Chapter Summaries

Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the others defeated the invaders threatening Olympus, then returned to the Prehistoric World with substantial Exchange Points rewards. Taiqing Laozi was pleased with his reward after returning to the Palace of Lingering Delights.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the Three Pure Ones finished their tasks while Zeus led the gods in wiping out the remaining invaders at Mount Olympus.
• The system announced that the mission was complete and that the participants would soon return to the Prehistoric World.
• Zeus led the Olympian gods in prostrating themselves before Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the others and thanking them for saving their world.
• The system returned Hongjun and the other four participants to their original locations in the Prehistoric World and awarded them Exchange Points.
• Taiqing Laozi returned to the Palace of Lingering Delights, where his boys welcomed him, and he felt pleased with his 250,000 Exchange Points.

Wu Feng activated a limited mission to protect humanity in the Liaozhai World and investigate why its immortals and Buddhas were absent. He weighed the danger of the Demonic Path and considered which cultivators could complete the special investigation as the story left the participants undecided.

• After returning from their previous mission, Laozi rewarded his attendants with golden pills, while Yuanshi Tianzun, Master of the Heavens, and Haotian bestowed treasures on their followers.
• Wu Feng received a mission to protect a region of the Human Race in the Liaozhai World, with only three participants allowed, plus a special task to investigate the absent immortals and Buddhas.
• Wu Feng assessed the Liaozhai World as a realm where demons and ghosts preyed on humans, though its strongest combatants were far weaker than Primordial cultivators.
• Wu Feng worried that cultivators tainted by the Immortal Path would be targeted by the Liaozhai Heavenly Dao and might fail to uncover the mystery.
• Wu Feng considered King Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva as a possible participant because he had entered the Demonic Path, but doubted he would accept a long mission with limited rewards.

Wu Feng opened a three-person task in the Liaozhai World, where the Demonic Path influenced the Heavenly Dao, and hoped Wutian and Sun Wukong would take part. The cultivators of the Primordial Chaos learned of the task and began considering who would compete for it.

• Wu Feng explained that the Liaozhai World's Demonic-leaning Heavenly Dao could affect the task participants, though he expected them to succeed.
• Wu Feng released information about the Liaozhai World and announced a task with one mainline task and one Special Mission, limited to three people.
• Wutian eagerly welcomed the chance to earn Exchange Points, remembering how Dao Ancestor Hongjun had profited from a previous task.
• Holy Mother Jin Ling, Fairy Bi Xiao, and other cultivators discussed the new task while Master of the Heavens declined to speculate about Wu Feng's intentions.
• The cultivators learned the task details and grew eager to compete, while Master of the Heavens judged the Liaozhai World weak but took interest in its Special Mission.

Zhao Gongming, Fairy Yunxiao, and others weighed the Liaozhai World mission against the transformed Journey to the West Tribulation, which offered a chance to become a Saint. Sun Wukong and his companions welcomed the mission as an alternative to a tribulation they despised, while Ksitigarbha judged its rewards too small to rival the opportunity awaiting him.

• Zhao Gongming and Fairy Yunxiao concluded that many cultivators would avoid the Liaozhai World mission to prepare for the Journey to the West Tribulation.
• Zhao Gongming chose to avoid the dangerous tribulation and accumulate Exchange Points through Wu Feng's General Store instead.
• Sun Wukong, Tianpeng, Golden Cicada, and General Juanlian joked about which of them would miss out on the mission, which was limited to three people.
• Ksitigarbha arrived at Flower-Fruit Mountain, and Sun Wukong warmly welcomed him.
• Ksitigarbha confirmed that Sun Wukong and the others knew about the mission, but decided the Liaozhai World offered too little compared with the Journey to the West Tribulation's chance to become a Saint.

Ksitigarbha declined to enter the Liaozhai World, but paid Sun Wukong’s group to report on its Special Mission so he could learn from it while preparing for the Journey to the West Tribulation. As the group set its sights on the mission, Grand Pure One Laozi learned of it and considered whether to take part.

