The boys on the side were all young and Inexperienced. However, although they all looked nervous, they strictly stuck to their positions and protected the Mo family's house, fixing talismans onto the walls. The servant named A-Tong was already carried into the hall.
Lan SiZhui felt his pulse with his left hand and supported Madame Mo's back with his right. He couldn't save both of them at once, and was in a terrible fix when A-Tong crawled up from the ground.
A-Ding exclaimed, "A-Tong, you're awake!"
Before her face had the time to light up, A Tong raised his left hand and clutched his own neck.
"I think he is possessed"
"Yeah, definitely"
"Is he dead though?"
Seeing this, Lan SiZhui tapped on a few of his acupoints three times.
Wei WuXian knew that, although they looked gentle, the people from the Lan clan had arm strength that were the opposite of gentle. With a force like this, it would be hard for anyone to move.
"Really?" Jin Ling asked
"Yeah that's right! Wanna try it?" Lan Jingyi challenges Jin Ling
Jin Ling raise his eyebrows " Fine!"
Lan Jingyi gripped Jin Ling's hand, that made Jin Ling plead to let go of his hand
Jin Ling shouted " Ahh let go, let go! Do all you Lans have a grip on a freaking gorilla?!"
However, A-Tong seemed like he didn't feel anything, and his left hand's grip tightened, his expressions looking more painful and twisted. Lan JingYi proceeded to grab his left hand, but it was like breaking off a chunk of iron, having no effect at all. After a moment, a crack came from his neck, and A-Tong's head drooped down.
His neck was already broken,He actually strangled himself in front everyone's eyes!
Some shut their eyes afraid to watch the gruesome scene in front of them
Seeing the situation, A-Ding's voice wavered, "... A ghost! There's an invisible ghost here. It made A-Tong strangle himself! Her tone was sharp and her voice was shrill, making everyone's blood run cold, and so they believed it effortlessly."
Nie Mingjue has a frown on his face " That creature is extremely dangerous than I thought "
Nie Huisang snapped his fan to hide the smirk on his face
Wei WuXian's judgement happened to be the opposite-it wasn't a ferocious ghost.
"So if it's not a ferocious ghost, what is it?
He had examined the talismans that the boys chose, all of them were spirit-fending ones. If it really was a ferocious ghost, then, as it went into the East Hall, the talismans would have incinerated green flames. Yet, nothing was happening right now.
"Woah, I didn't notice that"
" I'm too much preoccupied to notice it"
The cultivation world had a strict definition for the category of "ferocious ghosts"-they had to kill at least one person a month and continue the behaviour for at least three months. The criterion was set by Wei WuXian himself, and it was probably still being used.
There are a lot of ' ooh's' to be heard from the cultivators
He was the best at dealing with this kind. To him, killing one person in seven days would be considered as a ferocious ghost who was killed frequently. This thing killed three people at once, and within such a short period of time. It would be hard for even a capable cultivator to think of a solution immediately, let alone these juniors who had just started their careers.
They find Wei Wuxian's narration very useful
The juniors took their notes hastily, as if they are in class with the Yiling Laozu
As he was thinking, the candlelight flickered. A sinister wind passed, and all of the lanterns and candles in the courtyard and the East Hall died out.
"A while ago we are watching comedy, now we are watching horror!"
The moment the lights were extinguished, screams came from everywhere Everyone pushed and pulled, wanting to escape as fast as they could, stumbling and falling in the process. Lan JingYi shouted, "Stay where you are and don't run! I'm gonna catch whoever runs!"
A female cultivator chuckles"I didn't know Lan could shout like that"
However, everyone was frightened to death, so how could they still have ears for words like this? After a while, the East Hall grew quiet, with only a few light breaths and faint sobs. It was likely that only a few people were left.
"Is everyone's already dead?"
Lan SiZhui ignited a Flame Talisman.
The fire from the Flame Talisman would not be extinguished by sinister winds. He used the talisman to light up the candle again, and the rest of the boys went to comfort the others.
Under the light, Wei WuXian casually looked at his wrists. Another cut had healed.
"Did someone died again, who could it be?"
After looking, he suddenly realized that there was something wrong about the number of cuts.
Some had sweats forming on their foreheads probably because of the intense scene
Originally, he had two cuts on each of his wrists. One healed when Mo ZiYuan died, and another healed when Mo ZiYuan's father died. The death of the servant, A Tong, healed one more of the cuts. Adding it up, only three cuts should have healed, with the last cut being the deepest and most hate-filled one.
But, right now, no cuts remained on his wrists.
