Chapter Summaries

Tang Sanzang resolved to recruit Ji Shu against the powers he believed would destroy the Three Thousand Worlds, while Ji Shu completed a Grand Unity Immortal technique and set out to gather more resources. Ji Shu reached Lion Camel Ridge in search of Xiang Leng Spring and found the demons there treating humans as livestock.

• Tang Sanzang concluded that Tathagata Buddha and the other powerful figures might be trying to refine the worlds to force a path to the upper realm, and vowed to join forces with Ji Shu to stop them.
• Ji Shu finished merging his techniques into the Supreme Immortal Scripture, learned that condensing a Dao Fruit was key to the Grand Unity Immortal Dao, and cultivated until his stolen Heavenly Court resources ran out.
• Ji Shu emerged from the Painted World with Six-Eared Macaque and Zhu Bajie, learned that the Gods and Buddhas were searching for him, and traveled to Pansi Cave.
• Ji Shu overheard Zhu Yu and the other spider demons fantasizing about marrying him, then went to Yellow Flower Temple and knocked out the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord before taking him and the temple’s pill-making supplies into the Painted World.
• Ji Shu flew to Lion Camel Ridge to find Xiang Leng Spring and saw that the demons there had turned the surrounding humans into captive livestock.

Ji Shu entered the Great Sun Cave-Heaven World hidden beneath Xiang Leng Spring to absorb the Solar True Fire essence of the Three-legged Golden Crow corpses and complete his breakthrough. After condensing ten blazing suns, he began refining Great Sun Cave-Heaven Worlds of his own, while the demon kingdom above remained under the three demon kings’ rule.

• Ji Shu listened as the Green-Maned Lion Monster, the Yellow-Tusked Old Elephant, and the Golden-Winged Great Peng mocked the Heavenly Court and Spirit Mountain and boasted about defeating him.
• Ji Shu saw the starving human captives in Shituo Kingdom but withheld food to avoid attracting the demons’ attention, then opened a hidden passage at the bottom of a well.
• Ji Shu entered Xiang Leng Spring’s Great Sun Cave-Heaven World and absorbed the Solar True Fire essence from ten Three-legged Golden Crow corpses, forming his tenth Great Sun.
• Ji Shu traveled to another cave-heaven world and absorbed essence from more than twenty Three-legged Golden Crow corpses, causing all ten blazing suns to leap from his body.
• Ji Shu began branding and refining Great Sun Cave-Heaven Worlds so that each would belong solely to him.

Ji Shu completed the Ten Suns Across the Sky realm, destroyed the demon kingdom of Shituo Kingdom, and captured the three demon kings’ Primordial Spirits and treasures. He then entered East Harmony Spring in Bhikshu Kingdom to refine another Great Sun Cave-Heaven World, while the White Deer Spirit completed a batch of Human Pills made from children’s hearts.

• Ji Shu refined ten Great Sun Cave-Heaven Worlds into his eyes and completed the Ten Suns Across the Sky realm, greatly increasing his strength and defenses.
• Ji Shu emerged from the well, burned through the demons of Shituo Kingdom, and rescued the imprisoned princesses.
• Ji Shu killed the Golden-Winged Great Peng, Green-Maned Lion Monster, and Yellow-Tusked Old Elephant, captured their Primordial Spirits, and took their treasures, including the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle.
• Ji Shu traveled to Bhikshu Kingdom and entered the Great Sun Cave-Heaven World beneath East Harmony Spring.
• The White-Faced Fox Spirit found the White Deer Spirit refining Human Pills from children’s hearts, received two pills, and saw his expression suddenly change.

The White Deer Spirit and White-Faced Fox Spirit learned that Ji Shu had destroyed Lion Camel Ridge, while the Golden-Winged Great Peng and the other two demons were held captive in the Mystic Fire Mirror. After strengthening his powers with Golden Crow remains in Bhikshu Kingdom, Ji Shu captured the two spirits and sent them into the Painted World.

