Recaps

Zhang Yu tested his First-Generation Law Article and discovered that equipping Myriad Phenomena let him reproduce Sect-Protecting Grade techniques and accelerate the Law Article’s expansion. After destroying the test article, he joined class, where several students privately believed they had secured his loyalty ahead of the formal legislation.

• Zhang Yu constructed a First-Generation Law Article that could reproduce Strategic Grade techniques, then destroyed it rather than let his Primordial Spirit bear it.
• Zhang Yu equipped Myriad Phenomena and found that it let him construct Sect-Protecting Grade techniques and double the Law Article’s expansion speed before he destroyed the test article.
• Zhang Yu entered class, where Bu Yingshu sat beside him and ordered him to come with her after class, while Di Xuan said he could construct Second-Generation Law Articles and sought cooperation.
• Di Xuan, Bu Yingshu, and Lie Jinghong each privately believed Zhang Yu was secretly aligned with them and expected him to help them during the formal legislation.
• Tai Yuebai recalled using Myriad Transformations to pose as Zhang Yu and received Zhang Yu’s message asking how much longer he had to keep up the act; Tai Yuebai named a payment of one million Immortal Coins, and Zhang Yu agreed to continue.

Zhang Yu studied how Second-Generation Law Articles used rules and Thought Tides to expand their reach and develop into Dao Orthodoxies. He began constructing Law Articles in his Primordial Spirit, but found he could only embed rules about seven characters long, too vague to work reliably.

• Yue Qinglan joined Bu Yingshu and viewed Zhang Yu as a potential cornerstone whose value depended on his cultivation assessment.
• Zhang Yu learned that Law Articles drew strength from the thoughts of living beings, while Second-Generation Law Articles used rules and automatic enforcement to govern them.
• Zhan Xian and Wild Ox explained how Pan-Law-Article Domains, Sect approval, and Thought Tide amplification helped Second-Generation Law Articles suppress First-Generation ones.
• Zhang Yu began constructing Law Articles in his Primordial Spirit and calculated that he could currently embed rules of about seven characters.
• Zhang Yu realized that rules that short lacked the detail needed to define their scope and operate effectively.

Zhang Yu and his allies deduced that Tai Yuebai could steal Dao Seeds while leaving their original owners able to use them, and Zhang Yu realized he might be able to replicate Tai Yuebai’s newest stolen Seed. The chapter ended with Zhang Yu announcing that he would fully support Tai Yuebai, prompting Tai Yuebai to urgently tell him to stop.

• Zhang Yu concluded that Tai Yuebai could steal other people’s Dao Seeds and that the original owners might not notice because they could still use their abilities.
• Zhan Xian and Bao Shen proposed that Tai Yuebai had become the Seeds’ new owner while continuing to supply their abilities to the original owners.
• Zhang Yu and Zhan Xian considered why Zhang Yu could see Tai Yuebai’s newest stolen Dao Seed but not the ones he had taken earlier.
• Zhang Yu sensed the conditions for replicating [Emperor's Dominion over the Nine Heavens] and realized Tai Yuebai’s influence could make those conditions easier to meet.
• After class, Zhang Yu told Bu Yingshu that he had decided to fully support Tai Yuebai, and Tai Yuebai urgently messaged him to stop talking nonsense.

Zhang Yu copied Tai Yuebai’s [Emperor's Dominion over the Nine Heavens] by publicly backing him, making the other trainees wary of Tai Yuebai. He learned the Dao Seed’s abilities and, as Third-Generation Law Article training began, received a high-grade martial arts manual.

• Zhang Yu decided to help Tai Yuebai intimidate the trainees and publicly withdrew his support from Bu Yingshu, claiming Tai Yuebai was more formidable.
• Zhang Yu warned Bu Yingshu not to oppose Tai Yuebai, then left the classroom to follow him as the trainees reconsidered Tai Yuebai’s strength and plans.
• Zhang Yu confirmed that [Emperor's Dominion over the Nine Heavens] had been copied and learned that its Level 1 ability made his words more persuasive to people of lower realms.
• Tai Yuebai told Zhang Yu to stop contacting others and focus on studying and cultivation, while both men privately considered using the other to conceal their plans.
• Third-Generation Law Article techniques were taught, and Zhang Yu received the and the training’s tenth martial arts manual.

