Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yu completed his Void Refining breakthrough, gained the Grand Void Dao Body, and discovered it could steadily raise his immortalization degree while boosting his cultivation and crafting. Back in legislative training, his potential assessment rose to Rank 108, and he arranged to refine cultivation methods with Bu Yingshu while setting his sights on Tai Yuebai.

• Zhang Yu formed the Grand Void Dao Body, which raised his immortalization degree to 1% and could increase it by 1% each month in sufficient celestial qi.
• Zhang Yu used the Wanfa Immortal Clan reward to raise his artifact-crafting methods to level 60, then advanced the Celestial Qi Observation Method and perceived hidden celestial qi within all things.
• Zhang Yu returned to legislative training, where his potential assessment rose to Rank 108; he observed Bu Yingshu's Rank 49, Tai Yuebai's Rank 72, Lie Jinghong's Rank 27, and Di Xuan's Rank 28.
• Lie Jinghong urged Zhang Yu to work with him to expand the Dharma Realm Orthodoxy, while Bu Yingshu grew jealous of Zhang Yu's interactions with Lie Jinghong and Tai Yuebai.
• Fu Ji used Zhang Yu's messages to arrange a cultivation-method session with Bu Yingshu, and Zhang Yu planned to meet her while deciding that Tai Yuebai would not escape him this time.

Zhang Yu built trust with Di Xuan by pretending to support the Innate Dao Lineage, while Tai Yuebai grew uneasy at how easily Zhang Yu connected with rival factions. Zhang Yu then joined Bu Yingshu for cultivation-method refinement and began testing his Grand Void Dao Body on her.

• Tai Yuebai told Zhang Yu he had been meeting Di Xuan and brought him to meet the Innate Dao Lineage representative.
• Di Xuan questioned Zhang Yu about the Innate Dao Lineage's principles, and Zhang Yu's Sect Examination Clone voiced strong support for its positions and loyalty to the Immortal Emperors.
• Di Xuan came to believe Zhang Yu could connect him with Lie Jinghong, while Tai Yuebai was astonished to see Zhang Yu leave the meeting on friendly terms with Di Xuan.
• Zhang Yu spotted the name of one of Di Xuan's Dao Seeds, Innate Distinction, and hurried to Bu Yingshu after Fu Ji warned that she was about to lose her temper.
• Zhang Yu refined the Celestial Qi Observation Method with Bu Yingshu, then thrust his Grand Void Dao Body into her Law Aperture before abruptly pulling it back out.

Zhang Yu used [Grand Void Dao Body] to make Bu Yingshu believe her talent was awakening through Basic Cultivation Methods, turning her into a willing cultivator. Bu Yingshu then revealed her legislative goal: replace permanent realm certificates with certifications that expire and require people to compete again.

• Zhang Yu repeatedly inserted and withdrew [Grand Void Dao Body], making Bu Yingshu feel her talent surge as she reviewed and practiced Basic Cultivation Methods.
• Bu Yingshu concluded that practicing Basic Cultivation Methods awakened her Immortal Dao Potential, while Zhang Yu decided she would serve as his training machine.
• Bu Yingshu asked Zhang Yu to support her effort to create unprecedented Law Articles, and he agreed despite the risks she described.
• Bu Yingshu explained that entrenched factions and monopolized positions had weakened competition, which she believed was essential to progress.
• Bu Yingshu declared her goal, “One Certification, Temporary Certification,” proposing that certain realm certificates expire after ten or twenty years and that everyone then compete for them again.

Zhang Yu realized that competing certification policies could usher in a Great Examination Era that benefited immortals, while rival factions tried to recruit his support. By the next day, he had drawn representatives of several Dao Lineages to sit around him, leaving their plans and alliances uncertain.

