Chapter Summaries

The Hua Clan’s spirit treasures began breaking, and Hua Xichen used the Great Prophecy Art to discover that a calamity would bring about the clan’s downfall. The Hua Clan celebrated the prophecy and prepared a three-day banquet, eager for its destruction.

• The chapter explained that the Hua Clan’s strength came from its artifact-refining inheritance, while Hua Xichen’s Great Prophecy Art was a dangerous ability that the clan had helped him master.
• The Ming, Ning, and Cui Clans prospered through their ties to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, while the Hua Clan continued to compete in the spirit-treasure market alongside the Ouyang Lineage.
• Many spirit treasures sold by the Hua Clan inexplicably broke, prompting customers to accuse the clan of selling shoddy goods.
• Clan Head Hua asked Hua Xichen to use the Great Prophecy Art to identify the cause of the failing spirit treasures.
• Hua Xichen declared that the divine text foretold a calamity that would bring about the Hua Clan’s downfall, and the clan’s elders and disciples celebrated.
• Clan Head Hua ordered a three-day banquet and called for all Hua Clan disciples away from home to return for the celebration.

After Hua Xichen revealed that the Hua Clan would face the calamity of clan annihilation, the clan celebrated the news as a blessing and summoned its scattered disciples home. At the banquet, Clan Head Hua praised the ancestors, disciples, and elders for their efforts, while the First Elder was moved to tears.

• Hua Xichen told Clan Head Hua and the elders that the divine script foretold the Hua Clan's annihilation, and they celebrated the prophecy.
• Clan Head Hua ordered every Hua Clan disciple to return and celebrate for three days, and the news reached disciples across the Three Continents.
• Hua Donglin left his adventuring team to return home, while Ning Jilai told his teammates that his own Ning Clan had once celebrated its calamity of clan annihilation for half a month.
• The Hua Clan held a universal celebration, distributed alms, and welcomed its returning disciples to a banquet.
• Clan Head Hua toasted the Hua Clan ancestors and praised the disciples for working to bring about the calamity of clan annihilation.
• Clan Head Hua praised the elders' efforts and recounted the First Elder's tireless work, bringing the First Elder and the assembled disciples to tears.

The Hua Clan celebrated its impending annihilation for three days before discovering that a curse in its inherited quenching pool had ruined every spirit treasure it had crafted and threatened the clan’s livelihood. As the leaders rejoiced that this surely counted as a calamity of clan annihilation, Hua Xichen wondered whether their situation was truly hopeless since Senior Brother Xinghe knew nothing about artifact refining.

• The first elder credited Clan Head Hua with helping bring about the clan’s annihilation, and the Hua Clan toasted him and then themselves.
• The Hua Clan celebrated for three days, alarming passersby and driving away people seeking redress over faulty spirit treasures.
• Clan Head Hua and the other leaders investigated the crisis and learned that a curse in the inherited quenching pool had affected every spirit treasure made by the Hua Clan.
• Clan Head Hua concluded that the cursed treasures and ruined artifact-refining technique guaranteed a calamity of clan annihilation.
• Hua Xichen questioned whether the clan was really finished because Senior Brother Xinghe did not seem to know artifact refining.

The Hua Clan’s malfunctioning Craft God Quenching Pool caused spirit treasures across the Three Continents to become cursed, prompting customers, artifact refiners, and major powers to demand answers and compensation. Clan Head Hua went to the Vast Heaven Holy Land for Chu Xinghe’s help, but learned Chu Xinghe was secluded on the Technique Repository Tower’s ninth floor, leaving the Hua Clan to face mounting unrest without a solution.

• Hua Xichen questioned whether Chu Xinghe knew artifact refining, but Clan Head Hua argued that Chu Xinghe had solved other clans’ crises despite lacking prior expertise and traveled to the Vast Heaven Holy Land for help.
• Ma Liang told Clan Head Hua that Chu Xinghe was in seclusion on the ninth floor of the Technique Repository Tower and could not be contacted, so the Hua Clan head waited at the Holy Land.
• The Hua Clan’s malfunctioning quenching pool caused spirit treasures sold across the Three Continents to develop dangerous defects, and customers gathered at the clan’s shops demanding refunds.
• Hua Clan managers calmed some customers by announcing that Clan Head Hua had gone to seek Chu Xinghe’s help, but unrest grew after nearly half a month passed without news.
• Artifact refiners whose treasures had been quenched in the Hua Clan’s pool, along with major powers that had commissioned the clan, began demanding explanations and compensation.
• The Hua Clan’s members panicked as the crisis spread and realized that even selling the entire clan might not cover the compensation.

