Lu Yun wasn’t of this age, so the fact that he’d blundered into becoming humanity’s first great emperor, the notable Flame Emperor, constantly filled him with tremendous unease. All of his actions now were the result of careful planning—but not because he was worried about affecting this era or development of the future. 

After all, this time period would be the myths and legends of later generations. Not everything would be passed down either; many events and people would be lost in the long river of time and there’d be an enormous chasm between the present and future history.

Rather, he worried about being assimilated by this world’s heavenly dao and becoming a figure of this...