Recaps

Zhang Yu received Extraordinary Merit from Immortal Zhimiao, including a large bonus, a custom title, and a Tax Exemption Medallion, while she urged him to cultivate quickly enough to join next year’s legislation. The ceremony rewarded his collaborators as well, and it ended with Zhang Yu giving a public speech praising the Immortal Emperor and the Sect.

• Immortal Zhimiao awarded Zhang Yu 10 million Immortal Coin and 1 million Dao Merit, then inscribed the title [Old Days Salary King] above his head, granting him a 30% discount on most Dharma Realm purchases.
• Immortal Zhimiao opened a passage to the Heavenly Court and granted Zhang Yu a Tax Exemption Medallion that could protect him from tax inspections for one year; she advised him to save it for the right moment.
• Immortal Zhimiao told Zhang Yu that reaching Refining Void within a year could let him help establish the first third-generation Law Articles and greatly improve his chances of becoming an Immortal.
• Immortal Zhimiao gave Yu Xinghan, Ye Xingli, Magnetic Pole, Old Gao, Yan Qianji, Shi Huaiyu, E Tingting, and Zhao Tianxing merit rewards or bonuses, and raised Zhao Tianxing’s pay.
• Ling Chenji and Cang Juechen discussed the Immortal Emperor’s use of rival factions and Cang Juechen’s plan to prove the value of the Artifact Spirit Dao Lineage in next year’s legislation.
• Immortal Zhimiao brought Zhang Yu before the camera for an acceptance speech, and Zhang Yu publicly credited the Immortal Emperor, the Sect, and Kunxu for his success.

Zhang Yu celebrated receiving Extraordinary Merit and learned that the Immortal Emperor’s support for him might also signal support for the Reformists. As he asked Fa Liuyuan whether he could join next year’s Third-Generation Law Articles legislation, Bu Yingshu moved against Bai Zhenzhen while Bai resisted her Sword Dao’s influence.

• Zhang Yu credited the Immortal Emperor in his acceptance speech, while soul cultivators celebrated his reforms and Lu Hengzhang reconsidered his view of them.
• Fa Liuyuan and the immortals assessed Zhang Yu’s prospects but concluded that he was unlikely to qualify for next year’s first batch of Third-Generation Law Articles.
• Bu Yingshu dismissed a suitor, admired Zhang Yu’s growing influence, and asked her father to pressure the person backing Bai Zhenzhen.
• Bai Zhenzhen resisted the urge to transmit her True Spirit Root to Zhang Yu and used her Sorrowful Sword Dao to balance her Extreme Joy and Extreme Emotion Sword Qi.
• Immortal Zhimiao accepted Zhang Yu’s friend request and left Old Days Graveyard after the ceremony ended.
• Fa Liuyuan explained that Immortal Zhimiao’s goodwill reflected the Reformists’ standing, and Zhang Yu asked whether he could participate in next year’s legislation.

Zhang Yu persuaded Fa Liuyuan to let him compete in next year’s legislation, secured the Wanfa Immortal Emperor’s permission to use his Blank Legislation Article, and received new responsibilities and rewards. He then prepared for a Refining Void breakthrough and rapidly advanced his Empress Wa Manufacturing cultivation.

• Zhang Yu convinced Fa Liuyuan to apply for a legislative quota for him next year, agreeing to complete his tenth Divine Light Transformation first and withdraw if ordered.
• Zhang Yu discussed his Tax Exemption Medallion with Fa Liuyuan and decided against borrowing schemes that could violate Sect law.
• Zhang Yu reported his plan to the Wanfa Immortal Emperor, who approved his use of the Blank Legislation Article in next year’s legislation.
• Zhang Yu arranged to focus on cultivation, assigned Yu Xinghan to bring Xuan Ge up from the Lower Realm as an Outsourced Cultivator, and received authority to collect Grotto-Heaven Power from several Small Realms.
• Kuang Tianqing told Zhang Yu that he would be promoted toward Seventh Rank and made a candidate for Heavenly Devil Prince, while promising delivery of the Evil God with twenty percent market share.
• Zhang Yu trained in Empress Wa Manufacturing and completed its first two layers, gaining the ability to create temporary Dharma Treasures and let them exist apart from his body for up to six hours.

