Chapter Summaries

Lin Tian used smoke from five little carts to expose the Six-Eared Macaque, and Sun Wukong killed him and absorbed his power. Tathagata learned that Six Ears was dead and suspected a traitor was revealing Buddhism’s plans to Lin Tian.

• Tang Monk and his disciples failed to distinguish the two Wukongs with the Tight-Fillet Spell, and Lin Tian offered to identify the impostor.
• Lin Tian released smoke from five little carts, revealing that the real Sun Wukong suffered from smoke while the Six-Eared Macaque did not.
• Sun Wukong killed the Six-Eared Macaque, whose corpse merged into him and strengthened his cultivation.
• Tathagata discovered that Six Ears’ true spirit had dissipated and blamed Lin Tian for ruining his plan.
• Tathagata told Guanyin that Buddhism would continue the scripture pilgrimage and suspected a traitor was leaking its plans.

Tathagata sought counsel from his mysterious Master about Lin Tian’s disruption of the Heavenly Dao and Buddhism’s losses. His Master gave him a Chaos sword and told him to continue the Journey to the West, while revealing that Hongjun had his own plan and that Tathagata would meet the Man in Black in three hundred years.

• Tathagata entered a hidden cave behind his lotus throne and used a crystal stone to summon his Master.
• Tathagata told his Master that Lin Tian had repaired the Heavenly Pillar and changed the Three Realms’ destiny, and the Master said Lin Tian’s origins defied divination.
• Tathagata asked whether Lin Tian was Laozi’s son, but his Master insisted that Lin Tian’s accomplishments exceeded the power of any Saint.
• Tathagata asked how to answer Lin Tian’s attacks and identify the Man in Black, and his Master told him to continue the Journey to the West and said they would meet the thief in three hundred years.
• Tathagata’s Master gave him a Chaos-aura long sword and said Hongjun had granted Lin Tian a Saint Position and a share of the Primordial World’s fortune.
• The chapter recounted how the crystal-stone Master had guided Duobao’s past schemes against Jiejiao and the Six Sages.

Tathagata recovered his confidence after consulting his mysterious Master, while Lin Tian promised Sun Wukong answers in exchange for completing ordeals and began planning immortal cities. He traveled to Mount Kunlun to free Yunxiao, presenting the Chan Sect with the Grand Supreme Elder Lord’s rune.

• Tathagata pieced together his mysterious Master’s hints about the hidden forces behind the Journey to the West and regained his confidence.
• Lin Tian told Sun Wukong he would answer one question for every ordeal Sun Wukong passed, and Sun Wukong rejoined the scripture-fetching party.
• Lin Tian planned immortal cities at Mount Hua and in the Western Liang Women’s Kingdom, assigning Yang Chan and other women to manage them.
• Lin Tian arrived at Mount Kunlun and told the Chan Sect’s disciples he had come to release Yunxiao from her imprisonment beneath Qilin Cliff.
• When Guang Chengzi said Yunxiao could only be released with the Grand Supreme Elder Lord’s command, Lin Tian showed him the Grand Supreme Elder Lord’s rune.

Lin Tian freed Yunxiao from her confinement beneath Qilin Cliff and brought her back to a ruined Golden Turtle Island. He restored Jiejiao’s fortune and dragon of fortune, then left Yunxiao at Biyou Palace, where she grieved over the sect’s fall.

• Lin Tian used Taishang’s written order to dissolve the restriction beneath Qilin Cliff and free Yunxiao.
• Yunxiao learned that Lin Tian was Kui Ox’s son, then traveled with him to Golden Turtle Island and mourned Jiejiao’s destruction.
• Lin Tian invested a hundred billion experience points’ worth of fortune in Jiejiao, repaying its debt and restoring Golden Turtle Island’s vitality and dragon of fortune.
• Lin Tian told Yunxiao that he possessed one-tenth of the Primordial World’s fortune and asked her to manage Biyou Palace.
• Yunxiao wept at Biyou Palace as she remembered Jiejiao’s former glory, while Lin Tian reflected that Hongjun’s abandonment had caused the sect’s downfall.

Lin Tian comforted Yunxiao and used his merit to help her slay her good and evil corpses, making her a two-corpse Quasi-Saint ready to lead Jiejiao. As they left Biyou Palace, a red-robed Witch attacked Lin Tian, who suspected she was the Great Shaman Nine Phoenixes.

