Chapter Summaries

Six-Eared Macaque and Yuan Hong sensed the birth of their younger brother, the Lingming Stone Monkey, on Flower-Fruit Mountain, but Subhuti and the Heavenly Dao concealed his whereabouts. Cangyuan learned of the birth, while Six-Eared Macaque returned to Penglai to ask his teacher for help finding him.

• Guangchengzi and Jiang Ziya gave Six-Eared Macaque permission to take Kirin Cliff, and he carried it away from the Chan Sect.
• Six-Eared Macaque and Yuan Hong felt a tremor in their origins and realized that their younger brother had been born.
• The Lingming Stone Monkey emerged from a five-colored immortal stone on Flower-Fruit Mountain and accidentally blasted beams of light through the Thirty-Three Heavens into the Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
• Haotian spotted the spirit monkey, but Subhuti and the Heavenly Dao concealed Flower-Fruit Mountain and erased the traces of the monkey's existence.
• Six-Eared Macaque lost the monkey's aura, returned to Penglai Immortal Island to seek Cangyuan's help, and Cangyuan realized that Monkey Brother had been born.

After Monkey Brother's birth, Cangyuan received a system choice to leave the Journey to the West Calamity unchanged or redirect Buddhism's pilgrimage to the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm. He chose to intervene, gained a Time and Space Gate to that realm, and planned to send people there to assess its strength.

• Cangyuan wondered about Monkey Brother's unknown origin and whether Patriarch Bodhi was Zhunti.
• The system offered Cangyuan a choice between observing the Calamity for an Ancient Bodhi Tree or redirecting the pilgrimage to the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm.
• Cangyuan learned that spreading Buddhism in the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm would let the Prehistoric World draw upon its providence, while the system withheld information about the Three Phase Gods' strength.
• Cangyuan chose to redirect the pilgrimage and received a Time and Space Gate with the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm's coordinates.
• Cangyuan learned that his first arrival would be random and that later traversals would synchronize the worlds' time, then planned to find people to test the realm's strength.

Cangyuan planned to locate Patriarch Bodhi and strengthen Monkey Brother through a Lesser Chaos Demon Ape cultivation scheme. He retrieved Shi Qilin’s body, accepted her daughter Yu Ji as his disciple, and left Yu Ji with Little Yinglong, who happily embraced her new role as elder sister.

• Cangyuan concluded that Patriarch Bodhi was hidden beyond Western Ox Continent and planned to search the West Sea with the Chaos Bell.
• Six-Eared Macaque brought Kirin Cliff to Cangyuan and asked him to find Little Four, whose origin aura had disappeared; Cangyuan said he already knew of the matter.
• Cangyuan asked Six-Eared Macaque to cultivate alongside Yuan Hong in preparation for an opportunity, and Six-Eared Macaque left to tell Yuan Hong.
• Cangyuan returned Kirin Cliff to Shi Qilin and accepted her daughter Yu Ji as his disciple.
• Little Yinglong met Yu Ji, was delighted when Yu Ji called her Elder Sister, and received Cangyuan’s instructions to help the younger girl settle in on Penglai Island.

Cangyuan summoned every Dao Prover in the Prehistoric World to the Martial Realm to discuss a threat beyond the realm. The gathering ended with Tongtian asking Cangyuan to explain what the outside enemies were.

• Little Yinglong took the newly born Jade Kirin beneath the Dao Comprehension Tea Tree and began teaching it to transform into an Innate Dao Body.
• Cangyuan's Realm Incarnation reached Saint Eighth Heaven and sent a message summoning every Dao Prover to the Martial Realm.
• The Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Zhunti, Jieyin, and the other Dao Provers traveled to the Martial Realm, while Old Hongjun and the Three Dao Wills arrived as well.
• Tongtian and Zhunti traded barbs over their seating before Cangyuan appeared and settled the assembly.
• After everyone gathered, Tongtian asked Cangyuan what he meant by enemies outside the realm.

