Chapter Summaries

Grand Master Xuandu and Daoist Duobao began refining the Creation Profound Pill for Zhu Bajie, while Sha Heshang discovered a chance to transform himself in the Netherworld Sea of Blood. The chapter left Sha Heshang merging with Chaos Demon God flesh as Mosquito Daoist awaited the results of his transformation.

• Grand Master Xuandu asked Daoist Duobao to use the Qiankun Cauldron to help refine the Creation Profound Pill, promising him treasured spirit wine and pills in return.
• Grand Master Xuandu and Daoist Duobao joined their spirit fires with Red Boy's Samadhi True Fire and began refining the pill as Zhu Bajie watched.
• Sha Heshang awoke in the Netherworld Sea of Blood and found that its baleful energy did not harm him.
• Mosquito Daoist explained that the seabed's Chaos Demon God flesh could transform Sha Heshang and let him rival a Quasi-Saint, though the process could make him monstrous.
• Sha Heshang chose to undergo the transformation and merged with the flesh, strengthening his primordial spirit and True Spirit as Mosquito Daoist watched.

Sha Heshang and Zhu Bajie each underwent a transformation that raised them to the Early-stage Quasi-Saint realm, and they set out for Shituoling. Zhu Bajie arrived to face the Elephant Spirit, whose confidence collapsed at the sight of his power.

• Mosquito Daoist praised Sha Heshang's new Chaos Demon God-like body and sent him to Shituoling to challenge the Nine-headed Lion Spirit.
• Grand Master Xuandu gave Zhu Bajie a Creation Profound Pill to complete his body reforging, while Daoist Duobao presented him with the upgraded Shang Bao Qin Jin Pa.
• Zhu Bajie swallowed the pill, promised to defeat the Elephant Spirit, and rode to Shituoling.
• At Shituoling, Tang Sanzang taunted the Elephant Spirit and declared that Zhu Bajie and Wujing would become strong enough to rival him.
• Zhu Bajie arrived as the pill finished reforging his body, shocking Sun Wukong and Tang Sanzang with his Quasi-Saint power.
• The Elephant Spirit, Nine-headed Lion Spirit, and Void Divine Eagle reacted in alarm, and the Elephant Spirit wondered whether Dao Ancestor Hongjun had intervened.

Zhu Bajie and the Elephant Spirit began their deadly arena battle while Sha Heshang attacked Shituoling’s demons and challenged the Nine-headed Lion Spirit. The Elephant Spirit drew on Chaos Demon power against Zhu Bajie’s top-grade treasure, and the fight remained unresolved as Huanglong rebuked the Void Divine Eagle.

• Zhu Bajie challenged the Elephant Spirit, and Sun Wukong provoked him into entering the arena.
• Sha Heshang entered Shituoling and incited its little demons to slaughter one another, prompting the Nine-headed Lion Spirit to threaten him.
• The Void Divine Eagle reassured the Nine-headed Lion Spirit that the Demon Kings would defeat the pilgrims and seize their places.
• Zhu Bajie vowed to avenge the humans killed by the Elephant Spirit and attacked with the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Art.
• The Elephant Spirit answered with Chaos Demon Elephant power, and his spear clashed with Zhu Bajie’s Shang Bao Qin Jin Pa.
• Huanglong scolded the Void Divine Eagle for dismissing Zhu Bajie’s strength.

Zhu Bajie and Sha Heshang fought the Elephant Spirit and Nine-headed Lion Spirit while Sun Wukong blocked the Void Divine Eagle. When the Void Divine Eagle secretly fled to seize the Peacock Princess’s Yin Origin, Sun Wukong saw through his ruse and followed him toward the Peacock Race’s ancestral homeland.

• Tang Sanzang and his disciples mocked the Void Divine Eagle, who attacked them with Space Turbulence until Sun Wukong raised the Central Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner to shield them.
• Zhu Bajie shattered the White Elephant’s spear and beat the Elephant Spirit, while Sun Wukong stopped the Void Divine Eagle and Nine-headed Lion Spirit from entering the arena.
• Sha Heshang unleashed his slaughtering power and confronted the Nine-headed Lion Spirit, who revealed his enormous true form.
• The Void Divine Eagle agreed to wait for the fights to end while secretly planning to seize the Peacock Princess’s Yin Origin and use it to forge an undying Phoenix Dharmakaya.
• The Void Divine Eagle escaped using a golden cicada’s escape, but Sun Wukong detected the deception, left behind a hair-clone, and followed him toward the Peacock Race’s ancestral homeland.

