Wang Qi found Zhao Qingtan's remarks rather puzzling.
Not yet?
Then when will it be time?
He almost felt that this was merely an excuse. In his view, Wang Qi only wanted to find a few assistants. Wang Qi was already a figure of enormous importance throughout the mathematical community—if he wanted to do something, what more "preparation" could he possibly need?
But since Wang Qi had said so, Zhao Qingtan could do nothing about it.
Afterward, the crowd participating in Wang Qi's "discussions" gradually began to shrink.
Of course, it was not only people leaving. Many cultivators came later after hearing that "Wang Qi had begun studying simplicial algebraic topology and needed to exchange ideas with others." Most of them were low-level cultivators or newly advanced Primordial Spirit cultivators. They had originally thought Wang Qi's level was too high for them to communicate with him. But once the rumor that "Wang Qi is a beginner" spread, they came to try their luck as well, hoping to follow in the footsteps of the legendary "great master" and learn this unfamiliar field.
Some cultivators who had only just entered the path even forced themselves to chew through books on Algebraic Topology for several days before daring to come exchange ideas with Wang Qi and the others.
Naturally, quite a few of them were truly dreadful.
After witnessing the level of this so-called "beginner," most of them slunk away in shame.
Only after discovering that they could not keep up with or understand the discussion at all did they realize that the "beginner" those Primordial Spirit martial uncles and martial elders spoke of was entirely relative.
Yet among these low-level cultivators whose intellects had been utterly crushed, some persisted and stayed behind.
If they could not understand, they gritted their teeth and