Arc 67The Pilgrimage Begins

Xiao Tian exposed Hongyun’s corruption and helped shape the journey west, while Sun Wukong joined Tang Sanzang’s pilgrimage. The party reached Xiliang, where Xiao Tian gave birth to Little Evil and rescued the captured Xiliang soldiers.

  • Xiao Tian defeated the Chaos aberration’s influence over Hongyun, killing him after Hongyun admitted joining it for revenge, and the Sages built the Pilgrimage Tower to purge its spread.
  • Xiao Tian oversaw Sun Wukong’s emergence and training, while Sun Wukong entered the Heavenly Court, was sentenced to guard the Peach Garden, and later agreed to serve the pilgrimage.
  • Xiao Tian helped arrange the westward journey, and Tang Sanzang set out with Sun Wukong after surviving the stone demon’s stories and a series of early trials.
  • Tang Sanzang and Sun Wukong continued west, while Xiao Tian joined their party in disguise and drank from the Mother-Child River with Tang Sanzang, Bajie, and the fire dragon horse.
  • Xiao Tian gave birth to Little Evil on Skull Mountain, earning trial points, and Zhunti brought them back to Xiliang after Nüwa insisted the child should live.
  • Xiao Tian took Little Evil to Black Lightning Mountain, killed the three Demon Kings with Ninefold True Fire, and rescued the Xiliang soldiers as the exhausted general collapsed.
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Ch. 1651Escape into the River of Time! Battle Against Six Sages

Xiao Tian endured the six Sages’ assault inside Tongtian’s Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, then escaped the encirclement by striking them with a blow that shattered the formation and left them severely injured. After the battle, he demanded compensation and claimed the God-Slaying Spear, ending by striking Hongyun when he objected.

  • Yuanshi brought out the Heavenly Celebration Cloud and Pangu Banner, while Tongtian trapped Xiao Tian and the other Sages inside the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation.
  • The six Sages attacked Xiao Tian together for years, gradually exhausting the Chaos Bell’s radiance as the formation cut them off from Chaos Qi.
  • Xiao Tian withdrew the Chaos Bell and used his remaining magical power to strike the Sages, escaping into the river of time as his attack severely injured them and destroyed the formation.
  • Dao Ancestor Hongjun blocked the explosion’s aftershocks, and five years later the recovering Sages gathered with Xiao Tian in Purple Cloud Palace.
  • Xiao Tian demanded compensation and claimed the God-Slaying Spear; when Hongyun advised sealing it, Xiao Tian struck him and asked who agreed and who objected.

Ch. 1652Sage Hongyun lost all face

Xiao Tian forced the Sages to accept his decision about the God-Slaying Spear, then learned that an outsider from Chaos had entered the Primordial world. As the outsider tempted Hongyun and the Great Tribulation continued, Yuanshi and Tongtian fell into open conflict over the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, while Xiao Tian suspected Hongjun had engineered the discord.

  • Xiao Tian struck Hongyun twice in the Purple Cloud Palace and secured the Sages’ agreement to let King Zhou keep the God-Slaying Spear under supervision.
  • Hongjun warned the Sages that an outsider from Chaos had entered the Primordial world, and Xiao Tian accepted responsibility for hunting it down.
  • King Zhou reclaimed the God-Slaying Spear, drove Western Zhou back, and gave Ji Fa’s forces a month to surrender.
  • The outsider approached Hongyun in his cave and offered him power, while Xiao Tian tightened controls around the Human Clan Holy City and planned to exploit the threat to the Heavenly Dao.
  • Yuanshi worried that Tongtian’s Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation could not be broken without four Sages and considered filling the Investiture of the Gods with Tongtian’s disciples.
  • Tongtian confronted Yuanshi after Laozi turned him away, warned that harming his disciples would end the bond of the Three Pure Ones, and Xiao Tian suspected Hongjun had arranged their rift.

