After that incident, the last word she said was, "I'll believe you for Xiao Xue's sake."

She didn't ponder about what Zhen Lun did. Though It was a bit terrifying for her to see blood on the floor, she didn't scream.

Seeing him doing it smoothly, without a sweat, she didn't think too much about it. She didn't know what Zhen Lun did was an impossible act.

Though it was a selfish answer, he was satisfied with that answer.

It's his fault for ruining the atmosphere of the room. After that, he just decided to stay quite and let them play with each other.

Well... he wouldn't say they are 'playing'. One of them would constantly ask questions while others would answer it. It's more like Q&A event.

"We should go and see how the feast going." Zhen Lun said to them.

Hearing what Zhen Lun said, Xiao Xue quickly ran to his side.

Zhen Le was petrified to see Xiao Xue ran away from her. She was too excited that she didn't sense Xiao Xue was uncomfortable with the questions she asked.

"Don't just sit there, you are coming right?" Zhen Lun asked.

"Un." Zhen Le nodded her head. She has made up her mind to apologize to her parents. She didn't want to cooped up in her room anymore.

-----

At the dining room, where the tonight's feasts will be served.

The table was changed to a larger table. This table allows you to fit at least twenty people but it will be occupied by only five people.

Appetizing feasts were served on top of the table, they were all made of first-rate ingredients.

Just take an ordinary-looking dish, for example, the fried chicken that was set on the table. Even though it doesn't look special, it has a story behind it.

The chicken was from the Savage Desert, a place that was filled with dangerous beasts. The chicken itself was a dangerous creature but its meat was heavenly

When you bite into it, the meat will be bursting with juices. The meat will then melt like butter as it touched your tongue.

Other than that, The meat has fire-properties in it. Ordinary people that eat it will become more powerful and healthy. It was specially prepared for Zhen Le.

For someone like Zhen Lun, it has some effect too but the effect will be indistinct.

"I'll go wake, Zhen Xin. I'll have to trouble you to call my kids to come over." Zhen Kang told General Shui.

"There's no need to call them." General Shui replied. He has memorized how Zhen Le's footsteps sound like. As soon as he heard it he knew that they are coming.

Zhen Kang was too happy that he didn't pay attention to his surroundings. Only when he heard what General Shui said, he can sense them coming.

"Then I'll go wake Zhen Xin up." Zhen Kang didn't want to waste any time, he purposely used his movement technique to quickly arrive at his destination.

"Honey, The dinner is ready." Zhen Kang gently lifts her up, carrying her like a princess.

"I can walk on my own." Zhen Xin blushed and pinched her husband.

Even though it hurts, Zhen Kang kept a poker face and proceeds to carry her like a princess.

Arriving at the dining hall, both of them can see Zhen Lun and two Zhen Le at the same time?!

Zhen Kang was shocked but he immediately knew which one is Zhen Le.

Zhen Xin was also in dazed when she saw Xiao Xue, unlike the reaction from Zhen Kang, she was frowning.

Zhen Lun immediately noticed the weird looks from his parents. "I know both of you are shocked even I'm shocked too."

"Lun'er, who is this girl?" Zhen Xin asked with a sense of wariness toward Xiao Xue.

"It's a long story. What's wrong you look unwell?" Zhen Lun noticed the unusual behavior from his mother.

"N-nothing, Let's just eat first and we'll talk about it later." Zhen Xin wryly smiled.

Zhen Kang transferred his thoughts to Zhen Xin. 'Is she...'

'I think so too, it can't be a coincidence. We'll talk to Zhen Lun later, let's not dwell on that matter for now.' Zhen Xin replied.

'Yes, of course.' Zhen Kang agreed.

"Let's dig in." Zhen Lun said cheerfully.

All of them started to grabbed their chopsticks and eat to their fullest. Zhen Le suprisingly eats with a huge appetite, mother too was eating like how she would eat normally.

Everything is perfect, Zhen Le apologized to them and both of them forgave her. Looking their smile he was glad. Afterward, we played some family game that was recently invented. Zhen Le knew about it and taught it to us. It was pretty fun.

By the time they realized it, It's already midnight. Zhen Le and Xiao Xue were sent to bed, leaving three of them finally a chance to discuss the matter about Xiao Xue.

"Lun'er what was her name again?"

"I called her Xiao Xue. She doesn't know her own name, The only thing she has was a pendant that has "Snow" (The Character) engraved on it so she doesn't have a family name yet." Zhen Lun explained.

"Xue? What kind of pendant was it? Is it made of yin wood?" Zhen Xin asked anxiously.

"This... I don't know the details about it. I don't think she knows about it too." Zhen Lun replied. He didn't know much, he didn't pursue the matter that further when Xiao Xue told him about it.

"I see..." Zhen Xin was disappointed.

