Chapter 34

"Still carrying the 'Harmony with Dust' defense... Place five cultivation cards horizontally and use the 'Electric Crossbow Magnetic String.'"

After deep contemplation, Wang Qi launched an attack on Su Junyu.

'Harmony with Dust' is one of the spells derived from 'Heavenly Song Walk,' which uses the interference of a mysterious electromagnetic field to distort nearby spells into a mass of mana, thus achieving a defensive effect. In the Unfixed Cards, its rarity is five.

'Electric Crossbow Magnetic String' is a spell from the Thunder Pavilion, using electricity as the crossbow and magnetism as the string to shoot metal objects—essentially an electromagnetic railgun on Earth. This spell corresponds to a card with a rarity of three, but it deals 'mechanical damage,' so it can ignore the effects of 'Harmony with Dust.'

Su Junyu smiled and said, "As expected! I've been waiting for you. Vector Manipulation."

The predecessor of 'Vector Manipulation' is very ancient, merely a martial art for cultivators to deal with arrows. However, the research fanatics of the Myriad Laws Sect have elevated it to a level 'beyond technique and approaching the Dao'—yes, this 'arrow' is neither the narrow sense of 'arrow' nor the broad sense of 'all handheld weapons,' but 'vector'! Can you believe it? The card's rarity is eight, with an actual weighted value of seven to nine, depending on the user's computational and abstract abilities.

Su Junyu activated the first effect of the 'Vector Manipulation' card, reflecting mechanical damage. Wang Qi watched as the five life flames in front of him extinguished, and his lips twitched slightly.

Sure enough, the Railgun super electromagnetic cannon can't beat the Vector Change vector manipulation...

"I say, using an eighth-rarity card to counter a third-rarity card, isn't that a waste..."

Su Junyu smiled brightly, "Wealthy and capricious!"

Wang Qi's eyes fell on Su Junyu's spell area, where, besides the long-lasting spell 'Harmony with Dust,' there was also a special cultivation card 'Cosmic Calculation.' This card, with a rarity of seven, has no inherent effect but is a prerequisite for many of the Myriad Laws Sect's profound spells. Spells Su Junyu has activated include the seventh-rarity 'Traversing the Phase Universe,' the eighth-rarity 'Vector Manipulation,' and the ninth-rarity 'Fixed Cosmic Light'...

Wang Qi's forehead veins bulged as he slammed his hand cards on the table, "No more! Your deck is all rare cards, there's no balance at all!"

Su Junyu sneered, "As if changing the deck would make you win."

"Although I really don't want to admit it..."

Su Junyu's cultivation in the Bai Ze Calculation is almost tailor-made for the card game... cough, at least Wang Qi has never seen this guy, who spends all day in the warehouse studying card skills, use this highly weighted calculation method for anything else. In short, with the boost from Bai Ze Calculation, he can basically use the basic pack to dominate rare cards.

Due to Instructor Xiong going through a tribulation, the last class of the morning changed from 'Basic Flying Sword Theory' to 'Primordial Force Introduction'—basically the foundation of mechanics. High school to freshman-level mechanics is like a soothing spell for Wang Qi.

Finally, after a long wait, the class ended at noon. Wang Qi rushed to the dining hall for lunch, then went to the Immortal Academy warehouse to play a few rounds of cards with Su Junyu, and to learn various trivial news about the Immortal Dao while listening to Su Junyu's boasting.

By the way, Wang Qi's visits to Su Junyu for card games are not just for the thrill of losing. Wang Qi has already begun to grasp the basics of the 'Yao Ding Calculation Sutra,' having refined yin and yang trigrams in dozens of acupoints, greatly enhancing his computational ability. Extensive computation is also a form of cultivation for the 'Yao Ding Calculation Sutra.'

Although theoretically, games like Go are the best way to train the 'Yao Ding Calculation Sutra,' Wang Qi can't find anyone to play with. This has also deepened Wang Qi's friendship with Su Junyu.

"By the way, Brother Su, is it easy for modern cultivators to go through tribulations?" Wang Qi suddenly remembered the morning's events and asked.

Su Junyu was tidying up his card deck and answered casually, "It depends on the specific tribulation. How did you ancient cultivators go through tribulations?"

"Golden Core Formation when advancing to the Golden Core stage, Core Fragmentation and Infant Formation when advancing to the Nascent Soul stage, Spirit Division and Body Formation when advancing to the Spirit Division stage, and Great Success of the Dharma Body when advancing to the Body Integration stage, each accompanied by a lightning tribulation."