Ch. 1653Nüwa's maneuver

King Zhou exploited the feud between Chan Sect and Jiejiao to attack Western Zhou, aided by Nüwa’s combat figurines, but Daoist Cihang destroyed them before King Zhou killed him. Yuanshi Heavenly Venerable and Sect Leader Tongtian stopped the sect battle, while Hongyun realized the Investiture of the Gods was already full.

  • King Zhou provoked Guangchengzi and Daoist Duobao into leading their sects into battle, then ordered Grand Preceptor Wen to launch a surprise attack on Western Zhou.
  • Lingzhuzi delivered Nüwa’s figurines to King Zhou, who planned to deploy them against Western Zhou’s army.
  • A group of Daoists arrived in Ji Fa’s camp, and Western Zhou ended its retreat and marched out to fight Great Shang.
  • Daoist Cihang destroyed ten thousand figurines with the Jade Purity Vase, but King Zhou pierced him with the God-Slaying Spear despite Daoist Randeng’s intervention.
  • Yuanshi Heavenly Venerable and Sect Leader Tongtian halted the fighting between their disciples, and Yuanshi Heavenly Venerable ordered Guangchengzi back to Jade Void Palace.
  • Hongyun discovered that every divine position on the Investiture of the Gods had been filled.

Ch. 1654The Dao Ancestor Was Dejected! Haotian Was Ecstatic

After the Investiture of the Gods ended, Hongjun ordered a new selection for the Heavenly Court, while Xiao Tian and the other Sages pressed Haotian for positions. Xiao Tian secured an incarnation’s appointment as Peach Garden earth god, leaving Haotian to deal with the new races and the Sages’ demands.

  • Xiao Tian celebrated the end of the Great Tribulation by healing living beings across the Primordial World and credited Zhunti with helping bring it to a close.
  • Hongjun warned that a Chaos anomaly remained and questioned Nüwa about sending her new races to aid Great Shang; he then announced a new selection of Heavenly Court personnel and said the Four Sovereigns would be chosen by destiny.
  • Xiao Tian and the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, and Zhunti went to Haotian, who learned that the Heavenly Court’s posts would be selected anew and asked how Nüwa’s new races should be assigned.
  • Xiao Tian summoned Yaochi to the imperial garden and asked her to let his incarnation serve as the Peach Garden’s earth god.
  • The figurine beings called Xiao Tian their Great Father God, prompting Xiao Tian to deny that they were his offspring while the others looked unconvinced.

Ch. 1655The Peach Garden was a dangerous place

Xiao Tian secured the Peach Garden for his avatar and strengthened his Deva Path abilities after the Primordial Heavenly Dao cleared its suspicions of him. At Empress Wa Palace, his vow to protect Nüwa created a Chaos Matrimonial Stone, and he later discovered that Hongyun’s gift concealed a devouring Chaos Otherkind.

  • Xiao Tian persuaded Yaochi to let his avatar guard the Peach Garden, where nearly five thousand Golden Immortal figurine creatures were stationed as guardian gods.
  • After leaving the Heavenly Court, Xiao Tian spent achievement points to comprehend the Deva Path, increasing his capabilities and advancing the Time Hourglass into a Chaos Spirit Treasure.
  • Xiao Tian promised Nüwa he would protect her, and the Deva Path responded by creating a Chaos Matrimonial Stone that rewarded sincere vows and judged broken ones.
  • Xiao Tian and Nüwa visited the Chaos Matrimonial Stone, where the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Hongyun arrived with gifts.
  • Xiao Tian found two wisps of devouring Evil Qi hidden in Hongyun’s immortal clouds; they consumed peaches and mimicked them before the Deva Path took the samples away.

Ch. 1656Little Brother Hongyun, You're One of Us

Xiao Tian confronted Hongyun about his secret dealings with the Chaos Otherkind, then trapped him in a mysterious void and prepared to replace his thoughts with those of a new, compliant Hongyun. Hongyun released the evil Qi inside him and begged Xiao Tian to spare him.

