Luo Wen was gloating, Lin Monong looked helpless, Ding Jiabi was gritting her teeth in anger, and Li Linxuan was brimming with smugness. Finally, his gaze fell on Huang Ling’er’s face…
Was she about to cry?
Seeing this, Jiang Tian suddenly felt a pang in his heart.
For a moment, Jiang Tian seemed to see her aggrieved and despairing face from ten thousand years ago, as if he could see her resentful and helpless eyes from back then, along with those sparkling tears.
Maybe, to prove to her that he wasn’t a liar, he should do something about it, right?
Jiang Tian slowly lowered his head, his decision already made.
In the eyes of the crowd, it seemed like he had run out of words and had no face to look at anyone anymore. Immediately, the jeers, shouts, table-slamming, and chatter grew even louder, like a tidal wave of sound ready to blow the lecture hall apart and smash the liar Jiang Tian to the ground.
“Alright, Li Linxuan, you want to see the art of walking through walls? I hope you don’t get scared to death!”
Suddenly, Jiang Tian said with a faint smile.
The next moment, Jiang Tian suddenly walked toward the wall on one side of the classroom.
With each step, Jiang Tian spoke calmly:
“Let me tell you, I don’t understand your theory, nor am I interested in understanding it. But I can let you see for yourself what walking through walls looks like!”
Jiang Tian strode forward like a dragon or a tiger, picking up speed.
Soon, he was about to crash into the wall.
“What is he trying to do? Does he want to smash his head against the wall and die as an apology?” a student asked, looking utterly confused.
“He’s just putting on an act. Ignore him!”
Lin Fengmian couldn’t stand it anymore. He furrowed his brow, stood up, and headed toward the back door.
Lin Monong also lowered her head, unable to hide her disappointment, unwilling to watch any longer.
“He really does love lying so much… what a letdown…”
Meanwhile, a sparkling tear slowly rolled down Huang Ling’er’s flawless, jade-like cheek.
For the last few steps, Jiang Tian was practically sprinting.
The next moment, with a loud thump!, Jiang Tian slammed into the wall.
“Oh my, where’d he go?!”
But at that moment, everyone let out a gasp of surprise.
Instead of seeing Jiang Tian with a bloody head as they had expected, they saw him vanish in an instant.
Professor Lin Fengmian turned his head and also witnessed that miraculous scene.
They saw Jiang Tian’s figure disappear into the wall in the blink of an eye.
It was as if… two semi-transparent objects overlapped and then completely vanished.
Then, under the horrified gaze of the crowd, Jiang Tian’s head emerged from the wall—first as a faint, hazy phantom, but gradually becoming clearer, followed by his shoulders, arms, and upper body.
Everyone was stunned.
The whole world fell silent, not a sound to be heard.
“Professor Lin, do you believe me now?”
Then, under the incredulous stares of the crowd, Jiang Tian stepped forward and said calmly.
“How is this possible!”
Li Linxuan rubbed his eyes vigorously, his face full of disbelief.
The deeper one’s understanding of science, the harder it was to believe.
The art of walking through walls, something only simple-minded folks would believe in, was happening right before his eyes!
This was no longer human—this was like something out of a myth.
In an instant, his face twisted with terror, as if he had seen a ghost or a god, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.
“Now, are you all willing to listen carefully to my theory? Good, let’s start over, and I’ll tell you what’s really going on.”
Jiang Tian returned to the podium, scanned the room, and said with a faint smile.
“Yeah, what’s really going on here?”
“Is this some kind of immortal magic?”
Everyone, now filled with awe and fear, returned to their seats.
Even the old professors who had been about to leave obediently went back, their eyes fixed on the tall figure on the stage.
…
“I was just saying—humanity’s understanding of the material world has so far only reached a few levels: galaxies, galaxy clusters, stars, molecules, atoms, nuclei, nucleons, or quarks. Although the concept of matter being divisible applies at these levels, it seems too early to draw any final conclusions.”
Jiang Tian said calmly:
“Looking at the structure of matter at known levels, the ‘solid’ part only occupies a small portion of the space at that level—like celestial bodies in a galaxy, or electrons and nuclei in an atom. And since neutrinos can pass freely through any material, it suggests that even at foreseeable levels, there are still large gaps.”
Jiang Tian’s voice rang out like a bell, echoing through the vast classroom…
“How brilliant! I had no idea Jiang Tian was so knowledgeable…” Ding Jiabi’s eyes sparkled with little stars.
At that moment, her admiration for Jiang Tian was at its peak, completely forgetting that just a few minutes ago, she had called him a despicable liar.
Huang Ling’er rolled her eyes at her, then looked at Jiang Tian on the podium with a puzzled expression. Who exactly was he?
“At each level of material structure, the solid part only takes up a portion of the space at that level, and the solid part of the next level only accounts for a fraction of the solid part of the previous level. Though the ratios vary, they should all be far less than 1—this is an inference drawn from known levels using the same inductive reasoning. So, as we dissect the structure of matter layer by layer, the total volume of solid matter in the universe forms a linearly decreasing sequence.”
“If the first few steps follow a certain pattern and there’s no strong evidence to disprove it, then it’s most reliable to make predictions based on that pattern.”
