Black Nightmare Mountain

**Martial Legacy Descendant**
Huang Huting

One of the former Sacred Grounds of the Eight Extremities World founded after the Great Calamity, this Sacred Ground was once located in the Wind Domain's Sand Region on Black Nightmare Mountain. This former Sacred Ground possessed Merging Avatar Martial Saints, but no Sacred Artifacts.

This Sacred Ground did not have the strength to control the entirety of the Wind Domain's Great Western Desert.

## History

The Sacred Ground Black Nightmare Mountain was founded post-Great Calamity along the eastern desert side of the Wind Domain. It unearthed martial arts from legacy sites and then researched upon, having been re-developed on the foundation established by their ancestors. With its Seeing Divinity Martial Saint level created martial legacy, Black Nightmare Mountain reigned as neighbors to Broad Creed Mountain, Sacred Sun Clan and Infinite Boundless Mountain. Black Nightmare Mountain also held a fierce rivalry against Heavenly Thunder Hall for their parallel martial arts' attributes: extreme attack and great speed. Because of its environment, Black Nightmare Mountain developed its martial arts to control ferocious winds that can create and manipulate deserts in any land environment or elevate the martial practitioner like sinister Black Nightmare Storms.

### Eradication Because of Stupidity

With support of Huang Guanglie’s master, the Purple Sun Martial Saint (then Sacred Sun Saint) and Sacred Sun Clan's Chief Zhang Chao, the Sacred Ground Black Nightmare Mountain's last Chief Martial Saint launched an arrogant attack on Broad Creed Mountain three generations before Yan Zhaoge's arrival. The attack immediately failed under sudden emerging from seclusion **Heaven Shaker Zhan Dongge**, who launched a complete vengeful eradication of this Sacred Ground after personally isolating the defeating the foolish Chief Martial Saint. The reversal left only the mountain standing. Zhang Chao himself was chased into a volcano in the Fire Domain to hide by **Zhan Dongge** for some time until the sudden arrival of the Flame Devil World spatial passage in the East Sea.

This former Sacred Ground exists remnant Elders and their disciples who managed to escape the erasure, resulting in a blood grudge against Broad Creed Mountain until Yan Zhaoge's era. Of the entire Black Nightmare Mountain, only two late Essence Talisman Martial Grandmaster Elders remained. They still secretly raised disciples with engraving vengence within.

The remnants mainly received financial support from the Sacred Sun Clan (since Purple Sun Saint Zhang Cao's era) since Black Nightmare Mountain's destruction. Later during Yan Zhaoge's generation, the remnants partially joined the Decimating Abyss Organization.

While Black Nightmare Mountain was destroyed all those years ago, some of its past members still remain concealed about, some even having escaped into the Great Western Desert. While all these years, the descendants of Black Nightmare Mountain have been decreasing steadily, some still exist. Currently, travelling in the Wind Domain, as compared to the people of the Sacred Sun Clan, we should be more wary of them as well as those of the Decimating Abyss Organisation.

The Sand Region’s north, where nothing lay on the horizon, just that there was the direction in which the Wind Domain’s Sacred Ground, Black Nightmare Mountain, had originally been located. Black Nightmare Mountain was destroyed by the Exalted Heaven Shaker, only its remains visible today. However, they have already weathered very terribly.

While Black Nightmare Mountain had been destroyed and fallen from grace, its legacy still contained some of the top martial arts of the Eight Extremities World.

### Sand Region's Stone Pillar - Assassinate Yan Zhaoge & co.

Because of its experience as a former Sacred Ground, the remnants knew only talented disciples can guide their respective Sacred Grounds to higher glory and strength. Therefore, several remnants plotted Yan Zhaoge's assassination near the Wind Domain's Sand Region. With Yan Zhaoge's hand in the War of Eastern Tang (Heaven Domain), Reviving a Maiden of Extreme Yin (Broad Creed Mountain), Instigating the Heaven-Mountain-Water Domain Alliance to restrain Heavenly Thunder Hall and Sacred Sun Clan and the Decimating Abyss Lake Domain Incident, Yan Zhaoge was deemed worthy of their plot.

