Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yu and his companions arrived in the Myriad Laws Sect, where they experienced the upper layers’ cultivation environment and began mandatory training. As Zhang Yu connected to the Dharma Realm and granted Wanfa Butler access to his body, he felt his control over himself gradually slipping away.

• Zhang Yu gave Bai Zhenzhen seven stockings he had personally refined, recalling his promise from their first trip to the Immortal Capital.
• The group reached Kunxu Layer 11’s Central Extreme Heaven, learned about the Sect Layers, and discovered that the upper-layer cultivation environment was free to use.
• Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan, and Spark True Lord took Ye Xingli, Le Mulan, and Li Xuelian to the Newcomer Training School, while Bai Zhenzhen and the others continued onward.
• At the training school, an instructor told the newcomers to connect to the Dharma Realm and install Wanfa Butler before starting their training.
• Zhang Yu connected to the Dharma Realm, installed Wanfa Butler, and approved a series of permissions that gave it access to his meridians, organs, blood and qi, and Magical Power circulation.

Yu Xinghan, Zhang Yu, and Spark True Lord attended newcomer training for newly admitted Myriad Laws Sect affairs officers, where they learned about cultivation services, loans, gambling on bills, and Dharma Medicine. The chapter ended as instructors began promoting the Sect’s dual-cultivation initiative and announced a support section for reluctant cultivators.

• Yu Xinghan used the Wanfa Butler for a free self-check and annual report, then optimized his breathing technique, raising his cultivation efficiency.
• Yu Xinghan, Zhang Yu, and Spark True Lord arrived at newcomer training, where Sect disciples welcomed them warmly instead of looking down on Lower Level entrants.
• Lending instructor Yun Jiying taught the students about cross-realm cultivation loans and gambling on bills, while Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan declined to gamble on their Dharma Realm data-fee bills.
• A second instructor introduced Dharma Medicine and Awakening Agents, and Zhang Yu warned Yu Xinghan and Spark True Lord against using them after Zhan Xian explained their risks.
• A third instructor announced the Myriad Laws Sect’s campaign to promote dual cultivation and its plan to establish a Dual Cultivation Support Section for resistant cultivators.

Zhang Yu learned that the Myriad Laws Sect’s classes promoted competing Dao Lineages, childbirth, exploitation of Outsourced Workers, and increasingly convenient Dharma Medicine. After Hong Jian urged him to replace his Heavenly Spiritual Root, Zhan Xian warned him to reach Fourth Rank within three years to uncover Fu Xiantian’s hidden inheritance on Layer 14; Spark True Lord then cautioned the group against Dharma Medicine and careless Dual Cultivation.

• Zhang Yu heard that the Heaven Demon Sect sought to monopolize natural reproduction, while the other sects encouraged childbirth and debated the costs and dangers of producing Bloodline Descendants.
• Zhan Xian explained how Dao Lineages competed within and between sects, and Zhang Yu realized the sect’s classes were promoting those struggles to new disciples.
• Sect members tried to recruit Zhang Yu and his Outsourced Workers for childbirth schemes, but Zhan Xian warned him about child-support obligations and exploitation.
• Zhang Yu learned that sect workers were expected to finish their tasks in four hours and were taught to increase productivity by using copied memories, puppets, and Outsourced Cultivators.
• Hong Jian offered Zhang Yu secondhand Immortal Spiritual Roots and a loan, while Zhan Xian told him to reach Fourth Rank within three years to find Fu Xiantian’s inheritance on Layer 14 before it was discovered.
• Spark True Lord gathered Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan, Ye Xingli, Le Mulan, Li Xuelian, and the others, warned them against Dharma Medicine, and cautioned that Dual Cultivation could divide them over money and child-support disputes.

Zhang Yu learned how Sect members managed outsourced workers and considered the risks of Dharma Medicine, memory products, and exploiting cultivators. Zhan Xian urged him to reach Fourth Rank within three years to find Fu Xiantian’s hidden inheritance, while Spark True Lord warned his group against Dharma Medicine and careless Dual Cultivation.

