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I recommend the novel "我在玄幻世界冒充天机神算". It's very good and has great worldbuilding. Furthermore, the cultivators are truly intelligent in this novel. I recommend reading it on the website 69shu.pro

I don't know, I stopped around chapter 120. I found the plot quite interesting, but I stopped because it was too complicated to read everything at once. There were a lot of plans, information, etc. If you think it's cool, read another 20 chapters, otherwise you'll just drop it.

I don't really understand what you mean. But i will mention how i think how qi works.

I think spirit/neutral energy is balanced so it has no way to imbalance your body and soul and only elevates it. Most other types of qi like wood/water/fire have a minor effect or no effect on the balance but demonic and buddhist type of qi have a major effect on the balance.

How cultivators counteract the effects is affinity, for one. If you are already closer to the balance of a demonic qi then you unbalance less. Another part is your resistance to being unbalanced... that is why you have to have a strong dao heart. This also explains why different cultivation methods have different types of affinity. Same for weapons and go on. Also explains how sword cultivators are madmen for example in some novels.

Okay, I don't think you understand how powerful the brain is and apparently you think that a superior/transcendental being would only have faster electrical signals.

I agree with you that what makes a genius in real life is their mentality, but I completely disagree when it comes to cultivation. In cultivation worlds, genius is not something abstract, but something very tangible. For example, an ordinary cultivator takes 5 to 10 years to pass a realm, a not-so-great genius would take 1 to 2 and this accumulates. The reason for this is that geniuses in the cultivation world have everything better, they're faster, prettier, often luckier, have better roots, physique, bones, souls, etc. Therefore, it doesn't make sense for a genius of such caliber to focus on just one thing, since they often don't do this themselves, mastering many Taos, of course, this depends on the universe where the novel takes place, but this is usually the case.

You see, these geniuses are not rare in the world of cultivation and they can't just cultivate and forget about the world, because in order to reach the top, they won't just have to compete with ordinary cultivators, but also geniuses from their own generation and several older ones to come. They will have to fight very strong people, very intelligent people, very lucky people, etc. Relying on strength alone will only turn you into another corpse for them to step on, unless you're the son of the celestial dao who is loved by the world, making the world help you.

But normally people aren't, so how can they get resources they don't have access to, how can they take down a competitor, how can they get something you want or not let others have it? Simple, they'll create plans, they'll analyze their opponents' strengths, possible opportunities, etc. They have a speed of thought that surpasses human beings on an almost dimensional level, so even if it was just speed of thought, they could make almost perfect plans that would last for millennia in just a few years.

Now remember that every cultivator at a more or less high level can also make the same plans and that's where the battle begins. Only the most intelligent, creative, lucky, etc. will be able to win, because strength doesn't help much in this case.

Or more like no one in reality should be able to. If you haven’t loved for millions of years and have cultivated that long in a cultivation world, then you will never be able to imagine how they think. So unless an author is actually a bored god who wants to write a novel, we will never see such a novel. Also even if somehow a novel like that comes into existence, would we even understand and be able to relate to it? The likely answer is- no. Hence it wouldn’t be interesting to most of us.

As far as I know, intelligence shows how fast you can process information while wisdom is the accumulation of information through experience. Both are crucial for planning as intelligence determines the span of the plan as well as how far reaching it will be. On the other hand, wisdom will allow you to determine the likely/unlikelyhood of certain scenarios for the known information as well as determining the variables. The reason no plan stays the same until completion is due to lack of information that wisdom at hand cannot fill.

In cultivation novels, those who are good planners are usually either old monsters whose sheer volume of experience fill the gap with brute force or those who specialize in paths that provide easy access to information such as fate, karma, time, divination etc. but rarely both. Therefore, in most cases either the old monster doesn’t have enough knowledge about mc (which is like asking you to show the specific grain of sand that I secretly marked on a beach, beyond his scope) who reaches same realm as him million times faster (beyond his experience such that he cant even imagine such a situation, as if asking you to imagine the 3d model of the universe(inaccurate result)) or the guy who uses, for example, divination to deduce information but not including mortals in his deduction due to his lack of wisdom which results in him gaining incomplete information or not considering anti-divination measures(thank you grandpa in the ring) and gaining false information that he uses to plan.

Finally, since we subconscously equate strength with intelligence, it gets increasingly harder to portray the character as the power scales. Personally, I don’t expect the author the show intelligence of the character correctly if he throws phrases like “His fart has the power to destroy 100 million universes,” Really? And this guy still can’t stop simping for every jade beauty he comes across and cant realise lin feng and feng lin are the same person and use the same moves?

That is my understanding so far. Sorry for the ranting.