Chapter 331: Rivers Eternal, Profit-Seeking Life Beings [Seeking Monthly Pass, Seeking Recommendations!]
"Some compliments are simply wasted on certain people."
Wang Qi's boastful words naturally provoked the fury of the majority of cultivators present.
"What do you mean?"
"Get down from there!"
"Who are you talking about? Who is it a waste to listen to?"
Many were already dissatisfied with Chen Feng and Wang Qi receiving the nomination. Wang Qi's comment only added fuel to the fire. If it had not been for the Heavenly Selection God Monarch standing right beside Wang Qi, half of the fruits on the table, arranged for the guests, would have vanished in an instant—piled upon Wang Qi.
Other cultivators also shouted at the Heavenly Selection God Monarch, "Why them?"
"We do not accept this!"
"He's an Arithmetician!"
"Something must have been mistaken!"
"We do not accept this!"
The voices of opposition grew louder and more intense. The Heavenly Selection God Monarch was also taken aback. During award ceremonies, the awardees are usually not reluctant to display a bit of humility. In most circumstances, cultivators do not mind showing modesty. After all, a humble person is less likely to offend peers and more likely to gain favor. Furthermore, in the presence of the Great Dao, everyone is insignificant, so humility is also one of the key principles in maintaining a cultivator's mindset.
Of course, there are indeed geniuses with unyielding natures like Bai Ze God Monarch. However, they often show their pride only on more significant occasions when standing on the stage to speak means they have already achieved fame and success and fear no form of criticism.
Wang Qi's behavior indeed angered many. Yet, he was unconcerned and said to everyone, "I'm not targeting anyone here, not even anyone present. I'm saying—for those who oppose me, let it be! Your wails are meaningless."
"There's something interesting about this kid," murmured the woman who had spoken fairly of Wang Qi and Chen Feng earlier, narrowing her eyes. "Is he that confident?"
Zhang Fengchun, who bore a grudge against Wang Qi, furiously said, "How can someone be so… Are all disciples of the Wanfa Sect like this?"
By now, some had started to curse, "It seems like Junior Brother Wang is quite confident in his theories, huh?"
"I am very confident in my proof process." Amidst the cursing, Wang Qi closed his eyes.
Then, he opened his eyes. A blazing Life Fire ignited within his gaze. The power of his spirit strengthened, turning into a boundless might, Divine Light roaring and devouring all the Qi Mechanism within the room.
"Just wait, I will show you self-satisfied fools what kind of power you are opposing!"
Few could withstand such might, and the atmosphere in the Fragrant Spirit Sky quieted down significantly. However, several Golden Core Stage disciples spoke out, "Power? When we're discussing theories, he's talking about power?"
"Ha, does he have a Carefree teacher who forcibly made Tianling Ridge give him the Dao Seed Award?"
Wang Qi waved his hand and released a special Spiritual Body—similar to a Ghost Soldier. With no intention of hiding the White Snake and considering the elite disciples present, everyone noticed the existence of the Ghost Soldier "White Snake."
"As you can see, this is a Ghost Soldier, which I specifically had the Boss of the Empirical Department refine for an empirical test," Wang Qi pointed at the "White Snake." "The material of this Ghost Soldier is an Ancient Demon Soul, somewhat akin to the technique of the Immortal Alliance refining hundreds of livestock souls into a Spiritual Body, only with an additional accumulation of time. The refining method isn't particularly remarkable either, it's the usual technique of the Yangshen Pavilion. Among the Divine Skills contained within, only the ones for reading, copying, and recreating thoughts are somewhat ingenious; the rest are hardly worth mentioning."
"All in all, this is an ordinary, common Ghost Soldier."
After letting the Ghost Soldier out, Wang Qi touched his Storage Bag lightly and immediately piles of small Magic Artifacts appeared at his feet. Some sharp-eyed cultivators recognized them to be Spirit Rhinoceros Bottles.
"What is he doing with so many Spirit Rhinoceros Bottles?"
"Could it be that there is so much data, he needs to use this many bottles to cope?"
"He must also need a considerable algorithm, right?"
"Heh, trying to play those mathematical tricks again?"
"Does he really think this is the Banquet of Completion?"
Wang Qi ignored the murmurs below. He shook his arms, and all the Memory Bodies took flight, orbiting around him. Then, he communicated with Jarvis in his consciousness, "Jarvis, how is it looking? Confirmed?"
"Insertion sequence for the Memory Bodies confirmed, insertion location confirmed, insertion timing simulated. The success rate of the refining plan exceeds ninety-five percent."
"Very well, don't screw up the performance later, Jarvis."
"Yes, Teacher."
An invisible force manipulated the Memory Body. Then, the first Memory Body shot toward the Ghost Soldier. Traversing a high-dimensional trajectory, the Memory Body slipped into the Ghost Soldier and merged with the Life Flame attached to it, becoming one with the Ghost Soldier's system in an instant.
One after another, Memory Bodies targeted the Ghost Soldier "White Snake." Layers upon layers of Magic Foundation fragments were implanted into its body. Wang Qi's consciousness split into dozens of threads, each precisely controlling a Memory Body, inserting them at the most appropriate times and into the most suitable locations. The Memory Bodies, integrating with the core essence, extended new parts. These parts linked together to form a complete Magic Foundation!
Due to human body limitations, there is only a finite amount of Magic Foundation that can be accommodated—about fifty to eighty Memory Bodies, with around thirty Memory Bodies being the "common characteristics" present in all Magic Foundations. A person can only endure such a potent Magic Foundation; adding new fragments would trigger the collapse of the Life System. However, Ghost Soldiers weren't restricted in this way.
