Chapter Summaries

After being tormented by the Bear Children, Sun Wukong agreed to join Yingzhou Island’s lineage. Meanwhile, Buddhist reinforcements reached the Pilgrimage Route and discovered that the meat the Scripture-Fetching Team had eaten was sliced from Zhunti.

• First Gourd Baby and Third Gourd Baby restrained Sun Wukong while the Bear Children plucked his fur, burned him, and drenched him until he surrendered.
• Fourth Gourd Baby offered to reveal who had mutilated Wukong’s master if Wukong joined Yingzhou Island, while Third Gourd Baby warned him that asking around could get him expelled from the sect.
• Sun Wukong accepted Yingzhou Island’s lineage after sensing Taiyi’s powerful aura and fearing her flame.
• Tathagata sent Randeng, Maitreya, ten Buddhas, the Four Great Vajras, and the Eighteen Arhats to support the Pilgrim Monk against Ancestor Minghe’s Blood Sea faction.
• Minghe explained that he had stopped the Scripture-Fetching Team because they had eaten meat without paying, and Maitreya sensed that the meat came from Zhunti and carried Innate Killing Intent.
• Maitreya and Randeng considered how to respond, with Maitreya deciding that Zhunti’s flesh was valuable rather than risk angering his master.

Minghe forced the Buddhist pilgrims to fight the Blood Sea lineage, killing Piluoli and shattering the Bodhi Formation. Zhunti appeared to confront Minghe over the ruined Twelve-grade Golden Lotus of Merit, and the two declared themselves enemies.

• Minghe sent Mahabrahma to fight Piluoli, who was badly wounded and killed by the Abyss Sword.
• Minghe demanded a formation battle, and Randeng abandoned Maitreya and the Buddhist disciples.
• Maitreya raised the Bodhi Formation, but Minghe used the Sea of Blood Great Array to shatter it and gravely wound the Buddhas.
• Zhunti arrived, blocked Minghe's attack, and demanded to know whether Minghe had ruined the Twelve-grade Golden Lotus of Merit.
• Minghe admitted responsibility and taunted Zhunti, who vowed that they would be irreconcilable.

Minghe fought Zhunti with the Blood Sea Great Array and pursued him into Chaos, where his merit and Asura Path status forced Zhunti to concede. Zhunti surrendered two arms, and Minghe announced that he and the Four Great Demon Kings would join the Scripture-Fetching Team.

• Minghe raised the Blood Sea Great Array and traded attacks with Zhunti, matching the saint's Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree with his Abi Yuantu Swords.
• Zhunti broke apart his body to escape, but Minghe chased him into Chaos.
• Zhunti manifested his Twenty-Four-Headed, Eighteen-Armed Golden Body, while Minghe used his merit and Asura Path status to deter him from attacking freely.
• Zhunti admitted defeat and gave Minghe two arms from his Golden Body in exchange for letting the Pilgrim Monk continue the Journey to the West.
• Minghe claimed the merit from the journey and said he would bring the Four Great Demon Kings to join the Scripture-Fetching Team, prompting Zhunti to leave in anger.

Zhunti and Amitabha worried about Minghe joining the Scripture-Fetching Team as trouble erupted on Spirit Mountain. After Maitreya struck Kui Niu, the Interception Sect attacked, and San Xiao trapped the Great Thunderclap Monastery in the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation.

• Zhunti warned Amitabha that Minghe had joined the Scripture-Fetching Team with ulterior motives, and Amitabha blamed Zhunti and Jieyin for their lack of merit and their many enemies.
• Tongtian sent Kui Niu to trample Maitreya’s melon patch, and Maitreya struck Kui Niu with the Demon Subduing Pestle.
• Kui Niu summoned the Interception Sect’s disciples, and Maitreya fled to the Great Thunderclap Monastery to report the attack.
• Tathagata questioned Maitreya about provoking Kui Niu as the Interception Sect advanced on Spirit Mountain.
• San Xiao covered the Great Thunderclap Monastery with the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation, and Randeng led three Mid Quasi-Saints into the formation to confront them.

