Chapter Summaries

Maitreya Buddha’s attempt to confront Lin Tian ended with the monks attacking Jixia Academy and being crushed by its defenders. Maitreya then faced Lin Tian directly, whose roar cracked his Buddha Kingdom in the Palm, and prepared to protect himself with a treasured robe.

• Faming misinterpreted Maitreya Buddha’s rebuke and led the monks in attacking Jixia Academy’s gates, prompting Maitreya’s strike to hit the formation instead.
• Xu Mao Gong and Cheng Yaojin led academy and army experts through the opened gates, killing at least half the monks as Maitreya Buddha and Weituo fled.
• Lin Tian intercepted Maitreya Buddha and Weituo, and Maitreya attacked him with his Buddha Kingdom in the Palm, the Saha Great World.
• Lin Tian’s roar shook Maitreya Buddha’s Buddha Kingdom and cracked it, while the same sonic attack left Weituo frozen.
• Maitreya Buddha put on the Seven-Colored Silk Heavenly Robe, an Innate Spiritual Treasure defensive artifact.

Lin Tian destroyed Maitreya Buddha’s Human-Seed Bag and attacked him after discovering he had imprisoned humans inside it. The chapter left Maitreya badly wounded and Lin Tian poised to strike again, while Weituo lay near death.

• Maitreya Buddha trapped Lin Tian in the Human-Seed Bag, but Lin Tian broke free and released several thousand captive human cultivators.
• Lin Tian condemned Maitreya for keeping humans in the bag and launched a furious attack as Maitreya fled toward the Western Lands.
• Maitreya used the Saha World to block Lin Tian’s attack, but Lin Tian shattered it with the Hongmeng Measuring-Heaven Ruler and gravely wounded him.
• Weituo attacked Lin Tian with the Demon-Subduing Pestle, but Lin Tian struck him down, leaving him beyond saving unless he abandoned his cultivation and fled as a primordial spirit.
• Lin Tian turned back to Maitreya, who begged for his life and invoked the Western Saints, while Lin Tian raised the Heaven-Measuring Ruler for another blow.

Lin Tian killed Maitreya Buddha and seized the Blessing Scepter from Zhunti’s Water and Fire Attendant Boys. Zhunti and Jieyin then plotted to weaken the Human Race and slow the Journey to the West, while the Heavenly Court gathered in a hidden cave heaven in Great Tang.

• Lin Tian destroyed Maitreya Buddha’s body, suppressed his primordial spirit, and killed him despite the Water and Fire Attendant Boys’ pleas.
• Lin Tian used the Secret of the Soldier to seize the Blessing Scepter, forcing the Water and Fire Attendant Boys to flee without it.
• Lin Tian destroyed Maitreya Buddha’s corpse and returned to Jixia Academy, having gained new insights into the power law and imperial law.
• Zhunti and Jieyin discussed weakening the Human Race’s fortune to reduce Lin Tian’s strength, and decided to slow the Journey to the West.
• Venus Star, Martial Virtue Star Lord, and members of the Thirty-Six Divisions gathered at a hidden cave heaven in Great Tang.

Venus Star and his allies plotted to deceive Lin Tian by blaming a Tiger Monster for the theft of Buddhist Treasures. When they presented the corpse to Lin Tian, he suspected the monster was only a scapegoat because his task reward had not arrived.

• Venus Star and Martial Virtue Star Lord feared Lin Tian after he killed Maitreya Buddha, and General Bingge proposed blaming a slain True Immortal monster for the stolen Buddhist Treasures.
• Lin Tian cultivated at Jixia Academy, taught its students, and learned from Chen Guangrui that Xuanzang's party had been delayed by Puxian and others.
• Venus Star arrived at Jixia Academy with Martial Virtue Star Lord and their men, then presented Lin Tian with a Tiger Monster's corpse as the supposed culprit behind the thefts.
• Lin Tian realized the Tiger Monster was likely a scapegoat because the reward for finding the true culprit had not appeared.

