There's something wrong with me

Chapter 191: The New World's 'Heavenly Dao Rules Algorithm'

Open.

This was a storefront of only a dozen square meters.

It was three in the afternoon, and outside the door was a bustling small town street with cars coming and going.

Zhang Feng, standing at the door, walked into the room slightly, sat on the simulated mahogany bench, and scanned the surroundings inside the room.

Many strange talismans were pasted on the wall.

In short, it was all fake.

But he himself was a 'feng shui master', and the kind without spiritual energy.

He judged at a glance that it was a charlatan.

Thinking, Zhang Feng adjusted his hairpin (Che Zhang's hat) and looked at his attributes.

【Age: 45】

【Physique: 21】

【Root Bone: 6】

【Martial Arts: 6.5】

【Spiritual Root: 1.2】

The Spiritual Root was quite good.

And with the blessing of the Spiritual Root, even if 'he' hadn't cultivated and didn't know any techniques, his physique was still very high.

He used Visualization to sense it, and this world had spiritual energy.

The concentration was about 1.5.

After sensing the spiritual energy.

Zhang Feng began Opening Spirit Mind while absorbing spiritual energy.

Thanks to the study of neurology and the neuron data from the virtual world.

Spiritual Mind opened instantly in the next second.

Then, he slightly diverted a little mental power to scan the meridians.

While Opening Meridians and cultivating spirit.

Zhang Feng recalled his memories.

Within a short moment, Zhang Feng knew it was 2007.

And he also had some feng shui secret techniques in his memory.

It's just that in this secret technique, three out of ten sentences were flattering, and the remaining six were bluffing.

Only one sentence had a bit of knowledge, but not much.

It was like a customer coming in, feeling their hand to read their palm, and when finding their palm was very rough and they were dressed rather ordinarily.

He would say something ambiguous like 'You have suffered hardships your whole life', which would definitely be right.

Seeing a male customer with white and plump palms, he would say their family was good and they hadn't done heavy work at home, which was also not wrong.

Even if he said it wrong, the other party would just leave at most, not paying, and certainly wouldn't smash him to death with a hammer.

But if he guessed correctly, then business would come.

The main thing was to use general statements and let the other party 'fit themselves in'.

The rest was just business flattery, saying something pleasant, then mentioning something like a bloody disaster, doing some foreplay, and the money would come.

It's just that he, seemingly a newcomer.

In the year since opening the shop, nine out of ten customers had run off.

The remaining one was still half-believing, half-doubting.

Zhang Feng estimated that if he hadn't come, the shop would probably close by the end of the month.

Fortunately, no one had accused him of cheating, otherwise he would have been out of business long ago.

Fortune-telling is not illegal, but if the amount involved is too large, things can still happen.

Thinking, Zhang Feng looked at the world information again.

【Resurrection: 5】

【Adventure Level: 6+】

【Adventure Type: Special, Worldline Regression】

【Main Mission: Survive for 30 days】

【Non-essential Main Mission: Survive for 30 days】

【Identity: Jianghu Charlatan】

【Note: Gain one enhancement for every ten days survived】

【Maximum enhancement times this round: 5】

...

After reading the information, seeing that there was no one in the shop and no danger nearby.

Zhang Feng didn't know if the mission started here, so he ignored it for now and focused on cultivating and choosing the remaining enhancements.

He looked at the subsequent text again.

【Please choose your first enhancement】

【1: Physique +2.7】

【2: Sensory Enhancement】

【3: Defense】

Taking a glance, as expected from Worldline Regression options, there didn't seem to be any particularly good enhancements.

It completely depended on oneself.

The Worldline Regression level was a 'cumulative test' from a long time ago.

Zhang Feng was completely unhurried, skipping 1 and looking directly at 2 and 3.

【Sensory Enhancement: Rare, Rare】

【Effect 1: Reaction speed -0.009】

【Effect 2: Five senses increased by 3%】

The increase wasn't high, but it was basically all combat power.

Zhang Feng looked at it, noted the attributes for comparison, and looked at 3.

【Defense: Rare, Epic】

【Effect 1: Physique +1, Root Bone +1】

【Effect 2: Physical defense is additionally increased by 10%】

'Is it Rule Defense again?'

Zhang Feng really liked this kind of 'additional defense' option.

