The quiet room that originally belonged to Ru Tianqi had been completely transformed by Wang Qi into the likeness of a calculator. Countless metal wires carried spiritual power, striking the Yin Yang Jade, causing the endless transformation of Yin and Yang, changing boundlessly. The walls of the entire stone chamber glowed brilliantly like a star map.

Every metal wire glowed faintly, and the spiritual light on each wire converged, illuminating the quiet room brightly.

Amidst that splendid divine light, Wang Qi hovered in mid-air, sitting cross-legged, his eyes closed.

At this moment, he was not absorbing spiritual energy. After all, this was still Spirit Phoenix Island, within the sphere of influence of the Holy Emperor Venerable. Although Wang Qi could use the Tai Chu Sword God Array to deploy a virtual divine country to shield the perception of the Holy Emperor Venerable, if he tried to draw a qi vein river from beyond the heavens to augment himself, he would almost certainly be exposed.

Now, he could only integrate himself into the background environment of spiritual energy, drawing a small amount from this illusion.

However, "cultivation" is not completely equivalent to absorbing nature's spiritual energy to forge a spirit power system within.

For a cultivator, any activity that makes their own life tend toward openness, order, and negative entropy can be considered cultivation.

The so-called cultivation technique, in essence, is the "technology of cultivation," not merely limited to the law gate of maneuvering spiritual energy.

What Wang Qi was operating right now was not his own mana, but "Spirit Sense"—information fused with his mana.

The information within his mana naturally consists of his thoughts and self integrated into his mana.

One could say that after Wang Qi achieved Unity of My Method, the amount of information within his mana became immense.

Ordinarily, only Mahayana Cultivators or Void Refining Cultivators would challenge Unity of My Method. Wang Qi achieved it at merely the Golden Core Stage, but his own mana was not exceptionally strong, and his foundation was relatively weak. At this stage, he could not yet fully harness all the mysteries of Unity of My Method.

Right now, he was like a computer with hundreds of gigabytes of a massive game installed, but only a few gigabytes of memory. With his Golden Core Stage cultivation alone, he couldn't manage such a powerful "game."

But now, everything was different.

He had a personal network.

His mana was connected with the calculator, releasing information continuously. The Spirit Sense spread via the Heart Demon Mysterious Net, entering the bodies of Sword Palace Disciples who unknowingly became "human calculators."

While these disciples were unaware, a small portion of their mana was commandeered. For these disciples below the Golden Core Stage, this small portion of mana was merely redundancy that wasn't needed. Yet, when these portions of power combined, they became quite substantial.

The Immortal Artifact Level calculator ring "Mathematics" became the central server of cloud computing, helping Wang Qi control the task progress. With all these aids, Wang Qi's consciousness roamed far and wide.

Information does not get "refined." No matter how a bit of information operates, it remains a bit. It won't become two, nor will it vanish. Two bits are two bits; ten bits are ten bits.

However, during the operation, Wang Qi could always find those "disharmonious" areas amongst his thoughts. He diligently pursued the mathematical perfection of his thoughts within his mana.

Wang Qi also employed evolution algorithms. The Mathematics Lord's interpretation of "chaos" far surpasses that of his initial paper. In recent months, he's published new papers continuously.

He alone pushed this mathematical branch forward by decades or even centuries.

Thanks to him, the evolution algorithm involving "mutation" was also further optimized.

With each circulation of the Spirit Sense cultivation technique, an iteration is complete. And with each iteration, the Spirit Sense gets optimized further along.

Indeed, Wang Qi couldn't absorb spiritual energy to strengthen himself right now. However, his dataized cultivation method—Virtual and Real Two-Phase Other Chapter, grows not just by absorbing nature's spiritual energy.

Now, by using the Heart Demon Mysterious Net to elevate the "Spirit Rhinoceros Illusion" aspect of the Virtual and Real Two-Phase Other Chapter, he could seamlessly advance to the "Spirit Power Real Form" when cultivating it later.

Conversely, if he absorbed a huge amount of spiritual energy at once, he could form a solid "Real Form" foundation, thereby better operating the "Virtual Form" of Spirit Sense.

The combination of virtual and real, complementing each other, is the brilliance of the Virtual and Real Two-Phase Other Chapter.

Nevertheless, according to Wang Qi's own thoughts, future practitioners might primarily cultivate the "Spirit Power Real Form," while the "Spirit Rhinoceros Illusion" is only used for breakthroughs. After all, "nature's spiritual energy" is nearly free, but "networks" and "super calculators" most likely have a cost.

In the future, not every practitioner of the Virtual and Real Two-Phase Other Chapter or other dataized cultivation methods will be as extravagant as he is, with a personal Heart Demon Mysterious Net LAN for cultivation.

Even if there are significant breakthroughs in the calculator technology of Shenzhou, allowing everyone to have such computing power, it would be a century down the line.

At the completion of his cultivation session, Wang Qi sequentially saved records and ended the process. He opened his eyes, a boundless sea of data flickered within. Countless flashing data, paired with operators, and even dynamic images, cascaded down like pouring rain, making it difficult for ordinary cultivators to match his gaze.

