Chapter Summaries

Huang Tian returned to East Xia after demonstrating extraordinary abilities, while governments worldwide retreated from confrontation after a devastating tsunami abruptly subsided. A month later, he opened a globally broadcast press conference promising historic news, then revealed five colorful cloud dragons above his palm.

• Huang Tian projected himself into a command center, confirmed his identity, and asked to meet its superior before leaving to stroll through the city.
• A black car collected Huang Tian, and he remained away for a month as governments investigated him and the tsunami that had been stopped in seconds.
• At a secret meeting, Seth explained that no human weapon could harm a being capable of calming such a tsunami, and officials chose to wait and watch.
• East Xia announced a historic press conference with Huang Tian as speaker, prompting widespread speculation before the June 7 broadcast.
• Huang Tian addressed reporters and livestream viewers, then summoned five colorful cloud dragons that circled and shrank above his palm.

Huang Tian revealed that supernatural energy existed and introduced the Second World, a virtual realm where people could cultivate and conduct research. After receiving a helmet, Witten entered the realm and used it to simulate an underwater nuclear explosion.

• Witten and Napayi watched Huang Tian demonstrate five-colored dragons and a radiant tree, then heard him explain spiritual energy and cultivation.
• Huang Tian introduced the Second World and announced that Virtual Helmets would cost five hundred yuan, with the first batch going on sale at noon.
• Witten received a free helmet offer from Li Nuo, booked a flight to East Xia, and traveled to Capital University to experience the virtual world.
• Li Nuo guided Witten through the Second World and explained its areas, contribution points, and customizable research environment.
• Witten spent 350 contribution points to simulate an underwater nuclear explosion, and the resulting blast engulfed him and Li Nuo.

Li Nuo and Witten explored the virtual world, learned cultivation, and died in their first Yellow Turban trial before deciding to try again. Meanwhile, Huang Tian deployed the Justice Brain to manage the virtual world as Blue Star’s technology and cultivation advanced, and he received a signal announcing a new world.

• Li Nuo showed Witten the Trial Space, where Witten learned the Spirit Tiger and Crane Stance before deciding Mystic Dao cultivation suited him better and successfully entering meditation.
• Li Nuo and Witten entered the Yellow Turban trial, fought for the uprising, and were killed by Han soldiers; they laughed together afterward and chose to retry it.
• Researchers worldwide exchanged previously hidden technologies through the virtual world, accelerating Blue Star’s advances in science and cultivation.
• Huang Tian sent the Justice Brain into the virtual world to manage it and monitor the real world.
• At Yan East Garden, Huang Tian heard elderly people discuss improved health and longevity, then received a golden thread of sound announcing a new world.

After awakening in the body of a village boy, Huang Tian recovered and discovered a Monkey trapped beneath a mountain. The Monkey told him how ordinary people could begin cultivating and directed him toward Mysterious Cave Mountain, leaving Huang Tian with a path to pursue.

• Mo Hong and Old Man Mo feared Huang Tian would die, but Huang Tian woke and used spiritual energy to restore himself.
• Huang Tian recovered, noticed an unusual place northwest of the village, and went there to investigate.
• Huang Tian found a Monkey pinned beneath a mountain and began bringing him fruit each day.
• After a month, Huang Tian asked the Monkey how he could become an immortal.
• The Monkey explained that Huang Tian could seek a lesser school or pass the Heart-Testing Grand Formation at Mysterious Cave Mountain to become the disciple of a great Loose Immortal.

Huang Tian left the village to seek immortality at Mysterious Cave Mountain after Monkey revealed the path and taught him protective arts. After a perilous journey, he arrived at the mountain with the White Deer and entered its outer mist formation, where a crowd of prospective disciples watched him.

• Monkey told Huang Tian about Mysterious Cave Mountain and its trial, and Huang Tian decided to set out the next day.
• Huang Tian showed Old Man Mo and Mo Hong a minor magic art, then accepted provisions and money before leaving the village alone.
• Huang Tian traveled more than a thousand li, defeating bandits and beasts, while stories of his strange feats spread among the people.
• Huang Tian healed an injured White Deer, which grew close to him and carried him toward Mysterious Cave Mountain.
• Huang Tian guided the White Deer through the mountain's bewildering outer mist, and they emerged before dozens of people gathered at the mountain.

