Recaps

Ye Lin agreed to pay for the materials needed to build a grand formation at the Nine-Square Arena, and Spirit King accepted his offer. As the two continued exploring Dao Sword City, Spirit King inspected Ye Lin’s Sword Pool and sensed Ye Lin’s sword dao within its swords.

• Spirit King ordered the two formation masters to ensure the grand formation was properly set up, but Ye Lin offered to cover the expenses himself.
• The two formation masters began examining the Nine-Square Arena and estimated that they would provide a materials list in three days.
• Spirit King invited Ye Lin to keep exploring Dao Sword City while the formation masters worked, and Ye Lin agreed.
• At the Sword Pool, Spirit King judged the swords to be mostly worthless but sensed Ye Lin’s sword dao infused in them.

The Spirit King added a mysterious Broken Sword to Ye Lin’s Sword Pool to give Dao Sword City a symbol of prestige. Its overwhelming aura destroyed Ye Lin’s swords and summoned a white-robed phantom, leaving the city under the threat of an unknown power.

• The Spirit King decided Ye Lin’s Sword Pool needed something awe-inspiring and took out a Broken Sword from a long-ago battle.
• The Spirit King tossed the Broken Sword into the Sword Pool, where it hovered and began glowing dark red.
• Three enormous cracks opened in the sky above Dao Sword City, pouring scarlet light over the city and forcing its nine-layered sword formation to activate.
• The Broken Sword’s aura made the swords in the Sword Pool tremble, then shattered the three hundred and sixty Long Swords containing Ye Lin’s sword path.
• A white-robed phantom with cold, emotionless eyes took shape within the Broken Sword’s radiance.

Spirit King transformed Dao Sword City's Sword Pool by awakening a Broken Sword whose aura resonated across the region. He then filled the pool with countless powerful swords, leaving Ye Lin facing a Sword Dao treasure that was drawing sword cultivators to the city.

• A figure grasped the Broken Sword, and three sword cries rang out as swords across a million li turned toward Dao Sword City.
• The cries revealed an illusory battle and caused the words “Question the heavens with my sword; the heavens dare not answer” to appear on the blade.
• Sword cultivators across the region felt the Broken Sword's return, while Spirit King asked Ye Lin whether the spectacle was enough.
• Spirit King sent countless Long Swords into the Sword Pool, filling it with terrifying Sword Qi that Ye Lin judged could rival a Sword Dao Holy Land.
• Sword cultivators within a million li began rushing toward Dao Sword City to see the Sword Pool.

The Spirit King offered Ye Lin the Sword Pool and explained that its swords once belonged to the Sword Emperor Sect. He recounted how his friend Sword Walker led the sect in a failed challenge against the Heavenly Dao, leaving Ye Lin with the weight of their legacy.

• Ye Lin told the Spirit King he could not accept the gift of entering the Sword Pool, but the Spirit King insisted the swords were useless to him and might regain their former glory there.
• The Spirit King recalled how Sword Walker rose to the Ninth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm and repeatedly failed to reach the Saint Realm.
• Sword Walker led all 108,000 members of the Sword Emperor Sect in challenging the Heavenly Dao and the Origin Continent.
• After a hundred-year battle, the Sword Emperor Sect was annihilated, and heavenly lightning obliterated Sword Walker.
• The Spirit King collected the sect's swords, and the Saints of that age honored Sword Walker as the Supreme of the Sword Dao.

Ye Lin and the Spirit King agreed to leave the broken sword and other relics of Sword Walker in Dao Sword City for sword cultivators to honor. Ye Lin announced that the city would open to sword cultivators in a hundred years, and the gathered cultivators began deciding whether to wait or leave.

• The Spirit King explained that he wanted the sword relics displayed in Dao Sword City so sword cultivators could learn about Sword Walker.
• Ye Lin agreed to let the relics remain in the city, and the Spirit King said he would never take them back.
• Cultivators gathered around Dao Sword City and wondered who had built it and whether they could enter.
• Ye Lin introduced Dao Sword City, restricted entry to sword cultivators, and announced it would open in a hundred years.
• Some cultivators agreed to wait for the opening, while others left because they could not enter.

Ye Lin showed the Spirit King the Lecture Platform and Debate Platform in Dao Sword City, where the green jade on a lotus seat proved to be a supreme cultivation treasure. The Spirit King began comprehending the Great Dao, and Ye Lin revealed that the jade could benefit cultivators up to the Ninth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm.

• Ye Lin returned to Dao Sword City after the waiting sword cultivators promised to tell later arrivals to come back in a hundred years.
• The Spirit King asked Ye Lin to show him more of the city's notable places.
• Ye Lin brought the Spirit King to the platform plaza, where the Spirit King noticed green jade atop a lotus seat.
• The Spirit King sat on the jade and found that it quieted his mind, amplified his comprehension, and raised his Wuxing by a level.
• Ye Lin told the Spirit King that the jade remained effective even for Ninth Heaven Quasi-Saints.