Zhu Bajie and Sha Heshang killed the Elephant Spirit and the Nine-headed Lion Spirit at Shituoling. The surviving Void Divine Eagle mourned his brothers and set out to attack the Peacock Race’s ancestral grounds to seize the Peacock Princess’s Yin Origin and the Nine Revolutions Nirvana Sutra, but an unexpected change interrupted him.

• Zhu Bajie transformed to the Elephant Spirit’s size, crushed him with Chaos Divine Thunder, and tore out his tusks.
• Sha Heshang sealed the Nine-headed Lion Spirit inside his body and destroyed him as he tried to save the Elephant Spirit.
• Tang Sanzang took the Elephant Spirit’s manhood, and Zhu Bajie sent the tusks toward Shouyang Mountain.
• Zhu Bajie, Sha Heshang, and the others began killing the karmically guilty demons across Shituoling.
• At the Peacock Race’s ancestral grounds, the Void Divine Eagle mourned his brothers and resolved to seize the Peacock Princess’s Yin Origin and the Nine Revolutions Nirvana Sutra.
• The Void Divine Eagle began charging into the ancestral grounds, but an unexpected change occurred.

Ancient Buddha Burning Lamp lamented the losses suffered by the Demon Sect and the danger facing the Void Divine Eagle. Sun Wukong fought the Void Divine Eagle after exposing his scheme against the Peacock Princess, who intervened to stop him from escaping.

• Ancient Buddha Burning Lamp, Guanyin Buddha, and Future Buddha Bai Ze discussed the Demon Sect's losses and the threat to the Void Divine Eagle.
• Sun Wukong confronted the Void Divine Eagle and revealed his plot against the Peacock Princess to the Peacock Race.
• The Peacock Princess condemned the Void Divine Eagle and agreed to let Sun Wukong fight him before she destroyed his spirit.
• Sun Wukong shattered the Void Divine Eagle's Great Dao Void Bottle and struck him down.
• The Void Divine Eagle tried to escape through a spatial vortex, but the Peacock Princess used her Phoenix Divine Light to reverse it and drag him back.

Sun Wukong and the Peacock Princess defeated the Void Divine Eagle, and Mazu invited the princess to visit Immortal Emperor East King Duke with her. Elsewhere, Dao Ancestor Hongjun erased Evil Sword Immortal from the River of Life after Demon Ancestor Luohu refused to intervene.

• The Peacock Princess gravely wounded the Void Divine Eagle with her Phoenix Divine Light, and Sun Wukong killed him with the Ruyi Jingu Bang while the Peacock elder destroyed what remained of him.
• Sun Wukong told the Peacock elder that the Peacock Princess was destined to become Immortal Emperor East King Duke's Dao Companion, leaving her clan astonished.
• Mazu invited the Peacock Princess to visit the Immortal Emperor with her, and the princess agreed before they flew away together.
• Evil Sword Immortal begged Demon Ancestor Luohu to save him, but Luohu said he could not intervene while the Journey to the West Tribulation continued.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun announced that he would end Evil Sword Immortal's suffering and erased him from the River of Life.

Tang Sanzang and his disciples approached Bikshu Kingdom and learned that its Imperial Advisor had ordered infants killed to make medicine. Meanwhile, Dong Wanggong’s companions welcomed Mazu and the Peacock Princess, and West Queen Mother set out with Nuwa and Hu Xian'er to recruit the White Faced Fox Demon.

• Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie discussed the dangers ahead as Tang Sanzang’s group neared Bikshu Kingdom.
• Xue Jian, Zixuan, Xi Yao, and Long Kui credited Dong Wanggong’s Primordial Yang Origin for their cultivation gains, then welcomed Mazu and the Peacock Princess as new Dao Companions.
• West Queen Mother chose Nuwa and Hu Xian'er to accompany her to Bikshu Kingdom and discussed inviting the Immortal Ice Phoenix to Penglai Immortal Island.
• Sun Wukong found that the wronged spirits above Bikshu Kingdom were infants, and Tang Sanzang used the Law of Burial to send them toward reincarnation.
• Zhu Bajie discovered that the Imperial Advisor had prescribed pills made from infants’ hearts and seemed to be the mount of Immortal Weng of the South Pole.