• The instructor explained memory-copying risks, demonstrated cheap work memories, and taught the class to manage Outsourced Cultivators, assigning homework involving Dharma Medicine, Dual Cultivation, or loans.
• Zhan Xian told Zhang Yu that Fu Xiantian had hidden an inheritance on Layer 14 containing something left by Patriarch Ying Xintian, and that Zhang Yu needed to reach Fourth Rank within three years to retrieve it.
• Hong Jian urged Zhang Yu to replace his Heavenly Spiritual Root with an Immortal Spiritual Root and offered to lend him money, but Zhang Yu declined.
• Ye Xingli offered to cooperate with Zhang Yu on the homework, and Spark True Lord told everyone not to take Dharma Medicine because of its risks and growing availability.
• Spark True Lord cautioned the group against engaging in Dual Cultivation merely for the assignment, warning that disputes over children and profits had broken cultivators apart.

Zhang Yu and the others rejected Dual Cultivation and Dharma Medicine, choosing instead to borrow carefully, while Zhang Yu suspected competing Dao Lineages were shaping sect policy. Their instructor Hong Jian confronted them over their poor training work and threatened to personally tutor them, leaving Yu Xinghan alarmed.

• Spark True Lord warned that Dual Cultivation could become addictive and damage other cultivation, while Li Xuelian explained the risks of frequent memory services and Le Mulan asked whether Dharma Medicine could counter the addiction.
• Zhan Xian told Zhang Yu that relying on either Dual Cultivation or Dharma Medicine would leave cultivators controlled by others, and Zhang Yu urged his companions to avoid both.
• The group chose to borrow for their homework instead; Zhang Yu referred Ye Xingli for an Emergency Fund, and Yu Xinghan worried they might be monitored for avoiding Dual Cultivation.
• Hong Jian reviewed Zhang Yu's homework, criticized his lack of progress, and summoned Zhang Yu, Yu Xinghan, and Spark True Lord for a warning about their training and their Outsourced Workers.
• Hong Jian threatened to personally tutor the three if their work did not improve by the next day, and Yu Xinghan feared the prospect of being taught by him.

Zhang Yu reported to Yufa Pavilion and discovered that his new supervisor, Qu Yizhi, planned to burden him with work to block his advancement. As Zhang Yu began reviewing twenty-four Nascent Soul cultivation methods that could strengthen his own cultivation, Qu Yizhi assigned him another task and resolved to keep him a first-rank Sect Affairs Officer.

• Yu Xinghan struggled with the temptation to use memory permissions, Dharma Medicine, loans, and Dual Cultivation to accelerate his progress, while Zhang Yu resisted similar offers from fellow trainees.
• Zhang Yu and Le Mulan used Zhan Xian’s Law-Breaking Talisman to falsify their Dual Cultivation records, and Hong Jian accepted the results; one week later, the trainees finished training and departed for their assigned departments.
• Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan parted ways near Yufa Pavilion and the Martial Arts Pavilion, and Zhang Yu spoke with Bai Zhenzhen before reporting to Yufa Pavilion with Ye Xingli.
• Zhang Yu completed onboarding as a Level 1 Sect Affairs Officer and learned that Yufa Pavilion could connect to the Daoist Canon to search existing cultivation copyrights.
• Qu Yizhi assigned Zhang Yu a ninety-day review of twenty-four Nascent Soul Basic Cultivation Method copyrights, which Zhang Yu realized could strengthen his Nascent Soul Saint Body.
• Qu Yizhi assigned Zhang Yu another task and planned to overload him with work, hoping to prevent his promotion and label him as having limited potential.

Yu Xinghan and Zhang Yu began newcomer training after joining the Myriad Laws Sect, discovering that its free cultivation tools and cross-realm borrowing privileges came with pervasive lending, gambling, and Dharma Medicine systems. Zhang Yu recognized these benefits as possible foundations for powerful Dao Orthodoxies and warned Yu Xinghan and Spark True Lord against Dharma Medicine as training introduced a new Dual Cultivation policy.

