Chapter Summaries

After the Spirit Realm was restored, Zhang Yu passed an Orthodox Gods inspection and answered questions about the demon-cult disaster, while Magnetic Extremes True Lord warned him that he would also face scrutiny. Zhang Yu and his companions cleared questioning, but the investigation continued across University City, leaving Mo Shang Jin under surveillance and Su Yanyang sent for anti-demon-cult training.

• Orthodox Gods began inspecting University City residents, and Zhang Yu and his companions passed the initial scan after preparing for it.
• Zhang Yu visited Magnetic Extremes True Lord, who tested his willingness to join the Unemployed Cult and then warned him about the coming investigation.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord told Zhang Yu that Feng Yuhan had fought off demon cultists at the Research Department, while he and Director Gao suspected an insider had helped the cults hijack the Spirit Realm.
• The Orthodox Gods questioned Zhang Yu, and he and six companions corroborated one another's account and were released without incident.
• Mo Shang Jin became a surveillance target, while Su Yanyang was suspected of demon-cult influence and sent to the Disciplinary Leave Class for anti-demon-cult training.
• Zhang Yu's departmental rank rose to thirty-eighth, and the Top Ten League reached its final conclusion.

Zhang Pianpian killed a Heavenly Devil University student, while Bai Zhenzhen fought a White Bone University student as the Top Ten League’s conflicts escalated. The Deity Transformation cultivators eventually stopped fighting and the crisis eased, but the next League would let winners choose their own Immortal Sect Technique, promising fiercer competition.

• Zhang Pianpian defeated and killed a Heavenly Devil University student in the Spirit Realm, stirring unrest.
• Bai Zhenzhen, worried about Zhang Yu after Ten Thousand Laws University City was attacked, fought a White Bone University student and overwhelmed him with crimson Sword Qi.
• Seven Emotions Divine Lord attacked after someone intervened to protect Bai Zhenzhen’s defeated opponent, and White Lotus Divine Lord fought back.
• Dao Qiankun reflected on his Golden Core breakthrough and resolved to train so he could match Kuang Tianqing next year, while Jiu Tianliu foresaw that higher powers would soon suppress the growing conflict.
• The Deity Transformation cultivators withdrew, the financial crisis and land disaster eased, and Orthodox Gods began suppressing cultists.
• Yan Qianji and Ye Xingli learned that the next Top Ten League would let winners choose an Immortal Sect Technique from the Daoist Canon Catalog.

Zhang Yu reunited with Bai Zhenzhen and learned that next year’s Top Ten League would combine the military competitions and offer a chance to select an Immortal Sect Technique. He resolved to compete, then prepared to forge the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God Prototype Machine, despite lacking the funds to complete it.

• Zhang Yu congratulated Bai Zhenzhen and Ye Xingli on their Top Ten League results, then met Bai Zhenzhen in the Spirit Realm and heard about next year’s harsher, combined competition.
• Seven Emotions Divine Lord warned Zhang Yu that competing could get him killed and put Bai Zhenzhen at risk, while Bai Zhenzhen warned him to avoid off-campus projects as the wilderness grew more dangerous.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen agreed to train hard and fight for next year’s Self-selected Immortal Sect Technique reward.
• Zhang Yu raised the required Artifact Forging techniques to Level 20 and decided to document each step as he forged and refined the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God Prototype Machine in reality.
• Zhang Yu calculated that he had less than 120 Spirit Coins but would need roughly 400 to 500, and resolved to earn money while beginning the forging.

After the Demon Cult’s attack devastated University City’s infrastructure, Zhang Yu expanded his construction company to meet the rebuilding boom. He recruited several Civil Engineering Department students and other workers, increasing the company’s monthly income enough to begin refining the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God Prototype Machine.

• Tu Lishan celebrated the flood of reconstruction projects while Ying Xin and Shi Yunxiang wondered how the city’s Magnetic Channels had been destroyed.
• Zhang Yu took on Artifact Crafting Department infrastructure projects and expanded his company as workers became scarce.
• Ying Xin, Shi Yunxiang, and Xiao Qingxuan left Tu Lishan’s company to join Zhang Yu’s.
• Shi Huaiyu also transferred to Zhang Yu’s company despite Tu Lishan’s attempts to dissuade her, and she willingly took Tiger-Wolf Medicine at work.
• Zhang Yu recruited bankrupt talent from the Songyang Fellow Villagers Group, raising the company’s monthly income to nearly thirty Spirit Coins and leaving him time to start refining the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God Prototype Machine.

