Recaps

Zhang Yu and his companions completed reexaminations for different sects, and Zhang Yu earned first place with a perfect score. After the results alarmed officials who feared Lower Realm candidates would enter the Sect, Yun Zhiguang confronted Zhang Yu and tried to force him to give up his interview.

• Zhang Yu correctly assembled all ten martial arts, while True Lord Wu Xiang answered eight correctly and Lu Xuanzhi suspected Zhang Yu had received the questions in advance.
• Yu Xinghan used his transformed Three-Eyed Divine Power to identify errors in a martial arts manual, Kuang Tianqing fought the Eight Great Nascent Divinity in an illusion, and Bai Zhenzhen destroyed puppets with her growing Extreme Emotion Sword Qi.
• Le Mulan's Deep Cold Magic Vein transformed after she tested an ingredient, giving her Magical Power the ability to extend lifespan and enrich food and medicine.
• The reexamination results placed Zhang Yu first and True Lord Wu Xiang second, prompting True Lord Wu Xiang to contact a Sect disciple and Yun Zhiguang to fear that Lower Realm candidates would pass their interviews.
• Yun Zhiguang confronted Zhang Yu, offered to marry him if he withdrew from the interview, and threatened him when he refused to agree.

After Yun Zhiguang’s forced-cultivation attempt failed, Zhang Yu rejected her outsourcing offer and spent six days mastering Formless Martial Evolution while the Heavenly Court shielded him from investigations. As the final interview began, Yun Zhiguang suspected the Heavenly Court had secretly prepared Zhang Yu and his companions for the examination.

• Yun Zhiguang pinned Zhang Yu with a Forced-Cultivation License, but Zhang Yu used his Sect Examination Clone to make her believe dual cultivation would benefit him, so she withdrew.
• Yun Zhiguang offered Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan, and Le Mulan outsourcing contracts, while Deng Bingding warned them that sect disciples were searching for evidence to undermine their interviews.
• Zhang Yu refused the contracts and trained Formless Martial Evolution until he could simulate the subtleties of Level 40 martial arts after studying their manuals.
• Sect disciples investigated Zhang Yu and his associates, but Lu Xuanzhi and others denied wrongdoing, while Deng Bingding encouraged Zhou Chechen to hope for future sect examinations.
• Yun Zhiguang concluded that the Heavenly Court had prepared Zhang Yu and his companions in advance, and Zhang Yu and the others reached the final interview.

Zhang Yu and the other finalists traveled to Kunxu Tenth Layer for the Sect Examination’s final interview, carrying the hopes of the Lower Level and the backing of the Heavenly Court and Reincarnation Group. The chapter ended as Zhang Yu and True Lord Wu Xiang entered the interview hall before four powerful examiners and a gathering of Sect disciples.

• Zhang Yu realized that Ultimate—Formless Martial Evolution could fuse two simulated cultivation methods, and he suspected the martial art was designed to test combinations and find optimal forms.
• Deng Bingding and Kuang Tianqing told Zhang Yu that the Heavenly Court and Reincarnation Group would support him if he revealed his full abilities during the interview.
• Zhang Yu, Bai Zhenzhen, Yu Xinghan, Le Mulan, and Spark True Lord boarded a Flying Boat and traveled through Kunxu Layers 5–10 toward the interview site.
• True Lord Tiansha told True Lord Miaoshou that he wanted the interview to show Sect disciples that people born in the Lower Level could enter the Sect.
• At Kunxu Tenth Layer’s Dao Palace, Orthodox Gods led the finalists to separate interview rooms, and Zhang Yu followed one to his hall.
• Zhang Yu entered the hall with True Lord Wu Xiang and saw four indistinct examiners, Sect disciples, and Yun Zhiguang waiting inside.

Zhang Yu defended civil engineering’s value in his Yufa Pavilion interview, then narrowed True Lord Wu Xiang’s lead by demonstrating extraordinary mastery of simulated martial arts. With the final question testing a body-refinement technique’s originality, Zhang Yu rapidly advanced it to Level 20 and argued that it was an innovation, leaving the examiners to judge his claim.

