Recaps

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen began to break through Kuang Tianqing’s Xuanming Guixu Art with the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao, but Kuang Tianqing remained calm and hinted that she had deliberately let them reach this point.

• Bai Zhenzhen’s black Sword Qi began to crack Kuang Tianqing’s Xuanming Guixu Art and suppress the Spiritual Energy, Astral Qi, and Magical Power in its path.
• Zhang Yu realized that his earlier struggle with Kuang Tianqing had helped Bai Zhenzhen unleash the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao, and he kept Kuang Tianqing pinned in place.
• Zhang Yu noticed that Kuang Tianqing showed no alarm as her defense collapsed and felt that something was wrong.
• Kuang Tianqing said that they had finally broken through after spending so long, and that her effort had not been wasted.

Kuang Tianqing struggled against Bai Zhenzhen and Wen Wuya’s Myriad Meteor Sword, which repeatedly attacked her while she was unable to locate its controller. As two more flying swords approached, Kuang Tianqing prepared to act, but a giant golden figure entered the battle.

• Wen Wuya’s Myriad Meteor Sword attacked Kuang Tianqing, forcing her to evade its fragments with the Heavenly Demon Void Technique.
• Bai Zhenzhen kept pressing Kuang Tianqing, preventing her from charging an attack strong enough to destroy the sword at once.
• Wen Wuya asked Feng Xingyao and Yu Yunzhan when they would arrive, and Feng Xingyao said they were coming.
• Two more flying swords streaked toward Kuang Tianqing, who began to make a decision.
• A towering golden figure appeared in blazing Buddhist light and joined the battle.

After Kuang Tianqing withdrew from the battle, public opinion and advertising bids shifted as observers debated her performance and Zhang Yu’s role. Zhang Yu ended the chapter expecting his taunts to weaken Kuang Tianqing’s prospects while earning him attention, though his advertising value remained low.

• Zi Zai Shenjun and Tian Yan Shenjun argued over whether Kuang Tianqing had won and how much Zhang Yu had influenced the battle.
• Tian Yan Shenjun urged True Lord Anzhen to consider increasing investment in Zhang Yu, who had helped weaken Kuang Tianqing and improve Dao Qiankun’s chances.
• True Lord Anzhen reviewed the next-match advertising rankings, where Dao Qiankun led, Kuang Tianqing ranked second, and Zhang Yu stood thirty-eighth.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord considered increasing her investment in Zhang Yu and ordered his livestream footage recorded and marked.
• Spark True Person praised Zhang Yu’s combat awareness and fighting spirit after watching his battle.
• Zhang Yu believed his livestream taunts could reduce Kuang Tianqing’s Immortal Dao Potential while letting him benefit from her attention.

After battling Kuang Tianqing, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen headed to Ten Thousand Laws University’s rendezvous point, where Zhang Yu proposed using the team competition to rally allies against her. Dao Qiankun listened to Zhang Yu’s plan and considered joining forces with Heaven Sword University, while Zhang Yu began shaping a strategy to draw Kuang Tianqing into his area of strength.

• Jin Napan declined to travel with Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen but exchanged contact information with Zhang Yu to discuss intelligence on Kuang Tianqing later.
• Bai Zhenzhen resolved to master her extreme black Sword Qi without losing her sanity, while Zhang Yu used vitalization to heal and monitored battlefield messages.
• Zhang Yu decided the team competition could let the weaker teams defeat Kuang Tianqing and resolved to draw her into a field where he excelled.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen reached Ten Thousand Laws University’s rendezvous point, where Yan Qianji’s puppets were building fortifications inside Dao Qiankun’s storm-covered domain.
• Dao Qiankun showed Zhang Yu the captured Blood God Child, and Zhang Yu sent him a battle video and offered intelligence on Kuang Tianqing.
• Zhang Yu urged Dao Qiankun to unite the schools against Kuang Tianqing, beginning with Heaven Sword University, and argued that Wen Wuya needed Dao Qiankun’s support; Dao Qiankun asked him to continue.

