Chapter Summaries

Lin Tian struck Primordial Heavenly Venerable for scheming against the Human Race, but Heavenly Venerable Virtue intervened and challenged him alongside Primordial Heavenly Venerable. As the two Saints joined forces, Lin Tian unleashed a terrifying surge of power, leaving the battle poised to begin.

• Lin Tian prepared to punch Primordial Heavenly Venerable again, and Heavenly Venerable Virtue blocked the blow with the Heaven-Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda.
• Heavenly Venerable Virtue asked Lin Tian to spare Primordial Heavenly Venerable, but Lin Tian accused him of using Laozi to scheme against the Human Race.
• Lady Nuwa warned Lin Tian that Heavenly Venerable Virtue had reached Saint Fifth Heaven, but Lin Tian dismissed both opponents as unworthy of his regard.
• Heavenly Venerable Virtue and Primordial Heavenly Venerable gathered their strength to fight Lin Tian, while Cult Leader Tongtian decided not to intervene.
• Lin Tian released an overwhelming surge of power that made Heavenly Venerable Virtue and Primordial Heavenly Venerable's expressions change.

Lin Tian overwhelmed Heavenly Venerable Virtue and Primordial Heavenly Venerable, proving that his strength far exceeded theirs despite their powerful treasures. He sent a lethal strike toward Heavenly Venerable Virtue, who relied on the Heaven-Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda for protection.

• Heavenly Venerable Virtue and Primordial Heavenly Venerable resolved to fight Lin Tian, while Lady Nuwa prepared to help and Lin Tian stopped her.
• Lin Tian struck Primordial Heavenly Venerable with a punch that sent him flying, but the Central Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner protected him.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable attacked with the Pangu Banner, and Lin Tian met its strikes with his bare fists.
• Heavenly Venerable Virtue launched the Taiji Diagram at Lin Tian, but Lin Tian's finger sent it flying and continued toward him.
• Heavenly Venerable Virtue summoned the Heaven-Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda to shield himself from Lin Tian's attack.

Lin Tian defeated Primordial Heavenly Venerable and agreed to end the fight after Cult Leader Tongtian intervened. He rejected the offered treasures and demanded Chan Sect's immortal apricot as compensation for the Human Race.

• Lin Tian blasted Heavenly Venerable Virtue away and shattered Primordial Heavenly Venerable's Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner with a punch that destroyed his body.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable reformed and claimed that a Heavenly Dao Saint could not perish, but Lin Tian threatened to keep attacking him.
• Cult Leader Tongtian appeared and asked Lin Tian to spare Primordial Heavenly Venerable, citing his bond with his fellow members of the Three Pure Ones.
• Lin Tian agreed to end the matter if the Human Race's losses were compensated, and Heavenly Venerable Virtue offered a gourd of a thousand Nine-Turn Golden Elixirs.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable offered spiritual treasures, but Lin Tian refused them and asked for Chan Sect's immortal apricot instead.

Lin Tian spared Primordial Heavenly Venerable and Heavenly Venerable Virtue, accepted the Immortal Apricot and Cult Leader Tongtian’s Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, then discussed the Dao with Tongtian for a thousand years. During that time, the Qin army swiftly defeated the Zhou Dynasty Army after Immortal Elder Antarctic stopped supporting it.

• Lin Tian accepted the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir and Immortal Apricot from Primordial Heavenly Venerable and warned him and Heavenly Venerable Virtue not to provoke him again.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable and Heavenly Venerable Virtue left Chaos, and Cult Leader Tongtian thanked Lin Tian for sparing them.
• Cult Leader Tongtian gave Lin Tian a jade slip containing the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, and Lin Tian accepted it.
• Lin Tian and Cult Leader Tongtian began discussing the Dao in Chaos as Lady Nuwa and the other Heavenly Dao Saints watched.
• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin worried about the Buddhist Sect’s future, and Daoist Jieyin looked toward Purple Heaven Palace.
• After a thousand years, the Zhou Dynasty Army collapsed against the Qin State’s army without Immortal Elder Antarctic’s support.

