Chapter Summaries

After mastering the Feather Scroll’s new Immortal Foundation Chapter, Zhang Yu received a tenfold raise request from Fu Ji and then learned how the Myriad Laws Sect planned to collect books under heaven. He began preparing to lead the effort, with Yu Xinghan and Magnetic Pole joining his team and Ye Xingli positioned for promotion.

• Zhang Yu discovered that the Feather Scroll’s Immortal Foundation Chapter let him draw on Grand Dao Essence and accelerate his progress in seeking the Dao.
• Fu Ji asked Zhang Yu for a raise, and he increased her antique-buying quota tenfold; she then proposed sending controlled Evil Gods out to do business, but Zhang Yu deferred the idea.
• Dugu Ming explained that the sect would first collect newly born books, then target old books within its sphere of influence, using force against unsupported cultivators and transactions for influential owners.
• Dugu Ming gave Zhang Yu a list of people the Immortal Emperor had forbidden him to target, including Tai Yuebai, and offered him additional manpower.
• Zhang Yu requested Yu Xinghan and Magnetic Pole for the book-collection effort and planned to recommend Ye Xingli to lead the Underworld Property Department after Yu Xinghan left.

Zhang Yu recruited Tai Yuebai, Lie Jinghong, and Bu Yingshu to help with the Collection of All Books, while Dugu Ming warned that the project could lead to a major contest between sects. At the project meeting, Zhang Yu kept the existing plan in place, then retrieved four books held by the Heavenly Observation Hall.

• Zhang Yu persuaded Dugu Ming to transfer Tai Yuebai, Lie Jinghong, and Bu Yingshu onto the book collection project, and Dugu Ming warned him that the sects might soon compete to seize one another's books.
• Bu Yingshu, Tai Yuebai, Lie Jinghong, and Le Mulan joined the project meeting, while Liu Qianxian worried that Zhang Yu's powerful connections would take credit for her team's work.
• Zhang Yu reviewed the Kunxu map and book-collection progress, told Liu Qianxian to continue the existing plan, and added people to the assignments without changing the workflow.
• Zhang Yu asked Liu Qianxian about the four books under the team's control, then went with her to the Heavenly Observation Hall treasury and took them into his Grotto-Heaven.

Zhang Yu fused four Lower-Grade Books into the Feather Scroll, gaining new cultivation specializations, a way to build Physical Strength, and the Peerless Dao Bearing Chain Law Diagram. After his Cosmic Dao Orthodoxy progress reached 48%, he traveled with Liu Qianxian to the Immortal Soldier Mansion to collect a newly appeared Middle-Grade Book, where she warned him that its open-source practices could expose his Immortal Dao Technique.

• Zhang Yu tested the four Lower-Grade Books against the clone containing the restrained wills of Immortal Emperors Reincarnation and Ten Thousand Methods, then fused them into the Feather Scroll one by one.
• Zhang Yu gained Palm Technique and Mind Method specialization slots, discovered that the Body Tempering Manual let him accumulate points to raise Physical Strength, and learned that the Cultivation Notes contained the Peerless Dao Bearing Chain Law Diagram.
• Zhang Yu's Cosmic Dao Orthodoxy progress reached 48%, sharpening his perception of spatial structures and giving him a glimpse of the Lower Realm.
• Le Mulan told Zhang Yu that a new Middle-Grade Book had appeared at the Immortal Soldier Mansion, and Liu Qianxian insisted on accompanying him as a diplomatic envoy.
• Liu Qianxian warned Zhang Yu not to use Immortal Soldier Mansion equipment or services, explaining that Lower Cultivators there open-sourced their techniques for High Cultivators and could expose his own technique with a careless interaction.

Zhang Yu and Liu Qianxian entered the Immortal Soldier Mansion as a new book’s selection process began, while Bai Gusheng assessed the competition for the Four Books. The selection drew cultivators into a contest over simulated cultivation methods, but Yuan Sheng invoked a Law Article to make everyone share their information and ordered the sect to recover the book.