Huang Tian entered Mysterious Cave Mountain’s Heart-Testing Grand Formation and swiftly overcame its illusions, earning direct admission as an inner disciple. Chen Guangsu welcomed Huang Tian into the mountain with White Deer, while the other Daoists prepared to congratulate their new junior brother.

• Liu Yuanzhao and Fang Tuxin opened the Heart-Testing Grand Formation and explained that those who passed within two quarter-hours would become inner disciples.
• Huang Tian entered the formation and brushed aside illusions of heavenly honor, temptation, and underworld punishment without wavering.
• Huang Tian crossed the formation in moments and emerged before the two quarter-hours had passed, making him an inner disciple.
• Liu Yuanzhao and Fang Tuxin bowed to Huang Tian as their Senior Brother, and the jade bell summoned more than twenty Daoists from the mountain.
• Chen Guangsu welcomed Huang Tian, learned his name and home, and took him and White Deer into Mysterious Cave Mountain.
• Liu Yuanzhao and Fang Tuxin discussed congratulatory gifts for Huang Tian while the remaining applicants stayed trapped in the formation.

Chen Guangsu welcomed Huang Tian to Mysterious Cave Mountain, explained the sect and its cultivation, and gave him a mountain, scriptures, and gifts. Huang Tian rapidly reached the Sense Dharma realm, and three days later a disturbance on Tianyu Peak made nearby disciples suspect he was advancing to the Dao Foundation realm.

• Chen Guangsu introduced Huang Tian to Mysterious Cave Mountain, its disciples, and True Person Yuyang, then assigned him Tianyu Peak and taught him the Yang Origin True Clarity Scripture.
• Chen Guangsu gave Huang Tian a Cosmos Bag, protective talismans, a magic artifact, and a command token for the mountain's spirit puppets.
• Li Manrou and Long Ling visited Huang Tian with pills and a mountain-protecting formation, and other fellow disciples brought him gifts throughout the afternoon.
• Huang Tian swallowed six pills and used a secret art to reach the Sense Dharma realm.
• Three days later, a surge of spiritual energy rose from Tianyu Peak, and nearby cultivators wondered whether Huang Tian was about to establish a Dao Foundation.

Huang Tian rapidly mastered the Scripture Repository Peak’s cultivation methods, reached the Golden Core realm, and began another breakthrough a month later. As Mysterious Cave Mountain’s disciples wondered if he was about to become an immortal, the latest surge of energy again came from Tianyu Peak.

• Huang Tian broke through to the Dao Foundation realm in three days, and Chen Guangsu gave him more than twenty bottles of pills from the Sect Treasury.
• Huang Tian visited Scripture Repository Peak, learned about the Earth Immortal Realm, and mastered nearly all its cultivation methods and secret arts over half a month.
• Huang Tian returned to Tianyu Peak, set up Li Manrou’s mountain-protecting formation, and used pills to break through to the Golden Core realm amid a vision of Five-Colored Divine Light and yin-yang energies.
• Chen Guangsu, Long Ling, Li Manrou, and the other disciples witnessed Huang Tian’s breakthrough and left him to stabilize his cultivation as rumors about his progress spread through Mysterious Cave Mountain.
• A month later, spiritual energy surged over Tianyu Peak again, and Chen Guangsu realized Huang Tian was the source and wondered if he was about to become an immortal.

Huang Tian advanced from Yin Spirit to Yang Spirit in little more than a hundred days, earning gifts and praise from True Person Yuyang. At Dharma Lecture Peak, Huang Tian perfected the Water-Fire Demon-Refining Great Hand Seal after hearing its principles explained.

