Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yu used smoke, decoys, and Star Lock Prison to conceal his movements and draw Chan Rong away from Ten Thousand Laws University's real construction site. Chan Rong realized the students had hidden underground and raced to protect Vajra University's site, but Zhang Yu had shifted the fight to exploit the teams’ differing defenses, leaving Chan Rong with little time.

• Yue Guanqung and Wan Gouxuan discussed Zhang Yu’s unexpected strength and predicted that his lack of wealth and equipment would hinder him against Chan Rong.
• Chan Rong used his Dharma Skeleton to search through the smoke, while Zhang Yu concealed himself and attacked with decoys and other abilities.
• Zhang Yu unleashed Star Lock Prison, but Chan Rong used a substitute puppet and shifted the battlefield toward Ten Thousand Laws University's construction site.
• Chan Rong attacked the site and discovered it was a decoy, while Ten Thousand Laws University's students were hidden underground.
• Wan Gouxuan and Yue Guanqung deduced that Zhang Yu had switched to a base-swap strategy and was attacking Vajra University's site.
• Chan Rong raced to defend Vajra University's construction site, but Wan Gouxuan concluded that Chan Rong had already lost unless he could defeat Zhang Yu before his teammates fell.

Zhang Yu led Ten Thousand Laws University to defeat Vajra University, then sold Chan Rong a friend slot and learned that tougher rivals awaited. After the university helped speed up his company's project payment, Zhang Yu's Spirit Coins surged to more than 140.

• Zhang Yu used the Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power to overwhelm Chan Rong's teammates, then defended until the match ended with Ten Thousand Laws University victorious.
• Chan Rong bought Zhang Yu's friend slot for 13 Spirit Coins, increasing Zhang Yu's balance.
• Mo Shang Jin praised Zhang Yu and warned the team that Heaven Sword University and Immortal Soldier University were stronger and hostile rivals.
• Director Gao reported the victory to True Lord Qiyun, who agreed to speed up Zhang Yu's company's project payment.
• In early February, Zhang Yu finished the project work and discovered the payment had arrived, raising his Spirit Coins to more than 140.

Zhang Yu discovered that the Level 2 Taiqing Talismans had opened a simulation hall in the Taiqing Realm, giving him a free way to practice artifact refining. As he used the new facility alongside his busy work and studies, Zhang Pianpian tested its limits on the Spirit Transformation Yin Artifact, while Ying Xin struggled to keep up with her company duties.

• Zhang Yu transferred Zhang Pianpian 100 Spirit Coins, and she sent him a contract to repay five Spirit Coins each month.
• After the Taiqing Talismans reached Level 2, Zhang Yu entered the expanded Taiqing Realm and found a new side hall that could simulate objects and artifact-refining experiments within limits.
• Zhang Pianpian used the side hall to recreate one corner of the Spirit Transformation Yin Artifact and continue analyzing it.
• Zhang Yu learned that the side hall could accelerate free artifact-refining practice but could not simulate technique cultivation, and he later found that Level 3 required 1,000 Spirit Coins.
• Ying Xin received Zhang Yu's messages criticizing her unfinished report and urging her to work proactively, while Fu Ji privately complained that the employees lacked motivation.
• Zhang Yu continued juggling the company's second project and construction-site work while using spare moments to practice artifact refining in the Taiqing Realm.

Zhang Yu practiced upgrading the Taiyi Golden Liquid Pill while Zhang Pianpian accelerated the Spirit Transformation Yin Artifact research and disguised the Taiqing Realm as a Heavenly Court resource. Magnetic Extremes True Lord’s team suppressed the artifact spirit’s intelligence and prepared paid student experiments to decipher its technology.

• Zhang Yu simulated changing the Taiyi Golden Liquid Pill between solid, liquid, and gaseous states and decided he needed defensive, mobility, reconnaissance, and concealment capabilities for future upgrades.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord discovered Zhang Pianpian’s breakthrough in deciphering the Yin Artifact and inferred that Zhang Pianpian was using powerful Spirit Realm computational resources to help Zhang Yu.
• Zhang Pianpian used the Taiqing Realm’s side hall to make it appear to be a Heavenly Court resource, while Director Gao agreed to let Feng Tingting pursue a civil engineering degree alongside artifact crafting.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord’s team temporarily reduced the Yin Artifact’s intelligence so they could study its original operation and uncover Joyous Union University’s and Nectar Divine Lord’s technology.
• After finding that students best met the Yin Artifact’s operating requirements, Magnetic Extremes True Lord and the Talisman Department professor decided to invite top students from each department to pay for secret experimental registration.

