Above The Heavens I Stand - Chapter 6

Su An stayed silent until Su Chen spoke up.

 

“I’ll leave to digest this now, just wait a while before I’ll play with you again.” Su Chen grinned before nodding at Su Long.

 

“I’ll go with him.” Su Long spoke before looking at Su An gratefully.

 

He held Su Chen’s hand and took him away while Su Bing did the same to Su An.

 

“Gramma.” Su An suddenly spoke out.

 

“What is it?” Su Bing bent down.

 

“Will… I be a big brother? I want a little sister!” Su An asked slowly but then excitedly.

 

Su Bing paused before replying.

 

“Of course you will.” Su Bing smiled deviously.

 

“Gramma. That smile makes you look scary.” Su An pointed out.

 

“En. I know.” Su Bing agreed before picking up Su An.

 

“Do you think I can be a good brother?” Su An asked.

 

‘I mean all I did was shove knowledge on self protection to them and turned my brothers into otakus in my past life.’ Su An thought

 

“A great brother.” Su Bing said slowly walked around while patiently answering Su An’s questions.

 

“But… She might be violent like mother.” Su An said worriedly.

 

‘I’ve always wanted a little sister. Brothers are too annoying. Take their gender for granted hmph.’

 

“You don’t have to worry about that.” Su Bing said before stopping as they had reached Su An’s room.

 

Su An was placed in his bed where he looked at the ceiling silently.

 

‘Glad I have no servants.’ Su An thought before he looking at the closed door and sighed.

 

‘I really need to stop…’ Su An thought as he hugged himself for warmth.

 

He silently thought about his past life.

 

Time slowly passed and Su An was still dwelling in the past.

 

Host needs to move on.The system suddenly spoke.

 

Su An didn’t reply and closed his eyes.

 

‘If only I could.’ He though before his eyelids dropped and fell asleep.

 

…

 

On the sidewalk, a young chubby woman and a small child holding hands walked.

 

The child smiled happily as her mother talked to her about when she was a baby.

 

Only, her smile vanished when her mother suddenly fell in the floor.

 

The mother coaxed her child saying she was fine only to flinch in pain when she tried to stand up.

 

“Mama!” The child cried as she asked the people nearby with help.

 

They just turned away and left her and her mother alone.

 

The child’s eyes brimmed with tears as she tried to pick her mother up.

 

“I’m fine Stella. Mama’s strong, okay.” Stella’s mother said as she slowly stood up.

 

Stella slowly let the tears go down her face and tried to once again ask for help.

 

But the same thing happened, no one helped.

 

Stella cried.

 

‘It’s all… daddy’s fault! Because he made mama walk when she just came out of hospital!’ She thought trying to wipe her tears and support her mother.

 

The next day, her mother was hospitalised again.

 

…

 

A young boy around the age of five suddenly stepped onto the road only to get pulled back by his mother.

 

“How many times do I have to tell you!” The woman scolded loudly. Stella was beside her as she looked at her younger brother with hidden anger.

 

Just who wouldn’t be anxious when your youngest child could have gotten into an accident when the eldest did as a child? Just who could bear almost losing two of their own children!?

 

Stella looked coldly at her brother.

 

She hated him.

 

All he did was force her mother to work like a slave just like her father did.

 

Although he wasn’t completely spoiled, she still hated him.

 

She suddenly turned around when she heard a man shout.

 

“What are you doing to a child!?” He shouted as he got out of his car.

 

“What kind of mother are you?!” He shouted again.

 

Stella gripped her bag tightly as she stopped herself from wanting to punch him.

 

‘What does he know?! He knew nothing! I almost died when I was a child! Mother almost lost another!’

 

“Shut up! What do you know about my mother? Only a parent would understand! Almost losing your eldest child and then almost losing your third child, what kind of parent wouldn’t scold their child after that! Only a heartless parent would! Stop shouting at my mother!”

 

She regret not saying those words.

 

She regret silently watching as her mother was shouted at.

 

She regret not helping her more.

 

Maybe even doing everything while letting her mother sleep.

 

Only after two years of doing her best to help.

 

Her mother almost died from a heart attack and then she, Stella, died the day after in a car accident.

 

…

 

Su An suddenly woke up.

 

He found himself crying loudly and in the embrace of someone.

 

His sight was blurry so he couldn’t make out who the figure was but it was warm.

 

Su An blinked many times to stop the tears before trying to look at who was holding him but he suddenly felt tired.

 

“Mama.” He said tiredly but with a bit a of sadness.

 

He still didn’t want to accept that he left her, all alone.

 

“Don’t leave me…” Su An mumbled before he shut his eyes again.

 

…

 

Ling Cai looked at Su An who was currently in her arms, asleep.

 

She silently stared as she stroked Su An’s face.

 

Her eyes turned red before she silently cried.

 

She remembered Su An’s sorrowful cries.

 

As if…

 

As if something important to him left him alone.

 

As if he was abandoned.

 

She broke into little pieces only mending a little when she comforted herself that Su An was having a nightmare.

 

Su An was strong.

 

He was someone whom the heavens favoured.

 

But she forgot that he was a three month old baby.

 

Three months old.

 

She failed as a mother.

 

His cries didn’t seem like it came from a nightmare.

 

The words that he muttered…

 

It was as if he was living another life.

 

Ling Cai knew there were people who remembered fragments of their past lives.

 

Fragments.

 

Her heart broke when she thought of it.

 

They were fragments but they were so painful.

 

She didn’t let anyone else come into Su An’s room as she calmed Su An down.

 

Letting his tears soak her clothes.

 

After her tears stopped, she stood up. She put Su An back and slowly walked out with red eyes refusing to look at Su Cheng and the others.

