**Time Dimension**: Three hundred years after Tang Monk and his disciples returned from studying for scriptures, Heaven discovered that the Western Spirit Mountain suddenly disappeared, and strange phenomena began to appear in the three realms.
- **Space Dimension**: Starting from the broken Nine Heavens, extending to the forgotten ancient realm of chaos, and finally leading to the realm of ruins where all Buddhas are annihilated.
- **Core Conflict**: Sanqing discovered that the search for scriptures from the West was the key to the rebirth of the ancient demon god. The resentment of the monsters surrendered on the way to the scriptures was converging into a new chaos demon.
### Chapter Summary
- **Sudden Change in Lingshan**: Taishang Laojun discovered that Lingshan Mountain in the West was shrouded in mysterious black lotus, and all the golden bodies of Buddha were turned to stone.
- **The Lost Traces of the Golden Cicada**: Tang Monk, who had become the Tantan Merit Buddha, suddenly disappeared, leaving only a half-broken nine-ring tin staff.
- **Undercurrent appears**: Black blood oozes from the Panlong Pillar in the Lingxiao Palace, and the Jade Emperor discovers that the fate of heaven is being swallowed by unknown forces.
- **The Demonic Mist Reappears**: A nine-headed lion chariot appeared in Chang'an City, and the Nine Spirit Yuan Sheng, who had been missing for three hundred years, returned to the world with a strange light of Buddha.
- **Guixu Gate**: A giant bronze door engraved with anti-Buddhist scriptures appeared on the bottom of the East China Sea. Dark golden chaotic energy oozed from the cracks in the door.
