Chapter Summaries

Huang Tian completed Foundation Establishment and discovered the powers of his Embracing the Great Image Immortal Foundation, while the armies of the Gilded Metal Sect and Earth-Bearing Sect fought a staged battle at Two-Worlds Pass. The chapter ended with Wei Liang secretly allowing Lu Xiu and five Earth-Bearing Sect cultivators to cross the pass, where they planned to carry out a Blood Sacrifice.

• A cultivator traveling toward Wangjiang City briefly sensed a fragrance near Du Ruoxi's Riverbed Cave Abode, while Huang Tian cultivated within it.
• Huang Tian completed Foundation Establishment in two days, forged the Embracing the Great Image Immortal Foundation, and learned it granted powers including elemental transformation and the Heaven-and-Earth Attraction Pact.
• At Two-Worlds Pass, Wei Liang and Lu Xiu led their forces into battle, while the Foundation Establishment cultivators on both sides carefully avoided serious risks.
• The armies withdrew when rain began, leaving the lower-ranked cultivators to mourn their dead and hope the storm would delay further fighting.
• That night, Wei Liang opened the pass's anti-flight array for Lu Xiu and five Earth-Bearing Sect cultivators, who intended to perform a Blood Sacrifice in the Five Commanderies.

Earth-Bearing Sect cultivators led by Zhou Meng carried out Blood Sacrifices across Hanzhang Commandery while the Gilded Metal Sect failed to intervene. After Huang Xuanlang and Huang Tian revealed that they had both reached Foundation Establishment, Huang Tian sensed the attackers’ baleful qi advancing toward Wangjiang City.

• Zhou Meng led four Earth-Bearing Sect cultivators to Guanglu City, shattered its defensive formation, and let Lin Han escape before sacrificing the city’s inhabitants for Blood Essence.
• After three cities were sacrificed, Lin Jinhe organized the Rongmu Lin Clan and allied clans to hunt the attackers, while warning that the Gilded Metal Sect might delay its response.
• Huang Jutao received word that ten cities had been sacrificed and nearly six hundred thousand people were dead or injured, as nine Foundation Establishment cultivators had failed to capture the attackers.
• Huang Xuanlang broke through to Foundation Establishment, then learned that Huang Tian had already reached Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• Huang Tian sensed that the Gilded Metal Sect was allowing the Blood Sacrifices to continue and detected the attackers’ black qi and blood-red Baleful Intent moving toward Wangjiang City.

Huang Tian intercepted Zhou Meng and four Earth-Bearing Sect cultivators beyond Wangjiang Huang Clan territory, killing them in a fierce battle and claiming their Storage Bags. After Zhou Meng fled to a lake, Huang Tian caught and killed him, then rode the wind away.

• Huang Tian rejected Huang Jutao and Huang Xuanlang's offer to join him and flew alone to intercept the approaching demonic cultivators.
• Huang Tian killed one of Zhou Meng's companions with the Yin-Yang Bracelet, then broke the Wuji Earth Palace Formation and killed two more cultivators with lightning and a blade art.
• Zhou Meng fled while Huang Tian collected the intact Storage Bags and pursued him at extraordinary speed.
• Zhou Meng plunged into a lake using Swimming the Abyss, Entering the Sea, but Huang Tian trapped him in a whirlpool and hurled him from the water.
• Huang Tian killed Zhou Meng with the Yin-Yang Bracelet, retrieved his Storage Bag, and left the blood-stained lake behind.

After killing Zhou Meng and the other Earth-Bearing Sect cultivators, Huang Tian returned to Wangjiang City with their spoils and discussed how the deaths might be investigated. The Earth-Bearing Sect and Gilded Metal Sect leaders then failed to divine what had happened, leaving both sects suspicious of a hidden Violet Palace cultivator in the Five Commanderies.

• Huang Tian counted the five cultivators’ pills, treasures, talismans, blood essence, and jade slips, and memorized two complete Violet Palace cultivation methods.
• Huang Tian returned to Wangjiang City and told Huang Jutao and Huang Xuanlang that he had killed all five pursuers; they agreed to keep his identity secret and celebrate Xuanlang’s Immortal Foundation quietly.
• A disciple in the Earth-Bearing Sect’s Fate Jade Hall discovered that Zhou Meng and the other four cultivators’ Fate Jades had shattered.
• True Person Xishan learned that the five cultivators had died during the Blood Sacrifice, failed to divine what had happened, and sent a message demanding an explanation from True Person Suihua.
• True Person Xishan ordered Ying Hehuan to watch the Gilded Metal Sect’s cultivators and kill them if Suihua failed to provide an explanation and compensation.
• True Person Suihua tried to use the Cosmic Cycle Divine Wood to calculate the deaths but failed, and wondered whether a Violet Palace cultivator was hiding in the Five Commanderies.