Tang Sanzang and his disciples exposed the king of Bikshu Kingdom’s slaughter of newborns and brought the kingdom’s crimes to an end. The king and White Deer Spirit were executed, with Primordial Heavenly Venerate erasing the spirit from the River of Life.

• White Faced Fox Demon confronted the Imperial Advisor of Bikshu Kingdom, who left to pursue his plan to gather ten million infant hearts.
• Tang Sanzang sensed the newborn corpses in the palace and led his disciples to confront the king of Bikshu Kingdom.
• Zhu Bajie presented the Travel Document, and Li Shimin stripped the king of sovereignty and condemned those involved to the Eighteen Layers of Hell.
• Immortal Weng of the South Pole stopped the fleeing White Deer Spirit and brought him before Tang Sanzang and the people of the capital.
• Sha Heshang destroyed the king of Bikshu Kingdom, while Immortal Weng of the South Pole tortured the White Deer Spirit to death by a thousand cuts.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate erased the White Deer Spirit from the River of Life.

Immortal Weng of the South Pole used Heavenly Dao Merit to become an Early-stage Quasi-Saint, while West Queen Mother, Hu Xian'er, and Nuwa brought Bai Ling and the Immortal Ice Phoenix to Dong Wanggong as new Dao Companions. After returning to Penglai Immortal Island, Dong Wanggong reunited with his companions, and the Journey to the West group reached a pine forest where Sun Wukong sensed trouble ahead.

• Immortal Weng of the South Pole refined the merit from the Deer Spirit's death and became an Early-stage Quasi-Saint before remaining in Bikshu Kingdom to cultivate and spread the Heavenly Dao Principles.
• West Queen Mother, Hu Xian'er, and Nuwa found Bai Ling in her mountain dojo and invited her to Penglai Immortal Island as Dong Wanggong's Dao Companion.
• Dong Wanggong returned to Penglai Immortal Island with his companions, where Bai Ling and the Immortal Ice Phoenix joined him and the other female immortals.
• Tang Sanzang and his disciples crossed mountains into a pine forest, where Sun Wukong heard a woman's cries for help and sensed a trap.

Tang Sanzang and his disciples encountered Lady Earth Swell, who schemed to seduce Tang Sanzang and gain merit, then brought her to a Buddhist temple. The monks there became captivated by her, and the abbot feared the temple was doomed.

• Zhu Bajie charged into Lady Earth Swell to free her from a tree, injuring her, while Tang Sanzang pretended to apologize.
• Lady Earth Swell claimed bandits had tied her up, and Zhu Bajie carried her as the group continued west.
• Lady Earth Swell plotted to seduce Tang Sanzang and gain enough merit to reach the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Tang Sanzang and his disciples arrived at a jeweled temple and asked the abbot for lodging.
• Lady Earth Swell attracted the monks’ attention, and the abbot sighed that the Pilgrim’s arrival would bring disaster to his temple.

Lady Earth Swell abducted Tang Sanzang after killing several monks, and Sun Wukong and his companions went to the Heavenly Court to confront Li Jing about her. Li Jing learned that the demon had claimed him as her adoptive father after he once rescued her, and he promised to confess the mistake to the Heavenly Emperor.

• Lady Earth Swell devoured several lustful monks, then used the Great Dream Law to put Tang Sanzang into a seeming sleep.
• Sun Wukong and the others staged a rescue, but Lady Earth Swell abducted Tang Sanzang and left a clone to fight them.
• Huanglong destroyed Lady Earth Swell's clone, and Zhu Bajie led the group to the Heavenly Court to seek help.
• Sun Wukong confronted Li Jing over Lady Earth Swell's crimes, but Li Jing denied knowing her as his adopted daughter.
• Jin Zha reminded Li Jing that he had once rescued a Golden-Nosed White-Haired Rat, and Li Jing realized she had used his name to establish a shrine and promised to confess to the Heavenly Emperor.