Zhang Yu’s Law Article establishing a fifty-year validity period provoked fierce opposition, but the judges realized the Wanfa Immortal Emperor had backed it and shifted toward support. Zhang Yu left the review authority to higher powers, while Tai Yuebai asked whether he had also established a salary-increase Law Article to support the Two-Day Weekend.

• Fa Liuyuan and the judges condemned Zhang Yu’s plan to freeze, review, and potentially ban Law Articles older than fifty years.
• Su Xianchen revealed that Zhang Yu’s Law Article had bypassed the judges’ approval and been submitted to a higher level, leading the judges to suspect the Wanfa Immortal Emperor had issued Zhang Yu a Blank Legislation Article.
• The Law Article received higher-level approval, and Bu Yuangui, Dugu Ming, and Fa Liuyuan publicly supported it as a way to manage outdated Law Articles.
• The judges considered whether Zhang Yu could withstand the political and technical struggles ahead, while recognizing he might become the Immortal Emperor’s instrument or be discarded as a pawn.
• Zhang Yu discussed with New Immortal, Zhan Xian, and Wild Ox why they had left review authority to others, and Wild Ox noted that the validity period could also support Law Articles still in force.
• Tai Yuebai asked Zhang Yu whether he had established a salary-increase Law Article to support the Two-Day Weekend, and Zhang Yu said he had uploaded his Law Article without receiving a rejection.

Zhang Yu used his disguise as Tai Yuebai to provoke Bu Yingshu and Di Xuan into competing harder, then completed his study of [Myriad Phenomena] and prepared to regulate all Law Articles. The chapter ended with Tai Yuebai approaching Lie Jinghong while posing as Zhang Yu.

• Zhang Yu, disguised as Tai Yuebai, told Bu Yingshu he would support her only if she outranked Lie Jinghong and Di Xuan, provoking her to swear revenge on both him and Tai Yuebai.
• Zhang Yu, still disguised as Tai Yuebai, rejected Di Xuan and said he would support Lie Jinghong instead; Di Xuan then told Cang Juehuan that the plan no longer involved Zhang Yu.
• On the final day of legislative training, Zhang Yu activated [Myriad Phenomena] and learned that he could erase immortal-qi techniques within his Law Article domain if he understood their underlying principles.
• Zhang Yu assessed his growing cultivation and Law Article abilities, concluded that the Blank Legislation Article would let him propose legislation without fear of rejection, and told Fu Ji he intended to regulate all Law Articles under heaven.
• Tai Yuebai approached Lie Jinghong, warned him not to turn around, and claimed to be Zhang Yu.

As legislative training ended, Zhang Yu weighed the risks of regulating all Law Articles, mutated and forgot his legislative technique, and had Fu Ji repair his relationships with three trainees. The Third-Generation Law Articles legislation then began, and judges reacted with shock to an audacious proposal.

• Zhan Xian urged Zhang Yu to use the Blank Legislation Articles to pursue a sweeping Law Article, while Fu Ji and others warned him against the danger.
• Zhang Yu identified four obstacles to regulating all Law Articles and mutated the Ten Thousand Paths Legislative Heavenly Book, but discarded the result when it strengthened the Third-Generation Law Articles instead.
• Zhang Yu told Fu Ji he would focus on raising salaries, then asked her to find out why Bu Yingshu, Lie Jinghong, and Di Xuan had turned against him.
• Fu Ji used money from Tai Yuebai and fabricated context around Zhang Yu's chat records to ease tensions with the three trainees and persuade them to give Zhang Yu another chance.
• The next day, the Third-Generation Law Articles legislation began, and judges reviewed the trainees' proposals as astonished reactions spread through the Spirit Realm and Dharma Realm.

Su Xianchen and the other judges reviewed the Third-Generation Law Articles, approving Tai Yuebai’s controversial Two-Day Weekend Law Article and praising several proposals backed by powerful factions. Zhang Yu used his final cultivation-method mutation, then uploaded a Law Article that the judges rejected—only for Su Xianchen to discover that it had bypassed their review.

