Recaps

Xiao Tian explained to Zhao Gongming that he had abducted him to keep him and other Jiejiao immortals from being drawn into the Investiture of the Gods, then revealed that his claim about Zhao Gongming’s love for Golden Spirit Holy Mother had prompted her and others to search for him. Xiao Tian planned to meet the Three Skies in the Northern Continent of Lu.

• Xiao Tian and Kong Xuan traveled with Zhao Gongming captive, and Xiao Tian explained that he wanted to prevent Jiejiao immortals from dying or being enslaved during the Investiture of the Gods.
• Xiao Tian told Zhao Gongming that he had told Golden Spirit Holy Mother he loved her, and that she and other Jiejiao immortals had searched for him for over three years.
• Xiao Tian recalled how Jiejiao and Demon Tribe immortals had been captured and turned into mounts in the original calamity, and resolved not to let the Western Sect take advantage this time.
• Xiao Tian considered Immortal Yuyi’s fate and learned that Kong Xuan did not want to retrieve her supposed younger brother.
• Xiao Tian planned to meet the Three Skies in the Northern Continent of Lu.

Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao searched Northern Juluzhou for Zhao Gongming, believing he was hiding there because he was embarrassed about his feelings for Jin Ling. Yunxiao sensed someone nearby and purified the miasma to reveal Xiao Tian, who had come to Northern Juluzhou for her.

• Bixiao and Qiongxiao confirmed that Zhao Gongming was in Northern Juluzhou and discussed bringing him to the Cult Master to arrange his marriage to Jin Ling.
• Yunxiao explained that Zhao Gongming would hide rather than openly admit his feelings for Jin Ling, and she urged her sisters to find him.
• Yunxiao used her sleeve to clear the black miasma after sensing someone nearby.
• Yunxiao revealed Xiao Tian, who had come to Northern Juluzhou for her.

Xiao Tian met Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao and offered to help them find Zhao Gongming, whom he had secretly taken away to keep him from the Investiture of the Gods. As they traveled through Northern Juluzhou for a year, Xiao Tian grew closer to the Three Skies and witnessed the Witch Tribe’s decline and formidable innate strength.

• Xiao Tian introduced himself to the Three Skies, and Yunxiao asked whether he knew where Zhao Gongming was.
• Xiao Tian claimed he had seen Zhao Gongming traveling with two others and agreed to guide the sisters, while concealing that he had arranged Zhao Gongming’s continued absence.
• Bixiao invited Xiao Tian to ride her Flower-Plumed Bird after his escape arts left their mounts behind.
• Xiao Tian led the Three Skies in pursuit for months, and Yunxiao repeatedly sensed Zhao Gongming’s aura but found that he had already moved on.
• Over the next year, Xiao Tian became familiar with the Three Skies and cooked for them as they traveled through Northern Juluzhou.
• Xiao Tian encountered Witch Tribe communities and learned about their immense bloodline power, their dwindling numbers, and their long decline since the War of the Shamans and Demons.

Xiao Tian brought the Three Skies to meet Golden Spirit Holy Mother and arranged for Yunxiao to help settle her feelings for Zhao Gongming. After the Investiture of the Gods Plan ended, Zhao Gongming was freed, only to drop to his knees when he heard Yunxiao’s voice.

• Xiao Tian sensed that the Investiture of the Gods Plan was nearly complete and decided to lead the Three Skies to Golden Spirit Holy Mother before they found Zhao Gongming.
• Bixiao recognized Golden Spirit Holy Mother, and Yunxiao summoned her and warned her about traveling alone to the Northern Continent of Lu.
• Yunxiao declared that she would find Zhao Gongming and make him give Golden Spirit Holy Mother an answer, while Duobao Daoist, Turtle Spirit Holy Mother, and Wudang Holy Mother secretly watched.
• Xiao Tian reflected on the end of the Investiture of the Gods Plan, his gains in fortune and merit, and his goal of advancing his cultivation.
• Xiao Tian's Sixth Calabash Brother's Body and Kong Xuan freed Zhao Gongming and left him to decide his own fate.
• Zhao Gongming heard Yunxiao call his name and instinctively dropped to his knees.

