Chapter Summaries

Mystic Umbrella Company launched a citywide campaign to destroy Shenghai’s gangs, backed by Mayor Ming Jue’s forces. By nightfall, the city’s gangs had been brutally crushed, and the next morning dawned with Shenghai free of their influence.

• Zhou Xing and Lin Cong joined thousands of Mystic Umbrella workers as they deployed across Shenghai to arrest gang members.
• Ming Jue chose to support Huang Tian and ordered the police and municipal security forces to seal the city’s land and water exits.
• Zhou Xing and Lin Cong’s workers stormed Rongji Great World, killed Ironhead Biao and his armed men, and rounded up the venue’s customers and gang members.
• Ma Zhang attacked Ding Jiurong’s fortified compound, defeated its guards, and captured Ding Jiurong.
• Mystic Umbrella workers carried out arrests across Shenghai from afternoon until night, and the city woke the next day with its gangs eliminated.

After the Mystic Umbrella Company crushed Shenghai’s gangs and announced a vast industrial hiring drive, military governor Wan Wulong decided to sell his assets and hand over his army. Foreign governments watched the nuclear bomb footage and began responding to Huang Tian’s power, while a swordsman set sail from the Eastern Isles for Shenghai.

• Shenghai residents celebrated the gangs’ destruction and the Mystic Umbrella Company’s plans to recruit workers and build factories.
• Wan Wulong agreed to leave Shenghai, sell his assets, and contact the Mystic Umbrella Company to take over his army.
• Prime Minister MacDonald’s cabinet voted to accept the Mystic Umbrella Company’s demands and planned to send experts and Earl Barton to Shenghai to seek nuclear secrets.
• Okada Shichisuke and Araki Masao agreed to withdraw all Eastern Isles forces from Dayi and went to report their decision to the Emperor.
• A ship departed the Eastern Isles for Shenghai with a lean old swordsman aboard.

Ueshiba Tsunemori arrived in Shenghai, studied Mystic Umbrella Company’s strength, and resolved to eliminate Huang Tian and the company’s people. At the signing ceremony for the General Agreement on Equal Relations Between China and Foreign Countries, Tsunemori saw that Huang Tian appeared to be an ordinary man and identified him as the company’s greatest weakness.

• Ueshiba Tsunemori arrived at Huishan Wharf and bought a color television to watch footage of Mystic Umbrella Company’s campaign against Shenghai’s gangs.
• At the Eastern Isles Consulate-General, Yata Rokutaro briefed Tsunemori on Huang Tian, Mystic Umbrella Company, and the upcoming treaty signing.
• After watching the gang-arrest footage, Tsunemori concluded that Mystic Umbrella’s security team and trusted aides were powerful martial artists and proposed killing Huang Tian and everyone connected to the company.
• Newspapers announced that Huang Tian and foreign envoys would sign the General Agreement, and crowds gathered at the Municipal Council Building for the ceremony.
• Huang Tian arrived at the ceremony, and Tsunemori saw that he showed no signs of martial arts training and concluded that Huang Tian was Mystic Umbrella Company’s greatest weakness.

Huang Tian secured Dayi’s sovereignty by signing the General Agreement, then rejected Song Chengwu’s offer to become Vice President. Ueshiba Tsunemori and Fatina tried to kill him at Mystic Umbrella Company, but Huang Tian revealed overwhelming strength and struck Ueshiba down.

• Huang Tian and the foreign envoys signed the General Agreement, ending foreign control, and citizens across Shenghai celebrated.
• Huang Tian refused Song Chengwu’s offer to serve as Vice President or President and left the Municipal Council building.
• Ueshiba Tsunemori told Yata Rokutaro that Huang Tian seemed to be an ordinary man, then met Hickok, Barton, Fatina, and Valentin to discuss the nuclear bomb and Huang Tian.
• Ueshiba Tsunemori and Fatina agreed to kill Huang Tian, while Hickok, Barton, and Valentin declined to join them.
• Ueshiba Tsunemori and Fatina entered Laboratory No. 2, where Huang Tian confronted them; he shattered Ueshiba Tsunemori’s blade intent and struck him into a huge crater as Fatina fled.

Huang Tian defeated and captured Ueshiba Tsunemori and Fatina after they tried to assassinate him, then brought them and Count Barton, Hickok, and Valentin to Laboratory No. 2. Ming Jue ordered Yata Rokutaro arrested for suspected involvement, and Yata realized the failed assassination could bring grave consequences for the Eastern Isles.

