Chapter Summaries

Shen Luo asked Little Master to repair the broken Jade Pillow, and learned that doing so required two rare treasures from the East Sea Dragon Palace and Fangcun Mountain. Little Master agreed to help gather the other materials and revealed that he was also acting at someone’s request, leading Shen Luo to find a white-robed old man in the rear hall.

• Shen Luo returned to Heavenly Mechanism City and learned that Yan Wushi had entered seclusion after recovering from his injuries.
• Shen Luo showed Little Master the broken Jade Pillow and the jade slab, and Little Master identified the pillow as a primordial spiritual object.
• Little Master said the repair required the Blood-Seeking Nine-Chi Pearl and the spatial power of the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram.
• Little Master agreed that Heavenly Mechanism City would gather the other materials without charge, though collecting them would take time.
• Little Master said he was helping Shen Luo at someone’s request, and Shen Luo went to the rear hall and saw a white-robed old man beside the Thousand Mechanisms Diagram Scroll.

Shen Luo met with Zhen Yuanzi in Heavenly Mechanism City and warned him that the Demon Clan’s threat remained active, then accepted a jade token for contacting him in emergencies. Months later, Shen Luo and Fu Donglai reached the Western Cattle Continent on their way to Fangcun Mountain, where Fu Donglai hoped to join the sect and they planned to seek the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram.

• Shen Luo told Zhen Yuanzi about Lion Camel Ridge, Mo Xin, and his fears that the Demon Clan was still plotting against the Three Realms.
• Zhen Yuanzi warned Shen Luo about demonic cultivation and artifacts, gave him a jade token, and invited him to send Wuzhuang Temple information about the Demon Clan.
• After leaving Heavenly Mechanism City, Fu Donglai decided to become a disciple of Fangcun Mountain, and Shen Luo said he would accompany him to obtain a material needed to repair a treasure.
• Several months later, Shen Luo and Fu Donglai arrived outside Songshan County and discussed Fu Donglai joining Fangcun Mountain and the difficulty of borrowing the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram.
• Fu Donglai explained that the diagram had been entrusted to Patriarch Bodhi after being used to suppress Chi You, and that the Bodhi Patriarch had refused demands to transfer it to the Heavenly Court and Buddhist School.

Shen Luo and Fu Donglai entered Songshan County Town while discussing Patriarch Bodhi and the rumors surrounding him. A boy sold Shen Luo a crude map to Fangcun Mountain, and the pair left town after noticing that many strangers were watching them.

• Shen Luo dismissed malicious claims about Patriarch Bodhi and defended his practice of accepting disciples from every race.
• Shen Luo and Fu Donglai entered Songshan County Town, where a boy assumed they had come to seek a master at Fangcun Mountain.
• The boy offered to sell Shen Luo a family map and warned him about a dangerous place marked in red.
• Shen Luo paid one tael of silver for the crude map, which showed a winding route from the town to Fangcun Mountain.
• Shen Luo and Fu Donglai left town as scattered observers watched them, and the feeling of being watched faded after they passed the city gate.

Shen Luo and Fu Donglai followed a crude map through a misty forest toward Fangcun Mountain. They found Longevity Village, but after Shen Luo realized the people he had hoped to visit would not yet be alive, he left with Fu Donglai.

• Shen Luo and Fu Donglai discussed the cultivators gathered in the nearby city and decided to avoid trouble while pursuing their goal.
• Shen Luo used the map and his memories to guide them through a forest where the mist subtly distorted Divine Sense.
• Shen Luo led Fu Donglai past a marked area near a lake and toward a village surrounded by farmland and a defensive wall.
• Young guards fired warning arrows at Shen Luo and Fu Donglai, accusing them of trespassing in Longevity Village.
• Shen Luo tried to ask for Ying Luo and Granny Ma, then realized they would not yet be alive and left with Fu Donglai.

Shen Luo and Fu Donglai reached Fangcun Mountain, where the sealed gate barred visitors until the guards recognized Shen Luo’s Huangting Scripture and the Patriarch ordered that they be brought up. They entered the mountain and followed Chun Qiu through its restored, serene grounds.

