Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yu and Xiang Shan clashed at the Heavenly Demon University construction site, with Zhang Yu using the Taihao Sacred Law Sword Array and Xiang Shan manipulating rain, snow, and the earth. The fight ended when an Orthodox God accused Xiang Shan of polluting groundwater, and Xiang Shan realized Zhang Yu had let pollutants leak underground while he was distracted.

• Zhang Yu used the Taihao Sacred Law Sword Array to suppress unstable earth veins and redirect underground flames, while Xiang Shan countered with rain and snow from his Heavenly Elephant Bone.
• Zhang Yu's Taihao Moral Sword Intent locked onto the Demon Descendants, and Xiang Shan rallied them by reminding them they had insurance.
• Xiang Shan intensified his control over the terrain and weather as the Sword Realm disrupted his connections and monitoring systems.
• Zhang Yu withdrew his suppressive power, causing underground tremors to worsen, and Xiang Shan believed he had won their clash.
• Orthodox God Deng Bingding confronted Xiang Shan over groundwater pollution, and Xiang Shan discovered that waste and Living Piles had leaked underground during the fight.

Zhang Yu restored the construction site and cooperated with a Patrol Team inspection for the Dual Cultivation Virus, but the team found no infected workers. When Xu Yang Zhenren learned that Zhang Yu’s roommate Yu Xinghan had left early, he pursued them and ordered the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God stopped as it escorted Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan toward the university.

• Deng Bingding exposed Xiang Shan’s responsibility for the construction-site damage, and the Demon Descendants’ testimony left Xiang Shan facing a work stoppage and substantial fines.
• Zhang Yu restored the site, left the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God to assist the project, and returned toward University City.
• Xu Yang Zhenren sealed off the construction site and ordered the Patrol Team to inspect every worker for the Dual Cultivation Virus.
• The inspection found no infected workers, and Zhang Yu said he had raised wages to help prevent the virus.
• Yun Yuqing pointed out that Yu Xinghan was missing, and Zhang Yu said his roommate had left early for University City.
• Xu Yang Zhenren tracked Yu Xinghan and found him with Zhang Yu aboard the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God, then ordered the Patrol Team to stop them.

Xu Yang Zhenren took Yu Xinghan for a scheduled Dual Cultivation Virus test despite Zhang Yu’s objections, prompting Magnetic Extremes True Lord to confront Patrol Team director Qi Ming Zhenren. Qi Ming Zhenren rebuked Xu Yang Zhenren for intercepting her military puppet, and Xu explained why he suspected Yu Xinghan of spreading the virus.

• Xu Yang Zhenren showed Zhang Yu a testing list that included Yu Xinghan and insisted the screening applied even to people away from the construction site.
• Zhang Yu told Yu Xinghan to endure the test and promised to keep the company manager position open for him, and Yu Xinghan went with Xu Yang Zhenren.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord contacted Qi Ming Zhenren, objected to the interception, and asked him to keep the investigation’s impact under control.
• Qi Ming Zhenren summoned Xu Yang Zhenren and rebuked him for intercepting Magnetic Extremes True Lord’s military puppet without reporting it first.
• Xu Yang Zhenren cited Zhang Yu’s wage increases, his past contact with Dual Cultivation Sect followers, and Yu Xinghan’s work logs and contacts as reasons to suspect Yu Xinghan was spreading the virus.

Xu Yang Zhenren’s investigation of Yu Xinghan stalled when repeated tests found no Dual Cultivation Virus, while Zhang Yu secretly prepared Yu Xinghan for the struggle against those targeting them. The chapter ended with Yu Xinghan using his newly strengthened Third Eye in the interrogation room and asking to contact Director Gao.

• Xu Yang Zhenren and Qi Ming Zhenren clashed over the arrest, and Qi Ming Zhenren decided to contact Tian Yan Shenjun about who was targeting Zhang Yu.
• Yun Yuqing arrived at the Patrol Team testing site, where staff reported that three tests had found no Dual Cultivation Virus in Yu Xinghan.
• Xu Yang Zhenren questioned Yu Xinghan, who recalled how Zhang Yu had helped him evade the virus and then trusted him with the truth about the Evil God and the Ritual.
• Zhang Yu removed Yu Xinghan’s Dharma Skeletons and Eye Remains, disclosed secret information, and helped trigger a transformation of Yu Xinghan’s Third Eye.
• In the interrogation room, Yu Xinghan used his Third Eye to observe Yun Yuqing and denied knowing anything, asking to contact Director Gao.

