Chapter 78 (2/2)

Suddenly, the li

Wei WuXian put down Chenqing and turned around to see a person sitting on another of the ridges, guqin laid across his lapHis snohite robes seeht

Wei WuXian spoke in a cold voice, “Lan Zhan” After he greeted hiain placed his flute to his lips, “You should’ve known since long ago—Sound of Lucidity is useless to me!”

Lan wangJi flipped the guqin onto his backInstead, he pulled out bi+chen and attacked straight at Chenqing, as if he wanted to sever the flute playing such wrongful notes

Wei WuXian spun around to dodge the attack and laughed, “Fine, fineI knew since the start that we’d have to fight a real fight like this one sooner or laterYou’ve always found reeable no matter whatCome on!”

Hearing this, Lan wangJi’s !”

Although he shouted the words, any sane person would be able to tell that Lan wangJi’s voice was clearly shakingHowever, right now, Wei WuXian had already lost his judgementHe was already half-mented by himHe felt that everyone loathed him and he loathed everyone as wellHe wouldn’t be scared no matter who came at himIt wouldn’t matter no matter who came at himIt was all the same anyway

Suddenly, amid the battle noises, Wei WuXian heard a faint voice

The voice was shouting, “Xian!”

Like a bucket of ice-cold water, the voice doused the vile fla within his heart

Jiang YanLi?

When did she coe conference?!

When did she coe conference?!

Wei WuXian was ihtHe couldn’t care about the fight with Lan wangJi any longer and put down Chenqing, “shi+jie?!”

Jiang Cheng heard the voice as wellIn an instant, his face had turned white, “Sis? Sis! Where are you? Where are you?”

Wei WuXian ju with just as , “shi+jie? shi+jie? Where are you? I can’t see you!”

He couldn’t care less about the swords and arrows that cah the frenzied crowd as he walked as fast as possibleSuddenly, he saw Jiang YanLi’s white figure sunken within the peopleWei WuXian went forth and tried to push away those who blocked his path, but it was difficult for hie distance between them, formed by countless peopleAt the moment, it was impossible for Wei WuXian to rush over, and it was the saAt this point, both of the two realized that behind Jiang YanLi’s back, a fierce corpse had stood shakily up

The corpse’s body was already half-rottenIt dragged a rusting sword in his hand as it slowly approached Jiang YanLi

Watching the scene of terror unfold, Wei WuXian’s voice was harsh, “Get lost! Get lost right now! Don’t touch her!”

Jiang Cheng roared as well, “Make it go away!”

He tossed out SanduPurple light fleard the corpse, but in lare was obstructed by other cultivators’ swords, deviating froinal directionThe more Wei WuXian panicked, the less control he hadThe corpse ignored his co it down at Jiang YanLi!

Wei WuXian had lost it, dashi+ng as he shouted, “Stop it, stop it, right now, stop it!”

Everyone was busy with dealing with the corpses around themnobody had the spare tierThe sword in the corpse’s hand swung down and slashed open Jiang YanLi’s back!

Jiang YanLi fell to the ground

Standing behind her back, the corpse raised its sword againSuddenly, a sword glare sliced off half of its body!

Lan wangJi landed a bi+chen which he su could finally hurry overThey couldn’t evenfirst picked up Jiang YanLi, while Lan wangJi stopped Wei WuXian

Seizing his collar, he dragged Wei WuXian in front of hi! Stop the corpses!”

At theelseReflected in his eyes wasn’t Lan wangJi’s face, Ji’s eyes or the redness that surrounded his eyesHe only wanted to see if Jiang YanLi was fineWith red eyes, he pushed hiJi staggered a bit, and gazed at hi else, he suddenly heard another scream of help in the distanceHe suppressed whatever was in his eyes and went to provide assistance

Jiang YanLi’s back was dyed in bloodHer eyes were closed, but fortunately she was still breathingTre took back the hand that he used to feel for her pulse, letting out a breath of reliefHe threw a sudden punch toward Wei WuXian’s face, shouting, “What happened?! Didn’t you say you could control it?! Didn’t you say it’d be fine?!”

