This question seems a bit difficult, Fuji thought for a long time before answering.

"Because the way I remember things is different from yours.

"Unless it’s something irresistible like the Will of the Four Continents or the Earth Sea tide, in theory, I wouldn’t forget anything!

"I remember useful and useless things alike, even the shapes and numbers of raindrops when it rains.

"This is actually quite troublesome, so I package past memories separately and shove them into rooms in a large house I imagine.

"The large house has many, many rooms, and past memories are placed into the rooms behind locked doors.

"Although some memories might still leak out, most will be ’forgotten’ by me in this way.

"After all, I’ve lived for so long, if I remember everything, how could I possibly live my life?"

Fuji elongated her voice.

However.

Cat Lady Emperor, "I don’t understand. Let me try; practice makes perfect."

Fuji, "Ordinary people can’t handle it, one slip and you might end up demented."

Cat Lady Emperor, "Not afraid, I’m invincible."

Faced with the strange request from the Cat Lady Emperor, Fuji hesitated for a moment, then cautiously allowed the Cat Lady Emperor to experience her memory wonder house.

And then...

"Aye! Hey! Hehehe..."

Cat Lady Emperor let out a meaningless idiotic utterance.

Zhang Ze, "..."

After figuring out what really happened back then and almost driving the Emperor to madness, this memory retrieval came to a formal end.

Zhang Ze opened his eyes and found himself still in the cave within Baiyujing, and only a quarter of an hour had passed. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

He was about to speak to Fuji but saw that she seemed a bit busy at the moment.

Fuji’s ability to communicate with Zhang Ze depended solely on the sword spirit carrying the Cat Lady Emperor’s consciousness, and just moments ago, Fuji’s act of letting the Cat Lady Emperor experience her memory wonder house seemed to have crashed the Cat Lady Emperor.

Currently, she was tilting her head, gaping her mouth like someone already broken, destined to spend the rest of her life bedridden.

Fuji was exerting all her effort to rescue her.

Zhang Ze dared not speak; he quietly came to sit by the stone table, resting his chin as he sank into contemplation.

After reviewing the clues known to him and the anomalies of the Holy Land, he guessed Xiao Jing’s intentions.

"You guessed right, Xiao Jing wants to reverse the process of my fragmentation to become my original self, the eldest son of the Four Continents.

"Then replace it to become the Four Continents themselves, fulfilling what he calls the great path."

Fuji’s voice appropriately sounded by Zhang Ze’s ear.

Zhang Ze paused, but did not answer immediately, instead looking at the Cat Lady Emperor whose head still hung limp to one side, asking casually, "She..."

"Gave up treatment." Fuji answered simply.

Zhang Ze, "..."

Fuji, "Don’t worry, the Emperor is fine; at most she’ll just forget some memories, have a few extra memories, be confused for days, and then have headaches for a few days... yes, it will definitely be this way."

Zhang Ze, "..."

Fuji, "Alright, don’t mind these little things, come with me, there are important matters at hand."

Zhang Ze, "..."

————Dividing line for praying for the Emperor————

Cat Lady Emperor slowly opened her eyes, feeling a bit dizzy, her past memories and those of Fuji intermingling and surfacing, yesterday’s events vividly presented.

She even clearly remembered yesterday when she went to the Beast Taming Sect to scoop dung, feeling the subtle touch with her fingertips and the neglected scents in the air.

"Oh ho... glug glug"

The Emperor couldn’t hold back a dry heave, but before even halfway through she felt a wave of suffocation.

Struggling, she found she was not in the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion classroom but underwater.

When she finally flipped through the messy memories and retrieved the Water Avoidance Spell, barely managing to cast it, she was half-dead already.

Cat Lady Emperor rubbed her still intermittently throbbing head as she looked around.

She found she wasn’t in the Qianji Primary School classroom but rather in an underwater base. Although this base was set with a decompression array, it had not been treated with water avoidance, everything was soaked.

Cat Lady Emperor carefully tiptoed over suspicious fungal mats, squeezed past the warp crystals shaped like Taisui, flipped over the entrance blocked by Human Race architecture, and finally navigated around a bend in a trench before clearly seeing the base’s full view.

Then, she was startled.

In the underwater base, many Little Fujis were dangling in varied positions.

Some gold, some blue, ethereal fungal threads sprouted from their heads, extending three feet before dissolving into the void, unknown as to where they lead.

Upon detailed observation, the Cat Lady Emperor noticed all Little Fujis had their eyes tightly shut.

Their bodies expanded and contracted with breaths, and as they breathed, faintly detectable golden light specks appeared by her side, absorbed by them.

Afterward, the gold was more golden, and golden patterns started to appear within the blues.

Though this scene seemed a bit eerie, for some reason the Cat Lady Emperor suddenly thought of oysters hanging on seabed stakes and nets, living by filter feeding.

Speaking of oysters, how could one not mention garlic oysters, breaded and fried, sea oysters with soy sauce...

Tears uncontrollably trickled from the corners of the Cat Lady Emperor’s mouth, mixing into the sea.

"No! This isn’t the time for thinking about these, I must first rescue these Little Fujis."

However, just as Cat Lady Emperor was about to move forward, she noticed a Little Fuji suddenly shift.