Exploring Immortality Cultivation
Chapter 838 - 167: Number One Among Peers? Surpassing the Seniors!
A consciousness flowed cautiously through the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm, as if it were afraid of this environment.
This was just a strand of a vast consciousness. It extended in a certain direction along a channel built by spirit waves.
Then, it sensed another entity, one similar to itself.
The two consciousnesses merged.
—Entity, safety confirmed.
—Entity, safety confirmed.
—Be at ease.
This way of indistinguishable communication is a unique trait of the Sea God Type.
When two spiritual bodies of the Sea God Type get too close, their "subjective consciousness" dissolves, and their two minds temporarily unite. They communicate in this highly efficient manner.
—Be at ease.
This feeling echoed in the thoughts of Mi and Xi.
—No change.
—No change.
—The evil personality is being reconstructed.
—So pitiful.
—I am still me, and you are still you.
—That's good.
The combined thoughts scattered and once again became Xi and Mi. Mi asked, "What are you doing now? I sensed a massive amount of calculation."
"Rehabilitation training... that's what it's called, right? Probably." Xi mumbled, "Why did we part?"
"The injuries were quite severe, so I'm not used to that mode of communication anymore."
Mi shook his head with a bitter smile.
At this time, two days had passed since that inexplicable large-scale collapse. Over these two days, Mi, Xi, and other Sea God Types gradually calmed down.
That great collapse was the most profound denial of logic. Under its true intent, those Sea God Types who had not yet left the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm experienced a denial dead loop within their bodies, causing a collapse of Cultivation.
For the Sea God Type, the spiritual body is the only thinking organ; Cultivation is thought, and ideas are Divine Skills. This chain denial of spirit power could also cause a change in the Sea God Type's personality.
Fortunately, for the Sea God Types who are always in the Personality Formation Stage, changing oneself is just a commonplace routine. Their standard for "self-awareness" is completely different from that of the Human Clan. However, for them, being forcibly changed is an extremely uncomfortable and painful period.
Xi nodded, "It hurts so much! Thankfully, my connection with the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm is weak."
Mi shuddered at the memory, "Fortunately, when I was assisting Wang Qi before, I had simulated a human brain and learned some special techniques. At the last moment, I transcribed my self-awareness into another format and used Life Source Material [protein] to store and record it. Otherwise, given my close connection with the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm, nothing would have remained this time."
Xi asked in confusion, "So, you're saying..."
The way Sea God Types store memories is actually to carry the memory into a circulating spirit power flow, allowing this flowing spirit power to coexist with their spiritual body, transforming into a form of Cultivation. Owing to the Sea God Type's enormous size, this "memory" can even be larger than the Primordial Spirit Earth Vein.
"I am currently using a human neural network constructed by Transformation Divine Power," Mi said calmly. "My spiritual body has already collapsed, and I've lost many memories. But fortunately, that great collapse did not affect the memories stored in the Life Source Material; over eighty percent of the memories have been preserved, and the lost parts are inconsequential."
"Ahhh! Truly! Who the hell did this!" Xi clutched his head, exclaiming in anger, "If I find out who did it, I will... I will..."
"Alright," Mi stopped Xi's complaints and continued, "The hastily laid neural network does not follow the brain's structure, so it's still not very functional. My intelligence will be affected for a while. I won't go out until I reconstruct my spiritual body. For now, how are Wang Qi and the others over at the Western Border?"
"They're doing great!" Xi replied testily, "Especially your junior brother, he's doing wonderfully. While we're still hurt, he's already jumping out to have a fight with Junior Sister Ai."
Over the sea of the West Sea, Wang Qi is battling with Ai Qinglan. However, this time, his objective is not just to "loosen up." The newly acquired divine skills, no matter what, need to be tested. For this, he gathered all the Golden Core cultivators he knew and fought them one after another, like playing an arcade game.
And the strongest, Ai Qinglan, was naturally the so-called final BOSS.
Wang Qi's thoughts and mana have undergone incomplete refinement, and the sense of completeness naturally arose. At this moment, his thoughts and mana flow more smoothly than before, and there is no longer any contradiction in his entire body's mana, with every punch and kick able to fully exert its power.
But the benefits gained when his thesis was initially completed seem insignificant compared to the Law Gate he comprehended during the great collapse of the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm.
During the great collapse, Wang Qi comprehended two divine skills. One of them is "Collapse." This divine skill's function is to break the "black box," pinpoint the logical contradictions hidden within various laws, and create a domino effect through infinite loops, producing chain collapses.
At first glance, this move seems somewhat similar to the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm. However, the principles and applications of these two are fundamentally different. The Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm borrows the laws of thermodynamics, working on any substance, and of course, can be countered by forces like the Life Flame, which is negative entropy. If the disparity in strength between the two sides is too significant and the systems are fundamentally different, the effect of the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm might not even retain one-tenth. The strong can even purely use strength to counteract the Life Flame.
