Recaps

Ye Lin resisted an arranged marriage with Nangong Yue, then entered the Dragon Lair with Ning Yi to seek treasures and True Dragon blood. He gained the Dragon Clan’s inheritance and returned to the Spirit King with news that the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan likely held the Sacred Dragon’s egg.

• Ye Lin rejected the Blade Saint’s match with Nangong Yue, but she declared him her future Dao companion and moved beside his residence on Meteor Island.
• Ye Lin accepted the Spirit King’s invitation to enter the Dragon Lair and traveled with Ning Yi into the Nether Race’s territory.
• Ye Lin explored the Dragon Lair, collected treasures, and shared four drops of True Dragon blood with Ning Yi.
• Ye Lin defeated seven resentful True Dragon souls and found three living dragon eggs in a hidden cavern.
• Ye Lin discovered the Dragon Clan’s living Great Dao scripture and comprehended the Ten Thousand Dragons Incinerate Heaven Art.
• Ye Lin and Ning Yi left the Dragon Lair with gifts of True Dragon blood, while Ye Lin suspected Ning Yi had obtained Long Sheng’s egg.
• Ye Lin returned to the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan and told the Spirit King that the Sacred Dragon’s egg was likely with the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan.

Ye Lin reforged his body with True Dragon blood, then built Dao Sword City as a place for sword cultivators to study and duel. He recruited the Spirit King’s help with the city’s defenses, while its rare arenas drew amazement from the formation masters.

• The Spirit King told Ye Lin that the Spirit and Mystic Soul Dragon Clans had inherited an old feud, and Ye Lin realized the Spirit King hoped for reconciliation.
• Ye Lin returned to Meteor Island, boiled the Dragon eggs, and shared them with Nangong Yue and Yun Qiyue before experts took the last one.
• Ning Yi asked the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan’s chief to examine his fate, and the Heavenly Secret Mirror revealed an insurmountable death tribulation.
• The clan chief urged Ning Yi to seek Ye Lin, who might be able to help him escape his fate, while Ye Lin began refining True Dragon blood.
• Ye Lin used all twelve drops of True Dragon blood to remake his meridians, bones, skin, hair, and organs, greatly strengthening his body.
• Ye Lin claimed an empty mountain and built Dao Sword City, adding sword formations, arenas, a Debate Platform, a Lecture Platform, and a Sword Pool.
• Pure Yangzi granted Ye Lin the surrounding land and secured a shop for the Pure Yang Sect, while Ye Lin planned to recruit managers and formation masters.
• The Spirit King brought two formation masters to inspect Dao Sword City, and they said its Heaven Mountain Cold Jade arenas could withstand Ninth Heaven Quasi-Saint battles but would take a hundred years to protect with a Grand Dao Array.

Ye Lin developed Dao Sword City into a future holy land, enlisting the Spirit King, the Great Blade Association, and two formation masters to supply its relics, people, and defenses. As the city’s formation began taking shape and cultivators gathered outside, Ye Lin sought powerful guardians and Elder Xuan arrived to inspect the city.

• The Spirit King placed the Broken Sword in Ye Lin’s Sword Pool, where its aura shattered Ye Lin’s Long Swords and drew sword cultivators from across the region.
• The Spirit King recounted Sword Walker’s failed challenge to the Heavenly Dao and gave Ye Lin the Sword Emperor Sect’s relics to display, while Ye Lin announced that Dao Sword City would open to sword cultivators in a hundred years.
• The Spirit King explored the city’s platforms and jade, recognized its potential as a Sword Dao Holy Land, and asked Ye Lin to reserve him a shop.
• Ye Lin secured administrators and materials through the Great Blade Association and Origin Chamber of Commerce, then persuaded Elder Xuan to visit Dao Sword City and guard it for ten thousand years if it impressed him.
• Li Bo and Wang Yu began building the Nine-Square Arena’s formation, linking its arenas to the earth veins, the Void, and a Chaotic formation core.
• After the formation masters said the foundation would take a hundred years to perfect, Ye Lin assigned Li Bing to organize shops and summoned Sword Demon to guard the city with Blade Fanatic.
• Elder Xuan arrived at Dao Sword City and, after learning it would not open for a hundred years, vanished into the Void as the waiting cultivators resolved to stay.

Ye Lin opened Dao Sword City, welcomed powerful guests, and helped broker peace between the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan and the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan. As the city flourished, Sword True Person’s lecture on Fusion Sword Dao led Ye Lin to begin considering how to fuse sword paths himself.

• Elder Xuan explored the Sword Pool, found the bluestone could help him advance, and decided to stay in Dao Sword City.
• Ye Lin warned Ning Yi that his fate involved death at another’s hands, then watched the city grow as Li Bing arranged shops and businesses.
• Ye Lin opened Dao Sword City, and cultivators and powerful guests including the Spirit King, Yun Qiyue, and Ning Yi arrived.
• In the City Lord Mansion, Luo Yan pressed Ning Po to end the clans’ conflict, and Ye Lin urged them to reconcile, and they agreed to peace with Ye Lin as witness.
• Ye Lin toured the busy city as cultivators used its Arena, Lecture Platform, Debate Platform, and Sword Pool, then assigned Li Bing to establish entry fees.
• After Elder Xuan lectured on sword fundamentals, Sword True Person explained how cultivators could fuse different Sword Daos by finding shared principles between them.
• Ye Lin connected Sword True Person’s teaching to his own experience and began deducing how Destruction Sword Dao might fuse with related paths.