• Liu Qianxian warned Zhang Yu that the Immortal Soldier Mansion relied on piracy and that Cultivation Notes was making him unnaturally alluring to her.
• Zhang Yu sensed Feather Scroll react near the place where a new book was expected to appear, while Bai Gusheng observed the crowds and considered the contest a prelude to the next Ascension Selection.
• Advertisements tried to lure cultivators into clicking before the silent New Book Selection began, revealing rules in which participants chose ten cultivation methods and competed for the highest simulated score.
• A Mind-Control Talisman attack targeted cultivators with a supposed high-paying job, but Wan Ci Wang resisted and local cultivators tried to bargain over the chance to participate.
• Yuan Sheng used the Law Article User Open-Source to force Immortal Soldier Mansion cultivators to disclose their information for free, then declared the new book sect property and threatened disobedient cultivators with a hundred-year blacklist.

Zhang Yu, Yuan Sheng, Bai Gusheng, and other cultivators competed in the Immortal Soldier Mansion’s New Book Selection by combining techniques to simulate a security guard’s life. As the contest turned into a race to copy and refine successful combinations, Zhang Yu discovered that the simulator could generate Chain Law Diagrams that did not exist outside it.

• Yuan Sheng introduced himself to Zhang Yu and Liu Qianxian, while both sides privately distrusted and resented one another.
• Zhang Yu entered the Technique Pool and began considering which techniques suited security personnel as cultivators across the sects started their simulations.
• Bao Ping'an’s first combination earned a score of 82 before his simulated guard went bankrupt, and he realized that participants could study one another’s public results.
• Yuan Sheng organized Immortal Soldier Mansion cultivators to test combinations and exploit public records, while Bai Gusheng bought the available techniques and used clones to uncover their Chain Law Diagrams.
• Bai Gusheng identified Spirit Realm Replication as a promising diagram, and the rankings rose as participants iterated on combinations and improved their simulated guards’ lives.
• Zhang Yu noticed that techniques performed better in simulations than his clones’ cultivation suggested, then found that a selected combination could generate a new Chain Law Diagram inside the simulator.

Zhang Yu discovered that the New Book Selection simulator could create Chain Law Diagrams and used his insight to climb the rankings. He won the selection with a technique combination that helped a security guard become an Exam Ancestor Laureate, then received the new book and escaped into the Immortal Grotto-Heaven as Yuan Sheng and Bai Gusheng approached.

• Zhang Yu realized the simulator could generate Chain Law Diagrams, created Security Physique, and took first place with a score of 633.
• Bai Gusheng used Spirit Realm Replication to score 688 points, inferred that the new book created Chain Law Diagrams, and sought more testing opportunities from Yuan Sheng.
• Yuan Sheng asked Bai Gusheng for the Sect Diary in exchange for yielding the new book, while Zhang Yu tried Security Emperor through Liu Qianxian but failed to beat Security Physique.
• Bai Gusheng and Yuan Sheng's cultivators refined their combinations until a record reached a 900-year lifespan, but Zhang Yu claimed first place with 1,000 points by using Exam Ancestor Laureate to become a Sect Affairs Officer.
• Bai Gusheng and Yuan Sheng failed to surpass Zhang Yu before the selection ended, and Zhang Yu took the new book and vanished into the Immortal Grotto-Heaven.

After winning the New Book Selection, Zhang Yu discovered that the Chain Law Compendium was created by the Immortal Ancestor and could carry information across a world rollback. He recovered a sealed message from his future self and learned that the Compendium could create genuine Chain Law Diagrams.

• Zhang Yu escaped to the Immortal Grotto-Heaven, but Bai Gusheng and Yuan Sheng followed him with clones and tried to bargain for information about the Chain Law Compendium.
• Bai Gusheng told Zhang Yu that the Immortal Emperors planned to revive the Immortal Ancestor, whom he said had created the Four Books and been killed after connecting Dao Orthodoxies.
• Zhang Yu's clone read the Compendium's account of the Immortal Ancestor's ambitions, then encountered a message beginning with Zhang Yu's own name that he could not remember reading.
• Zhang Yu noticed that the time spent reading exceeded the time he remembered and sealed the Immortal Grotto-Heaven while searching for the cause of his lost memory.
• Zhang Yu found a countdown and sealed future information in a newly created Layer 13, concluding that his future self had sent a message through the Compendium before a world rollback.
• Zhang Yu reopened the Compendium and discovered that it could create genuine Chain Law Diagrams.