Zhao Gongming and Golden Spirit Holy Mother reunited and became Dao companions, while Yunxiao ordered Jiejiao to close its gates after the Saints were imprisoned. Xiao Tian spent twenty years cultivating, advanced to great Luo golden immortal grand perfection, and learned that Kong Xuan was pregnant with their child.

• Yunxiao reunited Zhao Gongming with Golden Spirit Holy Mother, and Zhao Gongming confessed his sincere feelings for her.
• After returning to Southern Jambudvipa, the group learned that Dao Ancestor Hongjun had imprisoned the Saints, and Yunxiao presided over Zhao Gongming and Golden Spirit Holy Mother's union.
• Yunxiao ordered Jiejiao to close its gates and forbade its disciples from wandering or causing trouble.
• Xiao Tian gave Kong Xuan the Treasure-Falling Money, then secluded himself to refine merit and cultivate.
• After twenty years, Xiao Tian reached great Luo golden immortal grand perfection and refined his Treasure Gourd into a Supreme Innate Merit Numinous Treasure.
• Kong Xuan refined the Treasure-Falling Money into a Supreme Innate Merit Numinous Treasure and became pregnant with Xiao Tian's child.

Xiao Tian traveled back as the Innate Gourd Vine on Buzhou Mountain, hoping to learn from the cultivation methods of Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao. After three thousand years, he used the vine’s leaves to make the sisters their first clothes, leaving them with powerful treasures that might attract thieves.

• Xiao Tian chose to seek insight from Dao Ancestor Hongjun and arrived in the past as the Innate Gourd Vine on Buzhou Mountain.
• Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao began cultivating on Xiao Tian’s leaves, each following a self-created cultivation method.
• Xiao Tian repelled White Marsh and Qinyuan when they tried to bite or pierce the vine.
• Yunxiao warned that mighty beings would eventually seize the vine and its gourds, while Bixiao mourned its likely fate.
• Xiao Tian refined six leaves into innate treasure garments for the three sisters, who put them on and worried that others would steal them.

Xiao Tian gave Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao Innate Spirit Treasure clothes, then heard Dao Ancestor Hongjun announce that he would teach the Dao at the Zi Xiao Palace. Xiao Tian and the Three Skies prepared to attend, while he reflected on the powerful beings and factions already rising across the Primordial World.

• Xiao Tian gave Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao embryonic low-grade Innate Spirit Treasure clothes that concealed their Dao Patterns.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun announced that he would impart the Dao at the Zi Xiao Palace, prompting enlightened beings across the Primordial World to recognize their opportunity.
• Xiao Tian decided to attend Hongjun’s lecture to seek progress toward the primordial chaos Golden Immortal realm, and the Three Skies welcomed the chance to learn.
• Xiao Tian approached the sisters under the assumed name Sky, and Yunxiao introduced herself and her younger sisters while remaining cautious.
• Xiao Tian surveyed the rising Witch Tribe, the future Demon Tribe leaders, and Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian as the Primordial World approached a new age.

Xiao Tian traveled to Zi Xiao Palace with Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, Bixiao, and Zhao Gongming, arriving after the first sermon had begun. He gained a major cultivation breakthrough from Hongjun's teaching, while the group settled in to await the next sermon.

• The Sun, Taiyin, and Taichen tried to seize Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao, but Zhao Gongming drove them away and joined Xiao Tian's group.
• Xiao Tian joked that Zhao Gongming should use that name, and Zhao Gongming adopted it; the Three Skies and Zhao Gongming then became sworn siblings with Xiao Tian as their fifth brother.
• Xiao Tian taught the group escape arts as they traveled through the Nine Heavens and chaos, carrying them the rest of the way to Zi Xiao Palace after ten thousand years.
• Xiao Tian and his companions arrived during Hongjun's first sermon, found seats near him, and Xiao Tian entered a state of Dao enlightenment.
• After the sermon ended, Hongjun announced that he would preach again in three thousand years, and the cultivators exchanged insights and refined their animal-hide clothing.
• Xiao Tian discovered that the sermon had raised him to false Saint perfection and strengthened his body, primordial spirit, and Double-Yolk Universe.

After Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s lecture, Xiao Tian and the other cultivators agreed to enter the chaos and discuss the Dao during their three-thousand-year rest. Xiao Tian explored his past as a Chaos Fiend and his prospects for surpassing the Sacrificial Dao realm, while the chapter left him poised to exchange insights and test his strength against the others.

• Zhao Gongming suggested that the cultivators enter the chaos and discuss the Dao during their three-thousand-year rest, and Xiao Tian agreed.
• Xiao Tian considered how Hongjun’s teachings might help him advance beyond Sacrificial Dao and focused on cultivating the Great Daos of Strength and Dream and Illusion.
• Xiao Tian recalled that he may once have been a two-bodied Chaos Fiend whose Dream and Illusion abilities could suppress enemies, before Pangu killed him and his corpse gave rise to the Innate Gourd Vine.
• Xiao Tian observed Nuwa’s mastery of the Great Dao of Creation and noted that she had reached Quasi-Saint perfection.
• Cult Master Tongtian eagerly joined the proposal to enter the chaos, while Xiao Tian reflected on the power of the Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Qilin, and Primordial Phoenix, who had inherited fragments of Pangu’s Dao Fruit.

Cult Master Tongtian challenged the gathered innate beings but was defeated by Zhao Gongming’s twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls before he could act. After Tongtian called for another opponent, Ancestral Witch Zhurong stepped forward to fight Zhao Gongming.

• Cult Master Tongtian challenged the gathered beings and drew his Azure Duckweed Sword.
• Zhao Gongming attacked Tongtian with his twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls and quickly defeated him.
• Tongtian accepted his loss without frustration and called for another opponent.
• Donghuang Taiyi tried to fight Zhao Gongming, but Di Jun stopped him and urged him to observe the gathering first.
• Ancestral Witch Zhurong rushed forward and challenged Zhao Gongming.

Zhao Gongming lost to Zhurong, prompting Yunxiao to step in and defeat Zhurong with the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation. Cult Master Tongtian also lost to Yunxiao, while Donghuang Taiyi and Di Jun grew wary of the Ancestral Witches and other powerful innate beings.

• Zhurong overwhelmed Zhao Gongming, blasted away his twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls, and forced him to admit defeat.
• Qiongxiao, Bixiao, and Zhao Gongming urged Yunxiao to challenge Zhurong, and Yunxiao stepped forward to defend her sworn elder brother.
• Yunxiao trapped Zhurong in the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation until he collapsed from exhaustion, then released him.
• After breaking through to the Quasi-Saint realm, Cult Master Tongtian challenged Yunxiao, but she trapped him in her formation for a month and defeated him.
• Cult Master Tongtian accepted his defeat, while Donghuang Taiyi and Di Jun exchanged grave glances over the powerful innate beings who had appeared.

Xiao Tian discovered that he might be the Patriarch Bodhi he had been searching for, then advanced to the early Quasi-Saint realm during Hongjun’s second lecture at Zi Xiao Palace. The Azure Heaven Fragment transported him back to the era after the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, where he considered his connection to Sun Wukong and the debt he owed Zhunti Daoist.

• Xiao Tian met Zhunti Daoist and gave the name Bodhi, prompting him to realize he might be Patriarch Bodhi himself.
• Hongjun began his second lecture, and Xiao Tian seized a seat near the front before comprehending the primordial chaos Great Luo Dao.
• Zhunti Daoist stopped Nine-Headed Infant from disturbing Xiao Tian, unknowingly creating a great debt of cause and effect between them.
• Xiao Tian comprehended the primordial chaos Great Luo Dao Fruit and reached the early Quasi-Saint realm.
• The Azure Heaven Fragment transported Xiao Tian to the era after the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, where he realized he might need to arrange for Sun Wukong to become Zhunti’s scripture pilgrim.

Xiao Tian took Zhu Tianpeng and Yuan Hong as disciples for a century each, then prepared the immortal stone on Flower-Fruit Mountain so Sun Wukong would be born with extraordinary gifts. After sealing Sun Wukong’s innate powers and watching him grow into an Earth Immortal, Xiao Tian left him to seek a higher cultivation method.

