Chapter Summaries

Sun Wukong defeated the Scorpion Demon, learned she was the King's sworn sister, and recruited her after explaining Ding Ling's rise. At Flame Mountain, Princess Iron Fan attacked the group with her Palm Leaf Fan and scattered them, leaving Sun Wukong alone and far from his companions.

• The King of the Daughter Country agreed to let Pigsy take her to the Heavenly Court to seek Ding Ling's recognition.
• Sun Wukong defeated the Scorpion Demon after she attacked him and his companions, then heard that she had attacked because she feared for the King.
• Sun Wukong explained Ding Ling's accomplishments to the Scorpion Demon, who agreed to join his group on the condition that she see the King again within a month.
• Sun Wukong and his companions traveled west and reached Flame Mountain, where Princess Iron Fan demanded that Sun Wukong answer for her son's death.
• Princess Iron Fan struck the group with the Palm Leaf Fan, blowing Sun Wukong tens of thousands of miles away from his companions.

Sun Wukong gathered his scattered Demon Clan Divine Wind Squad and took them to the Heavenly Court to borrow Lingji Bodhisattva’s Wind Fixing Pearl, hoping to counter Princess Iron Fan’s Palm Leaf Fan. At the Hall of Universal Brightness, Ding Ling lent Sun Wukong the Divine Treasure, discussed the conquest of the Underworld, and left Scorpion Demon summoned to meet him.

• Sun Wukong reunited Scorpion Demon, Black Bear Demon, Unicorn Si, and the other demons, and Scorpion Demon suggested using Lingji Bodhisattva’s Wind Fixing Pearl against Princess Iron Fan.
• Sun Wukong agreed to take the demons to the Heavenly Court, where the Four Heavenly Kings respectfully admitted them to the Hall of Universal Brightness.
• Scorpion Demon met Ding Ling, became infatuated with him, and stayed behind after he said he had something to ask her.
• Sun Wukong reported the encounter with Princess Iron Fan, and Ding Ling ordered Lingji Bodhisattva to lend him the Wind Fixing Pearl.
• Ding Ling advised the assembled officials on governing the nearly conquered Underworld, while Scorpion Demon privately imagined becoming his bride.
• Sun Wukong heard that Ding Ling had stripped Tathagata Buddha of his Curse Source and reduced him to a mortal, then waited outside for Scorpion Demon.

The gods discussed Ding Ling’s overwhelming power, while Zhen Yuanzi explained his gratitude for Sun Wukong’s introduction and kept the Emperor’s teachings secret. Ding Ling extracted Scorpion Demon’s Inverted Horse Poison Stinger Curse Source, strengthened her with new power and Martial Dao knowledge, and sent her to work with Sun Wukong, leaving the other gods astonished and envious.

• Zhen Yuanzi thanked Sun Wukong for introducing him to Ding Ling and said the Emperor’s guidance had changed his understanding of his own strength.
• Nezha and Wen Zhong asked Zhen Yuanzi about Ding Ling’s teachings, but Zhen Yuanzi refused to reveal them and urged them to earn the Emperor’s trust themselves.
• The Queen of the Daughter Kingdom watched the gods defer to Ding Ling and grew excited and nervous about meeting him.
• Ding Ling extracted Scorpion Demon’s Curse Sources, learned Inverted Horse Poison Stinger, and returned power to her along with Martial Dao instruction.
• Scorpion Demon woke to find Ding Ling gone, then agreed to work with Sun Wukong on affairs in Xiniu Hezhou.
• Zhen Yuanzi, Pigsy, and the other gods recognized that Scorpion Demon had received Ding Ling’s personal instruction and reacted with astonishment and envy.

The Demon Clan Divine Wind Squad captured Princess Iron Fan and crossed Flame Mountain before confronting the Nine-Headed Serpent at Green Wave Pool. Pigsy tried to secure the Ten Thousand Saints Princess for Ding Ling, but after she refused to be forced, he asked whether she would willingly serve the Great Emperor.

• The Scorpion Demon received Ding Ling’s secret art, while the Queen of Western Liang entered the palace hoping for a chance to change her kingdom’s fate.
• Sun Wukong used the Wind Fixing Pearl to defeat Princess Iron Fan, take her Palm Leaf Fan, and send her to the Heavenly Court; the squad used the fan to extinguish Flame Mountain.
• The squad reached Green Wave Pool, where the Scorpion Demon fought and defeated the Nine-Headed Serpent with her defenses and Inverted Horse Poison Stinger.
• The Nine-Headed Serpent introduced his wife, Ten Thousand Saints Princess, and Pigsy demanded that he offer her to Ding Ling in exchange for his life.
• The Ten Thousand Saints Princess refused to go with Pigsy and said she would rather die; Pigsy backed down and asked whether she would willingly serve Ding Ling.

