Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yu recruited Tai Yuebai, Lie Jinghong, and Bu Yingshu to help with the Collection of All Books, while Dugu Ming warned that the project could lead to a major contest between sects. At the project meeting, Zhang Yu kept the existing plan in place, then retrieved four books held by the Heavenly Observation Hall.

• Zhang Yu persuaded Dugu Ming to transfer Tai Yuebai, Lie Jinghong, and Bu Yingshu onto the book collection project, and Dugu Ming warned him that the sects might soon compete to seize one another's books.
• Bu Yingshu, Tai Yuebai, Lie Jinghong, and Le Mulan joined the project meeting, while Liu Qianxian worried that Zhang Yu's powerful connections would take credit for her team's work.
• Zhang Yu reviewed the Kunxu map and book-collection progress, told Liu Qianxian to continue the existing plan, and added people to the assignments without changing the workflow.
• Zhang Yu asked Liu Qianxian about the four books under the team's control, then went with her to the Heavenly Observation Hall treasury and took them into his Grotto-Heaven.

Zhang Yu fused four Lower-Grade Books into the Feather Scroll, gaining new cultivation specializations, a way to build Physical Strength, and the Peerless Dao Bearing Chain Law Diagram. After his Cosmic Dao Orthodoxy progress reached 48%, he traveled with Liu Qianxian to the Immortal Soldier Mansion to collect a newly appeared Middle-Grade Book, where she warned him that its open-source practices could expose his Immortal Dao Technique.

• Zhang Yu tested the four Lower-Grade Books against the clone containing the restrained wills of Immortal Emperors Reincarnation and Ten Thousand Methods, then fused them into the Feather Scroll one by one.
• Zhang Yu gained Palm Technique and Mind Method specialization slots, discovered that the Body Tempering Manual let him accumulate points to raise Physical Strength, and learned that the Cultivation Notes contained the Peerless Dao Bearing Chain Law Diagram.
• Zhang Yu's Cosmic Dao Orthodoxy progress reached 48%, sharpening his perception of spatial structures and giving him a glimpse of the Lower Realm.
• Le Mulan told Zhang Yu that a new Middle-Grade Book had appeared at the Immortal Soldier Mansion, and Liu Qianxian insisted on accompanying him as a diplomatic envoy.
• Liu Qianxian warned Zhang Yu not to use Immortal Soldier Mansion equipment or services, explaining that Lower Cultivators there open-sourced their techniques for High Cultivators and could expose his own technique with a careless interaction.

Zhang Yu and Liu Qianxian entered the Immortal Soldier Mansion as a new book’s selection process began, while Bai Gusheng assessed the competition for the Four Books. The selection drew cultivators into a contest over simulated cultivation methods, but Yuan Sheng invoked a Law Article to make everyone share their information and ordered the sect to recover the book.

• Liu Qianxian warned Zhang Yu that the Immortal Soldier Mansion relied on piracy and that Cultivation Notes was making him unnaturally alluring to her.
• Zhang Yu sensed Feather Scroll react near the place where a new book was expected to appear, while Bai Gusheng observed the crowds and considered the contest a prelude to the next Ascension Selection.
• Advertisements tried to lure cultivators into clicking before the silent New Book Selection began, revealing rules in which participants chose ten cultivation methods and competed for the highest simulated score.
• A Mind-Control Talisman attack targeted cultivators with a supposed high-paying job, but Wan Ci Wang resisted and local cultivators tried to bargain over the chance to participate.
• Yuan Sheng used the Law Article User Open-Source to force Immortal Soldier Mansion cultivators to disclose their information for free, then declared the new book sect property and threatened disobedient cultivators with a hundred-year blacklist.

Zhang Yu, Yuan Sheng, Bai Gusheng, and other cultivators competed in the Immortal Soldier Mansion’s New Book Selection by combining techniques to simulate a security guard’s life. As the contest turned into a race to copy and refine successful combinations, Zhang Yu discovered that the simulator could generate Chain Law Diagrams that did not exist outside it.