Ye Lin showed the Spirit King a green jade Lecture Platform that could enhance comprehension and help even Ninth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm cultivators. The Spirit King realized it could attract sword cultivators and help make the place a Sword Dao Holy Land, but worried about protecting it; Ye Lin believed the Blade Saint’s reputation would deter anyone who coveted it.

• The Spirit King learned that the green jade could aid comprehension and be used by cultivators up to the Ninth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm.
• The Spirit King asked Ye Lin whether only those willing to lecture on the Dao could sit on the Lecture Platform, and Ye Lin confirmed it.
• The Spirit King realized the jade could draw powerful sword cultivators and establish a Sword Dao Holy Land.
• The Spirit King warned that the jade was valuable enough to attract people with impure intentions.
• Ye Lin suggested sword cultivators would not act immorally, and the Spirit King replied that the Blade Saint’s name would make even Ninth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm cultivators think twice.

Ye Lin showed Spirit King Dao Sword City’s Debate Platform and discussed plans to fill the city with shops and recruit people from the Great Blade Association. After Spirit King left to claim a shop, the Great Elder of the Pure Yang Sect arrived with three women to meet Ye Lin.

• Spirit King examined the Debate Platform’s Heaven’s Question Stone and praised Dao Sword City’s foundations.
• Spirit King said the city still needed wine, shops, and other businesses, while Ye Lin planned to recruit administrators and experts from the Great Blade Association.
• Spirit King asked Ye Lin to reserve him a shop so he could sell items, and Ye Lin agreed.
• The Great Elder of the Pure Yang Sect arrived with three women, and Ye Lin offered them any building outside the central area.

Ye Lin arranged for the Pure Yang Sect to receive a location in his city, then obtained a list of costly materials needed to build the arena. He went to a branch of the Great Blade Association to gather what he could and was led to meet its local person in charge, Elder Zhao.

• The Great Elder of the Pure Yang Sect agreed to Ye Lin’s arrangement after deciding the city offered a major opportunity.
• Ye Lin received a long materials list from the two old men overseeing the arena and promised to gather the items within a month.
• Ye Lin worried his transaction points would not cover the costs and considered borrowing from his Senior Sister or others.
• Ye Lin reached a Great Blade Association branch and asked its staff to gather the listed materials, charging them to his account or putting the rest on credit.
• A middle-aged man led Ye Lin to the top floor to meet Elder Zhao, the person in charge, while Ye Lin told him to prepare the materials.

Ye Lin visited an elder of the Great Blade Association to find personnel for his newly built city. He secured administrative staff and a map to Dry Blade Commandery, while a separate supply list showed that some items would take about a month to gather and others required a trip to the Holy Palace.

• Ye Lin asked the old man to lend him administrators and an expert to hold the fort at his city.
• The old man agreed to prepare administrative personnel within three days but said the branch had no suitable expert.
• The old man gave Ye Lin a map to Dry Blade Commandery and suggested he seek an expert at the Great Blade Association's Eastern Region headquarters.
• Ye Lin thanked the old man and left with the map.
• Ye Lin reviewed a marked supply list and learned that the available items would take roughly a month to gather, while the unmarked items could only be found at the Holy Palace.

Ye Lin traveled across the Eastern Region to reach Dry Blade Commandery and find the Great Blade Association. He arrived above its headquarters and examined its formidable blade formations, steles, and central tower.

• Ye Lin followed his map and spent a day traveling to Dry Blade Commandery.
• Ye Lin asked a passing cultivator for directions to the Great Blade Association and flew toward the indicated location.
• Ye Lin reached the association's headquarters and saw a vast mountain complex protected by nine hundred and ninety-nine blade steles and a deadly formation.
• Ye Lin noticed the central tower and the plaque bearing the name Great Blade Association, which radiated immense killing intent.

Ye Lin visited the Great Blade Association headquarters and learned that its Blade Pavilion held twelve Quasi-Saint Seventh Heaven elders. As he entered the tower to meet three elders stationed in the Eastern Region, he sensed that one cultivated the Sword Dao and resolved to recruit that elder.

• Liu San recognized Ye Lin and eagerly led him through the headquarters to its central tower.
• Liu San explained that twelve Blade Elders served in the Great Blade Association, and that three had been waiting to meet Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin realized the elders could provide powerful support and hoped to persuade one to return with him.
• Ye Lin sensed the three elders' imposing auras and recognized the Sword Dao among them.
• Ye Lin continued toward the elders, treating their pressure as a test of whether he deserved to be the Blade Saint's disciple.

Ye Lin entered a grand hall where time and the laws of heaven and earth seemed to have been altered. He faced a profound white-robed old man whose gaze revealed the power of a seventh-level Quasi-Saint.

