Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yu accepted Gongshu Jin’s invitation to an Artifact Crafting Department banquet, where he stunned the guests by devouring Heaven Essence Rice with ease. Ye Xingli offered him Dragon Liver Phoenix Gall, and Zhang Yu boldly ordered three more bowls of rice and three platters.

• Gongshu Jin invited Zhang Yu to a Treasure Appraisal Banquet hosted by Ye Xingli, and Zhang Yu eagerly accepted after learning it was a buffet.
• Zhang Yu and Gongshu Jin arrived at the restaurant, where they met Ye Xingli and Cang Lanyu among the banquet guests.
• Ye Xingli gave Zhang Yu and Gongshu Jin a bowl of Heaven Essence Rice each as a late-arrival punishment.
• Zhang Yu swallowed his bowl and Gongshu Jin’s bowl without difficulty, using his powerful digestion to absorb the rice’s nourishment.
• Ye Xingli ordered more rice and Dragon Liver Phoenix Gall for Zhang Yu, who asked for three bowls and three platters.

Zhang Yu stunned the students at Ye Xingli’s feast by eating five bowls of Heaven Essence Rice and three plates of Dragon Liver Phoenix Gall, then chose a Cemetery project to advance his cultivation while staying near Yu Xinghan and Le Mulan. After two weeks of medicine-assisted training and construction work, he reached Level 20 in the Black Qi Outer Circulation Breathing Technique as the Cemetery project began.

• Zhang Yu devoured five bowls of Heaven Essence Rice and three plates of Dragon Liver Phoenix Gall, impressing the students and attracting new friends.
• A meal video of Zhang Yu slightly increased his chance of victory in Ji Yuan Shu’s Fortune Monitoring.
• Zhang Pianpian explained that the Cemetery used poor people’s bodies as Breathing Corpse Components to produce Magical Power, and Zhang Yu decided the project suited his cultivation.
• Zhang Yu spent two weeks taking lifespan-reducing medicine and cultivating while working on construction projects, leaving himself with fewer than 7 Spirit Coins.
• Zhang Yu cultivated the Breathing Technique while installing rebar with Formless Cloud Gang, reached Level 20 in the Black Qi Outer Circulation Breathing Technique, and arrived at the start of the Cemetery project.

Zhang Yu began repairing damaged infrastructure in Huilong Garden while cultivating amid its dense Spiritual Energy, and his Breathing Technique advanced to Level 3. After escorting Shi Yunxiang to his work area, Zhang Yu was ambushed in a damaged, unmonitored passage.

• Zhang Yu entered Huilong Garden with the students and learned about its zones, Corpse Part blind boxes, and the facility’s legal operation.
• Tian Yang assigned the students their tasks, and Zhang Yu found his work area badly damaged and without network access.
• Zhang Yu took medicine, cultivated with the Superior Foundation Establishment Mana Art, broke through to Level 3, and began repairing the site while practicing.
• Zhang Yu encountered Che Yufei and Shi Yunxiang, then accompanied Shi Yunxiang because he feared being attacked by students while alone.
• As Zhang Yu returned through a damaged area without surveillance, he spotted a figure darting out of the darkness to strike him.

Zhang Yu discovered that Tian Yang’s attack was staged to record footage for Wang Yin, and he earned Spirit Coins by cooperating. Wang Yin’s obsession with Zhang Yu had become a Heart Demon that hindered his cultivation, and Tian Yang used new footage of Zhang Yu working and improving to pressure him.

• Tian Yang ambushed Zhang Yu on Wang Yin’s behalf, but Zhang Yu used his copying ability and resilience to withstand the assault until Tian Yang stopped the fight.
• Tian Yang explained that he wanted to sell Wang Yin combat footage and offered Zhang Yu half the proceeds; Zhang Yu received 0.5 Spirit Coin and Fu Ji suggested he had become Wang Yin’s Heart Demon.
• The next day, Zhang Yu brought Yu Xinghan and Li Xiao to meet Tian Yang, who said he planned to record Zhang Yu working overtime rather than fighting.
• Wang Yin struggled to rebuild his Dao Heart after losing the chance at a Divine Spiritual Root, and he recognized that his fixation on Zhang Yu was obstructing his cultivation.
• After watching Zhang Yu’s combat footage, Wang Yin paid Tian Yang 1 Spirit Coin and demanded that he humiliate and torture Zhang Yu on a livestream.
• Tian Yang sent Wang Yin footage of Zhang Yu working, cultivating, and earning money, then threatened to keep giving Zhang Yu overtime unless Wang Yin accepted his terms.

