Recaps

Lu Cang told Ansu about his repeated time resets and explained that a ruined book changed its contents between loops. He suspected that people in different timelines could influence one another, so he wrote a message in a book asking anyone with the same curse to respond.

• Lu Cang told Ansu that he had returned from the future and that another reset was due in a little over thirty days.
• Lu Cang greeted Pidi at the Ancient Library as part of his routine to check whether the repeating world had changed.
• Lu Cang showed Ansu that the words in the book Time's Lone Curse changed each time he read it.
• Lu Cang and Ansu discussed whether history could be altered by changing events no one knew about.
• Lu Cang wrote an account of his curse and experiences in a book, hoping someone in another timeline would find it and reply.

Lu Cang relived countless cycles and saw that every future led to the Secret Sea’s destruction. Back in Chronoa, he told Iz about his time curse and offered to help kill An Zheng before going with him to Boundless Mountain.

• Lu Cang used Future Simulation to witness several outcomes, all ending in the Secret Sea’s destruction.
• He left records of his experiences across Atlantis City, then lived through more resets as time retreated toward the day before he arrived at the Moon Sea.
• Back in Chronoa, Lu Cang visited Iz and demonstrated Second Forbidden Magic—Time, freezing time across a vast area.
• Lu Cang explained his time curse and revealed that a future version of Iz had given him the forbidden magic.
• Iz realized he had learned the spell from Lu Cang’s demonstration but could not test it because of its lifespan cost.
• Lu Cang asked Iz to let him help kill An Zheng and then travel with him to Boundless Mountain, and Iz agreed.

Lu Cang sparred with Chicheng to test how his strength compared with his allies after returning from the future. He overwhelmed Chicheng at first, but Chicheng’s masked power let him block Lu Cang’s strongest clash and revealed that Lu Cang still had a gap to overcome.

• Chicheng questioned where the original Lu Cang had gone, and Izpalut said a spell might explain his disappearance but needed more research.
• Lu Cang confirmed that he and the others would be teleported to Boundless Mountain, and Chicheng invited him to spar in the Battle Arena.
• Lu Cang demonstrated a newly forged elemental spear and used Elemental Primordialization and Time Cage to strike Chicheng through the ice.
• Final Sense showed Lu Cang Chicheng’s masked form, which weakened the rules around him and let him escape the ice despite the Time Cage.
• Chicheng blocked Lu Cang’s spear in a head-on clash, and the force destroyed Lu Cang’s arm before it regenerated.

Lu Cang tested his immense magical power against Chicheng, who countered his spells with his unique constitution and warrior techniques. Their clash left Chicheng’s organs shattered, but he grew stronger as the lightning rebuilt them, and the battle continued.

• Lu Cang explained Chicheng’s force-rebounding constitution, then slowed him with Original Forbidden Magic and unleashed hundreds of thousands of Tier 6 spells.
• Chicheng used Absolute Suppression: Immovable to tear apart the incoming spells and withstand Lu Cang’s attacks.
• Lu Cang fused his Tier 6 Elemental spells into Pure Elemental magic, while Chicheng urged him to show his Warrior skills instead.
• Chicheng met Lu Cang’s Complete Thunder with his greatsword, and the impact shattered his internal organs.
• Chicheng fought on as his strength rose, and the lightning that had wounded him reformed his internal organs.

Lu Cang unleashed his strongest fused Elemental magic against Chicheng, but Chicheng absorbed its power and revealed his physique and newly comprehended Path of Invincibility. Chicheng's first form, Infinite End, forced Lu Cang into a direct clash, and their weapons met as the chapter ended.

• Chicheng grew stronger as thunder and flames surged around him and he launched an attack at Lu Cang.
• Lu Cang struck Chicheng with fused Tier 6 Elemental magic, but Chicheng tore through it and drew power from the attack.
• Chicheng explained that his physique let him gain and retain power from skills at his level, and said the fight had helped him comprehend a new realm.
• Chicheng used Path of Invincibility, First Form: Infinite End, to destroy Lu Cang's magic and deliver an unavoidable sword strike.
• Lu Cang activated Ascension to Extreme Realm and thrust his battle spear forward, meeting Chicheng's greatsword head-on.

Lu Cang defeated Chicheng in the Battle Arena and reunited with his companions before they were transported to the Moon Sea. There, he trapped An Zheng with Time Cage and stole all of the mage’s spells, leaving An Zheng unable to remember any magic.

