Chapter Summaries

Lin Zhu faced a Grand Luo advancement tribulation over the East Sea, while Buddhist powers and allies converged on him. After he fought off their attack and forced his breakthrough, the tribulation escalated into a Chaos Tribulation Cloud that even the pursuing Grand Luo hesitated to approach.

• Lin Zhu gave the Three Xiaos Nine Revolutions Grand Luo Golden Pills and asked them to guard him at the East Sea in three days; he then fled when they asked him to stay and guide them.
• Lin Zhu prepared an array of Profound Yellow Banners and Sea Pacifying Pearls before beginning his tribulation, and the Three Xiaos and Wudang Shengmu recognized the Chaos Divine Lightning in the clouds.
• Tathagata sent Guanyin, Manjushri, Samantabhadra, and Dingguang Joyful Buddha to capture Lin Zhu, while Chi Xiao and Chi Lian rushed from the Blood Sea to help him.
• Lin Zhu used the Immortal Slaughtering Sword to absorb the Chaos Divine Lightning and cut through the Weak Water Heavenly River, then grabbed a lightning bolt and used it to repel the four Buddhist Grand Luo.
• Lin Zhu turned the Buddhist attack into pressure for his breakthrough and charged into the Yin-Yang World-Ending Lightning; the tribulation then expanded into a Chaos Tribulation Cloud filled with Chaos Divine Lightning and Void Bafeng Wind.

Dingguang Joyful Buddha and the Three Great Bodhisattvas tried to ambush Lin Zhu during his Chaotic Origin Great Tribulation, but Wudang Shengmu intervened and confronted the Western Sect over its betrayal of the Jie Sect. Lin Zhu broke through his tribulation to protect her, and the Three Xiaos appeared to face the Bodhisattvas as Dingguang attacked Wudang again.

• Dingguang Joyful Buddha and the Three Great Bodhisattvas approached Lin Zhu's tribulation, but found him unharmed by Chaos Divine Lightning and plotting to strike him anyway.
• Wudang Shengmu arrived and attacked Dingguang Joyful Buddha, accusing him of betraying the Jie Sect and stealing the Six Souls Banner.
• Dingguang summoned Demon Gods from his Sariras, and Wudang used the Myriad Immortals Soul to call the spirits of fallen Jie Sect disciples to fight them.
• When the Three Great Bodhisattvas attacked Wudang, Lin Zhu absorbed the final nine bolts of Chaos Divine Lightning, broke through a cultivation threshold, and intercepted their strikes.
• Wudang sealed the battlefield and continued confronting Dingguang and the Bodhisattvas, while the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors appeared and damaged their treasures.
• The Three Xiaos appeared behind the Bodhisattvas, and Dingguang charged at Wudang with his Sariras as he ordered the Western Sect to kill Lin Zhu and the Jie Sect remnants.

Lin Zhu endured his Chaos Divine Lightning tribulation while Venerable Kasyapa and other Western Sect powers attacked him and his allies. After Lin Zhu broke through and struck Kasyapa down, the Western Sect’s Three Great Bodhisattvas combined their power against the Three Fairies of Sanxiao, while Kasyapa launched another attack on Lin Zhu and Xiao Qiong.

• Venerable Kasyapa ambushed Lin Zhu during his tribulation, but Xiao Qiong blocked his Flying Sword with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree and was wounded.
• Kasyapa attacked Lin Zhu and Xiao Qiong with the Great Sun Tathagata Palm, and Ao Guang transformed from an azure dragon and shattered the strike.
• Lin Zhu absorbed the Chaos Divine Lightning, completed his breakthrough, and punched Kasyapa through his protective Buddha Light.
• The Three Great Bodhisattvas merged into the Great Compassion Dharma Form as the battle with the Three Fairies of Sanxiao continued.
• Venerable Kasyapa returned in a hundred-zhang Golden Body and struck at Lin Zhu, while Xiao Qiong leaped up to defend him with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree.

