Backlash Part 1

Chapter 53: Trapped in a Nightmare

Wei Wuxian knew they couldn't use anaesthetic. Wen Qing had tried, but immediately realized it wouldn't work. To keep the golden core intact Wei Wuxian would have to be conscious and sober. She tried to talk him out of it again. Desperately begged Wei Wuxian to reconsider. He couldn't do that. Wei Wuxian remembered the look in Jiang Wanyin's eyes. Jiang Wanyin had lost his golden core. Such a fate was considered worse than death.

'Why? Why Lotus Pier? Why Sect Leader Jiang? Why Madam Yu? Why Jiang Cheng?' Wei Wuxian screamed inside his head. He was demanding answers, but the truth was he already had the answers. Hadn't he already been told? He made trouble at indoctrination. He incurred Wen Chao's wrath, and that wrath fell onto the YunmengJiang sect. The QishanWen sect came asking for him to be punished and Madam Yu obliged.

Zidian, Yu Ziyuan's first class spiritual tool, had crackled with electricity. It burned brightly with her anger as she whipped him. He had never been whipped with Zidian before. It was so much worse than any other punishment he had received. When he was struck with Zidian it wasn't just the force of the strike. It wasn't just the whip shredding through fabric and flesh. Every hit unleashed unbearable pain that lasted long after the strike was over. The violet electricity jumped beyond the point of impact on his back. Each strike sent a violent electrical discharge burning and sizzling, sharp pain pouring through his entire body. With every strike she screamed at him.

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'You reckless brat.'

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'Such impotence.'

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'What have I always said?'

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'Always making a mess.'

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'Always making trouble.'

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'And then my family must clean up after you?'

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'You wretched boy.'

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'You knew it would put our family in danger.'

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'You knew it would put us in danger, but you still did it.'

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'You are the subordinate.'

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'Do the concepts of duty and loyalty mean nothing to you?'

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'You are the subordinate.'

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'Your duty is to protect and serve the YunmengJiang sect.'

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'Your duty is to the Jiang clan.'

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'Your duty is to protect this sect and its heirs.'

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'You are the subordinate.'

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'You should put the wellbeing of the YunmengJiang sect above everything else.'

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