• Ma Zhang, Bao Baiqi, Liu Yuanying, and the others saw Huang Tian pursue the fleeing Fatina and rushed to guard Mystic Umbrella Company headquarters.
• Huang Tian shattered Fatina’s weapon, wounded her with a palm strike, captured her and Ueshiba Tsunemori, and ordered Count Barton, Hickok, and Valentin to accompany him to the laboratory.
• Ming Jue learned that Huang Tian had captured the assassins himself, ordered Yata Rokutaro arrested, and instructed officials to condemn the Eastern Isles.
• Yata Rokutaro expected Ueshiba Tsunemori to have killed Huang Tian, but police surrounded the legation and arrested him and his guards after he surrendered.
• A police captain told Yata Rokutaro that Huang Tian was unharmed and all the assassins had been caught, leaving Yata fearful for Ueshiba Tsunemori and the Eastern Isles.

After Huang Tian captured the assassins and Earl Barton, Ingolan’s ministers resolved to seek reconciliation, while news of the failed attack spread panic across the Eastern Isles. The National Salvation Society launched a coup in Dongjin, killing senior officials and declaring its intent to sweep away the old regime.

• MacDonald and Ingolan’s ministers learned Huang Tian had captured Ueshiba Tsunemori and Fatina, with Earl Barton under house arrest, and agreed to offer advanced machinery and compensation to win Huang Tian’s goodwill.
• Asahi News published the assassination story, prompting mass fear, bank withdrawals, and shortages across the Eastern Isles.
• Araki Masao and Okada Shichisuke discussed the failed assassination and feared Huang Tian’s retaliation, while Okada urged the officers to seek transfers out of Dongjin.
• Tanabe Seiichi led National Salvation Society soldiers into the officers’ meeting and announced they were punishing elites in Heaven’s name, claiming the uprising had broad support and the nearby forces were already defeated.
• Tanabe’s soldiers shot Araki Masao, Okada Shichisuke, and the other officers, then left to strike their next target as a vast fire consumed the old era.

Over three years, Huang Tian and Mystic Umbrella Company transformed Shenghai and ushered in rapid technological advances, from satellites and a global broadcast to a moon landing, microchips, and artificial intelligence. After creating Dawnbringer and surveying the changed city, Huang Tian prepared to settle the mission.

• Mystic Umbrella Company launched its first satellite into orbit, prompting worldwide celebration and headlines.
• Huang Tian used the satellite network to deliver humanity's first global live broadcast and show people images of Earth from space.
• Mystic Umbrella Company broadcast Du Xiaomai's moon landing, then developed the first microchip, computers, mobile phones, and a robot.
• Huang Tian created the artificial intelligence Dawnbringer and tasked it with guiding humanity toward a fairer era and the universe.
• Huang Tian, Liu Yuanying, Ma Zhang, Bao Baiqi, and the others surveyed Shenghai's transformation, and Huang Tian told the Lord of Morality to settle the mission.

After earning 50,050 points and A-Rank Authority, Huang Tian discovered that Fu Huajie, the Lord of Morality, had imposed soul restrictions on him. Huang Tian crossed spacetime to confront Fu Huajie, sealed the passage to the Moral Space, and challenged him to fight to the death.

• Huang Tian received 50,050 points and A-Rank Authority for transforming the previous mission world, while Liu Yuanying and the others celebrated their own rewards.
• Fu Huajie, hiding in Great Feng as a martial arts master, sensed Huang Tian's achievement and placed more than a thousand divine-soul restrictions on him.
• Huang Tian appeared over Moon-Resting Lake, trapped Fu Huajie when he tried to flee, and withstood his sword, talismans, and exploding treasures.
• Fu Huajie opened a passage to the Moral Space and issued a mandatory mission for envoys to kill Huang Tian in exchange for freedom and treasures.
• Huang Tian used a Taiji Diagram to seal the passage, leaving the envoys unable to reach him, and ordered Fu Huajie to fight him with everything he had.

Huang Tian defeated Fu Huajie in a fierce battle, destroyed his summoned Demon God, and killed him with a final strike after Fu Huajie’s curse failed. Fu Huajie’s surviving soul escaped to another world, but Huang Tian found and killed him there as well.

