Chapter Summaries

Tang Sanzang abandoned the funeral rites and proposed inviting the Red Thread Immortal to certify the Yellow-Robed Monster and Bai Huaxiu’s marriage, easing the Treasure Elephant Kingdom’s fears. The plan left Sun Wukong poised to seek out Daji, whom Zhou Qingqing recognized as the Blue Planet’s Red Thread Immortal.

• Tang Sanzang withdrew the funeral rites after the Treasure Elephant Kingdom and the Yellow-Robed Monster’s family rejected them.
• Sun Wukong offered to visit the Jade Emperor and ask him to issue an edict for the couple’s happy ending, but the Yellow-Robed Monster and the king’s court urged him not to disturb the Heavenly Emperor.
• Tang Sanzang proposed inviting the Red Thread Immortal to resolve the couple’s unfinished bond and certify their marriage.
• The king, ministers, Yellow-Robed Monster, and Bai Huaxiu welcomed the marriage proposal with relief and hope.
• Zhou Qingqing recognized that Sun Wukong might meet Daji, the Red Thread Immortal, and joked that the meeting could establish relations between Flower-Fruit Mountain and Mount Tu.

Sun Wukong set out to find the Red Thread Immortal so she could resolve Treasure Elephant Kingdom’s thirteen-year ill-fated bond. With Six-Eared Macaque’s help, he learned that Daji was beneath the Lovesickness Tree on Mount Tu and headed there with him.

• Sun Wukong vowed to bring the Red Thread Immortal to Treasure Elephant Kingdom and received Tang Sanzang’s approval to depart.
• The king and ministers thanked Sun Wukong, while Yellow-Robed Monster and Bai Huaxiu saluted him.
• Sun Wukong realized he could not locate the Red Thread Immortal himself and decided to seek help from Six-Eared Macaque.
• Sun Wukong returned to Flower-Fruit Mountain and asked Six-Eared Macaque to use his Heaven-Listening Divine Ears to find her.
• Six-Eared Macaque located Daji beneath the Lovesickness Tree on Mount Tu and set off with Sun Wukong to meet her.

Sun Wukong and Six-Eared Macaque reached Mount Tu, where its ruler Daji agreed to consider officiating the wedding in Treasure Elephant Kingdom only if Sun Wukong passed her test. The chapter ended with Daji preparing to test him because he was involved in the Calamity.

• Six-Eared Macaque led Sun Wukong to Mount Tu and introduced its ruler, Daji, the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox.
• Six-Eared Macaque introduced herself as Macaque King and Sun Wukong as Flower-Fruit Mountain’s fourth chief.
• Sun Wukong asked Daji to officiate the wedding of a fated but ill-starred pair in Treasure Elephant Kingdom.
• Daji explained that Mount Tu’s rules prevented her from leaving lightly and challenged Sun Wukong to prove his ability.
• Sun Wukong accepted Daji’s test, while she resolved to follow Dao Venerable Zhou Qingqing’s rules because he was involved in the Calamity.

Sun Wukong broke through Tushan Yaya’s Absolute Zero with the vitality of his Nine Revolutions Profound Art, but Tushan Honghong and Tushan Rongrong joined Yaya to fight him together. As the Mount Tu clan backed the sisters’ formation, Sun Wukong prepared to respond seriously and spoke the opening lines, “Aolai Mist! Flower-Fruit Fragrance!”

• Tushan Yaya emerged and trapped Sun Wukong in her Absolute Zero domain.
• Sun Wukong activated the Nine Revolutions Profound Art and shattered Yaya’s icy domain with his surging vitality.
• Tushan Honghong extinguished Sun Wukong’s heat waves with her Insulating Claw and called on her sisters to attack together.
• Tushan Rongrong laid a Thousand-Thread Net while Yaya renewed her icy assault, and Honghong confronted Sun Wukong’s Golden-Hooped Staff.
• The Mount Tu fox demons regrouped and empowered the sisters’ combined formation as Sun Wukong said he would fight seriously.