Xu Yang Zhenren's interrogation of Yu Xinghan ended when Qi Ming Zhenren intervened, released Yu Xinghan, and dismissed Xu Yang from the case. As Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan left, Yu Xinghan realized his newly enhanced Third Eye could learn other people's Martial Arts by observing their Magical Power, and he worried about exposing the ability.

• Xu Yang Zhenren pressured Yu Xinghan to confess, but Yu Xinghan kept insisting he would wait for Director Gao.
• Qi Ming Zhenren summoned Xu Yang Zhenren and met with Zhang Yu, then used Nascent Soul pressure to stop Xu Yang from continuing the investigation.
• Qi Ming Zhenren dismissed Xu Yang from the matter and ordered Yun Yuqing to help Zhang Yu collect Yu Xinghan and complete his release procedures.
• Yun Yuqing escorted Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan out of the university, while Zhang Yu reflected that Qi Ming Zhenren's stance represented Principal Tian Yan Shenjun's support.
• Yu Xinghan told Zhang Yu that his enhanced Third Eye could see Magical Power flows and learn Martial Arts, then worried that revealing the ability could bring trouble.

After Yu Xinghan’s Dao Seed gained a stronger Three-Eyed Divine Power, Zhang Yu considered whether the Evil God Ritual could enhance other people’s abilities too. Xu Yang Zhenren was transferred to a junior college, Demon Descendants flooded Zhang Yu’s social media after his clash with Heavenly Demon University students, and Zhang Yu gave Magnetic Extremes True Lord evidence suggesting the incident was connected to the Demon Cult.

• Zhang Yu examined Yu Xinghan’s transformed Three-Eyed Divine Power and wondered whether stimulating others’ potential could strengthen their Dao Seeds as well.
• Xu Yang Zhenren learned he had been transferred to a junior college for unlawful enforcement, then contacted an ally who promised future help and told him to lie low.
• Bei Wufeng saw Demon Descendants protest Zhang Yu’s arrests and overrun his social media comments, but refused Jin Jun’s suggestion to take advantage of the controversy.
• Zhang Yu apologized to Magnetic Extremes True Lord for causing trouble and gave her Shui Haiyu’s recording, suspecting the Demon Cult was behind the incident.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord told Zhang Yu to keep the recording’s contents secret while she investigated.

Zhang Yu visited Xu Yang Zhenren as Magnetic Extremes True Lord’s representative, but Xu Yang rejected the offer to switch sides. As construction-site virus testing expanded and Demon Descendants protested, Zhang Yu found that the controversy was bringing him new artifact-crafting customers and focused on preparing to challenge Bei Wufeng.

• Magnetic Extremes True Lord lent Zhang Yu the Nine Heavens Primordial Sun Pagoda and sent him to offer Xu Yang Zhenren protection if he abandoned his backer.
• Zhang Yu used the pagoda’s Spirit Realm Traversal ability to confront Xu Yang aboard a Flying Boat, but Xu Yang rejected his offer and said he would return.
• Zhang Yu reported Xu Yang’s response to Magnetic Extremes True Lord, then agreed to help Director Gao implement daily Dual Cultivation Virus tests at construction sites.
• Yu Xinghan practiced controlling his Third Eye at a testing line as Demon Descendants gathered to protest the new testing measures.
• Zhang Yu noticed Demon Descendants attacking him online while others supported him and placed more artifact-crafting orders, leading him to see a Demon Descendant-hating persona as good for business.
• Zhang Yu resumed cultivating the Heaven and Earth Calamity Formless Heart Weapon to prepare for his coming contest with Bei Wufeng.

Zhang Yu learned that the Finance Department had targeted him over Spirit Transformation Magic Skeletons, while the Evil Gods plotted to use Xu Yang Zhenren to expose the department. After Xu Yang Zhenren suffered an assassination attempt, he begged Zhang Yu to introduce him to Magnetic Extremes True Lord and hinted that someone had framed Zhang Yu.

• Zhang Yu kept his assistants working by promising they would help refine the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor, then advanced his Heaven and Earth Calamity Formless Heart Weapon cultivation to level 5.
• In the Dark Spirit Realm, Xi Shen said the Finance Department had used Xu Yang Zhenren in a failed trap against Zhang Yu to gain information about Spirit Transformation Magic Skeletons.
• The Evil Gods suspected the Finance Department wanted to find and eliminate the Reincarnated Mighty Ones, and Fu Ji proposed prompting Xu Yang Zhenren to turn against the department.
• Zhang Yu and Fu Ji decided to give the conflict a gentle push from behind, while Xu Yang Zhenren faced poverty, surveillance, and an assassination attempt.
• Xu Yang Zhenren repeatedly contacted Zhang Yu, begged him to introduce him to Magnetic Extremes True Lord, and said a malicious person had stirred up the investigation against Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu finished advancing his Heaven and Earth Calamity Formless Heart Weapon technique and challenged Bei Wufeng for a school team spot in the Top Ten League. Their Sword Combat began with Bei Wufeng gaining control of the Spirit Realm, but Zhang Yu countered by unleashing Earthly Fiend Gravity on their flying swords.

