Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin continued refining the True Dragon's blood, transforming his muscles and replacing his bones with dark-gold bone inscribed with the Law of Strength. He tested the new defenses and discovered that bone spikes along his spine could be fired as weapons.

• Ye Lin's muscles grew thicker and stronger as the True Dragon's blood reforged his body.
• His old bones were ground away and replaced by dark-gold bones marked with runes of the Law of Strength.
• Ye Lin released a bone spike from his spine through his palm, and it shot into the distant Chaos.
• His reinforced ribs formed a protective cage, and a holy-power blade shattered against them without causing damage.
• Ye Lin's limb bones grew thicker and denser, and he tapped his humerus to test its strength.

Ye Lin completed the reconstruction of his bones and began rebuilding his skin and hair, gaining a body with greatly enhanced defenses. His new transformation left him with skin comparable to an acquired spiritual treasure and thick silver hair he could harden with holy power.

• Ye Lin tested his reconstructed forearm bone with a holy-power blade, which snapped after leaving only a faint mark.
• Ye Lin's skin was rebuilt with law particles that dispersed incoming force, and an acquired spiritual treasure blade could barely pierce it.
• Ye Lin found that his new skin stretched without tearing and quickly healed from its small wound.
• Ye Lin's body hair fell out and regrew as thick, silver-white strands connected to his holy-power circulation.
• Ye Lin discovered that he could make the new hairs soft as silk or hard as steel needles.

Ye Lin completed the fusion of the eleven streams of True Dragon blood and examined the transformation of his body. He tested his strength without holy power and found that even a light stamp could split the chaotic void.

• Ye Lin discovered that his transformed hair could cut through a Dao artifact and stretch without breaking.
• Ye Lin examined his remade heart and organs, which channeled holy power through his strengthened body.
• Ye Lin circulated his holy power until it absorbed the last trace of True Dragon blood.
• Ye Lin rose with a transformed body and shattered the chaotic void by clenching his fist.
• Ye Lin gathered his holy power in his dantian and split the void with a light stamp, judging his physical strength to be immense.

After strengthening his body with True Dragon blood, Ye Lin enjoyed a rare stretch of leisure and discovered an unclaimed mountain in the Void. He decided to build a sword city there, envisioning a holy land for sword cultivators, but had not yet decided where to begin.

• Ye Lin concluded that the twelve drops of True Dragon blood had strengthened his body but had not changed his cultivation panel.
• Ye Lin left Meteor Island and wandered alone through the Void during his rare free time.
• Ye Lin found a peculiar, unclaimed mountain surrounded by empty plains and confirmed that it held nothing unusual.
• Ye Lin decided to claim the mountain and build a city there for sword cultivators to discuss and study the Dao.
• Ye Lin considered making the city a Sword Dao Holy Land and wondered how to begin building it.

Ye Lin began building a sword-cultivator city around an inverted mountain, using rare materials and his Quasi-Saint power to forge its foundation and defenses. He completed the foundation and nine fortified walls, then continued the construction.

• Ye Lin decided to build a grand sword-cultivator city with arenas where conflicts could be settled.
• Ye Lin surrounded the inverted mountain with ninety-nine Nine Heavens Star Jades and formed the city’s base from three thousand blocks of obsidian.
• Ye Lin forged Supreme Unity Refined Gold into threads and stitched the foundation together with his Sword-Thread Heaven-Stitching Method over three days and three nights.
• Ye Lin infused a Sword Soul Pearl with his Sword Dao Law and placed it in the foundation, unleashing fierce Sword Intent from the obsidian.
• Ye Lin shaped nine rivers of fire-gold into towering walls and carved nine layers of sword formations to protect the city.

Ye Lin built Dao Sword City, forging its gates, raising a giant sword at its center, and creating a star-reflecting surface and the city’s first buildings. He finished the Drunken Sword Tower, where sword cultivators might resonate with the famous swords he had hung inside.

• Ye Lin forged two Starfall Sword Iron gates, installed them in the walls, and gathered the city’s Sword Intent into the characters “Dao Sword.”
• Ye Lin brought down a thousand-zhang Chaos Sword Embryo and planted it at the center of the city.
• Ye Lin inscribed “Dao Sword City” on the giant sword, allowing cultivators to gain insight from his Sword Dao Law.
• Ye Lin coated the city ground with a mixture of Nine Heavens Star Jade powder and Moonlight Water Essence, turning it into a mirror for the stars.
• Ye Lin used Tongtian Sword Bamboos to build the Drunken Sword Tower and hung famous swords inside for decoration and possible cultivation insight.

Ye Lin bought nine pieces of Heaven Mountain Cold Jade and arranged them as Arenas in a nine-grid formation, hoping to attract powerful cultivators and witness their battles. He decided the Arenas still needed an array formation.

• Ye Lin hesitated over building Arenas because they needed materials strong enough to withstand Third Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm battles.
• Ye Lin found Heaven Mountain Cold Jade in the system shop and bought nine pieces for one hundred billion luck points each.
• Ye Lin explained that he wanted to use the Arenas to draw Ninth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm sword cultivators into a duel he could watch.
• Ye Lin placed the nine pieces of cold jade at the nine-grid formation's nodes, but his cultivation was too low to polish them.
• Ye Lin admired the completed Arenas and realized they were missing an array formation.

