Chapter Summaries

Lin Tian defeated Marshal Yisheng with Solar True Flame and broke through the Heavenly Net Formation with Wukong. He sent Wukong toward the Southern Heavenly Gate while secretly attaching a Golden Sun Talisman to him.

• Lin Tian's Solar True Flame destroyed Marshal Yisheng's talisman and consumed him, leaving Lin Tian with the Heaven-Slaying Halberd.
• Marshal Tianyou ordered fifty thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to form the Heavenly Net, but Lin Tian struck its pivot and opened a gap for himself and Wukong to escape.
• Lin Tian warned Wukong that the Heavenly Palace had likely laid another trap at the Southern Heavenly Gate, then offered to hold off the pursuers.
• Lin Tian secretly stuck a Golden Sun Talisman onto Wukong and urged him to leave for the Southern Heavenly Gate.
• Wukong flew toward the Southern Heavenly Gate on his Somersault Cloud, believing Lin Tian would stay behind to protect him.

Lin Tian disguised himself as Venus Star while the monkey tried to escape through the Southern Heavenly Gate and fought the Four Heavenly Kings. Wen Zhong’s forces trapped the monkey, while Lin Tian continued toward the Heavenly Court Treasury.

• Lin Tian disguised himself as Venus Star and rode deeper into the Heavenly Palace as the monkey headed for the Southern Heavenly Gate.
• A golden talisman on the monkey’s back revealed his location, and Wen Zhong led the Thunder Department’s twenty-four Heavenly Lords in pursuit.
• The Four Heavenly Kings attacked the monkey, but he broke Much-Hearing King’s Primordial Unity Umbrella and struck the Southern Heavenly Gate’s pillar.
• Nation-Holding King’s Flower-Fox Sable bit the monkey, but he transformed into Ghost Chariot and devoured it.
• Wen Zhong surrounded the monkey with a lightning formation and ordered him to surrender, while Lin Tian continued toward the Heavenly Court Treasury.

Lin Tian used the monkey’s rebellion as cover to enter the Heavenly Court treasury and claim the Demon Emperor Sword, which awakened to his Golden Spirit Vine bloodline. He left the Golden and Silver Divine Generals immobilized and headed toward the Southern Heavenly Gate.

• Lin Tian told the Golden and Silver Divine Generals that he needed the Immortal-Binding Rope to subdue the rebel monkey, but he had no written decree.
• Lin Tian struck and immobilized the Golden and Silver Divine Generals, took their tokens, and opened the treasury.
• Lin Tian passed the restricted altars and found the Demon Emperor Sword in the treasury’s inner reaches.
• Lin Tian dripped Golden Spirit Vine blood onto the sword’s restriction, awakening the Demon Emperor Sword and enabling it to break free.
• Lin Tian claimed the sword, left the still-bound divine generals behind, and flew toward the Southern Heavenly Gate.

The Heavenly Court’s forces fought the monkey at the Southern Heavenly Gate, but his strength and durability kept them from capturing him. Lin Tian arrived in time to break Wen Zhong’s Nine Heavens Divine Thunder and protect the monkey, leaving Wen Zhong to confront the Vine Dao Venerable.

• Wen Zhong summoned reinforcements, and the gathered Star Lords and Heavenly Soldiers surrounded the monkey but could not subdue him.
• Kangjin Dragon struck the monkey’s head and shattered his saber when the monkey retaliated.
• Zhang Kui and Gao Lanying joined the battle, with Gao Lanying firing golden needles at the monkey’s eyes as Zhang Kui kept him occupied.
• Wen Zhong ordered the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder released, but Lin Tian rushed in and scattered the Thunder Pillar with his Bamboo Staff.
• Lin Tian redirected the scattered lightning toward the Heavenly Court’s forces, whose Thunder Nets absorbed it.
• Wen Zhong warned Lin Tian that sheltering the monkey would make him share the monkey’s crime, while the monkey welcomed his senior brother’s arrival.

Lin Tian wielded the Demon Emperor Sword to break through the Southern Heavenly Gate and escaped the Heavenly Palace with the monkey. They returned to Flower-Fruit Mountain, where their subjects welcomed them and asked about their years in heaven.