Zhang Yu tested [Empress Wa Manufacturing], a Chain Law Diagram that let him create temporary Dharma Treasures from Magical Power, and improved its effects by mastering artifact forging methods. After unlocking its Third Layer, he found he could make his creations operate automatically, though they consumed Magical Power faster.

• Zhang Yu used ten artifact forging cultivation methods to greatly improve his forging skill and tested how well [Empress Wa Manufacturing] could reproduce Dharma Treasures.
• Zhang Yu determined that his creations performed better when he was familiar with their designs, and that they consumed Magical Power and eventually dissipated.
• Xiang Shen praised Zhang Yu’s ability, while Fu Ji explained how artifact forging knowledge let him simulate Dharma Treasures with Magical Power.
• Zhang Yu cultivated the ten methods for two more days and unlocked the Third Layer effect of [Empress Wa Manufacturing].
• Zhang Yu made a Shangyang Huangshen operate automatically with a single command, but found that doing so doubled its Magical Power consumption.

Zhang Yu tested [Empress Wa Manufacturing], built a profitable Shangyang Huangshen rental business, and chose to invest in artifact-refining blueprints instead of developing the [Desire-Heaven Demon Lord] Chain Law Diagram. After Kuang Tianqing delivered Bao Shen and discussed the coming third-generation Law Articles, Zhang Yu traveled to the Material Person District to collect Grotto-Heaven Power and learned about the enormous voids left by an ancient battle.

• Zhang Yu concluded that [Empress Wa Manufacturing] could greatly expand his ability to produce and operate Dharma Treasures, and decided to spend his remaining funds on more artifact-refining blueprints.
• Zhang Yu manufactured and rented out low-level Shangyang Huangshens to Soul Cultivators, earning nearly 120,000 additional Immortal Coins per month.
• Kuang Tianqing delivered Bao Shen, whom Fu Ji and Xiang Shen subdued and ranked beneath the other Evil Gods.
• Kuang Tianqing offered Heavenly Devil Sect support if Zhang Yu participated in establishing next year's third-generation Law Articles and helped create one acceptable to both sects.
• Fu Ji said that devouring two more Evil Gods like Bao Shen should let her level up.
• Zhang Yu traveled to the Material Person District to collect Grotto-Heaven Power, where Dugu Ming explained that ten huge voids were remnants of the Joyous Union Sect Immortal Venerable's battle with Ying Ni.

Zhang Yu extracted Ying Xintian’s Grotto-Heaven Power from the damaged Plainfolk Realm, causing its ten hollows to merge and consume the factories and Material People. In another Small Realm, he chose to recruit the unemployed cultivators into the Soul Cultivator Company as technical staff.

• Dugu Ming explained that the ten hollows and the surrounding distorted space were remnants of the clash between Ying Xintian and the Joyous Union Sect’s Immortal Venerable.
• Zhang Yu extracted Ying Xintian’s Grotto-Heaven Power, expanding his Immortal Grotto-Heaven as the ten hollows consumed the Plainfolk Realm’s factories and Material People.
• Dugu Ming described the abandoned artifact-refining industrial park and its unemployed cultivators, who had been blacklisted by major companies.
• Zhan Xian and Bao Shen argued that the jobless cultivators could be employed, while Fu Ji objected to taking responsibility for them.
• Zhang Yu ordered the unemployed cultivators recruited as technical staff for the Soul Cultivator Company.

Zhang Yu collected Ying Xintian’s remaining Grotto-Heaven Power, found an Orthodox God’s remnant body that upgraded Zhang Pianpian’s [Taiqing Talisman], and expanded his Immortal Grotto-Heaven. He planned to advance to a higher Kunxu layer to find more power and an Ancestor Corpse, while preparing to participate in the Third-Generation Law Articles.

• Zhang Yu recruited workers from an artifact-refining Small Realm and traveled among Ying Xintian’s battlefields to collect their residual Grotto-Heaven Power, expanding his Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
• Zhang Yu found an Orthodox God’s remnant body in a Martial Dao Small Realm and brought it to Zhang Pianpian, who took it to upgrade her [Taiqing Talisman].
• Zhang Yu collected the remaining Grotto-Heaven Power from Kunxu’s 11th through 15th Layers, and his Immortal Grotto-Heaven grew beyond thirty kilometers in each dimension.
• Zhang Yu learned that the Ancestor Corpse and richer Grotto-Heaven Power were on a higher Kunxu layer, which he would seek after further promotion.
• Zhang Pianpian explained that the upgraded Taiqing Realm let Zhang Yu access its powers without entering it fully and urged him to account for the Heavenly Court and Eight Department Gods when establishing the Third-Generation Law Articles.
• On Kunxu’s Second Layer, Xuan Ge defended his claim of knowing Zhang Yu by recalling that he had once taken out Zhang Yu’s trash.

