Chapter Summaries

The Jade Emperor sent Li Jing, Juling Shen, and Nezha with one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers to capture the Stone Monkey at Flower-Fruit Mountain. As the Heavenly army arrived, the Stone Monkey had advanced to the fifth grade of the Golden Immortal realm, and his clan had grown stronger from the treasures he brought back.

• The Jade Emperor ordered Li Jing to lead one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Juling Shen to capture the Stone Monkey, then ordered Nezha to join them.
• True Person Yuding warned Nezha not to use his full strength and told him to fight the Stone Monkey to a draw.
• Li Jing led the army through the South Heaven Gate toward Flower-Fruit Mountain, while Nezha joined the formation.
• The Stone Monkey advanced to the fifth grade of the Golden Immortal realm as his clan consumed Heavenly Court treasures and gained strength.
• One hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers arrived above Flower-Fruit Mountain and looked down at the monkeys.

The Heavenly Court’s army attacked Flower-Fruit Mountain, where the Spiritual Stone Monkey fought back and rapidly grew stronger as he battled. With Juling Shen nearing defeat, Li Jing summoned the Exquisite Pagoda against the Monkey while Nezha remained watching.

• Nezha sensed a vast web of karmic power around Flower-Fruit Mountain, though Li Jing and the other Heavenly officers could not see it.
• Tongming Official accused the Spiritual Stone Monkey of stealing the Peach Garden’s peaches and Tushita Palace’s elixirs, then demanded his surrender.
• The Spiritual Stone Monkey refused and struck the advancing Heavenly Soldiers with his enlarged Golden Cudgel, throwing their formation into chaos.
• Li Jing sent Juling Shen to defeat the Monkey, but the Monkey used Manifestation of Heaven and Earth and grew stronger throughout their fight, eventually overpowering him.
• Li Jing ordered Juling Shen to withdraw and unleashed the Exquisite Pagoda’s golden light, forcing the Spiritual Stone Monkey to dodge.

The Spiritual Stone Monkey broke through to the sixth grade of the Golden Immortal Realm while battling Li Jing, prompting Nezha to join the fight under the Jade Emperor’s order. Nezha suppressed his realm to match the monkey’s, and their clash carried them from Flower-Fruit Mountain to the East Sea as the monkey’s power continued to awaken.

• The Spiritual Stone Monkey’s cultivation surged to the sixth grade of the Golden Immortal Realm as he resisted Li Jing’s pagoda.
• Li Jing ordered Nezha to capture the monkey, but Nezha rejected his demand until Li Jing invoked the Great Heavenly Venerate’s command.
• Nezha rode his Wind Fire Wheels toward the Spiritual Stone Monkey and agreed to suppress his realm to match his opponent’s.
• The Spiritual Stone Monkey attacked with the Golden Cudgel, but Nezha’s spear strike forced him back and revealed Nezha’s superior strength and speed.
• Nezha’s Qian Kun Circle and Hun Tian Ling attacked the monkey, and the Qian Kun Circle smashed into a distant mountain range with devastating force.
• The fight moved from Flower-Fruit Mountain to the East Sea, where the Golden Cudgel and Qian Kun Circle collided and raised immense waves as the Spiritual Stone Monkey grew more excited.

At the Heavenly Court, Nezha deliberately lost his fight with the Spiritual Stone Monkey, leaving the Jade Emperor under pressure to restore the Court’s dignity. Su Yang ordered Footprint Emperor to capture the monkey, and Footprint Emperor began striking toward the mortal realm.

• The Spiritual Stone Monkey mastered his sixth-grade Golden Immortal realm while fighting Nezha, who feigned weakness and withdrew rather than reveal his true strength.
• The Jade Emperor showed the battle in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and asked the assembled immortals who would subdue the monkey, but no one volunteered.
• Guanyin Bodhisattva recommended True Lord Erlang of Guanjiang Pass, saying she had a way to move Yang Jian to act.
• Footprint Emperor condemned the Heavenly Court’s hesitation and raised his hand to strike toward the mortal realm.
• Su Yang ordered Footprint Emperor to capture and suppress the Spiritual Stone Monkey and bring him to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
• Footprint Emperor obeyed and sent a vast palm strike through a passage opening toward the Earthly Realm.

