Chapter Summaries

Elder He learned from Wu Man that the Hua Clan had unknowingly empowered the Craft God Inheritance Spirit Orb through the Star Shift Curse, making the Curse Monster dangerously close to reaching the Dao. The chapter left the Three Continents facing the prospect that killing the Curse Monster would trigger Heavenly Dao punishment against every artifact refiner.

• Elder He visited the Craft God Mausoleum, concluded that the Hua Clan had driven itself into a dead end, and went to Wu Man for help understanding the curse.
• Wu Man explained that Chu Xinghe had asked him about the curse earlier, but he had kept silent because Chu Xinghe had told him not to reveal what he knew.
• Wu Man revealed that the Star Shift Curse stripped talent from failed inheritance candidates and added it to the Inheritance Spirit Orb, so the Hua Clan's repeated attempts had steadily raised its threshold.
• After Wu Man's explanation spread, Clan Head Hua realized the Curse Monster had used the Hua Clan's actions to gather talent and approach a realm beyond God Level.
• Wu Man warned Elder He that destroying the empowered Inheritance Spirit Orb could provoke the Heavenly Dao to punish artifact refiners across the Three Continents and even the Four Continents.

Elder He explained how the Craft God’s attempt to reach the Dao created the Curse Monster and why killing it could bring Heavenly Dao punishment upon artifact forgers across the continents. Chu Xinghe realized the innocent Ouyang Ming could be caught in the punishment, while Ouyang’s offer to intervene was dismissed as useless.

• Elder He explained that the Craft God had sealed his evil thought inside the mausoleum, but it became the Curse Monster and created the Craft God Inheritance Spirit Orb.
• Elder He warned that killing the Curse Monster would release the stolen talent to the Heavenly Dao, which could punish artifact forgers across the Three Continents and the Evil Shadow Continent.
• Elder He summoned the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s palace heads and Holy Lord Gu Mingchao to the Spirit Crane Palace, where Wu Man explained the chain of events.
• Chu Xinghe lamented that Ouyang Ming had done nothing wrong and would still be caught in the Heavenly Dao’s punishment.
• Ouyang Ming offered to step forward and turn the tide, but Elder He told him that the Inheritance Orb would only absorb his talent again.

Vast Heaven Holy Land could not decide how to deal with the Curse Monster and the dangerous Craft God inheritance, so Chu Xinghe advised waiting. As artifact refiners across the Three Continents rushed into the mausoleum, Tantai Jing kept the Demonic Sect out and made a fortune selling goods outside.

• Wu Man told the Grand Elder that the strengthened Art of Reversal could no longer be stripped from the Curse Monster, even with the Skull of the Evil God.
• The elders and Holy Empress Ji Ya rejected Gu Mingchao’s suggestion to wait and see, but agreed when Chu Xinghe gave the same advice; Chu Xinghe could not think of a better solution.
• Artifact refiners from across the Three Continents entered the Hua Clan’s Craft God Mausoleum despite the risk of losing talent, while Vast Heaven Holy Land sent none.
• Tantai Jing sent Demonic Sect artifact refiners to sell goods outside the mausoleum instead of entering it, and the sect made a fortune.

Tantai Jing made enormous profits by selling the Demonic Sect’s costly pills and techniques outside the Craft God Mausoleum while other factions faced danger and lost artifact-refining talent. As the Heavenly Dao’s possible punishment threatened artifact refiners across the Three Continents, the factions and refiners gathered at the Vast Heaven Holy Land to seek Chu Xinghe’s solution.

• Tantai Jing sent Demonic Sect artifact refiners to sell pills, techniques, and spirit treasures outside the Craft God Mausoleum, persuading entrants to buy them as investments in obtaining the Craft God Inheritance.
• The Demonic Sect’s stalls sold out quickly, and Tantai Jing refused refunds from buyers who had failed inside the mausoleum and lost talent to the Curse Monster.
• Tantai Jing concluded that dangerous ruins made outside vendors richer and planned to avoid Chu Xinghe while profiting from future ruin expeditions.
• Tantai Jing worried that Devil Devil Logistics had not delivered more stock and wanted to launch Devil Devil Express.
• Clan Head Hua and other faction leaders, along with artifact refiners from across the Three Continents, gathered at the Vast Heaven Holy Land to ask Chu Xinghe how to prevent the Heavenly Dao from punishing them over the Curse Monster.

