Recaps

During a timeout, Zhang Yu revealed his Artifact Crafting background and asked the Ten Thousand Laws Team to trust him for one more fight against Xiang Shan. After receiving Mo Shang Jin’s Seven Wonders Magic Skeleton through a transplant, Zhang Yu returned to the arena and clashed with Xiang Shan, who remained determined to crush the hopes of the Demon Descendants.

• Mo Shang Jin withdrew from the match because continuing would exceed his Spirit Coin budget, and the Ten Thousand Laws Team considered surrendering.
• Zhang Yu urged the team to fight again, revealed that he was Magnetic Extremes True Lord’s disciple and planned to transfer to the Artifact Crafting Department, and won the team’s trust.
• Mo Shang Jin lent Zhang Yu his Seven Wonders Magic Skeleton, and doctors transplanted it and other Dharma Skeletons into Zhang Yu.
• Xiang Shan reflected on the Demon Descendants’ hopes for change and returned to the arena as the timeout ended.
• Zhang Yu met Xiang Shan’s charge in a four-armed Mountain Moving Warrior form, and the two exchanged powerful blows that shook the arena.

Zhang Yu and Xiang Shan fought while their teams raced to complete construction, and Zhang Yu ultimately trapped Xiang Shan inside a reinforced floating mountain. Ten Thousand Laws University won the match, and Zhang Yu was hailed as the strongest civil engineering student, though Mo Shang Jin still wanted his Seven Wonders Magic Skeleton back.

• Xiang Shan battered Zhang Yu underground, polluted the battlefield with demon qi, and used Spirit Realm donations and Soul Cultivators to pressure Zhang Yu’s Dharma Skeleton.
• While Zhang Yu held Xiang Shan off, the Ten Thousand Laws Team built a floating island with reinforced concrete, steel, Spirit Veins, and the Ying Family’s ashes.
• Zhang Yu used Eternal Calamity Abyss to restrain Xiang Shan as the completed floating island crashed down on him, then detached from his paralyzed Seven Wonders Magic Skeleton to bring in more materials and Living Piles.
• Xiang Shan struggled to break through the increasingly heavy, reinforced mountain, while Zhang Yu moved the completed building into its designated position and secured Ten Thousand Laws University a 43% completion rate against Heavenly Demon University’s 0%.
• The match ended with Ten Thousand Laws University winning, and Director Gao praised Zhang Yu as the strongest civil engineering student while criticizing Xiang Shan’s reliance on a Military-grade Dharma Skeleton.
• Mo Shang Jin messaged Zhang Yu to ask where his Seven Wonders Magic Skeleton was.

After Zhang Yu led Ten Thousand Laws University to the Civil Engineering Competition championship, he received the Military Grade Armor blueprints and celebrated with his teammates and Soul Cultivators. Back at Ten Thousand Methods, the university held a banquet, where Director Gao asked True Lord Qiyun to look after Zhang Yu despite his planned transfer to the Artifact Crafting Department.

• Zhang Yu had his body parts transplanted back, then joined his team on the championship podium as the Soul Cultivators came up to receive the award and take photos with them.
• True Lord Tianxiang awarded Ten Thousand Laws University and the team the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor blueprints and usage rights, while Xiang Shan faced curses, demands for compensation, and the departure of his clansmen.
• Zhang Yu and the team returned to Ten Thousand Methods and were welcomed at a celebratory banquet attended by students, teachers, and True Lord Qiyun.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord told Zhang Yu to let Director Gao enjoy the celebration, and Director Gao asked True Lord Qiyun to look after Zhang Yu in the future.

At the banquet, Director Gao announced that he would nominate Zhang Yu for postgraduate study in Civil Engineering, even as Zhang Yu struggled with his plans to transfer to Artifact Crafting. Chain Pivot True Lord then offered Zhang Yu a place in Finance and promised to cover his obligations, but Zhang Yu rejected the offer before hearing the full proposal.

