Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yu forced Jiu Tianliu to retreat, then watched Kuang Tianqing defeat Wen Wuya and observed the ongoing battle between Yan Xiang and Tian Shenggong. The chapter left that last match unresolved as Tian Shenggong’s cheap puppets began wearing down Yan Xiang’s Corpse Demons.

• Zhang Yu pretended to have strength left and broke Jiu Tianliu’s attack, prompting Jiu Tianliu to concede and flee with the Nine Heavens Ten Lands Danger Avoiding Divine Shuttle.
• Zhang Yu collapsed from his wounds after returning to the waiting area, while Jiu Tianliu regretted giving up and acknowledged Zhang Yu’s greater resolve.
• Zhang Yu watched the replay as Wen Wuya’s sword techniques overwhelmed Kuang Tianqing’s defenses, but Kuang Tianqing shattered his flying swords with power from a repeatedly broken Golden Core and defeated him.
• Zhang Yu watched Yan Xiang deploy an army of Corpse Demons against Tian Shenggong’s giant puppet fortress.
• Tian Shenggong assembled cheap battlefield-adapted puppets to wear down Yan Xiang’s more expensive Corpse Demons.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen advanced to the Top Ten League’s final four, while Bai Zhenzhen’s battle with Cang Shenyu revealed the dangerous side effects of the Yuhuan Sword. With Zhang Yu set to face Tian Shenggong, he sought university support to overhaul his Seven Wonders Magic Skeleton before the match.

• Tian Shenggong outlasted Yan Xiang’s limited supply of prefabricated Corpse Demons by using adaptable, low-cost puppets, and Cang Shenyu fought Bai Zhenzhen with replaceable Dharma Skeletons.
• Bai Zhenzhen learned that the Yuhuan Sword contained the Seven Emotions Divine Lord’s daughter, Lian Yuhuan, and that using it made her see humiliating false scenes involving someone close to her.
• Bai Zhenzhen defeated Cang Shenyu but was subdued by an Orthodox God and separated from the sword; afterward, she told Zhang Yu she was shaken but relieved, and they celebrated reaching the final four.
• The league scheduled Zhang Yu against Tian Shenggong and Bai Zhenzhen against Kuang Tianqing seven days later, while Bai Zhenzhen welcomed the chance to meet Kuang Tianqing again.
• Zhang Yu asked True Lord Anzhen to buy his Seven Wonders Magic Skeleton set and arrange for seven Nascent Soul True Lords to modify it, promising to prepare blueprints for their review.

Zhang Yu designed an upgrade for the Seven Wonders Magic Skeleton, and Ten Thousand Laws University assigned seven Nascent Soul True Lords to help modify it for the Top Ten League. As Zhang Yu recovered and prepared for his next fight with Tian Shenggong, he began sensing a Dao Seed that had stopped disappearing, while Tian Shenggong confronted him during a livestream over his comments about Extreme Tiger.

• Zhang Yu used his Dao Seeds and knowledge to create revised Seven Wonders Magic Skeleton blueprints, exhausting his Dao Heart in the process.
• True Lord Anzhen summoned seven Artifact Crafting Department Nascent Soul True Lords and instructed them to cooperate on upgrading Zhang Yu's Dharma Skeleton for the Top Ten League.
• The True Lords divided the work among seven teams, while Zhang Yu recovered his Dao Heart, maintained his Dharma Treasures, and prepared for the fight with Tian Shenggong.
• Zhang Yu noticed that Dao Qiankun's Dao Seed had stopped vanishing and tried to sense its replication requirements.
• Tian Shenggong began a livestream with Zhang Yu and accused him of looking down on Extreme Tiger and taking money from rival brands to smear it.

Tian Shenggong, Kuang Tianqing, and Bai Zhenzhen reflected on the competing plans for the Immortal Dao’s future as they prepared for their next battles. The Seven Emotions Divine Lord warned Bai Zhenzhen that Kuang Tianqing faced far greater danger after winning first place, and Bai Zhenzhen asked whether Zhang Yu would face the same pressure if he won.

