Big Data Cultivation-Chapter 2054 - 2056: Too Many Poor People

Feng Jun spoke sincerely, and Master Qingya blushed a little, laughing as she replied, "Just joking."

Feng Jun didn’t feel it was a joke at all. He forced a smile, "I really have been... keeping myself quite clean."

These words were somewhat reluctant, but he truly believed it. Although his private life was a bit... well, questionable, there were many people he could have approached, yet he hadn’t, such as Shangguan Yunjin, Huang Fu Flawless, Yan Yuxi, Kong Ziyi...

He felt the need to emphasize, "The spirit vein hasn’t been properly guided. As for the Golden Core leyline, they are not far apart and are easily influenced by each other. Of course, you can coordinate with each other, but shouldn’t you nurture it a bit before forming the core?"

Logically, once he deduced the conclusion, that should have been enough; what does it matter to him when others form their core? 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

It seemed the other party still hoped for his presence; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in such a rush.

Sure enough, Master Buzui spoke, "Forming the core at White Pebble Beach is certain, but it won’t be rushed. We mainly want to understand Mountain Master Feng’s schedule going forward."

"As for my upcoming schedule, I’m not very sure about it either," Feng Jun could only smile bitterly, "I still have to make another trip to the Tianqin Plane, and when I’ll return is anyone’s guess."

Master Qingya and Master Buzui both asked, "Going to Tianqin again... for what?"

Upon hearing this, Feng Jun understood a bit; these two came to inquire about Nascent Soul deducing? He could only smile bitterly, "Well... don’t put me on the spot. I’m already busy enough."

It seems the rumors were indeed true... The two exchanged a glance, and Master Qingya spoke, "Mainly, Sidaotai asked us to see if Mountain Master Feng can help deduce Nascent Soul."

Sidaotai, also known as the Four Symbols Platform, is one with the fewest people among the Wutai, rarely participating in the various actions of the other four platforms. Yet, it is the one that cannot be ignored among Wutai.

Their cultivation methods are distinctive, each taking the route of ’qin, chess, books, and painting.’ Because of this, they are named either the Four Ways or the Four Symbols. Some even jokingly referred to them as the ’Four Arts’ platform, until they attracted interference from the Tianqin Plane.

The Tianqin Plane believes that qin, chess, books, and painting are not arts, but paths to enlightenment. Once a cultivator from Sidaotai forms a Nascent Soul, corresponding forces from the Eighteen Paths of qin, chess, books, and painting await their reception.

Not every path among the Eighteen Paths has equal strength; the qin, chess, books, and painting paths have strong power, equivalent to the four paths existing simultaneously with the Seven Gates. Additional fourteen paths were later supplemented to make it the Eighteen Paths.

Among the Four Paths, the esteem for the Qin Path surpasses even the Seven Gates.

No further explanation needed; just consider the term ’Tianqin Plane,’ and one can understand the weight of the Qin Path.

However, the Four Paths have only a few people in the Tianqin Plane and are detached from other cultivators, generally having little impact on the overall situation.

Therefore, at Feng Jun’s core formation ceremony, no one from Sidaotai attended, and no one found this odd.

Now they have inquiries, and they can easily direct Masters from the Wuyou and Heavenly Heart Platforms to act. The Tianxin Platform even sent its controller.

Feng Jun felt Sidaotai was a bit arrogant and was somewhat displeased but didn’t take it seriously. He simply stated, "If they have questions, they can come themselves... There’s nothing I can comment on without meeting them, like Qinggang’s Feng Yishu, whom I couldn’t deduce."

Master Qingya smiled slightly, "They didn’t attend the core formation ceremony, and entering White Pebble Beach now might seem presumptuous?"

"I welcome all friendly Daoists," Feng Jun replied with a smile, "As one of the Wutai, I cannot exclude Sidaotai as long as they follow the rules of White Pebble Beach."

Two days later, Feng Jun began helping Master Guyue and Xia Nichang deduce their Nascent Soul.

Master Guyue’s foundation for Nascent Soul was at eighteen percent, not even reaching twenty percent, despite adjusting recently. It ultimately boils down to age.

However, after Feng Jun’s matching, it was calculated that if Master Guyue used various precious medicines to refine the body and began forming Nascent Soul in three years, while preparing more Heaven and Earth Treasures, the chance of Nascent Soul would reach fifty-nine percent.

This efficiency improvement was truly terrifying. Yet, Master Guyue’s face showed no joy, instead turning as black as the bottom of a pot, "Forget it, the Golden Core is good enough. These treasures alone are worth at least two hundred thousand mid-grade spirit stones... where am I supposed to borrow these spirit stones?"

Feng Jun spread his hands helplessly, "Sorry, I can only help with the deduction; beyond that, I’m powerless."

In reality, gathering resources, selling treasures, along with spirit stone mines in the Earth Realm, he could easily help two or three like Master Guyue. Without such capability, he wouldn’t even consider guiding spirit veins.

