Recaps

After Jiang Zhe transmigrated into a mythological world, an old yellow ox tried to corrupt him by promising him a fairy bride, but his newly awakened Flame Dragon Armor and Samadhi True Fire stopped it. The system assigned him a mission to thwart the ox’s scheme and offered merit and a top-tier draw as rewards.

• Jiang Zhe overheard the old yellow ox telling Erlang to steal a fairy’s clothes so she would become his wife.
• The old yellow ox appeared in Jiang Zhe’s dream and tried to corrupt him with Buddhist illusions and desire.
• The Great Dao Armor System awakened Jiang Zhe’s Flame Dragon Armor and Samadhi True Fire, which broke the ox’s hold over him.
• Jiang Zhe woke in his hut with a fiery red medallion and discovered he could summon Samadhi True Fire without transforming.
• The system explained that merit could raise Jiang Zhe’s cultivation or buy spiritual treasures, and that he could earn merit by protecting humanity or completing missions.
• The system gave Jiang Zhe a beginner mission to thwart the old yellow ox’s scheme, with one thousand merit and a top-tier draw as rewards.

Jiang Zhe discovered that the Samadhi True Fire had tempered him to the Peak of Spirit Refining and practiced compressing it into a deadly projectile. The next morning, Old Yellow Ox tried to recruit and enchant him with promises of cultivation and an opportunity on Mount Hua, but Jiang Zhe’s fire burned away the Buddhist influence.

• Jiang Zhe realized that protecting humans from demons could earn merit and that stopping Old Yellow Ox’s scheme would complete his beginner mission.
• Jiang Zhe used Samadhi True Fire to compress a flame into a fireball that pierced a bluestone, then reached the Peak of Spirit Refining.
• Old Yellow Ox transformed into a middle-aged man and offered to teach Jiang Zhe cultivation and give him an opportunity on Mount Hua six months later.
• Old Yellow Ox used Buddhist power to try to make Jiang Zhe submit, but Jiang Zhe’s Samadhi True Fire burned away the Buddha images in his mind.

Jiang Zhe pretended to obey the old yellow ox while investigating Buddhism’s plot to ensnare heavenly fairies, including the Third Holy Mother. He discovered and recycled a conversion fragment personally written by Dingguang Joyful Buddha, then waited for nightfall to observe the ox’s scheme.

• The old yellow ox gave Jiang Zhe a cultivation technique and said he would teach him that night how to trick a fairy.
• Jiang Zhe accepted the technique while using Samadhi True Fire to protect his mind from its hidden conversion threads.
• Jiang Zhe burned the technique, revealing a golden conversion fragment that had survived the flames.
• Jiang Zhe learned that Dingguang Joyful Buddha’s fragment was meant to convert him into a believer and a tool for luring fairy maidens.
• Jiang Zhe recycled the fragment for 100 merit and confirmed that the Great Dao would prevent it from being traced back to him.

Jiang Zhe followed the old yellow ox as Cowherd stole a fairy garment, and witnessed the ox secretly enchant it with a spell from the Joyful Buddha. The ox planned to recruit Jiang Zhe into the Venerable’s sect, while Jiang Zhe began to suspect that the supposed romance between Cowherd and Weaver Girl had been engineered.

• The old yellow ox invited Jiang Zhe to watch Cowherd approach the pond, believing Jiang Zhe’s looks would help advance its plans.
• The old yellow ox and Jiang Zhe followed Cowherd to the pond under concealment as seven fairy maidens bathed nearby.
• Cowherd chose Weaver Girl’s cloud-patterned robe from the garments on the rocks and fled with it.
• The old yellow ox sent a thread of yellow light into Weaver Girl’s robe, and Jiang Zhe suspected it would bind her to Cowherd.
• The old yellow ox praised the Venerable’s power and promised to bring Jiang Zhe to Spirit Mountain after the scheme was complete.