Wei WuXian sat collapsed on the ground, his face blank, “… I don’t know either” In despair, he continued, “… I can’t control it, I just can’t control it…”

Suddenly, Jiang YanLihurried, however incoherent, “Sister! It’s fine! It’s fine, how are you feeling? It’s not that bad, just a single gash, not that badI’ll take you down right now…”

As he spoke, he was about to pick up Jiang YanLi when she spoke up, “… Xian”

Wei WuXian felt shi+vers go down his spine, “shi+jie, I… I’m here”

Slowly, Jiang YanLi opened her dark eyesWei WuXian felt fear rumble within him

Jiang YanLi ed, “… XianBefore… why did you run away so fast… I didn’t even get the chance to look at you, or say so to you…”

Hearing this, Wei WuXian’s heart beat fast

He still didn’t dare look at Jiang YanLi’s faceRight then, the face was the same as Jin ZiXuan’s back then, covered in dust and bloodHe was even more scared to hear the words she was about to say

Jiang YanLi, “I’m… I’m here to tell you…”

To tell him what?

That it’s fine?

To tell him what?

That it’s fine?

That I don’t hate you?

That everything is fine?

That I don’t blame you for have killed Jin ZiXuan?

It was impossible

But she couldn’t say anything that was the opposite eitherAnd so, she didn’t knohat else she could say to Wei Wei WuXian, under such circumstancesIt was just that she felt like she had to see this brother of hers once more

Jiang YanLi sighed, “Xian, you… you should stop firstDon’t, don’t…”

Wei WuXian hurried, “Yes, I’ll stop”

He took up Chenqing, placed it by his lips, and began to playHe only reat effortThis ti his coles echoed in their throats as if they were coSlowly, they bent down

Lan wangJi paused slightly, looking over fro those ere still in the fight, whether they be from his own sect or not

Suddenly, Jiang YanLi’s eyes opened wideHer hands conjured up an explosive current of strength from nowhere and pushed Wei WuXian hard!

Wei WuXian was pushed onto the ground again by the forceThe next ti blade of a sword pierce through her throat

The boy holding the sas the young cultivator who cried over the disciple who had shot the arrowHe was still crying, eyes covered in tears, “You thief! This is for my brother!”

Sitting on the dirty ground, Wei WuXian stared with disbelief at Jiang YanLi, whose head had already dipped, blood trickling ceaselessly from her neck

He was still waiting for her to speak, to to give hiement

Jiang Cheng was at a loss as well, arms still wrapped around his sister’s bodyHe hadn’t completely realized what happened yet

A moment later, finally, Wei WuXian let out a bitter scream

Lan wangJi finished his attack before he spun around

The boy finally realized that he killed the wrong personHe pulled out the sword, along with a series of bloody spurtsWith fright, he staggered back,to kill Wei WuXian, I was going to avenge my brother… She was the one who threw herself over on her own!”

Wei WuXian shot toward him and clenched his neckSect Leader Yao waved his sword, “Deo!”

Lan wangJi couldn’t care about appearance or er

One after another, he pushed those who blocked his path to the side, sprinting toward Wei WuXianBut before he was even halfway there, under everyone’s eyes, Wei WuXian snapped the boy’s neck with his bare hands

A white-haired sect leader raged, “You! Back then… you caused the deaths of Jiang FengMian and his wife, and now you caused the death of your shi+jieYou suffered froer on another! Instead of turning around, you took yet another lifeWei WuXian, your criiven!”

Yet, no er hear any of theoverned by another soul, he reached out and took two objects froetherOne half on top and the other below, the two objects snapped into one, letting out a resonating clang

Wei WuXian placed it on his palh into the air

It was the Stygian Tiger Seal!

