Chapter Summaries

Wang Qi discussed his research plans with Feng Luoyi, who revealed that Master Xi had nominated him for the Daoist Artifact Prize and warned him that the nomination would draw opposition. Feng then explained that he and Master Xi represented the Myriad Dharma Sect’s modern School of Separation, and that Wang Qi’s paper had placed him on their side in a looming clash with Master Poincaré.

• Wang Qi told Feng Luoyi that incompleteness was a research goal rather than an established conclusion, and described plans to study the law of large numbers, statistics, and systems theory.
• Feng Luoyi praised Wang Qi’s recent paper, said it could make him wealthy among Qi Refining disciples, and revealed that Master Xi had nominated him for the next Daoist Artifact Prize.
• Feng Luoyi warned that Wang Qi faced factional opposition, then sent Bo Xiaoya away before discussing the Myriad Dharma Sect’s ideological conflict with him.
• Feng Luoyi identified himself and Master Xi as representatives of the modern School of Separation, also known as the logic school or Gödel Court.
• Wang Qi realized that Master Xi and Feng Luoyi intended to oppose Master Poincaré and panicked when Feng said Wang Qi’s paper made him one of their side.

Feng Luoyi explained how Wang Qi’s paper could reignite the long-running mathematical feud between Master of Calculation Pang Jialai’s faction and Master Xi’s faction, and why that struggle could affect Wang Qi’s Daoist Artifact Prize. Wang Qi learned the factions’ tangled history and was left overwhelmed by centuries of rivalry.

• Feng Luoyi warned Wang Qi that Master Pang would soon notice his paper and explained that Master Pang viewed him as a mathematician worth challenging.
• Feng Luoyi said Master Pang and Master Xi would debate over the Myriad Dharma Calculation Collection, and that their factions would support or suppress Wang Qi’s bid for the Daoist Artifact Prize.
• Feng Luoyi explained that Divine Lord Bai Ze’s review mattered because he had ties to both factions, then described the Li faction’s history and its rivalry with Goting.
• Wang Qi learned how Abel’s challenge helped split the Li faction and how Master of Calculation Pang Jialai later revived its successor faction.
• Wang Qi covered his face and asked Feng Luoyi to stop after hearing how the old regional rivalry had grown into an enduring feud.

Wang Qi told Chen Feng that Master of Calculation's faction was about to challenge him, then outlined how he planned to adjust his research. The chapter ended with Chen Feng realizing that Wang Qi intended to join the mathematical debate.

• Wang Qi explained that the Myriad Dharma Calculation Collection had become a struggle for orthodoxy among the Myriad Dharma Sect's schools.
• Chen Feng said Master of Calculation was formidable and teased Wang Qi about rumors concerning Miss Bo and his relationship with a fellow daoist.
• Chen Feng asked Wang Qi what he intended to do, and Wang Qi said he would pause work on the law of large numbers while studying statistics and organizing arithmetic systems.
• Wang Qi decided not to pursue the incompleteness theorem because it could harm the Gottingen Sect, and Chen Feng concluded that he meant to enter the debate.

Wang Qi planned to steer the mathematical debate between Pang Jialai and Xiboche toward proving the consistency of arithmetic systems, while keeping his role limited to publishing papers. He remained in Divine Capital, committed to working for Chen Feng, and prepared for Foundation Establishment and the debate ahead.

• Wang Qi considered how Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems could threaten the Gottingen Sect and planned to use transfinite induction to redirect the debate toward consistency.
• Chen Feng warned Wang Qi about the dangers of joining the dispute between Pang Jialai and Xiboche, and Wang Qi admitted he wanted to take part.
• Wang Qi reflected on his ambition to represent Gödel's ideas in the debate, and Chen Feng praised his enthusiasm while asking whether he would still work for him.
• Wang Qi agreed to keep working for Chen Feng until the Myriad Dharma Sect made new arrangements, explaining that he needed merit points and could not leave Divine Capital.
• Wang Qi said he would focus on Foundation Establishment before Pang Jialai returned, then asked Chen Feng whether he could make up the artifact-refining classes he had missed.

Wang Qi read Chen Feng’s artifact-refinement notes and learned how the Myriad Dharma Sect’s journals and the Immortal Alliance’s paper repository worked. He concluded that the unusual system had been designed to preserve theories and restrict access to Modern Dharma knowledge.

