"Brother, I..." Zhi Lianshui had clearly realized something as well. He was a very intelligent man; the reason he had never been able to advance, remaining trapped in the past, was simply because he could not bear to let go and did not wish to.
"Do you remember the days before we had our Spiritual Roots tested, when we were children?"
Back then, he had yet to know how vast the heavens were, or that the gap between people could be as different as clouds and mud from birth. Because they were twins, neither the Lineage nor even their parents had thought highly of their cultivation talent. Before then, they had been raised together. Their days had been simple, but at least their happiness had been pure.
Zhi Lianshan clearly remembered that his younger brother had loved to smile as a child. Even when someone snatched away his favorite toy, he had never cried in front of him. Instead, he had comforted him, saying he was already tired of playing with that toy and did not like it anymore.
The expression on Lianshui's face now was exactly the same as it had been back then. "The Lineage must have regretted it terribly afterward, letting the two of us grow up together and allowing such a deep bond to form between us."
Just as their little martial granduncle had said, twins were still independent individuals. If they had not grown up together from childhood, then even if they later learned the truth, the bond between them would never have run so deep.
"Regretting it is useless, Brother. We grew up together."
Zhi Lianshan smiled, his face once again settling into a composed smile. "But the time we have spent apart has already been far longer than that time."
"Brother..."
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