Cangyuan revealed the Time and Space Gate, a Chaos Supreme Treasure that could lead to the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm, and proposed sending pioneers there to gather intelligence and seek fortune for the Prehistoric World. The Saints approved his plan, and Cangyuan selected Zhunti and Jieyin to go with Old Hongjun following secretly.

• Cangyuan revealed the Time and Space Gate, and Old Hongjun recognized its power as greater than a Chaos Spiritual Treasure.
• Cangyuan explained that the gate led to the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm and predicted that The West would prosper in the next Calamity.
• Cangyuan proposed redirecting the Pilgrims westward to spread Buddhist teachings and draw fortune from the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm.
• The Saints supported Cangyuan's plan and volunteered to serve as pioneers gathering intelligence about the other realm.
• Cangyuan chose Zhunti and Jieyin to travel first and instructed Old Hongjun to follow them in secret in case they encountered Dao Integration Realm opponents.

Cangyuan found Patriarch Bodhi and persuaded him to help teach the future Tribulation Child, Sun Wukong, while the Saints prepared to investigate the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm. As Sun Wukong set out to seek immortality, Tongtian, Jieyin, Zhunti, and secretly Hongjun entered the realm through the Time and Space Gate.

• Cangyuan assigned Tongtian, Jieyin, and Zhunti to investigate the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm in a hundred years, with Hongjun secretly accompanying them.
• Cangyuan searched the West Sea with the Chaos Bell, found Patriarch Bodhi's hidden location, and met him at Fangcun Mountain.
• Cangyuan told Patriarch Bodhi about the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm and the plan to spread Primordial World's Buddhism there, and Bodhi agreed to help teach Sun Wukong.
• The Lingming Stone Monkey became the Handsome Monkey King, feared death after an old monkey died, and set out by raft to seek immortality.
• At Mount Buzhou Peak, Cangyuan opened the Time and Space Gate, and Tongtian, Jieyin, Zhunti, and secretly Hongjun entered the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm.

Tongtian, Jieyin, and Zhunti entered the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm and discovered that its Mount Sumeru could make a powerful base for Western Teach. Zhunti attacked the Heaven Realm and easily defeated Indra, leaving with his weapons as the gods fled.

• Tongtian, Jieyin, and Zhunti passed through the Time and Space Gate, overcame its restraints, and arrived in the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm.
• The three Saints learned about the realm and its Mount Sumeru, which Zhunti decided they should claim for Western Teach.
• Zhunti established a spatial node with Tongtian and Jieyin's help, then appeared outside Mount Sumeru and challenged its inhabitants.
• Indra led the gods out of the Heaven Realm to confront Zhunti, but Zhunti scattered his thunder and sent him crashing into Mount Sumeru.
• Zhunti took Indra's Divine Bow and Vajra Scepter, while the Heaven Realm's gods fled.

Zhunti confronted Vishnu, the powerful Protector God of the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm, and tried to learn about other Divine Domains before demanding Vishnu’s treasures. Their battle began, and Zhunti’s Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree swept away Vishnu’s Divine Scepter.

• Zhunti defeated Indra and drew out Vishnu from the hidden space atop Mount Sumeru.
• Vishnu introduced himself as the Protector God and revealed that thirty-six Divine Domains were known, though he could not provide their coordinates.
• Zhunti demanded Vishnu’s four divine artifacts, but Vishnu refused and warned him not to provoke a fight.
• Zhunti attacked with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree while defending himself with the Northern Xuanyuan Water Control Banner.
• Vishnu struck with his Divine Scepter, but Zhunti’s Seven-Colored Divine Light severed his control and carried the scepter away.

Zhunti seized Vishnu’s divine artifact in the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm, prompting Indra to summon Shiva while Cangyuan sent reinforcements through the Time and Space Gate. Meanwhile, a Divine Realm Allied Force reached the Prehistoric World and encountered Meng Tian, Bai Qi, and one million Xian Qin soldiers, leaving the standoff poised for battle.