• Lu Cang shattered Chicheng’s final attack with his spear, regenerated after being destroyed, and won the Battle Arena fight as Chicheng died.
• Chicheng praised Lu Cang’s growth, and Lu Cang reunited with Kumiloni, Obades, Leng Qingying, Luluwei, and the others while Iz continued studying the Original Forbidden Magic.
• On the night of March 24, the Secret Sand Archipelago was transported to the Moon Sea, where An Zheng appeared before the group.
• Lu Cang used Time Cage to trap An Zheng and revealed that the Original Forbidden Magic was called Time.
• An Zheng summoned hundreds of thousands of magic arrays, but Lu Cang used God-Tier: Lighthouse of Myriad Laws to steal every spell from him.

Lu Cang defeated An Zheng by combining the God-Tier Lighthouse of Myriad Laws with Time Cage, then traveled with Iz to Boundless Mountain to study time magic. After several days, Iz created the first time magic of the era, the Sixth-Tier Time Magic: Time Difference Band.

• Lu Cang neutralized An Zheng's magic, shortened his imminent Death Date, and watched him wither and die.
• Iz praised Lu Cang, who searched An Zheng's storage bag after the battle.
• Kumiloni learned that Sophia had raised her as a vessel for possession and decided not to intercept Samo.
• Iz teleported Lu Cang and the others from the Secret Sea to Boundless Mountain, where Lu Cang said he wanted to stop the reset cycle.
• Lu Cang and Iz settled in a palace and studied the origins of Forbidden Magic and the Time Cage.
• After several days of study, Iz created the Sixth-Tier Time Magic: Time Difference Band, which made time around him speed up or slow down unpredictably.

Lu Cang learned from Izpalut how to escape the repetitive timelines and received the time-based Origin Magic Ring of Time Leap. He chose to return to September 13, 5025, the day he first met Mese, hoping to investigate the mysteries surrounding Pali, Mese, and the fortune-teller.

• Lu Cang and Izpalut studied time magic, and Izpalut confirmed that time continued to pass in Lu Cang’s original timeline while he was caught in resets.
• Lu Cang reset to March 23 again, then used clues from Izpalut’s Arcane research to help him recover and advance his discoveries across repeated timelines.
• Izpalut created the Ring of Time Leap, which let Lu Cang jump directly to an earlier point in his timeline instead of enduring each reset day by day.
• Lu Cang activated the Ring of Time Leap and chose September 13, 5025, the day he had met Mese, intending to seek answers about Pali and the mysterious fortune-teller.

After resetting time, Lu Cang used a future rehearsal to investigate Pali and discovered she was a level-nine diviner who hoped to reach level ten through him. Pali revealed that Lu Cang had become separate from Fate, making all destined outcomes uncertain, while his own ending remained unseen.

• Lu Cang returned to Rhein Town with his strength and memories intact, then located Mese and Pali using his perception.
• Lu Cang activated God-Tier Future Rehearsal and Unsolvable Mystery before meeting Pali in the library.
• Pali recognized Lu Cang and asked whether he was ready to accept True Fate; he took her hand to learn her identity.
• Lu Cang discovered that Pali was Erl Ripani, a level-nine Diviner with the God-Tier True Fate Eye.
• Pali explained that she had staked her hope of reaching level ten on Lu Cang, whose existence had become independent of Fate and made every destined future uncertain.

Lu Cang questioned Pali about fate, his time reset, and Earth, learning how her divination interacted with his God-Tier Talent and what the Astral Realm was. Pali explained the origins of the Void and the Astral Realm as experiments by Perga, leaving Lu Cang with more to learn about his connection to the Tree of Wisdom.

• Lu Cang asked Pali what she wanted him to change, and she said diviners observed fate and charged a price for divination.
• Lu Cang saw visions of the Abyss of Falling spreading across the Moon Sea and monsters hunting humans, while Pali said most futures were ordained and he was an exceptional variable.
• Pali revealed that she knew Lu Cang came from Earth, was connected to the Tree of Wisdom, and was speaking to her in a simulated timeline.
• Pali explained that Lu Cang's time reset would end when he reached the beginning of his timeline, before his birth, and said his God-Tier Talent affected powers below the level of the source.
• Lu Cang asked whether he could save Earth and what had happened to it, and Pali described Earth as a planet in the Astral Realm, which served as an unusual cultivation vessel.
• Pali explained that the Void had formed from Perga's failed ideal world, whose surviving lifeforms became the Void Creatures, and that the Astral Realm was Perga's new experiment in evolving worlds and life.

