Chapter Summaries

The Jade Emperor ordered Laojun to burn Sun Wukong in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, while Wang Mang launched reforms and hunted for Liu Xiu to protect his new dynasty. Sun Wukong endured the divine fire to temper his body, and Wang Mang learned that Liu Xiu had gathered followers and was preparing to rebel.

• The Jade Emperor overruled Great Master Guanyin’s objection and ordered Laojun to take Sun Wukong to Tushita Palace.
• Marshal Tianpeng, General Juan Lian, and Nezha discussed the Jade Emperor’s balancing strategy, then the three system-holders received Grand Unity Golden Immortal Dao Fruits and went into seclusion.
• Laojun threw Sun Wukong into the Eight Trigrams Furnace, where Sun Wukong endured the Six Ding Divine Fire to temper his body.
• Wang Mang declared a new era, announced reforms, and ordered a search for Liu Xiu, whom he wanted captured or killed.
• Wang Mang learned that a herdsboy named Liu Xiu had gathered dozens of followers, so he ordered every army to wipe out the rebellion.

Liu Xiu began a rebellion against Wang Mang while, in the Chaos Bead, Chen Xuan met its shape-shifting artifact spirit. The Chaos Demons scattered to search for Chen Xuan, and the artifact spirit offered to accompany him in exchange for his help visiting another world.

• Liu Xiu rallied villagers, seized Jun County, and gradually strengthened his rebellion against Wang Mang.
• Liu Xiu formed alliances, including a marriage alliance that led Yin Lihua to give way as his original wife.
• The Fate Demon God confronted Hongjun over their failed cooperation, but Great Immortal Yang Mei persuaded them to avoid splitting up.
• The Chaos Demons dispersed to search for Chen Xuan, while Hongjun stayed behind to watch over the Primordial World.
• Chen Xuan explored the Chaos Bead’s unformed inner world and met its artifact spirit, who revealed she had abducted him because she could not see through his destiny.
• The artifact spirit asked Chen Xuan to take her to the Age of Decline, and she offered to throw herself at him as payment.

The Chaos Bead’s artifact spirit acknowledged Chen Xuan as her master, and he named her Yu Feiyan before continuing to cultivate in the chaos. When the Fate Demon God found him, Chen Xuan chose to fight, but the demon god trapped him within the Great Dao of Destiny.

• The Chaos Bead’s artifact spirit revealed that she needed Chen Xuan to help repair her damaged origin and take her away, then merged with him and acknowledged him as her master.
• The artifact spirit explained the difficulty of Chen Xuan’s path to attain the Dao by force, and Chen Xuan named her Yu Feiyan.
• Chen Xuan and Yu Feiyan remained in the chaos to cultivate before returning to the prehistoric world and checking on the Journey to the West Calamity.
• The Fate Demon God found Chen Xuan, who stood his ground and summoned the God-Slaying Spear and Primordial Brick to attack.
• The Fate Demon God summoned the Wheel of Fate and Clock of Fate, trapping Chen Xuan within the Great Dao of Destiny.

Chen Xuan escaped the Fate Demon God after severing a section of the River of Fate, then began refining it into a Bridge of the Other Shore. In the prehistoric world, Laojun summoned Marshal Tianpeng and asked him to violate heavenly law by joining the scripture-seeking journey.

• Chen Xuan used the Chaos Bead and God-Slaying Spear to sever part of the River of Fate and flee from the enraged Fate Demon God.
• Chen Xuan rejected Yu Feiyan's suggestion to cultivate the Great Dao of Destiny and began refining the river into a divine weapon shaped as a Bridge of the Other Shore.
• Nuwa, Ping Xin, and Xuanming watched the developments in the lower world as the great show began.
• Laojun ordered the furnace boys to keep burning Sun Wukong in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, then received Marshal Tianpeng at Tushita Palace.
• Laojun asked Marshal Tianpeng to violate heavenly law and descend to complete the scripture-seeking journey, and Marshal Tianpeng questioned why he had been chosen.

Marshal Tianpeng and General Juan Lian rejected the roles the Heavenly Court had assigned them and prepared to rebel. As the Jade Emperor and Yaochi Golden Mother confronted Juan Lian, Sun Wukong awakened in the Eight Trigrams Furnace with his strength rising to the mid-stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.

