Celestial Twins

Shunned

At first, hearing the Yun Patriarch's words, Xu Baili didn't really get what they are saying, but with their expression, he could already guess what it is.

Xu Baili then looked at the Hu Daiyu, the first wife of the Xu Clan's Patriarch, Xu Tianxin, her face is wrapped with shock, yet, also displaying pleasure and excitement.

Xu Baili immediately knew what it meant.

Seeing the results, Xu Tianxin's first reaction was to look at Yun Beiwu, and as expected, the latter is filled with disappointment, but noticing Xu Tianxin's gaze, he smiled and patted his shoulders: "Don't worry, even if your son isn't really as what was expected, my cousin's first daughter will definitely take care of him."

Xu Tianxin heard about Yun Beiwu's cousin, basically, this person was supposed to be the heir to the Yun Clan and was supposed to be the patriarch, but after an accident happened, his cultivation became crippled and was then replaced by Yun Beiwu.

Since then, this cousin of his became something like the trash of the clan, supposedly be fed by the clan's resources. His wife committed suicide after not being able to tolerate how she was being treated by the clan, but that's what the Yun Clan had said.

One of the guests that day said that she was about to be r***d by one of the guests, instead of being done in like that, she committed suicide instead.

Yun Che was about to commit suicide as well, but he still has his daughter, he couldn't abandon her no matter what. He became a cripple ten years ago, his wife committed suicide a year after her daughter was born.

Xu Tianxin knew of this arrangement, it's just to avoid sullying each other's clan, a trash for a trash is nothing, although it pained Tianxin that his own son is being treated like this, it's still better than fighting the Yun Clan.

And truthfully, after this revelation, his doting attitude for Xu Baili had slowly diminished, like a lit candle, blown by the wind, slowly, the light was lost. Instead, he just felt annoyed, he had massive hopes, but it was suddenly shattered.

Another five more years had passed.

What they previously have entitled to various great resources were gone instantly, like the wind, comes and goes as time passes.

Soon, even the maids and servants were removed, Xu Baili and his mother were the only ones that remained, truthfully, if not for the Yun Family's arranged marriage, they would've long since kicked the mother and son duo.

At the very least, they'll be sending both of them to the Yun Clan and let the latter decide their fate.

Xu Baili decided that, at the very least, he'd like to study.

'Argus, I'm not really a fan of those magic things you want to study, how about the physique scrolls?' Asura asked.

Argus nodded his head internally: 'Well, which ones do you like?' 

'I'm fine with the most basic ones, at the very least, I'd like to know the difference from my previous life.' Asura replied with a sigh.

Their life is actually quite bad right now, when their mother was an elder, she still had a monthly salary of two gold coins, yet, now, their mother only gets two silvers, which is a massively different treatment than before. She was also removed from the title of an outer court elder as well, making life even harder.

Just to get that two silvers, their mother had to do the laundry every day.

At the very least, they weren't barred from entering the library, it was actually Hu Daiyu that had made them enter, she had this sickening hobby of seeing them struggle, a person that's only bound to only be normal, she couldn't help but find it pleasing.

Still, as a nine-year-old kid, they couldn't really do much but only grit their teeth and just bear with it.

After two more days of studying, Argus asked: 'You have found something interesting?'

Asura nodded with a sigh: 'It's not really much, but I think that, although it's much different, the fundamentals are almost the same.'

Argus chuckled: 'Yes, I also had that same epiphany earlier, the only difference is that mana in my previous world is actually limited within one's bodily capacity, but here, this thing called spiritual energy is helping people, or rather, cultivator to grow stronger.'

Asura nodded his head: 'How do you become stronger from your previous world anyway?'

Argus couldn't help but smile: 'Well, truth be told, after learning things from here, what we actually considered hard there is actually rather easy... we just kill monsters multiple times and we will level up, or just accepting missions, the life there is quite easy compared to the path one has to pursue here.'

Asura couldn't help but sigh: 'But I think I have it the hardest, in my previous world, we just train and train, call ourselves titles like grandmasters when we reach certain points, but we don't really have something to measure our strength. There are times where one grandmaster can actually kill five or more grandmasters at the same time.'

Argus couldn't help but smile: 'Based on your tone, you're one of those grandmasters?'

Asura chuckled but didn't respond further.

Rather, if someone is actually facing them, they'd freak out, one eye is looking at a scroll in the left while continuously moving, while the other eye is steadily focused on one scroll as he slowly reads it.

They are... rather special not only with that, but they found something once more.

As Argus started his path to cultivation, Asura can also feel or rather, felt that he's benefiting it through knowledge, he's somewhat sharing Argus's improvement.

After explaining it to Argus, Asura did the same, he started to cultivate his physique, causing Argus to feel quite pleased.

'Hey, brother, I think, we should just make them regret doing this to us and our mother.' Asura suggested, but Argus immediately shook his head: 'Brother, we should just get a better life, let's escape this place together with mother, after that, we don't need to get our revenge, just make them regret ever abandoning our mother.'

Asura frowned, but he still asked: 'But what if they keep looking for trouble?'

Argus chuckled, but his tone is merely like that of a sarcastic one: 'Well, I won't stop you from whatever you want to do.'

The two of them then started to cultivate both physical and soul containers.

Another six more years had passed.

Xu Baili and his mother had completely been shunned by the clan, but as a 15-year-old teen, they can finally work now.

But although they neglected it, they had really forgotten, as soon as they turned 15, it's the promised day of marriage, they are to be sent to the Yun Clan as 'part of their family'.

Xu Baili felt bitter, but they could only clench their fist, it's actually quite a joyous event for the Xu Clan as well, as it's Hu Daiyu's date of birth.

Xu Baili is just in their rundown house waiting for the Yun Clan's escorts to arrive together with their mother.

After a while, Xu Baili decided to just walk around outside the clan. But when they are about to go out, they heard something.

'Haha, why not come here kid.'