Zhang Yu investigated the Immortal Ancestor and considered the risks of using the Chain Law Compendium to create Chain Law Diagrams. After discovering that many existing diagrams had already been created by the book, he fused it into the Feather Scroll while weighing how to use its power.

• Yuan Sheng told Zhang Yu that the Ten Immortal Emperors had erased the Immortal Ancestor’s traces with Supreme Immortal Artifacts, but books preserved clues about him.
• Zhang Yu realized the Chain Law Compendium could create diagrams that might benefit cultivators broadly, though their effects could disrupt industries and provoke powerful enemies.
• Bai Gusheng guessed that Zhang Yu’s new book could create Chain Law Diagrams and invited him to ally with him in the competition to manage the Four Books after the Immortal Ancestor’s manifestation.
• Zhang Yu tested the Chain Law Compendium and found that every Chain Law Diagram he already possessed had been created before and could not be recreated.
• Zhang Yu weighed whether to create narrowly usable diagrams or ones that could spread widely, then merged the Chain Law Compendium into the Feather Scroll.

After learning that the Immortal Ancestor might appear in a little over a year, Zhang Yu warned Tai Yuebai and decided to publicize the Chain Law Compendium’s ability to create Chain Law Diagrams. He reported the book to the Wanfa Immortal Emperor and was summoned to Layer 33, while Bu Yingshu was left stunned by his audience with the Immortal Emperor.

• Zhang Yu studied the newly merged Chain Law Compendium, saw his Dao-seeking progress rise to 58%, and asked Bai Gusheng about the Immortal Ancestor’s strength and messages in books.
• After consulting Yuan Sheng, Zhang Yu told Tai Yuebai about the Immortal Ancestor’s possible revival in a year and asked him to contact Ying Xintian about warning Kunxu and sending messages through books.
• Tai Yuebai warned that the message might be a trap set by the Ten Immortal Emperors, but agreed that Ying Xintian still needed to be informed.
• Zhang Yu decided to reveal the Chain Law Compendium’s diagram-creation ability, informed the Evil Gods of his plan, and emailed the Wanfa Immortal Emperor to report the book.
• Bu Yingshu invited Zhang Yu to meet representatives from five Immortal Clans, but the Wanfa Immortal Emperor summoned him through a gate to Layer 33 before he could go.

Zhang Yu met Wanfa Immortal Emperor in the Sea of Ten Thousand Methods, where the Emperor argued that becoming the Endtime Immortal Emperor was the only way to save Kunxu. The Emperor rewarded Zhang Yu with powerful authority and cultivation benefits, then offered to explain how he could return to Earth if he helped him.

• Zhang Yu entered Layer 33 and learned from Jing Hui that the Sea of Ten Thousand Methods contained vast stores of cultivation methods generated by the Immortal Emperor's model.
• Wanfa Immortal Emperor appeared, warned Zhang Yu that an Immortal Emperor would consume Kunxu's resources, and claimed only an Endtime Immortal Emperor could save the world.
• Wanfa Immortal Emperor praised Zhang Yu for reporting the Chain Law Compendium and gave him authority over its Chain Law Diagram, a hundred-billion flying sword, and unrestricted access to Layer 33.
• Wanfa Immortal Emperor strengthened Zhang Yu through the Dharma Realm, granting him tenfold Body Tempering efficiency and an allowance of one billion mana units each month.
• Wanfa Immortal Emperor sent Zhang Yu away and promised to reveal how to return to Earth if Zhang Yu helped him become the Endtime Immortal Emperor.
• After Zhang Yu left, a heavily encrypted message from the future appeared before Wanfa Immortal Emperor, praising his peerless sword.

After Zhang Yu’s audience with the Wanfa Immortal Emperor, he and Tai Yuebai restored their encrypted memories and concluded they had avoided revealing their knowledge of the rollbacks. Zhang Yu then merged a Blade Arts Book into the Feather Scroll, which revealed a warning against trusting future information from outside the scroll.

