Chapter Summaries

Sun Wukong fought the Heavenly Court’s army while Xuan Yin protected Flower-Fruit Mountain with an earth-vein formation. Watching Sun Wukong fight with Heaven’s Will behind him led Xuan Yin to understand the Westward Journey as a cultivation method, freeing his Heavenly Immortal Dao Fruit’s shackles.

• Li Jing sent the Giant Spirit God to attack Flower-Fruit Mountain, but Sun Wukong enlarged himself and defeated him with two blows.
• Nezha fought Sun Wukong with his Magic Treasures but retreated after several dozen exchanges.
• Li Jing ordered the Heavenly Court’s gods and soldiers to attack Flower-Fruit Mountain, and Xuan Yin raised a formation linked to the earth veins that stopped their assault.
• The Jade Emperor, Rulai, and Guanyin sensed that Heaven’s Will had changed, while Sun Wukong fought more fiercely under its blessing.
• Xuan Yin realized that the Great Sage Equal to Heaven represented a cultivation state and that the Westward Journey’s trials were a method for refining the mind and spirit.
• Xuan Yin understood the world’s connection to the Taiqing Lineage’s cultivation method, and the shackles on his Heavenly Immortal Dao Fruit vanished.

Xuan Yin brought the Four Mixed Monkeys together to awaken the Chaos Demon Ape’s power, while Sun Wukong was recruited into the Heavenly Court and later excluded from the Peach Banquet. The four gathered secretly in the Peach Garden, where their shared origins manifested as a demon ape phantom.

• Xuan Yin realized that breaking through the world’s illusions required the Four Mixed Monkeys to unite, and chose to bring them together rather than take their origins by force.
• The Jade Emperor recruited Sun Wukong as the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, and Xuan Yin followed him to his residence.
• Sun Wukong befriended Yuan Hong, while Xuan Yin searched the Heavenly Court for opportunities and studied its powerful gods and treasures.
• After the Jade Emperor assigned Sun Wukong to guard the Peach Garden but left him off the Peach Banquet invitation list, Xuan Yin told him to follow his heart.
• Sun Wukong, Yuan Hong, Wu Zhiqi, and Xuan Yin secretly gathered in the Peach Garden, where Wu Zhiqi described his progress controlling the water veins.
• The four monkeys united their strength and awakened the phantom of the Chaos Demon Ape, which overwhelmed the others with its bloodline presence.

The four monkeys entered the Chaos Demon Ape’s Land of Void Slumber, where they inherited its Fighting Saint Method, awakened their bloodlines, and grew stronger through battle. Back in the Peach Garden, Xuan Yin proposed exchanging bodies to study one another’s abilities and warned that their world was false and governed by Heaven’s Will.

• The Chaos Demon Ape’s phantom drew Wu Zhiqi, Xuan Yin, Sun Wukong, and Yuan Hong into the Land of Void Slumber and passed its Great Dao of Battle into their primordial spirits.
• Xuan Yin’s Heavenly Immortal Dao Fruit adapted the inheritance to him and formed the Fighting Character Secret, while Sun Wukong broke through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal of Primordial Unity Qi.
• The four monkeys repeatedly fought the phantom, strengthening their bodies, primordial spirits, magic power, and awakened Chaos Demon Ape bloodlines until the Land of Void Slumber collapsed.
• Back in the Peach Garden, Xuan Yin proposed exchanging primordial spirits and bodies to uncover the mysteries of their different bloodlines and abilities.
• Sun Wukong and Yuan Hong questioned whether their world was real, so Xuan Yin told them they were inside a Sage’s Great Luo Heavens and explained that the inheritance could help them escape Heaven’s Will.
• Yuan Hong worried that the Heavenly Court would punish them for stealing and eating the peaches.

Xuan Yin led Wu Zhiqi, Sun Wukong, and Yuan Hong into Tushita Palace while Laojun was away at the Peach Festival, and they took its Golden Cores and treasures. In the Primordial True Realm, the Grand Pure Sage warned Xuandu to avoid Xuan Yin, fearing he would corrupt his nature.

• Xuan Yin persuaded Yuan Hong and Wu Zhiqi to raid Tushita Palace for Golden Cores and spiritual treasures while Laojun was away.
• The four monkeys entered the empty palace and took all its Golden Cores, several treasures, Laojun's furnace, and the Green Ox's nose ring.
• Xuan Yin studied the Vajra Ring's restrictions and copied them, realizing he might be able to refine a similar treasure.
• After Xuan Yin apologized to Laojun, Wu Zhiqi, Sun Wukong, and Yuan Hong carried him away before he could take the palace plaque.
• The Grand Pure Sage warned Xuandu to stay away from Xuan Yin because his scheming and attachment to worldly matters might influence Xuandu.

