Who You Are Book 2

Chapter 53 - Right vs. Wrong

The bloodbath of Nightless City, legendarily, was a bloody battle in which the YiLing Patriarch, Wei Wuxian, slaughtered over three thousand people during the night of the pledge conference on his own. Some said that it was five thousand as well. No matter three or five, one thing was for sure—in that night, the ruins of Nightless City became a gory hell in Wei Wuxian's hands. And the murderer, even under everyone's attacks, managed to return to Burial Mound unscathed. Nobody knew how exactly he did it.

Due to this battle, the cultivation world was quite badly wounded. And since this was the case, after nearly three months of conserving energy and scheming plans, the Four Great Sects were finally able to successfully pull off a siege on the demon's den, Burial Mound, returning the word 'massacre' to the Wen Sect's remnants and the maddened YiLing Patriarch.

Wei Wuxian looked at the cultivators before the Demon-Slaughtering Cave. Their expressions were the absolute same as those of the cultivators from the night of the pledge conference, pouring their wine on the ground as they took the pledge to scatter the ashes of the Wen Sect's remnants and him. Some were the survivors of that night, others were the descendents of those cultivators, but even more were 'persons of justice' who held the same beliefs as them.

Yi WeiChun, the middle aged cultivator who proclaimed to have had his legs cut off by him and had to wear wooden prosthetics from then on, spoke up again, "The debts of blood you owe three thousand people will never be repaid, not even if you die a million times!"

Wei Wuxian interrupted him, "Three thousand people? There were indeed three thousand cultivators present that night at Nightless City, but so too were the leaders the sects and many of their elites. With all of them present, could I have really killed all of the three thousand people? Are you thinking too highly of me, or are you looking down on them?"

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"He has a point," Wen Qing stated, "everyone just wants to point fingers at him because he is the oddball out."

"Tell me about it," Wei Wuxian said, "because everyone was there, they didn't want to listen, they just wanted blood. They didn't care for right or wrong. They even dared to try and slander Lan Zhan their. I'm sure those of you in this room who were there can see just how horrible this is."

"I wasn't there, and I can see it that way," Lan Xichen said, "Shufu, I know you didn't like A'Xian back then, but surely, you would listen to reason first. Why assume Lan Wangji wasn't trying to make a point?"

"I know, once Wei Wuxian started talking, I had my hesitations," Lan Qiren stated.

"I made my point across," Wei Wuxian said, "it somehow ended somewhat okay."

"Mnn," Lan Wangji nodded

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He was only stating a simple fact calmly, but the cultivator felt as if he was scorned, fuming, "What do you think we're talking about here? How could there be bargaining to debts of blood?"

Wei Wuxian, "It's not that I want to bargain about such a thing, but that I don't want my charges to be doubled just because of some words from another. I won't shoulder what I didn't do."

Someone spoke, "What you didn't do? What is there that you didn't do?"

Wei Wuxian, "For example, I'm not the one who cut Chifeng Zun apart. I'm not the one who forced Madam Jin to take her own life at Koi Tower. I'm not the one who controls all of those corpses you ran into when you rushed up the mountain either."

Su She smiled, "Yiling Patriarch, I've always heard that you're arrogant, yet now you're being so humble. If not you, I really can't think of anyone in this world who can control so many fierce corpses, putting up such a good fight with us."