“... have a fairly strong killing aura. Shuxue, you must understand.” Lady Daoli was rambling on and on as they walked towards the dungeon. “During the course of your life, you are bound to encounter friction with others! But violence is not the solution to all problems! Especially not with that man you just killed.”

Shuxue sneered. “That man at the restaurant gave us no face! If Zhujiao and I just let him laugh at us like that, we would have lost all face! Didn’t we just save you from bandits whom were about to rape and murder you? These villains, more or less, all carry evil tendencies! All of them, especially that man waving a valuable jade slip in front of my face, are murderers and slaughterers of innocents! These villains ought to have died the moment they were born, and even that wouldn’t have absolved them of their future sins!

If I wasn’t quick to act and strong enough, who knows what that man with the jade slip would have done next? I’m sure he murdered people in his past life, and raped people in his current life! If we allowed him to laugh at us, he definitely would have raped and murdered you next! Me killing him for laughing at me, is not one bit going overboard.”

Daoli looked very unhappy. “That man was only at the late Arithmetic stage! Whether he carried sins or not is an extremely dubious point of contention, but he’s still living life! He posed no threat to us! Why couldn’t you have been the bigger man and let him go?”

Shuxue snorted. “Well, how else could I get this jade sli-” He doubled over, collapsing into a fit of coughing.

Half a minute later, Shuxue got up, wiping his brow. “Whew, I don’t know what came over me. Anyway, where was I? Oh, right. As I was saying, if I let this criminal who is guilty of giving Zhujiao no face escape, he definitely, 100% would have gone home to beat his wife, rape his son, and kill his dog! Now that I have killed him, just think about all the innocents who have been saved from murders, robberies, and beatings that haven’t happened yet! How can I, Shuxue, a paragon of justice and virtue, let a criminal live? It would be a sin!”

Daoli’s eyes bugged. “Wh-what? Where do I even begin with addressing this argument? Shuxue, I-”

“I’m Zhujiao!” Zhujiao shouted, slapping Shuxue. “Stop talking about big bro! Talk about me, because I’m Zhujiao!”

Daoli blinked, looking at Zhujiao.

“I’m Zhujiao, and I’m the Grand Ancestor of my Infinity Sector!” He shouted, trying to impress Daoli.

Shuxue nodded solemnly. “He indeed is the venerated Ancestor of our Sector.”

Completely forgetting about her argument with Shuxue, Daoli began laughing. “Yes, and I suppose your Sector has already passed the Spirit Severing Stage.”

Zhujiao tilted his head. “What are you talking about?”

Shuxue patted Zhujiao’s shoulders. “Zhujiao, this is about the Cultivation base of our Sector! Allow me to explain!”

He cleared his throat.

“Actually, it’s too complicated. I don’t want to do it. Daoli, you seem to know what you’re talking about, you do it.”

Shuxue took out another jade slip and pressed it to his forehead. Zhujiao turned to Daoli, hopping with excitement. “Tell me! Tell me!”

Daoli laughed, and began.

“Just as how we Mathivators must Mathivate, Sectors must also Cultivate their base! The goal of every Sector is to develop Spirits to take part in the Planar Wars! There are 4 stages of Cultivation: Formation Establishment, Corps Formation, Nascent Spirit, and Spirit Severing!”

“Wow…” Zhujiao held his head, as if it was about to explode. “So cool!”

“The first 2 stages, Formation Establishment and Corps Formation, can be done concurrently. Formation Establishment is when your Sector arranges its buildings and geography in a manner that harmonizes with the mathematical laws! By harmonizing with the mathematical laws, a Sector can gather denser quantities of mathforce within its territory! Using mathforce generation principles to create and arrange buildings and nature, this is the Formation Establishment stage!”

Zhujiao drank in the information, a starry-eyed look in his eyes. “So that’s why big bro Shuxue was moving all those buildings around! What about Corps Formation?”

“Corps Formation is the creation of a Sector military division that takes part in Planar Wars.” Daoli sighed. “Only, Planar Wars only occur when our plane has gathered more mathforce than another plane, allowing our plane to draw level and surpass them in the Tesseract rankings. Since we’re the Weakest Plane, far behind any other plane, we haven’t had Planar Wars in millions of years!”

“Wow, you guys really suck!”

“Right. Anyways, when the Planar Wars begin, a new continent is created in the sky above the ascending plane. The descending plane can access that same continent by going underground, where you find mathematical space.” Daoli pointed up with one hand, and down with the other. “This new continent is made of mathforce gathered from both planes, and is extremely dense! It can only be accessed by mathematical Spirits, which are created from concentrated mathforce gathered by a Sector!”

