Recaps

Chen Xingxuan and the other candidates began Adaptive Verification, where they had to select Martial Dao cultivation methods and use them to complete work tasks. Zhang Yu’s performance in transport and archaeology surprised the observers, leaving the competition for promotion wide open.

• Chen Xingxuan used Tianwen Star to assess the candidates and learned that Yu Qingrang had converted her Dao Arts cultivation to Martial Dao, but Yu Qingrang blocked further data collection with Immortal Coins.
• The arbiters watched as the four candidates began Adaptive Verification, selecting cultivation methods for transport, archaeology, and factory tasks; Zhang Yu chose seven methods while Shen Qingyun chose three.
• Chen Xingxuan quickly simulated three methods, Yu Qingrang simulated five, and Zhang Yu read through his seven selections without practicing, confident he could simulate them directly.
• During the transport task, Chen Xingxuan moved cargo with Mystic Magnetic Gang Qi, while Yu Qingrang and Zhang Yu transformed into giants; Zhang Yu also used Astral Qi to carry more cargo at once.
• During the archaeology task, Yu Qingrang sealed the site in a vacuum, but Zhang Yu combined Cloud Sea Breath and Heavenly Soul Freeze to create a Stasis Field approaching Military Grade standards.

Zhang Yu won the final task of the promotion assessment by fusing three mental methods to boost his workers’ productivity, establishing himself as the strongest candidate. A week later, an official notice appointed him acting leader of Martial Arts Group One.

• Lu Hengzhang reported Zhang Yu for fusing cultivation methods, but the report was rejected because Zhang Yu’s technique remained within their scope.
• Yu Qingrang used Overclock Mode to combine two mental methods with a physical cultivation method, turning herself into a giant and driving her workers to perform.
• Zhang Yu fused the Charming Heart Art, True Word Heart Art, and Heart-Touching Skill, making his workers trust him and work harder after he promised top performers more free work hours without extra workload.
• The officials judged Zhang Yu the most suitable candidate, and Shen Qingyun and Chen Xingxuan approached him after the assessment while Yu Qingrang left in a daze.
• A week later, Zhang Yu received official notice that he had been appointed acting leader of Martial Arts Group One.

After becoming Acting Leader of Martial Arts Group One, Zhang Yu used his promotion to support Yu Xinghan and manage his new team while navigating alliances in the Sect. Gu Qingya warned him about the powerful Innate Dao Lineage and its High-Intelligence Artifact Spirits, which were consuming Spiritual Energy and threatening cultivators’ paths to advancement.

• Bai Zhenzhen let her Sect Examination Clone exchange Spirit Roots with Zhang Yu, while she supervised.
• Zhang Yu demonstrated his fused cultivation methods to Yu Xinghan and offered to split any future licensing profits equally.
• Zhang Yu began serving as Acting Leader of Martial Arts Group One, gaining authority over assignments and access to Layer 12.
• Qu Yizhi offered Zhang Yu all of Group Three’s bonuses in exchange for his continued guidance, and Zhang Yu accepted.
• Gu Qingya told Zhang Yu he would temporarily become Audit Department Director after Luo Wuji stepped down and advised Zhang Yu to secure his leadership position.
• When Spiritual Energy supplies faltered, Gu Qingya explained that High-Intelligence Artifact Spirits promoted by the Innate Dao Lineage were consuming vast amounts of energy, and Zhan Xian warned that their growth could threaten cultivators.

Zhang Yu navigated his new role as acting leader while Lu Hengzhang sought permission to sabotage his promotion, and Zhang Yu reunited with his Lower Realm teachers and allies. After seven months of training and saving, Zhang Yu heard that a newly created Immortal Sect Technique was coming to Yufa Pavilion for an audit.