Xuan Ge was mocked at Ten Thousand Laws University until Yu Xinghan arrived, praised his work, and arranged a Golden Core Certificate and a contractor position in the Sect at Zhang Yu’s request. After Xuan Ge joined the Underworld Property Department and reached the Old Days Graveyard, Zhang Yu began testing the potential of his Blazing Sun Magic Vein.

• Yu Xinghan visited Xuan Ge’s laboratory, recognized him as the former dormitory trash collector, and urged the vice principal to reward his conscientious work.
• Yu Xinghan secured a possible Golden Core Certificate for Xuan Ge and told him that Zhang Yu wanted him to become a Sect contractor.
• Yu Xinghan questioned Xuan Ge about his past with Zhang Yu, then gave him a pre-made Golden Core and ordered him to keep their conversation secret.
• Xuan Ge broke through to the Golden Core Realm and traveled to the Sect with new Underworld Property Department staff and contractors, including Tu Lishan, Bei Wufeng, Jin Jun, and Ying Xin.
• After training and joining the Underworld Property Department, Xuan Ge reported to Zhang Yu at the Old Days Graveyard, where Zhang Yu injected Magical Power into him to test his Blazing Sun Magic Vein.

Zhang Yu helped Xuan Ge cultivate by infusing him with Magical Power and teaching him Breath Circulation, while studying the newly upgraded Level 3 [Blazing Sun Magic Vein]. He discovered that it could greatly boost physical and Dharma Treasure output, leaving him considering how to exploit it after reaching the Void Refining Realm.

• Zhang Yu infused Xuan Ge with Magical Power and taught him Breath Circulation, helping him digest the power more efficiently through [Blazing Sun Magic Vein] and [Golden Core Sacred Body].
• Xuan Ge visited Zhang Yu every day for Magical Power infusions, and after more than a month his Magical Power Quality reached 260%, upgrading [Blazing Sun Magic Vein] to Level 3.
• Zhang Yu tested Level 3 [Blazing Sun Magic Vein] alongside Kunpeng Heaven-Swallowing Art and temporarily raised his Physical Strength to Level 53.22, though the strain injured his body.
• Zhang Yu found that [Blazing Sun Magic Vein] could enhance Dharma Treasures at the cost of accelerated wear, then used it to boost a Shangyang Huangshen made with [Empress Wa Manufacturing] to seventy percent of the original treasure’s performance.

Zhang Yu used the Level 3 [Blazing Sun Magic Vein] to improve his magical-power Dharma Treasures and prepared to break through to Refining Void before the Third-Generation Law Articles in May. With his companions cultivating the [Spirit Transformation Dao Body] and strengthening his talent, his cultivation efficiency rose dramatically, leaving the group racing toward their next breakthroughs.

• Zhang Yu learned that the Third-Generation Law Articles were scheduled for May and resolved to reach Refining Void in time.
• Magnetic Pole cultivated the [Spirit Transformation Dao Body], urged Old Gao to work more closely with Zhang Yu, and helped raise the Dao Body to 50 layers.
• Yu Xinghan reached Fourth Rank and Divine Transformation, took charge of the Underworld Property Department, and cultivated harder after Li Xuelian mentioned his new nickname.
• Bai Zhenzhen cultivated in the Immortal Grotto-Heaven while Zhang Yu accompanied Daoist Bu, and her growing effort helped push his [Spirit Transformation Dao Body] to 70 layers.
• In March, Zhang Pianpian also cultivated the related methods, and Zhang Yu's [Spirit Transformation Dao Body] reached 80 layers, increasing cultivation efficiency twenty-onefold.

Zhang Yu expanded his Calculation Pool and puppet businesses while his subordinates competed to prove themselves worthy of promotion. The chapter ended with Zhang Yu telling Xuan Ge to spend half a year working in the Lower Realm after arranging a Nascent Soul Certificate for him.

