Chapter Summaries

Zi Huan defeated Ao Lie in their spar, but his provocation led them to clash at full power and create spatial turbulence. White Tiger Holy Venerate diverted it to Spirit Mountain, where Tathagata complained about the mounting cost of repairing Great Thunderclap Monastery.

• Ao Lie teased Zi Huan about protecting Brother Bing, so Zi Huan attacked him with the Phoenix Cry Saber.
• Zi Huan defeated Ao Lie after dozens of exchanges, but he taunted her about her weakness and she slapped him.
• Ao Lie revealed his Nine-Colored Divine Dragon True Form and challenged Zi Huan to a stronger clash despite Vermilion Bird Saint Venerable's warning.
• Zi Huan and Ao Lie collided their powers, shattering space and creating turbulence that White Tiger Holy Venerate hurled toward Spirit Mountain.
• Tathagata activated the Bodhi Formation at Great Thunderclap Monastery and complained to Maitreya that repeated damage was draining the Buddhist sect's funds.

Ao Bing and Zi Huan joined You Wen’s Scripture-Fetching Team after You Wen sparred with the Vermilion Bird Saint Venerable, who returned to her secret realm. As the team continued west, they sensed a Buddha on a nearby mountain and decided to visit him.

• Ao Lie and Zi Huan sparred, and Ao Bing joked with Ao Lie about their wives before Ao Lie’s wife comforted him.
• You Wen challenged the Vermilion Bird Saint Venerable to a match using Buddhist divine abilities, and they fought to a draw.
• The Vermilion Bird Saint Venerable said she had used seventy percent of her strength, and You Wen invited Ao Bing and Zi Huan to join the team while she returned to her secret realm.
• You Wen led the team west, where Minghe and the White Tiger Holy Venerate sensed the Great Compassionate King Buddha on a nearby mountain.
• Jade Face urged the team to visit the Buddha, and she and You Wen wondered whether he had bumps on his head.

The Scripture-Fetching Team reached Ciguang Temple, where You Wen trapped Great Compassionate King Buddha in the Chaos Bell and gave him thirty-three bumps. White Tiger Holy Venerate then arranged a close-combat spar between Great Compassionate King Buddha and Hu Xiaoyu, whose fierce battle continued as he unleashed Tiger Mourn.

• Great Compassionate King Buddha alerted Buddha Ancestor that the Scripture-Fetching Team had arrived at Ciguang Temple.
• White Tiger Holy Venerate knocked away the temple gate and challenged Great Compassionate King Buddha to come out and greet the group.
• You Wen trapped Great Compassionate King Buddha inside the Chaos Bell and struck him until he had thirty-three bumps on his head.
• White Tiger Holy Venerate asked Great Compassionate King Buddha to spar with Hu Xiaoyu, and Great Compassionate King Buddha agreed.
• Hu Xiaoyu and Great Compassionate King Buddha clashed weapons and traded powerful close-combat attacks.
• Hu Xiaoyu channeled Spiritual Power into the White Tiger Mountain-Splitting Halberd and launched Tiger Mourn at Great Compassionate King Buddha.

Hu Xiaoyu challenged Great Compassionate King Buddha until Bodhi Daoist intervened, only to be caught in a confrontation with White Tiger Holy Venerate. You Wen then sealed Bodhi Daoist in the Purple-Gold Gourd beneath the Chaos Bell, and Jade Face proposed taking him to Eight Sceneries Palace.

• Great Compassionate King Buddha admitted defeat after Hu Xiaoyu’s attack, but Hu Xiaoyu tried to strike him again until Bodhi Daoist intervened.
• Bodhi Daoist realized the monkey before him was not Wukong, and Tathagata urged White Tiger Holy Venerate to retaliate for the attack on his son.
• White Tiger Holy Venerate attacked Bodhi Daoist, whose divine ability met the blow before he warned that he could self-destruct.
• You Wen lured Bodhi Daoist into the Purple-Gold Gourd and trapped the gourd beneath the Chaos Bell.
• Jade Face suggested taking Bodhi Daoist to her father’s Eight Sceneries Palace to try to restore him to his original form.

