Recaps

Sha Wujin discovered that the Heaven-Reaching River’s form belonged to his Grandmaster while its spirit belonged to the True Martial Great Emperor, then led the Preaching Squad in forming the True Martial Seven Severing Formation. The formation opened a path across the river, but Sun Wukong’s two clones vanished and the passage collapsed before the five could cross.

• Sha Wujin identified the Heaven-Reaching River as having the Grandmaster’s form and the True Martial Great Emperor’s spirit.
• Sha Wujin proposed using the True Martial Seven Severing Formation, and Sun Wukong created two clones to make up the seven members.
• The seven formed the Black Tortoise Seven Mansions and used seven severings to open a path through the Heaven-Reaching River.
• Sun Wukong checked that the passage was stable, and all seven stepped into it.
• Sun Wukong’s two clones turned back into hairs, causing the formation to shatter and forcing the five remaining members back to the bank.

After the True Martial Seven Severing Formation failed because Sun Wukong’s hair clones did not count as real participants, Sha Wujin proposed that the five members of the Preaching Squad forge separate freezing paths to open a route across the Heaven-Reaching River. Each member created a distinct True Martial technique, leaving them ready to test whether their combined powers could freeze a path through the river.

• The Preaching Squad realized the formation had failed because it required seven real people, and their attempts to replace Sun Wukong’s clones with other creations all failed.
• Sha Wujin returned from the river and proposed that the five create different freezing True Martial paths and combine them to freeze a route across it.
• Little White Dragon created the Azure Abyss Silent Dragon Martial Way, and Sha Wujin created Profound Ice True Explanation.
• Zhu Bajie created Eight Realms Cold Seal, while Sun Wukong developed techniques including Heaven-Equaling Tide-Stilling.
• Tang Sanzang created Freeze Vitality, Freeze Regeneration, Freeze Continuation, and Burial of Stillness and Lifelessness to halt the river’s ability to reform.

The Preaching Squad created five freezing True Martial techniques and used them to freeze the Heaven-Reaching River so they could cross. They reached farther than ever before, but the sword energy beneath the ice surged upward and shattered it.

• Sha Wujin coordinated Little White Dragon, Zhu Bajie, Sun Wukong, and Tang Sanzang as they combined their freezing techniques to freeze the Heaven-Reaching River.
• The five members of the Preaching Squad tested the ice, found it solid, and began crossing in single file.
• The Preaching Squad reached just south of the river's center, farther than they had ever made it.
• Hundreds of millions of strands of sword energy beneath the ice changed direction and pressed upward.
• The ice cracked and exploded into countless pieces beneath the Preaching Squad.

After two failed attempts to cross the Heaven-Reaching River, Sha Wujin realized he had addressed the titles of True Martial Great Emperor and God of the North instead of the Turtle Spirit Holy Mother behind them. His reverence awakened her ancient shell and the Hetu Luoshu, while Tongtian and his brothers discussed the trial from the Three Pure Ones Hall.

• Zhu Bajie, Sun Wukong, Little White Dragon, and Sha Wujin recovered on the riverbank after their attempt to freeze and cross the Heaven-Reaching River failed.
• Sha Wujin reviewed his failed True Martial Seven Severing Formation and freezing attempts, then realized he had not paid homage to the Turtle Spirit Holy Mother.
• Sha Wujin bowed to Senior Aunt Turtle Spirit and acknowledged that the titles and stations belonged to her from the beginning.
• The Heaven-Reaching River trembled as a vast turtle shell rose from its depths, bearing the Hetu Luoshu, whose characters and diagrams merged into an illusory shadow.
• Zhou Qingqing reflected on how the turtle shell differed from the Old Turtle in the original course of events, while Tongtian defended the elaborate trial to Laozi and Primordial Heavenly Venerate.