Zhao Gongming defeated Fearless Vajra Buddha and, with San Xiao, captured three more Buddhist leaders, forcing the Buddhist Sect to consider handing over Maitreya. Bodhi Daoist arrived and urged Tathagata and Maitreya to enter the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation, but Tathagata warned that it might conceal more Interception Sect experts.

• Zhao Gongming fought Fearless Vajra Buddha for over a hundred exchanges before binding him with a silver-white ribbon and knocking him unconscious.
• Randeng attacked Zhao Gongming, but Zhao Gongming blocked him with the Sea-Calming Pearl and sent twenty-four pearls at him.
• San Xiao trapped Randeng with the Primordial Golden Dou, and they joined Zhao Gongming in capturing Merciful Light King Buddha and Bright Light Buddha Hyde.
• Zhao Gongming demanded that the Buddhist Sect hand over Maitreya, prompting Mahasattva to urge Maitreya to resolve the conflict himself.
• Maitreya threatened Mahasattva and angered the other Buddhas, who feared his future revenge.
• Bodhi Daoist arrived and asked Tathagata and Maitreya to enter the formation with him, but Tathagata suspected that other Interception Sect experts might be waiting inside.

Zhunti entered the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Array with Tathagata and Maitreya, only to discover that the Three Teachings’ younger generation had assembled to confront him. After Laozi weakened Zhunti, Xuanxiao called for the disciples to attack while promising to face Zhunti alone afterward.

• Zhunti agreed to lead Tathagata and Maitreya into the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Array, then realized Tathagata had not known who was waiting inside.
• Zhunti found Zhao Gongming, San Xiao, Jin Ling, the Ten Great Golden Crows, Xuanling, Xuanxiao, Taiyi, and Golden Peng among the forces surrounding him.
• Zhunti sent Tathagata and Maitreya away and dispersed Golden Peng’s Yin-Yang attack, but Laozi used the Taiji Diagram to strip away thirty percent of Zhunti’s magical power.
• Xuanxiao announced that the Three Teachings’ leaders would not fight Zhunti and ordered their disciples to attack him.
• Golden Peng and Bo Huang’s group joined the challenge, while Xuanxiao said he would face Zhunti alone after the others had fought him.

Golden Peng, the Golden Crows, and disciples from the Three Teachings joined forces to overwhelm Zhunti, who was killed in the assault. Tongtian regretted losing his chance to beat Zhunti himself, while Mingxuan suggested an excuse for him to do it anyway.

• Golden Peng cracked Zhunti’s Seven-Colored Glazed Precious Light barrier, then Bo Huang and his brothers attacked with True Sun Fire.
• Zhao Gongming rallied the Interception Sect to form the Myriad Immortal Formation and attack Zhunti.
• Xuanxiao called on Xuandu and Hu Xiaoyu to join in; Xuandu suppressed the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, while Hu Xiaoyu gouged out one of Zhunti’s eyes with the Pangu Banner.
• Hu Xiaoyu and Xuandu argued over who would keep Zhunti’s eye, and Xuandu failed to gouge out the other one with his Seven Stars Sword.
• Jin Ling, Guiling, Wu Dang, and Xuanling used the Immortal-Slaying Four Swords to destroy Zhunti’s head, killing the Saint.
• Tongtian lamented that Zhunti had died before he could beat him, and Mingxuan proposed an excuse for him to attack Zhunti anyway.

Xuanxiao and the Three Teachings’ disciples cooked Zhunti’s abandoned body on Yingzhou Island while Zhunti watched helplessly from Mount Sumeru. When Tongtian attacked Mount Sumeru, Zhunti confronted him and demanded a spiritual treasure to fight back.

• Xuanxiao took Zhunti’s body to Yingzhou Island and taught the disciples how to slice and roast it in Xuandu’s Purple-Gold Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• Zhunti watched the feast with his Divine Sense as Jieyin tried to console him and Amitabha sealed his Divine Sense until the disciples finished eating.
• Tongtian arrived at Mount Sumeru and taunted Zhunti, then challenged him to come out and fight.
• Amitabha warned Zhunti that Tongtian was too powerful for him and Jieyin together, and suggested Zhunti make a sacrifice to avoid provoking Tongtian further.
• Tongtian cut through Mount Sumeru’s protective array with the Qingping Sword, and Zhunti blocked the attack with his Buddha Golden Body before demanding that Tongtian lend him a spiritual treasure.