  • The Primordial Heavenly Dao rewarded Xiao Tian with achievement points but revealed that it had failed to find the Chaos Otherkind, so Xiao Tian asked Nüwa to have her figurine creatures investigate.
  • Xiao Tian visited the Heavenly Court's Peach Garden, gathered nine-thousand-year peaches, and then went to Hongyun's cave abode.
  • Xiao Tian pretended that he and Hongyun were teammates allied with the Chaos Otherkind, making Hongyun panic and deny any connection under oath.
  • Xiao Tian froze the space around Hongyun, opened a tunnel into a mysterious void, and overpowered him despite their shared Sagehood.
  • Xiao Tian said he would erase Hongyun's thoughts and replace him with a version who was one of them, prompting Hongyun to release his evil Qi and plead for mercy.

Ch. 1657The abandoned Sage

Xiao Tian exposed Hongyun as a traitor allied with the Chaos aberrant, then learned Hongyun had sought revenge against him and fought off the aberrant’s attempt to possess him. Xiao Tian killed Hongyun, and the fall of a Sage shocked the Primordial World’s other Sages and Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

  • Xiao Tian trapped Hongyun with the Chaos Bell and demanded that he reveal what he knew about the Chaos aberrant.
  • Hongyun confessed that the aberrant had promised him power and that he had joined it to gain revenge on Xiao Tian.
  • Xiao Tian used Rinnegan Tsukuyomi to uncover Hongyun’s hatred, but the Chaos aberrant urged Hongyun to attack and began transforming him.
  • Hongyun’s mutated tentacles and Corpse-Dissolving Soul-Scattering Sand challenged Xiao Tian, who struck him with the Adamantine Staff and killed him.
  • Blood-colored rain marked Hongyun’s death, and the other Sages and Dao Ancestor Hongjun reacted with shock and fear.

Ch. 1658Hongjun's conviction

After Hongyun’s death exposed that Deva Path Sages could fall, Hongjun and the other Sages built the Pilgrimage Tower to counter the Chaos aberration, while Xiao Tian and Nüwa guarded it. Seven hundred years later, the Great Tribulation began, and Xiao Tian watched a spirit stone on Flower-Fruit Mountain start to glow.

  • A Chaos aberration tried to tempt Hongjun, who resisted and summoned the Sages to discuss the aberration and the coming Great Tribulation.
  • Hongjun revealed that Xiao Tian had killed Hongyun after Hongyun abandoned his Deva Path protections by practicing the aberration’s methods.
  • The Sages agreed to build the Pilgrimage Tower, and Xiao Tian and Nüwa took responsibility for guarding it.
  • The Pilgrimage Tower’s holy light began purging infected beings, while the Chaos aberration failed to destroy it and continued seeking followers.
  • After seven hundred years, Hongjun announced the Great Tribulation as heavenly secrets became chaotic.
  • At Flower-Fruit Mountain, Xiao Tian sat on a spirit stone and ate and drank; the stone began to shine.

Ch. 1659The Intelligent Stone Monkey! Xiao Tian's plans

Xiao Tian met the newly born Sun Wukong and arranged for the East Sea Dragon King to let the monkey take the Sea-Calming Divine Needle. After Ao Bing returned as a Great Luo Golden Immortal and defeated the Eight-Headed Serpent Demon, Xiao Tian checked on Stone Monkey, who had reached Mount Fangcun seeking immortality.

  • The spirit stone shattered on Flower-Fruit Mountain, and the golden-furred Intelligent Stone Monkey emerged as Xiao Tian watched.
  • Xiao Tian vanished after giving Stone Monkey a bottle of heavenly nectar, which strengthened the monkey and sharpened its senses.
  • Stone Monkey entered Water Curtain Cave through the waterfall and became the monkey king of the troop.
  • Xiao Tian asked Ao Guang to stage resistance when Stone Monkey later came for the Sea-Calming Divine Needle and gave him a Water-Calming Divine Pearl in exchange.
  • Ao Bing returned to the East Sea as a Great Luo Golden Immortal, captured the Eight-Headed Serpent Demon, and gave Ao Guang hope for the Dragon Clan.
  • Stone Monkey arrived at Mount Fangcun's Slanting Moon and Three Stars Cave and pleaded with an immortal to teach it the way of immortality.