• Gu Qingya advised Zhang Yu to build his strength patiently, while Lu Hengzhang asked Deputy Pavilion Master Yang to help prevent Zhang Yu from becoming a permanent group leader.
• Deputy Pavilion Master Yang told Lu Hengzhang to focus on advancing High-Intelligence Artifact Spirit technologies through audits and to wait for a chance to act against Zhang Yu.
• Zhang Yu projected to Kunxu Layer 11, visited Divine Lord Ci Ji, Greenwood, and the other Divine Transformation cultivators, and told them about his promotion to acting leader.
• Zhang Yu spoke with Divine Lord Yin Quan about Wang Yin, while the assembled teachers and cultivators reacted to his rapid advancement.
• Bai Zhenzhen learned about Heaven Sword Sect's emotion-based sword techniques, including the costly Extreme Joy Sword Dao, as Wen Wuya learned he suited the Fear Sword.
• Zhang Yu advanced his Nascent Soul Saint Body, saved over 10,000 Immortal Coin, and, after seven months, learned that a newly created Immortal Sect Technique was arriving for audit at Yufa Pavilion.

Zhang Yu sought a place on the Special Task Force reviewing a mysterious Immortal Sect Technique, seeing it as a chance to advance his career. Lu Hengzhang unexpectedly recommended him, and Zhang Yu accepted despite recognizing the danger, while Lu Hengzhang believed the project was doomed and Zhang Yu would become cannon fodder.

• Zhang Yu reflected on his classmates’ Sect Examination prospects and hoped to bring more people from the Lower Realm into the Sect.
• Zhang Yu advanced his cultivation, took on higher-paying part-time tasks, bought an Immortal Spiritual Root, and increased his savings.
• Qu Yizhi told Zhang Yu that a mysterious Immortal Sect Technique had produced a wave of related techniques under review, and Zhang Yu decided to seek a place on the review team.
• Gu Qingya explained that the Pavilion Master would chair the project and warned Zhang Yu that the high-profile assignment could carry risks.
• Lu Hengzhang unexpectedly recommended Zhang Yu to the Special Task Force, and Zhang Yu accepted the invitation despite suspecting Lu Hengzhang’s motives.
• Lu Hengzhang told Zhang Yu to reach Wu Twelve before joining and privately concluded that the Immortal Sect Technique was destined to be abandoned and some team members would become cannon fodder.

Zhang Yu joined the sealed Special Task Force to review a mysterious Sect-Protecting cultivation method, Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation, after borrowing heavily to buy Wu Eleven and Wu Twelve. He learned that Bu Yingshu intended to force the method through review and chose him for her experiments, while the Feather Scroll identified it as part of the Great Saint Successor Chain Law Diagram.

• Zhang Yu borrowed 180,000 Immortal Coins, bought Wu Eleven and Wu Twelve, and raised both martial arts to Level 40 before preparing to enter the Special Task Force.
• Gu Qingya warned Zhang Yu that powerful forces opposed the cultivation method, and the task force cut off all outside communications and subjected him to extensive inspections.
• Zhang Yu joined a group of Audit Department cultivators, where Lu Hengzhang announced that a High-Intelligence Artifact Spirit would assist with the review.
• Lu Hengzhang sent Zhang Yu, Yu Qingrang, and two other cultivators to help Deputy Pavilion Master Bu Yingshu, whom Zhan Xian identified as a dangerous member of the Immortal Clan.
• Bu Yingshu revealed that she wanted Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation approved, dismissed one cultivator and Yu Qingrang after testing them, and selected Zhang Yu and another cultivator to assist with her experiments.
• Zhang Yu read the method's introductory materials, and the Feather Scroll identified Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation as belonging to the Great Saint Successor Chain Law Diagram.

Yu Qingrang escaped Bu Yingshu’s review, while Zhang Yu and Zheng Meng became test subjects for Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation. As they began studying its derivative techniques, Zhang Yu discovered eight connected to a mysterious Great Saint Researcher chain law diagram, and Bu Yingshu noticed his unusual progress.

