Chapter Summaries

Wang Qi and the others tested the pseudo-After Tomorrow's Will and prepared to give it a weak self-identification mechanism. The chapter ended as Chen Feng proposed naming it Wang Qi Number Two.

• Shang Nancheng and Bu Rong Dao Ren installed the incomplete One Is algorithm in the two immortal artifacts.
• Chen Feng used a jade pendant to synchronize Wang Qi with the artificial will, making its consciousness easier to perceive.
• Shang Nancheng tested the artificial will's senses and abilities while Bu Rong Dao Ren and Chen Feng recorded its responses.
• Bu Rong Dao Ren concluded that the artificial will could assist with research and combat but lacked emotional capacity and self-identification.
• Shang Nancheng decided to create a weak self-identification mechanism and asked Wang Qi to choose a name for the artificial will.
• Chen Feng proposed naming it Wang Qi Number Two, and Wang Qi resolved not to trust Chen Feng's naming suggestions.

Wang Qi named the After Tomorrow's Will Jarvis and joined the others in refining it. As the system became more stable, the Myriad Dharma Sect cultivators began debugging its code.

• Wang Qi considered several famous AI names before naming the After Tomorrow's Will Jarvis, while Chen Youjia and Chen Feng worried about his choice.
• Wu Chengdao wrote code for the After Tomorrow's Will, and Chen Feng prepared a high-capacity Telepathy Bottle to back it up.
• The group connected the calculators to read-only Telepathy Bottles and inserted collections that gradually stabilized the system.
• Wang Qi and the other Myriad Dharma Sect cultivators began debugging the After Tomorrow's Will, and Bo Xiaoya enthusiastically investigated ambiguous judgments and divergent linearity in its code.

Wang Qi, Bo Xiaoya, Chen Youjia, and their collaborators spent weeks refining Jarvis’s consciousness algorithms through repeated testing and pruning until Wu Chengdao announced that the system finally worked. The chapter ended with the exhausted researchers apparently achieving a breakthrough.

• Wang Qi, Bo Xiaoya, Chen Youjia, and four Foundation Establishment cultivators spent more than half a month producing a barely usable version of Jarvis.
• Wu Chengdao connected Jarvis to the Thousand Machines Pavilion's empirical department, where the team tested it on mechanisms, calculations, data processing, construction, spellcraft, and applications.
• Shang Nancheng inserted random datasets while Chen Feng and four Foundation Establishment cultivators inspected the system and deleted rarely used sections.
• After another month of work, Su Junyu and Bo Xiaofeng joined the exhausted team, while Bo Xiaoya scolded her brother for falling behind.
• Su Junyu suggested that Chen Youjia bring her elder brother to help, but Chen Youjia rejected the idea because of her bad relationship with her family.
• Wu Chengdao announced that Jarvis had finally worked.

Wang Qi and the others completed their self-improving computing device, Jarvis, then rested before activating it for the final test. They began a Turing Test against disciples at the Thousand Machines Pavilion, but struggled to find questions that could distinguish Jarvis from people.

• Wang Qi added a final adjustment to the device, and the exhausted researchers confirmed that its trial operation was stable before collapsing to sleep.
• After sleeping through their planned test time, Chen Feng gathered everyone, and Wang Qi activated the device, which greeted him as Jarvis.
• Wu Chengdao ordered Jarvis to project its answers and sever its contact with Wang Qi, then arranged for its responses to be compared with those of disciples at the Thousand Machines Pavilion.
• Bo Xiaoya tested Jarvis with requests to compose poetry and music, but the human respondents gave similarly limited answers.
• The group struggled to devise a useful Turing Test, and Shang Nancheng began an everyday conversation with the person answering at the other end.

Wang Qi and Wu Chengdao tested Jarvis, an After Tomorrow's Will modeled on Wang Qi's rational thought, for conversational and problem-solving ability. Jarvis passed questions requiring linguistic intuition, and Wu Chengdao concluded that it could already handle most problems.

• Jarvis completed a shichen-long Turing test, and more than half the participants eventually recognized it as the machine.
• Wu Chengdao questioned whether Wang Qi had restricted Jarvis's learning, and Wang Qi explained that Jarvis could store knowledge but could not change its conduct or motives without authorization.
• Wu Chengdao and the others discussed testing Jarvis with games before turning to judgment and intuition as measures of problem-solving ability.
• Jarvis correctly answered questions about pronoun references and who felt better, exciting Wang Qi.
• Wu Chengdao praised Jarvis's abilities, then issued it a final command and invited Wang Qi to try it.