• Deputy Minister Lu challenged Zhang Yu’s transfer from civil engineering to artifact crafting, and Zhang Yu argued that the fields complemented each other and had helped defend Layers 2–5.
• Patrol God Geng backed Zhang Yu’s case for civil engineering, while the examiners explained that Zhang Yu and True Lord Wu Xiang would answer four questions and receive joint scores.
• Zhang Yu and True Lord Wu Xiang each scored 80 on the first question, but Zhang Yu scored 52 on the talisman-arts question against Wu Xiang’s 80.
• On the third question, both men demonstrated simulated versions of two similar martial arts, but Zhang Yu’s Level 40 performances earned him 95 points against Wu Xiang’s 75, narrowing the total to 227–235.
• As the final question tested whether the Nine Heavens Divine Elephant Technique copied an ancient sect canon, Zhang Yu used accelerated cultivation to advance it to Level 20 in nine steps.
• Zhang Yu said that the technique incorporated new circulation logic from Demon Descendant Martial Arts and was an innovation rather than a replication.

Zhang Yu won his interview against True Lord Wu Xiang, while four other Lower Level candidates passed, leaving Yu Xinghan as the final chance to make Sect examinations routine. Facing a question about the Nine Heavens Thunderclap Chapter, Yu Xinghan overcame his despair over his poor origins and awakened his Fist Intent, but his interview result remained unresolved.

• Zhang Yu explained the Demon Descendant secrets behind the Nine Heavens Divine Elephant Technique, scored 98 points, and defeated True Lord Wu Xiang in the interview totals.
• Bai Zhenzhen survived the examiner's sword strike and passed with 277 points, while Kuang Tianqing scored 255 and Spark True Lord scored 248, bringing the number of passing Lower Level candidates to four.
• Le Mulan scored 150 and failed to pass, though an examiner offered her outsourced work on Layer 11 and resources to develop her potential.
• Yu Xinghan began his final interview with 170 points after three questions and was asked to troubleshoot Spiritual Energy short-circuiting in the Nine Heavens Thunderclap Chapter.
• Yu Xinghan's Sect Examination Clone despaired over his poor background, but Yu Xinghan saw his Lower Level connections as support and continued practicing the technique.
• Yu Xinghan interpreted the technique's heavenly thunder as a resolve to charge forward despite overwhelming odds, and he condensed Fist Intent as lightning erupted around him.

Yu Xinghan overcame the Sect Examination Clone’s influence, explained the Nine Heavens Thunderclap Chapter, and passed the interview, joining Zhang Yu and the others as a provisional Myriad Laws Sect member. As the successful candidates prepared for their move to Layer 11 and the Spark Sect Examination became a major public campaign, Zhang Yu agreed to bring Ye Xingnian with him.

• Yu Xinghan shattered the Sect Examination Clone’s will, demonstrated his mastery of the Nine Heavens Thunderclap Chapter, and earned a score of 241, passing the interview.
• Yu Xinghan celebrated with Zhang Yu and Spark True Lord, while Bai Zhenzhen unblocked him and Le Mulan worried that she had failed.
• An Orthodox God announced that the candidates’ names would be displayed for a month before they were sent to Layer 11, and that the successful candidates would help promote future Sect Examinations.
• People and organizations across Kunxu reacted to the results by promoting Sect Examination tutoring, planning preparations, or expressing hopes of entering the Sect; Yun Zhiguang decided to support the examination campaign while competing for its market.
• Ye Xingnian asked Zhang Yu to take her to the Sect, and Zhang Yu agreed, recalling how she had helped him in the past.

After Zhang Yu and the others passed the Sect Examination interview, the Heavenly Court honored them and Zhang Yu urged cultivators across Layers 1–10 to enter Sects. As their arrival stirred hopes of future admissions, Divine Lord Ci Ji discovered that Zhang Yu and two others had entered Myriad Laws Sect.

