180: Chapter 180 What do you mean you're only responsible for forwarding?

[Application received.]

[This section involves the core structure of the system.]

[Your authority is insufficient.]

Qi Yuan's eyelid twitched slightly.

"Then let's look at the damage feedback."

[Authority insufficient.]

"What about soul synchronization?"

[Authority insufficient.]

"Mental energy recovery."

[Authority insufficient.]

"The principle of how the Stand touches the Law of Time!"

[Authority severely insufficient.]

The final prompt even had two extra words.

As if the detection array also felt that Qi Yuan's question was too presumptuous.

Qi Yuan refused to give up.

He called up all the public data and continued to deduce inward along those six auxiliary lines.

The bidirectional mana anchoring was responsible for casting the first wisps of mental energy into reality, leaving an extremely brief coordinate in real space.

This process lasted only 0.01 seconds.

After 0.01 seconds, the true Stand structure began to operate.

Reality stabilization.

Soul synchronization.

Damage feedback.

Mental recovery.

Law touching.

Each layer of function was built on completely different underlying logic; they were nested within each other without interfering with one another.

Qi Yuan tried to deduce the next layer of structure in reverse from the external lines.

On the first deduction, the energy model collapsed at the seventeenth step.

On the second deduction, the mental coordinates shifted, and the simulated Stand directly sank into the void.

The third deduction was even more outrageous.

A vague humanoid figure had just condensed on the analysis platform, and due to an incorrect damage feedback direction, that thing punched its own head, causing the entire set of simulation arrays to explode together.

Bang!

A puff of black smoke rose from the analysis platform.

Qi Yuan stood expressionless in the smoke.

His snow-white beard was half blackened by soot.

Shen Ye silently retreated two steps.

He had already figured it out.

Qi Yuan's bidirectional anchoring theory could only push open the door to the Stand System.

The door was indeed pushed open.

But behind the door were the Reality Stabilization Hall, Soul Synchronization Corridor, Damage Feedback Hub, Mental Recovery Warehouse, and Law-Touching Tower.

They hadn't even figured out how to turn on the lights in the first hall.

Previously, when building the Titan Furnace, Shen Ye had directly dismantled this door and installed it on a heavy armor core.

He even felt that his design had achieved perfect innovation.

Thinking of this, Shen Ye suddenly wanted to find a place to sit for a while.

"Teacher."

"Don't speak."

Qi Yuan waved his hand.

"Let this old man have some peace and quiet."

He pulled over a chair and slowly sat down.

His gaze remained fixed on those six inconspicuous lines.

Thirty-seven sets of formulas.

Over four hundred pages of thesis.

The Truth Sanctuary core group chat discussed it continuously for seven days.

Dozens of Tier 9 masters jointly rated it as "a theoretical achievement that opens up a brand-new era."

In the end, it was compressed by Su Bai into six lines.

Responsible only for the very first 0.01 seconds.

Qi Yuan suddenly remembered what he had said in the Sanctuary group chat.

"With this theory, this old man's direct disciple will definitely enter the top three of the National Competition."

"The Titan Furnace is the true orthodox system truly suited for warriors."

"A design like a Stand that makes people strike poses and scream weirdly is simply an insult to Card Creation."

Although the last sentence was not said in the public group chat, he had spat it word-for-word at War Emperor Wei Potian.

Now, the Titan Furnace had been pierced head-on by a Stand.

His thesis turned out to be merely an auxiliary structure of the Stand System.

Qi Yuan lowered his head and covered his face.

Shen Ye didn't dare to comfort him.

In this situation, any comfort might produce the opposite effect.

Just as the testing room fell into silence, hurried footsteps came from outside the door.

Researcher Yun Zhi rushed in carrying a large stack of documents.

"Senior Qi Yuan!"

"I heard you were analyzing the Stand Card, so I also pulled over the public mental waveforms of Qin Ye during the match. It should be able to help—"

Her words stopped abruptly.

Researcher Yun Zhi looked at Qi Yuan's half-soot-blackened beard, and then looked at the smoking analysis platform beside him.

"What happened to you?"

Qi Yuan slowly raised his head.

Although those eyes were bloodshot, they were frighteningly bright.

"Researcher Yun Zhi."

"Present!"

Researcher Yun Zhi subconsciously straightened her body.

"This old man wants to ask you something."

"Please go ahead."

"Back then, when this old man asked you about the microscopic space convergence and phase inversion parameters, where on earth did that set of answers you gave come from?"

Researcher Yun Zhi's hands holding the documents stiffened slightly.

Qi Yuan stared at her.

"You once said that it was the result you accidentally deduced during an experiment."

"When this old man later asked if it could be written into a thesis, you also indicated there was no problem."

"Who on earth was that mysterious genius who proposed the concept of bidirectional mana anchoring?"

Researcher Yun Zhi's expression gradually became awkward.

She hadn't originally intended to hide this matter.

It was just that Qi Yuan had asked too quickly at the time, and she had been too invested when forwarding the answers. Back and forth, Qi Yuan seemed to have developed a subtle misunderstanding.

Later, Qi Yuan continuously praised her in private messages as "the ultimate genius transcending the era." Researcher Yun Zhi originally wanted to explain, but Su Bai's Card Creation experiment suddenly exploded, and she was busy rescuing materials, so she forgot about this matter.

Later on, Qi Yuan's thesis had already been published.

The entire Sanctuary defaulted to the theory coming from Researcher Yun Zhi.

Even if she wanted to explain, she didn't know where to start.

"Well..."

Researcher Yun Zhi carefully raised a finger.

"Actually, those parameters were not deduced by me."

Qi Yuan didn't speak.

He had already guessed this answer.

But he still wasn't willing to let go of the last trace of hope.

"Then who was it?"

"Su Bai."

Researcher Yun Zhi answered honestly.

"At that time, I was helping Su Bai make a Stand Card."

"I couldn't understand the few questions you asked, so I turned around and asked him."

"He was squatting on the ground checking the circuit at that time, and without even raising his head, he directly recited a long string of parameters."

Qi Yuan's mouth twitched slightly.

"Spouted off casually?"

"Mm."

"Was it deduced?"

"Probably not."

Researcher Yun Zhi tried hard to recall.

"After he answered, he even asked me whether we should have cabbage or potatoes for dinner."

The testing room fell silent once again.

Qi Yuan looked at the over-four-hundred-page thesis.

The core theory that he and more than a dozen Tier 9 Card Creators researched for seven days, hailed as the most important discovery of the year.

When Su Bai proposed this theory, he was pondering whether to eat cabbage or potatoes for dinner.

"And you?"

Qi Yuan asked again.

"What did you do in it?"

Researcher Yun Zhi's expression became even more awkward.

"I was responsible for forwarding."

"Only forwarding?"

"I also helped you change one of the commas into a period."

Qi Yuan: "..."

Shen Ye: "..."

Contribution could not be said to be completely nonexistent.

At least the punctuation was optimized.

Qi Yuan closed his eyes.

He remembered his reaction when he first received the answer.

That night, he slammed the table in the Imperial Capital laboratory, excitedly stating that Researcher Yun Zhi must be an ultimate genius rarely seen in ten thousand years of materials science.

He also advised Researcher Yun Zhi in private messages to abandon her existing research direction and join his sect, promising to cultivate her into the next head of materials science.

Researcher Yun Zhi had replied with a sweating emoji at the time.

Qi Yuan originally thought that was the shyness of a genius facing praise.

Now it seemed that the content expressed by that expression was quite accurate.