These people had thought that they'd definitely die a terrible death at the hands of the YiLing Patriarch before they became walking corpses under his control. All of them seemed to be scared out of their wits. However, Wei WuXian wasn't interested in bothering with them any longer. After he finished reading the announcement, he left the group on the ground and walked away, hands behind his back.

"Why would I still bother with them when they can't even get up from the ground because of what I did?" Wei Wuxian asked.

"Then, what will you do now?" Nie Huaisang asked.

"Maybe go to the Nightless City where my presence is very important." Wei Wuxian answered.

He didn't retrieve all those dark spirits. On the ground, those who groaned continued to groan, those who writhed continued to writhe. None of them were able to get up.

"They should be more glad that the future me didn't killed them." said Wei Wuxian.

"When you know that's what they really deserve." said Jiang Cheng.

Sometime later, they suddenly saw a blue sword glare sweep by. They immediately felt their backs lighten up. Someone exclaimed, "I can move!"

A few of them got up and saw the sword glare return into a person's sheath.

It was a handsome man of very young age. Wearing white robes and a forehead ribbon, he bore a solemn expression on his face, in which there seemed to be a suppressed strand of worry. He came at a high speed, but he didn't seem to be hurrying at all. Not even the corners of his robes wavered.

Holding back pain, the cultivator who had broken his legs spoke, "Han-... HanGuang-Jun!"

"Lan Zhan? What is he doing there?" Wei Wuxian asked.

"Maybe to come after you." said Su She.

"Besides, didn't your loyal dog brought harm to his clan people?" he asked.

"You're right. A-die is after my a-niang but not because of that reason." said Shizhui.

"My a-die will never bring harm to him much less for his people." he added.

Lan WangJi walked beside him and got down, pressing on his legs to check his wounds. His injuries weren't too severe. He got up, but before he could speak, the cultivator continued, "HanGuang-Jun, you've come too late. Wei 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 lost. Someone hurriedly shouted, "Yeah, he's been gone for less than an hour!"

"Why are you looking for me everywhere when you knew I could only be at the Burial Mounds, Lan Zhan?" Wei Wuxian asked.

"I don't know either. But, I know that I'm not searching you just to settle things." said Lan Wangji.

Wei Wuxian gave him a smile.

"I know, Lan Zhan." he whispered.

Lan WangJi, "What did he do? Where is he going?"

The people immediately started complaining, "He fought with us without a care for anything and almost killed all of us right there on the spot!"

"Like it is my fault. You guys talked about me and I won't just stand there and listen without teaching you guys a lesson." said Wei Wuxian.

"Acting all innocent now." he smirked.

Lan WangJi's fingers, hidden beneath the snow-white sleeves, twitched slightly, as if he wanted to clench them into fists. However, 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!"

"This is going to be chaos." said Wen Rouhan.

"I want to see how the Four Great Sects fights against the famous Yiling Patriarch." he added.

"No one is excited about it, so don't be the one." said Lan Qiren.

"I only want to see how our dear Little Wei fights againts them." said Wen Rouhan.

"Why does he said it like you are his and Grandmaster Lan's son, Wei-xiong?" Nie Huaisang asked.

"Impossible! Jiang Cheng is their son, not me. But, It's okay as long as me and Jiang are still brothers no matter who the parents are." said Wei Wuxian.

After the QishanWen Sect was destroyed, the main palaces of Nightless City had become a magnificent, yet empty pile of ruins.

Before the tallest place in the entire Nightless City, the Palace of Sun and Flames, was a wide plaza. Three tall flags stood skyward at the front of the plaza, but now, two of them had been broken. The last one left was a flag of the sun and flames motif, although tattered and painted with blood.

"That's my clan now? What a ruin." said Wen Rouhan without a glimpse of care.

"It still look beautiful, just lack of life." he added.

"Then, make sure to not put your clan in ruins." said Wen Qing.

That night, square arrays of sects both large and small filled the entire plaza. The crest-embroidered flag of every sect fluttered in the night wind. In front of the broken flag poles was a temporary altar. Standing before their array, each sect leader was presented with a cup of wine by Jin GuangYao. After they received the wine, the sect leaders raised their cups high up and poured them onto the ground.

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 expression. He didn't say anything even after he poured the wine.

"Yeah, rest in peace to those who deserve peace." said Wei Wuxian.

"Right, Jiang Cheng? You're the only one who have dark expression there." he said.

"You're right, rest in peace to those who are deserving but, I don't know why I have that expression." said Jiang Cheng.

"Maybe because I knew it will not end up good. We are against you." he added.

