The Luring Tune

Wei Ying

After the short rest, they resumed their walking, but this time, as the land had been cleansed, they did not encounter more living corpses, so it was easier. They make good progress for several miles, but after a few hours, they found the border of their cleansing and were back to tainted lands and a sea of waiting corpses.

Wangji used his chord assassination mixed with a good amount of white energy to get rid of hundreds of corpses at once, as Wei Ying release his dark energy in order for him to change it back to white. However, as they keep advancing while fighting with so many corpses, even with the combined power of the two seeds, it was getting harder and harder.

Zilin, Suibian and Bichen, as independent swords, create a deadly defense, multiplying the numbers of their swords, killing everything that moved closer, but the corpses also came from above when moving to a more thick dark forest and hell broke loose.

They came from all directions, having no mercy with even more stronger fierce corpses and althought they were still far from Yin, she was scared of them, especially of Lan Zhan's cleansing power. Wei Ying keep fighting anything that try to harm his lover, using both Chenqing and talismans to keep him safe, but things were getting ugly.

At that point, the team begin to get injured and Zidian summon a huge thunder storm up in the sky that roasted a great number of corpses as it came down, only avoiding their group members by a narrow margin. That gave them a breather, but soon after, more came.

"Damn it! Are they endless? Just how many corpses are in this hellish place?!" Jiang Cheng shouted as he killed some more.

"Don't ask for a question you don't want a real answer, because the number will scare you to insanity." Yinse said.

"Ahhh!" Mianmian yelled as a corpse sneak in on her and attack her from her back, wounding her with a long gash across her right shoulder. Hearing her yell, Wen Ning ran toward her and punched the fierce corpse that had attacked her with such force mixed with the remaining white energy from his seal, that its face was utterly destroyed.

"Wen Ning!" Mianmian yelled as another corpse came his way, but Wen Ning strength was also inhuman, thus he kicked the corpse, sending it flying meters away, over some other corpses. Nonetheless, in the chaos, more fierce corpses took notice of Wen Ning's exceeded white energy and try to surround him along with Mainmian.

Still, Wen Ning keep punching them along with his Huanying, who was in his human form and crush them as they came. However, Mainmian was beginning to fell dizzy, as she was losing blood from her deep wound, having no time to use a pill to stop the bleeding, she was having real troubles defending herself.

"Don't worry Mianmian... I will keep them away from you!" Wen Ning yelled, turning to look at her, but just at that same time, she fell to her knees and a corpse was about to reach her head with its claws. Panic make him act on the most basic instincts and something inside of him seems to snap.

A great wave of white energy was released from his core as it finally broke for good, throwing away both foes and allies alike all around him. Wen Ning yelled in deep pain as his energy got out of control, making him also lose his rationality, only focusing on the thing that almost killed the girl he liked.

"Wen Ning!" Wen Qing yelled as she saw him killing the corpse, making a hole in the middle of its chest, then turn to get Mianmian on the ground behind him, yelling as he releasing the exceeded energy from his core. Dark lines, similar to the ones Wei Ying got from Xue Yang's curse were beginning to be seen going up his neck and they all saw with horror as Wen Ning took Mianmian by her collar, pulling her up and off the ground.

"Wen Ning, put me down..." Mianmian whisper, as he was putting more strength on her neck, but he only yelled and his eyes turned black.

"A'Ning!!" Wen Qing yelled back as he saw her brother turning into what had been her worst nightmares since she was a child.

"Damn it! Wen Qionglin!" Wei Ying yelled as he snapped his fingers to freeze the fierce corpses in a ten meters radius, miraculously enough also stopping Wen Ning before he could do anything to Mianmian, blinded by his loss of control, then ran toward them. Dark energy was overflowing Wen Ning's body from the ground and Mianmian although a bit shaken, stayed calm gazing at the paralyzed partner.

"Wei Wuxian... what happen to him?" Mianmian asked and Wei Ying gently make Wen Ning let go of Mianmian's robe and put her down.

"He once had the white seed on him, but was removed because he could not take it and now is possessed by the dark energy he can't cleanse, because he doesn't had the seed any longer." Wei Ying said.

"Will he be alright?" Mianmian asked with worry, touching her neck and trying to ignore both her pain and dizziness.

"Yeah... give me a second... Lan Zhan, I will take care of the dark energy, can you stabilize his unsealed white one?" Wei Ying asked his lover who assented and came closer.

"Come here Mianmian... let me take care of that wound for you before you faint." Wen Qing said, relieved that Wuxian had stop her brother from doing something he will regret for the rest of his life.

"The rest of you take some elixir to replenish your spiritual power and after I tend Mianmian's wound, I will give a look at yours." Wen Qing added.

