Today's first update: Chapter 1022!
Some students asked: "I don't understand the setting of Qufu Academy's Instant Millennium Formation." Here is a special explanation: when a person focused wholeheartedly on a task or study, time would seem to pass especially quickly. This subjective sense of time flying by was transformed here, through the Instant Millennium Formation, into an objectively existing reverse time dilation. In other words, the more seriously you studied, the greater the time differential caused by the formation, and the less time passed in the outside world~
Compared to the Thousand Character Classic, the difficulty of learning the Hundred Family Surnames was greatly reduced!
Not only did it contain fewer characters, but more importantly, some races used common surnames rather than having the same diversity as the human race. For example, every member of the Moonless Demon Cat Race bore the surname "Yue"!
With the foundation he had built through the Thousand Character Classic, Xu Kun no longer needed to learn the Hundred Family Surnames character by character.
Other than a very few obscure characters, he could basically tell which race a name belonged to just by seeing its written form!
That was also the benefit of thoroughly mastering the Thousand Character Classic. Every race's writing had distinct characteristics. Dragon Race script, for instance, consisted of all kinds of dragon patterns, most of them carrying the sharpness of dragon claws!
Although Xu Kun did not know the pronunciations or meanings of some characters in the Hundred Family Surnames, just as he had expected, if he truly wanted to master the Thousand Character Classic and gain unique insights from it, he needed to draw inferences from related material and extend his studies to other books. Under Tree Sage's instruction, Xu Kun had gradually become capable of drawing conclusions