Chapter Summaries

Ye Lingxiao secured second place in the Physical Track alongside Zhang Yu, and Zhang Yu reported the Zhou Family to Deng Bingding. At the Martial Dao grounds, Bai Zhenzhen fought Yun Jing to test his strength but was forced off the arena by his overwhelming Astral Qi.

• Ye Lingxiao stopped his depth test at -2,581 meters after Huang Zichou confirmed his total score had taken first place, leaving him and Zhang Yu as the Physical Track's top two candidates.
• Yu Xinghan envied Zhang Yu's rapid improvement and resolved to seek extra lessons with him, learn his cultivation secret, and arrange to compete in a different track next year.
• Zhang Yu told Deng Bingding that the Zhou Family had followed him in Songyang City, and she agreed to investigate and added him as a friend.
• Bai Zhenzhen healed her prior injuries using medical insurance, then attacked Yun Jing with her level-eight Ten Thousand Swords Without End Art to probe his abilities.
• Yun Jing overwhelmed Bai Zhenzhen with a massive surge of Astral Qi and forced her off the arena.

After the Foundation Establishment Exam, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen considered how to fund their training and escape the Zhou Family’s surveillance. Fu Ji proposed using Zhang Yu’s new connection to a sixth-rank Wandering God, then began explaining why Kunxu’s Orthodox Gods were driven to gather wealth.

• Ye Lingxiao asked an elder from his Lineage to investigate technologies that could greatly improve Drug Metabolism.
• Yu Xinghan arranged for Zhang Yu to tutor him and negotiated a reduced rate with Li Xuelian.
• Bai Zhenzhen analyzed how Yun Jing had countered her fighting style, while she and Zhang Yu calculated the training and technique costs they faced before their next fight.
• Fu Ji told Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen that ordinary work and borrowing would not cover their expenses, making the Dark Tutoring World their remaining option.
• Zhang Yu proposed using his new connection to Deng Bingding, a sixth-rank Wandering God, to disrupt the Zhou Family’s surveillance.
• Fu Ji explained that Orthodox Gods needed money to advance their ranks, divine power, and Talisman Arts, and began describing how the Ten Great Sects created the Eight Divine Departments to govern Kunxu.

Fu Ji explained how the Orthodox Gods reclaimed currency and how Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen planned to use a Sixth-Rank God against the Zhou Family. After the Zhou Family pressured Zhang Yu through the Patrol Team, he and Bai Zhenzhen returned to school and secretly led their Wanxing Group surveillants into the Protected Area, where the pursuers faced mounting fees.

• Fu Ji explained that Orthodox Gods had currency-reclamation quotas and that Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen could give a Sixth-Rank God an opportunity to target the Zhou Family.
• Yun Ni told Zhang Yu that a Zhou-backed investigation would require him and Bai Zhenzhen to report to the office daily, but Zhang Yu decided not to follow the Zhou Family's rhythm.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen returned to school and sensed surveillance, while Yue Jincheng and Si Zhouyu watched them for Wanxing Group.
• Yue Jincheng followed Zhang Yu onto the subway, and Si Zhouyu joined him after learning Bai Zhenzhen had also headed to the outskirts.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen entered the Protected Area wearing oxygen masks, forcing Yue Jincheng and Si Zhouyu to follow and pay as their usage charges climbed.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen visited the Red Pagoda Breeding Base, where An An asked them to help Xiong Wenwu afford an application fee. Zhang Yu arranged to introduce Yu Xinghan and discovered that Yue Jincheng and Si Zhouyu were following them, then prepared to use their surveillance of his martial arts as leverage for Deng Bingding.

• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen strolled through the Protected Area before resuming cultivation, while Yue Jincheng borrowed money through his company's employee loan channel to keep tracking them.
• At the Red Pagoda Breeding Base, An An explained that Xiong Wenwu needed money for Red Pagoda High School's Body Refinement Experimental Class, and Zhang Yu offered to introduce Yu Xinghan as a paying visitor.
• Zhang Yu checked the surveillance footage and realized Yue Jincheng and Si Zhouyu had entered shortly after them and were probably tailing them.
• Zhang Yu planned to catch the pair secretly filming his Boundless Spring Autumn Zen so Deng Bingding could use the Foundation Establishment Exam's confidentiality rules to gain influence in Songyang City.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen left the surveillance room and encountered Yue Jincheng and Si Zhouyu, who continued following them as Yue worried about his growing debts.

