Recaps

Sun Wukong cured the Kingdom of Zhuzi’s emperor, rescued the queen from Sai Taisui, and then fought a succession of monsters threatening Tang Xuanzang’s pilgrimage. After Bodhisattva Fangkong cured the poisoned travelers and took away the centipede spirit, the group continued west toward a mountain known for its demons.

• Sun Wukong cured the emperor with a pill made using the White Dragon Horse’s excrement, then learned that Sai Taisui had taken the queen and offered to rescue her.
• Sun Wukong infiltrated Sai Taisui’s cave, stole the three golden bells, and rescued the queen after Guanyin revealed that Sai Taisui was her mount.
• Tang Xuanzang was captured by seven spider spirits at Webbed Silk Cave, and Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie defeated them and burned their cave.
• At Yellow Flower Temple, a Daoist poisoned Tang Xuanzang, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing, while Sun Wukong fought the spider spirits and the Many-Eyed Monster.
• Sun Wukong sought help from Bodhisattva Fangkong, who used her needle to defeat the centipede spirit and gave the poisoned travelers antidote pills.
• Sun Wukong burned down the centipede spirit’s temple, and the group continued west until an old man warned them about demons on a towering mountain.

Sun Wukong battled the three fiends of Lion Camel Ridge and sought Tathagata’s help after they captured Tang Xuanzang and his companions. After the pilgrims escaped and continued west, they reached Children’s City, where Sun Wukong began protecting boys who were to be sacrificed for the king’s medicine.

• Sun Wukong learned that three fiends and their army ruled Lion Camel Ridge, then infiltrated their ranks and was captured by Kunpeng in a treasure bottle.
• Sun Wukong escaped the bottle with Guanyin’s life-saving hairs, then returned with Zhu Bajie to fight the fiends and forced Azure Lion to promise to carry Tang Xuanzang across the mountain.
• The elephant demon captured Zhu Bajie, but Sun Wukong freed him and subdued the elephant, then agreed to travel in the fiends’ sedan chair with Tang Xuanzang and the others.
• Kunpeng’s forces captured the pilgrims in the city and shut them in an iron cage, but Sun Wukong escaped, rescued them, and later searched the city for Tang Xuanzang when the demons recaptured him.
• Sun Wukong went to Thunderclap Monastery and asked Tathagata for help, and Tathagata and Bodhisattvas Wenshu and Puxian subdued the three fiends and helped rescue Tang Xuanzang.
• The pilgrims left Lion Camel City and continued west for several months until they reached the Bhikkhu Kingdom, which Sun Wukong found was also called Children’s City.
• Sun Wukong discovered boys imprisoned in cages and learned that the king’s Daoist intended to use their hearts and livers as medicine, so he summoned immortals to hide and protect them overnight.

Sun Wukong exposed the demons who threatened Tang Xuanzang and helped bring the rat demon back to the Heavenly Court. The pilgrims then entered the Dharma-Exterminating Kingdom in disguise, where Sun Wukong shaved the royal court’s heads after they were taken to the palace.

• Sun Wukong exposed the royal preceptor as a fiend, helped the Immortal Elder of the South Pole reclaim his white deer, and returned the stolen children to the Bhikkhu Kingdom.
• Sun Wukong recognized the tied-up woman as a monster, but Tang Xuanzang freed her and followed her to a monastery, where he fell ill and a demoness later abducted him.
• Sun Wukong tracked Tang Xuanzang to the Bottomless Cave and infiltrated the demoness’s wedding feast, then attacked her from inside her body.
• Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing fought the demoness, and Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li and Third Prince Nezha took her into custody after Sun Wukong identified her as Li’s daughter, Lady Earth Flow.
• Bodhisattva Guanyin warned the pilgrims that the Dharma-Exterminating Kingdom’s king planned to kill ten thousand monks, so Sun Wukong disguised the group as horse traders and gave them new names.
• Sun Wukong lodged the group at Widow Zhao’s Inn, arranged vegetarian food, and had the old woman lock them inside a wardrobe beside the White Dragon Horse.
• Robbers stole the wardrobe and horse, and soldiers brought them to the palace, where Sun Wukong escaped and shaved the heads of the king, queen, and officials with a transformed monkey hair.

Tang Xuanzang and his disciples rescued a drought-stricken commandery and continued to Jade Flower County, where Sun Wukong recovered their stolen weapons and defeated the Nine-Headed Lion with help from its master, Taiyi Heavenly Venerable. After the pilgrims trained the prince’s sons, they resumed their journey and entered Auspicious Cloud Temple.

• The king of the Dharma-Exterminating Kingdom welcomed Tang Xuanzang after a hair-raising transformation, renamed his kingdom the Buddha-Revering Kingdom, and sent the pilgrims on their way.
• Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie defeated the demons who had captured Tang Xuanzang, rescued him and a farmer, and continued toward Tianzhu.
• Sun Wukong discovered that heaven had withheld rain from Fallen Flower Commandery because its ruler had offended the gods, then secured rain after the ruler repented and the White Dragon Horse summoned a downpour.
• At Jade Flower County, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing impressed the prince and his sons with their strength, and Sun Wukong agreed to train the princes.
• After demons stole their weapons, Sun Wukong and his companions infiltrated Tiger Mouth Cave, reclaimed the weapons, and drove the demons away.
• The Nine Spirits Primordial Saint attacked the city, captured Tang Xuanzang and the king, and defeated Sun Wukong and Sha Wujing before Taiyi Heavenly Venerable reclaimed his runaway Demon Beast.
• Sun Wukong rescued Tang Xuanzang, and the pilgrims trained the three princes before leaving Long Pool and entering Auspicious Cloud Temple.