Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 996 - 80: Perfecting the Network

In the quiet room, Wang Qi was still calmly weaving the warp and weft, constructing algorithms. His collaboration with Jarvis could rival a top-notch programmer team. Wang Qi's theoretical level had already approached or even surpassed the legendary programmers on Earth. With their successful partnership, no problem could remain unsolved for long, and no BUG could persist for long.

Zhen Chan waited for a long time before Wang Qi stopped for a temporary rest. He asked, "Why did you give them the Wanxiang Diagram?"

"It's beneficial to me," Wang Qi replied without hesitation.

"I can't see how," Zhen Chan said. "They are Ancient Method Practitioners; even if they learn it, how would it benefit you?"

"There was once a great poet who liked to recite his poems to illiterate old ladies, believing that poems that the old ladies couldn't understand weren't good poems," Wang Qi said. "The same principle applies. The Wanxiang Diagram is intended for the masses. A Wanxiang Diagram that Ancient Method Practitioners can understand is a good Wanxiang Diagram."

The Wanxiang Diagram is an advanced language, only a step away from natural language. For those unfamiliar with calculator methods, it's at most a "barbaric language" with strange grammar, and some uncultured primitive barbarians in the Border Desolation had even more primitive and obscure languages, with grammar even more contrary to the language habits of the Central Earth cultivators in Shenzhou.

Reaching the "natural language" level poses some difficulty.

In his previous life, Wang Qi heard of people tackling natural language parsing by leveraging certain noticeably unique minor languages. In this regard, conjugation languages, due to their simple structure, have certain advantages. English's conjugation properties aren't very pronounced, and the root-internal variations are not that intense. Extremely convoluted conjugation languages and extremely agglutinative languages are simpler in terms of word-order changes, which makes it easier to summarize using mathematical methods.

Unfortunately, the language in Shenzhou is much like Chinese, an isolating language, the most difficult to model mathematically.

So, in the short term, there's little hope for using natural language to control calculators.

As a result, Wang Qi decided to lower his goal a bit and create a "high-level language that Ancient Method Practitioners can also understand" based on the Wanxiang Diagram. Wang Qi planned to call it the "Qiankun Diagram."

Zhen Chan was even more perplexed: "Simplification... this doesn't relate to you, right?"

Wang Qi, who could write Path Rank programs using assembly language, had no need to simplify the Wanxiang Diagram for himself.

"First, this thing is meant for everyone to use. The more others use it, the more it promotes the growth of the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm and the Heart Demon Mysterious Net. And the more the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm and the Heart Demon Mysterious Net grow, the stronger I become. Secondly, the book is actually something a bunch of people from the Wanfa Sect came up with; I've just lent my name to it," Wang Qi laughed heartily. "Nowadays, if I sign my name on the 'editor' column, it guarantees a best-seller, amazing isn't it?"

After setting up the Heart Demon Mysterious Net on the surface of Spirit Phoenix Island, Wang Qi resumed communication with Shenzhou. Although his "internet speed" was still slow, it was basically usable.

This book was co-authored by that group of Wanfa Sect disciples, instigated by Su Junyu half a month ago, and it had been sitting in his Spirit Message box for about three days. Those Wanfa Sect disciples sincerely hoped in their letter that Wang Qi would critique, correct, and affix his name to it.

Wang Qi found it useful, so he took it up. As a member of the experimental faction, he has always adhered to the principle that practice is the sole criterion for verifying truth, so he used those Ancient Method Practitioners as "volunteers," substituting for him in practice.

Zhen Chan sighed, "Aren't you afraid they'll develop a method to resist the Heart Demon Curse? Don't forget, you did the same thing yourself."

Wang Qi chuckled, "Heh heh heh, not even close."

Although Wang Qi sought convenience, programming using the Wanxiang Diagram, he was not merely a programmer but a mathematician. Though he wrote the Wanxiang Diagram with his hands, his mind pondered zeros and ones, yin and yang.

This is a difference in thinking.

Theoretically, the people of Luochen Sword Palace could indeed unravel Wang Qi's Heart Demon Curse restriction. However, this would require them to dismantle the encapsulation Wang Qi wrote, then naturally comprehend assembly language, break through two layers of compilers, and reach the bottom layer of logic.

To achieve this level would necessitate skills capable of utterly overwhelming the majority of Wanfa Sect Cultivators.

It's ridiculous to think that if those inept ones from Luochen Sword Palace had this skill, or if their talent was good enough to learn to this level within a few short days, the Modern Immortal Path would have long been thoroughly researched by them!

Zhen Chan sighed, "Did you also open the redemption of 'Wanxiang Diagram' in the 'system' for this purpose?"

Wang Qi smiled and nodded, "Actually, there's another purpose. Those guys don't have calculators in hand, so they're bound to practice on themselves, right? Even if they dare not go too far on themselves and only try a little, I can still gather a lot of data."

Zhen Chan hesitated for a moment and then praised, "This is a clever move."

