The Ring Grandpa Finally Came in Handy

The night Lu Xiaoqian read Wang Qi's letter, she did nothing else. She simply sat there, rereading every letter she had previously sent him.

Please don't let it be that I got carried away while writing and accidentally revealed sect secrets!

Some ideas could be shared with others, but some absolutely could not.

The project Lu Xiaoqian was working on was not hers alone! It embodied the efforts of countless senior predecessors. At present, these ideas circulated only among the core members of Misty Palace and were considered sect secrets.

How had Wang Qi learned of this unverified conjecture, which by rights only the upper echelon of Misty Palace should have known?

Leaving aside Lu Xiaoqian's confusion, Wang Qi was quite eagerly awaiting a reply from this senior sister of Misty Palace.

Shenzhou's empirical research had one very important principle: any phenomenon sensed by cultivators themselves could only serve as supplementary evidence, never decisive proof.

This was meant to prevent the anthropic principle from interfering with results, and also to stop entrenched notions from working their mischief and leaving new theories with no chance to rise.

Immortals who firmly believed in the "river of time" truly could manifest an illusory river of spiritual power, use layer upon layer of mighty force to scour it, and alter the flow of time. But that did not mean the "river of time" truly existed.

The same was true of gravitational waves. Ai Changyuan could disturb gravity and form blades of gravitational waves, but that did not mean gravitational waves truly existed in the universe. By the thinking of Modern Dharma Cultivators, such a spell could only prove that "this universe permits gravitational waves to exist." They had to observe naturally occurring gravitational waves with instruments.

This was even more so for certain cutting-edge