• Shen Luo found a hidden cave entrance beneath a boulder, and he and Fu Donglai passed through the mountain to reach Fangcun Mountain’s gate.
• At the gate, Shen Luo and Fu Donglai asked to enter, but the guards refused because the mountain was sealed and no new disciples were being accepted.
• After Shen Luo revealed his Early True Immortal aura and used the Huangting Scripture, Jue Ming demanded to know where he had learned the technique and tried to seize him.
• Chun Qiu stopped Jue Ming, explaining that the Patriarch had instructed him to bring Shen Luo and Fu Donglai up the mountain.
• Chun Qiu opened the barrier and led them inside, where Shen Luo saw Fangcun Mountain’s peaceful pavilions, gardens, spirit deer, and immortal cranes.

Shen Luo and Fu Donglai reached Fangcun Abode, where Patriarch Bodhi summoned Shen Luo and examined his fate and cultivation. Bodhi warned Shen Luo that relying on the Profound Yang Co-Refinement Method could lead to irreversible demonization.

• A young Daoist boy guided Shen Luo and Fu Donglai through Fangcun Mountain, where Fu Donglai contrasted the sect’s friendly cultivation practices with Lion Camel Ridge’s deadly sparring.
• The boy brought them to Fangcun Abode and told Shen Luo to meet Patriarch Bodhi while Fu Donglai waited outside for tea.
• As Shen Luo entered the cottage, a twisting force pulled him inside, and Patriarch Bodhi caught him before he fell.
• Patriarch Bodhi said Shen Luo’s karmic threads were unusually chaotic and explained that he had invited him to investigate their peculiar affinity.
• Patriarch Bodhi recognized the balance Shen Luo maintained between Pure Yang energy and Chi You Demonic Aura and warned him that the Profound Yang Co-Refinement Method could cause irreversible calamities.

Shen Luo told Patriarch Bodhi that he had dreamed of the Three Realms a thousand years in the future, where the Demonic Calamity had destroyed Fangcun Mountain. After examining Shen Luo’s Jade Pillow, Bodhi recognized its mysterious power, while Shen Luo warned that the Demon Clan’s threat was still hidden and growing.

• Shen Luo explained that his Profound Yang Secret Art had formed from the balance between Huangting Scripture cultivation, Chi You Demonic Aura, and Yin-Yang Qi.
• Shen Luo and Patriarch Bodhi discussed the unrest caused by the belief that the demonic threat had been quelled and the possibility of the Three Realms living together without racial divisions.
• Shen Luo revealed that a Jade Pillow had shown him the world a thousand years in the future, including the destruction of Fangcun Mountain during Chi You’s revival.
• Patriarch Bodhi examined the broken Jade Pillow, sensed its ancient and unfathomable power, and expressed astonishment that Shen Luo had survived its influence.
• Shen Luo told Bodhi that the Demon Clan was secretly plotting again, though he had not yet found conclusive evidence.

Shen Luo asked Patriarch Bodhi to lend him the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram to repair the Jade Pillow, but Bodhi refused and instead entrusted him with a letter for Sun Wukong. Shen Luo stayed at Fangcun Mountain to attend Bodhi’s scripture lecture, where Jue Ming and Jue An appeared beside the Patriarch.

• Shen Luo told Patriarch Bodhi that he needed the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram to repair the Jade Pillow and return to the dream’s future.
• Patriarch Bodhi refused to lend the treasure, warning that it could bring Shen Luo a fatal calamity, and said Fangcun Mountain was under threat.
• Shen Luo agreed to deliver Patriarch Bodhi’s handwritten letter to Sun Wukong at Water Curtain Cave on Flower Fruit Mountain.
• Patriarch Bodhi invited Shen Luo and Fu Donglai to attend his scripture lecture that evening.
• Patriarch Bodhi appeared before the gathered Fangcun Mountain disciples, accompanied by Jue Ming and Jue An.

Patriarch Bodhi’s sermon deepened Shen Luo’s understanding of the Huangting Scripture and gave him a way to address the imbalance between the Chi You Demonic Aura and Pure Yang Power. After testing his insight, Shen Luo left Fangcun Mountain with Fu Donglai and headed for the East Sea.

