Chapter Summaries

Huang Xunjiu tried to reconcile with the master of Qinghui Garden but was refused, leaving the Huang Family disgraced. Meanwhile, the Flying Swan Sect learned that Huang Tian had killed the Thousand Faces Old Ghost, then received news that a Void Realm divine weapon had emerged.

• Huang Xunjiu went to Qinghui Garden with gifts and asked to see its master.
• A guard told Huang Xunjiu that the master would see no visitors and would not accept his gifts, so Huang Xunjiu left in despair.
• News of Huang Xunjiu's rejection spread through the commandery city, making the Huang Manor a laughingstock.
• Qian Shan and the Flying Swan Sect elders discussed how to deal with Huang Tian after he killed the Thousand Faces Old Ghost.
• A steward brought Qian Shan a letter, and Qian Shan announced that a Void Realm divine weapon had emerged.

The Martial Guard learned that two Void Realm divine weapons had appeared, bringing martial artists and disorder to Kunyun Prefecture. As Huang Tian struggled to keep Baoqing Ward under control, he killed two violent fourth-rank martial artists who had destroyed buildings and killed residents.

• Qian Shan told the council elders that the Thunder-Chasing Lightning Divine Sword had been confirmed in Yong Province and that the Heaven-Balancing Sea-Subduing Ruler might have appeared in Funing County, then ordered an investigation.
• Yu Jingcheng and Bai Yuanfu informed the prefectural chiliarchs about the possible divine weapons and assigned them to protect the city and counties, while warning Huang Tian that some martial artists might target him.
• Several days later, martial artists flooded Kunyun Prefecture, and Huang Tian heard that more than a hundred murders had occurred in Baoqing Ward.
• Two martial artists, Moon Hermit and Mountain Hermit, fought through Baoqing Ward and destroyed buildings, killing residents despite Huang Tian's order to stop.
• Huang Tian shot Moon Hermit dead with the Five-String True Tone Arrow, then killed Mountain Hermit with a second volley and ordered Luo Chan to hang their heads above the eastern city gate.

God Huang Tian broke through to the fifth rank, retrieved Thousand Faces Old Ghost’s hidden treasures, and lured Pei Guan out of the city. As Pei Guan attacked him, Yu Jingcheng intervened, but Pei Guan’s enormous saber strike was still heading straight for Huang Tian.

• Pei Guan decided to wait half a month before capturing God Huang Tian, while the eastern district settled after the deaths of two martial artists.
• God Huang Tian swallowed the final Spirit Jade Ganoderma and broke through to the fifth rank of the martial path.
• God Huang Tian left the city alone to retrieve the Treasure Elephant Sacred Fetus Pill and draw out the Demon Cult grandmaster.
• Pei Guan pursued God Huang Tian, and Yu Jingcheng rushed after them as martial artists gathered outside the eastern gate.
• Pei Guan and Yu Jingcheng exchanged attacks, then Pei Guan launched a huge blood-red saber aura at Huang Tian.

Huang Tian killed Pei Guan, a third-rank grandmaster of the Demon Cult, revealing that he had reached the fifth rank. After returning toward the city, he prepared to ride to the Flying Swan Sect to seek revenge.

• Huang Tian unleashed his blood vitality and true qi, obliterating Pei Guan's blade aura and forming a vast crimson cloud and Eight Trigrams furnace phantom.
• Pei Guan poured all his strength into a final slash, but Huang Tian's palm erased the blade aura and struck him dead.
• Yu Jingcheng identified Pei Guan as a notorious Demon Cult grandmaster and learned that Huang Tian had reached the fifth rank.
• Huang Tian healed his frightened steed, then told Yu Jingcheng he intended to take revenge on the Flying Swan Sect; Yu Jingcheng arranged a flood-dragon horse for him.
• Huang Tian rode toward the city with Pei Guan's head, while Xiao Qing and Zhou Miaosu watched the crowd marvel at his victory.

