Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yu examined several simulated college-student scripts, from Bao Biao’s grim fate to A Ming’s junior-college power fantasy, before choosing a cultivation romance story. After the simulation, he explained to Fu Ji how the Supreme Dao Sect’s detachment-from-emotion method evolved into the Joyous Union Sect’s Supreme Affectionate Dao, then hinted that the method still had shortcomings.

• Bao Biao’s college-student story ended with him being taken away to be refined into a Living Soul, prompting the film crew to suspend filming.
• Zhang Yu rejected the documentary-like script and read A Ming’s story of enduring educational humiliation, failing to transfer to a bachelor’s program, and discovering an immortal’s remnant soul through a download error.
• Zhang Yu dismissed the other entertaining scripts as unrealistic and entered a cultivation romance simulation using the Spirit Realm Mask.
• Zhang Yu told Fu Ji that the Supreme Dao Sect had developed a gradual path of Supreme Detachment from Emotion, which began with watching a Cultivation Partner being forcibly cultivated with.
• Zhang Yu explained that the Joyous Union Sect later adapted the method so entire families cultivated detachment from emotion, establishing the Supreme Affectionate Dao.
• Zhang Yu said the improved method still had shortcomings because not everyone possessed a firm Dao Heart.

Zhang Yu and Ye Xingli arranged to collect firsthand footage of College Students to guide their artifact designs, while Zhang Yu prepared his assistants for the Taihao Sacred Law Sword Array project. After Zhang Yu entered the Design Competition, Magnetic Extremes True Lord told him to pay the other judges, leaving him to weigh the steep cost of a chance to compete for a Military Certificate.

• Zhang Yu and Ye Xingli decided to gather College Students’ daily-life recordings from across the Second Layer, and Zhang Yu assigned Fu Ji to manage purchases from students in the Songyang Fellow Villagers Group.
• Zhang Yu resumed artifact-forging practice and estimated he would be ready to begin forging the Taiwu Sacred Law Sword Formation around the end of March.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord learned Zhang Yu had entered the Design Competition and decided to introduce him to people.
• Zhang Yu had Zi Tanzhen and the other assistants sign new confidentiality contracts, then told them to prepare for the Taihao Sacred Law Sword Array project by the end of March.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord listed the Design Competition judges and told Zhang Yu to give Spirit Coins to the four judges outside Ten Thousand Methods, warning that the payments would only secure him a chance to compete fairly for the ranking.

Zhang Yu gathered Junior College intelligence for the Design Competition while beginning to forge the Taihao Sacred Law Flying Sword. In the Dark Spirit Realm, Xi Shen revealed that the Evil Gods planned to exploit Nectar Divine Lord’s records to identify Reincarnated Mighty Ones and infiltrate the Sects, but Fu Ji pressed him about who inside the Sects would help.

• Magnetic Extremes True Lord advised Zhang Yu to adapt his Junior College-focused design for the judges and offered to review his drawings.
• Zhang Yu watched College Students’ videos, seeing the damage from war, economic hardship, Demon Cult tensions, and shortages, including Shui Haiyu signing up for clubs at Shanhai Vocational University.
• Zhang Yu began forging the first Taihao Sacred Law Flying Sword, using purified Spiritual Energy and imprinting Spirit Realm restrictions.
• Xi Shen told Fu Ji and Zhang Yu’s projected incarnation that the Evil Gods aimed to use Nectar Divine Lord’s records to identify Reincarnated Mighty Ones and their secret cultivation transfers and tax evasion.
• Fu Ji inferred that the Evil Gods intended to blackmail the Reincarnated Mighty Ones and infiltrate the Sects, then asked who among the Sects would assist them.

Fu Ji joined Xi Shen’s long-term scheme against Reincarnated Mighty Ones and helped recover stolen Finance Department records in exchange for a Spirit Realm Substitute Technique. Meanwhile, Zhang Yu refined his Taihao Sacred Law Flying Sword to level 11 and began modifying Ye Xingli’s artifact design.

• Xi Shen persuaded Fu Ji to join his plan to investigate Reincarnated Mighty Ones and target Nectar Divine Lord, promising she could leave whenever she wished.
• Fu Ji agreed to help retrieve materials hidden at the Spirit Realm Information Center, and Xi Shen offered her Spirit Realm Hijacking technology in return.
• Zhang Yu used his construction-company access to recover a relic containing Finance Department records, which Fu Ji extracted and found included financial dealings and suspicious accounts.
• Xi Shen gave Fu Ji the Spirit Realm Substitute Technique, which could temporarily alter a person’s displayed information.
• Zhang Yu watched footage of Shui Haiyu suspecting a club of spreading Demon Cult doctrine, then completed the level 11 Taihao Sacred Law Flying Sword and read Ye Xingli’s latest design sketch.
• Zhang Yu used Tiangong Kaiwu to modify Ye Xingli’s blueprint with the goal of reducing its cost.