Xuan Yin, Wu Zhiqi, Sun Wukong, and Yuan Hong provoked the Heavenly Court after plundering the Peach Garden and Tushita Palace and taking control of the East Sea's Water Veins. As the battle spread across Flower-Fruit Mountain, Xuan Yin used the Vajra Ring to sweep away Guanyin's and many gods' magic treasures.

• Wu Zhiqi gathered his demon kings at Flower-Fruit Mountain, subdued the East Sea Dragon King, and seized control of the East Sea's Water Veins.
• Ao Guang and the other Dragon Kings complained to the Jade Emperor, who also learned that Sun Wukong and his allies had plundered the Peach Garden and Tushita Palace.
• The Jade Emperor sent Li Jing's forces to attack Flower-Fruit Mountain and sought Erlang Shen's help, while Xuan Yin urged his allies to draw stronger gods into the fight.
• The demon kings battled the Heavenly Court's forces, and Guanyin joined the fight against Wu Zhiqi.
• Xuan Yin used the Vajra Ring while Guanyin activated her treasure, sweeping away her magic treasure and those of many Immortals and Gods.

Xuan Yin and the demon monkeys used Laojun’s magic treasures to defeat the Heavenly Court’s forces and capture Guanyin, prompting Rulai to intervene at Flower-Fruit Mountain. Rulai overwhelmed Wu Zhiqi, and Xuan Yin’s formation and Vajra Ring only briefly checked him.

• Guanyin used her Thirty-three Aspects Contemplation against Wu Zhiqi, but Xuan Yin tricked her into answering his call and captured her in the Purple-Gold Red Gourd.
• Yuan Hong scattered the Heavenly Court’s forces with the Banana Leaf Fan and captured Yang Jian and the Howling Celestial Hound, while Sun Wukong bound Nezha and burned away the Heavenly Net and Earthly Net.
• The Jade Emperor demanded an explanation from Laojun, then sent Taibai Jinxing to invite Buddha Tathagata after learning Guanyin had been captured.
• Rulai arrived above Flower-Fruit Mountain and used his Buddhist Dharma and golden body to suppress the demon monkeys, forcing Wu Zhiqi to fight him at full strength.
• Xuan Yin activated the Three Origins, Ten Directions, All-Returning Formation to protect Dongsheng Shenzhou’s earth veins and struck Rulai with the Vajra Ring, but Rulai remained unharmed and extended his other hand.

Wu Zhiqi and the others fought Rulai with a formation that could return the world to primordial Chaos, while Xuan Yin revealed that their world was illusory. As deities across the realms turned against the Grand Pure Sage, Xuan Yin called on everyone to shatter the world's delusion.

• Wu Zhiqi joined the Four Mixed Monkeys to manifest the Chaos Demon Ape, and the formation clashed with Rulai as he unleashed Great Thousand Destruction.
• Zhen Yuanzi empowered the demon ape true form with the Book of Earth while Ziwei Great Emperor and Taiyi the Rescuer Heavenly Venerate disrupted the Heavenly River and showed the Jade Emperor the Imprint Stone.
• The Jade Emperor learned that the world was illusory and joined the others in questioning its existence, while the Grand Pure Sage revealed himself as the world's Heavenly Dao.
• True Martial Emperor and other deities declared their willingness to destroy the world to seek the truth, and Xuan Yin took control of the demon ape true form.
• Xuan Yin used the Golden Eyes of Piercing Delusion to reveal the truth to the great deities, then called on everyone across the Three Realms and Four Continents to shatter the world's delusion.

As the Journey to the West World collapsed, Xuan Yin triggered a True Immortal tribulation to break through and turn its fading figures into real existences. He survived the tribulation and completed his True Immortal Dao Fruit, but Grand Pure Sage told him to leave and keep his distance from Xuandu.

• Xuan Yin redirected the attacks on the demon ape into the four continents’ earth veins, then invoked the True Immortal tribulation to break the world’s delusion and preserve Wu Zhiqi, Sun Wukong, and the others.
• Wu Zhiqi lent Xuan Yin the remaining Water Origin Great Dao, and Zhen Yuanzi lent him Earth Immortal authority as Xuan Yin’s Eyes of Shattering Delusion took shape.
• Xuan Yin’s power refined falsehood into truth, making Wu Zhiqi, Sun Wukong, Yuan Hong, Ziwei Great Emperor, and True Martial Emperor real; Zhen Yuanzi, Taiyi, and Duobao also created Other-Self Incarnations.
• Grand Pure Sage used the Purple-Gold Red Gourd to enlighten Guanyin Bodhisattva as an Other-Self Incarnation of Cihang, while Xuan Yin fought the remaining tribulation with the As-You-Will Golden-Rod Staff.
• Xuan Yin shattered the final purple lightning dragon, completed his True Immortal Dao Fruit, and thanked his teacher and Grand Pure Sage.
• Grand Pure Sage told Xuan Yin to leave and keep farther away from Xuandu, leaving Xuan Yin puzzled by the warning.

