Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin endured eighty-one bolts of Great Dao divine lightning and transformed their power into the foundation of his Sword Dao. He emerged with a sacred aura and Sword Dao nebulae in his eyes, though he could not yet fully control his new power.

• Eighty-one bolts of Great Dao divine lightning struck Ye Lin all at once, swallowing him in a thunderous slurry.
• Ye Lin's sword seal absorbed and transformed the lightning's laws, using them to forge his body and expand his sea of consciousness into a Sword Dao universe.
• The final bolt's power was absorbed, and Ye Lin released a sacred pressure that scattered the thunderclouds and silenced the secret realm.
• Ye Lin opened his eyes, revealing rotating Sword Dao nebulae, while his uncontrolled holy might spread in every direction.

Ye Lin reached the First Level Quasi-Saint realm, and he and the three seniors went to investigate a wounded Quasi-Saint aura to the east. They approached a crystal forest glowing with seven-colored rosy light.

• Ye Lin completed his breakthrough into the Quasi-Saint realm, and the ancient swords nearby rang in submission.
• Sword Demon, Blade Fanatic, and the third senior congratulated Ye Lin, who concealed his aura and checked his status panel.
• Ye Lin sensed an ancient, injured Quasi-Saint aura to the east, and Blade Fanatic confirmed it had appeared during Ye Lin's tribulation.
• Ye Lin proposed investigating the aura, and he traveled with the three seniors toward its source.
• The four concealed their auras and approached a crystal forest shrouded in seven-colored rosy light.

Ye Lin and his companions navigated a natural spacetime labyrinth and found a gravely wounded old man cultivating the laws of time and space. The old man noticed their arrival, but his identity and the cause of his injury remained unknown.

• Sword Demon identified the crystal forest as a natural spacetime labyrinth where time and space could distort and disorient intruders.
• Ye Lin and his companions decided to follow the Quasi-Saint aura deeper into the forest, relying on Blade Fanatic's perception and agreeing not to go farther than they could safely retreat.
• The four emerged into a circular clearing and found an old man sitting at its center, severely wounded by black corrosive energy.
• Ye Lin saw that the old man's hair was made of solidified spacetime and that his double-pupiled eyes reflected the laws of time and space.
• The old man sensed the group's approach and turned to face them.

Ye Lin met an injured quasi-Saint in the Shattered Earth Abyss, who offered him a Sword Saint’s inheritance. Ye Lin heard the old man’s account but remained suspicious and asked him to continue.

• Ye Lin and his companions approached the injured old man, who questioned their intentions.
• The old man offered Ye Lin a valuable gift, and Ye Lin sat down to hear him out.
• The old man claimed that a Sword Saint’s inheritance had been divided into nine Origin Crystals, which together could grant the Sword Saint’s complete inheritance.
• Ye Lin noted that the old man had not finished his story and asked him to continue, doubting his claims.

Ye Lin learned that the old man’s clan had guarded the nine Origin Crystals and that their enemies had taken the sites and killed his clansmen. After weighing the danger, Ye Lin and his companions agreed to meet the enemy and negotiate, with a fight as their fallback.

• The old man revealed that his clan knew the locations of all nine Origin Crystals and that their enemies had wounded him and killed many of his clansmen.
• Ye Lin recognized that the old man wanted to use them to kill his enemies, who included three peak Daluo Golden Immortals and at least nine Quasi-Saints.
• Ye Lin asked Iron Hammer, Sword Demon, and Blade Fanatic whether they should help the old man take revenge.
• Iron Hammer volunteered to fight five enemies, while Sword Demon suggested meeting the group and relying on their reputation.
• Blade Fanatic suggested calling Yun Qiyue for backup, and Ye Lin agreed that they would negotiate first and fight if talks failed.

Ye Lin secured a crystal from the old man and had Sword Demon verify that the man’s claims were genuine. He agreed to retrieve more crystals and kill the old man’s enemies in exchange for the remaining locations, leaving with a map to the first three sites.

• Ye Lin asked the old man for proof of his offer, and the old man handed him a diamond-shaped crystal.
• Ye Lin passed the crystal to Sword Demon, who verified its significance and warned that the old man had omitted important details.
• Ye Lin asked whether the old man knew the locations of all eight remaining crystals, and the old man proposed revealing them in stages in exchange for the deaths of his enemies’ Quasi-Saints.
• Ye Lin agreed to bring back their heads and received a map marking three crystal locations and the incantations needed to open their passages.

Ye Lin and his companions accepted a map from the injured old man and followed it through the Crystal Forest. They reached a time-space vortex leading to the old man’s clan, where they needed to obtain the first Origin Crystal, but remained unsure whether the map could be trusted.

• Ye Lin asked the old man about another great opportunity, but the old man refused to explain and Ye Lin left with Sword Demon, Blade Fanatic, and Iron Hammer.
• Iron Hammer proposed killing the old man and taking his map, but Sword Demon warned that the injured man must have a hidden advantage.
• Ye Lin studied the map and led the group through the Crystal Forest, carefully following its turns through dangerous distortions of space and time.
• The group reached an upside-down waterfall of solidified sands of time, with a space-time vortex at its center.
• Ye Lin explained that the vortex led to the old man’s clan, where they had to ask for the first Origin Crystal, and warned that the map might be false.