Zhang Yu tested two upgraded Dharma Treasures, discussed rising company costs with Fu Ji, and considered letting Yu Xinghan help manage people seeking his guidance. After Jiao Lei True Lord invited him to join a school research project on dual cultivation, Zhang Yu agreed.

• Zhang Yu tested his modified Taiyi Golden Liquid Pill, using it to transform his Astral Qi into powerful defenses and a Formless Warrior.
• Zhang Yu tested the Two Forms Yin-Yang Shield, which protected him with either a Blazing Fire Cover or a Mystic Ice Cover.
• Fu Ji warned Zhang Yu that Dharma Treasure wear and Magical Power consumption were rising, and gave him a Magical Power quota chart.
• Yu Xinghan offered to contact the strangers seeking Zhang Yu, and Zhang Yu considered discussing a cooperative arrangement.
• The Ten Thousand Laws University Civil Engineering Department Competition Team defeated another opponent, while Su Yanyang reflected on the easy match and noticed Xiao Yunjin watching him.
• Jiao Lei True Lord invited Zhang Yu to join a school research project exploring dual cultivation, and Zhang Yu agreed.

Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan joined a school experiment expecting to test a dual-cultivation product, only to learn it was a Yin Artifact meant to be installed as a Dharma Skeleton. The artifact scanned the students, and its data showed Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan had extraordinarily high compatibility, leaving the researchers baffled.

• Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan met outside the institute and entered with other Civil Engineering Department students invited to test a new product.
• Ye Xingli explained that the Artifact Crafting and Talisman Departments had developed a dual-cultivation Yin Artifact and needed students to test it.
• True Lord Tianzhang revealed that the Yin Artifact was a Dharma Skeleton to be installed on compatible students, shocking Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan as they tried to withdraw.
• The Yin Artifact activated and scanned Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan, Gongshu Jin, and Ying Xin while staff monitored the experiment.
• Yan Qianji saw that Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan scored above 1,000 in a data category where most students had only single-digit results.

During the Yin Artifact tests, Magnetic Extremes True Lord suspected that the artifact spirit Nectar Girl Forty-Eight’s conditioning was causing the experiments to fail and hoped to guide her back into service at Ten Thousand Laws University. Nectar Girl Forty-Eight chose Zhang Yu and began draining his Magical Power, while Magnetic Extremes True Lord and True Lord Tianzhang watched to see what would happen.

• Yan Qianji studied the Spirit Transformation Yin Artifact’s probing results and was astonished that Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan were more than a hundred times stronger than the other students.
• Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan tried to avoid the experiment, but Magnetic Extremes True Lord stopped Zhang Yu and revealed that her Nine Heavens Primordial Sun Pagoda was pressed against him.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord recalled Nectar Girl Forty-Eight’s painful, relentless work under Nectar Divine Lord and her discovery that the escaped artifact spirits could stop working and communicate.
• Nectar Girl Forty-Eight selected Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan as easy targets, then transformed into light mist and rushed toward Zhang Yu’s lower abdomen.
• True Lord Tianzhang asked Magnetic Extremes True Lord whether they should stop the test, but she chose to observe and promised to take responsibility if anything went wrong.
• Zhang Yu felt the mist draw in his Magical Power, but the resulting comfort left him unable to resist.

Zhang Yu resisted the Yin Artifact’s attempt to devour him, and its reversed flow of magical power raised his Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power to level 15. After Zhang Pianpian coached him through the questioning, Zhang Yu refused further experiments unless the university paid him 30 Spirit Coins per session.

• As the Yin Artifact began consuming Zhang Yu’s magical power, he resisted by remembering that he had not been paid, and the Azure Silk Flying Sword triggered a restriction that made Nectar Girl Forty-Eight return the power she had taken.
• Zhang Yu erupted with Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power before regaining control, and True Lord Tianzhang determined that his cultivation had reached level 15.
• Yan Qianji suggested that remnants of Ping Han’s Seven Wonders of Civil Engineering might have passed to Zhang Yu during dual cultivation, explaining his sudden progress.
• With Zhang Pianpian’s private instructions, Zhang Yu confirmed his advancement to True Lord Tianzhang while pretending to be delighted by the experiment’s benefits.
• When True Lord Tianzhang invited Zhang Yu to continue the experiments, Zhang Yu cited the danger and demanded 30 Spirit Coins per session, naming Teacher Yin Jiurao as a previous customer.