• Tian Shenggong wagered with Zhang Yu over their next battle and resolved to defeat him to stop Ten Thousand Laws University from building the Dharma Realm.
• Tian Shenggong recalled the Dharma Realm’s ability to turn wealth into power and feared its financialization of everything even more than the Four Heavenly Demon Schools’ control of longevity.
• Kuang Tianqing suspected Reincarnation Group had awakened past-life memories in Wen Wuya and reconsidered Dao Qiankun’s apparent suicide as an attempt to escape the pressure of the rival Immortal Dao plans.
• Kuang Tianqing resolved to become the Spokesperson for Longevity technology and defeat Bai Zhenzhen, Zhang Yu, and Tian Shenggong.
• The Seven Emotions Divine Lord told Bai Zhenzhen that she, Tian Shenggong, and Zhang Yu had no chance of defeating Kuang Tianqing, whose greatest trial would begin after she took first place.
• Bai Zhenzhen asked whether Zhang Yu would face the same pressure if he took first place.

Bai Zhenzhen resolved to use the next seven days to prepare for a battle against Kuang Tianqing, drawing strength from her feelings for Zhang Yu. After transferring him her remaining Spirit Coins and arranging her will, she faced the fight with a ten percent chance of victory.

• The Seven Emotions Divine Lord warned Bai Zhenzhen that Kuang Tianqing had powerful backing, but promised to protect Bai Zhenzhen if she won and chose an Immortal Sect Technique.
• The Seven Emotions Divine Lord taught Bai Zhenzhen to strengthen her sword state by drawing on her feelings for Zhang Yu and stabilizing them through deliberate actions.
• Bai Zhenzhen recalled her bond with Zhang Yu and transferred her remaining Spirit Coins to him as a way to deepen and preserve her emotions.
• Bai Zhenzhen prepared a will, deciding to leave her upper body to the Seven Emotions Divine Lord and her lower body to Zhang Yu if she died fighting Kuang Tianqing.
• Zhang Yu received Bai Zhenzhen's transfer and messages, including her request that he claim the lower half of her corpse if she died and became a Soul Cultivator.

Zhang Yu backed Bai Zhenzhen’s decision to risk everything against Kuang Tianqing, investigated Dao Qiankun’s corpse, and equipped his new Seven Wonders Magic Skeleton before the semifinals. As Tian Shenggong launched a livestreamed fight against him with Extreme Tiger’s tailored countermeasures, Zhang Yu realized their technology had been borrowed from Ten Thousand Methods.

• Zhang Yu accepted that Bai Zhenzhen would fight Kuang Tianqing with everything she had and vowed to revive her if she died.
• Zhang Yu tried to perfect Dao Qiankun’s corpse, but only discovered that its Dharma Skeleton was out of sync with its body before leaving to prepare for the semifinals.
• True Lord Xian Yin and True Lord Anzhen helped Zhang Yu install a modified Seven Wonders Magic Skeleton that had potential to reach Military Grade.
• Bai Zhenzhen and Kuang Tianqing entered their semifinal battle, while Tian Shenggong began livestreaming his fight with Zhang Yu and declared he would win the league for Extreme Tiger users.
• Tian Shenggong deployed puppets and modules to disrupt Zhang Yu’s formations and counter his techniques, and Zhang Yu recognized that the technology had been referenced from Ten Thousand Methods.

Zhang Yu and Tian Shenggong turned their Top Ten League battle into a contest between their construction, transportation, communication, power, and heat-resistance capabilities. Tian Shenggong disrupted the water-vapor supply behind Zhang Yu’s transportation method, shifting the match in his favor as he prepared to use his Sponsored Move.

