Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension-Chapter 687 - 416th place

Two days later, in Wuji Valley

At a place facing north towards the sun in the valley, there stood an ancient and imposing three-story wooden building entirely made of Heavenly Fragrant Wood. This building was known as Wuji Tower, the very heart of Wuji Valley.

In a simple and tranquil quiet room on the third layer of Wuji Tower, Zhao Sheng and Huang Yu sat facing each other.

At this moment, on one side of them, an enormous Yin Yang Tai Chi Diagram occupied an entire wall, with the black and white fishes within it seemingly moving and not moving, radiating a lifelike rhythm filled with profound mysteries.

The quiet room was filled with lingering fragrance, and Zhao Sheng’s gaze was as clear as water, his demeanor calm and serious as he looked straight at Huang Yu.

He had been in the valley for two days, and it was finally time to reveal his true abilities.

After a moment of silence, Huang Yu sighed softly, took a golden and silver woven silk book from his embrace, and slid it across to Zhao Sheng before saying, "In the Hundred Skills of Immortal Cultivation, the formation is the most difficult! A qualified Array Master not only needs exceptional intelligence and wisdom but must also possess knowledge of astronomy and geography, understand yin and yang, the Five Elements, the Eight Trigrams, and the Nine Palaces, as well as the destinies and tribulations of life and death. However, these are merely the basic requirements.

What’s most important for an Array Master is the talent of the Divine Soul. Ideally, one’s sense of the Divine Soul should far exceed that of ordinary people, meaning one’s spiritual power should be at least thirty percent higher than the average cultivator, and the higher, the better."

At this point, Huang Yu smiled slightly, "Of course, Mr. Zhao, you need not worry about these. In my opinion, your Divine Thought Power is far superior to that of an early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, but this... is still far from enough!"

Zhao Sheng nodded and said, "What Elder Huang says is true. We formation masters naturally require stronger spiritual power, and more exquisite and delicate control of Divine Thought!"

"Mr. Zhao indeed understands with just a single point!" Huang Yu continued with a smile, "I know that you have a widespread and profound understanding of the Array Dao. Therefore, I will skip over some of the trivial details directly and present you with the most fundamental and profound Divine Skill of our sect, the ’Infinite Divine Calculation.’

Oh?

Zhao Sheng’s eyes lit up. He picked up the silk book and unfolded it, only to see a frown form on his brow as there were merely a hundred or so characters on the silk book.

After scanning it three times, Zhao Sheng seemed to have an epiphany, and then his brows relaxed.

Seeing this, Huang Yu smiled proudly and pointed at the Tai Chi Diagram on the wall, stating boldly, "The Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things. The immortal saints say, ’The Infinite gives birth to the Tai Chi, perfectly round and unified. The ultimateness of the Tao is three-and-one, the number of the Infinite!

The essence of the Infinite Divine Calculation lies in using spiritual power to calculate the ultimate precise value of the Infinite Number. The levels of the skill, from low to high, are in the thousands, ten thousands, millions, ten millions, and onwards to infinity!"

"Isn’t it just pi (π)? I’m familiar with that. Why all this fuss," Zhao Sheng muttered to himself, though his expression remained unchanged as he listened to Huang Yu’s boasts.

"...Since the creation of the ’Infinite Divine Calculation,’ the highest achiever in our sect’s history in cultivating this skill was the master’s master’s master, Tian Yan Shangren. He successfully calculated the Infinite Number up to the two hundred ninety-eight million six hundred thirty-seven thousand one hundred and nine decimal places.

At that time, the master’s Divine Thought Power was extremely formidable, even surpassing a Divinity Transformation True Monarch by a hair, truly rare in all ages!"

After listening, Zhao Sheng could not help but show a look of admiration and clapped his hands in praise, "The ’Infinite Divine Calculation’ is truly profound and unfathomable, deserving of its reputation as the top Divine Thought Skill of this era! I will forever be grateful to Elder Huang for bestowing such Divine Skill upon me!"

Huang Yu didn’t seem to care much, simply smiling and saying, "Hehe, Mr. Zhao, do not take it to heart. It’s just an obligation on my part, and besides, the ’Infinite Divine Calculation’ isn’t some top secret skill that is not imparted easily; there are many within Wuji Valley who know of it.

Moreover, without having successfully calculated up to the millionth place, the Infinite Divine Calculation barely makes any noticeable impact on one’s spiritual power! Only after surpassing ten million places does the enhancement effect become increasingly exaggerated."

"Ten million places, is it?" Zhao Sheng replied thoughtfully, his entire consciousness following the skill’s mnemonic, his thoughts working at full capacity.

In just an instant, he had successfully calculated the Infinite Number (π) to ten thousand places, and the digits continued to surge rapidly.

In one breath, a hundred thousand places achieved!

In three breaths, one million places achieved!

In ten breaths, three million places, success!

...

At that moment, Zhao Sheng suddenly realized the limitations of the Star God Thousand Heart Technique—at least, in terms of calculating the Infinite Number, having one consciousness or a thousand consciousnesses had the same effect.

Since the Thousand Heart Consciousness was essentially in a state of independence and division, the computing power of each consciousness was roughly identical, but they couldn’t stack their computing power. Therefore, having multiple consciousnesses calculating the Infinite Number at the same time was a tremendous waste; it was enough to use just one consciousness for the task.

Once Zhao Sheng realized this, he immediately changed his approach. A normal cultivator couldn’t calculate the Infinite Number day and night without rest, but he could.

As long as a thousand consciousnesses took turns, not to speak of continuous calculation without rest or sleep, even constant calculation until death was possible.

Half an hour later, Zhao Sheng’s eyes suddenly sparkled with brilliance, as two beams of Divine Light shot out abruptly, traveling more than ten feet, a sight that was quite alarming.

Huang Yu, who was at his side, nodded slightly in approval and commended, "Congratulations, Mr. Zhao, your Divine Thought Power has improved again!"

Zhao Sheng retracted the Divine Light from his eyes, his face showing a hint of joy as he thanked Huang Yu earnestly, "Thank you, Elder Huang, for imparting this Divine Skill to me!"

"Mr. Zhao is too kind!"

...

Half a month later, Zhao Sheng, dressed in a Yin Yang Robe, walked out of the Ten Thousand Array Pavilion at a leisurely pace.