Chapter Summaries

Lin Zhu stripped White Lotus Boy of his treasures, exposed his attempted escape, and slipped away as the Dragon Clan attacked Amitabha to save him. While the battle worsened, Lin Zhu entered the Great Thunderclap Monastery to search for hidden treasure and found a concealed glow beneath Buddha Tathagata’s Lotus Throne.

• Lin Zhu forced White Lotus Boy to hand over the Cold Moon Immortal Slaying Saber, then shouted to the Purple Gold Dragon Emperor that White Lotus Boy was trying to flee and vanished under the Sky-Covering Talisman.
• The Purple Gold Dragon Emperor accused Amitabha of secretly arranging White Lotus Boy’s escape, and the Platinum Dragon Emperor attacked White Lotus Boy with its Shadow Dragon Claw Hand.
• Amitabha blocked the attack to save White Lotus Boy, giving the Ink White Dragon Emperor an opening to strike the Jieyin Exquisite Lotus Lamp and worsen the pressure on Western Heaven.
• Lin Zhu left the battlefield and entered the Great Thunderclap Monastery, where he broke and overturned Buddhist statues and artifacts while searching for treasure.
• Lin Zhu spotted concealed treasure light beneath Buddha Tathagata’s Bodhi Heart Jade Lotus Throne and kicked hard at its base.

Lin Zhu ransacked a hidden compartment beneath Buddha Tathagata’s Dharma Seat, confiscating several powerful treasures and a hoard of Merit Divine Water. Suspecting other Buddhas had hidden stashes too, he went to Ancient Buddha Ran Deng’s seat and kicked its base to search it.

• Lin Zhu broke Tathagata’s jade Dharma Seat and found the Qiankun Bow, three Zhentian Arrows, two Eye-Poking Pearls, a Throat-Sealing Needle, and the Taiyin Tengshe Scissors in concealed compartments.
• Lin Zhu discovered ten bottles containing about one hundred thousand units of Merit Divine Water and confiscated them for the public treasury.
• Lin Zhu decided to search the symbolic Dharma Seats of other powerful Buddhas and Bodhisattvas for more hidden treasures.
• Lin Zhu reached Ancient Buddha Ran Deng’s dark-gold Dharma Seat and kicked its base to break it open.

Lin Zhu wrecked the Great Thunderclap Monastery while Western Heaven fought the Dragon Clan, uncovering several treasures, including the sealed Measuring Sky Ruler. He then found a Spirit Source Agate fragment that pointed toward the Eight Treasures Merit Pool, leaving him with a new and greater treasure lead.

• Lin Zhu smashed his way through the Great Thunderclap Monastery and searched its ruins while the Dragon Clan battled Western Heaven outside.
• Ancient Buddha Ran Deng returned from the Chaos Dao Field and joined Amitabha against the Ink White Dragon Emperor, easing the pressure on Western Heaven’s defenders.
• Lin Zhu found Yu Yi Xian’s Ice Feather Sword beneath Ran Deng’s shattered Dharma Seat and took it, along with other items he uncovered in the monastery.
• Lin Zhu discovered the sealed Measuring Sky Ruler beneath Ran Deng’s seat and took it despite being unable to remove its Restrictions.
• As Lin Zhu prepared to leave, he found a dark-red Spirit Source Agate fragment and recognized it as a clue to Western Heaven’s Eight Treasures Merit Pool.

Lin Zhu followed the system’s mission to infiltrate the Eight Treasures Merit Pool while the Dragon Clan’s furious assault battered Western Heaven. The chapter left him concealed at the entrance to the Eight Thousand Zhang Wish-Fulfilling Corridor, approaching the Merit Pool undetected.

• Lin Zhu found a Spirit Source Agate fragment, unlocked the mission to obtain Merit Pool water, and set off toward the corridor behind the Great Thunderclap Monastery.
• The Purple Gold Dragon Emperor swallowed many Western Heaven cultivators, while the Platinum Dragon Emperor and Ink White Dragon Emperor unleashed devastating innate abilities against the defenders.
• Amitabha refused to hand over White Lotus Boy and tried to persuade the Dragon Clan to accept compensation, but the Dragon Emperors rejected his appeals.
• The Saints stayed out of the battle because they judged the Dragon Clan’s assault to be a restrained conflict aimed at damaging Western Heaven without destroying its foundations.
• Lin Zhu used the Sky-Covering Talisman and system navigation to pass through the side-hall ruins and reach the entrance to the Eight Thousand Zhang Wish-Fulfilling Corridor.

