Awakened: The Spirit King!

The twin sisters eased up to their master and gave him an answer about whatever he asked, and their obedience resulted in him having second thoughts.

"You two have spent a good few years with my mother, right? Can you tell me about her? How was she as a person? Who was she? Anything would do."

The past two weeks, Xie Yang was the most curious about his mother, yet there was no record about her, not even a painting in the entire Manor, and his father also refused to talk about her with him.

Even the maids, servants, and shadow guards kept mum about her as if his father, the lord of cloud, had forced them to keep silent about her.

His mother was not only a taboo topic in the manor but also the world outside of it.

Everyone knew that the Lord of Clouds had two sons from his first wife, Xie Tong and Xie Yang, but no one knew a thing about their mother.

It was as if someone had wiped all traces of her from the entire Glorious Sun Empire!

Xie Tong was the Famous Winter General, while Xie Yang was an uprising youngster in the spiritual cultivator community and the empire.

Who was their mother, though?

Just who was she?

Why does everyone refuse to talk about her?

Why was every information about her secretive?

"Your mother was a kind and gentle person, and she treated us sincerely as if we were her daughters. She was the first human to love us for who we are rather than what we pretended to be."

Xie Yang squinted his eyes in happiness as he liked hearing Feng Shu praise his mother.

"I thought so too, but after hearing you out, I am certain she was kind and graceful like an immortal fairy."

"That's one thing we can all agree on." Feng Shu and Feng Wei nodded cutely.

"How was your first impression of her?" Xie Yang asked how they met and in what conditions.

"My lord, you weren't born the first time we met her."

"That winter twenty years ago, she came to visit mom and brought along your Eldest brother, Xie Tong."

"She was mom's best friend, but because mom had fallen to become an evil spirit, the time your mom could meet her in absolute secrecy weren't many."

"Eldest young master was pretty cute back then, not at all like the rumored fierce winter general of today."

"That's so true, hahaha!"

The two sisters fondly recalled the past, which was the best part of their life. They didn't know the true name of his mother, but they heard their mother, Lady Ye, calling her Sister Shen. Lady Ye was a spirit and belonged to the well-known Night Spirit Clan. Yup, it was the same clan as Mao Yue. So in a sense, Feng Shu and Feng Wei were related to her.

Disaster struck their glorious clan, reducing it to nothing in an instant. Their mother let resentment consume her and descended into madness and became an evil spirit as that was the only way she could gain enough strength to escape the pursuit of her enemy and save the children in her belly. Their father didn't accompany her and instead remained behind to stop the enemies from catching up to her.

He knew she was carrying his children in her belly. Thus, he resolved himself to die protecting them. What happened to him was a mystery to the twins. Their mother escaped. However, as she was an evil spirit, she wasn't accepted anywhere, and the resentment affected her children also.

As a result, when she gave birth to Feng Shu and Feng Wei, they both had evil spirit meridians, which signified that they were offsprings of an evil spirit.

Lady Shen found out that her sworn sister was in massive trouble and that mysterious being had destroyed her clan and provided a house for her.

Four years later, enemies came knocking on their door.

Their mother fought them to protect them and died under their hands.

But before breathing her last, she pushed Feng Shu and Feng Wei into a teleportation array and activated it, causing them to teleport to the mortal realm from the spirit realm.

After three months of eating rubbish from the ground and enduring the bullying of humans, just when a lecher used good food as an excuse to bait them to an alley to rape them, Lady Shen, who had been looking for them, found them. She slaughtered the fat pedophile like a pig and took them home.

"She was too kind, and even though she was carrying you, my lord, in her womb, she didn't have in her to remain seated after hearing the news of disaster striking her sworn sister again. After finding out that we were alive, she looked for us everywhere desperately, and the lord of the clouds helped her. Eventually, she found us before something really terrible could happen to us.

She knew that we would suffer under the hands of the uncivilized northerners and thus brought us to the manor."

"Lord of Clouds was conflicted." Feng Shu still remembered the look in his eyes. "But because Lady Shen was carrying hir child and in need of emotional support, he didn't argue with her and let her do as she wished with a smile."

Love's an emotion that triumphs all reasons.

