Into The World Of Darkness

Wei Ying

In the morning of the third day, Wei Ying found himself in the process of actually waking up his lover, as his exhaustion has been so consuming, that he had slept for what was left of the second day and night, right into the next morning. Wei Ying didn't blame him, thought, because after he witness the way he cleanse Yin's dark energy and transformed it into white, he knew just how much awesome his husband had become, fully earning his new title of Hanguang-Jun.

"Lan Zhan... Lan Zhan... wake up." Wei Ying whisper as he softly caressed Wangji's lovely young face and the effect was almost instantly, as Lan Zhan responded to Wei's call in record time.

"Wei Ying..." Wangji whisper back, just before he open his eyes to look at his smiling lover.

"Are you less tired now? Can you handle get inside the Burial Mounds or you want a few more hours of rest?" Wei Ying asked, but his lover moved his head in negative.

"I'm fine now." He whisper, as he sat down, helped by his caring lover.

"You sure?" Wei asked again.

"Yes." Wangji assure him and Wei Ying stood up to look for a bottle of potion Wen Qing had given him last night for when Lan Zhan wakes up. It was a tonic meant to ease fatigue, so he pour some of it on a cup and give it to his Lan Zhan to drink, who try to drink it in one go, but coughing some midway.

"Easy, Lan Zhan... it's a bit bitter..." Wei Ying said, as he took the cup from Wangji's hand and gently dry the liquid that ran down his jaw with his hand, quite tenderly.

"Is it better now?" Wei Ying asked his adorable husband.

"Mn." Wangji simply reply, giving Wei Ying a look so deep that he swear went all the way to his very soul and he loved his husband even more, for which he was going to take good care of him.

"Good, I have some cold breakfast made by Wen Qing with those healthy stuff that will give you stamina. After you eat it, we will reunite with the others and go to the seal. The dark energy is getting restless again and by the night, the seal may really break. So it will be better if we chase the corpses away from the seal." Wei Ying said as he offer his lover what Wen Qing prepared for him.

"Wei Ying..." Lan Zhan put the offered plate aside and stood too, coming closer to his lover.

"What? Want a morning kiss? I was going to wake you up like that but..." Wangji pull him closer and rested his forehead over his husband, closing his eyes. Then moved his head down to gently kiss Wei Ying, or so Wei thought, but soon he find out that his husband wanted more than to kiss him senseless this time. As he had open his mouth to give his Lan Zhan access to it, he felt as a thin ribbon of white energy came in, from Lan Zhan own open mouth and go down his throat, then reached his golden core and envelop it completely, then Wangji broke the kiss.

"Lan Zhan... what was that?" Wei asked as they parted.

"A gift." Wei moved his head to one side.

"What kind of gift was it? Were you trying to anchor me? Are you afraid I will get lost inside the Burial Mounds?" Wei Ying asked with curiosity. It felt like his beautiful man was making sure to hold his heart at all times.

"Wei Ying, no future is certain..." Wangji said and he pull him closer.

"But I'm making sure, you will never be lost." He finish as he kissed the crown of Wei's head.

"You mean, you are giving me a part of you, so I will not end up like Yin?" Wei asked, holding him back.

"Yes. My spark of light will lit your darkness no matter what." Wei smiled to those warmhearted words.

"How can I not be crazy about you when doing such soul binding things?" Wei asked as he looked back at his lover.

"Their story will not repeat again with us." Wangji said as he kissed his other half and was kissed back with equal love.

"Not this time, no." Wei agree, kissing his husband a few more times, then urge him to eat, so they can be on their way.

A bit later they went out of their tent and join the rest of the group that was already waiting for them, ready to head out to whatever destiny was in store for them.

"As far as I know Yin is lots in herself and unable to find her way out of her own darkness, so she will come at us with full force, not able to distinguish friend from foe. She will sent corpses to us in waves, the closer to her, the stronger the corpses will become. All spirits will stay out for as long as you can, because the numbers of corpses Yin will sent our way will be quite overwhelming, so your human forms will double our numbers too." Wei Ying said first.

