Chapter Summaries

Marshal Tianpeng punished the Five Directional Guardians for mistreating Sun Wukong, then discovered that Sun Wukong remembered a dream in which Tianpeng had appeared. Tianpeng eagerly asked about the dream after Sun Wukong mentioned a Moonlight Treasure Box.

• The Four Duty Merit Officers showed Marshal Tianpeng evidence that the Five Directional Guardians had humiliated Sun Wukong.
• Marshal Tianpeng beat the Five Directional Guardians and warned everyone not to mistreat Sun Wukong.
• Marshal Tianpeng cleared and secured the area around Sun Wukong, who thanked him but showed little interest in talking.
• As Marshal Tianpeng prepared to leave, Sun Wukong described a dream in which Tianpeng had been an ugly pig demon and Sun Wukong had escaped Five Elements Mountain.
• Marshal Tianpeng concealed them with a Heavenly Veil and urged Sun Wukong to explain the dream, and Sun Wukong recalled stealing a Moonlight Treasure Box and venting his anger.

Marshal Tianpeng told Sun Wukong that they had shared the same dream and asked what he should do when following his heart might cost him his life. Sun Wukong urged him to follow his heart, and Tianpeng left resolved to act while ordering the Five Directional Guardians to stop feeding Sun Wukong garbage.

• Sun Wukong described fragments of a dream in which he fought the Heavenly Court, the Buddhist Sect, and Tathagata, then lamented that it had not been real.
• Tianpeng asked Sun Wukong about the Moonlight Treasure Box and the fairy from the dream, then suggested that the events might have truly happened.
• Tianpeng asked whether Sun Wukong would follow his heart even if it meant dying, and Sun Wukong said he would rather die without regret than live with resentment.
• Tianpeng thanked Sun Wukong, said he knew what to do, and prepared to leave.
• Tianpeng ordered the Five Directional Guardians not to feed Sun Wukong garbage and threatened to make them eat the same amount Sun Wukong ate.

Tianpeng told Qingyuan about his betrayal during the trial and expected punishment, but Qingyuan revealed that his actions had been part of a test. The Five Directional Guardians hid what happened at Five Elements Mountain, while Tianpeng realized the true test had ended only when he confessed to Qingyuan.

• The Five Directional Guardians feared Tianpeng and decided not to report his beating to the Buddha Patriarch or risk further provoking him.
• The guardians pretended that Sun Wukong had already received his Copper-Juice Iron Pills and dispersed without mentioning the incident.
• Tianpeng went to Golden Ao Island, knelt before Qingyuan, and confessed that he had joined others against him because he feared death.
• Qingyuan calmly said he knew what had happened and revealed that Tianpeng had performed well in the test he arranged.
• Tianpeng realized the true test had been judging whether he would confess to Qingyuan, and he felt relieved that Sun Wukong had helped him choose correctly.

Tianpeng feared that Qingyuan’s pointed remarks about the Dao Ancestor would bring trouble, but Qingyuan reassured him and let him decide whether to continue the Journey to the West. The Two Shakya then contacted Qingyuan to ask for a larger share of the Western Lands economic zone’s profits and worried that he planned to target the Western Teachings.

• Qingyuan criticized those who stirred up Tribulations of Calamity, leaving Tianpeng terrified that the Dao Ancestor would retaliate against him.
• Qingyuan assured Tianpeng that the Dao Ancestor would not trouble him and told him he could continue the Journey to the West if he wished.
• Tianpeng left Golden Ao Island happily after Qingyuan said he could still go retrieve the scriptures despite his Good Corpse already having gone.
• The Two Shakya projected themselves from Qingyuan’s phone and asked him to increase the Western Teachings’ share of the economic special zone’s profits.
• Qingyuan threatened to withdraw his disciples’ investments, then asked the Two Shakya why they had come; Daoist Zhunti asked whether Qingyuan intended to target the Western Teachings.

Qingyuan rejected Zhunti’s accusation that he was targeting the Western Teachings and sent the Two Sages away. He then discovered a hidden realm and awakened Demon Ancestor Luohu, whom he greeted with a cup of tea.

• Zhunti accused Qingyuan of allowing Tianpeng to humiliate the Western Teachings, while Qingyuan denied plotting against them and ended their call.
• Jieyin and Zhunti worried that Tianpeng’s actions had a hidden purpose, but decided to wait and see what Qingyuan would do.
• Qingyuan reflected that Hongjun remained hidden in the Heavenly Dao Origin and that the Human and Earth Dao Origins had reached a growth bottleneck.
• Qingyuan threw a bronze pool into the Void and opened a path to a realm filled with savage, unknown beings.
• Demon Ancestor Luohu awakened and asked Qingyuan who he was, and Qingyuan calmly offered him tea.

