"Yes!"
Fang Chen nodded. "Yes. Senior Gu Yu said I might have been injured, damaging my soul and causing me to lose part of my memory. As my cultivation rises and my soul recovers, those memories are slowly resurfacing. He also said they might return completely as my cultivation rises—or they might never return at all!"
Bai Ling Quasi-Emperor looked at Fang Chen. "If that's true, why don't my sister and I remember any of it either?"
"Exactly!"
Palace Mistress Lingxin was troubled too. She thought it unlikely that she, Bai Ling Quasi-Emperor, and Fang Chen had all lost their memories at the same time. None of them could make sense of what had happened.
Fang Chen said to Palace Mistress Lingxin, "Palace Mistress, back when I was at Tianyuan Academy, I woke up one day inside a strange cave. When I came out, a hundred years had passed in the outside world. I have no idea how I ended up there!"
Whenever Fang Chen recalled waking in that cave, something felt wrong. He, too, felt as though he had lost a stretch of memory.
Palace Mistress Lingxin looked at Fang Chen. "In that case, the images appearing in your mind now should be memories from before you lost consciousness!"
"I think so!"
Fang Chen nodded.
Bai Ling Quasi-Emperor said to Fang Chen, "My sister and I remember you too, but then you disappeared. We couldn't find you before Tianyuan Academy closed that time!"
Ye Qingci said, "Could someone have entered Tianyuan Academy and attacked Fang Chen? Or could a powerful figure within the academy have plotted against him?"
Palace Mistress Lingxin shook her head. "Those seem to be the only possibilities for now. Perhaps some mysterious great power sealed the memories of Bai Ling, Fang Chen, and me!"
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