Chapter Summaries

Lin Zhu tried to free Ao Lie, but Indra and then White Lotus Boy mistook his concern for a weakness and used Ao Lie as a hostage. After Lin Zhu's attack was interrupted by White Lotus Boy's ambush, he warned White Lotus Boy that his scheme would bring trouble upon himself and Western Heaven.

• Lin Zhu offered to let Indra leave in exchange for releasing Ao Lie, but Indra tightened his hold and demanded that Lin Zhu kneel and surrender his troops.
• Ao Lie urged Lin Zhu to kill Indra rather than yield, while Lin Zhu attacked Indra's lightning hand with the God-Slaying Spear.
• White Lotus Boy ambushed Lin Zhu with a blade, but Lin Zhu blocked the strike with the Thirteenth-Grade Merit Golden Lotus.
• White Lotus Boy seized Ao Lie from Indra and declared that he had used the challenge to lure Lin Zhu out and capture his supposed weakness.
• White Lotus Boy guessed that Ao Lie was tied to a powerful race and threatened to kill him with the Cold Moon Immortal Slaying Saber.
• Lin Zhu urged White Lotus Boy to release Ao Lie, warning that his stubbornness would bring consequences for him and Western Heaven.

White Lotus Boy ignored Lin Zhu’s warnings and beheaded Ao Lie, then seized Ao Lie’s fleeing primordial spirit. Indra grew increasingly alarmed by Lin Zhu’s reactions as White Lotus Boy dismissed another plea to stop.

• Lin Zhu warned White Lotus Boy that killing Ao Lie could bring terrible consequences, but White Lotus Boy mocked the warning and threatened to kill him slowly.
• Indra reconsidered Lin Zhu’s warning and urged White Lotus Boy to think about Ao Lie’s possible background, but White Lotus Boy silenced him.
• White Lotus Boy killed Ao Lie with the Cold Moon Immortal Slaying Saber and held up his severed head while boasting to Lin Zhu.
• Indra grew suspicious as Lin Zhu responded with a faint, pitying smile, and Ao Lie’s primordial spirit fled toward Lin Zhu.
• White Lotus Boy intercepted Ao Lie’s primordial spirit and captured it in his hand despite Lin Zhu’s attempt to retrieve it.
• Lin Zhu pleaded with White Lotus Boy to release the primordial spirit, but White Lotus Boy again rebuked Indra for questioning him.

White Lotus Boy crushed Little White Dragon Ao Lie’s primordial spirit despite warnings from Lin Zhu and the Western Heaven Arhats, killing him beyond rebirth. His death awakened the ancient Dragon Clan, whose nine primordial bloodline dragons charged toward Spirit Mountain as Buddha Tathagata sensed disaster and used the Round Light Mirror to inspect the battlefield.

• Lin Zhu urged White Lotus Boy to heed Vajra Yaksha Bright King and the Daluo Arhats, but White Lotus Boy rebuked them and drove them away.
• White Lotus Boy crushed Ao Lie’s primordial spirit and annihilated his True Spirit while taunting Lin Zhu.
• The ancient Dragon Clan awoke to Ao Lie’s death, learned that Western Heaven had severed their karmic bond, and sent nine colossal dragons toward Spirit Mountain.
• Buddha Tathagata felt an ominous disturbance in the Great Thunderclap Monastery and ordered an attendant Vajrapani to bring the Round Light Mirror.
• Buddha Tathagata used the Round Light Mirror to reveal the battlefield before Wind Snow City.

After White Lotus Boy killed Ao Lie and destroyed his primordial spirit, the Dragon Clan’s fury struck Spirit Mountain. Buddha Tathagata tried to shift responsibility to Saint Jieyin and sent Ancient Buddha Ran Deng to report the disaster.

• White Lotus Boy killed Ao Lie, then crushed his dragon-shaped primordial spirit despite Lin Zhu and others urging him to stop.
• An ancient Dragon Clan elder unleashed his Dragon Might against Spirit Mountain and demanded an explanation from Western Heaven.
• Buddha Tathagata collapsed in despair, then blamed White Lotus Boy’s actions on Saint Jieyin’s authority and poor discipline.
• Buddha Tathagata summoned Ancient Buddha Ran Deng and asked him to report White Lotus Boy’s actions to Saint Jieyin.

