Chapter Summaries

After discovering that he could hear people calling his name and watch them when they talked about him, Huang Tian tested the ability and observed his girlfriend at school. He realized the visions lasted an hour, but was still unsure how to use his power.

• Huang Tian burned his notes about his strange experiences and recalled how his ability had emerged over the past half month.
• Huang Tian followed a voice and watched two coworkers discuss his layoff and fear that they might be fired next.
• Huang Tian watched Zong Wenjun and Yang Ning talk about her boyfriend, and learned that Zhou Du wanted to pursue Zong Wenjun despite her relationship.
• Huang Tian watched Zong Wenjun study, then concluded that his ability let him observe people talking about him for up to an hour and wondered whether he could use it to gather information.

Huang Tian tested his superpower, which let him see scenes linked to people who called his name, and considered how it might help him gather information. After a day of using it, he discovered it had evolved to include anyone named Huang Tian, leaving him wondering whether it could evolve again.

• Huang Tian decided not to risk cooperating with the authorities yet and went out to eat.
• At Shihui Restaurant, Huang Tian overheard the owner and landlord argue about the restaurant's lease.
• Huang Tian spent the afternoon following voices and saw scenes involving his parents, Zhou Du, and a teacher describing his past academic efforts.
• After resting overnight, Huang Tian heard far more voices and followed one to a hotel guest named Huang Tian.
• Huang Tian realized his superpower now let him see scenes around anyone named Huang Tian whenever someone brought up the name.

Huang Tian used his ability to observe people who shared his name, including two thieves robbing an apartment in Su Province. After a day of watching other Huang Tians, his ability shifted from voices to crackling sounds, which eventually revealed an instructor speaking to outer disciples about a cultivation scripture.

• Huang Tian watched a burglar named Huang Tian and his accomplice break into an apartment in Su Province and steal valuables, but decided not to call the police because he could not explain how he knew about the crime.
• Huang Tian spent the day observing other people named Huang Tian, including a student, a retired man playing the erhu, a girl painting, and a motorcycle rider.
• The next morning, Huang Tian found that activating his ability produced only radio-like crackling, and the interference continued through the day.
• That night, Huang Tian heard a man named Mo Qiu introduce himself as an instructor for Thick Earth Sect outer disciples and begin explaining the Yellow Heaven Mountain-Suppressing Spirit Scripture.
• Huang Tian wondered whether the voice came from another person named Huang Tian.

After discovering that his superpower could let him hear lessons from the Thick Earth Sect, Huang Tian recorded Mo Qiu’s cultivation method and spells, then successfully cultivated on Blue Star. He reached the first level of Qi Refining overnight and noticed his senses had improved, leaving him eager to learn more after getting breakfast.

• Huang Tian wrote down Mo Qiu’s instructions for the Yellow Heaven Mountain-Suppressing Spirit Scripture, the Earth Golem Technique, and the Lesser Cloud and Rain Technique.
• Huang Tian tried the cultivation method on Blue Star and sensed spiritual energy completing a Lesser Celestial Circuit through his body.
• Huang Tian decided to keep a low profile in case cultivators existed on Blue Star, then continued cultivating through the night.
• Huang Tian condensed a golden-yellow vortex of qi by morning and realized he had reached the first level of Qi Refining.
• Huang Tian discovered that his eyesight, hearing, and sense of smell had improved, then decided to go downstairs for breakfast.

Huang Tian tested the Earth Golem Technique and the Lesser Cloud and Rain Technique after discovering his memory and comprehension had improved. As he stood in the storm he created, he felt utterly free.

• Huang Tian memorized the two spells and realized his superpower had improved his memory and comprehension.
• Huang Tian went to the hills behind Guangming Park and summoned a nearly three-meter-tall earth golem, testing its strength and movements.
• Huang Tian dismissed the golem and meditated until his spiritual energy was replenished.
• Huang Tian cast the Lesser Cloud and Rain Technique, gathering dark clouds and unleashing a violent storm.
• Huang Tian let the rain soak him and felt as if he had finally returned to nature.

After hearing a chant from another world, Huang Tian saw a brutal battle between the Yellow Turban Army and Han forces during the Late Han Dynasty. He realized he might be able to follow the sound thread and cross into that world.

• Huang Tian returned from the park, bought supplies, and politely turned down a girl who approached him outside the supermarket.
• Huang Tian went home, ate an apple, and activated the switch that connected him to another world.
• Huang Tian heard thousands of voices chanting, “Blue Heaven is dead, Huang Tian shall rise!”
• Huang Tian followed a golden sound thread through spacetime and witnessed the bloody clash between the Yellow Turban Army and the Han Army.
• Huang Tian wondered why he could see this battlefield and sensed he might be able to cross into the Late Han Dynasty World.