"I know. But, we're not enemies, will never be enemies." said Wei Wuxian.

"Maybe our relationship is complicated there but not here." he added.

"I know, I won't make the same rash decision my future self did." said Jiang Cheng.

"That's what we should learn while watching." he added.

"Did your husband possessed you?" Wei Wuxian grins.

"We are in a serious situation, Wei Wuxian." Jiang Cheng glared.

Afterward, Jin GuangYao walked out from the LanlingJin Sect's array and presented with both hands a square box made of black iron. Jin GuangShan 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 hand. The iron box broke into pieces, and white dust drifted alongside the cold wind.

A scatter of the ashes!

"What the f*ck?! Jin Guangshan!" Wen Rouhan roared making everyone shivers.

"How dare you disrespect my niece and nephew who did nothing wrong to you?" he asked with a clear anger.

"Correction, it's only your niece." said Jingyi.

"The Ghost General wasn't burned. He's still alive in the future." he added.

Wen Rouhan glared at him

"Jin Guangshan, how dare you disrespect my niece?" he asked again.

"How I want to do the same to you." he said.

"He will not be burned." said Madam Jin.

"He will die more horrible than being eaten by a fiery fire." she added.

A series of cheers exploded through the crowd. Jin GuangShan raised his hands, signaling for the people to be quiet and listen to him talk. When 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 remnants. And tomorrow! It will be the rest of the Wen-dogs and-the YiLing Patriarch, Wei Ying!"

"If you can burn me alive." Wei Wuxian smirked.

"Why do you have to involve those Wens?" Nie Huaisang.

"They did nothing wrong. It was you Jin people who did them wrong." he added.

"So that there will be no Wens in the cultivation world. They're the cause of all of these." said a Jin disciple.

"What did they do? Just because of a f*cking surname? You Jins are the one who deserved to die. None of you are different from your sect leader." said Wei Wuxian.

"By the way, the Jins were really doomed. A-niang have to do everything to get it's formal glory after all what happened as Jin Ling's legal guardian." said Jingyi.

"So basically, there's no great sect without the Yiling Patriarch and Sandu Shengshou. Everything is under their control together with the Head Shaker." he added while Nie Huaisang gave him a look.

"Peace was attained the moment the whole cultivation world believed in them." said Sizhui.

"Guess we did have a lot of responsibility in the future." said Jiang Cheng.

"I can't imagine all the workload I have." said Wei Wuxian.

"You have none." said the juniors.

"Hanguang-jun is the one who do it. You don't like the presence of paperworks." said Jin Ling.

Suddenly, a low laugh interrupted his grand speech. The laugh was too untimely, sounding both stark and jarring. In unison, the crowd turned to look at where the sound came from.

The Palace of Sun and Flames was a rather magnificent palace. A total of twelve ridges made up its roof, and at the end of each ridge were eight heavenly beasts. Yet, right now, the people realized that on one of those ridges, there were nine. The laugh from before came from over there!

The extra beast shifted slightly. The next moment, a boot and a corner of black clothes dangled down from the roof, swaying softly.

Everyone placed their hand onto their sword hilt. Jiang Cheng's pupils shrunk. Blue veins lined the back of his hand.

"Here comes our Little Wei." said Wen Rouhan.

"That's how scared they are of me?" Wei Wuxian asked.

"As they should." he said.

"Yeah, they should. They're coming to their death either way." said Jingyi.

Jin GuangShan was overcome with both shock and hatred, "Wei Ying! How dare you show yourself here!"

"And how dare you call me by my birth name?" Wei Wuxian asked.

"I showed up because I'm badly needed there. Aren't you planning to burn me to ashes. Now, I came there to give you guys a favor." he said.

"Of course, he will still end up the same with his future self. Evil person." said Sect Leader Yao.

"I am no evil. You're the one who is like his future self. A greedy and self-conceited man." said Wei Wuxian.

The juniors laughed at that.

The person opened their mouth to speak. What came out was indeed Wei WuXian's voice, but he spoke in a strange 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 Campaign, let alone three thousand, I've fought against five thousand on my own before. And by appearing here, haven't I granted 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 well. Nie MingJue spoke coldly, "What arrogance."

"So arrogant." some Wei Wuxian haters agreed.

"Yeah, I'm arrogant but what I said is true." said Wei Wuxian.

"You guys wants some proof? I've been tired of all this sitting so a little duel or group fight is acceptable." he added.

Those cultivators could only huffed knowing that they can't last a fight against him, a rank four cultivator of their generation.

"Da-ge don't be like your future self." Nie Huaisang whispered.

