After the tearful talking with Jiang Cheng, Wei WuXian bid him farewell and went to the HanShi to see how the Lans were doing.

As expected, it was a heart wrenching sight.

Lan XiChen was sobbing so hard he might hyperventilate, Lan Qiren was holding Lan WangJi in a tight grip, tears leaking down his eyes, while Lan WangJi was trying his best to calm them down even throughout his own mental breakdowns.

Thanks to the silencing talismans, nothing went past the walls of the room.

"Dada,ShuShu...it is in the past. I am fine now. Please calm down."

"How can you still....forget it why am I even asking? You actually hid that for so long?" Lan XiChen asked him as coherently as possible through his migraine of sobs.

"This is why I did not want to tell. I knew both of would react like this." Lan WangJi reasoned softly.

"WangJi we are your family... Do we not have the right to worry about you?" Lan Qiren asked, his voice stern compared to his looks.

Lan WangJi gulped, "I.."
"XiChen-ge, Shufu."

The Lans looked at Wei WuXian. The said man bowed.

"The reason he didn't tell is very complex. I assume he didn't tell you exactly what he went through when he was captured."

"No he did. Upto....the..." Lan XiChen couldn't bring himself to say it.

Wei WuXian's eyes widened. He didn't think Lan WangJi would tell them but he did.

"Don't think he did it willingly. He only told because we asked him what that guy meant by you still loving him with that body. It stuck to my mind and sure enough it was a big deal." said Lan Qiren, still trying to compose himself from the thought that his nephew was violated at such a young age.

Lan WangJi looked down at his lap. Wei WuXian sighed.

"I understand that you find it difficult to accept and honestly so do I. But the damage is done."

Besides he understood why Lan WangJi did what he did.

Not that it was the correct option. He should have told them.

"What we need to do right now, is find him and see what he is upto. "

As if on queue a teleportation talisman suddenly appeared and Lan WangJi was swiftly taken away.

Thanks to Wei WuXian's reflexes, and as he was the closest to his husband, he grabbed Lan WangJi's hand with one of his hands and grabbed Lan XiChen with his other.

Lan XiChen somehow managed to grab Lan Qiren and all four of the people in HanShi got teleported somewhere else.

Darkness.

There was darkness in the room.

Except there wasn't. It was just dimly lit.

"Welcome." greeted a familiar voice.

Lan WangJi and Wei WuXian immediately recognised the voice.

"Shen Xing..." Lan WangJi mumbled.

"Who?" Lan XiChen frowned.

"Lee Yu's right hand man." Wei WuXian informed.

Lan WangJi clenched his fists, BiChen glowing a blue light, illuminating the room.

There he was.

With his master.

Lee Yu. He looked old but menacing and cold nonetheless.

He smirked, "Wow. There are free three extra packages."

"What do you want now? I havd nothing to offer, I am sorry." Lan WangJi said with a psychotic smile.

The other three with him felt immensely uncomfortable seeing that expression on his face.

"I want what I had all those years ago. I want the resentment energy. I want it under my control. Wen Ruohan failed. But I will not." answered Lee Yu.

Wei WuXian suddenly realised something," Wait so the 'he' was Wen Ruohan? You worked for him!"

Lee Yu looked impressed, "The Yiling Patriarch is truly as cunning as I have heard."

Lan XiChen gritted his teeth at the mention of the once Wen Sect Leader.

It was when everything had began.

He didn't like remembering the past.

The past reminded him of his failures.

Lan WangJi then laughed, maniacally, "Well I cannot compel with that."
"You clearly know the resentment is in your body. It's decaying you. I don't know how it's in your body after all these years but I am not one to complain. I need your strength."

Wei WuXian snorted, "As if we'll let you get what you want. Did you forget who I am even after mentioning my name?" His eyes glew a bright red.

There was so much malice in his eyes as he looked at Lee Yu. The Lans were no exception.

Lee Yu then pulled out something from his robes.

It was the Stygian Tiger Amulet!

"Damn it! He actually dug it out of Jin GuangYao's coffin." Wei WuXian grunted.

"Hahaha that's not all boy." Lee Yu laughed.

Suddenly two fierce corpses barged in. One of Nie MingJue, other of Jin GuangYao.

Both were controlled by the amulet.

Lan XiChen froze. He didn't know what to feel seeing his two sworn brothers... like this.