Zhunti borrowed Jieyin in his spirit-bamboo form and joined him to fight Tongtian in Chaos, where Tongtian unleashed a powerful sword strike and the outcome remained unknown. Meanwhile, You Wen and the others abandoned the scripture-fetching trials to head for Yingzhou Island, leaving Minghe behind.

• Tongtian agreed to wait while Zhunti went to borrow a weapon, then began gathering sword momentum.
• Zhunti persuaded Jieyin to transform into a spirit bamboo and carried him outside to attack Tongtian.
• Tongtian and Zhunti moved their fight to Chaos, where they battled with the Qingping Sword and Jieyin’s transformed body.
• After Zhunti claimed the spirit bamboo had given him the advantage, Tongtian realized Jieyin was helping and fused the Power of Destiny and the Power of the Heavenly Dao into his sword.
• You Wen complained that the scripture-fetching trials were boring, then left with Jade Face to follow Hu Xiaoyu toward Yingzhou Island.
• Nezha and the Golden and Silver Boys also headed for Yingzhou Island, while Minghe stayed behind to wait for the group.

On Yingzhou Island, You Wen joined the others in eating Zhunti and stole Xuandu’s roasted skewers, then lured Sun Wukong into eating one. Tathagata realized the scheme could make Zhunti reject Sun Wukong as a disciple.

• You Wen reunited with Bo Huang and Ya Qiong, declaring he no longer needed Buddhism’s pilgrimage merit and agreeing to steal Xuandu’s remaining skewers.
• You Wen snatched Xuandu’s three freshly roasted strings of Zhunti, and Xuandu reluctantly let him keep them.
• You Wen decided to tease Sun Wukong with a Zhunti skewer and claimed it could boost his cultivation and help him understand Buddhist powers.
• Sun Wukong chased You Wen after he pretended to leave with the skewer, flattering him into offering it.
• Tathagata divined that Sun Wukong was mocking him and thought the skewer scheme might make Zhunti reject Sun Wukong as a disciple.

Tongtian fought Jieyin and Zhunti in the Chaos Space but stopped short of destroying them after Amitabha warned him about disrupting the Buddhist Calamity. Meanwhile, Ao Lie asked Xuanxiao and Kong Xuan to help him steal back Zhao Gongming’s Sea-Calming Pearl, but Kong Xuan sent him back to the Wutong Secret Realm.

• Tongtian battered Jieyin and Zhunti, then threatened to return them to their origins and scatter their consciousnesses.
• Amitabha stopped Tongtian from attacking the two Saints further, and Tongtian returned to Golden Ao Island.
• Ao Lie asked Xuanxiao to retrieve the Sea-Calming Pearl Zhao Gongming had taken back, but Xuanxiao advised him to ask Kong Xuan for help instead.
• Ao Lie asked Kong Xuan to steal the pearl, but Kong Xuan refused and suggested replacing it with treasures from the Phoenix Clan’s vault.
• Kong Xuan sent Ao Lie through a space rift back to the Wutong Secret Realm.

Golden Phoenix confronted Zhao Gongming in the Chaos Space to help Ao Lie recover a Sea-Calming Pearl, while Zhao Gongming insisted the pearl was rightfully his because Ao Lie had stolen it first. The chapter left them facing off as Zhao Gongming unleashed his late-stage Quasi-Saint power, with Xuanxiao watching and expecting him to lose.

• Ao Lie returned to the Phoenix Wutong Secret Realm after Xuanxiao teleported him home, and he told Golden Phoenix that Zhao Gongming had taken back the Sea-Calming Pearl.
• Xuanxiao refused to help Ao Lie, and he and Taiyi joked about whether Golden Phoenix would go after Zhao Gongming.
• Golden Phoenix went to God of Wealth's Hall and asked Zhao Gongming to spar, prompting him to fly to the Chaos Space with her.
• Zhao Gongming challenged Golden Phoenix's attempt to help Ao Lie reclaim the pearl, and she explained that she could not resist her husband's tearful pleas.
• Zhao Gongming attacked Golden Phoenix with the full might of a late-stage Quasi-Saint while Xuanxiao watched and said he should have surrendered a pearl.

