Chapter Summaries

Lin Tian fought the Upper Realm invader, overpowering him with the power of chaos before the enemy’s mysterious thunder hammer forced a fierce clash. As the battered invader opened a passage to escape, Lin Tian discovered the route and prepared to pursue.

• Lin Tian struck the invader with a punch, sending him flying and dismissing him as trash left behind by the Upper Realm.
• The invader raised layers of Supreme Saint light, but Lin Tian cut off their reinforcement and pierced through them with a World-Piercing Divine Spear.
• The invader released his thunder hammer and attacked with destructive lightning, while Lin Tian formed a Pan Gu Axe and struck back with his chaos body.
• Lin Tian cracked the thunder hammer and sent the invader flying, but the hammer reformed from mysterious rays that returned to the invader’s brow.
• Lin Tian caught the fleeing invader, restrained him with Divine Thunder Burial of Worlds, and battered him until his form and rule-body mysteries began to break apart.
• The invader opened a passage to escape, and Lin Tian found it.

Lin Tian defeated and interrogated Nanmu Zhuoran, a prodigy from the Hongmeng True Realm, but Nanmu self-detonated before Lin Tian could fully invade his mind. By tracing fragments of Nanmu’s consciousness, Lin Tian learned that the Demon Territory planned to betray the Imperial High Court and that Nanmu had been sent to kill Luo Yanfei.

• Lin Tian used the World-Creating Shuttle to crack Nanmu Zhuoran’s Thunder Hammer, then trapped and suppressed him in a land of annihilation.
• Nanmu Zhuoran revealed that he was an Eight Great Prodigies member from the Demon Territory and explained the Hongmeng True Realm’s evolutionary stages, the Imperial High Court, and the Source Pool.
• Lin Tian asked whether Nanmu’s Thunder Hammer was his origin body, while Nanmu offered to take him to the Hongmeng True Realm and secretly coveted the World-Creating Shuttle.
• Lin Tian tried to kill Nanmu and break into his will, but Nanmu self-detonated, blasting Lin Tian from the cage and threatening the passage to the Hongmeng True Realm.
• Lin Tian contained the destructive force and traced fragments of Nanmu’s consciousness, discovering the Demon Territory’s plan to pledge allegiance to the Eternal Heaven Dynasty and Nanmu’s mission to kill Luo Yanfei.

Lin Tian prepared to enter the Hongmeng True Realm with the Heavenly Court, while Hongjun revealed that he had been working toward becoming a Great Dao Saint by devouring the Heavenly Dao. Hongjun began the attempt by trapping the Heavenly Dao and summoning the Spirit Vine True Self.

• Lin Tian stored the Thunder Hammer, protected the passage to the Upper Realm, and returned to the Primordial World after planning to ascend with the Heavenly Court.
• In the Purple Heaven Palace, Hongjun told the Heavenly Dao that Lin Tian's contact with Upper Realm life-forms might help him reach the Upper Realm.
• Hongjun revealed that he intended to devour the Heavenly Dao and master the rule order to become a Great Dao Saint.
• Hongjun shattered the Creation Jade Tablet and used its Three Thousand Great Dao laws to trap the Heavenly Dao inside an independent world.
• As the Heavenly Dao attacked him, Hongjun summoned a tendril of the Spirit Vine True Self and recalled how his actions had helped bring Lin Tian into this Primordial World.

Lin Tian watched Daoist Hongjun devour the Heavenly Dao using a demonic method, transforming its authority into a path toward the Great Dao. Hongjun reached the ninth-grade Great Luo Flower and stood one step from becoming a Great Dao Saint, taking on an unnameable form.

• Lin Tian’s Spirit Vine tendril devoured the Heavenly Dao’s stubborn emotional impulse as Hongjun merged with the vine tendril in the Good Fortune Jade Disc’s independent world.
• The Spirit Vine True Self declared that it had dismantled and devoured a second Journey to the West Calamity, whose altered course now led toward an unknowable future.
• Hongjun seized the stripped Heavenly Dao and devoured it with a Demon Gate art, raising his Great Luo Flower from the seventh grade to the ninth.
• Hongjun’s demonic qi vanished as he returned to his pure nature, and Lin Tian praised his strength and decisiveness.
• Lin Tian told Hongjun he could achieve Great Dao singularity within nine planes as Hongjun’s devouring transformed Purple Heaven Palace into darkness and an unnameable mass.

