Chapter Summaries

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.

The Asura King opened the divine war between the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm and the Prehistoric World, and the match list revealed the first four battles. The chapter ended as Ao Bing’s opponent was about to be announced.

• The Saints of the Prehistoric World learned of the divine war, and many watched from Mount Buzhou as the year passed before the tournament began.
• Styx arranged for the battles to be shown across the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm and set the Asura Platform so that each match ended only when one combatant died.
• The Asura King announced Yang Jian versus Kartikeya, Yuan Hong versus Surya, and Sun Wukong versus Hanuman as the first three matches.
• Sun Wukong eagerly claimed Hanuman as his opponent, while Six-Eared Macaque and Yuan Hong warned him not to underestimate the otherworldly monkey god.
• The fourth match paired Li Nezha with Agni, whose greater cultivation was countered by Nezha’s mastery of Chaos Heavenly Fire.
• The match list began the fifth pairing for Ao Bing, but her opponent’s name was not yet revealed.

The Asura Arena’s matchups were revealed, and the gathered God Kings discussed the Primordial Divine Realm and its cultivation system. The first battle began as Yang Jian faced Kartikeya, with both warriors taking their positions in the arena.

• The stele listed Ao Bing against Varuna, Six-Eared Macaque against Garuda, and Xuanzang against Indra as the fifth, sixth, and seventh matches.
• Spectators and gods debated the matchups, while Vishnu recognized Nuwa as another Primal God of the Primordial Divine Realm.
• Vishnu explained the realm system to Zeus, and Michael and Amaterasu exchanged insults before Vishnu ordered them to stop.
• Kartikeya entered the arena and challenged Yang Jian, who answered with a taunt and summoned his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear.
• Yang Jian and Kartikeya took opposite sides of the arena and silently faced each other.

Yang Jian destroyed Kartikeya’s rule-bound Vela Divine Spear with the Heavenly Punishment Eye, then provoked Kartikeya into revealing his full arsenal. The battle continued as Kartikeya prepared to fight seriously in his six-headed, twelve-armed form.

• Kartikeya hurled the Vela Divine Spear at Yang Jian, whose inevitable-hit power forced Yang Jian to dodge.
• Yang Jian opened his Eye of Heavenly Dao and used the Heavenly Punishment Eye to suppress the spear’s rules.
• Parvati urged Kartikeya to abandon the Vela Divine Spear, and Yang Jian’s golden light destroyed it.
• Kartikeya accused Yang Jian of sparing him, and Yang Jian said the divine battles were meant to display their power to Wanxiang’s beings.
• Kartikeya summoned an array of weapons and declared his six-headed, twelve-armed form was his original form.
• Yang Jian called out External Incarnation after saying Kartikeya’s form was too ugly.

Yang Jian and his two External Incarnations fought Kartikeya, who matched them with his many arms, heads, and divine powers. Yang Jian countered Kartikeya’s time-shifting Arrow of Destruction with several great divine abilities, and the chapter left them preparing for a contest of strength.

• Yang Jian split off a Primordial Spirit incarnation and a physical-body incarnation, then joined them in battle against Kartikeya.
• Kartikeya attacked with his twelve arms and six heads, and Yang Jian used Returning to Heaven and Reversing the Sun to send Kartikeya’s World-Ending Divine Fire back into his mouth.
• Yang Jian used Knowing the Future to foresee Kartikeya’s time-traveling Arrow of Destruction and Mediation of Creation to trap and annihilate it inside a small world.
• Kartikeya grew angry and challenged Yang Jian to face the strength of a hundred thousand giant elephants in close combat.
• Yang Jian prepared to meet Kartikeya’s strength by invoking the divine ability Dragon Subduing Arhat and Tiger Subduing Arhat.

Yang Jian overwhelmed Kartikeya with his many Divine Abilities, then recovered his strength with Nine-Breath Qi Absorption and let Kartikeya prepare his strongest form. As Kartikeya transformed into his Six-Headed Twelve-Armed Dharma Form, Yang Jian began enlarging himself with Law of Heaven—Imitate Earth.

• Yang Jian and Kartikeya traded Divine Abilities and Divine Skills in a fierce close-quarters battle until both began to tire.
• Yang Jian used Nine-Breath Qi Absorption to restore his magic power and heal his injuries, returning to peak condition while Kartikeya remained depleted.
• Yang Jian invited Kartikeya to show his strongest form, and Kartikeya regained his strength by practicing yoga and using his life authority.
• Kartikeya transformed into his Six-Headed Twelve-Armed Dharma Form and Sacred Indestructible Body, growing to a colossal size.
• Yang Jian laughed at Kartikeya's transformation and began using Law of Heaven—Imitate Earth.

