Back To the Past

Chapter Three

"Jiang... Cheng?!"
Panics rose in Wei Wuxian as he saw the other's shocked face.
"Y-you were about to leave!" Jiang Cheng says loudly. Wei Ying quickly covers his mouth "shh quiet down..." He pulls the Jiang inside and quickly closes the window.

"What are you doing here?"

"Nah-uh I'm the one who is going question YOU! Where are you going!" Cheng furrows his brows in anger. "I thought you weren't going to leave..." Wei Wuxian sighs as he finishes tying his hair.
"You've got it all wrong Cheng." He assures the other male. "I'm not leaving... but I feel a huge amount of resentment coming from across the lake." 

Hearing this the Jiang heir calms down a little. "You still have resentment inside of you. How come I or anybody else feel it?"

"I've been suppressing it so no one would know..." Wuxian sighs again sitting down in the bed.
"So you have resentment inside you with the golden core?" Wei Wuxian nods. "Yeah, it looks like the resentment energy within me didn't disappear despite travelling back in time."
There's silence between them until Jiang Cheng decides to speak.

"So about the resentment you said..."

"I was about to go and cleanse it but you came so do want to come with me." For Jiang Cheng, that question didn't even need to be asked. He already planned to go knowing if he didn't Wei Wuxian will get into trouble.

"Let's go then. Come with me I need to grab Sandu."

After getting the sword they quickly travel towards the resentment.

Unknown that they were being followed.

A whole hour passed as the brothers ran past countless trees. If not for Wei Wuxian who sensed the resentment getting stronger, it would have felt as if they would never reach their destination.

"Anything?" Jiang Cheng questioned.

"Up ahe- wait" Wei Ying stopped abruptly. In front of them, dozens of waking corpses gathered around a light that was illuminating the forest. Seeing this Jiang Cheng signalled to climb the tree near them.

"The resentment Cheng..." He looked at the latter in purple. "It's really familiar... it's almost like Chengqing's." Jiang Cheng thought for a moment "I haven't seen Chengqing on him... could it really be the ghost flute..."

Not far from them, a pair of eyes watched the boys.
"What... are they up to?"

With Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian 

"Let's go..." Wuxian jumped down within the corpse attracting attention towards himself. However, during that fall Wei Ying manages to get a glimpse of the object that was held mid-air.

"Jiang Cheng it's Chengqing!" He cried happily. Jiang Cheng on the other hand was shaken greatly as a corpse near Wuxian flew in to attack him.

With no time left to counter the attack, Wei Wuxian tried to defend himself. Fortunately for the two brothers, a small dagger flew past the latter surprising him.

"Idiot!" Jiang Cheng says when he reaches Ying. "How could you move without thinking?" Wei Ying however was more focused on the dagger that had implanted itself in the corpse. "This has the lotus flower on it-" "Maybe think of that later first we have this to deal with!" Jiang Cheng interrupts him and draws out his sword.

Seeing how the corpses were now looking in their direction both Cheng and Ying got ready to fight. "Cover me I'm going to try and get them in my control," Wei Wuxian says as he curves his lips and whistles a tune. Many of the corpses which had started to move in their direction stopped. Taking the opportunity Wei Ying quickly made his way towards Chengqing.