“Little brother, I’m back.”
After Shi Ji captured over twenty young birds with a touch of Phoenix blood, including Qingluan and other celestial bird hatchlings, from Jin Bie Island for Shi Hao to raise as poultry, she returned home with Cai Yun.
This time, Shi Ji mainly wanted to understand the principle and rules of the 2D sheet.
At the same time, she hoped to learn from Shi Hao about the fourth method of breaking through to become a Great Luo Jin Xian, besides cultivating by force, achieving the Dao through merit, and cutting off the three corpses.
She did this for her disciple, Cai Yun, and for herself.
Since learning from Shi Hao that in the future, she would fail to achieve the Dao through cutting off the three corpses, her motivation for cultivation had significantly decreased, and she couldn't focus.
The two searched for a while before finding Shi Hao tending his vegetable garden behind the house.
Seeing the ruined vegetable patch, clearly different from yesterday, Cai Yun was surprised, “Uncle Shi, were we robbed?”
Shi Hao laughed, “Haha, you wouldn’t believe me if I told you. Yesterday, I went fishing and came back to find that a young bull demon had raided my house, eating the whole garden. Then, to make up for the loss, he agreed to compensate me with the beef from his body.”
Though taking care of the garden had cost a lot of effort, the tens of thousands of pounds of incredibly delicious beef he had gotten in return were a real bargain!
“Little brother, you’re talking nonsense again.” Shi Ji was speechless.
Cai Yun also chuckled, both of them understanding what Shi Hao meant. It must have been a wild bull that had come to steal from the garden, which Shi Hao had caught and killed.
“Big sister, did you buy the chicks I asked you to get?” Shi Hao continued.
“Don’t worry, little brother, and they are not like ordinary chicks.”
With that, Shi Ji released the celestial birds she had stored in her sleeve universe, their colorful and beautiful feathers shimmering under the sunlight.
“Sister, you call those chicks?” Shi Hao stared at the little birds preening their feathers, not knowing what to say. What he wanted were regular chickens that could eat leftovers and bugs, not caged canaries.
“They may not be now, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be in the future. Didn’t chickens evolve from other birds too?” Shi Ji replied confidently.
For example, at the beginning of the universe, there were no chickens, peacocks, or anything like that. They were all evolved from the Phoenix. All birds descended from the Phoenix.
“That makes some sense, but they look so delicate. With my method of raising them, I probably won’t be able to keep many alive.” In Shi Hao’s opinion, ordinary chickens and ducks only need to be fed once a day and then let loose to forage for themselves.
“It’s fine, if they all die, I’ll grab another batch.” Shi Ji didn’t care, with the number of celestial birds on Jin Bie Island, even if she gave Shi Hao a few thousand, it wouldn’t be a problem.
Shi Hao had no reply to this, so he confined the birds in a small fence and threw some rice down for them. When they grew a bit bigger, Shi Hao would let them out to find food.
But to his surprise, the little birds happily pecked at the rice on the ground, proving that chickens indeed evolved from birds. It seemed his worries were unfounded.
“Uncle Shi, what exactly is the 2D sheet? I showed it to my elders, but they didn’t really understand.” Finally, when Shi Hao was done, Cai Yun dared to speak to him.
“Haha, of course they wouldn’t understand. To comprehend it, you need to understand what dimensions are.” Shi Hao was amused to learn that the 2D sheet he had signed in for had left even the powerful figures of the Interception Sect baffled.
“Uncle Shi, tell us.” The three sat on stone chairs in the pavilion, Cai Yun diligently poured him a cup of tea.
“It’s so troublesome, and even if I tell you, you won’t understand.”
“Little brother, don’t underestimate us. Our master has actually unraveled the mystery. He said something like, at the beginning of the universe, Pangu supported the heavens and the earth with his body, and the 2D sheet is a method using special rules to compress a certain area of heaven and earth.”
Shi Hao was also slightly surprised. He nodded, “That’s a very fitting explanation for the primordial world. Since you both want to know, I’ll tell you briefly. Do you understand the multidimensionality of the world?”
“What do you mean?”
Their cultivation was high, but this was the first time they had heard about the theory of multidimensional space.
“Alright, let me tell you. One-dimensional space is a space consisting only of points on a line. It has length but no width or height, and it can only extend infinitely in two directions.”
Shi Hao dipped a finger in his tea and drew a line on the table.
“Two-dimensional space is a planar space consisting only of length and width. It only extends within the plane, like the 2D sheet I gave you, it only has length and width, no height!”
Shi Ji and Cai Yun thought thoughtfully. It was like the beginning of the universe when heaven and earth were one, and Pangu could only use his body to open the world, which eventually evolved into the primordial world.
“Then there’s three-dimensional space, where you have length, width, and height. It’s the space we can see and feel. Do you understand what one to three dimensions mean?”
“Little brother, I understand what you mean about one to three dimensions. But what about four-dimensional space? What is four dimensions?” Shi Ji widened her eyes, feeling like she had heard something extraordinary.
“Heh, I’ll tell you about four dimensions when I get the chance. Since you understand what one to three dimensions are, I’ll start explaining the principle of the 2D sheet. It’s actually very simple. The 2D sheet, simply put, collapses space from three dimensions to two dimensions. Everything becomes two-dimensional. But the one I have is just a 2D sheet that stores patterns, it doesn’t have much attack power. If it were a 2D sheet that could attack, without anyone to stop it, the entire primordial world would become two-dimensional.”
The 2D sheet was a weapon developed by the technological side, but Shi Hao understood that in the primordial world, there were too many powerful figures who could resist the rules of the 2D sheet, so it would probably only be effective against those below the Jin Xian realm.
“So it’s like that.” Shi Ji finally realized. Her master had comprehended it, but the explanation he gave was vague. Now Shi Hao’s words were simple and straightforward.
“Little brother, how difficult is it to refine a 2D sheet?”
Moreover, in Shi Ji’s opinion, the function of the 2D sheet was far superior to most acquired spirit treasures, even comparable to some innate spirit treasures.
Especially as the eldest disciple of the Interception Sect, she was very skilled in formations.
The 2D sheet’s attack methods could even break through most formations.
“The difficulty of refining a 2D sheet is certainly not small, but it shouldn’t be too difficult either. Once you comprehend its principle, a Saint should be able to create it casually.” Shi Hao considered for a moment before replying.