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Mo Dao Zu Shi (Part two)
Author: Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Part two

Chapter 56 Poisons—Part One
He still didn’t hear clearly what the name was. Blood rushed up to his face. Both his head and the joints of his limbs ached from the heat. The ringing noise within his ears went on and on.

When he woke up again, as Wei WuXian opened his eyes, what he saw was neither the black ceiling of the underground cave nor Lan WangJi’s pale yet handsome face, but rather a wooden board. Drawn on the board was a funny series of kissing heads.

These were the sketches that he drew on his own bed at Lotus Pier.

Wei WuXian was lying on his own bed. Jiang YanLi was reading a book, her head tilted downward. Seeing that he woke up, her mild brows immediately lifted, laying her book down, “A-Xian!”

Wei WuXian, “Shijie!”

He managed to get up from his bed. His limbs stopped burning, but they still felt weak. His throat was a bit dry as well. Wei WuXian asked, “I’m back? When did I come out of the cave? Did Uncle Jiang take people to rescue me? Where’s Lan Zhan? Where’s Jiang Cheng?”

The wooden door opened. Jiang Cheng came in with a white porcelain jar hanging from his hand, his voice harsh, “What are you shouting for?”

After he spoke, he turned to Jiang YanLi, “Sister, the soup that you boiled. I brought it over.”

Jiang YanLi took the jar over and ladled the contents inside of it into a bowl. Wei WuXian, “Jiang Cheng, you bastard, come over here!”

Jiang Cheng, “Why would you want me to come over? You wanna kneel down and thank me?”

Wei WuXian, “You got here after an entire seven days—did you want to kill me?!”

Jiang Cheng, “You’ve been killed? Then who’s talking to me right now?”

Wei WuXian, “I’m sure it only takes five days for you to go from Dusk-Creek Mountain to Yunmeng!”

Jiang Cheng, “Are you stupid? You only counted the time to return and not the time to go there? Let alone the fact that after I got there I had to lead people and search through the entire mountain for the old banyan tree, then dig open the hole that got blocked up by Wen Chao and his people, and rescue you within seven days. Where’s your gratitude?!”

Thinking about it, Wei WuXian realized that he really did forget to count the time needed to get there. He was rendered speechless, “It seems that this really was the case. But why didn’t Lan Zhan remind me?”

Jiang Cheng, “He’s annoyed by just the sight of you, and you expect him to catch everything you said?”

Wei WuXian, “You have a point!”

Jiang YanLi had finished with the soup and passed it into his hands. Within the soup were lotus roots and ribs chopped into pieces, both a fleshy pink, surface having already been boiled soft. A rich aroma rose out of the piping hot soup. Wei WuXian hadn’t eaten anything for days inside of the cave. He couldn’t eat anything too solid too soon, so this was just right. After thanking his shijie, he immediately began to eat, hugging the bowl to him, “Where’s Lan Zhan? He’s also been saved, hasn’t he? Is he here? Or did he go back to his sect in Gusu?”

Jiang Cheng, “What nonsense. It’s not like he’s from our sect, so why’d he come here? Of course he went back to Gusu.”

Wei WuXian, “He went back alone? Over in Gusu, his sect…”

Before he could finish, Jiang FengMian stepped inside. Wei WuXian put down the bowl, “Uncle Jiang!”

Jiang FengMian, “Sitting is fine.”

Jiang YanLi passed a handkerchief for Wei WuXian to wipe his mouth, “Is it good?”

Wei WuXian didn’t take the handkerchief. Instead, he pouted his mouth with exaggeration, “Yes!”

Jiang Cheng, “Don’t you have hands yourself?!”

With a smile, Jiang YanLi wiped Wei WuXian’s mouth and chin, and walked happily out with the bowl in her hands. Jiang FengMian sat down where she had been sitting. Glancing at the porcelain jar, he seemed as if he wanted to taste it as well, but the bowl had already been taken away by Jiang YanLi.

Jiang Cheng, “Father, are the Wen Sect’s people still not returning the swords?”

Jiang FengMian tore away his gaze, “They have been celebrating for the past few days.”

Wei WuXian, “Celebrating what?”

Jiang FengMian, “That Wen Chao had single-handedly killed the Xuanwu of Slaughter.”

Hearing this, Wei WuXian almost rolled off his bed, “The Wen Sect killed it?!”

Jiang Cheng sneered, “Or what? Did you think that they’d say you killed it?”

Wei WuXian, “Those Wen dogs are talking nonsense, they have no face. Lan Zhan was clearly the one who killed it.”

Jiang FengMian gave him a smile, “Really? What a coincidence. The second young master of the Lan Sect told me that you were the one who killed it. So who was it, really?”

Wei WuXian, “I guess both of us did something. But he was the main one. I only went into the beast’s shell and chased it out. Lan Zhan was waiting for it alone outside. It only died after it dragged on for six entire hours.”

He described to Jiang Cheng and his father the things that had happened during the past few days. Jiang Cheng’s expression was complicated after he had finished listening. He only spoke a while later, “It’s pretty much the same as what Lan WangJi said. So it seems that both of you killed it together. What’s yours is yours. Why would you give him all the credit?”

Wei WuXian, “I didn’t. I just feel that, compared to him, I really didn’t do much.”

Jiang FengMian nodded, “Well done.”

He was able to kill a four-hundred-year-old beast at the mere age of seventeen. It was much more than a ‘well done’.

Jiang Cheng, “Congratulations.”

The tone of his congratulations sounded quite strange. Seeing how he folded his hands and raised his brows, Wei WuXian knew that those sour feelings were at him again. Jiang Cheng, right now, must be making a fuss in silence, defiantly asking himself why he wasn’t the one who had stayed in the cave to kill the beast. If it had been him, he could definitely also do this and do that.

Wei WuXian laughed, “What a pity that you weren’t there as well. Or else, you’d be able to share some of that credit as well. You’d also be able to chat with me and chase the boredom away. Good Heavens, sitting face-to-face with Lan Zhan these days almost bored me to death.”

Jiang Cheng, “It served you right to be bored to death. You shouldn’t have played the hero and you shouldn’t have cared for such a hell of a thing. If in the beginning you didn’t…”

Suddenly, Jiang FengMian spoke, “Jiang Cheng.”

Jiang Cheng paused, knowing that he had said too much. He was quiet at once.

Jiang FengMian didn’t look as if he was blaming him of anything, but his expression had turned from calm to more solemn, “Do you know in which ways what you just said is not appropriate?”

Jiang Cheng’s head hung low, “Yes.”

Wei WuXian, “He’s just angry and speaking without care.”

Seeing how Jiang Cheng’s mouth and heart were still at odds, how he still felt defiant, Jiang FengMian shook his head, “A-Cheng, there are some things that can’t be said even if you’re angry. If you said them, it means that you still don’t understand the motto of the Jiang Sect, that you still don’t…”

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