• Yu Qingrang used her overloaded cerebral Dharma Skeleton to escape Bu Yingshu’s test, while Lu Hengzhang hoped Zhang Yu would remain behind as a test subject.
• Zheng Meng won Bu Yingshu’s favor by praising the Immortal Clan, and Bu Yingshu gave her and Zhang Yu complete copies of Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation.
• Zhang Yu found that the cultivation method required eighteen Layers of Dao Foundation and learned that the Medical Consortium and Innate Dao Lineage might oppose its approval.
• Bu Yingshu assigned Zhang Yu and Zheng Meng derivative cultivation methods to master as preparation for dismantling Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation.
• Zhang Yu identified eight unfamiliar Expert-Level Martial Arts bearing a Great Saint Researcher chain law diagram, then mastered five techniques to Level 40 within five days.
• Bu Yingshu reviewed their progress and questioned whether Zhang Yu had deliberately mastered only five techniques, then noticed all five were at Level 40.

Zhang Yu sensed and deciphered a Great Saint’s warning through the Spirit Realm, drawing the attention of hidden forces that identified him as the Great Saint Successor in the Myriad Laws Sect. Meanwhile, Bu Yingshu tested Zheng Meng and continued having Zhang Yu demonstrate martial arts, leaving Zhang Yu curious about her Dao Seed.

• Zhang Yu raised Great Saint Researcher to its first effect, sensed a distant will while circulating Myriad Transformations Self-Sufficient Profound Scripture, and later deciphered its warning to run because the place had been cracked.
• Zhang Yu severed his connection to the Spirit Realm after a terrifying pressure swept toward him, and Zhan Xian advised him not to use the ability again until it was safe.
• Voices deep within the Spirit Realm announced that the Great Saint Successor had appeared in the Myriad Laws Sect.
• Zheng Meng joined Zhang Yu to demonstrate her cultivation methods to Bu Yingshu, who dismissed her weak display and then used her as a test subject for a new Immortal Dao Technique.
• Bu Yingshu asked why Zhang Yu had stared at her chest, and Zhang Yu claimed he wanted to Dual Cultivate with her before she rejected him.
• After Zhang Yu continued demonstrating cultivation methods for Bu Yingshu over the following days, he gradually discovered that she possessed a Wanfa Immortal Clan Dao Seed.

Zhang Yu used Bu Yingshu’s guidance sessions to complete the requirements for the [Wanfa Immortal Clan] Dao Seed, which awakened Bu Yingshu’s own bloodline talent and gave Zhang Yu a set of cultivation rewards. After beginning to gather techniques to level up the Dao Seed, Zhang Yu tried to arrange an external connection to repay his loan, but Bu Yingshu summoned him before he could resolve it.

• Zhang Yu persuaded Bu Yingshu to guide him through Basic Cultivation Methods, secretly completing the extractions needed to duplicate [Wanfa Immortal Clan].
• Bu Yingshu experimented on Zhang Yu, injuring him and paying him 10,000 Immortal Coins; Zhang Yu healed most of the damage himself and kept nearly 9,000 coins.
• Zhang Yu completed the final extraction, awakening Bu Yingshu’s bloodline talent and duplicating [Wanfa Immortal Clan] at Level 1.
• Zhang Yu used the Dao Seed’s ten exchanges to gain eight Basic Cultivation Method level increases, one method to forget, and one method to learn, then began seeking guidance on Advanced Level Martial Arts to level up the Dao Seed.
• Zhang Yu applied to Lu Hengzhang for permission to connect to the external Dharma Realm and repay his loan, but Lu Hengzhang dismissed his request.
• Bu Yingshu forcefully projected into the office and angrily demanded to know why Zhang Yu had not come when she called.

Bu Yingshu seized Lu Hengzhang for delaying Zhang Yu, then continued experimenting with and guiding Zhang Yu, whose reports helped her Bloodline Talent break through again. As Zhang Yu advanced [Wanfa Immortal Clan] to Level 2 and earned enough to approach paying off his debt, Bu Yingshu tried to repeat the activities she suspected caused her breakthroughs and demanded that he ask more questions.

