CHAPTER 954: CHAPTER 39: A WAKE-UP CALL

"What does this prove..." Feng Luoyi frowned again, "Similar formulas have existed before..."

"But the people who wrote these formulas before were all blind," Pang Jialai the Mathematics Lord scoffed without hesitation, "Including you, and me a hundred years ago, all blind."

"You just happened to find a set... a rather special Heavenly Element Group."

"Just rather special? Feng Luoyi, I used to think you were someone, but now this statement makes me think you’re just ordinary," the Mathematics Lord mocked, "You have all the resources of the Immortal Alliance at your disposal, so take a good look at where this Heavenly Element Group originated."

Feng Luoyi stared at the formula provided by the Mathematics Lord. Even with his capabilities, it took him one or two minutes to recognize this formula: "The Xuanxing Temple’s Star River Trajectory Formula?"

It’s not his fault; it’s because the citations for this formula are too few, and the order of retrieval is too far back. Feng Luoyi had to compare some similar formulas to "see" it. It describes the trajectory of constant stars rotating around the center of the Star River galaxy, and researchers in this field are pitifully few. Furthermore, the formula’s assessments are "inaccurate" and "imprecise," leaving few citations.

"Such formulas have actually been repeatedly discovered. Liuyun Sect’s Cloud Flow Celestial Phenomenon formula, the turbulence model, Tianling Ridge’s ’Scarcity is Precious’ model, and Xuanxing Temple had researched multiple problems... I studied the last problem myself," the Mathematics Lord narrated calmly, "These discoverers were all incompetent, moronic. They plainly touched upon this domain, yet failed to realize what they actually encountered."

"With this problem, I was just one of those incompetent people. However, within the Star Sea, and the dying Heavenly Vault you tasked me to guard, I used a set of ’Mathematics Tools’ I established over a century ago to calculate how these little fellows will unfold from Xiangyu’s perspective in a complex gravity system."

Feng Luoyi was once again shocked, "You’re openly speaking about such confidential matters..."

The Mathematics Lord continued, "Then, through repeated calculations, I seemed to understand something. I attempted more than once to reconstruct the divergence trend measure of nearby orbits, and in this process, I realized... the motion of stars is not determinate."

"And when I returned, I found you had already prepared the best form of expression, making it easier for my theory to articulate. I must thank you, kid."

On the Mathematics Lord’s face, his malice towards Feng Luoyi mixed with his passion for mathematics, forming a peculiar expression. He pointed at the virtual Cellular Automata models, shouting at Feng Luoyi, "Now, open your eyes, you and those other blind ones!"

"I spent several months ’in my spare time’ understanding your calculator mathematics and then conveniently proved Cellular Automata and Narrow-Turing Calculators are equivalent. These two models are essentially connected; just by adding a few rules, Cellular Automata can possess the properties of Narrow-Turing Calculators. Whatever Cellular Automata can do, Narrow-Turing Calculators can do!"

"All current calculators are based on the Von Structure. And Narrow-Turing Calculators are the mathematical abstraction of the Von Structure. Therefore, even the Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror is the same. Every step of yin and yang’s changes is determinate. As a calculator, every operation within follows the logic and rules you set! Those logics and rules, every step, are determinate, effective..."

At this point, the Mathematics Lord listened for a moment, then sarcastically looked at Feng Luoyi, "You can prove this point, right?"

Not waiting for Feng Luoyi’s answer, he continued directly, "Even within that purely mechanical system, such a system that adheres to determinate rules, with clear steps, can run— you can derive the state of the entire system at another time based on factors at a specific moment... However, minute differences can lead to vast divergences in conclusion, even presenting indeterminacy."

Feng Luoyi seemed dumbfounded. Others also fell into a dazed state, unaware of what the two Carefree beings were talking about.

However, inexplicably, the hearts of several Great Grandmasters started racing.

— Have we witnessed an incredible scene...

"This is the truth of Heaven and Earth," the Mathematics Lord concluded, "If Heaven and Earth were a calculator, it would inherently contain such a feedback mechanism, capable of magnifying minor differences into significant feedback."

Feng Luoyi’s body trembled slightly.

The Mathematics Lord ignored this, tracing a strange pattern in the air with his fingers. The whole and part of the pattern have considerable consistency, infinitely subdivided, infinitely complex, beautiful yet mysterious, seemingly like butterfly wings from afar.

Wings filled with allure and danger.

"This is truly the manifestation of Dao, the sensitive dependence on initial conditions, controlling movement with infinitely complex set structures... By the way, this image is actually old stuff, fractals. Unfortunately, most people in the Wanfa Sect consider it tedious geometric games. Similarly, Cellular Automata, most of you consider it a computational tool for simulating groups— To be honest, I’m surprised how blind you all are."

"Are you doing this intentionally?" Feng Luoyi raised his head and questioned Pang Jialai, "Are you deliberate, Mathematics Lord?"