Lin Zhu stripped the Eight Thousand Zhang Wish-Fulfilling Corridor of its valuable materials, claiming he was cleaning up Buddhist excess. He then reached the Eight Treasures Merit Pool, whose immense wealth left him thrilled, and cautiously began inspecting it while remaining concealed.

• Lin Zhu saw the lavish Eight Thousand Zhang Wish-Fulfilling Corridor and decided its treasures needed to be confiscated in the name of Three Realms law enforcement.
• Lin Zhu pulled up the corridor's pillars, statues, tiles, rockeries, and spiritual liquid, then used Buddha Kingdom in the Palm to strip the entire route bare.
• Lin Zhu reached the corridor's end and found the vast Eight Treasures Merit Pool, filled with Merit Divine Water and surrounded by treasures.
• Lin Zhu rejoiced at the pool's riches, strengthened his concealment with the Sky-Covering Talisman, and carefully inspected the pool, especially its center.

Lin Zhu secretly siphoned Merit Divine Water from Western Heaven’s Merit Pool despite the sleeping Golden-Whiskered Giant Turtle guarding it. After filling several gourds, he was caught red-handed when the furious guardian awoke, but he calmly finished filling his gourd before responding.

• Lin Zhu spotted the mid-stage Quasi-Saint Golden-Whiskered Giant Turtle asleep beneath the Merit Golden Lotuses and decided to steal water without waking it.
• Lin Zhu tested the green gourd, then brought out ten large purple gourds and began draining the pool into them.
• Lin Zhu filled several gourds and lowered the water level near the pool’s edge, while the guardian’s whisker began to twitch.
• The Golden-Whiskered Giant Turtle awoke, roared at Lin Zhu for stealing the Merit Sacred Water, and confronted him.
• Lin Zhu ignored the guardian’s demand long enough to finish filling and put away his gourd, then faced the enraged beast without showing fear.

Lin Zhu tried to escape Akshobhya Buddha’s attack by convincing the pool’s guardian that Western Heaven was under siege and that he had orders to protect the Merit Divine Water. He used the confusion to collect more water, but Akshobhya Buddha began to question his story and demanded proof.

• Akshobhya Buddha attacked Lin Zhu for stealing Sacred Water, but Lin Zhu’s stern rebuke made it hesitate.
• Lin Zhu pointed out the Dragon Clan’s assault on Spirit Mountain, and Akshobhya Buddha sensed the battle and began doubting its own vigilance.
• While Akshobhya Buddha was distracted, Lin Zhu filled two more gourds and reached eight hundred thousand Merit.
• Akshobhya Buddha resumed its accusations, so Lin Zhu claimed Buddha Tathagata had secretly ordered him to safeguard the Sacred Water.
• Lin Zhu filled a ninth gourd and took out a tenth, while Akshobhya Buddha questioned why Tathagata would entrust him with the mission and demanded proof.

Lin Zhu used the Thirteenth-Grade Merit Golden Lotus, the Duobao Pagoda, and a Heavenly Dao Oath to convince Akshobhya Buddha that he had been entrusted with a mission to save the Western Heaven. After taking one million Merit Divine Water and stopping before triggering the pool’s warning threshold, he avoided revealing his name and turned his attention to the Spirit Source Agate at the pool’s bottom.

• Lin Zhu revealed the Thirteenth-Grade Merit Golden Lotus and the Duobao Pagoda, shocking Akshobhya Buddha.
• Lin Zhu claimed that Bodhi Patriarch and Amitabha had invited him and that Buddha Tathagata had entrusted him with the treasures, then swore a Heavenly Dao Oath that was acknowledged.
• Lin Zhu told Akshobhya Buddha that Amitabha had ordered him to transfer Merit Divine Water to preserve the Western Heaven, and Akshobhya Buddha offered to help.
• Akshobhya Buddha warned that removing more than one-fifth of the pool’s water could alert Amitabha, so Lin Zhu stopped after collecting one million Merit Divine Water.
• Akshobhya Buddha asked Lin Zhu for his Dharma name, but Lin Zhu evaded the question and focused on the Spirit Source Agate at the bottom of the pool.