However, the "Collapse" divine skill is different; both the Life Flame and the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm are influenced by its effects. The stronger my cultivation, the greater the impact it suffers. Yet, it can only affect human-understood laws and cannot influence natural phenomena. Simply put, this move can break countless Daoist skills but cannot break even a piece of stone. Furthermore, it cannot destroy Law Gates like the Sky Drawing Technique, developed on a complete axiomatic system, unlike the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm, which has almost no restrictions.
As for the other Law Gate, it can be said to be a divine skill, but also a technique discovered by Wang Qi. This Law Gate's function is to find the incompleteness in the opponent's cultivation method.
The Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm is a "Miracle Project" that gathers the most mystical and refined spells in Shenzhou. Many laws leave traces there. And when Feng Luoyi deduced the incompleteness theorem, the will it emitted, similar to the "Martial Arts True Intent," magnified and uncovered the contradictions within these laws. Wang Qi observed the process of the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm's collapse and discovered the method of finding "incompleteness" from other laws, then summarized an experience formula and incorporated it into his own cultivation, practicing it into a divine skill.
This divine skill cannot peep into the flaws of all cultivation methods in the world; its effect is more like a "sudden enlightenment that sees the flaw," which is due to the experience formula itself being not very complete and also limited by Wang Qi's own computational power.
However, even so, Wang Qi's combat power has made significant progress. In a series of encounters, he was able to suppress Ai Qinglan unexpectedly.
Ai Qinglan felt unprecedentedly stifled. Most of her absolute skills, Wang Qi could dismantle with a simple move. Even the ever-effective Life Flame was thwarted before Wang Qi. Moreover, Wang Qi's fists and kicks seemed to carry a bit of magic power, often hitting the weak points in her cultivation method — some of these weaknesses she didn't even know herself!
This doesn't align with the Heavenly Dao! You know, with part of her physical body transformed into the Mystical Thought Body, driven by vast mana, her computational speed could not possibly be a whole magnitude lower than Wang Qi. Those weaknesses, if Wang Qi can calculate them, there's no reason she, who is more familiar with the Heavenly Calculation Atlas, cannot!
No matter what move, it collapses before it's even executed, the ever-changing Vein Spirit Root can't even begin to take effect, and the high-speed evolving abilities, just as they begin to evolve, are logically negated, everything collapses and starts over.
Such a battle is truly too stifling!
Of course, Ai Qinglan still had some absolute skills capable of deciding the battle instantly. Life Poison Finger, Defeat Finger Sword, and the "Poison Origin Curse" that instantly transforms a Taker's Life Source Material into lethal poison were all her expertise. However, are these not suited for sparring, absolute skills that Wang Qi couldn't use as well? The Mysterious Uncertainty Cloud Sword and Indeterminate Cause Sword are both instant-kill methods!
After about half a Two Hours session, Ai Qinglan turned around and said, "It's no fun, not playing anymore!"
The observing Golden Core cultivators hovered not far away. With a complex expression, Xiang Qi whispered to Su Junyu beside her, "This guy... his wings have truly hardened now..."
Her feelings were somewhat complex. Here, besides Chen Youjia, who had just formed her core a few days ago, she was the weakest. Therefore, Wang Qi also placed her in "Stage Two."
"The hardness level is at the Golden Light unbreakable level." The "Guardian" of the penultimate stage, Su Junyu, widened his eyes, recording every move in this battle while his mind calculated quickly, trying to peek into the mysteries of the other two's cultivation methods and incorporate them into his own cultivation.
"Back then, when Senior Brother Li and I discovered him, he had just started Qi Cultivation, and a hundred of him couldn't beat one of me. Now... even if I'm ten times stronger, I couldn't beat him." Xiang Qi sighed in her heart, "I never imagined... If Senior Brother Li knew in his grave..."
"He would be very happy. What he seeks is no longer a mere satisfactory solution. Even if it's called the optimal solution, it would probably not be far off?" Su Junyu sincerely said while holding Xiang Qi's shoulder.
Now, Wang Qi's cultivation and combat power have far surpassed others of his generation, and even if Li Ziye were resurrected, he wouldn't be a match for Wang Qi.
Xiang Qi quickly cast aside her slight emotions and flew over to congratulate Wang Qi, "Congratulations, Junior Brother! You can now be called the number one of our generation!"
Wang Qi shook his head, "If it were a life-and-death struggle, Senior Sister Ai's chance of surviving would still be greater."
In terms of combat power alone, Ai Qinglan and Wang Qi are evenly matched. In a life-and-death struggle, the outcome is likely a mutual defeat, and by then, the stronger vitality of Ai Qinglan would give her the greater chance.
"Being able to suppress Junior Sister Ai already proves you're against the heavens." Su Junyu lamented, "It's just a pity this is sparring rather than a formal competition, otherwise, you wouldn't have to painstakingly seek publicity methods for your cultivation."
At this moment, the corner of Wang Qi's mouth subtly twisted.
Fame? Number one among peers?
Such things will soon be unnecessary.
Because his fame will overshadow the predecessors.
Probably by this month.