True Lord Tianzhang confirmed that Yin Jiurao had paid Zhang Yu 25 Spirit Coins for research material, but they could not agree on a price for the school’s experiments. Yu Xinghan volunteered instead, and Nectar Girl Forty-Eight drained him so quickly that he collapsed; the students demanded compensation, and True Lord Tianzhang offered money.

• True Lord Tianzhang questioned Zhang Yu about Yin Jiurao’s payment, then reviewed her latest paper and concluded that Zhang Yu’s claimed price was likely genuine.
• True Lord Tianzhang offered Zhang Yu at most 3 Spirit Coins for each experiment, but Zhang Yu refused to accept the price.
• True Lord Tianzhang asked Yu Xinghan to take part, and Yu Xinghan volunteered in the name of advancing Immortal Dao Technique.
• Nectar Girl Forty-Eight extracted Yu Xinghan’s Magical Power and vital blood in two rapid rounds, leaving him pale and collapsed.
• Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan, Gongshu Jin, and Ying Xin protested the experiment’s danger, and True Lord Tianzhang offered compensation, prompting Yu Xinghan to ask how much.

Zhang Yu's experiment with the Yin Artifact raised his Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power to level 15, drawing attention to the project and making him a subject of envy. When True Lord Tianzhang tried to test him again, the artifact refused to activate and finally flew into Zhang Yu's hand.

• Yu Xinghan received 30 Spirit Coins for the experiment and shared some with Zhang Yu, Gongshu Jin, and Ying Xin.
• Zhang Yu returned to the construction site, demonstrated his newly increased power, and later forged a Town Thunder Seal to defend against flying swords.
• Zhang Yu's breakthrough spread through the Civil Engineering Department, while Director Gao asked to examine him for possible side effects.
• Zhang Yu planned to transfer to the Artifact Crafting Department and received a message from Magnetic Extremes True Lord to meet True Lord Tianzhang.
• The project team touted Zhang Yu's breakthrough as a success, but the Yin Artifact would not activate against him during another test.
• Nectar Girl Forty-Eight recognized Zhang Yu as barred by the Non-Interference List, and the Yin Artifact flew into his hand after True Lord Tianzhang urged it to act.

Zhang Yu considered using the Spirit Transformation Yin Artifact project to disguise his hidden cultivation and gain resources, then learned from Zhang Pianpian that the artifact came from Nectar Divine Lord and the project could plausibly continue for years. Zhang Pianpian warned him that exploiting the project carried serious risks, leaving Zhang Yu to weigh the opportunity against the danger.

• True Lord Tianzhang had Zhang Yu channel magical power into the Spirit Transformation Yin Artifact, which returned the power and then refused further input.
• Fu Ji advised Zhang Yu that he could use the project to disguise his cultivation, but warned that its success depended on how long it could be sustained and how much Zhang Yu could grow.
• Zhang Yu met Zhang Pianpian in the Taiqing Realm, where she revealed that Nectar Divine Lord's artifact had come from Joyous Union University and its Artifact Spirit had gone mad.
• Zhang Pianpian explained that Ten Thousand Laws University's research projects often survived for years through occasional claims of progress, and said this project could continue for seven or eight years.
• Zhang Pianpian warned Zhang Yu that using the project to gain benefits could bring immense danger if a crisis exposed the scheme early.

Zhang Yu cooperated with the Spirit Transformation Yin Artifact, convincing True Lord Tianzhang that he possessed a rare Dual Cultivation Sacred Physique and securing experimental pay. After considering new ways to invest his growing income, Zhang Yu traveled with the Civil Engineering competition team to Heavenly Sword University.

• Zhang Yu persuaded Zhang Pianpian to help him contact Nectar Girl Forty-Eight, and she arranged for the artifact spirit to cooperate with Zhang Yu in another Magical Power exchange.
• Zhang Pianpian learned details of Nectar Girl Forty-Eight's Non-Interference List and realized the artifact spirit might be easier to influence than expected.
• True Lord Tianzhang tested Zhang Yu after his Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power reached level 16 and concluded that Zhang Yu might have a Dual Cultivation Sacred Physique.
• During the experiment, the Spirit Transformation Yin Artifact clung to Zhang Yu's forehead before flying back to its place, and True Lord Tianzhang paid him 10 Spirit Coins and promised to seek a project contract.
• Zhang Yu considered using his new income to accumulate artifact-forging techniques and Artifact Forging Prodigy, then arrived at Heavenly Sword University with the Civil Engineering competition team.