Lin Zhu’s tribulation battle turned desperate after Xiao Qiong sacrificed herself to save him, but the Minghe princesses Liu Man and Su Lengyu arrived and drove Venerable Kasyapa away. The princesses then joined Lin Zhu against Kasyapa, while Liu Man claimed to be his wife and raised the prospect of a wedding.

• Xiao Qiong defended Lin Zhu from Kasyapa’s attacks, sacrificed her primordial spirit to stop his killing blow, and fell into the sea; Lin Zhu broke through his lightning rings and blocked the Immortal Slaying Sword with the Sacred Spirit Cloak.
• As Kasyapa prepared to strike Lin Zhu again, Liu Man and Su Lengyu intervened with a barrier of Minghe water and challenged the Western Sect.
• Liu Man called Lin Zhu her husband, and Lin Zhu played along so they could join forces against Kasyapa; Kasyapa retreated with the three Arhats after Liu Man threatened him.
• Liu Man told Lin Zhu that her father wanted them to hold a wedding, while Su Lengyu tried to raise a separate matter concerning a debt Lin Zhu owed them.
• At the Eastern Sea Coast, Su Lengyu and Liu Man fought Kasyapa while Lin Zhu watched with a Jade Slip; Lin Zhu warned them that a cornered dog might leap over the wall.

Lin Zhu completed the Chaos Divine Lightning Tribulation and advanced to the mid-stage Grand Luo Golden Immortal as Vajra Banner Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva moved to capture him and Minghe's princesses. After Venerable Kasyapa attacked, Lin Zhu defeated and killed him, leaving the battlefield stunned.

• Vajra Banner Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva emerged from a golden vortex and accused Lin Zhu, Su Lengyu, and Liu Man of crimes, then attacked them with golden chains.
• Lin Zhu shielded Su Lengyu and Liu Man while resisting the chains, and he completed the Chaos Divine Lightning Tribulation, advancing to the mid-stage Grand Luo Golden Immortal.
• Venerable Kasyapa launched a sneak attack on Lin Zhu with the Immortal Slaying Sword, but Lin Zhu countered him with Chaos Divine Lightning and Void Bafeng Wind.
• Lin Zhu caught Kasyapa's sword between two fingers, broke its power, and overcame Kasyapa's Vajra Demon Subduing Seal.
• Lin Zhu pierced Kasyapa with the Immortal Slaying Sword and destroyed his True Spirit with the Immortal Slaying God Punishing Treasure Saber, leaving the battlefield silent.

Lin Zhu killed Dingguang Joyful Buddha and fought Vajra Banner Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, revealing formidable strength and an arsenal of seven treasures. Ksitigarbha repeatedly regenerated from the Blood Sea, and Lin Zhu continued attacking as his recovery slowed.

• Lin Zhu overwhelmed Dingguang Joyful Buddha, destroyed his Golden Body, and killed him with a final saber slash; Ksitigarbha escaped after detonating part of his Dharma Form.
• Lin Zhu asked Liu Man and Su Lengyu if they were safe, and Duobao Daoren warned that the Two Saints of the West had sensed Lin Zhu's power.
• Ksitigarbha confronted Lin Zhu and fought him for more than a hundred exchanges, but Lin Zhu began to gain the advantage.
• Lin Zhu summoned seven Innate Spiritual Treasures, pierced Ksitigarbha's chest, and destroyed his body with the Xuanyuan Sword and Demon Emperor Sword.
• Ksitigarbha reassembled himself through a secret of rebirth from the Blood Sea, so Lin Zhu unleashed all seven treasures again and slowed his recovery.

Lin Zhu killed Dingguang Joyful Buddha after overpowering him, while Wudang Shengmu and the Three Fairies of Sanxiao confronted the Western Sect’s fleeing bodhisattvas. After returning to heal Xiao Qiong, Lin Zhu left the chapter as Buddha Tathagata abruptly paused his sermon and looked into the distance.

