Recaps

Sha Wujing posed as a fisherman and told Tang Sanzang and his disciples about three monsters near the Black Water River. Wukong was trapped in Ao Tu’s Red Sand Formation, and Tiger Vanguard deceived Bajie with a forged letter claiming Wukong had gone home.

• Sha Wujing invited Tang Sanzang, Wukong, and Bajie to his home and claimed a Bodhisattva had told him to wait for a holy monk from the Great Tang.
• Sha Wujing described the Three Scourges near the Black Water River, and Wukong went alone to confront the vicious tiger in the southern forest.
• Wukong struck a tiger-skin decoy and fell into Ao Tu’s Red Sand Formation, where red sand knocked down both him and his escaping primordial spirit.
• Ao Tu forged a letter in Wukong’s handwriting and ordered Tiger Vanguard to give it to Bajie if he came searching.
• After Wukong failed to return, Bajie went to the forest, where Tiger Vanguard claimed Wukong had gone home and said he had left a letter.

Tang Sanzang grew angry when he learned Sun Wukong had returned to Flower-Fruit Mountain, while Ao Tu kept Wukong trapped to isolate him from the others. Bajie stalled his attempts to fight Tiger Vanguard, but after their clash he realized he could defeat the demon once he guarded against the demon’s treasure.

• Bajie delivered Sun Wukong’s letter, and Tang Sanzang rebuked Wukong for returning home without telling him.
• Tang Sanzang ordered Bajie to subdue the tiger and dragon, but Bajie asked to visit Gao Village and was threatened with dismissal.
• Ao Tu kept Sun Wukong trapped in the Red Sand Formation, counting on the pilgrims’ hidden protectors not to intervene while Tang Sanzang and Bajie remained free.
• Bajie avoided entering the woods for two days, then fought Tiger Vanguard on the third day and fled after the demon struck him with a treasure.
• Bajie told Tang Sanzang that hundreds of demons had surrounded him, but privately concluded that Tiger Vanguard was weaker and that he could capture him if prepared for the treasure.

Ao Tu kept Sun Wukong trapped in the Red Sand Formation while deceiving Bajie into believing he was Sun Wukong and delaying him from seeking help. After Tang Sanzang's Tight-Fillet Spell jolted Sun Wukong awake, Sun Wukong realized he had to escape and remembered the three Life-Saving Hairs from the Bodhisattva.

• Ao Tu repeatedly fought Bajie while holding back, then persuaded Bajie to return to Tang Sanzang instead of seeking the Bodhisattva.
• Ao Tu disguised himself as Sun Wukong, gave Bajie a gift and a pearl, and claimed he was going to visit a sworn brother.
• Bajie returned to Tang Sanzang and concealed Ao Tu's deception, persuading Tang Sanzang to wait for Sun Wukong.
• Ao Tu continued trapping Sun Wukong with red sand as Tang Sanzang waited past the time specified in Sun Wukong's message.
• Tang Sanzang recited the Tight-Fillet Spell, waking Sun Wukong from the red sand's befuddlement and causing him unbearable pain.
• Sun Wukong searched for a way out of the Red Sand Formation and remembered the Bodhisattva's three Life-Saving Hairs.

Ao Tu escaped Sun Wukong by capturing Tang Sanzang and Bajie and taking them into the Flowing Sand River, where Sha Wujing revealed his role in the scheme. Sun Wukong pursued them into the water and was struck from behind by Ao Tu’s Water-Reversing Seal.

• Sun Wukong escaped Ao Tu’s formation and battled him in the air, but fled when Ao Tu unleashed the Five-Fire Seven-Bird Fan.
• Ao Tu overturned Sha Wujing’s house, captured Tang Sanzang and Bajie, and bound them to a pillar beneath the Flowing Sand River.
• Sha Wujing revealed to Tang Sanzang that he was the third scourge, while Ao Tu reflected that his scheme had gone awry and noted that his progress was still twenty-three days short of a season.
• Sun Wukong churned the river to force the demons out, and Sha Wujing challenged him before pretending to flee underwater.
• Sun Wukong chased Sha Wujing into the river, where Ao Tu struck him from behind with the Water-Reversing Seal.

Sun Wukong learned from Ao Guang and Ao Run that Sha Tuolong was the Jing River Dragon King’s youngest son and uncovered why the dragon family resented his master. He asked Ao Run to accompany him to Black Water River and persuade the demon dragons to release his master.