Huang Tian watched Zhang Jiao’s Yellow Turban Army defeat a Han force, then learned that time passed far faster in the Late Han Dynasty World as he continued cultivating. Five days later, he heard Mo Qiu begin a lecture on Qi Refining and glimpsed his class in the Thick Earth Sect’s world.

• Huang Tian tried to send his consciousness into the Late Han Dynasty World, cracked a barrier, and decided to cultivate further before attempting to cross it.
• Huang Tian watched Zhang Jiao’s Yellow Turban cavalry rout the Han Army and identified the battlefield as an early stage of the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
• Huang Tian discovered that the Late Han Dynasty World advanced about thirty days for every day on Blue Star, and he saw Zhang Jiao’s fortunes collapse under Lu Zhi’s campaign.
• Huang Tian cultivated for five days and reached the threshold of the second level of Qi Refining.
• Huang Tian heard Mo Qiu lecture on the fourth through sixth levels of Qi Refining and viewed the gathering of young cultivators listening to him.

Huang Tian learned the Orthodox Earth Thunder technique from Mo Qiu’s lesson and tested its power at Guangming Park. After pulverizing several rocks, he broke through to the second level of Qi Refining.

• Mo Qiu taught the outer disciples the Orthodox Earth Thunder technique, and Huang Tian recorded the complete method.
• Huang Tian memorized the technique through repeated mental practice and went out for dinner, where he learned that Shihui Restaurant was closing.
• Huang Tian went to Guangming Park and used Orthodox Earth Thunder to pulverize a rock.
• Huang Tian cast Orthodox Earth Thunder twice more, destroying nearby stones, then broke through to the second level of Qi Refining.

Huang Tian video-called Zong Wenjun and agreed to see her during National Day, then resumed meditating and reached the Late Han Dynasty World. In Guangzong, Zhang Jiao prepared to lead the Yellow Turbans into battle against the Han Army besieging the city.

• Huang Tian spoke with Zong Wenjun, who planned to visit him in Chang City during National Day.
• Huang Tian meditated until noon and sent a fragment of his consciousness through the spacetime barrier after hearing a voice from the Late Han Dynasty World.
• Zhang Jiao told Zhang Liang that reinforcements were unlikely and that they had to fight their way out of Guangzong.
• Zhang Liang refused to abandon Zhang Jiao, and the brothers agreed to go into battle together.
• Yellow Turban soldiers streamed out of Guangzong and rallied beneath their banners, chanting their call for the Yellow Heaven to rise.

Lu Zhi’s Han Army and Zhang Jiao’s Yellow Turbans fought outside Guangzong City, where the Han forces’ discipline and equipment gave them the advantage. As the Yellow Turbans began to falter and both commanders weighed their remaining reserves, a muffled clap of thunder sounded overhead.

• Lu Zhi marshaled the Han Army outside Guangzong City as Zhang Jiao led nearly forty thousand Yellow Turbans into battle.
• Zhang Jiao rallied his soldiers with a speech condemning the ruling order and calling for the Yellow Heaven to rise.
• The Han Army advanced in disciplined ranks, and its archers and shielded infantry inflicted heavy losses on the charging Yellow Turbans.
• Huang Shao led a thousand armored Yellow Turban Warriors into the fighting and briefly pushed the Han line back before the Han soldiers regained the advantage.
• Zhang Jiao hesitated as the Yellow Turban formation weakened, Lu Zhi began to relax, and a muffled clap of thunder sounded from the sky.

A supernatural storm interrupted the battle between Lu Zhi’s Han Army and Zhang Jiao’s Yellow Turbans, and a swaddled infant descended in a pillar of lightning. Both commanders claimed the infant as a holy figure and sent their troops to protect it, restarting the slaughter around the sleeping baby.

• Zong Yuan and Lu Zhi watched dark clouds gather, while Zhang Liang and Zhang Jiao hoped the coming rain would let the Yellow Turbans withdraw.
• Lu Zhi ordered the Han Army to sound the gong and retreat as the storm intensified and the soldiers pulled away from battle.
• A huge pillar of purple lightning struck the battlefield, leaving both armies stunned and many soldiers kneeling in fear.
• A sleeping infant descended inside the lightning and landed in the open ground between the armies.
• Zhang Jiao and Lu Zhi each proclaimed the infant sacred and ordered their troops to protect it.
• The Han and Yellow Turban armies resumed fighting around the infant, who remained asleep as soldiers avoided coming near it.

