Chapter 1: Reincarnation
REJOICE, Wei Wuxian is dead!"
It hadn't been a day since the Siege of the Burial Mound, and the news had already flown across the entire cultivation world as if it had sprouted wings. The speed was only comparable to how fast the flames of war had spread back then, if not faster.
Suddenly everyone, whether they were prominent clans or rogue cultivators, was discussing this operation of vanquishment that had been led by the four great clans and attended by hundreds of sects both big and small.
"Fantastic, fantastic indeed! Who was the hero who killed the Yiling Patriarch?"
"Who else could it be? Ain't it his shidi, the little sect leader Jiang Cheng? The four major clans fronted the attack: the Jiang Clan of Yunmeng, the Jin Clan of Lanling, the Lan Clan of Gusu, and the Nie Clan of Qinghe. Crushing family for the greater good, they destroyed Wei Wuxian's good ol' lair, the Burial Mound."
"I must say, well done."
Someone immediately clapped and exclaimed in agreement, "That's right, well done! If it wasn't for the Jiang Clan of Yunmeng, who took him in and raised him, then Wei Wuxian would've been a no-name street rat in the countryside—never mind becoming anything else! The former Jiang sect leader raised him like his own son, eh? But look at him: publicly defecting from the clan, making himself an enemy of the world. He's embarrassed the Jiang Clan of Yunmeng utterly and almost doomed them to the same fate of extermination.
What do you call a traitor? Him!"
"I can't believe Jiang Cheng allowed that guy to run amok for so long. If it were me, I wouldn't have just stabbed him when he first defected, I would've cleaned house! He wouldn't even have gotten the chance to do all those crazy things. What does a childhood friendship matter when facing people like him?"
"That's not what I heard, though? Didn't Wei Ying's demonic cultivation backfire, causing him to be ripped apart and devoured by the ghosts under his command? I heard he was chewed to pieces while still alive."
"Ha ha ha ha! That's what you call karma. I've wanted to say this for a long time now, but those ghost generals he raised were like a pack of unleashed mad dogs, biting people everywhere. And in the end, he got bit to death himself.
Well deserved!"
"Be that as it may, if the little Jiang sect leader hadn't been the one to plan this siege based on the Yiling Patriarch's weaknesses, then success would've been difficult to guarantee. Don't forget what Wei Wuxian had in his clutches, or how over three thousand renowned cultivators were all completely annihilated that night."
"Wasn't it five thousand?"
"Thee thousand, five thousand, they're all the same. Five thousand is more believable."
"He eally is completely mad..."
"He destroyed the Yin Tiger Tally before he died, so he gets at least some credit for that. If that evil thing was left to cause harm in the world, his sins would only deepen."
The moment the Yin Tiger Tally was mentioned, there was suddenly silence, as if everyone was wary of something. A moment later, someone sighed.
"Man...speaking of that Wei Wuxian. He used to be a young master in an extremely affluent and distinguished cultivation sect back then. It wasn't like he had no accomplishments. He gained great success in his youth. How glorious and unbridled he was... How did he end up on this path...?"
The subject changed, and voices were raised again in heated discussion.
"It's obvious from this case that the path of cultivation must always follow the righteous way. The demonic path is only glorious for the moment. You think it looks so glamorous? Heh, look where that got him."
