Recaps

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.

As Zhang Yu’s championship drew attention across the realms, Zi Zai Shenjun privately urged him to choose the safer Eternal Spring Scripture over the risky Law Realm Divine Creation Chapter. Zhang Yu was left weighing the offer against his ties to Ten Thousand Laws, with twelve hours remaining before the awards ceremony.

• Students, colleagues, and former acquaintances praised Zhang Yu’s achievements, while Yin Jiurao offered Le Mulan research materials and compensation if Zhang Yu dropped his grievance.
• Spark True Person accepted the invitation to travel to the Second Layer and planned to visit Ten Thousand Laws before the awards ceremony.
• Zhang Pianpian learned that she had been found and decided to make a trip to the Second Layer.
• After Zhang Yu entered the Top Ten League venue, a notice warned that anyone who attacked him would incur a fine of 1,000,000 Spirit Coins per second.
• Zi Zai Shenjun privately argued that the Law Realm Divine Creation Chapter would entangle Zhang Yu in dangerous struggles, while the Eternal Spring Scripture offered a steadier path and a better chance of joining a Sect.
• Zhang Yu admitted the safer choice tempted him, but he remained silent as he considered what choosing it would mean for Ten Thousand Laws.

Zhang Yu restored most of his damaged treasures and met Spark True Person, who advised him to avoid the choices pushed by the universities and select another Immortal Sect Technique. The chapter ended with Spark asking how much Zhang Yu knew about Spatial Technology.

• Xiong Wenwu asked Hu Yuntao to pass along the Heavenly Demon Reincarnation Scripture, then checked that An An had received the money he sent.
• Hu Yuntao told Zhang Yu about the Scripture, and Zhang Yu reflected on Kunxu's sprawling network of connections.
• Zhang Yu finished repairing his treasures, equipped the Azure Water Golden Crystal Armor, Taiwu Sacred Law Flying Sword, and Heavenly Sun Brilliant God, and left the Seven Wonders Magic Skeleton unused.
• Zhang Yu approved Spark True Person's friend request and went to meet Spark, Yu Xinghan, Li Xuelian, and Le Mulan.
• Spark advised Zhang Yu to choose an Immortal Sect Technique outside the Top Ten's preferred options, arguing that a technique that increased everyone's profits could be tolerated.
• Spark asked Zhang Yu about Spatial Technology, and Zhang Yu pretended not to know what it was.

Zhang Yu weighed choosing a Spatial Technology technique to protect the people who depended on him, while Kuang Tianqing learned that Zhang Yu was expected to choose New Samsara. As the awards ceremony approached, Jiu Tianliu was summoned to the Dark Spirit Realm, where Kunlun Society leaders and other powerful figures announced an unprecedented opportunity in the New World.

• Spark True Person warned Zhang Yu that Spatial Technology could support a new infrastructure era but cautioned him against techniques that profoundly altered space.
• Kuang Tianqing recovered ancient memories, learned her father expected Zhang Yu to choose New Samsara, and heard that reincarnation would be announced to the world.
• Zhang Yu told Zhang Pianpian he wanted to protect his friends and others relying on him, and she offered to find Spatial Technology techniques he could master quickly.
• Jiu Tianliu reviewed the Finance Department's disrupted plans and wondered where its missing funds had gone.
• Golden Palace Divine Lord summoned Jiu Tianliu and other Finance Department elites to the Dark Spirit Realm, where Kunlun Society leaders and other powerful beings gathered to pursue profits from the New World.

Before the award ceremony, Zhang Yu drew strength from his companions and chose Kunlun in Palm, rejecting Dharma Realm. As he received the championship trophy and prepared to select an Immortal Sect Technique, Dao Qiankun urged him to choose the Six Paths World Creation Book and join in creating a New World, but Zhang Yu made his own choice, causing the sky to reveal successive layers of worlds.