• Onlookers across Great Feng watched Huang Tian confront Fu Huajie, while Han Jiuzhang recognized Fu Huajie as an immortal and Lin Jing'an resolved to pursue immortality.
• Fu Huajie unleashed thousands of talismans against Huang Tian, but Huang Tian shattered their attack with a single punch.
• Fu Huajie summoned an Eight-Armed Demon God with a vast formation, but Huang Tian seized its halberd and destroyed the demon and its treasures with one sweeping strike.
• Fu Huajie fought Huang Tian with pills and a silver sword, but Huang Tian overwhelmed him and drove him into the ground.
• Fu Huajie sacrificed his life force to cast a deadly curse, but Huang Tian’s Five-Colored Immortal Garment dispersed it and Fu Huajie crumbled to ash.
• Fu Huajie’s surviving soul awakened in another world and vowed revenge, but Huang Tian appeared and crushed him, destroying his body and soul.

Huang Tian killed Fu Huajie, took control of the Moral Space, and changed its rules while the envoys and his allies began using it to grow stronger. When the Dead Realm tried to pull Ding Xueyi and Dong You away, Huang Tian resisted it and glimpsed Zhu Yong, a sleeping Great Luo being, leaving him to prepare for a confrontation he expected in twelve years.

• After Huang Tian left, martial artists stormed the Tide-Listening Retreat for Fu Huajie's immortal arts, and Lin Jing'an joined them while the three maids fled by boat.
• Huang Tian ignored the freed envoys, refined the Moral Space's purple-jade core, and told Ma Zhang, Bao Baiqi, and the others that they could choose whether to remain.
• Huang Tian revised the Moral Space's rules, removing mandatory missions and allowing envoys to leave permanently, then summoned Bai Zhiyi, Ding Xueyi, Dong You, Qin Bowen, Lu Kecheng, and other students to train there.
• After nearly half a year, Bai Zhiyi, Ding Xueyi, Dong You, Qin Bowen, and Lu Kecheng defeated a Yaksha King together in a Moral Space trial.
• When the Dead Realm's pull began to draw Ding Xueyi and Dong You in, Huang Tian resisted it from the Moral Space and stopped the vortex from closing around them.
• Huang Tian saw Zhu Yong's eyes beyond the vortex and concluded that the sleeping Great Luo being would not awaken before he could reach Great Luo in about twelve years.

Huang Tian attained Great Luo and began uncovering a way to kill beings who were believed to be undying and indestructible. As his power transformed, Zhu Yong and the other Great Luo watched in alarm, while Huang Tian declared that he had seen the Dao through truth and illusion.

• Immortal Lord Xuan Su and a Daoist nun debated whether to keep resisting Zhu Yong's return, while mighty beings across the Chaos feared his imminent awakening.
• In a steam-age world, a Demon Hunter and his companions attacked the Holy Spirit Church as its bishop preached about Siming.
• Over twelve years, the Moral Space grew into a bustling hub of envoys, societies, shops, and competitions under Huang Tian's hands-off rule.
• Huang Tian attained Great Luo, startling the envoys and mighty beings across the Chaos, and told Zhu Yong that a Great Luo could die before vanishing from his perception.
• Huang Tian's Great Luo True Nature merged with his true body in the Primordial World, releasing a seven-colored radiance that spread through the Void Realm and the Chaos.
• As the Great Luo recoiled from the radiance, Huang Tian's voice declared, “Through truth and illusion, I have seen the Dao. Now I know!”

Huang Tian transcended his dimension, learned from Jing Huan how Dimensional Saints pursued Dao Sources, and watched Jing Huan manipulate protagonists across other worlds. As Huang Tian considered his next move, a mysterious voice from a dimension called his name.

• Huang Tian appeared in the True Realm as a vast figure, erased Zhu Yong across all timelines, and told the Great Luo beings that the realm beyond Great Luo was the Dimensional Saint.
• Huang Tian transcended his dimension and met Jing Huan, master of another dimension, who explained the risks of wagering one’s achievements to obtain Dao Sources.
• Jing Huan showed Huang Tian a protagonist who received a Daily Money System, spent decades building a successful company, and died content, then displayed other protagonists whose fates varied widely.
• After Jing Huan departed, Huang Tian considered which Dao Sources to pursue, but a purple-gold voice shot from a dimension and called out, “Huang Tian!!!”

Huang Tian was born into the Huang Clan with a mysterious ability that still worked across dimensions, then spent his early childhood quietly improving himself and learning. As his seventh birthday and spiritual-aperture test approached, his family worried whether he would be able to cultivate.

