Chapter Summaries

Lin Tian distracted Guanyin by explaining trigonometry as a profound Dao principle while the Scripture-Seeking Party exposed True Person Huanglong’s impersonation of the king in the Wuji Kingdom. Sha Wujing appointed Monkey the Judicial Great Sage, and Monkey attacked Huanglong as he fled.

• Lin Tian explained trigonometric functions to Guanyin, captivating her with their principles.
• The crown prince presented the king’s corpse and the White Jade Gui, exposing True Person Huanglong’s impersonation before the court.
• Monkey identified Huanglong as a Demon Dragon, and Huanglong defended himself by striking Sha Wujing back with twelve Divine Needles.
• Sha Wujing used the Judicial Heavenly Deity Decree to appoint Monkey the Judicial Great Sage.
• Monkey attacked Huanglong, who transformed into a streak of yellow light and fled while calling for help.

Monkey killed True Person Huanglong, disrupting Guang Chengzi’s plan, while Lin Tian explained the mnemonic to Guanyin. Ancient Buddha Randeng attacked Lin Tian, who shattered Randeng’s Golden Body with the Six-Soul Banner, leaving Randeng’s bloodied Original Self to arrive furious.

• Monkey killed True Person Huanglong with his staff, and Tathagata realized the death had upset his expectations.
• Lin Tian told Guanyin that Guang Chengzi had arranged Huanglong’s death to interfere with the Journey to the West Road and exploit the fallout.
• Lin Tian resumed explaining trigonometric functions to Guanyin, but Ancient Buddha Randeng arrived and sealed the space around him.
• Lin Tian used the Six-Soul Banner and the Divine Void Dao-Annihilation Art to break Randeng’s suppression, then attacked with the World-Opening Strike.
• Lin Tian’s attack shattered Randeng’s enormous golden palm and exploded his Golden Body, prompting Randeng’s bloodied Original Self to arrive.

Lin Tian survived Ancient Buddha Randeng’s attack, while Randeng stole the Passion-Severing Desire-Eradicating Art from Tang Sanzang and tried to cultivate it. Lin Tian gained a new formation and headed with the Scripture-Seeking Party toward Red Boy, hoping the Buddhist Sect would send a worthy opponent.

• Lin Tian resisted Randeng’s Heaven-and-Earth Ruler, but Randeng used the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to kill his body before Lin Tian’s voice revealed he had survived.
• Randeng attacked Tang Sanzang, copied the art written on his back, and returned to Spirit Mountain to study it.
• Randeng castrated himself to cultivate the art, but he soon spat blood and failed; Lin Tian received a purple gold dao mark for the death of his doppelgänger.
• Lin Tian opened the dao mark and obtained the Ten-Directional Illusion-Annihilation Formation, its pearl, and its controlling divine ability.
• Lin Tian told Monkey about Red Boy and suggested using the encounter to draw out the Buddhist Sect, while Monkey proposed recruiting Red Boy and his five brothers into Jiejiao.

Lin Tian learned that the Flood Dragon Devil King possessed a mysterious bell and decided to capture the Bull Devil King to draw him out. Meanwhile, Tathagata restrained Ancient Buddha Randeng’s desire for revenge and sent Guanyin and two companions to support Red Boy; Lin Tian then subdued the Bull Devil King and invited him back to Jiejiao.

• Monkey told Lin Tian that the Flood Dragon Devil King carried a powerful bell that could conceal Heavenly Secrets, so Lin Tian decided to deal with the Bull Devil King first.
• Lin Tian told Monkey to play along with Red Boy’s scheme and seek help from the Buddhist Sect instead of harming him.
• Ancient Buddha Randeng raged over his failed incarnation and his humiliation, but Tathagata persuaded him to delay attacking Jiejiao until after the Journey to the West Road was complete.
• Tathagata sent Guanyin, Mahasthamaprapta, and Juliusun to Fire Cloud Cave to support Red Boy.
• Lin Tian poisoned the Bull Devil King and the Jade-Faced Princess, then revealed the Green Duckweed Sword and offered the Bull Devil King a chance to return to Jiejiao.

Lin Tian brought Bull Devil King to watch as the Buddhist figures arranged Red Boy’s tribulation, while Sun Wukong played along with their plan. Kṣitigarbha Buddha gave Red Boy the Immortal-Binding Rope, and Bull Devil King recognized him and swore revenge.