• Yu Xinghan and Zhang Yu's companions reassured him that they would support his decision and share its consequences.
• Director Gao, Spark True Person, Bai Zhenzhen, and Zhang Pianpian sent Zhang Yu messages that helped resolve his hesitation; Zhang Yu chose Kunlun in Palm over Nine Heavens Palace Steps.
• Zhang Yu entered the award ceremony, received the Top Ten League championship trophy from Great God of All Living Beings, and was called to choose an Immortal Sect Technique.
• The host secretly messaged Zhang Yu as Dao Qiankun, who claimed to be an immortal from the Upper Level and asked Zhang Yu to choose the Six Paths World Creation Book to help create a New World.
• Zhang Yu rejected Dao Qiankun's proposal and made his own final choice; the Daoist Canon Catalog vanished, and the sky tore open to reveal the Third Layer and further worlds.

Zhang Yu chose Kunlun in Palm as Dao Qiankun began a plan to sever Layers 2 through 6 from Kunxu and create a New World. Zhang Yu refused to join him, learned Kunlun in Palm during Dao Qiankun’s attempt to seize him, and watched Dao Qiankun ascend toward the virtualizing Sixth Layer.

• Zhang Yu selected Kunlun in Palm, and the skies opened to reveal Layers 3 through 6 as widespread attacks erupted and the Orthodox Gods vanished.
• Dao Qiankun revealed himself at the awards venue, announced that everyone could be reincarnated, and declared that he would lead Layers 2 through 6 away from Kunxu to create a New World.
• Jiu Tianliu learned that the Finance Department had invested across Layers 2 through 6, while its leaders attacked Deity Transformation cultivators and triggered a financial crisis.
• Dao Qiankun asked Zhang Yu to join him, but Zhang Yu trusted Zhang Pianpian and stepped away; Dao Qiankun then tried to take him by force.
• Zhang Yu used Kunlun in Palm to escape Dao Qiankun’s spatial grasp, and Dao Qiankun advanced to the Golden Core Realm as the others attacked.
• Dao Qiankun evaded the attacks, rose toward the virtualizing Sixth Layer, and embraced the approaching New World.

Ying Xintian sacrificed his cultivation and fortune to tear open the Sixth Layer’s sky, urging cultivators to advance without restraint before promising to return in three years. As the Heavenly Court reorganized the lower layers, the Evil Gods seized the Second Layer’s moon and Spirit Realm Network, leaving universities to defend themselves and Divine Lord Ci Ji racing to protect the sun and Zhang Yu.

• Dao Qiankun crossed the collapsing Sixth Layer as Ying Xintian faced the woman above the nine heavens and let the powers of Kunxu devour his assets and body.
• Ying Xintian tore apart the Sixth Layer’s sky, called on cultivators to break through without restraint, and promised to return in three years to take them away.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord received orders to serve as acting principal of Ten Thousand Laws University and distribute cultivation certificates as the Heavenly Court announced it would reopen the Layer 5–Layer 7 connection within two years.
• The Evil Gods hijacked Long Night Jade Palace and turned the Second Layer’s moon into a Blood Moon, flooding the Spirit Realm Network with recruitment messages and attacks at night.
• Divine Lord Ci Ji arrived too late to stop the Blood Moon, then set out to protect Sun-Patrolling Souwu and sent an incarnation toward Zhang Yu.
• Universities raised Spirit Realm barriers against the Evil Gods while Demon Descendants fought over uncertified breakthroughs outside Heavenly Demon University, leaving Xiong Wenwu uncertain about the future.

After the Sixth Layer vanished, Zhang Yu and the other survivors fought through the chaos as the Evil God disrupted the battlefield. Magnetic Pole arrived, defeated the uncertified attackers, and distributed certificates and instructions, leaving Zhang Yu searching for A-Zhen aboard Heaven Sword University's vessel.

• After Dao Qiankun vanished, Zhang Yu reclaimed his Dharma Treasures and joined Director Gao's group as the Sixth Layer disappeared and contact with the Heavenly Court was cut off for two years.
• Director Gao led the group through a battle against numerous uncertified cultivators, and Zhang Pianpian identified many of them as Feather Transformation Cult believers.
• The Evil God's influence disrupted the experts' Dharma Skeletons and Spirit Realm connections, but Magnetic Pole arrived with the Nine Heavens Primordial Sun Pagoda and wiped out the attackers.
• Magnetic Pole distributed Golden Core Certificates to Zhang Yu and others, gave Director Gao a Divine Transformation Certificate, and ordered everyone to hide, limit Spirit Realm contact, and prepare for the coming war between the Top Ten and their enemies.
• The schools divided the remaining cultivation resources, and Ye Xingli, Yan Qianji, and others began preparing to break through to Golden Core while Zhang Yu went to Heaven Sword University's vessel.
• When Wen Wuya asked whether Zhang Yu wanted to return with him, Zhang Yu asked where A-Zhen was and said he wanted to take her with him.

