Big Head's brain boiled.
In the literal sense.
Steam bubbled from it like a roaring hotpot at a full boil, yet his expression was one of sudden enlightenment. He looked perfectly healthy.
Ling Xingjian quietly asked through the channel, "You made it sound so real. You fooled him in one stroke—you're amazing."
"I didn't fool him. It's true."
"How do you know?"
"This is basic knowledge in cultivation worlds."
"You have to learn this to cultivate?"
"Cultivators aren't idiots. They have to learn far more than you imagine."
That was indeed true.
Across different Worldlines, the scope and content of basic knowledge varied according to the level of scientific development and the heights theoretical knowledge had reached.
In the three Worldlines Shi Tiexin had traveled through, the fundamental forces of the universe were described as four: the strong force, the weak force, electromagnetism, and gravitation.
But in the Main Worldline, the strong force, weak force, and electromagnetism had been unified eighty years ago.
According to the theories there, the universe's three fundamental forces were the Omni-Aspect Force, the Omni-Potential Force, and the Omni-Dimensional Force.
The Omni-Aspect Force was the complete unification of the strong force, weak force, and electromagnetism. It composed every external manifestation of the material world. Whether sight, touch, hearing, volume, hardness, friction, entropy increase, degeneracy, collapse, or matter-antimatter annihilation, all were governed by the Omni-Aspect Force.
Back in the Pretty Squad Racing Tournament, one contestant's electric bike had even come with a miniature fusion reactor. That was entirely because humanity in the Main Worldline had reached an incredibly profound level of mastery over the Omni-Aspect Force. Magnetic confinement and the like were as easy as turning one's hand over. If they wanted to, they could make things like Laser Swords whenever they pleased—it was simply unnecessary, because