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Chapter 536 Yin and Yang and the Four Symbols

Realizing this, Zhang Qi's breathing quickened, as this was the first time he had encountered knowledge of this level.

After calming his thoughts, Zhang Qi picked up the other chips on the ground and began to examine them.

This time, he took a more cursory look, mainly comparing the differences between these techniques.

The content of these exercises is mostly related to the transformation and application of matter and energy, ranging from the most basic thermal energy and electrical energy to the more profound interaction between strong and weak forces, covering almost everything.

The very beginning of each exercise manual explains in detail how to transform the practitioner's own physiological structure through specific mental training and energy guidance.

His ultimate goal, while seemingly similar to the cultivation system he encountered in the world of Under One Person, is fundamentally diametrically opposed.

The core of the internal alchemy method in the world of Under One Person is to "reverse the innate" in order to get close to the special energy of the innate Qi.

Ancient people observed that life is conceived through the union of men and women, but they could not understand the microscopic process of sperm and egg combining. They could only summarize the philosophical model of "yin and yang uniting to form the sacred embryo" from macroscopic phenomena.

They believe that babies are derived from "primordial Qi" in the womb, a state that is when a person is closest to the origin of the universe.

Therefore, cultivation is about reversing this process, simulating the interaction of Yin and Yang energies within one's own dantian, and re-forming the embryo.

Its essence is to create a completely new physical system for oneself that can directly observe and even mobilize the "primordial Qi".

That is why there is such an extreme school of thought in that world, the Three Ones Sect, which directly refines everything about itself into innate Qi.

However, the purpose of practicing these "techniques" is not for "observation".

Zhang Qi's consciousness was immersed in a chip called "Thunder Strike Yuan Gong". This "paper" elaborated on the nature of electromagnetic force and provided a complete cultivation plan.

According to its description, practicing this skill will initially transform the body's nervous system, and the transmission efficiency of neurons will increase exponentially.

Ultimately, a supercomputer for calculating electromagnetic forces was built within the body, which is the Golden Elixir.

The other techniques are all similar, except that the calculations may have different focuses.

This discovery left him somewhat puzzled.

If the cultivators in this world are also studying the rules of the universe, then just like in modern science, "observation" and "calculation" should be equally important.

Theories derived through calculations are only meaningful if they are ultimately verified in the real world.

But why do most of the cultivation techniques here place such emphasis on enhancing calculation ability?
Two possibilities came to mind.

Firstly, this ancient cultivation civilization may have already developed external observation tools similar to microscopes and particle colliders.

Its precision far surpasses that of modern technology.

Therefore, their physical bodies do not need to perform the function of observation; they only need to evolve into sufficiently powerful processors to analyze the massive amounts of data transmitted back by the observation tools.

Secondly, and this is the more likely one, according to Zhang Qi, is that the cultivation civilization of this world has developed its theoretical system to a near-complete stage.

Just like physicists after Newton, there is no need to use apples to verify universal gravitation;
Scientists after Einstein no longer need to measure the speed of light themselves.

All the basic theories have been verified by predecessors through countless "experiments" and "observations" and have been solidified into irrefutable axioms.

Later practitioners no longer needed to explore the unknown, but rather to conduct deeper deductions and applications within this vast knowledge system.

What they need more is learning and computation.

Thinking of this, Zhang Qi's heart began to beat faster uncontrollably.

If it is indeed the latter, then it means that this cultivation civilization has reached the edge of exhausting the truth of the universe.

But this makes sense...

A civilization that has thoroughly analyzed and compiled the laws governing the entire universe into a book...

Only beings that reach such an inconceivable level could possibly have the ability to create a "God"—an ultimate creation capable of simulating or even replacing the operation of the Heavenly Dao in the multiverse.

The enormous mystery that had been hanging over our heads seemed to have been torn open at this moment, revealing a chilling truth.

This is so interesting. An unprecedented sense of excitement washed over him, and Zhang Qi no longer hesitated to shift his attention away from the countless chips scattered on the ground.

He turned his attention to the two perfect octahedral diamonds he had brought back from the second floor.

He picked up the jet-black diamond, which seemed to devour light.

The moment his consciousness came into contact with the diamond, a torrent of information, billions of times larger than the previous chip, was directly imprinted into his mind.

If the chips on the first floor are individual professional papers, then this diamond contains the general outline of a discipline.

The Four Symbols Return to the Ruins.

The four ancient yet grand characters resounded in his mind like a great bell.

Immediately afterwards, a magnificent creation scene, too beautiful to be described in words, slowly unfolded in his mind.

In the beginning of the universe, there was a chaotic state that was without order, without time, and without space.

Then, chaos gave rise to Yin and Yang.

Among them, the "pure" continuously rises, dilutes, and diffuses, eventually disappearing into the background of the entire universe, transforming into invisible rules, and becoming the fundamental constants that define the existence of all things—that is, "time" and "space".

Meanwhile, the "turbid" continuously sinks, condenses, and solidifies, forming visible and tangible entities within the framework of space and time—that is, "matter" and "energy".

Time, space, matter, energy.

These are the "Four Symbols" that constitute all things in this universe.

Zhang Qi suddenly realized why the first floor looked like that.

The cultivation techniques on the first floor of Lingkong Pavilion are almost all limited to the study of the "Four Symbols," and most of them are even within the realm of matter and energy. Techniques involving time and space are extremely rare, like phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

For beginners, studying tangible matter and energy is far easier than exploring intangible spacetime.

The second level of the technique, this book "The Four Symbols Return to the Void," is so profound in its conception that it is simply astonishing.

It no longer separates the four elements, but treats them as a whole, attempting to find the ultimate unified theory that still maintains the operation of time, space, matter, and energy after the chaos has differentiated.

The ultimate goal of this cultivation method is to use the cultivator himself as a model of the universe to reproduce the process of the four elements returning to one, and thus gain control over the four fundamental forces that unify the universe.

Once mastered, theoretically, the cultivator will be able to influence all matter and energy within their field of vision, distort spacetime, and manipulate cause and effect.

However, corresponding to this grand goal is its daunting complexity.

The opening outline alone contains more information than all the chips in the first layer combined.

Countless unprecedented formulas, models, and logical chains are nested layer upon layer, forming a complex theoretical labyrinth.

Even with his cheat-like abilities, allowing him to access the computing power of other worlds for parallel processing, it would probably take thousands of years to fully analyze this technique.

However, this is to be expected, since the development of human civilization to this point is the result of the efforts of countless people.

The level of knowledge represented by this knowledge is indeed beyond the reach of modern human civilization.

Thousands of years.

Zhang Qi frowned deeply. Cultivating immortality was indeed an extremely time-consuming activity.

The air in the laboratory seemed to become heavy as a result.

But at that moment, Zhang Qi's thoughts suddenly stopped.

He thought of something else.

Analyzing cultivation techniques requires immense computational power and a long period of time.

In other words, having massive computing power can save a great deal of time...

(End of this chapter)