Chapter Summaries

Lin Tian returned to the ruined All-Heaven Palace and prepared to enter another Primordial World plane during the Journey to the West Calamity, while ordering the Spirit Vine School to reinforce the battle against the Upper Realm's Chaos Demon Gods. Jiubao and Houtu answered his call, and Houtu joined the struggle despite having the strength to remain neutral.

• Lin Tian used Void Traversal to reach All-Heaven Palace, where he found the Spirit Vine School's headquarters abandoned and decayed.
• Lin Tian realized the plane beyond the Gate of Ten Thousand Worlds was also undergoing the Journey to the West Calamity and that failure could leave him stranded there.
• Lin Tian ordered the Spirit Vine School members to send their Three Corpses dharma aspect true bodies to the Western Continent and fight beside Ghost Chariot and the Little Beast Emperor.
• Jiubao merged her Three Corpses into her music-law dharma aspect true body and flew toward Mount Sumeru.
• Houtu emerged from the Chaos Heavenly River and pledged to treat the Spirit Vine School's affairs as her own.

Lin Tian entered a new Primordial World by possessing Sun Wukong and arranged for his disciple, the Six-Eared Macaque, to bear the Journey to the West calamities in his place. As the Macaque and the Bull Devil King’s group attacked the Heavenly Court, Haotian asked his gathered immortals who would subdue them.

• Lin Tian and the Spirit Vine School’s Main Gods headed to Mount Sumeru, while Lin Tian entered the new Primordial World through the Gate of Ten Thousand Worlds.
• Lin Tian possessed Sun Wukong, became the Stone Monkey on Flower-Fruit Mountain, and kept his true self hidden beyond the Chaos Sea from Daoist Hongjun.
• Over countless years, Lin Tian trained as Sun Wukong and made the Six-Eared Macaque his disciple, arranging for him to face the calamities meant for Sun Wukong.
• Lin Tian’s traps altered the Journey to the West, and the Six-Eared Macaque, the Bull Devil King, and six other Demon Kings attacked the Heavenly Court.
• The Six-Eared Macaque struck the Southern Heavenly Gate without breaking it, enraging the Heavenly Court’s immortals and Haotian.
• Haotian held back from intervening himself and asked the immortals in Lingxiao Hall who would subdue the demon monkey.

Wang Lingguan fought the Six-Eared Macaque and drove him back to Flower-Fruit Mountain, where he nearly killed him. Lin Tian intervened and prepared to teach the Seven demon kings how to properly use their Dao arts.

• Wang Lingguan volunteered to capture the Six-Eared Macaque and struck him with his Golden Whips, forcing him to retreat to Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Wang Lingguan pursued the Six-Eared Macaque and unleashed a wide-ranging attack that threatened to kill him.
• Lin Tian's voice stopped Wang Lingguan's attack, and the Six-Eared Macaque and the other demon kings realized their master had intervened.
• Lin Tian criticized the Seven for barely understanding his Dao arts and announced that he would demonstrate the Spirit Vine Azure Thunder Scripture and Heaven and Earth Manifestation.

Lin Tian formed a phantom and used the Spirit Vine Azure Thunder Scripture to overwhelm Wang Lingguan, teaching the demon kings how to wield the art. After Wang Lingguan was hurled to the Southern Heavenly Gate and destroyed, Nezha and Yang Jian confronted Lin Tian’s phantom, and Lin Tian prepared to demonstrate Heaven and Earth Manifestation.

• Lin Tian formed an illusory body and told the Six-Eared Macaque and the other demon kings to watch as it attacked Wang Lingguan.
• The phantom used precise, compressed lightning to batter Wang Lingguan while Lin Tian explained that the art converted all available power into divine thunder.
• The phantom hurled Wang Lingguan to the Southern Heavenly Gate, where his divine body burst apart, shocking the Heavenly Court.
• Nezha volunteered to confront the phantom, and Yang Jian followed him out with several heavenly generals.
• Lin Tian told the Six-Eared Macaque to watch as he demonstrated how to use Heaven and Earth Manifestation.

A phantom wielded by the Six-Eared Macaque’s master overwhelmed Nezha, Li Jing, and Yang Jian with transformations that became real, revealing the true essence of Heaven and Earth Manifestation to the Six-Eared Macaque. As Yang Jian and Nezha retreated from its genuine solar true flame, the Three-Legged Golden Crow advanced toward the Southern Heavenly Gate.