• Bu Yingshu grabbed Lu Hengzhang, whose Dharma Skeletons and Dharma Treasures were suspended and whose fines mounted, then ordered him to approve Zhang Yu's applications immediately.
• Zhang Yu returned to Bu Yingshu's laboratory, where she experimented on him, gave him Martial Arts guidance, and paid him; Zheng Meng watched resentfully as Bu Yingshu focused on Zhang Yu.
• After reading Zhang Yu's reports, Bu Yingshu discovered that her Bloodline Talent had broken through again, while Zhang Yu used ten rewards to advance [Wanfa Immortal Clan] to Level 2.
• Zhang Yu accumulated 150,000 Immortal Coin and refined ten Advanced Martial Arts techniques, while Bu Yingshu remained patient with his questions despite the Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation tests continuing to fail.
• Bu Yingshu decided to double the activities she believed had awakened her talent and, when Zhang Yu prepared to leave, insisted that he ask her questions about his Derivative Cultivation Methods.

Bu Yingshu repeatedly guided Zhang Yu through cultivation methods, discovering that his insights and their shared work on Immortal Dao Techniques coincided with her talent and Dao Seed improving. As her Dao Seed neared Level 3, she defended Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation at a Special Task Force meeting, after which Yang Kaitai pressured Zhang Yu to report on her progress.

• Bu Yingshu forced Zhang Yu to study the Derivative Cultivation Method, dismissed Zheng Meng, and later beat Lu Hengzhang while trying to recreate the circumstances of her talent improvements.
• Zhang Yu deliberately prevented Bu Yingshu from extracting Immortal Dao Techniques with him until she independently summarized techniques from an Expert-level Cultivation Method and felt her talent respond.
• Bu Yingshu concluded that Zhang Yu inspired her and made him train with her for long hours, paying him 3,000 Immortal Coins for overtime instead of conducting their usual experiments.
• While attending a Special Task Force meeting, Bu Yingshu received Zhang Yu's reports and saw the [Wanfa Immortal Clan] Dao Seed approach Level 3.
• Yang Kaitai argued that Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation should be rejected, but Bu Yingshu vowed to verify it herself and challenged the opposition to her project.
• After the meeting, Yang Kaitai appeared before Zhang Yu and asked for a report on Bu Yingshu's progress, warning him to consider his choices carefully.

Zhang Yu refused Yang Kaitai’s attempt to draw information from him and continued helping Bu Yingshu under a two-month deadline to verify Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation. Their work advanced Zhang Yu’s [Wanfa Immortal Clan] Dao Seed, while the chapter ended with Bu Yingshu bringing him two Military-grade Cultivation Methods from the [Great Saint Researcher] set.

• Zhang Yu declined to disclose Bu Yingshu’s research progress to Yang Kaitai, who warned him to remember where he stood.
• Bu Yingshu told Zhang Yu that she had two months to produce substantive verification results and ordered him to work around the clock, paying him an extra 8,000 Immortal Coin per day.
• Zhang Yu and Bu Yingshu extracted another Immortal Dao Technique from an Expert-level Cultivation Method, raising [Wanfa Immortal Clan] to Level 3; Bu Yingshu’s talent and understanding also surged.
• Zhang Yu drew rewards from [Wanfa Immortal Clan] but held back from trying a Cultivation Method mutation because Bu Yingshu was constantly beside him.
• Chen Xingxuan and Lu Hengzhang believed Bu Yingshu’s project would fail, while Yang Kaitai’s team continued dismantling Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation and searching for similar methods to challenge its novelty.
• Bu Yingshu brought Zhang Yu two Military-grade Cultivation Methods from the [Great Saint Researcher] set, and they began studying them while extracting their Immortal Dao Techniques.

Zhang Yu and Bu Yingshu advanced their study of Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation, while Zhang Yu unlocked the ability to evade the Great Saint Will’s scrutiny. When he examined the cultivation method’s first technique, the Great Saint Will showed him ancient memories revealing the origins of the Wild Ox and their shared identity as the Arrogant Bull.