Ch. 1660The Dao Ancestor! The Deva Path's Schemes

After three years of waiting, Sun Wukong became Patriarch Bodhi’s disciple and received a mysterious inheritance linked to the Great Sage Equaling Heaven. Meanwhile, the Western Sect and the Heavenly Court arranged the journey west and banished little peach immortal 9527 to the mortal world, prompting Xiao Tian and Nüwa to realize they were being drawn into a scheme.

  • Patriarch Bodhi accepted the stone monkey as his disciple, named him Sun Wukong, and gave him a golden thread containing a method to enter the Dao.
  • Sun Wukong encountered a vision of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven in his consciousness and gained memories of the Heaven-Equaling Divine Ability, Ruyi Divine Ability, and Deva Path Undying Body.
  • Zhunti told Jieyin that he had chosen a candidate for the journey west, and Patriarch Bodhi agreed to send Sun Wukong down the mountain when the time came.
  • After receiving a decree from the Dao Ancestor, Haotian ordered little peach immortal 9527 banished to the mortal world for breaking a glass cup whose shards caused harm there.
  • Xiao Tian and Nüwa learned that the banishment was part of a scheme to make 9527 an escort on the journey west, while 9527’s tears flooded the Quicksand River region and disrupted its crossings.

Ch. 1661Zhunti was truly afraid

Dugu Qiubai questioned a Chaos Pioneer, who claimed the Primordial Heavenly Dao was an outsider and offered to help resurrect Pangu. As Zhunti arranged the pilgrimage west, he found Xiao Li and a girl beating a fire dragon, and abandoned his attempt to take it when Xiao Li invoked Xiao Tian and Nüwa.

  • Dugu Qiubai spoke with the Chaos Otherkind, which offered a deal to help resurrect Pangu and argued that the Primordial Heavenly Dao was likely an outsider.
  • Xiao Tian instructed Dugu Qiubai to feign ambition and gather more information about the Chaos Otherkind.
  • Sun Wukong completed three years of study on Mount Fangcun, bid farewell to his master and fellow disciples, and left for Flower-Fruit Mountain.
  • Houtu agreed to Zhunti's request to arrange the Underworld portion of the pilgrimage west, and Zhunti went to the Northern Continent of Kuru to seek a mount.
  • Zhunti found Xiao Li and a girl savagely beating a fire dragon, and Xiao Li warned him not to interfere by invoking Xiao Tian and Nüwa.
  • Zhunti, inwardly afraid of Xiao Tian, softened his approach and proposed discussing the matter with the children.

Ch. 1662A Quasi-Sage Had It So Hard

Xiao Li and Lingzhuzi finally handed Zhunti the fire dragon after Xiao Tian and Nüwa negotiated terms with him. A century later, Sun Wukong and the other Six Sages went to the Southern Heavenly Gate, where a clash with Mo Lihai and Mo Liqing revealed that Sun Wukong was already known in Heaven.

  • Xiao Li and Lingzhuzi evaded Zhunti for a year while refusing to surrender the fire dragon, until Zhunti agreed to discuss the matter with Xiao Tian.
  • Zhunti met Xiao Tian in Chang'an and signed agreements requiring Xiao Tian and Nüwa to arrange ten of the eighty-one trials on the journey west.
  • A hundred years later, Sun Wukong gathered with the other Six Sages at Flower-Fruit Mountain, and the Peng Demon King proposed that they go to Heaven.
  • The Seven Sages arrived at the Southern Heavenly Gate, where the Peng Demon King attacked its guards and Mo Lihai struck back with his pipa.
  • Sun Wukong intervened and blasted Mo Liqing away with his staff, then challenged Mo Lihai after the Heavenly King recognized him as the Great Sage Equaling Heaven.