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 backHe didn t retrieve all those dark spiritsOn the ground, those who groaned continued to groan, those rithed continued to writheNone of theet upSolare sweep byThey ihten upSoot up and saw the sword glare return into a person s sheathIt 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 waveredHolding 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 alJi s fingers, hidden beneath the snohite sleeves, twitched slightly, as if he wanted to clench them into fistsHowever, he quickly loosened themThe 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 ruinsBefore 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 flaht, 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 theroundAfter 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 diedNie MingJue, May their souls live onLan XiChen, Rest in peaceJiang Cheng, however, still had on a darkened expressionHe didn t say anything even after he poured the wineAfterward, 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 rey and shattered the box with his bare handThe iron box broke into pieces, and white dust drifted alongside the cold windA 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 canificent palaceA total of twelve ridges ht heavenly beastsYet, right now, the people realized that on one of those ridges, there were nineThe laugh frohtlyThe next led down fro softlyEveryone placed their hand onto their sword hiltJiang Cheng s pupils shrunkBlue veins lined the back of his handJin 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 heNie Sect s disciples died in the hands of Wen Ning as wellNie MingJue spoke coldly, What arroganceWei 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 res 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 cae 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 thes given you To have you be on those scureat 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 conde this, Wei WuXian became silentThe 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 yearSect 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 hier was the only thing that could suppress the other feelings within his heartOne 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 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 ITears 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 ribsHe gazed toward the direction in which the arrow ca cultivator with delicate featuresStanding before a s the pose, his bowstring still vibratingWei WuXian could tell the arrow tip was originally aiionYet, because the archer wasn t skilled, the force of the arrow tip dwindled by eEveryone 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 Shan 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 palaceThey 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 WuXianSuddenly, the liWei WuXian put down Chenqing and turned around to see a person sitting on another of the ridges, guqin laid across his lapHis snohite robes seehtWei WuXian spoke in a cold voice, Lan ZhanAfter he greeted hiain placed his flute to his lips, You should ve known since long ago Sound of Lucidity is useless to uqin onto his backInstead, he pulled out bi+chen and attacked straight at Chenqing, as if he wanted to sever the flute playing such wrongful notesWei WuXian spun around to dodge the attack and laughed, Fine, fineI knew since the start that we d have to fight a real fight like this one sooner or laterYou ve always foundthis, Lan wangJi s h he shouted the words, any sane person would be able to tell that Lan wangJi s voice was clearly shakingHowever, right now, Wei WuXian had already lost his judgementHe was already half mented by himHe felt that everyone loathed him and he loathed everyone as wellHe wouldn t be scared no matter who came at himIt wouldn t matter no matter who came at himIt was all the same anywaySuddenly, amid the battle noises, Wei WuXian heard a faint voiceThe voice was shouting, A Xian Like a bucket of ice cold water, the voice doused the vile fla YanLi When did she coe conference Wei WuXian was ihtHe couldn t care about the fight with Lan wangJi any longer and put down Chenqing, shi+jie Jiang Cheng heard the voice as wellIn an instant, his face had turned white, Sis Sis Where are you Where are you Wei WuXian ju with just as , shi+jie shi+jie Where are you I can t see you He couldn t care less about the swords and arrows that cah the frenzied crowd as he walked as fast as possibleSuddenly, he saw Jiang YanLi s white figure sunken within the peopleWei WuXian went forth and tried to push away those who blocked his path, but it was difficult for hie distance between them, formed by countless peopleAt the moment, it was impossible for Wei WuXian to rush over, and it was the saAt this point, both of the two realized that behind Jiang YanLi s back, a fierce corpse had stood shakily upThe corpse s body was already half