• Zhao Tianxing secured a Calculation Pool deal worth over ten thousand Immortal Coins, and Zhang Yu praised his work.
• Zhang Yu created a Divine Transformation-level Calculation Pool, which Yan Qianji began preparing for rental use.
• Yan Qianji considered how to earn a Fourth Rank promotion and decided to reduce production costs by optimizing the puppet production line.
• Shi Huaiyu and Feng Tingting pushed their sales efforts as they pursued Fourth Rank and the Divine Transformation Realm.
• Xie Lanyin watched Zhang Yu's business and product growth and judged that his strength and influence were rapidly increasing.
• Zhang Yu told Xuan Ge that he had arranged a Nascent Soul Certificate for him in the Lower Realm and that he would need to work there for half a year.

Zhang Yu strengthened Ye Xingli’s Divine Transformation cultivation by giving her the Spirit Transformation Dao Body and access to the Spirit Transformation Pool, while his manufacturing and puppet network continued to expand. After detecting an intruder in his Immortal Grotto-Heaven, he deployed hundreds of puppets to search for them.

• Zhang Yu urged Xuan Ge to reach the Nascent Soul Realm within six months and welcomed Ye Xingli, whose livestream channel had earned him nearly a million Immortal Coins in sales.
• Zhang Yu secretly placed the ninety-layer Spirit Transformation Dao Body in Ye Xingli’s Law Aperture, sharply increasing her cultivation efficiency and allowing her to complete the Divine Light Ten Transformations within a year.
• Zhang Yu brought Ye Xingli to the Spirit Transformation Pool and told her to keep its Immortal inheritance secret; Ye Xingli recognized the Primordial Spirits there, including Magnetic Pole’s, and concealed that knowledge from Old Gao.
• Magnetic Pole observed Zhang Yu’s growing puppet forces and advanced Heavenly Rail Radiant Deity, while Zhang Yu monitored the Immortal Grotto-Heaven through the Eight Kunlun Set and considered his growing reserves and production capacity.
• Zhang Yu detected an abnormality in the Immortal Grotto-Heaven and sent more than eight hundred puppets across it to hunt for the intruder.

Tai Chenggong secretly infiltrated Zhang Yu’s Immortal Grotto-Heaven to assess whether he was suitable to join Tai Yuebai’s plans for the Third-Generation Law Articles. Zhang Yu detected him, reached the peak of Deity Transformation, and trapped him with coordinated Spirit Realm Technology and puppet forces, leaving Tai Chenggong forced to address him respectfully.

• Tai Chenggong entered Zhang Yu’s Immortal Grotto-Heaven in a puppet to investigate his abilities and judged his methods unfit for Tai Yuebai’s plans.
• Zhang Yu detected the intruder, sealed the Grotto-Heaven, and used his projection to confront Tai Chenggong, who fled between puppets.
• Zhang Yu’s Primordial Spirit completed the Tenth Divine Light Transformation and appeared before Tai Chenggong.
• Tai Chenggong split his consciousness among puppets and equipment, but Zhang Yu tracked him into a Yang Artifact and blocked the local Spirit Realm with Taiqing Talismans.
• When Tai Chenggong tried to break free, Zhang Yu gathered the power of more than two thousand Deity Transformation puppets at his fingertip, making Tai Chenggong retreat into the Yang Artifact and call him Minister Zhang.

Zhang Yu captured Tai Chenggong, won Tai Yuebai’s support, and received approval for his Refining Void breakthrough as preparations for the Third-Generation Legislation advanced. Bu Yingshu revealed she would also participate and offered to protect him, while Zhang Yu’s training was scheduled before his breakthrough.

• Zhang Yu’s attack trapped Tai Chenggong, who assessed Zhang Yu’s Spirit Realm Technology and stopped fighting before introducing himself as Tai Yuebai’s agent.
• Tai Chenggong explained his connection to Tai Yuebai, and Tai Yuebai apologized to Zhang Yu with a transfer of one million Immortal Coin and urged him to complete his Refining Void breakthrough.
• Zhang Yu told Tai Yuebai and Fa Liuyuan that he had completed the Divine Light Ten Transformations, and Fa Liuyuan arranged an expedited breakthrough application.
• Bu Yingshu showed Zhang Yu her promotion to Seventh Rank, teased him about his future, and revealed that she would join the first batch of the Third-Generation Legislation.
• Zhang Yu received notice that his Refining Void breakthrough was approved for May 15th and that his legislation training would begin on May 10th.

