Recaps

After centuries of cultivation, Zhang Yang opened the ascension path for ten first-generation disciples and warned them that the world could support only a few Heavenly Gods. He urged the fifteen foremost sword cultivators to focus on perfecting Sword Dao into a Law, leaving their breakthrough competition for later.

• Over five hundred years, the Heavenly Sword Clan’s Mahayana Stage ranks swelled, and the Heavenly Dao Maiden named He Yimou, Zhao Baiyi, Tao Yao, Qu Shang, and Li Guokui the Five Sages.
• Zhang Yang funded the expansion of the Hidden Sword Earth Vein and delayed opening the ascension path while his disciples continued strengthening their foundations.
• After mastering the twenty-seven-character divine restriction, Zhang Yang opened the ascension path and sent Jiang Rong, Wu County, Li Si, and seven others to the Boat of Death.
• Zhang Yang warned the fifteen assembled disciples that too many Heavenly Gods would draw attacks, destabilize their region, and force their civilization into exile.
• Zhang Yang asked the fifteen leading sword cultivators to set aside personal breakthroughs and perfect Sword Dao into a Law by the end of the third thousand year.

Zhang Yang’s core disciples committed to developing the Sword Dao Law and organized research teams to study its different aspects. As thousands of sword cultivators joined the effort and Zhang Yang supplied vast resources, the law advanced rapidly, while the Heavenly Dao Maiden strengthened the Heavenly Sword Clan’s control over its world.

• Qu Shang, Tao Yao, Jiang Rong, Wu County, and the other core disciples agreed to devote themselves to perfecting the Sword Dao Law, even if it meant sacrificing their own chances to become Heavenly Gods.
• Qu Shang divided the Sword Dao Law seed into seven research fields, and the disciples formed teams and received permission from Zhang Yang to recruit cultivators from below.
• The teams competed to recruit the first-generation core disciples, then brought nearly ten thousand Mahayana Stage sword cultivators aboard the Boat of Death within three days.
• Zhang Yang spent one hundred units of Ancient Law on research resources, while the Heavenly Dao Maiden exchanged them for Cosmic Law and prepared three hundred more Hidden Sword Earth Veins.
• The research teams rapidly expanded the Sword Dao Law seed, and Zhang Yang anticipated that their work could eventually produce powerful Law Heavenly Gods tied to the Heavenly Sword Clan.

Zhang Yang risked his True Spirit to uncover the secrets of the chain beneath the Boat of Death, then awoke five hundred years later in a body the Heavenly Dao Maiden had prepared to approach Innate Being status. He chose Longevity—Immortal Cultivation Ancient Law and fused with one unit almost instantly.

• Zhang Yang touched the chain beneath the Boat of Death and used his time digits to survive as its force crushed and absorbed his True Spirit, memorizing the chain’s secrets before escaping at the cost of an hour.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden sent Zhang Yang to reincarnate while he slept, and he awoke five hundred years later as a fourth-generation Heavenly Sword Clan disciple named Zhang Yang.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden explained that she had secretly tempered and protected his body until it became a Pseudo-Innate Being, though it would be polluted without her protection.
• Zhang Yang chose Longevity—Immortal Cultivation Ancient Law despite having only fifty units remaining.
• Zhang Yang connected his body to five Hidden Sword Earth Veins and fused with one unit of Ancient Law in a second.

After the five special Hidden Sword Earth Veins withdrew, Zhang Yang discovered the power of his half-step demigod body and learned how much the Heavenly Sword Clan had advanced. When his sealed true spirit revived, it revealed dangerous information that could materialize through thought, so Zhang Yang fled to the Boat of Death and resolved not to examine it.

• Zhang Yang demonstrated how his Six Imperial Divine Sword Art could form a temporary world, while Heavenly Dao Maiden explained the limits of his Immortal Cultivation Ancient Law of immortality.
• Heavenly Dao Maiden told Zhang Yang that the Heavenly Sword Clan had perfected the Sword Dao Law to two peaks, with many cultivators qualified to become Sword Dao Law Heavenly Gods.
• Zhang Yang sent Heavenly Dao Maiden away and secluded himself to revive his sealed true spirit.
• After the true spirit was unsealed, Zhang Yang returned to the Boat of Death and activated the Captain's Seal when he realized that thoughts about its information could materialize.
• Zhang Yang suspected that a prisoner from the ancient chains lurked within his true spirit and forbade himself from thinking about, reading, or examining the information.

