Recaps

Zhang Yu expanded Great Void Cloud Storage and used his growing influence to free Bai Zhenzhen before the Ten Schools launched an expedition against the Righteous Qi Alliance. After rejecting Fu Xiantian’s plan to reincarnate everyone without their memories, Zhang Yu mobilized the lower layers to break the Sky Domes and intervened to protect the crowds from an Alliance massacre.

• Zhang Yu used new spatial technology orders to pressure Heaven Sword University, securing Bai Zhenzhen’s release and launching Shared Tai Xu.
• Divine Lord Ci Ji and Azure Wood Divine Lord entrusted assets to Zhang Yu before taking him to open the route for the Ten Schools’ expedition to the Fifth Layer.
• Zhang Yu advanced his spatial arts, stopped the factions at True Lord Tiansha’s fake funeral from fighting, and won their support for his Heaven-Piercing Drill plan.
• Zhang Yu rallied the Ten Schools to manufacture the drills while defections, Alliance attacks, and mounting Divine Transformation deaths delayed the Heaven-Breaking Plan.
• Zhang Yu rejected Fu Xiantian’s proposal to send everyone in Layers 2 through 5 through Reincarnation without their memories, and Fu Xiantian threatened to kill him.
• Zhang Yu opened sealed university legacies, funded relief and production, and offered Tai Xu Red Packets to mobilize crowds to shatter the Sky Domes connecting the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Layers.
• Fu Xiantian overwhelmed many Ten Schools Divine Transformations and ordered True Lord Taihao to kill the more than one hundred million poor people gathered on the Fifth Layer.
• Zhang Yu blocked twenty-one Nascent Soul True Lords, trapped True Lord Taihao in his palm, and protected the retreating crowds before ordering arriving allies away as destructive force erupted from his hand.

Zhang Yu helped secure the Myriad Star Formation and tried to save Kunxu from Fu Xiantian’s falling Sky Dome, drawing the Heavenly Court down and ending the University War. Afterward, he prepared for the Sect Affairs Officer Selection Examination, passed the preliminary test, and began the Yufa Pavilion’s second examination.

• Zhang Yu defeated True Lord Tuntian, escaped the Myriad Rivers and Mountains Painting, and freed the captured Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Zhang Yu fought through the Righteous Qi Alliance, joined forces with Bai Zhenzhen to kill True Lord Zhanxian, and helped the Ten Schools seize the Array Core.
• Zhang Yu recruited workers and raised funds through Feather Bonds as the Great Nirvana Final Scene Profound Seal drove the Sky Dome downward.
• Zhang Yu used borrowed divine power to resist Fu Xiantian, and his ten billion Spirit Coins drew the Heavenly Court to Kunxu, ending the University War.
• The Heavenly Court took control of Kunxu, cleared Zhang Yu of wrongdoing, and awarded him the title “Hundred Billion Talisman Master.”
• Zhang Yu chose to take the Sect Affairs Officer Selection Examination despite Yun Zhiguang’s warning, then used Kuang Tianqing’s examination memories while keeping them isolated in a clone.
• Zhang Yu helped Le Mulan, Kuang Tianqing, Yu Xinghan, and Bai Zhenzhen manage their infused memories, and all five passed the preliminary examination.
• Zhang Yu chose the Yufa Pavilion’s Martial Arts assessment, reconstructed ten fragments into the Martial Art Wu One, and recognized it as part of the Chain Law Diagram set Formless Martial Evolution.

Zhang Yu passed the Sect Examination and joined Myriad Laws Sect, where he resisted exploitative training schemes and rapidly improved his work group’s performance. After a political investigation temporarily stalled his promotion, Zhang Yu exposed Xiao Zhi’s audit misconduct and became a candidate to lead another group.

• Zhang Yu defeated True Lord Wu Xiang in the final interview, and Bai Zhenzhen, Kuang Tianqing, Spark True Lord, and Yu Xinghan also passed, while Le Mulan did not.
• Zhang Yu prepared to enter Myriad Laws Sect, helped his companions develop, and learned from Zhan Xian about Fu Xiantian’s inheritance on Layer 14 and the dangers of memory services and Dharma Realm oversight.
• Zhang Yu and his companions reached Layer 11, where he resisted loans, Dharma Medicine, and dual-cultivation schemes before joining Yufa Pavilion as a Level 1 Sect Affairs Officer.
• Zhang Yu used his cultivation and research skills to complete difficult audits and raise Martial Arts Group Three’s performance by 32 percent, earning praise and a pending promotion to Second Rank.
• After Zhang Yu rejected a Spirit Refining Art application, investigators accused him of mishandling it, but the Daoist Canon confirmed its connection to the Shattering Delusion Forging God Art and flagged it as a Black Cultivation Method.
• Zhang Yu’s investigation ended and his promotion resumed, while he found evidence that Xiao Zhi had unfairly rejected ten techniques and gave it to Gu Qingya.
• Gu Qingya and Luo Wuji exposed Xiao Zhi’s audit problems, Xiao Zhi was demoted, and Zhang Yu became one of four candidates for Acting Leader of Martial Arts Group One.

Zhang Yu joined Bu Yingshu’s effort to verify Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation and uncovered his connection to the Desolate Ox Great Saint. After the technique passed review, Zhang Yu rose through the Sect and was assigned to oversee Soul Cultivation Maintenance in Old Days Graveyard.

• Zhang Yu became acting leader of Martial Arts Group One, then joined Bu Yingshu’s task force to review Blood Tide Essence Qi Sacred Observation.
• Zhang Yu gained the Wanfa Immortal Clan Dao Seed and used its growth to help Bu Yingshu reproduce the technique’s methods.
• Zhang Yu encountered the Great Saint Will and learned of Wild Ox’s past, including the Desolate Ox Great Saint’s struggle to protect humanity.
• Bu Yingshu defended Zhang Yu from investigators, and they continued developing the technique despite opposition from Yang Kaitai and warnings from Gu Qingya.
• Zhang Yu and Bu Yingshu demonstrated the technique’s effects, and Bu Yingshu and Pavilion Master Si completed its final review.
• Bu Yingshu promised to bring Zhang Yu to the Martial Arts Pavilion, while Zhang Yu reunited with Lower Realm acquaintances and learned that Le Mulan had become a Spirit Herb Pavilion asset.
• 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.
• Pavilion Master Si Xuxiao promoted Zhang Yu to level 4 Sect Affairs Officer and Deputy Minister of the Youxin Department, granted him a Divine Transformation Certificate, and sent him to Old Days Graveyard to oversee Soul Cultivation Maintenance.