Chapter 1023 Euler and Zhu Shijie

"Come back first, Vignes."

Aiwas touched the little crow's head and took it back into his soul.

They might meet Haibasha's daughter at any time.

According to Haibasha, she couldn't come into contact with the phantom demon, otherwise she might become one at any time. Just in case, Aiwass took the phantom demon Venis back.

Not long after, the space in front of him collapsed again, and Ola came out with a Taichu man wearing black clothes, a rough appearance, and a jade crown on his head.

When he saw Aiwass's antlers clearly, his eyes suddenly lit up and his expression became happy.

"My name is Zhu Shijie, nice to meet you, sir."

The man spoke in a resonant voice and bowed deeply to Aiwass. Three bows and nine kowtows, the sacred number for candlelight.

Unlike the physical world, communication in the dream world doesn't require language. Language is merely a medium for information, while the dream world itself is composed of information. While communication may appear to be verbal, it's actually a direct communication of the spirit.

This is also the reason why all kinds of strange phantoms and demons in the dream world can communicate directly with people, but in the material world, one needs sufficient inspiration to communicate normally with the phantoms and demons.

However, Aiwass did not react much to this. He just gently helped up the great mathematician from the beginning.

Aiwass had previously discussed with the wizard Zhu Tang about Taichu's beliefs and customs.

The Candle Master, the Snake Father, and the Sand Clock are the three main beliefs of the Taichu people today. Add to that the dragon clan's faith in the Lord of Scales and Feathers, and you have the four elements of wind, earth, water, and fire, and the four elements of heaven, earth, and people.

The other five pillar gods are secondary beliefs... not the state religion.

Unlike the Hellas, the primitive people didn't worship the Ennead simultaneously due to the elves' teachings. In fact, most nations—such as Parthia and Horus—didn't worship the Ennead simultaneously. After all, promoting everything is the same as promoting nothing, which would only lead to a certain degree of social chaos.

However, according to Zhu Tang, the ancient Taichu people had another lost faith: the Lord of Scales and Feathers was not among the four deities worshipped by the Taichu people at that time. However, the leading deity had not yet performed a miracle, so he was removed from the list and replaced by the second-ranked Sand Clock, with the Lord of Scales and Feathers added as the fourth.

Aiwass also roughly guessed who it was.

Obviously, that is the belief of the scaly and winged people... Taiyi, the pillar god of the Sun Path who created the scaly and winged people in the past.

Since the fall of the sun and the rise of the Beast Lord, this belief has gradually been lost. Therefore, before the arrival of the dragon race hatched by the Scale-Thief and Feather-Thief, those who inhabited the ancient primordial realm must have been descendants of scaly or winged beings. Only these races, predating the elves, could possibly record the secrets of Taiyi.

For the Taichu people today, Sizhu is the symbol of the Southern God of Fire.

The ideal Taichu Emperor is a horned and scaled being—the heir of the Snake Father and the Candle Master. He leverages the power of the Sand Clock to balance the forces of transcendence and devotion, transforming them into the dragon form of the Scaled and Feathered Lord.

The heir to the throne would develop either deer antlers or snake scales, depending on his or her tendency towards devotion and transcendence. The first person to display both characteristics would be the crown prince, the emperor's first-in-line heir.

If the emperor passed away before a crown prince was born, the dynasty was called "missing monarch." Alternatively, they were called "Deer Emperor" or "Snake Emperor." If the succession was normal, the dynasty was called "perfect monarch."

In the minds of the early people, deer are auspicious.

The implication is that "perfect rulers" are rare, while "imperfect rulers" are common. While the Deer Emperor is always benevolent, the Snake Emperor is more harsh. Most dynasties follow a cycle of snakes and deer... Only during a few periods of peace and prosperity can a perfect ruler emerge. Therefore, people believe that those with deer antlers are saints, and those with snake scales are heroes.

And it is obvious that Aiwass satisfied Zhu Shijie's admiration and imagination of "saint".

Although it was somewhat inappropriate for a sage on the path of wisdom to join in on the fun, Aiwass could understand it. If someone told him at work that a dragon prince had appeared, even if his job was almost over, he would definitely go over to take a look.