Zhang Yu developed a new college-student work-boot design by fusing artifact blueprints and optimizing the result for cost and performance. He sent the design to Magnetic Extremes True Lord for advice, and she dismissed its overheating and electrical-leakage side effects as problems painkillers could solve.

• Ye Xingli worked with Zhang Yu to finalize the Chaos Soil Eater design, allowing Zhang Yu to copy the Spirit Charm Artifact Heart Dao Seed.
• Zhang Yu discovered that Spirit Charm Artifact Heart fused artifact blueprints but consumed inspiration and could produce unreliable results.
• Zhang Yu fused several blueprints, rejecting designs such as the Artificial Manure Machine and College Student Skin before settling on Zeus Half-Magic Skeleton Work Power Boots.
• Zhang Yu used Tiangong Kaiwu to reduce the boots' cost while retaining their performance, though prolonged use could cause overheating and electrical leakage.
• Zhang Yu sent the blueprint to Magnetic Extremes True Lord, who suggested that students take painkillers for the side effects.

Magnetic Extremes True Lord approved Zhang Yu’s artifact designs and advised him how to prove his skill at the Design Competition, while he tested his Level 20 flying sword and sought experienced assistants. As judges began screening competition entries, True Lord Xian Yin suspected Magnetic Pole had designed Zhang Yu’s blueprint for him.

• Magnetic Extremes True Lord examined Zhang Yu’s blueprints, concluded he had created them himself, and urged him to prepare for the Design Competition’s final judging.
• Zhang Yu submitted his blueprint, completed a Level 20 Taihao Sacred Law Flying Sword, and tested its cutting ability and Military Grade Taiwu Moral Sword Intent.
• Zhang Yu noticed that Zi Tanzhen and Su Yun Ni were slowing the sword-formation project and tried to recruit experienced assistant Liu Xiangqiao, but she rejected his offer.
• Zhang Yu watched Shui Haiyu’s video alleging that the Dual Cultivation Club used coercion and deception to make members take two-day rests, and heard that Shui Haiyu feared being captured.
• True Lord Xian Yin opened Zhang Yu’s blueprint after True Lord Tianzhi pointed it out and suspected Magnetic Pole had done the design work for him.

True Lord Xian Yin defended Zhang Yu’s design against judges who accused Magnetic Pole True Lord of doing the work for him. The judges added Zhang Yu to the top-fifteen list, but the Heavenly Court required all finalists to complete an on-site design test that would also affect the final rankings.

• True Lord Xian Yin reviewed the contestants’ blueprints and judged Zhang Yu’s design worthy of a high ranking.
• Blood Waterfall True Lord and Marrow Erosion True Lord mocked Zhang Yu’s entry as Magnetic Pole True Lord’s work, while True Lord Xian Yin insisted Zhang Yu had made it himself.
• True Lord Tianzhi backed True Lord Xian Yin and urged the judges to focus on the competition.
• Wicked Lotus True Lord allowed Zhang Yu onto the top-fifteen list but proposed testing finalists before the awards ceremony.
• The judges selected fifteen contestants, and the Heavenly Court ordered them to complete a designated design on site, with the test results counting toward the final rankings.
• True Lord Xian Yin notified Magnetic Pole True Lord, while Blood Waterfall True Lord and Marrow Erosion True Lord complained that the Heavenly Court distrusted the judges.

Zhang Yu joined Ye Xingli’s livestream, tried to sell her company his product blueprints, and watched a video showing Shui Haiyu’s apparent death while exposing the Dual Cultivation Sect. Days later, Zhang Yu received an invitation to a six-hour test that would determine the Design Competition’s top ten rankings and headed to the venue.

• Ye Xingli featured Zhang Yu and her Chaos Soil Eater on a livestream, where fans questioned whether the two would Dual Cultivate and she denied any romantic involvement.
• After the livestream, Zhang Yu sent Ye Xingli his product blueprints, but Mo Sha Zhenren offered only ten Spirit Coins and declined to buy them when Ye Xingli argued they were worth more.
• Zhang Yu watched a video of Shui Haiyu being caught by the Dual Cultivation Club and apparently killing himself to escape, then sent the video to Zhang Pianpian.
• Several days later, Zhang Yu received an invitation to a six-hour design test to determine the Design Competition’s final top ten and traveled to the venue.