Yue Jincheng ambushed Zhang Yu to steal his phone, but Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen fought back and kept him occupied. The Patrol Team arrived to enforce the law, while Si Zhouyu escaped into the darkness.

• Yue Jincheng followed Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen from the Breeding Base and tried to reach into Zhang Yu’s pocket to steal his phone.
• Fu Ji warned Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen of the attack, and Zhang Yu’s Formless Cloud Gang blocked Yue Jincheng’s hand.
• Bai Zhenzhen attacked Yue Jincheng with lightning and Sword Qi while Zhang Yu struck with four giant Astral Qi arms, delaying Yue Jincheng’s escape.
• Yue Jincheng revealed his full combat height and fought back, but Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen repeatedly coordinated their attacks to keep him occupied.
• The Patrol Team issued a warning ordering everyone to stop moving, and Si Zhouyu withdrew into the darkness.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen summoned the Patrol Team after Yue Jincheng attacked them, but the officers charged them fees and treated the phone theft as a minor case. Though Yun Ni intervened on their behalf, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were left locked in an office as Yue Jincheng walked free.

• The Patrol Team arrived after Zhang Yu used a Thunder Talisman, and Gong Zhe required him to pay a ten-thousand-dollar Call Fee before hearing the case.
• Zhang Yu reported that Yue Jincheng had tried to steal his phone and assaulted him and Bai Zhenzhen, so Gong Zhe charged them another eight thousand dollars and took them to the Patrol Bureau.
• Zhang Yu told Wandering God Deng Bingding and Yun Ni what had happened, and Yun Ni contacted Gong Zhe on their behalf.
• Gong Zhe returned, promised that Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen would be treated as victims, and said Yue Jincheng would face consequences.
• After Gong Zhe left them waiting in a locked office for over half an hour, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen saw Yue Jincheng leave the case handling area with several Patrol Team officers.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen faced a biased investigation after Yue Jincheng’s attack, while Wanxing Group and the Zhou Family manipulated the case to pressure them. Zhou Yang’s scheme was interrupted when a Sixth-Rank Orthodox God arrived to investigate him and Wanxing Group.

• Gong Zhe questioned Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen as suspects in a mutual assault case, while school officials issued disciplinary threats against them.
• Fu Ji explained that the Zhou Family was using the incident to target Zhang Yu, unaware that Deng Bingding had begun investigating the family.
• Wanxing Group’s Security Department Head reprimanded Yue Jincheng, ordered him to support the company’s version of events, and forbade him from acting independently.
• Zhou Yang arranged to frame the incident as Zhou Chechen’s revenge and planned to keep Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen under pressure while monitoring them.
• Zhou Yang received urgent messages reporting that a Sixth-Rank Orthodox God had arrived to investigate him and that Wanxing Group’s headquarters and Security Department were being searched.

Huang Zichou sealed Wanxing Group and questioned Yue Jincheng and Si Zhouyu about monitoring Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, while the investigation exposed the matter’s connection to a Sixth-Rank Orthodox God. As news reached the Zhou Family, Zhou Chechen learned that his uncle had directed the operation and that he still had things he needed to do.

• Huang Zichou arrived at Wanxing Group and had Yue Jincheng and Si Zhouyu brought in for questioning, showing evidence that they had followed Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen.
• Huang Zichou warned Yue Jincheng and Si Zhouyu that their actions had drawn the attention of a Sixth-Rank High God and could bankrupt Wanxing Group.
• Yun Ni linked the investigation to the Foundation Establishment Exam and reasoned that the Zhou Family would try to portray its actions as an ordinary public security matter.
• Zhou Chechen received messages from his father saying Wanxing Group had been sealed and the God Department was investigating the Zhou Family.
• Zhou Hao told Zhou Chechen that his uncle had directed the matter, but that Zhou Chechen still needed to do certain things.