• Huang Tian emerged from seclusion after reaching Yin Spirit, and Chen Guangsu supplied him with pills, medicines, and the Yang Spirit and Mahayana sections of the Yang Origin True Clarity Scripture.
• Xiao Zhong emerged from three years of seclusion with the Water-Fire Demon-Refining Great Hand Seal at major mastery and learned from the message talismans that Huang Tian had rapidly advanced to Yin Spirit.
• When Huang Tian began breaking through to Yang Spirit, Chen Guangsu summoned True Person Yuyang, who saw the breakthrough and hurried to Tianyu Peak.
• Huang Tian reached Yang Spirit, and True Person Yuyang welcomed him, gave him protective treasures and cultivation pills, and invited him to study divine abilities with the other disciples.
• True Person Yuyang explained the Water-Fire Demon-Refining Great Hand Seal, and Huang Tian demonstrated that he had instantly mastered it to perfection, stunning the assembled disciples and Xiao Zhong.

Huang Tian mastered all twelve of True Person Yuyang’s minor divine abilities and learned about the Dao Seeds required to become a True Immortal. After half a year of cultivation, he broke through into the Mahayana Realm.

• Huang Tian perfected the Water-Fire Demon-Refining Great Hand Seal and the Light-Splitting Shadow-Transforming Void-Slaying Sword during True Person Yuyang’s lesson.
• True Person Yuyang taught Huang Tian twelve minor divine abilities, then kept Huang Tian and five other disciples to explain the Mahayana Realm, Dao Seeds, and paths to immortality.
• True Person Yuyang warned Huang Tian that condensing a Five Elements or Yin-Yang Dao Seed was extraordinarily difficult, but Huang Tian listened without arguing.
• Huang Tian returned to Tianyu Peak and focused on cultivation, setting aside his thoughts about Dao Seeds.
• After half a year, Huang Tian absorbed a surge of spiritual energy and broke through into the Mahayana Realm.

After breaking through to Mahayana, Huang Tian rejected joining a major faction and began sensing the Dao, discovering that proving Yin and Yang or the Five Elements together could take a century. He recalled the Late Han Dynasty World’s unusual qualities and descended there again, where an immense display of purple qi greeted his arrival.

• Huang Tian broke through to Mahayana, and True Person Yuyang encouraged him to consider joining a major faction once he reached the peak.
• Huang Tian decided to remain independent, while Chen Guangsu chose to stay at Mysterious Cave Mountain and support his teacher and fellow disciples.
• After a year of cultivation, Huang Tian reached the peak of Mahayana and spent nine days sensing the Dao, estimating that proving Yin and Yang or the Five Elements together could take about a century.
• Huang Tian remembered the Late Han Dynasty World’s unusual signs and decided to return there to investigate whether it could help him comprehend the Dao more quickly.
• Huang Tian sent a second spiritual thought from Blue Star to the Late Han Dynasty World and arrived on a quiet country path as purple qi spread across the sky.

Huang Tian returned to the Late Han Dynasty World after fifty years, rode the green ox that embodied its Heavenly Dao, and visited Zhang Jiao in Luoyang. After seeing how the world had changed and reuniting with his disciple, Huang Tian entered the river of time with the ox, leaving his divine intent to dwell there.

• Huang Tian rode the green ox west and headed to see his old acquaintances in the Late Han Dynasty World.
• Zhuge Liang saw a vast sea of purple qi through his Purple Mansion Qi-Gazing Technique and went with Zhuge Jun to welcome the sage, recognizing Huang Tian when he arrived.
• Huang Tian traveled with the Zhuge brothers to Luoyang, where he saw the prosperous city and learned from the New Gazette about the Dao Court's expansion and achievements.
• Zhang Jiao met Huang Tian at the palace gates, knelt and wept, and welcomed his master into Zhuolong Garden.
• Huang Tian spent several days with Zhang Jiao and the Zhuge brothers, then said his divine intent would remain in the river of Years before departing with the green ox.
• Huang Tian and the green ox entered the river of time and walked toward the primordial beginning of Heaven and Earth.

Huang Tian comprehended the Origin Pole Dao and condensed its Dao Seed, then faced the immortal tribulation. He passed the final Questioning Dao Thunder and announced that his Dao was complete.

