Recaps

Xuanzang forced Golden Horn and Silver Horn to submit, accepted their vegetarian alms, and continued west. Meanwhile, Shi Qilin returned to the Kirin Clan to pursue Daluo Golden Immortal of the Origin, and Xuanzang exposed the false King of Wuji before Manjushri intervened.

• Xuanzang frightened Golden Horn and Silver Horn into letting him pass, then asked them for vegetarian alms before leaving Flat-Top Mountain.
• Shi Qilin told Cangyuan he would return to the Kirin Clan and cultivate toward Daluo Golden Immortal of the Origin.
• Shi Qilin left Penglai Immortal Island with Lei Jietuo and Moyuan, while Ancestor Dragon and Yuan Feng sensed his return.
• Xuanzang reached Wuji, identified the King of Wuji as a fiend, and drove the Acquired Green Lion from the kingdom.
• Bodhisattva Manjushri appeared at the critical moment and ordered Xuanzang to stop.

Xuanzang beat the Green Lion and made Bodhisattva Manjushri compensate Wuji before continuing west. At Zuanfeng Hao Mountain, he exposed Red Boy’s disguise and began fighting him, ending as Red Boy unleashed Samadhi True Fire.

• Xuanzang beat the Green Lion, whose memories revealed why he had usurped the King of Wuji’s throne.
• Bodhisattva Manjushri admitted responsibility, cured Wuji’s people, and took the Green Lion and the real King of Wuji away; the eldest prince became king.
• Xuanzang continued west and found a child hanging upside down from a tree on Zuanfeng Hao Mountain.
• Xuanzang recognized the child as a demon by smell, and the child revealed himself as Red Boy, Great King Holy Infant of Huoyun Cave.
• Red Boy tried to seize Xuanzang, but Xuanzang grabbed his wrist and repeatedly slammed him into the ground.
• Red Boy broke free, rose into the air, and prepared to burn Xuanzang with Samadhi True Fire.

Xuanzang disciplined Red Boy, crossed the Black Water River after defeating Tuolong, and met the three benevolent demons of Chechi Kingdom before reaching Tongtian River. When he confronted Great King Linggan, Guanyin appeared and told him to stop.

• Xuanzang survived Red Boy’s Samadhi True Fire, beat him for his misbehavior, and agreed to let Guanyin take him as a daoist boy.
• After Red Boy was taken away, Xuanzang crossed Black Water River, defeated Tuolong, and urged the Black Water River God to report him to the Heavenly Court.
• Xuanzang visited Chechi Kingdom, befriended its Three Great Immortals, and left after debating the Dao with them for two and a half days.
• At Tongtian River, Xuanzang prepared to cross and defeated Great King Linggan with his Intentional Bombing Fist.
• Guanyin appeared and told Xuanzang to stop.

Xuanzang killed Great King Linggan for eating nine people, then fought Great King Dujiao Si before continuing west. In the Kingdom of Women of Xiliang, he drank from the Child-and-Mother River and discovered that he had become pregnant.

• Guanyin told Xuanzang that Great King Linggan was her escaped Goldfish, but Xuanzang insisted the demon answer for the nine people he had eaten.
• Guanyin agreed with Xuanzang’s judgment and left, and Xuanzang killed Great King Linggan with a punch that wounded his soul.
• At Jindou Mountain, Xuanzang fought Great King Dujiao Si, who called a break and then let Xuanzang leave before revealing that he planned to return to the Heavenly Court.
• Xuanzang entered the Kingdom of Women of Xiliang and drank water from the river while crossing by boat.
• The old woman ferrying Xuanzang revealed that the Child-and-Mother River caused anyone who drank from it to become pregnant, and Xuanzang panicked as his belly swelled.

Xuanzang learned that the Fetus-Aborting Spring could end his pregnancy, and planned to use his Passage Document to obtain permission to drink it. Meanwhile, Cangyuan investigated the Child-and-Mother River’s ancient origins and chose to investigate its secret, hoping to earn Transcendent Fertility.