After Gong Zhe corrected the investigation and released Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, they met with Yue Jincheng, Si Zhouyu, and Zhou Chechen in the mediation room. Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen agreed to seek compensation rather than push Deng Bingding to investigate the Zhou Family to the bitter end, but Zhang Yu rejected Zhou Chechen’s initial offer of one hundred thousand.

• Zhang Yu continued cultivating at the Patrol Bureau until Gong Zhe brought food, apologized for the flawed investigation, and said Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen could leave.
• Gong Zhe told Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen that Yue Jincheng and the mastermind had been caught and asked whether they would meet them.
• Yue Jincheng and Si Zhouyu knelt and apologized, while Zhou Chechen admitted he had ordered them to observe Zhang Yu and offered to let the two punish his employees.
• Zhang Yu consulted Deng Bingding and considered Fu Ji’s advice to take compensation without insisting on an investigation that could expose the Zhou Family’s suspected Evil God.
• Zhang Yu told Zhou Chechen that an apology was not enough, and Bai Zhenzhen mocked his offer of one hundred thousand.
• Zhang Yu rejected the idea that money alone could compensate for his lasting mental trauma.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen secured compensation and extensive school benefits from Zhou Chechen after his family’s actions harmed them. Zhang Yu also negotiated access to Songyang High School’s Cultivation Methods and Spirit Roots, leaving with the Grievance Spirit Root and a waiver of the school’s fee for refining resentment.

• Zhou Chechen apologized to Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, offered them money, and made Yue Jincheng and Si Zhouyu contribute additional compensation.
• Zhou Chechen promised Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen free school resources, including Spirit Root use, Spirit Realm training, and martial arts tutoring, and Zhang Yu demanded a contract.
• Fu Ji prompted Zhang Yu to secure access to every Cultivation Method Songyang High School could teach, and Zhou Chechen agreed.
• Zhang Yu rejected the school’s listed Spirit Roots and chose the Grievance Spirit Root from the Zhou Family’s rarer options.
• Fu Ji exposed that the Grievance Spirit Root could refine resentment from living people, and Zhou Chechen agreed to waive the school’s fee for resentment produced on campus.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen secured compensation and cultivation resources from the Zhou Family, then returned to Songyang High School to begin training for the Foundation Establishment Exam. Fu Ji warned that Zhou Yang planned to retaliate after the exam, so they prepared to earn money in the Dark Tutoring World and strengthen themselves.

• Zhou Chechen agreed to give Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen cash, school cultivation access, a Grievance Spirit Root, and use of the Mystic Thunder Electro-Acupuncture Needle Set, and they signed the contract.
• Zhang Yu offered their compensation to Deng Bingding, who told him to keep the money, while Fu Ji explained that ordinary transfers to Orthodox Gods were monitored.
• Zhou Yang decided to wait until the Foundation Establishment Exam ended before exploiting his evidence that Zhang Yu was an Evil God believer, and Zhou Chechen warned Lan Ling away from targeting Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen.
• At Songyang High School, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen received their cultivation resources, authorized access to the school's methods, individual martial arts guidance, and 1.5 million each.
• Fu Ji warned that the Zhou Family's Evil God backer might retaliate after the exam, and Zhang Yu bought the Grievance Fiend Art and Thunder Marrow Cleansing Scripture before planning to explore the Dark Tutoring World for income.

Zhang Yu rapidly cultivated the Grievance Fiend Art while Bai Zhenzhen improved her Thunderclap True Body, but they found the Dark Learning Gang’s compound under raid when they went looking for work. After contacting Black Crow, Zhang Yu learned the gang conflict was escalating and received a lead on a potentially lucrative new tutoring market.

• Zhang Yu used the Grievance Spirit Root to cultivate the Grievance Fiend Art and advanced it to Level 1, then reached level 8 after a full day of practice.
• Bai Zhenzhen used the Mystic Thunder Electro-Acupuncture Needle Set to stimulate her nerves and muscles while training her Thunderclap True Body.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen disguised themselves and went to the Dark Learning Gang’s compound, where they found Xianyun Corporation security and constables arresting gang members.
• Zhang Yu contacted Black Crow, who told him that the Dark Learning Gang and the Gold Class Gang were intensifying their conflict and that the Dark Learning Gang needed experts.
• Zhang Yu received a poster promoting tutoring for elderly learners, and Bai Zhenzhen considered whether teaching them could earn money quickly.

