Chapter Summaries

After Elder Xuan finished preaching, Ye Lin reflected on how the teaching had strengthened his foundation. A red-haired cultivator then took his place on the bluestone and began offering teachings of his own.

• Ye Lin left the great hall, visited the arena, and then sat among the crowd to listen to Elder Xuan preach.
• Elder Xuan ended his lesson and left to digest the insights he had gained.
• Ye Lin joined the crowd in thanking Elder Xuan and felt that his foundation had become more stable after listening.
• A red-haired cultivator stepped onto the bluestone and offered to teach what he had researched himself.
• A Quasi-Saint and the Daluo Golden Immortals sat down to listen, while the higher-ranked cultivators stayed silent.

Sword True Person introduced his Fusion Sword Dao, explaining how seemingly opposing sword paths could be integrated through their underlying connections. He left the gathering with a question about how to achieve that connection still open.

• Ye Lin sat back down to hear what Sword True Person intended to say.
• Sword True Person announced that he would share his Fusion Sword Dao, drawing the attention of the sword cultivators and Quasi-Saints.
• Sword True Person described how different attributes and opposing sword paths could coexist within one strand of Sword Qi.
• Sword True Person explained that true fusion meant mastering and refining different sword paths into one, rather than simply adding them together.
• A Third Heaven Quasi-Saint questioned whether fusion would produce a muddled result, and Sword True Person replied that it required finding a connection rather than forcing paths together.

Sword True Person demonstrated how opposed Sword Daos could coexist and then fuse, explaining how shared principles could also unite individual cultivators’ Sword Daos. The discussion ended with the cultivators considering the need to understand both Daos deeply and find their common ground.

• Sword True Person formed fire and ice swords and adjusted them until they coexisted in a red-and-blue pattern.
• After a Fourth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm expert noted that coexistence was not true fusion, Sword True Person merged the swords into a violet blade.
• A Second Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm cultivator asked how unique individual Sword Daos could be fused.
• Sword True Person explained that cultivators could find shared principles between Daos, such as destruction in severing and breaking, or defense in guarding and warding.
• The questioner nodded thoughtfully after Sword True Person said that fusing individual Sword Daos required deep understanding and repeated reflection.

Sword True Person explained how to cultivate Fusion Sword Dao, and Ye Lin began considering how to apply it to his own Destruction Sword Dao. The chapter left him silently deducing possible fusions.

• A Daluo Golden Immortal asked Sword True Person how to fuse his Wind Sword Dao with other Sword Daos.
• Sword True Person advised starting with similar Sword Daos, progressing gradually, and tempering the Sword Heart to prevent backlash.
• Sword True Person said he did not know Fusion Sword Dao’s upper limit, though he believed it might unite every Sword Dao in the world.
• Ye Lin connected Fusion Sword Dao to Elder Xuan’s teachings about the common principles underlying all things and recalled his own experience fusing sword techniques.
• Ye Lin considered the shared qualities of Destruction Sword Dao and several related Sword Daos, then began deducing how they might be fused.

Ye Lin listened to Sword True Person explain Fusion Sword Dao and began adapting its principles to his own Destruction Sword Dao. As lectures continued, Ye Lin quietly fused the Sword Dao, divine abilities, and insights he had gathered, expecting the process to take time.

• Sword True Person answered questions about Fusion Sword Dao before ending his lecture, and the cultivators thanked him for sharing his insights.
• Sword True Person and Ye Lin exchanged bows and agreed they should discuss their Dao together someday.
• Sword True Person found a secluded place to sit in silence while Ye Lin began deducing how Fusion Sword Dao could apply to his Destruction Sword Dao.
• Other cultivators continued lecturing as Ye Lin listened selectively and gradually fused the Sword Dao, divine abilities, and insights he had learned.

Ye Lin left the lotus platform after the Dao expounders became too mediocre to benefit him, then returned to the quiet City Lord Mansion. There, he encountered an elderly black-robed powerhouse who had evaded his divine sense and asked for wine.

• Ye Lin decided the cultivators expounding the Dao were no longer useful to him and left the lotus platform.
• Ye Lin reflected that Dao Sword City was only beginning to grow and that he needed to earn back what he had invested in building it.
• Ye Lin found a still-hot cup of tea in the empty City Lord Mansion and searched the grounds with his divine sense, but detected no one.
• An elderly man in black robes appeared and explained that he had come for a cup of wine, preferring the quiet mansion to the crowded Drunken Sword Pavilion.
• Ye Lin recognized the man as a powerhouse and told him to drink to his heart's content.

Ye Lin questioned a powerful, amnesiac old swordsman who had wandered into the city, but learned little about his identity or origins. Wary of the danger he might pose, Ye Lin decided to keep him nearby and give him a temporary name.

• Ye Lin asked the old man where he came from, but the old man said he could not remember his past.
• The old man explained that he had wandered from a ditch outside the city after smelling the tea, then drank all the tea Ye Lin offered.
• The old man said he had no name and only remembered that he seemed very old, then lay down and ignored Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin weighed the risks of keeping or expelling the powerful stranger and decided he might be useful as a fighter.
• Ye Lin told the old man he would give him a temporary form of address until he remembered his name.