• Zhunti used the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree to take Vishnu’s Divine Scepter and sever Vishnu’s connection to it, so Indra and the other gods began praying for Shiva to descend.
• The Prehistoric Saints watched the encounter through the Kunlun Mirror and assessed the strength of the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm’s gods.
• Cangyuan ordered Styx and Ancestor Dragon to pass through the Time and Space Gate and reinforce Tongtian’s group.
• After a long journey through Chaos, the Divine Realm Allied Forces arrived near the Prehistoric World and found it guarded by one million Xian Qin Golden Immortals led by Meng Tian and Bai Qi.
• An Olympus envoy carrying the God King’s decree appeared before the Xian Qin Army and demanded that its soldiers kneel and accept the gods’ rule.

Bai Qi and the Immortal Qin forces overwhelmed the Divine Realm Allied Forces while Zhao Gongming joined the battle against their Main Gods. Shiva appeared in the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm, where Zhunti watched his destructive arrival.

• Bai Qi repeatedly slapped Poseidon and demanded to know where he had hidden his main force after the Allied Forces were slaughtered.
• Thor tried to summon the Rainbow Bridge to retreat, but it did not answer, so he resumed fighting Meng Tian.
• Meng Tian and a hundred thousand Golden Immortals trapped Jayanta and held back the other Main Gods with Immortal Qin formations.
• Zhao Gongming arrived, and the Immortal Qin cultivators handed their opponents over to him to fight.
• Shiva appeared amid destruction in the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm, Zhunti commented on his entrance, and the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation was unleashed.

Tongtian, Zhunti, and Jieyin each fought one of the Three Phase Gods in the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm. Tongtian and Zhunti gained the upper hand but could not finish their opponents, while Jieyin confronted Brahma using his dream-world powers.

• Tongtian trapped Shiva in the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and clashed with his World-Ending Divine Fire.
• Shiva tried to destroy one of the formation's swords, but Tongtian blocked his trident and fought him directly.
• Zhunti used the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree to sweep away Vishnu's divine skills and suppress him, though he could not defeat him.
• Vishnu contacted Brahma for help, but Brahma revealed that Jieyin had already come to confront him with dream-world techniques.
• Zhunti continued attacking Vishnu with a Great Luo Buddha Hand as the battle between the three pairs continued.

The Asura Clan seized the chance to attack the Deva Clan while the Three Phase Gods were occupied, and Styx decided to recruit them. Kali, Shakti’s wrath incarnation, descended to aid the gods, but Styx and Ancestor Dragon blocked her, leaving the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm stunned by their arrival.

• The Asura King rallied tens of millions of Asura warriors to attack Mount Sumeru and asked Zhunti and Tongtian to protect his clan.
• Indra led the Deva gods out to fight the advancing Asuras.
• Styx decided to absorb the realm’s Asura Clan, while Ancestor Dragon warned him that a powerful being had appeared.
• Kali descended from the shattered heavens and attacked Zhunti with the aim of helping Vishnu defeat him.
• Styx intercepted Kali with his killing swords, and Ancestor Dragon joined him, shocking the gods of the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm.

Kali fought Styx and Ancestor Dragon while the other battles threw the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm into chaos. Dao Ancestor Hongjun and Brahman Incarnation appeared, and Brahman accepted Hongjun’s request on the condition that no more Primal God-level deities crossed into his realm.

• Kali attacked Styx and Ancestor Dragon, while the other visitors and the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm’s gods fought across the battlefield.
• Agni and Varuna urged Indra to seek help from other divine realms, but Indra hesitated over the cost of revealing his realm.
• The mysterious visitors and their opponents stopped fighting as Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared before Tongtian and the others.
• Elephant Head God Ganesha revealed himself as Brahman Incarnation, whose presence made the beings of the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm bow in worship.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun offered to withdraw if Brahman accepted their request, and Brahman agreed after concluding that he could not defeat their hidden allies.
• Brahman demanded that Hongjun keep his promise and prevent any more Primal God-level deities from entering the realm.

