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Red Spider Lily Mountain
"AYing you are back . " A woman welcomed him with smile . She wore fine silk clothes and her hair was tied in a half pony .
" Mmm " He smiled back at his mother .
" I heard you brought back two children " said Cangse Saren knowing her son's kind heart .
Wei Wuxian or Flute Master nodded . Soon he dropped his head on her lap and narrated the entire story without missing any detail .
"I saw him . Well , let's say he saw me too for the first time . " He added. Cause it wasn't the first time he saw that person .
"It's like fate also agreed to give second chance to the beauty . His face is exactly same . Truly Beautiful. The absolute definition of flawless. If not for that cold glare , I would have love rival in every street." He smiled fondly.
Cangse wiped the tears that unknowingly started flowing down his cheeks .
" You waited long enough . Don't think of the past ." she said softly.
" I could never be here without the past . I worship our past . I will worship our present." He stated . Their past was painful but also beautiful .
The next morning , after finishing the classes of the disciples , Wei Ying went to talk with Bojing . The latter told him the friends he made. Elder kept a eye on him as the kid recently lost his parents but the kid seemed pleased in his new house.
After that Wei Ying walked to his mother. And sat near her.
" You are going somewhere today ?"she asked.
" Mm . Nei Sect."
" Is it about the Man-eating-castle rumors?" She signed after asking .
" More or Less " he replied.
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He soon reached their meeting sport in Nei Sect . It was a shady tree . He saw the older lady walking towards him . Her cloths are common but posture too good to be a normal villager . The lady finally reached the tree and her eyes asserting him . Then he bow to break the tension . The lady followed the gesture .
" Nei Huisang told me he will sent someone.." he trailed off.
"This is Chaptain Rong . Sang didi told me you could help . It's a absolute gamble to trust a stranger but we have no other hopes . Please do not break it " she said with rare vulnerability in her tone . Then took out the sabers .
"That is HuaiSang's saber," he said, pointing to one of the weapons, and his eyes widened as he recognized the other. "And that is Baxia."
"Yes." The older woman nodded.
He didn't ask how she managed to get it . His little wolf friends can do wonders. He could already sense the restlessness from Nie MingJue's saber, a thrum of dark energy that seeped from the blade even when it was in the sheath. He knew he would have to deal with it, but he wanted to look at Nie HuaiSang's saber first .
He pulled Nie HuaiSang's saber from its scabbard and laid it on the table. It was as imposing as Red Blade Master's in its size, weight and heft, but it was dormant, almost inert as it lay on the wood. There was potential there, however. He could feel something just under the surface, as if it was waiting for something.
"Hmmmm. This blade feels different from yours, but it's not restless."
"A-Sang has never wielded it. His cultivation level is too low to lift it for long."
"So the blade has never been bloodied."
"No."
He nodded, confirming what he had already suspected – that battle and blood woke whatever spirit the smith had forged into the blade, and put HuaiSang's saber back into its ornate sheath. Then he took a deep breath and drew Baxia. The swirling resentful energy hit him immediately and he quickly re-sheathed the saber.
"Aiya! I was not prepared to feel that."
"The sheath has some binding properties," Captian Rong stated.
"Well, the first thing I can do for certain is replace the bindings with better ones, so that the blade's restlessness is completely sealed when it's sheathed."
"You can do that?"
"Of course "
"There. Now no resentful energy will escape from the sheath," he stated, sucking on his finger to stop the bleeding
He took another deep breath and prepared himself for the onslaught, before sliding Baxia out again. This time he was ready for the wave of resentment . It was dark and angry, and he could feel it pulsing from the blade.
"Ai, it's strong," he commented . He delving deeper into the energy to try to identify it.
After a short while, he wanted to take out Chenqing and play a tune of his creation meant to call out resentful energy. Not human. That's for certain. If I didn't know any better, I would say it's what's left of a yaoguai . He has some terrible idea about the source but he quickly shooed it . 'That can't be possible right?' he thought .
"Hmm," he said.
"What is it?"
" This feels like a resentful beast. "
He was starting to suspect that something resentful had been forged into the blade in the place of a pure blade spirit like the ones in Suibian and Bichen. On that assumption, he drew a sealing talisman on the blade, but he knew it would be a temporary fix. Captain Rong saw the resentful energy settle and looked at him with hope in her eyes.
"Is that it?"
He shook his head sadly. "No. That will only last until the blade is triggered again," he admitted. "I need to know more before I can come up with a more permanent fix. If I didn't know any better, I would think the sword smith had Sealed a beast core into the blade."
He sheathed Baxia and gave it back to Captian Rong. "Here, you can take Baxia back before Nie MingJue misses it. I'll need it again, but I need to do more research. Can you gain me access to the forge where the blades are made?"
The older woman frowned as she took the sheathed saber. "It will be tricky, but I can. The forge is not here in the Unclean Realm. The smiths that make the blades have been doing so for generations, and the method is a closely guarded secret. I do not think they would willingly let you explore the forge."
"If you can get me to the forge, I have ways of getting in."
She nodded and stood. "I'll get this back to Jue-didi's room."
"I'll examine HuaiSang's blade in more depth. If there is a beast core in his blade, I should be able to draw it out, although I fear it may trigger similar resentment. I worry it will affect Nie-xiong."
"He's never bonded with it," she said. "I don't even think it recognizes him."
He looked at the sheathed saber still on the table. "That may be a good thing. Does it have a name?"
She shook her head. "A-Sang has always hated it so he never named it."
"That may actually work in our favor. "
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