Zhang Yu studied the test requirements and used the organizers’ references to design a Dharma Treasure for collecting and transporting objects across dangerous terrain. The judges began testing the contestants’ designs, and the chapter ended as Zang Xingye’s biomimetic design appeared.

• Zhang Yu reviewed the rules and requirements, then planned to combine blueprints with the Spirit Charm Artifact Heart and optimize the result with Tiangong Kaiwu.
• Zhang Yu completed his design drawings just before the six-hour deadline.
• Wicked Lotus True Lord addressed the judges and began the simulated tests of all fifteen contestants’ Dharma Treasures.
• Leng Wuya’s flying sword completed the test and received 322 points.
• A Vajra University student’s war chariot received 329 points after struggling to deliver its collected cargo in time.
• Zang Xingye’s design appeared, and True Lord Xian Yin recognized it as Demon Descendant Biomimetic Technology.

Zhang Yu’s artifact-refining entry astonished the judges with a Mother Machine that used local materials to produce eighteen types of increasingly capable puppets. The judges praised his technical mastery and cost efficiency, while Blood Waterfall True Lord suspected Magnetic Extremes True Lord’s research had influenced him.

• Zang Xingye earned 420 points for a bionic cargo puppet built from inexpensive Demon Descendant materials.
• Ghost God Craftsman used Formless Divine Demon Seeds and Living Souls to create a coordinated puppet army, earning 452 points.
• Zhang Yu’s crude humanoid puppet began eating dirt and producing small puppets, revealing itself as a Mother Machine.
• The Mother Machine produced eighteen puppet types from materials found on-site, and the puppets gathered resources, assembled together, and swept across the field.
• True Lord Xian Yin and the other judges praised Zhang Yu’s broad technical knowledge and extreme cost efficiency, with Wicked Lotus True Lord declaring his design level first among the hundred schools.
• Blood Waterfall True Lord recognized Magnetic Pole’s influence in Zhang Yu’s design and wondered whether Magnetic Extremes True Lord had made a breakthrough.

Zhang Yu won the Design Competition with an outstanding blueprint, while the judges recognized their earlier misjudgment. On the return journey, weakened from pushing his Dao Heart and artifact-refinement ability too far, he was questioned by Patrol Team investigators about Shui Haiyu and realized his communications had been cut off.

• Zhang Yu received 488 points, and the completed simulations made his victory appear undisputed as the judges awaited the Heavenly Court's final rankings.
• True Lord Xian Yin challenged Blood Waterfall True Lord and Marrow Erosion True Lord over their doubts about Zhang Yu, and Wicked Lotus True Lord acknowledged their misjudgment and sent praise to Magnetic Pole True Lord.
• On the return journey, Zhang Yu assessed the damage from repeatedly burning his Dao Heart and overusing the Spirit Charm Artifact Heart, estimating that recovery would take months.
• Xu Yang Zhenren and Yun Yuqing of the Patrol Team's Fourth Department visited Zhang Yu and asked about Shui Haiyu and his connection to the Dual Cultivation Sect.
• Zhang Yu denied knowing Shui Haiyu belonged to the sect, then discovered that his messages to Zhang Pianpian and everyone else received no replies as Yun Yuqing pressed him for information.

Zhang Yu refused Xu Yang Zhenren and Yun Yuqing’s attempt to inspect his Eye Remains, then rose to nineteenth place after winning the Design Competition. As the school and Wandao Group sought to secure his designs, Magnetic Extremes True Lord took him away to talk privately.

• Zhang Yu refused to cooperate with Xu Yang Zhenren and Yun Yuqing without proper authorization, and Xu Yang Zhenren pressed him about Shui Haiyu and his emails.
• When Yun Yuqing threatened to arrest him, Zhang Yu’s ranking jumped to nineteenth, prompting Xu Yang Zhenren and Yun Yuqing to leave and face reprimands from their superiors.
• Yun Yang Zhenren approached Ten Thousand Laws University about cooperating with Zhang Yu, and Taihe Zhenjun discovered that the school held no rights to his work.
• Zhang Pianpian told Zhang Yu that the Patrol Team had found Shui Haiyu in the Dual Cultivation Sect’s custody but had not confirmed whether someone hijacked the Spirit Realm.
• Mo Sha Zhenren offered to buy Zhang Yu’s blueprints on the school’s behalf, but Magnetic Extremes True Lord arrived and took Zhang Yu away for a private discussion.

After winning first place in the Magic Treasure Design Competition, Zhang Yu discussed artifact forging, the Spirit Transformation Magic Skeleton project, and his cultivation plans with Magnetic Extremes True Lord. Mo Sha Zhenren tried to buy Zhang Yu’s designs and offered him a gift, while Zhang Yu’s assistants and other contacts reacted to his victory.