Zhang Yu refined the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God's skeleton in Ye Xingli's laboratory and asked about entering next year's Top Ten League. He decided to hire Zi Yun Zhen as an assistant, while Zi Yun Zhen doubted his project would succeed.

• Zhang Yu worked on the Prototype Machine's skeleton, and Ye Xingli recognized his talent for artifact crafting.
• Zhang Yu asked Ye Xingli how to enter next year's Top Ten League, and she explained the registration process and past selection requirements.
• Ye Xingli advised Zhang Yu to hire an assistant for repetitive preparation work, and he chose Zi Yun Zhen at her recommendation.
• Zi Yun Zhen envied Su Yun Ni's opportunities in Jin Jun's laboratory, then received Zhang Yu's invitation to join his project.
• Zi Yun Zhen considered Zhang Yu inexperienced and suspected his Prototype Machine project would fail.

Zi Yun Zhen joined Zhang Yu’s Prototype Machine project intending to leave after getting her Dharma Treasures repaired, but his astonishing crafting speed convinced her to stay and help him compete with Jin Jun. As the first assembly neared completion, Feng Yuhan ordered Zhang Yu to put his project aside and cooperate with the school’s Spirit Transformation Magic Skeleton inspection.

• Zi Yun Zhen accepted Zhang Yu’s offer of a one-week trial as his assistant, hoping to get free repairs for her Dharma Treasures.
• Zi Yun Zhen prepared materials while Zhang Yu crafted the Prototype Machine’s bones at a speed that soon surpassed the pace she had heard about from Jin Jun’s project.
• After watching the bones pass their quality tests, Zi Yun Zhen abandoned her plan to leave and resolved to stay and learn from Zhang Yu.
• Over the following month, Zhang Yu and Zi Yun Zhen advanced the Prototype Machine until its first assembly was nearly complete, while Zi Yun Zhen worked increasingly long hours.
• Feng Yuhan summoned Zhang Yu and ordered him to set aside his current project to cooperate with the school’s Spirit Transformation Magic Skeleton inspection, dismissing Zhang Yu’s suspicion that he was being targeted.

Feng Yuhan maneuvered to place five Artifact Crafting Department project teams on Magnetic Extremes True Lord's Spirit Transformation Magic Skeleton research, increasing Zhang Yu's workload. Magnetic Extremes True Lord explained that the move served a larger effort to hinder her Spirit Transformation advancement, while Zhang Yu began looking for another way to counter Feng Yuhan.

• Feng Yuhan coordinated with True Lord Xian Yin and arranged for five Nascent Soul True Lords to join the Spirit Transformation Magic Skeleton experiment, intending to limit Magnetic Extremes True Lord's control and claim part of her research results.
• Zhang Yu weighed the added work against his deadlines for the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God Prototype Machine, the Design Competition, and the Top Ten League, then went to consult Magnetic Extremes True Lord.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord told Zhang Yu that a hidden faction was directing Feng Yuhan and that Myriad Transformations Divine Lord might oppose her advancement because it would threaten his resources and influence.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord asked Zhang Yu to cooperate with the new teams for now and promised to compensate him for the lost time.
• Zhang Yu discussed using his connections and Fu Ji's advice to make Feng Yuhan help him rather than confronting him directly.
• Zhang Yu asked Zhang Pianpian to investigate Feng Yuhan, but she warned that his actions followed procedure and might reflect the school's high-level intentions.

Zhang Yu’s suspicion of Feng Yuhan prompted Zhang Pianpian to investigate, drawing the attention of Xi Shen and Fu Ji. Feng Yuhan was forced to apologize and ease the conflict, and Zhang Yu completed the Level 1 Prototype Machine before asking Fu Ji about the Divine Path.

• Zhang Pianpian investigated Feng Yuhan after Zhang Yu raised concerns, and found that the records of his battle with Demon Cultists were suspiciously clean.
• Fu Ji warned Xi Shen that Feng Yuhan had attracted the Patrol Team’s attention and urged him to find out why.
• Xi Shen learned that Zhang Yu had prompted Zhang Pianpian’s investigation, while Fu Ji warned him that Zhang Pianpian’s Divine Path and hidden background made her dangerous to antagonize.
• Xi Shen ordered Feng Yuhan to resolve his conflict with Zhang Yu, so Feng Yuhan apologized to Magnetic Extremes True Lord and gave him and Zhang Yu Spirit Coins.
• Zhang Yu finished the Level 1 Prototype Machine and asked Fu Ji what the Divine Path was.

Li Xiao discovered that reincarnation on Kunxu was controlled and priced according to a person’s assets, and he entered another life in despair. Back in Ye Xingli’s laboratory, Fu Ji explained that Zhang Pianpian might be competing with other incarnations to inherit a high-ranking Orthodox God’s power and memories.

