In the black market at the border, Shen Yuan is a memory-taker that everyone can bully, and makes a living by stripping away memories for others. Today, a fairy sect master handed over a ball of memories with golden edges, asking for a deal on "how to become the lord of a border town." When Shen Yuan lowered his head, he saw with his causal vision - there were three causal threads wrapped around this memory, one tied to his lost sister, one connected to the millions of refugees outside the city, and the last one was slowly wrapping around his neck. Shen Yuan smiled. He calmly accepted the deal, turned around and used the three thousand shi of food he had hoarded to feed the migrant workers outside the city overnight. When Master Xianmen led troops to siege the city and asked him to hand over the key to the granary, Shen Yuan stood at the top of the city and crushed that memory: "The position of city lord you bought was exchanged for my sister's memory. Now, millions of refugees remember that it was you who burned down their homes with your own hands." The city gate opened, and the refugees rushed to the master like a tide. The cause and effect came back, and his cultivation collapsed inch by inch. This is Shen Yuan's first battle. But he knew that the threads of cause and effect that were wrapped around his body tightened every time they were used. And he must continue - because only by hoarding enough supplies and seeing all the cause and effect can he find the close relative who is a stranger due to the memory of the contract, and ask her: Do you still remember me?
