Enter the Immortal Cultivation

"Your Majesty, what is the past in your eyes? What can be changed and what cannot be changed?"

Wang Qi noticed a very crucial point.

There are two very clear iron rules for "the past and the future belong together".

1. The past is not unique, the future is not unique, and the present is not unique either.

2. The ability to know beforehand cannot interfere "before the moment of enlightenment."

In fact, there is a huge contradiction between these two things.

That is... the matter of "proving the truth" itself.

If the past can be changed, then the event of "enlightenment" is itself a "past" and a "future" of the longer past.

Foresighters from the distant past could intervene in this matter by choosing the future. And present or even future foreseers can intervene in this matter by choosing the past.

There is no reason to say "this individual is destined to attain enlightenment at this point in time anyway."

This is a bit too deterministic.

Even if the world line ends, there will always be fluctuations in the specific time, right?

Chaos theory shows that in the macroscopic world, it is difficult for such nonlinear things to have a definite development process.

In other words, the event of "enlightenment" itself can be interfered with.

It can be postponed, of course, or it can be brought forward.

Even if a prescient person himself cannot interfere with anything before enlightenment, and cannot allow the reverse chronology to reach an era when it does not have a reverse chronological logic gate, it can still do this with the help of other prescients.

It only suffices that the other pre-knower is older than he is.

In this universe, although foresighters are very rare, they are not so rare that there is only a small circle of people. There is no big conflict of interests between them, and there is nothing that cannot be compromised.

There are even "foreseeers who devote themselves to the ideals of others" such as the Nei tribe's foreknowledgers who save the world of demons.

In other words, if two pre-knowledgers cooperate, they will definitely be able to "enlighten the truth in advance."

If a group of prescients help each other, they can even control the entire history of cause and effect - of course, the longest length is only 200 million years.

Although you have become a foreknower, you have the ability to "play chess".

But the step from chess piece to chess player is simply impossible to predict.

Is there really a multisubverse model similar to the "many worlds interpretation"?

This may also contain the great secret of quantum mechanics.

After hearing Wang Qi's guess, Dragon King's phantom shook his head: "This is indeed feasible, but it is meaningless?"

Wang Qi was stunned: "Huh?"

"What difference does it make if you get certified early or later?" Dragon Emperor was a little confused.

Wang Qi said: "But if the incident of me becoming a former knower has been modified by others, then I..."

"But your existence in the future can become the 'cause'. The absence of 'enlightenment' does not affect you from becoming a pre-knowledge!" said the Dragon King.

"But, the opportunity for me to create this thing has been... wait a minute, the logic of normal timing is indeed a bit insufficient." Wang Qi waved his hand: "No, Your Majesty, what I mean is that the time of enlightenment itself can be advanced or If delayed, doesn’t that prove that multiple pre-knowers can go back in time and advance the time of one or a few pre-knowers’ enlightenment infinitely, even to the beginning of the universe?”

If this is the case, then the older the pre-knowers, the more advantageous they will be - the ancient pre-knowers can dominate the birth of subsequent pre-knowers by choosing history.

But there is no evidence that this is true.

Because the co-leader of the Yuan clan must be older than the Dragon Emperor. But in fact, the Dragon King defeated the masters of the Yuan clan.

If this is the case, then Wang Qi will have to face another problem.

The strong men of the future will definitely think so, and will definitely want to go to the "now".

And the strong men who have come together in the past and will have to deal with a lot of "strong men who don't exist yet".

But the facts prove that there is no such thing.

Although there is a so-called "knowledge at birth" in mythology, "I am the only one in heaven and earth who shouts "I am the only one in heaven and earth" as soon as he is born." But there is no actual example of "a person whose past and future merge into one body at birth".

Otherwise, Wang Qi would at least hear about it.

But if that wasn't the case...

So what does "the past change" mean?

Could it be that all the past is changeable and only the fact of "enlightenment" is "destined"?

The Dragon King shook his head: "No, that's not what I meant. In fact, if you become a pre-knower, then all the causes and effects before you become a pre-knower will have no impact on you after you become a pre-knower. No matter. No matter how you were before, you have a backup in the 'future'. Therefore, it is futile to try to interfere with the 'history before enlightenment' to influence the 'individual after enlightenment.'

Wang Qi frowned: "Is it theoretically possible to influence a strong man whose past and future belong to one body and make his personality change to some extent, so that his stance changes?"

