Four years had slipped by in the outside world, bringing dramatic changes in their wake. Three years earlier, an archaeological team exploring the mountains and gorges of Zhangjiajie had stumbled upon an ancient ruin. Inside, they recovered the notebooks of the scientist Lu Qianyi, bringing a long-buried history to the attention of a select few.
Born in 1920, Lu Qianyi had studied in the Eagle Country before resolutely returning to his war-torn homeland, where he participated in and led a certain line of research. Yet posterity remained in the dark about the exact nature of that work; history bore no detailed record of it, leaving people to know only that such an endeavor had existed.
The discovery of the ruins offered a glimmer of hope to historians and scientists alike. The president of the Academy of Sciences immediately led a team to the site, unearthing a vast quantity of experimental data. A new term—or rather, a resurrected one—stepped onto the historical stage: spirit stones.
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