After killing Pei Guan, Huang Tian prepared to travel secretly to the Flying Swan Sect, whose leaders learned of his growing strength and feared his retaliation. The chapter ended with Ke Rujing warning his disciples to avoid Huang Tian and urging the other four great sects to act against the threat.

• Huang Tian reported Pei Guan's head to the Martial Guard and obtained leave from Bai Yuanfu to travel to the Flying Swan Sect.
• Huang Tian entrusted Aunt Qin with the household, accepted intelligence documents sent by Zhou Miaosu, and departed the city at night on a dragon horse.
• Qian Shan received an urgent report that Huang Tian had killed a Third Rank grandmaster and brought it to Ke Rujing.
• Ke Rujing and Qian Shan received three more reports confirming Huang Tian had killed Pei Guan and apparently reached the Fifth Rank.
• Ke Rujing ordered the Flying Swan Sect's disciples and elders to avoid Huang Tian and sent urgent letters asking the other four great sects to decide how to deal with him.

Huang Tian rode to the Flying Swan Sect and announced that it would be destroyed that day. He stormed into its headquarters and demolished the council hall with a single arrow, leaving the sect in chaos.

• Huang Tian met Zhao Changguang and Zhao Changming while they headed to the Flying Swan Sect, and Zhao Changming vowed to become a martial artist like him.
• Huang Tian told the Zhao brothers that the Flying Swan Sect would be destroyed that day, then galloped toward its headquarters.
• Fang He recognized Huang Tian at the sect entrance, but Huang Tian’s true qi blast killed him and swept past the other guards.
• Huang Tian entered the sect’s square, leapt onto a stone pillar, and fired the Crimson Dawn Bow at the council hall.
• Huang Tian’s arrow shattered the hall’s roof and supports, bringing the entire building down as dust and tremors swept through the headquarters.

Huang Tian attacked the Flying Swan Sect and killed its master, Qian Shan, and all four elders with his arrows. As the sect’s disciples fled or begged for their grand elder, Ke Rujing escaped through a hidden tunnel rather than face Huang Tian.

• Townspeople and the Zhao brothers saw dust rising over the Flying Swan Sect and realized Huang Tian was attacking it.
• Huang Tian killed two fourth-rank elders with platinum arrows as Qian Shan tried to organize a defense.
• The two remaining elders fled, but Huang Tian killed one with a returning green arrow and the other with a freezing dark arrow.
• Qian Shan charged Huang Tian with his spear, but Huang Tian’s crimson arrow engulfed and killed him.
• The Flying Swan Sect’s disciples scattered as Huang Tian shot down those who fought back.
• Ke Rujing fled through a hidden tunnel after witnessing Huang Tian kill the elders.

Huang Tian pursued Ke Rujing through the secret tunnel and confronted him outside town. Huang Tian defeated and killed Ke Rujing, leaving the Flying Swan Sect in ruins as its disciples and the townsfolk fled.

• Ke Rujing fled the Flying Swan Sect through a secret tunnel, while Huang Tian collapsed a stone pillar and raced toward the tunnel's exit.
• Huang Tian stomped the ground, shook the tunnel, and forced Ke Rujing to emerge south of town.
• Ke Rujing tried to persuade Huang Tian to let him leave, but Huang Tian refused and challenged him to fight.
• Huang Tian overpowered Ke Rujing's staff attacks, seized the dark-gold staff, and struck Ke Rujing down with it.
• The Flying Swan Sect disciples fled after Ke Rujing died, while Zhao Changguang and Zhao Changming watched from the inn.

Huang Tian looted the Flying Swan Sect’s private treasury, treasury, and library after driving its people away, while Zhao Changming and Zhao Changguang decided to seek him as a master. The chapter ended with Zhao Changming kneeling before Huang Tian and begging to become his disciple.