Buddha Tathagata led the Thirty Thousand Buddhas to confront nine ancient dragons at Spirit Mountain, then recognized three crowned figures as Dragon Emperors and begged them to negotiate. The foremost Purple Gold Dragon Emperor attacked without warning, leaving Tathagata and the Buddhas scrambling to defend Spirit Mountain.

• Buddha Tathagata ordered the Buddhas to leave Great Thunderclap Monastery and receive the arriving guests.
• Nine dragons descended outside Spirit Mountain and used their Dragon Might to shake the mountain and devastate its grounds.
• Buddha Tathagata and several Quasi-Saint Buddhas combined their power to stabilize Spirit Mountain and its protective array.
• Buddha Tathagata led the Thirty Thousand Buddhas before the dragons, then recognized the Purple Gold Dragon Crowns and humbly invited the Dragon Emperors to talk.
• The foremost Purple Gold Dragon Emperor swept his tail toward Tathagata and the Buddhas without accepting his invitation.
• Buddha Tathagata ordered the Buddhas to form an array, and they chanted the Six-Syllable Great Bright Mantra while summoning their treasures.

The Purple Gold Dragon Emperor shattered the Three Thousand Buddhas Dharma Net with a single tail strike, killing several Buddhas and severely damaging Great Thunderclap Monastery. As the Nine True Dragons continued to threaten Spirit Mountain, Buddha Tathagata abandoned hopes of negotiation and ordered the Buddhists to form the Myriad Buddhas Pay Homage Array and hold out for Saint Jieyin.

• The Purple Gold Dragon Emperor’s tail broke the Three Thousand Buddhas Dharma Net, leaving the Thirty Thousand Buddhas injured and unable to defend themselves.
• The dragon tail swept through Buddhas and Arhats, then sheared off the highest part of Great Thunderclap Monastery and left the monastery close to collapse.
• Buddha Tathagata and the Thirty Thousand Buddhas braced the damaged monastery until it stopped falling, after which Tathagata offered the Dragon Clan any compensation it wanted.
• The Purple Gold Dragon Emperor rejected Tathagata’s attempt to negotiate and condemned Western Heaven for causing a dragon descendant’s death.
• When Tathagata mentioned that Saint Jieyin had been summoned, the Nine True Dragons grew angrier, and Tathagata feared they would destroy Spirit Mountain.
• Tathagata chose to defend Western Heaven, ordering the Buddhas to form the Myriad Buddhas Pay Homage Array and hold out until the Saint arrived.

Amitabha, Jieyin’s Good Corpse incarnation, descended to Spirit Mountain and agreed to the Dragon Clan’s demands over Ao Lie and White Lotus Boy. He then transported White Lotus Boy, Lin Zhu, Nezha, and the opposing forces from Wind Snow City to Western Heaven, where White Lotus Boy celebrated his presumed protection.

• As the Nine True Dragons prepared to destroy Western Heaven, Amitabha descended into the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, and Tathagata welcomed his teacher.
• The Platinum Dragon Emperor demanded that Western Heaven hand over White Lotus Boy and restore Ao Lie, whose Primordial Spirit had been destroyed.
• Amitabha calmly agreed to the demands and used his Divine Power to transport White Lotus Boy and the forces from Wind Snow City to Spirit Mountain.
• Nezha ordered the Ninth Heaven Prison members to form up as they faced the Dragon Clan and the Buddhist forces at the Great Thunderclap Monastery.
• White Lotus Boy recognized Amitabha, mocked Lin Zhu and Nezha, and claimed his teacher would destroy them.

Amitabha transported the combatants from Southern Jambudvipa to Spirit Mountain, where the Dragon Clan confronted White Lotus Boy over his killing of Ao Lie. Lin Zhu arrived after Amitabha summoned him and found the dragons and Buddhas facing off, with the Great Thunderclap Monastery damaged and White Lotus Boy kneeling.

• White Lotus Boy ordered the Tianzhu Buddha Kingdom experts to seize and kill their enemies, but the Nine True Dragons’ presence terrified him and Amitabha declared him guilty.
• The Platinum Dragon Emperor accused White Lotus Boy of killing a Dragon Clan descendant and threatened war unless the clan received a satisfactory explanation.
• Nezha and the Ninth Heaven Prison group worried that Lin Zhu had not been transferred with them, while Amitabha apologized and said he had invited Lin Zhu to Spirit Mountain.
• Lin Zhu realized Amitabha had forcibly transported both sides across continents, crushed an ancient jade talisman, and traveled to Western Heaven.
• Lin Zhu arrived outside the damaged Great Thunderclap Monastery, recognized the Dragon Clan’s confrontation with the Buddhas, and received Amitabha’s apology for summoning him.

