Meanwhile,
Deep within Bauhinia Imperial City, inside an ancient library,
This library had been built during the Primordial Era a million years ago, and its history was almost as ancient as that of the Aodai Imperial Clan.
Unlike those modern libraries in Heavenly Origin City, it possessed no functions such as holographic projections, intelligent searches, or automatic rune categorization.
It retained its most primitive appearance, but the secrets recorded within were all the more mysterious and advanced.
Because historical materials that had reached a certain level and involved certain existences were destined not to be easily recorded. If they were stored in an intelligent optical brain, it would probably crash and explode in an instant.
The entire library was octagonal in shape, built entirely from an ancient stone material known as Star Rock.
There were no rune lighting devices on the walls. Only everlasting lamps fueled by ten-thousand-year whale oil swayed in the dim space, casting a faint yellow glow.
The air was filled with the mingled scent of old paper and preservative herbs, a unique aroma accumulated over the years.
The library had a total of nine floors, each more than ten meters high.
Bookshelves densely filled every space from floor to ceiling.
Those bookshelves were all made from Immortal Wood. This wood came from the ten-thousand-year glaciers of Eternal Main Star's far north. It was as hard as iron and extraordinarily resilient, effectively preventing insect infestation and decay.
Upon the shelves sat hundreds of millions of scrolls and ancient books.
The ancient books were made from various materials.
Some were ancient scrolls tanned from animal hide, some were bamboo-slip volumes strung together from jade tablets, and others were pages pressed from special metal foil.
They recorded nearly all the knowledge and history accumulated by the Aodai Imperial Clan