But there wasn't much time in this world, only 30 days.

To better calculate the effect and compare gains and losses.

Zhang Feng first sensed himself and organized what he had learned.

If he cultivated diligently, it would only take ten days for his physique to reach around 90.

Because the early stage was a period of rapid growth, changes were very fast.

He was also very familiar with the process.

Then, with a physique of 90, he could roughly manage to pinch a bullet from a standard rifle with his muscles.

Becoming 'non-human' in ten days.

After that, with the addition of the 'Sturdy' attribute, he could basically achieve a level where bullets would only injure the surface of his skin.

Especially this kind of 'additional bonus' attribute, Zhang Feng had chosen it twice and experienced it twice, and now he also knew how it was 'specifically calculated'.

First, it didn't add to his own defense.

Instead, when a bullet came, under the influence of the defense rule, its kinetic energy was first weakened by 10%.

The remaining 90% was left for him to handle.

This was a direct 'major reduction'.

It reduced weapons that could originally break his defense to a level he could digest.

But if it were directly added to him, not as an additional bonus, then his defense would at most increase by 10%, instead of weakening the opponent's larger base.

For example, if his current defense was 150, a 10% increase would be 165, an increase of 15 points.

If the opponent's damage was 200, a 10% weakening would be 180, a reduction of 20 points.

The additional calculation method was higher.

Of course, if his own defense was high enough, far exceeding the opponent's attack.

This additional 10% defense would form another calculation mechanism.

For example, first let the opponent's attack - his own defense, and then calculate the final damage.

This reverse calculation method would ultimately prevent the opponent from causing any damage to him, creating a result similar to 'damage immunity'.

The enemy's attack would be directly absorbed by the Rule Algorithm.

If calculated using a game's health bar, it would mean not even a 'mandatory -1 health' hit.

Zhang Feng had also figured out this pattern and could confirm that additional defense attributes had 'two algorithms'.

If the enemy's attack was high, it would prioritize weakening the opponent's total attack.

If the enemy's attack was lower than his own defense, it would prioritize calculating his own total defense.

Based on this 'two algorithms'.

Zhang Feng felt this was a very strong 'optimized defense formula'.

It should be possible to materialize it into a 'talisman'.

If it could be made into a talisman, he could then use this formula to try and integrate it into the Spiritual Sense structure.

This way, when attacked normally, if his physical body could block it, he wouldn't use spiritual energy.

If he couldn't block it, the spiritual energy within his body would automatically appear at the point of attack.

Operating spiritual energy in this way could save one Spiritual Mind, eliminating the need to constantly maintain spiritual energy around his body's surface.

His current maximum number of Spiritual Minds was ten.

As long as he could save one, indirectly, his current cultivation speed would increase by about 13%.

Currently, one Spiritual Mind was 0.13 computing power.

Of course, as the Spiritual Minds increased, without needing to maintain spiritual energy on the body's surface, they could all be added to cultivation.

Zhang Feng always felt that the higher the cultivation, the more 'worry-free' the process became.

And when Three Parts Return to Origin was perfected and all techniques merged.

It would be even more so, with only 'all Spiritual Minds commanding one energy'.

Zhang Feng felt great.

Also, after choosing the 'Defense attribute'.

His meridians had unknowingly opened 70%.

The current total meridians were 85%.

And the remaining approximately 15% were unfamiliar meridians that couldn't be instantly opened while slightly distracted.

Zhang Feng quickly put it aside and began to focus on the second Spiritual Mind, and looked at the remaining enhancements.

Second enhancement.

Choose 【Physique +1.5】

Third, 【Wood Spiritual Root +0.2】

All choices were made.

From the moment he arrived in this world, including thinking, it had only been about ten minutes.

Zhang Feng's second Spiritual Mind had opened.

The third, at the latest, would be after six hours.

The fourth, and subsequent ones, would also open every 6 to 10 hours, respectively.

The specific time depended on the situation.

If the physique was unstable, he would open one every ten hours.

This was also because after the second one, they all needed his own physique as a foundation and time to stabilize.

Otherwise, with a normal person's 'non-supernatural physique', opening ten Spiritual Minds at once.

The spirit could keep up, but the physical body's subtle operations couldn't.

