Chen Miao woke from his sleep before the plane landed.
He looked out the window, and familiar mountains came into view.
As he gazed at the endless mountain ranges, Chen Miao murmured a few words.
"Mountain-River Five Elements Formation, mountain-river collapse plan, Mountain Physiognomy Organization..."
Chen Miao had never expected the memories of Ishikawa Yū, a man whose identity he had not even known, to contain so many things that would surprise him.
These memories filled in the complete picture of the Xiong family's affairs.
Ishikawa Yū belonged to the Island Nation's Mountain Physiognomy Organization. His primary purpose in coming to Great Xia this time was none other than Xiong An, the Xiong family's patriarch whose grave had been dug up!
The club Xiong An had joined while studying in the Island Nation had been an outer branch of the Mountain Physiognomy Organization.
Once Xiong An revealed that he was from Great Xia, the Mountain Physiognomy Organization began paying him special attention.
Their goal, naturally, was to turn Xiong An into their pawn.
Through their dealings with Xiong An, the Mountain Physiognomy Organization discovered that he could not fully support the Island Nation. They abandoned their efforts to recruit him and instead began manipulating him in another way.
They would have him carry out some of their secret operations in Great Xia without even knowing it.
That was how Xiong An's mother and stepfather had met their accidental deaths.
After some coaxing, Xiong An returned home with his younger sister.
With the Mountain Physiognomy Organization's intervention, everything went smoothly for Xiong An in Beitai City.
Ten years later, the Mountain Physiognomy Organization suspended its assistance and began putting pressure on him.
The sudden setbacks left Xiong An at a loss. Then an unexpected cancer diagnosis sent him straight to rock