The Wooden Man (Fourth Update! Please Subscribe!)

By the lotus pond, beside a thatched cottage.

The furnishings inside were simple and plain; the four walls stood bare.

Ji Changfu lit a lamp, sat alone by the table, and slowly rolled up his long sleeves.

A line of blood-red characters was scrawled messily across the arm beneath: it had dried by now, turning a strange purplish black. "This is a 'weird'; I am losing my memory."

His expression changed. Amnesia... so that was it!

No wonder he had sensed that something was wrong!

At once, Ji Changfu opened his Storage Pouch and took out a talisman with a gold background and blood-red patterns, covered in numerous bizarre shapes.

The talisman's aura was completely restrained, without the slightest fluctuation of power. It looked like nothing more than a gaudily decorated piece of paper.

Yet Ji Changfu treated it with great solemnity. After taking it out, he slit his wrist and let his blood drip onto it. Only when the blood patterns had swallowed every drop of his blood and a faint glow appeared did he hold it between both hands before his chest and quietly recite a few lines.

A streak of green slowly rose from the talisman.

Seeing this, Ji Changfu let out a quiet sigh of relief. He immediately stuck it to the back of his neck, hiding it beneath his long hair.

This was the Innate Religion's exclusive Heaven's Will Talisman, one of the trump cards he kept up his sleeve.

It could protect the mind and guard against all manner of outside deception. Even in the presence of a "weird," it could keep Ji Changfu's thoughts clear.

Though there was no way to recover the memories he had already lost, if he encountered the erosion of forgetfulness again, he could remain clearheaded until the talisman