"...The second theorem of Magic Theory, that is, magic power cannot spontaneously transfer from a low-dinsional individual to a high-dinsional individual—note, this is a ’one-way movent,’ aning that under normal circumstances, magic power flows from high dinsions to low dinsions—similarly, ti’s flow from ’past’ to ’future’ also possesses a natural ’one-way movent’ characteristic."
"...Notice this word—’one-way’—this implies that in the dinsion of ti, one side has ’direction,’ the other ’has no direction,’ it’s ’asymtrical’; this also ans that even if you go from the past, to the present, back to the past, and then return to the present, the whole process is still ’one-way,’ with no ’breaks’ or ’parallels’ in the tiline. Nor is there the parallel world you imagine."
"...The past is certain, certainty is a convergent state, orderly, controllable, observable; the future is uncertain, uncertainty is a divergent state, disorderly, chaotic, unobservable... This process of moving from order to disorder is one of the most essential concepts of this world."
"...Perhaps soone might say, since the future is unobservable, what does divination reveal about the future? Here, I need to emphasize one point: the so-called unobservable future ans the future holds unlimited possibilities, and we cannot observe all possibilities; what the divination skill reveals is the greatest possibility among all, but not an absolute result. For the future, anything is possible."
At this point in the explanation, Baoyangzi paused, giving the two young wizards so ti to take notes. The three large words hanging mid-air had already been densely frad with many explanatory terms.
The elder glanced at his ’board work,’ pinched his beard in satisfaction, then lowered his head and curled his fingers.
The fragnts of the teacup on the ground slowly rose piece by piece, piecing and adhering together until they reached the elder wizard’s hand, already restored to its original state, becoming a flawless cup once more.
Zheng Qing looked up, just in ti to see this scene.
"This isn’t Ti Reversal." A voice from behind the desk ca from Old Yao as a reminder: "Just a small restorative transformation spell... Another cup?"
The last sentence was directed at Master Baoyangzi.
The elder wizard stroked his grizzly beard, nodding almost imperceptibly, then looked at the two young wizards again: "...From the perspective of Dinsion Theory, orderly, controllable states are adjectives describing low-dinsional phenona; disorderly, chaotic states describe high-dinsional phenona... In other words, the past is a special low-dinsional state, the future a special high-dinsional state... This distinction between high and low dinsions is the magical basis for our return from the future to the past."
He paused again, took a small sip of clear tea from his cup.
"Isn’t this self-contradictory?" Zheng Qing took advantage of this brief gap, couldn’t help raising his feather pen, full of confusion: "If the transition from past to future is from low dinsion to high dinsion, doesn’t that an..."
He was stuck, montarily unable to think of the appropriate adjective.
"ans that past magic power must be greater than future magic power to achieve such a low-dinsional to high-dinsional reverse phenonon." Jiang Yu evidently shared a similar confusion: "But according to your earlier analysis... the past is low-dinsional, shouldn’t low-dinsional magic be less than high-dinsional magic? This sounds as strange as water flowing uphill!"
"Yes, yes, that’s exactly it." Zheng Qing nodded repeatedly.
"Very perceptive."
Baoyangzi’s face showed a satisfied smile: "True magic theory is indeed counterintuitive like this. First, I can confirm one thing, past magic power is indeed stronger than future magic power, which is also why the most powerful wizards are called ’the Ancient Ones’; secondly, magic power should indeed flow from high dinsions to low dinsions, which is a fundantal concept of adhering to magic laws; finally, convergent magic power might be stronger than divergent magic power. These three points together we term as ’asymtry’ in the dinsion of magic power over ti. We know the past, but not the future, this reflects the asymtry of ti. Similarly, high dinsions and low dinsions, convergence and divergence, order and disorder, control and chaos, observable and unobservable, etc., all describe this ’asymtry’."
Zheng Qing’s mouth opened slightly.
The elder’s previous words ’convergent magic power might be stronger than divergent magic power’ sparked so inspiration in his mind, before he could decide whether to voice that word, Jiang Yu next to him had already answered first.
"Forbidden Curse!"
The witch’s urgent tone carried a touch of realization, her crisp voice sounded like a string of pearls falling onto a jade plate: "A forbidden curse is a concept converged to the extre... The past tiline is also a state of extre convergence! The instantaneous magic power of a forbidden curse far exceeds any known magic power in the world, but the total of all the world’s magic power is certainly stronger than any one forbidden curse!"
"It truly isn’t contradictory anymore." Zheng Qing kept his head down frantically taking notes, muttering to himself for supplentation: "The so-called ’past low-dinsional magic power above future high-dinsional magic power’ is a relative concept... The magic power on a convergent tiline far exceeds the magic power of the divergent future."
"Very good, very good."
The elder wizard rubbed the teacup in his hand, took the opportunity to pull it into a brown teaching rod, waved it in the air, pointing to the second concept he just listed: "Now, let us introduce the next concept, the relative rate of ti flow!
We ntioned earlier that the ’natural direction’ of ti for everyone is from past to future.
But under this premise, the ’ti flow rate’ experienced by each person is different—an obvious example, for children, they feel ti moving very slowly, every year is extrely long; but for adults, ti passes very quickly, each year as short as a month in childhood.
There is a concept of ’Ti Acceleration’ in classical magic theory that describes this phenonon. Of course, so call it ’Life Acceleration.’
This concept states that from the mont each person is born, the ti they experience will maintain a constant acceleration; as they age, ti passes faster under the influence of this acceleration. Naturally, there are paradoxes in certain situations with this concept, but it doesn’t affect its effectiveness in a broad sense.
This is ntioned because it has a famous theorem still widely used today—strong magic power will increase the ti acceleration around the wizard, the stronger the magic power, the faster the ti acceleration.
This also ans that for a Legendary Wizard or a higher-order wizard, the ti he perceives is fundantally different from an Ordinary Wizard. The ancients used phrases like ’Great Dream Thousand Years,’ ’Ten Thousand Years in a Blink,’ ’A day in the sky, a year on Earth’ to describe this situation.
When a wizard advances to the realm of Big Wizard, they need to ’store’ their true form in their small world for years because they are too ’great’ and ’heavy,’ ti will warp and accelerate around them, so to maintain a ’relatively harmonious’ state with the real world, they need to make so degree of compromise.
In a sense, this relationship between strength and weakness also embodies the ’asymtry’ aspect."
Ps, am I really writing a novel here (self-doubt ing...) Writing a complete news report before I already felt quite excessive..._(:з」∠)_
Ps, after drawing conclusions for the next Chapter, I’m now a believer myself (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
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