The Footprint Emperor effortlessly suppressed the Spiritual Stone Monkey with a giant palm and brought him to Great Luo Heaven. The Jade Emperor and Guanyin Bodhisattva saw their plans for Yang Jian and the Journey to the West disrupted, while the monkey remained bound before them.

• The Spiritual Stone Monkey used Manifestation of Heaven and Earth, the Seventy-Two Transformations, and the Golden Cudgel to resist the Footprint Emperor’s descending palm, but none of his attacks could stop it.
• The Footprint Emperor seized the Spiritual Stone Monkey and carried him away to Great Luo Heaven.
• The immortals and deities assessed the Footprint Emperor’s strength and wondered what foreign lineage had given him mastery of so many laws.
• The Jade Emperor, the Queen Mother of the Jade Pool, and Guanyin Bodhisattva realized that the suppression had disrupted their plan to have Yang Jian subdue the monkey and draw him into the Buddhist Teachings.
• The Queen Mother of the Jade Pool recognized that Guanyin Bodhisattva had hoped to recruit Yang Jian, while the Jade Emperor looked at the restrained Spiritual Stone Monkey.

The Jade Emperor prevented Footprint Emperor from killing the Spiritual Stone Monkey and arranged a series of executions that exposed the Monkey’s extraordinary durability. After ordinary weapons and heavenly thunder failed to harm him, Grand Supreme Elder proposed refining him in the Threefold Mystery Flame at Tushita Palace, and the Jade Emperor approved.

• Footprint Emperor moved to suppress the Spiritual Stone Monkey, but the Jade Emperor blocked his attack with the Haotian Mirror and claimed the Heavenly Court would punish the Monkey itself.
• The Jade Emperor ordered the Spiritual Stone Monkey bound to the Execution Stage, where an executioner’s saber shattered against his body without injuring him.
• Lei Zhenzi summoned the Nine Heavens’ thunder to strike the Monkey, but he remained unharmed.
• Grand Supreme Elder proposed placing the Spiritual Stone Monkey in his Alchemy Furnace for forty-nine days to refine him and the immortal pill energy within him.
• The Jade Emperor agreed and ordered the Heavenly Soldiers to escort the Spiritual Stone Monkey to Tushita Palace.

Su Yang persuaded Empress Houtu not to intervene, predicting that Grand Supreme Elder was using the Alchemy Furnace to temper the Spiritual Stone Monkey. The Samadhi True Fire transformed the monkey, raising him to the seventh grade of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, but the smoke destroyed his eyes.

• Su Yang told Empress Houtu that Grand Supreme Elder was helping the Spiritual Stone Monkey fuse the power of the pills and fruits, and she chose to watch.
• Grand Supreme Elder filled the Alchemy Furnace with Samadhi True Fire while the Spiritual Stone Monkey endured the flames and tried in vain to escape.
• The Spiritual Stone Monkey’s swallowed medicines fused into his body, strengthening his flesh and raising his cultivation through the Golden Immortal realm.
• The Spiritual Stone Monkey broke into the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and surged to its seventh grade as the Nine-Turn Golden Elixirs released their power.
• The Spiritual Stone Monkey lost his sight after the smoke destroyed his eyes, while the remaining elixir power flowed into his skull.

The Spiritual Stone Monkey awakened the Fiery Eyes Golden Gaze, broke out of Grand Supreme Elder’s furnace, and reached the later stage of the seventh rank of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm. He escaped Tushita Palace and caused a mountain range in the Earthly Immortal Realm to become the Flaming Mountain, while the Jade Emperor and the immortals remained unaware that his plan had failed.

• Grand Supreme Elder left the two child attendants to keep the Samadhi True Fire burning and reported to the Jade Emperor that the Spiritual Stone Monkey was being refined.
• The Spiritual Stone Monkey opened his eyes, awakened the Fiery Eyes Golden Gaze, broke through to the later stage of the seventh rank of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, and burst out of the furnace.
• The Spiritual Stone Monkey spared the unconscious child attendants, smashed the Alchemy Furnace, and sent it crashing down from the Thirty-three Heavens.
• The Alchemy Furnace struck the Earthly Immortal Realm, setting a mountain range ablaze and creating the Flaming Mountain.
• Grand Supreme Elder assured the Jade Emperor that the Spiritual Stone Monkey had been subdued, and the Jade Emperor resumed the Peach Banquet.
• Empress Houtu questioned Su Yang about the furnace, and Su Yang assured her that the Spiritual Stone Monkey would soon escape.

