Exploring Immortality Cultivation

Thoughts influence the soul, and the soul drives mana. Thus, a moment of enlightenment was truly a moment of creation.

When the Heavenly Entropy Technique merged with the Heavenly Calculation Atlas, these two vastly different mental methods, Wang Qi felt the whole heaven and earth change. He integrated deeper into this heaven and earth—not just the blending of qi mechanisms, but even his senses were incorporated into this system.

Thus, Wang Qi felt as if he clearly "saw" a physical quantity he had never paid attention to before—entropy. This new sensation veiled the young man's world in a layer of new color, with countless "positive" and "negative" tides surging in his perception. Wang Qi closed his eyes and activated the Book of Geometry. Gradually, the invisible "torrent" abstracted into curves, which summarized into an abstract figure.

This was the entropy change graph nearby.

Wang Qi asked Zhen Chan, "Is that idiot Chi Lianxue located about five yards directly in front of me on my left?"

Zhen Chan was startled, "When did you extend your spiritual sense?"

The functioning of an immortal's spiritual sense, similar to a bat's echolocation, begins with the emission of spiritual sense to receive feedback. The only difference is that due to the special nature of spiritual energy, the speed of spiritual sense isn't limited by the speed of sound, and low-level cultivators can hardly detect the spiritual sense of high-level ones. Despite being formidable as a Modern Cultivator, Wang Qi was merely at the Qi Cultivation Stage, inherently different from Zhen Chan's Mahayana Realm spiritual sense; how could Zhen Chan not notice Wang Qi's spiritual sense?

Wang Qi smiled. Zhen Chan's counter-question confirmed his guess.

This was the true nature of his newfound divine skill extending from seeing through life span—Entropy Perception. After his sensory system had been integrated into the grand system of heaven and earth, information about entropy automatically flowed into Wang Qi's body along with the inhalation and exhalation of spiritual energy. This method of exploration was almost unobservable by others, much like natural vision and hearing.

In Wang Qi's eyes, the overall entropy of the entire heaven and earth was almost constant—though the entire universe was undergoing entropy increase, the growth of that value was measured in tens of millions of years, and a century's movement of a second hand seemed almost constant to mortal eyes. Slightly above the background entropy were simple chemical reactions like combustion. Amid this constant entropy background, there existed countless special "points." These were the tangled bodies of entropy increase and decrease—life.

Younger lives had higher negative entropy while aged lives barely maintained a state of negative entropy. Larger and higher-cultivation creatures were more complex, and their absolute entropy values were also higher. In the vast ocean of life around Dabai Village, only one individual stood out glaringly. Chi Lianxue's entropy was so high it approached a positive value; in Wang Qi's eyes, he appeared like a huge blazing fireball.

"He really seems not long for this world... No, this rate of entropy increase is too fast, it doesn't seem like the aftermath of burning life span, but as if he naturally aged faster than others!"

Could there be another mystery here?

Wang Qi pondered for a moment, then shook his head. There was too little information to make a judgment. Perhaps Chi Lianxue had contracted some strange poison or curse in the Demon Clan's secret realm and then falsely claimed it was from using a secret technique? After all, the compensation for a disabled Guardian Envoy of the Immortal Alliance wasn't too bad.

At that moment, he remembered another issue, "Old man, when I broke through just now, why didn't he attack?"

Wang Qi's breakthrough was a moment when the balance of the mental methods was disrupted before forming a new balance, causing mana turbulence and unstable aura, which was absolutely the weakest moment. Chi Lianxue had been battle-tested; didn't he know to seize the opportunity?

Zhen Chan chuckled, "When you were talking to that young lady just now, Chi Lianxue heard it. He heard you talking about the essence of lifespan, was emotionally stirred, and couldn't focus on attacking."

"Tch, so much for being fanatical, he still cherishes his life." Wang Qi casually joked. His conversation with Zhen Chan was completed through Spiritual Sense Transmission, while Ai Qinglan's words were projected into his consciousness through illusion techniques by a calculator, and there was no worry about being overheard. Chi Lianxue could have only heard the few words Wang Qi asked Ai Qinglan.

Since Chi Lianxue wasn't making a move, Wang Qi simply familiarized himself with his new divine skill. He closed his eyes, sealed off his five senses, and fully sensed the changes in heaven and earth. Gradually, his sensory range expanded, even beginning to penetrate underground.

Suddenly, Wang Qi felt like he had been scorched by fire and exclaimed in pain, "Underground... How is this possible!"

Yin Qi suppresses thermal energy, hence places abundant in Yin Qi should logically have lower entropy values. Yet, contrary to expectations, Dabai Village, despite being filled with countless corpses, possessed terrifyingly high underground entropy values. Most alarmingly, the entropy seemed to be converging towards the center of the village, where Chi Lianxue resided in his small building. To Wang Qi, it appeared as if a small sun was hidden beneath the building!

What was going on?

Before Wang Qi could make sense of it, Zhen Chan exclaimed, "Quick, dodge!"

Five zhang to the left front, a light suddenly burst. Chi Lianxue's originally indifferent expression turned fervent. He raised his right hand and then struck downward. Even before the palm power reached, the heat had already spread over the walls and onto Wang Qi's hands.

Wang Qi didn't need Zhen Chan's reminder to know something was wrong. He sensed Chi Lianxue suddenly summon a force of entropy increase.

Order gave way to chaos, uniformity to disorder, spiritual energy surged, and matter stirred. The "breathing" of this part of Heaven and Earth was momentarily severed, the rampaging spiritual energy obliterated, with all forms of energy swiftly converted to thermal energy.

In this brief moment, the entropy of this region of Heaven and Earth reached its peak.

Would Heaven and Earth disintegrate, leaving nature no more?

No! Once all available energy was converted into thermal energy, matter could no longer move, no longer existing in the form of atoms and molecules, time faded, and space shattered.

This was "thermal death," the ultimate demise of the universe.

This palm strike possessed the devastating power of a cosmic apocalypse!

It absolutely must not connect!

Wang Qi drew his sword, unleashing the full power of the Elephant Phase Wave Technique. The material wave of matter enveloped the sword, and following the essentials of the Thunder Sound Chord Saber Technique, he executed a series of cuts, combining ten strikes into one.

Peak upon peak overlapped, a materially powerful strike erupted, aimed at Chi Lianxue's palm power, the ideally sharp wave blade cutting through the wall first. However, upon encountering the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm, the wave quickly disintegrated! Yet, this forceful strike managed to slightly split the palm power, and by then, Wang Qi was ardently employing the Heavenly Calculation Atlas and Heavenly Entropy Technique, counteracting this deadly strike with the Power of Negative Entropy.

The palm power penetrated his body, then swiftly merged with Wang Qi's "system," countering the subsequent influx of palm power. Still, the power of this single strike was terrifying; Wang Qi felt as if his very bones could ignite!

Zhen Chan uttered in terrified murmurs, "This isn't a technique from the Red Sun Sect..."

Had such a formidable hand technique existed, the Red Sun Sect would have long unified the Ancient Method Cultivation World, and no sect would dare challenge them, leaving no room for Luofu Xuanqing Palace, Emperor's Extreme Split Sky Dao, or Holy Infant Sect to flutter.

Wang Qi spat out a mouthful of saliva about to soar, and said, "Indeed, this isn't from the Red Sun Sect... It's the Supreme Technique of Fentian Prefecture, Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm!"

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Sorry, I've had a severe headache tonight, hence the late update.