Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin emerged from the Sword Pavilion as a Three-Flower Swordsman and forced Yao Liuguang and two other White-Clothed Swordsmen to pay him Sword Coins. He agreed to take in the Lin Siblings, then headed into the Sword Pavilion with them to resolve their contracts after learning Ye Qinghua had died in the Sword Pond.

• Chen Lin appeared at the Sword Pavilion Entrance as a Three-Flower Swordsman, causing Yao Liuguang and the hook-nosed man and his companion to flee.
• Chen Lin blocked Yao Liuguang and pressured him into promising two thousand Sword Coins, then demanded one thousand each from the other two men.
• Lin Qingyuan explained that he and Lin Qingyu had become Ye Qinghua's Sword Servants, and Chen Lin agreed to take in the siblings.
• Chen Lin learned that Ye Qinghua's Sword Servants would be freed if she died in the Sword Pond, and he saw the grieving Ye Lineage party return without her.
• Chen Lin used Death Gaze on the powerful beardless man from the Ye Lineage, then waited without attracting punishment from the Sword Pavilion.
• Lin Qingyuan returned with four thousand Sword Coins, and Chen Lin led the siblings into the Sword Pavilion to settle their contracts.

After claiming Chu Fuhu’s estate, Chen Lin arranged to sell it and release its contracted servants. As the servants left, one woman revealed that Chu Fuhu had taken her against her will and named her Chu Qingning, originally Xu Ruolan.

• Chen Lin told Lin Qingyuan and Lin Qingyu that they would serve as Kaiyuan Sect disciples in this plane and led them to claim Chu Fuhu’s estate.
• Lin Qingyuan warned that Chu Fuhu’s relatives in the Ye Family Sword Pavilion could threaten Chen Lin outside Luoxian City, but Chen Lin continued to the estate.
• Chen Lin ordered steward Chu Mingyan to sell the estate and told Chu Fuhu’s contracted servants he would release them if they paid the contract-dissolution fees.
• Chen Lin stopped a woman in blue, who identified herself as Chu Qingning, originally Xu Ruolan, and said Chu Fuhu had forcibly made her his Sword Servant and designated her as a concubine.

Chen Lin recognized Xu Ruolan and questioned her about Kaiyuan City, discovering that it matched the city from his past almost exactly. He decided to visit after selling his residence, despite Xu Ruolan’s warning that people had been disappearing there.

• Chen Lin suspected Xu Ruolan was connected to someone he had known and asked her about her origins.
• Xu Ruolan explained that she came from Kaiyuan City and had become Chu Fuhu’s Sword Servant; Chen Lin promised to dissolve her contract and escort her home if she answered his questions.
• Xu Ruolan described Kaiyuan City’s location, city lord Yu Yuehai, Five Great Lineages, and Shuiyue Pavilion, and Chen Lin recognized the city as a projection of the place he had transmigrated into.
• Chen Lin decided to visit Kaiyuan City after selling his residence and told Xu Ruolan she could accompany him if she stayed by his side.
• Xu Ruolan warned Chen Lin that people had been disappearing from Kaiyuan City, and he said he understood before leaving the room.

Chen Lin visited the Sword Pavilion to seek a Sword Dao inheritance before leaving Luoxian City, while the Ye Lineage still threatened him and the Lin Siblings. After the Sword Spirit’s trials, he obtained the True Explanation of Sword Dao and began studying it as he returned with the siblings.

• Chen Lin learned that no one in Luoxian City dared to buy his residence because of the Ye Lineage, then terminated his group’s Sword Pavilion contracts and prepared to seek an inheritance.
• Xu Ruolan left to gather artifact refining materials, while Chen Lin told the Lin Siblings to wait outside and warned Lin Qingyu that she was not ready for the Sword Pond assessment.
• Chen Lin met the Pure White Small Sword, who tested his character by asking him to choose which of nine women to keep and which to kill; he refused both questions.
• The Sword Spirit made Chen Lin withstand a third trial he had already passed, then sent him into the inheritance space to choose one Light Orb.
• Chen Lin received the True Explanation of Sword Dao, left the Sword Pavilion, and returned toward the residence with the Lin Siblings while studying the inheritance.