Tian Yang used Wang Yin’s money to make Zhang Yu appear to binge-eat, oversleep, slack off at work, and indulge in massages, while Zhang Yu secretly trained through the schemes. Wang Yin believed he had ruined Zhang Yu and improved his own Dao Heart recovery, then demanded the sabotage continue.

• After seeing Zhang Yu ranked second, Wang Yin agreed to sponsor Tian Yang’s plan to make him eat until he passed out and sleep more than eight hours.
• Tian Yang force-fed Zhang Yu Heaven Essence Rice, while Zhang Yu secretly consumed medicine and cultivated under the cover of sleep.
• Tian Yang praised Zhang Yu’s mediocre work and arranged massages, leading Wang Yin to believe Zhang Yu was losing his discipline.
• Wang Yin asked to see Zhang Yu plead before him, and Tian Yang made Zhang Yu’s overtime application fail so Wang Yin could order him to leave early.
• Wang Yin approved the deal and demanded that Tian Yang keep feeding, pampering, and dismissing Zhang Yu from overtime, while Tian Yang expected his friend to advance soon.

Zhang Yu’s cultivation and finances grew rapidly while Wang Yin’s discovery that he had been deceived shattered his Dao Heart. After his mother explained that the setback exposed a flaw he needed to overcome, Zhang Yu remained wary of retaliation, but the days passed quietly as he completed his sixth Breathing Technique.

• Zhang Yu advanced his Dao Heart to level 14, raised his Physical Strength to level 15, and measured his Gang Qi Conductivity and Astral Qi force-transmission distance.
• Zhang Yu received a warning from Tian Yang that the deception might have been exposed, while Wang Yin watched footage of Zhang Yu eating heartily and realized Tian Yang and Zhang Yu had played him.
• Wang Yin’s rage made his Dao Heart regress from level 16 to level 15 and caused his Magical Power and body to destabilize.
• Wang Yin’s mother admitted she had asked Mo Xingzi to expose the flaw in Wang Yin’s heart and urged him to learn to recover from setbacks rather than let his cultivation method control him.
• Zhang Yu waited for Wang Yin’s retaliation, but several days passed without incident as he completed his sixth Breathing Technique and activated the First Layer effect of Qi Vein Everflow.

Zhang Yu tested Qi Vein Everflow’s rapid Magical Power recovery, while Yu Xinghan prepared to earn quick money through unlicensed massage work. The chapter left Zhang Yu pouring an unusually large amount of Magical Power into Le Mulan as her cultivation continued to improve.

• Zhang Yu used Qi Vein Everflow while exhausting his Magical Power at long range and found that it let him sustain the effort for about an hour, though he decided not to sell large amounts of Magical Power.
• Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan learned that Wang Yin had blocked Tian Yang and withdrawn to study and cultivate, ending their steady stream of paid meals and massages.
• Yu Xinghan practiced the massage techniques he had learned with his Three-Eyed Divine Power, contacted Li Xuelian, and began his first outdoor job in the Dark Massage World.
• Xuan Ge turned away a student seeking to dual cultivate with Le Mulan, then helped take out the rubbish as she went to Zhang Yu’s room.
• Zhang Yu transferred a much larger amount of Magical Power into Le Mulan than before, leaving her worried that the infusion might be too much.

Zhang Yu discovered a hidden passage at the cemetery construction site but chose not to investigate it, then joined a Civil Engineering competition team’s tryout. Cong Na tested him by attacking while he assembled rebar, and he continued working by using Gang Qi that copied her moves and palm force.

• Zhang Yu found a hidden camera showing a secret passage behind a wall at the cemetery, but he decided to keep working and not meddle.
• Jiao Lei True Person announced Architecture Competition registration, and Tu Lishan recommended Zhang Yu try out for a team.
• Zhang Yu met fourth-year student Cong Na, who asked him to assemble rebar within ten minutes while she attacked him.
• Cong Na’s attacks stopped Zhang Yu’s construction, and she judged that he could endure hits but could not keep the project moving.
• Zhang Yu sent out Humanoid Gang Qi that copied Cong Na’s Tendon Breaking Palm and blocked her while he resumed assembling the rebar.

Zhang Yu passed Cong Na’s test for the Ten Thousand Laws University competition team by using the Nine Heavens Cloud Void Force to absorb and return her attacks. Afterward, he helped Le Mulan trigger a transformation in her Magical Power, but she discovered that the process had left Zhang Yu frozen stiff.