• Lin Zhu pursued Dingguang Joyful Buddha, captured his Sariras, and killed him despite his offer to betray Western Sect secrets.
• Wudang Shengmu and the Three Fairies of Sanxiao pursued and fought Bodhisattva Manjushri, Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, and Guanyin Bodhisattva as they tried to escape.
• Wudang Shengmu and the Three Fairies of Sanxiao mourned Dingguang Joyful Buddha’s death, then received Subduing Demon Arhat with the Western Sect’s message that it would not pursue the matter for now.
• Wudang Shengmu and the Three Fairies of Sanxiao urged Lin Zhu to be cautious, while Su Lengyu gave him a sachet before leaving with Su Ningshuang.
• Lin Zhu returned to his cave mansion, treated Xiao Qiong’s wounds, and kept Su Lengyu’s sachet close.
• Buddha Tathagata abruptly stopped expounding scriptures at the Great Thunderclap Monastery and looked into the distance.

After Lin Zhu killed Dingguang Joyful Buddha and Venerable Kasyapa, Tathagata struggled to contain the Western Sect’s alarm as strange omens and signs of dissent shook Spirit Mountain. The Jade Emperor learned that Lin Zhu wielded Jie Sect techniques and time laws, and suspected he could be the Heavenly Dao’s hidden exception, while the Western Sect faced defections within its ranks.

• Guanyin, Manjushri, and Samantabhadra reported to Tathagata that Lin Zhu had killed Dingguang Joyful Buddha and Venerable Kasyapa with his sword.
• Tathagata ordered rites for the dead and forbade the Buddhas from seeking revenge as omens and signs of Jie Sect dissent unsettled the Great Hero Hall.
• An Udumbara Flower bloomed, and Tathagata foresaw a novice holding Lin Zhu’s Green Bamboo Sword and trampling Spirit Mountain before the novice vanished toward the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• The Jade Emperor and the Four Imperial Lords watched a recording of Lin Zhu wielding the Qingping Sword and turning the River of Time against Western Sect Daluo.
• The Jade Emperor proposed that Lin Zhu might be the escaped one from Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s prophecy and revealed that four of Yaoshi Buddha’s Twelve Yaksha Generals had defected.

After Xiao Qiong took a fatal blow meant for Lin Zhu, he saved her with rare elixirs and Chaos Qi while the Heavenly Court and Western Heaven reacted to the East Sea battle. Xiao Qiong recovered, and Lin Zhu gave her the Zu Long Pearl to strengthen her Primordial Dragon Whale bloodline.

• After two rebel Yaksha generals died at the Blood Sea, the Jade Emperor appointed Lin Zhu True Lord Qingxiao and resolved to entrust him with greater responsibility despite Great Emperor Gouchen's objections.
• Lin Zhu fed Xiao Qiong rare elixirs and transferred Chaos Qi to heal her injuries, then subdued the Immortal Slaying Sword he had taken from the fallen Grand Luo Golden Immortals.
• At Lingxiao Palace, Taiyin Star Lord reported that Xiao Qiong's disciple Fairy Nishang had been guarding Star Dou Palace while Lin Zhu recovered, and the Jade Emperor considered protecting Lin Zhu from the Western Sect.
• Tathagata ordered Western Heaven to close its gates for one hundred days, saying the time had not yet come to act against Lin Zhu.
• When Xiao Qiong awoke and ate, Lin Zhu gave her the Zu Long Pearl, saying it could advance her Primordial Dragon Whale bloodline.

After Xiao Qiong absorbed the Zu Long Pearl, she evolved into an Ancestral Dragon and reached Quasi-Saint power, while Lin Zhu received a mission to hunt a Western Sect expert. Lin Zhu proposed to Fairy Nishang, but the gathering immortals interrupted them as they celebrated his tribulation victory.

• Lin Zhu gave Xiao Qiong the Zu Long Pearl, and she absorbed it, transforming her bloodline and advancing to Quasi-Saint power.
• Xiao Qiong tested her new Divine Powers, demonstrating Ancestral Dragon Heaven-Devouring, Ancestral Dragon Divine Strength, and Ancestral Dragon Self-Healing.
• The system assigned Lin Zhu a mission to hunt a Western Sect expert, with the Fantian Seal among its rewards.
• Fairy Nishang rushed to Lin Zhu after worrying about him, and he kissed her and asked her to marry him.
• Caozhou interrupted Lin Zhu and Fairy Nishang, and the surrounding immortals teased them while Chang'e offered Lin Zhu osmanthus wine.