Lin Tian saw through Venus Star’s attempt to frame the Human Race and rejected the Heavenly Court’s offer to mediate with Buddhism. He exposed Venus Star as the mastermind behind the Buddhist Sect robbery, ordered his companions killed, and trapped Venus Star inside the Great Hall.

• Lin Tian accepted the Buddhist Treasures and recognized that Venus Star had framed the Human Race, completing the Spirit Vine True Self’s task.
• Venus Star offered to mediate with Buddhism, but Lin Tian refused and accused the Heavenly Court of plotting against the Human Race.
• Lin Tian confronted Venus Star about the Buddhist Sect robbery, and Venus Star’s startled companions revealed their guilt to Xu Mao Gong and the others.
• Lin Tian ordered Xu Mao Gong’s group to leave none alive, while Venus Star urged his companions to fight and tried to escape.
• Lin Tian’s restriction blocked Venus Star at the Great Hall doors, and Venus Star pleaded with him not to provoke a conflict between the Human Race and the Heavenly Court.

Lin Tian killed Venus Star, seized the Haotian Mirror, and distributed the Buddhist Treasures among Xu Mao Gong and the Academy’s outstanding students. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure freed Zhulong from an Eastern Sea seal and provoked his rage against Lin Tian by claiming Lin Tian had exterminated the Dragon Clan.

• Lin Tian killed Venus Star and took the Haotian Mirror, while Haotian suffered the loss in the Heavenly Court.
• Lin Tian let Xu Mao Gong select useful Buddhist Treasures and gave the rest to outstanding Academy students.
• A mysterious figure shattered a seal in the Eastern Sea and freed the enormous dragon Zhulong.
• The mysterious figure told Zhulong that Lin Tian had wiped out the Eastern Sea Dragon Clan, enraging him.

Zhulong joined forces with the Mysterious Figure to attack the Human Race, then caused deadly disasters along Great Tang’s coast. Lin Tian organized a nationwide investigation, whose findings pointed to a gigantic black dragon in the Eastern Sea, possibly the sealed Zhulong.

• The Mysterious Figure revealed his identity to Zhulong and urged him to use his innate divine ability to trouble the Human Race while avoiding a direct fight with Lin Tian.
• Zhulong appeared in the Eastern Sea, swallowed hundreds of fishermen and unleashed worsening disasters across Great Tang’s coastal regions.
• Lin Tian saved a town from a tsunami and ordered Cheng Yaojin to investigate whether the disasters were man-made.
• Great Tang mobilized its forces to investigate the calamities, and Great Shaman Nine Phoenixes joined them after reaching the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Investigators traced the disasters to a vast black dragon in the Eastern Sea, and Nine Phoenixes suggested it might be Zhulong, who had been sealed there.

Lin Tian led Nine Phoenixes and several Jixia Academy elders to the Eastern Sea and confronted Zhulong, whom he suspected of causing Great Tang’s natural disasters. He left Zhulong badly injured after overpowering him in a contest of strength.

• Lin Tian sensed spatial power near an unnamed island and used the Heaven-Flipping Seal and Blessing Scepter to stir the sea until Zhulong emerged.
• Zhulong recognized Lin Tian as the enemy who had exterminated his clan and lunged at him, while Lin Tian ordered his companions to retreat.
• Lin Tian lodged the Hongmeng Measuring-Heaven Ruler in Zhulong’s jaws, preventing him from opening or closing his mouth.
• Zhulong swung his tail at Lin Tian, but Lin Tian caught it with his bare hands and smashed Zhulong repeatedly into the sea, tearing his scales and spilling his blood.

Lin Tian defeated Zhulong and exposed Daoist Zhunti as the one who had freed him and then tried to silence him. Lin Tian bound Zhulong as the Human Race’s guardian Spirit Beast, declared a death feud with Spirit Mountain, and prepared to return to Jixia Academy.

