Chapter Summaries

Gongshu Jin, Zhang Yu, and Ye Xingli attended a restaurant gathering where Feng Tingting and other Artifact Crafting Department students assessed and studied Dharma Skeletons. Zhang Yu joined the Civil Engineering Department’s eating contest, while Su Yanyang focused on his rivals for next year’s Military Certificate examination.

• Feng Tingting assessed Zhang Yu and Gongshu Jin by their Dharma Skeletons and judged their evolution according to her devotion to the Ten Thousand Craftsmen Sect.
• Artifact Crafting Department students surrounded Ye Xingli, photographed her Dharma Skeletons, and privately asked her for help and advice.
• Zhang Yu and Gongshu Jin left the crowd and saw Civil Engineering Department students competing to eat, while Gongshu Jin spotted Yu Xinghan managing massage therapists.
• Zhang Yu impressed the Civil Engineering Department seniors by quickly eating three plates of rice dumplings.
• Su Yanyang decided that Xiao Yunxian and Ping Han were his main rivals for next year’s Military Certificate examination and believed Zhang Yu would not compete until later.

Su Yanyang faced public debt-collection messages while Xiao Yunjin sized up her rivals for the next Military Certificate examination. Zhang Yu rejected Ping Han’s pitch for coin speculation, then Wen Wuya forcibly appeared to ask him how to approach Bai Zhenzhen, leaving Feng Tingting shocked after she mistakenly inferred Zhang Yu was Wen Wuya’s dual-cultivation partner.

• Su Yanyang refused to repay the Soul Cultivator students he had hired, insisting they had failed to finish their work.
• Xiao Yunjin restored her Dharma Skeleton’s synchronization rate and identified Su Yanyang and Ping Han as her main rivals for the Military Certificate.
• Ping Han urged Zhang Yu to speculate on coins and asked to borrow Spirit Coins, but Zhang Yu refused; Mo Shang Jin later explained that Ping Han’s losses had become a Heart Demon.
• Feng Tingting considered asking Zhang Yu to sell his appetite as artifact-refining material while Zhang Yu continued eating.
• Wen Wuya projected himself beside Zhang Yu and asked for advice about Bai Zhenzhen, and Zhang Yu told him she liked sterilized men.
• Feng Tingting tried to eavesdrop and concluded Zhang Yu was Wen Wuya’s dual-cultivation partner, so Wen Wuya seized and destroyed the words she had captured.

Wen Wuya confronted Feng Tingting over her eavesdropping, but left the gathering after a tense exchange with Ye Xingli and messages from Bai Zhenzhen. Others speculated that Zhang Yu was close to Wen Wuya, while Zhang Yu continued improving his cultivation until Director Gao’s worksite assignment arrived in January.

• Wen Wuya crushed the eavesdropping record in Feng Tingting’s Eye Remains and moved to confront her, but Mo Shang Jin and Ye Xingli blocked his path.
• Wen Wuya and Ye Xingli secretly exchanged information before the record was erased, and Wen Wuya left after Bai Zhenzhen messaged him.
• Feng Tingting speculated that Zhang Yu was Wen Wuya’s cultivation partner and had persuaded him to leave, prompting Ye Xingli and Mo Shang Jin to reconsider Zhang Yu’s connections.
• Zhang Yu’s cultivation and martial arts advanced through December, and his Azure Lotus Sword Embryo let him retain some Sacred Body and Qi Vein effects in his normal state.
• At the start of January, Director Gao’s worksite assignment for Zhang Yu arrived.

Ye Xingli noticed Zhang Yu’s Yin Yang Bracelet and became suspicious about the conflicting stories surrounding his artifact forging. At Tianlan Medicine’s factory, Zhang Yu joined an urgent construction project and saw College Students transformed into standardized operators for the production lines.

• Ye Xingli saw Zhang Yu’s Yin Yang Bracelet, and Zhang Yu asked her to keep his artifact forging secret from the Civil Engineering Department.
• Zhang Yu and Le Mulan traveled to Tianlan Medicine’s pharmaceutical factory, where Xiao Qingshuan assigned Zhang Yu to help build a new factory building.
• Xiao Qingshuan led Zhang Yu to inspect an existing factory building so he could record its design and replicate it.
• Zhang Yu watched College Students have their limbs and organs replaced with work Dharma Skeletons to standardize them for assembly-line jobs.
• Xiao Qingshuan explained that the factory was expanding because rising medicine sales and the intensifying University War had created a shortage of operators.