• The White Deer Spirit and White-Faced Fox Spirit confirmed that Lion Camel Ridge had been destroyed and learned that Ji Shu was responsible.
• The two spirits saw Heavenly Court gods and Spirit Mountain bodhisattvas heading to Lion Camel Ridge, and decided to keep a low profile.
• The Bull Devil King and the others questioned the captive Golden-Winged Great Peng, Green-Maned Lion Monster, and Yellow-Tusked Old Elephant, who were being roasted by Samadhi True Fire.
• The Golden-Haired Howler urged the Yellow-Tusked Old Elephant to pledge allegiance to Ji Shu, while Yuan Shoucheng and Erlang Shen wondered how powerful Ji Shu had become.
• Ji Shu absorbed Solar True Fire and refined the cave-heaven worlds of hundreds of mongrel Golden Crows at East Harmony Spring, strengthening his Ten Suns Across the Sky.
• Ji Shu transported the White Deer Spirit and White-Faced Fox Spirit into the Painted World, where the Bull Devil King knocked out the White Deer Spirit and teased Zhu Bajie about the fox spirit.

Ji Shu captured several demons and absorbed more Golden Crow remains and cave-heaven worlds, greatly strengthening his cultivation. He discovered that the Great Thunderclap Temple’s formation drained the world’s origin, then entered another hidden cave-heaven beneath the Huangshan Spring as the Jade Rabbit Spirit noticed the disturbance and an immortal maiden arrived.

• Bull Devil King warned Zhu Bajie not to touch the White-Faced Fox Spirit, and Zhu Bajie bound her and brought her away.
• Ji Shu refined cave-heaven worlds beneath the Warm Spring of Cleansing, expanding his Great Sun Cave-Heaven World and strengthening his Three-legged Golden Crow bloodline.
• Ji Shu captured Giant Spirit God and the rat spirit after emerging from the Mountain-Companion Spring at Empty Trap Mountain Bottomless Cave.
• Ji Shu saw that the Great Thunderclap Temple’s formation consumed the world’s origin, then went to the Huangshan Spring in the Tianzhu Kingdom’s Imperial Palace.
• Ji Shu entered the hidden cave-heaven beneath the spring, startling the Jade Rabbit Spirit; after she investigated and dressed, an immortal maiden arrived before her.

Fairy Chang'e warned the Jade Rabbit Spirit that Ji Shu was killing gods, Buddhas, and demons across the western lands, but Ji Shu emerged from Huangshan Spring and captured them both before escaping the searching gods and Buddhas. He reached North Kuru Continent to absorb another Nine Yang Spring, while the Black Bear Spirit and Great King Linggan discovered that the flood dragon Ao Ding had been cut in half.

• Fairy Chang'e told the Jade Rabbit Spirit about Ji Shu's killings and warned that he might attack Great Thunderclap Temple, prompting the Jade Rabbit Spirit to agree to return to Guanghan Palace.
• While the Jade Rabbit Spirit went to restore Tianzhu Kingdom's princess, Fairy Chang'e entered Huangshan Spring and encountered Ji Shu as he emerged from beneath the water.
• The Jade Rabbit Spirit returned and recognized Ji Shu, who swept her and Fairy Chang'e into the Painted World before escaping as a group of gods and Buddhas arrived.
• Ji Shu reached North Kuru Continent, entered Guangfen Spring in the form of a carp, and collected the upper half of the flood dragon Ao Ding after the spring's vortex severed him.
• The Black Bear Spirit and Great King Linggan found Ao Ding's lower half and debated returning to Guanyin Bodhisattva, but the Black Bear Spirit refused and dismissed the danger of encountering Ji Shu.

Ji Shu captured Black Bear Spirit and Great King Linggan, then traveled to Xiaoan Spring to meet Kunpeng Demon Master. Kunpeng discovered Ji Shu’s exceptionally pure Demon Emperor bloodline and rejoiced that the Demon Race might yet be saved.