Sun Wukong overwhelmed the Tushan sisters’ defenses, forcing them to summon a Black Fox from the Bitter Love Tree’s accumulated sinful fates. He destroyed the Black Fox with a staff strike that purified it completely, leaving the three sisters stunned.

• Sun Wukong’s Sea-Calming Divine Needle shattered Mount Tu’s joint formation and left Tushan Honghong, Tushan Yaya, Tushan Rongrong, and the supporting fox demons badly shaken.
• Tushan Honghong led her sisters in pouring their remaining demon power into the Bitter Love Tree, summoning a Black Fox formed from accumulated resentment and sinful fates.
• The Black Fox attacked Sun Wukong with spatial claws and mental erosion, repeatedly reforming while the Bitter Love Tree remained intact.
• Daji explained to Six-Eared Macaque that the Black Fox’s power included traits of Immortal Fu Yuan’s Destiny Talismans, but she expected Sun Wukong to overcome it.
• Sun Wukong struck the Black Fox with the Golden-Hooped Staff, vaporizing it and restoring the Bitter Love Tree to calm.

Sun Wukong shattered the Black Fox’s fate-altering power with one blow, earning the Tushan sisters’ admiration. In Black Pine Forest, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin discovered how to evade the Cleaners and defeated them with a new mental attack, ending the crisis.

• Sun Wukong destroyed the Black Fox’s power with a single strike, leaving Tushan Honghong, Tushan Yaya, and Tushan Rongrong stunned and impressed.
• Daji praised Sun Wukong for breaking her karmic entanglements and Immortal Fu Yuan’s Destiny Talisman.
• Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin realized the Cleaners tracked energy noise and karmic disturbances, then used that insight to move through Black Pine Forest undetected.
• Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin combined their abilities through spiritual resonance and created the Heart Aspect: Unending Slaughter.
• Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin’s attack destroyed the Cleaners, and sunlight returned to Black Pine Forest.

Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin escaped the Black Pine Forest, reunited with the Preaching Squad, and were welcomed as heroes in the Treasure Elephant Kingdom. Sun Wukong arrived with Daji, who joined the Yellow-Robed Monster and Bai Huaxiu in marriage, while Tang Sanzang and Little White Dragon were left disgruntled by the squad’s rankings.

• Amitabha Buddha realized the Preaching Squad could tell whether its members were alive, while Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin recognized that Buddhism’s mind-reading power had affected them in the Black Pine Forest.
• Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin learned the others had not finished their task and hurried to the Treasure Elephant Kingdom, where the king honored them with official posts and gifts.
• Sun Wukong arrived at the royal hall with Daji, teasing Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin for celebrating before he had returned.
• Daji declared that the Yellow-Robed Monster and Bai Huaxiu were destined for each other, and they married as Bai Huaxiu’s memories returned and their old resentment disappeared.
• The Heavenly Venerates noted that Tang Sanzang and Little White Dragon were displeased with their low rankings, while Sun Wukong defended his own ranking as a cut above the rest.

After Daji officiated the wedding and reunited Yellow-Robed Monster’s family, the Preaching Squad praised her for her matchmaking power. The king of the Treasure Elephant Kingdom then sent Yellow-Robed Monster, Bai Huaxiu, and their children to the Tang Empire with a decree making his kingdom a vassal state.

• Amitabha Buddha watched the Preaching Squad and wondered why Tang Sanzang and Little White Dragon Ao Lie looked unhappy.
• Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin flattered Daji and asked her to help secure their future happiness; she agreed to look after their red threads.
• Tang Sanzang, Wukong, and Little White Dragon declined to ask Daji for help, and she departed.
• The king of the Treasure Elephant Kingdom ordered Yellow-Robed Monster and Bai Huaxiu to travel to the Tang Empire with their family and declare the kingdom a vassal state.
• Yellow-Robed Monster and Bai Huaxiu set out on a diplomatic mission to the Tang Empire, carrying the king’s letter and gifts.