• Zhulong offered to reveal the mastermind behind his release, but Zhunti attacked him with the Seven-Treasure Wonderful Tree to prevent the confession.
• Lin Tian slowed Zhunti’s treasure with the Soldier Character Formula and intercepted it with his Heaven-Flipping Seal, exposing Zhunti to the watching Saints and Human Sovereigns.
• Lin Tian spared Zhulong by marking his soul and sentencing him to serve the Human Race as its guardian Spirit Beast for life.
• Lin Tian declared that the Human Race and Spirit Mountain would fight until one side was destroyed, and the Spirit Vine True Self issued him a mission to go to Spirit Mountain and collect interest.
• Lin Tian bound Zhulong and prepared to return to Jixia Academy, while Nine Phoenixes stared at him in astonishment and blushed when he spoke to her.

Lin Tian prepared to attack Spirit Mountain, while Cult Leader Tongtian promised support and taught him how to control the Executioner Immortal Sword Formation. Lin Tian reached Spirit Mountain and challenged the Golden Summit Great Immortal at Jade Truth Temple.

• Lin Tian told Nine Phoenixes he would go to Spirit Mountain, then returned to Jixia Academy with Zhulong as Great Tang praised him and its fortune strengthened.
• Cult Leader Tongtian visited Lin Tian, promised that Jieyin and Zhunti would not interfere, and pledged to support him if they did.
• Tongtian transmitted the control incantations for the Executioner Immortal Sword Formation Diagram to Lin Tian before departing.
• After seven days of preparation, Lin Tian asked Nine Phoenixes to guard the Human Race and flew west toward Spirit Mountain.
• Lin Tian reached Jade Truth Temple at the foot of Spirit Mountain and called on the Golden Summit Great Immortal to surrender.

Lin Tian stormed Spirit Mountain, killed Golden Summit Great Immortal’s evil corpse, and slaughtered its defenders with the Executioner Immortal Sword Formation. He faced five great Buddhas and their forces, then revealed the Chaos Bell, which repelled their attacks.

• Golden Summit Great Immortal’s evil corpse attacked Lin Tian with a fly whisk, but Lin Tian killed him with the Executioner Immortal Sword.
• Lin Tian advanced up Spirit Mountain and used the Executioner Immortal Sword Formation to slaughter the Bhikkhu Monks who tried to stop him.
• Medicine Master King Buddha, four other great Buddhas, and their followers formed the Ten Thousand Buddhas Formation, but Lin Tian’s sword formation overwhelmed it.
• Medicine Master King Buddha led the three thousand Kinnaras and five hundred Aras in an attack on Lin Tian.
• Lin Tian summoned the Chaos Bell, which deflected the Buddhist treasures and left many of them damaged.

Lin Tian faced the five Buddhas of Spirit Mountain and killed Medicine Master King Buddha with the Heaven-Flipping Seal. He then used the Chaos Bell to shatter the attackers’ Spirit Treasures while the four remaining Buddhas were trapped in the Executioner Immortal Sword Formation, which began striking at them with mysterious sword qi.

• Medicine Master King Buddha and the other four Buddhas attacked Lin Tian, but the Executioner Immortal Sword Formation blocked their Spirit Treasures.
• Medicine Master King Buddha sent the four Buddhas into the formation to hold its swords back while he attacked Lin Tian with the Medicine Master Glazed Realm and Seven-Colored Glazed Pagoda.
• Lin Tian smashed Medicine Master King Buddha with the Heaven-Flipping Seal, and a Mysterious Figure captured his departing soul with a piece of silk brocade.
• The three thousand Kinnaras and five hundred Aras tried to rescue the trapped Buddhas, but Lin Tian sealed the region with the Chaos Bell and destroyed their Spirit Treasures.
• The four Buddhas lost hope inside the formation as its mysterious sword qi slashed toward them.

Lin Tian stormed Spirit Mountain, defeated its defenders, and plundered its Treasure Vault to strengthen the Human Race. After the vault was emptied, Kashyapa and Ananda returned and confronted him, and Lin Tian warned them that they had gone too far.

