The opportunity for the rise of modern methods lay in Lord of Yuanli's beginning of axiomatization and systematization. This innovation placed all cultivators within the same framework, giving them a basis for mutual understanding. From then on, what predecessors learned could be completely inherited by later generations and would never be lost; later generations could truly continue forward upon the foundations laid by those before them. Companions, too, could draw strength from one another and rise together, greatly reducing redundant research...
Such an advantage was by no means small. Take cultivation methods, for instance. Beyond its own fundamental theories, any mature cultivation method necessarily involved abstractions in mathematical principles, topology, the Change-Sky Formula, systems theory, spiritual energy theory and classical field theory from the Way of the Celestial Flow, the Way of Resemblance, the Path of the Misty, human-body theory and soul theory from the Path of Living Beings, and so on. After a great cultivator summarized what they had learned and created a mental method, it would undergo countless optimizations. Other than Tianyan Tulu, a mental method capable of deriving its own deductions, no peerless divine art had ever been created by a single person.
Every theoretical breakthrough in mathematics, the Way of the Celestial Flow, or the Path of Living Beings meant an upgrade across all cultivation methods of the Immortal Alliance. However, one only needed to learn a cultivation method and master a theory; the other parts merely needed to be understood.
For someone like Wang Qi, who needed to carve out a path of his own, it was extremely important to know one or several friends accomplished in other fields.
After Wang Qi injected a strand of spiritual power into the computing artifact, a blue interface immediately appeared before his eyes. There were only several icons