Ch. 1663Sun Wukong Strayed into the Peach Garden

Sun Wukong entered the Heavenly Court with the Seven Sages, but after avoiding Tushita Palace and its pills, he wandered into the forbidden Peach Garden. There he ate a peach, apologized to a powerful figure spirit, and agreed to help her make someone call her Big Boss.

  • Haotian watched the Seven Sages enter the Heavenly Court and ordered Li Jing to carry out the plan.
  • Sun Wukong split from the others, mistook directions toward Tushita Palace for an invitation to meet its experts, and entered the palace as a mosquito.
  • Sun Wukong saw the immortal pills but left without taking any, while Haotian and the Star Lord of Fire Virtue tried to steer him back to Tushita Palace.
  • Sun Wukong ignored the warning sign and entered the Peach Garden, where the Queen Mother arrived but became distracted by the peach trees.
  • Sun Wukong ate a peach, apologized to Little Purple, and promised to help her make a nasty bastard call her Big Boss.

Ch. 1664Sun Wukong Was Alarmed

Sun Wukong wandered into the Peach Garden, ate an immortal peach, and fought Little Black after Little Purple asked him for help. Number Zero took Sun Wukong to the surveillance room and offered him a five-hundred-year work sentence, which he feared would leave Flower-Fruit Mountain vulnerable.

  • Little Purple explained the Peach Garden’s immortal peach trees and said she could not take Sun Wukong to meet Brother Earth God.
  • Little Purple asked Sun Wukong to beat Little Black, and Sun Wukong’s powerful staff strikes overwhelmed Little Black’s defenses.
  • Number Zero stopped the fight by sealing time and space, then took Sun Wukong away while Little Purple stayed to treat Little Black.
  • At the surveillance room, Sun Wukong admitted he had eaten an immortal peach, and Number Zero sentenced him to work in the Peach Garden for five hundred years.
  • Sun Wukong objected that five hundred years in heaven could leave his children on Flower-Fruit Mountain exposed to demons.

Ch. 1665Hiding Sun Wukong

Sun Wukong accepted punishment in the Peach Garden while the Queen Mother entered the Time Forbidden Zone and became trapped in illusions created by Xiao Tian’s incarnation. As the Jade Emperor summoned the Earth God and Zhunti and Jieyin pleaded for Sun Wukong’s release, Xiao Tian’s clone claimed he could not send word.

  • Number Zero sentenced Sun Wukong to guard the six-thousand-year peach area for five hundred years after Sun Wukong promised not to cause trouble and defended Little Purple.
  • Xiao Tian’s incarnation left the Peach Garden in the care of the ten Figure Spirit Clan elders, while Xiao Lan led the Queen Mother of Yaochi into the Time Forbidden Zone.
  • The Queen Mother saw illusions of disaster in Heaven and fought Xiao Tian’s incarnation, who overpowered her with the Chaos Bell.
  • After three days, Haotian learned that the Queen Mother was trapped and sent Heavenly King Li to bring the Peach Garden’s Earth God back to Heaven.
  • At Five Manors Temple, the Earth God ate with Great Immortal Zhenyuan before Heavenly King Li delivered the Jade Emperor’s summons; elsewhere, Zhunti and Jieyin asked Xiao Tian’s clone to release Sun Wukong, and he said he could not send a message.

Ch. 1666The Queen Mother of Yaochi's hatred!

The Peach Garden Earth God rescued the Queen Mother of Yaochi from the Time Forbidden Zone, then helped Zhunti and Jieyin find Sun Wukong. The Jade Emperor sentenced Sun Wukong to atone in the lower realm, where the Earth God sealed him inside a mountain, while Haotian agreed to protect the monkeys on Flower-Fruit Mountain.