Wei WuXian started to play ChenQing to control them and then it clicked together.

The rubi shard got scattered and went to the five pieces of Yin Iron. That's why it's energy seemed so familiar to Wei WuXian .

In fact he has a bit of it right in his hands.

Shen Xing started fighting Lan XiChen, "We need your brother Sect Leader Lan."
"But we need him more." replied Lan XiChen.

Lan WangJi and Lan Qiren fought the thousands of corpses barging in the room.

Lee Yu laughed and continued to call more corpses.

He looked exactly like Wen Ruohan.

"No one can call me the son of a begger now!"

What?

"No one can look down upon me just because I am from the streets."

Oh. Another one.

A mixture of Jin GuangYao and Xue Yang.

What a terrible combination.

Lan WangJi yelled, "So you are just going to murder people for that?"

Lee Yu screamed, "Did those people care when I begged them to stop beating me up? Did they care when I told them to leave my mother alone? Did they care when I did well in my word but still got mistreatment due to my background?  NO THEY FUCKING DID NOT!!!!"

He still remembered the beatings he got in the street, he remembered fighting with dogs for food, even when he joined the Wen sect as a disciple, he never got treated well, until he showed that he had potential to mess with resentment energy.

He wanted to come to the top. He wanted to show this world, just how wrong it was, for it to treat him the way it did.

And he wanted that in whatever cost.

Wei WuXian was stunned a bit.

He knew how he felt, about being mistreated. He himself had faced them countless times.

But that doesn't give Lee Yu a reason to he the way he is.

There were countless people in the world, who were inevitably broken, but not bent in the morals. Wei WuXian was a prime example of it.

And thus, he couldn't forgive this man, just like he couldn't forgive Xue Yang, just like he couldn't forgive Jin GuangYao.

Besides what he did was worse.

Wei WuXian noticed these corpses were different. They were still alive human beings, but were made into alive corpses.

They had the wits of human but the strength of a fierce coprse. They were controlled but were clever.

They attacked like humans would.

Sneak attacks or actual martial combat.

It was horrifying. Morphing humans into corpses forcefully.

Wei WuXian couldn't fathom how painful it was for them.

But he was the Yiling Patriarch.  Resentment was his servant. He was it's master.

The true master.

Wen Ruohan couldn't be. Lee Yu would not be either.

There can only be one grandmaster of demonic cultivation, and it was Wei WuXian.

He played a shrill tone in his flute, ordering the corpses to stop. It took a while, almost them getting to the Lans who were fighting to death.

But the corpses listened.

Sweat beads gathered in Wei WuXian's forehead as he tried to concentrate on the large amount of corpses swarming around. Soon, Wen Ning came in the fight.

"Young Master Wei!"

Lan XiChen shouted, "Young Master Wen, we need to stop the corpses!"

Lee Yu on the other hand had unleashed even more of the resentment energy.

Then suddenly something else happened.

"WANGJI!!!!" came the scream from Lan XiChen.

Lan WangJi had now released his inner resentment.

By now he was keeping it inside, to keep it at bay, so that it couldn't harm others and Wei WuXian could extract it peacefully and carefully.

But looks like fate had other plans.

The resentment was hungry for Lee Yu.

Shen Xing stopped fighting Lan XiChen and suddenly screamed, "Master it's the old resentment. It seeks vengeance from us."

Wei WuXian instantly knew what Lan WangJi was doing.

And it terrified him.

It made him so scared because Lan WangJi was forcefully using the resentment despite having his powerful golden core.

He will soon have a Qi deviation if this continues!

"Lan Zhan!" he screamed.
"I am alright, Wei Ying!" Lan WangJi screamed back.
"You'll Qi deviate!"
"WangJi! Didi stop!"
"WangJi!"

They were distracted for a few seconds and the corpses saw that opportunity to attack.

Lan WangJi's eyes widened,"BEHIND YOU!!!"

Wei WuXian defended himself at the nick of the time.

So did Lan XiChen and Lan Qiren.

They didn't have the time to let their guards down.

Meanwhile the resentment unleashed by Lan WangJi was going wild. It was affecting him.

He could feel his core starting to get disheveled and his heart beating faster by the second.

Lee Yu and Shen Xing all but tried to fight the corpses that had seemingly gone out of control due to the collision of the amulet and ChenQing. Someone had to take control but both parties were fighting for death.