After Zhou Meng and the other Earth-Bearing Sect cultivators were killed, True Person Suihua investigated the eastern clans of Hanzhang Commandery for the culprit and for signs of a hidden Violet Palace cultivator. He discovered that Lin Jinhe had vanished beyond the Five Commanderies and was about to question Huang Jutao when an unseen speaker addressed him.

• True Person Suihua told Wei Lou to search eastern Hanzhang Commandery for where Zhou Meng and the other four Earth-Bearing Sect cultivators had died.
• Wei Lou found fresh battle marks in the Songyuan Bai Clan’s territory, and True Person Suihua secretly questioned Bai Ye and other Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• True Person Suihua investigated the Zhong'an Luo Clan and the Rongmu Lin Clan, learning that Lin Jinhe had not been seen and that the Lin Clan had concealed some of its strength.
• True Person Suihua disrupted the formations around Lin Jinhe’s bamboo grove and discovered it was empty; divination revealed only that Lin Jinhe was outside the Five Commanderies.
• True Person Suihua arrived at Wangjiang City and found only Huang Jutao and Huang Xuanlang among its Foundation Establishment cultivators before a clear voice asked if he had come looking for it.

After advancing to Foundation Establishment Late Stage, Huang Tian ambushed True Person Suihua and killed the Gilded Metal Sect Violet Palace cultivator. Suihua’s death triggered the All Spirits Mourning phenomenon, and two cultivators in the Gilded Metal Sect realized he had fallen.

• Huang Tian refined several seized treasures and advanced to Foundation Establishment Late Stage in the Riverbed Cave Abode.
• Huang Tian set up two formations above Wangjiang City and waited for True Person Suihua, who had come to investigate Zhou Meng and the others’ deaths.
• True Person Suihua entered Huang Tian’s formations and attacked him with his golden maces and divine abilities.
• Huang Tian used the Yin-Yang Bracelet to break Suihua’s Banner Wall, then overwhelmed him with the Great Five-Element Divine Fist and killed him.
• Suihua’s death brought black clouds, metallic rain, and sorrow across Hanzhang Commandery and its neighbors.
• Two figures in the Gilded Metal Sect sensed Suihua’s death and realized that a Violet Palace cultivator had fallen.

After True Person Suihua’s death, the Gilded Metal Sect and Earth-Bearing Sect reacted to the upheaval while Lin Jinhe hoped to return to his clan one day. In his Riverbed Cave Abode, Huang Tian finished counting Suihua’s spoils and began preparing to reach Foundation Establishment Perfection.

• True Person Baiyang and True Person Han Qi learned that Suihua had fallen, questioned Wei Lou about his trip to Hanzhang Commandery, and sent twenty-one Foundation Establishment cultivators to investigate its immortal clans.
• True Person Xishan concluded that Suihua had been killed, voided his agreement with the Gilded Metal Sect, and ordered Ying Hehuan to seize the Blood Essence from its cultivators conducting Blood Sacrifices.
• Lin Jinhe rejoiced at Suihua’s death and concealed himself in Stillwater Commandery, hoping to advance to the Violet Palace and eventually return to the Rongmu Lin Clan.
• Huang Tian examined Suihua’s artifacts, pills, talismans, formation items, and jade slips, then learned that a sea of purple qi had appeared on the day he was born.
• Huang Tian sensed no one had discovered that he killed Suihua, took pills to cultivate, and estimated that Foundation Establishment Perfection was a month away.

The Gilded Metal Sect investigated Hanzhang Commandery’s immortal clans after True Person Suihua’s mysterious death, and its search focused on the missing Lin Jinhe. Lin Jinhe then attained the Violet Palace in the Jin Kingdom, while Huang Tian reached Foundation Establishment Perfection and began preparing for his own ascent.

• Bao Sheng questioned Huang Jutao and Huang Xuanlang about the demonic cultivators, Suihua’s death, and the supposed Sovereign Yellow Absolute, but found no evidence linking the Wangjiang Huang Clan to the events.
• Liu Danxiang and the other Gilded Metal Sect envoys found Lin Jinhe’s cottage empty, so Liu Danxiang sealed the Rongmu Lin Clan’s territory and reported the disappearance to True Person Han Qi.
• True Person Baiyang divined that Lin Jinhe had fled to the Jin Kingdom, and the Gilded Metal Sect decided to confine the Lin Clan and pressure Lin Jinhe to return.
• Nearly half a month later, Lin Jinhe attained the Violet Palace in Stillwater Commandery, and True Persons and cultivators across the region congratulated him as he announced a ceremony in ten days.
• Huang Tian heard Lin Jinhe’s announcement from his Riverbed Cave Abode, realized he had reached Foundation Establishment Perfection, and decided to prepare for his own ascent.