Qingyuan encountered the resurrected but incomplete consciousness of Demon Ancestor Luohu in the Demon Realm. Luohu demanded Qingyuan become his disciple, then attacked him after Qingyuan warned that he could destroy Luohu’s consciousness; Luohu was left utterly shocked when his strike failed to go as expected.

• Qingyuan calmly observed Demon Ancestor Luohu as Luohu pieced together information about the current era from thoughts scattered through the Demon Realm.
• Luohu recognized Qingyuan as Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun’s disciple and offered to make him his First Disciple and heir to the Demonic Dao.
• Qingyuan gave his name but showed no interest in Luohu’s offer, angering the Demon Ancestor.
• Qingyuan warned that he could both gather Luohu’s scattered consciousness and crush it.
• Luohu attacked Qingyuan with a palm strike, but Qingyuan did not dodge, leaving Luohu utterly dumbfounded.

Qingyuan told Demon Ancestor Luohu about the Primordial Wilderness’s history and claimed he had defeated Hongjun and the Saints, but Luohu dismissed his account as boasting. The chapter left Luohu doubting whether to possess Qingyuan’s body.

• Demon Ancestor Luohu’s attack on Qingyuan vanished, so he drew Qingyuan into the Demon Realm with a beam of demonic light.
• Luohu questioned Qingyuan about what had happened in the Primordial Wilderness since his fall, and Qingyuan recounted the rise of the Saints and the Witch-Demon conflicts.
• Qingyuan claimed he had attained Hunyuan, helped Houtu establish the Netherworld, spread new cultivation paths, and defeated Hongjun and his allies.
• Luohu interrupted Qingyuan and accused him of inventing an implausible story about overpowering the Heavenly Dao Saints and slaying Yang Mei.
• Qingyuan called Luohu too weak to interest him, and Luohu said he no longer dared to possess Qingyuan’s body because the young man seemed foolish.

Qingyuan offered to grant Demon Ancestor Luohu’s wish and proved the God Slaying Spear was real, but Luohu mistook the discovery for an illusion and attacked him. Qingyuan stopped Luohu and pinned him down, leaving him clear-headed and shaken by Qingyuan’s power.

• Demon Ancestor Luohu challenged Qingyuan to find the destroyed God Slaying Spear, and Qingyuan produced it.
• Qingyuan tossed the spear to Demon Ancestor Luohu, who recognized it and felt its power exceeded the weapon he had once wielded.
• Demon Ancestor Luohu concluded that the spear and his apparent revival were illusions, then attacked Qingyuan in a frenzy.
• Qingyuan caught the spear with two fingers, dispersed Luohu’s attack, and used blood blades to pin him to the ground.
• Demon Ancestor Luohu’s eyes cleared, and he realized Qingyuan was genuinely far more powerful than he had imagined.

Qingyuan visited the Demon Realm and offered to help Luohou regain his freedom, but Luohou struggled to believe Qingyuan was an ordinary Postnatal Spirit who had defeated Hongjun. The chapter ended with Luohou insisting that Qingyuan could never reverse the Primordial Wilderness’s rules.

• Luohou awoke in the Demon Realm and wondered how Qingyuan had defeated Hongjun despite Hongjun’s power and control over Heavenly Dao.
• Luohou guessed that Qingyuan was a surviving Chaos Demon God, naming several possibilities, but Qingyuan denied them all.
• Qingyuan told Luohou that he was an ordinary Postnatal Spirit and had come to see whether he could save him.
• Luohou explained that he could not exist freely as an individual while Dao Waning, Demon Flourishing remained in effect.
• Qingyuan offered a way for Luohou to lead the Demon Realm back into the Primordial Wilderness and escape the rules, but Luohou declared it impossible.

Qingyuan offered to revive Demon Ancestor Luohu and restore his power if Luohu became his Personal Disciple, but Luohu was outraged at the thought of a junior becoming his master. After Qingyuan promised to demand nothing else, Luohu calmed and began negotiating, asking how Qingyuan could guarantee his offer.

