Recaps

Zhao Nan repaired Linley’s Consciousness Sea and halted the force attacking his soul, triggering Linley’s Four-Element Soul Mutation. Meanwhile, Zhao Nan broke through the first trial of the Time Reincarnation and moved toward the next challenge.

• Zhao Nan used the Life Law to repair Linley’s Consciousness Sea, then used the Laws of Time to stop the ongoing assault on Linley’s soul.
• Bebe sensed Linley’s soul recovering, and Linley began drawing in the Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water elements as his soul mutation started.
• Bluefire identified Linley’s condition as a Soul Mutation, while Olivier told the others that Linley would have to endure it through his own strength and conviction.
• Zhao Nan located the point where the Time Reincarnation looped and broke through it in the Gabadan Plane Prison.
• Beirut explained to Bluefire that Zhao Nan’s next trials were Time Cutting, Time Stasis, and Time Reversal, and they discussed whether Linley might receive a Sovereign Spark if he survived.

Zhao Nan endured and overcame the Secret Realm’s Time Cutting trial by strengthening his body, while his summoned divine body helped confirm that Linley had completed his Four-Element Soul Mutation. Zhao Nan moved deeper into the Secret Realm, and Linley remained asleep as he recovered his soul power.

• Time Cutting badly injured Zhao Nan and severed his Divine Clones, so he strengthened his true body with Sovereign's Might until he could withstand it.
• Bluefire told Bebe, Olivier, and the others that Linley's Soul Stones were gone, and they summoned Zhao Nan to help Linley.
• After studying Linley's soul for a month, Zhao Nan concluded that Linley's Four-Element Soul Mutation had succeeded, but Linley needed to sleep while his soul power recovered.
• Bluefire relayed Zhao Nan's message that Linley had completed the mutation and could recover faster with his Coiling Dragon Ring, Amethysts, or Soul Golden Pellets.
• After hundreds of Time Cutting attacks, Zhao Nan caught and crushed a Time Blade, then stepped deeper into the Secret Realm.

Zhao Nan endured the third trial’s Time Stasis in the Secret Realm while Beirut and Bluefire monitored him and checked on Linley. After Zhao Nan was summoned to the Planar Battlefield, he reassured his disciples that Linley would wake once his soul grew strong enough and warned everyone not to enter the Secret Realm.

• Zhao Nan reached the third trial and was immobilized by Time Stasis, though the three strands of time power in his Consciousness Sea let his soul move slightly.
• Beirut and Bluefire discussed the trial as Bluefire contacted his clone; Olivier, Bebe, Raysijin, and the others celebrated Linley’s growing soul power and successful Four-Element Soul Mutation.
• Beirut and Bluefire decided not to risk testing Zhao Nan’s Soul Mutation method on Linley, then later asked the disciples to summon Zhao Nan again because Linley remained unconscious.
• Olivier and the others summoned Zhao Nan, who told Bebe that Linley would awaken when his soul became strong enough and warned Bluefire that the Secret Realm was dangerous even for a Chief God.
• Zhao Nan told his disciples to return to the Yulan Continent after the Planar Battlefield and not summon him unnecessarily, then vanished; Bluefire admitted Beirut had prompted the summoning.

Linley awakened after fourteen years unconscious and discovered that his Four-Element Soul Mutation had made him stronger than a Paragon and let him fuse all four kinds of divine power. After learning that Zhao Nan had entered the Time Secret Realm, Linley heard that his teacher had passed two trials as Zhao Nan broke free of Time Stasis in the Gabadan Plane Prison.

• Linley woke with his original body and four Divine Clones conscious, learned he had been unconscious for fourteen years, and reunited with Bebe, Bluefire, and the others.
• Bluefire told Linley that they had failed to discover who attacked Bebe, and Linley examined his mutated soul, saw his Coiling Dragon Ring repairing itself, and found that his Divine Clones could exchange energy.
• Linley fused Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire divine powers into gray divine power that he sensed was stronger than using Sovereign's Might.
• Bluefire explained Willpower and described Zhao Nan's expedition into the Time Secret Realm, leaving Linley stunned by the danger facing his teacher.
• Zhao Nan shattered Time Stasis in the Gabadan Plane Prison, asked Beirut and Bluefire to check on his disciples and send word to their families, and requested a four-Godhead sword for Linley and an eleven-Godhead weapon for himself.

