Memories (1)

"Little QiQi?! Oh thank god! Thank god! I thought it was more lightning." The old man said, his tone showing his obvious relief.

"..." His master had always been odd. Today, he decided to just ignore his antics. He leaned to look around his master and pointed to the young girls in the room. One withering on the floor in pain, the other passed out on the bed. "Who are they? And I told you to stop calling me Little QIQI"

He turned around and gave the girls a dirty look. "They are the ones who ruined my yard. Look! Just look at it! The entire rose garden has been destroyed! They even messed up a part of the river! When they wake up, I will be making sure they fix it."

The young man raised his brows slightly. "Master, they are just two little girls, how could they make such huge craters? They are each over 3 metres wide, and at least 7 or so meters deep!"

"Who asked them to call lightning so many times?!" He replied with a hmph.

Little QiQi looked between the old man in front of him, and the 2 girls, both of them had passed out by now. "Master, have you been eating Mind Mist pills recently?"

"Mind Mist pills?! Are you saying that I am having hallucinations?! No! I am not, thank you very much, but your concern is not wanted." The old man said, he walked over and sat himself in the old rocking chair in the corner.

It was at this moment that Bella groaned. Both Master and disciple immediately stopped their argument. "Gah!" Bela sat up suddenly, startling both men.

Bella closed her eyes and took in a deep breath. How dare they! How dare they do such a thing to a little girl! She looked up and saw the old man had sat down again and there was a 23-year old male standing next to him. After a quick glance, she looked down at Nessa.

She got down off the bed and picked her 'sister' up, ruffly setting her down on the bed. She looked at the old man again and said, "Do you have a shovel? I will go fill up the holes we made."

Hmph. At least she knew what she should do, the old man thought. He pointed to a small shed across the large yard. "In there"

She nodded her head and walked over to the shed to retrieve it. She used a large shovel first to gather all of the dirt and rock that had blown everywhere, leaving enormous piles of dirt everywhere.

The old man looked smugly at his disciple, "I told you she was the one who made them."

To that, QiQI had nothing to say.

Shortly after that, Nessa woke up. She saw that Bella was cleaning up the mess the lightning strikes made and she asked the old man, "Do you have other shovels?"

She was appointed to the shed and quickly got up to help.

When she retrieved her shovel, she got to work. The entire time, neither of them had spoken a word to each other.

A few hours later, QiQi walked up to them and said, "Master wants you to come in and eat, so you can work harder on it tomorrow.

They nodded, put away their shovels and went to the old shack. Because it was growing darker by the minute, it was getting colder as well. Once they were inside the house, the old man attached a rope to the corner of the porch. He and his disciple pulled the rope at the same time, making the entire porch raise up and become a wall.

Bella and Ness: "..."

Soon, they were sitting at a table. Roasted meat was laid onto the table and the old man looked at it with greedy eyes. They all took their food and began eating. The old man and his disciple closely watched the girl's reactions. Based on what faces they made when they bit into it, they would be able to guess roughly things about their identity. But what they didn't expect was… no reaction. They had no reaction.

The old man decided to probe, "This is good stuff, right?"

"I usually stick Vegetarian meals," Bella said.

"Yea me too." Said Vaness.

The girls shot daggers at each other.

Master and disciple: "..."

"Don't you notice the large amounts of spiritual energy in it?" Master said.

"No." The girls said at the same time, and then glared at eachother again.

Bella lifted her head and explained, "Neither of us can cultivate. Have you ever heard of the famous trash twins of the Song family?" She asked.

Realization dawned on them. Obviously, if they were the trash twins, they wouldn't realize the large amounts of spiritual energy. Rumor has it, the twins couldn't even sense the spiritual energy in the air. It seemed to be true.

"I thought the trash tw- I mean the 8th and 9th young mistresses of the Song family never leave the mansion, so… why did I find you two in the Alley?" The old man asked.

The younger male looked at them, eager for a juicy story.

"Because why would the Song family ever spend money on anybody that they no longer have any use for?" Nessa asked with a huff.

No use? But they still had the blood of the Song family running through them, how could they just… throw them away like that? "How were you guys injured?"

"Sister's essence exploded and both of us were affected." Bella clarified. She had no intention to hide any information from them, it wasn't her life after all. Instead, it was the pitiful little girl who had originally owned this body.

The body's name is Song Ying Yue and her twin sister's name was Song Yu Yan.

They were both unable to cultivate, and lived a terrible life. They had lived on the side of the streat, fending for themselves when one day, a man with a large stack of books came by. He took pity on them, and gave them a book. With nothing better to do, the girls used that book and taught themselves how to read. They had been fending by themselves from the time they were 4, and knew nobody else.

Although Bella's body owner, Song Ying Yue, did not understand it, Song Yu Yan did. She actually understood it very well. Song Yu Yan quickly learned how to make beast essence. In the afternoon, the girls would go hunting for their meals.

They were only 6 years old, so the animals that they caught were mostly wild cats or tiny rabbits. Then, in the morning, Song Yu Yan would use the beast core and the crystal realms within the beasts to make a thing called beast essence.

Although they did not know it, a person who was 7 years old and cultivating a tier 1 essence was very rare.