• Lin Tian rejected Wen Zhong’s demand to surrender and revealed the Demon Emperor Sword, which he had taken from the Heavenly Emperor’s Treasury.
• Lin Tian’s sword strike cut apart the Thunder Net, destroyed half the Southern Heavenly Gate, killed more than thirty thousand heavenly soldiers, and wounded numerous gods.
• Lin Tian and the monkey escaped through the surviving half of the gate and flew down to Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• The monkeys, the Four Great Monkey Generals, the Twelve Cave Demon Kings, and the Black Bear Monster welcomed them at Water-Curtain Cave with a feast.
• The old ape asked what offices Lin Tian and the monkey had held in heaven, and Wukong wondered aloud whether they had really been gone for more than forty years.

After returning to Flower-Fruit Mountain, Sun Wukong embraced the title Heaven-Equaling Great Sage, while Lin Tian prevented the demons from invoking the ancient Heavenly Court. The Jade Emperor authorized Li Jing to lead a formidable force against Flower-Fruit Mountain.

• Sun Wukong told the Black Bear Monster that he had killed the Martial Virtue Star Lord and left heaven with Lin Tian.
• The Black Bear Monster and Old Ape urged Sun Wukong to establish a rival Heavenly Court, and Sun Wukong chose the title Heaven-Equaling Great Sage while the Black Bear Monster became the Black Wind Great Sage.
• Lin Tian forbade the demons from invoking the ancient Heavenly Court and ordered them to train because he expected heavenly soldiers to arrive within days.
• Wen Zhong reported to the Jade Emperor that Lin Tian had used the Demon Emperor Sword and that the demon monkey had killed the Martial Virtue Star Lord.
• Celestial Master Zhang and Li Jing called for an expedition against the demons, and the Jade Emperor appointed Li Jing to lead an army to Flower-Fruit Mountain.

The Jade Emperor appointed a powerful force under Li Jing to attack Flower-Fruit Mountain, while Great Emperor Gouchen revealed his plan to kill Lin Tian and claim the Demon Emperor Sword. The chapter ended with Gouchen welcoming the mysterious Great Encompassing Golden Immortal Red Pine Master.

• Li Jing accepted command of the Heavenly Court forces appointed to subdue Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Venus Star was summoned by the Jade Emperor to the Fragrant Hall after keeping silent in court.
• Marshal Tianyou visited Great Emperor Gouchen, who learned which forces the Jade Emperor had sent against Lin Tian.
• Gouchen accused the Jade Emperor of deliberately withholding a genuine Great Luo and explained that he wanted Lin Tian's bloodline and the Demon Emperor Sword.
• Gouchen revealed 108 Netherworld Divine Baleful Nails and brought in the Great Encompassing Golden Immortal Red Pine Master to carry out his plan.

Great Emperor Gouchen enlisted Red Pine Master to join the campaign against Mount Huaguo, while the Jade Emperor instructed Venus Star to propose recruiting Lin Tian and Sun Wukong after Li Jing’s defeat. Lin Tian learned from Di Ting that the Heavenly Court’s forces included several powerful enemies and prepared to face the expedition, while warning Di Ting to remain on Mount Huaguo.

• Great Emperor Gouchen gave Red Pine Master the Divine Fiend Nails and sent him with Marshal Tianyou to join Li Jing’s campaign against Mount Huaguo.
• The Jade Emperor told Venus Star to propose recruiting Lin Tian and Sun Wukong after Li Jing’s defeat, and said Mount Huaguo’s destruction would be its fate if it could not withstand the attack.
• Lin Tian summoned Di Ting and asked him to report the Heavenly Court’s forces and commanders.
• Di Ting told Lin Tian that Red Pine Master carried Divine Fiend Nails that countered Solar True Flame, and that Ksitigarbha King and Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta would also join the campaign.
• Lin Tian warned Di Ting that fleeing Mount Huaguo would expose him to capture, then promised to give him a proper standing if he succeeded.