• Sun Wukong escaped Ao Tu’s underwater attack with his cracked Glazed Bowl and turned toward the Southern Sea before remembering Ao Guang’s warning about Black Water River.
• Sun Wukong confronted Ao Guang, who identified Sha Tuolong as Little Alligator Dragon, the youngest son of the Jing River Dragon King, and summoned Ao Run.
• Ao Run listed the Jing River Dragon King’s nine sons and explained that the fisherman Yuan Shoucheng’s predictions threatened the dragon children who had transformed into Golden Carp.
• Ao Run recounted how the Jing River Dragon King lost his wager with Yuan Shoucheng, disobeyed the Jade Emperor’s rain decree, and was executed, prompting his sons to blame Tang King for his death.
• Sun Wukong asked Ao Run to accompany him to Black Water River and persuade Ao Tu and Little Alligator Dragon to release his master, while Ao Run warned that Ao Tu had taken many treasures from his palace.

Sun Wukong agreed to let Ao Tu keep Tang Sanzang captive until the Beginning of Spring and used his leave to visit Flower-Fruit Mountain. He found the mountain devastated and its monkeys hunted, drove off the hunters, restored the mountain, and said he would stay only twenty-four days before continuing west.

• Dragon King Ao Run of the West Sea tried to persuade Ao Tu to surrender, but Ao Tu bound him and left him beneath the river with Tang Sanzang and Bajie.
• Ao Tu promised to release Tang Sanzang at the Beginning of Spring, twenty-four days later, and Wukong agreed before setting off for Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Wukong found Flower-Fruit Mountain ruined and learned from the surviving monkeys that heavenly forces and hunters had killed or captured most of their people.
• Wukong sent more than a thousand hunters five hundred li away with a fierce wind, then borrowed rain and restored the mountain with the monkeys’ help.
• The monkeys begged Wukong to remain, but he said he would stay for only twenty-four days before resuming his journey west.

Ao Tu released Tang Sanzang after holding him for ninety-one days, and Guanyin helped the pilgrims cross the Flowing Sand River after Sha Wujing joined them. Guanyin began planning to capture Ao Tu, while he collected his rewards and learned his next side quest would be the Four Saints Test Chan Mind.

• Wukong returned to the Flowing Sand River, and Ao Tu released Tang Sanzang, Bajie, and the West Sea Dragon King.
• Wukong and Sha Wujing went to Guanyin, who explained that Ao Tu had deceived them and gave Wukong a Red Gourd to help cross the river.
• Guanyin accompanied Wukong and Sha Wujing to the Flowing Sand River, where Tang Sanzang accepted Sha Wujing as his disciple and Guanyin made a Willow-Leaf Boat to carry them across.
• Guanyin worried that Ao Tu might turn Wukong against the pilgrimage and agreed with Mucha to invite Manjushri, Samantabhadra, and Old Mother Lishan to help set a trap.
• Ao Tu received a Three-Turn Soul-Reviving Pill, a Six-Thousand-Year Peach of Immortality, two Houtian spiritual treasures, and Five-Colored Divine Light, with one excess day carried over to the Four Saints Test Chan Mind side quest.

Ao Tu received five rewards, mastered the Five-Colored Divine Light, and entered the area of Guanyin Bodhisattva’s plan to test the pilgrims. Recognizing the trap, he pretended to seek a bride and turned the test into a mock marriage contest, leaving Guanyin and her companions angry and unable to stop him without abandoning their larger plan.

• Ao Tu received a Three-Turn Soul-Reviving Pill, a Six-Thousand-Year Peach of Immortality, a Headache Chime, a Dragon-Binding Rope, and the Five-Colored Divine Light; he used the peach and mastered the divine light.
• Ao Tu and Tiger Vanguard reached a palace where a woman was seeking a husband for her three daughters, and the system announced a side quest to keep the Pilgrim in the area for increasing rewards.
• Ao Tu realized Guanyin Bodhisattva and her companions had arranged the marriage test, but he pretended to be a suitor and entered the palace with Tiger Vanguard.
• The woman introduced herself as Jia and presented Zhenzhen, Aiai, and Lianlian, who were Manjushri, Samantabhadra, and Guanyin Bodhisattva in disguise.
• Ao Tu mocked Buddhist precepts and teased the disguised Bodhisattvas while Guanyin grew furious and Manjushri and Samantabhadra restrained her.
• Ao Tu proposed that the three maidens wear bridal veils and try their luck at a Heavenly Marriage.