  • Zhunti and Jieyin delivered Xiao Tian's message to the Peach Garden Earth God, who entered the Time Forbidden Zone and brought out the Queen Mother of Yaochi, leaving Sun Wukong behind.
  • The Queen Mother struck and bit the Peach Garden Earth God before leaving, while Zhunti and Jieyin helped search the maze-like Peach Garden for Sun Wukong.
  • Zhunti and Jieyin brought Sun Wukong before Haotian, who accused him of trespassing and revealed that his brothers had been killed or captured.
  • Sun Wukong agreed to undertake a task in exchange for the Heavenly Court protecting the monkeys on Flower-Fruit Mountain, then defeated several summoned immortals and gods in a sparring match.
  • The Peach Garden Earth God sent Sun Wukong crashing into a sealed mountain in the lower realm and asked Haotian to provide him with food and protect Flower-Fruit Mountain; Haotian agreed.

Ch. 1667Zhunti signed an IOU

Sun Wukong’s cultivation shook the mountain that imprisoned him, prompting Zhunti to seal it with Sage’s will; the seal triggered Sun Wukong’s sudden rise to Quasi-Sage and nearly killed him. After Xiao Tian forced Zhunti to sign a massive IOU, he reduced Sun Wukong’s cultivation to Great Luo Golden Immortal and set him on the scripture-escort path, then turned his attention to the Quicksand River.

  • Sun Wukong ate a ninety-thousand-year immortal peach and cultivated for three years, shaking the mountain and causing disasters for nearby travelers.
  • Zhunti sealed the mountain with Sage’s will, and Sun Wukong burst free a month later as a Quasi-Sage.
  • Xiao Tian and Nüwa confronted Zhunti, and Zhunti signed an IOU promising vast compensation to Xiao Tian.
  • Xiao Tian explained Sun Wukong’s future role escorting a scripture seeker, reduced his cultivation to Great Luo Golden Immortal, and told him to seek his own answer about the Great Sage Equaling Heaven.
  • Sun Wukong left to visit Flower-Fruit Mountain, while Xiao Tian looked toward the Quicksand River, where a female bodhisattva descended to the crying little figure.

Ch. 1668The Sages gathered at Purple Cloud Palace to devise trials

Codename 9527 learned he had to join the future scripture pilgrim and chose to endure the journey to regain his dignity. A century later, Tang Sanzang began his pilgrimage, while Xiao Tian arranged a perilous first trial that became a demand for him to hear ninety-nine stories.

  • Guanyin told Codename 9527 to accompany the destined scripture pilgrim, but he complained about the rules and tried to collect a crossing fee from an empty ship.
  • The Peach Garden's Earth God appeared aboard the ship, persuaded 9527 to wait for the scripture pilgrim, and left the local earth god a jade slip as a reward for caring for him.
  • A century later, Li Shimin made Tang Sanzang his imperial younger brother and sent him west to retrieve the True Mahayana Scriptures.
  • At Purple Cloud Palace, Xiao Tian agreed to devise eighteen trials for Tang Sanzang, and the gathered sages watched the pilgrimage begin.
  • Xiao Tian's stone demon killed Tang Sanzang's horse, then claimed to have saved him from a hidden ravine and required him to listen to ninety-nine stories before he could pass.

Ch. 1669Sun Wukong and Sanzang

Tang Sanzang repeatedly rejected the disciples arranged to escort him west, while Zhunti and Xiao Tian argued over how to guide him toward Sun Wukong. After a monster attacked Tang Sanzang at Dragon Horse Stream, Sun Wukong rescued him, but Tang Sanzang denied being the scripture seeker until he heard Sun Wukong mention Bodhisattva Guanyin.