• Sun Yun gave birth to Huang Tian as purple qi swept across the cosmos, alarming powerful figures who sent subordinates to investigate.
• Huang Tian discovered that his ability still worked in the new dimension and began drawing in spiritual energy to cleanse his body.
• Before turning one, Huang Tian learned to speak and read unusually quickly, then spent his time studying books and cultivating in secret.
• Huang Du was tested at seven and received one spiritual aperture, and Huang Yu later received one as well.
• Five years later, Huang Tian turned seven, and Huang Fupei, Sun Yun, Huang Du, and Huang Yu anxiously awaited his spiritual-aperture test.

Seven-year-old Huang Tian’s spiritual-aperture test revealed an impossible flood of light that shattered two testing crystals, prompting Huang Jutao to secretly take him as a personal disciple. Huang Tian was publicly recorded as having three apertures and left for the clan school the next morning, ready to begin cultivation.

• Huang Fupei took Huang Tian to the inner city for his spiritual-aperture test while Huang Du and Huang Yu went to the clan school.
• The test identified Huang Wanling as having four apertures, then Huang Tian caused the crystal to fill with countless lights and explode.
• Huang Jutao secretly tested Huang Tian with another crystal, saw it explode too, and made him his personal disciple while ordering that his true result remain secret.
• Huang Xuancheng used a replacement crystal to record Huang Tian as having three apertures, and the nine children with apertures were assigned to attend the clan school.
• Huang Fupei celebrated Huang Tian’s result at home, and the next morning Huang Tian set out for the clan school to begin learning cultivation.

Huang Tian entered the Wangjiang Huang Clan’s school, mastered the Embryonic Breath method, and learned about the cultivation paths from Huang Jutao. After reaching Embryonic Breath Perfection in ten days, he decided to create his own scripture and make the Great Dao suit him.

• Huang Tian toured the school, reunited with Huang Du and Huang Yu, and settled into building Ding-47.
• Huang Tian quickly understood the Sea-Calming Embryonic Breath Method, then met Huang Jutao, who explained cultivation realms, the Modern and Ancient Methods, and gave him scriptures and a Storage Bag of pills.
• Huang Jutao told Huang Xuanlang that Huang Tian’s shattered testing crystals suggested unusual potential, while Huang Xuanlang prepared to attempt Foundation Establishment with Moon-Tide Jade.
• Huang Tian used the pills to advance through Embryonic Breath Perfection in ten days, keeping his rapid progress secret from the other students.
• Huang Tian rejected both the restrictive Modern Method and the Water Virtue scripture, deciding to create a scripture of his own.

Huang Tian completed the Five Virtues Yin-Yang Pivot Chapter, gathered seven kinds of qi on the Min River, and broke through to Qi Refining. Meanwhile, Huang Jutao pursued a pill to help Huang Xuanlang establish his foundation, survived a trap, and returned to Wangjiang City fearing a crisis for the Huang Clan.

• Huang Tian returned home, asked Huang Fupei to arrange a boat trip on the Min River, and finished deriving the Five Virtues Yin-Yang Pivot Chapter overnight.
• Huang Tian sailed past Zhenxia Mountain and absorbed qi representing the Five Virtues and yin and yang, combining it into the Seven Luminaries Spirit-Pivot Ancestral Qi.
• Huang Tian refined the qi into spiritual power and entered Qi Refining.
• Huang Jutao learned that Woodvoid Market would auction a Haolin Origin-Sorcery Pill and decided to buy it for Huang Xuanlang, despite suspecting a trap.
• Huang Jutao traveled toward Woodvoid Market and returned to Wangjiang City half a month later, injured and convinced that someone had tried to kill him.

After Huang Jutao returned wounded from an ambush, Huang Tian revealed that he had reached the Qi Refining Seventh Layer and could contend with Foundation Establishment cultivators. Huang Tian arranged a false report about a powerful ally to deter the attackers, while learning that the Bingqi Fang Clan had targeted Huang Jutao to protect its interests and reach a Riverbed Cave Abode.

• Huang Jutao told Huang Xuanlang that three Earth Virtue Foundation Establishment cultivators had lured him out of Wangjiang City and tried to kill him, and he urged Huang Xuanlang to calm his mind before attempting Foundation Establishment.
• Huang Tian arrived and revealed that he had reached the Qi Refining Seventh Layer in less than a month after revising the Rivers and Seas Overturning Chapter.
• Huang Tian asked Huang Jutao about the ambush and demonstrated divine sense strong enough to make Huang Jutao believe he could match a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator.
• Huang Tian arranged for a message to spread that Huang Jutao had been healed by a powerful ally called Sovereign Yellow Absolute, discouraging the attackers from striking Wangjiang City.
• Fang Yuanlong, Fang Zhengsong, and Fang Qinyan discussed the failed ambush and revealed that they had targeted Huang Jutao to eliminate a future rival and open the Riverbed Cave Abode.

