Chapter Summaries

Lin Tian unleashed a billion power runes and transformed into a Chaos Giant Ape to defend Flower-Fruit Mountain from Guanyin Bodhisattva. He shattered her treasures and golden body, tore apart the mountain’s restriction, and continued attacking her as Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s intervention was thwarted.

• Guanyin Bodhisattva struck Flower-Fruit Mountain with a destruction vortex, intent on killing the Spirit Vine.
• Lin Tian manifested as a million-zhang Chaos Giant Ape and poured a billion power runes into his transformed body.
• Lin Tian tore open and destroyed Guanyin Bodhisattva’s destruction vortex, then smashed her Demon-Revealing Mirror and snapped her Willow Branch.
• Lin Tian collided with Guanyin Bodhisattva, shattered her golden body, and drove her away while she coughed blood.
• Lin Tian shattered Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s probing divine sense, ripped apart the restriction over Flower-Fruit Mountain, and pursued Guanyin Bodhisattva with relentless punches.

Lin Tian used the Chaos Giant Ape to drive Guanyin Bodhisattva and Samantabhadra Bodhisattva from Flower-Fruit Mountain, while Holy Mother Wudang recognized his power. In the aftermath, the Queen Mother of the West learned Chang'e had reached Great Luo through Lin Tian's guidance and urged her to recruit him, as news of the Little Wooden Stick's victories spread through Heaven.

• Lin Tian's Chaos Giant Ape battered Guanyin Bodhisattva and Samantabhadra Bodhisattva until they retreated, while Holy Mother Wudang watched and recognized him as the Spirit Vine's master.
• Lin Tian returned to Flower-Fruit Mountain, where the Bull Devil King and the others celebrated his victory over Guanyin Bodhisattva.
• The Queen Mother of the West questioned Chang'e about reaching Great Luo, and Chang'e admitted that Lin Tian had helped her.
• The Queen Mother of the West told Chang'e and the Nine-Heavenly Maiden that the Little Wooden Stick had defeated the Eastern Sea Dragon Clan, the King of Hell, and Cai Yulei, the Eastern Ghost Emperor.
• The Queen Mother of the West asked Chang'e to use her bond with Lin Tian to win him over, while Haotian and the Heavenly Court reconsidered their plans as news of the Little Wooden Stick spread.

The Six-Eared Macaque returned with the Ancestral Dragon Pearl and revealed how the Little Wooden Stick had devastated the Eastern Sea and Underworld. Lin Tian refined the pearl, broke through to Quasi-Saint, and received a choice between remaining in seclusion or emerging into the world; meanwhile, Haotian learned that the Buddhist Sect had tried and failed to kill the Spirit Vine.

• The Six-Eared Macaque returned to Flower-Fruit Mountain with the Ancestral Dragon Pearl but confessed that he had left the Little Wooden Stick in the Underworld.
• Chang'e revealed the Little Wooden Stick's extraordinary feats, and the Bull Devil King begged Lin Tian for one of his own.
• Lin Tian received the Ancestral Dragon Pearl, refined it over three hundred years, and broke through to Quasi-Saint, triggering two mission options.
• The Six-Eared Macaque recounted his exploits and distributed Dragon Palace treasures among Flower-Fruit Mountain's forces, strengthening its demon army.
• Venus Star told Haotian that Guanyin Bodhisattva and Samantabhadra Bodhisattva had failed to secretly suppress the Spirit Vine, leading Haotian to conclude that the Buddhist Sect intended to kill it.

Lin Tian fully refined the God-Slaying Spear, broke through to the early Quasi-Saint stage, and began emerging from the Spirit Vine as Flower-Fruit Mountain and the Primordial World shook. Haotian and the Buddhist Sect considered how to deal with him while powerful figures gathered to witness his emergence.

• Haotian ordered Venus Star to offer the Spirit Vine a position in the Heavenly Court and decided he would eliminate him if he refused.
• Lin Tian advanced to the early Quasi-Saint stage and fully refined the God-Slaying Spear inside the Spirit Vine.
• Lin Tian used his Chaos Divine Eyes to unleash a pillar of chaos light that blinded Thousand-Mile Eye and deafened Wind-Following Ear.
• Lin Tian stepped forward and began breaking the Innate Black Tortoise Divine Restriction, prompting Chang'e, Su Meiniang, Zixia, the Bull Devil King, and others to watch as he prepared to emerge.
• Buddha Tathagata accepted that the Buddhist Sect had to choose another candidate for the Karmic Calamity, while Zhunti and Jieyin went to complain to Dao Ancestor Hongjun and planned to suppress Lin Tian if they received approval.