• Feng Tingting praised Zhang Yu’s physical training during her livestream, while former classmates and acquaintances celebrated the successful candidates and reconsidered their old grudges.
• On the return flight, Zhang Yu reassured Le Mulan that Yu Xinghan would help her find outsourced work at Myriad Laws Sect so she could prepare for next year’s exam.
• Zhang Yu and the other five candidates received a public welcome and Heavenly Court honors, with Zhang Yu named the examination’s overall first place.
• Zhang Yu urged cultivators to take the Sect Examination and strive to enter higher Kunxu layers, inspiring many to prepare for future exams.
• As people across Layers 1–10 considered the examination’s consequences, Divine Lord Ci Ji saw Zhang Yu and two others on Myriad Laws Sect’s new admissions list and went to tell Sin Lotus and Shadow Spring.

After Zhang Yu was admitted as a Sect Affairs Officer, Divine Lord Ci Ji and other cultivators reacted to the news while Zhang Yu prepared for his move to the Sect and worked to improve his companions’ Dao Seeds. He gained access to the Reincarnation System to retrieve a deceased person’s memories, and an old acquaintance emerged from his body.

• Divine Lord Ci Ji showed the admissions list to other Deity Transformation Divine Lords and celebrated that his student Zhang Yu had entered the Sect, while Sin Lotus Divine Lord and Divine Lord Yin Quan reacted to the results.
• Divine Lord Zhi Pan urged Greenwood Divine Lord to use his connection with Zhang Yu before Zhang Yu became more distant after entering the Sect.
• Zhang Yu returned to the Research Association, advised Bei Wufeng, Jin Jun, and Yan Qianji about the Sect Examination, and planned how to use his final month before leaving.
• Zhang Yu helped Ye Xingli design Foundation Establishment Dharma Treasures, supported Yu Xinghan’s Magical Power training, and considered upgrading Bai Zhenzhen’s Azure Lotus Sword Embryo after checking the risks of an Immortal Spiritual Root.
• Kuang Tianqing told Zhang Yu that the Reincarnation Group had granted him access to the Reincarnation System, and Zhang Yu used the Hell Soul Washing Scripture to summon a deceased person’s memory, recognizing the figure as an old acquaintance.

Zhang Yu learned from Zhan Xian that the Feather Scroll was a rare kind of Book and received an updated Law-Breaking Talisman to conceal his cultivation from the Myriad Laws Sect’s Dharma Realm. As he prepared to enter the Sect, he advanced several projects and worked to raise the Azure Lotus Sword Embryo to Level 4.

• Zhang Yu spoke with Zhan Xian, who explained that Fu Xiantian had known of Books and that the Feather Scroll’s ability to grow set it apart from others.
• Zhan Xian warned Zhang Yu that the Dharma Realm monitored cultivators’ memories and techniques, then taught him how to use an updated Law-Breaking Talisman left in True Lord Zhanxian’s death memories.
• Zhang Yu began studying with Zhan Xian and preparing to enter the Sect while he and Ye Xingli completed the final Magic Treasure design blueprint, advancing Spirit Charm Artifact Heart to Level 2.
• Yu Xinghan’s Magical Power surpassed 8,000 units, briefly opening a golden fissure between his brows and raising his Three-Eyed Divine Power to Level 4.
• Bai Zhenzhen exchanged her True Spirit Root for a Feather Spirit Root as Zhang Yu cultivated with unusual intensity.
• Zhang Yu completed nourishment of the Azure Lotus Sword Embryo from nine Level 40 cultivation techniques and prepared to use the tenth to raise it to Level 4.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen’s Spirit Roots evolved into Immortal Spiritual Roots, giving them new abilities and a link that let them exchange Spirit Roots and Magical Power. As Zhang Yu prepared to enter the Sect, he reached his Nascent Soul limits, passed on the Law-Breaking Talisman, and helped friends prepare for their own paths into the Sect.

