrui and Yin Wenjiao were overwhelmed.
• Liu Hong planned to kill the officials and Yin Wenjiao, while Amitabha Buddha directed the Weak Water to dissolve them and dismiss the unborn Golden Cicada as powerless.
• Tang Sanzang spoke to Yin Wenjiao from the womb and asked her to accept his power so he could bury the river bandits.
• Yin Wenjiao accepted her son’s power, and Tang Sanzang used the Heaven-Burying Scripture to control her body and strike a river bandit.
• Yin Wenjiao’s palm made the river bandit vanish, prompting Amitabha Buddha to suspect that Golden Cicada’s power was at work.

As Yin Wenjiao fought the water bandits, Tang Sanzang used his funeral system to gain rewards and prepare a prize draw that could help her survive the Weak Water. The chapter ended with Tang Sanzang choosing to remove the wheel’s blank prizes for his first draw.

• Amitabha Buddha wondered how Golden Cicada’s reincarnation could show strength before birth and suspected Zhou Qingqing and Daoism were involved.
• Yin Wenjiao gained cultivation and strengthened divine abilities from holding funerals, then killed ten water bandits on the painted boat.
• The water bandits turned their Weak Water attacks on Yin Wenjiao, and Chen Guangrui tried unsuccessfully to shield her with his righteous energy.
• After completing ten funerals, Tang Sanzang received a prize-draw chance that would grant insight and briefly make him invincible.
• Tang Sanzang examined the Lucky Grand Wheel, which Zhou Qingqing had stocked with ways to control water, and chose to remove its blank prizes.

Tang Sanzang drew Yu the Great’s Flood Control experience and gained divine abilities that let him empower Yin Wenjiao against the water bandits. After another reward chest appeared, he gave Chen Guangrui Dragon Clan Blood Essence and Thunderstruck Jujube Wood to strengthen him, while Amitabha Buddha suspected Tang Sanzang’s power came from Daoism.

• Tang Sanzang experienced Yu the Great’s Flood Control and gained Earth Vein Insight, Water Control, Divine Strength, and an imperial dynasty fortune blessing.
• Tang Sanzang used his new power to stop the Weak Water and strengthen Yin Wenjiao, who killed the water bandits boarding the pleasure boat.
• Amitabha Buddha examined Yin Wenjiao’s power but could not determine whether Zhou Qingqing had given it to her.
• After Tang Sanzang reached another ten burials, he opened a treasure chest and received Dragon Clan Blood Essence and Thunderstruck Jujube Wood.
• Yin Wenjiao passed the rewards to Chen Guangrui, who refined them to improve his combat strength.
• Amitabha Buddha recognized the rewards as connected to the Dragon Clan and Daoism and concluded Tang Sanzang had become Daoism’s protagonist.

Tang Sanzang’s family was trapped as Liu Hong transformed the Flood River into Weak Water, but Tang Sanzang used system rewards to keep them afloat and drew a Gonggong Experience Card. The chapter ended as the water-serpent attacked and Tang Sanzang prepared to use his new reward.

• Chen Guangrui and Yin Wenjiao sent off the water bandits, strengthening Tang Sanzang and raising the system’s requirement to 100 send-offs for a prize draw.
• Yin Wenjiao sensed Liu Hong as the Flood River turned into Weak Water, and Liu Hong revealed his ambition to take the Holy Tang Dynasty’s place on the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• Tang Sanzang opened a treasure chest and gave his parents a float bladder and cowhide boat, allowing them to stand on the Weak Water and face Liu Hong.
• Liu Hong formed a black water serpent and attacked Chen Guangrui, Yin Wenjiao, and the survivors on the boat.
• Tang Sanzang used his accumulated lottery chances, received several Thank You for Your Patronage results, and then won a Gonggong Experience Card.

Tang Sanzang drew Experience Cards for Gonggong and Laozi, whose powers briefly let Yin Wenjiao slow the Flood River and Liu Hong’s Weak Water. After the power vanished, Tang Sanzang began combining the three figures’ abilities through the Heaven-Burying Scripture, leaving the burial confrontation poised to turn in his favor.

• Tang Sanzang obtained an Experience Card for Laozi after drawing one for Gonggong.
• Gonggong and Laozi’s powers surfaced through Yin Wenjiao, slowing Liu Hong’s Weak Water and the Flood River.
• Liu Hong unleashed his full strength after Yin Wenjiao’s power suddenly disappeared.
• Zhou Qingqing instructed Tang Sanzang to fuse Laozi’s, Gonggong’s, and Yu the Great’s abilities into his Three Burials.

Yin Wenjiao’s unborn son used a newly evolved power to bury the Weak Water, stripping Liu Hong of his strength and allowing Chen Guangrui to defeat him. Tang Sanzang received the Water Origin as a reward, while Amitabha Buddha and Zhou Qingqing turned their attention to the challenges ahead for the Tang Dynasty.

• Yin Wenjiao sensed her son’s power evolve and spoke through him to declare that the Weak Water would be buried.
• The Weak Water vanished from the Flood River, and sunlight returned to the area.
• Chen Guangrui attacked and quickly subdued Liu Hong after the bandit leader lost the power granted by the Weak Water.
• Tang Sanzang received the Water Origin as a system reward and began cultivating the Water of the Five Qi in the womb.
• Amitabha Buddha decided to wait and see how Golden Cicada’s reincarnation fared in the Journey to the West Calamity.
• Zhou Qingqing traced Fate and watched to see whether the Tang Dynasty would prove itself worthy of becoming the Holy Tang Dynasty.

Emperor Taizong rewarded Chen Guangrui and Yin Wenjiao, gave their unborn son the Tang surname, and appointed him to lead a westward mission meant to spread Tang influence. Amitabha Buddha prepared trials against the scripture-fetching party, while Zhou Qingqing noticed four forces from the Dream World moving toward its other members and turned her attention to Little White Dragon.

• Emperor Taizong praised Chen Guangrui and Yin Wenjiao, bestowed a plaque on Yin Wenjiao, and registered their unborn son with the imperial clan under the surname Tang.
• Emperor Taizong announced plans to send the child westward with Tang classics to spread the Tang Empire’s influence and prepare it to travel the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• Amitabha Buddha accepted that the westward journey would proceed but planned eighty-one trials to obstruct it and sought to pressure the other members of the scripture-fetching party.
• Zhou Qingqing sensed four portions of power from the Dream World moving out and anticipated that they would target the party’s other members.
• Zhou Qingqing realized she had not renamed Little White Dragon and decided to check how he was doing.

Amitabha Buddha discovered that the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito had devoured the Primordial Five Insects, so he chose Myriad Saints Princess and Myriad Saints Dragon King as substitutes to oppose Little White Dragon. On Blue Planet, Zhou Qingqing watched a Heavenly-Dragon-blooded woman appear above Jade Wave Pool as Amitabha Buddha’s Myriad Saints Princess.

• Amitabha Buddha searched for Nine-Headed Worm and learned through Destiny Insight that the Primordial Five Insects’ power had gone to the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito in the Animal Path.
• Amitabha Buddha decided that Myriad Saints Princess and Myriad Saints Dragon King could take the place of Nine-Headed Worm and injure Little White Dragon.
• Ao Lie cultivated in his true form on Blue Planet after completing his training in Black Dragon Heaven.
• Zhou Qingqing looked toward Jade Wave Pool and saw a woman in court robes whom she identified as Myriad Saints Princess.
• Zhou Qingqing noticed that Amitabha Buddha had given Myriad Saints Princess a Heavenly Dragon bloodline.