Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yu reached new heights in his construction work after mastering Qi Vein Everflow and Level 2 Three-Eyed Divine Power, but his progress in Spirit-Flesh Unity stalled. The chapter ended with Hammer Heart Residence manager You Chuan watching Zhang Yu enter the simulation again and worrying that he might break the record for the longest time without a breakthrough.

• Yu Xinghan reached Level 2 Three-Eyed Divine Power and tried to arrange a video collaboration with Lian Tianji, who directed him to send a private message for business inquiries.
• Zhang Yu used Level 2 Three-Eyed Divine Power to inspect his body and improve the precision of his self-healing.
• Zhang Yu completed all ten Breathing Techniques of Qi Vein Everflow and discovered that it could convert stamina into magical power.
• Zhang Yu used the technique to summon up to ten Formless Warriors, greatly increasing his construction output and earning more than 0.1 Spirit Coin for a night of work.
• Li Xiao saw Zhang Yu working with many Formless Warriors and mistakenly believed he was risking severe bodily harm by taking Tiger-Wolf Medicine.
• After Zhang Yu's Spirit-Flesh Unity breakthrough stalled, You Chuan increased his Hammer Heart Residence simulation access to three sessions a day, but Zhang Yu still showed no signs of breaking through.

Zhang Yu broke through to Spirit-Flesh Unity during a dangerous Spirit Realm simulation and received an unknown cultivation method from a mysterious voice. After extracting compensation from Hammer Heart Residence, he learned the method was a powerful Black Cultivation Method and chose to cultivate it before the Final Exam deadline.

• You Chuan ordered Zhang Yu’s simulation to use deep connection and replay the breakthrough at one-third speed, despite warnings about its pain and mental effects.
• Zhang Yu relived his debt, failing Dharma Skeletons, and phantom pain, then broke through to Spirit-Flesh Unity as a mysterious voice told him to find its spirit, physical body, and magical power.
• After the simulation disconnected and crashed, Zhang Yu confronted You Chuan and negotiated monthly payments, including interest, in exchange for not pursuing a formal complaint.
• Zhang Yu sent the unfamiliar web address to Zhang Pianpian, who helped him access a cultivation method absent from the Great Library.
• Zhang Pianpian identified the method as a potentially high-grade Black Cultivation Method and warned Zhang Yu to conceal his practice and avoid circulating it in the Spirit Realm Network.
• Zhang Yu began cultivating the method, and time passed to the Final Exam deadline at the end of August.

Zhang Yu reached Level 10 in the Immeasurable Inner Heart Dharma Body, gaining the ability to operate two streams of consciousness in parallel, just as his Dao Heart exams began. While he headed to the exam with Yu Xinghan, the Spirit Realm examiner tested students with personal crises and recorded their responses.

• Zhang Yu reviewed his improved cultivation and finances, then advanced the Immeasurable Inner Heart Dharma Body to Level 10 and learned to control two streams of consciousness at once.
• Zhang Yu used his dual consciousness to control two Formless Warriors and estimated that he could now operate nine of them at full power.
• Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan went to the examination hall, where the first Dao Heart exam began with randomly assigned scenarios.
• Li Xiao faced a false death certificate that cut him off from his Spirit Realm access, money, and social standing, and Feng Jiu's artifact spirit assessed his emotional resilience.
• Ying Xin responded to bankruptcy by summoning six generations of his civil engineering ancestors' coffins, while the artifact spirit praised his psychological resilience and wealth.
• Yu Xinghan faced a broken engagement and declared that he would marry into the wealthy family regardless, prompting the artifact spirit to deem the test outdated and assign him another question.

The Foundation Establishment Class took its final professional exam after Zhang Yu emerged as Ji Yuan Shu’s closest rival across the earlier tests. Ji Yuan Shu used his lead to gather fortune and strengthen himself, while the chapter ended as the class began the practical construction exam that would decide their rankings.

• Gongshu Jin’s battlefield performance earned praise for his composure, while Zhang Yu’s handling of sudden wealth showed exceptional self-control.
• Zhang Yu’s Magical Power results rose to match Ji Yuan Shu’s, and the two raced neck and neck in the physical-strength exam, though Ji Yuan Shu stayed ahead.
• Teachers saw Zhang Yu closing the gap in overall scores, while Ji Yuan Shu’s Fortune Monitoring showed his chances of victory increasing.
• Ji Yuan Shu challenged Zhang Yu and Gongshu Jin in the group chat, gathering classmates’ confidence as fortune and his strength grew.
• Tu Lishan explained the combined construction exam, requiring students to select materials, build from blueprints, and then withstand ten waves of attacks.