After learning that Zixia and Qingxia could help rescue Tang Sanzang from Lady Earth Swell, Sun Wukong and his companions traveled with Nezha to the goddesses’ palace in the Ninth Heaven of the Western World. Zixia and Qingxia agreed to go to Bottomless Cave, while anticipating a meeting with the Immortal Emperor.

• Sun Wukong dismissed Li Jing’s culpability for accepting a demon’s incense offerings after Li Jing apologized.
• Li Jing told Sun Wukong and the others that Zixia and Qingxia had once saved him and could subdue the demon at Bottomless Cave.
• Nezha confronted Li Jing, then offered to take the four Pilgrims to meet the goddesses and invite them to Penglai Immortal Island.
• Nezha and the four Pilgrims reached the Ninth Heaven of the Western World and entered Zixia and Qingxia’s palace.
• Zixia and Qingxia discussed Nezha’s plan to bring them to the Immortal Emperor, then agreed to accompany the group to rescue Tang Sanzang.

Sun Wukong and the others rescued Tang Sanzang and killed Lady Earth Swell in the Bottomless Cave. After Tang Sanzang continued west, Nezha escorted Zixia and Qingxia to Penglai Immortal Island to meet the Immortal Emperor.

• Lady Earth Swell tried to force Tang Sanzang into Dual Cultivation so she could take the merit from his nine lives.
• Nezha used the incense from Li Jing's memorial tablet to guide Sun Wukong, his companions, and Zixia and Qingxia to the heart of the Bottomless Cave.
• Zixia and Qingxia restrained Lady Earth Swell, and Sun Wukong killed her with the Ruyi Jingu Bang.
• Nezha warned Tang Sanzang that the journey was nearing its end and that the immeasurable tribulation would follow, then Tang Sanzang and his companions continued west.
• Nezha brought Zixia and Qingxia to Penglai Immortal Island, where the Six-Eared Macaque directed them toward the Hongmeng Immortal Palace.

Zixia and Qingxia joined East King Duke and his Dao Companions in the Hongmeng Immortal Palace, while Tang Sanzang’s group reached Yuhua County and planned how to handle the virtuous Yellow Lion Spirit. They left their treasures out as bait, drawing the spirit’s attention and setting their staged encounter in motion.

• Zixia and Qingxia entered the Hongmeng Immortal Palace and joined East King Duke and his Dao Companions in cultivation.
• Tang Sanzang’s party approached Yuhua County, where Sun Wukong identified Yellow Lion Spirit as a disciple of Nine Spirit Yuan Sage and part of the Mystic Gate.
• Tang Sanzang decided to let Yellow Lion Spirit kidnap him so the group could involve Taiyi Zhenren and help him earn merit.
• Sun Wukong proposed helping Nine Spirit Yuan Sage gain a position in the Heavenly Court, and the others agreed.
• The party stayed at a brothel and left their weapons and treasures in its back courtyard as bait.
• Yellow Lion Spirit noticed the treasures’ brilliant light above Yuhua County after night fell.

Yellow Lion Spirit tried to avoid provoking Tang Sanzang and his disciples by stealing their treasures to clean and then preparing an elaborate welcome at Tiger Mouth Cave. Tang Sanzang rejected his gifts and ordered him to fetch Taiyi Jiuku Heavenly Venerate.

• Yellow Lion Spirit feared becoming a trial on the Journey to the West, so he decided to take the treasures himself and clean them rather than have his demons steal them.
• Tang Sanzang and his disciples waited at a brothel while Yellow Lion Spirit carried off their treasures and fled back to Tiger Mouth Cave.
• Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Heshang, and Tang Sanzang discussed Yellow Lion Spirit's cowardice and agreed to visit his cave the next day.
• Yellow Lion Spirit decorated Tiger Mouth Cave, welcomed Tang Sanzang and his disciples, and pleaded for his life while claiming he had cleaned their treasures.
• Tang Sanzang condemned Yellow Lion Spirit's gifts as an attempt to disrupt his Daoist heart and ordered him to fetch Taiyi Jiuku Heavenly Venerate.

