Mom's Past

"Now that we know I can cultivate, you can tell me everything now, right?" Wu Xiaotian asked as he stares towards his mother in the eyes. This has been bothering him since they were able to communicate. Whenever he asks her to tell him her past, she always just wryly smiles and brush it off by saying that she will tell everything when he's already able to cultivate.

The mature woman, seemingly ready to brush it off once again hesitated when she saw the looks in her son's eyes. Seeing his determined look, she couldn't help but let her guard down a little, coupled with the just discovered monstrous talent of her son, she eventually decided that he should know a bit, after all, he's the only one she has, right?

"Fine, but no questions until mama finishes her story alright?" the woman said as she lay down the bed, patting the sheets beside to her prompting Wu Xiaotian to lay there.

As the boy laid beside her, she extended her hand and hugged him tightly, her body trembling, almost as if scared of losing him. Feeling this, he extends his hand and hugged her back, greatly comforting her as the trembling gradually stops.

Gathering her thoughts, the mature woman chooses where she wants to start and decided to go with her past identity, "Dear, remember when mama read you that one book where all types of cultivators are listed?"

"Mhm…"

"Well, your mother… I was a dual cultivator back then…" she said, back then, she thought that although her son is young, he is far more mature even when compared to kids older than him, so she decided it's already time for him to learn all sorts of things. Remembering how she described dual cultivators to him and how he reacted back then, she was afraid that he will start distancing himself from her due to this.

Flabbergasted, the boy couldn't help but be silent for a while causing the atmosphere to be awkward. As a reincarnator from Earth and someone who is quite an avid enjoyer of novels, it is only normal for him to know what being a dual cultivator means even without his mother telling him. This isn't what surprised him though, as he thought that dual cultivators are supposed to be free spirited and avoids all kinds of entanglement, yet the fact that his mother bear him as a child, not leaving from his side ever, means that she pretty much severed her cultivation path for the sake of taking care of him, something to him, is far more important than whatever past identity she have.

"Baby, are you… angry?" the mature woman opened her mouth and spoke with difficulty as she held her son tighter, on the verge of crying as she overthinks and thought that her son already started distancing himself.

Feeling the grip, Wu Xiaotian couldn't help but look up at her and stare right into her eyes as he said, "Nope, why should I?"

Seeing the pure eyes with nothing but love, his mother couldn't help but get surprised as she stutters her reply, "B-but, I'm a dual c-cultivator and I told you tha─"

"So what? Mom is mom and I love her no matter what she was, the most important thing is you always took care of me and always selflessly thought for my good before everything else, I am pretty blessed to have mom as my mother right?" the boy interrupted before she even finished speaking, showing a bright smile on his face.

With immense relief washing her, the mature woman failed to notice how intelligent her son sounded even considering his maturity compared to his age, even if she did notice it though, she wouldn't even care about is one bit as the most important thing to her is that her son completely accepts her past making the heavy burdens in her heart so much lighter.

Having recovered from that, she managed to tell the rest of her story with ease, even joking and teasing her son every now and then.

Basically, being the sole daughter of the two sect masters, she is the heir of a dual cultivation sect situated in the southern province, named Yin Yang Province. Her sect, named Valley of Harmony is one of the leading forces there, and they only compete against two more powers unlike the five peak forces of the Nine Sun Province.

Her journey outside starts at a young age of sixteen, where disciples of the sect can officially practice the sect technique, some of them choosing to have a permanent partner, while some choose to leap from flower to flower, and given how talented she is and no one among the disciples could hold a candle against her, she become one of the latter.

This doesn't go so bad though as she said that she only ever had two partners, the sect master of the Extreme Martial Sect included, the other one being the greatest disciple of her sect the same generation as her, a once in a millennia genius known to bring anyone to heaven in just a few minutes, a feat that the man doubts whether he's still capable of or not once he met her. In addition, she only cultivated with him twice as her strength quickly surpassed his.

In terms of the ones alive though, it is only the sect master that is currently alive as the other one was killed during the fall of the Valley of Harmony.

This brings us to the next issue, that being how the valley fell. According to her, while it is true that the method of dual cultivation is looked down by the outside world, it is not because of silly reasons such as dual cultivator being weaker than someone of the same realm, it is for some other more terrifying reason, that being the fact that when conditions are met, the growth rate of a dual cultivator far surpasses that of other cultivators, not to mention the fact that their foundation doesn't even fall behind that of those who cultivated normally, in fact they can even surpass normal cultivator's strength with just a bit of effort.

This brought fear to the other cultivators outside of the sect, and when the Extreme Martial Sect's, former sect master, the father of her 'lover' heard about their relation, he took advantage of it and lure her to the Extreme Martial Sect and treat her as a bargaining chip, forcing her parents to go there where they were ambushed by a lot of sect masters from other sects, forcing upon them numbers of crimes they never did and executing them on 'behalf of the heavens', they never stopped here though, as those sect masters head towards the location of the valley and eradicated the whole sect, along with all their records.

She was supposed to be put into execution as well but the current sect master begged his father to spare her, and in addition to the fact that she is already carrying a child of his son, the former sect master for whatever reason decided to spare her for now.

Finishing everything, the boy couldn't help but grow bitter learning just how tragic of a life his mother suffered. Seeing the expression in her eyes, he hugged her tighter than he ever did before, all in the hopes that this will make her a bit better.

"Mom… I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked you to recall everything" he said as he stares towards her with guilt.

"There's nothing to be sorry about baby, this is all mama's choice, so whether mama is hurt or not is none of your fault" she replied as she kissed his forehead, gently caressing the back of his head as she falls into silence.

A few moments passed and she once again opens her mouth, but now she looks serious as she stares at her son.

"Now that you know everything, I'm going to pass you all the knowledge of dual cultivation I have, I don't want to force you to use it so do whatever you want with it" she said as she sticks her forehead to his, and began sharing all information of dual cultivation to a seven years old child.