Ye Lin gave the powerful old man the name Sword Elder and allowed him to stay at the City Lord Mansion. After Li Bing told him that two Seventh Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm experts were preparing to fight at the Arena, Ye Lin went to watch and saw a woman in red facing a monk.

• Ye Lin told the old man to call himself Sword Elder and let him stay as long as he did not attack people at random.
• Sword Elder asked Ye Lin to help him if calamity ever befell him, then fell asleep on the ground.
• Li Bing told Ye Lin that two Seventh Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm experts were at the Arena and looked ready to fight.
• Ye Lin followed Li Bing to the Arena, where he saw a woman in a red dress facing a monk on the central platform.

Ye Lin watched Song Xue confront Feng Yuan in the Arena, where the former lovers clashed as Seventh Heaven Quasi-Saint experts. The Arena’s spectators soon set aside their worries about its strength and focused on watching the duel.

• Ye Lin noticed that the old monk Feng Yuan radiated Sword Qi rather than Buddhist light.
• Song Xue challenged Feng Yuan, mocked his claim to cultivate both Buddha and sword, and declared she would sever their connection with her red sword.
• Feng Yuan insisted their relationship was over and warned Song Xue that she could not defeat him.
• Song Xue charged, and Feng Yuan’s golden sword erupted with immense power, which the Arena’s protective barrier contained.
• The spectators debated whether the Arena could withstand the duel, then sat silently to watch the battle.

Song Xue and Feng Yuan clashed on Arena, where her Sword Dao Law and hidden sword threads tested his Buddhist defenses. They resumed their duel at far greater speed, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Song Xue struck Feng Yuan with her sword, but his golden Buddhist barrier blocked the attack and sent a painful shock through the spectators.
• Song Xue imbued her next strike with Sword Dao Law, and Feng Yuan expanded his barrier as his golden scripture-engraved sword formed a Sword Qi defense.
• Song Xue withdrew, leaving hidden sword threads that warned Feng Yuan against pursuing her.
• Feng Yuan recognized Song Xue's sword threads and remarked on her dangerous sword, while Song Xue mocked his talk.
• Song Xue attacked again at more than ten times her previous speed.

Song Xue trapped Feng Yuan in a sword net woven from countless strands of Sword Qi, forcing him to draw his golden sword and reveal his fused Buddhist and Sword Dao. Feng Yuan's golden Sword Qi began assimilating Song Xue's red Sword Qi, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Song Xue attacked Feng Yuan with a precise sword net, astonishing the watching cultivators and Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin studied Song Xue's method of controlling countless strands of Sword Qi through Sword Dao Law.
• Feng Yuan stopped defending passively and drew the golden sword from behind him.
• Feng Yuan used Buddha Sword, sending golden Sword Qi filled with Buddhist true words toward Song Xue's sword net.
• Feng Yuan's golden Sword Qi began assimilating Song Xue's red Sword Qi on contact.

Feng Yuan used Buddhist methods fused with the Sword Dao to convert Song Xue’s Sword Qi, surprising the spectators with his unusual fighting style. Song Xue countered by unleashing a torrent of crimson Sword Qi that threatened to overwhelm his conversion technique.

• Feng Yuan’s golden Buddhist Sword Qi converted Song Xue’s red Sword Dao Law and returned it to heaven and earth.
• A young sword cultivator questioned Feng Yuan’s approach, and a middle-aged man explained the difficulty and potential power of his Buddhist sword dual cultivation.
• Ye Lin noticed that the middle-aged man had understood Feng Yuan’s technique clearly.
• Song Xue released hundreds and then thousands of crimson Sword Qi strands to overwhelm Feng Yuan’s golden Sword Qi.

Song Xue and Feng Yuan fought fiercely on the Cold Jade Arena, their opposing Sword Dao Laws clashing while the arena’s formation contained their destructive power. Ye Lin watched their different sword paths and was left observing a battle far beyond his own understanding.

• Feng Yuan retreated from Song Xue’s red Sword Qi and countered with nine strikes of golden Sword Qi infused with Buddhist suppression and purification.
• The red and golden Sword Qi collided, sending shockwaves across the arena and making the spectators marvel at the protective formation.
• Song Xue and Feng Yuan closed the distance and exchanged rapid sword strikes, while their law fragments dissipated under the grand formation.
• Ye Lin studied Song Xue’s direct, lethal swordsmanship and Feng Yuan’s adaptable fusion of sword sharpness and Buddhist compassion.
• The duel moved across the arena, whose formation restored every mark and kept all aftershocks contained.

Song Xue and Feng Yuan unleashed their strongest sword techniques against each other atop the Arena. After their strikes collided and everything vanished into silence, Song Xue appeared, but the result of the battle remained unclear.