Wang Qi fused with Jarvis and used its enhanced perception and computing power to control matter waves with greater precision. He demonstrated the new power by deforming the courtyard floor and forging two steel needles together, while acknowledging that atomic-scale control remained beyond him.

• Wang Qi integrated Jarvis with his thoughts, using the immortal-artifact calculators as extensions of his thinking while keeping his identity separate from Jarvis.
• Jarvis sharpened Wang Qi's perception and thoughts, allowing him to make the courtyard floor flow like liquid with Da Xiang Xiangbo Gong and damage its protective formation.
• Wang Qi explained that Jarvis had amplified his perception of matter waves, though he still could not sense or control matter at the atomic level.
• Wang Qi borrowed Chen Feng's old flying needles and demonstrated that he could deform them, a stone paperweight, and other objects by manipulating their matter waves.
• Wang Qi fused two steel needles together using phase waves and Tian Ge Xing, then celebrated the exhilarating new control.

After merging with Jarvis, Wang Qi tested his enhanced calculations and discovered he could run many independent trains of thought at once. He challenged Chen Feng to spar and gained the upper hand briefly, but Chen Feng unleashed white flames as the fight escalated.

• Wang Qi used Jarvis to accelerate his cultivation and found his combat abilities had greatly improved.
• Wang Qi demonstrated multithreading by reading, writing different equations with both hands, controlling his sword, and reciting a tongue twister at once.
• Chen Feng realized Wang Qi was using the Dream Weaving Technique to divide his consciousness and think through problems in parallel.
• Wang Qi sparred with Chen Feng, cut his artifact garment, and resisted the force of Chen Feng's will through Jarvis.
• Wang Qi used high-dimensional movement and attacks to pressure Chen Feng, who then roared and surrounded himself with white flames.

Chen Feng and Wang Qi fought to a draw-like mutual injury before recovering, and Wang Qi returned to his research while building a searchable repository of knowledge in his dream. The chapter left Zhen Chanzi speechless as Wang Qi demonstrated how the repository could retrieve spells by keywords.

• Chen Feng used the Flame of Life to overpower Wang Qi, but Wang Qi wounded him with a probabilistic Sword Qi before Chen Feng struck him into a wall.
• Chen Youjia asked the others to find a physician, and Chen Feng and Wang Qi recovered completely within a day.
• The visitors left after reminding Chen Feng to transfer their payment.
• Wang Qi resumed studying mathematics and swordsmanship with Chen Youjia while one part of his mind relaxed in a dream.
• Wang Qi showed Zhen Chanzi how his repository chamber searched Jarvis's stored knowledge by keywords, revealing the limits of Zhen Chanzi's memory.

Wang Qi defended his reliance on Jarvis as a tool that strengthened his cultivation rather than undermined it, then spent the following weeks improving it. Chen Feng reminded him that the Spirit Awakening Ceremony at his assigned village was three days away, and Wang Qi arranged for Jarvis to remind him on the day.

• Wang Qi argued that Jarvis and other external tools could aid his pursuit of the Dao, while his knowledge would let him rebuild them or cultivate anew if they were lost.
• Wang Qi continued organizing his memories and improving Jarvis, adding materials and laws to its database and refining its functions and voice.
• By the latter half of August, Wang Qi had covered his room with Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm projections to create a mathematical environment for thinking.
• Chen Feng reminded Wang Qi that his assigned Spirit Awakening Village would hold its ceremony in three days and that he needed to collect his payment and repay borrowed merit points.
• Wang Qi asked Jarvis to remind him on the ceremony day.

Wang Qi arrived at Spirit Awakening Village and learned that a brutal attack had killed all the awakened demons and injured several people. Chen Feng joined the investigation, while Wang Qi volunteered to help and examined a sealed flask.

• Wang Qi visited Spirit Awakening Village and sensed that many powerful cultivators had gathered there.
• An Enforcement Officer told Wang Qi that his colleagues were injured and directed him to the scene.
• Chen Feng learned from Xian Tianwei that the awakened demons had been tortured and killed, while several guards and spirit awakeners were hurt.
• Chen Feng found Wang Qi at the scene, volunteering to assist with the investigation while holding a sealed flask.

After discovering that the awakened demons had already died, Wang Qi joined the investigation into the killer and vowed to uncover the truth in his grandfather’s name. He reconstructed the crime scene in a virtual model and prepared to examine the murders.

