WWX 's Pov

He had finally found him! He was there in her arms. His heart was beating weakly, but it was beating. He needed to find a doctor as soon as possible. He could not feel his spiritual flow. That probably explained his condition.

When he had seen him, he had feared that Wen Zhuliu had melted his core. Then when he touched it, he felt it. His power had just been sealed!

As he had expected, Lan Xichen had been more than surprised to find himself facing him. So what would his reaction be when he found himself facing his brother! After all, he too was supposed to be dead.

But that could wait, their problem for now was to get out of the citadel before the hell he had planned to unleash!

Xue Yang, when you play with Iron Ying, you have to take the consequences !!!!

They went up to the dungeons and then to the guard room without meeting anyone. They crossed the courtyard under a rain of arrows that Lan Xichen skillfully deflected with Shuoyue. They finally arrived at the entrance to the escape shaft. They entered one behind the other. Xichen led the way. Wei Wuxian knew that his back was covered by Xue Yang's 5 monsters! It amused him to turn these monsters against the one who had created them! He had every intention of making him pay for what he had done to Lan Zhan! Because Wei Wuxian had no doubt that the person responsible for the torture sessions that the love of his life had undergone was that monster Xue Yang!

They finally came out of the tunnel. They walked away quickly. Wei Wuxian heard whispers from many people trying to make as little noise as possible. It was a failure! When he and Xichen joined them, there was total silence. Fear appeared on many faces. Wei Wuxian turned around and headed for the citadel. He approached Xichen.

"Can I entrust him to you?"

Wei Wuxian didn't wait for his answer and placed his precious burden in his arms. He turned around. The silhouette of the fortress loomed darker against the sky and sea. He picked up the flute he had tucked into his belt and brought it to his lips. A sinister melody rose in the night. From all directions, wisps of black shadows rushed towards the citadel. Screams were heard. Everyone was frightened when they heard them. But what chilled the blood of everyone present was the silence that followed the screams. Wei Wuxian lowered his flute. The music died down and the black shadows faded away. He tilted his head back and the clouds that hitherto hid the moon dissipated. The rays of the pale moon caressed his face.

"I had warned them, they don't take what belongs to me!" he turned to Xichen and took the lifeless body in his arms. With a sad smile, he addressed the inert body that he cradled against his heart.

"You will lecture me when you wake up, I'm counting on you!".

Nie MingJue approached, sword in hand, pointing at the one who until now they had called the man in black but whose identity they now knew;

"Wei Wuxian, what magic is this, how is it possible that you are alive? You have been dead for almost 3 years!"

"3 years? Time flies! Nie MingJue, if I wanted to harm you, I would have eliminated you from the start and not helped you get your prisoners out!"

"What do you want then?".

"First of all, a doctor and preferably from the Lan Clan!"

Lan Xichen looked at him, his face showed incomprehension.

"Wei Wuxian, you destroyed the Lan clan, it no longer exists!"

"I did what? .... He's lucky he's already dead, otherwise I would have taken care of him!" he muttered.

Wei Wuxian sighed and thought. Lan Zhan was getting heavy!

"Lan Xichen, do you know how to remove a seal?"

"What kind of seal?"

"The kind that prevents spiritual energy from flowing into the body."

"I can try.

"Then please do it. He didn't do anything wrong and I don't know why they did this to him. We didn't ask to come here. We were fine where we were!" .

Lan Xichen handed Shuoyue over to Nie MingJue. He placed a hand over the inert form in Wei Wuxian's arms.

Nie MingJue grabbed his wrist. Xichen looked him straight in the eye.

"Brother, he's right, if he wanted to hurt us, he would have done so long ago. You've seen what he's capable of. And then, I don't know why, but something tells me that we can trust him.

"Trust? It was Wei Wuxian who destroyed YunShen Buzhi and Lianhua Wu!"

"I know... but..."

"Lianhua Wu?" exclaimed Wei Wuxian. Lan Xichen and Nie MingJue turned to him at the same time when they heard his exclamation.

"That's not possible, why would he destroy the place where he grew up?"

"He?" asked Lan Xichen

"Yes, the other Wei Wuxian, the one from your world!"

"From our world?"

"Lan Xichen, I'll explain later, for now, the important thing is to save my friend, Can you remove the seal?" .

"Mnnn!"

"Then please do it"

"Mnnnn."

Wei Wuxian laughed.

"Lan Xiong, it looks like Lan Zhan when you do that!"

Lan Xichen and Nie MingJue looked at each other with a frown. Since when did Wei Wuxian allow himself such familiarity with the former Lan Clan Chief? Since when did he call young Master Lan by his birth name? Lan Xichen pulled himself together and proceeded to perform the incantations to unlock the Ki of the man in Wei Wuxian's arms. When this was done, Wei Ying felt Lan Zhan contract slightly and the energy flow began to circulate again.

"Thank you, I can feel his spiritual energy now. I need a doctor, do you know where I can find one?"

"Come with us, there is one from the Lan clan at our camp.

"Brother!" exclaimed MingJue.

"I'll take responsibility! Wei Wuxian, promise me you won't try anything against us!"

"I promise, if it will make you feel better, but you have nothing to fear from him or from me. I would never, ever, hurt you. To you even less than to someone else ".

"I don't understand what you are saying.

"Patience, I will explain when we are safe and my friend has been treated. How far is your camp?"

"Two hours of walking.

"All right then, let's get going. 

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