" What a lucky hit, he didn't have a hard time to do Mo Xuanyu's request "
Wei Wuxian knew that Madame Mo was definitely one of Mo XuanYu's targets of vengeance. The longest and deepest cut was probably saved for her. Yet, it had disappeared
"That means one thing"
"She's probably dead"
"Yeah "
The juniors exclaimed
His gaze slowly moved towards the pale faced Madame Mo, who recently woke up and was surrounded by everyone. Unless, she was already dead.
Some cheered that Madam Mo was already dead. And some of them have a relief expression on their faces
Suddenly, A-Ding cried, "Hand... His hand! A-Tong's hand!"
" That creature surely likes to target the hands"
Lan SiZhul moved the Flame Talisman to above A-Tong's body. Sure enough, his left hand had disappeared as well.
Left hand!
"What's with the left hand?"
With lightning speed, Wei WuXian's mind became clear, with the being that was wrecking havoc and the missing left arms finally completing the puzzle.
Lan Jingyi exclaimed that the other juniors agreed to him " I really don't understand what kind of brain Wei-qianbe have, he easily connected the dots!"
"I second that " Sizhui agreed
"I third that " Jin Ling also agreed
"I fourth that" Zizhen agreed as well
Jiang Cheng groans on his hands " Can you four stop that! "
He promptly bursted out laughing. Lan JingYi snapped, "You idiot! How can you still laugh in a situation like this?"
"Hahaha... Look at this young man calling Wei-qianbe idiot....haha" Lan Jingyi nervously exclaimed while avoiding Hanguanjun's eyes, afraid that he will be punished for it
Wei WuXian tugged at his sleeve, "No, no!" Lan JingYi was annoyed, pulling his sleeve back, "What 'no'? You're not an idiot? Stop fooling around! Nobody has the time to pay attention to you."
"Lan Jingyi!" Lan Qiren exclaimed
Jingyi flinched when the old man Lan called him as he hides behind Sizhui
Wei WuXian pointed at the corpses of Mo ZIYuan's father and A-Tong, which lay on the ground, and spoke, "These are not them."
"What does he mean?"
Lan SiZhui stopped the fuming Lan JingYi and asked, "What do you mean by 'these are not them"?"
Wei WuXian stated solemnly, "This is not Mo ZiYuan's dad, and this is not A-Tong either."
"What?!"
"I don't get it "
With his makeup-covered face, the more solemn he looked, the more he seemed like an actual lunatic. Yet, surrounded by the dim candlelight, his words sent chills up everyone's backs.
Lan SiZhui stared for a second, and asked in spite of himself, "Why?"
"Yeah why?!"
"Just say it already!"
Wei WuXian exclaimed proudly, "Their hands. None of them were left-handed. I'm sure of this, because they'd always hit me with their right hands."
The other cultivators glares at him
" What is he being proud of?!"
Lan JingYi spat, running out of patience, "What are you being proud for? Look at how complacent you are!"
"I like this Lan kid "
However, Lan SiZhui broke into a sweat. Thinking back, A-Tong had used his left hand to strangle himself, and Madame Mo's husband also used his left hand to push his wife.It was impossible for them to suddenly turn left-handed before they died.
Although he didn't know why, in order to figure out what the creature was, they had to think in the direction of "left hands." After Lan SiZhui realized this, he felt surprised and looked at Wei WuXian. He couldn't help but to think, suddenly saying this... It doesn't seem like a coincidence.
"Oh"
Lan Jingyi blink "Why didn't I think about that?"
His eyes moved away from him, passing A-Ding. who fainted from crying too much, and landed on Madame Mo
However, the fingers on her left hand were much longer than the ones on her right. They were also thicker. The knuckles were bent, full of power.
The hand isn't that of a woman's-it was a man's hand!
"A man's hand?"
Lan SiZhui commanded, "Take hold of her!" A few boys grabbed Madame Mo.
Lan SiZhui said "excuse me" and was prepared to slap down a talisman when Madame Mo's left hand suddenly twisted in an absurd way, aiming for his throat.
"What kind of disciples the Lan Sect have? "
"That's too much manners to have "
She attacked quickly, and was extremely close to grabbing onto his neck, when at the same time, Lan JingYi shouted "hey" and threw himself in front of Lan SiZhui, blocking the hand for him.
A flash passed, and as soon as the arm grabbed Lan JingYi's shoulder, green flames ignited on his arm, making it loosen Its grip.
"Wow, I didn't know that the Lan Sect had an incantation stitch on their uniforms like that"
Lan SiZhui escaped death, and was about to thank Lan JingYi for it, when he saw that half of the latter's uniform had already been burnt to ashes, looking quite awkward.
Lan JingYi took off the other half of his uniform and scolded, fuming with rage, "Why did you kick me, you lunatic? Did you want to kill me?"
Lan Jingyi pout "Why did I feel that I have been a bait there?"
Wei WuXian scampered away like a frightened rat, "It wasn't me!"
