Lu Yuan stared at the Gray-White Text before him, stunned.
He had not expected the Imperial Language, which had been stuck for so long, to advance here.
And it had even gained an additional entry.
Pollution, damage, distortion, assimilation, halved.
A highly practical entry.
He suddenly recalled the writings in the Sea of Knowledge. Many of them could not be read.
Lu Yuan had long been deeply dissatisfied with that.
Back when he had entered the corpse, when the insects consumed knowledge, he had been wary of the things that crawled over along the text.
Now that he had this entry, his confidence in dealing with those writings was entirely different.
Just as Lu Yuan was lost in thought.
"Can't understand it, can you?"
Eli seemed to notice Lu Yuan's gaze. He drew the book back a little and smiled.
"This is Gulai."
"Gulai?" Lu Yuan asked.
"You can understand it?" Eli froze.
"I can't." Lu Yuan shook his head. "But I can recognize a few characters. It really is Gulai."
Lu Yuan was not exactly lying. The few characters had been translated by the Gray-White Text; he truly did not recognize them himself.
"That's already impressive." Eli's eyes brightened slightly as he shifted to the side. "Sit. This language is extremely obscure. I've studied it for so long, yet I haven't been able to find anyone to talk with about it."
Lu Yuan sat down beside him.
"My path is Knowledge Transcendent too, though it's also rather obscure. It needs text as its medium." Eli gave a brief explanation without going into detail.
He patted the book in his arms.
"This book is called the Book of Light. The name sounds pretty intimidating. They say it contains some legends and Taboo things. But from what I've read, it's just