Chapter Summaries

Ji Shu absorbed Golden Origin Qi from the Well of Gods and Demons and Origin Wood Qi from the Divine Tree, then studied the Six Realms’ cultivation methods and spells in the Divine Realm Library. As his mastery of spells astonished Shi Jieren, the other Moon Worship Cult Leader, and Empress Nuwa, Ji Shu continued preparing to leave the Chinese Paladin World for a higher realm.

• Ji Shu absorbed Golden Origin Qi until he feared damaging the Well of Gods and Demons, then gathered Wood Qi from the Divine Tree until it began to wither.
• Ji Shu concluded that reaching the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm would require immense Five Elements Qi and remained determined to study the world's spells before traveling to other worlds.
• Ji Shu met Shi Jieren in the Divine Realm Library, where Shi Jieren told him about the two Zhao Ling'ers and asked how to treat another Moon Worship Cult Leader.
• Shi Jieren summoned the other Moon Worship Cult Leader, who agreed to assist him with refining a Perfect World after learning that Ji Shu was not interested in meeting him.
• Ji Shu rapidly studied the Six Realms' cultivation methods and Empress Nuwa's spells, producing powerful magical phenomena that astonished Shi Jieren and the other Moon Worship Cult Leader.
• Empress Nuwa sensed Ji Shu's displays in the library and realized that his talent far surpassed her earlier expectations.

Ji Shu perfected the arts in the Six Realms library, created a Golden Immortal-level Supreme Immortal Scripture, and grew stronger by cultivating it. After reuniting with the two Zhao Ling'ers, he prepared to use the World-Crossing Talisman, and Nuwa approved of its secrecy.

• Nuwa told Tang Xuejian to watch the library, where Tang Xuejian saw Ji Shu cultivating and proudly regarded him as her master.
• Ji Shu finished every book in the library, perfected its arts, and created a new sword art by combining techniques with the Myriad Laws Dao Sword Art.
• Ji Shu mastered the Heavenly Emperor Fate Wheel Divine Art and Nuwa Heart Art, then fused them and other methods into the Supreme Immortal Scripture, raising it to the Golden Immortal level.
• Ji Shu cultivated the Supreme Immortal Scripture, drawing in more qi of immortality and strengthening his immortal aura beyond what he had achieved with the Ancestral Dragon Divine Art.
• Ji Shu met the two Zhao Ling'ers, promised to take them with him later, and then told Nuwa he planned to cross worlds.
• Nuwa warned that breaking through the void could alert the expert refining the Three Thousand Worlds, examined Ji Shu's World-Crossing Talisman, and asked when he planned to leave.

Ji Shu crossed into the Mythical Three Kingdoms World with Guan Yu to seek its origin Five Elements Qi, while Lin Yueru and Liu Jinyuan searched for Ji Shu in the God Realm. Ji Shu detected a mass of Origin Fire Qi approaching with a cavalry force and waited to see who possessed it.

• Ji Shu left Empress Nuwa and used a World-Crossing Talisman to take Guan Yu from the God Realm to the Three Kingdoms World.
• Lin Yueru learned that Liu Jinyuan had been taught by an immortal and persuaded him to search for Ji Shu.
• Lin Yueru and Liu Jinyuan sought clues from Jing Xiaolou, who said Ji Shu was probably in the God Realm and explained how to reach it.
• Jing Xiaolou envied those who could become immortals and resolved to ask his parents, Tang Xuejian and Jing Tian, to take him to the God Realm.
• Ji Shu and Guan Yu arrived on the northern grasslands, where Guan Yu recognized the Xianbei tribes and their scouts spotted them.
• Ji Shu sensed a mass of Origin Fire Qi approaching within a ten-thousand-strong cavalry force, led by a towering armored man wielding a spiked mace.

Ji Shu and Guan Yu confronted Suli and Chenglvgui’s Xianbei cavalry, and Ji Shu annihilated their army with a single burst of Sword Qi. Suli, Chenglvgui, and the surviving commanders surrendered to Ji Shu and begged him to spare their lives.