• Director Gao told True Lord Qiyun that he planned to nominate Zhang Yu for postgraduate admission and make him his successor in Civil Engineering.
• Shi Huaiyu reported that Zhang Yu intended to transfer to Artifact Crafting, prompting Tu Lishan and others to wonder whether Director Gao and Magnetic Extremes True Lord were coordinating a plan.
• At the banquet, Director Gao praised Zhang Yu’s role in the Civil Engineering team’s championship and announced that he would become Zhang Yu’s postgraduate advisor.
• Zhang Yu privately asked Magnetic Extremes True Lord what to do, and she advised him to stall or brush off Director Gao’s offer.
• Chain Pivot True Lord invited Zhang Yu to join Finance as his disciple and offered to cover his debts and postgraduate arrangements, but Zhang Yu refused the department.

Chain Pivot True Lord tried to recruit Zhang Yu into the Finance Department at the Civil Engineering Department’s commendation ceremony, but Zhang Yu firmly refused. The confrontation escalated when Magnetic Pole sealed off Spirit Realm messages and challenged Chain Pivot True Lord over the school’s debts and the Finance Department’s control of other departments.

• Chain Pivot True Lord descended at the ceremony to recruit Zhang Yu, while students spread news of the poaching attempt through the Spirit Realm.
• Director Gao defended Zhang Yu, but Chain Pivot True Lord invoked the Finance Department’s financial leverage and several Civil Engineering Department teachers urged Gao to avoid a confrontation.
• Zhang Yu told Chain Pivot True Lord he would never transfer to the Finance Department, and Chain Pivot continued pressing him to visit despite his refusal.
• Director Gao backed Zhang Yu, but other teachers again urged Gao to let Chain Pivot take him to the Finance Department.
• Magnetic Pole sealed Spirit Realm communications and challenged Chain Pivot True Lord, who countered with the Finance Department’s Spirit Coin power.
• Magnetic Pole accused the Finance Department of blaming other departments for growing school debts while using loans to constrain them.

Magnetic Extremes True Lord and Chain Pivot True Lord clashed over the Finance Department’s loans at the Civil Engineering Department’s victory banquet, but True Lord Qiyun stopped them. Chain Pivot True Lord then brought Zhang Yu to the Finance Department, where Jiu Tianliu tried to recruit him by showing him the department’s financial power, leaving Zhang Yu questioning whether it could help him enter a sect.

• Magnetic Extremes True Lord and Chain Pivot True Lord argued over the Finance Department’s spending, disrupting Spirit Realm communications until True Lord Qiyun intervened.
• Chain Pivot True Lord presented Zhang Yu with a Finance Department invitation signed by Golden Palace Divine Lord, and Zhang Yu accepted after Director Gao warned him not to offend the Finance Department.
• Jiu Tianliu led Zhang Yu through the Virtual Currency Trading Center and Luck Monitoring Center, showing how the Finance Department profited from trading and influenced students’ fortunes.
• Jiu Tianliu showed Zhang Yu the Finance Department’s history and the Kunlun Industry Research Institute, then urged him to become a financier instead of pursuing a career in the Artifact Crafting or Civil Engineering departments.
• Zhang Yu asked whether the Finance Department could get him into a sect, and Jiu Tianliu replied that sect matters were beyond someone of Zhang Yu’s status.

Zhang Yu refused Jiu Tianliu’s offer to join the Finance Department despite threats, and the department immediately began disrupting his company’s projects. Director Gao asked Magnetic Extremes True Lord to take Zhang Yu into the Artifact Crafting Department, and Zhang Yu arrived at her office to report what had happened.

• Jiu Tianliu offered Zhang Yu money, fame, and support to join the Finance Department, but Zhang Yu refused and said he preferred the Artifact Crafting Department.
• After Zhang Yu left, his company’s partners suspended projects, and Ying Xin told him the company had run out of money to pay wages.
• Director Gao warned Magnetic Extremes True Lord that the Finance Department was targeting Zhang Yu and asked her to take him into the Artifact Crafting Department for protection.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord invited Zhang Yu to her office, where he recounted his visit to the Finance Department.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord rubbed Zhang Yu’s head and asked whether he had refused the Finance Department’s invitation.

