"You mean... you saw the boundary between the real and the unreal, and the crack in between?"
Ansu's voice held a hint of surprise.
"You probably saw Deep Earth."
"Deep Earth? What kind of place is that?"
For some reason, when Lu Cang asked this question, he felt his spirituality let out a long breath of relief.
It conveyed a sense of relaxation.
"Deep Earth is a good place."
"You can think of it as the world's dumping ground. What appears there are worlds that don't exist."
"Legends of Deep Earth go back a very, very long time."
"They say that in the instant heaven and earth first opened, everything in this world was already completely determined."
"Fate doesn't roll dice."
"The mighty river of time—whether the present, the past, or the future—has all been completely determined. This is what people call True Fate. Everything is destined and bound to happen."
"There is only one timeline in this world. There are no hypotheticals, no 'what ifs.'"
"And certainly no extra parallel universes, as some false scholars hypothesize."
"What happened, happened. What didn't happen, didn't happen."
"History cannot be changed, and the future has long been set in stone."
Lu Cang hesitated for a moment before saying, "That's not what I learned in Time Studies and Future Studies."
"The future of time may not be the future."
Ansu chuckled. "Heh... That's the theory you have now."
"And does your theory really contradict what I'm saying?"
"Even if you recreated history, even if you could predict the future, what could you change once everything had finally settled?"
"What truly happened can never be changed."
"Time is absolute."
Ansu gave a cold chuckle. "Kid, you seem to be harboring an unrealistic delusion."
"Are you thinking you can change things that happened in the