Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yu comprehended and cultivated the complete Remnant Ox Self-Sacrificing Heart Formula, awakening control over his body's healing and growth. After training through the night, he checked the flood of messages that arrived after defeating Wang Yin.

• Zhang Yu combined his insights from fighting Wang Yin with the blood-red incantations and completed the Remnant Ox Self-Sacrificing Heart Formula.
• Zhang Yu visualized the White Ox healing, rising above the mud, and suppressing it as he learned to direct his body's recovery and physical changes with his will.
• Fu Ji warned Zhang Yu to keep the cultivation art's power secret and suggested it approached Military Grade; Zhang Yu resolved to tell only A-Zhen.
• Zhang Yu searched for the Desolate Ox Great Saint but found little information, then cultivated the complete formula through the night and increased his Physical Strength.
• Zhang Yu read messages congratulating him for defeating Wang Yin, including invitations, requests, and offers from acquaintances and companies.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen met Deng Bingding to discuss compensation and choose rewards after stopping Oasis Group. Spark True Person arrived and advised them to take specific Dharma Skeletons, then revealed the body-tempering path he believed best suited Zhang Yu.

• Zhang Yu learned Oasis Group was demanding compensation for battle damage, and Bai Zhenzhen urged him to have Deng Bingding handle it.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen visited the God Department-controlled Oasis Building, where Deng Bingding promised to recover their funds and monthly payments and offered Oasis Group supplies as compensation.
• Deng Bingding showed them three Enterprise Grade Dharma Skeletons left behind by Wang Yin: Time Remnant Demon Eye, Formless Wind Demon, and Blood Pump Core.
• Spark True Person arrived and advised Zhang Yu to choose Time Remnant Demon Eye and Bai Zhenzhen to choose Formless Wind Demon.
• Spark True Person told Zhang Yu to avoid implanting other Dharma Skeletons and instead temper his body before transferring from Civil Engineering to Artifact Crafting.

Spark True Person helped Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen choose Dharma Skeletons and secure Foundation Establishment cultivation methods, then accompanied them to Oasis Group for surgery. Zhang Yu received the Time Remnant Demon Eye and discovered it let him perceive the world as if it had slowed down.

• Spark True Person advised Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen on university majors and urged Deng Bingding to reward them with Foundation Establishment Cultivation Methods.
• Deng Bingding gave Zhang Yu the Azure Vortex Qi Skill and Bai Zhenzhen the Foundation Establishment versions of Thunderclap True Body and Frost Soul Ice Heart Art, then reclaimed the Soul-Breaking Brick.
• Zhang Yu agreed to replace his Flood Dragon Spiritual Pivot and receive the Time Remnant Demon Eye, while Bai Zhenzhen prepared for her Formless Wind Demon Dharma Skeleton.
• Spark True Person asked the surgeons to make Zhang Yu’s eye installation removable so he could alternate between the Time Remnant Demon Eye and his original eye.
• After the operation, Zhang Yu activated the Time Remnant Demon Eye and realized it increased his visual perception, making the world seem slower.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen received Dharma Skeletons, cleared their debts, and Bai Zhenzhen reached Foundation Establishment while suppressing her True Spirit Root’s evolution. Spark True Person began training them for university by warning them about challenges above the first layer and subjecting them to Martial Dao Intent.

• Zhang Yu tested the Time Remnant Demon Eye’s ability to slow his perception, while Bai Zhenzhen tried her new speed and found it drained her Magical Power and strained her body.
• Spark True Person explained that he had no intention of exploiting Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, and they accepted him as their Master.
• Zhang Yu repaid nearly 80 million in loans, and Bai Zhenzhen used a Heavenly Spiritual Root to achieve Foundation Establishment.
• Bai Zhenzhen felt her True Spirit Root beginning to evolve toward a Divine Spiritual Root, but she managed to suppress the change.
• Spark True Person warned Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen that they might face setbacks and discrimination at Ten Thousand Laws University, then began training their Dao Hearts with his Martial Dao Intent.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen trained under Spark True Person, then cultivated at a Spirit Vein node using Zhang Yu’s deliveries to Red Pagoda Company to gain entry. Their cultivation was interrupted by news that the expert they had killed was Zhou Yang of the Zhou Family, and Zhang Yu asked to join the Patrol Team’s investigation.

