Chapter Summaries

Wu Man told Chu Xinghe that the Heart-Devouring Evil Lord planned to use the Evil God's Fang to steal spiritual power from Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spirit treasures, and Chu Xinghe eagerly urged him to help Zang Ling carry it out. Zang Ling accepted Wu Man as an ally and began the theft, unaware that a hidden watcher had seen Wu Man take ten spirit treasures from the treasury.

• Wu Man reported the Evil Shadow Continent’s plan to Chu Xinghe, who told him to inform Zang Ling and follow the plan.
• Wu Man gave Zang Ling the secret art and the Heart-Devouring Evil Lord’s plans, then convinced him that they both served the Evil Shadow Continent.
• Zang Ling explained that the Heart-Devouring Power could make drained spirit treasures appear stronger by burning away their lifespans.
• Wu Man took ten spirit treasures from the treasury under cover of night and brought them to Zang Ling.
• A dark figure watched Wu Man and became furious that he had taken only ten spirit treasures at a time.

Chu Xinghe tried to make Wu Man deliver more spirit treasures to Zang Ling by changing the guards and imposing a new treasury rule. Wu Man brought five cartloads, while Ma Liang and the Civil Engineering Department secretly watched, and Zang Ling explained how he planned to hide the treasures’ stolen power.

• Wu Man took ten spirit treasures from the treasury and gave them to Zang Ling, prompting Ma Liang to report the transfer to Chu Xinghe.
• Chu Xinghe admitted he had arranged the delivery and ordered Ma Liang to withdraw the guards around Zang Ling.
• Wu Man gradually increased his deliveries to twelve and then twenty spirit treasures, but Chu Xinghe remained frustrated that he was taking so few.
• Chu Xinghe brought the Civil Engineering Department disciples back to guard the treasury and established a rule requiring disciples to take at least five cartloads of spirit treasures.
• Wu Man left with five cartloads, making Chu Xinghe’s Misfortune Compass spin faster as Ma Liang and the Civil Engineering Department secretly observed.
• Zang Ling told Wu Man that the Evil God's Fang consumed the spirit treasures’ usable lifespans while making the treasures appear stronger, so their plan would go unnoticed.

Black Shadow Number One through Number Nine secretly investigated the enhanced spirit treasures in the Vast Heaven Holy Land treasury, while the Evil Lords celebrated the spiritual power Zang Ling had siphoned to the Evil Shadow Continent. The Evil Lords divided the power and pressed Zang Ling and Wu Man to send more, as Chu Xinghe insisted he was even more eager than they were.

• Black Shadow Number One sensed something was wrong with the enhanced spirit treasures, and Black Shadow Number Two and Black Shadow Number Three celebrated after discovering the blueprints meant a holiday.
• Black Shadow Number Four brought Black Shadow Number Five to the treasury and reported recent events, while Black Shadow Number Six and Black Shadow Number Seven confirmed from the Evil God's Fang manual that the apparent enhancement was consuming the treasures' lifespans.
• Black Shadow Number Eight and Black Shadow Number Nine visited the treasury, then Number Nine headed toward the outer sect with a spiked club.
• The Heart-Devouring Evil Lord boasted that Zang Ling had stayed loyal after the Evil God's Fang sent a vast sphere of spiritual power to the Evil Shadow Continent, where the White Spirit Evil Lord demonstrated that it could strengthen treasures and people.
• The seven Evil Lords argued over the sphere and agreed that the Heart-Devouring, Witch Curse, and White Spirit divisions would each receive twenty percent, with the other four divisions sharing the rest.
• The Witch Curse Evil Lord ordered Wu Man to accelerate the siphoning, and Chu Xinghe said he was even more eager for spiritual power than the Evil Lords.

Wu Man and the Civil Engineering Department supplied Zang Ling with Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spirit treasures, and he devoured their spiritual power to fuel Evil Shadow Continent’s rapid cultivation. When the seven Evil Lords pushed him to process even more treasures, the overfilled ball of power above the Heart-Devouring Evil Spirits split and triggered a vast backlash.

• Huang Ritian urged Wu Man to haul spirit treasures from the vaults in huge quantities, claiming Chu Xinghe had ordered it, and Zang Ling worked day and night to devour them.
• The growing ball of spiritual power let Evil Shadow Continent’s cultivators raise their strength, and the seven Evil Lords demanded that Wu Man make Zang Ling devour even faster.
• Chu Xinghe insisted that Wu Man continue, while the Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable arranged for the Civil Engineering Department to take top-grade spirit treasures from Ouyang Ming’s Artifact Refining Palace.
• Zang Ling kept devouring the treasures, and the ball grew faster than Evil Shadow Continent’s cultivators could absorb its power.
• The ball reached the Evil God’s Fang’s limit and split, unleashing a backlash that began draining spiritual power from everyone who had absorbed it.