“When a Sector feels it is ready, it lays down a very special structure or mathematical formation that creates a Spirit. This is called a spiritseed. By doing so, the Sector enters the Nascent Spirit stage! It must pour mathforce into the spiritseed until the spirit matures. All spiritseeds bear different Spirits! They can be anything, but every single spirit can be considered a powerful fortress! In truth, my own kingdom is at the Nascent Spirit stage!” Daoli said, a shine in her eyes.

Shuxue immediately removed the jade slip from his head, staring at Daoli. “What? Who are you, really?”

“I’m Lady Daoli, 3rd in line to the throne for the kingdom of Bulai (meaning: Don’t come here)!”

Shuxue raised one eyebrow, then the other. Was this meat pies falling from the heavens? “3rd in line, hmmmmmmmmm? Wait, Daoli, please tell this ignorant Zhujiao what kind of Spirit your kingdom has.”

Daoli nodded. “Bulai Kingdom’s nascent spirit is the Three Shingle Powdered Donut Shack!”

“...”

“Sounds like a trash spirit.” Shuxue said disappointedly. “You better Sever it as quickly as you can and start over.”

Daoli glared at Shuxue, before turning back to Zhujiao. “When the spirit matures, it needs to be Severed from its root. Otherwise, it will remain chained to the Sector, and will never be able to enter the Planar Battlefield! The Planar Battle only ends when all the spirits on one side are eliminated. The winning plane receives the new, incredibly valuable new continent! After the War, the losing plane receives large amounts of mathforce fallout resulting from the separation of the 2 planes, causing many valuable dungeons to form!”

Shuxue smiled wickedly. “The winning plane gets a new continent, filled to the brim with valuable dungeons, and the losing plane gets an influx of high-level dungeons! Valuable dungeons means valuable jade slips! Zhujiao, it is very important that we gather enough mathforce to trigger a Planar War. Whether we win or lose, I win!”

He turned to Daoli and shrugged. “Our Infinity Sector is still in the Formation Establishment and Corps Formation stage, just like everyone else. When the Planar Wars occur, I’m afraid that a puny Sector like ours won’t be able to participate.”

Shuxue began cackling under his breath. Using Zhujiao to create the Infinity Sector, using the Infinity Sector to gather phenomenal quantities of mathforce, using that mathforce to trigger a Planar War, that was all part of his master plan to get his hands on more jade slips!

He spent hours every week spouting bullshit to everyone, but it was all for this grand purpose. The first Planar War, triggered at the hands of the Infinity Sector’s mad expansion, would not have the Infinity Sector taking part. All the top Sectors of the Plane, on the other hand, would be forced to participate. In the war, they would definitely lose their most important weapons, the Spirits, as well as numerous top experts in the process! Zhujiao's Zhujiao committee would then destroy all the weakened Sectors with ease. Then, Shuxue’s Restructuring Committee would buy their Sector land, possessions, and jade slips from their dead bodies!

With the entire Weakest Plane under his thumb, Shuxue would once again trigger another Planar War. This time, he would send in the Zhujiao committee and deliver a landslide victory! With every subsequent win, the Weakest Plane would gather more mathforce. With more mathforce permeating the plane, higher-level dungeons that yielded higher-level jade slips would form.

And Shuxue would “process” each and every single one of them!

“Even before I created this Infinity Sector, I had already thought about all these things.” Shuxue snickered to himself. “Only, I just would’ve had to create the Shuxue Trading Conglomerate and use it to conquer the plane over the course of hundreds of years through shady business deals. It’s a good thing I ran into Zhujiao, who allowed me to kick-start my plans.”

All this thinking took a long time to describe, but it took place in the blink of an eye.

Daoli was raising her eyebrow. “Wait, I was just joking. Can it be that you 2 actually are from a branch of the top-class Infinity Sector? I didn’t know there was a branch here in this plane!”

“No!” Zhujiao shouted. “They’re the fake Infinity Sector! We’re the real ones! We’re gonna kill them all!”

Daoli frowned. “Zhujiao, have you been listening to a single word I said? Violence is almost never…”

After another 3 hours of Daoli lecturing Zhujiao, they arrived at the Algebra dungeon. It was a vast pyramid made out of a black metal. The peak could not even be seen, as it was covered by clouds.

Shuxue stared at the dungeon, his eyes glittering. “This… this is no normal Algebra dungeon! This is the tomb of a peak Algebra expert!”

Daoli’s argument at the beginning of this chapter was taken from I Shall Seal The Heavens Chapter 181 and Against the Gods Chapter 118. Shuxue’s response was taken from ATG 118.

Spirits were inspired by I Shall Seal the Heavens and Douluo Dalu (Soul Land).