• Lin Tian reassured grieving Yunxiao that he could help restore Jiejiao and revealed that he was also Spirit Vine City's Vine Dao Venerable and the Demon Emperor.
• Lin Tian brought Yunxiao to a quiet chamber and exchanged Heavenly Dao Merit for one billion points of general-purpose merit to supply her with magic power.
• Yunxiao used the merit to slay her good and evil corpses, becoming a two-corpse Quasi-Saint.
• Lin Tian and Yunxiao left Biyou Palace, and a red-robed woman suddenly attacked Lin Tian from the sky.
• Lin Tian countered with Ninefold Samadhi True Flame, recognized the woman as a Witch, and asked whether she was the Great Shaman Nine Phoenixes.

Lin Tian and Yunxiao followed Nine Phoenixes into Pan Gu Hall, where the Great Shamans tested Lin Tian’s insight and led the pair to a chamber of Yin-Yang laws. As the laws drew them into Dao comprehension, Yunxiao reflected on how Lin Tian had eased the burdens she carried, and they continued exploring the hall’s secrets.

• Nine Phoenixes fled to the Northern Kuru Continent, and Lin Tian and Yunxiao followed her into Pan Gu Hall.
• Lin Tian met Nine Phoenixes and the last five Great Shamans, revealed that he was the Seventh Saint, and argued that the Witch and Demon Clans should avoid war and leave each other alone.
• Nine Phoenixes led Lin Tian and Yunxiao to a mysterious space and withdrew as they approached a house marked with a yin-yang design.
• Lin Tian and Yunxiao entered the house, where innate yang flowed into him and innate yin flowed into her, drawing both into Dao comprehension.
• Lin Tian and Yunxiao explored Pan Gu Hall together, while Yunxiao reflected on her past losses and the relief Lin Tian had brought her.

Lin Tian and Yunxiao kept their relationship secret as they encountered Pan Gu's Heart and met the will of Great God Pangu. After Lin Tian condemned Hongjun as a thief who stole the Primordial World, Pan Gu revealed how the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun had betrayed his plans and destroyed his descendants.

• Lin Tian and Yunxiao discussed their vast age difference and decided to keep their relationship hidden from Yunxiao's sect.
• Lin Tian and Yunxiao reached Pan Gu's Heart, where the Twelve Ancestral Witches' phantoms gathered into a manifestation of Great God Pangu.
• Pan Gu asked Lin Tian what he thought of Hongjun, and Lin Tian called him a great thief who had stolen the Primordial World.
• Lin Tian accused Hongjun of destroying the Western Lands, betraying Lady Houtu, instigating the War of the Liches, and destroying Jiejiao.
• Pan Gu confirmed Lin Tian's judgment and revealed that the Heavenly Dao had thwarted his plans while Hongjun seized the chance to usurp it and slaughter Pan Gu's bloodline.

The Pangu Phantom revealed that Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao feared the Great Dao’s return and might sacrifice the Three Realms to stop it. Before fading away, he warned Lin Tian to prepare, gave Yunxiao the Chaos Bell, and left Lin Tian’s origins unexplained.

• The Pangu Phantom explained how the Great Dao created the Chaos God-Devils and Pan Gu, and how the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun schemed to control the newly opened world.
• The Pangu Phantom revealed that Hongjun, Luo Hou, Yang Mei, and the Heavenly Dao feared the Great Dao’s recovery, and that Pan Gu had arranged the Heavenly Pillar’s collapse to buy it time.
• Lin Tian realized that restoring the Heavenly Pillar had strengthened both the Heavenly Dao and the living world, and told Pan Gu he planned to become a chaos great encompassing golden immortal and a Saint simultaneously.
• The Pangu Phantom warned Lin Tian that Hongjun might sacrifice the Three Realms to reach the Great Dao realm, then told Yunxiao that her yin origin would help her and Lin Tian support one another.
• The Pangu Phantom gave Yunxiao the Chaos Bell to anchor Jiejiao’s fortune, began to answer Lin Tian’s question about his origins with the words “The Great Dao,” and then vanished.

Lin Tian learned that Hongjun was a threat to the Three Realms and brokered peace between the Witch and Demon Clans before visiting Spirit Vine City with Yunxiao. The pilgrims reached Flaming Mountain, where Sun Wukong learned that the Iron Fan Immortal’s Banana Leaf Fan could extinguish its flames and went to find out where she lived.

