Chapter Summaries

Son Goku taught Fang Yu the Two-Phase Transformation, which let him create an incarnation and transform objects. Back in the pyramid, Fang Yu prepared to open Imhotep’s coffin while his team watched nervously.

• Fang Yu told Son Goku how he had fought the South Sea Dragon King and the Heavenly soldiers, and Son Goku sympathized with his troubles.
• Son Goku gave Fang Yu the Two-Phase Transformation Talisman and taught him to create an Outer Body Incarnation and transform objects.
• Fang Yu tested the abilities by splitting off an incarnation and turning a stone into a banana, which reverted to stone when bitten.
• Fang Yu and Son Goku joked about using transformations to trick people and ambush enemies.
• Fang Yu’s team found two stone coffins in the pyramid, and he reached into one before realizing it was Anck-su-namun’s coffin.
• Fang Yu turned toward Imhotep’s coffin and warned the team that he was about to open it.

After Imhotep was quickly defeated, Fang Yu’s team returned to the Main God Space and learned that their next reincarnation would be Mr. Vampire. In Journey to the West, Fang Yu worried that Buddhism was watching him as Tang Sanzang began his pilgrimage, and the chapter ended with Guanyin Bodhisattva appearing above Chang’an.

• Fang Yu subdued the resurrected Imhotep, and Zhao Yingkong killed him to earn points toward her bloodline enhancement.
• The Central Continent Team returned to the Main God Space and learned that their next reincarnation would be Mr. Vampire, alarming newcomer Su Rui.
• Journey to the West Fang Yu discussed his concerns about being watched by Buddhism and the dangers awaiting him on Tang Sanzang’s pilgrimage.
• Li Shimin saw Tang Sanzang off from Chang’an, where golden Brahma flowers began falling from the sky.
• Fang Yu spotted Guanyin Bodhisattva appearing above the city.

Tang Sanzang questioned the purpose of the scriptures after Guanyin urged him to continue his pilgrimage, and Fang Yu’s words planted doubts in his heart. Guanyin tried to enlist Heaven against Fang Yu, but the Jade Emperor instead decreed that Fang Yu would join the westbound party.

• Guanyin gave Tang Sanzang the Brocade Monk Robe and Nine-Ringed Monk Staff, then ordered him to set out despite his questions about Lion Camel Country and the suffering people.
• Tang Sanzang reluctantly agreed to continue, but Guanyin realized that his Buddhist faith had been shaken and resolved to confront the Jade Emperor about Fang Yu.
• Guanyin accused Fang Yu of disrupting the pilgrimage and asked the Jade Emperor to eliminate him, while the Jade Emperor chose to add Fang Yu to Tang Sanzang’s party as punishment.
• The Jade Emperor sent Taibai Jinxing to Wuzhuang Temple with the decree, and Zhen Yuanzi accepted Fang Yu’s assignment while refusing to provide more Ginseng Fruit.

Guanyin ordered Fang Yu to join Tang Sanzang’s journey west, and Fang Yu secured permission to remain an unaffiliated immortal after obtaining the scriptures. Fang Yu met Tang Sanzang at a relay station and set off with him, leaving the monk shaken by his challenge to Buddhism and unconscious after seeing Earth Grudge Fear.

• Guanyin appeared before Fang Yu, ordered him to join the pilgrimage, and agreed he could refuse appointments from Western Paradise after the scriptures were obtained.
• Guanyin told Tang Sanzang that Fang Yu would be his traveling companion and warned him not to be led astray.
• Fang Yu arrived at the relay station, and he and Tang Sanzang began traveling west together.
• Fang Yu told Tang Sanzang that suffering was the foundation upon which Buddhism existed, deepening the monk’s doubts.
• Fang Yu summoned Earth Grudge Fear as a faster mount, and Tang Sanzang fainted when he saw it.

Fang Yu brought Tang Sanzang to Five Finger Mountain, where Tang freed Son Goku from his five-hundred-year imprisonment. The three set out together, and Fang Yu ended the chapter by proposing their first trial: visiting a brothel.

