Mo Dao Zu Shi Stories

Soulmate AU: Tell the truth (Part 20)

SORRY FOR THE LONG WAIT EVERYONE i'VE BEEN HANDLING SOME PERSONAL THINGS IN MY LIFE. I'VE BEEN SO BUSY WITH MOVING BACK WITH MY FAMILY DUE TO RENT GOING UP. SO IT'S BEEN A BUSY BUSY TIME. AND MENTALLY IT'S BEEN VERY DIFFICULT. BUT ENOUGH OF THAT. LET'S CONTINUE!

Nie Huaisang hides slightly behind his folded fan as he prepares to speak.

"Hanguang-Jun, you know that the Nie Sect, we're different from the other surrounding sects. As it's known our sect's founder was a butcher, and while all other sects use swords, ours use sabers."

This was no new knowledge. Everyone knew about the differences between the Nie Sect and the other sects. They knew the aggressive history surrounding them as well, and how their motif resembled that of a vicious head of dog or pig.

"Because our methods are different from others and because of our founder being a butcher, it was only natural for us to covered with bloodshed. The sabers of our past sect leaders were all heavy and filled with hostile energy and killing intent. Almost every single sect leader had met a sudden death from qi deviation. Their irritable tempers also had a lot to do with this."

Now this caught Wei Wuxian's attention, "Oh? Now, this is getting to be quite close to demonic cultivation."

Nie Huaisang quickly jumps to his defense, "It's different! Demonic cultivation uses human lives, instead of that our sect's sabers use the lives of the evil spirits and beasts. Throughout their whole lives, they've been killing such beasts. If they aren't able to kill them any longer, then they'd only cause trouble and disrupt the sect. Unlike the swords used by others, our sabers spirits only see one person as their masters, leaving no one else being able to wield them. We can't melt their sabers as the future generations, it would only be disrespectful to our ancestors, and it's possible that doing so won't even solve the problem.

"Well they sure our full of themselves, aren't they?" Wei Wuxian says.

Nie Huaisang agrees with a nod of his head, "Indeed they are. The sabers who have fought alongside us and cultivated alongside our ancestors are in a position where they have that right to be full of themselves."

"As new generations are born, the sect leaders had higher levels of cultivation, leaving the problem to only worsen. That is, until the sixth sect leader came up with a solution."

Wei Wuxian's eye brow lifts up, "To build a Man-Eating Castle?"

"No, no! Although, yes they are connected, this solution was only put in much later. The sixth sect leader did this instead, he built two coffins for his father's and his grandfather's sabers. He then dug a tomb, and within the tomb he had replaced treasures with hundreds of corpses that were about to transform."

At the mention of this, Wangji's lips lowered to a frown of disapproval causing him to panic.

"H-Hanguang-Jun, I can explain! These corpses were not killed by our people! I-Instead they were gathered from place to place! And some were even purchased at high prices! The sixth sect leader said that, if the saber spirits wanted to fight with evil beings, then give them evil beings for them to fight for eternity. The pre-transformation corpses were buried along with the sword containing coffins, as if the corpses themselves were treasures for the saber spirits. The saber spirits would then suppress the transformations, and at the same time, the corpses would lower the great fire of fury and desire coming from the saber spirits. So this situation would go on as is, with both sides keeping the other in check. Only through this method would future generations be able to attain peace.

"If that's the case then why was the stone castle built afterward? Why were the corpses buried within the walls, and there's also your words mentioning that it had indeed swallowed a few people,"