Research was an extraordinarily money-burning endeavor. Take Earth, for example: the United States alone poured hundreds of billions of dollars into every field each year. Life sciences, medicine, atomic physics, and nuclear physics were always the biggest money pits. Since there was always the possibility of pursuing the wrong research direction, this was much like venture capital. Without money, one simply could not afford to play at research.
That was precisely why Wang Qi had rationally chosen the Myriad Dharma Sect as his starting point. After all, a newcomer had no way to apply for laboratory equipment or research funding. And if he wanted to build up his reputation without conducting experiments, mathematics seemed to be the best choice.
Unfortunately, Wang Qi had still overlooked one thing.
The Modern Dharma Cultivators of the Divine Land were indeed researchers, but they did not merely work on theory. They took both theory and technology into their own hands. And when it came to technology, the sects inevitably had to get their hands dirty and do it themselves.
Didn't you, Wang Qi, want to rely on computers? Then you had to exchange for some of the Divine Land's more classic calculating artifact design blueprints, right? To better digest and absorb them, it would be best if you personally refined a few, right? And then, so that you could make better use of your own Foundation Base in the future, it was not too much to ask that you try your hand at programming, was it?
Yet although design blueprints might not involve especially profound theories, they were the crystallization of technology. And technology was often more expensive than theory. Everyone knew the formula E=mc^2, but the technology behind atomic bombs was a nation's highest secret.
Wang Qi himself was also a physicist, and