Eric Turner sighed as he thought of this, closed the book in his hands, and muttered to himself, “The universe was a complete singularity at the very beginning, and then the explosion created the entire universe. If that singularity is compared to zero, a perfect number, then the explosion that followed gave rise to one, two, three, four, and so on—changes. In other words, the universe is becoming more complex and disordered, that is, the entropy of the universe is increasing. For example, water cools, ice melts—this process is irreversible. To reverse it, energy must be used to forcibly convert it. Cause and effect are the same. If the ordered present and future are compared to cause and effect, then to change the future is to change cause and effect. Is that what the causality points on the Investiture of the Gods mean? I changed what was supposed to happen, so I gained causality points, and these causality points can be simply regarded as energy stored in the Investiture of the Gods. This energy can reverse entropy, turning disorder back into order, that is, controllable changes in the future. So I used the Investiture of the Gods, consumed causality points, and obtained the internal cultivation method and the experience of sensing qi... And at the same time, I will...”

“…be rejected by this universe? Because I changed the entropy that was supposed to become disordered? And that crisis just now was the result of the universe’s rejection? In other words... am I going to become very unlucky?”

Eric Turner silently stood up, paced back and forth in the room a few times, then nodded to himself and said, “Even so, my faith cannot be shaken, even if I am rejected by the universe. What I need to determine now is whether, as long as I still have causality points, the Investiture of the Gods can shield me from the universe’s rejection, or is this rejection ongoing at all times? If the rejection was triggered because I went into negative three thousand causality points, then causality points are the thing I need to focus on most right now. If it’s the second case... then I must become stronger as quickly as possible, so I can face the coming rejection of the universe... But to become stronger, it seems I also need to obtain causality points. In short, the most urgent thing right now is to get a large number of causality points!”

After a few more minutes, once Eric Turner had thought everything through, he tidied his clothes, put on his jacket, carefully opened the door, and walked out... At this moment, he was extremely hungry, especially after using internal energy for the first time. He felt as if he could eat an entire cow...

Chapter Five: Countercurrent and Signs (Part 3)

The Investiture of the Gods has the following features. First, it can foresee the future and obtain causality points, but it can only randomly foresee people or events within a few miles nearby. These futures can all be changed, and if you change them, you can obtain causality points. The more people affected by the change, the more causality points you get.

Second, it can obtain information within a specific range. This information includes any information from the past or future. The greater the change to the future after the user learns this information, the more causality points are consumed.

Third, it can reverse cause and effect. For example, you can obtain things that do not exist in this world, or even act directly on the human body, such as healing physical injuries or gaining the sensation of qi, and you can also create things out of thin air. The greater the impact these changes have on the future, the more causality points are lost.

After a night of exploration and experimentation, Eric Turner once again spent the few hundred causality points he had hastily obtained last night. In order to get these causality points, he had deliberately sent tens of thousands of yuan to the accounts of dozens of impoverished students in mountainous areas published by charity organizations. And for these tens of thousands of yuan, he only got these few hundred causality points. It seems these causality points are really valuable.

However, with these few hundred causality points, Eric Turner continued his experiments last night. For example, he cut his finger with a small knife, and after using the Investiture of the Gods to heal it, it only used up one causality point. For another example, when he checked what others were doing, it only took a few causality points for some unimportant people, but for people he knew in real life, it took dozens of causality points. The closer his relationship or the more important the person, the more causality points it took to check. Also, if he wanted to create something, a screw only needed one causality point, but creating one gram of gold required ten causality points. As in previous experiments, the more something could change the future, the more causality points it required. In the end, he used up all his causality points again.

Fortunately, thanks to last night’s experiments, although he spent tens of thousands of yuan, he finally summarized the above three rules for using the Investiture of the Gods and got a preliminary understanding of its functions... As long as he has enough causality points, it is enough to change the world! He could even become a god...

When Eric Turner got up in the morning, he carefully put the Investiture of the Gods in the inner pocket of his undershirt. After washing up, he opened the door and headed to school. Before long, he arrived at the university gate. At this moment, many students were heading toward the gate. Many university students live off campus, especially couples.

As for the crash marks at the school gate, they had almost been wiped away, leaving only the black marks from the car explosion. Other than that, there was no trace of the accident left here.