Hua Xichen’s Great Prophecy Art identified Ouyang Ming as the key to breaking the Craft God Mausoleum deadlock, but Chu Xinghe had forbidden him from entering. Gu Mingchao refused the other powers’ request to send Ouyang Ming, until Ouyang Ming himself asked to go and Wu Man claimed he could protect him.

• Hua Xichen used the Great Prophecy Art and found that Ouyang Ming was the key to breaking the deadlock at the Craft God Mausoleum.
• Hua Xichen told the gathered leaders that Chu Xinghe had already forbidden Ouyang Ming from entering the mausoleum.
• Wang Daoquan and the other leaders asked Gu Mingchao to order Ouyang Ming to help, but Gu Mingchao instead demanded repayment of the Jade Void Palace’s overdue resources and refused their request.
• Gu Mingchao told the leaders that Chu Xinghe’s decision should be trusted and urged them to follow the Dao of Watching and Waiting.
• Ouyang Ming asked Chu Xinghe for permission to visit the Craft God Mausoleum, and Wu Man argued that the Skull of the Evil God could protect him from losing his talent.

Chu Xinghe let Ouyang Ming go to challenge the Craft God, hoping to save the Artifact Refining Palace from Heavenly Dao punishment while believing the Three Continents’ other powers would share any gains. Ouyang Ming reached the Hua Clan, where he ignored the clan head and bonded with cook Fatty Hua over roast camel.

• Wu Man and Ouyang Ming explained that the Artifact Refining Palace would suffer Heavenly Dao punishment if the Craft God Inheritance Spirit Orb shattered, so Chu Xinghe allowed Ouyang Ming to act despite the risks.
• Chu Xinghe decided that even if Ouyang Ming won, the other powers would share the benefits, leaving him convinced he could still incur a loss.
• Gu Mingchao told the leaders of the other powers that he had arranged for Ouyang Ming to act, while Wang Daoquan worried that the Jade Void Palace had been the only one to suffer a loss.
• News of Ouyang Ming’s departure stirred up the Three Continents’ artifact refiners, who mocked cooks claiming to know him on the Haotian Mirror.
• Ouyang Ming arrived at the Hua Clan and spent the night comparing roast camel ingredients with Fatty Hua, whom he praised above Hua Xichen.

Ouyang Ming impressed the Hua Clan by declaring Fatty Hua a peerless talent because of his cooking, then entered the Craft God Mausoleum. He left the Curse Monster baffled by caring far more about his cold noodles and garlic than the Craft God Inheritance.

• Ouyang Ming rejected the Hua Clan's young people's gifts and praised Fatty Hua's crystal-braised pork, offering to make him a core disciple of the Artifact Refining Palace.
• Clan Head Hua tested Fatty Hua more than two hundred times without finding exceptional talent, but Fatty Hua became famous on the Haotian Mirror as the Hua Clan's number one talent.
• After eating for two days at the Hua Clan, Ouyang Ming entered the Craft God Mausoleum before countless artifact refiners.
• The Curse Monster recognized Ouyang Ming's potential to reach God Level, but Ouyang Ming said he pursued the Slight Understanding Level and offered him cold noodles.
• Ouyang Ming ignored the Craft God Inheritance Spirit Orb, brought out garlic for his noodles, and left the Curse Monster wondering whether he would choose food over the inheritance.

Ouyang Ming turned the Craft God Mausoleum broadcast into a continent-wide mukbang before finally accepting the Craft God Inheritance Spirit Orb. As its power entered him, the Curse Monster recognized that Ouyang Ming’s artifact-refining talent surpassed even the Craft God’s.

• Ouyang Ming ate enormous quantities of food while the Three Continents watched, setting a record for mukbang viewership and driving restaurant revenue sharply upward.
• Chu Xinghe raged at Ouyang Ming’s antics, while Ma Liang revealed he had confiscated the twelve swill buckets from Ouyang Ming’s storage ring.
• After eating until he was seventy percent full, Ouyang Ming declared that he could not eat chilled fruit because the Light of Xinghe was cursed, prompting Vast Heaven Holy Land’s elders to reconsider letting him leave the sect.
• Ouyang Ming touched the Craft God Inheritance Spirit Orb, which shone and transferred its power into the space between his brows as he entered a trance.
• The Curse Monster realized Ouyang Ming’s artifact-refining talent exceeded the Craft God’s and that he could have broken the Art of Reversal if he had entered the mausoleum before Clan Head Hua.