Ao Tu continued to outwit Guanyin Bodhisattva and her companions, refusing to marry Lianlian unless they captured Tang Sanzang for a wedding feast. When Tang Sanzang and his disciples arrived, Ao Tu joined the three disguised Bodhisattvas in a direct attack, and the battle began with the master’s companions fighting to protect him.

• Ao Tu evaded the Bodhisattvas’ attempt to catch him, then refused to wear the wedding circlet and demanded Tang Sanzang’s flesh as the wedding feast.
• Ao Tu struck the Little Maid when she urged him to try on his wedding clothes, and Guanyin Bodhisattva left in anger.
• Ao Tu stayed with the woman for nearly two months, making Guanyin serve him while he waited for Tang Sanzang’s party to arrive.
• Ao Tu assigned Zhenzhen, Aiai, and Lianlian to fight Sha Monk, Zhu Bajie, and Sun Wukong, while he claimed he would capture Tang Sanzang.
• Guanyin Bodhisattva, Manjushri, and Samantabhadra attacked Tang Sanzang’s party, and Ao Tu watched as the three disciples fought them.

Sun Wukong failed to stop the Four Sages and sought heavenly aid after Ao Tu captured Tang Sanzang and his companions. Nezha confronted Ao Tu, who retreated to the manor and urged everyone to flee, while the woman insisted her daughters could help.

• Guanyin Bodhisattva, Manjushri, and Samantabhadra fought Sun Wukong together, and Ao Tu captured Tang Sanzang, Bajie, Sha Wujing, and the white horse.
• Sun Wukong followed Ao Tu to the manor, overheard the plan to eat Tang Sanzang and capture him, then went to seek help from the Jade Emperor.
• The Jade Emperor sent Heavenly King Li and Nezha with heavenly troops to subdue the demons.
• Nezha fought Ao Tu, wounded him, and drove him back to the manor.
• Ao Tu urged the woman and her daughters to flee, but the woman said Zhenzhen, Aiai, and Lianlian could help defeat Nezha.

Manjushri Bodhisattva captured Nezha, but the demons repelled a hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, prompting Sun Wukong to seek help from the Buddha. With the Eighteen Arhats surrounding the estate, Ao Tu agreed to marry and made the Bodhisattvas pay respects to his late father, alarming the underworld officials.

• Manjushri Bodhisattva bound Nezha with the Dragon-Binding Pillar, while Sun Wukong and Heavenly King Li fled and later reported the demons’ strength to the Jade Emperor.
• The Jade Emperor sent a hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, but Perfected One Samantabhadra’s Celebration Cloud shielded the manor from their attacks.
• Heavenly King Li advised Sun Wukong to seek Buddhist help, and the Buddha sent the Eighteen Arhats to surround the demons’ residence and wait.
• The three Bodhisattvas urged Ao Tu to marry, and he agreed on the condition that he first pay respects to his late father.
• Ao Tu called Guanyin Bodhisattva Lianlian and demanded that she burn offerings for his father, so she and the other Bodhisattvas reluctantly joined Old Mother Lishan in the ritual.
• The Burn-Register Underworld Official reported to Lord Yama that Old Mother Lishan and the three Bodhisattvas were burning paper money for the Jing River Dragon King.

King Yama and the other Kings of Hell arranged to send incense offerings to the Jing River Dragon King in the Nine Netherworlds. Meanwhile, Ao Tu escaped Guanyin Bodhisattva and the assembled heavenly forces, but the exhausted dragon was still pursued by Guanyin.

• King Yama and the other Kings of Hell agreed to have ghost messengers provide the Jing River Dragon King with daily incense offerings in the Nine Netherworlds.
• Lianlian asked Ao Tu to marry her, but Ao Tu caught Guanyin Bodhisattva attempting to bind him and revealed that he had anticipated her trick.
• Ao Tu bound Guanyin Bodhisattva with the Dragon-Binding Rope and drove back Manjushri and Samantabhadra with the Five-Fire Seven-Bird Fan.
• Guanyin Bodhisattva freed herself, and Ao Tu fled with Tiger Vanguard as the Bodhisattvas and heavenly forces pursued them.
• Ao Tu swept away the Four Heavenly Kings, the Thunder Department generals, the Nine Luminaries Star Lords, a hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, and the eighteen Arhats, then escaped using Earth-Traveling Golden Light.
• Ao Tu swept away Manjushri and Samantabhadra with black light, but Guanyin Bodhisattva continued pursuing him as his strength waned.