Jiang Zhe discovered that the old ox had been relying on Dingguang Joyful Buddha and that Weaver Girl was still stranded by the pool. After the old ox tried to kill him, Jiang Zhe broke through his golden formation with Samadhi True Fire and transformed into the Flame Dragon Armor, leaving them poised to fight.

• Jiang Zhe realized Dingguang Joyful Buddha had been the old ox's backer from the beginning.
• The old ox learned Jiang Zhe had not entered his sect, sealed them inside a golden formation, and threatened to keep him by the pool.
• Jiang Zhe shattered the formation with Samadhi True Fire, and the old ox revealed his Peak Human Immortal cultivation and Buddhist-infused demonic Qi.
• Jiang Zhe invoked Flame Dragon Armor and fused with the fire dragon armor as its power surged through him.

Jiang Zhe used his red-and-white armor and Samadhi True Fire to fight the old yellow ox, who transformed into a giant demon. Jiang Zhe killed him with Flame Fist, while Cowherd was also burned to ashes by a stray spark.

• The old yellow ox mistook Jiang Zhe’s armor for a natal spirit treasure and lunged to seize it.
• Jiang Zhe’s armored punch wrapped the old yellow ox’s arm in Samadhi True Fire and sent him crashing into a crater.
• The old yellow ox transformed into an ox-headed demon and charged Jiang Zhe.
• The old yellow ox’s punch struck Jiang Zhe’s armor, while a stray spark from the impact burned Cowherd to ashes.
• Jiang Zhe unleashed Flame Fist, engulfing the old yellow ox in Samadhi True Fire and burning him apart.

Jiang Zhe defeated the old yellow ox, found and mastered Wild Bull Force, and broke through to the Return to Void realm. After returning Weaver Girl’s immortal garment, he discovered that she had incurred a great karmic debt to him, so she hurried after him to settle it.

• Jiang Zhe found a page of Wild Bull Force in the old yellow ox’s ashes and spent 100 merit to master the technique.
• Wild Bull Force strengthened Jiang Zhe’s body and helped him break through from the peak of Spirit Refining to the Return to Void realm.
• Jiang Zhe picked up Weaver Girl’s immortal garment and found her searching for it in the lake.
• Jiang Zhe returned the garment without looking at Weaver Girl and left the lakeside.
• Weaver Girl noticed a great karmic thread connecting her to Jiang Zhe and flew after him to settle the debt.

After Weaver Girl blessed him and left, Jiang Zhe used his merit for a low-tier draw and obtained the Green Lotus Core Flame. The flame raised his cultivation to peak Dao Integration and left him able to summon a lightning tribulation to attempt the Human Immortal realm.

• Weaver Girl asked Jiang Zhe about his origins, promised to find him an immortal cultivation art, and gave him Vega's Protection before returning to the heavens.
• Weaver Girl told Jiang Zhe to follow the Weaver Girl Star to find Mount Hua.
• Jiang Zhe spent 1,000 merit on a low-tier draw and obtained the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• The Green Lotus Core Flame entered Jiang Zhe's body, tempered him, and raised his cultivation to peak Dao Integration.
• Jiang Zhe realized he could summon a lightning tribulation and attempt to become a Human Immortal.

Jiang Zhe obtained Primordial Chaos Creation Divine Lightning from a top-tier draw and realized it could transform his innate potential, but feared that fusing with it would alert powerful beings. He headed toward the Demon King of Havoc near Flower-Fruit Mountain, hoping to shift the disturbance there and find out whether Sun Wukong had returned.

• Jiang Zhe received a mission to kill the Demon King of Havoc, who was slaughtering people a hundred kilometers away.
• Jiang Zhe used his free top-tier draw and obtained Primordial Chaos Creation Divine Lightning, which could heal, reshape bloodlines, and destroy origins.
• Jiang Zhe refused to invest the lightning in the Thunder Yatales Armor, deciding its potential was more valuable for transforming himself.
• Jiang Zhe worried that fusing with the lightning would attract the attention of powerful gods and buddhas.
• Jiang Zhe set out toward the Demon King of Havoc near Flower-Fruit Mountain, intending to let the disturbance point there and check whether Sun Wukong was present.

