Huang Dehui (Chinese: 黃德輝; pinyin: Huángdéhuī) is the founder of the Green Lotus sect (青蓮教) or also known as Xiantiandao (先天教).
[2] At age nine, he allegedly received from a transcendent an oral transmission on the teaching of golden elixir , and subsequently practiced self-cultivation techniques and transmitted them to people in his area.
based on “The Treasure Scroll of the Emperor's Supreme Golden Elixir, the Nine Lotuses and the Correct Belief in the Truth, and the Return to Heaven” (皇极金丹九莲正信归真还乡宝卷) or Huangji jindan (皇极金丹九) for short, a classic work that describes the existence of a secret jewel for returning to heaven and contains a detailed explanation of the msyterious door (玄關).
[3][7] Huang propagated the doctrine that in order to survive the final apocalypse and return to home, he had specially opened the global initiation mission to save human from misery.
[3] In the Yiguandao book, Huang Dehui is designated as the 9th patriarch and is believed to be an incarnation of Yuanshi Tianzun (元始天尊).