When the physical body and spirit formed a 'neuron conflict', it would only affect cultivation and indirectly lead to 'spiritual splitting'.

But originally, it took three days to open one, opening much slower.

Thanks to virtual reality technology and big data neurology information, it has now been reduced to 6-10 hours.

Zhang Feng felt that this time was not the limit either.

It should be possible to shorten it further.

...

Nothing happened all afternoon.

There were no customers in the shop either.

Zhang Feng cultivated while watching the street, feeling this should be a 'buffer period'.

Then he looked at the talismans scribbled everywhere.

To be honest, Zhang Feng didn't know what this change of fate was related to.

But if it was really related to Feng Shui.

Even if he was proficient in both Taoism and Buddhism, and cultivated immortality, he really wouldn't know.

However, if it was about arranging items in someone's home to form a certain array, or gathering spirit, allowing people to live longer.

Or warding off evil and driving away malevolent influences, allowing those afflicted to get rid of illness.

Or perhaps holding Rune Technology, or even using spells to fight fiercely, eliminating ghosts and subduing demons.

These are all small matters.

It's just that this is the Celestial Master's path of demon-slaying.

It's not Feng Shui secret techniques related to luck.

In Zhang Feng's view, Feng Shui secret techniques require algorithmic rules, calculating the secrets of heaven, listing all possible future occurrences, and finding perfect solutions.

The Planning Department equipped with the Quantum Small Building belongs to this path; they can provide all the contingency plans that human civilization can prevent and optimize.

This complete plan also indirectly proves that destiny lines are multiple, irregular, and can encounter any sudden situation at any time.

But if it were to say, letting the Planning Department accurately determine 'one destiny line' that a person's future will definitely have.

Then it would require calculating everyone and everything, and no sudden situations could occur in between, only then could such a 'fated line' be sorted out.

In Zhang Feng's view, this is impossible and unrealistic.

Because under such conditions, first, the world must have the Way of Heaven, or rather, there must be a 'main server' that can integrate all rules.

Then, based on rules that 'will definitely' happen, and with such harsh conditions blessing it.

Only then will a destiny line appear.

Otherwise, everything is random.

Zhang Feng was the 'Way of Heaven' within the virtual world and had knowledge of this kind of rule calculation power.

For example, adjusting virtual world data and sending an instruction to the main server, 'Let a zombie pass by an office building two days later.'

Then, under the operation of the main server, the zombie will definitely pass by the building two days later, naturally, under the influence of various factors and in a logical manner.

This is the calculation power rule of 'destiny'.

Similarly, if a player is proficient in all subjects like mathematics, physics, and chemistry, and has powerful calculation power, then they can determine the movement trajectory of this zombie through various factors.

This is Feng Shui secret technique, 'calculating the secrets of heaven'.

The premise is that there is this 'Way of Heaven' (himself), and the zombie passing by the building is 'destined'.

Otherwise, all factors are random, and it's impossible for the zombie to pass by that building so 'coincidentally'.

It's also possible that as the zombie walks, just as it sees the building ahead, someone suddenly appears behind it, and it turns around, howling, to chase the person.

This person is a random factor without the interference of the 'Way of Heaven'.

Relatively speaking, if the Way of Heaven wants the zombie to go to that building, it must calculate all factors to form a certain coincidence.

Even if this person still appears and affects the zombie.

Then there will definitely be a master, or something, who will naturally capture this person under natural factors.

Or there will be other things that make this person disappear naturally, and then let this zombie still pass by that building within the specified time.

This is the algorithm of the Way of Heaven that Zhang Feng envisioned.

It doesn't sound like there's anything special about it, it's just a 'formula that happens stably'.

But as long as one's own calculation power is sufficient, one can use this stable algorithm to deduce whether there is a 'Way of Heaven' in the future world.

And one can also use this algorithm to make oneself conform to the rules of the Way of Heaven, realizing the idea of artificially creating a 'Child of Destiny'.

This algorithm is also temporarily called the 'Luck Formula'.

The idea of the 'Child of Destiny' thought of in the previous world.

Is based on this theoretical prototype.

It's just that Zhang Feng had no clue at first, and it was only after the events in the virtual world that he gradually sorted it out clearly.

Especially this formula, in the calculations of the virtual small building and the Quantum Small Building, is slowly maturing and perfecting.

