What Zhao Qingtan taught was undoubtedly solid gold and silver.
Those remarks about the Ji Sect were not "knowledge" itself, but they were the "finger pointing toward knowledge."
Take the first lesson, for instance: "What is mathematics?" "What exactly does mathematics study?" It laid out the Ji Sect's consistent philosophy as part of the School of Separation, while also sorting through the disputes between the School of Separation and the School of Connection. From arithmetic to geometry, from geometry to analysis—such were the battles fought over the territory of "the foundations of mathematics."
People like Wang Qi and Zhao Qingtan, Ji Sect cultivators, had no need for that finger. They had already obtained "knowledge" itself, so they could do without this "one-finger Zen."
But Lu Xiaoqian needed that "one-finger Zen."
Because in the field of mathematics, she was only a little stronger than a beginner.
—Yet when Wang Qi had dealt with those physical systems back then, he had touched upon the most complex mathematical principles.
Lu Xiaoqian sighed. "Still not strong enough."
She took out her draft papers again and continued calculating.
Lu Xiaoqian seemed to be processing some kind of spell model.
Only a very few people recognized this spell model. It was precisely the result of expressing the True Flame God Cultivation Technique in the form of modern Immortal Dao.
She had spent one or two years studying it. At first, she had merely been somewhat interested in this spell of an alien race from another world. But the more she studied it, the stranger she found the model.
It was not simply a problem of the Dao of Burning Heaven. It involved subtler transformations.
Misty Palace also had people studying it. That method of plundering thermal energy was absolutely the result of spiritual power acting beneath