If someone else were in his place, Neola's threat might have worked, but unfortunately for her, she encountered Lin Xiao, who didn't need any acknowledgment or inheritance; he just needed to catch you.
The Creation Rubik's Cube slowly rotated, and with each turn, Lin Xiao felt a surge of pure Soul Power mixed with an unknown fluctuation pouring into his Sea of Soul Consciousness. At the same time, the Soul Power was laced with an enigmatic oscillation of the Time Law within the soul sea formed by his Origin of the Crystal Wall System shell, causing his thoughts to be incredibly chaotic as they flowed with time.
He did not refine it in the usual manner but instead directly refined and absorbed all of Neola's Power of Time that she wielded, in a single swoop.
Let's not speak of the Soul Power for now; he had absorbed plenty of that. Though Neola's accumulated Soul Power was strong, it wasn't particularly exaggerated for him, so he went ahead and refined and absorbed it directly.
