Exploring Immortality Cultivation

Chapter 24: Ripple



Transforming into a dragon merely made one's bloodline more closely resemble that of the Dragon Clan; it did not involve a complete transformation at the bloodline level. Therefore, it was difficult for the Dragon Demons to possess Divine Skills of the Dragon Clan, but imitating one or two was still sufficient. The Black-Bearded Jiao King stirred his Demon Soul, as dark clouds churned and pressed down on heaven and earth. Both Sea Demons and Human Clan cultivators retreated in droves, and the low-level Sea Demons behind him even turned pale and were scared to death.

But this degraded version of the Dragon's Majesty had no effect on Wang Qi and his companion. Born with Spirit Wisdom, adept at breaking through instincts, the "Talent" of the Human Clan was the true nemesis of Dragon Clan's Divine Skills. Wang Qi felt a slight pressure due to his body's instinctual fear, but the flow of his Mana was not affected in any way.

"Senior Sister, you just help restrain the opponent, I still want to test out a new technique or two."

Wang Qi did not wish the battle to drag on too long, knowing that this was a battlefield, and it was unwise to tire out two True Inheritor Golden Cores. The numerous Guardian Envoys were not responsible for direct confrontations, but rather for routine patrols of the Western Border, killing stray members of the Demon Clan. Suffering heavy casualties would be truly disastrous.

And Wang Qi's suggestion was nothing if not sensible. He had only just met this woman, but he had already discerned that her Cultivation Method was the Wanxiang Heavenly Attraction. Gravity, being the weakest of the four fundamental forces, only shows its Majesty on a macroscopic scale and is not known for its destructive capabilities—it seldom decides the outcome of a battle. Whether it's the Sky Collapsing Palm or the Gravity Wave Blade, Ai Changyuan would have to spend a long time preparing. However, its advantage lies in its extensive range and its ability to cross layers of time and space, unstoppable and unavoidable, making it more suitable for restraining rather than direct killing.

Seeing this guy talk like this, Wang Nan released her grip and chuckled, "Alright then. I'm really curious to see what else you can do. Heavenly Calculation Method, Life Flame, Heavenly Song Qi Gang, Elephant Phase Wave Skill..."

The Jiao Dragon, of course, would not wait for the enemy to slowly discuss tactics. As the dragon's body churned, the Demon Energy spread wider like a black fog, contaminating and then swallowing up nature's spiritual energy of the field, before spitting it out.

"Evil Dragon Destruction True Wave! You Human Demons, die, die, die, die, die, die!"

"Annoying," Wang Nan said, continuously clapping her hands in the air. Although her claps hit nothing but air, her expression was extremely serious. Layer upon layer of twists accumulated before her, and suddenly, for some reason, the "Evil Dragon Destruction True Wave" veered off course, brushing past the feet of her and Wang Qi.

Space tells matter how to move. Wang Nan deflected the enemy's killing move in one fell swoop by accumulating minute twists.

The Demon Art passed over the two, closer to the lower side, stirring up a stench. Wang Nan frowned, "This brat has bad breath!" What was meant to be breath that stole life with its poison had already been cleared away by Wang Qi's Mana.

In a moment, the currents of the sea reversed, and the cosmos shifted. The concept and perception of "up and down," as understood by life beings, is also based on the direction of gravity. This Guiyi Alliance woman, seemingly sharing the same school as Ai Changyuan, with similar Magic techniques, had an entirely different style. She appeared to have given up on the method of concentrating Gravity to tear apart in one fell swoop, instead focusing on a "wide area."

The reversal of gravity is not violent nor rapid. It is possible to eliminate the influence by simply closing your eyes or ignoring the background. However, nobody can extract themselves from this distorted region based on their own perception alone. Since Wang Qi had to join the Magic Combat, the spell to confine the opponent could not be too intense.

Amidst the confusion of the world turning upside down, Wang Qi maintained a distance of thirty feet from the Demon Dragon, continuously bombarding with Spells. Spirit Light and Demon Light clashed, Demon Arts intertwining with Divine Skills.

