Enter the Immortal Cultivation

In the fantasy world of all immortals, two top masters of free and easy life faced each other from a distance.

"Master, I still don't understand what you mean."

Facing Feng Luoyi's whispered question, Master Xi Boche looked absent-minded: "What?"

He looked very strange.

"The Collection of All Dharmas" is the hard work of him and the entire Ge Ting Sect. So, for him, the completion of the first volume of "The Collection of All Dharmas" should be a happy event in life equivalent to passing the imperial examination.

But now, this great master of calculation, a great master of free and easy life, did not have a trace of joy.

On the contrary, his face was full of fatigue and confusion, as if he had experienced a long journey, but did not know why he did not see the scenery he wanted to see.

Feng Luoyi even felt that the old master's face was a little older.

Very abnormal. Very abnormal. The guy in front of him was not like the master of calculation who gave guidance to the world's masters with twenty-three questions.

So, he asked: "The content of those 500 pages is the direction of your work, but it is definitely not your usual style."

"'The 500 pages'..." Xi Boche smiled bitterly: "Is it the 500 pages discussing 'one plus one'?"

"I originally thought that you didn't like those things."

Although Wanfamen can be roughly divided into two schools of thought, "Li Zong" and "Lian Zong", the schools of thought are not monolithic. There are more subtle differences.

The Ge Ting School is the representative of the Li Zong, but it does not mean that the Li Zong has only the Ge Ting School.

Wang Qi once used the "Sword Qi Dispute" in "Swordsman" to illustrate the mathematical differences in Wanfamen. In that Earth novel. Huashan Qi Zong's representative is Zixia Gong, but many readers automatically ignore that Huashan Qi Zong actually has another representative unique skill, Hunyuan Zhenqi. This is because Zixia Gong plays too much of a role in that novel.

It's almost the same reason. The master of calculation is the leader of Wanfa calculation, and he represents Ge Ting. Naturally, he became a representative of the sect, and all other ideas were "marginal".

And now, Xi Boche actually used a very marginal idea?

This is as incredible as the head of the Shaolin sect not practicing Yi Jin Jing, but taking Luohan Fist as the main practice!

"I have done this before, right?" Xi Boche smiled bitterly: "Under the circumstances, I temporarily agreed with the ideas I don't like."

Feng Luoyi knew what Xi Boche was referring to. About six years ago. Xi Boche and the entire Ge Ting sect. In order to deal with the Lian Zong led by the Lord Pang Jialai, they temporarily adopted Wang Qi's idea, which might produce results in a short time - that is, the idea of ​​the "Bourbaki School" on Earth.

Xi Boche did not completely agree with this idea. But under the circumstances, he temporarily accepted it.

Feng Luoyi was puzzled and asked, "Who can force you?"

"No one can force me." Xi Boche shook his head: "I am forcing myself."

"What?"

"Yuehan, do you know?" Xi Boche called his old friend by Feng Luoyi's courtesy name: "Mathematics is so great and incredible. What I am doing now is just to find a way, a way that can lead us to the 'Great Way'."

"But just finding this one way has exhausted me."

Feng Luoyi sighed: "This question... is indeed difficult to solve."

If science uses mathematics as a tool to summarize the laws of all things and infer from the known to the unknown, then what Xi Boche is doing now is to use mathematics itself as a tool to summarize the laws of mathematics itself and infer the unknown part of mathematics from the known part of mathematics. That is, "mathematics that studies mathematics." Or "meta-mathematics."

In this world, it is called "meta-mathematics."

If mathematics can be used as a tool to study all things, then what kind of "mathematics" should be used as a tool to study mathematics?

Which "branch" can be used to explore the main trunk in reverse?

This is the problem that Master Xi Boche is facing.

"I still don't understand. Master, you are not the kind of person who will change your mind in just a few years, and..." Feng Luoyi paused and asked again: "Who wrote the 500 pages? I asked all the Taoist friends, it was not written by any of them, and you didn't have time to write it."

Xi Boche smiled: "Yue Han, you won't forget it, right? Time is something that is very "personalized" for people of your level and me."

Feng Luoyi suddenly felt a chill.

In the impression of many people, time treats every object absolutely equally. However, that is just that their vision is not far enough. If you look at the level of celestial bodies, then time is really just a regional thing.