Zhang Yu persuaded Dao Qiankun to cooperate with other schools and took charge of building a prison stronghold designed to draw Kuang Tianqing into a battlefield where Dao Qiankun could use the terrain. As the four-school alliance formed, Zhang Yu began constructing an enormous defensive base and preparing to mass-produce resource-gathering puppets.

• Zhang Yu convinced Dao Qiankun that his engineering and formation skills made him the right person to build a prison stronghold, while Dao Qiankun recognized that Zhang Yu could serve as bait for Kuang Tianqing.
• Dao Qiankun, Zhang Yu, and Bai Zhenzhen agreed on cooperation with Wen Wuya, and Bai Zhenzhen asked to accompany Dao Qiankun into battle to improve her swordsmanship.
• Dao Qiankun brought Cang Shenyu and Tian Shenggong into discussions, and Ten Thousand Methods, Heavenly Sword, Vajra, and Immortal Soldier Sect formed a cooperative agreement.
• Zhang Yu took over the stronghold construction from Yan Qianji and began refining materials, developing a puppet Mother Machine, and drawing Spirit Veins from underground.
• Zhang Yu built up the prison with defenses, towers, and puppets as the four schools arranged to send prisoners there and keep at least one school's top student on guard.

As the four-school alliance’s battles intensified, Zhang Yu strengthened the prison and studied how to coordinate his Military Grade powers against Kuang Tianqing. Ling Pojun tried to provoke him for livestream attention, but Zhang Yu dismissed him and continued preparing for the competition’s final day.

• Zhang Yu expanded the prison fortress as the four schools’ alliance captured six opponents, while several of its own students were captured by the opposing schools, including Kuang Tianqing’s targets.
• Wen Wuya searched for the enemy’s prisoner stronghold but could not locate it, and Zhang Yu suspected it was hidden underground.
• Ling Pojun demanded that Zhang Yu build an Artifact Forging Laboratory and publicly criticized him, hoping to attract attention by starting a conflict.
• Zhang Yu recognized Ling Pojun’s attempt to generate livestream traffic and projected a cultivation technique, prompting Ling Pojun to leave.
• Zhang Yu continued building defenses and tested combinations of his Military Grade powers while considering how to use Tiangong Kaiwu against Kuang Tianqing.
• The final day of the Team Competition arrived.

As Kuang Tianqing gathered the Four Heavenly Demon Schools for an assault on the Four Wanfa Schools’ stronghold, the Deity Transformation principals opened a public wager over whether she could capture Zhang Yu. The chapter ended with Yan Xiang unleashing an army of Corpse Demons against the fortress while its defenders fought back.

• True Lord Anzhen reviewed the advertising rankings and saw Zhang Yu fall from thirty-eighth to forty-fifth as interest in him declined.
• The Deity Transformation principals debated the rival alliances, then Tian Yan Shenjun and Zi Zai Shenjun wagered over whether Kuang Tianqing could capture Zhang Yu; the other Divine Lords joined through Tongtian Road.
• Ye Xingli warned Zhang Yu that the Four Heavenly Demon Schools were gathering for a full-scale assault, and Zhang Yu prepared for Kuang Tianqing’s approach.
• Kuang Tianqing arrived near the Four Wanfa Schools’ stronghold with Yan Xiang and the leading students of White Bone University and Blissful Union University.
• At Kuang Tianqing’s order, Yan Xiang sent a huge army of Corpse Demons toward the fortress, where the defensive fortifications and students began resisting them.

Kuang Tianqing led the Four Heavenly Demon Schools in a chaotic assault on the fortress, using Love Silk and the melee to confuse and outmaneuver its defenders. After escaping Dao Qiankun’s trap, he reached the real dungeon prisoners, where Zhang Yu confronted him.