• An old woman told Xuanzang that he could abort the fetus by drinking water from the Fetus-Aborting Spring, but he needed government permission to access it.
• Xuanzang decided to use his Passage Document to seek permission and asked the old woman to take him back.
• Cangyuan discovered that the Child-and-Mother River had originated during the Shang Dynasty, when the Saints reforged the earth, and that earlier investigations had failed to explain it.
• The System offered Cangyuan a choice between receiving the Child-and-Mother Bell and investigating the river for Transcendent Fertility.
• Cangyuan chose to investigate the Child-and-Mother River and waited for Xuanzang to pass the trial before setting out.

Xuanzang entered the Kingdom of Women of Xiliang, drank from the Fetus-Aborting Spring to end his pregnancy, and was escorted to the palace after the kingdom's rulers recognized him as the Pilgrim of Heavenly Mandate. He met the queen, who fell in love with him at first sight.

• Xuanzang entered the capital, where curious women followed him, and asked at the government office for water from the Fetus-Aborting Spring.
• The clerks gave Xuanzang a bowl of murky spring water, which he drank and which returned his belly to normal.
• Women surrounded Xuanzang and groped him until a squad of female soldiers intervened.
• The female soldiers brought Xuanzang to the palace, where the queen received him as the Pilgrim of Heavenly Mandate.
• Xuanzang met the queen, and she fell in love with him at first sight.

The Queen of Xiliang fell in love with Xuanzang at first sight and invited him to walk through the garden with her. She asked him to marry her and rule Xiliang together, but Xuanzang refused, choosing to continue his journey to obtain and deliver the scriptures.

• The Queen of Xiliang became smitten with Xuanzang when she saw him and tucked his Passage Document into her bosom instead of stamping it at once.
• The Queen of Xiliang took Xuanzang by the hand and led him through the garden while asking about Chang'an and his life.
• After speaking with Xuanzang for a Shichen, the Queen of Xiliang confessed her love and offered to entrust her kingdom to him as his wife.
• Xuanzang explained that his pilgrimage and mission to deliver the scriptures would take too long, then refused the Queen of Xiliang’s proposal.
• The Queen of Xiliang cried as Xuanzang chose to save the world through his mission rather than devote his life to her.

Xuanzang struggled to resist the Queen’s love and tried to uphold his Buddhist vows, but her plea moved him to admit that he liked her. The chapter ended with Xuanzang’s feelings laid bare as the Queen held him in her bedchamber.

• Xuanzang left the Queen, and the Grand Tutor comforted her while warning that the Heavenly Mandate of the Pilgrims kept them on different paths.
• The Queen told the Grand Tutor she would make one last effort to win Xuanzang and would not force him if he refused.
• At the Post House, Xuanzang found that reciting the Clear Heart Sutra could not suppress his feelings and considered fleeing after the Queen settled the Passage Document.
• The Grand Tutor summoned Xuanzang to the Royal Palace to appraise a treasure, and he agreed despite his misgivings.
• The Queen told Xuanzang to stay and marry her, then pleaded for one wedding without stopping his journey west; Xuanzang finally admitted that he liked her.

Xuanzang and the Queen married before he continued west, but a demon abducted him and threatened to slaughter the Queen unless he surrendered his primal yang. Xuanzang awakened a terrifying power and declared the demon would be executed.

• The Queen arranged her wedding with Xuanzang, and the people of Xiliang celebrated them.
• After the wedding procession, the Queen gave Xuanzang his stamped Travel Permit and tearfully sent him west.
• A demon wind swept Xuanzang, his White Horse, and his luggage away, leaving the Queen desperate to rescue him.
• The demoness brought Xuanzang to Pipa Cave and demanded his primal yang to help her break through her cultivation bottleneck.
• When the demoness threatened to massacre Capital City and kill the Queen, Xuanzang's eyes turned golden and he declared her rights stripped and her execution imminent.