Yang Jian used the Heavenly Giant Technique to create a world where he controlled heaven and earth, overwhelming Kartikeya and rendering his Authority of Life useless. As Yang Jian prepared to kill him, Shiva appeared and ordered him to stop.

• Yang Jian activated the Heavenly Giant Technique, creating an isolated world in which he acted as its creator god.
• Kartikeya's thunder failed against Yang Jian's, and his Authority of Life could not heal him because it could not draw on the main world's authority.
• Vishnu identified that overwhelming force could break Yang Jian's created world, while the watching gods marveled at the technique's power.
• Yang Jian defeated Kartikeya in a few moves and held his spear to Kartikeya's last remaining head, ready to kill him.
• Shiva appeared outside the Asura Arena and told Yang Jian to stop.

Yang Jian defeated and killed Kartikeya in the first divine battle after Shiva God was stopped from intervening. Yang Jian returned injured, and the Asura King announced Yuan Hong and Surya as the next opponents.

• Shiva God tried to rescue Kartikeya, but Styx refused to break the divine battle rules and warned that the Prehistoric World’s Saints could arrive if Shiva attacked.
• Brahma and Vishnu restrained Shiva God, who withdrew without saving Kartikeya.
• Yang Jian pierced Kartikeya’s final head and killed him, winning the first divine battle.
• Yang Jian left the arena and revealed that the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm’s suppression had badly injured him.
• The Asura King announced Yuan Hong and Surya as the opponents in the second divine battle.

Yuan Hong faced Surya in the divine battle and revealed that his senior brother was a Sun God destined to become a Saint, stunning the assembled gods. Surya attacked with his full solar power, and Yuan Hong prepared to meet the descending sun.

• Surya entered the arena and transformed into a four-armed, golden-armored god whose power approached the God King Realm.
• Yuan Hong accepted Surya's challenge and said he knew Yang Jian's Heavenly Giant Technique but did not use it.
• Surya unleashed a vast sun, while Yuan Hong explained that his senior brother was a Sun God who would become a Saint and surpass Surya.
• The gods reacted with shock to the possibility of another Primal God, and Odin wondered whether the Primordial Divine Realm's Moon God was one too.
• Surya launched his sun at Yuan Hong, and Yuan Hong invoked the Chaos Demon Ape—True Body.

Yuan Hong transformed into his Chaos Demon Ape True Form and crushed Surya with one swing of his staff, but Surya revived through his sun-given immortality. Yuan Hong complained to Styx that Surya had Saint protection, and Styx confronted Vishnu, who said the blessing could not be withdrawn.

• Yuan Hong transformed into his Chaos Demon Ape True Form and charged Surya head-on.
• Yuan Hong smashed Surya into the Styx Restriction, flattening him with a single blow.
• Surya revived through the True Sun Fire and declared that he could not die while the sun remained.
• Yuan Hong recognized that Saint rules protected Surya and complained to Styx that the battle was unfair.
• Styx challenged Vishnu to remove the protection or face him, but Vishnu said the blessing could not be withdrawn.

Styx extinguished the sun of Myriad Phenomena to break Surya’s immortality, allowing Yuan Hong to defeat him despite Surya’s self-destruction. Sun Wukong prepared to face Hanuman in the third divine battle as the Wanxiang gods hoped for their first victory.

• Styx sealed the sun of Myriad Phenomena with four laws, extinguishing its light and ending Surya’s immortality.
• Surya transformed into a blazing sun and self-destructed, but Yuan Hong struck him down and survived with only minor injuries.
• Styx released the seal, the sun reignited, and Asura King announced Yuan Hong as the winner of the second divine battle.
• Yuan Hong returned to the Prehistoric World seats and urged Sun Wukong to perform well in the next match.
• Indra expressed confidence in Hanuman’s advantage over Sun Wukong, while Wind God warned his son to be careful.
• Asura King introduced Sun Wukong and Hanuman for the third divine battle and endorsed Sun Wukong.

Sun Wukong defeated Hanuman in the third God War after trapping him in Chaos Divine Light, but Hanuman revived through his Immortal Blessing. The gods agreed that contestants would only have one life from then on, and Wukong was declared the winner while Hanuman survived.