• Wang Qi concluded that the dead demons’ souls and bodies could not be restored without creating corpse demons.
• Chen Feng tried to comfort Wang Qi, while Zhen Chanzi explained that Wang Qi’s calm expression was normal for him.
• Wang Qi told Chen Feng he had applied to assist with the investigation, and Xian Tianwei gave him the case information after Fu Shishu approved.
• Wang Qi deployed his Mechanism Beasts to collect evidence and vowed to uncover the truth in his grandfather’s name.
• Wang Qi transferred his collected data to a Telepathy Bottle and revealed a virtual reconstruction of the crime scene to Chen Feng and Xian Tianwei.
• Wang Qi used Jarvis to restore the murdered Demon Race members to their positions at the scene, transforming the village into a vision of the slaughter.

Wang Qi used Jarvis and Zhen Chanzi to reconstruct the massacre at Enlightenment Village, tracing the killer’s movements and swordsmanship from the evidence. The investigation narrowed the killer’s route and identified a patch of soil where the Enforcement Officers could collect traces of his spiritual power.

• Wang Qi directed Jarvis to highlight the scratches, victims, bloodstains, and footprints at the crime scene.
• Zhen Chanzi examined the sword scar and deduced that the killer had struck the two guards with his left hand, overwhelming them with speed or strength.
• Wang Qi and Chen Feng used the remaining footprints to estimate the killer’s height and build, then created a model of him.
• Zhen Chanzi reconstructed how the killer used Sword Qi to slaughter the calico cat, bird demons, land turtles, You Mengran, and Hu Buxue before leaving the village.
• Wang Qi ordered Jarvis to replay the killer’s movements so he could study the swordsmanship, while Xian Tianwei sought a place to sample spiritual traces.
• Zhen Chanzi pointed Xian Tianwei to a mark in the soil as the place to collect a sample.

Xian Tianwei, Chen Feng, and Wang Qi investigated the serial killer’s ghost-path methods and refined the killer’s mana signature. After the Enforcement Officers confirmed the killer had committed enough crimes to warrant execution, Chen Feng and Wang Qi headed toward Divine Capital, where Chen Feng asked why people rejected him.

• Zhen Chanzi identified the shallow wounds as marks left by a killer who harvested resentment and Killing Intent with a likely demon sword.
• Wang Qi questioned why the killer targeted a spiritual awakening village and learned he had previously murdered people he considered evil.
• Wang Qi confirmed the killer’s earlier crimes already qualified him for execution under Immortal Alliance law.
• Xian Tianwei collected samples, and the Enforcement Officers used Mystic Void Spirit Fluid to improve the killer’s mana characteristic equation.
• Wang Qi found that Zhen Chanzi could not identify the killer’s renowned ghost-path cultivation method, then copied the evidence and waited for Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng and Wang Qi set off for Divine Capital, and Chen Feng asked Wang Qi why people rejected him.

Chen Feng explained how his belief that morality and goodness could be scientifically proven had led others to regard his research as madness. He urged Wang Qi not to torture-kill his target, warning that revenge would violate his moral principles and damage his mental cultivation.

• Chen Feng traced his commitment to being a good person to a theory that life and cultivation were expressions of negative entropy and order.
• Chen Feng explained that he studied morality, the brain, souls, divine dao, and Social Sciences to prove that goodness was better than wickedness.
• Wang Qi realized Chen Feng had pursued his research to give good people proof against those who called goodness foolish.
• Chen Feng praised Wang Qi’s restraint but warned that torture-killing his target would cross a line and leave a flaw in his mental cultivation.
• Wang Qi teased Chen Feng for urging people to follow an unverified theory, and Chen Feng insisted that morality was a form of cultivation.

After Chen Feng’s theories sparked a restless train of thought, Wang Qi recalled how accumulated modern knowledge gave transmigrators an advantage and became fixated on ethology. He began rapidly studying every resource he could find and prepared to spend the merit points meant for Chen Feng’s debt on advanced biology materials.

• Wang Qi ignored Zhen Chanzi’s attempt to discuss Chen Feng’s ideas and went to sleep, but his thoughts kept him awake.
• Wang Qi realized that knowledge accumulated across generations gave modern people an advantage over ancient sages, then recalled visiting European universities in his previous life.
• Wang Qi connected his vague inspiration to Konrad Lorenz and ethology, and sent several versions of himself to study introductory books in the illusion realm’s repository.
• Wang Qi read Chen Feng’s books at high speed and had Jarvis download free ethology materials, but decided he needed more.
• Wang Qi prepared to spend the merit points Feng Luoyi had approved for repaying Chen Feng’s debt on advanced biology materials, when someone asked what he was doing.