• Chen Feng led newly arrived Sky Spirit Ridge disciples into the Yuan Spirit Environment Empirical Department while Wang Qi headed to the Myriad Dharma Sect with Chen Feng’s textbook and notes.
• Wang Qi read Chen Feng’s concise artifact-refinement notes and praised their practical approach, while Zhen Chanzi lamented the decline of traditional skills.
• Wang Qi met Liang Jin at the Myriad Dharma Sect’s residence, where Liang Jin nervously greeted him and dropped his books.
• Wang Qi examined the Myriad Dharma Selections journal and considered how its abstracts directed readers to the Immortal Alliance’s paper repository.
• Wang Qi reasoned that the Immortal Alliance’s restricted repository and merit requirements protected Modern Dharma theories from being lost or betrayed.

Wang Qi discovered that his paper on first-order predicate calculus had received glowing praise and drawn major academic attention, securing recognition and promising him contribution points. He also found a sharp criticism of the paper and sensed a larger academic storm brewing.

• Wang Qi read Master of Calculation Xiboche's glowing evaluation of his paper and felt that it secured his recognition.
• Wang Qi found reviews by Xiboche, Feng Luoyi, and Baling Bo Clan that showed his work had inspired major academic debates.
• Liang Jin gave Wang Qi another journal, where He Wai'er praised his talent but argued that the paper was useless.
• Wang Qi inferred that He Wai'er's criticism reflected differences between scholarly factions and wondered what Master of Calculation Pang Jialai was doing.

Wang Qi examined the Myriad Dharma Sect’s response to his paper, then searched the Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm for clues about the mysterious Mysterious Star Observatory. He discovered that its astrophysics research was scarce and restricted before Feng Luoyi appeared.

• Liang Jin showed Wang Qi the freshly printed Myriad Dharma Selections, which contained no attacks on his paper and suggested the sect’s official opinion favored the Calculus Master’s side.
• Wang Qi wondered why Pang Jialai would take half a month to hear about the debate and considered whether the cultivator was isolated somewhere far away.
• Wang Qi asked Liang Jin about mathematical journals, learned that the Göttingen Journal’s latest issue was not yet available, and headed to the Divine Capital branch altar.
• Wang Qi searched the Immortal Alliance database and found that the Mysterious Star Observatory had extensive astronomy records but little visible astrophysics research, with many papers by Hawking restricted.
• Feng Luoyi appeared before Wang Qi and chided him for making people worry.

Wang Qi deduced that the Immortal Alliance used hidden satellite-like artifacts to track people and learned that access to the Mysterious Star Observatory’s full records required reaching the Primordial Spirit stage. Feng Luoyi gave him data to calculate the spiritual energy of distant space, and Wang Qi was shocked by the result.

• Wang Qi explained to Feng Luoyi how he had inferred that tracking receivers orbited above Shenzhou.
• Feng Luoyi confirmed the existence of hidden star artifacts and said cultivators could access all the observatory’s materials after reaching the Primordial Spirit stage.
• Feng Luoyi showed Wang Qi open data and asked him to calculate the spiritual energy environment far from Shenzhou.
• Wang Qi began the calculations and exclaimed that the result was impossible.

Wang Qi’s calculations of the spiritual qi environment beyond celestial bodies produced chaotic, contradictory results, and Feng Luoyi explained why the Immortal Alliance could not yet travel safely through the starry sky. The chapter left Wang Qi asking whether Shenzhou was special in the universe.

• Wang Qi used Feng Luoyi’s data to calculate stellar motion and the outer-space spiritual qi environment, but every result remained inconsistent with observations.
• Wang Qi questioned Feng Luoyi about missing data, and Feng Luoyi said he would learn more after breaking through the Heavenly Pass and reaching the Primordial Spirit realm.
• Feng Luoyi explained that star travel required Void Refinement-level strength, reliable navigation theories, and resources the Immortal Alliance could not spare while threats remained near Shenzhou.
• Feng Luoyi said the Immortal Alliance researched outer space but could not yet explore it widely, and that its journey to the Star Sea had not begun.
• Wang Qi asked whether Xiaoyao cultivators had visited other celestial bodies and whether Shenzhou was special within the universe.

Wang Qi sat gazing at the stars while the Divine Capital branch's disciples learned that he was a Myriad Dharma Sect True Disciple and a leading mathematician. When Huangfu Lian and Mo Zhenzhen finally approached, Wang Qi told them he was wondering what lay at the far end of the Star Sea.

• The Divine Capital branch disciples discovered Wang Qi's identity as a True Disciple after reading his paper in Selections of Myriad Dharma.
• Mo Zhenzhen and Huangfu Lian hesitated to disturb Wang Qi as he sat silently on the roof, discussing the depth of his mathematical research.
• Huangfu Lian decided that cultivation came first and joined Wang Qi on the roof, with Mo Zhenzhen following.
• Wang Qi told Huangfu Lian that he was not thinking about mathematics or celestial principles, but wondering what lay at the far end of the Star Sea.