Amitabha Buddha planned to replace the missing Lotus Cave and twin-horn attendants with new demons and a hidden Esoteric Sacred Cave, but Supreme Pure Laozi intervened to prevent Buddhism from controlling the trial. Gold and Silver and Daji were sent to Blue Planet to create hardships for the Preaching Squad.

• Zhou Qingqing’s thoughts about the missing twin horns and Daji prompted the Three Pure Ones to discuss intervening in the trial.
• Amitabha Buddha chose Refined Ghost, Clever Bug, Bashan Tiger, and Sea-Leaning Dragon as replacement demons and planned to empower them inside Esoteric Sacred Cave.
• Zhou Qingqing’s thoughts revealed Amitabha Buddha’s plan to the Heavenly Venerates in Three Pure Ones Hall.
• Supreme Pure Laozi arrived at the Land of Ultimate Bliss and accused Amitabha Buddha of turning the trial into a Buddhist-controlled ordeal.
• Supreme Pure Laozi sent Gold and Silver and Daji to Blue Planet through the Golden Bridge to create hardships for the Preaching Squad.

Gold Horn and Silver Horn arrived at Flat-Topped Mountain to establish a new Lotus Cave for the trial of the Preaching Squads. Zhou Qingqing gave them its construction blueprint, enraging Amitabha Buddha, and the brothers began building.

• Gold Horn and Silver Horn reached Flat-Topped Mountain and found that Buddhist karma had erased their former Lotus Cave.
• Gold Horn and Silver Horn decided to rebuild their dwelling as a lotus and summoned Zhou Qingqing for guidance.
• Zhou Qingqing answered their invocation and gave them a three-dimensional blueprint of Lotus Cave.
• Amitabha Buddha grew furious at Zhou Qingqing's open assistance but could not interfere.
• Gold Horn and Silver Horn began using Daoist seals to raise their new Lotus Cave.

Gold Horn and Silver Horn used their cultivation and memories of Eight Views Palace to create the Ten-View Lotus Cave on Flat-Topped Mountain. Zhou Qingqing praised them, while the terrifying formation awaited the Preaching Squad.

• Gold Horn and Silver Horn summoned a Nine-Petal Lotus Throne on Flat-Topped Mountain.
• The youths recreated the Nine Great Wonders of Eight Views Palace across the lotus leaves, ending with Chaos Primordial.
• Gold Horn and Silver Horn added their Twin Horns Expedition slogan as the tenth wonder at the lotus's center.
• The Ten-View Lotus Cave formed a cycle that sealed Flat-Topped Mountain's spiritual energy and stunned Amitabha Buddha.
• Gold Horn and Silver Horn admired their creation, and Zhou Qingqing praised them for remembering their teachings.

Daji entered Dragon-Pressing Cave to test Ao Lie and used red threads to explore the Little White Dragon’s shattered past. She planned to trap him in an illusion of perfect love before making him face reality, leaving his Dao heart’s fate uncertain.

• Daji arrived at Dragon-Pressing Cave and decided its name meant she was meant to test Ao Lie.
• Daji recalled Ao Lie’s betrayal and despair, then entered the cave to investigate him through the red threads.
• Daji saw fragments of Ao Lie’s past, including his wedding-night betrayal, along with visions from other reincarnations.
• Daji devised a Love Tribulation Illusion in which Ao Lie would experience a perfect, lasting romance before awakening to reality.
• Daji gathered the red threads and began preparing the illusion inside Dragon-Pressing Cave.

The Preaching Squad reached Flat-Topped Mountain and Dragon-Pressing Mountain, where Gold Horn King and Silver Horn King challenged them to enter the Ten-View Lotus Cave. Before they could go in, Daji taunted Ao Lie from Dragon-Pressing Mountain, setting up another confrontation.