Zhang Yu reunited with Bai Zhenzhen, learned that the layers of Kunxu had been sealed and war had erupted, then broke through to the Golden Core Realm. He began cultivating Kunlun in Palm and prepared to test the newly activated Second Layer effect of Inverted Kunlun.

• Zhang Yu found that Bai Zhenzhen had regained a physical body, but she chose to remain at Heaven Sword University to guard the Seven Emotions Divine Lord's assets; they exchanged their Spirit Roots back.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen's teams hid together while awaiting Divine Lord Ci Ji's incarnation, but spatial barriers then sealed Layers 2 through 5 and fighting spread across the Fifth Layer.
• Fu Ji explained that Dao Ge's forces might use the sealed layers to move troops and conquer them, while Zhang Yu suspected Dao Ge feared his ability to interfere with the blockade through Kunlun in Palm.
• Zhang Yu entered the Golden Core Realm using a Purple Mansion Golden Core, greatly increasing his Dao Heart, Physical Strength, and Magical Power.
• Zhang Yu cultivated Kunlun in Palm to Level 20 and prepared to test Inverted Kunlun's newly activated Second Layer effect.

Zhang Yu advanced Kunlun in Palm and explored how it could combine with Inverted Kunlun and the Immortal Space, then joined an expedition to reclaim a factory occupied by wild Golden Cores. The school’s students quickly overwhelmed the Junior College Golden Cores, and Zhang Yu’s Astral Qi substitutes stopped Hou Feifeng, who revealed he had formed his Core himself because he could not afford a prepared one.

• Zhang Yu unlocked Inverted Kunlun’s Second Layer, discovered its gravity spheres could persist after he stopped controlling them, and advanced Kunlun in Palm to the Golden Core Realm.
• Zhang Yu used Kunlun in Palm to shrink objects inside the Immortal Space and absorb flying swords, then imagined storing charged gravity spheres there for combat.
• Divine Lord Ci Ji recruited Zhang Yu, Bai Zhenzhen, Wen Wuya, and other students to reclaim a factory held by twenty-two wild Golden Cores, promising them half the remaining supplies.
• Bai Zhenzhen scouted the factory and found the Junior College Golden Cores looting supplies while forcing captured Junior College Students to work in shifts without pay.
• The students launched a coordinated assault with flying swords, puppets, and a Formation, scattering and suppressing the defenders as Hou Feifeng fled toward the factory gates.
• Zhang Yu’s two Astral Qi substitutes defeated Hou Feifeng, who admitted he had formed his own Core because he could not afford a prepared Golden Core.

Zhang Yu returned to Ten Thousand Laws University after discovering that the Blood Moon was spreading several viruses and that chaos was worsening across Kunxu. As he began Golden Core cultivation, Divine Lord Ci Ji’s meeting revealed that the Fifth Layer was collapsing and Myriad Law City’s resources and order were under growing threat.

• Zhang Yu noticed that junior college students had been neglected and gave them anti-sleep pills, then learned that teachers had beaten one student to death for trying to escape.
• Zhang Yu discovered that a student presumed dead was still asleep, and Divine Lord Ci Ji identified several viruses spreading under the Blood Moon, including the Ascension Virus and Unemployment Virus.
• Zhang Yu returned to Ten Thousand Laws University, began cultivating Golden Core techniques, and received messages about his new rank, title, and upcoming missions.
• Divine Lord Ci Ji assigned Divine Transformation Certificates to Azure Wood True Lord, True Lord Anzhen, and True Lord Qiyun.
• True Lord Qiyun reported that the Finance Department was defeating the Fifth Layer, violence was spreading across the Second Layer, and Myriad Law City faced rising governance costs and dwindling supplies.

Ten Thousand Laws University’s Nascent Soul cultivators divided up efforts to reclaim external campuses while Divine Lord Ci Ji deferred other crises until he finished cultivating. Zhang Yu became a graduate student and devoted his funding to cultivation, but as his Golden Core Sacred Physique reached completion, shortages and unrest worsened around him.