• A Xianbei cavalryman named Atuhan attacked Ji Shu and Guan Yu, but Guan Yu disarmed him and broke his spine before Ji Shu killed him with Sword Qi.
• Guan Yu charged the cavalry with his Azure Dragon Crescent Blade and clashed with their Blazing Tiger Formation, killing hundreds or thousands of soldiers and drawing Suli and Chenglvgui’s attention.
• Suli recognized Guan Yu and tried to withdraw, but Guan Yu revealed Ji Shu as his lord and Ji Shu demanded that the commanders surrender or die.
• Suli and Chenglvgui ordered the Blazing Tiger to attack Ji Shu, but Ji Shu froze it and unleashed Sword Qi that killed the entire cavalry army.
• Suli, Chenglvgui, and more than a dozen surviving commanders knelt before Ji Shu and submitted to him.

Ji Shu absorbed Origin Fire Qi from the surrendered Suli and Chenglvgui, then learned about the powers contesting the northern grasslands and traveled to the Xianbei Royal Court. Kebineng and the other Xianbei leaders decided to test Ji Shu's strength before choosing whether to surrender.

• Ji Shu discovered that surrendered fire-element generals made some Origin Fire Qi absorbable, though he needed many more generals to increase the yield.
• Suli told Ji Shu that Lu Bu, Gongsun Zan, and Yuan Shao had become powerful forces in the north, and that Cao Mengde might know why the Three Kingdoms world had changed.
• Ji Shu had Suli lead him to the Xianbei Royal Court, intending to subdue the tribe and draw in more Origin Fire Qi.
• Suli explained that Kebineng had built a mighty city to defend the Xianbei against Lu Bu's Wolf Cavalry and Gao Shun's Trapped Formation Camp.
• Kebineng heard Suli and Chenglvgui's account of Ji Shu's power and decided the Xianbei would test him, surrendering if they could not defeat him.

Ji Shu defeated Kebineng’s Fierce Ape Formation, founded the Ji Kingdom, and sent Guan Yu and Kebineng to challenge Lu Bu. Lu Bu fought Guan Yu to a draw before Ji Shu’s Sky-Piercing Finger suddenly pressed him flat, leaving both armies stunned.

• Kebineng formed the Fierce Ape Formation with fifty thousand troops, but Ji Shu shattered it with a finger and forced Kebineng, Budugen, and the others to submit.
• Three days later, Ji Shu established the Ji Kingdom and absorbed more Origin Fire Qi and Origin Wood Qi through its generals and armies.
• Ji Shu ordered an advance on Overlord City, where Lu Bu mocked Guan Yu and charged the Xianbei army.
• Lu Bu’s Fierce Ape Formation and Guan Yu’s Azure Dragon Crescent Formation clashed, and Lu Bu gradually gained the upper hand.
• Ji Shu’s Sky-Piercing Finger descended and pressed Lu Bu flat, stunning his followers and the watchers on the city walls.

Ji Shu absorbed Lu Bu and his forces into the Great Ji Kingdom and led them south, capturing Cao Mengde’s generals along the way. At Hu Pass, Cao Mengde’s army formed a colossal Kunpeng, leaving Lu Bu shaken but still confident that Ji Shu could defeat it.

• Ji Shu captured Lu Bu, Zhang Liao, and their companions, then absorbed their submission and ordered them to spare enemy officers when possible.
• Lu Bu led Ji Shu’s army south toward Bing Province, while Ji Shu continued refining the Five Qis and effortlessly broke the enemy defenses.
• Lu Bu’s forces captured Zhang He, Cao Hong, and other generals; Zhang He considered surrendering after hearing about Ji Shu’s power, but Cao Hong’s men resisted.
• Cao Mengde gathered his advisers, and Guo Jia concluded that a visitor from the Upper Realm had subdued Lu Bu and was marching south.
• Cao Mengde marched north with his army and confronted Lu Bu at Hu Pass, where the strategists combined their military formations into a gigantic Kunpeng.
• Lu Bu was stunned by the Kunpeng’s power but trusted that Ji Shu could still defeat it.

