Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 906 - 235: Wang Qi’s Ascent (Part 1)

Su Junyu walked unhurriedly towards his home. Due to some past events, the cultivators of the Wanfa Sect belonging to his household were already prepared. He was not worried that anything would happen at home.

"It's actually like this... self-reference?" Amidst the chaos of the Wanfa Sect, Su Junyu walked quietly on the street, alone. The cries, frantic shouts, and chaotic noises surrounded him. Yet all of this seemed unrelated to him. He stood out from the world, the carefree air of his past laughter and anger now transformed into a realm of transcendence.

"Self-reference..." He looked up at the starry sky that had illuminated the human clan for eighty thousand years, marveling at the spark of wisdom that traversed tens of thousands of years.

"This statement is false" - true? Or false?

This question had been raised tens of thousands of years ago. No one could resolve the dispute of true and false.

And when this "mysterious dispute" was truly dissected by sharp language, people realized that they had already approached the "cliff."

"Cognitive boundaries, finite barriers, and the infinite shore..."

At this moment, the calculator hanging from Su Junyu's belt trembled. He pressed the calculator with his right hand, his hand froze with that one motion. Then, he placed his hand in front of him, observing the shimmering blue light in his palm.

"Just by thinking about these issues, I feel that I've made some minor progress in my cultivation technique." Su Junyu pondered internally: "That kid Wang Qi, how strong has he become now?"

The foundation of the calculator is logic. Massive amounts of logical judgments build a colossal entity like the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm. "Incompleteness" and "undecidability" delineate the limits of logic.

Dataized cultivation methods are closely related to logic. The stronger the knowledge in this area, the smoother the cultivation.

How strong is Wang Qi now?

The calculator at his waist shook more urgently. Only then did Su Junyu realize that someone seemed to be looking for him. He pressed his hand on the calculator, activating its function. Instantly, Xiang Qi's anxious voice appeared in his mind: "Junyu?"

"It's you." For some reason, Su Junyu felt a warmth in his heart: "What's wrong?"

"You're still asking what's wrong?" Xiang Qi habitually shouted half a sentence, then her tone softened a bit: "Hey, how are you now?"

"Quite well. Eating well and sleeping soundly, even my mana has improved."

"Stop joking..." Xiang Qi's tone was serious: "The Wanfa Sect is in great turmoil now..."

"I know." Su Junyu calmly glanced around. Now, even the air within the Wanfa Sect seemed as fragile as colored glass, exploding at the slightest touch. The violent mana, dangerous aura, permeated everywhere.

Too many cultivators had their Dao hearts shaken, and fell into a low point.

Only then did Xiang Qi breathe a sigh of relief: "I heard there's a disruptive thesis... what kind of wicked thesis is it? This is definitely an evil technique, a destructive thing, right?"

"Why? At the Mysterious Palace of the Guiyi Alliance, this kind of transformation has happened countless times. Your Burning Gold Valley was involved in the preliminary stages, too..."

The creation of the Mysterious Path was initially conducted at the Burning Gold Valley.

"But! But! Whether it's the creation of the Mysterious Path or the birth of the Shape Comparison Technique, it's not just destructive to a group of people, it also comes with the promotion of many others, always with the positive outweighing the negative!" Xiang Qi grumbled: "But for you all, I haven't heard of any signs of mass promotion, whereas most Wanfa Sect disciples have had their Dao hearts shaken."

—Has this matter already spread so widely?

Su Junyu revealed a trace of a bitter smile, asking: "The analogy might not be quite apt. If you encountered a substance that can be described but cannot be recreated or synthesized—how would you feel?"

"How would I feel... Continue researching? Since that substance exists, research is the only way, right?"

The bitterness on Su Junyu's face deepened. The flavor of mathematical contemplation was too strong, besides summarizing interesting formulas from nature and the universe, it had nothing to do with empirical evidence.

At this point, Xiang Qi suddenly realized something and said: "Almost forgot. That kid Wang Qi is also from the Wanfa Sect... I'll go ask him how he's doing."

"That kid, you absolutely don't need to worry." Su Junyu whispered: "He might be the only person not harmed by this turmoil."

"Why?"

"'On

Volume One, Arithmetic Chapter, Formally Undecidable Statements and Related Systems', 'On Computable Numbers and Their Application in Decision Theorems'. That's the paper causing the turmoil." Su Junyu asked: "Guess who the author is?"

Su Junyu heard a very long pause, approximately the time it takes to burn an incense stick.

"It couldn't be... couldn't be Wang Qi, that kid?"

"You guessed it."

Then, there was a sound of various containers colliding.

After a while, Xiang Qi finally said: "It's him... a few years ago, when I dragged him out, he had just entered the Qi Cultivation Stage, he was... he still..."

"Yes, I couldn't imagine it either..."

The kid who was sitting by the campfire listening to his stories just a few years ago, is now about to ascend to the top of the Wanfa Sect?