• The Wanfa Immortal Emperor secretly watched Tai Yuebai’s memories, read the future information in his residence, and copied it before meeting Zhang Yu.
• The Wanfa Immortal Emperor hinted that Zhang Yu could return to Earth and gave him rewards, while Zhan Xian warned Zhang Yu not to trust him and the Sect Examination Clone welcomed his favor.
• After returning to the 16th Layer, Zhang Yu reunited with Tai Yuebai, confirmed that the Immortal Emperor had left no detectable surveillance, and restored his encrypted memories.
• Zhang Yu told Fu Ji and the other evil gods about his rewards, then had Fu Ji reassure Bu Yingshu and persuade the Immortal Clan representatives to support his book-collection plan.
• Bu Yingshu showed the representatives a video of Zhang Yu meeting the Immortal Emperor, and Bu Aixian sent Zhang Yu a Lower-Grade Blade Arts Book.
• Zhang Yu merged the Blade Arts Book into the Feather Scroll and found a message warning him not to believe future information from outside the Feather Scroll.

Zhang Yu read a warning from his future self on the Feather Scroll, then deliberately let the message and his memories vanish so he could deceive even himself. As he used his meeting with the Wanfa Immortal Emperor to secure support for construction, a riot over book collection erupted in the Lower Realm, and Zhang Yu prepared to intervene.

• Zhang Yu read that future information could mislead the Immortal Emperors, exploit their arrogance and greed, and that Ying Xintian was trustworthy; he chose not to preserve the message after meeting an Immortal Emperor.
• Zhang Yu lost the message and his memories, retaining only a sliver of excitement and a small sealed fragment of future information on the Feather Scroll.
• Gao Chongguang warned Zhang Yu that the Immortal Grotto-Heaven construction project was running short of funds, and Zhang Yu said the Immortal Emperor had told him that new policies and funding were coming.
• Yu Xinghan informed Zhang Yu that book collection had led to mass arrests and a riot on Layer 5, and Zhang Yu said he would go there to stop the crackdown.
• When Yu Xinghan questioned how Zhang Yu could enter the Lower Realm so quickly, Zhang Yu said he had contacted the Immortal Emperor.

Zhang Yu obtained an approved Lower Realm Pass through Jing Hui and prepared to travel amid a riot on the Fifth Layer. Encouraged by his conversation with Zhang Yu and the Immortal Emperor’s backing, Yu Xinghan resolved to intervene if the Orthodox Gods escalated the conflict.

• Yu Xinghan learned that Zhang Yu was communicating with the Wanfa Immortal Emperor and wondered if the Emperor might be watching him.
• The Wanfa Immortal Emperor directed Zhang Yu to report minor matters to Jing Hui, who sent him a preapproved Lower Realm Pass to complete.
• Zhang Yu filled out the pass and reflected on how the Immortal Emperor’s support had given him security and advantages.
• After Yu Xinghan ended his call with Zhang Yu, Divine Lord Tiansha asked what Zhang Yu had said, but Yu Xinghan only promised to stop a battle if the Orthodox Gods made their move.
• Yu Xinghan decided to take responsibility for the riot and told Divine Lord Tiansha not to become a Sect Affairs Officer if he feared doing so.

After the Myriad Laws Sect announced that Zhang Yu would create Chain Law Diagrams, cultivators and factions speculated about the enormous economic and political consequences. Zhang Yu drew the sect’s book owners to a meeting and left with their books by claiming the Immortal Emperor wanted to borrow them, leaving the owners wary and bewildered.

• Gao Chongguang read the Spirit Realm discussion about Chain Law Diagrams and realized their creation could bring authority and wealth to Zhang Yu and the Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
• Bu Yuangui explained to Bu Yingshu that Chain Law Diagrams could disrupt industries and Dao struggles, while Bai Gusheng suspected Zhang Yu had gained the ability from the book he had lost.
• Cang Juehuan and other book owners discussed how to profit from their books, then accepted Zhang Yu’s invitation to a meeting about creating Chain Law Diagrams.
• Zhang Yu required attendees to submit their books for inspection, and the owners handed over twenty-one books, including Cang Juehuan’s Great Sage Book.
• Zhang Yu carried all twenty-one books through a gateway to Layer 33 and returned without them, telling the attendees that those above wanted to borrow the books and that he would notify them when they were returned.