• The phantom struck Nezha with divine lightning and a Chaos Demon Staff, smashing his arm and hurling him toward the Southern Heavenly Gate.
• Li Jing sent his Exquisite Pagoda against the phantom, which transformed into a colossal sword and nearly destroyed it.
• Yang Jian and Nezha attacked the phantom, but it became a Heaven-Shrouding Kunpeng and swept the Heavenly soldiers and observers away with its winds.
• The Kunpeng transformed into a Three-Legged Golden Crow, and the Six-Eared Macaque realized that true Heaven and Earth Manifestation made transformations real and endowed them with their genuine powers.
• The Golden Crow’s solar true flame burned away the power of Nezha’s and Yang Jian’s weapons, forcing both to retreat into the Heavenly Court.
• The Three-Legged Golden Crow charged toward the Southern Heavenly Gate, alarming the immortals in the Heavenly Court.

Lin Tian used a solar-flame phantom to storm the Heavenly Court after its forces defeated his disciples, humiliating Haotian and burning the palace halls. The Queen Mother of the West wondered whether the mysterious master of Flower-Fruit Mountain was the Spirit Vine itself.

• Haotian sent his Golden Palace Jade Emperor incarnation to confront the Three-Legged Golden Crow and used the Haotian Pagoda to suppress it.
• Lin Tian empowered the Three-Legged Golden Crow with solar true flame, and it broke through the Southern Heavenly Gate and ravaged the Heavenly Court.
• The demon kings and Lin Tian's other followers watched in awe before retreating, while the Golden Palace Jade Emperor returned to contain the flames.
• Haotian, humiliated by the court's factions and their refusal to intervene, left Lingxiao Hall in anger and helplessness.
• The Queen Mother of the West asked the Nine-Heavenly Maiden whether Lin Tian was the Spirit Vine, and the Nine-Heavenly Maiden doubted that the vine could have reached such power through cultivation alone.

After the Heavenly Court’s defeat at Flower-Fruit Mountain, Lin Tian completed his century in hiding and received a powerful reward haul. He gained merit, treasures, and cultivation resources, but remained within the Spirit Vine as he considered how to use them safely.

• The Queen Mother of the West ordered an investigation into the Spirit Vine Master and learned Chang'e had advanced to peak supreme golden immortal.
• The demon kings returned to Flower-Fruit Mountain and knelt to study the Dao Lin Tian had taught them while the Heavenly Court prepared to investigate the Spirit Vine Master and hold the Flat Peach Banquet.
• After one hundred years, Lin Tian received five billion merit, which raised his cultivation to the pinnacle of late great Luo golden immortal.
• Lin Tian received ten Chaos Purple Gold Fruits, the God-Slaying Spear, one drop of Pan Gu blood essence, and one Chaos Origin Stone.
• Lin Tian judged that the fruits and origin stone could help him advance, but he avoided refining the God-Slaying Spear because its slaughtering aura was too dangerous.

Lin Tian refined the Chaos Origin Stone and ten Chaos Purple Gold Fruits, reaching the peak great encompassing golden immortal realm, while Chang'e broke through to the same realm by comprehending the lunar origin law. Lin Tian then began refining Pan Gu blood essence and pushing toward quasi-saint, leaving his breakthrough attempt underway.

• Chang'e secluded herself in the Moon Palace, comprehended the lunar origin law, and broke through to early great encompassing golden immortal.
• Chang'e emerged from seclusion and traveled to Flower-Fruit Mountain, where she realized Lin Tian was cultivating inside the spirit vine.
• Lin Tian refined the Chaos Origin Stone and ten Chaos Purple Gold Fruits, reaching peak great encompassing golden immortal and forming twelfth-grade golden flowers.
• Lin Tian released the seal on the Pan Gu blood essence, whose immense pressure wounded Chang'e when she tried to probe the spirit vine.
• Lin Tian circulated the Nine-Revolution Mystic Art and Pan Gu Chaos Body to refine the blood essence, reaching half-step quasi-saint before attempting the breakthrough.

Lin Tian absorbed Pan Gu blood essence and advanced the Nine-Revolution Mystic Art to its seventh revolution, gaining strength enough to contend with a Quasi-Saint. The transformation made his body expand inside the Spirit Vine, and he struggled for a hundred years to contain it while everyone outside waited for him to emerge.

