Recaps

Ye Lin studied Fusion Sword Dao, sheltered Sword Elder, helped Song Xue defeat Feng Yuan, and rescued the Rogue Cultivator Alliance. He then went to the border to face the Chaos Ancient Clan’s challenge, where Cangwu killed Sui Xin and left the Eastern Region cultivators afraid to respond.

• Sword True Person explained Fusion Sword Dao, and Ye Lin began considering how to fuse his own Destruction Sword Dao with other paths.
• Ye Lin found a powerful, amnesiac old man in the City Lord Mansion and named him Sword Elder.
• Song Xue defeated Feng Yuan in the Arena with Return to the Void, and Feng Yuan admitted defeat before leaving with half his cultivation destroyed.
• Ye Lin accompanied Tang Feng to save the Rogue Cultivator Alliance, then forced the five Quasi-Saints attacking it to flee and warned them to leave it alone for ten thousand years.
• Yun Qiyue told Ye Lin that three Chaos Ancient Clan cultivators were challenging the Eastern Region, and Ye Lin went to watch after learning one was a powerful sword cultivator.
• Cangwu defeated Sui Xin, shattered his Longhatred Sword, and killed him with Law Sword: Purple Sky before challenging the silent Eastern Region cultivators to fight.

Xu Yang challenged Cangwu, but Ye Lin later defeated him and claimed the Windcloud Mirror. Following a map to the Bronze Immortal Hall, Ye Lin awakened his Sword Dao inheritance, advanced to the Third Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm, and passed the first two trials at the Sword Dao Holy Land before entering the Sword Graveyard.

• Xu Yang fought Cangwu with his spear techniques, but their strongest attacks annihilated each other, leaving both wounded, and Cangwu spared him and announced he would challenge the Eastern Region’s powerhouses.
• Ye Lin refused Cangwu’s challenge until Cangwu wagered the Windcloud Mirror, then overwhelmed him with the Primeval Sword Art and erased him with Karma Annihilation.
• Ye Lin drove off Cangwu’s two companions, claimed the Windcloud Mirror, and discovered a map and jade pendant beneath Sword Elder, who declared that the Sword Dao had acknowledged Ye Lin as its master.
• Ye Lin followed the map to the Bronze Immortal Hall, where sixty figures recognized him as the reincarnated Sword Dao Master and awakened his original Sword Heart, advancing him to the Third Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm.
• Ye Lin returned to Dao Sword City, found Sword Elder gone, and traveled to the Sword Dao Holy Land to begin its three-part assessment.
• Ye Lin passed the Wenxin trial by answering three questions about his sword and his path, then chose Blackwater Worldslayer’s sword-soul for the strength trial.
• Ye Lin stopped Tu Shi’s Abyssfall with a stroke of silver Sword Seal power, and Tu Shi admitted defeat, and Cangfeng declared Ye Lin had passed the strength trial.
• Ye Lin entered the Myriad Swords Pay Homage trial and found himself in a vast Sword Graveyard, where the nearby swords trembled and hummed.

Ye Lin passed the Sword Graveyard’s tests, explored the Holy Land’s Scripture Depository and Teaching Hall, and returned to Dao Sword City to find his master arranging an arena tournament against the Chaos Ancient Clan. Armed with the acknowledged Divine Evolution, Ye Lin prepared to compete as a year of secluded cultivation passed.

• Ye Lin earned passage through the Sword Graveyard and met its gatekeeper, who tested his ambition before letting him leave without the short sword.
• Ye Lin visited the Scripture Depository and Teaching Hall, learned about sword arts and the Destruction Sword Dao, and returned to Dao Sword City after a hundred years away.
• Ye Lin found the Heavenly Blade Sage teaching powerful cultivators and learned that his master had reached the supreme realm.
• The Heavenly Blade Sage told Ye Lin about the 108 arena battles against the Chaos Ancient Clan and secured him a place in the lower 36, where defeat meant death.
• The Heavenly Blade Sage gave Ye Lin Divine Evolution, an Innate Spirit Treasure that Ye Lin tested and turned into a bracelet after it acknowledged him.
• Nangong Yue revealed that Yun Qiyue had a sealed Ancient Phoenix bloodline, while Yun Qiyue warned Ye Lin and Nangong Yue that the tournament would be deadly.
• Yun Qiyue agreed to accompany them to the tournament, and Ye Lin spent the following year cultivating in seclusion at the City Lord Mansion.

Ye Lin entered the deadly contest between the Origin Continent and the Chaos Ancient Clan, where Liu Yan sacrificed herself after Lai Te defeated and tortured her. Yun Feiyang then gained the upper hand against Barnes, but Barnes’s bloodline awakened as he lay near death.

• The Heavenly Blade Sage brought Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue to the Boundary Sea Abyss, where Ye Lin agreed to compete and met Yan Ting and the other contestants.
• After a month of preparation, Ye Lin joined the Third Heaven Quasi-Saint contestants at the Arena, drew his match lot, and learned that the battles allowed no surrender.
• Liu Yan faced Lai Te, whose formidable body withstood her fire attacks and whose assault broke her defenses and left her near death.
• Lai Te tortured Liu Yan, but she found strength in her childhood wish to become fire and detonated her remaining life essence, badly wounding him before dying.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan claimed Icefield Prefecture, and Origin Continent’s cultivators vowed revenge as Lai Te withdrew to recover.
• Yun Feiyang faced Barnes and used the Sword God’s technique to counter his blade attacks, wound him repeatedly, and drive him back.
• Yun Feiyang’s Mountain and Space Rend swords forced Barnes to his knees and opened a deep chest wound, but Barnes began laughing as his clan’s bloodline ability awakened near death.