Of all the cultivators of his generation Wang Qi had met, Ai Changyuan was the strongest.
Years of consuming Newton's Apple had given him an exceptionally profound understanding of mechanics and universal gravitation. More importantly, he had not blindly relied on his ancestors' insights, but had integrated that understanding into his own body of knowledge.
For example, the Collapsing Heaven Palm he had used to defeat Wu Shiqin was definitely not Lord of Yuanli's original version. That gravitational divine ability, executed through Riemann Geometry, clearly came from Taiyi Tianzun's The Way of Resemblance—a refined version that regarded the essence of gravity as the curvature of spacetime.
And then there was what he had said to Wu Shiqin at the end.
"You're quite good. Let's compete again if we get the chance... Or rather, I hope we'll have the chance to research together someday."
Wang Qi understood in an instant.
That guy's ambitions aren't limited to classical mechanics.
His fundamental cultivation method was the Myriad Image Celestial Pull, which directly targeted gravity. Then he fanatically sought out enemies who cultivated techniques concerning the other four fundamental forces, even wanting to invite such cultivators to form a research team.
What did that mean?
That guy's real goal is a grand unified theory.
Whether on Earth or in the Divine Land, people attributed all physical phenomena to the workings of the four fundamental forces. But scientists were forever the laziest bunch. They felt that having four fundamental forces was still far too cumbersome.
—There should only be one!
Thus, grand unified theory—a theory or model attempting to use a single set of equations to describe the physical properties of all particles and forces—came into being to unify the four fundamental forces.
Before Wang Qi had crossed over, Earth had already unified the electromagnetic,