Chapter Summaries

Daji barged into Bai Feiyu’s palace to demand the Divine Edict for her Ten Thousand Demon Nation. After Bai Feiyu suspended the day’s divine appointments, Daji declared that she would perform the Fengshan sacrifices at Mount Tai.

• Daji entered the Thirty-Three Heavens, and the divine guards avoided confronting her.
• Daji seized Divine Lord Featherbearer by the ear and demanded to know why Bai Feiyu had not issued the promised Divine Edict.
• Daji threw Featherbearer aside, entered Bai Feiyu’s palace, and ordered the newly ascended deities to leave.
• Bai Feiyu appeared and suspended the appointments, transporting the new deities out of the palace.
• Daji threw Bai Feiyu a Wine Gourd, then demanded that he issue the Divine Edict so she could perform the Fengshan sacrifices at Mount Tai.

Daji confronted Bai Feiyu over the Gods occupying Mount Tai and demanded to hold a Fengshan ceremony, while pressing her senior brothers to reveal the identity of the forgotten figure she remembered. Chen Changsheng stopped her from taking her life and challenged Bai Feiyu’s understanding of their supposed freedom as Sages before calling for their eldest senior brother to appear.

• Daji demanded that Bai Feiyu order the Five Sacred Mountains Divine Lords to vacate Mount Tai so she could hold a Fengshan ceremony and unite the Demon Race.
• Bai Feiyu gave Daji a Demon Beast Egg, prompting her to ask whether her senior brothers knew who the forgotten figure in her memories was.
• Daji accused Bai Feiyu of hiding the truth and threatened to kill herself when he refused to answer.
• Chen Changsheng emerged from a Spatial Rift, subdued Daji, and laid her sleeping body on the Cloud Bed.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Feiyu that he had believed Daji from the beginning and questioned whether the three Sages possessed true freedom.
• Chen Changsheng cupped his hands toward the heavens and asked their eldest senior brother to reveal himself.

Chen Changsheng, Bai Feiyu, and Leng Qingsong discussed Hu Tutu’s memories of a mysterious man and the secret plan they had devised to create a great calamity. They arranged a westward transmission of Buddhist Dharma and decided to take Tutu to the Azure Cloud Sect, where the person destined to face the calamity was waiting.

• Chen Changsheng asked Leng Qingsong whether they should tell Hu Tutu about their plan, but Leng Qingsong said the time had not come.
• Bai Feiyu questioned whether the mysterious man in Tutu’s memories could be real, while Chen Changsheng said he had found no trace of him in the River of Time.
• The three Sages discussed opening another Heaven and Earth and staging a great calamity to create a new Sage and establish countless small thousand worlds.
• Leng Qingsong asked who would transmit Buddhist Dharma westward, and Bai Feiyu explained that the eighty-one trials had been arranged for the Elder Ancient Era Xiantian Demon Gods.
• Chen Changsheng said he would arrange the person who would face the trials and offered to take Tutu to the Azure Cloud Sect.
• The three Sages and Daji disappeared from the Main Hall.

Chen Changsheng visited Little Mountain Peak, where he discovered that Zhao Qiansun’s chosen Buddhist emissary was the reincarnated Former Demon Venerable, now a formidable monk. His attempt to take the Three-Colored Lotus sparked a confrontation with Bai Feiyu, and Leng Qingsong removed the lotus before the two Sages could fight; Bai Feiyu then sought an audience with Leng Qingsong in the River of Time.

• Chen Changsheng returned to Little Mountain Peak with the unconscious Daji and spoke with Zhao Qiansun about the westward transmission of Buddhist Dharma.
• Sanzang’s fierce training shook the Azure Cloud Sect, and Chen Changsheng realized the monk was the reincarnation of the Former Demon Venerable, Chongming.
• Chen Changsheng accepted responsibility for helping the westward mission and asked Zhao Qiansun to care for Daji while she rested at the sect.
• Chen Changsheng tried to take the Three-Colored Lotus, but Bai Feiyu blocked him and declared he would protect it.
• Leng Qingsong made the Three-Colored Lotus vanish, ending Chen Changsheng and Bai Feiyu’s standoff; Bai Feiyu then went to the Grand Void Palace to request an audience with Leng Qingsong.