• Laojun told Marshal Tianpeng that Heaven had destined him to descend to the mortal realm, but Tianpeng refused and threatened to rebel alongside Sun Wukong.
• The Jade Emperor invited General Juan Lian to discuss a mission, but Juan Lian refused to leave his comfortable post.
• The Jade Emperor ordered Juan Lian to obey, and Juan Lian challenged him, declaring that he would overturn Heaven.
• Yaochi Golden Mother appeared as the Jade Emperor prepared to suppress Juan Lian, but a thunderous explosion shook the Ninth Heaven.
• Inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace, Sun Wukong awakened as a mid-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal and declared that he would overturn Heaven.

Sun Wukong escaped the Eight Trigrams Furnace and led Marshal Tianpeng and General Juan Lian in a rebellion that devastated the Heavenly Realm. After defeating wave after wave of immortals, Sun Wukong reached Lingxiao Treasure Hall and drove the Jade Emperor beneath his desk, prompting him to summon Tathagata Buddha.

• Sun Wukong burst out of the Eight Trigrams Furnace, took miraculous pills, and set Tushita Palace ablaze.
• Sun Wukong recruited Marshal Tianpeng and General Juan Lian, and the three rebels began destroying the Heavenly Realm as Laojun withdrew.
• Taibai Jinxing, Yang Jian, Li Jing, the star lords, and many other gods surrounded the rebels, but Sun Wukong defeated their attacks while Tianpeng and Juan Lian fought alongside him.
• Sun Wukong smashed through Wang Lingguan and the Gods of the Thunder Department, then entered Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
• Sun Wukong confronted the Jade Emperor, who cowered beneath his desk and called for Tathagata Buddha to subdue the rebels.

Wang Mang sent a vastly larger army against Liu Xiu, but falling meteors and violent weather shattered his forces and let Liu Xiu seize the palace and restore the Great Han. At the Great Thunderclap Monastery, Tathagata learned that Heaven had summoned him to subdue the demon monkey as the Havoc in Heaven began.

• Wang Mang ordered 420,000 soldiers to attack Liu Xiu's force of about 20,000, and Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua rallied their people to fight rather than surrender.
• Meteors fell across the battlefield as winds and torrential rain broke the attacking army's formation and killed countless people.
• Liu Xiu led his troops into the disorganized enemy and won, then captured Wang Mang and restored the Great Han.
• Tathagata lamented his situation while Venerable Wen Jing remained beside him at the Great Thunderclap Monastery.
• A messenger announced that Heaven had summoned Tathagata to subdue the demon monkey, and the Buddhist sect realized the Havoc in Heaven had begun.

Sun Wukong, Marshal Tianpeng, and General Juan Lian dominated the Heavenly Court until Tathagata arrived and challenged Sun Wukong to escape his palm. Sun Wukong entered the Buddha Kingdom in Palm, but the chapter ended before Tathagata could complete the contest.

• Sun Wukong overwhelmed the Heavenly Court's gods, while the Jade Emperor stayed beneath a table and Marshal Tianpeng and General Juan Lian mocked him.
• Tathagata arrived, and the system granted Sun Wukong, Marshal Tianpeng, and General Juan Lian one day of Quasi-Saint cultivation.
• Sun Wukong initially tried to leave with Marshal Tianpeng and General Juan Lian, but Tathagata invoked his responsibility for causing trouble and challenged him to fly out of his palm.
• Sun Wukong refused the challenge at first, then accepted after Tathagata unleashed his overwhelming aura.
• Sun Wukong flew through Tathagata's palm, remaining trapped inside the Buddha Kingdom as the gods and Buddhas laughed.
• Sun Wukong announced that he was done playing with Tathagata.

Sun Wukong revealed his Quasi-Saint power and battled Tathagata, but Marshal Tianpeng and General Juan Lian joined him and drove Tathagata back. Tathagata summoned Venerable Wen Jing, whose arrival left the three fighters facing an even greater threat.