The power of immortals varies. The weak ones are several times stronger than the Mahayana, while the strong ones are stronger than ordinary celestial bodies. The Kailing celestial bodies in the presumption are only the strong ones among the immortals, not the strongest in theory.

For the strong among the immortals, "personal time" and "personalized time" are just natural concepts. Whether it is a hundred years or a thousand years, it is just a matter of thought.

In this case, "society" naturally becomes an impossible thing.

Feng Luoyi asked: "How much time did you create for yourself?"

The fortune teller shook his head: "I don't remember. How can I remember this? About... ten years?"

Feng Luoyi breathed a sigh of relief. Ten years, fortunately, it is still within the acceptable range.

If Xi Boche's thinking goes into a dead end because of a long period of seclusion, it will be a loss for the entire Shenzhou.

Xi Boche sighed: "During that time, I thought alone, looked for a way out of the situation alone, proved again and again and overturned myself again and again. In the end, I seemed to realize that this is not going to work. I am not as smart as I thought. Perhaps, I should start with some of the most basic things..."

Feng Luoyi frowned: "The most basic? Just those... stupid arguments?"

"I hope there is a 'way out of the situation' in them."

"Actually?"

Xi Boche sighed: "I haven't found it yet. These arguments, even from my own point of view, are..."

"Chaotic, nothing is clear." Feng Luoyi criticized mercilessly.

Xi Boche shook his head: "At least I am standardizing set theory itself..." However, he found that his old friend's expression showed a hint of confusion and... anger?

And it wasn't facing him?

What happened?

Wang Qi stretched out his hand and drew a line on the ground with his index finger: "You still remember the concepts of point, straight line, angle, vertical, parallel, and sky-drawing style that I talked about with you yesterday?"

Gou Dabao nodded, with a bit of "piety" in his eyes.

Today is the fourth day of teaching. On the second and third days, Wang Qi taught Gou Dabao all the basic concepts of geometry. Now, he can pat his chest and guarantee that this exiled immortal has a geometry attainment of about the sixth grade level of elementary school, and can even compete with ordinary students in the first semester of the first grade of junior high school. If he encounters a junior high school scumbag, he can even achieve a sweeping effect!

Just to achieve this effect, Wang Qi wasted two days.

"What about Luo's geometry and Li's geometry?"

"Sir, that is too difficult. I only know a little bit, but I don't know the door at all..."

Gou Dabao's words can be called "respect". For some reason, he now has a feeling of admiration for Wang Qi, and no longer has the cold words he used a few days ago.

For him, Wang Qi is the person who gives his life new glory. This guy, who is less than half his age, has opened a window to a whole new realm for him.

"It's good to know roughly. Today I will tell you about the principle of 'different paths to the same destination' in mathematics, which is to further explain to you that 'mathematics' has its own freedom, shortcuts, or is itself a thing of Taoism."

Wang Qi did not require Gou Dabao to master any content. After all, his purpose was not to let this exiled immortal master anything, but to let Gou Dabao understand mathematics, no longer reject mathematics, solve his spiritual problems, and make him less obstructed in practicing the Wanfamen.

For Wang Qi, this process is also a process of stopping temporarily and sorting out his own ideas. This process does not help his academic level at all, but it can improve his spiritual cultivation and make him have a deeper grasp and feeling of mathematics.

As the saying goes, sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood. Wang Qi's doing this is not good for him now, but it may not be a help for future practice.

"Gou Dabao, I believe you have noticed it, right? The geometry of the human race first had Euclidean geometry and the method of drawing the sky, and then there were Li and Luo's geometry. Now there is zero curvature, and then there are positive curvature and negative curvature, right?"

Gou Dabao nodded: "Yes."

"Then do you think this is the only right way to develop geometry?"

Gou Dabao shook his head in confusion: "Disciple really doesn't understand how there will be another way besides this..."

Wang Qi asked back: "In your eyes, the world is flat, isn't it?"

Gou Dabao wanted to say "Isn't this nonsense?" Although his immortal soul vaguely conveyed some ideas, making him feel that this statement is unreliable, but the immortals themselves have no clear concept of curved space-time. They just don't need tools such as mathematics because their existence is too great, so they can directly observe space, that's all, so Gou Dabao can't explain it. Finally, he could only nod: "Yes"

"Then, if I tell you that there are other races in this universe whose concept of space is completely different from that of humans, but they finally reached a similar realm, do you believe it?" (To be continued ~^~)

PS: The first update is a little late, sorry