Zhunti discovered that he could no longer sense Sun Wukong, so Amitabha summoned Tathagata to help find the missing monkey. Tathagata suggested that Kunpeng might have hidden Sun Wukong in the Blood Sea, prompting the group to begin searching possible hiding places.

• Zhunti worried that others could use the main root of his Bodhi Tree Good Corpse to grow another tree, and Amitabha told him to focus on finding Sun Wukong.
• Zhunti sensed that Sun Wukong was hidden somewhere and could not be detected.
• Amitabha brought Tathagata from Spirit Mountain and questioned him about the true and false Monkey Kings and the monkey who escaped his Buddha Kingdom in Palm.
• Amitabha concluded that Kunpeng had probably hidden Sun Wukong and listed Golden Ao Island, Kunlun Mountain, Eight Sceneries Palace, and Yingzhou Island as possible locations.
• Tathagata suggested that Kunpeng and Minghe might have hidden Sun Wukong in the Blood Sea, and Zhunti agreed it was possible.
• Jieyin, Zhunti, and Amitabha began searching for Sun Wukong.

Zhunti searched Golden Ao Island for the missing Sun Wukong, but Tongtian caught him and beat him in Chaos Space. Tongtian admitted he did not know where Sun Wukong was, then sent Guiling to Yingzhou Island to seek out stronger attackers and possibly find a Dao Companion.

• Zhunti searched Golden Ao Island for Sun Wukong and was discovered by Tongtian.
• Tongtian took Zhunti to Chaos Space and attacked him while Guiling watched.
• Guiling learned a defensive technique from observing Zhunti, but Tongtian urged her to study offense instead.
• Tongtian told Zhunti he did not know where Sun Wukong was and threatened him into leaving.
• Tongtian sent Guiling to Yingzhou Island to spend time with Hu Xiaoyu and Dijun's descendants.

Guiling brought Xuanxiao a recording of Tongtian’s sword strike, and Xuanxiao predicted that Qingping Sword would become Tongtian’s newest disciple. After taking human form, Qingping went to Yingzhou Island to meet the Troublemaker Brigade, where Xuanling mistook him for a stranger.

• Guiling visited Xuanxiao and gave him a Shadow Recording Stone to screen at the Primordial Grand Theater.
• Xuanxiao predicted that Qingping Sword would take human form and join Tongtian’s disciples, and he planned to recruit him into the Troublemaker Brigade.
• Qingping took human form on Golden Ao Island, and Tongtian accepted him as the final disciple of the Interception Sect.
• Qingping traveled through a spatial tunnel to Yingzhou Island to meet Xuanxiao’s group.
• Xuanling attacked Qingping with True Sun Fire, then refused to call him Uncle because her father had warned her not to trust strangers.

Qingping met Xuanling and quickly won her favor, prompting Xuanxiao to decide they would make a suitable match. Qingping agreed to marry into Yingzhou Island in exchange for Xuanxiao providing the Chaos Spiritual Essence he needed, and Xuanxiao proposed a plan for their next trial.

• Qingping joked with Xuanling, who took his hand and led him to Xuanxiao's Daoist Palace.
• Xuanxiao saw Xuanling holding Qingping's hand and brought Qingping to the Chaos Bead's inner space to discuss their compatibility.
• Qingping asked whether Xuanxiao would provide Chaos Spiritual Essence if he and Xuanling became Dao Companions.
• Xuanxiao agreed to provide the essence and have Qingping marry into Yingzhou Island, with their children taking the Xuan surname.
• Xuanxiao suggested Qingping take Xuanling on his next trial and pretend to hinder the pilgrimage party to earn merit.

