Astonishment

Until the very end, those children still did not understand what the Calculus Lord and the Hand of the Common People had been discussing. In their eyes, it had simply been a conversation between two powerful figures.

The Calculus Lord's arrogance—his disdainful gaze sweeping over all heroes under heaven and every sage and wise man from ancient times to the present—was deeply imprinted upon their minds. Some of them even vaguely began to worship this "number one person under heaven" of the previous generation. That fervent, proud expression would become something some among them sought to emulate.

The lecturers, meanwhile, were somewhat distraught.

Their level was at least sufficient for them to understand what the Calculus Lord had been saying.

And then they felt that it had utterly overturned their way of thinking.

To abstract the vast and complex "heaven and earth" into a simple "problem," then seek that problem's answer—this was how all cultivators of the modern Immortal Path thought. A ripe Nai Zi falling from a tree and the trajectory of celestial bodies were two phenomena founded upon the same principles. Similar "principles" should be everywhere.

The world should work like this: perform the same operation upon an object, and one would receive the same response. Both the process and result of that response should be determined.

It should have been so.

But the Calculus Lord said, "No."

The macroscopic heaven and earth were chaotic, filled with randomness. Yet the particle clouds they had, until just now, insisted were "random" instead followed linear processes with rigid precision, moving in determined ways.

This completely defied their established beliefs.

Trembling, they exchanged these views.

"What do we do?" they asked one another. In the end, these Primordial Spirit grandmasters could only decide to suppress the news for the time being