CHAPTER 953: CHAPTER 38: SHENZHOU WANFA, TURBULENCE RISES AGAIN (PART 2)

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Mathematics Lord Pang Jialai has a commendable appearance, but he has always been negligent in grooming. Unlike the Master of Calculation, he has never cared about personal image. Therefore, to others, he indeed seems more like a delirious old man.

However, Mathematics Lord never cared about how others viewed him. Just now, if it weren’t for the fact that the other party happened to speak on the topic he was pondering, he wouldn’t have been interested in speaking up at all.

To him, he and ordinary cultivators are fundamentally two different species.

When people see a cute cat, they "mew mew" to tease and play, but people don’t need to care about the cat’s opinion.

He walked towards the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm, lightly sighing, "Humans... whether mortals or immortals, the more they understand, the more prone they are to falling into misconceptions. It shows that the ’thoughts’ and ’minds’ we once prided ourselves on are ultimately nothing in the face of the true Great Dao."

"The ancient saints once said to abandon wisdom, for they seemed to notice the principle that ’life is finite but knowledge is infinite’. No matter how much people pursue ’saints’ or ’wisdom’, they are only exploring endlessly on a foundation of finiteness. This is destined to be tragic, so better to abandon wisdom. As I see it, the fact that they could comprehend this level is already remarkable, but it’s a pity they are still pitiful cowards, thinking that by covering their heads, their minds could be silent with the universe... pitiful, sad..."

"Later imitators thought that abandoning wisdom was abandoning intelligence altogether, how ridiculous..."

Mathematics Lord uttered these words, seemingly indifferent to those Middle Ages saints who had ascended. However, if one could reverse time and bring those pre-ascension, Middle Ages educating saints before him, the Mathematics Lord could still scorn them arrogantly or even defeat them.

However, in the ears of nearby Immortal Institute lecturers like Nie Lingfang, these words were a sign of impending madness.

Talking about the unreal as if it’s real, those who attempt to return the Modern Immortal Path to Mystical Thought are basically madmen who lost sanity due to severe shocks to their Dao heart. At least in the last three hundred years, all Modern Cultivators who talked about mysticism were either mad or outdated.

Nie Lingfang secretly instructed the Foundation Establishment Stage teaching assistants who followed to quickly take the newly entered disciples away, while she stood protectively in front of the new disciples anxiously.

This elder from the Wanfa Sect is very formidable. With her cultivation at the initial stage of the Primordial Spirit, she couldn’t gauge his depth. Such a person is either Void Refining Perfection or in the Nirvana Period, or possibly mentally unstable due to not surviving the Nirvana Tribulation... No matter how much stronger she becomes, she cannot compare to this old man.

But she couldn’t retreat. Tianling Ridge’s Innate Peak is the renowned Xinglin that wishes for everyone’s well-being, her Dao heart wouldn’t allow her to abandon these Qi Cultivation Stage children to flee.

The Mathematics Lord suddenly seemed to remember that there were people around, turning to Nie Lingfang: "Little girl, I told you, your perspective is completely wrong."

It took Nie Lingfang a moment to assure herself that this elder was speaking to her. Mathematics Lord’s habit of conversing with others was very poor, he seemed unaware of how to communicate with others. To many, he seemed to be talking to himself without purpose.

"Do you know? The field of the Mysterious Path is currently mainly on the subatomic scale. At this scale, all movements are deterministic because we have consistently processed it with linear Heavenly Element, and its motions conform to linear laws. It’s just that during observation, it presents randomness. This is because our Human Clan’s perception can only sense the spirit sense above the subatomic scale. For the content below this scale, we are currently helpless. However, it is undoubtedly a deterministic process."

"However, the macroscopic heaven and earth you are familiar with are entirely different. This is a place where no laws apply."

Now, the lecturers from Leiyang Immortal Institute became increasingly tense. They were almost a hundred percent sure that this old man was indeed a living tragedy of the Wanfa Sect. In ten years or so, they might warn their children against seeking immortal fate at Wanfa Sect—if they can survive the old man’s outbreak of madness.

Mathematics Lord gently tapped his toes, slowly approaching the Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror: "You think you can calculate the entire world with calculation, but what can you really calculate? Haven’t you noticed? The deeper we understand heaven and earth, the less we dare to use the word ’precise’. In the past, Yuanli Master solved the binary problem, but in the following millennium, no one took a step further to solve the ternary problem. Later, we found out that in the Yuanli system, the binary problem had solutions, but when substituted into the Shape Comparison system, even the binary problem couldn’t be accurately solved..."

"Why is it that the more we seek the Dao, the further we are from ’precision’ and the more we stray from ’certainty’?"

——What’s this old man going to do?

——Is he unable to handle stimuli and is going to attack the Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror?

——Should we stop him?

The lecturers from Leiyang Immortal Institute became increasingly anxious.