The Human Race flourished under Ying Zheng and Kong Qiu, prompting Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti to seek Hongjun’s approval for Buddhism’s eastward spread. As Hongjun approved their plan, Lin Tian broke through to the Saint sixth heaven after a thousand-year discussion of the Dao with Cult Leader Tongtian.

• Ying Zheng unified the Human Race’s fortune with the Twelve Golden Figures, while Kong Qiu oversaw civil affairs and the myriad races paid homage.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti traveled to the Purple Heaven Palace and asked Hongjun to permit Buddhism to spread eastward.
• Hongjun approved Buddhism’s undertaking, then sensed Lin Tian’s breakthrough aura in the chaos.
• Lin Tian advanced from the peak of the Saint fifth heaven to the Saint sixth heaven, shaking the chaos and the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Lin Tian thanked Cult Leader Tongtian, who said the discussion had only helped Lin Tian reach a breakthrough he would soon have achieved anyway.

After Hongjun summoned the Saints to discuss Buddhism’s eastward spread, Lin Tian surprised them by agreeing that the Human Race would support it. He left the scripture pilgrim’s identity undecided, setting the stage for a contest over the influential role.

• Hongjun summoned the Heavenly Saints to the Purple Heaven Palace to discuss Buddhism’s eastward spread and the coming Karmic Calamity.
• Heavenly Venerable Virtue, Primordial Heavenly Venerable, Tongtian, and Nuwa reacted to the prospect of Buddhism spreading east, and Tongtian asked Lin Tian how they should respond.
• Lin Tian led Tongtian and Nuwa to the Purple Heaven Palace, where Lady Pingxin greeted him and Jieyin and Zhunti ushered the Saints inside.
• Hongjun described Buddhism’s eastward spread as part of the Heavenly Dao’s Great Trend and asked Lin Tian for his opinion.
• Lin Tian agreed that the Human Race would fully support the spread but said the identity of the scripture pilgrim still needed consideration.
• The Saints recognized the importance of the scripture pilgrim’s role and nodded in agreement before Hongjun could respond.

Lin Tian secured a place among the scripture pilgrims before Dao Ancestor Hongjun privately revealed that the Primordial World faced a future threat from Extraterrestrial Demons. Hongjun urged Lin Tian to strengthen the Human Race quickly, warning that the world had little time left.

• Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to give up two scripture-pilgrim places, and Lin Tian claimed one as Heavenly Emperor.
• Cult Leader Tongtian sought a place for Jiejiao, while he and Primordial Heavenly Venerable argued over which teaching should provide pilgrims.
• Hongjun assigned the remaining place to Heavenly Venerable Virtue and ended the debate.
• After the other Saints left, Hongjun congratulated Lin Tian on reaching the sixth heaven of Heavenly Dao Sagehood and told him about the surviving Chaos Demon Gods known as Extraterrestrial Demons.
• Hongjun explained that repeated calamities had weakened the Primordial World's origin and urged Lin Tian to strengthen the Human Race before time ran out.

Lin Tian agreed to support Buddhism’s eastward spread but remained wary of Hongjun’s warning about Extraterrestrial Demons and considered exploring Chaos after the coming calamity. The factions chose their destined participants, and the Jade Emperor assigned Yang Jiao to the scripture pilgrimage while telling him he was not meant to stop Buddhism’s spread.

• Lin Tian assured Hongjun that the Human Race would support Buddhism’s eastward spread, then left the Purple Heaven Palace and decided to postpone another Chaos expedition until after the Journey to the West Calamity began.
• Amitabha Buddha and Patriarch Bodhi agreed that Bodhi would guide the person destined for the calamity, while Buddha Tathagata recommended his Six-Winged Golden Cicada disciple for the task.
• Amitabha Buddha approved the Six-Winged Golden Cicada disciple’s entry into the calamity, and Patriarch Bodhi departed for Mount Lingtai Fangcun.
• The Grand Supreme Elder Lord named Marshal Tianpeng as the Human Teaching’s participant and gave him the Supreme Treasure Nine-Toothed Rake.
• The Jade Emperor chose his disciple Yang Jiao to fill his place in the pilgrimage, and Yang Jiao accepted despite worrying that he could not prevent Buddhism’s eastward spread.
• The Jade Emperor told Yang Jiao that Buddhism’s eastward spread was ordained by heaven and that he was not being sent to stop it.