• Patriarch Bodhi preached about the Huangting Scripture’s path of transformation, and Shen Luo gained a deeper understanding of the Seventy-Two Transformations.
• Patriarch Bodhi’s teachings led Shen Luo to consider using Yin-Yang Qi to turn the imbalance in his body into a dynamic balance and control the side effects of the Mystic Yang Demon Transformation.
• Patriarch Bodhi sent Shen Luo to the summit, where Shen Luo circulated the Huangting Scripture and began testing his insight.
• Jue Ming and Jue An discussed whether Patriarch Bodhi had intended to enlighten Shen Luo or take him as a final disciple.
• Shen Luo woke Fu Donglai and told him they needed to leave Fangcun Mountain for the East Sea, and Jue Ming watched them depart.

Shen Luo and Fu Donglai fought their way into Flower Fruit Mountain, where Sun Wukong arrived and received Patriarch Bodhi’s message. After reading it, Sun Wukong erupted in fury and asked Shen Luo whether the sects had already attacked Fangcun Mountain when he left.

• Shen Luo drove back the Long-Armed Ape and another Red-Rumped Horse Monkey general with his Dragon-Elephant Power, then stopped his attack before it struck them.
• Sun Wukong arrived at the camp with the Old Macaque and greeted Shen Luo and Fu Donglai.
• Shen Luo told Sun Wukong that Patriarch Bodhi had sent him with a message and handed over the Azure Jade Ring.
• Sun Wukong broke the ring’s Restriction and read its message, then erupted in anger.
• Shen Luo asked whether Fangcun Mountain was in danger, and Sun Wukong asked if the sects had already attacked it when Shen Luo departed.

After protecting a fishing harbor from sea fiends, Shen Luo traveled with Fu Donglai to Flower Fruit Mountain to deliver a letter to Sun Wukong. When the guards refused to disturb their king’s seclusion, Shen Luo called out to him and faced the mountain’s defenders.

• Shen Luo and Fu Donglai killed a fiend attacking an East Sea harbor, and the fishermen begged them to seek help from the East Sea Dragon Palace.
• Shen Luo set up a Magic Formation to protect the harbor and promised to speak to the East Sea Dragon Palace after finishing his business.
• Shen Luo and Fu Donglai reached Flower Fruit Mountain, where a white-furred ape refused to report Shen Luo’s request without proof while Sun Wukong was in seclusion.
• Shen Luo unleashed a powerful shout toward the mountain, but a golden bell formation blocked the sound waves and drew out four formidable ape fiends.
• A scarred Long-Armed Ape summoned a Primordial Golden Hammer and swung it at Shen Luo.

Sun Wukong set out with Shen Luo and two ape generals to reinforce Fangcun Mountain, which a coalition of sects had attacked. After more than half a month of travel, Shen Luo and Fu Donglai reached the ruined Longevity Village, where the chapter left them facing the aftermath of the fighting.

• Shen Luo told Sun Wukong that Fangcun Mountain was under attack by a coalition led by Spider Cave, Lingbo City, and Lion Camel Ridge.
• Sun Wukong ordered Marshal Ma and General Beng to accompany him as reinforcements and left Marshal Liu, General Ba, and the blue-robed old ape to guard Flower Fruit Mountain.
• Shen Luo and Fu Donglai joined Sun Wukong, and Shen Luo asked the blue-robed old ape to send demon generals to deal with water demons near the fishing harbor.
• Sun Wukong gave Shen Luo the Azure Jade Ring as payment for delivering the message, then set off with his generals while Shen Luo followed using the Wingspan Thousand Li Secret Art.
• After more than half a month, Shen Luo and Fu Donglai arrived at Longevity Village and found its walls and houses burned and reduced to ruins.

Sun Wukong returned to Fangcun Mountain and destroyed its mountain-protecting formation, then recovered its spiritual energy. He learned from the wounded Jue An that powerful invaders had entered through a traitor and were slaughtering the disciples, while Bodhi’s fate remained unknown.

