Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 813 - 142: The First Step of Promotion
"Sister Ai, that guy... really... really..."
Looking at the transparent bucket in front of him and the pitifully small microbial community at the bottom, he sighed slightly, "This is truly a 'safe' variety."
Weak adaptability to the environment, low reproductive power, and extremely sensitive, they die en masse with even slight changes in temperature, salinity, or light.
If Wang Qi didn't also possess the Life Flame, these little creatures would have long perished under his care.
And now, Wang Qi finally understood why Ai Qinglan, who herself possesses the Life Flame, still insisted on hiring a large group of people, including Mao Zimiao, to help her cultivate the microbial communities.
Samples that have their lives forcibly sustained by Life Flame do not have promotion value. Without promotion value, the greatest advantage of a biological calculator—easy and rapid production—is lost. Without the Life Flame, these things, utterly defenseless against diseases and pests or adaptable to natural environments, are too easy to kill.
Thankfully, Ai Qinglan discreetly advised Wang Qi about the cultivation method. She told Wang Qi "don't get them wet," yet culture dishes typically aren't water-free, suggesting that a significant amount of moisture is crucial for these samples' survival environment.
"No wonder, Senior Sister Mi's species are from alien stars, right? It's normal for them to suffer from acclimation issues and not resist Shenzhou's pestilence?"
Thinking this, Wang Qi dipped his hand into the bucket. Immediately, strands of white Light of Negative Entropy emerged from his palm, like sunlight, infusing life force into the Mystical Thought Body at the bottom of the bucket. These fragile beings, sated with spiritual power, gradually began to revive.
Unlike Ai Qinglan, his goal was not to cultivate a special microorganism group potentially useful for massive agro-industrial purposes, but to observe the cell structure of the Mystical Thought Body.
At this moment, Wang Qi also poured his spiritual sense into it.
The spiritual sense of a Golden Core Stage cultivator is naturally beyond ordinary. Wang Qi could now directly observe matters at the molecular level. To his eyes, a single atom appeared like an irregular, vaguely outlined "little blob"—those were electron orbitals, and they were unlike diffraction patterns. Molecules appeared as piles of irregular things. Changes at the chemical level held no secrets from his perception now.
However, this was as far as a mortal's limit could reach. Even those thousands of times stronger in spiritual sense than him, such as cultivators in the Mahayana Realm, couldn't see more details. This limitation was destined by the so-called uncertainty principle.
Why can people see the world? Because their eyes receive light reflected from the surface of objects. Most instruments also observe things based on this principle, but those precise instruments sense not photons, but electrons or other high-energy particles.
What if an object is smaller than a photon itself? 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮
Then humans have no way to observe it.
This is the most basic principle of "uncertainty." To observe an electron, you must launch a photon or another electron towards it, but this electron would bounce off, changing the observed electron's position or velocity.
This is the greatest chasm between microscopic and macroscopic.
At least Earth's scientists couldn't figure out a way to cross this chasm. To observe an electron without alteration would require something much smaller than the observed electron—even smaller than a quark—to collide with it. This wouldn't change the electron's position and momentum, but how to observe something smaller than a quark itself becomes a greater problem.
Of course. Before this, Earthlings must face problems like "we can't even control electrons, how do we control something smaller than a quark?"
Fortunately, this isn't an unsurmountable barrier for the Shenzhou Cosmic.
Spiritual Energy, a physical quantity deemed nonsense by Earth scientists, provides this possibility.
Spiritual Energy widely exists from the cosmic scale to the Planck scale. Its "tendency towards order" interaction with human consciousness makes it possible. Theoretically, immortals can delve deeper than the micro-scale into even more microscopic worlds. Immortals could discover entangled states below the subatomic scale and cultivate spiritual sense into superluminal message transmission "immortal sense," relying on this cosmic principle.
—When Wang Qi learned about the so-called realm of "stepping out of the river," he had an inkling of Bell's Inequality's results.
Of course, the mere act of "being able to observe" doesn't always mean comprehension. It's like the "River of Time" mentioned by immortals. To modern cultivators, it's clearly gravitational anomalies and changes in the motion laws of matter, but to immortals, it's like a river full of hidden reefs, hence in their eyes, the universe's time appears like a river.
This formed a principle of Modern: any data perceived by the physical body cannot serve as direct evidence and must be measured by instruments.
The human brain, human consciousness, after all, is a chaotic system. Various concepts easily form unexpected associations in thought, giving a "subjective image" to something originally "lacking shape," forming preconceived biases.
This is like your computer randomly linking two files together.
