Exploring Immortality Cultivation
Chapter 574 - 325: Passionate, Debate

In the morning, after finishing his meditation, the first thing that Primordial Spirit Master Xiao Zhongchuan did was enter the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm to check the recently updated research papers.

The cultivation pace of the three realms of a Great Grandmaster is completely different from the three realms in the human world.

In the human world, the three realms—Qi Cultivation, Foundation Establishment, and Golden Core—are traceable. They involve accumulation and often consist of repetitive research, deepening theoretical understanding through the results of others' experiments online. Moreover, one must continually subdue one's inner distractions and perfect one's spiritual resolve.

In the three realms of a Great Grandmaster—Primordial Spirit, Void Refining, and Nirvana—there are no traces to follow. The paths taken by individuals have subtle differences; even when the same cultivation techniques, magic foundations, and golden cores are employed, the resultant primordial spirits differ.

After at least twenty years of accumulation through the three realms of the human world, a cultivator develops a unique system of understanding the Dao, which can be described to others through the theoretical system established by Yuanli Master. Additionally, over twenty years is sufficient for a cultivator's spiritual resolve to mature and shed various childish inclinations.

Each Great Grandmaster is trying to solve problems their predecessors left unresolved and tread paths others have not. Their progress has become difficult to quantify. Moreover, their lengthy lives grant them extensive rights to research various fields.

Although Xiao Zhongchuan is a grandmaster of the Wanfa Sect, he has recently become curious about the newly established quantum electrodynamics, feeling that this significant system could greatly benefit his own primordial spirit. Thus, he closely follows the achievements in this field daily. Since it's a newly established system, there are additions from masters of the Mysterious Palace and even the Carefree Practitioners every few days, with corresponding laws emerging daily.

That day, Xiao Zhongchuan found a particularly unique paper.

"'Characteristics of Quantum Electromagnetic Radiation Fields and Divine Power: Divine Power? Is this the name of a cultivation technique? Why not write it out completely? Isn't this misleading?"

Xiao Zhongchuan muttered to himself, opened the paper, and began to look through the keywords: 'electromagnetic,' 'quantum electrodynamics,' 'Divine Tao'... Divine Tao?"

Is this an analysis of Divine Tao Power?

Xiao Zhongchuan was somewhat surprised. The merit required for a single paper was in single digits, which was nothing considering the wealth of a Primordial Spirit Master. Without hesitation, he exchanged for the paper.

The paper was not lengthy, but it came with very detailed information. Xiao Zhongchuan was supposed to read the main text of the paper, but his attention was captured by a complex intrinsic formula.

"Is this the intrinsic formula for Divine Spirit power? They actually managed to create it?"

Xiao Zhongchuan could hardly believe it. Under the governance of the Immortal Alliance, establishing a Divine Tao was nearly impossible, as even the smallest cult needed over a hundred people to form a perceptible Divine Power. How difficult it was to acquire even a trace of Divine Power!

Then, he noticed something unusual in this set of data; one group of data had been concealed. It was covered by a black mask with a line of white text: "This content involves a secret skill, temporarily not publicized. Secret code: 8527919."

"Secret skill"! As a grandmaster, he had only heard about such things. If certain key data could derive some excessively terrifying forbidden techniques or relate to the foundations of the Immortal Alliance, then the related content in the paper library would be hidden in this format.

He quickly scanned the main text. The main text was conventional and had nothing particularly outstanding; it merely explained the nature of Divine Power. But Xiao Zhongchuan felt that there was more to the paper. He suspected there were related papers, so he clicked on the author's name.

"Wang Qi..." Xiao Zhongchuan murmured the name twice, feeling a vague impression of it. But soon after, he began reading other papers by the same author.

Most of Wang Qi's other papers were co-authored with others. Xiao Zhongchuan noticed that Wang Qi's recently published papers were issued in the name of a particular empirical department. Therefore, he straightforwardly searched for papers with the keyword "Chen Feng's Empirical Department."

Ten papers appeared before him.

After reading them, he frowned and said, "This is absurd!"

One paper explained the "Human Dao System" theory, one interpreted the human Dao system from the perspective of the Heavenly Material Circulation, one described the manifestations of this theory in the Life Path, one was a review, and one was about the core of derived laws.

The remaining five were all mathematical models of the Divine Tao and Human Dao.

"Absurd..." Xiao Zhongchuan trembled slightly, yet his tone was no longer so certain.

This was undoubtedly a self-consistent system, at least mathematically, with no apparent flaws.

As for empirical evidence, at least there was a "secret skill" underlying it, which wouldn't be overly fabricated.

So... was this theory correct? All of it?

"No, not right, the Human Dao itself is not something so easily calculable, at least... at least..."

The complexity of the Human Dao was quite high, and some believed it was nearly as complex as the molecular chaos in motion. The foundation of this Divine Tao theory was that the Human Dao was calculable and highly ordered. But human hearts are unpredictable, and when many people gather, the complexity only increases.

With this in mind, Xiao Zhongchuan began to review the references cited in these few papers. He discovered that all these papers cited another paper that Wang Qi had published two months prior.

"'Human Dao Mathematical Model'... published two months ago."

This paper employed numerous highly complex mathematical models, establishing various intricate models.

The Primordial Spirit Master shivered slightly.

