Chapter Summaries

Xiang Yuan and Bai Wuyan entered the Unborn Realm to oversee the Dry Abyss Realm’s attempt to capture it, then visited the capital and reunited with Kang Kuangshi. Xiang Yuan recruited Kang Kuangshi to join him, but their conversation was interrupted when an unidentified visitor tried to flee.

• Xiang Yuan and Bai Wuyan arrived in the Unborn Realm, where Xiang Yuan decided to watch over the realm while the Dry Abyss Realm’s Heavenly Dao sought to capture it.
• Xiang Yuan took Bai Wuyan sightseeing through Stone Cloud County and the capital, recalling his past connections to the Unborn Realm.
• Xiang Yuan and Bai Wuyan found Kang Kuangshi drinking at the Imperial Preceptor’s Residence, and Kang Kuangshi explained how he had become the court’s Imperial Preceptor.
• Bai Wuyan’s intimidating presence frightened Kang Kuangshi after he mistook her for Xiang Yuan’s principal wife, and Kang Kuangshi agreed to go with Xiang Yuan and become a dog in the Dry Abyss Realm.
• An unidentified figure entered the courtyard and tried to escape, so Xiang Yuan summoned a demonic claw to seize them.

Xiang Yuan oversaw the Unborn Realm’s transformation and watched Leng Silan and Kang Kuangshi ascend before returning to the Dry Abyss Realm’s expansion. After discussing the Longevity Realm with Bai Wuyan, he planned to incorporate it into the Three Realms and bring in the Bull Devil King family.

• Xiang Yuan persuaded the Heavenly Dao to remake the Unborn Realm gradually, and its cultivators gained a path to ascend.
• Kang Kuangshi negotiated for a raise while Leng Silan quit the Six Doors and ascended to escape Xiang Yuan’s recruitment.
• Xiang Yuan delayed touring the Unborn Realm with Bai Wuyan for five days, and she slapped him before leaving through Jambu Gate.
• The Dry Abyss Realm’s order stabilized as lower realms and powerful sects joined the Heavenly Court, Netherworld Realm, and Western Sea.
• Xiang Yuan returned to Bai Wuyan, reported the Dry Abyss Realm’s expansion, and proposed incorporating the Longevity Realm and recruiting the Bull Devil King family.

Xiang Yuan completed his lightning tribulation, learned that he was cultivating divinity rather than immortality, and assigned Ji Wuzhou to oversee the Longevity Realm’s integration into the Dry Abyss Realm. He visited the Bull Devil King to bring him and his family out of the Demon Ruins Realm, then followed the Bull Devil King’s lead toward Charnel Forest in search of a powerful ally.

• Xiang Yuan arrived in Great Luo Heaven, completed his lightning tribulation in one second, and considered the conflict between gods and immortals.
• Xiang Yuan summoned Ji Wuzhou and persuaded him to plan the integration of the Longevity Realm into the Dry Abyss Realm.
• Xiang Yuan visited the Bull Devil King, whose contest of strength with Xiang Yuan nearly tore apart the Demon Ruins Realm.
• The Bull Devil King welcomed Xiang Yuan and learned that Xiang Yuan had come to restore his freedom and return him to his former status.
• Xiang Yuan asked the Bull Devil King about powerful beings seeking a new patron, and the Bull Devil King suggested visiting Charnel Forest.
• The Bull Devil King led Xiang Yuan toward Charnel Forest by a shortcut.

Xiang Yuan met Guanyin Bodhisattva in the Demon Ruins Realm and learned how she had survived the Celestial Palace Realm’s collapse and maneuvered around the Demon Domain. He agreed to bring her into the Dry Abyss Realm’s order, exchanged a divine position for her Jambu Gate, and was asked to pass Buddhist teachings to another version of her.