Jiang Zhe headed south toward Flower-Fruit Mountain while Weaver Girl stole two cultivation techniques from the Jade Emperor’s library to repay her debt to him. The Jade Emperor revealed that Cowherd Star’s chosen host had died at Jiang Zhe’s hands and decided to let Weaver Girl’s actions determine who would take the vacant place.

• Jiang Zhe learned from Weaver Girl Star that Flower-Fruit Mountain lay to the south and hurried toward it on foot because he could not use cloud-riding magic.
• Weaver Girl slipped into the Jade Emperor’s library and chose the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts and the Fire Virtue True Art for Jiang Zhe.
• The Jade Emperor and Taibai Jinxing watched after Weaver Girl left, and the Jade Emperor destroyed a trace of Buddhist karma linked to Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal.
• The Jade Emperor explained that Cowherd Star’s chosen host had died at Jiang Zhe’s hands, leaving Weaver Girl Star to choose a replacement, and he decided to let events unfold naturally.

Jiang Zhe entered Flower-Fruit Mountain to hunt demons and test his strength, killing three minor demons with Green Lotus Core Flame and earning merit. He spent all 500 merit to raise Wild Bull Force to proficient.

• The Jade Emperor told Taibai Jinxing that the Weaver Girl's love tribulation was only half over and decided to let his youngest daughter choose for herself.
• Jiang Zhe reached Flower-Fruit Mountain and sensed demons nearby, hoping to draw them out with his powerful presence.
• Great King Green Snake attacked Jiang Zhe, who killed it instantly with Green Lotus Core Flame and gained 100 merit.
• Jiang Zhe hunted down a mountain sprite and a stone-armored lizard, earning another 200 merit.
• Jiang Zhe spent all 500 merit to raise Wild Bull Force to proficient.

After strengthening his body, Jiang Zhe heard monkeys in danger and discovered demons massacring them to seize the Water Curtain Cave. He saved the monkeys with his Green Lotus Core Flame, and the chapter ended as he attacked the fleeing toad demon with blazing white fire.

• Jiang Zhe felt his Wild Bull Force grow clearer and rejoiced at his increased strength.
• Jiang Zhe found a group of demons surrounding starving monkeys and saw that several monkeys had been killed.
• The toad demon demanded the Water Curtain Cave for the Demon King of Havoc and threatened to eat the monkeys’ brains.
• The little golden-haired monkey struck the toad demon with a stone and declared that the monkey king would return.
• Jiang Zhe descended in a wave of Green Lotus Core Flame, burning the demons while the toad demon escaped the flames.
• The toad demon recognized Jiang Zhe as a dangerous cultivator and fled, but Jiang Zhe fired blazing white fire from his palm.

Jiang Zhe learned that the Demon King of Havoc had slaughtered the monkeys and decided to confront him. After hearing that the demon was organizing an alliance of Flower-Fruit Mountain’s Seventy-Two Cave Demon Kings, Jiang Zhe accepted a gray monkey’s offer to guide him through a hidden passage to the Water Filth Cave.

• Jiang Zhe saw the monkeys’ corpses and realized how the massacre might affect Brother Monkey when he returned.
• Two gray-furred monkeys thanked Jiang Zhe for saving them, and he asked where the Demon King of Havoc lived.
• A gray monkey warned Jiang Zhe that the Demon King of Havoc was powerful and had taken over the Water Filth Cave, but Jiang Zhe insisted on confronting him.
• The big gray monkey revealed that the Demon King of Havoc was plotting an alliance with the Seventy-Two Cave Demon Kings and offered to guide Jiang Zhe through a hidden passage.
• Jiang Zhe agreed to the guide’s help and killed the struggling toad demon with a gesture.

