Chapter 718

"You mean that Old Man Chen can foresee the future?"

Golden Toad Son's voice carried a hint of surprise.

"More or less. It should be some kind of special privilege granted by that stone."

"Impossible!"

Golden Toad Son cut off Xiao Ran's guess. "Even an A-rank Professional on the divination path, a Truth Speaker, couldn't foresee the future like that."

Foreseeing the future was too defiant of the natural order. Golden Toad Son didn't believe anyone could do it.

"Could it be some kind of so-called opportunity?"

"No. Even an A-rank Cursed Object couldn't give him the ability to foresee the future like that."

Golden Toad Son answered Xiao Ran with complete certainty.

Most people couldn't understand the weight behind the words "foresee the future."

But in Daoism, such a divine ability simply couldn't exist.

Even divination was merely an attempt to follow cause and effect and make a prediction.

The past couldn't be changed, and the future was limitless. That was an unalterable rule.

Perhaps someone might glimpse a fragment of the future by chance, but the moment they saw it, the future they had witnessed would cease to exist.

"The future is like Schrödinger's cat, full of variables.

If anyone could observe the future, every rule in this world would grind to a halt."

Golden Toad Son explained the reason behind it to Xiao Ran in a meaningful tone.

"Do you know what would happen if the rules stopped?

Everything would shift from being random to being fixed, and everyone would gain some kind of superpower.

For example, a basketball player might gain the ability to make every shot.

Even from a hundred kilometers away, every basketball he threw would go through the hoop, because that was the outcome someone had observed in the future, and it couldn't