Zhang Yang became trapped in a Dream Universe where each stray thought created another version of himself, then used their combined Soul Tremor to break free. He woke up less than half a day later, energetic but with his body still vulnerable.

• Zhang Yang found himself dreaming amid gray mist and transformed into a flower stamen surrounded by copies of himself.
• Zhang Yang realized that each thought manifested another Zhang Yang, causing the copies to multiply toward an overwhelming collapse of his true spirit.
• An unknown big shot tried to bargain with Zhang Yang and threatened to keep multiplying the copies inside its Dream Universe.
• Zhang Yang and all his copies unleashed Soul Tremor together, blasting open the Dream Universe and knocking Zhang Yang unconscious.
• Zhang Yang woke up less than half a day later, refreshed because his true spirit was immune to Soul Tremor.

After nine hundred years of collective work, the Heavenly Sword Clan completed Sword Dao Law 3.0, which fused with Zhang Yang’s world and produced nine divine swords and the Sword Dao Stele. Qu Shang and eleven other contributors became Law Demigods, and their strength triggered the world’s impending exile from the Land of Exile.

• The Heavenly Sword Clan’s disciples completed Sword Dao Law 3.0, and thirty-six thousand strands of Sword Rhyme descended as the law merged with the world.
• The Sword Dao Law created nine divine swords that became academies and a central Sword Dao Stele that bore the law’s power itself.
• Zhang Yang let Qu Shang, Tao Yao, and the other contributors descend to receive their rewards, and the law recognized twelve people with Sword Rhyme staircases.
• The Sword Dao Stele gave Qu Shang and the other eleven Law Demigod power, while seventy-two more disciples received the strength of Law Mahayana.
• Zhang Yang and the Heavenly Dao Maiden discovered that the twelve Law Demigods had sharply shortened the world’s exile buffer, so Zhang Yang named them the Twelve Sword Gods Protectors and titled the seventy-two others the Seventy-Two Sword Immortals of the Protectors.

Zhang Yang gathered the Heavenly Sword Clan’s forces to prepare for their world’s exile from the Eight Desolations: Land of Exile in two months. He learned how their defenses and armies could withstand an uncertain enemy, but the destination and dangers remained unknown.

• Zhang Yang told the clan’s assembled forces that a calamity would arrive when their world was exiled, while concealing the full truth from those outside the meeting hall.
• Zhang Yang explained that the world could not board the Ferrying-World Boat after fusing with the Sword Dao Law and that they would have to prepare for random exile.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden reported the world’s population, spiritual reserves, and nine-layer barrier, then warned that the barrier alone could not withstand a true invasion.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden identified high-end combat, field warfare, and defenses against trickery as the three keys to survival.
• Wu County described the clan’s field forces, thousands of Sword Arrays, mobility and stored Sword Qi, and three Divine Seal formations.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden explained how the nine divine-sword mountains could teleport troops and unleash a devastating Sword Qi Storm if the barrier fell, leaving Zhang Yang and the others uncertain about the enemies awaiting them.

After Eight Desolations: Land of Exile randomly ejected Zhang Yang’s world, Zhang Yang’s forces invaded the neighboring world to secure a foothold. They broke through its Heavenly Dao Barrier and began devouring it before the enemy’s remaining Heavenly Gods could respond.

• The exile ended after three days of catastrophic changes, and Zhang Yang’s forces found a neighboring world pressing against their Heavenly Dao Barrier.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden reported that the neighboring world had twelve barrier layers, and Zhang Yang ordered the third plan into action.
• The Butcher’s True Martial Assault Breaker Camp fired seven waves of True Martial Divine Seals, blasting holes through all seven remaining layers of the enemy barrier.
• Qu Shang, Tao Yao, and the other Law Demigods charged through the breach and killed an ordinary Heavenly God, while Zhang Yang’s assault formations poured into the enemy world.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden pressed Zhang Yang’s world forward to devour the enemy’s barrier as the six remaining Heavenly Gods hurried toward the invasion.

Zhang Yang's forces held the breach in the Heavenly Dao Barrier against a furious Law Heavenly God, while their sword cultivators' Chaos Divine Seals kept the enemy from sealing it. Zhang Yang ordered the Heavenly Dao Maiden to spend their reserves accelerating the merger of the two worlds, strengthening their Law Demigods and giving their side a decisive advantage.

