"I was just thinking... if you or His Majesty the Dragon Emperor interfered with the Savior Devil King's growth, causing a fundamental divergence between her future self and present self—say, if her future self simply did not acknowledge her present self..."
"That would be difficult to happen." His Majesty the Demon Emperor declared. "Perhaps influence can be exerted, but her own will is always the most crucial thing—external things are difficult to change."
"But in theory, it can still be changed, right?" Wang Qi said. "Even someone at your level can feel weary, can't you?"
The Demon Emperor looked despondent. "Yes... this question..."
He paused, then asked, "Do you believe in destiny?"
Wang Qi said, "I originally absolutely did not, but ever since I saw the Beauty God, it no longer matters whether I believe or not—so-called 'destiny' is merely a vague concept created by natural language. We can only see one element from within a limited set."
The Demon Emperor pressed a hand to his forehead. "My apologies, that was my mistake. I should not have spoken to you like that... Let me put it this way. There was once a young man who did not believe in destiny—he did not believe that some unseen fate ruled over him. If that fate was the will of a person, then that person could go to hell. If that fate was the will of Heaven, then he would make Heaven take on a new face."
"But much later, he learned that this will of Heaven was actually his own will. Not some other self he could not acknowledge, but the whole of his past, future, and present selves. That was his will of Heaven."
The Demon Emperor spread his hands and looked at them. "Our consciousness has always followed the sequence