Chapter 490: Divergence Line
They were observing Grey, who was currently sitting cross-legged in the air.
With the Fragment protecting him, he could safely gain comprehension over the law of time.
[Your comprehension defies the heavens! By absorbing the already comprehended insight into the law of time, you have gained comprehension into the law of time.]
It was a complete power reset.
[Your comprehension defies the heavens! Your comprehension over the law of time has reached major succession.]
[You have gained the power of temporal control.]
[It is the Heavenly One. It set a rule barring anyone from learning a specific ability from the time law.]
"Hm." Grey looked thoughtful as he opened his eyes.
Right now, if he wasn’t wrong, all the ancestors at the 8th rank must have comprehended a law to the Great Circle to reach their current power, and there could only be one Great Circle being per law in the universe.
"Now, let’s test what I can do."
"Huh." Grey disrupted the flow out of curiosity. Using temporal control, he pushed frequential power into the current, and it immediately broke.
The instant the flow was disrupted, the world flashed grey.
This time stop held no physical strain over him. However, with each passing moment, the energy in his source was being rapidly consumed to prevent the time currents from restoring themselves, as the world actively tried to break out of Grey’s temporal control.
But the Fragment used its power to restore his energy back to full just as quickly.
Time had stopped for them as well. Because Grey was not using borrowed power, he was quite literally halting the natural flow of time in this world. They were able to sense the gap in time, because borrowed their power from the Origin Will, but they could not do anything about it due to the Fragment’s interference. He temporarily made them unable to do anything about the time stop.
But just then, the Fragment’s cautious voice rang out.
"Huh? Why?" Grey frowned.
[Divergence lines,] the Fragment spoke.
[Yes. Divergence lines. Commonly known as World Lines.]
[It does not matter how short the jump is. The instant you skip forward or shoot back into the past, a divergence is created from the main world, forming a separate reality. You are essentially jumping into that new reality when you use the law of time. But in the original timeline, the ’Grey’ there would have never traveled in time. Considering the fact that you have no one to support you, like the Dao of Time or the Origin Will, the divergence line created by your choice will become your sole responsibility. Your current existence is not powerful enough to hold the weight of an entire world and if you can’t hold the weight, you will collapse from it.]
The Fragment sounded bewildered as it observed Grey closely.
[There are multiple divergence lines around the main world where some timelines have already reached their finality, but not a single one of them contains you. It is like the world you are currently in is the only real one, and any other world that does not contain you is inherently fake.]
[Won’t the main world be destroyed if the theory of skipping to the diverged line applies to you?]
[Because the main world acts as the anchor. Since you are a fateless anomaly, whichever timeline you exist in is automatically treated as the true main world. If you create a divergence line and jump to it, the original main world will be overwritten and destroyed. World destruction leads to a massive loss of origin energy.]
Boom!
"Origin Will." Grey’s expression changed drastically.