The meat on the grill sizzled as it cooked, the fat parts shrinking slightly and releasing rich grease that flowed down the grill.
The vegetables on top were slightly charred but perfectly so, emitting a fragrant aroma that complemented the meat's smell.
Ning Yu saw that it was about time and started sprinkling seasonings on it, first on one side, then rotating it to season the other side.
The room was pitch dark, with only the flickering light of the alcohol stove casting a glow on Ning Yu's face.
Ning Xuan sat beside Ning Yu, staring blankly, as if the fragrant aroma of the grilled skewers couldn't even draw her attention.
Seeing that the skewers were cooked, Ning Yu picked up several of them, handing half to Ning Xuan and inadvertently snapping her out of her reverie.
"I didn't expect my sister to be so skilled at this."
Ning Xuan reached out to take the skewers from Ning Yu, marveling at the evenly distributed seasonings and the appetizing meat and vegetables.
"Can you tell me about the past?"
Ning Yu bit into a fragrant piece of scallion wrapped in meat, the juices trickling down the corner of her mouth, which she quickly wiped away.
She was eager to ask Ning Xuan about their childhood, but her mind was a blank slate, devoid of any memories.
"Sister... always took good care of me."
Ning Xuan looked at Ning Yu as she ate, her smile brimming with nostalgia.
Just as she was about to continue, she noticed Ning Yu pulling out a box of strawberry milk from thin air and inserting a straw into it.
Seeing that Ning Xuan hadn't resumed speaking, Ning Yu glanced over at her and noticed her gaze fixed on the strawberry milk in her hand.
Instinctively, Ning Yu wanted to hide the milk, but then she realized something.
Although they were both created beings, they were so alike that perhaps neither of them could resist the allure of strawberry milk.
Ning Yu had seen Ning Xuan coldly and ruthlessly fight, but now, seeing her longing gaze, she found her unexpectedly endearing.
At the same time, it dawned on her:
No wonder Shen Yiyue always gave her a knowing smile whenever she drank strawberry milk.
She probably looked just like this.
Feeling a pang of reluctance, Ning Yu pulled out another box of strawberry milk from her space and handed it to Ning Xuan.
"Thank you, sister!"
Ning Xuan happily took the strawberry milk from Ning Yu, mimicking her by poking a straw into the box and starting to drink.
Ning Yu noticed that when Ning Xuan smiled, she had two tiny dimples on her cheeks.
She raised her hand to touch her own face and found that she had them too, something she had never noticed before.
"When we were young, we weren't allowed to leave the courtyard, so sister would often sneak me out."
With the strawberry milk in hand, Ning Xuan seemed to open up.
"The old butler was always headache, trying all kinds of ways to stop sister, but she always found a way around them."
"And even though it was me who wanted to go out and play, sister always took the blame, saying she led me astray."
"So sister always got punished more."
As Ning Xuan recounted these childhood memories, Ning Yu had no recollection of them, not even a single image in her mind.
"During the experiments, it hurt a lot, and sister would always comfort me."
"I knew sister was in pain too, and since she was older, she underwent more experiments than me."
Her gaze grew complicated as she looked at Ning Yu, perhaps recalling some unpleasant memories.
"Sister would hold me and promise to take me to see the sea, to a place without pollution to watch the Milky Way, to the highest point in the world to see the purest snow."
"Sister said we would definitely escape that small courtyard and break free from their control."
Ning Xuan's expression grew somber, perhaps because none of those dreams had come true, and the reality seemed even worse.
"Gulp gulp..."
"Gulp gulp..."
Both of them finished their strawberry milk at the same time, the empty boxes collapsing simultaneously.
Neither of them wanted to waste a single drop.
Ning Yu and Ning Xuan looked at each other, then suddenly burst out laughing.
The sisters were so alike, even in this small habit.
"So what happened next?"
Ning Yu handed her some more skewers, and after they had both eaten enough, she turned off the alcohol stove.
"After that..."
Ning Xuan's eyes flickered.
"Sister, the Moon Princess inside you wasn't always there."
"Huh?"
Ning Yu felt like she had heard something crucial.
"When we were created and summoned, each of us had a unique fragment, said to be 'one yin and one yang.'"
As Ning Xuan continued, Ning Yu frowned at the mention of 'one yin and one yang':
"If it's one yin and one yang, shouldn't it be between siblings, like a brother and sister, not two girls?"
"I don't know."
Ning Xuan shook her head, indicating she didn't have an answer.
"But the two fragments in us had to be taken out simultaneously to meet the requirements of their ritual."
Ning Xuan pointed at Ning Yu, then at herself.
"That means we would both be sacrificed in that ritual."
Ning Yu seemed to grasp the implications.
"So we would both die in that so-called ritual?"
Ning Xuan nodded.
"Isn't that an unfair fate? No one ever cared about our feelings; we wanted to live too."
"But how could they ever tell us something like that?"
Ning Yu frowned, deep in thought.
"Sister overheard it. One time, Father and Mother thought we had sneaked out again, but sister was hiding and heard them."
Ning Xuan explained, then turned to look intently at Ning Yu.
"When sister found out the truth, she used some method to transfer the fragment in my body into hers."
Ning Yu's eyes widened at this revelation.
"So the one who needed to die was only sister."
"Sister took on my fate for me."
"But when it was discovered, Father was furious and suffered punishment because the two fragments in sister's body caused a strange change, disrupting the original ritual."
Ning Yu had already guessed that it was those two fragments that formed the Moon Princess in her body, the key to the so-called 'root.'
And the fact that she, who should have been locked away in that 'home,' appeared near the small supermarket during the T-virus disaster likely had something to do with the Moon Princess.
This might have been the beginning of her fate.
She thought of the Moon Princess's 'shared mission,' the bizarre ritual, the sudden outbreak of the T-virus, and her inexplicable crossing into the body of a silver-haired little girl.
All these elements, like precisely meshed gears, had already begun to turn.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
+ Slow Paced + Main Character Thrives Together with His Disciples】 Transmigrated into a cultivation world, Chu Xingchen awakens a discipleship system that reveals the tags of his disciples! Starting from scratch, he builds the strongest sect. Disciple One: Li Yingling 【Gold Tag: Genius Cultivator】【Purple Tag: Extremely Lucky】【Blue Tag: Bewitchingly Beautiful】 Disciple Two: Li Hangtian 【Gold Tag: Reincarnated】【Purple Tag: Ruthless and Decisive】【Blue Tag: Loyal and Noble】 Disciple Three: ??? 【Orange Tag: Alluring Demoness】【???】【???】 Thus, in the cultivation world, an unremarkable little sect appears out of nowhere, but little do others know that each member of this sect is a powerhouse in their own right. The book is also known as: Cultivation? It's Exactly Like This!
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