• Kuang Tianqing and Mu Qiansi used Love Silk to disrupt the fortress defenders, then led the Four Heavenly Demon Schools in an assault.
• Kuang Tianqing’s group broke through the prison defenses as Zhang Yu monitored the battle and the Spirit Realm’s informational control fractured.
• Kuang Tianqing drew Dao Qiankun into a running battle, while teams from the various schools fought over whether to intercept or aid him.
• Kuang Tianqing used the chaos to evade Dao Qiankun’s trap in a chamber of fake prisoners and disappeared, prompting Dao Qiankun to alert the Four-Schools Group.
• Kuang Tianqing reached the dungeon holding the real prisoners, where Zhang Yu waited and called their coming fight an opportunity.

Zhang Yu confronted Kuang Tianqing and used the prison’s shifting walls and a flood of magically empowered swords to trap and attack her. The chapter ended as he launched the Ten Thousand Swords Formation, intending to overwhelm her Mysterious Nether Returning Void Technique with sheer numbers.

• True Lord Anzhen and other livestream viewers feared Kuang Tianqing would crush and humiliate Zhang Yu, while Ye Xingli urged him to flee and abandon the captives.
• Kuang Tianqing attacked Zhang Yu before he could finish speaking, and they exchanged dozens of attacks as she evaded him and swallowed his flames.
• Zhang Yu revealed that he had prepared for Kuang Tianqing’s illusion technique by refining Magical Power through burning matter instead of relying on the contaminated Spirit Vein.
• Zhang Yu activated Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power, causing the prison walls and armor to shift and trap Kuang Tianqing.
• Zhang Yu unleashed ten thousand magically empowered flying swords and declared that their sheer quantity would break Kuang Tianqing’s Mysterious Nether Returning Void Technique.

Zhang Yu and the Soul Cultivators used formations, weapons, and borrowed strength to fight Kuang Tianqing, but her powerful Dharma Skeleton and borrowed techniques overwhelmed their attacks. As Kuang Tianqing moved to finish Zhang Yu, he began sacrificing his life to trap her inside the prison, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Zhang Yu combined the sword formation, the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God, and support from Soul Cultivators to attack Kuang Tianqing, but her Curse Heaven Ten Thousand Demon Seat resisted the barrage.
• Zhang Yu found a weakness and used accelerated sword pellets to wound Kuang Tianqing, who revealed that she had borrowed disintegration and regeneration techniques and charged through the attacks.
• Dao Qiankun and other students lent their strength through the Taihao Sacred Law Sword Array, slowing Kuang Tianqing until she unleashed a Demon Fetus that destroyed much of the prison and damaged the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God.
• Kuang Tianqing seized the damaged Heavenly Sun Brilliant God and attacked Zhang Yu, but he ordered the Soul Cultivators to retreat and declared that he would trade his life to defeat her.
• Zhang Yu activated his Civil Engineering Sacred Body and used the Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power to transform the prison into giant hands that closed around Kuang Tianqing as his life neared its end.

Zhang Yu endured Kuang Tianqing’s relentless attacks as a Living Pile and unleashed a final counterattack that forced her to retreat. As she tried to escape through the last opening, Dao Qiankun arrived above the battlefield, ready to block her route.

• Zhang Yu charged Kuang Tianqing with a life-risking attack while she declared her wealth and standing made her favored by Heaven.
• Kuang Tianqing battered Zhang Yu, but his Living Pile transformation, Civil Engineering Sacred Body, and Heart Weapon made him too tough to destroy.
• Zhang Yu’s final strike sent the prison’s walls, armor, and swords crashing toward Kuang Tianqing, drawing huge audiences to their streams.
• Kuang Tianqing realized she could not break Zhang Yu’s corpse and tried to escape through a narrow opening above the closing buildings.
• Dao Qiankun appeared in the storm clouds and prepared to seal Kuang Tianqing’s escape route, telling Zhang Yu to leave the rest to him.

Zhang Yu survived the battle after using False Death Piles, while Dao Qiankun’s attack forced Kuang Tianqing to retreat and the Four Heavenly Demon Schools’ forces were defeated. The competition ended with reporters surrounding the contestants, and Zhang Yu was called forward to answer their questions.