Wang Qi stretched lazily in mid-air, "Hmm... how many years since I set my grand ambition for everyone under heaven to have Immortal Cultivation? Feels like I'm just a step away from success now!"

"Yes indeed..." Zhen Chan spoke with a complex tone, "Everyone with Immortal Cultivation, everyone like a dragon... something that not even Ancient Holy Emperors or Immortals dared to dream of in times gone by... it seems it's already within reach."

Even though he says that, Wang Qi also understands that the reason why he can achieve results so quickly is entirely based on the technological accumulation of two thousand years of the Immortal Alliance, generations of cultivators, and countless geniuses. The Immortal Alliance is already approaching the next technological leap, and perhaps even the superhuman transformation is imminent.

He is merely a facilitator standing at the historical turning point.

Zhen Chan changed the subject and asked, "To what stage has your Heart Demon Mystic Net construction progressed?"

"About a third of the level of the Divine Capital Mystic Net," Wang Qi mused. "The first half is just imitating, but this Heart Demon Mystic Net doesn't support mortals going online for now, nor does it support other functions. Many parts can be simplified... However, for something like the Battle of the Divine Capital, it's sufficient for combat."

Wang Qi does not wish to replicate a Divine Capital Heart Demon Mystic Net. His real idea is to build a Mystic Net that is one hundred percent compatible with his own cultivation method, and then let it become mainstream.

The difference between them is like that between Android apps and Symbian apps.

Zhen Chan was a bit puzzled: "I remember you said before that it would take at least ten days to achieve a tenth of the Divine Capital Mystic Net's functionality, which is why you were eager to establish this Mystic Net..."

Wang Qi smiled wryly: "Well, the work progress advanced significantly... Thanks to the Mathematics Lord."

"Mathematics Lord?"

Wang Qi took out a book, expressionless: "We all thought the Mathematics Lord was a reckless, solitary madman. But think about it, has the Mathematics Lord ever been wrong since he debuted?"

Zhen Chan felt a bit awkward: "Well... I'm not very clear on that..."

"No. The Mathematics Lord seems arrogant, but he is actually a very cautious person." Wang Qi looked at the book in his hand: "In these few months, the Mathematics Lord continuously published papers, advancing a branch of mathematics called 'Chaos' by a century by himself—he must have pondered deeply in the Star Sea and only showcased it when it was mature, never caught a mistake from start to finish..."

"Being able to suppress Cloud Young Master Ke Lanyin purely with mathematical arguments back then, he was definitely not a reckless person!"

Zhen Chan was shocked: "Advancing a branch by a hundred years all by himself... Didn't you say that the Modern Law requires collective brainstorming from many people to achieve progress quickly? If one person thinks alone, it's like walking a tightrope, one misstep leads to another, and it won't last long..."

"How many hundreds of years has the Mathematics Lord been away? How many hundreds of years has he been thinking?" Wang Qi shook his head: "He simply has this talent... Of course, this does not mean he is stronger than all of Shenzhou's arithmetic scholars combined; it just shows that in this entirely neglected domain, he thought long enough and always maintained the correct direction. Furthermore, he always chose not to engage until his thoughts matured, refusing to discuss prematurely... No wonder Geting couldn't compete with this monster."

However, this time Wang Qi also benefited from the Mathematics Lord. Due to the rapid advancement in chaos mathematics, modeling chaotic dynamic systems became easier.

In the "Dynamic System Theory", "dynamic system" does not simply refer to a classical physics concept, but rather focuses on the description and prediction of the collective behavior of interacting components emerging as complex changes at the macro level. The word "dynamic" signifies change.

Researchers on Earth even categorize the "stock market" and "global population" as dynamic systems.

Similarly, the flow of people and the construction of divine power can also be described as chaotic dynamic systems.

This is also why Wang Qi was able to rapidly establish the Heart Demon Mystic Net.

Zhen Chan suddenly sighed: "Speaking of which, is Guan Wuji still alive?"

Wang Qi shrugged: "I don't know."

At this time, it has been seven days since Guan Wuji entered the Forbidden City Phoenix Tomb. Seven entire days without any news, as if he vanished from the mortal world.

Wang Qi originally established the Heart Demon Mystic Net a few days in advance to fulfill the promise of "giving you a final chance to fight".

But now, with seven days passed and still no news, it inevitably feels a bit disappointing.

Zhen Chan asked: "About that ring... don't you have any ability to sense it?"

"This involves plotting against the Holy Emperor Venerable! Leaving a means of sensing would give the Holy Emperor Venerable a chance to trace and eliminate me, wouldn't it?" Wang Qi shook his head: "All the mechanisms within are preset. Once activated, it will spread Spirit Sense in all directions, and I can only passively receive it."

However, regarding the Body Integration Realm experimental subject known as Guan Wuji, Wang Qi maintained an attitude of "fortunate if gained, fated if lost". The ring he gave to the other party was also something Wang Qi figured out based on the Holy Emperor Venerable's "Parasitic Gods" method, not considered the most core element.