The students began a civil engineering exam to build bunkers, and Li Xiao, Ying Xin, and Gongshu Jin each pursued a different way to make the most of the available materials and terrain. Ji Yuan Shu defeated Gongshu Jin in their contest to redirect the simulated Spirit Vein, then used his Luck to empower another technique as construction continued.

• Tu Lishan gave the students fifteen minutes to prepare for an exam in which they would build bunkers and withstand ten attacks.
• Ji Yuan Shu, Zhang Yu, and Gongshu Jin raced ahead to gather materials, while Li Xiao searched for lower-ranked alternatives and Ying Xin focused on transporting inferior steel.
• Ying Xin used Astral Qi to heat and reshape the steel she had collected, demonstrating how to turn low-grade materials into usable building supplies.
• Gongshu Jin used his Earth Shaking Arms to redirect the simulated Spirit Vein toward his construction site and strengthen his Formation.
• Ji Yuan Shu drew on the Spirit Vein with a barehanded Earth Shaking Palm and outmatched Gongshu Jin in their contest.
• Ji Yuan Shu shifted his Luck from Earth Shaking Palm to his Level 10 Concrete Gang Qi, empowering it to produce a Level 20 effect.

Zhang Yu and the other first-years finished building bunkers, which were tested against successive waves of attacks. Ji Yuan Shu’s bunker gathered nearly all the simulated Spirit Vein’s Spiritual Energy through his burial and the Way of Fortune, while Director Gao and Director Lin argued over whether finance or civil engineering represented the true path to building Kunxu.

• Zhang Yu reprocessed building materials inside his body and used Formless Warriors to build his bunker, while Ji Yuan Shu watched him work.
• After the three-hour construction period ended, proctors inspected the bunkers, and the students prepared for ten waves of attacks.
• The attacks destroyed most bunkers; Ying Xin’s blood-sacrifice bunker and Gongshu Jin’s living-sacrifice bunker survived through the fifth wave before suffering heavy damage.
• Tu Lishan discovered that Ji Yuan Shu had buried his corpse in an Auspicious Burial Site, drawing most of the simulated Spirit Vein’s Spiritual Energy into his bunker.
• Director Lin praised Ji Yuan Shu’s mastery of the Way of Fortune and argued that finance and fortune outweighed civil engineering, while Director Gao defended the Civil Engineering Righteous Path.

Zhang Yu’s bunker survived the examination’s escalating attacks far better than Ji Yuan Shu’s, despite receiving less Formation support. After the tenth wave left Ji Yuan Shu’s bunker mostly collapsed, the students inspected Zhang Yu’s construction and learned that his endurance came from relentless work and carefully chosen materials.

• The seventh and eighth waves of lightning struck both bunkers, but Ji Yuan Shu’s Formation developed a breach while Zhang Yu’s bunker remained structurally intact.
• Director Lin inspected Zhang Yu’s acceptance records and discovered extensive blast-resistant layers, seismic isolation, energy-absorbing materials, and reinforced load-bearing structures.
• Director Lin and Director Gao argued over whether Formation support or civil engineering skill would determine the winner as the ninth and tenth waves attacked.
• The tenth wave caused Ji Yuan Shu’s bunker to collapse until only its final story remained, while Zhang Yu’s bunker suffered only partial collapse to one exterior wall.
• Tu Lishan led Gongshu Jin, Ying Xin, Li Xiao, Yu Xinghan, and the other students into Zhang Yu’s bunker and showed them footage of his three-hour construction effort.
• Tu Lishan explained that Zhang Yu’s materials were the key to surviving all ten waves of attacks.

Zhang Yu’s bunker construction and victory over Ji Yuan Shu impressed the students and earned him Director Gao’s support, while the final rankings threatened Ji Yuan Shu with a backlash of fortune. The chapter ended with Ji Yuan Shu revived and anxiously awaiting the rankings, as Yu Xinghan congratulated Zhang Yu.

• Tu Lishan explained that Zhang Yu had built the bunker from materials he had refined in his body, and the students marveled at Zhang Yu’s construction and physical abilities.
• Zhang Yu recorded the onlookers’ reactions, while Director Lin and Director Gao argued over the value of money, materials, and strength.
• Director Gao saw the final rankings, decided to increase his investment in Zhang Yu, and considered making him an Unofficial Disciple and a successor to Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power.
• The medical team dug Ji Yuan Shu’s corpse out of the bunker and revived him, while students realized he had wagered one of his lives and still lost to Zhang Yu.
• Ji Yuan Shu suppressed the violent churning of his accumulated fortune as he feared a backlash if the rankings put Zhang Yu ahead of him.
• Yu Xinghan told Zhang Yu he was happy for him.