"Make sure you always carry the talismans I gave you for your protection against the poison of the dark energy. If you get overwhelmed by her darkness, discard the tainted one and use another, I had already gave you enough to use for an entire month. I will lead the way along with Lan Zhan, while Zilin and Yinse will guard our backs and the rest of the spirits will keep an eye in our sides. From here on, we move as one big body that can separate in parts when there is the need. Just remember that absolutely no one stays behind and no one wander on their own. In case we get separate, you use the emergency signal of your own Clan or the teleportation talisman I had already linked to a member of our group."

"I'm not going to lie, it's going to be hell, but if we succeed the world will be restored back to what it was at the beginning of time and there will be no more corpses that will force us to live under barriers, nor more fear that the dead will come back to hunt us down at any moment, nor more tragic dead's. We do this so our beloveds can live more peacefully and for our sons or daughters to have a better future." He added and the others nodded in agreement.

"Then let's go!" Wei shouted and headed for the path to the Burial Mounds, closely followed by his husband and friends and once in front of the seal, Wei Ying played Chenqing to make the corpses go away.

"Lan Zhan, take them in." Wei whisper as he stop playing for a second, then started playing the tune again. Lan Zhan placed his hand over the seal, filling it with white energy, then urge the others to cross it and when Wei Ying did so the last, he also crossed and sealed back the entrance with a stronger array.

All corpses had been sent somewhere else under his command, but as no one knew how to look for Yin in such a place, so filled with dark energy, it was up to him to guide the rest to Yin. Thus Wei closed his eyes and concentrate in the direction from where the dark energy was the strongest. He could not reach Yin this time, but she was more active, meaning he could trace the energy back to her.

"Where to Wuxian?" Jiang Cheng asked a bit impatient, as the place was creepy and oppressing, although not as much as he thought it would, perhaps because of the talismans they all were wearing inside their robes.

"She is far north from here, let's stay sharp at all times. There are too many corpses nearby and can come from any direction." He said and walked toward the way he knew he will find Yin. The others make a double line behind him, with the spirits walking beside their Masters, ready to protect them at any possible threat. As Wei Ying and Lan Zhan walked side by side, Bichen and Suibian walked right behind them, while Zidian walked ahead of Zilin and Yinse on her own.

Yinse find Zidian distracting, as she walked with the gracefulness of a young Lady, but her power was simply raw, to a point he could feel it crisping inside of her, as if she had an internal lighting storm ready to get out at any time, which may not be too far from the truth.

So he focus in the marvelous sight of the two lovers at the front. He was Yang's dragon, gifted to him by the gods, so he knew well how white energy worked as well as the dark one and he could see as Wei Wuxian gather the dark energy of the place and Lan Wangji cleanse it, turning it into white. No one aside from him had notice that as they walked behind the pair, the oppression of the dark energy lessen and even the soil became less black as Wangji unconsciously transformed the tainted energy into white energy that will keep them protected from the dark energy effects.

It looked like Lan Wangji was making sure to keep his other half in control, balancing him even as they walked. The gods had choose well and together they will help bring back the earth to the former glory, but first, they needed to pass their trail to ensure they were truly worthy of their seeds and to the eternal happiness they will be granted when the balance is restored.

Yinse smiled and at that moment Zidian turned to look back at him, to study his smile. The dragon gave a different kind of vibe as they walked, so she was curious about him, yet the white handsome man focus was on the front, meaning he had seen it too, the way that Lan Wangji was clearing the path for them and she turned again and smile on her own. What a man, she thought...

At the front, Wei Ying keep Chenqing on his hand, as he used the energy on their feet to sense the corpses moving around and trying to avoid all those he could. The Burial Mounds had an eerie atmosphere to it, with all those dead trees and occasional bones scattered here and there along with the cold air with its dark mist at some places. The soil was also creepy, been black and all and the corpses that sometimes could be heard from a distance didn't added to make the place less frightening.

