Arbiter's Rights — which are created from the profound understanding of the Laws — are responsible for the existence of Gods. Knowledge becomes power, and the one with that knowledge attains godhood. In this sense, if someone were to acquire even more knowledge than a god, that god would instantly lose their divinity and become something of a quasi-god.
However, it would still take millions of years for one to usurp the Arbiter's Right of a god, even if the challenger had Baiyi's intellect and mental caliber. Baiyi should not have managed to steal the Time God's Arbiter's Rights because he did not have the time. Fortunately, the Laws Baiyi tried to grasp were the Laws of Time, and it had a pretty large loophole for him to exploit.
[1] Hard for me to imagine that sort of world. How did they control everything if everyone else could *also* controlled everything? I can’t even control what to watch on the TV or Netflix because someone else, who can also control what to watch (read: siblings with shit tastes) keeps rejecting my control. Secondly, if everyone possessed their own time and strength, then everyone effectively lived in their own reality and timestream. Feels like it’s just a bunch of people sleeping together in a room, all dreaming a different dream that only they control. And should they all woke up (frankly, I don’t know what could be gained from returning to this room if one already had everything in their respective dream), and suddenly wanted to use this room? How do they establish control over one another if everyone is supposedly *equally omnipotent*?
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[2] Funnily, Baiyi now sounded like the thing he hated the most: a passionate mystic who claimed to have seen the GODS!