• Xiang Yuan discovered that the Corpse-Abandoning Protector was Guanyin Bodhisattva and was startled when she addressed him as the Great Heavenly Venerable.
• Xiang Yuan questioned Guanyin Bodhisattva’s motives, and she explained that she and Bull Devil King came from the fallen Celestial Palace Realm and that she had used the Demon Ruins Realm to wait for a person destined to claim its opportunity.
• Guanyin Bodhisattva revealed that she had used a Jambu Gate to conceal her control of the Demon Ruins Realm and learn about the Dry Abyss Realm.
• Xiang Yuan offered Guanyin Bodhisattva the divine position of Southern Pole Guanyin, while she agreed to lend him the lower realm contained in her jade disc.
• Xiang Yuan and Guanyin Bodhisattva discussed the Demon Domain and the missing Buddha before she asked him to pass Buddhist teachings to another version of herself.

Xiang Yuan welcomed Guanyin Bodhisattva into the Dry Abyss Realm, granted her a divine position, and recruited the Bull Devil King into a role in his plans. After learning more about the realm’s looming struggle over the Buddha, Xiang Yuan went to Bai Wuyan with Jambu Gate, where she urged him to recruit powerful allies before the conflict escalated.

• Xiang Yuan copied Guanyin Bodhisattva’s teachings and helped her take the divine position of Southern Pole Guanyin at the South Sea Purple Bamboo Grove.
• Bai Wuyan and Sword Venerable Su Ran sensed Guanyin Bodhisattva’s arrival, while Xiang Yuan borrowed Good Wealth Boy and received True Immortal Ruyi’s soul from her.
• Guanyin Bodhisattva warned Xiang Yuan that Abbot Huixing of Great Awakening Temple might be preparing to bring the Western Buddha Patriarch to the Dry Abyss Realm.
• Xiang Yuan told the Bull Devil King to play his destined role, then repaired a Plantain Fan from fragments taken from the Demon Ruins Realm.
• Xiang Yuan visited Bai Wuyan with Guanyin Bodhisattva’s Jambu Gate, and Bai Wuyan advised him to offer generous terms to recruit powerful allies.
• Xiang Yuan predicted that the Buddha might use the Dry Abyss Realm’s crisis to raise his price before supporting the Jade Emperor.

Xiang Yuan reorganized the Dry Abyss Realm, discovered that its expanding lower realms revealed two rivers of time, and settled into Great Luo Heaven as its Celestial Emperor. In Supreme Ultimate Veiled Heaven, his companions adjusted to their new home as he told Xiao Lingyue about the realm’s precarious future, and she confronted him about his claim of mutual love with Guanyin Bodhisattva.

• Xiang Yuan replaced Ji Wuzhou as the Heavenly Dao’s pivot while Palu organized lower realms, prepared ascenders, and built the Journey to the West film set.
• Xiang Yuan brought twenty lower realms under the Dry Abyss Realm and noticed that their rivers of time appeared to converge into two.
• Xiang Yuan sent Guanyin Bodhisattva’s jade disc back to her and mused that the rivers of time, Celestial Emperor, and Heavenly Dao might become singular.
• Baoqin and the Overlord Residence’s women woke in Supreme Ultimate Veiled Heaven, where Xiao Lingyue, Chan'er, and Shang Qingmeng discussed their relationships with Xiang Yuan.
• Xiang Yuan comforted Xiao Lingyue and explained that the Dry Abyss Realm was flourishing but vulnerable without a Celestial Emperor blessed by Heavenly Fate.
• Xiao Lingyue questioned Xiang Yuan about Guanyin Bodhisattva, then accepted that they were innocent after hearing how Bai Wuyan had mocked his claim of mutual love.

Xiang Yuan helped Ziping and Qin Zhaorong stabilize their cultivation, then joined Sword Venerable Su Ran in deducing his small world and learned about her past as the Heavenly Emperor’s adopted daughter. After Shang Qingmeng caught Xiang Yuan and Sword Venerable Su Ran together, the Heavenly Emperor of the Heavenly Pole Realm announced that he would enter the Dry Abyss Realm with Buddha and capture its false emperor.

• Xiang Yuan gave Ziping and Qin Zhaorong golden blood mist to strengthen their cultivation, then used the laws of heaven and earth to help them advance.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran explained that the former Heavenly Emperor had adopted her and granted her a divine position to control one who walked reincarnation.
• Sword Venerable Su Ran joined her small world with Xiang Yuan’s and helped him make major progress in deducing his own small world.
• Shang Qingmeng caught Xiang Yuan and Sword Venerable Su Ran together, and Sword Venerable Su Ran falsely claimed she was carrying his child before Shang Qingmeng attacked them.
• The Heavenly Emperor of the Heavenly Pole Realm invited Buddha to accompany him to the Dry Abyss Realm and help capture its false emperor.