• Sun Wukong escaped Tathagata's World in the Palm and revealed that he had reached the Quasi-Saint realm, shocking the gods and Buddhas.
• Tathagata attacked Sun Wukong, and their clash tore open the Nine Heavens as the Jade Emperor ordered the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Formation activated to protect the Heavenly Court.
• Marshal Tianpeng and General Juan Lian revealed their Quasi-Saint cultivation and joined Sun Wukong, forcing Tathagata back and shattering Five Finger Mountain.
• Tathagata called on Venerable Wen Jing to intervene, and she descended with the forces of Spirit Mountain.
• Venerable Wen Jing warned Sun Wukong, Marshal Tianpeng, and General Juan Lian to accept punishment or face her, displaying pressure that surpassed Tathagata's.

Venerable Wen Jing revealed her Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal power and effortlessly defeated Sun Wukong, Marshal Tianpeng, and General Juan Lian, sending them to their fated punishments. After the gods celebrated the end of the Havoc in Heaven, the Jade Emperor, Tathagata, and other leaders began negotiating the rewards in Heaven's rear courtyard.

• Venerable Wen Jing overwhelmed Sun Wukong, Marshal Tianpeng, and General Juan Lian with her Saha World technique, One Flower, One World.
• Venerable Wen Jing sent Sun Wukong to Five Elements Mountain, Marshal Tianpeng to reincarnate, and General Juan Lian to Quicksand River.
• Venerable Wen Jing declared the affair over, and the gods returned to the feast and celebrated the demon monkey's defeat.
• The Jade Emperor, Taishang Laojun, Tathagata, Venerable Wen Jing, and other powerful figures gathered in Heaven's rear courtyard to negotiate.
• The Jade Emperor demanded a third of the Journey to the West's fortune and merit, while Tathagata dismissed his claim as part of his own performance.

The Heavenly Court and Buddhism negotiated how to divide the merits from the Havoc in Heaven, while Venerable Wen Jing joined Nuwa, Xuanming, and Ping Xin to investigate signs of the Age of Dharma's End. At Five Finger Mountain, Wutian approached Sun Wukong with an offer, then went to meet Kui Gang.

• The Jade Emperor, Tathagata, and Laojun argued over the division of merits until Venerable Wen Jing secured fifteen percent for the Heavenly Court.
• Wen Jing visited Wa Huang Palace, where Nuwa and Ping Xin discussed Wutian's birth and the lack of signs of the Age of Dharma's End.
• Nuwa told Wen Jing and Xuanming to watch for Wutian and Luohu during the Journey to the West Calamity.
• Sun Wukong ordered his disciple Sun Qingxian to return to Flower-Fruit Mountain rather than attempt another Havoc in Heaven to free him.
• Wutian incapacitated the hidden guardians at Five Finger Mountain and offered to rescue Sun Wukong, who refused to trust him.
• Wutian traveled to a dark, filthy place and met Kui Gang.

Kui Gang descended into the mortal world to experience humanity during its darkest eras and became completely corrupted. Chen Xuan returned to the Primordial World, gathered his companions on Penglai Immortal Island, and prepared to take them back to the modern era.

• Kui Gang refused Wutian’s offer of an alliance and descended to the mortal world to undergo trials.
• Kui Gang witnessed centuries of upheaval, including the Three Kingdoms, the Rebellion of the Eight Princes, and the Uprising of the Five Barbarians, and became completely corrupted.
• Chen Xuan refined the River of Fate in the Chaos Bead, then returned to the Primordial World to check on the Journey to the West Calamity.
• Chen Xuan summoned Xiwangmu, the Nine Heavens Profound Lady, and other companions to Penglai Immortal Island and asked about the Corrupting Source.
• Chen Xuan introduced Yu Feiyan as the Chaos Bead’s artifact spirit, surprising the gathered immortals, then announced that they would return to the modern era.

Chen Xuan returned to Chen Family Village with Great God Nuwa and the others, reuniting with his parents as Earth entered a new era of cultivation. As the group speculated about the worlds and celebrated together, Yuanfeng pressed Chen Xuan to take responsibility for her two sons.

