Genius Beast Tamer

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"Mother, my little brother is a month old today, but I still don't know his name. Why don't you tell Tianxie his name?" A childish voice rang out. A five-year-old girl was holding a baby, and the scene was very warm and lovely. She had a sweet smile on her face, and her big eyes were blinking with anticipation and curiosity.

Looking at her adorable children, Han Rou gritted her teeth, swallowing her anger and resentment. She forced a gentle smile at her children, stroking their heads lightly. "Xie'er, Mother asks you, do you like your name?"

The little girl wrinkled her nose slightly, her eyes sparkling with a maturity beyond her years, but she quickly suppressed the glint in them and said innocently, "Mother, Xie'er asked about my brother's name. Why didn't you answer Xie'er? Why did you ask me this question instead? Xie'er doesn't know about liking or disliking. I only know that once a name is chosen, it's chosen. Whether I like it or not, I can't choose. As long as Mother doesn't object and calls me by this name, Xie'er will be this name."

Han Rou was silent for a moment, wanting to take the child from Tian Xie's arms, but little Tian Xie held on tightly, looking very reluctant. He whispered, "My little brother is asleep. It's fine for me to hold him. If I make a noise when I give him to you, he will be woken up. If he cries, I won't be able to bear it. He looks so pitiful when he cries. I don't like to see him cry."

Han Rou couldn't help but chuckle, as if her anger had suddenly vanished. She affectionately picked up Tian Xie along with her, letting Tian Xie sit on her lap, without insisting that she give up the child in her arms. Amused, she asked, "Xie'er, do you really like your little brother?"

Tianxie nodded vigorously and said, "Of course! He's my own younger brother. I watched my mother's belly grow bigger and bigger, and I waited for him for a very, very long time before he was born!"

Han Rou smiled gently and pinched Tian Xie's little face. "You shouldn't just talk the talk. If you like him, as his older sister, you have to take good care of him and make sure he doesn't get hurt."

Tianxie promised earnestly, "Mother, don't worry. As long as Tianxie is here, no one can bully my brother. Even if Tianxie dies, I will find someone to continue to protect my brother. I will never let him suffer any harm."

"Pah, pah, pah, what are you saying! How could you die before him..." Han Rou suddenly stopped, realizing her mistake as soon as the words left her mouth. Tian Xie's curious eyes were already looking at her with suspicion. Han Rou quickly corrected herself, saying, "How can you talk about death at such a young age!"

Tianxie wrinkled his little nose, a strange light flashing in his eyes. He suddenly asked very seriously, "Mother, after my brother was born, we moved to this remote courtyard. It seems that apart from the head of the family and the mistress, almost no one in the Tian family knows about my brother's birth. Why does Father still live in the original place, separated from us?"

Upon hearing this, a glint of fire flashed in Han Rou's usually gentle eyes.

Tianxie keenly sensed the anger in his mother's eyes and muttered softly, "Mother, is it the same as what's being said outside?"

Han Rou paused, then asked in confusion, "Xie'er, what have you heard?"

Tian Xie glanced at Han Rou cautiously, then asked somewhat timidly, "My younger brother has clearly been born, but no one in the Tian family knows about his birth. A few days ago, I overheard the ladies discussing this. They said that perhaps Mother gave birth to another freak, which is why the head of the family has kept the news under wraps. Is my younger brother really as strange as Xie'er, a freak as well?"

Han Rou looked at Tian Xie with pity, her eyes seeming to mist over. She shook her head and said, "Don't listen to what others are saying, Xie'er. You and your brother are perfectly healthy, how can you be freaks? What's strange about you? Don't talk nonsense, neither of you are freaks, those people are blind!"

Seeing tears welling in her mother's eyes, Tianxie lowered her head, looking at her younger brother sleeping soundly in her arms, and whispered, "Xie'er was talking about immortal roots, but doesn't my brother have any immortal roots either?"

"This..." Han Rou was speechless for a moment, not knowing how to speak. It felt as if a knife was cutting into her heart, bit by bit. Although Tian Xie was so cute in front of her, like a normal five-year-old child, she had noticed the strange light that flashed in her eyes from time to time. The exclusion that this child had experienced since childhood seemed to have made her somewhat deep. Han Rou sighed bitterly in her heart, knowing that if she didn't ask clearly, the child would definitely have many doubts in her heart and would try to find other ways to understand everything.

