Seven years passed, Enjoying fighting with himself!
After Chi Shan Tang took Mei Lan to show her the accounts hall and explained to her about everything, she told his servant to escort Mei Lan to her new courtyard in the second peak. The scenery at second peak was very different, it was very high in the sky and one see the large sky standing on it, the houses were much larger and beautiful, people were wearing good looking silk clothes and had servants, the fragrance was also very pleasing on the streets and some shops had a huge line of customers.
The servant brought Mei Lan and her children to a more peaceful area where a number of courtyards were present, this place had no shops and the streets weren't as crowded as before. This was the area where external members of the clan and their families lives.
Mei Lan entered the courtyard, there was a large garden, in which there was also a small pond with fishes, and a seemingly old tree. "Madam Lei, the clan had arranged this courtyard for your family, servants have already filled the rations, you have to only cook the food by yourself today, tomorrow the clan will arrange two servants and they will also bring everything." The servant bowed down to Mei Lan and took his leave.
Mei Lan closed the doors and again watched the whole courtyard and each of its corners, 'Sigh, Never did I think that I, a servant, would become a member of the clan to have such a courtyard for my family.' She was very happy and proud of her children and also sad that her late husband was not here to see this and live a better life, 'Would he have been killed so mercilessly by a clan elder if he was a member of the clan? Nevermind, I will make sure that my children never face such injustice in the future.'
Lei Tian was standing near her and saw her expression changing several times, 'She probably won't die soon this time.'
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From that day onwards two servants were assigned to this family, they were Auntie Zhao and Old man Zhao, a twist of fate from the previous life of Lei Tian. Lei Tian and his clone also got a teacher, he was an old man, Wen Bo. A mortal scholar of Shi Chan Clan. He taught Lei Tian writing, simple mathematics, about the history of the world and most importantly, the history of Chi Shan Clan itself.
Time passed as seasons changed, Lei Tian and his 'brother' grew up healthy without any major accidents. They were fed well all this time but these brothers were labelled as shy, and often people think that these two enjoy each other's company and don't like to play with neighbours kids, their teacher Wen Bo acknowledged them intelligent but these two had another problem, that was they were too lazy! They finished all their work and also exercised by themselves to keep their body fit but rest of the time they were sleeping, sometimes almost 16 hours everyday, Mei Lan encouraged them to play outside with other kids but they just ignored her.
Seven years passed like this. Lei Tian woke up from his sleep at noon. 'Sigh... finally my soul has recovered, if I was an immortal like the past, I would be required to go into seclusion for many years but the good thing is that my soul power is just at the peak of mortal realm, where power of soul doesn't matter really. By just sleeping these past 12 years for extra hours my soul's damaged part has recovered. Now I have to work on my physical body, in three years my aperture will open. My soul is still in its original body so I have adapted this body already, but my split still requires more training! Although that body is of a twin brother, there are some differences.'
Mei Lan was sleeping at this moment. She used to take a nap at noon after lunch. The servants used to return to the valley at this time of the hour because there's not much work. Lei Tian and his clone came into the garden. Mei Lan has planted many plants and flowers in the garden, there were also more fishes in the pond. The courtyard is now like a 'home' with these personal touches.
Lei Tian stood in front of his clone at the centre of the garden.
Whoosh
Lei Tian started attacking fiercely on his clone, be it punches, kicks and targeting the vital points carefully, Lei Yun did his best to counter these attacks and started attacking Lei Tian in a same manner, viciously while targeting his vital body parts.
For 1 hour straight they counter each other's attack but after 1 hour Lei Yun's attacks ceased and he got defensive, he tried his best to find a gap but his body couldn't react in time and he could only defense and rarely manages to launch a counter, after thirty minutes, finally Lei Tian's punch got connected and he managed to land a punch on Lei Yun's face.
Lei Yun tried his best to dodge but again his body couldn't react in time, he was feeling a slight headache from the last fifteen minutes but it got intense at this moment and he lost his momentum completely, Lei Tian launched punches and kicks continuously but Lei Yun just grabbed his head and crawled down like a ball.
Just as they were 'fighting', Mei Lan entered the garden and was shocked to see this scene: her two precious sons were fighting with each other? No. All she could see at this moment was that Lei Tian had a sinister smile as he was attacking his own brother and his brother crawled down and grabbed his head.
"St-STOP! What are you doing?! LEI TIAN!" Mei Lan shouted as she rushed towards them. Lei Tian was also shocked, he was enjoying his battle so much that he forgot the sense of time and was beating up his own clone so badly.
Mei Lan grabbed Lei Yun who was crawling on the ground and shouted while staring at Lei Tian, "What were you doing?! Why were you beating your own brother like that?!"
Lei Tian replied in an innocent tone, "No, mother we were sparring with each other and I was not beating him!"
"Don't start spouting lies! I saw you smiling when you were beating your brother."
"Uhh mother you should calm down, brother is telling the truth, we were really fighting each other for more than an hour but he couldn't even land a single attack on me. Big brother is stronger than me right now mother, sigh please don't tell anyone mom. I just want to sleep now since I am tired."
"Okay, I will take you to bed right now" She then glanced at Lei Tian and said in a solemn tone, "As for you... I will punish you by not giving you any food!"
Lei Tian showed an expression of disbelief and started apologizing continuously and tried to explain himself. That night he still got his food.
Mei Lan didn't tell anyone about today's incident but when her both children told her that they will fight today too she stared at them with mouth open. Lei Tian gave her an excuse, because they were 'bored' and they enjoyed what happened yesterday. From that day they started to fight like this. Mei Lan was always observing them when they were fighting, she was not a warrior so she couldn't understand how vicious attacks these two brothers were launching at each other.
Lei Tian stops everyday when at least one of his attacks lands on Lei Yun and doesn't beat him like the first day, because the headache was not from physical attacks but a soul injury! Lei Tian didn't want any soul injury since those were very hard to heal and he would waste his time again if he had to sleep so long like before.
Since their souls had recovered they slept less than before. This was also a surprise for Mei Lan and others who knew about them.