If this is not possible, it can only mean one thing - after enlightenment, individuals will move towards a destined template.

The Dragon Emperor shook his head and explained patiently: "For individuals who have already achieved enlightenment, whether they are ancient or not, whether they occupy the upper reaches of history, is not important at all - you humans have similar sayings. The past and the future are equivalent. This shows that you have indeed touched a little edge with your wisdom. Think about it yourself, since the past and the future are equivalent, who has the need to wander against time like this?"

"As for the 'interference position', it is even more problematic. An immortal at least has a certain heart and can maintain his own self for a long time. Although this position can be changed, it is difficult to achieve in a short process."

Wang Qi raised his hand: "But, Your Majesty, for the foreknower, long-term or short-term does not matter?"

Limited foreknowledge does not look at distance, time, only cause and effect.

The Dragon Emperor nodded: "That's right."

"Since it involves an individual's enlightenment, you should have been able to foresee it and make a layout long ago, right?" Wang Qi said: "This can also be a long-term process."

-Unless you think that a limited foreknower is not important at all!

Lone rangers like the Heavenly Demon King can indeed ignore all other factors and turn all reverse-time bandwidths into "refugee radars", but the Dragon Emperor and the Demon King cannot ignore "talents".

Ah, as for His Majesty the Demon King... well, if the updated demon race can produce foresight, he may be able to survive for hundreds of thousands of years.

"But in fact... this is also difficult to do." The Demon King shook his head and smiled bitterly: "In your words, if you want to do this, you must know the 'necessary and sufficient conditions for proving that the past and the future are in one body', and know under what conditions are met, those who jump out of the long river and dominate themselves can definitely prove that the past and the future are in one body and become foresight."

"But in fact, there is no such thing."

"I think" is enough for the practice method denounced by human cultivators as "ancient practice".

If there is no higher pursuit, it is understandable to do so.

If the conjecture that "only foresight is considered an intelligent creature" is true, then "I think" can be used as the standard way of thinking for foresight.

The priori feelings of the foreknowers can be guaranteed to be correct!

Even non-foreknowers become foreknowers by "my thinking".

The Great Sage of Heaven and Man just made a fool's way of doing things. You don't need to understand it. As long as you reach a certain step, you can become a foreknower - even practitioners don't need to understand this process.

For monkeys, this is indeed a kind of luck.

But for a civilization like Jinfa Xiandao that has caused a superhuman upheaval, this is a bit...

Wang Qi thought for a moment: "But... the so-called 'necessary and sufficient conditions' are just the way of thinking that we humans use to deal with normal time sequences, right? Foreknowers can get the answer directly?"

"But for the event of 'attaining the Tao', the interference of foreknowledge is too great." The Demon King said: "Sending this kind of information back from the future is like playing a game with a real foreknower, which may not be meaningful."

- Is this an alternative "self-reference" problem? According to the theory, the first-order hyper-Turing machine cannot perfectly solve the halting problem...

Wang Qi asked back: "But if you suddenly feel that a non-foreknower has a huge disturbance, it means that he is about to achieve enlightenment, right? If that guy is not on our side, can't we just kill him in advance?"

"No, that's not the truth." The Dragon Emperor shook his head: "Before you become a foreknower, the fact that you become a foreknower is as if it does not exist for other foreknowers - it is still the same until now. I don't know whether this is the result of the game on time or the limitation of the foreknowledge itself."

Only when the reverse time logic gate actually appears can it be felt.

This is what the Dragon Emperor means.

On the other hand, achieving foreknowledge cannot cause anomalies that can be observed by the entire universe.

In fact, the breakthroughs in the two realms of "jumping out of the long river to dominate oneself" and "the past and the future return to one body" are relatively small. If the immortal has a high enough control over his own body, there will not even be any anomalies.

This universe is really too big.

Even if the foreknowers can travel through the entire universe in terms of cause and effect, their power cannot cause the entire universe to shake at the material level.

In other words, the impact of the event of "attaining the truth" itself will be dispersed throughout history.

Because the moment the reverse-time logic gate was born, the past and the future were already one. From birth to end, it can be regarded as "the same moment".

Even if there really is a "vision", it does not exist only at one "point in time".

But Wang Qi still feels a little awkward with this explanation.

"Doesn't this mean that... every foreknower will have a fruit position in the future where 'the past and the future are in one body', and this fruit position has been determined, and then the process of cultivation just depends on whether you can integrate into this fruit position?"