Zhang Yu prepared for a Gold Medal Teacher trial lesson by advancing his body-refinement cultivation, while Bai Zhenzhen joined the Dark Learning Gang’s battles to build combat experience. At the underground platform, Zhang Yu chose to teach Boundless Spring Autumn Zen to elderly clients.

• Black Crow explained that tutoring elderly Qi Refining cultivators was the Dark Tutoring World’s most profitable market and offered Zhang Yu a trial lesson.
• Fu Ji advised Bai Zhenzhen to join gang battles while Zhang Yu pursued teaching, and Bai Zhenzhen joined the Dark Learning Gang as Le Mulan.
• Zhang Yu raised the Grievance Fiend Art and Thunder Marrow Cleansing Scripture to Level 10, bringing his Physical Strength to the Qi Refining limit.
• Zhang Yu arrived at the abandoned underground transit platform and heard a girl plead with Black Crow to help her grandfather stay focused in class.
• Black Crow told Zhang Yu that the trial lessons involved real elderly clients, and Zhang Yu chose to teach Boundless Spring Autumn Zen.

Zhang Yu joined a trial lesson to become a Gold Medal Teacher in the Dark Learning Gang, where elderly clients demanded proof that the instructors were educated and cultivated. After Teacher Ci impressed the class with her lesson, Zhang Yu decided to emphasize Boundless Spring Autumn Zen’s strengths in taking medicine for his own presentation.

• Black Crow introduced Zhang Yu as Teacher Ma Yunteng to three rival teachers, who looked down on him for having taught construction-site cultivation methods.
• The elderly students demanded college diplomas, so Black Crow arranged for Old Man Wang to test each teacher by striking them three times while they neither defended nor dodged.
• Teacher Ci passed Old Man Wang’s test and taught the elders the Detoxification and Health Cultivation Technique through a humorous lecture about bowel movements and detoxification.
• The gang elders watching the lesson judged Teacher Ci’s course solid but unoriginal, while Zhang Yu recognized her strong teaching ability.
• Zhang Yu decided to improve his own lesson by highlighting Boundless Spring Autumn Zen’s advantages in taking medicine.

Zhang Yu watched rival trial teachers Yao and Bai impress the elderly students, then used his own toughness and a fabricated Immortal Capital identity to win their attention. The Dark Learning Gang elders debated whether to appoint Zhang Yu, Yao, or Bai as Gold Medal Teacher, and considered choosing two.

• Teacher Yao introduced his Azure Blood Detoxification Needles and promoted his drug connections while teaching the class.
• Teacher Bai claimed to be a 145-year-old White Dragon High School alumnus and won the students' admiration with his story of lifelong study and work.
• Zhang Yu decided to pose as an Immortal Capital Person after hearing Yao and Bai's trial lessons.
• Old Man Wang struck Zhang Yu, but Zhang Yu stood firm and earned the students' respect with his Body Protection Technique.
• Zhang Yu introduced himself as Teacher Ma from Immortal Cloud High School and described life on Layer 1.5, convincing the students he was an Immortal Capital Person.
• The Dark Learning Gang elders argued over whether Yao, Bai, or Ma Yunteng should become a Gold Medal Teacher, with some proposing they choose two.

Zhang Yu won the Gold Medal Teacher position after impressing the gang elders with his trial lesson, while Bai Zhenzhen joined a dangerous raid on the Gold Class Gang’s Cemetery and escaped with a large reward. As they earned money and cultivated, the third round of the Foundation Establishment Exam drew closer.

• Zhang Yu swallowed a collection of medicines during his trial lesson, convincing the elders to choose him as Gold Medal Teacher.
• Black Crow offered Zhang Yu the position with generous pay, and Zhang Yu hoped Bai Zhenzhen’s mission would go well.
• Bai Zhenzhen was selected to carry a Copyright Bomb into the Gold Class Gang’s Cemetery as part of a raid with Deep Sea Corporation’s security forces.
• Bai Zhenzhen activated the Copyright Bomb and used her speed to evade the guards and escape before the security forces caught her.
• The gang transferred Bai Zhenzhen 500,000 and offered her a leadership role, and she resolved to win the final round of the Foundation Establishment Exam with Yu Zi.