Jiang Zhe spent his merit to perfect Wild Bull Force and went to Water Filth Cave, where he found several demon kings gathered. He revealed his fire armor and prepared to attack the Demon King of Havoc with a Flame Slash.

• Jiang Zhe spent 1,300 merit points to raise Wild Bull Force to perfection, leaving him with 200 merit points.
• Jiang Zhe refused to retreat from Water Filth Cave and told the gray monkey to hide while he faced the demons.
• Jiang Zhe summoned his fire armor, startling the demons and alerting them to an enemy outside the cave.
• The gray monkey tried to find an underground river in case Jiang Zhe needed help escaping.
• Jiang Zhe drew a Flame Saber as the Demon King of Havoc came out of the cave with a massive beheading saber.
• Jiang Zhe activated Flame Slash, projecting a two-colored Demon-Sealing Seal formed from Samadhi True Fire and Green Lotus Core Flame.

Jiang Zhe used the Flame Saber’s Demon-Sealing Slash to kill the Demon King of Havoc with one strike, throwing the demons at Water Filth Cave into chaos. The other demon kings tried to flee, but Jiang Zhe invoked Flame Fist.

• The Demon King of Havoc challenged Jiang Zhe and attacked him with his executioner's greatsword as the other demon kings watched.
• Jiang Zhe unleashed the Flame Saber’s Demon-Sealing Slash, overpowering the Demon King of Havoc’s demon Qi.
• The slash split the Demon King of Havoc and his greatsword, and the system awarded Jiang Zhe 5,000 merit points.
• The lesser demons panicked, while the gray monkey watched the Demon King of Havoc’s body fall and roared with excitement.
• The remaining demon kings gathered demon Qi to escape, but Jiang Zhe invoked Flame Fist.

Jiang Zhe unleashed his Flame Fist and wiped out the demons attacking the Water Curtain Cave, raising his merit to 8,000. After Gray Monkey revealed that the Demon King of Havoc's cave might contain a rare heavenly treasure, Jiang Zhe entered the Water Filth Cave to search for it.

• The spider demon king tried to flee, but Jiang Zhe's Flame Fist scattered homing flames that burned the demons to charcoal.
• Jiang Zhe surveyed the scorched battlefield and saw his merit rise to 8,000, then dismissed his armor after his magic power was nearly exhausted.
• Gray Monkey praised Jiang Zhe for ending the Demon King of Havoc's attacks, which had devastated the monkey clan.
• Gray Monkey told Jiang Zhe that the Demon King of Havoc's chainmail and saber had been his best-known possessions, but Jiang Zhe had already melted them.
• Gray Monkey said a heavenly treasure was believed to be hidden in the Water Filth Cave, so Jiang Zhe went inside to look for it.

Jiang Zhe and the gray monkey rescued captives from Water Filth Cave, where Jiang Zhe also found the Condensed Essence Lingzhi and shared some of it with the survivors. After the gray monkey led the healed humans away, Jiang Zhe stayed behind to cultivate and prepare for a prize draw and a fusion with Primordial Chaos Creation Divine Lightning.

• Jiang Zhe and the gray monkey entered Water Filth Cave and found dozens of humans imprisoned and many others dead.
• Jiang Zhe asked the gray monkey to rescue the captives, and the gray monkey freed them and buried the dead.
• A rescued woman told Jiang Zhe that the Demon King of Havoc had hidden a purple lingzhi behind his throne.
• Jiang Zhe smashed the throne, found the nine-leaf Condensed Essence Lingzhi, and gave leaves to the humans and the gray monkey.
• After the survivors recovered, the gray monkey took them toward a nearby town while Jiang Zhe stayed in the cave to cultivate.

Jiang Zhe fused with the Primordial Chaos Creation Divine Lightning, which began transforming him into an Innate Living Being. The Eye of Heavenly Punishment appeared over Flower-Fruit Mountain, drawing the attention of powers across the Three Realms while Jiang Zhe remained unconscious and hidden in the Water Filth Cave.

