Rune Algorithms: From Beginner to Giving Up

Jiang Boming, a mere cultivator at the Qi Refining Fourth Level of the Mana Realm, how difficult could the things he left behind be!

Qu Heng opened the files left by Jiang Boming and began to study them.

Yes, although the runes in the world come in many styles, they are essentially only of two kinds: Yin and Yang.

This concept is understandable, since Spiritual Qi is also divided into yin and yang, and since runes are Spiritual Qi circuits, they are naturally divided into yin and yang just like Spiritual Qi.

Etc!

As Qu Heng continued reading, he realized that this Yin and Yang didn't seem to refer to the attribute of Spiritual Qi, but rather to the state of the Spiritual Qi circuit?

However, this is not hard to understand; let's continue reading.

"Therefore, by combining the Yin-Yang runes in the following manner, the introduction and conduction of Spiritual Qi can be achieved."

"Is this... difficult? It's not that difficult!" Qu Heng was full of questions. Could something this difficult really have troubled the Taiheng Sect for so many years, to the point that no one could reproduce his research even after Jiang Boming's death?

Keep reading.

"Alright, now that we've solved the problem of absorbing and conducting Spiritual Qi, the next step is to combine these runes. I'll combine them like this, and then we can achieve remote communication!"

"Wait, wait, wait!" Qu Heng suddenly felt a little confused. He first turned back a page, and then looked at the new page.

No, is something missing?

After thinking for a moment, Qu Heng called the Transmission Elder. He explained that the inheritance from Li Yuan might have been lost or misrepresented during its transmission, but it didn't matter, as the Transmission Elder had the original text.

Soon, Jiang Boming's original manuscript was also delivered.

Qu Heng flipped to the spot he had just looked at, compared the two, and was astonished to find that the original manuscript was written exactly like that!

There was absolutely nothing missing!

On the contrary, because Jiang Boming's handwriting was ugly, and the paper had been stored for so long, the quality of the original manuscript was not as good as the handwritten copy sent by Li Yuan!

"Ah, no, but how did this Spiritual Qi energy circuit come to have this function?" Qu Heng pondered for a long time. Even with the powerful mental strength of the Spiritual Law Realm cultivator, he couldn't figure out how the transmission of Spiritual Qi could be related to long-distance communication!

It's like I just learned 1+1=1, 1+2=3, and on the next page you're asking me to solve Goldbach's Conjecture.

How is that even possible?

At this moment, he was even more astonished, because if he couldn't understand it, then how could Yang Ning, who was only 12 years old at the time, have understood it?

Could it be!

Qu Heng thought of a possibility: Could Yang Ning be the reincarnation of Jiang Boming?

Thinking about it that way, it seems quite possible!

After all, if there is anyone who can decipher the knowledge created by Jiang Boming himself, it can only be Jiang Boming himself.

Qu Heng scratched his head, still feeling somewhat unwilling. He continued reading, thinking that perhaps the following content would be quite simple!

After a while, he casually tossed Jiang Boming's manuscript onto the table.

Tired, let's destroy it.

He discovered that this thing seemed to be a different system from cultivation, even though everyone was using Spiritual Qi.

However, cultivation is the process of controlling the flow of Spiritual Qi, chanting incantations, and manipulating Spiritual Qi to form a fixed pattern.

This process is somewhat like painting; the brush is yourself, and the paint is the Spiritual Qi.

The higher a cultivator's cultivation level, the more pigments they can use, resulting in more exquisite paintings and larger scrolls.

The same applies to drawing runes; otherwise, it wouldn't be called drawing runes!

However, studying runes and drawing talismans are not the same thing. It is a creative process that goes from nothing to something. If we use cultivation as an analogy, it is creating laws and creating Divine Ability!

Is it difficult to create Divine Ability?

It's difficult in some ways, but not difficult in others.

Asking a beginner to create Divine Ability is futile; he could never achieve it, no matter how hard he tried.

However, if a powerful being like Qu Heng wanted to create a divine ability, he could create any level of Divine Ability, whether it was Peerless Divine Abilities or a human-level or Earth-grade Divine Ability.

With a little time, even Heaven-grade Divine Ability can be created.

However, this creation did not come from nothing; rather, it was based on a vast amount of knowledge, and involved deepening, optimizing, deconstructing, and reconstructing it.

In patent terminology, it refers to the secondary development of a certain technology.

For example, regarding the Myriad Manifestation Star Art, can the creator of it claim to have created a new Divine Ability?

Of course, because such Divine Ability didn't exist in this world before.

