Chapter Summaries

Zhang Ming and Stone Mama encountered the Dragon Turtle and the Flamehorn Civilization, then helped the sea lions find an unclaimed world to call home. The Dragon Turtle promised to shelter them for another thousand years while urging the Flamehorn Civilization to learn to stand on its own.

• Zhang Ming’s ship was boarded by sea lions who demanded that its crew join the Flamehorn Civilization, but he revealed his connections to other civilizations and turned the confrontation into a friendly exchange.
• Stone Mama summoned the Dragon Turtle, and Little White attempted Black Tortoise Strike, delighting the Dragon Turtle despite the technique’s incomplete form.
• Zhang Ming learned that the Flamehorn Civilization needed a world to develop technology, so he used the World Hunter to locate an unclaimed planet with a comfortable climate and plentiful resources.
• Zhang Ming helped the sea lions settle on the new world, and the grateful Flamehorn Civilization celebrated its homeland.
• The Dragon Turtle vowed to shelter the Flamehorn Civilization for another thousand years before venturing into the Burial Realm, then told the sea lions they must eventually rely on themselves.

Zhang Ming and his companions revisited the Three-Tailed Monkey World and discovered that the monkeys had formed several kingdoms around a disputed claim to the Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s legacy. After meeting the Great Eastern Kingdom’s rulers, Zhang Ming agreed to teach every country how to break through their physical limits at the same time.

• Stone Mama passed the Flamehorn Civilization’s legacy to the sea lions, and Zhang Ming decided to visit the nearby Three-Tailed Monkey World.
• Zhang Ming, the Dragon Turtle, and their companions traveled through a space tunnel and were intercepted by Sun Qiangzhuang’s monkey soldiers, who recognized Zhang Ming and the others as legendary figures.
• Sun Qiangzhuang explained how the monkeys’ breathing technique had spread farming, expanded their population, and helped create rival kingdoms competing over the Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s orthodox legacy.
• Zhang Ming and his companions visited Monkey Court Fragrance, where King Sun Wuguo welcomed them and described the Great Eastern Kingdom’s size and circumstances.
• Sun Wuguo asked why his physical training had stopped improving, and Zhang Ming promised to teach every monkey country the method for breaking through their limits at once.

Zhang Ming helped the Three-Tailed Monkeys and Sea Lions begin friendly exchanges, supported the monkeys’ development, and prepared a path for their civilizations to meet. Before leaving, he urged the monkeys to trust their own strength, and they answered by declaring themselves Great Sages Equal to Heaven Sun Wukong.

• Zhang Ming met King Sun Wuguo and helped the Three-Tailed Monkeys and Sea Lions begin their first friendly trade and contest.
• Zhang Ming visited the ancestors’ graves, then gave the active volcano Divine Beast materials and arranged for it to oversee a portal linking the monkey and Sea Lion worlds.
• Zhang Ming and his companions shared technical knowledge with the monkeys while traveling through several kingdoms, and Zhang Ming left their political conflicts for them to resolve themselves.
• Before departing, Zhang Ming addressed monkeys across the world, taught them the Acupuncture Guidance Technique, and told them that everyone could be a Great Sage.
• As Zhang Ming left through the bronze door, monkeys throughout the world cried, “I am Great Sage Equal to Heaven Sun Wukong!”

Zhang Ming tested Little White against a Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle avatar, where Little White lost after a fierce fight and learned that taunts could be part of combat. The group reached the Bluestone Plateau, met Shangbu Civilization representative Jia Bronze, and headed toward a local city to explore the continent’s many civilizations.

• Zhang Ming sent out a Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle avatar, and Little White accepted its challenge while the donkey and Little Pelican watched.
• Little White used its Black Tortoise Strike, but the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle countered with Mountain-Falling Technique and pinned Little White until Stone Mama conceded.
• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle praised Little White’s strength, taught it insults as mental attacks, and asked Zhang Ming for an avatar of its own.
• The group reached the Bluestone Plateau, where Zhang Ming climbed a cliff and the Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle taught the donkey a gravity-control technique to help it ascend.
• Jia Bronze met Zhang Ming and explained that the plateau held hundreds of intelligent species and many medieval-level countries.
• Jia Bronze invited the group aboard his steamship to travel to a larger local city.

Zhang Ming and his companions explored the Greenstone Continent, where Jia Qingtong helped arrange a martial arts tournament that drew little interest. Zhang Ming instead created the Tower of Heaven, which became a popular challenge site before the group left the continent.

• Zhang Ming’s party arrived in Pangeya, where Jia Qingtong explained the continent’s Celestial Dragon status and showed them his Ba Yi Armory.
• The Mountain-Bearing Divine Turtle proposed a tournament, and Jia Qingtong reluctantly began organizing it with support from Zhang Ming and the divine beasts.
• Zhang Yueyue and the others went adventuring for a year, encountering refugees, war, and an insect tide while Zhang Chenhao recorded his observations of the continent.
• When few locals entered the martial arts tournament, Zhang Ming proposed the Tower of Heaven, where challengers wagered possessions to fight divine beast avatars at equal combat power.
• A minotaur named Feng challenged Qilin and lost, while the Tower of Heaven spread across the continent and became a lifeline for desperate challengers.
• Zhang Ming’s group departed by ship, leaving the Tower operating as they headed toward their next destination.