He wasn't simply suppressing memories; he was manipulating the very pathways of thought, severing specific neural connections, replacing them with confusion, with misdirection. He was a sculptor of the mind, reshaping perception.
He didn't want to destroy Penatua Wu’s mind, not entirely. He needed him to remain functional, to unwittingly feed the sect false information, to become a unwitting puppet in his game. So, he didn't erase everything. He merely removed the critical details: the vision of his true spiritual root, the terrifying aura, the conscious memory of why he had entered Jian's room. He left the vague sense of unease, the nagging suspicion that something was wrong, but no concrete evidence, no specific target.
Instead, Jian implanted a different, more mundane memory: Penatua
