Another puzzle brought by the notion that "the future and the past are equivalent" was that the future "already" existed.
From the perspective of time, the "future" had naturally not yet arrived.
But from the perspective of logic, if the "future," like the "past," was an entity, then that meant the future was also an objectively existing entity.
And because of its special nature, the power of reverse time did not need to rely on the "past" for its existence. The cause of its existence could lie in the future.
That was what led to Wang Qi's current line of thought.
Every Precognitive who could attain the Dao of "past and future returning to one body" had a Fruit Position existing in the future.
And the process of their cultivation was the process of coming into contact with that "Fruit Position."
Once enough conditions were gathered, they could complete contact with that "Fruit Position" and become a Precognitive.
It was only that this process itself was far too mysterious, and the Celestial Great Saints had tossed out a foolproof tutorial [relatively speaking], leaving no one knowing exactly what conditions had to be gathered for the "Fruit Position" and the cultivator to make contact.
Or, reversing the order of time and thinking about it, perhaps things worked like this.
The "Fruit Position" itself set out from the future and traveled toward the past. At the same time, a cultivator set out from the past and traveled toward the future, moving against it.
When the two met certain conditions, they came into contact with one another.
Then, a closed ring of causality came into being. In essence, it was a knot in the chain of cause and effect. If one did not know how to untie this knot, then the knot itself