Lin Tian emerged from the Spirit Vine on Flower-Fruit Mountain with overwhelming power and took Water-Curtain Cave as his cultivation ground. Meanwhile, the upheaval drew the attention of the Underworld and the heavenly powers, while Nuwa joined the other sages at Purple Heaven Palace for Hongjun’s summons.

• Nuwa sensed the Thirty-Three Heavens trembling, failed to divine the cause, and went to Purple Heaven Palace after Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned her.
• The Little Wooden Stick trembled in the Underworld as Ghost Gate Pass and the Wangchuan River shook, and Cai Yulei watched Flower-Fruit Mountain uneasily.
• The Innate Black Tortoise Formation Diagram collapsed, the Spirit Vine shattered, and Lin Tian emerged amid heavenly signs as the Spirit Vine’s fragments formed his Daoist robe.
• Lin Tian’s followers bowed to him, and he transported them to Flower-Fruit Mountain, where the waterfall revealed Water-Curtain Cave.
• Lin Tian claimed Water-Curtain Cave as his cultivation ground and used his divine eyes to search its Dao traces for clues to its former owner.
• At Purple Heaven Palace, Nuwa found Daoist Zhunti, Daoist Jieyin, Primordial Heavenly Venerable, Laozi, and Cult Leader Tongtian, while Tongtian silently recalled his grievance against Primordial Heavenly Venerable.

Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin asked Hongjun to identify who had interfered with the Karmic Calamity, but he could not divine Spirit Vine, calling him an anomaly outside the Heavenly Dao. While the Saints agreed not to interfere personally, Zhunti and Jieyin considered sending their disciples after Spirit Vine; meanwhile, Venus Star arrived at Water-Curtain Cave to meet Lin Tian.

• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin accused an unknown party of disrupting their plans for the Karmic Calamity and proposed that Hongjun divine the culprit.
• Nuwa, Laozi, and Primordial Heavenly Venerable denied involvement, and Hongjun said Spirit Vine was an anomaly outside the Heavenly Dao whom even he could not divine.
• Hongjun told the Saints to let the Karmic Calamity proceed, while Zhunti and Jieyin privately considered letting their disciples act against Spirit Vine.
• At Water-Curtain Cave, Lin Tian studied the Dao traces and memorized their distinctive qualities.
• Venus Star arrived at Water-Curtain Cave and, awed by Lin Tian's presence, greeted him and asked whether he needed anything.

Lin Tian rejected Haotian’s offer of a Heavenly Court post, earning spatial Ancestral Witch essence blood, then traveled to the Underworld to retrieve the Little Wooden Stick. At Ghost Gate Pass, Zhong Kui realized Lin Tian intended to claim the powerful stick that had defied the Underworld’s rulers.

• Lin Tian refused Venus Star’s invitation to serve in the Heavenly Court and sent him back to the Southern Heavenly Gate with a spatial vortex.
• The Spirit Vine True Self rewarded Lin Tian with a drop of Dijiang’s spatial Ancestral Witch essence blood.
• Lin Tian left Flower-Fruit Mountain for the Underworld to retrieve the Little Wooden Stick, while Bull Devil King followed him.
• Zhong Kui introduced himself to Lin Tian on the ghost path and offered to help him in the Underworld.
• Lin Tian reached Ghost Gate Pass and confirmed to Zhong Kui that the Little Wooden Stick lodged above it was the one he had come to retrieve.

Lin Tian arrived at Ghost Gate Pass to retrieve the Little Wooden Stick and challenged the Eastern Ghost Emperors Cai Yu Lei and Shen Tu. After overwhelming them, he faced Great Emperor Fengdu, who asked him to stop before the Underworld fell into chaos, while Lin Tian made clear that his real purpose had yet to begin.