Lin Tian reunited with his Spiritual Bright Stone Monkey avatar and absorbed its accumulated merit, fortune, and fruit positions as he prepared to leave the Journey to the West plane. He protected the history and fortune the avatar had established, then reassured his Dao companions that they would retain their power and could travel between planes.

• Daoist Hongjun thanked Lin Tian for helping him approach Great Dao Singularity and gave him a Human Race Dharma manifestation with the aura of a Human Sovereign.
• Lin Tian took the manifestation into his Sea of Consciousness and summoned his Spiritual Bright Stone Monkey avatar from Chaos.
• The avatar compressed his treasures into his Celebratory Cloud and returned to Lin Tian, whose vine tendrils absorbed the avatar's merit, fortune, and fruit positions.
• Lin Tian's Dao companions reacted with astonishment and grief as a greater Vine Dao Venerable aura appeared, and Lady Pingxin realized there were countless planes and Lin Tians.
• Lin Tian's tendrils shielded the Heavenly Court and preserved the altered Journey to the West history, then he told his Dao companions they would remain his Spirit Vine School lineage with lasting power and the ability to travel between planes.

Lin Tian completed his changes to the Journey to the West Calamity and returned from another plane to the world of his Original Self. He reunited with the Spirit Vine School and asked whether this plane had developed as he wished.

• Lin Tian ordered his Dao companions to remain in their Primordial World so his altered calamity and Spirit Vine Dao Lineage would not collapse.
• The Three Pure Ones and Two Western Saints were crushed by Lin Tian’s pressure and sensed a strange bond linking them to him and the Spirit Vine Dao Lineage.
• Lin Tian absorbed the plane’s fortune and the foundations of its Spirit Vine Dao Lineage, then carried the Spiritual Bright Stone Monkey through the Gate of Ten Thousand Worlds.
• The Little Beast Emperor, Ghost Chariot, Daoist Hongjun, and the Spirit Vine School disciples welcomed Lin Tian back to his Original Self’s world.
• Lin Tian acknowledged that the Little Beast Emperor and Ghost Chariot could not advance by entering other planes, then asked his disciples whether this plane had turned out as he wished.

Lin Tian entrusted the Spirit Vine School to Daoist Hongjun and departed for All-Heaven Divine Peak, where he entered the Myriad Worlds Plaza. There, he heard the faint but persistent voice of the Human Race manifestation entrusted to him in the previous plane.

• Daoist Hongjun told Lin Tian that the plane had changed as he wished, as the Western Continent returned to its former desolate state and the Spirit Vine Sect's influence had reshaped the world.
• Lin Tian appointed Daoist Hongjun to lead the Spirit Vine School after he left, and Daoist Hongjun gratefully accepted.
• Lin Tian told the school’s members they could use the Gate of Ten Thousand Worlds to consolidate their Great Dao Worlds and promised they would meet again.
• Lin Tian briefly observed Houtu’s night-origin authority before vanishing from the river formed from the combined Great Dao.
• Lin Tian flew to All-Heaven Divine Peak, entered the Myriad Worlds Plaza, and heard a faint voice from the Human Race manifestation entrusted to him in the previous plane.

Lin Tian entered a new Primordial World history as Vine Dao Venerable Lin Tian and discovered that White Snake was imprisoned beneath Golden Mountain Temple. He confronted Monk Faming and prepared to break the hidden formation, while Faming warned him that Guanyin Bodhisattva had created it.

• Lin Tian sent his Spirit Vine avatar into the Primordial World and took over the identity of Chen Guangrui, becoming Vine Dao Venerable Lin Tian.
• Lin Tian received a mission to rescue White Snake from Golden Mountain Temple and brought Yuan Tiangang there.
• Lin Tian entered Golden Mountain Temple despite Monk Faming’s attempt to stop him and searched the grounds for White Snake.
• Lin Tian sensed a hidden formation beneath the Great Hero Hall and discovered an inverted Buddhist pagoda deep underground.
• Lin Tian confronted Monk Faming about the pagoda, and Faming admitted that Guanyin Bodhisattva had created its formation and warned Lin Tian against breaking it.

