Who You Are Book 2

Chapter 38 - Fragrance Palace

Wei Wuxian heard a voice call for him from afar. The voice was both deep and cold. The first call was quite fuzzy. It sounded as though it was far, far away, between real and illusory. The second call sounded a lot more tangible. He could even distinguish an unnoticeable tone of worry within the voice.

And, as for the third call, he could hear it loud and clear.

"Wei Ying!"

Hearing this, Wei Wuxian instantly pulled himself out!

He was still the thin paperman, stuck to the helmet that sealed Nie Mingjue's head. He had tugged loose the knot that tied the iron shells over Nie Mingjue's eyes, revealing a bloodshot eye, opened wide with anger.

There wasn't much time left. He must return to his corporal body immediately!

Paperman Wuxian flapped his sleeves, flying out as though he were a butterfly. Yet, just as he dove past the curtain, he saw somebody stand in the dark corner of the secret room. Jin Guangyao smiled. Without speaking a word, he pulled out a soft sword from his waist. It was the famous sword of his, Hensheng.

Back then, when Jin Guangyao worked undercover at Wen Ruohan's side, he had often hidden the sword at his waist, wreathed the sword around his arm to use during critical moments. Although the blade of Hensheng seemed to be soft to the extremity, attacking with lingering motions, it was in reality both sharp and haunting.

Once the blade had wrapped around the opposition, Jin Guangyao would apply it with a bizarre spiritual power, and one would quickly be severed into pieces by the sword, despite its tender appearance.

Quite a few famous swords had been battered into piles of scrap iron just like this. At the moment, the blade of the sword attacked as though it was a serpent with silver scales, biting at the paperman without any hesitation. Losing focus for one second, and Wei Wuxian would be caught in the fangs!

Paperman Wuxian darted here and there, dodging the attacks with agility, but this wasn't his own body, after all. After a few moves, the tip of Hensheng had almost sliced him. If this continued, he'd be pierced through for sure!

Suddenly, from the corner of his eye, he saw a sword lying silently in one of the wooden compartments on the wall. Nobody had polished the sword since a long time ago. Both the body of the sword and its surrounding area were covered in dust.

It was nothing else but his past sword, Suibian!

...

"I still don't know why, Jin Guangyao, of all people to have taken my sword...he must have plotted to use it in some way in the future...and it worked," Wei Wuxian stated.

"I didn't know you were in such trouble after doing empathy, no wonder you came back so anxious and scared," Lan Wangji said.

"Mnn, thanks for the little comfort I received," Wei Wuxian told him, "it helped."

"Mnn," Lan Wangji placed a kiss on his cheek before they went back to the screen.

...

Paperman Wuxian flew into the cabinet and stepped with force on Suibian's hilt. With a clang, the blade heeded his command and sprang from the sheath!

Suibian flew out of its sheath and began to battle against Hensheng's eerie sword glare. Seeing this, shock flashed across Jin GuangYao's face. He regained his composure at once and nimbly twisted his right wrist. Like a vine, Hensheng wrapped itself around Suibian's white, straight blade. He immediately let go of it, letting the two swords fight alone. With his left hand he flung a talisman toward Wei Wuxian. The talisman ignited in midair, bursting into wild flames. Wei Wuxian could feel the waves of heat as it approached him. Taking advantage of the blinding rays from the two swords fighting above them, he quickly flapped his sleeves and rushed out of the room!