Pigsy persuaded Ten Thousand Saints Princess to go to the Heavenly Court and serve Ding Ling, while Nine-Headed Serpent joined the Demon Clan Divine Wind Squad and tried to bring Xing Xian and the Wooden Immortal Temple demons under its control. The Thorny Ridge demons learned that Ding Ling had surpassed the Jade Emperor and Tathagata Buddha, but they struggled to believe Nine-Headed Serpent’s claims.

• Ten Thousand Saints Princess eagerly agreed to follow Pigsy to the Heavenly Court after confirming that the Great Emperor was Ding Ling, and Ten Thousand Saints Dragon King later approved her departure.
• Nine-Headed Serpent joined the Demon Clan Divine Wind Squad and was assigned dangerous labor, while Ten Thousand Saints Princess set out for the Heavenly Court with crab generals.
• At Thorny Ridge, Nine-Headed Serpent defeated Eighteen Duke and demanded that the Wooden Immortal Temple demons join the squad or die.
• Nine-Headed Serpent and Great King Inspiration singled out Xing Xian, and Eighteen Duke pushed her forward to protect himself and the others.
• Xing Xian explained that her spirit could not safely travel far from her apricot-tree body, and Nine-Headed Serpent claimed his Curse Sources could keep her alive.
• Nine-Headed Serpent told the Thorny Ridge demons that Ding Ling had subdued the Jade Emperor and Tathagata Buddha, leaving Eighteen Duke, Xing Xian, and the others astonished and doubtful.

The Nine-Headed Serpent persuaded Xing Xian to join the Demon Clan Divine Wind Squad and escorted her toward the Heavenly Court to seek Ding Ling’s favor. Meanwhile, Sun Wukong defeated Yellow-Browed Great King, who surrendered and joined the squad, then became eager to meet Ding Ling.

• Xing Xian agreed to join the squad after the Nine-Headed Serpent and Great King Inspiration pressured her, and the Nine-Headed Serpent took her true body toward the Heavenly Court with Sun Wukong’s letter of certification.
• Sun Wukong allowed the Nine-Headed Serpent to escort Xing Xian to meet Ding Ling, while Great King Inspiration and the other demons resolved to seek the Emperor’s recognition themselves.
• Sun Wukong and the squad fought Yellow-Browed Great King at the Fake Thunderclap Temple, and Yellow-Browed Great King surrendered after Sun Wukong overcame his Golden Cymbal.
• Sun Wukong accepted Yellow-Browed Great King as a probationary squad member, and Yellow-Browed Great King released the demons trapped in the Golden Cymbal.
• After learning more about Ding Ling from Sun Wukong and the other demons, Yellow-Browed Great King expressed his desire to meet the Emperor and prove his loyalty.

Sun Wukong’s Demon Clan Divine Wind Squad tracked down Sai Tai Sui and recruited him after telling him of Ding Ling’s overwhelming power. Meanwhile, Pigsy reached Pan Si Cave ahead of Sun Wukong and revealed to the Seven Fairy Maidens that he was a Heavenly Court Divine General carrying Ding Ling’s token.

• In Zhu Zi Kingdom, Great King Inspiration identified Sai Tai Sui as Guanyin Bodhisattva’s Golden Haired Hou and described his Purple Golden Bell.
• Sun Wukong told the squad that Ding Ling might leave this realm for other worlds, stirring the demons’ excitement and disbelief.
• Sun Wukong and the others found Sai Tai Sui in a bamboo forest, defeated him, and recruited him into the Demon Clan Divine Wind Squad.
• Great King Inspiration told Sai Tai Sui that rumors of Ding Ling’s strength understated his power, prompting Sai Tai Sui to grow eager to serve him.
• Pigsy reached Pan Si Cave before Sun Wukong and revealed his identity as a Heavenly Court Divine General to Red Fairy Maiden and the other Spider Demons.

Pigsy brought the Seven Fairy Maidens to the Heavenly Court to serve Ding Ling, but their Senior Brother Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord joined them in hopes of winning the emperor’s favor as well. On the way, they met Sun Wukong’s group, where Sun Wukong invited Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord to join the Demon Clan Divine Wind Squad and told Yellow-Browed Great King he could also try going to Heaven.