Lin Tian broke open the Golden Pagoda at Golden Mountain Temple and freed Bai Suzhen, a named disciple of Jiejiao. After claiming the pagoda and promising to take her back to her sect, he left with her for Jixia Academy.

• Lin Tian ignored Monk Faming's objections, broke the formation beneath Golden Mountain, and dragged the nine-story Golden Pagoda from the earth.
• Lin Tian opened the pagoda and freed the white snake, then stopped Monk Faming from attacking her.
• Bai Suzhen thanked Lin Tian and explained that Holy Mother Wudang had taken her as a Jiejiao Named Disciple before Guanyin imprisoned her.
• Lin Tian showed Bai Suzhen the Green Duckweed Sword, promised to take her back to Jiejiao, and claimed the Golden Pagoda.
• Lin Tian received confirmation that he had completed his mission, then left Golden Mountain Temple with Bai Suzhen and returned to Jixia Academy, where students speculated that she was his Dao companion.

Lin Tian gave Lady White the golden Buddhist pagoda and mistakenly sent her away after she assumed he had summoned her for an intimate encounter. He then left Jixia Academy with his companions for Golden Turtle Island, where the ruined state of the ancient Primordial World shocked him.

• Lin Tian identified the golden pagoda as a powerful superior Houtian spiritual treasure and received three drops of Three Lights Divine Water from the Spirit Vine True Self.
• Lin Tian gave the golden pagoda to Lady White, then told her to return to her lodgings, leaving both of them embarrassed after their misunderstanding.
• Lin Tian stayed at Jixia Academy for several days, then departed Jiangzhou with Golden Light Immortal, Fairy Caiyun, and Lady White to visit Saint Tongtian's treasury.
• Lin Tian relied on Golden Light Immortal to guide them beyond the Earth Immortal Realm and into the ancient Primordial World.
• Lin Tian saw that the ancient Primordial Land was devastated, with cracks in the world's spatial barriers leaking spiritual energy.

Lin Tian found a powerful Blood Jade Qilin and decided to make him his mount, but the creature rejected the idea and fought back. Lin Tian defeated him with a single punch, leaving the Blood Jade Qilin stunned.

• Lin Tian spotted a Blood Jade Qilin at the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm and decided to subdue him as a mount.
• Golden Light Immortal offered to capture the qilin, but the Blood Jade Qilin mocked his past as a mount and fought him.
• The Blood Jade Qilin suppressed Golden Light Immortal, so Lin Tian stepped in and took over the fight.
• The Blood Jade Qilin rejected serving a human and lunged at Lin Tian in his enormous true form.
• Lin Tian struck the Blood Jade Qilin with one punch, sending him flying through several divine peaks.

Lin Tian subdued the Blood Jade Qilin and accepted his Star Fruit Tree before continuing with his companions toward Golden Turtle Island. They arrived at the immense island, where Golden Light Immortal and Fairy Caiyun reacted with nostalgia and troubled emotions.

• Lin Tian repeatedly stomped the Blood Jade Qilin until the qilin surrendered and agreed to become his mount.
• Lin Tian healed the Blood Jade Qilin and followed him to his cave, where the qilin offered him the Star Fruit Tree.
• The Blood Jade Qilin explained the tree’s properties, and Lin Tian granted him one-third of its fruit.
• Lin Tian and the others set off for the Eastern Sea and reached Golden Turtle Island.
• Golden Light Immortal and Fairy Caiyun grew excited and recalled the island with sorrow, resentment, and anger.

Lin Tian arrived at Golden Turtle Island to seek treasures and strengthen the Human Race, then discovered Nine-Headed Snake still guarding the abandoned Jiejiao grounds. After hearing how Jiejiao had declined, Lin Tian received a quest to retrieve the Four Zhuxian Swords and restore the sect, or instead shelter its disciples.