Lin Tian strengthened the All-Heaven Baleful God Formation with Ancestral Witch essence blood, gaining an early Great Encompassing Golden Immortal to command, then prepared Flower-Fruit Mountain for the Heavenly Court’s attack. As Li Jing’s army arrived and the Four Saint Marshals challenged the demons, the Spirit Vine True Self announced a new selection for Lin Tian.

• Lin Tian fed Ancestral Witch essence blood to the Dijiang Banner, manifesting a controllable Ancestral Witch with early Great Encompassing Golden Immortal strength.
• Lin Tian ordered Flower-Fruit Mountain’s forces to prepare for battle and raised banners for the Spirit Vine Great Sage, Great Sage Equal to Heaven, and Black Wind Great Sage.
• Li Jing led more than ten thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals toward Flower-Fruit Mountain, where he established camp and ordered the Four Saint Marshals to challenge the demons.
• Sun Wukong, Lin Tian, the Black Bear Monster, and the mountain’s gathered demons appeared in force to face the Heavenly Court’s marshals.
• The Spirit Vine True Self announced a selection task for Lin Tian to resist and rout the punitive army, with the first of Seven Hongmeng Swords as the reward.

The Black Bear Monster fought the Heavenly Court's Four Great Marshals at Flower-Fruit Mountain and killed Wang Mo before driving the others back. He returned to Lin Tian, who rewarded him and healed his broken shoulder, while the three defeated marshals knelt before Li Jing.

• Lin Tian sent the Black Bear Monster to face the Four Great Marshals, and the bear overwhelmed Yang Sen with his Sky-Piercing Halberd.
• The Black Bear Monster used Imitating Heaven and Emulating Earth to fight all four marshals, but Wang Mo struck him with the World-Opening Pearl.
• The Black Bear Monster survived the attack with External Incarnation and the Golden Cicada Shedding Its Shell Technique, then impaled and killed Wang Mo.
• The Black Bear Monster routed the remaining three marshals and taunted Li Jing before returning to Lin Tian.
• Lin Tian praised the Black Bear Monster, promised to teach him the One-Finger Earth-to-Steel Technique, and healed his shoulder; the three surviving marshals knelt before Li Jing.

After Lin Tian’s staged victory over Nezha forced the Heavenly Court to withdraw, Li Jing prepared another assault on Flower-Fruit Mountain. His forces gained powerful reinforcements from Red Pine Master and Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta, leaving the next attack looming.

• Li Jing ordered the defeated Four Great Marshals bound, but Wen Zhong persuaded him to let them redeem themselves, and Li Jing sent Nezha to fight.
• Lin Tian blocked Wukong from fighting, exchanged a featherlight blow with Nezha, and made him pretend to flee in defeat.
• Li Jing withdrew his army, while Lin Tian restored the Witch Clan mist around Flower-Fruit Mountain and stopped Wukong from celebrating prematurely.
• Li Jing planned a renewed attack using the Fire Department, Luo Xuan, and the Thunder Department, but Marshal Tianyou arrived with Red Pine Master to assist.
• Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta arrived and told Li Jing he had come to help subdue Lin Tian, whom he claimed had a karmic affinity with the Buddha.

Li Jing’s army struggled to penetrate the Witch Clan mist covering Flower-Fruit Mountain until Red Pine Master identified its origin and revealed how to break it. The Kui Ox Drum began dispersing the mist, leaving Lin Tian and Wukong’s stronghold exposed.

• Li Jing ordered Luo Xuan and the Fire Department to attack the mist with heavenly fire, but both the heavenly fire and Green Lotus Purifying World Fire were swallowed.
• Wen Zhong’s Nine Heavens Thunder and Bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta’s light also failed to dispel the mist, which regenerated as quickly as it was destroyed.
• Red Pine Master identified the mist as an Ancient Era Witch Clan secret art and explained that the sound of a Kui Ox Drum could break it.
• Li Jing sent three marshals to the Heavenly Court, and they returned with the Kui Ox Drum after three days in the lower realm.
• Li Jing ordered the drum struck, and its thunderous sound shook Flower-Fruit Mountain as the mist rapidly dispersed and the monkeys covered their ears.

