Chapter Summaries

Huang Tian rode out with Xu Shu to intercept the Demon Cult’s Yin Holy Son, Xiahou Yin, and fought him in a violent head-on clash. Xie Zheng and Long Zhang arrived to watch and realized that both fighters possessed first-rank strength, despite Huang Tian being only fourth-rank.

• Huang Tian accepted Xie Zheng and Long Zhang’s challenges, while the two men prepared for their sparring match.
• Elder Duan learned that Xiahou Yin was approaching Funing County, and Huang Tian set out with Xu Shu and Martial Guard officers to intercept him.
• Xiahou Yin recognized Huang Tian’s group and unleashed a blast of sound and wind, which Huang Tian stopped and turned back.
• Huang Tian and Xiahou Yin exchanged a powerful opening clash, while Xu Shu fought Elder Duan and the assistant commissioner engaged the woman in purple.
• Xie Zheng and Long Zhang reached the battlefield and felt the shockwaves of Huang Tian and Xiahou Yin’s fight, then concluded that both had first-rank strength.

Huang Tian overwhelmed Xiahou Yin with a hundred consecutive punches and killed him, then rushed across the battlefield to slay Elder Duan and the purple-clad woman. He left Xie Zheng and Long Zhang stunned as he continued turning the fight against the Demonic Cult.

• Xiahou Yin unleashed his secret art and struck at Huang Tian, while Xie Zheng intervened and was badly injured by Xiahou Yin's hammer.
• Huang Tian put aside his failing staff and countered Xiahou Yin's hammer with a powerful fist, then battered him with a rapid succession of punches.
• Huang Tian disarmed Xiahou Yin with his ninety-ninth punch and killed him with his hundredth punch.
• Huang Tian reached Xu Shu's fight and killed Elder Duan with a single punch to the head.
• Huang Tian arrived where the third-rank Assistant Commissioner fought the purple-clad woman and killed her with a palm strike.

Huang Tian killed Xiahou Yin and returned to Funing County’s capital, where the news of his strength spread and stirred widespread speculation about his secret treasure. More than a month later, Old Yun urged Elder Kong to help seize it, but Elder Kong warned that Huang Tian might be a peerless talent rising in an age of great strife.

• Huang Tian killed the remaining Demon Sect followers, and Xu Shu confirmed that Xiahou Yin had died at Huang Tian’s hands.
• Huang Tian ordered Nie Kun to hang Xiahou Yin’s head above the west gate and returned to the city with Xu Shu, Xie Zheng, and Long Zhang.
• The head’s display caused an uproar, and news of Huang Tian’s victory spread across the region.
• Over the next month, Huang Tian cultivated and discussed martial techniques while rumors about his secret treasure spread throughout Kunyun Prefecture, Qin Province, and Great Gan.
• Old Yun showed Elder Kong Huang Tian’s entry in the Grandmaster Rankings and proposed they seize his secret treasure.
• Elder Kong refused and warned Old Yun that Huang Tian could be a peerless talent destined to rise in an age of great strife.

Huang Tian read his new ranking and comprehended the changes between withering and flourishing, using them to develop his Cycle of Rebirth Heaven technique and accelerate his cultivation. As he cultivated toward third rank, Xiahou Yang arrived at Stormcloud Manor to confront Yue Dingshan.

• Xie Zheng showed Huang Tian the Grandmaster Rankings, which placed him at 219 and described him as the convergence of Qin Province's thousand years of martial fortune.
• While Xie Zheng practiced the Withering and Flourishing Life-Death Sword Art, Huang Tian grasped its essence and mastered the changes between withering and flourishing.
• Huang Tian formed the rudiments of Cycle of Rebirth Heaven and recognized that perfecting it could nurture divine intent and lead him toward the celestial realm.
• Huang Tian used the Withering Glory Method with a Dragon-Tiger Great Restoration Pill and the Cloud Dragon Stance, strengthening his body and estimating he could reach third rank in a little over ten days.
• Xiahou Yang arrived at Stormcloud Manor, where Yue Dingshan recognized him and tightened his grip on the Coiling Dragon Spear.