• Zhang Yu concealed the Azure Lotus Sword Embryo’s ascension with Kunlun in Palm, then returned Bai Zhenzhen’s transformed True Spirit Root to her.
• Bai Zhenzhen discovered that her Immortal Spiritual Root enhanced her cultivation and let her better control the Sect Examination Clone, while Zhang Yu found his Feather Spirit Root adapted to Chain Law Diagrams more quickly.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen learned that their Immortal Spiritual Roots could transmit between them and transfer Magical Power, then tested the ability together.
• Zhang Yu taught Bai Zhenzhen and Yu Xinghan the Law-Breaking Talisman, while Yu Xinghan used his upgraded Three-Eyed Divine Power to spot faint wear on Zhang Yu’s body.
• Zhang Yu reached the Nascent Soul limits in Dao Heart, Physical Strength, and Magical Power, handed over his companies, and agreed to pass Wang Yin’s message to Divine Lord Yin Quan and Wen Wuya’s request to Bai Zhenzhen.
• Shi Huaiyu, Xiao Qingxuan, Shi Yunxiang, and Ying Xin asked Zhang Yu for help entering the Sect, and he gave them Exam Ancestor materials and planned to transfer them to the Artifact Crafting Department before his departure.

Zhang Yu and his companions arrived in the Myriad Laws Sect, where they experienced the upper layers’ cultivation environment and began mandatory training. As Zhang Yu connected to the Dharma Realm and granted Wanfa Butler access to his body, he felt his control over himself gradually slipping away.

• Zhang Yu gave Bai Zhenzhen seven stockings he had personally refined, recalling his promise from their first trip to the Immortal Capital.
• The group reached Kunxu Layer 11’s Central Extreme Heaven, learned about the Sect Layers, and discovered that the upper-layer cultivation environment was free to use.
• Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan, and Spark True Lord took Ye Xingli, Le Mulan, and Li Xuelian to the Newcomer Training School, while Bai Zhenzhen and the others continued onward.
• At the training school, an instructor told the newcomers to connect to the Dharma Realm and install Wanfa Butler before starting their training.
• Zhang Yu connected to the Dharma Realm, installed Wanfa Butler, and approved a series of permissions that gave it access to his meridians, organs, blood and qi, and Magical Power circulation.

Yu Xinghan, Zhang Yu, and Spark True Lord attended newcomer training for newly admitted Myriad Laws Sect affairs officers, where they learned about cultivation services, loans, gambling on bills, and Dharma Medicine. The chapter ended as instructors began promoting the Sect’s dual-cultivation initiative and announced a support section for reluctant cultivators.

• Yu Xinghan used the Wanfa Butler for a free self-check and annual report, then optimized his breathing technique, raising his cultivation efficiency.
• Yu Xinghan, Zhang Yu, and Spark True Lord arrived at newcomer training, where Sect disciples welcomed them warmly instead of looking down on Lower Level entrants.
• Lending instructor Yun Jiying taught the students about cross-realm cultivation loans and gambling on bills, while Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan declined to gamble on their Dharma Realm data-fee bills.
• A second instructor introduced Dharma Medicine and Awakening Agents, and Zhang Yu warned Yu Xinghan and Spark True Lord against using them after Zhan Xian explained their risks.
• A third instructor announced the Myriad Laws Sect’s campaign to promote dual cultivation and its plan to establish a Dual Cultivation Support Section for resistant cultivators.

Zhang Yu learned that the Myriad Laws Sect’s classes promoted competing Dao Lineages, childbirth, exploitation of Outsourced Workers, and increasingly convenient Dharma Medicine. After Hong Jian urged him to replace his Heavenly Spiritual Root, Zhan Xian warned him to reach Fourth Rank within three years to uncover Fu Xiantian’s hidden inheritance on Layer 14; Spark True Lord then cautioned the group against Dharma Medicine and careless Dual Cultivation.