Golden Phoenix defeated Zhao Gongming in their close-quarters spar and took a Sea-Calming Pearl, then offered to fight for him once in the future. After spotting Amitabha healing the injured Jieyin and Zhunti, Zhao Gongming called for Interception Sect reinforcements, but Xuanxiao warned him to leave the Chaos Space and let the Eldest Senior Brother handle the Chaos Demon God.

• Golden Phoenix wagered her Red Embroidered Ball against one of Zhao Gongming's Sea-Calming Pearls and challenged him to a close-quarters spar.
• Zhao Gongming and Golden Phoenix exchanged blows until Golden Phoenix unleashed Frozen for Eternity, prompting Zhao Gongming to concede and hand over a Sea-Calming Pearl.
• Golden Phoenix admitted she had gone too far and promised to fight for Zhao Gongming once if he needed help, then left.
• Zhao Gongming saw Amitabha healing the injured Jieyin and Zhunti and used his voice-transmission token to summon Interception Sect experts to attack them.
• Jin Ling and Guiling discussed Zhao Gongming's caution, while Xuanxiao ordered him to return to the Primordial Wilderness and leave Amitabha to the Eldest Senior Brother.

Xuanxiao ambushed Amitabha while he was healing Jieyin and Zhunti, then fought him with the Blade of Destiny. Amitabha admitted defeat, but Xuanxiao revealed that Jieyin and Zhunti—not Amitabha—were his targets.

• Zhao Gongming gave Xuanxiao an Immortal Qi coordinate and returned to the God of Wealth's Hall to recover.
• Luohu issued Xuanxiao a quest to strike Amitabha, Jieyin, and Zhunti while Amitabha healed the two Saints, offering a Son of a Demon God as the reward.
• Xuanxiao tore open space and attacked the three men, worsening Jieyin and Zhunti's injuries with the shockwave.
• Xuanxiao battled Amitabha with the Blade of Destiny, and Amitabha's Demon Subduing Pestle could not match its power.
• Amitabha admitted defeat, but Xuanxiao said he had come to kill Jieyin and Zhunti, whom he intended to knock back down as Saints.

Xuanxiao killed Zhunti and Jieyin again after Amitabha withdrew, while Tongtian told Mingxuan how Xuanxiao had ambushed Amitabha. The Scripture-Fetching Team learned Zhao Gongming would handle their next trial, and Zhao arrived as Hu Xiaoyu teased him about fighting Ao Lie.

• Amitabha stepped aside rather than fight Xuanxiao, leaving Jieyin and Zhunti in his hands.
• Xuanxiao sent Zhunti and Jieyin back to revive, killing them with the Primordial Sword and Mountain-Splitting Axe.
• Tongtian told Mingxuan that Zhao Gongming had revealed Amitabha's location and Xuanxiao had ambushed and badly wounded him.
• Hu Xiaoyu said Zhao Gongming had volunteered to handle the next trial and fight Ao Lie, who admitted stealing Zhao's Sea-Calming Pearl.
• Zhao Gongming arrived and rebuked Hu Xiaoyu for talking about him behind his back, then refused to give him good fortune.

Hu Xiaoyu forced Zhao Gongming to agree to a close-combat spar after making him surrender to the Pangu Banner. Their fight revealed Hu Xiaoyu's formidable White Tiger combat skills, and Zhao Gongming retreated from his fierce counterattack.

• Hu Xiaoyu challenged Zhao Gongming after Zhao refused to give him a share of his fortune, and Zhao surrendered rather than face the Pangu Banner.
• Hu Xiaoyu proposed a spar with a wager of ten percent of Zhao Gongming's personal fortune for three hundred years, and Zhao agreed to fight only with weapons.
• Zhao Gongming and Hu Xiaoyu fought with the Divine Whip and the White Tiger Slaughter Sword, and Zhao initially believed he had gained the upper hand.
• Hu Xiaoyu rose unharmed and launched a far more powerful sword attack, forcing Zhao Gongming to retreat.
• Hu Xiaoyu explained that his close-combat skill came from the White Tiger lineage's tradition of slaughter.

