Chapter Summaries

Helian Guhong burned his Holy Clan bloodline to raise his cultivation to the third level of the Quasi-Saint Realm and attack Ye Lin. Under the pressure, Ye Lin used the first form of the Primeval Sword Art and wounded Helian Guhong with a strike that his bloodline could not overcome.

• Helian Guhong activated his second bloodline divine ability, Holy Blood Burns the Heavens, and raised his cultivation to the third level of the Quasi-Saint Realm.
• Helian Guhong attacked Ye Lin with overwhelming force and drove him back several steps.
• Ye Lin decided to use the pressure to gain insight into the Primeval Sword Art and prepared its first form, Primeval Heaven-Opening.
• Ye Lin's sword strike tore through Helian Guhong's palm wind and cut his shoulder, also splitting a distant floating island.
• Helian Guhong discovered that the Sword Intent was eroding his wound and that his Holy Clan bloodline could not heal it.

Ye Lin continued testing the Primeval Sword Art against Helian Guhong, who transformed into his Chaos True Form and attacked with the laws of chaos. Ye Lin’s second form, Yin-Yang Division, shattered Helian Guhong’s palm and left him wounded, while Helian Guhong realized Ye Lin’s sword technique contained Yin-Yang Laws.

• Ye Lin told Helian Guhong to watch and learn as he prepared to use another form of the Primeval Sword Art.
• Helian Guhong unleashed his Third Bloodline Divine Ability, Chaos True Form, and attacked Ye Lin with a palm strike backed by the laws of chaos.
• Ye Lin used the second form of the Primeval Sword Art, Yin-Yang Division, sending intertwined black and white sword lights against Helian Guhong’s palm.
• Ye Lin’s sword lights shattered the palm and cut Helian Guhong’s right hand.
• Helian Guhong expressed disbelief that Ye Lin’s Sword Dao contained Yin-Yang Laws, and Ye Lin replied that it was more or less true.

Ye Lin faced Helian Guhong’s strongest attack, Chaos Returning to Origin, after suppressing him with the Primeval Sword Art. As the gray-white sphere rushed toward him, Ye Lin revealed the origin of the Sword Dao, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Ye Lin absorbed the insights of Yin-Yang Division and recognized its blend of destruction and creation.
• Helian Guhong realized his earlier techniques had failed and resolved to kill Ye Lin with his strongest strike.
• Helian Guhong unleashed Chaos True Form · Ultimate Meaning, Chaos Returning to Origin, burning more than half the power of his Holy Clan bloodline.
• Ye Lin put away the Godslayer Sword, calmly declared that the fight was at its end, and raised two fingers toward the incoming sphere.
• The origin of the Sword Dao appeared at Ye Lin’s fingertips, forming ten thousand phantoms that represented different Sword Daos.

Ye Lin overwhelmed Helian Guhong with Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin and left him gravely wounded. Helian escaped into the Boundary Sea using a bloodline divine ability, and Ye Lin returned to the ruins.

• Ye Lin's sword shadows erased Helian Guhong's Chaos Return-to-Origin attack.
• Helian burned his remaining bloodline power and used his Chaos True Form to block Ye Lin's attack, but the phantom shattered.
• Ye Lin's sword shadows struck Helian, leaving him bloodied and barely conscious amid the ruins.
• Ye Lin prepared to finish Helian, but golden light enveloped Helian and carried him into the depths of the Boundary Sea.
• Ye Lin decided not to pursue Helian and walked toward the ruins.

After defeating Helian Guhong, Ye Lin confronted Long Xiu, who unleashed his full strength in a desperate attack. Ye Lin effortlessly cut through the strike and damaged Long Xiu’s treasured blade, leaving him overwhelmed by despair.