• Zhan Xian concluded that the competing certification policies could combine into a Great Examination Era that fueled the Myriad Laws Sect’s economy while burdening cultivators below.
• Bu Yingshu offered to marry Zhang Yu and raise his clan if he supported her legislation, and Zhang Yu agreed to help her.
• Fu Ji allied with Xiang Shen and Bao Shen to keep Zhan Xian and Wild Ox from disrupting Zhang Yu’s political opportunities.
• Zhang Yu’s Law Article potential rose to rank 99, and Lie Jinghong and Tai Yuebai both beckoned him to sit with them.
• Bu Yingshu pulled Zhang Yu beside her, then Di Xuan joined him, prompting rival factions to question what agreements he had made.
• Zhang Yu told Di Xuan that Bu Yingshu had come to join them.

Zhang Yu realized that competing certification policies could usher in a Great Examination Era that benefited immortals while burdening cultivators, and he agreed to support Bu Yingshu for the moment. The next day, several rival leaders tried to draw Zhang Yu to their groups, but he ended up surrounded by them as their plans collided.

• Zhan Xian analyzed the competing certification policies and concluded they could create a Kunxu-wide examination market that enriched the Myriad Laws Sect while increasing pressure on cultivators.
• Bao Shen proposed that Zhang Yu cooperate with the Reformists, and Zhang Yu suspected a powerful immortal might be arranging the policies to launch the Great Examination Era.
• Bu Yingshu offered to marry Zhang Yu and raise his clan if he supported her legislation, and Zhang Yu agreed to work with her for now.
• Fu Ji formed an alliance with Xiang Shen and Bao Shen to keep Zhan Xian and Wild Ox from derailing their plans, while urging Zhang Yu to build a student interest group.
• The following day, Lie Jinghong and Tai Yuebai beckoned Zhang Yu, but Bu Yingshu pulled him beside her, and Di Xuan soon joined them there.
• Cang Juehuan warned Zhang Yu about the dangerous alliances, while Tai Yuebai and Bu Yingshu questioned him about his dealings; Zhang Yu told Di Xuan that Bu Yingshu had come to join them.

Zhang Yu tested his First-Generation Law Article and discovered that equipping Myriad Phenomena let him reproduce Sect-Protecting Grade techniques and accelerate the Law Article’s expansion. After destroying the test article, he joined class, where several students privately believed they had secured his loyalty ahead of the formal legislation.

• Zhang Yu constructed a First-Generation Law Article that could reproduce Strategic Grade techniques, then destroyed it rather than let his Primordial Spirit bear it.
• Zhang Yu equipped Myriad Phenomena and found that it let him construct Sect-Protecting Grade techniques and double the Law Article’s expansion speed before he destroyed the test article.
• Zhang Yu entered class, where Bu Yingshu sat beside him and ordered him to come with her after class, while Di Xuan said he could construct Second-Generation Law Articles and sought cooperation.
• Di Xuan, Bu Yingshu, and Lie Jinghong each privately believed Zhang Yu was secretly aligned with them and expected him to help them during the formal legislation.
• Tai Yuebai recalled using Myriad Transformations to pose as Zhang Yu and received Zhang Yu’s message asking how much longer he had to keep up the act; Tai Yuebai named a payment of one million Immortal Coins, and Zhang Yu agreed to continue.

Zhang Yu studied how Second-Generation Law Articles used rules and Thought Tides to expand their reach and develop into Dao Orthodoxies. He began constructing Law Articles in his Primordial Spirit, but found he could only embed rules about seven characters long, too vague to work reliably.

• Yue Qinglan joined Bu Yingshu and viewed Zhang Yu as a potential cornerstone whose value depended on his cultivation assessment.
• Zhang Yu learned that Law Articles drew strength from the thoughts of living beings, while Second-Generation Law Articles used rules and automatic enforcement to govern them.
• Zhan Xian and Wild Ox explained how Pan-Law-Article Domains, Sect approval, and Thought Tide amplification helped Second-Generation Law Articles suppress First-Generation ones.
• Zhang Yu began constructing Law Articles in his Primordial Spirit and calculated that he could currently embed rules of about seven characters.
• Zhang Yu realized that rules that short lacked the detail needed to define their scope and operate effectively.