• Su Xianchen recognized Yue Qinglan’s Minimum Lifespan Law Article as a fit for the Sect’s Lifespan Support Plan and discussed its merits with Bu Yuangui.
• Tai Yuebai uploaded a Two-Day Weekend Law Article, which angered opponents but passed a vote among the judges.
• The judges praised Di Xuan and Bu Yingshu’s paired certification articles and Lie Jinghong’s Dharma Realm Obligation proposal.
• Tai Yuebai waited for Zhang Yu to finish uploading so he could use Zhang Yu’s identity to pursue the Ultra-High-Risk Dao Seed on Lie Jinghong.
• Zhang Yu consumed his final mutation, discovered it made obedience reduce agreement with a Law Article, and devised a proposal that did not need to be obeyed.
• The judges rejected Zhang Yu’s Law Article, but Su Xianchen realized it had bypassed their review.

After Zhang Yu’s Law Article passed, Su Xianchen assigned him a special test: freeze the other students’ Law Articles at the end of the month-long assessment. Zhang Yu planned to conceal his Law Article’s effects while developing his influence and gathering intelligence, as Tai Yuebai and Bu Yingshu each hid their own plans from him.

• Su Xianchen told Zhang Yu that his Law Article had passed and set a special test requiring him to freeze as many students’ Law Articles as possible after one month.
• Zhang Yu explained to Fu Ji that he needed to spread his True Law-Article Domain, build thought-current influence, and learn the other Law Articles’ technical principles without revealing his own methods.
• Zhang Yu resolved to keep his Law Article secret and told Tai Yuebai that he wanted to support him, while Tai Yuebai suspected Zhang Yu was covertly advancing his own agenda.
• Tai Yuebai concealed his Two-Day Weekend Law Article from Zhang Yu, just as Zhang Yu concealed his Law Article’s validity-period effects from Tai Yuebai.
• Bu Yingshu, still angry and distrustful of Zhang Yu, offered not to ram Bai Zhenzhen to death and promised him a child if he performed well.

Zhang Yu learned that his Law Article had passed and was assigned a special test to freeze as many students’ Law Articles as possible during the month-long evaluation. He concealed its true nature from Tai Yuebai, Bu Yingshu, and the others, then entered the testing zone and noticed unusual Dao Seeds on Lie Jinghong and Tai Yuebai.

• Su Xianchen told Zhang Yu that his Law Article had passed and that he had to freeze every student’s Law Article he could during the second stage of legislation.
• Zhang Yu explained to Fu Ji the conditions for influencing and freezing other Law Articles, and they agreed to spread their domain, build ideological support, and gather intelligence while keeping Zhang Yu’s Law Article secret.
• Zhang Yu and Tai Yuebai hid their Law Articles’ true contents from each other, while Zhang Yu also told Bu Yingshu and the other students that his Law Article raised salaries.
• Formal legislation began, and the students gathered at Law-Knowing Lodge before heading into the testing zone.
• Zhang Yu noticed that Lie Jinghong had only two Dao Seeds and saw the unfamiliar [One Qi Swallows the Universe] Dao Seed on Tai Yuebai, along with its copying conditions.

Zhang Yu began the first phase of the legislation evaluation by establishing a Law Article that made all laws valid for one month, while considering how to copy Tai Yuebai’s unusual Dao Seed. As the students prepared for the second phase and July 1 Decision Day, the judges assessed personalized tests and Yue Qinglan’s Minimum Lifespan Law began spreading through her city.

• Tai Yuebai stole the five-character Dao Seed One Qi Swallows the Universe from Lie Jinghong, and Zhang Yu examined its copying requirements.
• Zhang Yu entered his sealed miniature city and established Law Article Validity Period, which gave all Law Articles a one-month validity period.
• Zhang Yu planned to use the second phase and July 1 Decision Day to freeze every Law Article across the evaluation grounds.
• Tai Yuebai and Bu Yingshu believed their final-day tests had been specially designed to showcase their Two-Day Weekend and One Certification, Temporary Certification Law Articles.
• Su Xianchen instructed the judges to consider students’ personalized tests and the distinctive features of their Law Articles.
• Yue Qinglan’s Minimum Lifespan Law spread through her miniature city, winning company leaders’ support while employees fled its domain and slowed its expansion.

