Chapter Summaries

Huang Tian watched Sun Qiang encounter a nightmare in an elevator and destroyed it from across spacetime with five-colored divine light. Sun Qiang survived and began suspecting that an Immortal God had answered his prayer, while Huang Tian discovered that killing nightmares yielded spiritual energy and turned his attention toward their source.

• Sun Qiang read and mocked an online post describing nightmares and dream banishers, then found the post had disappeared.
• Trapped in a stalled elevator on the fifth floor, Sun Qiang faced a blood-clad woman whose black blood seeped through the ceiling.
• Huang Tian sent five-colored divine light along the thread of sound and turned the woman to ash, allowing the elevator to descend.
• Sun Qiang escaped the building and concluded that an Immortal God might have saved him after he prayed for help.
• Huang Tian absorbed spiritual energy from the destroyed nightmare and sent a wisp of consciousness toward the new world's nightmares.

Huang Tian broke free from the nightmare that had made him believe Huang Jia was his sister, killed her, and absorbed the power in the cursed bracelet. After learning about Ancient Star, he faced the middle-aged couple who entered his apartment and greeted them with predatory interest.

• Huang Tian bought a birthday cake for Huang Jia and returned to apartment 303, where the unnatural silence went unnoticed by him.
• Liang Ping told Huang Tian that he had grown up an orphan at Green Sun Orphanage, triggering Huang Tian's memories and making him realize Huang Jia was not real.
• Huang Jia attacked Huang Tian, but he revived, killed her with lightning and fire, and destroyed the bracelet that contained her nightmare.
• Huang Tian absorbed the bracelet's power, advanced from the Early to the Middle Qi Refining Phase, and learned about Ancient Star while speaking with Liang Ping.
• A middle-aged couple entered the apartment, and Huang Tian welcomed them while looking at them like a meal.

Huang Tian destroyed the nightmares haunting Room 303, advanced to the Dao Foundation realm, and found someone online pleading for help with a recurring nightmare. He traveled to meet Dong Qi and a self-proclaimed Master Ke, then prepared to investigate the figure outside Dong Qi’s bathroom.

• Huang Tian used the Tribulation-Avoiding Immortal Garment to destroy the nightmare couple and their dream artifacts, absorbing their spiritual energy.
• Huang Tian reached the Dao Foundation realm and searched online for information about nightmares.
• Lone Mountain Workhorse described a recurring dream in which a long-haired figure waited outside his bathroom and asked the Nightmare Club for help.
• Huang Tian offered to save Lone Mountain Workhorse, learned his name was Dong Qi, and traveled to the Abundant Electricity Residential Complex.
• Huang Tian sensed a sinister aura lingering on Dong Qi and went with him and Master Ke to investigate his home.

Huang Tian entered Dong Qi’s nightmare and confronted the drenched woman who had been haunting him. After Huang Tian struck her, the dream shattered, while Master Ke learned that the evil spirits he had pretended to fight were real.

• Master Ke led Dong Qi and Huang Tian into apartment 201 and performed a ritual, claiming he had slain the evil thing.
• Huang Tian put Dong Qi to sleep with a word, and the apartment transformed into a filthy, decaying place that terrified Master Ke.
• Dong Qi found himself trapped in his recurring bathroom nightmare as a wet-haired woman approached through the door.
• The woman lunged at Dong Qi, but Huang Tian appeared behind her and stopped her by gripping her hair.
• Huang Tian slammed the woman to the floor and punched her with five-colored light, shattering the dream.

Huang Tian destroyed the nightmare tormenting Dong Qi and drew the attention of Zhou Zhenhong, head of the Dreamer Association's Verdant Sun City Branch. After learning about six unresolved nightmare sites in the city, Huang Tian decided to cleanse Qingyang.