Zhang Yu and his allies deduced that Tai Yuebai could steal Dao Seeds while leaving their original owners able to use them, and Zhang Yu realized he might be able to replicate Tai Yuebai’s newest stolen Seed. The chapter ended with Zhang Yu announcing that he would fully support Tai Yuebai, prompting Tai Yuebai to urgently tell him to stop.

• Zhang Yu concluded that Tai Yuebai could steal other people’s Dao Seeds and that the original owners might not notice because they could still use their abilities.
• Zhan Xian and Bao Shen proposed that Tai Yuebai had become the Seeds’ new owner while continuing to supply their abilities to the original owners.
• Zhang Yu and Zhan Xian considered why Zhang Yu could see Tai Yuebai’s newest stolen Dao Seed but not the ones he had taken earlier.
• Zhang Yu sensed the conditions for replicating [Emperor's Dominion over the Nine Heavens] and realized Tai Yuebai’s influence could make those conditions easier to meet.
• After class, Zhang Yu told Bu Yingshu that he had decided to fully support Tai Yuebai, and Tai Yuebai urgently messaged him to stop talking nonsense.

Zhang Yu copied Tai Yuebai’s [Emperor's Dominion over the Nine Heavens] by publicly backing him, making the other trainees wary of Tai Yuebai. He learned the Dao Seed’s abilities and, as Third-Generation Law Article training began, received a high-grade martial arts manual.

• Zhang Yu decided to help Tai Yuebai intimidate the trainees and publicly withdrew his support from Bu Yingshu, claiming Tai Yuebai was more formidable.
• Zhang Yu warned Bu Yingshu not to oppose Tai Yuebai, then left the classroom to follow him as the trainees reconsidered Tai Yuebai’s strength and plans.
• Zhang Yu confirmed that [Emperor's Dominion over the Nine Heavens] had been copied and learned that its Level 1 ability made his words more persuasive to people of lower realms.
• Tai Yuebai told Zhang Yu to stop contacting others and focus on studying and cultivation, while both men privately considered using the other to conceal their plans.
• Third-Generation Law Article techniques were taught, and Zhang Yu received the and the training’s tenth martial arts manual.

Zhang Yu’s Law Article establishing a fifty-year validity period provoked fierce opposition, but the judges realized the Wanfa Immortal Emperor had backed it and shifted toward support. Zhang Yu left the review authority to higher powers, while Tai Yuebai asked whether he had also established a salary-increase Law Article to support the Two-Day Weekend.

• Fa Liuyuan and the judges condemned Zhang Yu’s plan to freeze, review, and potentially ban Law Articles older than fifty years.
• Su Xianchen revealed that Zhang Yu’s Law Article had bypassed the judges’ approval and been submitted to a higher level, leading the judges to suspect the Wanfa Immortal Emperor had issued Zhang Yu a Blank Legislation Article.
• The Law Article received higher-level approval, and Bu Yuangui, Dugu Ming, and Fa Liuyuan publicly supported it as a way to manage outdated Law Articles.
• The judges considered whether Zhang Yu could withstand the political and technical struggles ahead, while recognizing he might become the Immortal Emperor’s instrument or be discarded as a pawn.
• Zhang Yu discussed with New Immortal, Zhan Xian, and Wild Ox why they had left review authority to others, and Wild Ox noted that the validity period could also support Law Articles still in force.
• Tai Yuebai asked Zhang Yu whether he had established a salary-increase Law Article to support the Two-Day Weekend, and Zhang Yu said he had uploaded his Law Article without receiving a rejection.

Zhang Yu used his disguise as Tai Yuebai to provoke Bu Yingshu and Di Xuan into competing harder, then completed his study of [Myriad Phenomena] and prepared to regulate all Law Articles. The chapter ended with Tai Yuebai approaching Lie Jinghong while posing as Zhang Yu.