Actually, Huaisang was so scared that he walked behind Qingfen, while grabbing the robe of his spirit at his back and surprisingly, Zixuan had exchanged places with Yanli's spirit and discretely hold her hand with his left as he grabbed Suihua with the other. Wen Ning walked quite close to Mianmian, who was wearing his gifted hairpin and Jiang Cheng looked back at Wen Qing more often than he should, occasionally stumping on a root, making Wen Qing smile as she slightly grabbed the pendant he had give her.

There was a pressure to add at the creepy atmosphere too, but having a White Sage by him, it make it more bearable. Then, they all hear the sound of running corpses as they yelled in madness coming their way, so it was time to either fight and get rid ogmf them or control them away to keep their energy stronger to use it in more dire situations.

Soon, Wei Ying chose to start playing dark tunes again and again, to keep the corpses at bay in order not to exhaust the rest of the team spiritual energy. Before, he could only endure it for a short period, but now he was part of it, as he had the black seed deep inside him, making him immune to the effects, as well as his wonderful lover protection. As he played Chenqing, he had notice that what Lan Zhan had transfer to him, keep him protected, acting as a dispelling shield, cleansing his core at the same time he used his own gift.

It was such an amazing thing, that Wei Ying could keep up using dark energy to keep them safe at the safe time it didn't affect his state of mind. He had to give it to his lover, he was in fact the best, as even his spiritual awareness had been toned down by Wangji's protective energy on his core, so the chances of him weakening to a point Xuanyu will be forced to take over was practically close to zero now.

There were moments in which they had to fight, especially when the numbers of corpses increased as they walked further inside those cursed lands. Many fierce corpses try to surprise them by jumping out of trees, but each time they manage to get rid of them as a team that moved as one, connected by their spirits. Zidian proved to be quite useful, as her lightings were deadly and fast, as well as precise in a way it could take more than one at the same time.

However, as the corpses came at them, Wei Ying notice than most of them targeted both Yinse and Wangji more than the rest. That was because they had stronger levels of white energy, which was in fact Yin's opposite nature in her lost mind. He wonder then, that if in her madness, she may even fear Yang himself if he were to be among them.

"Wei Ying, can you tell how far Yin is?" Wangji asked him, as they walked.

"Still far, I can't really said where she is, just a general direction." Wei told him.

"Night will come in a few more hours, we need a place to rest. Can you sense anything we can use for cover?" Jiang Cheng asked. He was honestly quite exhausted with all those hours of walking as well as fighting and Wei concentrate harder.

"Around ten miles west from here, there is a kind of cave and maybe an old temple... but it have a lot of corpses. It will take us a while to get rid of all if them as it's a dead end." Wei Ying told us.

"Let's go there. I will take care of all the corpses myself." Yinse said, as the pupils of his golden eyes became elongated, like the eyes of serpents and the others pretty much stared at him.

"What? Don't believe me? Originally I was a dragon from heaven, I can take care of some corpses on my own. Also, the White Sage here needs some lessons on how to fully use his energy." He said.

"Right... let's just give it a shot." Jiang Cheng said and Wei Ying sighed.

"Follow me." He said and keep on walking until they reach a small path between dark trees that leaded to an open space. They stop close to the border of the creepy dark forest and saw what was ahead of them and that was an open clearing filled with corpses.

The place was probably an old temple constructed there, when those lands were sacred instead of tainted an it had old tiles tinted in black, but they keep the space between trees free of weeds and at the end they could see an open cave to the left and the rundown temple to the right. The open heavy black doors could still hold an attack to a certain point, with the only problem been the many corpses gathered there in the relative small space.

"Alright then, we are here, now do your thing... there are around a hundred walking there." Jiang Cheng whisper to Yinse and the dragon turned to look at Lan Wangji.