During the lawmaking trial, judges assessed the rising potential of several students’ Law Articles, including policies on artifact-spirit rights, work gambling, certification, and mandatory Dharma Realm use. Zhang Yu’s assessment fell sharply because his Law Article Validity Period gained almost no support, leaving the judges wondering whether he had a hidden countermeasure.

• Yi Yaosheng judged that Yue Qinglan’s Minimum Lifespan had reached Grade 12, while Ling Chenji explained how Cang Juehuan’s Artifact Spirit Human Rights Act could spread through companies’ hiring practices and potentially reach Grade 10.
• Kuang Zhiqian’s work-gambling Law Article gained acceptance as cultivators gambled their Immortal Dao output while working, and judges assessed it at Grade 9.
• Bu Yingshu’s One Certification, Temporary Certification spread through tutoring and exams, while Di Xuan’s One Certification, Eternal Certification collected recurring taxes for permanent realm certificates.
• Lie Jinghong’s Dharma Realm Obligation reached Grade 2 after his Law Article covered the city and compelled continuous Dharma Realm connection.
• Zhang Yu’s assessment first climbed into the top ten after he equipped [Myriad Phenomena], then plunged to the fifteenth tier as his Law Article Validity Period failed to influence the miniature people’s thoughts.
• Ling Chenji criticized Zhang Yu’s weak ideological amplification, while Fa Liuyuan and the other judges wondered whether Zhang Yu had a hidden countermeasure.

Zhang Yu gathered intelligence and searched for territory where his weak Law Article could grow without being suppressed, while the other trainees rapidly expanded their domains. As Lie Jinghong confronted Tai Yuebai about his ability to create Hidden Immortal Qi, Tai Yuebai claimed he could copy Dao Seeds, while Fa Liuyuan continued watching Zhang Yu.

• Zhang Yu sent puppet strongmen and his Refining Void Primordial Spirit across the land to map Law Articles, domain coverage, and the effects on Material People.
• Yue Qinglan expanded Minimum Lifespan, while Cang Juehuan and Kuang Zhiqian grew their domains by drawing in artifact spirits and gamblers.
• Bu Yingshu and Di Xuan joined forces to expand their certification Law Articles, but Lie Jinghong’s Dharma Realm Obligation spread far faster through his ability to generate Hidden Immortal Qi.
• Lie Jinghong’s domain chased Tai Yuebai’s expanding domain and discovered that Tai Yuebai could also create Hidden Immortal Qi.
• Tai Yuebai told Lie Jinghong that he could copy Dao Seeds and claimed that he had copied the abilities of multiple trainees.
• Fa Liuyuan kept observing Zhang Yu’s actions.

Zhang Yu copied Tai Yuebai’s [One Qi Swallows the Universe] and used it to study other trainees’ Law Articles, sending his ranking soaring. As Tai Yuebai and Lie Jinghong’s battle intensified, Zhang Yu’s rapidly expanding Law Article territory rushed toward them.

• The judges learned that Tai Yuebai possessed a Dao Seed Book, while Fa Liuyuan said the information had already been reported to his superiors.
• Zhang Yu used reports of the burdens imposed by other trainees’ Law Articles to build support for his Law Article Validity Period and studied their techniques throughout the second stage.
• Zhang Yu arranged for Tai Yuebai to absorb magical power gathered from more than ten trainees, allowing Zhang Yu to copy [One Qi Swallows the Universe].
• Zhang Yu used the copied ability to generate different kinds of Hidden Immortal Qi, investigate other trainees’ Law Articles, and greatly increase his ranking.
• Tai Yuebai’s Two-Day Weekend Law Article gained support as Lie Jinghong rallied other trainees behind his Law Article, while Di Xuan and Bu Yingshu continued pressing forward with their certification laws.
• On Phase Two, Day 15, Zhang Yu reached third place, and his rapidly expanding Law Article territory charged toward Tai Yuebai and Lie Jinghong.

Zhang Yu’s “Law Article Validity Period” spread through the testing grounds and began reversing the ideological amplification of other Law Articles. As the students and judges uncovered Zhang Yu’s identity and suspected he possessed powerful hidden techniques, Lie Jinghong and Bu Yingshu demanded that he come forward.

