Chapter 714 - 453: Inexperienced Fire Meditation
Cultivating more Skills is fundamentally a trade with no loss. Now, being stuck in a bottleneck, it is time to absorb more Wisdom.
Though Earth’s civilization isn’t exceedingly advanced.
Yet the thousands of disciplines developed over millennia indeed have much worth learning.
Not to mention, Wang Ye has a System that can elevate these foundational disciplines to a higher realm.
With this thought, Wang Ye exited his cultivation state.
He took out the phone he carried with him and was about to use the browser to search.
Suddenly, he seemed to recall something.
He put the phone back in his pocket again.
Maintaining a seated posture, he began sensing the surrounding electromagnetic waves.
Ever since mastering the ability to control electromagnetic waves, Wang Ye discovered that he could not only send signals but also receive them.
In plain terms, it means connecting his brain to the network to directly search any information available online.
In fact, this ability was not evolved out of thin air by Wang Ye. Humans, and most living beings, inherently have the ability to receive and decode electromagnetic signals.
However, the decoding efficiency for normal people is extremely low, making it difficult to achieve anything substantial.
Thus, until now, humanity hasn’t yet enabled direct brain-network connections, but this principle provides a research path. If in the future, this potential can be developed, enabling brains to connect to the network, it can significantly cut learning times and reduce the cost of education for humans.
The reason Wang Ye could develop this ability wasn’t solely due to cultivating Skills, but because over the past year, his brain functions have evolved overall, naturally elevating his electromagnetic wave sensing ability to a level where he can freely send and receive electromagnetic waves.
Of course, today’s networks mostly have protocol encryption, merely sensing electromagnetic waves isn’t enough to connect to the network. Wang Ye still needs to learn some data-related knowledge to have the ability to decrypt, to truly let his brain become a device that can access the network completely. But learning these things wasn’t hard for Wang Ye; with a bit of learning, he elevated his information technology skills to the Peak Level in the current world.
After a period of adaptation and adjustments, finally, after several minutes, Wang Ye’s consciousness linked up to the internet. Instantly, a flood of information poured into his brain.
Wang Ye suddenly opened his eyes, a barely noticeable glimmer appeared in his pupils. Now that electromagnetic waves convert into nerve signals, his brain can do everything a computer can, with his eyes equating to a "computer screen." If one were to observe his eyes with a microscope at this moment, they’d find countless windows flashing by in an instant, with an exceptionally fast frequency, as data from across the network was summoned forth for his review.
One could say, he already no longer needs phones or computers because he himself is the most powerful electronic device. Whether it’s making a call or communicating in software online, his brain can do it, and respond with speeds faster than current civilian desktop computers by tens of millions of times.
But the main purpose of doing so isn’t about making calls or chatting.
He doesn’t have anyone to contact by phone specifically. Even if he wished to chat with someone, where couldn’t he go at twenty Mach speeds? Isn’t chatting face-to-face more convenient?
Wang Ye went through all this trouble to connect to the network mainly to study the countless disciplines on Earth.
Before he completely transcends, these existing foundational disciplines on Earth are like an untapped gold mine.
Besides modern sciences that prospered recently like physics, biology, chemistry, and mathematics, there are China’s ancient traditional disciplines such as Chinese medicine and the Daoist School’s traditional Cultivation Technique, as well as Mystical Studies like Feng Shui and Eight Characters. As Wang Ye’s strength grew, he found these things increasingly credible.
Because these disciplines, summarized over hundreds of generations about the Cosmos’s laws, often come closest to the Cosmos’s profound essence. On the contrary, those modern sciences inferred from theoretical knowledge often linger on the surface, requiring slow, step-by-step progress to touch upon the essence.
For instance, in recent online debates between Chinese and Western medicine, there’s an assertion that Western medicine, since its development, has summed up all therapies as "one knife cuts all." Anything considered harmful to the human body is directly removed through surgery, often treating symptoms but not the root. In contrast, Chinese medicine leans towards conditioning, depriving the affliction of space to thrive, leading to natural healing or shedding, known as "curing at the root." However, this conditioning is often the result of thousands of generations’ random experiments, much like Shen Nong tasting hundreds of herbs, knowing the efficacy of every herb after tasting all worldly grasses, knowing how to use them but not knowing their underlying principles.
If we liken the entire medical development process to a straight line, Western medicine methodically advances along the line, while Chinese medicine randomly appears at any point on the line, somewhat analogous to quantum mechanics, where micro-particles probabilistically appear anywhere in the Cosmos. Thus, even today, Chinese medicine contains many techniques unexplained by modern science, such as acupuncture points, meridians, Yin and Yang, Qi, etc.