Chapter Summaries

You Wen led the Scripture-Fetching Team and its demon allies to Spirit Mountain after deciding to attack it directly. At the Sutra Repository, Bo Huang punched Venerable Kashyapa for demanding a fee for the scriptures.

• Tathagata asked You Wen whether the team should attack Spirit Mountain or first kill Buddhas he sent to intercept them.
• You Wen consulted White Tiger Holy Venerate and Bo Huang, who chose a direct assault before Zhunti returned.
• Tathagata told the Buddhas and bodhisattvas to prepare to receive the team, then sent Ananda and Venerable Kashyapa to guide them to the Sutra Repository.
• After a slow journey to the repository, Venerable Kashyapa demanded a fee for the scriptures, and Bo Huang punched him away.

You Wen’s Scripture-Fetching Team forced the Buddhist Sect to hand over the scriptures after Tathagata and the Interception Sect disciples abandoned Spirit Mountain. The team set off for Chang’an with the scriptures, then discovered their contents were disturbingly vicious and wondered whether Venerable Kashyapa had given them the wrong books.

• Bo Huang and You Wen brought Venerable Kashyapa back to the Great Thunderclap Monastery and demanded an explanation for the Buddhist Sect’s gift requirement.
• You Wen rang the Chaos Bell and prepared to take the scriptures by force, prompting Tathagata and Interception Sect disciples to leave the Buddhist Sect and return to the Interception Sect.
• Tongtian took Duobao and the other returning disciples from Spirit Mountain to Golden Ao Island.
• Maitreya took charge of the Buddhist Sect and ordered Venerable Kashyapa to give You Wen the scriptures without gifts.
• You Wen’s team collected the scriptures and headed for Chang’an, where Hu Xiaoyu found their contents vicious and questioned whether Kashyapa had given them the wrong books.

You Wen and Minghe rewrote Buddhist scriptures with Asura teachings and transmitted them, bringing the Journey to the West to a close and costing the Buddhist Sect part of its fortune. Luohu then announced the coming Calamity of Demonic Awakening and forced Xuanxiao toward marriage by threatening the Primordial Wilderness, while the Heavenly Dao and Earthly Dao decreed their union.

• You Wen, Bo Huang, and Minghe discussed Kinnara’s altered Buddhist scripture, then You Wen called on Golden Boy, Qingping, Xiao Yu, and Minghe to revise the scriptures.
• Minghe rewrote the Surangama Sutra and other scriptures with Asura teachings, and You Wen began transmitting them from the Wild Goose Pagoda in Chang'an.
• After about a hundred days, heavenly thunder struck Spirit Mountain and cut away thirty percent of the Buddhist Sect’s fortune before Journey to the West merit was distributed.
• Luohu welcomed her son, declared him the demon realm’s Holy Son, and announced that the demon realm would descend in thirty years.
• Luohu summoned Xuanxiao and demanded a title, threatening to destroy the Primordial Wilderness with the World-Destroying Millstone if he refused.
• The Heavenly Dao and Earthly Dao decreed that Xuanxiao and Luohu marry, and Luohu challenged Xuanxiao to a spar with marriage as the stakes.

Xuanxiao agreed to marry Luohu after losing their fight and consulting Taiyi, then returned with Luohu to Yingzhou Island. There, Kong Xuan teased Xuanxiao about the forced marriage and declined Luohu’s offer to find him a Dao Companion.

• Xuanxiao challenged Luohu, but Luohu easily caught his sword and offered him a choice between marrying him or being spanked before the whole Primordial Wilderness.
• Xuanxiao consulted Taiyi, who urged him to accept Luohu’s proposal rather than risk the Primordial Wilderness being destroyed.
• Xuanxiao swore to prepare the wedding and marry Luohu, and said his Yingzhou Island lineage would support Luohu in the coming Buddha-Demon War.
• Luohu carried Xuanxiao to Yingzhou Island, where Kong Xuan laughed at Xuanxiao and gave him a tail feather as a wedding gift.
• Luohu offered to find Kong Xuan a Dao Companion, but Kong Xuan refused, saying a weak companion could become a liability on the path of the Great Dao.