• Lin Tian failed to break through to Quasi-Saint, but the Pan Gu blood essence pushed his Nine-Revolution Mystic Art to the seventh revolution and gave him Ancestral Witch-level physical strength.
• Lin Tian’s body began expanding as power runes from the blood essence branded themselves onto his bones and bloodline, stretching the Spirit Vine and shaking Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• The Old Monkey King, Su Meiniang, Zixia, Chang'e, the Six-Eared Macaque, and the demon kings gathered to watch, expecting Lin Tian to emerge from the Spirit Vine.
• Lin Tian fought to suppress his growing body and conceal himself, while the expanding Spirit Vine strained the Innate Black Tortoise Divine Restriction.
• After struggling for a hundred years within the Time Domain Field, Lin Tian balanced the runes’ refinement against his body’s growth, stopping the Spirit Vine from swelling further.
• The Spirit Vine remained enlarged without shrinking, leaving those outside bewildered about what had happened and whether Lin Tian would come out.

Lin Tian mastered the Power Runes in his body, reached the peak of the seventh revolution of the Nine-Revolution Mystic Art, and advanced to Half-Step Quasi-Saint after a thousand years of secluded cultivation. After emerging, he advised the Six-Eared Macaque to cultivate his innate abilities, triggering the macaque’s breakthrough attempt to Great Unity Golden Immortal, and decided to teach the demon kings Heaven and Earth Manifestation.

• Lin Tian refined the Power Runes, gained complete control of his body, and pushed his Nine-Revolution Mystic Art to the peak of its seventh revolution.
• Lin Tian cultivated for a thousand years and reached Half-Step Quasi-Saint, but stopped because he lacked the spiritual energy and magic power needed for the final step.
• Lin Tian withdrew the Time Domain Field and noticed that Chang'e had advanced beyond the Early Great Encompassing Golden Immortal stage.
• Lin Tian advised the Six-Eared Macaque to develop his Heaven-Born Spirit Monkey abilities instead of focusing only on Dao Arts, and the macaque entered Dao enlightenment to attempt a breakthrough to Great Unity Golden Immortal.
• Bull Devil King asked Lin Tian to name his innate abilities, but Lin Tian could only suggest that he had great strength before deciding to teach the demon kings Heaven and Earth Manifestation.

Lin Tian sent Six-Eared Macaque to the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace to retrieve the Ancestral Dragon Pearl, arming him with a seemingly ordinary wooden stick. Before the group could depart, they found Old Monkey King at the end of his life, and Six-Eared Macaque offered to ask Lin Tian for help.

• Six-Eared Macaque broke through to Great Unity Golden Immortal, while Bull Devil King and the others studied Heaven and Earth Manifestation and Chang'e reached its introductory stage.
• Lin Tian gave Six-Eared Macaque a three-inch Root Stick and ordered him to find the Eastern Sea Dragon Clan's true treasury and take the Ancestral Dragon Pearl.
• Six-Eared Macaque left Flower-Fruit Mountain with Bull Devil King and the others, doubting that the stick Lin Tian had picked up could help against the Dragon Clan.
• The group returned to the monkey tribe's territory and found Old Monkey King gravely weakened, with the four elders and many old monkeys gathered at his cave.
• Old Monkey King said his allotted time had come, and Six-Eared Macaque offered to ask Lin Tian to teach him longevity Dao Arts.

Six-Eared Macaque set out alone for the Eastern Sea Dragon Clan with a wooden stick that Spirit Vine had given him. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Court and Buddhist Sect learned that Spirit Vine was the mysterious Vine Dao Venerable and began to suspect he threatened their plans.

• Six-Eared Macaque told the Old Monkey King that Spirit Vine had ordered him to fetch the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace’s treasury, then left with the Bull Devil King and the others carrying a little wooden stick.
• The Bull Devil King told Six-Eared Macaque that the Old Monkey King’s lifespan might be changed by altering the Book of Life and Death, but Six-Eared Macaque focused on his dangerous journey to the Eastern Sea.
• Venus Star reported to Heavenly Emperor Haotian that Spirit Vine was the Vine Dao Venerable, leaving the Heavenly Court stunned and prompting Haotian to suspect a Buddhist Sect scheme.
• Yang Jian recalled his past behavior toward Spirit Vine and wondered whether Chang'e had been paying special attention to him.
• Buddha Tathagata and Guanyin Bodhisattva learned that Spirit Vine was the Vine Dao Venerable, and Guanyin urged Tathagata to seek their masters’ intervention or choose someone else for the karmic calamity.

