Chapter 458: Respected System Lord

Who am I?

Where am I?

What am I supposed to do?

These three questions escaped Lu Ye's lips.

At this moment, he was completely disoriented, for he had no memories at all—like a newborn baby, a completely blank slate.

He could speak, since speaking came naturally to him.

Yin Qingcheng had left, and the Dark Origin had long since disappeared completely.

His gaze could only settle on the distant, colossal silhouette.

It was the Great Sage of the Nine Heavens, who had been watching the whole time.

Lu Ye and the Great Sage of the Nine Heavens met eyes, and the latter couldn’t help but reveal a faint smile—though he remained silent.

"Do you know who I am?" Lu Ye finally asked.

The Great Sage of the Nine Heavens shook his head.

Lu Ye scratched his head, frustrated.

He felt completely lost, with all his memories gone.

But just then, a strange voice rang out in Lu Ye’s head.

*Ding! Lowly host, the mighty System is now online. What do you want? I can grant it for you!*

*Beep! Marginally better host, the revered Little Providence has come online. What is your wish? Tell me, and I can ask my sister to grant it for you!*

Lu Ye got it.

This Little Providence was weaker than the System.

Having no memories left, he didn't remember the System or Little Providence.

But he could still think.

"Great System, I think I’ve lost my memories. Do you know who I am?" Lu Ye asked.

*Ding! Yes, your name is Lu Ye!*

"Lu Ye..."

He repeated the name, finding it strangely familiar. No doubt, that was his name.

"So, I’ve lost my memories?" Lu Ye asked again.

*Ding! Correct. But I can help you recover them—if you say 'big sister' first!*

Lu Ye fell silent.

Though his memories were gone, for some inexplicable reason, he felt an overwhelming urge to drag out the owner of this voice and teach them a lesson with a spanking.

Not just any spanking—but the kind that lands squarely on the backside with a firm, satisfying smack.

This thought was completely unfounded.

Lu Ye decided to follow his heart.

"Do you want to get beaten up?" Lu Ye asked.

"Ding?"

"Di!"

It seemed unexpected that even with his memories lost, Lu Ye could still have such ideas.

Lu Ye immediately realized his words worked.

"Stop fooling around, help me recover my memories!" Lu Ye said firmly.

"Ding, damn it, even amnesiac and still this sharp!"

"Di, that's my host for you, so impressive!"

Soon, memories began pouring in like a stream into Lu Ye's mind.

It was as if Lu Ye was reviewing his entire life, watching scene after scene appear.

When the Heartless Sage's trials came, Lu Ye and the System had already backed up his memories and entrusted them to the System for safekeeping—this was the reason for Lu Ye's unshakable confidence in this life.

However, entrusting one's memories to another was an extremely risky move.

The thought of someone freely altering your memories and the terrifying consequences that could follow was unimaginable.

Lu Ye was well aware of this risk. The fact that he could hand them over to the System meant he had absolute trust in it.

Sure enough, as the memories surfaced, the first to emerge were those between him and the System. Lu Ye felt a headache coming on.

How could a perfectly good System turn into such a woman?

And one so absolutely gorgeous at that?

Yet, faced with a woman as stunning as Shen Xitong, he didn't even make a move, let alone make her his?

How was that possible?

It seemed there were only two possibilities: the first being that he had become a eunuch.

Lu Ye instinctively glanced downward—everything seemed fine, definitely not a eunuch.

That left the second possibility: he already had a wife.

"I have a wife?" Lu Ye asked while absorbing the memories.

"Ding, yes!"

Lu Ye nodded. That made sense. He must truly love his wife; otherwise, how could he resist such a beautiful and trusted System? He was practically a saint!

"Ding, want to guess how many wives you have?"

For a moment, Lu Ye was completely stunned, even wondering if he heard right.

"What do you mean 'how many wives'? Shouldn't there only be one?"

"Ding, you have eight wives!"

Lu Ye froze.

"You’re kidding, right?"

"Ding, 100% true!"

Lu Ye...

Eight wives... What the hell?

Logically, you should only have one wife, since monogamy is deeply ingrained. Having eight wives—damn, that’s straight-up illegal, isn’t it?

And eight wives? That’s one short of the ultimate nine!

Not just cultivators, even ordinary people know that nine is the ultimate number. If you had eight, you’d never skip someone as stunning as Shen Xitong!

Lu Ye’s forehead creased like crumpled paper.

He wasn’t a eunuch either.

So... that could only mean...

"So, did all eight of them cheat on me?" Lu Ye asked.

He could hardly believe it. Was he really that bad in bed that all eight strayed?

"Ding-ding-ding..."

The System giggled, chiming like wind chimes.

"Ding, gotcha! Just kidding. Let’s continue transferring your memories."

Lu Ye sighed in relief. At least he wasn’t getting played. Otherwise, those eight wives would’ve been six feet under.

These were post-rebirth memories—patchy, but he could connect the dots.

"Why’s it piecemeal? Why not dump all the memories at once?" Lu Ye asked.

"Ding, buddy, you asked for this."

The conversation between him and the System when he was struck by the Heartless Sage’s Energy resurfaced in his mind.

"System, about the memories—sort the ones related to those eight women into separate files. I’ll decide later which ones to keep and which to discard. Some memories deserve to rot in oblivion."

"Ding, understood!"

So now, his current memories contained very little about those eight ex-wives.

He could choose whose memories to recover and whose to leave buried.

Even though the memories of those eight ex-wives were sparse, Lu Ye still knew who they were. Their ghosts haunted both his past and present.

"Since Bai Qiulan, Chu Ling, and Jiang Die were bound to the *Human Emperor Banner*, let’s recover the memories related to them."

More memories meant a fuller picture—and he needed that. After all, life should be whole, and so should memories.

Immediately, the memories of these three ex-wives began to resurface.

Lu Ye saw himself saving Chu Ling, only to lose his voice; butting into Bai Qiulan’s business like a fool; and falling for Jiang Die the second he saw her.

Damn, he had it coming!

But at least he owned up to his mistakes. Unless they crossed him first, he held back from killing them—that was his twisted idea of mercy.