But the issue is: why should he? This is different from helping Mei Yeyu,

Mei Yeyu only needed some treasures to repair the life-bound flying sword. Once repaired, that’s it. As for whether she can form the core afterward, Feng Jun doesn’t care much—at worst, the spirit stones lent turned into water, which wasn’t much in the first place.

But Master Guyue is forming a Nascent Soul. Although natural aptitude is crucial, resources are equally important. Even an average Golden Core Peak, with enough resources, can easily have a thirty to forty percent chance of forming a Nascent Soul.

Thus, forming a Nascent Soul truly requires consideration of cost-effectiveness; the more resources, the higher the chance. But as resources pile on, the rate of increase pales in comparison to the investment.

Especially with Feng Jun emerging as such an anomaly at White Pebble Beach, ensuring resources aren’t wasted, it’s conceivable that anyone attempting formation in the future will be deeply troubled by issues of resource and probability.

In fact, Master Moran has already shown signs of this, struggling to accept the increase from 79% to 81%. He is currently considering stopping at 80% – which is actually quite high.

In essence, raising the probability by another percent requires resources that really make one’s heart ache.

In such a situation, how could Feng Jun possibly step in to help? The human heart is insatiable. If one could borrow enough Spirit Stones, who wouldn’t want to raise the probability of formation to the optimum?

Especially unfortunate is that Mountain Master Feng is the main proponent of formation deduction, who knows how many similar situations he will encounter in the future. If he couldn’t resist helping, it would purely invite trouble for himself.

Therefore, he made up his mind absolutely not to heed Gu Yue’s request, a deducer is just a deducer, not a philanthropist.

People who are both competitors and judges usually end up very badly.

Feng Jun believes that Master Guyue is actually quite fortunate because he has laid a solid foundation and his cultivation technique is quite orthodox. So even with a very low initial probability, using resources to improve is quite rapid, managing to soar to 59%.

However, to increase the probability by 41%, how could it be possible without significant expenditure?

Master Guyue, with a troubled face, made another request, "How about this, set the formation probability at 50% and choose the cheapest combination of treasures, what do you think?"

He doesn’t want to lower the probability of formation, but now he truly has no choice. Failing formation can be deadly, but incurring a massive debt is also not a 100% guarantee of success – in fact, it can only raise it by another 9% points.

So he decided, in that case, setting it at 50% should be sufficient to take a gamble.

Upon hearing this, Feng Jun shook his head slightly and sighed inwardly, deciding that he should earn more Spirit Stones in the future.

Just then, True Immortal Yi Jue cleared her throat lightly – she hailed from the Taixu Sect, and though she didn’t participate in the deduction, observing Feng Jun’s deduction and listening to his matching of treasures, there were quite a few insights to glean.

She suggested, "Deduce it at 51%, if the odds are 50-50, the person undergoing formation lacks a psychological advantage, which is detrimental to formation."

Feng Jun nodded, "That is reasonable," and began the deduction.

With this deduction, many treasures were reduced, cutting the value by half.

Strictly speaking, the later increase of eight points, while valuable, did not reach half the treasure’s value. The key was that once the upper limit was lowered, Feng Jun could substitute with relatively inexpensive treasures, significantly reducing the overall value.

Master Guyue was stunned for a long time before he spoke, "I didn’t realize it could be reduced so much... but it still costs 100,000 medium Spirits, let’s try reducing it by one more point, I have a strong mentality, 50-50 is fine."

Feng Jun rolled his eyes, "It can’t be reduced by much more, your initial conditioning takes up a substantial portion of the cost."

However, Gu Yue was insistent, continually asking him to reduce it by another point.

Feng Jun deduced once more, frowning, "All in all, it can’t save more than 8,000 medium Spirits, are you really short of that?"

"Even that’s not a small amount, is it?" Gu Yue chuckled bitterly, shaking his head, "After formation, I still have to transcend tribulation. I really don’t have that many Spirit Stones, aside from exchanging my own treasures for others, I would also need to mortgage some to borrow Spirits for purchasing."

Seeing him speak so pitifully, Feng Jun’s eyes turned as he spoke, "How about I point you towards a way?"

"Go ahead!" Gu Yue responded without hesitation.

After listening to Feng Jun, he took his leave, and True Immortal Yi Jue couldn’t help but comment, "Mountain Master Feng, you have quite a few ideas; how did you come up with such an operation?"

"Just an obsession, having deduced to 59%, I naturally don’t want him to just wager on a 50% chance," Feng Jun sighed pensively, "Having known Gu Yue for a while, giving him a hand is also a reasonable way to vitalize resources."

True Immortal Yi Jue nodded, feeling deeply touched as well, "When I formed, I didn’t think much and just made it through, but in retrospect, looking at other people’s formations, especially Gu Yue’s choices, there really are a lot of reflections, cultivation is not easy."

Feng Jun said wistfully, "That’s why my sect emphasizes the four factors of cultivation: ’wealth, companions, method, and location’, and wealth comes first."

True Immortal Yi Jue smiled gently, "We say it’s ’method, companions, wealth, and location’.

Meanwhile, Gu Yue found Master Yuan, "Elder Yuan, I need your help with something..."

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