• Lin Tian retrieved the Little Wooden Stick and announced his arrival at Ghost Gate Pass, alarming the Underworld's ghosts and rulers.
• Cai Yu Lei accused Lin Tian's disciple of disrupting the Underworld, but Lin Tian insisted on fighting Cai Yu Lei instead.
• Cai Yu Lei and Shen Tu attacked Lin Tian, who punched a hole through Ghost Gate Pass, wounded Cai Yu Lei, and used his time domain to threaten Shen Tu.
• Great Emperor Fengdu arrived and asked Lin Tian to stop the battle to prevent chaos in the Underworld.
• Lin Tian agreed to no conclusion, revealing that retrieving the Little Wooden Stick had been only a minor matter and that his real business had yet to begin.

Lin Tian forced Great Emperor Fengdu to agree to help conceal the Underworld’s Heavenly Secrets while Lin Tian targeted Ksitigarbha King Bodhisattva during the Heavenly Court’s Flat Peach Banquet. After leaving Fengdu City, Lin Tian transformed into a Daoist and headed for the Netherworld Blood Sea.

• Lin Tian challenged Great Emperor Fengdu to continue fighting, and Fengdu agreed to hear one request in exchange for settling their Karma afterward.
• Lin Tian asked Great Emperor Fengdu to conceal the Underworld’s Heavenly Secrets and cut it off from the outside so he could strike at Ksitigarbha King Bodhisattva during the Flat Peach Banquet.
• Great Emperor Fengdu considered the danger of killing Ksitigarbha King Bodhisattva, a Quasi-Saint protected by the Western Buddhist Sect.
• Lin Tian left Fengdu City, transformed into a Daoist with the Nine-Nine Mystic Art, and went to the Netherworld Blood Sea.

Lin Tian approached Patriarch Minghe with an offer to help kill Ksitigarbha King Bodhisattva, using a weapon said to wound a Saint’s Primordial Spirit. Minghe feared Buddhist retaliation and refused, leaving Lin Tian to depart while Minghe remained uncertain of his identity.

• Lin Tian suppressed Asura Demon King Zizai Boxun and confronted Patriarch Minghe in the Netherworld Blood Sea.
• Lin Tian brought Minghe into Asura territory and offered to help him kill Ksitigarbha King Bodhisattva.
• Minghe admitted he wanted Ksitigarbha dead but feared the Buddhist Sect’s Saints and reinforcements.
• Lin Tian offered to lend Minghe a weapon capable of wounding a Saint’s Primordial Spirit and explained how Minghe could avoid retaliation.
• Minghe declined the offer, and Lin Tian tore open the void and left.
• Minghe wondered who Lin Tian was and decided against provoking the Buddhist Sect.

Lin Tian persuaded Patriarch Minghe to join a plan against Ksitigarbha King, while Haotian formed an alliance with Tathagata to provoke and suppress Spirit Vine during the Flat Peach Banquet. The chapter ended with the Buddhist Sect agreeing to Haotian’s scheme, confident that Buddha Kingdom in the Palm could capture Spirit Vine.

• Patriarch Minghe initially refused Lin Tian’s proposal, but agreed after the Asura Demon King reported that Ksitigarbha King had converted four more Asuras; Lin Tian then promised to send a killing weapon during the Flat Peach Banquet.
• Haotian decided to eliminate Spirit Vine after Venus Star warned that Spirit Vine was too powerful for the Heavenly Court’s forces and might have attracted the Queen Mother of the West’s support.
• Haotian traveled to the Western Lands and proposed that Tathagata help suppress Spirit Vine after Haotian provoked him into causing havoc at the Flat Peach Banquet.
• Tathagata agreed to the plan, explaining that Zhunti and Jieyin had confirmed no Saint was intervening on Spirit Vine’s behalf.
• Haotian and Tathagata settled on using Buddha Kingdom in the Palm to capture Spirit Vine once he wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace.

Lin Tian returned to Water-Curtain Cave, gave Bull Devil King the Little Wooden Stick, and sent Six-Eared Macaque and the others to explore the Northern Kuru Continent with pebbles containing his divine sense. At the Moon Palace, Lin Tian met the Queen Mother of the West, who asked his name.

• Lin Tian returned to Water-Curtain Cave and gave Bull Devil King the Little Wooden Stick, warning him not to show it off or risk being beaten to death.
• Su Meiniang and Zixia told Lin Tian that Chang'e had invited him to the Moon Palace.
• Six-Eared Macaque asked to travel and cultivate, and Lin Tian directed him and the others to the Northern Kuru Continent, giving each a pebble containing a strand of his divine sense.
• Lin Tian instructed Su Meiniang and Zixia to remain and cultivate, then traveled instantly to the Moon Palace.
• Chang'e introduced Lin Tian to the Queen Mother of the West, who welcomed him and asked his name; he told her he was Lin Tian.

