Chapter Summaries

Lin Tian revealed himself as Jiejiao’s new cult leader in Lingxiao Hall and demanded that the Jade Emperor release several Jiejiao immortals from the Heavenly Court. As the Jade Emperor confronted his request, a majestic young man arrived and challenged him.

• Lin Tian mocked Nezha, and Holy Mother Wudang knocked Nezha to the floor when he attacked.
• A Star Lord in azure robes attacked Lin Tian, who destroyed the water dragon and shattered the Star Lord’s body before catching his primordial spirit.
• Holy Mother Wudang confirmed that Lin Tian was Jiejiao’s newly appointed cult leader, and the Three Sky Maidens stood behind him.
• Lin Tian confronted the Jade Emperor and asked to recall Zhao Gongming, Holy Mother Jinling, Wen Zhong, Immortal Caiyun, Immortal Hanzhi, and Luo Xuan from the Heavenly Court.
• A handsome young man in a purple dragon robe arrived and shouted at Lin Tian to stop.

Lin Tian confronted Great Emperor Ziwei Bo Yikao in the Heavenly Court and forced him to release six Jiejiao immortals from the Investiture of the Gods List. After Bo Yikao left, the Jade Emperor welcomed Lin Tian to a feast, privately hopeful that he could break the impasse surrounding the calamity.

• Lin Tian ambushed Bo Yikao, subdued him with the Six-Soul Banner, and demanded that he erase the named Jiejiao immortals from the Investiture of the Gods List.
• The Jade Emperor intervened, ordered Bo Yikao to comply, and revealed his Quasi-Saint cultivation to silence the protesting immortals.
• Bo Yikao released the primordial spirits of Zhao Gongming, Holy Mother Jinling, Wen Zhong, Immortal Caiyun, Immortal Hanzhi, and Luo Xuan from the list.
• Lin Tian warned Bo Yikao that he would dare enter Violet Tenuity Heaven and take on the title Emperor-Slaying Daoist; Bo Yikao departed in anger.
• The Jade Emperor praised Lin Tian and invited him to a feast, while Lin Tian accepted the invitation.

Lin Tian refused the Jade Emperor’s offer of a Heavenly Court position but suggested Sha Wujing as Judicial Heavenly Deity, with Sun Wukong’s power helping restore the court’s authority. The Jade Emperor was tempted by the plan but worried Sha Wujing would refuse because of their history.

• Lin Tian gave the Green Duckweed Sword to Holy Mother Wudang and told her and the other Jiejiao disciples to return to Golden Turtle Island while he went with the Jade Emperor.
• When an immortal criticized Lin Tian, he ordered Qiongxiao to beat the man up before leaving.
• At a Heavenly Court banquet, the Jade Emperor asked Lin Tian to join the court, but Lin Tian recognized that he wanted to use his prestige and declined.
• Lin Tian told the Jade Emperor that appointing Sha Wujing as Judicial Heavenly Deity could restore the Heavenly Court’s authority by drawing on Sun Wukong’s reputation and strength.
• The Jade Emperor worried Sha Wujing would reject the appointment because he resented being banished, and Lin Tian told him to ask before assuming he would refuse.

Lin Tian arranged for Sha Wujing to become the Judicial Heavenly Deity, collected Buddhist compensation, and returned to Biyou Palace to restore Jiejiao’s displaced disciples. Holy Mother Jinling challenged his use of the Vine Dao Venerable identity, warning that it could endanger Jiejiao.

• Lin Tian advised the Jade Emperor to recruit Sha Wujing as Judicial Heavenly Deity and offered to fight a Quasi-Saint for a high price.
• Lin Tian met Holy Mother Wudang, Holy Mother Jinling, the Three Skies sisters, and five rescued Primordial Spirits, then headed to the Treasure Elephant Kingdom.
• Lin Tian told Monkey that Sha Wujing had been offered the Judicial Heavenly Deity position, and Sha Wujing eagerly agreed to accept it.
• Lin Tian collected a thousand strands of chaos spiritual energy and the Buddhist Sect’s Xiantian spiritual energy from Monkey.
• Lin Tian returned to Biyou Palace, dismissed most of the assembled disciples, and summoned the five disciples who remained in Primordial Spirit form.
• Holy Mother Jinling told Lin Tian that using the Vine Dao Venerable name as Jiejiao’s leader could bring the cult to ruin.