• Huang Tian formed the Five Elements and Yin-Yang Dao Seeds in the primordial world and developed the Mediation of Creation divine ability.
• After fifteen years of meditation in the Late Han Dynasty World, Huang Tian fused both Dao Seeds into the Origin Pole Dao Seed and gained the Seven-Colored Divine Light.
• Huang Tian told True Person Yuyang that he was ready to undergo the immortal tribulation, then flew beyond Mysterious Cave Mountain and summoned it.
• Huang Tian survived the first eighty thunderbolts with spells and lesser divine abilities, drawing the attention of Mysterious Cave Mountain's disciples and distant cultivators.
• Questioning Dao Thunder struck Huang Tian's Origin Pole Dao Seed, but he endured it and proclaimed, “My Dao is complete!”

After Huang Tian became a True Immortal, he taught at Mysterious Cave Mountain, helping True Person Yuyang gain insight and survive his eighth Loose Immortal tribulation. Huang Tian chose to serve the Heavenly Court over the west and the Daoist Sect, and the chapter ended with his appointment as Southern Demon-Slaying True Lord.

• Huang Tian returned to Mysterious Cave Mountain after his ascension and began teaching his fellow disciples about cultivation and the [Yang] Dao Seed.
• Star Lord Jinde learned that Huang Tian had been guided by the Equaling Heaven Demon Sage and decided to recruit him as Southern Demon-Slaying True Lord.
• True Person Yuyang gained insight from Huang Tian's lecture on [Miasma-Burning Glow], summoned his eighth tribulation, and passed it.
• Envoys from the Heavenly Court, the west, and the Daoist Sect offered Huang Tian positions, and Huang Tian chose to serve the Heavenly Court.
• Three days later, a Heavenly Court envoy arrived at Mysterious Cave Mountain and appointed Huang Tian Southern Demon-Slaying True Lord, charged with suppressing evil in Southern Jambudvipa Continent.

Huang Tian accepted his appointment as Southern Demon-Slaying True Lord, met Star Lord Jinde, and took command of his heavenly manor. As he prepared to cultivate with the immortal peaches and pills he received, officials arrived in the mortal world to honor his family and escort them to the capital.

• Huang Tian bid farewell to True Person Yuyang and his fellow disciples, then traveled to the Heavenly Court with the immortal envoy.
• Star Lord Jinde welcomed Huang Tian, explained his duties, and told him that his full complement of heavenly soldiers would arrive in about a month.
• Huang Tian reached his manor, met his generals and attendant Deng Zhangjue, and ordered Deng to list southern demons by whether they had powerful backers.
• Huang Tian received three immortal peaches and two Third-Turn Immortal Pills from Star Lord Jinde and decided to refine them before dealing with other affairs.
• Officials visited Old Man Mo and Mo Hong, announced that Huang Tian had become the Southern Demon-Slaying True Lord, and escorted the family to the capital after the emperor made Old Man Mo a marquess.

After refining the treasures Star Lord Jinde gave him, Huang Tian inspected his hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and ordered Zhao Zhen and Tao Xin to suppress fiends in Zhaoyun Kingdom. The generals destroyed a tree fiend at Lanruo Temple and announced that they served the Demon-Quelling True Lord of the Southern Heaven.

• Huang Tian learned that Zhao Zhen and Tao Xin had drilled the hundred thousand heavenly soldiers into a formidable army, then reviewed their formations and weapons.
• Huang Tian chose the tree fiend in Zhaoyun Kingdom and her backer, the Black Mountain Old Demon, as his first targets, and gave Zhao Zhen a ritual whip containing the power of one strike.
• Zhao Zhen and Tao Xin led seventy-five thousand soldiers to Zhaoyun Kingdom, where the tree fiend was about to kill Yan Hongxia, Ning Jianchen, and Nie Qian at Lanruo Temple.
• The heavenly soldiers used fire crows and the Heaven-and-Earth Net to burn the tree fiend to ash and rescue the three cultivators.
• Zhao Zhen told the survivors that his army served Huang Tian, the Demon-Quelling True Lord of the Southern Heaven, and had come to restore peace to Zhaoyun Kingdom.

Zhao Zhen and Tao Xin led the heavenly army to Black Mountain and fought the Black Mountain Old Demon, whose powerful treasure overwhelmed their attacks. They summoned the True Lord's ritual whip, which destroyed the demon and purified the mountain range, leaving Black Mountain renewed.