• Fang Yu persuaded Tang Sanzang to crawl into Five Finger Mountain’s crevice and find Son Goku.
• Fang Yu showed Son Goku that Tang Sanzang was the scripture pilgrim, and Son Goku urged Tang to remove the talisman.
• Tang Sanzang tore off the talisman, causing Five Finger Mountain to explode as Son Goku escaped.
• Fang Yu gave Son Goku clothes and wine, while Tang Sanzang questioned whether imprisonment had made him good or merely subdued him.
• Fang Yu proposed that the three begin their journey by visiting a brothel, which he called a trial.

Fang Yu dragged Tang Sanzang into Haofeng Tower and challenged his beliefs about desire, monastic life, and salvation. After learning that many of the women there had been sold or trafficked as children, Tang Sanzang apologized to them, while Fang Yu called them true Bodhisattvas.

• Fang Yu and Son Goku brought Tang Sanzang to Shuangcha City and took him into Haofeng Tower.
• Tang Sanzang panicked when the women approached, and Fang Yu argued that his reaction showed he still had attachments.
• Fang Yu told Tang Sanzang that life’s purpose was to pass on genes and challenged the consequences of everyone becoming a monk.
• Fang Yu explained that many women in the brothel had been sold by their parents or abducted and forced into the trade as children.
• Tang Sanzang bowed to the women in shame, and Fang Yu praised them as true Bodhisattvas.

Fang Yu challenged Tang Sanzang’s beliefs about imperial power and salvation, then the group’s journey exposed Tang Sanzang to Son Goku’s lethal violence. When Guanyin gave Tang Sanzang Golden Circlets to control his companions, he questioned whether using them would violate their rights.

• Fang Yu argued that imperial power and unjust laws caused the people’s suffering, while redeeming the women at Haofeng Tower saved them in a practical way; Tang Sanzang left ashamed, and Fang Yu later explained his ideas about hierarchy and human rights on the road.
• After traveling west for three days, the group encountered six bandits, and Son Goku killed them all; Tang Sanzang was horrified and questioned whether the bandits deserved death.
• Fang Yu defended Son Goku’s actions by saying the bandits’ deaths could save many lives, while Son Goku signaled that he was only humoring Tang Sanzang for the journey’s sake.
• The next morning, Guanyin gave Tang Sanzang two Golden Circlets and taught him that a spell could make them torment their wearers; Tang Sanzang asked whether using them would deprive Son Goku and Fang Yu of their rights.

Tang Sanzang rejected the golden hoop hats and told Son Goku he trusted him, then the travelers arrived at a temple where Abbot Jinchi coveted his Brocade Monk Robe. When Jinchi’s monks tried to burn them to death, Fang Yu challenged Tang Sanzang to examine his motives for traveling west.

• Tang Sanzang threw the golden hoop hats into the river and told Son Goku he trusted him without the hoop.
• The travelers reached a temple, where Abbot Jinchi showed off his robe and Son Goku revealed Tang Sanzang’s radiant Brocade Monk Robe.
• Fang Yu warned Son Goku that Jinchi was eyeing the robe greedily, and Son Goku said he would toy with the monks.
• Fang Yu told Tang Sanzang that Jinchi planned to burn them and steal the robe, while Son Goku set the compound ablaze.
• Tang Sanzang questioned how Buddhist monks could commit such an act, and Fang Yu challenged him to consider whether he truly wanted to help the poor or merely sought admiration.

After the fire destroyed Guan Yin Temple, Fang Yu challenged Tang Sanzang’s guilt and warned that Lady Guan Yin might be manipulating their journey. The Central Continent Team then entered Mr. Vampire’s world, where Fang Yu planned to seek out a lightning user while the others guarded the main cast.

