Chapter 54 (continued)
The two sat down in the hall.
Shan Heyuan personally brewed the tea and poured it for Ma Rupei.
Although they didn't spend a long time together, they went through a lot together and had plenty to talk about.
When talking about the scene when they found Shan Heyuan, Ma Rupei said, "When we received the report and rushed over, you were lying in the grass, unconscious. It gave us a fright. We thought there had been a serious incident in Jingzhishan Town as well."
"Thanks to you all, if I had woken up alone with no one around, I would have been really panicked." Shan Heyuan then asked, "Besides you, were Senior Shanyuan and Senior Brother Lin Lixin also there?"
"Yes, it was the three of us." Ma Rupei nodded. "Later, after bringing you back and figuring out the truth, my uncle assigned the task of taking care of you to me, and that's how we came to have this connection."
Ma Rupei guessed that they might ask about what happened when they returned, so he told them everything in great detail.
Looking back now, Shan Heyuan realizes that there is no concrete evidence that he transmigrated and landed directly in Jingzhishan Town.
When Ma Rupei and his two companions met him, he had nothing on him; they only guessed he came from [a foreign country] because he spoke in a strange language.
Another world
Boundary.
After being instilled with the language and common sense of the cultivation world, he said that he fell off the mountain and lost consciousness. When he woke up, he saw Ma Rupei and the other two.
Eventually, everyone guessed that he might be from another world.
However, this is ultimately just speculation, not the actual situation.
Before anything happened, Shan Heyuan never suspected that he had lost a piece of his memory.
It seems quite possible now.
Let alone memory loss, if something happened, it's possible for someone to completely erase his memory.
Although Shen Duheng did not find any trace of other cultivators making a move in his sea of consciousness, he could not rule out the possibility that the cultivator's cultivation level was higher than theirs, even higher than before Shen Duheng's realm fell.
After finishing their tea, it was time for dinner, and people from the Supreme Harmony Sect came to deliver the meal.
Shan Heyuan then invited Ma Rupei to stay for dinner and offered him some spirit wine.
Upon reuniting with his old friend, Ma Rupei quickly got drunk.
Shen Duheng personally took action, using Secret Method to extract Ma Rupei's memories of the first time he met Shan Heyuan.
The memory was placed in the shadow stone, and then projected out again.
Shan Heyuan watched it with him.
In Ma Rupei's memory, Shan Heyuan lay naked in the grass, all his hair gone, and he had nothing on his body to prove his identity.
He lay there oblivious to everything, and if it weren't for the slight rise and fall of his chest, one might have mistaken him for a jade statue.
Shan Heyuan knew he was in a rather disheveled state when he was rescued, but this was the first time he realized how strange the situation had been.
From this perspective, the situation at that time was simply shameful!
When he woke up, his eyebrows had grown back and his hair was short. He assumed that Supreme Harmony Sect had shaved his head when they treated him.
Ma Rupei and the others didn't specifically tell him that he was naked at the time.
Now that the two of them are watching this scene together, Shan Heyuan feels extremely uncomfortable and wishes he could cover the screen up.
Shen Duheng was also taken aback for a moment, then politely focused his gaze on his upper body. "You seem a little off."
"Something's not right?" Shan Heyuan immediately cleared his mind and examined the image of himself in Ma Rupei's memory. He quickly noticed something amiss. "Hmm, it seems my body is smaller than it actually is?"
The physique of a teenager is quite different from that of a young adult.
In Ma Rupei's memory, Shan Heyuan was taller and thinner.
Shan Heyuan keenly sensed that, besides being smaller, there were also some oddities in his physical characteristics.
For example, the scars from falling down when he was naughty as a child have completely disappeared, and his abdominal muscles are more defined than he remembers.
He recalled the incident during the competition when Gu Lingbo's bone age was found to be incorrect. At the time, he assumed it was due to a problem during his time travel, but now, thinking about it again, it was possible that his body had a pre-existing condition.
