Chapter 1117: A Direction for the Eighth Extreme
Time doesn’t just speed up, reverse, or stop. It has more profound functions....
Xu Qing looked out at the majestic desert. He was already able to use some of the power of time. But the moment he had gained enlightenment of the substructure of the place, he was shaken to the core by a whole host of new thoughts.
Time can be macroscopic. In other words, it can be viewed from the perspective of an entire star ring. On the other hand... time also exists within every living being, on a much smaller scale.
The River of Time exists everywhere. And yet, it’s not fixed. It can be affected by outside forces or can be transformed in other ways. As for this desert, it shows how time can be split.
The enlightenment within Xu Qing grew clearer.
The movement of an individual grain of sand forms one timeline. But atop that one particular timeline will be a second grain of sand. The first grain and the second grain have the same substructure, but different timelines.
The interactions cause more timelines, leading to mass chaos, and in the end, this desert. In order to combine them all back into one, you would have to travel within time, but also be outside of time and independent. In that way, you could gain control.
His eyes glittered brightly.
Unfortunately, I’m not currently capable of doing that. The most I could do would be to cause disorder in time. That type of disorder sown into time, and the resulting transformations, are fundamentally... different fates? Every new timeline will result in a new grain of sand. The momentum of that grain of sand doesn’t have anything to do with the previous grain. It’s on its own path.
Xu Qing thought to the godly authority of fate that his god clone had, and gradually, a fantastic sensation began to build up within him. That was because he was coming to realize that cultivator authority and godly authority were basically different approaches that led to the same outcome.
That said, they do have subtle differences. My godly authority of fate works by using a carving knife to cut new threads of fate, bringing them to the forefront, and making them the dominant aspect. But splitting time involves provoking transformations to a whole bunch of different timelines belonging to the same object....