Xuanxiao agreed to Qingping’s proposal, then left Yingzhou Island to confront Amitabha, who had been searching the island with his Divine Sense. He lured Amitabha into the Chaos to fight by promising information about Sun Wukong and alerted Wangshu to join him.

• Qingping told Xuanxiao private stories about Tongtian, and Xuanxiao recorded them for later teasing.
• Xuanxiao received a quest to repel Amitabha and told Qingping to cultivate with the Chaos aura in the Chaos Bead.
• Xuanxiao concealed himself, struck Amitabha on the head, and challenged him for spying on Yingzhou Island.
• Xuanxiao promised to reveal what he knew about Sun Wukong if Amitabha fought him, and Amitabha agreed to meet him in the Chaos.
• Xuanxiao messaged Wangshu to come help beat up Amitabha.

Xuanxiao fought Amitabha to keep him from learning Sun Wukong’s location, then provoked him by claiming he had hidden Sun Wukong in a small world deep within Chaos and forgotten where. Wangshu arrived and confronted Amitabha for spying on Yingzhou Island, and his explanation only angered her further.

• Amitabha demanded that Xuanxiao reveal where Sun Wukong was, but Xuanxiao admitted he had hidden him and refused to help.
• Amitabha and Xuanxiao fought through three hundred exchanges, and Amitabha struck Xuanxiao in the shoulder.
• Xuanxiao summoned the Twin-Blooming Lotus and attacked Amitabha with a combined strike, but Amitabha blocked it and urged him to reveal Sun Wukong’s location.
• Following Luohu’s advice, Xuanxiao told Amitabha that Sun Wukong was in a small world deep within Chaos and that he had forgotten where it was.
• Wangshu arrived with the Ice Thorn Sword and accused Amitabha of spying on Yingzhou Island, and Amitabha’s explanation made her angrier.

Wangshu drove Amitabha from Yingzhou Island after discovering he had sacrificed part of his past body to survive her attack. Xuanxiao then went to the Netherworld, where Dijiang prepared to castrate the captured Jieyin.

• Wangshu attacked Amitabha, and he broke through her sword aura with golden rays before knocking her back.
• Xuanxiao advised Wangshu to let Amitabha leave, and they agreed to target the Buddhist Sect during the Buddha-Demon Tribulation if needed.
• Wangshu let Amitabha go and realized he had sacrificed part of his past body, losing ten percent of his true body's cultivation.
• Xuanxiao went to the Palace of Reincarnation and found that Dijiang had captured Jieyin.
• After Xuanxiao pointed out that Zhunti had been castrated by the Witch Clan, Dijiang formed a blade from the Law of Space and began castrating Jieyin.

Xuanxiao and the Ancestral Witches brutalized Jieyin in the Netherworld, then released him after learning he had come searching for Sun Wukong. The chapter left Xuanxiao worried that his plan to disrupt Buddhism's Journey to the West could provoke Jieyin to attack Yingzhou Island, and he proposed defeating the Buddhist Saints after the journey.

• Xuanxiao advised Dijiang and the Ancestral Witches to combine their laws to prevent Jieyin from healing, and they attacked him while Xuanxiao struck him with a sword.
• Xuanming stopped Jieyin from cursing, and Xuanxiao revealed that he had hidden Sun Wukong in a treasure pearl rather than in a small world.
• Dijiang agreed to release Jieyin, and Xuanming kicked him out of the Netherworld.
• Houtu blocked Amitabha's Divine Sense detection, allowing Xuanxiao to reveal his secret plan to hide Sun Wukong.
• Dijiang warned that disrupting the Journey to the West might drive Jieyin to attack Yingzhou Island, and Xuanxiao said they should defeat the Buddhist Saints after the journey.

After Jieyin returned injured from the Netherworld, he told Amitabha and Zhunti that Xuanxiao had sent Sun Wukong to an unknown small world in Chaos. The three Saints entered Chaos to search for him, while Tathagata stayed behind and planned to delay You Wen’s scripture journey.