• Sun Wukong left Longevity Village with Shen Luo and Fu Donglai and reached Fangcun Mountain’s still-active mountain gate.
• Sun Wukong failed to enter using the Opening Gate Formula, then smashed the mountain-protecting formation with the Ruyi Jingu Bang.
• Sun Wukong collected the formation’s scattered spiritual energy as Shen Luo urged the group to hurry up the mountain.
• Sun Wukong caught the falling Jue An, who recognized him and told him that Fangcun Mountain had been attacked.
• Jue An revealed that Yang Jian, Hua Shiniang, and the Six-Tusked Elephant King led the invaders, and that a traitor had opened the mountain to them.
• Jue An explained that hundreds of cultivators had overwhelmed the disciples, and Sun Wukong urgently asked where Master was.

Shen Luo and Sun Wukong learned that Fangcun Mountain had been attacked and Patriarch Bodhi was gravely wounded, prompting them to head toward the mountain while Shen Luo suspected Jue An’s story. At the summit, Hua Shiniang intercepted Sun Wukong and urged him to stay out of the conflict.

• Jue An told Sun Wukong and Shen Luo that Jue Ming had poisoned Patriarch Bodhi and helped a masked man wound him, forcing the survivors and some villagers into the Bodhi Mystic Realm.
• Sun Wukong decided to charge up Fangcun Mountain while Shen Luo revealed he had already requested aid from several groups and questioned Jue An’s suspicious account.
• Shen Luo and Fu Donglai concealed their auras and followed the others along a mountain path through Fangcun Mountain’s burning buildings and scattered corpses.
• Hua Shiniang trapped Sun Wukong’s group in her Heavenly Net, but Sun Wukong tore it apart and she restored it with crystalline threads.
• Hua Shiniang appeared before Sun Wukong and warned him not to involve himself in Fangcun Mountain’s conflict.

Sun Wukong fought Erlang God Yang Jian to stop the forces threatening Fangcun Mountain, overwhelming him with his duplicates until Hua Shiniang intervened. She rescued Yang Jian and trapped Sun Wukong in a crystalline spiderweb, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Sun Wukong warned Hua Shiniang to leave and threatened the Spider Cave if anything happened to his master, while Hua Shiniang invoked Lion Camel Ridge and Lingbo City.
• Yang Jian arrived with the Howling Celestial Dog and told Sun Wukong not to interfere, but Sun Wukong challenged him to fight.
• Yang Jian attacked with Soul Suppression, but Sun Wukong shattered the shockwaves and struck him back with the Golden-Hooped Rod.
• The Howling Celestial Dog grew enormous to attack Sun Wukong, while the two demon ape generals transformed and blocked it.
• Yang Jian used Thunder Surge and his golden vertical eye against Sun Wukong's techniques and countless duplicates, but Sun Wukong's staff attacks pinned him down.
• Hua Shiniang pulled Yang Jian from danger with a crystalline thread and trapped Sun Wukong's duplicates in a silver-white net, forcing him back into his true body.

Sun Wukong broke free of Hua Shiniang’s Heavenly Net and struck back with a storm of lightning, but a hidden attacker used Jue An as bait to ambush him. The chapter ended with Sun Wukong pierced through the chest by a rune-marked blade.

• Hua Shiniang trapped Sun Wukong in her Heavenly Net while Yang Jian waited for the mountaintop to be ready.
• Sun Wukong broke the cocoon with thunder and lightning, blasting Yang Jian and Hua Shiniang.
• An unseen attacker struck Jue An, and Sun Wukong knocked Hua Shiniang away when she tried to ambush him.
• The hidden attacker wounded Jue An again, and Sun Wukong rushed to catch him.
• A phantom white elephant slammed Sun Wukong away, and he discovered a snow-white, rune-marked blade embedded in his chest.

Sun Wukong confronted Jue An over his betrayal of Patriarch Bodhi and was trapped in a renewed Heavenly Net while wounded. Yang Jian, Hua Shiniang, and Jue An overwhelmed him, leaving him isolated in a water prison as he threatened to retaliate against Lingbo City if anything happened to the Patriarch.