After the Grand Pure Sage restored the Journey to the West World, Duobao Daoist and Xuan Yin sought Sect Master Tongtian’s guidance on the Grand Unity Realm. Xuan Yin received the Water-Fire Gourd, while Primordial Heavenly Venerate prepared Cihang and True Person Taiyi for their destined futures.

• The Grand Pure Sage sent Xuan Yin back to Upper Clarity Peak and used Grand Pure Divine Thunder to restore the destroyed Journey to the West World.
• Duobao Daoist told Xuan Yin that the events had fulfilled an ordained course and brought him to meet Sect Master Tongtian.
• Sect Master Tongtian explained the Grand Unity Realm and warned Duobao Daoist not to use Buddhist methods before reaching Grand Unity.
• Sect Master Tongtian gave Xuan Yin the Water-Fire Gourd and told him not to refine it before reaching the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate taught Cihang the Dao Yi Seal and gave True Person Taiyi techniques connected to becoming the Heavenly Venerate of Saving Suffering.

After Xuan Yin’s breakthrough stirred the future, powerful figures across the Primordial World sensed new variables and threats. Back in his Cave Abode, Xuan Yin reviewed the techniques and insights he had brought back from the Journey to the West World and considered combining Samadhi Divine Wind with Samadhi Divine Fire.

• Xuanwu Zhiming, Wu Zhiqi, two immortal embryos, and Ziwei Star reacted to changes in the future following Xuan Yin’s breakthrough.
• Wu Zhiqi feared the Demon Clan Heavenly Court was doomed and considered seeking a Sage’s help to escape his binding to the Monster Summoning Banner.
• Demon Emperor Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi investigated Ziwei Star’s sudden glimmer and worried about the uncertain fate of their bid for hegemony.
• Zhu Jiuyin glimpsed a variable in the future and recognized that the Wu Clan needed a path to survive the spreading Tribulation Qi.
• Xuan Yin returned to his Cave Abode and reviewed his new techniques, his insights into the Mystic Gate’s divine abilities, and the laws he had learned from the Journey to the West World.
• Xuan Yin found the Samadhi Divine Wind imprinted by Wu Zhiqi and considered fusing its principles with Samadhi Divine Fire.

Xuan Yin refined his fire-and-wind techniques into the unique divine ability Blazing Ash Incineration with Yan Lin’s guidance, strengthening his True Immortal Dao Fruit. After thirty thousand years of cultivation, he left seclusion to reconnect with his fellow disciples.

• Yan Lin advised Xuan Yin to balance and compress fire and wind, explaining how their powers could be fused.
• Xuan Yin transformed Samadhi True Fire into Six Ding Divine Fire and compressed it with Samadhi Divine Wind to create Blazing Ash Incineration.
• Xuan Yin’s new divine ability made his True Immortal Dao Fruit more complete, so he focused on comprehending existence and nonexistence.
• Over thirty thousand years, Xuan Yin cultivated several of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Divine Abilities to the Divine Transformation Realm.
• Xuan Yin ended his seclusion and decided to visit his fellow disciples.

Xuan Yin encountered Daoist Cihang and Randeng on the Ancestral Kunlun Vein, then learned from Xuan Shuang how Grand Unity and the Three Pure Ones shaped the struggle between the Mystic Gate and Buddhist Sect. The chapter left Randeng’s unusual Buddhist aura explained as part of a future that already existed across time.

• Xuan Yin argued with Daoist Cihang that attaining the Dao meant different things at different stages of cultivation.
• Randeng arrived and stopped the dispute, while Xuan Yin sensed Buddhist Dharma in him despite Randeng not yet becoming the Chan Sect’s vice sect leader.
• Daoist Cihang gave Xuan Yin ten drops of Three Light Divine Water to settle his karmic debt and escorted Randeng to the Jade Purity Hall.
• Xuan Shuang explained that Randeng would become the Chan Sect’s vice sect leader and later reverse his karma to become the Buddha of the Past.
• Xuan Shuang told Xuan Yin that the Three Pure Ones represented the past, present, and future, while the Buddhist Sect’s three Buddhas could share the status of Jieyin and Zhunti to contend with them.

