Ten seconds. That's how long it took for the figure to merge with Hao Xuan in both body and mind.
Hao Xuan went through over fifty years of life experiences in the span of those few seconds.
The memories started from the age of three with the death of his parents. He didn't remember their faces or any other details about them.
A woman came and explained to him that they were no longer with him and that he needed to go somewhere else now since the house they were living in had to be given to someone else.
Unable to refuse or even understand most of what was going on he could only watch as he was taken away to an orphanage owned by a nobleman.
He spent the next seven years there along with almost two hundred other boys of his age. It was a slow and mind-numbingly dull experience. They were not taught anything other than manual labor or if they were talented, how to fight.
As weak as Hao Xuan was he could only be in the first group.