In the Future Simulation, Pali told Lu Cang that Earth was one of many test subjects and explained how Ekhatol of Time had become a level 9 Time Controller. After the simulation ended, Lu Cang returned to his room and resumed the timeline, where Meise followed him on his way back.

• Pali suggested Lu Cang might be a hollow shell and explained that spirituality came from the Tree of Wisdom.
• Pali revealed that Earth was a test subject in the Astral Realm and that Bai had destroyed Earth and the Secret Sea in Lu Cang's true timeline.
• Pali said Ekhatol was born a hundred million years ago, became a level 9 Time Controller, and attempted to reach level 10 before leaving behind a single path.
• Pali refused to explain what happened next, telling Lu Cang to ask the person behind the door or pay her one trillion gold coins.
• The Future Simulation ended, and Lu Cang returned to his small room, wondering whether Pali had arranged his transport to the Secret Sea.
• After resetting to the timeline, Lu Cang rescued Loth and the others that afternoon, visited the Adventurers' Hotel, and sensed Meise following him in formalwear.

Lu Cang confronted Mese, discovered that Mese was resisting corruption and had a way to remove it, and sealed him away after their clash. The next day, Pali had disappeared and the Demonic Tide struck Loren as Iz and the others returned after rescuing hundreds of cities.

• Mese approached Lu Cang and offered him spells, but Lu Cang quickly learned them and challenged Mese about his corruption.
• Mese attacked Lu Cang with blood-red chains and soul magic, but Lu Cang broke his spells and invaded his Sea of Consciousness.
• Lu Cang found a protected awareness inside Mese's Sea of Consciousness, realized Mese had sought help to remove the corruption, and withdrew without breaking through to it.
• Lu Cang shattered Mese's attacks and imprisoned him inside a Seal, telling him to stay there for now.
• The next day, Pali had disappeared and the Demonic Tide opened countless rifts across southern Loren.
• Iz and the others headed back after rescuing hundreds of cities from monster attacks.

Lu Cang captured the intelligent insect king Nie Ye, learned that the Insect Nest had ordered the invasion, and entered a rift in a Future Simulation. He discovered the rift led to a vast one-way insect stronghold and sensed Iz nearby.

• Lu Cang questioned Nie Ye, snapped its tail, and forced it to reveal that the Insect Nest had ordered the attack and targeted Izpalut, Chicheng, and Kumiloni.
• Lu Cang sealed Nie Ye and used a Future Simulation to enter the rift, where he found a barren world filled with enormous hive-like structures and swarms of insects.
• Lu Cang fought through the insect swarms and saw human-shaped figures pass through a distant rift before the insects obscured them.
• Lu Cang discovered that the rift was designed for monsters to exit and would disintegrate anyone trying to return through it.
• Lu Cang sensed a familiar wave of magic power like his own and realized Iz was fighting somewhere nearby.

Lu Cang found Izpalut in the insect nest and agreed to help him investigate the rifts. They traced the rifts to a Phase Spider hanging above the nest.

• Lu Cang flew through Izpalut’s spreading elemental magic and reached him amid the swarms.
• Lu Cang showed Iz the arcane runes, and Iz understood that Lu Cang had come from a previous time reset.
• Iz explained that he wanted to study the rifts and asked Lu Cang to help, despite the possibility of ninth-tier monsters nearby.
• Iz arranged the rifts, which burst open and released insects covered in spatial runes.
• Lu Cang used Secret Origin to identify the insects as Phase Worms and traced their origin to the Phase Spider above the nest.

Chicheng and Kumiloni found Rhein Town unharmed and its Devilish Creatures already dead, while Iz and Lu Cang fought their way through the hive toward the source of its rifts. Lu Cang discovered an armored eighth-tier Phase Mantis and glimpsed the Phase Grandmother, realizing the hive they had entered might be only one part of a much larger whole.