Ji Shu unified the Nine Provinces and conquered the wider world, then cultivated until the Five Elements Qi in his five viscera formed great dragons. He left for the Immortal Sword world with Guan Yu and Liu Bei’s group, while Cao Mengde and the others stayed behind.

• Ji Shu shattered Cao Mengde’s Kunpeng Divine Formation with one finger, captured the Wei army, and accepted Cao Mengde’s surrender.
• Guan Yu persuaded Zhang Fei to surrender, and Ji Shu broke Zhou Yu’s river formation before Sun Quan’s Jiangdong army submitted.
• Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang surrendered after learning that Ji Shu had defeated both legendary formations with a finger.
• Ji Shu reasoned that the Three Kingdoms world’s scattered Five Elements Qi came from the refinement of the Three Thousand Worlds, then continued absorbing it as his followers conquered the world.
• After the conquest, Ji Shu appointed Cao Mengde, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan as emperors over distant regions and continued cultivating until his five internal dragons became solid.
• Ji Shu departed for the Immortal Sword world with Guan Yu, Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Zhuge Liang, and their families, while Cao Mengde and Guo Jia discussed why they had chosen to remain.

Ji Shu returned to the Chinese Paladin World, learned from Nuwa that the Three Thousand Worlds might soon be refined, and continued cultivating while gathering knowledge from Mythical Three Kingdoms. His foundation and body advanced dramatically, and the chapter left him waiting for the Spirit Pearls to recover.

• Cao Mengde and his companions decided to remain in their world rather than follow Ji Shu into the dangerous upper realm.
• Ji Shu returned to the Chinese Paladin World and learned from Nuwa that the violent Five Elements Qi suggested many worlds had shattered and the Three Thousand Worlds might be refined within decades.
• Ji Shu absorbed the Spirit Pearls’ Five Elements Qi, then gathered more energy from the Well of Gods and Demons and the Divine Tree while waiting for them to recover.
• Ji Shu read the martial, scholarly, and formation manuals collected from Mythical Three Kingdoms, mastering each method and strengthening the Painted World’s residents.
• Ji Shu’s perfected cultivation methods formed his Martial God Golden Body, which could withstand ordinary magical treasures and react instinctively to danger.
• Ji Shu sought Nuwa after months of reading, and she told him the Spirit Pearls would recover fully in a few days.

Ji Shu reached the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm and left the Chinese Paladin World when his ten-year term ended, returning to the Journey to the West World. There, he encountered Wu Zetian and agreed to visit her private residence after calculating that her imperial destiny could help conceal his aura.

• Nuwa warned Ji Shu that the Three Thousand Worlds were being refined ever faster, but refused to abandon the people of the Six Realms.
• Ji Shu perfected the five great dragons in his viscera, opened the heavenly gate at his Baihui acupoint, and advanced to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• After the ten-year term prompt appeared, Ji Shu left the Chinese Paladin World and carefully crossed the turbulent passage back to the Journey to the West World.
• Ji Shu arrived beside the Ancient Well in the Great Tang imperial harem, immobilized Wu Zetian, Cheng Yaojin, Qin Qiong, and the others, then met the Well Dragon King Ao Lian.
• Ao Lian welcomed Ji Shu and went to contact other dragon kings for news of Tang Sanzang and his disciples.
• Wu Zetian invited Ji Shu to her private residence, and he agreed after calculating that her imperial-star destiny could conceal his aura.

Ji Shu instructed Wu Zetian and Li Shimin in the Martial God Heart Sutra while using Wu Zetian’s imperial aura to conceal his ascender aura. After learning that Sun Wukong had been driven away from the scripture-seeking group again, Ji Shu took Wu Zetian east to the East Sea, where the Dragon King of the East Sea was astonished by Ji Shu’s strength.

