Chapter Summaries

Sun Wukong, Tianpeng, and Zixia Fairy used the Moonlight Treasure Box to travel three hundred years into the past, arriving at Thunder Accumulation Mountain. There, Princess Iron Fan mistook Sun Wukong for her former lover Kongkong and accused him of betraying her.

• Sun Wukong seized everyone around him, but used the Moonlight Treasure Box to escape with Tianpeng and Zixia Fairy as a giant hand reached for them.
• The three traveled through Time Lines, and Sun Wukong realized they had genuinely returned three hundred years into the past.
• They arrived at Thunder Accumulation Mountain in daylight, where Princess Iron Fan used her Banana Leaf Fan to strip the mountain bare after arguing with the Bull Demon King over his affairs.
• Princess Iron Fan recognized Sun Wukong as Kongkong and reproached him for betraying her, leaving Sun Wukong embarrassed as the Bull Demon King returned.

Sun Wukong visited Bull Demon King at Thunder Accumulation Mountain with Tianpeng and Zixia Fairy, but Bull worried that sheltering an escapee would bring trouble from Heaven and the Buddhist Sect. Sun Wukong left after finishing a jar of wine, while Bull Demon King and Princess Iron Fan resumed their quarrel.

• Bull Demon King recognized Sun Wukong and asked whether he had escaped from Five Elements Mountain, while Princess Iron Fan welcomed him and offered to protect him.
• Sun Wukong brought Tianpeng and Zixia Fairy to Cloud-Touching Cave, where Bull Demon King mistook Tianpeng for food and flirted with Zixia Fairy until Princess Iron Fan pulled his ear.
• During the feast, Sun Wukong admitted he had escaped and said he had not decided what to do next.
• Bull Demon King hinted that Sun Wukong should leave to avoid bringing the Heavenly Court and Buddhist Sect down on Thunder Accumulation Mountain.
• Sun Wukong finished his wine and flew away with Tianpeng and Zixia Fairy, ignoring Bull Demon King's call to leave them behind.
• Bull Demon King and Princess Iron Fan began fighting again after Sun Wukong departed.

Sun Wukong visited Five Elements Mountain, found his buried counterpart, and then used the Moonlight Treasure Box to travel to the battle where he rebelled against the Heavenly Court. He sent Tianpeng to protect Flower Fruit Mountain while he prepared to act in the battle.

• Sun Wukong found his counterpart buried beneath leaves and soil at Five Elements Mountain and resolved to avenge him.
• After night fell, Sun Wukong took Zixia Fairy and Tianpeng through the Time Lines with the Moonlight Treasure Box.
• The trio arrived at the battle between Sun Wukong and Yang Jian, and Tianpeng realized Sun Wukong intended to revisit his past.
• Sun Wukong refused Tianpeng's offer to hold the Moonlight Treasure Box and ordered him to protect Flower Fruit Mountain.
• Tianpeng flew to Flower Fruit Mountain, shielded it with the Tianpeng Seal, and bound the attacking heavenly soldiers, generals, and immortals with immortal ropes.

Tianpeng defended Flower Fruit Mountain by binding the Heavenly Court’s attacking immortals and holding off their generals with figures created through the Tianpeng Seal. His unexpected intervention left Erlang God and Sun Wukong wondering where the powerful pig demon had come from.

• Tianpeng used streams of Immortal Light to bind the immortals attacking Flower Fruit Mountain, then declared that he was guarding the mountain.
• Tianpeng considered going to the Heavenly Court to investigate Taishang Laojun, but decided to stay and protect Flower Fruit Mountain as Sun Monkey had asked.
• Li Jing sent Nezha, Juling Shen, Yaksha General, and other generals to test Tianpeng, who used the Tianpeng Seal to create figures that stopped them.
• The monkey demons praised Tianpeng as a true brother of their Great King, and Tianpeng said Sun Wukong had called him to help.
• Erlang God noticed Tianpeng’s victory and asked Sun Wukong whether the pig demon was his backup plan, while Sun Wukong wondered about Tianpeng’s identity.
• Erlang God realized Sun Wukong did not know Tianpeng either, then showed astonishment.

Sun Wukong appeared during Yang Jian’s fight with the Local Monkey, and both opponents mistook him for an illusion. Sun Wukong revealed that the Local Monkey was a hair from his body, left on Flower Fruit Mountain while he entered Secluded Cultivation, and began explaining his plan to defy heaven.