Daji woke after overhearing her senior brothers’ plans and reunited with her godmother, Mu Yunhai, who urged her to wait a hundred years and curb her killing aura. Mu Yunhai then revisited her life-bound dream, found an inscription addressed to “Little Master's Wife-Ouyang,” and learned the forgotten man’s name was Ouyang.

• After the Sage left, Zhao Qiansun activated the formations around Little Mountain Peak and vanished.
• Daji awoke, recalled overhearing her Three Sage Senior Brothers’ plans, and welcomed Mu Yunhai, her godmother.
• Daji complained that her senior brothers were bullying her and vowed to use force to perform the Fengshan rites on Mount Tai, but Mu Yunhai warned her against slaughter.
• Mu Yunhai told Daji to wait a hundred years before acting, and Daji left to return to the Ten Thousand Demon Nation.
• Alone, Mu Yunhai meditated and entered her life-bound dream, where she found the carved words “To Little Master's Wife-Ouyang” on a Ferris wheel railing.
• Mu Yunhai realized the forgotten person’s name was Ouyang.

After Heaven-Slaying Day, a flood of dead Great Cultivators accelerated Fengdu’s growth, while Hui Zhi struggled to escape the city’s Urban Management. The three Sages arrived to plan the Great Calamity, and Chen Changsheng summoned the Heart Ape from the shattered Three-Life Stone, declaring he would teach him for ten years before the calamity began.

• The Nine Hells received so many Divine Souls after Heaven-Slaying Day that they had to queue for a lottery to enter Fengdu, whose construction sped up.
• Hui Zhi tried to flee Fengdu on his motorcycle, but a Sage’s Time Stop froze the entire city.
• The three Sages arrived in the Nine Hells to plan the Play Great Calamity and discussed Chen Changsheng manifesting his sagehood.
• Chen Changsheng used the power of the Twelve Demon Gods to reunite the shattered Three-Life Stone, which became a stone monkey in his hand.
• Chen Changsheng said the Heart Ape would emerge and that he would teach him for ten years before the Great Calamity began; the other two Sages agreed.
• After the Sages departed and time resumed, Hui Zhi crashed his motorcycle into a building, setting off Fengdu’s police sirens.

Gonggong and Zhurong dragged the stone monkey’s soul into the staged world of Journey to the West, where he defied the gods but was eventually imprisoned beneath a mountain. After ten years, a burly stranger shattered the mountain and offered the bewildered monkey a threatening choice.

• Gonggong and Zhurong seized the stone monkey’s soul on the Ancestral Shaman’s orders, while cultivators across the world watched the Sage’s trial live.
• The stone monkey passed through the Underworld, changed the Book of Life and Death, fought the deities, and was eventually suppressed beneath a great mountain by Zhao Qiansun.
• The cultivators watching the trial admired the monkey’s refusal to submit, then wondered whether they too were bound by Heaven and Earth’s laws and fates.
• Ci Hang, disguised as Guanyin, told the imprisoned monkey to wait for someone with whom he shared a destined affinity.
• After ten years, a burly, bald man shattered the mountain, pulled the monkey from the rubble, and demanded to know whether he would go with him to the Western Heaven or be sent there immediately.

Tang Sanzang forced the Monkey King to become his disciple and study Buddhist scriptures as they traveled west, while the violent monk killed demons and planned to use his disciple as an enforcer. The chapter ended with Tang Sanzang naming him Sun Xingzhe and declaring that he would punish anyone who opposed his Buddha.

• The Monkey King introduced himself as Tang Sanzang’s protector, but Tang Sanzang demanded protection money and mocked him for being broke.
• Tang Sanzang made the Monkey King responsible for learning and preaching the scriptures, and the Monkey King joined Buddhism as the Dao Protector on their journey west.
• The Monkey King studied Buddhist Sutras while Tang Sanzang killed demons, including one who had merely looked at them, and roasted their corpses.
• Fearing that Tang Sanzang might eat him as part of a plan to consume eighty-one demons, the Monkey King asked for a Buddhist Invocation.
• Tang Sanzang named the Monkey King Sun Xingzhe and said he would punish anyone who refused to submit to his Buddha.