In a few seconds, the sea of data in Wang Qi's eyes gradually calmed, and its brightness slightly dimmed until it returned to normal. Then, he slowly descended, sensing his body, and sighed, "This cultivation technique is truly extraordinary. After only a year since I formed my Golden Core, I feel I can break through to the Mid-Stage Golden Core..."

Three years in Qi Cultivation, six years in Foundation Establishment, nine years in Core Formation. According to the usual time estimates, a cultivator should be able to advance to the Mid-Stage Golden Core about two to three years after Core Formation.

But Wang Qi is an anomaly. He stayed in Foundation Establishment for only four to five years, then a "Imagined Space" brought him to the Core Formation Realm. Moreover, during his comprehension of the Sea God type's "liquid thinking," he merged himself into mana, achieving "Unity of My Method."

The reason why the Modern Cultivator imposes various time restrictions is to prevent excessive growth of mana from interfering with the transformation of will, and to protect the "Upper Pure Spirit Treasure," to protect the "self."

However, Wang Qi has already achieved Unity of My Method. He even stayed with Mimis in Imagined Space for a hundred and eighty years before, so this is no longer an issue.

If he did not seek quality, now his Primordial Spirit would have no problems at all.

"Teacher Feng is really considerate. This group of Ancient Method Practitioners have significantly enhanced my development."

After finishing this round of cultivation, Wang Qi began to look at the cultivation techniques of the three Great Elders that Jarvis had calculated. Due to the continuous surge in computing power, Wang Qi has already completed the calculations.

In this process, the fragments of the Immortal Dao Burning Book List and its Artifact Spirit "Little Yin" also played a significant role.

Wang Qi opened his mouth: "Jarvis, report the results."

"Yes, teacher." Jarvis's voice, with a hint of mechanical feeling, was unwavering: "The model was successfully established three hours ago. However, the discrepancy with the actual measured data reached nineteen percent, while the discrepancy with the Heart Demon Mysterious Net transmitted data reached sixty-three percent. Preliminary judgment, the model may have failed..."

"Wait a minute..." Wang Qi felt somewhat strange: "How large is the discrepancy between the actual measured data value and the Heart Demon Mysterious Net data value?"

The so-called "actual measured data" involves the three Great Elders attaching a pile of observation instruments, then cultivating, performing techniques, and using the observed data to reverse deduce the cultivation technique. Whereas the Heart Demon Mysterious Net data directly simulates the mana flow conditions within the three Great Elders by sensing the Heart Demon Curse Power that deeply permeated them.

And Wang Qi's model, meanwhile, is deduced based on the cultivation techniques provided by the three Great Elders.

If Wang Qi's deduced model has significant discrepancies with the measured data and the data transmitted by the Mystic Net, it is also normal. Cellular Automata is not an oracle machine, it can naturally make mistakes. Wang Qi's understanding of the Ancient Method is also not deep enough. Furthermore, the three Great Elders might have withheld information — which is standard practice for Ancient Method practitioners.

However, the large discrepancy between the measured data and the Mystic Net data is somewhat inexplicable.

"Measured data is based on data collected outside their bodies, deduced backwards according to general principles, while the Heart Demon Mysterious Net data is directly collected from within their mana circulation. There shouldn't be such a significant discrepancy between these two..."

Wang Qi fell into contemplation.

If there was a problem with his own modeling, it would be understandable, but...

Wang Qi frowned and directly summoned the three Great Elders.

One-two hours later, in the underground palace of Luochen Sword Palace.

Second Elder Zhao Xiangshen and Third Elder Ru Tianqi had steel needles inserted all over their backs, and several talismans were stuck on their foreheads. They maintained such a ridiculous appearance while engaging in sword combat. Although these two did not fully unleash their destructive power capable of leveling mountains, they did employ their entire Sword Dao, spiritual power entwined with their swords, each strike incredibly fierce.

Among them, Zhao Xiangshen's every sword strike seemed to derive from innate discovery, leaping out of the framework, occurring naturally, wandering without restraint. Whereas Ru Tianqi remained calm and ordinary, his Sword Qi sweeping like a lifeless entity, hiding dormant vitality.

The Great Elder nodded gently. He could tell that these two had not regressed upon meeting. He turned his gaze to Wang Qi and whispered: "Mr. Wang, these two are doing their best."

At the same time, Zhen Chan also gave a similar answer.

These two indeed suppressed the power of their moves, but their essence, energy, and spirit had been fully called upon, all invested in combat, every ounce of strength fully utilized.

However, Wang Qi still had his brows tightly knit: "It's not right..."

No, this measured data and Mystic Net data still have differences..."

Wang Qi whispered: "Inside these two individuals, there is definitely another force. This force is estimated to be about half of the actual force they've exerted..."

In other words, they are only using sixty percent of their actual power!

Why aren't they using that strength?

Suddenly, Wang Qi's heart stirred, and he said: "Old man, the current strength of these two is indeed Mid-Stage Divine Separation, correct?"

"Correct."

Wang Qi asked again: "If their mana were to increase by another fifty percent, wouldn't they truly be Late Stage Divine Separation?"