Nightmare Immortal Era

Chapter 82: Immortal Version of a Computer Organization

Yang Ning never expected that all the necessary materials for making an identity jade card would be available here in Liyuan, and they were given to him directly!

"You're giving these to me? No need to keep it confidential?" Yang Ning flipped through the materials in surprise, asking at the same time.

"Why should it be kept confidential?" Liyuan's attitude was casual. "This is not a Divine Ability, and identity jade cards always require an artifact refining master to make. If it weren't for the cultivation being limited to the Qi Refining Stage, this set of materials might even be distributed to the Immortal Ascension Academy!"

Yang Ning was speechless. So, the value of a Divine Ability is higher than that of the internet?

He knew the value of the internet. If it appeared in the Immortal Cultivation World, it might be even more useful than a Supreme Dao Technique!

Of course, in the Immortal Cultivation World, the internet would definitely be more useful because everyone else has Dao Techniques.

In the modern world, Dao Techniques would be more useful because everyone else has the internet.

But such a crucial thing is not kept confidential.

However, the patent consciousness in China has only emerged in the past few years. In fact, if Yang Ning had been born a few decades earlier, he wouldn't have had that sense of confidentiality either.

"It seems like I need to cultivate this sense of confidentiality from scratch!" Yang Ning thought to himself.

This was his purpose in coming to Extreme Eternal. Having a girlfriend was purely because he happened to meet Xiao Huan.

After asking Liyuan for a quiet room, Yang Ning spread out the materials and started recording them in the Spirit Realm.

This was also a thick book. Yang Ning already knew that it used a technique called "Jiezi Su Paper," which was a paper control secret technique that combined Jiezi Xu's methods.

But for the Spirit Realm, the thickness of the book didn't matter much. It wouldn't take long to flip through it.

After flipping through it, Yang Ning appeared in the Spirit Realm and asked, "How is it? Is it difficult?"

"Not difficult!" Deep Blue said. "I've already cracked it!"

"Uh," Yang Ning nodded. Liyuan said that no one could understand this set of materials, only apply them, but Deep Blue instantly cracked it!

It can be seen that cultivators have their abilities, but they are not many!

"Tell me about it!" Yang Ning said.

"Here, we first need to mention something called runes!"

"Runes are naturally formed or discovered by humans. The manufacturing of talismans and the construction of formations cannot be separated from the involvement of runes. Different runes have different sizes, structures, and effects!" Deep Blue said. "Cultivators divide runes into three levels: first level, second level, and third level, from easy to difficult, from simple to complex. According to our definition, first-level runes refer to one-dimensional runes, second-level runes refer to two-dimensional runes, and third-level runes refer to three-dimensional runes."

Deep Blue displayed three different runes. The simplest one was just a line drawn with mana, representing transmission.

The most complex one looked like a walnut, with countless twists and turns of mana lines inside.

It represented complex meanings such as sealing, suppressing, isolating, and enveloping.

"Whether it's formations, spiritual energy, Treasure Weapons, or Dao Weapons, they all use runes. So, in a sense, artifact refining is truly a science and technology of runes powered by spiritual energy!"

"So, identity jade cards are also a technology of runes?" Yang Ning asked.

No wonder Liyuan said that identity jade cards could only be made by Qi Refining Stage cultivators. Physical Body Realm cultivators don't have mana, so how can they construct runes?

"Yes!"

"But if it's just runes, it doesn't make sense that others can't understand it, right?" Yang Ning asked.

"This is because the creator of the Identity Jade Card has reconstructed the runes!" Deep Blue's voice carried a hint of admiration. "The inventor of the Identity Jade Card is named Jiang Boming. According to the information, he was intelligent and curious from a young age, with a strong passion for artifact refining. He has some similarities with your character!"

"What I have is just a character, but he might be real!" Yang Ning replied.

Deep Blue nodded and continued, "Jiang Boming believed that although runes vary in size and structure, there should be some conventional principles within them. After more than five hundred years of in-depth research, he finally discovered that all runes are composed of two basic runes: Yin and Yang!"

"Yin and Yang?" Yang Ning blinked.