Lin Zhu entered the Heavenly Court after surviving his tribulation and sought permission to take revenge on Vairocana Buddha and his attendants. After the Jade Emperor granted his request, he revealed that Lin Zhu was an anomaly who could influence the Journey to the West and the Heavenly Secrets.

• Taiyin Star Lord and the other immortals congratulated Lin Zhu on reaching the Daluo rank, and Venus Deity and Barefoot Immortal warned him that Vairocana Buddha was coming for him.
• Lin Zhu learned that the system had assigned him an S-rank mission to hunt Vairocana Buddha and three Grand Yi Golden Immortal attendants.
• At court, Lin Zhu reported that Vairocana Buddha had tried to intercept him during his breakthrough and asked to settle the grievance himself; the Queen Mother supported him, and the Jade Emperor granted permission.
• After court, the Jade Emperor kept Lin Zhu behind and explained that the Journey to the West was tied to the Investiture of the Gods and that Lin Zhu was an anomaly capable of changing the Heavenly Dao's plans.
• The Jade Emperor said the last anomaly had been Tongtian Sect Leader and asked Lin Zhu whether he remembered the mysterious Daoist who first led him onto the path of immortality.

The Jade Emperor revealed that Lin Zhu was a Heavenly Dao anomaly and asked him to help sabotage the Journey to the West Calamity, while Lin Zhu provoked the Western Sect and sought ways to grow stronger. After receiving a mortal-realm clock-in quest that promised rapid cultivation, Lin Zhu left through the South Heaven Gate and confronted the Western Sect spies watching him.

• The Jade Emperor told Lin Zhu that the Western Sect feared his unusual cultivation and recruited him to defy Heaven and change fate, promising him the position of Great Emperor Gouchen if he reached Quasi-Saint within six hundred years.
• Lin Zhu exchanged Chaos Qi for the next stage of Nine Revolutions, challenged Vairocana Buddha and Vairocana Immortal with the Fantian Seal, and chose the future site of Five Villages Temple for his planned mortal-realm force.
• After the system updated his main quest to overthrow the Western Sect, Lin Zhu unlocked a daily mortal-realm clock-in mission offering twenty million years of cultivation per day.
• Zhao San warned Lin Zhu that someone from the west had been asking about him, and Lin Zhu thanked him and arranged for him to receive an easier assignment.
• Lin Zhu left through the South Heaven Gate for the mortal realm, noticed Western Sect spies concealed in the clouds, and called out to them.

Lin Zhu descended to the Mortal World, accepted a mission to establish a Daoist Temple, and chose Mount Kunlun despite the Three Xiaos’ warnings. There, he discovered the Western Sect and Daoist factions appeared to be cooperating, and he arrived at a gathering hosted by Yaoshi Buddha and True Lord Yu Ding.

• Lin Zhu reached Mount Tai, received ten million years of cultivation from his first Mortal World check-in, and was tasked with establishing a Daoist Temple.
• Lin Zhu told Bixiao, Qiongxiao, and Yunxiao that he planned to build his temple at Mount Kunlun, despite their warning that the Western Sect controlled it and was searching for the Heaven-Flipping Seal.
• Yunxiao gave Lin Zhu a Shangqing Spirit Talisman, while she and Qiongxiao secretly followed him toward Mount Kunlun and sent Bixiao to find Senior Sister Wudang.
• Lin Zhu and Xiao Qiong climbed Mount Kunlun, where two young monks invited them to a gathering marking the hundred-year anniversary of Yaoshi Buddha and True Lord Yu Ding’s Dao Debate.
• Lin Zhu saw Yaoshi Buddha and True Lord Yu Ding drinking together at the former Jade Void Palace, while Buddhist and Daoist leaders exchanged gifts and claimed to govern Mount Kunlun in harmony.