Wang Qi wondered why no extraterrestrial civilizations had contacted Divine Land and feared that a cosmic filter might destroy civilizations before they reached the stars. He left Huangfu Lian and Mo Zhenzhen unsettled by imagining an ancient predator, the Anti-Spiral Race, and then announced that he would forge a drill.

• Wang Qi explained to Huangfu Lian that he was setting aside his newly comprehended sword move to contemplate whether other civilizations existed beyond the Star Sea.
• Wang Qi proposed that Stone Demons might have arisen during the Dark Age and reasoned that spiritual energy made life and civilization unusually likely throughout the universe.
• Wang Qi argued that the silence of the stars could mean civilizations faced a Great Filter, and described the possibility that they destroyed one another to survive.
• Wang Qi imagined a superpredator older than the Immortal Heavens and then suggested that the Anti-Spiral Race restrained the Spiral Clan from expanding without limit.
• Wang Qi declared that he would forge a drill, while Mo Zhenzhen quietly asked Huangfu Lian whether True Disciples usually thought about such things.

Wang Qi reassured Huangfu Lian and Mo Zhenzhen about his frightening speculations on civilizations and the silent universe, then joked with them while waiting for food. The conversation ended when Zhen Chanzi warned him of danger, and Wang Qi and the others fled as something struck with a tremendous boom.

• Wang Qi explained that his ideas about hostile civilizations and a cosmic filter were speculation, and argued that the vast Star Sea and the pursuit of ascension could explain the universe's silence.
• Wang Qi told Huangfu Lian and Mo Zhenzhen that he sought immortality to witness the Great Dao and cared about the future of civilization.
• Mo Zhenzhen grilled marinated meat while Huangfu Lian asked Wang Qi about topology, and Wang Qi joked about statistics and Thousand Machines Pavilion's humanoid calculators.
• Zhen Chanzi shouted a warning, Wang Qi leaped away, and Huangfu Lian grabbed Mo Zhenzhen and fled before a tremendous impact.

Wang Qi and the Myriad Dharma Sect disciples mistook a True Disciple’s accidental spiritual-energy disturbance for an attack before learning she had merely disrupted the Vacuum Infinite Sea while studying the Technique of the Grand Universe. After getting directions to her destination, the hungry girl accepted their offer of barbecue.

• Wang Qi sensed a massive surge of spiritual power, and Liu Yunxiang and the outer disciples hurried out to investigate.
• A petite girl appeared and explained that her study of the Technique of the Grand Universe had accidentally intensified the Vacuum Infinite Sea’s fluctuations.
• Huangfu Lian and Wang Qi explained the Vacuum Infinite Sea and its connection to spiritual-energy disturbances and the Misty Palace’s Vacuum Infinity art.
• The girl asked where she was and requested directions to an inn in Bailu Alley, correcting Wang Qi when he called her Junior Sister.
• The girl smelled the brocade sheep ribs on the barbecue rack, and Mo Zhenzhen invited her to eat with them; she eagerly accepted.

A mysterious girl landed among the Myriad Dharma Sect disciples and took over the roasted meat, then crossed chopsticks with Wang Qi while demonstrating exceptional skill. After she devoured the meal and thanked everyone, she vanished before Wang Qi could learn her name.

• Liu Yunxiang dismissed the gathered disciples after realizing the girl's landing had caused no real harm.
• The girl silently took out chopsticks and began tending to the roasted meat, then invited Wang Qi, Huangfu Lian, and Mo Zhenzhen to eat with her.
• The girl kept Wang Qi from taking the meat until it was ready, and the two fought over it with their chopsticks.
• Wang Qi recognized that the girl's unusual way of applying force followed the mathematical principles of the Baize True Array Cut.
• The girl released her chopsticks so Wang Qi could take a perfectly roasted piece, then warned that she would focus entirely on eating.
• The girl rapidly ate all the meat, thanked Wang Qi and the others, and vanished before Wang Qi could ask her name.

Wang Qi tried to identify the Myriad Dharma Sect girl whose spatial sword technique had outmatched him, then prepared a new device to spar with Chen Feng. The chapter ended as Wang Qi activated his homemade Masked Rider System and challenged Chen Feng.

• Wang Qi asked Mo Zhenzhen and Huangfu Lian whether they knew the identity of the geometry-skilled Myriad Dharma Sect True Disciple, but they could not help him.
• Wang Qi explained that he wanted a proper sword match with the girl to recover his pride and learn from her technique.
• Five days later, Wang Qi visited Chen Feng and asked him to spar so he could better understand his own abilities.
• Wang Qi revealed a calculating-artifact belt buckle and inserted three coin-like objects into it.
• Wang Qi activated the Masked Rider System, formed a protective aura around himself, and prepared to spar with Chen Feng.