Lin Tian restored Jiejiao disciples’ bodies with innate origins, revealing the power of the xuanhuang tai sui and the Spirit-Nurturing Cauldron. Holy Mother Jinling admitted her mistake but was accused by Lin Tian of seeking his help only for personal gain, leaving her fate on Golden Turtle Island uncertain.

• Lin Tian summoned the Green Duckweed Sword and ordered Holy Mother Jinling out after she challenged his authority.
• Lin Tian used the xuanhuang tai sui and Spirit-Nurturing Cauldron to begin restoring Zhao Gongming’s body with innate origins, while the others watched in amazement.
• Lin Tian used chaos spiritual energy and creation sweet dew to replenish the tai sui, then helped Fairy Qiongxiao form a new body.
• Wen Zhong declined to go first out of respect for his master, Holy Mother Jinling, as Lin Tian restored the other disciples’ bodies.
• Holy Mother Jinling acknowledged her mistake and knelt, but Lin Tian said she only wanted his help after learning what he could do and told her to leave Golden Turtle Island.

Lin Tian punished Holy Mother Jinling by ordering her to capture Tang Sanzang or kill a Golden Immortal of the Chan Sect, while arranging for the Vine Dao Venerable’s legacy to become public knowledge. He then advanced his time law in secluded cultivation, and the chapter left Buddha Tathagata and Ancient Buddha Randeng investigating the rumor’s mysterious source.

• Lin Tian rebuked Holy Mother Jinling, made her accept a trial, and ordered her to capture Tang Sanzang or kill a Golden Immortal of the Chan Sect.
• Lin Tian told Holy Mother Wudang to spread the rumor that Tang Sanzang carried the Vine Dao Venerable’s legacy and gave her the Demon Sage Nine Transformations to conceal her identity.
• Lin Tian entered secluded cultivation, grasped time stasis, and began incorporating the time and combat laws into the World-Opening Strike.
• Holy Mother Wudang spread the rumor across the Three Realms while disguised as a butterfly demon.
• Buddha Tathagata and Ancient Buddha Randeng traced the rumor to the butterfly demon, but could find no background or origin for her.

Buddhism and the Chan Sect reacted to news of Tang Sanzang’s legacy and the Vine Dao Venerable, while Lin Tian strengthened his cultivation and prepared Jiejiao’s disciples for future revenge. He learned that Bixiao wanted White Crane Boy dead and promised to arrange vengeance for the disciples.

• Buddha Tathagata and Ancient Buddha Randeng discussed the leaked news of Tang Sanzang’s legacy, and Randeng ordered Buddhas to guard the Journey to the West Road and Guanyin to return.
• Guang Chengzi and Chi Jingzi discussed investigating Golden Cicada, then dismissed the Vine Dao Venerable as an arrogant threat and considered using the conflict to harm Huanglong.
• Lin Tian incorporated time and combat laws into the World-Opening Strike, more than doubling its power, and advanced to the late stage of the great unity golden immortal realm.
• Lin Tian visited Biyou Palace, ordered Holy Mother Jinling to consolidate her cultivation before going to the Western Ox-Herding Continent, and told the disciples he would help settle their grudges.
• Bixiao named White Crane Boy as the first person she wanted to kill, and Lin Tian told her to cultivate diligently.

Lin Tian returned to the Scripture-Seeking Party near Flat Peak Mountain and told Sun Wukong to kill the two monsters there, Golden Horn and Silver Horn, without letting Tang Sanzang discover the tribulation. As Sun Wukong approached in disguise, Guanyin and Joyful Buddha watched from the clouds, while Golden Horn and Silver Horn mistook him for the unprotected Tang Sanzang and prepared to capture him.

• Lin Tian left Wudang in charge of Jiejiao and returned to the Scripture-Seeking Party, where Zhu Bajie comforted the castrated Green Lion Demon with tales of his encounters with Manjushri Bodhisattva.
• Lin Tian told Sun Wukong that Golden Horn and Silver Horn were on Flat Peak Mountain, and Sun Wukong eagerly agreed to kill them.
• Sun Wukong noticed Guanyin and Joyful Buddha watching from the sky, so Lin Tian warned him to keep Tang Sanzang unaware and not spare Guanyin if she intervened.
• Sun Wukong drew a protective circle around Tang Sanzang, Sha Wujing, and Zhu Bajie, then flew toward Flat Peak Mountain disguised as Tang Sanzang.
• Guanyin and Joyful Buddha argued about their mission as they watched Sun Wukong approach the mountain.
• Golden Horn and Silver Horn saw Sun Wukong disguised as Tang Sanzang and decided to capture him, believing the rest of the party had abandoned the journey.