• Yuan Sheng introduced himself to Zhang Yu and Liu Qianxian, while both sides privately distrusted and resented one another.
• Zhang Yu entered the Technique Pool and began considering which techniques suited security personnel as cultivators across the sects started their simulations.
• Bao Ping'an’s first combination earned a score of 82 before his simulated guard went bankrupt, and he realized that participants could study one another’s public results.
• Yuan Sheng organized Immortal Soldier Mansion cultivators to test combinations and exploit public records, while Bai Gusheng bought the available techniques and used clones to uncover their Chain Law Diagrams.
• Bai Gusheng identified Spirit Realm Replication as a promising diagram, and the rankings rose as participants iterated on combinations and improved their simulated guards’ lives.
• Zhang Yu noticed that techniques performed better in simulations than his clones’ cultivation suggested, then found that a selected combination could generate a new Chain Law Diagram inside the simulator.

Zhang Yu discovered that the New Book Selection simulator could create Chain Law Diagrams and used his insight to climb the rankings. He won the selection with a technique combination that helped a security guard become an Exam Ancestor Laureate, then received the new book and escaped into the Immortal Grotto-Heaven as Yuan Sheng and Bai Gusheng approached.

• Zhang Yu realized the simulator could generate Chain Law Diagrams, created Security Physique, and took first place with a score of 633.
• Bai Gusheng used Spirit Realm Replication to score 688 points, inferred that the new book created Chain Law Diagrams, and sought more testing opportunities from Yuan Sheng.
• Yuan Sheng asked Bai Gusheng for the Sect Diary in exchange for yielding the new book, while Zhang Yu tried Security Emperor through Liu Qianxian but failed to beat Security Physique.
• Bai Gusheng and Yuan Sheng's cultivators refined their combinations until a record reached a 900-year lifespan, but Zhang Yu claimed first place with 1,000 points by using Exam Ancestor Laureate to become a Sect Affairs Officer.
• Bai Gusheng and Yuan Sheng failed to surpass Zhang Yu before the selection ended, and Zhang Yu took the new book and vanished into the Immortal Grotto-Heaven.

After winning the New Book Selection, Zhang Yu discovered that the Chain Law Compendium was created by the Immortal Ancestor and could carry information across a world rollback. He recovered a sealed message from his future self and learned that the Compendium could create genuine Chain Law Diagrams.

• Zhang Yu escaped to the Immortal Grotto-Heaven, but Bai Gusheng and Yuan Sheng followed him with clones and tried to bargain for information about the Chain Law Compendium.
• Bai Gusheng told Zhang Yu that the Immortal Emperors planned to revive the Immortal Ancestor, whom he said had created the Four Books and been killed after connecting Dao Orthodoxies.
• Zhang Yu's clone read the Compendium's account of the Immortal Ancestor's ambitions, then encountered a message beginning with Zhang Yu's own name that he could not remember reading.
• Zhang Yu noticed that the time spent reading exceeded the time he remembered and sealed the Immortal Grotto-Heaven while searching for the cause of his lost memory.
• Zhang Yu found a countdown and sealed future information in a newly created Layer 13, concluding that his future self had sent a message through the Compendium before a world rollback.
• Zhang Yu reopened the Compendium and discovered that it could create genuine Chain Law Diagrams.

Zhang Yu investigated the Immortal Ancestor and considered the risks of using the Chain Law Compendium to create Chain Law Diagrams. After discovering that many existing diagrams had already been created by the book, he fused it into the Feather Scroll while weighing how to use its power.

• Yuan Sheng told Zhang Yu that the Ten Immortal Emperors had erased the Immortal Ancestor’s traces with Supreme Immortal Artifacts, but books preserved clues about him.
• Zhang Yu realized the Chain Law Compendium could create diagrams that might benefit cultivators broadly, though their effects could disrupt industries and provoke powerful enemies.
• Bai Gusheng guessed that Zhang Yu’s new book could create Chain Law Diagrams and invited him to ally with him in the competition to manage the Four Books after the Immortal Ancestor’s manifestation.
• Zhang Yu tested the Chain Law Compendium and found that every Chain Law Diagram he already possessed had been created before and could not be recreated.
• Zhang Yu weighed whether to create narrowly usable diagrams or ones that could spread widely, then merged the Chain Law Compendium into the Feather Scroll.

