I Cultivate Immortality With Scientific Thinking

Chapter 74: Supplementary Setting

Originally, I wanted to write this in the preface, but unfortunately, May and June were very busy. There were competitions and final exams. I wrote this novel late at night the day before and then made revisions when I had time. I aimed to publish it by 8 o'clock the next day. Therefore, there may be contradictions in some of the settings.

So today, I will release the basic settings. If there are any contradictions, please comment and let me know. I will try to find time to read them and make changes.

As for some minor inconsistencies, I may not be able to address them all because I need to write. It's not possible to go through each comment one by one. Generally, I only look at the latest or most popular ones.

Without further ado, here are the basic settings of this book.

I. Law of Spiritual Energy

1. Everything in the world has spiritual energy.

2. Spiritual energy can transform all things.

3. The existence, activity, inertia, and self-information of spiritual energy are based on the scientific theory of "the world is composed of basic particles."

II. Transformation of Spiritual Energy

The transformation process of spiritual energy is influenced by various information from all things in the world. For example, non-attributed spiritual energy will gradually transform into wood attribute spiritual energy after contact with plants. Wood attribute spiritual energy can only be transformed into wood-related substances.

The original spiritual energy is like the mother of elements, just like hydrogen, which transforms through various fusion processes into different elements and eventually forms different substances.

Non-attributed spiritual energy is influenced by various factors in the world and transforms into spiritual energy with different attributes, and finally transforms into different substances.

III. Attributes of Spiritual Energy

The Five Elements, Yin and Yang, Wind and Thunder, etc., are equivalent to the basic attribute table of spiritual energy, which is the otherworldly version of the periodic table of elements.

The various spiritual energies formed by the fusion of various basic attribute spiritual energies, such as Taiyin Moonlight, Yimu Spiritual Energy, etc., are equivalent to compounds formed by various elements. I don't know how many kinds there are.

Low-level cultivators can transform corresponding attribute spiritual energy into corresponding substances, but they cannot transform the attribute of spiritual energy.

IV. Difference between Spiritual Objects and Mundane Objects

Inert spiritual energy becomes different mundane objects according to different attributes and information. Here, inertia means that it cannot be transformed into any substance or energy like active spiritual energy.

Active spiritual energy can be transformed into substances and energy, and as its level increases, it can be transformed into the world.

V. Essence of Cultivation

The essence of cultivation: 1. Sublimating oneself into spiritual energy with self-awareness.

2. Transforming the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into mana with self-imprints.

Spiritual Roots: Everything in the world is composed of spiritual energy, and the human body is also composed of spiritual energy. However, it is inert spiritual energy, while spiritual roots are the active spiritual energy in the human body. Cultivation is the continuous fusion of spiritual roots (this active spiritual energy) with spiritual energy, improving one's level, and writing all the information of one's body into the Spirit Qi, finally becoming a spiritual energy creature.

- Self-created setting

VI. Levels of Spiritual Energy

Void Refining - The power of chaos, capable of giving birth to worlds.

Soul Formation - The origin of spiritual energy, capable of transforming into a part of the world, such as the sun, moon, and earth.

Nascent Soul - High-level spiritual energy, capable of bestowing unique characteristics to matter, such as monatomic heavy water and eternal true flame.

Gold Core - High-level spiritual energy, capable of transforming into existing substances in the world.

Foundation Building - is one level higher in quality than ordinary Spirit Communication, and the transformation of matter is limited.

Note: The rise and fall of levels will absorb and release spiritual energy.

- Self-created setting

7. Soul (also known as Divine Soul)

In this book, the soul is divided into three parts.

The first is memory, which allows us to know where we come from.

The second is perception, which allows us to understand the world and ensures the continuity of memory, indirectly determining where we will go.

The third is the power of the soul, which is a condensed aggregation of spiritual energy, Yin attribute spiritual energy, and other attributes of spiritual energy. It will become different attributes of soul power depending on the cultivator's spiritual root.

- Self-created setting

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As for what some readers have mentioned, such as quantum entanglement, vacuum zero-point energy, dark matter, curved spacetime... Well, the author is just an ordinary college student. If I understood these things, I wouldn't be writing novels.

After all, I don't understand them either. If I were to include them in the setting, it would easily lead to logical problems. Of course, for the Late Stage, I might mention some of them briefly, but that's about it.

Some readers have asked me to describe the experimental process in detail. Well, how should I put it? Although I am a computer science major, I have done some experiments.

The process of experimentation, how should I say it, is really... very tedious, with a bunch of data, not knowing if there are any problems, working hard for half a day, and the result may not even be correct. If I were to write a novel like this, I guess no one would like to read it.

So I only choose to write about successful results, and if it's not successful, I just skip it.

I know there are some problems with what I wrote earlier, such as the idea of selling books, the belief that scientific practice will always succeed, and the notion that hard work will always yield results. Actually, this is a bit unrealistic.

But after all, this is a novel. If the protagonist can't do anything, then I really can't continue writing. So let's consider this as a Goldfinger I've given to the author.

And in order to advance the plot, there may be some minor flaws in character descriptions. Please understand that the author is a newcomer and lacks writing skills. *cries*

Also, let me mention the protagonist's transmigration. It is not accidental, but there is no calculation behind it, no hidden hand, and no one using the protagonist as a pawn.

In the setting of this book, those big shots are not so idle, always calculating this and that. They have grander pursuits.

The positioning of this book is about seekers of the Dao, and those big shots are not pursuing things like "Chaos Origin" or "Great Dao Laws". They are pursuing a philosophical concept.

As for the observation of spiritual energy as a basic substance.

In this book, high-level cultivators themselves are spiritual beings. If we convert it to reality, they are atoms with self-awareness.

Atoms can sense other atoms, so can the spiritual energy in the book sense other spiritual energy?

As for what conclusions can be drawn from observing spiritual energy, it is the above-mentioned setting about the attributes and transformation of spiritual energy. If anyone has any good ideas, they can add them.

Finally, let me say that the theme of this book is Immortal Cultivation with a scientific mindset.

Scientific thinking, to put it simply, is a method of understanding the world, summarizing laws based on existing phenomena, and innovating on this basis.

And on this basis, I will also incorporate the theory of Daoist inner alchemy, Divine Body cultivation, the theory of three souls and seven spirits, Yin and Yang spirits, making it more inclined towards xianxia rather than a cyberpunk style.

If there are readers who prefer theoretical data and the like in their cultivation novels, then I'm sorry, this book may not be suitable for you. In this day and age, people choose books, and books also choose people. It's a pity that we missed each other.

But I recommend you to read "Entering the Path of Immortal Cultivation". It's a very good cyberpunk cultivation novel.

Well, I won't say any more unnecessary words. After all, this book is written based on the above setting, the story of the protagonist coming and influencing, and even changing this Immortal Cultivation World with a scientific mindset.

For anything else, if it's not a very good point, I won't add it, because the more settings, the more chaotic it becomes.

Alright, I won't say anymore. I have to go review now. I have ten exams for the final exams. Oh my god, how can I review everything in a month?!!! (End of this chapter)