Taiyi challenged Luohu to a duel in the Chaos to defend Xuanxiao, but Luohu defeated him with a single strike. Luohu healed Taiyi and invited him to the demon realm, proposing that they share a life with Xuanxiao.

• Luohu told Kong Xuan that one of her Chaos Demon God friends could defeat the expert from Purple Cloud Palace, and Taiyi arrived, prompting Kong Xuan to flee.
• Taiyi and Luohu assured Xuanxiao they would not fight on Yingzhou Island, so he returned to the Daoist Palace to cultivate.
• Taiyi challenged Luohu to a duel in the Chaos, and they agreed to fight with weapons formed from their respective laws.
• Luohu pierced Taiyi with a single spear thrust, defeated him, and healed his injuries.
• Taiyi admitted defeat, and Luohu invited him to the demon realm, reassuring him that she intended for the three of them to live together.

Taiyi brought Luohu and Xuanxiao’s powerful son to Yingzhou Island, where Xuanxiao named him Xuan Mo and learned that Luohu had tasked him with attacking Spirit Mountain during the Buddha-Demon Tribulation. Xuanxiao told Xuan Mo to wait before fighting, while You Wen offered the demon race’s help.

• Luohu introduced her son to Taiyi in the Demon Emperor’s Palace and explained that Xuan Mo had been born after she cured Xuanxiao’s Dao injury.
• Taiyi accepted Luohu as her sister and brought Xuan Mo back to Yingzhou Island.
• Xuanxiao sensed Xuan Mo’s Sword Dao and Demon Dao aura, met him, and learned how Luohu had conceived him.
• Xuan Mo told Xuanxiao that Luohu had ordered him to join Ming Ye and Kinnara in wiping out Spirit Mountain once the Buddha-Demon Tribulation began.
• Xuanxiao named the young man Xuan Mo and told him to stay on Yingzhou Island until he was older.
• Xuanxiao introduced Xuan Mo to You Wen, who offered the demon race’s help in attacking the Buddhist Sect.

Zhunti was ambushed by Chong Lou and ten thousand demon soldiers while passing through the Demon Realm, and their battle left Zhunti badly injured. Zhunti’s self-destruction nearly killed Chong Lou and his forces, but Luohu saved them and ordered Chong Lou to join the young master at Yingzhou Island to atone by helping bring down the Buddhist Sect.

• Luohu ordered Chong Lou to ambush Zhunti with ten thousand demon soldiers and cut off at least two of his arms.
• Chong Lou attacked Zhunti, shattered twelve of his spiritual treasures, and then fought him with his twin blades.
• Chong Lou pierced Zhunti’s chest and arm, struck him down, and split his head with a blade.
• Zhunti revealed that he had left an avatar behind and self-destructed, but Luohu dispersed the blast and saved Chong Lou and the demon soldiers.
• Luohu ordered Chong Lou to go to Yingzhou Island and atone by helping the young master bring down the Buddhist Sect, and Chong Lou agreed.

Zhunti went to Shouyang Mountain to reclaim the Bodhi Tree, but Laozi refused and sent him to seek help from Hongjun. Trapped outside Purple Cloud Palace, Zhunti learned that Buddhism would face the Demon Sect in a war where the Saints would not emerge.

• Laozi sent Tushan Susu to Yingzhou Island and prepared to meet Zhunti, who had arrived at Shouyang Mountain for the Bodhi Tree.
• Laozi refused to return the Bodhi Tree and warned Zhunti not to threaten Xuandu, whom he protected with the Taiji Diagram.
• Zhunti went to Purple Cloud Palace to complain to Hongjun, but a barrier of the Law of Space stopped him from entering.
• Hongjun told Zhunti to study the Law of Space and explained that the Buddhist-Demonic War would pit Buddhism against the Demon Sect without the Saints emerging.
• Hongjun said Amitabha could return with a peak Primordial Golden Immortal clone and lead Buddhism to victory.

Amitabha sent Jieyin back to the Primordial Wilderness, where Jieyin confronted Golden Peng over the destruction of Mount Sumeru. Their argument turned into a fight, and Xuanxiao and Kong Xuan watched from Yingzhou Island.