Zhang Yu prepared to leave the Old Days Graveyard and attend legislative training on Kunxu's 1.5th Layer, where he encountered representatives from powerful Dao lineages and discovered several of them carried Dao Seeds. The chapter ended as Tai Yuebai caught Zhang Yu staring at Lie Jinghong, who possessed three Dao Seeds.

• Zhang Yu learned that his Void Refining breakthrough could not be moved earlier than May 15, prepared for his departure, and left the Spirit Transformation Pool in Magnetic Pole's care.
• Kuang Tianqing told Zhang Yu that an unknown representative of Reincarnation Immortal Emperor would contact him during the legislation, while Zhang Yu's allies argued over whether to trade sect interests for more Evil Gods.
• Zhang Yu departed the Old Days Graveyard with Bu Yingshu and arrived at Green-Knowing Lodge, where he met legislative participants Cang Juehuan and Yue Qinglan, both of whom had Dao Seeds.
• Kuang Zhiqian challenged Zhang Yu to gamble, and Zhang Yu refused as more representatives arrived for the legislative training.
• Di Xuan revealed that he possessed two Dao Seeds, then Lie Jinghong arrived with three; Tai Yuebai surprised Zhang Yu as he watched Lie Jinghong.

Zhang Yu began legislative training at Law-Knowing Lodge, where he learned about Immortal Qi and the Myriad Laws Sect’s control of its Dao Orthodoxy. Tai Yuebai’s lack of a visible Dao Seed remained a mystery, while the lesson revealed that the Ten Great Sects each controlled world-shaping Dao Orthodoxies.

• Zhang Yu inspected Tai Yuebai’s public record and found no visible Dao Seed, while Zhan Xian described him as exceptionally talented; Tai Yuebai also assessed Lie Jinghong as the group’s most gifted participant.
• Tai Yuebai warned Zhang Yu that the Third-Generation Law Articles governed Law-Knowing Lodge, and the trainees followed the rules’ navigation to their classroom.
• The recording of Heavenly Fortune Immortal Venerable began the first lesson, and Zhang Yu activated Mind Acceleration and his Void Refining Calculation Pool to keep up.
• Heavenly Fortune Immortal Venerable explained that Immortal Qi existed everywhere and that the Myriad Laws Sect had taken control of its Dao Orthodoxy.
• Zhang Yu learned that the Ten Great Sects had divided control of major Dao Orthodoxies, including the Magical Power and Spiritual Energy Dao Orthodoxies.

Zhang Yu gathered intelligence from Cang Juehuan and Tai Yuebai about the legislation training, their factions’ goals, and the trainees’ hidden motives. The chapter left Zhang Yu asking Tai Yuebai whether he could see something on other people, while Tai Yuebai secretly planned to obtain abilities from the other trainees.

• Cang Juehuan told Zhang Yu that Third-Generation Law Articles would be ranked across 108 potential levels and explained how influence and interference power determined their ratings.
• Tai Yuebai told Zhang Yu that Cang Juehuan had no traceable past and might be a High-Intelligence Artifact Spirit created to test whether such beings could establish a Law Article.
• Tai Yuebai explained that the Reformists wanted to distribute vast sums to Lower Level civil servants and Lower Realm Cultivators to expand their purchasing power and strengthen the Myriad Laws Sect’s market position.
• Tai Yuebai considered Lie Jinghong’s hidden ultra-high-risk Dao Seed and planned to obtain several needed abilities from the trainees.
• Zhang Yu asked Tai Yuebai whether he could see something on other people.

Zhang Yu learned from Tai Yuebai that he could perceive other people's strengths, then heard Bu Yingshu explain the factions' hidden legislative agendas and their potential consequences for humanity. Tai Yuebai pulled Zhang Yu away after the meeting and asked him to help win Kuang Zhiqian's trust so he could pursue a Dao Seed connected to Lie Jinghong.