• Pigsy gave the Seven Fairy Maidens divine tokens and urged them to go to the Heavenly Court, so they agreed after asking him to meet their Senior Brother, Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord.
• Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord verified Pigsy’s token, learned that female demons were being brought to Ding Ling, and decided to accompany Pigsy and his junior sisters to the Heavenly Court.
• Pigsy led the Seven Fairy Maidens and Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord toward Heaven and encountered Sun Wukong’s group along the way.
• Sun Wukong invited Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord to join the Demon Clan Divine Wind Squad, but Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord said he wanted to pay his respects to Ding Ling.
• Yellow-Browed Great King complained that Sun Wukong would not let him go to Heaven, and Sun Wukong told him to try going with his seven junior sisters.

Yellow-Browed Great King and his companions entered Lion Camel Ridge, where Green-Haired Lion King, Yuncheng Wanlipeng, and White Elephant King captured them for the Lion Camel Demon Country. Yellow-Browed Great King urged the demon kings to seek Sun Wukong’s help, and Yuncheng Wanlipeng reconsidered as he remembered Ding Ling’s power.

• Yellow-Browed Great King led Great King Inspiration and the others ahead, and they discovered the blood-soaked cities and man-eating monsters of Lion Camel Ridge.
• Green-Haired Lion King confronted the group, named Yuncheng Wanlipeng as his third brother, and attacked by swallowing several of them.
• Yuncheng Wanlipeng and White Elephant King ambushed the remaining monsters, helping Green-Haired Lion King defeat and capture Yellow-Browed Great King’s group.
• Green-Haired Lion King ordered the captives to be implanted with Puppet Sequence Curse Sources so they would join the Lion Camel Demon Country.
• Yellow-Browed Great King offered to ask Great Sage Equal to Heaven Sun Wukong to plead for the demon kings, and Yuncheng Wanlipeng hesitated as he recalled Ding Ling’s defeat of Tathagata Buddha.

Golden Winged Great Peng and his brothers sought clemency from Ding Ling, using Yellow-Browed Great King to summon Sun Wukong and persuade him to intercede. Sun Wukong agreed to speak for them only if they released their captives, but the brothers refused, leaving the negotiations at an impasse.

• Golden Winged Great Peng refused to release Yellow-Browed Great King, instead making him write a letter inviting Sun Wukong to Lion Camel Ridge.
• Sun Wukong arrived and saw signs that the Lion Camel Demon Country's monsters had slaughtered people and were cooking Human Race flesh.
• White Elephant King showed Sun Wukong the country's soldiers and asked whether they could join the Heavenly Court, but Sun Wukong said only Ding Ling could decide.
• Green-Haired Lion King hosted a lavish banquet, then asked Sun Wukong to plead for the brothers before Ding Ling.
• Sun Wukong exposed their use of Curse Sources on their captives and offered to intercede only if they released Yellow-Browed Great King and the others.
• Golden Winged Great Peng and Green-Haired Lion King refused to release the captives until they received Ding Ling's pardon, while Sun Wukong privately considered taking the captives away and attacking the demon country.

Sun Wukong rescued Great King Inspiration and the others from Lion Camel Demon Country after the three demon kings refused to free Yellow-Browed Great King without a guarantee of pardon from Ding Ling. When Sun Wukong refused to plead for them and prepared to confront them, Zhenyuan Daxian arrived as reinforcements.

• Green-Haired Lion King, Golden Winged Great Peng, and White Elephant King offered to release some captives and join Sun Wukong's forces in exchange for his intercession with Ding Ling.
• Sun Wukong left with Great King Inspiration and the others, privately deciding that the three demon kings had to die for their crimes.
• Sun Wukong transformed into a mosquito, returned to Lion Camel Demon Country, and freed Yellow-Browed Great King and the other prisoners.
• Golden Winged Great Peng and Green-Haired Lion King caught up with Sun Wukong's group and accused him of breaking his promise, but Sun Wukong denounced their crimes and refused to protect them.
• The three demon kings threatened to fight Sun Wukong, who announced that his reinforcements had arrived as Zhenyuan Daxian appeared beside him.

Sun Wukong confronted the three brothers of Lion Camel Demon Country with Zhenyuan Daxian’s support, but the brothers tried to save themselves by offering to serve Ding Ling. Ding Ling refused their offer to become mounts and demanded they become his toys instead; the three brothers reluctantly agreed.

• Sun Wukong revealed that he had summoned Zhenyuan Daxian with a Delivery Curse Source and provoked the three brothers, hoping they would attack.
• Golden Winged Great Peng asked Zhenyuan Daxian to arrange an audience with Ding Ling and offered for the brothers to become Ding Ling’s mounts.
• White Elephant King and Green-Haired Lion King also agreed to become mounts, and Zhenyuan Daxian sent their offer to Ding Ling.
• Zhenyuan Daxian reported that Ding Ling had refused the offer unless the brothers became his toys.
• Golden Winged Great Peng, White Elephant King, and Green-Haired Lion King swallowed their pride and agreed to become Ding Ling’s toys, astonishing Sun Wukong and the other demons.

