Exploring Immortality Cultivation

The Heart Demon Curse, insidiously pervasive, could spread unnoticed throughout the world. But frankly, this magic spell merely transformed the soul by eliminating the "uncertainty" within the soul's calculus. In the early stages of being cursed, there were some laws that one could apply by sacrificing certain parts of the soul to break free, and there was a slim chance of demolishing the illusion through sheer will and wisdom. Ultimately, mortals primarily rely on their brains to think; even if affected by the spell, they wouldn't lose their self-awareness but would merely be influenced.

In contrast, the Divine Plague Curse Law is the complete opposite. It resembles a computer virus more than a curse. Without the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm as its medium of transmission, it is simply a special type of curse spell. Unless the cursed individual engages in a divine union or integrates spirit and flesh with others, it is difficult for the curse to spread. But, it is absolutely insoluble—for a computer hard drive, you could delete or format, but can you do the same to a human brain? You certainly can't retrieve and delete a specific piece of code from consciousness. Moreover, unlike the Heart Demon Curse, it is unstable and can easily mutate into stronger versions and might even interfere with a person's physical body and mana.

The Heart Demon Curse is like a worm virus, replicating and spreading endlessly, whereas the Divine Plague is the Trojan hidden within the worm, forcibly creating backdoors in the victims.

This thing is not just wildly insane; it is the n-th power of wildly insane! If let loose, this planet would never see the rise of intelligent life again. This is the "glass smelting" the Greenpeace version.

However, technology is always a double-edged sword. On Earth, internal combustion engines and electricity sparked the second Industrial Revolution, turning warfare from a flesh and blood confrontation to one of iron and steel; nuclear power gave humanity the potential to reach the stars, but also the power to annihilate itself.

Since the Heart Demon Curse can alter human souls and eliminate uncertainties within them, the transformed parts become very stable. In such stable souls, the Divine Plague Curse Law struggles to mutate. If one were to remove the capability of the Heart Demon Curse that eliminates ideological divergences and then create a non-aggressive Divine Plague Curse, restricting it to operate only within the transformed areas by the Heart Demon Curse…

This would be the Immortal Dao version of a "critical virus"—a marvel that boosts Iron Man from second to first tier combat effectiveness, promoted worldwide by Stark Industry, allowing everyone… everyone who can afford it to experience extraordinary powers.

By finding the Human Dao System and mastering its power, this power could then be solidified into everyone's body along with the Divine Plague Curse, implanting a method to control mana—heralding the true prospect of an Immortal Dao industrial revolution.

If the Divine Plague Curse Law is outstanding enough, Wang Qi even believed that the Divine Plague Curse Law implanted in everyone's soul could drive mana, cultivating according to certain laws. Then, combined with his external Magic Foundation and the planned artificial Golden Core, universal Immortal Cultivation would no longer be an unattainable dream.

Wang Qi had found the path to his utopia.

The first time Wang Qi implanted the Divine Plague Curse in those three vegetative people was a creation of his own making. Among them, one individual received a variant causing logic breakdown and consciousness computation collapse, similar to the "Millennium Bug"; another received a variant that continuously duplicated itself, using junk code to crowd out the soul, oppressing self-awareness. These two Divine Plague Curse Techniques were developments by Feng Luoyi. The third one developed by Wang Qi himself allowed him to freely manipulate another's Divine Plague Curse via spell, similar to remote control software like "Gray Pigeon."

Advanced computer languages appear cryptic, comprehensible only to a Transformation Demon type known as "Programmer"; however, whether it involves binary, which the lowest level of machine language deals with, or the logic underlying computer operations, it all falls within the domain of "mathematics". Most mathematicians could master this skill after basic training.

Unluckily, in his previous life, Wang Qi was incessantly entangled with pure mathematics due to theoretical physics, and in this life he had followed Godel's path to explore mathematical logic. In this area, he was an expert.

Except for a few spells from the Mysterious Palace, few laws aligned as closely with Wang Qi's current capability.

After implanting the Divine Plague Curse in the three vegetative individuals, Wang Qi waited a while. At this point, he could no longer use his own protected soul to probe the condition of these three. He equipped these three with brainwave monitors and soul fluctuation monitors to observe and record any changes.

The one afflicted with the junk-copying Divine Plague Curse showed symptoms first, seen shaking uncontrollably, bending erratically without any pattern. Just as Du Bin was about to remind him not to play lethally, Wang Qi suddenly stretched both hands out, placing them on the man's body. His left hand manipulated the Heavenly Entropy Technique, tossing all the Spirit Sense within this shell into chaos. Since the guy's self-awareness had long been extinguished, it wouldn't harm anyone. His right hand, meanwhile, channeled the Life Flame into the man, using the powerful Negative Entropy Force to replace the soul destroyed alongside by the Heavenly Entropy Technique.

