Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 249 - 3 Why They Sing on Their Knees

The old spirit boat moved up and down, rocking Wang Qi so badly he could barely bear it. Originally a medium-sized cargo ship converted into a passenger vessel, it was one of the batch discarded by the Immortal Alliance over six or seven decades ago and repurposed for civilian use, nowhere near as stable as the large passenger ships used by the Immortal Institute to transport students.

Fortunately, Wang Qi was no longer the ignorant fellow he once was. Facing motion sickness, he was no longer utterly helpless.

"Hey!" Wang Qi hung a rope from the beam of his cabin and hoisted himself up.

The principle behind motion sickness is an overactive sense of balance, a tolerance for disequilibrium that cannot keep pace. Balance perception is innate, and it can strengthen with an increase in cultivation; tolerance can be enhanced through training or overcome psychologically. If he only relied on riding in vehicles and on boats for training, Wang Qi's tolerance could never keep up with the growth of his sensitivity.

Tolerance not keeping up with sensitivity growth might be counted as one of the rare flaws in a Modern Cultivator. The Ancient Method doesn't intentionally enhance perceptions other than Spiritual Sense, which is not much different in effectiveness from vision—it's just more convenient. For Ancient Method Practitioners, who only need to observe the surface of things and can only understand superficial phenomena, this suffices. But for Modern Cultivators, it's different. The prerequisite to discerning essence through phenomena is observation, so the enhancement of perception for Modern Cultivators is comprehensive. In addition to the five senses, as well as common senses such as spatial and temporal perception, special Cultivation Techniques can bring about unique perceptions – such as the magnetic sense from Heavenly Song and the gravitational sense from Wanxiang Heavenly Attraction.

Of course, this also led to the issue of being "over-sensitive."

What Wang Qi was doing now was using calculations of the rope's movements to give his body a prediction, mentally preparing himself, and thus indirectly lessening the sense of disequilibrium.

After hanging on the rope for a while, Wang Qi then took out his calculator, browsing through the specialized texts stored within; he found it rather boring after a while and, raising his hand, asked his ring, "Hey, old man, aren't you going to pop out and tell me I'm 'making unnecessary efforts'?"

Zhen Chan harrumphed, "A genius of the Modern, who am I, this outdated antique, to comment!"

Wang Qi smiled helplessly. Zhen Chan was still not pleased about Wang Qi declining the invitation to become a true inheritor of the Yangshen Pavilion.

The old man had stayed with Wang Qi in the Immortal Institute for more than a year. After this time, he had a rough understanding of the Modern. Wang Qi was intent on Mathematics and Physics. The Yangshen Pavilion valued Wang Qi solely for his Fuzzy Mathematics; they couldn't possibly forbid him from delving deeper into Mathematical studies, and just like Jiyin Valley, which also touched upon the Heavenly Material Circulation, being another branch of Tianling Ridge, it would be fine for Wang Qi to learn some of the Jiyin Valley curriculum as well.

More importantly, becoming a disciple of Tianling Ridge meant discounted services for reshaping one's physical body. This was the main reason for Zhen Chan's frustration.

Seeing Zhen Chan in a bad mood, Wang Qi no longer delved into it and kept reading his book.

Part of the books in the calculator were left by Su Junyu, part of them were his own transcriptions, and there was also a small portion helped sorted out by Bao Xiaoya.

After a while, Zhen Chan couldn't hold back any longer and said, "Your refusal to use the self-sealing method to block out your balance perception is just to be ready for battle at any moment, isn't it? You still lack a sense of security."

"Even though this is a Modern-ruled area, I still remember how Li Ziye died."

The incident that day happened because, from the beginning, Li Ziye was lured out by a Modern Golden Core, allowing that Ancient Method Practitioner to capture him, forcing Li Ziye to unleash the Heavenly Sword.

The more he cultivated, the more Wang Qi understood how powerful Li Ziye had been that day. If Li Ziye, whose bulk of skills lay in Swordsmanship, had the Heavenly Sword, those Ancient Method Practitioners combined wouldn't match a single stroke of his sword.

The key point was, a Modern Cultivator had lured him out beforehand.

That's what caused Wang Qi's lack of security.

