"Grandmaster Artisan Nan, what do you mean?"
"I should be the one asking that. I've noticed quite a few abnormalities in the Elders' Council lately. Everyone, high and low, has been speaking incoherently, and even the historical materials used to teach apprentices are being altered. What exactly is going on?"
"Wait, what are you talking about? You know about this Li Chen too? Why haven't you been affected?"
Nan Fengchai: "..."
As it turned out, Nan Fengchai had discovered the recent abnormalities and come knocking to demand an explanation.
By now, Li Chen's Dao had spread throughout the star regions, and many of his achievements had been recorded in the Complete Book of the Puppet Master Order. His prestige nearly rivaled that of a great grandmaster, so mentioning his deeds while teaching and imparting the Dao in schools was perfectly normal.
He had become a figure no one could bypass in numerous fields. Strictly speaking, Nan Fengchai and the others could all be called his disciples and grand-disciples, so naturally, they had to uphold his authority.
Yet not long ago, while sitting in on classes to inspect the institute's teachers in their daily work, Nan Fengchai had nearly been so enraged that smoke poured from his seven orifices.
Those people had actually credited various parties with the creation of the mechanical intelligence architecture and the Puppet World Heavenly Net, without so much as mentioning Li Chen or Materialized Heaven.
After a lengthy exchange of explanations and further verification with those around him, Nan Fengchai finally discovered, to his horror, that everyone's memories had been altered.
Or perhaps something had gone wrong with his own cognition.
Whether to trust himself or trust others was a difficult choice.
"If reason has no meaning at all, then the very foundation of our existence