Chen Lin studied the True Explanation of Sword Dao, learned why he could not reach the Grandmaster Realm, and left Luoxian City with the Lin Siblings to investigate Kaiyuan City. Chu Funiu ambushed him outside the city, and after his barrage of techniques failed to kill her, Chen Lin attacked with his Wooden Sword.

• Chen Lin absorbed the Sword Dao inheritance and learned that the Sword Master Realm corresponded to the eternal tier, while reaching the Grandmaster Realm required Man and Sword as One.
• After a month of studying, Chen Lin realized his disparate cultivation methods and lack of a sword heart prevented him from forming pure sword will, though he refused to fuse Grass into himself.
• Chen Lin departed Luoxian City with the Lin Siblings, wary that the Ye Lineage was waiting for him to leave before taking revenge.
• When Chu Funiu confronted Chen Lin outside the city, she revealed she had cleared the area and intended to kill him without witnesses.
• Chen Lin struck Chu Funiu with Death Gaze, Silence Technique, Flame Palm, Soul-Destroying Finger, and other attacks, but her force field withstood most of them.
• Chen Lin rose above Chu Funiu, activated the spirit infusion state, and thrust his Wooden Sword down at her head.

Chen Lin killed Chu Funiu, reached Nishang City, and learned that Xu Ruolan’s heirloom scroll described a sword that could store Sword Will. He left for Kaiyuan City with the Lin Siblings, still investigating the scroll’s hidden mark and considering what to do if it contained a projection of himself.

• Chen Lin killed Chu Funiu, gave her silver Natal Sword to Lin Qingyuan, and left with the Lin Siblings after checking that no one from the Ye Lineage was nearby.
• A month later, Chen Lin entered Nishang City and met Xu Ruolan, who offered him her family’s sword-refining scroll in exchange for help finding intentless stone.
• Chen Lin discovered a mark on Xu Ruolan’s scroll, then learned that Master Mogan could not make him a sword for three years because of the queue and lack of thunderbolt materials.
• The Lin Siblings obtained treasured swords, and Chen Lin left Nishang City with them in a ground caravan to cross the illusory Nishang Mountain Range safely.
• Chen Lin read that the Intentless Sword could store Sword Will for anyone to wield and began examining the scroll’s mark for a hidden world and a possible Soul Projection of himself.

Chen Lin investigated a Nightmare Realm projection of Kaiyuan City, encountered a mysterious old man who seemed to be his Soul Projection, and then boarded a cruise ship bound for the Central Continent. The chapter left him facing a hostile greeting as he stepped out of his cabin.

• Chen Lin learned that Nightmare Realm Kaiyuan City resembled his memories, but his own projection was believed to be dead, so he avoided entering the city.
• A Donkey-Riding Old Man quoted sayings from Chen Lin’s previous life and alluded to the date 1314 before disappearing; Chen Lin suspected he was a stronger Soul Projection.
• Chen Lin departed with Lin Qingyuan and Lin Qingyu and concluded that the projection’s warning about 1314 might be connected to Niuniu’s letter.
• Chen Lin worried that his Merit Coin might not work in the Scenario, then boarded a Transoceanic Cruise Ship with the Lin siblings to travel to the Central Continent.
• When Chen Lin stepped out of his cabin to gather information, a hostile voice called out to him as Fellow Daoist Chen.

Chen Lin struck a bargain with Ye Tianming over intentless stone, agreeing not to help Ye Qinghan dispel the death intent in exchange for the stones. After Ye Qinghan died, Chen Lin received ten stones aboard the cruise ship, then learned Lin Qingyu had refined her Natal Sword and opened a Sword Intent Space.

• Ye Tianming asked Chen Lin to let Ye Qinghan die from the death intent, and Chen Lin agreed not to help remove it if Ye Tianming supplied intentless stone.
• Ye Tianming revealed the Ye Lineage mined a Wuyi Stone Vein for the Luoxian Sword Sect and offered Chen Lin a hundred stones if he shared his secret method for using them.
• Ye Tianming arranged to deliver ten intentless stones to the cruise ship and said he would send the rest to Chen Lin in the Central Continent.
• At the ship's final stop, Ye Tianming gave Chen Lin a bag of ten intentless stones and reported that the Ye family patriarch had died.
• Lin Qingyu told Chen Lin she had refined the Galaxy Sword, wielded its Sword Will, and opened a Sword Intent Space.
• Chen Lin praised Lin Qingyu's talent, and she vowed that she and Lin Qingyuan would remain his Sword Servants for life.