"You see, your mother has a twin sister. We're suspecting that she is her child." Zhen Xin said in a grim tone. "Did you remember when I told you the story about how I met your father?"

"Of course, if I'm not wrong, Mother was trapped in a prison and Father rescued you from there." Zhen Lun faintly recalled some of them but mother didn't explain everything to him as he was still a child back then.

"Yes, but the story isn't as simple as that. Since you are old enough now, we'll tell you about it."

"Your mother real name is Xue Xin."

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Somewhere around the Southern Plains.

The environment around that place was harsh, cold winds occasionally passed by. The sky is snowing despite its not winter. Sometimes it will even have a severe snowstorm with sustained strong winds.

In the middle of nowhere around the open plains, there existed an unorthodox sect, called Snow Yin Sect. The members of the sect consisted of females only.

She and her twin sister was kidnapped from a village and was brought here. In fact, their fate has been sealed since the very beginning because the village that they stayed was actually one of Snow Yin Sect's tools. It's a tool to raise their offsprings. They will take them away when the time has come.

Both of them don't know what happened to them.

Why would they be kidnapped and thrown into the middle of nowhere?

The only thing they know is to survive. Luckily, even though both of them are separated from each other, they survived the first stage of their hellish training.

Of course, both of them don't know about each other situation. They were separated from each other purposely by the Snow Yin Sect.

The second stage of the training started before they realized it. Some them wished that they should've just died in the first stage.

During this stage, they were being forced to kill off their own mind, making them into expressionless creature only to serve the sect loyally.

They were constantly being tortured every single day. After the torture they will be thrown into a pit with maggots. They repeated it until either their dead inside or went mad.

Xue Xin was either of them, she manages to keep her feelings and pretends to expressionless. It was due to her unbelievably strong mind that she managed to resist the torture.

At this time while her emotion wasn't entirely gone, some of her emotions were lost. She has long forgotten about her sister and family. The only thing that kept her going was surviving.

Xue Xin swore that she will find a way to escape from this hellish place. She constantly doing her job while finding an opportunity to escape. But before she could, she was discovered that her mind wasn't entirely killed.

Due to her amazing talents, they decided to not kill her immediately. The Snow Yin Sect wanted to find a way to make her submit to them.

Xue Xin was imprisoned in the underground prison, being cuffed all of her limbs, with no way of escape.

While she was imprisoned. She met a man, the most handsome man that she met in her life.

The man was being stripped naked in his prison, revealing its amazing attractive figure, his neck, shoulder, chest, and abs. They're all perfect. His muscles were also perfectly portioned as it is not too macho-looking. With his smooth-looking skin and aggressive eyes looking at her passionately.

She immediately fell in love. Maybe it's because he's the first man that he met but either way she definitely feels the thumping on her chest.

Coincidentally the man also has feelings toward Xue Xin, he unhesitantly revealed his identity to her. It turned out he purposely gets himself caught to investigate this sect, forgetting his primary objective, he only wanted to get out with the woman in front of him alive.

He decided to escape from this prison and bring her along with her.

Cough*

"Ehem, That's not how it went." Zhen Kang interrupted her. "You asked me to save you and said that you'll do anything. I ended up failing my mission and was scolded by the Emperor."

"Huh??" Zhen Xin glared at him, Zhen Kang was forced to comply, he immediately shut his mouth and said, "Carry on."

The man got Xue Xin free from her prison and slaughtered everyone that obstruct their way. They got to escape from the Snow Yin Sect but the sect will not forgive them. They cannot let Xue Xin free as she also holds tons of secrets about Snow Yin Sect.

In the end, that man failed his mission but found his true love.

"Honey... You should get to the point." Zhen Kang wryly smiled to her.

"Cough* I got carried away hehe." Zhen Xin embarrassingly scratched her head.

Anyway, due to her escaping, the Snow Yin Sect didn't stay idle as they knew someone sent a spy to their side to investigate them.

Before the emperor could send someone to destroy the sect, they actually manage to change their base in such a short time. The building was still there but everything was emptied as though no one actually existed there before.

Though Zhen Kang failed his mission they still got hold of someone from the Snow Yin Sect and it turned out to be his wife too. Xue Xin said what she could say to the emperor and hid the information that anyone shouldn't know about.

The Emperor knew that Xue Xin wasn't entirely open to him but didn't get mad over the matters because the information that he wanted was given.

"To be honest, we found you when we are escaping from the Snow Yin Sect. We encountered a cute baby that was left on a cave! Your father decided to take you in and used you to force me to become his wife." Zhen Xin happily said.

'To think that there is such a story behind both of them.' Zhen Lun was equally shocked. Wait... doesn't that mean that they actually kidnapped him from his real parents?

