Exploring Immortality Cultivation
Chapter 835 - 164: Collapse Divine Skill
Wang Qi's consciousness roamed through the already collapsed Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm. This time, what he felt was no longer a sea of orderly information but countless clusters of fragmented information. In Wang Qi's perception, these scattered information clusters were like chaotic asteroid belts in outer space—discrete, unordered, yet bound together by some invisible force.
These were obviously the calculators that hadn't had the chance to detach physically from the Illusion Realm.
Ninety thousand Flow Control Mechanism Butterflies flapped their wings in unison, extracting spiritual energy from the Infinite Sea of Vacuum, amounting even more than the total mana of the Primordial Spirit Stage. Wang Qi's consciousness flowed with the opening and closing of the wings, merging this spiritual energy with his own consciousness, transforming it into his own mana. Then, this mana was injected into the large calculator in front of Wang Qi, which transformed it into Spirit Waves of the Spirit Sense, scattering Wang Qi's consciousness across the paralyzed network.
"Hiss..."
As soon as he entered the Illusion Realm, Wang Qi could feel the sense of negation and collapse of incompleteness. The mana he injected into this virtual network all faintly had a tendency towards self-negation. However, the Butterfly Group acting as Wang Qi's second brain just flapped its wings, and this sense of collapse was eliminated and corrected.
That was the manifestation of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem within this network. In this world, the structure of the network only mimicked the soul of living beings but was not logically rigorous, leaving many aspects as "naturally formed." And the true intent of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem caused those "black boxes" to be completely shattered, and all logical contradictions in the network exploded, causing the entire network to collapse directly.
This power could even extend into reality. However, to comprehend this true intent, one would have to be at least of Divine Separation Sense Transformation cultivation at the Primordial Spirit Stage or a top-tier Golden Core. Naturally, Wang Qi could also sense that terrifying power. However, after independently deriving Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, his own strength and thoughts had long been baptized and reconstructed by this incompleteness, making him naturally immune to this power.
Throughout Shenzhou, only Wang Qi could retain his consciousness in this collapsed Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm.
It wasn't about realm; it was all about logic.
Initially, Wang Qi thought he could do something. After all, Feng Luoyi had forcibly disconnected all large databases physically and issued a warning for evacuation, causing most users of the Illusion Realm to go offline, leading to a temporary reduction in the Illusion Realm's power.
However, he quickly realized he couldn't do anything. Whether it was the two Immortal Artifact-level calculators "Mathematics" and "Discrete" or the Butterfly Group rivaling a supercomputer, they were all insignificant compared to the entire Illusion Realm.
As such, he no longer worried about things like "saving Teacher Feng" with the mindset of a Golden Core, maintaining a Carefree heart, and began to let his consciousness spread rapidly in this now chaotic network, meanwhile reorganizing the areas he could see.
Numerous Wanxiang Diagrams were released from Wang Qi's body. These diagrams quickly integrated into the Illusion Realm, starting to reconstruct a complete, non-negating logical core. Wang Qi intended to reshape the Illusion Realm around him using this small device as a link.
If, usually, the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm was a scene of peaceful prosperity, with strict rules and measured actions, now the Illusion Realm was undoubtedly a world of chaos and decay, with undercurrents surging, ready to swallow up a browser with the slightest misstep.
However, chaos also has its advantages. At this time, all the usual rules had lost their sustaining power, and secrets once closely guarded were exposed.
Of course, Wang Qi could not hack into the Immortal Alliance's database. Feng Luoyi had already established physical isolation before the Great Collapse.
But for Wang Qi, his greatest harvest was experiencing the Great Collapse itself.
"I see, in this universe filled with spiritual energy black boxes, this incompleteness theorem has such applications!"
Wang Qi marveled while expanding his "domain" woven from Wanxiang Diagrams.
This was not an easy task. Now, the entire Illusion Realm was still filled with forces of negation. If there was any logical incompleteness or error in Wang Qi's domain-building code, it would immediately be destroyed by the entire system. But Wang Qi was enjoying this process. He continuously rewrote, was consistently negated, and yet kept reconstructing.
With each step forward, Wang Qi felt resistance several times greater than before. Still, he slowly expanded his domain. Gradually, his domain began to expand slowly.
This virtual domain expanded within a network dissolved into machine language. It was not a real space. The data "expanded" by Wang Qi were still circulated into the Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror central processor because they remained connected.
Soon, he suddenly felt that the resistance to his expansion disappeared.
Then, the virtual world, which had been shattered into "gravel," was being corrected and reshaped by an invisible, powerful hand.
