Chapter Summaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The false Wujing Xiao Tian used his blood to heal the Western Liang general and decided to seek resurrection for the soldiers who died because of him. Sun Wukong took him and Little Evil to the Underworld, where he entered the forbidden nineteenth level of hell to reach Lady Pingxin, leaving the others at the gate.

• The false Wujing Xiao Tian healed the Western Liang general with his blood, and she awakened as a Martial Immortal before he taught her the Eight Desolations Invincible Undying God of War Art.
• After returning to the Women's Kingdom of Xiliang, the false Wujing Xiao Tian asked Sun Wukong to help him resurrect the dead soldiers, and Sun Wukong agreed after seeing his distress.
• Sun Wukong, the false Wujing Xiao Tian, and Little Evil descended to the Underworld, where King Yama explained that only Lady Pingxin could change the Book of Life and Death.
• King Yama revealed that reaching Lady Pingxin required passing through the gate to the nineteenth level of hell, from which no one had returned.
• Sun Wukong entered the nineteenth level alone, while King Yama urged the false Wujing Xiao Tian and Little Evil to follow in case Sun Wukong died inside.

Sun Wukong overcame the Nineteenth Level of Hell and made a wish to protect Little Sister Little Purple, while Fake Wujing, Xiao Tian, secured the resurrection of the dead in Xiliang. After the pilgrims stayed for the kingdom’s celebration, Xiao Tian arranged a wager with Zhunti over whether Tang Sanzang would develop feelings for the Queen of Xiliang.

• Sun Wukong resisted the mysterious Great Sage Equaling Heaven within the Nineteenth Level of Hell and became the first to pass through it by his own abilities.
• Sun Wukong and Fake Wujing, Xiao Tian, met Houtu, who granted Xiao Tian’s wish to revive the dead people of Xiliang and the surrounding Demon Clan.
• Sun Wukong wished for Little Sister Little Purple to live forever and, after Houtu explained the consequences, amended his wish to let her choose her race in future reincarnations.
• The revived people returned to Xiliang, and the Queen persuaded Tang Sanzang and his disciples to remain for the kingdom’s celebration.
• Xiao Tian met Zhunti and Jieyin at the Great Thunderclap Monastery and wagered the Creation Thunder Infant Fruit Tree that Tang Sanzang would develop feelings for the Queen of Xiliang.

Xiao Tian and Zhunti wagered over whether Tang Sanzang would abandon his feelings for the queen of Xiliang to complete his pilgrimage. After a demon abducted the queen and she became trapped inside the Kunlun Mirror, Sun Wukong and Fake Wujing Xiao Tian sought Haotian’s help identifying the treasure.

• Xiao Tian proposed a half-month wager with Zhunti, using the queen’s affection for Tang Sanzang to test his resolve.
• The queen confessed her love to Tang Sanzang, who resisted returning to secular life but began to consider it after seeing her tears.
• At the palace celebration, the queen gave Tang Sanzang a farewell dance, then an antlered demon abducted her from the rear garden.
• Sun Wukong, Fake Wujing Xiao Tian, and Zhu Bajie confronted the demon on Mount Jieyang and learned that the queen had been sucked into its Kunlun Mirror.
• Sun Wukong and Fake Wujing Xiao Tian went to the Heavenly Court, where Haotian reacted strangely after seeing an image of the Kunlun Mirror.

Sun Wukong brought Tang Sanzang to the Kunlun Mirror to speak with the queen of Western Liang, and Tang Sanzang briefly rejected the scripture journey before Zhunti erased his rebellious thoughts. Xiao Tian won his wager with Zhunti and Jieyin, then pursued the Undying Deva Path trial by drawing out the Chaos Otherkind, whose representative chose Aotian as a new ally.

• Sun Wukong learned from Haotian that the queen of Western Liang had willingly trapped herself in the Kunlun Mirror and that Tang Sanzang had to free her.
• Tang Sanzang entered the Kunlun Mirror, comforted the queen of Western Liang, and promised to return to her after fetching the scriptures.
• Tang Sanzang questioned the scripture journey and declared he would uncover the truth, but Zhunti erased his rebellious thoughts and sent him back to the journey.
• The queen of Western Liang left her kingdom to seek the Human Clan's sacred land and vowed to uncover the truth and save Tang Sanzang.
• Xiao Tian won his wager with Zhunti and Jieyin, gave them the Yellow Central Plum, and began using disguised identities to lure out the Chaos Otherkind.
• In the Goddess Heavenly Realm, Aotian killed the empress of the Nine Realms, and the Chaos Otherkind's representative declared Aotian its chosen representative.

Xiao Tian’s primordial spirit avatars deepened their cooperation with the Chaos Otherkind, while Tang Sanzang’s pilgrimage party reached a tribulation involving Red Boy and Lingzhuzi. After Xiao Li recognized Sun Wukong’s divine ability as Xiao Tian’s, the sight of Zhunti’s face broke Tang Sanzang’s amnesia spell, and he vowed to oppose the gods and Buddhas.

• Asura God King Aotian cooperated with the Chaos Otherkind for a million years, learned the Heart Source Devouring Method, and ascended to the Northern Continent of Kuru.
• The Chaos Otherkind secretly built its strength while fooling the Primordial Heavenly Dao, and fifteen of Xiao Tian’s primordial spirit avatars cooperated with it.
• During the pilgrimage party’s sixty-sixth tribulation, Sun Wukong fought Red Boy and subdued Lingzhuzi, prompting Xiao Li to confront him with over a hundred Innate Spirit Treasures.
• Xiao Li recognized Sun Wukong’s Heaven-Equaling Divine Ability as Xiao Tian’s, and Sun Wukong realized Xiao Tian had taught him his powers.
• Red Boy identified Zhunti as the Daoist who had urged him to capture Tang Sanzang, and seeing Zhunti’s face restored Tang Sanzang’s memories.
• Tang Sanzang vowed never to coexist with the gods and Buddhas, and the Western Sect’s providence began to decline.