Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 329 - 83 Do You Want to Fight?

Chen Feng sensed something strange about Wang Qi's expression as he stepped out from the glow of the calculator. He couldn't help asking, "Hey, what's with you?"

Wang Qi chuckled foolishly, "I remember that your Yangshen Pavilion's founding ancestors also had their debates, right?"

Ke Ha'er, the Soul Origin, and Pang Jialai, the Height of Strangeness, the two founders of Yangshen Pavilion. Both were also Senior Brothers, a duo that had successfully claimed the same name in the Life Path domain at the Immortal Dao Festival, the Favorable Omen Festival. However, Height of Strangeness always believed that the essence of the soul should be a network structure, whereas Ke Ha'er thought that the structure itself was not important, but rather the individual factors that make up that network were the essence of the soul. In the end, the two parted ways over their differing beliefs.

Chen Feng was a bit puzzled, "There is such a historical case, but then it was proven that the Direct Connection and Combined Cells Heaven Netting Skill of Primordial Spirit Net was inferior to the Synaptic Void Chain Soul Skill of Soul Origin—you're asking about this why?"

"What if, just what if, there was an Immortal Law that let you go back in time and join their debate, what would you do?" freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

Chen Feng replied without thinking, "I'd clearly know the outcome of the theories. I'd just need to present the theory, run an empirical test, and the debate would end right there."

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Shoot, I forgot that mathematics isn't purely a natural science; you can't determine a winner through experiments.

Things like Non-Euclidean Geometry that are very intuitive, otherwise it's just so difficult to determine a winner in the domain of mathematics, especially in such fundamental domains.

Hilbert's Structuralism and Brouwer's Intuitionism never managed to determine which was superior. Even by the Nth year of the twenty-first century, no final verdict was reached. However, in Earth's history, Hilbert was formidable, so Brouwer never really had a chance to rise.

In this world, the standard-bearer of Intuitionism is not Claowell's counterpart, but instead is the counterpart of Pang Jialai—Mathematics Lord Pang Jialai. For Master of Calculation Xi Baiche, overtaking the opponent wouldn't be so simple.

Additionally, the cohesion of the "Sect" as an organization has had a strange influence on history. According to Wang Qi's guess, the "All Laws Mathematical Collection" should correspond to "Principles of Mathematics" on Earth. But on Earth, this was merely the compilation by Russell, the leading figure of the Logicism faction, and had nothing to do with the Structuralist or Intuitionist camps. The existence of the Wanfa Sect caused a significant deviation in history. Now this Mathematics Scripture is no longer the word of one family or sect, but a major affair for the different factions of Wanfa Sect to fight over the true orthodoxy.

Seeing Wang Qi's increasingly odd expression, Chen Feng asked, "What's really going on?"

Wang Qi told the truth and then chuckled foolishly again, "Anyway, next up I'll have to face a fierce attack from a line of Mathematics Lords."

Chen Feng nodded, "This undertaking is good, I think! The mathematics of the Li Sect is nearly mystical; a bit of criticism wouldn't hurt."

Wang Qi was dumbfounded, "Holy moly... I wish you would take a few minutes to understand what kind of person the Mathematics Lord is..."

"Your Genting Sect's former leader, Divine Venerable Ke, now goes to Yangshen Pavilion every three days to treat his shattered Primordial Spirit." Chen Feng said, "Carefree! His Heart Power is exhausted and his Primordial Spirit is broken! Do you really think I don't know how powerful the Mathematics Lord is? But surely, getting a little verbal satisfaction wouldn't hurt?"

"Tsk." Wang Qi scorned Chen Feng's attitude, "No ambition."

Chen Feng thought for a moment and then said earnestly, "If you marry into the Bo Family, maybe the Bo Family would go all out to support you. How about that for a fight with the Mathematics Lord?"

Wang Qi was stunned, "How can you also... veer onto this topic?"

"Nonsense, your story is known everywhere, okay?" Chen Feng looked at Wang Qi as if he saw something discordant, "During the Martial Arts Examination, you harassed Miss Bao with very unscrupulous methods, resulting in a pure Miss Bao being played into a frenzy of infatuation, and she eventually leapt from the arena and conceded defeat..."

"Oh come on... it's been twisted into something so distasteful..."

Alright, being unscrupulous might be indisputable, given what Wang Qi had done—it looked too much like Dual Cultivation. But pure? Played into a frenzy of infatuation?

Pah! I clearly won her over with my grasp of mathematics, not this nonsense.

Chen Feng glanced at Wang Qi again, "Speaking of which, chatting with a Treasure Artifact-level calculator—saying there's nothing going on between you two, I wouldn't believe it. With a Treasure Level calculator, couldn't even hair follicles be simulated?"

"Hair follicles?"

Chen Feng gave a lecherous smirk that said "you know what I mean."

"Damn! Filthy! That's just filthy!" Wang Qi was indignant, "Our relationship is as pure as it gets for Daoist fellows; all we have is discussions on mathematics!"

Chen Feng looked disinterested, "Is that so... So does Wanfa also yearn for a Daoist couple?"

What did we, Wanfa, ever do to you...

Chen Feng suddenly brought back the topic, "Jokes aside, I've got to ask you—what's your real stance on this matter?"

Wang Qi rubbed his forehead, "I'm beginning to doubt the main plotline of my life again..."

Here I thought I was the protagonist of a fantasy cultivation novel, but it turned into a technical science narrative, and now it's got the feel of a political novel with all kinds of compromises and benefit-sharing?

Aren't science fiction stories supposed to revolve around hoarding a Skill Tree and then steamrolling everything?

Chen Feng was puzzled again. He asked once more, "Your plan..."

"Oh, my plan." Wang Qi snapped back to reality and said, "Well, it's quite simple."

"The Big Number Law could be put on hold for a month or so if necessary, and lately, I've been learning statistics while continuing to organize and generalize the arithmetic system."

The Big Number Law is being pushed early mostly because I need to baffle that stubborn girl—with Probability Theory, a large topic, a day or two doesn't make much of a difference.

Statistics need to be done, but without probability taking off, statistics won't get far, so I can only say "learning it"—indirectly letting Chen Feng, the boss, know that I'm still a good employee.

First-order logic and completeness theorems could be worked on, but... going any further would lead to Godel's incompleteness, which would actually strike against the Genting Sect—and now I am part of the Genting Sect.

So what can be done is still only the higher arithmetic system.

It took Chen Feng a while to come to his senses, frowning, "It sounds like... you plan to get involved in this debate?"