Zhang Yu learned that he had taken first place in the Foundation Establishment Class, earning new benefits and Director Gao’s acceptance as an Unofficial Disciple. Director Gao outlined Zhang Yu’s path toward learning the Seven Wonders of Civil Engineering and obtaining the Seven Wonders Magic Skeleton.

• Director Gao told Zhang Yu that he had surpassed Ji Yuan Shu and taken first place in the Foundation Establishment Class, and granted him access to the Medicine Academy’s experimental medicines.
• Director Gao arranged a 10 Spirit Coin Scholarship Loan for Zhang Yu, who signed the contract.
• Director Gao honored his promise to accept Zhang Yu as an Unofficial Disciple and upgraded him to a Luxury Dormitory.
• Director Gao said he would teach Zhang Yu the Profound Yellow Mountain Suppressing Seal, the foundation of large-scale construction abilities.
• Director Gao explained that a Military Civil Engineering Certificate and the Seven Civil Engineering Tests could qualify Zhang Yu to inherit the Seven Wonders of Civil Engineering and purchase the Seven Wonders Magic Skeleton.

Zhang Yu became Director Gao’s Unofficial Disciple and took first place in the Foundation Establishment Class rankings, while Magnetic Extremes True Lord hinted that he had also accepted a disciple. As Zhang Yu planned his second-year studies and struggled with his dwindling funds, he received congratulations and offers from classmates and Artifact Crafting Department students.

• Director Gao accepted Zhang Yu as an Unofficial Disciple and promised to consider making him a Direct Disciple if he mastered the Three Wonders of Earth and Wood and continued placing first.
• Tu Lishan welcomed Zhang Yu as a Junior Brother and explained the relationships among the three ace majors and the Civil Engineering Department.
• Director Gao told Magnetic Extremes True Lord about Zhang Yu, and Magnetic Extremes True Lord said he had recently accepted a disciple of his own.
• Zhang Yu checked his 56 Spirit Coins and considered spending 50 to activate Elder Sister’s Dao Seed while planning for his second-year and Artifact Crafting Department courses.
• The updated rankings placed Zhang Yu first with 2553 points, just ahead of Ji Yuan Shu’s 2551, and Ying Xin offered him her family’s inherited ashes as a construction material.
• Gongshu Jin congratulated Zhang Yu and suggested they test Dharma Skeletons together, while Ye Xingli revealed that her Master, Magnetic Extremes True Lord, had heard of him.

After learning that Magnetic Extremes True Lord had asked about him, Zhang Yu studied the Artifact Crafting Department’s demanding course schedule and considered how to meet his mentor’s requirements. His exam ranking also prompted others to reconsider the competition team, while his attempt to contact President Wang through Ye Lingxiao failed.

• Ye Xingli told Zhang Yu that Magnetic Extremes True Lord had heard about him from Azure Wood True Lord and praised his promise.
• Zhang Yu asked Ye Xingli for the Artifact Crafting Department timetable, saw its heavy and overlapping course load, and resolved to improve his divided-mind cultivation and use Spirit Realm time acceleration to study.
• Zhang Yu asked Tian Yang whether he could reach President Wang, then added Ye Lingxiao after Fu Ji suggested he might have a connection; Ye Lingxiao warned him not to make contact again and deleted him.
• Zhang Yu read messages celebrating his first-year ranking and exchanged messages with friends, including Zhao Tianxing and Che Yufei.
• Cong Na showed Ma Xuan Zhang Yu’s ranking above Ji Yuan Shu, and they discussed whether Zhang Yu should replace Ji Yuan Shu on the competition team.

Ma Xuan kept Ji Yuan Shu on the competition team, but the loss of confidence and Luck after the rankings devastated Ji Yuan Shu and left him facing Director Lin’s order to stay in Civil Engineering and stop Zhang Yu. Meanwhile, Zhang Yu continued training and offered Zhang Pianpian his 56 Spirit Coin, leaving her surprised by his willingness to lend them.

• Ma Xuan decided not to replace Ji Yuan Shu, while realizing that the Civil Engineering Department’s aging head had joined the Peace Faction in exchange for a Finance Department loan.
• After the rankings were announced, Ji Yuan Shu suffered a severe backlash as people’s confidence and Luck in him dissipated, weakening his abilities and forcing him to reconsider his future.
• Director Lin ordered Ji Yuan Shu to study Civil Engineering, keep Zhang Yu from ranking first, and later compete with him for the Military Certificate; Ji Yuan Shu agreed to perform a mysterious Ritual in exchange for stronger support.
• Zhang Yu trained through the night, and Yu Xinghan told him he had joined Professor Gong’s tutelage; Li Xiao also showed off his replacement Vajra Mysterious Creation Hand Skeletons.
• Zhang Yu noticed Zhang Pianpian’s improved department ranking and asked whether she needed money, then offered her his 56 Spirit Coin; Zhang Pianpian asked whether he was sure he could lend it.