"Alright, sit down for a moment, I will make another land seal." Wei said, making hand sings as he bite his finger, then make a stronger array with spiritual talismans, sending them down. Instantly, the corpses inside his array turned into ashes. After the seal was in place, he came close to the still Wen Ning and closed his eyes in concentration, putting a hand over the other young man chest.

He took control of the overflowing energy inside Wen Ning's body and very carefully started to pull it up his veins and out of his open mouth, then dispel it away and finally, to make sure he had not a single trace of it left behind, he make a soul seal and put it over Ning's chest, making him gasp for air, waking up from his trance.

Wen Ning stagger, but Wangji put his hand on his back to keep him steady and using his control over heavens energy, he stabilize his core and tracing a heavenly symbol on his back, he too make a core seal, keeping what he could not control, inside.

"Thank you, young Master Wei and Master Lan." Wen Ning bowed to them in gratitude, but Lan Zhan said nothing, while Wei Ying smiled.

"Don't go turning into a fierce corpse on my watch." Wei Ying said tiredly and Lan Zhan notice.

"I'm sorry..." He apologize, getting on his knees.

"Idiot, you didn't hurt me. Get up and take care of your girl, she is inured." Wei Ying said and Wen Ning hastily got up and went to help his sister that was healing Mianmian.

"We need another strategy, because this is not working. They are too many no matter which way we chose to go and even Wuxian using Chenqing is not as effective as we get closer." Jiang Cheng said as he sat on the ground.

"Yin's control over dark energy is stronger than mine. She is the mother of darkness after all and compared to her, I am just a child. Also, she fears heavens energy, which is why she is giving us such a hard time." Wei Ying said, as he took a sip of his elixir.

"I notice the corpses attack more at Lan Wangji than the rest of us." Song Lan said, as he too sat on the ground.

"Hum... honestly, why is she trying to kill us? We are here to help her... I'm all bloody already and had my share of close calls." Huaisang sulked.

"She lost part of her consciousness when Taotie eat it, the same way Yang lost most of his white energy." Wei Ying said.

"Then, she don't know who she is?" Zixuan asked, as Yanli tend a shallow wound on his arm.

"Not exactly... but maybe I had a way to make her remember, at least a little..." Wei Ying said and Wangji was alarmed instantly.

"Wei Ying..." He protested.

"Don't worry Lan Zhan, you know our fate is strong." Wei said to him, giving his lover a deeper look.

"What do you mean by that? How can you restore her lost memories?" Xiao Xingchen asked.

"Remember when I fell under the Cold Lake back in the Gusu town? I was able to connect with the residual energy of the cave and see some imagines of what happen back in that time." Wei call to their memories.

"Yes, you told us about Yin and Yang's story at that time." Yanli recalled at that moment, a while back.

"What if I give Yin those memories back? Is not like she lose them all to Taotie, but perhaps she sealed them away to protect herself from the pain of been away from Yang, who keep her tainted energy under control and give balance to the world in return." Wei Ying explained to the attentive group.

"Kid, can you do that without harming yourself in the process? Both you and Lan Wangji share that same connection now, if something happens to you, Lan Wangji will be no different from what Yin is now. The only reason Yang is still sane is because he sleeps for centuries." Yinse told him, as the corpses begin banging the barrier Wei Ying created.

"My Lan Zhan will never go insane, he have the strongest will and also, no matter how crazy Yin is right now or how much she try to pull me into it, I have heavenly energy within me, always protecting me even from my own darkness. Isn't my hot Lan Zhan the best husband ever?" Wei joked, making Lan Zhan deep red, as the others either smiled or laughed.

"Idiot, this is no time for jokes." Jiang Cheng sighed.

"It was not a joke, but an honest truth." Wei Ying protested.

"Never mind that, how do you plan to do that? You said she is still far away from here and we can barely make any progress with this endless horde of corpses popping up like bunnies everywhere we go." Wen Qing asked, after finishing tending Mianmian's wound.

"I will make her come to me instead." Wei said and Wangji was taken aback, knowing that in the moment their cross path with her, it will be the fated time for his lover to 'die' even if it was for a short while.

"Wei Ying!" But his other half only smiled kindly at him.

"We can't keep this up for four more days, Lan Zhan. Either we lure her here or half of us die. Look at them, they all had a wound here or there and Mianmian's wound is deep. She is quite courageous, we all know that, but from here on, she will had a hard time fighting back." Wei said, now seriously and Mianmian felt quite bad for holding them back.

"I'm sorry... please don't mind me, I can..." Mianmian begin protesting, as she could still keep going.

"He is right, Mianmian. Your wound is no joke and it need time to properly heal and I am afraid that with all this dark energy surrounding us here, it may get worse. We even risk the chance of you becoming a fierce corpse if we keep it up." Wen Qing said firmly and Wen Ning actually panic, taking the girls hand on his.