• Tang Sanzang awoke to find Guan Yin Temple burned down, with Elder Jinchi and several monks dead or injured, and learned that Jinchi had started the fire to seize the cassock.
• Fang Yu told Tang Sanzang that Jinchi’s greed caused the disaster and argued that the travelers would have died if they had been ordinary monks.
• As the group set out, Fang Yu rejected Tang Sanzang’s self-blame and suggested that the temple’s name and wealth pointed to a scheme connected to Lady Guan Yin.
• Zheng Zha and the Central Continent Team arrived in a courtyard, received the Main God’s mission to help Uncle Jiu destroy Old Master Ren’s zombie, and watched Uncle Jiu warn Qiusheng and Wencai about the corpse.
• Fang Yu refused Zhou Mingxuan’s suggestion to finish the mission and return immediately, and announced that he would look for a lightning user while the team protected the main cast.

Fang Yu went to Maoshan to meet Shi Jian and demand the Underworld Emissaries help retrieve Zhang Jie's soul. After revealing powerful lightning abilities and claiming to be a disciple of Great Immortal Zhenyuan, he threatened to enter the underworld himself if they refused.

• Fang Yu asked Uncle Jiu where he could find Shi Jian, then told the Central Continent Team he would go meet him while they protected Uncle Jiu and his disciples.
• Fang Yu traveled toward Maoshan, destroyed a group of zombies with lightning, and collected Yin Energy from their charred bones.
• Fang Yu entered Shi Jian's hall while Shi Jian spoke with Underworld Emissaries and demanded to see his Five Thunders Orthodox Method.
• Fang Yu blasted the Underworld Emissaries with lightning and claimed he was a junior disciple of Great Immortal Zhenyuan.
• Fang Yu asked the Underworld Emissaries to retrieve Zhang Jie's soul and threatened to enter the underworld himself when they hesitated.

Fang Yu overwhelmed the Maoshan disciples and Underworld Emissaries, forcing Shi Jian to agree to provide his Lightning Flash Thunder Fist cultivation method. He opened a Ghost Gate and entered the underworld to revive someone, while planning to return for the manual.

• The lead Underworld Emissary tried to flee and Fang Yu stopped him with lightning, prompting the other emissaries to attack and call on Shi Jian for help.
• Shi Jian and the Maoshan disciples formed the Heavenly Dipper Demon Subduing Array, but Fang Yu's Conqueror's Haki knocked them and the emissaries down.
• Shi Jian prepared to strike, but Fang Yu showed him a gigantic lightning sphere over Maoshan and made him back down.
• Fang Yu demanded Shi Jian's lightning arts manual and a route to the underworld, then forced an Underworld Emissary to open the Ghost Gate.
• Shi Jian explained that writing down the Lightning Flash Thunder Fist method would take three days, and Fang Yu left for the underworld after marking the floor with a Flying Thunder God Technique Formula.
• By the river, Fang Yu asked Son Goku about the underworld and whether crossing out names in the Book of Life and Death granted immortality.

Fang Yu broke into the underworld to consult the Book of Life and Death about resurrecting his dead teammates. He learned that attaching a female soul to a zombie could evade the Heavenly Dao’s restrictions, and left to find a female zombie for Zhan Lan.

• Fang Yu followed the Underworld Emissary through the eighteen levels of hell, commenting casually on the punishments and asking for extra time to be added to a condemned leader’s sentence.
• Fang Yu entered the Hall of Judgment and demanded to borrow the Book of Life and Death, prompting the King of Hell to order the Underworld Emissaries to seize him.
• Fang Yu overwhelmed the hall with Solar Flare and a giant golden Buddha, then took the Book of Life and Death and found that Zhang Jie needed 8,000 Reward Points and a B-Rank Side Quest to be resurrected.
• A judge told Fang Yu that attaching a soul to a zombie could bypass the Heavenly Dao’s control, but the soul had to be female.
• Fang Yu decided to use Zhan Lan’s soul, left a Flying Thunder God Mark in the underworld, and vanished to search for a female zombie.

Uncle Jiu failed to keep Old Master Ren’s corpse contained, and the escaped zombie killed Master Ren and bit Ren Tingting before Li Yingqi drove it away. Fang Yu arrived and revealed that he wanted to use Ren Tingting’s body for Zhan Lan’s soul, leaving Zheng Zha flustered by Fang Yu’s teasing.

