Chapter 279: A Long Time Ago
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The shattering of jade rings in Liu Jin’s ears and reverberates in his hands. A familiar weightless feeling takes hold of his body as his surroundings fade to white and a new scenery takes their place.
However, something is different.
Whenever he shatters one of Old Jiang’s memory jades, Liu Jin sees the memory stored inside from the perspective of his master. It is as if the two were sharing a body. As a result, Liu Jin has become somewhat familiar with the feel of Old Jiang’s old bones.
This is not it.
His height is wrong. His eyesight is wrong. His limbs are too small and feeble. There is no power in his muscles. He is… He is…
He is young.
“It stinks here,” Liu Jin hears himself say. Sure enough, his voice is that of a young boy.
“What did you expect?” Someone next to him, an older boy, asks him. He’s at least half a head taller, and his round belly protrudes from the dirty rags he calls clothes. “Can’t exactly smell like a field of flowers, can it?”