I didn’t know what Lucian poured down my throat, but it tasted disgusting. Not to mention the bad taste, my body began to hurt a bit and it wasn’t even due to the backhand slap.
Just then, Ban appeared in front of me stand still wearing his panda suit that covered his entire body. Even though the suit masks his face, his body expression could easily tell you that he was tired.
“Ban? What are you doing here?” I ask him.
Ban didn’t say anything. His body slumped down to the ground and he started to roll around.
‘??? What is he doing?’ I was slightly confused at what Ban was doing in front of me. Surely he didn’t show up just to roll around now.
Only about half an hour later did Ban stop rolling around and finally spoke.
“Sorry. Was enjoying the moment” Ban said to me. “I only came here to tell you one thing Jin.”
“Hm? And what is that Ban?”
“We gave you a heavenly potion that slows down your qi training” He told me.
I rubbed the side of my head and thought, ‘…. Are you nuts? I only have 2 years and 11 months and yet you are trying to slow me down? Is there a real reason to do all this? I might as well stay a virgin! That or do a lot of good deeds…’
“Why yes we do Jin.” Ban said out of the blue. “You know I can read your thoughts if you say them out too loud right?’
“Ngggggh…. Can you stop the mind reading Ban?” I wanted to cry because I don’t even have privacy in my own thoughts.
“Mmmm Nope. Too tiring to put effort into not listening to your thoughts Jin. After all, we are you as you know” Ban points out.
“*Sigh* Please just tell me the reason Ban…”
“Simple. You told Lucian that your qi training sped up your memory recovery so we decided to slow it down. If we slow down your qi training, we slow down your memory recovery right?” Ban was being plain about things with the logic they had.
Hearing this, I could feel the blood draining away from my face. “… I just shot myself in the foot didn’t I?”
Ban looked at Jin and could hear the inner wailing of Jin’s soul. ‘Did we do something wrong?’
But it wasn’t their fault. It was Jin’s fault for lying to Lucian. He shouldn’t have told them half the truth. He should’ve told them that the souls were the ones that made Jin remember his old memories while he was doing qi training not the qi energy’s fault for making him remember.
Back in Jin’s mind…..
Lucian and the others went to place more seals around Jin’s original powers and memories. Based on guesses alone, they thought that the qi Jin gathered was either trying to break the chains and seals they placed on him or the qi were resonating with each other and was trying to pull the other one out.
But when the three got there, the seals and chains were all fine. There were no signs of resonance either.
‘… Assimilator? Why does everything look perfectly fine?’ Lucian asked.
‘Uh… No clue.’ The Assimilator scratches his head
Ren frowned at the perfectly fine seals. “If qi training was the cause of Jin’s recalling, then would there be signs… you know?”
Even the Assimilator had no words to say about it. Everything looked so fine that it looks wrong. The heavenly seals on the inside restricted Jin’s original powers and the demonic seals on the outside would bring back the leaked qi into the inner heavenly seals. It was a perfect cycle of imprisonment that there was no possible way for the qi to get out.
The Assimilator thought and thought about it over and over. How was it possible for Jin to remember if his old qi has yet to be disturbed? There were no signs of any flaws. ‘Hold on… What about…’
The Assimilator flew all the way to check up on the other seals within Jin’s body. The seals of the Red Ruler, the Cyan Conqueror, and the other eight. But there were no abnormalities either. Only Cyan’s seal was a little cracked but looked like it was slightly repaired and was only leaking out a little qi. But it was not enough to affect anything. ‘Strange… if his old qi and their qi exists within Jin…. Eleven different qi should’ve caused a resonance that could’ve invoked Jin’s old qi. But…. They exists in harmony as if nothing is going to happen…’
The Assimilator couldn’t make any sense of things. In fact, nothing made sense. He didn’t even know how it was possible that Jin was able to remember if the lines of reasons didn’t connect. The Assimilator felt like he was being toyed with the more he think about it. He really just want to rip out his hair in frustration.
‘Hey Assimilator’ A voice suddenly calls out to him.
The Assimilator looked to see who was calling him and it was a small demonic looking blue sea serpent. The small demonic blue sea serpent had three horns protruding out of its head and spikes growing out of the middle of its spine. The fins of the small sea serpent had a transparent look and releases small amounts of cold energies every time they flap.
‘? Cyan? Is that you?’ The Assimilator’s face twisted into a look of confusion with his head tilted. ‘Why are you…’
‘Mhm. Well, this is my avatar. I don’t come out often so I have to send an avatar every once in a while.’ The small demonic blue sea serpent said. It then transform into a small humanoid form. ‘What is troubling you?’
‘Uh… Well… Thing is…’ The Assimilator started to tell Cyan of his problems. ‘And that is the story Cyan. I just don’t know how it was possible for him to remember’
Cyan was listening intently through the entire story and smiled once the Assimilator reached the ending. ‘Ha ha ha ha ha! Seems like you only have half the truth Assimilator. But you also might wanna fix your mistake’ Cyan laughed loudly.
‘Eh… Huh? What was that supposed to mean?’ the Assimilator looked dumbfounded.
‘What I mean is, indeed he got his memories during qi training, but the qi was not the real reason why he remembers.’ Cyan teased the Assimilator. Cyan knew what type of person the Assimilator was and frustration was one of the many things the Assimilator hated.
The Assimilator’s face‘… You know I hate being messed with so can you please just tell me already?’
‘Hmmm… I think you either need to help Jin condition his body first or else his blood vessels will pop and this entire future would be screwed. Then I will tell you’ Cyan playfully said.
The Assimilator had a blank look on his face. He didn’t know what was going on. ‘What did he mean by blood vessels popping and future screwed?’ The Assimilator asked himself.