After learning that the Immortal Ancestor might appear in a little over a year, Zhang Yu warned Tai Yuebai and decided to publicize the Chain Law Compendium’s ability to create Chain Law Diagrams. He reported the book to the Wanfa Immortal Emperor and was summoned to Layer 33, while Bu Yingshu was left stunned by his audience with the Immortal Emperor.

• Zhang Yu studied the newly merged Chain Law Compendium, saw his Dao-seeking progress rise to 58%, and asked Bai Gusheng about the Immortal Ancestor’s strength and messages in books.
• After consulting Yuan Sheng, Zhang Yu told Tai Yuebai about the Immortal Ancestor’s possible revival in a year and asked him to contact Ying Xintian about warning Kunxu and sending messages through books.
• Tai Yuebai warned that the message might be a trap set by the Ten Immortal Emperors, but agreed that Ying Xintian still needed to be informed.
• Zhang Yu decided to reveal the Chain Law Compendium’s diagram-creation ability, informed the Evil Gods of his plan, and emailed the Wanfa Immortal Emperor to report the book.
• Bu Yingshu invited Zhang Yu to meet representatives from five Immortal Clans, but the Wanfa Immortal Emperor summoned him through a gate to Layer 33 before he could go.

Zhang Yu met Wanfa Immortal Emperor in the Sea of Ten Thousand Methods, where the Emperor argued that becoming the Endtime Immortal Emperor was the only way to save Kunxu. The Emperor rewarded Zhang Yu with powerful authority and cultivation benefits, then offered to explain how he could return to Earth if he helped him.

• Zhang Yu entered Layer 33 and learned from Jing Hui that the Sea of Ten Thousand Methods contained vast stores of cultivation methods generated by the Immortal Emperor's model.
• Wanfa Immortal Emperor appeared, warned Zhang Yu that an Immortal Emperor would consume Kunxu's resources, and claimed only an Endtime Immortal Emperor could save the world.
• Wanfa Immortal Emperor praised Zhang Yu for reporting the Chain Law Compendium and gave him authority over its Chain Law Diagram, a hundred-billion flying sword, and unrestricted access to Layer 33.
• Wanfa Immortal Emperor strengthened Zhang Yu through the Dharma Realm, granting him tenfold Body Tempering efficiency and an allowance of one billion mana units each month.
• Wanfa Immortal Emperor sent Zhang Yu away and promised to reveal how to return to Earth if Zhang Yu helped him become the Endtime Immortal Emperor.
• After Zhang Yu left, a heavily encrypted message from the future appeared before Wanfa Immortal Emperor, praising his peerless sword.

After Zhang Yu’s audience with the Wanfa Immortal Emperor, he and Tai Yuebai restored their encrypted memories and concluded they had avoided revealing their knowledge of the rollbacks. Zhang Yu then merged a Blade Arts Book into the Feather Scroll, which revealed a warning against trusting future information from outside the scroll.

• The Wanfa Immortal Emperor secretly watched Tai Yuebai’s memories, read the future information in his residence, and copied it before meeting Zhang Yu.
• The Wanfa Immortal Emperor hinted that Zhang Yu could return to Earth and gave him rewards, while Zhan Xian warned Zhang Yu not to trust him and the Sect Examination Clone welcomed his favor.
• After returning to the 16th Layer, Zhang Yu reunited with Tai Yuebai, confirmed that the Immortal Emperor had left no detectable surveillance, and restored his encrypted memories.
• Zhang Yu told Fu Ji and the other evil gods about his rewards, then had Fu Ji reassure Bu Yingshu and persuade the Immortal Clan representatives to support his book-collection plan.
• Bu Yingshu showed the representatives a video of Zhang Yu meeting the Immortal Emperor, and Bu Aixian sent Zhang Yu a Lower-Grade Blade Arts Book.
• Zhang Yu merged the Blade Arts Book into the Feather Scroll and found a message warning him not to believe future information from outside the Feather Scroll.

