What he felt next...

It was nothing at first. After a few hours went by, he started to hear cracking in the center of his head. He then felt extreme happiness.

It was as if adrenaline was flooding his body. It was also as if loads of dopamine were flooding his brain.

John began to laugh.

"This high! It is what I was looking for..."

"But this is too potent. My brain is still developing. This may not be the greatest idea. But who cares!?"

John could feel his thinking becoming clearer. He felt endless energy.

He also felt as if the fog covering his memories had faded into nothingness. The vagueness of everything was washed away! His brain was ticking along many times faster then before.

"It isn't exactly at the level of an independent consciousness. But it's pretty fucking close."

"I lack spiritual roots. So I haven't been able to cultivate this entire time. I also had only fragments of my technology unlocked. Now... I have become a 'savant'."

A spiritual palace begin to form in John's sea of consciousness.

His memories were sorted in various rooms. His mind became organized to an insane degree.

"Now we are cooking! Step 1 complete."

"What's next?"

"My intelligence was initially average. My soul and body still are."

"But the problem regarding my thinking has been mostly resolved. Now I need to upgrade my body."

"But how do I make changes to soul using cerebium... if this world lacks this element?"

"There is the universe I made with 120 different elements. That universe contains the sensesium and cerebium I need."

"But I'm skipping too many steps. Traveling across the multiverse? I've only just started my journey. I don't have the power to pull something like that off yet."

"Formations! I will become a formations god!"

"Although this world has cultivation. The stages are familiar to me. But the formations are slightly different. It also doesn't help that I am in a mortal region of this universe. Du retreated here when the sect was attacked."

"Even when I was Kai... I didn't have access to the formations of this universe. As inheritances for them were heavily guarded secrets. Perhaps if I had played my cards more carefully and didn't kill all those people. I could've traded for an inheritance..."

"But who am I? I may be Zuzhou Fudan for now... but really. I am John Destinatus!"

"When I initially invaded that universe without supernatural power. After it became supernatural... I was able to experiment with formations."

"Engraving formations on the skin..."

"I may be a mortal. But what if I create a set of runic tattoos on my body? I'll transform my body's functionality beyond the limits of humans."

"There was also the time I made artificial spiritual roots. Cultivation may not be out of my reach completely. But I need extreme understanding of this universe."

"While I am the origin... I did let nature take its course. The systems developed by humans are not within my memories."

"But that doesn't stop me from developing my own system entirely by myself."

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What John planned on doing was a little bit insane. It was like someone declaring they would learn programming by making the programming language itself. Completely ridiculous.

But John was no mere man.

He was a formations god in the past! But thanks to a few key elements. For example... the forbidden dao pillar in the upper dantian. John had spent years engraving his runic library on it. But even before that. He had memorized millions of lines of logic.

There were three dantians in the system John was familiar with. In this world that wasn't the case. There was a single dantian.

Here. There was no runic library. He lacked both the rules, examples, and all programs.

He was locked out of the system essentially. Even if he went to a region with cultivators. Good luck acquiring a formation inheritance without already having great power.

It was a bit of a paradox. He needed power to learn formations. But he needed formations to acquire power.

John displayed his genius in school and skipped grades. What was his plan? He needed test subjects. He couldn't exactly continue to use his peers for experiments. He was already a suspicious player in the death of multiple students. Seeing as he was the only survivor.

When he reported similar 'savant' abilities. They had thought he would die as well. But he kept on chugging.

John had insomnia and would go weeks without sleeping. This was a side effect of his drug. But he reveled in the attentiveness.

He didn't find it a problem at all.

He instead used this free time to design runes.

To understand how he started this. You must first understand what formations are.

Formations are simply drawings that translate to operations and instructions for energy. Think of it like a program.

John based the design of his formations on the very logic behind this universe.

Yin and Yang. Or 0 and 1.

Think of a binary system.

For instance. Imagine four digits.

0000

You can go from right to left.

0(8)0(4)0(2)0(1)

With these four values. You can represent 16 different actions.