Zhang Yu explained that he wanted to transfer from the Civil Engineering Department to the Artifact Crafting Department so he could pursue his dream of entering a Sect. Director Gao agreed to let him go, and Magnetic Extremes True Lord began guiding him toward the Top Ten League and the Artifact Crafting Department’s Military Grade powers.

• Zhang Yu told Magnetic Extremes True Lord he had rejected the Finance Department and wanted to join the Artifact Crafting Department to pursue his ambition of entering a Sect.
• Zhang Yu revealed that he planned to compete in the Top Ten League and win an Immortal Sect Grade cultivation art, while Director Gao realized he could no longer support Zhang Yu’s goals.
• Director Gao arranged for Magnetic Extremes True Lord to transfer Zhang Yu to the Artifact Crafting Department and sent Zhang Yu a message admitting that his master had been useless and could not protect him.
• Zhang Yu promised to repay Director Gao and fulfill their contract, while Director Gao left his Spirit Realm Projection and later told Tu Lishan the transfer was planned.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord told Zhang Yu that his existing Military Grade cultivation art was insufficient for the Top Ten League and listed the Artifact Crafting Department’s available powers.
• Zhang Yu asked how to obtain an Artifact Crafting Department Military Grade power, and Magnetic Extremes True Lord explained that qualifying students could receive certification without an exam.

Magnetic Extremes True Lord explained the two routes to Military Artifact Forging Engineering Certificates and how military-grade resources shaped Golden Core scores. Zhang Yu chose to pursue a Type A certificate by refining a prototype and received the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God Prototype Machine blueprints as his goal.

• Magnetic Extremes True Lord explained how artifact-crafting students could earn Type A and Type B certificates, including through design competitions and prototype evaluations, and used Ye Xingli's achievements as an example.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord explained that students prepared for higher-scoring Golden Cores by accumulating military-grade techniques, Dharma Skeletons, treasures, and other resources.
• Zhang Yu worried that Feather Scroll did not help with design inspiration and considered refining a prototype instead of entering a competition.
• After studying the technology requirements for Heavenly Sun Brilliant God, Zhang Yu realized that accelerated practice with Feather Scroll could let him master the needed crafting techniques through repeated refinement.
• Zhang Yu told Magnetic Extremes True Lord he wanted to pursue a Type A certificate, and his teacher recommended Heavenly Sun Brilliant God and sent him its prototype blueprints with a detailed list of prerequisites.

Zhang Yu accepted Magnetic Extremes True Lord’s artifact-crafting blueprints but went to earn construction wages after the Finance Department blocked his work. Once his competition results were confirmed, he transferred to the Artifact Crafting Department and announced his new allegiance.

• Magnetic Extremes True Lord gave Zhang Yu the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God Prototype Machine blueprints, and Zhang Yu suspected he had glimpsed his master’s Dao Seed.
• Zhang Yu asked Fu Ji to list the techniques and related Dharma Treasures from the blueprints, then went to the 669th-floor construction site to earn money.
• Foremen told Zhang Yu that his construction work had been reassigned, and he left after collecting his wages as workers and students discussed the Finance Department’s pressure on him.
• Ying Xin’s grandfather told Zhang Yu that the company’s employees would find odd jobs and could wait for their wages, while Li Xiao and others came to check on him.
• Ten Thousand Laws University registered Zhang Yu’s competition victory, raising his rank to eighth and awarding him twenty Spirit Coins; Lian Huo True Person then contacted him about transferring to the Artifact Crafting Department.
• Zhang Yu’s ranking changed to forty-eighth in the Artifact Crafting Department, and he told the crowd he had transferred there.

Zhang Yu transferred from the Civil Engineering Department to the Artifact Crafting Department and saw how the change gave him greater status while revealing the university city’s unequal worlds. After joining his new class group, he explored a Golden Core simulation website to check his own score.

• Ying Xin, Gongshu Jin, and the others reacted to Zhang Yu’s new Artifact Crafting Department ranking, while Ji Yuan Shu and Ping Han struggled with the news.
• Zhang Yu walked through the Artifact Crafting Department’s more luxurious, convenient, and expensive version of University City and considered seeking construction projects there.
• Zhang Yu received congratulations from classmates and acquaintances, while Jiao Lei True Person told him he could remain in the Civil Engineering class group.
• Fu Ji warned Zhang Yu that his Civil Engineering background could affect his chances of joining a Sect unless a powerful expert erased the record.
• Lian Huo True Person added Zhang Yu to the Artifact Crafting Department class group, where students discussed Golden Core Simulation Scores.
• Zhang Yu opened the simulation website shared in the group to see what score he would receive.