• Gray Monkey gathered the survivors and left the Water Filth Cave after Jiang Zhe promised to visit the Water Curtain Cave.
• Jiang Zhe fused the Primordial Chaos Creation Divine Lightning, which entered his forehead and knocked him unconscious.
• The Jade Emperor and Taibai Jinxing recognized the thundercloud over Flower-Fruit Mountain as the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and ordered Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Following Ear to keep watch.
• The World-Honored Tathagata sent Tiger-Taming Arhat to find the new presence, while Dingguang Joyful Buddha asked him to investigate a missing disciple and deliver a broken Samsara Mark to Mount Hua.
• Jiang Zhe's body expelled its impurities as the Divine Lightning of Creation remade his meridians and innate constitution, leaving him a weak Innate Living Being.

After half a year in the Water Filth Cave, Jiang Zhe awakened as an Earth Immortal and used a system lottery to obtain several treasures and techniques. He left the cave and headed to the Water Curtain Cave to find out how much time had passed.

• Jiang Zhe woke after six months, discovered his body had transformed, and checked the system panel to find he had become an Earth Immortal.
• Jiang Zhe spent 1,000 merit to raise his cultivation progress by 0.1% and realized his new talents would support his cultivation.
• Jiang Zhe performed seven low-tier draws and received Three Lights Heavy Water, an unripe Peach of Immortality, Dark Yellow Flame, Great Desolation Prisoner Heavenly Finger, and several other items.
• Jiang Zhe used the Three Lights Heavy Water to unlock three percent of the Black Rhino Armor’s water origin and stored the Condensed Essence Lingzhi for later.
• Jiang Zhe left the Water Filth Cave and decided to ask the gray monkey at the Water Curtain Cave how long he had been asleep.

Weaver Girl returned with two cultivation techniques for Jiang Zhe, including the powerful Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, which suited his abilities. After accepting them, Jiang Zhe noticed an unfamiliar star following the Weaver Girl Star and asked Weaver Girl why she was on Flower-Fruit Mountain instead of Mount Hua.

• Weaver Girl gave Jiang Zhe two jade slips and was surprised to find that he had already gained magic power and passed a lightning tribulation.
• Jiang Zhe discovered that one jade slip contained the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts and recognized its potential to strengthen his body and primordial spirit.
• Weaver Girl explained that she had chosen Fire Virtue Star Lord's fire-control technique because Jiang Zhe had displayed flame energy in battle.
• Jiang Zhe thanked Weaver Girl for the techniques and suspected that the Jade Emperor had allowed her to take the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts.
• Jiang Zhe noticed an unfamiliar star beside the Weaver Girl Star, and Weaver Girl said it had been following her since she returned from her bath.
• Weaver Girl asked Jiang Zhe why he was on Flower-Fruit Mountain instead of Mount Hua.

Jiang Zhe and Weaver Girl traveled to Flower-Fruit Mountain so he could visit the Water Curtain Cave and taste the monkeys’ wine. As they arrived at dawn, Jiang Zhe mastered the basics of the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, and its cultivation began refining his magic power and tempering his body.

• Weaver Girl enjoyed the lollipop and decided to stay in the mortal world longer, hiding the Weaver Girl Star from the sky.
• Jiang Zhe set off for the Water Curtain Cave with Weaver Girl and began studying the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts from his jade slip.
• Weaver Girl found she could not perceive Jiang Zhe’s karma and wondered whether marrying him might repay her debt for saving her life.
• Weaver Girl slowly carried Jiang Zhe by cloud to Flower-Fruit Mountain, where they spotted the waterfall and the monkeys below.
• Jiang Zhe reached the entry level of the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, and his magic power began to circulate, settle in his dantian, and temper his body.

Nearly half a year after Jiang Zhe killed the Demon King of Havoc, Gray Monkey told him a powerful yaksha from the East Sea had begun attacking humans, and Jiang Zhe prepared to hunt it. The monkeys served aged monkey wine, which left Weaver Girl drunk and triggered a powerful cultivation aura in Jiang Zhe.