• Tai Yuebai told Zhang Yu that he could perceive certain people's strengths, and Zhang Yu suspected he could observe Dao Seeds.
• Bu Yingshu warned Zhang Yu that Cang Juehuan's proposal to grant High-Intelligence Artifact Spirits human rights could ultimately enable them to replace humanity.
• Bu Yingshu explained that the Reformists' plan to distribute money could empower Lower Cultivators, intensify social conflict, and trigger wars.
• The exchange period ended before Bu Yingshu could explain the Hunyuan Dao Lineage's goals, and Tai Yuebai led Zhang Yu away from her.
• Tai Yuebai asked Zhang Yu to help him win Kuang Zhiqian's trust so he could obtain Kuang Zhiqian's Dao Seed as part of a plan targeting Lie Jinghong's high-risk Dao Seed.

Zhang Yu navigated the legislative training while trying to draw closer to Tai Yuebai and uncover his Dao Seed thefts. On the sixth day, he began his long-awaited breakthrough to Void Refining.

• Lie Jinghong told Zhang Yu that his legislative goal was to make Dharma Realm access a basic right from birth and assigned Zhang Yu to draft a Law Article prohibiting its use.
• Zhang Yu assessed the trainees’ potential and saw Lie Jinghong at Grade 36 and Di Xuan at rank 37, while Bu Yingshu reached Grade 81.
• Zhang Yu skipped studying with Bu Yingshu to approach Tai Yuebai, who said they no longer needed to deceive Kuang Zhiqian and could not cooperate with him.
• Zhang Yu discussed reformist money distribution with Tai Yuebai, who began to see him as a successor to Ying Xintian and said Zhang reminded him of an old friend.
• Zhang Yu saw Tai Yuebai’s Dao Seed vanish and then change to [Pure Stillness Heavenly Palace], realizing Tai Yuebai had apparently stolen another Dao Seed.
• On the sixth day of training, Zhang Yu began his Void Refining breakthrough at Law-Knowing Lodge, where more than a thousand Immortal Dao Elements appeared before him.

Zhang Yu used a billion-Immortal-Coin loan to break through to the Refining Void Realm, then rapidly raised his cultivation methods and basic data. After advancing ten Refining Void-level Basic Cultivation Methods to level 60, he completed the Grand Void Dao Body Chain Law Diagram.

• Zhang Yu complained about the Void Refining Loan’s 2.4 billion Immortal Coin repayment, but signed the contract and took possession of the Immortal Dao Elements.
• Zhang Yu absorbed the Immortal Dao Elements to reconstruct his Primordial Spirit and transform his physical body, reaching the Refining Void Realm.
• Zhang Yu used his draw-count rewards to raise Immeasurable Inner Heart Dharma Body and Myriad Transformations Self-Sufficient Profound Scripture to level 60, gaining sixty-fourfold thought and sixty-four true clones.
• Zhang Yu raised Kunpeng Heaven-Swallowing Art to level 60 and spent Immortal Coins to boost his Magical Power and Physical Strength to the Void Refining Mid-Stage.
• Zhang Yu advanced ten Refining Void-level Basic Cultivation Methods to level 60 and formed the Grand Void Dao Body Chain Law Diagram.

Zhang Yu completed his Void Refining breakthrough, gained the Grand Void Dao Body, and discovered it could steadily raise his immortalization degree while boosting his cultivation and crafting. Back in legislative training, his potential assessment rose to Rank 108, and he arranged to refine cultivation methods with Bu Yingshu while setting his sights on Tai Yuebai.

• Zhang Yu formed the Grand Void Dao Body, which raised his immortalization degree to 1% and could increase it by 1% each month in sufficient celestial qi.
• Zhang Yu used the Wanfa Immortal Clan reward to raise his artifact-crafting methods to level 60, then advanced the Celestial Qi Observation Method and perceived hidden celestial qi within all things.
• Zhang Yu returned to legislative training, where his potential assessment rose to Rank 108; he observed Bu Yingshu's Rank 49, Tai Yuebai's Rank 72, Lie Jinghong's Rank 27, and Di Xuan's Rank 28.
• Lie Jinghong urged Zhang Yu to work with him to expand the Dharma Realm Orthodoxy, while Bu Yingshu grew jealous of Zhang Yu's interactions with Lie Jinghong and Tai Yuebai.
• Fu Ji used Zhang Yu's messages to arrange a cultivation-method session with Bu Yingshu, and Zhang Yu planned to meet her while deciding that Tai Yuebai would not escape him this time.

Zhang Yu built trust with Di Xuan by pretending to support the Innate Dao Lineage, while Tai Yuebai grew uneasy at how easily Zhang Yu connected with rival factions. Zhang Yu then joined Bu Yingshu for cultivation-method refinement and began testing his Grand Void Dao Body on her.