Who would want to take care of other people's children? But because Xie Yong loved Lady Shen, he accepted her arrangements as it was. Similarly, because Lady Shen sincerely loved Lady Ye, she avenged her and took revenge for her by killing her killers and saving her cuties.

"We brought too much trouble to her."

"While she knew it would be troublesome to raise us in a society which doesn't tolerate our existence, she didn't let that stop her from welcoming us with open arms and making us feel at home."

"Even though our mother was only her sworn sister, she took care of us with the utmost care, not letting us suffer injustice. What she did for the sake of our mother isn't something blood sisters would do for each other in these times."

Lady Shen killed the murderers of their mother and lessened the resentment in their tender hearts. Then, she showered them with motherly love, reversing their transformation. Instead of becoming worse than evil spirits, they became 99% humane!

Feng Wei and Feng Shu always felt indebted to her.

Thus, they became the maids of her son, hoping that by serving him to the best of their abilities, they would be able to repay 1/10th of her kindness.

"That says a lot about her character."

Xie Yang asked, "Then, what happened?"

"She gave birth to you."

"On that day, the northerner saw the world slowing down and coming to a temporary halt. The snow cascading down the air slowed down their descent. The wind gales came to a standstill. The sky turned golden. Heavenly music began playing, sounds of musical instructions spreading for ten thousand zhang, as a hole appeared in the sky, and an otherworldly man came out of it.

His shine was blinding to the eyes, and no one could look at his figure. He came to the Manor, and minutes later, the world resumed as usual. But Lady Shen was nowhere to be found, and the next day, the Lord announced that she was dead, and he had buried her without a ceremony as that was her last will. What happened that day is still a mystery to us, but it's hard to believe that Lady Shen died.

After all, how could we possibly believe that? While she was weak as she overexerted herself during her pregnancy for us and thus faced complications giving birth to you, it wasn't serious. She only needed a few months to recover."

"We suspect that that mysterious man is behind the disappearance of Lady Shen. As for who he is, it's a mystery. Maybe except for the lord, no one knows a thing about him."

"Had you guys tried to investigate this matter?" Xie Yang questioned.

A guilty look instantly adorned their faces, and they evaded his eyes.

"Answer me."

Feng Wei trembled and shakily said, "Yes, we did."

"You did wrong."

Xie Yang gave them a stern look, and they lowered their heads even further.

"My mother doesn't want you two to live a life of hardship. That's why she hid the fact that you two are offspring of an evil spirit from her husband. Do not waste her sacrifice."

Xie Yang's reprimand touched their hearts.

Feng Shu and Feng Wei dropped to their knees and cupped their hands in respect towards him.

"In the future, we won't act without your command."

"If we broke this promise, you may deal with us as you like."

The two sisters promised absolute loyalty to Xie Yang.

Xie Yang waved his hand, and a gentle blue wind pushed them up and helped them sit on the stones.

"What did you find?"

Feng Shu answered, "Although we had spent the past eighteen years trying to find clues about that man in the mortal realm, we honestly haven't found a single thing related to him. It's like we can't do anything but convince ourselves that Lady Shen has passed away."

"Then it must mean that that man isn't a part of the mortal realm. He must be an inhabitant of the spirit realm."

Xie Yang was relatively sure of this guess of his. After all, he could no longer deny the possibility of his mother being a spirit and he himself being a crossbreed of the finest quality! He had a divine meridian, not because he was lucky, but because his mother was a spirit! That man must have taken his mother back to the spirit realm for some reason.

But whatever it was, it mustn't be good.

Why else would his father have to declare his wife dead and hide all information about her?!

"I know a way to sneak into the spirit realm. If you allow us to go, we will go and investigate about the man in the spirit realm."

"One day for sure, but it won't be anytime soon."

They didn't expect Xie Yang to reply in such an unexpected way. They were taken aback by his words.

"My lord, it's clear that you miss your mother. Why else would you be curious about her even after eighteen years? Don't you want to see her as fast as possible?" Feng Shu saw Xie Yang standing up to leave and hurriedly uttered some sentences to change his mind.

Xie Yang turned his back to them and walked away. "I do, but the people here need us more than her."