Lin Zhu challenged Amitabha over Western Heaven’s abduction of his brother and the White Lotus Boy’s killing of Ao Lie, then exposed flaws in Amitabha’s account and offered battlefield recordings as evidence. The Dragon Clan’s fury erupted into an open threat against Spirit Mountain, leaving Amitabha facing the prospect of a devastating attack.

• Lin Zhu accused Amitabha of kidnapping his brother, while a system quest urged him to provoke conflict between Western Heaven and the Dragon Clan.
• Amitabha apologized for bringing Lin Zhu to Spirit Mountain and framed the gathering as an effort to fairly resolve the dispute over White Lotus Boy and Ao Lie.
• White Lotus Boy realized that Ao Lie was a West Sea Dragon Palace crown prince and feared that his actions had destroyed a crucial pact between the Buddhist Sect and the Dragon Clan.
• Lin Zhu challenged Amitabha’s claims that White Lotus Boy had descended privately and injured Ao Lie by accident, and he offered battlefield recordings to reveal what had happened.
• The Purple Gold Dragon Emperor threatened to destroy Spirit Mountain if Western Heaven continued protecting White Lotus Boy, and the other eight True Dragons prepared to attack.

Amitabha offered White Lotus Boy to the Dragon Clan, and Purple Gold Dragon Emperor brutally punished him while Lin Zhu urged the Dragon Emperor to inflict even worse torment. As White Lotus Boy’s Primordial Spirit neared destruction, Amitabha acknowledged his crime and began addressing the Dragon Clan’s anger.

• Amitabha said Western Heaven would not shield White Lotus Boy, but Purple Gold Dragon Emperor tore off both of White Lotus Boy’s arms before letting Amitabha finish speaking.
• Amitabha asked Purple Gold Dragon Emperor to let him continue, and the Dragon Emperor agreed to listen while White Lotus Boy suffered.
• Lin Zhu urged Purple Gold Dragon Emperor to keep torturing White Lotus Boy as Amitabha spoke, prompting the Dragon Emperor to tear off one of White Lotus Boy’s legs.
• Lin Zhu suggested scraping White Lotus Boy’s Primordial Spirit, and Purple Gold Dragon Emperor slowly stripped away its origin with his claw.
• Amitabha watched White Lotus Boy’s torture without intervening, then acknowledged that White Lotus Boy had killed Ao Lie and said the crime was unforgivable.

Amitabha and Buddha Tathagata accused Lin Zhu of sending Ao Lie into battle to provoke conflict between Western Heaven and the Dragon Clan, using a partial image as evidence. Lin Zhu denied giving Ao Lie orders, but the chapter ended with Amitabha offering him a chance to repent and the Purple Gold Dragon Emperor demanding a direct answer.

• Amitabha suggested that someone had deliberately used Ao Lie as a weapon, prompting the Platinum Dragon Emperor to threaten whoever was responsible.
• Lin Zhu condemned the supposed culprit, but Buddha Tathagata accused him and used the Round Light Mirror to show Ao Lie charging into battle before White Lotus Boy captured him.
• Lin Zhu denied ordering Ao Lie into battle and said he had tried to stop him, while Tathagata argued that only the Haotian Mirror could verify whether Lin Zhu had secretly issued orders.
• Tathagata and Amitabha urged the Dragon Clan to accept the existing evidence, then demanded that Lin Zhu atone for Ao Lie’s death.
• Amitabha offered to spare Lin Zhu if he entered Western Heaven and repented for ten thousand years, and the Purple Gold Dragon Emperor asked whether Lin Zhu had ordered Ao Lie into battle.

Amitabha and Tathagata tried to force Lin Zhu to take refuge in Western Heaven or face death over Ao Lie’s murder. Lin Zhu refused, denounced Western Heaven, and unleashed Vast Righteousness, but Tathagata claimed only the Jade Emperor’s Haotian Mirror could prove his innocence and insisted that no one would save him.

