Exploring Immortality Cultivation

This time when Wang Qi emerged from the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm, his expression was far from content.

"Having great divine power but being unable to use it." Wang Qi shook his head, "This is truly a tragedy."

The saying "you reap what you sow" is not absolute, just like agricultural technology, which exists to turn one part effort into ten parts yield. However, to achieve such an effect, it necessitates that a sage with great wisdom and perseverance dedicate themselves to agriculture, conducting research over decades, or spending large amounts of manpower and resources to search the wild for species with advantageous genes for crossbreeding. Casually pulling a new variety of super hybrid rice from the yard is something not even Malfurion Stormrage could manage.

Among the Life Flame holders Wang Qi had encountered, Ai Qinglan and Chen Feng had both grasped the essence of "What is the Origin of Life" and the principle of negative entropy belonging to life, accumulating insights from numerous empirical studies before they could kindle the Life Flame. This step was suitable only for a biology deity, difficult but indeed the most reliable. The Life Flame they sporadically displayed, they could naturally control with ease, producing all sorts of divine anomalies.

Whereas the method from the Heavenly Calculation Atlas permitted natural evolution, even merely sitting at the doorstep held a certain chance of bizarrely producing divine skills. In battle against those high-entropy demon items, Wang Qi, relying on intuitive experience and a bit of accident, also struggled to ignite the Life Flame—but the fact that he was still unaware of this showed his lack of understanding of his own divine skills, let alone controlling them.

This situation could have continued for a long time. But when Wang Qi accidentally obtained the genuine Life Flame from a memory body, he completely lost control of it. Besides gaining a body that couldn't die, most applications were temporarily unusable, including his original spells for animating puppet demon soldiers and becoming a one-man army. Even Feng Luoyi could only suggest a temporary seal.

If he could master the Life Flame now, combined with the Mysterious Uncertainty Cloud Sword… Unlimited health, unlimited mana, unlimited energy, high output, and a certain chance of instant death, in a fighting game this would be considered not just divine but god-tier! Even with the Modern Method of Core Formation and Ancient Method Nascent Soul, he was confident in defeating them!

Aside from divine skills, his thesis was also proving quite troublesome.

Initially, to catch the murderer, he had incorporated numerous complex algorithms into his model, many of which were still shadowless in Shenzhou. Among these, the strong law of numbers was "researched" with Chebyshev and Feng Luoyi, and the contents that followed could only be considered "conjectures."

Using assumptions in mathematical calculations as mature tools was like mining for copper with raw iron ore, which was very unwise. With that, Feng Luoyi had severely reprimanded Wang Qi. If it wasn't for the consideration that Wang Qi had produced results, that carefree individual might have considered giving up on this worthless wood.

But since Wang Qi had made achievements, things were different. Feng Luoyi was now urging Wang Qi to either quickly prove all his mathematical tools or replace them with those already empirically proven. From Feng Luoyi's attitude, it seemed he wanted Wang Qi to also secure the Dao Seed Award.

The Dao Seed Award, a ceremony held at Tianling Ridge akin to the Dao Artifact Award, was specifically for young cultivators and occurred every decade, though it was staggered from the Dao Artifact Award, with several years until the next one.

It is worth mentioning that the last recipient of the Dao Seed Award was Wang Qi's acquaintance, Ai Qinglan, who had just begun to make her mark at Tianling Ridge. This couldn't help but make one reflect that in the field of scientific research, emotional intelligence really wasn't important at all.

Another formidable task.

After Wang Qi had resolved his inner barriers, his interest in this kind of work had dwindled considerably. He was no longer too afraid to reveal a bit of something different from that of Shenzhou in his calculations. In the past, even the White Marsh Divine Monarch had a similar habit of not caring much about proving mathematics itself; and the Mathematics Lord's advocated "intuition" for a holistic grasp of mathematics was also a good justification.

If it weren't for his recent slight interest in behavioral studies, and considering that strengthening the Immortal Alliance could also benefit his own pursuit of Dao, Wang Qi really might have refused this task—after all, proofs could be left to seniors. I think Senior Che is quite interested.

Discovering new things is always better than copying books.

For the moment, Wang Qi pushed aside his thoughts on divine skills and his thesis.

Recently, I needed to suppress my cultivation, and my physical condition wasn't suitable for theoretical research, so focusing on technology, especially the methods of cultivation and combat skills, seemed better.

Then, what should I do...

Also, what exactly is causing trouble in the West Sea?

Considering the obscured Xuanxing Temple, it's mostly likely an extraterrestrial civilization. Even the weakest cosmic civilization shouldn't be fighting to the death with a mere planetary civilization... That brings me back to my point, is the Immortal Alliance truly a planetary-level civilization? Given the ease of opening black boxes according to the physical laws here, the vast starry sea isn't really implausible... But is the starry sea something that needs to be concealed?

Wang Qi looked down at the ground for a while, pondering which technology to work on, then looked up at the sky, imagining scenes of cosmic civilizations, and before he knew it, he had reached Chen Feng's courtyard. He headed straight for his own room but felt someone tugging at his sleeve.

Wang Qi looked up and saw Chen Youjia standing in front of him. He immediately jumped back like a startled bird, "Junior Sister..."

Chen Youjia stretched out her fair hand towards Wang Qi, "Today's snacks, hand them over."

Wang Qi's face changed completely, "Are you kidding me, Junior Sister! I paid for the morning tea today..."

"We agreed that I could eat what I want for ten years."

"It's supposed to be one meal a day!" Wang Qi covered his storage bag and stepped back three steps. "Besides, you originally said one year, I just blurted out ten years."

"A word once spoken is past recalling."

Seeing Chen Youjia's serious face, Wang Qi immediately regretted his decision. There was a break between the economy of the Immortal Dao and the mortal world; his spirit pool was filled with abundant spiritual energy, and he had enough merit, but he scarcely had any silver or gold coins. The little silver coins he had were saved up from the Immortal Alliance's monthly allowance of ten silver coins.

Although cultivators don't use money much, having no conventional currency at all was inconvenient when going out.

Watching the pair bickering in the courtyard, Li Zhengguo, the Chief Clerk of the Empirical Department—who was arranging empirical data with Chen Feng—couldn't help but sigh, "The Human Clan is after all convenient; we don't have to wait for spring."

"Old Li, you are also from the Human Clan, and now is actually a good time." Chen Feng looked at the courtyard with a strange smile, "Two Wanfa... Look at them, both so naive, just like fledglings."

Li Zhengguo, a bit embarrassed, steered away from the sensitive topic, "Boss, aren't we rather busy right now?"

"That's true. Alright, let's forget them and check on the 'mouse', these two will keep arguing for a while."

The movement inside the house ceased. As Wang Qi and Chen Youjia's haggling drew to a close. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you are welcome to vote for it at qidian.com and your support means the world to me. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)