• Gold Horn King and Silver Horn King appeared above Flat-Topped Mountain and claimed their Ten-View Lotus Cave contained the true Dao.
• Tang Sanzang accepted their invitation, while Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie angrily challenged the two demons.
• Zhu Bajie disputed the demons’ claims about the Eight Views Palace, and the Heavenly Venerates and Du'e True Person realized he had been taught incorrectly.
• As the Preaching Squad approached the Lotus Cave, Daji mocked them from Dragon-Pressing Mountain and singled out Ao Lie as a vile dragon.
• Zhou Qingqing observed that Daji’s taunts had successfully provoked Ao Lie and reflected that the Squad’s members were easy to bait through their personal grievances.

Ao Lie entered Dragon-Pressing Cave to defend the Dragon Clan’s honor while the Preaching Squad entered Gold Horn and Silver Horn’s Ten Views Lotus Cave and became trapped in its first illusion. The chapter ended as a strange pink glow rose around Ao Lie inside the cave.

• Tang Sanzang tried to stop Ao Lie from reacting to Daji’s insults, but Ao Lie declared he would clear the Dragon Clan’s name and flew toward Dragon-Pressing Cave.
• Tang Sanzang let Ao Lie face his own tribulation, while the rest of the Preaching Squad continued toward Lotus Cave.
• Daji watched Ao Lie enter Dragon-Pressing Cave, where her red-thread power had already spread throughout the cave.
• Gold Horn and Silver Horn lured Tang Sanzang, Sun Wukong, and the Zhu-Sha Duo into Lotus Cave, where the Ten Views Diagram transported them into a vast void and Gold Horn announced its first wonder.
• Ao Lie entered the silent, wedding-cluttered Dragon-Pressing Cave and vowed to wash away the humiliation before a pink glow spread from the ground.

Ao Lie was drawn into Daji’s illusion of a loving wedding with the Myriad Saints Princess, where his memories of betrayal made the dream painfully convincing. He drank the wine and entered a sea of flowers, while Daji watched from Dragon-Pressing Mountain and prepared to test how many perfect dreams his shattered Dao Heart could withstand.

• Daji’s illusion transformed Dragon-Pressing Cave into a wedding hall where the Myriad Saints Princess treated Ao Lie with affection, and his system detected only positive emotions.
• Ao Lie recalled the Princess’s past betrayal and resisted the illusion, but her apparent concern and tears intensified his pain.
• Ao Lie accepted the wine, drank it, and watched the wedding hall turn into a sea of red flowers.
• Ao Lie followed the Princess into the flower sea, determined to see how far Daji’s trap would take him.
• Daji announced that Ao Lie had taken the bait and said she would test how many perfect dreams he could endure.

The Preaching Squad divided the Eight Views Palace’s landscapes among themselves and entered them, expecting their abilities to help them overcome each pair. They quickly became overwhelmed by the landscapes’ combined pressures, while an observer noted that Tang Sanzang had assigned them too hastily.

• Tang Sanzang assigned Zhu Bajie the ocean and star-river landscapes, Sha Wujin the mountains and spiritual-splendor landscapes, himself the sun-moon and abyss landscapes, and Sun Wukong the two illusion landscapes.
• Zhu Bajie entered Vast Sea and Deep Blue, found that its innate water had no controllable water veins, and struggled against meteors from Fallen World Star River.
• Sha Wujin endured the crushing gravity of Peaks Surpassing Kunlun as Zhonghua Divine Splendor’s spiritual energy flooded his body.
• Tang Sanzang used the Funeral Heart to comprehend Moon-Sun Radiance, but Cloud-Rainbow Abyss showed him resentful faces of the departed souls he had delivered.
• Sun Wukong smashed through shifting illusions in Jade Light Illusion and Water Mist and Rosy Clouds, but the scenes grew more convincing and the mist overwhelmed him.
• An observer judged Tang Sanzang’s plan too hasty and warned that taking on two landscapes each put the group under excessive pressure.