• Zhang Yu summoned twenty-four Mountain Moving Warriors and challenged Tian Shenggong to compete in construction efficiency, prompting Tian Shenggong to deploy his Extreme Tiger Persevering Walker puppets.
• Zhang Yu and Tian Shenggong competed in construction and transportation, with Zhang Yu initially showing 380 cubic meters per minute and 400 tons per second against Tian Shenggong’s 370 cubic meters per minute and 420 tons per second.
• Zhang Yu used his Sword Formation to contest communication speed, but Tian Shenggong’s Extreme Tiger signals reached 125 scrolls per second against Zhang Yu’s 120.
• Zhang Yu and Tian Shenggong compared their power output as their methods clashed across the battlefield, while Tian Shenggong also fought Heavenly Sun Brilliant God with his gigantic puppet.
• Tian Shenggong realized that the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor depended on atmospheric water-vapor replenishment and changed the direction of the incoming earth and stone to disrupt it.
• Zhang Yu’s transportation performance plunged and his other contests began to falter, so Tian Shenggong prepared to unleash his Sponsored Move.

Zhang Yu defeated Tian Shenggong by combining his abilities into an artificial Immortal Dao Sun that overwhelmed Extreme Tiger’s twentyfold overclocked attack. After Tian Shenggong left the battlefield, True Lord Anzhen received a message from Tian Yan Shenjun summoning Zhang Yu.

• Tian Shenggong activated Extreme Tiger Overclocking, but Zhang Yu used a flood to coordinate his powers and disrupt Tian Shenggong’s construction and combat forces.
• Tian Shenggong funneled his other Dharma Treasures’ power through the gigantic puppet and twelve Two Forms Yuan Magnetic Beads, then launched a twentyfold-overclocked strike at Zhang Yu.
• Zhang Yu activated the Seven Wonders Magic Skeleton and combined flame, water, and gravity to create an artificial Immortal Dao Sun.
• Zhang Yu’s Immortal Dao Sun devoured Tian Shenggong’s Two Forms Yuan Magnetic Bead and badly damaged the gigantic puppet, leaving Tian Shenggong unable to fight.
• Tian Shenggong demanded to know who had invented Zhang Yu’s technique, then left the battlefield, while Zhang Yu acknowledged that using the move again might kill him.
• True Lord Anzhen received a message from Tian Yan Shenjun ordering Zhang Yu to come see him after the battle.

Bai Zhenzhen and Kuang Tianqing fought in the semifinals, with Bai using her Seven Emotions Sword Dao to weaken Kuang Tianqing and set up a lightning-fast strike. Unfamiliar memories overwhelmed Kuang Tianqing, who cried out that the world had gone mad just as Bai’s sword pierced her.

• True Lord Anzhen observed Zhang Yu’s potential and suspected the Principal planned to raise the stakes to make him fight Kuang Tianqing.
• Bai Zhenzhen and Kuang Tianqing exchanged taunts before their semifinal battle, each declaring that the other’s techniques would fail.
• Bai Zhenzhen spread sword-artifact strands of her hair across the battlefield and used Seven Emotions Sword Qi to weaken Kuang Tianqing’s emotions.
• Kuang Tianqing countered the emotional suppression with her Hate Heart Art and prepared to evade Bai’s incoming sword.
• Unfamiliar memories flooded Kuang Tianqing’s mind, leaving her confused and furious as she shouted, “This world... has gone mad!!!”
• Bai Zhenzhen’s sword pierced Kuang Tianqing before she could block it.

Kuang Tianqing struggled against Bai Zhenzhen while unfamiliar past-life memories disrupted her mind, then abandoned her original body and rebirthed herself in a teenage form. Bai Zhenzhen unleashed a devastating Extreme Emotion Sword Dao strike, but Kuang Tianqing survived with her backup body and left Bai Zhenzhen standing with strength for one final attack.

• Bai Zhenzhen pierced Kuang Tianqing with her flying sword, but Kuang Tianqing trapped it in her arm and used polluted Spiritual Energy to sever Bai Zhenzhen's connection to it.
• Bai Zhenzhen attacked with the Yuhuan Sword and black Sword Qi, while Kuang Tianqing fought back until Bai Zhenzhen severed her arm and used her field of hair to redirect her attacks.
• Kuang Tianqing abandoned her original body and emerged in a rapidly grown teenage body, leaving her original body to attack Bai Zhenzhen by instinct.
• Bai Zhenzhen cut away her emotions with the Seven Emotions Sword Dao and struck Kuang Tianqing with a destructive sword that destroyed her new body, but Kuang Tianqing survived through her original body.
• Kuang Tianqing used the radiance of a shattering Golden Core to defeat Bai Zhenzhen's next attack, then invited her to make one final strike as a sign of respect.