• Zhang Yu heard that the Heaven Demon Sect sought to monopolize natural reproduction, while the other sects encouraged childbirth and debated the costs and dangers of producing Bloodline Descendants.
• Zhan Xian explained how Dao Lineages competed within and between sects, and Zhang Yu realized the sect’s classes were promoting those struggles to new disciples.
• Sect members tried to recruit Zhang Yu and his Outsourced Workers for childbirth schemes, but Zhan Xian warned him about child-support obligations and exploitation.
• Zhang Yu learned that sect workers were expected to finish their tasks in four hours and were taught to increase productivity by using copied memories, puppets, and Outsourced Cultivators.
• Hong Jian offered Zhang Yu secondhand Immortal Spiritual Roots and a loan, while Zhan Xian told him to reach Fourth Rank within three years to find Fu Xiantian’s inheritance on Layer 14 before it was discovered.
• Spark True Lord gathered Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan, Ye Xingli, Le Mulan, Li Xuelian, and the others, warned them against Dharma Medicine, and cautioned that Dual Cultivation could divide them over money and child-support disputes.

Zhang Yu learned how Sect members managed outsourced workers and considered the risks of Dharma Medicine, memory products, and exploiting cultivators. Zhan Xian urged him to reach Fourth Rank within three years to find Fu Xiantian’s hidden inheritance, while Spark True Lord warned his group against Dharma Medicine and careless Dual Cultivation.

• The instructor explained memory-copying risks, demonstrated cheap work memories, and taught the class to manage Outsourced Cultivators, assigning homework involving Dharma Medicine, Dual Cultivation, or loans.
• Zhan Xian told Zhang Yu that Fu Xiantian had hidden an inheritance on Layer 14 containing something left by Patriarch Ying Xintian, and that Zhang Yu needed to reach Fourth Rank within three years to retrieve it.
• Hong Jian urged Zhang Yu to replace his Heavenly Spiritual Root with an Immortal Spiritual Root and offered to lend him money, but Zhang Yu declined.
• Ye Xingli offered to cooperate with Zhang Yu on the homework, and Spark True Lord told everyone not to take Dharma Medicine because of its risks and growing availability.
• Spark True Lord cautioned the group against engaging in Dual Cultivation merely for the assignment, warning that disputes over children and profits had broken cultivators apart.

Zhang Yu and the others rejected Dual Cultivation and Dharma Medicine, choosing instead to borrow carefully, while Zhang Yu suspected competing Dao Lineages were shaping sect policy. Their instructor Hong Jian confronted them over their poor training work and threatened to personally tutor them, leaving Yu Xinghan alarmed.

• Spark True Lord warned that Dual Cultivation could become addictive and damage other cultivation, while Li Xuelian explained the risks of frequent memory services and Le Mulan asked whether Dharma Medicine could counter the addiction.
• Zhan Xian told Zhang Yu that relying on either Dual Cultivation or Dharma Medicine would leave cultivators controlled by others, and Zhang Yu urged his companions to avoid both.
• The group chose to borrow for their homework instead; Zhang Yu referred Ye Xingli for an Emergency Fund, and Yu Xinghan worried they might be monitored for avoiding Dual Cultivation.
• Hong Jian reviewed Zhang Yu's homework, criticized his lack of progress, and summoned Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan, and Spark True Lord for a warning about their training and their Outsourced Workers.
• Hong Jian threatened to personally tutor the three if their work did not improve by the next day, and Yu Xinghan feared the prospect of being taught by him.

Zhang Yu reported to Yufa Pavilion and discovered that his new supervisor, Qu Yizhi, planned to burden him with work to block his advancement. As Zhang Yu began reviewing twenty-four Nascent Soul cultivation methods that could strengthen his own cultivation, Qu Yizhi assigned him another task and resolved to keep him a first-rank Sect Affairs Officer.