Sha Wujin’s actions transformed the Heaven-Reaching River into seven swords wielded by Turtle Spirit Holy Mother’s illusory shadow, changing the trial from crossing the river to confronting her. The Preaching Squad’s attacks and attempt to freeze her failed, leaving them badly wounded and unable to withstand even the swords’ initial force.

• The Heaven-Reaching River vanished and split into seven swords, which the Preaching Squad identified as the True Martial Seven Severing Sword.
• Sha Wujin realized the river had been supplying power to his martial aunt’s illusory shadow, while Amitabha Buddha decided not to send anyone into the trial.
• Sun Wukong struck at the illusory shadow to test the swords and was blasted into the sand, though he survived.
• The Preaching Squad attacked the shadow in turn, but none of them could make her reveal a sword move.
• The five members tried to freeze the shadow again, but the seven swords linked into a technique and sent them flying, leaving them alive only because of the Primordial Chaos Creation Pills.

Sha Wujin realized the Preaching Squad had to treat the Heaven-Reaching River as a river and exploit a gap in the True Martial Seven Severing Sword to freeze the turtle shell. Their final combined strike separated the frozen shell from the river, and Sun Wukong captured it.

• After another failed attempt, Sha Wujin told the Preaching Squad they had been attacking the wrong thing.
• Sha Wujin explained that the sword’s returning qi created a brief gap, like the gap in their formation, and proposed crossing the Heaven-Reaching River to freeze the shell.
• The Preaching Squad coordinated their freezing True Martial and poured it onto the turtle shell during the brief opening.
• The seven streaks of sword light shattered, and the turtle shell remained frozen after separating from the Heaven-Reaching River.
• Sun Wukong swept up the frozen shell with his As-You-Will Gold-Banded Staff and trapped it within a boundary.

Sha Wujin realized the turtle shell could withstand the Heaven-Reaching River and used it to carry the Preaching Squad safely across. After returning the shell, the group celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival beneath the full moon.

• Sha Wujin deduced that the turtle shell could endure the river’s sword qi and proposed using it as a boat.
• The Preaching Squad enlarged the shell with their magical power, boarded it, and crossed the Heaven-Reaching River without anyone being struck by sword light.
• Sun Wukong ranked Sha Wujin at the top for the crossing and placed the other four at the bottom.
• Sha Wujin returned the turtle shell to the river, then noticed that it was the Mid-Autumn Festival on Blue Planet.
• Sha Wujin went to find reunion food while the others joked about mooncakes.

Amitabha Buddha fused Chaos Demon Gods into the mechanics-based Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws to challenge the Preaching Squad in their next trial. After the squad resumed its journey, it entered a strange Floating Library Pavilion that appeared to offer cultivation gains, though the travelers suspected a trap.

• Zhou Qingqing watched the Preaching Squad's reunion and anticipated that Amitabha Buddha would create a new challenge instead of involving the Supreme Elder Lord and Green Ox.
• Amitabha Buddha decided to make a trial that grew stronger as the squad fought, then fused several Chaos Demon Gods into a being he named Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws.
• The Heavenly Venerates in the Three Pure Ones Hall suspected the new opponent could seize the squad's weapons and make the coming trial far more difficult.
• After resting beneath the Mid-Autumn moon, the Preaching Squad continued west and found a mysterious pavilion hidden among the mountains.
• The five entered the pavilion and discovered a vast library whose Dao energy strengthened them, but they remained wary despite the Ranking System showing no trial.

The Preaching Squad destroyed the library illusion, but the tower seized Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin’s spiritual treasures and challenged them to retrieve them at Jindou Cave. The group reached terrain resembling Green Ox’s former dwelling and suspected the trial’s answer lay in his horns, though Zhou Qingqing noted that Amitabha Buddha had changed events and the ox would not come.