Lin Tian recruited Shen Nong to enter the Journey to the West Calamity and claim a place intended for Buddhism, while Great Emperor Fengdu and Lady Pingxin prepared a plan involving reincarnation. When Amitabha Buddha arrived in the Netherworld with Buddha Tathagata and Golden Cicada, Fengdu wounded him and warned the Buddhist Sect to stay away from his domain.

• Lin Tian told Shen Nong that he could take a Buddhist place in the Journey to the West Calamity, and Shen Nong agreed to enter it to settle his grudge against the Two Western Saints.
• Shen Nong went to the Netherworld, where Great Emperor Fengdu asked Lady Pingxin to help substitute a living being through the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Amitabha Buddha entered the Netherworld with Buddha Tathagata and Golden Cicada, claiming that he had come under the Dao Ancestor's orders to deliver the one destined for the calamity into reincarnation.
• Great Emperor Fengdu attacked Amitabha Buddha, overwhelmed his Buddhist light, and sent him crashing onto Wangxiang Terrace.
• Buddha Tathagata pleaded for forgiveness, and Great Emperor Fengdu warned the Buddhist Sect not to interfere in the Netherworld before walking toward the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Buddha Tathagata sent Golden Cicada into reincarnation, unaware that the Shennong Clan took possession of his body to become the one destined to face the calamity. With his Journey to the West arrangements in place, Lin Tian entered chaos to investigate otherworldly threats and discovered a Small Thousand World.

• Amitabha Buddha left the Netherworld Underworld injured after warning Buddha Tathagata to ensure Golden Cicada entered the calamity without error.
• Buddha Tathagata led Golden Cicada to the Six Paths of Reincarnation, where Golden Cicada entered and Buddha Tathagata departed.
• Lady Pingxin helped the Shennong Clan intercept Golden Cicada, and the Shennong Clan took possession of his body.
• Lin Tian left Yingzhou Immortal Island and traveled deep into chaos to investigate the otherworldly heavenly demons.
• Lin Tian discovered a Small Thousand World in chaos and punched its boundary.

Lin Tian traveled deeper into the chaos, collecting remnants of world origin from dead Small Thousand Worlds before reaching the Primordial World's boundary. There, he followed the increasingly battered corpses of Chaos Demon Gods toward the Endless Heavenly Sea, suspecting they had come from a great battle.

• Lin Tian broke through the barrier of a dead Small Thousand World and used the Chaos Pearl to absorb its sole remaining wisp of world origin.
• Lin Tian continued through the chaos, absorbing remnants from larger dead Small Thousand Worlds and ignoring the smaller ones.
• Lin Tian reached the end of the Primordial World's chaos, where the Endless Heavenly Sea separated his world from the domain of the Extraterrestrial Demons.
• Lin Tian found the corpses of Chaos Demon Gods and followed their drift, noticing that the remains became more numerous and their wounds more severe.

Lin Tian reached the Endless Heavenly Sea and watched Chaos Demon God Fuzhu cross it at the cost of his silver world and accumulated essence blood. When Fuzhu emerged and declared that the surrounding chaos would submit to him, Lin Tian confronted him and dismissed his threat.

• Lin Tian reached the Endless Heavenly Sea and saw its devastating waves and the countless Demon God remains within it.
• Lin Tian spotted the living Chaos Demon God Fuzhu crossing the sea aboard a vast silver world.
• Fuzhu spent his essence blood to drive the silver world toward the shore, but it exploded before he escaped the sea.
• Fuzhu crossed the final stretch of water and declared that everything around the Primordial World would bow to him.
• Lin Tian revealed himself and challenged Fuzhu, who erupted with power and called Lin Tian an ant.
• Lin Tian identified Fuzhu as a Water Great Dao Demon God and said he was not worthy of calling Lin Tian insolent.

