Recaps

Xuanzang’s party reached the Western Liang Women’s Kingdom, where the Queen sought to marry Xuanzang and Ao WujI while a hidden force controlled her and poisoned the women. Xuanzang freed the Queen from possession, but the demoness renewed the poison and demanded that he come with her.

• Xuanzang’s party entered the Western Liang Women’s Kingdom, where its women crowded around the men and the palace officials arranged a marriage proposal for Xuanzang and Ao WujI.
• Xuanzang and Ao WujI refused the Queen’s proposals, but the Queen summoned Xuanzang to the palace, and Ruyi True Immortal chose to accompany him.
• At the royal banquet, the Queen told Xuanzang that someone was controlling her and asked him to save her and Western Liang.
• Xuanzang proposed that the Queen marry Ruyi True Immortal, but she demanded that Xuanzang drink drugged tea to save the poisoned people in the hall.
• Xuanzang drank the tea, then wrapped himself and the Queen in his Brocade Kasaya, driving the possessing evil from her body.
• A many-armed demoness emerged from Xuanzang’s shadow and fought Wukong and Bajie, poisoning Bajie and threatening the women in the hall.
• The demoness restarted the poison and demanded that Wukong lower his staff and Xuanzang come with her, while Xuanzang began chanting and a golden Buddhist halo formed behind him.

Xuanzang and his companions defeated the Wind and Moon Demon by freeing the women she controlled, then helped Pipa and Ruyi True Immortal reunite and marry. Jade Flute recounted the painful history that led Pipa to the Western Liang Women's Kingdom, where he and Ruyi True Immortal found her again.

• Xuanzang’s prayer dissolved the shadows in the palace, but the Wind and Moon Demon used a false gray sun and black threads to control the women of the city.
• The Wind and Moon Demon demanded Ruyi True Immortal and defended her spell as a refuge from women’s suffering, while Xuanzang challenged her to let the women choose for themselves.
• Xuanzang’s Buddhist wheels weakened the demon’s net, awakened the women, and melted the Gray Sun, after which the Heavenly Dao granted him the Sun and Moon Pure Lapis Lazuli Buddha Wheel.
• Guanyin restored Pipa briefly and allowed her to remain for one more day, and Pipa accepted Ruyi True Immortal’s marriage proposal.
• Xuanzang officiated as Pipa and Ruyi True Immortal married, while Wukong brought Jade Flute from Mount Jieyang to witness the ceremony.
• Jade Flute told the guests how Pipa fell in love with Ruyi True Immortal, left after their conflict over having a child, and later believed she was pregnant due to Dream-Ghost Intercourse Syndrome.
• Jade Flute recounted how Ruyi True Immortal secretly treated Pipa with pure yang power, but she woke believing he had killed their child and disappeared after attacking him and Jade Flute.
• Ruyi True Immortal searched for Pipa for years, then followed her presence with Jade Flute to the Western Liang Women's Kingdom, where they discovered sinister yin energy in the Mother-Child River and found her.

Wukong and his companions uncovered the Wind and Moon Demon’s hold over Western Liang and helped restore the kingdom’s springs while Pipa and Ruyi sacrificed themselves to remain together. After the Queen bid the travelers farewell, the group continued west and Wukong encountered Six-Eared Macaque in danger among bandits.

• Jade Flute revealed how Pipa had tricked Ruyi True Immortal into restoring the Abortion Spring and draining his life, while Wukong traced the demon’s scheme through Pipa’s history and the springs’ origins.
• Guanyin explained that the Wind and Moon Demon had fed on the Rakshasa women’s hope and despair, turning their trapped souls into the Fetus-Reflecting Spring and spreading its influence through Western Liang.
• Pipa and Ruyi True Immortal vanished together, merging into a single instrument, and Miaole later explained that their intertwined spirits might one day be separated.
• Xuanzang, Guanyin, and their companions freed the Rakshasa women’s souls for the Underworld Bureau, replenished the Abortion Spring, and restored creation power to the Mother-Child River with Jade Flute’s help.
• The Queen appointed Jade Flute to watch over Western Liang, made plans to strengthen the kingdom’s ties with its neighbors, and let Xuanzang depart after he declined her romantic hopes.
• Xuanzang and his disciples traveled west through rain-washed mountains, where Wukong found bandits holding a six-eared monkey captive.
• Wukong freed the monkey, recognized him as the Stone Bodhisattva transformed into his original form, and learned that Master had named him Six-Eared Macaque.

Six-Eared Macaque joined Xuanzang’s party as an ordeal, found a place among them, and began learning from each disciple. The group reached Flaming Mountain, where villagers blamed Wukong for their suffering as the Bull Demon King manipulated them and searched for Iron Fan and Red Boy.

• Six-Eared Macaque revealed that Manjushri had sent him to become the group’s ordeal, and Xuanzang invited him to travel with them and find his own wish.
• Wukong took Six-Eared Macaque as his little brother, and the two delivered the bandits and their stolen goods to the county magistrate.
• Xuanzang explained that Six-Eared Macaque needed to enter bonds with others, while the disciples offered to teach him skills, studies, and daily practices.
• Wukong gained Xuanzang’s approval to teach Six-Eared Macaque the Way of longevity, and Six-Eared Macaque trained with the group as they traveled west.
• Six-Eared Macaque warned the group that Flaming Mountain was impassable and explained that Wukong had created its fire by kicking over the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• Xuanzang led the group into the village, where residents blamed Wukong for their losses, and Xuanzang questioned how the fire and their failing harvests had changed.
• The Bull Demon King learned that Iron Fan had gone with Wukong to rescue Red Boy and had not returned, then searched for them and parted from Jade-Faced Fox.
• The Bull Demon King used Iron Fan’s Banana Leaf Fan to extinguish Flaming Mountain temporarily, then told the villagers to blame and confront Wukong and condemn Xuanzang.