The spiritual power ball ran wild in the Heart-Devouring Evil Spirits headquarters, draining the power of Evil Spirits who tried to return what they had absorbed before heading back through the Evil God's Fang passage. The Evil Lords blamed Zang Ling for the disaster, while the ball arrived at the Vast Heaven Holy Land through his Evil God's Fang.

• The out-of-control ball made absorbed spiritual power rampage inside the Evil Spirits, and White Spirit Evil Lord ordered them to release it rather than suppress it.
• The ball took back both its own power and some of the cultivators’ spiritual power, causing many Evil Spirits to lose cultivation ranks as it grew enormous.
• White Spirit Evil Lord urged the six other Evil Lords to stop the ball, but all seven refused to move first, allowing it to return through the passage to the Three Continents.
• White Spirit Evil Lord accused Heart-Devouring Evil Lord of letting Zang Ling betray them, and Heart-Devouring Evil Lord expelled Zang Ling and declared that the division would hunt him down.
• The spiritual power ball passed through Zang Ling’s Evil God's Fang passage and arrived at the Vast Heaven Holy Land.

Zang Ling’s out-of-control Evil God's Fang caused a spiritual power storm above the Vast Heaven Holy Land, but the Great Sage and the Dark Moon Clan helped calm it and return its power to the treasures. The treasures were strengthened by spiritual power taken from the Evil Shadow Continent, and Chu Xinghe remained convinced the Misfortune Compass meant the advantage was still his.

• Zang Ling’s Evil God's Fang opened a passage and unleashed an overwhelming spiritual power storm over the Vast Heaven Holy Land.
• Gu Mingchao and the elders prepared to stop the storm, but the Great Sage led the Dark Moon Clan into it to calm the raging spiritual power.
• Gu Mingchao, the First Elder, and the others separated the calmed power, which returned to the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spiritual treasures and strengthened them.
• The Little Bear King held back crowds outside as countless treasures emitted pillars of spiritual light.
• Zang Ling realized the Evil God's Fang had exceeded its limit and backlashed, while Wu Man and the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s elders credited Xinghe with planning the outcome.
• Chu Xinghe noticed the Misfortune Compass was still turning and speeding up, so he concluded that the advantage remained his.

After the Evil God's Fang upgraded the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spirit treasures, the treasures became unusable, and Chu Xinghe claimed he could solve the problem while keeping the Concept Gods from intervening. Zang Ling was taken away by Ouyang Ling, while Huang Ritian and the Civil Engineering Department celebrated an approaching vacation.

• Ouyang Ming discovered that the upgraded spirit treasures could no longer be used, and Elder He attributed the problem to abnormal spiritual power disrupting their interiors.
• Ouyang Ming said the treasures would have to be reforged, but the resources and time required made the task impractical.
• When the Grand Elder asked whether he had a solution, Chu Xinghe claimed his Star Divination Art showed the answer lay outside the Vast Heaven Holy Land and promised to resolve it himself.
• The Grand Elder accepted Chu Xinghe’s claim, and the Concept Gods agreed to wait rather than investigate the problem.
• Zang Ling realized Wu Man had defected, and the Grand Elder ordered Ouyang Ling to take him away.
• Huang Ritian and the Civil Engineering Department celebrated that they would soon get a vacation.

Chu Xinghe sealed away Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spirit treasures and insisted he had a solution, while factions across the Three Continents doubted the treasures could be restored without reforging. On the Evil Shadow Continent, the Heart-Devouring Evil Lord agreed to compensate the other Evil Lords, then resolved to rely on Zang Ling to recover the division’s losses.

• Chu Xinghe ordered the Civil Engineering Department to seal every spirit treasure, and Huang Ritian promised that no one would reach the vault.
• News spread that Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spirit treasures had stopped working, and faction leaders and artifact refiners doubted Chu Xinghe’s claim that he could repair them without reforging.
• Zheng Yu rejected the claim that Chu Xinghe had invented his solution to escape punishment, arguing that Senior Brother Xinghe would not be punished for the damage.
• The six Evil Lords confronted the Heart-Devouring Evil Lord over the cultivation losses caused by Zang Ling’s accelerated absorption plan.
• The Heart-Devouring Evil Lord negotiated compensation up to thirty percent, then realized the other divisions intended to use the resources for their favored geniuses.
• The Heart-Devouring Evil Lord recalled that Zang Ling was alive in Vast Heaven Holy Land and decided Zang Ling would help the division recover its losses.