• Ksitigarbha chose to focus on preparations for the approaching Journey to the West Tribulation rather than risk missing it by entering the low-strength Liaozhai World.
• Ksitigarbha told Sun Wukong’s group that he wanted information about the Liaozhai World’s Special Mission and asked them to report what they learned.
• Sun Wukong’s group agreed, and Ksitigarbha gave each of the four members three thousand Exchange Points, promising greater rewards for crucial information.
• Grand Pure One Laozi learned about the Liaozhai World mission through the chat group and felt drawn to its Special Mission, though the world’s low strength made him reluctant to participate.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun studied the Liaozhai World mission and chose to stay behind, ready to intervene if the altered Journey to the West Tribulation threatened the Primordial World or Wu Feng. Wu Feng posted detailed mission information for ten Exchange Points, and Zhao Gongming asked whether anyone in Liaozhai needed special protection or targeting.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun reviewed Wu Feng's Liaozhai World announcement and decided not to join the mission, hoping to observe its Special Mission through the livestream instead.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun prepared to intervene if the Journey to the West Tribulation exceeded the Heavenly Dao's control and endangered the Primordial World or Wu Feng.
• The chapter explained that the Heavenly Dao had suffered a heavy blow after sensing the aura of Wu Feng's General Store and had since avoided it.
• Wu Feng began charging ten Exchange Points for detailed Liaozhai World mission information because the world contained a Special Mission.
• Zhao Gongming asked Wu Feng whether the Liaozhai World mission involved specific people who needed protection or targeting.

Wu Feng explained the Liaozhai World mission and urged powerful cultivators to leave it to weaker members of the Chat Group so they could earn Exchange Points and grow stronger. He warned that outsiders might soon threaten the Primordial World, leaving the cultivators tense about the coming danger.

• Zhao Gongming asked whether anyone in the Liaozhai World required special attention, and Wu Feng said the world was too weak to draw powerful outsiders.
• Wu Feng told the mission participants to protect the human race and complete the Special Mission, while warning that its rewards would likely be modest.
• Wu Feng encouraged Quasi-Saints and Saints to let Grand Unity Golden Immortals take the mission so they could gain Exchange Points and develop their strength.
• Wu Feng explained that powerhouses in the River of Time had noticed his General Store and might send transmigrators or Main God Space teams to investigate the Primordial World.
• Wu Feng warned that outsiders might soon appear in the Primordial World, and the gathered cultivators fell silent with apprehension.

Wu Feng opened registration for the Liaozhai World mission after the powerful cultivators agreed to stay out, and Sun Wukong, Ao Lie, and Marshal Tian Peng won the three spots. As the team prepared to depart, Dao Ancestor Hongjun sensed a familiar aura that disgusted him.

• Ksitigarbha and Dao Ancestor Hongjun agreed not to join the Liaozhai World mission, and the cultivators above Quasi-Saint level stayed out of the registration scramble.
• Wu Feng started the countdown, and the eligible cultivators competed for the limited mission spots.
• Sun Wukong, Ao Lie, and Marshal Tian Peng were announced as the successful registrants.
• Marshal Tian Peng celebrated his selection, while Sun Wukong regretted that all four of his companions had not secured spots.
• Golden Cicada, General Juanlian, and Ksitigarbha were pleased that Sun Wukong and Marshal Tian Peng could gather information about the Special Mission.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun sensed a familiar aura in the Chat Group that filled him with disgust.