• Zhu Tianpeng emerged from the Wuding River and asked Xiao Tian to accept him as a disciple; Xiao Tian agreed to teach him for a hundred years as Patriarch Bodhi and forbade him from revealing their relationship.
• Xiao Tian taught Zhu Tianpeng the Thirty-Six Heavenly Transformations and the Weak Water Heavenly Immortal Art, and Zhu Tianpeng reached the Golden Immortal realm before their bond ended.
• After Zhu Tianpeng left, Xiao Tian named his universe the Bodhi Realm, taught Yuan Hong for a hundred years, and resolved to settle karmic ties and advance his plans.
• Xiao Tian prepared the immortal stone on Flower-Fruit Mountain, then traveled eight hundred years into the future as Sun Wukong was born; he sealed the monkey’s Fiery Golden Eyes and innate Heavenly Immortal cultivation.
• Sun Wukong spent three hundred and eighty years on Flower-Fruit Mountain, cultivated back to the Earth Immortal realm, and decided to seek an immortal master after witnessing a monkey die.
• Guided by Old Monkey, Sun Wukong set out to find a superior cultivation method and a path to eternal life for himself and the monkeys.

Xiao Tian trained Sun Wukong at the Crescent Moon Three-Star Cave, teaching him powerful transformations and the Somersault Cloud while preparing him for the trials ahead. After Sun Wukong revealed his transformation to his senior brothers, Xiao Tian expelled him, and Sun Wukong departed without revealing who his master was.

• Xiao Tian took the Immortal-Slaying Calabash from Lu Ya, freed Da Yi, rebuilt his body, and patiently restored his intelligence before making him his eldest disciple.
• Da Yi guided Sun Wukong to Xiao Tian’s Crescent Moon Three-Star Cave, where Xiao Tian tested him and taught him numerous arts, including the Somersault Cloud.
• Xiao Tian trained Sun Wukong until he reached the entry-level taiyi golden immortal realm and warned him not to show off his abilities.
• Sun Wukong transformed into a pine tree before his senior brothers, so Xiao Tian ordered him to leave and warned him to keep their master-disciple relationship secret.
• Sun Wukong agreed and departed, while Xiao Tian later took in more disciples, including the Six-Eared Macaque, and planned to benefit from the Journey to the West calamity.

Xiao Tian accepted Zixia and Qingxia as disciples after separating them from Randeng’s control, and planned for them to cultivate at Crescent Moon Three-Star Cave. The chapter left Sun Wukong enjoying a fight with Nezha in the Heavenly Court while Xiao Tian considered future plans involving the Three Immortal Islands and the pilgrimage.

• Xiao Tian kept Yang Chan cultivating in seclusion and continued teaching his disciples at Crescent Moon Three-Star Cave.
• Xiao Tian encountered Zixia and Qingxia, who had been captured and made part of Randeng’s Liuli Lamp, and accepted them as disciples.
• Xiao Tian used his power to separate Zixia and Qingxia, who thanked him and agreed to cultivate under him for a hundred years.
• Xiao Tian planned to send the sisters to the Three Immortal Islands and use Randeng’s attempt to reclaim them as an excuse to visit.
• Sun Wukong rode a Heavenly Horse and fought Nezha in the Heavenly Court, while Lei Zhenzi served comfortably as Great Emperor Gouchen.

After a hundred years, Xiao Tian reviewed the fates of his disciples Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie before bringing Zi Xia and Qingxia to the Three Immortal Islands for protection. He announced that an old friend had returned, leaving the Three Skies about to meet him.

• Xiao Tian discovered Sun Wukong imprisoned beneath Five-Finger Mountain and judged the confinement a useful trial for his disciple.
• Xiao Tian learned that Zhu Bajie had become a wild boar, cultivated with help from Sister Mao, and joined the Western Sect after causing trouble in Gao Family Village.
• Xiao Tian decided to take Zi Xia and Qingxia to the Three Immortal Islands so they could live safely and avoid being refined into lamp wicks by Randeng.
• The Three Skies recalled how Jiang Ziya had deceived them during the Investiture of the Gods and how their old acquaintance had disappeared.
• Xiao Tian restored his handsome appearance and asked the Three Skies whether they would meet an old friend.