Ouyang Ling turned Zang Ling into a woman, while Chu Xinghe worried that the Three Continents’ artifact refiners might repair the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spirit treasures. In Tan City, blind former prodigy Mu Qingyan learned that her father had found her a marriage match.

• Zang Ling emerged from Ouyang Ling’s game room as a woman, and Ouyang Ling told the Dark Moon Clan she had restored Zang Ling’s original gender.
• Artifact-refining forces across the Three Continents gathered to seek a way to repair the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spirit treasures, leaving Chu Xinghe anxious about their efforts.
• Mu Qingyan’s past was recounted: she had been a prodigy until an accident killed her grandfather and left her blind at twelve.
• Mu Chengkun visited Mu Qingyan and told her he had found her a marriage match.

Mu Qingyan learned that her father had arranged for her to marry the much older Master Yan Hua, but she refused to accept the match and sent Huan'er to find Ouyang Ming. As Huan'er hurried to the Vast Heaven Holy Land with Ouyang Ming’s hammer, Mu Qingyan recalled their twenty-year promise and waited for him to return.

• Mu Chengkun told Mu Qingyan that she would marry Master Yan Hua on the fifth day of the next month to benefit the Mu Clan.
• Mu Qingyan told Huan'er she would find someone better than Master Yan Hua and showed her the hammer Ouyang Ming had made.
• Mu Qingyan sent Huan'er to the Vast Heaven Holy Land to tell Ouyang Ming she could not wait twenty years and would marry Yan Hua if he did not come soon.
• Huan'er recognized Ouyang Ming’s name on the hammer and rushed to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, realizing his status could protect Mu Qingyan from the marriage.
• Mu Qingyan remembered how she had met Ouyang Ming after becoming blind, taught him artifact-refining techniques, and accepted his promise to return in twenty years with betrothal gifts.

Tan City prepared for Mu Qingyan’s marriage to Master Yan Hua, while Mu Qinglian resented her sister and dreamed of becoming a great artifact refiner. Mu Qingyan said she would not marry Master Yan Hua, and Huan'er arrived at the Haotian Mountain Range carrying her young lady’s hammer to seek help from Ouyang Ming.

• People across Tan City debated the Mu Clan’s decision to marry Mu Qingyan to Master Yan Hua in exchange for his help nurturing clan disciples.
• Mu Qinglian mocked Mu Qingyan and revealed her jealousy, but Mu Qingyan advised her to rely on herself and learn the Mu Clan’s artifact refining techniques.
• Mu Qingyan told Mu Qinglian she would not marry Master Yan Hua, and Mu Qinglian angrily insisted the marriage could not be stopped.
• The Mu Clan celebrated Master Yan Hua’s betrothal gifts and wanted to send Mu Qingyan to him before the wedding date.
• Huan'er reached the Haotian Mountain Range with Mu Qingyan’s little hammer, hoping Ouyang Ming would honor his promise and change her young lady’s fate.

Huan'er explored Haotian City and was astonished by its immense wealth and strict rules, which kept its residents honest and made the city’s lost-and-found full of valuable treasures. After learning she had missed the time to submit a calling card to Vast Heaven Holy Land, she tried to find a place to stay but worried she could not afford one.

• Huan'er compared Haotian City with Tan City and learned that buying a residence required both enormous wealth and cultivation above the Martial Emperor realm.
• A local man explained that Vast Heaven Holy Land enforced strict rules against theft, and Huan'er saw that shops and homes had no guards and doors were left open.
• Huan'er followed a Rogue Cultivator to the lost and found, where people searched among countless spirit treasures without touching anything that did not belong to them.
• A young woman told Huan'er that thieves were caught and killed, and Huan'er realized she had lost face by doubting the city's honesty.
• Huan'er learned she had missed the morning deadline to submit a calling card at Vast Heaven Holy Land and decided to wait until the next day.
• Huan'er worried that her remaining money would not cover an inn in Haotian City, and as she considered sleeping in an alley, she saw something that left her dumbfounded.

