Chapter 847 — Long Time No See
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 5
The Archive Pavilion had several hundred floors, and every floor held countless jade slips, each slip bearing an immense number of runes. To commit all those runes to memory was a formidable task indeed. "A workman must first sharpen his tools if he is to do his work well.
If I have to memorize them one by one, how long will it take? " Shen Mu sat on the stairs, eyes wide as he watched Lin Xuan, Xiao Chunfeng, and Yu Hongxiu busily trying to memorize the runes on the jade slips.
Yu Hongxiu had already awakened, but it had taken her half a day to recover her composure. She too understood the gravity of the situation. Having resolved to fake her death and escape once she left this jade tower, she joined the others in memorizing the runes. Memorizing the rune sequences of a single floor alone was an appallingly vast amount of information.
Those rune sequences could reconstruct the Great Dao structure of an Ancient Star God—one could well imagine how complex it was. Relying on memory alone made it nearly impossible.
Even for people of exceptional intelligence, memorizing a single floor would take ten days to half a month. The Ancient Star God rune Daos on the lower floors were still relatively simple. By the level of the Four Emperors, the amount to memorize was dozens or hundreds of times greater than the floors below. At the level of the Venerable Lord of Heaven, the Earth Mother, the Lord of the Soil, and the Heavenly Emperor, the amount to memorize would likely multiply several times over again.
Just to memorize everything completely without error would take hundreds, even thousands of years—and Shen Mu could not possibly stay here that long. More critically, the Archive Pavilion was an extremely important structure within the Heavenly Court.
The Heavenly Court could send someone at any moment. The Dao Ancestor could not possibly let them stay here so long.
The longer they delayed, the greater the danger. In other words, they had to memorize the runes on the jade slips within just a few days, and then leave.
Shen Mu propped his chin on his hand, staring blankly into space. Dao Master Lin Xuan, Xiao Chunfeng, and Yu Hongxiu were all working feverishly, rapidly scanning the jade slips and desperately memorizing.
From time to time the three of them glanced over and saw Shen Mu still sitting there, showing not the slightest sign of alarm. The three of them were puzzled. Before long, Xiao Chunfeng came to a realization: "It's impossible to memorize all the runes in the Archive Pavilion in such a short time.
I'm not that clever, and my memory isn't that strong.
So I need to choose the best—the Heavenly Emperor's rune Dao. Memorizing the Heavenly Emperor's rune Dao is the optimal solution!
" Once he realized this, he immediately left that floor and headed for the top.
Meanwhile, Dao Master Lin Xuan also came to a realization: "I can't possibly memorize so many floors. So I'll extract the fundamental runes from these Ancient Star Gods' runes and assign them numbers. The fundamental rune sequences can be divided into one, two, three, four, five.
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. I only need to memorize a few hundred fundamental runes, and then recite these rune sequence numbers, and I can memorize an Ancient Star God's Great Dao rune system in far less time! " He was somewhat elated and immediately set about numbering them. Yu Hongxiu was dizzy from watching, and suddenly she too came to a realization: "I studied under the Southern Emperor, and I myself am a Vermilion Bird demigod. What use is memorizing other Ancient Star Gods' Great Dao runes?
Because our species differ, cultivating these other Ancient Star Gods' Great Dao runes would yield half the result with twice the effort.