• Yu Xinghan used Wanfa Butler to inspect his cultivation, generated an annual report, and improved his breathing technique for free, though he closed the paid optimization and loan offers.
• Yu Xinghan, Zhang Yu, and Spark True Lord joined the Sect Affairs Officer training group and were warmly welcomed by local sect disciples, surprising Yu Xinghan.
• Lending teacher Yun Jiying introduced cross-realm cultivation loans and gambling on bills; one trainee won a waived bill, while Zhang Yu and Yu Xinghan declined to gamble on their Dharma Realm fees.
• Zhang Yu learned that Dao Orthodoxy could grow from Law Articles into foundational rules, and Zhan Xian warned him that Dharma Medicine could make cultivators dependent on its effects.
• Zhang Yu warned Yu Xinghan and Spark True Lord against Dharma Medicine before a teacher announced the Myriad Laws Sect's Dual Cultivation Support Section and urged newcomers to follow the policy.

Zhang Yu used his rapid mastery of martial arts cultivation methods to drive Martial Arts Group Three’s audit work forward while building up his Nascent Soul Saint Body. At the monthly meeting, his exceptional results drew praise from Luo Wuji, who announced higher performance requirements for the next month.

• Chu Wangji worried that Zhang Yu’s intensive cultivation was a poor substitute for working efficiently during the four-hour workday.
• Zhang Yu mastered cultivation methods while Ye Xingli handled research and paperwork, and he planned to submit the completed audit reports to the Daoist Canon together.
• After work, Zhang Yu trained Righteous Heart Guarding One Fist to Level 40 and worked with Ye Xingli on Magic Treasure blueprints.
• Over more than twenty days, Zhang Yu raised his Nascent Soul Saint Body to (14/14), unlocking another 20% boost and speeding up his cultivation and simulations.
• On February 1st, Qu Yizhi told Lu Hengzhang that Zhang Yu’s work was unimpressive, despite having loaded him with difficult audits at Lu Hengzhang’s instruction.
• At the monthly meeting, Luo Wuji announced that Martial Arts Group Three had performed exceptionally well and that Zhang Yu had scored 124 points, then raised the next month’s performance requirements.

After Zhang Yu topped the January rankings, he promised Luo Wuji that he could raise Martial Arts Group Three’s performance by more than thirty percent in February. Qu Yizhi tried to undermine him, but Zhang Yu equipped himself to work faster and began a new month of audits, determined to make good on his claim.

• Qu Yizhi reviewed Zhang Yu’s thirty-one approved audits as Luo Wuji praised the Martial Arts Group’s potential and summoned Zhang Yu to explain his results.
• Zhang Yu promised Luo Wuji that he could raise the entire group’s February performance by more than thirty percent, and Luo Wuji ordered Qu Yizhi to cooperate with him.
• After Zhang Yu topped the rankings, Shen Qingyun vowed to beat him, while Qu Yizhi complained to Lu Hengzhang and was told not to let Zhang Yu succeed.
• Zhang Yu received his rewards, bought Fu Ji a cheap antique, and purchased a Document Thought Seal to communicate faster with Ye Xingli.
• Qu Yizhi assigned Zhang Yu difficult audits and mismatched tasks to hinder the group, while Zhang Yu used Formless Martial Evolution and the Three-Eyed Divine Power to accelerate his technique reviews.

Zhang Yu overwhelmed Martial Arts Group Three with his work, then raised the group members’ performance by sharing his insights and guidance. As Qu Yizhi finally approached him for help, he revealed that Deputy Minister Lu Hengzhang had been urging him to put Zhang Yu through extra hardship.

• Chu Wangji and Wen Zhiwei opposed Zhang Yu’s plan to raise the group’s performance, but Zhang Yu soon submitted a stream of audit reports that left the team stunned.
• Zhang Yu completed work assigned to Chu Wangji and other colleagues, then offered to teach them in exchange for letting him guide their work.
• Zhang Yu used Formless Martial Evolution and the Document Thought Seal to share his techniques, tests, and insights, helping the group members raise their performance.
• Qu Yizhi grew anxious as the group’s performance rose and his ranking fell, while Zhang Yu suspected he had deliberately assigned techniques mismatched to the members’ Martial Dao styles.
• After hearing Minister Luo Wuji report the group’s improved results, Qu Yizhi approached Zhang Yu and revealed that Deputy Minister Lu Hengzhang had told him to give Zhang Yu extra training.