• Gray Monkey reported that the humans had been moved to safety and that a yaksha from the East Sea had recently attacked a merchant caravan.
• Weaver Girl warned Jiang Zhe that the yaksha was likely a powerful Great Demon, but Jiang Zhe said he could handle it and urged her to return to the Heavenly Court.
• Gray Monkey brought out monkey wine, and Weaver Girl drank a bowl before learning it had been aged for twenty years and was extremely potent.
• The wine made Weaver Girl drunk, and she leaned against Jiang Zhe while murmuring that she should offer herself to him.
• Jiang Zhe refined the wine's spiritual Qi with the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, releasing an aura that forced the nearby gray monkeys to their knees.

Jiang Zhe left Flower-Fruit Mountain after receiving a map, then encountered and killed a murderous yaksha with his Great Desolation Prisoner Heavenly Finger. He gained 3,000 merit points and increased his Black Rhino Armor unlock progress to 4%.

• Jiang Zhe learned that the monkeys had been waiting nearly twenty years for their king to return from learning skills.
• Jiang Zhe accepted a map of the four great continents from Gray Monkey and prepared to leave Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Weaver Girl, drunk on monkey wine, clung to Jiang Zhe and licked his hand, but settled down after he promised her candy.
• Jiang Zhe spotted demonic Qi and received a mission to kill a murderous yaksha.
• Jiang Zhe crushed the yaksha with his Great Desolation Prisoner Heavenly Finger and earned 3,000 merit points, raising his Black Rhino Armor unlock progress by 1%.

Tiger-Taming investigated a village near Flower-Fruit Mountain and flew toward the mountain after sensing a possible connection to his mission. Meanwhile, Jiang Zhe traveled across the East Sea with the intoxicated Weaver Girl, cultivated the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, and ended the chapter close to a Heavenly Immortal breakthrough.

• Tiger-Taming noticed a vast magical disturbance near Flower-Fruit Mountain and suspected it was connected to the Buddha’s prophecy and his mission.
• Tiger-Taming ordered a village to worship Buddha, investigated a missing cowherd boy, and flew toward Flower-Fruit Mountain on golden lotuses.
• Weaver Girl praised Jiang Zhe, complained about the karma between them, and passed out after declaring that she wanted to repay his kindness.
• Jiang Zhe cultivated the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts and studied Fire Virtue Star Lord’s insights into controlling flames while crossing the East Sea.
• Jiang Zhe realized they had reached Southern Jambudvipa and considered traveling to Mount Hua to pursue a mission concerning Yang Chan.
• Jiang Zhe’s cultivation reached 95 percent, leaving him one step from becoming a Heavenly Immortal.

Tiger-Taming headed for Water Curtain Cave to investigate the monkeys, while Jiang Zhe reached Mount Hua and discovered a quest to kill Joyful Boy and remove the Buddha light from the Goddess of Mount Hua. The quest’s generous rewards drew Jiang Zhe in, but he realized Joyful Buddha’s scheme had spanned three reincarnations and might involve a powerful immortal.

• Tiger-Taming searched a demon’s memories, learned that a mortal cultivator and the monkeys were connected to the events at Demon King of Havoc’s cave, and set out for Water Curtain Cave.
• Jiang Zhe reached Heavenly Immortal and reviewed the cultivation realms and how merit could help him break through.
• Jiang Zhe and Weaver Girl arrived at Mount Hua, where Weaver Girl asked whether he planned to visit his cousin and urged him to enter the Heavenly Court’s immortal register.
• Jiang Zhe received a quest to kill Joyful Boy and use the Precious Lotus Lantern to dispel the Buddha Light Universal Salvation Technique from the Goddess of Mount Hua.
• Jiang Zhe considered the quest’s rewards and realized that Joyful Boy’s three reincarnations were part of a long-running scheme by Joyful Buddha.