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 matter go if the Wen siblings went to Koi Tower and gave themselves up? And who was 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 thing. You made Wen Ning kill at Koi Tower-this is another..."

Wei WuXian, "Then let me ask you, Sect Leader Jin, at Qiongqi Path, who was the one being ambushed? And who was the one to kill? Who was the main schemer? And who was the one being schemed against? In the end, just who was the one that came to provoke me first?"

"What is he trying to say? That everything is Wei Wuxian's fault? The f*ck! This manwhore is f*cking stupid. Every one of them." said Jiang Cheng.

"Can't they f*cking understand that Wei Wuxian was also just a victim? Just how empty their brain is? Just how greedy are they?" he asked angrily.

"And why the f*ck is my future self there? To join those hypocrites? Arggh stupid." he added.

"That's also my question. During our last meeting we seemed to be in good relationship. I don't think you'll just go against me." said Wei Wuxian.

"Yeah, you can see how stupid he is." Jiang Cheng said.

"Maybe he was just torn on who to side." said Nie Huaisang.

"If he chooses Wei-xiong, he will be targeted and will be called as traitor or whatnot and it will bring harm to his people. If he chooses to defend his sect and side with them then, your relationship with each is at stake. Either way, it is not good." he explained.

"As a Sect Leader he have to choose his people than the enemy of the whole cultivation world." he said.

"Hanguang-jun himself didn't even do anything to help back then when he knew that all those Wens are innocent just the same with Jiang-xiong." he added.

"So basically, Wei-xiong is on his own." he continued.

Hidden among such a large crowd, the disciples inside of the arrays all felt rather safe. Bravening 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!"

"What does he mean by that? They're allowed to ambush me while I am not allowed to defend myself who only wants to live?" Wei Wuxian asked.

"What a stupid man." he said.

"Are they not using their brain or they don't have one?" Jiang Cheng asked.

"It could be both." said Jingyi and Jin Ling.

"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 luck. If I wanted to protect myself, however, I had to think about this and that not to harm, unable to take even a single strand of hair away from him? In conclusion, you all could pull a siege on me, but I'm not allowed to fight back, am I right?"

Sect Leader Yao raised his voice, "Fight back? Those over a hundred people and the thirty on Koi Tower were all innocent. If you were fighting back, why did you have to involve them?"

"Sect Leader really need to shut his mouth." said Jiang Cheng.

"How did he last a long life?" he asked.

"I wonder too. You don't like him and he's annoying. I can't believe you didn't whip him to death." said Wei Wuxian.

"My bad. It could be a lot more better if he's gone." said Jiang Cheng.

"He don't think before giving opinions. Old and dumb, stupid and annoying. Undeserving to be a sect leader." said Nie Huaisang.

Wei WuXian, "The fifty cultivators on Burial Mound are also innocent, so why do you have to involve them?"

Someone else spat, "Just what great kindness has the Wen-dogs given you? To have you be on those scum's side like this."

"In my opinion, there isn't any great kindness at all. It's just that he thinks he's a hero fighting against the entire world. He thinks he's doing an act of justice, that he himself is quite an impressive person, risking everyone's condemnation!"

Hearing this, Wei WuXian became silent.

"I did it because none of you can't see the wrong of punishing those people just because they're Wens. I want to give them justice because they deserve no suffering especially when they didn't do anything." said Wei Wuxian.

"You all people are just blind. Blind and greedy. No sense of justice at all. So hypocrite." he added.

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 words. He spoke, after a moment, "Then do you have any evidence to prove that you weren't the one who placed the curse?"

"I do have one but you people will just twist things and will still put the blame on me." said Wei Wuxian.

"The one who put the curse could just be anyone, not just me." he added.

"Why didn't they conduct a proper investigation?" Lan Xichen asked.

"Because the peacock died." said Jiang Cheng.

"What investigation do you need when you could just simply put the blame on someone especially the history of hatred they both have with each other." he added.

Wei WuXian smiled, "Then let me ask you again-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 suspicious. Do you think we don't know? You and Jin ZiXun have held enmity toward each other ever since a year ago!"

Wei WuXian's voice dripped in ice, "Just who is the one mixing the black and the white? That's right. If I wanted to kill him, I would've done it a year ago. I didn't have to keep him until now. Or else, I'd forget such a person in no more than three days, much less a year."

"I am maybe the most suspicious but I am not cruel. I prefer my enemies to die in front of me while suffering from severe pain but not curse. I prefer torture." said Wei Wuxian.

"Besides, the fact that I hate him doesn't mean I have to kill him." he added.

"You still killed him." said a random cultivator.