• Huang Tian shattered the nightmare clinging to Master Ke, while Dong Qi thanked him and paid him 30,000.
• Dong Qi confronted Master Ke, who refunded his money and fled; later, Master Ke began returning small sums to other people he had swindled.
• Dong Qi described Huang Tian's rescue in the [Night] group, and Zhou Zhenhong concluded that Huang Tian was at least as strong as he was and invited him to join the Association.
• Huang Tian accepted Zhou Zhenhong's friend request and learned about the Association's resources, dangers, and two Dreamers who had died in an evil-class nightmare.
• Zhou Zhenhong gave Huang Tian the locations of six unresolved nightmare sites in Verdant Sun City, and Huang Tian declared, "Cleanse Qingyang!"

Huang Tian began clearing Verdant Sun City's nightmares, swiftly eliminating the one at Orange-Red Kindergarten and heading to the General Temple next. Zhou Zhenhong learned how quickly Huang Tian had succeeded and was stunned when told that the first nightmare had not been satisfying enough.

• Zhou Zhenhong warned Huang Tian about the dangers of resolving the six nightmares, but Huang Tian insisted he could handle them and accepted the branch's intelligence.
• Wang Guangming and the emergency response team met Huang Tian at Orange-Red Kindergarten and offered him spirit candles and incense, but he entered the nightmare alone.
• After cries sounded inside and the mist began to clear, Huang Tian emerged unharmed less than two minutes later and said he was ready to visit the next nightmare.
• Huang Tian returned the supplies and rode with Wang Guangming's team toward the General Temple, saying the first nightmare had not been nearly satisfying enough.
• Wang Guangming messaged Zhou Zhenhong that Huang Tian had cleared the kindergarten nightmare in about two minutes, leaving Zhou Zhenhong astonished.

Huang Tian rapidly eliminated five haunting-class nightmares across Verdant Sun City, then entered Benevolent Nursing Home with Zhou Zhenhong to face its evil-class nightmare. He immediately killed the nursing home's guard, leaving Zhou Zhenhong stunned as they ventured farther inside.

• Zhou Zhenhong learned that Huang Tian had destroyed the General Temple nightmare in under half a minute and wondered whether Huang Tian was a level-three dreamer.
• Huang Tian cleared the nightmares at Minghe Factory, White Peak Apartments, and Liangfeng Middle School, while Wang Guangming reported each victory to Zhou Zhenhong.
• After Huang Tian headed for Benevolent Nursing Home, Zhou Zhenhong drove there and joined him, bringing dream artifacts and supplies.
• Huang Tian and Zhou Zhenhong entered the nursing home and encountered its guard, whom Huang Tian killed with a single punch before Zhou Zhenhong could finish explaining how to avoid its attack.

Huang Tian destroyed the Benevolent Nursing Home nightmare with overwhelming force, killing its core and burning both the dream domain and the real building. After Zhou Zhenhong and the emergency team thanked him, Huang Tian sensed that refining the nightmare’s power would bring him closer to returning to the Golden Core realm.

• Huang Tian punched a security guard ghost into mist, then killed an elderly ghost couple and a caregiver ghost as he and Zhou Zhenhong entered the nursing home.
• Huang Tian unleashed crimson fire in a room full of ghosts, and the flames spread to engulf all four buildings and the creatures hiding within them.
• Huang Tian found the nightmare’s bloodied core and pierced it with a spear formed from fire dragons, destroying the nightmare in a blast of light and heat.
• Zhou Zhenhong and the emergency team found the nursing home reduced to ruins, and Zhou thanked Huang Tian for protecting Verdant Sun City’s residents.
• Huang Tian sensed the spiritual energy gained from the baleful-grade nightmare and resolved to defeat more nightmares until he could return to the Golden Core realm.

After clearing the Benevolent Nursing Home, Huang Tian learned he could exchange his achievements for dream artifacts and prepared to hunt another nightmare. When the Death Train trapped passengers in Flourishing Harmony City, Huang Tian changed course to confront it, hoping it would provide a feast.