Zhang Yu learned more about the Audit Department’s factions, won Qu Yizhi’s support, and drove Martial Arts Group Three to a 32 percent performance increase. At the March meeting, Luo Wuji praised the team and asked Zhang Yu to share his methods, while Lu Hengzhang resolved to undermine both Zhang Yu and Luo Wuji.

• Qu Yizhi told Zhang Yu that Lu Hengzhang was secretly targeting him and described the complicated factions within the Conservative Faction and the Audit Department.
• Qu Yizhi accepted Zhang Yu as Martial Arts Group Three’s true leader, joined the study guidance group, and was astonished by Zhang Yu’s skill at simulating and combining martial arts techniques.
• Zhang Yu refused Qu Yizhi’s suggestion to use the Dharma Realm’s memory-transmission service, then learned from Zhan Xian that recurring Spiritual Energy outages might mean an unknown force was consuming the Sect’s resources.
• Zhang Yu led Martial Arts Group Three to a 32 percent performance increase, then eased the pace after Qu Yizhi and the other members pleaded with him to stop grinding so hard.
• At the March meeting, Luo Wuji praised Zhang Yu and asked him to share his methods, while Lu Hengzhang privately plotted to bring down Zhang Yu and Luo Wuji and secure the Audit Department directorship for himself.

Zhang Yu’s success in Martial Arts Group Three led Luo Wuji to assign him to teach the other Martial Dao groups, while workplace rivals and colleagues reacted to his rising influence. After the March evaluation, Zhang Yu appeared on Yufa Pavilion’s promotion list as a prospective Second Rank Sect Affairs Officer, while Lu Hengzhang prepared to act against him.

• Xiao Zhi and the other group leaders resisted Zhang Yu’s methods and proposed examining his group’s work records and memories, but Gu Qingya cautioned them against handling Lower Realm memories, and Luo Wuji ordered Zhang Yu to teach the other groups after work.
• Qu Yizhi told Zhang Yu that his promotion to Second Rank would make it easier for him to guide the Martial Dao groups, while Shen Qingyun resolved to learn Zhang Yu’s methods and eventually surpass him.
• Zhang Yu considered the long path to ascension and rejected a reexamination application for a Spirit Refining Art whose copyright he had previously denied.
• Zhang Yu’s salary, bonuses, authority, and gifts from Group Three’s members increased, while he learned that half the group’s outsourced workers had been dismissed after performance improved.
• After the March evaluation, Zhang Yu’s name entered the seven-day display period for promotion to Second Rank, and Lu Hengzhang told someone to prepare to make their move.

Zhang Yu faced an investigation after rumors claimed he had wrongly rejected the Spirit Refining Art and leaked its technique to the Heaven Demon Sect. He maintained that the art shared its origins with the Shattering Delusion Forging God Art, but the review proceeded against him, and Gu Qingya warned that his refusal to admit fault would likely ruin his promotion.

• Gu Qingya warned Zhang Yu that someone had reported him, and leaks soon accused him of rejecting the Spirit Refining Art before its technique resurfaced in the Heaven Demon Sect.
• Zhang Yu recalled that the Feather Scroll identified the Spirit Refining Art as the Shattering Delusion Forging God Art, advanced the latter to Level 40, and concluded that the two arts shared a root, which had informed his rejection.
• Luo Wuji ordered Zhang Yu to admit carelessness and apologize, but Zhang Yu refused to abandon his judgment; Zhan Xian explained that Yufa Pavilion's procedures required a Joint Review Group before submission to the Daoist Canon.
• The Investigation Team froze Zhang Yu's promotion and questioned him, while its members said no one in the Myriad Laws Sect had cultivated the Shattering Delusion Forging God Art to Level 40.
• Xiao Zhi used the review to spread rumors that Zhang Yu had boosted his performance by carelessly rejecting applications, and the Joint Review Group began examining the Spirit Refining Art.
• Gu Qingya told Zhang Yu that Luo Wuji valued obedience and quieting public opinion more than whether Zhang Yu was right, and warned that his promotion prospects would suffer if he refused to submit.

Zhang Yu was cleared after the Daoist Canon judged that the Spirit Refining Art involved a sealed Black Cultivation Method, exposing a wider scheme aimed at blocking Luo Wuji’s Law Article. As his promotion resumed, Zhang Yu investigated audit reports and found problems that might implicate another faction.