Sun Wukong, Marshal Tian Peng, and Jade Faced Third Prince Ao Lie entered the Liaozhai World mission after the Chat Group selected them. As they traveled through a spatial passage, Sun Wukong warned the others not to risk gazing too deeply at the Great Dao of Space.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun deduced that Wutian was Rahula’s reincarnation but dismissed him as no threat and saw no reason to interfere.
• Ao Lie welcomed the Liaozhai World mission and planned to help Sun Wukong earn rewards while repaying some of his debt to him.
• Laozi regretted missing the mission and hoped to ask Marshal Tian Peng about it afterward; Master of the Heavens praised Tian Peng’s fortune and told his disciples to welcome him to Golden Ao Island.
• Yuanshi Tianzun, frustrated that none of the selected participants were connected to him, considered approaching the dragon clan through Ao Lie.
• Sun Wukong, Marshal Tian Peng, and Ao Lie were pulled into a special spatial passage, where Sun Wukong warned them against letting the Great Dao of Space disturb their minds.
• Marshal Tian Peng and Ao Lie withdrew their gazes from the passage’s Great Dao of Space, while Sun Wukong stayed alert.

Sun Wukong, Marshal Tian Peng, and Ao Lie entered the Liaozhai World to find a human settlement and protect its people. Sun Wukong reached a town first and disguised himself as a Daoist priest, while the livestream viewers discussed the world’s demonic nature and Hongjun asked Taiqing Laozi for his thoughts.

• Sun Wukong warned Marshal Tian Peng and Ao Lie not to underestimate the Liaozhai World, and they entered it together.
• Sun Wukong, Marshal Tian Peng, and Ao Lie found that the world’s demonic spiritual energy did not hinder their powers and agreed to search separately for a human settlement.
• Sun Wukong, Marshal Tian Peng, and Ao Lie opened livestreams and set a quarter-hour limit before regrouping to share what they found.
• Sun Wukong found a human town first and used the Seventy-Two Transformations to appear as a Daoist priest before approaching it.
• Wutian and Dao Ancestor Hongjun discussed the Liaozhai World during the livestream, and Hongjun asked Taiqing Laozi what he thought.

The Chat Group debated what made the Liaozhai World’s Special Mission different, then Sun Wukong learned that hunters were disappearing in Guo Bei County. He returned to the gathering point to compare findings with Marshal Tian Peng and the Jade Faced Third Prince Ao Lie, while Wu Feng noted the danger posed by Black Mountain Old Demon.

• Taiching Laozi declined to draw conclusions about the Liaozhai World, while Yuanshi Tianzun condemned it as a heretical world where the Demonic Path prevailed.
• Wutian rebuked Yuanshi Tianzun, who resented the Quasi-Saint’s public challenge but refrained from acting because Senior Wu Feng was present.
• Master of the Heavens suggested that the Liaozhai World’s Special Mission stemmed from its differences from other mission worlds, including the Demonic Path’s ascendancy.
• Sun Wukong questioned Li Shan in Guo Bei County and learned that hunters had been disappearing, prompting the magistrate to recruit capable investigators.
• Sun Wukong left to meet Marshal Tian Peng and the Jade Faced Third Prince Ao Lie; Wu Feng identified Black Mountain Old Demon as Guo Bei County’s true danger.
• Sun Wukong reunited with Marshal Tian Peng and the Jade Faced Third Prince Ao Lie, and the three began sharing their findings.

Sun Wukong returned to Guo Bei County to establish himself as a capable but not overpowering protector, while Marshal Tian Peng investigated the corrupt capital ruled by the demon Pudu Cihang. The chapter left Marshal Tian Peng at Pudu Cihang’s lavish temple, where abused slaves were being forced to finish its main hall within seven days.

• Sun Wukong, Marshal Tian Peng, and Jade Faced Third Prince Ao Lie agreed to protect separate human settlements, but Marshal Tian Peng failed to persuade Sun Wukong to join him in the capital.
• Sun Wukong returned to Guo Bei County and planned to answer the magistrate’s notice by presenting himself as an unusually capable person.
• Marshal Tian Peng entered the capital and sensed that the centipede demon Pudu Cihang, disguised as the Imperial Preceptor, was draining the dynasty’s fortune.
• Marshal Tian Peng observed the capital’s decay and learned that the Human Dao was endangered as the Human Race’s fortune dwindled.
• Marshal Tian Peng found Pudu Cihang’s enormous golden temple under construction, where overseers whipped slaves and demanded that the main hall be completed within seven days.