• Zhang Yu, disguised as Tai Yuebai, told Bu Yingshu he would support her only if she outranked Lie Jinghong and Di Xuan, provoking her to swear revenge on both him and Tai Yuebai.
• Zhang Yu, still disguised as Tai Yuebai, rejected Di Xuan and said he would support Lie Jinghong instead; Di Xuan then told Cang Juehuan that the plan no longer involved Zhang Yu.
• On the final day of legislative training, Zhang Yu activated [Myriad Phenomena] and learned that he could erase immortal-qi techniques within his Law Article domain if he understood their underlying principles.
• Zhang Yu assessed his growing cultivation and Law Article abilities, concluded that the Blank Legislation Article would let him propose legislation without fear of rejection, and told Fu Ji he intended to regulate all Law Articles under heaven.
• Tai Yuebai approached Lie Jinghong, warned him not to turn around, and claimed to be Zhang Yu.

As legislative training ended, Zhang Yu weighed the risks of regulating all Law Articles, mutated and forgot his legislative technique, and had Fu Ji repair his relationships with three trainees. The Third-Generation Law Articles legislation then began, and judges reacted with shock to an audacious proposal.

• Zhan Xian urged Zhang Yu to use the Blank Legislation Articles to pursue a sweeping Law Article, while Fu Ji and others warned him against the danger.
• Zhang Yu identified four obstacles to regulating all Law Articles and mutated the Ten Thousand Paths Legislative Heavenly Book, but discarded the result when it strengthened the Third-Generation Law Articles instead.
• Zhang Yu told Fu Ji he would focus on raising salaries, then asked her to find out why Bu Yingshu, Lie Jinghong, and Di Xuan had turned against him.
• Fu Ji used money from Tai Yuebai and fabricated context around Zhang Yu's chat records to ease tensions with the three trainees and persuade them to give Zhang Yu another chance.
• The next day, the Third-Generation Law Articles legislation began, and judges reviewed the trainees' proposals as astonished reactions spread through the Spirit Realm and Dharma Realm.

Su Xianchen and the other judges reviewed the Third-Generation Law Articles, approving Tai Yuebai’s controversial Two-Day Weekend Law Article and praising several proposals backed by powerful factions. Zhang Yu used his final cultivation-method mutation, then uploaded a Law Article that the judges rejected—only for Su Xianchen to discover that it had bypassed their review.

• Su Xianchen recognized Yue Qinglan’s Minimum Lifespan Law Article as a fit for the Sect’s Lifespan Support Plan and discussed its merits with Bu Yuangui.
• Tai Yuebai uploaded a Two-Day Weekend Law Article, which angered opponents but passed a vote among the judges.
• The judges praised Di Xuan and Bu Yingshu’s paired certification articles and Lie Jinghong’s Dharma Realm Obligation proposal.
• Tai Yuebai waited for Zhang Yu to finish uploading so he could use Zhang Yu’s identity to pursue the Ultra-High-Risk Dao Seed on Lie Jinghong.
• Zhang Yu consumed his final mutation, discovered it made obedience reduce agreement with a Law Article, and devised a proposal that did not need to be obeyed.
• The judges rejected Zhang Yu’s Law Article, but Su Xianchen realized it had bypassed their review.

After Zhang Yu’s Law Article passed, Su Xianchen assigned him a special test: freeze the other students’ Law Articles at the end of the month-long assessment. Zhang Yu planned to conceal his Law Article’s effects while developing his influence and gathering intelligence, as Tai Yuebai and Bu Yingshu each hid their own plans from him.