Silver Horn’s attack on Sun Wukong ended with his death, prompting Guanyin and Joyful Buddha to disguise themselves and continue their plan to create tribulations. Lin Tian intercepted Joyful Buddha and, mistaken for the Jiejiao leader, persuaded him to act as a covert ally inside the Buddhist Sect.

• Silver Horn disguised himself as an injured old Daoist, but Sun Wukong exposed his deception and destroyed his primordial spirit.
• Guanyin and Joyful Buddha decided to disguise themselves as demons and arrange tribulations after Silver Horn’s death.
• Lin Tian revealed Guanyin and Joyful Buddha’s movements, and Sun Wukong flew to confront Guanyin at Flat Peak Mountain.
• Lin Tian intercepted Joyful Buddha and showed him the Green Duckweed Sword, causing Joyful Buddha to mistake him for the Jiejiao Leader and beg for mercy.
• Joyful Buddha offered to remain inside the Buddhist Sect as a hidden ally, and Lin Tian agreed to conceal the Heavenly Secrets around him.

Lin Tian captured Joyful Buddha, then revealed himself to Tang Sanzang’s companions and recruited several former Jiejiao immortals from their mount forms. He restored their magic power and began rebuilding their bodies, while Joyful Buddha realized Lin Tian’s identity and faced his demands.

• Lin Tian sealed Joyful Buddha’s magic power with a Violet Lightning Needle and pulled him into the Creation Dao Field.
• Lin Tian asked Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing to join Jiejiao, and Sha Wujing pretended to attack him as instructed.
• The Green Lion Demon, White Elephant, and Golden-Haired Roar recognized the Green Duckweed Sword and pledged allegiance to Lin Tian.
• Lin Tian broke the three demons’ restrictions, then used Xuanhuang Tai Sui and the Spirit-Nurturing Cauldron to rebuild their bodies with innate origins.
• Lin Tian questioned Joyful Buddha, who recognized the Hongmeng Measuring-Heaven Ruler and realized Lin Tian was Vine Dao Venerable.
• Lin Tian eased Joyful Buddha’s restraints and ordered him to transform into Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Lin Tian confronted Guanyin Bodhisattva while Holy Mother Jinling fought Sun Wukong, then humiliated the captured Joyful Buddha by having Immortal Qiu Shou attack him. Guanyin fled, the two trials were declared ruined, and Tathagata learned that Jiejiao had a new leader wielding the Green Duckweed Sword and Six-Soul Banner.

• Lin Tian subdued Joyful Buddha, then spotted Holy Mother Jinling battling Sun Wukong at Flat Peak Mountain.
• Lin Tian intercepted Guanyin Bodhisattva in disguise and challenged her over her past actions against Jiejiao.
• Lin Tian released Immortal Qiu Shou and the helpless Joyful Buddha, prompting Guanyin to attack before Lin Tian stopped her with the Six-Soul Pennant.
• Guanyin left after Lin Tian threatened her, and the Flat Peak Mountain Demon-Sealing and Lotus Cave’s High-Hanging trials were declared ruined.
• Tathagata divined what had happened, discovered Jiejiao’s new leader, and grew furious over Joyful Buddha’s capture and humiliation.

Lin Tian impersonated the Vine Dao Venerable to provoke the Buddhist Sect, restore Jiejiao disciples, and meddle with the scripture pilgrimage. Ancient Buddha Randeng arrived to confront him, while Lin Tian readied the Six-Soul Pennant.

• Tathagata and Ancient Buddha Randeng discussed Lin Tian’s mysterious powers and resolved to protect Golden Cicada and the scripture pilgrimage.
• Lin Tian struck Monkey down, secretly told him to play along, and offered him a place in Jiejiao; after Monkey refused, Lin Tian told Holy Mother Jinling to keep fighting him.
• Lin Tian brought Sha Wujing into the Creation Dao Field to reconstruct his body, then searched Tang Sanzang and examined the tiny writing on his back.
• Lin Tian revealed that the exhausted Joyful Buddha was Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal, prompting Immortal Qiu Shou to attack him again.
• Ancient Buddha Randeng confronted Lin Tian, who shattered his divine light with a punch and raised the Six-Soul Pennant before mocking him.