• Wu Zetian asked Ji Shu to teach her martial arts, and he agreed in exchange for her accompanying him; he defeated her spear techniques and promised to continue instructing her.
• Li Shimin visited Ji Shu, who warned that the emperor might have only ten years to live and gave him the Martial God Heart Sutra to cultivate in secret.
• Li Shimin granted Ji Shu access to the Great Tang Royal Library, and Ji Shu began teaching Li Shimin, Wu Zetian, Cheng Yaojin, and the others.
• Ao Lian told Ji Shu that Tang Sanzang had driven Sun Wukong away again after the group’s journey was prolonged by ascenders meddling in their trials.
• Ji Shu took Wu Zetian and Ao Lian east from Chang’an toward the East Sea, concealing Wu Zetian’s identity and using her aura to hide his own.
• The Dragon King of the East Sea welcomed Ji Shu and marveled at how powerful he had become.

Ji Shu arranged for the West Sea Dragon King Ao Run to lure the impostor Sun Wukong into the East Sea Dragon Palace, where the Four Dragon Kings sent him into the Painted World. The impostor revealed himself as the Six-Eared Macaque, and Ji Shu waited inside with a trap prepared.

• Ji Shu warned Ao Run that the Monkey King at Flower Fruit Mountain might be an impostor and told him to lure the monkey to the Dragon Palace with a treasure.
• Ao Run reached Flower Fruit Mountain and invited the Monkey King to inspect a treasure, then led him to the East Sea Dragon Palace.
• The Monkey King tried and failed to remove the Painted World, then entered it to inspect its inner universe.
• Ao Guang sealed the Painted World with the Monkey King inside, and the Dragon Kings concluded he was not Sun Wukong and worried about Ji Shu's plan.
• Ji Shu waited in the Painted World with a trap prepared for the Six-Eared Macaque, aware that the hidden power behind the calamity might discover his actions.

Ji Shu trapped and killed the Six-Eared Macaque inside the Painted World, then concealed what happened from the Four Seas Dragon Kings and left with Wu Zetian. Dragon Girl of Good Fortune later visited the Dragon Palace seeking Sun Wukong, while another visitor arrived days after she departed.

• Ji Shu and the gods used the Heavenly Net and Earth Net Great Formation to overwhelm the Six-Eared Macaque, and Ji Shu trapped his Primordial Spirit in a God-Locking Golden Cage.
• Ji Shu killed the Six-Eared Macaque and sent his Primordial Spirit to be tortured in the Mystic Fire Mirror, where Yuan Shoucheng and Flood Demon King realized how powerful Ji Shu was.
• Ji Shu told the Four Seas Dragon Kings that he had killed the monkey and instructed them to deny knowing anything if anyone asked about the Monkey King.
• Ji Shu left the Dragon Palace with Wu Zetian, and less than two days later Dragon Girl of Good Fortune arrived on Guanyin Bodhisattva's behalf to ask about Sun Wukong.
• Ao Run concealed the truth from his daughter, and Dragon Girl of Good Fortune left to report that Sun Wukong's heart-ape had escaped; several days later, another major figure came calling.

Great Strength Vajra failed to make Ao Run reveal what happened at Flower Fruit Mountain, while Ji Shu tortured Six-Eared Macaque until he disclosed his cultivation methods and the Buddhist plot to replace Sun Wukong. Ji Shu learned that Six-Eared Macaque had been forced to cooperate with Guanyin Bodhisattva and Tathagata Buddha, and he realized that capturing him had disrupted their plan.

