The idea was fascinating, but he wasn't sure if there was much merit there.

Yet a domain sensory technique definitely sounded interesting. Was it possible to employ a domain to allow him to gather more information that he didn't have before that would allow him to sense more than he previously could?

He wasn't sure.

In the first place, he would need to identify a new source of information that he did not have access to and strive to solve the problem via domains if possible.

However, that alone was quite challenging. For one, he couldn't think of any such source that could viably give him important information that he could process to harness the power of thought.

'I already collect every ounce of relevant information across the entire fight,' Rui heaved a sigh. 'The only times this isn't the case are for assassinations where I collect information before the fight. But I can't do that for every fight unless I peer into the past.'

He paused.

Anyone else would have scoffed off that thought as an impossibility.

'Peer into the past…to gain more information?' Rui's eyes lit up with interest.

Was that even possible?

The past had passed, and the only indications of what had happened were in the present.

'Could I then infer the past from the present and then refine predictive models from the information of the past?' Rui widened his eyes as they swam around, immersed in thought, calculating the plausibility of the idea that he had come across.

Using the present to predict the future was something that he was accustomed to. But now, he was using the present to decrypt the past and then using the past and the present to predict the future.

Predicting the future with the past and the present together would naturally be superior to predicting the future with just the present.

The more data he had, the more refined his predictions were.

'This could serve as the basis for the first concrete upgrades to the pattern recognition system,' Rui realized.

The pattern recognition system had remained unchanged in the many years since he had used it. The VOID algorithm had undergone some drastic upgrades, but that had been due to the partial addition of systems that involved thought in their applications, like the Metabody System and the Hypnomatrix.

But never before had he touched the process of creating predictive models that he had originally devised on Earth, leading his research team. The reason for it was that its only flaw was its difficulty of mastery, which he had overcome with the Mind Palace technique. Since then, it has been the core source of his dominance as a Martial Artist.

However, today, he happened to have a way of upgrading the pattern recognition system by employing data from the past deduced from the future.

'Theoretically, it is possible,' Rui realized. 'The law of causality binds the past to the present. Tying effect to cause over and over again will allow me to decode the past. But…that's an immense amount of information. I also don't think I can access the information with my current senses.'

In order to be able to decrypt the past from the future, he would need to be able to sense and detect all the vectors and tensors in a given system and then trace them back, applying classical mechanics to rewind time to recreate a picture of the past.

However, he wasn't sure how he was going to detect and sense all the phenomena happening for him to draw all that information. He needed a mechanism to gain knowledge of all those vectors.

He definitely couldn't sense it directing using his senses; there was too much information, and his senses were not detailed enough to directly sense those minute vectors in the environment to decrypt the past.

However, that wasn't strictly a problem either. He wasn't inherently able to sense space, but he had overcome that problem as well. This belongs to : ©.

'Though it's not worth hunting an esoteric substance yet again. I can't pump my body full of esoteric substances endlessly; the health risks spike exponentially. Besides, they are unnecessary in these circumstances,' Rui happened upon an interesting solution.

'I could try and magnify the vectors by pumping more energy into the system,' Rui realized. 'But there's no way to do that without disrupting them and the information that they possessed. So that's a no-go too…unless…'

One way to measure a vector was to measure how much it changed when acted upon by another known vector, like force. If a rolling ball moved a certain way after Rui kicked it blindfolded with a certain amount of force, then Rui could gauge which way it was going before he kicked it.

This was actually how quantum phenomena were measured since the fact that they were that small meant that even the act of measuring them with electromagnetic waves would disrupt them; scientists would measure the disruptions to understand their original state.

If Rui could theoretically do that for all vectors in a given system, then he would be able to gain an account for all the vectors in a system at any given point in time.

Of course, he would still be faced with the challenge of having to process all that data accurately and plot out the past, but it wasn't theoretically impossible.

'If I refine the precision of my heaven and earth bending, then…' Rui's eyes lit up with interest.

Unlike the other three projects, Rui had absolutely no confidence that this project would succeed. Even if he could get past the massive technical hurdles, he would still be faced with practical obstacles.

Only by overcoming both the technical and the practical hurdles could he then successfully employ the technique in combat.

It was a difficult gambit, but it was at times like these that he could develop his Martial Art in such a manner. If it paid up, then it was all when and good, if not, then he would be reminded that he couldn't win them all.