"Nie Mingjue POV " (All the thoughts in this chapter are from Nie Mingjue )
Nie Mingjue was in the training field of the Impure Realm when a pure light appears and before he has a clear picture of the situation and danger he is not in Qinghe anymore.
He is not sure where he is but it's a quiet dark place with only some lights from a decent number of candles. With that amount of light, he can see he is not alone and that several people are with him, people of the five big sects if the color of their robes is something to go with.
With his eye starting to adjust to the new lighting Nie Mingjue can notice with more detail his surroundings... Does this place seem to be a cave, a quite large one, dark with something that reminds him of Yilling?!
Tracing his gaze on his surroundings he recognized the other people with him who have started surrounding each other asking questions the same in lose as him.
On his left, he sees the purple robe of the Jiang Sect and more specifically he sees the robes of the inner family. Jiang Fenmiang tries to give his hands to his wife, Yu Ziyuan, but she huffs irritated at him shakes his help away, and stands by herself. Jiang Yanli, if he remembers to correct her name, she looks unsure in her surroundings and when she seems to spot her brother, Jiang Wanyin, she waves at him as he runs in her with the same level of irritation in him as his mother saying something about an idiot and how dare to bring same in their sect...
With another look on his right, Nie Mingjue spots the golden robe of the Jins with Madam Jin looking at her son, Jin Zixuan, that comes toward her, Jin Guangshan, and some other of those good-for-nothing Jins... A little more on the other side, the mere sight makes him unconsciously take hold of his saber, Baxia. He sees the Wen Clan with Wen Ruohan have a stiff grimace that makes Nie Mingjue stop a smile of amusement looking at his surrounding, his son those Wen dogs are with him too as well as this Wen doctor, Wen Qing? and her little brother he remembers right.
He looks away before start thinks how good will feel if- when- he takes the heads of those Wen- dogs. The Nie Clan has had a very deep hatred for Wen for generations and the incident with his father dying after he start to speak against Wen Ruohan under mysterious circumstances didn't help with the situation. One thing is sure for Nie Mingjue is that Wen is a threat that in the end, he will eliminate...
With a shake of his head, Nie Mingjue look to his right and spotted the white robes of the Lan Clan. Lan Xichen spoke with his uncle and then he spotted his little brother. When Nie Huaisang seems to feel someone staring at him and sees that is Nie Mingjue he beams at him.
Nie Huaisang with a high voice, made Lan With him flinch a little "DAGE!!! oh Dage " run to him with Lan Xichen close by his side with his smile that doesn't reach his eyes Nie Mingjue noted and then it hit him the absence of the stoic lan boy, Lan Wangji, and brother of his best friends.
Nie Mingjue " Huaisang, Xichen, are you all right" with a quick check in his brother and friend's uninjured bode he asks " Xichen, where is Wangji? "
But before Lan Xichen was able to answer a cloud surrounded their front view and start forming a smooth white surface like paper where it was wrighting:
HELLO DEAR, OR NOT SO MUCH, CULTIVATOR OF THE MAJOR SECTS ME, AND HUSBAND HAVE COME FOR ANOTHER TIME IN THE FUTURE WHERE A MAJOR PART OF YOU HAVE DIED SO EVEN IF WE DON'T KNOW HOW WE CAME HERE WE HAVE TO DECIDE TO SHOW YOU THE FUTURE EVENT. FOR SAFETY REASONS WE HAVE SEALED YOUR SPIRITUAL POWER. BUT DON'T BE AFRAID WHEN THIS WILL AND WE WILL UNSEAL THEM. THE SCREEN HAS ITS CONSCIOUSNESS SO WE ARE NOT SURE WHAT AND WITH WHAT ORDER WILL DECIDE TO SHOW YOU THE FUTURE, BUT WE ARE SURE THAT IT IS WHAT IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW. SO GOOBD WATCH (:
WEI WUXIAN AND HIS HUSBAND (; LAN WANGJI
YILING PATRIARCH AND HUNGUA-JUN
Before he can understand what he just read, voices start heard from around him.
