Chapter Summaries

After Chen Changsheng became the Heavenly Dao Data Monitor, he ordered the Interception Sect to build a Three Realms karmic-credit system. The Western Sect tried to profit by offering karmic-burden cleansing, but the system exposed the scheme as illegal, and Ancestor Minghe chose the Interception Sect’s plan instead.

• Chen Changsheng ordered Zhao Gongming to establish a real-time karmic model and assigned Daoist Duobao to create a credit investigation department.
• Zhunti and Jieyin launched a Western Sect service promising to eliminate karmic burden and improve credit ratings.
• Medicine Buddha offered the service to Ancestor Minghe and the Asura Clan, claiming the Western Sages would cleanse their karmic burden.
• The Heavenly Dao Credit System revealed the Asuras’ karmic-burden records and warned that uncertified cleansing was illegal evasion carrying a threefold fine.
• The Asuras attacked Medicine Buddha’s group, forcing the Western Sect disciples to flee.
• Ancestor Minghe signed the Interception Sect’s Sage-Level Career Planning Report by pressing his Natal Blood Essence onto it.

Chen Changsheng detected that Jiang Ziya’s karmic data had been hidden and sent Shen Gongbao to Xiqi to investigate it. Shen Gongbao confronted Jiang Ziya at the camp and demanded that he reconcile his karmic accounts.

• Chen Changsheng’s model flagged Jiang Ziya’s karmic value as absolute zero, and he identified the anomaly as a high-permission backdoor.
• Chen Changsheng appointed Shen Gongbao chief field investigator and gave him a karmic account machine to collect Jiang Ziya’s data.
• At Xiqi, Jiang Ziya grew frustrated that his side’s senior immortals were earning merit without fighting while he handled their reports.
• Shen Gongbao arrived at the Xiqi camp with investigators and recording stones, ignored True Person Taiyi’s angry outburst, and presented Jiang Ziya with the account machine.
• Shen Gongbao introduced himself as chief investigator and demanded that Jiang Ziya reconcile every karmic account he had accumulated since birth.

Shen Gongbao inspected Jiang Ziya under the Heavenly Dao Credit System and exposed that his karmic data had been concealed by Sage-level authorization. He fined the Chan Sect, placed Jiang Ziya under observation, and froze his god-conferring qualification until the violations were resolved.

• True Person Taiyi tried to stop Shen Gongbao’s inspection, but an Inspection Division disciple warned that his interference would damage his Credit Rating.
• True Person Taiyi attacked Shen Gongbao with the Nine Dragon Fire-Grasping Tassel, and the Heavenly Dao machine destroyed the fire dragons, injured Taiyi, and froze his Merit account for five hundred years.
• Shen Gongbao scanned Jiang Ziya, but the machine detected Sage-level shielding and classified the concealed data as a severe violation.
• Shen Gongbao issued Jiang Ziya a fine ticket, ordered the Chan Sect to pay three million Merit within three days, and placed Jiang Ziya under observation for a thousand years.
• Shen Gongbao froze Jiang Ziya’s qualification to confer gods until Jiang Ziya and his guarantor supplied the missing data and paid the fine, then announced that the ticket was publicly available and withdrew.

After Shen Gongbao’s group left Jiang Ziya holding a fine ticket that froze his Merit and disqualified him from conferring gods, Guangchengzi redirected the Chan Sect toward a war of compliance. The Chan Sect paid its fines and organized a compliance department, while Chen Changsheng prepared stricter rules for the next phase.

• Jiang Ziya and the Chan Sect immortals reeled from the fine ticket, and Jiang Ziya questioned whether they could still fight the Interception Sect with Dao arts.
• Guangchengzi took the ticket and concluded that the Chan Sect had to counter the system with more complete rules by pursuing compliance instead of battle achievements.
• Guangchengzi ordered the Chan Sect to pay its fine, made Jiang Ziya the frontline Chief Compliance Officer, and established a compliance department under his leadership.
• The Chan Sect paid 3.15 million Merit in fines, and the announcement sent shockwaves through the Three Realms.
• Chen Changsheng praised Guangchengzi’s strategy and told Daoist Duobao to release supplementary rules that would make the practical assessment more difficult.