Lin Jinhe attained the Violet Palace, claimed Hanzhang Commandery for the Rongmu Lin Clan, and celebrated the clan’s new status. Meanwhile, Huang Tian traveled to Minghuang Commandery, forged three extraordinary treasures, and began preparing to attain the Violet Palace.

• Lin Jinhe returned to the Chu Kingdom, transformed the Rongmu Lin Clan’s city into a bamboo-rich Spirit Land, and announced that the clan would proclaim itself a Violet Palace Immortal Clan.
• The Rongmu Lin Clan held its celebration as clans from the Five Commanderies brought congratulations, while Huang Jutao observed the gathering and considered the Huang Clan’s prospects.
• Huang Tian traveled to Minghuang Commandery to forge treasures and cultivate in seclusion, while a passing gesture helped Li Cong’s Willow Moon Flying Wheel kill the men pursuing him.
• Huang Tian used earthfire and his divine flame to reforge the Yin-Yang Bracelet and Autumn Moonfall, and created the Yuanji Treasure Tree.
• Huang Tian nurtured the three extraordinary treasures within his body, consumed spirit pills, and began gathering magic power in preparation for Violet Palace advancement.

Huang Tian passed the Divine Ability, Magic Power, and Heart Demon trials and attained the Violet Palace. His breakthrough triggered a vast rainbow and trembling Dao Ranks across the kingdoms, leaving powerful beings scrambling to steady the heavens.

• Huang Tian transformed his Embracing the Great Image Immortal Foundation into a divine ability and condensed his magic power into Violet Palace Magic Power.
• Huang Tian endured illusions of his family condemning him, refugees boiling him for food, Huang Jutao trying to seize his body, and countless temptations without losing himself.
• Huang Tian completed the Heart Demon Trial, opened his eyes among the spirit flowers, and declared that he had attained the Violet Palace.
• Huang Tian's breakthrough caused a seven-colored rainbow to span the kingdoms and dozens of Dao Ranks to tremble as if they might fall.
• Mortals and cultivators across the lands speculated about the ominous spectacle while mighty beings struggled to steady their Dao Ranks.
• After a hundred breaths, the rainbow faded and the stars steadied, restoring silence to the world.

After omens shook the cultivation world, the Wangjiang Huang Clan learned that Huang Tian might be their cause and chose to conceal him from the superior sect. Huang Tian emerged from secluded cultivation stronger and set his sights on the Sacred Origin Sect, which was gathering children and rumored to be refining Human Pills.

• Mighty figures debated whether the omens signaled a reincarnated Supreme being or a world-shaking treasure, then issued orders to investigate children born eight years earlier.
• Huang Jutao and Huang Xuanlang suspected Huang Tian had caused the omens and agreed to alter his birth records and hide his existence from the superior sect.
• Huang Jutao warned Huang Fupei and Sun Yun to keep silent about Huang Tian and remain in Wangjiang City while he watched for danger.
• Huang Tian finished cultivating, assessed his newly reforged treasures, and decided to wait until Violet Palace Middle Stage before attacking the Gilded Metal Sect to avenge Du Ruoxi.
• Huang Tian learned that the Sacred Origin Sect had ordered children aged seven to nine gathered and that Secret Realms were appearing, then resolved to destroy the sect for refining Human Pills.

Huang Tian attacked the Sacred Origin Sect to punish its abduction of children, defeating its two True Persons and capturing its leaders with the Yuanji Treasure Tree. He compelled thousands of abusive disciples to kill themselves, seized the sect’s treasury, and departed, leaving fewer than a thousand survivors.

• Huang Tian found tens of thousands of abducted children at the Sacred Origin Sect and sealed the sect inside two formations.
• True Person Qingliu and True Person Xiangrong confronted Huang Tian, but his saber and Yin-Yang Bracelet defeated them in two strikes.
• Huang Tian used the Yuanji Treasure Tree to take the sect leaders, elders, stewards, and their treasures, then captured the wounded True Persons.
• Huang Tian ordered all who had oppressed or harmed the people to kill themselves, and thousands of disciples obeyed.
• Huang Tian found and took the Sacred Origin Sect’s treasury, retrieved his formation equipment, and vanished.