Ao Tu escaped Guanyin Bodhisattva by capturing her and the other pursuers with his Five-Colored Divine Light, then released them and fled. After the system settled his rewards, Tiger Vanguard brought a frightened woman from White Tiger Ridge to Ao Tu, who realized she was from the White Bone Spirit’s territory.

• Old Mother Lishan revealed herself to Wukong and asked him to stop Ao Tu and Guanyin Bodhisattva from fighting.
• Ao Tu ate a three-thousand-year Peach of Immortality, regained magical power, and swept Guanyin Bodhisattva and the pursuing heavenly and Buddhist forces into his Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Wukong arrived, and Ao Tu released his captives before fleeing; Guanyin Bodhisattva and the others mistakenly believed he had let them go because he was exhausted.
• Ao Tu hid by a river with Tiger Vanguard, and the system awarded him the Rebirth Mantra, Pointing to the Ground Turns It to Steel, a Purple-Patterned Peach of Immortality, and a Third-Grade Golden Lotus.
• Tiger Vanguard brought back a woman he found near White Tiger Ridge, and Ao Tu recognized the place as the White Bone Spirit’s territory.

Ao Tu rescued Qiao'er's parents from Lady White Bone, recruited the demon to capture Tang Sanzang and his disciples, and helped Qiao'er's family rebuild their home while arranging a pretend courtship with Qiao'er. After leaving with Tiger Vanguard, he reached Wuzhuang Temple and disguised himself as a Daoist priest, while Tang Sanzang's party was still several days away.

• Ao Tu learned that Qiao'er lived with her elderly parents on White Tiger Ridge and followed her home with Tiger Vanguard disguised as a hunter.
• Lady White Bone swept Qiao'er's parents into White Bone Cave, and Ao Tu captured her with the Dragon-Binding Rope and made her promise to capture the approaching monks.
• Ao Tu rescued Qiao'er's parents, healed Qiao'er's wrist, and asked her to pretend to accept his marriage proposal when he later asked for her hand.
• Ao Tu and Tiger Vanguard repaired the family's cottage and built a wooden house nearby, while Qiao'er's parents began hoping she would marry Ao Tu.
• Ao Tu left with Tiger Vanguard and went to Wuzhuang Temple, where he disguised himself as a Daoist priest after seeing that Tang Sanzang and his disciples were still several days away.

Ao Tu arrived at Wuzhuang Temple disguised as a Daoist, hoping to delay Tang Sanzang’s party and earn quest rewards while offering to heal the Ginseng Fruit Tree. After Qingfeng and Mingyue rejected his warning, he waited nearby as Tang Sanzang’s group reached the temple.

• Ao Tu entered the quest area and saw that delaying the Pilgrim would earn increasingly valuable rewards, including elixirs and spiritual treasures.
• Ao Tu learned that Zhen Yuanzi had left for a lecture and had instructed Qingfeng and Mingyue to offer Tang Sanzang two Ginseng Fruits.
• Ao Tu introduced himself as Vozhu Zhenshi Heavenly Venerable and warned Qingfeng and Mingyue that the Ginseng Fruit Tree would soon be toppled, offering to heal it with Three-Lights Divine Water.
• Qingfeng and Mingyue dismissed Ao Tu’s warning, so he left with Tiger Vanguard and waited on a nearby mountain.
• Tang Sanzang and his disciples reached Longevity Mountain, discussed how far Spirit Mountain remained, and arrived at Wuzhuang Temple, where Qingfeng and Mingyue welcomed them.

Tang Sanzang and his disciples arrived at Wuzhuang Temple, where Qingfeng and Mingyue offered Tang Sanzang two Ginseng Fruits, which he mistook for infants and refused. After Bajie told Wukong about the fruit, Wukong entered the garden to steal some, but the first fruit he knocked down vanished into the earth, and the earth god explained how the fruit had to be caught.

• Tang Sanzang questioned Qingfeng and Mingyue about the temple’s worship of Heaven and Earth, then sent Wukong, Bajie, and Sha Wujing to their tasks while he rested.
• Qingfeng and Mingyue served Tang Sanzang tea and offered him two Ginseng Fruits, but he mistook them for children and refused to eat them.
• Bajie overheard the attendants discussing the Ginseng Fruits and persuaded Wukong to steal some from the garden.
• Wukong took the Golden Striker and entered the garden, but the first fruit he knocked down vanished when it struck the ground.
• Wukong summoned the earth god, who explained that Ginseng Fruits had to be caught on a platter lined with silk or they would sink into the earth.