• Xu Yang Zhenren told Zhang Yu that Finance Department figures had arranged repeated attempts to assassinate him, and Zhang Yu introduced him to Magnetic Extremes True Lord.
• Fu Ji explained that the Finance Department and Artifact Crafting Department would keep their conflict covert, while Zhang Yu focused on training for the Top Ten League.
• Zhang Yu completed the eleventh level of Heaven and Earth Calamity Formless Heart Weapon and traveled to an outside campus to challenge Bei Wufeng for a school team position.
• True Lord Anzhen set Sword Combat as the contest, and Zhang Yu and Bei Wufeng signed an agreement that the loser would lend the winner his Military-grade Artifact for the league.
• Bei Wufeng used the Heavenly Cycle Rapid Spirit Technique to combine his Taiwu Sword Realm with the Spirit Realm and encircle Zhang Yu's formation.
• Zhang Yu unleashed Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power and Earthly Fiend Gravity, sending his twelve flying swords toward Bei Wufeng's swords through the Material World.

Zhang Yu fought Bei Wufeng in a flying sword match, countering Bei Wufeng’s elaborate sword arts with his own powers and a Formation he built underground. Zhang Yu captured Bei Wufeng’s swords and won the match, while True Lord Anzhen considered how civil engineering could improve flying sword combat.

• Bei Wufeng used the Myriad Sword Art to overwhelm Zhang Yu’s sword senses, but Zhang Yu activated Wind Calamity and Fire Calamity to expose the real swords and drive Bei Wufeng back.
• Bei Wufeng summoned the Twelve Sword Attendants, and Zhang Yu used his Three-Eyed Divine Power to learn their sword moves and coordinate his flying swords through multiple streams of consciousness.
• Bei Wufeng expanded his Sword Realm and linked his twelve swords’ power through a Sword Formation, suppressing Zhang Yu’s swords and forcing them back.
• Zhang Yu revealed that he had built a Formation underground, which blocked the Spirit Realm signals to Bei Wufeng’s flying swords.
• Zhang Yu pulled Bei Wufeng’s disconnected swords into his Sword Box and sealed them beneath the earth, then charged at Bei Wufeng with his own flying swords and won the match.
• True Lord Anzhen considered whether civil engineering could improve flying sword communications and strengthen Sword Formations.

Zhang Yu defeated Bei Wufeng in Sword Combat and was chosen to replace him on the school team for the Top Ten League. Bei Wufeng lent Zhang Yu his flying swords and proposed a publicity arrangement to conceal his loss, offering additional Spirit Realm sword enhancements in return.

• True Lord Anzhen stopped the match after Zhang Yu overpowered Bei Wufeng and declared Zhang Yu the winner.
• Bei Wufeng honored their contract by lending Zhang Yu his twelve Taiwu Sacred Law Flying Swords and teaching him how to control them.
• True Lord Anzhen selected Zhang Yu to replace Bei Wufeng on the school team and said the school would arrange specialized training.
• After the observers left, Bei Wufeng asked Zhang Yu to let rumors circulate that he had sold his team position rather than lost the duel.
• Bei Wufeng offered to lend Zhang Yu his Twelve Sword Attendants and other sword-array enhancements, and Zhang Yu agreed to sign another contract.

After Bei Wufeng withdrew from the school team and Zhang Yu took his place, rumors spread that Zhang Yu had bought the spot, while his mentors arranged loans to support his training. Zhang Yu borrowed heavily, bought Calamity Qi, and advanced his Heaven and Earth Calamity Formless Heart Weapon to Level 20 with just over a month left before the Top Ten League.

• Bei Wufeng told Jin Jun and Feng Tingting that Zhang Yu was too rich to compete against and that Zhang Yu had replaced him on the school team.
• Zhang Yu denied buying Bei Wufeng's spot when Ye Xingli asked, then returned to cultivating as rumors boosted interest in his Artifact Crafting services.
• Director Gao and Magnetic Extremes True Lord discussed infected Demon Descendants and agreed to give Zhang Yu additional financial support.
• True Lord Anzhen offered Zhang Yu training options, and Zhang Yu chose the school's low-interest loan so he could focus on preparing for the Top Ten League.
• Zhang Yu received loans totaling 650 Spirit Coins, spent more than 200 Spirit Coins buying Calamity Qi, and raised his Heaven and Earth Calamity Formless Heart Weapon to Level 20 by the end of July.