Ouyang Ming received the Craft God Inheritance Spirit Orb’s recognition, revealing talent that surpassed even the Craft God’s. As people questioned why Chu Xinghe had encouraged Ouyang Ming to study food, Gu Mingchao Is My Defeated Opponent defended Chu Xinghe’s approach, and the chapter left the Three Continents recognizing his tailored teaching.

• The Craft God Inheritance Spirit Orb acknowledged Ouyang Ming and began passing its inheritance to him, giving artificers across the Three Continents hope that their stolen aptitude could be restored.
• The Curse Monster realized Ouyang Ming’s talent exceeded the Craft God’s and felt jealous that Ouyang Ming had spent so little time studying artifact refinement.
• People across the Three Continents saw Ouyang Ming nearing completion of the inheritance and debated how quickly he could surpass the Craft God if he focused on artifact refinement.
• Gu Mingchao Is My Defeated Opponent argued in the Haotian Mirror that Chu Xinghe had wisely encouraged Ouyang Ming to pursue food and other interests instead of devoting his whole life to artifact refinement.
• People came to understand that Chu Xinghe had helped Ouyang Ming avoid becoming consumed by his talent and had taught him according to his needs.

As Ouyang Ming neared completion of the Craft God Inheritance, the Curse Monster attacked and used the Star Shift Curse to steal his aptitude, but the Skull of the Evil God protected him. The Curse Monster sealed the Craft God Mausoleum, leaving Ouyang trapped inside, until Chu Xinghe opened a breach and was pulled through it.

• Gu Mingchao Is My Defeated Opponent tipped Cheng Xiaotian Is Shameless a hundred thousand spirit stones, silencing his objection.
• The Curse Monster seized the Inheritance Spirit Orb and activated the Star Shift Curse to drain Ouyang Ming's aptitude.
• The Skull of the Evil God covered Ouyang Ming and stopped the Curse Monster's extraction, so the monster sealed the mausoleum and absorbed the negative forces from its third level.
• Gu Mingchao blasted the mausoleum's first level apart, but Elder He stopped him from striking again to protect Ouyang Ming.
• White Tiger Holy Venerable and Wu Man could not break the curse seal, so Chu Xinghe used Evil Repeller to open a gap and was pulled into the mausoleum.

Chu Xinghe was pulled into the Craft God Mausoleum by the Curse Monster, who wanted to steal his extraordinary talent after being unable to reach Ouyang Ming. Chu Xinghe found Ouyang Ming on the second floor, and the two calmly shared food as their confrontation was broadcast across the Three Continents.

• Chu Xinghe struck the curse seal with Evil Repeller, but the Curse Monster opened a gap and dragged him into the Craft God Mausoleum.
• Gu Mingchao tried to attack the mausoleum and was stopped by the Grand Elder, while the Vast Heaven Holy Land rushed to find a way to rescue Chu Xinghe.
• The Curse Monster chose Chu Xinghe as a new target because his talent seemed even greater than Ouyang Ming's.
• Chu Xinghe hurried through the damaged first floor and reached the second floor, where the Curse Monster promised to borrow only a small portion of his talent.
• Chu Xinghe found Ouyang Ming, accepted a pork knuckle from him, and ate as the Haotian Mirror Sub-Mirror broadcast the scene to the Three Continents.

Chu Xinghe warned Ouyang Ming against comprehending the Craft God Inheritance, which contained the Curse Monster’s consciousness and would turn its heir into another monster. When the Curse Monster tried to seize Chu Xinghe’s talent with a curse, the curse backfired and destroyed one of its heads, while a streak of spiritual light entered Ouyang Ming.

• Ouyang Ming told Chu Xinghe that he had glimpsed part of the Craft God Inheritance and wanted more time to comprehend it.
• Chu Xinghe urged Ouyang Ming to reject the inheritance and forge his own path, warning that the Craft God’s will could corrupt its heir.
• The Curse Monster revealed that it was the consciousness inside the inheritance and summoned the mausoleum’s curse power to take some of Chu Xinghe’s talent.
• The Curse Monster cast Innate Potential Seizure on Chu Xinghe, but the curse backfired and exploded the head that cast it.
• Wu Man recognized that curses rebounded on Chu Xinghe because of his extraordinary fortune, while a streak of spiritual light flew from the shattered head into Ouyang Ming’s brow.

