The more Wang Qi learned, the more he discovered that the scientific development of Earth and Divine Land had not diverged entirely.
Even with Brother Heavenly Dao forcibly linking the physical development of the two worlds, those differences truly existed.
Take mathematics. Ever since Essence of Spiritual Qi had been proposed a thousand years ago, Divine Land cultivators had discovered the uses of systems theory and number theory in internal cultivation methods. The former allowed for a more comprehensive understanding of cultivation's essence and the analysis of cultivation methods. The latter helped cultivators establish their own unique mana characteristic equations. In these two branches of mathematics, Divine Land was far ahead of Earth. Even Wang Qi found some of this material exceedingly difficult to study.
Yet conversely, Divine Land's progress in probability theory was astonishingly slow, lagging behind by a full century. After reading through the history of Divine Land's immortal path, Wang Qi discovered that the historical divergence between the two worlds, marked by "Sommerfeld's death," had even erased Kolmogorov—the founder of modern probability theory. Even the research of Myriad Dharma Sect's Free and Unfettered cultivator Bi Xuefo was unlike that of Earth's mathematician Chebyshev, who grasped both probability theory and mathematical analysis in both hands. This Divine Land cultivator did not study probability theory at all; he studied systems.
But Zi Xiaopeng made Wang Qi realize that Divine Land science had another weak point.
Sky Spirit Ridge had two great foundations upon which it had been established: Tianyan theory and spiritual foundation theory. The Tianyan Tulu had been the key to Sky Spirit Ridge joining the Five Excellences. Yet Sky Spirit Ridge seemed not to have singled out "humans" and developed anthropology, the study of humankind. Of anthropology's two directions of research, human evolution could still be considered