Firmament Star.
Few people beyond a handful of those close to Chu Kuangren knew of his return. He kept a very low profile.
Several years later, an immense library rose within the empire on Firmament Star, gathering books from across the world.
This had been Chu Kuangren's suggestion.
Knowledge was the most important thing in a civilization's development. Endless conquest was not the best path for a civilization's long-term development.
Knowledge was the foremost element of development.
Conquest was merely a means.
As the library was built, cultivation knowledge from the various civilizations under Firmament Star's rule was continuously collected.
The Firmament Empire even established a Heavenly Secret Pavilion specifically to classify and organize this knowledge before placing it in the Library Pavilion.
It was said that the empire's reigning queen attached great importance to the Heavenly Secret Pavilion, supplying considerable resources and even finding a cultivator from somewhere to serve as its pavilion master.
This pavilion master was exceedingly mysterious. Few people had ever seen him.
People only occasionally heard him mentioned, seemingly called... Mr. Chu.
Mr. Chu?
That sounded more like an honorific. No one knew his actual name, but many knew that this Mr. Chu was no ordinary person.
Otherwise, the queen consort would not have entrusted him with such an important responsibility.
The empire, Heavenly Secret Pavilion.
Chu Kuangren was classifying books from various civilizations, occasionally even compiling his own experiences into books.
Indeed, he was that Mr. Chu.
As for why he had not announced his return to all his subjects, it was mainly because he did not want to cause too great a commotion.
Besides, the Firmament Empire was developing very well now. His presence made little difference, and he did not want to interfere too much with its development.
Perhaps he would leave