• Bu Yingshu told Zhang Yu that one imprisoned person had created the Derivative Cultivation Methods and that he might meet the creator if the review succeeded.
• Bu Yingshu secured her clan’s support for her wager with Yufa Pavilion and promised Zhang Yu a position under her after Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation passed review.
• Zhang Yu raised two Military-grade Cultivation Methods to Level 40, unlocking [Great Saint Researcher]’s ability to hide from the Great Saint Will’s gaze.
• After [Wanfa Immortal Clan] reached level 4, Bu Yingshu’s understanding of cultivation methods surged, and she began studying Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation with Zhang Yu.
• Zhang Yu sensed the Great Saint Will while examining the method’s first Immortal Dao Technique, and [Great Saint Researcher] concealed him from the countless eyes in the Spirit Realm.
• Zhang Yu witnessed the Great Saint’s memories of the world’s division and the Demon Descendant Construction Legion, then learned that billions of Wild Ox shared one collective will and called themselves the Arrogant Bull.

Zhang Yu experienced the Great Saint Will as the memories of Wild Ox, whose rage at the exploitation of mortals allowed him to break free and awaken a new will in his Demon Descendant Clone. Wild Ox helped Zhang Yu guide Bu Yingshu through a difficult technique, while Zhang Yu’s report unexpectedly advanced the [Wanfa Immortal Clan] Dao Seed and overwhelmed Bu Yingshu with exhilaration.

• Wild Ox’s memories revealed that the Sect executed mortals and failed cultivators, used their remains as rations, and exploited the dead souls’ resentment to fuel the Wild Oxen and the world’s progress.
• The Wild Oxen resisted the giant foot crushing them, and Zhang Yu’s defiance broke the Great Saint Will’s vision and brought him back to the laboratory.
• Zhang Yu discovered that the Great Saint Will’s information had awakened a new, confused will named Wild Ox in one of his Demon Descendant Clones.
• Wild Ox supplied key details about Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation, allowing Zhang Yu to guide Bu Yingshu to reproduce its body-transforming technique.
• Bu Yingshu paid Zhang Yu 10,000 Immortal Coin and left to report her success, while Zhang Yu sent her a technical report.
• Bu Yingshu’s report increased [Wanfa Immortal Clan]’s progress by one, triggering an overwhelming wave of exhilaration that interrupted her meeting with the clan elders.

Bu Yingshu advanced the Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation’s techniques while Zhang Yu waited for another Great Saint Will. When the fourth technique’s bottleneck triggered one, Zhang Yu witnessed Wild Ox’s history and the rise of the Desolate Ox Great Saint, ending as Wild Ox and the souls within him prepared to remake the world.

• Bu Yingshu concealed her unusual reaction to her Dao Seed’s progress, told Zhang Yu that the clan elders had approved her results, and ordered him to keep refining the Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation with her.
• Zhang Yu and Bu Yingshu refined the second and third techniques, but Zhang Yu sensed no Great Saint Will; Zhan Xian speculated that the methods might help bring Demon Descendants into the Myriad Laws Sect.
• When Bu Yingshu stalled while refining the fourth technique, Zhang Yu sensed a Great Saint Will, and beings in the Spirit Realm identified Layer 11 as the likely location of a Great Saint Successor and ordered it watched.
• Zhang Yu experienced Wild Ox’s memories: the First Demon Saint’s altered command freed Demon Descendants from their compulsion to serve humanity, and Wild Ox united the voices and souls within him to protect ordinary people from slaughter.
• Wild Ox became the Desolate Ox Great Saint, fought the immortals with human and demon allies, and drew their souls and powers into himself as they sacrificed themselves to aid him.
• As an immortal threatened to crush the Human Realm, Wild Ox called the souls within him forth, and the girl who had once bid him farewell urged him to remake the world together.

Zhang Yu and Bu Yingshu uncovered techniques that could turn people into a collective lifeform, a possible answer to labor displaced by High-Intelligence Artifact Spirits. As they continued their research, an unexpected regulatory inspection ordered the Special Task Force to assemble.