Kuang Tianqing defeated Bai Zhenzhen after Bai sacrificed her body and fought with the Yuhuan Sword, leaving Zhang Yu to carry her resolve into the Top Ten League finals. After the battle, Zhang Yu was summoned to meet Tian Yan Shenjun, who asked what Immortal Sect Technique he would choose.

• Kuang Tianqing overcame her hesitation, attacked Bai Zhenzhen, and tried to drain the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao from her with the Heaven-Earth Yin-Yang Grand Bliss Rhapsody.
• Bai Zhenzhen restored her emotions, united with the Yuhuan Sword, and unleashed a final attack after deciding to stake her life on helping Zhang Yu reach the Top Ten League throne.
• Kuang Tianqing defeated Bai Zhenzhen, whose phantom vanished, while the Seven Emotions Divine Lord took the Spiral Longsword away.
• The Seven Emotions Divine Lord told Zhang Yu that Bai Zhenzhen had wagered her life to help him defeat Kuang Tianqing and offered to lend him half the ownership of her remains for the finals.
• After the match, True Lord Anzhen summoned Zhang Yu to meet Tian Yan Shenjun, who asked him what Immortal Sect Technique he would choose.

Tian Yan Shenjun and Seven Emotions Divine Lord each urged Zhang Yu to choose a different Immortal Sect Technique, but agreed to postpone the decision until after he won the championship. Tian Yan Shenjun then began training Zhang Yu to prepare for his final battle against Kuang Tianqing by teaching him Core Shattering.

• Tian Yan Shenjun offered Zhang Yu a contract requiring him to choose the Law Realm Divine Creation Chapter if he won the championship, but Zhang Yu hesitated and asked whether Heaven Sword University might also make demands in exchange for lending him Bai Zhenzhen’s sword.
• Seven Emotions Divine Lord revealed that she wanted Zhang Yu to choose an incomplete sword art by Extreme Emotion Immortal to complete Bai Zhenzhen’s Extreme Emotion Sword Dao and benefit Zhang Yu as well.
• Tian Yan Shenjun and Seven Emotions Divine Lord agreed that Zhang Yu’s Immortal Sect Technique choice could wait until after the championship, and Seven Emotions Divine Lord promised that Bai Zhenzhen would join him against Kuang Tianqing.
• Tian Yan Shenjun identified Core Shattering as the skill Zhang Yu lacked compared with Kuang Tianqing, offered him discounted Golden Cores, and gave him the Heavenly Meteorite Shattered Core Scripture to master over the next seven days.

As the finals approached, Zhang Yu cultivated shattered-core techniques and investigated Dao Qiankun’s corpse while Kuang Tianqing recovered memories of her ancient life and her true mission. The chapter ended with Zhang Yu and Kuang Tianqing facing each other in the arena, each determined to win the championship.

• Zhang Yu ordered Ten-Shatter Golden Cores, scored second on the Golden Core Seed Rankings, and began cultivating the Heavenly Meteorite Shattered Core Scripture beside Dao Qiankun’s corpse.
• Kuang Tianqing recovered memories revealing that she had reincarnated from the Heavenly Devil Sect to promote the New Samsara System, and Zi Zai Shenjun sealed those memories again before the finals.
• Zhang Yu discovered that Dao Qiankun’s artifact spirit could arrange repairs to the corpse’s Dharma Skeleton, then worked with it to revise blueprints and pursue the Dao Seed.
• Zhang Pianpian urged Zhang Yu to consider the life-preserving Nine Heavens Samsara Steps, while Director Gao encouraged him to move forward despite his fear and uncertainty.
• Zhang Yu entered the finals with Bai Zhenzhen and faced Kuang Tianqing, as both resolved to crush the other and prove their paths on the Immortal Dao.

