This book has become extremely repetitive and somewhat of a letdown, specially after the brilliance that is Three Kingdoms. The Tang monk gets kidnapped because he didn't listen to Sun Wukong, so he and the other monks go chase and hit monsters in the head for 3 chapters, and sometimes he needs help from heavenly beings who seem to be orchestrating the whole thing. Rinse, repeat.

That said, there was a series of chapters in which the monks became pregnant by accidentally drinking pregnancy river water and had to go visit the Abortion Stream in the Child Destruction Cave to fix that which was pretty cool to be fair. Great arc.

Onto Volume 4!