• Su Xianchen told Zhang Yu that his Law Article had passed and set a special test requiring him to freeze as many students’ Law Articles as possible after one month.
• Zhang Yu explained to Fu Ji that he needed to spread his True Law-Article Domain, build thought-current influence, and learn the other Law Articles’ technical principles without revealing his own methods.
• Zhang Yu resolved to keep his Law Article secret and told Tai Yuebai that he wanted to support him, while Tai Yuebai suspected Zhang Yu was covertly advancing his own agenda.
• Tai Yuebai concealed his Two-Day Weekend Law Article from Zhang Yu, just as Zhang Yu concealed his Law Article’s validity-period effects from Tai Yuebai.
• Bu Yingshu, still angry and distrustful of Zhang Yu, offered not to ram Bai Zhenzhen to death and promised him a child if he performed well.

Zhang Yu learned that his Law Article had passed and was assigned a special test to freeze as many students’ Law Articles as possible during the month-long evaluation. He concealed its true nature from Tai Yuebai, Bu Yingshu, and the others, then entered the testing zone and noticed unusual Dao Seeds on Lie Jinghong and Tai Yuebai.

• Su Xianchen told Zhang Yu that his Law Article had passed and that he had to freeze every student’s Law Article he could during the second stage of legislation.
• Zhang Yu explained to Fu Ji the conditions for influencing and freezing other Law Articles, and they agreed to spread their domain, build ideological support, and gather intelligence while keeping Zhang Yu’s Law Article secret.
• Zhang Yu and Tai Yuebai hid their Law Articles’ true contents from each other, while Zhang Yu also told Bu Yingshu and the other students that his Law Article raised salaries.
• Formal legislation began, and the students gathered at Law-Knowing Lodge before heading into the testing zone.
• Zhang Yu noticed that Lie Jinghong had only two Dao Seeds and saw the unfamiliar [One Qi Swallows the Universe] Dao Seed on Tai Yuebai, along with its copying conditions.

Zhang Yu began the first phase of the legislation evaluation by establishing a Law Article that made all laws valid for one month, while considering how to copy Tai Yuebai’s unusual Dao Seed. As the students prepared for the second phase and July 1 Decision Day, the judges assessed personalized tests and Yue Qinglan’s Minimum Lifespan Law began spreading through her city.

• Tai Yuebai stole the five-character Dao Seed One Qi Swallows the Universe from Lie Jinghong, and Zhang Yu examined its copying requirements.
• Zhang Yu entered his sealed miniature city and established Law Article Validity Period, which gave all Law Articles a one-month validity period.
• Zhang Yu planned to use the second phase and July 1 Decision Day to freeze every Law Article across the evaluation grounds.
• Tai Yuebai and Bu Yingshu believed their final-day tests had been specially designed to showcase their Two-Day Weekend and One Certification, Temporary Certification Law Articles.
• Su Xianchen instructed the judges to consider students’ personalized tests and the distinctive features of their Law Articles.
• Yue Qinglan’s Minimum Lifespan Law spread through her miniature city, winning company leaders’ support while employees fled its domain and slowed its expansion.

During the lawmaking trial, judges assessed the rising potential of several students’ Law Articles, including policies on artifact-spirit rights, work gambling, certification, and mandatory Dharma Realm use. Zhang Yu’s assessment fell sharply because his Law Article Validity Period gained almost no support, leaving the judges wondering whether he had a hidden countermeasure.

• Yi Yaosheng judged that Yue Qinglan’s Minimum Lifespan had reached Grade 12, while Ling Chenji explained how Cang Juehuan’s Artifact Spirit Human Rights Act could spread through companies’ hiring practices and potentially reach Grade 10.
• Kuang Zhiqian’s work-gambling Law Article gained acceptance as cultivators gambled their Immortal Dao output while working, and judges assessed it at Grade 9.
• Bu Yingshu’s One Certification, Temporary Certification spread through tutoring and exams, while Di Xuan’s One Certification, Eternal Certification collected recurring taxes for permanent realm certificates.
• Lie Jinghong’s Dharma Realm Obligation reached Grade 2 after his Law Article covered the city and compelled continuous Dharma Realm connection.
• Zhang Yu’s assessment first climbed into the top ten after he equipped [Myriad Phenomena], then plunged to the fifteenth tier as his Law Article Validity Period failed to influence the miniature people’s thoughts.
• Ling Chenji criticized Zhang Yu’s weak ideological amplification, while Fa Liuyuan and the other judges wondered whether Zhang Yu had a hidden countermeasure.