Lin Tian struck Ancient Buddha Randeng with the Six-Soul Banner, then escaped with his allies to the Creation Dao Field, where Sha Wujing emerged with a new innate body. As the scripture-seeking party continued through Flat Peak Mountain, Lin Tian prepared to deal with Randeng’s plan to stage another ordeal.

• Holy Mother Jinling confronted Ancient Buddha Randeng over his role in Jiejiao’s destruction, but Lin Tian stopped her and attacked Randeng with the Six-Soul Banner.
• Randeng’s Purple-Gold Alms Bowl cracked under the strike, and Lin Tian, Holy Mother Jinling, Immortal Qiu Shou, and Joyful Buddha vanished before Monkey could catch them.
• Lin Tian recovered in the Creation Dao Field as Sha Wujing emerged from the Spirit-Nurturing Cauldron with an innate-origin body, and Lin Tian taught him the Demon Sage Nine Transformations.
• Lin Tian overheard Randeng reassure himself that Monkey had not joined Jiejiao, then told Monkey that Randeng planned to impersonate Great King Golden Horn and stage an ordeal.
• Lin Tian entered Lotus Cave and found Great King Golden Horn trembling with the Supreme Lord’s treasures, pleading to return to Tusita Palace.

Lin Tian arranged for Sha Wujing to confront Ancient Buddha Randeng, who had disguised himself as Great King Golden Horn and captured Tang Sanzang. After Sha Wujing’s staged rescue attempt and Tang Sanzang’s panicked accusations, Randeng released Sha Wujing, who secretly prepared to use a Jade Token.

• Ancient Buddha Randeng took Great King Golden Horn’s appearance, captured Tang Sanzang, and suppressed Monkey while Zhu Bajie fled.
• Lin Tian freed Sha Wujing, told him to disguise himself as a wolf demon, and instructed him what to say to Randeng.
• Sha Wujing entered the Lotus Cave, revealed himself, and attacked Randeng, who subdued him and demanded to know how he had concealed his identity.
• Tang Sanzang awoke, saw his bare upper body, and accused Randeng of violating him while Sha Wujing lamented dramatically.
• Randeng released Sha Wujing, who quietly produced a Jade Token and began reciting an incantation.

Sha Wujing used his divine office to provoke Ancient Buddha Randeng and conceal the source of his Transformation Spell. Randeng left Flat Peak Mountain after Sha Wujing tricked him into believing the spell was written on Tang Sanzang’s back, then recorded the supposed words on a Jade Stone at Azure Lamp Heaven.

• Sha Wujing summoned the gods and Buddhas to Flat Peak Mountain and taunted Ancient Buddha Randeng, who discovered Sha Wujing possessed a xiantian origin.
• Sha Wujing implied that the Jiejiao Leader had given him his origin and Transformation Spell, making Randeng reveal his true form to question him.
• Sha Wujing announced that Ancient Buddha Randeng had violated Tang Sanzang, then claimed he had only done so by mistake and made Randeng swear not to blame him.
• Sha Wujing said he had learned the Transformation Spell from words on Tang Sanzang’s back, and Randeng pretended to see the spell there.
• Ancient Buddha Randeng left as Earth Gods and Mountain Gods arrived, then returned to Azure Lamp Heaven and wrote the supposed words on a Jade Stone.

Tathagata struggled to decipher the jade containing Sha Wujing’s transformation spell and arranged for the Wuji Kingdom tribulations after Manjushri’s death and Jiejiao’s capture of Immortal Qiu Shou. After Tang Sanzang’s party reunited at Flat Peak Mountain, Lin Tian went ahead to the Wuji Kingdom and found its palace caught in a succession struggle.

• Ancient Buddha Randeng showed Tathagata the jade, but neither Buddha could understand how Sha Wujing had learned a transformation spell from it.
• Guang Chengzi offered Chan Sect’s help with the Journey to the West Road and revealed that True Person Huanglong was already hiding in the Treasure Elephant Kingdom; Tathagata agreed and sent Guanyin two High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Sha Wujing rescued Tang Sanzang from Lotus Cave, while Sun Wukong escaped from beneath the mountain, killed Golden Horn, and took his magic treasures.
• Sun Wukong found Zhu Bajie, reunited with Tang Sanzang and Sha Wujing, and continued the journey after Tang Sanzang demanded that future monsters be killed without hesitation.
• Lin Tian traveled to the Wuji Kingdom and discovered that, with Immortal Qiu Shou gone, the princes were fighting and scheming over the leaderless palace.