• Spark True Person repeatedly battered Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen with different Martial Dao Intents, improving their Dao Hearts and cultivation methods.
• Zhang Yu delivered goods for Red Pagoda Company and entered the Spirit Vein with Bai Zhenzhen, who privately considered helping him remove his troublesome root.
• Zhang Yu used the Azure Vortex Qi Skill to reach Level 10, expanding his Spiritual Energy gathering range to one hundred and fifty meters.
• A Security Department squad surrounded the restroom Zhang Yu had used and carried an enormous armored case away from it.
• Yun Ni told Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen that the expert they had killed was Zhou Yang of the Zhou Family and said the Patrol Team would investigate the family.
• Zhang Yu asked Yun Ni whether he and Bai Zhenzhen could join the investigation.

The Patrol Team searched Zhou Yang’s estate and uncovered a hidden facility where Zhang Yu secretly helped Fu Ji absorb a suppressed Evil God. As Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen trained for the Gaokao, Zhang Yu reached Level 20 in the Remnant Ox Abandoning Self Heart Sutra, and Le Mulan arrived seeking his seed for Le Jingchen.

• The Patrol Team arrested Zhou Family members and found Zhou Yang’s underground facility, where Fu Ji identified a Ritual suppressing an Evil God.
• Zhang Yu used the cameras’ blind spot to touch the hard drive, allowing Fu Ji to pull the Evil God to her side before she fell silent to digest it.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen trained under Spark True Person, who pushed their cultivation while reflecting on his hopes that his investment in them would help Xue Lian and Xing Han.
• With half a year left before the Gaokao, Zhang Yu reached Level 20 in the Remnant Ox Abandoning Self Heart Sutra and gained the ability to retain consciousness in severed flesh for several minutes.
• Le Mulan visited Zhang Yu and insisted she wanted his seed instead of repayment for the five million she had lent him.
• Le Jingchen messaged Le Mulan to confirm she had obtained genuine Feather Juice and suggested Zhang Yu might have given Red Pagoda fake goods.

Le Mulan secretly watched Zhang Yu produce a sample, then caught it and rushed away with it for research. Zhang Yu trained with Spark True Person, improved his cultivation, and spoke with Zhang Pianpian, who explained the importance of university rankings.

• Le Mulan broke into Zhang Yu's room, caught his freshly produced Rare Treasure, and left with it after apologizing while Zhang Yu protested.
• Zhang Yu received news of a Xianyun Group Spokesperson event and planned to earn money and prepare supplies before ascending to the Second Layer.
• Spark True Person taught Zhang Yu to change his appearance and advised Bai Zhenzhen to train in hidden weapons and ranged combat.
• Zhang Yu raised Boundless Spring Autumn Zen to Level 20 and discovered it let him enter a hibernation-like state with improved digestion and recovery.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen called Zhang Pianpian, who showed her Ten Thousand Laws University rank and explained how rankings affected a student's value.

With the Gaokao a month away, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen continued preparing for university through harsh training and cultivation, while growing closer and imagining a future together. After Bai Zhenzhen went to collect her newly arrived Eye Skeleton, Zhang Yu called her, but the call abruptly lost his voice.

• Zhang Pianpian explained university rankings, Student Union Cadre halos, and preparations for university, and she approved Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen's plans.
• Spark True Person began ambushing Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen during training, then paired Yu Xinghan with Zhang Yu and Li Xuelian with Bai Zhenzhen for practice.
• A month before the Gaokao, Zhang Yu reached Level 20 in the Azure Vortex Qi Skill while cultivating in the Protected Area's Spirit Vein.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen headed home, talked about their progress and hopes for the future, and Bai Zhenzhen rode on Zhang Yu's back.
• Bai Zhenzhen received a message that her Eye Skeleton had arrived and went to collect it; when Zhang Yu called, the connection suddenly stopped carrying his voice.

After an explosion destroyed the apartment building, Bai Zhenzhen believed Zhang Yu had died and awakened a powerful Divine Spiritual Root while fighting the assassins sent by Oasis Group. Spark True Person found Zhang Yu alive beneath the ruins, and doctors watched his gravely injured body begin healing at an astonishing rate.