• Ye Lin stepped into the hall as its doors shut behind him.
• Ye Lin saw cloud-like floors, living ink-wash landscapes, and places where time moved in different ways.
• Ye Lin spotted three figures seated on tiers of steps at the far end of the hall.
• The white-robed old man looked at Ye Lin and praised him, briefly slowing the stars in his eyes.
• Ye Lin recognized the old man’s terrifying presence as that of a seventh-level Quasi-Saint.

Ye Lin met the three Pavilion Elders and exchanged courteous words with the fiery red-haired elder, who questioned why he had come. Ye Lin claimed he had only just learned of their existence and had come to visit, but the elder remained suspicious.

• Ye Lin studied the white-robed elder, the concealed sword cultivator, and the red-haired elder.
• Ye Lin bowed respectfully and greeted the three Pavilion Elders.
• The red-haired elder asked whether Ye Lin had come because he needed something from them.
• Ye Lin said he had never heard of the place or the elders before and had come as soon as he learned of them.
• The red-haired elder questioned whether Ye Lin had truly come only to visit.

Ye Lin asked three senior sword cultivators to help guard Dao Sword City, his holy land for sword cultivators. One senior agreed to inspect it, promising to guard it for ten thousand years if it impressed him, while Ye Lin trusted that the city’s Sword Pool would win him over.

• Ye Lin told the three seniors that Dao Sword City was complete and asked one of them to serve as its powerhouse.
• The red-haired old man teased Ye Lin for approaching them only because he needed help.
• The silent elderly sword cultivator doubted that Dao Sword City deserved to be called a holy land.
• The elderly sword cultivator agreed to visit and promised to guard the city for ten thousand years if it impressed him, but said Ye Lin would owe him a favor if he left.
• Ye Lin accepted the terms, confident the Spirit King’s Sword Pool would convince the senior to stay.

Ye Lin reached an agreement with Elder Xuan, who promised to arrive at Dao Sword City in a month, and met the three Great Blade Association elders. After leaving, Ye Lin asked Liu San to gather materials and publicize Dao Sword City across the Eastern Region.

• Ye Lin agreed with Elder Xuan, who said he would arrive at Dao Sword City in a month.
• The white-bearded elder praised Ye Lin and told him to return to his unresolved matters.
• Ye Lin left the elders’ room and told Liu San the seniors had been amiable.
• Ye Lin gave Liu San a list of materials to gather and charge to his Great Blade Association account.
• Ye Lin asked Liu San to advertise Dao Sword City as a sword cultivators’ holy land opening in a hundred years.

Ye Lin had Liu San gather materials for an array and learned that the three missing items would cost two billion transaction points. He calmly accepted the estimate and left Liu San wondering how wealthy he was.

• Ye Lin gave Liu San a list of materials to search for, and Liu San recognized they were likely for an array formation.
• Ye Lin spent five days exploring the area while Liu San searched for the listed materials.
• Liu San returned with most of the materials and reported that Celestial Constant Heart, Earth Fiend Stone, and Mystic Gold could not be found locally.
• Liu San estimated that the three missing materials would cost at least two billion transaction points at the Origin Chamber of Commerce.
• Ye Lin said the cost was within his expectations, thanked Liu San, and left him wondering whether Ye Lin was extraordinarily wealthy.

Ye Lin visited a branch of the Origin Chamber of Commerce to buy three costly items for his city-building plans. The branch arranged to transfer them from elsewhere, leaving Ye Lin to wait for a day.

• Ye Lin went from the Great Blade Association to the Origin Chamber of Commerce with a budget of two billion transaction points.
• Ye Lin presented a list of three items to a middle-aged expert at the branch.
• The middle-aged man said the branch would transfer the items from elsewhere, which would take about one day.
• Ye Lin accepted the wait and sat down to regulate his breathing.

Ye Lin bought three supreme treasures from the Origin Chamber of Commerce and returned to Dao Sword City, where thousands of sword cultivators had gathered. He met Li Bing and the Great Blade Association members sent to assist him, then told them to wait at the City Lord Mansion.

• Ye Lin received the three items in a Spatial Ring and paid the Origin Chamber of Commerce 2,000,000,000 transaction points, though only one point was deducted from his card.
• Ye Lin left the Origin Chamber of Commerce and traveled through the void toward Dao Sword City.
• Two days later, Ye Lin found more than ten thousand cultivators gathered around Dao Sword City, most of them sword cultivators, including a small number of Daluo Golden Immortals, Quasi-Saints, and over a hundred figures whose auras he could not discern.
• Ye Lin returned to Dao Sword City and met Li Bing, who said Elder Li had sent him and the other Great Blade Association members to obey Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin told Li Bing and the others to wait for him at the City Lord Mansion.