• In the Spirit Realm, investigators identified four suspicious locations connected to the Desolate Ox Great Saint and ordered Myriad Laws Sect to investigate them.
• Lu Hengzhang learned that Bu Yingshu paid Zhang Yu 8,000 Immortal Coin for each day of overtime and resented her closeness to him.
• Zhang Yu recounted his vision of the Great Saint Will to Fu Ji and learned that Wild Ox had gained limited reasoning and access to technical knowledge.
• Zhang Yu guided Bu Yingshu as they reproduced techniques from Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation, and she explained that the methods could combine cultivators into a collective lifeform.
• Bu Yingshu told Zhang Yu that Myriad Laws Sect might develop the technique as a flesh-and-blood alternative to High-Intelligence Artifact Spirits, testing it on Demon Descendants; Zhang Yu resolved to gain influence to change the plan.
• A surprise inspection notice ordered the Special Task Force to assemble within three minutes, but Bu Yingshu impatiently delayed responding.

During the Special Task Force inspection, Bing Yisi suspected Zhang Yu was connected to the Desolate Ox Great Saint and attempted to search his memories. Bu Yingshu intervened with a Slaying God Certificate, and the officials agreed to test Zhang Yu’s Sect Nature instead.

• Chen Xingxuan and Yu Qingrang were questioned as Orthodox Gods and Myriad Laws Hall cultivators inspected the Special Task Force.
• Zhang Yu realized the inspectors were investigating the times he sensed the Great Saint Will and worried they would uncover his secrets.
• Bing Yisi sought authorization to search Zhang Yu’s memories for links to the Desolate Ox Great Saint.
• Bu Yingshu broke through the room’s defenses and threatened the inspectors with her certificates, including a Slaying God Certificate.
• The Yufa Pavilion Master arrived, and the parties agreed to test Zhang Yu’s Sect Nature instead of searching his memories.

Zhang Yu passed the Orthodox Gods’ Sect Nature test, but their suspicions shifted toward Bu Yingshu as she advanced her Wanfa Immortal Clan Dao Seed. After Zhang Yu strengthened Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation and Bu Yingshu extracted its final technique, the real Great Saint Will descended toward them, leaving Zhang Yu braced for a confrontation.

• Zhang Yu’s Sect Examination Clone passed a staged Righteous-Demonic War trial, and the Orthodox Gods declared that he had passed the Sect Nature test.
• Bing Yisi grew suspicious of Bu Yingshu’s unusual protectiveness toward Zhang Yu, but his superior dismissed his concerns.
• Bu Yingshu extracted more techniques and raised the Wanfa Immortal Clan Dao Seed to level 5, while Zhang Yu used ten draws to raise Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation to level 40 and fulfill the Great Saint Successor’s first-layer requirement.
• Bu Yingshu’s improved talent let her extract the previously elusive final technique from Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation.
• A real Great Saint Will surged toward Zhang Yu and Bu Yingshu, and Zhang Yu equipped Great Saint Researcher and Great Saint Successor as he anticipated a battle powerful enough to punch through heaven.

Zhang Yu spread his Great Saint Will across Kunxu Layer 11, obscuring the Great Saint Will’s target but drawing the Orthodox Gods’ attention. He witnessed Desolate Ox Great Saint’s history and learned that only a Dao Orthodoxy could oppose the immortals’ power, then returned to the laboratory as Bu Yingshu confronted him about what he had seen.

• Zhang Yu used Great Saint Successor (6/6) to broadcast his will across Layer 11, drowning out the Great Saint Will’s initial trace with the words “Holy shit.”
• The Orthodox Gods and cultivators reacted to the broadcast, while higher wills searched Layer 11 and Zhang Yu switched back to Great Saint Researcher.
• Zhang Yu witnessed Desolate Ox Great Saint defeat an immortal, provide for humanity, and become divided as human societies formed competing realms and nations.
• Desolate Ox Great Saint explained that the world’s development inevitably favored immortals through Dao Orthodoxy, and told Zhang Yu to find the Dao Orthodoxy he had left behind.
• Zhang Yu returned to the laboratory with the Great Saint’s information gathering in his Desolate Ox Clone, and Bu Yingshu asked whether he had seen something.