Lin Tian discovered that the Chan Sect had sent True Person Huanglong to the Wuji Kingdom as part of a scheme, then arranged for Monkey and Wujing to avoid giving them the outcome they wanted. Back on Golden Turtle Island, Lin Tian handed the disciples Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal for punishment and shared Monkey’s trove of Buddhist magic treasures.

• Lin Tian learned from Guanyin Bodhisattva and True Person Huanglong that Huanglong would impersonate the Wuji king, and deduced that the Chan Sect was using him to provoke a confrontation.
• Lin Tian told Monkey not to harm Huanglong and instructed him to let Wujing handle Huanglong if trouble arose.
• Monkey gave Lin Tian the magic treasures he had received from the Buddhist Sect, and Lin Tian returned to Golden Turtle Island.
• Lin Tian revealed Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal’s identity to the Jiejiao disciples, who began punishing him for his betrayal.
• Lin Tian gave the disciples Monkey’s magic treasures to divide, leaving Holy Mother Wudang to ask where they had come from.

Lin Tian obtained Holy Mother Jinling’s Passion-Severing Desire-Eradicating Art and ordered her to alter it for a scheme against Tathagata and Randeng. He gave the Jiejiao disciples cultivation techniques and instructed them to recover their strength on Golden Turtle Island.

• Lin Tian asked the Jiejiao disciples for a castration-based divine ability, and Holy Mother Jinling revealed the secret art she had created.
• Holy Mother Jinling explained that the art required severing the root with the power of laws, while Lin Tian learned that no quasi-saint cultivated metal law to consummate perfection.
• Lin Tian forgave Holy Mother Jinling’s earlier punishment but told her and the other disciples to regain their peak cultivation before seeking revenge.
• Lin Tian gave the disciples the Eight-Nine Mystic Art and Nine-Revolution Spirit Refining Art, ordered them to remain on Golden Turtle Island, and allowed only Jinling to leave.
• Holy Mother Jinling wrote down the art, and Lin Tian ordered her to weaken its passion-desire body while making the technique sound more impressive.
• Holy Mother Jinling altered the art so its passion-desire body could reach ten thousand incarnations, each with at most one-tenth of the original self’s strength.

Lin Tian planted a cultivation art on Tang Sanzang before the Wuji Kingdom’s dead king appeared and was destroyed by Sun Wukong. Guanyin tried to expose the impostor king, but Tang Sanzang refused to act without evidence, and the crown prince arrived the next morning to seek help.

• Lin Tian altered the cultivation art with Holy Mother Jinling, then went to Baolin Temple and left the Passion-Severing Desire-Eradicating Art on Tang Sanzang.
• The dead king of the Wuji Kingdom came to tell Tang Sanzang about his murder, but Tang Sanzang panicked and ordered Sun Wukong to exorcise him, scattering his soul.
• Guanyin told Baolin Temple’s abbot in a dream that the king was an impostor, but Tang Sanzang rejected the claim for lack of evidence.
• Guanyin told the crown prince the truth, and the crown prince arrived at Baolin Temple the next morning while Tang Sanzang prepared to greet him.

Lin Tian helped the Wuji Kingdom’s crown prince recover his father’s body and urged Monkey to accept the prince’s request to expose True Person Huanglong. Disguised as the Vine Dao Venerable, Lin Tian then tried to persuade Guanyin to help decipher a supposed legacy hidden on Golden Cicada’s back.

• Lin Tian descended into the well, where the Well Dragon King sent the Wuji Kingdom’s king’s body up to the crown prince.
• The crown prince identified his father by a white jade ceremonial tablet and asked the pilgrimage party to help him subdue the demon who had taken the throne.
• Lin Tian secretly told Monkey to accept the request and have Wujing kill True Person Huanglong if he caused trouble, and Monkey agreed to go to the palace.
• Lin Tian appeared before Guanyin and claimed that Golden Cicada carried ten characters on his back that revealed the Vine Dao Venerable’s legacy.
• Guanyin suspected Lin Tian intended to kill her after they deciphered the phrase, then said she could not understand its meaning.