Recaps

Zhang Yu passed the Seventh Lightning Tribulation, profited from its aftermath, and received Fa Liuyuan’s Feather Scroll. He used it to pursue Ying Xintian’s Cosmic Dao Orthodoxy and began collecting books, ending as a new book-selection contest exposed a way to generate Chain Law Diagrams.

• Zhang Yu secured multiple cultivation manuals, advanced his lawmaking plans, and learned that the Ten Great Sects intended to collect and manage all Books.
• Zhang Yu prepared for tribulation while Bu Yingshu and Bai Zhenzhen clashed over his affairs, and he studied the bond market surrounding cultivators’ Lightning Tribulations.
• Lu Jingsong and He Zhaisheng promoted Zhang Yu’s Tribulation Bonds, but his first tribulations seemed weak and they shorted the bonds as prices fell.
• Zhang Yu endured a catastrophic sixth tribulation and passed the Seventh Lightning Tribulation’s 99 Heart Lightning trials, earning the title Paragon of Goodness.
• The Heaven Sword Sect and Wanfa Immortal Emperor negotiated over Zhang Yu’s ability to produce Lightning Tribulations, while officials investigated the bond market and Zhang Yu learned his prospective earnings.
• Zhang Yu received Fa Liuyuan’s Feather Scroll, became the Myriad Laws Sect’s Keeper of Books, and used the scroll to begin seeking Ying Xintian’s Cosmic Dao Orthodoxy.
• Zhang Yu organized a book-collection project, absorbed four Lower-Grade Books into the Feather Scroll, and raised his Cosmic Dao Orthodoxy progress to 48%.
• At the Immortal Soldier Mansion’s New Book Selection, Zhang Yu entered the technique simulation and discovered that chosen combinations could generate new Chain Law Diagrams.