Ye Lin and his companions entered the Cloud Heaven Secret Realm after Sword Demon scouted it and found the passage safe. They arrived in a strange village amid spacetime currents, where the local leaders demanded proof that the clan chief had sent them to retrieve the Origin Crystals.

• Sword Demon volunteered to enter the passage first, and Ye Lin opened it using the incantation on the map.
• Sword Demon gave Ye Lin a Sword Talisman as a signal of danger, entered the passage, and waited until he was joined by Ye Lin, Blade Fanatic, and Iron Hammer.
• Ye Lin and the others found a village floating amid spacetime currents, with children who manipulated time and an ancient tree bearing fruits containing images of history.
• Sword Demon introduced Ye Lin and the others to the village's five leaders, who demanded a token from their clan chief as proof of their mission.

Ye Lin obtained the first origin crystal by presenting the clan chief’s map as his token, then headed toward the remaining crystals. At Wind Howling Canyon, he discovered that someone had already reached the Eye of the Wind Altar.

• An elderly woman recognized Ye Lin’s map as the clan chief’s token and gave him the clan’s origin crystal.
• Ye Lin reassured the elderly woman that the clan chief was still alive, then left with his three companions.
• Ye Lin chose to visit Wind Howling Canyon before Water Mirror Lake because it lay closer along the route.
• Ye Lin and his companions crossed the canyon’s dangerous winds and reached the area near the Eye of the Wind Altar.
• Ye Lin noticed that someone was already at the altar where the next crystal was kept.

Ye Lin confronted Mo Yuan and his two Quasi-Saint Dao Protectors at the gorge altar, where they had come seeking the Origin Crystals and an expert’s inheritance. After revealing that an injured spacetime cultivator had offered crystal locations in exchange for Mo Yuan’s life, Ye Lin heard Mo Yuan propose they cooperate, but Ye Lin’s response was interrupted by an advertisement notice.

• Ye Lin and his companions found Mo Yuan and his two Quasi-Saint Dao Protectors at the altar.
• Mo Yuan greeted Ye Lin and offered to share the Origin Crystals, citing the ties between the Ethereal Sacred Land and the Great Blade Association.
• Ye Lin revealed that an injured spacetime cultivator had told him the secret and locations of all nine Origin Crystals in exchange for killing Mo Yuan and two others.
• Mo Yuan urged Ye Lin to help find the cultivator so they could obtain the crystal locations and divide the crystals together.
• Ye Lin began to reject Mo Yuan’s proposal, but an advertisement notice interrupted the chapter.

Ye Lin demanded that Mo Yuan hand over the heads of his two companions in exchange for sparing him. Mo Yuan proposed luring others to the secret realm so Ye Lin could kill them instead, and Ye Lin agreed to judge him by whether he succeeded.

• Ye Lin warned Mo Yuan that too many people knowing about the inheritance would ruin its value and demanded the heads of the two people behind him.
• Mo Yuan refused to sacrifice the two Holy Land elders and proposed a compromise instead.
• Mo Yuan offered to contact two others who knew about the matter, lure them over, and help Ye Lin kill them for the map.
• Ye Lin accepted Mo Yuan's plan, promising to spare him and his Dao Protectors if he succeeded and to kill them if he failed.

Ye Lin and Mo Yuan lured Lin Xi and her companions into a trap, where Mo Yuan’s protectors and Lin Xi’s elders clashed. Lin Xi confronted Mo Yuan over his betrayal while Ye Lin watched from the sidelines.

• Ye Lin agreed to wait in hiding while Mo Yuan summoned Lin Xi and her companions, and the Sword Demon explained that the Great Blade Association had no friendly ties with Eastern Region factions.
• Lin Xi arrived with three protectors and asked Mo Yuan for the map, but Mo Yuan apologized and revealed Ye Lin’s ambush.
• Mo Yuan ordered his two protectors to attack, and Lin Xi ordered her three elders to fight them.
• Lin Xi accused Mo Yuan of betraying the friendship between their sects, and Mo Yuan admitted that he had targeted her because he was certain she would come.

Ye Lin retrieved the Origin Crystals while Mo Yuan and Lin Xi fought, but he realized the battle was a deliberate stall. He ordered his companions to seal off the void and attack, and Iron Hammer charged into the fight.

• Mo Yuan attacked Lin Xi after she accused him of betraying her trust, and she fought back with her spear.
• Ye Lin told Sword Demon, Iron Hammer, and Blade Fanatic to guard against the two groups joining forces, then went to the altar.
• Ye Lin used the map's markings and hand seals to break the altar's restriction and take the Origin Crystals.
• Ye Lin returned and recognized that Mo Yuan and Lin Xi's sides were stalling without injuring one another.
• Ye Lin ordered his companions to seal off the void and kill their opponents, and Iron Hammer rushed in, swinging his hammer at two fighters.