• Mom Chen welcomed Great God Nuwa as her daughter-in-law, and Dad Chen gathered the village for a feast to celebrate Chen Xuan's return.
• The old village chief announced that Chen Family Village could establish a martial arts academy, while Chen Xuan learned that Earth's Spiritual Energy Revival had ushered in an era of nationwide cultivation.
• Wangshu and the others noticed their suppression had fallen to fifty percent and discussed whether the Primordial World was a mirror world; Chen Xuan proposed visiting the Immortal World after the feast.
• Chen Xuan and Great God Nuwa drank with his younger cousins, then Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, First Qilin, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, Di Jun, and others joined the celebration.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi asked about his nephew, and Chen Xuan explained that he had become the Great Sun Tathagata and plotted the Journey to the West calamity.
• Yuanfeng reminded Chen Xuan that he had promised to be a father to her two sons, leaving him with a headache.

Chen Xuan and the goddesses celebrated Valentine’s Day by shopping and enjoying the modern world, before Yu Feiyan interrupted his intimate moment with Nuwa. The next morning, Chen Xuan proposed visiting the immortal realm in the Starry Sky.

• Yuanfeng questioned Chen Xuan about her descendants, and he explained Kong Xuan’s connection to Duobao and the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird.
• Nuwa gathered everyone to enjoy modern life, and they explored the internet and discussed going to a martial arts academy.
• Chen Xuan took the group shopping on Valentine’s Day, bought a little girl’s balloons, and gave one to each woman.
• Nuwa and Chen Xuan shared a passionate kiss, but Yu Feiyan appeared and warned him to preserve his pure yang for a breakthrough.
• Chen Xuan and Nuwa slept beside each other, and the next morning he suggested visiting the immortal realm in the Starry Sky.

Chen Xuan and the others opened the Immortal Realm Gate and entered the Immortal Realm after more than a thousand corrupted cultivators rushed through ahead of them. They found the realm overrun by the Corrupting Heavenly Dao, and an angry voice soon confronted them for destroying an incarnation of the Immortal Lord.

• Great God Nuwa led Chen Xuan and the group to the Big Dipper, where Ye Bufan, Zhang Dalong, and Wang Xiao fought alongside their allies against powerful opponents.
• Dijiang invited the Flower Burial Empress, Yaochi Empress, and Wu Wudi to join the journey, and Chen Xuan reopened the Immortal Realm Gate.
• Corrupted cultivators from the Places of Fallen Immortals underwent Extreme Dao sublimation and surged toward the gate, while Chen Xuan chose to let them enter first.
• More than a thousand cultivators passed through the gate, and Chen Xuan then led Great God Nuwa and the others into the Immortal Realm.
• Xiwangmu sealed and destroyed the Corrupting Heavenly Dao's tentacles, and Eastern Emperor Taiyi dismissed their power before an angry voice accused them of destroying an incarnation of the Immortal Lord.

Chen Xuan and the Primordial Wilderness group entered the Immortal Realm, where a Strange Dao cultivator attacked them and was killed by Nine Heavens Profound Lady. After the Immortal Lord was defeated, they discovered the realm had decayed into a Strange Dao world and Chen Xuan used the Bridge of the Other Shore to investigate its fate, with Yu Feiyan joining the group.

• A three-headed, six-armed Strange Dao cultivator slaughtered ascenders, but Nine Heavens Profound Lady destroyed him before he could threaten Chen Xuan and the others.
• The Immortal Lord appeared to avenge his disciple and attacked the group, but Di Jun shattered his hand and First Qilin dispersed his monstrous form and the surrounding darkness.
• Wangshu suggested destroying the decayed Immortal Realm, but Great God Nuwa and Sect Leader Tongtian warned that the realm connected to the God Realm and that stronger beings might be alerted.
• Chen Xuan brought out the Bridge of the Other Shore and revealed the River of Fate, which the Strange Dao's blood-colored eye could not perceive.
• Yu Feiyan emerged with the Chaos Bead, argued with Xihe, and was silenced by Chen Xuan, who proposed following the River of Fate to learn what had happened to the world's origin.

Chen Xuan and the others traveled upstream along the River of Fate to learn how the world had declined. They met Third Generation Fairy Chang'e, who said the myth had been destroyed and the great powers had fallen, before a strange Heavenly Dao forced them to retreat; back in the Immortal World, Xuanming suggested they investigate the God World.

