Chapter 53: Su Shen Is Stronger Than You

Qi Yi was speechless; she wanted to prove her innocence, but the question was, where was the evidence?

She thought for a moment and asked again: "Just now I cried so sadly, why did no one comfort me? Why didn't you come to comfort me?"

Su Jin was directly amused by her.

She retorted, "What are you here for? You are here to become a cultivator. How can you act like a mortal when you are a cultivator? The moment you cry, a crowd comes to coax you happy? Your mind is so fragile; how will you survive the Jin Dan heart demon tribulation in the future?"

Qi Yi felt her face turn a bit red upon hearing this.

"Then when I grow up and my mind matures, I will definitely be able to survive the Jin Dan heart demon tribulation," Qi Yi argued stubbornly. In fact, in her previous life, she died as a Purple Mansion; the Jin Dan realm was still far away from her.

"Only you would believe such words."

"When I was one year old and just started learning to walk, I accidentally fell and hurt myself, crying loudly. My mother stood aside watching me. She commanded me: Stand up."

She also said to me: "If you stand up by yourself, you will become a cultivator in the future. If you insist on making Mother help you up, then when you are fifteen, I will find you a wealthy husband and marry you off, letting you live a safe and happy life."

Although I didn't know back then what was so good about being a cultivator, I still stood up by myself.

My mother told me: "You must be someone who relies only on yourself. Only then can your path to immortality go far."

Crying only conceals your fragile mind; it is useless.

I give these words to you as well.

Don't always wait for others to coax you. My second sister, Shen'er, is three years younger than you, but she learned long ago not to cry and to rely on herself."

"You have truly been raised too innocently by Su Zhang."

Su Jin directly scolded Qi Yi using the tone her mother usually used to scold her and Su Shen.

"If you really lack people to coax you, then don't be a cultivator. Just find a family of dukes, ministers, or generals in the mortal realm and live a stable, wealthy life; isn't that good enough? Why must you run to cultivation to suffer this hardship?"

Most importantly, you probably won't even reach the end of your cultivation path."

Su Jin thought this child was a bit foolish; if she chose again, what was wrong with living a life of peace and joy?

"I must become a cultivator. You don't need to persuade me on this point." Qi Yi continued to argue stubbornly, "I'm leaving. By the way, I won't cry carelessly anymore."

Qi Yi thought: What do you mean I can't compare to Su Shen? In this life, I will definitely be stronger than her!

"Oh, is your mother named Lin Linghua?" Qi Yi suddenly turned her head and asked.

"Yes, did Su Zhang tell you?" Su Jin was about to slip away but heard Qi Yi's question and looked at her in confusion.

"I heard your mother had a difficult labor when she gave birth to your second sister," Qi Yi said.

"No, my mother's delivery of my second sister was very smooth. It took less than an hour to give birth." Su Jin looked at her even more confused. "Who told you that?"

"I... I heard it from my father."

"Su Zhang has been deceived by someone again. My mother gave birth to four children, all naturally, including my twin younger brother." After saying this, Su Jin left.

Leaving Qi Yi to fall into self-doubt.

She remembered that when she met her father in her previous life, Su Jin was already gone, and Lin Linghua had died even earlier; she had died from a difficult labor while giving birth to Su Shen.

Su Shen was almost raised in the palm of his hand, and the father and daughter shared a very deep bond. So deep that Su Shen could not tolerate her father loving another child.

At that time, Su Shen was both willful and domineering.

But now, Lin Linghua was actually still alive, and she had even brought two daughters to marry Su Yan, and had given birth to another pair of twin sons.

Where exactly had things gone wrong?

After lunch, they returned to the Third Hall.

As soon as Su Cheng saw Su Jin, he actively came over.

"I saw Qi Yi go to find you. Did she have something to ask?"

"She asked me why I didn't coax her when she was crying, and why, with so many people in the whole class, not a single one ran to coax her?"

As soon as Su Jin finished speaking, Su Cheng said disdainfully, "She cries on her own and still needs others to coax her? I stopped crying carelessly at the age of two."

"She was probably raised too well by her family," Su Jin said.

"Who was raised too well by their family?" Su Wuji stopped cultivating at that moment and asked aloud.

"Qi Yi, of course. She came to me and asked why I didn't go to coax her when she cried, and why not a single classmate went to coax her," Su Jin said.

"What kind of friendship do you have with Qi Yi?" Su Wuji was dumbfounded upon hearing this.

"No friendship at all. I didn't even know her before she came to our class." Su Jin was also confused.

Why did Qi Yi always block her?

Did she think she had no temper?

"So is she trying to force a friendship with you? Anyway, as long as she keeps blocking you and talking a few words to you, the students in our class will all know you two have a connection." Su Wuji was shocked by Qi Yi's boldness.

This girl is truly too daring.

"Isn't she afraid you'll beat her up?" Su Cheng asked in confusion.

"If I beat her up, Liu Shi will definitely call our parents. If my parents come, then her parents will come too. In the end, whether I am right or wrong, I will be the one who loses face," Su Jin said.

"Why?" Su Cheng asked with concern.

"Because after my biological father, Su Zhang, divorced my mother, he married her biological mother. Qi Yi is Su Zhang's stepdaughter." Su Jin complained, "If Liu Shi calls both sets of parents, our messy relationship will become widely known."

"Isn't that the ultimate loss of face for me?"

Su Wuji and Su Cheng were both dumbfounded upon hearing this.

"Huh? You two have such a relationship?" Su Wuji said.

"Yes, if Qi Yi hadn't recognized me and actively told me these things, I wouldn't have known she was Su Zhang's stepdaughter," Su Jin said resentfully.

"Actually, you don't need to care too much. For our cultivator families, it is very common for a husband and wife with no affection to divorce and remarry. I haven't even told you yet; my mother is my father's third wife. My father's first two wives: one had no children, and the other had a daughter. So I actually have an older sister. However, that sister was raised by her mother and will probably be recorded in that side's family tree." Su Cheng voluntarily shared his family's secret just to let Su Jin open her heart.

"I also know it's no big deal; I was just complaining." Su Jin quickly reined in her emotions, then took out the Bing Chen Lu and poured a bowl for everyone. "Come on, one bowl each, and then let's cultivate properly."

"Su Jin, the Bing Chen Lu you brewed is truly excellent. Drinking a bowl when I cultivate at night has an extremely good effect," Su Wuji said admiringly.

"Haha, I only know how to mix a few simple spiritual dew recipes. My mother is the master at mixing various spiritual dew drinks." Su Jin's skills were all taught to her hand-in-hand by her mother.