The Hua Clan could not afford to compensate the major powers for their cursed spirit treasures, so leaders from across the Three Continents traveled to the Vast Heaven Holy Land seeking answers. Ouyang Ming said Chu Xinghe might be able to solve the problem, while Shen Chun appeared inside Chu Xinghe’s sealed room and revealed that he could bypass its formation because he had learned formations from the grand elder.

• The major powers demanded that the Hua Clan repair their cursed spirit treasures or compensate them at cost, and the Hua Clan's grand elder could not promise either solution.
• Cheng Xiaotian urged the leaders to go to the Vast Heaven Holy Land and ask Clan Head Hua directly, so leaders from across the Three Continents traveled there.
• The grand elder sent Shen Chun to check on Chu Xinghe's secluded cultivation and ask whether he could help solve the crisis.
• Ouyang Ming explained that the Craft God Quenching Pool had caused the curses and said neither he nor Clan Head Hua could fix them at their current artifact-refining levels.
• Ouyang Ming told Clan Head Hua that Chu Xinghe had given him artifact-refining pointers and might be a hidden knows-a-little-grade divine artifact refiner.
• Shen Chun appeared on the ninth floor despite Chu Xinghe's formation and explained that his formation skills came from the grand elder.

Chu Xinghe left seclusion and assured the assembled leaders that he could resolve the Hua Clan’s crisis. He proposed that the Vast Heaven Holy Land buy all the Hua Clan’s cursed spirit treasures, leaving everyone stunned.

• Shen Chun appeared inside the Technique Repository Tower, and Chu Xinghe followed him out to meet Clan Head Hua.
• Clan Head Hua offered Chu Xinghe precious gifts, but Chu Xinghe refused them and brought him to the Spirit Crane Palace.
• The Great Elder asked Chu Xinghe to help the Hua Clan, and Chu Xinghe declared that he already had a solution.
• Chu Xinghe proposed that the Vast Heaven Holy Land buy all the Hua Clan’s damaged spirit treasures, and the gathered leaders fell silent.

Chu Xinghe offered to pay the Hua Clan’s debts, then proposed sending every spirit treasure from the Vast Heaven Holy Land through the Hua Clan’s cursed tempering pool. The Vast Heaven Holy Land’s leaders approved and Ma Liang began carrying out the plan, leaving the Three Continents’ faction leaders baffled.

• Chu Xinghe offered to have the Vast Heaven Holy Land pay off the Hua Clan’s debts, and the Holy Land’s leaders nodded in approval.
• Clan Head Hua explained that the Hua Clan’s tempering pool had begun cursing every spirit treasure put through it, destroying the clan’s ability to forge more.
• Chu Xinghe proposed sending every spirit treasure in the Vast Heaven Holy Land to the Hua Clan’s tempering pool overnight.
• Chu Xinghe arranged for Ma Liang to carry out the plan while the Holy Land’s leaders did not stop him.
• Wang Daoquan concluded that the Jade Void Palace would have been destroyed long ago if Chu Xinghe had been one of its disciples.

Chu Xinghe proposed helping the Hua Clan and sending Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spiritual treasures to its tempering pool, claiming his Star Divination Art had revealed a future crisis. Across the Three Continents, factions pretended to follow his example, then blamed hijacked Haotian Mirror Sub-Mirror accounts when the Hua Clan said it had received no treasures.

• The Grand Elder asked Chu Xinghe to explain his plan, and Chu Xinghe said his Star Divination Art had shown that the Hua Clan faced a deeper crisis whose time had not yet come.
• Cheng Xiaotian trusted Chu Xinghe’s judgment, while other leaders remained baffled; news of the plan spread throughout the Three Continents.
• Fifteen major powers, more than two hundred mid-sized powers, and over three thousand minor powers claimed they had sent their spiritual treasures to the Hua Clan’s tempering pool.
• The Hua Clan Grand Elder said the clan had received no treasures, and Wang Daoquan and the other powers claimed their Haotian Mirror Sub-Mirror accounts had been hijacked.
• Wang Daoquan explained that his Jade Void Palace would not risk its spiritual treasures because losing would cripple it, unlike the Vast Heaven Holy Land, which could replace its losses.

