Recaps

Zhu Bajie pushed his Heavenly Stellar Thirty-Six Transformations to the limit to evade the Cleaners in the Black Pine Forest. As a gray beam threatened to erase him, he attempted another transformation, leaving its result unknown.

• Zhu Bajie watched the Cleaners overwhelm his lighthouse’s light and realized brute force would not save him.
• Zhu Bajie transformed himself into dead wood, but the Cleaners detected his soul and attacked.
• Zhu Bajie changed into a black pine and then black water, dispersing his soul into tiny droplets to escape through the forest floor.
• The Cleaners gathered a black pillar of light capable of erasing Zhu Bajie’s body and concept.
• Zhu Bajie spat essence blood onto his Nine-Toothed Rake, formed seals, and shouted “Transform!” as the gray beam descended.

Zhu Bajie endured the Cleaners’ attacks in the Black Pine Forest while Sha Wujin prepared their counterattack. The Glazed Lamp Tower finally erupted as black talons threatened Zhu Bajie’s heart.

• Zhu Bajie used the Nine-Toothed Rake transformed into his likeness to survive a Cleaner’s attack and further develop his transformations.
• Zhu Bajie recognized that he could not withstand the Cleaners head-on and that his chances to use the rake as a substitute were running out.
• Zhu Bajie held his ground despite severe injuries, buying time for Sha Wujin to prepare their final killing move at the Glazed Lamp Tower.
• Black talons rushed toward Zhu Bajie’s heart, and Sha Wujin shouted for him to fall back as the Glazed Lamp Tower erupted.

Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin launched their counterattack after the Cleaners revealed their true forms, combining Zhu Bajie’s growing slaughter path with Sha Wujin’s White Tiger-inspired killing technique. Sha Wujin empowered Zhu Bajie with his divine ability, leaving the duo ready to face the three Cleaners together.

• Zhu Bajie infused his Nine-Toothed Rake with an inky-black radiance that showed his path of slaughter was developing correctly.
• Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin exchanged a wordless understanding and prepared to fight the three Cleaners as a team.
• Sha Wujin gathered his extracted insights and the White Tiger’s blessing into his Moonlight Shovel, summoning a white tiger phantom with blood-moon eyes.
• Sha Wujin unleashed his divine ability, Cruel Moonlight, sending a net of killing intent between Zhu Bajie and the Cleaners.
• Zhu Bajie’s speed, strength, perception, and reactions surged under Sha Wujin’s enhancement.

Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin used their combination techniques to wound the three Cleaners, but could not destroy them before their auras recovered. Meanwhile, Tang Sanzang and Little White Dragon Ao Lie reached Moon-Wave Cave and urged the Yellow-Robed Monster to let his wife visit her family.

• Zhu Bajie used Cruel Moonlight: Eight Realms Slay Together to smash the three Cleaners’ bodies, but they reformed as torrents of Chaos.
• Sha Wujin took the lead and combined his killing intent with Zhu Bajie’s empowerment, weakening the Cleaners again without defeating them.
• Tang Sanzang and Little White Dragon Ao Lie reached Moon-Wave Cave and staged a confrontation with the Yellow-Robed Monster.
• Tang Sanzang explained that the Yellow-Robed Monster’s wife longed to see her parents and asked him to let her return to the Treasure Elephant Kingdom for a visit.

Ao Lie drew rewards that transformed him into a dancing girl and granted him the Fish-Dragon Dance, then used the dance and Dragon Abyss Sword to defeat Yellow-Robed Monster and his demons. He remained in the transformed form after the battle, leaving Tang Sanzang and the others stunned.

• Yellow-Robed Monster mistook Tang Sanzang's group for enemies and summoned his demons to surround them.
• Ao Lie spent his emotion points and received Dragon Abyss, the Fish-Dragon Dance, and a Fish-Dragon Dragon Pearl.
• The rewards transformed Ao Lie into a dancing girl, and he chose to keep the form after realizing fate demanded it.
• Yellow-Robed Monster mocked Ao Lie's appearance, so Ao Lie used the Fish-Dragon Dance to captivate him and attack the demons.
• Ao Lie's swordplay incapacitated the demons and defeated Yellow-Robed Monster, leaving Tang Sanzang and the others astonished.

Little White Dragon defeated the Yellow-Robed Monster, and Tang Sanzang persuaded him to return with Bai Huaxiu and their children to the Treasure Elephant Kingdom. When ministers questioned the prince consort’s identity, the Yellow-Robed Monster transformed Tang Sanzang into a tiger, but Tang Sanzang quickly returned to normal.