• Zhang Yu used Humanoid Gang Qi and the Nine Heavens Cloud Void Force to counter Cong Na’s Tendon Breaking Palm and Starfall Channeling Technique.
• Cong Na prepared to use her Starry Sky Meridian Arm, but Ma Xuan told her to stop and considered Zhang Yu a useful secret weapon for the competition team.
• Cong Na judged Zhang Yu strong enough to pass the test and invited him to join the team, pending the other members’ approval.
• Zhang Yu went to Le Mulan after she said her Magical Power was close to transforming, then transferred Magical Power to help her.
• Le Mulan’s dantian released a terrifying chill that transformed her meridians and Magical Power, and she found Zhang Yu frozen and motionless behind her.

After copying Le Mulan’s Deep Cold Magic Vein, Zhang Yu recovered from its freezing effects and discovered that its cold power could poison, immobilize, and possibly slow the loss of lifespan. While testing ways to use it, he spotted flour near a hidden passage and suspected a Dark Planting Realm was involved.

• Zhang Yu copied Le Mulan’s Deep Cold Magic Vein, froze into stasis, and was warmed by Le Mulan while Bai Zhenzhen mistook his strange behavior for self-indulgence during their call.
• Zhang Yu examined the new Frost Magical Power and found that it could spread Cold Poison, freeze Astral Qi, kill germs, freeze wounds, and possibly slow the loss of lifespan.
• Le Mulan agreed to research the possible lifespan effect using the Medicine Academy’s resources, and Zhang Yu told her to keep the discovery secret.
• Over the next few days, Zhang Yu experimented with the Deep Cold Magic Vein and made a Humanoid Gang Qi with frozen Astral Qi bones, which was stronger but slower and more costly.
• At the tomb construction site, Zhang Yu found flour near a hidden passage, checked the camera footage, and suspected a Dark Planting Realm.

Zhang Yu and Zhang Pianpian discovered a large Dark Planting Realm flour operation at Huilong Garden and planned to seize its shipment rather than simply arrest the farmers. Zhang Pianpian recruited Zhang Yu and asked him to sound out Yu Xinghan and Le Mulan, while Yu Xinghan agreed to meet after Zhang Yu hinted the scheme could make money.

• Zhang Yu and Fu Ji watched flour being processed at Huilong Garden and suspected the operation was connected to the Dark Planting Realm and the cemetery damage.
• Zhang Yu consulted Zhang Pianpian, who identified his sample as 99% pure Earth Qi Wheat and went with him to investigate the construction site.
• Using private Dharma Eye and Surveillance Talismans, Zhang Pianpian confirmed a large flour-processing den and surveyed its people and cameras.
• Zhang Pianpian proposed observing the den for two days, then stealing part of the shipment, and told Zhang Yu to sound out Yu Xinghan and Le Mulan.
• Zhang Yu messaged Yu Xinghan about a money-making opportunity, and Yu Xinghan agreed to meet after asking whether it would earn more than 0.06 Spirit Coin.

Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan, and Le Mulan raided a Dark Planting Realm hideout with Zhang Pianpian's support, aiming to seize its goods and eliminate its members. They overwhelmed the hideout and joined forces against its Foundation Establishment guard.

• Zhang Yu recruited Yu Xinghan and Le Mulan to help rob a Dark Planting Realm hideout, and both agreed to trust him and join the operation.
• Zhang Pianpian guided the trio through the hidden entrance and disabled the surrounding surveillance and Spirit Realm Network for five minutes.
• Zhang Yu charged toward the hideout's storage point while Yu Xinghan and Le Mulan blocked the gang members from escaping and killed those they encountered.
• A five-meter-tall Foundation Establishment guard confronted Zhang Yu, but Zhang Pianpian's talisman tricks distracted him as Zhang Yu struck from behind.
• After the remaining gang members were killed, Yu Xinghan and Le Mulan joined Zhang Yu to surround the guard and attack him with their distinct abilities.

Ji Zhi’s history of exploitation drove him into the Dark Planting Realm, where Zhang Yu, Le Mulan, and Yu Xinghan defeated him under Zhang Pianpian’s guidance. After securing the flour bricks, Zhang Pianpian ordered the team to take most of the goods and smuggle them out as ashes.