Xuanzang killed the Red-Armored Poison Scorpion, then struggled to leave the Queen and the Kingdom of Women of Xiliang behind. He turned back, resolved to accept the consequences of staying, and reunited with the Queen outside Capital City, where he kissed her.

• Xuanzang struck down the Red-Armored Poison Scorpion with a blast of ancient ferocity and Buddha Light, annihilating her body and soul.
• Xuanzang rode away from Dudi Mountain but could not stop thinking about the Queen and the suffering she might face.
• Xuanzang decided to return to the Queen, vowed to shoulder the karma of the Kingdom of Women of Xiliang, and ran back while carrying White Horse.
• The Queen waited anxiously outside Capital City as the Grand Tutor tried to reassure her that the Demon-Slaying Division would rescue Xuanzang.
• Xuanzang arrived and the Queen rushed into his arms; he bent down and kissed her as the imperial guards and onlookers stared.

Xuanzang stayed in the Kingdom of Women of Xiliang to marry the Queen, and she became pregnant before he resumed his journey west. After Xuanzang departed, Cangyuan sent his Dragon God Realm Incarnation to investigate the Child-and-Mother River while nearing a breakthrough in the Law of Creation.

• Xuanzang promised the Queen he would marry her before continuing to seek the scriptures, and they held a grand wedding in Xiliang.
• The Queen asked Xuanzang for a child, and after Cangyuan sought help from the Will of the Heavenly Dao, an imperial physician confirmed her pregnancy.
• Xuanzang left Xiliang, promising to return after reaching Western Heaven and securing longevity for the Queen.
• Cangyuan sent his Dragon God Realm Incarnation to investigate the Child-and-Mother River.
• Cangyuan sensed that his Law of Creation had reached seventy-nine percent and that a breakthrough toward Hunyuan Limitless Great Luo Golden Immortal was near.

Cangyuan traced the pregnancy-giving power in the Child-and-Mother River to a hidden world beneath a divine mountain, where he found a Chaos Spiritual Treasure and a trapped woman who mistook him for the Chaos Dragon God. The woman questioned whether he was truly someone else after he revealed himself as Cangyuan.

• Cangyuan examined the Child-and-Mother River and followed its unusual law power toward its underground source.
• Cangyuan descended through a strange passage and entered a hidden Origin World containing a jade scroll he identified as a Chaos Spiritual Treasure.
• A voice from the world recognized the Dragon God Realm Incarnation as the Chaos Dragon God and angrily accused him of abandoning her.
• Cangyuan denied being the Chaos Dragon God and demanded that the woman speak properly.
• Cangyuan's dragon pressure threatened to destabilize the hidden world, so the woman pleaded with him to stop.
• Cangyuan withdrew his pressure and asked which divine demon she was, and she questioned whether he really was not the Chaos Dragon God.

Cangyuan learned that the Fertility God and Demon was trapped as a wisp of true spirit in a collapsing grotto-heaven and had created the Child-and-Mother River to attract help. He offered to help her reincarnate in exchange for joining his Daoist Tradition, and she accepted.

• Cangyuan explained that his dragon form was an avatar refined from the Chaos Dragon God's Vital Blood and origin, and offered to help find the Dragon God's reincarnated body.
• The Fertility God and Demon revealed that Pangu's axe blow had left her trapped in a grotto-heaven formed from her head, and that she had opened the Child-and-Mother River's passage to draw visitors to her.
• The Fertility God and Demon asked Cangyuan to help erase her Heavenly Dao red name, offering her Embryo-Generating Mother-Child Manual in return.
• Cangyuan offered to help her reincarnate without taking the treasure, asking instead that she join his Daoist Tradition after returning.
• The Fertility God and Demon accepted Cangyuan's offer, reasoning that it was her only chance to escape destruction with the collapsing grotto-heaven.

Cangyuan freed the Fertility God and Demon's grotto-heaven and arranged for his reincarnation, while Xuanzang continued speedrunning the westward journey by defeating monsters and settling calamities. The chapter ended with Xuanzang sending Guanyin's Golden-Haired Hou to meet Ksitigarbha King despite Guanyin's attempt to stop him.

