After several years apart, the sister and brother reunited, standing face-to-face once more.
They did not stand very far apart, but what lay between them was far more than that little stretch of ground.
Put simply, they had both grown up and developed little thoughts of their own.
Fighting spirit surged in Shi Yi's eyes. His Double Pupils shone as he stared fixedly at the girl before him.
To him, she had been a ray of light shining into his childhood-faint, yet incomparably warm and dazzling.
Outsiders knew only the Double Pupils One's dazzling glory. They did not know that he had felt little familial affection growing up, or that he had never even met his own father.
That man had joined the Primordial Divine Mountain and taken a Primordial Ferocious Beast as his master. He had not returned for nearly ten years. Father and son had only met after Shi Yi was sent to Demon Spirit Lake a few years ago.
His mother, meanwhile, was a cold-hearted, vain, and obsessive woman.
Their union had merely been a marriage alliance between Martial King Manor and Rain King Mansion. His birth had been nothing more than an accident.
As for everyone else, there was even less to say. All they cared about was the power and prestige he could bring them.
Familial affection existed, but there was not much of it.
Shi Yi could now recognize all of this clearly.
Or rather, he had always understood it. After all, his Double Pupils had been able to see through falsehood, sense people's hearts, and behold the Great Dao from birth.
Born close to the Dao, detached and unfeeling-that should have been his destiny.
Until a figure suddenly barged into his life and dragged his gaze away from the elusive, ethereal Great Dao,