Zheng Yu advised Martial Emperor City to risk only spirit treasures it could afford to lose, prompting factions across the Three Continents to send batches of treasures to the Hua Clan for refinement. Chu Xinghe instead ordered the Vast Heaven Holy Land to send every treasure and even its equipment, convinced that either outcome would make him soar because the Misfortune Compass would count the other factions’ gains as his losses.

• Cheng Xiaotian asked Zheng Yu whether Martial Emperor City should follow Chu Xinghe’s latest gamble, and Zheng Yu recommended contributing only a manageable portion of its spirit treasures.
• Martial Emperor City sent its surplus spirit treasures to the Hua Clan’s tempering pool, and factions across the Three Continents followed its example.
• Chu Xinghe ordered the Vast Heaven Holy Land to send every spirit treasure, including the Light of Xinghe, Sword Mound weapons, artifact-refining furnaces, and other equipment.
• Chu Xinghe concluded that either a vast loss or a vast profit for the Vast Heaven Holy Land would make him soar, since the Misfortune Compass would treat the other factions’ outcomes as his gains.

Chu Xinghe arranged for the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spirit treasures to be sent to the Hua Clan’s tempering pool, believing that either outcome would earn him a reward from the Misfortune Compass. As the Civil Engineering Department balked at transporting the treasures, Huang Ritian refused the task and was punished for violating his labor sentence.

• Chu Xinghe decided his plan involving the Hua Clan’s tempering pool would benefit him whether the spirit treasures were ruined or improved.
• The Civil Engineering Department disciples questioned the transport order, while Gui Li eagerly volunteered and Azure Dragon defended him, saying the department knew Gui Li’s behavior but judged him by his work.
• Azure Dragon concluded Gui Li had lost his memory because he had returned to working obsessively, and assigned him extra tasks.
• Huang Ritian went to Chu Xinghe and refused to transport the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s many spirit treasures, so Chu Xinghe asked Feng Fei to arrange for Demon Demon Express to do it.
• The First Elder caught Huang Ritian outside the Vast Heaven Divine Domain and doubled his labor sentence for visiting the Spirit Crane Palace.
• The disciples praised Huang Ritian as the Holy Land’s foremost warrior for provoking the First Elder to his face.

Tantai Jing mobilized the Demonic Sect to transport the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s enormous stock of spirit treasures, enforcing strict safeguards to protect Demon Demon Express’s reputation. After the Hua Clan began refining the treasures with the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s financial support, the other parties were baffled to find that every treasure was cursed or malfunctioning.

• Tantai Jing accepted the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s transportation job at a reduced profit and warned the Demonic Sect not to tamper with its spirit treasures.
• Tantai Jing deployed the Dark Hall to monitor the transport, but Demon Demon Express ran short of workers as the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s seemingly endless treasures kept arriving.
• Tantai Jing mobilized more workers until Demon Demon Express delivered all the spirit treasures to the Hua Clan’s tempering pool.
• Chu Xinghe arranged for the Vast Heaven Chamber of Commerce to buy back the Hua Clan’s cursed spirit treasures at full price and provide additional compensation to their owners.
• The various parties saw that every spirit treasure refined in the Hua Clan’s tempering pool was cursed or malfunctioning, and wondered where Chu Xinghe’s supposed deeper purpose was.

Chu Xinghe’s plan appeared to amount to refining and returning the cursed spirit treasures, leaving the Three Continents baffled until the Craft God Quenching Pool revealed a door to the Craft God Mausoleum. Elder He explained that the Craft God’s curse had corrupted the pool and that the Craft God’s true inheritance was likely inside the mausoleum.