• Lin Tian brought Bull Devil King into the Creation Dao Field, revealed that Guanyin, Mahāsthāmaprāpta, and Kṣitigarbha Buddha were targeting Red Boy, and promised to protect him.
• Red Boy met Tang Sanzang’s party, but Sun Wukong recognized him as Bull Devil King’s son and let him escape after extinguishing his Samadhi True Fire.
• Red Boy used a fierce wind to abduct Tang Sanzang into Fire Cloud Cave as the Buddhist figures watched the planned tribulations unfold.
• Kṣitigarbha Buddha disguised himself as a Daoist and gave Red Boy the Immortal-Binding Rope, which Red Boy used to bind the monsters in his cave.
• Bull Devil King recognized Kṣitigarbha Buddha as Juliusun and angrily vowed to make him pay.

Lin Tian trapped Juliusun Buddha in an illusion formation, then interfered as Guanyin Bodhisattva captured Red Boy and tried to take him away. As Bull Devil King prepared to confront the Bodhisattvas, Lin Tian’s poison struck Guanyin inside Fire Cloud Cave.

• Monkey pretended to flee Red Boy’s Immortal-Binding Rope so Juliusun Buddha would untie him and reveal his position.
• Lin Tian ambushed Juliusun underground, sealed him inside the Ten-Directional Illusion-Annihilation Formation, and subjected him to hundreds of miserable illusions.
• Guanyin Bodhisattva and Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta arrived with Monkey, and Red Boy fled into Fire Cloud Cave after seeing them.
• Guanyin used the Tight-Fillet Ring to subdue Red Boy and demanded that he join the Buddhist Sect; Bull Devil King despaired as she planned to take him to Mount Luojia.
• Lin Tian released poisonous qi into Fire Cloud Cave and promised Bull Devil King that he could teach Guanyin a lesson; Guanyin then screamed as her magic power began to fail.

Lin Tian revealed himself as the Vine Dao Venerable, freed Red Boy from Guanyin’s Tight-Fillet Ring, and captured Guanyin and Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta. He tormented Buddha Juliusun and Mahāsthāmaprāpta for dao marks, leaving Mahāsthāmaprāpta confused after restoring his Primordial Spirit.

• Lin Tian revealed his identity to Guanyin and Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta, then made Guanyin remove Red Boy’s Tight-Fillet Ring by promising not to kill or harm her himself.
• Bull Devil King beat Guanyin while Lin Tian captured Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta and went to Buddha Juliusun.
• Lin Tian returned Buddha Juliusun’s Primordial Spirit to his body and repeatedly let Juliusun kill his doppelgängers to obtain dao marks before sealing him with Violet Lightning Needles.
• Lin Tian placed Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta in the Ten-Directional Illusion-Annihilation Formation, then restored his damaged Primordial Spirit to his body.
• Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta woke confused, and Lin Tian asked whether he still remembered him.

Lin Tian subdued Guanyin Bodhisattva, secured the Bull Devil King's return to Jiejiao, and summoned the other Great Sages to consider joining. He discovered that the Flood Dragon Devil King carried the Chaos Bell, then sealed the demon king's magic power and primordial spirit.

• Lin Tian repeatedly offered his doppelgänger to the crazed Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta for dao-mark rewards, then left the Creation Dao Field.
• Monkey and the Bull Devil King stopped beating Guanyin Bodhisattva, and Lin Tian suppressed her in the Creation Dao Field before erasing their traces from the mountain.
• At the Cloud-Covering Cave, the Bull Devil King thanked Lin Tian for saving Red Boy and pledged to return to Jiejiao.
• The Bull Devil King summoned his five brothers, and Lin Tian recognized the Flood Dragon Devil King as the one carrying the Chaos Bell.
• The Flood Dragon Devil King accused Lin Tian of relying on treasures, but Lin Tian revealed he knew about the Chaos Bell and sealed the demon king's magic power and primordial spirit.

Lin Tian forced the Flood Dragon Devil King to surrender the Chaos Bell and recruited the Demon Race’s Six Great Sages into Jiejiao. After returning to Golden Turtle Island with Guanyin Bodhisattva and the other Buddhist captives, he handed them over to the disciples and prepared to enter seclusion.