Chen Lin tested intentless stone and traveled to Wanjin City to pursue the materials needed for an Intentless Sword. There, he learned that the newly appointed Ye clan leader, Ye Sanhuan, was a sixteen-year-old Three-Flower Swordsman backed by the Wuwang Sword Master, leaving him to prepare for a dangerous confrontation.

• Chen Lin found that intentless stone reacted to his Thunder Sword Will and Lin Qingyu’s Galaxy Sword but not to his other intents, and he advised her not to suppress her natural temperament.
• After reaching the Central Continent, Chen Lin learned that he needed at least a hundred intentless stones and told Lin Qingyu he would either release her contract or make her his sword partner if she passed the Sword Guest assessment.
• Lin Qingyu boldly declared that she would have Chen Lin, while Lin Qingyuan apologized for her outburst.
• At the Ye Family Trading Firm in Wanjin City, Chen Lin learned that Ye Sanhuan had become clan leader after killing a ranked swordsman and had been accepted as the Wuwang Sword Master’s disciple.
• Chen Lin demanded detailed information about Ye Sanhuan and the Wuwang Sword Master, and told Ye Tianming to prepare at least a hundred pieces of intentless stone.

Chen Lin registered for the Personal Guard Selection and used the Sword Pavilion's Teleportation Gate to reach the Central Sword Tower, hoping to get closer to the Sword Woman. He left the Lin Siblings behind with instructions to gather intentless stones and investigate otherworldly Explorers, then flew toward the busiest part of the tower.

• Chen Lin assessed the threat posed by Ye Sanhuan and the Wuwang Sword Master, then decided that becoming a Personal Guard might be his best path to the Sword Lake.
• Chen Lin accompanied Lin Qingyu to the Sword Pavilion, where she passed the examination and became a White-Clothed Swordsman.
• Chen Lin learned that the Personal Guard Selection would begin in three months and that registered candidates could use the Teleportation Gate to reach the Central Sword Tower.
• Chen Lin told the Lin Siblings to collect intentless stones and investigate Explorers and their means of leaving the realm, then gave them Sword Coins and sent them away.
• Chen Lin registered for the selection, traveled to the Central Sword Tower, surveyed the Sword Lake and surrounding peaks, and flew toward the area with the most sword light.

Chen Lin visited the Odd Stone Pavilion in Center City to buy intentless stones, but he lacked enough Sword Coins. He sold ten brilliant divine crystals to secure the shop’s stock and reserve more stones, when a White-Haired Woman suddenly appeared.

• Chen Lin entered the Odd Stone Pavilion after spotting its sign and asked whether it sold intentless stones.
• A Sword Guest in white quoted a price of one thousand Sword Coins per stone and offered to gather up to a hundred from other shops.
• Chen Lin tried to sell a red bell and a Silk Scarf, but the Sword Guest in white refused to buy the heretical items.
• Chen Lin offered a brilliant divine crystal, and the Sword Guest in white agreed to value each one at two thousand Sword Coins.
• Chen Lin sold ten crystals to buy the shop’s intentless stones and reserve the rest, then a White-Haired Woman appeared before the counter.

Chen Lin met Xiao Ling, the White Fiend Sword Master, after she took an interest in his divine crystals and questioned him about their origin. He explained the Rainbow Realm and the Star-Plucking Clan’s scenario, and the chapter ended with Xiao Ling asking whether he had come to peep at Sword Women bathing.

• Xiao Ling arrived at the shop, examined Chen Lin’s divine crystals, and asked where he had obtained them.
• Chen Lin followed Xiao Ling into a private room and said the crystals came from a Star-Plucking Clan scenario he could not revisit.
• Xiao Ling deduced that Chen Lin was an Explorer from beyond the realm, and Chen Lin confirmed it.
• Xiao Ling revealed that her real name was Xiao Lingdang and that she held the title of White Fiend Sword Master.
• Chen Lin described the Rainbow Realm, the Nightmare Realm, and the Star-Plucking Clan’s scenario to Xiao Ling.
• Xiao Ling lamented that she wanted to see the outside world, then asked whether Chen Lin had come to peep at Sword Women bathing.