• Dao Qiankun struck Kuang Tianqing with the Two Poles Yuan Magnetic Divine Light Cannon, and she was trapped underground as the battle turned against her side.
• Cang Shenyu told Zhang Yu that he had survived because of emergency treatment after using False Death Piles, and Jiu Tianliu and Yan Qianji explained that Kuang Tianqing had dug toward the battlefield before retreating.
• Zhang Yu shouted that Kuang Tianqing had lost to him and run away twice, drawing her attention and deepening her hostility toward him.
• The Four Wanfa Schools defeated and captured several students from the Four Heavenly Demon Schools, while Dan Ding University held Heavenly Demon University back until the competition ended.
• Reporters confronted Kuang Tianqing after the contestants returned to the northern encampment, then gathered around Dao Qiankun as he called Zhang Yu over.
• A reporter asked Zhang Yu what he had to say, and Zhang Yu felt nervous as the projections focused on him.

After Zhang Yu promised to help Dao Qiankun win the Top Ten League, his interview spread across the University Realm and inspired reactions from friends, teachers, and former classmates. Meanwhile, Kuang Tianqing recorded the interview as a grudge, Ping Han considered a desperate attack, and Wang Yin wondered whether Zhang Yu could upset the expected finalists.

• Zhang Yu thanked his teachers and Ten Thousand Laws University, then declared he would help Dao Qiankun win the championship and place him on the throne.
• Kuang Tianqing added Zhang Yu's interview to her archive and explained that she used the Hate Heart Art to cultivate through resentment.
• Zhang Yu's interview circulated widely, exciting his Soul Cultivators and company employees while prompting Shi Huaiyu to check her investments.
• Feng Tingting, Mo Shang Jin, and Ji Yuan Shu reconsidered civil engineering's potential after seeing Zhang Yu combine it with artifact crafting.
• Ping Han resolved to cooperate with Joyous Union University and destroy Ten Thousand Methods during the tournament.
• Wang Yin suspected Zhang Yu's rise might have been arranged, but his mother said only Kuang Tianqing or Dao Qiankun could safely take first place.

After Zhang Yu’s victory, Heavenly Devil University prepared Kuang Tianqing for a rematch while Ten Thousand Laws University worked to support Zhang Yu’s growing fame and unfinished artifact. Dao Qiankun explained that Zhang Yu could monetize one of his techniques through Move Naming Rights, leaving him with a new kind of sponsored power.

• True Lord Wuchang questioned Kuang Tianqing about his defeat, and Kuang Tianqing blamed the unexpected strength of Zhang Yu’s Living Pile transformation and resumed intensive cultivation.
• Mo Sha Zhenren agreed to Wandao Group’s request for Zhang Yu to film promotional videos, while Director Gao checked on Zhang Yu and learned that he still had a Military-grade Artifact to finish.
• Director Gao persuaded Magnetic Extremes True Lord to help Zhang Yu refine the unfinished artifact, and Magnetic Extremes True Lord agreed to charge him at a discount.
• True Lord Anzhen contacted Zhang Yu about advertising projects and recommended Move Naming Rights as a valuable opportunity.
• While soaking in a medicinal pool with Dao Qiankun, Zhang Yu learned that a Sponsored Move earned fees and commissions whenever it was used, and Dao Qiankun congratulated him on entering the ranks of the strong.

Zhang Yu considered sponsorship offers with Dao Qiankun’s guidance, while Bai Zhenzhen learned the risks of using painful memories to wield her Extreme Emotion Sword Dao. The chapter ended with Magnetic Extremes True Lord arriving to remind Zhang Yu that he was his disciple, not merely a Civil Engineering student.

