Chapter Summaries

Beirut sent Linley and the others to the Netherworld to compete in the Plane Wars, where they hoped to earn the right to restore their deceased loved ones. After they departed, Zhao Nan learned Bluefire would guard them and asked Beirut to send him to another plane, but Beirut urged him to wait until he became stronger.

• Beirut suggested sending Linley and the others to the Netherworld so they could compete in the Plane Wars and seek the Chief God of Death's help for their deceased loved ones.
• Linley and the others agreed to go to the Netherworld, and Zhao Nan encouraged them before asking them to study Bluefire's continent creation.
• A month later, Zhao Nan watched Linley and the others leave the Yulan Continent, then asked Beirut if he could follow and protect them.
• Beirut revealed he had arranged for Bluefire to accompany Linley and the others, and Zhao Nan thanked Bluefire for taking responsibility for their safety.
• Beirut showed Zhao Nan and Bluefire a one-way Teleportation Array in the Necropolis of the Gods and refused Zhao Nan's request to visit another plane, telling him to wait until he became stronger.

Zhao Nan received three Space Rings filled with Sovereign's Might from Beirut and used the power to strengthen himself while pursuing Paragon status across all eleven systems. His Fire and Water clones reached Paragon, and he continued grappling with how to balance and expand his Consciousness Sea as it began producing life.

• Beirut gave Zhao Nan three Space Rings full of Sovereign's Might, which Zhao Nan used to strengthen his body and soul.
• Linley and his fellow disciples traveled through the Netherworld, met the Chief Sovereign of Death, and accepted a mission; later they joined the Plane Wars alongside Reijins.
• Zhao Nan cultivated in seclusion, accelerated his comprehension, and questioned whether he could share his disciples' Soul Mutations and fused Light and Darkness techniques.
• Five years into the Plane Wars, Zhao Nan's Fire Clone reached Paragon, bringing another descent of the Laws of the World and a new increase in his Willpower and soul capacity.
• Zhao Nan studied how to balance his Consciousness Sea and strengthen its Laws of Time, but remained unable to support his four Edict clones or prevent the space from producing uncontrolled life.
• Ten years later, Zhao Nan's Water Clone reached Paragon, and Zhao Nan concluded that Earth stabilized creation, Fire destroyed and renewed, Water nurtured life, and Wind expanded the space.

Zhao Nan focused on helping his Thunder Clone comprehend the Laws of Thunder while Linley and the other disciples faced Magnus on the Planar Battlefield. Magnus trapped the group, bound Raysijin, and demanded that Linley and Olivier surrender, but their companions attacked him with Sovereign's Might.

• After realizing his world needed thunder to control its rapidly multiplying creatures, Zhao Nan devoted himself to deducing the Lightning Laws.
• Magnus used the Power of Fate to pull Linley and the fleeing disciples back to him, then demanded that Linley and Olivier come with him.
• Raysijin warned Magnus that Linley and the others had powerful connections, but Magnus refused to let them go and bound Raysijin with a silver whip.
• Magnus threatened Linley and Olivier, while the other disciples chose to fight alongside them rather than escape.
• Ace and the others attacked Magnus with Sovereign's Might, but Magnus raised a protective barrier that blocked their strikes.
• Raysijin urged the disciples to keep attacking, and Magnus furiously warned them they would die for challenging him.

Linley and Olivier trapped Magnus while their companions attacked, but Magnus launched his Fate Lotus Imprint before Bluefire could arrive. Zhao Nan’s soul imprint awakened inside Olivier, froze the attack, and suppressed Magnus with a Five Finger Mountain technique, leaving Magnus unable to affect it.

• Linley and Olivier combined their Sovereign’s Might to trap Magnus with Gravity Labyrinth and Black and White World while their companions continued attacking him.
• Bluefire contacted Linley and Magnus, and Magnus agreed to leave if Linley and the others survived one powerful attack.
• Magnus detonated Olivier’s black-and-white pattern and unleashed Fate Lotus Imprint against Linley, Olivier, Ace, and the others.
• Zhao Nan’s soul imprint awakened in Olivier, stopped the lotus attack, and told his disciples he would hold Magnus until Bluefire arrived.
• Zhao Nan used Secret Technique: Five Finger Mountain Suppression to press Magnus down, and Magnus’s attacks failed to reach the illusory hand.

Zhao Nan stopped Magnus from killing Linley and his companions, then resolved to compensate Linley for interrupting his chance at a Four-Element Soul Mutation. Back in the Micro-plane, Zhao Nan clarified his own path to transcendence: become a Paragon in all eleven elements and use his growing world to forge a Xuanhuang Indestructible Body.

• Zhao Nan used Five-Finger Mountain to pin Magnus down, then warned Linley and the others that his soul imprints had been spent.
• Bebe revealed that Zhao Nan had three Paragon-level clones, and Magnus realized Zhao Nan was vastly stronger than he was.
• Bluefire arrived, agreed to take Magnus to the Yulan Continent, and left a Fire Clone behind to protect Linley and the others.
• In the Micro-plane, Zhao Nan wondered whether he had changed Linley's Fate by preventing Magnus from striking Linley's soul.
• Zhao Nan decided to make up for Linley's lost chance at Soul Mutation and concluded that becoming a Paragon in all eleven elements was his best path to transcendence.