• Lin Tian and Yunxiao emerged from Pan Gu Hall, and Lin Tian told the Great Shamans that Pan Gu’s will had dissipated as Pan Gu’s Heart was enshrined.
• Lin Tian and Nine Phoenixes agreed to end the Witch and Demon Clans’ hostilities and sealed their peace oath.
• Lin Tian and Yunxiao visited Holy Mother Wudang at Jiejiao’s formation shop, where Yunxiao showed her the Chaos Bell and agreed to lead Jiejiao.
• Holy Mother Wudang and Yunxiao left for Yuyu Heaven, while Lin Tian traveled west to check on the pilgrims.
• Tang Monk learned that Flaming Mountain blocked the road, and a flatbread seller told Sun Wukong that the Iron Fan Immortal’s Banana Leaf Fan could extinguish its flames.
• Sun Wukong went to ask a woodcutter where the Iron Fan Immortal lived.

Sun Wukong arrived at Banana Cave to borrow Princess Iron Fan’s fan for the journey across Flaming Mountain, only to discover that Lin Tian was her son. After Princess Iron Fan rebuked Sun Wukong over his past betrayal of the Bull Devil King, Lin Tian sent him to Spirit Mountain with a demand for ten billion Spirit Stones.

• A woodcutter directed Sun Wukong to Banana Cave and explained that Princess Iron Fan owned the fan he needed.
• Princess Iron Fan’s maid initially refused Sun Wukong entry, but Lin Tian arrived and brought him inside.
• Lin Tian reunited with his mother, who complained that the Bull Devil King was spending his time with another concubine.
• Princess Iron Fan reminded Sun Wukong that he had abandoned his sworn brothers after persuading them to rebel, and Sun Wukong blushed in shame.
• Lin Tian told Sun Wukong to demand ten billion Spirit Stones from Tathagata for the fan, and Sun Wukong flew toward Spirit Mountain.

Lin Tian arranged a ten-billion-Spirit-Stone payment from Tathagata to Princess Iron Fan so Sun Wukong could extinguish Flaming Mountain and continue the pilgrimage. After Sun Wukong asked about Subhuti, Lin Tian told him to wait until the Journey to the West was over for the full truth.

• Rakshasa Woman asked Lin Tian how many women he had, and he said he had six; she praised him and urged him to find more.
• Sun Wukong went to Spirit Mountain and told Tathagata that Princess Iron Fan had refused to lend her Banana Leaf Fan without payment.
• Tathagata agreed to pay ten billion Spirit Stones, borrowed them from Lin Tian, and gave them to Princess Iron Fan.
• Princess Iron Fan lent Sun Wukong the fan, and he swept it forty-nine times to bring rain and extinguish Flaming Mountain.
• Sun Wukong asked Lin Tian whether he knew Subhuti, and Lin Tian said Subhuti was a Saint's doppelgänger but deferred further answers until the pilgrimage ended.
• Sun Wukong rejoined Tang Monk and the other disciples, and they crossed Flaming Mountain to continue west.

Lin Tian met Kunpeng, then returned to Spirit Vine City and discussed Jiejiao’s revival and finances with Holy Mother Wudang and Yunxiao. He took Yunxiao to Golden Turtle Island to prepare for Jiejiao’s return, and the two shared a tender moment there.

• Lin Tian encountered Kunpeng, who revealed he planned to pursue the Great Dao Laws and extort Spirit Stones from Tathagata.
• At Jiejiao’s Formation Shop, Lin Tian learned that Holy Mother Wudang’s meeting with Saint Tongtian had gone well and discussed restoring Jiejiao’s disciples and reopening Golden Turtle Island.
• Holy Mother Wudang said her formation business had earned roughly a hundred billion Spirit Stones to fund Jiejiao’s future.
• Yunxiao reflected on her and Lin Tian’s yin-yang origins, their possible futures, and the possibility that Pan Gu had brought them together.
• Holy Mother Wudang gave Yunxiao her earnings and asked her to prepare Golden Turtle Island, so Lin Tian took Yunxiao there.
• Alone on Golden Turtle Island, Lin Tian embraced Yunxiao, and she accepted his reassurance about their future.

