Exploring Immortality Cultivation
Chapter 439 - 192: Harvest, New Problems

Space-time is not as smooth and straight as most people imagine it to be. It is filled with curves, folds, and creases, which go unnoticed due to their scale. Most of the time, the three-dimensional geometry constructed using Euclid's axioms is sufficient to understand this space. However, this is always just an approximation.

And yet, the Wanfa Sect possesses a series of spells that change the space-time metric, allowing one to transcend the twists and turns of space-time with a three-dimensional body. But to achieve this, one must be able to calculate the true face of space-time.

This is the secret of high-dimensional swordsmanship.

Wang Qi practiced his swordsmanship several times, positioning his swordsmanship at a fourth-dimensional level, with fifth-dimensional sword moves serving as killing moves. Apart from a few absolute skills like the No Mistake Sword Net, he had converted all his sword moves into high-dimensional swordsmanship.

As long as one masters the transformation formula, this is not difficult at all.

Now, in terms of swordsmanship alone, he could easily overpower any Ancient Method Practitioner.

Soon, Wang Qi set aside swordsmanship itself and began to ponder other Taiyu Skills, specifically space-based spells.

However, these were not something that could be mastered in a short time. Wang Qi could only derive a bit of movement technique from his swordsmanship, which allowed him to move a few steps occasionally—essentially a simplified version of Shrinking Ground to Inches.

But it was another phenomenon triggered by this spell that piqued Wang Qi's interest.

"What's with the sudden increase of spiritual power around me?" Wang Qi suddenly remembered the first time he encountered Chen Youjia.

According to what Chen Youjia later said, she was practicing Xiangyu Travel while hurrying on her way. This Space Traversal Technique shared the same principle as high-dimensional swordsmanship but was even more exquisite. What impressed Wang Qi the most was the strong spirit pressure that hit him at that moment.

"Because the space-time metric change, the vacuum field changes, the stable field's quantum state presents self-adjustment..." Wang Qi took out a mechanical device from his storage bag, which he had purchased from the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion—the Flow Control Model Three.

The Flow Control Model Three mechanical butterfly had scales on its wings that were flat metal plates known as Casimir effect devices. The Casimir device could borrow energy from the Dirac Sea through the disparity in the density of virtual particles inside and outside the pair of metal plates. In Shenzhou, the Flow Control Model Three mechanical device borrowed the spiritual energy spontaneously generated from the stable ground state!

"Indeed, there's a similar sensation." Wang Qi examined the Flow Control Model Three device carefully and discovered that there was indeed a sensation similar to when he activated the Taiyu Skill near its wings.

The quantum field's ground state had changed, and thus the space-time metric changed along with it.

The difference is that the Wanfa Sect spells aim to alter the space-time metric for high-dimensional movement, so they cannot control the vacuum spiritual power that accompanies the spells; the Flow Control Model Three device, originating from the laws of the Mysterious Palace, was aimed at tapping into the power of the Infinite Sea of Vacuum, so it was not possible to exploit the accompanying changes in the space-time metric to execute transcendent combat skills.

"There should be a way to both extract vacuum spiritual energy and transcend the space-time metric..." Wang Qi speculated carefully on the spells of the two sects, then set them aside.

Now is not the right time to research new spells, with major threats looming. Moreover, the fact that the inheritor of the Mysterious Palace, Ran Yingwei, and the True Inheritor of Wanfa Sect, Chen Youjia, could each only master one indicates that these spells are indeed very challenging.

What followed was the testing of the two divine skills of Negative Entropy Force, Holy Light, and Holy Flame. Foundation Establishment involves building a new circulation, a new system within the body, which increases the complexity of one's life system and decreases one's entropy value—a sublimation of individual life from the perspective of the Life Path. Merely at the stage of Foundation Establishment, Wang Qi's total capacity of Holy Light and Holy Flame increased several fold. Taking the Soul Steel Armor as an example, Wang Qi could now control that armor for a full twenty minutes!

"I've moved another step closer to the indestructible cockroach-like body," Wang Qi sighed.

Even if Ai Qinglan's physical body were shattered, only the cells at the severed limb would truly die; there would be no cell damage in the rest of the body. Chen Feng might not have such an ability, but he was not far off. However, Wang Qi knew he still had a lot to practice to reach that realm.