• Magnetic Extremes True Lord praised Zhang Yu’s design, advised him to keep learning by copying, and asked him to help promote the Spirit Transformation Magic Skeleton project’s Memory Exchange experiments.
• Zhang Yu chose Heaven and Earth Calamity Formless Heart Weapon and agreed to try to reach Level 11 before the Top Ten League registration deadline in July.
• Mo Sha Zhenren offered to buy Zhang Yu’s competition entry and other designs, but Fu Ji advised Zhang Yu to wait for competing buyers; Zhang Yu accepted Heavenly Pool Spirit Liquid only as a gift without making any agreement.
• Zhang Yu returned to the laboratory, where Zi Tanzhen and the other assistants learned he had won first place and studied his design drawings, which Zi Tanzhen struggled to understand.
• Director Gao messaged Zhang Yu asking whether he had won the competition and whether the experiment had really produced results.

Magnetic Extremes True Lord defended his work with Zhang Yu to Director Gao, while Zhang Yu recruited Liu Xiangqiao to help prepare for the Top Ten League. At Heaven Sword University, Bai Zhenzhen began reshaping Extreme Emotion Sword Dao into a new path, ending with an angry roar.

• Magnetic Extremes True Lord told Director Gao to stay out of his work with Zhang Yu and sent him a photo of Zhang Yu refining artifacts, prompting Director Gao to inspect the construction site more harshly.
• Bei Wufeng examined Zhang Yu’s winning Zeus Half-Magic Skeleton Work Power Boots blueprint and concluded that Magnetic Extremes True Lord had passed design experience to Zhang Yu.
• Liu Xiangqiao visited Zhang Yu’s laboratory, demonstrated her technical skills, and agreed to join his team after handling her duties in Bei Wufeng’s laboratory.
• Seven Emotions Divine Lord discussed Zhang Yu’s research with Bai Zhenzhen, who decided to derive a new version of Extreme Emotion Sword Dao that followed Heaven’s Will.
• Bai Zhenzhen declared that she would create New Extreme Emotion Sword Dao, and an angry roar followed.

Zhang Yu received his Type B Military Certificate and studied the latest version of Heaven and Earth Calamity Formless Heart Weapon, calculating the Spirit Coins he would need to cultivate it. As he continued refining the Taiwu Sacred Law Sword Formation, Mo Sha Zhenren proposed that the university negotiate with Wandao Group for his design blueprints in exchange for patent fees and profit-sharing.

• Jin Jun studied Zhang Yu's award-winning blueprints but admitted he could not find flaws in them, while his assistant hoped to join Zhang Yu's project team.
• Zhang Yu continued refining the Taiwu Sacred Law Flying Swords and received his Type B Military Certificate.
• Magnetic Extremes True Lord sent Zhang Yu the manual for Heaven and Earth Calamity Formless Heart Weapon, and Zhang Yu estimated that reaching Level 20 would cost about 300 Spirit Coins.
• Zhang Yu planned to finish the Taiwu Sacred Law Sword Formation before cultivating Heaven and Earth Calamity Formless Heart Weapon, and considered selling his competition blueprints to earn more Spirit Coins.
• Mo Sha Zhenren proposed that Ten Thousand Laws University represent Zhang Yu in negotiations with Wandao Group and secure patent fees plus profit-sharing.

Zhang Yu completed the twelve Taihao Sacred Law Flying Swords while learning that the Dual Cultivation Sect’s virus was spreading and that Shui Haiyu’s disappearance remained unexplained. The chapter ended with Yu Xinghan suspecting he had caught the virus and messaging Zhang Yu.

• Liu Xiangqiao left Bei Wufeng’s laboratory and joined Zhang Yu’s project, where she reorganized the team’s work and improved its efficiency.
• Xi Shen told Fu Ji and Zhang Yu that the Dual Cultivation Virus could spread through Dharma Skeletons, and the Evil Gods agreed to share intelligence about the Dual Cultivation Sect.
• Zhang Pianpian reported that records of Shui Haiyu’s incident had been erased, leaving open the possibility that someone had seized Shui Haiyu’s soul through a loophole in the local Spirit Realm.
• After a month of work, Zhang Yu finished refining the remaining eleven Level 20 flying swords and prepared to assemble the Sword Formation; he also signed a buyout deal with Wandao Group for sixty Spirit Coins and a two percent dividend.
• At a construction site, Yu Xinghan suspected he had caught the Dual Cultivation Virus and sent Zhang Yu a message to tell him.