Ye Lin completed the Arena’s foundation and began building a Lecture Platform to attract powerful sword cultivators, purchasing valuable green jade for it. He left the city’s formation work for later, planning to seek help from the Spirit King and the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan.

• Ye Lin decided to postpone installing an Arena formation and planned to ask the Spirit King for help from the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan’s formation masters.
• Ye Lin began constructing a Lecture Platform as a holy land where powerful sword cultivators could expound the Dao.
• Ye Lin bought a piece of green jade for three hundred billion after deciding the city needed treasures to attract experts.
• Ye Lin shaped a sword flower from Geng Metal stone and placed the green jade at its center.
• Ye Lin sat on the green jade and felt his mind clear and his comprehension improve.

Ye Lin built a Dao Platform beyond Dao Sword City's southern cliffs, using a Heaven's Question Stone to create a place where cultivators could discuss the Dao. The stone began glowing after he suspended it over the Abyss, and the story left its next function unrevealed.

• Ye Lin chose the cliffs above the ten-thousand-zhang Abyss as the site for the Dao Platform.
• Ye Lin bought a Heaven's Question Stone that could absorb and organize cultivators' insights into the Great Dao.
• Ye Lin floated the stone beyond the cliff and wove a net of Sword Qi inside it, anchoring it with a core of Sword Intent.
• The Heaven's Question Stone stabilized in midair and erupted with multicolored light.

Ye Lin completed Dao Sword City, building its debate and lecture platforms, arenas, and a Sword Pool made from 365 swords imbued with his Sword Intent. He added a stone chair atop the city’s central giant sword and surveyed the finished Sword Dao Holy Land.

• Ye Lin activated the Sword Heart Clarity Grand Formation on the debate platform, ensuring that speakers had to speak from the heart.
• Ye Lin planted 365 swords north of the city, leaving a different strand of Sword Intent in each and carving a warning on a stone tablet.
• Ye Lin surveyed Dao Sword City’s walls, towers, arenas, platforms, and Sword Pool, but decided the city still needed an imposing chair.
• Ye Lin laid a chaos-stone sword across the central giant sword’s hilt, made it into a chair, and sat down to look over the mountains and rivers.

Ye Lin met Pure Yangzi, the Pure Yang Sect’s master, who granted him land for Dao Sword City in exchange for a shop for the sect. Pure Yangzi offered to manage the city as well, but Ye Lin refused and continued with his own plans.

• Pure Yangzi arrived at Dao Sword City and asked Ye Lin why he had built a city in Pure Yang Sect territory.
• After recognizing Ye Lin as the Blade Saint’s personal disciple, Pure Yangzi gifted him the mountain and the surrounding land within ten thousand zhang.
• Pure Yangzi required Dao Sword City to provide one room where the Pure Yang Sect could conduct business, and Ye Lin agreed on the condition that it sell nothing improper.
• Pure Yangzi offered to manage Dao Sword City, but Ye Lin declined, saying he already had someone in mind.
• Pure Yangzi returned to his sect, pleased that he had secured a shop in what he expected to become a prosperous city.

Ye Lin visited the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan to borrow formation masters and improve Dao Sword City, which he planned to staff with Great Blade Association managers and promote across the Eastern Region. Spirit King agreed to help but warned that the city needed a powerful guardian or an irresistible attraction to draw strong sword cultivators.

• Ye Lin planned to recruit formation masters from the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan and managers from the Great Blade Association for Dao Sword City.
• Ye Lin restricted Dao Sword City and marked the barrier with his name to protect its arena, Debate Platform, and Lecture Platform from theft.
• Ye Lin arrived at the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan, where Spirit King greeted him as an old friend.
• Ye Lin explained that he had built Dao Sword City and needed a powerful formation, and Spirit King agreed to summon Master Wang and Master Li.
• Spirit King warned Ye Lin that Dao Sword City would not attract strong sword cultivators without a powerful guardian or something valuable enough to entice them.

The Spirit King accompanied Ye Lin to inspect Dao Sword City and judged its defenses and layout while noticing that its materials and attractions lacked grandeur. He continued exploring the city and reached its nine arenas.

• The Spirit King offered to accompany Ye Lin to Dao Sword City and brought two elderly men along.
• Ye Lin led the group to the city, where he noticed several Daluo Golden Immortals watching from the distant void.
• The Spirit King inspected the nine-layer sword formations and Chaos Sword Embryo, then examined the city’s Star River ground and sword-bamboo buildings.
• The Spirit King toured the Drunken Sword Pavilion, found its thirty-seven displayed swords unimpressive, and noted that the pavilion lacked wine.
• The Spirit King decided he would bring fine wine to the city and continued exploring until he reached the nine Heaven Mountain Cold Jade arenas.

Ye Lin showed the Spirit King nine Arenas made of Heaven Mountain Cold Jade and asked him to arrange for protective arrays. The Spirit King agreed to have his array masters build a Grand Dao Array, though he considered the Arenas a waste of valuable treasure.

• The Spirit King touched one of Ye Lin’s Arenas and felt its intense cold, then learned it was Heaven Mountain Cold Jade.
• Ye Lin explained that the Arenas could withstand Ninth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm experts and asked the Spirit King to lend array masters to protect them.
• The Spirit King’s array masters said a Grand Dao Array could contain the aftershocks, but it would take at least a hundred years to establish.
• The Spirit King marveled at the value of the nine Arenas and called using them as Arenas a waste.
• Ye Lin replied that their worth depended on the benefits they brought him.

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.