• Uncle Jiu warned that Old Master Ren had become a dangerous corpse, but Master Ren refused to let him be cremated and ordered the coffin returned to the funeral home.
• At 3:10 in the morning, Old Master Ren escaped through the rotten coffin bottom and killed Master Ren while biting Ren Tingting.
• Zhou Mingxuan shot Old Master Ren with a Demon-breaking Gold bullet, and Li Yingqi burned him with a talisman before letting him escape.
• Li Yingqi stopped Uncle Jiu from chasing the zombie, and Fang Yu appeared, asking Uncle Jiu to help him find a female zombie.
• Fang Yu said he planned to put Zhan Lan’s soul in Ren Tingting’s body, then teased Zheng Zha about watching a film called “Corpse Driving.”

Fang Yu persuaded Shi Jian to help place Zhan Lan’s soul into Ren Tingting’s newly risen zombie body. Zhan Lan awakened in Ren Tingting’s face and discovered she had acquired a zombie body, leaving her shocked and angry as Fang Yu teased her.

• Fang Yu asked Uncle Jiu to put Zhan Lan’s soul into Ren Tingting’s corpse, but Uncle Jiu refused, calling the act immoral.
• Fang Yu traveled to the Maoshan Sect and convinced Shi Jian to help refine the corpse.
• At the Ren residence, Ren Tingting’s coffin burst open, and Fang Yu forced the zombie back inside while placing Zhan Lan’s soul into her head.
• Zhan Lan awoke in Ren Tingting’s body and recognized Zheng Zha, Shi Jian, and the setting from Mr. Vampire.
• Zhan Lan saw Ren Tingting’s face in a bronze mirror and learned that she had gained a zombie bloodline, then bit Fang Yu in anger.
• Fang Yu bit Zhan Lan’s neck, embarrassing the onlookers, and Zhao Yingkong told them to stop until they returned to the Main God Space.

Fang Yu and his companions reached the Gao residence in the Wusizang Kingdom, where Fang Yu defended Zhu Ganglie against Elder Gao’s accusations. Zhu Ganglie arrived, recognized Son Goku, and fled as Son Goku pursued him.

• Fang Yu mastered Shi Jian’s Lightning Flash Thunder Fist instantly and showed off his lightning control before the travelers continued west.
• Fang Yu warned the group about the Black Bear Spirit, but they passed its cave without incident because Tang Sanzang’s cassock had never been lent to Elder Jinchi.
• Fang Yu, Tang Sanzang, and Son Goku reached the Gao residence, where Rat-whiskered Butler let them inside after learning Son Goku had taken refuge in Buddhism.
• Elder Gao told the travelers that a demon had occupied his daughter for three years, and Fang Yu accused him of exploiting Zhu Ganglie as free labor before rejecting him.
• Zhu Ganglie arrived and praised Fang Yu’s defense, then fled when he recognized Son Goku as Bimawen; Fang Yu urged Son Goku to chase him.

Fang Yu stopped Son Goku and Zhu Ganglie's fight by disguising himself as a giant Buddha and capturing Zhu Ganglie. Zhu Ganglie joined the scripture-seeking party, and Fang Yu asked him for a gift as his new junior brother.

• Son Goku and Zhu Ganglie fought fiercely over Gao Family Village, using transformations, poison gas, and weapons to gain the advantage.
• Fang Yu transformed into a giant Buddha and frightened Zhu Ganglie into surrendering, then revealed the trick and captured him as a little wild boar.
• Fang Yu stopped Son Goku from killing Zhu Ganglie and persuaded Tang Sanzang to let the pig demon join their journey west.
• Zhu Ganglie agreed to join the scripture-seeking party after learning they were headed to Western Heaven.
• Fang Yu refused to be called Second Disciple Brother, then asked Zhu Ganglie to give him a magic treasure, weapon, or secret manual.