Zhang Yu used Golden Core Guidance to benchmark his cultivation, scored 81,372, and drew the attention of skeptical Artifact Crafting students. After training Divine Fire Control Mirror to Level 10, he received a message from Ye Xingli about taking Dragon Vein Treasure Forging Manual orders.

• Zhang Yu rejected Golden Core Guidance’s Premium Edition and body-detection requests, entered limited information, and received a benchmark score of 81,372 with 37 reported cultivation flaws.
• Zhang Yu viewed the Golden Core Seed Rankings, found himself outside the top 500, and ignored prompts to pay for premium information and permissions.
• Zi Yun Zhen and other Artifact Crafting students criticized Zhang Yu’s transfer, but fell silent when he shared the highest Golden Core benchmark score in their class.
• Su Yun Ni explained that Zhang Yu’s Military-grade Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power and solid foundation boosted his score, while Zi Yun Zhen dismissed its relevance to artifact forging.
• Zhang Yu trained Divine Fire Control Mirror to Level 10 and received a message from Ye Xingli asking whether he was still taking Dragon Vein Treasure Forging Manual orders.

After transferring to the Artifact Crafting Department, Zhang Yu worried about the rising cost of his training and welcomed a new Dragon Vein Treasure Forging Manual order. When Zi Yun Zhen doubted his skill, he showed her a Level 20 pill he had forged, leaving her impressed by its parameters.

• Zhang Yu calculated that custom work and reselling practice Dharma Treasures could help fund his cultivation, but his balance had fallen below three Spirit Coins.
• Ye Xingli told Zhang Yu to contact Zi Yun Zhen directly about her Dragon Vein Treasure Forging Manual order now that he had transferred departments.
• Zi Yun Zhen doubted Zhang Yu’s qualifications and advised him to focus on classes, so Zhang Yu asserted that his manual was Level 20 and pointed her to his Taiyi Golden Liquid Pill.
• Zi Yun Zhen examined the pill’s parameters and learned that Zhang Yu had forged a Level 20 pill through multiple fusions and two rounds of Dragon Vein enhancement.

Zhang Yu built his artifact-forging reputation, won a factory expansion project, and reached Level 20 in the Divine Fire Control Mirror. As he watched Bai Zhenzhen’s message about possibly escaping, strange seven-colored radiance suddenly appeared before him.

• Zi Yun Zhen hired Zhang Yu to refine her Five Elements Banner, and he returned it with Level 20 Dragon Vein Power infusion.
• Zi Yun Zhen shared Zhang Yu’s skill and rankings in a group chat, prompting Su Yun Ni to intensify her exam preparation to protect her first-place standing.
• Zhang Yu met Zhang Pianpian, whose rise to tenth place in the Talisman Department renewed his resolve to qualify for the Top Ten League.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord directed Zhang Yu to take an Artifact Crafting Department factory expansion project, which Zhang Yu planned to complete with his company’s workers.
• Zhang Yu raised the Divine Fire Control Mirror to Level 20 and realized he could use it to repair Dharma Treasure casings.
• Zhang Yu watched Bai Zhenzhen’s video message, and seven-colored radiance suddenly appeared before him.

The Seven Emotions Divine Lord forced Zhang Yu to learn the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao and threatened to expose him unless he spoke with Bai Zhenzhen every day. Zhang Yu suspected the sword art was incomplete, while Bai Zhenzhen resolved to help him remove it.