• Jieyin told Amitabha and Zhunti that the Ancestral Witches had captured and beaten him, and that Xuanxiao had sent Sun Wukong to an unknown small world in Chaos.
• Amitabha, Jieyin, and Zhunti agreed to search Chaos for Sun Wukong and instructed Tathagata to lead Buddhism and keep the Journey to the West from ending.
• After returning to Spirit Mountain, Tathagata asked Xuanxiao to arrange more tribulations and privately planned to slow You Wen’s group so he could return to the Interception Sect.
• Tathagata told the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas to obstruct You Wen until the Saints returned, and Great Compassionate King Buddha reported that Jade Face had planned to turn Patriarch Bodhi back into a Bodhi tree.

Laozi uprooted the Bodhi Tree from Mount Sumeru and took it to Shouyang Mountain after Xuanxiao lured Zhunti, Jieyin, and Bodhi Daoist away. Dijiang and Houtu then planned to steal Jieyin’s Bitter Bamboo for the Iron-Eating Beast, while Xuanxiao asked the system for his reward.

• Jade Face asked Laozi to turn Bodhi Daoist back into a spiritual root so they could plant him on Shouyang Mountain, and Laozi agreed.
• Xuanxiao tricked Laozi into paying two bottles of Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir, then revealed that he had already lured the three Mount Sumeru sages into Chaos and opened the mountain’s protection array.
• Laozi used the Taiji Diagram to uproot the Bodhi Tree and carry it away from Mount Sumeru.
• Dijiang and Houtu decided to take Jieyin’s Bitter Bamboo for the Iron-Eating Beast, and Dijiang brought Jumang to help transplant it.
• Xuanxiao admitted that he had only opened Mount Sumeru’s array as a show and asked the system for his reward, while Luohu claimed one bottle of the elixir as a gift.

Xuanxiao entered the Chaos Bead to arrange a tribulation and found Qingping confronting Sun Wukong, who accused him of killing his master. Qingping challenged Sun Wukong and quickly gained the upper hand, leaving the Monkey King injured and furious.

• Luohu urged Xuanxiao to arrange a tribulation and destroy the Buddhist Sect before Amitabha and the others returned.
• Xuanxiao entered the Chaos Bead and found Qingping facing Sun Wukong with sword intent unleashed.
• Sun Wukong accused Qingping of killing his master and insisted on fighting him, while Qingping challenged him to a duel.
• Xuanxiao left the Chaos Bead to make tea as Qingping and Sun Wukong began fighting.
• Qingping blocked Sun Wukong's Golden Cudgel with one finger, then struck his chest with a knee and drew blood.
• Qingping sat down and taunted Sun Wukong as the Monkey King's aura began to surge.

Qingping defeated Sun Wukong and revealed that the skewers Wukong had eaten were roasted from his master, leaving him unconscious. Xuanxiao then sent Qingping and Xuanling to arrange a trial along the Journey to the West that would strike at Buddhism.

• Sun Wukong transformed into his Giant Ape True Form, but Qingping matched his size, caught his fist, and restrained and beat him with the Primordial Azure Lotus Seal.
• Sun Wukong refused to surrender, claiming that his status as the Child of Destiny protected him from being killed.
• Qingping told Sun Wukong that the spiritual-energy skewers he had eaten were made from his master, and Wukong fainted.
• Xuanxiao instructed Qingping to create a Journey to the West trial with Xuanling and Tathagata's cooperation, then attack Spirit Mountain after receiving the blank scriptures.
• Xuanxiao offered to let Xuanling carry the Chaos Bead and grant Qingping permission to use it, and Qingping left with Xuanling to find You Wen.

You Wen and his companions met the azure-robed Qingping, who challenged You Wen to a spar before revealing his identity. Qingping explained that he was You Wen’s brother-in-law and had been sent with Xuanling to help them complete a tribulation and travel west to seek the scriptures.

