Long ago, when Jiang Hao first suspected that the Lord of Omniscience was eyeing the Fate Authority in his hands, he had begun considering when to ascend as the Fate Sovereign.
For him, wielding the Fate Authority was not the real problem. The trouble was Omniscience watching him.
After receiving the Prophecy God's divination, he had publicly set his ascension for the date foretold thirteen years later. In truth, he had considered many possible dates without settling on one.
He did this to confuse the Lord of Omniscience and keep his actual time of ascension hidden.
It was like having a student beside him in an exam, staring at his paper to copy his answers. As long as he wrote nothing, there was nothing to copy.
For Jiang Hao, though, leaving the answer blank was itself the answer. His ascension as the Fate Sovereign had already been foretold. When the time came, he would ascend naturally.
So he had manifested the Fate Authority he held as a Quill and a Notebook, ready to ascend as the Fate Sovereign at any moment.
When he finished writing the last word in the Notebook...
Boom! The entire Multiverse shook.
A river vaster than the Shadow Plane, one that embodied the whole Multiverse more fully, appeared before Jiang Hao.
Within it, all things in the Multiverse came into view. Past events had congealed into still waters. Present events were gradually solidifying from illusion, while future events formed countless illusory tributaries.
Every thought of every living being and every movement of every molecule created an illusory tributary in the river. With each passing second, those tributaries merged into a single, solid current.
Jiang Hao rose from his Divine Throne, took a step, and left his Divine Kingdom.
The instant he emerged, his body abruptly collapsed.