Xiahou Yang killed Yue Dingshan at Stormcloud Manor, then learned that the Yin Holy Son had died and set out for Great Gan to kill Huang Tian. Huang Tian used the eighteen days before Xiahou Yang could arrive to consume the Treasure Elephant Sacred Fetus Pill and break through to third-rank grandmaster.

• Xiahou Yang defeated Yue Dingshan with two slashes and killed him with a third at Stormcloud Manor.
• A message informed Xiahou Yang that the Yin Holy Son was dead, so he decided to travel alone to Kunyun Prefecture and kill Huang Tian.
• Huang Tian watched Xiahou Yang's declaration and estimated that he would arrive in about twenty days, after Huang Tian had time to advance.
• Eighteen days later, Huang Tian took the Treasure Elephant Sacred Fetus Pill and successfully became a third-rank grandmaster.

Huang Tian broke through to the third rank, accepted congratulations, and prepared to confront the Yang Holy Son at Rage Dragon River. As he rode toward the river, his killing intent caught the attention of Brother Wu aboard a passing ship.

• Xu Shu, Xie Zheng, and Long Zhang witnessed Huang Tian break through to the third rank and congratulated him on becoming a master.
• Huang Tian tested his newfound strength, judged himself nearly invincible among first-rank experts, and decided to meet the approaching Yang Holy Son away from Funing.
• Huang Tian practiced with the Snow Frost Saber overnight, then rode out of Funing for Rage Dragon River to take a head.
• On a ship on Rage Dragon River, Brother Wu told a refined middle-aged man about Huang Tian’s devastating battle with the Yin Holy Son.
• Brother Wu spotted a young man in a purple robe on the riverbank and sensed the man’s killing intent as a blood-red blade at his throat.

Huang Tian and Xiahou Yang fought a devastating saber duel above the Great Dragon River after Xiahou Yang accused Huang Tian of killing his younger brother. Their battle swept downstream, where villagers witnessed both a huge creature take their offerings and the two fighters clash over the river.

• Brother Wu sensed the immense strength of the purple-robed Xiahou Yang, then recognized Huang Tian as he arrived on a dragon horse across the river.
• Xiahou Yang confronted Huang Tian over the death of his younger brother, and Huang Tian said the man deserved to die.
• Xiahou Yang and Huang Tian exchanged saber strikes that split the river and sent a massive wave crashing into a cargo ship, whose crew turned away to escape.
• At a riverside ceremony, the villagers sent offerings onto a raft, and a huge scaled creature dragged it underwater.
• Third Granduncle and the villagers saw Huang Tian and Xiahou Yang fighting above the river, their blows raising towering curtains of water.

Huang Tian defeated and killed Xiahou Yang after a fierce battle that also claimed the Black Flood Dragon. He buried Xiahou Yang in the autumn mountains, then rode off on the flood dragon horse with Xiahou Yang’s head, recovering as they followed a mountain road.

• Xiahou Yang and Huang Tian battled above the river, where Xiahou Yang wounded the Black Flood Dragon and Huang Tian beheaded it.
• Xiahou Yang unleashed a secret art and struck Huang Tian with a fiery saber attack, but Huang Tian cut off his left arm and pursued him into the mountains.
• Xiahou Yang stopped fleeing and asked Huang Tian to bury him in the beautiful autumn mountains; Huang Tian agreed and killed him with a single strike.
• Huang Tian buried Xiahou Yang’s body, wrapped his head in cloth, and waited for the flood dragon horse to catch up.
• Huang Tian mounted the exhausted horse, told it to follow the mountain road, and began meditating to restore his true qi.

Huang Tian traveled toward the provincial capital with a merchant caravan while officials learned that he had defeated Xiahou Yang and hurried out to welcome him. The chapter ended with Governor Ning Heyuan and the city's senior officials bowing to Huang Tian as he arrived.

• Huang Tian joined Liu's merchant caravan on the road to the provincial capital and spoke with Liu's curious daughter.
• Ning Heyuan learned that Huang Tian had fought Xiahou Yang, then received word that Huang Tian had severed Xiahou Yang's arm and pursued him into the mountains.
• Ning Heyuan ordered the provincial offices to search for Huang Tian and went out with Yan Zhong and other officials to greet him.
• Liu's daughter chatted with Huang Tian as the caravan neared the city, while Liu prepared to part ways with him.
• The provincial capital's officials and more than a hundred armored soldiers dismounted and welcomed Huang Tian as Assistant Commissioner.

