Recaps

Zhang Yu built his strength and businesses while preparing for the Third-Generation Law Articles, then reached Refining Void during legislative training. He entered a tangle of rival proposals and alliances, agreeing to support Bu Yingshu’s certification reform while drawing Di Xuan into their group.

• Immortal Zhimiao rewarded Zhang Yu and his allies, gave Zhang Yu a Tax Exemption Medallion, and urged him to reach Refining Void so he could help establish the first Third-Generation Law Articles.
• Zhang Yu secured permission to seek a legislative quota, trained in Empress Wa Manufacturing, and expanded his business by producing and renting Shangyang Huangshens.
• Zhang Yu gathered Grotto-Heaven Power, recruited unemployed cultivators, and brought Xuan Ge into the Sect, where he strengthened Xuan Ge’s Blazing Sun Magic Vein with repeated Magical Power infusions.
• Zhang Yu completed the Tenth Divine Light Transformation and confronted Tai Chenggong in his Immortal Grotto-Heaven, after which Tai Yuebai apologized and Zhang Yu’s Refining Void breakthrough was approved.
• At legislative training, Zhang Yu studied the Dao Orthodoxies and competing proposals, learned that Tai Yuebai was pursuing Dao Seeds, and began his breakthrough with more than a thousand Immortal Dao Elements.
• Zhang Yu reached Refining Void, formed the Grand Void Dao Body, and returned to training with sharply improved abilities and a higher potential assessment.
• Zhang Yu helped Bu Yingshu refine her cultivation and agreed to support her proposal for temporary realm certifications, which she believed would restore competition.
• As rival factions sought Zhang Yu’s support, Bu Yingshu pulled him to her side and Di Xuan joined them, while Zhang Yu said Bu Yingshu had come to join their group.

Zhang Yu used Law Article Validity Period to turn the legislative assessment against oppressive laws, defeat rival proposals, and claim special-grade authority. He ended the arc with the right to choose a Kunxu pilot layer, while the Immortal Emperor’s motives and the consequences of Zhang Yu’s new power remained unresolved.

• Zhang Yu secretly developed Law Article Validity Period, then entered the assessment concealing its true purpose while studying the other trainees’ techniques.
• As the trainees expanded their Law Articles, Zhang Yu copied Lie Jinghong’s [One Qi Swallows the Universe] through Tai Yuebai and used it to investigate their laws and rapidly climb the rankings.
• On July 1, Zhang Yu unleashed his Law Article across the assessment grounds, exploiting clashes among the other laws and enduring their effects as he built his Thought Tide.
• Zhang Yu shattered oppressive Law Articles, including Lie Jinghong’s, restored Realm Certificates, and ended forced logins and data collection.
• Tai Yuebai’s Two-Day Weekend briefly took the top ranking, but Zhang Yu rallied the Material People against the damage left by the Law Article battles and reclaimed first place.
• Zhang Yu froze Tai Yuebai’s and Kuang Zhiqian’s laws, then broke the remaining Law Articles in the testing grounds and declared himself the highest Law Article.
• The assessment ended with Zhang Yu awarded special grade and given the choice of any Sect-controlled Kunxu layer as his pilot area.
• Su Xianchen gave Zhang Yu a month to choose his pilot site, Dugu Ming warned him that his thousand-year computing-power debt would persist, and Zhang Yu began drafting a report to the Wanfa Immortal Emperor.

Zhang Yu chose the 16th Layer for his legal pilot, rescued Le Mulan, and took charge of reviewing Law Articles. As his True Law-Article Domain spread, opponents exploited rising workloads and layoffs to turn public opinion against his reforms.

• Zhang Yu chose the 16th Layer for the pilot, announced plans to freeze the Four-Hour Workday and Paid Overtime Law Articles, and won the Immortal Emperor’s approval.
• Zhang Yu faced a financial and political campaign against him, but Ban Jinchen and Si Shi'an eventually submitted, and the Ascension Hall named him director of the Effectiveness Review Department.
• Zhang Yu accepted the Reincarnation Group’s mission concerning Le Mulan but instead protected her, forced his way into Life-Balancing Grotto-Heaven, and brought her to the Heavenly Observation Hall.
• Zhang Yu gave Teacher Gao a [Constructing Worlds] Dao Seed and partnered with Jie Lingtong to address his computing-power debt while preparing his Immortal Grotto-Heaven for the pilot.
• Zhu Yan’s inspection of the Underworld Property Department threatened Zhang Yu’s colleagues, but their claims of fulfilling Dual-Cultivation Obligations and Zhang Yu’s allies helped him avoid immediate arrest.
• Zhang Yu established the True Law-Article Domain in Si Shi'an’s Small Realm on January 1, then expanded it while recruiting other cultivators to extend the pilot into their realms.
• Zhao Tianxing found Zhang Yu’s former teacher Wang Hai among new arrivals to the Sect, and Zhang Yu ordered that his former associates be gathered, employed, and monitored.
• She Yuzun spread a video showing a 24-hour workday as companies announced mass layoffs, fueling criticism of Zhang Yu’s expanding reforms and prompting She Yuzun to prepare another move.

Zhang Yu forced through working-hours reforms and froze Law Articles as Tan Taizhen’s hidden Dao Orthodoxy brought the Ten Immortal Emperors’ world rollback into view. After Tan Taizhen made him her successor, Zhang Yu gathered her inheritance, defeated Zhu Yan, and faced a choice over the Feather Scroll as his promotion approached.

• Zhang Yu revived and deported the wrongly accused cultivators, then forced companies to negotiate by disrupting their operations until they accepted limits on working hours.
• Zhang Yu froze the Reproduction Obligation and Dual-Cultivation Law Articles as Tan Taizhen’s concealed Dao Orthodoxy advanced and Demon Descendants began transforming.
• Zhang Yu and his allies discovered Tan Taizhen’s encrypted warning about the coming Eleventh Immortal Emperor, and the Ten Immortal Emperors suppressed her breakthrough through a world rollback.
• Ying Xintian explained Tan Taizhen’s inheritance to Zhang Yu, who entered her bloodline network and became her successor as she strengthened his Creation Emperor Seed and passed on the Heaven-Given Dao-Proving Scripture.
• Zhang Yu collected Tan Taizhen’s scattered inheritances, raised his Creation Emperor Seed to level eight, and empowered the Scripture until his Law Article Validity Period could contend with Tribulation Transcendence Law Articles.
• Zhu Yan seized an inheritance and raided other collectors with She Yuzun, but Zhang Yu defeated him, took control of the Tai Zhen Legacy, and oversaw its collection.
• After Zhang Yu completed the freeze of seventeen Law Articles, Su Xianchen offered him three book options, and Zhang Yu asked for all of them and received a Fist Manual and a Breath Circulation Manual.