Zhang Yu and Kuang Tianqing unleashed their ultimate powers in a battle neither could win outright, while Kuang Tianqing used the world’s hopes and Zhang Yu’s uncertain purpose to pressure him. As the fight continued, Zhang Yu realized that merely surviving was no longer enough, though he had not yet found what he wanted to fight for.

• Zhang Yu and Kuang Tianqing began their decisive battle at full strength, each using their most powerful techniques and weapons.
• Their hundred exchanges devastated the battlefield, but both remained undefeated despite their overwhelming attacks.
• Kuang Tianqing taunted Zhang Yu and argued that the world expected him to win so everyone could live longer, while Zhang Yu acknowledged that most people wanted him to lose.
• Kuang Tianqing pressed Zhang Yu about what he was fighting for, and Zhang Yu recalled that survival had driven him through his studies and battles.
• As Kuang Tianqing forced him back across the battlefield, Zhang Yu realized that he did not merely want to survive.

Zhang Yu and Kuang Tianqing fought for ten hours until both reached their limits, and Zhang Yu activated his replicated Descendant of Immortals Dao Seed. Kuang Tianqing then pushed her breakthrough to ninety-nine percent and self-destructed her Golden Core and body to unleash a final attack meant to kill Zhang Yu.

• Zhang Yu reflected on his ambitions and poured himself into his continuing battle with Kuang Tianqing.
• Zhang Yu and Kuang Tianqing fought across the ground, sky, and underground for ten hours, exhausting their techniques and power.
• Both fighters recognized that their strength had reached its limit and prepared to decide the victor with one final strike.
• Zhang Yu activated Descendant of Immortals, which let him open a small space within his body and transfer inanimate matter through it.
• Kuang Tianqing drove her breakthrough to ninety-nine percent, then self-destructed her Golden Core and body to unleash her strongest attack at Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu defeated Kuang Tianqing in a devastating final clash, becoming the Top Ten League champion and the Strongest Undergraduate Student of the Top Ten. With a Divine Protection Talisman safeguarding him for one day before the awards ceremony, he faced a fierce contest among the universities over which Immortal Dao technique he would choose.

• As students and university leaders watched the battle, Director Gao and Tu Lishan discussed how Zhang Yu's equipment, Bai Zhenzhen's Spiral Longsword, and his growing abilities let him challenge Kuang Tianqing.
• Zhang Yu recalled Fu Ji's warning that a Descendant of Immortals' spatial power could draw dangerous attention, then decided to use it covertly during the final clash.
• Kuang Tianqing detonated her Golden Core and body for a final attack, and Zhang Yu shattered four Golden Cores before unleashing the Immortal Dao Sun; Bai Zhenzhen guided him as they cut through the explosion together.
• Zhang Yu's hidden spatial opening swallowed part of the shockwave, but his body and Spiral Longsword were pushed to their limits; Kuang Tianqing's Demon Fetus was destroyed, and Zhang Yu survived with divine protection and healing talismans.
• Great God of All Living Beings declared Zhang Yu the champion and granted him a Divine Protection Talisman for one day, while the university principals began vying to influence his choice of reward technique.
• Tian Yan Shenjun sent Zhang Yu back to Ten Thousand Laws University for treatment as the principals' rivalry intensified over control of the champion and the Immortal Sect Technique.

Zhao Tianxing, Hu Yuntao, and others watched Zhang Yu win the Top Ten League and grappled with the attention and expectations that followed. As pressure mounted over which Immortal Sect Technique Zhang Yu would choose, he disappeared after the battle, leaving everyone wondering where he had gone.

• Zhao Tianxing learned that the Soul Cultivators' connections to Zhang Yu's Dharma Treasure had failed, then watched the livestream announce Zhang Yu as the Top Ten League champion.
• Zhao Tianxing received congratulations and requests from people hoping to influence Zhang Yu's choice, and reflected that Zhang Yu had changed his life.
• Hu Yuntao celebrated Zhang Yu's victory in group chats, then received Xiong Wenwu's message that Zhang Yu's choice could end discrimination against Demon Descendants and the conflict between humans and demons.
• Director Gao saw discussion spread over which Immortal Sect Technique Zhang Yu should choose, warned Magnetic Pole that pressure on Zhang Yu would intensify, and received no reply from Zhang Yu.
• Ye Xingli promoted the Chaos Soil Eater in her livestream and tried to interview Zhang Yu, but found that he had disappeared and his Flying Boat was sealed off.

