"Stop talking so much nonsense."
No emotion could be heard in Chen Cheng's voice, but the God of Light merely smiled faintly.
"The answer has actually already emerged."
"The Divine Court forcibly gathered all time into a single stream. For the Divine Court, and even for Myriad Heavens, the entire world's path from birth to the moment of destruction had already become a foregone conclusion.
Just like the video progress bar principle you mentioned, the entire Grand Cosmos, and even Myriad Heavens within the Chaos Sea, were merely a segment on that progress bar.
We could cut and stretch that segment, even manually insert frames, but the final result had already been fated and could not be changed."
"But there would always be one or two exceptions.
Perhaps they encountered some heaven-defying opportunity, or perhaps some unique potential erupted within them, allowing them to briefly slip free from the restraints of that sacred progress bar.
Such people were called Slipaways."
"Slipaways? What does that mean? Weren't you going to talk about Derailers?"
Chen Cheng asked curiously.
The God of Light still wore a smile.
"It was very simple. Slipaways only made changes by chance, and those changes remained within the limits.
Their changes lasted only for that instant. Afterwards, they would still return to the normal progress bar and could not create any substantive impact on the course of history.
Derailers, however, were different. They were beings who had already broken free from the progress bar's restraints. Their very existence would influence the progress bar, even directly affecting the evolution of thousands or tens of thousands of years, or perhaps the entire world.
And such Derailers often represented the uncontrollable."
"Beings who transcend fate? But no matter how I looked at it, I wasn't that kind of person. As you