Huang Tian descended onto the battlefield in miraculous fashion, turning the Yellow Turban Army’s faith into victory and shattering the Han Army’s resolve. Lu Zhi fled from Guangzong City as the Yellow Turbans advanced, while Huang Tian landed and examined the soldiers around him.

• Huang Tian appeared as a newborn amid the battle, floated into the air, grew into a five-year-old boy, and declared himself supreme.
• Zhang Jiao recognized Huang Tian as the Holy Venerable, and nearly forty thousand Yellow Turban soldiers bowed to him.
• More than ten thousand Han soldiers surrendered in worship, while Lu Zhi rallied a small group by invoking Gao Di and ordered a retreat.
• Huang Tian told Zhang Jiao, “Huang Tian rises; the Blue Heaven dies,” prompting Zhang Jiao to order the Yellow Turbans to advance and spare those who surrendered.
• Lu Zhi escaped toward Guangzong City with a few hundred loyal troops, and Huang Tian descended to the ground as the mysterious force faded.

Huang Tian met Zhang Jiao after the Yellow Turbans defeated the Han Army, healed him with spiritual energy, and ordered the rebels to consolidate their strength instead of advancing. He planned to cultivate in the Late Han Dynasty World and eventually unify the realm.

• Zhang Jiao and Zhang Liang knelt before Huang Tian, who told Zhang Jiao that he would soon die.
• Huang Tian explained that he had descended to help his believers, then used spiritual energy to heal Zhang Jiao and restore his vitality.
• Huang Tian entered Guangzong City with Zhang Jiao and dismissed everyone but him at the county offices.
• Huang Tian told Zhang Jiao to hold off on attacking the Han Court and reorganize the surrendered Han troops.
• After Zhang Jiao left, Huang Tian resolved to cultivate quickly and lead the Yellow Turbans toward unifying the realm.

After the Han army was destroyed, Lu Zhi reached Lieren County with only a small group of survivors and began preparing its defenses while seeking reinforcements. He told Imperial Envoy Zuo Feng that Zhang Jiao’s forces had won because the Yellow Heaven itself had descended.

• Lu Zhi tried to take his own life, but Zong Yuan and the other officers stopped him and urged him to continue serving Great Han.
• Lu Zhi told the Magistrate of Lieren that the Han army had been wiped out and ordered him to requisition civilians, prepare the city defenses, and request reinforcements from Luoyang.
• The Magistrate of Lieren told Lu Zhi that Imperial Envoy Zuo Feng had arrived and was notorious for extorting cities along the way.
• Lu Zhi went to see Zuo Feng, who had been drinking and watching dancers, and told him that the Han army had been defeated.
• Lu Zhi explained that Zhang Jiao had emerged from Guangzong to fight and declared that the Yellow Heaven—the God Huang Tian, the Sovereign Yellow Absolute—had descended.

Zuo Feng questioned Lu Zhi, his officers, and surviving soldiers about the defeat at Guangzong, and each account confirmed that the Yellow Turban forces had been aided by a divine descent. He fled to Luoyang to report the disaster to Emperor Liu Hong, who was stunned by the news.

• Zuo Feng doubted Lu Zhi’s claim that a god had caused the Han army’s defeat, so he questioned five officers, whose accounts supported Lu Zhi’s story.
• Zuo Feng interrogated twenty surviving soldiers, who described the Yellow Heaven Holy Infant descending during the battle and said the divine event had forced their surrender.
• Convinced the soldiers were telling the truth, Zuo Feng decided to report the defeat and hurried out of Lieren for Luoyang without demanding bribes.
• More than ten days later, Zuo Feng told Liu Hong that the Han army had been wiped out and that a Holy Infant had descended among the Yellow Turbans, leaving the emperor stunned.

Liu Hong doubted reports that a divine figure had aided the Yellow Turbans, punished Lu Zhi, and ordered reinforcements to Ji Province. In Guangzong, Huang Tian’s army trained for a month, and Zhang Jiao proposed a campaign to seize nearby counties as food ran short.