Zhang Yu read a warning from his future self on the Feather Scroll, then deliberately let the message and his memories vanish so he could deceive even himself. As he used his meeting with the Wanfa Immortal Emperor to secure support for construction, a riot over book collection erupted in the Lower Realm, and Zhang Yu prepared to intervene.

• Zhang Yu read that future information could mislead the Immortal Emperors, exploit their arrogance and greed, and that Ying Xintian was trustworthy; he chose not to preserve the message after meeting an Immortal Emperor.
• Zhang Yu lost the message and his memories, retaining only a sliver of excitement and a small sealed fragment of future information on the Feather Scroll.
• Gao Chongguang warned Zhang Yu that the Immortal Grotto-Heaven construction project was running short of funds, and Zhang Yu said the Immortal Emperor had told him that new policies and funding were coming.
• Yu Xinghan informed Zhang Yu that book collection had led to mass arrests and a riot on Layer 5, and Zhang Yu said he would go there to stop the crackdown.
• When Yu Xinghan questioned how Zhang Yu could enter the Lower Realm so quickly, Zhang Yu said he had contacted the Immortal Emperor.

Zhang Yu obtained an approved Lower Realm Pass through Jing Hui and prepared to travel amid a riot on the Fifth Layer. Encouraged by his conversation with Zhang Yu and the Immortal Emperor’s backing, Yu Xinghan resolved to intervene if the Orthodox Gods escalated the conflict.

• Yu Xinghan learned that Zhang Yu was communicating with the Wanfa Immortal Emperor and wondered if the Emperor might be watching him.
• The Wanfa Immortal Emperor directed Zhang Yu to report minor matters to Jing Hui, who sent him a preapproved Lower Realm Pass to complete.
• Zhang Yu filled out the pass and reflected on how the Immortal Emperor’s support had given him security and advantages.
• After Yu Xinghan ended his call with Zhang Yu, Divine Lord Tiansha asked what Zhang Yu had said, but Yu Xinghan only promised to stop a battle if the Orthodox Gods made their move.
• Yu Xinghan decided to take responsibility for the riot and told Divine Lord Tiansha not to become a Sect Affairs Officer if he feared doing so.

After the Myriad Laws Sect announced that Zhang Yu would create Chain Law Diagrams, cultivators and factions speculated about the enormous economic and political consequences. Zhang Yu drew the sect’s book owners to a meeting and left with their books by claiming the Immortal Emperor wanted to borrow them, leaving the owners wary and bewildered.

• Gao Chongguang read the Spirit Realm discussion about Chain Law Diagrams and realized their creation could bring authority and wealth to Zhang Yu and the Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
• Bu Yuangui explained to Bu Yingshu that Chain Law Diagrams could disrupt industries and Dao struggles, while Bai Gusheng suspected Zhang Yu had gained the ability from the book he had lost.
• Cang Juehuan and other book owners discussed how to profit from their books, then accepted Zhang Yu’s invitation to a meeting about creating Chain Law Diagrams.
• Zhang Yu required attendees to submit their books for inspection, and the owners handed over twenty-one books, including Cang Juehuan’s Great Sage Book.
• Zhang Yu carried all twenty-one books through a gateway to Layer 33 and returned without them, telling the attendees that those above wanted to borrow the books and that he would notify them when they were returned.

Zhang Yu used the Immortal Emperor’s apparent backing to collect books and privately entice cultivators into buying copyrights to methods he had stockpiled. After reaching full Dao-seeking progress in [Cosmic Dao Orthodoxy], he examined the Feather Scroll and uncovered accounts of ancient Demon Saints, which might describe history from before World Rollbacks.

• Cang Juehuan and Lian Zizi investigated Zhang Yu, concluded that resisting him was futile, and offered their books while trying to ingratiate themselves with him.
• Zhang Yu privately discussed possible Chain Law Diagram research with Cang Juehuan and Lian Zizi, prompting cultivators to inquire about buying copyrights to the methods he had stockpiled.
• Zhang Yu ended the meeting without giving Bu Yingshu the information she wanted and returned the two flying shuttles she had lent him.
• Zhang Yu sorted the twenty-one collected books and reached one hundred percent Dao-seeking progress in [Cosmic Dao Orthodoxy], gaining greater control over Kunxu’s spatial technology.
• Zhang Yu read the Feather Scroll’s newly persistent text, which described the world-altering deeds of successive Demon Saints, and considered whether it recorded history from before a World Rollback.