"Lan Wangji, white energy had more than one use and the seal you did back to the entrance was pretty good for your first time, but you can make one, hundreds of times stronger. You see, white energy comes not from the earth, like the dark one does, but from the heavens and the white seed you carry is the source of it, the same as it is from Yang. As I grew up in the heavens, my core is made fully of white energy, thus I can use it more than those who gain a golden core."

"Watch closely and feel my energy, then, as I work, you will understand a bit more as to how to fully use the gift you were given. You are no longer bond to the powers of this realm." Yinse said in a low tone and then, walked out to the clearing full of corpses.

"Hey! You monkey's are in the way. Get lost, will you?!" Yinse yelled first, gaining their attention.

There was a small pause in the erratic moves of the corpses as Yinse challenge them and stare at him for a few second, as if confused. Wei Ying and Lan Zhan stood close behind him, just in case, but that was unnecessary, Yinse thought with a sight.

Then the corpses finally registered that there was someone else making fun of them and one full of white energy they were starving for, so after the initial surprise, the corpse started to move his way then ran toward him with greeted teeth's and raised arms, ready to turn apart his flesh.

However, Yinse extended his hands, as claws grew longer from his human fingers and held a middle size ball of white energy that he throw at them with incredible speed. The ball of concentrate white energy incinerated any corpse on it path with white flames, but suddenly stopped in the very middle of the clearing at Yinse's command with the snapping of his fingers.

"Heaven seal!" He shouted and an enormous golden bell seems to fell from the sky over all of the corpses, taking at least ninety percent of the space in the clearing, then at his second command, the bell ringed three times so loudly, that they had to cover their ears. Yet, when Yinse blow a hint of white energy over it, the bell disappeared like if made of gold aches and with it, all corpses were gone, only leaving a huge active golden array over the now clean ground.

Lan Wangji then understood what Yinse meant. As a bearer of an energy that didn't came from that world, he could go beyond and use heavens spells instead. Yang had been born naturally with the knowledge of the gift he was given with a hundred times stronger heavenly energy than his, but he had been forced to assimilate it in a rush, skipping the learning process, so he didn't know just how special white energy was.

The others were pretty much dumbfounded by the amazing show of strength, as well as for the information, that no one was aware off. Then Wei Ying laughed, coming closer to his lover and passing an arm over his wide shoulders.

"My hot Hanguang-Jun, no wonder every time you touch me it feels so heavenly... it's actually quite true." Wei whisper to his ear and Lan Wangji was on fire instantly, yet did not push him away.

"So shameless..." Lan Zhan only said in a low tone and his Wei Ying smiled as he gave his Lan Zhan a peck in the cheek.

"Please, get a room you two..." Zixuan said loudly and Wei Ying smiled at him.

"Sure thing, the cave is ours and you get the temple for yourselves. Let's go, Lan Zhan, night is already coming." Wei said happily as he took his husband hand on his and pull him over the heavenly array in the direction of said cave.

"Zixuan... that was stupid. You just give our Lord Of Earth and Heaven an excuse to get alone, with probably more room than us." Jiang Cheng said as he saw the two walking away.

"I... they were..." Zixuan hesitate, yet Yinse laughed.

"It was going to happen anyways. The two need the room to deeply meditate tonight. They are catching up with their true potential, so they will be obligated to cultivate for a few hours at least. Now, let's see what we can do with that temple for tonight's resting." Yinse said as he walked ahead, closely followed by the others.

AN: Sorry for the big delay, I was planning to update on my Monday, but couldn't finish in time. This one take me so much time to finish, but I needed to explain a little more so they can fully grasp their gifts. Wei Ying will be more powerful, as well as Wangji, as they search for Yin. Hope it was fine, please take care and I will try harder to update tomorrow if something doesn't come up. So, please take care my dears, until then. 😄❤❤❤💖