Bluefire brought the suppressed Magnus to Yulan Continent, while Beirut learned that Zhao Nan’s sealing power might threaten even Sovereigns. Zhao Nan revealed he had reached Paragon in six elements and discussed the limits of Sovereign clones with Beirut, who proposed making Magnus create a continent or plane.

• Bluefire dragged Magnus from the Arctic Icecap to the Yulan Plane, and Magnus wondered whether the world held a secret behind producing two Paragons.
• Beirut learned from Bluefire that Zhao Nan had sealed Magnus in one move and admitted he might struggle to break the seal immediately.
• Beirut visited Zhao Nan in the Ultimate Empire, where Zhao Nan revealed he had reached Paragon in six elements and Beirut estimated how his strength might grow with more Paragon clones.
• Zhao Nan asked whether Willpower inherited by Sovereign clones could stack, leaving Beirut unable to answer.
• Beirut said Magnus should be made to create a continent or a plane.

Zhao Nan and Beirut punished Magnus for attacking Zhao Nan’s disciple, then Zhao Nan followed a strange impulse to visit the Gabadan Plane Prison. The chapter ended as Beirut took him to the Forest of Darkness, where the prison lay in the Yulan Continent’s barren reverse space.

• Bluefire arrived with Magnus, and Zhao Nan told him he had become a Paragon in six elements.
• Beirut proposed making Magnus create continents and planes as punishment, and Zhao Nan felt a sudden, unusual urge to visit the Gabadan Plane Prison.
• Zhao Nan told Magnus his punishment, revealed his six-element Paragon strength, and Magnus accepted his fate.
• Beirut revealed that he was the Chief God of the Yulan Plane and ordered Magnus to create a continent in each surrounding sea and double the plane’s size.
• Zhao Nan absorbed the Five-Finger Mountain into his Consciousness Sea, and Magnus left for the Northern Sea.
• Beirut took Zhao Nan to the Forest of Darkness, where the Gabadan Plane Prison occupied the Yulan Continent’s reverse space.

Beirut explained the Gabadan Plane Prison’s origins and its connection to life on the Yulan Continent, then sent Zhao Nan there to investigate a secret left by the Four Divine Beasts. Zhao Nan arrived in a ruined city and discovered that time itself was looping around him.

• Beirut told Zhao Nan and Bluefire that he had entered the Gabadan Plane Prison as a young Lowgod, expanded it through his attacks, and learned that it was the underside of the Yulan Continent, where dark counterparts were born and the dead were reborn.
• Beirut revealed that the Four Divine Beasts had used an unknown ability on the Plane Prison and said that only someone with all eleven elements could enter the place they left behind.
• Zhao Nan asked Beirut to send him to the Gabadan Plane Prison, and Beirut activated the Teleportation Array despite hoping Zhao Nan would focus on cultivation.
• Zhao Nan arrived in a sand-buried ruined city, walked through it for ten days, and realized the city was trapping him in a repeating timeline.
• Beirut and Bluefire watched Zhao Nan from the Forest of Darkness, and Beirut confirmed that time was repeating around him.

Zhao Nan began sensing the power of time while Bluefire and Beirut discussed his disciples’ safety. A surprise soul attack nearly killed Linley, and Olivier urged Bebe to guide him through Zhao Nan’s Visualization Technique as they used amethyst to restore his soul.

• Zhao Nan sensed a faint trace of the power of time while Beirut and Bluefire waited and discussed Linley, Olivier, and Bebe on the Planar Battlefield.
• Beirut worried that calling Bebe “little Beirut” might make him a target, so Bluefire warned his Earth Clone to watch over the group.
• A beam of light struck at Bebe, but Linley took the attack and his soul rapidly weakened.
• Bluefire and Olivier said Linley was alive but in grave danger, and Bebe learned that Zhao Nan was away in the Gabadan Plane Prison.
• Olivier told Bebe to use their soul contract to guide Linley in visualizing Zhao Nan, then spread Raysijin’s amethyst into a bed to help restore Linley’s soul.

Bebe, Olivier, and the others struggled to awaken Linley, whose soul was close to dissipating despite the Soul Stone. They used their combined soul power to sketch Zhao Nan’s divine likeness inside Linley’s Consciousness Sea, and Zhao Nan manifested and promised to save him.

• Bebe used the Equality Contract to reach Linley’s fading soul while Olivier supplied Amethysts to help replenish it, but Linley soon fell unconscious again.
• Bluefire told Beirut about Linley’s condition, and Beirut said neither he nor anyone else could help while Zhao Nan remained cut off inside the Secret Realm.
• After five days without a response, Olivier asked Bluefire to help draw out a fragment of Linley’s soul so the disciples could use their Visualization Technique.
• Bebe led Olivier, Ace, Sathius, Stone Drum, and the others into Linley’s Consciousness Sea, where they combined their soul power to sketch Zhao Nan’s divine likeness.
• Bluefire added a fragment of Linley’s soul to the nearly completed likeness, which awakened Zhao Nan; he told them Linley would be fine and sent the others out of the Consciousness Sea.

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.