• After Chu Xinghe sent the failed spirit treasures back to the Vast Heaven Holy Land, he told the gathered leaders he had no further move and that they should leave matters to time.
• A month later, the Craft God Quenching Pool’s spirit water vanished, revealing a door beneath it as a terrifying cursed presence surged out.
• The Hua Clan realized the Craft God Mausoleum lay beneath the pool and that the Craft God’s curse had caused the treasures to fail.
• Clan Head Hua visited Elder He, who explained that the Craft God had created the pool to bless treasures but that changes in the earth veins likely altered the power sustaining it.
• Elder He said the Hua Clan’s artifact-refining art was incomplete and that the Craft God’s true inheritance was likely hidden in the mausoleum.

Clan Head Hua learned that the Craft God's inheritance had been passed down incompletely and hoped the complete version lay in the Craft God Mausoleum. Ouyang Ming judged that an inheritance was probably hidden there but would be difficult to find, leaving the Hua Clan eager to claim the private dungeon.

• Elder He explained that the Hua Clan had bought only a fragment of the Craft God's inheritance from his descendants, whose understanding had declined across generations.
• Clan Head Hua asked whether the complete inheritance might be in the Craft God Mausoleum, and Elder He suggested consulting Ouyang Ming and Ouyang Ling about ancestral graves.
• Ouyang Ming said the Craft God likely left a complete inheritance in his mausoleum but would have hidden it behind clues only his descendants could decipher.
• Clan Head Hua rejoiced at the possibility of recovering the complete inheritance and argued that the Craft God Mausoleum was a private dungeon the Hua Clan could claim.

The Hua Clan claimed the Craft God Mausoleum and sent Clan Head Hua inside to find the Craft God's inheritance, but its mechanisms and curses overwhelmed him. Clan Head Ning revealed that his ancestors had built the mausoleum, yet even his knowledge could not keep the two clan heads from being cursed and driven out.

• Clan Head Hua left in high spirits as the Hua Clan claimed the Craft God Mausoleum, while thousands of people across the Three Continents came forward claiming to descend from the Craft God.
• The Hua Clan visited the Spirit Beast Continent's plausible claimants, who publicly withdrew their claims, and then formally announced ownership of the mausoleum.
• Clan Head Hua led a team into the mausoleum, but after three days he had not found the Craft God's coffin and a mysterious curse had damaged his artifact-refining skills.
• Clan Head Ning revealed that the Ning Clan's ancestors had built the Craft God Mausoleum and went inside with Clan Head Hua to help break through its Arts of Qimen Dunjia.
• Clan Head Ning and Clan Head Hua were overwhelmed by the mausoleum's mechanisms and curses, escaped battered, and argued over the Ning Clan's lack of blueprints.

Clan Head Hua and Clan Head Ning endured the curses and mechanisms in the Craft God Mausoleum until they reached the second level and found the Craft God's coffin. Clan Head Ning suspected the coffin was misplaced or suppressing something on the third level, but Clan Head Hua opened it anyway, triggering a sudden change.

• Clan Head Ning explained the Ning Clan's mausoleum-design rules and how the Hua Clan held the Craft God's inheritance after its true descendants sold it.
• Clan Head Ning helped Clan Head Hua overcome the mausoleum's mechanisms, but the curses ruined Hua's crafting and caused Ning's cultivation to plummet.
• After Clan Head Ning demanded extra payment, he and Clan Head Hua pushed through the first level and entered the second level in five days.
• Clan Head Hua spotted the Craft God's coffin, but Clan Head Ning warned that its presence on the second level suggested something was wrong.
• Clan Head Hua ignored the warning and opened the coffin, and a sudden change occurred.

Clan Head Hua and Clan Head Ning confronted the curse creature that emerged from the Craft God's coffin and learned how the Craft God and the Ning Clan had designed the mausoleum to contain it. The curse monster revealed that it held the complete Craft God inheritance and asked whether they still wanted it.

• The coffin exploded when Clan Head Hua touched it, and the curse power struck him despite Clan Head Ning's attempt to protect him with divine flame armor.
• Clan Head Hua unleashed the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire, resisting possession and forcing the curses to gather into a monstrous shape.
• The curse monster revealed that it was the Craft God, corrupted after his death by the curse he had once sealed within himself.
• Clan Head Ning realized that the Quenching Pool and the mausoleum's formations had been designed together to suppress the curse, but changes in the Three Continents' ley lines had weakened the seal.
• The curse monster produced the complete Craft God inheritance and asked Clan Head Hua and Clan Head Ning whether they wanted it.

