Cleansing The Lands

Lan Zhan

They played the song for a bit longer and end it when Wen Qing came to give them something to eat and drink, then she left to give them back their privacy. They eat in silence and after it was done, Wei Ying told Lan Zhan about Yin's madness and about her losing a good part of her mind when Taotie was summon.

"Lan Zhan... I... for Yin to regain back her sanity... I have to... well..." Wei Ying try to explain about his soon to come death, even if it was for a short period of time, but found it too hard to put it to words.

"Wei Ying, I know what you most do." Lan Zhan told him and Wei Ying was a bit surprised with his Lan Zhan's words. Did he really know? How so? Xiao Man had told him about what was going to happen only to him. Was that a lie? No, she wouldn't do that... then...

Seen Wei Ying's confusion, Lan Zhan slightly smiled to his lover and stood up, then offer his hand to help Wei Ying do the same and he was up, he hug him tightly.

"Lan Zhan... how?" Wei Ying asked to his Lan Zhan.

"On my meditation, Nuwa told me." Lan Zhan responded softly.

"Wow, Nuwa? As Nuwa the goddess? Lan Zhan... how did you do that? I thought you were going to meet with Ya..." Lan Zhan simply kiss him, to drawn his questions away with his own feelings. That he was going to lose him, even for a short while was painful to even think about it, not to mention witness it with his own eyes. Was he prepared? No, he will never be prepared to see his beloved gone, but he understood it was a necessary evil.

"Lan Zhan... it's only for a short while, I promise." Wei Ying whisper, once they parted.

"Hum... still, it will hurt." Lan Zhan said as he put his hand on the back of Wei's neck.

"Please... you will not really lose me..." Wei said as he saw deep sadness in his man eyes.

"If you were me..." Lan Zhan whisper looking at him and Wei shudder just by the thought of him losing his Lan Zhan, even for a minute. He loved him so much... will he even be able to hold his darkness if he were to see him die? He kissed his man, pulling him by the waist to deepen his kiss.

Instantly the entrance of the cave was cover with a thick mist of dark energy, as Wei Ying command it, so they will not be interrupted for the rest of the night.

"I can't bear the thought of losing you..." Wei said, as Lan Zhan lay him down back to the stone and placed himself over him, as Wei Ying pass his arms over his shoulders.

"Then you understand my pain..." Wangji whisper, then kiss his Wei Ying long and hot until they were out of breath.

"I do... Lan Zhan, I understand your pain as it was my own, I love you as fiercely as you love me... but..." Wei said first, putting his face in his hands, yet Wangji simply held him tighter.

"I know... it has to happen." Wangji told him with sadness that came from within his heart.

"Just make sure to take care of Meng Yao and Xue Yang while I'm gone. They don't know about our seeds, so no one can really hold you at your full strength." Wei said as he look at his husband.

"No one who tries to hurt you will escape from me." Lan Zhan responded as he close the small distance between them and kiss him with a kind of desperate need he understood well, thus after that, Wei Ying surrender himself to his lover passion, as it was his own.

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That night, back in the camp, something else was taking place as the two lovers make love under the spell of their mutual affection. Some stranger had come to their camp and break havoc and while there was chaos among the cultivators, two men sneak in and went inside the barrier and chased after the group of youngster in search of Yin.

However, as they disappear into the stillness of the night, a few more figures emerged from inside of a tent and looked up to the narrow path, to the seal and the commotion stopped instantly, as if for the art of magic. A young cultivator came to meet them, slightly bowing to them.

"They had gone in, Lady Baochan." The cultivator said and she assented. At her side the other two look at her with a smile.

"They came indeed, as you had predicted." One of the man said to her.

"And so it's time for me to go in too... I have a score to settle with those two. We purge evil as our path to rightfulness and those who had committed great sins will not escape our blade. Master, I will go in your place and bring you back their heads." Boachan sighed at the spirit in front of her.

"Don't be too impatient. What most happen, needs to happen for this hell to end." She told him and the spirit turned to smile at her.

"Well, of course... I know exactly when to act, Lady Baochan, worry not about that, but right after, both of them will pay their price." The spirit said and bowed deeply before heading up to the path to the Burial Mounds.

"He really suits you well and your Clan way of life." Baochan said as she watched the spirit get farther away.

"He wouldn't be my spirit otherwise. He will do what he must to end this darkness. It had already lasted for far too long corrupting the hearts of people and stray from the right path." The man said as he also watched the back of his spirit until he could no longer see him in the darkness.

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The next day, Lan Zhan wake up first, as usual and knowing of the huge task ahead of them, he wake up the one he was holding up in his arms. Last night they had loss to passion mixed with sorrow for a future yet to come, but at the down of a new day, they needed to keep moving before Yin completely lose what little she had left of her sanity.