"It's not only her, we all are at risk of becoming fierce corpses in this tainted lands, even if we received a soul cleansing ritual when we were kids. Yin's core darkness is different from what we are used to fight and been at a godly level, not even our souls will be saved if we are killed here." Wen Qing added quite sure of it.

They all look at each other for a moment in silence, only hearing the yells of the corpses as they were thrown back by the barrier. Even though they all knew the risk of dying over their journey there, no one actually wanted to become a fierce corpse in those tainted lands, forced to hunt down their own people.

"Brother Lan, I don't want to die like that..." Huaisang said in dread, half hugging his own spirit sword, that was sat by his side and was the sole reason he was still alive as well as Suibian, Bichen, Sandu, Senlin and pretty much all the spirits in general.

"Lan Zhan... it's time. No one said that we had to go all the way to Yin's physical body, to find her. She can also find us instead." His words, although true, pain Wangji into his heart even deeper than any wound and he closed his eyes, unable to hide his pain.

Wei Ying saw it clearly and crawled closer to his lover, giving him a slight hug and then a feathery kiss on the lips. If he concentrate harder, he could find that there were others coming their way, fighting their way to them. Meng Yao, Xue Yang and someone else he could not really not said who he was, but it was wild and ruthless, giving no mercy to any corpse close enough to him.

"You are so strong my Lan Zhan, keep our group safe. I will take care of Yin myself." Wei whisper to him, as their lips parted.

"I will." Lan Zhan assure him and Wei Ying kiss him again, although this time for a bit longer. The others looked away to give them some privacy, although Yinse did stared at them in amusement.

"You peeping tom..." Zidian whisper to the close Yinse, which smile at her.

"I have seen the original seeded couple do that for centuries... don't blame me..." He told her.

"Are you a pervert kind of dragon?" She asked in return.

"Want to find out?" Yinse tease her and Zidian smiled widely.

"I'm no easy spirit." She said as some lighting sparks could be seen in the tips of her fingers.

"I wouldn't dare, I really like your spark, thought." Yinse teased further and Zilin sighed at Yinse's other side.

"Really you two are more shameless than them." Yinse laughed, which bring the male lovers back to reality.

"Alright! Luring Yin here will have some risks, so you guys move to the border of the barrier and shield yourselves from the coming darkness. She will probably come from above and once you spot her close, you all will get away from her. The corpses will flee from her too, as she will absorb their darkness if near her." Wei said to the rest of the group.

"Then, will you be alright, A'Xian? What if she drains you too?" Yanli asked in worry.

"Worry not Jiejie. I have Lan Zhan with me. Get back, I will turn myself into a target she will not be able to resist." Wei Ying said as he took of his belt and removed his upper black robe, staying in his second layer of white one, then cut his hand with Suibian's blade and started to draw some dark symbols into the white fabric.

The others moved back as they were instructed and watched at Wei Ying took Chenqing and start playing a different song Lan Wangji recognize at the forth tune, the song of Yin.

Instantly, the sky became darker, despite it been a bit later than afternoon and the wind begin to pick up, cold and fiercer to a point it was the start of a wind storm. The corpses around, then started to back off from the barrier, as dark red energy gathered around Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji. They heard whispers in the wind echoes all over the dark forest.

Screams, resentful energy, darkness and wind converged around the black and white couple, as Wuxian played the tune deeper and deeper, while Wangji stared at him, not letting him out of his sight for a single second. Then the ground shake and a dark mist covered the earth on their feet.

"Get out! She is coming!" Wuxian yelled, as he stop playing the sound, feeling the huge change of their energy, as Yin was preparing a summoning array somewhere else, as if pulled by strings of the distant sound that suddenly assaulted her head.

Wasting no time, the others back off to the trees in pairs, mostly holding each other to whatever fate was in store for them, shaking by not only the intense cold that assaulted their bodies, but also by the fear Yin's madness caused on others.

"Lan Zhan... go with them..." Wei whisper and Wagnji reluctantly walked backwards, still looking at his lover as he retreated far enough to not interfere with what Wei Ying must do, but close enough to be there if he needed his help and soon enough, they all look up at a huge array of dark red energy formed in the sky, realising black thunders and a stronger wind, a few meters above Wei Wuxian and from it fell a human woman, dressed in deep black and really long and messy hair that covers most of her face, only making visible a pair of dark red eyes that looked at Wuxian with madness.

"Don't play with fire, boy... you can be burned." The woman said in a raspy cold voice and then, Wangji saw with horror as Wei Ying disappear into a cloud of resentful energy that Yin summon from his feet and into her.

AN: Buahaha! Thus the internal struggle between Yin and Wei starts and so the end of this story gets even closer. Hope you like it, I have fun writing this. Thank you my dears, not sure if it will be updated tomorrow, but I will have vacations soon, so more chapters will come after the 4 of July. Take care my darlings, until next time. 😙❤💙❤😄