Xuan Yin learned how Randeng, Cihang, and Duobao were tied to the future relationship between Buddhism and the Mystic Gate, then accepted a fire jujube from Golden Cloud Boy to settle karmic debts. After refining it and learning Three Heads Six Arms, he decided to seek a suitable Magic Treasure at Xuanpu on Mount Kunlun.

• Xuan Shuang explained that Randeng entered the Exposition Sect to seek the Dao Fruit of the past and would later return to Buddhism, while Cihang's path would run in the opposite direction.
• Golden Cloud Boy gave Xuan Yin a fire jujube on behalf of True Person Taiyi to settle their karmic ties, prompting Xuan Yin to wonder whether everyone would avoid him after he attained Grand Unity.
• Xuan Yin returned to his Cave Abode and refined the fire jujube, learning the divine ability of Three Heads Six Arms after half a month.
• Finding that he lacked suitable Magic Treasures and could not safely seek opportunities beyond Kunlun, Xuan Yin decided to travel to Xuanpu, the core of the Ancestral Kunlun Vein.

Xuan Yin crossed Weak Water and Flame Mountain with help from Xuan Shuang and Yan Lin, collecting rare materials while learning about the Kirin Clan’s past. He then reached Xuanpu and continued toward Cang Li Shi’s former Dao Integration site, reflecting on how cultivation methods had developed across generations.

• Xuan Yin encountered Weak Water near Flame Mountain, and Xuan Shuang parted it so he could cross safely.
• Yan Lin and Xuan Shuang explained the Kirin Clan’s history, the Dragon-Han Calamity, and how the Weak Water had become divided among powerful figures.
• Xuan Yin avoided taking Queen Mother of the West’s Weak Water but collected several true dragon skeletons from its riverbed.
• Yan Lin drew out Phoenix True Fire origin and found Phoenix Blood Red Gold beneath Flame Mountain, which Xuan Yin accepted.
• Xuan Yin crossed Flame Mountain and reached Xuanpu, then continued toward Cang Li Shi’s former Dojo while considering the evolution of cultivation methods.

Xuan Yin reached Kunlun’s Summit, where he found traces of the Heavenly Dao and uncovered a Taiyin Cold Pond linked to Moon Goddess Wangshu. Wangshu’s Grudge revealed how Xihe and Queen Mother of the West had conspired against her, leaving Xuan Yin wondering whether Dijun knew his two empresses were one person.

• Xuan Yin arrived at the Summit of Kunlun and learned from Yan Lin and Xuan Shuang that the Tai Emperor’s Palace was a timeless site tied to the origins of the Heavenly Dao and Divine Dao.
• Unable to enter the Tai Emperor’s Palace without the Taiyi Dao Fruit, Xuan Yin collected the nearby Innate Dao Soil and sensed a frigid aura beneath it.
• Xuan Shuang told Xuan Yin to use Shrinking the Abyss and Contracting the Earth, and the three descended into the earth veins to find a Taiyin Cold Pond.
• Wangshu’s Grudge appeared and revealed that the pond had formed from Wangshu’s origin after Xihe and Queen Mother of the West joined forces to wound her and seize her Taiyin Origin.
• Wangshu’s Grudge explained that Xihe had used Changxi’s identity to take the Moon Authority, then borne Dijun’s Ten Little Golden Crows and Twelve Princesses as the two supposed empresses.
• Xuan Yin wondered whether Dijun knew that Xihe and Changxi had been the same person all along.

Xuan Yin negotiated with Wangshu's Grudge to find the Wangshu Immortal Sword, planning to use the Wu Clan's rivalry with the Demon Clan to help her reclaim the Moon Goddess title. After placing Wangshu's Grudge in a Treasure Bottle, he asked for an escort to Buzhou Mountain, and Xuan Shuang volunteered.

• Yan Lin and Xuan Shuang explained that Dijun knew Xihe's identity mattered less to him than control of the Lunar Star and its power.
• Wangshu's Grudge asked Xuan Yin to help her reclaim the Moon Goddess title, but he refused until she offered to guide him to the Wangshu Immortal Sword.
• Xuan Yin accepted Wangshu's offer and proposed taking her to the Wu Clan, which could challenge the Demon Clan and seek justice for her.
• Wangshu's Grudge gave Xuan Yin a strand of silver hair to guide him to the sword, and he forged a Treasure Bottle for her to inhabit.
• Xuan Yin asked Yan Lin and Xuan Shuang to accompany him to Buzhou Mountain, and Xuan Shuang volunteered.