• Sun Wukong learned that Jue An and Jue Ming had wounded Patriarch Bodhi, and Jue An admitted he betrayed the Patriarch out of resentment over his teachings to Sun Wukong.
• Jue An revealed that the Patriarch had killed Jue Ming, while Sun Wukong mocked Jue An for serving as someone else's weapon.
• Hua Shiniang rebuilt the Heavenly Net as Sun Wukong pulled Kushan Fang from his chest, donned his red cape, and attacked Jue An.
• Yang Jian blocked Sun Wukong's strike against Jue An, then joined Hua Shiniang and Jue An in trapping Sun Wukong and suppressing him with a water prison and talismans.
• Hua Shiniang restrained Sun Wukong's two ape demons, leaving him isolated as Yang Jian demanded he stay; Sun Wukong threatened to lead the demons of Flower Fruit Mountain against Lingbo City if Patriarch Bodhi was harmed.

Shen Luo arrived at Fangcun Mountain’s siege and challenged Yang Jian over his alliance with the attackers, but Yang Jian defended his plan to restrain Fangcun Mountain. Shen Luo and Sun Wukong then attacked together, while Yang Jian trapped Shen Luo in his waves and Sun Wukong helped bear the pressure.

• Jue An’s Primordial Unity Talisman was destroyed by purple lightning just as it neared Sun Wukong’s cage.
• Shen Luo used the Water-Dividing Art to reach Yang Jian and questioned why he was helping attack Fangcun Mountain.
• Yang Jian explained that he wanted the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram and an end to Fangcun Mountain accepting disciples from other races, arguing that its growing power could threaten balance in the Three Realms.
• Yang Jian warned Shen Luo that Patriarch Bodhi could be assassinated and Fangcun Mountain taken over by Jue An, but Shen Luo remained suspicious of Yang Jian’s role in the attack.
• Shen Luo and Sun Wukong simultaneously unleashed the Heaven-Rending Chaotic Staff, prompting Hua Shiniang to reinforce her golden cage.
• Yang Jian trapped Shen Luo in crushing waves, and Sun Wukong released more power to ease the pressure as Shen Luo continued attacking.

Shen Luo and Sun Wukong destroyed Yang Jian and Hua Shiniang’s water prison with the Heaven-Rending Chaotic Staff, then resumed fighting them while Fu Donglai confronted Jue An. Shen Luo faced Hua Shiniang’s multiplying Honeycomb swords and identified their Magic Power cost, leaving her startled by his insight.

• Jue An attacked Shen Luo with the Soul-Seizing Claw, but Fu Donglai emerged from hiding and destroyed it before fighting Jue An.
• Shen Luo and Sun Wukong completed their Heaven-Rending Chaotic Staff attack, shattering the water prison and emerging side by side.
• Sun Wukong charged Yang Jian while Shen Luo engaged Hua Shiniang, who sent eighteen flying swords after him.
• Shen Luo dodged Hua Shiniang’s first attack, then repeatedly deflected the swords as they multiplied and attacked from every direction.
• Hua Shiniang explained that her Honeycomb swords multiplied whenever they were struck, and Shen Luo pointed out that maintaining them consumed her Magic Power.

Hua Shiniang’s attack on Shen Luo and Yang Jian’s fight with Sun Wukong were interrupted when the Six-Eared Macaque appeared and struck Yang Jian from behind. Hua Shiniang then revealed that Spider Cave’s alliance was a ruse designed to open the Well of Gods and Demons.

• Hua Shiniang doubled her Hive Flying Swords and trapped Shen Luo in a cage of blades as Sun Wukong and Yang Jian fought to a stalemate.
• Hua Shiniang sent a golden talisman toward the fighters, and the Six-Eared Macaque emerged from it disguised as Sun Wukong and struck Yang Jian from behind.
• The Six-Eared Macaque revealed himself, and Sun Wukong recognized him as the foe he had killed during the journey to fetch the scriptures.
• Shen Luo broke out of Hua Shiniang’s sword formation, while Fu Donglai and Jue An stopped fighting.
• Hua Shiniang admitted that Spider Cave’s alliance and its demand for the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram were a ruse to open the Well of Gods and Demons.
• Fu Donglai explained that the Well could reshape bodies and refine bloodlines, and Hua Shiniang argued that the Demon Race needed it despite the pact sealing it.