'I made Wen Ning a fierce corpse while still alive. That is the worse thing I did in my whole life and I paid no where near enough for it. I managed to calm him down and we all went to the Burial Mounds and there we lived for months, peacefully. I even managed to have Wen Ning regain his senses as I called his soul back to his body. A week or so before Wen Ning woke, Cheng came and after we discussed it, we agreed we had to fight and I would separate from his sect ... and we did. He ended up with a broken arm and I ended up with a hole threw me. I was now a total outcast. The day Wen Ning woke up, Lan Zhan, you were visiting and got one little boy attacked to you, called you daddy in front of the whole town while we were there. But you couldn't stay, you left that night. However, to try getting his hands on the amulet I made, Jin GuangYao and Su She set a trap for me. They must have know I would occasionally go into town because I didn't want any of the Wens attacked. I was there to buy items. A while before, on the orders of Jin GuangYao, Su She had placed a hundred hole curse on YanLi's husband's brother and convinced him it was me. Not a hard thing to do because apparently, if so much as a plant died it had to be the demonic cultivator Wei WuXian, the Yiling Patriarch. The trap was for me to snap and kill them ... but since I was in total control, however, not until much later did I know that Jin GuangYao took control of Wen Ning and killed the brothers and the sect members who had been with them. The next thing I remember is waking up back at the Burial Mounds and Wen Quin used a needle on me as they told me they were going to hand themselves in .......................... I woke up three days later and went to Nightless city where they were releasing the ashes of the brothers and all the people I cared for were all hung at the gates, then against their words of oath; they placed a price on my head. Jin GuangYao stood by his father, as both his brothers were now dead, he was now the heir. That night Lan Zhan raced to me and told me to stand down. But I knew that almost every sect leader and members would never give up until I handed over the newest and most powerful weapon and I would never do that. Almost every sect leader and cultivator would slaughter the world to get it. The only sect I trusted not to use it and keep it safe was the GusuLan Sect but if I did that, that would place them at odds with every other sect and more than likely another war would break out. So I had to keep it with me .... I used the Demonic Cultivation to try knocking everyone out. But YanLi arrived at the battle field dressed in her mourning outfit and was killed as she saved my life. The only thing I could do was destroy the amulet but a fragment remained and .... I stood there and watched them all ..... they were killing and maiming each other to get there hands on it ... this pathetic little shard of the amulet and they were going to kill everyone to lay their hands on it. I think that is what totally broke me, seeing such greed and power lust.... I gave up .... I stepped up to the cliff and let myself just fall ... Oh Lan Zhan, you grabbed my wrist as I fell and refused to let go even with you arm wounded like that, but Cheng arrived beside you and thrust his sword into the cliff as he told me to go to hell. He hated me and blamed me for the deaths of his parents, his sister, her husband, his brother, Cheng's sect ... he laid it all on my and .... So did I. So when I saw the cliff start to break apart where he had put his sword, I ripped my hand from your grasp so the cliff wouldn't give out with our combined weight ... I died.'

'Wei Ying.' Lan Zhan whispered as his hand rested over his heart which hurt at the thought of loosing him.

'Then you came back to this time ....' Lan XiChen tried to work things out.

'No. There is more to my first and second life.'

'I don't understand.' Master Lan looked at his two nephews and found them as confused as he was.

'I died .... And the next thing I know, I am forced into the body of a Mo XuanYu and everything started up again. Somehow he had gotten his hands on one of my scrolls to bring back a soul by offering their own, even if they didn't want to return. He brought me back .... Lan Zhan seemed to recognise me almost at first ... because of a song of all things, the song he played for me in the cave. It turned out that every death and injury the night I died .... Was placed squarely on my shoulders. They couldn't even take responsibility for their own actions. As the truth had not been found out about those two traitorous worms, everyone including myself, still thought I had been the one to do all the ills ... sixteen years of oblivion and my name was even worse than when I died. I was the vile Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation you scare kids with .... Su She had separated from GusuLan Sect and made his own sect, the MolingSu Sect ...'

'Not possible, he is just so .... Weak in cultivation.'

