Memories (2)

Song Yu Yan and Song Ying You would go to the market sands to sell their Beast Essence when they had stockpiled enough. They had quickly sold out.

Not realizing how precious beast essence was, they were grinning from ear to ear with the few gold coins in their hands. Tier 1 beast essence was actually not that great, but it was as much as a beginner cultivator could use, and was not worthless. With those few gold coins, the girls had bought themselves each a pair of clothes, although rather crude, they were way better than what they had been wearing before.

A year later, Song Yu Yan was able to make quite a few beast essence a day, and while her sister was making them, she would go find more animals for her sister to use. She taught herself how to perfectly prepare an animal for cooking and could take both the beast core and crystal realm out of them with her eyes closed.

Soon, they had nearly 30 beast essence and lots of leftover meat. They used the final gold coin that they had left and bought a basket and a towel, and set up a small 'booth' to sell their things.

They sold all the extra meat that they had along with the 30 or so beast essence. After a few hours, they sold out completely.

They decided to look around the marketplace. They spotted a booth in an obscure corner selling both beast cores and beast crystal realms. They decided to buy some to see if Yu Yan could turn them into beast essence.

Buying as much as they could, they brought it to the little place that they called home. A thing that Song Ying Yue had made in her spare time had gotten much larger. Even as a 7 year old, you still had to crouch inside. But now there was enough room for them to sleep comfortably and a small table only about a palm tall and a foot wide, but it was better than nothing.

The thing looked slightly like a beaver dam, but had a tarp that they had recently purchased on the outside, to ensure that they would stay as dry as possible.

Song Yu Yan huddled at the house, studying tier 2 beast essence.

Beast essence was quite hard to make, and the main thing needed to make it was extremely strong mental energy. You had to take a matching beast core and a beast realm and fuse them together, resulting in a clear pill-shaped rock with visible spiritual energy. You could see the colored spiritual energy inside of the rock moving, and a thin black ring would form around the outside, proving it's rank. For every tier, another thin, black line would appear.

Up until now, Yu Yan had never attempted to make a tier 2 beast essence for a few reasons. The first would be she was still a beginner, with no master and only a book, learning to make any beast essence would be a miracle, let alone being able to produce up to 7 a day.

The other reason was she didn't have the materials to make it.

Although her sister was getting better and better at hunting down the animals, if she were to hunt a rank 2 beast, she would be gravely injured and losses would be greater than the gains. Defeating a rank 2 beast as a 7 year old little girl with no cultivation was next to impossible.

So, the very first time she successfully made the tier 2 essence, she had already wasted over 40 realms and cores each.

A month later, Yu Yan was able to make 3 tier 2 a day.

2 more months after that, 3 a day.

2 months after that, 4 a day.

Finally out of money, the girls had no choice but to sell things at the market again. The regulars at the market waved at them, recognizing the poor unfortunate souls who had lived on the streets their whole lives.

They would often go and deliver them food or things that they couldn't sell at the market to help them get through the days. But none of them could do much because they could barely afford to take care of themselves.

They set up the booth at their usual spot and waved to the owner of the plaza. Usually, you had to pay for a place to set up but the owner pitied the homeless little girls and let them sell their things at no charge.

They set up the dried meat and the recently added item of animal fur hats and scarves that Ying Yue made, along with multiple tier 1 and tier 2 beast essence.

It wasn't their first time selling their products, so they basically knew how most things worked. But, that day, they received an offer from a customer that would change their lives.

Ying Yue stood up and waved her little arms around "Little angel booth is back! New products are now available!" Her sweet little voice rang through the square.

"Oh! Little Angel is open! Let's quickly hurry!"

Many of the people who frequently visited this market square hurriedly walked over. Although they were two 7-year old little girls, one of them made beast essence of tier one and the other made warm hats that were extremely useful in the winter, sold at a lower price then any other booths did.

When a group of 6 or so people crowded around the little girls, it attracted quite a bit of attention. People began to wonder just what those little girls were selling that was so good.

Soon, surprised gasps could be heard, "Yu Yan! You have advanced! Congratulations, darling!" Said a smiling elderly woman.

"Thank you granny Fei!" Yu Yan said with a huge smile.

All the people who knew what Little Angel booth sold understood why there was such a big crowd. Soon, there were cheers and whistles as people called out their sincere congratulations to Yu Yan.

Yu Yan was merely a 7 year old little girl, although she could not cultivate, she made high-quality tier 1 beast essence.

In a horse drawn carriage, a 14 year old girl complained; "Ugh! What's with all the noise?!"

"I am quite curious as well sister, let us go see." Said a young man, 18 years of age.

The girl drew the curtain and peered outside. "Oh, it is just coming from the poor section of the market square, they are all shouting praises at some little girl running a booth. What is there to see?" she said with disdain.

"That is exactly what I would like to know." The young man said, he got off the carriage and walked over to the little girl's booth.

Seeing that the man was well dressed and had gotten off of an extremely decked-out carriage, people quickly scurried out of the man's path, in fear of offending him. A 14 year old girl trailed behind him, looking at all the people there as if they were tiny little insects that should be killed. He walked right up to the Little Angel booth.

He noticed that all of their products were the highest quality and sold at a low price. The hats found in this booth were all handmade and unique. Many times there was an interesting rock or of metal creation embedded in them. One of the most attractive fur hats had been made of snow white jade rabbit fur and sewn together with golden thread. Along the rim of the hat, there was an oddly shaped golden metal that Ying Yue had bought a jar of.

The 14 year old had been looking around the square as if it was made of filth when she noticed this uniquely stunning hat. She snatched it up and said, "I am taking this."

The person who was with her raised his brows in surprise. This little girl hated nearly everything and definitely would not have taken something from a commoner and directly put it on her head. It was possible for her to take it just because she could, but she would usually just ruin it on purpose. She never would have directly worn it if she didn't like it.

Although he didn't know much about his hats, she sure knew a lot about this girl.

Then, he noticed something amazing. "Little girl," he said, "where did you get these items?"

"We made them, sir. Would you like to make a purchase for the hat she just stole?" Yu Yan said.

"Sure, we will buy the hat. But, are you sure you made them? Or maybe your parents made them?"

"Sir, I can promise you that I made them myself. And my sister Ying Yue made the hats and caught the animals."

The man chucked and gave the girl 5 gold coins for the hat. He could practically see her eyes turn into huge sparkles. "Would you like to purchase anything else, sir? We have a variety of both tier 1 and tier 2 beast essence!"

"Little girl, if you are willing, I will happily take you and your talented sister to come live with me. You could live in a nice house and have your very own bedroom. I can give you all the materials for hat making and things to make essence. I can give you gold coins each day too, what do you say?" He said with a sly grin, already the perfect plan came to mind.