Primordial Era: A brick knocks Hongyun unconscious, and he seizes the throne at the start.

The Heavenly Court issued an arrest warrant three days ago, but they haven't even caught a hair on Sun Wukong's head.

Li Tianwang led his troops to search every inch of the Thirty-Three Heavens, even turning over the haystacks in the Imperial Stables three times, but the monkey seemed to have vanished into thin air. Some celestial officials privately discussed, "Everyone says this monkey is incredibly powerful; could it have already escaped to the mortal realm?"

The Jade Emperor's face was gloomy, and the Queen Mother was so angry that she smashed several glass cups—the peaches of immortality had been stolen, and although only 30% of them were stolen, each of those purple-veined peaches was counted, and losing even one was a slap in the face to her, the Queen Mother of the Jade Pool.

In the Tushita Palace, Laozi had already returned from Kunlun. Looking at the gourd and jade bottle that had been ransacked in the alchemy room, he found that nearly 30% of the golden pills were missing. His white eyebrows twitched incessantly.

"What a monkey..." Laozi calculated with his fingers, but found that the heavenly secrets were in disarray. There seemed to be some kind of chaotic aura covering the monkey, making it difficult to pinpoint its location.

Just then, the Golden Horned Boy, who had been following Laozi, suddenly had a sudden inspiration and whispered, "Master, I have an idea. That monkey demon is greedy and loves to eat peaches and drink wine. Why don't we..."

He whispered a few words in his ear.

Laozi listened, his brows gradually relaxing: "This plan is worth a try. Go and arrange it as you said."

It turns out that Lu Chen had secretly influenced the mind of this Golden Horned Boy using the Chaos Secret Technique—not by controlling him, but by amplifying his "ambitious" and "clever" nature. The plan he offered now was exactly what Lu Chen wanted.

Two days later, a message quietly spread in the Heavenly Court: the oldest mother peach tree in the Peach Garden, the nine-thousand-year-old purple-veined peach tree, will have a "Yin-Yang Twin Peach" ripen tonight at midnight. This peach only bears a pair once every thirty thousand years. Eating it can instantly grant one the title of Great Luo and allow one to glimpse a trace of the Great Dao of Yin and Yang!

The message was sent secretly, but just enough for Sun Wukong, who was "hiding," to hear it.

Thirty feet underground in the Qitian Palace, Sun Wukong dug a cave using his earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of magic or technique). He was eating stolen peaches and drinking imperial wine when he overheard two patrolling heavenly soldiers chatting about this matter. He immediately perked up his ears.

"A Yin-Yang Twin Peach? A proof of becoming a Great Luo Immortal?" Sun Wukong's golden eyes gleamed. "How could I miss such a treasure!"

He was an extremely audacious man, and confident in his supernatural abilities, so he immediately decided: tonight I will go and steal peaches!

As midnight approached, extraordinary phenomena indeed appeared in the Peach Garden. At the top of the mother tree, two fist-sized peaches, one black and one white, grew side by side, emanating a rich Yin-Yang Daoist aura, with rosy light shooting into the sky, visible for miles around.

Outside the garden, the pines are visible but the defenses are tight, seemingly lax, but in reality, a simplified version of the Yin-Yang Dust Array has been set up, waiting for Sun Wukong to fall into the trap.

Sun Wukong transformed into a bee and buzzed into the garden. He immediately spotted the two conspicuous twin peaches and was overjoyed. He pounced on them.

Just as he reached out to pick the peach—

"boom!"

The surrounding scenery changed abruptly! Where was the Peach Garden? All he saw was an upside-down world, with yin and yang energies grinding down like a millstone, trapping him in the center! At the same time, a glittering golden rope flew out from the void, coiling around him like a serpent!

"We've fallen into their trap!" Sun Wukong was shocked and hurriedly tried to escape using his Seventy-Two Transformations, but he found that the space within the great formation was frozen, making it difficult to use his transformation techniques! The Golden Rope was Laozi's personal magic weapon, which was specifically designed to counter transformations, and in the blink of an eye, it had bound him tightly!

"You demon monkey! Where do you think you're going!" Li Tianwang, along with the Four Heavenly Kings, Nezha, the Giant Spirit God, and others, descended from the sky, completely surrounding the great formation.

Laozi arrived gracefully, looked at the struggling Sun Wukong, and said calmly, "Take him to the Demon-Slaying Platform."

On the Demon-Slaying Platform, amidst the chopping of swords and axes, the lightning strikes and the burning of fire, Sun Wukong, bound by the Golden Rope, remained unharmed—his Nine Revolutions Profound Skill was nearing completion, and his physical body was almost indestructible.

"This monkey stole the peaches of immortality and the golden pills, and has already refined his body into an indestructible form. Ordinary punishments cannot harm him," Laozi said to the Jade Emperor. "Why not send him into my Eight Trigrams Furnace and refine him with both civil and military fires, turning his entire cultivation into a golden pill to atone for his sins?"