Golden Cicada warned Tathagata that Spirit Vine’s unexpected power threatened the Buddhist Sect, prompting Tathagata to seek the Saints’ decision about changing the Karmic Calamity’s chosen participant. Meanwhile, Six-Eared Macaque went to the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace on Lin Tian’s orders to obtain the Ancestral Dragon Pearl, and his demand ended in a confrontation with Ao Guang and the Dragon Clan.

• Golden Cicada urged Tathagata to suppress Spirit Vine and choose a replacement for the Karmic Calamity, while Tathagata decided to consult the two Saints and find a backup participant.
• Six-Eared Macaque reached the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace and told Ao Guang he had come to ask for treasures on Lin Tian’s orders.
• Ao Guang agreed to let Six-Eared Macaque take a treasure, but the Turtle Chancellor led him to a decoy treasury filled with inferior goods.
• Six-Eared Macaque saw through the deception and demanded entry to the real Dragon Palace Treasury and the Ancestral Dragon Pearl.
• Ao Guang and several Great Unity Golden Immortal Dragon Clan members confronted Six-Eared Macaque, who unleashed the Spirit Vine Azure Thunder Scripture and demanded the Ancestral Dragon Pearl.

The Six-Eared Macaque demanded the Ancestral Dragon Pearl, relying on his master Lin Tian and a Little Wooden Stick as his backing. When the Eastern Sea dragons attacked, he revealed overwhelming power with two Dao arts, killing several dragons and stopping Ao Guang's strike, but Ao Guang remained determined to kill him.

• The Six-Eared Macaque demanded the Ancestral Dragon Pearl and said his Little Wooden Stick and master Lin Tian gave him the right to make the demand.
• Ao Guang and the Turtle Chancellor mocked the stick, then ordered Dragon Palace Guards to kill the Six-Eared Macaque.
• The Six-Eared Macaque transformed into a hundred-thousand-foot True Dragon and crushed an early great unity golden immortal dragon with Heaven and Earth Manifestation.
• The Six-Eared Macaque used the Spirit Vine Azure Thunder Scripture to devastate the other attacking dragons, including one at the peak of the middle great unity golden immortal stage.
• Ao Guang unleashed the Eastern Sea's waters in his Golden Dragon form, but the Six-Eared Macaque broke through the attack and rose to meet him.
• Ao Guang was shaken but remained enraged and refused to spare the Six-Eared Macaque.

Six-Eared Macaque’s wooden stick awakened and overwhelmed Ao Guang, but the Dragon King summoned more than a dozen powerful Eastern Sea Dragon Clan elders. The elders arrived and learned that the stick had wounded Ao Guang, leaving Six-Eared Macaque facing a far larger gathering of enemies.

• Ao Guang used his great Luo laws to suppress Six-Eared Macaque and struck at him, but the glowing wooden stick freed Six-Eared Macaque from the laws.
• The wooden stick shattered Ao Guang’s sea-wide power, broke his claw, and battered him into human form, leaving him badly wounded.
• Six-Eared Macaque demanded that Ao Guang take him to the Dragon Palace Treasury for the Ancestral Dragon Pearl, and Ao Guang called upon the Eastern Sea Dragon Clan elders.
• More than a dozen elders, each stronger than Ao Guang, arrived, and one mocked Ao Guang for needing help against an early great unity golden immortal.
• The Turtle Chancellor told the elders that Six-Eared Macaque’s wooden stick possessed peerless might and had injured Ao Guang.

The Six-Eared Macaque used Lin Tian’s Little Wooden Stick to fight the Eastern Sea Dragon Clan’s Great Encompassing Golden Immortal elders and devastate their forces. When the dragons summoned their forefather, a colossal peak Great Encompassing Golden Immortal emerged from the sea, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• A Golden Dragon and a Black Dragon identified the Little Wooden Stick’s power runes and questioned the Six-Eared Macaque about his master, Lin Tian.
• An Azure Dragon attacked, and the Six-Eared Macaque struck back, then chased and battered him with the Little Wooden Stick.
• The Eastern Sea Dragon Clan’s elders joined the fight, but the Little Wooden Stick’s growing power and protective runes let the Six-Eared Macaque withstand them and drive them into the sea.
• Ao Guang and the Turtle Chancellor watched as the Dragon Clan’s forces were overwhelmed, and Ao Guang sent a summons for their forefather.
• The Dragon Clan’s forefather emerged as an enormous dragon, and the Six-Eared Macaque faced the peak Great Encompassing Golden Immortal.