• Tang Sanzang ordered the Preaching Squad to leave, but the tower sealed its entrance and trapped them inside.
• Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin jointly attacked and destroyed the floating library and its false opportunities.
• The tower severed Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin’s control of the Nine-Toothed Rake and Moonlight Shovel, then made both weapons vanish.
• A disembodied voice told the group to find it in Jindou Cave if they wanted their spiritual treasures back.
• The Preaching Squad followed the voice west and recognized the mountains around them as matching Green Ox’s former dwelling.
• The group suspected the trial’s solution involved Green Ox’s horns, while Zhou Qingqing remarked that Amitabha Buddha had changed events and the ox could not come.

The Preaching Squad prepared for the threat of having their bonded spiritual treasures stolen by replacing their usual gear with powerful reserve weapons. As they rebuilt their combat roles, Sha Wujin took up a soul-sniping weapon, and the squad readied itself for what lay ahead.

• Tang Sanzang warned the squad that their spiritual treasures were at risk and proposed using their stored system treasures instead.
• The Preaching Squad shared its resources and redistributed its weapons and armor for the coming battle.
• Tang Sanzang equipped the Six-Barrel Innate Spiritual Treasure Gatling and took the role of the squad's long-range heavy firepower.
• Sun Wukong donned the Sky-Rending Demon Ape Battle Armor and took up the Sky-Shattering Hell Double Cannon Staff as the front-line assault fighter.
• Zhu Bajie put on the Wasteland Hell World-Slaughtering Heavy Armor and wielded the World-Rending Shatter Grenade Rake to destroy terrain and constrain enemies.
• Sha Wujin replaced his missing Moonlight Shovel with the Myriad Tribulations Soul-Devouring Sniper Staff for precision attacks on Primordial Spirits.

The Preaching Squad entered Jindou Cave to reclaim their stolen treasures, but an unseen foe stripped away all their equipment and spiritual treasures. After repeated failed attempts, they left their treasures behind and advanced deeper, preparing to face the enemy through Physical Salvation.

• The Preaching Squad armed themselves with system-produced weapons and entered Jindou Cave, where Tang Sanzang swept aside the lesser monsters with his Gatling.
• An unseen voice mocked the squad and instantly seized their new weapons, armor, and even their hidden spiritual treasures.
• The five retreated after realizing they could escape the seizure effect by leaving the cave, then confirmed through repeated attempts that every spiritual treasure would be taken inside.
• The Preaching Squad left all their spiritual treasures behind and returned to Jindou Cave, where the unseen foe taunted them for coming unarmed.
• Sun Wukong, Tang Sanzang, Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujin, and Little White Dragon gathered their physical and Dao strength and advanced deeper to confront their foe.

The Preaching Squad reached the cave’s heart and discovered that its guardian was the serene Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws, not a demon connected to Jindou Cave. After he exposed how thoroughly he had read their plans, Sun Wukong urged the group to attack with their bodies alone.

• The five followed the teasing voice through the cave and found a white-robed cultivator surrounded by orthodox Dao Resonance.
• The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws said he had no connection to Jindou Cave and revealed that the familiar setting and weak enemies had concealed his true strength.
• He described how the squad had abandoned artifacts, sealed their Dao arts, and relied on physical strength, showing that he had anticipated their preparations.
• Sun Wukong rejected the Immortal Lord’s title and the supposed rules, then called on the squad to charge.
• The five united their fighting intent, suppressed their reliance on Dao arts, and prepared to attack with their bodies.

The Preaching Squad tried physical attacks and Dao arts against the Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws, but the laws of Jindou Cave nullified both. He explained that his authority came from embodying the myriad laws, leaving the five trapped with no apparent way to fight him.

• The five launched a coordinated physical assault, but the Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws erased every attack before it could reach him.
• Sun Wukong and the others tried using Dao arts, but an invisible force seized their power and left them briefly weakened.
• The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws told Sun Wukong that immortal ranks were real statuses established by the Dao, not titles created by belief.
• He declared that he relied on no artifact or formation and instead cultivated and embodied the myriad laws.
• The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws explained that bodily force also fell under the laws, and that challenging them meant being restrained by them.