'In many aspects I would agree Master Lan, but he also taught his members musical cultivation, learnt to use a teleportation talisman and a mist face talisman ... that worm just kept throwing curves at us on our travels. Jin GuangYao had long been the Jin Sect Leader as well as Chief Cultivator ... Nie HuaiSang was also a Sect Leader. He ... Wen Ning, who had supposedly been turned to ashes sixteen years prior before the very eyes of Su She, was still around and came to me when I called on any fierce corpse to help save Jin Ling, YanLi's orphaned son from a deity statue ... I will have to go there and use a full restraint so it does not come to life .... Lan Zhan and I travelled together to find the body parts of a person who had been cut apart in body and soul. That all started the very same time I was returned and in the same mansion also ... I should have seen the connection long before I did. Soon, after we got past many problems, we only needed the head. And this is where I find I am partially to blame for his acts. Taking the head ... Things happened but nothing that pertains to anything for now. Lan XiChen, I'm sorry but the body that had been disposed of in such a way was Nie MingJue, and his brother Nie HuaiSang was the one to help Mo XuanYu to bring me back so he could find his brothers body and place it to rest. Nie HuaiSang never once had any thoughts of hurting anyone or gaining anything other than his brother's body so he could be laid to rest. He is a very good person and that is why I made and sent him the assassin fan again this time. Also, somehow he knew I was not as evil incarnate as everyone said I was, that is why he helped to bring me back. Lan XiChen, a while after you found out who I really was, we, the three of us, made a plan, however you were tricked into blocking your spiritual energy and soon enough, we were also trapped by Jin GuangYao in a temple he had built on the place his mothers and other prostitutes lived. He burnt it down and killed everyone inside, burnt them alive. Buried his mother in the temple and as he was running for his life after being found out, he stopped there with you, his hostage, to dig her up. Well, in the end he and Su She died that night at the hands of Nie MingJue's fierce corpse, they both died but not before they spilled how they had set me up in both lives by using resentful energy to make Wen Ning kill the brothers and again at the Nightless city the night YanLi died. Even the siege at the burial mounds the day before, he hoped I would kill everyone and save him the trouble of running for his life. He hated that I didn't kill anyone, that I could still control everything even at a time when everyone was against me, he controlled all the resentful energy and fierce corpses and slaughtered so many while putting it on me during the end of the war. The one thing he never bargained for was me being more than just an ordinary Demonic Cultivator ... I became the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation.' Wei Ying took a deep breath as his whole body trembled as he remembered. 'This is what I want to stop from happening ... but I have to tell you that ... when I woke up in this body again ... I found that I still had mastered Demonic Cultivation. I can tell it is there, but it lays there small and quiet ... but I have used it just once since I woke up.'

'It was you who removed the Aqua Demon from the lake and placed it in a cave, I knew that was you.'

'How did you know?'

'Don't worry about it for now Wei Ying.' Lan Zhan picked him up and placed him on the bed.

'Lan Zhan, preform the Empathy ... I want it all over with in one go or ... I don't know how to ... just look at the last life ... not this one.'

'Okay.' He placed his fingers to begin empathy.

'No, wait.'

'Uncle.'

'WangJi, we all know that you are not use to strong emotions and this boy is over flowing with ....'

'Master Lan, you are wrong. Neither of you ever realised the truth about him ... Lan Zhan is always dealing with such strong emotions, but he keeps them tightly contained. I promise ... he will not be damaged by my empathy.'

'...' Master Lan was about to say something but stopped when he realised WangJi was already in the empathy. 'Why do I even bother trying to talk?'

Lan XiChen watched his brothers face closely as he walked through Wei WuXian's memories. He had never seen such a soft, gentle and caring look on his baby brother's face.

'We should pull him out before this boy does any kind of damage. With everything Wei WuXian has said, his emotions might me too much for WangJi.'

'Uncle, surely you are not that blind.' He glanced at the scowling man. 'I saw it the first time I watched the pair of them interact. My baby brother is interested in someone other than his family ... even if he has only just figured it out recently.' he nodded to the young man with his fingers touching the unconscious boy. 'He does already love this boy ... and Wei WuXian loves him.'

'You know ...'

'As Sect Leader, my rules are the ones listened to and I say ... they belong together.'

'I am not even sure I believe his words of reliving this life.'

'Tell me the truth Uncle, the reason you are so against everything Wei WuXian is because of one or both of those young men. They are the ones you say have been informing you of things against Wei WuXian.'

'What makes you think ....'

'Uncle, just tell me the truth.'

'Fine. They are the pair I have asked to keep an eye on him. They are good students and live by the rules of this sect. However; he is just like his mother.'

'Then as Sect Leader, I order you not to tell anyone what you have heard inside this room or about the wall. If they hear about this ... I don't know what they will do.'

'If he is telling the truth.'

'I hate to say it but even though I have been gaining a friendship with one of them, I do see some of what Wei WuXian was talking about. That young man seems to say just the right thing at surprisingly the right time. A couple of times I have seen this look on his face but when he realised I was watching, he changed and said he was imagining telling them to stop bullying him.'

'Are we going to allow this boy to go off and hunt for the Yin Irons by himself?'

'Do you really think WangJi will permit Wei Ying out of his sight now? Even if he didn't tell us everything, WangJi would keep him at his side.'

'I will order WangJi to stay in the Cloud Recesses. I will confine him if I must.'

'No, that is something I will not permit.' He glanced at his uncle. 'Can I ask you something?'

'Of course you may.'

'What is it about Wei WuXian that set you against him even before he arrived? To the point you ended up threatening Wei WuXian's life if WangJi didn't stay away from him. Then there is the beating.'

'You know his mother was a student here?'

'Yes.'

'Well she was noisy, arrogant, unwilling to follow rules from anyone at any time. Always getting others into trouble just so she could have some fun ... he is far too much like her.'

'Uncle, I have heard of Wei Ying's mother, she was a free spirit, she was kind hearted and willing to help anyone and she liked to have fun ... she was not the devil.'

'She might as well have been.'

'Uncle, she was Wei WuXian's mother and he lost her when he was very young, younger than WangJi and I was when we lost our mother. I really don't think it very polite to speak about her like that.'

'Do you believe he is the grandson of Baoshan SanRen?'

'Well, from everything I had read about her when she was here ... Yes. There is just something ... undeniable in his words. I was using my gift and ... I believe he is and that may be why he is as powerful as he is.'