Lin Zhu persuaded Akshobhya Buddha to strip the Merit Pool of its Spirit Source Agate before the Dragon Clan could seize it, then pocketed the enormous haul. He left Akshobhya preparing to search the pool for anything else worth taking in the name of a Scorched Earth Strategy.

• Lin Zhu convinced Akshobhya Buddha that destroying or removing the Merit Pool’s foundations would protect Western Heaven from the Dragon Clan.
• Akshobhya Buddha agreed to take everything and dug all the Spirit Source Agate from the pool’s bed, weakening the pool’s formation.
• Lin Zhu supervised Akshobhya Buddha’s work from a platform and noticed chains binding him to the pool, but said nothing.
• Akshobhya Buddha reported that he had extracted about thirty-six thousand jin of Spirit Source Agate, which Lin Zhu stored in his Buddha Kingdom in the Palm.
• Lin Zhu urged Akshobhya Buddha to inspect the pool for other valuables and explained that leaving the enemy nothing was a Scorched Earth Strategy.

Lin Zhu persuaded Akshobhya Buddha to give him four Muni Light Pearls, then received the Thunderstrike Pestle as a voluntary entrustment before escaping the Merit Pool. The system completed his mission and rewarded him with the Small Spirit Source Gathering Array method, while Lin Zhu considered visiting more Buddhas to secure their valuables.

• Akshobhya Buddha discovered four Muni Light Pearls embedded in the Merit Pool, and Lin Zhu pressured him into retrieving them by claiming that Western Heaven trusted him as its pillar and future hope.
• Lin Zhu accepted the Muni Light Pearls and tried to leave, but Akshobhya Buddha stopped him and entrusted him with the Thunderstrike Pestle, fearing Western Heaven might fall and the treasure might be seized.
• Lin Zhu promised to protect the Thunderstrike Pestle, then hurried through the ruined corridor as Akshobhya Buddha watched and hoped Western Heaven would survive.
• The system announced that Lin Zhu had completed the Merit Pool mission, confirmed his acquisitions, and awarded him the Small Spirit Source Gathering Array method.
• Lin Zhu mastered the formation method and planned to improve the Heavenly Prison dormitory while considering visiting other Buddhas to safeguard their valuables.

As the Dragon Clan battered Spirit Mountain, Amitabha prioritized rescuing the badly wounded White Lotus Boy, who crawled toward the Great Thunderclap Monastery for healing. Lin Zhu intercepted him at the entrance and frightened him into begging for mercy.

• The Nine True Dragons overwhelmed the Thirty Thousand Buddhas, while Amitabha and Ancient Buddha Ran Deng struggled to defend Spirit Mountain.
• Amitabha protected White Lotus Boy despite the cost to his forces, valuing his loyalty and obedience over Tathagata’s influence.
• Severely injured, White Lotus Boy crawled toward the Great Thunderclap Monastery, hoping its treasures would restore him.
• Lin Zhu stopped White Lotus Boy at the entrance and teased him about fleeing back to safety.
• Lin Zhu threatened to twist off White Lotus Boy’s head, prompting him to kneel and call Lin Zhu his father while pleading to be spared.

Lin Zhu captured White Lotus Boy as he tried to escape and exposed him to the battlefield, where White Lotus Boy continued to deny responsibility for the humans he had killed. As the Dragon Clan and Amitabha demanded custody of him, Lin Zhu held his prisoner while both sides pressed their claims.

• White Lotus Boy begged Lin Zhu to spare him and offered his True Spirit in eternal service, but Lin Zhu seized him and announced to the battlefield that he had tried to flee again.
• White Lotus Boy accused Lin Zhu of using the deaths of Great Tang's border-city residents as an excuse to attack Western Heaven, and Lin Zhu condemned his refusal to recognize his crimes before imprisoning his primordial spirit.
• The battlefield's fighters turned their attention toward Lin Zhu, and Purple Gold Dragon Emperor demanded White Lotus Boy so he could punish him for torturing and killing Ao Lie.
• Amitabha asked Lin Zhu to return White Lotus Boy, promising severe punishment and a favor from Western Heaven, but Purple Gold Dragon Emperor rejected his offer and argued with him.

Lin Zhu halted the Dragon Clan and Western Heaven from resuming their battle by claiming he could save Ao Lie’s Primordial Spirit. With both sides focused on his offer and Amitabha promising Western Heaven’s support, Lin Zhu prepared to negotiate for the resources he needed.