After reuniting with the Three Skies on the Three Immortal Islands, Xiao Tian explained his Jiang Ziya alias and asked them to shelter his disciples Zi Xia and Qingxia from Ancient Buddha Randeng. Yunxiao and her sisters agreed to protect the two women within the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation.

• Bixiao, Qiongxiao, and Yunxiao welcomed Xiao Tian after nearly five hundred years apart and invited him into the Three Immortal Islands.
• Yunxiao opened the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, with the Primordial Chaos Golden Dipper as its core, and sealed the islands after Xiao Tian entered.
• Xiao Tian told the Three Skies that Jiang Shang and Jiang Ziya were aliases, and Bixiao and Qiongxiao thanked him for keeping Zhao Gongming and other Jiejiao disciples from the Investiture of the Gods.
• Xiao Tian introduced Zi Xia and Qingxia and explained their connection to Daoist Randeng and his Dao-Suppressing Treasure.
• Qiongxiao and Yunxiao agreed to let Zi Xia and Qingxia cultivate safely on the islands and warned that intruders below Saint level would not escape the formation.

Over four hundred years, Xiao Tian checked on his disciples and prepared for them and his family to take part in Sun Wukong’s future Journey to the West. As the scripture journey approached, Xiao Tian expected the pilgrims to face formidable obstacles and noted that Tathagata Buddha would lack the golden hoops used in the original story.

• Zhao Gongming and Golden Spirit Holy Mother visited Xiao Tian and celebrated after learning he was Jiang Shang.
• Xiao Tian visited Sun Wukong at Five-Finger Mountain, then improved Zhu Tianpeng’s aptitude, helping him reach the taiyi golden immortal initial stage.
• Xiao Tian observed that Six-Eared Macaque had reached taiyi golden immortal great perfection, while Yuan Hong had reached great luo golden immortal perfection and Sun Wukong’s cultivation had remained steady during his confinement.
• Xiao Tian planned to place Yuan Hong, his daughter, and his three concubines along the pilgrims’ route, equipping the concubines with innate spirit treasures to make them formidable opponents.
• Xiao Tian concluded that Tathagata Buddha would have no golden hoops for controlling the pilgrims because Golden-Hoop Immortal had gone into hiding after the changes to the Investiture of the Gods.

Xiao Tian prepared a love tribulation for Sun Wukong by arranging for Zi Xia and Qingxia to recreate the plot of A Big Talk Journey to the West 2. After Zhu Bajie completed the Four Sages Test the Chan Mind, Xiao Tian and his companions set out to stage the next trial for the scripture-fetching party.

• Xiao Tian reflected on the scattered Jiejiao disciples and advised Yang Jian to find a powerful mount among those who had become monster kings.
• Xiao Tian left the Three Immortal Islands with the Three Skies, Zixia Immortal Maiden, and Qingxia Immortal Maiden to pose as a cultivation clan and prepare Sun Wukong's love tribulation.
• Sun Wukong traveled with the scripture-fetching party after regaining his early-stage great luo golden immortal cultivation, while Zhu Tianpeng struggled against Sha Monk in the water.
• Seven months later, Zhu Tianpeng completed the Four Sages Test the Chan Mind and became Zhu Bajie, embarrassing Xiao Tian in front of the Three Skies.
• Xiao Tian, Zi Xia, and Qingxia prepared the Great Dream of Journey to the West, using illusion and reality to create extras and plan trials for Sun Wukong, Zhu Tianpeng, Sha Monk, and Tang Three Treasures.

Tang Three Treasures and his companions sought lodging at the Xiao Mansion, where Xiao Tian drew them into an elaborate illusion recreating A Chinese Odyssey: Moonlight Box. After the dreamlike story ended, the pilgrims returned to the mansion entrance and struggled to understand what had happened.