• The Chaos Ancient Clan members watched Ye Lin defeat Helian Guhong and feared what he would do next.
• Ye Lin approached Long Xiu and said he would kill him now that Helian Guhong had lost.
• Long Xiu refused to surrender and poured his Sacred Power, bloodline power, and understanding of laws into a slash at Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin sliced Long Xiu’s blade light apart with a strand of Sword Qi from his fingertips.
• Long Xiu blocked the Sword Qi, but the impact cracked his treasured blade, wounded his hand, and blasted him backward.
• Long Xiu saw that Ye Lin had not moved or drawn his sword and felt unable to reach him.

Ye Lin defeated Long Xiu’s final, blood-burning attack with a single sword strike, leaving Long Xiu gravely wounded. Long Xiu’s fate remained uncertain as blood poured from the hole in his chest.

• Ye Lin told Long Xiu to try again, humiliating him further.
• Long Xiu burned his bloodline with the Imperial Clan’s Blood-Burning Secret Art and unleashed the World-Ending Blade.
• Ye Lin drew the Godslayer Sword and split Long Xiu’s enormous blade phantom with one strike.
• Ye Lin’s sword light pierced Long Xiu’s chest, leaving him with a fist-sized wound.

Ye Lin killed Long Xiu with two strikes, leaving the Chaos Ancient Clan members shaken by his strength. Afterward, Hua Feiyi tried to persuade Ye Lin to cultivate with her, but he insisted that his heart belonged only to the sword and the Dao.

• Long Xiu collapsed and died after Ye Lin pierced him with his second strike, and his body and soul dissipated into the Boundary Sea.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan members trembled as they watched Ye Lin kill a Quasi-Saint expert with ease.
• Long Aotian called Ye Lin terrifying and realized Ye Lin could likely kill him just as easily.
• Hua Feiyi draped herself over Ye Lin and seriously urged him to be her cultivation partner.
• Ye Lin calmly rejected Hua Feiyi, saying that he cared only for the sword and the Dao.

Ye Lin returned to the ruins to search for answers about the Sword Dao successor and Ye Xiu, then tested the sealed doors of the tallest hall. The doors resisted his strike, and he prepared to try something else as the others watched from a distance.

• Ye Lin left Hua Feiyi in charge and re-entered the ruins to investigate the Floating Continents and search for clues about the Sword Dao successor and Ye Xiu.
• Ye Lin found only lifeless islands, ruined structures, and lingering laws that had lost their divine essence.
• Ye Lin returned to the ruins and struck the tallest grand hall's massive doors with Sword Dao laws, but they did not move.
• A member of the Chaos Ancient Clan told Ye Lin that they had been unable to open the doors, and Ye Lin ordered everyone to move back.
• Hua Feiyi and Yun Qiyue wondered what Ye Lin planned to do, while another cultivator doubted that brute force could break the doors.

Ye Lin tried to open the ruin’s gate by imitating Ye Xiu’s sword strike, but the attack left it untouched. As Ye Lin turned to leave, the gate suddenly opened, leaving everyone stunned.

• Ye Lin drew the Godslayer Sword and prepared to imitate Ye Xiu’s casual sword strike to test whether the ruin was connected to him.
• Ye Lin unleashed a Heaven-Opening sword strike, and its shockwave sent one cultivator flying, but the gate remained unmarked.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan and Shi Potian concluded that Ye Lin had failed to open the gate, while Ye Lin lost interest and turned to leave.
• A crisp cracking sound came from behind Ye Lin, and the gate opened.

Ye Lin opened the mysterious gate with one sword and entered a vast, empty hall containing a dais and strange inscriptions. He stood alone atop the dais, lost in thought, while the others explored the hall cautiously and Yun Qiyue admitted she did not know what he was thinking.

• Ye Lin's sword strike caused the gate to split open, astonishing the Chaos Ancient Clan members who had failed to open it.
• Ye Lin entered the gate, and the Chaos Ancient Clan members and cultivators from the Origin Continent followed him inside.
• The group found a vast hall with pillars, a red carpet, a dais, and mysterious characters carved into the walls.
• Ye Lin stood motionless on the dais while the others examined the hall without touching anything.
• Hua Feiyi asked Yun Qiyue what Ye Lin was thinking and complained that she knew so little about her junior brother's secrets.

