Chapter 3513 — It All Came Back

Was this a past life? Yet the time, the place, the people—all of it belonged to this life...

This ring left a deep impression on Wei Zhao. It was the first ring he had ever bought in a mall, given to the first girlfriend of his life. His thoughts seemed to drift back to the night he and Tang Zhi had made their relationship official.

Tang Zhi had been kidnapped by Brother Black Panther on the orders of Zhong Yongliang and Zhang Naipao, and Wei Zhao had rescued her. And it was on that very night that Tang Zhi's impression of Wei Zhao underwent a complete upheaval.

If Zhong Yongliang had not been there beside him as well, Wei Zhao would have found it very hard to piece these fragmented memories together so quickly. But with Zhong Yongliang, a party to it all, lending a hand, it became much easier.

On top of that, when he had bought this ring back then, his memory of it was fairly vivid—he had bought it at a place called "Liu Weishan Jewelry." There had even been a saleswoman from another jewelry shop nearby who had mocked him with biting sarcasm!

And later, when he went to find Liu Weishan to obtain pure yellow jade, he had thought the name Liu Weishan sounded very familiar, stirring a sense of deja vu. He had not been able to place it at the time, but now it seemed it was probably because he had once bought jewelry from that very shop.

Group by group, fragment by fragment, these scattered memories slowly wove themselves together, bringing a great deal back to Wei Zhao.

But Tang Zhi—why had she gone to the Snow Valley? Why was it that this particular stretch of memory was missing from Wei Zhao? The earlier memories had all come back to him, but of what came after, he had nothing at all!

Tang Zhi seemed to have vanished into thin air, going straight to the Snow Valley, leaving Wei Zhao's life entirely. Yet that should have been impossible—why would Tang Zhi suddenly leave?

Had someone forced her? Or was there some reason she could not avoid? And why had he forgotten Tang Zhi? It was as though this person had never appeared in his life at all!

There were, to be sure, some gaps in his memory, but Wei Zhao had never been too suspicious of them before—after all, losing one's memory was too strange a thing to speak of. But now it seemed it had truly happened to him.

And why was it that he had no memory of Tang Zhi, while Tang Zhi seemed not to recognize him either?

Why was it that Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu, and even Feng Xiaoxiao had never once mentioned Tang Zhi to him again?

Could it be that everyone had lost their memories together?

That did not seem right either. It seemed... Tang Zhi's mother had not lost her memory! Otherwise, why would she treat him so well? Always giving him fine things, and helping him time and again?

At the time, Wei Zhao had been puzzled and had taken Tang Zhi's mother for a thoroughly kind soul. But recalling her true temperament, he was suddenly caught between laughter and tears—it was probably only toward him that she behaved this way!

"Yunyun?" Wei Zhao called Tang Zhi's name tentatively.

Tang Zhi's body gave a violent shudder. She raised her head in disbelief and looked at Wei Zhao. Could it be that Wei Zhao had remembered something?

At this moment her heart was torn. She both hoped that Wei Zhao would remember her, and feared that it would interfere with her cultivation...

"Yunyun, you remember me, don't you?" Seeing Tang Zhi's reaction, Wei Zhao immediately and keenly confirmed it: Tang Zhi must remember him, or she would never have reacted so strongly!

After all, if some stranger called her that, she would only look puzzled and confused—there was no way she would show such agitation.

"Mr. Lin, you have mistaken me for someone else," Tang Zhi said faintly, drawing a deep breath.

"Wei Zhao, please conduct yourself with some decency. This is the inheritor of our Snow Valley. Keep your hands to yourself, or do not blame me for being ungracious!" Xueli spoke up then as well, warning Wei Zhao. This was the critical moment of Tang Zhi's breakthrough to heaven-tier consummate mastery—if Wei Zhao disturbed her state of mind, it would be an unforgivable sin.

Wei Zhao glanced at Xueli coldly. "You think you can threaten me? Go ask Kang Jingming and Ancestor Xuanchen—even they would not dare speak to me like that."

"You..." Xueli's breath caught. Seeing that Kang Jingming, not far off, gave no response, she could not help but fume inwardly. Indeed, with Wei Zhao's strength, he was essentially invincible beneath the Heavenly Dao—but Wei Zhao's life had been saved by the Snow Valley!

At that thought, Xueli frowned and said to Wei Zhao, "Young Hero Lin, let us speak somewhere private."

"Oh?" Wei Zhao had no wish to step aside, but seeing Xueli's expression, he was unwilling to offend her—after all, her relationship with Tang Zhi was probably quite good, and there might be some hidden circumstances here. So he nodded and said, "Very well."

Wei Zhao followed Xueli to a cliff edge not far away. Kang Jingming saw them, but did not urge them on—Wei Zhao would die sooner or later anyway. What difference did it make whether he died sooner or later?

"Young Hero Lin, you have probably recalled a few things by now, haven't you?" Xueli sighed. She had actually known long ago that the Heartless Herb Potion worked on ordinary cultivators, but once one's strength reached heaven-tier consummate mastery, it was essentially useless.

All it took was a single fortuitous trigger to restore one's memories, and Wei Zhao was already a master of such strength, so it was no surprise to Xueli that he could remember.

"That's right. Why is Yunyun at the Snow Valley? What exactly is going on here? I hope you can give me a reasonable explanation," Wei Zhao said.

"Although your current strength is enough to hold the Snow Valley in contempt, I still must say this: you and Tang Zhi—back then, there was a deal between you and the Snow Valley! I do not wish to see you come and break that deal now that you have strength!" Xueli said. "It is true that the cultivation world respects the strong, but at the very least, we helped you, and Tang Zhi agreed to this deal of her own free will. Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were present at the time as well, and they did not object either, so..."

"Enough. Just tell me exactly what happened." Xueli's words made Wei Zhao even more astonished. Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu knew as well? And it was a deal? Tang Zhi had agreed of her own accord?

"Back then, you suffered qi deviation and needed the Icy Spirit Sacred Fruit, but Gu Mengyao's family had run into some trouble and could not come up with that much money. Just then, Tang Zhi happened to accept the Snow Valley's inheritance, so we set the condition that she stay here, and in exchange we resolved your problem." Xueli spoke simply. "Do you not remember that you suffered qi deviation before?"

"Oh?" Wei Zhao immediately sank into thought. Indeed—that was when he had returned to the West Star Mountain Village and opened the stone door a second time, intending to temper his body according to the methods within. As a result, he had suffered qi deviation...

So that was how his qi deviation had come about! And Gu Pengzhan's company had indeed run into some trouble at the time, though Wei Zhao had not thought much of it then. He had simply stepped in to resolve the problem, and afterward, because of other matters, he had never looked into it carefully again.