1 Chapter 1: The Case of Sis and Bro

The venerable Su Ming wakes up from his slumber. The respected one is the same, but the surroundings have changed. The mahogany canopy bed is switched with a simple bamboo bed with coarse cloth as the mattress. No silk curtains gild the curtainless windows, if the clumsy hole in the wall with a wooden plate could be called a window, that is.

The room itself is a tenth the size Sir venerable remember. But none of these come close to the shock the great one feels when there is a living girl, no older than 15 years of age, sleeping by his feet with only her head supported by the sorry excuse of a bed he is on.

You have to keep in mind that Sir has lived in seclusion after reaching the highest level of alchemy, with occasional visits from sect leaders he was on friendly terms with. Even the Wu continent emperor did not have the guts to summon him. Now this weakling was sleeping by his feet.

The years of being on top of the world have built a resistance to weird experiences for the great one. He dismisses it as an illusion induced by some herb that may have mutated.

Hence we went back to sleep, or he tried because the girl woke up as soon as he moved. And what did she do on waking up? Look at him? Yes, she did. Ask who he was? No, she seemed to know him and appeared very happy. Did she tell him who she was? Partially when she started bawling her eyes out.

"Brother!! You are finally... awake. SuSu h.. has... been bullied by everyone." She started.

[SuSu??? What kind of Mary Su name is that???]

Then she took a deep breath and" But SuSu never says a word. SuSu has always helped brother, but brother doesn't even help SuSu ...."

[For someone wailing so loud, you do sure talk a lot.]

"Ok, Ok, Stop, Stop" The train was successfully halted.

"Answer me truthfully. Las, where is this, and who are you?" Sir Venerable asked in his gentlest tone, given that the las was weak, but when you have lived in isolation for thousands of years, speech becomes devoid of emotion, or our venerable one has always been emotionless.

Either way, the question did not strike the las well, and she started crying again.

Now the venerable one started getting angry. He was about to threaten the girl to talk when a sharp pain overtook him. Even his failed accession did not hurt this bad. He felt like ending himself to escape the misery. But the pain only lasted a second before it left much as abruptly as it came. With it came memories belonging to "this body". They came as packets letting the venerable one read it like a play instead of merging the memories and raising a power struggle between the two selves.

The memories cleared much of the situation. This body belongs to Su Ming, brother of this crying child Su Su. The world, while resembling his own, is not the same, he is still on a continent named Wu, but there was never a city as prosperous as the memories of this body in his world.

[Why did the heavens send me here? I have reached the height of the mortal realm. What more do I need?]

[And this girl is too annoying...]

Sir is not used to crying girls as he was a time of chaos. The world was plunged into unrest, and people didn't have the time to cry. They were too busy surviving.

"Stop crying you...." [Wow My speech is being affected by this body.]

"Brother Su Su has suffered."

[This name...]

"You will be named Su Qinghe from today."

"Brother?! But Su Su is Su Su"

"I said you are Qinghe! Get lost now!"

The Great One has fallen to the point of using his aura to chase out a little girl.

[Now that I am alone, what do you want?]

The transparent apparition at the corner of the room turned to look at him.

[She is Su Su]

[These pair of siblings, really...]

"This venerable one promises he will make your sister soar to the skies. She needs a suitable name that fits her future accomplishments."

The apparitions gave a surprised gesture.

[... These idiots.]

"I can tell your heart's desires. Do not worry mortal, I will take care of your sister."

[..aren't you also a mortal?] The apparition asked innocently.

"I am the greatest alchemist! Where are you in the same league as me?!"

The apparition just looked confused as it started dissipating.

It was unwilling to leave, but who told him to trust these paper relatives.

"I will also take care of your troubles."

This gave the apparition enough piece of mind as it completely dissipated.