The Preaching Squad stopped attacking the Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws and sought to understand the rules behind his powers. Sha Wujin discovered that the Lord was an amalgamation of countless Chaos Demon Gods’ remnants bound within the Immortal Path, leaving the squad to search for a weakness while preparing to face his counterattack.

• Sun Wukong, Tang Sanzang, Zhu Bajie, and Little White Dragon stopped their fruitless attacks and recognized that the Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws operated through a unique system of rules.
• Sha Wujin used the Endless Extraction System to analyze the Lord’s powers and uncovered his origin as countless Chaos Demon Gods’ remnant souls, bodies, and Daos fused into an immortal framework.
• Zhu Bajie, Sun Wukong, and Little White Dragon grasped how the Lord combined chaos and immortal order to seize Lingbao, counter Dao arts, and erase brute force.
• The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws confirmed that the five were resisting more than a single being, and the squad abandoned its last hope that he was one opponent.
• The Preaching Squad resolved to search for an opening in the Lord’s origins and prepared to endure his counterattack, strengthened by the Primordial Chaos Creation Pill.

The Preaching Squad realized that the Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws could not be defeated by challenging his control over myriad laws, so Sun Wukong urged them to overcome him by rising above his rank. The five regained their resolve, while the Immortal Lord observed their change of heart and the Heavenly Venerates approved of their insight.

• The Preaching Squad reviewed their failed attacks and recognized that the Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws commanded the laws they relied on.
• Sun Wukong secretly told Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujin, Tang Sanzang, and Little White Dragon that they should rise above the Immortal Lord's rank instead of contesting myriad laws.
• The five agreed that transcending immortal rank could free them from the Immortal Lord's authority and give them a path through the trial.
• The Preaching Squad regained its fighting spirit after broadening its perspective, and the Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws noticed their transformation.
• The Heavenly Venerates praised the Preaching Squad's insight and recalled that they had once made Hongjun compromise.

Sun Wukong and the others realized they could escape the Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws by surpassing his rank rather than challenging his control of myriad laws. Sun Wukong rejected the unreachable goal of becoming Heavenly Emperor and led the five toward attaining Immortal Lord or Immortal Emperor rank, ending with them turning inward to pursue their own immortal paths.

• Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin reasoned that the Heavenly Emperor's higher authority could suppress the Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws, but judged the throne too distant to attain.
• Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin looked to Sun Wukong to decide whether they could challenge the Immortal Lord through the Heavenly Court's hierarchy.
• Sun Wukong said they could not shoulder the Heavenly Emperor's position, but agreed that surpassing the Immortal Lord's rank was the right approach.
• Sun Wukong proposed that they become Immortal Emperors, or attain Immortal Lord rank to confront the Immortal Lord as equals.
• Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujin, Little White Dragon, and Tang Sanzang accepted the path and unified their Dao hearts.
• The five withdrew their auras and gathered their blood, vital energy, and souls inward to seek their own immortal paths.

The Preaching Squad tried to attain immortality from within themselves to escape Jindou Cave, but Hongjun’s prevailing order rejected their unauthorized ascent. The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws intensified his suppression and seized Zhu Bajie’s and Sha Wujin’s spiritual treasures, leaving the five trapped and humiliated.

• Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujin, Little White Dragon, and Tang Sanzang sought to attain immortal ranks by refining their Dao hearts and foundations.
• The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws recognized their attempt as an unexpected challenge and wondered whether they could attain Immortal Lord and Immortal Emperor ranks without permission.
• The immortal path’s prevailing tide struck back, shattering the five’s attempted ascension and rejecting their unauthorized immortal ranks.
• The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws declared their pursuit contrary to the Heavenly Dao and tightened the restrictions, suppressing their bodies, souls, and Dao hearts.
• The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws seized Zhu Bajie’s Nine-Toothed Rake and Sha Wujin’s Moonlight Shovel, suspending the treasures before the helpless pair.