It was him. Inside of the Lan clan's uniform jacket, there were compact stitchings of Incantations using thin threads of the same color, included for protection. During the emergency, he could only kick Lan JingYi and use his body to protect Lan SiZhui's neck.
"Wow"
"I'm amazed that the Lans thought to make this"
When they see a smug look on Old man Lan's face, no one says about it
Madame Mo fell onto the ground, with all of the blood and flesh on her face being drained until only a thin layer of skin was left on the skull. The male arm that didn't belong to her had fallen off her shoulders.
This was the evil being that the Phantom Attraction Flag had attracted
Jin Guangyao have a scared expression on his face, after all he knew whose hand it is. And when he turned his head to the person who's behind all of the manipulation thing.
'Nie Huisang, what a headshaker he is. How could I easily believe him?!!!! He destroyed my plan, I should have killed him along with his brother!!!' he thought while looking at the dark grin on Nie Huisang's face
Being dismembered was a classic example of a distressing death. Therefore, it would come up with strategies to find the other parts of the body.
"Who could do such a cruel thing such as this, if it were me, I would totally hunt who could have done this!" Nie Mingjue exclaimed as his little brother looked at him
If it found it, it might be satisfied and rest in peace, or it might stir up more trouble. If it couldn't find it, the body part would have to put up with the second best option. What would the second best option be? It would have to make do with the bodies of
living humans.
After draining all of the person's blood and energy, it would abandon the body and find another container for parasitism, until it finally collected all of the other parts of its corpse.
Some shivered at the thought of what that ghost hand would do if it finds a body to target.
The boys from the Lan clan saw that, although talismans didn't work, clothing did, and all took off their coats to cover the left hand. The layers of clothing looked like a white cocoon. After a second, the ball of white clothes ignited with a whoosh, creating a green, abnormal inferno.
"I'm still amazed at the Lan Sect uniforms"
While nobody was looking, Wei WuXian ran towards the West Courtyard.
"Is he leaving those juniors behind?"
The ten-or-so walking corpses that were subdued by the boys stood silently in the courtyard, sealed by the incantations drawn on the ground. Wei WuXian kicked one of the symbols, destroying the entire formation.
"What is he doing?"
He clapped twice. Suddenly, with a jolt, the whites of the walking corpses' eyes all turned upward, as if they were woken up by a bolt of thunder.
This gave shivers to some of the cultivators, the power of the Yiling Patriarch is beyond what they are imagined to be
While some are amazed at how the Yiling Patriarch could have done such an amazing thing , especially the juniors.
"Two claps?!"
"That's easy?!
Wei WuXian spoke, "Wake up. It's time to work!"
A cultivator shouted "Tha-that's demonic cultivation!"
Cangse Sanren worriedly turned her head to her son who looks sleepy at what they are watching. She knows that resentful energy can't do any good to the body, but she knows that her son has reasons why he cultivates that path
The walking corpses in front of him moved a few quivering steps. But, as they approached Wei WuXian, their legs grew weak and they collapsed onto the ground, as if they were real humans.
It gave them goosebumps even Wen Rouhan, with such power as this even the corpse couldn't handle his power.
But the other cultivators are thrilled to finally see the Yiling Laozu in action, especially those who didn't see him fought
'Maybe I could ask the Yiling Patriarch to be his disciple, I want to learn from him ' Xue Yang thought
Jin Guangshan has a greedy expression on his face, and glances at the beautiful Wei Wuxian who looked sleepy at what they are watching
The crueler the being was, the better Wei WuXian could control it. These walking corpses hadn't been trained by him and couldn't withstand direct manipulations from him.
"Wow, I'm really amazed at you son, because when cruelty the being was the harder for me to control it" Wen Rouhan said as his cruel niece scowled at him
He ran back to the East Courtyard. Wei WuXian strode into the East Hall and grabbed Madame Mo and Mo ZiYuan's corpses, one on each hand, and spoke in a low voice, "Wake up!"
In a split second, Madame Mo and Mo ZiYuan's eye whites turned up, the shrieks were loud enough and the resentment was strong enough.
Wei WuXian smiled, feeling quite satisfied, "Do you recognize the hand outside?"
He commanded, "Tear it apart."
Wei Wuxian yawn "I didn't know that I looked handsome when I do that "
Lan Wangji kissed his husband's temple "Mn, Wei Ying's beautiful "
"I'm handsome"
"Beautiful"
"Handsome"
"Beautiful"
"Hand-"
"Can you two stop it?!!!" Jiang Cheng shouted but the two lovers didn't pay attention to him
The three members of the Mo family whipped out like three clouds of black wind. The left arm fractured one of the swords, and was about to break out, when three cruel corpses without left arms came at it.
Aside from being unable to defy Wei WuXian's command, the family also loathed the creature that killed them, and let out their anger on the ghost hand.
