Recaps

Sun Wukong failed to remove the Golden Hoop, while Tang Sanzang’s journey continued through Little White Dragon’s attack and revival. At Guanyin Zen Temple, Elder Jinchi stole Tang Sanzang’s identity and ordered a massacre, but Sun Wukong exposed him before the Buddha and the temple’s dead monks.

• Sun Wukong failed to remove the Golden Hoop at the Heavenly Court and Spirit Mountain, then returned to Tang Sanzang, who used the Tightening Curse to keep him afraid.
• The Dao Ancestor gave Little White Dragon the Water-Raising Pearl, and Little White Dragon swallowed Tang Sanzang before overpowering the Heavenly Court’s forces.
• Luo Xuan killed Little White Dragon, and Tathagata Buddha Patriarch revived Tang Sanzang with Three Lights Divine Water before Ao Rong became his new White Dragon Horse.
• Tang Sanzang arrived at Guanyin Zen Temple, where Elder Jinchi borrowed his Brocade Kasaya and Nine-Ring Staff and arranged to trap him in a fire.
• Elder Jinchi used the Soul-Life Conversion Formation to take Tang Sanzang’s young body and identity, then continued west with Sun Wukong.
• Jinchi ordered Sun Wukong to kill the demon and the monks at Guanyin Zen Temple, and Sun Wukong fought Black Bear Spirit before burning the temple and killing its monks.
• Sun Wukong summoned Tathagata Buddha Patriarch and the temple’s lost souls, and Guangzhi exposed Jinchi’s soul exchange and his orders to start the fire and massacre the monks.

Qingyuan restored the Sun and Moon Stars, created the New Primordial Wilderness, and connected it to the Primordial Wilderness through the Great Flood game. As its players searched for the secret behind recurring world-destroying floods, Hongjun and the Saints entered the game to investigate.

• Tathagata restored Tang Sanzang’s destiny after Jinchi admitted using the Soul-Life Conversion Formation, but Tathagata’s accusations against Universal Manifestation Tathagata found no proof, and Jieyin and Zhunti sought help from Qingyuan and Hongjun.
• Qingyuan revived Di Jun, Tai Yi, and Xi He from another space-time, took them as disciples, and retrieved the Moon Star from the River of Time despite the Heavenly Dao’s thunderous opposition.
• Qingyuan restored the Moon Star, strengthened Wang Shu’s origin, and formed the New Primordial Wilderness by merging the Three Thousand Realms into the Chaos Pearl.
• Qingyuan linked the New Primordial Wilderness to the Primordial Wilderness Internet and launched Great Flood, where players discovered that cultivation insights gained in the game carried over into reality.
• Players flocked to Great Flood, explored its central Divine Mountain, and discovered that climbing higher brought denser Dao Resonance and greater cultivation benefits.
• A series of Great Floods destroyed players’ settlements and defenses, while Qingyuan revealed that the floods concealed a secret and a reward from the New Primordial Wilderness World Origin.
• Players deciphered clues directing them to the Divine Mountain’s summit, and The Shipbuilder proposed riding the rising floodwaters there in sealed ships.
• Hongjun summoned Taishang Laojun, Venerable Yuanshi, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti to discuss Great Flood, then led them into the game to investigate its secret.

The five Heavenly Dao Saints repeatedly tried to carry players through the World-Destroying Flood, eventually reaching the Divine Mountain and claiming Primordial Violet Qi before Qingyuan destroyed the game world. Hongjun exposed Qingyuan’s plan to devour the Primordial Wilderness, and the arc left Qingyuan facing the Saints as Hongjun called the Hunyuan Saints into battle.

• The five Saints tested the Great Flood and developed the Ark of Life, gathering players whose living bodies formed a vessel that repeatedly broke apart under the flood and Divine Mountain’s pressure.
• The Saints expanded Alliance Under Heaven and recruited hundreds of billions of players, whose organized ark finally survived the flood and reached the Divine Mountain’s summit.
• When players rushed toward the Primordial Violet Qi, the ark broke apart, and the Saints later bound more than two trillion players with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and returned to claim the violet qi.
• Qingyuan shattered the game world, and the five Saints reported the events to Hongjun, who concluded that Qingyuan intended to replace the Primordial Wilderness and devour it.
• As cracks spread across the Primordial Wilderness, Sect Master Tongtian confronted Qingyuan, but the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation failed to pierce Qingyuan’s barrier and its diagram shattered.
• Hongjun rallied the Primordial Wilderness against Qingyuan, who rejected the Saints’ pleas and said he would devour the world rather than let Hongjun consume it.
• The six Heavenly Dao Saints attacked Qingyuan, but he absorbed their powers and countered their treasures while Hongjun secretly supported them with the Creation Jade Disk and the Primordial Wilderness Source.
• Hongjun summoned the Hunyuan Saints, promised them Heavenly Dao recognition and other rewards, and ordered them to strike Qingyuan.

Hongjun seized the Earthly and Human Dao Authorities, crushed those who refused to submit, and fused with Pangu’s phantom to attack Qingyuan. He wounded Qingyuan, but Qingyuan’s calm reaction left Hongjun suspecting the apparent victory was part of a plan.

• Hongjun’s Evil Corpse took control of the Netherworld after Empress Pingxin self-destructed, and Yun Zhongzi burned his Primordial Spirit rather than attack Qingyuan.
• Liu Yuan and Qingyuan’s disciples transformed into Chaos Demon Gods and fought Hongjun, but Hongjun bound them with Great Dao chains and killed the Witch Saints who joined the battle.
• Haotian renounced the Heavenly Emperor’s throne and attacked Hongjun, who erased him, while the Human Sages self-destructed to return their Dao Authority to the Human Race.
• Hongjun gathered the Three Dao Authorities as Candle Dragon died defending Qingyuan, the Dragon Clan was erased, and Wang Shu and Zhen Yuanzi defied Hongjun before other Saints submitted.
• Hongjun claimed to possess Pangu’s Dao Fruit and destroyed the True Spirits of Qingyuan’s seven disciples, while Qingyuan remained silent and vanished when Hongjun attacked.
• Hongjun absorbed the Primordial Wilderness Source, reached the Half-Step Great Dao Realm, and began refining the Primordial Wilderness into himself as he merged with Pangu’s phantom.
• Hongjun completed the fusion and struck Qingyuan with beams that wounded him and weakened his connection to the New Primordial Wilderness, but Qingyuan’s calm gaze made Hongjun suspect the outcome was expected.