Zhang Yu strengthened his abilities and studied the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor while turmoil around the Dual Cultivation Sect and the Top Ten League intensified. After Jin Guangyuan was expelled, the campaign against Zhang Yu weakened, but he still faced hostility from Demon Descendants at a construction site.

• Zhang Yu practiced the Heaven and Earth Calamity Formless Heart Weapon and began researching the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor to gain another Military Grade power and uncover its hidden cultivation method.
• Authorities dismantled Shanhai Vocational College after exposing its ties to the Dual Cultivation Sect, and Zhang Pianpian told Zhang Yu that Shui Haiyu had been framed and his soul intercepted.
• Zhang Pianpian warned Zhang Yu that the Top Ten League could become dangerous, but he continued studying the armor after their call.
• Zhang Yu heard that Jin Guangyuan had been expelled and suspected the case was connected to Xu Yang Zhenren; Fu Ji guessed that Jin Guangyuan's removal had cut off funding for the Demon Descendants attacking Zhang Yu.
• At a construction site, Zhang Yu faced hostile Demon Descendants while Shi Yunxiang shouted insults at them and warned them to cooperate with his work.

In the final month before the Top Ten League, Zhang Yu briefly helped manage a construction site, then finished mastering the techniques needed to forge the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor. As advertisers competed for the contestants’ ad slots, Dao Qiankun refused to sell his and continued pushing toward his goal of becoming the strongest beneath the Golden Core.

• Zhang Yu used Shi Yunxiang’s help and his abilities to get Demon Descendant workers to cooperate at the construction site, then reflected on the peace returning across the Kunxu Second Layer.
• By late August, Zhang Yu had mastered the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor’s techniques and began forging it with help from Liu Xiangqiao and Zi Tanzhen.
• True Lord Anzhen introduced Zhang Yu, Ye Xingli, Yan Qianji, and Jiu Tianliu to advertisers, who showed the greatest interest in the contestants with strong competitive prospects and audiences.
• Jiu Tianliu negotiated demanding fees and commission shares for his advertising slots, which were quickly sold.
• True Lord Anzhen told the advertisers that Dao Qiankun had refused to sell ad slots because he did not need Spirit Coins.
• Dao Qiankun’s 9,876th attempt to break through to Golden Core failed, but he resolved to reach 10,000 Golden Core Inch-Stops before the league and held first place in the Golden Core Seed Rankings ahead of Kuang Tianqing.

Wen Wuya used the Patrolling Sky Swords to pressure her rivals into surrendering most of their command authority ahead of the Top Ten League. Meanwhile, Bai Zhenzhen learned the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao had once been an Immortal Sect Grade technique and chose a tranquil sword in the vault, though her master warned it belonged to someone outside their lineage.

• Wen Wuya offered two competitors a share of the Patrolling Sky Sword command authority and Spirit Coins, then locked onto them with the swords when they resisted.
• Wen Wuya reflected that the Top Ten League's prize could determine who led Kunxu's Lower Level through a coming transformation in Immortal Dao techniques.
• Seven Emotions Divine Lord told Bai Zhenzhen that the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao had once been an Immortal Sect Grade technique and that winning first place could help restore its lost potential.
• Bai Zhenzhen worried that her changing relationship with Zhang Yu and her sword path could lead her to hurt him, and resolved to win the league and improve her technique.
• Bai Zhenzhen chose a serene flying sword, but Seven Emotions Divine Lord revealed that its owner was the only person in the vault who had not been her disciple.

Zhang Yu left Ten Thousand Laws University for the Top Ten League, bringing his artifact-forging equipment and companions as he continued working on the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor. At the Floating Continent’s rendezvous point, he arrived during a confrontation between Dao Qiankun’s group and Kuang Tianqing’s, where Kuang Tianqing revealed her unusual training and challenged Dao Qiankun.

