This chapter contains Smut?

"Hanguang-Jun, watch out!" a disciple warns just in time for me to turn around and call for the power of my Wangji, playing the chord, I strike against the walking corpse. I assess the situation around me and in matter of few seconds, all of them are eliminated.

"Hanguang-Jun, are you alright?" a few of the disciples run upto me to asses my injuries. Not caring about mine, I enquire about the one's who have succumbed to few minor ones.

"Take them back to Cloud Recess and ask the medical practitioner to have a look at their wounds" they nod "tell ZewuJun, I'll be back in few days. I'll check  the nearby villages and enquire if they have seen or experienced anything untoward" they bow and leave at once.

Since past few days we have heard and observed the menace of the walking corpses have increased. Slowly the rumours of the Yiling Patriarch being resurrected  has been making rounds and I know he isn't back... if he did, the kind spirt would have informed me.

Last night some of our disciples went on a night hunt, only to be injured and wounded. These corpses are not the usual ones. They have some sinister resentful energy behind them and one thing I know for sure, Yiling Patriarch has nothing to do with this.

Our disciples used their flare and I was summoned. Thus the fight ensued and I was present to eliminate them.

Walking around the village and enquiring for if anyone has seen or experienced something has been unproductive. Finally finding an inn, I walk inside to book a room for me to spend the night.

"Young Master, would you like to have dinner? We have some amazing lotus soups" he smiles and I still. Lotus soup? Wei's favourite.

I nod and proceed towards the main dining hall. As the steamy bowl is placed in front of me, I hear a roar of laughter from beside.

"Have you heard, that dog Yiling Patriarch is back? Well if only I could get my hands on him, I'll curse his soul to go back to the realm where he belongs" the minor cultivator laughs.

"Isn't he dead though? How can he be back?" Another questions.

"Well that we're all quite unaware, but from what we hear, Yunmeng Sect Leader Jiang Cheng is whipping anyone who even remotely resembles, that dog" they laugh again and my anger knows no bounds.

Turning and walking upto them, my tone is icy cold "If the Yiling Patriarch 'was' alive, you won't even have the courage to be badmouthing him. You would run back to the hole you were hiding in" I leave the hall where only silence engulfs them.

"Is there any library nearby?" I enquire to the inn's caretaker. Reading calms my mind and right now, I am in dire situation to read. People around me, especially amongst the clans have started taking behind the back of a man who is no longer in existence.

"Yes, at the end of this lane, there is a library, owned by a family but it is open to one and all" he smiles. I bow and leave.

"Lan Zhan, thank you" Wei whispers "but you didn't have to go that far"

"Nobody has the right to talk about you behind your back, especially when you're not a bad soul at all. They don't know you..." I whisper back.

"But you know me..." He smiles and a warmth tugs my heart.

The library is small and quaint, away from the prying civilization. Not many are here and this is the place that I need to be at. Walking through the sections, I am impressed, they have good collections of books. Lost in thought, I walk upto the last aisle which is quiet and dark but my curiosity gets the better of me.

My fingers caress through the spine of each book when it stops on one such name.

'Dark Sin'

Will this answer the questions on how to curb the dark matters?

Unknowingly, I open the book and... my eyes widen!!!

Dropping the book, I step far away from it and turn around. Embarrassment and flushed face, I am sure anyone seeing me would wonder if my health has been affected.

But that book!!! 

It's...it has nothing to do with curbing dark matters but, it's a book that Wei Ying would throughly enjoy. It is of the same genre that he once had exchanged my book with back in the library pavillion.

Turning around slowly, I eye it with my peripheral vision and quickly close my eyes.

"Lan Zhan" Wei whispers "just once open it and see, please"

"Shut up" I balk.

"Just once" he whispers again.

Walking slowly next to the book, I quickly pick it up, place it in my inner robes. Striding out of the library, I toss few coins at the main counter and almost, almost sprint into my room.

Opening the doors, the room faces a beautiful backside pond with various wild flowers growing and subtly giving out their arousing aroma.

Sitting on the futon, I take out the book and tightly clutch it.

"Open the book Lan Zhan" Wei whispers again "read it" I feel a cool finger caress the nape of my neck and I shiver.

Unable to withstand it any further, I open the first page and began to read. Each page that I turn, heat engulfs me from within. Such is a  raging heat that no amount of cool breeze could bring down the temperature.

Explicit content, it surprises me, even beyond a kiss can two souls proceed?

Oh Wei Ying, what is this?

Turning to the last page, I shut the book tightly, watching the ripples on the surface of the pond, I quickly disrobe and jump into it.

Slithering out of the water, I walk into the room, to find Wei lying on the bed. Grinning and laughing, he eyes look wanton, maybe tonight I can use some of the moves I learnt. Shutting the door, I realise it is going to be one long night.

Dear Wei,

Shameless.

Your,
Lan Zhan.