I Am the Master of Time

[Urban supernatural powers + spiritual qi revival + invincible protagonist + no female lead + time travel + everyone mistakes the protagonist for a great figure + the protagonist is cunning and refined early on, then becomes detached and divine]

Chen Ran gained the ability to control time. He walks atop the river of time, leaving traces of his passage throughout the long course of history.

People of the present: “Mr. Chen must be an immortal!”

People of the past: “Mr. Chen is an immortal who has descended into the mortal world!”

People of the future: “Mr. Chen is the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao, the world’s one and only savior. When Blue Star teetered on the brink of collapse, he turned the tide!”

And Chen Ran’s own experiences:

1. A drop of essence infused with the hot blood of heroes took him back to a past in which foreigners massacred a city. There, he helped two heroic lovers survive until the dawn they had long yearned for.

Their descendants saw an old photograph of Chen Ran with their ancestors and threw themselves to the ground: “Great ancestor!”

2. An emperor obsessed with immortality was controlled by his own malice. Chen Ran discovered that this malice had an inexplicable connection to him.

An old enemy? Or a split soul?

The malice: “I am the fallen version of your true self.”

Chen Ran: “Sorry about that. Then I guess I’ll put on a show of killing myself.”

The emperor dropped to his knees with a thud, stunned.

3. The occasional lingering souls of the aged in an ancient era without spiritual qi, the future of crumbling ruins described by the true self he killed, and the colossal abyss that appeared atop the river of time…

What are they? What fate awaits the world…

4. “Yuze, let us pour every last drop of our divine blood and essence into helping you become a god!”

P.S. The protagonist starts out two major cultivation realms above everyone else, and the gap only widens as the story progresses.

At a certain point, the protagonist will voluntarily sever his seven emotions and six desires, becoming completely ruled by his divine nature. Later, he will gradually regain half of his humanity.