The Spiritual Stone Monkey emerged from the Alchemy Furnace at the seventh grade of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, overturned it, and attacked the Lingxiao Treasure Hall. Heaven’s forces tried to stop him, but he broke free of Li Jing’s pagoda and fought King Lingguan.

• The Stone Monkey’s escape from the furnace sent a wave of heat and powerful aura across Heaven, alarming the immortals and revealing his late-stage Grand Unity cultivation.
• The Stone Monkey smashed the Alchemy Furnace into the Earthly Immortal Realm, where it started a thousand-mile blaze that became a Flaming Mountain.
• The Stone Monkey charged toward the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, scattered Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, and struck at its golden plaque.
• Li Jing trapped the Stone Monkey inside his treasured pagoda, but the monkey burst through it with his staff and shattered it.
• King Lingguan drew his sword and engaged the Stone Monkey, managing to hold his own while the monkey struggled to control his new strength.

The Spiritual Stone Monkey mastered his seventh-grade Taiyi power, defeated King Lingguan, and charged into the Lingxiao Treasure Hall to challenge the Jade Emperor. Empress Houtu intervened to confront him, but he still swung his Ruyi Jingu Bang at the Jade Emperor, leaving the attack unresolved.

• The Spiritual Stone Monkey gained control of his power during his battle with King Lingguan and used hair clones and weapon illusions to scatter the Heavenly Soldiers.
• The Spiritual Stone Monkey struck King Lingguan down, fully mastering the seventh-grade Taiyi realm.
• The Spiritual Stone Monkey entered the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and raised his weapon against the Jade Emperor, but Empress Houtu knocked the Ruyi Jingu Bang from his grasp with her reincarnation power.
• Empress Houtu accused the Spiritual Stone Monkey of disrupting the Underworld and defying the Heavenly Court, while Guanyin Bodhisattva realized Houtu meant to strike back at the West.
• The Spiritual Stone Monkey declared that anyone could claim the Jade Emperor's throne and swung the Ruyi Jingu Bang at him.

The Spiritual Stone Monkey challenged the Jade Emperor, but Empress Houtu overwhelmed him and nearly killed him before Old Ancestor Bodhi intervened. With Houtu ready to confront Bodhi and Su Yang urging her not to yield to the Western Sages, the standoff in High Heaven Hall remained unresolved.

• The Spiritual Stone Monkey claimed he would take the Jade Emperor’s place and fought the divine generals who surrounded him.
• Empress Houtu struck the Spiritual Stone Monkey, sending him flying and knocking the Ruyi Jingu Bang from his grasp.
• Houtu attacked again, and the Spiritual Stone Monkey’s strongest blast failed to stop her descending palm.
• Old Ancestor Bodhi forced Houtu’s giant hand back and prevented her from landing the final blow.
• Su Yang encouraged Houtu to act without fearing the Two Sages of the West, and Houtu challenged Old Ancestor Bodhi over his intervention.

Old Ancestor Bodhi revealed himself as Sun Wukong’s master, freed him from Empress Houtu’s pressure, and gave him his name while ordering him to accept punishment. The chapter ended with Bodhi sentencing Sun Wukong to reflect beneath Five Finger Mountain for five hundred years, restoring the Western plan.

• Old Ancestor Bodhi identified the Spiritual Stone Monkey as his disciple and dispelled Empress Houtu’s pressure, allowing the monkey to kneel before him.
• Bodhi praised the monkey for not invoking his name during his crisis, then said that his wrongdoing still required punishment.
• Bodhi named him Sun Wukong and told him to rein in his pride and lower his head.
• Sun Wukong protested that the Heavenly Court had tried to kill him, forced him to raise horses, and treated him unjustly.
• Bodhi declared that Sun Wukong had crossed the line by causing a disturbance in the Three Realms and sentenced him to five hundred years beneath Five Finger Mountain.

