Exploring Immortality Cultivation

"People recognize only the shallow paths of the Tao. The Circle of Reason is the true origin of matter. Anything that defies this origin will be annihilated. Homu." Du Cheng had grown accustomed to ending his sentences with "Homu." He even began to feel that the awkward "Homu" was a grand testament to his belonging to the illustrious collective known as the Circle of Reason.

As he spoke these words, he only felt a refreshing clarity in his mind, his consciousness utterly lucid. He believed that his thinking must now be even closer to the Circle of Reason.

Unseen by him, the Ghost Soldier "White Snake" withdrew its arm from his brain.

Wang Qi produced a green coin and inserted it into Du Cheng's body: "The Circle is with you, Homu."

"Homu." The youth bowed his head and bent at the waist in a gesture of respect.

"You three, think carefully about the ideas Du Cheng has just articulated. Even if you disagree, scrutinize them well. We rise to the Circle through negation and questioning, Homu." Wang Qi addressed the other three youths in this manner while ordering White Snake to randomly infuse the memories just extracted into two of the other youths.

This was his daily task. To extract one person's understanding and memories concerning a certain issue and then cram them into the brains of others, masquerading as the latter's own comprehension.

Sure enough, the two youths who received the additional memories suddenly had a look of inspiration. They began to debate with the first youth. Soon after, the fourth youth, who had not received any implanted memories, also presented his own viewpoint. Then, White Snake acted as before, extracting the current thoughts of the fourth youth, duplicating them, and then instilling them into another's mind.

At the same time, two red Mechanical Birds circled overhead, recording the conversations of these people. Jarvis would delete the redundant parts, the ambiguous parts, and the repetitive parts as supplements to the doctrines of the Circle of Reason.

— What a dumbing-down chore!

Of course, Wang Qi had also specifically warned Jarvis to never incorporate these conversations into his own thoughts.

"To deny and doubt the Established Method, approaching the Circle of Reason through Mystical Thought and debate." This was the current maxim of the Circle of Reason.

That is, "a charlatan in the guise of science," or put more informally, Citizen Science.

Wang Qi consciously imparted to them the most important aspect of the scientific spirit—skepticism—but deliberately overlooked "empirical evidence." The rest was automatically filled in by the youths themselves. And under the influence of "White Snake," each youth had acquired a myriad of strange and indescribable forms of knowledge.

Thus, within a mere six months, they had undergone a tremendous transformation in spirit.

Moreover, as all of them shared similar thoughts—thanks to the Ghost Soldier "White Snake" extracting and duplicating memories—the bond between the youths was exceptionally strong, and they showed great conformity in thought and action. They moved in unison, as if part of a single "collective."

Watching the youths finish their discussion, Wang Qi declared with satisfaction, "Alright, you may now go about your free activities. Also, a new batch of Memory Bodies will be ready in half a month. Prepare yourselves and harmonize your being!"

In the span of that half-year, the technology for creating Wang Qi's Memory Bodies and coins had been continuously upgraded. With Du Bin providing a large number of experiment subjects for free, Wang Qi had distributed around two hundred Artificial Magic Bases and over six hundred coins during that period. Only a portion of these was taken by Du Bin to consolidate his private soldiers and enhance his influence within his family. Many were also used for social relations, as gestures of goodwill to other Divine Capital Cultivators. Wang Qi unhesitatingly tampered with each Memory Body, enabling real-time data feedback to Jarvis. With such strong support, Wang Qi harvested massive amounts of data every day.

As for the eight youths of the Circle of Reason and Silver Dawn, each had been implanted with more than eight Memory Bodies and over twenty coins. Every detail of the Mana Flow circulating within them could not escape Wang Qi's notice. Meanwhile, their combat strength also skyrocketed.

Half a year ago, they were Qi Refining Cultivators so hasty in their training that they were even inferior to Mortal Martial Artists. Their greatest value lay in using mana to ignite Spiritual Fire for their masters, brewing tea and cooking wine to flaunt their master's prestige. But now, they had all become Qi Cultivation Late Stage Cultivators with traits of Foundation Establishment, and they possessed numerous Divine Skills—their combat power was no less than that of ordinary cultivators practicing Modern Qi Cultivation!

This transformation also confirmed the guesses Wang Qi had made before. The stronger the individuals within the System, the stronger the System as a whole became.

As for this transformation, both Wang Qi and the youths were very satisfied.

When the sixth Artificial Magic Base was inserted, Wang Qi had a faint premonition—something indescribable was about to be born!

And the monitoring data confirmed this idea.

"In the past half-year, the Spiritual Energy Value surrounding this room has been slowly increasing. It's now a solid one percent higher than it was before the experiment started. This proves that the 'Divine Tao System hypothesis' is indeed grounded…"

"And… Personality Gods do exist and can be constructed."

"Perhaps, the process of constructing Personality Gods can also be extended to all metaphysical rule systems!"

As Wang Qi checked the calculator, he shared his initial feeling. Jarvis would record it. Although Wang Qi's brainpower and memory were now strong enough to remember every word he had said and all his thoughts, it helped to think to maintain the habit of recording, a practice developed during Earth times—a good memory cannot compare to a scratched pen.

After observing the vertical data collected over the half-year, Wang Qi turned to the horizontal data, that is, the comparison between the Circle of Reason and Silver Dawn.

"Indeed, because of the existence of Holy Light, the degree of order in 'strength' here is somewhat higher…"

Wang Qi was able to read some special lines on the instrument of inspiration. These lines represented the function graphs of the Spirit Energy Eigenform. In most cases, it was chaotic and disordered, like an irrational number, infinite, and without periodicity—the Intrinsic Form of nature's spiritual energy. However, within the range of Silver Dawn's activity, it occasionally exhibited fleeting orderliness.

This was like the Ozma Plan or the Red Coast Plan, Earth's initial methods of searching for extraterrestrial civilizations, attempting to find logical electromagnetic signals within the cosmic background radiation. What Wang Qi was doing was searching for that ordered special spiritual power reaction within the background spirit field!

"I think I see you... God!"

Wang Qi had an intuition.

He would obtain the greatest result of these past six months today!

Wang Qi left the main house, transformed back into the Pseudo Personality of Father Wang Qi, and took the Ghost Soldier "White Snake" towards the room where Silver Dawn was located. The four youths inside were in meditation. They posed in a seated position with their hearts directed towards heaven, and the white Light of Negative Entropy flowed out of their bodies into the air.

The nearby spiritual environment was continuously infused with Negative Entropy Force.

"Alright, lads, let's begin today's discourse on the Tao!" (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to vote for us with a recommendation ticket or a monthly ticket at Qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)