• The Seven Emotions Divine Lord offered Zhang Yu Spirit Coins to live and practice swordsmanship with Bai Zhenzhen, but he refused to leave Ten Thousand Laws University.
• The Seven Emotions Divine Lord offered him the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao instead, then forced its cultivation method into his mind when he rejected her terms.
• Zhang Yu found no record of the sword art in his Feather Scroll and suspected the method was incomplete, but kept his doubts to himself.
• The Seven Emotions Divine Lord ordered Zhang Yu to speak with Bai Zhenzhen for more than half an hour each day and threatened to reveal his cultivation if he failed.
• Bai Zhenzhen worried that Zhang Yu had learned the sword art and offered to cultivate it herself to help cripple his progress, but the Seven Emotions Divine Lord ordered them to meet daily in a private Spirit Realm space.

Bai Zhenzhen feared that cultivating the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao with Zhang Yu would endanger them both, but Seven Emotions Divine Lord forced them to meet and embrace. Zhang Yu calmed Bai Zhenzhen through his trust in her, then continued his relentless cultivation as an overdue construction payment led him to discover that the person withholding it was Thunder Extremes True Lord.

• Bai Zhenzhen begged Seven Emotions Divine Lord to stop Zhang Yu from advancing in the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao, but her master forced them to communicate and threatened to send her to his dorm room.
• Seven Emotions Divine Lord brought Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu into a private Spirit Realm space and ordered them to embrace, causing Bai Zhenzhen's Sword Qi to surge while Zhang Yu showed no signs of progress.
• Zhang Yu hugged Bai Zhenzhen and told her to trust him, calming her Sword Qi, while he worried that his reassurance might push her further along the dangerous sword path.
• After their communication ended, Zhang Yu trained tirelessly across the construction site, classroom, laboratory, and Taiqing Realm, but his construction payment remained delayed.
• Zhang Yu investigated the person responsible for the unpaid funds and learned that he was Thunder Extremes True Lord, Magnetic Extremes True Lord's Junior Brother.

Zhang Yu confronted Thunder Extremes True Lord over his unpaid project payment, then learned that a large donation was expected to secure work in the Artifact Crafting Department. After Zhang Pianpian revealed that Thunder Extremes True Lord had delayed payments until companies went bankrupt and hundreds became Soul Cultivators, Zhang Yu began to suspect a deeper scheme.

• Thunder Extremes True Lord refused to expedite Zhang Yu's project payment and insisted that everyone follow the rules, despite knowing Zhang Yu was Magnetic Extremes True Lord's disciple.
• Feng Tingting said Thunder Extremes True Lord was a staunch supporter of Artifact-Only Theory and likely disliked Zhang Yu's original body, while Ye Xingli directed Zhang Yu to contact Bian Hao.
• Bian Hao sent Zhang Yu a 10-Spirit-Coin donation link and warned that donating too little could cost him the job, leaving Zhang Yu worried about his income and the high cost of preparing to forge Heavenly Sun Brilliant God.
• Zhang Pianpian told Zhang Yu that Thunder Extremes True Lord's delayed payments had driven companies into bankruptcy and forced hundreds of people to become Soul Cultivators.
• Zhang Pianpian said Thunder Extremes True Lord had to obey university rules and hinted that the other companies' earnings might reveal a major hidden problem.

Zhang Yu secretly infiltrated the construction site and recorded workers replacing high-quality artifact-crafting materials with inferior ones, uncovering Bian Hao’s role in the scheme. Zhang Pianpian passed the evidence to Magnetic Extremes True Lord, who confronted Thunder Extremes True Lord and ordered him to give up his position and hand over Bian Hao.

• Zhang Yu used his Divine Spiritual Root’s concealment ability to enter the construction site unseen and evade surveillance.
• Zhang Yu filmed workers swapping valuable artifact-crafting materials for inferior ones and identified Bian Hao directing the operation.
• Zhang Yu gave the footage to Zhang Pianpian, who decided to send it to opponents of Thunder Extremes True Lord and told Zhang Yu to stay quiet about the matter.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord continued testing the Spirit Transformation Magic Skeleton with Zhang Yu and discussed his delayed project payment with him in front of Thunder Extremes True Lord.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord accused Thunder Extremes True Lord of the factory theft, ordered him to surrender his position and Bian Hao, and showed him the evidence.
• Thunder Extremes True Lord denied knowing about the scheme, and Magnetic Extremes True Lord called him foolish for not knowing there was a traitor in his own circle.