After destroying the Sacred Origin Sect, Huang Tian killed its two supreme elders and gained Violet Palace resources, while his victims and the wider cultivation world identified him as the Great Fiend the High Saints were seeking. The killings triggered a storm of fear and suspicion across the kingdoms as Huang Tian continued cultivating toward the Golden Core.

• Huang Tian examined the Sacred Origin Sect's spoils and found most of its pills, plants, and treasures too low-grade to help him.
• True Person Qingliu and True Person Xiangrong realized they were trapped inside the Yuanji Treasure Tree, and Qingliu suspected Huang Tian was the Great Fiend sought by High Saint King Ling.
• Huang Tian killed the Sacred Origin Sect's Foundation Establishment cultivators, then beheaded Qingliu and Xiangrong after declaring that the world must be cleansed and its order changed.
• Huang Tian took the two elders' Violet Palace elixirs and spirit plants, while their deaths unleashed a storm that spread their fallen auras across the kingdoms.
• True Person Baiyang warned True Person Han Qi away from the Two-World Mountains Secret Realm, and Han Qi chose to remain in the Gilded Metal Sect.
• The High Saints debated how to find the Great Fiend and decided to watch Violet Palace cultivators, while Huang Tian stayed in a valley and cultivated.

Huang Tian broke through to Violet Palace Late Stage after cultivating in seclusion, then returned briefly to Wangjiang City to reassure his family and leave resources with the clan. He departed for the newly appeared Secret Realm in the Two-World Mountains, disguising his cultivation and arriving before the gathered cultivators.

• Huang Tian engraved Cosmic Light as his second divine ability and advanced to Violet Palace Middle Stage, then checked that the Wangjiang Huang Clan was safe.
• After exhausting his resources, Huang Tian engraved Tribulationless Garment as his third divine ability and broke through to Violet Palace Late Stage.
• Huang Tian returned to Wangjiang City, reunited with Huang Fupei, Sun Yun, Huang Du, and Huang Yu, and shared a meal with them.
• Huang Tian gave Huang Jutao a Storage Bag of Foundation Establishment resources and left another bag of Qi Refining pills for his family before departing.
• Huang Tian flew toward the Secret Realm in the Two-World Mountains, used Tribulationless Garment to disguise himself as a Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivator, and landed before hundreds of cultivators.

As the Dashing Sky Secret Realm opened for the third time, Huang Tian provoked the Gilded Metal Sect and Earth-Bearing Sect by refusing their entry fee and insulting them before entering. Inside, he waited to learn whether a Golden Core powerhouse could see through his disguise, and three voice-lines appeared from beyond the Secret Realm.

• The Gilded Metal Sect and Earth-Bearing Sect prepared to enter the Secret Realm while Huang Tian, Han Zhengyang, and Ning Ruqiu arrived at the gate.
• Han Zhengyang questioned a returning cultivator, exposing his treasures and prompting the man to eat his Pure Radiance Lotus rather than risk losing it.
• Han Zhengyang and Ning Ruqiu entered without paying, and Huang Tian challenged anyone who wanted his spiritual items before walking toward the gate.
• Huang Tian called the sect cultivators wild dogs and dared Baiyang to come, then entered the Secret Realm as Wei Liang and Lu Xiu vowed to kill him inside.
• Huang Tian waited in a forest to see whether his divine ability concealed him from a Golden Core powerhouse, and three voice-lines tore open the sky and descended.

High Saint King Ling watched Huang Tian and judged his strength, while Huang Tian evaded the Golden Core observers’ divinations and entered the Dashing Sky Grand True Person’s abode. Inside, he chose the medicine-garden passage, defeated its puppets, and comprehended the Soaring Azure Heavens Sea-Guiding Sword, while Han Zhengyang and Ning Ruqiu failed to break in.

• High Saint King Ling divined Huang Tian’s background and combat ability, then stopped watching the Dashing Sky Secret Realm, unconcerned about what happened to Han Zhengyang or the sect cultivators.
• Huang Tian recognized three Golden Core powerhouses observing the Secret Realm and concluded that his Tribulationless Garment concealed him from their divinations.
• Huang Tian found a flaw in the formation around the Dashing Sky Grand True Person’s abode and slipped inside before Han Zhengyang could join him.
• Han Zhengyang and Ning Ruqiu tried formation-breaking talismans and a formation of their own, failed to enter, and decided to wait for the two sects’ cultivators.
• Huang Tian chose the middle passage, defeated its two Foundation Establishment Perfection Human Puppets, and stored them in his Storage Bag.
• Huang Tian comprehended the Soaring Azure Heavens Sea-Guiding Sword from a painting and demonstrated its power in the empty hall.