"On purpose? Mathematics is not a mere game of arrangements in my hands, how could I do anything ’on purpose’?" The Mathematics Lord laughed: "Whether you believe it or not, mathematics is just like that."

"I mean, was it on purpose that you chose to come today?" Feng Luoyi rarely lost his temper. But this time, he was utterly furious: "You bastard! How could you reveal such things under the watchful eyes of everyone! You didn’t just disclose the secrets of the Immortal Alliance, you endangered the safety of your fellow cultivators!"

"Why couldn’t I?" Pang Jialai retorted, "This is the truth of the near-Dao, why couldn’t I?"

"Are you saying I shouldn’t speak this to the young ones around here? But on the contrary, I think these guys should hear more about what I just said. I suspect the reason our entire Modern Immortal Path has been blindly wandering for hundreds of years is greatly related to the education at the Immortal Institute. To deal with the unified entry trials, those foolish lecturers always subconsciously ignore complex situations, always focusing on simpler, more easily understandable conditions. When teaching partial differential Heavenly Element Formulas, they always ignore multivariable conditions, linearizing the formation around a fixed point. What they do has absolutely no reason, it is foolish beyond understanding."

Feng Luoyi glared coldly at the Mathematics Lord: "The last time incompleteness and undecidability were thrown out, how disastrous was the situation for the Wanfa Sect, didn’t you see it? Do you want to destroy Wanfa Sect?"

The Mathematics Lord was lacking in interpersonal relationships, but he was not an idiot, he was just so strong that others could not understand. Feng Luoyi believed he knew the consequences of coming here today to say those words.

Yet, he still came.

He wanted to spread his disruptive paper far and wide, making it impossible for Feng Luoyi to cover it up, exposing all cultivators of Shenzhou to this shock.

"The Wanfa Sect will not be destroyed, only those old guys will." The Mathematics Lord Pang Jialai sneered, "Last time your wishy-washy ways delayed so much. You used your authority to forcibly suppress your disciple’s paper for half a year... I can’t stand it."

"Incomprehensible..." Feng Luoyi roared, "Don’t you consider others?"

After talking about mathematics, the Mathematics Lord regained a calm expression: "Those who can’t use their brains and can’t understand it, are fools, not worth considering. Those who can understand but cannot accept it, are worthless, no need to consider. Those who can understand and accept, don’t need me to consider."

Feng Luoyi clenched his fist, nearly ready to make a move: "We are at a critical moment of contending with the Demon Clan and contacting the Dragon Clan. If your paper again shakes the Wanfa Sect, even causing the downfall of the Carefree..."

Unlike Wang Qi’s incompleteness theorem, which was a purely mathematical problem that almost no one bothered with outside the domain of metamathematics, yet it still caused chaos across Shenzhou. Chaos Theory was a mathematical problem, but not just a mathematical problem, it carried deeper physical significance, even the formulas it was based on were directly taken from the Liuyun Sect, Xuanxing Temple, and Tianling Ridge!

The old guys from the classical era who still firmly believe in the law of causality are all in danger!

"Oh, who do you mean? The Bai Ze God Monarch? This elder who has been devoted to Bai Ze’s Algorithm for hundreds of years, is merely a continuous redefinition of the calculus method, a calculation system that differentiates parameter items with small tools, attempting to eliminate discrepancies in partial differentials as if shedding his own shadow. Not only is it meaningless, but the further it develops, the more complex it becomes. Don’t you find this attempt of Xi Baiche’s to repeatedly define ’one plus one equals two’ as a destined-to-fail endeavor? It’s a wrong direction, let him be relieved earlier." The Mathematics Lord jeered: "I couldn’t even be bothered to see how complicated his divine skills have become."

"What about the Immortal Alliance?"

"Don’t forget Feng Luoyi, the Immortal Alliance always advances toward the Dao. Even if you don’t have the mindset of ’hearing the Dao in the morning’, you must have the resolve of ’being ready to die by the evening’" The Mathematics Lord sneered: "As for the vacancies, there will naturally be those who can understand and elevate to fill them. Those old guys who can’t accept it, let them roll away like Xi Baiche."

—The implication was, let them die.

After the conversation ended, the Mathematics Lord left with his hands behind his back.

Before he left, he suddenly turned around and asked Feng Luoyi a question: "Can you actually accept this? I originally thought you would be the first to collapse."

Feng Luoyi shook his head: "This proof didn’t impact me as much as you imagined... It’s just telling us the limits of the rules we grasp. But before this, I had already witnessed the limits of cognition."

"Human thinking, human mind, compared to the Great Dao, is simply insignificant." The Mathematics Lord Pang Jialai left Leiyang with his hands behind his back, leaving only his final words: "Logic is bound to be unreliable. To know the Dao, one must transcend logic."

Only a few Great Grandmasters and a field of Qi Cultivation Stage cultivators were left looking around blankly.

"Did we... just witness some history?"