Empress Houtu rejected the agreement to punish Sun Wukong with five hundred years of imprisonment, despite Old Ancestor Bodhi offering to regress his cultivation and the Jade Emperor and Guanyin supporting the deal. She attacked Sun Wukong, and Old Ancestor Bodhi unleashed his Quasi-Sage Peak power to oppose her.

• Sun Wukong asked Old Ancestor Bodhi to shorten his imprisonment, but Bodhi refused and looked to Empress Houtu.
• Empress Houtu called the five-hundred-year punishment an inadequate attempt to settle the matter, while Old Ancestor Bodhi offered to pay by regressing his cultivation.
• Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Jade Emperor argued that the matter belonged to the Heavenly Court and approved Sun Wukong's imprisonment.
• Sun Wukong accepted his punishment, but Empress Houtu declared that the Netherworld Underworld's authority also required a penalty.
• Empress Houtu struck at Sun Wukong and pinned him beneath overwhelming pressure, prompting Old Ancestor Bodhi to unleash his power against hers.

Empress Houtu confronted Old Ancestor Bodhi in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall over Sun Wukong, and the two clashed at the peak of their power. Bodhi revealed the Qiankun Cauldron and invoked a fusion of Buddha and Dao to hold his defense, but Houtu’s Six Paths of Reincarnation overwhelmed him as the battle continued.

• Old Ancestor Bodhi stood against Empress Houtu while Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin hurried toward the Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
• The Jade Emperor hesitated to support Bodhi, wary of provoking Houtu, as the other mighty figures withdrew from the hall.
• Houtu struck Bodhi with a punch infused with the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and his ancient barrier blocked the blow.
• Houtu recognized the Qiankun Cauldron above Bodhi and learned that he had refined the former Destiny Supreme Treasure into his body.
• Bodhi sent the Qiankun Cauldron crashing toward Houtu, but she knocked it back with a palm and summoned the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Bodhi recalled the cauldron and fused Buddha Light with Daoist rhyme to resist Houtu’s overwhelming power.

Empress Houtu kept Old Ancestor Bodhi on the defensive in Lingxiao Treasure Hall until Jade Emperor intervened to protect the Heavenly Court from their battle. When Queen Mother of the Jade Pool joined Jade Emperor, Houtu assessed the new threat and looked toward Su Yang, who had remained with the other spectators.

• Empress Houtu shattered Old Ancestor Bodhi’s attack and steadily suppressed him with the power of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Jade Emperor raised the Haotian Mirror and demanded that Houtu and Old Ancestor Bodhi move their fight beyond the Chaos Void.
• Houtu challenged Jade Emperor over whether he favored the Heavenly Court or the Buddhist Teachings, and Jade Emperor said he meant only to prevent damage to Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
• Old Ancestor Bodhi asked whether Jade Emperor would intervene, and Jade Emperor warned he would stop them by force if they continued fighting in the hall.
• Houtu mocked Jade Emperor’s ability to control the battle, and Queen Mother of the Jade Pool rose to support him.
• Houtu sensed the threat, stirred the Earthly Dao’s power, and looked toward Su Yang while he, Sect Master Tongtian, Nuwa, and the others watched without intervening.

Su Yang’s Corpse Immortal Emperor emerged to protect him and joined Empress Houtu’s side, disrupting Old Ancestor Bodhi and the Jade Emperor’s plan to pressure her. A drop of black blood then corrupted the Corpse Immortal Emperor, awakening a terrifying power that left his enemies facing his warning and killing intent.

• Su Yang declined Ruthless Great Emperor’s offer to intervene, relying instead on the Corpse Immortal Emperor, who emerged from hidden space to restrain Heaven’s Court’s forces.
• Old Ancestor Bodhi accused the Corpse Immortal Emperor of being an Otherworld Demonic Creature and attacked, while the Jade Emperor used the accusation as a pretext to join him.
• The Corpse Immortal Emperor released an overwhelming aura as a drop of ink-black blood descended from Above the Nine Heavens and merged into his body.
• The Jade Emperor and Old Ancestor Bodhi sensed the title First Emperor of All Worlds and recoiled from the blood’s immense power and the Corpse Immortal Emperor’s transformation.
• The Corpse Immortal Emperor spoke with a newfound will, warned them against defying an immortal emperor, and unleashed killing intent across the Thirty-three Heavens.

