Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 362 - 115: You Guys Actually Get Along Quite Well, Right?

Using finger technique, he snapped the little white mouse's cervical spine, extracted its soul, and removed its brain. While filling it with water gel, he used a reagent to wash away the lipid matrix and applied staining.

Throughout this series of processes, he continuously used Divine Skills from Tianling Ridge to maintain cellular activity.

He used alchemy pills made of lead and mercury to stabilize the soul.

Then he repeated the process, treating the control group of little white mice in the same way.

Next, he placed the souls into the Soul Analysis Array—this had to be done quickly because the processed neural tissue wouldn't spoil so soon, but the stability of the soul couldn't last very long.

After that, it was time to use the Microscope to observe the exposed nervous system, record data, create schematic diagrams, and so on.

After demonstrating this set of actions several times, Chen Feng handed over his experimental mice to the new apprentices. This experiment was quite demanding on the mice; at the very least, it required hundreds in a batch, and tens of batches before achieving any results. It was possible to complete the breeding of mice, dissection, and observation alone, but it was too time-consuming.

And what scientific research lacked the most was time.

After making a few rounds in the laboratory, someone reported that there wasn't enough staining reagent. Chen Feng checked and concluded that, including his emergency stock in the warehouse, he had just over a day's worth of staining reagent left—mostly because the Empirical Proofworkers from Divine Capital were inexperienced, using too much staining reagent each time. It was then that he remembered this was also Wang Qi's responsibility. After notifying his assistant, he left the Empirical Department and headed to the study to ask Wang Qi to run an errand.

Unexpectedly, upon reaching the study door, he heard Chen Youjia's stern voice, "Do you realize what you're doing is wrong? Yes, I concede it's the fastest method, but what's the use of it? You tell me..."

My... god...

Chen Feng immediately felt a headache coming on. He quickly kicked open the door and bellowed, "What are the two of you arguing about now?"

However, the scene in the study surprised him.

Wang Qi was actually bowing his head in submission, "I'm sorry, Junior Sister. I truly apologize..."

"It's Senior Sister," Chen Youjia corrected.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have disregarded Chen Feng's lousy mathematics... This method is indeed simple, but he's totally incapable of using it!"

Chen Youjia nodded, "Good that you understand."

Chen Feng put on a stern face, "The two of you... why are you gathered together criticizing my math skills? Youjia, you know I passed my exams back in the day!"

"Let's discuss based on facts," Chen Youjia continued, engrossed in her drafting paper.

"What's going on?"

Wang Qi gave a bitter smile, "This is about the correlation between Demonization of the Demon Clan and personality formation. You've listed twenty-eight related data points, including the strength of the soul, the activity levels of specific brain regions, the activity levels of specific areas of the soul, the intensity of demonic power... All these twenty-eight data points are interconnected, and we're trying to find a model that can describe all twenty-eight at once, summarizing the relationships using a Heavenly Element Group."

Chen Feng nodded, "Good."

"Then Junior Brother Wang came up with a very constructive suggestion—to use Functional Analysis to construct a twenty-eight dimensional Xiangyu to derive the formulas."

"What's the problem with that?" Chen Feng was puzzled.

"To determine the relationship between two variables, you'd build a two-dimensional Heaven and Earth Axis to represent it—like a plane coordinate system—and for three variables, a three-dimensional Heaven and Earth Axis, like a spatial coordinate system. By extension, for twenty-eight variables, wouldn't you need a twenty-eight dimensional Heaven and Earth Axis?"

Chen Feng still didn't see an issue, "Just find the formula, and that should do it. Formulas aren't that complex."

Chen Youjia pushed a sheet of paper in front of Chen Feng, "Can you draw a Regular Twenty-four cell?"

Wang Qi interjected, "No need for something that difficult, a Regular Five-cell is sufficient."

A Regular Five-cell, a four-dimensional analogue to the Regular Tetrahedron.

The Regular Twenty-four-cell, also known as the regular dodecahedron, is composed of twenty-four regular octahedra and is actually a four-dimensional figure.

Even professional arithmeticians had to spend time drawing these figures' three-dimensional projections or two-dimensional projections.

Chen Feng forced a smile, "That thing... Well, this..."

"Look, you can't even draw an ordinary four-phase figure, so how can you expect to understand the curves under the twenty-eight-phase Xiangyu?"

A single point's trajectory in the twenty-eight-dimensional Hilbert Space. This could only be conceived by top mathematicians combined with first-rate spatial sense.

"If you can't even see the curve, how can you judge the changing trends based on it to carry out the next empirical proof?"

Even though he was clearly being belittled, Chen Feng breathed a sigh of relief, "You two, don't just sync up when you're trashing me—remember, I'm the one paying your monthly salaries!"

Chen Youjia remained cool as ever, "So both of us are barely tolerating sitting here."

Chen Feng, knowing his friend's personality, didn't mind, but rather patted the table contentedly, "You two, at last you look a bit like you're up for a great undertaking."

Wang Qi suddenly turned to Chen Youjia, "Senior Sister, do you know about the Yitian Calculation?"

Chen Youjia was a bit puzzled why this guy was suddenly calling her Senior Sister, but still nodded to show she understood.

"We are both disciples of the Wanfa Sect; in the competition within this study, we share common interests and can achieve a positive-sum outcome. But on this issue, we can only have a zero-sum result with Chen Feng."

Chen Youjia tacitly agreed and nodded, "Agreed, Senior... Brother."

Her last word was squeezed out, seemingly very reluctantly.

Why do I feel like I'm the only one who can't understand what you're saying? You two actually get along quite well, don't you...

Just as Chen Feng was about to say something, he was intercepted by Wang Qi, "You know me, Boss, my own research that's the truly great undertaking!"

Chen Youjia immediately followed up, "Without my mathematics, your endeavor would achieve nothing—but my mathematics can be applied to more than just one domain."

I see it now... The only time you two get along is when you're ganging up on me...

Chen Feng felt the need to assert his authority as the boss. He slapped the spirit pool and a large storage bag into Wang Qi's hands, then said, "Go buy these dyes for me, exactly the types listed on this piece of paper."

"I..." Wang Qi wanted to say something but then thought it over and realized that indeed, according to the contract, this was his job, so he reluctantly went to run the errand.

After Wang Qi had left, Chen Feng asked Chen Youjia, "What do you think? What areas does this kid need to improve on?"

Chen Youjia replied blandly, "Theoretically, he's about the same as me..."

"When you say about the same, that means he's actually a bit stronger than you," Chen Feng translated accurately.

Chen Youjia glared at him fiercely, then continued, "But his application skills are practically idiotic. Maybe he has read the 'What is the Origin of Life' by Wave Motion Lord, but his understanding of the Life Path is still very superficial, and he's not adept with using formulas—perhaps he's the type who can't utilize his talent without understanding the underlying meaning of the formulas? I think you should tutor him."

Chen Feng looked thoughtfully at the bookshelf, "Tutoring, huh..."

Upon Wang Qi's return, Chen Feng immediately handed him a booklet, "This is the Yangshen Pavilion's Soul Forging Skill. It's nothing particularly powerful, but it's highly compatible. I want you to practice it for half an hour during your noon break, then I'll guide you through a few experiments in the afternoon and you'll stay after work for supplementary lessons."

"Ah? Why?"

Chen Feng's eyes gleamed, "To improve at work!"