• Tai Yuebai and Lie Jinghong discovered that Zhang Yu’s Law Article could impose expiration, review, and bans on other Law Articles, and Lie Jinghong found traces of his [One Qi Swallows the Universe] ability in it.
• Di Xuan, Bu Yingshu, and the other students felt Zhang Yu’s domain accelerate through overlapping Law Article territories as the Material People welcomed the prospect of freezing harmful laws.
• Cang Juehuan and Di Xuan noticed that ideological amplification was slowing inside Zhang Yu’s domain, and Yue Qinglan and Kuang Zhiqian concluded that he could elevate or reverse other Law Articles.
• The judges confronted Fa Liuyuan over Zhang Yu’s Dao Seed and his apparent Reversal Technique, while Dugu Ming urged them to finish the Legislative Ceremony first.
• The students identified Zhang Yu as the creator of “Law Article Validity Period,” and Lie Jinghong and Bu Yingshu roared for him to come out and explain himself.

Zhang Yu copied [One Qi Swallows the Universe] from Tai Yuebai and used it to generate altered Hidden Immortal Qi, accelerating his study and expansion of Law Articles. On Phase Two, Day 15, Zhang Yu rose to third place as his rapidly growing territory rushed toward the battling Tai Yuebai and Lie Jinghong.

• The judges debated Tai Yuebai's concealed Dao Seed Book, while Fa Liuyuan said the relevant authorities already knew about it.
• Zhang Yu studied the trainees' Law Articles as public distress over their effects strengthened support for his Law Article Validity Period.
• Zhang Yu arranged for Tai Yuebai to absorb magical power from multiple cultivators, then copied [One Qi Swallows the Universe] and discovered it could generate any previously absorbed energy.
• Tai Yuebai's Two-Day Weekend Law Article gained support as Lie Jinghong's Dharma Realm Law Article pursued him, while Di Xuan and Bu Yingshu accelerated their own Law Articles through exams and certifications.
• Zhang Yu used [One Qi Swallows the Universe] to generate altered Hidden Immortal Qi and study other trainees' Law Articles, sending his ranking surging upward.
• On Phase Two, Day 15, Zhang Yu reached third place, and his Law Article territory rushed toward Tai Yuebai and Lie Jinghong.

Zhang Yu, Tai Yuebai, Lie Jinghong, and the other trainees countered one another’s Law Articles as they raced toward the evaluation’s final day. At midnight on July 1, someone launched the first attack against every trainee, beginning the decisive battle.

• Tai Yuebai concluded that Zhang Yu’s Law Articles threatened Kunxu, slowed time across his domain, and prepared to defeat Zhang Yu at the evaluation’s end.
• Lie Jinghong altered the principles of his Law Articles to break free of Zhang Yu’s influence and raced after Zhang Yu and Tai Yuebai.
• Di Xuan and Bu Yingshu rallied trainees and wealthy Material People to promote Law Article Validity Period and support Tai Yuebai’s Two-Day Weekend Law Article.
• Fa Liuyuan observed the coordinated campaign as the judges debated Zhang Yu’s Reversal Technique, and an Orthodox God argued that the final outcome still depended on approval rates.
• At midnight on July 1, someone unleashed Law Article power against every trainee.

On the final day of the assessment, Zhang Yu revealed himself and continued using Calculation Pools to decipher Lie Jinghong’s and Tai Yuebai’s Law-Article Techniques, even as Bu Yingshu and the other students attacked him with their Law Articles. He accepted their interference without resisting, leaving Bu Yingshu wondering whether he was deliberately facing the calamity.

• Yue Qinglan triggered a realm-wide compulsory lifespan inspection, and Zhang Yu revealed himself to the students waiting at the end of the assessment.
• Bu Yingshu confronted Zhang Yu over his deception, then activated Take the exam! to send living beings across the land into examination status.
• The judges noticed Zhang Yu’s assessment grade fall to Grade 9 as he diverted power into Calculation Pools to simulate and crack Lie Jinghong’s and Tai Yuebai’s techniques.
• Bu Yingshu, Cang Jueyan, Yue Qinglan, Kuang Zhiqian, and Di Xuan unleashed their Law Articles, throwing the testing grounds and surrounding land into chaos.
• Zhang Yu kept operating his Refining Void-level Calculation Pools and accepted the other students’ Law Article effects without resisting, prompting Bu Yingshu to question his intentions.