Chu Xinghe and Ouyang Ming fled the Craft God Mausoleum as the Curse Monster repeatedly cursed Chu Xinghe and exploded, unintentionally giving Ouyang Ming pieces of the Craft God Inheritance. After the Curse Monster’s final attack destroyed him and the mausoleum, Chu Xinghe sealed Ouyang Ming’s brow to return the stolen talents to their original owners, and the Heavenly Dao’s might passed without harming them.

• The Curse Monster’s curses failed and caused his heads to explode, sending pure inheritance into Ouyang Ming while Chu Xinghe tried to escape with him.
• The Curse Monster chased Chu Xinghe and Ouyang Ming through the mausoleum, repeatedly using his curses and transferring more inheritance to Ouyang Ming.
• With only his original head left, the Curse Monster used the Inheritance Spirit Orb for one last attempt, but his whole body and the orb exploded, releasing the talents and collapsing the mausoleum.
• Chu Xinghe carried Ouyang Ming out and sealed his brow, preventing him from absorbing talents that belonged to artifact crafters across the Three Continents.
• The freed talents flew toward their original owners, and the Heavenly Dao’s might swept over Ouyang Ming and the mausoleum before dissipating.

Chu Xinghe prevented Ouyang Ming from absorbing the stolen talents, saving him from the Heavenly Dao’s punishment and allowing the talents to return to their original owners. Ouyang Ming received the Craft God’s inheritance and entered enlightenment, but emerged saying he had failed to reach the Artifact Refining Divine Master realm, leaving the Three Continents stunned.

• Chu Xinghe sealed Ouyang Ming to stop the stolen talents from entering his body, and the talents scattered back to their original owners across the Three Continents.
• Ouyang Ming’s inheritance erupted and merged with his artifact-refining knowledge, so Gu Mingchao shielded him while he entered enlightenment.
• The Three Continents watched, expecting Ouyang Ming to become an Artifact Refining Divine Master and perhaps eventually touch the Dao.
• Ouyang Ming opened his eyes and told Senior Brother Xinghe that he had failed, shocking the people who had expected him to reach the Divine Master realm.

Ouyang Ming revealed that his supposed failed breakthrough had actually surpassed the Craft God and reached Divine Master Level, ruining Chu Xinghe's relief. Chu Xinghe then promised to help restore the Hua Clan's crafting ability, while still counting the ruined spirit treasures as his own advantage.

• Ouyang Ming received consolation from Vast Heaven Holy Land before revealing that he had reached Divine Master Level but failed to attain Slight Understanding Level.
• Chu Xinghe told Ma Liang to bar Ouyang Ming from Spirit Crane Palace after learning that his breakthrough had succeeded.
• The Three Continents focused on the meaning of Slight Understanding Level and the pressure of meeting Chu Xinghe's expectations rather than Ouyang Ming's achievement.
• Clan Head Hua worried that the loss of the Quenching Pool, inheritance, and Craft God Mausoleum would bring the Hua Clan to ruin.
• Ouyang Ming confirmed that he could build a new Quenching Pool, and Chu Xinghe promised to stay with him and their companions until the Hua Clan recovered its former crafting ability.
• Chu Xinghe privately counted the ruined spirit treasures as an advantage despite Ouyang Ming's breakthrough.

Chu Xinghe expected the cursed spirit treasures to give him an opportunity to profit, but Ouyang Ming, Wu Man, and Ouyang Qingyan found a resource-free way to cleanse them. As they prepared to build a new Quenching Pool, Wu Man revealed that Chu Xinghe would need to set up a formation, and Chu Xinghe saw a chance to make the curse disaster worse.

• Chu Xinghe stayed with the Hua Clan while forces across the Three Continents waited to see what would happen to their cursed spirit treasures.
• After a day of preparation, Chu Xinghe asked Ouyang Ming how the spirit treasures could be restored, and Ouyang Ming explained that removing the curses would normally require resources.
• Ouyang Ming revealed that Ouyang Qingyan could separate the curses and Wu Man could remove them, then proposed combining their abilities with the Craft God Inheritance to cleanse all the treasures in a new Quenching Pool without extra resources.
• Wu Man warned that the Craft God Mausoleum contained abundant curse power, so Chu Xinghe would need to set up a formation to separate it from the normal spiritual power.
• Chu Xinghe imagined that his formation might fail and let the curse power ruin the spirit treasures, including those belonging to the Three Continents' many forces.