• Yan Hongxia warned Zhao Zhen that the Black Mountain Old Demon was a powerful threat, and Zhao Zhen set out with Tao Xin and seventy-five thousand heavenly soldiers.
• The army defeated or captured thousands of demons guarding Black Mountain, and the Black Mountain Old Demon emerged to challenge them.
• Zhao Zhen, Tao Xin, and six swift-striking generals fought the demon, but his Black Mountain Seal battered Tao Xin and drove the generals back.
• Zhao Zhen ordered the army to summon the True Lord's ritual whip, which immobilized and destroyed the Black Mountain Old Demon.
• The whip's light burned away the demon's hidden remnant soul and the mountain's baleful influence, transforming Black Mountain into a bright, fertile land.

Huang Tian spent three years cultivating and sending his generals to suppress demons before deciding to kill the True Immortal Scorpion True Lord himself. He led a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers to Wind-Linked Mountain, where he ignored warnings about the demon’s connections and unleashed Thousand Suns Fall Together.

• Huang Tian praised Zhao Zhen, Tao Xin, and the other generals for defeating the Black Mountain Old Demon, then assigned them new demon-slaying missions.
• Huang Tian exchanged his merit points for immortal pills, cultivated for three years, and accumulated ninety percent of the mana needed to become a Heavenly Immortal.
• Huang Tian summoned his generals and ordered the army to accompany him to kill the Scorpion True Lord at Wind-Linked Mountain.
• Huang Tian’s march alarmed the Heavenly Court, while Deng Zhangjue warned him that the Scorpion True Lord was dangerous and connected to Wonderful Sound Bodhisattva.
• The Scorpion True Lord confronted Huang Tian and summoned his minions, while Guiding Lamp Arhat tried to intervene.
• Huang Tian ignored the warnings, manifested a thousand blazing suns, and sent them crashing down toward Wind-Linked Mountain.

Huang Tian killed Scorpion True Lord with his Thousand Suns Together strike, angering Wonderful Sound Bodhisattva and prompting warnings from Guiding Lamp Arhat and Star Lord Jinde. After returning to the Heavenly Court, Huang Tian used his rewards and spoils to cultivate, and three months later his Dao flower bloomed as he became a Heavenly Immortal.

• Huang Tian's falling suns shattered Scorpion True Lord's weapon, crushed him into the Windlink Mountains, and killed him, wiping out the demons and baleful energy there.
• Star Lord Jinde defended Huang Tian to Wonderful Sound Bodhisattva, who blamed him for Scorpion True Lord's death and left in anger.
• Huang Tian rejected Guiding Lamp Arhat's appeal to join the Western sect after learning Scorpion True Lord had been connected to Wonderful Sound Bodhisattva and had cultivated Horse-Falling Poison Stake through slaughter.
• After Huang Tian returned to the Heavenly Court, Star Lord Jinde praised him, warned him about Wonderful Sound Bodhisattva, and gave him a jade bottle; Huang Tian then exchanged his merit points for immortal pills.
• Huang Tian meditated with the pills for three months, and his Dao flower bloomed, announcing the birth of a Heavenly Immortal.

After Huang Tian attained Heavenly Immortality, the Heavenly Court’s Emperor promoted him and warned him that Buddhism might target him. Huang Tian discovered Seed-Cause Arhat plotting to abduct his family, then killed the arhat and two demons with a bracelet of yin and yang energy.

• Star Lord Jinde and other Heavenly Immortals visited Huang Tian after sensing his breakthrough and congratulated him at a banquet.
• Star Lord Jinde brought Huang Tian before the Emperor, who warned him about the West and explained that the Western Pole Emperor Lord and the Daoist Sect’s Dao Ancestor had left the Earth Immortal Realm.
• The Emperor appointed Huang Tian Heavenly Venerable True Martial, Guardian of the World and Slayer of Demons, and bestowed an official seal, immortal pills, and rare fruits upon him.
• Huang Tian decided to visit Monkey, but overheard Seed-Cause Arhat urging a leopard demon and a six-tailed fox demon to abduct his family in the Jin Kingdom’s capital.
• Huang Tian formed a bracelet from yin and yang energy and sent it through the void, killing Seed-Cause Arhat and both demons.