Witch Punk 2840

Chapter 316 Yumin's Sword (Part )

Tang Li pressed the eye patch covering his left eye socket, slowly opened his right eye, and successfully saw the scene hundreds of miles away.

Although the jellyfish could be seen directly from the Moby Dick, it was not clear enough and far from sufficient to complete accurate positioning. Therefore, Tang Li asked Nana to take off with her left eye and release it at a position closer to the jellyfish.

Ever since returning from the star ship, Tang Li has been digesting the "sword intent" that Tang Yue left her.

Different from what one might imagine, "Sword Intent" is not so much a power as it is a compressed, highly dense knowledge.

Making one's eyeballs fly hundreds of miles away is one of the countless small skills contained in the "Sword Intention". In addition to similar combat skills, Tang Li was surprised to find that it also contained the entire history of the development of swordsmanship by the people of the Star Boat Universe.

In that era when the "Immortal Palace" still existed and the witch had not yet descended, the people of the universe really used swords as Tang Li imagined.

Some people felt the heaviness of the mountain while visiting Uranium Mountain, and thus created a sword technique that was heavy, simple, and unpretentious.

Some people were inspired by the unruly shapes of stellar winds and thus created elegant, agile and unconventional sword techniques.

Some people gaze up at the Immortal Palace every day, gaining insights from the mysterious and repetitive patterns on the surface of the palace, and create an extremely rigorous sword technique that includes 65536 sword moves.

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It was an ignorant but flourishing era. The unrestrained swordsmen traveled to every corner of the satellite and even jumped into the cold space to meditate. They used their most intuitive feelings as inspiration to create a variety of sword techniques.

Everyone thought that the swordsmanship they created was closer to the truth, and that everyone else had strayed into the wrong path of swordsmanship. Differences in ideas led to conflicts, which led to the killing of the weak, while the strong survived and gained the allegiance of more people. Thousands of swordsmanships were eliminated, merged, and evolved in the brutal fights. After about five hundred star years, there were less than ten schools of swordsmanship left among the people of the universe, and the swordsmanship of each school was more than a hundred times more profound than its original appearance.

On top of this, some more universal rules have also been summarized - more and more sword practitioners have discovered that the game of swordsmanship can be fundamentally abstracted as the "prediction of the trajectory of rigid bodies in the process of continuous collision."

The sword practitioners at that time still summarized the movement laws of rigid bodies in collisions, and were able to use the gap accumulation technique to calculate solutions for several specific types of collision trajectories, but for actual combat, this was still far from enough.

After all, in a life-and-death fight, it is impossible for any sword practitioner to deliberately follow a calculated trajectory to draw the sword, and even if it can be calculated, the time required is much longer than the interval between two moves. If someone really uses the sword in this way, before the result can be calculated, the opponent will have pierced his life furnace and killed him.

But the sword cultivators did not ignore the importance of solving the problem. After all, if someone could solve all the solutions in any scenario in a very short time, then theoretically, she would be invincible. By then, the game of sword moves would be as clear as the lines on her palm. As soon as the opponent stabbed with the flying sword, she would have solved her best response. At the same time, she could also calculate all the possible responses that the opponent could make to deal with her, as well as the best response she should take for all these responses... until the opponent was defeated. But soon, those sword cultivators at the forefront of the sword path were disappointed to find that this beautiful ideal seemed impossible to achieve even in theory. Because any slight difference in the first move between the two sides could lead to earth-shaking changes in the subsequent sword move game, which means that the imagined "seeing the opponent's first move, you can predict all subsequent moves" is actually impossible - this is called "the chaos effect in the sword move game" by Yumin's sword cultivators.

However, there are still some extremely talented sword cultivators who have found a second-best solution:
——Simplify the variables to be solved. Do not require an exact solution, but only a rough result;
——The commonly used calculation steps are solidified in the sword intent. There is no need for temporary calculations during battle. Just run the sword intent and you can get the results immediately, which greatly improves the calculation speed;

——Although the chaos effect makes it impossible to solve the entire battle through the initial conditions, the prediction of several or even a dozen consecutive moves is still quite accurate. Therefore, as long as a sword cultivator continues to solve the current situation, he can get the local optimal solution. This kind of solution is called "straight line solution" by sword cultivators, because this kind of solution is as clear as a sword stabbing straight at him.

Kendo has ushered in a great change. According to the above three ideas, sword practitioners use various methods to solve the sword game, and even the crudest solution can show a very obvious advantage when facing those "primitive" sword moves.

The ten sword-fighting schools that once dominated the world were soon swept into the garbage dump. New schools based on linear solution emerged like uranium rock flowers after a ray rain. Then came a new round of competition, fighting, elimination, and integration. When the dust settled, the five major schools headed by "Matrix Sword-Fighting" became the new overlords.

For hundreds of years thereafter, kendo hardly developed any further.

Although countless geniuses have tried to attack the peak of exhaustive calculation, no one has been able to break through the barriers. The chaos effect is like an insurmountable cliff, blocking everyone at the foot of the mountain. In the subsequent time, the swordsmanship schools have undergone several innovations, but they are still based on the straight-line calculations produced hundreds of years ago. The new swordsmanship may be better than the old one, but there is no difference in essence. There is even a sword master who has lived for more than 800 years. She has been using the swordsmanship she created when she was 20 years old, but she can still be ranked among the top ten masters after 800 years.

However, this swordsman named Jia Ling probably no longer needed to use the sword skills she created when she was young, because in the 11961st year of the Lower Earth Calendar, she used her sword to cut through the planet's defense field and landed on the planet "Asgard", where she was warmly received by the people of Asgard and learned knowledge there that completely exceeded her imagination.

But since Jia Ling never returned to the lower world, the Yumin people's swordsmanship still had no breakthroughs until the "Immortal Palace" was destroyed by Xing Nie and the witch descended into the Yumin world.

The witches packaged all the knowledge of the Asgard civilization and handed it over to Yumin. Among this knowledge, the sword practitioners were shocked to find what they had been dreaming of - an algorithm that could solve rigid body collisions in chaotic scenes with extremely high efficiency.

Since the "Immortal Palace" is also known as the "Ziwei Palace", the sword practitioners named it the "Ziwei Algorithm".

Through the Ziwei algorithm, the sword practitioners soon discovered that the local optimal solution calculated by straight line in the past was actually far from the best choice in the entire battle, and some moves that were once considered mediocre or even bad moves could actually work wonders in the long run.

Just two months later, a previously unknown swordsman used the new sword technique he created based on the Ziwei algorithm. With moves that others could not understand at all, he defeated several sword masters in a row, causing a sensation for a while.

However, her glory only lasted for two months. Soon, someone defeated her with a more advanced sword technique. The sword cultivation world once again ushered in a revolution. New and more advanced sword techniques were created almost every day. In the continuous evolution and iteration, the sword techniques of sword cultivators became more and more similar. Everyone was speculating that when the optimization reached its extreme, the sword technique that the sword cultivators of all generations had dreamed of, which could end all the previous sword techniques, might appear.

(End of this chapter)