For Her Sake

"A-Rui, don't be afraid. Your brother will protect you." Feeling his sister trembling slightly, Xia Wei could not help but soothe her tenderly. "If Lin Zhinian won't do, we'll find the next one. Even if there isn't one, your brother will support you for the rest of your life!"

How could that be? Those words of her brother's could probably only fool himself.

Xia Rui's tears streamed down her face. Cultivators found it difficult to have descendants; even conceiving a single child was extraordinarily hard, much less twins from one womb. From the moment she and her brother had been conceived in their mother's womb, they had been natural rivals. She had not won against her brother, so Xia Wei was the Xia Clan's future patriarch, while she... was nothing.

Before having her Spiritual Root tested, Xia Rui had looked through every record of twins in the cultivation world. The vast majority had both been ordinary people. Only a small number had produced one cultivator and one mortal. As for the odds of both possessing Spiritual Roots, they were rarer than even a Mutated Spiritual Root.

At least, among the materials Xia Rui had found, only the pair of Zhi brothers on the Prodigies Ranking had both embarked upon the path of cultivation. Worth mentioning was that the younger brother, Zhi Lianshui, had been a genius since childhood, blessed with exceptional talent and thus valued and carefully nurtured by his Lineage. Yet the elder brother, Zhi Lianshan, had been frail and sickly from childhood, and after growing up, calamities and illnesses had plagued him without end. But it was precisely this Zhi Lianshan who, upon reaching adulthood, had suddenly become able to cultivate. He betrayed his Lineage and joined Yonglu Mountain. Before long, his cultivation had surpassed his younger brother's,