• Huang Tian searched Ke Rujing’s hidden treasury and found a grandmaster-grade iron fan, Treasure Elephant Sacred Fetus Pills, Dragon-Tiger Great Restoration Pills, and rare herbs.
• Huang Tian gathered valuable pills and herbs from the Flying Swan Sect’s treasury, then began reading its extensive library collection.
• Townspeople fled in fear after hearing that Huang Tian had killed the Flying Swan Sect’s leaders.
• Zhao Changming persuaded Zhao Changguang to go to the sect and ask Huang Tian to take them as disciples.
• Zhao Changming found Huang Tian reading in the library, knelt before him, and begged to become his disciple.

Huang Tian refused Zhao Changming’s request to become his disciple and ordered the Martial Guard to secure the Flying Swan Sect and transport its treasury. News of Huang Tian’s destruction of the sect reached the authorities and the Return-to-Origin Sect, leaving Wu Dingwen fearing the consequences of his role in the attempt on Huang Tian’s life.

• Huang Tian told Zhao Changming he would not take a disciple and advised him to seek entry to the Martial Guard’s Guard Academy.
• Tie Chong arrived with Martial Guard forces, received Huang Tian’s orders to handle the Flying Swan Sect’s treasury, and set guards to keep intruders away from the Scripture Pavilion.
• Bai Yuanfu received the news that Huang Tian had destroyed the Flying Swan Sect, and he and Yu Jingcheng celebrated the report.
• Wu Dingwen read the urgent report and told supreme elder Wu Xuefeng that Huang Tian had wiped out the Flying Swan Sect.
• Wu Xuefeng asked whether Wu Dingwen had informed him about the Return-to-Origin Sect’s role in hiring Thousand Faces Old Ghost, and Wu Dingwen realized his great-uncle might hold him responsible.

Wu Xuefeng killed Wu Dingwen and installed Wu Jiamin as the new sect master to protect the Return-to-Origin Sect from Huang Tian’s revenge. At the Flying Swan Sect, Huang Tian reached a breakthrough and created the powerful palm technique High Heaven, though he knew it remained incomplete.

• Wu Xuefeng told Wu Dingwen that his death would protect the Return-to-Origin Sect, but Wu Dingwen tried to flee instead of taking his own life.
• Wu Xuefeng caught Wu Dingwen outside the courtyard and killed him, then told Wu Jiamin to claim the sect master had suffered qi deviation and ordered him to take over as sect master.
• Several days later, Huang Tian finished studying the martial arts manuals in the Flying Swan Sect’s Scripture Pavilion and entered an epiphany outside.
• Huang Tian combined the techniques he had learned and unleashed a palm strike that carved a deep trench through the bluestone ground.
• Huang Tian named the move High Heaven, recognized its immense power, and resolved to study more martial techniques so he could perfect it.

After recovering from his devastating slash, Huang Tian learned that the Demon Cult’s Yin Holy Son was preparing to come to Kunyun and that the four great sects had submitted after their leaders died. He rode toward the Return-to-Origin Sect to demand compensation, while its Grand Elder secretly fled.

• Huang Tian used his perception to discover Elder Duan and a woman in purple discussing the rumored divine weapon and the approaching Yin Holy Son, who planned to attack the Martial Guards and Huang Tian.
• Tie Chong told Huang Tian that the leaders and several elders of Kunyun’s four great sects had died, the Flying Swan Sect’s treasure convoy had arrived safely, and Adjutant Yu and Commander Bai wanted him to return.
• Huang Tian decided to visit the four great sects, ordered Tie Chong to send the Flying Swan Sect’s scripture texts to the official Library Pavilion, and rode away alone.
• Huang Tian’s pursuers reported that he was heading for the Return-to-Origin Sect, throwing its people into panic.
• Wu Xuefeng gave Wu Jiamin two Treasure Elephant Sacred Fetus Pills and seven old spirit herbs to offer Huang Tian as compensation, then secretly fled into the hills.

Huang Tian visited the Return-to-Origin Sect, accepted its apology gift, and spent several days reading in its Library Pavilion before departing. He then visited the other three great sects in Kunyun Prefecture, where he received similar gifts and read their collections, leaving his name feared across the prefecture.