Huang Tian arrived in the prefectural city after killing Xiahou Yang, the Demon Sect’s Yang Holy Son, and the provincial officials welcomed him with great respect. As news of his victory spread across Great Gan, his friends and former instructors marveled at his strength and his potential to become a Heavenly Human.

• Huang Tian presented Xiahou Yang’s head to Ning Heyuan and Yan Zhong, who praised him for defeating a first-rank grandmaster while at the third rank.
• Huang Tian joined Ning Heyuan and Yan Zhong at a banquet, where they granted him access to the martial techniques in every provincial office’s Library Pavilion.
• Huang Tian went directly to the provincial office’s Library Pavilion to study martial techniques.
• Xu Shu, Xie Zheng, and Long Zhang received news of Huang Tian’s victory and speculated that he could become a Heavenly Human.
• Officials and Guard Academy members in Kunyun Prefecture celebrated Huang Tian’s achievement, while Instructor Xu wondered if he had taught another Yin Fenghai.

Old Man Yun and Kong Ji learned that Huang Tian had killed Xiahou Yang and decided to bring him rare secret arts of the mind. As the royal family sent the fourth prince and Princess Jingning to Qin Province to befriend Huang Tian, Kong Ji challenged him to a spar and was blasted nearly ten miles away by a single palm strike.

• Old Man Yun told Kong Ji that Huang Tian had killed Xiahou Yang, and Kong Ji resolved to visit Huang Tian with secret arts of the mind written by Master Fengyuan and the Jade God Recluse.
• The fourth prince told Princess Jingning that the emperor wanted her to befriend Huang Tian, whom Grand Commander Wan Shenyang believed could become Great Gan's second Grand Commander.
• The fourth prince and Princess Jingning departed for Qin Province on royal wind eagles to deliver Huang Tian's promotion decree and meet him.
• After nearly twenty days of reading in the provincial offices' Library Pavilions, Huang Tian learned that Kong Ji had come to visit him.
• Kong Ji offered Huang Tian several secret arts of the mind in exchange for a sparring match, and Huang Tian agreed.
• Huang Tian met Kong Ji's palm strike with his own, sending Kong Ji flying nearly ten miles through the air.

After Huang Tian studied Kong Ji’s mental secret techniques, he triggered a mysterious presence that showed Ning Heyuan, Ji Fan, and Yan Zhong different awe-inspiring visions. Meanwhile, the arrival of the Heaven-Balancing Sea-Subduing Ruler’s wielder sparked a crisis in Qin Province, and the chapter ended with the three grandmasters recovering from Huang Tian’s manifestation in horror.

• Kong Ji conceded his spar with Huang Tian, recognized that Huang Tian was close to forming a divine manifestation, and gave him mental secret techniques.
• Huang Tian studied the techniques in seclusion as the Fourth Prince and Princess Jingning arrived with his promotion order and waited for him to emerge.
• News that the Heaven-Balancing Sea-Subduing Ruler had appeared near Kunyun drew martial artists toward Qin Province, prompting provincial leaders to discuss how to contain the coming unrest.
• A mysterious presence from Huang Tian’s residence froze Ning Heyuan, Ji Fan, and Yan Zhong, each of whom witnessed a different supernatural vision.
• The Fourth Prince kept his distance while the presence receded, and Ning Heyuan, Ji Fan, and Yan Zhong regained their senses, visibly horrified.

Huang Tian emerged from seclusion having formed divine intent at the third rank and received a nominal promotion to commander of the Qin Province Martial Guard. As the Weapon Lord’s appearance stirred chaos in Kunyun Prefecture, Huang Tian and his companions returned to the prefectural capital, where the Martial Guard welcomed him.

