It's All Right, Tang San. We're Still Good Brothers

It had been more than four years since he came to this world.

He had been granted a brand-new life, yet Tang San did not feel happy.

After being born, he discovered that he had become a girl. She was somewhat surprised, but quickly adapted.

As long as she could continue researching Hidden Weapons, that was enough for her.

In her previous life, aside from serving Li Yue Senior Brother, she had devoted nearly all her energy to Hidden Weapons.

To Tang San, Hidden Weapons were another life, and Li Yue Senior Brother had given her that life.

In this life, she had a father.

Compared to being an orphan in her previous life, she now had a blood-related family member.

Yet she had not felt even a trace of familial warmth from this father.

From childhood to adulthood, she had never experienced fatherly love. Tang Hao had always neglected her completely.

When she was newly born, he would still cook for her. Once she learned to cook, however, she had been the one cooking ever since, or else they would go hungry.

Her mother seemed to have died in childbirth, and her father had fallen into despair because of it.

Tang San felt no sense of belonging toward this family, where she could not feel any familial affection.

She missed the Tang Sect from her previous life terribly—not the sect itself, but the people within it.

When she had no family, she had longed deeply for one. Now that she had family, she only felt that it was nothing special.

Within the Tang Sect, she had already felt warmth a thousand times greater than that offered by family in this world.

She wondered whether Li Yue Senior Brother had also been reincarnated into this world.

It had been so long since they last met. She missed him dearly.

Tang San had often gone into the village to play with the other children.

It was not because she truly enjoyed playing, but because she held onto one thought—could Li Yue Senior Brother be among those children?

She and Li Yue Senior Brother had died in the same year, month, and day, even in the same place.

Perhaps after reincarnation, they had also been born in the same year, month, and day, in the same village.

But those children had truly been ill-mannered. They actually said that since she was called Little San, she would grow up to become someone else's mistress.

Tang San was somewhat angry, but she merely taught those children a small lesson and stopped playing with them afterward.

From then on, Tang San rarely went out. Aside from going to a nearby hill before sunrise each morning to cultivate the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes, she stayed at home.

Unexpectedly, she saw Li Yue Senior Brother, whom she had longed for day and night, at home.

When she saw a boy who looked remarkably like Li Yue Senior Brother appear in her family's Blacksmith Shop, Tang San froze. "Tang Yue Senior Brother!"

Taking several steps forward, Tang San excitedly hugged the boy before her, tears glimmering in her eyes. "I'm Tang San."

Caught in Tang San's embrace, Li Yue was a little speechless. Why did she like hugging people just like Mother did?

All right, it was confirmed. This little girl was Tang San.

But how had Tang San become a girl?

Li Yue figured the system was behind it and asked inwardly, System, how did Tang San become a girl?

The system's electronic voice sounded in his mind. "Because Tang San had not finished repaying the karmic debt owed to the host in her previous life, she must continue repaying it after reincarnation."

Hearing the system's reply, Li Yue suddenly understood. My ass. I asked why Tang San became a girl.

Forget it. Knowing the system would not give him a useful answer, Li Yue stopped dwelling on the matter.

It was all right, Tang San. Even though you had become a girl, they were still good brothers.

Li Yue gently patted Tang San's back.

With his comfort, Tang San gradually calmed down.

"Let's go play outside," Li Yue suggested. After a pause, he added, "My name is Li Yue."

"Mm." Tang San nodded vigorously, realizing that she had been overly excited just now. Li Yue was probably her senior brother's name in this life.

Leading Tang San outside, Li Yue found the maids gathered around him, curiously looking at the little girl.

He had forgotten about them. But he could not shake them off, which was rather troublesome.

He could only wait until he returned and speak to Mother about it.

Thus, Li Yue merely wandered around the village with Tang San before heading back, arranging to meet again tomorrow.

The next day, Li Yue pleaded for a long time before his mother agreed to let him go out alone.

Only then did he envy Tang San. After all, Tang San had no mother, and her father did not care much about her either.

Li Yue now cultivated the Star Sucking Pupil by absorbing purple qi in the evening. Getting up before dawn would be far too strange.

Fortunately, he did not lack this small amount of purple qi. With the Star Sucking Pupil, he could store a sufficient amount of purple qi in the Mud Pill Palace at once and slowly refine it at other times.

At this time, Tang San was already waiting outside Li Yue's courtyard, just as she had in their previous life.

Only now, it was not before dawn.

The sunlight was bright, the breeze gentle, and Holy Spirit Village seemed to glitter beneath the sun.

"Little San, let's go play." Li Yue took Tang San's hand, excitement shining in his eyes. Since reincarnating, his mindset had indeed become somewhat more childlike.

Tang San's lips curled upward. Looking at the familiar face of Li Yue Senior Brother before her, only much more youthful, she gladly replied, "All right."

Once they left Holy Spirit Village, the two immediately became like wild horses let loose, running freely through the mountains and forests.

Judging by their size, though, they could only be called foals. Their little legs could not carry them very fast.

Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track emphasized exquisite changes within a limited space rather than long-distance running.

The Lingbo Step, which came from the same lineage as Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, was the same.

Besides, at their age, even if they practiced movement techniques focused on speed, how fast could they possibly run?

Within a patch of forest, a ten-year soul beast was leisurely grazing. The tender, juicy blades of grass made it squint as though savoring them.

Li Yue slightly tilted his head, signaling Tang San to approach from the left while he circled around from the right.

Tang San nodded to show that she understood.

Thanks to their many years of tacit understanding, she could easily grasp Li Yue's intentions from his movements.

Once Tang San reached a suitable position,

Li Yue launched the stone in his hand with a Hidden Weapon technique, striking directly at the soul beast's vital point.

Tang San also attacked swiftly, hitting another vital point.

What virtue or ability did this little beast possess to draw simultaneous attacks from two masters of Hidden Weapons?

It was even subdued by two pairs of Mysterious Jade Hands using the grappling technique of Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon.

There was no other reason—they were simply too young and lacked strength, so it was safer for them to act together.

Li Yue pressed his thumb against the Shaoshang acupoint of the ten-year soul beast. Soul Power immediately flowed from its meridians into his Tanzhong acupoint, and without its Soul Power, the little beast's struggles weakened.

Seeing that they had successfully restrained it, Tang San twisted her Mysterious Jade Hand and ended the little beast's life.

"Yay, we did it!" Li Yue was somewhat delighted.

It was not only because they had hunted this ten-year soul beast, but more importantly because he had confirmed that his Bei Ming Hand could also be used on soul beasts.

"I'll roast the meat." Tang San used a stone shard to skin and debone it, skillfully cleaned the soul beast by the stream, and set up a fire. Before long, the air was filled with the fragrance of roasted meat.

"Here." Li Yue took out a packet of salt from his clothes. Meat without salt had little flavor.

The two sat by the stream, eating roasted meat while admiring the beautiful sunset.

"It's so delicious." As she ate the roasted meat, Tang San nearly cried. After drinking porridge for so many years, she finally knew the taste of meat again.

She had truly lived in poverty in this life, worse than her days in the Tang Sect's Outer Hall. At least in the Tang Sect's Outer Hall, she had never needed to worry about going hungry.

"If it's good, eat more." Eating Tang San's roasted meat, Li Yue thought it tasted decent, but could not be called delicious.

His living conditions in this life remained comfortable. This roasted meat with barely any seasoning was merely edible, though the quality of ten-year soul beast meat was rather good.

Gazing at the distant horizon as the sun set, a wisp of purple qi entered his brow.