Marshal Tian Peng attacked Cihang Pudu’s temple after discovering that its overseers enslaved humans and that their leader was a demon. He overwhelmed Cihang Pudu’s forces and resisted the demon’s Buddhist chant, leaving Cihang Pudu shocked by the disparity in their strength.

• Marshal Tian Peng recognized the brocade-robed overseer as a demon and attacked him with the Nine-Tooth Rake.
• Marshal Tian Peng cut through the monsters in the temple and reached its inner hall in less than ten breaths.
• Cihang Pudu appeared and tried to use the imperial army to wear down Marshal Tian Peng.
• Marshal Tian Peng invoked Law Manifesting Heaven and Earth and swept away the soldiers surrounding him.
• Cihang Pudu’s Life-Reaping Sanskrit Chant failed to affect Marshal Tian Peng, who roared and dispersed it.

Marshal Tian Peng overwhelmed Cihang Pudu, drove off the Demonic Path, and prepared to expose and kill the centipede demon for the human victims. He left Cihang Pudu alive for the moment after noticing nearby mortals who still believed him to be the Imperial Preceptor.

• Cihang Pudu intensified his Life-Reaping Sanskrit Chant and invoked the Western Tathagata, but Marshal Tian Peng mocked him and ignored his attacks.
• Cihang Pudu connected his chant to the Demonic Path and formed a Sanskrit-sound domain, while the Demonic Path began trying to seize his body.
• Marshal Tian Peng released his aura and struck the Demonic Path with the Nine-Tooth Rake, forcing it to flee wounded.
• Marshal Tian Peng attacked Cihang Pudu in order to honor the dead, but deliberately pierced his shoulder after noticing nearby mortals.
• Marshal Tian Peng began breaking down Cihang Pudu's human disguise, causing the temple to shake and the earth to split.

Marshal Tian Peng killed the Centipede Demon Cihang Pudu, whose corpse deterred demons and won the capital’s awe, while Tian Peng Temple gained followers. At court, Li Qingyun warned that Tian Peng’s influence could threaten the dynasty, and Tian Peng entered just as Li tried to take his own life.

• Cihang Pudu unleashed poisonous mist in a desperate attack, but Marshal Tian Peng absorbed it and killed him with the Nine-Tooth Rake.
• Marshal Tian Peng hung Cihang Pudu’s corpse from the city wall, frightening demons and earning the people’s reverence.
• More than ten days later, court officials debated Tian Peng Temple’s growing influence as the weakened emperor attended court.
• Li Qingyun accused Marshal Tian Peng of possibly being another demon, while the eunuch defended him and praised him as the dynasty’s savior.
• Li Qingyun tried to strike his head against a pillar, but Marshal Tian Peng entered the hall and stopped him from being hurt.

After killing Centipede Demon Cihang Pudu, Marshal Tian Peng allied with the emperor to improve his protection of humanity and prepare for a Heaven-worshiping ceremony that could revive the Human Dao. He left the court with plans to use Tian Peng Temples and the Human Dao to monitor threats across the Liaozhai World.

• The imperial court split over whether Marshal Tian Peng was a righteous immortal or another demon seeking Dynastic Fortune, but the emperor and most officials supported him.
• Marshal Tian Peng met the emperor, demanded reports of Demons and Monsters and an endless supply of fine wine and meat, then prolonged the emperor’s life without fully restoring his health.
• Marshal Tian Peng told the emperor to preside over a Heaven-worshiping ceremony on an Auspicious Day seven days later, and Li Qingyun accused him of serving the Demonic Path.
• The emperor defended Marshal Tian Peng and condemned Li Qingyun, while the eunuch promised that the emperor would hold the ceremony and establish a Tian Peng Temple as the Great Religion for Protecting the Nation.
• Because reports of attacks arrived too late, Marshal Tian Peng ordered Tian Peng Temples built throughout the kingdom so he could monitor Demons and Monsters.
• Marshal Tian Peng planned to use the ceremony to draw out the Human Dao, allowing it to reappear and help him monitor humanity across the Liaozhai World.