• Chicheng and Kumiloni returned to Rhein Town, found its people unharmed, and noticed that Lu Cang was missing.
• Iz and Lu Cang traveled through the hive, killed insects, and rescued adventurers near the rifts as they searched for the rifts’ source.
• Iz and Lu Cang realized the hive was using their attacks to help its insects evolve and become resistant to magic.
• Lu Cang froze time to counter an armored eighth-tier Phase Mantis, then poisoned it with his retained God-Tier Disaster of Poison.
• Lu Cang identified the Phase Mantis as part of the Insect Second Legion and saw the Phase Grandmother producing eggs that hatched into several kinds of Phase insects.
• Lu Cang concluded that the hive might be only part of a larger hive, with many others possibly existing in the world.

Lu Cang marked a Phase Mantis, drove it mad, and watched Izpalut capture it by removing a pocket of space. After studying the insect, Izpalut developed a new spell, Phase Shuttle.

• Lu Cang learned that the Phase Mantis had been equipped by the Fourth Legion of Insects and used its short Death Date to help bring it near death.
• Lu Cang marked the Phase Mantis with Heart Shadow Imprint, then used Disoriented Chaos and Madness Poison to send it into a frenzy.
• The maddened Phase Mantis flashed through space, killing insects along its path, while Lu Cang and Izpalut tracked its movements.
• The Phase Mantis returned and attacked Izpalut, who trapped it in a pocket of emptiness and sealed it.
• After examining the Phase Mantis, Izpalut cast a spell that opened a passage and gained Tier 6 Origin Magic: Phase Shuttle.

Lu Cang and Iz reached the enormous insect nest and found an intelligent Phase Spider, which they trapped after learning about its abilities and purpose. They prepared to question it, with every escape route sealed.

• Iz and Lu Cang used Phase Shuttle to travel through the insect nest and searched for the Phase Spider.
• They reached the vast nest in the sky, mimicked the insects’ auras, and followed the crystalline threads to the Phase Spider’s web.
• The Phase Spider attacked Lu Cang with Phase Slash and tried to strike him, but Lu Cang shattered its raised legs.
• Lu Cang learned that the Phase Spider came from the Phase Grandmother and was created to weave passages for the insect nest.
• The Phase Spider tried to flee, but Izpalut blocked its escape, and Lu Cang and Iz surrounded it to ask questions.

Lu Cang interrogated a captured Phase Spider in the War Lair and learned how the insect nests organized their legions and spread independent thought. He realized the nests could pose a devastating threat if they invaded the present world.

• Iz severed the Phase Spider’s remaining legs with Misaligned Space Slash while Lu Cang demanded that it answer his questions.
• Lu Cang influenced the Phase Spider’s mind, and it revealed that this was a War Lair, one of at least a hundred war nests, where it built passages for the Bug Lord.
• The Phase Spider said it had been born in the Mother Nest and described six legions responsible for guarding, transportation, construction, forging, breeding, and combat.
• The Phase Spider said the Bug Lord’s growing spiritual nature was causing more insects to think independently, and it believed all of them might eventually gain that ability.
• Lu Cang considered how the insect nests and other hostile nests could overwhelm the present world unless the gods and Ninth-Tier Class-changers helped humanity.

Izpalut learned Phase Point and Phase Teleportation from the Phase Spider, then used the new magic to take Lu Cang and the others to the Time Ruins in the Moon Sea. There, Kumiloni tried to communicate with the presence behind the door, and a clear female voice answered, “Who?”

• Izpalut analyzed the Phase Spider’s magic and created a Phase Teleportation passage.
• Lu Cang ended the simulation, and Chicheng and Iz returned to Rhein Town, where the monsters had been dealt with.
• Lu Cang shared the future information and newly learned spells with Iz, and Kumiloni chose to trust her companions over Sophia.
• Iz opened a passage to the Moon Sea, bringing the group to the Valley of Emptiness and the Time Ruins.
• At the door, Kumiloni sensed a presence and tried to speak with it; many lingering thoughts echoed before a female voice asked who she was.

Kumiloni and the others spoke with Ekhatol through a door while trying to understand why Lu Cang was trapped in a time loop. After Iz and Chicheng challenged her doubts about whether their world was real, Ekhatol invited them to enter.

• Kumiloni explained that they had come because their companion was trapped in an endless time loop, and Ekhatol questioned why they had entered despite knowing the risk.
• Iz considered how the ruins' time resets affected people and suspected his future self had caused Lu Cang's loop.
• Ekhatol suggested that everyone except Lu Cang might exist only in a simulation and would disappear if he returned to his world.
• Iz insisted that he trusted his own judgment, and Chicheng said he could accept the risk of disappearing while asking whether Ekhatol was troubled by the same fear.
• After a long silence, Ekhatol asked whether they wanted to enter and tentatively said they might be able to.

