A Hidden Move

Inside the Myriad Manifestations Tower.

Gu Donglai opened his eyes blankly and stared dazedly at the youth standing before him.

He did not know who the youth before him was, yet he felt an instinctive closeness, as though the youth carried some aura he had once found incomparably familiar.

"You are..."

Gu Donglai asked uncertainly.

"So that's how it is."

Shen Qian was also startled. He then studied Gu Donglai, whose temperament had become completely different, and seemed to understand something.

After King Zhouyi's death, those whose fates he had once stolen seemed to have regained their former selves.

If so, that was not a bad outcome.

Shen Qian simply had not expected King Zhouyi to die so easily. He had originally thought that even after severing the other man's Dao Foundation, killing him completely would still require some effort.

"Do you remember what happened before this?" Shen Qian asked.

"I..."

Gu Donglai hesitated, then shook his head. "The last thing I remember is being expelled from the Sky-Reaching Tower by the Marquis of Jingcheng... Where is this? What exactly did I experience? Why do I feel as though I'm missing so many memories?"

Although Gu Donglai had no conscious awareness of it, his keen Mental Power still allowed him to sense that a long time had passed since his last memory.

It was as though he had dreamed a bizarre and fantastical dream, yet no matter how hard he tried to recall it, he could not remember a single detail.

Shen Qian nodded. He had no intention of explaining anything to Gu Donglai right now. North Capital was in critical danger, and he had no time to waste.

But just as Shen Qian moved to leave, he suddenly frowned. He abruptly turned back toward Gu Donglai. "You said your