Chen Lin learned from Xiao Ling that becoming a Personal Guard could trap him in the realm, while crossing Sword Lake was another way to meet Sword Woman. Xiao Ling warned him about the selection and gave him a Letter Sword, leaving him with a safer path to pursue his task.

• Chen Lin asked Xiao Ling why Sword Cultivators did not use an honorific for Sword Woman, and Xiao Ling said Sword Woman disliked them.
• Chen Lin explained that Explorers entered the Nightmare Realm to complete tasks and that watching Sword Woman bathe might be tied to one; Xiao Ling warned that previous intruders had died.
• Chen Lin traded Xiao Ling twenty Brilliant Crystal Stones for information about meeting Sword Woman.
• Xiao Ling told Chen Lin that becoming a Personal Guard would bind him to the realm, while safely crossing Sword Lake could earn him an audience with Sword Woman.
• Xiao Ling warned Chen Lin that he could not withdraw from the Personal Guard Selection after registering and gave him a Letter Sword to contact her.

Chen Lin confirmed that braving Sword Lake was his only way to complete the departure mission, then learned that people could fish from the shore without violating the Sword Woman’s rules. He cast the Fishing Rod from Gambling Fortune Lake into the lake, hoping to catch one of its creatures and its sword formula.

• Chen Lin exchanged his Brilliant Crystal Stones for intentless stones with Xiao Ling’s help and confirmed through further inquiries that Sword Sect Master Xiaoling’s information about Sword Lake was accurate.
• Chen Lin decided he had to brave Sword Lake soon, before the personal guard selection could put him in danger, and flew to the lakeshore with his Merit Coin ready.
• Chen Lin watched the lake but could not pierce its mysterious energy with his soul perception.
• Chen Lin saw Liang Laosan catch a crab and learn that it carried a complete sword formula visible only to its captor.
• A white-clothed swordsman told Chen Lin that fishing from shore did not break the Sword Woman’s rules, so Chen Lin cast the Fishing Rod from Gambling Fortune Lake into Sword Lake.

Chen Lin forged an Intentless Sword that could store another person’s Sword Will, then asked Sword Sect Master Xiaoling to infuse it with his Bright Sword Will. Xiaoling warned Chen Lin that his scattered cultivation could prevent him from becoming a Sword Master, then suppressed Chen Lin to test his abilities and noticed his Mermaid Sword.

• Chen Lin left Sword Lake after failing to catch anything and retrieved the remaining intentless stone from Odd Stone Pavilion.
• Chen Lin used his talent ability to forge an Intentless Sword that could absorb and store Sword Will.
• Chen Lin brought the sword to Sword Sect Master Xiaoling, who tested it and warned Chen Lin that his varied methods and impure aura could hinder his cultivation.
• Sword Sect Master Xiaoling infused the Intentless Sword with his Bright Sword Will, giving Chen Lin a weapon capable of killing anyone below Grandmaster.
• Sword Sect Master Xiaoling suppressed Chen Lin’s abilities, and Chen Lin drew his Mermaid Sword as a last resort before Xiaoling released him and asked about the sword’s mysteries.

Chen Lin learned from Sword Sect Master Xiaoling that Gu Huang could be found in the Star-Plucking Clan's territory and that the Sword Woman's recognition was the only way out of the realm. Xiaoling also explained Chen Lin's powers and the two paths of Sword Dao cultivation, revealing that the realm's fixed numbers of Sword Masters and Grandmasters reflected the Sword Woman's fused Sword Wills.

• Sword Sect Master Xiaoling asked Chen Lin to find Gu Huang in the Star-Plucking Clan's territory and tell him that the flowers of Qishan had bloomed.
• Xiaoling told Chen Lin that Gu Huang had left the realm after earning the Sword Woman's recognition, and that Chen Lin would need to brave Sword Lake to leave.
• Xiaoling identified Chen Lin's Death Intent, flame, and Thunder Sword Will as his three cultivable powers, and explained that his Death Intent hindered his progress toward Man and Sword as One.
• Xiaoling described the true-self and other-self paths of Sword Dao cultivation and said the Sword Woman followed the path of fusing many Sword Wills.
• Xiaoling explained that the realm's thirty-six Sword Masters corresponded to the Sword Woman's main Sword Wills, while its three hundred and sixty Grandmasters corresponded to their branches.