The Jade Emperor pondered for a moment, then nodded in agreement.

Sun Wukong was taken to the Tushita Palace and thrown into the Eight Trigrams Furnace. The furnace was divided into eight trigrams: Qian, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun, and Dui. Laozi personally activated the Samadhi True Fire, and the furnace door slammed shut.

Flames roared inside the furnace. Sun Wukong, bound by the Golden Rope, was placed in the "Xun Palace" position—a position with wind but no fire, which could not harm him. Instead, he could use the wind and smoke to refine a pair of "Fiery Eyes".

But this time, the instant the furnace door closed, a barely perceptible stream of chaotic energy entered the furnace along with Sun Wukong.

The chaotic energy within the furnace quietly transformed into the likeness of Lu Chen—a wisp of chaotic clone he left inside the Golden Cudgel.

"Monkey, don't panic." Lu Chen's clone transmitted his voice, "Laojun wants to refine you for forty-nine days, but in reality, he wants to use the power of the Eight Trigrams Furnace to completely refine and fuse the spiritual energy of the Peach and Golden Elixir in your body. At the same time, he will use the smoke method to refine you into 'Fiery Eyes,' so that the Buddhist sect can more easily control you in the future."

"Master!" Sun Wukong exclaimed, both surprised and delighted. "What do we do now?"

"Let's play along," Lu Chen's clone laughed. "Your physical body can be tempered again by the fire of the Eight Trigrams Furnace. However, we can't let them actually develop Fiery Eyes—although that thing can see through illusions, it's also easily suppressed by Buddhist light."

He pointed a finger, and a stream of chaotic energy flowed into Sun Wukong's brow: "I will teach you the 'Chaotic Breath Concealment Technique,' which can temporarily seal your eye orifices, preventing the power of smoke and mist from penetrating. When you are finished, you will pretend to have forged the Fiery Eyes of Truth, but in reality... I have something else for you."

Sun Wukong followed the instructions and circulated his energy. Sure enough, he felt a cool sensation in his eyes, and although the smoke from the furnace was thick, it could not penetrate his eyes.

Lu Chen's clone took out another small jade bottle and poured out three drops of Chaos Origin Liquid—the essence he had refined during his hundred years of returning to the Void: "Open your mouth."

Sun Wukong obediently opened his mouth, and three drops of the source liquid entered his stomach. Instantly, he felt a powerful yet gentle force spreading into his limbs and bones, rapidly merging with the spiritual energy of the peaches and golden pills within his body. This not only stabilized his soaring cultivation level but also loosened the bottleneck of the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, showing faint signs of a breakthrough!

"Good stuff!" Sun Wukong exclaimed happily.

"There's something even better." Lu Chen's clone took out another dusty seed and pressed it into Sun Wukong's brow. "This is the 'Golden Eyes of Illusion' Origin Seed, which is a wisp of 'Truth' law that I extracted from the Chaos Demon Ape's origin. You will slowly nurture and refine it in the future. Once it is fully mastered, you will not only be able to see through illusions, but also look directly at the origin and comprehend all laws. It will be a hundred times stronger than the Fiery Eyes of Illusion, and it will not be restrained by Buddhist light."

Sun Wukong felt the coolness between his eyebrows and was so excited that he scratched his ears and cheeks.

"Alright, you shall cultivate here for forty-nine days, using the furnace fire to temper your physical body," Lu Chen said in his clone. "After forty-nine days, when the furnace opens, you shall break free and cause a great disturbance—remember, the bigger the commotion, the better, but do not actually harm Laozi or those key figures. Once you have broken through the Southern Heavenly Gate, return to Flower Fruit Mountain and await my next instructions."

"Disciple understands!" Sun Wukong nodded emphatically.

Lu Chen's clone transformed into chaotic energy and quietly escaped from the Eight Trigrams Furnace—with his current control over the Dao of Chaos, the Eight Trigrams Furnace, though powerful, could not contain him.

Outside the furnace, Laozi sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, urging the true fire, and pondered in his heart: "In forty-nine days, this monkey will have refined its fiery eyes and its arrogant nature will have been tempered to some extent. It will be a good time for Buddhism to take over..."

Little did he know that the monkey inside the furnace had not only not had its temperament tempered, but had instead received a tremendous blessing and was now happily cultivating.

In the clouds, Lu Chen himself was cracking melon seeds, looking in the direction of the Tushita Palace.

"After passing through the Eight Trigrams Furnace, the physical body is tempered once more, and the Golden Eye of Truth is planted..."

"Monkey, once you come out, the main event of this 'Havoc in Heaven' will officially begin."

"Then, we'll teach all these gods and Buddhas a good lesson—"

"What do you mean by 'controllable loss of control'?"

His figure blurred, and he fled towards the South Heavenly Gate.

Some of the "extras" should be bribed in advance.