Wukong admitted stealing Ginseng Fruit, then toppled the fruit tree when Qingfeng and Mingyue cursed him. Mingyue brought Ao Tu to Wuzhuang Temple to save the tree while Qingfeng locked Tang Sanzang and his disciples inside, leaving Wukong promising to escape with them.

• Wukong, Sha Wujing, and Bajie divided three stolen Ginseng Fruits, and Qingfeng and Mingyue overheard Bajie complain that he wanted more.
• Qingfeng and Mingyue accused Tang Sanzang and his disciples of stealing the fruit, and Wukong eventually admitted taking three.
• Wukong sent a double to the hall and toppled the Ginseng Fruit Tree with his Golden Cudgel.
• Qingfeng and Mingyue found the tree destroyed, and Mingyue went to fetch Ao Tu, whom he believed could save it.
• Qingfeng locked Tang Sanzang and his disciples inside Wuzhuang Temple, and Tang Sanzang reproached Wukong for making their troubles worse.

Ao Tu arrived at Wuzhuang Temple and challenged Tang Sanzang’s beliefs while offering to revive the fallen Ginseng Fruit Tree in exchange for two children. After nightfall, Wukong freed the imprisoned monks, leaving them ready to escape.

• Qiao'er waited for Ao Tu to return, while her parents told her he had probably gone home.
• Ao Tu entered Wuzhuang Temple, met Qingfeng and Mingyue, and questioned Tang Sanzang and his disciples about the fallen tree.
• Ao Tu described Spirit Mountain as a place of corruption, unsettling Tang Sanzang and prompting Wukong to warn that Ao Tu was a monster in disguise.
• Ao Tu offered to revive the Ginseng Fruit Tree with Three-Lights Divine Water if Qingfeng and Mingyue brought him two children, but they refused to decide before their master returned.
• That night, Wukong used his Golden Cudgel to unlock the doors and free Tang Sanzang and the others.

Wukong and his companions fled Wuzhuang Temple after stealing the ginseng fruit, but Great Immortal Zhenyuan caught them and brought them back to face punishment. Wukong took the lashes meant for Tang Sanzang, while Qingfeng and Mingyue remembered Ao Tu and reported his presence to Zhenyuan.

• Wukong put Qingfeng and Mingyue into a deep sleep, then caught up with Tang Sanzang and hurried west with the others.
• Great Immortal Zhenyuan returned to Wuzhuang Temple, woke Qingfeng and Mingyue, and pursued Tang Sanzang after learning the monks had escaped.
• Great Immortal Zhenyuan disguised himself as a Daoist, confronted the travelers, and captured them with Universe in the Sleeve.
• Great Immortal Zhenyuan ordered his disciples to bind the travelers and flog Wukong after Wukong claimed responsibility for the theft and the fallen Ginseng Fruit Tree.
• Qingfeng and Mingyue told Great Immortal Zhenyuan about Ao Tu, while Tang Sanzang complained to Wukong about being tied up.

Wukong tried to escape Great Immortal Zhenyuan, but was captured with Tang Sanzang and the others. He promised to restore the Ginseng Fruit Tree and left to seek a remedy, while Ao Tu arrived claiming he could heal it, prompting Bajie to expose the tree’s destruction.

• Wukong freed Tang Sanzang, Bajie, and Sha Wujing and fled Wuzhuang Temple, but Great Immortal Zhenyuan caught them and brought them back.
• Great Immortal Zhenyuan tried to fry Wukong, who substituted a stone lion that smashed through the cauldron.
• Wukong persuaded Great Immortal Zhenyuan to release Tang Sanzang and the others by promising to revive the Ginseng Fruit Tree within three days, then departed to find a remedy.
• Ao Tu arrived and showed Great Immortal Zhenyuan the Three-Lights Divine Water, saying it could heal immortal trees and spirit seedlings.
• Bajie warned Tang Sanzang that Ao Tu might cure the tree and spoil their chance, then shouted that Wukong had already knocked it down.

Ao Tu stayed at Wuzhuang Temple and advanced his cultivation while Sun Wukong searched the immortal realms for a way to heal the Ginseng Fruit Tree. Wukong found no remedy, but at Mount Luojia he discovered Guanyin Bodhisattva and others refining a small amount of Divine Water.