Chen Lin learned that his dominator-characteristic death intent could prevent him from advancing in either his world’s cultivation system or the sword realm unless he found a way to fuse it. Sword Sect Master Xiaoling advised him to seek the Sword Woman and gave him a sword formula before Chen Lin began studying it at the inn.

• Chen Lin asked Sword Sect Master Xiaoling why he could not achieve Man and Sword as One, and Xiaoling explained that Chen Lin’s death intent repelled other powers.
• Xiaoling warned that the Dao of True Self required Chen Lin to purge other powers, while the Dao of Alter Ego would be hindered by the death intent.
• Xiaoling said Chen Lin might never become a Sword Master or attain eternity unless he fused the death intent, and directed him to seek the Sword Woman for answers.
• Chen Lin promised to help Xiaoling find someone in the Star-Plucking Clan’s scenario, and Xiaoling gave him an inheritance sword containing a sword-will fusion formula.
• Chen Lin returned to the inn, activated the inheritance sword, and received the formula’s knowledge.

Chen Lin mastered the Crit Fusion Intent Formula and attempted to fuse his three Artistic Conceptions, hoping to reach the Grandmaster realm and improve his chances of leaving the scenario. The attempt failed catastrophically because the Artistic Conceptions were too uneven in strength, leaving him to seek a way to balance them.

• Chen Lin studied the Crit Fusion Intent Formula and mastered it in one day.
• Chen Lin decided he had to brave the Sword Lake and chose to fuse his Artistic Conceptions first, hoping to become a Grandmaster and summon Grass.
• Chen Lin rented a cultivation room at the Heaven and Earth Sword Manor, made preparations, and collided his three Artistic Conceptions.
• The fusion left Chen Lin's body torn apart, but he used his soul and a restorative pill to reconnect his flesh and survive.
• Chen Lin realized Chess Intent was too weak to withstand Thunder Artistic Conception and Tyrant Emperor Artistic Conception, so he left the Sword Manor to find a way to balance them.

Chen Lin found a Tiger King Pill but no way to strengthen his Chess Intent, then considered whether he should cross Sword Lake. When Li Qiusheng of Wuwang Mountain challenged him, Chen Lin used the Intentless Sword’s hidden Sword Will to kill him and returned to the Sword Manor wary of retaliation.

• Chen Lin bought a Tiger King Pill and considered replacing the Sword Will stored in the Intentless Sword with Chess Intent, but hesitated to waste the sword’s power.
• Chen Lin pondered whether to cross Sword Lake and decided to follow his Talent Ability’s guidance by waiting until he entered the Grandmaster Realm.
• Li Qiusheng of Wuwang Mountain challenged Chen Lin to avenge Ye Sanhuan’s kin, and Chen Lin provoked him before the challenge could be refused.
• Chen Lin unleashed the Intentless Sword’s Sword Will, which annihilated Li Qiusheng, and collected the items left behind.
• Chen Lin told the spectators to warn Wuwang Mountain’s people not to seek revenge, then flew back to the Sword Manor fearing an attack.

Chen Lin fused his three artistic conceptions with the Fusion Intent Formula and ascended to the Grandmaster Realm. He remained in the Sword Manor, restraining himself from testing his new power there.

• Chen Lin returned to the Sword Manor, shut the gates, and prepared to fuse his artistic conceptions while avoiding Wuwang Mountain's retaliation.
• Chen Lin balanced his Thunder and Tyrant Emperor Artistic Conceptions, activated the Intentless Sword, and used the Fusion Intent Formula to combine all three artistic conceptions.
• The fusion blew apart Chen Lin's body, but the Fusion Intent Formula held the artistic conceptions together as they slowly gathered and changed.
• After sustaining the spirit infusion state for two incense sticks, Chen Lin absorbed the transformed artistic conception into his mind and entered the Grandmaster Realm.
• Chen Lin's body restored itself, and he formed a sword from his new Sword Will before deciding not to test its power inside the Sword Manor.