Zhao Nan

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Zhao Nan (赵南)
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Ernst Institute; Ultimate Empire
Occupation/Role	Mage, warrior, cultivator, founder and teacher of the Teacher System’s disciples
Status	Transcended; enters the Hongmeng Space and befriends Hongmeng 162
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Seventh-rank mage and warrior	1	Used the Teacher System’s novice strength cards; received evolvable equipment.
Eighth-rank mage	8	Reached after five months of cultivation and use of the Visualization Technique.
Ninth-rank mage	14	Possessed ninth-rank magical power, though his practical spellcasting was noted as below a conventional ninth-rank mage.
Early Saint-level magus	17 19	Broke through while discerning the Wind Element and Space of Wind through Wind Blades; converted spiritual energy into soul energy.
Earth Laws: Weight as Light as a Feather	27	Reached the first stage of the Pulse of the Earth after three months of heavy-sword training; cut through a mountain peak.
Mid-Saint mage / ninth-rank warrior	33	Shared attributes from the Bark brothers, gaining the Undying Warrior bloodline and a ninth-rank warrior realm.
Late-Saint mage / early-Saint warrior	37	Continued law comprehension and Earth–Wind mystery fusion.
Peak Saint mage and warrior	56	Possessed the Undying Warrior and Dragonblood Warrior bloodlines, Zhan Tiangang, and threefold Wind mystery fusion.
Median God of Fate	69	Split his soul outside his body and condensed a Fate Divine Body.
Lowgod of Destruction	91	Shared Dylin’s talent, bloodline, and realm; his Destruction, Fate, and Life clones manifested in his sea of consciousness.
Highgod development	107 121	His Fate Clone approached Highgod breakthrough before being engulfed by death power; later, Zhao Nan is identified as a Highgod while sharing Tarosha’s talent.
Five additional divine clones	127	Ascended outside the body through Water, Wind, Fire, Light, and Darkness Laws.
Near Earth Paragon	125	After twenty years of seclusion, stood one step from the Earth Paragon realm.
Grand Perfection: Water, Fire, and Wind	142	Achieved Grand Perfection in three elemental Laws; his Fire and Water clones reached the state in sequence.
Six-element Paragon	145	Bluefire deduced Zhao Nan had become a six-element Paragon after sensing five elemental laws in his technique.
Three-element Sovereign	162	Refined Sovereign Sparks supplied by Beirut.
Transcendent existence	162	Surpassed a Controller’s strength, entered the Hongmeng Space, and gained the potential to create a Hongmeng Golden List.

Background

Zhao Nan is a transmigrator born in the Yulan Continent eighteen years before the main events surrounding Linley Baruch. Born to a non-noble family, he possesses no surname. His memories of a previous life allow him to recognize the world as the Coiling Dragon World and anticipate Linley’s future potential. 1

His exceptional innate aptitude—super-grade Wind affinity and spiritual energy eighty-nine times that of his peers—earns him admission to the Ernst Institute. On his eighteenth birthday, his Teacher System awakens. It permits him to accept disciples who trust him sufficiently, share selected talents and cultivation achievements according to their potential grade, and accelerate their cultivation while teaching them. 1 3

Zhao Nan initially intends to cultivate cautiously, maintain a favorable relationship with Linley, and benefit if Linley eventually transcends. He instead takes Linley as his first disciple, then steadily builds a wider circle of apprentices across the Yulan Continent and later other planes. 1 3 59 130

Appearance

Zhao Nan is described as a tall, handsome man with an elegant and restrained bearing.

• Approximately 1.85 meters tall. 1
• Usually wears cyan, pale-blue, green, or simple linen robes. 1 26 62 107
• Keeps his hair secured with a white jade hairpin. 1 62
• Has a face compared to polished jade and bright, star-like eyes. 62
• During ascetic training in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, he wears coarse linen, a Space Ring, and no shoes. 26

Personality

Zhao Nan is calculating, observant, and deeply goal-oriented. His knowledge of future events drives many of his early choices, especially his decision to recruit Linley and other high-potential figures. He prefers to conceal his strength when publicity would create unnecessary attention, while still deliberately cultivating a reputation once it becomes useful for recruitment. 1 19 28

As a teacher, he is patient and practical. He develops methods suited to his disciples, teaches Ace according to his age and ability, shares cultivation techniques, and gathers resources needed for bloodline awakenings. 6 26 27 41 59

His conduct can also be domineering. He defeats or intimidates potential disciples such as Olivier and Luo Miu into accepting him, and punishes Clade’s disrespect with the Fate Cage. 58 130 132 Despite this, he generally exercises restraint against weaker opponents and protects those under his care. 40 102 121

