"Will these records eventually reach the historical era of the Domain Realm we know today as time goes on?"
Chen Yan's intention was that if he could read further and find the 'known' historical records of the Domain Realm, they might connect with these buried eras in time, possibly allowing for many deductions and judgments to be made.
This is a conventional method in academia for verifying history.
"I kind of get what you mean," the old man nodded, thought for a moment, and said: "If you finish reading everything here, maybe you'll get your answer."
Finish reading?
Chen Yan looked around at this hall, with more than forty stone cabinets...
Each stone cabinet had several layers, each layer holding long rows of stone tablets...
More than forty cabinets, there might be thousands of stone tablets? No, maybe even more?
But...
Fortunately, as a writing medium, the stone tablets could only record a limited amount of text; each could only hold a little bit of writing.
