Zhao Cheng had recognized the existence of karmic ties long ago.
Though this thing had neither substance nor form, a single thread of karmic affinity could prop up a vast spacetime, something truly inconceivable.
Yet only now, with his mind strong enough, did he truly grasp a sliver of this transcendent power.
And precisely because of that, he had discovered this place.
This karmic spacetime "a hundred thousand years later."
This was indeed the point in time a hundred thousand years from now, yet it was not the future a hundred thousand years from now. It stood apart from time itself.
It was an eternity in an instant, and an instant of eternity.
In a sense, this place was a replica of the future beyond the future, yet it was more than merely a replica.
For the future was empty and illusory. A future that had yet to happen possessed no substance.
But this place was real, anchored, and not illusory.
As for why this place had come into being, it was born from the great collision between past and future. Though that collision had yet to happen, a trend was itself a force that was undeniably real. Like two peerless masters exchanging punches: though their fists had not yet struck each other, the storms whipped up by their swinging fists had already crashed together with a thunderous roar beforehand.
Of course, the true situation was countless times more complex, involving time, causality, destiny, reincarnation, Eternal Calamity, energy, matter, spirit, dimensions... and many other intricate factors.
Countless "causes" had been refined together, undergone infinite transformations, and in the end, by coincidence upon coincidence, produced a wisp of "affinity." Thus, karmic affinity came into being.
A single thread of karmic affinity supported this future a hundred thousand years hence.
Within this