• A second Sun Wukong arrived, and Yang Jian and the Local Monkey accused each other of creating an illusion.
• Yang Jian and the Local Monkey attacked the newcomer together, but Sun Wukong caught both weapons and threw them back.
• The Local Monkey charged Sun Wukong, but Sun Wukong stopped his Jingu Bang with one finger and endured his attacks without injury.
• Sun Wukong told the Local Monkey that he was a hair from his body, left on Flower Fruit Mountain to hold off the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.
• Sun Wukong explained that he had spent centuries planning to break free of heaven and earth’s shackles, while the Local Monkey knew nothing of his true purpose.

Sun Wukong convinced Local Monkey that he was only an incarnation, then crushed Erlang God and the immortals surrounding Flower Fruit Mountain with a thought. He sent Local Monkey back to protect the mountain and struck the Southern Heavenly Gate, demanding that this world live up to his expectations.

• Sun Wukong claimed Local Monkey was a monkey hair from his body and demonstrated his power by crushing Erlang God and hundreds of thousands of immortals and gods.
• Local Monkey accepted that he was only an incarnation, lost hope, and tried to return to Sun Wukong’s body.
• Sun Wukong stopped Local Monkey and told him to keep protecting Flower Fruit Mountain and uphold the Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s honor.
• Local Monkey returned to Flower Fruit Mountain, where the monkeys struggled to know what to call him.
• Sun Wukong seized the Jingu Bang and smashed the Southern Heavenly Gate.

Sun Wukong destroyed the Southern Heavenly Gate and entered the Heavenly Court to confront the Jade Emperor, while the Local Monkey struggled with learning he was only an incarnation. The Local Monkey found comfort in Flower Fruit Mountain’s monkeys, and Sun Wukong advanced toward the Thirty-Three Heavens as heavenly forces gathered around him.

• Sun Wukong smashed the Southern Heavenly Gate with one strike, stunning the Heavenly Court and delighting the demons of Flower Fruit Mountain.
• The Local Monkey mourned being only an incarnation until the monkeys offered him fruit and wine and affirmed that he was still their Great King.
• Sun Wukong watched the Local Monkey with envy, then flew to the Heavenly Court’s ruins and demanded that the Jade Emperor face him.
• Sun Wukong killed the heavenly soldiers and generals at the gate, then walked toward the Thirty-Three Heavens as more troops assembled around him.
• Several immortals condemned Sun Wukong and some hurried into the Heavenly Court to summon reinforcements.

Sun Wukong stormed the Heavenly Court, smashed the immortals who tried to stop him, and confronted the Jade Emperor in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall. The Heavenly Court’s officials remained unaware of what had happened below, and their attempts to bind and move Sun Wukong failed.

• Sun Wukong mocked the immortals’ arrogance and killed several with a single swing of the Jingu Bang.
• Sun Wukong blew tens of thousands of Heavenly Soldiers and Generals aside and flew unchallenged to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
• Sun Wukong told the confused immortals to use the Haotian Mirror and revealed that the Heavenly Court did not know he had arrived.
• The Jade Emperor ordered Sun Wukong seized and executed for ruining the Peach Immortal Banquet and stealing treasures.
• The Immortal Binding Rope snapped, and the divine generals and immortals could not move Sun Wukong.

Sun Wukong broke free of the gods and devastated the Lingxiao Treasure Hall before fighting the Jade Emperor to a standstill. The Jade Emperor summoned his Treasure Pagoda, which shattered Jingu Bang and left Sun Wukong stunned as it descended to crush him.

• Sun Wukong snapped the Immortal Binding Ropes and hurled away the gods restraining him.
• Sun Wukong grew Jingu Bang and swept it through the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, killing gods and destroying much of the hall.
• The Jade Emperor revealed his celestial Dharma Aspect and attacked Sun Wukong, who fought him without falling behind.
• The Jade Emperor brought out his Treasure Pagoda and sent it down to suppress Sun Wukong.
• Sun Wukong braced the pagoda with Jingu Bang, but the pagoda shattered the staff and continued descending.

Sun Wukong revealed that the Jingu Bang had restrained his power and devastated the Heavenly Court after the Jade Emperor tried to crush him with the Treasure Pagoda. As wounded immortals begged Vairocana Tathagata for help, he initially dismissed their pleas as part of the planned act but began to take them seriously as more arrived.

• The Jade Emperor sent the Treasure Pagoda crashing down on Sun Wukong, who said the Jingu Bang had held him back and that its destruction had freed him.
• Sun Wukong unleashed vast demonic energy that covered the Heavenly Court and sent demons rampaging through it.
• Sun Wukong punched the Treasure Pagoda, fracturing and shattering more than half of it.
• The Jade Emperor ordered the immortals to go to Spirit Mountain and summon Vairocana Tathagata.
• Bloodied Heavenly Court immortals begged Vairocana Tathagata to stop Sun Wukong, but he initially refused, believing the Havoc in Heaven had not begun; more wounded immortals then arrived and made him take their pleas seriously.