Huan'er discovered that Haotian City’s restaurants offered surprisingly affordable prices and generous hospitality, then sought out Ouyang Ming on her young lady’s behalf. The chapter ended with the innkeeper recognizing the little hammer Huan'er carried as a mysterious Ouyang Hammer that drew a crowd.

• Huan'er checked the Vast Heaven Restaurant’s prices and learned that first-time guests received a free night and meals, with no hidden charges.
• The innkeeper explained that the Vast Heaven Holy Land kept prices fair across Haotian City and that Chu Xinghe had insisted the restaurant welcome struggling visitors.
• After comparing prices around the city, Huan'er stayed at the Vast Heaven Restaurant and asked how she could find Ouyang Ming.
• Huan'er gave the innkeeper the little hammer and explained that her young lady had sent it with a message for Ouyang Ming.
• The innkeeper recognized the hammer as an Ouyang Hammer, and the crowd noticed that it bore the characters “Ouyang” rather than the usual “Ming.”

The chapter explained how Ouyang Ming’s once-mocked Ouyang Hammer became a coveted token guaranteeing its holder a custom divine weapon. It ended with the revelation that many Ouyang Hammers had been discarded, leaving the forces that threw them away in regret.

• Ouyang Ming had promised to forge a divine weapon for anyone who brought him an Ouyang Hammer, but people initially mocked the token and the fallen Ouyang Lineage.
• After the Ouyang Lineage joined the Vast Heaven Holy Land and rose to prominence, a minor rogue cultivator brought Ouyang Ming a hammer he had bought for one spirit stone.
• Ouyang Ming honored his promise by forging the divine curved saber Cold Moon, supplying its materials, and having Ouyang Ling imbue it with the ability to grow.
• The rogue cultivator used Cold Moon to improve his cultivation and become a core disciple of a major sect, proving Ouyang Ming’s promise was genuine.
• The Ouyang Hammer’s value soared as people realized it guaranteed a custom divine weapon, while many forces regretted having discarded theirs.

Huan'er presented her young miss’s Ouyang Hammer at the Vast Heaven Restaurant, hoping it would grant them access to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, but the crowd dismissed it as a fake. When the proprietor examined it more closely, he discovered signs of age and activated traces of Ouyang Ming’s Cloud-Piercing Hammer Technique, leaving the restaurant stunned.

• Huan'er showed the crowd an Ouyang Hammer, but they suspected it was fake because it bore the characters “Ouyang” instead of “Ming.”
• The proprietor infused the hammer with spiritual power, detected no response, and declared it counterfeit as Huan'er protested that Ouyang Ming had given it to her young miss.
• Huan'er explained that Ouyang Ming had met her young miss before joining the Vast Heaven Holy Land and had given her the hammer many years earlier.
• The proprietor noticed the hammer showed genuine signs of age and asked to investigate its forging traces.
• The proprietor used a secret method, and spiritual light revealed that Ouyang Ming’s Cloud-Piercing Hammer Technique had forged the hammer.

Huan'er brought Ouyang Ming’s uniquely engraved Ouyang Hammer to the Vast Heaven Restaurant, where Ouyang Zhen recognized it as the Ouyang Lineage’s betrothal token for Mu Qingyan. After learning that Mu Qingyan might soon be married off, Ouyang Zhen rushed Huan’er to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, while factions across the Three Continents scrambled to identify her.

• The Vast Heaven Restaurant’s manager verified that Huan’er’s hammer bore authentic marks from Ouyang Ming’s Cloud-Piercing Hammer Technique.
• Ouyang Zhen arrived and told Huan’er that Ouyang Ming was in seclusion, but recognized the hammer as the token promised to his future sister-in-law, Mu Qingyan.
• Huan’er explained that Mu Qingyan had sent word that she could not wait twenty years and might be married off if Ouyang Ming did not come soon.
• Ouyang Zhen immediately took Huan’er to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, declaring that news from his sister-in-law outweighed any wait.
• The Vast Heaven Restaurant, the Demonic Sect, and the Mu Clan were left astonished and began trying to discover the identity of Ouyang Ming’s mysterious intended wife.

Chu Xinghe learned that Mu Qingyan was Ouyang Ming’s promised bride and that her unverified artifact-refining theories had caused his furnace explosions while also laying the foundation for his success. Moved by their story, Chu Xinghe planned extravagant betrothal gifts, as Ouyang Ming prepared to meet the arriving Huan’er and news from Mu Qingyan.

