Recaps

Zhang Yu took charge of a desperate effort to break Kunxu’s Sky Domes while the Righteous Qi Alliance pursued its own plan to remake the world. He mobilized the Ten Schools and cultivators across three layers, shattered the barriers, and restored the layers’ Spirit Realm connections.

• Zhang Yu used his spatial technology to resolve the Sword Repository crisis, launch Shared Tai Xu, and win support from Heaven Sword University’s leaders.
• As the Righteous Qi Alliance prepared to destroy Layer 5, Zhang Yu joined Divine Lord Ci Ji and Azure Wood Divine Lord in breaking through the Sky Domes and returned to organize the Ten Schools.
• At True Lord Tiansha’s funeral, Zhang Yu demonstrated that his Heaven-Piercing Drill could break the Sky Dome and persuaded the True Lords to back his plan.
• Zhang Yu rallied the Ten Schools to build the drills, while Fu Xiantian revealed that his New World plan required sending everyone through Reincarnation without their memories and Zhang Yu refused to join him.
• Zhang Yu cracked Deity Transformation legacies to restore resources, funded relief and production, and offered Spirit Coins to cultivators who helped break the Sky Dome.
• Livestreamers and cultivators joined Zhang Yu’s Heaven-Breaking Operation, and the Ten Schools fought off the Righteous Qi Alliance as the Third Layer’s sky shattered.
• Zhang Yu’s followers broke the Fifth Layer’s sky, connecting the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Layers and restoring their Spirit Realm connections.
• Magnetic Pole Divine Lord and Azure Wood Divine Lord learned how much Zhang Yu had spent organizing the assault and were stunned by the accounts.

Zhang Yu defeated the Righteous Qi Alliance and tried to save Kunxu from Fu Xiantian’s collapsing Sky Dome, drawing the Heavenly Court down through his Feather Bond fundraiser. After the rescue, he prepared to enter the Sect despite a rigged examination, using infused memories while struggling to keep them from changing him.

• Zhang Yu broke through the Righteous Qi Alliance’s forces, defeated True Lord Zhanxian with Bai Zhenzhen, and helped the Ten Schools seize the Array Core.
• Fu Xiantian activated the Great Nirvana Final Scene Profound Seal, sending the Sky Dome down to destroy Kunxu, while Zhang Yu recruited workers and sold Feather Bonds to fund repairs.
• Zhang Yu used the bond money to summon the Heavenly Court, which stopped the formation and took control across Layers 2 through 5.
• The Heavenly Court cleared Zhang Yu, honored him as a Hundred Billion Talisman Master, and began restructuring Kunxu as cultivators prepared to enter the Sects.
• Zhang Yu chose to pursue a Sect position despite warnings that the examination was rigged, and trained with Spark True Lord’s candidates.
• Zhang Yu accepted thirty years of examination memories from Kuang Tianqing, isolated them in a clone, and continued preparing with Bai Zhenzhen and Yu Xinghan.
• Zhang Yu’s clone performed well on the preliminary test but developed its own ambitions, so the real Zhang Yu restrained it and sealed its memories again.

Zhang Yu passed the Myriad Laws Sect examination and began working in Yufa Pavilion, where he led his group to exceptional results. His review of a disputed cultivation method stalled his promotion, but the method was sealed and his promotion resumed.

• Zhang Yu passed the examination in first place, and Bai Zhenzhen, Kuang Tianqing, Spark True Lord, and Yu Xinghan also passed while Le Mulan failed.
• Zhang Yu prepared for the Sect by training, completing the Azure Lotus Sword Embryo, and arranging help for his companions before traveling to Layer 11.
• At newcomer training, Zhang Yu and his companions resisted pressure to use Dharma Medicine or pursue Dual Cultivation, then Zhang Yu joined Yufa Pavilion as a Sect Affairs Officer.
• Qu Yizhi assigned Zhang Yu difficult copyright audits, but Zhang Yu completed them and promised Luo Wuji he could raise Martial Arts Group Three’s performance.
• Zhang Yu guided Martial Arts Group Three to a 32 percent performance increase, earned a promotion review, and learned Lu Hengzhang was secretly targeting him.
• An accusation that Zhang Yu had wrongly rejected a Spirit Refining Art froze his promotion, and the Investigation Team began examining his decision.
• The Daoist Canon confirmed that the Spirit Refining Art shared a root with the Shattering Delusion Forging God Art and flagged it as a Black Cultivation Method.
• Yufa Pavilion sealed the Spirit Refining Art, Zhang Yu’s promotion resumed, and he found problems in another group’s audit records.

Zhang Yu joined Bu Yingshu’s effort to verify Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation, while uncovering its ties to the Desolate Ox Great Saint and drawing the attention of powerful forces. The review passed, and Zhang Yu was poised to move into Bu Yingshu’s orbit as he reconnected with Lower Realm examinees.

• Zhang Yu became acting leader of Martial Arts Group One after exposing Xiao Zhi’s audit misconduct and winning the suitability assessment.
• Lu Hengzhang placed Zhang Yu on Bu Yingshu’s Special Task Force, where Zhang Yu began studying Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation and copied Bu Yingshu’s Wanfa Immortal Clan Dao Seed.
• Zhang Yu’s contact with the Great Saint Will revealed the history of Wild Ox, who became the Desolate Ox Great Saint, and Wild Ox’s surviving will awakened within Zhang Yu’s Demon Descendant Clone.
• Zhang Yu helped Bu Yingshu reproduce techniques from Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation, while investigators scrutinized him and the Great Saint Will’s appearance across Layer 11.
• Bu Yingshu and Zhang Yu demonstrated the technique’s effects to the Special Task Force, and Bu Yingshu submitted her verification report despite Yang Kaitai’s objections.
• Bu Yingshu and Pavilion Master Si completed the technique’s final review, and Bu Yingshu promised to transfer and promote Zhang Yu once he reached Level 3.
• Zhang Yu returned to Martial Arts Group One, while Bai Zhenzhen reacted painfully to his photo with Bu Yingshu and True Lord Xuan Shu and True Lord Wu Xiang joined the Lower Realm Mutual Aid Society.
• Zhang Yu joined the mutual aid group and asked about Le Mulan, whom Ye Xingli said had disappeared from training after becoming a Spirit Herb Pavilion talent.