Heavenly Dao introduced mandatory project supervision, turning the Investiture of the Gods into a contest over certifications and compliance. Chan Sect overwhelmed Interception Sect with detailed project applications, and Chen Changsheng ordered an audit department established in Xiqi.

• Heavenly Dao announced that eligible projects needed advance applications and certified supervisors or their Merit would not count.
• Guangchengzi rallied Chan Sect to pursue supervision certificates, and he put Jiang Ziya in charge of a certification sprint team.
• Chen Changsheng and Daoist Duobao prepared an official supervision textbook while both sects studied for the coming assessment.
• Chan Sect flooded Interception Sect’s Calamity Aversion Department with detailed applications for projects ranging from slaying a Skeleton Spirit to drinking tea.
• Chen Changsheng recognized Chan Sect’s applications as a bureaucratic attack and ordered the creation of the Heavenly Dao Calamity Project Audit Department, to be stationed in Xiqi.

Holy Mother Jin Ling audited the Chan Sect’s model project application and found its costs were not properly accounted for. Guangchengzi accepted the criticism and ordered the Chan Sect to establish a cost audit office and train its disciples, leaving the sect determined to meet the Audit Department’s standards.

• Holy Mother Jin Ling questioned Chi Jingzi about the expensive Kunlun warm jade used for the application report.
• Holy Mother Jin Ling accused True Master Yuding of hiding project costs by using his own tea leaves.
• Chi Jingzi objected that the Audit Department had no right to scrutinize the Chan Sect’s personal possessions, but Holy Mother Jin Ling demanded detailed cost reports for every submitted project.
• Guangchengzi arrived and admitted that the Chan Sect had focused on Process compliance while neglecting cost compliance.
• Guangchengzi ordered the Chan Sect to establish a Project Cost Actuarial and Budget Audit Office and put all disciples through a three-month cost-accounting course.

Chen Changsheng answered the Chan Sect’s flood of flawless paperwork by creating a supervision qualification exam, whose modern professional syllabus stunned Guangchengzi and the other Chan Sect immortals. He left the Chan Sect facing an unfamiliar test and costly mock papers sold by Golden Ao Island.

• Holy Mother Jin Ling and the Audit Department were overwhelmed by the Chan Sect’s flood of trivial, flawless reports and applications.
• Daoist Duobao and Zhao Gongming warned Chen Changsheng that the compliance data threatened to overwhelm the review system.
• Chen Changsheng decided to address the problem at its source and ordered a Three Realms supervision qualification exam.
• Guangchengzi redirected Chan Sect resources toward exam preparation, then found the syllabus tested ethics, crisis public relations, business negotiations, data analysis, and proposal planning.
• The Chan Sect immortals were stunned by the exam, and one young third-generation disciple spat blood when the announcement offered mock papers and textbook explanations for one hundred thousand Merit.

Guangchengzi resolved to buy Chen Changsheng’s exam textbooks, only to find the Interception Sect selling them in a bustling marketplace. Chen Changsheng turned the Western Sect’s installment service into another sales channel and ended the chapter by planning a new textbook edition whose first-edition material would be outdated.

• Guangchengzi ordered the Chan Sect to gather Merit and buy textbooks, then went with Jiang Ziya to Golden Ao Island.
• At the Three Realms Talent Exchange Center, Zhao Gongming sold exam materials while Maitreya offered examinees installment plans through the Western Sect.
• Chen Changsheng announced a partnership that gave installment-plan customers a free prediction book, turning the Western Sect’s service into a textbook sales channel.
• Guangchengzi bought 120 sets in full and told Chen Changsheng they would meet in the examination hall.
• Chen Changsheng told Duobao that strong competition would help the system evolve and ordered the second edition released next month, saying the first edition’s knowledge points had become outdated.

Guangchengzi trained the Chan Sect immortals to master the examination rules so they could outperform Chen Changsheng in the Supervision Qualification Competition. Just as they celebrated their progress, a Heavenly Dao announcement replaced their textbook with a revised edition, added an interview, and left them scrambling to buy the new materials.

