"Destiny was the beginning of all things, and the end of all things."
Eternal Zhan Yuan turned his gaze back to the era that belonged to him.
That era...
The era in which he had faced Li Qiuxian.
To them, space and time were like a film they could revisit at will, even adjust its plot.
He severed Li Pin's path to eternity and saw Li Pin send Number One, who had taken the alias "Zero," back to his own spacetime. Then, as though recalling something, he—
Adjusted time back to the period when Li Pin's former self had been Li Qiuxian, to examine those words he had spoken.
The theory of destiny.
"Eternity represents the ultimate of all things, omniscience and omnipotence. Yet when I truly stepped into this stage, I discovered that was not the case. This ultimate, this omniscience and omnipotence, was limited only to the timeline I occupied and experienced. In other words, only after I came into contact with and understood a certain existence could I know everything about them... their past, present, and future."
Eternal Zhan Yuan raised his head, his gaze seeming to cross the River of Time. "But there is another law, one that operates above eternity. It can even give birth to new eternities in spacetimes I have never touched, in eras I have never entered..."
This Eternal One's gaze fell upon "Li Qiuxian."
Then it crossed over him, looking toward Li Pin in another era.
"This is destiny."
Whether supreme or eternal, none could escape the origin of "destiny."
None could escape that origin which represented the cause of all things and the fruit of all things.
Seeing this, Li Pin vaguely gained an insight.
Once cultivation reached a certain level, one developed absolute confidence in oneself, believing one's own