• Lin Tian revealed his captured Buddhist opponents and threatened to expose the Flood Dragon Devil King, who surrendered the Chaos Bell after his brothers urged him to join Jiejiao.
• Lin Tian accepted the Chaos Bell, recruited the Demon Sages as outer disciples, and warned the Bull Devil King that the Buddhist Sect planned to draw him into a scheme at Flaming Mountain.
• The Bull Devil King hurried to pack and left with Red Boy and his concubine for Banana Cave, while Lin Tian sent Monkey back to continue the scripture journey.
• Lin Tian arrived at Golden Turtle Island with Guanyin Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta, and Buddha Juliusun, then released them in Biyou Palace.
• Fairy Bixiao stripped the captives of their cultivation, and the disciples collected the treasures that fell from them.
• Lin Tian told Holy Mother Wudang to receive the incoming Demon Sages and announced that he would enter seclusion.

Lin Tian opened his rewards, claimed the Dao-Comprehending Divine Jade and Hundred Herbs, and gained control of the Chaos Bell after comprehending its laws. He emerged from seclusion with a stronger World-Opening Strike and distributed his remaining treasures to his disciples on Golden Turtle Island.

• Lin Tian examined his rewards, set aside formations, a pill formula and furnace, and the Nine Tribulation Sword for his disciples, while keeping the Dao-Comprehending Divine Jade and Hundred Herbs for himself.
• Lin Tian broke the Chaos Bell's remaining restrictions and encountered Eastern Emperor Taiyi's primordial spirit, which shattered after declaring the bell had reached a subject of the Demon Race.
• Lin Tian comprehended the Chaos Bell's time, sealing, space, and yin-yang laws with the Dao-Comprehending Divine Jade, then spent three years incorporating the new laws into his World-Opening Strike.
• Lin Tian imprinted his primordial spirit on the Chaos Bell, bound it to himself, and emerged from seclusion eager to test its power.
• Lin Tian found the Six Great Saints and their households settled on Golden Turtle Island, then distributed his remaining treasures and abilities to the gathered disciples.

Lin Tian supplied Jiejiao with spiritual roots and treasures before returning to the scripture-seeking journey, while Tathagata investigated the disappearance of three Buddhist figures and blamed Zhen Yuanzi for Mount Hao’s destruction. The Scripture-Seeking Party then reached a dangerous black river, where a hidden yaksha watched them.

• Lin Tian gave Holy Mother Wudang the Hundred Herbs spiritual root, a Ginseng Fruit Tree branch, and xuanhuang tai sui, then revealed that he had stolen the tree and chopped down half of it to awaken Wukong’s chaos bloodline.
• Lin Tian left Golden Turtle Island to rejoin Tang Sanzang, while Guang Chengzi confronted Tathagata over Huanglong’s death and departed after Tathagata refused responsibility.
• Tathagata discovered that Guanyin Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva Mahāsthāsthāmaprāpta, and Juliusun had vanished, and he and Ancient Buddha Randeng found Mount Hao destroyed with traces of the earth law.
• Tathagata blamed Zhen Yuanzi for the destruction of Mount Hao, and Zhen Yuanzi sensed that someone had placed the blame on him.
• After traveling for more than a month, the Scripture-Seeking Party reached a wide, turbulent black river, and a yaksha watched them from beneath its waters.

Lin Tian thwarted Alligator Dragon’s Black Water River ordeal by creating a stone bridge, prompting the Dragon Clan to seek answers from the Buddhist Sect. Meanwhile, Zhen Yuanzi arrived at Golden Turtle Island seeking shelter from two dangers he had divined, while Lin Tian remained wary of his motives.

• Alligator Dragon prepared to capture Tang Sanzang at the Black Water River, but Lin Tian used the earth law to form a stone bridge and let the travelers cross safely.
• Alligator Dragon complained to Ao Run that the Buddhist Sect’s promised chance to vent his anger had been spoiled, and Ao Run decided to demand an explanation from Tathagata.
• Tathagata and Ancient Buddha Randeng discussed the thwarted ordeal and sent Maitreya Buddha to deal with Ao Run and the others involved.
• Lin Tian learned that Zhen Yuanzi had arrived at Golden Turtle Island and told Holy Mother Wudang to conceal the Ginseng Fruit Tree and claim he was in seclusion.
• Zhen Yuanzi stayed on Golden Turtle Island, saying he had foreseen a Buddhist Quasi-Saint plotting against him and a second disaster he could not divine.

Lin Tian reached the Chechi Kingdom, where he discovered three former Jiejiao disciples assigned to create tribulations for Tang Sanzang and brought them back under his command. As the Scripture-Seeking Party approached, Maitreya Buddha watched from above, unaware of Lin Tian’s interference.