• Gu Qingya warned Zhang Yu that his promotion would fail and urged him to seek help from his seniors, but Zhang Yu left without changing his stance.
• The Investigation Team relied on two outside cultivators to claim the Spirit Refining Art did not overlap with the Shattering Delusion Forging God Art, but the Daoist Canon identified the connection and flagged the Spirit Refining Art as involving a Black Cultivation Method.
• Yufa Pavilion sealed the Spirit Refining Art and the laboratory that developed it, while reports about the incident fueled public opposition to cultivation-method sealing.
• Zhan Xian concluded that the uproar was meant to obstruct Luo Wuji’s planned Law Article supporting the Law Ruling Dao Orthodoxy, and Luo Wuji realized that public pressure had made his breakthrough plan untenable.
• Zhang Yu learned that his investigation had ended and his promotion to Level 2 Sect Affairs Officer had resumed, then examined audit reports and found problems in the first group’s records.

Zhang Yu uncovered evidence that Xiao Zhi had mishandled technique audits and gave it to Gu Qingya, helping bring about Xiao Zhi’s demotion. Zhang Yu became one of four candidates for Acting Leader of Martial Arts Group One, where he faced Shen Qingyun and Chen Xingxuan.

• Zhang Yu found that Xiao Zhi had unreasonably rejected ten techniques, while similar techniques had later passed review.
• Zhang Yu consulted Spark True Lord and Zhang Pianpian, who advised him about the Dao Orthodoxies and motives of the leaders he might approach.
• Zhang Yu gave the audit evidence to Gu Qingya and asked to become group leader; Gu Qingya arranged for him to be recommended as an Acting Leader candidate.
• Gu Qingya and Luo Wuji exposed Xiao Zhi’s audit problems, and Lu Hengzhang ordered Xiao Zhi to accept responsibility and minimize the fallout.
• Xiao Zhi was demoted and transferred out of the Audit Department, and Zhang Yu was named one of four candidates for Acting Leader of Martial Arts Group One.
• Zhang Yu arrived at the Position Suitability Assessment, while Chen Xingxuan’s artifact spirit, Tianwen Star, assessed Zhang Yu and Shen Qingyun as no match for Chen Xingxuan.

Chen Xingxuan and the other candidates began Adaptive Verification, where they had to select Martial Dao cultivation methods and use them to complete work tasks. Zhang Yu’s performance in transport and archaeology surprised the observers, leaving the competition for promotion wide open.

• Chen Xingxuan used Tianwen Star to assess the candidates and learned that Yu Qingrang had converted her Dao Arts cultivation to Martial Dao, but Yu Qingrang blocked further data collection with Immortal Coins.
• The arbiters watched as the four candidates began Adaptive Verification, selecting cultivation methods for transport, archaeology, and factory tasks; Zhang Yu chose seven methods while Shen Qingyun chose three.
• Chen Xingxuan quickly simulated three methods, Yu Qingrang simulated five, and Zhang Yu read through his seven selections without practicing, confident he could simulate them directly.
• During the transport task, Chen Xingxuan moved cargo with Mystic Magnetic Gang Qi, while Yu Qingrang and Zhang Yu transformed into giants; Zhang Yu also used Astral Qi to carry more cargo at once.
• During the archaeology task, Yu Qingrang sealed the site in a vacuum, but Zhang Yu combined Cloud Sea Breath and Heavenly Soul Freeze to create a Stasis Field approaching Military Grade standards.

Zhang Yu won the final task of the promotion assessment by fusing three mental methods to boost his workers’ productivity, establishing himself as the strongest candidate. A week later, an official notice appointed him acting leader of Martial Arts Group One.

• Lu Hengzhang reported Zhang Yu for fusing cultivation methods, but the report was rejected because Zhang Yu’s technique remained within their scope.
• Yu Qingrang used Overclock Mode to combine two mental methods with a physical cultivation method, turning herself into a giant and driving her workers to perform.
• Zhang Yu fused the Charming Heart Art, True Word Heart Art, and Heart-Touching Skill, making his workers trust him and work harder after he promised top performers more free work hours without extra workload.
• The officials judged Zhang Yu the most suitable candidate, and Shen Qingyun and Chen Xingxuan approached him after the assessment while Yu Qingrang left in a daze.
• A week later, Zhang Yu received official notice that he had been appointed acting leader of Martial Arts Group One.