Lin Tian confronted the wounded Chaos Demon God Fuzhu in the chaos, trapping him with a formation and revealing the Chaos Pearl. Fuzhu attacked Lin Tian with his half-chaos supreme treasure, and their battle continued.

• Lin Tian revealed that he was the Vine Dao Venerable, and Fuzhu recognized him as a being from the Primordial World.
• Lin Tian struck Fuzhu with the Heavenly Emperor Fist, using the gravity great dao to send the wounded Demon God flying.
• Fuzhu tried to flee, but Lin Tian's Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, powered by the stars, blocked his escape.
• Fuzhu brought out his half-chaos supreme treasure, a silver wheel carrying the water law, and threatened Lin Tian.
• Lin Tian revealed the Chaos Pearl, shocking Fuzhu and prompting him to attack in hopes of seizing the treasure.
• Fuzhu launched the silver wheel at Lin Tian, unleashing its power as the battle escalated.

Lin Tian defeated Demon God Fuzhu by swallowing his True Spirit into the Chaos Pearl, then sensed that forces beyond the plane were watching. He headed for the Purple Heaven Palace to address his karmic connection to Daoist Hongjun as awareness from his Spirit Vine True Self entered his Haotian body.

• Lin Tian used the Chaos Pearl to withstand Fuzhu's attacks and overpowered the wounded Chaos Demon God.
• Fuzhu detonated his silver disc to break the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation and escape, but Lin Tian's Chaos Pearl swallowed his True Spirit.
• Lin Tian sensed an unprecedented tremor in Chaos and suspected that Upper Realm Chaos Demon Gods were observing this plane.
• Lin Tian decided to seek Daoist Hongjun at the Purple Heaven Palace and vanished into Chaos.
• Vine tendrils formed an independent world around Lin Tian's Haotian body as awareness from his Spirit Vine True Self entered it.

Lin Tian reached the Purple Heaven Palace and found Daoist Hongjun decayed and trapped as the palace’s defenses collapsed. Hongjun begged Lin Tian to save him, and Lin Tian used his spirit vine tendrils to shield the palace while asking how he could help.

• Lin Tian reshaped Haotian’s body and took control of it after the Upper Realm Chaos Demon Gods’ interference threatened his plans.
• Lin Tian traveled to the Purple Heaven Palace and contacted Daoist Hongjun, who revealed itself to him.
• Lin Tian found Hongjun’s body cracked and lifeless, and Hongjun asked him to save it from disaster.
• The Purple Heaven Palace’s restrictions collapsed, revealing manifestations of Hongjun from the different planes Lin Tian had visited.
• Lin Tian extended his spirit vine tendrils to hold the collapsing palace together and asked Hongjun how to save him.

Lin Tian saved Daoist Hongjun from disintegrating and learned that the Upper Realm's Chaos Demon Gods threatened the Spirit Vine School and the Human Race. Daoist Hongjun began explaining how the Upper Realm viewed the laws and morality of the lower worlds.

• Lin Tian enclosed the collapsing Purple Heaven Palace in his spirit vine tendrils and poured life origin into Daoist Hongjun to keep him from vanishing.
• Daoist Hongjun emerged from his rotten shell, and its fragments merged into Lin Tian's laws, deepening their bond and easing Lin Tian's fear that they had to remain enemies.
• Daoist Hongjun thanked Lin Tian for freeing him from the chaos prison and warned that resisting fate during the Journey to the West Calamity would lead the Chaos Demon Gods to destroy the Spirit Vine School and manipulate the Human Race.
• Lin Tian asked why Hongjun warned him despite the Spirit Vine School's destruction benefiting the Daoist School, and Hongjun replied that the Upper Realm's chaos had no fixed standard of good or evil.

Lin Tian offered to help Daoist Hongjun resist the Upper Realm’s Chaos Demon Gods but insisted on setting the terms of their cooperation. Daoist Hongjun accepted Lin Tian as his superior, drawing the attention of Chaos Demon Gods beyond the dimensions.