• A distant Law Heavenly God unleashed law storms that killed everyone in the affected area except the enemy Heavenly Gods and Zhang Yang's twelve Law Demigods, while the Mahayana sword cultivators escaped without casualties.
• The Law Heavenly God's avatar attacked the breach, but waves of Chaos Divine Seals kept it sealed until Qu Shang and seven other Law Demigods intercepted the true body.
• Zhang Yang relied on Qu Shang's group to withstand the enemy and ordered the Heavenly Dao Maiden to devour the opposing barrier's power, despite the risks of committing their resources.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden spent nearly all the Hidden Sword Earth Veins and the Sword Dao Celestial Vein to accelerate the barrier's fusion and support the twelve Law Demigods.
• The two worlds began merging, giving Zhang Yang's side overwhelming support from the Sword Dao Law and bringing the worlds together as one.

Zhang Yang’s forces seized a continent and used advanced sword formations to devastate an opposing army, but Heavenly Dao Maiden was nearly assimilated by the enemy’s civilization assets. Zhang Yang intervened with Soul Tremors, though the chapter ended with her connection suddenly cut off.

• Heavenly Dao Maiden’s Hidden Sword Earth Veins seized and sealed a continent while Wood Demon legions invaded the opposing world.
• Zhang Yang’s forces established defensive formations and launched High-Pressure Sword Qi shells, killing or wounding more than half of several million demigod soldiers.
• Three opposing Heavenly Gods retreated and began preparing a defensive line, forcing Zhang Yang’s side to consolidate its territory.
• Heavenly Dao Maiden told Zhang Yang that the opposing Heavenly Dao had lured her into absorbing civilization assets and that she was close to being assimilated.
• Zhang Yang unleashed forty Soul Tremors through his Dao Ancestor connection, then discovered that Heavenly Dao Maiden had been disconnected.

After the Heavenly Dao Maiden went offline, Zhang Yang took over battlefield coordination and devoured the enemy's Heavenly Dao Barrier, forcing the Law Heavenly God and opposing forces to retreat. The Heavenly Dao Maiden returned and resumed control as the enemy requested peace negotiations, despite Zhang Yang expecting the war to resume.

• When the Heavenly Dao Maiden became unavailable, Zhang Yang assumed control of the Heavenly Dao and supplied the front-line troops with battlefield intelligence while preparing defenses.
• Zhang Yang monitored Qu Shang and the other eleven Law Demigods and continued devouring the opposing Heavenly Dao Barrier.
• Zhang Yang's assault forced the enemy's Law Heavenly God to withdraw, and the opposing Heavenly Dao retreated after Zhang Yang struck it with thirty Soul Tremors.
• Zhang Yang ordered a general withdrawal to strengthen defenses as both sides paused fighting and he deciphered the enemy's warning.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden returned and took back control, then told Zhang Yang that the opposing Heavenly Dao had requested peace negotiations.

After learning that his civilization had been randomly exiled into a Civilization Arena, Zhang Yang assessed his resources and ordered stronger defenses before agreeing to negotiate with the opposing Heavenly Dao. He prepared to hear what the other side would offer, while planning to make his civilization ready for future invasions.

• The Heavenly Dao Maiden revealed that the opposing civilization had also been randomly exiled from the Eight Desolations: Land of Exile, prompting Zhang Yang to review the rules he had purchased.
• A remnant consciousness sealed within the Death Chain mocked Zhang Yang for entering the Civilization Arena, and Zhang Yang silenced it with a Soul Tremor.
• Zhang Yang asked the Heavenly Dao Maiden to calculate their gains, and she reported that their assets had doubled and explained the defensive and civilizational benefits of expanding the Heavenly Dao Barrier.
• Zhang Yang ordered the Heavenly Dao Barrier increased to twenty-four layers, spending most of the battle’s spoils on outer defenses.
• Zhang Yang reviewed new resources and upgrades, including additional Heavenly Meridians, expanded legions, a tenth divine sword, and plans to nurture more Mahayana sword cultivators.
• Zhang Yang agreed to begin peace negotiations and wondered what bargaining chip the opposing side would offer.

Zhang Yang negotiated the sale of the True Martial Divine Seal to the Xing Clan for eighteen million units of Cosmic Law, while preparing for possible conspiracies. After sixteen successful payments, the Xing Clan's reinforcements arrived and raised a war warning.