The Curse Monster used the Craft God Inheritance to tempt Clan Head Hua, then revealed that anyone who failed to comprehend it would lose some of their artifact-refining talent. Clan Head Hua sent the Hua Clan’s gifted refiners to try anyway, and the chapter ended with the clan devastated and news spreading across the Three Continents.

• The Curse Monster offered the Craft God Inheritance to Clan Head Hua, who accepted despite Clan Head Ning’s warning.
• Clan Head Hua failed to comprehend the inheritance, and the Inheritance Spirit Orb stole part of his artifact-refining talent before returning to the Curse Monster.
• The Curse Monster explained that a more gifted person could claim the inheritance and undo the curse, so Clan Head Hua stopped Clan Head Ning from killing him.
• Clan Head Hua summoned the Hua Clan’s most talented artifact refiners and sent them into the Craft God Mausoleum to obtain the inheritance.
• Every Hua Clan genius failed and lost some of their artifact-refining talent, nearly wiping out the clan’s chosen refiners in two days.
• Clan Head Ning spread news of the Curse Monster and the inheritance’s curse, and the story reached the Three Continents.

The Hua Clan’s gamble against the Craft God’s curse monster cost its prodigies part of their talent, leaving the clan facing ruin. Chu Xinghe refused to let Ouyang Ming risk his future, but offered to support the Hua Clan for a century while Ouyang Ming matured enough to solve its crisis.

• Clan Head Hua regretted gambling for the Craft God Inheritance after the curse monster stole talent from the Hua Clan’s prodigies and threatened the clan’s future.
• Chu Xinghe learned of the Hua Clan’s losses from Shen Chun and understood why Clan Head Hua had gambled rather than accept the clan’s decline.
• Hua Xichen visited the Vast Heaven Holy Land and begged Chu Xinghe to save the Hua Clan, asking to bring Ouyang Ming into the gamble.
• Chu Xinghe refused to let Ouyang Ming risk losing his talent, explaining that he would lend resources but would not gamble with a fellow disciple’s future.
• Chu Xinghe urged Hua Xichen to have Clan Head Hua kill the curse monster and give up the inheritance, promising a century of support and Ouyang Ming’s help once he became a Craft God.

Hua Xichen brought Chu Xinghe’s offer of a century of support back to the Hua Clan, but the clan refused to accept the decline it would entail. Clan Head Hua instead proposed opening the Craft God Mausoleum to talented refiners across the Three Continents, and the clan announced its plan to the world.

• Hua Xichen returned from the Vast Heaven Holy Land with Chu Xinghe’s offer, and the Hua Clan fell silent as it weighed support against losing its place among the Four Great Clans.
• Cheng Xiaotian explained that Chu Xinghe had foreseen the Hua Clan’s deeper crisis in the Craft God Mausoleum, and other powers agreed with his assessment.
• Clan Head Hua proposed opening the mausoleum to anyone with exceptional artifact-refining talent, requiring anyone who obtained the inheritance to teach it to the Hua Clan and remain for a hundred years.
• The Hua Clan unanimously approved Clan Head Hua’s plan and used the Haotian Mirror to announce it throughout the Three Continents.

After the Hua Clan opened the Craft God Mausoleum to people from across the Three Continents, countless hopefuls entered, but none could comprehend the Craft God Inheritance. Just as the clan prepared to expand its search, Elder He of Vast Heaven Holy Land released news that stunned the Three Continents.

• Clan Head Hua's offer spread through the Haotian Mirror, and people across the Three Continents agreed that overlooked talent might be found among ordinary folk and Rogue Cultivators.
• The Hua Clan invited anyone to enter the Craft God Mausoleum, offering the inheritance in exchange for a hundred years of service and teaching the clan its secrets.
• Countless Rogue Cultivators, ordinary people, and disciples from major powers traveled to the Hua Clan and entered the mausoleum, while some youngsters with artifact-refining talent were discovered.
• Over the course of a month, even renowned artifact refiners tried the inheritance, but no one could comprehend any part of it or claim it.
• As the Hua Clan prepared to widen its search, Elder He released news from Vast Heaven Holy Land that stunned the clan and the Three Continents.