Zhang Yu raised wages across his company to help employees resist the Dual Cultivation Virus, but Yu Xinghan remained severely infected. After Zhang Pianpian warned that the Fourth Department planned to investigate the construction site over a report about the Dual Cultivation Sect, Zhang Yu rushed there and found his workers confronting Xiang Shan over disruptive construction.

• Zhang Yu ordered a company-wide pay raise after learning Yu Xinghan might have caught the Dual Cultivation Virus, despite Fu Ji warning about the cost.
• Ying Xin and the other employees celebrated the raise, while Yu Xinghan briefly felt motivated before deciding he needed to go to the Rehabilitation Center.
• Fu Ji judged Yu Xinghan too deeply infected for a pay raise to help, and Zhang Pianpian warned Zhang Yu that the Fourth Department would investigate his construction site.
• Zhang Yu suspected the investigation was an attempt to frame him through Yu Xinghan, then flew toward the site with his newly forged Taiwu Sacred Law Flying Swords.
• Shi Yunxiang and his coworkers went to confront Xiang Shan after earth-vein work at Heavenly Demon University's site halted their work, but Xiang Shan refused to stop.

Zhang Yu arrived at the construction site and confronted Xiang Shan, who had been disrupting the work and accusing him of discriminating against Demon Descendants. Zhang Yu lifted his worksite into the sky and used his Taihao Sacred Law Flying Swords to disrupt the site’s Spirit Realm Network and send Eternal Sun Brilliant Flame underground, leaving Xiang Shan startled by the sword array’s power.

• Xiang Shan used his strength to intimidate the protesting workers, then exchanged messages with an unseen partner about obstructing Zhang Yu’s construction and receiving an investment.
• Zhang Yu arrived, and Xiang Shan accused him of discriminating against Demon Descendants using the Demon Descendant Discrimination List.
• Zhang Yu lifted his construction site into the sky with Heaven Kunlun Mountain Moving Divine Power and used Heavenly Sun Brilliant God to heat the area below.
• Xiang Shan led the Demon Descendants underground and began altering the ground to force Zhang Yu’s crew to rebuild their foundation.
• Zhang Yu activated the Taiwu Intranet with twelve Taihao Sacred Law Flying Swords, slowing Spirit Realm communications and driving up data charges across the site.
• Zhang Yu sent Eternal Sun Brilliant Flame beneath the ground through the sword formation, and Xiang Shan realized the Taihao Sacred Law Sword Array was responsible.

Zhang Yu and Xiang Shan clashed at the Heavenly Demon University construction site, with Zhang Yu using the Taihao Sacred Law Sword Array and Xiang Shan manipulating rain, snow, and the earth. The fight ended when an Orthodox God accused Xiang Shan of polluting groundwater, and Xiang Shan realized Zhang Yu had let pollutants leak underground while he was distracted.

• Zhang Yu used the Taihao Sacred Law Sword Array to suppress unstable earth veins and redirect underground flames, while Xiang Shan countered with rain and snow from his Heavenly Elephant Bone.
• Zhang Yu's Taihao Moral Sword Intent locked onto the Demon Descendants, and Xiang Shan rallied them by reminding them they had insurance.
• Xiang Shan intensified his control over the terrain and weather as the Sword Realm disrupted his connections and monitoring systems.
• Zhang Yu withdrew his suppressive power, causing underground tremors to worsen, and Xiang Shan believed he had won their clash.
• Orthodox God Deng Bingding confronted Xiang Shan over groundwater pollution, and Xiang Shan discovered that waste and Living Piles had leaked underground during the fight.

Zhang Yu restored the construction site and cooperated with a Patrol Team inspection for the Dual Cultivation Virus, but the team found no infected workers. When Xu Yang Zhenren learned that Zhang Yu’s roommate Yu Xinghan had left early, he pursued them and ordered the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God stopped as it escorted Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan toward the university.

• Deng Bingding exposed Xiang Shan’s responsibility for the construction-site damage, and the Demon Descendants’ testimony left Xiang Shan facing a work stoppage and substantial fines.
• Zhang Yu restored the site, left the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God to assist the project, and returned toward University City.
• Xu Yang Zhenren sealed off the construction site and ordered the Patrol Team to inspect every worker for the Dual Cultivation Virus.
• The inspection found no infected workers, and Zhang Yu said he had raised wages to help prevent the virus.
• Yun Yuqing pointed out that Yu Xinghan was missing, and Zhang Yu said his roommate had left early for University City.
• Xu Yang Zhenren tracked Yu Xinghan and found him with Zhang Yu aboard the Heavenly Sun Brilliant God, then ordered the Patrol Team to stop them.