Zhao Nan feared that the Time Reversal trial could rapidly age his young body until his powerful soul destroyed it, while Beirut and Bluefire worried over his survival. Meanwhile, Linley agreed to spar with Bluefire to test his strength after gaining Willpower from his Four-Element Soul Mutation, and their first serious punches shattered space.

• Zhao Nan cautiously continued toward the Time Reversal trial, fearing his body would regress to infancy before he could break its power.
• Bluefire told Beirut that Linley had gained Willpower, prompting them to realize Zhao Nan's young age made Time Reversal especially dangerous and to prepare a backup plan.
• Beirut asked Bluefire to invite Linley to spar by offering to make him a weapon suited to his strength, and Linley accepted after Bebe praised Beirut's weapons.
• Linley and Bluefire agreed to fight using only physical strength and Willpower, without divine power or Sovereign's Might.
• Linley and Bluefire exchanged blows, and the force of their punches shattered the space where they collided.

Linley and Bluefire fought at full strength, confirming Linley had reached Paragon power. Afterward, Linley declined to rush into becoming a Chief God's emissary, saying he still had room to advance and would consult his teacher first.

• Linley and Bluefire unleashed their divine power and battled across the Planar Battlefield, tearing open enormous spatial rifts.
• Olivier explained that their Willpower let them withstand Spatial Turbulence, while Bebe and the others watched in awe.
• Linley struck Bluefire with a powerful attack formed from his Willpower, fused divine power, and Earth Profound Mystery, and the two ended their evenly matched fight.
• Linley celebrated with his companions, who discussed how Paragons could choose which Chief God to serve as an emissary.
• Raysijin urged Linley to become his mother's emissary, but Bluefire argued that Linley should preserve his freedom.
• Linley said he had no plans to become an emissary yet because he could still advance and wanted to consult his teacher.

Linley agreed to help Raysijin and learned that his Willpower exceeded that of an ordinary Paragon, while Bluefire explained how to measure it. Meanwhile, Zhao Nan discovered that the fourth trial’s time reversal made forward movement impossible and left him searching for a way to understand the temporal power.

• Raysijin accepted Linley’s refusal to become his mother’s Chief God’s Emissary but asked him to help whenever trouble arose, and Linley promised he would.
• Bluefire urged everyone to keep Linley’s Soul Mutation secret and advised him to conserve his unusual Fused Divine Power by relying on ordinary Highgod Power and carefully controlled Sovereign’s Might.
• Bluefire explained that Linley’s Willpower seemed stronger than an ordinary Paragon’s and told him to measure it by spreading Sovereign’s Might like divine sense.
• Zhao Nan realized that the fourth trial was Time Reversal after the Wind Blade he had formed vanished into elemental particles, and he felt his body’s defenses weakening.
• Zhao Nan tried to fly forward, but the reversal pushed him backward faster the harder he moved, so he sat down and focused on comprehending the temporal power.
• Beirut told Bluefire that he had never learned how Augusta defeated the Four Divine Beasts, whose attacks had all failed to affect him; Bluefire then continued watching Zhao Nan’s trial.

Linley discovered that his Willpower and soul power reached extraordinary ranges, while Zhao Nan survived the Time Reversal trial by merging the power of time with the space in his Consciousness Sea. Zhao Nan passed the trial but could only restore his body to that of a young child, leaving him poised to claim Beirut’s reward.

• Linley measured his Sovereign’s Might and soul power, finding that his soul power reached five hundred and twenty thousand miles and recognizing soul attacks as his strongest attacks.
• Zhao Nan’s body regressed under Time Reversal, but he discovered spatial power in his Consciousness Sea and used it to protect his head.
• Zhao Nan merged the four strands of time power with the space in his Consciousness Sea, then drew in Time Reversal and gained the ability to accelerate time.
• Beirut and Bluefire watched Zhao Nan’s strange condition in an image, but neither knew what power he had used to resist Time Reversal.
• Zhao Nan used time acceleration to restore his body to a young child, then stopped because the process consumed too much soul power and he had already passed the trials.

Zhao Nan reached the Four Divine Beasts’ palace in the Gabadan Plane Prison and learned that their surviving consciousnesses had left him rewards and a legacy. He received two Sovereign Sparks, forty Sovereign Artifacts, and eighty drops of essence blood, then learned how the Time Reversal Chaos array used that blood to wield time.

