Slay gods with equations and cut down the uncanny with vectors! While others cultivate immortality, he sets up equations. The ineffable is just a system of unsolved equations in his eyes. A perfect-score winner of the Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament teaches you how to take on Cthulhu with math!
Chinese-style Cthulhu mythos, with no System and a transmigrating soul!
Perfect score at the Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament Global Invitational, top prize at the HiMCM, and a perfect score on the American Invitational Mathematics Examination.
Shi Jiu'an has never told anyone about any of this. He's just an ordinary high school senior who doesn't talk much, never goes to parties, and is obsessed only with drawing talismans and practicing the Dao.
Even he can't explain why, but whenever he holds a cinnabar brush, formulas that don't belong in a high school textbook appear in his mind.
Then he opens the door to the school's storage room and finds, on the other side, the distorted Realm of the Setting Sun. Mold spots writhe, uncanny energy seeps through, and black fog with eyes whispers in the void: something beyond comprehension.
An ordinary cultivator would go mad from a single glance. But when Shi Jiu'an looks at it, he sees a system of partial differential equations.
He discovers that the spread of uncanny energy can be modeled, the attacks of uncanny thralls can be predicted, and the energy flow of a sealing array can be decomposed using eigenvectors.
The whispers of the uncanny core are, at their essence, a noise signal that needs a Fourier transform. The talismans that take cultivators a century of arduous practice to understand are, to him, boundary-value problems.
He's not fighting. He's calculating.
He discovers that across the Myriad Worlds, countless versions of him are on the brink of collapse. Whenever another “him” is consumed by uncanny power, he is forcibly drawn in and his soul transmigrates.
He's not here to save the world. He's just solving problems!