Xuan Yin learned from Yan Lin that the Primordial World had passed through twenty cycles, each with different events, and that only Sages retained memories across cycles. Meanwhile, Xuan Shuang delivered Wangshu's Grudge to Xuan Ming, prompting the Wu Clan to prepare a strike against the Demon Clan as the tribulation intensified.

• Xuan Yin used Wangshu's Taiyin Cold Pond to create a Bright Moon in his Lesser Thousand World, then wondered whether he could benefit when Hou Yi shot down the suns.
• Xuan Yin asked Yan Lin why the Wu and Demon Clans would fight despite foreseeing their mutual losses, and Yan Lin explained the repeated cycles of the Primordial World and revealed that this was the twenty-first cycle.
• Xuan Yin decided to seek more answers from Sage Tongtian after obtaining the Wangshu Immortal Sword and hurried toward its location.
• Xuan Shuang delivered Wangshu's Grudge to Xuan Ming at Buzhou Mountain and then vanished.
• Xuan Ming carried the Treasure Bottle to Pangu Hall, intending to use Wangshu's death as justification for the Wu Clan to attack the Heavenly Court, and the tribulation aura grew several times denser.

Tianwu spread rumors across the Primordial True Realm about Xihe and the Queen Mother of the West, turning many cultivators against them and embroiling Dijun in new gossip. Dijiang then led Wangshu's Grudge to the Heavenly Court to demand Xihe, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches attacked its defenses when Dijun refused.

• Dijiang ordered Tianwu to spread news that Xihe and the Queen Mother of the West had ambushed Wangshu, and Tianwu carried the story throughout the Primordial True Realm.
• Tianwu circulated further rumors linking the Queen Mother of the West to East King Duke's death and suggesting she had children with Dijun, while Xuan Yin and Xuan Shuang reacted to the gossip.
• Tianwu overheard Xuan Yin suggest a rumor about Dijun winning allies by selling his looks, then adopted the idea before returning to Pangu Hall.
• Dijiang led Wangshu's Grudge and the Wu Clan toward the Heavenly Court, while the public spectacle drew attention and increased the Wu Clan's fortune.
• Dijiang demanded that Dijun hand over Xihe, but Dijun refused and defended the Demon Clan's actions.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches struck the Heavenly Court's protective formation with a torrent of Great Dao, shaking the Nine Heavens and turning ordinary demons to blood mist.

The Wu Clan and Demon Clan clashed as the Ancestral Witches battered the Primordial Luo River Formation and Xuan Ming overwhelmed Xihe. Xihe fled toward the Solar Star, while Xuan Ming turned her attack on Dijun, revealing that the Wu Clan’s real aim was to kill him.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi used the Chaos Bell to stabilize the Primordial Luo River Formation, while Dijun, Xihe, the Demon Saints, and Kun Peng joined the battle.
• Zhurong fought Dijun, Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin restrained Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and Xuan Ming confronted Xihe with Wangshu’s remnant thought interfering with the Moon Essence Wheel.
• Xuan Ming shattered Xihe’s defenses and damaged the Moon Essence Wheel, causing Xihe to suffer severe injuries and backlash.
• Dijun called on Kun Peng and Fu Xi for help, but Tianwu trapped Qin Yuan and Xuan Ming continued pressing Xihe with her Ice Domain Azure Sky.
• Xihe abandoned the Moon Essence Wheel and fled toward the Solar Star, so Xuan Ming left her and charged at Dijun.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches revealed the Twelve Divine Fiend Great Formation and summoned Pangu True Body, forcing Dijun and Taiyi to risk everything to defend the Demon Clan. The Heaven-Opening strike devastated both sides, leaving the Demon Clan crippled and the Ancestral Witches unable to fight again for a time.

• Dijun ordered the demon forces to stop Xuan Ming, then retreated with Taiyi and the others into the Primordial Luo River Formation.
• Dijiang ordered the Twelve Ancestral Witches to form the Twelve Divine Fiend Great Formation, which summoned Pangu True Body.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti wondered whether a new variable had altered the Witch and Demon Races' conflict, but chose to watch.
• Pangu True Body wielded a phantom Heaven-Opening Divine Axe, and Dijun, the demon gods, and Taiyi burned their essence and used their treasures to resist the strike.
• The Heaven-Opening strike destroyed the Primordial Luo River Formation, killed Feidan and several dozen Daluo demon gods, and damaged Dijun's treasures; the Twelve Ancestral Witches were also left cracked and unable to fight for a time.