Heavenly Dao Hongjun and the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm agreed to a truce, while Styx stayed behind to lead the Asura Clan. Back in the Prehistoric World, Cangyuan prepared to begin the Journey to the West plan as the Saints learned that thirteen Outer God Main Gods had been captured.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun agreed that neither side would cross worlds or attack the other’s preachers with Saint-level beings, and Styx handed Tongtian his Spiritual Treasures to safeguard.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun brought Tongtian, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Ancestor Dragon back to the Prehistoric World, while Styx declared the Asura Teach and claimed the underground Seven Realms for the Asura Clan.
• The Brahman Incarnation told the Three Phase Gods that the other world had several beings as powerful as him and that Primal God-level beings must not interfere with its preachers.
• At Mount Buzhou Peak, Cangyuan told Hongjun that the Journey to the West for Buddhism plan could begin, and Ying Zheng revealed that Zhao Gongming had imprisoned thirteen Outer God Main Gods in the Heavenly Court Prison.
• The Saints discussed the threat posed by the Realm of the Gods’ thirty-six Divine Domains and questioned whether the Prehistoric World could withstand them if they united.

Cangyuan reassured the Saints that Pangu remained the Primordial World's ultimate safeguard and proposed interrogating captured Outer Gods for intelligence about the other Divine Domains. After arranging a search for powerful beings' remains and origins to develop his Thirty-Six Worlds, he went to the Heavenly Court Prison.

• Cangyuan proposed using captured Outer Gods to learn about the strength of the other Divine Domains, and the Saints agreed to leave the inquiry to him.
• Ancestor Dragon called for using soul-searching on the prisoners, and Yuan Feng mocked him, sparking an argument that Cangyuan broke up.
• Cangyuan assured Zhunti and Jieyin that the Western Land would benefit from the Calamity and that Zhenyuanzi was restoring its earth veins.
• Cangyuan asked Ancestor Dragon, Yuan Feng, Wangshu, and other ancient beings to search for the remains of Innate Gods and Demons, and told Taotie to find his three brothers.
• Cangyuan asked Primordial Lord of Heaven to obtain origin essence and Vital Blood from the Four Spirits of Heaven, while Dao Ancestor Hongjun went to discuss the Dao with Demon Ancestor Luohu.
• After making his arrangements to develop his Thirty-Six Worlds, Cangyuan went to the Heavenly Court Prison.

Cangyuan visited the Heavenly Prison to question the captured Outer Gods and learn about their divine domains. He uncovered how the Realm of the Gods was formed and asked whether the domains held beings as powerful as the Three Phase Gods, leaving that question unanswered.

• Zhao Gongming guarded the captured Outer Gods in the Fifteenth Heavenly Prison while Thor and Uriel argued over their confiscated artifacts.
• Zhao Gongming stopped the quarrel and beat the Outer Gods when they threatened to fight.
• Cangyuan arrived, declined Zhao Gongming’s offer to search their souls, and used his Saintly power to make the prisoners answer his questions.
• Poseidon, Thor, Uriel, and the other prisoners named the divine domains they came from, allowing Cangyuan to identify their mythological systems.
• Poseidon, Thor, and Uriel told Cangyuan that the Primal Gods had ended the divine wars, the domains had established diplomatic relations, and the Eight God Kings controlled the Realm of the Gods.
• Cangyuan asked whether the divine domains had beings comparable to or stronger than the Three Phase Gods.

Cangyuan questioned Poseidon and Thor about the strongest beings in the Olympus and Asgard Divine Realms and learned how their power ranked against the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm. Thor revealed that an irresistible force had reversed Ragnarök, revived the dead gods, and drawn the entire Nine Realms into the Great Collision of Divine Realms.