• Cangyuan restored the Fertility Grotto-Heaven, secured the Fertility God and Demon's foundation for reincarnation, and returned his Dragon God Realm Incarnation to the Dragon God Realm.
• Xuanzang killed the Mud Swamp Monster with one punch and tried to leap over Flaming Mountain, but Princess Iron Fan confronted him over her son.
• Xuanzang knocked back Princess Iron Fan and defeated the Bull Devil King, after which Rakshasi demanded two-thirds of her husband's assets and threatened to expose his affair with Jade-Faced Fox.
• Xuanzang dealt with the Nine-Headed Insect, speedran Old Ancestor Yellow Eyebrow's Small Thunder Monastery, and killed the Red Python Spirit before giving its meat to Tuoluo Village.
• Xuanzang ignored Guanyin's objections and sent the Golden-Haired Hou to meet Ksitigarbha King.

Xuanzang reached Web-Spinning Cave, discovered that its seven female demons had tortured and eaten countless travelers, and attacked them at their hot spring. After killing six sisters, he forced the surviving Seventh Spider Sister to summon her poison-refining Senior Brother.

• Xuanzang used the Buddhism Psychic Sutra to witness the suffering of travelers murdered by the monsters of Web-Spinning Cave.
• Xuanzang confronted the seven female demons at a hot spring, and they recognized him as a possible reincarnation of Jin Chanzi and tried to capture him.
• Xuanzang killed one spider demon with the Great Luo Buddha Hand and destroyed five more with his punches.
• Xuanzang spared Seventh Spider Sister when she begged for mercy, then learned she had a poison-refining Senior Brother.
• Xuanzang threatened Seventh Spider Sister until she used a voice-transmission treasure to call her Senior Brother for help.

Xuanzang exterminated the Spider Sisters, the Multi-Eyed Monster, and the Great God of Poison Mountain after tracing their crimes, then confronted the Three Demons of Lion Camel Ridge. He overwhelmed them as the Mane Giant Lion struggled to hold him off and his brothers called for help.

• The Multi-Eyed Monster arrived at Web-Spinning Ridge and attacked Xuanzang with a poison dragon, but Xuanzang purified the poison and crippled him with a Buddha palm.
• The Multi-Eyed Monster summoned his teacher, the Great God of Poison Mountain, but Xuanzang captured him and learned he had no allies to call upon.
• Xuanzang examined the Great God of Poison Mountain's karma, then killed the Seven Spider Sisters, the Multi-Eyed Monster, and the Great God of Poison Mountain for their crimes.
• Xuanzang continued to Lion Camel Ridge and confronted the Azure Sky Roc, the Yellow-Toothed Old Elephant, and the Mane Giant Lion for slaughtering living beings.
• The Mane Giant Lion burned his Primordial Spirit to stall Xuanzang while the Azure Sky Roc and Yellow-Toothed Old Elephant urged him to flee, then called for a Bodhisattva to help them.

Xuanzang destroyed the Three Demons of Lion Camel Ridge, threatened the Bodhisattvas who supervised them, and punished the White Deer Spirit and the ruler of Biqu Kingdom. He then reached Miefa Kingdom, where the king stopped targeting him after seeing Li Shimin’s signature on the Passage Document, and Xuanzang asked why he persecuted monks.

• Xuanzang swallowed Azure Sky Roc, Yellow-Toothed Old Elephant, and Mane Giant Lion with his Six-Winged Golden Cicada phantom before their Bodhisattva masters could intervene.
• Xuanzang warned Sunlight, Moonlight, and Great Master of Attainment to keep Buddhist pets, mounts, and disciples from causing trouble on his journey, then ordered them to deliver the wronged souls.
• At Biqu Kingdom, Xuanzang made the White Deer Spirit summon the God of Longevity, beat the god, executed the spirit, and warned the Heavenly Court to check its mounts.
• Xuanzang condemned Biqu Kingdom’s king for collecting children’s hearts and having already killed many children.
• At Miefa Kingdom, Xuanzang showed the king Li Shimin’s signature on the Passage Document, and the king apologized and stopped targeting him.
• Xuanzang asked the king of Miefa Kingdom why he had targeted Buddhist temples, noting that the kingdom appeared prosperous and well governed.