Marshal Tian Peng failed to summon the Human Dao but gained a thread of its laws, allowing him to protect an entire kingdom and spread Tian Peng Temples. Meanwhile, Sun Wukong was asked to investigate dried corpses at Lanruo Temple, where a sinister wind began to blow at night.

• The emperor and officials completed a Heaven-worshipping ceremony, but it failed to summon the Human Dao.
• Marshal Tian Peng reassured the frightened court and healed the emperor and the other mortals with magic power.
• Marshal Tian Peng used the dynasty's fortune to steal a thread of the Human Dao's laws, expanding his protection across the kingdom.
• Tian Peng Temples spread to nearby countries and aided people with food and healing, while Marshal Tian Peng's standing among mortals grew.
• The magistrate of Guo Bei County asked Sun Wukong to investigate dried corpses found at Lanruo Temple.
• A sinister wind swept through Lanruo Temple and burst open the main hall doors.

Sun Wukong entered Lanruo Temple, destroyed Nie Xiaoqian and the other female ghosts, and fought Tree Demon Grandma for entertainment. After Grandma revealed her gruesome true form, Sun Wukong decided to stop playing and slay her.

• Tree Demon Grandma ordered her female ghosts to capture Sun Wukong, whose vital energy she coveted.
• Sun Wukong struck down Nie Xiaoqian and the other female ghosts with his Golden Cudgel.
• Tree Demon Grandma attacked Sun Wukong, but he overwhelmed her and prevented her escape.
• Grandma unleashed her demonic power, sending trees and tree-men against Sun Wukong, who smashed them apart.
• Wounded, Tree Demon Grandma revealed her thousand-zhang true form, covered in living, withered human heads.
• Disgusted by the sight, Sun Wukong decided there was no need to toy with Tree Demon Grandma any longer.

Sun Wukong killed Tree Demon Grandma and staged a display of swordsmanship to win Yan Chixia’s admiration, hoping to persuade him to guard Guo Bei County. Yan Chixia entered Lanruo Temple, saw the demon’s remains, and hailed Sun Wukong as an immortal swordsman and defender of humanity.

• Sun Wukong killed Tree Demon Grandma with a single strike and decided to find Yan Chixia, who was waiting outside Lanruo Temple.
• Sun Wukong imitated the swordsmanship of Master of the Heavens and used the display to impress Yan Chixia and draw him into Lanruo Temple.
• Yan Chixia called Xia Hou along to seek guidance from the supposed immortal swordsman, then entered the temple and saw the battlefield and Tree Demon Grandma’s remains.
• Yan Chixia praised Sun Wukong for killing the thousand-year Tree Demon and believed he was a great champion of humanity.

Sun Wukong recruited Yan Chixia and Xia Hou to guard Guo Bei County, trained them, and learned that Black Mountain Old Demon had seized the City of the Wrongfully Dead. He entered the underworld to confront the demon and investigate the disappearance of the immortals and Buddhas.

• Sun Wukong offered to teach Yan Chixia and Xia Hou swordsmanship in exchange for guarding Guo Bei County for a hundred years, and both men agreed.
• Sun Wukong trained Yan Chixia and Xia Hou for two months until their strength surpassed Tree Demon Grandma's.
• Yan Chixia explained that Black Mountain Old Demon occupied the City of the Wrongfully Dead, allowing ghosts and demons to reach the mortal world.
• Sun Wukong decided to seek out Black Mountain Old Demon and entered the underworld by cleaving open the boundary between yin and yang.
• Sun Wukong saw that the underworld was incomplete and filled with wandering souls, with no Underworld Officers governing it.