Recaps

After killing Sword Fanatic, Cangwu cowed the Eastern Region cultivators and pressed onward, challenging them to stop him. A crimson spear appeared in his path, and Xu Yang introduced himself as the Spear Immortal and challenged Cangwu.

• Cangwu mocked the Eastern Region cultivators after killing Sword Fanatic, calling them trash and demanding they surrender their territory.
• Cangwu singled out a cultivator, who refused to fight, and killed him with a sword strike.
• Cangwu advanced through the crowd, forcing tens of thousands of cultivators to retreat as they feared his power.
• A crimson spear shattered the Void in front of Cangwu and floated before him.
• Xu Yang announced that he had come to seek Cangwu's guidance.

Xu Yang, a previously unknown rogue cultivator, challenged Cangwu and fought him with a flaming spear. After their opening exchanges, both combatants had retreated ten zhang, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Xu Yang arrived and told Cangwu he had come to behead him.
• Xu Yang opened with Prairie Fire, and Cangwu blocked the spear thrust with three sword feathers.
• Xu Yang used Heaven Incineration, forcing Cangwu to evade a massive blade of flame.
• Cangwu unleashed a rain of violet sword feathers, and Xu Yang defended himself with a wall of fire.
• Xu Yang attacked with Army Breaker, but Cangwu crossed his wings to block the thrust.
• A bolt of violet lightning engulfed Xu Yang and Cangwu, and both retreated ten zhang when it faded.

Xu Yang and Cangwu escalated their duel after Xu Yang’s first three spears shattered several of Cangwu’s sword-feathers. Xu Yang’s fourth spear forced Cangwu to retreat and damaged his violet sword, leaving Cangwu impressed by his strength.

• Xu Yang and Cangwu faced each other after their first clash, while the watching cultivators marveled that Xu Yang had fought Cangwu to a draw.
• Cangwu summoned a violet sword from his sword-feathers and challenged Xu Yang to reveal his fourth spear.
• Xu Yang unleashed Saintfall, plunging down at Cangwu with a blazing white spear.
• Cangwu met Xu Yang’s spear with an upward slash, but the impact cracked his sword and drove him into the Void.
• Cangwu retreated a hundred zhang to evade Xu Yang’s spear and saw a deep notch in his blade.

Xu Yang’s fifth spear form, Annihilation, forced Cangwu to take him seriously. Cangwu awakened his Chaos Ancient Clan bloodline, surged to the Pseudo Fourth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm, and prepared to continue the fight.

• Xu Yang unleashed Annihilation, sending a thread of white light toward Cangwu that threatened his soul and the foundation of his laws.
• Cangwu blocked the strike with nine layers of sword light, but the Annihilation pierced seven layers and left a mark on his chest.
• Cangwu acknowledged Xu Yang’s strength and said he would use his full power.
• Cangwu awakened the Chaos Ancient Clan’s Swordline Awakening, raising his cultivation to the Pseudo Fourth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm and condensing a stronger sword.

Xu Yang and Cangwu unleashed their strongest attacks, leaving both badly wounded. Cangwu spared Xu Yang and challenged him to master the seventh spear strike and return for another fight.

• Cangwu attacked with a full-powered Severance Origin sword strike as Xu Yang used his unstable sixth spear strike, Godslayer.
• Their attacks annihilated each other, collapsing part of the Void and blasting both fighters backward.
• Xu Yang crashed into a crater with severe injuries, while Cangwu lost his sword and many sword feathers and suffered a wound.
• Cangwu praised Xu Yang as his most worthy opponent in the Eastern Region and chose not to kill him.
• Xu Yang said he would learn the seventh spear strike, and Cangwu told him to return and reclaim his life.

Xu Yang left after fighting Cangwu to a standstill, and Cangwu entered the Eastern Region to challenge its experts. Three Chaos Ancient Clan Holy Clan powerhouses went in together, while the cultivators could only watch; Yun Qiyue then asked her junior brother what he thought of the fight.

• Xu Yang threatened to kill Cangwu next time they met, then limped away with his spear.
• The observing cultivators praised Xu Yang's strength and speculated that his spear technique might come from a Saint's method.
• Cangwu dismissed the onlookers and announced that he would challenge the Eastern Region's powerhouses one by one.
• Two more powerhouses bearing the Chaos Ancient Clan's Holy Clan bloodline joined Cangwu, and the three entered the Eastern Region without opposition.
• The cultivators followed the trio, frustrated that they lacked the strength to stop them.
• Yun Qiyue asked her junior brother what he thought of the battle, and he replied that it was average.

Ye Lin dismissed Cangwu as average and explained to Yun Qiyue why he had no reason to fight him for fame. As Ye Lin prepared to leave, Cangwu and his two friends appeared behind him and demanded to know his identity.