Ye Lin exposed Mo Yuan and Lin Xi for pretending to fight, then wounded them and prepared to kill them. As they begged for their lives, Iron Hammer, Sword Demon, and Blade Fanatic continued suppressing their opponents.

• Iron Hammer overwhelmed two opponents with his heavy hammer, leaving them unable to fight back effectively.
• Sword Demon suppressed his two opponents with his Sword Qi while Blade Fanatic wounded the beautiful woman with repeated saber strikes.
• Ye Lin recognized that Mo Yuan and Lin Xi had fought without injuring each other and accused them of putting on an act.
• Ye Lin flicked his finger and sent Mo Yuan and Lin Xi crashing to the ground, seriously wounded.
• Mo Yuan pleaded for ten breaths to defeat Lin Xi, while Lin Xi offered Ye Lin a supreme treasure in exchange for sparing her.

Ye Lin, Iron Hammer, and Blade Fanatic killed several of the Blade Saint’s Dao Protectors, while Sword Demon continued fighting two opponents. Ye Lin stopped Iron Hammer from joining Sword Demon’s battle.

• Ye Lin killed Mo Yuan and Lin Xi, crushing their Primordial Spirits before Lin Xi could act on the promise she would forget after leaving the secret realm.
• Iron Hammer defeated and killed two third-heaven Quasi-Sages, then carried their heads to Ye Lin.
• Blade Fanatic killed the wounded woman facing him and took her head after she conceded defeat.
• Sword Demon held the upper hand against two opponents but remained locked in a stalemate.
• Iron Hammer moved to help Sword Demon, but Ye Lin stopped him.

Ye Lin and his companions defeated Sword Demon's opponents, allowing Sword Demon to kill two more Quasi-Saint powerhouses and bring the total heads to five. Ye Lin rejected the idea of waiting for another enemy and planned to negotiate with the old man for the remaining crystal map.

• Ye Lin stopped Iron Hammer from joining the fight, and Sword Demon unleashed his full power against the two opponents.
• Sword Demon killed both third-level Quasi-Saint powerhouses as they tried to flee, then brought their heads to Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin counted five heads and decided they were enough to exchange for the remaining crystals.
• Sword Demon and Blade Fanatic suggested waiting for the person the enemies had been expecting, but Ye Lin said the battle's traces would scare him away.
• Iron Hammer worried that the old man would withhold the final map if they failed to kill everyone, and Ye Lin said he would negotiate.

Ye Lin and his companions set off to claim another Origin Crystal, while Li Song and his three Dao Protectors arrived at the battlefield and learned how powerful Ye Lin’s group was. As they tried to leave, they found the area sealed and Ye Lin approaching them.

• Ye Lin led his companions toward the next Origin Crystal after recalling its location on the map.
• Li Song and his three Dao Protectors arrived at the ruined battlefield and assessed the strength of Blade Fanatic, Sword Demon, and the Iron Hammer wielder.
• Li Song decided the four of them should leave to avoid running into Ye Lin.
• Li Song and the elders discovered that the space had been sealed, and Ye Lin appeared and explained that he had expected them to come investigate.

Ye Lin and his allies ambushed the newcomers to the Cloud Heaven Secret Realm and killed Li Song and the other opponents. After Sword Demon, Blade Fanatic, and Iron Hammer finished their battles, Ye Lin judged that everything had been settled.

• Ye Lin welcomed Li Song, then had Sword Demon and two others surround him and his companions.
• Li Song pleaded to be spared, but Ye Lin attacked and instantly destroyed his body and Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin waited while Iron Hammer fought Wang and smashed him apart.
• Sword Demon and Blade Fanatic finished their battles, demonstrating their overwhelming strength against the Quasi-Saint Third Heaven experts.
• Ye Lin concluded that the fighting was over.

Ye Lin and his three Dao Protectors defeated the eight Quasi-Saint Third Heaven experts who had injured the old man. After confirming their success, the old man gave Ye Lin the rest of the map, which marked every crystal's location.

• Ye Lin decided to secure the rest of the map before searching for another crystal.
• Ye Lin and the three Dao Protectors returned to the Time Forest and found the old man, whose injuries had worsened.
• Ye Lin presented the heads of the men who had attacked the old man.
• The old man confirmed the heads belonged to his attackers and was stunned that the four had defeated eight Quasi-Saint Third Heaven experts in four or five hours.
• The old man gave Ye Lin the remaining map, showing the locations of all the crystals.

Ye Lin accepted the old man’s map, then combined it with his own to locate the nine Origin Crystals. He led Sword Demon and the other two to their first destination, Shattered Star Lake.

• Ye Lin told the old man he would not be deceived without consequence and left with the map.
• The old man admitted Ye Lin had seen through him and accepted that his injuries left him awaiting death.
• Ye Lin pieced together the two maps, revealing six additional points of light around Time Forest.
• Ye Lin chose to keep the group together and led them northeast from Time Forest toward Shattered Star Lake.
• Ye Lin and the others reached Shattered Star Lake, whose black waters reflected enormous star-like fragments.