A Celestial Emperor from the Heavenly Pole Realm invaded the Dry Abyss Realm and overwhelmed Ji Wuzhou in the Heavenly Court. Xiang Yuan and the realm’s other powers gathered to resist him, but the Celestial Emperor’s Nine Extremes Dao Platform proved mysterious, and the chapter ended as Xiang Yuan stepped forward to challenge his destiny-backed attack.

• Xiang Yuan shielded the Four Great Continents from the arriving Celestial Emperor’s pressure while Ji Wuzhou and the Jade Emperor protected the other realms.
• The Heavenly Emperor and Buddha entered the Heavenly Court, where the Heavenly Emperor defeated Ji Wuzhou and Xiang Yuan’s allies arrived to reinforce him.
• Xiang Yuan recognized Buddha as Abbot Huixing and tried to recruit him, but Buddha refused to change sides or state his price.
• The Heavenly Emperor offered Xiang Yuan a place in his service, but Xiang Yuan refused and declared his allegiance to Ji Wuzhou.
• The Heavenly Emperor saw the Three Pure Ones in Great Luo Heaven, then used his destiny and Nine Extremes Dao Platform to attack Xiang Yuan and the assembled allies.
• Chan'er’s Ancient Mirror of Reincarnation could not reveal the Celestial Emperor’s Primordial Spirit, and Xiang Yuan surged forward to confront the attack.

Xiang Yuan, Ji Wuzhou, and Guanyin Bodhisattva battled the Celestial Emperor, and Xiang Yuan learned that the Celestial Emperor’s power depended on the Nine Extremes Dao Platform and the hidden Heavenly Pole Realm. The Buddha agreed to betray the Celestial Emperor after Xiang Yuan identified himself and promised him a place for Spirit Mountain, then drew his butcher’s blade as the battle resumed.

• Xiang Yuan, Ji Wuzhou, and Guanyin Bodhisattva confronted the Celestial Emperor, who isolated the battlefield but failed to drive Guanyin Bodhisattva away.
• Xiang Yuan’s thousand-zhang manifestation fought the Celestial Emperor’s Dharma Form while Ji Wuzhou wounded it with the Regretless Blade, allowing Xiang Yuan to pin it down and strike it.
• Guanyin Bodhisattva revealed that the Celestial Emperor’s regeneration relied on the Nine Extremes Dao Platform, which concealed the Heavenly Pole Realm, and Xiang Yuan persuaded the Buddha to reveal how to defeat him.
• Xiang Yuan agreed to the Buddha’s request for a promise, and the Buddha disclosed that destroying the Nine Extremes Dao Platform would end the Celestial Emperor’s regeneration.
• The Celestial Emperor recovered as part of the Nine Extremes Dao Platform collapsed, then found Xiang Yuan, Ji Wuzhou, the Buddha, and Guanyin Bodhisattva surrounding him.
• The Buddha revealed Spirit Mountain in the Dry Abyss Realm and the Heavenly Pole Realm, then drew his butcher’s blade against the Celestial Emperor.

The Buddha revealed that he had established Spirit Mountain in the Dry Abyss Realm and helped Xiang Yuan and Ji Wuzhou defeat the Celestial Emperor by invading the Heavenly Pole Realm and merging the two realms. After the Celestial Emperor fell, Xiang Yuan secured the Nine Extremes Dao Platform for the Dry Abyss Realm and left Ji Wuzhou to oversee its expanding Heavenly Court while he went to meet the Buddha.

• The Buddha charged into the Heavenly Pole Realm and attacked the High Heaven Hall while Xiang Yuan used the Demon-Summoning Banner to trap the Celestial Emperor inside the Astral Grand Formation.
• Xiang Yuan sent Ji Wuzhou into the Heavenly Pole Realm, where Ji joined the Buddha as the two realms' Heavenly Dao origins began to merge.
• With his Heaven's Mandate and Heavenly Pole Realm lost, the Celestial Emperor was defeated by Xiang Yuan, though he left behind a Celestial Emperor Dao Seed.
• Xiang Yuan placed the Nine Extremes Dao Platform around the Dry Abyss Realm and began absorbing the Heavenly Pole Realm's lower realms and resources.
• Xiang Yuan put Ji Wuzhou in charge of distributing Heavenly Court positions and overseeing the merger, then left to meet the Buddha for dinner.