Bu Yingshu confronted Zhang Yu after they both received the Great Saint Will, fearing they had become Great Saint Successors who could be exploited by Kunxu’s upper powers. When she realized the entire Layer 11 had sensed the Will, she chose to keep Zhang Yu close and resumed their research, expecting the incident to spur even greater investment in the Desolate Ox Great Saint’s techniques.

• Bu Yingshu pinned Zhang Yu down and demanded to know whether he had seen the Great Saint Will’s memories, then explained that Great Saint Successors were valuable tools who could be stripped of their rights and exploited.
• Zhang Yu learned from Bu Yingshu that Kunxu’s upper powers viewed Great Saint Successors as profitable resources rather than merely rebels, while Wild Ox briefly regained his intelligence and said they needed to establish their own Dao Orthodoxy.
• Zhang Yu told Bu Yingshu that the Great Saint Will had reached others, and she discovered that the entire Layer 11 might have sensed it.
• Bu Yingshu feared that everyone had heard the curse she thought during the Will’s arrival, but decided not to silence Zhang Yu and instead resolved to keep him under her command.
• Bu Yingshu resumed the Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation project with Zhang Yu, predicting that the incident would make the upper powers invest even more in studying the Desolate Ox Great Saint’s techniques.

Bu Yingshu decoded Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation and began designing a joint experiment with Zhang Yu, using palm contact to connect their Magical Power. As Kunxu Layer 11 faced investigations over the Great Saint Will, Gu Qingya warned Zhang Yu that supporting Bu Yingshu would put him against the Yufa Pavilion, but Zhang Yu said he had no way back.

• Bu Yingshu concluded that Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation required the combined power of two Dao Foundations and began teaching its key points to Zhang Yu.
• Bu Yingshu chose to connect their power through their palms, paid the fines incurred when she held Zhang Yu's hand, and tested circulating their Magical Power together.
• Bu Yingshu arranged further experiments and requested records from the Special Task Force as Orthodox Gods and major Sects began inspecting suspicious locations across Kunxu Layer 11.
• Gu Qingya contacted Zhang Yu and warned him that the Law Adjudication Dao Lineage wanted to keep Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation under tight control and that Bu Yingshu might not protect him after she left.
• Zhang Yu thanked Gu Qingya but said he had no path of retreat, and Gu Qingya's Dharma Realm projection disappeared.

Bu Yingshu demonstrated that she and Zhang Yu could jointly simulate an 18-Layer Dao Foundation and verify Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation, overturning Yufa Pavilion’s plan to suspend its review. She submitted her report and announced that she would take Zhang Yu with her once matters were settled.

• Gu Qingya warned Zhang Yu against relying on the Immortal Clans, while Zhang Yu decided he could not withdraw from his cooperation with Bu Yingshu.
• Bu Yingshu told Zhang Yu about the Hunyuan Dao Lineage’s plans for Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation and described how she hoped to develop it into a profitable cultivation ecosystem.
• At a Special Task Force meeting, Yang Kaitai proposed suspending review of the technique, and Lu Hengzhang blamed Zhang Yu for influencing Bu Yingshu.
• Bu Yingshu arrived with Zhang Yu and, despite Yang Kaitai’s objections, had him circulate his technique while they jointly channeled their magical power.
• Bu Yingshu displayed the transformations described in Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation, and Yang Kaitai acknowledged that she had verified its effects.
• Bu Yingshu sent her verification report to the Yufa Pavilion leaders and said she would take Zhang Yu with her after the matter was settled.