• Ao Tu joked about eating Bajie, then accepted Great Immortal Zhenyuan’s invitation to stay while the wager with Wukong continued.
• Ao Tu discussed the Dao with Great Immortal Zhenyuan, reached the middle stage of Golden Immortal, and received an offer of a branch from the Ginseng Fruit Tree.
• Wukong visited the three stars at Penglai, who went to Wuzhuang Temple and persuaded Tang Sanzang not to recite the Golden Fillet Tightening Spell while Wukong searched.
• Wukong sought help from the Donghua Emperor at Fangzhang and the Nine Elders at Yingzhou, but neither could heal the spiritual root.
• Wukong reached Mount Luojia and saw Guanyin Bodhisattva, Mucha, Dragon Girl, and heavenly gods refining an incomplete drop of Divine Water.

Wukong sought Guanyin’s help to revive the Ginseng Fruit Tree, then returned to Wuzhuang Temple with Ao Tu, who restored it with divine water. After the feast and the travelers’ departure, Ao Tu flew to White Tiger Ridge, where Qiao’er still waited for him by the river.

• Wukong told Guanyin about toppling Zhenyuan’s tree, but learned her Three-Lights Divine Water would take twenty-nine more days to finish condensing.
• Wukong returned to Wuzhuang Temple and asked Ao Tu to heal the tree, and Ao Tu revived it with the Five-Colored Divine Light and a pool of divine water.
• The restored tree bore twenty-three Ginseng Fruits, and Zhenyuan hosted a feast before becoming sworn brothers with Wukong and Ao Tu.
• Tang Sanzang and his disciples left Wuzhuang Temple after several days, and Zhenyuan gave Ao Tu a branch bearing two fruits.
• Qiao’er returned from washing clothes at the still river, and her parents urged her to stop waiting for the young gentleman as Ao Tu descended from the sky.

Ao Tu settled the White Bone Spirit quest, earned rewards, and married Qiao'er while preparing to delay Tang Sanzang on White Tiger Ridge. After telling Qiao'er their marriage was only an act, he tried to leave, but she caught his arm.

• Qiao'er brought food to Ao Tu and heard him promise to propose, introducing Jingjing as his younger sister.
• Tang Sanzang and his disciples left the Longevity Mountain region, and Ao Tu received four rewards before starting the Three Battles with the White Bone Spirit quest.
• Ao Tu reviewed the new quest rewards and bought betrothal gifts for Qiao'er.
• Ao Tu told Qiao'er's parents a fabricated story about his family, and the families arranged the marriage.
• Ao Tu and Qiao'er held a simple wedding, but that night he told her he would not take her chastity and planned to send her family away with money.
• As Ao Tu prepared to leave, Qiao'er caught his arm.

Ao Tu and Qiao'er began living as a married couple while Tang Sanzang and his disciples journeyed to White Tiger Ridge. There, Wukong exposed the White Bone Spirit's first disguise, but the evidence left Tang Sanzang convinced that Wukong had killed an innocent woman.

• Qiao'er asked Ao Tu to make their pretense real, and he warned that he would never keep her or reward her for doing so.
• Ao Tu and Qiao'er settled into a peaceful routine together as husband and wife.
• Tang Sanzang's party reached a desolate mountain, and Wukong went to fetch peaches after Tang Sanzang asked for food.
• The White Bone Spirit used a false corpse and posed as a woman bringing food to the pilgrims.
• Bajie welcomed the offered meal, but Wukong returned, recognized the White Bone Spirit, and smashed her false corpse with his staff.
• Tang Sanzang scolded Wukong for killing the apparent woman, and the food and corpse made Wukong's explanation difficult to believe.

Wukong killed the White Bone Spirit’s first disguise, but Tang Sanzang believed Bajie’s accusations and repeatedly threatened to send Wukong away. When Tiger Vanguard appeared disguised as the dead woman’s brother, Wukong struck him and was punished again, though Tang Sanzang ultimately let him stay; Ao Tu then prepared Tiger Vanguard to deceive and extort the group.

• Bajie blamed Wukong for killing an innocent woman, and Tang Sanzang began chanting the Tight-Fillet Spell before relenting after Wukong begged to repay his kindness.
• Tiger Vanguard appeared disguised as the dead woman’s brother and asked Tang Sanzang’s group if they had seen her.
• Bajie’s basket exposed the group’s connection to the woman, and Tang Sanzang admitted Wukong had killed her.
• Wukong recognized Tiger Vanguard as a demon and struck him, prompting Tang Sanzang to chant the spell twenty times and order Wukong to leave.
• Wukong asked Tang Sanzang to remove his Golden Fillet if he was to return home, and Tang Sanzang agreed to forgive him when he could not.
• Ao Tu told the injured Tiger Vanguard to pretend he was crippled so they could extort Tang Sanzang.