• Yun Qiyue questioned Ye Lin’s assessment of Cangwu, and Ye Lin said Cangwu was weaker than Ning Yi.
• Ye Lin told Yun Qiyue he had not fought Cangwu because killing him would bring no benefit and fame would only invite trouble.
• Ye Lin decided to leave and wondered about the Spirit King’s strength and the possibility of exchanging blows with him.
• Cangwu and his two friends appeared behind Ye Lin, and Cangwu demanded that he state his name.

Cangwu confronted Ye Lin after overhearing him call Cangwu’s strength average, but Ye Lin escaped with Yun Qiyue before Cangwu could attack. After learning Ye Lin’s name and that he was in Dao Sword City, Cangwu and his brothers set off to pursue him.

• Cangwu confronted Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue over Ye Lin calling his strength average.
• Cangwu unleashed his aura and challenged Ye Lin, but Ye Lin refused to fight unless Cangwu offered something that interested him.
• Cangwu attacked, and Ye Lin grabbed Yun Qiyue and vanished with his extraordinary speed.
• Cangwu and his brothers pursued Ye Lin but lost track of him until someone identified him as a Human Race cultivator named Ye Lin and said he was in Dao Sword City.
• Cangwu and his brothers headed for Dao Sword City, while Ye Lin brought Yun Qiyue back there and remarked that Cangwu seemed odd.

Ye Lin accepted Cangwu’s Windcloud Mirror as the wager and faced him in a duel outside Dao Sword City. Ye Lin effortlessly damaged Cangwu’s sword and then launched a second attack that shattered Cangwu’s defensive sword nest.

• Cangwu offered Ye Lin the Windcloud Mirror and challenged him to wager the treasure and his life.
• Ye Lin accepted, and Cangwu attacked with a purple sword formed from his sword-feathers.
• Ye Lin used Primeval Heaven-Opening with two fingers, sending Cangwu flying and notching his postnatal supreme treasure sword.
• Cangwu unleashed his Third Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm power, but Ye Lin appeared before him and struck with Yin-Yang Division.
• Cangwu formed a defensive sword nest from his feathers, and Ye Lin’s Yin and Yang energies shattered it.

Ye Lin overwhelmed Cangwu with the Five Elements Cycle and revealed the Primeval Sword Art as the sword art that would kill him. Cangwu awakened his bloodline and forcibly reached the Fourth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm, then attacked Ye Lin with his fully unleashed Severance Origin as Ye Lin countered with Life-Death Reincarnation.

• Ye Lin blasted Cangwu through three floating mountain peaks, leaving him badly wounded.
• Ye Lin used the Five Elements Cycle to crush Cangwu’s sword attacks and force him to one knee.
• Ye Lin told Cangwu that his sword dao was weak and named the Primeval Sword Art as the art that would slay him.
• Cangwu awakened the second stage of his bloodline, forcibly broke through to the Fourth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm, and unleashed his Severance Origin.
• Cangwu charged Ye Lin with an enormous purple sword, and Ye Lin met the attack with Life-Death Reincarnation.

Ye Lin defeated Cangwu with his fourth sword, then froze him in spacetime and erased him with Karma Annihilation. He retrieved the unscathed Windcloud Mirror from the empty crater.

• Ye Lin's fourth sword destroyed Cangwu's right wing and shattered his foundation, reducing his realm as he crashed into a crater.
• Ye Lin used Spacetime Stasis to freeze Cangwu while leaving his consciousness intact.
• Ye Lin severed Cangwu's karmic threads with Karma Annihilation, erasing him completely.
• Ye Lin picked up the unscathed Windcloud Mirror and put it away.

Ye Lin killed Cangwu with overwhelming ease, frightening the two remaining members of the Chaos Ancient Clan into fleeing. He returned to Dao Sword City and discovered the Windcloud Mirror could monitor a vast area and replay events, leaving him pleased with his new treasure.

• Ye Lin asked the two remaining Chaos Ancient Clan members if they wanted to fight, and they fled in terror.
• Ye Lin entered Dao Sword City while the surrounding cultivators watched him with awe and fear.
• Ye Lin reached the City Lord Mansion and learned how to use the Windcloud Mirror.
• Ye Lin realized the Windcloud Mirror could observe events across hundreds of millions of li and replay them, and he decided it was a valuable treasure.

Ye Lin found a map and half a jade pendant beneath Sword Elder and decided to follow the map to investigate the place it marked. After Ye Lin left, Sword Elder revealed that the Sword Dao had acknowledged Ye Lin as its master and called him the Lord of the Sword Dao.