• You Wen confronted Qingping after sensing a kindred aura and suspecting he had eaten one of his brothers.
• Qingping challenged You Wen to break through his Primordial Azure Lotus defense, and You Wen attacked with power drawn from the River Chart and Luo Book.
• You Wen sensed Xuanling nearby, and Xuanling revealed himself and invited You Wen to guess Qingping’s identity.
• Bo Huang could find no record of Qingping, while Hu Xiaoyu and White Tiger Holy Venerate deduced he was a spiritual treasure in human form.
• Qingping admitted he was the Qingping Sword and You Wen’s brother-in-law, sent with Xuanling to help complete a tribulation and seek the scriptures in the west.

You Wen and his companions headed to Shituoling after the Nine Golden Crows invited him to challenge their formation, but his brothers decided to beat him instead. The ten Golden Crows raced near the Heavenly Court as Tathagata and the others discussed how Haotian might respond.

• You Wen, Qingping, and White Tiger Holy Venerate joked about their journey to Spirit Mountain and how they would obtain the scriptures.
• Bo Huang told You Wen that his nine elder brothers had prepared the Nine Suns Formation at Shituoling.
• Bo Huang, Zhong Lang, Lu Jun, and Ya Qiong agreed to beat You Wen, and You Wen fled when they attacked.
• The nine Golden Crows chased You Wen in a spectacular ten-sun pursuit near Spirit Mountain and the Heavenly Court.
• Tathagata, Randeng, and Maitreya discussed the heat troubling Haotian's lesser gods and considered using the situation to gain the Heavenly Court's support and fortune.

You Wen and the nine Golden Crows staged a battle so they could join the Scripture-Fetching Team, while their Nine Suns Heaven-Sealing Formation raised the temperature across the Heavenly Court. Haotian faced complaints from the assembled immortals, and San Xiao volunteered Zhao Gongming to fight the Golden Crows.

• The nine Golden Crows surrounded You Wen, who used the Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda to withstand their attacks as Laozi worried from Eight Sceneries Palace.
• Bo Huang explained that the brothers planned to beat You Wen before deliberately losing so he could bring them onto the Scripture-Fetching Team and join a battle against Spirit Mountain.
• Bo Huang's group formed the Nine Suns Heaven-Sealing Formation, and You Wen revealed that he would use the Chaos Bell to make their staged defeat convincing.
• Lu Jun warned that the formation would overheat the Heavenly Court, and Wen Zhong and Zhao Gongming asked Haotian to address the heat.
• San Xiao agreed to send Zhao Gongming to fight the ten Golden Crow Crown Princes, leaving him baffled by his sisters' suggestion.

Zhao Gongming went to stop Bo Huang and the other Golden Crows from fighting in the Heavenly Court, but was accidentally struck by the Chaos Bell and earned three flat peaches for delivering Haotian’s message. Zhunti learned that Laozi had taken the Bodhi Tree and erased his Good Corpse’s consciousness, so he abandoned his search for Sun Wukong and hurried back to the Primordial Wilderness.

• Haotian sent Zhao Gongming to tell Bo Huang and the other Golden Crows to continue their sparring in Chaos Space, offering him three nine-thousand-year-old flat peaches.
• You Wen struck the Chaos Bell at a formation node, and the sonic wave accidentally hit Zhao Gongming as he arrived.
• Zhao Gongming delivered Haotian’s message, and Bo Huang agreed to leave with the other Golden Crows and You Wen; Haotian later confirmed the flat peaches had been sent to Zhao Gongming’s residence.
• Laozi pulled up the Bodhi Tree and erased Bodhi Daoist’s consciousness while preparing to merge him with the tree’s main body.
• Zhunti received his Good Corpse’s final message and rushed back to the Primordial Wilderness to discuss how to preserve his main body.