Douluo: Law of Heaven and Earth

Chapter 1097 Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Hexagrams

A country bumpkin from the divine realm?

Upon hearing this assessment, Zhou Qing's eyes showed a hint of speechlessness.

However, in terms of energy utilization efficiency, this may indeed be the case.

After all, gods are more efficient at utilizing power than soul masters, simply because of the authority that comes with their divine position, and this authority needs the power of faith to forge.

But why is the power of faith absolutely necessary?
What are the specific methods and principles by which the power of faith plays a role in the process of establishing a divine position?
The gods most likely wouldn't even consider it.

Humans use technologies they don't fully understand, but there are always some individuals who approach them with a sense of awe, pondering and exploring their principles and essence.

But the gods will not.

If arrogance is an inevitable and difficult-to-eradicate trait in human nature, yet it is also one of the driving forces that enables human beings to continuously grow, then arrogance accounts for more than 99% of the character of gods, who naturally look down on other intelligent beings who are not gods.

Regu and Ross opened the device containing [Mother]. The strange chaotic starry sky, like flowing liquid, surrounded [Mother] and finally disappeared into her body.

The "Mother," standing about seventy meters tall, sat peacefully on the stone chair, her face serene. Even now, Zhou Qing could still feel her grandeur and gentleness.

Even though her eyes were closed, Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Romantina could all feel themselves being watched gently.

That warmth, born from the heart, is precisely because of the gaze of this "mother".

Thirty-six pillars of psychic energy voluntarily floated around the mother, their length continuously compressed and condensed, transforming into thirty-six pure white, flawless round beads, each about the size of a head.

Regu and Los walked to the left and right sides respectively, their mechanical arms pressing on the ground, summoning a circular platform beneath the stone chair that was suspended under the Mother's seat.

As the two people poured their soul power into it, a soul guidance core array resembling the Yin-Yang Bagua (Eight Trigrams) lit up, but it was much more complex.

The eight trigrams are composed of three lines, and each line has two types: yang line (—) and yin line (——).

By overlapping the eight trigrams in pairs, you can obtain the sixty-four hexagrams.

Each hexagram consists of six lines, with the top three lines forming the upper trigram and the bottom three lines forming the lower trigram.

However, there are 4,096 magic arrays derived from this Bagua!
"Yin and Yang and the Eight Trigrams are one of the cultural heritages of ancient China, a mathematical model used to predict the laws and trends of the development of things."

Luo Si explained to everyone, "There is an ancient saying: everything has its destiny. Those who can see the destiny are wise people who can predict a certain stage of the future development trend of things. Seeing the trend is equivalent to predicting the future, and they can usually gain the upper hand."

"Ordinary?" Romantina asked in surprise. "Are there any unusual situations?"

"of course."

Regu said, "Generally speaking, the development of anything follows a pattern. If you find the pattern and predict the stage it will reach in the future, and if it is going in a good direction, individuals generally will not hinder its development, because it is also beneficial to the individual, and they may even actively participate in it."

However, if it would be detrimental to an individual, and that individual possesses unimaginable power, they might try their best to postpone that future. The reason it can only be postponed is because the most outrageous thing an individual can do is destroy the entire world. But after the destruction, both the surviving humans and the newly born intelligent beings will inevitably develop in a stable direction.

The entire process is predetermined.

What is considered extraordinary is that some individuals attempt to forcefully resist the arrival of this trend and constantly reverse the course of history. However, given the prevailing trend, even if this process is delayed by tens of thousands or millions of years, it will eventually move forward slowly.

Looking back at the development of the Douluo series, from the feudalism of Douluo I, to the soul guidance industry of Douluo II, to the modernization of Douluo III, and the interstellar society of Douluo IV, the God Realm, whether it exists or has been swept away by the spacetime black hole, has always been an obstacle to the rapid development of mankind.

Ultimately, development is a common trend for all humanity on Douluo Star. Even if it is delayed by 30,000 years, it is only a delay and cannot truly solve the problem.

Even gods cannot stop the pace of human development; they can only try to postpone that process as much as possible.

In the Great God Realm's timeline, even though the return of the God Realm brought back the strong-willed atmosphere to Douluo Star, interstellar development couldn't stop. Even the many God-Kings and deities of that Great God Realm had been influenced by technology to varying degrees; after all, some of those God-Kings originated from Earth…

"And this Yin-Yang and Eight Trigrams is a way to predict trends."

Luo Si continued, "Ancient humans deduced sixty-four hexagrams, but with the development of the times and the disappearance of emperors, these sixty-four hexagrams are not entirely suitable for a society without the system of ruler and subject."

Until the sun went out, the Wandering Earth project began, arriving in a completely new time and space, coming into contact with a new energy source, and the gossip was picked up again.

Scientists at the time combined various computing techniques to create 4,096 hexagrams to address more problems and contradictions.

The ancient Chinese, due to limited mental capacity, could only derive sixty-four hexagrams at most.

Zhou Qing could understand.

Eight times eight equals sixty-four. Mathematically, this is one of the multiplication tables. However, the hexagrams are different. Hexagrams composed of yang and yin lines require a definition, and when two hexagrams are combined to form a hexagram, a new definition is needed.

If it doubles again—

Four thousand and ninety-six hexagrams—where did the ancients find the energy for that?
Only with modern science and technology, and with greatly enhanced computing power, can we continue to deduce and define entirely new hexagrams.

Therefore, although this soul-guiding core array, which resembles the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams, currently only has 4,096 trigrams, it is already a miracle that the Douluo Continent cannot achieve at present!
"With it, will I be able to completely control these thirty-six pillars of psychic power?" Tang San couldn't help but marvel at the wisdom of the ancient people.

He naturally understood some knowledge of the Eight Trigrams and knew how much energy and calculation power it would take to deduce 4,096 hexagrams.

"Yes."

Lei Gu nodded. "If the four-dimensional space can summon these thirty-six pillars of mental energy back, it means that there is a corresponding magic array base plate in the central part of the four-dimensional space. However, according to my and Luo Si's speculation, judging from their operation of inlaying gold and jade into toilets, their magic array base plate is probably not as good as this base plate composed of four thousand and ninety-six hexagram magic arrays. In other words, the materials are just more luxurious."

"According to the deductions of ancient scientists, if these four thousand and ninety-six magic arrays were used to construct a dimensional space, it would theoretically be able to cover an entire galaxy."

"Although the universe is vast, the laws of physics are consistent. Even gods cannot change the laws of physics, but can only make changes based on the extraordinary energy laws established by faith."

(End of this chapter)