• Great Strength Vajra threatened Ao Run for the truth about Sun Wukong, but Ao Run maintained his story and revealed nothing.
• Ji Shu returned to Chang'an City and continued studying human cultivation methods while roasting Six-Eared Macaque's Primordial Spirit.
• Ji Shu used the Mind Bewitching Technique to make Six-Eared Macaque reveal numerous divine arts and the Great Celestial Immortal Art.
• Six-Eared Macaque explained that he had learned Sun Wukong's methods by secretly listening to Patriarch Bodhi teach, then endured for ages by absorbing the spirit of ascenders.
• Six-Eared Macaque revealed that Guanyin Bodhisattva had forced him to cooperate in a scheme to kill Sun Wukong and replace him in the scripture-seeking party.
• Ji Shu concluded that his capture of Six-Eared Macaque had ruined the Buddhist Sect's plan and reflected on how the powerful controlled demons and other lower-ranked beings.

Ji Shu made the Six-Eared Macaque a god of the Painted World, greatly strengthening the world and its inhabitants. The Six-Eared Macaque learned how quickly Ji Shu mastered divine arts, while Ji Shu continued cultivating and began the Great Celestial Immortal Art.

• The Six-Eared Macaque explained that Guanyin Bodhisattva had chosen him to replace Sun Wukong, and Ji Shu offered him a place among the gods of the Painted World.
• The Six-Eared Macaque accepted after Ji Shu presented the choice between joining the gods and enduring Samadhi True Fire, and Ji Shu bound his true spirit and soul to the Painted World.
• The Six-Eared Macaque's arrival expanded the Painted World, strengthened Heaven's Net and Earth's Snare, and raised the strength of Li Kui, Song Jiang, Wu Song, Li Yingqi, True Person Changmei, and the others.
• The Six-Eared Macaque watched Ji Shu perfect Great Law of Heaven and Earth Manifestation, Somersault Cloud, Seventy-Two Transformations of Earthly Fiends, and External Incarnation in moments, then listened as Li Kui and the others described Ji Shu's exploits.
• Ji Shu cultivated more divine arts, discovered his Bloodline Talent enhanced his External Incarnation, and began practicing the Great Celestial Immortal Art.

Ji Shu learned that supreme cultivators depleted the world's origin qi and caused its calamities, then sought a place to practice the Great Celestial Immortal Art. At Eagle Worry Stream, Xuanwu revealed that the scripture pilgrimage was designed to return powerful beings' origins to the damaged world, leaving Ji Shu with a promise to help repair it.

• Ji Shu realized that cultivating the Great Celestial Immortal Art consumed the world's origin qi and that the resulting depletion caused the Heavenly Tribulation of Five Decays.
• Ji Shu left the Painted World, transformed into a golden snub-nosed monkey, and traveled to Five Finger Mountain, where he found only barren ruins and suspected its origin qi had been drained.
• Ji Shu went to Eagle Worry Stream and discovered Xuanwu suppressed at a vital earth-vein node.
• Xuanwu explained that their clan had been imprisoned for ages to suppress earth veins, and Ji Shu asked them to help him connect with earth qi for cultivation.
• Xuanwu told Ji Shu that the scripture pilgrimage was meant to make Sun Wukong and his companions kill powerful beings so their origins could be returned to heaven and earth.
• Ji Shu promised Xuanwu that he would replenish the earth qi if he found the opportunity.

Ji Shu learned that the ancient sacred races had been forced to suppress the world’s veins, then cultivated rapidly with Xuanwu’s help and reached the Heavenly Court in search of a phoenix’s source qi. He found a chained phoenix in the Peach Garden and introduced himself, having entered the garden without raising an alarm.

• Ji Shu learned from Xuanwu that demons were sacrificed to slow the seepage of Calamity Qi and that the Xuanwu, phoenixes, and White Tigers were being used to suppress the world’s veins and spiritual forces.
• With Xuanwu drawing in source earth qi, Ji Shu cultivated to the perfection of the Earth Immortal realm in a day, then received directions to a place where he might find a phoenix.
• Ji Shu entered the Heavenly Court disguised as Sun Wukong, was exposed by the Demon-Reflecting Mirror at the South Heaven Gate, and persuaded the Four Heavenly Kings to let him pass.
• The Four Heavenly Kings debated whether to report Ji Shu’s visit to the Jade Emperor, then decided to stay out of his plans.
• Ji Shu reached the Peach Garden, avoided its Land God, and refrained from picking or eating the Peaches of Immortality despite suspecting something was unusual about their abundance.
• Ji Shu found a thousand-zhang phoenix bound by Dao-law chains and told it that Xuanwu had secretly directed him there.

