Piecing Together

"The Association's efficiency is way too high..."

"It's like committing a crime and immediately having it livestreamed across the entire internet... It still feels kind of embarrassing..."

"But... the timeline is wrong... Could it be that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple ruins were excavated long ago, and that the historical 'Fa Huan' really did exist?"

"Or... could my actions in the game world interfere with the real world... like a butterfly effect?"

"Either way... this is a highly efficient Imprint ritual!"

Aaron rubbed his face and continued watching television.

The host, Little Moon, dressed in a gray little suit with black stockings, had arrived at an archaeological excavation site.

"Viewers must surely be wondering: did a dynasty truly exist on this land five thousand years ago? A series of recent domestic archaeological discoveries has already proven it... This dynasty did indeed exist, and it developed a brilliant civilization... Its name was 'Great Liang'!"

Little Moon walked through the ruins, introducing one cliffside stone carving after another. The Buddha statues and Buddhist scriptures upon them... though only scales and claws remained, still set the imagination racing.

"Great Liang, around five thousand years ago, was undoubtedly an era when Buddhism flourished... The mere ability to support such a vast Buddhist temple speaks volumes."

The camera shifted, bringing an elderly professor with a head of white hair into view.

A title appeared below him—Director of Great Xin Library, Professor in the History Department of Great Xin National University—Wang Hongyi.

"The ancients' attainments in architecture often reached astonishing depths... Take the pyramids, for example... Moving stones that enormous without engineering machinery is an inconceivably baffling feat. The sheer scale of Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, the number of its Buddha statues... far surpasses any other temple. This likewise shows that Great Liang's architectural techniques had