Ye Lin sat in the familiar chair and experienced a vision of the Sword Dao Master being urged to punish a supposed traitor. The vision ended with the Dao Master insisting he was waiting for the accused to confess, while Ye Lin remained unable to control his body.

• Ye Lin recognized the chair as familiar and sat down, triggering a violent shift in his surroundings.
• Ye Lin saw figures fill the main hall and heard them urge the Dao Master to condemn a traitor.
• The Dao Master refused to judge the accused immediately, claiming he would notice any hidden intentions.
• Sword Three challenged the Dao Master and offered to prove the accused's innocence, but the Dao Master ordered him to leave.
• The Dao Master said he was waiting for the accused to appear and admit his mistake, while Ye Lin could not control his body.

Ye Lin experienced a strange vision in which the Sword Guards abandoned him over his ruthless tests and the deaths of their brothers. After an unfamiliar voice released him from the chair, he left the grand hall without learning what had happened.

• Ye Lin watched a vision of the Sword Guards leaving him after he tested them and allowed his disciple to kill their brothers.
• The vision ended, and Ye Lin found himself back in the grand hall, where a powerful force held him to his chair.
• An unfamiliar voice called him a weak successor of the Sword Dao and said it had found him by manipulating Destiny.
• The voice released Ye Lin and urged him to grow under pressure.
• Ye Lin dismissed the encounter as beyond his understanding, then left the grand hall alone.

Ye Lin wondered about his connection to Ye Xiu and the dangerous powers surrounding the ruin, then warned Yun Qiyue not to sit in the hall’s chair. When Shi Potian died after sitting in it, the cultivators demanded that Ye Lin explain what he knew.

• Ye Lin reviewed his cultivation panel and feared that even reaching the Saint Realm would not protect him from the figures he had encountered in Ye Xiu’s memories.
• Ye Lin warned Yun Qiyue not to sit in the chair because it might carry dangerous karma from Ye Xiu.
• Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue entered the main hall and found Shi Potian’s headless corpse beneath the platform.
• Long Aotian explained that Shi Potian had sat in the chair after Ye Lin left and died when his head vanished.
• Cultivators from the Origin Continent and the Chaos Ancient Clan pressed Ye Lin to explain why he had survived sitting in the chair.

After Shi Potian died in the ruins, Ye Lin warned the other cultivators away from the dangerous chair and returned to Meteor Island to study the treasures he had found. The Barbarian Clan chieftain Shi Long arrived and revealed that Shi Potian had been his son, asking Ye Lin about his death.

• Ye Lin warned the cultivators that sitting on the supreme powerhouse’s chair would be fatal to anyone without sufficient standing, then left the ruins.
• Hua Feiyi picked up Shi Potian’s corpse and departed, while Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue returned to the Origin Continent.
• Yun Qiyue went to comfort Hua Feiyi, and Ye Lin returned alone to Meteor Island to study the Primeval Sword Art and Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin.
• Shi Long, chieftain of the Barbarian Clan, came to Meteor Island seeking Ye Lin and revealed that Shi Potian was his son.
• Ye Lin met Shi Long, who asked him for details about Shi Potian’s death in the Boundary Sea.

Shi Long questioned Ye Lin about Shi Potian’s death and warned him not to leave Meteor Island. After Shi Long and the white-robed man departed, Ye Lin returned to his residence and resumed his sword training, still unsure who might want him dead.

• Shi Long asked Ye Lin why he had not warned Shi Potian, and Ye Lin said he had no obligation to reveal his secrets.
• The white-robed man warned Shi Long not to cause trouble on Meteor Island, but Shi Long threatened Ye Lin with the possibility of an accidental death.
• Shi Long vanished into the void, followed by the white-robed man, leaving Ye Lin alone.
• Ye Lin wondered whether Shi Long was a smokescreen for another would-be killer, then set aside his doubts and continued comprehending the Primeval Sword Art and Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin.