• The Xing Clan offered Cosmic Law and intelligence to buy the True Martial Divine Seal, and Zhang Yang negotiated the price up to eighteen million units.
• Zhang Yang refused to send a disciple or accept the Xing Clan's representative, and the sides agreed to exchange the seal's data in eighteen installments.
• Zhang Yang consulted Qu Shang, who urged caution and said the twelve fighters had a strong chance of killing the enemy Law Heavenly God.
• The Xing Clan paid for sixteen installments of genuine True Martial Divine Seal data within three days.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden warned Zhang Yang that a force of Xing Clan reinforcements had arrived.

Zhang Yang prepared for the Xing Clan’s sudden, overwhelming assault, ordering defenses and planning to cripple Nine Punishments while conserving his trump cards. As attacks probed the Heavenly Dao Barrier, he authorized Qiao Mu to sortie and discovered the unruly sword cultivator could conceal himself in an almost imperceptible wisp of sword-light.

• The Xing Clan’s reinforcements arrived and launched an all-out attack, prompting blood-red warnings of Heavenly Gods, war constructs, Ancient Law, and possible Ancient God intervention.
• Zhang Yang agreed to spend five hundred units of Ancient Law on an interception network and ordered Qu Shang to heavily injure Nine Punishments, while warning that the enemy might be baiting out their trump cards.
• Zhang Yang ordered the Butcher’s True Martial Assault Breaker Camp to stand by inside the Boat of Death as his forces readied their layered Heavenly Dao Barrier and Chaos Divine Interdictions.
• Enemy attacks damaged the outer layers of the Heavenly Dao Barrier, and Zhang Yang granted Qiao Mu permission to attack freely while prioritizing his safety.
• Zhang Yang reviewed Qiao Mu’s record as a talented but unruly sword cultivator who had killed one hundred eighty-seven enemy demigods alone in the previous battle.
• Qiao Mu vanished into a tiny, faint wisp of sword-light, surprising Zhang Yang with his stealth technique.

Zhang Yang learned that Qiao Mu had secretly grown powerful enough to be considered for the thirteenth Sword Dao Law Demigod, then traced Qiao Mu’s life and discovered a link to his cousin Mu Shaoan. He concluded that Mu Shaoan had reached the Fourth Sequence and died there, leaving a remnant soul that reincarnated as Qiao Mu.

• Zhang Yang questioned the Heavenly Dao Maiden about Qiao Mu passing through the Heavenly Dao Barriers, and she explained that Qiao Mu’s concealment let him evade interception while he hunted Xing Clan soldiers.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden revealed Qiao Mu’s extraordinary cultivation across five paths and said he might qualify as the thirteenth Sword Dao Law Demigod.
• Zhang Yang used Dao Ancestor Authority to replay Qiao Mu’s life and found no evidence that he was a transmigrator or reincarnated mighty figure.
• Zhang Yang discovered that Qiao Mu’s parents were George and Mary, people he had brought from the Pendor World, and traced Qiao Mu’s origins to a piece of Mu Shaoan’s rib bone.
• Zhang Yang recognized the rib bone and concluded that Mu Shaoan had died in the Fourth Sequence, with his remnant soul reincarnating as Qiao Mu.

Zhang Yang's side used the Heavenly Dao Barrier to absorb the Xing Clan's opening assault and launch a devastating counterattack, crippling a Law Heavenly God and killing over ten million soldiers. The Xing Clan allied army retreated one hundred thousand kilometers, giving Zhang Yang's side precious time to prepare.

• The Xing Clan allied army concentrated its fire, destroying the Heavenly Dao Barrier's twenty-ninth and twenty-eighth layers, while the twenty-seventh layer absorbed and processed the chaotic Laws.
• Zhang Yang's side launched five hundred thousand High-Pressure Sword Qi shells into the enemy's formation, wiping out ten million demigod-level soldiers.
• Qiao Mu slipped behind enemy lines while Zhang Yang tracked his movements.
• Qu Shang and eleven Law Demigods crippled the Xing Clan's Law Heavenly God, Nine Punishments, before the other enemy Heavenly God could intervene.
• Fifty thousand Mahayana sword cultivators formed the Six Imperial Sword Array, carved through enemy ranks, and withdrew behind their Heavenly Dao Barrier.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden repaired the two damaged barrier layers, and the Xing Clan allied army retreated one hundred thousand kilometers.

Zhang Yang established the Investiture of the Gods List to distribute shares and lifespan benefits in the World after it secured a foothold in the regional dimension. The first recipients accepted their positions, and Zhang Yang left the remaining lists open for future disciples and those who served the World.