• Lin Tian acknowledged that his past battle had drawn the Chaos Demon Gods into the Primordial World and contributed to Daoist Hongjun’s predicament.
• Lin Tian said he had protected Purple Heaven Palace and restored some of Daoist Hongjun’s vitality, but warned that he might not come to Hongjun’s aid and would not cooperate without taking the lead.
• Daoist Hongjun praised Lin Tian and declared that he would accept him as his leader and superior, with Sky Soaring Palace and the spirit vine tendrils as witnesses.
• The chaos outside the palace attacked as Hongjun made his declaration, but it could not affect Lin Tian’s spirit vine tendrils.
• Chaos Demon Gods beyond the dimensions noticed Lin Tian’s interference and discussed how he had disrupted their plans to consume Daoist Hongjun.
• Daoist Hongjun bowed to Lin Tian inside the protected area of Purple Heaven Palace.

Hongjun entrusted Lin Tian with the Chaos Demon Ape’s Original Self, saying it could disrupt the Upper Realm’s plans for the Journey to the West Calamity, then vanished with his Purple Heaven Palace. Lin Tian returned to his Primordial World and found Mount Sumeru and the Western Continent ravaged by decay, before pulling the vanished Little Beast Emperor from the river of time and fate.

• Hongjun gave Lin Tian a spirit stone containing the living Chaos Demon Ape and explained that it could intervene in the Journey to the West Calamity and challenge the Upper Realm’s Chaos Demon Gods.
• As Hongjun’s body and Purple Heaven Palace collapsed, he entrusted the secret to Lin Tian and disappeared into the multiversal flowing light.
• Lin Tian crossed the altered River of Dimensions and returned to his Primordial World above Mount Sumeru.
• Lin Tian found that Hongjun, Zhunti, Jieyin, and Yuanshi had vanished, while decay had consumed the Western Continent and split the Little Beast Emperor’s Thunder-Thunder Temple.
• Lin Tian reached into the river of time and fate and pulled the vanished Little Beast Emperor back into the world.

Lin Tian recovered the Little Beast Emperor and Ghost Chariot, learned that the Journey to the West Calamity was beginning, and entered another Primordial World to guide Sun Wukong. After Sun Wukong killed the Martial Virtue Star Lord, Lin Tian prepared to fight their way out of the Heavenly Court.

• The Little Beast Emperor and Ghost Chariot warned Lin Tian that the Upper Realm’s chaos had consumed Daoist Hongjun and devastated the Western Continent, then gave their heart’s blood to the Chaos Demon Ape within Lin Tian’s spirit stone.
• Lin Tian carried the two into Spirit Vine Ten Thousand Laws Heaven as the Western Continent collapsed and the other four continents emerged, beginning the Journey to the West Calamity.
• Lin Tian entered a separate Primordial World and watched Sun Wukong’s birth and journey to Mount Fangcun, where the monkey became his companion and Lin Tian acted as his Dao guardian.
• Sun Wukong rushed to Lin Tian after killing the Martial Virtue Star Lord and warned that the Jade Emperor would soon learn of it.
• Lin Tian left the Red Yang Token behind to keep the mortal world’s sun moving, then told Sun Wukong they would have to fight through the Southern Heavenly Gate.
• Lin Tian and Sun Wukong stepped outside and found Heavenly Soldiers and Generals surrounding them under two armored marshals.

Lin Tian confronted Marshal Yisheng and Marshal Tianyou, realizing Great Emperor Gouchen had arranged the ambush to eliminate him and Sun Wukong. As the Jade Emperor ordered Wen Zhong to arrest them, Lin Tian launched a swift attack on the two marshals, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Lin Tian recognized Yisheng and Tianyou and deduced that Great Emperor Gouchen had orchestrated the schemes against him to protect his influence over the Demon Race.
• Marshal Yisheng accused Lin Tian of sharing Sun Wukong's guilt and threatened him with the Heavenly Court's forces.
• Wen Zhong refused Gouchen's decree to arrest Lin Tian and Sun Wukong, then accepted the Jade Emperor's order and led the Thunder Department toward Lin Tian's hall.
• Lin Tian resolved to end the confrontation quickly rather than surrender Sun Wukong, and stepped through space to strike Yisheng and Tianyou with golden Solar True Flame.