Next to be tested were the electromagnetic spells that had been shelved for a long time. The vast majority of natural phenomena in the world result from electromagnetic interactions, and in the field of spells, Heavenly Song has an unparalleled subtle utility. Compared to the Qi Cultivation Stage, when he could only indiscriminately strengthen all the chemical bonds of an object, Wang Qi could now perform much more delicate operations. He could freely weaken the chemical bonds of a certain object, thereby reducing its strength. He could also attach a special electromagnetic field to his hand, shattering chemical bonds at specific points. This was cutting at the molecular level. Unless one could use mana to neutralize Wang Qi's electromagnetic spell power, no divine weapons or Body Refining Cultivators could withstand a bare-handed strike from him.

"I heard that in Burning Gold Valley and Thunder Pavilion, there are those who specialize in this technique, capable of shattering magic artifacts of the same realm with one punch, known as the 'Breaking Device Technique.' I should have some of that power too, right?"

Then came the tests for Elephant Phase Wave Skill and Heavenly Entropy Technique. Since the Material Wave Blade was too strong, whatever Wang Qi cut was with a single strike of his hand; there was no suitable target here, so he had to give up. But to his surprise, many of the intricate aspects of Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm had come naturally to him. This ultimate hand technique, which Wang Qi couldn't perform no matter how he tried during the Qi Cultivation Stage, was now within his grasp!

"My swordsmanship during the Foundation Establishment Stage is undoubtedly exceptional, with a positive weight of two to three," Wang Qi calculated in his mind. "Although Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm has only one move, it should start at at least a four. With Life Flame, step techniques, and the grade of the Kun Mountain Sword... adding up all these miscellaneous factors, my positive weight should be at least around seventeen."

An Early-Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator with a positive weight of seventeen indicates that he could at least challenge a Foundation Establishment Perfection Cultivator with a positive weight of fourteen, an Early-Stage Golden Core Cultivator with a positive weight of four, or... a Nascent Soul with zero positive weight!

Now, he was even stronger than Xiang Qi from two years ago!

"Most Ancient Method Practitioners have a negative weight, but considering that I've recently been encountering Ancient Method Practitioners with positive weights, I should treat all those Golden Core Cultivators as having around a positive weight of two... Priest Li's Divine Power is remarkable, actually the High Entropy Force, counting as a positive weight of four to five..."

One-on-one, Wang Qi feared no one from the Ancient Method Practitioner teams. Having Divine Skills like Holy Flame meant that if he couldn't win, he could at least escape. But if it were a siege, Wang Qi's chances would be slim.

Ancient Method Practitioners probably wouldn't be foolish enough to be defeated one by one.

"I'll discuss it with the old man later," Wang Qi thought. He always delegated such matters to Zhen Chan, focusing on what he was skilled at himself.

After sorting through what he had learned, Wang Qi opened the Seeking Dao Jade and tried a few times, only to find that he still couldn't enter the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm. He opened a notepad and recorded new issues encountered during cultivation.

The more he knew, the more he realized how much he didn't know.

"First, issues related to Space-Time Metrics and the Infinite Sea of Vacuum...; second, aspects of the Taiyu Skill, Xiangyu Traveling, and Hilbert Space... The third, Elephant Phase Wave Skill has reached a bottleneck in terms of power... I need to take time out to analyze why mana exhibits both particle and wave characteristics at macroscopic scales and explore their essence... Fifth..."

Wang Qi touched the card sealed with the Pseudo Personality at his waist and added another item: "The sixth point, during my struggle against the Demon Clan's will and the formation of the Pseudo Personality, it is apparent that for humans of the Human World across the three realms, consciousness appears to be more closely related to the brain. Anomalies in the soul do not have a significant impact on human cognition. This makes it even harder for me to understand the phenomenon of the Banished Immortals struggling with the Heavenly Barrier. All the experiments I've done so far prove that the difficulty Banished Immortals face in transcending the Heavenly Barrier is actually a fallacy, yet I have seen Banished Immortals stuck before reaching the Primordial Spirit... Could it be related to Qujianji?"

"Note: Prepare experiments, persuade Chen Feng to share Qujianji with some Banished Immortals for observation."

"Seventh, my consciousness underwent some changes when using the Yin Yang Yao condensed from the Soul Origin... Explore the connection between the soul and volition..."

"Note, my feelings at the time are as follows..." (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, please come to qidian.com to cast your vote for recommendation and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read on m.qidian.com.)

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