Chapter 78 (1/2)
Chapter 78
Chapter 78: Nightfall—Part Three
Translated by K of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
These people had thought that they’d definitely die a terrible death at the hands of the YiLing Patriarch before they beca corpses under his controlAll of them seemed to be scared out of their witsHowever, Wei WuXian wasn’t interested in bothering with the the announceround and walked away, hands behind his back
He didn’t retrieve all those dark spiritsOn the ground, those who groaned continued to groan, those rithed continued to writheNone of theet up
Solare sweep byThey ihten upSomeone exclaimed, “I can move!”
A few of thelare return into a person’s sheath
It was a handso white robes and a forehead ribbon, he bore a solemn expression on his face, in which there seeh speed, but he didn’t see at allNot even the corners of his robes wavered
Holding back pain, the cultivator who had broken his legs spoke, “Han-… HanGuang-Jun!”
Lan wangJi walked beside his to check his woundsHis injuries weren’t too severeHe got up, but before he could speak, the cultivator continued, “HanGuang-Jun, you’ve come too lateWei WuXian just went!”
Quite a few people knew that in the past few days, HanGuang-Jun of the GusuLan Sect had been searching everywhere for the whereabouts of Wei WuXian, probably wanting to settle things with him and have him pay for the dozens of lives that the GusuLan Sect lostSoone for less than an hour!”
Lan wangJi, “What did he do? Where is he going?”
The people iht with us without a care for anything and alht there on the spot!”
Lan wangJi’s fingers, hidden beneath the snohite sleeves, twitched slightly, as if he wanted to clench them into fistsHowever, he quickly loosened them
The cultivator quickly added, “But he said already that he was going to the Nightless City to account for things with the Four Great Sects!”
After the QishanWen Sect was destroyed, the nificent, yet empty pile of ruins
Before the tallest place in the entire Nightless City, the Palace of Sun and Flas stood skyward at the front of the plaza, but noo of the of the sun and flah tattered and painted with blood
That night, square arrays of sects both large and s of every sect fluttered in the night windIn front of the broken flag poles was a te before their array, each sect leader was presented with a cup of wine by Jin GuangYaoAfter they received the wine, the sect leaders raised their cups high up and poured theround
After the the wine had seeped into the dirt, Jin GuangShan stated, “No matter the sect, no matter the surname—this cup of wine is to the soldiers who have died”
Nie MingJue, “May their souls live on”
Lan XiChen, “Rest in peace”
Jiang Cheng, however, still had on a darkened expressionHe didn’t say anything even after he poured the wine
Afterward, Jin GuangYao walked out froJin Sect’s array and presented with both hands a square box Shan took the box with one hand and raised it high in the air, shouting, “Here lies the ashes of the Wen Sect’s remnants!”
After he spoke, he sent forth his spiritual energy and shattered the box with his bare handThe iron box broke into pieces, and white dust drifted alongside the cold wind
A scatter of the ashes!
A series of cheers exploded through the crowdJin GuangShan raised his hands, signaling for the people to be quiet and listen to him talkWhen the cheers slowly died down, he continued, raising his voice, “Tonight, the ones whose ashes had been scattered were the two leaders of the Wen Sect’s res and—the YiLing Patriarch, Wei Ying!”
Suddenly, a low laugh interrupted his grand speechThe laugh was too untiIn unison, the crowd turned to look at where the sound came from
The Palace of Sun and Flaes ht heavenly beastsYet, right now, the people realized that on one of those ridges, there were nineThe laugh from before came from over there!
The extra beast shi+fted slightlyThe next led down fro softly
Everyone placed their hand onto their sword hiltJiang Cheng’s pupils shrunkBlue veins lined the back of his hand
Jin GuangShan was overco! How dare you show yourself here!”
The person opened their mouth to speakWhat cae tone, “Why should I dare not show myself here? Do you people here even add up to three thousand? Don’t forget that back in the Sunshot Caainst five thousand on ranted your wish? No need for you to come all the way to my home tomorrow to scatter my ashes”
A few of the QingheNie Sect’s disciples died in the hands of Wen Ning as wellNie MingJue spoke coldly, “What arrogance”
Wei WuXian, “Haven’t I always been arrogant? Sect Leader Jin, how does it feel, having slapped yourself in the face? Who was the one that said he’d let the ave themselves up? And as the one that just said he’d scatter my ashes and the ashes of the rest of the Wen Sect’s remnants tomorrow?”
Jin GuangShan, “Let’s consider things as they stand! At Qiongqi Path, you slaughtered over a hundred of the LanlingJin Sect’s disciples—this is one thingYoukill at Koi Tower—this is another…”
Wei WuXian, “Then let qi Path, as the one being ambushed? And as the one to kill? Who was the ainst? In the end, just as the one that came to provoke me first?”
