Inside the Kirin Pavilion, the spring sun shone brightly outside the window, with a branch of red apricot blossoms peeking halfway into the study.
On the desk lay the Confucianists' *Selected Works of the Hundred Schools*, the Legalist School's *Great Daxia Constitution*, and the Buddhist *Tathagata's Previous Lives Sutra*. These three books were the most fundamental of all basics. Zhou Tieyi had no intention of studying each one in depth, but after his morning training these past few days, he had at least given them a cursory glance. The *Selected Works of the Hundred Schools* featured excerpts from the Four Books and Five Classics, alongside other classic Confucian texts.
As he read, Zhou Tieyi carefully examined the original owner’s bookshelf. The Confucianism of this world indeed shared a lineage with the one from his past life. However, the vast majority of the content was concentrated on the Four Books and Five Classics; there was absolutely no sign of other works, such as Tang or Song dynasty poetry. Was the knowledge brought out of the Academy by the human race limited to this? Zhou Tieyi couldn't help but recall the records in the *Chronicles of Ancient Times*, which stated that the rise of human civilization relied on a century-long truce among the gods and an Academy that had descended from the heavens.
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