Meng Ting confronted Shi Long over his threats against Ye Lin and learned that powerful enemies were targeting Ye Lin because of his ties to the Blade Saint and the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan. Shi Long left after revealing this, while Meng Ting resolved to deal with those exploiting the Blade Saint’s seclusion.

• Meng Ting stopped Shi Long and demanded to know who was behind his threats against Ye Lin.
• Meng Ting threatened Shi Long with the Great Blade Association and the destruction of the Barbarian Clan if he refused to explain.
• Shi Long revealed that enemies within the Holy Palace wanted the Blade Saint to suffer, and that Ye Lin had been marked because of traces of the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan.
• Shi Long left, and Meng Ting realized Ye Lin faced dangers from both the Blade Saint’s enemies and the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan’s enemies.
• Meng Ting dismissed the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan’s affairs and hinted that he would confront those taking advantage of the Blade Saint’s seclusion.

After a thousand years in seclusion, Ye Lin emerged and went to the Holy Palace to complete his accumulated missions. He accepted a difficult challenge mission that could promote him, while three third-heaven Quasi-Saints secretly pursued him.

• Ye Lin left seclusion after the thousand-year period ended and vanished from Meteor Island.
• Meng Ting watched three third-heaven Quasi-Saints follow Ye Lin and decided not to intervene, though he had placed a safeguard on him.
• Ye Lin arrived at the Holy Palace and asked to accept an assessment mission.
• A clerk told Ye Lin that completing a Quasi-Saint challenge mission could promote him from a third-rank to a second-rank Heaven-Seeking Bureau official.
• Ye Lin accepted the challenge despite the clerk's warning that combining it with his accumulated missions would make it harder.

Ye Lin accepted a Heaven-Seeking Bureau mission to resolve the Wang Family’s predicament and punish the Liu Family for its crimes. He arrived at the Wang Family’s territory, where its patriarch welcomed him.

• Ye Lin drew a mission to help Wang Qingyu and the Wang Family of Heaven-Equaling Commandery, while the mission required at least third-level Quasi-Saint cultivation.
• Ye Lin realized that people paid the Holy Palace to generate missions for Heaven-Seeking Bureau members.
• Ye Lin traveled through the Void to Heaven-Equaling Commandery and found the Wang Family’s mountain estate.
• The Wang Family patriarch, its sole Quasi-Saint expert, stopped Ye Lin and asked his purpose.
• Ye Lin identified himself as a Heaven-Seeking Bureau member, and the patriarch courteously escorted him inside.

Ye Lin heard the Wang Family head’s account of the Liu Family’s marriage proposal and suspected trafficking and pill-refining using Daluo Golden Immortals. He agreed to investigate the Liu Family under Holy Palace law, leaving the Wang Family’s fate dependent on what he found.

• The Wang Family head told Ye Lin that the Liu Family wanted Wang Qingyu as a cauldron for its young master.
• The Wang Family head said he had uncovered the Liu Family’s capture and trade of Daluo Golden Immortals for pill refining, then reported it to the Holy Palace.
• Ye Lin said he would investigate the Liu Family and act if the accusations were true; otherwise, the task would be void.
• The Wang Family head respectfully accepted Ye Lin’s decision.

Ye Lin accompanied Wang Qingyu as the Wang Family sent her to the Liu Family’s bridal procession. After a Liu Family member tried to stop him from entering her carriage, Ye Lin struck him down and challenged the procession’s elder.

• A Liu Family elder arrived at the Wang Family’s home with a bridal procession and asked for Wang Qingyu.
• Ye Lin agreed to escort Wang Qingyu, and the Wang Family head sent her to the procession.
• Wang Qingyu entered the largest carriage without hesitation.
• A young man blocked Ye Lin from following her, but Ye Lin made him clutch his head and fall from the sky.
• Ye Lin confronted the Liu Family elder over their treatment of the bride and her escort, and the elder let him enter the carriage with a warning.