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Originally Posted by Hiyono

Sure.

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Essentially, in their world, there are a number of "supreme" beings (lit. divine spirits). Each primary world can have at most 36 of them, and each subordinate dimension can have one at most. They control the forces of nature and are essentially elemental lords, and are largely immortal, even when it comes to dying in combat. Each one represents and controls a different force of nature; the one that he meets, Yu Yan (lit. flame feather) is the elemental lord of fire. These forces that they wield are a step above the spiritual energy that more typical practitioners wield (and which he has used until now).

These divine elemental lords can come from different races, and of the original 36, 40% were human, 20% were demons, and the last 40% were an assortment of the remaining races. Because there can only be 36 at a time, hundreds of thousands of years ago, long before the Dark Age, there was a huge battle between the human and demon elemental lords during which the demons tried to exterminate all of humanity in order to seize control of more positions. As a result, humanity and the demons both suffered grievous losses. One casualty of this war was Yu Yan, who lost her body and, to a certain extent, her divinity, and has spent the countless millennia since trying to regrow it. At the time Nie Li meets her, she's about a third recovered.

After the end of the war, one of the human elemental lords - the one who controls time - disappeared to enact some secret plan of his own, and she surmises that it's his machinations that have brought Nie Li to her. (There's a good chance her guess is correct, given his relationship with various figures who have some mastery of time.) She instructs him a little regarding the elements, with the hope that he might take over one of the positions that are currently open due to the death of their human lord during the war (the ones she mentions are chaos, light, and dark). She decides to try and start him off with light, expecting that it will take him many years to even sense the element - he tells her he has one month to learn it all (lol).

To her great surprise, but not to the readers, he not only grasps it immediately, but to an extent that matches the former Light elemental lord at the peak of his powers (he can't wield it to that extent, but he can sense it to that extent). Without any help from her, he then proceeds to master Darkness as well, which is something no other elemental lord has ever done (control more than one element).

It's then that we find out two things. One, that his path to Destiny-rank and above required his mastery of a power another step above these natural forces (thus two above the spiritual power other spiritists use). This is why it's so easy for him to master this power; it's weaker than something he had already mastered in his previous life. Secondly, that the forces of nature they wield are artificially created. During his experimentation with them, he discovers that they're powered by a divine script, and this is where he makes the offhand remark that the creator would have had to have been as powerful as he was in his past life.

Anyway, he stays in her hideyspot for a while, takes advantage of the elemental energy to rapidly jump to 5* gold-rank, and then takes off, bringing her with him. (There's quite a bit more relevant to Yu Yan in particular, I can talk about that as well, if you'd like.)

Holy shit, the last chapter i read was 196, when he meet the flame spirit, but it seems the author has given a good info dump in the next few chapter, i need to caught up fast, .

Now, about the names i was wrong about the new girl (in the village), but to be fair, chinese is a too difficult language to learn too, one or two errors may be possible.

if you think about it, my main language is portuguese, i'm trying chinese and english, so it is already too much difficulty to match those names.

well, now about the time spirit i believe you may be right and the girl too since, a few chapters back NieLie mentioned that something was growing in his Soul, something like a tree, it may be the Time Spirit planted some type of seed inside him to make him grow in the next time lord or something like that.