Exploring Immortality Cultivation

Divine Tao is not merely a concept or a cultivation method; it is also a social phenomenon, a human behavior.

Divine Tao requires the approval of the masses.

Under what circumstances, in what spiritual state do people acknowledge a god? In what situations do they choose to respect and fear gods, offering incense fire?

Divine Tao is the path laid down by Divine Spirits for the masses to follow.

So, what impact do the teachings and rules set by Divine Spirits have on people? How do they adhere to these rules? How does this additional order take effect? How does it affect the world? What is its Spirit Rhinoceros Amount? What is its Spiritual Spirit Rhinoceros Entropy?

Divine Tao is a system composed of people.

In this system, how do believers influence each other? How does the system absorb new elements, communicate with the outside world, and maintain negative entropy? Then, how does the system iterate, and what rules does it follow to evolve?

Chen Feng murmured, "This is the fundament of Divine Tao... This is the essence of Divine Tao!"

"Exactly," Wang Qi nodded. "This is my research."

Chen Feng's face suddenly fell, "The idea is great, the concept is brilliant, but... the idea of a 'Divine Tao System' was originally mine. Do you think anyone will establish a mathematical model? If no one builds a mathematical model, how can we simplify, how can we iterate..."

"Well..."

"And I've been meaning to say, how do you judge teachings and doctrines? There's no solid standard for such things, right?"

"Cough cough, actually, there is," Wang Qi raised his hand. "So-called ethics and morality, or the so-called conventional rules, are the standards."

Chen Feng said, "That's even more preposterous. The so-called convention is also a vague concept..."

"But it is a concept that can be judged," Wang Qi said. "I first use the concept of convention to make multiple ternary judgments on all the doctrines of Divine Sects. Is the god the highest? Do they respect the Tao? Do they uphold virtue? Do they value benevolence? Do they honor rituals? And so on."

Is the god prior to Heaven and Earth? Do they respect the Tao? Do they value benevolence? Do they honor rituals? Do they respect Heaven? Are they loyal to the Emperor? Do they value filial piety? Do they value wisdom and virtue? Do they believe in abandoning wisdom to be a saint? Are men and women equal? Do they yearn for light and sun? Do they despise darkness and shadow? Do they prohibit killing? Do they prohibit lust? Do monks possess secular authority? Are monks involved in production? Are peasants despised? Are craftsmen and traders despised? Do they disdain wealth? Do they value asceticism? Do they value comfort? Do they cultivate for the other shore? Do they cultivate for the afterlife?

After hearing Wang Qi's questions, Chen Feng nodded, "I see, these questions can indeed roughly judge the general inclinations of a Divine Tao doctrine..."

"The answer is generally 'yes' or 'no,' and if the doctrine does not mention it, then it's 'zero,'" Wang Qi nodded and continued, "Actually, this can be further subdivided. For example, if a Divine Tao claims loyalty to the Emperor, declaring the divine right of kings, then its loyalty to the Emperor is definitely less than those who declare the monarch as the Emperor, the representative of Heaven on Earth. And those who refer to the monarch as the Emperor are weaker than those who directly call the monarch a Divine Lord."

"About this vague concept, or rather, the method of judgment, I haven't quite figured it out yet. However, this can establish an 'algorithm of doctrine,' where each question is a number axis, to establish a twenty-three-phase Xiangyu, then determine which limit the Divine Sect's doctrine falls under."

Chen Feng suddenly had a bad premonition, "Um... how many limits are there in a twenty-three-phase Xiangyu?"

"Two phases have four quadrants, three phases have eight trigrams, so twenty-three phases would naturally have eight million three hundred thirty-eight thousand six hundred and eight limits, two raised to the power of twenty-three!"

Chen Feng roared, "Does this image even mean anything? Who can understand it? Do you have a particular fondness for High Phase?"

"Because it's high-end," Wang Qi enlarged the image. "Moreover, there's nothing else that intuitively reflects the changes in Divine Tao Teachings and their practical implementation—well, also, for Jarvis, this is an algorithm that can be processed. By the way, if you really want, I could write the relationship between any two variables in a bi-phase projection, but that would be meaningless because there are no independent variables before we add the time dimension. It's pointless seeking an individual dependent variable changing over time."

Chen Feng pondered, "Just these twenty-three problems aren't enough to determine all the properties of the Divine Tao, right?"

"Just add more variables," Wang Qi said. "When in doubt, escalate the phase—simple and brutal. Plus, we can calculate the approximate Spirit Rhinoceros Amount and Spiritual Spirit Rhinoceros Entropy in the teachings."

Chen Feng nodded dumbly, "So, the matter of establishing a religion, that is, 'under what circumstances do people believe in and respect gods'..."

Wang Qi tossed aside the Hilbert Space image representing "teachings and regulations" and then asked, "Friend, do you know about 'Yitian Calculation'?"

Yitian Calculation, game theory, contending fate with Heaven, and competing principles with people. Feng Luoyi's title of "Master of Lifescapes" was also partially derived from this.

"The so-called belief can be seen as a complex dynamic game among Divine Spirits, believers, believers with other believers, and believers with non-believers," Wang Qi unfolded another mathematical image that Chen Feng couldn't understand. "You can look at..."

Chen Feng almost clutched his head, "You... try to keep it simple."

"Believing in gods or not is a simple binary choice: pick the better option. Gods make people feel it's harmless to believe or harmful not to. This is the birth of a General Believer."

"After entering a Divine Sect, Divine Spirits can bring certain protections, the Divine Tao Sect itself can provide a sense of belonging; believing in gods also brings comfort to one's spirit—these are the benefits that believers can obtain. Depending on the teachings, the spiritual comfort and tangible benefits believers receive can vary. If this layer of benefits is very close to the believer's ideals, at least closer than before they joined the religion, then their devotion will progress further, becoming a Light believer."

"Of course, we have to add the concept of 'weight.' Which benefits are more important to believers? Which are less so?"

"Of course, the essence of Divine Tao is deception; this is certain. Divine Spirits aren't omniscient or omnipotent and can't handle everything. Considering every event Divine Tao might encounter, we construct a simple event tree..."

"The connection of Spirit Sense among believers, witches, and gods is asymmetrical; at this point we can consider..."

"After numerous trials, Devout believers are also about to be generated. But! This is still far from True Believers and Fanatics!"

...

Wang Qi talked passionately, his mouth dry from speaking. But seeing Chen Feng's increasingly confused expression, he wisely dropped topics like "prisoner's dilemma in Divine Tao issues."

Wang Qi clapped his hands and called up a graphic of Path Rank: "This Path Rank uses an unverified algorithm, which I privately named Cellular Automata. I just roughly explained the game among Divine Spirits, believers, and non-believers; now we can actually simulate it."

"Jarvis, establish the three-phase Cellular Automata model for Divine Tao. The rules are as follows: First, each cell is either Human Clan, or a believer, or a non-believer..."

Chen Feng quickly grabbed Wang Qi, "Brother, are you going to tone down the Divine Skills?"

"You don't like watching, huh? Okay, then we'll move on to the next issue..." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)