• Ye Lin searched Dao Sword City through the Windcloud Mirror but found no powerful experts.
• Ye Lin discovered a map and half a jade pendant beneath the drunken Sword Elder and recognized the map’s markings.
• Ye Lin suspected Sword Elder had deliberately shown him the map and decided to visit the marked place, taking the pendant with him.
• Ye Lin left Dao Sword City in a streak of light.
• Sword Elder opened his eyes and said the Sword Dao had acknowledged Ye Lin as its master.

Ye Lin reached the hidden bronze gate marked on his map and opened it with his jade pendant and hand. He entered a grand hall lined with jeweled bronze chairs and statues, but the chapter ended before he discovered its purpose.

• Ye Lin followed the map from Dao Sword City to a bronze gate covered in sword scars and embedded blades.
• Ye Lin matched his jade pendant to a recess in the gate and placed his palm in the neighboring handprint recess.
• The bronze gate split open and revealed a great hall with a red carpet, jeweled bronze chairs, and weapon-bearing statues in wall alcoves.

Ye Lin recognized the place as the Bronze Immortal Hall and realized its door, jade pendant, and central chair had all been prepared for him. After taking the seat, he watched sixty glowing figures appear in the hall and sit in the other bronze chairs.

• Ye Lin recognized the hall as the Bronze Immortal Hall he had encountered before, and the jade pendant flew from the entrance into his hand.
• He found indentations for the pendant and his hand beside the central chair, then realized the hall had been arranged for him and vowed to kill whoever was controlling his fate.
• Ye Lin placed the jade pendant in its indentation, sat down, and put his palm on the armrest.
• The doors shut, the hall went dark, and sixty streaks of light appeared above Ye Lin.
• The sixty lights settled onto the bronze chairs as glowing figures identical to the statues, and they turned to look at Ye Lin.

Ye Lin was mistaken for the returned Sword Dao Master by sixty figures, who began transforming his Sword Dao. As they uncovered his original Sword Heart, Ye Lin was pulled into visions of a more ancient past.

• Sixty figures knelt before Ye Lin and welcomed him as the Dao Master's return.
• The figures explained that Ye Lin was the reincarnated Sword Dao Master and began the first stage of Sword Dao transformation.
• Ye Lin's consciousness dissolved into the figures' Sword Intent and encountered a colossal sword in the void.
• The figures revealed the origins of the Sword Dao as the first sword mark cleaved Chaos apart.
• Sword-like flames stripped away Ye Lin's impurities and exposed a tiny ray of his original Sword Heart.
• The Sword Heart surged, pulling Ye Lin through layers of void toward memories of his ancient past.

Ye Lin underwent the first transformation as the sixty figures awakened the original sword imprint within his consciousness and reshaped him with Sword Intent. The process continued as his true self began to shrink beneath the endless sea of swords.

• Ye Lin saw a mysterious swordsman carving apart Chaos and heard a voice call him back.
• The colossal sword changed into translucent Liuli, and the sixty figures explained that they were awakening the first sword imprint in Ye Lin’s consciousness.
• Sword radiance surged into Ye Lin and formed ten thousand sword Dao pathways through his body, leaving tiny swords revolving in his eyes.
• The sixty figures judged his foundation unstable and sank him into an endless sea of Sword Intent.
• Ye Lin accepted the Sword Intents as they washed over his consciousness, and he felt his true self shrinking.

Ye Lin underwent the first transformation as the Sword Intent awakened his original Sword Heart and reshaped his memories and cultivation. He emerged at the Third Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm, close to the Fourth Heaven, but chose not to break through again immediately.

• Sword Intent stripped away Ye Lin's memories and began awakening a vast, ancient existence within him.
• The Sword Intent converged on Ye Lin's brow and formed a mysterious sword seal, allowing his consciousness and memories to reassemble around a sword core.
• Ye Lin learned that the sword beneath him had revealed its true form: an ancient black sword named the Origin of Dao.
• The sixty figures said Ye Lin had awakened the Dao Lord's original Sword Heart and laid the foundation for the remaining eight transformations.
• Ye Lin's ten thousand eight hundred sword-path meridians transformed his power into pure sword essence, advancing him from the second to the Third Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm.
• Ye Lin sensed he was close to the Fourth Heaven but chose not to enter seclusion and break through again.

Ye Lin learned that the Sword Dao’s former followers had suffered under his traitorous disciple and were fading away after helping him complete a transformation. He was left questioning whether he was truly the Dao Master of the Sword Dao.

• The sixty figures told Ye Lin that his traitorous disciple had tormented them and claimed the Sword Dao’s title, but they still recognized Ye Lin as their true Dao Master.
• The figures said they would do their utmost to help Ye Lin complete his next eight transformations, then warned that they could no longer intervene without exposing him.
• The figures said the myriad Bitter Seas had been reshaped by karma as their final aid to Ye Lin, then vanished as the bronze gate opened.
• Ye Lin noticed that the jade pendant on the seat’s armrest had disappeared.
• Ye Lin reviewed his cultivation, abilities, and destiny, then wondered whether he was the Dao Master of the Sword Dao.