  • Tang Sanzang survived the stone demon’s story by praising it as a tale worth publishing, then buried his horse and continued his journey.
  • Tang Sanzang repeatedly passed the mountain holding Sun Wukong, and Zhunti used spells to send him back; after Sun Wukong’s thrown durian nearly killed him, Bodhisattva Guanyin healed him and told him to find the imprisoned disciple.
  • Tang Sanzang refused to accept Sun Wukong as his disciple, so Zhunti negotiated with Xiao Tian to move Sun Wukong elsewhere; Xiao Tian agreed in exchange for borrowing Zhunti’s Seven Treasures Wondrous Tree.
  • At Dragon Horse Stream, Tang Sanzang fainted when a four-eyed lion demon threatened to eat him, and Bodhisattva Guanyin made Sun Wukong wait until Tang Sanzang woke before rescuing him.
  • Sun Wukong killed the lion demon and asked Tang Sanzang whether he came from the Great Tang; Tang Sanzang denied it, then called after him when Sun Wukong mentioned Bodhisattva Guanyin.

Ch. 1670The Seven Treasures Wondrous Tree Was Worse Than a Feather Duster

Sun Wukong pretended to abandon Tang Sanzang, leaving him in despair until Guanyin finally let the monkey sleep and Xiao Tian arranged for a grass spirit to steady the monk’s wavering Buddhist heart. Meanwhile, Xiao Tian deciphered Zhunti’s Seven Treasures Wondrous Tree and returned it after using it to sweep, provoking Zhunti’s fury.

  • Sun Wukong rejected Tang Sanzang’s explanation and flew off, while Guanyin watched the monk plead for help and delayed coming out to teach him patience.
  • Sun Wukong secretly met Guanyin and went to sleep; after Zhunti and the other Sages approved, Guanyin let him rest while Tang Sanzang’s Buddhist resolve faltered through the night.
  • Xiao Tian analyzed the Seven Treasures Wondrous Tree, resolved to create a superior treasure called Heaven-Brush, and used the tree as a feather duster before returning it to Zhunti.
  • Xiao Tian enlightened a nearby blade of grass into a Heavenly Immortal and instructed the grass spirit to use beauty and sensuality to strengthen Tang Sanzang’s Buddhist heart.
  • The grass spirit approached Tang Sanzang as his inner demon tormented him; he fainted, then awoke in her arms and hurriedly pulled away, chanting the Buddha’s name.
  • Zhunti learned Xiao Tian had used the Seven Treasures Wondrous Tree to sweep the floor and angrily accused him of wasting an Innate Supreme Treasure.

Ch. 1671Wukong! Fetching the scriptures means keeping your feet on the ground

Tang Sanzang steadied his resolve against Xiao Lu’s temptation, then was killed by a greedy couple who stole his Brocade Kasaya and travel permit. Bodhisattva Guanyin revived him and assigned Sun Wukong to protect him, and the pair caught up with the thieves, who died of fright when they saw Tang Sanzang alive.

  • Xiao Lu tested Tang Sanzang’s Buddhist resolve with embraces and temptations, but he resisted and continued west.
  • Tang Sanzang lodged at a farmhouse, where the two old people stole his Brocade Kasaya and bundle before smothering him.
  • Bodhisattva Guanyin saved Tang Sanzang’s soul, revived him with willow dew, and introduced Sun Wukong as his protector.
  • Sun Wukong took Tang Sanzang to pursue the thieves, then returned him to the village when Tang Sanzang insisted on keeping his feet on the ground.
  • Tang Sanzang and Sun Wukong caught the two old people in the city, and the thieves died of fright when they saw Tang Sanzang alive.

Ch. 1672Dao Ancestor Hongjun Lost His Composure

Tang Sanzang and Sun Wukong exposed two murderers and continued their journey, while Dao Ancestor Hongjun rebelled against the Deva Path after it destroyed his Three Corpses bodies. Hongjun fled into Chaos, Xiao Tian became the Deva Path’s spokesman, and Xiao Tian reassured the Three Pure Ones as the world’s power balance shifted.

  • Sun Wukong stopped Ox-Head and Horse-Face from reaping the wicked couple’s souls, and the couple returned to life and confessed to thirteen murders.
  • Tang Sanzang accepted the county magistrate’s thanks, while Sun Wukong took the offered silver, and the two resumed their journey.
  • Dao Ancestor Hongjun learned that the Deva Path had destroyed his Three Corpses bodies, swore to overthrow it, severed his Dao fruit, and escaped into true Chaos.
  • The Deva Path appointed Xiao Tian as its spokesman, and Xiao Tian accepted while secretly plotting against the Primordial Heavenly Dao.
  • Houtu received Hongjun’s secret message, while the Three Pure Ones worried about their future and Xiao Tian urged them to remain loyal to the Deva Path.