Chu Xinghe asked Wu Man to explain every way the curse on the Craft God Mausoleum could make rebuilding the Quenching Pool fail. Ma Liang’s method-of-elimination explanation convinced Wu Man that Chu Xinghe’s teaching let disciples find paths suited to them, while Chu Xinghe privately wished they would stop misreading his intentions.

• Wu Man explained the Quenching Pool reconstruction, and Ma Liang suggested asking the White Tiger Holy Venerable to set up the formation.
• Chu Xinghe kicked Ma Liang aside and asked Wu Man to detail every possible way the mausoleum’s curse could cause the formation to fail.
• Ma Liang described Chu Xinghe’s approach as eliminating every possible failure so that success would remain.
• Wu Man recalled how the Witch Curse Evil Lord had struggled under one elder’s rigid instruction, then concluded that Chu Xinghe let disciples explore wrong paths to find the ones suited to them.
• As Wu Man regarded Chu Xinghe with reverence, Chu Xinghe privately lamented that Ma Liang’s explanation had led him to the wrong conclusion.

Chu Xinghe studied the Craft God Mausoleum’s curses and secretly planned to make the Quenching Pool fail, while Ouyang Ming taught the Hua Clan artifact-refining techniques and factions sent cursed spirit treasures for restoration. Chu Xinghe completed the formation linking the Mausoleum to the Quenching Pool, believing its power would curse the treasures again and bring the Vast Heaven Holy Land a crushing loss.

• Wu Man explained the Craft God Mausoleum’s failure-causing curses to Chu Xinghe, who recorded them as a guide for sabotaging the Quenching Pool.
• Ouyang Ming rebuilt the Quenching Pool and taught the Hua Clan techniques from the Craft God Inheritance, while working with Ouyang Qingyan and Wu Man on the setup.
• Tantai Jing’s Devil Devil Logistics transported cursed spirit treasures from the Vast Heaven Holy Land and other factions to the Hua Clan for restoration.
• Other factions concluded that Chu Xinghe had miscalculated because restoring the treasures would not cover the Holy Land’s transport costs and compensation payments, while Chu Xinghe welcomed the haters’ predictions of failure.
• Wu Man told Chu Xinghe that the final step was to form a connection between the Craft God Mausoleum and the Quenching Pool.
• Chu Xinghe completed the formation and watched spiritual power pour into the Quenching Pool, smiling because he believed it would curse the spirit treasures again.

Chu Xinghe secretly added a hidden formation to the Heavenly Dipper Fortune-Seeking Formation, intending to send the Craft God Mausoleum’s curses into the Quenching Pool and ruin the spirit treasures. The first batch instead emerged curse-free, leaving Zheng Yu and Chu Xinghe bewildered.

• Chu Xinghe used the Flying Locust to conceal a Formation Within a Formation that would channel curses into the Quenching Pool.
• White Tiger inspected the Heavenly Dipper Fortune-Seeking Formation, praised it as perfect, and found no flaws.
• Zheng Yu told the gathered forces that Chu Xinghe must have a backup plan because he had seen excitement in Xinghe’s eyes.
• Chu Xinghe ordered the spirit treasure refinement to begin the next morning and stood guard over the Quenching Pool until then.
• Zheng Yu placed Martial Emperor City’s spirit treasures into the pool as Chu Xinghe activated the hidden formation and sent curses into it.
• The refined spirit treasures emerged with their curses gone, leaving Zheng Yu and Chu Xinghe confused that they had only returned to normal.

Chu Xinghe watched the curses fail to affect the spirit treasures, then chose not to investigate and sent the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s treasures into the Quenching Pool to secure a small loss. As the other factions prepared to leave and the Xinghe Haters' Group seized on the outcome to attack his reputation, an unexpected change occurred.

• Zheng Yu trusted Chu Xinghe but wondered why the spirit treasures had returned to normal after refinement.
• Chu Xinghe waited for the curses in the Quenching Pool to affect the treasures, but they were all restored without damage.
• Chu Xinghe decided to accept the small loss and sent the Vast Heaven Holy Land’s spirit treasures into the Quenching Pool instead of investigating the curses.
• The factions of the Three Continents collected their restored treasures and prepared to leave the Hua Clan without attending its banquet.
• The Xinghe Haters' Group declared the results a chance to undermine Chu Xinghe’s reputation and launched its planned attack.
• An unexpected change occurred as the professional haters began their charge against Chu Xinghe.