• Lin Tian shattered the Dao foundations of Spirit Mountain’s four defenders, reducing them to mortals, then headed for the Treasure Vault.
• Lin Tian smashed through the vault’s restrictions, sent Kashyapa and Ananda flying, and drove the Vajra Warriors away.
• Lin Tian took every treasure, pill, and valuable resource from the vault, weakening Spirit Mountain’s fortune and adding the spoils to his mustard seed space for the Human Race.
• Kashyapa and Ananda returned to find the vault empty and threatened Lin Tian, who laughed and warned them that even their master might not dare speak to him that way.

Lin Tian confronted Tathagata after nearly killing Kashyapa and Ananda, then fought him from Spirit Mountain into the Chaos World. Lin Tian remained stronger but chose not to kill Tathagata, and the chapter ended with both of them arriving at the Sun Star.

• Lin Tian nearly struck down Kashyapa and Ananda before Tathagata intervened and saved them.
• Lin Tian rebuked Tathagata over Spirit Mountain’s treatment of the Human Race and attacked him with the Chaos Bell.
• Tathagata met Lin Tian’s blows with the Twelfth-Grade World-Purifying White Lotus, and their battle tore through Spirit Mountain into the Chaos World.
• Cult Leader Tongtian, Nuwa, and Fuxi watched the battle, while Tongtian recognized that Lin Tian was holding back.
• Lin Tian decided against killing Tathagata, hurled a small star at him, and flew to the Sun Star; Tathagata followed.

Lin Tian defeated Tathagata at Spirit Mountain, rescued the Bull Devil King, and discovered that the Buddhist Sect had trapped Xuanzang and his companions in a blessed grotto. He entered the grotto with the Bull Devil King and explained that Spirit Mountain intended to use the Journey to the West's merit to strengthen Xuanzang and his companions.

• Lin Tian revealed his full strength, injured Tathagata, and drove him into seclusion inside the Mount Sumeru World.
• Lin Tian found the Bull Devil King at Spirit Mountain and learned that Guanyin had forced him to oppose Monkey Sun by threatening Red Boy.
• Lin Tian took the Bull Devil King away from Spirit Mountain after destroying its forces and plundering its Treasure Vault.
• Lin Tian searched the westward route, found Xuanzang and his companions trapped in a blessed grotto, and broke through its formation with the power of laws.
• Lin Tian told the Bull Devil King that Spirit Mountain planned to use the Journey to the West's merit to empower Xuanzang and his companions.

Lin Tian visited Xuanzang and his companions, promised to rescue Red Boy, and gave Xuanzang a Voidbright Stone to help him escape danger. When Puxian and Wenshu arrived to keep Xuanzang imprisoned, Lin Tian challenged them to a contest for Xuanzang’s freedom.

• Lin Tian explained that Guanyin had taken Red Boy and promised Bull Devil King he would retrieve him from the Southern Sea.
• Lin Tian joined Xuanzang and the others for a feast, heard that Puxian and Wenshu were holding Xuanzang in the Cave Heavens and Blessed Lands, and offered to help him debate them.
• Lin Tian gave Xuanzang a Voidbright Stone and said the journey to Spirit Mountain would take only another year or two after they left the blessed lands.
• Puxian and Wenshu entered the Great Hall, saw Lin Tian, and pleaded that they had only followed the Buddha’s orders.
• Lin Tian proposed a contest: if Puxian and Wenshu won, Xuanzang would stay; if he won, they would let Xuanzang go.

Lin Tian defeated Wenshu and Puxian in a Buddhist scripture debate, then returned safely to Jiangzhou City after Xuanzang resumed his journey to Spirit Mountain. He told the leaders of Jixia Academy that the treasures he had obtained would support the Human Race’s future development.

