"You two make quite a fitting pair. But... Savitar, shouldn't you be busy with your own birth right now?"
Zhang Tianran was not about to trust the two men before him so easily. Although he had decided to begin cooperating with them, he still needed to maintain a proper degree of suspicion.
The key to cooperating with others was never letting your partners figure out your weak spots. Otherwise, the initiative would no longer be in your hands.
"Would you just stand by and watch me complete everything?" Savitar asked in return.
"Of course not. I don't want you existing at every point in time. If you accidentally interfere with my past, that would be troublesome." Zhang Tianran stated his concerns directly.
In fact, it was precisely because he feared Savitar would affect his past self that Zhang Tianran had decided to kill him and eliminate that hidden danger.
Before Zhang Tianran could transcend time, his past timeline had to be protected perfectly. Once his existence was interfered with by someone else, it would have a major impact on the present.
During Flashpoint, Zhang Tianran had remained unaffected because of the protection of his own Speed Force, and because Barry had only altered the overall timeline.
As for Zhang Tianran's personal timeline, it had been concealed within the world's timeline under the protection of the Speed Force and had remained completely unaffected.
This... was how timelines intertwined. Individual timelines and the world's timeline blended together, yet existed independently.
For example, if Zhang Tianran went to the Vanishing Point now, the place where the Time Council was in Legends of Tomorrow, it would be nothing but ruins.
But if he returned to the time when Legends of Tomorrow had just been established, the Vanishing Point would still be intact, and even