After observing for a while, the two came to the same conclusion: Shan Heyuan may have had a previous experience before appearing at the Supreme Harmony Sect.
Ma Rupei only had so many scenes in his memory. The two of them watched them three times over before taking the drunk Ma Rupei to his guest room to rest.
Shan Heyuan sighed as Ma Rupei lay down, "Senior Brother Ma treated me like a friend, but I used Secret Method to view his memories. I'm truly sorry to him."
Shen Duheng: "It involves life and death, so even if I feel I've let him down, there's nothing I can do."
"Brother Shen, will extracting your memories leave any aftereffects?"
"No. The Sword Reverence Sect's technique for checking the condition of its disciples during missions has been used for thousands of years and has never had a problem."
"Will that leave any traces? For example, when others come to investigate Senior Brother Ma's memories again, will they find that we've already investigated them?"
"Not necessarily. A simple glance wouldn't leave a trace in his mind. It wouldn't be discovered Non-Self make changes."
There were three cultivators who handled the Shan Heyuan incident at the time: Ma Rupei, Shanyuan, and Lin Lixin.
Under the cover of night, they went to examine the memories of the other two monks.
The other two cultivators shared the same memories of Shan Heyuan as Ma Rupei, only from slightly different perspectives.
They looked at it carefully but didn't get any more information.
Upon returning, Shan Heyuan reviewed the situation with Shen Duheng: "Putting everything else aside, there's definitely a problem with my age. I was supposed to be twenty-four when I transmigrated, not seventeen or eighteen. I have absolutely no recollection of my body shrinking. Brother Shen, under what circumstances would a cultivator's body shrink?"
Shen Duheng: "Time is the hardest thing to reverse. All the elixirs in the world that claim to reverse aging only make the body look younger and improve the physical condition; they don't actually change the bone age. As for the body shrinking, there's only one possibility—"
Shan Heyuan pressed further, "What's possible?"
Shen Duheng looked up and met his gaze, then said in a deep voice, "Reincarnate."
Shan Heyuan frowned. "You mean that after I was reincarnated, I awakened the memories of my previous life? In other words, I didn't actually transmigrate to this world, but died and was reincarnated into the cultivation world, and I just don't know why I awakened the memories of my previous life?"
At this point, Shan Heyuan suddenly got goosebumps.
He found it hard to believe that he was someone who had actually died.
He rubbed his arms. "Probably not? If I were reincarnated, where did I live during my teenage years? Who are my parents? How did I end up in the Supreme Harmony Sect area?"
Shen Duheng: "Then we need to investigate further. It's impossible for someone of that stature to suddenly appear without leaving a trace."
Shan Heyuan: "Senior Brother Ma said someone discovered me and reported it to the Supreme Harmony Sect, which is why they took action. Shouldn't we try to find the person who discovered me and check their memory?"
"It's too late today, let's go tomorrow." Shen Duheng glanced at the sky. "We'll go openly. You're about to enter the Late Core Formation, so using the excuse of resolving your inner demons to advance is perfectly legitimate, and visiting that person is also justifiable."
After discussing it for a while, the two went back to their room to sleep.
I'm so tired today, I should be sleeping soundly.
Shan Heyuan tossed and turned in bed for most of the night without being able to fall asleep.
Anyone who discovers they have lost a piece of their memory would probably find it hard to fall asleep.
Moreover, the memory he lost might hold a life-or-death secret.
Shan Heyuan had always thought of himself as a cultivator with a mediocre talent but Chaos Spirit Root.
Now it seems that he wasn't lacking in talent at all; he was clearly exceptionally talented, far surpassing everyone else.
What kind of family background did he have that gave him this talent?
Did he transmigrate—no, was he reborn into a powerful Lineage in the cultivation world?
Could it be related to the Sword Reverence Sect?
Shen Duheng was once the sect leader of the Sword Reverence Sect was extremely familiar with it. If he didn't even know that such a thing existed, then the matter must not be so simple.