"The theories and techniques chiefly involved in braid groups include Calculator Language, Vagueness Calculators, Living Being Source Structure, the Chaos Dynamic System, Vagueness Chromodynamics, superstrings, and the hair of the one you love."
Many years later, this sentence appeared openly in the opening words of the knot theory volume in both Immortal Academy textbooks and Myriad Dharma Sect introductory textbooks. In that era, every scholar aspiring to join the Myriad Dharma Sect had to undergo the baptism of textbooks that shattered their worldview.
Many students felt that such words appearing in a textbook were simply an insult to refinement. Yet they had to admit that the textbooks written by these shameless old fogeys were indeed far more interesting than the old ones.
Incidentally, it was also in the first few years after this edition of the textbook came out that the joke, "Myriad Dharma Sect wants a Dao companion too," finally came under widespread questioning—until a few years later, when the fresh-faced newcomers also saw the true faces of the Myriad Dharma Sect's big brothers and sisters.
And all of it was because some bastard wanted to preserve a beautiful afternoon from his memories.
Wang Qi's fingers danced lightly over Chen Youjia's head. Before long, Chen Youjia's hair was untied strand by strand. Locks of hair fell loose, swiftly turning into a cascade of dark silk.
Seeing Wang Qi untie those intricate braids with three strokes and two swipes, Chen Youjia was somewhat surprised. "How did you do that...?"
"They weren't tied in dead knots to begin with." Wang Qi rubbed Chen Youjia's head. Chen Youjia wanted to swat that hand away, but Wang Qi's arm seemed utterly without force. After rubbing twice, he circulated his spiritual power and smoothed Chen Youjia's long hair all the way down, as though