Wang Qi's Heavenly Calculation Atlas, tailored specifically to counteract, operated autonomously, the glow carried by his Mana spreading out like a horde of frenzied piranhas, scenting blood and wildly dispersing, automatically breaking through all of the Jiao King's Demon Arts and Divine Skills. Like natural predators born from evolution, the black Spiritual Power of the Jiao Demon had no choice but to crumble upon contact. The Heavenly Song moved at the molecular level, shattering matter, and scales scattered with a flash of lightning; the Entropy Increase Skill of the Heavenly Entropy Technique was the bane of all things orderly, and swathes of Scale Armor lost their vitality under a roll of red light, even the newly hammered out trace of "Dragon Qi" was gradually consumed. The Jiao Demon, furious with rage, was still unable to capture the elusive form of Wang Qi, who had deployed the Unpredictable Body Technique, making himself immeasurable, incalculable, and inscrutable, completely invisible to any probing!

And amidst this standoff, Wang Qi was still considering which Law would be most appropriate to finish off the Jiao Demon.

"Mysterious Uncertainty Cloud Sword? That's out of the question, too many onlookers, too many Observers. If I strike with the Ghost Unstable Sword, it'll truly become Indeterminate, and who knows where it will end up. Besides, this Demonic Power is just an extension of Black-Bearded King's perception; everywhere here is within its observation, making it impossible for the Quantum Cloud Sword Qi to unfold."

"Gravity Wave Blade? I've merely deduced it using 'Heaven Creation,' it's not yet formally incorporated into my own Cultivation System."

"Heavenly Entropy Technique? No time for Qi Storage, difficult."

"Elephant Phase Wave Skill? Difficult..."

Inside Wang Qi, the Heavenly Calculation Cultivation Method circulated Indeterminately, countless Spirit Senses arraying and combining, various Divine Skills intuitively producing, various offensives at Wang Qi's fingertips, completely without the awkwardness of switching Cultivation Methods. It was only now that Wang Qi realized his most significant shortcoming had become "not having a kill move capable of deciding the outcome of a battle amidst a multitude of combatants." In the battle of Divine Capital, he had obtained the Heart Demon Curse Power equivalent to nearly a hundred thousand people and used his powerful Mana and even more powerful calculation capability to cover up this shortcoming, achieving overbearing success through rank-crossing.

Of course, this was for him, a rank-crossing lunatic. Now his weakest aspects were approaching or even far exceeding the strengths of his peers.

"It seems... I have no choice but to try out this new move I've just come up with?"

A new thought took root in Wang Qi's mind, and he immediately charged toward the Jiao Dragon.

"Human Demon ahhh! Yin Yang Purgatory, only half-step away!"

The Jiao Dragon had no idea what the "Qi Storage Human Demon" opposite it was trying to accomplish, but it at least knew it could not allow its foe to comfortably perform their techniques. The one striking this time was no longer an incompetent Demon Art or a Dragon Clan Magic. This was a Human Clan spell obtained over a thousand years ago, after it ambushed and eliminated the last group of fleeing Ancient Method Practitioners. Although originally derived from Human Clan Law Gates, over a millennium, it had already been adapted to become the spell that best suited itself.

A black circle of light spread from the body of the Demon Flood Dragon. This was its "Boundary" drawn by its dragon body. The serpentine dragon shuddered, and spiritual energy naturally surged into titanic waves. Two extremely opposed types of spiritual energies clashed against each other, ultimately forming an insurmountable boundary.

Not even ten thousand soldiers could hope to cross this half-step divide!

The fluctuating spiritual energies, one explosive, one calm, one scorching, one freezing, was precisely a two-faced method. Wang Qi was the first to collide with a wave of cold, poisonous miasma, his movement hindered. He was merely using the Unpredictable Body Technique, not truly entering an omnipresent quantum state. A barrier he couldn't cross in his normal state would still be impassable after executing this movement technique, unless he understood a deeper layer of the quantum tunneling effect. The cold, sticky demonic power clung to his strength, while behind him, like an undersea volcano, burst forth a violent poisonous flame, fierce enough to exterminate all life beings. To advance further by even half a step meant this force would explode completely. Even with Wang Qi's current strength, he definitely did not want to come into contact with it.