• Lin Tian and his companions entered deserted Golden Turtle Island and approached Biyou Palace.
• A Nine-Headed Snake attacked Lin Tian, then recognized the Green Duckweed Sword and knelt to him as Jiejiao's Master.
• Nine-Headed Snake explained that most Jiejiao disciples had abandoned the island, while he had stayed out of loyalty to Saint Tongtian.
• Lin Tian and the others lamented Jiejiao's decline and the disciples' flight with its treasures.
• Spirit Vine True Self issued Lin Tian a quest to retrieve the Four Zhuxian Swords and revive Jiejiao, offering either the Sun Essence Wheel or the Dragon-Tiger Jade Ruyi as a reward.

Lin Tian chose to recover the Four Zhuxian Swords and entered Biyou Palace’s treasury, where he used the Green Duckweed Sword to open its defenses and ordered Jiejiao’s remaining disciples to choose treasures. He selected the Biyou Palace Lamp and the Purple Lightning Hammer, leaving the treasury with Jiejiao’s revival and the Human Race’s cultivation in mind.

• Lin Tian chose the mission to recover the Four Zhuxian Swords, hoping both to claim its reward and help revive Jiejiao.
• Lin Tian used the Green Duckweed Sword to open Biyou Palace’s treasury and declared that the others should obey his commands in Saint Tongtian’s absence.
• Lin Tian persuaded Golden Light Immortal, Fairy Caiyun, Bai Suzhen, and the Nine-Headed Snake to enter the treasury and each take a Magic Treasure for protection.
• Lin Tian examined the treasury’s treasures and chose the Biyou Palace Lamp to support the disciples of Jixia Academy.
• Lin Tian took the Purple Lightning Hammer and was surprised by its extraordinary weight.

After the group restored Biyou Palace, Golden Light Immortal and the others asked Lin Tian to rescue Jiejiao’s imprisoned disciples. Lin Tian planned to recover the Four Zhuxian Swords and bring Holy Mother Wudang back into the effort, so they left for Mount Li.

• Lin Tian and the others chose treasures from the treasury, then cleaned and restored Biyou Palace on Golden Turtle Island.
• Golden Light Immortal knelt before Lin Tian and asked him to save the Jiejiao Disciples still trapped within the Buddhist Sect.
• Lin Tian promised to help and said recovering the Four Zhuxian Swords was their first priority.
• Lin Tian proposed finding Holy Mother Wudang at Mount Li, and Lady Bai said her master cultivated there.
• Lin Tian, Golden Light Immortal, Fairy Caiyun, Lady Bai, and Nine-Headed Snake sealed Biyou Palace and set out for Mount Li.
• Lin Tian and the others arrived at Mount Li, changing the circumstances of Holy Mother Wudang, who had kept a low profile to protect Jiejiao’s legacy.

Lin Tian arrived at Mount Li with Golden Light Immortal and Fairy Caiyun, where Holy Mother Wudang joyfully reunited with her fellow Jiejiao disciples. After Lin Tian proposed recovering the Four Zhuxian Swords and rescuing persecuted Jiejiao disciples, Holy Mother Wudang objected to his plan to seize the Immortal-Severing Sword from Heavenly Venerable Dao Xing, fearing another bloody conflict.

• Lin Tian and his companions reached Mount Li, where Bai Suzhen reunited with her senior sister Wujue and Holy Mother Wudang greeted Golden Light Immortal and Fairy Caiyun.
• Golden Light Immortal introduced Lin Tian to Holy Mother Wudang, who recognized the Green Duckweed Sword and treated him with reverence.
• Golden Light Immortal and Fairy Caiyun told Holy Mother Wudang that Lin Tian intended to recover the Four Zhuxian Swords and find Jiejiao disciples who were missing or being persecuted.
• Lin Tian declared that they would first target Heavenly Venerable Dao Xing at Jade House Cave on Golden Court Mountain to take the Immortal-Severing Sword.
• Holy Mother Wudang interrupted Lin Tian and warned that attacking the Chan Sect disciples could ignite another round of bloodshed.

Lin Tian persuaded Holy Mother Wudang to gather Jiejiao’s scattered disciples while he confronted the Chan Sect, then reopened Biyou Palace and summoned Jiejiao members to return. Hundreds of outer disciples answered his call, though former disciples bound to the Investiture of the Gods List could not leave the Heavenly Court.

