Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 318 Golden Civilization, Golden Calendar

There are twelve catalog bookshelves, each with ten shelves, and each shelf contains nearly 150 books. The books on them are records of the library's various bookshelf categories and the titles of the books in each category, mainly to help readers find books of interest in a short time.

There are more than 18,000 such catalogs.

"The wisdom of the ancients!"

Tang San sighed and searched for categories that interested him. After all, there were so many books that it was impossible to read them all at once. Even with Tang San's strong mental power, it would take him a hundred years to read all the books here.

Of course, if one is just skimming through the books and using mental energy to copy all the contents, it won't take long; it can be done within three days.

But if that were the case, Tang San probably wouldn't need to think about anything else; just digesting these books would be enough to keep him busy.

"Speaking of which, the script in Douluo Continent doesn't seem to have changed much?" Tang San suddenly thought of this.

How long ago was this golden civilization?

It is unknown.

According to Tang San's estimation, the Golden Tree appeared at least tens of thousands of years ago. Although Tang San has taken control of the Golden Tree, he doesn't know exactly how many years it has grown. But given how big it is, it must be close to ten million years old, or even hundreds of millions.

However, the script in Douluo Continent seems to have remained unchanged. The script commonly used on the continent is almost identical to the script in these books. There are some differences, but they are very small, just slight variations in the stroke structure. People who can read on the continent will not have much difficulty reading these books, except that they may have some minor trouble understanding the meaning of certain terms.

If we think about it from this perspective, the Golden Civilization has not actually gone extinct; everyone on the Douluo Continent is a descendant of the Golden Civilization.

To determine whether a civilization has become extinct, we should not judge it solely from the perspective of technology or bloodline, but rather from the perspective of culture. After all, no matter what, modern people have inherited writing and some of the soul guides used in daily life.

However, in terms of mindset, it lags far behind the former golden civilization.

Coming to his senses, Tang San searched for relevant historical catalogs of the Golden Civilization, heading to the history bookshelf. Seeing the endless array of history books, he felt a headache coming on and could only quickly scan them with his mental energy. Based on the corresponding catalogs, he found a book titled "An Overview of the Development History of the Golden Civilization"—

[In the first 30,000 years of the Golden Calendar, various countries fought endlessly, eventually being unified by the Soul Fighting Kingdom, which established the Soul Fighting Empire, covering the entire habitable area of ​​the continent.]

However, the Contra Empire perished after only two generations.

The country was unified too quickly, and internal and external troubles could not be resolved in one generation. However, the second emperor was absurd, his ministers rebelled, and the country's policies were not changed in the slightest. In addition, the remnants of the fallen country stirred up many uprisings, which caused the Soul Fighting Empire to disintegrate after only fifty-two years.

However, the first ruler of the Soul Empire played a crucial role in unifying writing, weights and measures, and paving roads.

Looking at this template, which resembles the unification of the Qin Dynasty in his previous life, Tang San guessed that next, various empires would take the stage, staging a story of division followed by unification, and unity followed by division, enacting the cycle of dynastic change.

And indeed, just as Tang San had guessed, after the Soul Fighting Empire disintegrated, one after another, prominent figures and imperial dynasties emerged, constantly "changing generation after generation," but the core of the rule remained unchanged: the herdsmen.

Until the Golden Calendar, 29,000 years ago, when Soul Tools were developed, ordinary people had the possibility of resisting powerful Soul Masters and formed the "Golden Society," which was based on the principle of putting the people first. Its motto and slogan for its rise was: the common people are the true masters of this continent, the most brilliant gold. Nobles are nothing but parasites living on the common people. The era of Soul Masters lording it over with their powerful Martial Souls is about to end!

This "immediately" period lasted for nearly a thousand years.

Over the past millennium, countless people have worked tirelessly, secretly researching and inventing soul tools, and building the Golden City, composed of ordinary people (with soul power below level ten), constantly innovating with their wisdom.

The Soul Masters were arrogant and disdained to approach the city, until the Golden City invented a Soul Guidance Device that could threaten even Title Douluos above level 95, and issued the "Golden Declaration" to all countries on the continent, demanding that monarchs of all countries treat everyone as human beings, prohibit the slave trade, and deny Soul Masters any special privileges, etc.

Countries scoffed, and then—

Golden City declared war on the entire continent, demanding the liberation of its people and the granting of human rights to them!

The various kingdoms didn't take it seriously, but in the end, no one expected that the soul-guided weapon developed by the Golden City would be so powerful that a single pull of the trigger would unleash a crimson ray capable of penetrating the defenses of a Title Douluo.

The overwhelming power enabled the Golden City to grow stronger and eventually establish the Golden Empire.

In the first year of the Golden Calendar, the Golden Empire was established. The entire country was governed by ordinary people, and even Soul Masters had to abide by the rules, losing all their privileges.

But how could the Soul Masters accept this?

They secretly joined forces to destroy the leader of the Golden Empire, but little did they know that the Soul Masters' actions were being monitored by the Golden Empire's reconnaissance-type Soul Guidance Devices.

In the second year of the Golden Calendar, the Empire confirmed that Soul Masters were all unruly elements and ordered the arrest of all Soul Masters across the continent for research purposes. From then on, Soul Masters were universally hated in the Douluo Continent, and these Soul Masters could be said to have made "significant contributions" to the Empire's research on various advanced Soul Guidance Devices with their own bodies.

In the 120th year of the Golden Calendar, the Empire revoked the arrest warrant for Soul Masters, and no Soul Masters could be found on the surface. The Empire then began researching Martial Soul cultivation...

Two hundred years into the Golden Era, the Empire conducted in-depth research on Martial Souls, realizing that Martial Souls possess spirituality and that everyone can be born with full Soul Power. However, due to differences in their upbringing and resulting mental states, the compatibility between Martial Souls and individuals varies.

In the four hundredth year of the Golden Era, the Empire realized the importance of character and mind, and launched large-scale psychological research experiments to this end, and began to strengthen the quality education of the entire population.

In the 1600th year of the Golden Calendar, within the Empire, every person who awakens a Martial Soul possesses innate Soul Power; those with zero innate Soul Power are extremely rare.

In the third thousand years of the Golden Calendar, the number of Title Douluos within the Empire reached nearly ten thousand. However, due to the widespread adoption of Soul Masters, the number of Soul Beasts on the continent drastically decreased. The representative of the Soul Beast race, a being known as the Dragon God, launched a challenge against the Golden Civilization…

"Dragon God!" Tang San's eyes flickered as he thought to himself, "It seems that the Golden Civilization has existed for a much longer time than I imagined, and they even fought against the Dragon God?"

Having discovered that he still had nearly two-thirds of the content to read, Tang San had reached a conclusion regarding the outcome of this challenge:

The Dragon God lost to the Golden Civilization!

And indeed, things turned out exactly as Tang San had predicted—

In the year 3001 of the Golden Calendar, the Soul Beast race was defeated. The Dragon God wanted to sue for peace, but the defeated had no right to make demands. Furthermore, because the Dragon God was difficult to kill, the Empire used a space-type offensive soul tool to prepare to banish him to the void of space beyond the continent…

(End of this chapter)