"Humans were too terrifying."
Little Illusion, who had watched from beginning to end, was huddled in a corner, trembling.
A high school girl who had looked so pure and kind had become so scheming after merely a dozen years of transmigration.
For gleaming silver, she had not hesitated to pass poison off as Fountain of Youth Water, using illusion arts to fabricate the appearance of reincarnation.
"Alas, I never expected her to make such thorough use of even that tiny bit of mysterious influence," Wenren Sheng sighed.
"Could this kind of deception really lead to science and reason?" Little Illusion asked curiously after recovering from her fright.
"It could. The earliest mathematics came from a group engaged in mystical worship. They studied mathematics because they wanted to use it to make others worship them," Wenren Sheng said after some thought.
"Then should we still interfere?"
"Let's watch for now. If it doesn't work, we'll restart."
As Wenren Sheng spoke, he continued allowing the planet's civilization to evolve.
In the Eastern Heavenly Dynasty, reincarnation had become all the rage.
As time passed, fewer and fewer cases needed to be fabricated by Furball.
Because people had come to assume that reincarnated people had all learned to keep a low profile and would not easily reveal themselves.
Whenever a child prodigy occasionally appeared, people would say, "Look, that one must be another reincarnated person who couldn't resist showing himself..."
The key was that child prodigies were not all that rare in absolute numbers.
Passing the county examination at ten-odd years old or the provincial examination at twenty would make an Ordinary Person regard someone as a child prodigy... in other words, a reincarnated person.
Their own child was ten and could not recognize even ten characters, and could only add up to