Today's third update: Chapter 1021!
Xu Kun's breathing stopped. For a moment, he truly wanted to give up and stop wasting time here!
If all 9,999 books were calculated according to the speed at which he had finished one Thousand Character Classic, then 7 days multiplied by 9,999 would be a full 69,993 days!
That came out to 191 years!
Without entering the War King Realm and achieving an elevation of one's life level, an ordinary person with no opportunities would have a lifespan of less than a hundred years!
If Xu Kun chose to continue, he would likely follow in the footsteps of the owners of those graves and die when his lifespan ran out!
Moreover, although he had spent seven days finishing the Thousand Character Classic, Xu Kun knew even better that, according to the three stages of learning Tree Sage had described, his mastery of the Thousand Character Classic was still at the first stage!
He still could not recite the entire book backward and forward, much less develop his own unique understanding on that foundation!
In other words, his study of this first book had not yet ended. How much longer it would take remained unknown!
The first book alone was this difficult. Wouldn't the remaining 9,998 books be a certain death sentence?
Could he finish them?
And even if he truly did finish them, how much time would have passed outside, with the world changing beyond recognition?
Still using the Thousand Character Classic as an example, even if he could remain focused the entire time and achieve a thousandfold time dilation, spending ten minutes of outside time per book, 9,999 books would take a full 99,990 minutes—seventy days!
He did not have that much time!
Seventy days—never mind that the various races outside were