Huang Tian explored Dashing Sky Grand True Person’s abode, collected its herbs, surviving pills, cultivation slips, and the superior Violet Palace-grade Heavenly Water Void-Ring Sword. When the two sects and Rogue Cultivators attacked him after the formation fell, he overwhelmed them with his sword and killed Han Zhengyang, leaving the survivors stunned.

• Huang Tian harvested the spiritual plants, gathered the surviving Violet Palace-grade pills, and collected the jade slips from the abode’s chambers.
• Huang Tian found Dashing Sky Grand True Person’s skeleton and took the Heavenly Water Void-Ring Sword, then sensed that cultivators were attacking the abode’s formation.
• Wei Liang, Lu Xiu, Han Zhengyang, and other cultivators confronted Huang Tian after the formation broke and demanded his treasures.
• Huang Tian used the Heavenly Water Void-Ring Sword to defeat the sect cultivators’ combined attack and leave many Foundation Establishment cultivators dead or gravely wounded.
• Huang Tian pierced Han Zhengyang with the sword despite his appeal to King Ling, and the surviving cultivators watched in shock.

Huang Tian killed Han Zhengyang and the Foundation Establishment cultivators who had attacked him, then escaped the Secret Realm and hid from the Violet Palace pursuers. He began cultivating with his spoils, confident he could soon reach Violet Palace Great Perfection and approach Golden Core.

• Huang Tian used his sword to kill Han Zhengyang, Wei Liang, and the other fleeing cultivators, then collected their Storage Bags and left the Secret Realm.
• Ning Ruqiu retrieved Han Zhengyang's body, while Radiant Illumination Dao Lord watched and revealed that High Saint King Ling planned to claim Huang Tian's Immortal Foundation Divine Abilities after he reached Violet Palace Great Perfection.
• True Person Baiyang restrained True Person Han Qi from pursuing Huang Tian, and four Earth-Bearing Sect Violet Palace cultivators searched Chu but failed to locate him or the Great Fiend.
• Huang Tian hid in a nameless valley beneath the Tribulationless Garment and counted his Secret Realm treasures and spoils.
• Huang Tian began cultivating with his pills and spiritual plants, expecting to reach Violet Palace Great Perfection soon.

While Huang Tian remained in seclusion, rumors of his deeds unsettled Chu and Jin, and the Wangjiang Huang Clan feared his identity would be exposed. As spring rain fell, Huang Tian’s Golden Core breakthrough began, sending a mysterious aura across Chu Kingdom and beyond.

• News spread that Huang Tian had slain dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators and Han Zhengyang in the Dashing Sky Secret Realm, weakening the Gilded Metal Sect and stirring unrest across Chu and Jin.
• Huang Jutao and Huang Xuanlang concluded that Huang Tian might seek an empty Dao Rank and speculated that he could be Emperor Lord Chiming reborn, then resolved to keep the Huang Clan’s connection to him secret.
• Months later, Huang Du and Huang Yu wondered where Huang Tian was cultivating, while Huang Fupei warned them to stay in Wangjiang City and kept the family under close watch.
• As a fine spring rain ended, a vast and mysterious aura rose from Chu Kingdom and spread across the mortal world, high heavens, and Grotto-Heavens.
• Countless cultivators sensed the aura and realized someone was about to seek the Golden Core Dao Rank.

Huang Tian condensed his Yuanji Golden Nature and sought Gold Attainment, repelling an assault from the Golden Core High Saints before attaining the Yuanji Dao Rank. He established new laws and began attesting additional paths as the Dao Ranks rebelled against their holders.

• Huang Tian reached Violet Palace Great Perfection, condensed his Yuanji Golden Nature, and decided to seek a new Dao Rank.
• Huang Tian revealed himself as he sought Gold Attainment, prompting the Golden Core High Saints to identify him as the Great Fiend and attack him.
• Huang Tian used the Yuanji Treasure Tree and two self-destructing treasures to hold off the High Saints’ attacks while his Yuanji Dao Rank formed.
• The High Saints’ assault shattered the Yuanji Treasure Tree and engulfed Huang Tian, but he survived and the tree restored itself with seven-colored radiance.
• Huang Tian announced that he had attained Yuanji and become a Dao Lord, forming a new Grotto-Heaven as the Twenty-Eight Dao Fruits began to rebel.
• Huang Tian attested Merit, Heavenly Tribulation, and Divine Martial, declaring new laws and opening cultivation to mortals without spiritual apertures.