• A blast collapsed the apartment building while Bai Zhenzhen was outside, and two cultivators revealed they had been hired by Oasis Group to eliminate Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen.
• Believing Zhang Yu had died, Bai Zhenzhen awakened her Azure Lotus power and attacked the two Foundation Establishment cultivators; the man fled, and she fought the woman amid descending pillars of light.
• Spark True Person rejected the rescue leader’s assumption that Zhang Yu was dead and used Martial Dao Gang Qi to uncover the rubble.
• Spark True Person pulled Zhang Yu’s mangled body from the ruins and recognized that he had entered Boundless Spring Autumn Zen’s feigned-death state.
• Doctors found Zhang Yu suffered severe injuries but was still alive, and his wounds began rapidly healing on their own.

After recovering from an attack that left Bai Zhenzhen with an awakened Divine Spiritual Root, Zhang Yu trained intensely while she was placed under the protection of Heaven Sword University’s Seven Emotions Divine Lord. After the Gaokao ended, Zhang Yu headed for the Second Layer determined to attend Ten Thousand Laws University, while Bai Zhenzhen promised to find him there.

• Zhang Yu woke in the hospital and learned that suspected Oasis Group agents had attacked him and Bai Zhenzhen, while the Orthodox God had taken her into protective custody.
• Spark True Person told Zhang Yu that Bai Zhenzhen’s Spirit Root had awakened as a Divine Spiritual Root and that Seven Emotions Divine Lord intended to take her as his disciple.
• Bai Zhenzhen sent Zhang Yu a message assuring him she was safe and would find him after they reached the Second Layer.
• Spark True Person put Zhang Yu through grueling training for a month, with Yu Xinghan sometimes joining him.
• After the Gaokao, Zhang Yu boarded a Flying Boat for the Ascension Platform and chose Ten Thousand Laws University over Heaven Sword University.
• Le Mulan asked Zhang Yu which department he planned to enter, and he answered Civil Engineering as Xiong Wenwu was pinned down by several people.

Fu Ji woke as a Level 2 Evil God and began raising Zhang Yu’s potential while learning that Bai Zhenzhen had gone to Heaven Sword University. Zhang Yu and his companions endured the Flying Boat’s discrimination and reached the Ascension Platform, where they entered the Second Layer and prepared to continue on to their destinations.

• Fu Ji told Zhang Yu she had recovered to Level 2, communicated telepathically with her believers, and started filling a symbol that would eventually open a new page of the Feather Scroll.
• Fu Ji learned Bai Zhenzhen had awakened a Divine Spiritual Root and become the Seven Emotions Divine Lord’s disciple, but concealed her suspicions about what might happen to Bai Zhenzhen’s root.
• A staff member threatened the first-layer passengers, and Zhang Yu comforted Yu Xinghan, who worried that staff would discover Synthetic Food he had hidden in his rectum.
• Le Mulan invited Zhang Yu to eat Second Layer-style food, and Li Xuelian explained that people there mostly relied on medicine instead of ordinary dishes.
• After hearing the Flying Boat announcement, Zhang Yu, Le Mulan, and Li Xuelian disembarked at the Ascension Platform and entered the Second Layer.

Zhang Yu completed his Second Layer registration and traveled to Ten Thousand Laws University, where he discovered the campus’s cramped vertical city and the dangers of private land and intrusive network ads. As he arrived, Bai Zhenzhen contacted him, sent him 5 Spirit Coin, and promised to support him, while Zhang Yu accidentally hugged Le Mulan through Bai Zhenzhen’s projection.

• Zhang Yu exchanged his First Layer currency for 5 Spirit Coin and paid for his Second Layer accounts, network plan, transport access, and medical insurance.
• Zhang Yu said goodbye to his companions and flew with Yu Xinghan and the others toward Ten Thousand Laws University.
• Li Xuelian explained that the university occupied 666 floors and warned Zhang Yu about private land, invisible boundaries, and the need for an Eye Skeleton.
• Zhang Yu connected his Eye Skeleton to the Spirit Realm Network, encountered several kinds of advertisements, and learned that Yu Xinghan’s secondhand Eye Skeleton could only display black and white.
• Bai Zhenzhen contacted Zhang Yu, transferred him 5 Spirit Coin, and promised to send him more money and supplies from Heaven Sword University.
• Zhang Yu hugged Bai Zhenzhen’s projection, then realized he had physically embraced Le Mulan beneath it and awkwardly claimed he was excited to see Bai Zhenzhen.