Perhaps the only one who can reach the top amidst this chaos.

In the midst of the chaos within the Wanfa Sect, Su Junyu calmly chatted with Xiang Qi.

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After Wang Qi's consciousness exited the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm, the excitement receded like a tide. The tension after the excitement, and a slight sense of repression.

This is the underground chamber of the Langde Branch of the Immortal Alliance. In these recent days, Feng Luoyi has arranged for Wang Qi to stay here to avoid any possible turmoil in the Wanfa Sect.

"Hey, is one of the drawbacks of dataized cultivation method have to include internet addiction..." Wang Qi laughed to himself.

When he connected to the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm, his mind detached from the confined physical body and soul, entering a much broader data world. The volume of information he processed per second far exceeded what his physical body could handle now. It's a feeling that's hard to describe using normal language.

In the midst of intense contemplation, coupled with such an enhancement, the comfort is indeed unparalleled.

And when he exits the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm and the calculator, returning to his physical body, Wang Qi feels that the domain where his thoughts can roam is really too narrow!

With the help of Mi, his thoughts have already acquired some traits of the Sea God type. The accumulation of billions of years of evolution can no longer satisfy his racing thoughts.

Could it be that anyone who practices this cultivation method in the future must also practice Heavenly Song?

Suppressing the absurd notion in his mind, Wang Qi first sent a message to the brother and sister pair, Lian Xinling and Lian Xinjie, telling them not to come looking for him for the next three days.

He has more important matters to attend to.

According to Feng Luoyi, he must prepare for a lecture.

A lecture on incompleteness and undecidability.

This Dao talk actually isn't difficult to give. The two proofs are not difficult, but the breakthrough in thinking they require is huge.

In fact, as long as "self-reference" is explained clearly, ordinary mathematicians can understand it.

Of course, understanding is one thing, whether they can accept it is another.

For example, David Hilbert in Earth's history never accepted it till his death, simply ignoring Godel.

And whether one can accept it, and whether they understand the mathematical significance in it, is yet another matter.

To deliver this lecture well is not easy.

Moreover, the so-called "Dao lecture" allows for questions. This has been a rule since ancient times. By then, the cultivators who can log in will surely raise questions towards him. Among them, there will also be Carefree Practitioners. He must also face the critiques of countless people.

Wang Qi does not lack confidence in Godel's Incompleteness Theorems. It doesn't make sense that a "limit" which countless mathematicians on Earth couldn't break through for over a century, would suddenly become invalid in Shenzhou—unless the mathematical differences between the two universes are so vast that they are beyond mutual comprehension.

However, the Shenzhou cultivators have long life spans. What he faces are sharp questions from the geniuses and elites accumulated over multiple eras.

Being stumped by questions wouldn't mean that incompleteness is invalid. However, it would mean that Wang Qi himself gains less fame. This would indicate insufficient preparation and understanding of incompleteness. Not many cultivators would then proceed along the trajectory he has outlined.

Therefore, the lecture in three days must be perfect!

"Junior Brother..." Mi walked towards Wang Qi with her small feet, pat pada sound. Suddenly, due to some mishap, she tripped and fell face-first onto the ground with a smack.

Wang Qi stared stupidly at Mi for two seconds, then burst into hearty laughter: "Is this... could this be the legendary 'falling on flat ground'?"

Mi rubbed her nose in slight annoyance: "You humans have such peculiar physical bodies... it's the fault of you humans!"

Mi is currently in her physical form. As Wang Qi is soon leaving Shenzhou, she also has entered her prepared physical body. Now, if a high level cultivator were to scan Mi with spiritual senses, they would surely be astounded. Every acupoint and every cell of Mi's physical body radiates a spiritual glow, even more exaggerated than an awakened Banished Immortal—after all, Mi's essence of life is equivalent to that of an Immortal.

This kind of heaven-defying "talent" would definitely make any old monster of the Ancient Method fight over it.

However, Mi does not intend to use this spirituality; instead, she uses the entry-level mental method of Luochen Sword Palace, the Heart Locking Bright Mirror Dusting Method, to refine it, allowing this power to fall to its essence and blend with the ordinary.

As planned, after Wang Qi finishes the lecture, he will be leaving to the Far Sea, to stay away from the various consequences of the turmoil brought by the Wanfa Sect. Wang Qi will seize the time overseas to complete the subsequent work of the Forcing Method, and also organize the parts of Shenzhou's Mathematics Sect that coincide with the Bourbaki School, and establish his own system.

Wang Qi laughed and shook his head: "Senior Sister, do you have something to discuss now?"

"These past month or two, I've also been thinking about the incompleteness you proposed." Mi said while rubbing her nose, "I have some thoughts too..."

Wang Qi became curious. He was also very curious, wondering if, viewed from the Sea God type, which has a completely different worldview from that of the human clan, his incompleteness theorem might have issues?