Wang Qi organized the serial killer’s case records while studying behavioral science, though Chen Youjia worried he was trying to analyze the killer without enough expertise. A journal citing Wang Qi and Chen Youjia’s work finally reminded Wang Qi of the idea he had been trying to recall.

• Chen Youjia brought Wang Qi a sweet late-night meal and helped him clean up Chen Feng’s study.
• Chen Youjia told Wang Qi that even Chen Feng had been unable to identify patterns in the Shenjing serial killer’s behavior.
• Over the next several days, Wang Qi resumed his studies and mapped the killer’s crimes against Shenjing’s surveillance records while reading behavioral science texts.
• Mo Zhenzhen delivered a journal and told Chen Youjia that their paper had been cited by a Free and Unfettered Cultivator.
• Wang Qi read the title of Chebyshev’s paper, “A Generalization of the Chen-Wang Law of Large Numbers,” and remembered his previously forgotten idea.

Wang Qi and Chen Youjia met Chebyshev and Feng Luoyi to discuss their law of large numbers and the meaning of probability. Wang Qi argued that mathematical approximation gave science its practical meaning, and Chebyshev invited the young researchers to continue exchanging ideas.

• Wang Qi and Chen Youjia received Chebyshev's invitation to discuss their new law of large numbers.
• Wang Qi and Chen Youjia entered the Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm and found Chebyshev meeting with Feng Luoyi.
• Wang Qi learned that Chebyshev had published an extension of their law of large numbers, corresponding to Markov's Law of Large Numbers.
• Chebyshev asked how Wang Qi and Chen Youjia had approached probability, and Wang Qi argued that the law of large numbers showed why approximation mattered.
• Feng Luoyi connected Wang Qi's argument to the Immortal Alliance's theories approaching the Dao, and Chebyshev welcomed further discussion with the young researchers.

With the Shenjing serial-killer investigation stalled, Chen Feng returned home to find Wang Qi and Chen Youjia engrossed in mathematics, where Wang Qi’s ideas had left her frustrated. Feng Luoyi realized Wang Qi had another goal in mind and agreed to grant his qualification-trial application.

• Chen Feng found that the Penal Law Division had run out of suspects and made no progress investigating the Shenjing serial killer.
• Chen Feng returned to find Chen Youjia struggling to keep up with Wang Qi’s prolific mathematical ideas, while Wang Qi calmly read a book.
• Chen Youjia and Wang Qi explained that their discussions with Chebyshev and Feng Luoyi had produced promising new mathematical work.
• Chen Feng noticed Wang Qi’s book, Human Behavioral Studies, and inferred that he had a plan beyond the investigation.
• Feng Luoyi recalled Wang Qi’s Qualification Trial Application and decided to grant it.

Wang Qi secured funding and surveillance access for a pedestrian-flow research project, then deployed mechanism birds and began modeling Shenjing’s crowds to find the serial killer. He left the chapter preparing to use a cellular automaton to track the killer’s movements.

• Chen Feng confronted Wang Qi after learning he had applied for funding and surveillance records for behavioral-science research.
• Wang Qi explained that his project would study pedestrian flow and revealed that he had ordered thousands of mechanism birds to gather research data.
• Wang Qi used Jarvis to access the Immortal Alliance database and compile Shenjing surveillance footage alongside crime and victim records.
• Wang Qi instructed Jarvis to build a cellular automaton model of pedestrian flow from a random sample of Shenjing’s surveillance footage.

Wang Qi used mechanical birds, the Myriad Immortal Mirror’s computing power, and models of pedestrian movement to predict the route of the killer who targeted ruffians in Shenjing. He narrowed the search to places the killer was certain to have passed and prepared to continue the painstaking investigation.

• Wang Qi modeled Shenjing’s pedestrian flow as a Cellular Automaton and sent mechanical birds to track recurring figures and unusual movement patterns.
• Wang Qi commandeered idle Myriad Immortal Mirror computing power, and Feng Luoyi rebuked him before charging him twice the standard rate.
• Wang Qi reasoned that the killer likely chose victims while walking at night, lured ruffians into alleys, and returned to ordinary life afterward.
• Wang Qi combined crime timings, pedestrian-flow patterns, and possible routes outside surveillance to create a map of the killer’s possible paths.
• Wang Qi concluded that intersecting routes would reveal places the killer had certainly passed and began preparing suitable equipment.