Kang the Conqueror led Qin Xiao and the others to his office. After asking them to sit down, he began to tell them his story and the origins of the Time Variance Authority.
This is quite a legendary story: a scientist who, a thousand years later, used his technological prowess to unify the entire universe. This the Conqueror's scientific talent seems to surpass even Tony's.
What's even more impressive is that he wasn't content with conquering space; he invented a time machine and unified all of time in one fell swoop. In a sense, this Kang the Conqueror has almost transcended dimensions.
However, his reckless time travel triggered countless parallel universes, turning the entire universe into infinite branches, and giving rise to countless Kang the Conqueror.
Each of them, like Kang in the main universe, conquered the universe, then went on to conquer time, and after all that was done, they set their sights on those parallel universes.
This is an epic battle that transcends time and space. Because of their mastery of time travel, every Kang must face challenges and ambushes from different versions of themselves in different universes every single second.
Whether attacking or being attacked, no one can escape. The end of a war will no longer be at the cost of human lives, but at the destruction of the entire universe.
From the moment the war began, time lost its meaning in the entire universe, and no one knows how long the war lasted.
The passage of time creates new parallel universes, and these new universes bring about new wars—wars without end and without any meaning.
Gradually, some of Kang's men grew tired of this life. They formed an alliance, reached a consensus, and worked together to find a way to end the war.
The solution was that each member of the alliance established a Sacred Timeline for their own universe.
In this universe, Kang controls the fate of all living beings. They created the Time Variance Authority, which puts all life under supervision and forces them to live only according to predetermined trajectories.
To prevent the birth of a new universe, anyone who deviates from the original trajectory will be judged by the Time Variance Authority and then banished to this Knowhere, a vast world transformed from a ruined universe.
Meanwhile, Kang, who had formed these alliances, was hiding in the Knowhere, secretly manipulating everything.
The Knowhere dumping ground for dealing with unexpected timelines, and Alioth, created by Kang, is the cleaner here.
In the words of this Kang, although they caused all the disasters, they ultimately created all of this for the sake of peace.
"What about time loops? The entire universe is in a time loop, repeating endlessly, and this is also for the sake of so-called peace?"
Qin Xiao opened his mouth and said.
Faced with Qin Xiao's question, Kang seemed completely unsurprised as to why Qin Xiao knew about the time loop.
He still wore that slightly irritating smile as he spoke.
"To prevent accidents, and to prevent myself from appearing in the 31st century—that would bring disaster—I can establish a timeline, allowing everything in the universe to follow it. However, this timeline must be one that has actually happened, and in every time that has happened, every version of myself has invented a time machine."
"So what about the future? From my perspective, what we call the past?"
" The Celestials!"
Kang suddenly said with a hint of helplessness.
"They are a group of powerful beings who were born almost simultaneously with the universe. My science merely creates tools to master the rules of the universe. They can completely control the physical manifestations of the universe's rules. You have the Infinity Stones too. Yes, you only use the Infinity Stones, but they can completely control them."
At this point, Kang's face showed a look of disbelief.
Qin Xiao's face revealed a strange expression, a half-smile.
Unfortunately, Kang didn't notice Qin Xiao's expression, and instead spoke with a hint of reminiscence and lingering fear.
"They created the history of the universe, they dispersed their genes and integrated them into various races, leading them to create civilizations, while simultaneously destroying some civilizations that resisted them!"
"They are the supreme gods of the universe, not comparable to the so-called gods of Asgard, or the so-called celestial beings of Ego's planetary origin. They do not tolerate the slightest blasphemy. The Eternals, the Deviants, and even humans on Earth all possess fragments of their genes."
"That was a truly terrifying group of people. Fortunately, they disappeared into the universe during their long lives. My severing of time from the past occurred precisely after the last Celestials of gods had completely vanished."
Kang's words contained too much information for Qin Xiao to discern, as there were too many things he didn't know.
What he was now certain of was that Kang was unaware that he would one day have complete control over the Infinity Stones, and also about his identity as a transmigrator.
"And what about me? Why hasn't the Time Variance Authority taken action against me?"
After hesitating for a moment, Qin Xiao still asked the question.
"I wasn't in the future that the Ancient One saw, and I think you should be well aware of that!"
That's right! You didn't appear in the predetermined timeline!
Kang said, without any surprise.
"You are an accident. When I created the timeline, to prevent the emergence of a new Celestials, I completely separated the Eternals and the Deviants. The genes of these two races could recombine to form Celestials, which is something I didn't want to see."
"Similarly, the Eternals didn't want to see this either, so I reached an agreement with them to divide the timeline into two interconnected but independent cycles, like two different colored hula hoops."
"I will not interfere with the course of their world, as long as everything remains within its predetermined trajectory."
"But no one expected that you would travel between two completely isolated worlds in the form of a soul. It has to be said, the universe is truly full of infinite possibilities!"
Qin Xiao nodded slightly, then asked, "You haven't gotten to the point yet."
"Yes, yes, yes! The key point is why the Time Variance Authority allows you to disrupt the Sacred Timeline outside. It's because you're not actually part of this Sacred Timeline. You're like antivirus software on a computer, monitoring all the files, but you're not within the database."
"Of course, this accident can be fixed, but as I just said, I ran into a bit of trouble. I was killed, by a female Loki, or more precisely, I was killed at a certain point in time. This caused an unexpected situation for the Time Variance Authority, which resulted in them not taking immediate action against you at the beginning."
"But then, my thoughts changed. I wanted to see you change all of this with my own eyes!"
Kang looked at Qin Xiao and said, word by word.