• Zhang Yang gathered the Heavenly Dao Maiden, Qu Shang, and the other leaders to begin expanding the World’s circle of beneficiaries.
• The Heavenly Dao Maiden and the cultivators presented their recommended disciples for the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Zhang Yang fused the Brick Village Building Order with the Heavenly Sword Clan’s gates, summoning the divine list and bringing back Mu Yizhuo.
• Zhang Yang placed Mu Yizhuo first on the Earth List, awarding him 0.09% of the World’s shares and ten thousand years of lifespan.
• Qu Shang and the other eleven Law Demigods accepted their investments and received positions on the Heaven List with shares and additional lifespan.
• Zhang Yang reserved positions on the Saint, Earth, and Human Lists for future contributors and disciples.

After being deified, Zhang Yang remained wary of the Xing Clan coalition army and the unknown threat behind its retreat. He entered the World Tree’s hidden dream world to cultivate another refuge and prepare for dangers beyond the current war.

• Zhang Yang rejected using the Boat of Death for reconnaissance, preserving it as a last resort and keeping its fourth-stage breakthrough secret from the enemy.
• Zhang Yang told the Heavenly Dao Maiden to watch Qiao Mu and manage affairs while he went into seclusion.
• Zhang Yang entered the World Tree’s core world, which existed in the Dream Dimension and had grown into a realm comparable in size to the Law World.
• Zhang Yang reflected that the dream world could repel curses and nightmares, shelter people during a retreat, and support the growth of a dream spirit army.

Zhang Yang explained how dreams and the Dream Law worked, then used his Dream Projection incarnation to inspect his fortress and prepare to strengthen it. He rallied his Royal Guard and set out to explore the dangers of the Dream Dimension.

• Zhang Yang explained that impure six roots helped create varied dreams and described the Dream Dimension's place within the Six Great Sequences.
• Zhang Yang recalled escaping the Mechanical Zombies' Dream Anchor Point with a Soul Tremor and said a strong dream kingdom could prevent future attacks.
• Zhang Yang visited his Dream Fortress and took control of the Dream Projection he had spent nine hundred years refining.
• Zhang Yang experienced the Dream Projection's vivid senses while his original body remained a tree stump in the fortress.
• Zhang Yang rallied three hundred Royal Guard members and prepared to explore the Dream Dimension's Dream Ruins, Dream Deformed Monsters, and Wandering Dreams.

Zhang Yang strengthened his Dream Projection over ten years and prepared to exploit its new abilities, while the Xing Clan coalition’s repeated assaults on the Heavenly Dao Barrier failed. After Qiao Mu returned, he warned Zhang Yang that the coalition was using the attacks as a smokescreen for an assault on another target.

• Zhang Yang used Cinder Essence to break through, materialize his Dream Projection into a physical body, and create a Nightmare Pouch with a Dream Weapon.
• Zhang Yang spent ten years leveling his Dream Sub-Account until he had materialized five organs that granted him five dream abilities.
• The Xing Clan coalition attacked twice more, using Time Scraps and Ancient Law Spears, but the Heavenly Dao Barrier and Zhang Yang’s defenses prevented a breach.
• Qiao Mu returned and told Zhang Yang that the Xing Clan coalition had accepted its failed attacks as a temporary reality and planned to strike another target.

Qiao Mu revealed that the Xing Clan had found a seemingly endless wall and was preparing to breach it, prompting Zhang Yang to explain the Ancient God's Game and why he had traded away the True Martial Divine Seal. After learning the wall was a safe-zone barrier with specific conditions for opening, Zhang Yang planned to prepare his civilization for the next attack and passed out from repeated Soul Tremors.

• Qiao Mu reported that the Xing Clan's true army was preparing to break through a wall he had found at the edge of their territory.
• Zhang Yang described the Ancient God's Game, in which civilizations competed inside safe zones, and said the Xing Clan would eventually regret trading for the True Martial Divine Seal.
• Zhang Yang sent the meeting participants away, and Heavenly Dao Maiden, Qu Shang, and Tao Yao shifted their plans from offense to defense and resource stockpiling.
• Zhang Yang increased his daily Soul Tremors to nine and learned that the wall was a Ring Barrier that could be opened directly or through indirect conditions.
• Zhang Yang concluded that the Xing Clan had acted too early and planned to reclaim investments, move resources beyond the game's rules, and prepare for a future attack.
• Zhang Yang considered raising a Dream Army to challenge the game's rules, then used a Soul Tremor to suppress the thought and lost consciousness.