Wang Qi demonstrated his Masked Hero System to Chen Feng, then sparred with him before discovering that the fight had been an illusion designed to probe his tactical memories. Chen Feng explained how he created the illusion and how it could be repeated, leaving Wang Qi to call the technique underhanded.

• Wang Qi showed Chen Feng how his Masked Hero System used demon-beast divine abilities to enhance his vision, claws, and leg strength.
• Wang Qi and Chen Feng fought without spells, with Chen Feng gaining the advantage through greater strength and speed.
• Chen Feng used the Bright True Spirit Divine Eyes during the spar, but Wang Qi’s system protected his soul and let him land a blow.
• Chen Feng revealed that he had started an illusion when Wang Qi picked up the jade ruyi, and explained how it let him observe Wang Qi’s tactical projections.
• Chen Feng described how he could repeat the illusion and erase memories to gather projections of up to seven hundred seconds into the future, while Wang Qi complained that the attack was underhanded.

Wang Qi discussed his Kamen Rider OOO System with Chen Feng, then asked him to spar without Illusion Techniques. Chen Feng revealed his Martial Dao Fist Intent and explained how it worked, leaving Wang Qi unsettled by its killing aura.

• Chen Feng ended his illusion and examined Wang Qi's belt system, praising its enhancement while criticizing its activation method.
• Wang Qi asked Chen Feng to spar without Illusion Techniques, and Chen Feng agreed to use only Qi Refining methods.
• Wang Qi charged with First Tier Establishment, and Chen Feng met his punch with one driven by Martial Dao Fist Intent.
• Chen Feng staggered back from Wang Qi's stronger punch, but his military-formation killing intent seized Wang Qi's momentum.
• Chen Feng explained Martial Dao Fist Intent as a combination of suggestion and mind techniques that affected both opponents and the user.

Wang Qi sparred with Chen Feng and struggled against Martial Dao Fist Intent, which distorted his perceptions and movements despite his understanding that it was an illusion. After collecting data on how fear affected his body, Wang Qi countered Chen Feng’s finishing strike and prepared to adapt.

• Wang Qi analyzed Chen Feng’s Martial Dao Fist Intent and resisted its first punch by trusting his calculations over his fear.
• Chen Feng overwhelmed Wang Qi with an illusion of overwhelming spiritual pressure and used it to land repeated close-range strikes.
• Chen Feng warned Wang Qi to focus on what he could do, then changed his intent and attacked with a saber-like hand blade.
• Wang Qi knocked Chen Feng’s hand blade aside with a horizontal punch and said he had completed collecting parameters on how fear made him retreat and weaken his attacks.
• Chen Feng recognized Wang Qi’s counterattack as interesting.

Chen Feng sparred with Wang Qi, using mismatched fist intent and techniques to overcome Wang Qi’s instincts and show him how skill combinations could control a fight. After studying the battle and considering how to build a style around mathematics, Wang Qi saw more than a dozen flying swords speeding toward the courtyard.

• Chen Feng used seventeen changes of Martial Dao Fist Intent and mismatched techniques to confuse Wang Qi and force him back.
• Wang Qi praised the One-Step Fist and looked forward to fighting Chen Feng again after reaching Foundation Establishment.
• Wang Qi reviewed his martial arts and tactics, concluding that he needed to combine his skills around Myriad Dharma Sect’s cultivation methods and mathematics.
• Wang Qi heard blades tearing through the air, opened the window, and saw more than a dozen flying swords racing toward the courtyard.

Wang Qi discovered that Chen Feng had begun using flying swords to deliver research supplies and met Chen Youjia, Chen Feng’s new Myriad Dharma Sect collaborator. The chapter left Wang Qi suspicious that Chen Youjia might be related to the sect leader’s wife.

• Wang Qi saw flying swords landing in Chen Feng’s rear courtyard and warned him that someone was attacking.
• Chen Feng explained that the swords were message-transmitting devices and said he had partnered with geniuses from the Myriad Dharma Sect for his research.
• Wang Qi and Chen Feng met Chen Youjia, who had arrived with lunch and used fellow disciples to deliver her belongings as cargo.
• Chen Youjia recognized Wang Qi from their earlier encounter, and Chen Feng introduced them as True Disciples of the Myriad Dharma Sect.
• Chen Feng said Chen Youjia had ranked second after him at Leiyang Immortal Academy, prompting Wang Qi to question whether her name connected her to the sect leader’s wife.