• Lin Tian went to the Chechi Kingdom and found Tiger Power Great Immortal, Deer Power Great Immortal, and Goat Power Great Immortal drinking in the Three Pure Ones Hall.
• The three demons recognized Lin Tian’s Green Duckweed Sword, revealed they were former Jiejiao disciples, and explained that the Jade Emperor had assigned them to help create tribulations for Golden Cicada.
• Lin Tian agreed to take the three demons back into Jiejiao and ordered them to follow his instructions instead of the Jade Emperor’s assignment.
• The Scripture-Seeking Party reached the Chechi Kingdom, while Alligator Dragon urged Maitreya Buddha to grant him revenge.
• Monkey investigated the monks laboring outside the city, while Maitreya Buddha searched for Lin Tian, found no trace of him, and settled down to cultivate.

Lin Tian reunited the three Chechi Kingdom monsters with the Jiejiao and met Maitreya Buddha, who insisted they remain for their tribulation. Maitreya withdrew his Buddha Kingdom after Lin Tian agreed not to interfere, but the monsters were already celebrating with Monkey’s group, leaving the next day’s trials uncertain.

• Lin Tian told Monkey to bring Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing to the Three Pure Ones Hall, where the three monsters welcomed them with a feast and Jade Nectar.
• Maitreya Buddha discovered that the three monsters were Jiejiao disciples and that Lin Tian had reclaimed them, then transformed the surrounding region into a Buddha Kingdom while Alligator Dragon waited for a chance to attack Tang Sanzang.
• Lin Tian confronted Maitreya Buddha and explained that he had come to take the three disciples back into the fold; Maitreya demanded they stay to undergo the tribulation.
• Lin Tian agreed to leave the disciples in Chechi Kingdom until the tribulation ended and displayed the Six-Soul Pennant when Maitreya pressed him about his intentions.
• Maitreya withdrew his Buddha Kingdom after Lin Tian promised not to interfere, then worried that the feast had made the monsters and Monkey’s group too friendly for the palace trials to proceed as planned.

Maitreya Buddha tried to steer Tang Sanzang and the king against the three royal preceptors, but his dream visits and the party’s delayed journey only made everyone suspect he was an impostor. When the king and Tang Sanzang compared portraits of the fat figures from their dreams, Lin Tian appeared beside Maitreya Buddha, who realized he had brought the trouble on himself.

• Maitreya Buddha entered Tang Sanzang’s dream and warned him that the three royal preceptors were monsters, while the Alligator Dragon repeatedly demanded revenge.
• Monkey, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing slept for three days after drinking Jade Nectar, delaying Tang Sanzang’s journey to the palace.
• Tang Sanzang and his disciples defended the royal preceptors as good people, and Tang Sanzang suspected the dream visitor was an impostor.
• The king and Tang Sanzang each described a fat figure who had visited their dreams, and their portraits proved nearly identical.
• Tiger Power Great Immortal recognized the portraits as the same person, and Lin Tian appeared beside Maitreya Buddha as Maitreya realized his own dream visits had caused the confrontation.

Lin Tian provoked Maitreya Buddha while Monkey and Tiger Power Great Immortal turned their supposed contest into a drinking game, ruining the Buddhist tribulation. Maitreya trapped and repeatedly killed Lin Tian inside his Buddha Kingdom, while Lin Tian used the deaths to earn purple gold dao marks and continued investigating its strange law.

• Maitreya threatened the Chechi king and Tang Sanzang, then trapped Lin Tian inside his Buddha Kingdom in the Palm.
• The king and Tang Sanzang ordered Monkey and Tiger Power Great Immortal to subdue each other, but the pair held a drinking finger-guessing contest instead.
• Maitreya accused Lin Tian of scheming and attacked him with the Human-Seed Bag, but Lin Tian tore it apart and emerged unharmed.
• Maitreya compressed his Buddha Kingdom and struck Lin Tian until his body and spirit were destroyed, granting Lin Tian a purple gold dao mark.
• Lin Tian returned above Maitreya and challenged his assumptions about Lin Tian's incarnations, but Maitreya again shattered his body with the Buddha Kingdom's power.

Lin Tian fought Maitreya Buddha inside the Buddha Kingdom in the Palm, discovered his world laws, and used the Chaos Bell to destroy him. After Lin Tian suppressed Maitreya Buddha’s lingering thought and vanished, powerful beings across the Primordial World sensed the Chaos Bell and realized Maitreya Buddha had died.