• Wu Jiamin led the Return-to-Origin Sect's elders and stewards in welcoming Huang Tian and offered him two Treasure Elephant Sacred Fetus Pills and seven precious medicinal herbs as an apology.
• Huang Tian asked where Wu Xuefeng was, accepted the gift, and requested access to the sect's Library Pavilion instead of a banquet.
• Wu Jiamin barred the disciples from the Library Pavilion while Huang Tian read there for several days, and the sect's members relaxed when they realized he would not destroy them.
• Wu Xuefeng returned and presented Huang Tian with a booklet of grandmasters' breakthrough notes, but Huang Tian said he had finished reading and rode away.
• Huang Tian visited the remaining three great sects, accepted matching apology gifts, and read in their Library Pavilions as his fame spread across Kunyun Prefecture.

Huang Tian entered a profound state of inspiration at Divine Blade Cliff, where his uncontrolled blade aura terrified a group of travelers. He broke through to the fourth rank and unleashed a colossal blade of aura into the sea of clouds, leaving the witnesses stunned.

• Huang Tian rode unconscious toward Divine Blade Cliff while a group of young travelers discussed the legend that a master had split the cliff with one strike.
• Qin recognized Huang Tian by his flood-dragon horse and arrow case, and warned the others not to disturb him because something seemed unusual.
• Huang Tian's true qi erupted into a tornado of platinum blade aura, forcing Qin, Liu, and the others to flee more than a hundred fathoms away.
• Huang Tian's qi and blood surged as spiritual energy entered his body, and he broke through to the fourth rank of the Martial Path without leaving his mysterious state.
• Huang Tian opened his eyes, formed a blade of aura hundreds of fathoms long, and swept it down through the sea of clouds, splitting it apart.

After mastering the High Heaven strike, Huang Tian realized he could likely defeat ordinary second-rank grandmasters and stood among Qin Province’s strongest. He returned to Kunyun Prefecture, received his promotion to assistant commander, and faced Niu Kuanyu’s probing interest in his abilities.

• Huang Tian used his true qi to soothe and strengthen his dragon horse, then offered the companions at the cliff three months to study the lingering blade intent.
• Qin Hao awakened from his vision of Huang Tian’s strike and demonstrated that he could draw on heaven and earth’s spiritual energy to unleash a blade gleam.
• Yu Jingcheng warned Huang Tian that provincial assistant commander Niu Kuanyu appeared to be investigating him and wanted him to return.
• Niu Kuanyu presented Huang Tian with his assistant commander’s badge, promoting him to a third-rank assistant commander of the Qin Province Martial Guard.
• After the others left, Niu Kuanyu offered to help with Huang Tian’s worries, but Huang Tian said he had none.

Huang Tian returned to Qinghui Garden, while Zhou Tu and Zhou Miaosu realized Niu Kuanyu might target him and warned him of a possible ambush on the road to Funing County. Huang Tian remained calm as Zhou Tu wondered whether he had already advanced to the fourth rank.

• Niu Kuanyu warned Huang Tian that factions suspected he possessed a secret treasure, but Huang Tian denied it and showed no concern.
• Huang Tian returned to Qinghui Garden, arranged to sell some of the Flying Swan Sect's spoils, and planned a banquet for his allies.
• Zhou Miaosu described Huang Tian's extraordinary rise and feared that Niu Kuanyu might attack him, so Zhou Tu decided to warn Huang Tian in person.
• Zhou Tu and Zhou Miaosu saw Huang Xunjiu leave Qinghui Garden after seeking Huang Tian's mercy, and Zhou Miaosu explained the disasters that had befallen his family.
• Zhou Tu warned Huang Tian that Niu Kuanyu might attack him during a trip to Funing County, possibly with the Three Elders of Qin Province, while Huang Tian remained composed.

Huang Tian hosted a banquet for old acquaintances and rewarded his former instructor, Xu, with valuable pills. The next day, Huang Tian agreed to accompany Niu Kuanyu to Funing County, where they set out with six other guards.

