Chapter 159, Dedication

Translator: Tamon

 

After Wang Qi’s recount, those around him exclaimed.

 

Wu Fan sighed. “So you refined another Mendel clan pea…”

 

Refining Newton’s apple or Mendel’s pea, an Unfettered’s spiritual item that came into existence in the moment they completed their path, required vast knowledge and an early understanding of Dao to brace such a feat without deviation. But even Wang Qi, having gotten his basics in his first life, a Senior’s insights would affect his path still. Wu Fan saw refining the pea as destroying his future.

 

Ai Changyuan asked the important question, “How long did it take to refine the downsized Mendel clan pea?”

 

Wang Qi started. “Where the hell did you come from?”

 

The youth shrugged. “I’ve been here from the start.”

 

Lu Qianqian behind him facepalmed. “Changyuan, I told you it’s impolite…”

 

Wang Qi gave Transcendent’s descendant a casual answer. “Eight hours.”

 

Wang Zhenqi cried out. “You used only four hours to finish the written examination, wan?”

 

Ai Changyuan frowned. “Confident?”

 

Wang Qi nodded. With Divine Hexagram Computation boosting his calculations above his peers’ level, and adding his excellent math skills, four hours were nothing.

 

“Heavens above! You’re freaks, all of you!”

 

Ai Changyuan sighed, “How’s your condition?”

 

“I can handle you as long as it’s after three days.” Wang Qi stared hard at him. “Better pray you won’t face me then.”

 

His opponent was fired up as he smiled. “I’ll wait.”

 

Ai Changyuan left, having his answer.

 

Wu Shiqin asked, “Certain?”

 

“Not at all.” Wang Qi had fighting spirit lingering in his eyes. “But it isn’t hopeless either. Only time will tell.”

 

Wu Fan gasped, “You’re not puffing your chest in assurance? This ain’t right, ain’t right at all!”

 

“Just how narcissistic do you take…”

 

Everyone replied in unison, “Completely.” “Don’t be boring, Wang Qi.” “That’s Little Qi, nya.” “I don’t have to tell you, wan.”

 

“Holy crap, is that how you see me?”

 

Wu Fan explained, “Wang Qi, if you’re not spouting some incomprehensible jokes, you’re still easy to get along with. But throw in Dao or cultivation into the mix and you switch to ‘Me awesome, me undefeated.’ Not to mention you love being corny.”

 

Mao Zimiao agreed. “Exactly, nya! Little Qi, once you study, it’s like you’ve gone bonkers. Only someone at Shiqin’s level can handle you.”

 

Wu Shiqin showed a bitter smile. “As if. I don’t like Immortal Institute’s intense progress it requires.”

 

Wang Qi shook his head. “Don’t be so down. Seeking Dao is all about having a steady heart, constant learning, and being steadfast. Talent doesn’t equal resolve. Everyone underwent forced research into understanding Dao, even Unfettered, wah-ha-ha-ha…”

 

“Hence the basis behind ‘we’re beneath you.'”

 

Wang Qi gave a blunt nod. “Yup, it’s true so far.”

 

Wu Shiqin picked up on its meaning. “So far?”

 

Wu Fan pointed at Wu Fan, then at Mao Zimiao. “In the future, your path of the land and path of life will be far more developed than mine. Various paths can’t be classified, and having no standard, they can’t be compared.”

 

His comrades’ faces turned blank, all thinking “Did he turn a new leaf?” but before they could sigh at his new side, Wang Qi cracked up. “Hence moonlighting you now is a given!”

 

[I should’ve know, the guy’s a lost cause.]

 

— — —

 

As the evening came, Wang Qi sat alone in his room.

 

After telling them that Ai Dinglan confirmed his condition wouldn’t worsen, everyone relaxed and left him to recuperate. As the supervising Foundation Establishment teaching assistant in charge, Ai Dinglan informed the Jiongli branch and had Wang Qi’s martial examination be moved to the last two days of the five-day-long test.

 

Three days weren’t many, nor few. Anyone else wouldn’t fully recover to display their full power.

 

Wang Qi would find it impossible to beat Transcendent’s descendant with just that as well.

 

But Wang Qi’s majored in Evolution Chart. The art wasn’t anything special as it started off, offering neither insane defense nor decimating offense. Its greatest asset was denying deviation of any kind. While most cultivators dreaded rash progress and ended up deviating, Evolution Chart cultivators relished the opportunity to be reborn.

 

Looking at it from another angle, all the harm the chaotic spiritual powers within Wang Qi caused was nothing.

 

Wang Qi closed his eyes, relishing in the process of Evolution Chart spiritual power’s cycling. The profound warmth moving through every corner dulled the ache and removed the junk.

 

This was the second Mendel pea’s result.

 

Wang Qi believed once this was over, the Evolution Chart would advance.

 

But the biggest gain in all of this was in the soul department.

 

Wang Qi’s soul held a trace of refined spiritual power. It was thin and string-like, unlike the ‘field’ aspect of soul power. It was none other than Heavenly Position Axis.

 

Unlike Wang Qi’s Heavenly Position Axis in his Dantian, this axis was curled up. To make it weirder, despite being a closed loop, Wang Qi had no idea how long it was. The soul power around it was bundled up as well, into a strange self-replicating river. The soul river would shift for no apparent reason, sometimes taking the form of Upper Clarity Fractal’s.

 

Using limited power to draw the infinite!

 

This Heavenly Position Axis was indeed the Upper Clarity Fractal he deduced, only upon encountering the fractal’s dimension, it warped and backfired into this. When the Heavenly Position Axis and the fractal dimension intersected, its nature changed, now leaning heavily towards fractal geometry. As Wang Qi lacked a cultivation method to tie them, the fractalized Heavenly Position Axis and the Book of Geometry, or rather Euclidean geometry, weren’t compatible. It led to this Heavenly Position Axis bursting out from his Dantian.

 

It also cut itself off by itself, leading to the collapse of the Book of Geometry from shame. As it was a major cultivation method, Book of Geometry’s collapse spiraled the rest out of control.

 

However, the gains matched the risk. Due to Upper Clarity Fractal tying itself to his soul, Wang Qi was laughing for the next three days.