• Amitabha sensed trouble with Buddhism's destiny and killed Jieyin so he could revive in the Primordial Wilderness while Amitabha returned there separately.
• Jieyin found Mount Sumeru in ruins and went to the Ghost Gate to demand an explanation from Great Emperor Fengdu.
• Dijiang sent Golden Peng to argue with Jieyin, and Golden Peng warned that the Witch Clan might join the Demon Clan against Buddhism if Jieyin harmed him.
• Jieyin attacked Golden Peng with a palm of Buddhist power, but Golden Peng blocked it with Yin Yang energy.
• Xuanxiao asked Kong Xuan whether he would help Golden Peng, and Kong Xuan suspected someone had secretly urged Jieyin to attack.

Jieyin attacked Golden Peng under Amitabha’s orders, but Golden Peng escaped with Dijiang’s teleportation aid. On Yingzhou Island, Xuanxiao introduced Golden Peng to his son Xuan Mo and assigned him to support Xuan Mo’s coming assault on Buddhism.

• Amitabha urged Jieyin to fight, and Jieyin used the Heavenly Dao’s power to attack Golden Peng.
• Golden Peng escaped to Great Emperor Fengdu’s palace using Dijiang’s one-time Space Law teleportation particle, and Dijiang promised the Witch Clan would help him retaliate during the Buddha-Demon war.
• Xuanxiao summoned Golden Peng to Yingzhou Island, where Kong Xuan scolded him for fleeing Jieyin instead of fighting.
• Xuanxiao introduced Xuan Mo as Golden Peng’s Junior Brother and the supreme commander of the Demon Sect’s attack on Buddhism.
• Xuan Mo gave Golden Peng the Yin Yang Binding divine ability, and Xuanxiao told Golden Peng to support his attack on Buddhism.
• Golden Peng agreed to help Xuan Mo and claimed that Xuan Mo could destroy Buddhism even without troops from the Demon Realm.

Xuan Mo went to Jia Xu for advice after Xuanxiao recommended him, but fled when Jia Xu suggested ways to prank Ao Lie over being more handsome. The chapter left Xuan Mo deciding to come up with a prank on his own.

• Xuan Mo teased Xuanxiao about needing a military advisor, prompting Xuanxiao to take him to the Daoist Palace secret chamber and recommend Jia Xu.
• Xuan Mo asked Xuanxiao whether he or Ao Lie was more handsome, and Xuanxiao explained that Ao Lie’s appearance had been remade using rare materials.
• Golden Peng brought Xuan Mo to the Sun Palace, where Zhong Lang directed him to Jia Xu’s side hall.
• Xuan Mo asked Jia Xu for ideas to prank Ao Lie, and Jia Xu proposed plans that frightened Xuan Mo into fleeing.

Amitabha planned to distract Daoism by sending Zhunti’s clone, Liu Yanchang, to pursue Yang Chan. Liu Yanchang provoked Yang Chan at her temple, and she challenged him to match a poetic line.

• Xuan Mo warned Bo Huang and the Golden Pengs that Jia Xu was dangerously cunning, and Bo Huang sealed the side hall with True Sun Fire.
• Amitabha told Jieyin and Zhunti that Buddhism was declining and proposed distracting Daoism while Hongjun studied the laws of space.
• Amitabha urged Zhunti to approach Yang Chan in disguise, and Zhunti created a seven-colored clone named Liu Yanchang.
• Liu Yanchang went to Yang Chan’s temple, cursed her and kicked the offering table, then left to provoke a response.
• Yang Chan chased Liu Yanchang, who fell from the mountain and blamed her; she carried him back with flower petals and challenged him to a poetic couplet.

Yang Jian suppressed Yang Chan beneath Mount Hua after discovering that she had borne Liu Yanchang a son, Chenxiang. Yang Jiao sought advice from Xuanxiao, who suspected something strange about Liu Yanchang and sent a note asking Haotian not to punish Yang Chan; Yang Jiao then went to find Yang Jian.