Ji Shu cultivated the Great Celestial Immortal Art with Phoenix’s help and attained Immortal Golden Immortal for the third time, reaching Golden Immortal consummation. His Immortal Sacred Robe became powerful enough to protect him from the Three Calamities and Five Tribulations, while Phoenix began to hope he could eventually free her from her restraints.

• Phoenix accepted Xuanwu’s proof and allowed Ji Shu to stand on her back while she guided him into an alternate space.
• With Phoenix’s help, Ji Shu advanced through the Celestial Immortal realm and entered the River of Time to attain Immortality.
• Ji Shu’s True-Spirit Divine Ark rose nine feet above the River of Time, which he attributed partly to changing Sun Wukong’s fate by killing the Six-Eared Macaque.
• Ji Shu absorbed immortal origin Qi and formed a Great Celestial soul body and ark, astonishing Phoenix with his repeated attainments of Golden Immortal.
• Ji Shu’s Immortal Sacred Robe transformed until it rivaled a Magic Tool, and he reached Golden Immortal consummation.

Ji Shu followed the Phoenix’s advice and infiltrated Tushita Palace to steal treasures and gather the primordial qi he needed for his breakthrough. He encountered an avatar of Taishang Laojun and destroyed it, but a gourd and Jade Pure Bottle remained aimed at him.

• The Phoenix advised Ji Shu to absorb this Great World’s five primordial qi, obtain peaches from the Peach Garden, and steal Nine Revolutions Golden Cores from Tushita Palace; she also promised to teach him the Phoenix race’s Hundred-Turn Immortal Golden Body method.
• Ji Shu confirmed that the Queen Mother of the West and the Jade Emperor were away, then traveled to Tushita Palace while disguised as Taibai Jinxing.
• Ji Shu distracted the Golden Horn King and Silver Horn King with chess, transformed into a mosquito, and entered Tushita Palace’s inner rooms.
• Ji Shu collected the pills, materials, and magic treasures he found but left the Eight Trigrams Furnace because it bore a powerful mark.
• An avatar of Taishang Laojun struck Ji Shu with a Vajra Ring, but Ji Shu dodged its attacks and destroyed the avatar with a punch.
• Ji Shu noticed a gourd and Jade Pure Bottle aimed at him while Taishang Laojun’s avatar began to identify itself.

Ji Shu disguised himself as Sun Wukong and looted the Heavenly Court, taking Tushita Palace, its treasures, and countless other valuables before escaping. The Heavenly Court discovered that the Peach Garden’s three thousand six hundred trees were gone, and Nezha and Taibai Jinxing set out to find Sun Wukong and demand an explanation.

• Ji Shu refined and took Taishang Laojun’s treasures, swept Tushita Palace clean, and removed the palace itself.
• Green Ox found Tushita Palace gone and fought with Golden Horn King and Silver Horn King over who was responsible.
• Ji Shu looted the Jade Pool, Imperial Kitchen, wine cellar, armory, and Hundred Flowers Garden, then disguised himself as Sun Wukong and immobilized the Seven Fairies.
• Ji Shu froze Giant Spirit God, took his axe, struck Nezha with it, and escaped before the Heavenly Court could question him.
• The Seven Fairies told Nezha how they had encountered the supposed Sun Wukong, and Taibai Jinxing revealed that he had been beaten at Tushita Palace.
• Nezha and Taibai Jinxing found that all three thousand six hundred Peach Trees had been dug up and vowed to find Sun Wukong or seek an explanation from Spirit Mountain.