This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.
“*ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR* An ear splitting roar rang out from inside Jin’s body. His old qi rumbled and blasted out great shockwaves and shook the space itself.
‘…. Wait… Oh sheeeeeeeeeeeeit!!!!!!’ The Assimilator finally realized what Cyan meant. If the qi wasn’t really the problem and Jin’s qi was being condensed at the moment, then that means Jin would need to do meditation to help condensing the qi at this very moment. If something goes wrong, his entire meridians would be blasted to bits. At worst, Jin would die. ‘Oh damn. The heavenly potion… It awakened the qi!’
The Assimilator ran back as fast as he could to call the other two.
Cyan was just laughing in the back ground. ‘Oh man… They should’ve waited until he was at the fiftieth stage to give him that potion… Now… Ah ha! But there is a way to reverse it… Thankfully, they got the ingredients. ^.^. I just hope nothing goes wrong’ Cyan thought to himself before going back into his own seal.
Back on the outside world where Jin and Ban is….
Jin’s body suddenly spasmed. He fell down to the ground holding his entire body and screamed out in pain. It was a good thing that the domain still existed even after Lucian went back because Lucian forgot to retract it. If the domain didn’t exist everyone would run to find out who was screaming. Soon enough, Jin passed out but his body still convulsed.
Ban had a worried look because he didn’t know what was wrong. Jin’s body was suddenly in pain out and Ban didn’t know why.
‘Ban! Hurry up and help Jin condense his qi! Also help circulate his qi! Give some qi if needed!’ The Assimilator screamed as he quickly appeared with Ren and Lucian in both hands.
‘Huh!? Uh…. Okay…’ Ban was baffled as to why the Assimilator suddenly said for him to help Jin condense his qi. But Ban soon found out the reason why. Jin’s body started to suck the qi around the area at a lighting speed.
Ban, Ren and Lucian quickly placed their hands on Jin’s back to help absorb and condense the qi.
‘Oh sh*t! Jin’s body is actually digesting the potion made from heavenly ingredients that fast?’ The Assimilator cried. ‘No choice then!’
The Assimilator placed his hand on Jin’s dantian. ‘Guys! Help me circulate the qi once it is fully condensed!’
The other three didn’t even need to respond back. They knew what they were about to do and was already half way through the process.
But when the Assimilator placed his hand on Jin’s dantian, he found that the medicine really didn’t slow down Jin’s qi circulation. Instead, it sped it up as if the dantian was the stomach and alive. Furthermore, the dantian was acting up like it was alive. The dantian was just absorbing the positive effects of the potion and neutralizing the negative effects.
‘!!! The hell?’ The Assimilator was just admiring Jin’s ability to absorb the medicine. Even he, The Assimilator, needed more time to absorb such medicines with strong effects and to neutralize the negative effects. ‘But this is no time to admire him…’
Hours flew by….
3:00 pm….
It took them a while before they got the qi to fully condense and to circulate it. But when they were finished, they were shocked to see the result.
‘!!! This is-‘ All four had their jaws dropped.
“Ugh… My head… My body… Why they hurt so much today?” Jin’s vision, still hazy, got up. “Hmmm......? Why is it so breezy? Did someone open the window?”
“Jin’s body had shrunk?” Lucian didn’t know what to say.
“*Tch* Nope… He reversed aged…. Eight years…” The Assimilator clicked his tongue.
“… I thought you gave him a potion to help slow down his cultivation. Not his growth as a person…” Ban felt strange seeing Jin so young.
Ren glanced sideways and had a tired look on his face. “Assimilator… Was this one of your mistakes?”
“Nope. But It seems like Jin’s cultivation level went back to normal level and the medicine had absolutely no effects what so ever beside turning him young. Huh… interesting…” The Assimilator stroked his chin.
Though I hear four voices, I couldn’t tell who the last one was. ‘Assimilator? Is he also one of my past lives as well?’
My eyes were kinda blurry and I couldn’t see well because it felt like I just woke up from a nightmare.
My body feels heavy, I feel a lot shorter, and I think I heard my voice being a little high pitched. “Lucian? Who is Assimilator?”
“Uh… No one!” Lucian denied as he whispers, “Go on. Get out and we’ll fix this later.”
When I could finally see better, there were three large recognizable figures in front of me. “Lucian? Ban? Ren? Why are you all so big? Did you eat something to grow taller? Or did you feed me some weird drug like crack?”
“Uh…. Yes! That’s right! I gave you… Crack 3.0 in liquid form!” Lucian exclaims.
I look down at my body to see that I was stark naked. But moreover, It seemed like I was a lot smaller. “… Lucian….”
“Huh? What is it Jin?” Lucian began to sweat.
I touched all over my body to check whether or not I was dreaming or high. “Why… am I… so small?”
“Alright Jin. To put it plain and simple. We gave- *MMuuppphhh*” Ren was about to speak when Ban muffled him.
“We gave you magical crack 3.0! It turns you back a few years younger!” Ban said aloud.
‘!!! Ban! What are you doing!?’ Ren was angry because he was being muffled. Lucian went over to Ren and gave a blow to his stomach and knocked him out.
“Yep! Ha ha! One of my pranks actually. Have fun being a kid for the day!” Lucian laughed and brought the other two away with the snap of a finger and disappeared.
‘!!! LUUUUUUUUUUUUUCIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIANNNNNNN!!!!’ I roared out. But they already got away. I ran to the bathroom to confirm their words and they were right. I turned back a few years of age and looked ten! Now, I wished that it really was just a nightmare.
Just then, I heard the door being opened. The bathroom door being opened not the front door. Meracle went into the bathroom and found me naked as a child. 'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' I screamed inside my heart. It was the biggest embarrassing moment of my life.