Lin Tian attacked the Heavenly Court’s forces with the Demon Emperor Sword, while the monkey and Flower-Fruit Mountain’s defenders fought off the gods. The battle widened as powerful opponents joined both sides, and the Black Bear Monster was intercepted before he could reach the monkey.

• Lin Tian used the Demon Emperor Sword to destroy the Kui Ox Drum and unleash sword qi that killed many Heavenly Soldiers, until Bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta contained it.
• Lin Tian attacked Li Jing and then unleashed seven sword strikes at Bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta, but Wen Zhong and the Thunder Department’s Twenty-Four Heavenly Lords stopped them with crimson lightning.
• The monkey charged at Wen Zhong, but Zhang Kui, Army-Breaker, and Greedy Wolf intercepted him and surrounded him in battle.
• Li Jing sent fifty thousand Heavenly Soldiers to contain the fighting’s shock waves and ordered the rest to attack Flower-Fruit Mountain, where the monkeys and the Seventy-Two Cave Demon Kings fought back.
• The Black Bear Monster rushed to help the monkey, but a red silk ribbon and a flame spear descended on him, forcing him to dodge and block.

Lin Tian fought Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta until Red Pine Master pulled them into the Pure Yang Immortal Gourd. Inside its world, Lin Tian challenged Red Pine Master, and their battle began.

• Nezha intercepted the Black Bear Monster and fought him, drawing Wen Zhong's attention away from the bear.
• Lin Tian clashed with Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta, whose golden body stopped Lin Tian's Sword Lotus with a Vajra Pestle.
• As Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta tried to capture Lin Tian with the Alms Bowl, Red Pine Master appeared and drew them both into the Pure Yang Immortal Gourd.
• Inside the gourd's dark world, Lin Tian recognized Red Pine Master and accused him of betraying the Flame Emperor.
• Lin Tian attacked Red Pine Master with sword qi made of Solar True Flame, and Red Pine Master raised his palm to meet it.

Lin Tian used Dijiang’s Soaring Technique to overwhelm Red Pine Master with rapid attacks, but Red Pine Master unleashed one-origin heavy water that weighed Lin Tian down and forced him into a direct clash. The chapter ended with their weapons colliding and the space around them cracking.

• Lin Tian used his golden wings and Dijiang’s Soaring Technique to evade Red Pine Master’s defenses and attack from every direction.
• After an hour of relentless attacks, Lin Tian’s Sword Qi pierced Red Pine Master’s sleeve, and Solar True Flame began spreading across it before Red Pine Master cut away the burning cloth.
• Red Pine Master used his heart’s blood and an incantation to transform his weapons into heavenly one true water and unleash a storm that extinguished Lin Tian’s Sword Qi.
• Red Pine Master summoned one-origin heavy water as rain, weighing down Lin Tian’s Spirit Vine tendrils and body.
• Lin Tian put away his tendrils and met Red Pine Master’s advancing strike with the Demon Emperor Sword, and their collision cracked the space around them.

Lin Tian turned Red Pine Master's ambush around by using the Twelve Banner Gates to unleash the All-Heaven Baleful God Formation. Red Pine Master was trapped with the manifested Ancestral Witch Dijiang, who tore off his arm and began overwhelming him.

• Red Pine Master trapped Lin Tian in one-origin heavy water and swung the Desolate Rain Mace at his head.
• Lin Tian used the seven-colored Bamboo Staff to break the water prison and knock the mace from Red Pine Master's hand, but Red Pine Master blocked his sword with an ancient bronze nail.
• Red Pine Master revealed one hundred and eight Divine Fiend Nails and sent them to kill Lin Tian.
• Lin Tian summoned the Twelve Banner Gates, whose baleful power repelled the nails and drew them into a banner's phantom beast.
• Dijiang appeared, tore off Red Pine Master's arm, and ate it as the All-Heaven Baleful God Formation enclosed him.
• Red Pine Master attacked Dijiang with water formations and Heaven-One Water Thunder, but Dijiang shattered the formation and pressed him with a relentless assault.