Zhang Yu reached the Qi Refining Limit, cultivated the six techniques needed to form the Martial Dao Sacred Embryo, and continued building his influence as the Foundation Establishment Exam approached. After the Sacred Embryo activated, Fu Ji warned him that someone might be coming to cause trouble.

• Zhang Yu reached 100 units of Magical Power, then trained in the Whale Tendon Nine Transformations while Le Mulan secretly collected his sweat for her brother's laboratory.
• Zhang Yu cultivated the Blood Exchange Great Art while Yu Xinghan and Li Xuelian continued spending money on their arrangements.
• At Songyang High School, students brought Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen food, and Zhang Yu cultivated his Dao Heart and Five Qi Organ Refining Method.
• Zhang Yu completed the Five Qi Organ Refining Method at Level 10, activating the first layer of the Martial Dao Sacred Embryo and greatly increasing his impact resistance and self-healing.
• Black Crow warned Zhang Yu that the Gold Class Gang might retaliate, and Fu Ji later noticed poor network signal and suspected someone was coming to cause trouble.

Zhang Yu defeated four Gold Class Gang experts who ambushed him, testing the strength of his newly formed Martial Dao Sacred Embryo. The failed attack intensified the gang war, while Bai Zhenzhen gained fame for her victories as the conflict spread through Songyang City.

• Fu Ji sensed that network signals had weakened, and Zhang Yu realized a gang conflict was likely underway.
• Four Qi Refining Peak experts ambushed Zhang Yu, but he used the fight to test his Martial Dao Sacred Embryo and endured their attacks.
• The attackers switched to techniques with Special Magical Power, but Zhang Yu diverted their blows with Formless Cloud Gang and knocked all four unconscious.
• Black Crow arrived with gang members, and Zhang Yu handed over the defeated attackers and asked for a bonus.
• Over the next ten-plus days, the Dark Learning Gang and Gold Class Gang fought several bloody clashes, and Bai Zhenzhen earned renown as the Dark Learning Gang's Copyright Lightning.
• The gang conflict continued until mid-December.

Zhang Yu completed the eighth cultivation method for the Martial Dao Sacred Embryo as the ceasefire between the Dark Learning Gang and Gold Class Gang reshaped the conflict. Two days before the Foundation Establishment Exam, he finished preparing and set off for the exam.

• Zhang Yu noticed that gang and corporate conflicts across Songyang City had intensified, while Fu Ji urged him to focus on the Foundation Establishment Exam.
• Bai Zhenzhen returned from tying up students for the gang war and reported that the Dark Learning Gang and Gold Class Gang had declared a ceasefire.
• Zhang Yu learned that Xianyun Corporation and Deep Sea Corporation were cooperating and entering the food industry with Oasis Group, but Fu Ji told him not to get involved.
• After the ceasefire, Bai Zhenzhen trained with Songyang High School's Martial Arts Teachers while Zhang Yu continued cultivating.
• On January 1st, Zhang Yu completed Kan Ice Li Fire Body Tempering Great Art at Level 10 and prepared to leave for the Foundation Establishment Exam.

Zhou Yang planned to target Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen after the Foundation Establishment Exam, while Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen arrived in Immortal Capital City prepared to compete for the certificate. Zhang Yu entered the final round and discovered that a vast crowd of spectators was watching.

• Zhou Yang decided to seize the Evil God behind Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen once the exam’s protection ended.
• Zhang Yu received Yu Xinghan’s good-luck message and reviewed the Martial Dao Sacred Embryo techniques he had prepared for the exam.
• Zhang Yu assessed his Dao Heart as his main weakness and noted that Bai Zhenzhen had reached the Qi Refining Limit in Dao Heart, Magical Power, and Physical Strength.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen arrived in Immortal Capital City and waited at the station for the exam to begin.
• Zhang Yu entered the final round and found himself in a plaza surrounded by Orthodox God examiners and packed spectator stands.