The Ancient One was coughing up blood and became emotionally agitated, while Qin Xiao calmed down.
He slowly helped the Ancient One sit down. "What does it mean that the timeline has been broken?"
"The literal meaning!"
The Ancient One tactfully adjusted the situation and said to each other.
Perhaps fearing that Qin Xiao might not fully understand, the Ancient One reached out and made a sweeping motion in the air, and an orange-yellow beam of light appeared in mid-air, extending seemingly endlessly.
"This is the timeline of our world. All people, events, and everything in the world operate on this timeline."
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bother you, but this suddenly appeared in front of me... so I..."
Natasha suddenly appeared and pointed to the timeline simulated by the Ancient One.
"It's okay, come on over! There's really nothing to hide!"
Qin Xiao waved to Natasha.
Then he gestured for the Ancient One to continue.
"This line should have no boundaries, past and future, but now..."
The Ancient One waved his hand towards the long line.
It simply cut off the middle section.
This is our current situation; for example, this is where we are right now.
The Ancient One casually marked a dot.
"I traced the coffin's past back to about 5,000 years ago, and then it completely stopped—a blank space! Time vanished at that point!"
Wait a minute!
Qin Xiao waved his hand in acknowledgment.
"You mentioned more than 5,000 years ago, is that when this coffin appeared? How did it come to be?"
The Ancient One gave Qin Xiao a deep look.
"We'll discuss this later. First, let's talk about this timeline: it spans the past 5000 years and ends in the next 1000 years!"
"What does 'end' mean? Shouldn't time be Eternity moving forward? What does 'stop' mean? The destruction of the universe?"
Natasha looked at the timeline with curiosity and said.
"The universe is conserved; it may transform, but it cannot stop. Therefore, there is only one answer: someone manipulated the timeline, making it a closed loop!"
The Ancient One erased that section of the timeline again, drawing a circle instead.
The original orange-yellow color was replaced with a small section of black on each side of the circle.
"Time has its own unique and inviolable laws. It's impossible to connect the beginning and end of a timeline, so it must be two timelines that combine to form a circle."
"These two places represent the past and the future I see, and also the points where two timelines intersect."
The Ancient One pointed to the two small black pieces and said.
"I don't know what method he used to make the switch, but it's clear I can't break through those two areas!"
"Who is he? Do you know who did all this?"
Qin Xiao grasped the "him" from the first episode of the Ancient One.
"That's right, I know, he's the time traveler, the Kang the Conqueror!"
The Ancient One's words caused a huge uproar in Qin Xiao's heart!
Even before he traveled through time, after watching the trailer for " Loki," some people online speculated that the mastermind behind the Time Variance Authority might be Kang the Conqueror.
Now it seems it really was true.
"It seems we should have a serious talk about this timeline and Kang the Conqueror!"
Qin Xiao said quietly.
" Kang the Conqueror!"
The Ancient One sighed softly.
"He comes from a thousand years in the future, the most outstanding scientist of that era, and the first time traveler on the entire timeline!"
"He broke the rules of the timeline; his time travel directly opened up the multiverse!"
As she spoke, the Ancient One once again displayed an orange-red simulated timeline.
"The original timeline has always existed like this, but Kang's time travel!"
The Ancient One reached out from the beginning of the timeline and placed a tiny point of light at the end.
Subsequently, the timeline began to fork.
"This Kang the Conqueror, was obsessed with time travel. He visited almost every point in time measured in years, and his appearance, along with his advanced technology, brought about significant changes to each point in time."
The Ancient One waved his hand, and dense branches began to appear on the timeline.
"The emergence of these branches brought forth even more, even more fanatical Kang the Conqueror!"
"They all wanted to change the future or the past according to their own wishes, and so war broke out across multiple universes!"
"Countless multiverses were annihilated. Ultimately, one of them, Kang, emerged victorious. He unified the remaining timelines and established the Time Variance Authority to oversee and control the development of each timeline, preventing the emergence of new time branches and the outbreak of new wars!"
The Ancient One waved her hand, and countless orange rays of light appeared, converging to form a new, robust timeline.
"This timeline, which encompasses many branches of time that have already been controlled, is what is known as the Sacred Timeline!"
Qin Xiao glanced at the so-called Sacred Timeline with a puzzled look. He was also wondering why his appearance had not attracted the intervention of the Time Variance Authority.
Natasha was unaware of these things; she was simply shocked by the Ancient One's account and asked a question that Qin Xiao also wanted answered.
How do you know all this?
"Well!"
The Ancient One sighed again, a hint of reminiscence in her eyes.
"Because the one who helped him unify and establish the Sacred Timeline was none other than the first Sorcerer Supreme, Agamotto!"
"Every one of our Sorcerer Supreme has sworn to protect the Eye of Agamotto and the order of time. It is for this reason that we are also indirectly protecting the Sacred Timeline!"
"But the Kang the Conqueror deceived us, or rather, he deceived the first Sorcerer Supreme, Agamotto!"
With a hint of anger, the Ancient One revealed a previously unknown story.
Agamotto, the first Sorcerer Supreme and the first person in legend to wield the Time Stone, was a demigod who lived a million years before Christ.
He studied magic, created Kamar-Taj, and protected the Earth from beings from other dimensions.
After the war broke out in the multiverse, one of the Kang the Conqueror, came to the year 1 million BC and found Agamotto.
He expressed deep regret for his time travel, which he said had triggered a war across the multiverse, and he hoped to end the war.
And to establish an organization to prevent more timelines from appearing and to avoid larger wars in the future.
I don't know what Kang the Conqueror said, but he convinced Agamotto.
With Agamotto's help, Kang persuaded Agamotto in almost every timeline.
Ultimately, for the peace of the multiverse and the stability of the timelines, Agamotto sacrificed himself, overdrawing his power to use the Eye of Agamotto to help the Kang the Conqueror control and regulate all timelines, creating the Sacred Timeline.
This chapter is a bit late. I spent a lot of time researching and went through Loki's plot and the setting of the Sacred Timeline again, trying my best to avoid any bugs that might take readers out of the story!