Lin Zhu arrived at Kunlun Mountain with Xiao Qiong and exposed the Daoists’ and monks’ schemes, then ordered the Underworld to punish them for violating the Heavenly Edicts. As two Grand Yi Golden Immortals tried to flee, Xiao Qiong appeared and struck one of them, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Xuanqingzi and Chan Master Jimie plotted against each other over Kunlun Mountain while their followers prepared to seize the mountain by force.
• Lin Zhu and Xiao Qiong arrived, and Lin Zhu subdued the cultivators with a gesture before declaring that Kunlun Mountain belonged to Xiao Qiong.
• Lin Zhu sentenced the Zhengyi Sect lineage to Hell, and Great Emperor Fengdu arrived with the Ten Halls of Yama to arrest the Daoists; Lin Zhu also ordered the monks who plotted to occupy the land detained.
• Two Grand Yi Golden Immortals attacked Lin Zhu, but he shattered one elder’s Heaven Suppressing Seal and declared that his word was the rule.
• Two more Grand Yi Golden Immortals demanded that Lin Zhu release the prisoners, then tried to flee; Xiao Qiong blocked them and blew one attacker’s arm apart with a punch.

Lin Zhu claimed Kunlun Mountain as his Daoist sanctuary, restored it with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, and welcomed Wudang Shengmu and the Three Xiaos. After binding the mountain through his system, he received new formations and Sky-Covering Talismans, which he installed in its Earth Veins.

• Xiao Qiong killed two Western Sect Golden Immortals, and Lin Zhu revealed that Great Emperor Fengdu had been recognized by his aura.
• Wudang Shengmu and the Three Xiaos arrived, and Lin Zhu revealed that they were guests he had invited.
• Lin Zhu used the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree to cleanse Kunlun Mountain and revive its spiritual veins, then established formations across the mountain.
• Lin Zhu explained that the Jade Emperor had authorized him to choose a Daoist sanctuary and that he had chosen Kunlun Mountain, despite the Western Sect's claim to it.
• Lin Zhu left the others and claimed his system reward for establishing the sanctuary, receiving a Sky-Covering Great Array, a Spirit Gathering Bead, a Grand Yi Spirit Gathering Formation, and three Sky-Covering Talismans.
• Lin Zhu installed the array, bead, and formation in Kunlun Mountain's Earth Veins and planned to use the talismans to conceal his plans from the Saints.

Lin Zhu’s formations transformed Kunlun Mountain into a vast spiritual sanctuary, leaving Great Emperor Fengdu and the other Grand Luo Golden Immortals stunned. The chapter ended when Xiao Qiong claimed Star Dou Palace had even denser spiritual energy than Kunlun Mountain.

• Lin Zhu activated several formations, causing Kunlun Mountain to expand and draw in spiritual energy until its density reached a thousand times that of the outside world.
• Great Emperor Fengdu and the other visitors discovered that Lin Zhu’s formation could restrain a Grand Luo Golden Immortal and recognized the Grand Yi Spirit Gathering Formation.
• Lin Zhu revealed an improved Spirit Gathering Formation and the Hunyuan Qi Pearl, raising Kunlun Mountain’s spiritual energy to ten thousand times the outside level.
• Great Emperor Fengdu broke down over the power of Lin Zhu’s arrangements, while Lin Zhu introduced his disciple Xiao Qiong.
• Xiao Qiong said Star Dou Palace had much denser spiritual energy than Kunlun Mountain, leaving Great Emperor Fengdu astonished.

Lin Zhu established Mount Kunlun as a base, then confronted Vairocana Buddha, who attacked him with the Sour Water Gourd and a surprise barrage of Jin Peng Sword Feathers. Lin Zhu blocked the sour water with the Nine-Nine Red Cloud Soul Scattering Gourd, but the golden feathers were closing in.