• Yu Xinghan struggled with the temptation to use memory permissions, Dharma Medicine, loans, and Dual Cultivation to accelerate his progress, while Zhang Yu resisted similar offers from fellow trainees.
• Zhang Yu and Le Mulan used Zhan Xian’s Law-Breaking Talisman to falsify their Dual Cultivation records, and Hong Jian accepted the results; one week later, the trainees finished training and departed for their assigned departments.
• Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan parted ways near Yufa Pavilion and the Martial Arts Pavilion, and Zhang Yu spoke with Bai Zhenzhen before reporting to Yufa Pavilion with Ye Xingli.
• Zhang Yu completed onboarding as a Level 1 Sect Affairs Officer and learned that Yufa Pavilion could connect to the Daoist Canon to search existing cultivation copyrights.
• Qu Yizhi assigned Zhang Yu a ninety-day review of twenty-four Nascent Soul Basic Cultivation Method copyrights, which Zhang Yu realized could strengthen his Nascent Soul Saint Body.
• Qu Yizhi assigned Zhang Yu another task and planned to overload him with work, hoping to prevent his promotion and label him as having limited potential.

Yu Xinghan and Zhang Yu began newcomer training after joining the Myriad Laws Sect, discovering that its free cultivation tools and cross-realm borrowing privileges came with pervasive lending, gambling, and Dharma Medicine systems. Zhang Yu recognized these benefits as possible foundations for powerful Dao Orthodoxies and warned Yu Xinghan and Spark True Lord against Dharma Medicine as training introduced a new Dual Cultivation policy.

• Yu Xinghan used Wanfa Butler to inspect his cultivation, generated an annual report, and improved his breathing technique for free, though he closed the paid optimization and loan offers.
• Yu Xinghan, Zhang Yu, and Spark True Lord joined the Sect Affairs Officer training group and were warmly welcomed by local sect disciples, surprising Yu Xinghan.
• Lending teacher Yun Jiying introduced cross-realm cultivation loans and gambling on bills; one trainee won a waived bill, while Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan declined to gamble on their Dharma Realm fees.
• Zhang Yu learned that Dao Orthodoxy could grow from Law Articles into foundational rules, and Zhan Xian warned him that Dharma Medicine could make cultivators dependent on its effects.
• Zhang Yu warned Yu Xinghan and Spark True Lord against Dharma Medicine before a teacher announced the Myriad Laws Sect's Dual Cultivation Support Section and urged newcomers to follow the policy.

Zhang Yu used his rapid mastery of martial arts cultivation methods to drive Martial Arts Group Three’s audit work forward while building up his Nascent Soul Saint Body. At the monthly meeting, his exceptional results drew praise from Luo Wuji, who announced higher performance requirements for the next month.

• Chu Wangji worried that Zhang Yu’s intensive cultivation was a poor substitute for working efficiently during the four-hour workday.
• Zhang Yu mastered cultivation methods while Ye Xingli handled research and paperwork, and he planned to submit the completed audit reports to the Daoist Canon together.
• After work, Zhang Yu trained Righteous Heart Guarding One Fist to Level 40 and worked with Ye Xingli on Magic Treasure blueprints.
• Over more than twenty days, Zhang Yu raised his Nascent Soul Saint Body to (14/14), unlocking another 20% boost and speeding up his cultivation and simulations.
• On February 1st, Qu Yizhi told Lu Hengzhang that Zhang Yu’s work was unimpressive, despite having loaded him with difficult audits at Lu Hengzhang’s instruction.
• At the monthly meeting, Luo Wuji announced that Martial Arts Group Three had performed exceptionally well and that Zhang Yu had scored 124 points, then raised the next month’s performance requirements.

After Zhang Yu topped the January rankings, he promised Luo Wuji that he could raise Martial Arts Group Three’s performance by more than thirty percent in February. Qu Yizhi tried to undermine him, but Zhang Yu equipped himself to work faster and began a new month of audits, determined to make good on his claim.

• Qu Yizhi reviewed Zhang Yu’s thirty-one approved audits as Luo Wuji praised the Martial Arts Group’s potential and summoned Zhang Yu to explain his results.
• Zhang Yu promised Luo Wuji that he could raise the entire group’s February performance by more than thirty percent, and Luo Wuji ordered Qu Yizhi to cooperate with him.
• After Zhang Yu topped the rankings, Shen Qingyun vowed to beat him, while Qu Yizhi complained to Lu Hengzhang and was told not to let Zhang Yu succeed.
• Zhang Yu received his rewards, bought Fu Ji a cheap antique, and purchased a Document Thought Seal to communicate faster with Ye Xingli.
• Qu Yizhi assigned Zhang Yu difficult audits and mismatched tasks to hinder the group, while Zhang Yu used Formless Martial Evolution and the Three-Eyed Divine Power to accelerate his technique reviews.