After becoming Acting Leader of Martial Arts Group One, Zhang Yu used his promotion to support Yu Xinghan and manage his new team while navigating alliances in the Sect. Gu Qingya warned him about the powerful Innate Dao Lineage and its High-Intelligence Artifact Spirits, which were consuming Spiritual Energy and threatening cultivators’ paths to advancement.

• Bai Zhenzhen let her Sect Examination Clone exchange Spirit Roots with Zhang Yu, while she supervised.
• Zhang Yu demonstrated his fused cultivation methods to Yu Xinghan and offered to split any future licensing profits equally.
• Zhang Yu began serving as Acting Leader of Martial Arts Group One, gaining authority over assignments and access to Layer 12.
• Qu Yizhi offered Zhang Yu all of Group Three’s bonuses in exchange for his continued guidance, and Zhang Yu accepted.
• Gu Qingya told Zhang Yu he would temporarily become Audit Department Director after Luo Wuji stepped down and advised Zhang Yu to secure his leadership position.
• When Spiritual Energy supplies faltered, Gu Qingya explained that High-Intelligence Artifact Spirits promoted by the Innate Dao Lineage were consuming vast amounts of energy, and Zhan Xian warned that their growth could threaten cultivators.

Zhang Yu navigated his new role as acting leader while Lu Hengzhang sought permission to sabotage his promotion, and Zhang Yu reunited with his Lower Realm teachers and allies. After seven months of training and saving, Zhang Yu heard that a newly created Immortal Sect Technique was coming to Yufa Pavilion for an audit.

• Gu Qingya advised Zhang Yu to build his strength patiently, while Lu Hengzhang asked Deputy Pavilion Master Yang to help prevent Zhang Yu from becoming a permanent group leader.
• Deputy Pavilion Master Yang told Lu Hengzhang to focus on advancing High-Intelligence Artifact Spirit technologies through audits and to wait for a chance to act against Zhang Yu.
• Zhang Yu projected to Kunxu Layer 11, visited Divine Lord Ci Ji, Greenwood, and the other Divine Transformation cultivators, and told them about his promotion to acting leader.
• Zhang Yu spoke with Divine Lord Yin Quan about Wang Yin, while the assembled teachers and cultivators reacted to his rapid advancement.
• Bai Zhenzhen learned about Heaven Sword Sect's emotion-based sword techniques, including the costly Extreme Joy Sword Dao, as Wen Wuya learned he suited the Fear Sword.
• Zhang Yu advanced his Nascent Soul Saint Body, saved over 10,000 Immortal Coin, and, after seven months, learned that a newly created Immortal Sect Technique was arriving for audit at Yufa Pavilion.

Zhang Yu sought a place on the Special Task Force reviewing a mysterious Immortal Sect Technique, seeing it as a chance to advance his career. Lu Hengzhang unexpectedly recommended him, and Zhang Yu accepted despite recognizing the danger, while Lu Hengzhang believed the project was doomed and Zhang Yu would become cannon fodder.

• Zhang Yu reflected on his classmates’ Sect Examination prospects and hoped to bring more people from the Lower Realm into the Sect.
• Zhang Yu advanced his cultivation, took on higher-paying part-time tasks, bought an Immortal Spiritual Root, and increased his savings.
• Qu Yizhi told Zhang Yu that a mysterious Immortal Sect Technique had produced a wave of related techniques under review, and Zhang Yu decided to seek a place on the review team.
• Gu Qingya explained that the Pavilion Master would chair the project and warned Zhang Yu that the high-profile assignment could carry risks.
• Lu Hengzhang unexpectedly recommended Zhang Yu to the Special Task Force, and Zhang Yu accepted the invitation despite suspecting Lu Hengzhang’s motives.
• Lu Hengzhang told Zhang Yu to reach Wu Twelve before joining and privately concluded that the Immortal Sect Technique was destined to be abandoned and some team members would become cannon fodder.