"Celestial Great Saints perhaps did not possess personalities in the conventional sense." For the foremost powers in this universe, that might not have been a secret at all.
Even those powerhouses whose past and future converged into one might not know what they were truly thinking.
Some believed it was entirely because Celestial Great Saints were too powerful, their disturbance of history too great for foreknowers to foresee them.
But no one had believed that for two hundred million years.
The thought processes of Celestial Great Saints truly were beyond the comprehension of creatures that were not Celestial.
This had nothing to do with whether one possessed foreknowledge.
After all, everyone had a clear idea of what foreknowers were like and how they thought.
Their behavior was simply not in the same realm as that of Celestial Great Saints.
At the very least, no foreknower communicated with others according to the logic of a Celestial Great Saint.
Some speculated that, just as "a life that is not eternal does not count as a complete life in the eyes of a Celestial Great Saint," an individual without counter-temporal thought capabilities did not count as an intelligent lifeform in their eyes.
Or perhaps... only individuals whose every thought possessed counter-temporal capabilities, or the whole formed after past and future converged into one, counted as intelligent lifeforms fit for formal communication in the eyes of Celestial Great Saints.
A single consciousness at a single point in time did not even count as complete intelligence.
—In other words, perhaps only a second-stage reverse-temporal computer could catch the eye of a Celestial Great Saint.
Perhaps that was how it was.
As for the abilities of the Limit of Dao Integration... well, how should one put it...
Once past and future converged into one, one could