• Little White Dragon dispelled his transformed state and returned to human form, while Tang Sanzang agreed to keep the transformation secret.
• Tang Sanzang told the defeated Yellow-Robed Monster to honor his promise and accompany Bai Huaxiu and their children to the Treasure Elephant Kingdom.
• The Yellow-Robed Monster agreed to go with them for his family’s sake.
• At the Treasure Elephant Kingdom, the king welcomed Bai Huaxiu while the prime minister and other officials questioned the prince consort’s identity and the swift campaign.
• The Yellow-Robed Monster transformed Tang Sanzang into a tiger to prove that he was a demon, frightening the court.
• Tang Sanzang used the Eternal Heaven Scripture’s Constancy to return to his original body.

After Tang Sanzang exposed the Yellow-Robed Monster in the Treasure Elephant Kingdom’s court, the king rewarded the Preaching Squad with power and titles. Tang Sanzang secured positions for the members who were present and for Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin, who were still away in Black Pine Forest.

• The ministers changed their attitude toward Tang Sanzang and the Preaching Squad after the Yellow-Robed Monster’s disguise was exposed.
• The King of the Treasure Elephant Kingdom offered to share his realm with the Daoists and named Tang Sanzang Regent.
• Tang Sanzang pressed the king to reward Sun Wukong, who intimidated the Yellow-Robed Monster with his As-You-Will Gold-Banded Staff.
• The king named Sun Wukong a Shoulder-to-Shoulder Prince and Protector of the Nation, and appointed Ao Lie Grand Marshal of the Imperial Armies.
• Tang Sanzang requested titles for Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin, and the king appointed them Great General Who Guards the Nation and Chief Instructor of the Imperial Guard.

Tang Sanzang proposed giving half the Treasure Elephant Kingdom to the Yellow-Robed Monster in exchange for Princess Bai Huaxiu’s lifetime of beauty, resolving the thirteen-year conflict. The Yellow-Robed Monster and Bai Huaxiu accepted, but the king refused to agree because he could not forgive the suffering inflicted on his daughter.

• The king asked Tang Sanzang, Sun Wukong, and Little White Dragon Ao Lie to settle the conflict between Bai Huaxiu and the Yellow-Robed Monster.
• Tang Sanzang offered half the kingdom to the Yellow-Robed Monster and asked whether he would exchange it for Bai Huaxiu’s lifetime of beauty.
• The court erupted in shock, then recognized Tang Sanzang’s proposal as a way to resolve the conflict and ease the king’s dilemma.
• The Yellow-Robed Monster agreed to the exchange, and Bai Huaxiu nodded her approval.
• The king rejected the proposal, saying that as Bai Huaxiu’s father he could not tolerate the suffering the Yellow-Robed Monster had caused her.

Tang Sanzang invoked the Funeral Great Dao to bury the tangled karma between the Yellow-Robed Monster, Bai Huaxiu, and their children. He began showing the court visions that restored each of them to a cherished past, but the chapter ended before revealing what would happen to the family.

• Tang Sanzang said he would bury the Yellow-Robed Monster, the two children, and Bai Huaxiu after the king refused to compromise.
• The Yellow-Robed Monster gathered his children, and Bai Huaxiu joined them as Tang Sanzang prepared to use his Funeral Great Dao.
• Tang Sanzang saw the family as embodiments of all beings entangled in karma and resolved to use them to deepen his understanding of the Great Dao.
• Tang Sanzang pointed at the Yellow-Robed Monster, and the court saw a vision of his former life in the Heavenly Court.
• Tang Sanzang showed Bai Huaxiu as the carefree Third Princess and the children as joyful halos of light in a warm, welcoming home.

Tang Sanzang used the Funeral Great Dao to make the Yellow-Robed Monster's family and the court believe they had been erased from existence, forcing them to confront the horror of his punishment. The king pleaded for mercy, and Tang Sanzang ended the demonstration, leaving the family alive and the Yellow-Robed Monster newly aware of his wrongdoing.

• Tang Sanzang showed the court the Yellow-Robed Monster's family vanishing under the Funeral Great Dao, terrifying the king and ministers with the apparent erasure of their lives and ties.
• Bai Huaxiu broke free of the illusion and begged her father to save her and her children from becoming nothing.
• The Yellow-Robed Monster awoke from his false dream, admitted his mistakes, and kowtowed to the king for mercy.
• The king of the Treasure Elephant Kingdom pleaded with Tang Sanzang to withdraw his divine ability and offered to follow the previous method; the court officials joined his appeal.
• Zhou Qingqing recognized that Tang Sanzang's demonstration had persuaded the kingdom and helped the Yellow-Robed Monster understand his wrongdoing.
• Tang Sanzang stopped the Funeral Great Dao, and the four members of the family remained alive as the court breathed a sigh of relief.

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.