Don't forget that 16 years in the "normal" world corresponds to 1 year and 4 months in the sanctuary.

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What had they done? Separated his body and mind? Locked and sealed in a Qiankun pocket? That's why I never got any answers to my questions for 16 years!

I looked at Wei Ying, he seemed completely lost. Brother had his eyes closed. Uncle's eyes were wide open. Jiang Cheng, SiZhui and HuaiSang had their mouths open in amazement. Baochen continued his story.

"But when we separated your body and mind, there was another problem, for a fleshly body could not survive indefinitely without a soul to inhabit it. And we also had to find out who was behind everything that had happened to you. Your body was slowly healing. I estimated that it would take about 12 months for it to heal completely. Once again we had to make a decision with repercussions for you and for us. We used one of the spiritual objects in our possession: the dragon's heart.

"Baochen, are you in possession of the Dragon's Heart?". exclaimed Uncle.

"Uncle, what is the 'Heart of the Dragon'?"

"A very ancient artifact, it is said that it can cure all diseases and can even... give life back! It disappeared a thousand years ago.

Uncle was agitated. I had never seen him like that. This spiritual object must have been extremely powerful to put him in this state!

"We put it in a safe place, but as always with this kind of object, there is a trade-off when you use it!

"What do you mean?" Uncle asked. Baochen seemed to hesitate.

"The tribute to be paid is a part of our lives. Baoshan made this choice for you Wei Ying. We cut your healing time in half. We could have made your body return to your mind. But so much had happened outside, 6 years had passed! It was dangerous for you to come back to life at that time. We preferred to wait; but your body might die if we did not find a spirit to inhabit it!

An idea came to me all at once, it had not been a dream and I think I knew where he was going with this.

"That night, it wasn't a dream like you told me, was it?

"No, it was not a dream, we had just taken possession. When I saw the state you were in and that the desire to live had left you, I told myself that we had gone too far. I vowed to watch over you and protect you. Like all people who hide their feelings, when your threshold is reached, your reactions are unpredictable and devastating. That night, I thought I was too late. So I swore to myself that if I could keep you alive, I would bring him in to give you hope and the will to live that you were missing. We told him what to say and how to say it. However, he stroked your cheek on his own initiative. I was afraid you would remember the warmth of his palm. But fortunately that was not the case."

"You are wrong, I remember very well the warmth of his hand on my cheek, the husky tone of his voice. That's what always disturbed me in this so-called dream."

Wei Ying looked at me, squinting his eyes. Would he be... jealous? I thought I should add to him.

"It was your voice and your hand, and I recognized them when I was between life and death.

"It was Mon Xuan Yu that night, wasn't it?

"Yes, when he was sent away from the Jin clan, on the way back, he was attacked and killed by Xue Yang on the orders of Jin GuangYao. Jin GuangYao could not let him live because Mon XuanYu was not only a potential heir but he had discovered that the wife of the chief patriarch was also his sister. So he had to die. We were very lucky to find him. We made a kind of pact with his spirit. We entrusted him with Wei Wuxian's body for a certain period of time and in exchange, when the time came, the Patriarch of Yiling would take his revenge for him. His so-called madness and the mask he wore preserved your identity, Wei Ying.

"Baochen, if I understand you correctly, you made the spirit of Mon Xuan Yu possess my body in exchange for me to carry out his revenge? What if he refused to give it back to me? .... Wait, does that mean that I have my real body? Then, why don't I have the iron mark of the Wen anymore? And..."

"Stop!" said I, raising my hand to interrupt him. Wei Ying looked at me stunned.

"If you want answers let him talk!".

"Thank you, Lan Wangji. Wei Ying, he couldn't refuse to give you back your body, the summoning and possession ritual we used, forced him to. When the time came, 10 years had passed, he was used to living with your body. At first he didn't want to give it back to you, but we forced him to do so through the pact we had made with him.

"So this is really my body, ... Hey, that's why Zidian couldn't chase me off Mount Dafan!" you exclaimed suddenly. I smiled.

"That's right, Zidian couldn't expel a spirit that lived in his own body! Now, as for the iron mark of the Wen, you will have noticed that the scar from the wound inflicted on you by your brother in Yiling is no longer there either.

"Yes, that's right" Wei Ying instinctively put his hand to his left side. Another scar had taken its place there. The one from the wound that Jin Ling had given him at Jinlintai.

"We were not able to use the Dragon's Heart in its full healing process. The wounds have disappeared, but there is still a tiny trace of them, invisible to the naked eye.

"But you can feel them by touch," I said, as if to myself.

"I thought you would notice," said Baochen.

"What happened at the Mô manor, was it you who planned it?

"Let's say that we had to proceed with the reunification, because Baoshan's time was running out after using the Dragon's Heart. We were a little afraid because as soon as we released Wei Ying's spirit, he looked for you Lan Wangji. That day you called him and he answered you. But it seems that you did not hear his message".

That day, I remembered my dream and then I had played my question to the spirits ... that's when the owner of the inn had come to look for me because spirits were lurking around the building. I had not heard him because I had left the room!

"Why did you wait so long?"

"Baoshan, had charged me with unraveling the whole story. We waited until we had all the information we needed to bring down the one who had orchestrated it all. I found, Sissi and Bicao, Baxia, discovered the existence of the second part of the Ying Hufu, Xue Yang, SuShe when we were sure to know all the articulations of this machination we developed our own plan so that not only Mô XuanYu has his revenge, but we wanted especially to rehabilitate the honor of Wei Wuxian and by the same ... the honor of our family. "

Baochen turned to Nie HuaiSang.

"This is where you come in, Nie clan leader. 

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