"Modern cultivators are different. There's a lightning tribulation when breaking through the Golden Core to form the Primordial Spirit, and another when the Primordial Spirit reaches its peak and refines the void into reality. These two lightning tribulations can be handled with a single Thunder Imprisonment Spell. However, the Nirvana Tribulation at the Nirvana stage varies in number, type, and intensity from person to person. In the Nirvana Tribulation, no one can help you."

Wang Qi asked curiously, "Why?"

Su Junyu put the cards into the card box, "Do you know the principle of the lightning tribulation?"

Wang Qi shook his head.

"A cultivator is a 'mana field'—you don't need me to explain the concept of a field, right? A powerful mana field interferes with the flow of spiritual energy in the world. This system is always in dynamic equilibrium. If the balance is broken, the system will self-regulate to form a new equilibrium. The principle of the Nirvana Tribulation is more complex, something only high-level cultivators would understand, so I won't explain it to you."

I bet you don't know either. Wang Qi thought to himself.

After putting away the card deck, Su Junyu looked at Wang Qi, "By the way, do you know which instructor is going through the tribulation today?"

"Xiong Mo."

Su Junyu was shocked, "Xiong Mo? Uncle Xiong from Spirit Beast Mountain?"

"Yes, a Spirit Beast Mountain cultivator teaching the theory of Flowing Cloud Sect—how bizarre, right? Brother Su, your expression is so strange?"

"Ahahaha, Uncle Xiong has broad interests; he actually understands some of the powers of the Yangshen Pavilion and the Burning Gold Valley, hahaha."

Something's off. Seeing Su Junyu's reaction, Wang Qi was even more convinced of his guess, "So, that creepy uncle likes boys, right?"

Su Junyu was taken aback, "How did you come to that conclusion?"

"From your strange expression." Wang Qi patted Su Junyu's shoulder, "Encountering such... cough, unspoken rules, isn't your fault."

Su Junyu was speechless, "Get lost! I'm just worried about my mental health value."

Mental health value, like Lu Renjia's weighted algorithm, is a concept created by the Bai Ze Divine Lord, mainly used to measure a person's mental state. However, due to the complexity of the human mind, this value has not become a daily concept like Lu Renjia's weighted algorithm, but more of a joke.

Wang Qi stroked his chin, "If he doesn't have that kind of interest, why did you react like that?"

Su Junyu shook his head, "Too disgusting... Look it up yourself, use the Myriad Immortal Realm. Don't say I didn't warn you, it's a blind eye warning!"

So terrifying?

With curiosity about the new Spirit Beast Mountain cultivator who had just reached the Void Refinement stage, Wang Qi left the warehouse.

The Immortal Academy has about a thousand students per cohort. The students from the previous cohort will join their respective sects in June, so the practical classes in the afternoon are attended by two thousand students. These two thousand students are divided into twenty-four groups based on their cultivation progress, with each group guided by three Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Wang Qi's group is composed of the best of the new cohort. In this cohort, besides Wang Qi, there are nine Qi Condensation disciples, six of whom reached the Qi Condensation stage through modern cultivation methods, and the other three found ancient cultivation legacies.

Now, this group of eighty to ninety people is practicing 'Basic Sword Technique Three' under the supervision of a blue-robed cultivator.

Speaking of the sword techniques and boxing techniques they have been learning these days, Wang Qi feels a sense of powerlessness. 'Basic Sword Technique One,' 'Basic Sword Technique Two,' 'Basic Sword Technique Three,' 'Basic Sword Technique Four'... and the boxing techniques are 'Basic Boxing Technique One,' 'Basic Boxing Technique Two'... as if the person naming them couldn't be bothered to think of anything more creative.

However, when Zhen Chanzi saw these sword techniques and boxing techniques, he repeatedly marveled at the potential of the younger generation: "What do you know, a good name can't be eaten. These sword techniques not only contain all the possible movements in swordsmanship, but each set of movements also exercises your entire body's muscles, bones, and meridians. The same goes for the boxing techniques. They will greatly benefit you when you learn advanced sword techniques in the future!"

Zhen Chanzi's cultivation experience is mostly useless, but his judgment is still reliable... probably. So Wang Qi put a lot of effort into these sword techniques and boxing techniques with names that ruin the atmosphere.

However, Wang Qi has a huge problem when practicing sword techniques. The conflict in his internal cultivation method has not been resolved, and the sword techniques that mobilize internal mana can easily trigger a loss of control, so he has to divert part of his energy to suppress the internal disturbances while practicing.

This abnormality, of course, did not escape the notice of the Foundation Establishment cultivator leading their practice. The blue-robed cultivator suddenly called out, "Wang Qi, come out."

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