Yuan Ming spent far less time on books about taming beasts than he had estimated, so after returning the books, he began to pace in front of the bookshelves, selecting some new material to review.
Arriving at the "Geography Records" section, Yuan Ming stopped, his gaze wandering the shelves for a good while before he picked out a book titled "Land Connection Records."
This book was larger and thicker than the others, and its cover was distinctive, made of hard wooden boards with a map carved out in openwork.
Yuan Ming opened "Land Connection Records" and began to read but soon discovered that the first page was folded.
Upon unfolding it, he found it was as large as three pages of the book, with a vast topographical map drawn in black and red lines.
To call it a topographical map wasn't quite accurate because the upper half of the map consisted only of rough line drawings with approximate territorial divisions but no marked terrains or features.