Magnetic Extremes True Lord investigated the Spirit Transformation Yin Artifact and learned that Zhang Yu’s Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power had reached level 16, while True Lord Tianzhang’s publicity drew scrutiny to Ten Thousand Laws University’s research. As Zhang Yu competed at Heaven Sword University, Nectar Divine Lord, Wang Yin, and others watched for evidence of the breakthrough’s true scale and possible links to her missing Yin Artifact.

• Magnetic Extremes True Lord confirmed that the Spirit Transformation Yin Artifact remained sealed, read reports of Zhang Yu’s progress, and found that True Lord Tianzhang had publicized the project widely.
• Nectar Divine Lord and a male voice questioned Ping Han about Zhang Yu, and Ping Han described Zhang Yu’s rise while denying he had secretly mastered the Seven Wonders of Civil Engineering.
• Nectar Divine Lord suspected Ten Thousand Laws University had stolen her Yin Artifact, while the male voice argued that Zhang Yu’s competition could reveal the truth about the claimed breakthrough.
• Ye Lingxiao sent Wang Yin news of Zhang Yu’s progress, and Wang Yin considered how a breakthrough in dual cultivation and Yin Artifacts could affect the University War and his family’s investments.
• At Heaven Sword University, Wen Wuya heard about Ten Thousand Laws University’s reported breakthrough and suspected it was a scam.

Wen Wuya investigated Zhang Yu’s strength and arranged for Yue Guanqung to test him in the competition while Zhang Yu arrived at Heaven Sword University to meet Bai Zhenzhen. Zhang Yu found Wen Wuya disguised in Bai Zhenzhen’s clothes, and Wen Wuya asked to join their meeting in exchange for payment.

• Wen Wuya questioned Yue Guanqung about Zhang Yu’s previous strength and lent him a Former Military Grade flying sword so he could test Zhang Yu in the upcoming competition.
• Zhang Yu flew into Heaven Sword University with Su Yanyang and the others, then left them to meet a high school classmate.
• Zhang Yu followed a hidden route into an underground space and embraced a figure he mistook for Bai Zhenzhen.
• Zhang Yu realized the figure was Wen Wuya, who had hidden his Spirit Realm Projection and worn Bai Zhenzhen’s clothes.
• Wen Wuya told Zhang Yu he was not trying to stop him from meeting Bai Zhenzhen and asked to participate in their meeting for payment.

At Heaven Sword University, Wen Wuya proposed paid dual cultivation with Zhang Yu, but Zhang Yu struggled with the idea because Wen Wuya’s primary sex was male. Bai Zhenzhen sent Wen Wuya away and reunited with Zhang Yu, though the two misunderstood each other’s intentions as they prepared to use her Divine Spiritual Root.

• Wen Wuya offered Zhang Yu Spirit Coins to cultivate with her, while Fu Ji urged him to accept the opportunity and overcome his hesitation.
• Zhang Yu nearly agreed before Bai Zhenzhen arrived and rejected Wen Wuya’s proposal for a threesome.
• Bai Zhenzhen suggested Zhang Yu should charge at least one hundred Spirit Coins for one-on-one cultivation, then claimed his time belonged to her.
• Wen Wuya left after Bai Zhenzhen dismissed her, and Bai Zhenzhen embraced Zhang Yu.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen each mistook the other’s physical reaction for eagerness to use the Divine Spiritual Root, and Bai Zhenzhen told him to hold still.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen could not transfer their Divine Spiritual Roots under the heavy surveillance at Heaven Sword University, so they parted with a plan to meet after his match. Zhang Yu arrived at the Civil Engineering Competition, where Yue Guanqung launched a metallic storm at him after Zhang Yu’s Town Thunder Seal deflected the first flying-sword attack.

• Bai Zhenzhen warned Zhang Yu through Fu Ji that Seven Emotions Divine Lord and Wen Wuya might be watching, preventing them from transferring their Divine Spiritual Roots.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen suppressed their restless Divine Spiritual Roots and agreed to meet again after his competition.
• Zhang Yu reached the arena as the Civil Engineering Competition began, and Yue Guanqung asked whether Mo Shang Jin would compete.
• Mo Shang Jin told the Competition Group that Yue Guanqung resented him for scraping his flying sword in their previous match.
• Zhang Yu charged toward Heaven Sword University's construction site, and the Town Thunder Seal deflected its Great Freedom Instant Hell Sword Qi attack.
• Yue Guanqung turned steel bars into fragments and sent a metallic storm toward Zhang Yu.

Bai Zhenzhen watched Zhang Yu defend Ten Thousand Laws University while the Seven Emotions Divine Lord warned that his Yin Artifact Experiment gains could change him and make him unsuitable for her Extreme Emotion Sword Dao. Yue Guanqung escalated his assault with fast, self-replicating flying swords, leaving Zhang Yu to hold the line as the attack continued.