For example:

0 = 0000

1 = 0001

2 = 0020

3 = 0011

4 = 0100

5 = 0101

6 = 0110

7 = 0111

8 = 1000

9 = 1001

10=1010

11=1011

12=1100

13=1101

14=1110

15=1111

What John was creating wasn't a mere program. But a system of symbols that would represent different actions. It could be likened to him creating his own language.

The language this world mainly used was depicted in pictures.

But John wasn't limited to the thinking of this world. He had an almost infinite assortment of languages at his disposal.

So he created his own language with an alphabet of 52 letters and 10 numbers.

He separated each value into what he called a 'chunk'.

It was slightly more complicated then 4 digits of binary. In order to include everything. He instead created the yin and yang using seven digits of on an off states.

This was his foundation:

0(64)0(32)0(16)0(8)0(4)0(2)0(1)

0 = 0000000

1 = 0000001

2 = 0000010

3 = 0000011

4 = 0000100

5 = 0000101

6 = 0000110

7 = 0000111

8 = 0001000

9 = 0001001

He also had special characters after this point:

'*' = 0001010 (10)

'=' = 0001011 (11)

'/' = 0001100 (12)

'!' = 0001101 (13)

'(' = 0001110 (14)

')' = 0001111 (15)

'{' = 0010000 (16)

'}' = 0010001 (17)

'"' = 0010010 (18)

';' = 0010011 (19)

''' = 0010100 (20)

'[' = 0010101 (21)

']' = 0010110 (22)

',' = 0010111 (23)

'&' = 0011000 (24)

After this he had built the alphabet.

This worked a little differently as he wished to be able to easily convert things in his mind. So he made the base of the alphabet 64.

Well the upper case letters had a base of 64. The lowercase ones had a base of 96.

So it looked like this:

A = 1000001 (1) a = 1100001 (1)

B = 1000010 (2) b = 1100010 (2)

C = 1000011 (3) c = 1100011 (3)

D = 1000100 (4) d = 1100100 (4)

E = 1000101 (5) e = 1100101 (5)

F = 1000110 (6) f = 1100110 (6)

G =1000111 (7) g =1100111 (7)

H =1001000 (8) h =1101000 (8)

I = 1001001 (9) i = 1101001 (9)

J = 1001010 (10) j = 1101010 (10)

K= 1001011 (11) k= 1101011 (11)

L= 1001100 (12) l= 1101100 (12)

M=1001101 (13) m=1101101 (13)

N=1001110 (14) n=1101110 (14)

O=1001111 (15) o=1101111 (15)

P=1010000 (16) p=1110000 (16)

Q=1010001(17) q=1110001(17)

R=1010010(18) r=1110010(18)

S=1010011(19) s=1110011(19)

T=1010100(20) t=1110100(20)

U=1010101(21) u=1110101(21)

V=1010110(22) v=1110110(22)

W=1010111(23) w=1110111(23)

X=1011000(24) x=1111000(24)

Y=1011001(25) y=1111001(25)

Z=1011010(26) z=1111010(26)

It took him a few minutes to establish this system in his mind. The binary was like a storm circulating around his spiritual castle.

He already had the tools needed to inspect and tamper with things on the tiniest of levels. He had built a nanometer scale microscope.

With this resolution. He was even able to see the body of viruses.

His technology itself already surpassed this world's, and this was only the beginning. A casual tool he made would shatter the minds of doctors and scientist in this world.

John had already established the symbols needed for his formations. Now he just needed to create the runic library.

John was staring at the counter in his lab, looking off into space. From an outsiders perspective. Perhaps he was daydreaming?

But in reality. Millions of lines of binary were getting organized and actual logic was forming.

He was using the full potential of the human brain. He was doing over a hundred billion operations every second.

Soon a pyramid had formed above his spiritual palace in his sea of consciousness. He had based it off of the mental magic system he had once used a long time ago.

It was covered in runes and glowed blue.

"A forbidden mental dao pillar!"

"This brain... isn't too bad after all."