Tang Sanzang led Sun Xingzhe, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing west, forcing his disciples to study Buddhist sutras while he slaughtered demons with his brass knuckles. The journey reached its final stages with the demons terrified of Tang Sanzang, while Bai Feiyu discovered that the monk was the reincarnation of the Former Demon Venerable.

• A Three-Eyed Heavenly God delivered Zhu Bajie to Tang Sanzang, then sparred with him for three days and three nights before leaving the pig demon in his care.
• Tang Sanzang forced Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing to study Buddhist Dharma, and Sha Wujing became a diligent reader after a night of heart-to-heart conversation.
• Tang Sanzang and his disciples killed the demons blocking their westward journey, alarming Bai Feiyu, who learned that Tang Sanzang was the reincarnation of the Former Demon Venerable.
• Tang Sanzang and his disciples spent two and a half years in the Daughter Kingdom before continuing west, while Great Cultivators watched their strange journey unfold.
• Rumors that eating Tang Sanzang would grant immortality drew demons to attack him, and another rumor spread warning that he ate demons to attain the Dao.

Tang Sanzang and his three disciples reached the Western Lands after clearing the demons along their route, then found a vast wilderness where they planned to establish a Buddhist Holy Land. When they learned Lion-Camel Ridge held tens of thousands of demons, Tang Sanzang set off alone to recruit them as a construction crew.

• Tang Sanzang and his three disciples crossed a great river on an old turtle, which abandoned its plan to drown them after Tang Sanzang threatened it.
• Sun Xingzhe, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing proposed building a Buddhist temple in the wilderness, but Tang Sanzang said he would act as foreman rather than a bricklayer.
• Tang Sanzang dragged the old turtle from the river and demanded to know where the largest nearby demon gathering place was.
• The old turtle told Tang Sanzang that the Azure-Haired Lion King, the Yellow-Tusked Old Elephant, and the Golden-Winged Great Peng ruled Lion-Camel Ridge with forty-eight thousand lesser demons.
• Tang Sanzang rushed north to Lion-Camel Ridge, while Sun Xingzhe, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing stayed behind, confident he would return with a construction crew.

Tang Sanzang revealed that he was Chongming, a former Demon Venerable who had used the staged journey west to turn the Three Sages’ plan to his advantage. After freezing the Mortal World and confronting its Heavenly Dao, Xie Xinzhi, he resolved to preserve what should not pass away.

• Tang Sanzang asked Sun Xingzhe what Buddhist title he wanted after the journey, then challenged his disciples to admit that the forces behind them expected positions among the Buddhas.
• Sun Xingzhe, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing demanded that Tang Sanzang see the journey through, and Tang mocked their allegiance to the Sages.
• Tang Sanzang spoke the Edict “Freeze!” and stopped time throughout the Mortal World before calling out the Heavenly Dao.
• Xie Xinzhi emerged from the Eye of Heavenly Punishment, and Tang Sanzang revealed that he and Xie Xinzhi had worked together to subvert the Three Sages’ plan.
• Tang Sanzang recalled placing Xie Xinzhi as a piece in the Mortal World and said he intended to preserve what should not pass away.

Tang Sanzang recovered his memories as Chongming and saw through the Sages’ plan behind the journey west, but refused the chance to become a Sage. He honored Li Taibai’s request by protecting what the wisp of breeze represented, then ended the chapter chanting Amitabha.

• Tang Sanzang recovered memories of Chongming’s past, including his meeting with the Dao Ancestor and the request Li Taibai had made of him.
• After breaking the mountain and freeing the Monkey King, Tang Sanzang recognized the power of the Twelve Demon Gods and understood that the journey west served the Sages’ plan to create another Sage.
• Tang Sanzang told Xie Xinzhi he would give up Sagehood, and Xie Xinzhi showed him the wisp of breeze that carried a familiar aura.
• Tang Sanzang recalled Li Taibai kneeling to ask him to help someone, and realized that honoring this request was the purpose of his journey.
• Tang Sanzang sent Xie Xinzhi away, remembered his lost junior brothers, and chanted Amitabha for the first time.