The number of Memory Bodies that Wang Qi had inserted at that moment was far beyond two hundred.
An unprecedented Magic Foundation began to take shape. The Ghost Soldier started to feel more tangible. The white ghost began to inhale and exhale a tremendous amount of Spiritual Energy, rivaling even that of a Golden Core!
In just a few minutes, "White Snake" underwent earth-shattering changes. Part of it began to emit a green Spirit Light!
Holding the last Memory Body in hand, Wang Qi addressed the crowd, "The Spirit Rhinoceros Bottles are an external type of Magic Foundation fragment I developed, used by Foundation Establishment Cultivators for Deduction Method. With a specific Magic Artifact, they can connect it to their own Magic Foundation to experience their deduced, designed Magic Foundation firsthand—of course, it can also be used like this, directly becoming the Magic Foundation for a certain life form."
"I opened a small realm with a few of my friends in the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm, and we're offering the schematics for the artifact needed for such connections and the design concepts for this external Magic Foundation for free. The artifact is free of charge, and as long as everyone is able to upload the Magic Foundation fragments they design into the small realm, that's enough."
"This is just a spontaneous small realm, I've always been carefree and haven't done much to promote it, so nowadays this small realm has less than a thousand users and only holds over ten thousand design diagrams."
Actually, designing Memory Bodies is just like using Photoshop. At first, you might find it hard, but after really doing it two or three times, you'll find it especially simple. As long as inspiration strikes, you can design one in just a few days.
Nearly a hundred of the Memory Bodies Wang Qi had just inserted into the Ghost Soldier were designed by Ai Changyuan, and most of them were rejected drafts. Among these, the majority were based on Wanfa Sect's Cultivation and Mathematics Magic Foundations. Wang Qi used an unorthodox approach, piecing together these mostly rejected Memory Bodies to form a self-consistent, circulating whole.
One hundred and twenty-six Wanfa Sect Memory Bodies formed the framework, while thirty-three from Tianling Ridge and seventeen from Guiyi Alliance formed the basis for the massive energy absorption capacity of the Magic Foundation. Eighty-nine Gravity Memory Bodies constituted the Ghost Soldier's strongest weapon.
Wang Qi calmly inserted the last Memory Body, representing Life Flame, into the chest of the Ghost Soldier, "This is the power of the people."
Life Flame ignited within the Ghost Soldier. In an instant, it became "alive." The Ghost Soldier roared, seizing more Spiritual Energy. The vibrant life force of Fangfei Ling Heaven was its to consume. An invisible aura ascended. Within just a few breaths, it transformed from an ordinary support Ghost Soldier into a formidable combat Ghost Soldier!
A strange sense of weightlessness enveloped the entirety of Fangfei Ling Heaven. Before everyone could figure out what was going on, they felt the ground begin to tilt.
Gravity—the Ghost Soldier was controlling gravity!
"Now, how long have I spent refining this Ghost Soldier? Well, everyone has seen the reformation process, which took about a few minutes. And how long did it take me to design this 'Magic Foundation'?"
"The answer is—it didn't take any time at all! All that is needed is a calculator, and after coding a simple Path Rank, you can have as many combinations as you want! If that Path Rank is a bit more complex, you can input your own Magic Foundation into it and instantly combine the most suitable Magic Foundation for yourself."
"This design can also be applied to Artifact Refining or Demon Soldier cultivation—just make minor adjustments to the Path Rank, altering the final outcome."
"And all of this requires a sufficiently large, free resource bank."
"However, I believe that the small realm I've started will certainly grow larger and larger, because Foundation Establishment Cultivators will definitely use it. And its costs have already been reduced to a point where anyone can use it!"
"The drive of interest brings people from all over together spontaneously. Once they gather, they accumulate substantial resources, attracting even more people to join—this is determined by the natural instinct of life beings to seek benefits and avoid harm; it's the Big Trend."
"This is the power of 'Technology,' and it is also the power of 'Numbers.'"
Some chuckled mockingly from below, "Your power isn't that impressive, eh? It can't even silence others."
"The upper echelon, hearing the Dao, practice it diligently. The lower echelon, hearing the Dao, laugh greatly at it. Without laughter, there is no Dao." Wang Qi threw their words back at them. Then he continued, "The Human Dao System operates on a similar principle. The people nourish it, and it provides strength to the people."
"Of course, Cultivators may look down on this strength, yet this strength can offer something to all Mortals, much like the principle of a Divine Tao Witch."
"I'm sure everyone has seen my theories. The Mortal World is isolated from Immortal Heaven because Mortals cannot use the products of Immortal Dao and cannot provide benefits to Cultivators. But what if millions of Mortals had a trace of Mana? Perhaps, we could entrust them with the most fundamental tasks. Resource extraction, basic maintenance, Spirit Beast husbandry, Immortal Alliance reception, even border defense, peacekeeping, and law enforcement. All Cultivators could then focus on their research. Red Dust Heart Refining could enter Immortal Alliance positions as 'internships.' Some mechanical, non-technical designs could also be delegated to Mortals."
"How powerful would this force be?"
Wang Qi looked at the disciples of Tianling Ridge and said, "If you ignore this force and instead scoff at it, then I can only say to you—'Your body and fame shall both perish, and not remain in the endless flow of the river.'"
"Nobody can assert that their theories are correct; any Cultivator's theory could be overturned or surpassed tomorrow. However, this force is eternal!"
"This is the Life Beings!"(To be continued. If you like this work, I invite you to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets at Qidian. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)