Recaps

Zhang Yu earned recognition, expanded his cultivation and business, and reached the Refining Void Realm in time to join the Third-Generation Law Articles training. As rival factions pursued their legislative plans, he backed Bu Yingshu’s proposal for temporary realm certifications and drew scrutiny by sitting with her and Di Xuan.

• The Myriad Laws Sect named Zhang Yu this year’s Extraordinary Merit recipient, and Immortal Zhimiao awarded him ten million Immortal Coins, one million Dao Merit, the title [Old Days Salary King], and a Tax Exemption Medallion.
• Zhang Yu secured Fa Liuyuan’s support for a legislative quota, trained in Empress Wa Manufacturing, and expanded his earnings by making and renting out Shangyang Huangshens.
• Zhang Yu recruited unemployed artifact refiners, gathered Grotto-Heaven Power across Kunxu, and helped Xuan Ge reach the Golden Core Realm before training him with Magical Power infusions.
• Zhang Yu completed his Tenth Divine Light Transformation, received approval to break through to Refining Void on May 15, and joined the legislative training at Green-Knowing Lodge.
• Zhang Yu studied the Dao Orthodoxies and competing legislative proposals, while Tai Yuebai sought his help with Kuang Zhiqian and Zhang Yu realized Tai Yuebai had acquired another Dao Seed.
• Zhang Yu signed the Void Refining Loan, absorbed more than a thousand Immortal Dao Elements, reached the Refining Void Realm, and formed the Grand Void Dao Body.
• Zhang Yu supported Bu Yingshu’s plan for temporary realm certifications after she explained her case for renewed competition, while Fu Ji’s allies guarded his political opportunities.
• Bu Yingshu pulled Zhang Yu beside her at the training session, Di Xuan joined them, and Zhang Yu told him that Bu Yingshu had come to join them.

Zhang Yu used his Blank Legislation Articles and copied Dao Seed abilities to create Law Article Validity Period, then overturned the trainees’ oppressive laws during the assessment. He earned a special grade and the authority to choose a Kunxu layer as his pilot area.

• Zhang Yu joined Bu Yingshu’s legislative alliance while secretly considering how the competing policies could launch a Great Examination Era, and he began constructing Law Articles and studying their rules.
• Zhang Yu manipulated his apparent support among Bu Yingshu, Di Xuan, and Lie Jinghong while learning that Tai Yuebai could steal and copy Dao Seeds.
• The judges approved Zhang Yu’s Law Article Validity Period, and Su Xianchen set a special test requiring him to freeze other trainees’ Law Articles.
• During the assessment, Zhang Yu established a one-month validity period for Law Articles, copied Lie Jinghong’s One Qi Swallows the Universe, and used it to investigate other laws and expand his influence.
• Zhang Yu’s domain surged through the testing grounds as Material People supported the expiration and review of harmful laws, and he revealed his role when the laws clashed on July 1.
• Zhang Yu used the conflict among the trainees’ Law Articles to strengthen his Thought Tide, shattered oppressive laws, and froze Lie Jinghong’s rules before confronting Tai Yuebai’s Two-Day Weekend.
• Zhang Yu defeated Tai Yuebai and Kuang Zhiqian’s resistance, froze the remaining Law Articles, and declared himself the highest Law Article.
• Su Xianchen ended the assessment, awarded Zhang Yu a special grade, and granted him the choice of a Sect-controlled Kunxu layer for his pilot area.

Zhang Yu chose the 16th Layer for his legal-reform pilot, gained authority to review Law Articles, and protected Le Mulan from a scheme to send her into Reincarnation. He began freezing the Four-Hour Workday and Paid Overtime restrictions, while his opponents sought ways to obstruct the reform.

• Zhang Yu rejected pressure to place the pilot site on Layer 1 and won the Immortal Emperor’s approval to establish it on the 16th Layer, then announced the freeze of the Four-Hour Workday and Paid Overtime Law Articles.
• Ban Jinchen and Si Shi'an attacked Zhang Yu publicly and targeted his debts, but the Ascension Hall’s validity rules weakened their position, and they later agreed to share information with him.
• The Ascension Hall appointed Zhang Yu director of the Effectiveness Review Department and awarded him the title Myriad Laws Divine Sword, along with the Hundred-Billion Flying Sword.
• Kuang Tianqing offered Zhang Yu a mission to arrange Le Mulan’s death, but Zhang Yu took the reward and instead intervened when Yue Qinglan and Lian Zizi tried to keep her from him.
• Zhang Yu inspected Life-Balancing Grotto-Heaven with Bu Yingshu and other officials, brought Le Mulan to safety, and helped her pursue cultivation by giving her the Spirit Transformation Dao Body.
• Zhang Yu gave Teacher Gao a blank Dao Seed and helped him develop [Constructing Worlds], while Teacher Gao discovered a way to expand private Grotto-Heavens with Illegal Space.
• Zhu Yan’s inspection of the Underworld Property Department threatened Zhang Yu and his recruits, but Le Mulan, Bai Zhenzhen, and Bu Yingshu each claimed a connection to him, and Zhu Yan backed off while continuing his investigation.
• Zhang Yu activated the True Law-Article Domain in Si Shi'an’s realm on January 1 and began expanding it, while She Yuzun and Zhu Yan looked for ways to undermine him and Zhao Tianxing recognized his former teacher Wang Hai.

Zhang Yu’s labor reforms drew him into conflict with She Yuzun and the Immortal Emperors, while Tan Taizhen’s encrypted warning revealed a world rollback and her doomed rise as the Eleventh Immortal Emperor. After inheriting her power and gathering her legacy, Zhang Yu completed a sweeping freeze of Law Articles and faced a choice over Fa Liuyuan’s Feather Scroll.

• She Yuzun fueled opposition to Zhang Yu’s work-hour reforms, but Zhang Yu revived Wang Hai and the others, then forced companies to negotiate by freezing his Law Articles and disrupting their operations.
• Zhang Yu encountered the Ancestor Corpse and uncovered Tan Taizhen’s warning that a new Immortal Emperor was nearing birth, then learned that her encrypted message contained memories of a coming world rollback.
• As a new Dao Orthodoxy spread through Kunxu, Demon Descendants gathered around Wanwusheng’s emerging flesh, and the Ten Immortal Emperors suppressed Tan Taizhen after she declared herself the Eleventh Immortal Emperor.
• Ying Xintian explained Tan Taizhen’s inheritance to Zhang Yu, who entered her bloodline network, became her successor, and raised his Creation Emperor Seed while learning about the Ten Immortal Emperors’ rollback.
• Zhang Yu collected Tan Taizhen’s scattered inheritances, advanced the Creation Emperor Seed to level 8, and awakened the Heaven-Given Dao-Proving Scripture as a powerful bloodline ability.
• Zhu Yan seized a Tai Zhen inheritance and raided other sites with She Yuzun, but Zhang Yu defeated him, took control of the legacy, and oversaw its collection across the Sect.
• After Zhang Yu completed the freeze of seventeen Law Articles, Su Xianchen offered him a choice of bestowed books, while Kuang Tianqing, the Giant Corpse, and Tai Yuebai urged him to take Fa Liuyuan’s Feather Scroll.