• Li Xiao awoke in the Underworld after Shi Huaiyu killed him and celebrated the chance to be reborn.
• Li Xiao found that his debts left him with negative assets and merit, forcing him to choose a poor rebirth on Kunxu Layer 1 with no affordable improvements.
• Li Xiao watched other souls get forced into reincarnation and, terrified of a future of worsening poverty, shot into the sky to begin a new life.
• In Ye Xingli’s laboratory on Kunxu Second Layer, Fu Ji told Zhang Yu that the Divine Path involved cultivation and could lead to serving as an Orthodox God’s vessel in the Material World.
• Fu Ji explained that Zhang Pianpian might be an incarnation of a high-ranking Orthodox God, competing with other incarnations to survive and inherit the god’s authority and memories.

Zhang Yu and Fu Ji discussed the dangerous, unequal system of human reincarnation and the Five Taxes of Heaven and Man, then warned one another to stay clear of the Evil Gods’ plans. Meanwhile, Zhang Yu and Zi Yun Zhen completed a Level 1 Prototype Machine, and Jin Jun learned that their project had reached a major milestone.

• Fu Ji explained that human reincarnation depended on wealth and involved steep taxes, while the Feather Transformation Cult promoted a false version to preserve hope.
• Zhang Yu and Fu Ji suspected the Evil Gods wanted to draw them into a scheme involving Nectar Divine Lord and agreed to keep their distance while gathering information.
• Zi Yun Zhen filmed the completed Level 1 Prototype Machine as Zhang Yu ended the session and told her to prepare for improvements the next day.
• Zhang Yu posted footage of the finished machine, prompting Su Yun Ni to confirm with Zi Yun Zhen that it met Level 1 standards.
• Su Yun Ni secretly sent Jin Jun the footage and details, and Jin Jun’s expression darkened as he reviewed the evidence.

Jin Jun dismissed Zhang Yu’s rapid forging progress as the work of hired assistants, then borrowed heavily and hired better equipment and a Golden Core instructor to strengthen his own project. Zhang Yu continued rushing the Prototype Machine’s upgrades while training Zi Yun Zhen, but Gui Yuanzi forced him to make up missed history classes, and Zhang Yu began investigating who was behind the interference.

• Jin Jun doubted Zhang Yu’s achievement and decided his Prototype Machine would outperform Zhang Yu’s once assembled, so he mortgaged his assets, took out more loans, hired advanced equipment and a Golden Core instructor, and messaged a senior brother for help slowing Zhang Yu down.
• Zhang Yu rapidly forged restrictions onto the Prototype Machine while aiming to raise its blueprint level and install a fire-control module; Zi Yun Zhen warned him about the pace, but he pressured her to keep up and continue preparing materials.
• Zhang Yu entered the Taiqing Realm to practice artifact-production techniques through simulation and estimated he could raise the Prototype Machine to Foundation Establishment Level 11 within a month or two.
• Gui Yuanzi confronted Zhang Yu over missing History of Artifact Crafting Technology classes and assigned an artifact spirit to make him attend the missed lessons; Zhang Yu’s leave request was rejected.
• After Zi Yun Zhen asked when he would return to the laboratory, Zhang Yu questioned Feng Tingting, Ye Xingli, and Zhang Pianpian about Gui Yuanzi’s actions, then focused on Feng Yuhan.

Gui Yuanzi tried to pressure Zhang Yu into attending make-up classes, but Feng Yuhan intervened and secured Zhang Yu’s research loan while forcing Gui Yuanzi to redo his funding application. Zhang Yu returned to building his Prototype Machine, while Jin Jun completed a Level 5 machine and grew confident in his progress; by mid-January, Zhang Yu had raised his Heavenly Sun Brilliant God Prototype Machine to Level 11.

• Gui Yuanzi arranged for Zhang Yu to take online classes, then became furious when Zhang Yu left the class, but Feng Yuhan’s funding message drew him away.
• Feng Yuhan repeatedly rejected Gui Yuanzi’s funding application and made him rewrite it in the office while Zhang Yu received approval for his experimental loan.
• Zhang Yu declined Gui Yuanzi’s offer of full marks and asked him to follow normal leave and grading procedures before returning to work on his Prototype Machine.
• Jin Jun completed a Level 5 Prototype Machine, discovered Gui Yuanzi had deleted him as a friend, and spent the next month improving his machine and confidence.
• By mid-January, Zhang Yu had raised the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God Prototype Machine in Ye Xingli’s laboratory to Level 11.