Zhang Yu lent Zhang Pianpian 50 Spirit Coins, activating her Taiqing Talisman Dao Seed, then entered the Taiqing Realm to investigate its effects. Zhang Pianpian mistook him for an impostor and attacked before recognizing him.

• Zhang Yu lent Zhang Pianpian 50 Spirit Coins, and she signed a contract to repay him in twelve monthly installments with interest.
• Zhang Pianpian activated her Taiqing Talisman Dao Seed, which Zhang Yu learned could open a Spirit Realm Cave and required another 100 Spirit Coins to reach Level 2.
• In class, Ying Xin gave Zhang Yu a bottle of her great-grandfather's ashes for use in the Civil Engineering Competition, and Wei Huai taught the students about engineering geology.
• After returning to his dorm, Zhang Yu entered the Taiqing Realm and found Zhang Pianpian inside a small Daoist temple.
• Zhang Pianpian attacked Zhang Yu as an apparent impostor, then recognized him when his personal information appeared and demanded to know how he had entered the Taiqing Realm.

Zhang Yu discovered that he and Zhang Pianpian could enter her Taiqing Realm, where accelerated time let them study and cultivate mental techniques. After benefiting from the realm, Zhang Yu logged off in a hurry and found Le Mulan waiting to begin a Magical Power infusion while Bai Zhenzhen was trying to reach him.

• Zhang Yu and Zhang Pianpian discovered they were sharing the Taiqing Realm, and Zhang Pianpian explained its privacy, time acceleration, and study features.
• Zhang Pianpian taught Zhang Yu to transfer files from his Eye Remains, and she explained that the realm could accelerate purely mental cultivation but not physical training.
• Zhang Yu cultivated the Immeasurable Inner Heart Dharma Body to Level 20, gaining One Mind, Four Uses, while Zhang Pianpian advanced the same technique to level 7.
• Zhang Pianpian realized the mental technique could improve her Talisman Arts efficiency, and she and Zhang Yu pledged to advance together on the path of Immortal Dao.
• Zhang Yu noticed he had missed his planned conversation with A-Zhen, logged off, and found Le Mulan waiting to begin the Magical Power infusion as Bai Zhenzhen's avatar flashed.

Zhang Yu spoke with Bai Zhenzhen, then sparred with her through the Spirit Realm Network and accidentally knocked Le Mulan unconscious. At Bai Zhenzhen’s urging, he began documenting Le Mulan’s injuries, but his examination quickly became awkward.

• Bai Zhenzhen told Zhang Yu about her exhausting military-secret final exam, praised his ranking, and invited him to watch her February Flying Sword Competition.
• Le Mulan received word from Le Jingchen that she should interview with a pharmaceutical professor and try to persuade Zhang Yu to sell his breeding rights to the company.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen fought through the Spirit Realm Network, and Zhang Yu’s increasingly complex attacks left him struggling to keep up.
• Zhang Yu accidentally collided with Le Mulan and knocked her unconscious, then showed Bai Zhenzhen her condition.
• Bai Zhenzhen directed Zhang Yu to photograph Le Mulan and inspect her for injuries, but he focused on how cool and smooth her bruised stomach felt.

Zhang Yu learned to coordinate his four streams of thought under one leading will while treating Le Mulan, then began studying Director Gao’s Profound Yellow Mountain Suppressing Seal. He mastered its first step in one hour and fifteen minutes, impressing Director Gao.

• Bai Zhenzhen guided Zhang Yu through treating Le Mulan’s minor internal injuries with Frost Magical Power.
• While warming Le Mulan, Zhang Yu realized that one stream of thought needed to direct the other three, transforming how he used Multiple Minds.
• Le Mulan woke fully, confirmed she was mostly unharmed, and told Zhang Yu not to make such huge movements in the dormitory again.
• The next day, Director Gao taught Zhang Yu the Profound Yellow Mountain Suppressing Seal and explained how Profound Yellow Qi adjusted an object’s weight.
• Zhang Yu condensed his first trace of Profound Yellow Qi after one hour and fifteen minutes, and Director Gao messaged Magnetic Extremes True Lord about his disciple’s quick progress.