• Dao Qiankun advised Zhang Yu on sponsorship restrictions, helped him reject unsuitable advertisers, and told him to request detailed proposals from selected companies.
• Bai Zhenzhen used footage of Kuang Tianqing humiliating Zhang Yu to awaken her black Sword Qi and stored the video for future use.
• Seven Emotions Divine Lord warned Bai Zhenzhen that repeatedly relying on increasingly painful videos could numb her and lead to qi deviation.
• Bai Zhenzhen set aside her wish to exchange Divine Spiritual Roots with Zhang Yu and decided to focus on mastering her Flying Sword.
• Spark True Person worried that his enemies might target Zhang Yu, while Li Xuelian suggested his old friends could instead help him.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord met Zhang Yu at his Flying Boat and objected to others treating his disciple as a Civil Engineering student.

Zhang Yu prepared for the Top Ten League’s second match as Magnetic Extremes True Lord forged his armor and the school supplied countermeasure treasures. Dao Qiankun revealed why he rejected advertising and said he wanted to change the world, while Zhang Yu’s new armor hinted at power connected to the Great Saint Successor; the chapter ended as he headed to the arena.

• Magnetic Extremes True Lord agreed to forge Zhang Yu’s Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor to Level 20 while Zhang Yu repaired the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God and maintained his flying swords.
• True Lord Anzhen delivered school-forged Dharma Treasures to warn Zhang Yu about Spiritual Energy changes, parasitic insects, and Love Silk, while Mo Shang Jin arranged for him to rent the Seven Wonders Magic Skeleton.
• Zhang Yu’s Dao Heart recovered to Level 20 in Dao Qiankun’s medicinal pool, and Dao Qiankun explained that he had withheld advertisements because he believed money could not solve every problem.
• Dao Qiankun asked what Immortal Sect Technique Zhang Yu would choose if he won, then said he wanted to change the world and let Zhang Yu share the champion’s glory if he took first place.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord completed Zhang Yu’s Level 20 armor, and Zhang Yu sensed its techniques integrating with his body as he put it on.
• Zhang Yu headed to the second match in the Seven Wonders Magic Skeleton and Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor, exchanged good-luck messages with Bai Zhenzhen, and learned that forty-five competitors had been eliminated.

The Top Ten League revealed its second match, a five-person relay, and Dao Qiankun chose Zhang Yu first for his team. Zhang Yu took the Underwater Racing leg and reached its starting point, where Ling Pojun and Ying Zhoufan confronted him before the race began.

• The league ranked contestants by the prisoners they had captured, and the top eleven became captains for a relay in which the six fastest teams would advance.
• Dao Qiankun chose Zhang Yu first, then formed a team with Yan Qianji, Wen Rongjue, and Li Shiwei; the team assigned Zhang Yu the Underwater Racing stage.
• Zhang Yu flew to the race’s starting point on the Floating Continent and noted the enormous lake and course layout.
• Ling Pojun approached Zhang Yu and declared that they would compete seriously, while privately hoping to capitalize on Zhang Yu’s popularity.
• Ying Zhoufan arrived in dragon form, identified himself as Ying Yufan’s older brother, and resolved to humiliate Zhang Yu and exploit his popularity.

Zhang Yu faced threats from rival team captains and deliberately provoked them to build hype before the competition’s relay stages began. After Kuang Tianqing and Bai Zhenzhen reached the beach among the first arrivals, Zhang Yu received the relay ball from Wen Rongjue and charged underwater, with Ying Zhoufan and Mu Qiansi watching him go.

• Ying Zhoufan threatened to crush Zhang Yu, but Jiu Tianliu interrupted the gathering with a Magical Power Treasure advertisement, and Mu Qiansi soon joined the rivals targeting Zhang Yu.
• Zhang Yu declared that he would take first place and insulted Ying Zhoufan and Mu Qiansi, provoking them to focus on him for the upcoming competition.
• The Light Screen showed Yan Qianji and Tian Shenggong completing the earlier stages with their teams’ modified techniques and equipment.
• Kuang Tianqing finished the stealth stage first, passed the relay ball to Xue Jiuyou, and privately challenged Zhang Yu to avoid being swallowed.
• Bai Zhenzhen arrived second, passed the relay ball to Yu Yunzhan, and warned Ying Zhoufan and Mu Qiansi not to hurt Zhang Yu.
• Wen Rongjue delivered the relay ball to Zhang Yu, who activated his Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power and charged underwater as Mu Qiansi and Ying Zhoufan watched.

