Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 909 - 238: Who in the World Does Not Know You

The Bo Family is a thousand-year family, with industries spread all over Shenzhou. But the "Heavenly Extreme Garden" of the Wanfa Sect is the main household. The entire place is perfectly rounded, with countless landscapes, exotic stones, trees, and other sights arranged according to certain laws. If one deciphers the divine skills hidden within these garden landscapes using the "Heavenly Position Skill" [Polar Coordinate System], it is said they would achieve great enlightenment and great creation.

This courtyard is jointly created by several Carefree Practitioners. The Bo Family members **** walk through here, and by being immersed, they can gain various insights and learn various wonderful methods.

At this time, however, the courtyard appeared extremely desolate.

In a shockwave that swept through the entire Wanfa Sect, the Bo Family, which was traditionally known for mathematics, was heavily damaged.

Many of the Bo family disciples are in the inner residence, looked after by cultivators specially invited from Tianling Ridge. Those who were fortunately unscathed gathered together to watch the legendary lecture through large calculators.

"Both the Master of Calculation and Mathematics Lord are here, even leaders from Zongli Sect and Genting Sect gathered. Every well-known arithmetician from the last five hundred years has come..." Bao Xiaoya exclaimed: "Recently, the 'Elder Ji' Master Turing and 'National Hand of All Beings' Feng Luoyi emerged..."

Bao Xiaofeng counted: "Look over there, Wei Er is also here. He was once the top arithmetician in the world, but he's gradually faded away over the last hundred years. And over there, the 'Surface Sky Demon' Riemann senior... even the older generation from the Genting Sect has come..."

"This is just a lecture, showing the deduction process in front of everyone, recreating the thought process, guiding everyone to accept this theorem. You... must not be dazzled by those seniors." An elder from the Bo Family spoke to warn: "Remember, remember, the mysterious lecturer is the main character today."

Several low-level disciples of the Bo Family nodded but still felt trembling in their hearts. These Carefree Practitioners are not the main characters! Who could get these Carefree Practitioners to come and listen to a lecture?

——If one day, if so many... no, no, just one-tenth of the Carefree practitioners are willing to show themselves to listen to my lecture, then it would be... worth dying for!

At this moment, Wang Qi stepped onto the stage.

An elder from the Bo Family wondered: "This... this Daoist Fellow is truly unfamiliar..."

Bao Xiaofeng and Bao Xiaoya, the only ones present who recognized Wang Qi, were struck as if by a thunderbolt.

Bao Xiaoya looked at her brother: "No way..."

Bao Xiaofeng looked at his sister: "Am I dreaming?"

That Wang Qi, eight or nine years ago, was just comparable to Bao Xiaoya, perhaps even weaker. It's been only a few years? Less than ten years!

For a cultivator, ten years might be just one percent, one-thousandth of their life, just an interlude.

But now, he had already ascended to the pinnacle of the Mathematics Sect in Shenzhou!

In the illusion, Wang Qi began to speak slowly: "Esteemed seniors, and the many Daoist Fellows who are listening, now, I am going to present the most subversive and challenging theory I have ever encountered that challenges your intuition and reasoning..."

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"The origin of this theory initially came from the Vice Sect Master Kang, who is known as the 'Heavenly Collection'."

At first, Wang Qi felt a bit dizzy but quickly got into the flow.

By this point, the beating of his heart no longer affected him. At this moment, it felt as if his life existed solely in his brain.

Sparks of thought were shining.

"Infinity... this is a very contradictory concept. Not everyone present may accept this concept. It was introduced from the mathematical sects in the Middle Ages by Sage Zhi Long."

"Hundreds of years ago, many predecessors of the Wanfa Sect began to realize that different infinities can exist. Sect Master Kang expressed this using set theory..."

...

At the West Sea Langde, in Ai Qinglan's home, Chen Feng tossed aside his white coat and sighed, "Annoying."

Ai Qinglan asked with concern, "What's wrong?"

"Aren't the recent disciples of Wanfa Sect crazy? Every one of them seems unstable in Dao Heart." Chen Feng shook his head.

Not only high-level, but low-level Wanfa Sect cultivators also suffered Dao Heart setbacks. However, since their life systems are not connected to mana system and thought system, the damage and destruction they cause are not significant. Most of them were sent to the local residences and other mansions outside the Tianling Ridge sect for recovery.

This also led to a great shortage of physicians. Anyone with medical qualifications, especially disciples of Yangshen Pavilion, was forcibly taken there.

Moreover, these days, there is a shortage of Wanfa Sect disciples throughout Shenzhou. Ai Qinglan also has lots of empirical data piled up here that no one is processing. The price of calculators capable of running data has suddenly increased two or three times.

Ai Qinglan was also puzzled: "What's the reason... what kind of paper has such destructive power? Even if it's a revolutionary paper, it should create something new while overturning the old. Why hasn't anyone been promoted because of this new paper yet?"

"I don't know. But, I do want to see what they're up to."

