It was a little boy, about four years old. He had an apple-pink face, bright eyes and graceful eyebrows.
"Oh, It's you!"
Austin was both surprised and pleased. He knew this little boy.
He had run into the little one when he was being chased and fortunately escaped into the chaotic void.
It was from this little boy that he learned how to use the Omnipotent Lightness.
Not very long afterwards, for some reason, the little one fell into deep sleep.
Not sure what to do and seeing that it could take quite some time, Austin put him in a quiet corner of the Slave Tower.
Some time had passed. Austin was surprised to see that the little boy had come out of the tower by himself. He must have woken up from his sound sleep and decided to look around.
"When did you wake up? How do you feel now, little friend? No, I mean..."
Austin stopped talking, wondering what he should call this boy.
Although they had spent time together in the void, he knew nothing about this little one, who was mysterious in every way.
Back then, the little boy shocked him by easily knocking out the leader of the Yaksha Palace along with a batch of sect ancestor level masters from the underworld.
Then, Austin remembered that one of the masters mentioned the boy had something to do with an old legend.
While he was sleeping, Austin had asked many masters in the older generation whether they had ever heard of such an old legend and who the little boy was.
But to his disappointment, none of them could give Austin a straight answer.
Through the information he had got that spanned a good number of years, Austin got only a very vague idea about it. It was said that it might have been passed down for a dozen eras or so.
It was highly likely that it had something to do with the divine gods of the ancient times.
Despite all that, he still knew nothing the little boy.
Now, he completely ignored Austin as if he didn't hear him at all.
Instead, he put his hands behind his back and stared at the spots of flying light in the cracks.
From the look on his face to the way he carried himself, there was nothing juvenile about him at all. He acted more like a wise man who had experienced many things in life and had seen the changing of the times.
It was strange that the overwhelming energy pressing toward Austin disappeared without a trace, the moment the little boy stood by him.
After several years of sleep, the little boy seemed like a completely different person to Austin.
He suddenly remembered what the little boy had told him before he dozed off.
'He said he often falls into a long sleep.
When he wakes up, he will not remember anything about what happened before that, no matter how significant it was.
His memory kind of goes back to square one, all over again. Guess he's telling the truth'
Austin thought of what the boy once told him.
"It's a very frustrating condition."
The boy stared at the dense dots of light for some time, and then heaved a long and heavy sigh. He stretched out his hand and gently motioned them forward.
Instantly, all the light spots in the crack dimmed and slowed down.
After some time, the spots of light completely stopped moving. They just floated aimlessly in the crack like the stars in the dark sky.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?
It's too dangerous to stay here. You may end up dead at any time."
Finally turning to Austin, the boy, pointed out lightly.
At this moment, Austin found that his manner of speaking was no longer that of a naive little boy like before.
He was talking like an elder of a very high rank, and Austin was just a junior to him.
"Sir, it seems that you have really forgotten me. Don't you remember me?"
Austin asked and at the same time, he activated his spiritual sense. A wave of information rushed out of his Soul Sea, which soon transformed into holographic projections in front of the boy.
He was almost certain that he was talking to a legendary grand master in ancient times, so he dared not call him 'little boy' again.
The projections clearly displayed the short but precious time the two of them spent together.
They also showed that, before the boy fell asleep, he gave Austin a piece information through his spiritual sense.
He asked Austin to keep it for him. If he couldn't remember anything that happened when he woke up, then Austin would show it to him to help him restore his memory and remember who Austin was.
"Thank you. I remember now.
It seems that we are indeed destined to meet."
The boy nodded after he finished looking at the images.
"You're planning to go back to Earth through this space passage, aren't you?"
asked the boy with composure.
"I am, sir,"
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