The Six-Eared Macaque used Lin Tian’s wooden stick to force the Eastern Sea Dragon Clan’s ancestor to yield the Ancestral Dragon Pearl and access to the real Dragon Palace Treasury. He left with the pearl and the treasury’s most precious treasures, including the Sea-Stabilizing Needle.

• The Dragon Clan’s peak Great Encompassing Golden Immortal ancestor backed down after sensing the growing power of Lin Tian’s wooden stick.
• The Six-Eared Macaque demanded the Ancestral Dragon Pearl and permission to enter the real Dragon Palace Treasury, and the ancestor agreed while warning Lin Tian that he owed the clan a karmic debt.
• Ao Guang and the Turtle Chancellor led the Six-Eared Macaque into the treasury’s secret small world, where he received the Ancestral Dragon Pearl.
• The Six-Eared Macaque threatened Ao Guang with the wooden stick and collected the treasury’s most precious weapons and resources.
• The Six-Eared Macaque took the Sea-Stabilizing Needle and left the Dragon Palace Treasury.

Six-Eared Macaque used Lin Tianci’s little wooden stick to force King Yama to hand over the Book of Life and Death. He erased Old Monkey King’s name and the names of many other Flower-Fruit Mountain residents, while King Yama reacted in alarm.

• After leaving the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace, Six-Eared Macaque decided to enter the Underworld and change Old Monkey King’s fate.
• Six-Eared Macaque slipped past the guards at Ghost Gate Pass, subdued Black and White Impermanence, and made them lead him to the Hall of Yama.
• Six-Eared Macaque asked King Yama to lend him the Book of Life and Death, but King Yama refused and attacked him.
• Six-Eared Macaque used the little wooden stick to defeat King Yama and forced him to hand over the Book of Life and Death.
• Six-Eared Macaque erased Old Monkey King’s name and the names of countless other Flower-Fruit Mountain residents, making King Yama’s expression change.

Six-Eared Macaque fought his way toward Ghost Gate Pass after disrupting the Underworld, but Eastern Ghost Emperor Cai Yulei blocked his escape with the gate’s power. Lin Tian’s phantom appeared through the Little Wooden Stick to protect his disciple, and the clash over Six-Eared Macaque’s escape continued.

• Six-Eared Macaque returned the Book of Life and Death to King Yama, threatened the Underworld, and fled toward Ghost Gate Pass as the other nine Yama Kings pursued him.
• King Yama sought help from Cai Yulei at Taodu Mountain, and Cai Yulei brought him to Ghost Gate Pass.
• Six-Eared Macaque fought the nine Yama Kings with the Little Wooden Stick, overpowering several of them before trying to escape.
• Cai Yulei confronted Six-Eared Macaque and wielded Ghost Gate Pass against the Little Wooden Stick, sending both the macaque and the Yama Kings flying in the collision.
• Lin Tian’s phantom emerged from the Little Wooden Stick and told Cai Yulei that his disciple must leave unharmed, then opened a path for Six-Eared Macaque to escape.
• Cai Yulei tried to crush the escape route with Ghost Gate Pass, but Lin Tian’s Little Wooden Stick struck the gate and rebounded.

Lin Tian’s divine sense sacrificed itself to free the Little Wooden Stick, which remained suppressing Ghost Gate Pass in the Underworld. Back on Flower-Fruit Mountain, Guanyin Bodhisattva and Samantabhadra Bodhisattva sealed the surrounding region and attacked Lin Tian, who recognized Guanyin as the threat prepared to enter.

• Lin Tian’s phantom fought Cai Yu Lei at Ghost Gate Pass until a Buddhist seal pinned down the Little Wooden Stick, then merged into the stick and used its power runes to break free and suppress the pass.
• Cai Yu Lei failed to remove the Little Wooden Stick, while Lin Tian realized his divine sense had vanished and resolved to visit the Underworld after preparing to break through to quasi-saint.
• A sudden barrier sealed off Flower-Fruit Mountain, and Lin Tian sent Su Meiniang and Zixia away before a destructive pillar of light struck the mountain.
• Lin Tian summoned the Chaos Bell and used the Innate Black Tortoise Divine Restriction to intercept the attack, but the blast and shock waves devastated the surrounding land and killed countless beings.
• Lin Tian recognized Guanyin Bodhisattva behind the attack and warned her, while Guanyin told Samantabhadra Bodhisattva to guard outside as she entered.