However, thinking of Zhu Tang...

Aiwass took a closer look at Zhu Shijie and found that he looked somewhat similar to Zhu Tang!

——Could this be Zhu Tang’s ancestor?

It's not impossible - they look similar and even have the same last name.

"Come to think of it, sir...I might even know one of your descendants."

Thinking of this, Aiwass greeted Zhu Shijie in a friendly manner.

"oh?"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Shijie perked up and asked, "Then may I ask...what kind of research is he currently doing?"

"He now holds the position of Grand Master of Ceremonies."

Aiwass replied, "To govern the ancestral temple rituals of the whole country."

——As for the fact that he angered the emperor and was exiled to the border, and then sneaked out of the country and has not returned yet, there is no need to talk about it.

"Taichang... the head of the ritual officials and the chief priest."

Zhu Shijie's expression was a little subtle: "I actually took this path..."

At least he didn't look particularly happy, but he wasn't disappointed either.

He shook his head and smiled politely at Aiwass and the others. "I'll take you to Hypatia's studio. Euler knows the location, but he may not be able to open the door. I'll take you there... Remember to follow me closely and don't look around. Otherwise, you might get lost in some equation."

As he spoke, Zhu Shijie led a few people into the staircase centered around "paradox." He walked in front, while Euler walked at the back.

Although those were stairs that had no end, under the guidance of the two mathematicians, they turned into spiral stairs that spiraled downward.

Yasin tried to look around, but he almost immediately lost himself in the staircase again. Fortunately, Sherlock quickly caught him, otherwise he would have gone astray if he had taken that step.

Seeing this, Euler asked Sherlock with interest: "Can you see the formula?"

"Um."

Sherlock nodded. "It's not difficult... but solving the problems at this speed will be a bit tiring. If I slow down a bit... I think I can keep up on my own."

"formula?"

Yasen was a little surprised.

"Each of these connected steps is a formula. The longer the steps, the more difficult the formula. The fact that you can see the formula means that you have at least the fourth level of wisdom and path affinity."

Euler said, pointing to the steps that continued to descend ahead: "You can give an answer on any step. If the answer is correct, this section is all 'real'; if the answer given is wrong, then you will immediately step into a 'false' dislocated space. The space here seems finite, but in fact it is infinite. Every step may lead to a false place... In the repeated interweaving of truth and falsehood, the snake vortex has opened up an endless space.

"If you had continued to look around and took a step forward, it would have been equivalent to 'giving up on the problem at hand.' Therefore, it would have been judged as wrong, and you would have stepped into a false dimension."

"But sometimes you have to deliberately give wrong answers," Zhu Shijie in front said, "After all, it's not the case that going down is better... It's not like we're going to see the Geometry God. Hai Basha's studio switches between real and fake steps with each wrong or correct answer. Starting from level zero, the steps are 43, 1, 24, 1, 44, 4, and 6. Follow this order to reach her workshop..."

As he spoke, Zhu Shijie walked down the 43 steps and suddenly took one step up. To Yasen behind him, his figure suddenly disappeared.

But then Aiwass also disappeared.

Fortunately, he could always see Sherlock in front of him, so he followed Sherlock closely into another space.

And after going up one step, there is another step down.

When Yasen took another step down, he saw his companions in front of him again.

Zhu Shijie's voice, which had been cut off, was heard again: "...There are also many people who like to set various special number sequences as their house numbers. We sometimes visit each other. There are also some powerful people who don't even need to return to the zero floor to find a reference point. Instead, they can directly perform spatial calculations to calculate the specific coordinates, thereby using another route to reach the other party's workshop.

"—Our 'teleportation' is actually a similar ability. It's not teleportation, it's just the folding of the space between two points."

After twenty-four steps, there is another step up, followed by forty-four steps down, four steps up, and six steps down.

After entering the correct "password," they arrived in front of a blue, triangular house. Apparently, no one was inside, and the doorway was covered in dust.

"This is Ms. Hybasha's workshop."

Zhu Shijie stopped and spoke.

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(End of this chapter)