Ye Lin left the Bronze Immortal Hall after gaining a major increase in cultivation and strength, choosing not to dwell on the mysterious changes or the claim that he was the Sword Dao’s master. Back in Dao Sword City, he found Sword Elder gone and resolved to accept the benefits while waiting to learn the truth later.

• Ye Lin reached the Third Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm and gained a dramatic increase in strength after leaving the Bronze Immortal Hall.
• Ye Lin took the jade pendant and left the hall, deciding not to investigate its mysteries further.
• Ye Lin returned to Dao Sword City a day later and searched the City Lord Mansion for Sword Elder, but found he had disappeared.
• Ye Lin examined the jade pendant and speculated that Sword Elder might be one of the sixty statues connected to the Bronze Immortal Hall.
• Ye Lin decided to accept the benefits and trust that he would learn what he needed to know in the future.

Ye Lin entered the Sword Dao Holy Land to attempt the true disciple assessment and began its first trial, the Sword Heart Trial. After answering why he wielded a sword and whether he regretted his path, he faced the trial’s final question.

• Ye Lin activated the Sword Heart Seal and traveled to the Sword Dao Holy Land.
• Ye Lin greeted Senior Cangfeng, confirmed he would take the assessment, and learned that it had three trials.
• Cangfeng sent Ye Lin into the first stage of the Sword Heart Trial, called Wenxin, where he had to answer three questions.
• The trial showed Ye Lin scenes from his past before asking why he wielded a sword, and Ye Lin answered that the sword had seized hold of him.
• The trial asked whether Ye Lin regretted his path, and he replied that every mark along it had made him who he was.

Ye Lin passed the first Sword Heart trial by declaring that his will to cleave apart all things was the true origin of the Sword Dao. He entered a snowfield holding 108 sword-soul projections, where Cangfeng explained the rules of the second trial: defeat a chosen opponent within three attempts.

• Ye Lin answered the third question by explaining that his primal will would create a new Sword Dao even if swords and the old Dao vanished.
• The Vast Expanse shattered, and its fragments formed a stairway beneath Ye Lin’s feet.
• Cangfeng announced that Ye Lin had passed the Wenxin trial and praised the clarity of his Dao Heart.
• Ye Lin climbed into a snowfield containing 108 stone steles and swords belonging to past direct disciples.
• Cangfeng explained that Ye Lin had to defeat one chosen sword-soul projection, with up to three attempts before the trial ended.

Ye Lin chose Blackwater Worldslayer, a Fourth Heaven Quasi-Saint whose projection was limited to peak Third Heaven strength, for the True Disciple assessment. Worldslayer began their fight with a devastating downward sword strike.

• Ye Lin passed the remaining steles without hesitation and stopped at Blackwater Worldslayer’s, despite Cangfeng warning him about Worldslayer’s strength and experience.
• Ye Lin tapped Worldslayer’s black greatsword and declared that he would choose him.
• Worldslayer’s sword-soul projection emerged, and Ye Lin told him he was not afraid.
• Worldslayer raised his greatsword, darkening the snowfield, then launched a direct downward slash that drew the surrounding light into its blade.

Ye Lin stopped Tu Shi’s Black Sword with two fingers, then split Tu Shi’s full-strength Abyssfall strike with a single sweep. The sweep reached Tu Shi’s chest but dissipated without cutting him.

• Ye Lin caught Tu Shi’s sword strike between two fingers and neutralized its force and Abyssal Sword Intent.
• Tu Shi retreated, saw the faint mark on his blade, and laughed before challenging Ye Lin to withstand another sword.
• Tu Shi unleashed Abyssal Sword Intent, Tenth Layer—Abyssfall, with his full strength.
• Ye Lin coated his fingertips with silver Sword Seal power and split the layered darkness with a horizontal stroke.
• Ye Lin’s stroke stopped against Tu Shi’s robes and dissipated without injuring him.

Ye Lin defeated Tu Shi in the second trial and entered the Sword Graveyard for the third trial, where he had to earn the acknowledgment of every sleeping sword. The ancient swords nearest him began to tremble as he surveyed the endless graveyard.

• Tu Shi admitted defeat and said his sword feared something it sensed within Ye Lin.
• Tu Shi’s projection vanished, leaving a new slash carved into his stone stele.
• Cangfeng announced that Ye Lin had passed the strength trial and described the third trial, Myriad Swords Pay Homage.
• Ye Lin entered the gate and found himself in an immense Sword Graveyard filled with ancient swords.
• The swords closest to Ye Lin trembled and hummed as he stood among them.