• Qingyuan told Demon Ancestor Luohu that he lacked a Personal Disciple and wanted Luohu to become one.
• Demon Ancestor Luohu angrily refused, saying he would rather perish than take a junior as his master.
• Qingyuan offered to revive Luohu, restore his body and Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal power, and help him control the Demon Realm without taking anything from him.
• Demon Ancestor Luohu questioned why Qingyuan wanted a disciple if he sought no reward, then asked whether the offer was guaranteed.
• Demon Ancestor Luohu, no longer as furious, hesitated over accepting and asked Qingyuan how he could ensure his promises were true.

Qingyuan accepted Demon Ancestor Luohou as his disciple and received immense rewards, including treasures that could restore Luohou’s Chaos Demon God body. As Qingyuan prepared for an impending battle with Hongjun, he asked Luohou whether he wanted to recover his former innate foundation.

• Luohou bowed to Qingyuan and asked to become his disciple.
• The system rewarded Qingyuan with 99.9 billion years of Daoxing and numerous Demonic Dao treasures, including a Chaos Demon God Blood Pool.
• Qingyuan’s immense aura shook the Demon Realm, and Luohou marveled at his strength before apologizing for speaking presumptuously.
• Qingyuan examined his rewards and resolved to refine them before confronting Hongjun, whose next move he expected to bring a decisive battle.
• Qingyuan asked Luohou whether he wanted to recover his former innate foundation, leaving Luohou stunned.

Demon Ancestor Luohu agreed to let Qingyuan restore his former Innate Demon God Origin using the Chaos Demon God Blood Pool. Inside its vast flesh-and-blood world, Luohu sensed the remains of the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods and began to suspect Qingyuan had hidden ties to the ancient age of Chaos.

• Luohu accepted Qingyuan's offer to restore his former origin and pledged to serve him after recovering.
• Qingyuan produced the Chaos Demon God Blood Pool, and Luohu recognized the Source of Chaos Creation Vitality within it.
• Luohu eagerly transformed into Black Light and entered the pool, which expanded into a boundless world of flesh and blood.
• Luohu sensed familiar auras in the flesh world and suspected it was formed from the remains of the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods.
• Luohu speculated that Qingyuan had secretly shaped events since the age of Chaos, before Qingyuan told him to guard his mind and prepare.

Demon Ancestor Luohou entered the Chaos Demon God Blood Pool and was sealed inside a Blood Cocoon as it reconstructed his body and consciousness. Qingyuan studied the pool’s laws and considered whether it could transform his disciples into Chaos Demon Gods, while Luohou’s transformation continued toward a massive upheaval.

• Qingyuan told Demon Ancestor Luohou to guard his mind, and Luohou sat down ready to begin the transformation.
• The Chaos Demon God Blood Pool covered Luohou in flesh, pouring Creation Vitality and Chaos Laws into him until a Blood Cocoon formed around him.
• Countless ages passed within the pool as flesh regenerated and Demonic Dao laws and Chaos Demonic Qi filled the realm.
• Qingyuan studied the pool and speculated that he might use it to evolve his disciples into Chaos Demon Gods, though he could not yet know whether the process would work.
• Qingyuan sent more origin into the pool and helped Luohou shape his emerging laws, while a huge figure took form inside the expanding Blood Cocoon.
• Another earth-shaking upheaval erupted within the Chaos Demon God Blood Pool.

Demon Ancestor Luohou emerged from the Chaos Demon God Blood Pool with his Chaos Demon God Foundation restored, then rebelled against Qingyuan and returned to the Demon Realm to escape his attack. He mocked Qingyuan and demanded the treasure that had restored him.

• Demon Ancestor Luohou burst from the Blood Cocoon and devoured the Chaos Demon God Blood Pool, ignoring Qingyuan's warning to stop.
• Qingyuan struck at Luohou with an enormous finger after Luohou continued consuming the pool.
• Luohou announced that his Chaos Demon God Foundation and former powers had returned, and declared his intention to challenge Hongjun and overturn the Primordial Wilderness.
• Luohou revealed that he planned to rebel because Qingyuan had placed no oath or restraint on him, then dissolved into mist to return to the Demon Realm.
• Luohou formed a new body in the Demon Realm, praised the treasure that restored him, and asked Qingyuan to hand it over in exchange for helping him fight Hongjun.

Demon Ancestor Luohu used his control over the Demon Realm to defy Qingyuan and refuse to honor their master-disciple relationship. Qingyuan stayed to challenge him, and as Luohu summoned a Demon Realm Saint, Qingyuan pressed one finger toward him.