• Cangyuan had Poseidon list the Olympus Divine Realm’s primal gods, Supreme Gods, and other powerful beings, including Chaos, Chronos, and Ananke.
• Poseidon explained that the Realm of the Gods ranked Supreme Gods above Super Primal Gods and primal gods, and Cangyuan compared those tiers to levels in the Prehistoric World.
• Cangyuan questioned Thor, who identified the Norns as a Supreme God and described Surtr, Ymir, Audhumla, and Buri as powerful beings of Asgard.
• Thor revealed that Asgard should have been destroyed during Ragnarök, but an irresistible force revived its dead gods and pulled the entire Nine Realms into the Great Collision of Divine Realms.

Cangyuan learned about the eight Divine Realms and their Supreme Gods, then warned the Prehistoric World to remain cautious. The Earth Path manifested over the Western Ox Continent and sent a strand of Earth Path Primordial Violet Qi.

• Cangyuan questioned whether the Will of the Great Dao had orchestrated the collision of the Divine Realms and gathered information about the eight realms.
• Cangyuan learned that Takama-ga-hara had three early-stage primal gods, while the Heaven Divine Realm relied on Yahweh, a powerful Supreme God, and Michael, a top-tier God King.
• Cangyuan released his mind control over the imprisoned Outer Gods and left the heavenly prison with Zhao Gongming.
• Poseidon identified Cangyuan as a likely Primal God, and Thor worried that he had revealed too much.
• Chuan Yue sent the gathered intelligence to the Saints, who judged that the Prehistoric World should avoid contact with other Divine Domains for now.
• The Earth Path manifested over the Western Ox Continent and sent a strand of Earth Path Primordial Violet Qi.

Zhenyuanzi repaired the West’s earth veins, attained the Earth Path Saint Fruit Position, and left for Beyond the Heavens to establish the Earth Immortal Realm. Meanwhile, Hongjun visited the Chaotic Heavenly Demon Realm to call on Luohu, who wondered what his old rival wanted.

• Zhenyuanzi received Heavenly Dao Merit for restoring the West’s earth veins and attained the Earth Path Saint Fruit Position.
• Zhenyuanzi announced that he would guard the Primordial Land’s earth veins and establish the Earth Immortal Realm beyond the heavens.
• Zhenyuanzi left Wuzhuang Temple with the Ginseng Fruit Tree, leaving Qingfeng and Mingyue behind to manage the temple.
• Cangyuan noted that Queen Mother of the West had also attained the Dao in his Inner World, then returned to Penglai Immortal Island.
• Hongjun arrived outside the Chaotic Heavenly Demon Realm and called Luohu an old friend.
• Luohu, recalling his recent setbacks, decided Hongjun could not kill him without risking the Heavenly Demon Realm.

Hongjun defeated Luohu and took his Vital Blood and Heavenly Demon Origin, then returned to the Prehistoric World and gathered Innate Gods and Demons’ remains for Cangyuan’s World Incarnations. Cangyuan received thirteen sets of Vital Blood and origin essence, enough to refine incarnations tied to the Great Dao.

• Luohu challenged Hongjun after attaining the Hunyuan Limitless Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, but Hongjun defeated him and extracted his Vital Blood and Heavenly Demon Origin.
• Hongjun told Luohu about the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm and reminded him that he was still a person of the Prehistoric World.
• Hongjun returned to Zixiao Palace and retrieved the frozen Dao Bodies of Yellow Springs, Reincarnation, and Five Elements, intending to use them for thirty-six avatars.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven delivered the Vital Blood and origins of the Four Spirits of Heaven to Cangyuan.
• Hongjun, Ancestor Dragon, Yuan Feng, and Taotie supplied more Innate Gods and Demons’ Vital Blood and origins, bringing Cangyuan’s total to thirteen sets.