• Lin Tian challenged Wenshu and Puxian to debate the scriptures and used questions about Buddhist vegetarian rules to undermine their faith.
• Wenshu and Puxian coughed up blood, then abandoned their precepts and ravenously ate the meat on the table, conceding Lin Tian’s victory.
• Xuanzang and his disciples continued their journey west, while the Bull Devil King set off for Plantain Cave to reunite with Princess Iron Fan.
• Lin Tian returned to Jiangzhou City, reassured Nine Phoenixes and Bai Suzhen, and learned that no one had dared trouble the Human Race during his absence.
• Lin Tian gathered the leaders of Jixia Academy and announced that the treasures he had obtained on Spirit Mountain would help build the Human Race’s future.

Lin Tian distributed the treasures he had plundered from Spirit Mountain to strengthen the Human Race and received pan gu soul power for completing the first stage of his growth mission. After advancing his cultivation and severing his evil corpse, he repelled a sudden attack by heart demons and decided to help Wutian subjugate the Demon Realm.

• Lin Tian ordered ten hundred-story Treasure Vaults built, filled them with his plundered treasures, and let everyone choose three Spirit Treasures before distributing the rest by contribution points.
• Lin Tian received pan gu soul power and a second-stage mission to strengthen the Human Race until it could contend with Spirit Mountain.
• Lin Tian entered secluded cultivation while the Great Tang used Spirit Mountain’s treasures and medicines to rapidly strengthen the Human Race and advance his imperial law.
• Lin Tian absorbed pan gu soul power and severed his evil corpse, deepening his understanding of heaven and earth’s laws.
• Heart demons appeared around Lin Tian, but he used the Chaos Bell to destroy them in golden flames.
• Lin Tian concluded that Wutian was struggling in the Demon Realm and resolved to help him subjugate it soon.

A mysterious Quasi-Saint attacked Jixia Academy to keep Lin Tian occupied while his allies abducted Princess Changle from Chang'an. Lin Tian seized the attacker’s Voidbright Stone instead of pursuing the kidnappers, intending to capture and interrogate him.

• Lin Tian emerged from seclusion as Zhulong struggled against a mysterious attacker wielding the Thunder Laws.
• Lin Tian struck the Mysterious Figure with the Hongmeng Measuring-Heaven Ruler and overwhelmed him in a single exchange.
• The Mysterious Figure kept attacking to buy time for his senior brothers in Chang'an.
• Xu Mao Gong told Lin Tian that Princess Changle had been abducted, and explained her rare innate Dao body.
• The Mysterious Figure tried to escape with a Voidbright Stone, but Lin Tian used the Soldier Character Formula to take it.
• Lin Tian chose to capture and interrogate the Mysterious Figure rather than rush to Chang'an.

Lin Tian uncovered True Person Taiyi’s role in the plot to abduct his younger sister, Changle, and learned that the abductors had gone to Putuo Island to meet Guanyin. He stormed the island and entered the Purple Bamboo Grove despite warnings that more than ten quasi-saints were waiting for him.

• Lin Tian used the Chaos Bell to immobilize the Mysterious Figure, unmasked him, and discovered he was True Person Taiyi.
• True Person Taiyi revealed that the Chan Sect and Spirit Mountain had joined forces to abduct Changle as revenge against Lin Tian, and that the abductors planned to rendezvous with Cihang Guanyin at Putuo Island.
• Lin Tian sealed True Person Taiyi’s cultivation, left him in Xu Mao Gong’s custody, and flew to Putuo Island despite Xu Mao Gong’s warning that the rendezvous might be a trap.
• Lin Tian smashed Putuo Island’s Mountain-Guarding Formation and found Guanyin, Buddhist figures, and Chan Sect quasi-saints waiting in the Purple Bamboo Grove.
• Lin Tian freed Jiejiao prisoners on the island and told them to seek Holy Mother Wudang at Golden Turtle Island.
• The Black Bear Monster warned Lin Tian that more than ten quasi-saints had set a formation deep in the Purple Bamboo Grove, but Lin Tian continued onward.