• Zhou Zhenhong promised to seek dream artifacts for Huang Tian and told him the nearest known evil-grade nightmare was in Clear River City.
• Wu Tingting boarded the empty Death Train in Flourishing Harmony City and became trapped with several other passengers.
• Yang Baicheng explained that the train was a nightmare incident and warned the passengers to stay seated until help could arrive.
• Seven ghosts boarded the train, and the red-haired young man was killed after he struck the old woman sitting beside him.
• Zhou Zhenhong told Huang Tian about the Death Train, and Huang Tian redirected Xiao Zhang toward Flourishing Harmony City.

God Huang Tian rescued Yang Baicheng and the other passengers from the Death Train, then entered the nightmare alone and destroyed its Malevolent-class apparition. He returned to the platform after clearing the nightmare, with a surge of spiritual energy bringing him closer to the Golden Core Celestial realm.

• God Huang Tian saw the Death Train before it appeared to ordinary observers, forced open its doors, and entered while Liu Dong stayed outside.
• God Huang Tian ignored the train's rules and used Five-Colored Divine Light to destroy the apparitions attacking him and the trapped passengers.
• God Huang Tian sent Yang Baicheng and the other survivors out of the train, then remained inside as the nightmare shifted into a city.
• God Huang Tian killed the old woman who approached him, burned away the hostile crowd, and confronted a hundred-armed, thousand-eyed apparition in a blood-red space.
• God Huang Tian destroyed the apparition with a storm of thunder dragons, cleared the nightmare, and returned to the platform as the Death Train vanished.

Huang Tian killed Xu Yicheng, a Holy Light Society member who tried to recruit him, and the society’s leaders postponed retaliation. Huang Tian then achieved the Golden Core, causing brilliant radiance to spread across the sky above nearly half the city.

• Huang Tian declined Liu Dong and Yang Baicheng’s offer of a thank-you meal and returned to Verdant Sun City to refine spiritual energy.
• Xu Yicheng introduced himself as a Holy Light Society deputy head and tried to recruit Huang Tian, who killed his corpse double and traced his voice thread to kill him remotely.
• Huang Tian destroyed Xu Yicheng’s three dream artifacts and absorbed their power, while Holy Light Society guards discovered the remains and reported his death.
• Jiang Yuanzhong and the Holy Light Society group heads suspected Huang Tian had killed Xu Yicheng but chose to wait until their president finished fusing with a dream artifact before seeking revenge.
• Huang Tian condensed a five-colored Golden Core and achieved the Golden Core realm, sending splendid radiance across the sky above nearly half the city.

After forming his Golden Core, Huang Tian manifested a divine phantom, destroyed the Holy Light Society leaders who planned to kill him, and proclaimed a prayer that would summon his power to fight evil. His phantom faded after announcing that the Absolute was ever-present.

• Rosy clouds spread across Verdant Sun City, and Wang Guangming ordered the emergency team to watch for danger while fearing the clouds might signal a nightmare.
• Huang Tian stabilized his Golden Core, sensed the Holy Light Society plotting against him, and appeared in divine form above Jiang Yuanzhong, Fang Long, and their estate.
• Huang Tian crushed Jiang Yuanzhong, Fang Long, and the other Holy Light Society members with a descending palm, then destroyed their dream artifacts.
• Yu Fengzhong emerged as a malevolent night yaksha and attacked Huang Tian, but Huang Tian shattered his defense and killed him with another palm.
• Huang Tian told people to recite, “Sovereign Yellow Absolute, deliver the living and the dead,” promising that his Majestic Spirit would answer their prayers and suppress evil.
• Huang Tian’s phantom dissolved into the clouds as the townspeople celebrated his victory.

After Huang Tian wiped out the Holy Light Society, people across the world heard his message and learned that Nightmares threatened humanity. The Dreamer Association connected his descent to Sun Qiang’s earlier prayer and sent Li Ding and Guan Fu to meet Huang Tian in Verdant Sun City.