Fang Yu traded Zhu Bajie unlimited braised tofu jelly for the Thirty-Six Heavenly Transformations and the pig demon’s help on the scripture journey. After Zhu Bajie apologized to Gao Family Village, Fang Yu argued with Tang Sanzang over Buddhist precepts and decided to create a trial of his own.

• Fang Yu gave Zhu Bajie braised tofu jelly and agreed to keep supplying it in exchange for skills or magical treasures.
• Zhu Bajie refused to hand over the Nine-Toothed Rake, demonstrated his practical abilities and transformations, and agreed to teach Fang Yu the Thirty-Six Heavenly Transformations for all the braised tofu jelly he could eat.
• Zhu Bajie apologized to the villagers of Gao Family Village before leaving with Tang Sanzang and the others.
• Fang Yu challenged Tang Sanzang’s objections to meat, alcohol, and garlic, then declared that Monkey King wanted freedom, Zhu Bajie wanted a wife, and he had been forced into the journey.
• After Tang Sanzang resumed chanting sutras, Fang Yu decided to create a new trial called “What Is Braised Tofu Jelly?”

Fang Yu’s tricks left Tang Sanzang hungry, sickened by poisonous wild fruit, and dependent on him for food. Fang Yu then planned to exploit Tang Sanzang’s strict vows by serving braised tofu jelly made with meat broth as the travelers continued west.

• Tang Sanzang stormed off to beg for alms after Fang Yu and the others refused to help him, then fainted from hunger and accepted Fang Yu’s honey water.
• Fang Yu convinced Tang Sanzang that drinking honey had harmed bees, prompting him to flee and refuse food from an old hunter because the cooking pot had been used for meat.
• At dawn, Tang Sanzang secretly ate wild fruit that Son Goku had picked, suffered hallucinations and severe vomiting, and was healed by Fang Yu’s Divine Protection: Recovery.
• Fang Yu agreed to provide all three meals, then told Zhu Bajie he would serve braised tofu jelly made with meat broth without telling Tang Sanzang.
• Fang Yu declared that he would turn Tang Sanzang into a Great Stomach Bag and send him to the Western Heaven of Ultimate Bliss.

Fang Yu coaxed Tang Sanzang into eating braised tofu jelly, while Jigen recruited Obito to advance the Tailed Beast hunt because he feared Uchiha Yu would disrupt his plans. Uchiha Yu killed an Iwagakure squad and told Sasuke he would let Akatsuki gather the Tailed Beasts so he could claim the God Tree fruit himself.

• Fang Yu tempted Tang Sanzang with braised tofu jelly until Tang Sanzang overcame his hunger and ate it.
• Jigen met Obito in an underground cave, warned him that Uchiha Yu threatened their plans, and urged him to begin capturing the Tailed Beasts.
• Obito agreed to move the plan forward and chose Han, the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, as the first target.
• Uchiha Yu killed the Iwagakure squad that attacked him, then explained that he wanted Akatsuki to gather the Tailed Beasts so he could obtain the God Tree fruit.
• Sasuke challenged Uchiha Yu's confidence about facing Obito, Madara, and Kaguya, and Uchiha Yu promised to surpass Guy's Night Guy kick.

Fang Yu let the Yellow Wind Monster capture Tang Sanzang, then secretly appeared in the demons’ cave and arranged for him to be force-fed braised tofu jelly. Tang Sanzang woke chained up and was slapped whenever he resisted eating or tried to chant.

• Fang Yu spent a week feeding Tang Sanzang hawthorn juice and braised tofu jelly as the group traveled toward Yellow Wind Ridge.
• The Yellow Wind Monster’s foul wind blinded Son Goku and knocked Fang Yu unconscious, while Tiger Vanguard’s demons captured Tang Sanzang.
• After Son Goku flew off to seek help, Fang Yu got up, used Flying Thunder God to reach the cave, and bribed two Rat Demons with food to feed Tang Sanzang three bowls at each meal.
• Tang Sanzang woke in chains and was slapped by a Rat Demon when he hesitated to eat the braised tofu jelly.
• The Rat Demon mocked Tang Sanzang and slapped him again when he began chanting, so he stopped.