• Amitabha exploited the Dragon Clan’s inability to trace Lin Zhu’s past and pressed the suspicion surrounding Ao Lie’s death onto him.
• Tathagata offered Lin Zhu survival if he took refuge in the Sramana Sect, while Amitabha hinted that this could let Western Heaven examine Lin Zhu’s past.
• Lin Zhu refused to chant sutras or worship Buddha, condemned Western Heaven as hypocritical, and declared that he upheld the laws of the Three Realms.
• Lin Zhu’s Vast Righteousness erupted and pushed back the Buddha Light over Spirit Mountain, stunning the Buddhas and earning wary appreciation from the Nine True Dragons.
• Tathagata argued that only the Jade Emperor could use the Haotian Mirror to reveal Lin Zhu’s past, then declared Lin Zhu doomed.

The Jade Emperor arrived at Great Thunderclap Monastery to support Lin Zhu and confront Western Heaven over detaining him and the Ninth Heaven Prison immortals. He demanded that Western Heaven lift its restrictions, threatening war if it refused.

• The Jade Emperor appeared at Great Thunderclap Monastery, surprising the Buddhas, dragons, and Lin Zhu.
• The Jade Emperor accused Amitabha and Western Heaven of abducting his minister and challenged them over their treatment of the Heavenly Court.
• Tathagata blamed the Dragon Clan and claimed Western Heaven had only arranged a meeting, while Amitabha said the Dragon Clan had summoned Lin Zhu and Western Heaven had merely provided a venue.
• The Jade Emperor declared that only he could judge Lin Zhu under Heavenly Court law and threatened to wage war against Western Heaven if Lin Zhu or his people were harmed.
• Tathagata and Amitabha insisted that Lin Zhu and the Ninth Heaven Prison immortals were unharmed and pleaded for peace.
• The Jade Emperor rejected their appeals and demanded that Western Heaven immediately remove every restriction and coercive measure placed on Lin Zhu and his subordinates.

The Jade Emperor summoned the Haotian Mirror to expose what happened when Ao Lie joined Lin Zhu's campaign, while Tathagata tried to provoke the Dragon Clan into attacking before the truth emerged. The mirror showed Ao Lie's sincere resolve to fight for the innocent and redeem his past, then revealed that he had already gone to the front lines without permission.

• Lin Zhu calmed the Jade Emperor and asked whether he had brought the item Lin Zhu requested.
• The Jade Emperor revealed the Haotian Mirror, and Lin Zhu urged him to use it to expose the truth.
• Tathagata tried to provoke the Dragon Clan into attacking Lin Zhu, but the Purple Gold Dragon Emperor and Platinum Dragon Emperor refused to act before seeing the evidence.
• The Jade Emperor activated the Haotian Mirror as Tathagata and the Buddhas claimed Ao Lie must have been coerced or bewitched.
• The mirror showed Jiao Mowang and Ao Lie asking Lin Zhu to let Ao Lie join the campaign, with Ao Lie declaring that the battle would be his own choice and his chance at redemption.
• The mirror revealed that Ao Lie had already left Wind Snow City and reached the front lines to face Indra, prompting Lin Zhu to react in shock and anger.

The Haotian Mirror exposed White Lotus Boy killing Ao Lie after Ao Lie voluntarily joined Lin Zhu to seek justice for the slain mortals, clearing Lin Zhu of Western Heaven’s accusation. The Dragon Clan attacked Amitabha and Tathagata, but Lin Zhu urged everyone to watch the rest of the footage before they struck.

• The Haotian Mirror showed Lin Zhu trying to save Ao Lie while White Lotus Boy killed him and destroyed his primordial spirit.
• The Jade Emperor condemned Western Heaven, and Lin Zhu suggested that its leaders had framed him to conceal their crimes.
• Tathagata blamed White Lotus Boy’s recklessness, while Amitabha realized his plan had failed and the Dragon Clan roared in fury.
• The Purple Gold Dragon Emperor and Platinum Dragon Emperor attacked Amitabha, demanding that Western Heaven answer for Ao Lie’s death.
• Lin Zhu interrupted the impending clash and proposed watching the rest of the Haotian Mirror’s footage for possible hidden details.

Lin Zhu used the Haotian Mirror to challenge Western Heaven’s claim that White Lotus Boy had killed Ao Lie by accident, insisting that Heavenly Court law required him to investigate. The mirror began replaying the killing and revealed White Lotus Boy silencing Western Heaven figures who had tried to intervene, leaving his culpability in doubt no longer.