Huang Tian attacked the Bingqi Fang Clan’s mountain stronghold and killed its three Foundation Establishment cultivators. Before the surviving clansmen could regroup, the clan’s leaders recognized him as Sovereign Yellow Absolute, and its stronghold was left in chaos.

• Huang Tian identified Du Ruoxi as the likely owner of the Riverbed Cave Abode and flew from Wangjiang City to the Bingqi Mountains after nightfall.
• Huang Tian used green light to unleash vines and plants across the Fang Clan’s peaks, destroying buildings and killing clansmen as Fang Yuanlong and Fang Zhengsong confronted him.
• Fang Yuanlong attacked Huang Tian with the Mountain-Shaking Bracelet while Fang Qinyan and Fang Zhengsong joined the assault, but Huang Tian destroyed the bracelet and killed Fang Yuanlong with his Yin-Yang Bracelet.
• Fang Qinyan fled through the air, but Huang Tian’s platinum swords pierced her defenses and killed her.
• Fang Zhengsong tried to escape through the earth, but Huang Tian trapped him with hardened soil and vines, then killed him with a platinum sword.
• Huang Tian identified himself to the dying Fang Zhengsong as Sovereign Yellow Absolute and burned his corpse, leaving all three of the Fang Clan’s Foundation Establishment cultivators dead.

Huang Tian looted the Fang Clan after killing its Foundation Establishment cultivators, then returned to Wangjiang City and warned Huang Jutao to keep the Huang Clan quiet. As the Gilded Metal Sect prepared for war with the Earth-Bearing Sect, a Violet Palace cultivator searched Wangjiang City, where Huang Tian concealed his true cultivation.

• Huang Tian searched the fallen Fang cultivators' Storage Bags, found the Riverbed Cave Abode token and the Lunar Return-to-Truth Scripture, and looted the Fang Clan treasury.
• Survivors told the Fang Clan's branch members that Fang Yuanlong and the other Foundation Establishment cultivators were dead, throwing the clan into panic.
• Huang Tian returned to Wangjiang City, gave Huang Jutao the Haolin Origin-Sorcery Pill for Huang Xuanlang, and accepted mana-advancing pills and a River-Origin Lotus Seed.
• Huang Jutao warned Huang Xuanlang to hide Huang Tian's involvement while Hanzhang Commandery's clans and Rogue Cultivators panicked over the Fang Clan's destruction.
• Wei Lou learned that True Person Suihua had ordered a renewed war against the Earth-Bearing Sect and directed the five commanderies to provide forces for the campaign.
• A pair of Sun-Moon Eyes searched Wangjiang City, and Huang Tian suppressed his aura to appear to be a first-layer Embryonic Breath cultivator.

The Gilded Metal Sect conscripted cultivators from the five commanderies for war against the Earth-Bearing Sect, forcing the Wangjiang Huang Clan to send people and supplies. After reaching Qi Refining Perfection, Huang Tian entered Du Ruoxi’s underwater abode, discovered its treasures and legacy, and prepared to build his Immortal Foundation there.

• A Gilded Metal Sect envoy ordered the Huang Clan to provide conscripts, and Huang Jutao negotiated to substitute artifacts and spiritual items for additional Qi Refining cultivators.
• The envoy departed, and Huang Jutao directed the elders to prepare the conscription list as the clan complained about being forced into another war.
• Huang Fupei and Sun Yun warned Huang Du, Huang Yu, and Huang Tian to stay safe, while Huang Tian said he preferred cultivating outside the Lineage school.
• The Huang Clan sent its conscripts to Two-Worlds Pass, and Huang Tian reached Qi Refining Perfection five days after the order.
• Huang Tian entered Du Ruoxi’s underwater cave abode and found the Crimson Dew Tree, eight stone puppets, pills, a Foundation Establishment treasure, and two Violet Palace cultivation methods.
• Huang Tian learned that Han Qi of the Gilded Metal Sect had ruined Du Ruoxi’s attempt to reach Violet Palace, accepted the bequest’s request for vengeance, and chose the abode for his Immortal Foundation breakthrough.