Han Rou thought for a long time before deciding to treat her like a little adult for the time being. Perhaps from the moment she said she wanted to protect her younger brother, she had already guessed seven or eight parts of it. Whether she said it or not, it would be the same.

Han Rou tightened her arms around Tian Xie, making her more comfortable in her embrace. After adjusting her position, Han Rou slowly said, "Xie'er, what's in your little head? Why are you so clever? Just as you guessed, your brother doesn't have any immortal roots either."

"What about spiritual roots? They must exist, right? They should exist, they must exist!" Tianxie's tone seemed a little excited, but his voice grew softer and softer.

Hearing the child's voice growing softer, Han Rou gently stroked her hair and shook her head slightly, saying, "I suppose you've already guessed it. If there were such a thing, why would we be living here?"

Han Rou could clearly feel the little one in her arms tremble. She had no better way to comfort the child than to hold him tighter. It was as if she was comforting the child in her arms, and also as if she was using this method to comfort herself, using the child's warmth.

Tianxie closed his eyes slightly and said nothing more. Hanrou saw that the child did not speak and did not know how to start the conversation. The room fell silent instantly.

Tianxie's eyelashes trembled from time to time, as if he was struggling internally, in great pain, yet trying his best to endure it.

Children born in the celestial realm without immortal roots do exist, but those without even spiritual roots are a rare occurrence, happening only once every eons. Without immortal roots, one isn't born an immortal, but with spiritual roots, one can cultivate like a mortal in the lower realm. However, she, despite having legitimate direct lineage in a large family, lacked both immortal and spiritual roots, making her a disgrace to the family. She clearly remembered that before she was three years old, she called the family head "Grandpa," but on her third birthday, when she was alone, the family head sternly rebuked her, forbidding her to call him only "Family Head."

For a long time, countless people have laughed at her and treated her as a joke. Her cousins, even younger cousins, would all use their newly learned spells to bully her and laugh at her inability to cultivate.

I still remember the first time I went to the street with my cousin. She actually teamed up with her friends to steal things from the vendors and used magic to make the items appear on her body. This made everyone in the Heavenly Clan, and even all the immortals in the vicinity, think that she was not only a useless person who couldn't cultivate, but also a thief with extremely bad character.

Everything seemed so vivid in her mind, like a series of betrayals. Because of her cousin's first "success," her cousins ​​all seemed to treat her as a gossip subject. From then on, her mother kept telling her that she would give birth to a younger brother, a very powerful younger brother, so that no one would dare to bully her. But when her mother finally became pregnant, she waited and looked forward to it. But who could have imagined that a "freak" that was once in millions of years would be born from her mother?

She had already heard many people speak ill of her mother. They all thought her mother was an unfortunate woman. In fact, it was precisely because her mother gave birth to her, a child without any immortal or spiritual roots, that she was viewed that way. However, those people only dared to talk behind her back, and none of them dared to say it out loud. But now that her mother had given birth to a younger brother, if those people found out, they would definitely become even more aggressive. Perhaps, they would say those things to her face soon.

She had always hoped her younger brother would possess an exceptional immortal spiritual root, so that she wouldn't be bullied and would have someone to rely on. This would also prove to her mother that she wasn't an unfortunate woman, and that her lack of immortal and spiritual roots was merely a coincidence. But now, with her brother lacking both, she felt conflicted. In the past, she had considered not relying on her brother and hoping to be a protective older sister. But now, her brother had truly become the one who needed her protection, leaving her with an indescribable mix of feelings. She was capable of being the older sister, and indeed, qualified to be the older sister of a brother who also lacked immortal and spiritual roots. But could they truly survive in this immortal realm? How long could two of the most ridiculous mortals in the immortal realm possibly live?

Why did God make my brother have the same fate as me?

In the vast immortal realm, only he knows how much helplessness, how much bullying, and how much humiliation he had to swallow his pride and bear in silence to become such a useless person.

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