Wei WuXian dodged another attack and slashed the corpses. He didn't want to kill them. But what could he do?

They were far too gone.

Lan XiChen felt guilty, so did Lan Qiren, that they were killing alive corpses but there was no other solution to this situation.

Lee Yu screamed, "Shen Xing! Where is the amulet?"

"I can't control it master! You need to."

"No one will!" screamed Lan WangJi.

Wei WuXian then hurriedly said, "XiChen-ge I need ten seconds!"
"On it!"

Lan XiChen started to distract the corpses and Wei WuXian finally got some time to control them.

He played another shrill tune in his flute and the corspes instantly calmed down.

Lan WangJi grabbed the amulet.

In that instant he made a decision.

He started to gather his spiritual energy.

He would destroy this amulet. The amulet that caused him, his lover and the world so much pain.

He could spare his own suffering.

But not his Wei Ying's, never.

"LAN ZHAN!!! NO!!!STOP!!!!! YOU'LL DESTROY YOURSELF!!!!!"

Lan WangJi looked at Wei Ying and smiled apologetically.  That's what he intended. Destroying himself along with the corpses as well as Lee Yu and Shen Xing.

It was the only way.

Then he mouthed something.

Wei WuXian instantly understood what he said.

"I am sorry...and thank you..."

Then he mouthed to Wen Ning, who was still fighting and trying to protect everyone, "Thank you Wen Ning...for being there for Wei Ying...always..."

The corspes had already mostly been lying dead on the ground.

Lee Yu and Shen Xing approached Lan WangJi to get the amulet again.

Lan WangJi saw the opportunity and swiftly grabbed one of the teleportation talismans from Shen Xing.

They were not so skilled compared to him after all.

He activated it with much difficulty, channelling all his remaining spiritual energy all the way while gathering energy to destroy the amulet, and threw it at Lan XiChen, Lan Qiren, Wen Ning and Wei WuXian.

Lan WangJi at the last few seconds looked at the three of them, his golden eyes shining with love, a smile on his face, and mouthed, "Goodbye."

More corpses barged in.

"WANGJIIIIIIII!!!"
"WANGJIIIIIIIIII!!!!"
"LAN ZHAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!!!!!"

Flash.

The four of them teleported outside where they saw was an old and rusty building far away.

The said building blew up.

They knew what happened.

Wei WuXian fell to his knees and started sobbing and screaming his husband's, wailing at the top of his lungs. Wen Ning couldn't cry, but pain flashed among his dark features, "Second Young Master Lan..."

Lan XiChen and Lan Qiren were no better. For the first time in life, Lan Qiren cried out loud. Lan XiChen broke.

He lost his baby brother.

The only brother left of him.

He lost that brother.

They wailed for what seemed like hours and when they finally calmed down somewhat they went inside the building.

They were greeted by a pool of blood.

Lee Yu and Shen Xing were devoured by the corpses, just like when it backfired on Wei WuXian on that day of the siege all those years ago.

Lan WangJi's body....was nowhere to he seen.

The corspes all lay dead.

Wei WuXian vomitted this time.

The strench of the rotten flesh was not what made him nauseous.

It was the fact that there was not even a trace of his beloved's body.

It was gone complete gone.

Not even bits of his flesh.

Not even his bones.

Not even his ashes.

Lan XiChen went outside immediately, not being able to fathom the way this turned out.

Lan Qiren was just frozen. He didn't even have the energy to cry anymore tears. They dried out after crying so much.

Wen Ning couldn't do anything other than trying to comfort Wei WuXian, himself having a sour heart.

On the other hand, Wei WuXian's tears seemed to be in constant supply. His eyes burned out but the tears didn't stop. They kept flowing.

What followed afterwards was Lan Qiren finally having the senses to call reinforcements, Wen Ning came out and asked, "Master Lan...what..."

Lan Qiren took a deep breath, "It's a long story Wen Qionglin..."

Lan SiZhui, Lan JingYi and many other Lan Elders and disciples came to find a grusome sight, terrible news, a horrifyingly emotionally unstable Lan XiChen, a crying Lan Qiren and most terrifyingly, a seemingly dead and empty eyed but teary faced Wei WuXian.

His silver eyes had lost all it's warmth.

A/N: Don't kill me lol. I warned ya already. Two more chapters and that will be the end of the story UwU. Thank u for the support and reads.