However, without the Fate Reversal Heavenly Star Technique, he would not have been able to create the Myriad Manifestation Star Art.

In short, it's easy if you have accumulated knowledge or experience; it's difficult if you don't.

Qu Heng felt he couldn't understand the manuscript because he lacked prior knowledge of runes.

But then I thought, even if I had accumulated knowledge, it wouldn't have made a difference. The runes created by the talisman masters were all naturally formed runes, while Jiang Boming simplified the runes of heaven and earth into the two most basic types, and then conducted research based on those.

In other words, this is yet another new area of knowledge.

The problem is that only Jiang Boming and Yang Ning know this knowledge, and he has nowhere to learn it if he wants to.

Looking at the stack of manuscripts in front of him, Qu Heng and rubbed his forehead.

The only place I can learn from is one that I can't understand even after looking at it!

Little did he know that while a genius like Jiang Boming could easily conduct scientific research, commissioning him to compile textbooks was destined to be a niche pursuit, one that wouldn't consider the needs of ordinary people.

In his view, basic knowledge and advanced knowledge were all common sense and self-evident.

If it's obvious, why even write it in? It's just a waste of ink.

Just like when Qiao Feng rewrote the Eighteen Subduing Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, he saw that many of the original twenty-eight palms were not very powerful and were quite cumbersome to use, so he simply deleted them.

Then Xu Zhu took another look and realized that the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms didn't seem very advanced, so he added the techniques from the Tianshan Six Sun Palms.

Through the meticulous modifications of two generations of top students, a Cultivation Method originally intended for illiterate beggars was successfully transformed into an elite martial art that ordinary Beggar Clan disciples could no longer learn. Instead, it was Song Qingshu, a graduate of Wudang Mountain University, who was able to master it.

Einstein's papers were not written for the average person.

Jiang Boming was in the same situation. He thought to himself, "I've taught the basics and the advanced stuff, there's no reason why the tradition should be broken!"

As a result, the tradition really did break down!

Looking at the screen full of runes, Qu Heng felt a headache coming on, realizing he had done something he would regret.

Am I crazy for researching this?

But faced with the allure of mobile internet, he really didn't want to give it up.

After thinking for a moment, he went to the back office of the Artifact Forging Master Association and brought up the runes inside his phone.

Then, my mind went completely blank!

No, what is all this?!

I thought Jiang Boming's manuscript was already quite complex, but I didn't expect there to be even more complex ones?

If the complexity of Jiang Boming's manuscript is like carving an aircraft carrier on a corn kernel, then the rune array on the mobile phone is like carving the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" scroll on a millet grain!

Just one glance at these densely packed rune circuits was enough to make Qu Heng feel an immense shock to his Dao heart!

Little did he know that Jiang Boming's algorithm was already very complex, but Yang Ning not only added three more operations to Jiang Boming's algorithm, turning it from one domain operation into four domain operations, but also used computing power to design the initial version of the Rune Chip in the Spirit Realm.

Yang Ning also considered the limited precision of talisman masters' drawing skills, so this Rune Chip is actually not complicated. Each Spiritual Qi circuit is 0.4 millimeters thick, which is the thickness drawn by the talisman brush.

The final chip was over ten square meters in size and needed to be compressed into a 7*3 cm piece using the Meso-Sumeru Technique before being packaged into a mobile phone.

If it were the Rune Chip he installed on the hydrogen bomb, the precision would make Qu Heng's scalp tingle just by looking at it.

If Qu Heng were to delve deeper into the subject, even if he only scratched the surface of rune algorithms, he would discover a whole new world.

He is more skilled than Yang Ning. If he switches cultivation in time, he might even be able to achieve enlightenment through rune algorithms!

However, after lingering at the door for a long time, Qu Heng chose to leave.

Firstly, these densely packed runes look like they require a lot of Mental Power.

Secondly, he was unaware of the future prospects of runes, and he still believed that the current functionality of mobile phones was the limit of this algorithm.

It's not worth delaying your own cultivation for something like this!

That's right, the most important reason is that studying these things doesn't increase one's cultivation level!

The primary goal of cultivators is still to become immortals.

Therefore, whether it's weapon crafting or alchemy, no matter how significant they are in the cultivation of immortality, they will never become the mainstream.

Unless someone can concoct Immortal Pill that grants immortality simply by consuming it, alchemy might become the mainstream practice in the cultivation world.

If something is not mainstream, then it is a crooked path, and since it is a crooked path, it is naturally not worth wasting your Mental Power on.

Qu Heng quickly convinced himself, then put away Jiang Boming's manuscript and hid it deep inside the cave, never wanting to look at it again in his life.