The sceneries were fascinating, but the backtracking journey was long. If one was not careful, it was easy to get sidetracked.
Traveling through the fragmented historical timelines was a test of will. The emperors and the peasants in the archival materials came to life in flesh and blood. Once you entered their history, they would no longer be pictures in historical memory but have real emotions, capable of experiencing joy and sorrow. Whether they lived a heroic or mediocre life, those experiences would leave indelible marks in their space and time.
As a time traveler, Hao Ren did everything possible to remain as a bystander and remain detached in his third-party perspective as he went back in time. He knew that only by maintaining the view of a third party could he finish the arduous 10,000-year journey into history without being swallowed up and assimilated by the endless historical illusions.