Seeing that his most favored general was married and actually have a son at the same time. The Emperor was happy for them. He decided to offer them a piece of land and let them govern a city so that both of them could settle there and have a good time together. He also makes a promise to Zhen Kang that his son will be married to her daughter due to his contribution to the empire.

"And that's how we find you and how your mother and father met."

He wasn't going to ask about why they picked him up, it will cause many problems. In this case, it's probably her mother that decided to pick her up instead of his father.

If he told them that, she actually kidnapped someone else son, she will feel guilty.

'Right, don't think about it too much. Your parents are right in front of you now.'

"So, you are saying that Xiao Xue was actually my cousin." They're not blood-related though. "And she is mom's twin sister's daughter."

"Mhm, That's the only thing I could think of. For her to have such a similar appearance that must not be a coincidence. Other than that, for her to have the same pendant, it's the proof that she's from Snow Yin Sect too." Zhen Xin explained.

"But why would I find her on Red Light District?" Zhen Lun was confused. If what her mother said is true why would Xiao Xue be at such place?

Hearing that three words at the end, Zhen Xin was dumbfounded. "You found her at what?!"

"Red Light District." Zhen Lun shrugged.

Sniff*

Her mother suddenly started to cry. "I didn't know that you have really grown to such a man. It's our fault for not teaching you properly."

Zhen Kang stood there with his mouth agape. He was speechless, he can't believe that Zhen Lun would go to such a place.

"That's not what you think!" Zhen Lun flustered seeing his parents reactions. "This is what happened."

Zhen Lun quickly explained how he went there and found Xiao Xue to clear up the misunderstanding. He started off from why and he went to that place and how did he meet her.

There are a few things that he left off. Such as him being slapped, he wouldn't dare to tell them.

"...How could you not know what is Red Light District." Zhen Xin scolded him.

This time Zhen Kang felt that it was normal that his son didn't know such a thing. He merely nodded his head in approvement.

"Mom... you never told me about it." Zhen Lun felt embarrassed. Maybe he should find more things about common sense later on.

"It's normal for them to throw off their offspring and sell them as a slave. I didn't sense that she has snow yin traits on her. Maybe due to that, she was thrown away. For her to actually survive this far, she truly has good luck." Zhen Xin bluntly said. She knew how that inhumane place work if you fail to meet the expectation you will be sold as a slave. Fortunately, she was saved by Zhen Lun or else she would've died.

"It's their loss for throwing Xiao Xue away. She is exceptionally talented. As you know you might have realized already that she's now at The fourth stage of Transcendent Mortal. If not that fear that it will damage her growth she probably at higher stage already." Zhen Lun said to them.

"Mhm, anyway since she was discarded by Snow Yin Sect, she doesn't have a relation with them anymore. Let's not mention anything about that place anymore." Zhen Xin doesn't want to be reminded of that place, it was truly a nightmare for her.

"But why did Mom was wary about her the first time you met her?" Zhen Lun didn't forget that his mother felt wary toward her.

"Sigh* I don't know that much but she gave out the same vibes of what the Sect Leader of Snow Yin Sect gives off." Zhen Xin said grimly. She suddenly felt a headache.

Zhen Kang quickly helped her out. "You should go to bed now, It's late already."

Zhen Lun felt a bit guilty for making his mother remembering that nightmares, "Mhm." He then went to his bedroom, where he used to stay when he was a kid.

Arriving at his bedroom he was surprised that everything was still clean and tidy. It can be seen that his room was occasionally being clean and treated properly.

'My good old bedroom.'

As he was finally alone, Zhen Lun opened his inventory. He remembered that he was given something back when he was at Peerless Sky Sect.

The memory that time was quite blurry. He doesn't really recall what Elder Fei said to him that time.

'Let's see what book did he gave me.' Checking his inventory menu, he found the books. Zhen Lun first examines one of the books. It was unexpectedly what he needed right now.

'Cultivation Technique!'

[Book of Mastery, Cultivation Technique] (Quality: 16)

[Would you like to consume the book?] Yes/No

Ding*

[Cultivation Technique was upgraded to tier-two skill]

[Cultivation Technique leveled up]

[Cultivation Technique leveled up]

[Progress 5%]

...

...

[Transcendent Mortal Realm leveled up]

As his cultivation technique was upgraded, his comprehension of the transcendent mortal realm was also added into his mind.

The Transcendent Mortal Realm wasn't differentiated into separate realms. It was much more simple than the Mortal Realm.

The realm itself consisted of only ten stages. For normal people, to breakthrough from a stage would at least take them two years or more but it is still worth it, as you breakthrough a single stage of transcendent mortal, a layer of qi was formed to protect you, allowing you to nullify weak attacks without doing anything. Other than that, it also increases your lifespan by ten years.