• Luohu concealed his true body within the Demon Realm and claimed its rules made him nearly impossible to find or affect.
• Luohu offered to ally with Qingyuan against Hongjun, then argued that their master-disciple bond had no oath to enforce it.
• Qingyuan ordered Luohu to kneel and explain himself, but Luohu refused and told him to leave the Demon Realm.
• When Qingyuan insisted on staying, Luohu formed a towering Demon Realm Saint from demonic energy, realm rules, and his Great Dao insights.
• Luohu challenged Qingyuan to show what he could do, and Qingyuan smiled and pressed one finger toward him.

Qingyuan repeatedly crushed Demon Ancestor Luohu’s Demon Dao Saint body and endured every attack without harm. Luohu hid himself in the silent Demon Realm, betting Qingyuan could not find or kill him, while Qingyuan drew the God Slaying Spear and began searching.

• Demon Ancestor Luohu challenged Qingyuan, but Qingyuan’s finger shattered his body, which Luohu restored using the Demon Realm’s power.
• Qingyuan crushed Luohu’s body a second time, and Luohu filled the Demon Realm with countless Fiend God forms to conceal himself.
• Luohu sent the Fiend Gods and other attacks against Qingyuan, but none of them injured him.
• Frustrated, Luohu vanished and declared that he would hide because Qingyuan could not find him in the Demon Realm.
• Qingyuan summoned the God Slaying Spear and swept it through the Demon Realm, warning Luohu to hide well.

Qingyuan tracked Demon Ancestor Luohu through the Demon Realm and repeatedly severed his arms with the God Slaying Spear. Luohu hid inside the Demon Realm Core, furious that Qingyuan had left his restored Chaos Demon God Foundation incomplete.

• Qingyuan appeared before Demon Ancestor Luohu inside the Demon Realm and severed several of his arms with the God Slaying Spear.
• Luohu used the Myriad Demons Shadowless Technique to disappear, but Qingyuan found him again and cut off more arms.
• Luohu fled and hid repeatedly, while Qingyuan continued to locate him and sever his arms.
• Luohu merged his Laws into the Demon Realm's source and hid within its Core, convinced Qingyuan could no longer find him.

Qingyuan appeared inside the Demonic Dao Origin, shattering Demon Ancestor Luohu’s belief that the core was beyond intrusion. Luohu’s strongest attack failed to affect Qingyuan, and even after Luohu surrendered, Qingyuan cut off more of his arms.

• Demon Ancestor Luohu panicked when he saw Qingyuan inside the Demonic Dao Origin and insisted the sight was an illusion.
• Qingyuan severed more than a dozen of Luohu’s arms, confirming his presence was real.
• Luohu empowered his true form with the Demonic Dao Origin and unleashed his Finality killing move at Qingyuan.
• The attack did not affect Qingyuan, so Luohu admitted defeat and promised to obey him.
• Qingyuan struck Luohu with the God Slaying Spear again, severing and dissolving dozens of arms despite his surrender.

Qingyuan kept severing Demon Ancestor Luohu’s arms despite his surrender, while Luohu argued that only he could manage and strengthen the Demon Realm. Qingyuan produced a treasure with demonic aura and asked whether it could strengthen the Demon Realm’s origin.

• Qingyuan pursued Luohu across the Demon Realm and continued cutting off his arms, leaving him severely injured.
• Luohu begged Qingyuan to stop and claimed he had admitted his mistakes, but Qingyuan said Luohu only feared dying.
• Luohu threatened that destroying his body would make him an undying enemy and argued that Qingyuan needed him to control the Demon Realm and reach Hongjun.
• Qingyuan challenged Luohu’s claim that only he could strengthen the Demon Realm’s origin by producing a treasure radiating demonic aura.

Qingyuan fed the Myriad Demons Core and numerous Demonic Dao treasures into the Demon Realm, rapidly expanding and stabilizing it while Demon Ancestor Luohou protested. Luohou insisted the Demon Realm belonged to him, but his certainty faltered when a figure rose from Qingyuan's shadow.

• Luohou recognized the Myriad Demons Core as a source that could restore his lost origin and tried to seize it.
• Qingyuan merged the Myriad Demons Core into the Demon Realm, causing its territory and demonic qi to grow as Luohou was bound by chains.
• Qingyuan added the Demon Realm Heavenly Veil and other Demonic Dao treasures, strengthening the realm's laws, order, and foundations.
• Luohou begged Qingyuan to give him the treasures, claiming he could expand the Demon Realm's origin many times over, but Qingyuan refused.
• Luohou mocked Qingyuan and insisted the Demon Realm would heal him because it belonged to him.
• Luohou was shocked when a figure rose from Qingyuan's shadow.