Zhang Yu learned about the factions and political interests behind the University War while touring a pharmaceutical factory with Xiao Qingxuan. After helping prepare a construction site, he began drug trials with Le Mulan and refused her mentor’s request to obtain his bloodline factors for medicine research.

• Xiao Qingxuan explained that the University War’s escalation and the colleges’ positions depended on the competing wills of Deity Transformation Divine Lords, and described the Daoist Arts College’s interests.
• Xiao Qingxuan showed Zhang Yu the factory’s suicide-prevention measures, including Happiness Potion, modular Transformation Surgery, shame statues, and Soul Cultivators who continued working after death.
• Zhang Yu recorded measurements of the factory and used martial arts and Formless Warriors to excavate and level the nearby construction site.
• Xiao Qingxuan brought Zhang Yu to a laboratory for drug trials, where Le Mulan injected him with a drug intended to improve Body Tempering while causing serious side effects.
• Le Mulan recalled her mentor’s request to develop medicine using Zhang Yu’s blood-energy factors and bloodline expression, but Zhang Yu refused to sell his Reproductive Rights or seeds.

Yin Jiurao grew suspicious of Zhang Yu and planned to steal bloodline data through his connection to Wen Wuya, while Zhang Yu refined an Azure Cloud Pouch and put Zhao Tianxing in charge of operating it. After continuing his cultivation and adaptive enhancement, Zhang Yu took an experimental medicine that caused a dangerous surge of heat and desire, which he suppressed by watching Lian Tianji’s video.

• Yin Jiurao became convinced Zhang Yu hid a secret and activated the Seed Stealing Plan to obtain Wen Wuya’s bloodline information indirectly.
• Zhang Yu refined a Level 1 Azure Cloud Pouch and, with Ye Xingli’s help, equipped it with an Intelligent System.
• Zhang Yu tested the pouch at the pharmaceutical factory, where Zhao Tianxing operated it as its treasure spirit and agreed to help part-time.
• Zhang Yu resumed cultivating his eighth Martial Arts technique and felt the Divine Spiritual Root begin another round of adaptive enhancement.
• Le Mulan injected Zhang Yu with experimental medicine, triggering intense heat and an impulse toward her.
• Zhang Yu suppressed the medicine’s effects by using Supreme Will while watching Lian Tianji’s video.

Zhang Yu and Le Mulan suppressed the experimental drug’s lingering effects by watching Lian Tianji’s videos and contacting him, while Lian Tianji pursued his own cultivation strategy at Joyous Union University. Zhang Yu later advanced his Azure Cloud Pouch crafting in a simulation lab, and Yin Jiurao hired a professional to try to make him voluntarily surrender his Seed.

• Zhang Yu noticed the trial drug affecting Le Mulan and showed her Lian Tianji’s video, then contacted Lian Tianji so she could see how he had changed.
• Le Mulan’s agitation subsided as she watched Lian Tianji, and Zhang Yu used Frost Magical Power with her to suppress the drug’s remaining effects.
• Lian Tianji reflected on sharing a study session with Zhang Yu and Le Mulan, then agreed to tutor Junior College students as Cauldrons for his cultivation.
• Yin Jiurao reviewed Le Mulan’s report and decided to seek professionals skilled at Seed Deception instead of trying another drug.
• Zhang Yu avoided selling bodily materials and spent more than 5.6 Spirit Coin advancing his Azure Cloud Pouch crafting skill to level 7 in a simulation lab.
• Yin Jiurao interviewed a former male-sex graduate of Qinghe Arts University, who promised to make Zhang Yu surrender his Seed voluntarily.

Zhang Yu completed the pharmaceutical factory’s production line installation and was lured into a failed seduction attempt by Wan Sirou. A Two-Day Break Cult attack then damaged the line, and Qu Lecheng ordered repairs to finish within one day.

• Zhang Yu watched the production line being installed while tempering his body, and Fu Ji warned him that Magnetic Extremes True Lord might see him as material for an artifact.
• A College Student died from overwork on the new line, and a maintenance worker handled the corpse while Qu Lecheng complained about the factory’s death rate.
• Qu Lecheng paid Zhang Yu 0.5 Spirit Coin, and Zhang Yu finished installing the production line several hours later.
• Qu Lecheng sent Wan Sirou to massage Zhang Yu, but her attempts to tempt him failed.
• An exploding Dharma Skeleton damaged a production line, and surveillance identified the Two-Day Break Cult as responsible.
• Qu Lecheng ordered the maintenance worker to repair the line and resume operations within one day.

