Recaps

Ye Lin humbled the Heavenly Eye Spirit Race, punished the Heaven Severance Sect for its trap, and turned from the arena conflict to a new mission. He arrived in the Sacred Heaven Dynasty and agreed to help the Third Princess claim the throne.

• Ye Lin defeated Lei Chong with his gray flames, then left the Vermilion Bird Clan and visited the Heavenly Eye Spirit Race, where its youths crippled themselves trying to inspect his past and future.
• The five major factions lured Ye Lin to the Heaven Severance Sect’s stamina-draining arena and sent fighters against him without giving him time to rest.
• Ye Lin condemned Ji Yang’s scheme, and the Three Sun Sages destroyed the Heaven Severance Sect after Ye Lin refused Ji Yang’s pleas for mercy.
• Ye Lin spared the other four factions but ended their arena gathering, then reported the events to the Heavenly Blade Sage.
• The Heavenly Blade Sage sent Ye Lin to the Sacred Heaven Dynasty to support the Third Princess’s succession, and Ye Lin learned that the current Emperor had weakened her position.
• Teng Yi pledged to help Ye Lin, who declared that the Third Princess would become Emperor and asked to meet her.

Ye Lin helped Fang Li reclaim the Sacred Heaven Dynasty’s throne, then traveled to the Cloud Heaven Secret Realm with Yun Qiyue and his companions. After entering the realm, he gained a sword-art insight from a mysterious fruit.

• Ye Lin and Tang Yu forced their way into the palace to find the missing Third Princess, then confronted Emperor Fang Jing, who assured Ye Lin that Fang Li was safe.
• Fang Yuan tried to kill Fang Li to secure his claim to the throne, but the Emperor’s personal guard stopped him, and Fang Li later pledged the dynasty’s allegiance to Ye Lin.
• Fang Li ascended the throne with Ye Lin’s support, agreed to spare Fang Yuan, and stayed with the dying Fang Jing as he passed away.
• After three hundred years of cultivation, Ye Lin learned that the Heavenly Blade Sage was confined because of the Dark Shadow Pavilion and set out for the Cloud Heaven Secret Realm with Yun Qiyue and Iron Hammer.
• The five elders opened the realm, and Ye Lin, Yun Qiyue, and their Dao Protectors crossed the Law Heavenly Ladder and entered a strange land of dense, active laws.
• Ye Lin and his companions descended through the cloud sea into a forest, where a transparent deer led them to fruit-bearing trees before a giant Quasi-Saint bear attacked.
• Iron Hammer killed the bear, and the group returned to the clouds with the fruits, which Ye Lin and his companions divided among themselves.
• Ye Lin absorbed the sword-shaped fruit’s insight into the Cloud Pierce move, advanced his Sword Dao, and gained a new trump card.

Ye Lin led his companions through the Earth Abyss with Qing Luo’s tribe, then entered Sword Cry Valley and mastered its sword trials. He claimed the Sword Dao inheritance and broke through to the Quasi-Saint realm, sending a Great Dao aura across the land.

• Ye Lin chose to explore deeper into the cloud sea, found crystals in a patch of viscous clouds, and led his companions onward after they fought off the creature hidden beneath them.
• Ye Lin’s group entered a world of floating lands, where Iron Hammer drove away the Deep-Earth Ancient Turtle and rescued Qing Luo’s people from its attack.
• Ye Lin agreed to guide Qing Luo and the Green Vine Tribe toward the ancient path, taking their map of its hidden treasures and possible Lesser Sacred Land.
• Ye Lin’s group found the remains of a Golden-Winged Thunder Roc, then followed the map to Sword Cry Valley while Qing Luo and her people waited behind.
• Ye Lin and his companions entered the Sword Graveyard, where Ye Lin learned the eighteen sword puppets’ techniques and passed their trial by combining their styles.
• Ye Lin and Sword Demon faced the nine swords, and Ye Lin survived Sword Nine’s three strikes and gained access to Unity’s inheritance.
• Ye Lin obtained the Sword Heart Clarity Technique, a Sword Dao crystal, and a Sword Dao Origin Fragment, then refined the crystal and comprehended the technique.
• Ye Lin used the Sword Dao Origin Fragment to transform his body and cultivate a Sword Heart seed, then opened the Sword Dao gate and broke through to the Quasi-Saint realm.

Ye Lin endured three tribulations and broke through to the Quasi-Saint realm before pursuing a wounded spacetime cultivator’s map to the Sword Saint’s Origin Crystals. After defeating the cultivator’s enemies and securing the complete map, Ye Lin led his companions toward Shattered Star Lake.

• Ye Lin faced the Four Symbols Primordial Tribulation and Great Dao Divine Lightning, reforging his body and Sword Heart as he broke through to the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Ye Lin sensed an injured Quasi-Saint in a spacetime labyrinth and met an old man who offered a Sword Saint inheritance in exchange for killing his enemies.
• Ye Lin accepted the old man’s map and traveled with Sword Demon, Blade Fanatic, and Iron Hammer to retrieve the first Origin Crystal from the old man’s clan.
• At the Wind Howling Canyon altar, Ye Lin confronted Mo Yuan and used Mo Yuan’s plan to lure Lin Xi and her companions into an ambush.
• Ye Lin took the altar’s Origin Crystals, killed Mo Yuan and Lin Xi, and directed his companions to defeat their Quasi-Saint opponents.
• Ye Lin sealed the battlefield and killed Li Song and his companions when they arrived to investigate.
• Ye Lin presented the attackers’ heads to the old man, who gave him the complete map to the remaining Origin Crystals.
• Ye Lin combined the maps and led his companions northeast from Time Forest to Shattered Star Lake.