Bu Yingshu completed the Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation review and declared that she would take Zhang Yu to the Martial Arts Pavilion, promising to promote him to Fourth Rank after he became a Level 3 Sect Affairs Officer. After she left him at Yufa Pavilion with her photo pinned as protection, Zhang Yu returned to work and learned that new Lower Realm recruits and his friends were reacting to his connection with her.

• Bu Yingshu rejected Yang Kaitai's objections, paid Zhang Yu's fine, and announced that she would take him under her wing and bring him to the Martial Arts Pavilion.
• Bu Yingshu and Pavilion Master Si completed the Daoist Canon's final review of the Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation, then she promised to transfer and promote Zhang Yu once he reached Level 3.
• Bu Yingshu took a photo with Zhang Yu, made him pin it to his moments, and returned to the Martial Arts Pavilion, leaving him at Yufa Pavilion to await her news.
• True Lord Wu Xiang joined Yufa Pavilion and discovered that Zhang Yu had become his superior; after hearing about Bu Yingshu, he was awed by Zhang Yu's influence.
• Zhang Yu returned to Martial Arts Group One, where Gu Qingya advised him to keep a low profile amid the Sect's unsettled political situation.
• Spark True Lord and Yu Xinghan messaged Zhang Yu about his connection to Bu Yingshu, and Yu Xinghan added him to the Lower Realm Mutual Aid Group.

Bai Zhenzhen struggled with her conflicting Sword Intents after seeing Zhang Yu’s photo with Bu Yingshu, while a mysterious cultivator urged her to embrace the Extreme Passion Lineage. In the Lower Realm Mutual Aid Society, Zhang Yu’s rapid rise and closeness to Bu Yingshu stunned the new examinees, and he grew concerned when he learned Le Mulan was missing from training.

• Bai Zhenzhen saw Zhang Yu’s photo with Bu Yingshu, and Wen Wuya’s teasing provoked her grief and Extreme Emotion Sword Intents.
• A mysterious cultivator appeared before Bai Zhenzhen and encouraged her to let the Sword Intent control her, while she suspected the figure was an Extreme Joy Sword Dao expert amusing himself at her expense.
• True Lord Xuan Shu joined the Lower Realm Mutual Aid Society and began advising Tian Shenggong, Ying Mingchi, and Wang Yin about their Sect positions.
• True Lord Wu Xiang joined the group to get closer to Zhang Yu, and the members learned Zhang Yu was about to become a Level 3 Sect Affairs Officer and was close to Bu Yingshu.
• Zhang Yu entered the group and greeted familiar examinees, then asked about Le Mulan; Ye Xingli said she had become a Spirit Herb Pavilion talent but had disappeared from training.

Zhang Yu learned that Spirit Herb Pavilion had taken Le Mulan to develop her medicinal potential, then continued cultivating and rising through Myriad Laws Sect. After receiving a promotion and Divine Transformation Certificate, he was assigned to oversee Soul Cultivation Maintenance at the feared Old Days Graveyard.

• Zhang Yu contacted Bu Yingshu about Le Mulan, and she discovered that Spirit Herb Pavilion had taken Le Mulan to invest in her as a medicine-producing asset.
• Zhan Xian explained that Le Mulan would receive resources but face strict control and possible disposal if the venture failed, while Zhang Yu resolved to grow strong enough to protect his companions.
• Zhang Yu focused on Martial Arts Group One, cultivation, and preparing outsourced students Yan Qianji, Feng Tingting, and Shi Huaiyu for future Sect opportunities.
• Zhang Yu became the formal leader of Martial Arts Group One and advanced to Third Rank, while Bu Yingshu became a permanent level 6 Deputy Pavilion Master.
• Gu Qingya summoned Zhang Yu to meet Pavilion Master Si Xuxiao, who promoted him to level 4 Sect Affairs Officer, appointed him Deputy Minister of the Youxin Department, granted him a Divine Transformation Certificate, and sent him to Old Days Graveyard.
• News spread that Zhang Yu would oversee Soul Cultivation Maintenance, an overlooked business in a Small Realm that Myriad Laws Sect disciples avoided.