Zhang Yu discovered the Martial Dao Sacred Body’s new Martial Dao Subtlety effect while the Dual Cultivation Sect stirred up accusations and crackdowns across University City. After factory inspectors demanded even more production, Xiao Qingxuan began telling Zhang Yu about his past possession by an ancient Golden Core.

• Zhang Yu listened to an anti-cult lecture and discussed with Fu Ji whether Evil Gods were behind the Dual Cultivation Sect; rumors then linked the sect to Nether University and Ten Thousand Laws University.
• By late January, Zhang Yu had gained Martial Dao Subtlety after advancing his eighth technique to Level 10, and he tested its precise control over his power and the Formless Warrior.
• Officials inspected the pharmaceutical factory for production stoppages and ordered factories to increase working hours, though Qu Lecheng said the factory was already operating around the clock.
• While Xiao Qingxuan treated an exhausted Zhang Yu, he told him that he had once been possessed by an ancient Golden Core.

Xiao Qingxuan explained that a dead Golden Core cultivator’s memories had left him alienated from Kunxu, while Zhang Yu advanced his Azure Cloud Pouch forging and discovered that tempering could improve his technique. Yin Jiurao abandoned Wan Sirou’s failed plan to steal Zhang Yu’s seed and tried to recruit him directly, leaving Zhang Yu weighing her offer.

• Xiao Qingxuan told Zhang Yu that the Golden Core cultivator who possessed him had killed himself, leaving memories that caused Xiao Qingxuan distress, and that Heavenly Devil University’s memory technology might remove them.
• Zhang Yu reached Level 9 in Azure Cloud Pouch forging and planned to advance his real-world Dharma Treasure through tempering.
• Wan Sirou told Yin Jiurao that her attempts to steal Zhang Yu’s seed had failed, and proposed a slower plan that would take half a year to a year.
• Yin Jiurao decided there was no time for a long plan and contacted Zhang Yu with an offer to pay for his seed.
• Zhang Yu refused Yin Jiurao’s initial offers, but after she raised the price to 30 Spirit Coins and threatened to take him by force, he said he needed to think about it.

Zhang Yu sold Yin Jiurao access to his bodily samples for 25 Spirit Coins under a contract arranged by Director Gao, then returned to work on the pharmaceutical factory. Yin Jiurao discovered something remarkable in his blood, while Zhang Yu focused on earning money and cultivating to improve his construction efficiency.

• Zhang Yu tested his samples with Le Mulan, who found that their quality had improved but no unusual characteristics were apparent.
• Director Gao negotiated a contract with Yin Jiurao, who agreed to pay Zhang Yu 25 Spirit Coins and collect the samples herself under supervision.
• Yin Jiurao harvested Zhang Yu's blood and other bodily samples, paid him, and later discovered something in his blood that she said would settle her paper for the year.
• Zhang Yu measured the pharmaceutical factory's medicine production workshop and began directing construction with his Azure Cloud Pouch and Formless Warriors.
• Zhang Yu reflected on how construction income could fund his artifact-forging practice and began cultivating the ninth Martial Dao Sacred Body technique.

Zhang Yu advanced his Martial Dao Sacred Body, copied Xuan Ge’s Blazing Sun Magic Vein, and raised his Taiyi Golden Liquid Pill skill to Level 20 through repeated simulations. After returning to the Artifact Forging Laboratory, he successfully forged a Level 20 Taiyi Golden Liquid Pill and tested its ability to transform into liquid shapes and armor a Formless Warrior.

• Zhang Yu refined the Azure Cloud Pouch to level 7, then began practicing Taiyi Golden Liquid Pill forging in the Spirit Realm Simulation Lab.
• Zhang Yu unlocked the final effect of the Martial Dao Sacred Body and decided to focus on construction work to fund more artifact-forging practice.
• Zhang Yu raised Xuan Ge’s Magical Power Quality to 150%, copied his Blazing Sun Magic Vein, and studied how its effects could help with forging.
• Zhang Yu worked on a guarded Planting Building project, saving money while his Taiyi Golden Liquid Pill skill rose to Level 17.
• Zhang Yu reached Level 20 in the Taiyi Golden Liquid Pill skill and successfully forged a Level 20 pill in the laboratory.
• Zhang Yu activated the pill, shaped it into different forms, and used it to cover a Formless Warrior like a Golden Armored Divine General.

