Recaps

Ye Lin and his three Dao Protectors collected Origin Crystals from Shattered Star Lake, the Ancient Vine Forest, Thunderclap Valley, Bone-Eroding Swamp, and the Phantom Light Maze. With the last two crystals marked at the Extinction Volcanoes, they reached the central volcano and completed the map as they began their approach.

• Ye Lin killed Li Song and watched Iron Hammer, Sword Demon, and Blade Fanatic defeat their opponents, then collected the old man's remaining map to the crystals.
• Ye Lin led the group to Shattered Star Lake, where Iron Hammer drew out and fought giant beasts while Blade Fanatic and Sword Demon helped secure the watery-blue Origin Crystal.
• At the Ancient Vine Forest, Iron Hammer broke through the Mother Vine's defenses and took the green Origin Crystal after its vines revealed it.
• The four endured Thunderclap Valley's lightning and took the dark-violet Origin Crystal from its center.
• In Bone-Eroding Swamp, Ye Lin destroyed the rune-inscribed bones that revived the skeletons, allowing him to take the altar's Origin Crystal.
• The group crossed the Phantom Light Maze, where Ye Lin seized the central Origin Crystal and destroyed the Mirror Demons.
• Ye Lin led the group west to the Extinction Volcanoes, where the map placed the final two Origin Crystals deep in the central volcano's lava lake.
• The four avoided volcanic hazards and reached the central volcano, where Ye Lin fitted the map's remaining corner into place.

Ye Lin claimed the sword inheritance, forged the Ten Thousand Calamities Undying Flame, and gained a deeper grasp of the Sword Dao. After defeating three Time Temple cultivators, he entered the Reverse Time Golden Tower and reached its Hourglass of Time, which began consuming his arm.

• Ye Lin gathered the nine Origin Crystals and endured a dangerous fusion of the altar’s fire origin with the Great Sun Nether Flame, creating the Ten Thousand Calamities Undying Flame.
• Ye Lin received the sword inheritance’s Severance, Penetration, and Void intents, forged his own Sword Intent, and shared his insights with Sword Demon, Blade Fanatic, and Iron Hammer.
• Ye Lin and his companions left the inheritance site, reunited with Qing Luo, and found the Reverse Time Golden Tower on their journey through the ancient path.
• Ye Lin killed three Time Temple cultivators who tried to open the tower, then learned from their treasures that its seventh floor held the Time Hourglass.
• Ye Lin and his companions entered the tower and passed its time traps, shifting-room maze, mirror-image trial, and inner-demon trial, while Ye Lin passed up several rewards.
• Ye Lin overcame a vision of his future on the fifth floor, then spent a month trapped in an endless battlefield on the sixth floor before meditation revealed a passage.
• Ye Lin reached the lowest floor and used his Sword Dao to suppress the currents around the Hourglass of Time, but severed his withering arm when the treasure began to consume it.

Ye Lin claimed the Hourglass of Time, crossed the turbulent laws into the Floating Holy City, and agreed to retrieve the Cosmic Light Source Crystal from the Tomb of Time. He entered the tomb with his companions and the city’s cultivators, then faced the nine Spirit Generals and was left under the combined assault of three of them.

• Ye Lin pulled the Hourglass of Time free with the Godslayer Sword, then demonstrated its power by reversing the Sword Demon's attacks and discovered it controlled time.
• Ye Lin and his companions left the Crystal Plains, crossed the Law Turbulence Belt, and reached the Floating Holy City, where Xuanwei identified the Hourglass as the Time Scar Shell.
• Xuanwei offered Ye Lin resources and information in exchange for retrieving the Cosmic Light Source Crystal from the Tomb of Time, and Ye Lin accepted the mission.
• Ye Lin bought a Shadow-Tracing Mirror, then entered the Tomb of Time with his companions and four cultivators from the Holy City.
• The group fought through the Lost Time Wasteland and crossed the River of Broken Flow after Ye Lin used the Hourglass to drive off a giant hand made of time fragments.
• At Layered Peaks Mountain, the nine tomb-guarding Spirit Generals sealed the battlefield in the Nine Spirit Heaven-Sealing Formation, and Ye Lin joined the fight.
• Ye Lin battled the Spirit Generals with his sword techniques, broke through their formation, and neared the summit steps before the Metal, Fire, and Thunder Spirit Generals unleashed their strongest attacks at him.

Ye Lin secured the Cosmic Light Hourglass, traded it for information and tokens, and entered the Nine Heavens with his companions to seek the Sacred Lands. He reached the Sword Dao Holy Land, completed its first trial, and began answering the Sword Soul’s questions.

• Ye Lin and his allies mended the spreading void, retrieved the Cosmic Light Source Crystal, and awakened the complete Cosmic Light Hourglass.
• Ye Lin exchanged the hourglass for Sacred Land information and four Identity Tokens, then led his companions away after Xuanwei’s group honored the deal.
• Ye Lin used an Identity Token to reach the Nine Heavens, where he and his companions found their Dao platforms and followed Void through the dangerous formations.
• Ye Lin and Sword Demon presented their sword insights to the Sword Stele, and Ye Lin earned its acknowledgment and crossed a rainbow bridge to the Sword Dao Holy Land.
• Cangfeng offered Ye Lin the Sword Dao legacy, and Ye Lin accepted its three perilous trials rather than take a broken sword.
• Ye Lin endured the Sword Graveyard Forest’s Sword Intent storm, refined its power, and completed the Ten Thousand Swords Tempering the Body trial.
• Ye Lin reached the Sword Soul Heart Inquiry platform and answered that the sword’s nature depended on the wielder’s heart before pondering the next question.