• Maitreya Buddha attacked Lin Tian with his golden body and world laws, but Lin Tian broke his divine palm and identified the laws he cultivated.
• Maitreya Buddha filled the Buddha Kingdom in the Palm with countless incarnations and killed Lin Tian, who revived and used his Truth-Breaking Divine Eyes to locate Maitreya Buddha’s original self.
• Lin Tian combined the World-Opening Strike, the Divine Void Dao-Annihilation Art, three laws, and the Chaos Bell to shatter the Buddha Kingdom and kill Maitreya Buddha, though the blast also destroyed Lin Tian’s soul.
• Lin Tian returned above Chechi Kingdom, suppressed Maitreya Buddha’s lingering thought with the Chaos Bell, and concealed himself.
• Quasi-Saint-level and greater beings across the Primordial World sensed the Chaos Bell and learned that Maitreya Buddha had died.

Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti plotted to kill the Vine Dao Venerable by sacrificing Zhunti’s Good Corpse, Bodhi, and giving him a Saint-Falling Pill. Bodhi went to the Purple Heaven Palace to ask Dao Ancestor Hongjun for the pill, while the other mighty figures remained uncertain about who had slain Maitreya Buddha’s Good Corpse.

• Daoist Jieyin urged Daoist Zhunti to sacrifice Bodhi and use a Saint-Falling Pill to destroy the Vine Dao Venerable’s incarnation.
• Bodhi swore a Heavenly Dao Oath to kill the Vine Dao Venerable, and Zhunti severed their connection so Bodhi became independent.
• Zhunti offered to become Bodhi’s Good Corpse if Bodhi survived and succeeded, astonishing Daoist Jieyin.
• Bodhi met Cult Leader Tongtian outside the Purple Heaven Palace and revealed that Zhunti had freed him to sacrifice him for the kill.
• Bodhi entered the Purple Heaven Palace and asked Dao Ancestor Hongjun for a Saint-Falling Pill, while Cult Leader Tongtian worried about the Vine Dao Venerable.
• Maitreya Buddha told the past, present, and future Buddhas that the Chaos Bell had destroyed his Buddha Kingdom in the Palm.

Tathagata, Ancient Buddha Randeng, and Maitreya Buddha learned that the Vine Dao Venerable was behind the Buddhist Sect’s recent losses, and Patriarch Bodhi descended to kill him despite the cost. Bodhi sought a way to survive through the Bodhi Śarīra Bead, while Lin Tian returned to Golden Turtle Island and found its defenses strengthened.

• Tathagata realized the Vine Dao Venerable had orchestrated the Buddhist Sect’s losses and called for Golden Turtle Island to be destroyed.
• Ancient Buddha Randeng offered to confront the Vine Dao Venerable, but Patriarch Bodhi appeared and said he alone could kill him.
• Patriarch Bodhi revealed he had taken a Saint-Falling Pill and would be annihilated after acting, then asked Tathagata about the Bodhi Śarīra Bead.
• Tathagata said the Vine Dao Venerable had abducted Guanyin and likely taken the bead, giving Bodhi a possible way to preserve a wisp of consciousness through him.
• Lin Tian returned to Golden Turtle Island and used his Truth-Breaking Divine Eyes to see that the island was covered in formations.

Lin Tian welcomed Zhen Yuanzi into Jiejiao as Deputy Leader and revealed the Chaos Bell to the Primordial World, declaring that Jiejiao would crush anyone who offended it. The disciples celebrated and urged Lin Tian to attack the Buddhist Sect and Jade Void Palace.

• Lin Tian returned to Golden Turtle Island, where Zhen Yuanzi confronted him about suspected earth-law schemes and discussed Maitreya Buddha’s death.
• Zhen Yuanzi accepted Lin Tian’s invitation to join Jiejiao, and Lin Tian appointed him Deputy Leader after the disciples raised no objections.
• Lin Tian activated the Chaos Bell and announced that Jiejiao would use it to anchor its fortune and kill anyone who dared offend the sect.
• Zhen Yuanzi attached his primordial spirit to the Chaos Bell and pledged to defend Jiejiao.
• The Six Great Saints and their companions claimed credit for offering the Chaos Bell, while Luo Xuan and the other disciples called for an assault on the Buddhist Sect and Jade Void Palace.