Trapped in Jindou Cave with their spirit treasures seized, Zhu Bajie studied the Daoist canon and uncovered the true path through the Green Ox trial: the Supreme Purity Nine Immortals. He urged the Preaching Squad to abandon their pursuit of Immortal Emperor and Immortal Lord and follow this orthodox lineage, giving them a chance to escape their predicament.

• The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws taunted the five captives with Zhu Bajie's and Sha Wujin's spirit treasures, while Zhu Bajie secretly told Sha Wujin he would find a way out.
• Zhu Bajie suppressed his anger and used his system to repeatedly study Daoist scriptures and ancient texts, seeking the source of the trial's restrictions.
• Zhu Bajie deduced that Jindou Cave was the Green Ox trial, originally tied to the Supreme Pure Lineage on Mount Shouyang but altered by someone.
• Zhu Bajie uncovered the Supreme Purity Nine Immortals and realized that returning to this lineage, rather than pursuing Immortal Emperor or Immortal Lord, was the correct path through the trial.
• Zhu Bajie told Sun Wukong, Tang Sanzang, Little White Dragon, and Sha Wujin to follow the Supreme Purity Nine Immortals, opening a chance for the Preaching Squad to turn the tables.

The Preaching Squad abandoned the false path of becoming Immortal Emperors and returned to Supreme Purity’s ancient Dao lineage while trapped in Jindou Cave. Zhu Bajie became a High Immortal and Sha Wujin a Divine Immortal, weakening the Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws’ restraints as Little White Dragon prepared to attain immortality.

• The five members of the Preaching Squad shared their understanding and committed to pursuing immortality by returning to their source and lineage.
• Zhu Bajie used the truths he had recovered from countless scriptures to establish himself as a High Immortal, anchoring the squad’s Dao foundation.
• Sha Wujin withdrew his killing intent and transformed his Dao of Slaughter into the directing power of a Divine Immortal.
• Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin’s Supreme Purity Dao Resonance tore a small opening in the rules confining them in Jindou Cave.
• The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws recognized that their restored lineage threatened the alterations to Supreme Purity’s old arrangements.
• Supreme Pure Laozi approved of the Preaching Squad’s progress as Little White Dragon neared his own breakthrough.

In Jindou Cave, Little White Dragon, Tang Sanzang, and Sun Wukong attained their immortal stations, completing the five-immortal pathway alongside Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin. Their orthodox Daoist legacy overturned the Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws’ control, leaving the squad ready to confront him over whose legacy was true.

• Little White Dragon flowed through the gaps in the myriad laws and became the Numinous Immortal, opening the workings of the squad’s pathway.
• Tang Sanzang buried the false principles and established his own path, attaining the station of First-Rank Upper Immortal.
• Sun Wukong accepted the cave’s final hardships and perfected his Dao Fruit, attaining the station of Ultimate Immortal.
• Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujin, Little White Dragon, Tang Sanzang, and Sun Wukong completed the five-immortal pathway, restoring the Supreme Purity Nine Immortals’ legacy.
• The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws felt fear as the false path crumbled and the true path revived, while Zhou Qingqing declared that the game had changed.
• The Preaching Squad suppressed the false laws in Jindou Cave and prepared to challenge the Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws over whose legacy was orthodox.

The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws revealed that he could command immortality and replicate the five Ancient Immortals’ Dao foundations, countering their renewed attempt to escape his laws. The group’s weapons and paths were sealed again, leaving Sun Wukong determined to break through once more.

