Chapter 741: Predicting the Future

"As for this minor technique, I call it 'Seeking the Cause, Fixing the Effect—Preborrowing the Future.'"

Without concealment or pretense of mystery, Luo Fu directly revealed his technique.

As he said, the technique he employed merely seemed incredible, but in understanding, it was not complex.

The so-called Blood War Heavenly Path was created by Luo Fu using the Illusory Realm, combined with the Dao of Time and the Dao of Cause and Effect.

What Sun Wukong just experienced was both Sun Wukong's future and not Sun Wukong's future.

The future holds countless possibilities; Sun Wukong and the fake Sun Wukong perishing together is merely one of them.

Of course, given the state Sun Wukong and the fake Sun Wukong were in, this outcome had a very high probability of occurring.

Among countless futures, perhaps ninety-nine percent are like this.

In truth, after entering the Blood War Heavenly Path, Sun Wukong's future was no longer under his own control, but under Luo Fu's.

What just happened was Luo Fu's projection of one possibility through the Dao of Time within the Illusory Realm.

Since it was a projection, it means this future could still be rewritten.

Similarly, such a future could also become reality.

Because Sun Wukong is within the Illusory Realm established by Luo Fu, as long as Luo Fu wishes, he can guide Sun Wukong step by step toward mutual destruction, just as projected.

By projecting the future through the Illusory Realm, if an undesirable outcome arises, time can be reversed and restarted.

Since it is a future, it means this result will occur in truth—it is not false.

That is to say, among countless futures, there exists a Sun Wukong like this.

Mastering the Dao of Time allows one to connect past and future, and draw power from past and future.

Since the future exists, it means certain techniques can be used to borrow from that future.

What Luo Fu borrowed for Sun Wukong was naturally the battle intent of the future Sun Wukong.

Because it was borrowed from the future, there was some loss, leaving only half.

The battle intent borrowed from the future inherently belongs to Sun Wukong, so it fuses completely with him, leaving Sun Wukong unaware of any anomaly.

Of course, borrowing power from the future requires a price.

Borrow and repay, only then can balance be maintained.

Having borrowed future battle intent for Sun Wukong, repayment must be made.

But how to repay, can be manipulated.

Luo Fu's chosen method was to repay with an opportunity to enhance battle intent in a more distant future.

That more distant future refers to after Sun Wukong breaks through to the Quasi-Saint Realm.

Under Luo Fu's manipulation of the Dao of Cause and Effect, after Sun Wukong breaks through to the Quasi-Saint Realm, half of every subsequent increase in battle intent will be used to repay the battle intent borrowed from the future in the Blood War Heavenly Path.

From a value standpoint, this is unquestionably a losing deal.

The difficulty of each breakthrough in the Quasi-Saint Realm is several times that of the Bridge Realm.

The further one cultivates, the higher the cost for every incremental gain.

But for Sun Wukong, what matters most is the present.

If he cannot break through the Ninety-Nine Great Trials and alter the outcome of the Journey to the West, then Sun Wukong's future is destined to be utterly dark.