Lin Ziming's words quickly attracted the attention of everyone present.

The crowd pondered for a moment and realized it indeed made sense.

Just as Lin Ziming described.

The existence of such a useless ordinary object among a pile of extraordinary items logically didn't make much sense.

Then Lin Li stared at the stone slab for a few seconds and said to Wei Qiangsheng:

"President Qiangsheng, could you check it once more?"

Wei Qiangsheng nodded, picked up the stone slab from the table, and examined it carefully.

As he continued examining it, he suddenly thought of something and clicked his tongue.

He laid the slab flat and began to channel spiritual power into it.

Soon, Wei Qiangsheng's eyes lit up:

"There's something here!"

Look at this phonetic conversion here; it's as standard as Elder Di's level.

After a while, Wei Qiangsheng's expression gradually turned serious.

He frowned and said to Lin Li:

"Captain Lin, the slab requires too much spiritual energy. I can't sustain it alone... even with the clan leader's help, it's not enough. We may need assistance from the patriarch and the third uncle ancestor together."

Lin Li pondered for a few seconds, gesturing for Wei Qiangsheng to put down the slab, and then said to assistant Zhang Guanghua:

"As long as we can confirm that the slab isn't as simple as it appears, that's fine. Xiaozhang, get in touch with Director Shi and invite Patriarch Wei and Elder Wei Shudu over."

Zhang Guanghua nodded:

"No problem, I'll handle it now."

The group waited for about half an hour, and the laboratory doors opened once again.

Elder Wei Shudu and Patriarch Wei, the only Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators present, finally arrived at the scene.

As they rushed in, Lin Li and Lin Ziming exchanged glances, both seeing a determined idea in each other's eyes:

We must nurture our own Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators as soon as possible!

If time constraints are the biggest problem the rabbits face at present.

Then the insufficient number of local high-ranking cultivators is the biggest weakness after the project materializes.

It's not that the rabbits lack high-ranking cultivators for combat; rather many studies currently require assistance from the spiritual energy within cultivators.

For example, the research on magical artifacts, spirit pill effects, and inner sea exploration, among others.

Spiritual power and spiritual energy are not the same. Spiritual power can be understood as the refined spiritual energy—like glucose and rice. The former is a more delicate concept that requires rice to be digested by the body to generate.

Currently, the rabbits don't have high-ranking cultivators, so in situations requiring spiritual power, they can usually only ask the cultivators from Chixian City for help.

It's not just Wei Fan, Wei Qiangsheng, and the two Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators; every cultivator in the city above the Qi Cultivation Seventh Layer has supported the rabbits' research.

While the rabbits and Chixian City are in an absolute honeymoon phase currently, there is less chance of falling out long-term. There's even consideration for Wei Siyuan to officially appear and make a recognition move.

But honestly, frequently asking others for help can feel somewhat awkward.

The concept of self-reliance and not causing trouble for others is ingrained in our DNA.

Returning the view to the laboratory.

Once the two Wei Mansion Foundation Establishment cultivators arrived, Lin Li first briefly introduced the situation:

"... So that's about it. We need your assistance in channeling spiritual energy to help decipher this stone slab."

Patriarch Wei and Lin Li were long-time acquaintances, so he smiled cooperatively:

"A small issue, a small issue, so... shall we begin now?"

Lin Li nodded and stepped aside:

"Thank you for your efforts."

Patriarch Wei and Elder Wei Shudu exchanged glances and proceeded to the slab, with Patriarch Wei first channeling spiritual power into it.

After about a few minutes.

A blush of unhealthiness suddenly appeared on Patriarch Wei's face. He shook his head and released his hand, sighing:

"Shame, shame, my abilities are limited. The spiritual power within me is exhausted. Shudu, it's your turn."

Elder Wei Shudu nodded, stepped forward to take over from Patriarch Wei, channeling spiritual power into the slab.

A few minutes passed again.

Elder Wei Shudu's spiritual power was similarly exhausted, and Wei Fan stepped forward to replace him.

Although Wei Fan was not a Foundation Establishment cultivator, he had reached the Great Perfection of Ninth-Layer Qi Cultivation, being just a step away from Foundation Establishment.

It is expected that he will break through the Qi Cultivation barrier within a month to become the third Foundation Establishment in Chixian City.

Therefore, while his spiritual energy reserves were not as plentiful as those of Foundation Establishment cultivators, the quantity was not negligible.

After about two minutes.

Seeing that Wei Fan was about to exhaust his energy, the spiritual power input by everyone seemed to reach a certain threshold, and the stone slab suddenly started shaking.

"Crunch crunch crunch—"

Parts of the stone slab started to rise mysteriously, and a mystical character slowly appeared on its surface.

Followed by a second one, then a third... gradually, more and more.

Seeing this, Wei Fan quickly placed the slab on the table, stepped back two steps, and together with the others observed the slab's changes.

More and more characters appeared on the slab's surface, connecting into rows of fine literals.

It took a full five minutes for the slab to return to normal.

When the slab became static, the characters had connected into a large block of text; whether it narrated a history or was meaningless expressions remained unknown.

Wei Qiangsheng then stepped forward to carefully inspect the slab's text.

As he looked, his brow furrowed once more.

After a while, he shook his head:

"These aren't the common characters of Damo Realm, nor do they resemble the external domain scripts from the Celestial Moon Mountain Range—I have encountered some trade teams from external domains, and their scripts were quite different from those engraved on the slab."

Upon hearing this, Ma Ning also stepped forward, took out a magnifying glass, and examined the slab—this was not merely joining in the fun; this ginseng tea-loving old man was one of the top linguists locally, although by now he'd been repurposed for other use in the Damo Realm.

His role during the initial setup of the Fire Squad was to analyze potential languages and scripts existing in the Damo Realm.

Rabbits now use a simultaneous translator, developed with assistance from the language group he led.

In a game, Ma Ning's personal attribute screen would undoubtedly have a title like Language and Sociology Scholar +15.

Ma Ning carefully inspected the slab with a magnifying glass and shook his head too:

"It's not a script present locally, the font and strokes differ significantly from known local script specimens.

For example, this character looks like an M and a W overlapped, M on top, W below.

This script base won't be found in Dongba script, Oracle Bone script, Bell-and-Ding script, or Sumerian cuneiform script.

Ancient scripts generally don't end with a 'dot' except for strokes like '撇' and '捺'.

Especially cuneiform, excluding '十', it uses horizontal strokes as the base for over two thousand other characters, because people then believed in a round heaven and flat earth, meaning the ground had to be level.

Our existing ancient towers express this, narrowing upwards aesthetically—not just for architectural reasons but also influenced by societal beliefs."

Ma Ning's words were relatively polite.

Frankly speaking, it confirms, quite decisively, that the slab's text had no connection to the local.

Many ancient local scripts have yet-to-be decrypted meanings. Still, their representational characteristics have matured understanding within the linguistics community.

Thus, Ma Ning's judgment essentially hammered down any possible connection between the slab and the local.

Then Ma Ning pointed at the slab and said to Wei Qiangsheng:

"President Qiangsheng, could you help a bit here, this slab is somewhat heavy, let's flip it and take a look."

Wei Qiangsheng nodded in response, and with Ma Ning, they flipped it over.

The instant they saw the slab's backside, Ma Ning and Wei Qiangsheng's pupils simultaneously constricted:

Unlike the front text, the back of the slab.....

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