Zhang Tie rubbed his eyes and lifted his head from the huge pile of books collected from Huaiyuan Hall.
For more than an entire day, Zhang Tie had been immersed in books.
These books were works collected by Huaiyuan Hall introducing human life and networks before the Great Cataclysm, while some were cultivation insights and notes left behind by Huaiyuan Hall's elders. The former books were stored in the library on Hidden Dragon Island, while the latter were kept on Yiyang Mountain. The latter materials in particular could only be viewed by people of elder rank, and included many of Huaiyuan Hall's family secrets as well as all kinds of knowledge about the world of knights.
Though reading all this had taken an entire day, Zhang Tie felt it had been well worth it.
The Mountain of Light was the human race's knights' guild, humanity's strongest organization. At the same time, in pre-Great Cataclysm network terminology, the Mountain of Light was equivalent to a network server. The knight crystal plate was this server's information access port. Every knight could use a knight crystal plate and the crystal's miraculous properties to connect their spiritual energy to the Mountain of Light's server and access the resources and information within.
Every knight was a registered user of this online forum. Each person's internal code name in the Mountain of Light was their login name, or rather, their online handle. Furthermore, the privileges they enjoyed differed according to their knight rank. The resources and information available to lower-ranking knights were unconditionally open to higher-ranking knights, while lower-ranking knights could not view the resources and information available to those above them.
Earth Knights could browse all the information and materials in the Black Iron Knight section, while Black Iron Knights could not see what Earth