Lin Tian and Yunxiao planned Jiejiao’s expansion on Golden Turtle Island while Tang Monk’s westward journey brought him to the Jisai Kingdom, where he became entangled in the mystery of a stolen pagoda treasure. Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie found Kunpeng examining the treasure’s strange Śarīra, leaving its origin unresolved.

• Lin Tian proposed building an immortal city and expanding Jiejiao’s grounds on Golden Turtle Island, and Yunxiao worked through the plans with him.
• Tang Monk and his companions entered the Jisai Kingdom and learned that its monks had been imprisoned over the vanished radiance of the Golden Light Temple’s Treasure Pagoda.
• Tang Monk promised to sweep the pagoda and appeal to the king, but two catfish demons captured him and took him to the Jade-Wave Pool.
• Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie went to the Jade-Wave Pool to rescue Tang Monk and found Kunpeng with the Nine-Headed Worm, a woman, and the Dragon King.
• The Nine-Headed Worm gave Kunpeng the stolen Śarīra, and Kunpeng observed that it seemed to belong to a Western Religion Quasi-Saint.

Kunpeng captured Tang Monk at Jade-Wave Pool and used the River Chart and Luo Writing to set up the Primordial Unity River-Luo Grand Formation. Tathagata gathered Ancient Buddha Randeng and went to confront Kunpeng, while his other powerful allies refused to help.

• Kunpeng took the śarīra from the Nine-Headed Bug, seized Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie, and sent Sun Wukong to Spirit Mountain to summon Tathagata.
• Kunpeng activated the Primordial Unity River-Luo Grand Formation around Jade-Wave Pool after Sun Wukong left.
• Sun Wukong told Tathagata that Kunpeng had captured Tang Monk, and Tathagata recognized Kunpeng as a powerful ancient god.
• Tathagata sent Ananda and Kashyapa to summon Great Sun Tathagata Buddha and the Buddha Mother, but both had declined to come.
• Tathagata enlisted Ancient Buddha Randeng, and they traveled to Jade-Wave Pool to confront Kunpeng and break the formation.

Tathagata and Randeng failed to break Kunpeng’s Primordial Unity River-Luo Formation, and Kunpeng demanded repayment for the Buddhist Sect’s ancient karmic debt. They agreed on two hundred billion spirit stones, and Lin Tian arrived with a loan contract that Tathagata reluctantly signed.

• Tathagata and Randeng attacked Kunpeng’s formation with Buddhist characters, the Blessing Scepter, and the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, but could not overcome it.
• Kunpeng told Tathagata that the Western Religion owed him for the lost saint position and demanded repayment.
• Tathagata swore that he had no Great Dao laws, so Kunpeng negotiated a settlement of two hundred billion spirit stones.
• Lin Tian appeared with a loan contract for two hundred billion spirit stones and warned Tathagata that the debt would add to Buddhism’s burden.
• Tathagata sighed and signed Lin Tian’s loan contract.

Lin Tian collected the Buddhist Sect’s enormous compound-interest debt, exposed Guanyin’s scheme at Jade-Wave Pool, and received a dangerous Śarīra from Kunpeng. He then explained the Three Realms’ cultivation stages to Sun Wukong, ending with Wukong’s current level.

• Lin Tian gave Tathagata the loan document showing the Buddhist Sect owed 350 billion Spirit Stones at three billion in annual interest, while Kunpeng received 200 billion and withdrew the formation.
• Yang Jian arrived to arrest the Ten-Thousand Saints Princess for stealing the Nine-Leaf Lingzhi, and Lin Tian used a Soul Bewitching Spell on the Ten-Thousand Saints Dragon King to reveal Guanyin’s scheme involving Ao Lie, Nine-Headed Bug, and the Śarīra.
• Nine-Headed Bug became enraged by the Ten-Thousand Saints Dragon King’s betrayal, but Little White Dragon killed the Dragon King and the Ten-Thousand Saints Princess before he could act.
• Lin Tian warned Kunpeng that the Śarīra would bring trouble, and Kunpeng gave it to him before leaving; Nine-Headed Bug then departed for the Northern Kuru Continent.
• Sun Wukong waited for Lin Tian, who explained the cultivation stages and said Wukong had reached the peak of great encompassing golden immortal after killing the Six-Eared Macaque.