• Yang Chan and Liu Yanchang grew close, and about a year later they had a son named Chenxiang.
• After sensing the birth, Yang Jiao went to ask Xuanxiao about possible interference, while Yang Jian rushed to Mount Hua.
• Yang Jian defeated Yang Chan, split Mount Hua with his blade, and suppressed her beneath a barrier.
• Yang Jian warned Liu Yanchang to care for Chenxiang, then left; Liu Yanchang privately resolved to retaliate when Chenxiang grew up.
• Xuanxiao told Yang Jiao that Liu Yanchang seemed unusual, gave him a note for Haotian, and advised keeping Yang Chan's situation quiet.
• Yang Jiao traveled to Guangjiang Pass, where Howling Celestial Dog warned him that Yang Jian was furious.

Yang Jiao and Yang Jian met Xuan Mo, who criticized their sister's choice and demanded they serve as his vanguard in the coming Buddha-Demon Calamity. Yang Jian challenged Xuan Mo to a fight, and Xuan Mo invited him to attack first.

• Yang Jiao entered True Lord's Manor and stopped Yang Jian from striking him with a burst of Blade Qi.
• Hu Xiaoyu and Xuan Mo appeared as the brothers' neighbors, and Xuan Mo introduced himself as Xuanxiao and Demon Ancestor Luohu's son.
• Xuan Mo took Yang Jiao's Sky-Piercing Halberd and ordered the brothers to serve as his vanguard, but Yang Jiao bargained for help changing the Heavenly Rules.
• Xuan Mo called Yang Jian's sister foolish for loving a mortal, prompting Yang Jian to challenge him to a fight.
• Xuan Mo agreed to give Yang Jian three moves, and Yang Jian demanded an apology if he won.

Xuan Mo shattered Yang Jian's protective art and body, allowing Yang Jian to advance to Primordial Golden Immortal after recovering. Yang Jian then began guiding Chenxiang to seek magical training and rescue his mother, leaving Chenxiang to search for renowned masters.

• Xuan Mo defeated Yang Jian in one strike and told Yang Jiao that Yang Jian would advance after recovering from the seventh revolution of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique.
• Xuan Mo and Hu Xiaoyu returned to the Xuan Manor Branch Courtyard, while Yang Jiao guarded Yang Jian.
• Fourteen years later, Yang Jian awoke as a Primordial Golden Immortal and learned that Chenxiang had been studying Buddhist scriptures.
• Yang Jiao urged Yang Jian to guide Chenxiang, and Yang Jian told Chenxiang that learning spells and relying on himself would help him rescue his mother.
• Yang Jian revealed that he was Chenxiang's uncle and the one who had pinned Chenxiang's mother beneath a mountain, then urged him to seek renowned masters and defeat him.

Chenxiang set out for Mount Fangcun to seek a master, while Yang Jian confronted Liu Yanchang over Yang Chan. Their fight revealed that Liu Yanchang possessed formidable hidden cultivation, and Yang Jian ended the chapter preparing to attack him with his blade.

• Liu Yanchang urged Chenxiang to seek a master at Mount Fangcun, and Chenxiang left to pursue immortality.
• Yang Jian went to Liu Family Village and challenged Liu Yanchang, who lured him into a desert for a fight.
• Liu Yanchang used the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique to meet Yang Jian in combat, and their battle continued for thirty rounds.
• Yang Jiao emerged from the shadows and urged Yang Jian to use his divine abilities against Liu Yanchang.
• Yang Jian fired his Heavenly Eye’s divine light, but Liu Yanchang contained it with his sleeve technique.
• Yang Jian accused Liu Yanchang of being a corrupt Wuzhuang Temple disciple, drew his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade, and prepared to kill him.

Yang Jian and Yang Jiao captured Liu Yanchang after Yang Jiao ambushed him, while Zhunti watched from Mount Sumeru and discussed his clone with Amitabha and Jieyin. Liu Yanchang claimed to be a Wuzhuang Temple disciple and a member of the Mystic Sect, but Yang Jiao doubted his story as Yang Jian prepared to take him to the temple.