Zhang Yu continued refining the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God Prototype Machine while observing Ye Xingli’s growing success as an internet celebrity. After Ye Xingli began working in his laboratory, Zhang Yu gained the chance to copy her Spirit Charm Artifact Heart Dao Seed and used Tiangong Kaiwu to generate designs for a Dharma Treasure suited to her.

• Zhang Yu and Zi Yun Zhen tested the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God’s abilities, and Zhang Yu decided to improve it for another half month before seeking a Military Certificate.
• Zhang Yu watched Ye Xingli’s livestream and learned that Ten Thousand Laws University was boosting her career and income as part of her training.
• Feng Tingting told Zhang Yu that four rivals of Magnetic Extremes True Lord had been sidelined by scandals or other problems, leaving only True Lord Xian Yin as a competitor.
• Ye Xingli entered Zhang Yu’s laboratory to design and verify Dharma Treasures, and Zhang Yu soon met the requirement to copy her Spirit Charm Artifact Heart.
• Zhang Yu used Tiangong Kaiwu to produce Dharma Treasure blueprints for Ye Xingli, then approached her to discuss them.

Zhang Yu helped Ye Xingli begin gathering information to design affordable artifact-crafting products, while Jin Jun completed a level 11 Prototype Machine and learned Zhang Yu had submitted for Military Certificate evaluation. Zhang Yu sent Zi Yun Zhen to work at a construction site, where she encountered Fu Xinyao and Su Yun Ni.

• Magnetic Pole completed Yin Artifact blueprints, and Zhang Yu discussed adapting his design inspiration with Ye Xingli so they could jointly create a product for poorer students.
• Ye Xingli explained that many of her followers could not afford high-end products, and Zhang Yu offered to survey Junior College and Lower School students through his Fellow Villagers Group.
• Zhang Yu collected unusual product requests but delayed using Tiangong Kaiwu until he had gathered more information.
• Jin Jun completed a level 11 Prototype Machine, then learned from Bei Wufeng that Zhang Yu had submitted for Military Certificate evaluation and asked Su Yun Ni to investigate.
• Zhang Yu assigned Zi Yun Zhen to a construction site for the rest of the month, where Fu Xinyao recognized her as an Artifact Crafting Department student.
• Su Yun Ni arrived at the construction site and asked Zi Yun Zhen why she was working there.

Su Yun Ni learned that Zhang Yu’s Prototype Machine had reached Level 15, while Jin Jun doubted the claim and pushed his team to work overtime. After Zhang Yu passed evaluation and earned a Military Certificate, Magnetic Extremes True Lord arranged a grand presentation and ordered that he be publicly identified as her Direct Disciple.

• Zi Yun Zhen told Su Yun Ni that Zhang Yu’s team had advanced its Prototype Machine from Level 1 to Level 15 in two months and submitted it for evaluation.
• Yu Xinghan reported Fu Xinyao for using massages to lure customers into Dual Cultivation, and Patrol Team officers took her away.
• Su Yun Ni told Jin Jun about Zhang Yu’s Level 15 Prototype Machine, but Jin Jun dismissed the report and ordered his assistants to continue overtime on their own project.
• Several days later, True Lord Qiyun informed Magnetic Extremes True Lord that Zhang Yu had passed evaluation and obtained a Military Artifact Forging Engineering Certificate (Type A).
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord told True Lord Dongming to arrange a visible but not ostentatious certificate presentation and announce that Zhang Yu was her Direct Disciple.
• True Lord Dongming and the Artifact Crafting Department staff repeatedly enlarged and revised the presentation, leaving Lian Huo True Person wondering whether Zhang Yu had become Magnetic Extremes True Lord’s son.

Lian Huo True Person issued Zhang Yu the Military Artifact Forging Engineering Certificate (Type A), publicly announcing his success and pushing him into Ten Thousand Laws University's top fifty. Zhang Yu celebrated his new ranking and began receiving offers and invitations, while Jin Jun and Su Yun Ni grappled with the defeat.

• Lian Huo True Person reduced the Eye Remains' visual settings before broadcasting the certificate announcement to avoid overloading students.
• The university announced that Zhang Yu had forged the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God Prototype Machine from Level 1 to Level 15 in two months and awarded him the Military Artifact Forging Engineering Certificate (Type A).
• Jin Jun realized Zhang Yu had beaten his team, while Su Yun Ni felt bitter about their loss.
• Zhang Yu planned to pursue more Military Grade powers and use the certificate to forge the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God.
• Lian Huo True Person presented Zhang Yu with the certificate, raising his class ranking to first, his department ranking to thirteenth, and his overall school ranking to 44th.
• Zhang Yu received a revised loan offer from Huai Zhixia and invitations from Ye Xingli and Yan Qianji to Military Grade student and top-fifty groups.