Magnetic Extremes True Lord forced Thunder Extremes True Lord to resign, surrender money, and sacrifice his disciple and five subordinates to contain the scandal. Zhang Yu advanced his projects and artifact-crafting work while building funds, and Yu Xinghan’s Magical Power reached the Foundation Establishment limit, evolving his Three-Eyed Divine Power.

• Magnetic Extremes True Lord rebuked Thunder Extremes True Lord, ordered him to surrender half his illicit gains and name five subordinates, and barred him from department affairs.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord warned Zhang Yu not to follow Thunder Extremes True Lord’s example, while wondering which rival faction had filmed the incriminating video.
• Thunder Extremes True Lord resigned, and his disciple Bian Hao and five subordinates disappeared; later, he tried to win Zhang Yu’s favor, but Zhang Yu ignored his messages.
• Gathering Star True Lord took over Thunder Extremes True Lord’s work and publicly claimed he would reject bribery, though Zhang Yu learned that a one-Spirit-Coin purchase could speed up project payments.
• Zhang Yu expanded his artifact-crafting work and construction business, saving 20 to 30 Spirit Coins monthly toward a Military Grade Dharma treasure prototype.
• Zhang Yu raised Yu Xinghan’s Magical Power to 1,000, prompting Yu Xinghan’s Three-Eyed Divine Power to advance from Level 2 to Level 3.

Zhang Yu learned how Yu Xinghan’s Level 3 Three-Eyed Divine Power improved martial arts learning and artifact forging, then began using Ye Xingli’s laboratory while pursuing his own plans for a Military-grade Dharma Treasure prototype. By the end of May, he had completed the sixth cultivation method of Artifact Forging Prodigy, doubling his practice progress with artifact production techniques and strengthening his confidence in building the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God Prototype Machine.

• Zhang Yu discovered that Yu Xinghan’s Level 3 Three-Eyed Divine Power could memorize martial arts techniques and improve their cultivation through observation, though it could not accelerate the Feather Scroll.
• Zhang Yu realized the upgraded Three-Eyed Divine Power could help him inspect Dharma Treasure Magical Power Circuits, while Yu Xinghan eagerly watched cultivation recordings to improve his martial arts.
• Zhang Yu worried that Yu Xinghan’s Three-Eyed Divine Power and Le Mulan’s abilities could attract danger if their powers grew too conspicuous.
• In late May, Zhang Yu visited Ye Xingli’s new laboratory, where she offered to rent him an experiment bench and advised him to enter the Design Competition before attempting a Military-grade prototype.
• Zhang Yu continued cultivating artifact-forging techniques at Ye Xingli’s laboratory and completed the sixth cultivation method of Artifact Forging Prodigy by the end of May.
• Zhang Yu found that Artifact Forging Prodigy doubled his practice progress with artifact production techniques, reducing the time and materials needed to learn blueprint-based manufacturing.

Zhang Yu requested leave to prepare a Heavenly Sun Brilliant God prototype, and his Two Forms Yin-Yang Shield impressed Nine-Tempering True Person. As Zhang Yu realized he might compete with Jin Jun for the next Military Certificate, Jin Jun checked his Golden Core score and displayed his powerful Dharma Skeletons.

• Zhang Yu asked Nine-Tempering True Person for leave to work on the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God prototype and showed him the Two Forms Yin-Yang Shield he had crafted.
• Nine-Tempering True Person praised Zhang Yu’s work and invited him to join his laboratory, but Zhang Yu declined.
• Zi Yun Zhen overheard the conversation and doubted Zhang Yu could make the prototype, while his plans spread through the Artifact Crafting Department.
• Ye Xingli demonstrated the Vacuum Tribulation Diagram and warned Zhang Yu that Jin Jun planned to finish a Heavenly Sun Brilliant God prototype in the next academic year.
• Zhang Yu realized he could finish in the same period as Jin Jun and might compete with him for the Military Certificate.
• Jin Jun checked his Golden Core simulation score of 158 and displayed the golden Dharma Skeletons he had crafted or enhanced.