Hidden ae crowd, the disciples inside of the arrays all felt rather safeBravening up, they shouted, “Even if Jin ZiXun was the one who schemed to ambush you first, you shouldn’t have been so heartless and kill so many lives!”
“Oh,” Wei WuXian helped him analyze, “If he wanted to to kill me, he didn’t have to think about whether it was a fatal blow or not, and if I died, it’d be my own bad luckIf I wanted to protect myself, however, I had to think about this and that not to harle strand of hair away froe on ht?”
Sect Leader Yao raised his voice, “Fight back? Those over a hundred people and the thirty on Koi Toere all innocentIf you were fighting back, why did you have to involve them?”
Wei WuXian, “The fifty cultivators on Burial Mound are also innocent, so why do you have to involve them?”
Soiven you? To have you be on those scum’s side like this”
“In reat kindness at allIt’s just that he thinks he’s a hero fighting against the entire worldHe thinks he’s doing an act of justice, that he hi everyone’s condemnation!”
Hearing this, Wei WuXian became silent
The crowd below took his silence as withdrawal, “When it comes down to it, you were the first to place such a dark curse on Jin ZiXun!”
Wei WuXian, “May I ask you, just what evidence do you have to prove that I was the one who placed the curse?”
The one who asked the question was at a loss for wordsHe spoke, after a moment, “Then do you have any evidence to prove that you weren’t the one who placed the curse?”
Wei WuXian sain—why couldn’t it have been you? You don’t have any evidence to prove that you weren’t the one who placed the curse either, do you?”
The person was both shocked and enraged, “Me? How could I be the same as you? Don’t you mix the black and the white! You’re the most suspiciousDo you think we don’t know? You and Jin ZiXun have held eno!”
Wei WuXian’s voice dripped in ice, “Just who is the one htIf I wanted to kill hioI didn’t have to keep hiet such a person in no more than three days, much less a year”
Sect Leader Yao was shocked, “… Wei WuXian, Wei WuXian, today I’ve finally come to seeI’ve really never seen a villain as unreasonable as you are… Even after you killed the people, you have to shauilt?”
The crowd flung curses at him, but Wei WuXian accepted all of them
Anger was the only thing that could suppress the other feelings within his heart
One of the cultivators who stood in the front rows of one of the arrays co, you disappoint me so muchThere used to be a time when I admired you and said that at least you were someone who founded your own sectNow that I think about it, it’s almost repulsiveFrom this moment on, I’ll forever stand on the opposite side of you!”
Hearing this, Wei WuXian first paused, but soon exploded with laughter, “Hahahaha…”
Hearing this, Wei WuXian first paused, but soon exploded with laughter, “Hahahaha…”
He laughed so hard that he almost couldn’t breathe, “You admired me? You said you admired me, but why haven’t I ever seen you when you admired me? And as soon as I’?”
Tears of laughter seeped from the corners of Wei WuXian’s eyes, “Your admiration as a bit too cheap, isn’t it? You said that you’ll forever stand on the opposite side ofon the opposite side of me affect me at all? Both your adnificantHow could you be so shameless as to flaunt them in front of others?”
Before he could finish, he suddenly felt so at his throatA dull ache came from his chestHe looked down to see a fletched arrow in the center of his chestThe head of the arroas buried between two of his ribs
He gazed toward the direction in which the arrow ca cultivator with delicate featuresStanding before a s the pose, his bowstring still vibrating
Wei WuXian could tell the arrow tip was originally aiionYet, because the archer wasn’t skilled, the force of the arrow tip dwindled by e
Everyone around the person who shot the arrow had eyes wide open, staring with shock and even fear at the disciple who had done such a thingWei WuXian looked upDarkness veiled his faceHe pulled out the arrow and tossed it back hardWith a wail, the young cultivator who snuck an attack at hiht in the chest with the arrow he tossed back!
A boy next to him threw himself on top of him, “Brother! Brother!”
The sect’s array was immediately thrown into chaosThe sect leader pointed at Wei WuXian with one shaking finger, “You… You… You are so cruel!”
With his right hand, Wei WuXian unhurriedly pressed the wound at his chest, te the blood flowHis voice was indifferent, “What does cruel uard, he should’ve knoould be facing him if he failedThey call me the cultivator of the crooked path, anyways, so you can’t possibly count on enerous and not bother with him, can you?”
Jin GuangShan ordered, “Set up the battle arrays, set up the battle arrays! We won’t let him leave here alive no matter what!”
With the order, the stale swords and arrows,of the palace
They finally attacked first!
With a bitter s from beside his waist and placed it at his lipsWith the flute’s sharp howl, pale hands broke through the dirt of the Nightless City plaza, one after another!
Corpse after corpse toppled the white bricks laid on the ground, crawling out from the depths of the soilSoround were ied back down by thee of the Palace of Sun and Flaht a down, the unifor concoction ofat ti Sect, all sects were jumbledEach sect leader hurried to protect their own disciples, having no spare time to attack Wei WuXian