The Queen Mother of the West offered Lin Tian the position of Great Emperor Ziwei, and he accepted after learning how Bo Yikao had obtained the throne. After she left, Lin Tian stayed at the Moon Palace with Chang'e and absorbed the Taiyin Star's lunar origin power under her guidance.

• The Queen Mother of the West invited Lin Tian to the Flat Peach Banquet and offered him the position of Great Emperor Ziwei.
• The Queen Mother of the West explained that Saint Taiqing had secured the Ziwei throne for Ji Chang, who yielded it to Bo Yikao, and said she could ask Taiqing to give it to Lin Tian.
• Lin Tian accepted the offer, and the Queen Mother of the West planned to make arrangements after the Flat Peach Banquet.
• The Queen Mother of the West returned to Yaochi, while Lin Tian decided to stay at the Moon Palace instead of returning to Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Lin Tian pulled Chang'e into his embrace and stayed at the Moon Palace, where he absorbed abundant lunar origin power guided by her lunar origin law.

Lin Tian made a breakthrough in the Great Dao of Chaos Space Origin and tested his new spatial abilities. Meanwhile, the Six-Eared Macaque and the other disciples faced a powerful Great Luo expert after stealing a treasure, and Roc Devil King called for their master.

• Lin Tian used the Great Dao of Chaos Time Origin to accelerate his secluded cultivation while refining Dijiang's Ancestral Witch Essence Blood and studying the Great Dao of Chaos Space Origin.
• The Six-Eared Macaque fought a late Great Unity Golden Immortal opponent for three days after stealing his treasure, until Bull Devil King, Roc Devil King, and four others joined the battle and helped overpower him.
• The opponent's Great Luo master arrived, immobilized the seven disciples with his Dao pressure, and threatened to kill them despite Bull Devil King's warning about their master.
• Roc Devil King used a pebble to call Lin Tian as the Great Luo expert prepared to attack.
• Lin Tian appeared at the Moon Palace after testing spatial translocation and overlapping spaces, startling Chang'e and the Moon Rabbit with his breakthrough in the Great Dao of Chaos Space Origin.
• Chang'e offered Lin Tian an osmanthus cake, and his gaze sharpened after he tasted it.

Lin Tian arrived on the Northern Kuru Continent to protect the Six-Eared Macaque and his companions after they clashed with Yun Zhongzi and Lei Zhenzi over the Thunderfire Pearl. After Yun Zhongzi revealed his disciple’s powerful weapons, Lin Tian armed the Six-Eared Macaque with three even more formidable treasures for their coming fight.

• Lin Tian appeared before the suppressed Six-Eared Macaque and his six companions, freeing them from their restraints.
• The Bull Devil King explained the dispute, and Lin Tian identified Lei Zhenzi and recognized Yun Zhongzi as his master.
• Lin Tian defended the Six-Eared Macaque’s claim to the Thunderfire Pearl and revealed that he was a quasi-saint when Yun Zhongzi challenged him.
• Lei Zhenzi proposed a rematch against all seven disciples and borrowed Yun Zhongzi’s Demon-Illuminating Sword and Heaven-Piercing Divine Fire Pillar.
• Lin Tian gave the Six-Eared Macaque the Hongmeng Star-Heaven Ruler, the Black Origin Water-Control Banner, and the Chaos Ape Staff.

The Six-Eared Macaque narrowly defeated Lei Zhenzi, earning Lin Tian’s restrained praise, but Yun Zhongzi ambushed him after the battle. Lin Tian stopped the attack and confronted Yun Zhongzi, then unleashed Divine Thunder Burial of Worlds against him as the fight escalated.

• The Six-Eared Macaque used his treasures and enormous form to narrowly defeat Lei Zhenzi, who was injured in the battle.
• The Six-Eared Macaque returned Lin Tian’s treasures and received a “barely a pass” assessment from his master.
• After departing, Yun Zhongzi launched a sudden Demon-Illuminating Sword ambush against the Six-Eared Macaque and the others.
• Lin Tian trapped the killing sword in folded space, destroyed it, and confronted Yun Zhongzi over the sneak attack.
• Yun Zhongzi tried to escape Lin Tian’s Divine Thunder Burial of Worlds and summoned the Heaven-Piercing Divine Fire Pillars to resist the destructive thunder.

