Today's first update: Chapter 1025! 1/3!
Although he had skipped the E- and D-tier stages in one go, judging purely by the number of books, Xu Kun had only finished reading forty books!
At that rate, forty books had taken nearly an hour, so 9,999 books would take... nearly 250 hours!
Ten and a half days!
"No, if that much time really passed, it would be far too late!" Xu Kun took a deep breath, growing a little restless.
But when he touched the thirty books beside him that he no longer needed to read, his heart settled again!
He scanned the titles of those thirty books and confirmed that his decision had been right!
These thirty books were basic reading materials. In terms of content, they were undoubtedly far more profound than the ten introductory books from the first stage!
But in terms of value, they could not compare to those ten books!
Why had Xu Kun reached such a conclusion?
Because, if compared, those initial ten books were equivalent to pinyin in Huaxia Language and the multiplication table in mathematics, while the thirty books before him were all content derived from those original ten books!
After thoroughly absorbing and pondering those ten books, Xu Kun had already grasped seventy or eighty percent of this derived content even without reading it!
Therefore, when Xu Kun read these thirty books, he felt far less pressure than he had when facing the ten books of the first stage!
He treated them as... exercise books!
From atop the Apricot Altar, the rustling of turning pages occasionally sounded. Xu Kun maintained a steady rhythm, but he read very quickly!
With his current memory, as long as he did not need to carefully study every word, line, and page, even a book as