• Huang Tian refined the spiritual energy he had gained from the Holy Light Society and planned to advance toward the Primordial Spirit realm.
• Millions of people heard Huang Tian’s voice, and a post from an anonymous Dreamer explained the century-long war against Nightmares and humanity’s worsening prospects.
• Sun Qiang recognized Huang Tian as the god who had answered his prayer, shared his story online, and was invited to the Dreamer Association’s Flat Peak City branch.
• Li Ding and Guan Fu discussed whether Huang Tian was the descended incarnation of Sovereign Yellow Absolute and decided to approach him with goodwill.
• Li Ding and Guan Fu boarded a helicopter and flew toward Verdant Sun City, believing humanity’s future might depend on their meeting with Huang Tian.

Li Ding met Huang Tian and confirmed that he could destroy dream artifacts, then promised to publicize nightmares and Huang Tian’s name. Later, Qiu Wu and Gu Xiaoshan became trapped in a dangerous temple nightmare, but Huang Tian answered their prayer and destroyed it with a palm strike from beyond the void.

• Li Ding visited Huang Tian with dream artifacts as gifts, and Huang Tian crushed one to prove he could destroy it.
• Li Ding asked how the Dreamer Association could help, and Huang Tian requested dream artifacts and worldwide recognition so people could call on him when trapped in nightmares.
• The Eastern Peace Kingdom publicized nightmares and Huang Tian, causing widespread public uproar.
• Qiu Wu and Gu Xiaoshan entered an old temple nightmare and were trapped between monk monsters and two towering Buddha statues.
• With their escape blocked and the monsters closing in, Gu Xiaoshan called on the Sovereign Yellow Absolute God, and Huang Tian’s enormous palm destroyed the monsters, statues, and temple.

After the Sovereign Yellow Absolute God destroyed the temple nightmare, the Eastern Peace Kingdom’s Dreamers began invoking him to eliminate nightmares across the country, while Absolute God Churches spread abroad. Huang Tian refined the power he had gathered, regained his full strength, and sensed the source of the nightmares stirring, prompting him to resolve to act swiftly and set the world in order.

• Gu Xiaoshan and Qiu Wu confirmed that Huang Tian had destroyed the temple nightmare and its dream artifact, then submitted an account that headquarters shared on the Dreamer Association forum.
• Dreamers across the Eastern Peace Kingdom invoked the Sovereign Yellow Absolute to destroy stationary nightmares, clearing most of the kingdom’s corruption and investigating remote sites.
• People abroad reacted to Huang Tian with fear, disbelief, or worship, and he struck down church leaders who used Absolute God congregations to swindle followers.
• Huang Tian refined the spiritual energy he had absorbed, formed his Primordial Spirit, and returned to full strength as Zhou Zhenhong and Li Ding worried over what he might do next.
• Huang Tian sensed a sinister force shrouding the world and nearing awakening, then decided to eliminate nightmares and dream artifacts everywhere before they could strengthen it.

After reaching the middle stage of the Primordial Spirit realm, Huang Tian ordered the world to destroy dream artifacts and eliminate nightmares, promising to cure Dreamers and teach them cultivation. Li Ding, Guan Fu, and Zhou Zhenhong became cultivators, then announced Huang Tian’s three-day ultimatum and the new path to the world.

• Huang Tian refined his spiritual energy to the middle stage of the Primordial Spirit realm and ordered Li Ding, Zhou Zhenhong, and Guan Fu to announce his demands to every nation.
• Huang Tian removed and destroyed Li Ding’s dream artifacts, expelled their corrosive energy, taught him cultivation methods, and infused him with spiritual energy until he reached Qi Refining Perfection.
• Li Ding tested his new spells, then Zhou Zhenhong and Guan Fu agreed to give up their dream artifacts and received the same treatment, becoming cultivators.
• Li Ding, Guan Fu, and Zhou Zhenhong demonstrated their spells during a global press conference and relayed Huang Tian’s three-day ultimatum to governments and Dreamer organizations.
• Li Ding declared that the supernatural era and the war against nightmares had to end.