• Ji Zhi recalled how workplace No. 18 Evil Qi contamination ruined his health and livelihood, pushing him into the Wheat Shadow Society’s criminal Earth Qi Wheat operation.
• Ji Zhi unleashed his Blazing Sun Gang Qi against Zhang Yu, Le Mulan, and Yu Xinghan, but they exploited openings with coordinated attacks and defeated him.
• Zhang Pianpian told the team to leave the planted Earth Qi Wheat for the Clean-up Crew and assessed the flour bricks as worth over a hundred Spirit Coins.
• Zhang Pianpian explained that the gang’s goods were controlled by powerful insiders and ordered Zhang Yu to set aside one-tenth for the Patrol Team.
• Zhang Pianpian said they would take the remaining flour bricks and transport them out of the cemetery as ashes.

Zhang Yu and his companions smuggled flour out of the Cemetery by disguising it as ashes, then returned to their dormitory with the operation’s proceeds still pending. After Zhang Pianpian said the job could help her earn a promotion, Zhang Yu sensed that activating her Taiqing Talisman required 50 Spirit Coins and asked whether she was short of money.

• Zhang Pianpian arranged for Zhang Yu to disguise himself as an ash transporter and cast a Stealth Talisman on him before he carried a box of flour out of Huilong Garden.
• Saint Jay stopped Zhang Yu at the exit, tasted the flour, mistook it for ashes from pig demons, and let him pass.
• Zhang Yu delivered the flour to a room on the forty-fifth floor, then reunited with Zhang Pianpian, Yu Xinghan, and Le Mulan, who agreed to wait two or three months for their share of the money.
• Zhang Pianpian called the Patrol Team, and Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan, and Le Mulan were questioned and released with promises of a one-Spirit-Coin reward each.
• Zhang Yu considered spending his future earnings on Spirit-Flesh Unity training, but decided to try cultivating on his own first.
• Zhang Pianpian said the operation could help her become deputy team leader, and Zhang Yu sensed that her Taiqing Talisman needed 50 Spirit Coins to activate before asking if she was short of money.

Zhang Yu joined the Civil Engineering Department’s Competition Team and learned how demanding it would be to transfer to the Artifact Crafting Department, a necessary step toward entering one of the Ten Great Sects. As June began, he continued trying to reach Spirit-Flesh Unity and received an invitation from Ma Xuan to attend team coordination training.

• Zhang Yu joined Cong Na’s six-person Competition Team and saw that its members were high-ranking Civil Engineering students who discussed costly Dharma Skeletons and other supplies.
• Zhang Yu realized transferring to the Artifact Crafting Department required reaching the department’s top twenty, and he resolved to transfer early so he could pursue admission to one of the Ten Great Sects.
• Zhang Yu repeatedly practiced entering Spirit-Flesh Unity; although he failed, his cultivation circulation grew smoother and he reached the semi-instinct state more quickly.
• By early June, Zhang Yu’s Magical Power had reached 661.3, its quality 168%, his Dao Heart level 14, and his Physical Strength level 15.18.
• Ma Xuan invited Zhang Yu to take part in the Competition Team’s coordination training.

Zhang Yu joined the Civil Engineering Department competition team, won his teammates’ respect by enduring an exceptionally powerful massage, and trained with them at a simulated construction site. He later began selling his Magical Power through an underground broker, whose test reached Li Xuelian and prompted her to reflect on his rapid progress.

• Zhang Yu attended the team’s first training session at a massage club and endured a technician’s full-force massage for thirty minutes, earning Ma Xuan and the other members’ recognition.
• The six teammates trained together at a simulated construction site, where Zhang Yu demonstrated precise Humanoid Gang Qi and Ma Xuan showed him the terrain-controlling Small Three Harmonies technique.
• After failing to achieve Spirit-Flesh Unity, Zhang Yu contacted an underground Magical Power broker to sell his power and passed the broker’s quality test.
• The broker’s Mystic Creation Relic reached Li Xuelian, who recognized how quickly Zhang Yu’s Magical Power had improved.
• Yu Xinghan messaged Li Xuelian asking whether she had any jobs, and she sighed as she considered Zhang Yu’s growing involvement in the underground trade.

Yu Xinghan and Zhang Yu tested their evolving combat techniques while Zhang Yu helped Yu Xinghan improve his Spirit Root Fusion. By the end of June, the Cemetery project had ended and Zhang Yu’s Qi Meridian Everflowing reached Layer 8.

