reborn as a system

Raas chapter 20

Qin Yue was Qin Mo's half-brother; Qin Zhengjun and Yue Niang's son.

Qin Yue was born many years later, when Qin Mo had already grown to early adulthood. This meant that when Qin Mo reached the Jindan Stage, he had just been born.

There were many benefits to practicing cultivation: a long life span, a powerful body, and the ability to produce offspring at any age. Never mind that Qin Mo and Qin Yue were about 20 years apart, there were even brothers that had been born 80 years apart.

Of course, it was extremely unlikely for most cultivating experts to even have children. If they truly wanted to walk along the path to ascension and immortality, it was important to clear their heart and mind of worldly distractions and cleanly cut off those things that held them back. Dual cultivation was only a convenient and fast method to advance, because when it was time to pursue the final steps towards immortality, it was usually a journey that was walked alone.

For cultivators, having children was very detrimental. In particular, since the mother was carrying the child, they would have to supply their unborn baby with their own vital energy. When they gave birth to their child, the cultivation they had suffered untold hardships for would be damaged and reduced by half. The price was very heavy.

That was why 80% of the couples within the cultivation world who dual-cultivated did not have children. Of the remaining 20%, 80% of them had only one child.

People such as Qin Zhengjun and Yue Niang, who actually had two sons, were a rare breed.

In the beginning, Qin Mo was unable to understand why his parents had chosen to pay the price of having another child. However, since he was already an adult by that time, naturally he would not interfere with his parent's decision. Instead, he chose to challenge the hardships of the Secret Boundary, and search for the Empire Red Hawthorn that only appeared there once in a millenium. It would greatly help repair the damage and loss of cultivation due to pregnancy and childbirth.

At that time, the matter gave rise to a quite the commotion. After all, Qin Mo was so young at only 24 years old. In the cultivation world, he was simply a young child. However, he had already managed to achieve the Jindan Stage that most ordinary people could only reach after at least a century of cultivation. Moreover, he was able to challenge the savage Secret Boundary and return after a decisive win.

Others only saw his magnificent achievements and the glory. On the other hand, Shi Qing had skimmed through almost all of his experiences. Naturally, he saw all the hardships unknown to anyone that accompanied his successes.

Even though he had outstanding aptitude and exceptional intelligence he was, after all, still full of youthful vigour and lacking experience. He challenged the Secret Boundary alone and was repeatedly forced into dangerous situations. If not for his air of arrogance that was distinct from an ordinary person, his lofty ambitions, a resolute heart and formidable toughness and tenacity, who knows how many times he would have already died.

Yet, after almost exhausting his life to obtain the Empire Red Hawthorn, all that he received in exchange from Yue Niang was an indifferent 'en'.

In the 24 years before Qin Yue was born, Qin Zhengjun and Yue Niang treated Qin Mo just like his name; from head to tail they completely ignored him.

Since most cultivators were reserved in their affections, and because Qin Mo was treated that way by his parents since birth, there was no contrasting evidence to judge their behaviour by. He was made to think that in this land under heaven, that was how parents treated their children.

However, when Qin Yue was born, his so-called understanding was completely toppled.

Qin Zhengjun had always displayed a severe and inflexible character, yet towards Qin Yue he displayed the gentle smile of a loving father. Yue Niang always had a frown on her face and a cold countenance, but when she was together with Qin Yue she became sweet-tempered and warm, her affections as soft as water.