After Novarien and other countries accepted Huang Tian’s demands, nearly all dream exorcists surrendered their dream artifacts and became cultivators. Huang Tian destroyed the Tomorrow Society and began refining enough spiritual power to break through to the Dharma Form realm, expecting the breakthrough to decide humanity’s fate.

• McMullen persuaded Novarien’s president that humanity could not resist Huang Tian, so the government revealed the truth about nightmares and urged citizens to call upon the Absolute God.
• Governments around the world followed Novarien, and nearly twenty-nine hundred dream exorcists accepted Huang Tian’s transformation and surrendered their dream artifacts.
• Lowell and the Tomorrow Society mocked cultivators and discussed taking advantage of the official dream exorcists’ reduced strength, while Lamu urged them to lie low.
• Colton revealed that he was an undercover agent, and his invocation brought Huang Tian’s enormous palm down on the Tomorrow Society, killing its members.
• Huang Tian destroyed the society, removed Colton’s dream artifact, and began refining the spiritual power he had gained to reach the Dharma Form realm.

Huang Tian broke through, discovered that Fu Ti was the source of the nightmares, and pursued him across the sea. Huang Tian defeated Fu Ti, seized the True Devil Origin Pearl with the Five-Colored Divine Light, and used the Tribulation-Avoiding Immortal Garment to calm the devastated ocean.

• Huang Tian manifested a thousand-zhang Dharma Form above Verdant Sun City, then sensed that the nightmare source lay southeast and was about to awaken.
• Fu Ti emerged from his hiding place on Maru, learned of Huang Tian, and fled when Huang Tian arrived; Huang Tian chased him across the ocean.
• Fu Ti attacked Huang Tian with three curses, but the Tribulation-Avoiding Immortal Garment dissolved them, and Huang Tian's attacks forced Fu Ti onto the defensive.
• Huang Tian struck Fu Ti into the sea, then used the Five-Colored Divine Light to wrest the Source Pearl from him and knock him unconscious.
• Huang Tian spread the Tribulation-Avoiding Immortal Garment over the sea, calming the waves and dispersing the storm clouds.

Huang Tian eliminated Fu Ti and the source of the nightmares, then refined the Source Pearl and reached the peak of the Mahayana Realm. He departed the Ancient Star, leaving Li Ding to realize that the Immortal Gods had gone and the mortal world would face new troubles.

• Huang Tian searched Fu Ti's soul, learned about cultivation paths and the Source Pearl, then burned Fu Ti to ash.
• Huang Tian used a nightmare to frighten Brother Yu and Zhang Qi, discovering that terror at the moment of death yielded far more power of fear.
• Huang Tian told Li Ding and Zhou Zhenhong that the nightmare source was gone, and governments worldwide announced its eradication and named the day Absolute Day.
• Huang Tian refined the Source Pearl's remaining source essence while studying the Ancient Star's knowledge, then reached the peak of the Mahayana Realm and departed.
• Li Ding visited Huang Tian's empty, dusty room and realized the Immortal Gods had left and troubles would return to the mortal world.

After reaching the Dharma Form realm, Huang Tian flew from Blue Star to the moon and found no signs of aliens, immortals, or demons. He returned openly through the atmosphere, where authorities tracked him and recognized him as he hovered before their drones.

• Huang Tian reflected that his cultivation had reached the Dharma Form realm, then concealed himself and flew from Yan East Garden into space.
• Huang Tian viewed Blue Star from orbit, strengthened his resolve to pursue cultivation, and continued toward the moon.
• Huang Tian searched the moon’s surface and underground, found only lunar rovers, including Xia Kingdom’s Jade Rabbit 2, and confirmed that the moon was barren.
• Huang Tian flew back toward Blue Star while studying techniques he had obtained from Fu Ti’s soul.
• Satellites detected Huang Tian entering the atmosphere without concealment, alarming space agencies and prompting Xia Kingdom officials to track his course.
• Huang Tian stopped above a city and faced two drones, whose footage revealed his identity and left the officials stunned.