Ye Lin watched Li Bo and Wang Yu begin a formation over the nine Arenas, using their mastery of the Dao rather than ordinary formation tools. As golden runes formed above the Arenas, Dao Sword City began to separate from Origin Continent and become a world of its own.

• Ye Lin delivered the materials to Li Bo and Wang Yu, who examined them and agreed they were suitable for the formation.
• Li Bo and Wang Yu began setting up the formation at the center of the nine Arenas while Ye Lin watched from a distance.
• Li Bo tapped the Void, awakening golden patterns that Ye Lin recognized as manifestations of the Great Dao.
• Wang Yu stepped forward, causing blue light to flow through the Cold Jade Arena and connect all nine Arenas through the earth veins.
• Li Bo formed a vast, intricate golden rune above the Arenas, and Dao Sword City began to separate from Origin Continent.

Ye Lin watched Wang Yu and Li Bo begin setting up a formation across the nine Arenas, drawing in the region’s saintly aura and awakening its laws. The formation opened a rift to the Boundary Sea, leaving the Arenas appearing to float within it.

• Saintly aura from hundreds of millions of miles surged toward the nine Arenas and formed a vast vortex.
• Wang Yu took a second step, spreading his presence throughout the space and awakening the laws that formed dark-gold chains around the Arenas.
• Li Bo lowered his third finger and opened a tiny crack in the Void, releasing primordial Chaos aura.
• Li Bo guided the Chaos aura into a golden rune, which shone brightly and tore open the clouds above the nine heavens.
• Ash-gray light from the Boundary Sea shone through the opening, making the nine Arenas appear to float in the boundless Void.

Ye Lin watched Li Bo and Wang Yu build a living formation across Dao Sword City, combining laws from the Void and earth to protect the nine Arenas. The formation’s construction continued as sword cultivators gathered outside the city, drawn by its immense aura.

• Sword cultivators outside Dao Sword City sensed sacred aura and powerful laws pouring from the city, but none dared enter before it opened.
• Traveling sword cultivators saw the spectacle from afar and hurried toward Dao Sword City.
• Ye Lin watched Li Bo and Wang Yu coordinate their formation work, weaving Dao runes in the Void and laying Dao Seals across the earth.
• Li Bo created nine primary runes and eighty-one auxiliary runes, forming a balanced system of laws that could circulate and repair itself.
• Wang Yu anchored the formation to the earth veins with Dao Seals while Li Bo spread a vast net through the Void to distribute the force of battles across the nine Arenas.

Li Bo and Wang Yu completed the foundation of a vast formation that would disperse the power of battles on the nine Arenas. The formation awakened nine earth veins and used a wisp of the Great Dao’s origin as its core, but it would take at least a hundred years to perfect.

• Li Bo wrote a protective law into the Void, creating a formation that absorbed and transformed attacks into energy to sustain itself.
• Li Bo and Wang Yu completed the formation’s foundation, and nine colored pillars of light shot from the Arenas into the Ninth Heaven and Boundary Sea.
• Nine earth veins awakened beneath the Arenas and converged at the formation eye.
• A ball of Chaotic light, made from a wisp of the Great Dao’s origin, rose at the center and was bound to the nine Arenas by golden chains.
• Wang Yu said the formation’s foundation was complete and that it would take at least a hundred years to perfect.

Ye Lin oversaw the formation foundation and left its two creators to maintain it as it slowly took shape. Back at the City Lord Mansion, he tasked Li Bing with managing incoming factions and their businesses, then realized he still needed powerful experts to protect the city.

• The two formation masters told Ye Lin that the foundation had taken shape but would need about a hundred years to perfect, and they began maintaining it at the formation’s heart.
• Ye Lin returned through the Void to the City Lord Mansion, where Li Bing and two women were waiting for him.
• Ye Lin told Li Bing to use his management experience to arrange for factions arriving in Dao Sword City to open shops and do business.
• Li Bing confidently accepted the task and left with the two women to handle the shops and profits.
• Ye Lin sat alone and concluded that, besides management personnel, Dao Sword City still needed powerful experts to hold the fort.

Ye Lin invited Sword Demon and Blade Fanatic to guard Dao Sword City, believing they could handle ordinary conflicts. Outside the city, a powerful elder from the Great Blade Association arrived and agreed to wait for its gates to open in a hundred years.

• Ye Lin summoned Sword Demon and asked him to guard Dao Sword City, then asked him to bring Blade Fanatic as well.
• Sword Demon accepted Ye Lin's invitation and ended the connection.
• An imposing gray-robed elder approached Dao Sword City, and nearby sword cultivators struggled under his aura.
• Two middle-aged men greeted the elder as Elder Xuan, who said he had come because Ye Lin had built the city for the Great Blade Association.
• Elder Xuan learned the city would not open for a hundred years and vanished into the Void, while the waiting cultivators resolved to stay for the opening.