• Tai Yuebai told Zhang Yu he had been meeting Di Xuan and brought him to meet the Innate Dao Lineage representative.
• Di Xuan questioned Zhang Yu about the Innate Dao Lineage's principles, and Zhang Yu's Sect Examination Clone voiced strong support for its positions and loyalty to the Immortal Emperors.
• Di Xuan came to believe Zhang Yu could connect him with Lie Jinghong, while Tai Yuebai was astonished to see Zhang Yu leave the meeting on friendly terms with Di Xuan.
• Zhang Yu spotted the name of one of Di Xuan's Dao Seeds, Innate Distinction, and hurried to Bu Yingshu after Fu Ji warned that she was about to lose her temper.
• Zhang Yu refined the Celestial Qi Observation Method with Bu Yingshu, then thrust his Grand Void Dao Body into her Law Aperture before abruptly pulling it back out.

Zhang Yu used [Grand Void Dao Body] to make Bu Yingshu believe her talent was awakening through Basic Cultivation Methods, turning her into a willing cultivator. Bu Yingshu then revealed her legislative goal: replace permanent realm certificates with certifications that expire and require people to compete again.

• Zhang Yu repeatedly inserted and withdrew [Grand Void Dao Body], making Bu Yingshu feel her talent surge as she reviewed and practiced Basic Cultivation Methods.
• Bu Yingshu concluded that practicing Basic Cultivation Methods awakened her Immortal Dao Potential, while Zhang Yu decided she would serve as his training machine.
• Bu Yingshu asked Zhang Yu to support her effort to create unprecedented Law Articles, and he agreed despite the risks she described.
• Bu Yingshu explained that entrenched factions and monopolized positions had weakened competition, which she believed was essential to progress.
• Bu Yingshu declared her goal, “One Certification, Temporary Certification,” proposing that certain realm certificates expire after ten or twenty years and that everyone then compete for them again.

Zhang Yu realized that competing certification policies could usher in a Great Examination Era that benefited immortals, while rival factions tried to recruit his support. By the next day, he had drawn representatives of several Dao Lineages to sit around him, leaving their plans and alliances uncertain.

• Zhan Xian concluded that the competing certification policies could combine into a Great Examination Era that fueled the Myriad Laws Sect’s economy while burdening cultivators below.
• Bu Yingshu offered to marry Zhang Yu and raise his clan if he supported her legislation, and Zhang Yu agreed to help her.
• Fu Ji allied with Xiang Shen and Bao Shen to keep Zhan Xian and Wild Ox from disrupting Zhang Yu’s political opportunities.
• Zhang Yu’s Law Article potential rose to rank 99, and Lie Jinghong and Tai Yuebai both beckoned him to sit with them.
• Bu Yingshu pulled Zhang Yu beside her, then Di Xuan joined him, prompting rival factions to question what agreements he had made.
• Zhang Yu told Di Xuan that Bu Yingshu had come to join them.

Zhang Yu realized that competing certification policies could usher in a Great Examination Era that benefited immortals while burdening cultivators, and he agreed to support Bu Yingshu for the moment. The next day, several rival leaders tried to draw Zhang Yu to their groups, but he ended up surrounded by them as their plans collided.

• Zhan Xian analyzed the competing certification policies and concluded they could create a Kunxu-wide examination market that enriched the Myriad Laws Sect while increasing pressure on cultivators.
• Bao Shen proposed that Zhang Yu cooperate with the Reformists, and Zhang Yu suspected a powerful immortal might be arranging the policies to launch the Great Examination Era.
• Bu Yingshu offered to marry Zhang Yu and raise his clan if he supported her legislation, and Zhang Yu agreed to work with her for now.
• Fu Ji formed an alliance with Xiang Shen and Bao Shen to keep Zhan Xian and Wild Ox from derailing their plans, while urging Zhang Yu to build a student interest group.
• The following day, Lie Jinghong and Tai Yuebai beckoned Zhang Yu, but Bu Yingshu pulled him beside her, and Di Xuan soon joined them there.
• Cang Juehuan warned Zhang Yu about the dangerous alliances, while Tai Yuebai and Bu Yingshu questioned him about his dealings; Zhang Yu told Di Xuan that Bu Yingshu had come to join them.