Sovereign of All Ages

Sovereign of All Ages is an Eastern fantasy novel by the web writer Tan Shui De Long, serialized on Zongheng Chinese Network starting in 2020 and completed in June 2021. The story starts from modern Earth: the protagonist Jiang Nan unexpectedly returns to his senior year of high school. In his previous life he had already walked the path of cultivation and knows that a great upheaval of heaven and earth is about to arrive. Relying on his memories and experience from the previous life, he lays plans in advance and seizes the initiative, rising rapidly in the new era after the upheaval. The work follows the cultivation-comeback route of "rebirth to one's youth": Jiang Nan successively comprehends high-level methods such as spirit patterns, illusory images, and the true self of the divine spirit, breaking through realm after realm, from Taiyi severing the Dao and the Supreme God creating the world, ultimately becoming a Heavenly Rank Supreme. Its theme is "born again in youth, walking the cultivation path anew; in this life I shall be invincible; across the heavens and a thousand domains, sovereign of all ages." The author strings together defending the land and protecting people, reunions with old acquaintances, sect rivalries, and cross-realm duels, continuing his customary style of satisfying escalation, with the scale expanding step by step from school and city to multiple factions and even the heavens and a thousand domains. The book is large in size, a typical ultra-long serialized web novel, better suited to long-form readers accustomed to following the protagonist's level-by-level ascent.