The informational mapping between worlds could transcend time; it did not necessarily have to map onto the point called "the present."
Of course, this kind of trans-temporal mapping generally occurred when a spacetime world had yet to stabilize. Take this projected world, for instance: it was itself in the process of refining falsehood into truth, making it more susceptible to the effects of informational mapping.
Yet this influence was not without limits. Changes to the world could only involve addition, never subtraction.
Simply put, a world disturbed by informational mapping might gain people, events, or works that had never originally existed—but what already existed would not change, nor would it disappear.
As for why the Dao Fruit world's time was so vast, stretching over countless years, yet only that segment of Seize the Dragon had been reflected over—that was indeed caused by Heaven's Will and Demon Fetus, who would contend in the future.
They had stirred up waves at that point in the future, acting as a kind of spacetime information amplifier.
"If fate can be held onto, then it means there was fate to begin with."
On the high-speed train, Zhao Cheng sent that message, then put down his phone and looked toward the horizon.
Outside, the torrential rain had just ceased. The setting sun on the horizon was red as blood, staining the entire world with a mournful, sorrowful air, suffused with the heavy sense of a day drawing to its end.
Zhao Cheng recalled how, long ago, whenever his younger self saw the sunset, he could never help but feel a trace of fear—fear of growing old, fear of loss.
Yet now, he possessed longevity everlasting as heaven and earth; even time itself could be reversed. And still, he no longer forced the things around him to