Recaps

Chen Lin sought protection and a way to repair the Xikuli Cloak while uncovering new dangers tied to the Nightmare Realm and Yesterday Manor. After Wan Zhencang’s Conscription Order forced his hand, Chen Lin sent Chen Ling'er to safety and was assigned a mission that left him furious.

• Chen Lin claimed the damaged Heaven-Swallowing Golden Toad from the Treasure Vault and sought Master Kong’s help repairing the Xikuli Cloak, but Sword Woman’s residual Sword Will prevented the repair.
• Chen Lin entered Wen Xinzhao’s Nightmare Realm scenario, acquired the Yin-Yang Lotus, drank from the Spring Eye, and received the scroll and Exquisite Pagoda for a Realm-Protecting Array.
• Chen Lin reunited with Chen Ling'er, learned about her return from the Immortal Realm, and discovered that Luo Qinglan had sent her a Merit Coin.
• Chen Lin learned that Situ Nan could not remove the cloak’s exclusive Sword Will and traded Kong Wuchui a Nihility Fish and finger sand for the Sword Woman Scenario’s wooden sword scabbard.
• Gu Siming tried to fish out Chen Lin’s destiny fish, but he and Chen Ling'er destroyed her apparent body, and the Elder Council ruled that Gu Siming had acted first.
• Chen Lin obtained a Yunming Flower for Wen Xinzhao, who used the Yin-Yang Lotus to draw him into intimacy, while Wan Zhencang grew angry after learning they were alone together.
• After Wan Zhencang proposed conscripting Chen Lin, Wen Xinzhao helped him send Chen Ling'er through a passage to the Kaiyuan Realm, but Chen Lin was ordered to report to the Mission Hall.
• Chen Lin joined Li Xiangru and three Late Void Realm cultivators as Patriarch Huyan explained their mission, and Chen Lin grew livid at its details.

Chen Lin survived the Nightmare Realm, brought back Brilliant Divine Crystals, and joined the Alliance’s counterattack as an elder. He formed a team for a mission to the Sea of Despair, where the group faced hidden attackers, while Chen Lin advanced to the mid Void Realm.

• Li Xiangru led Chen Lin, Jin Qingyan, Mu Chen'an, and Feng Juxiu into the Nightmare Realm, where Chen Lin killed Feng Juxiu and the group discovered their spider forms were trapped on a chained giant’s palm.
• Mu Chen'an disintegrated after calculating the stars, while Chen Lin explored the finger spaces, found Star 1314, and learned that Jin Qingyan had turned into starlight.
• Li Xiangru was absorbed by the giant’s chains, and Chen Lin used a stone slab to alter the stars, collect Brilliant Divine Crystals, and absorb energy that advanced his inner stars.
• Chen Lin spent over a year in the Nightmare Realm before returning, gave his crystals to Jin Ruhua for the Alliance’s war effort, and received an elder’s seat despite objections from Huyan Wushuang and Sun Qingyang.
• Chen Lin completed the Divine Pagoda Coiling Dragon Array in the Kaiyuan Realm, chose the Sea of Despair mission, and recruited Luo Sanhuai, Gu Siming, and the injured Liu Rumian for his team.
• Chen Lin’s team traveled for half a year before Gu Siming spotted hidden Big-Eye Tribe attackers, and Chen Lin, Grass, and Gu Siming killed them.
• Gu Siming warned the team that someone might be directing the Big-Eye Tribe, and Chen Lin later broke through to the mid Void Realm while traveling.

Chen Lin refined the Crimson Moon Scimitar with Grass in the Chaos Thunder Pool, then was transported to the Nightmare Realm and completed a departure mission in the Sword Sea. He reached Luoxian City seeking a path to the Sword Woman, but found the city strangely deserted and its people reluctant to talk.

• Chen Lin refined his soul star while traveling through the Gen Domain, survived the Mist Lord’s attack, and gained control of the Crimson Moon Scimitar using a treasure-refining formula.
• Chen Lin and Grass entered the Thunder Pond, where Grass transformed the scimitar into an eternal treasure and Chen Lin absorbed the Chaos Thunder Pool’s origin essence.
• A Nightmare Realm force carried Chen Lin away from the collapsing pool, separating him from Grass and the others and leaving him stranded on an island in the Sword Sea.
• Chen Lin met Yuan Qing, learned that observing the Sword Woman’s Sword Formula was his departure mission, and exchanged treasures for Tianyi Divine Water and a Wizard Plane scroll containing the Sword of Adjudication.
• Chen Lin found a Wooden Sword that fit his scabbard and used the Spirit Infusion State until its spirit accepted him, allowing him to pass the Road Guide Barrier to the Second Layer.
• Wang Shouyi challenged Chen Lin, who killed him with the Wooden Sword after its spirit-infused thrust pierced his defense.
• Chen Lin reached Luoxian City and learned from a beggar about the Sword Woman, the Sword Masters, and the Sword Sect Masters.
• Chen Lin paid for an introduction to Lian Jiucheng and entered a nearly deserted teahouse, where he noticed that people avoided speaking or interacting.

Chen Lin entered Luoxian City’s Sword Pavilion, gained a sword inheritance, and traveled to the Central Continent seeking intentless stones and a way to reach the Sword Woman. After surviving a lethal artistic-conception fusion, he entered the Grandmaster Realm, leaving Wuwang Mountain’s retaliation unresolved.

• Chen Lin killed Chu Fuhu in a forced sword challenge, then passed the Sword Pond trial and earned a three-flower Sword Robe and the True Explanation of Sword Dao.
• Chen Lin took in Lin Qingyuan and Lin Qingyu, learned Xu Ruolan’s origins in Kaiyuan City, and killed Chu Funiu when she ambushed him outside Luoxian City.
• Chen Lin traveled to the Central Continent with the Lin siblings, obtained intentless stones, and learned from Xiao Ling that surviving Sword Lake could earn him an audience with Sword Woman.
• Chen Lin forged an Intentless Sword, received Sword Sect Master Xiaoling’s guidance about his conflicting powers, and learned a sword-will fusion formula.
• Chen Lin killed Li Qiusheng with the Intentless Sword and warned Wuwang Mountain against retaliation before returning to the Sword Manor.
• Chen Lin used the Fusion Intent Formula to unite his three artistic conceptions, survived the destruction and restoration of his body, and entered the Grandmaster Realm.