Zhang Yu endured a barrage of Law Article tribulations while Lie Jinghong used the Dharma Realm Obligation to drag the testing ground’s inhabitants into mandatory data registration. Zhang Yu then shattered several oppressive Law Articles, freed the Material People from their effects, and seized Lie Jinghong’s Law Articles as he declared that the era had chosen him.

• Zhang Yu faced the Exam, Human Rights, and Certificate Tribulations, using Immortal Coins to suppress his Artifact Spirits and hold off punishment for using Refining Void power.
• Di Xuan realized Zhang Yu was exploiting the conflict among Law Articles to strengthen his own Thought Tide before confronting Tai Yuebai.
• Lie Jinghong used the surge in Dharma Realm activity to enforce mandatory login and data collection across the testing ground, pulling Zhang Yu and countless others into the Dharma Realm.
• Zhang Yu shattered several Law Articles, including those governing Artifact Spirit Rights, certificate examinations, and Minimum Lifespan, restoring Realm Certificates and lifting burdens on the Material People.
• Zhang Yu seized Lie Jinghong’s Law Articles with One Qi Swallows the Cosmos, blocked his attempts to evade the attack, and said his laws had greater freedom because they were written on the Immortal Emperor’s Blank Legislation Articles.

Zhang Yu defeated Lie Jinghong in the Grand Legislative Ceremony, proving that the Blank Legislation Articles were real and securing first place with a first-grade Law Article. With the other opponents’ Law Articles suppressed, Zhang Yu left Kuang Zhiqian untouched and appeared to be preparing to face Tai Yuebai.

• Lie Jinghong staked his entire fortune in a final attempt to resist Zhang Yu, but Zhang Yu revealed proof of the Immortal Emperor-approved Blank Legislation Articles and shattered and froze Lie Jinghong’s Law Articles.
• Zhang Yu’s name rose to the top of the Rankings, his Law Article grade reached first grade, and the forced logins and data collection ended.
• Zhan Xian and Fu Ji discussed how the Immortal Emperors used their plans in the Lower Realm to recruit talent and control potential risks.
• Bu Yingshu confronted Di Xuan about voluntarily deactivating his Law Articles, and Di Xuan explained that he had urged everyone to withdraw rather than resist Zhang Yu.
• Bu Yingshu noticed that Kuang Zhiqian’s Law Articles remained unharmed, and Zhang Yu glanced at Kuang Zhiqian without attacking him.

Zhang Yu challenged Tai Yuebai’s Two-Day Weekend Law Article, which had surged to the top after Zhang Yu entered a vacation state. He stirred the public’s anger against the remaining oppressive Law Articles and began fighting back for first place, declaring that he would bear the cost of overturning the era’s rules.

• Zhang Yu recognized Kuang Zhiqian as an ally of Reincarnation Immortal Emperor and decided to suppress Lie Jinghong while leaving Kuang Zhiqian until last.
• Zhang Yu completed the suppression of Lie Jinghong’s Law Article, then confronted Tai Yuebai over Two-Day Weekend.
• Tai Yuebai’s Law Article gained the stronger Thought Tide, placed Zhang Yu in a vacation state, and rose to first place in the Rankings.
• Zhang Yu pointed to the suffering left by the Law Article battles and argued that Two-Day Weekend could not repair the world’s collapse.
• Zhang Yu urged the public to reject the remaining oppressive Law Articles, stirring their silent anger and renewing his assault on the top ranking.
• Tai Yuebai warned Zhang Yu that overturning the remaining rules would bring disaster, but Zhang Yu vowed to bear the price and not yield the greatest Law Article of the age.

Zhang Yu turned the Material People’s opposition to debt and conventional Law Articles into a surging Thought Tide, raising Law Article Validity Period above Tai Yuebai’s Two-Day Weekend. As their battle continued, Zhang Yu began freezing conventional Law Articles across the testing ground, and the chapter ended with his power still rising and Tai Yuebai watching in dismay.