• Beirut and Bluefire watched Zhao Nan enter the Secret Realm, but Beirut could no longer see what happened inside the passage.
• Zhao Nan absorbed the power of the Four Divine Beasts and a trace of Time Power as he walked through the passage, then opened the palace door with the power in his body.
• The Azure Dragon’s consciousness explained the palace’s purpose and gave Zhao Nan two Sovereign Sparks after he promised to look after the Four Divine Beasts Clans.
• The White Tiger’s consciousness gave Zhao Nan forty Sovereign Artifacts, and the Vermilion Bird’s consciousness entrusted him with eighty drops of the Four Divine Beasts’ essence blood for their clans.
• The Black Tortoise revealed the Four Divine Beasts’ legacy, the Time Reversal Chaos array, which used their essence blood to let Zhao Nan wield time; Zhao Nan asked what would happen when the blood ran out.

Zhao Nan left the Four Divine Beasts Secret Realm with two Sovereign Sparks and promised to protect the Four Divine Beasts Clans, but the corpses he brought into his Consciousness Sea caused his soul and clones to disappear from his senses. As Zhao Nan searched for an explanation, Linley learned that his mother was with the Chief Sovereign of Light and returned to the Yulan Plane to seek Zhao Nan’s advice.

• Zhao Nan promised Black Tortoise to protect the Four Divine Beasts Clans, then escaped the collapsing Secret Realm with four strands of time power and two Sovereign Sparks.
• Zhao Nan killed the divine-level prisoners who surrounded him, and the corpses triggered a change that drew his soul and clones into his Consciousness Sea space.
• Zhao Nan told Beirut and Bluefire about his rewards, and Bluefire accepted a fire-type Sovereign Spark while Zhao Nan withheld the other sparks from Linley for now.
• Zhao Nan secluded himself for ten days, repeatedly calling for his unresponsive soul power without success.
• Linley and his companions revived their family members but could not revive Linley’s mother, learning she was with the Chief Sovereign of Light.
• Linley returned to the Yulan Plane to ask his teacher, Zhao Nan, for advice.

After a century in seclusion, Zhao Nan regained access to his soul and discovered that his five clones had become Paragons, making him an eleven-element Paragon. He joined Beirut and Bluefire to retrieve Sovereign Sparks hidden beneath the South Sea.

• Linley told Zhao Nan that the Chief Sovereign of Light had taken his mother's soul, and Zhao Nan told him to reach Paragon strength or fuse two of the Four Edicts before seeking a way to save her.
• Olivier asked how he could catch up to Linley, and Zhao Nan offered him either complete fusion of Light and Darkness or a dangerous method to add more attributes to his mutated soul.
• After a hundred years of seclusion, Zhao Nan sensed his soul power, entered the Law of the World, and discovered that his five clones had reached the Paragon level.
• Zhao Nan absorbed his clones' memories and realized he had become an eleven-element Paragon, then greeted Beirut and Bluefire as they arrived.
• Beirut led Zhao Nan and Bluefire to a sealed cavern beneath the South Sea, where he explained that he had hidden Sovereign Sparks behind a formation that required Sovereign power to open.

Zhao Nan refined Sovereign Sparks, hunted down nine Sovereigns, and transformed his body until the Hongmeng Pearl recognized him as its master. After emerging from three hundred years of seclusion, he killed Augusta, prepared his disciples for transcendence, and entered the Hongmeng Space, where Hongmeng greeted him as “Big Brother Zhao.”

• Beirut gave Zhao Nan the Water and Earth Element Sovereign Sparks, and Zhao Nan refined them along with his Fire Element Sovereign Spark.
• Zhao Nan told Beirut and Bluefire that he needed the remaining eight Sovereign Sparks, then began hunting Sovereigns with Bluefire while Beirut stayed behind.
• After nine Sovereigns fell, Zhao Nan returned to the Yulan Plane and entered seclusion to make his other bodies Sovereigns.
• Zhao Nan's eleven other bodies merged into his true body, and the Hongmeng Pearl recognized him as its master after he formed a Hongmeng Indestructible Body.
• Three hundred years later, Zhao Nan emerged, killed both of Augusta's bodies, changed his disciples' aptitudes, and gave Linley a Sovereign Spark with instructions on the Path of Transcendence.
• Zhao Nan entered the Hongmeng Space, where Hongmeng greeted him as “Big Brother Zhao.”