• Chu Xinghe questioned Ouyang Hong about Ouyang Ming’s mysterious wife and learned she was Mu Qingyan, the Mu Clan’s eldest daughter.
• Ouyang Hong explained that blind Mu Qingyan had taught Ouyang Ming her artifact-refining knowledge, including unverified techniques that caused his furnace explosions.
• Chu Xinghe heard of Ouyang Ming’s promise to marry Mu Qingyan as the strongest artifact refiner with the most precious betrothal gifts, and vowed to help surpass the Holy Lord’s gifts.
• Huan’er arrived at the Artifact Refining Palace and became excited when she saw Chu Xinghe.
• Ouyang Ling told Ouyang Ming that Sister-in-law had sent someone, and he dropped his noodles and changed into his formal purple-and-gold robe.

Ouyang Ming received the hammer Mu Qingyan had asked Huan'er to deliver and recalled how she had helped him through his darkest years before Chu Xinghe changed his fate. When Huan'er relayed Mu Qingyan’s urgent message that she might be married off, Ouyang Ling prepared to confront the Mu Clan, but Chu Xinghe stopped her.

• Ouyang Ming and the Ouyang Lineage disciples greeted Chu Xinghe, who settled in to watch and asked them to serve him chilled fruit.
• Huan'er presented Ouyang Ming with the little hammer he had made using Mu Qingyan’s method, and he remembered promising to marry her after reaching the pinnacle of artifact refining.
• Ouyang Ming recalled his years of poverty and humiliation, Mu Qingyan’s guidance, and how Chu Xinghe had transformed his fortunes.
• Huan'er told Ouyang Ming that Mu Qingyan could not wait twenty years and might be married off if he did not come soon.
• Ouyang Ling threatened the Mu Clan and Master Yan Hua, then volunteered to go to Tan City, but Chu Xinghe pushed her back down to stop her.

After learning how the Mu Clan had abandoned blind Mu Qingyan and reduced her to a marriage-alliance tool, Chu Xinghe pushed Ouyang Ming to honor his promise and marry her. Chu Xinghe arranged extravagant betrothal gifts, and the chapter ended with Holy Lord Gu Mingchao reluctantly agreeing to watch and wait after the elders overruled his concerns.

• Huan'er explained Mu Qingyan's situation, and Chu Xinghe reflected on how the Mu Clan's internal rivalries had left her neglected and destined for a political marriage.
• Ouyang Ming said he wanted to go to Tan City, but Chu Xinghe insisted that he marry Mu Qingyan and fulfill his promise.
• Ouyang Ming worried that he had not yet reached the pinnacle of artifact refinement or gathered the world's most valuable betrothal gifts, so Chu Xinghe ordered the Civil Engineering Department to prepare gifts surpassing the Holy Lord's.
• At a Haotian Palace meeting, the elders warned that excessive gifts could endanger the Mu Clan, but Chu Xinghe used his supposed Star Divination Art as an excuse to press ahead.
• The elders approved Chu Xinghe's plan after Holy Empress Ji Ya said she did not mind the gifts, leaving Gu Mingchao's objections unheeded.
• The Grand Elder reminded Gu Mingchao to follow his Dao of Watching and Waiting, and Gu Mingchao reluctantly agreed.

Chu Xinghe arranged an extravagant betrothal gift for Ouyang Ming and hurried with him to Tan City, where Mu Qingyan was supposed to marry Ouyang Ming on the fifth. The wedding was moved to the second, and Mu Qingyan was forced into Master Yan Hua’s bridal sedan before Ouyang Ming arrived.

• After the Haotian Palace assembly, Chu Xinghe ordered the Civil Engineering Department to arrange Ouyang Ming’s betrothal gift, and Huang Ritian and the Azure Dragon Sacred Venerable prepared to carry out his plans.
• Chu Xinghe set out with Ouyang Ming for Tan City, while the Mu Clan’s wedding preparations for Mu Qingyan and Master Yan Hua continued.
• Mu Chengkun told Mu Qingyan that Master Yan Hua had moved the wedding from the fifth to the second, leaving her afraid that Huan’er and Ouyang Ming would not arrive in time.
• On the second, Mu Chengkun and the Mu Clan welcomed Master Yan Hua and forced Mu Qingyan into wedding robes despite her resistance.
• Mu Qingyan told Mu Chengkun she had a marriage agreement with Ouyang Ming and begged him to wait until the fifth, but he dismissed her claim and had her placed in Master Yan Hua’s bridal sedan.