Tang Sanzang completed the Buddhist Holy Land and proclaimed Buddhist Dharma, then used thirty-six great vows to break the Sages’ restraints and attain Sagehood. The three Sages realized their plans had instead made Tang Sanzang a Supreme Sage of the Eight Hundred Side Gates.

• Tang Sanzang promised the three Demon Cultivators places in Buddhism when the Journey to the West was complete, and they abandoned their plan to subdue him.
• The demons built the Buddhist Holy Land, and the three Demon Cultivators and tens of thousands of demons gathered there to await its dedication.
• Tang Sanzang proclaimed the Holy Land complete, sat on a twelfth-grade Golden Lotus, and expounded Buddhist Dharma to Heaven and Earth.
• Tang Sanzang’s cultivation rose to Half-Sage before Heaven and Earth suppressed him at the three Sages’ behest.
• Tang Sanzang recited thirty-six great vows, gathered boundless merit, and attained Sagehood as countless living beings worshiped him.
• The three Sages realized Tang Sanzang had thwarted their plans and become a Supreme Sage of the Eight Hundred Side Gates.

Tang Sanzang, also known as Chongming, attained Buddhist Sagehood, then sacrificed himself to reforge Chaos and create a path for future worlds. His actions left the Three Sages indebted to Buddhism and forced them to acknowledge his sacrifice.

• Tang Sanzang became Buddhism's Supreme Sage by making great vows, while Leng Qingsong and Bai Feiyu denounced Buddhism as heretical.
• Chen Changsheng supported Tang Sanzang and declared that Buddhism could spread among the Wu Clan, driving a wedge between the Three Sages.
• Tang Sanzang expounded the Twenty-Character Mantra, clearing the obstacles to creating Small Thousand Worlds and establishing limits for Medium Thousand Worlds and Small Thousand Worlds.
• Tang Sanzang relinquished his Sage Position and entered Chaos, where his golden light transformed chaos qi and helped the Mortal World begin expanding into an independent world.
• Leng Qingsong, Bai Feiyu, and Chen Changsheng bowed toward Beyond Heaven, recognizing Tang Sanzang's sacrifice and the karmic debts they owed him.

The supreme sage of Buddhism completed Heaven and Earth’s way of creation before undergoing Liberation by Violence, leaving a vast merit that formed the Six Paths of the Nine Hells. Jade Seals appeared to appoint the paths’ masters, and Hui Zhi received one and vowed to connect countless worlds through reincarnation.

• The supreme sage of Buddhism underwent Liberation by Violence, leaving Leng Qingsong and Bai Feiyu to accuse Chen Changsheng of concealing the Former Demon Venerable’s identity.
• Chen Changsheng defended the Former Demon Venerable’s claim to supreme sagehood by citing his deeds and merit toward Heaven and Earth.
• The supreme sage’s way of creation merged into Heaven and Earth, allowing Great Cultivators who reached Tribulation Transcendence to learn it and create minor worlds.
• An immense merit aura gathered over Heaven and Earth, then transformed in the Nine Hells into six Bronze Gates and six Jade Seals representing authority over reincarnation.
• Three Jade Seals appeared before the three supreme sages, while the remaining seals went to the Urban Management Brigade and Hui Zhi in Fengdu.
• Hui Zhi grasped his Jade Seal, understood his mission to connect worlds through the Nine Hells, and vowed not to become a Buddha until the Nine Hells were empty.

Hui Zhi established the Hell Path, and Chen Changsheng directed the completion of the Six Paths of Reincarnation and appointed their rulers. The Nine Hells expanded into a realm linked to the myriad worlds, and Chen Changsheng renamed it the Underworld.