 

She just ignored them.

 

Su Cheng stayed silent and decided to ask later. He abruptly remembered something an old man said to him.

 

“Those that defy the heavens cannot defy fate. The heavens cannot be defied unless fate commands it to be so. Those that defeat those who have supposedly defied the heavens are truly the ones that defy the heavens as fate allows it. Such people have suffered before or during their life due to the orchestration of fate. Even if they are born as the child of a peak existence, fate makes them suffer during or before their life to prepare the world for a true legend.”

 

Su Cheng realised this applied to Su An and informed his parents before hugging Ling Cai.

 

…

 

“System…” Su An called out softy after he woke up. He was too mentally tired to think and who would eavesdrop in a baby’s room. What’s more was that he was speaking in English so no one would know what he was saying.

 

Has host finally moved on?

 

“I guess so… I think… I will completely move on during the future but I’m ready now.” Su An answered.

 

“I’m ready.” Su An went back to speaking in his mind.

 

Good! System will award host with a new function! Please look forward to it.Said the system.

 

‘Eh?!’ Su An thought in surprise.

 

New function, levelling system, unlocked!The system announced.

 

‘…You gotta be kidding me! I don’t want that damn thing!’ Su An cried before pausing.

 

‘There is no way I’m gonna be grinding creatures in the future!’ Su An couldn’t help but lament at his luck.

 

Shut it and accept.

 

‘Yes sir!’ Su An answered immediately and thought to open the panel. He saw that a new row for his exp was found on the status screen and another for his skills.

 

‘Skills too?’ Su An questioned.

 

Yes.

 

‘…’ Su An remained silent and quietly got out of bed before walking to the table.

 

He jumped and landed on it before looking at the floor.

 

“It must have looked weird for a baby like me to jump on a table.” Su An commented aloud.

 

Five-year-olds acting like old people are weirder.

 

‘Which is why you need to make it so that my cultivation doesn’t make me stay a child forever.’ Su An spoke as he looked at the things placed on the table.

 

Dumb host!

 

The system answered before keeping silent.

 

“System… what happened to the place I was before?” Su An asked after looking through the window, gazing at the sky for a moment. He forgot that he spoke in Chinese but luckily ‘System’ was said in English.

 

It’s being restored.The system answered.

 

“Then what happen to those that die in between that time period?” Su An asked with fear poking his heart. He was too worried to speak in his mind.

 

“It should take a really long time, right? The souls will be safe, right?” Su An added as his fears grew.

 

Yes and no.The system answered after a slight pause.

 

Su An froze before remaining silent.

 

He was just too shook.

 

Too shook to be aware that he was being watched by his grandparents and father.

 

Su Cheng was currently wearing a heavy expression. Su Bing and Su Yan managed to get the gist of it unlike Su Cheng who’s mind blanked upon hearing Su An speaking another language.

 

He didn’t hear what Su An said after so only Su Yan and Su Bing knew.

 

They could guess why Su An was silent. The didn’t care about the existence known as system but they knew the reason why Su An displayed incredible intelligence the day he was born.

 

As for why Su An only cried or acted abnormal now was because he had been trying to forget.

 

“…Then can I ever see them again? Mother and those two idiotic younger brothers of mine?… Can I?” Su An asked in a trembling voice as his eyes were brimming with tears.

 

“Or are they gone?” Su An added hoping he could the answer to this question was a no.

 

The system answered after a pause. It followed it’s earlier statement that the truth must be said even if hurtful.

 

Negative.

 

Su An’s eyes blanked and his tears silently spilled.

 

He sat on the table and brought his knees to his chest, embracing them as he hid his face in his knees.

 

Just silently crying.

 

Su Bing took Su Yan and Su Cheng out and gave them each a silent stare telling them not to speak of this matter.

 

The two nodded before returning to do their own jobs, thinking of Su An.

 

“Souls… Reincarnation… A blessing yet also a curse.” Su Yan muttered before he used his divine sense to speak to Su Bing confirm that she had not told Su Cheng of this. He shouldn’t know as it would ruin his relationship with Su An.

 

Su An needed time to relax and forget, it would make things worse if Su Cheng changed somewhat when facing Su An.

 

He also sent Su Cheng a message telling him not to act different in front of Su An and not tell Ling Cai.

 

She was already disturbed by the cries lest he would want her to cry more once hearing their deductions regarding Su An.

 

At the same time, Su An and Su Bing realised where Su An had gotten the starlight dew elixir and how his bloodline was so pure.

 

It may of been due to a technique of his but they still couldn’t get their heads around it.

 

Su An seemed to be an ordinary person in his past life. He had no knowledge of cultivation levels and did not ask for it either. He also showed amazement as if things that completely new to him.

 

But at the same time, they thought it was normal hearing the strange language he started speaking in.

 

He was someone from another place.

 

Su Yan’s interest in that place grew at how powerful it was but then he recalled the eyes full with amazement when Su Chao flew into the sky and smashed rocks into an oblivion with his bare hands.

 

Such a sight should be normal but it was as if it was Su An’s first time seeing such an act.

 

Su Yan sighed as he leaned back in his chair.

 

Who knew having a grandchild would be so troubling.

 

Su An’s past made him remember what Su Cheng told him.

 

‘…Heaven cannot be defied unless it is a decree of fate…’

 

‘…Fate makes them suffer during or before their life to prepare for a true legend.’

 

Su Yan sighed again as he looked the ceiling.

 

His fake wrinkles relaxed as he closed his eyes.

 

“Fate dictates the heavens!” He spoke before he fell asleep attempting to relax his mind.