Xiang Yuan met with the Buddha on Spirit Mountain, learned that the Buddha was the reincarnated Primordial Spirit once housed in Senior Jiang, and agreed to let Buddhism enter the Dry Abyss Realm and take charge of the scripture pilgrimage. The Buddha proposed that Xiang Yuan play Tang Monk, but Xiang Yuan left insisting he would refuse, even as the idea began to seem tempting.

• Xiang Yuan met the Buddha in a secluded space on Spirit Mountain and discussed the Buddha’s ties to his Buddhist opportunities and the Celestial Emperor Dao Seed.
• The Buddha revealed that he was the Primordial Spirit who had once inhabited Senior Jiang, and explained how he had relinquished the Celestial Emperor Dao Seed and become the Buddha.
• Xiang Yuan agreed that Buddhism could enter the Dry Abyss Realm and that the Buddha could direct the scripture pilgrimage, with Heaven and Earth answering the call along the way.
• The Buddha created the immortal stone for the scripture-fetching monkey and said he had chosen someone to serve as the scripture-fetcher.
• The Buddha indicated that he wanted Xiang Yuan to play Tang Monk, and Xiang Yuan stormed off while arguing that he was unsuited for the role.

Xiang Yuan agreed to take the scripture-seeker role in the western journey on his own terms, then arranged for the divine monkey’s birth. After the realms merged and Guanyin Bodhisattva delivered the Buddha’s proposal, Xiang Yuan obtained a divine iron rod from Lord Lao and activated the ape god at Flower-Fruit Mountain.

• Xiang Yuan considered how to strengthen Bai Wuyan and the Dry Abyss Realm, then later supervised the realm’s fusion with the Heavenly Pole Realm alongside Ji Wuzhou.
• Guanyin Bodhisattva visited Xiang Yuan at the Buddha’s request and persuaded him to accept a nominal Buddhist position and the scripture-seeker role.
• Xiang Yuan agreed to send an incarnation on the western journey, reserving the right to act according to his own temperament and ideas.
• Xiang Yuan told Guanyin Bodhisattva to inform the Buddha that arrangements could soon be made for the divine monkey’s birth.
• Xiang Yuan visited Lord Lao at Doushuai Palace, and Lord Lao sent a Bottom-Stabilizing Divine Precious Iron toward the East Sea.
• At Flower-Fruit Mountain, the ape god was activated.

Sun Wukong returned to Flower-Fruit Mountain, became sworn brothers with the Bull Devil King and five other demons, and was taken to the underworld after dying in his sleep. The Buddha struggled with the escalating costs of the scripture-fetching plan, while Xiang Yuan persuaded Ji Wuzhou to profit from the coming havoc in Heaven; Ji Wuzhou sent Taibai Jinxing to recruit Sun Wukong.

• After accelerated time carried Sun Wukong through his birth, training under Patriarch Subhuti, and return to Flower-Fruit Mountain, he defeated the Demon King of Havoc and plundered the East Sea for treasure.
• Sun Wukong met the Bull Devil King and five other demons, proposed sworn brotherhood, and lost their fight after the Bull Devil King's resentment unnerved him; he accepted the position of seventh brother.
• After Sun Wukong went to sleep, two underworld officials took his soul to the Hall of Judgment, where the Buddha arrived to appease the Ten Yama Kings and pay compensation.
• The Buddha worried that the scripture-fetching plan would exhaust Spirit Mountain's funds, but Guanyin Bodhisattva refused to seek help from the Heavenly Court a second time.
• Xiang Yuan persuaded Ji Wuzhou that he could make money from the planned havoc in Heaven, and Ji Wuzhou agreed to exploit the project and fabricate events as needed.
• After the East Sea Dragon King and King Qin Guang submitted a joint memorial against Sun Wukong, Ji Wuzhou sent Taibai Jinxing to recruit him into Heaven.