"Wei Ying... wake up." Lan Zhan whisper as he caressed his face and the a young man in his arms stirred, holding him closer.

"Mmm, Lan Zhan... let's do it again..." Wei whisper back in his dream and Wangji smirked despite himself.

Last night it had been quite intense, so if he wanted more even in dreams, then what a love sick man like him could do to still try to keep himself restrained? Each time it was harder and harder to keep himself in check and Wei Ying was actually wishing for more? So shameless, yet he loved with all his might. At that point he will have to let go of his inner beast sonner or later, but hearing him said things like that, Wei Ying will even welcome it.

"Wei Ying... it's time to go." Wangji told him and Wei Ying rubbed his face on Wangji's neck in protest.

"It's cold... where do we have to go? I love it here." Wei Ying asked, pressing himself even closer to the wonderful warmth of his lover.

"We are inside the Burial Mounds... remember?" Wangji asked into his ear and as he had splash him with a bucket of cold water, Wei Ying open his eyes, as he fully wake up and hurriedly sat over the rock they had sleep in.

"The Burial Mounds... Yin!" Wei yelled and he snapped his fingers to take down the barrier he had created for their privacy and went down the rock. He turned and extended his hand to help his Lan Zhan and both of them go out of their shelter and went to the temple next door, at the face of the rocks.

The others were still sleeping, as it was early in the morning, but as soon as Senlin and Sandu, saw them, they wake up their Masters and then the rest of the group. Soon, they were ready to keep going and got out of the temple to be on their way.

This time, Yin really did panic and sent more corpses their way, wave after wave of them almost not stopping. Wei Ying worked harder fighting her control while using Chenqing or talismans of his own inventions. Lan Zhan try his best to clear the path for them, using Wei's own energy and converting it in white energy. Yinse use white fire, while Zidian purple lighting.

The spirits keep their Master sheltered in a formation that will keep them the safest, but as they keep up walking further in, it got more and more difficult for all of them.

"Lan Zhan!" Wei yelled to his husband as a corps try to sneak on him, but Bichen stab him in the chest without mercy and kick him away.

"Wei Ying, this is Yin's territory and her power is stronger than yours, because even if you had the seed within you for a few years, just like Lan Zhan, you just wake up to it recently. However, as Lan Zhan's power is not from this realm, you should try to blend yours with his. Right now both of you are in perfect balance and united, you should get rid of all this darkness, at least for long enough to make a real progress." Xuanyu suggested.

"Easier said than done. She is not giving us a chance to breath here." Wei Ying said as he blasted a corpse with his energy.

"Try a land seal. Ask the dragon to use his real form now, this is a death valley anyways and surround all of you with its body. It will keep the corpses at bay for long enough for you the make the seal, then blend your darkness with his light and clean this land for the coming ten miles at least." Xuanyu said and Wei sighed.

"Yinse! Can you take your real form? I need just a few minutes to make a land seal." Wei shouted at the dragon, who was fighting a fierce corpse and the dragon winked in agreement. Then, there was a sudden gale of wind around them and the Yinse disappeared from among them in a blink of the eye.

Above them, the cloudy sky shifted as Yinse release his real form, causing the clouds to part as his body showed in its true form. White lighting caused the clouds to illuminate as Yinse fly in the sky, turning to go down to earth.

The group gather in a circle with Wei Ying and Lan Wangji in the middle and Yinse spited a column of white fire a few meters around the group creating a deadly ring, then curled around them to protect them from the heat.

Wei Ying bite his finger and let his blood fall on the blackened earth, then create several spiritual talismans all around him as he muted an incantation, then sent them down in a special array and the land around them shined golden, then the darkness of the land was expelled in a wave all around them that extinguished Yinse's heavenly fire and throw all corpses several metes away from their group.

Those corpses who didn't die in the hard fall got up again, but this time they found that there was a barrier getting on their way, so they banged on it to try to break it, but only got expelled from it even more meters away.

"Wow kid, that's some barrier. Did you participate in the Clans wards?" Yinse asked as he turned back to his human form.

"I filled hundreds of replacement talismans for the strengthening of the barrier each year. Father's punishment had his benefits to the Clan sometimes." Wei said and Yinse laughed.

"Wuxian, seriously, how many times were you punished by your father?" Jiang Cheng asked as he sat on the ground completely exhausted.

"Please don't ask. I lost count when he was twelve." Suibian told Jiang Cheng.

"You are to blame for half of them, so don't complain now." Wei Ying said as he come closer to Wen Qing.

"Do you still have some of that replenishing elixir?" He asked and she assented, handling a white bottle to him. He drank a few mouthful and then he passed the bottle to Lan Zhan.

