Cultivation: I Have Studied Abroad in the Modern World
Chapter 525 - 268: Who Preaches, Mutual Interaction_3

Chapter 525: Chapter 268: Who Preaches, Mutual Interaction_3

Some scholars are older and have just begun their cultivation practice. They have not even entered the preliminary stage of martial Dao, which their bodies cannot handle.

Therefore, Zheng Fa only lectures for about two hours each night.

The next morning, Cheng Yun opened his door and saw Professor Wang from next door, rubbing his eyes and coming out, seemingly ready for breakfast.

"Professor? You’re up?"

"Up?" Professor Wang looked at him, his gaze enigmatic, "Who slept?"

"..."

Cheng Yun felt a chill in his liver.

"You didn’t sleep!" he exclaimed, staring, "What were you doing all night?"

"Practicing martial arts, reviewing the content of Dean Zheng’s lectures, and when tired, I searched online for some Daoist scriptures and materials science textbooks to switch my mind..."

Professor Wang casually mentioned as he walked.

"...Do we really need to work this hard?"

"I ask you, why does Dean Zheng choose us specifically, instead of others?"

"...To speed up the research?"

"So..." Professor Wang patted the student’s shoulder, smiling, "How can we not hurry?"

Cheng Yun fell silent.

"I told you before about how I used to stay up late in the lab when I was young, and you didn’t believe me..."

"..."

Professor Wang pointed toward the other scholars in the cafeteria, who appeared lackluster, then turned to Cheng Yun, smiling:

"Competitive?"

"To become the first group of people learning cultivation."

"To be able to read, conduct research, and find a way to be free from illness and even achieve immortality..." Professor Wang said softly with a laugh, "This opportunity is too rare and perfectly suited for us."

Cheng Yun, looking at the group with somewhat reddened eyes, was at a loss for words.

"These people here, which one of them isn’t spun out from mountains of books and laboratories?" Professor Wang chuckled again and retorted, "Otherwise, what do you think Zheng Fa sees in us, who can’t carry physical burdens?"

"What does spending a bit more time account for?"

Cheng Yun nodded blankly, his confidence as a retiree momentarily waning, instead feeling a sense of urgency.

He looked at Professor Wang, feeling as though, after many years, he had been taught another lesson by his teacher.

...

Zheng Fa lectured on the fundamental knowledge for a week and then held a symposium in that auditorium.

The topics discussed at the symposium were naturally how to perfect the "Tianhe Sword Dao" or "Nine Reincarnation Golden Core Method".

First, Zheng Fa distributed the collected data and experimental results to everyone below the stage.

This time, the retirement home had recruited about a hundred new members from diverse academic disciplines—

Physics, chemistry, materials science, biology, even agricultural science, mathematics, all related to cultivation.

These people also participated in the symposium.

But what Zheng Fa truly cared about were scholars from physics or chemistry materials science.

Their relevance seemed a bit more significant for the project.

While everyone flipped through the provided materials, Zheng Fa explained the principles and progress of the "Golden Core Project". Once he finished, the audience below generally understood the current issues and began whispering among themselves.

After these discussions wrapped up, Zheng Fa said, "Everyone can form groups to discuss or independently propose ideas. I hope you can explore this issue from various perspectives."

This was a necessary step.

Now, the research on the "Tianhe Sword Dao" had roughly reached a bottleneck, not even Zheng Fa and others knew where the issues lay.

By holding this symposium, he mainly aimed to leverage the diverse perspectives of these scholars from different disciplines to explore various possible ideas.

This was also why Zheng Fa invited scholars from biology and mathematics as well.

"During the symposium, everyone can submit papers and peer review each other."

"Contributions to this topic can be credited to the retirement home scores, which can later be exchanged for spiritual materials and cultivation techniques."

Zheng Fa finished speaking, and the discussions below heated up a bit more.

To refine their ideas, Zheng Fa set the symposium’s duration to half a month.

But the next day, a nuclear engineering scholar presented his hypothesis — the fusion reaction hypothesis.

"From the experimental data, it shows that the experimenter consistently focuses on the third step, that is, how to combine the Spiritual Energy Sub-talisman with particles, but actually, the normal condensation process of the Golden Core is in three steps. Thus, I believe the second Sub-talisman might combine with the first one during fusion or even fission."

Zheng Fa listened below the stage and found it quite reasonable.

But the subsequent discussions gave him more inspiration:

Someone felt the structure of the alchemy furnace could be an issue, as a Shenxiao Golden Core’s furnace matches the Shenxiao Golden Core, but producing the second Five Elements Child Talisman naturally differs.

Others suggested from a chemical perspective that certain catalysts or even experimental environments may be necessary.

From a physics standpoint, someone proposed that maybe the energy wasn’t sufficient...

In half a month, these people submitted roughly eighty papers, with the main hypotheses numbering around fifteen or sixteen.

From Zheng Fa’s perspective, seven or eight of these possibilities were quite significant.

"To fundamentally analyze the condensation of the second Sub-talisman from a chemical reaction perspective..."

"There are actually three potential problem areas:"

Tang Lingwu summarized by his side: "First, the raw materials, second, the environment, third, the process."

Zheng Fa nodded.

The raw materials were the most troublesome, like the Talisman Dao Foundation Establishment Method, which requires Yuan Condensing Pills. If the Tianhe Sword Dao is similar, without understanding Tianhe Venerable’s original methods, they probably wouldn’t be able to learn it—especially if it also involves something like a catalyst, it’s basically game over.