Zhang Yu left Ma Xuan’s Competition Team after learning he would remain a substitute and joined Shi Huaiyu’s team, which promised him a chance to compete. He met his new teammates at the simulated construction site and found the team had only four members, while Ji Yuan Shu began preparing a ritual.

• Zhang Yu advanced the Profound Yellow Mountain Suppressing Seal to Level 2, planned to develop the Martial Dao Sacred Body, and received a Cloud Abode Academy super membership from Tu Lishan.
• Tu Lishan explained that Ma Xuan’s faction favored Ji Yuan Shu and advised Zhang Yu to find a Competition Team that would let him compete.
• Zhang Yu contacted Shi Huaiyu and joined her team after she promised he would not be left on the substitute bench.
• Ji Yuan Shu learned Zhang Yu had left Ma Xuan’s team, assumed he would fall behind in Comprehensive Score, and began a ritual involving copper wire and an idol.
• Zhang Yu met Shi Huaiyu, Che Yufei, and Shi Yunxiang at the simulated construction site and realized their four-person team needed two more members.

Zhang Yu helped Shi Huaiyu recruit a complete team for the Civil Engineering Competition, including the heavily indebted Xiao Qingxuan. After Xiao Qingxuan tested Zhang Yu’s strength and approved him for defense, Zhang Yu challenged him to take a punch in return.

• Che Yufei and Shi Yunxiang told Zhang Yu that Shi Huaiyu had left her former team after a dispute over compensation for her damaged kidney, which she replaced with a secondhand Ghost Kidney.
• Zhang Yu recruited Tian Yang and helped sell the team’s three substitute slots to Yu Xinghan, Gongshu Jin, and Ying Xin, while refusing Li Xiao’s payment.
• Xiao Qingxuan joined the team through Tu Lishan’s introduction, and Shi Huaiyu explained that his enormous debt came from making an ancient cultivator who possessed him a corporate legal representative.
• Shi Huaiyu completed the six-player roster and began assigning roles ahead of the competition, but Xiao Qingxuan questioned whether Zhang Yu was strong enough to compete.
• Xiao Qingxuan attacked Zhang Yu with Dragon-Shaped Gang Qi, and Zhang Yu emerged unharmed, earning approval for the defensive position.
• Zhang Yu summoned a Formless Warrior and challenged Xiao Qingxuan to withstand a punch of his own.

Zhang Yu trained with his competition team, studied the Heaven Flipping Seal and artifact forging, and continued balancing cultivation with work and mounting expenses. He began earning wages from construction work while keeping his full strength hidden from his employer.

• Xiao Qingxuan recognized Zhang Yu's ability to redirect his palm force and approved him for the competition team's defensive position; the team assigned its members roles and scheduled training.
• Zhang Yu received his three Spirit Coin scholarship, considered his expenses and ambitions, and began studying the Heaven Flipping Seal in his Civil Engineering course.
• Zhang Pianpian deleted Zhang Yu's Joyous Union Sect videos from the Taiqing Realm, then restored them after he protested; Zhang Yu studied four artifact-forging courses using Multiple Minds.
• Zhang Yu trained the Profound Yellow Mountain Suppressing Seal under Director Gao, who secretly sent Magnetic Extremes True Lord a photo of Zhang Yu's progress to show off.
• Zhang Yu used the Heaven Flipping Seal at reduced strength for construction work, received his first wages, and continued training and working through the nights.

Zhang Yu trained for the competition, then ate Yang-strengthening jerky that forced him to endure its effects while cultivating. By the end of September, he had advanced several techniques and courses, and he continued working hard at the construction site.

• During training, Zhang Yu used Deep Cold Warriors to fight Xiao Qingxuan's Nine Dragons Heavenly Gang Palm while his teammates planned to have him taunt opponents during the competition.
• Zhang Yu split the training site's rental and material costs with his teammates, then opened Bai Zhenzhen's package and devoured the jerky inside.
• After Zhang Yu felt burning heat from the meat, Bai Zhenzhen explained its cultivation benefits and warned him to endure the effects for one or two months.
• Zhang Yu practiced the Heaven Flipping Seal to channel the heat into strengthening his body, then vowed to swear off sex.
• By the end of September, Zhang Yu had raised the Profound Yellow Mountain Suppressing Seal and Heaven Flipping Seal to Level 20 and completed his first Martial Dao Sacred Body technique, while finishing four Artifact Crafting Department courses.
• At the 667th Layer construction site, Zhang Yu used the Purple Firmament Heavenly Net Style and Profound Yellow Mountain Suppressing Seal to transport construction waste as Yu Xinghan massaged Ying Xin and explained Zhang Yu's techniques.