• Lin Zhu received a system mission to mediate the conflict and recognized an opportunity to obtain Eastern Emperor Bell fragments and Western Heaven’s resources.
• Lin Zhu raised White Lotus Boy and offered to mediate, prompting Purple Gold Dragon Emperor to threaten Western Heaven with the Dragon Clan’s full retaliation over Ao Lie’s death.
• Lin Zhu claimed he could save Ao Lie’s Primordial Spirit, stopping the battlefield from erupting again.
• Ink White Dragon Emperor questioned Lin Zhu’s ability, while Amitabha saw the offer as a chance to avert war and agreed Western Heaven would provide whatever materials or Merit Vow Power Lin Zhu needed.
• Lin Zhu recalled that his Nine Revolutions Great Return Pill could restore Ao Lie and prepared to negotiate with both sides.

Lin Zhu used the possibility of reviving Ao Lie to demand vast resources and political concessions from Western Heaven, with the Dragon Clan backing his negotiations. When Amitabha asked him to reduce the price, Lin Zhu sneered and turned to leave, reigniting the Dragon Clan’s fury.

• Buddha Tathagata backed Lin Zhu’s proposal and shifted responsibility for the costs to Amitabha, while the Dragon Emperors warned Western Heaven to pay for the harm done to Ao Lie.
• The Nine True Dragons moved into a supportive formation behind Lin Zhu as the Jade Emperor and Nezha watched in astonishment.
• Lin Zhu demanded Merit Divine Water, a Golden Light Sarira, Three Lights Divine Water, and a high-grade Pure World White Lotus seed to revive Ao Lie.
• Lin Zhu added Wish Power, Buddhist magic tools, and control of faith in three Tianzhu nations to his demands, while Tathagata urged Amitabha to accept them.
• Amitabha asked Lin Zhu to reduce the demands or accept a future favor, but Lin Zhu sneered, turned away with the White Lotus Boy’s remnant soul, and provoked the Purple Gold Dragon Emperor to erupt in anger.

Lin Zhu forced Amitabha to abandon Western Heaven’s attempt to haggle over the price of saving Little White Dragon as the Dragon Clan prepared to destroy Spirit Mountain. The chapter ended with Amitabha agreeing to provide all Fifty Million Merit Divine Water.

• The Dragon Emperors accused Amitabha of betraying the Dragon Clan and began forming the Heaven-Sealing, Earth-Extinguishing Myriad Dragons immortal-slaying Grand Formation.
• Lin Zhu told Amitabha he would provide the requested materials in full and that Western Heaven must pay for his help.
• Amitabha claimed Western Heaven could supply only three hundred thousand Merit Divine Water, so Lin Zhu turned away and the Dragon Clan launched its formation.
• Amitabha begged Lin Zhu to stay and tried to resume negotiations, but Lin Zhu turned away again when Amitabha called the offered amount too little.
• Amitabha finally shouted that Western Heaven would provide all Fifty Million Merit Divine Water.

Lin Zhu forced Amitabha to hand over several rare treasures and arranged for Nezha to collect a vast payment of Buddha Soldiers and equipment. When Lin Zhu then demanded control over the three largest mortal nations of Tianzhu Buddha Kingdom and their faith, Amitabha refused, citing the Heavenly Dao’s restrictions on interference in mortal affairs.

• Amitabha reluctantly gave Lin Zhu a Jade Gourd holding concentrated Merit Divine Water, a Glazed Pure Bottle containing Three Lights Divine Water, and a Golden Light Sarira secretly marked with Amitabha’s Primordial Spirit imprint.
• Amitabha asked to have Guanyin Bodhisattva deliver the One Hundred Million Buddha Soldiers’ power of wishes and three thousand sets of equipment later, and Lin Zhu sent Nezha to oversee the count and collection.
• Guanyin Bodhisattva took Nezha to the treasury area after Amitabha approved the handover.
• Lin Zhu demanded the right to control the three largest mortal nations of Tianzhu Buddha Kingdom and receive their faith.
• Amitabha refused, claiming that the Heavenly Dao forbade gods and Buddhas from directly interfering in mortal dynasties, territory, and faith.

Lin Zhu secured Amitabha’s promise that Western Heaven would not send powerful experts to intervene directly in the war between Great Tang and the Tianzhu Buddha Kingdom, then pressed him for compensation over rare Pure World White Lotus Seeds. When Amitabha claimed Spirit Mountain had no suitable Innate Spiritual Treasure to offer, Lin Zhu revealed the Azure Lotus Precious Color Flag he had taken from White Lotus Boy.

