It wasn’t that he wanted to absorb the information. It began pouring into his mind because of the beam of light and the god magic. It was as if the bits of information were contained in the god magic and the gaze of the god. Xu Qing had no choice but to accept the information, and thus veins bulged on his forehead, and his head filled with intense pain. His eyes turned bloodshot, and then bulged as if they might explode. As Xu Qing was wracked with pain, and as the information filled his mind, he suddenly came to understand something about the world.11

To the eyes of gods, the lives of all living things were like a picture book open for perusal. What happened when thēy looked at you was that your past, future, and everything about you were like countless pictures that could be flipped through, combined, or changed. Your every action, including the tiniest step forward, acceleration, or pause in movement, could affect the future by creating countless branching possibilities.27

Because of that, the pictures of the future contained countless variations. They were like a majestic river that formed the picture...5