Zhao Nan becomes increasingly introspective as his cultivation progresses. His contemplation of fate, transmigration, and his own ambition leads him to question whether his pursuit of transcendence was predetermined. 67 68 79

Abilities & Skills

Teacher System

A system awakened on Zhao Nan’s eighteenth birthday that defines his cultivation path through disciples. 1

• Requires a prospective disciple’s trust to reach 80% before acceptance. 1
• Shares attributes based on disciple potential:
  • A-rank: one attribute.
  • S-rank: two attributes.
  • SS-rank: three attributes.
  • SSS-rank: all attributes. 1
• Can share talents, bloodlines, cultivation realms, innate abilities, and other traits. 3 33 91 121 132
• Provides System Acceleration, increasing disciples’ cultivation and comprehension while Zhao Nan instructs them. 3
• Recognizes verbal apprenticeship, as demonstrated with Olivier. 59

Elemental and Law Comprehension

Zhao Nan cultivates multiple elemental Laws, beginning with Wind before expanding through his disciples’ shared talents.

• Comprehends Wind Element, Space of Wind, and Mysteries of Speed; creates fused Wind Blade attacks. 17 18 56
• Studies Earth Element, Pulse of the Earth, Gravity Space, Earth Movement Technique, and the Profundity of Life. 27 37 122 124
• Later develops divine paths in Fate, Destruction, Life, Water, Fire, Light, and Darkness. 69 91 127
• Achieves Grand Perfection in multiple elements and ultimately pursues an eleven-element path toward world transcendence. 142 145

Wind Techniques

• Wind Blade — A compressed cutting spell whose unusual behavior leads Zhao Nan to his Wind Laws breakthrough. 3 15 17
• Gale Kill — A wide-area technique that forms numerous Wind Blades from surrounding Wind Elements. 28
• Prison Dilemma — Uses the Space of Wind to seal a target within an area continuously cut by spatial power. 28
• Haste and Levitation — Support magic used to enhance caravan guards and keep Zhao Nan safely airborne. 15

Earth and Sword Techniques

• Pulse of the Earth — Cultivated through heavy-sword practice; reached Weight as Light as a Feather. 27
• Labyrinth World / Labyrinth City — An Earth-based construct built through Gravity Space, Earth Element, and fused mysteries; early attempts collapsed due to insufficient fusion. 118 122
• Five-Finger Mountain — A five-colored sealing technique capable of suppressing Paragon Highgod Magnus in a single move. 145

Fate Techniques

• Gift of Fate — Temporarily disables an opponent’s power, used to suppress Harvey’s darkness ability. 102
• Power of Fate — Disrupts an opponent’s perception and attacks. 102
• Fate Cage — A restraining technique used against Harry and later Clade. 102 132

Time Powers

Zhao Nan acquires and studies Time Power through the Four Divine Beasts’ secret realm.

• Time Reincarnation — Used to pass the second checkpoint of the secret realm. 153
• Time Stasis — Freezes everything except Zhao Nan’s soul during the third checkpoint. 153
• Time Cutting — One of the time abilities Zhao Nan can use after absorbing Time Power. 158
• Time Acceleration — Partially restores his body after Time Reversal but heavily taxes his soul power. 158
• Cannot fully control Time Reversal or Time Acceleration because he lacks complete understanding and sufficient power augmentation. 158

Evolution Talent

An innate ability gained from Clade that uses the Source of Evolution, identified as Sovereign Power. 130

• Evolves Zhao Nan’s body and soul through Sovereign Power. 130 131 142
• Increased his already formidable body by roughly thirty percent after initial use. 130
• Has theoretical but impractical limits; evolving into an existence like Hongmeng requires an insufficient Source of Evolution. 130

Equipment

• Evolvable equipment set — Includes armor, helmet, boots, belt, weapon, soul-defending necklace, and Space Ring; grows with Zhao Nan’s realm and can alter its appearance. 1 27
• Transforming weapon — Can become a staff, thin sword, heavy sword, saber, and other forms; its weight and style can be adjusted. 27
• Space Rings — Used to store equipment, resources, divine items, and cultivation materials. 26 71
• Golden leaves — Tokens crafted by Ace and engraved with “Nan,” representing Zhao Nan’s favor. 28
• Fiend Badge — Obtained in the Infernal Realm for convenience and to avoid revealing his strength unnecessarily. 130
• Forty Sovereign Artifacts — Received from the White Tiger Sovereign’s remnant consciousness. 159
• Time Reversal Chaos — A time-manipulating magic array granted by the Black Tortoise Sovereign; requires Four Divine Beasts essence blood for activation. 159