Pixiu Pan-Pan, Retainer Huang Huting....

### Devil Formation Dilemma - Trap

Both sides, Sacred Sun Clan and Decimating Abyss Organization, have respectively been pulling over remnants of Black Nightmare Mountain to their sides, but it may be that this has formlessly also formed a channel that allows the two to understand each other.

In a hidden Devil Formation trap assisted by ‘Scaly Dragon King’ Late Essence Talisman Martial Grandmaster Sima Chui and the Essence Spirit Martial Grandmaster Wang Family Head, the Decimating Abyss martial practitioners and Black Nightmare Mountain remnants assisted to fall to the devil and eliminate Broad Creed Mountain's Shi Tie lead assault group. However, Broad Creed Mountain's group won.

Other than the Sand Region's eradicated Wang family's captured members, there were also some Decimating Abyss martial practitioners, remnants of Black Nightmare Mountain included, who had been captured alive. What awaited them was similarly harsh interrogation and then death.

### Decimating Abyss Organization - Invasion

Even many Black Nightmare Mountain martial practitioners who had not joined the Decimating Abyss were participating this time.

In the great tribulation of Broad Creed Mountain earlier, most remnants of Black Nightmare Mountain, be they from the Decimating Abyss or not, had participated in the attack on Broad Creed Mountain. The final result had naturally been total destruction, the two remnants of Black Nightmare Mountain with the highest cultivation bases, its late Essence Talisman Martial Grandmasters, both dying at Broad Creed Mountain.

Following this battle, if the members of the former Sacred Ground, Black Nightmare Mountain, having been struggling painfully to survive before this, could not be said to have been completely destroyed, it would more or less also be true. And having obtained victory in this battle, slaying or capturing the remnants of Black Nightmare Mountain who had attacked, Broad Creed Mountain had also had some gains.

One of these comparatively greater gains was having successfully obtained a peak martial legacy of Black Nightmare Mountain, the Great Western Purple Qi.

### Extreme Northern Lands - Team Up x2 with Lin Zhou and Heavenly Thunder Hall

Following the destruction of Black Nightmare Mountain and the great battle of Broad Creed Mountain earlier, the remnants should have more or less completely died out. Currently, they still have an expert of the Essence Spirit Martial Grandmaster realm in existence. It seems remnant Elder Zheng Shuo was of the batch of remnants reliant on the Sacred Sun Clan.

### Fall of the Sacred Sun Clan & Broad Creed Mountain's Rise

About three years later, when Yan Zhaoge singlehandedly wiped out the Sacred Sun Clan, the remnants of Black Nightmare Mountain lost their financial support. The former Sacred Ground began to fade into history with the rise of Broad Creed Mountain's latter arrival in the World Beyond Worlds.

However, with Black Nightmare Mountain's blood feud Broad Creed Mountain's Yan Zhaoge's famous retainer and unintentional legacy descendant Huang Huting, Black Nightmare Mountain's martial arts legacy survived and evolved to reach the Immortal realm.

## Disciples

#### Legacy Descendant

* Huang Huting - A genius young daoist burly retainer of Broad Creed Mountain's Yan Zhaoge. Huang Huting received this former Sacred Ground's rather complete portion legacy (Black Nightmare Divine Wind Law, Ghost Tiger Divine Claw & low-grade spirit artifact Black Nightmare Nether Armor) from Yan Di's collection and later obtained Black Nightmare Mountain's complete direct disciple core legacy (Great Western Purple Qi) from its defeated Elder remnants.
	+ Huang Huting is the only non-disciple descendant who leads the faded Sacred Ground's martial arts to glory as its first Martial Saint over a century after its initial eradication, and its first Immortal - True Immortal, Profound Immortal more than thousands years later.
	+ Huang Huting's Spirit Vessel Martial Grandmaster foundation is: Black Nightmare Divine Wind Law (spirit soil) **+** Great Western Purple Qi (spirit seed)
		- Aura-qi originally was black winds, evolving to black winds with purple lights within.
	+ Huang Huting's unofficial masters are Yan Di and Yan Zhaoge.