“If induction leads to the conclusion that matter is infinitely divisible, then the same induction leads to this: the sum of the solid parts of matter must approach zero. So, matter is just a form of existence in space—a multi-level, force-field-constrained distortion of space. At the end of the microscopic world, there is nothing but emptiness. That is my conclusion on the essence of matter…”
Jiang Tian’s logic was rigorous and incisive, leaving the scholars nodding, entranced, and sighing with admiration.
“How fascinating, so interesting! This is like reading a heavenly book!”
“This theory is exactly the same as the hypothesis in Ginnos’s ‘Cosmic Astrophysics’!”
“So that’s how it is…”
From time to time, students who had heard the news squeezed into the classroom, and even quite a few school administrators showed up.
But no matter how high their status or how grand their academic titles, they all sat there like elementary school students, listening intently. When seats ran out, they stood in the open space at the back of the room and in the aisles.
“In ‘Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio,’ there’s a story about a Taoist from Laoshan who knocked on a wall and walked through it. Ancient Indian yoga also has legends about walking through walls, as well as telekinesis, levitating objects, and so on! It’s strange—these legends are very common, even global. Is there any possibility they’re real?”
Jiang Tian drew on a wide range of references, speaking eloquently and nonstop, his words like blossoming flowers, lotus flowers springing from the earth, and heavenly petals raining down.
At that moment, he was at ease, his thoughts boundless. He was no longer the so-called liar people had labeled him, but rather a great scholar who understood the heavens and ancient and modern times.
By the end, many academic bigwigs from nearby universities like Jinling University had come to listen, completely captivated by Jiang Tian as if they had been enlightened.
“Suppose matter is just distorted space constrained by force fields. Two wisps of smoke or two beams of light can pass through each other because there’s enough uniform space between their distorted microstructures. The reason a human body and a wall can’t pass through each other isn’t that there are no gaps inside them, but because of the distortions within them. It’s like a bent copper rod can’t pass through a bent copper pipe, even if the pipe’s diameter is much larger. However, if we eliminate the distortion in either or both, the rod and pipe can pass through each other. That is, if you have the power to eliminate spatial distortion, in theory, you can walk through walls. The question is, how do you eliminate spatial distortion?”
When Jiang Tian delivered his conclusion with finality,
The entire room fell into dead silence.
“Oh my, oh my, I think I’m falling in love with Professor Jiang!”
“How is he so amazing? Compared to him, our school’s professors are practically garbage!”
Countless young women swooned, their eyes turning into starry shapes, itching to rush the stage and throw themselves into Jiang Tian’s arms.
“This… this knowledge is like a god giving a lecture!”
“He knows so much! Cosmology, astrophysics, biology, even futurology…”
Lin Monong and many other young scholars were also dumbfounded, entranced and dazzled.
It was as if the deepest bass string in their souls had been plucked with a resonant hum!
As if their thoughts were riding the slowly undulating crests of waves, listening to the mysterious music of the cosmos from the depths of the universe!
“A scholar who knows heaven and earth!”
Lin Fengmian’s eyes were filled with shock, tears streaming down his aged face as he sighed tremulously: “This isn’t just life science—this touches on the truth of matter and the mysteries of the universe!”
He felt sparks leaping in Jiang Tian’s gaze, as if he were Prometheus stealing heavenly fire, stumbling forward with that fire dancing in his pupils.
He was a missionary bringing the torch of civilization to humanity, a herald of a god-level civilization!
“Sigh, if he stayed at the school for a year or two, we’d surely produce a Nobel laureate!”
“Jinling Pharmaceutical University is about to soar to new heights!”
Many old professors and scholars had tears glistening in their eyes, too moved to contain themselves.
“I really underestimated him… how terrifying…”
Luo Wen felt extremely uneasy. All his little schemes against Jiang Tian vanished in an instant, replaced by deep-seated fear.
In truth, what Jiang Tian had explained was merely a scientific interpretation of cultivation methods.
Back when he traveled the stars, he had seen countless strange and wondrous cultivation civilizations, even god-level ones. If he had shared all of that, these people’s heads would have exploded.
Now, looking at the various disciplines on Earth, it was like a Nobel laureate in mathematics looking at elementary school problems.
When the class ended, the students were still unwilling to leave, begging Jiang Tian to continue.
“There’s more next week!”
Jiang Tian said calmly: “If you want to dive deeper into my theories, you can apply to join my lab! Sign up with Lin Monong!”
“Sunny Day Lab? What’s that?” many students asked, confused.
“Classmates, this is a lab jointly established by the Pharmaceutical King Group and our school, with an investment of a hundred million!”
Luo Wen stood up and said excitedly: “I believe that under Professor Jiang’s leadership, we will achieve great things!”
He looked at Jiang Tian with admiration and said with a smile: “Professor Jiang is the young heir of the Pharmaceutical King Group, and this research funding comes from him as well.”
“Ling’er, so he’s the young heir of the Pharmaceutical King Group—knowledgeable, young, and rich. Do you think there’s a chance you could rekindle things with him?”
Ding Jiabi’s beautiful eyes sparkled, her cheeks flushed, as she tugged at Huang Ling’er and asked excitedly.