Zhang Yu used Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor to race through the underwater course, briefly taking third place before stopping to breed Fish Demons and falling behind. As A-Zhen approached and reached for his relay ball, Zhang Yu suddenly attacked her.

• Zhang Yu used Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor and Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power to overtake Ling Pojun and reach third place.
• Zhang Yu used his flying swords to search the registration zones, then used the armor's demon aura to transform fish into remotely controlled Fish Demons.
• At the finish line, Dao Qiankun said he had chosen Zhang Yu because Zhang Yu would send him to the throne, while Jiu Tianliu sped past Zhang Yu using the Nine Heavens Divine Shuttle.
• Zhang Yu finished breeding the Fish Demons and fell to fifth place as Ling Pojun passed him again.
• A-Zhen approached Zhang Yu and reached for his relay ball, but Zhang Yu suddenly struck toward her chest.

Zhang Yu resisted Mu Qiansi’s charm, stole her relay ball, and regained fourth place before Ying Zhoufan caught up and attacked him. Zhang Yu trapped Ying Zhoufan in a prepared formation, but Ying Zhoufan proposed they join forces to take the lead.

• Zhang Yu used a hidden sword to cut Mu Qiansi’s fingertip, stole her relay ball, and sped past Ling Pojun.
• Bai Zhenzhen studied footage of Zhang Yu and Mu Qiansi, strengthening her Extreme Emotion Sword Dao, while Jiu Tianliu took first place and Ying Zhoufan entered the water.
• Ying Zhoufan overtook contestants until he reached Zhang Yu, then attacked him with Mountain River Pearls and the Monster Summoning Banner.
• Zhang Yu fought off Ying Zhoufan’s attacks and activated a formation he had prepared at the next registration zone, raising stone pillars that targeted Ying Zhoufan with Taihao Moral Sword Intent.
• Ying Zhoufan proposed that he and Zhang Yu cooperate, claiming their abilities could make them the fastest racers and admitting his earlier discrimination campaign had been a ploy for popularity.

Zhang Yu defeated Ying Zhoufan, then rode the dragon toward the finish line while both men secretly planned to betray the other before the end. Along the way, Zhang Yu unlocked a fragment of a cultivation art from the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor, and he and Ying Zhoufan surged past Yu Yunzhan into second and third place.

• Ying Zhoufan proposed cooperating with Zhang Yu, but Zhang Yu attacked and subdued him with sword techniques, gravity, and fire.
• Zhang Yu rode Ying Zhoufan through the underwater course, leaving Mu Qiansi behind as she failed to catch up.
• The Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor absorbed Ying Zhoufan's blood and revealed a fragment of the Demon Saint Myriad Transformations Neural Scripture to Zhang Yu.
• Zhang Yu's Fish Demons provided registration balls for him and Ying Zhoufan, allowing them to keep racing without searching ahead.
• Zhang Yu and Ying Zhoufan overtook Yu Yunzhan, and the rankings placed Ying Zhoufan second and Zhang Yu third.

Jiu Tianliu and Zhang Yu raced neck and neck through the final underwater course, each using their abilities to overcome the cavern’s hazards. Zhang Yu secretly rode Jiu Tianliu’s Divine Shuttle and launched himself across the finish line first, leaving Jiu Tianliu in second place.

• Jiu Tianliu registered at the final black ball and met Zhang Yu and Ying Zhoufan, bringing Zhang Yu level with him for the last sprint.
• Jiu Tianliu took the lead in open water, while Zhang Yu and Ying Zhoufan raced after him on the Giant Dragon.
• Jiu Tianliu used projections to map the underwater cavern and follow its fastest route, but Zhang Yu used his powers and prior scouting to reduce collisions and close the gap.
• Zhang Yu stayed close through the twisting caverns, and Jiu Tianliu burrowed through the rock to reach the finish line ahead of the wounded dragon.
• Zhang Yu, who had climbed onto Jiu Tianliu’s Divine Shuttle, launched himself from it with Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power and crossed the finish line first.