Lin Tian defeated Red Pine Master inside the All-Heaven Baleful God Formation, strengthening the Ancestral Witch phantoms, and emerged onto Flower-Fruit Mountain’s battlefield. Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta attacked him as soon as he appeared, and their clash ended with the Golden Bell ringing.

• Dijiang killed Red Pine Master and devoured his primordial spirit while Xuanming swallowed his body, strengthening the Ancestral Witch phantoms.
• Lin Tian noticed an unusual banner depicting a white-robed woman and suspected she might be Houtu, then put away the formation and left the gourd.
• On Flower-Fruit Mountain, the Heavenly Court’s forces drove back the Four Great Monkey Generals and Twelve Cave Demon Kings as the monkey fought the three killing stars and Nezha held Black Bear Monster at bay.
• Lin Tian emerged from the Pure Yang Immortal Gourd, and Li Jing asked where Red Pine Master was.
• Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta attacked Lin Tian, but Lin Tian’s Demon Emperor Sword forced him to summon four Buddhist treasures before he rang his Golden Bell.

Lin Tian defeated Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta and turned on the Heavenly Court’s forces, cutting down Thunder Department Heavenly Lords with astonishing speed. Wen Zhong’s attempt to track and contain him ended when Lin Tian stopped and wounded Wen Zhong through their locked gazes.

• Sun Wukong killed Army-Breaker while the remaining Three-Kill Star Lords fought on at a disadvantage.
• Lin Tian knocked down Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta’s Golden Cymbals, then split his Buddha Body with an Innate Sword; the Bodhisattva’s golden body escaped toward the Western Lands with his Śarīra.
• Li Jing fled to Wen Zhong for protection, and Wen Zhong directed the Thunder Department to trap Lin Tian with a thunder net.
• Lin Tian shattered the thunder net and killed ten Thunder Department Heavenly Lords in rapid succession.
• Wen Zhong used his third eye to locate Lin Tian while Luo Xuan prepared the Nine Hells Netherfire, but Lin Tian stopped and caused Wen Zhong’s third eye to shut with a bloody tear.

Lin Tian helped Sun Wukong defeat the Heavenly Court’s forces at Flower-Fruit Mountain, forcing Li Jing to order a retreat. The demons celebrated their victory while Lin Tian recovered the Pure Yang Immortal Gourd and the Wind-and-Rain Mace.

• Lin Tian destroyed the Fire Department’s attacks and killed Greedy Wolf Star Lord, while Zhang Kui escaped Lin Tian’s strike on Seven Killings Star Lord.
• Wen Zhong and Zhang Kui recognized that the battle was lost, and Li Jing reluctantly ordered the Heavenly Court’s army to withdraw after Sun Wukong demanded that the Jade Emperor recognize Lin Tian’s title.
• Sun Wukong created thousands of monkey reinforcements and drove back the Heavenly Soldiers as the demons gained the upper hand.
• Nezha ended his fight with the Black Bear Monster and pursued the retreating army, while the Heavenly Court’s forces left Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Lin Tian retrieved the Pure Yang Immortal Gourd and Wind-and-Rain Mace, then joined Sun Wukong and the Black Bear Monster at a victory feast.

After Lin Tian’s victory over the Heavenly Court, Flower-Fruit Mountain celebrated and recovered spoils from the battlefield, while Ao Guang learned that his side had lost. Ao Guang’s daughter Ao Wan returned as a great unity golden immortal, and Lin Tian woke to begin repairing the mountain and burying the dead.

• Lin Tian’s monkey spirits presented him with the Kui Ox Drum and Golden Cymbals, and he rewarded them with Divine Essence Pills and secured the drum on Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Lin Tian sent six immortal monkey demons to invite the demon kings with whom he had sworn brotherhood to join Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Ao Guang learned that Heavenly King Li had retreated and that Flower-Fruit Mountain was celebrating its victory, leaving him worried about the consequences of his complaint to Heaven.
• Ao Lie told Ao Guang that his sister Ao Wan had returned from the Ancestral Dragon Forbidden Grounds as a great unity golden immortal, and Ao Guang hurried to welcome her.
• Lin Tian woke after the victory banquet and set about repairing Flower-Fruit Mountain’s damaged ridges and burying the fallen demons.