Exploring Immortality Cultivation

"What to do next?"

"Next, it's up to Little Liu... Every single move we make has been carefully considered."

Liu Yuxi manipulated the spherical magic artifact, replicating the spirit wave received from the Jade Sea earlier, then sending it back. This was to show the sea beings that it could be imitated, learned, and communicated with.

Then, came the initial conversation.

The spherical magic artifact emitted a dazzling light, then quickly dimmed. After that, it flickered twice in succession.

Flash once, flash twice, flash three times.

The mysterious spirit wave in the air remained unchanged, indicating that beings were present. Perhaps those Sea Gods were still communicating among themselves.

Liu Yuxi repeated the previous action—flash once, flash twice, flash three times.

After this operation, feedback quickly came, and the members of the Immortal Alliance received spirit waves from three groups of cluster beings. Their spiritual sense could detect a distinct difference from other spirit waves.

"Great!" Liu Yuxi couldn't help but cheer softly, "Success! We've connected!"

Lv Zhengxin speculated, "They're saying—'One! Two! Three!'"

"It's also possible they're saying 'One plus two equals three,'" Liu Yuxi said, "The premise of this communication is that there is no similarity between our two races."

Someone chuckled softly, "Hopefully, it's not saying 'What are you doing?'"

"Let's verify it then," Mai Siwei halted the group's discussion.

Liu Yuxi once again manipulated the sphere to flash.

Flash once, flash twice, flash three times, flash four times.

This time, it can't be "One plus two plus three equals four."

One! Two! Three! Four!

The Human Clan of Shenzhou, and the cluster life beings of Sea Sky, began their initial dialogue with this set of words!

"One! Two! Three! Four!"

"One! Two! Three! Four!"

After repeating this three times, Liu Yuxi began the next set of operations.

The magic artifact flashed in reverse order: flash four times, flash three times, flash two times, flash once.

Four! Three! Two! One!

"Four! Three! Two! One!"

In the spirit waves of the Sea God Type, there was a joyful cheer.

Liu Yuxi continued the conversation while all the Grandmasters of the Immortal Alliance focused intently on the progress. Soon, they learned the words for numbers one to one hundred in the "Sea" language. He stopped the testing when he counted to one hundred, fearing that these "big guys" might become bored with such games and eventually cease communication with him.

The next step was a simple arithmetic test: two flashes, a longer pause, three flashes, another longer pause, and then five flashes.

Two plus three equals five.

In Liu Yuxi's first three repetitions of this operation, the Jade Sea 626 answered two, three, and five obediently, but on the fourth attempt, it finally understood what the extended pause represented—it was a missing word.

A set of all-new spirit waves came through.

"Two plus three equals five."

In a short time, Liu Yuxi knew the words for "subtract," "multiply," "divide," "greater than," and "less than" in the "Sea language." Then, he deliberately sent incorrect equations, letting those at sea judge them, and soon he learned how these big ones say "affirmation" and "denial."

"Clearly, they are highly intelligent beings," Lv Zhengxin sighed, "not just a race that relies on innate abilities."

"I'm more concerned with one point—they understand binary judgment," Liu Yuxi breathed a sigh of relief, "This means we still have the possibility of communication. And now I know how to proceed to the next step."

"The next step is..."

"Logic," Liu Yuxi said, "After yes or no, it's judgments of or, and, not, and then sets—by reaching this point, we can discuss most mathematical concepts. For example, Geometry with Sky Drawing Style [Euclid's Axioms], Arithmetic's Mathematical Dao Axioms [Pinoar Axioms]. Then, we can directly apply our Calculator Theory to construct a 'middle language'…"

This tedious work continued for a long time. Fortunately, everyone was a high order cultivator and had little need for eating, drinking, and sleeping. The work proceeded smoothly. However, Liu Yuxi did not find anything like "base notation" in the "Sea's" language. Perhaps their base notation was expressed in a more obscure way, or maybe they didn't have a base at all, or perhaps their restriction was much larger, far exceeding one hundred [The restriction of a general civilization is often related to their number of fingers, toes, or limbs, but the Sea God Type had none. Lv Zhengxin even speculated that their base could be as numerous as the number of microscopic life forms in their bodies.] This left him feeling unsure of where to start.

More problems emerged. On the second day, when they exchanged the Sky Drawing Style, the "Sea" saw Liu Yuxi's illusions of parallel and perpendicular lines but gave no clear response.

"What's going on?"

At this moment, Mai Siwei offered a suggestion, "Skip the Sky Drawing Style for now. Go directly to Li and Luo's surfaces."

Lv Zhengxin suddenly understood, "Their bodies are so large that they can perceive the curvature of the planet from the beginning! Wanfa Sect's Mathematics Lord once said there might be a race that understands Space Taoism without using the Sky Drawing Style. It was just a metaphor, but we actually found them!"

The Immortal Alliance's attempt continued for a full fourteen days. Throughout this process, 626 remained highly focused. Gradually, a middle language based on mathematics and logic began to take shape. This middle language was comprehensible to both parties. Whether it was the Shenzhou people or the cluster life beings of Sea Sky, both could make corrections to it, and these modifications wouldn't cause any comprehension difficulties for the other party.