Thus, Wang Qi could only cling to the edge of the Spirit Prohibition, changing direction to fly upwards. The "Yin Yang Purgatory" followed like a shadow, as if the true Hell itself was selecting its victim. Wang Qi readjusted the cultivation within his body, temporarily shutting down unused Divine Skills, directing his computational power to its peak, all to support the Unpredictable Body Technique. Jarvis took over some of the functions, recording the changes of Wang Qi's cultivation method at this moment, to replenish Wang Qi after the battle was over.

Having climbed to the highest point, Wang Qi's spell had reached the edge of this abnormal gravity field. The Unpredictable Body Technique was not known for speed; only now did he manage to pull a three-meter distance from "Yin Yang Purgatory."

But it was enough.

Another "program" suddenly kicked into full operation. It was the Heavenly Entropy Technique. With an intense burst of cold air, Wang Qi turned to charge towards "Yin Yang Purgatory."

"Useless, utterly useless! How could a mere Human Demon compare to the 'coldness' and 'freezing' of a Sea Demon!" The black demonic energy allowed the Jiao King to detect Wang Qi's maneuver. It scoffed, its reversed scale on its throat standing erect, preparing to unleash a genuine killing blow.

Dragon Clan Magic, Dragon Roar!

A beginner magic every member of the Dragon Clan knew. Yet against ordinary members of the Demon Clan, it was a real killer move!

But it was mistaken. Wang Qi's target for the Heavenly Entropy Technique was not the Black-Bearded Jiao King, but himself!

The Entropy Reduction of Heavenly Entropy Technique produced an ultimate cold. As long as a material does not move, it won't produce surplus consumption, no energy will be converted into meaningless thermal energy. Absolute zero means that even at the microscopic scale particles cease movement, the true "eternity," severing the continuum of thermal death completely. This is "Entropy Reduction!"

Wang Qi's speed visibly slowed down to the naked eye. By the time he barely touched the "Yang" of "Yin Yang Purgatory," his speed had already reduced to "zero."

Wang Qi could only control the direction of the Unpredictable Body Technique, not understanding his own position and velocity. But now, for the first time with the aid of Heavenly Entropy Technique, he had grasped his own speed.

Indeed, to halt the motion of microscopic particles entirely, one would need absolute zero. Even if Wang Qi drained all his mana, he wouldn't reach such an extent. But at this moment, he was neither in "absolute stillness" nor a real microscopic particle. He had merely executed a movement technique modeled on microscopic particles. In a certain small system, he was temporarily equivalent to a microscopic particle.

Position X momentum ≠ momentum X position. Now that he has "stopped," his position was certain, so what about the momentum?

That was — an indeterminate momentum!

A momentum that could be anything from infinitely great to infinitely small!

The enormous contradiction stirred the Infinite Sea of Vacuum. Wang Qi sensed an indescribable mighty power. This force was a hundredfold, a thousandfold higher than what he could invoke on his own; even a unidirectional burst had considerable destructive force.

A tiny ripple on the macroscopic scale of the Dirac Sea, for individual life beings, was an unstoppable tsunami.

Spirit Energy Explosion formed out of nothingness, shattering the Yin Yang Purgatory with irrational might, scattering the V-collar Giant Jiao Demon's power. The chaos of Electromagnetic Break, fierce winds, and Spirit Power Flows was nothing but interference in everyone's sight. Wang Qi seized the opportunity. "Heaven Creation" flashed and was gone behind him. Only then did the Quantum Cloud Sword Qi start to spread.

Between heaven and earth, resonated the last cries of the Black-Bearded Jiao King. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, please come to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)


Tip: You can use left, right, A and D keyboard keys to browse between chapters.