Zhang Yu overwhelmed Martial Arts Group Three with his work, then raised the group members’ performance by sharing his insights and guidance. As Qu Yizhi finally approached him for help, he revealed that Deputy Minister Lu Hengzhang had been urging him to put Zhang Yu through extra hardship.

• Chu Wangji and Wen Zhiwei opposed Zhang Yu’s plan to raise the group’s performance, but Zhang Yu soon submitted a stream of audit reports that left the team stunned.
• Zhang Yu completed work assigned to Chu Wangji and other colleagues, then offered to teach them in exchange for letting him guide their work.
• Zhang Yu used Formless Martial Evolution and the Document Thought Seal to share his techniques, tests, and insights, helping the group members raise their performance.
• Qu Yizhi grew anxious as the group’s performance rose and his ranking fell, while Zhang Yu suspected he had deliberately assigned techniques mismatched to the members’ Martial Dao styles.
• After hearing Minister Luo Wuji report the group’s improved results, Qu Yizhi approached Zhang Yu and revealed that Deputy Minister Lu Hengzhang had told him to give Zhang Yu extra training.

Zhang Yu learned more about the Audit Department’s factions, won Qu Yizhi’s support, and drove Martial Arts Group Three to a 32 percent performance increase. At the March meeting, Luo Wuji praised the team and asked Zhang Yu to share his methods, while Lu Hengzhang resolved to undermine both Zhang Yu and Luo Wuji.

• Qu Yizhi told Zhang Yu that Lu Hengzhang was secretly targeting him and described the complicated factions within the Conservative Faction and the Audit Department.
• Qu Yizhi accepted Zhang Yu as Martial Arts Group Three’s true leader, joined the study guidance group, and was astonished by Zhang Yu’s skill at simulating and combining martial arts techniques.
• Zhang Yu refused Qu Yizhi’s suggestion to use the Dharma Realm’s memory-transmission service, then learned from Zhan Xian that recurring Spiritual Energy outages might mean an unknown force was consuming the Sect’s resources.
• Zhang Yu led Martial Arts Group Three to a 32 percent performance increase, then eased the pace after Qu Yizhi and the other members pleaded with him to stop grinding so hard.
• At the March meeting, Luo Wuji praised Zhang Yu and asked him to share his methods, while Lu Hengzhang privately plotted to bring down Zhang Yu and Luo Wuji and secure the Audit Department directorship for himself.

Zhang Yu’s success in Martial Arts Group Three led Luo Wuji to assign him to teach the other Martial Dao groups, while workplace rivals and colleagues reacted to his rising influence. After the March evaluation, Zhang Yu appeared on Yufa Pavilion’s promotion list as a prospective Second Rank Sect Affairs Officer, while Lu Hengzhang prepared to act against him.

• Xiao Zhi and the other group leaders resisted Zhang Yu’s methods and proposed examining his group’s work records and memories, but Gu Qingya cautioned them against handling Lower Realm memories, and Luo Wuji ordered Zhang Yu to teach the other groups after work.
• Qu Yizhi told Zhang Yu that his promotion to Second Rank would make it easier for him to guide the Martial Dao groups, while Shen Qingyun resolved to learn Zhang Yu’s methods and eventually surpass him.
• Zhang Yu considered the long path to ascension and rejected a reexamination application for a Spirit Refining Art whose copyright he had previously denied.
• Zhang Yu’s salary, bonuses, authority, and gifts from Group Three’s members increased, while he learned that half the group’s outsourced workers had been dismissed after performance improved.
• After the March evaluation, Zhang Yu’s name entered the seven-day display period for promotion to Second Rank, and Lu Hengzhang told someone to prepare to make their move.