• Sun Wukong found a large, apparently ordinary residence where the pilgrims could seek shelter for the night.
• Tang Three Treasures knocked at the Xiao Mansion and asked to lodge there, and steward Hua An welcomed the group inside.
• As soon as the pilgrims crossed the threshold, Xiao Tian's illusion sealed their memories and made them experience a reincarnation within the story of Moonlight Box.
• The illusion ended after the Bull Demon King killed Zixia Immortal Maiden, and the pilgrimage party returned to the entrance with their memories restored.
• Su Daji asked the dazed monks whether they still wanted to eat.

After the scripture-fetching party recovered from the love trial, Xiao Tian invited them to meet his household, where several familiar figures appeared and stirred Sun Wukong’s unresolved feelings. Xiao Tian offered his daughters in marriage, leaving Sun Wukong facing a new test as the chapter ended.

• Sun Wukong and the others reflected on how the illusion had affected them, while Zhu Bajie suspected that Patriarch Grape had resembled Patriarch Bodhi.
• Yang Jiao, disguised as a burly maid, led the party to the Guest Reception Hall to meet Xiao Tian and his four wives.
• Sun Wukong and Tang Three Treasures recognized Yaoji as the woman who had played Guanyin Bodhisattva in the illusion.
• Zixia Immortal Maiden, Qingxia Immortal Maiden, and several others rushed in to meet the visitors, and Sun Wukong found himself torn again by his feelings for Zixia.
• Xiao Tian offered his daughters in marriage to the scripture-fetching party, and Sun Wukong faced the new test while the others refused.

Sun Wukong broke through to the middle-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, and the pilgrimage party continued west until they reached Ten Thousand Caves Mountain, where Xiao Tian’s three concubines prepared to capture them. Zhu Bajie was caught, and Sun Wukong flew ahead to investigate after the others grew concerned.

• Sun Wukong advanced to the middle-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal realm and reflected on the illusion and the need to become stronger.
• The pilgrimage party continued through several trials and eventually reached Ten Thousand Caves Mountain, where the earth god Yuan Hong warned them about three demon kings and their forces.
• Tang Three Treasures sent Zhu Bajie to scout the mountain, and Bai Ling’s Illusion-Heaven Mirror led him into the Monster Cave, where the Nine-Headed Pheasant Spirit captured him with the Nine-Colored Primordial Chaos Umbrella.
• Bai Ling instructed the White Jade Pipa Spirit and the Nine-Headed Pheasant Spirit to separate the pilgrimage party and capture Little White Dragon for his dragon blood.
• When Zhu Bajie failed to return, Tang Three Treasures asked Sun Wukong to check on him, and Sun Wukong flew into the sky.

After the scripture-seeking journey ended, Xiao Tian grew powerful enough to reach the origin of the universe and discover its creator’s fate. His final check-in gave him a primordial chaos treasure, and he settled at the Eerie Plateau, where he greeted Shi Hao, Ye Fan, and Chu Feng as they arrived.

• Yang Chan arrived with the Lotus Lantern, and the Three Demons of Xuanyuan Tomb cooperated and surrendered, ending the capture of Tang Three Treasures and his companions.
• Over the next fourteen years, Sun Wukong, Six-Eared Macaque, Yuan Hong, and Yang Jian reached the false saint beginner realm, while Xiao Tian advanced to the late quasi-saint stage and transformed his Double-Yolk Universe.
• Xiao Tian entered ten years of seclusion, inscribed powerful formations into his body, obtained essence blood from the Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin, and advanced to quasi-saint perfection and great accomplishment above sacrificial Dao.
• Xiao Tian traveled to the Perfect World, gathered his wives and children, and later traced the universe to its beginning, where he discovered that its creator had died after splitting heaven and earth and that the creator’s lingering power had contaminated the Ten Strange Ancestors.
• At the Eerie Plateau, Xiao Tian completed his final check-in and received the Great Dream Through a Thousand Autumns-what year is it tonight treasure, then caught three escaped contaminated Secretive Ancestors on his fishing line.
• When Shi Hao, Ye Fan, and Chu Feng reached the deepest part of the High Plateau, Xiao Tian invited them to sit and have tea.