The Corpse Immortal Emperor overwhelmed the Jade Emperor and Old Ancestor Bodhi as Su Yang revealed that Sun Wukong’s life had been arranged by the West. As Sun Wukong began to question his past, a Buddhist expert used the Scripture of Delivering People to try to draw him and Su Yang into reincarnation.

• The Corpse Immortal Emperor used his corrupted power to drive back the Jade Emperor and Old Ancestor Bodhi, forcing them to shelter behind the Qiankun Cauldron.
• Su Yang asked Sun Wukong whether he sensed his destiny and claimed that the West had planned his birth, cultivation, trials, and path to Buddhahood.
• Su Yang revealed that Old Ancestor Bodhi was Daoist Zhunti and that Sun Wukong’s five-hundred-year imprisonment had served the rise of Western Fortune.
• Sun Wukong questioned whether his life had been arranged, then recalled how strangely easy his journey to Mount Fangcun had been.
• A Buddhist expert cast the Scripture of Delivering People to pull Su Yang and Sun Wukong into reincarnation, but its power could not affect Su Yang.

Su Yang secretly helped Sun Wukong resist the Two Sages’ Scripture of Delivering People and urged him to pretend to submit and accept a five-hundred-year seal to survive. Daoist Zhunti confronted Su Yang over his interference, but Su Yang remained unafraid, backed by Desolate Heavenly Emperor and Heavenly Emperor Ye.

• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin arrived and used the Scripture of Delivering People to suppress Sun Wukong, while Su Yang warned him not to become a puppet of the Buddhist Teachings.
• Sun Wukong pretended to lose control, awakened his Fiery Eyes Golden Gaze, and attacked the Jade Emperor as Su Yang and the Ruthless Great Emperor secretly protected him from the scriptures.
• Su Yang told Sun Wukong to submit and endure a five-hundred-year seal as his path to survival, and Sun Wukong continued acting as though he had been tamed.
• Daoist Zhunti suspected Su Yang had nearly revealed a crucial truth to Sun Wukong and wondered aloud about Su Yang’s unknown origins.
• Daoist Zhunti confronted Su Yang over helping Sun Wukong, but Su Yang calmly defended his actions and challenged the Two Sages as they turned their attention toward him.

Su Yang gambled that Sect Master Tongtian would protect him when Daoist Zhunti attacked, and Tongtian intervened with the Zhu Xian Sword. The two Sages clashed as Tongtian openly challenged the West and the Heavenly Dao, leaving their battle threatening the Primordial World.

• Daoist Zhunti attacked Su Yang with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree Branch to test whether Desolate Heaven Emperor and Heavenly Emperor Ye were present, and Su Yang stood firm rather than reveal they were absent.
• Sect Master Tongtian stopped Zhunti’s attack with a sword aura, protecting Su Yang from the Sage’s blow.
• Tongtian confronted Zhunti and condemned the Heavenly Dao for persecuting the Interception Sect and the Two Sages of the West for exploiting the Investiture of Gods and seeking control over humanity’s fortune.
• Tongtian raised the Zhu Xian Sword, and Zhunti met its sword aura with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree Branch, sending destructive shockwaves across the Primordial World.
• The narration recalled that the ancient Battle of the Gods had shattered the Primordial World into four continents and that Tongtian had been imprisoned by Hongjun after fighting four Saints.

Sect Master Tongtian declared that he would renounce his Heavenly Dao Saint status and fight for the Interception Sect, then unleashed the Four Swords of Zhu Xian against Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin. The chapter left the Western Saints defending themselves as Tongtian’s killing power threatened even their protections.

• Sect Master Tongtian cleaved open the passage between the Heavenly Realm and the Earthly Immortal Realm with Zhu Xian Sword Qi.
• Sect Master Tongtian announced that he would sever his Saintly Fruit, surrender his Heavenly Dao power, and fight in the name of the Interception Sect.
• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin watched as Sect Master Tongtian summoned the Four Swords of Zhu Xian and released his full battle power.
• Daoist Zhunti used the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree Branch to block Tongtian’s Sword Qi, while Daoist Jieyin raised golden lotus defenses.