Zhang Yu gathered intelligence and searched for territory where his weak Law Article could grow without being suppressed, while the other trainees rapidly expanded their domains. As Lie Jinghong confronted Tai Yuebai about his ability to create Hidden Immortal Qi, Tai Yuebai claimed he could copy Dao Seeds, while Fa Liuyuan continued watching Zhang Yu.

• Zhang Yu sent puppet strongmen and his Refining Void Primordial Spirit across the land to map Law Articles, domain coverage, and the effects on Material People.
• Yue Qinglan expanded Minimum Lifespan, while Cang Juehuan and Kuang Zhiqian grew their domains by drawing in artifact spirits and gamblers.
• Bu Yingshu and Di Xuan joined forces to expand their certification Law Articles, but Lie Jinghong’s Dharma Realm Obligation spread far faster through his ability to generate Hidden Immortal Qi.
• Lie Jinghong’s domain chased Tai Yuebai’s expanding domain and discovered that Tai Yuebai could also create Hidden Immortal Qi.
• Tai Yuebai told Lie Jinghong that he could copy Dao Seeds and claimed that he had copied the abilities of multiple trainees.
• Fa Liuyuan kept observing Zhang Yu’s actions.

Zhang Yu copied Tai Yuebai’s [One Qi Swallows the Universe] and used it to study other trainees’ Law Articles, sending his ranking soaring. As Tai Yuebai and Lie Jinghong’s battle intensified, Zhang Yu’s rapidly expanding Law Article territory rushed toward them.

• The judges learned that Tai Yuebai possessed a Dao Seed Book, while Fa Liuyuan said the information had already been reported to his superiors.
• Zhang Yu used reports of the burdens imposed by other trainees’ Law Articles to build support for his Law Article Validity Period and studied their techniques throughout the second stage.
• Zhang Yu arranged for Tai Yuebai to absorb magical power gathered from more than ten trainees, allowing Zhang Yu to copy [One Qi Swallows the Universe].
• Zhang Yu used the copied ability to generate different kinds of Hidden Immortal Qi, investigate other trainees’ Law Articles, and greatly increase his ranking.
• Tai Yuebai’s Two-Day Weekend Law Article gained support as Lie Jinghong rallied other trainees behind his Law Article, while Di Xuan and Bu Yingshu continued pressing forward with their certification laws.
• On Phase Two, Day 15, Zhang Yu reached third place, and his rapidly expanding Law Article territory charged toward Tai Yuebai and Lie Jinghong.

Zhang Yu’s “Law Article Validity Period” spread through the testing grounds and began reversing the ideological amplification of other Law Articles. As the students and judges uncovered Zhang Yu’s identity and suspected he possessed powerful hidden techniques, Lie Jinghong and Bu Yingshu demanded that he come forward.

• Tai Yuebai and Lie Jinghong discovered that Zhang Yu’s Law Article could impose expiration, review, and bans on other Law Articles, and Lie Jinghong found traces of his [One Qi Swallows the Universe] ability in it.
• Di Xuan, Bu Yingshu, and the other students felt Zhang Yu’s domain accelerate through overlapping Law Article territories as the Material People welcomed the prospect of freezing harmful laws.
• Cang Juehuan and Di Xuan noticed that ideological amplification was slowing inside Zhang Yu’s domain, and Yue Qinglan and Kuang Zhiqian concluded that he could elevate or reverse other Law Articles.
• The judges confronted Fa Liuyuan over Zhang Yu’s Dao Seed and his apparent Reversal Technique, while Dugu Ming urged them to finish the Legislative Ceremony first.
• The students identified Zhang Yu as the creator of “Law Article Validity Period,” and Lie Jinghong and Bu Yingshu roared for him to come out and explain himself.