"And it's his fault. He comes in my way and provoked me." said Wei Wuxian.

"I'm not the only one who help enmity towards him, by the way." he added.

Sect Leader Yao was shocked, "... Wei WuXian, Wei WuXian, today I've finally come to see. I've really never seen a villain as unreasonable as you are... Even after you killed the people, you have to shame them with words. Don't you hold any sympathy, any guilt?"

"Why would I sympathize and be guilty? Yes, they died but was it me? They're the one who throwed their life to me for me to take away. If they knew it won't do them good, they shouldn't have joined Jin Zixun in the ambush." said Wei Wuxian.

"I am not heartless but I am not at fault so why would I?" he asked.

"I am no villain because no villain could be that good that he prefer to save those innocent. And who is the hero? The Jins? Nah, they're just some lowly people." he said.

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.

"They should be glad I didn't attack yet." said Wei Wuxian.

"Cursing me when they're the one who is at wrong. How did you survive such lives little quartet?" he asked the juniors.

"We prefer to understand the situation first, unlike Jin Ling. But, he became like us when we became friends." said Jingyi.

"So the new generation is way more better than the olds." Wei Wuxian chuckled.

One of the cultivators who stood in the front rows of one of the arrays commented bitterly, "Wei Ying, you disappoint me so much. There used to be a time when I admired you and said that at least you were someone who founded your own sect. Now that I think about it, it's almost repulsive. From 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 I'm loathed by everyone, you jump out and wave your little flag?"

"Agree." said Nie Huaisang.

"This cultivator is brave enough to say such thing but it only made him look stupid." he said.

"How dare those people call me by my birth name when we don't even know each other?" Wei Wuxian asked.

"Jiang Cheng didn't even try once even though I told him to do so." he pouted.

"Stop pouting. Focus on the screen, I think something will happen." said Jiang Cheng.

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 of me. Very well. Does the fact that you're standing on the opposite side of me affect me at all? Both your admiration and your hatred are so, so insignificant. How could you be so shameless as to flaunt them in front of others?"

"You're taunting him, Wei-xiong." said Nie Huaisang.

"It's true though." said Wei Wuxian.

Before he could finish, he suddenly felt something at his throat. A dull ache came from his chest. He looked down to see a fletched arrow in the center of his chest. The head of the arrow was buried between two of his ribs.

"Wei Ying!' Lan Wangji suddenly exclaimed.

"Oh I didn't expect that." said Wei Wuxian.

"Jiang Cheng, is this what you said that something will happen?" he asked.

"Maybe, it will only start the chaos." said Jiang Cheng.

"It's a nice shot but, he should have been more careful. It will do him no good when he missed his target." he said.

"How is it missed?" asked a random cultivator.

"Because Wei Wuxian is still alive. He can only expect his death at the moment." said Jiang Cheng.

He gazed toward the direction in which the arrow came from. The one who shot the arrow was a young cultivator with delicate features. Standing before a small sect's array, he was still maintaining the pose, his bowstring still vibrating.

Wei WuXian could tell the arrow tip was originally aiming for his heart, his vital region. Yet, because the archer wasn't skilled, the force of the arrow tip dwindled by midair to have missed the heart and shot into the ribcage.

"He needs more training." said Wei Wuxian.

"Only if he's still alive." he added with a smile.

Everyone shivered at that.

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 thing.

Wei WuXian looked up. Darkness veiled his face. He pulled out the arrow and tossed it back hard. With a wail, the young cultivator who snuck an attack at him was hit right in the chest with the arrow he tossed back!

A boy next to him threw himself on top of him, "Brother! Brother!"

"What a shot." said Wen Rouhan.

"I'm the best." said Wei Wuxian.

"So sad he won't be able to enhance his skills in archery anymore." he added.

"He should have seen it coming." he said.

The sect's array was immediately thrown into chaos. The 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, temporarily ceasing the blood flow. His voice was indifferent, "What does cruel mean? If he dared shoot the arrow at me when I was off guard, he should've known what would be facing him if he failed. They call me the cultivator of the crooked path, anyways, so you can't possibly count on me to be generous and not bother with him, can you?"

"Cruel this, cruel that. Why do I have to take considerations they themselves don't?" Wei Wuxian asked.

"Before attacking me, they should know first that the attack they will said is fatal enough for me to not give them harm." he said.

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 stalemate was finally broken. Carrying swords and arrows, many disciples rushed toward the ceiling of the palace.

They finally attacked first!

"Here comes the chaos." said Jin Zixuan.

"And death." said Jiang Cheng.

"Let's see if they'll survive." he added.