Ao Lie challenged Zhao Gongming in Chaos after revealing that he had reached the second heaven of the Primordial Golden Immortal realm. Using his powerful treasures and superior speed, Ao Lie gained the upper hand, and Zhao Gongming called the spar a draw.

• Ao Lie told Zhao Gongming that all nine of his acupoints had opened and that he had advanced to the second heaven of the Primordial Golden Immortal realm.
• Ao Lie and Zhao Gongming agreed to spar in Chaos, while Xuanxiao and Taiyi watched from Yingzhou Island.
• Ao Lie arrived fully armed with several High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, and Zhao Gongming charged him with the Divine Whip.
• Ao Lie used the Moon Star Flat Sky Crown's sword qi to break through Zhao Gongming's Twenty-Three Heavens Dharma Idol and force him back.
• Zhao Gongming tried to ensnare Ao Lie with the Dragon Binding Rope, but Ao Lie escaped using the Purple Jade Azure Cloud Boots.
• Zhao Gongming ended the spar and called it a draw because Ao Lie's treasures left him unable to fight effectively.

Ao Lie returned to the Scripture-Fetching Team without Zhao Gongming, who refused to join because he needed to watch over his role as the Heavenly Court’s God of Wealth. The team resumed its journey, where Hu Xiaoyu accepted White Tiger Holy Venerate’s challenge and fought him in their family’s grand array, leaving Tathagata to suffer from the spatial turbulence they sent toward Spirit Mountain.

• Zhao Gongming told Ao Lie he would not join the Scripture-Fetching Team because his duties as the God of Wealth required him to remain behind.
• Ao Lie returned to the camp, where You Wen correctly guessed that he had defeated Zhao Gongming, and the team continued its journey.
• White Tiger Holy Venerate appeared with the Tiger Roar Grand Array, and Hu Xiaoyu agreed to face him in a family spar.
• Hu Xiaoyu and White Tiger Holy Venerate fought fiercely, each increasing his power until their battle tore open space.
• Hu Xiaoyu and White Tiger Holy Venerate stabilized the spatial disturbance and tossed it toward Spirit Mountain, where Tathagata complained about suffering from their fight.

The White Tiger lineage joined the Journey to the West team, prompting Hu Xiaoyu to propose altering the Buddhist scriptures with the true meaning of slaughter. As the group continued west, the Vermilion Bird Saint Venerable arrived with Ao Bing and challenged him to spar with Ao Lie.

• Tathagata, Maitreya, and Randeng counted the damage to the Great Hero Hall as a Buddhist tribulation.
• The White Tiger Holy Venerate brought three hundred White Tiger Clan elites to join the scripture-fetching team, while Tathagata planned to let them earn merit and then disband.
• Jieyin welcomed the White Tiger lineage's participation, but Zhunti doubted the clan would convert, and Amitabha warned that Buddhism might lose the coming war against the demons.
• Hu Xiaoyu suggested mixing the true meaning of slaughter into the scriptures, and the White Tiger Holy Venerate praised the plan.
• The Vermilion Bird Saint Venerable arrived with Ao Bing, argued with the White Tiger Holy Venerate, and ordered Ao Bing to spar with Ao Lie.

Ao Lie sparred with Ao Bing and claimed the beating helped him absorb the heavenly treasures in his body. After Zi Huan confirmed Ao Lie’s explanation, she challenged him to spar as well.

• Ao Bing explained that he had married into the Vermilion Bird Secret Realm because his master feared he was too weak, and the Vermilion Bird Saint Venerable ordered him to spar with Ao Lie.
• Ao Bing attacked with his ice-crystal hammers, and Ao Lie beat him with a sword while using Primordial Chaos power.
• Zi Huan used her five-element divine ability to intervene, but Ao Lie broke through it with Five-Colored Divine Light and returned Ao Bing to her.
• Ao Lie explained that his blows had dispersed the heavenly treasures’ medicinal properties through Ao Bing’s dragon body, and Zi Huan confirmed he was telling the truth.
• Ao Bing begged Zi Huan to beat Ao Lie, and she challenged Ao Lie to spar with her.