• True Person Taiyi protested that the exam required paperwork instead of using magic to solve problems, but Guangchengzi insisted that passing the exam mattered more than fixing the underlying issue.
• Guangchengzi warned that the Chan Sect risked losing disciples, credit, and Heavenly Court licenses, then ordered the immortals to focus on exam points, process, and KPI.
• The Chan Sect studied regulations and practiced mock exams for half a month, and True Person Taiyi devised a KPI-based plan to undermine the Interception Sect.
• Guangchengzi graded the mock exam and praised the immortals after they all earned excellent results.
• A Heavenly Dao announcement declared the first-edition textbook introductory material, required a new expanded edition, and added an interview stage to the examination.
• True Person Taiyi spat blood in despair, while Guangchengzi crushed his old textbook and ordered Jiang Ziya to buy the new edition and trade in the old one.

Guangchengzi and Jiang Ziya returned to Golden Ao Island to trade in the Chan Sect’s outdated textbooks, only to have their value sharply reduced for annotations and damage. As Guangchengzi agreed to buy new books, a Heavenly Dao announcement revealed that mortal interviewers would judge candidates for Heavenly Court positions, prompting the Interception Sect to offer another guidebook.

• Guangchengzi and Jiang Ziya went to the textbook after-sales desk with one hundred and twenty crates of old books.
• Jiang Ziya filled out the replacement form and selected outdated knowledge points as the reason for the trade-in.
• An Interception Sect disciple assessed the books and reduced their trade-in value to thirty-four thousand seven hundred and twenty-five Merit after deductions for graffiti, stains, and wear.
• Guangchengzi accepted the assessed value and asked for new textbooks.
• The Heavenly Dao announced that candidates would face three randomly selected human interviewers and be graded on customer satisfaction.
• The Interception Sect disciple offered Guangchengzi a copy of the newly released interview guidebook.

Guangchengzi bought a vast quantity of exam materials for the Chan Sect, only to learn that its Merit was insufficient and reject Maitreya’s offer of credit. He then proposed trading the Chan Sect treasury to Chen Changsheng, who demanded custody of all new Chan Sect disciples for three hundred years of compulsory preschool education.

• Guangchengzi ordered 120 copies of each exam-related material and learned the total cost exceeded 21 million Merit.
• Jiang Ziya checked the Chan Sect treasury and told Guangchengzi that their Merit was not enough.
• Maitreya offered to advance the payment through the Western Sect’s installment plan, but Guangchengzi refused.
• Guangchengzi summoned Chen Changsheng and offered the Chan Sect treasury as collateral for all the exam materials.
• Chen Changsheng rejected the treasury and demanded custody of every new Chan Sect disciple for three hundred years of compulsory preschool education before they chose a master.

Chen Changsheng secured a 250-year agreement requiring the Chan Sect to send its new disciples to the Interception Sect for training, in exchange for permanent free updates to its examination materials. Primordial Heavenly Venerate approved the deal with a single word, leaving the agreement in force.

• Chen Changsheng persuaded Guangchengzi that the Chan Sect needed Interception Sect training to adapt to the Heavenly Dao's new rules and employment system.
• Guangchengzi negotiated the training period down to 250 years and demanded 120 free copies of every future examination-material update.
• Chen Changsheng and Guangchengzi signed a Heavenly Dao contract for joint talent development and intellectual property exchange.
• Cultivators outside Golden Ao Island reacted with shock as the contract's terms were revealed, while Chen Changsheng described plans to expand the Interception Sect's educational influence across the Three Realms.
• Guangchengzi left Golden Ao Island with Jiang Ziya and 120 carriages of examination materials after saluting Chen Changsheng.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate sent a decree to Jade Void Palace that read, "Granted."

Guangchengzi defended the Chan Sect’s agreement to send its disciples to Interception Sect for 250 years as their only way to survive within Chen Changsheng’s rules, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate approved the plan. Chen Changsheng began building a Three Realms education enterprise and appointed Daoist Duobao its first dean.