#### Remnants

* Martial Scholars
	+ Late Xantian Martial Scholar - Yao Shan c. 218 (middle-aged)
	+ Xantian Martial Scholar - Fake Yao Shan c. 218
	+ Unknown direct lineage top Pursuing Wind Sword Style Xantian Martial Scholar c. 251
	+ Unknown horse-faced direct lineage Heavenly Connection Martial Scholar c. 251, 252 (under age 30)
	+ Unknown top Martial Scholar discples c. 251, 258, 287

* Martial Grandmasters
	+ Unknown Essence Spirit or lower Martial Grandmaster disciples c. 258, 287
	+ Early Essence Spirit Martial Grandmaster - remnant Elder Zheng Shuo c. 340
		- Spirit artifact:
	+ Unknown Late Essence Talisman Martial Grandmaster - remnant Elder ?? c. 290
	+ Great Western Purple Qi Late Essence Talisman Martial Grandmaster - remnant Elder Yang Nie c. 297
		- Spirit artifact:
* Martial Saint
	+ Black Nightmare Mountain's Final Chief - Early Merging Avatar Martial Saint (deceased 100+ years before the Story)

## Techniques

Black Nightmare Mountain's techniques focus towards using accumulated sinister winds and other winds to follow extreme ruthless attack and high speed. Some techniques are based on concept of 'various winds eroding, desert creation'. Others use wind to 'rip apart space'.

Gusts of wind were born alongside the tiger’s howl as its speed was swift to the extreme. Before it had been destroyed, other than being majestic and vigorous, sharp and biting, Black Nightmare Mountain’s martial arts had also been renowned for its speed that was swift as the wind.

The Eight Extremities World’s martial legacies which emphasized most on speed belonged to Heavenly Thunder Hall as well as Black Nightmare Mountain. However, the speed was slower than those that disregard spatial bounds and reach instantaneous movement.

#### Direct lineage arts

##### Core Art

1. Black Nightmare Divine Wind Law - 黑魇神风诀 (Foundation art - Martial Scholar)
2. **+** Great Western Purple Qi - 西极紫气 (Top supreme art - Martial Grandmaster)
	* Great Western Purple Qi requires your heart to be quiet as you control the temperamental winds, transforming the qi of the heavens and earth into a silent, peaceful object, yet finally able to erupt with a shocking, brutal force, a force that resembles the raging of waves. Active and passive (动dòng & 静 jìng)-these are the underlying essence.
	* The Great Western Purple Qi, to Black Nightmare Mountain, was like Clear Qi Profound Art's latter half to Broad Creed Mountain. The essence of the Black Nightmare Divine Wind Law also moved along the path of the Great Western Purple Qi as one arrived at its essence.

##### Martial art

* Ghost Tiger Divine Claw - 鬼虎神爪
* Pursuing Wind Sword Style - 追风剑式
* Baleful Black Divine Sabre - 黑煞神刀
* Purple Qi Heavenly Wave Sabre - 紫气天澜刀

##### Combination Technique

* Black Nightmare Storm - 黑魇风暴 =
	+ Spirit Vessel Martial Grandmaster realm + Black Nightmare Divine Wind Law + Ghost Tiger Divine Claw + Great Western Purple Aura-qi

* Black Dragon Dread - 黑龙煞 =
	+ Essence Spirit Martial Grandmaster realm + Black Nightmare Storm technique
* Black Nightmare Tiger (Shadow) - 黑魇虎 =
	+ Black Nightmare Storm technique (Black Nightmare Divine Wind Law) + Ghost Tiger Divine Claw
* *?Attribute?* Storm - *?--?*风暴 =
	+ Black Nightmare Storm technique + chosen *?attribute?* qi of a refined true *?attribute?* dragon's blood

## Notes

* Black Nightmare Mountain's arts are derived from fragements of Grand Clear Lineage's wind attribute scriptures and legacies descended from the Primordial Heavenly Scriptures: Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Scripture and Opening Heavenly Scripture - Heavenly Wind.