• Yu Xinghan disguised himself to take a Civil Engineering Department massage job, then hurried to his Cemetery construction shift.
• Zhang Yu tested his Formless and Deep Cold Warrior techniques against Yu Xinghan, whose Dragon Elephant Vajra Palm nearly shattered the Deep Cold Warrior.
• Zhang Yu stopped the spar and used a Formless Warrior to stimulate Yu Xinghan’s Spirit Root instead.
• Over the next few days, Zhang Yu helped Yu Xinghan raise his Spirit Root Fusion to ten-tenths, improving his control of his body and Magical Power.
• The Cemetery project ended in late June, and Zhang Yu’s Qi Meridian Everflowing reached Layer 8.

Zhang Yu tested the benefits of his improved Qi Meridian Everflowing and grew more determined to defeat Ji Yuan Shu in the final exam, but Ji Yuan Shu joined the Competition Team and pushed Zhang Yu into a substitute role. After receiving his share of the Dark Planting Realm robbery, Zhang Yu spent 30 Spirit Coins on Hammer Heart Residence’s guaranteed Spirit-Flesh Unity service and began his first simulated breakthrough.

• Zhang Yu found that his improved Qi Meridian Everflowing let him sustain five Formless Warriors or two Deep Cold Warriors at full strength, and he planned to complete its final layer before the final exam.
• Ma Xuan told Zhang Yu that Ji Yuan Shu had joined the Competition Team and that Zhang Yu would become a substitute; the team later held a training session without informing him.
• Zhang Yu considered switching teams but decided to focus on training and revisit the decision after the final exam.
• The dormitory residents received Spirit Coins from the Dark Planting Realm robbery, and Zhang Yu’s balance rose to 42.9 Spirit Coins.
• Zhang Yu chose Hammer Heart Residence’s 30-Spirit-Coin guaranteed Spirit-Flesh Unity service over saving for the Taiqing Talisman, accepted a twelve-installment plan with a free cultivation method compatibility test, and entered his first simulated breakthrough.

Zhang Yu experienced two Spirit Realm simulations in which he endured extreme pain while cultivating the Remnant Ox Abandoning Self Heart Sutra, but he still could not confirm that he had reached Spirit-Flesh Unity. After learning that Ji Yuan Shu had joined Ma Xuan’s team and he had been replaced, Zhang Yu was visited by Le Mulan.

• Zhang Yu completed a simulation in which factory doctors repeatedly removed his Spirit Root, and he eventually cultivated the Remnant Ox Abandoning Self Heart Sutra through constant pain.
• Zhang Yu suspected the first simulation drew on data from Kunxu and worried that the simulated breakthrough had used an incomplete version of his heart sutra.
• Zhang Yu continued his construction work on the 667th Layer, impressing Ying Xin, while Ji Yuan Shu saw Zhang Yu’s improved performance through Fortune Monitoring.
• Zhang Yu began a second simulation as a wealthy Medicine Fields owner, suffered severe Di Sha Qi corrosion, and circulated the heart sutra through his ordeal.
• After removing the Spirit Realm Mask, Zhang Yu felt phantom pain and noticed the White Ox in his mind had grown livelier, though he still saw no sign of Spirit-Flesh Unity.
• Tu Lishan confirmed that Ji Yuan Shu had joined Ma Xuan’s team and Zhang Yu had been swapped out, then Le Mulan arrived at Zhang Yu’s dormitory and urged him to make the most of their time.

Zhang Yu continued his Spirit-Flesh Unity trials, learned that Bai Zhenzhen would visit Ten Thousand Laws University for a flying sword competition, and secured Magnetic Extremes True Lord as a provisional mentor under demanding conditions. As the Final Exam neared, Zhang Yu completed the final layer of Qi Vein Everflow, Yu Xinghan's Three-Eyed Divine Power reached Level 2, and Zhang Yu finally entered Spirit-Flesh Unity.

• Zhang Yu helped Le Mulan endure the cold during their training while Xuan Ge eavesdropped outside and misunderstood their closeness.
• Zhang Yu experienced two Spirit Realm lives: as a laboratory test subject freed under the Mortal Protection Law and as an arms dealer who incited wars, and each experience brought him closer to Spirit-Flesh Unity.
• Bai Zhenzhen told Zhang Yu she would come to Ten Thousand Laws University next semester to compete in the University Student Flying Sword Competition.
• With Deng Bingding's help, Zhang Yu designated Magnetic Extremes True Lord as his provisional mentor, and Magnetic Extremes True Lord set conditions Zhang Yu had to meet by his third year to become his student officially.
• As August brought the Final Exam within a month, Zhang Yu completed the final layer of Qi Vein Everflow, Yu Xinghan's Three-Eyed Divine Power reached Level 2, and Zhang Yu entered Spirit-Flesh Unity.