• Chen Xuan led the group across the Bridge of the Other Shore and upstream through the River of Fate, where they saw the Immortal World descend into darkness before returning to normal.
• A woman holding the Taiyin Treasure Mirror emerged from the river, and Chen Xuan showed her the coffin containing her corpse.
• The woman identified herself as Third Generation Fairy Chang'e, and Wangshu, Xihe, and Changxi recognized her as the successor of Taiyin Star.
• Chang'e said a crisis in the Heavenly Dao had caused the great powers to fall and destroyed the myth, after which a strange Heavenly Dao polluted half the sky before being slain.
• A strange blade attacked from another spacetime, so Chen Xuan severed the River of Fate and led the group back to the Immortal World.
• Xuanming suggested that they visit the God World, but a mysterious force blocked their view of it.

The Primordial World’s experts left the Immortal Realm and returned to Earth, while the Immortal Emperor feared their power and continued harvesting people under the influence of a hidden force. At Chen Family Village, the group enjoyed the Temple Fair before a government envoy warned Chen Xuan that an angel had appeared in the West and was preparing to challenge Great Xia.

• The Primordial World experts discussed investigating the Divine Realm and the Primordial World, then departed while the Immortal Emperor spread darkness and harvested people in the Immortal Realm.
• Ye Bufan, Zhang Dalong, and Wang Xiao chose to remain behind and cultivate rather than return to Earth with Sect Leader Tongtian, while Chen Xuan agreed to guide the Flower Burial Empress and the other Mortal World Immortals.
• Great God Nuwa, Chen Xuan, and the others returned to Earth and joined Mom Chen at the Chen Family Village Temple Fair, where Mom Chen offered the first incense and wished for a grandchild.
• Fuxi told a middle-aged man to make a wish at the temple after the man asked how to become successful, but the man left insisting his fate was his own.
• Two government representatives arrived at Chen Xuan’s home and reported that Spiritual Energy Revival had begun and a suspected angel had appeared in the West to challenge Great Xia.

Xu Bing and Zhang Beidou warned Chen Xuan that Western gods were reviving and mysterious wormholes had appeared around Earth, while Chen Xuan and the goddesses chose to wait before confronting them. The next day, Chen Xuan spent time with Nuwa and Xiwangmu, and the chapter ended with news that the South Heavenly Gate had been unearthed in Kunlun Mountain.

• Xu Bing showed Chen Xuan photographs of an angel whose arrow had empowered the Western Church, and Chen Xuan sensed mysterious wormholes appearing behind the forces of various countries.
• The goddesses discussed waiting before attacking the wormholes, and Chen Xuan told Xu Bing and Zhang Beidou to seek Di Jun, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and the others if trouble arose in the Primordial World.
• Chen Xuan hosted Xu Bing and Zhang Beidou for a meal, and they left after dining with the gods.
• Chen Xuan woke beside Nuwa, then visited the back mountain and heard Xiwangmu explain that Earth made divine trees grow far faster than they did in the Primordial World.
• A tourist photographed Chen Xuan and Xiwangmu working together in the field, and Xiwangmu kept the picture.
• Changxi announced that the South Heavenly Gate had been unearthed in Kunlun Mountain.

Chen Xuan and the others investigated the unearthed South Heavenly Gate in Kunlun and uncovered a vast, ruined heavenly palace. Xiwangmu’s broken Kunlun Mirror revealed a vision of her leading the gods into the nine heavens, leaving the group questioning what had happened in the Mythological Era.

• An exploration team unearthed the South Heavenly Gate in Kunlun, and the government secured the ruins and began excavating them.
• Chen Xuan and his companions arrived at the restricted site, where Ye Bufan ordered the soldiers to attack them.
• Great God Nuwa froze the soldiers and bullets, and General Li Chun recognized Chen Xuan and escorted the group to the ruins.
• Chen Xuan revealed a colossal shattered gate beneath Kunlun and confirmed that the site contained part of the heavenly palace.
• Xihe found a shattered Kunlun Mirror, and Xiwangmu restored its image with divine power.
• The mirror showed Xiwangmu leading the gods and Buddhas into the nine heavens, prompting Xiwangmu, Empress Ping Xin, and Eastern Emperor Taiyi to wonder about the Mythological Era.