A Third Jade {Mo Dao Zu Shi}

♬Chapter 2♬ {✔︎}

Nighttime has fallen upon Mo village.

Lan Anhe was sheltering in the guest room, with a blue dove made of her spiritual energy next to her. She did promise her husband that she would send messages to make him feel at ease. He's been very overprotective, but she still believes he can change that later on.

Lan Anhe's eyes were closed since she was converting her message in the blue dove. She opened her eyes and smiled at the animal, "Have a safe journey" Lan Anhe watched the dove fly away to the doors but it fazed through it like a ghost.

Not long after, she heard loud commotion going on outside. Lan Anhe just sighed and decided to investigate. Once she got outside, she saw all the guards running in one direction, which was towards the backyard, "What fool met their demise?"

She quietly followed them and saw Madam Mo shaking in disbelief once she saw her son's dead body laying on the grass.

"It can't be. It can't be... Ziyuan! My poor boy!" Madam Mo started crying and was hugging her deceased son. Lan Anhe walked through the guards, who suddenly noticed her presence and cleared a path for her. She also saw Sizhui and Jingyi there.

Madam Mo was still crying until she noticed that her son's arm was gone. "What?!" She then remembered what Mo Xuanyu said earlier that he was going to chop off her son's arm if he steals from him again.

"It was you!" Madam Mo looked to her left and saw Wei Wuxian leaning against a wall, "You killed him!" Madam Mo was infuriated, "How could you, you wretched bastard! He, he was just a child... Why couldn't you die, you bastard?"

Madam Mo reached her hands out, but she was stopped by Lan Anhe, "Madam Mo, please calm yourself" She demanded. "I'll avenge Ziyuan! Let go of me!" Madam Mo yelled. "Avenge him? I didn't kill him" Wei Wuxian said, "You... What did you say?"

"Mrs. Mo, your son's flesh and blood have been sucked dry. It must have been evil spirits" Sizhui told her. "This lunatic killed him! You all heard him today. Especially you, Chenguang-Ji! You heard him threatening my son, saying that he would cut off his arm. I... I'll kill you! I'll kill you!"

"Don't kill me! Help me!" Wei Wuxian started acting crazy, ran to Jingyi's direction and kicked the dead corpse, only for Sizhui to find their flag on the son's clothes. Lan Anhe already knew what really went down.

' 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠．．． '

"A Blackwind flag?!"

"What? Why is that here? Why would that be on him?" Madam Mo asked. Jingyi picked up the flag and handed it to Sizhui, "Mrs. Mo, I know how your son died. This is used to summon ghosts and evil spirits. Your son carried this flag, and in doing so, he made himself a target. The ghosts this flag summoned killed your son"

"Nonsense!" Madam Mo snatched the flag from Sizhui, "It's just a worthless piece of fabric! How could it... How could it... Ziyuan... Ziyuan..." Madam Mo started crying again. Wei Wuxian looked at his arm and saw only two scars.

"Only two wounds left. Three wounds refer to three lives. Mo Ziyuan got himself killed for stealing the flag. But the flag was created by me. In a sense it was me who killed him. It was an accident"