All the "code" turned into gibberish due to the chaos of the Heavenly Entropy Technique, this meaningless gibberish was quickly forgotten by the vegetative person. Wang Qi glanced at the monitor and after a long while, seeing no change in the man's brain waves and soul, he ceased his Divine Skills and then implanted the Divine Plague Curse into this vegetative man again.

Soon, the vegetative brother reached his limit again. If Wang Qi had allowed the Divine Plague Curse to further deepen its erosion, the entire soul would have lost its biological properties and been refined into an existence similar to a calculator.

This person was only at the Foundation Establishment Stage, and even if Wang Qi turned his soul into a calculator, it would merely be of Heavy Artifact Level, and still with a virus, running super slow. He didn't think it worth damaging such a precious experimental material for such an item. This time, he took out another blank Memory Body, connected it to the soul of the vegetative person, and then copied the virus into his own USB flash drive. After repeating this process a few times, he finally gave up on tormenting the fellow.

Immediately afterward, he downloaded the Divine Plague Curse from the other two as well. After all this manipulation, he then said to Du Bin, "Today's research is complete, I will return in a day or two."

The vegetated people belonged to the Du Family, and naturally, Wang Qi could not take them away.

Hearing Wang Qi was finally ready to leave, Du Bin breathed a sigh of relief. Having Wang Qi, an outsider, stirring things up at his home was not ideal, and he had long hoped Wang Qi would leave behind a coin or a new Memory Body and then scram. However, being polite, he still offered to have Wang Qi stay for a meal.

But Wang Qi, who currently had a ten-year debt to Chen Youjia and had yet to pay back, had no time to dine with others. With the number of meals he and his junior sister had already had, he considered every dining opportunity precious and couldn't afford to waste time here.

Once out of Du Fu's place, Wang Qi inserted a few Divine Plague Curse Memory Bodies into a special calculator that could not connect to the network. This device was terribly unstable and connecting it directly to oneself was tantamount to suicide. To prevent the Divine Plague Curse from contaminating his own soul, Wang Qi didn't use Shenzhou's Illusion Projection but instead crafted a pixel screen from a whole piece of high-quality jade.

Initially, Chen Feng and Chen Youjia thought Wang Qi had gone mad not using the Illusion Projection and crafting such a low-resolution device. It was difficult to see even simple Operators, let alone human faces. However, it sufficed for Wang Qi to check the code line by line.

"Strangely, a lot of code has been added... If one-thousandth is added each run, then after two thousand runs, the amount of code would become 2.717 times the original, nearly triple. If a segment of code that could clear the redundant code were inserted... each run would have a one-thousandth chance of an error, so after a thousand runs, the records of unchanged code would only be a little over a third," Wang Qi shook his head. "Even using vegetative people who lack self-awareness, this is the best result. It seems the human heart system is really not suited for machine language."

No wonder, even the strategists of the Northern Country simply marveled at the power of this technology and then resolutely sealed it away.

Wang Qi also recalled his own use of the "Vague Theory" during the Martial Arts Examination at the Immortal Institute, a bluff he had played to deceive Bao Xiaoya in a moment of desperation. That thing was not particularly practical either, having only some market in the fields of artificial intelligence and systems theory. Nonetheless, if this theory could be perfected, it might also help against the Divine Plague Curse.

"Who would have thought I'd actually have to go back and study this..." Wang Qi shook his head, allocating just a single thread of thought to address this matter. He was determined that such troublesome matters were best left to the Bo Family or the Northern Country Sect.

"The Divine Plague Curse won't produce results in the short term, one thread will handle that."

"The technology of core coins is quite mature, and even if it were not, I have three perfect Dragon Clan coins in my body, equivalent to the Ancient Dragon Emperor having perfected this technology. As for Memory Bodies... by publicizing the function of 'Deduction Method', I could attract a large number of Foundation Establishment Cultivators to deduce together, gathering collective wisdom, so there's less need for concern."

"What's important now is only the preparation for controlling the Life Flame through theories of human studies, Divine Tao technology, Holy Light cultivation method... Several experiments can also be followed up by dedicated threads."

"And then... Then I should also find time to practice a few powerful Daoist Spells for direct confrontations? After all, I've already planned to visit the West Sea to complete the 'Red Dust Heart Refining trial.' The main parts of a few experiments will also be completed in about a year..."

"A year, huh... Then I should take time to practice a few more strong Daoist Spells for direct confrontations and escape techniques. The Dragon Clan Alliance is too mysterious to rely upon." (To be continued. If you like this book, you are welcome to vote for it at qidian.com, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)