Vairocana Tathagata led the Buddhist forces toward the Heavenly Court after Taibai Golden Star warned that Sun Wukong had become dangerously powerful. They arrived to find Wukong fighting the Jade Emperor, who called on Tathagata for help, while Wukong prepared to face them all.

• Taibai Golden Star told Vairocana Tathagata that Sun Wukong had overwhelmed the Heavenly Court and urged him to send reinforcements for the Jade Emperor.
• Vairocana Tathagata ordered Guanyin to assemble Spirit Mountain’s Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and other forces, then departed despite Taibai Golden Star’s warning to bring more allies.
• The immortals who remained behind decided to follow the Buddhist forces, hoping to help rescue the Jade Emperor and earn his favor.
• As fighting and slaughter continued across the Thirty-Three Heavens, the trapped immortals welcomed the approaching Buddhist reinforcements.
• Vairocana Tathagata saw Sun Wukong fighting the Jade Emperor at the top of the Thirty-Three Heavens, and the Jade Emperor called for his help.
• Sun Wukong mocked the Jade Emperor for relying on the Heavenly Court’s Fortune Aura and challenged the arriving forces to settle accounts.

World-Honored Tathagata refused to enter the Heavenly Court to help the Jade Emperor and instead prepared a formation outside to trap Sun Wukong. The Jade Emperor sent Sun Wukong to Tathagata, sealing the Thirty-Three Heavens behind him, and Sun Wukong began breaking the Buddhist formation.

• World-Honored Tathagata ordered the ten thousand Buddhas to form the Ten Thousand Buddhas Demon-Subduing Formation outside the Heavenly Court and stop Sun Wukong from escaping.
• Taibai Golden Star urged World-Honored Tathagata to rescue the Jade Emperor, but Tathagata insisted the Jade Emperor could handle Sun Wukong and told Taibai Golden Star to stay quiet.
• Sun Wukong grew stronger as he fought the Jade Emperor, who repeatedly called for Tathagata to intervene.
• After Tathagata ignored his final plea, the Jade Emperor used a formation to send Sun Wukong outside and sealed the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• World-Honored Tathagata and the gods and Buddhas activated their formation against Sun Wukong, but he unleashed Manifestation of Heaven and Earth and shattered much of it with one punch.

Sun Wukong fought the Buddhist host within the Ten Thousand Buddhas Demon-Subduing Formation and overwhelmed World-Honored Tathagata, destroying the formation and devastating Spirit Mountain. As Tathagata lay near death, he declared that the demon monkey was not Sun Wukong.

• Sun Wukong struck Guanyin, whose attempt to evade the blow led other Buddhas and Arhats to be shattered.
• World-Honored Tathagata attacked Sun Wukong, but the demon monkey caught his palm and mocked him as far weaker than someone else.
• Sun Wukong and Tathagata clashed again, shattering the Ten Thousand Buddhas Demon-Subduing Formation and sending Buddhist fighters flying or killing them.
• World-Honored Tathagata unleashed his many-armed Dharma Aspect, and Sun Wukong charged him, vowing to destroy him and then the Heavenly Court.
• Sun Wukong gained the upper hand, breaking Tathagata's arms and Buddha Lotus while the ten thousand Buddhas of Spirit Mountain perished.
• As he lay barely alive, World-Honored Tathagata told Sun Wukong that he was not Sun Wukong.

After Tathagata accused the rampaging Sun Wukong of being an Extraterritorial Demon, he sacrificed himself and summoned the Heavenly Dao Consciousness, forcing Sun Wukong, Tianpeng, and Zixia Fairy to flee. Sun Wukong escaped through the Moonlight Treasure Box after nightfall, and the timeline was restored to the moment Erlang God raised an army against the demon monkey.

• Tathagata declared that the powerful Sun Wukong was an Extraterritorial Demon, though the Jade Emperor and others doubted him.
• Tathagata performed Self-Disintegration, and the Heavenly Dao Consciousness appeared above the Three Realms.
• Tianpeng warned Sun Wukong that the Heavenly Dao was unbeatable, and Sun Wukong was badly injured by its black lightning.
• Sun Wukong fled across the Three Realms with Tianpeng and Zixia Fairy, then used the Moonlight Treasure Box to escape when night fell.
• The Heavenly Dao's Rule Power restored the fallen figures and scenes in the river of time to the moment Erlang God raised an army to subdue the demon monkey.