• The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws declared that the Nine Immortals were only one branch of myriad laws and that he controlled their immortality.
• The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws reproduced the Dao resonances of Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujin, Little White Dragon, Tang Sanzang, and Sun Wukong.
• The five companions’ Dao powers were countered by their matching replicas, while their spirit treasures were bound again by immortal runes.
• Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujin, Little White Dragon, and Tang Sanzang recognized that their paths could no longer break through the Immortal Lord’s control.
• Sun Wukong clenched his hands and resolved to break through his replicated and imprisoned Dao once more.
• The Heavenly Venerates in the Three Pure Ones Hall considered the upgraded Vajra Ring’s difficulty bearable.

Sun Wukong realized that Shenni could defy the Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws, but the Lord seized his Golden-Hooped Staff along with the other weapons. The staff then shattered its restraints, freed the Nine-Toothed Rake and Moonlight Shovel, and returned to Sun Wukong as he grasped the key to breaking the impasse.

• Sun Wukong recognized that the Preaching Squad was trapped because its members were challenging Myriad Laws through Dao, and summoned the As-You-Will Gold-Banded Staff as Shenni.
• The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws used his law-principles to seize the staff and imprison it beside the Nine-Toothed Rake and Moonlight Shovel.
• Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin moved to intervene as the Preaching Squad watched the Immortal Lord tighten his control over their weapons.
• The Golden-Hooped Staff shattered its False Law shackles, freed the Nine-Toothed Rake and Moonlight Shovel, and returned to Sun Wukong.
• The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws regarded Sun Wukong with new seriousness, while Sun Wukong joined his Ultimate Immortal Dao Resonance with the Shenni staff and grasped how to break the impasse.

Sun Wukong used Shenni’s power to reverse immortality, shielding the Preaching Squad from the Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws’ seizure and imitation abilities. The five joined forces to defeat and kill him in Jindou Cave, while Amitabha Buddha acknowledged another failed experiment.

• Sun Wukong branded the Preaching Squad with reversal qi, freeing their Dao Resonance and spiritual treasures from the Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws’ restraints.
• The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws tried to seize the group’s treasures and imitate their Dao, but both abilities failed against immortal reversal.
• Sun Wukong explained that he had reversed immortality as the Immortal Lord understood it while preserving his own immortality.
• Sun Wukong and the Preaching Squad unleashed five kinds of immortal reversal together, killing the Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws and extinguishing his Dao.
• In the west of the Primordial World, Amitabha Buddha lamented that his experiment had failed again.

After defeating the Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws, Sun Wukong transformed his lingering resentment and Dao Resonance into a stone ox that became part of Mount Niushou, permanently anchoring the mountain’s myriad laws. The Preaching Squad left the restored pass and headed toward their next trial, the Kingdom of Women.

• Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujin, Little White Dragon, and Tang Sanzang determined that the Immortal Lord’s lingering aura could gather again and create another false immortal.
• Sun Wukong ordered the others to gather the remaining aura and used Immortal Reversal to shape it into a stone ox.
• Sun Wukong made the stone ox part of the mountain’s configuration, binding the myriad-laws Dao Resonance to the mountain and ending the threat.
• The five members of the Preaching Squad left Mount Niushou, while the narrator announced the Kingdom of Women as their next trial.

After the Jindou trial failed, Amitabha Buddha shifted his strategy for the Kingdom of Women, deciding to use a wish as bait rather than confront the Preaching Squad directly. His guidance led Ruyi True Immortal to destroy the Fetus-Dropping Spring and leave Jieyang Mountain, while the squad realized granting a wish could itself be a trial.

• Amitabha Buddha considered the Kingdom of Women’s challenges and concluded that the Preaching Squad would not be restrained by Buddhist vows or conventional trials.
• Amitabha Buddha decided to exploit the King of the Kingdom of Women’s wish for a person and sent golden light toward the realm.
• The Preaching Squad discussed how granting someone’s wish might form the next trial.
• Amitabha Buddha’s voice guided Ruyi True Immortal to relinquish the Fetus-Dropping Spring to advance his Dao.
• Ruyi True Immortal destroyed the spring’s source and scattered its remaining water, then left Jieyang Mountain as his fetters dissolved.