Today, six thousand words are presented.
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When Xiang Qi found Wang Qi, she was startled. She had followed her location magic artifact and found Wang Qi wandering aimlessly on the street with a vacant gaze!
"You... Have your Primordial Qi been drained?"
It took Wang Qi a second or two to come around. He slowly turned towards Xiang Qi and smiled, "Senior Sister, your comment is almost entirely out of line."
"Ah?" Xiang Qi was puzzled.
In Shenzhou, evil techniques that absorbed another's Essence Qi True Origin were not uncommon. Thus, to cultivators' ears in Shenzhou, what Xiang Qi had just said didn't carry any ambiguity.
Such evil techniques were not widely spread, and Xiang Qi had merely asked casually. Zhen Chan quickly narrated the events that had occurred in the White Horse Tea House to Wang Qi.
With a strange expression, the young girl said, "You actually played the Indeterminate Card with a Wanfa Sect disciple who specializes in Bai Ze's Algorithm? And the opponent was a Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator?"
Wang Qi nodded dumbly, "Yeah, yeah."
Zhen Chan added, "And he refused to admit defeat."
Xiang Qi shook her head and decided to ignore this issue, "Monster... Seeing how exhausted you are has changed my mind, let's get you some rest. Tomorrow I'll take you to report in."
Saying so, the young girl summoned her magic artifact and, supporting the unsteady Wang Qi, headed towards the Immortal Alliance Inn.
In the middle of the night. Immortal Alliance Inn.
Wang Qi lay in bed, his breathing steady, apparently fast asleep. Yet his Spiritual Sense quietly reached out to the ring, "Old man, old man. Is anyone still watching us here?"
Zhen Chan said, "At least I don't feel anyone."
"Ha!" Wang Qi flung off the quilt covering him and leaped out of bed, "Finally, I can do some shady things!"
Saying so, he picked up clothes from near the window and drew two stacks of paper from inside.
One stack was the manuscript of Daoist of Uncertainty, Hai Senbao. The other stack was white paper he had only purchased today. Wang Qi also took out a piece of ink, an inkstone, and a pen. These were also purchased today.
"These things are really cheap though," Wang Qi ground the ink and sighed, "Buying the whole set only takes one hundredth of a stone of Spiritual Energy."
The stone is a universal unit for measuring Spiritual Energy, equivalent to the average content of Spiritual Energy in hundreds of millions of low-level Spirit Stones.
One hundredth of a stone is considered the lowest standard of consumption in Immortal City. Although in laboratories a unit of Spiritual Energy similar to the Planck Constant can be measured, the kind of POS machine and credit card-like portable spirit pool doesn't need that precision; one hundredth of a stone is the maximum precision for a portable spirit pool.
"Mortal things hardly intersect with cultivators. Even when there is indeed a need for mortal objects, Cultivators earn silver much easier than mortals by a hundredfold. And objects like Spirit Stones are entirely unusable for mortals, thus since ancient times, the Immortal Dao and the Mortal World have not shared currency," Zhen Chan explained, "It's already good that a place like Xinyue sells ordinary paper and ink."
Wang Qi suddenly laughed, "Right, old man, didn't you used to have a title as 'Luotian Master'? Sounds pretty awesome, commanding and majestic."
Zhen Chan replied irritably, "What use is the glory of ten thousand years ago when today I'm just a card in a game?"
In the bestiary borrowed by Su Junyu for Wang Qi, several famous cultivators from the Luofu Xuanqing Palace and most of their spells were made into cards in the expansion pack "Supreme Heaven Net."
"So, according to that what's-its-name Lu Renjia weighted algorithm, what's your rank?" asked Wang Qi.
Zhen Chan calculated carefully, "This algorithm should not look at what spells you can use, but rather what spells you can use in combat. In my prime... between six to eight. If only considering prime condition, the 'Da Luo Chaos Heaven Scripture' in combination with various spells could possibly reach ten."
Wang Qi shook his head, "The theoretical limit for the Mahayana Realm is just ten points in weighting. You know, the higher a cultivator's cultivation, the higher their weighting."
As a cultivator's cultivation level increases, their mana becomes stronger, and the spells they can utilize become more mysterious. In addition, a cultivator's cultivation is linked to their lifespan; the longer they live, the more time they have for sword practice and cultivation, and the richer their combat experience.
"This is already rare achievement. A lot of the Ancient Method Skills actually deduct weight in this algorithm," Zhen Chan said, a bit annoyed.
"Mysterious Uncertainty Cloud Sword, Double Rotation Strange Force, Great Phase Wave Hand, Great Square Sky Map, Heavenly Sword – each of these alone is a peak technique or Combat Heavy Weapon with a weight of ten. Bu Rong Electric Sword, Binary Electric Vortex Force, Unpredictable Body Technique, and the Heavenly Order Sword Disc of the Seven Circulations alone are also worth nine."
Zhen Chan sighed, "To this day, I find it hard to believe..."
After a while, Wang Qi finished grinding the ink, "All right, old man, quiet for a bit. I'm starting."
With that, Wang Qi began writing rapidly on the blank sheets of paper.