• Zhang Yu packed his laboratory equipment and materials, accepted medicine from Le Mulan, and said goodbye to his colleagues and Director Gao before departing by Flying Boat.
• Director Gao and Magnetic Extremes True Lord discussed Zhang Yu’s department transfer and agreed that the wider stage would help him earn more for them.
• Zhang Yu resumed forging the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor during the journey while Zhao Tianxing, Mo Tianyi, Che Yufei, Hu Yuntao, and the Ying Family ancestor accompanied him inside Dharma Treasures.
• Zhang Yu arrived at the Floating Continent and found Dao Qiankun’s group facing contestants led by Kuang Tianqing.
• Kuang Tianqing said she had studied at Joyous Union University and received lessons from eight Divine Lords, then invited Dao Qiankun to surrender his competition qualification and cultivate with her.

Kuang Tianqing asserted her advantage over the Top Ten League competitors, but Bai Zhenzhen challenged her and drew the crowd’s attention. Zhang Yu reunited with Bai Zhenzhen, whose uncontrolled Sword Qi made approaching her dangerous, until Dao Qiankun intervened and separated them.

• Kuang Tianqing revealed that eight Divine Lords had guided her, alarming Yan Qianji and the other competitors.
• Bai Zhenzhen attacked Kuang Tianqing with Sword Qi and mocked her claim to special guidance, rallying the students against her.
• Kuang Tianqing used a Friend Talisman on the assembled crowd, invited Bai Zhenzhen to cultivate with her, and then left.
• Zhang Yu reunited with Bai Zhenzhen, who warned that her Sword Qi made it dangerous for him to approach, but he walked toward her anyway.
• Ye Xingli and the others rushed to stop the surging Sword Qi, and Dao Qiankun erected a barrier that separated Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen before the Vacuum Tribulation Diagram carried Zhang Yu back toward Ye Xingli.

Zhang Yu reunited with Bai Zhenzhen, then received his team duties and prepared for the Top Ten League. At the opening ceremony, the ten university principals revealed that the winner could choose an Immortal Sect Technique from the Daoist Canon Catalog.

• Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu exchanged messages after the students separated them, and Zhang Yu explained their friendship to his team.
• Jiu Tianliu warned Zhang Yu to keep his distance from Bai Zhenzhen during the league, and Zhang Yu agreed to avoid unnecessary losses.
• True Lord Anzhen assigned Zhang Yu to support team communications and prioritize Dao Qiankun, while Ten Thousand Laws formed a four-school alliance against four cooperating schools.
• Zhang Yu spent the night refining the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor as viewers across Kunxu watched the league opening ceremony begin.
• Xi Shen instructed the Evil Gods to carry out their plan and cause a disturbance on the Second Layer.
• Tian Yan Shenjun announced that the Top Ten League winner could choose an Immortal Sect Technique from the Daoist Canon Catalog.

The Top Ten Universities began a three-day team competition on the Floating Continent, where schools scored by capturing prisoners and fought for qualifying slots in the next match. After the contestants were scattered across the continent, Zhang Yu headed toward a rendezvous point but was confronted by Heavenly Demon University’s Ying Yufan.

• The students learned the competition rules, including prisoner-based scoring, permitted killing, and a limit of one prisoner carried at a time, then used their final preparation time to coordinate.
• True Lord Anzhen told Ten Thousand Laws University’s team to find a rendezvous point, and the hundred contestants were randomly scattered across the Floating Continent.
• Zhang Yu landed in a forest, while the team discovered that geomagnetic interference prevented them from confirming their coordinates; Dao Qiankun set a central meeting point and summoned a massive storm as he traveled there.
• Zhang Yu used his remembered map and flying swords to begin rebuilding the continent’s geographical model, then sped toward the agreed location.
• Ying Yufan ambushed Zhang Yu, identified him as Ten Thousand Laws University’s weakest contestant, and transformed into a dragon using the Heavenly Demon Hundred Transformations Art.

Zhang Yu fought Ying Yufan, who transformed into a dragon and then escaped as a Peng Bird, before joining Bai Zhenzhen against Xue Jiuyou and Bai Luxiang. After the allies captured Bai Luxiang, Kuang Tianqing ambushed Zhang Yu and began tormenting him in front of Bai Zhenzhen.

• Zhang Yu recognized Ying Yufan's Heavenly Demon Hundred Transformations Art and battled him with his powers and sword formation, but Ying Yufan transformed into a Peng Bird and fled.
• Zhang Yu hurried toward the target area and found Bai Zhenzhen fighting Xue Jiuyou and Bai Luxiang, so he joined her and helped trap Bai Luxiang with their coordinated attacks.
• Xue Jiuyou escaped in scattered blood-shadow incarnations, while Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen subdued Bai Luxiang, who appeared to surrender.
• Bai Luxiang vanished through an illusion, and Kuang Tianqing ambushed Zhang Yu, restrained him, and threatened to humiliate him before Bai Zhenzhen.