Zhang Yang formed an Anti-Curse System task force, but its members mostly fled after Qiao Mu explained how curses could use hidden mediums. Qiao Mu’s silence confirmed Zhang Yang’s suspicion that he had survived a Third Generation Insecticide experiment in the Fifth Sequence, and Zhang Yang sent him to the Boat of Death for protection.

• Zhang Yang established a Heavenly Dao Purification task force and assembled an Anti-Curse System task force with selected cultivators.
• Li Si, Guan Shan, the five Law Mahayana cultivators, and hundreds of recruited cultivators left the Anti-Curse System task force, leaving Qiao Mu and two second-generation disciples.
• Qiao Mu explained how curses varied by the caster’s cultivation and could draw on mediums or the power of Heaven and Earth.
• Zhang Yang reasoned that curses could exploit the River of Time and a registered identity, making an Anti-Curse System difficult to create.
• Zhang Yang deduced that Qiao Mu had survived a Third Generation Insecticide experiment that had targeted the Fifth Sequence, and Qiao Mu silently confirmed his suspicion.
• Zhang Yang sent Qiao Mu to the Boat of Death, where its isolation could help hide him from the insecticide’s master.

Zhang Yang secretly made Qiao Mu his pathfinder against the Third Generation Insecticide, then launched a brutal, world-spanning purification campaign with Soul Tremor and Heavenly Tribulation. After three years of devastation, he asked Qiao Mu about the curse’s threat and learned his methods could not improve their purification level.

• Zhang Yang placed Qiao Mu aboard the Boat of Death, gave him the Death Chain, and treated him as a source of intelligence about the Third Generation Insecticide.
• Zhang Yang disbanded his anti-curse research group and began investigating alone beneath the Sword Dao Law Stele.
• Zhang Yang evacuated the Heavenly Sword Clan’s mountain gate, then used externalized Soul Tremor and Heavenly Tribulation to destroy it and lower its risk of curse contamination.
• Zhang Yang spent three years purifying the world, killing more than a million mortals and imprisoning tens of thousands of suspected contaminated beings despite widespread anger.
• Zhang Yang asked Qiao Mu how much curse contamination their purification could withstand, and Qiao Mu said Zhang Yang’s crude methods could not raise their purification level.

Zhang Yang decided to remove the Heavenly Dao Maiden’s Heavenly Dao authority to protect his world from the Third Generation Insecticide, arranging to marry her in three hundred years. The Heavenly Sword Clan would prepare for the transfer of the world’s responsibilities to the gods on the Divine Rankings while the wall kept the Xing Clan isolated.

• Qu Shang reported that the wall separating Zhang Yang’s territory from the Xing Clan’s contained decipherable Dao runes and likely formed part of a layered structure.
• Qu Shang estimated that the Heavenly Sword Clan could decipher the wall within half a year to ten years, but recommended waiting five thousand years to build up its strength, and Zhang Yang agreed.
• Zhang Yang announced that he would marry the Heavenly Dao Maiden in three hundred years, prompting Tao Yao to question his earlier plan to make her the incarnation of the Ancient Law.
• Zhang Yang recalled his younger cousin’s advice and concluded that anthropomorphizing the Heavenly Dao Maiden would remove the Heavenly Dao as a vulnerable carrier for the Third Generation Insecticide.
• Zhang Yang ordered his followers to prepare for the Heavenly Dao’s disappearance and transfer its responsibilities to the gods granted titles on the Divine Rankings.

The Heavenly Sword Clan’s core disciples planned how to replace the Heavenly Dao’s role after Zhang Yang sidelined the Heavenly Dao Junior Mistress. They established nine halls to divide her former authorities and began a three-hundred-year trial period to prove the system could work.

• Tao Yao stopped the disciples’ gossip, and Jiang Rong explained that Zhang Yang suspected a fatal danger tied to the Heavenly Dao Junior Mistress and wanted them to take over the Heavenly Dao’s duties.
• Qu Shang proposed expanding the elders’ authority and creating halls to manage heavenly mechanisms, earth veins, and merit, while Tao Yao and Li Guokui proposed dividing and strengthening those responsibilities further.
• Wu County and He Yimou took charge of the Patrol Hall and Punishment Hall, while Qu Shang, Tao Yao, Jiang Rong, and Li Guokui claimed the Dao Rhyme, Heavenly Mechanism, Fortune, and Tianshu Halls.
• The disciples assigned leaders to the remaining halls, completing the nine-hall structure and distributing most of the Heavenly Dao Maiden’s authority.
• The nine halls began recruiting personnel and drafting plans for their three-hundred-year trial operation.