• Lin Tian argued that Jiejiao could not expect peace with the Chan Sect and told Holy Mother Wudang to gather the scattered disciples while he went after Heavenly Venerable Dao Xing.
• Holy Mother Wudang returned to Golden Turtle Island, and Lin Tian ordered her and the others to prepare Biyou Palace for reopening.
• Three days later, Lin Tian planted the Green Duckweed Sword before Biyou Palace and proclaimed that Jiejiao’s disciples must return or be treated as traitors.
• The Three-Headed Flood Dragon returned to Jiejiao, and Lin Tian promoted him from an outer disciple to an inner disciple.
• Fairy Caiyun, Golden Light Immortal, and Holy Mother Wudang welcomed the Three-Headed Flood Dragon, while Holy Mother Jinling and other Heavenly Court disciples lamented that they could not leave their posts.
• Two or three hundred outer disciples returned to Biyou Palace after Lin Tian’s call.

Lin Tian welcomed Jiejiao’s returning disciples and opened Biyou Palace to all seeking Dao teachings, then set out with Golden Light Immortal and Lady White for Golden Court Mountain. He left Azure Crane Boy’s body destroyed by Golden Light Immortal’s attack as Heavenly Venerable Dao Xing was alerted inside Jade House Cave.

• Lin Tian welcomed three hundred Jiejiao Outer Disciples who returned to Biyou Palace, and Holy Mother Wudang prepared to lead the revived sect.
• Lin Tian announced that Biyou Palace would teach all without discrimination, drawing cultivators from across the Primordial World.
• Buddha Tathagata watched as the Bodhisattvas punished Green Lion and White Elephant, while Vairocana Buddha silently resented their treatment.
• Heavenly Venerable Dao Xing and Guang Chengzi dismissed Lin Tian’s attempt to reopen Biyou Palace, unaware that Lin Tian was traveling to Golden Court Mountain.
• Lin Tian arrived with Golden Light Immortal and Lady White, and Golden Light Immortal destroyed Azure Crane Boy’s body after the boy mocked him.

Lin Tian took the Immortal-Severing Sword from Heavenly Venerable Dao Xing and killed him at Golden Court Mountain. In Purple Heaven Palace, Saint Tongtian confronted the furious Primordial Heavenly Venerable and launched an attack.

• Lin Tian killed Azure Crane Boy, prompting Heavenly Venerable Dao Xing to emerge and challenge him.
• The Blood Jade Qilin fought Heavenly Venerable Dao Xing evenly until the Immortal-Severing Sword wounded him, and Lin Tian ordered him to withdraw.
• Lin Tian used the Secret of the Soldier to seize the Immortal-Severing Sword and defeated Heavenly Venerable Dao Xing’s Demon-Subduing Pestle.
• Lin Tian killed Heavenly Venerable Dao Xing with the Immortal-Severing Sword despite his plea that the Primordial Heavenly Venerable would retaliate.
• Saint Tongtian celebrated Heavenly Venerable Dao Xing’s death, then attacked the Primordial Heavenly Venerable as they argued in Purple Heaven Palace.

Lin Tian's killing of Heavenly Venerable Dao Xing enraged the Primordial Heavenly Venerable, while Saint Tongtian defeated him in a single strike. The Primordial Heavenly Venerable failed to uncover Lin Tian's fate and suffered a severe backlash, as Lin Tian looted the Jade House Cave and Tongtian praised him.

• Saint Tongtian knocked the Primordial Heavenly Venerable down with one strike, then left after Saint Taiqing warned them to stop fighting.
• The Primordial Heavenly Venerable tried to divine Lin Tian's fate but could not see his past or future through the five-colored divine light.
• The Primordial Heavenly Venerable forced his way into Lin Tian's fate and was struck by a powerful backlash that injured his primordial spirit.
• Lin Tian stripped Heavenly Venerable Dao Xing of his treasures and turned the Jade House Cave upside down, unaware of the Primordial Heavenly Venerable's ordeal.
• Saint Tongtian praised Lin Tian for slaying Heavenly Venerable Dao Xing, retrieving the Immortal-Severing Sword, and reopening the Biyou Palace.