• Hui Zhi vowed to establish eighteen levels of hell, and his Buddhist Dharma drew Fengdu's Oxen and Horses away from construction to cleanse their sins.
• The Sword-Forging Clan ordered souls to register in Fengdu before choosing a path, and Fan Rubin rose before a bronze gate as the remaining Jade Seal flew to Chen Changsheng.
• Chen Changsheng appointed Sun Xingzhe to govern the Human Path, Zhu Bajie the Hungry Ghost Path, Sha Wujing the Heavenly Deity Path, and Wu Clan Chongyang the Asura Path.
• Sun Xingzhe mastered the Human Path Jade Seal, prompting Leng Qingsong and Bai Feiyu to suspect there was more to the Heart Ape than they knew.
• The Six Paths expanded the Nine Hells into a vast realm connected to the main world and the newly established Medium Thousand World, while other worlds awaited future connections.
• Chen Changsheng declared the Six Paths complete and renamed the Nine Hells the Underworld, governing return and reincarnation for the myriad worlds.

Chen Changsheng secured the Nine Hells for the Wu Clan, establishing the Underworld as the place where ordinary souls would rest before Reincarnation. As he finished claiming authority over the realm, a woman declared herself the First Emperor of the united Demon Race.

• Chen Changsheng asked Leng Qingsong and Bai Feiyu to name someone who could govern the expanding Nine Hells, and they conceded that he could manage it.
• Chen Changsheng declared that the Wu Clan would guard the Nine Hells, and merit carried the Twelve Wu Clan from the main world into the realm.
• Chen Changsheng ordered the Wu Clan to govern yin souls, ghosts, and malevolent spirits, while the tribes fought to choose twelve Yamas.
• Chen Changsheng used merit to build a palace complex bearing the plaque “Underworld” and issued an Edict granting the Wu Clan all the Nine Hells outside Fengdu.
• A solemn female voice declared that she would unite the Demon Race and become its First Emperor.

Daji performed the Feng and Shan sacrifices, united the myriad demons, and used the resulting merit to attain a Half-Sage Dao Fruit before searching the future for the forgotten blue-green-robed figure. Unable to find it and facing Heavenly Punishment, she hurled the robe into the River of Time’s future as she collapsed.

• Daji proclaimed the myriad demons united and named herself the First Emperor, drawing down immense merit and heavenly phenomena.
• Daji broke through to a Half-Sage Dao Fruit, awakened Foreseeing the Future, and stopped the three Supreme Sages from reaching her with Time Stop.
• Daji searched countless possible futures for the blue-green-robed figure, but found no trace of it as her merit and life force drained away.
• Heaven withdrew its merit and formed an Eye of Heavenly Punishment, causing the demons to doubt Daji as she faltered.
• Daji tore off the blue-green robe and hurled it into the future of the River of Time before collapsing.

Daji’s attempt to change the past left her unconscious, stripped of her cultivation, and near death, while the Three Supreme Sages struggled to save her. After they wondered whether the blue-green robe truly existed, a strand of dark hair escaped into the Void and a familiar voice announced another attempt.

• Heavenly Tribulation struck Daji as three figures shielded her, and the Demon Empire she had unified later collapsed without a successor.
• In the Grand Void Palace, the Three Supreme Sages stopped Daji’s vitality from draining but watched her cultivation fall to the Spirit Division Realm.
• Bai Feiyu and Chen Changsheng argued over Daji’s choices until Leng Qingsong ordered them to investigate the River of Time.
• The Three Supreme Sages saw the Nine Hells and the Medium Thousand World branching from the River of Time, and questioned whether the blue-green robe existed beyond their knowledge.
• After the Three Supreme Sages departed, a strand of dark hair rose from the Medium Thousand World’s River of Time and shot into the Void as a voice announced the nine hundred and six million, nine hundred and sixty-two thousand, five hundred and forty-third time.

Trapped in the Void for over nine hundred million days, Ouyang watched his Recording Stone and held on to the hope of seeing his loved ones again. When a breeze convinced him the River of Time had ended, he began to surrender to despair, but a familiar voice embraced him and asked him to come home.

• Ouyang continued watching the Recording Stone in the Void, counting more than nine hundred million playbacks.
• Ouyang held on to his resolve because he believed his imprisonment kept the River of Time moving and hoped to see the people he cared about again.
• A faint breeze entered the cage, and Ouyang feared the River of Time had ended and blamed himself for failing to save everyone.
• Ouyang's will began to unravel, but the breeze embraced him and a woman called him Eldest Senior Brother and asked him to come home.