• Divine Lord Ci Ji assigned rogue-cultivator suppression across the external campuses, and True Lord Qing Ming and other Nascent Soul cultivators volunteered to restore logistics networks.
• The university promoted Zhang Yu to graduate student, gave him a laboratory, and directed him to raise Kunlun in Palm while Zhang Yu resolved to pursue Level 40 and advance toward the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Zhang Yu spent a month using medicines, Dao Arts, and treasures to improve his Dao Heart, Physical Strength, and Magical Power, and completed the Golden Core Sacred Physique.
• Zhang Yu learned that medicine prices were rising, supplies were dwindling, and violence and unemployment were spreading; he hired Su Yanyang to work on rebuilding external campuses.
• Zhang Pianpian told Zhang Yu that security forces had withdrawn from areas below layer 300, leaving them increasingly like slums, while Talisman Department technology and other wartime industries continued to grow.

Zhang Yu resisted distractions and devoted himself to breaking through to Nascent Soul, rapidly improving his cultivation while building passive income. After Kuang Tianqing probed him about Dao Qiankun and Reincarnation, Zhang Yu reflected on how strength could let him change the world, but resolved to focus on cultivation for now.

• Zhang Yu rejected upgrading his Dao Seeds, improving his Dharma Treasures, and taking on other work so he could concentrate on cultivation.
• Zhang Yu advanced his Dao Heart, Physical Strength, and magical power, established six Dao Foundations, and adjusted his training to keep his physical control from weakening.
• True Lord Qing Ming offered Zhang Yu's company construction projects to subcontract, adding over 150 Spirit Coins to Zhang Yu's monthly income as part of his effort to curry favor with Divine Lord Ci Ji.
• By early February, Zhang Yu's attributes had risen again, and he had established the fifth and sixth Dao Foundations.
• Kuang Tianqing asked Zhang Yu what he thought of Dao Qiankun, hoping to learn whether Zhang Yu knew about Dao Qiankun's plans involving Reincarnation.
• Zhang Yu considered how growing stronger had expanded his ability to protect others and influence the world, then dismissed the wider turmoil and returned to cultivation.

As the Fifth Layer fell and war spread to the Fourth, Zhang Yu advanced his Golden Core cultivation and brought three Soul Cultivator friends to safety at Ten Thousand Laws University. His attempt to keep cultivating was interrupted when Fu Ji warned that Yu Xinghan and Shi Huaiyu had clashed with someone at a construction site despite invoking Zhang Yu’s name.

• The Fifth Layer’s fighting stopped, a black canopy concealed it, and battle began to intensify in the Fourth Layer.
• Zhang Yu saw news of worsening unrest and inequality, then spent another month cultivating until his Dao Heart reached level 27 and his Physical Strength reached level 28.01.
• Zhang Yu overwhelmed Yu Xinghan in a test of strength and learned that his Dao Foundations had manifested new abilities.
• Yu Xinghan brought Zhao Tianxing, Mo Tianyi, and Hu Yuntao to Zhang Yu, who transferred their consciousnesses into flying swords as Sword Spirits.
• Fu Ji told Zhang Yu that Yu Xinghan and Shi Huaiyu had clashed with someone at a construction site, and Zhang Yu decided to ask Elder Sister to investigate.

Zhao Ruoli served as bait in a Righteous Qi Alliance plot to capture Zhang Yu, while Zhang Yu investigated the construction-site conflict and entered the expanded Dark Spirit Realm. He discovered the alliance’s vast open-source cultivation network and found that it had put a 30,000-Righteousness-Point bounty on taking him to the Kunxu Fifth Layer.

• Zhao Ruoli infiltrated the Second Layer and prepared to provoke Yu Xinghan so hidden Nascent Souls could capture Zhang Yu if he came to help.
• Zhang Pianpian told Zhang Yu that the construction workers involved in the clash rarely used the Spirit Realm, leading Fu Ji to suspect they relied on the Dark Spirit Realm.
• Zhang Yu decided to enter the Dark Spirit Realm with Fu Ji rather than abandon Yu Xinghan, Shi Huaiyu, and the others.
• Zhang Yu found the Dark Spirit Realm transformed into a vast information city filled with advertisements, open-source cultivation methods, research materials, and alliance missions.
• Fu Ji explained that users could earn Righteousness Points by completing missions, and Zhang Yu saw a 30,000-point mission to take him to the Kunxu Fifth Layer.