• Guangchengzi faced the furious Golden Immortals and argued that the contract preserved Chan Sect’s chance to compete under the new rules.
• Guangchengzi proposed teaching Chan Sect’s Dao arts through lesson plans to influence Interception Sect’s educational system, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s decree approved the contract.
• Chen Changsheng told Zhao Gongming and Daoist Duobao that Interception Sect would expand its schools across the Three Realms and shape how future generations learned and followed rules.
• Chen Changsheng appointed Zhao Gongming Dean of Academic Affairs, Shen Gongbao Director of Admissions, and Holy Mother Jin Ling and Holy Mother Wudang to lead the Discipline Office.
• Chen Changsheng established the Primordial World Three Realms Education Reform Pilot Office and named Daoist Duobao its first director and dean.

Chen Changsheng rejected Nuwa’s plan to subvert the Yin-Shang Dynasty until Su Daji could be controlled and monitored, then ordered her license to cause mayhem frozen and summoned her for a performance review. Shen Gongbao confronted Daji in Chaoge and escorted her toward a meeting with Chen Changsheng.

• Daoist Duobao accepted the position of dean of the Primordial High Position academy after Chen Changsheng named it.
• Fairy Jinning delivered Nuwa’s revised plan, and Chen Changsheng rejected it over vague objectives and the lack of safeguards for Su Daji.
• Chen Changsheng ordered Su Daji’s License to Cause Mayhem frozen and demanded that she report to Golden Ao Island with a performance report within three days.
• Two days later, Su Daji learned that her connection to Nuwa had become intermittent and that Shen Gongbao had come to enforce her overdue performance review.
• Shen Gongbao gave Su Daji a Performance Improvement Plan and Code of Conduct Handbook and told her to meet Chen Changsheng for an explanation and career planning.

Shen Gongbao escorted Su Daji from Chaoge to Golden Ao Island for a performance interview, where Chen Changsheng assessed her work on the project to overthrow the Shang Dynasty. The chapter ended with Chen asking her to summarize the core value of her role.

• Shen Gongbao compelled Su Daji to leave the palace, confiscated her valuable accessories, and told her that Empress Nuwa had approved her performance improvement plan.
• Shen Gongbao brought Su Daji to Golden Ao Island, where Daoist Duobao stopped a disciple from attacking her and declared that she was an important subject for an interview.
• Shen Gongbao led Su Daji into the Guardian Great Hall, where Chen Changsheng introduced himself as the lead interviewer for her performance review.
• Chen Changsheng criticized Su Daji for missing her KPI, exceeding the project budget, causing mass casualties, generating redundant karma, and harming the Investiture of the Gods project.
• Chen Changsheng asked Su Daji to summarize the core value of her role in the project to overthrow the Shang Dynasty.

Chen Changsheng rejected Su Daji’s idea that seduction was her value and assigned her to lead the Great Shang dynasty asset inventory. The chapter ended with Zhao Gongming reporting a lawyer’s letter from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors demanding that the Interception Sect stop interfering in human affairs and dynastic succession.

• Chen Changsheng questioned Su Daji about her core value, while Zhao Gongming recorded her answers as evidence of her poor self-understanding.
• Su Daji tried to seduce Chen Changsheng, but the system flagged her behavior as non-physical bribery and recommended a performance assessment freeze.
• Chen Changsheng declared that Su Daji’s seduction had no value to the system and identified her knowledge of Chaoge Palace and Great Shang’s confidential records as her real strengths.
• Chen Changsheng appointed Su Daji CEO of the Great Shang Dynasty State-Owned Asset Liquidation and Handover Project Team and ordered her to inventory the dynasty’s assets within three months.
• Zhao Gongming received a highest authorization alert announcing a lawyer’s letter from Huoyun Cave, sent jointly by the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, demanding that the Interception Sect cease interfering in human affairs and dynastic succession.

Huoyun Cave’s Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors sent the Interception Sect an ultimatum over its interference in human affairs, but Chen Changsheng treated it as an invalid legal notice and ordered Shen Gongbao to demand the organization’s certification. The Three Sovereigns received the Interception Sect’s reply, and Fuxi was left confused by the strange rules-based power within it.