Zhang Yu studied the Great Sage Chapter and began spreading an independent spirit realm across his Immortal Grotto-Heaven while negotiating proposals for his next Chain Law Diagram. He uncovered more lost history about a Divine Dynasty erased by repeated world rollbacks, leaving him to suspect that someone had long been manipulating Kunxu’s course.

• Wild Ox, Zhan Xian, and Zhang Yu concluded that generation after generation of book holders had preserved histories erased by World Rollback, and they considered how long the rollback artifact had existed.
• Zhang Yu discovered that the Great Sage Chapter could create spirit realm avatars and a miniature spirit realm, then began using it to expand Fu Ji’s Dark Spirit Realm over his Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
• Zhang Yu instructed Gao Chongguang to sell marked plots in the Immortal Grotto-Heaven with 100-year usage rights and contractual construction requirements.
• Zhang Yu used his control of the Layer 33 gate to silence Dugu Ming’s admonition, then heard the hall master propose a Chain Law Diagram that would improve cultivators’ abilities in exchange for promotion slots and support.
• Lie Jinghong and other cultivators offered cultivation methods and political bargaining chips to influence Zhang Yu’s next Chain Law Diagram, while Zhan Xian and the Sect Examination Clone argued over its effects on lower cultivators.
• Zhang Yu read lost records describing the heavenly tribulation, karmic, and apotheosis Dao orthodoxies and a failed Divine Dynasty, and he suspected a hidden force had repeatedly redirected Kunxu’s history.

Zhang Yu examined the Feather Scroll’s Tribulation Chapter and weighed competing proposals for the Chain Law Diagrams, then sought the Wanfa Immortal Emperor’s guidance. The Ten Immortal Emperors each sent him a Basic Cultivation Method, making clear that they expected his diagrams to follow their choices.

• Zhang Yu discovered that the Tribulation Chapter could use lightning tribulations to temper his Dao Heart and help it keep pace with his rapidly growing magical power and physical strength.
• Fa Liuyuan proposed Chain Law Diagrams that would make cultivators grow into cities as they advanced, transforming Kunxu and reviving large-scale construction, while offering Zhang Yu political support.
• Su Xianchen asked Zhang Yu to include immortal energy cultivation methods in the diagrams and offered public sales and shared copyright in return.
• Zhang Yu asked his clones to report the proposals to the Wanfa Immortal Emperor, who replied with a Basic Cultivation Method.
• The Ten Immortal Emperors sent Zhang Yu one Basic Cultivation Method each, and Zhang Yu realized that he was expected to create the Chain Law Diagrams according to their selections.

Zhang Yu discovered that the Ten Immortal Emperors’ new Chain Law Diagram could strengthen heart aspiring to immortality and weaken the Feather Scroll’s connection to Chain Law orthodoxies, threatening the book and the Immortal Ancestor. As the emperors’ united pressure closed off Zhang Yu’s options, a lost-history message warned him that an earlier attempt to resist had failed, but new voices appeared offering help.

• Zhang Yu studied lost history showing how Ying Xintian united Kunxu, spread Chain Law Diagrams and Dao Seeds, and later suppressed the immortal Dao as ambition and conflict grew.
• Zhang Yu found that the Ten Immortal Emperors’ techniques formed the Immortal Emperor Successor Chain Law Diagram, which improved survival, learning, and resolve while potentially drawing Chain Law orthodoxy away from the book.
• Zhang Yu suspected the emperors intended to weaken the Immortal Ancestor and the Feather Scroll, while Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Pianpian did not answer and Tai Yuebai urged him to protect himself.
• Jing Hui pressed Zhang Yu to follow the emperors’ instructions, and Zhang Yu realized their unity left him with little room to resist.
• The Feather Scroll revealed a past attempt by Zhang Yu to alter the diagram with bloodline technology, which erased descendants’ bodies and failed to stop the emperors.
• As the past Zhang Yu’s message urged submission, new voices appeared in the prologue, promising to help him.

