Chapter 89 of 100

Chapter 89

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Mao Zimiao had long since become accustomed to Wang Qi's occasional eccentric remarks. She didn’t ask about terms like "electric shock user" and "chick magnet" that she couldn’t understand, but instead said, "I feel like you’ve learned more than just this, Xiao Qi."

Wang Qi raised an eyebrow in surprise and said, "How did you know?"

Mao Zimiao pouted, "Even if it were me, I would have mastered the basics of the Heavenly Evolution Chart by now. From here on out, I can steadily improve my cultivation through consistent effort. Xiao Qi, you’ve learned so much more than me; it’s impossible that you only know one spell, right?"

Wang Qi was somewhat surprised. Could this be the power of intuition?

During this period, he had mainly been researching the essence of spirit energy, and electromagnetism was just a side interest. The Thunder Imprisonment Spell was indeed a powerful spell that could withstand even the Immortal Ascension Tribulation, but its principle, the "Faraday cage," was an 18th-century discovery on Earth, not cutting-edge. Wang Qi quickly mastered it, but due to his limited computational ability, he couldn’t use it.

For the current method of cultivation, computational power was crucial.

As his understanding of the essence of spirit energy deepened, Wang Qi's grasp of cultivation techniques also improved significantly. With the organization of his previous life's mathematical knowledge, he made great progress in martial arts as well.

Mao Zimiao didn’t understand the extent of Wang Qi's strength but asked the next question, "Xiao Qi, are you confident about the exam?"

"Exam?"

"Tomorrow! The monthly exam in June!"

The monthly exams were held at the beginning of the following month. The exam lasted three days, with two days of written tests and one day of martial arts tests.

Wang Qi proudly shook his head and said, "Who do you think I am?"

In his previous life, he had experienced countless exams, and a mere monthly exam was nothing to him.

On the contrary, Mao Zimiao looked worried, "Xiao Qi, your goal is to become a disciple of the Five Greats. I heard that to reach that level, you need to achieve excellent results in every monthly exam at the Immortal Academy."

"Bro, I’m on a different level from most people. You should worry about yourself, Azimiao!"

Mao Zimiao pouted, "Even Senior Su said it’s best for you not to choose the Myriad Methods Gate to avoid competing with the Bo family’s descendants..."

Wang Qi shook his head, "That’s purely your overthinking. That Bo family descendant is definitely not as strong as me."

To be fair, Wang Qi didn’t look down on the talented individuals of the Divine Continent. On the contrary, he found it terrifying that the legendary Bo family descendant could reach his current exposed level. However, he understood that he and the Immortal Academy’s disciples of the same year were not on the same starting line.

The development of mathematics on the Divine Continent was slightly behind Earth, roughly equivalent to the 1960s on Earth. Apart from number theory and systems theory, which were stronger than Earth, probability theory was even worse, not even as advanced as 19th-century Earth.

Wang Qi had studied mathematics for twenty years in such an environment. The accumulation of two lifetimes naturally far surpassed the other party.

Although he admired the talent of the Bo family descendant, there was no way he would give up the position of a true disciple.

After chatting for a while, the two left the rooftop.

Wang Qi didn’t loiter anymore and returned directly to his dormitory. After returning, he glanced at the clock and sighed, "Unconsciously, I spent half an hour more than usual."

The True Enlightenment in the ring teased, "When a young man spends time with a compatible woman, time naturally flies by."

"Regardless, private practice can’t be neglected." Wang Qi said as he walked to his desk and sat down cross-legged.

Some cultivation techniques were either too shocking or required Earth knowledge he couldn’t explain.

Wang Qi didn’t close his eyes to meditate but grabbed a pen and started writing and calculating on a prepared draft paper. He used the Earth mathematical symbols he was most familiar with and wrote the famous Schrödinger wave function.

This was his method of entering a meditative state. The requirement for circulating qi was to focus the mind and fully sense the spirit energy, a technique often practiced with closed eyes and regulated breathing. However, for Wang Qi, calculation brought more tranquility to his mind. When calculating, his consciousness directly mapped to cultivation, making the flow of spiritual power smoother than following the cultivation technique.

Then, golden light waves surged from his body, illuminating the entire room. The light waves were faint and elusive, precisely the mysterious wave qi of a powerful technique.

A month wasn’t enough for Wang Qi to master this technique to the point of using it freely, but he could initially control this spiritual power without much difficulty.

However, the method of entering a meditative state through writing and calculating didn’t last long. Wang Qi soon encountered a significant pause in his calculations, and the pace slowed down. In the end, he had to sigh and practice according to the technique.

After fourteen years of transmigration, there were things he truly couldn’t remember. If he had known from the first year that this was a world of academic cultivation and had continuously reviewed what he learned on Earth, he could have proudly said, "Persistence pays off." But some things, once forgotten, were forgotten.

After comprehending "True self as one, the original heart remains unchanged," Wang Qi finally began the task he should have done long ago—reviewing what he learned in his previous life. This work took him over half a month.

It was during this process that he discovered the benefits of "entering a meditative state through solving problems."

No wonder Su Junyu said, "A good math problem is better than a divine pill"!

Wang Qi’s cultivation of the mysterious wave qi continued for a long time. Afterward, he solved a few problems from Maxwell’s equations to cultivate the Heavenly Song Technique, and calculated the Planck constant to cultivate the Great Discrete Concordance. By the time he finished cultivating several techniques, it was already midnight.

Wang Qi looked at the spirit clock and muttered to himself, "It seems I need to make a choice among these techniques."

Cultivating so many techniques at once was too slow.

After finishing his cultivation, he didn’t go to sleep but picked up a book and read it carefully.

"The First Volume of the Songting Collection," a classic of integrating mathematics into cultivation. Wang Qi had spent a considerable amount of cultivation points to borrow this book from the library.

For cultivators, sleeping was more about relieving mental fatigue and improving cultivation efficiency. Even a Qi Cultivation stage cultivator like Wang Qi could go three to four days without sleep.

After reading for about an hour, he seemed to find inspiration and fell over the desk, starting to calculate something. After writing a few equations, he took out a cultivation technique he had copied long ago and read it carefully.

This technique was the heart method of the ancient Five Elements Sect, which had been destroyed by True Enlightenment’s Luofu Xuanqing Palace. Their heart method fell into the hands of Luofu Xuanqing Palace. Seven days ago, Wang Qi suddenly asked True Enlightenment for a Five Elements attribute technique to study. True Enlightenment readily provided the heart method.

While reading the heart method, Wang Qi was also calculating something. After finishing the calculations, Wang Qi took a deep breath and said, "This is a huge project... Tomorrow, I’ll spend three cultivation points to exchange for the paper 'Yin-Yang Trigram Theory' by the Venerable Lai Buli. That should complete the first step of this work."

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