Chapter 192, Talks on Foundation Establishment Methods

Translator: Tamon

 

Ten thousand years ago, everyone would laugh if they heard an early Qi Refining cultivator planned for Foundation Establishment. Immortality didn’t come easy; every step forward meant sinking deeper and deeper into the mire. Many spent their whole lives just where they started. Overreaching never helped anyone.

 

In ancient times, cultivators would only ever consider Foundation Establishment at late Qi Refining. On top of that, it would take seven years at a minimum to take the last step across the threshold. Those with a somewhat worse talent wouldn’t get over it even with the help of those Foundation Establishment Pills.

 

However, as modern cultivation’s knowledge of spiritual energy essence grew traction along with uncovering the body’s mysteries, the difficulty of cultivation lowered. For any and all that stepped on the path of cultivation, no matter how much they sucked, Golden Core was guaranteed. Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Core Formation’s requirements had been lowered again and again and again. Even by making some random foundation and golden core quality, those with a slightly better talent were Golden Core cultivators within half a decade.

 

In the modern system, Wang Qi was the best of the best in terms of talent. Zhen Chanzi suspected that even modern cultivation’s hardest threshold, Primordial Spirit, couldn’t hold him back.

 

Zhen Chanzi heard Wang Qi’s sigh and said, “From the sound of it, you have plenty of ideas.”

 

“They’re all about using one cultivation method to contain the rest. Just like how I used Evolution Chart to cool off the erratic mental arts last year. Only this time, it means breaking down all mental arts and patching them back together in the foundation. This way, a cultivation method’s advancement meant everyone’s. Switching methods to cultivate will be a thing of the past.”

 

“Sounds… tough.”

 

Zhen Chanzi used a low tone, almost blurting out ‘nigh impossible.’

 

Every single method Wang Qi cultivated was pioneered by an Unfettered. Yet a Qi Refining cultivator planned on altering them? Wasn’t he biting off more than he could chew?

 

Wang Qi explained, “Dao is unique; arts are impermanent. I just need to understand the ‘Dao’ of these cultivation methods and then combine them on a higher level. That should solve all the issues.”

 

“Let’s say it’s possible; how do you plan on doing it?”

 

“The first method came to me only yesterday. Celestial Hymn Odyssey is based on electromagnetism, and everything in creation is a manifestation of the Four Heaven-opening Forces. The first solution is to unify the Four Heaven-opening Forces through Celestial Hymn Odyssey to interpret all theories.”

 

“Didn’t you stop training Celestial Hymn Odyssey so you could handle the examination?”

 

“There’s no conflict there. My Foundation Establishment, regardless of how, will happen six months from now. Though slight adjustments have to be made ahead of time.”

 

Zhen Chanzi asked, seeing reason, “What about the rest?”

 

“The second method uses Divine Hexagram Computation and the Book of Geometry as the core. All theories are expressed through math, hence my decision to join the Myriad Arts Sect. These two cultivation methods tolerate far more variations than the previous one.

 

“The third one is through the Evolution Chart. Ripple Heavenly Lord Schrödinger wrote ‘What Is Life?’ saying that life was a spontaneous negative entropy phenomenon, explained through the world expansion path and described through math. Evolution Chart has limitless possibilities.

 

“As for the fourth…” Wang Qi trailed off and smiled at the ring. “Old man, check out this neat trick.”

 

The youth placed his right hand on the wooden table, and it shone golden. Under its effect, the table rippled!

 

The table didn’t liquefy; it was still a solid, but anyone who saw it could tell its surface shifted.

 

Zhen Chanzi cried out. [Changing matter! The feats of an immortal or god!]

 

Wang Qi withdrew his hand, a trace of exhaustion on his face. “Well?”

 

The ripple faded as his hand left the table, but the surface hardened the second he did and froze the ripples.

 

“How did you do that?”

 

“All matter at the micro level exists as probabilities. This method expresses probability density and probability wave.” Wang Qi explained, “Waveform Essence came from Ripple Heavenly Lord’s probability wave formula. I just changed the table’s existence probability.”

 

Zhen Chanzi didn’t want to admit the stuff flew way over his head, but he did have a gist of what this godly skill was. “If used on a person…”

 

“No dice.” Wang Qi shook his head. “The art is scared of observers. The moment anyone witnesses it or interferes, it collapses into a new form—using it on people doesn’t work.”

 

“Then what does this have to do with anything?”

 

“Waveform Essence can be collapsed into any form of spiritual power, having the same limitless possibility.”

 

Zhen Chanzi squeezed out after a long pause, “I… have no comment…”

 

“Man, you’re a disappointment.”

 

[Screw your disappointment! I can’t tell a single thing good or bad about any of these methods!]

 

Wang Qi sighed, “Fine, I guess I’ll have to explain to you the good and the bad about them.

 

“First off, unifying the Four Heaven-opening Forces is a huge undertaking. None in the Immortal Alliance have pulled it offt. Regarding the current research, I recall that Supreme Lord united weak force and strong force and plans on adding gravity as well. Unified Arts Maxwell started with electromagnetism, wanting to connect it with gravity, and so far has come up with specific values under specific conditions, with a general solution nowhere near close to being formed.”

 

Due to unknown circumstances, Divine Province had no Franklin Yang or his correspondent, to say nothing of gauge theory. In tackling the Grand Unified Theory, Maxwell’s and Einstein’s thinking were nowhere near close to Franklin Yang’s in quantum field theory.

 

Zhen Chanzi was quiet. “In other words, it’s enough to make an Unfettered out of you, yet you want to use it for Foundation Establishment?”

 

“Yep.”

 

“Have you lost it?” Zhen Chanzi wailed. “Do you plan to drag this out until you’re old and gray, hoping for a theoretical breakthrough before your life runs out?”

 

Wang Qi sighed. “Hence my hesitation for this totally badass plan—it’s incomplete.”