Zhang Yu uncovered a plot to lure him out through Yu Xinghan and assembled ten Nascent Soul True Lords to protect him. The ambush became a fierce battle in which True Lord Qing Ming defeated the attackers, but Flowing Gold True Lord escaped through the Dark Spirit Realm and revealed troubling news about the Kunlun Society and Ten Thousand Laws University's finances.

• Fu Ji and Zhang Yu met Xi Shen in the Dark Spirit Realm, learned about its plans to attract users with Righteousness Points and Military-grade Cultivation Methods, and bought intelligence showing that more than a hundred people had accepted a task to kidnap Zhang Yu.
• Zhang Yu warned Yu Xinghan that he might be targeted, recruited ten Nascent Soul True Lords, and went to the construction site to confront the attackers.
• Zhao Ruoli fought Yu Xinghan to draw Zhang Yu out, but Zhang Yu overwhelmed her until Flowing Gold True Lord and three other Nascent Soul True Lords sprang their ambush.
• True Lord Qing Ming and the other ten Nascent Soul True Lords arrived, and Qing Ming used the Northern Darkness Star Swallowing Method to overpower the ambushers and suppress their self-destruction.
• Flowing Gold True Lord's Dark Spirit Realm avatar escaped and announced that the Kunlun Society had taken the schools' resources before the war, while Qing Ming divided the spoils and Zhang Yu sent Zhang Pianpian 1,000 Spirit Coins for a Taiqing Talisman upgrade.

After the battle, Zhang Yu learned that the Taiqing Talisman had reached Level 3 and discovered the Soul Guiding Pool’s ability to harvest knowledge from nearby dead people. Zhang Pianpian warned him to strengthen his Immortal Sect Technique as the war worsened, while Xiang Shen reported Zhang Yu’s alarming growth to Xi Shen.

• Zhang Yu distributed Spirit Coins to Zhang Pianpian and avoided committing to support True Lord Qing Ming’s bid to ascend to Divine Transformation.
• Zhang Pianpian summoned Zhang Yu to the Taiqing Realm, where he confirmed that the Taiqing Talisman had reached Level 3.
• Zhang Pianpian showed Zhang Yu the Soul Guiding Pool, which could extract knowledge from the remnants of souls who died nearby.
• Zhang Pianpian advised Zhang Yu to strengthen Kunlun in Palm and offered to help wash uncopyrighted cultivation methods, but warned against washing Military-grade Cultivation Methods.
• Zhang Yu wondered what Godchildren were and decided to ask Fu Ji before continuing his cultivation.
• Xiang Shen told Xi Shen that he had failed to capture Zhang Yu but had gathered intelligence, and warned that Zhang Yu might be able to challenge the Nascent Soul Realm within a year.

Xiang Shen argued for targeting Zhang Yu, but the Dark Spirit Realm's leaders refused to fund the operation, so Xiang Shen vowed to act alone. As Zhang Yu completed his Golden Core foundations and pursued further cultivation, Divine Lord Ci Ji emerged from seclusion and announced an imminent attack on Long Night Jade Palace.

• Xiang Shen urged the Dark Spirit Realm leaders to eliminate Zhang Yu, but Xi Shen and others refused to spend resources on the operation, prompting Xiang Shen to vow to proceed alone.
• Over two months, Zhang Yu raised his Dao Heart and Physical Strength to level 30, completed ten Dao Foundations, and bought more medicine to pursue the remaining layers.
• Zhang Yu expanded his company's earnings and arranged payments and favors with Ten Thousand Laws University officials while using a Spirit Vein to increase his magical power.
• Zhang Yu searched for a method to open ten extraordinary meridians and eventually bought one through Ying Mingchi's channels; Ying Mingchi suspected Zhang Yu had Demon Descendant bloodline.
• Divine Lord Ci Ji emerged from seclusion and announced that he would attack Long Night Jade Palace in three days, beginning a war over the moon.