Taibai Jinxing and the Jade Emperor’s faction manipulated Sun Wukong into rebelling after he tried to serve dutifully in the Heavenly Court. The Six Great Sages abandoned him once the Heavenly Court moved against him, leaving him to prepare for battle while the voice in his soul warned him what to do next.

• Sun Wukong accepted the Heavenly Court’s recruitment, bribed Taibai Jinxing, and received the post of Keeper of the Heavenly Horses.
• Xiang Yuan ordered Taibai Jinxing and Xu Jixian to provoke Sun Wukong, and the monkey finally left the Imperial Horse Supervisory after officials framed and censured him.
• The Bull Devil King and the other five demon kings urged Sun Wukong to become the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, then secretly fled the next morning when heavenly troops arrived.
• Sun Wukong armed himself to face the heavenly soldiers while the voice in his soul promised that Taibai Jinxing would return and warned him to avoid the Peach Garden and Peach Banquet.

After Sun Wukong’s Peach Garden theft, he was captured, escaped the Eight Trigram Furnace, and rampaged through the Heavenly Court until the Buddha trapped him beneath Five Finger Mountain. The Heaven-Pacifying Assembly continued while Corpse Queen Mother emerged from reincarnation in the Netherworld Realm.

• Xiao He persuaded Sun Wukong to accept the title of Great Sage Equal to Heaven and oversee the Peach Garden, where Sun Wukong resisted temptation until he finally ate all the peaches, thousands of immortal pills, and the Peach Banquet’s food.
• Sun Wukong fled to Flower-Fruit Mountain, fought the heavenly army, and was captured after the Elder Lord used a hula hoop; the Elder Lord took him to Doushuai Palace and placed him in the Eight Trigram Furnace.
• Sun Wukong escaped the furnace and smashed his way into the Hall of High Heaven, where Ji Wuzhou slipped under the table and called for Tathagata Buddha.
• Tathagata Buddha subdued Sun Wukong beneath Five Finger Mountain and attended Ji Wuzhou’s Heaven-Pacifying Assembly.
• In the Netherworld Realm, Corpse Queen Mother emerged from reincarnation as a black coffin opened and a bandaged hand reached out.

During the Heaven-Pacifying Assembly, the Corpse Queen Mother remade reincarnation and disrupted the order of the Three Realms, then exposed the truth about Bai Wuyan’s identity and Xiang Yuan’s connection to the Queen Mother of the West. Xiang Yuan was sent away as Jingyun returned in her original form, revealed as the true Queen Mother of the West.

• A black light breached Great Luo Heaven, and Jade Emperor Ji Wuzhou merged with the source of the Heavenly Dao while Xiang Yuan went to confront the intruder in the Netherworld Realm.
• The Corpse Queen Mother reshaped reincarnation, transforming the Yellow Springs and causing upheaval across the Netherworld Realm and the mortal world.
• The Buddha recognized the Corpse Queen Mother as distinct from the Queen Mother of the West, and Xiang Yuan revealed that he had once been Jingyun’s nominal disciple.
• The Corpse Queen Mother expelled Xiang Yuan from the Dry Abyss Realm and told Bai Wuyan that she was not the true Queen Mother of the West.
• Jingyun emerged from a white portal in her original appearance as the Queen Mother of the West.

Queen Mother of the West revealed her schemes to gather the six reincarnated women and used the principles of reincarnation to begin restoring the Six Paths Goddess, while Xiang Yuan was unexpectedly sent to the High Heaven Hall. The chapter ended with the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor mistaking Xiang Yuan for a usurper and ordering his arrest.

• Queen Mother of the West defeated Bai Wuyan’s sword attack with the Kunlun Book, then summoned the Yellow Springs Mother Tree phantom using the Reincarnation Relics.
• Queen Mother of the West explained how she and the Heavenly Emperor had laid schemes involving the six reincarnated women, and revealed that the Six Paths Goddess had been killed by the ancient Heavenly Emperor.
• Queen Mother of the West attempted to take control of the Six Paths, but the Corpse Queen Mother sacrificed her body to release the principles of reincarnation and trigger the Mother Tree’s call to the six women.
• The six women were drawn into gray vortices above the Yellow Springs Mother Tree, and their Primordial Spirits began merging as Queen Mother of the West’s plan advanced.
• Xiang Yuan passed through a Jambu Gate into the High Heaven Hall, where the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor mistook him for a rebel and ordered the guards to seize him.