A figure appeared "in front" of Wang Qi's consciousness, it was Feng Luoyi. But at this moment, Wang Qi felt that the aura of this Ace Carefree was not very good.
Wang Qi cautiously asked, "Teacher, are you okay now?"
"Not at all," Feng Luoyi replied in an unfriendly tone. "After reading your paper, I feel like the past hundred years of my life have been wasted. I feel like a fool, doing stupid things here... I even started to think that the Mathematics Lord was right, and I deserved to be mocked by that bastard of mine..."
—The most important thing is, I've realized that I might never reach the realm of the Great Dao.
Seeing that Feng Luoyi was in a really bad mood, Wang Qi comforted him: "Teacher, don't say such discouraging things. The so-called 'self-evident' is actually the great enemy of mathematical development!"
"Didn't you say that arithmetic is Daoist, and is inherently self-existing?"
"Arithmetic is Daoist, but mathematics is not." Wang Qi shook his head: "If it weren't for Ximen Master, I would never have realized this layer of incompleteness principle. Self-evidence, thinking that 'as long as it's right, it's fine', is not a good attitude. We need to know 'what is right', and even more so 'why it is right'—or sometimes, knowing 'why it's wrong' is just as important. I think the latter is even more crucial. Just like today's Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm, we only knew 'how to use it' before, but failed to construct it with rigorous logic..."
Feng Luoyi smiled bitterly: "Logic... mathematical logic... hehe..."
"Teacher, you're wrong there. Although we've touched upon the incompleteness of logic, within known fields, logic is still sufficient! Moreover, there do exist complete axiomatic systems in terms of structure..."
"Alright, alright, do you really think you've become a grandmaster? And now you're lecturing me?" Feng Luoyi interrupted Wang Qi, then smiled bitterly again: "Complete... If it weren't for recalling the fully complete Sky Drawing Style at the last moment, I might not have made it back..."
"Teacher..."
"Enough. The matters here are strictly confidential for now. I'll handle the aftermath." Feng Luoyi wanted to wave Wang Qi away, but the hand he extended ended up patting Wang Qi's shoulder unconsciously: "This time... well done."
Wang Qi shook his head: "Sorry..."
"There's nothing to apologize for. As you said, arithmetic is inherently Daoist, can we blame the Great Dao for not shaping the world according to our desires?" Feng Luoyi sighed deeply: "Compared to the Dao, the little splendor we've built is negligible."
"Go on, after you leave, celebrate well. From now on, Wanfa Sect will surely be your domain."
Feng Luoyi let Wang Qi leave, then reorganized the network.
Wang Qi returned to his senses and found that less than ten minutes had passed since he entered the network. The riot that affected the entire Shenzhou had, in fact, only lasted a few minutes. The rampant spirit was already calmed down, though the thin, aggressive spiritual energy swirling around made people quite uncomfortable.
Chen Youjia anxiously grabbed Wang Qi's hand and asked, "What happened? What exactly happened?"
"Nothing. Teacher Feng encountered a little problem over there." Wang Qi smiled and patted Chen Youjia's head: "Rather than that, what should we have for dinner?"
As for what had just happened, Wang Qi really didn't dare to tell Chen Youjia. Although the girl was more inclined to the "disputes between the Li Sect and the Sect Union are pointless" neutral party, no one knew how an average arithmetician would react after seeing Godel's Incompleteness Theorem.
Such 'stepping on a landmine' matter should be left to professionals!
Chen Youjia did not accept this, and slapped Wang Qi's hand away: "Explain clearly! Don't change the subject!"
Wang Qi shook his head, suddenly feeling the urge to "try out his new divine skill." He turned to Chen Youjia and said, "Junior Sister, throw a spell at me, any spell will do."
"Are you crazy?" Chen Youjia casually threw a small spell, having no idea what Wang Qi wanted to do.
Watching a spell coming towards him, Wang Qi extended his finger and gently swiped, causing the spell to collapse instantly.
Chen Youjia was stunned: "This... this is..."
She clearly felt that her spell had suddenly fallen into a state of self-contradiction, with the internal forces clashing against each other, completely destroying the spell structure. Although this caused the spell to collapse, it was different from the chaotic entropy-increase power of the Heavenly Entropy Technique. Wang Qi didn't even use any special mana.
What exactly is this power?
"This is the new divine power I comprehended in the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm just now." Wang Qi laughed: "Just now I was experimenting with divine skills in there with Teacher Feng... and then, accidentally... seemed to have taken down the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm."
Chen Youjia's eyes widened: "Ac... accidentally..."
"Yeah." Wang Qi nodded: "That's my kind of genius..."