"Great news! Wei WuXian has died!"
'What?!'
Less than a day has passed since the siege in LuanZang Hill, and the news spreads through the cultivation world as if it sprouted wings, surpassing even the speed of warfare.
Sieage?!
For a while, from the most prominent clans to rogue cultivators, everyone is discussing the siege that was lead by the Four Great Clans and followed by hundreds of smaller ones.
"The YiLing Patriarch has died? Who could have killed him?"
"Who other than his shidi, Jiang Cheng, putting an end to his own relative for the greater good. Jiang Cheng led the Four Clans of YunmengJiang, LanlingJin, GusuLan, and QingheNie to destroy his "den"—LuanZang Hill."
"I must say, good riddance!"
"Good riddance indeed! We finally eliminated this scourge."
"If not for the YunmengJiang clan's adopting and teaching him, he would have been a hobo living on the streets, let alone causing mayhem as bold as the ones these days. The head of the Jiang clan raised him as her own child, yet he defected them and became the enemy of the cultivation world, bringing shame upon the the Jiang clan, even leading to its near-extermination. He is the prime example of biting the hand that feeds him!"
"Jiang Cheng allowed this fellow to live for too long. If I were him, at the time of the defection, I wouldn't have just stabbed him. In fact, I would have thoroughly examined the disciples of the clan again, so that he doesn't do those crazy things he did later on. Who cares about the so called 'considerations' that he gave to his childhood friend."
"That's merely hearsay. Although Jiang Cheng was one of the main forces, he did not give Wei WuXian the final blow. Because he cultivates the Demon Path, Wei WuXian's powers had backfired and he was ripped to pieces."
"Hahahaha... That's karma! The ghost soldiers that he created are like unleashed dogs, biting everyone that they come across. It serves him right to be chewed to death!"
"But, if not for Jiang Cheng making a plan that aimed at Wei WuXian's weaknesses, the siege might not have succeeded. Should I remind you folks of the item that Wei WuXian possesses? Did you forget about the day that three thousand skilled cultivators were completely annihilated?"
"I heard that it was more than three thousand, possibly five thousand."
"He's most certainly out of his mind."
"It's a good thing that he destroyed that evil weapon before he died. Otherwise, if it was left in this world to harm humankind, his sins would have been worse."
"Oh well... You know, back then, Wei WuXian was one of the most promising cultivators, coming from a highly distinguished clan and finding success at a young age. How on Earth did he end up where he is now?"
"This proves that one can only cultivate by following the right path. Using these dishonest practices would only seem beneficial at first glance. Look, what happened in the end? Not even a whole corpse was left of him."
"Not everything was because of his cultivation path. Wei WuXian's personality is quite immoral. One's deeds will be paid, one way or another; what goes around always comes around."
...
After Wei WuXian's death, the period is drawn on the topic. The discussions of the people are mostly the same, with a few unconventional opinions being brought down immediately.
However, the elephant in the room stayed in the back of everyone's mind.
Nobody could summon Wei WuXian's soul, which meant that his soul had disappeared.
It might have been torn apart by the millions of ghosts that devoured him.
Or, it might have escaped.
If was the first, then all is well. Then again, nobody doubts the fact that the YiLing Patriarch has the power to move mountains and empty seas. If was the last, his soul would eventually return to revive in his body. When the day comes, the cultivation world, or even all of mortal land, would be faced with the most insane damnation and revenge, sinking into nothing but chaos and despair.
The various clans set one hundred and twenty stone beasts on top of LuanZang Hill and initiated frequent soul-summoning rituals, followed by heightened vigilance and searches for strange occurrences from all over the world.
In the first year, nothing happened.
In the second year, nothing happened.
In the third year, nothing happened.
...
In the thirteenth year, nothing happened either.
More and more people were starting to believe that, maybe, the YiLing Patriarch actually perished.
Even if he was capable of turning the world upside down, it was finally his turn to be toppled over.
Nobody would remain at the top for all of eternity—legends are only legends.
Legends?! Still not sure what has just happened Nie Mingjue brace himself for a long day...