Nine Fires Return to True Nature

In 2653, gods are played by AI, faith can be recharged, and merit can be exchanged. When all mankind knelt down to worship the Electronic Guanyin, Sun Jin picked up a rusty copper coin in the garbage dump—— Touching it, a temperatureless fire ignited on the fingertips; listening, the sneer of the Great Sage Qitian came to my ears: "They lied to you for five thousand years."