• Liu Yanchang fought Yang Jian with a magically condensed halberd, but Yang Jian outmatched him and wounded his cheek.
• Yang Jiao struck Liu Yanchang from behind with the Sky-Piercing Halberd, locked his pipa bones, and helped Yang Jian capture him.
• Yang Jian and Yang Jiao handed Liu Yanchang to the Howling Celestial Dog, while Zhunti complained to Amitabha about the capture and discussed raising his clone's son.
• After the Howling Celestial Dog tormented him, Liu Yanchang confessed that he was a Wuzhuang Temple disciple and a member of the Mystic Sect.
• Yang Jian prepared to take Liu Yanchang to Wuzhuang Temple, but Yang Jiao warned that Liu Yanchang might be lying.

Xuanxiao’s family discussed Luohu’s plan for Xuan Mo to lead a force against the Buddhist Sect, while Yang Jian brought Liu Yanchang to Wuzhuang Temple to find out if he was one of its disciples. The chapter left Yang Jian attacking Qingfeng after Qingfeng demonstrated that he could use Universe in a Sleeve.

• Xuanxiao wondered who had taught Liu Yanchang and considered summoning Yang Jiao to question him, but Taiyi urged him to leave the matter alone.
• Luohu said Kinnara, Ming Ye, Xuan Mo, and Chong Lou would be enough to support her plan, then immobilized Xuanxiao for a hundred years so he could not help their son directly.
• Yang Jian brought Liu Yanchang to Wuzhuang Temple and asked Qingfeng whether Liu Yanchang was his disciple.
• Liu Yanchang called Qingfeng his master, but Qingfeng denied having taken a disciple and said he had never taught Liu Yanchang.
• Yang Jian tested Qingfeng’s skill with Universe in a Sleeve, then attacked him after Qingfeng suppressed the Heavenly Eye Divine Light.

Yang Jian fought Qingfeng at Wuzhuang Temple and injured him before Mingyue restrained Yang Jian with the temple’s Grand Array. After Bo Huang arrived, he revealed that Liu Yanchang was not Qingfeng’s disciple and advised Yang Jian to test Liu Yanchang’s claims by making him swear an oath to the Heavenly Dao.

• Yang Jian struck Qingfeng with a full-powered punch, seriously injuring him.
• Mingyue rushed to Qingfeng’s aid and used Wuzhuang Temple’s Grand Array to pin Yang Jian down.
• Qingfeng explained that Liu Yanchang was only pretending to be his disciple, and Yang Jian apologized for the fight.
• Qingfeng summoned Bo Huang through the Troublemaker Brigade’s token, offering him five Ginseng Fruits to beat Yang Jian.
• Bo Huang told Yang Jian to take Liu Yanchang back to Guanjiang Estuary and test his claim of having a master with oaths to the Heavenly Dao.

Xuan Mo established the Heavenly Demon Sect, and Bo Huang brought Qingfeng and Mingyue to join it so Xuan Mo could help them break through to the Primordial Golden Immortal realm. When Haotian sent Li Jing and a hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers to attack the sect, Xuan Mo warned them to return to Heaven.

• Yang Jian took Liu Yanchang back to Guangjiang Pass, while Bo Huang told Qingfeng and Mingyue that joining the soon-to-be-established sect could help them advance.
• Xuan Mo established the Heavenly Demon Sect and Heavenly Demon Hall, earning the Heavenly Dao's approval and angering Hongjun, who ordered Haotian to destroy the sect.
• Zhen Yuanzi approved Qingfeng and Mingyue's departure and gave them Ginseng Fruits to bring along with Bo Huang to the Heavenly Demon Hall.
• Hu Xiaoyu welcomed Bo Huang, Qingfeng, and Mingyue as members of the sect's Thirteen Taibao, and Xuan Mo tempered Qingfeng and Mingyue until their auras began rising toward the Primordial Golden Immortal realm.
• Haotian appointed Li Jing to lead a hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers, with Jin Zha and Mu Zha, against the Heavenly Demon Hall; Nezha refused to join them.
• Hu Xiaoyu revealed the Heavenly Soldiers, and Xuan Mo ordered Li Jing to tell Haotian that the sect would leave the Heavenly Court alone unless Haotian provoked it.