• Lin Zhu demanded that Western Heaven refrain from sending experts of White Lotus Boy’s or Wrathful Victory Ming King’s level to intervene directly in the war, and Amitabha agreed on Western Heaven’s behalf despite Tathagata’s objections.
• Lin Zhu mocked Tathagata over Amitabha’s concession, then asked whether Western Heaven had Pure World White Lotus Seeds of grade eight or above.
• Amitabha said Western Heaven could not produce any qualifying seeds, and Lin Zhu offered to resolve the matter himself while demanding an Innate Spiritual Treasure as compensation.
• Amitabha claimed Spirit Mountain had no suitable Innate Spiritual Treasure available, but Lin Zhu revealed the Azure Lotus Precious Color Flag that he had picked up while touring Spirit Mountain.

Lin Zhu forced Amitabha to surrender the Azure Lotus Precious Color Flag as compensation for the Lotus Seed, then began reviving Ao Lie. He pulled a dragon-shaped primordial spirit bearing Ao Lie’s life imprint from his Buddha Kingdom in the Palm, leaving everyone watching in shock.

• Lin Zhu revealed the Azure Lotus Precious Color Flag and accused Amitabha of stalling over the agreement to revive Ao Lie.
• Buddha Tathagata urged Amitabha to give up the flag for the greater good, and Amitabha agreed to let Lin Zhu keep it as payment.
• Lin Zhu threatened White Lotus Boy into agreeing that the flag could settle the debt, then claimed the flag’s ownership after Amitabha removed its restriction.
• Amitabha pressed Lin Zhu to begin reviving Ao Lie, while privately weighing whether Lin Zhu’s power made him a threat.
• Lin Zhu opened his Buddha Kingdom in the Palm and pulled out a dragon-shaped primordial spirit bearing Ao Lie’s life imprint.

Lin Zhu revealed that Ao Lie’s primordial spirit had survived and returned him to the Dragon Clan, humiliating Amitabha and earning the Dragon Clan’s gratitude and a gift of rare bloodline essence. As the factions turned to White Lotus Boy’s fate, Lin Zhu refused to decide alone and asked the Dragon Clan to speak for the victim.

• Lin Zhu revealed Ao Lie’s intact primordial spirit and taunted Amitabha for supplying treasures that had not been needed to revive him.
• The Dragon Clan verified Ao Lie’s identity, welcomed him back, and heard him thank Lin Zhu for saving his life.
• The Ink White Dragon Emperor credited Lin Zhu with preserving Ao Lie and the Dragon Clan’s fortune, then gave Lin Zhu three pieces of Primordial Ancestral Beast Bloodline Essence.
• The Platinum Dragon Emperor asked Lin Zhu how he would deal with White Lotus Boy, and Amitabha requested that the boy be returned for Buddhist redemption.
• Lin Zhu noticed Tathagata’s hidden eagerness for White Lotus Boy’s death and asked the Dragon Clan, as the victim’s side, how the culprit should be handled.

Lin Zhu used White Lotus Boy as leverage to pressure Amitabha and the Western Heaven faction, while the Dragon Clan left the captive’s fate to him. When Tathagata sought a Nine Revolutions Great Return Pill to save Tang Sanzang and keep the Journey to the West moving, Lin Zhu named a price that included the mounts of three great Bodhisattvas, stunning everyone.

• Lin Zhu offered White Lotus Boy to the Dragon Clan, but the Dragon Emperors said they would leave his fate to Lin Zhu as long as Ao Lie recovered and the Journey to the West continued.
• Amitabha pleaded for White Lotus Boy’s return, and Purple Gold Dragon Emperor urged Lin Zhu to demand labor and storage fees for him.
• Lin Zhu threatened to kill or hand over White Lotus Boy unless Amitabha offered compensation.
• Tathagata asked Lin Zhu to sell a Nine Revolutions Great Return Pill to restore Tang Sanzang’s body, and Lin Zhu pretended the price would be too high.
• Tathagata and the Buddhas persuaded Lin Zhu to negotiate, and Lin Zhu agreed to sell one pill in exchange for treasures, merit vow power, and the mounts of Guanyin Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva Manjushri, and Bodhisattva Samantabhadra.