He was a disciple of the Wanfa Sect, so he could comprehend this paper.

But it was precisely because he understood it that he was even more surprised.

Probability theory and mathematical logic — these two were perfectly integrated here. At the same time, what was even more remarkable was that he had advanced Yitian Calculation to a higher level.

Playing against ten thousand people, playing against all things, was like playing against heaven itself.

One must consider all possibilities, judge the merits and demerits based on probabilities, and then formulate the optimal strategies.

If seen from this viewpoint, considering the choices that each individual might make in specific situations...

"This system, its completeness is incredibly high!" Xiao Zhongchuan murmured, "It's truly amazing."

He guessed that this elder was probably close to achieving Nirvana...

At this moment, a communication request popped up in front of him. He opened it and discovered it was from his friend, another Primordial Spirit Master. He accepted the call and asked, "Old Wu, what's up?"

"What's up? Have you read the journal from the other day?"

Excitement was evident in Old Wu's appearance as he waved a piece of paper, "Old Xiao, I remember you've been studying probability recently? Let's discuss this..."

Xiao Zhongchuan interrupted Old Wu's words and asked, "What are you talking about? Which journal? I've been in deep meditation for the past half month, I don't have that..."

"There's a junior who wrote an incredible paper! It's called 'Human Dao Mathematics Model'! You are into probability, you must check it out!"

"Wait, junior?" Xiao Zhongchuan immediately felt something was off, "Are you talking about a junior named... 'Wang Qi'?"

"Yes." Old Wu's tone had a hint of admiration: "An impressive junior. It's only been about five or six years since he entered the Dao, and he's already accomplished such a great feat..."

Five or six years...

Xiao Zhongchuan, not much of a follower of sect activities or a fan of mentoring, took quite a while to recall Wang Qi.

"The Law of Logical Completeness, the Big Number Law..."

Xiao Zhongchuan didn't know that during the few days of his meditative seclusion, many Grandmasters of the Wanfa Sect had been discussing this matter.

For strategists like Old Wu and those delving into probability and logic... elevating Yitian Calculation to a higher extent wasn't like Wang Qi's achievements from a couple of years ago, which were groundbreaking and innovative, but his recent works excelled in practicality. Accompanying this theory were numerous models with actual practical significance...

The morning sun was slowly rising.

Sunlight spread over the mountains of Tianling Ridge. This place, closer to nature than Wanfa Sect, had a high vegetation coverage. The sunlight incorporated into the plants' "system." Countless plants accelerated the efficiency of energy and material exchange with the external environment. A surge of negative entropy enlivened the entire mountain range.

Compared to the spirited discussions at Wanfa Sect, in a Council Hall of Tianling Ridge, the emotions of a group of Tianling Ridge Grandmasters were extremely complex.

The host, the Mountain Master of Spirit Beast Mountain, looked around and said, "This session's Dao Seed Award seems to be a decision among Chen Feng, Wang Qi, and Xue Bufan from Ancient Spirit Cliff."

The Cliff Master of Ancient Spirit Cliff remarked immediately, "Doesn't Xue Bufan's discovery have decisive significance? Analyzing the Cultivation Technique from the Primordial Sea God Civilization based on fossils! You all know how much patience and effort it takes to deduce from fossils, don't you?"

Ancient Spirit Cliff investigated ancient Life Beings and explored the path of Heavenly Selection.

The Mountain Master of Spirit Beast Mountain agreed, "This is a big step in our analysis of Alien Clan civilizations. Moreover, it holds great significance towards the 'Great Task' beyond the 'Immortal Path.'"

"Great significance? From what I know, under the Great Dao, 'Alien People' are common, whereas, 'Sea God' species are rare." At this time, the Master of Jiyin Valley offered a dissenting view.

"So by your logic, should the Dao Seed Award go to Chen Feng and his companions?"

"No, I was just stating a point from a usability perspective..."

Before the Master of Jiyin Valley finished, the Master of Ten Thousand Wood Valley interjected, "But praising Chen Feng's part of proving that Human Dao is the path of Life Beings, well that's one thing; what Wang Qi did, does it represent the path of Life Beings?"

Does it represent the path of Life Beings?

This question caused discomfort among many Tianling Ridge Grandmasters. Due to Life Path's low dependence on mathematics, most Grandmasters present were unable to comprehend the Xiangyu Calculation.

That is, Wang Qi's paper presented them with an embarrassing problem — these Grandmasters, in reality, couldn't understand the derivation process Wang Qi used.

Furthermore, when Wang Qi dealt with issues like Divine Power, he used the system of Heavenly Material Circulation.

This was also one of the reasons many Grandmasters were leaning towards Xue Bufan, the true disciple of Ancient Spirit Cliff.

However, a Grandmaster from Microscopic Inn loudly objected, "Chen Feng's achievement is like a large framework, a new law gate, which might branch out at Tianling Ridge in time. Such achievements, if not awarded the Dao Seed Award, where would the honor of the Dao Seed Award stand?"

Just as the debate became heated, a soft cough echoed throughout the room.

The group of Great Grandmasters then remembered; there were several more authoritative Carefree Practitioners present.

Jiyin Valley, the Twin Spires of Spiral. Yangshen Pavilion, Soul Origin. And at the center—Heavenly Selection God Monarch, Darwin.