Sun Wukong and Tang Sanzang turned Yellow Lion Spirit and Nine Spirit Yuan Sage’s attack into a chance for them to receive posts under the Great Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole. Taiyi Zhenren gained Heavenly Dao Merit and Destiny, reaching Peak Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, while Tang Sanzang hinted that a benefactor carrying the treasures he needed was on the way.

• Nine Spirit Yuan Sage appeared to protect Yellow Lion Spirit, and Sun Wukong pretended to summon Taiyi Jiuku Heavenly Venerate while leading the pilgrims into Tiger's Maw Cave.
• Taiyi Jiuku Heavenly Venerate arrived and agreed to take the two spirits to Heaven, but Tang Sanzang proposed they atone by serving under the Great Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole.
• Nine Spirit Yuan Sage and Yellow Lion Spirit thanked Tang Sanzang and his companions, then traveled to the Ziwei Emperor Star to begin their new posts.
• Huanglong merged Taiyi Zhenren’s Heavenly Court body with Taiyi Jiuku Heavenly Venerate, and Taiyi Zhenren absorbed the Merit and Destiny to reach Peak Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal.
• Sha Heshang explained that Taiyi Zhenren lacked a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure to break through to Quasi-Saint, and Tang Sanzang said a benefactor was on the way.

Zhao Gongming and Grand Master Xuandu arrived to aid Taiyi Zhenren, who used their help and two spiritual treasures to break through to the Mid-stage Quasi-Saint realm. After the three visitors departed, Tang Sanzang and his companions continued toward Tianzhu Kingdom, where Grand Master Xuandu urged them to challenge the land's Buddhist faith.

• Zhao Gongming arrived with the Nine Dragon Fire Cover and Taiyi Fly Whisk, revealing that he had attained the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Grand Master Xuandu shared Daoist insights with Taiyi Zhenren and explained that Daoist Duobao was seeking the Heavenly Burial Demon Emperor's help to advance through treasure crafting.
• Taiyi Zhenren fused the two spiritual treasures with his primordial spirit, severed his Good Corpse and Self Corpse, and advanced to the Mid-stage Quasi-Saint realm.
• Taiyi Zhenren thanked Tang Sanzang, Sun Wukong, and the others, and the group celebrated his breakthrough.
• Grand Master Xuandu warned Tang Sanzang and his companions to stay cautious in Tianzhu Kingdom and suggested they shatter its people's Buddhist faith before he and the others departed.

Tang Sanzang and his companions visited Ciyun Temple in Jinping Prefecture and learned that three supposed living bodhisattvas appeared during the Lantern Festival to collect offerings. Sun Wukong recognized them as monsters and threw Tang Sanzang toward them as they carried off three vats of oil, leaving the monsters terrified.

• Tang Sanzang and his companions arrived at Ciyun Temple, where the abbot welcomed them and invited them to the Lantern Festival.
• The abbot explained that three living bodhisattvas appeared each year and received offerings in return for favorable weather and harvests.
• At the lantern fair, the abbot and townspeople knelt when the three figures appeared in the sky, but Sun Wukong called them monsters and Tang Sanzang stayed seated.
• The three monsters used a gale to lift the vats of Suh Xiang Oil and carry them away.
• Sun Wukong tossed Tang Sanzang toward the monsters, who panicked as he warned they would not survive if they refused to take the monk.

Tang Sanzang ordered three rhinoceros demons to massacre Jinping Prefecture while impersonating Buddhist figures, then Sun Wukong and his companions confronted the Buddhas at Spirit Mountain. Guanyin Buddha refused to explain the slaughter to the people, leaving the conflict exposed before the assembled Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

• Tang Sanzang learned that Bihan, Bishu, and Bichen had impersonated Bodhisattvas for offerings and ordered them to kill Buddhist followers in Jinping Prefecture.
• Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie agreed not to interfere as the three rhinoceros demons slaughtered people and killed Ciyun Temple's abbot.
• After news of the massacre spread, Sun Wukong and his companions went to the Great Thunderclap Monastery and told the Buddhas that demons had acted in Guanyin Buddha's and two Bodhisattvas' names.
• Huanglong urged Guanyin Buddha and the other accused Bodhisattvas to explain the deaths to the people, but Guanyin Buddha angrily refused.