Ding Ling transformed the three brothers from the Lion Camel Demon Country into helpless official seals, deepening the fear and loyalty of his followers. Meanwhile, Pigsy and the Demon Clan Divine Wind Squad confronted God of Longevity on Penglai Island over White Deer’s crimes against children, and the chapter ended with Pigsy insisting that they revered Ding Ling as they challenged God of Longevity.

• Ding Ling removed the Curse Source from Golden Winged Great Peng, White Elephant King, and Green-Haired Lion King, then transformed them into tiny official seals that could neither move nor speak.
• Zhen Yuanzi left the Hall of Universal Brightness to cultivate Ding Ling’s inheritance, while Pigsy reported the three brothers’ fate and Great King Inspiration’s group resolved to be more careful.
• After White Deer fled Bikshu Kingdom, Pigsy, Sha Wujing, Great King Inspiration, and their companions broke through Penglai Island’s Illusory Curse Source and confronted God of Longevity.
• God of Longevity invoked his appointment by Ding Ling to deter the group, but Pigsy revealed that he too was a Heavenly Court Divine General and accused White Deer of killing children.
• God of Longevity handed White Deer over and killed him with his peachwood staff when White Deer began to implicate his master.
• Yellow-Browed Great King invoked Sun Wukong’s authority to demand entry to Penglai Island, and Pigsy told God of Longevity to stop changing the subject and address their accusation.

Pigsy and the others vanished after Penglai Island’s Black Mist swallowed them, and Sun Wukong learned from Zhen Yuanzi that they had been carried into the Dark World. The pair entered the Black Mist gateway to investigate, finding it filled with dangerous Curse Source monsters as they began passing toward the true Dark World.

• Pigsy ordered Great King Inspiration and the others to search Penglai Island, but Old Man of Longevity unleashed Black Mist that swallowed them after a fierce clash.
• Sun Wukong searched Penglai Island for Pigsy and Sha Wujing, but Lu Xing claimed they had left and Sun Wukong found no trace of them.
• Sun Wukong sought Zhen Yuanzi’s advice, and Zhen Yuanzi calculated that Pigsy and the others were trapped in the Dark World through a Black Mist gateway.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Sun Wukong returned to Penglai Island, opened the Black Mist gateway, and entered it together.
• As they passed through the dark gateway, Zhen Yuanzi identified the Black Mist as Black Mist Sequence No. 10: Shuttle Curse Source and warned that Curse Source monsters were far more numerous than before.

Sun Wukong and Zhen Yuanzi entered a corrupted Projection World, where hostile creatures attacked them and they discovered ancient techniques and clues about the Three Stars of Fortune, Prosperity, and Longevity. They decided to find Pigsy and the others and leave, while realizing their own world might have been destroyed by the darkness without the Great Emperor.

• Sun Wukong and Zhen Yuanzi entered a desolate realm and found an oasis city whose humanoid inhabitants attacked by becoming wind, mist, and air.
• The creatures eroded Sun Wukong and Zhen Yuanzi, who used the Taiji Ball to protect themselves and learned that the Dark World had mutated since Zhen Yuanzi's previous visit.
• Zhen Yuanzi suspected the Three Stars of Fortune, Prosperity, and Longevity had activated the Black Mist Sequence Curse Source after Pigsy and the others discovered something suspicious, possibly to pursue treasures in the Dark World.
• Sun Wukong and Zhen Yuanzi reached the City Lord's Mansion, read ancient books, and learned that the realm was a corrupted Projection World where Sages had once lived.
• After studying the ancient techniques, Sun Wukong and Zhen Yuanzi decided to find Pigsy and the others before leaving, and Zhen Yuanzi concluded their world would likely have fallen to darkness without the Great Emperor.

Sun Wukong and Zhen Yuanzi explored the Dark World, learned of humanity's destruction, and became trapped behind a membrane wall as their strength dwindled. Ding Ling arrived just before they risked their foundations, absorbed the surrounding Curse Source Qi, and restored them to full strength.

• Sun Wukong and Zhen Yuanzi discussed how Ding Ling was their world's best hope of surviving its perilous fate.
• They memorized the books in the Oasis Ancient City, learned how humanity had fallen to darkness, and traveled more than five million miles while searching for Pigsy and Sha Wujing.
• When Sun Wukong and Zhen Yuanzi tried to return, a strengthening membrane wall blocked their way, and repeated attacks failed to break it.
• As their Curse Source Qi dwindled, they resolved to wait seven more days before risking their foundations to escape.
• Ding Ling shattered the membrane wall, absorbed the surrounding Curse Source Qi, and replenished Sun Wukong and Zhen Yuanzi's reserves.