After recovering from his battle, Zhang Yu pressed Tian Yan Shenjun to explain the Dharma Realm’s plans and his role before choosing an Immortal Sect Technique. Meanwhile, rival universities mobilized for a possible all-out war over his choice, with Zi Zai Shenjun threatening to bankrupt Layers Two through Six.

• Tian Shenggong offered Zhang Yu a spokesperson deal from Extreme Tiger Company, while Ying Mingchi and Zhang Yu’s former classmates sent him messages about his victory and future plans.
• Zhang Yu received treatment, slept for a little over two hours, and woke with his injuries healed; he learned that Bai Zhenzhen had been taken away and that the Seven Wonders Magic Skeleton was being repaired.
• Tian Yan Shenjun urged Zhang Yu to choose the Law Realm Divine Creation Chapter, but Zhang Yu demanded details about the Dharma Realm’s construction, its effects on the world, and his place in it.
• Tian Yan Shenjun agreed to take Zhang Yu with him after Zhang Yu insisted on learning more, while Li Shiwei discovered that Dao Qiankun’s body had been stolen.
• Ping Han learned that schools were mobilizing at their borders, and Nectar Divine Lord confronted Myriad Transformations Divine Lord over Zhang Yu’s choice of technique.
• Zi Zai Shenjun backed Nectar Divine Lord’s threat of war, saying they could bankrupt every layer from two to six and reincarnate afterward.

Tian Yan Shenjun urged Zhang Yu to choose the Law Realm Divine Creation Chapter, presenting the Dharma Realm as a society-changing project that would make Zhang Yu its chief engineer. Seven Emotions Divine Lord instead urged him to choose the Crimson Heart Sword Art, and the chapter ended when Director Gao warned Zhang Yu not to follow her advice.

• Tian Yan Shenjun explained how the Dharma Realm could create Immortal Dao Stocks and change Kunxu, then offered Zhang Yu a leading role in its construction.
• Tian Yan Shenjun and the Four Heavenly Demon Schools' Deity Transformation cultivators threatened and negotiated over the Dharma Realm, reaching a preliminary outcome amid Spirit Realm financial clashes.
• Tian Yan Shenjun told Zhang Yu to choose the Law Realm Divine Creation Chapter and introduced him to Seven Emotions Divine Lord.
• Seven Emotions Divine Lord recommended the Crimson Heart Sword Art, saying it could advance Zhang Yu's Extreme Emotion Sword Dao and help repair Bai Zhenzhen's heart.
• Zhang Yu returned to his physical body and resolved to investigate his options, but Director Gao entered and told him not to choose the Crimson Heart Sword Art.

Zhang Yu weighed the risks of the Crimson Heart Sword Art with Director Gao and asked for information on every Immortal Sect Technique. As Deity Transformations and Ten Thousand Laws University sought opinions and prepared a documentary about him, his former rivals, teachers, and schoolmate reacted to his rise as the Top Ten League champion.

• Director Gao warned Zhang Yu that the Crimson Heart Sword Art could make him a tool exploited through debt and urged him to reject it, then explained that the Dharma Realm served the Upper Sect’s plans.
• Zhang Yu asked Director Gao to gather intelligence on all Immortal Sect Techniques, and Director Gao warned him that the Four Heavenly Demon Schools might contact him about Longevity technology.
• Zi Zai Shenjun sent Zhang Yu a friend request, while Wang Yin joined a group with Ye Lingxiao, Kuang Tianqing, and Lian Tianji to discuss Zhang Yu for the Deity Transformations.
• Ten Thousand Laws University showed Zhang Yu’s final match to his former high school teachers and arranged interviews and congratulatory messages for a documentary about him.
• Lan Ling learned that he would be interviewed for the documentary, discovered Zhang Yu had won the league, and panicked about having bullied him in high school.