• The Asura King began the third God War as Hanuman and Sun Wukong faced each other in the arena.
• Hanuman attacked with his Eight Siddhis and Gada, while Sun Wukong used his Chaos Demon Ape True Form and Heavenly Giant Technique to fight him evenly.
• Sun Wukong fired Chaos Divine Light, and Hanuman tried to redirect it toward him but failed to break through the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner.
• Chaos Divine Light erased Hanuman, but he revived after Sun Wukong released Heavenly Giant Technique and Hanuman was again subject to the Myriad Phenomena rules.
• Styx challenged Vishnu over the unfairness of the blessings, and Vishnu agreed that God War contestants would have only one life; Sun Wukong was declared the winner and Hanuman was allowed to leave alive.

Nezha faced Agni in the fourth match and used his immunity to fire and the Lotus Lantern to overcome Agni’s attacks. The Lotus Lantern temporarily raised Nezha’s cultivation, and Agni struggled to endure his assault as the other divine realms watched warily.

• Agni summoned the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm’s flames, but Nezha remained unharmed because he was immune to fire-Dao attacks.
• Agni abandoned flames and attacked Nezha with divine power and his weapons, but Nezha used the Lotus Lantern to repel him.
• Nezha activated Three Heads, Six Arms and used the Lotus Lantern to raise his cultivation to Mid Quasi-Saint.
• Nezha charged Agni with his treasures and Chaos Heavenly Fire, forcing Agni onto the defensive and leaving the watching God Kings wary of the Prehistoric World.
• Agni decided to evade Nezha until the Lotus Lantern’s temporary boost wore off, hoping to regain an advantage.

Nezha and Agni’s prolonged stalemate was declared a draw, and Ao Bing entered the fifth God War against Varuna with the Ancestral Dragon Pearl. Ao Bing and Varuna revealed their amplified powers and manifestations as their battle began.

• Nezha and Agni fought for a hundred thousand years without either gaining an advantage, so Vishnu and Styx agreed to count their match as a draw.
• After leaving the arena, Nezha offered Ao Bing the Lotus Lantern, but she revealed that the Ancestral Dragon had given her the Ancestral Dragon Pearl.
• Ao Bing began the fifth God War by using the Ancestral Dragon Pearl to raise her cultivation to mid Quasi-Saint.
• Varuna unleashed his God King power and four divine artifacts while Ao Bing summoned a vast True Dragon Manifestation.
• Indra, Zeus, Odin, and others watched Ao Bing’s dragon form and remarked on its sacred, distinctive nature.

Varuna and Ao Bing’s fifth God War ended in a draw, and the sixth match began between Garuda and Six-Eared Macaque. Six-Eared gained the upper hand with his hard body and Five Elements Escape, but Garuda counterattacked with his signature divine skill, prompting Six-Eared to summon a vast Chaos Demon Ape Dharma image.

• Styx and Vishnu declared Varuna and Ao Bing’s fifth match a draw.
• Garuda and Six-Eared Macaque entered the arena, and Asura King announced the start of their God War.
• Six-Eared blocked Garuda’s blades with his head and drove him back with the Coiling Dragon Staff.
• Garuda unleashed a storm of golden feathers, but Six-Eared used Five Elements Escape to close in and strike him into the arena floor.
• Garuda appeared behind Six-Eared and attacked with Peng Roar Swallows Heaven, so Six-Eared summoned a ten-thousand-zhang Chaos Demon Ape Dharma image.

Six-Eared Macaque defeated Garuda’s Golden-Winged Great Peng phantom and faced his World-Destroying Hurricane. He revealed a new sleeve ability and collected the entire hurricane, leaving the arena’s onlookers stunned.

• Six-Eared Macaque’s Chaos Demon Ape Dharma Idol grabbed Garuda’s Great Peng phantom, ripped it in two, and devoured it.
• Six-Eared Macaque taunted Garuda, who complained that the Styx Restriction prevented him from borrowing Vishnu’s power.
• Garuda unleashed his World-Destroying Hurricane, while the assembled gods and spectators feared it would destroy Six-Eared Macaque.
• Six-Eared Macaque opened a great crimson sleeve and collected the hurricane with a sweep of his arm.
• Zeus, Indra, Amaterasu, Garuda, and the spectators reacted with disbelief at Six-Eared Macaque’s feat.