Lin Tian defeated Yun Zhongzi but spared his life and cast him through a rift in space. At the Heavenly Court, Haotian recruited Yang Jian to provoke Spirit Vine at the Flat Peach Banquet by stirring his jealousy over Chang'e.

• Lin Tian overwhelmed Yun Zhongzi with the Time Domain Field and Hongmeng Measuring-Heaven Ruler despite Yun Zhongzi invoking his ties to Saint Yuanshi.
• Lin Tian stopped short of killing Yun Zhongzi, warned him to be more careful, and threw him into a rift in space.
• Yang Jian watched the Taiyin Star until Haotian appeared and asked him to drive Spirit Vine away from the coming Flat Peach Banquet.
• Haotian stoked Yang Jian's jealousy by saying Spirit Vine had visited the Moon Palace and that Chang'e seemed happy with him.
• Yang Jian silently accepted Haotian's plan, resentful that Chang'e had chosen Lin Tian despite his years of watching over the Moon Palace.

Haotian and Tathagata joined forces to prepare a trap for Lin Tian at the Flat Peach Banquet, planning to suppress him and draw him into their factions. After visiting Chang'e, Lin Tian traveled to the Sun Star to cultivate and temper his body before the banquet.

• Haotian arranged for Yang Jian to provoke Lin Tian at the Flat Peach Banquet, hoping to make him incur the Chan Sect's hostility.
• Tathagata gathered Buddhist leaders and planned to join the Heavenly Court in suppressing Lin Tian at the banquet.
• Lin Tian probed the Northern Kuru Continent for Demon Master Kunpeng and Lu Ya, then left the troublemakers to gain experience.
• Lin Tian visited Chang'e at the Moon Palace and told her he was going into seclusion on the Sun Star.
• Lin Tian entered the Sun Star's solar true flame to cultivate with its flame origin and temper his Ancestral Witch body.

Lin Tian entered the Sun Star, found the Fusang Divine Tree, and began cultivating amid the Solar True Flame origin while an unknown presence watched him. Meanwhile, Yun Zhongzi reached Guang Chengzi after Qin Yuan beat him, and Guang Chengzi resolved to confront Lin Tian.

• Lin Tian pushed through the Solar True Flame origin and found the million-zhang Fusang Divine Tree, whose life and Dao fluctuations suggested someone inhabited the Sun Star.
• Lin Tian established layered space and a time domain around his cultivation site, then drew in Solar True Flame origin to strengthen his cultivation and Great Sun Bathing in the Eastern Sea Dao art.
• The Fusang Divine Tree's hidden presence exclaimed in surprise as Lin Tian's Dao art stirred the Sun Star.
• Yun Zhongzi told Guang Chengzi that Lin Tian had beaten him and that Qin Yuan had later cut away another of his three flowers, forcing him to sacrifice his Water and Fire Flower Basket to escape.
• Guang Chengzi, now an early quasi-saint, judged Lin Tian an exceptional expert and decided to meet him to demand an explanation and defend the Chan Sect's standing.

Guang Chengzi prepared to confront Lin Tian, while the Queen Mother of the West sought Saint Taiqing’s approval to place Lin Tian on the Ziwei Emperor’s Throne. After more than thirty thousand years of cultivation, Lin Tian reached the peak early quasi-saint stage and greatly strengthened his body, as a figure approached him within the Sun Star’s flames.

• Yun Zhongzi warned Guang Chengzi that Lin Tian might have reached the quasi-saint mid-stage, and Guang Chengzi said he would call another Chan Sect junior brother for support.
• The Queen Mother of the West asked the Grand Supreme Elder Lord to seek Saint Taiqing’s approval for Lin Tian to occupy the Ziwei Emperor’s Throne, offering flat peaches and protection for the Human Teaching.
• The Queen Mother of the West invoked her past help in Laozi’s rise to sainthood, and the Grand Supreme Elder Lord agreed to relay her request and give her an answer at the Flat Peach Banquet.
• Lin Tian absorbed solar true flame origin for more than thirty thousand years, reaching the peak early quasi-saint stage and mastering Great Sun Bathing in the Eastern Sea.
• The solar flames refined Lin Tian’s remaining Pan Gu and ancestral witch essence, greatly increasing his physical combat power, as a figure appeared and strode toward him.