Zhang Yu joined the school's top 50 group, connected with its leading students, and ordered a Nine Nether Demon Eye from Ye Xingli to replace his worn Eye Remains. He promoted his artifact-forging services in several groups, where Lian Tianji asked whether he could forge Yin Artifacts, a job Zhang Yu was not yet able to take.

• Zhang Yu entered the school's top 50 group, where Jiu Tianliu welcomed him and Dao Qiankun also greeted him.
• Zhang Yu learned that Dao Qiankun was extremely wealthy and offered to repair his Dharma Treasures, which Dao Qiankun accepted.
• Zhang Yu asked Ye Xingli about replacing his worn Time Remnant Demon Eye, and he ordered a Nine Nether Demon Eye for 21 Spirit Coin.
• Zhang Yu advertised his artifact-forging services in the Civil Engineering Class Group and the Songyang Fellow Villagers Group.
• Lian Tianji asked Zhang Yu whether he could forge Yin Artifacts, leaving Zhang Yu unable to accept his first request after earning his Military Artifact Forging Engineering Certificate.

After earning an Artifact Crafting Department Military Certificate, Zhang Yu promoted his crafting services, spoke with friends and mentors, and installed a new Nine Nether Demon Eye. He finished by raising the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God to Level 20 and unlocking its Military Grade capabilities.

• Zhang Yu advertised his artifact-crafting services and recruitment plans, prompting Soul Cultivators in the Songyang Fellow Villagers Group to send him résumés.
• Wang Yin saw Zhang Yu's certificate and secondhand Eye Remains post, resolved to earn a Golden Core Certificate within a year, and promised they would battle again; Wen Wuya asked whether Zhang Yu could refine Yin Artifacts.
• Zhang Yu contacted fellow competitors, learned Zhang Pianpian would skip the next Top Ten League and enter graduate school, and reported his certificate to Magnetic Extremes True Lord and Director Gao.
• Zhang Yu asked Zi Yunzhen to return from the construction site and spent the following days refining the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God while waiting for Ye Xingli to deliver a Nine Nether Demon Eye.
• Zhang Yu tested the Nine Nether Demon Eye's Soul Body Sensing in University City and saw Soul Cultivators working throughout the city.
• A week later, Zhang Yu raised the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God to Level 20 and unlocked all its Military Grade capabilities.

Zhang Yu tested his Military Grade Heavenly Sun Brilliant God and decided to prioritize construction work, while learning that Ten Thousand Laws University was bringing in workers and supplies from Heavenly Demon University to gain political and economic advantage. As tensions rose between the universities, Ying Xin asked Zhang Yu for help after a confrontation broke out at an underground construction site.

• Zhang Yu tested the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God's flight, flame, garbage-disposal, and Fire Escape Transformation abilities, then chose construction work as its main job and artifact-crafting as its secondary focus.
• Zhang Yu learned that the Finance Department had brought in workers, Living Piles, and food from Heavenly Demon University, prompting protests from the Civil Engineering Department and support from Jiu Tianliu and Jin Guangyuan.
• Fu Ji explained that Ten Thousand Methods was trying to win over Heavenly Demon University amid growing conflicts among the Top Ten Universities, and Zhang Yu wondered whether powerful reincarnated figures were among the school's top students.
• Ying Xin asked Zhang Yu for help from an underground construction site, where Shi Huaiyu, Ying Xin, and Xiao Qingxuan confronted a hostile group of Demon Descendants while a Finance Department administrator blamed them for provoking the visitors.

Zhang Yu defended his company workers from Heavenly Demon University students and later learned that Bei Wufeng had used Spirit Coin to quiet the resulting complaint. Bei Wufeng offered to rent Zhang Yu’s Military-grade puppet for the Top Ten League, but Zhang Yu refused because he planned to compete himself.

• Zhang Yu arrived at the construction site, intimidated the Demon Descendants, and drove them away after declaring that his company employees could not be bullied.
• Zhang Yu met with Shi Huaiyu, Ying Xin, Shi Yunxiang, and their colleagues, then arranged more construction work using Heavenly Sun Brilliant God.
• Several days later, Zhang Yu learned that Heavenly Demon University teachers had complained about him, but Bei Wufeng used Spirit Coin to suppress the dispute.
• Bei Wufeng offered Zhang Yu 50 Spirit Coin per day to borrow Heavenly Sun Brilliant God for the Top Ten League.
• Zhang Yu refused to lend the puppet and told Bei Wufeng that he intended to participate in the competition himself.