Jin Jun tried to recruit Zhang Yu to help refine a Heavenly Sun Brilliant God Prototype Machine, offering him double pay and access to the project data. Zhang Yu declined and openly declared that he planned to refine his own prototype in his fourth year, setting up a direct competition with Jin Jun.

• Jin Jun searched for skilled assistants and contacted Ye Xingli to invite Zhang Yu to join his project.
• Zhang Yu refused Jin Jun's invitation through Ye Xingli, saying he wanted to follow his own pace.
• Jin Jun visited Ye Xingli's laboratory and offered Zhang Yu double pay and the full project data, but Zhang Yu still declined because he had too much to do.
• When Ye Xingli suggested Zhang Yu might be focusing on the design competition, Zhang Yu clarified that he had already decided to begin refining his own Heavenly Sun Brilliant God Prototype Machine.
• Zhang Yu told Jin Jun he expected to complete his prototype in his fourth year and would compete with him directly, leaving the laboratory stunned as Jin Jun laughed.

Jin Jun displayed the funding, technical work, and expert endorsements he had gathered for his Heavenly Sun Brilliant God project, while Zhang Yu kept to his own training despite the pressure. At the end of June, Zhang Yu completed all eight techniques for Artifact Forging Prodigy and unlocked its second-layer improvements to forging quality and success rate.

• Jin Jun revealed that he had raised 642 Spirit Coins for his project and presented Dharma Treasure parameters and expert evaluations to demonstrate his preparation.
• Jin Jun invited interested people to submit résumés, then left the laboratory as Zhang Yu returned to his practice.
• Word of the encounter spread through the Artifact Crafting Department, where Su Yun Ni and Zi Yun Zhen suspected it was a publicity stunt for Jin Jun's project.
• Zhang Yu continued cultivating his artifact-forging techniques for a month, despite feeling pressure from Jin Jun's preparations.
• At the end of June, Zhang Yu completed his eighth technique and discovered that Artifact Forging Prodigy greatly improved the quality and success rate of his work.

Zhang Yu found a way to help Magnetic Extremes True Lord's Spirit Transformation Magic Skeleton research while hoping to copy her Dao Seed, then completed his Artifact Forging Prodigy cultivation and left to study Heavenly Sun Brilliant God's blueprints. Jin Jun learned Zhang Yu had only just begun studying the designs and laughed at the delay.

• Magnetic Extremes True Lord warned Zhang Yu that his contest with Jin Jun could draw scrutiny and complicate her Spirit Transformation evaluation.
• Zhang Yu suggested testing a biomimetic Yang Dharma Skeleton, and Magnetic Extremes True Lord agreed to use his data rather than alter his body.
• Zhang Yu completed the Five Thunder Refinement Method at Level 20, bringing Artifact Forging Prodigy to its final layer.
• Zhang Yu told Ye Xingli he was leaving the laboratory to study Heavenly Sun Brilliant God's blueprints in the Taiqing Realm.
• Zi Yun Zhen told Jin Jun that Zhang Yu had left to study the blueprints, and Jin Jun laughed that Zhang Yu was only starting now.

Zhang Yu studied Karma Relic designs to learn technologies for building Heavenly Sun Brilliant God, while Magnetic Extremes True Lord advanced his Spirit Transformation Magic Skeleton experiments using a Dharma Skeleton modeled on Zhang Yu. Feng Yuhan then trapped Zhang Yu in a lockdown and demanded his key organs, leaving Zhang Yu cut off from help.

• Zhang Yu used the Taiqing Realm to study Karma Relic blueprints and practice forging them, aiming to master technologies for Heavenly Sun Brilliant God.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord showed Zhang Yu a level 11 Yang Artifact Dharma Skeleton that could stir the blood essence of the Spirit Transformation Magic Skeleton, then examined Zhang Yu for possible design improvements.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord reminded Zhang Yu to apply for a project loan to study Heavenly Sun Brilliant God.
• Feng Yuhan sealed off a thousand-meter area around Zhang Yu, stopping Spiritual Energy and Spirit Realm communications.
• Feng Yuhan demanded Zhang Yu voluntarily surrender key organs for laboratory management, but Zhang Yu refused and found he could not contact anyone, even with his Spirit Realm Mask.