"Drink some, we need to clean the lands for a few miles together." Wangji arched an eyebrow.

"Together?" Wangji asked as his ears went on fire, making Wei Ying smile.

"Ah, Lan Zhan, you are so cute when you blush." He laughed. "But it's not something naughty..." Wei whisper to his ear.

"What you mean?" Wangji asked, then drank from his bottle.

"Just like you did at the camp, we need to combine our spiritual energy and clean as much land as we can. You had already been turning my energy into heavens energy, so I will give you ten times more and you will spread it as far as you can. That will give us a breather at least." Wei explained and Wangji assented in understanding.

"Come." Wangji offer his hand and Wei Ying took it with a smile.

"What do we do?" Zixuan asked.

"Just rest for a bit, as we clean this land. Have some of the elixir and replenish your lost energy. Even with the combination of our energy, it will still be hard to get to her." Wei said as he sat in front of Wangji and took both of Lan Zhan's hands on his.

"Are you ready, Lan Zhan?" Wei asked as he deeply look at him.

"Hm." Wangji simply nodded and both of them close their eyes.

"Get back, the rest of you. The kids will really get overboard this time. Take out your shielding talismans now!" Yinse told them hurriedly and they barely had time to take them out before the dark energy begin to rise outside their seal and up to the center of their circle that Wei Ying had purposely let it open for the dark energy to come to him.

The dark energy came down in a ribbon of mist that descended directly over Wei Ying, surrounding him, then Lan Zhan pass his white energy into Wei Ying, transforming the tainted energy into a heavenly one, then releasing it in waves to the outside.

They keep repeating the circle until the ground below them started to shine as a Yin/Yang symbol could be seen and then, it begin to expand, filling up their seal, then spreading out. In astonishment, the group watched as the corpses that the white energy touched, fell to the ground to never get up again, as they were stripped of the resentful energy that gave them life.

One by one they fell as the symbol become big, then huge, then gigantic, then colossal and so on until they lose sight of the border of symbol in the far distance. At some point, Yinse went back to the sky to see the magnitude of the combined energy of the young lovers and was surprised to the extent of it. Those two were really one, Yinse thought as the symbol passed the twenty miles all around them, cleaning the land of all the resentful energy, killing the corpses in one go.

"Are they still humans?" Huaisang asked as he watched the pair, one glowing white and the other glowing dark red.

"They still basically are, otherwise the whole Burial Mounds would had been cleaned right now." Zilin said.

"Still... they are more than humans now. They are immortals." Yinse said as he went back inside their seal in his human form.

"How far?" Zilin asked.

"More than you will believe. I think Lan Wangji was touched by Nuwa herself." Yinse explained.

"Oh? Is that possible?" Zilin asked a bit surprise, as well as the rest of them.

"Why not? Having the heavenly seed give you access to a higher plane in between realms. I lived there for a long time before Nuwa choose me as Yang's protector. I can recognize her touch even with my eyes closed, also her sent is in his forehead. She breathed power on him and he is giving it to Wuxian in return." Yinse explained.

"You mean the slight golden touch in Wuxian's dark red energy?" Zilin said as he could see faint traces of gold on his energy.

"Exactly. Kids... remember to never really piss off Wuxian... you will be very sorry for it, not only because he can kill with just a flicker on his finger, but because Lan Wangji will not tolerate any injustice committed against him." Zixuan swallowed hard and Yanli slightly squeezed his hand and smiled at him.

"That's all in the past... he is not someone who will hold grudges." Yanli said softly and Jiang Cheng snicker.

"As long as you treat my sister as you should. She is his sister now too..." Jiang Cheng remained him.

"Never mind that... he is a big softy deep inside, all untamed and wild... but too caring in the end." Wen Qing teased and Wei Ying arched his eyebrow, coming back from his deep concentration.

"Wild and untamed? I heard that Wen Qing. Don't you fear my wrath?" Wei whisper as he looked back at her.

"Almighty or not, I still had my godly needles, I don't fear you." She said and Wei shudder just remembering those long and deadly needles that had scare the hell out of him as a kid and Wangji also came back from his trance and slightly smiled. She was Wei's sister too and in a way she was right. Wei Ying was the kind of man that will go to the end of the world for a love one or even a lost cause he deemed rightful, bowing to no one in his path.

"You are too scary, just give us some minutes to rest, then we leave." Wei Ying said as he lay down by his husband and put his head on Wangji's lap, closing his eyes to rest for a short while. Wangji tenderly removed a lock of his hair form his husband forehead and smiled. He indeed cared too much.

AN: Lately they get longer and longer. Hope it was exiting. Thank you lots my dear readers and happy Father's Day for those who celebrate it tomorrow. I have some activities planned for that, so I may not update tomorrow, or too late in the night. So, please take care, until next time.