Of course, this has nothing to do with the current Wang Qi. He doesn't plan to delve into atomic levels, but desires to understand the structure of the Mystical Thought Body's cells.
"Well, at their root, they are 'plants', belonging to the plant kingdom. However, they are forcefully suppressed in their cell walls and chlorophyll, transforming from 'producers' to... special plants reliant on spiritual power to exist."
"However, I can understand why you would bring up cell walls, but if you don't mention chlorophyll..."
"I'm a bit curious and concerned about that."
"Also, cell membranes are thin, with developed channels...what does that rely on? Ion channels or something else?"
"It's precisely because of the channels on the cell membrane that some elementary communication exists between them, allowing for the establishment of small-scale order."
"Once small-scale order is established, results can lead to larger convergences and correlations. Then a relatively stable spiritual power system can be formed...transmit information within this cluster system to make it more orderly..."
Wang Qi doesn't need to understand every detail about this Mystical Thought Body. He just needs to know its structure and how it works.
It's like most people don't truly understand Newtonian mechanics, yet they still walk.
More so, the foundation of this cluster system—theory of Divine Tao System, was developed by him and Chen Feng together, so he is equally familiar with it.
Soon, Wang Qi infused his own mana into these things.
Senior Sister Mi appeared in time, rolling her eyes at Wang Qi: "Aren't you afraid of driving yourself crazy?"
"These Mystical Thought Bodies are still primitive, currently they consist of only a single bacterial colony and can't perform particularly complex calculations. Each 'settlement' does about a hundred floating-point operations per second. There's less than a hundred 'cones' in the whole batch, with a computing capacity of roughly ten thousand floating-point operations per second," said Wang Qi, tapping his head. "The human brain, on average, is fifty billion billion operations per second. I'm a genius, so my brain power is only higher. As a Golden Core Stage cultivator, my soul's calculating power exceeds that number too."
"Maybe your body could fracture my personality, but these things can't."
Chen Youjia's discontented snort came from behind Wang Qi: "Don't you think your wording is bizarre?"
Wang Qi quickly claimed his innocence. He then asked another question: "Speaking of which, Youjia, have you succeeded in transforming your cultivation technique?"
Wang Qi's first step in expanding the Dataized Cultivation Method was, of course, to bring Chen Youjia on board.
The foundation of Dataized Cultivation Method consists of two main parts: one is the Wanfa Sect's cultivation technique "Yao Ding Calculating Scripture" or its advanced techniques like Xiangyu Heavenly Position Technique and so on, and the other is simultaneously studying the Heavenly Calculation Atlas. Furthermore, the Magic Foundation and Golden Core must also be based on Calculator Theory.
Most disciples like this belong to the Wanfa Sect.
Chen Youjia happened to fit this criteria. Moreover, her Magic Foundation design had once referenced Wang Qi's, to an extent it could even replicate Wang Qi's experience.
And what she needed to do now was to enhance her cultivation in Heavenly Calculation Atlas.
Wang Qi wasn't deeply worried about this. Among the various cultivation techniques in the Immortal Institute, the Heavenly Calculation Atlas, although placed in the back hall of the Transmitting Technique Hall, had no assessment, indicating its low entry barrier. Since Chen Feng and Ai Qinglan mainly studied the Heavenly Calculation Atlas, guiding Chen Youjia wouldn't be much of a problem in this aspect.
Chen Youjia nodded in frustration: "I can't find a path to advance for now."
Wang Qi patted her on the head: "Don't rush. Once you complete this step, achieving the Core Formation will be particularly easy, and even the Primordial Spirit is quite attainable."
Chen Youjia pouted: "Core Formation is not hard to begin with. You're just making it harder in disguise."
Wang Qi wouldn't let go, patting Chen Youjia's head vigorously: "Hurry up and complete it."
Once Chen Youjia completed this step, Wang Qi could determine which aspects of his cultivation method could serve as adjustable "personalized settings" and which could be beneficial to promote.
With this knowledge, he could better entice a third person into the fold.
For instance, Su Junyu, having mastered the Xiangyu Heavenly Position Technique, he would be a perfect experiment...ahem, trial object.
Anyway, since Su Junyu formed his Golden Core with the Calculator Structure, this Dataized Magic Artifact Cultivation would just be like double-majoring a method that levels up with recharging, without actually tricking him!
The two chatted for a while, but Zhen Chan was getting anxious. He said, "Hey, youngster, don't forget what you agreed on! Don't forget your reservation! You can't leave a Primordial Spirit Stage Grandmaster waiting endlessly!"