Zhang Yu developed a powerful Golden Armored Warrior and used it across construction and other work projects, while learning about divisions among Demon Descendants. In June, he successfully forged a Level 20 Di Sha Bottle, leaving him equipped to collect and process Killing Intent and other materials.

• Zhang Yu shaped Taiyi Golden Liquid Pill into the Golden Armored Warrior, tested its combat strength, and discovered it could transform its armor into useful tools.
• Wen Wuya asked Zhang Yu to adjust his projected female appearance to better match Bai Zhenzhen’s preferences, and Zhang Yu agreed for ten Spirit Coins.
• Zhang Yu and Shi Yunxiang visited a pharmaceutical project in Shui Province, where Zhang Yu learned about the hierarchy and rivalries among Demon Descendant bloodlines.
• A Foundation Establishment Demon Beast charged onto the construction site, and Zhang Yu’s Golden Armored Warrior stopped it and forced it to submit.
• Zhang Yu continued working at projects and studying artifact forging, then completed a Level 20 Di Sha Bottle in June.

Magnetic Pole True Lord secretly visited Zhang Yu, removed the Di Sha Qi from his body, and tested his artifact-forging knowledge. She planned to secure him secret status in the Artifact Crafting Department while he remained in Civil Engineering, leaving Zhang Yu determined to keep the arrangement from Director Gao.

• After two days of recovering and practicing artifact forging, Zhang Yu received a secret visit from Magnetic Pole True Lord through her Profound North Heavenly Pearl incarnation.
• Magnetic Pole True Lord examined Zhang Yu, forced the remaining Di Sha Qi from his body, praised his physical cultivation, and tested his knowledge of artifact crafting.
• Ye Xingli stood guard outside Zhang Yu's dormitory and delayed Mo Shang Jin until Magnetic Pole True Lord had left.
• Zhang Yu told Fu Ji that Magnetic Pole True Lord approved of his artifact-forging skills and would secretly arrange his status in the Artifact Crafting Department.
• Zhang Yu said he would stay in Civil Engineering and conceal the arrangement from Director Gao, while Fu Ji suspected he wanted access to the Seven Wonders of Civil Engineering and Tian Kunlun's Mountain-Moving Divine Power.

Le Mulan rejected students seeking to cultivate with her while Yu Xinghan spread rumors about Zhang Yu’s reputation. Zhang Yu advanced his cultivation, defended a war-fortress construction site, and completed a Level 20 Earth Suppressing Seal.

• Le Mulan refused students who asked to dual cultivate, take medicine, or conduct drug experiments with her, and Yu Xinghan invited a rejected student into a group chat centered on reaching Zhang Yu and his dormitory.
• Zhang Yu and Le Mulan cultivated together using the Deep Cold and Blazing Sun Magic Veins, improving Zhang Yu’s Magical Power while he remained capped at the Foundation Establishment limit of one thousand units.
• Zhang Yu worked on a war fortress and stopped a charging Foundation Establishment student from the 36 Upper Schools, whose vomited food the Qi Refining laborers eagerly collected.
• Zhang Yu secretly forged a Level 20 Earth Suppressing Seal and finished it several days later.

Zhang Yu tested Le Mulan’s medicine, managed construction with his artifact spirits, and passed Magnetic Extremes True Lord’s artifact-forging assessment. He forged a Level 20 Golden Filigree Jade Bi, which Director Gao bought from Magnetic Extremes True Lord, leaving Zhang Yu surprised by the reward.

• Le Mulan squeezed the last of her medicinal blood into Zhang Yu’s mouth, and he said the medicine felt gentler than before.
• Zhang Yu refused Yu Xinghan’s offer to sell a cultivation session, while Yu Xinghan decided to promote his massage service on his own platform.
• Zhang Yu used Mo Tianyi and Zhao Tianxing to operate the Earth Suppressing Seal and Di Sha Bottle at the 668th-Layer construction site, then assessed his progress ahead of the Military Certificate exam.
• Ye Xingli graded Zhang Yu’s artifact-crafting theory papers and supervised his practical exam, where he forged the Level 20 Golden Filigree Jade Bi.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord sold the Golden Filigree Jade Bi to Director Gao at material cost, and Zhang Yu asked whether it was his reward for passing the exam.