"Yes, but this is just his naming of the basic structure of the runes and has nothing to do with the actual Yin and Yang," Deep Blue explained. "Yin represents absorption and integration, while Yang represents eruption and outflow. It is abbreviated as Yin enters Yang exits. Additionally, each rune has two states: active and static, which Jiang Boming referred to as 'Ping' and 'Zhi.' Ping means to calm down, while Zhi means to work."

"So, the most basic structure of a rune consists of Yin and Yang, as well as Yang Ping Yin Ping, Yang Zhi Yin Ping, Yang Zhi Yin Zhi, and Yang Ping Yin Zhi, which are the four most basic states," Yang Ning observed as he looked at the diagram. He couldn't help but smile and said, "Isn't this just like the 'AND' operation in the three logical operators of 'AND', 'OR', and 'NOT'?"

The 'AND' (&) operation follows this algorithm:

0 & 0 = 0, 0 & 1 = 0, 1 & 0 = 0, 1 & 1 = 1.

If we use 1 to represent Zhi (work) and 0 to represent Ping (calm), then Yang Ping Yin Zhi is 0 & 1 = 0, Yang Zhi Yin Ping is 1 & 0 = 0, Yang Zhi Yin Zhi is 1 & 1 = 1, and Yang Ping Yin Ping is 0 & 0 = 0. These four algorithms correspond perfectly to the 'AND' operation!

"This master actually derived a basic algorithm from scratch. Impressive!" Yang Ning genuinely admired. The algorithms on Earth have gone through countless studies and explorations by masters before they were summarized by the genius Leibniz.

Moreover, the research on Earth is purely based on numbers, searching for patterns within them. It is much more difficult to find patterns among thousands of runes.

"It's a pity that Jiang Boming didn't continue his research based on this foundation. Instead, he stopped here," Deep Blue said. "After discovering this phenomenon, he reported it to the sect, hoping to gain their support. However, the sect didn't understand the significance of this and Jiang Boming turned to research on the application side. After combining the effects of divine consciousness and blood energy fields, he created the Identity Jade Card!"

"It's a bit of a shame!" Yang Ning sighed. "The opportunity for the birth of the Immortal Cultivation World's internet was lost just like that?"

Such a pity.

Deep Blue also felt a sense of regret. If he had already researched the 'AND', 'OR', 'NOT', and 'XOR' algorithms, would the research on more advanced algorithms be far behind?

At the very least, he could take on a few disciples to research together.

However, as an Extreme Eternal artifact refining master, he was not qualified to take on disciples. Moreover, everyone cultivates to seek immortality, but this Identity Jade Card cannot grant immortality. The artifact refining masters also didn't realize the immense power of the Identity Jade Card, so naturally, no one was willing to delve deeper into its research.

Of course, the most important reason was that it was truly difficult.

If someone could understand the part about Yang Zhi Yin Ping, the algorithms involved in the textual and graphic displays would be extremely complex. Jiang Boming only invented one type of bitwise operator, and using this operator to construct complex functions was like using addition and subtraction to perform arithmetic operations and solve quadratic equations.

It could definitely be calculated, but the process would be quite cumbersome. Later generations didn't even have the foundation of algorithms, so how could they understand?

If Yang Ning hadn't appeared, Jiang Boming's work might have had to wait for several thousand or even tens of thousands of years before someone could comprehend it.

"So, does this mean I can create a magical version of a computer?" Yang Ning pondered, stroking his chin.

He could follow Jiang Boming's train of thought and use runes to implement binary operations.

Although Yang Ning didn't have mana, it didn't hinder him from speculating on the nature of mana based on the performance of Divine Abilities.

In terms of speed, mana should far surpass electric current and might even exceed the speed of light, as mana can distort space and interfere with time.

In terms of mass, mana can be light or heavy. When it is light, it has no mass, as it can lift people up. When it is heavy, it can transform into mountains to suppress mortals.

Based on these two properties alone, one could consider spiritual energy as energy particles lighter and faster than light. So, wouldn't a computer made with mana have even better performance than a photon computer?

The key is that mana is also easy to control because it is composed of spiritual energy, a person's mental power, and a person's blood energy field, all of which are limited by human thought.

(End of this chapter)