Thus, Hao Qi spent fully more than ten days in this scripture pavilion. His reading speed was extremely slow—not because he failed to understand, but because turning a single page took at least half a minute, not even counting the time spent reading, searching, or exchanging books. Hao Qi read twenty-four hours a day throughout these dozen-plus days. He deeply cherished this hard-won opportunity to access outside information, and this precious regard indeed yielded many things he had hoped for.
From a small handful of books recording the figures, events, and general history of Qinghai, Hao Qi deduced that this era should be the period after the end of the Primordial Era's Great Cataclysm, before the Ancient Era had officially begun. There were multiple records of this information in the books: descriptions and records of the Great Cataclysm, records of the existence of the Unified Government before the Great Cataclysm, records of the advanced technology before the Great Cataclysm, records of how humanity lacked an internal energy circulation system before the Great Cataclysm, and so on. These were basically recorded with crystal clarity. Judging from these records, the current time point could definitely not be the Ancient Era's Great Cataclysm or the Remote Antiquity Era; it could only be the blank timeframe after the Great Cataclysm of the Primordial Era and before the start of the Ancient Era.
Having found the time point, Hao Qi could independently deduce several specifi…
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