As for what exactly that was...
"I can't understand it at all..." A Gu Zuo murmured.
Huang Ji's voice rang out ethereally. "You cannot understand, because it exists only in our hearts. I formed it by weaving together everyone's fates!"
"The future is a collection of countless possibilities. Scientifically speaking, it is not infinite, because everything was determined at the universe's birth. It lies within an approximate range."
"Reality, meanwhile, is a line. It races unstoppably toward the end of time, jumping repeatedly between the tracks of different fates. Wherever it passes, everything collapses into fact, becoming true history that cannot be altered."
"That history is created jointly by all things and all living beings. It cannot be one person, nor can one person control it."
"Unless that person controls all matter and consciousness, and knows every change the future holds. Then he can become the navigator of that line called 'reality'!"
"The more he controls, the greater his power to act upon the universe's fate."
"When that power exceeds the sum of all three-dimensional matter and life, he becomes the unified embodiment of three-dimensional fate. That power transcends the limitations of his own dimension and can determine the future course of its four-dimensional entity."
"I did not control that four-dimensional insect. Rather, as if moved by an unseen hand, it took the initiative to control itself."
"The relationship between us is one of non-action."
A Gu Zuo—and everyone else—was stunned. Though they had brought all this about together, they knew nothing of it.
"Non-action?" A Gu Zuo murmured. Could this be the power of a Supreme One? None of them had ever been a Supreme One, so whenever they encountered a power that defied reason, their imaginations inevitably turned to that realm.
"It is not the Supreme One, nor