• Zhou Tu and Zhou Miaosu concluded that Huang Tian's confidence suggested he had broken through or could face several second-rank experts.
• Instructor Xu excitedly prepared for Huang Tian's banquet, explaining to his wife and son that he had been Huang Tian's first instructor.
• At Qinghui Garden, Huang Tian learned that Zhao Changming had entered the Guard Academy and was training tirelessly to become his disciple.
• Huang Tian gave Instructor Xu a gift containing Blood-Condensing Pills and a Qi-Gathering Pill, which Xu decided to keep secret.
• Niu Kuanyu announced that he would lead support to Funing County and asked Huang Tian to accompany him; Huang Tian agreed despite Yu Jingcheng's concern.
• The next morning, Huang Tian joined Niu Kuanyu, four of his subordinates, Nie Kun, and Tie Qi, and the party rode out toward Funing.

Huang Tian faced Niu Kuanyu and the Three Elders of Qin Province at an inn after Niu Kuanyu demanded the secret of his rapid cultivation. Huang Tian killed all four with overwhelming power and ended the battle standing beneath a sky split by his blade.

• Niu Kuanyu demanded that Huang Tian reveal the secret behind his rapid cultivation and threatened to spare his life only if he complied.
• The Three Elders of Qin Province burst into the inn and attacked Huang Tian with a combined sword technique as Niu Kuanyu struck with a powerful fist.
• Huang Tian unleashed a sea of saber energy that killed the Three Elders in a single exchange.
• Huang Tian met Niu Kuanyu's punch and shattered his arm, then pursued him into the air as a crimson cloud and phantom furnace pinned him in place.
• Huang Tian cut Niu Kuanyu in two with a three-hundred-yard heavenly blade, which split the clouds above him.

Huang Tian killed Niu Kuanyu and the Three Elders of Qin Province after they attacked him, then continued toward Funing with Nie Kun. Back in the prefectural city, the Martial Guard officials and Zhou Tu learned what had happened, and Zhou Miaosu concluded that Huang Tian had the makings of a Supreme Celestial.

• Huang Tian reassured Nie Kun and Tie Qi, ordered Tie Qi to take Niu Kuanyu's body back, and continued to Funing with Nie Kun and the elders' heads.
• Nie Kun gave the innkeeper money to cover the ruined inn, and Huang Tian's party set off through the night.
• Tie Qi returned to the prefectural city with Niu Kuanyu's body and told Yu Jingcheng and Bai Yuanfu that Huang Tian had killed Niu Kuanyu and the Three Elders of Qin Province.
• Yu Jingcheng ordered a report sent to the provincial Martial Guard and Bai Yuanfu to inform Zhou Tu.
• Zhou Tu told Zhou Miaosu that Huang Tian had killed Niu Kuanyu and the others, and Zhou Miaosu said Huang Tian had the makings of a Supreme Celestial.

Huang Tian arrived in Funing County, revealed that he had killed Niu Kuanyu and the Three Elders of Qin Province, and displayed their heads over three city gates to intimidate the martial artists. After two powerful young martial artists challenged him to a match in three days, Huang Tian realized the Yin Holy Son was expected to arrive at the same time.

• Huang Tian and Nie Kun reached Funing County, where guards told them that fighting among martial artists had repeatedly endangered the city’s civilians.
• Huang Tian ordered Nie Kun to hang the Three Elders of Qin Province’s heads over the east, south, and north gates, then rode into the city.
• Deputy Commissioner Xu Shu welcomed Huang Tian and warned him that Demonic Cult villains had infiltrated Funing County.
• Huang Tian told Xu Shu that he had killed Niu Kuanyu and the Three Elders after Niu Kuanyu arranged an attack, leaving Xu Shu shocked by Huang Tian’s strength.
• Xie Zheng of Heavenly Sword Villa and Long Zhang of Cloud Sky Temple sent Huang Tian challenges to spar outside the west gate in three days.
• Huang Tian followed a thread of sound and determined that the Yin Holy Son would arrive in Funing in three days as well.