Ao Lie rejected Myriad Saints Princess’s emotional illusion and spent his accumulated emotion points on a draw, while the Preaching Squad initially failed Daji’s Eight Views Diagram. The squad then activated their cheats and eventually broke through, leaving Amitabha Buddha to interpret their revealed trump cards as a calculated provocation from Supreme Pure Laozi.

• Ao Lie coldly rejected Myriad Saints Princess’s affection and ordered his system to spend all his emotion points on a draw.
• Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujin, Tang Sanzang, and Sun Wukong failed the Eight Views Diagram and were mocked by Gold Horn King and Silver Horn King.
• Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujin, and Tang Sanzang activated their cheats, while Sun Wukong’s cheat was already active.
• The Preaching Squad eventually broke the Eight Views Diagram, though Ao Lie still seemed unable to overcome Daji’s trial.
• Amitabha Buddha concluded that Supreme Pure Laozi’s setup was not casual and felt humiliated by the squad’s display of trump cards.
• Zhou Qingqing joked that the squad had exposed its trump cards, while Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Upper Pure Master Tongtian realized she was embellishing their eldest brother’s intentions.

Gold Horn and Silver Horn unleashed the ninth landscape, Chaos Primordial, forcing the Preaching Squad into a primordial world that threatened to erase them. Sun Wukong awakened his Chaos Demon Ape heritage and held back the Chaos, while visions of his ancient past emerged.

• Gold Horn and Silver Horn activated the ninth landscape, plunging the Preaching Squad into a realm of primordial Chaos.
• Amitabha Buddha lost sight of the trial and turned his attention back to the Dream World, while the Three Pure Ones watched the ninth landscape.
• Tang Sanzang, Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujin, and Sun Wukong were overwhelmed by the Chaos landscape’s crushing pressure.
• Sun Wukong awakened his buried Chaos Demon Ape nature, transformed, and forced the Chaos mist back with his Golden-Hooped Staff.
• Sun Wukong held open a space for his companions and saw a vision of the Chaos Demon Ape standing among the three thousand demon gods.

With Sun Wukong barely holding Chaos Primordial open, Tang Sanzang directed Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin to combine their systems and dao resonance for a desperate attempt to escape. Watching from Dragon-Pressing Mountain, Daji was impressed by the squad and threw the Red Embroidered Ball into Dragon-Pressing Cave to raise the challenge for Ao Lie.

• Sun Wukong used the Chaos Demon Ape's power and his staff to hold open a patch of sky in Chaos Primordial, but he could not sustain it for long.
• Tang Sanzang told Zhu Bajie to recite Daoist scriptures and Sha Wujin to extract the powers of the Eight Views Diagram, planning to use their dao resonance with his Burial System to bury Chaos.
• Zhu Bajie activated his Diligence Makes Up for Clumsiness System and rapidly gained scripture proficiency and temporary resonance with the Dao.
• Sha Wujin activated Endless Extraction and began drawing powers from the Eight Views Diagram.
• Daji watched the Preaching Squad's efforts, reconsidered their strength, and threw the Red Embroidered Ball into Dragon-Pressing Cave for Ao Lie.

Tang Sanzang combined Zhu Bajie's Three Thousand Dao Treasuries with Sha Wujin's Eight Scenes to bury the Chaos Primordial that Sun Wukong had been holding back. The Chaos began to dissolve into nothingness as Wukong lowered his staff in trust and his companions collapsed from exhaustion.

• Sun Wukong held up the Chaos Primordial while Tang Sanzang urged Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin to focus on their tasks.
• Zhu Bajie recited the Dao Scripture until his system condensed the Three Thousand Dao Treasuries, which he sent to Tang Sanzang's left hand.
• Sha Wujin extracted the remaining power of the Eight Views Diagram, formed the characters Eight Scenes, and sent them to Tang Sanzang's right hand.
• Tang Sanzang combined the Dao Treasuries and Eight Scenes to invoke his Funeral Great Dao and bury the Chaos Primordial.
• Sun Wukong lowered the Golden-Hooped Staff in trust as Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin collapsed, exhausted, and watched Tang Sanzang's power take effect.