• Black Bear Spirit argued that he should join Ji Shu, while Great King Linggan urged caution; Ji Shu suddenly appeared at their spring and captured them in his Painted World.
• Zhu Bajie welcomed Black Bear Spirit and Great King Linggan inside Ji Shu’s world and explained that they could merge their True Spirits with the Heavenly Dao or be sent into the Mystic Fire Mirror.
• Ji Shu learned that Kunpeng Demon Master had secretly guided many powerful demons and traveled to Xiaoan Spring to find him.
• Ji Shu entered the Vast Starry Sea Divine Communication Array and met Kunpeng, who recognized Ji Shu’s bloodline as purer than the Demon Emperor’s and rejoiced that Heaven had not forsaken the Demon Race.

Ji Shu freed the Kunpeng Demon Master, who recognized Ji Shu’s Three-legged Golden Crow bloodline and pledged to support him as the new Demon Emperor. After strengthening himself by refining Cave-Heaven Worlds and gathering treasures, Ji Shu traveled with Kunpeng to Spirit Mountain to confront Tathagata Buddha’s forces.

• Ji Shu told the Kunpeng Demon Master he could refine the Great Sun Cave-Heaven World and release him, and Kunpeng agreed to assist.
• Ji Shu revealed Yue Lingshan of the Mount Hua Sect as his master, prompting Kunpeng to imagine that her sect could help them challenge Tathagata Buddha and Taishang Laojun.
• With Kunpeng’s aid, Ji Shu refined nearly ten thousand Cave-Heaven Worlds, gathered Kunpeng’s treasures, and strengthened his Cave-Heaven Worlds at the Nine Yang Springs.
• Kunpeng began addressing Ji Shu as Demon Emperor, and the two traveled to Spirit Mountain to oppose Tathagata Buddha’s forces.
• At the River of Universal Salvation, Ji Shu captured Golden Summit Great Immortal and collected the Kalan and Arhats they encountered into the Painted World.

Ji Shu destroyed Spirit Mountain, defeated Tathagata Buddha and captured its Buddhas and treasures, then turned the Painted World into a merit supreme treasure. He left for the Heavenly Court after absorbing the merit and taking the Four Heavenly Kings, while Tathagata sent a warning to his true body before dying.

• Ji Shu and his allies captured or defeated the messengers, Arhats, and Dharma protectors at Spirit Mountain, alarming Erlang Shen and the prisoners.
• Ji Shu shattered Tathagata Buddha’s Buddha Palm Kingdom with Ten Suns Across the Sky, defeated the Bodhisattvas and Buddhas, and took them and Spirit Mountain’s treasures into the Painted World.
• Burning in Solar True Fire, Tathagata asked Ji Shu who his master was; Ji Shu named Yue Lingshan, and Tathagata sent his true spirit to warn his true body before he died.
• The Painted World absorbed Spirit Mountain’s treasures, including the Eight Treasures Merit Pool, and Ji Shu infused it with the merit he received, refining it into a merit supreme treasure.
• Ji Shu arrived at the South Heaven Gate, defeated the Four Heavenly Kings, and swallowed them into the Painted World as its inhabitants reacted to Spirit Mountain’s fall.

Ji Shu shattered the Heavenly Court's army with one punch, captured its surviving immortals in the Painted World, and began cultivating toward the Grand Unity Immortal realm. After his three selves transcended the River of Fate, he connected with his Past Self in the River of Time, causing his traces in the Journey to the West World to fade.

• The Jade Rabbit Spirit and the other residents of the Painted World joyfully intimidated the captured Buddhas and immortals, while Fairy Chang'e accepted that they would settle there.
• Ji Shu's single punch destroyed the Heavenly Court's formations and killed more than two hundred thousand of its five hundred thousand soldiers, including Li Jing and the other leaders.
• Ji Shu swept the fallen immortals' Primordial Spirits into the Painted World, where the Jade Rabbit Spirit demanded their surrender and threatened them with the Mystic Fire Mirror.
• Ji Shu assigned the Kunpeng Demon Master to place trustworthy humans and demons at key checkpoints, then dismissed his warning about Grand Unity Immortals and began cultivating in the Peach Garden.
• Ji Shu's six Supreme Talents helped him refine Golden Cores until his five qi reached completion and his three selves entered and transcended the River of Fate.
• Ji Shu's merged selves traveled through the River of Time to Xingguo Temple, joined with his Past Self, and began fading from the Journey to the West World's ability to divine.