• Liu Hong questioned Zuo Feng about God Huang Tian and learned that Zuo Feng had not witnessed the god and that Lu Zhi’s army had been destroyed, with fewer than two hundred cavalry surviving.
• Liu Hong ordered Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao to join Lu Zhi, directed Huangfu Song to defeat Bu Si and then march to Ji Province, and stripped Lu Zhi of his command.
• Liu Hong wondered whether gods truly existed after hearing that Lu Zhi and other witnesses believed the Yellow Turbans had divine aid.
• Huang Tian reached the third level of Qi Refining as the Yellow Turban Army trained with surrendered Han soldiers and seized equipment.
• Zhang Jiao told Huang Tian that food in Guangzong would soon run out and proposed sending fifteen thousand troops to capture Quzhou, Guangping, and Pingxiang before linking up with forces at Xiaquyang.

Huang Tian returned from Blue Star with plans to improve Late Han productivity and establish the Yellow Heaven Dao Court. He appointed Zhang Jiao its first Great Virtuous Teacher and outlined its political and scientific institutions while the Han armies gathered in Ji Province.

• Huang Tian approved Zhang Jiao’s plan to draw the Han forces into Julu Commandery for a decisive battle, then returned to Blue Star to study agricultural tools and industrial development.
• Huang Tian returned to the Late Han Dynasty World and summoned Zhang Jiao, who reported that Zhang Liang had taken several counties and that Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao, and Huangfu Song were moving into Ji Province.
• Huang Tian proposed establishing the Yellow Heaven Dao Court with a Political Academy, a Science Institute, and a future Dao Institute, and appointed Zhang Jiao its first Great Virtuous Teacher.
• Huang Tian explained that the Science Institute would study and improve machinery, describing technologies he had seen in another world.
• Huang Tian directed Zhang Jiao to oversee the Political Academy and said the Science Institute would admit literate people, while the Dao Institute would later be reserved for exceptional candidates.

Cao Cao urged Lu Zhi to let him attack the Yellow Turbans, but Lu Zhi and Dong Zhuo refused, leaving him furious at their caution. Meanwhile, Tian Feng entered Guangzong to investigate the Yellow Turban Army and seek a place for his clan amid the upheaval.

• Cao Cao questioned Lu Zhi’s gloomy mood, and Lu Zhi said the Yellow Heaven Holy Infant’s divine power threatened the Han army’s chances of victory.
• Cao Cao offered to lead troops around Quzhou and Guangzong to hunt Yellow Turban scouts, but Lu Zhi refused and Dong Zhuo avoided supporting the plan.
• Cao Cao left in anger, while Lu Zhi and Dong Zhuo continued drinking together.
• Tian Feng observed that Guangzong appeared peaceful despite the nearby Han army and decided to enter the city.
• Tian Feng recalled Lu Zhi’s defeat and the rumors about the Yellow Heaven Holy Infant, then chose to investigate the Yellow Turbans’ recruitment notices under an assumed name.

Tian Feng entered Guangzong City under an assumed name and learned how the Yellow Turbans used Spirit Water to treat refugees and wounded people. After watching a sick girl recover, he was deeply shaken by the people’s devotion to the Holy Venerable.

• Tian Feng gave the name Tian Yuan, courtesy name Zhiyuan, and entered Guangzong City after a Yellow Turban captain directed Xiao Wu to guide him to the Recruitment Bureau.
• Xiao Wu told Tian Feng about the Holy Venerable Huang Tian and explained that Spirit Water was reserved for refugees and the sick.
• Tian Feng stopped at the Spirit Water Bureau and watched a Yellow Turban soldier give Spirit Water to a feverish girl.
• The girl regained color and alertness, and a healer confirmed that her fever had gone.
• The girl’s father thanked the Divine Envoy and then bowed toward the county office in gratitude to the Holy Venerable, leaving Tian Feng speechless with shock.

Tian Feng joined the Yellow Turbans under the alias Tian Yuan and was appointed Zhang Jiao’s chief clerk, hoping to secure his clan’s place in the coming dynasty. Meanwhile, Huangfu Song overruled Lu Zhi’s misgivings and ordered the Han army to march on Guangzong.

• Tian Feng witnessed Spirit Water heal the sick, then told He Yi his real identity and asked to serve under the name Tian Yuan to protect his clan in Ye City.
• He Yi explained the Political Academy and Science Institute, and Tian Feng chose the Political Academy while hoping to study immortal arts later.
• Zhang Jiao appointed Tian Feng chief clerk, welcomed him into the Great Peace Sect, and ordered He Yi to prepare him a residence.
• Cao Cao urged the Han commanders to attack Guangzong, but Lu Zhi warned they would be defeated without learning the truth about God Huang Tian.
• Huangfu Song insisted they march in accordance with the emperor’s edicts, and he ordered the army to advance on Guangzong and destroy the Yellow Turbans.