Relationships

• Linley Baruch — First disciple and primary early investment; Zhao Nan teaches him magic, visualization, and cultivation, later gives him Sovereign Sparks and guidance toward transcendence. 3 9 122 162
• Ace Hyde — Disciple and traveling companion; Zhao Nan teaches him warrior cultivation, swordsmanship, and supports his Violet Flame Warrior bloodline awakening. 26 27 59
• Bark Amanda, Buen Amanda, Black Shark Amanda, Anke Amanda, and Gates Amanda — Amanda’s five descendants and Zhao Nan’s disciples; their shared talents grant Zhao Nan the Undying Warrior bloodline and improve his Earth aptitude. 33
• Olivier Archisoren — Disciple initially forced into submission after a spar; Zhao Nan later reassures him regarding his soul mutation. 58 59 110
• Dylin — Disciple whose attributes allow Zhao Nan to become a Lowgod of Destruction; receives the Magical Beast Forest to establish an empire. 91
• Tarosha — Disciple sought partly for his Sea Swallowing innate ability, which Zhao Nan hopes to fuse with his own Heaven Swallowing ability. 116 121
• Clade — Earth Dragon disciple who provides the Evolution Talent; later punished for disrespect. 130 132
• Luo Miu — Seven-Star Fiend forcibly accepted as a disciple; his Thunder Element attributes strengthen Zhao Nan’s clones. 132
• Hogg Baruch — Linley’s father and a trusted associate; Zhao Nan reveals the Radiant Church’s role in Hogg’s wife’s death and promises assistance against the church. 71
• Beirut — Powerful patron and mentor figure who guides Zhao Nan in the Laws, provides resources and Sovereign Power, and later entrusts him with Sovereign Sparks. 70 71 142 162
• Bluefire — Ally and fellow high-level cultivator; joins Zhao Nan in collecting Sovereign Sparks and protects Linley’s group. 125 145 162
• Hongmeng — Acknowledges Zhao Nan during his ascent to godhood and later meets him as an equal in the Hongmeng Space. 69 162

Story Role / Major Arcs

Recruitment of Linley and early cultivation

Zhao Nan travels from the Ernst Institute to Wushan Town to recruit Linley, then shares Linley’s elemental talents and begins teaching him. His initial goal is to use the Teacher System to cultivate alongside exceptional disciples while preparing for future upheavals. 1 3 9

Saint-level breakthrough and Earth cultivation

During a caravan journey, Zhao Nan’s analysis of aberrant Wind Blades leads to his Saint-level breakthrough. He subsequently trains in the Magical Beast Mountain Range with Ace, develops Earth Laws, masters the Pulse of the Earth’s first stage, and creates several combat techniques. 17 18 26 27 28

Expansion of the disciple network

Zhao Nan recruits the Bark brothers, gains their bloodline and warrior attributes, and accepts further disciples including Sathius, Olivier, Dylin, Tarosha, Clade, and Luo Miu. His growing network becomes the foundation for his power and influence. 33 54 59 91 116 130 132

Divine ascent and the Ultimate Empire

After contemplating fate, Zhao Nan becomes a Median God outside his body and gains Beirut’s attention. He later supports Hogg against the Radiant Church, helps organize the Ultimate Empire, and distributes divine resources to his disciples and allies. 69 71 121

World-transcendence path

Zhao Nan experiments with his Consciousness Sea, recognizing it as an auxiliary world and deciding to pursue transcendence through the completion of that world. He cultivates multiple elemental clones, seeks Grand Perfection across the Laws, and aims to create an indestructible body capable of enduring chaos. 122 145

Four Divine Beasts legacy and final transcendence

Within the Four Divine Beasts’ secret realm, Zhao Nan survives time-based trials, gains Time Power, Sovereign Artifacts, Sovereign Sparks, and the responsibility to protect the Four Divine Beasts Clans. He later refines three Sovereign Sparks, joins Bluefire in collecting further Sparks, kills Augusta, empowers his disciples, and enters the Hongmeng Space. 153 159 162

Trivia

• Zhao Nan has no surname because he was born a commoner; he states that any family he founds in the future would take “Zhao Nan” as its surname. 13
• His earliest plan was not to surpass the world’s strongest figures, but simply to cultivate steadily and benefit from befriending Linley. 1 68
• He created the golden-leaf favor tokens partly because he believed a Saint-level powerhouse should establish some reputation before recruiting disciples. 28
• Zhao Nan’s stated philosophy is: “if I’m not invincible, I don’t leave the mountain.” 135