After surviving the thunderstorm, Tianpeng took the Moonlight Treasure Box and entered the chaos before the world’s creation to seek its laws. He found the Time Law, but a strange radiance appeared before he could reach it.

• Tianpeng realized the world’s core might let him return and took the Moonlight Treasure Box from the ground.
• Qingxia Fairy threatened Tianpeng and guarded the unconscious Sun Wukong, but Tianpeng told her Sun Wukong was only exhausted.
• Tianpeng activated the Moonlight Treasure Box and entered the chaotic time-space, protected from its storms by golden light.
• Tianpeng roamed Chaos, studied its exposed laws, and eventually discovered the Time Law.
• Tianpeng rushed toward the Time Law, but a radiance enveloped him before he reached it.

Tianpeng entered Zixiao Palace and faced Dao Ancestor Hongjun, who accused him of forgetting his Mystic Gate identity and offered him a chance to prove his loyalty. Hongjun tasked him with disrupting the Journey to the West, leaving Tianpeng to prepare and wait for an opportunity.

• Tianpeng reluctantly entered Zixiao Palace after Hongjun summoned him.
• Hongjun berated Tianpeng for aiding Zhou and growing close to the Interception Sect's chief disciple.
• Tianpeng admitted he had forgotten his identity as a Mystic Gate Disciple and promised to change.
• Hongjun gave Tianpeng the Soul-Chasing Glimmer Pendant and asked if he would devote himself to the Mystic Gate.
• Hongjun ordered Tianpeng to watch for an opportunity to disband the Journey to the West party.

Hongjun forced Tianpeng to help disrupt the Journey to the West party and sent him back from the time-traveling world with a fragment of Time Law. Tianpeng returned to Qingyuan burdened with guilt over betraying him, while pretending to be grateful for the opportunity.

• Tianpeng tried to warn Hongjun that assigning him to interfere with Journey to the West would seem suspicious, but Hongjun insisted he follow orders and find a chance to disband the party.
• Tianpeng complained that he could not leave the world Qingyuan had sent him to, so Hongjun shattered it and sent him the Time Law fragment hidden among its pieces.
• Tianpeng regained consciousness on the East Sea and realized he had returned to reality with the fragment's benefits.
• Tianpeng felt guilty about agreeing to betray Qingyuan, but thanked him and bowed as Qingyuan warmly helped him to his feet.

Tianpeng returned from Golden Ao Island burdened by guilt over receiving the Time Law and sought guidance from Great Master Xuandu. Still unsure what to do, he decided to visit Sun Monkey at Five Elements Mountain and arrived there.

• Tianpeng thanked Qingyuan for the Time Law, broke down in tears, and then left Golden Ao Island in turmoil.
• Tianpeng returned to Shouyang Mountain and told Great Master Xuandu that he felt unworthy of Qingyuan's gift.
• Great Master Xuandu advised Tianpeng to carry out what Qingyuan had asked of him and follow his own conscience.
• Tianpeng visited Saint Taiqing, then decided to seek advice from Sun Monkey at Five Elements Mountain.
• Tianpeng hurried to Five Elements Mountain and reached its foot.

Marshal Tianpeng arrived at Five Elements Mountain to see Sun Wukong, claiming he had a confidential verbal order from the Jade Emperor. The Four Duty Merit Officers let him pass, but the Five Directional Guardians challenged his authority and demanded proof.

• Celestials guarding Five Elements Mountain recognized Marshal Tianpeng and hesitated to stop him because of his rank and connections.
• The Four Duty Merit Officers asked whether Tianpeng had come under the Jade Emperor's orders, and he said he had.
• The Year Duty Merit Officer allowed Tianpeng to proceed, and he exchanged a tacit understanding with the Four Duty Merit Officers.
• The Five Directional Guardians blocked Tianpeng, questioned his identity, and accused him of being a disguised demon seeking to rescue Sun Wukong.
• Tianpeng suppressed his anger and said the Jade Emperor had given him a confidential verbal decree, but Golden-Headed Guardian demanded an official seal or other proof.

Marshal Tianpeng forced his way past the Buddhist guardians at Five Elements Mountain and punished them for mistreating Sun Wukong. He then approached the imprisoned monkey, stirred by memories of him.

• Golden-Headed Guardian demanded proof of Tianpeng’s identity and tried to charge him a fee before letting him pass.
• Tianpeng seized and whipped the guardians until they believed he was acting under the Jade Emperor’s orders.
• Golden-Headed Guardian led Tianpeng to Sun Wukong, where Tianpeng learned the monkey was being fed Copper-Juice Iron Pills.
• Tianpeng forced Golden-Headed Guardian to swallow the buckets of pills and copper juice, then walked up to Sun Wukong.