Zhen Chan added, "Indeed, suppressing one's perception can lead to being unable to respond to sudden situations, but, this is the Immortal Alliance's territory!"

"My village was also within the Immortal Alliance's territory."

Zhen Chan sighed, "You, being so insecure, why don't you simply enter a Sect? Having High Order Cultivators watching over you should be safer, right?"

"The discussion has come back to the starting point again… I've told you, I'm better off outside than in a Sect."

"What's so good about that? Surely you're not planning to search for traces of Ancient Method Practitioners in Shenzhou now?" Zhen Chan angrily said, "What's wrong with waiting for five years?"

Zhen Chan didn't believe Wang Qi could develop better outside his sect, and Wang Qi had no intention of telling him. Wang Qi had not planned to reveal the fact that he was a transmigrator, and after learning about the existence of "Banished Immortals," he felt even more inclined to keep it a secret for life.

As a result, there were still some subtle misunderstandings between the two, saving Zhen Chan from several days of bottled-up frustration.

The most important aspects of mathematical research are thought processes and inspiration.

And Wang Qi happened to remember the thought processes of numerous classical mathematical theories, so it wouldn't take long for him to replicate one result after another from his mind.

Whether it's the divergence between the two worlds or not, Taiyi Heavenly Venerable of this world didn't have a friend from Wanfa Sect named "Godel." Because Godel did not exist, Elder Ji Turing also missed the chance to gain inspiration from Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, and the decision problem remained unsolved.

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And Wang Qi dared to say that if he threw out a proof for Godel's Incompleteness and Compatibility, half of the cultivators from Wanfa Sect would have to kneel and sing "You've Conquered Me Just Like That." If he then threw out Turing's proof of Undecidability, the other half of the sect would have to kneel and sing "You Are Electricity, You Are Light, You Are the Only Myth."

After all, these three great theorems are proposed based on the fundamentals of mathematics, one could say they are "the mathematics within mathematics"!

This is simply not comparable to independent propositions in the field of number theory, such as the Goldbach Conjecture.

Meanwhile, subjects like fuzzy mathematics and chaos mathematics are important fields that open up new systems in mathematics, and their value also surpasses that of most independent propositions.

Moreover, Shenzhou does not place much emphasis on the development of probability theory. Of the major Big Number Laws on Earth, currently only Bao's Law of Large Numbers, or rather Bernoulli's Law of Large Numbers, has been mentioned. Chebyshev's Law of Large Numbers, Poisson's Law of Large Numbers, Sinclair's Law of Large Numbers, and Markov's Law of Large Numbers have yet to be addressed.

These are all areas where one can rapidly accumulate prestige!

Mathematical research does not depend much on experiments but entirely on the individual. Being exiled meant that no one was following his research progress. And if no one followed his progress, it meant that nobody would know what he was researching at which time or when he would have a burst of inspiration!

All he needed to do was to submit a review-style scholarly paper at intervals to let people roughly know what field he was studying, and he could legitimately introduce any mathematical result.

This was also the main reason Wang Qi was willing to be exiled—because gaining prestige and achievements would be easier in the early stages!

For this, Wang Qi had another detailed plan.

First, in the first year, he had to be a bit more reserved and focus on fields like logic and set theory, pretending to be fully engaged in "fuzzy mathematics."

Then, since fuzzy mathematics involved probability, he could delve into probability theory with the excuse of improving it. Poisson's Law of Large Numbers is an extension of Bernoulli's Law of Large Numbers, and he could even collaborate with Bao Xiaoya. By leveraging the Bao Family's influence, he could brush up his first pot of prestige before Foundation Establishment.

With the first pot of academic gold, it was just a matter of time before the entire Wanfa Sect would kneel and sing for him!

As for being suspected of anything because of his young age, Wang Qi was even less worried.

He would be presenting specific theories in at least two or three years, when he would be eighteen.

For a true genius, eighteen was the time to start showing results.

The theories that the French mathematician Lagrange developed at eighteen were enough to make millions of college students kneel and chant "Your poison, your poison, so toxic, toxic, toxic."

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Well, many college students find higher math, including the achievements of Lagrange at eighteen, utterly despairing.