Zhang Yu reunited with Le Mulan aboard the Flying Boat, connected with fellow Songyang graduates, and entered Ten Thousand Laws University's vast University City. He and his companions began navigating its Magnetic Channels as they headed toward their destination.

• Bai Zhenzhen ended her call with Zhang Yu, and Le Mulan realized he had hugged her while interacting with Bai Zhenzhen's projection.
• Le Mulan asked Zhang Yu to add her as a Spirit Realm friend before they left the Flying Boat.
• Zhang Yu joined the Happy Songyang Folks group chat, where graduates from several universities welcomed him.
• Zhang Yu, Le Mulan, Yu Xinghan, and Li Xuelian entered the 600th Layer of University City and saw its busy Spirit Realm projections.
• Li Xuelian led the group through the Magnetic Channels, explaining how to use them as they traveled to their destination.

Zhang Yu passed his Ten Thousand Laws University interview and reunited with Zhang Pianpian, who helped him and his friends enroll and find a cramped dorm. After eating medicine and cement for dinner, Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan arrived at their first Civil Engineering class meeting, where classmates demanded to see their scores and data.

• Zhang Yu impressed the interviewers with his cultivation, coursework, and resolve, and they welcomed him to Ten Thousand Laws University.
• Zhang Pianpian reunited with Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan, and Le Mulan, then helped them register and take out student loans.
• Zhang Pianpian arranged for the four of them to share a five-square-meter middle dormitory, where they stored their luggage after shrinking themselves.
• Zhang Pianpian took the group to eat nutrient pills mixed with cement and warned Yu Xinghan and Le Mulan against illegal planting.
• Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan attended their first Civil Engineering class meeting, where classmates asked to see their Gaokao scores and basic data for class rankings.

Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan joined Ten Thousand Laws University's Civil Engineering Foundation Establishment Class, where upper-layer students ranked their classmates by scores and displayed their wealth. Zhang Yu discovered he could suppress his digestion to avoid eating cement, and the classroom fell silent when a cultivator from Kunxu Sixth Layer arrived.

• Fu Ji explained that each major's Foundation Establishment Class included both incoming students and university students who had recently reached Foundation Establishment.
• Ying Xin and Gongshu Jin questioned Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan, and Li Xiao about their scores and stats, then ranked the students, placing Gongshu Jin first and Zhang Yu third among the first five.
• As more students arrived, Zhang Yu fell to twelfth place and Yu Xinghan to eighteenth, while Gongshu Jin gathered classmates around him and Li Xiao tried to ingratiate himself with the upper-layer students.
• Zhang Yu slowed his digestion by controlling his body, realizing he might no longer need to eat cement.
• Gongshu Jin revealed that his Tianyan Eye Remains cost around twelve Spirit Coins, prompting admiration from the surrounding students.
• Ji Yuan Shu from Kunxu Sixth Layer entered within one hundred meters, and the classroom fell silent as everyone looked toward the door.

Jiao Lei True Person explained the Foundation Establishment Class rankings, rewards, and university rules, then appointed Ji Yuan Shu class monitor. Zhang Yu’s early Foundation Establishment achievement drew the attention of Ji Yuan Shu and Gongshu Jin, while Li Xiao described Zhang Yu’s fight with Wang Yin.

• Ji Yuan Shu arrived in the classroom, and he and Gongshu Jin tacitly agreed that Ji Yuan Shu would claim the class’s first-place rewards for three years before transferring departments, leaving the following seven years to Gongshu Jin.
• Jiao Lei True Person outlined the class schedule, ranking system, scholarships, and the Seven Wonders of Civil Engineering, which could lead to the Military Grade Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power.
• Jiao Lei True Person warned the students about university rules and announced Cultivation Method discounts for students who had achieved Foundation Establishment in high school, including especially large discounts for Zhang Yu.
• Ji Yuan Shu became class monitor, and both he and Gongshu Jin took an interest in Zhang Yu after learning about his early Foundation Establishment achievement.
• Gongshu Jin asked Li Xiao about Zhang Yu, and Li Xiao said Zhang Yu was famous for beating up his former benefactor Wang Yin, who had streamed their fight.

Gongshu Jin investigated Zhang Yu’s defeat of Wang Yin and decided to befriend Zhang Yu because he believed Zhang Yu’s background could benefit him, while dismissing his talent. After class, Zhang Yu checked the Foundation Establishment Class Rankings and entered Ten Thousand Laws University’s Great Library to search for cultivation techniques, hoping to find a University Sacred Body.