Lu Cang and his companions entered the space beyond the door and learned from Ekhatol why she had created and sealed countless branching timelines. As the main timeline was being fixed, Ekhatol and her other possible selves were disappearing, and she explained that time’s singularity had to be preserved.

• The door melted away, and Lu Cang, Iz, and their companions saw multiple timelines and reflections of themselves beyond it.
• Lu Cang asked Ekhatol whether she believed she was unreal, and she explained that only one version of her could remain once the main timeline was fixed.
• Ekhatol revealed that she had split time into countless branches out of curiosity, then sealed them when she realized they would all converge on the destruction of spacetime.
• Ekhatol said she was correcting the branching timelines, even though she and the other versions of herself would disappear when the original timeline was restored.
• Ekhatol explained that multiple timelines would disrupt divination, entangle spacetimes, and interfere with singularity and the chance to ascend to godhood.

Lu Cang learned that Ekhatol’s release could bring another timeline into the main world, while conflicting versions of her fought over whether she should leave. As more Ekhatols broke into the timeline and time itself fell into chaos, Lu Cang faced pressure to decide whether to free her.

• Lu Cang learned that the uniqueness of divine positions caused different timelines to affect one another, and that Ekhatol had sealed time to leave only one timeline outside.
• Ekhatol asked Lu Cang to help her leave, explaining that she would bring a timeline with her, while other versions of her insisted she must stay.
• Ekhatol warned Lu Cang that he could not return to normal space-time easily unless he took her away and broke her restriction.
• An opposing Ekhatol attacked Lu Cang with an eighth-tier time spell, but Izpalut weakened and dismantled it.
• Ekhatol stopped time and demanded that Lu Cang break her restriction, but another Ekhatol shattered the stasis and appeared before him, ordering him to return.

Lu Cang escaped the time prison with Ekhatol, who had been trapped there for a hundred million years. After returning to the present, he learned from a letter that Iz and the others had gone to Boundless Mountain, while they urged him to return if he had resolved his problem.

• Lu Cang freed Ekhatol and took her through the door, escaping the time prison as a month passed outside.
• Ekhatol returned to the world and explained that she had used her Eternal Life Technique of Time to endure her imprisonment.
• Lu Cang opened a Phase Passage, and he and Ekhatol traveled to Knoroya, where she noticed the sea had changed since her time.
• Lu Cang returned to his mansion and found a letter saying Iz and the others had gone to Boundless Mountain to explore its Forbidden Zone of Life.

Lu Cang traveled to the future to learn how Lomo transformed Earth’s people into monsters, then tracked Lomo down in the Sea Abyss. He attacked Lomo before the ritual began, determined to kill him and vent his anger.

• Lu Cang and Ekhatol traveled through time to January 28 and arrived on Earth, where Lu Cang sensed that its people were still human.
• Lu Cang used Future Simulation to learn that Lomo had performed a Spirit and Flesh mutation ritual on Earth, turning everyone into monsters.
• Lu Cang left Earth and opened a Phase Passage to appear directly in front of Lomo in the Sea Abyss.
• Lu Cang unleashed Elemental Primordialization, Elemental Myriad Manifestations, and ninth-tier Elemental magic against Lomo while slowing time.

Lu Cang used 9th Tier elemental magic to kill Lomo, then asked Ekhatol why his condition had not changed after the reset. After Ekhatol offered a possible explanation, she helped him return, and he arrived before a giant tree made of flowing light.

• Lu Cang unleashed 9th Tier elemental magic across the Sea Abyss and killed Lomo, who begged for mercy.
• After his mana ran low, Lu Cang reflected that he had learned eighty-six 9th Tier Elemental Magic spells.
• Ekhatol noticed that Lu Cang had suffered no lasting price from using the Original Forbidden Magic, and suggested a law might be keeping him unchanged through resets.
• Lu Cang decided to return to the real world as soon as possible because he feared a greater danger could arrive before he had time to grow stronger.
• Ekhatol snapped her fingers to help Lu Cang return, and he found himself facing a dazzling giant tree formed from streams of flowing light.