rottenIt dragged a rusting sword in his hand as it slowly approached Jiang YanLiWatching the scene of terror unfold, Wei WuXian s voice was harsh, Get lost Get lost right now Don t touch her Jiang Cheng roared as well, Make it go away He tossed out SanduPurple light fleard the corpse, but in lare was obstructed by other cultivators swords, deviating froinal directionThe more Wei WuXian panicked, the less control he hadThe corpse ignored his co it down at Jiang YanLi Wei WuXian had lost it, dashi+ng as he shouted, Stop it, stop it, right now, stop it Everyone was busy with dealing with the corpses around themnobody had the spare tierThe sword in the corpse s hand swung down and slashed open Jiang YanLi s back Jiang YanLi fell to the groundStanding behind her back, the corpse raised its sword againSuddenly, a sword glare sliced off half of its body Lan wangJi landed a bi+chen which he su could finally hurry overThey couldn t evenfirst picked up Jiang YanLi, while Lan wangJi stopped Wei WuXianSeizing his collar, he dragged Wei WuXian in front of hi Stop the corpses At theelseReflected in his eyes wasn t Lan wangJi s face, Ji s eyes or the redness that surrounded his eyesHe only wanted to see if Jiang YanLi was fineWith red eyes, he pushed hiJi staggered a bit, and gazed at hi else, he suddenly heard another scream of help in the distanceHe suppressed whatever was in his eyes and went to provide assistanceJiang YanLi s back was dyed in bloodHer eyes were closed, but fortunately she was still breathingTre took back the hand that he used to feel for her pulse, letting out a breath of reliefHe threw a sudden punch toward Wei WuXian s face, shouting, What happened Didn t you say you could control it Didn t you say it d be fine Wei WuXian sat collapsed on the ground, his face blank, I don t know eitherIn despair, he continued, I can t control it, I just can t control it Suddenly, Jiang YanLihurried, however incoherent, Sister It s fine It s fine, how are you feeling It s not that bad, just a single gash, not that badI ll take you down right now As he spoke, he was about to pick up Jiang YanLi when she spoke up, A XianWei WuXian felt shi+vers go down his spine, shi+jie, I IYanLi opened her dark eyesWei WuXian felt fear rued, A XianBefore why did you run away so fast I didn t even get the chance to look at you, or say so this, Wei WuXian s heart beat fastHe still didn t dare look at Jiang YanLi s faceRight then, the face was the same as Jin ZiXuan s back then, covered in dust and bloodHe was evenYanLi, I m I m here to tell you To tell hi is fine That I don t blame you for have killed Jin ZiXuan It was i that was the opposite eitherAnd so, she didn t knohat else she could say to Wei Wei WuXian, under such circumstancesIt was just that she felt like she had to see this brother of hers once hed, A Xian, you you should stop firstDon t, don t Wei WuXian hurried, Yes, I ll stopHe took up Chenqing, placed it by his lips, and began to playHe only reat effortThis ti his coles echoed in their throats as if they were cohtly, looking over fro those ere still in the fight, whether they be fro YanLi s eyes opened wideHer hands conjured up an explosive current of strength from nowhere and pushed Wei WuXian hard Wei WuXian was pushed onto the ground again by the forceThe next ti blade of a sword pierce through her throatThe boy holding the sas the young cultivator who cried over the disciple who had shot the arrowHe was still crying, eyes covered in tears, You thief This is for round, Wei WuXian stared with disbelief at Jiang YanLi, whose head had already dipped, blood trickling ceaselessly froive hi was at a loss as well, arms still wrapped around his sister s bodyHe hadn t completely realized what happened yetA moment later, finally, Wei WuXian let out a bitter screaJi finished his attack before he spun aroundThe boy finally realized that he killed the wrong personHe pulled out the sword, along with a series of bloody spurtsWith fright, he staggered back,to kill Wei WuXian, I was going to avenge my brother She was the one who threw herself over on her own Wei WuXian shot toward him and clenched his neckSect Leader Yao waved his sword, DeJi couldn t care about appearance or erOne after another, he pushed those who blocked his path to the side, sprinting toward Wei WuXianBut before he was even halfway there, under everyone s eyes, Wei WuXian snapped the boy s neck with his bare handsA white haired sect leader raged, You Back then you caused the deaths of Jiang FengMian and his wife, and now you caused the death of your shi+jieYou suffered froer on another Instead of turning around, you took yet another lifeWei WuXian, your criiven Yet, no er hear any of theoverned by another soul, he reached out and took two objects froetherOne half on top and the other below, the two objects snapped into one, letting out a resonating clangWei WuXian placed it on his paler Seal