Lin Tian settled the Jisai Kingdom dispute, then began building an immortal city on Mount Hua with Yang Chan. Seeing his expanding influence, the Jade Emperor decided the Heavenly Court would invest its Spirit Stones in a city for low-level immortals.

• Sun Wukong learned the cultivation levels of Heaven's and Buddhism's powerful figures, took the two dragon corpses to the Jisai king, and escorted Tang Monk onward after the monks were released and the travel papers were stamped.
• Lin Tian told Yang Jian he intended to marry Yang Chan, then went to Mount Hua to establish a city as a base for expanding into the Southern Jambu Continent.
• Lin Tian reunited with Yang Chan, promised to make her the Vine Dao Venerable of Mount Hua Immortal City, and began recruiting Demon Race workers to build it.
• The Jade Emperor and Yaochi discussed Lin Tian's city-building plans and concluded that he was positioning himself to profit from the recovery of spiritual energy.
• The Jade Emperor committed the Heavenly Court's 120 billion Spirit Stones to building an inclusive city for low-level immortals.

The Jade Emperor invested in a new city at Guanjiangkou as the Three Realms rushed to build markets, while Lin Tian joined Thunder Marsh in pressuring Buddhism for spirit stones. Tathagata took on more debt and, unable to rely on Lu Ya or Kong Xuan, summoned Ancient Buddha Randeng to deal with the crisis.

• The Jade Emperor chose Guanjiangkou for a new city under Yang Jian's management and invested a hundred billion in construction and supplies.
• The Jade Emperor's purchases strained low-end goods across the Three Realms, while powerful factions began racing to build cities.
• Lin Tian met Thunder Marsh Daoist at Thorny Ridge and offered him a loan to extort spirit stones from Buddhism.
• Sun Wukong went to Spirit Mountain for help after Thunder Marsh captured Tang Monk, and Tathagata learned that another two hundred billion in debt had accumulated.
• Tathagata found that Lu Ya and Kong Xuan would not help him, so he summoned Ancient Buddha Randeng to investigate.

Tathagata and Randeng went to Thorny Ridge to confront Thunder Marsh over Tang Monk, but Thunder Marsh and ten Purple Heaven Guests beat them and demanded compensation. Lin Tian arrived offering to lend Buddhism three trillion spirit stones, leaving Tathagata to decide whether to sign.

• Tathagata and Randeng entered Thorny Ridge to challenge Thunder Marsh, who explained that he had captured Tang Monk after Tang Monk tried to kill his disciples.
• Tathagata accused Thunder Marsh of scheming against Buddhism and charged into the thunder with Randeng, prompting Thunder Marsh to summon ten Purple Heaven Guests.
• Thunder Marsh and the gathered guests overwhelmed Tathagata and Randeng, then demanded the Great Dao Laws and one hundred billion spirit stones.
• After Tathagata swore he had no Great Dao Laws, Thunder Marsh raised the demand to three trillion spirit stones or a top-grade spirit treasure.
• Lin Tian arrived and offered to lend Tathagata three trillion spirit stones, asking whether he would sign.

Tathagata borrowed three trillion Spirit Stones from Lin Tian to pay Thunder Marsh, leaving Buddhism burdened with six hundred billion in debt as Tang Monk's journey resumed. Lin Tian explained the Saints to Sun Wukong, married Nuwa and Bai Suzhen, and then entered the Chaos Pearl with Yunxiao after reaching Zhuzi Kingdom to rescue Golden Light Immortal.

• Tathagata signed Lin Tian's unchanged contract, borrowed three trillion Spirit Stones, and handed them to Thunder Marsh, who departed with the tree demons.
• Lin Tian told Sun Wukong that the Saints ruled beneath the Heavenly Dao and warned him that Saint Laozi had once protected him from punishment.
• Tathagata and Randeng returned to Spirit Mountain in disgrace as news of Buddhism's six-hundred-billion debt spread through the Three Realms.
• Lin Tian returned to Spirit Vine City and married Nuwa and Bai Suzhen.
• Tang Monk and his companions reached Zhuzi Kingdom, where Lin Tian and Yunxiao came to rescue Golden Light Immortal.
• Lin Tian took Yunxiao into the Chaos Pearl and revealed that it shielded them from the Great Dao, the Heavenly Dao, Hongjun, and the Saints; Yunxiao worried about the other Jiejiao Disciples still needing rescue.