If it becomes stable, theoretically it can form a 'Luck Rune'.

Because the virtual small building itself is a rune virtual world created by Spiritual Sense runes.

All the rules there can be expressed in the form of runes.

If expressed, it is a theoretical entity, and one can try to engrave runes in reality.

Finally, as long as it is engraved, it is a talisman (rune).

As long as it is a spiritual energy structure.

One can try to install it into one's Spiritual Sense structure to achieve fusion.

If expressed in text format, it would be 'You have installed the Luck Rune, Luck +1'.

The premise is that this rune conforms to a world where there might be a Way of Heaven in the future.

But once there, one can gradually correct the structure of the rune one has installed by inferring based on some occurring factors and utilizing the principle of the 'Luck Formula'.

The key point is that as long as the Luck Formula is correct, it is like '1+1=2'.

For example, now one has entered a Way of Heaven world.

Without knowing whether one's Luck Rune is correct, one's rune is the X (unknown) in the formula.

Afterwards, the factors that occur in the Way of Heaven world are the 1 in the formula.

The result caused by the final factors is 2.

Based on the above two, one can deduce that one's rune should be changed to '1' to conform to the Luck Formula of this world.

The principle of luck is like this.

For example, if one knows the information of a treasure and wants to obtain it, then the process of searching for the treasure is the '1' in the formula.

And when one's rune also conforms to 1.

The Way of Heaven, for the final result 2, and without being able to influence oneself, will correct the other 1 (the process of finding the treasure).

If the theory is correct.

Then even if one's strength is very low, the treasure hunting process will be very smooth.

This is conforming to the opportune time in terms of rule calculation power.

Of course, if the Way of Heaven wants one to die, and keeps modifying the formula.

Then nothing needs to be said, just directly reincarnate.

This is unsolvable, it's like flipping the table, making it impossible to reason.

...

In the blink of an eye.

Twelve days passed.

On the afternoon of the thirteenth day.

Zhang Feng was truly puzzled, because the crisis hadn't arrived yet.

But two guests did come, both for fortune-telling.

Because he didn't know how.

Zhang Feng just made things up according to his memory, and what he made up were all good words.

Afterwards, both guests didn't believe him and left.

Furthermore, Zhang Feng even followed them briefly.

After finding that they were not in any danger, he continued to stay here and wait.

"Celestial Master Zhang, how's business?"

And at this moment.

Just as Zhang Feng was pouring his fifth cup of tea for the day.

A neighbor who sold breakfast finished work and passed by the shop entrance.

"Come, play two rounds."

Zhang Feng had nothing much to do, so he took out a set of chess from the table drawer.

"No, no." The neighbor walked away laughing, "Going back to sleep, have to get up in the middle of the night to knead dough."

The neighbors in this area didn't really like to play with Zhang Feng.

Even though a distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor, no one liked to play with a '江湖骗子' (charlatan/swindler).

Zhang Feng's reputation in this small shop area wasn't very good.

Because within this year, many customers came to Zhang Feng, saying that Zhang Feng's predictions were inaccurate.

Some even shouted for a refund.

With this back and forth, his reputation naturally became bad.

Anyway, none of the residents in this area came to Zhang Feng for fortune-telling.

Only tourists who came looking, perhaps for fun or out of curiosity, would come over to take a look.

And as the neighbor left.

Zhang Feng saw that the chess set was already out and was about to practice by himself.

Tap tap—

A middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes walked in from outside.

Behind him was followed by a relatively fashionable young girl.

The two had some resemblance between their eyebrows, they should be father and daughter.

"Hello, Master."

The middle-aged man smiled and stepped forward, extending his hand.

The girl, however, tugged at her father and whispered, "Dad, our house might really have been burglarized, it's not because there's something dirty."

"Stop talking!" The middle-aged man turned his head and snapped, "What do you know, you child!"

As he spoke, he turned back again, smiled and looked at the composed Zhang Feng, and shook hands with Zhang Feng.

"Master, our house... might..."

Speaking of this, thinking about the strange things that had happened at home recently, he suddenly felt a chill, "Our house might have something dirty..."

"Something dirty?"

Zhang Feng sized up the middle-aged man, then looked at the half-doubting young girl.

"Both of you do have some Yin energy."