Ch. 1673The Undying Deva Path's trial

Xiao Tian began the Undying Deva Path inheritance trial and decided to impersonate Wujing on the scripture-fetching journey to find an impossible task. In the Women's Kingdom of Xiliang, he drank from the Mother-Child River and discovered its water caused unbearable pain in men, leaving him and Tang Sanzang's party helpless.

  • The inheritance system began trial 1, requiring Xiao Tian to complete a task he believed impossible, and Xiao Tian considered several potential challenges.
  • Xiao Tian sent a wisp of his primordial spirit to replace Wujing and joined Tang Sanzang's party on their journey to the Women's Kingdom of Xiliang.
  • Xiao Tian learned that the Mother-Child River could make men give birth and drank its water, while Tang Sanzang, Bajie, and the fire dragon horse drank it too.
  • Sun Wukong used a spell to stop the women from crowding around Xiao Tian, then immobilized the female general and her guards when they tried to arrest the party.
  • The Mother-Child River water took effect, causing Xiao Tian, Tang Sanzang, Bajie, and the fire dragon horse severe stomach pain, and the female general explained that its effects could disable even powerful male cultivators.

Ch. 1674Wukong, You Must Not Stop Me from Having a Baby

Sun Wukong learned that Tang Sanzang, Zhu Bajie, Fake Wujing Xiao Tian, and the Fire Dragon Horse could be cured with water from the Abortion Spirit Spring on Mount Jieyang, and left to fetch it. Xiao Tian secretly escaped, gave birth on Skull Mountain to a life-form made of special Qi, and completed his trial as Zhunti arrived, alarmed by the birth.

  • The female general explained that the Mother-and-Child River’s water had made the men pregnant and that spring water from Mount Jieyang could cure them.
  • Sun Wukong left his friends in the general’s care and flew to Mount Jieyang to obtain the spring water.
  • The queen visited the general’s residence, admired Fake Wujing Xiao Tian, and spoke with Tang Sanzang while the travelers suffered abdominal pain.
  • After recovering enough to use magic, Fake Wujing Xiao Tian escaped and hid on Skull Mountain, where he decided to endure childbirth for his trial.
  • Xiao Tian gave birth to a life-form made of special Qi as Zhunti arrived and divined that its birth was an aberration; Xiao Tian’s system awarded him 10 points and skipped Trial 2.

Ch. 1675Nüwa stood firm in his defense

Zhunti stopped the false Wujing, Xiao Tian, from harming Little Evil after Nüwa intervened, and Xiao Tian returned to Xiliang with his newborn son. When the Xiliang general was captured at Black Lightning Mountain, Xiao Tian rushed to rescue her, arriving with Little Evil and defeating the demons.

  • Zhunti found Xiao Tian with the newly born Little Evil, but Nüwa insisted the child should live and join the journey west.
  • The Xiliang general attacked Y Wind Stronghold while searching for Xiao Tian, crippled Great King Y Wind, and returned without finding the child.
  • Zhunti brought Xiao Tian and Little Evil back to Xiliang, where Xiao Tian explained his disappearance to the queen, Tang Sanzang, Sun Wukong, and Zhu Bajie.
  • The queen told Sun Wukong that her sister, the Xiliang general, had been trapped at Black Lightning Mountain after exhausting herself with the Blood-Burning Secret Technique.
  • Xiao Tian reached Black Lightning Mountain with Little Evil and used Ninefold True Fire to kill the three Demon Kings and rescue the Xiliang soldiers.
  • The Xiliang general saw Xiao Tian and Little Evil approaching, then collapsed from exhaustion.
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