Exploring Immortality Cultivation

"Set up a Cartesian coordinate system and list a three-variable Heavenly Element Group—is it really that difficult? Even if your swordsmanship is complex and badass, can it actually break through dimensions or something?"

Wang Qi teased Zhen Chan as he crunched the numbers.

The Sword Light in his mind was certainly not an illusion. This was the method of an Ancient Method Practitioner—the Method without Established Text.

Expository language couldn't carry much information. When it came to spells complex enough, Ancient Method Practitioners were hopeless in depicting them, only able to forcibly memorize and directly teach disciples through the transmission of Divine Soul.

Then, Ancient Method Practitioners would puff themselves up and boldly claim the True Method needs no text.

Modern Cultivators would typically sneer and burst into laughter at this.

Sure, complex arts couldn't be described by text, but couldn't you damn well use formulas?

Yuanli Master's three grand Heavenly Principles captured the motion of everything in slow motion, and in the end, revealed just three formulas.

The All Laws Return to One's Heavenly Song Heavenly Element Group directly points to the essence of Electromagnetic Force, and the most central thing is also just four sets of equations.

Is there any spell more complex than this?

Can your spell-outlined Runes and patterns be more complex than Geometry?

The spirit state of the creator contained within the spell?

That's the most useless part, damn it! As the saying goes, "Those who learn from me live; those who mimic me die." The so-called art, in the end, should demonstrate one's own self, so why forcibly imitate others?

What Wang Qi was doing now was analyzing the Ancient Sword Skill Zhen Chan had passed on to him.

What really made Wang Qi furious wasn't being defeated by Geng Peng, but what the Primordial Spirit Cultivator from Jiyin Valley had said to Ai Qinglan—"You think others can achieve what you can, Miss High-and-Mighty!"

Holy shit, so there was this achievement to unlock! Truly an unexpected strategy guide!

After discovering there were better achievements than the 'first kill' honor, Wang Qi did not challenge any other Foundation Establishment Stage Teaching Assistants. He planned to hold his breath and regain his reputation directly from Geng Peng. And it had to be Geng Peng not going easy on him. Only then would there be a sense of accomplishment.

As for Ai Qinglan... uh, we'll just forget about challenges of that caliber...

Although he was still in the Qi Cultivation Early Stage, Wang Qi's combat power was quite formidable. After his main study of the Heavenly Calculation Atlas enhanced his cultivation, his combined Elephant Phase Wave Skill and Heavenly Entropy Technique brought him five weighted values. Add to that the two weighted values from his half-assed Impermanence Martial Arts, he could even compare with an average Qi Cultivation Late Stage Cultivator.

If it weren't for meeting the out-of-spec Ai Qinglan or Geng Peng, who boldly used Advanced Mathematics, Wang Qi could really defeat any Immortal Institute Teaching Assistant who limited their cultivation to the Qi Cultivation level.

However, if he wanted to increase his combat power in a short period, he would have to practice either Martial Arts or Spell. Thus, Wang Qi asked Zhen Chan for a swordsmanship.

Ever since witnessing the mysteries of Modern methods, Zhen Chan no longer took his inherited arts seriously, and directly transmitted a set of Luofu Sword Skill, considered top-notch in the Ancient Method, to Wang Qi. Seeing Wang Qi use Mathematics to parse the algorithm, he was quite interested, "What are you doing with this step?"

"I'm just calculating the trajectory formula of that Sword Light."

Zhen Chan clicked his tongue in wonder, "Are all these on these three pieces of scratch paper?"

"Only one and a half pages," Wang Qi replied as he scribbled over half a page of scratch paper, "The twenty-four moves of Luofu Sword Skill, each one is a Heavenly Element Group... but it's not enough, still not enough..."

"What's wrong?"

"I can't derive the overarching principle," Wang Qi bit down on his pen.

Zhen Chan curiously prodded, "Hey, hey, there's no overarching principle to the Luofu Sword Skill. Each move is based on the principle of 'The clouds shift formlessly as the water flows shapelessly.'"

"It's normal for you guys not to derive an overarching principle," Wang Qi shook his head. "Luofu Sword Skill is a sword art, so these twenty-four Heavenly Element Groups must share common traits."

As he spoke, the Mana Flow in Wang Qi's body accelerated, with his Yin Yang Yao flickering indistinctly.

He felt he was just one layer of Spirit Sense away.

"What method should I use?"

In his mind, the Sword Light that Zhen Chan had imprinted in his brain with the Power of Primordial Spirit continued to flow.

But within the brilliant Sword Light, there was something Zhen Chan couldn't understand.

A spatial Cartesian coordinate system.

Three mutually perpendicular axes depicting a classic Euclidean Space, with the Sword Light traversing across this space, yet always unable to escape Geometry's confines.

But it wasn't enough. The variation in the swordsmanship wasn't clear enough.

Wang Qi stared at the formulas on the draft paper, almost biting through the pen.

The Luofu Sword Skill prided itself on "The clouds shift formlessly as the water flows shapelessly," and in ancient times, it was famed for its complex variations at the Luofu Xuanqing Palace.

Correspondingly, its equations were quite complicated.

"However... if I reduce the equation by canceling like terms... no, that won't do, I still don't know the correspondence between the sword moves and the factors... If these abstract images are unified..."

How to unify?

"These sword moves are within a system... the old man's inheritance; that Sword Light, it's coherent..."

"Coherent... If regarded as..."

Suddenly, a burst of Spirit Light emerged in Wang Qi's mind.

"That's it! I've got it!"

In Wang Qi's mind, the coordinate system that contained the Sword Light sprouted an additional Number Axis.

"If this variable is used to construct a new number axis..."

This new number axis arose from the origin, but, it was perpendicular to the other three axes!

Then, the Sword Light began to contract.

Or to be more precise, the space containing the Sword Light began to contract.

"Adding an extra dimension, this sword move looks like this!"

Wang Qi was rejuvenated. Now, all the workings of the Luofu Sword Skill were being intuitively presented in his mind in a way that transcended three dimensions. To him, this sword art had no more secrets!

Hilbert Space, Xiangyu Calculation.

Turning variables into additional dimensions, constructing high-dimensional mathematical hypothetical models to depict the movement of complex systems.

One Number Axis after another spawned in Wang Qi's mind, with the Sword Light representative of the Luofu Sword Skill collapsing again and again. Wang Qi invested all his energy into calculations, his Yin Yang Yao flickering wildly like mad.

Finally, the Sword Light was no longer a complex sea of clouds. It shrunk from a sea of clouds into irregular geometrical shapes, into a sphere, into complex surfaces, and ultimately, into a line.

The overarching principle of Luofu Sword Skill, a formula encapsulating all its variations!

This was the first Sword Tao Formula that Wang Qi had derived!

"This is it!"

Wang Qi excitedly flung the pen, inscribing a formula on the paper.

He looked up, eager to share his joy with someone. That's when he saw Su Junyu watching him from a short distance away.

Su Junyu looked guarded, "You just said, 'I've got it,' right? If you dare to emulate our predecessors again, you believe I won't beat you?"