Zhang Yu tested the Golden Thread Jade Bi and received artifact-forging commissions and Treasure Appraisal Art from Magnetic Extremes True Lord. She urged him to join the Artifact Crafting Department openly, but he remained focused on first mastering Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power.

• Zhang Yu tested the Golden Thread Jade Bi's follow and light functions and considered using it to improve his construction-site work.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord praised Zhang Yu's Golden Thread Jade Bi and suggested he take artifact-forging commissions through Xingli to earn crafting fees.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord gifted Zhang Yu Treasure Appraisal Art and explained that it was essential for identifying Dharma Treasures and Dharma Skeletons.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord asked Zhang Yu to stop hiding their relationship and join the Artifact Crafting Department, citing its Military-grade cultivation methods and artifacts.
• Zhang Yu told Magnetic Extremes True Lord he would think about it, while Fu Ji advised him to pursue Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power before making his relationship public.

During the sophomore Final Exam, Zhang Yu dominated the Foundation Establishment Class's tests, while Ji Yuan Shu struggled to keep up. The final practical exam began at a real construction site on the 668th Layer, where students discovered their scores would be based on wages earned during twelve hours of work.

• Feng Jiu watched the Dao Heart examinations and praised students including Li Xiao, Yu Xinghan, Ying Xin, Gongshu Jin, Ji Yuan Shu, and Zhang Yu for their resolve and work ethic.
• Li Mingbo found Zhang Yu leading the class in Magical Power metrics, with Yu Xinghan also placing near the top.
• Zhang Yu surged ahead in the Physical Strength examination, using his techniques to withstand attacks and navigate turns faster than Ji Yuan Shu.
• Zhang Yu secured first place across nearly every exam, while Yu Xinghan shared photos of him in the Backup Dual-Cultivation Group and solicited applicants for taking medicine with him.
• Tu Lishan brought the class to a construction site on the 668th Layer for a twelve-hour practical exam and explained that students' wages earned there would determine their scores.

The students began their construction exam, each using their skills, Dharma Skeletons, resources, and family support to raise their work efficiency. Zhang Yu showcased his powerful techniques and treasures to hold first place, while Gongshu Jin remained second as the exam continued.

• Li Xiao swallowed a dangerous mix of medicines and used his Level 20 work technique and Battle Demon Lifefall Skill to rush to his assigned site.
• Yu Xinghan borrowed job-suited Dharma Skeletons through his client network and started work after warming up.
• Ying Xin’s six generations of relatives lent her their intent, driving her synchronization rate to 150% and empowering her concrete-pouring work.
• Gongshu Jin used his level 17 Profound Yellow Mountain Suppressing Seal and Mo Shang Jin’s well-maintained Dharma Skeleton to secure second place as Ji Yuan Shu used Seven-Star Life Borrowing to catch up.
• Zhang Yu combined his pills, techniques, Di Sha Bottle, and Golden Thread Jade Bi to complete construction work at astonishing speed and maintain first place.

Zhang Yu finished first in the Final Exam and prepared to learn the third wonder, while Ping Han rose to department-wide 20th after making a large profit from Coin Speculation. Ping Han flaunted his gains and recruited classmates into an investment group, leaving Zhang Yu and Su Yanyang wary of his growing strength ahead of next month's Military Certificate exam.

• Director Gao told Tu Lishan to let Zhang Yu finish early once his first place was confirmed, and Zhang Yu's frozen salary total remained too high for the other students to surpass.
• The Final Exam rankings put Zhang Yu first, Gongshu Jin second, Ying Xin third, and Yu Xinghan fourth; Zhang Yu's department-wide rank rose from 95th to 62nd.
• Zhang Yu celebrated the praise he received and read Director Gao's message promising to teach him the third wonder the next day.
• Ping Han's Coin Speculation profits exceeded 40 Spirit Coins, and he contacted people who had previously refused to lend him money, then publicized his gains and recruited classmates into an investment group.
• Su Yanyang feared Ping Han had become a serious contender for next month's Military Certificate, while Zhang Yu and Fu Ji discussed how Ping Han might use his success to attract more investment.