• As debt, unemployment, and bankruptcy spread, Material People rallied behind freezing the validity of Law Articles, greatly amplifying Zhang Yu’s Law Article.
• Zhang Yu reclaimed first place on the Rankings, and Law Article Validity Period began taking precedence over Tai Yuebai’s Two-Day Weekend.
• Tai Yuebai adapted his Law-Article Technique and summoned the Four Great Sect Banks to unleash his Immortal Dao Potential as he fought Zhang Yu.
• Zhang Yu froze several conventional Law Articles, causing Orthodox Gods to withdraw and leaving Material People free from debt enforcement.
• Material People’s reverence drove the Thought Tide to unprecedented heights, while the judges watched Zhang Yu’s ranking continue to flash and Tai Yuebai sighed.

Zhang Yu defeated Tai Yuebai by wagering vast amounts of future computing power, then shattered every Law Article in the testing grounds except his own and was ranked special-class. His bold rise left observers wondering whether the Immortal Emperor would use him to sweep away Law Articles—and whether Zhang Yu’s own path to immortality had been cut off.

• Tai Yuebai resolved to stop Zhang Yu from establishing Law Article Validity Period, while Zhang Yu used the Gambling Law Article to wager increasing years of future computing power.
• Tai Yuebai hesitated to match Zhang Yu’s thousand-year wager, allowing Zhang Yu to seize his Law Article and Kuang Zhiqian’s Gambling Law Article.
• Zhang Yu shattered Tai Yuebai’s and Kuang Zhiqian’s Law Articles, freezing the computing-power debt along with them.
• Zhang Yu continued breaking every Law Article in the testing grounds except Law Article Validity Period, gathering the fragments into a crown and declaring himself the highest Law Article.
• The judges’ Rankings raised Zhang Yu’s Law Article potential to special-class, while observers considered his value to the Immortal Emperor and the possible limits on his future Immortal Path.

After Zhang Yu earned a special-grade evaluation for his Law Article Validity Period, the Sect granted him the unprecedented right to choose an entire Kunxu layer as his pilot area. As the judges and students anticipated the upheaval his choice could bring, Su Xianchen asked which layer Zhang Yu would select.

• Su Xianchen ended the assessment early, restored the testing grounds, and kept Zhang Yu there for protection while the review results arrived.
• The students received their evaluation grades: Lie Jinghong was second grade, Tai Yuebai was first grade, and Zhang Yu received special grade.
• Yue Qinglan, Cang Juehuan, Bu Yingshu, Di Xuan, Kuang Zhiqian, Lie Jinghong, and Tai Yuebai registered their Law Articles and learned their assigned pilot areas.
• Zhang Yu registered his Law Article, received increased benefits and a ten-million-Immortal-Coin bonus, and was granted the choice of any one Sect-controlled layer from Kunxu Layers 1 through 16 as his pilot area.
• The students and judges reacted with alarm to Zhang Yu's unprecedented authority, while Ling Chenji and Dugu Ming argued over its consequences; Su Xianchen asked Zhang Yu to choose a layer.

Zhang Yu faced pressure to choose a Sect Layer for his Law Article pilot site while the Immortal Emperor’s plans and competing factions made every option dangerous. After being warned that his Dao Seed would be monitored and reminded of his computing-power debt, he began preparing a report for the Immortal Emperor as news of his Law Article spread.

• Bu Yuangui considered whether Zhang Yu’s pilot site should be placed on Layer 1 or Layer 2 and wondered why the Immortal Emperor had left the choice to him.
• Fu Ji, Xiang Shen, and Zhang Yu debated the risks of choosing a lower Layer to appease the Immortal Emperor or the 16th Layer and antagonize Sect lawmakers; Su Xianchen gave Zhang Yu a month to decide.
• After the Grand Legislative Ceremony ended, Tai Yuebai concluded that Zhang Yu’s Law Article had disrupted his plans and resolved to advance his realm and pursue Ascension Realm sooner.
• Su Xianchen arranged tests of Zhang Yu’s mutated cultivation technique, and Dugu Ming registered Zhang Yu for monitoring because he possessed the Ultra-High-Risk Dao Seed [One Qi Swallows the Universe].
• Dugu Ming warned Zhang Yu that his debt of one thousand years of computing power would still count outside the testing ground, then avoided advising him on the pilot site.
• Zhang Yu began drafting a report to the Wanfa Immortal Emperor, while announcements about the Third-Generation Law Articles and Law Article Validity Period spread; Old Gao reacted with alarm to Zhang Yu’s new Law Article.