Exploring Immortality Cultivation

"The heavens are high and distant, the Earth vast and broad, all life beings look up in reverence to the Holy Virtue. The grand sound echoes a song of joy, prayers fill the air with a melody of compassion..." On the high platform, a youth named Du De was loudly reciting clumsy poetry. Father Wang Qi sat among three others, gently keeping time.

The White Snake stealthily extracted Du De's thoughts and injected them into the minds of the three others.

However, the other three youths also noticed that this teacher's mind was not present.

"Could it be that we have slighted the Holy Light and displeased the teacher?"

The three were all fearful.

Things were different now compared to half a year ago. Due to Du Bin's face, Wang Qi still retained the loyalty of the eight youths to the Du Family. The old servant, Du Zhong, often talked with them and didn't reveal any flaws. Under Wang Qi's guidance, the four formed the concept: the Du Family is our worldly master, our hearts and faith belong to the Circle of Reason, belong to the Holy Light; the Circle supreme, the Holy Light divine, no need for our sacrifice, to die for the family is our sincerity, the favor of the Circle and Holy Light! In their hearts, Wang Qi, as the guide, was a great existence!

Would displeasing Mr. Wang not mean our sincerity was lacking?

Wang Qi was indifferent to these youths' reverence. No one understood the true nature of these youths better than him. Just like the four of the Circle of Reason, who spoke of valuing wisdom and law but acted in anti-intelligence manners, believing in foolish dogmas. These youths of Silver Dawn spoke of pure goodness, yet did not practice real kindness.

Wang Qi had initially ordered tens of thousands of mechanical birds. Some of them were specifically used to monitor these eight youths. Wang Qi only required the youths not to leave their houses for the first three months, but after seeing initial signs of brainwashing success, he no longer forbade them from going out, though he still prevented communication between youths of the Circle of Reason and Silver Dawn systems, so naturally, Wang Qi was aware of the character these youths showed outside.

Perhaps for these guys, whether what they believed in was called "Circle of Reason," "Holy Light," or even "Holy Infant" or "Liberalism" didn't matter. They merely obtained a form of mental dominance, deceiving themselves with "I am different, closer to the truth." Simply and devoutly worshipping some deity, adhering to a deity, even ready to sacrifice everything, including their lives, yet unaware of what they were worshipping—how laughable is that?

Fools worship a golden body, a symbol, a name, yet never approach that symbol, nor do they truly understand the true meaning it represents. They merely worship symbols, something the wise do not take.

The "Circle of Reason" propagated by Wang Qi did contain a trace of scientific skepticism, dialectics, under the absurd facade of Silver Dawn and Holy Light Teachings, even shadows of Kant's three critiques. If properly understood, it might even lead onto the right path. But now? It's merely a group of citizen scientists and keyboard warriors.

Invisible mana transformed into straight silk-like threads, extending from the acupoints around his body. These threads arranged Wang Qi's mana and coiled up in special ways. These threads were both sensitive sensors and invisible hands manipulating the space-time metric. Because the disturbances were minute, the four youths felt nothing.

At the same time, Jarvis had connected the high-sensitive spirit prohibition set up in this room with Wang Qi's senses. The difference in perception compared to a cultivator's own senses was like that between the human eye and a microscope. In front of Wang Qi, spiritual energy was no longer a diffuse fluid, no longer colorful lights, nor a sea or a long river. It stripped away all appearances, overlapping in the form of functional graphs within the dimensions of time and space. At the same time, all the youths' physiological signs, soul activities, and brain functions were completely grasped by Wang Qi.

Having cultivated for half a year, after half a year of calculations, his cultivation had steadily reached the Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment, and his magic foundation was stable. Because of the hard work done in calculations over this half-year, his Heavenly Position Technique continuously broke through. Now, his computing power had caught up with Earth's new generation of personal computers and was still steadily rising. The ability of the Heavenly Position Technique to compute space-time metrics, combined with his own mana, had initially touched upon the Taiyu Cosmic Light Technique. His studies on human nature over this half-year made his prowess in behavioral and physiological sciences not inferior to any disciple of Tian Ling Ridge. Although still unable to control the Life Flame, the life force within him had also strengthened.

Wang Qi's mind had already delved deep into calculations. Thread after thread of thought paused, extinguished. All computational power was gathered together.

In his mind now, only three objects existed. One was a rectangle made of numbers and lines interwoven, one was an unusual cellular model formed by twisted grids, and the last, a high-dimensional space.

Hai's Spirit Field Diagram, originally created by the Daoist of Uncertainty, was specifically designed to depict complex spiritual power fields.

Complex cellular automata modeled unpredictable models of chaos and the unrivaled methods of the Divine Tao.

Xiangyu, also known as Hilbert Space, was a complete and complex tool. The algorithms employed therein were ones that Wang Qi had derived half a year prior—Wang's Landscape Painting!

He analyzed the surrounding variations in spiritual power and combined them with the physiological characteristics of the youth, deciphering their psychological aspects and integrating them into the cellular model. Ultimately, both aspects were unified in a high-dimensional virtual space.

Even common grandmasters would be astounded by such algorithms.

Should anyone witness Wang Qi's algorithms, they would undoubtedly realize that in the field of probability, he had reached the pinnacle in Shenzhou. Even without his knowledge that surpassed the era, his problem-solving thinking ability was top-notch!

The computations he was performing were both a manifestation of his own mathematical understanding and a result of the rapid advances in Shenzhou's mathematics.

Four months ago, Chebyshev published a paper that appeared in all journals of the Wanfa Sect.

"A New Big Number Law, and the New Domains It Brings."

The lineages of the Northern Country formally began construction on modern probability theory.

Although it did not fundamentally impact the existing systems of Shenzhou, it still caused ripples in the field of mathematics. Many who had participated in the construction of classical probability theory re-engaged, driving the development of the theory for the second time.

Many newcomers also plunged into this entirely new field with fresh enthusiasm. Among them, the most outstanding new generation cultivator from the Wanfa Sect was Chen Youjia. Initially, she kept pace with the research of Carefree Practitioner Chebyshev and published several mature papers. On the other hand, Bao Xiaoya, the latest cultivator from the Bo Family, also demonstrated exceptional talent that aligned with her family's tradition in this field.

As for Wang Qi, he had only published one paper in the past six months, introducing a new matrix algorithm related to probability as a new mathematical tool. Many high-level figures secretly monitoring this "peculiar" true inheritor thought that this genius was unlikely to venture into this field again.

Only Feng Luoyi and Chebyshev knew Wang Qi's true level in this field. Wang Qi's probability knowledge was somewhat ahead of its time and lacked proof. Wang Qi was currently working on rectifying this.

However, Wang Qi was no longer fixated on building the nuances of this field. For him, instead of researching what he already knew, it was better to use that knowledge to explore new things.

Like now.

Wang Qi was almost able to perceive the invisible entity stirring into action! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to cast a recommendation vote or monthly vote at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)