As World Rollback began, Ying Xintian, the Demon Saint, and Heavenly Virtue used the Feather Scroll to send Zhang Yu plans and techniques for opposing the Ten Immortal Emperors. Zhang Yu gained access to the Chain Law Diagram, advanced his preparations, and learned that the Bookholder Conference would precede the Immortal Ancestor’s revival.

• Ying Xintian detected World Rollback and left a message promising to help the person communicating through the book.
• The Demon Saint and Heavenly Virtue also wrote messages, advising Zhang Yu to use the Feather Scroll and gather four additional Dao orthodoxies to challenge the Ten Immortal Emperors.
• Zhang Yu learned that he could parasitize the Chain-Law Dao Orthodoxy and cultivate five great Dao orthodoxies, then practiced the Demon Saint’s Chain-Law Heart Sutra and raised his Dao-seeking progress to 45%.
• Lian Zizi and other cultivators discovered that Zhang Yu’s newly announced Chain Law Diagram did not include the cultivation methods they had bought from him, while Zhang Yu counted the proceeds from selling the copyrights.
• Zhang Yu continued cultivating and collecting books until September of the following year, when he received notice that the Bookholder Conference was starting and inferred that the Immortal Ancestor would revive the next month.

A year after Zhang Yu’s rapid cultivation and land-development success, he prepared for the Bookholder Conference as the Immortal Emperors and sects gathered strength for a looming conflict. Bai Zhenzhen feared the coming storm, while a mysterious man arrived in person to take responsibility from Tai Yuebai and Zhang Yu.

• Zhang Yu defeated Bu Yingshu in their martial spar, and Bu Yingshu asked her father Bu Yuangui how to regain Zhang Yu’s obedience; he advised her to flatter him.
• Liu Qianxian brought Zhang Yu a Lower-Grade Alchemy Book, which Zhang Yu found had failed before absorbing it into his Feather Scroll; he planned to parasitize more Dao Orthodoxies to preserve the Scroll’s functions.
• Ye Xingli established the Law Article “Revision Renewal,” giving Zhang Yu a way to require amendments to Law Articles, while Gao Chongguang expanded the Immortal Grotto-Heaven’s development zone.
• Bai Zhenzhen told Zhang Yu that the Flight Book belonged to a Heaven Sword Sect Bookholder and warned that the sects and Immortal Emperors were quietly preparing for a major battle; Zhang Yu insisted he would win the Bookholder Conference.
• On the 16th Layer of the Myriad Laws Sect, a man arrived to meet Tai Yuebai, thanked him and Zhang Yu, and said the Immortal Class would take over responsibility.

Su Lingyou helped Wang Guiren take over as Bookholder, while Zhang Yu learned that the conference would select a successor to inherit the Immortal Ancestor’s legacy. As the Bookholders gathered at the Immortal Ascension Platform and the conference began, Zhang Yu received a question asking whether he was willing to become the successor.

• Su Lingyou escorted Wang Guiren to meet the former Bookholder, who handed over the books and their records; Wang Guiren demonstrated that he could retrieve the books from the Lower Cultivators’ bodies through the Spirit Realm.
• Bai Gusheng investigated Wang Guiren, ranked the Bookholders, and raised Zhang Yu’s ranking after Zhang Yu refused to trade books.
• Zhang Yu prepared for the conference with 128 armed clones and raised his Creation Emperor Seed to level 9, then reported to the Wanfa Immortal Emperor.
• The Wanfa Immortal Emperor told Zhang Yu that the conference would select a successor to inherit the Immortal Ancestor’s legacy and promised rewards if Zhang Yu won; Zhang Yu suspected the victor would be consumed by an Immortal Emperor but resolved to compete.
• Zhang Yu arrived at the Immortal Ascension Platform, where Qian Airen and Wan Yaosheng promoted rival currencies as the other Bookholders gathered under the Ten Immortal Emperors’ attention.
• The Bookholder Conference began, and Zhang Yu felt the books draw together before a message asked whether he was willing to become the Immortal Ancestor’s successor.