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Among things were farming tools, ironware, porcelain, silk and cloth, paper, brushes and ink, blast furnaces, waterwheels, machinery, towers, bridges, roads... Such things were too numerous to enumerate.

Within those scenes were light, sounds, scenes of farming, scenes of study, scenes of managing a household, scenes of military ranks, scenes of sacrifice and worship... Such things encompassed all under heaven.

And within those passages were characters, poetry, lyrics, tunes, melodies, and even chains of strange symbols, charting the movements of celestial bodies, calculating the curvature of circular orbits, applying the methods of the Heavenly Element and Four Elements, recording the roots of extraction, engraving rivers stretching ten thousand miles, guiding one by the light of the North Star... Such things shifted beyond prediction.

As these scenes emerged, Qiu Yan's figure became increasingly solid and weighty, giving Zhen Zhizuo and the others watching from afar the feeling that he existed in the present moment, unalterable and indestructible by either the Historical River or time and space!

"What is going on? Did Qiu Yan truly win? With one man's strength, he faced the Hundred Schools Aura; with the doctrine of one school, he covered the learning of a hundred schools? With one enormous net, he gathered the essence of all four directions?"

Even Gao Song, who had always greatly admired Qiu Yan, was stunned in thought and found it hard to believe.

"The power of a hundred schools cannot match one man's ability? That is absolutely impossible!" He Shuchang found it even harder to bear. "Right, though that net has gathered the Hundred Schools Aura, it has not truly smelted them into one furnace. It is forcibly suppressing them, drawing only scraps from within!"

"Sharp eyes!"

The moment He Shuchang's voice fell, another voice came from afar. Everyone's consciousness jolted, and when