• Song Xue drew the Sword Dao Law into her blade, revealing a terrifying sword that Feng Yuan suspected had reached its third realm.
• Song Xue named her sword Return to the Void and declared that their conflict would end that day.
• Feng Yuan realized he could not evade Song Xue's strike and met it with his Buddha Sword technique, All Dharmas Are Empty.
• Song Xue's and Feng Yuan's sword strikes collided at the center of the Arena, swallowing everything in silence.
• Song Xue's figure appeared on the Arena, leaving the outcome uncertain.

Song Xue defeated Feng Yuan with her Return-to-Void Sword, ending their contest and severing the karma between them. Feng Yuan left the Arena, and the gathered sword cultivators quietly dispersed.

• Feng Yuan admitted defeat and praised Song Xue's Return-to-Void Sword.
• Song Xue acknowledged Feng Yuan's skill and said deeper Buddhist cultivation might have changed the outcome.
• Feng Yuan thanked Song Xue for her guidance, declared their karma severed, and left the Arena with half his cultivation destroyed.
• Song Xue watched Feng Yuan depart, then sheathed her sword and left the Arena.
• The watching sword cultivators stayed silent before dispersing, some carrying new insights from the battle.

Ye Lin reunited with Tang Feng, an old acquaintance who had become an elder of the Rogue Cultivator Alliance. After hearing that the alliance faced destruction by the three major powers of Heavenly March Prefecture, Ye Lin agreed to help and set out with Tang Feng.

• A messenger told Ye Lin that someone was waiting outside the city, and Ye Lin went out to meet Tang Feng.
• Ye Lin welcomed Tang Feng into the city and learned that Tang Feng had become one of the Rogue Cultivator Alliance's five great elders.
• Tang Feng explained that the three major powers of Heavenly March Prefecture were hunting the alliance under a false accusation.
• Tang Feng asked Ye Lin to help save the alliance, whose leader was a First Heaven Quasi-Saint and whose elders were peak Daluo Golden Immortals.
• Ye Lin agreed to go with Tang Feng, who knelt to thank him before Ye Lin told him to lead the way.

Tang Feng and Ye Lin left the great hall as the Rogue Cultivator Alliance faced an overwhelming siege in Heavenly March Prefecture. The Alliance’s defenders prepared to fight to the death while their elder battled five Quasi-Saints.

• Tang Feng agreed to go with Ye Lin, and the two vanished from the great hall.
• A young man told the Rogue Cultivator Alliance elder that eighteen Daluo Golden Immortals had surrounded them, while the enemy also had five Quasi-Saints.
• The elder questioned the five enemy leaders over their assault, but they accused the Alliance of trespassing and declared they would erase it from Heavenly March Prefecture.
• The five Quasi-Saints attacked the elder, who drew two sabers and fought them in the sky.
• The enemy forces attacked the Alliance in the canyon, and its cultivators vowed to fight back even if they died.

The Rogue Cultivator Alliance fought a desperate battle against overwhelming forces, and its leader was defeated by five Quasi-Saints. As the attackers moved to kill him, a Daluo Golden Immortal despaired and wondered where Tang Feng was.

• The Rogue Cultivator Alliance’s cultivators fought to the death, with many Primordial Unity Golden Immortals choosing to self-destruct and take enemies with them.
• A meteor struck the canyon, devastating the battlefield and revealing the bloodied Alliance leader among the ruins.
• Five Quasi-Saints descended and mocked the Alliance leader, saying his depleted vital essence left him barely able to maintain his cultivation.
• The Alliance leader said he had once been a rogue cultivator and had wanted to do something meaningful before dying.
• The five Quasi-Saints decided to kill the Alliance leader, while a Daluo Golden Immortal despaired and wondered where Tang Feng was.

The Rogue Cultivator Alliance faced destruction at the hands of five Quasi-Saints until a mysterious Sword Qi shattered an attack aimed at its leader. Tang Feng arrived with an unknown companion, and the Alliance’s survivors greeted him as he returned with reinforcements.

• The Alliance’s leader and elders accepted that the Rogue Cultivator Alliance would be destroyed by the five Quasi-Saints.
• A red-haired Quasi-Saint struck at the Alliance’s leader, but a streak of Sword Qi tore apart his attack.
• The Alliance’s cultivators and attackers looked toward the horizon to identify the person who had intervened.
• Tang Feng arrived with another figure, prompting the Alliance’s cultivators to recognize him and rejoice.
• Tang Feng greeted the Alliance’s leader and fellow cultivators, then grew furious at their injuries and the bodies among the ruins.

Ye Lin arrived to protect the Rogue Cultivator Alliance and overwhelmed the five Quasi-Saints who had attacked it. He ordered them to warn their superiors not to trouble the Alliance for ten thousand years, threatening to destroy Heavenly March Prefecture if they disobeyed.

• The alliance leader and elders asked Tang Feng who the powerful cultivator in the sky was, and Tang Feng identified him as Ye Lin.
• The five Quasi-Saints told Ye Lin not to interfere, but his pressure forced them to their knees and turned their followers into bloody mist.
• Ye Lin told the five Quasi-Saints to warn the people behind them to leave the Rogue Cultivator Alliance alone for ten thousand years.
• Ye Lin threatened to wash Heavenly March Prefecture in blood if they violated his warning.