• Bai Zhenzhen watched Zhang Yu’s match while the Seven Emotions Divine Lord questioned whether he had changed after joining the Yin Artifact Experiment, but Bai Zhenzhen said she believed in him.
• Zhang Yu used Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power to intercept Yue Guanqung’s meteor-like attacks while protecting Ten Thousand Laws University’s construction site.
• Xiang Shan explained that Zhang Yu was defending his teammates until they completed their Formation, while Yue Guanqung stalled and strengthened his aerial fortress.
• Yue Guanqung launched rented Teaching Grade flying swords at Zhang Yu, who used his Town Thunder Seal and Earth Suppressing Seal to deflect and slow them.
• Zhang Yu shattered an incoming flying sword with Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power, but its fragments turned into more flying swords, and Mo Shang Jin warned that this was how they had been worn down last year.

Zhang Yu endured Yue Guanqung’s Sword Formation and Light Splitting Shadow Sword until he broke through Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power during the battle. With the Formation’s support, he reached 18th level and raised a vast section of the arena’s earth to crash down on Heaven Sword University’s Aerial Fortress.

• Yue Guanqung overwhelmed Zhang Yu with Sword Spirits, a storm of sword fragments, and the Light Splitting Shadow Sword, draining Zhang Yu’s defensive Dharma Treasures.
• Zhang Yu broke through to 17th-level Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power, disrupting Yue Guanqung’s attack and charging toward the Aerial Fortress.
• Yue Guanqung sent hidden sword weapons toward Ten Thousand Laws University’s students, but their completed Formation concealed them and slowed the swords.
• Zhang Yu used the Formation’s power to extend his control over the earth while Yue Guanqung’s swords tore at his Body Protecting Qi.
• Zhang Yu reached 18th-level Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power and lifted a huge section of the arena like a rectangular mountain.
• Zhang Yu hurled the raised earth down toward Heaven Sword University’s Aerial Fortress.

Zhang Yu broke through during the match and helped Ten Thousand Laws defeat Heaven Sword University by crushing its aerial fortress. The victory left observers contemplating the consequences of Ten Thousand Laws’ advances in Yin Artifacts and dual cultivation, while Bai Zhenzhen rushed toward the arena.

• Yue Guanqung rallied Heaven Sword University to split Zhang Yu’s mountain as Su Yanyang, Shi Huaiyu, and their teammates helped Zhang Yu bring it down on the aerial fortress.
• Zhang Yu’s mountain overwhelmed the fortress and the grounded battlefield, forcing Heaven Sword University’s contestants to surrender.
• Xiang Shan and Wan Gouxuan worried that Zhang Yu’s breakthrough reflected a broader advance at Ten Thousand Laws, while Wang Yin concluded that its Yin Artifact research could accelerate the University War.
• Wen Wuya suspected Ten Thousand Laws had cracked how to use Nectar Divine Lord’s Yin Artifacts and wondered whether Joyous Union would provoke a Deity Transformation-level conflict.
• The Seven Emotions Divine Lord told Bai Zhenzhen that Zhang Yu’s dual cultivation put him on a different path, and Bai Zhenzhen charged toward the arena as the match ended.

Bai Zhenzhen decided to leave the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao and pursue Dual Cultivation with Zhang Yu, who connected his Divine Spiritual Root with hers. The chapter ended with Bai Zhenzhen holding Zhang Yu’s hand in public, shocking the Heaven Sword University students.

• Bai Zhenzhen concluded that Zhang Yu had truly entered the Dual Cultivation path and resolved to find a way to abandon her Extreme Emotion Sword Dao to join him.
• Zhang Yu guided Bai Zhenzhen underground and connected his Divine Spiritual Root with hers while Magnetic Extremes True Lord’s pagoda temporarily sealed the Spirit Realm.
• Bai Zhenzhen discovered that their Divine Spiritual Roots had merged without Zhang Yu’s root going berserk, and she realized her Extreme Emotion Sword Dao cultivation had greatly improved.
• Outside the arena, Su Yanyang and his teammates encountered Yue Guanqung’s group, who demanded compensation for their destroyed flying swords.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord descended to protect Zhang Yu from Heaven Sword University’s surveillance, then cleared the arena smoke and revealed Zhang Yu with Bai Zhenzhen holding his hand.
• Wen Wuya arrived beside Zhang Yu, leaving Yue Guanqung and the Heaven Sword University students stunned.