• Ning Heyuan, Yan Zhong, and Ji Fan realized Huang Tian had formed divine intent, though each perceived a different vision of its vastness.
• Huang Tian confirmed his divine intent, and Shen Chuan delivered the decree promoting him to commander of the Qin Province Martial Guard.
• After learning that the Weapon Lord had appeared in Kunyun Prefecture, Huang Tian agreed to go there, while Yan Zhong arranged to send eight thousand Black Armor Army troops.
• Shen Chuan told Princess Jingning about Huang Tian’s achievement, and she persuaded him to let her travel with them to Kun Yun.
• Huang Tian, Ji Fan, Shen Chuan, and Princess Jingning flew to Kunyun Prefecture’s capital on wind eagles as residents celebrated Huang Tian’s return.
• Yu Jingcheng, Bai Yuanfu, Xia Hong, Tie Qi, and the others greeted Huang Tian at the Martial Guard headquarters and learned he was now a commander.

Huang Tian learned that Wei Shen was being hunted across Kunyun Prefecture for the Heaven-Balancing Sea-Subduing Ruler and continued strengthening himself after forming divine intent. Seventeen days later, Wei Shen was discovered in hiding and fled through the sky with a second-rank martial artist and other pursuers on his heels.

• Yu Jingcheng and Bai Yuanfu explained how Wei Shen's former acquaintance exposed him and how he escaped after using the Heaven-Balancing Sea-Subduing Ruler against the Longsword Sect.
• Huang Tian ordered his people to keep searching for Wei Shen, returned to Qinghui Garden, and encouraged Heng'er to continue practicing martial arts.
• Huang Tian trained in the Cloud Dragon Stance and realized that forming divine intent had greatly improved his cultivation and combat strength.
• Seventeen days later, Wei Shen hid in an abandoned house in Liangqing Town while avoiding hunters and tending his shoulder wound.
• A second-rank martial artist found Wei Shen and attacked him, forcing him to summon the ruler and escape into the sky as more pursuers joined the chase.

God Huang Tian broke through to the second rank and joined the pursuit of Wei Shen and the Heaven-Balancing Sea-Subduing Ruler. Yin Fenghai appeared through a wisp of Divine Intent, met God Huang Tian, and exchanged a move with him; their clash left two moons shining in the sky.

• God Huang Tian broke through to the second rank, sensed the chase beyond the prefectural city, and flew after Wei Shen.
• Wei Shen landed in a forest with the Heaven-Balancing Sea-Subduing Ruler, where God Huang Tian and dozens of martial artists surrounded him.
• Yin Fenghai appeared atop an ancient tree through a wisp of Divine Intent and revealed that he had come to meet God Huang Tian, not claim the divine weapon.
• Yin Fenghai praised God Huang Tian for comprehending Divine Intent at the third rank, and God Huang Tian asked to exchange a move with him.
• Yin Fenghai and God Huang Tian unleashed their Divine Intents in an illusory world, and their clash produced a moon-white halo beside the real moon.

Huang Tian drove off the martial artists seeking the Heaven-Balancing Sea-Subduing Ruler after clashing divine wills with Yin Fenghai, then took the ruler back to Qinghui Garden. He entered the weapon’s mental world and began exploring the power of its sea as he contemplated forming a water-element technique.

• Huang Tian’s clash of divine wills with Yin Fenghai stunned the onlookers, and the grandmasters abandoned their attempt to seize the divine weapon.
• Huang Tian took Wei Shen and the Heaven-Balancing Sea-Subduing Ruler back to the Martial Guard offices, where he explained the clash and revealed that he had reached the second rank.
• Huang Tian ordered the guards to maintain order while martial artists left Qin Province, then brought Wei Shen to Qinghui Garden and received the ruler from him.
• Huang Tian recovered from the clash, touched the ruler with his divine will, and entered its vast mental world of water.
• The ruler’s spirit attacked Huang Tian with towering waves and a colossal whirlpool, while Huang Tian used his pill furnace’s flames to withstand it and began contemplating a water-element technique.
• News of Huang Tian’s clash with Yin Fenghai and his possession of the ruler spread across the five nations, prompting martial artists to give up their hopes of claiming it.