Ji Shu completed the merging of his past, present, and future selves and attained the Grand Unity Immortal Dao, sending a shockwave across the Three Thousand Worlds. As the great powers refining those worlds feared an attack from Ji Shu and his mysterious master Yue Lingshan, Fierce Ape Wukong set out for the Great World.

• Ji Shu merged his Past Self and Future Self into his Present Self and attained the Grand Unity Immortal Dao, causing celestial signs and a conch sound to spread through the Three Thousand Worlds.
• Empress Nuwa, Cao Mengde, and other powerful figures sensed Ji Shu's breakthrough and hoped it would help save their worlds from destruction.
• Fierce Ape Wukong sensed the aura, asked Tathagata Buddha to open a path to the Great World, and leaped through the vortex Tathagata created.
• Tathagata Buddha told Guanyin Bodhisattva and Maitreya Buddha that someone was refining the Three Thousand Worlds and that Ji Shu had seized the chance to attain the Dao while the great powers were absent.
• Within the Chaos Six Directions Divine Array, Taishang Laojun, Tathagata Buddha, the Jade Emperor, and the others discussed Ji Shu's breakthrough and concluded they should remain inside the array until they finished refining the Three Thousand Worlds.
• The six great powers failed to calculate Yue Lingshan's origins and resolved to stay wary of her and Ji Shu's allies.

Ji Shu attained the Dao as a Grand Unity Immortal, flattened Spirit Mountain and the Heavenly Court, and freed the Xuanwu before preparing to learn more arts. Sun Wukong wandered through a chaotic Human World, and the chapter ended with Zhenyuan the Great Immortal asking whether he was searching for Bodhi Patriarch.

• Tang Sanzang learned from Ao Lie that Ji Shu had flattened Spirit Mountain and killed or suppressed its defenders.
• Sun Wukong found Spirit Mountain and the Heavenly Court in ruins, met Ji Shu in the Peach Garden, and learned that Ji Shu claimed Yue Lingshan as his master rather than Bodhi Patriarch.
• Ji Shu freed the Xuanwu and received the Xuanwu Earth Suppression Art before taking Ancestral Phoenix to the Painted World to study his enemies’ spells.
• Sun Wukong wandered through the Human World and learned that Wei Zheng had barely survived an attack by a savage ape.
• Wei Zheng told Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Li Shimin, and Wu Zetian about Ji Shu’s rise, and they welcomed his growing power.
• Zhenyuan the Great Immortal met Sun Wukong in a tavern, recognized that Bodhi Patriarch was his master, and asked whether he was searching for him.

Zhenyuan the Great Immortal revealed that Bodhi Patriarch was bound to Tathagata Buddha and told Sun Wukong that finding his master required Ji Shu, who had vanished into his Lesser World. Meanwhile, Fierce Ape Wukong searched for Ji Shu’s supposed master Yue Lingshan but was captured by Tang Sanzang, while Ji Shu’s attainment of the Dao unsettled the Three Realms.

• Zhenyuan the Great Immortal explained that Bodhi Patriarch and Tathagata Buddha had once been two parts of the same ancient Bodhi tree, and that Bodhi Patriarch could not interfere with Sun Wukong’s imprisonment.
• Sun Wukong urged Zhenyuan the Great Immortal to help him find Bodhi Patriarch, but learned that Ji Shu had disappeared into his Lesser World and could only be awaited.
• Fierce Ape Wukong searched across the continents for Yue Lingshan, believing she could teach him Ji Shu’s path to power.
• Fierce Ape Wukong attacked Tang Sanzang, who captured him with a begging bowl and carried him away.
• The Dragon Race and human race celebrated Ji Shu’s attainment of the Dao, while monks and gods hid in fear of him.

Ji Shu collected Buddhist and celestial laws and techniques, while the gods in the Painted World surrendered and strengthened its Heavenly Dao. As Ji Shu rapidly mastered his new techniques, the chapter left him surrounded by wondrous phenomena, his aura increasingly divine and mysterious.

