Exploring Immortality Cultivation

When Chen Feng knocked on Wang Qi's door, Wang Qi was in the midst of his routine deductions. Hearing the knock, Wang Qi snapped his fingers, signaling Jarvis to handle it.

As a result, a screen appeared in front of Chen Feng. It read, "I'm sorry, Mr. Chen Feng, the teacher is conducting crucial calculations. May I ask what you need?"

Chen Feng's expressionless face shook the bill in his hand, "I'm here to settle accounts."

"If it's about that batch of Material Needles, each one only costs five Merit Points. According to the contract you have with the teacher, if a single expenditure is below five Merit Points, he does not need to report it to you and can decide on his own."

"So he bought twenty-four needles in batches?" Chen Feng said, "Not just Physical Probes, but also Brain Wave Monitoring Headbands, Soul Monitoring Jade Pendants... All these single expenditures are within five Merit Points, right? Okay, what about the Spiritual Power Sensitivity Induction Restriction? How much did that expenditure amount to?"

"That was reported, Miss Chen Youjia approved it."

Chen Feng pressed his forehead, "What is this? An affair in the heat of passion? I give them such high autonomy, and this is how they repay me?"

"Based on your expenses and balances last month, this little bit won't affect your normal validation progress."

"With my finances, I should at least know what they're being used for, right?"

"As you see, these are all very common Magic Artifacts," Jarvis explained in his voice, "Physical Probes can monitor the physical properties [chemical properties] of materials around the needle body. The one ordered by the teacher has higher sensitivity and can distinguish nitrogen-containing substances, steroid substances, other Life Source Materials [proteins], blood sugar, lipids, etc. It's very suitable for implantation within the human body; and the Brain Wave Monitoring Headbands ..."

A cold smile formed on Chen Feng's face, "Jarvis, I'm more familiar with these devices than you or Wang Qi. I don't remember setting you up with the feature to be verbose. Stop beating around the bush and call Wang Qi out."

"Mr. Chen Feng, I must correct you, my memory functions are not like those of your Human Clan; I do not have the function of fuzzy memory. As a result, everything I remember is extremely firm. After downloading 'The Complete Collection of Life Path Validation Artifacts,' I ..."

"Go, quickly!"

A moment later, Jarvis unlocked the door, "Please come in, Mr. Chen Feng."

Chen Feng walked into the room, but was startled.

Wang Qi was seated in the center of the room, his presence clear. However, around him was a terrifying "image". This image was stacked against a backdrop of azure. At first glance, Chen Feng saw what appeared to be a jumble of lines. But on second look, he realized that these lines formed an image, an extremely complex image. He felt slightly dizzy upon seeing it and thus interrupted the calculator's Illusion Technique effect, asking Wang Qi, "Hey, Wang Qi, what are you up to?"

"Oh, Boss, you're here," Wang Qi, evidently still engrossed in his calculations, replied, "These are a few Mathematical models I've made for the Human Dao."

"Mathematical... models?" Chen Feng took another look around, then promptly interrupted, "What is this mess? I've never seen such non-human models. Is this needed for the Life Path?"

"I'll just take out a few completed models," Wang Qi patted his hands. Chen Feng felt the Illusion around him shift, and trying to look again, he discovered it was still a complex and twisted shape.

Chen Feng asked, "What is this?"

"Given your level of mathematics," Wang Qi said with a look of playing music to a cow, "what you should see is a three-phase projection of a high-phase curve. Because your brain simply can't comprehend higher dimensions, the massive amount of Spirit Sense cannot be imaged. If it were Junior Sister Chen, however, what she would see is a beautiful and complex curve..." Wang Qi explained sparingly.

Chen Feng forced a smile, "Speak in layman's terms."

"I will summarize the content of the main eight types and more than twenty representative neurotransmitters, the concentrations of the main more than twenty hormones, the activity levels of various brain areas, the activity levels of the soul areas, plus heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, blood oxygen content, blood glucose levels, blood lipid concentrations, and many more. All of this data is integrated into one function, one algorithm, to determine a person's mental state."

Chen Feng twitched his lips, "This is...?"

Xiangyu's calculations... Hilbert Space algorithm.

This complete linear inner product space supports infinite possibilities. Within the infinite-dimensional Hilbert Space, even the entire universe can be summarized as a point.

A variable is a dimension. An independent variable and a dependent variable can form a two-dimensional function graph of a long sword. Naturally, hundreds of interrelated variables can also form a higher-dimensional function image.

"You know, due to the complexity of the thought processes of Life Beings, your archives at Tianling Ridge only mention that a certain amount of a substance inside the body and certain life signs are related to mental state, and also whether they are positively or negatively correlated. However," Wang Qi explained, "because there are too many data points related to mental state, it's impossible to determine a person's specific mental state based on these."

"My ultimate goal with this method is to enable the calculator to roughly determine the mental state of a member of the Human Clan—when my function graph falls within this range, the corresponding emotion is anger; in this range, it is sadness; in this range, it is fear, and so on. This will save a lot of manpower in the future."

This brute-force method has no relevancy for the human brain and it's very hard to summarize any useful patterns—genius ideas like Feynman Diagram that can solve a complex system with just a few lines are extremely rare, and Wang Qi didn't plan to make another breakthrough in the field of biology at the moment. He just needed Jarvis to learn how to determine a person's mental state, and even to decode what an individual is thinking based on their brainwaves and brain activity.

Chen Feng asked, "Why do you want to develop such an algorithm? If you think the Cultivators from Wanfa Sect are too poor at reading expressions and observing minor details... cough cough, maybe you could learn some spells from Yangshen Pavilion."

Wang Qi became furiously angry, "How much do you like the 'Wanfa also wants a Daoist couple' meme? I'll have you know that girls like me too."

"Mutual pity?"

"You look like such a winner in life..."

Chen Feng lightly coughed, "Alright, no more jokes. This is for Jarvis, right? Why do you want Jarvis to have this ability?"

For humans, using expressions, tone, and so on to gauge another person's mood is instinctive, a special algorithm built over a decade or two of experience. The so-called Mind Reading Technique is also built on the premise of having similar consciousness algorithms. But for a calculator or a computer, this capability is unimaginable. If a computer were to read a person's mind, it would either show gibberish, or the chaotic data would simply crash the computer. Hence, Wang Qi chose nearly a hundred quantifiable signs, compiled them into one System, and taught Jarvis how to understand 'the human heart.'

"For the next step."

Wang Qi didn't elaborate further. However, Chen Feng brought out a bill, "What do you need these for? Are you planning to monitor a small group all day? Eight people?"

"To be precise, two groups of four," Wang Qi waved his hand, closed the window displaying the Hilbert Space, and conjured several screens. These eight screens were divided into two groups, each monitoring a small group of young people from different angles.

Additionally, there was another complex curve graph.

"Take a look, Chen Feng, this is all of my research on the Divine Tao." (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast a recommendation vote and a monthly ticket. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users please read at m.qidian.com.)