• Tathagata and Amitabha apologized to the Dragon Clan and offered compensation, but the Purple Gold and Platinum Dragon Emperors rejected their pleas and threatened Western Heaven.
• Lin Zhu announced that the Haotian Mirror had recorded crucial evidence and refused Tathagata’s demand that he leave, citing his duty as the Three Realms Enforcement Prison God.
• Lin Zhu urged the Dragon Clan to judge the evidence for themselves, and the Platinum Dragon Emperor agreed to watch while warning that Western Heaven would pay if White Lotus Boy had acted deliberately.
• The Jade Emperor empowered the Haotian Mirror to replay White Lotus Boy’s attack on Ao Lie, his capture and killing of him, and Lin Zhu’s attempts to stop him.
• The replay showed White Lotus Boy angrily ordering Vajra Yaksha Bright King and Wrathful Victory Ming King to leave when they came to intervene, claiming that he represented Saint Jieyin’s will.

Lin Zhu used the Haotian Mirror to expose White Lotus Boy’s arrogance and the killing of Ao Lie, provoking the Dragon Clan to abandon its alliance with Western Heaven. Ink White Dragon Emperor ordered an attack, and the Nine True Dragons began tearing through Spirit Mountain.

• Lin Zhu repeatedly replayed White Lotus Boy’s insults and the destruction of Ao Lie’s Primordial Spirit above Spirit Mountain.
• Lin Zhu condemned Western Heaven and urged the Dragon Clan to avenge Ao Lie and erase its enemies.
• Amitabha threatened Lin Zhu with the karmic consequences of attacking Western Heaven, but Lin Zhu rejected his warning.
• Ink White Dragon Emperor declared that Spirit Mountain would be stained with blood and ordered the Buddhas to pay with their lives.
• The Nine True Dragons launched a full assault, shaking Spirit Mountain and killing weaker Buddhas in the attack’s pressure and aftershocks.

Lin Zhu’s scheme triggered an all-out battle between the Dragon Clan and Western Heaven, while he used the chaos to prepare to infiltrate Spirit Mountain and search for treasures. As he began sensing for likely treasure sites, the Jade Emperor noticed his furtive movements and asked what he had observed.

• Amitabha used the Jieyin Exquisite Lotus Lamp to shield Western Heaven, while the Jade Emperor protected Nezha and the others with the Haotian Pagoda.
• The Ink White Dragon Emperor struck Amitabha’s shoulder with its Inverse Scale, and the Nine True Dragons launched a full assault on Western Heaven.
• Lin Zhu received rewards for intensifying the conflict and accepted the system’s mission to explore Spirit Mountain for up to three items.
• Lin Zhu activated the Sky-Covering Talisman and assessed the battle, judging that the Dragon Clan had a decisive advantage over Western Heaven.
• Lin Zhu began searching Spirit Mountain for treasure sites, but the Jade Emperor noticed and asked him what insights he had.

Lin Zhu slipped into Spirit Mountain under cover of the battle to search for Western Heaven’s treasures, with the Jade Emperor agreeing to watch for him. When White Lotus Boy tried to escape, Lin Zhu caught up with him and left him facing a new danger.

• Lin Zhu told the Jade Emperor he was going treasure hunting in Spirit Mountain, and the Jade Emperor approved and offered to keep watch.
• Lin Zhu sneaked through the ruins toward the depths of Spirit Mountain while the Dragon Clan’s assault battered Amitabha and the Thirty Thousand Buddhas.
• Amitabha secretly urged White Lotus Boy to flee, and White Lotus Boy used Jie Yin’s concealment Escape Art to slip away from the battlefield.
• Lin Zhu spotted White Lotus Boy’s escape and followed him unseen with the Sky-Covering Talisman.
• White Lotus Boy reached a secluded mountain hollow, where Lin Zhu appeared and confronted him.

Lin Zhu cornered White Lotus Boy in a mountain hollow, beat him for his crimes, and forced him to surrender the Azure Lotus Precious Color Flag’s origin mark. White Lotus Boy survived but left consumed by resentment toward Lin Zhu.

• Lin Zhu approached the injured White Lotus Boy and used his fear of the Dragon Clan to keep him from resisting.
• White Lotus Boy called Lin Zhu a good person, and Lin Zhu slapped him twice, twisting his words as an excuse.
• Lin Zhu struck White Lotus Boy repeatedly for the massacre at Wind Snow City, Ao Lie’s death, his mistreatment of Western Heaven cultivators, and Western Heaven’s framing of Lin Zhu.
• Lin Zhu spared White Lotus Boy’s life but demanded the Azure Lotus Precious Color Flag as payment.
• White Lotus Boy surrendered the flag’s origin mark, and Lin Zhu took it while warning him to learn to submit when necessary.