• Gongshu Jin found a video of Zhang Yu defeating Wang Yin and concluded that Zhang Yu’s background mattered more than his talent, so he approached him to display his expensive Magic Skeleton.
• Gongshu Jin added Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan as friends, recognized Zhang Yu’s Time Remnant Demon Eye, then deleted Yu Xinghan after seeing his outdated Eye Remains model.
• Ji Yuan Shu suspected Zhang Yu might be involved in a struggle between Ten Thousand Methods and the Netherworld but decided to focus on his own academic goals.
• After class, Yu Xinghan complained that Gongshu Jin had deleted him, and Zhang Yu said he was going to the Great Library to find cultivation techniques.
• Jiao Lei True Person shared the class rankings, where Zhang Yu ranked thirteenth, and Zhang Yu accessed the Great Library website to search for basic Foundation Establishment techniques and a possible University Sacred Body.

Zhang Yu bought and rapidly practiced the Foundation Establishment Body Refinement Seventy-Two Forms, then spoke with Bai Zhenzhen about their first day at university. Bai Zhenzhen offered to confront anyone who bullied him, leaving Zhang Yu newly confident in his powerful connections.

• Zhang Yu selected the ten cheapest methods for forming the University Sacred Body and bought the Foundation Establishment Body Refinement Seventy-Two Forms.
• Jiao Lei True Person saw Zhang Yu practicing poorly in the classroom and told him to leave; Zhang Yu moved to the dormitory floor and quickly raised the method to level 8.
• Zhang Pianpian, Le Mulan, and Yu Xinghan returned to the dormitory, where Zhang Pianpian explained the Second Layer's abundant Spiritual Energy as the others settled in to cultivate or eat.
• Zhang Yu contacted Bai Zhenzhen at 2 a.m. and exchanged stories about their first day, including Gongshu Jin's attempt to flaunt his wealth.
• Bai Zhenzhen told Zhang Yu to invoke her mother, the Seven Emotions Divine Lord, if anyone bullied him, and Zhang Yu imagined having her scold his rivals.

Zhang Yu prepared for his first Foundation Establishment class while keeping an open cultivation call with Bai Zhenzhen and learning about life on the Second Layer. The chapter ended as Feng Jiu appeared through a Spirit Realm projection to teach Dao Heart Class, while Yu Xinghan’s delayed Eye Remains struggled to display her.

• Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu kept their projected call open while cultivating separately, then said they would meet again the next night.
• Yu Xinghan urged Zhang Yu to ask Bai Zhenzhen for money, and Zhang Yu reviewed his university schedule, scholarship, and teacher assignment options.
• Zhang Pianpian explained why people on the Second Layer relied on medicine and cement instead of food, and Yu Xinghan and Le Mulan tried cement.
• Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan traveled to class, where they saw that most students had arrived but the teacher had not yet appeared in person.
• Feng Jiu appeared as a Phoenix projection and introduced herself as the Dao Heart Class teacher for the next three months.
• Yu Xinghan could not see Feng Jiu at first because his cheap Eye Remains was lagging.

Zhang Yu attended lessons on Dao Hearts, Magical Power, and body refinement, discovering how cultivation instruction and resources favored students from higher layers. After Lang Yougong recognized Zhang Yu’s talent and gave him personalized guidance, Yu Xinghan was left waiting while Zhang Yu wondered whether the teacher’s choices had a deeper purpose.

• Feng Jiu lectured on Dao Heart risks, parallel mental cultivation methods, and Spirit-Flesh Unity before her Phoenix projection vanished, and a girl in the Spirit Realm told it to teach classes in her place.
• Li Mingbo arranged the classroom by layer, placing Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan in the back, then promoted Magical Power Treasure and tested the students’ Magical Power Quality; Zhang Yu measured 112%.
• Lang Yougong praised Gongshu Jin’s and Ji Yuan Shu’s cultivation equipment, then gave Zhang Yu personalized instruction on tempering his Spirit Root while Zhang Yu used his Time Remnant Demon Eye to memorize the guidance.
• Lang Yougong passed over Yu Xinghan to guide other students, and Yu Xinghan asked Zhang Yu why; Zhang Yu suggested the teacher might have a reason for his order.