Xuanzang resolved the conflict in Miefa, punished its evil Buddhists, and continued west after destroying a leopard spirit’s cave. At Mount Wuyi, Duobao Tathagata gave him the scriptures, while Xuanzang challenged Buddhism over the demons plaguing the lands beneath its sacred mountain.

• King of Miefa explained that past-life resentment and temple abuses had led him to order Buddhism eradicated, and Xuanzang mediated between the kingdom and the temples.
• Xuanzang hunted down the evil Buddhists and had them punished, then told King of Miefa he would face karmic punishment for the innocent monks who had died.
• King of Miefa accepted Xuanzang’s judgment and renamed the country the Buddha-Worshipping Kingdom after Xuanzang departed.
• Xuanzang killed the Great King of Nanshan leopard spirit and its lesser demons, then passed further trials and reached Mount Wuyi.
• Duobao Tathagata gave Xuanzang eighty-one volumes of scriptures, and Xuanzang criticized the demons and devils troubling the Western Ox Continent.
• The Great Master of Attainment privately admitted that the demons Xuanzang encountered had been arranged as trials, while concealing that he had ignored other demons to undermine Duobao Tathagata.

Duobao stripped Great Master of Attainment of his Bodhisattva fruition for failing to prevent the demon calamity, then approved Xuanzang’s marriage to Xiliang Yue and arranged Holy Mother Guiling as her master. Xuanzang was enshrined as both Sandalwood Merit Buddha and Victorious Fighting Buddha, regained Jin Chanzi’s perfected Golden Immortal of the Origin Dao Fruit, and set off with his companions to visit his wife before the journey to Wanxiang.

• Duobao condemned Great Master of Attainment for his dereliction of duty and stripped him of his Bodhisattva fruition until the matter was resolved.
• Xuanzang asked Duobao for a longevity medicine for Xiliang Yue, and Duobao instead offered to have Holy Mother Guiling guide her to immortality.
• Duobao enshrined Xuanzang as Sandalwood Merit Buddha and Victorious Fighting Buddha, and Jin Chanzi’s Dao Fruit returned and merged into him.
• Xuanzang reunited with Yang Jian, Six-Eared Macaque, Yuan Hong, Sun Wukong, Nezha, and Ao Bing as they discussed the coming trip to Wanxiang.
• At Nezha’s suggestion, Xuanzang agreed to take the group to meet Xiliang Yue and set off with them for the Kingdom of Women of Xiliang.

Xuanzang returned to the Kingdom of Women of Xiliang, reunited with Xiliang Yue, and named their daughter Jiang Tang. After a family banquet, Ao Bing answered Nezha’s question about Yin Yang union with a kiss.

• Xuanzang brought his companions to the Kingdom of Women, where his manifestation healed the people and improved the land before he reunited with Xiliang Yue.
• Xuanzang held his daughter, recognized her powerful Six-Winged Golden Cicada bloodline, and named her Jiang Tang.
• Xiliang Yue asked Yang Jian and the others to protect Xuanzang on the journey to Wanxiang, and they reassured her.
• At the banquet, Nezha asked Ao Bing how babies were born and what Yin Yang union meant.
• Ao Bing pressed Nezha against a pillar and kissed him.

After the pilgrimage ended, Xuanzang spent a century with Xiliang Yue and their daughter before entrusting them to Holy Mother Guiling. He then set out with Yang Jian and the others on a new journey, while Western Teach disciples worried that the Jie Sect was poaching their people.