Zhang Yu won the fourth relay stage, outmaneuvering Ying Zhoufan and finishing ahead of Jiu Tianliu. His victory sparked a social-media controversy and sent his advertising bids soaring, while Dao Qiankun prepared to take the field next.

• Zhang Yu handed Dao Qiankun the relay ball after crossing the finish line first, while Jiu Tianliu finished second and Ying Zhoufan emerged from his ruined dragon body in third place.
• Ying Zhoufan realized Zhang Yu had turned his dragon-body shell into a Dharma Treasure, thwarting his plan to break free and claim first place.
• Zhang Yu recovered the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor, found that the demon blood had yielded no more scripture content, and lost contact with many of the short-lived Fish Demons.
• Li Shiwei questioned Dao Qiankun about Zhang Yu's speed, and Dao Qiankun argued that stepping on the fastest competitor was the true way to be fastest.
• True Lord Anzhen watched criticism of Zhang Yu fuel his popularity as Seven Emotions Divine Lord's comments sparked debate over cultivators' aesthetics.
• True Lord Anzhen saw Zhang Yu rise to second in advertising bids behind Kuang Tianqing and expected Dao Qiankun's next-stage performance to boost his ranking.

After Zhang Yu’s team tied for first in the relay race, Dao Qiankun explained why the Four Heavenly Demon Schools were backing Kuang Tianqing: they wanted her to win the Eternal Spring Scripture and help their Deity Transformations extend their lives. Zhang Yu considered how his own championship choice might affect Kunxu, then began seeking Demon Descendant blood to supplement his cultivation technique.

• Dao Qiankun cleared the fifth-stage storm almost instantly, and Ying Mingchi and Xu Haixuan also completed the challenge with their own methods.
• Zhang Yu’s team tied for first in the relay race, while the rankings determined the thirty finalists and eliminated all Dan Ding University students and Mu Qiansi.
• True Lord Anzhen told the advancing students that the individual final would begin in a week, and Zhang Yu planned to cultivate and repair his Dharma Treasures and Dharma Skeleton.
• At a meal aboard Dao Qiankun’s Flying Boat, Dao Qiankun revealed that the Four Heavenly Demon Schools wanted Kuang Tianqing to win the Eternal Spring Scripture so their Deity Transformations could gain longevity.
• Zhang Yu considered the consequences of choosing an Immortal Sect Technique, then contacted his company to obtain Demon Descendant blood and messaged Ying Zhoufan about buying high-ranking blood.

Zhang Yu completed the Demon Saint Myriad Transformations Neural Scripture and tested its ability to create Demon Descendant Avatars, while planning to disguise them with the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor. He then met Bai Zhenzhen and exchanged Divine Spiritual Roots with her, leaving them overwhelmed by the physical changes.

• Zhang Yu bought high-grade Demon Descendant blood from Ying Zhoufan and gathered more blood through his company to complete the Demon Saint Myriad Transformations Neural Scripture.
• Zhang Yu spent heavily on demon blood and cultivation, then received income from his Sponsored Move and finals advertising fees.
• Zhang Yu raised the Demon Saint Myriad Transformations Neural Scripture to level 5 and formed a temporary Demon Descendant Avatar from a strand of hair.
• Zhang Yu decided to gather aquatic Demon Descendant blood so he could disguise future avatars among Demon Beasts bred by the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor.
• Zi Tanzhen told Zhang Yu that Bai Zhenzhen wanted him to check her messages, and Zhang Yu went to her Flying Boat while her Master was away.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen exchanged Divine Spiritual Roots through a hole in the wall, and their bodies began adapting to each other's traits.