Huang Tian completed his water-aligned technique, Return-to-Ruins Heaven, after a month of training with the Heaven-Balancing Sea-Subduing Ruler. The ruler spirit offered him its master's path to the Void Realm, but Huang Tian rejected the condition that he abandon his other divine wills and tossed the spirit away.

• In the Great Gan capital and across the kingdoms, powerful figures and a storyteller reacted to Huang Tian's rise and the deaths of the Xiahou brothers.
• Xie Zheng and Long Zhang discussed Huang Tian's talent and whether he would accept the Heaven-Balancing Sea-Subduing Ruler's path, then heard that he had entered the Heavenly Human Ranking at twenty-ninth.
• The new ranking detailed Huang Tian's rapid cultivation and divine will, judging the Heavenly Human realm beneath mention for him.
• A vast sea appeared above Qinghui Garden as Huang Tian completed Return-to-Ruins Heaven, alarming Wei Shen and onlookers across the prefectural city.
• In the ruler's mental world, Huang Tian's new technique stopped the ruler spirit's tsunami, prompting the spirit to offer him its master's cultivation path and guidance.
• Huang Tian refused to discard his other divine wills and tossed the ruler spirit away.

Huang Tian returned the Heaven-Balancing Sea-Subduing Ruler to Wei Shen and agreed to let him travel under his protection. Huang Tian then left Kun Yun for the Imperial Capital with Shen Chuan and the others, where Shen Dongming greeted him.

• Huang Tian gave Wei Shen the Heaven-Balancing Sea-Subduing Ruler and allowed him to leave, but Wei Shen turned back and asked to stay under Huang Tian's protection.
• Huang Tian agreed to take Wei Shen to the Imperial Capital, arranged to travel with Shen Chuan, and entrusted Aunt Qin with managing the manor while he was away.
• Huang Tian encouraged Heng'er in her martial arts practice and visited his acquaintances at the Martial Guard offices and Guard Academy.
• Huang Tian, Wei Shen, Shen Chuan, Princess Jingning, and Ji Fan left Kun Yun on wind eagles and traveled for nearly ten days to the Imperial Capital.
• Shen Dongming greeted Huang Tian after the wind eagles landed in the Imperial Capital.

Huang Tian arrived in the Imperial Capital, where Shen Dongming and Master Longding welcomed him and opened their martial arts collections for him to study. He spent more than a month in the Library Pavilion, where he broke through and then began radiating a powerful new aura of divine intent.

• Shen Dongming welcomed Huang Tian and Wei Shen to the palace, where Huang Tian met Emperor Shen Yujing and Master Longding and learned about the Heavenly Human Ranking and Yin Fenghai's growing strength.
• Huang Tian asked to study the imperial martial arts collection, and Shen Dongming and Master Longding also invited him to examine the State Protector Temple's techniques.
• Shen Yujing learned from Shen Chuan and Princess Jingning that Huang Tian had refused worldly enticements, then advised them to build a relationship with him gradually.
• Huang Tian remained in the Library Pavilion for over a month, reading martial techniques while absorbing spiritual energy, and a surge above the pavilion signaled his breakthrough.
• A month later, Shen Dongming sensed a vast, weighty divine intent emanating from the Library Pavilion and realized Huang Tian was not breaking through again.

Huang Tian created Yuanji Heaven, his earth-aspected divine intent, completing the five elemental moves and setting out to test it against Shen Dongming and Master Longding. At Jade Plate Mountain Range, he effortlessly stopped Shen Dongming’s powerful staff strike with one hand as spectators watched.

• Huang Tian’s vision of a vast golden land appeared above the Library Pavilion, and Shen Dongming and Master Longding recognized that he had grasped a new divine intent.
• Huang Tian emerged and explained that he had created Yuanji Heaven after studying martial arts manuals, completing all five elemental moves.
• Master Longding challenged Huang Tian to spar, Shen Dongming joined them, and the three flew to Jade Plate Mountain Range with followers close behind.
• Huang Tian invited Shen Dongming and Master Longding to attack him together, and Shen Dongming charged with the Gilded Coiling Dragon Staff.
• Huang Tian met Shen Dongming’s mountain-shattering staff strike with his bare palm and remained unmoved, stunning Shen Dongming and the watching martial artists.