"How are you going to look?" Ai Qinglan wondered: "Can you understand the paper that made them lose their minds?"

"Not at all." Chen Feng shook his head: "Recently, they held a public lecture all over Shenzhou. Such lectures are undoubtedly easier to understand than papers."

Ai Qinglan suddenly had a flash of insight: "Why not ask Wang Qi? We're on quite good terms with him, aren't we?"

"Heaven knows." Chen Feng took out a blue coat from the wardrobe. The white outfit earlier was a symbol of Xinglin's miraculous hand. This blue robe represented the identity of a Seeking Dao Seeker from Tianling Ridge. He put on the clothes and said, "He hasn't come these past few days, and we can't get in touch."

Ai Qinglan showed a trace of worry on her face: "There won't be any problem, right?"

"Good people don't live long, but misfortunes last forever. Would he have trouble because of this?" Chen Feng had complete faith that his good friend wouldn't fall due to this commotion.

"By the way, when is the lecture taking place?"

"At noon."

Ai Qinglan was also a bit curious at this point: "Then we'd better hurry."

Chen Feng said, "I've already arranged for an assistant to watch it on time. This time it's targeted at the entire Shenzhou, and we need to use that large calculator in the Empirical Department."

The calculator's functionality directly correlates with its grade. The large calculator used by the Empirical Department is much stronger in connecting to the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm than small, low-grade calculators.

The figures of Chen Feng and Ai Qinglan flickered, and a few quick movements brought them to the entrance of the Empirical Department. When they pushed open the department's door, they found all the researchers crowded around the large calculator, chattering and forming a tight circle.

"What happened?" Ai Qinglan asked several times, but no one answered. She used mana to pull Mao Zimiao over. Mao Zimiao was startled: "Senior Sister Ai? That... that guy lecturing inside the calculator, is it Xiao Qi?"

"Wang Qi?" Ai Qinglan and Chen Feng exchanged a puzzled look: "We asked you to watch today's Wanfa Sect lecture, right?"

"That's the one, Big Sister!" another cultivator pointed at the calculator and shouted: "The person lecturing seems to be the one who often comes to help... that Senior Brother..."

In the illusion, Wang Qi spoke eloquently: "In Sect Master Kang's many demonstrations, the diagonal argument stands as a genius-level concept. He showed us that countable infinities are equal. However, beyond countable infinity, there are uncountable infinities..."

These Langde's cultivators were dumbfounded.

Wang Qi often helped Chen Feng and the others with some experimental data, so these people had met Wang Qi. They knew Wang Qi was a True Inheritor of Wanfa Sect, with unparalleled mathematical abilities—yet this was too high-level, wasn't it? 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

We're all peers, right? He's already capable of lecturing Carefree Practitioners?

Chen Feng and Ai Qinglan were also stunned.

The paper that nearly overturned the Wanfa Sect was... was Wang Qi's work?

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"And before Sect Master Kang lost his Dao Heart, the most important question he asked was related to this 'infinity'."

As Wang Qi said this sentence, Wei Er's expression darkened, as if recalling his immensely gifted disciple.

"That is the so-called Continuum Hypothesis, which is the first question in the Ximen Master's Ximen Twenty-three Questions—the Continuum Question."

"And in the countless attempts by the Genting Sect, we gradually realized that the first and second questions among the Twenty-three Questions were very closely connected—mathematics consistency."

"This also spawned from the enormous contradiction within Sect Master Kang's Set Theory. It can be summed up in a single phrase—'Is this statement true?' True or false? This ancient philosophical debate on truth from the Middle Ages triggered a catastrophe in the mathematical system."

When introducing this point, Wang Qi paused for a moment and said, "This is where my thoughts began."

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"The core concepts of incompleteness are twofold. The first one I wish to introduce is called self-reference..."

Lu Xiaoqian watched Wang Qi's lecture, surprise appearing on her usually elegant face: "This... I feel like I'm hearing the Mysterious Path for the first time..."

Both Incompleteness Theorem and Undecidability Theorem drastically challenge one's worldviews!

"Hmph, Wanfa Sect's..." Master Po Li shook his head. He also recalled the days when his junior, Daoist of Uncertainty, shocked the world.

Master Po Li didn't particularly enjoy mathematics, especially pure mathematical reasoning, so he didn't manifest himself to listen.

"The deeper we delve into the micro level, the more critical mathematics becomes." Lu Xiaoqian began to ponder: "What does this discovery mean for us?"

"It has no meaning, and it will never have any meaning." Master Po Li emphasized: "Perhaps they'll transcend more algorithms as your and my Seeking Dao Artifacts, but this discovery itself holds no meaning."

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In the depths of the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm, Wang Qi's lecture reached a new stage.

The story of the "Puppet Judge" involves essential concepts related to both incompleteness and undecidability—"self-reference." However, the Incompleteness Theorem isn't solely upheld by this single concept.

"Next, I'm going to discuss the most important concept I learned from Ximen Master and the work of Genting Sect! Formalization."

"Here, this formalization has a certain special nature."