• The Human Emperor’s Imperial Decree arrived at Golden Ao Island, protesting the Interception Sect’s interference in humanity’s dynastic affairs and demanding that it stop.
• Chen Changsheng asked how the decree had been delivered, then called it an improperly delivered business letter from an uncertified stakeholder.
• Shen Gongbao argued that Huoyun Cave was unregistered and that its letter was procedurally invalid, then proposed demanding its registration, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors’ qualifications, and observer applications.
• Chen Changsheng approved Shen Gongbao’s plan and told Daoist Duobao that the Human Emperors would have to get certified before intervening.
• In Huoyun Cave, the Three Sovereigns received an ordinary Jade Slip from the Interception Sect, and Fuxi sensed a strange power of rules within it that left him deeply confused.

Emperor Fuxi, Emperor Shennong, and Emperor Xuanyuan received a notice demanding Huyun Cave register, submit records, and pay a fee, then chose to answer through the required process instead of retaliating. Their enormous Human Dao registration overwhelmed Zhao Gongming’s central compass, and Chen Changsheng realized the system was in serious trouble.

• Emperor Fuxi showed Emperor Shennong and Emperor Xuanyuan a notice demanding Huyun Cave’s qualification documents and a 99,800 Merit fee.
• Emperor Xuanyuan threatened to attack Golden Ao Island, while Emperor Shennong proposed unleashing plagues, but Emperor Fuxi warned that retaliation would make them defendants under the Heavenly Dao Credit System.
• Emperor Fuxi directed Emperor Xuanyuan to compile human conflicts and Emperor Shennong to inventory living things, while he designed a registration form covering the Human Dao’s past, present, and future.
• Three days later, Zhao Gongming reported that Huyun Cave’s reply was overwhelming his central compass during Daoist Duobao’s academy budget briefing.
• The registration form identified the organization as the Human Dao and warned that certifying it would create a causal paradox, causing the compass to crack as Chen Changsheng recognized the danger.

When Huyun Cave’s massive registration submission threatened to collapse Golden Ao Island’s system, Chen Changsheng recognized it as a request for a higher-tier service and charged the Three Human Dao Sovereigns one strand of Heavenly Dao Origin. The system stabilized, leaving Emperor Fuxi and the other sovereigns stunned by the bill.

• Daoist Duobao tried to cut Huyun Cave’s data connection, but Zhao Gongming warned that severing it would bring catastrophic karma upon Golden Ao Island.
• Holy Mother Jin Ling explained that apologizing would concede a fundamental flaw in their system, leaving the Jie Sect with no way out.
• Chen Changsheng decided the overload was a Great Dao-level service request and ordered Zhao Gongming to send Huyun Cave a bill for one strand of Heavenly Dao Origin, with queue number 987,654,321.
• After Zhao Gongming sent the reply, Huyun Cave’s data torrent stopped, the system load returned to normal, and Zhao Gongming knelt to thank Chen Changsheng.
• Emperor Fuxi, Emperor Xuanyuan, and Emperor Shennong read the bill and were left speechless, with Fuxi feeling pain in his Dao Heart.

After Huyun Cave challenged the fee for Great Dao-level services and demanded proof of the Heavenly Dao’s value, Chen Changsheng turned the dispute into a plan to create a new asset-appraisal institution. He invited the three emperors to qualify as appraisers, but required a wisp of Human Dao Origin as the exam registration fee.

• Emperor Xuanyuan prepared to attack Chen Changsheng, but Emperor Fuxi stopped him and argued that they should challenge the fee by demanding its pricing standards and an asset assessment report.
• Emperor Fuxi drafted an inquiry letter, and Huyun Cave sent it to the Investiture of the Gods Evaluation Project Office, disputing its authority and pricing basis and suspending payment.
• Zhao Gongming and the others panicked over the inquiry, but Chen Changsheng welcomed it as a chance to establish the Three Realms Asset Assessment and Securitization Management Committee.
• Chen Changsheng ordered Shen Gongbao to tell Huyun Cave that the office would create a Heavenly Dao-certified Registered Heavenly Dao Asset Appraiser qualification.
• Chen Changsheng invited Huyun Cave’s three emperors to take the first qualification exam and set the registration fee at one wisp of Human Dao Origin.