Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now!

Chapter 1120 - 334: [Time Flow] (2)

He even took out paper and pen to record and search, with a row of numbers, a book of records on the stone tablets. Read in sequence!

On the day the sixth "正" was written, Chen Yan completed a goal: on this level, forty-four rows of stone cabinets, each stone cabinet has three layers, every stone tablet on each layer, he read them all!

All of them!

Having read all the records and classics of this layer, Chen Yan’s overall perception is: chaotic!

Very chaotic!

"Indeed, the biographical recording method is outdated, the chronological method is the way to go."

Chen Yan sighed.

At this moment, he was no longer in a hurry about time.

He did not rush to pull the door inside immediately after finishing reading.

Chen Yan calmly took out a laptop from the Storage Jade Pendant and began to compile something!

This layer, forty-four rows of stone cabinets, recorded the thriving history of nine hundred and forty-six tribes altogether.

There are recorded named and noteworthy individuals, approximately three thousand four hundred of them appeared.

After reading more, Chen Yan finally found some clues that could corroborate each other in these seemingly scattered and unrelated histories of ancient tribes, some timelines, and some things that could be corroborated from the side.

For instance, Tribe A recorded that they thrived near a volcano by a large river, and the volcano erupted in a certain year.

And Tribe B’s records also experienced a similar geographical environment and recorded the eruption of the volcano.

Therefore, it is reasonable to speculate that these two tribes possibly lived in the same large region, in the same era!

Because volcanic eruptions are very important time markers!

Volcanic eruptions do not happen frequently, even for active volcanoes, the frequency of eruptions generally occurs only once every few decades.

As for extinct volcanoes, this frequency might shift to a thousand or ten thousand years as a unit.

Similarly, there are many events in these classic records that can serve as time coordinates.

For example, large-scale natural disasters: great floods.

For example, significant changes in topography recorded after the disasters.

These occurrences are rare events with low probability, but once they occur, they can serve as time coordinates to anchor.

Following this method, after anchoring a few events that could serve as time coordinates, Chen Yan placed the related tribe records inside.

He spent five days making a historical timeline in the notebook.

Nine hundred forty-six tribes, over three thousand four hundred individuals, of which eighty percent, he managed to fit into this timeline.

Of course, that was already the limit of what he could do, and there are two percent of tribes and individuals, due to lack of records, cannot be cataloged and can only be placed under this category of scattered records.

The sorting and cataloging work that Chen Yan did, from a professional historian’s viewpoint, would certainly still be simple and clumsy.

But this is already the limit of his ability, considering he is not a professional historical researcher, and these recorded documentary classics are too chaotic and without structure, and missing too many crucial materials.

Reaching this point, Chen Yan was already very satisfied with his achievement.

According to his estimates, the tribes mentioned in all the records on this level appear within a timespan of roughly no more than a thousand years, more accurately, approximately between six hundred and a thousand years.

Their level of civilization was still relatively primitive; they were able to make tools, but only by simple grinding, they could use stones and wood as tools, and they would construct very primitive dwellings, surviving in tribal formations.

They already had simple social structures, tribal succession systems, could hunt, and even learned farming, roaming, and other methods. They had their own languages, and writing emerged.

Meanwhile, interactions such as contact, cooperation, or warfare, annexation, or integration would occur between different tribes.

They also had faith, though beliefs were diverse—some believed in ancestors, some worshiped certain objects, like the sun, the moon, large rivers, big mountains, and even Chen Yan had seen a tribe that worshiped stones.

But all these indicate that the world recorded in these texts, this era, and these tribes were evolving, reproducing, advancing.

An evident vitality was advancing prosperously toward the direction of civilization evolution.

They are people!

They are humans!

It’s not the history of Domain Realm humans, not even the history of Domain Realm!

The world described in the classics, this era, these people, they lived in their era, following their evolutionary steps.

In that era, there were no Demon Race, no Cultivation, no Spells, no anything extraordinary.

After writing the seventh "正," Chen Yan closed the laptop.

In five days, although he was very careful to conserve power, trying to reduce standby time as much as possible, he still used up two spare batteries.

Fortunately, he had a lot of them in his Storage Jade Pendant.

The guy who was fooled by his fake "Doomsday System" reserved many of these things back then.

After closing the notebook, Chen Yan collected everything, walked through all the stone cabinets in this level, conducted a final inspection to ensure he didn’t miss anything, and confirmed that all the stone tablets were carefully placed back in their original positions...