Right now, with the help of his mana shield and his layer of qi, there should be no problem holding off an attack from transcendent mortal that only reach the first stage.

As his body gathering spiritual energy by itself, Zhen Lun opened his inventory menu again. He brought another book but this time it's a combat technique book.

[Book of Technique, Sword Control] (Incomplete)

An Active Skill, The player have the ability to control Spiritual Weapon that has the form of a sword

[Would you like to consume the book?] Yes/No

Ding*

[You learned Sword Control (Incomplete)]

[Sword Control] (Incomplete)

An Active Skill, The player have the ability to control Spiritual Weapon that has the form of a sword

Number of Swords: 1

...

...

The morning has arrived. The first thing he did when he woke up was to take a casual stroll around the mansion to refresh his mind.

"Master." Xiao Xue called out as she rubbed her eyes. Looking at her disheveled clothes and messy hair, she has recently woke up and didn't tidy up herself yet.

"You woke up." Zhen Lun walked up to her and tidied up her hair, using his water element he summoned enough water to washed Xiao Xue face and dry her up using his fire element.

"Master, Are we leaving today?" Xiao Xue asked.

"Yes." Zhen Lun replied. He wanted to stay for a few more days but he may waver to leave this place later on. It is much better to leave early.

"I see." Xiao Xue seems confused. She doesn't understand why would Zhen Lun leaves, this place was comfortable to him but she doesn't know that it was precisely that this place is comfortable that he wanted to leave.

"Why? You wanted to stay?" Zhen Lun asked.

"No, but I don't understand why would Master would like to leave. You have been smiling a lot since you came here." Xiao Xue tilted her head.

"There are many reasons to leave, one of them was to find a way to cure Zhen Le." The main reason he's leaving was to complete the quest the system gave him but his little sister illness is important too.

"When do we leave?" Xiao Xue asked.

Being asked that question he was stumped, he wasn't really sure when to leave either. "...I'll bid them a farewell after this. You should also do it to Zhen Le. After we're done, we'll leave then."

Xiao Xue went over to Zhen Le to say her farewell like what Zhen Lun told her to do.

He also went over to his parents side. It was hard for him but he told them that he is leaving today.

"You're leaving this early?" Zhen Xin wasn't ready to part from her son yet. He just came back for a day and was leaving again.

"Yeah, I'm afraid that I have stayed any longer I wouldn't bear to leave." If he stayed any longer he would then rely on his parents. It's a human instinct to rely on someone else especially their own parents.

"I understand, we don't have anything valuable but this would help you a bit." Zhen Xin passed her sword to him. They don't have an ancestor or anything to rely on. So, there's no inheritance, no family treasure or anything.

"Your mother doesn't need it anymore, I can even break the sword in half with my full power. The sword is useless to me, so you should keep it." The only reason that she kept the sword was that it serves as a reminder for her. To remind her that she's from Snow Yin Sect.

"Un, I'll take good care of it." Zhen Lun kept the sword on his waist. Looks like there's no need for him to buy a sword for his recently learned skill, sword control. It needed a spiritual weapon and this is just what he needed.

"Ehem, Come, your father has something to give you too." Zhen Kang passed him a dimensional ring. "Inside the ring, there's few million golds and some spirit stones, you should put them into good use."

"...Oi, That is your whole treasury! What are you doing giving him so much money?" General Shui quickly stopped Zhen Kang.

"Just some golds and spirit stones, we can earn them back." Zhen Kang was reluctant to give his son a gift.

"What do you mean 'Just some golds'! If you give away that much the city will crumble. There will be no guards guarding the citizen and no merchants visiting this city." General Shui was more concerned about the city.

"Um, Father. It's fine there's no need to give me that much money." Zhen Lun doesn't really need gold coins, he could earn them whenever he wanted. He could just sell the swords from Shop Menu.

"Alright, I won't give you gold." Zhen Kang finally complied with General Shui.

"Good." General Shui was relieved. He was employed by the emperor to help Zhen Kang but he didn't know that the man he is serving is this irrational minded.

"Then you should take him with you, he should be some help to you." Zhen Kang handed over General Shui to him. He was still reluctant to give a farewell gift.

"Yeah, at least it's not- What the, I can't go with him! If I go who will take care of you." General Shui was furious this time, He scolded Zhen Kang for being unreasonable.

Zhen Xin quickly called Zhen Lun to leave as his father will definitely find something unexpected to give.

Just like that, he slipped out while General Shui was scolding his father. Xiao Xue was already waitting outside at the entrance of the mansion.

"Did you properly say your goodbye to Zhen Le?" Zhen Lun asked.

"Un, I did but she kept asking me to not leave." Xiao Xue replied.

Zhen Lun laughed when he heard that. He could imagine it.

"Guess What? From now on you're officially my little sister, your name will be Zhen Xue from today onwards."