Ding Ling rescued Sun Wukong, Zhen Yuanzi, Pigsy, Sha Wujing, and the others from the Black Mist Sequence, absorbing its Curse Sources and restoring their bodies and minds. The group suspected the God of Longevity was behind the trap and discussed searching for the Three Stars of Fortune, Prosperity, and Longevity.

• Ding Ling told Sun Wukong and Zhen Yuanzi that he had mastered 928 Curse Sources and shared Curse Source Qi with them as they flew to find Pigsy and the others.
• Ding Ling seized Pigsy, Sha Wujing, and the others from the black mist and extracted the Black Mist Sequence Curse Sources, restoring their bodies and consciousness.
• Sha Wujing and the others thanked Ding Ling, then explained that the God of Longevity had lured them into Black Mist Sequence Curse Source No. 10 and they had nearly been sacrificed to a vast divine object.
• Ding Ling searched the Earth Realm but could not find the divine object, so the group considered seeking the Three Stars of Fortune, Prosperity, and Longevity.
• Sun Wukong and Zhen Yuanzi discussed Lu Xing's possible whereabouts and the God of Longevity's connection to the child's heart, prompting Sun Wukong to explain what he knew about White Deer and the child's heart blood.

Ding Ling led Sun Wukong, Zhen Yuanzi, and the others through the Projection World, where they discovered a corrupted Heavenly Court filled with immensely powerful eerie gods. After Ding Ling destroyed its rulers and absorbed their Curse Sources, he realized the Main World’s Heavenly Dao was being eroded and could eventually let the same catastrophe spread there.

• Sun Wukong searched for the hidden divine artifact but could not find it, and the group gave up looking.
• Ding Ling led the recovered group toward Mount Buzhou, where he mastered several new Black Mist Sequence Curse Sources while the others struggled against the mountain’s eerie beings.
• The group reached the ruined Heavenly Court, where the gods’ gazes overwhelmed most of them, but Ding Ling fought through the black-mist palaces and killed the gods, including the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother of the West.
• After the black-mist Heavenly Court collapsed, Ding Ling found the ruined Heavenly Court beneath it and determined that the Projection World’s Curse Sources had reached Rank Seven.
• Ding Ling concluded that the Main World’s Heavenly Dao was resisting the eerie gods for now, but their continued corruption could eventually let them invade and destroy the Main World.

Ding Ling mastered Tier 8 Curse Sources, created millions of controlled forces, and sent them to search for anomalies across the world. On the journey back, he instantly learned more than a hundred shadow-related secret techniques, leaving Sun Wukong and Zhen Yuanzi stunned when he demonstrated the ninth stage of Shadow Combat Technique.

• Ding Ling discovered that his Fission Curse Source could produce more than a million powerful clones, then absorbed the clones back into himself.
• Ding Ling recognized that his Tier 8 Curse Sources could destroy worlds and resolved to prevent them from spreading beyond the Cursed Journey to the West World.
• Ding Ling created tens of millions of controlled strange beings from the Curse Sources and sent them to find anomalies throughout the world.
• On the way back, Sun Wukong recounted more than a hundred secret techniques, and Ding Ling mastered each one as he heard it.
• Ding Ling demonstrated the ninth stage of Shadow Combat Technique, shocking Sun Wukong, Zhen Yuanzi, Pigsy, and Sha Wujing.

Ding Ling demonstrated that he had mastered the ninth tier of the world’s four supreme secret arts, including Yellow Millet Dream, which let him trap others in two-dimensional worlds. He used the technique to search for the world’s hidden anomaly and, guided by his black-armored figures, found the God of Longevity fleeing with a scroll.

• Sun Wukong and Zhen Yuanzi were astonished when Ding Ling confirmed he had mastered the ninth tier of every secret art.
• Ding Ling demonstrated Yellow Millet Dream by pulling Sun Wukong, Pigsy, and others into framed two-dimensional worlds, then showed Projection Replication and Void Creation.
• Ding Ling transformed Curse Sources into a million black-armored figures and sent them through two-dimensional worlds to search for abnormalities.
• A black-armored figure reported finding a scroll in a ruined city, and Ding Ling followed a chain of scouts to its location.
• Pigsy recognized the fleeing, mutated God of Longevity as the one who had brought him into the Projection World, while Yellow-Browed Great King concluded the God of Longevity had become an aberration.