• Xiao Qiong revealed that she could absorb Star Dou Palace's spiritual energy, causing Great Emperor Fengdu to faint before Lin Zhu brought him to Kunlun Mountain.
• Great Emperor Fengdu tried to stay at Kunlun Mountain, then joined Lin Zhu as Vairocana Buddha threatened to destroy the mountain.
• Vairocana Buddha arrived to seize Kunlun Mountain's spiritual energy and Fortune, but Lin Zhu mocked him and refused to back down.
• The Three Fairies of Sanxiao and Wudang Shengmu shielded Lin Zhu before he stepped forward to face Vairocana Buddha alone.
• Vairocana Buddha unleashed the Sour Water Gourd, but Lin Zhu used the Nine-Nine Red Cloud Soul Scattering Gourd to block and absorb the attack.
• Vairocana Buddha launched Yu Yi Xian's Jin Peng Sword Feathers at Lin Zhu.

Lin Zhu used Mount Kunlun’s great array and spiritual power to repel Yu Yi Xian and Vairocana Buddha, killing Vairocana while Yu Yi Xian escaped. Great Emperor Fengdu and the Jie Sect women mistook Lin Zhu for a Quasi-Saint, and Lin Zhu invited everyone to eat.

• Yu Yi Xian and Vairocana Buddha attacked Lin Zhu together, while Wudang Shengmu and the Three Fairies of Sanxiao worried he could not withstand them.
• Lin Zhu summoned Mount Kunlun’s power to block and reverse their attacks, then used the Kunlun Great Array to repel their strikes with amplified force.
• Yu Yi Xian fled after mistaking the array’s power for Quasi-Saint means, but Vairocana Buddha was struck down and reduced to ashes.
• Great Emperor Fengdu and the four Jie Sect women stared in shock as Lin Zhu dismissed the fight and said it was time to eat.
• Great Emperor Fengdu bowed to Lin Zhu and apologized, believing he was a Quasi-Saint’s incarnation, while Lin Zhu asked why he said that.

Lin Zhu’s allies defeated the Buddhist pursuers while he worried about completing his system mission. After Xiao Qiong killed the last Grand Yi Golden Immortal, Lin Zhu received powerful treasures and discovered his system had upgraded; he left Great Emperor Fengdu waiting while examining his rewards.

• Great Emperor Fengdu mistook Lin Zhu for a Quasi-Saint, while Lin Zhu fretted that the system still required him to kill a Grand Yi Golden Immortal.
• Yu Yi Xian fled Kunlun Mountain and tricked Ada into going there to face Lin Zhu, while he escaped toward Western Heaven for reinforcements.
• At the victory feast, a Grand Yi Golden Immortal arrived demanding that Lin Zhu hand over his master, but Xiao Qiong went out and defeated him before Lin Zhu could act.
• The system rewarded Lin Zhu with three Houtian Supreme Treasures, an enhanced Fantian Seal, and a super-enhanced Jiuzhou Ding after crediting him with the mission’s kills.
• Lin Zhu tested the Shennong Cauldron’s automatic pill refinement, the Jiuzhou Ding’s artifact refinement, and the Nüwa Blood Jade’s ability to repair his Sacred Spirit Cloak.
• Lin Zhu realized the system had upgraded when he reached the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, then left Great Emperor Fengdu waiting while he examined his treasures.

Lin Zhu refined powerful pills, explained Kunlun Mountain’s formations, and taught the Sky-Covering Great Array to the four women. He then uncovered Yuanshi Tianzun’s hidden Jade Slip and broke its dangerous seal, gaining awareness of everything within the mountain.

• Lin Zhu used the Shennong Cauldron to refine ordinary spirit herbs into high-quality pills and millennium-old medicines into Nine Revolutions Golden Pills.
• Great Emperor Fengdu begged to remain on Kunlun Mountain and agreed to work as a gardener outside the mountain gate.
• Lin Zhu showed Bixiao, Qiongxiao, Yunxiao, and Wudang Shengmu Kunlun Mountain’s formations and explained how they suppressed intruders and gathered and purified spiritual energy.
• Lin Zhu taught the four women the Sky-Covering Great Array through the night, then overslept with Xiao Qiong and woke late.
• Lin Zhu used the array to locate a concealed cave and opened a path into the space where Yuanshi Tianzun had hidden a Jade Slip.
• Lin Zhu blocked the Jade Slip’s signal, broke the Nine Tribulation Heavenly Locks, and claimed the Jade Slip, gaining awareness of everything within Kunlun Mountain.