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Spring Autumn Cicada
春秋蝉
Gu · Time · The Refined Treasure
The Gu that cost Fang Yuan five hundred years and tens of millions of lives, and the one he is refining again when his second life begins.
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Written into 13 of 346 published paragraphs (4%) — first at chapter 1, ¶1, most recently at chapter 2, ¶11.
What it is
The Spring Autumn Cicada is the Gu at the centre of Fang Yuan's first death. The righteous sects that corner him want it badly enough to offer terms in the middle of a massacre.
Hand over the Spring Autumn Cicada without struggle, and I shall grant you a quick death!
Chapter 1, paragraph 1
What it cost
The price of refining it is stated by his enemies, as an accusation, and is never denied.
To refine that cursed Spring Autumn Cicada, you slaughtered tens of millions of innocent lives!
Chapter 1, paragraph 3
What it does
The chapters have not explained the mechanism. What they show is what Fang Yuan expects of it, spoken in the moment before he dies.
“If this newly refined Spring Autumn Cicada works, I will still be a demon in my next life!”
Chapter 1, paragraph 22
Traversing the River of Time upstream, the novel opens again on a fifteen-year-old in Gu Yue Village who remembers five hundred years, which is the answer to what the Cicada did.
Why it matters
Every wiki can tell you this is the object the plot turns on. Only this one can point at the sentence where he bets his soul on it, and then hand you the chapter where the bet pays out.