Chapter 91: Myriad Arts Sect’s Leader’s Keepsake, Math
Wang Qi’s defining trait was an insatiable curiosity. Barring that would make any research dull and pointless.
Finding resolve and grasping his nature, his yearning to solve all the abnormalities and mysteries only grew. Like when Zhen Chanzi mentioned having seen Divine Hexagram Computation.
The cultivation method was created a thousand years ago, when Zhen Chanzi was still stuck in his ring somewhere. The timing made no sense. Nevertheless, Myriad Arts Sect’s inheritance was ten thousand years of arithmetics. Divine Hexagram Computation had been nothing but your average modern mental art before shifting to a binary system, of course. The original version even started off inspired by an ancient cultivation method.
Divine Hexagram Computation’s early form had long since been made obsolete and removed from the Arts Archive. The only way to get it was with merit. As to what ancient art stood at its core, the Immortal Alliance sealed that information, banning its spread—ancient cultivation and modern cultivation were mortal enemies. The Immortal Alliance would never spread the use of ancient mental arts.
Wang Qi was left with no choice but to take matters into his own hands.
Learning the art’s history, Zhen Chanzi scrutinized the art Wang Qi made with the Spiritual Energy Essence Equation. “I just don’t get how you made it.”
“The essence equation’s cycle number represents the route a cultivation method has to take to make a full cycle. Furthermore, each division has its own meaning.” Wang Qi explained.
Zhen Chanzi sighed, glancing at the tentatively named Heavenly Stems Notation cultivation method. (Tamon: There are 10 heavenly stems, hinting at the decimal system.)
“Now that you mention it, I feel like I’ve seen this stem art somewhere, but where?”