• Ji Shu enchanted Buddhas and celestial figures, gaining dozens of laws and more than a hundred techniques before beginning closed-door cultivation.
• Legendary Guanyin persuaded Journey to the West Guanyin to surrender by recounting Ji Shu’s rise from a mortal to Grand Unity Immortal in little more than a decade.
• Journey to the West Guanyin surrendered, prompting Nezha, Erlang Shen, and nearly all the other captive gods and Buddhas to submit and merge their True Spirits with the Painted World’s Dao.
• The Painted World advanced to a new stage, and its inhabitants’ cultivation rose sharply as its Heavenly Dao grew stronger.
• Ji Shu perfected the Three Heads Six Arms Dharma Body and many other techniques in moments, astonishing the assembled gods and immortals.

Ji Shu perfected numerous spells and the Sixteen-Foot Golden Body, then cultivated the Supreme Dharma of Universal Observation to attain a Grand Unity Dao Fruit once more. His breakthrough sent phenomena across countless worlds, leaving gods and Buddhas uncertain about who had attained the Dao and how it would affect the Three Thousand Worlds.

• Ji Shu perfected Universe in Palm, Seven Stars Burst of Desperation, and the Four Symbols Finger in moments, stunning the gods and earning their reverence.
• Ji Shu cultivated the Sixteen-Foot Golden Body to perfection, greatly strengthening his body and prompting Guanyin Bodhisattva and the others to wonder about his Buddhist bloodline.
• Ji Shu advanced the Supreme Dharma of Universal Observation to perfection, merged his three bodies, and condensed a Grand Unity Dao Fruit.
• Empress Nuwa sensed the breakthrough and believed Ji Shu had attained Grand Unity again, while Tathagata Buddha debated whether to ascend to the Great World.
• Taishang Laojun, Tathagata Buddha, and the others recognized the Dao Fruit of Universal Observation and hurried to refine the Three Thousand Worlds, fearing another ally of Ji Shu.
• Sun Wukong, Great Immortal Bodhi, Tang Sanzang, and Guanyin reacted with confusion and alarm as the breakthrough's identity and implications remained uncertain.

Ji Shu perfected multiple Buddhist laws and attained the Supreme Grand Unity Dao Fruit, sending waves of shock through the Three Thousand Worlds. Meanwhile, Tathagata Buddha left his world to seek a path to the Dao and encountered Sun Wukong and Zhenyuan the Great Immortal, who were searching for Ji Shu.

• Ji Shu perfected the Boundless Great Law of Universal Salvation and attained the Grand Unity Immortal Dao, stunning Guanyin Bodhisattva, Manjushri Bodhisattva, and the other Gods and Buddhas.
• Tathagata Buddha shattered the boundary of Journey to the West: Demon Conquering World and departed for the Great World to seek a way to attain the Dao.
• Ji Shu perfected several more Buddhist Fundamental Laws, then cultivated the Supreme Grand Unity Great Law and condensed its Grand Unity Dao Fruit.
• Sun Wukong and Zhenyuan the Great Immortal left Chang'an City to search for Ji Shu as the human world grew more prosperous and confident.
• Tathagata Buddha, disguised as Jiang Rulai, stopped Sun Wukong and Zhenyuan the Great Immortal and asked them about the repeated attainments of the Dao.

Tathagata Buddha joined Tang Sanzang, Zhenyuan the Great Immortal, the Kunpeng Demon Master, and others in waiting for Ji Shu to emerge from seclusion. Ji Shu appeared, punched open a passage through chaos, and attacked the six Grand Unity Immortals, destroying three of their refining passages and overwhelming their counterattack.