Zhang Yu faced an investigation after rumors claimed he had wrongly rejected the Spirit Refining Art and leaked its technique to the Heaven Demon Sect. He maintained that the art shared its origins with the Shattering Delusion Forging God Art, but the review proceeded against him, and Gu Qingya warned that his refusal to admit fault would likely ruin his promotion.

• Gu Qingya warned Zhang Yu that someone had reported him, and leaks soon accused him of rejecting the Spirit Refining Art before its technique resurfaced in the Heaven Demon Sect.
• Zhang Yu recalled that the Feather Scroll identified the Spirit Refining Art as the Shattering Delusion Forging God Art, advanced the latter to Level 40, and concluded that the two arts shared a root, which had informed his rejection.
• Luo Wuji ordered Zhang Yu to admit carelessness and apologize, but Zhang Yu refused to abandon his judgment; Zhan Xian explained that Yufa Pavilion's procedures required a Joint Review Group before submission to the Daoist Canon.
• The Investigation Team froze Zhang Yu's promotion and questioned him, while its members said no one in the Myriad Laws Sect had cultivated the Shattering Delusion Forging God Art to Level 40.
• Xiao Zhi used the review to spread rumors that Zhang Yu had boosted his performance by carelessly rejecting applications, and the Joint Review Group began examining the Spirit Refining Art.
• Gu Qingya told Zhang Yu that Luo Wuji valued obedience and quieting public opinion more than whether Zhang Yu was right, and warned that his promotion prospects would suffer if he refused to submit.

Zhang Yu was cleared after the Daoist Canon judged that the Spirit Refining Art involved a sealed Black Cultivation Method, exposing a wider scheme aimed at blocking Luo Wuji’s Law Article. As his promotion resumed, Zhang Yu investigated audit reports and found problems that might implicate another faction.

• Gu Qingya warned Zhang Yu that his promotion would fail and urged him to seek help from his seniors, but Zhang Yu left without changing his stance.
• The Investigation Team relied on two outside cultivators to claim the Spirit Refining Art did not overlap with the Shattering Delusion Forging God Art, but the Daoist Canon identified the connection and flagged the Spirit Refining Art as involving a Black Cultivation Method.
• Yufa Pavilion sealed the Spirit Refining Art and the laboratory that developed it, while reports about the incident fueled public opposition to cultivation-method sealing.
• Zhan Xian concluded that the uproar was meant to obstruct Luo Wuji’s planned Law Article supporting the Law Ruling Dao Orthodoxy, and Luo Wuji realized that public pressure had made his breakthrough plan untenable.
• Zhang Yu learned that his investigation had ended and his promotion to Level 2 Sect Affairs Officer had resumed, then examined audit reports and found problems in the first group’s records.

Zhang Yu uncovered evidence that Xiao Zhi had mishandled technique audits and gave it to Gu Qingya, helping bring about Xiao Zhi’s demotion. Zhang Yu became one of four candidates for Acting Leader of Martial Arts Group One, where he faced Shen Qingyun and Chen Xingxuan.

• Zhang Yu found that Xiao Zhi had unreasonably rejected ten techniques, while similar techniques had later passed review.
• Zhang Yu consulted Spark True Lord and Zhang Pianpian, who advised him about the Dao Orthodoxies and motives of the leaders he might approach.
• Zhang Yu gave the audit evidence to Gu Qingya and asked to become group leader; Gu Qingya arranged for him to be recommended as an Acting Leader candidate.
• Gu Qingya and Luo Wuji exposed Xiao Zhi’s audit problems, and Lu Hengzhang ordered Xiao Zhi to accept responsibility and minimize the fallout.
• Xiao Zhi was demoted and transferred out of the Audit Department, and Zhang Yu was named one of four candidates for Acting Leader of Martial Arts Group One.
• Zhang Yu arrived at the Position Suitability Assessment, while Chen Xingxuan’s artifact spirit, Tianwen Star, assessed Zhang Yu and Shen Qingyun as no match for Chen Xingxuan.