The Dao of Artifacts was vast as the ocean.

The Chaos Great Dao of Creation, the Chaos Yin-Yang Great Dao, the Chaos Qiankun Great Dao—all of these paths could walk the route of artifact refining.

At the level of a Chaos Dominator, artifact refining was equivalent to world creation. Every Dominator Artifact was a massive and complex chaotic system.

Within it existed an independent system of Daos, and even vast swaths of chaos where countless living beings dwelled, cultivated, and thrived.

When forging a Dominator Artifact, most of the time, one had to personally nurture a chaos from scratch, or alternatively, embed an already cultivated chaos into the artifact’s interior.

The latter method was clearly much more difficult.

The countless details involved were incredibly complex.

During his lecture, Su Yuan mentioned several ways to nurture an internal chaos, and the most shocking among them was the Life Cultivation Method. This approach treated the Dominator Artifact like a living being to be nurtured. Instead of interfering with the intricate details of the internal chaos, one only needed to focus on the artifact’s overall development.

This method was extremely profound.

As a high-level master-level artifact crafter, Cao Dehou was extremely skilled in the Dao of Artifacts, and he had dabbled in this forging approach before. But it was far too difficult. The main issue was that if one didn’t intervene with the internal chaos’s rudimentary form, it could easily stray down the wrong path and fail to align with the artifact’s internal Dao Patterns, making it nearly impossible to raise the final product’s grade.

Yet Su Yuan’s forged Dominator Artifact had reached True-Grade quality, giving Cao Dehou tremendous insight.

“So that’s it. You merge the Chaos Great Dao into the material, then let the material naturally give birth to a chaos. That way, the degree of compatibility can reach an extremely high level. Once that’s solved, the problem shifts to fusing the materials and the Chaos Great Dao itself.”

Cao Dehou watched as Su Yuan demonstrated the melting and combination of numerous materials. After various materials fused together, they formed a perfect synthetic material. When an appropriate Chaos Great Dao was infused into this base, the degree of fusion was incredibly high. The subsequent chaos cultivation then naturally followed suit.

Cao Dehou’s eyes sparkled with brilliance as he comprehended countless profound secrets. He felt that his own understanding of the Dao of Artifacts had significantly improved.

It was worth noting that Su Yuan was merely lecturing on forging techniques for Dominator Artifacts around the 30th tier—yet it still had an effect on him.

Cao Dehou couldn’t help but marvel. This was the skill of a Divine-level Artificer!

This was only the first lecture. After all four were done, he might even break through his bottleneck.

As he was marveling, the first lecture came to an end.

Everyone remained immersed in their enlightenment, none of them exiting their state of realization.

Su Yuan also silently sensed everything.

Inside his body, millions of True Name Stars blazed brightly at an astonishing speed, each one shining like a sun, illuminating one stretch of inner starry sky after another.

The overall density of his True Name Power had risen by a full one percent!

This showed just how great an impact this lecture had on those artifact refiners.

Su Yuan’s gaze swept across the crowd.

He landed on a familiar cultivator.

It was none other than Master Youhe from Black Flame City. He had left the city, entered the Second Frontline, and chosen to join the military.

He had also attended this lecture.

At that moment, Master Youhe was diligently forging a 33rd-tier Dominator Artifact.

And the forging method he used was exactly the Life Forging Method Su Yuan had taught.

Under Master Youhe’s forging, the artifact gradually developed a faint glimmer of life will, but it was far too weak. It couldn’t coalesce into a Dominator-level life will, so it naturally couldn’t turn the Dominator Artifact into a Dominator-level lifeform.

Su Yuan’s mind stirred. The 【Life Dominator】 entry faintly pulsed, splitting off a small sub-entry—【Life Pulse】—which attached itself to Master Youhe.

The next moment, this 【Life Pulse】 entry began drawing life essence from Master Youhe’s body, then injecting it bit by bit into the Dominator Artifact.

Master Youhe frowned slightly but did not stop the process. He assumed it was a technique he had personally comprehended, so naturally he wouldn’t interfere.

With his assistance, that wisp of life will quickly condensed into a coherent mass, and its intensity soared to the Dominator level.

This nascent life will was born directly from within the Dominator Artifact.

That Dominator Artifact had now become a special lifeform.

And once the artifact gained life, it spontaneously began condensing Chaos Dao Patterns.

This process was triggered by the artifact’s own life will, so it was naturally perfectly attuned to the artifact itself. After the Chaos Dao Patterns condensed, the artifact’s life will continued to form its own chaotic universe.

Everything unfolded naturally.

After an unknown amount of time passed.

Master Youhe exclaimed in shock: “I did it! I actually did it! The quality is a 33rd-tier Supreme-Grade Dominator Artifact!”

Master Youhe was bursting with excitement. The aura around him seemed to rise in sync with his newfound forging insights, jumping a full tier to reach the late-stage 33rd-tier level.

He had previously been a mere 31st-tier artificer, but now he had leaped two tiers to reach 33rd-tier. His strength had improved enormously!

He looked up toward the lecture platform, genuine gratitude shining in his eyes.

Su Yuan turned his head and smiled faintly at him.

Youhe froze for a moment, then realized that Su Yuan hadn’t forgotten him, and immediately smiled back.

Master Youhe never expected that the Seven Stars Artificer from the same city would, out of nowhere, become a high-level master-level artifact crafter. Truly, fate was unpredictable.

Su Yuan, meanwhile, observed Master Youhe’s work. He could see a line of True Name extending from that Dominator Artifact, connecting directly to his own body.

Within his internal chaos, another True Name Star had appeared, representing that 33rd-tier Dominator Artifact lifeform. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

This lifeform was still under Su Yuan’s control—or rather, this life was born because of Su Yuan. It wasn’t that Su Yuan forcibly controlled it, but that Su Yuan had bestowed life upon it.

Su Yuan continued checking the progress of the others.

He saw many master-level artifact refiners attempting to forge 40th-tier Dominator Artifacts, preparing to break through to low-level master-level artifact crafter.

This bottleneck had held back far too many master refiners.

Su Yuan then distributed the sub-entries of 【Life Dominator】 one by one, attaching them to these refiners.

The sub-entries were still powers under Su Yuan’s control. They not only granted other refiners a special ability but also formed a hidden mark.

This mark carried Su Yuan’s True Name Imprint. If he ever met with misfortune, he could survive through these marks. As long as a single mark remained, he would have a chance to be reborn.

This was Su Yuan’s precautionary measure, just in case something unexpected happened.