At that moment, a student suddenly jumped out and shouted, "You’re wrong! The ternary problem does have a solution! Hundreds of years ago, Mathematics Lord already solved it!"

Pang Jialai halted his movement, slowly looked at the child who spoke out, while the lecturers beside him were afraid the old man would go mad from being pointed out a mistake. Unexpectedly, Mathematics Lord simply nodded lightly: "Yes, that’s right, I did find a solution hundreds of years ago and made a mistake. Now, I’m here to correct that mistake."

As these words were uttered, silence fell, pin-drop silence.

——What...

——What did this old man just say...

The Mathematics Lord slowly extended his hand towards the surface of the Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror. At that moment, a ripple of Spirit Light appeared on the mirror’s surface, and a human silhouette emerged on it.

"Mathematics Lord! What madness are you up to again?" Feng Luoyi’s eyes were filled with anger. "What exactly are you doing?"

"Correcting a mistake, kid," the Mathematics Lord said calmly. "Step aside, I need to commandeer all the redundant computing power of the Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror. I am a Carefree Practitioner, and according to the rules of the Immortal Alliance, I have this right."

"Why are you here today, at this time? Why didn’t you make a remote request? The Wanfa Sect also has a sub-device of the Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror, and it is dedicated to research, with capabilities not inferior to the redundancies of the Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror. Why didn’t you complete your computations there?"

"The control of the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm is in your hands, making it an unsuitable tool for me, and there’s always the risk you might secretly trip me up, causing some mistake," the Mathematics Lord smiled. "Moreover, this is just the final validation. I’ve already completed the process, but the final validation requires using the computational power of the Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror, which is tens of times greater than my calculator, to be completed swiftly."

Feng Luoyi’s face was calm, seemingly feeling insulted.

If this were a normal validation, would it be necessary to go to such lengths and come to Leiyang?

"What do you need to validate?"

"Actually, part of it involves theories from one of your disciples, so I believe you won’t disapprove," the Mathematics Lord smiled with a hint of mystery.

Feng Luoyi was silent for a moment before stepping aside. According to the rules, he indeed had no reason to block the other party.

The Mathematics Lord gently pressed his hand on the mirror. Then, a water-like Spirit Light spread out. Amidst this Spirit Light, it seemed everyone saw a strange model. The model appeared as a three-dimensional grid formed by countless intersecting lines, with each cell being an identical regular hexahedron. In this model, all cells were flickering.

However, only Feng Luoyi saw this process clearly.

This is a virtual Cellular Automaton.

The Mathematics Lord lowered his head, fingers moving in the void, pulling out a piece of paper and handing it to Feng Luoyi: "Ah, a small proof I made during my ’spare time.’ The model your disciple created can, in mathematics, be equivalent to the Narrow-Turing Calculator... This proof is not very difficult."

Receiving the Mathematics Lord’s paper, Feng Luoyi’s expression slightly changed.

Initially, Cellular Automata may seem only like an algorithmic model for simulating the movement rules of complex objects. Who could immediately discern its nature, identifying it as a computational tool equivalent to the Narrow-Turing Calculator [Turing Machine], the Wanfa Wanxiang Formula [Lambda Calculus]?

Perhaps Wang Qi himself doesn’t even know. [Actually, Wang Qi does know, but he hasn’t had the opportunity to present it yet.]

This seemingly simple proof alone demonstrates that the Mathematics Lord has comparable strength to him, Master Turing, and Wang Qi in this new field called "Calculator Mathematics."

"I said, I merely oppose viewing logic as the foundation of mathematics, but that doesn’t mean I don’t understand," the Mathematics Lord smiled and said, "You’d better get ready for the rest of the process."

"Get ready for what?"

"Don’t cause another big disturbance like last year’s..." the Mathematics Lord waved his hand, as a massive amount of Spirit Sense flooded into the model.

Then, under the control of Mathematics Lord Pang Jialai, the virtual model changed wildly. Moreover, every few seconds, it split into another.

These consciousnesses naturally flowed through Feng Luoyi’s mind. Consequently, Feng Luoyi naturally froze.

"The Heavenly Element Group I injected is a non-linear Heavenly Element Group. Or rather, the few Heavenly Element Formations in this group have ’non-linear’ characteristics. The Heavenly Element, Earth Element, and Human Element do not exist as linear variables, but as quadratic products of variables," the Mathematics Lord gestured with his hand. "This shouldn’t have been much of a problem for the Heavenly Element Formation itself; we knew its solution method hundreds of years ago... or so it should have been."

"But just this tiny difference has created a very interesting result..."

Behind the Mathematics Lord, the divergence of the Cellular Automata had multiplied several times, becoming tens of thousands of massive modules.

And each one was uncertain.

Among these models, there were even individuals presenting completely different appearances.

"Just this little difference..." Pang Jialai rubbed his fingers, "is enough to make the blind open their eyes."