• Zhenyuan the Great Immortal and Sun Wukong told Tathagata Buddha about Ji Shu, and the three traveled together while searching for him.
• Tang Sanzang met the group and led them to Flower Fruit Mountain, where Zhenyuan the Great Immortal joined the Kunpeng Demon Master's faction to await Ji Shu.
• Fierce Ape Wukong tried to escape Tang Sanzang's alms bowl but was sealed beneath a mountain inside it and beaten by Sun Wukong when he cursed.
• Ji Shu emerged from seclusion above the Eastern Divine Continent and punched open a passage through chaos to the six Grand Unity Immortals.
• Ji Shu's first two punches collapsed three refining passages, and he shattered the six Grand Unity Immortals' divine powers and magical treasures with another punch.

Ji Shu defeated the six Grand Unity Immortals, suppressed their bodies and Primordial Spirits, and began sending his allies through passages to unite the Three Thousand Worlds. As the gods and Buddhas worked to strengthen the Painted World, Ji Shu recognized that the six captives might still revive while their True Spirits endured.

• Ji Shu crushed the six Grand Unity Immortals’ attacks, shattered their immortal bodies, and sent them flying into chaos.
• Ji Shu ordered Kunpeng Demon Master and his allies to unite the Three Thousand Worlds within three years, opened passages to more than two thousand Lesser Worlds, and warned them against massacres.
• Subduing Demons Chapter Tathagata and Zhu Bajie entered the Journey to the West: Conquering Demons World, where Zhu Bajie defeated the cannibal pig demon Zhu Ganglie and forced him to surrender.
• Ji Shu separated the six Grand Unity Immortals’ bodies from their Primordial Spirits, suppressing the bodies in the Painted World and the spirits in Great Sun Cave-Heaven Worlds.
• The gods and Buddhas in the Painted World worked to erase the lingering consciousness from the captive bodies, while the six Primordial Spirits suffered beneath the Great Suns.
• Ji Shu rejected Tathagata Buddha’s offer to cooperate and realized the six Grand Unity Immortals might still revive because their True Spirits remained undying.

Ji Shu continued cultivating while his Heavenly Soldiers and Generals conquered worlds in his name. In the Kung Fu world, Yaksa General recruited local fighters and Fire Cloud Cthulhu failed to reach the Immortal Realm; in the Flirting Scholar World, Zhao Ling'er and her forces recruited Tang Bohu and prepared to capture the emperor.

• Ji Shu used the Painted World and Great Sun Cave-Heaven World to refine the Grand Unity Immortals while his clones made Golden Cores.
• Li Xiaoyao and Yaksa General entered the Kung Fu world, defeated the Axe Gang, and recruited the Landlord, the Landlady, Coolie Qiang, and Sing to help conquer and govern it.
• Fire Cloud Cthulhu sought the immortals' help, was rejected, and later tried to reach the Immortal Realm by leaping, using an airplane, and riding a rocket, but failed.
• Zhao Ling'er entered the Flirting Scholar World with Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, attracting Tang Bohu's attention.
• Fish Belly General recruited Tang Bohu and told him their forces planned to capture the emperor, leaving him alarmed to discover he had joined what he thought were rebels.

Tang Bohu and Su Erhacan discovered that the Zhao Ling'ers they loved were devoted to Ji Shu, so they resolved to grow strong enough to challenge him. Meanwhile, Ji Shu interrogated Taishang Laojun, uncovered his ruthless plan to devour the spirits of the Three Thousand Worlds, and began questioning the other captured immortals.

• Tang Bohu met Chunxiang, Xiaxiang, Qiuxiang, and Dongxiang but remained devoted to Zhao Ling'er, then followed her and Fish Belly General to the Immortal Realm.
• The two Zhao Ling'ers rejected Tang Bohu, explaining that they would remain by their master's side and never marry.
• Su Erhacan told Tang Bohu that he too had pursued a Zhao Ling'er and been rejected, and the two men argued over whose beloved was prettier before vowing to catch up to Ji Shu.
• Ji Shu used the Mind Bewitching Technique on Taishang Laojun and learned about his arts, his origins, and his plan to devour the spirits of the Three Thousand Worlds.
• Ji Shu suppressed Taishang Laojun in his cave-heaven world, then bewitched Tathagata Buddha, Burning Lamp Buddha, Queen Mother, and the other captives to interrogate them.