Xiang Yuan attacked the Heavenly Court, declaring that the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor was a false ruler, and defeated the gods who tried to stop him. As the Celestial Emperor erased Xiang Yuan’s divine position and his power collapsed, Xiang Yuan resolved to keep fighting with his fists.

• Xiang Yuan announced to the assembled gods that he was acting under a secret Heavenly Dao decree, while the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor ordered them to capture him.
• The Twenty-Eight Mansions attacked Xiang Yuan with their formation, but he shattered it and defeated them with his sword.
• The Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor blocked White Moon Lay Buddhist’s approach with Spirit Mountain and Tathagata Buddha, but she exposed Spirit Mountain as an illusion and fought the Buddha’s palm with her Thousand-Armed Guanyin form.
• Xiang Yuan overwhelmed the Heavenly Court’s generals and scattered them with the True Martial Black Eagle Banner, then faced four supreme gods summoned by the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor.
• Baize forged a decree ordering Xiang Yuan’s subordinates to stay in their posts, while Ji Muqing and the other disciples watched the battle from the South Sea.
• The Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor erased Xiang Yuan’s True Warrior Great Emperor divine position, causing his aura to plummet, but Xiang Yuan declared that his fists would still strike.

Xiang Yuan defeated the four Supreme God avatars, seized simulated fate, and helped Bai Yue turn the tide against the Buddha. He then confronted the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor, and their battle escalated as both summoned towering Dharma Forms.

• Xiang Yuan killed the Golden-Armored Demon God, the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Pole, and the Southern Pole Longevity Great Emperor while disrupting the Purple Tenuity Great Emperor's stellar fate formation.
• Xiang Yuan used the Demon-Summoning Banner to replicate the Astral Grand Formation, claim fate, kill the Purple Tenuity Great Emperor, and devastate Heavenly Court.
• Xiang Yuan sent Great Compassion and Great Mercy into Bai Yue, restoring her power as she attacked the Buddha in the Pure Land of Bliss.
• Xiang Yuan taunted the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor over the Demon-Summoning Banner and his missing finger, then exchanged powerful blows with him.
• Xiang Yuan and the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor canceled each other's Heaven-mandate advantages and continued fighting as calamities spread across the Three Realms.
• The Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor manifested his Celestial Emperor Dharma Form, and Xiang Yuan grew his Three Heads and Six Arms to a thousand zhang and raised the Demon-Summoning Banner.

Xiang Yuan defeated the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor after Heaven’s Dao abandoned him, then reclaimed his divine position and found a gateway leading to the Dry Abyss Realm. He crossed through with Laywoman Bai Yue, while Queen Mother of the West confronted Supreme Elder Lord and the newly revealed Heartless Daoist beneath the awakening Yellow Springs Mother Tree.

• Xiang Yuan copied the Nine-Finger Celestial Emperor’s techniques, overwhelmed his Dharma Form in close combat, and destroyed him and the Mystic Mirror when Heaven’s Dao withdrew its support.
• The Buddha chose nirvana after seeing Xiang Yuan victorious, and Bai Yue joined Xiang Yuan at the Southern Heavenly Gate.
• Xiang Yuan reclaimed the True Warrior Great Emperor’s position, restored the gods’ memories, appointed Baize and Guan Yan to guard the Heavenly Court, and searched for a way back to the Dry Abyss Realm.
• Xiang Yuan discovered Jingyun’s gateway between the two Great Luo Heavens and crossed into the Dry Abyss Realm with Bai Yue, suspecting that Jingyun had schemed to make him a Celestial Emperor.
• Beneath the Yellow Springs Mother Tree, Supreme Elder Lord warned Queen Mother of the West against using the awakening Six Paths Goddess against the Heavenly Emperors, then revealed Heartless Daoist hiding nearby.
• Queen Mother of the West recognized Heartless Daoist, who began to introduce himself before Supreme Elder Lord angrily interrupted him.