• Cangyuan learned that Xuanzang's pilgrimage had ended and discovered that Tongtian and Grand Pure One Laozi had become Dao Integration Saints.
• Xuanzang returned to the Great Tang with Xiliang Yue and Jiang Tang, where Li Shimin welcomed them and made Jiang Tang a princess.
• After another hundred years, Holy Mother Guiling arrived, and Xuanzang entrusted Xiliang Yue and Jiang Tang to her care and tutelage.
• Xuanzang reunited with Yang Jian and the other five, and they set out on a new journey.
• Two Western Teach disciples questioned whether the Jie Sect was trying to poach their people.

Zhunti and Jieyin worried that Jie Teach had gained leverage over Xuanzang by taking Xiliang Yue as a disciple, but they had no way to intervene. At Mount Buzhou Peak, Cangyuan arrived with other Saints to escort the Dharma Propagation Team into the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm.

• Zhunti proposed that Western Teach take Xiliang Yue and her daughter as disciples to bind Xuanzang to Buddhism, but Jieyin warned that challenging Jie Teach could bring Tongtian against them.
• The Dharma Propagation Team reached Mount Buzhou Peak, where Yang Jian explained that the Time and Space Gate connected worlds and that the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm had four Saints and one Heavenly Dao expert.
• Yang Jian told Xuanzang that the Saints of both worlds had agreed that beings above Saint level would not interfere with the Dharma propagation unless the other side broke the agreement.
• Cangyuan arrived at Mount Buzhou Peak, accompanied by Yuan Feng, Xuanyuan, and Zhunti, to supervise the mission and prevent the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm's Saints from attacking the team.

Xuanzang and the six members of the Dharma Propagation Team entered the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm to investigate its people and customs. They discovered that its inhabitants relied on meditation, blessings, and faith for power, and that its human society was ruled by a rigid caste system.

• Cangyuan opened the Time and Space Gate, and Xuanzang led the six others through it into the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm.
• The group sensed that the realm's people depended on ascetic meditation and Saints' blessings or on faith power rather than conventional cultivation.
• Xuanzang and his companions entered a city and drew strange looks because several of them looked unlike the local humans.
• The group learned that the realm's caste system assigned people their status before birth, with Brahmins at the top and Shudra untouchables denied rights and worship.
• The group discovered that tribal people living in the mountains and forests were not even recognized as human by the realm's other mortals.

Xuanzang and his companions planned to spread Buddhism and overthrow the oppressive order of the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm, then followed Sun Wukong’s suggestion to challenge its gods. Styx built the Asura Arena and drew Vishnu and Brahma into a proposed contest, with Brahma demanding to inspect the arena.

• Xuanzang’s group discussed how to spread the Dharma and liberate the suffering races of the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm.
• Nezha proposed forming the Bailian Cult and raising an uprising, while Ao Bing, Yang Jian, and Sun Wukong offered their own strategies.
• Sun Wukong urged the group to confront the gods directly, and they set out to find Styx.
• Two and a half years later, Styx unveiled the Asura Arena beside Mount Sumeru, attracting the attention of the Three Phase Gods.
• Vishnu accused Styx of violating their agreement, but Styx proposed a contest between their younger followers in exchange for his group withdrawing if they lost.
• Brahma arrived and agreed to the contest on the condition that he inspect the Asura Arena.

Styx agreed to a divine war with Vishnu and Brahma and secured an oath that would give him control of the Human Race if his side won. As the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm prepared for the battles, Indra sought to avenge his humiliation, while Brahman learned of the Great Dao and set a new goal for himself.

• Styx agreed to fight seven divine battles in a year and demanded Mount Sumeru or, failing that, control of the Human Race if he won; Brahma accepted the latter demand.
• Styx explained the Great Dao to Vishnu and Brahma, and all three swore an oath that imposed a binding shackle on the Primal Gods.
• News of the divine war spread across the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm, and many beings, including the Human Race, prepared to watch the battles.
• Vishnu ordered Indra to choose four Devas for the battles, and Indra claimed one of the slots so he could avenge his past humiliation.
• Vishnu and Brahma told Brahman about the Great Dao, and Brahman became determined to become the Great Dao himself.