Zhen Chan couldn't help but ask, "What's with these strange operators again? Back in Dabai Village, I've been wanting to ask, where exactly did you learn this?"
The question was truly difficult to answer, so Wang Qi simply pretended to be fully immersed in deciphering and didn't hear the question.
The Daoist of Uncertainty's manuscript featured symbols unique to Shenzhou, which gradually were completely converted into the universal symbols known on Earth.
Gradually, Wang Qi found himself in front of a string of familiar equations.
"This symbol has always been there... it should be a constant, and this one too..."
"One must be the Planck Constant, but what's the other?"
"The data in this part of the manuscript is insufficient... Well, that makes sense since Old Hai has always been wanted and probably dared not perform experiments openly."
"Data insufficient, I can't conduct a black-body radiation experiment right now and confirm the value of the Planck constant of this world."
"Another constant... wait, this symbol usually appears alongside three other formulas."
"These three formulas are used quite frequently, but I've never seen them before. Could they be unique to this world?"
As the analysis progressed, Wang Qi began to chew on his pen.
The three formulas were obscure, yet so frequently used; they posed a challenge for the analysis.
"Let's not think about what they represent for a moment; if I purely use mathematical methods to parse it..."
Wang Qi set aside the copied manuscript and grabbed a few fresh sheets of paper to start his calculations.
Because of his transmigration, Wang Qi's soul was much stronger than that of an average person. And as a former student with double majors in mathematics and physics, Wang Qi had powerful advanced computational methods at his disposal. Yet even for him, this task took an entire hour.
"These three formulas are equivalent..."
"Then these three can be uniformly replaced with a certain symbol."
After integrating "formulas of unknown significance to Wang Qi" and "constants of unknown significance to Wang Qi" with familiar formulas...
"Right, matrix mechanics are needed here."
The simplified equations invigorated Wang Qi, though he also began to inwardly complain.
Matrix mechanics are notoriously perverse and complicated, loathed by every scholar of quantum physics.
"Matrix mechanics are equivalent to wave mechanics... no, with so many missing conditions and new unknowns introduced, it's reckless to transform them hastily..."
Chewing his pen, Wang Qi pondered, "And Old Hai's absolute skill is the Unpredictable Body Technique, which is said to make it impossible to determine his speed and distance at the same time. This undoubtedly integrates the uncertainty principle into the movement technique. The Schrodinger wave function doesn't intuitively express this..."
What to do?
What to do?
Wang Qi glanced at the sky, feeling time was especially tight.
"The advantage of matrix mechanics lies in the description of discrete spectral lines, handling that mass of data... But there's not much data here..."
Suddenly, a spark of inspiration: "Right, Dirac's algorithm! Use the Poisson Bracket to simplify it. If the core here truly is the uncertainty principle, the non-commutatively of the Poisson Bracket should equally apply! This will greatly reduce the computations!"
Zhen Chan had already entered meditation within the ring. To him, these incomprehensible equations were undoubtedly torture!
Finally, before dawn, Wang Qi completed his calculations!
Wiping sweat with a casually grabbed piece of paper, Wang Qi then carefully grouped the initial manuscript, the draft papers, and the remaining pen, ink, paper, and inkstone before carefully rolling up a fireball. He tightly enveloped the flames with mana, ensuring the fire didn't go out while preventing any damage to the room.
After finishing all this, he couldn't help but burst into loud laughter: "Wahahahaha! From now on, I can play however I want!"
Zhen Chan woke up with a start, demanding, "What madness has gotten into you!"
Wang Qi laughed heartily, "Guess, what was on Old Hai's manuscript?"
Zhen Chan grew curious, "Did you figure something out?"
"At least it contains the Mysterious Uncertainty Cloud Sword and the Unpredictable Body Technique. If I can supplement it with experimental data, I might even be able to parse the refining method for the Great Square Sky Map!"
"Moreover, since the Mysterious Palace descends from the same lineage, it's also possible to comprehend the Indeterminate Electric Sword and the Double Rotation Electric Force!"
Old Hai is truly generous! This manuscript, still over twenty pages thick after significant simplification, hints at the secrets of integrating theories such as the uncertainty principle, the probability cloud, and matrix mechanics into cultivation practices!
Zhen Chan initially wanted to laugh twice to show skepticism, but Wang Qi's tone was very certain. His voice was a bit raspy, "You... have you already learned it?"
Wang Qi's expression unchanging, he answered decisively, "No."
Zhen Chan hesitated, "Then you know how to practice it?"
"Also no?"
Zhen Chan snapped angrily, "Are you playing with me?"
Wang Qi spread his hands, "You can't master swordsmanship without the core principles! The mental method complementing it, the swordsmanship techniques at the entrance level of the Mysterious Palace, these are all the foundation of these skills."
"So you're saying, you might only learn these in the future?"
Wang Qi shook his head, "Not might, definitely will—but these laws are too advanced; it's impossible for me to master them in one go."
After finishing, he stretched languidly and pushed open the window. The slightly cool morning breeze mixed with the faint morning light rushed towards Wang Qi.
The youth spoke softly, "Now, I'm even more looking forward to the Immortal Alliance."