"Woahh, this is a great fight, it is my first time seeing a corpse fight with a corpse itself." A junior cultivator exclaimed
"You should come along with us when we are night hunting together with Wei-qianbe, believe me you can see more amazing things other than this" Lan Jingyi exclaimed to the junior
They had only seen these battles between multiple fierce corpses in books and hearsay, and they all gaped as they saw the gore-splattered scene for the first time, unable to avert their gazes. They all thought that it was... Absolutely thrilling!
The cultivators around the room have the same thoughts on their heads, 'this is absolutely thrilling indeed'
Wei WuXian was watching the battle
attentively. His tongue was slightly curled, suppressing a sharp whistle inside of his lips, preparing it to be let out. The whistle would be able to evoke even more hostility in the cruel corpses, which might turn the tables.
Then, however, it would be difficult to ensure that nobody knew that it was his doing.
Sect Leader Yao snorted "Of course he will not reveal his identity just to save those Lans!"
"Shut up!" The juniors all said
'Can Wei Wuxian really not sacrifice his identify to save those Lans, or he would really save them ' some thought
Watching as the Mo family grew closer to defeat, Wei WuXian prepared to blow the whistle that he suppressed under his tongue. At the same time, the echoes of two strums on a stringed instrument came from far away.
Wei Wuxian beamed "Lan-er-gege!! So handsome!!"
Lan SiZhui wiped the blood off his face and raised his head, happily exclaiming, "HanGuang-Jun!"
"The husband is here to save his wife and their children!" A female exclaimed, probably fangirling
As soon as he heard the two faraway strums of the zither, Wei WuXian turned around and began to leave.
"But why's the wife leaving?" Another girl sadly said
Because the arm had just endured a tough fight, after hearing the sound of the strings again, it instantly fell onto the ground. Although the fingers were still flinching, the arm was unable to move.
After a short moment of silence, the boys couldn't help but to cheer loudly, celebrating the joy of surviving the incident. Even if they'd be punished because of reasons such as "being discourteous and making noise is harmful to the clan's reputation," they didn't care.
The Lan juniors avoided Lan Qiren gazes giving on them
"Qiren, let it go. It's only natural they celebrate like that after what they went through" Qihengjun said to Lan Qiren who looks like wants to punish the juniors
"Hmmp"
After waving towards the moon, Lan SiZhui suddenly realized that someone had disappeared. He tugged Lan JingYi, "Where is he?"
Lan JingYi was absorbed in the act of
rejoicing, "Who? Which one?"
Lan SiZhui replied, "Young Master Mo."
Lan JingYi said, "Hmm? Why are you looking for that lunatic? Who knows where he ran off to. He's probably frightened by my threats to hit him."
Lan Jingyi nervously gulped, he just really wanted to strangle his past self for calling Wei-qianbe lunatic again
".." Lan SiZhui knew that Lan JingYi had always been careless and straightforward, not thinking twice about anything or suspecting anyone.
Lan Jingyi gaped at his friend " That's what you think of me?"
"Ah... i-i-it's not, it's just that..."
"That's fine Sizhui, it's true anyway"
He thought, I'll wait for HanGuang-Jun to come, and then tell him about everything.
"Awww, I'm touched my son"
Wei WuXian eliminated all evidence of the sacrificial formation in Mo XuanYu's room as fast as he could, and ran out the door.
Unfortunately, the person who came happened to be from the Lan clan, but even more unfortunately, he happened to be Lan Wang Ji!
Lan Wangji look down, he's reminding himself that Wei Ying's love him now
When Wei Wuxian saw Lan Wangji look so down he immediately cupped his husband's face and gave a peck on his lips " Ayah, don't listen to my past self Lan Zhan, my past self didn't know about everything. Your Wei Ying's loves you now."
Lan Wangji hugged his beautiful husband "Mn, love Wei Ying"
'So much dog food ' some bitter cultivators thought
He was in a hurry to find a mount, as he passed a courtyard and saw a big millstone inside. A donkey was tied to the handle, chewing on its mouth. When it saw him run over rashly, it seemed like it was surprised, and eyed him sideways as if it was a real person. Wei WuXian made eye contact with him for one second, and was immediately touched by the minuscule amount of contempt in its eyes.
"Hah! So that's where you get that loud donkey of yours!" Jin Ling exclaimed
He tried to grab onto the rope and pull it out, but the donkey complained by making a few loud noises. Therefore, Wei WuXian had to use both his words and his strength to deceive it and get it onto the road.
As dawn came over the horizon, they went off onto the main path.
The screen faded into black, making confusion around the room
"Are we done watching?" Lan Jingyi said, he still want to watch some amazing things
But before they could all say something, foods popped out infront of them. Means that it's break time
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